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Four Waterloo researchers were named to Canada Research Chairs this week and will receive a total of $5.6 million in federal funding over the next five to seven years. Another four professors received renewals worth $2.9 million for their existing Canada Research Chairs.
One of the new CRCs will investigate the future of the Internet, another will probe wireless communications networks, a third Waterloo professor will study nanotechnology in radio-frequency systems and a fourth will explore multimedia data compression.
"This generous funding allows the University of Waterloo to continue to create an environment conducive for ground-breaking research and offers a stimulating environment for our graduate students to engage in research," said a statement from George Dixon, vice-president (university research), after the new positions were announced during a Toronto symposium marking the 10th anniversary of the CRC program. The Canada Research Chairs are described as positions that allow a faculty member to focus on research as well as on training the next generation of scientists.
All four of the new chairholders are in the electrical and computer engineering department, and each is funded at $200,000 a year for seven years.
One is former department chair Catherine Rosenberg, who will hold the Canada Research Chair in the Future Internet. Her research explores novel directions in wireless networks, social networks and incentive-based mechanisms between Internet stakeholders. Rosenberg aims to create breakthroughs in the design and practical implementation of the future Internet and develop highly efficient protocols and techniques to improve the Internet user’s experience.
The second new chair goes to Weihua Zhuang, who will be Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communication Networks. Her research involves developing distributed radio resource allocation and network control algorithms and protocols for vehicular ad hoc communications. Zhuang seeks to provide a deep understanding on how a large number of vehicles on road and high vehicle speed can impact network stability and performance, as well as to design networking protocols for efficient and reliable information delivery.
Raafat Mansour is the new Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nano Integrated RF Systems. His research looks at introducing a new class of RF (radio-frequency) systems and instrumentations that leverage the benefits of integrating RF, Micro and Nano technologies on a single-chip. This innovative chip-scaled technology platform will enable the development of highly advanced RF systems for use in applications such as wireless communication, biomedical and nano-instrumentations.
En-hui Yang becomes the Canada Research Chair in Information Theory and Multimedia Data Compression. Yang's research investigates how to improve the areas of information theory, multimedia compression and multimedia communications efficiency, reliability and diversity by proposing and exploring advanced concepts/paradigms. He explores the development and use of new information transmission, storage, protection theory and algorithms.
The four Waterloo researchers who won renewals for their Canada Research Chairs are Grainne Fitzsimons, psychology, CRC in Social Cognition, funded $500,000 over five years; Michel Gingras, physics and astronomy, CRC in Condensed Matter Theory & Statistical Mechanics, $1.4 million over seven years; Debbie Leung, combinatorics and optimization, CRC in Quantum Communication, $500,000 over five years; and Justin Wan, computer science, CRC in Scientific Computing, $500,000 over five years.
What a thrill when the robot does your bidding! This was the scene at yesterday's First Lego League Waterloo Qualifier, a tournament for some 200 school kids held in Engineering 5. Photo by Gillian Gutenberg for the engineering outreach office.
Another test of the university’s emergency communications system is scheduled for this afternoon, somewhere between 3 and 4 p.m.
This system — which is tested about once each term — employs multiple communications media, including messages to voicemail on campus phones, text messages to cell phones, and a message to computers that appears as a "pop-up" directing everyone to the university's special emergency home page.
This system is designed to be deployed in the event of major emergencies where there is imminent physical danger to members of the campus community.
To ensure that you will receive an emergency cell phone text message, faculty, staff and students must list their cell phone numbers in their university personal information files. For students this should be done using Quest. For faculty and staff, log into the myHRinfo system to make sure your cell phone is accurately listed.
Most PC users across campus will receive the automatic pop-up message. Those with "self-managed" machines, including all users of Macs, can obtain the necessary software for downloading on their own. This software will enable these machines to connect with the Emerge software system used to display pop-up messages.
In addition, during emergency situations, the university's InfoLine can be accessed at 1-866-470-0910. This special number is a communication service allowing multiple callers access simultaneously. The number is meant to reduce the load on the regular switchboard in high-volume situations. The university will also use InfoLine in non-emergencies, such as a campus closure due to a winter storm or other important updates for the campus community.
With the fall term racing toward its end (the final day of classes is Monday, December 6), the libraries have already begun their exam-time schedule of extended hours. From now through December 22, the Davis Centre library will be open around the clock (except 2 to 8 a.m. on Sundays), and the Dana Porter Library will be open 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily. Service desks will close at the usual time (midnight in Davis, 11 p.m. in Porter), but, says lending supervisor Mary Lynne Bartlett, "There will be attendants for security purposes. At Davis, the monitors and attendants will also monitor for noise, cell phone use, and hot foods that are not permitted in the library environment."
Some of the people visiting the libraries are apparently seeking not books, not electronic resources, not even study space, but… buttons. Library staff are giving away one-inch souvenir buttons noting the various library locations — the thirteen designs are illustrated here — and thousands of users are taking and wearing them. "The button designs are only located at their respective locations," the library web site says. "You can find the buttons in bowls at the service desks. Each location is distributing one button design at a time. Other designs will be made available as we run out." They acknowledge not just Davis and Porter, but the University Map Library, the Pharmacy library, the Musagetes Library in Architecture, and "WLRC", which is the Witer Learning Resources Centre in Optometry.
Organizers of WatITis, the annual conference for information technology staff, sent out an alert last week inviting registrations — and it's none too early to make that commitment, as the event is being held December 7, a week from tomorrow and the day after fall classes end. The location was originally announced as the Accounting wing of Hagey Hall, but in the end the conference is going to be held in the Rod Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall, as it was last year. Registration is free and is, of course, online. An agenda for the one-day event shows that the keynote speaker will be Brad Moggach, president of the Federation of Students. Single sessions include "Student Success Opportunities for Technology and Virtual Applications", "A Snapshot of Instructional Digital Media Production", "Exponential Growth in Maple TA Usage", "The Evolution of Publishing", "Maintaining Mental Fitness for Life", "Identity Management at Waterloo", and "Moving Forward on Mobile Applications".
As events to celebrate the holiday season get underway, groups and departments are bound to be holding social events, and officials are expressing hope that everyone has the opportunity to enjoy the best of the season. However, there are risks in running these events, says a note from Neil Murray, director of staff and labour relations. "Whether the festivity is large or small, it remains as important as ever that steps are taken to ensure the health and safety of those who attend office parties or other celebrations." He points to a memo that was issued in 2005 about UW's alcohol rules, Policy 21, and says it's as valid now as it was then: "Apart from specific venues listed in the policy such as the Graduate House, only UW Catering is allowed to serve alcohol on campus. An event such as a wine and cheese reception not served by UW Catering is contrary to policy. If a civil action arose from such an event, the organizer and/or department head could be found personally liable." The memo also pointed out that an event in somebody's home, such as a reception for co-workers, is a private event. "As a private host, you assume personal responsibility for such events. Managing the service of alcohol at a private event that involves fellow employees, subordinates or students can sometimes present difficulties. UW Catering staff are trained in these matters and you may want to retain them for such occasions."
The university had a full-page ad in Saturday's Globe and Mail recognizing the seven researchers with Waterloo connections who were installed last week as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. • Work on the overpass to the new Math 3 building is going slowly because of windy weather, with the result that the mathematics access road will be closed for another few days, the plant operations department says. • A systems upgrade for OnBase, the online system for graduate admissions, is under way, so the service will be down today.
The WatIAM online authentication system will be down for software maintenance tomorrow (Tuesday), with administration and self-service functions unavailable from 8:30 a.m. for most of the day. • The staff association has invited its members to apply for vacant staff seats on the Employee Assistance Program committee, the influential Staff Relations Committee, and the association's own nominating committee. • The University Club's annual Christmas lunch buffet starts today and continues weekdays through December 22 (reservations ext. 33801).
The hawk at dawn: People regularly spot the red-tailed hawk that frequents the central campus and preys on small creatures around the Dana Porter Library. Breean Belton, staff member in electrical and computer engineering, caught this view of the bird, in a tree near Physics, early Friday morning.
Co-op job rankings for architecture students November 29-30.
Canadian Association of University Research Administrators meets at Waterloo November 29-30. Details.
Student recitals by Waterloo music students Monday-Thursday 12:30, Conrad Grebel UC chapel.
Perimeter Institute special announcement with PI chair Mike Lazaridis and BMO Financial CEO Bill Downe, media event 5:45 p.m., 31 Caroline Street North.
Wilfrid Laurier University lecture: Shelagh Grant and Michael Byers, “Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty: From Prime Minister Laurier to Today” 7 p.m., WLU senate and board chamber.
Hagey Lecture: John Mighton, mathematician and author, “The High Cost of Intellectual Poverty” 8:00, Humanities Theatre, no tickets required.
Hagey student colloquium: John Mighton, “The Open Mind” Tuesday 10 a.m., Doug Wright Engineering room 3518.
PDEng presents “Beyond the Ring: Bridging the Gap Between University and the Workforce” Tuesday 11:30, Davis Centre room 1302.
‘Student Voices: Making Connections Between Learning Inside the Classroom and Learning Outside the Classroom’ panel sponsored by Teaching Excellence Council and Centre for the Advancement of Cooperative Education, Tuesday 12:00, Dana Porter Library room 329.
Organizational and Human Development workshop: “Email Strategies” Tuesday 1:00. Details.
‘Technology to Support Graduate Supervision’ workshop organized by Learning Community on Graduate Teaching and Learning, Tuesday 1:30, Humanities room 336. Details.
Techno Tuesday teaching workshop: “Data Visualization Tools” Tuesday 2:00, Flex Lab, Dana Porter Library. Details.
WatRISQ presents Ji-Eun Choi, actuarial consultant, Milliman, “Post-Crisis Variable Annuity Market and Its Future” Tuesday 4:00, Davis Centre room 1304.
Imaginus poster sale Wednesday-Thursday 10:00 to 8:00, Student Life Centre.
ChaRisMa: First Waterloo Conference on Characteristics, Risks and Management of Natural Hazards, Wednesday-Friday. Details.
Centre for Teaching Excellence presents Eric Mazur, Harvard University, “Memorization or Understanding: Are We Teaching the Right Thing?” Wednesday 11:00, Arts Lecture Hall room 105.
Perimeter Institute lecture: Eric Mazur, Harvard University, “Stopping Time” Wednesday 7:00, Waterloo Collegiate Institute. Details.
Canada’s Technology Triangle international reception and dinner, speaker former ambassador Ken Taylor, Thursday 5:30, Waterloo Inn, tickets $125. Details.
Orchestra @ UWaterloo end-of-term concert, “Three Edwards”, work by Grieg, Elgar, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Boyd McDonald, piano soloist Edward Cho, Thursday 8 p.m., Humanities Theatre.
Last day of lectures for fall term Monday, December 6. Exams run December 9-22 (online class exams, December 10-11).
Faculty association fall general meeting December 7, 2:00, Math and Computer room 4059.
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Ambergris is found within Ambergris A Pathfinder and Annotated Bibliography by Randy D. Ralph.
Amber Webpages Review in Science magazine. Leslie, M., 2005. NetWatch: Trapped forever. Science, 309, p. 857. View as a pdf, www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/309/5736/857d.pdf, or htm, www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/309/5736/857d.
View the NSF/AAAS 2005 Visualization Challenge: co-winner in the photography category--www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5743/1991b, Science, 23 September 2005, 309(5743), p. 1991.
http://www.educationindex.com/index.html, Education Index News is an annotated directory of education-related Web sites.
http://www.evolutionary.org, has a section recognizing science-related Internet sites at http://sciencesiteoftheday.com, in which the World of Amber was recognized on June 14, 1997.
http://www.newscientist.com/weblinks, The New Scientist provides reviews of everyday scientific phenomena and recognized the World of Amber in 23-25 January, 1998.
http://www.schoolzone.co.uk, Schoolzone links to an educational search engine originating in the United Kingdom, which is easy to navigate and a wealth of resources for teachers.
Farlang Gem and Diamond Foundation has amber references at www.farlang.com/gemstones/amber.
The Fifth International Baltic Jewellery Show Amber Trip was 6-9 March 2008 in Vilnius, Lithuania, www.ambertrip.com/en.
Amberif! March 11-15, 2008, the International Fair of Amber, Jewellery, and Gemstones in Poland, amberif.mtgsa.pl/e4u.php/3,en,.
Handmade amber jewelry by Peter and Caroline Wyspianski, www.signature-gems.com and their educational information, www.signature-gems.com/gemsinfo.html.
Mr. Andrzej Gorski and his amber glossary, http://www.amberabg.com/b_systematyka/index.html, and informative website, Amber Stone Live, www.amberabg.com/.
Farlang Gem and Diamond Foundation online library on historic references that mention amber, www.farlang.com/gemstones/amber.
Andzia's Amber Jewelry and Beads, http://www.amberjewelry.com/.
Richard Kulczynski's Cool Design, www.cooldesign.ch.
Global Gem and Jewelry Trade Fairs are found on the Amber Market of Events, http://www.amber-market.com/page129.htm and wholesale amber jewelry, http://www.amber-market.com/.
International Amber Association from Poland, http://www.sbp.org.pl/.
Baltic amber by B. Kosmowska-Ceranowicz, K. Leciejewicz, K. Kwiatkowska, and A. Pieliñska, http://www.hermuz.hu/engweb/nws/amber2.htm.
Andzia's Amber Reading Room, http://www.amberjewelry.com/Amber_Reading_Room_p1.htm, Amber Myths and History, http://www.amberjewelry.com/amber_myths_and_history_p1.htm are pages from Andzia's Amber, http://www.amberjewelry.com/.
Amber quick facts from Dragonfly Amber.com.
Amber: the Jurassic Gem is a page within the International Colored Gemstone Association's Gem Wire.
Polish Jeweller article on Kansas amber, http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/JEWELLER/13PJ/11burszt.pdf, by Barbara Kosmowska-Ceranowicz and Susan Ward Aber, appeared in the Polski Jubiler, the Polish Jeweller.
Natural resources is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
Fossil life is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
Johnston Geology Museum is from Emporia State University.
Sternberg Natural History Museum is from Fort Hays State University.
Dyche Natural History Museum is from the University of Kansas.
Physiographic province map of Kansas is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
Petroglyph is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
Aralia Wellingtoniana leaf impression is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
Kansas County map is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
Ellsworth Kansas was provided by Blue Skyways.
Ellsworth County was provided by Blue Skyways.
Smoky Hills counties is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
Ellsworth Land Use is from the DASC at the Kansas Geological Survey.
Kansas Geologic Map is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
Geologic History of Kansas is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
Cretaceous Sea is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
Mushroom Rock State Park is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
Ellsworth County Geology Map is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
NW1/4, SW1/4, Sec. 18, T. 16 S., R. 6 W. is from the Topo Zone.
Waggoner's paper, Bacteria and protists from Middle Cretaceous amber of Ellsworth County, Kansas, is from PaleoBios.
The amber image is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
Professor Brian Stross, uts.cc.utexas.edu/~strossb/index.html from the University of Texas on Mesoamerican Copal Resins, www.utexas.edu/courses/stross/papers/copal.htm.
Colombian resin deposits, www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Geology/webdogs/amber/copal.html is a topic found at Tammi Johnson's Amber: Arboreal Gold www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Geology/webdogs/amber/.
Types of amber, copal and resin, www.gplatt.demon.co.uk/typesof.htm is from Gary Platt's Amber Home, www.gplatt.demon.co.uk/index.htm.
Copal, www.3dotstudio.com/amberfaq.html#anchor235952, is from Mark R. Meyer's 3 dot studio, www.3dotstudio.com.
Real Amber or Fake?, www.ambericawest.com/real_amber.html is a part of Doug Lundberg's www.ambericawest.com/amber_info.html amber page.
Ancient nucleic acids from amber-preserved insects, www.nhm.ac.uk/science/intro/palaeo/project1/index.html is from the London Natural History Museum.
Amber Imitators, www.ambergallery.com/Is_it_real_amber_/is_it_real_amber_.html, is a topic found at the Amber Gallery www.ambergallery.com/.
Copal Identification, www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/trueamber.html, is an article by Gary Platt and hosted by Bob's Rock Shop, www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/table.html.
Insects in Amber from Colombia, South America, www.lava.net/FOSSILS/amber.htm is from the Paleo Warehouse, www.lava.net/FOSSILS/amber.htm.
Colombian Amber, www.stonesbones.com/amb.htm is a site from Stones and Bones, www.stonesbones.com/index.htm.
Yale Goldman, http://Snakefly.tripod.com/homepage.html, discusses copal http://Snakefly.tripod.com/amberpg.html and other amber imitations, such as glass, phenolic resin, celluloid, and casein, http://Snakefly.tripod.com/index-2.html, from his Dead Bug in Amber Club site.
Nature's Transparent Tomb! Amber from the New World Tropics, http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0702.htm is from Wayne's Word http://waynesword.palomar.edu/inexwayn.htm, that is Wayne Armstrong at Palomar College, San Marcos, California.
Dinosaur breath by John G. Cramer, http://mist.npl.washington.edu/av/altvw27.html, is an article within Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, http://mist.npl.washington.edu/AV/av_index.html.
Andzia's Amber Reading Room, http://www.amberjewelry.com/Amber_Reading_Room_p1.htm.
Gemstone GO 340 Amber lecture, an online Gemstones and Gemology course http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/amber/go340/ offered from Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas USA.
R.V. Dietrich on amber, http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/dietr1rv/amber.htm is from GemRocks: Ornamental and Curio Stones, http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/dietr1rv/Default.htm.
Amber Color, http://www.ambergallery.lt/english/muziejus-spalvos.htm, is from the Mizgiriai family, http://www.ambergallery.lt/english/apie_mus.htm, Gintaro Galerija Muziejus.
Amber Color, http://www.dragonflyamber.com/choosing_amber/ , is from Dragonfly Amber, http://www.dragonflyamber.com/.
The timeline is from Mark Meyer's 3 Dot Studio page.
Bacteria and protists from Middle Cretaceous amber of Ellsworth County, Kansas by Benjamin M.Waggoner, while at the Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, USA, and published in PaleoBios, Vol 17(1), p. 20-26, July 13, 1996.
Central New Jersey is an external link found within Dinosauria On-Line by Jeff Poling.
Online Scientific American sites originate from http://www.sciam.com/ and include Gladiators: A New Order of Insect; Ancient Tick Poses New Questions; and Ancient Ant in Amber.
The Amber Room is from Steve Kurth's Fossils of New Jersey.
Raritan amber is from the Geology of Bight Beaches, with the Raritan Formation and Raritan Bay pages also at these sites by Phil Stoffer and Paula Messina.
Amber: A Perfect Fossil Trap is Dr. Volker Arnold's site, featuring German amber and it is also in German.
In Your Pocket guide hosts Kaliningrad.
Amber formation in Lithuania is from the Mizgiriai family, Gintaro Galerija Muziejus.
The Amber Room, is an excellent site detailing Dominican Republic Amber, including slides and video of microscopic views of amber and its inclusions.
Terra Treasures and Adventures 101 is Keith Luzzi's site on amber from the Dominican Republic.
A New Look at Dominican Amber by Leslie Miller Schwing, the Amber Lady.
Geology Bulletin is found on the London Natural History Museum pages.
Mexican Amber, by Cardell Calhoun, is found at http://www.mexican-amber.com/.
Burmite, Burmese Cretaceous Amber, by Ron Buckley, is found at http://home.fuse.net/paleopark/amber3.htm.
George O. Poinar, Jr. and Raif Milki is a link to a new book, Lebanese Amber The Oldest Insect Ecosystem in Fossilized Resin.
The Kauri Museum is located in New Zealand.
Lizards, gnats, millipedes, termites, mites, wasps, scorpions, grasshoppers, oaks, and water are portions of an external link to The Natural History of Amber and the Three Dot Studio by Mark R. Meyer.
The ant example is from Andrzej Gorski's Amber - Stone Live.
The cockroach link is from Alfred Correya's Baltic Amber Collection from the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow.
Beetles, flies, bees, and Amber Inclusions are from Wolfgang Wiggers, University of Bremen.
The fossil feather in amber and Suspended in Time are both from the Smithsonian's Imprints of the Past.
damselfly is found within The AmberLady.
Butterfly is from the American Natural History Museum.
Landis is the author of this USGS publication.
http://diglib1.amnh.org/novitates/i0003-0082-296-01-0001.pdf, A New Interpretation of the Oldest Fossil Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Michael S. Engel, American Museum Novitates 3296, 1-11. NY: American Museum of Natural History.
A formicine in New Jersey Cretaceous amber (Hymenoptra:Formicidae) and early evolution of the ants by D. Grimaldi and D. Agosti was published by PNAS Online, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.
Amber - Stone Live is an interesting site by Andrzej Gorski.
Fossils Window to the Past Amber, which is a part of Fossils Window to the Past, from University of California at Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology.
The Amber Room by Steve Kurth.
Dominican Republic Amber and New Jersey amber are both from Yale Goldman's Dead Bug in Amber Club.
The Amber Room is an excellent site detailing Dominican Republic Amber, including slides and video of microscopic views of amber and its inclusions.
Insects in Amber is by Jens von Holt and his Amber World.
Dave Lamb's collection is found in Tammi Johnson's Amber: Arboreal Gold.
Fossil Collections of the World by Simon Biggs.
Scanning Electron Micrographs of insects by Dr. Greg Paulson.
Fossil Inclusions in Baltic Amber was created by Gianfranco Rocchini. The site is in Italian, French, and English.
Entrapped by Time is from the Mizgiriai family, Gintaro Galerija Muziejus.
Bernsteinstrasse is a homepage of the Austrian Amber Road Association, a network of museums along the ancient amber trade route. Very nice!
Wieslaw Giertowski's Various Modifications of Amber from Doug Lundberg's Amber Page.
Eugenio Ragazzi's make your own amber site is found within Lundberg's amber page.
The Amber Gallery has created a system for amber grading and pricing.
Real or Not is from the Mizgiriai family, Gintaro Galerija Muziejus.
The amber ship was found at http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/HOBBY/AMBER/ship.htm; the amber cabinet was found at http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/HOBBY/AMBER/cabinet.htm; and the amber egg at http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/HOBBY/AMBER/egg.htm.
Amber skin care products http://www.amberjewelry.com/Bioenergetic_Amber_Skincare.htm is found within Andzia's Amber Jewelry and Beads, http://www.amberjewelry.com/.
Red and green amber metaphysical tools is found within east-west center.
violins is found within Hans Johannsson's violin making home page.
Amber Alter, St. Brygida Church is from http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/JEWELLER/12PJ/alt1.htm.
Peter Bruhn's Amber Room, http://www.ib.hu-berlin.de/~pbruhn/bszimmer.htm.
Amber in Art, http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/amber/amberart.htm, a page from the California Academy of Sciences, http://www.calacademy.org.
In Search of the Amber Room, http://www.ovationtv.com/artszone/programs/amber/fire.html, provided by Ovation, http://www.ovationtv.com/about/index.asp.
Principality of Sealand, http://www.principality-of-sealand.org/hotstuff/kulturgueter_e.html, contains other links such as amber room excavation, http://www.principality-of-sealand.org/chronologie/grabungbz_e.html, and salvage operations, http://www.principality-of-sealand.org/hotstuff/dokusbernstein/etransgenehmigung.html.
On the trail of the Amber Room, BBC News story from 8/1998 by D. Shukman.
Underground race to find the Amber Room looted by Nazis, a news.telegraph.co.uk story from 10/2000 by J. Sparks and P. Sherwell.
Wall panels are from http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/HOBBY/AMBER/amberroom.htm, detailed panels from http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/HOBBY/AMBER/amberroom1.htm, and the case is from http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/HOBBY/AMBER/case.htm. At this same site, is a Polish history of the Amber Room, http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/HOBBY/AMBER/krzywoblocka.htm#a.
Amber Use and archeological finds are both from the Mizgiriai family, Gintaro Galerija Muziejus.
http://www.venus.com.pl/, Venus for wholesale beads, bracelets, rosaries and more.
Jurassic Park is a search from Yahoo.
The extraction of DNA and some scientists are portions of Nature's Preservative Organic Flypaper, a NISE project from the University of Wisconsin called the Whyfiles.
Raul Cano is a portion of Ancient DNA and Microorganisms from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA; the Cano lab is also from California Polytechnic State University. Diversity of Microorganisms Isolated from Amber and Staphylococcus succinus sp. nov., isolated from Dominican amber are two online journal articles from Cano and colleagues.
stingless bee is an external link to "Jurassic Park" Bacterium! which originates at Bugs in the News! Microbiology at the University of Kansas and John C. Brown.
Replicate the procedure is a link that originates from the Department of Paleontology and Zoology at, The Natural History Museum in London.
Mythological tales is from The Amberlady.
Amber in Medicine is from the Mizgiriai family, Gintaro Galerija Muziejus.
Baltic Amber Myths and History http://www.amberjewelry.com/amber_myths_and_history_p3.htm is a page within Andzia's Amber, http://www.amberjewelry.com/.
Dragonfly Amber.com on folklore at http://www.dragonflyamber.com/about_our_amber/amber_legends.html.
Lundberg has a page on how to work with raw amber.
Palanga, Lithuania Amber Museum and their internal link, Antanas Tranyzas: The Amber Museum of Palanga.
Zamek Malbork, Malbork Castle, Malbork, Poland.
Deutsches Bernsteinmuseum in Ribnitz-Damgarten is both a museum and an opportunity to learn how to polish amber in their model workshop!
Malbork Castle, Poland, and click on Amber Museum or Muzeum bursztynu.
American Museum of Natural History is the host of several sites: Amber in Nature, Amber in Art, and Amber Varieties.
Dinosaurs fabrication is found within the Museum of Unnatural Mystery.
Earth Science Department is a link to a page within Emporia State University.
Amber Home is the creation of Garry Platt.
Grimaldi, D.A. and Poinar, G.O., Jr. are within Amber: Arboreal Gold by Tammi Johnson.
Nature's preservative is an external link within Whyfiles.
Andrew Ross' Amber: The natural time capsule, the S. Caine review, mineralogy department's amber page, infrared spectroscopy, and amber book reviews are all a part of the London Natural History Museum.
Forever Amber is a link to a Time magazine article summary, scanned by Doug Lundberg.
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Can Wikipedia Survive Its Own Success?
It’s not easy being Wikipedia, a free web encyclopedia created and edited by anonymous contributors. Just ask founder Jimmy Wales, who has seen his creation come under fire in just a few short months as the site fends off vandalism and charges of inaccurate entries. “Wikipedia has always been in a state of change,” says Wales, in defense of his product.
On November 29, journalist John Seigenthaler, Sr., once a member of Robert Kennedy’s staff, penned an op-ed piece in USA Today noting that an article on Wikipedia had incorrectly linked him to the assassination of Robert Kennedy and John F. Kennedy. The article, which stayed on the site for four months, stated that “John Seigenthaler, Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960s. For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John and his brother Bobby. Nothing was ever proven.” Wikipedia eventually deleted the inaccurate information, and now even contains an entry entitled, “John Seigenthaler, Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy” explaining the history of its own error.
And last month, former MTV VJ and podcasting pioneer Adam Curry was accused of editing out Wikipedia’s references to Kevin Marks, another early podcasting luminary. In a December 2 blog entry, Curry owned up to the switch and apologized.
Wikipedia, founded in 2001 as a non-profit organization and supported mainly by donations, allows anyone with Internet access to edit its articles. The premise is that collective knowledge, which some call “open source” content, is every bit as valuable as professionally edited content. As a result, Wikipedia has become a hybrid encyclopedia/current events site that raises a number of interesting questions, including: Just how accurate is free content, given recent events at Wikipedia? Does the aggregate ‘wisdom of the crowd’ trump the expertise of knowledgeable individuals? Does Wikipedia’s policing mechanism work? Does the controversy over Wikipedia merely reflect further tension between old and new media?
The answer to all those questions, according to experts at Wharton, boils down to two words: It depends. According to Eric Clemons, professor of operations and information management, it is foolish to take Wikipedia’s definitions as gospel, but the site is still worth reading from time to time. Marketing professor Peter Fader notes that Wikipedia shows there is wisdom in crowds, but a better user rating system would filter out those who post bogus information. Joel Waldfogel, professor of business and public policy, agrees that much of the concern about Wikipedia is just a new spin on whether old media (printed encyclopedias, in this case) stand a chance against the new breed of instantly updatable online media.
For Kendall Whitehouse, senior director of information technology at Wharton, the most interesting question is “whether the wisdom of the crowd is ultimately a better approach compared to scholarly review and edited content.” As Whitehouse observes, “Wikipedia’s strength is that it has thousands of eyes looking at it. The hope is that errors will be quickly caught and corrected.” But Whitehouse also points out that as the scale of Wikipedia’s content expands even a thousand eyes can miss certain details — which is apparently what happened in the case of the Seigenthaler material.
Wales doesn’t dismiss concerns about Wikipedia and notes that he has implemented changes to prevent abuse, such as only allowing registered users to make certain types of changes. He adds, however, that Wikipedia has been slammed for mistakes simply because it’s relatively new, and he compares the attention swirling around the site to stories that focused on quirky items for sale on eBay in 1999 and 2000. “The media loves a story,” he says.
Just the fact that Wikipedia has attracted so much attention indicates the clout it has achieved since being created almost five years ago. Indeed, a December 14 study of 42 entries by Nature magazine puts Wikipedia almost on a par with Britannica in terms of accurate science coverage. Nature found that the average science entry in Wikipedia had four errors while Britannica had three. The biggest complaint against Wikipedia was that the entries were confusing and poorly structured. Overall, concluded the Nature study, problems such as the Seigenthaler incident were the exception, not the rule.
Wikipedia has also grown at a rapid clip. There are 13,000 active contributors working on 1.8 million articles in more than 100 languages. On the English-language sites, 800 to 1,000 editors edit most of the entries, says Wales. According to Alexa, a web traffic tracking site, Wikipedia is the 37th most highly visited site on the Internet.
Clemons notes that Wikipedia should never be the sole source of information. “I only use Wikipedia for things I know cold, looking for a terse description to share with my daughter doing homework so I don’t have to write it myself. But if I don’t know the subject, I would never consider Wikipedia as a source of information,” he says, adding that the biggest issue is that Wikipedia provides no information on who posted the story, the writer’s credentials or the motives behind changes.
What succeeded in getting Wikipedia to this juncture — an open format where anyone can post articles — may not work as the online encyclopedia continues to grow, says Fader. The issue: There is no rating system to lend credibility to people who create and edit articles. For instance, a system that keeps editors of articles anonymous, yet rates them much like eBay rates merchants, could enhance Wikipedia’s credibility. A contributor known for accuracy or subject expertise would be given, say, five stars. A vandal or someone shamelessly plugging a product would get one star.
Other changes are in development, but Wales didn’t disclose anything specific, except to say that there are no plans to institute an eBay-like rating system such as the one Fader suggests. That type of system couldn’t work and would “be destructive of the community,” Wales suggests, because Wikipedia has 800 to 1,000 active editors. A rating system would be degrading as well as unrefined. For instance, a biologist may be an expert on biology topics, but turn into a ranting madman when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “In that example, the person would probably be rated a three-star overall,” says Wales. “But the rating would lose the human judgment element. In our system, we learn over time that you need to keep an eye on that editor” when he or she is working on topics related to the Middle East.
It’s unclear how the Wikipedia model will evolve, but some potential rivals have their own ideas. A site called Digital Universe recently launched offering “stewards” to review content and providing two tiers of articles — those verified by experts and those not. The company bills itself as the “PBS of the Web” and a university of human thought and experience.
Friedman’s Copyright, which will kick off in mid-February, is an open access, peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of copyright in the Internet age. Authors will submit detailed research, case studies and opinion pieces vetted by rapid peer review. Copyright will seek a balance between offering access to all users, but making sure information is accurate. According to Friedman, there is still a big role for collaborative content, but the filtering of vast amounts of information will become increasingly critical.
While Wikipedia is effective, it “allows anyone to post [information] and just prays that the experts will wind up posting more than the malicious or incompetent,” says Friedman. Copyright’s approach will be open to all, but submissions will be vetted by, among others, Fader, Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford Law School, and William M. Landes, a law professor at the University of Chicago, before being published.
Experts at Wharton agree that Wikipedia will weather its most recent flap, but its model may have to be tweaked. Whitehouse suggests that citizen-authored content is a valuable contribution to knowledge, but there is still a place for more edited information. Wikipedia’s challenge: Find the middle ground.
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本発明は、一般にクロック信号に同期して動作する半導体装置に関し、詳しくはクロック信号を制御することにより消費電力を削減可能な半導体装置に関する。 The present invention generally relates to a semiconductor device which operates in synchronization with a clock signal, and particularly relates to reducing a semiconductor device capable of power consumption by controlling the clock signal.
プロセッサ等の半導体装置においては、消費電力を削減するために、高速処理を必要としない期間のクロック周波数を低く抑える或いは停止させる制御が行われる。 In the semiconductor device such as a processor, in order to reduce power consumption, reduce the period of the clock frequency that does not require high-speed processing or control to stop it is performed. 即ち、クロックの動作周波数を必要に応じて段階的に切りかえたり（以下「クロックギア」と呼ぶ）、或いは動作させる必要の無いモジュールブロックへのクロックを停止させる（以下「パワーダウンモード」と呼ぶ）制御が行われる。 That, or switched stepwise if necessary the operating frequency of the clock (hereinafter referred to as "clock gear"), or to stop the clock to the unnecessary modules block to operate (hereinafter referred to as "power down mode") control is performed.
クロックギアは、一般に、プロセッサ内の一番早いクロックに対応したマスク用の同期信号を供給し、ゲーテッドクロックバッファでクロック出力のパルス数を減らすことにより実現する。 Clock gear generally provides a synchronization signal for the mask corresponding to the earliest clock in the processor, realized by reducing the number of pulses of the clock output by the gated clock buffer. 或いは分周回路でクロック信号を分周することにより実現する。 Alternatively divider circuits realized by dividing the clock signal. またパワーダウンモードは、プロセッサ内の特定の一部或いは全部のモジュールに対して、動作の必要がない期間、それらモジュールへのクロック信号の供給をマスクすることにより実現する。 The power-down mode for a particular part or all of the modules in the processor, the period that does not require operation is realized by masking the supply of the clock signal to the modules. これらのクロック制御は、チップの端子設定及びプログラムによるソフトウェア的な制御に基づいて、プロセッサ内のクロック制御部により実行するのが一般的である。 These clock control, based on the software control by chip terminals settings and programs, it is common to run the clock control unit in the processor.
従来、プロセッサ内部のオンチップバスやバスブリッジを介する内部周辺バス等がある場合において、上記のようなクロックギア切り替え或いはパワーダウンモードへの遷移を行う際には、ソフトウェアによって一定の手順を実行する必要がある。 Conventionally, there is an internal peripheral bus or the like through the processor internal on-chip bus and bus bridge, when performing a transition to clock gear changing or power down mode as described above, to perform certain steps by software There is a need. 即ち、クロックギアの切り替え或いはパワーダウンモードへの遷移をするためには、その準備として、バス転送等の特定のプロトコル（動作仕様）に沿った動作を、ソフトウェア的に完了させる必要がある。 That is, in order to make the transition to the switching or power down mode clock gear, as a preparation operation along a particular protocol bus transfer such (operating specification), it is necessary to complete a software manner.
例えば、このような手順を経ないで、バスを経由するデータ転送（特に命令フェッチ等）の最中にクロックギアの切り替え等をした場合、命令の取りこぼしによるプロセッサのハングアップを発生させる危険性がある。 For example, without going through such a procedure, when the switching of clock gear during data transfer via the bus (especially instruction fetch, etc.), risk of developing a hang-up of a processor according missed instruction is there. また例えば、バスブリッジを経由する内部周辺バスに接続されたモジュールへの突き放し制御のストア命令を実行する場合においては、オンチップバス上での転送が完了した後も内部周辺バスで引き続きライト動作が行われているので、ストア動作が実際に完了する時間まで待たずにクロックギアの切り替え等を行ってしまったのでは、ストアが正常に行われない危険性がある。 Further, for example, in the case of executing the Tsukihanashi control store instruction to the internal peripheral bus connected to the module via the bus bridge, it continues the write operation in an internal peripheral bus even after the transfer on the on-chip bus completed because it is carried out, than was gone the switching of clock gear does not wait until the time the store operation is actually completed, there is a risk that the store is not performed properly. また例えば、ＳＤＲＡＭコントローラをチップに搭載している場合においては、予めＳＤＲＡＭをセルフリフレッシュモードへ遷移させずにＳＤＲＡＭコントローラのクロックを停止したのでは、ＳＤＲＡＭのデータが破壊されてしまう。 Further, for example, in a case mounted with the SDRAM controller chips, than stops the SDRAM controller clock without transitions previously SDRAM to self-refresh mode, the data of the SDRAM is destroyed.
こうした問題を避けるために、クロックギア切り替えやパワーダウンモードへの遷移に際して所定の手順を実行するプログラムを、予め作成しておく必要がある。 To avoid these problems, a program for executing a predetermined procedure upon transition to clock gear switching and power-down mode, it is necessary to create in advance. しかしその手順が完璧に実行されない場合には、予期せぬハングアップ等が発生する恐れがあった。 However, if the procedure is not performed to perfection, unexpected hang-up, etc. may occur.
特に、複雑な転送プロトコルを持つオンチップバスや、バスブリッジ、チップ外部バス（ＳＤＲＡＭ、ＳＲＡＭ、ＲＯＭ、コンパニオンチップ等に接続するバス）等を持つプロセッサのクロック制御プログラムを作成する際には、種々の条件を考慮して制御する必要があるので、人為的なミスによるハングアップやデータ転送エラーの危険性を完全に排除することは容易でない。 In particular, and on-chip bus with complex transfer protocol, the bus bridge chip external bus when creating processor clock control program with such (SDRAM, SRAM, ROM, bus connected to the companion chip, etc.), various since it is necessary to control in view of the conditions, it is not easy to completely eliminate the risk of hang-ups and data transfer errors due to human error.
以上を鑑みて、本発明は、クロックギア切り替え時やパワーダウンモード遷移時等におけるハングアップの危険性を取り除くハードウェア機構を備えた半導体装置を提供することを目的とする。 In view of the above, an object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device having a hardware mechanism to eliminate the risk of hang in clock gear changing time and power-down mode transition or the like.
本発明による半導体装置は、クロック信号を生成するクロック生成部と、クロック制御リクエスト信号をアサートする第１のモジュールと、該クロック制御リクエスト信号のアサート状態に応答して、現在実行中の処理が終了するとその後の処理を停止してクロック制御アクノリッジ信号をアサートする１つ又は複数の第２のモジュールと、オンチップバスと、該オンチップバスに接続される複数のモジュールと、該複数のモジュールのうちバスマスターであるモジュール間でバス権を調停するバスアービタと、チップ内部周辺バスと、該チップ内部周辺バスと該オンチップバスとを接続するバスブリッジとを含み、該１つ又は複数の第２のモジュールからの該クロック制御アクノリッジ信号が全てアサートされると該クロック生成部は該第 The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a clock generator for generating a clock signal, a first module for asserting a clock control request signal, in response to the asserted state of the clock control request signal, the current processing is terminated then one or more of the second module to stop subsequent processing asserts the clock control acknowledge signal, the on-chip bus, a plurality of modules connected to said on-chip bus, of the plurality of modules a bus arbiter for arbitrating bus between modules is a bus master, and the chip peripheral bus, and a bus bridge that connects the said chip internal peripheral bus and said on-chip bus, the one or more second When the clock control acknowledge signal from the module it is asserted all the clock generating unit is said のモジュールに供給する該クロック信号を選択的に変化させ、該バスアービタは、該１つ又は複数の第２のモジュールのうちの１つであり、該クロック制御リクエスト信号のアサート状態に応答して、現在実行中の転送動作が終了すると該バスマスターであるモジュールに対する全てのバス権を不許可として該クロック制御アクノリッジ信号をアサートし、該バスブリッジは、該１つ又は複数の第２のモジュールのうちの１つであり、該クロック制御リクエスト信号のアサート状態に応答して、現在実行中のデータ転送処理が終了するとその後のデータ転送処理を停止して該クロック制御アクノリッジ信号をアサートする 。 Is selectively changing the clock signal to be supplied to the module, the bus arbiter is one of said one or more second module, in response to the asserted state of the clock control request signal, When the transfer operation currently being executed is completed all of the bus right for the module is the bus master asserts the clock control acknowledge signal as a non-permission, the bus bridge of the one or more second modules is one of, in response to the asserted state of the clock control request signal, the data transfer processing currently being executed is stopped and subsequent data transfer process upon completion asserting the clock control acknowledge signal.
以上のハードウェア制御によって、本発明においては、クロックギア切り替えやパワーダウンモード遷移等の処理を行う際に、クロック制御により動作に問題が生じる可能性があるモジュールを予め処理停止状態にし、誤動作の危険性が無い状態になってからクロック制御を実行することが可能となる。 Hardware control described above, in the present invention, when performing processing such as clock gear switching and power-down mode transition, the pretreated stopped modules that may cause problems with the operation by the clock control, malfunction it is possible to execute a clock control after becoming no risk state.
以下に、本発明の実施例を添付の図面を用いて詳細に説明する。 It will be described below in detail with reference to the embodiment accompanying drawings of the present invention.
図１は、本発明によるプロセッサの第１実施例の構成を示す図である。 Figure 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a first embodiment of a processor according to the present invention.
図１のプロセッサ１０は、クロック制御部１１、ＣＰＵコア部１２、ＤＳＰコア部１３、モジュール１４、モジュール１５、オンチップバス（ＯＣＢ）と内蔵周辺バス（ＰＢ）のバスブリッジ１６、ＤＭＡコントローラ１７、ＳＤＲＡＭコントローラ１８、外部バスコントローラ１９、オンチップバスのバスアービタ２０、オンチップバス（ＯＣＢ）２１、モジュール２２乃至２４、内部周辺バス（ＰＢ）２５、プロセッサ１０の外部に設けられ外部バスコントローラ１９に接続されるＳＲＡＭ２６及び外部バスマスター・チップ２７、外部バス２８、プロセッサ１０の外部に設けられＳＤＲＡＭコントローラ１８に接続されるＳＤＲＡＭ２９を含む。 Processor 10 of FIG. 1, the clock control unit 11, CPU core unit 12, DSP core unit 13, module 14, module 15, on-chip bus bridge 16 of the bus (OCB) and on-chip peripheral bus (PB), DMA controller 17, SDRAM controller 18, connected to the external bus controller 19, on-chip bus arbiter 20, the on-chip bus (OCB) 21, the module 22 to 24, the internal peripheral bus (PB) 25, external bus controller 19 provided outside of the processor 10 SRAM26 and external bus master chip 27, external bus 28 is, including SDRAM29 connected to the SDRAM controller 18 provided outside of the processor 10. ここで、ＣＰＵコア部１２、ＤＳＰコア部１３、モジュール１４、モジュール１５、ＤＭＡコントローラ１７、ＳＤＲＡＭコントローラ１８、外部バスコントローラ１９は、オンチップバス２１に接続されるオンチップバスモジュールであり、モジュール２２乃至２４は、内部周辺バス２５に接続される周辺バスモジュールである。 Here, CPU core unit 12, DSP core unit 13, module 14, module 15, DMA controller 17, SDRAM controller 18, the external bus controller 19 is on-chip bus module connected to the on-chip bus 21, module 22 to 24 is a peripheral bus modules connected to the internal peripheral bus 25. またＳＲＡＭ２６及び外部バスマスター・チップ２７は、外部バス２８に接続される外部バスモジュールである。 The SRAM26 and external bus master chip 27 is an external bus module connected to the external bus 28.
クロック制御部１１は、クロック生成部３０と、クロック制御判定部３１を含む。 The clock control unit 11 includes a clock generator 30, a clock control determining unit 31. またモジュール２２は、クロック制御レジスタ３２を含む。 The module 22 includes a clock control register 32.
以下に、本発明によるプロセッサ１０の動作を説明する。 Hereinafter, the operation of the processor 10 according to the present invention.
プロセッサ１０により特定のアプリケーションを動作させるためのソフトウェアを実行中に、プロセッサ１０のクロック制御（ギア切り替えやパワーダウンモードへの遷移等）を行うとする。 Running software for operating a specific application by the processor 10, and performs the clock control of the processor 10 (transition to the gear switching and power-down mode, etc.). まずクロック制御を指示するために、内部周辺バス２５に接続されるモジュール２２のクロック制御レジスタ３２に、クロック制御指示データのストア（ライト）命令をプログラムから発行する。 First to indicate a clock control, the clock control register 32 of the module 22 connected to the internal peripheral bus 25, it issues a store (write) instruction of the clock control instruction data from the program. 具体的には、このストア命令に係るライトデータは、ＣＰＵコア部１２から発行され、オンチップバス２１の転送仕様に従ってバスブリッジ１６へ転送される。 Specifically, the write data according to the store instruction is issued from the CPU core unit 12 is transferred to the bus bridge 16 in accordance with the transfer specification of on-chip bus 21. 更に、バスブリッジ１６から、モジュール２２へ当該ライトデータに関するライト要求が送出され、モジュール２２内のクロック制御レジスタ３２にライトデータが格納される。 Furthermore, the bus bridge 16, a write request for the write data to the module 22 is sent, the write data is stored in the clock control register 32 in the module 22.
上記ライト動作に係るシーケンスの実行中において、ＣＰＵコア部１２は、当該クロック制御指示データのストア命令を発行した後、パイプライン処理により順次後続する命令を実行する。 During execution of the sequence according to the write operation, CPU core 12, after issuing the store instruction of the clock control instruction data to perform sequential succeeding instruction by pipeline processing.
クロック制御レジスタ３２へ上記クロック制御指示データが格納されると、クロック制御レジスタ３２から、クロック制御部１１にクロック制御要求信号が発行される。 When the clock control register 32 the clock control instruction data is stored, the clock control register 32, a clock control request signal is issued to the clock control unit 11. このクロック制御要求信号は、クロック制御部１１のクロック制御判定部３１が受信する。 The clock control request signal, receives the clock control determining unit 31 of the clock control unit 11. クロック制御判定部３１は、クロック制御要求信号がアサートされたことを認識すると、クロック制御対象の各モジュールに対してクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをアサートする。 The clock control determining unit 31 recognizes that the clock control request signal is asserted, asserts the clock control request signal req for each module clock controlled.
クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑは、クロック制御完了通知信号ＤＮがアサートされるまでの期間、アサート状態に維持される。 Clock control request signal req, the clock control completion notification signal DN is time to be asserted and maintained asserted.
クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑを受け取った各モジュールは、その時点で実行中の処理が終了した時点で、その処理を一旦停止させ、クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘ（ｘ＝０、１、２、・・・、６）をアサートする。 Each module receives a clock control request signal req is, when the current operation is finished at that point, temporarily stop the processing, the clock control acknowledge signal ackx (x = 0,1,2, ···, 6) asserts. ここで、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑを受け取り、クロック制御アクノリッジ信号をアサートするモジュールは、バスアービタ２０、ＣＰＵコア部１２、ＤＳＰコア部１３、ＤＭＡコントローラ１７、ＳＤＲＡＭコントローラ１８、外部バスコントローラ１９、及びバスブリッジ１６である。 Here, receives a clock control request signal req, the module asserting the clock control acknowledge signal, the bus arbiter 20, CPU core unit 12, DSP core unit 13, DMA controller 17, SDRAM controller 18, the external bus controller 19 and bus bridge, 16 is. バスアービタ２０は、オンチップバス２１に接続されるモジュール間でバス権を調停し、選択されたモジュールにバス権を与えることでバスに対するアクセスを許可する。 The bus arbiter 20 arbitrates the bus right between modules connected to the on-chip bus 21, to allow access to the bus by giving the bus to the selected module. バスブリッジ１６は、オンチップバス２１と内部周辺バス２５との間のデータ転送を行う。 Bus bridge 16 performs data transfer between the on-chip bus 21 and the internal peripheral bus 25.
例えば、バスアービタ２０の場合、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑを受け取った後は、実行中のデータ転送のトランザクションが終了した時点で、全てのバスマスター（この例の場合、ＣＰＵコア部１２、ＤＳＰコア部１３、ＤＭＡコントローラ１７、及び外部バスコントローラ１９の各モジュール）へのバスグラント信号ｇｎｔｘ（ｘ＝１、２、３、４）をネゲート状態にディアサートする。 For example, if the bus arbiter 20, after receiving the clock control request signal req is when the transaction of data transfer in progress is completed, all bus masters (in this example, CPU core unit 12, DSP core portion 13 deasserts the bus grant signal to each module) of the DMA controller 17, and an external bus controller 19 gntx (x = 1,2,3,4) negated. 即ち、各マスターモジュールに対してバス権を否定することで、各マスターモジュールによるデータ転送を不許可にする。 That is, by negating the bus right for each master module, to disallow the data transfer by each master module. その後、バスアービタ２０は、クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋ０をアサートする。 Thereafter, the bus arbiter 20 asserts the clock control acknowledge signal ack0.
クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘは、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑがネゲートされるまでの間、アサート状態に維持される。 Clock control acknowledge signal ackx may, until the clock control request signal req is negated, is maintained in the asserted state.
各クロック制御対象モジュールからのクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘの全てがアサートされると、クロック制御判定部３１はこれを認識し、クロック生成部３０に対して、クロック制御イネーブル信号ＥＮをアサートする。 When all of the clock control acknowledge signal ackx from the clock control target module is asserted, the clock control determining unit 31 recognizes this, the clock generator 30 asserts the clock control enable signal EN. この時、クロック制御対象となっている全てのモジュールは、動作を一時的に中断している。 At this time, all of the modules has a clock control object is temporarily suspend operation.
クロック生成部３０は、クロック制御イネーブル信号ＥＮがアサートされたのを確認すると、プログラムから要求されたクロック制御動作（クロックギアの切替やパワーダウンモードへの遷移等）を実行する。 The clock generation unit 30 executes the clock control enable signal EN is to verify that the asserted, the requested clock control operation from the program (the transition to the clock gear switching and power-down mode, etc.). この際、クロック制御動作の詳細は、クロック制御レジスタ３２に書き込まれたクロック制御指示データの内容によって指定される。 In this case, details of the clock control operation is specified by the contents of the clock control instruction data written to the clock control register 32. クロック生成部３０は、各モジュールに対してクロック信号を供給しており、プログラムからの要求に従って、各モジュールに供給するクロック信号を選択的に制御して、モジュール毎に動作周波数を変更したりクロック信号の供給を停止する。 The clock generator 30 is supplied a clock signal to each module, in accordance with a request from a program, selectively controls the clock signal supplied to each module, the clock to change the operating frequency for each module to stop the supply of the signal.
クロック生成部３０は更に、クロック制御の処理が完了した時点で、クロック制御完了通知信号ＤＮをアサートする。 Clock generator 30 further, at the time when the processing of the clock control is completed, asserting the clock control completion notification signal DN.
クロック制御判定部３１は、クロック制御完了通知信号ＤＮがアサートされたことを認識すると、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをネゲートする。 The clock control determining unit 31 recognizes that the clock control completion notification signal DN is asserted, it negates the clock control request signal req. クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑがネゲートされたことに応答して、各クロック制御対象モジュールは、クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘをネゲートする。 In response to the clock control request signal req is negated, the clock control target module negates the clock control acknowledge signal Ackx. クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘがネゲートされると、クロック制御イネーブル信号ＥＮがネゲートされ、その後、クロック制御完了通知信号ＤＮもネゲートされる。 When the clock control acknowledge signal ackx is negated, the clock control enable signal EN is negated, then the clock control completion notification signal DN is also negated.
図２は、上記動作における各信号を示すタイミング図である。 Figure 2 is a timing diagram showing the respective signals in the above operation.
図２（ａ）に示されるようにクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑがアサートされると、これに応答して、図２（ｂ）に示されるようにバスグラント信号ｇｎｔｘがネゲート状態にされる。 When the clock control request signal req, as shown in FIG. 2 (a) is asserted, in response, the bus grant signal gntx is negated as shown in FIG. 2 (b). 更に、各モジュールで現在実行中の動作が終了するタイミングで、図２（ｃ）乃至（ｊ）に示されるように、各モジュールからのクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘがＨＩＧＨ（アサート状態）になる。 Further, at the timing when the operation of the currently executing each module is finished, as shown in FIG. 2 (c) to (j), the clock control acknowledge signal ackx from each module is HIGH (asserted state).
全てのクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘがＨＩＧＨになると、図２（ｋ）に示されるようにクロック制御イネーブル信号ＥＮがＨＩＧＨになり、クロックギア切り替えやクロック停止等のクロック制御動作が実行される。 When all of the clock control acknowledge signal ackx becomes HIGH, the clock control enable signal EN, as shown in FIG. 2 (k) becomes HIGH, the clock control operations such as clock gear switching or clock stop is performed. このクロック制御動作が完了すると、図２（ｌ）に示されるように、クロック制御完了通知信号ＤＮがアサートされる。 When the clock control operation is completed, as shown in FIG. 2 (l), the clock control completion notification signal DN is asserted.
図３は、クロック制御判定部３１の構成例を示す図である。 Figure 3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the clock control determining unit 31.
図３のクロック制御判定部３１は、フリップフロップ４１、フリップフロップ４２−０乃至４２−６、クロック制御デコーダ回路４３、ＡＮＤ回路４４、及びリクエスト信号生成回路４５を含む。 Clock control determination unit 31 of FIG. 3 includes a flip-flop 41, the flip-flops 42 - to 42-6, the clock control decoder circuit 43, the AND circuit 44 and a request signal generation circuit 45. フリップフロップ４１は、クロック制御レジスタ３２から供給されるクロック制御要求信号をラッチする。 Flip-flop 41 latches the clock control request signal supplied from the clock control register 32. ラッチされたクロック制御要求信号は、クロック制御デコーダ回路４３に供給されてデコードされる。 Latch clock control request signal is decoded is supplied to the clock control decoder circuit 43. クロック制御要求信号は複数のビットからなる信号であり、クロック制御を要求すると共に、クロック制御がクロックギア切り替えとクロック停止の何れであるのか、どのモジュールに対するクロック制御であるのか等に関して、具体的な制御の詳細を指定する。 Clock control request signal is a signal composed of a plurality of bits, the request clock control, whether the clock control is any clock gear changing and clock stop, with respect to whether a clock control and the like for any module, concrete to specify the details of the control. クロック制御デコーダ回路４３は、このクロック制御要求信号をデコードし、指定されたクロック制御動作を実行するための制御信号ＣＴＬを生成して、クロック生成部３０に供給する。 The clock control decoder circuit 43, the clock control request signal decoding, generates a control signal CTL for performing the specified clock control operation, and supplies the clock generator 30. また更に、クロック制御デコーダ回路４３は、クロック制御を示す信号ｃｌｋ＿ｃｔｒをリクエスト信号生成回路４５に供給する。 Further, the clock control decoder circuit 43 supplies a signal clk_ctr to the request signal generating circuit 45 showing a clock control. リクエスト信号生成回路４５は、単純なステートマシンであり、入力信号に応じて、アイドル状態ＩＤＬＥとクロック制御状態ＣＬＫ＿ＣＴＲＬとの間を遷移する。 Request signal generating circuit 45 is a simple state machine, in response to an input signal, transitions between the idle state IDLE and the clock control state CLK_CTRL. クロック制御を示す信号ｃｌｋ＿ｃｔｒがアサートされると、リクエスト信号生成回路４５は、アイドル状態ＩＤＬＥからクロック制御状態ＣＬＫ＿ＣＴＲＬに遷移し、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをアサートする。 When the signal clk_ctr showing the clock control is asserted, the request signal generating circuit 45 changes from the idle state IDLE to the clock control state CLK_CTRL, asserts a clock control request signal req. またクロック制御完了通知信号ＤＮがアサートされると、クロック制御状態ＣＬＫ＿ＣＴＲＬからアイドル状態ＩＤＬＥに遷移して、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをネゲートする。 Also the clock control completion notification signal DN is asserted, a transition from the clock control state CLK_CTRL idle IDLE, negates the clock control request signal req. リクエスト信号生成回路４５を、セットリセットフリップフロップ等の単純な順序回路によって実現することが可能であることは、当業者にとっては容易に理解出来るであろう。 The request signal generating circuit 45, it can be realized by a simple sequential circuit such as a set-reset flip-flop will be readily understood by those skilled in the art.
またクロック制御判定部３１は、各モジュールから供給されるクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘ（ｘ＝０、１、２、・・・、６）を、それぞれフリップフロップ４２−０乃至４２−６によりラッチする。 The clock control determination unit 31, clock control acknowledge signal ackx supplied from the respective module (x = 0,1,2, ···, 6) and are latched by the flip-flops 42 - 0 to 42-6, respectively. ラッチされたクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘ（ｘ＝０、１、２、・・・、６）は、ＡＮＤ回路４４に供給される。 The latched clock control acknowledge signal ackx (x = 0,1,2, ···, 6) are supplied to the AND circuit 44. ＡＮＤ回路４４は、ＡＮＤ演算により、全てのクロック制御アクノリッジ信号がアサート状態になると、クロック制御イネーブル信号ＥＮをアサートする。 AND circuit 44, the AND operation, when all the clock control acknowledge signal is asserted, asserts the clock control enable signal EN.
図４は、クロック制御対象であるバスブリッジ１６におけるクロック制御機構を示す図である。 Figure 4 is a diagram illustrating a clock control mechanism in the bus bridge 16 is a clock control object.
図４のクロック制御機構は、入力信号に応じて状態が遷移する単純なステートマシンであり、取り得る状態にはクロック制御状態、書き込み状態ＷＲＩＴＥ、読み出し状態ＲＥＡＤ、及びアイドル状態ＩＤＬＥの４つがある。 Clock control mechanism of FIG. 4 is a simple state machine whose state transition in response to an input signal, the possible to state the clock control state, a write state WRITE, read state READ, and There are four idle IDLE. アイドル状態ＩＤＬＥにおいては、バスブリッジ１６は待機して動作指示を待っている。 In the idle state IDLE, a bus bridge 16 is waiting for an operation instruction waiting. この状態でライト要求或いはリード要求が到来すると、それぞれ書き込み状態ＷＲＩＴＥ或いは読み出し状態ＲＥＡＤに遷移する。 When in this state the write request or read request arrives, a transition to the write state WRITE or read state READ, respectively. 書き込み状態ＷＲＩＴＥでは、オンチップバス２１からのデータを内部周辺バス２５のモジュールに書き込む処理を実行し、読み出し状態ＲＥＡＤにおいては、内部周辺バス２５のモジュールからデータを読み出してオンチップバス２１に供給する処理を実行する。 In the write state WRITE, executes the process of writing the data from the on-chip bus 21 to the module of the internal peripheral bus 25, in the read state READ, and supplies the on-chip bus 21 reads the data from the module of the internal peripheral bus 25 process to run.
書き込み状態ＷＲＩＴＥ、読み出し状態ＲＥＡＤ、及びアイドル状態ＩＤＬＥの何れかの状態において、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑがアサートされると、クロック制御状態に遷移する。 Write state WRITE, in any of the states of the read state READ, and the idle state IDLE, the clock control request signal req is asserted, a transition to the clock control state. クロック制御状態に遷移すると、クロック切り替え或いはクロック停止等に対する準備として必要な動作を実行し、この動作が終了するとクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋ（図１ではａｃｋ６）をアサートする。 When the transition to the clock control state, perform the necessary operations in preparation for clock switching, or clock stop or the like, asserting this operation is completed the clock control acknowledge signal ack (in FIG. 1 ACK6). 即ち、現在実行中の動作を完了させ、処理を停止し、クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋ（図１ではａｃｋ６）をアサートする。 That is, to complete the operation currently running, stop processing, asserts the clock control acknowledge signal ack (in FIG. 1 ACK6). その後クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑがネゲートされると、動作状態はアイドル状態ＩＤＬＥに遷移する。 Thereafter, when the clock control request signal req is negated, the operating state transitions to the idle state IDLE. 上記動作を実行するステートマシンを、セットリセットフリップフロップ等を組み合わせた順序回路によって実現可能であることは、当業者にとっては容易に理解出来るであろう。 A state machine that executes the operation, it can be realized by a sequential circuit that combines the set-reset flip-flop or the like, will be readily understood by those skilled in the art.
図１に示されるクロック制御対象となるモジュールの各々には、図４に示されるのと同様のステートマシンが備えられており、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑのアサートに応答して、クロック切り替え或いはクロック停止等に対する準備動作を実行し、この動作が終了するとクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋをアサートするよう構成される。 In each of the clock control modules subject shown in FIG. 1, is provided with the same state machine to that shown in FIG. 4, in response to the assertion of the clock control request signal req, the clock switching or clock stop run the preparatory operation for such, this operation ends configured to assert a clock control acknowledge signal ack.
図５は、本発明によるプロセッサの第２実施例の構成を示す図である。 Figure 5 is a diagram showing a configuration of a second embodiment of a processor according to the present invention. 図５において、図１と同一の構成要素は同一の番号で参照される。 5, the same elements as those of FIG. 1 are referred to by the same numerals.
図５に示されるプロセッサ１０Ａに於いては、クロック制御部１１の代わりにクロック制御部１１Ａが設けられ、またＣＰＵコア部１２の代わりにＣＰＵコア部１２Ａが設けられる。 In the processor 10A shown in FIG. 5, the clock control unit 11A is provided instead of the clock control unit 11, also the CPU core unit 12A is provided instead of the CPU core unit 12. 更に、モジュール２２の代わりにモジュール２２Ａが設けられる。 Furthermore, the module 22A is provided instead of the module 22.
この第２実施例に於いては、クロック制御レジスタ３２がＣＰＵコア部１２Ａに設けられており、ＣＰＵコア部１２Ａがクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑを生成して各ユニットに供給する点が、第１実施例の場合の構成及び動作と異なる。 This is at the second embodiment, the clock control register 32 is provided to the CPU core unit 12A, it is that a CPU core unit 12A is supplied to each unit and generates a clock control request signal req, the first embodiment different from the configuration and operation of the example. プログラム動作によってクロック制御レジスタ３２にクロック制御指示データが格納されると、ＣＰＵコア部１２Ａが、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをアサートする。 When the clock control instruction data to the clock control register 32 by a program operation is stored, CPU core unit 12A asserts a clock control request signal req. これに応答して、各モジュールは現在実行中の動作を完了後に処理を停止し、それぞれのクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘをＨＩＧＨ（アサート状態）にする。 In response, each module the process after completing the operation currently being executed is stopped, and the respective clock control acknowledge signal ackx to HIGH (asserted state). クロック制御部１１Ａは、ＣＰＵコア部１２Ａからクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑを受け取った後、全てのクロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋｘがＨＩＧＨになると、クロック制御イネーブル信号ＥＮをＨＩＧＨにする。 Clock control unit 11A, after receiving a clock control request signal req from the CPU core unit 12A, when all the clock control acknowledge signal ackx becomes HIGH, the the clock control enable signal EN to HIGH. これにより、クロックギア切り替えやクロック停止等のクロック制御動作が実行される。 Thus, the clock control operations such as clock gear switching or clock stop is performed. クロック制御動作が完了すると、クロック制御完了通知信号ＤＮがアサートされる。 When the clock control operation is completed, clock control completion notification signal DN is asserted.
以上説明したように、ＣＰＵコア部１２Ａがクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをアサートする以外の動作は、基本的に、第１実施例の場合と同様である。 As described above, operations other than the CPU core unit 12A asserts the clock control request signal req is basically the same as in the first embodiment.
図６は、本発明によるプロセッサの第３実施例の構成を示す図である。 Figure 6 is a diagram showing a configuration of a third embodiment of the processor according to the present invention. 図６において、図１と同一の構成要素は同一の番号で参照される。 6, the same elements as those of FIG. 1 are referred to by the same numerals.
図６に示されるプロセッサ１０Ｂに於いては、クロック制御部１１Ｂのクロック制御判定部３１Ｂがアサートするクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑは、バスアービタ２０にだけ供給される。 Is In the processor 10B shown in FIG. 6, the clock control request signal req to the clock control determining unit 31B of the clock control unit 11B is asserted, it is supplied only to the bus arbiter 20. 第１実施例と異なり、ＣＰＵコア部１２Ｂ、ＤＳＰコア部１３Ｂ、バスブリッジ１６Ｂ、ＤＭＡコントローラ１７Ｂ、ＳＤＲＡＭコントローラ１８Ｂ、及び外部バスコントローラ１９Ｂには、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑは供給されない。 Unlike the first embodiment, CPU core unit 12B, DSP core portion 13B, the bus bridge 16B, DMA controller 17B, SDRAM controller 18B, and the external bus controller 19B, the clock control request signal req is not supplied.
バスアービタ２０は、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑを受け取った後は、実行中のデータ転送のトランザクションが終了した時点で、全てのバスマスター（この例の場合、ＣＰＵコア部１２Ｂ、ＤＳＰコア部１３Ｂ、ＤＭＡコントローラ１７Ｂ、及び外部バスコントローラ１９Ｂの各モジュール）へのバスグラント信号ｇｎｔｘ（ｘ＝１、２、３、４）をネゲート状態にディアサートする。 The bus arbiter 20, after receiving the clock control request signal req is when the transaction of data transfer in progress is completed, all bus masters (in this example, CPU core unit 12B, DSP core portion 13B, DMA controller 17B, and de-asserts the bus grant signal gntx to the external bus controller 19B each module) and (x = 1, 2, 3, 4) to the negated state. 即ち、各マスターモジュールに対してバス権を否定することで、各マスターモジュールによるデータ転送を不許可にする。 That is, by negating the bus right for each master module, to disallow the data transfer by each master module. その後、バスアービタ２０は、クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋ０をアサートする。 Thereafter, the bus arbiter 20 asserts the clock control acknowledge signal ack0.
このようにクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをバスアービタ２０に供給して、各バスマスターへのバスグラント信号ｇｎｔｘ（ｘ＝１、２、３、４）をネゲート状態にすれば、各バスマスターモジュールはバス権を取得できないことになり、バスを介した送受信処理がそれ以後実行されることはない。 Thus the clock control request signal req is supplied to the bus arbiter 20, if a bus grant signal gntx (x = 1,2,3,4) for each bus master negated, the bus master module bus will not be able to get the, does not transmit and receive processing via the bus is performed subsequently thereto.
上記の第３実施例の構成は、クロックギア切り替えやパワーダウンモード遷移等のクロック制御を実行する際に、クロック制御により問題が生じる可能性があるのは、オンチップバス２１を介した送受信動作だけである場合に有効である。 Construction of the third embodiment described above, when performing the clock control of the clock gear switching and power-down mode transition, etc., there can be a problem by the clock control occurs, transmitting and receiving via the on-chip bus 21 operation it is effective when only. このような場合には、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをバスアービタ２０だけ供給し、バスグラント信号の制御によってオンチップバス２１に接続されるバスマスターの動作を停止すれば、オンチップバス２１を介した送受信動作をクロック制御前に停止することが出来る。 Transceiver In such a case, the clock control request signal req is supplied only bus arbiter 20, if stopping the operation of the bus master is connected to the on-chip bus 21 under the control of the bus grant signal, via the on-chip bus 21 it is possible to stop the operation before clock control.
図１と図６とを比較すれば分かるように、第３実施例のような構成にすれば、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑによる制御対象のモジュール数を少なくして、回路規模を削減することが可能である。 As can be seen from the comparison between FIGS. 1 and 6, if the configuration of the third embodiment, by reducing the number of modules controlled object by the clock control request signal req, can reduce the circuit scale it is.
図７は、本発明によるプロセッサの第４実施例の構成を示す図である。 Figure 7 is a diagram showing the configuration of a fourth embodiment of the processor according to the present invention. 図７において、図６と同一の構成要素は同一の番号で参照される。 7, the same elements as those of FIG. 6 are referenced by the same numerals.
図７に示されるプロセッサ１０Ｃに於いては、クロック制御部１１Ｃのクロック制御判定部３１Ｃがアサートするクロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑは、バスアービタ２０及びバスブリッジ１６にだけ供給される。 In the processor 10C shown in FIG. 7, the clock control request signal req to the clock control determining unit 31C of the clock control unit 11C is asserted, it is supplied only to the bus arbiter 20 and bus bridge 16. 第３実施例の場合と同様に、オンチップバス２１に接続されるモジュールに関しては、バスアービタ２０によるバスグラント信号制御でバス権を不許可にすれば、バスブリッジ１６を除いては動作に問題が生じない場合を想定している。 As in the third embodiment, with respect to the modules connected to the on-chip bus 21, if disallow the bus at the bus grant signal control by the bus arbiter 20, with the exception of the bus bridge 16 is a problem with the operation the case does not occur is assumed. 従って、ＣＰＵコア部１２Ｂ、ＤＳＰコア部１３Ｂ、ＤＭＡコントローラ１７Ｂ、ＳＤＲＡＭコントローラ１８Ｂ、及び外部バスコントローラ１９Ｂには、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑは供給されない。 Therefore, CPU core unit 12B, DSP core portion 13B, DMA controller 17B, SDRAM controller 18B, and the external bus controller 19B, the clock control request signal req is not supplied.
バスブリッジ１６は、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑを受け取った後は、実行中のデータ転送のトランザクションが終了した時点で、オンチップバス２１から内部周辺バス２５のモジュールへの書き込み、或いは内部周辺バス２５のモジュールからのオンチップバス２１への読み出しを停止する。 Bus bridge 16, after receiving the clock control request signal req is when the transaction of data transfer in progress is completed, the writing from the on-chip bus 21 to the module of the internal peripheral bus 25, or the internal peripheral bus 25 It stops reading from the on-chip bus 21 from the module. その後、バスブリッジ１６は、クロック制御アクノリッジ信号ａｃｋ６をアサートする。 Thereafter, the bus bridge 16 asserts a clock control acknowledge signal ACK6.
上記の第４実施例の構成は、クロックギア切り替えやパワーダウンモード遷移等のクロック制御を実行する際に、クロック制御により問題が生じる可能性があるのは、オンチップバス２１を介した送受信動作とバスブリッジ１６を介したデータ転送動作だけである場合に有効である。 Configuration of the fourth embodiment described above, when performing the clock control of the clock gear switching and power-down mode transition, etc., there can be a problem by the clock control occurs, transmitting and receiving via the on-chip bus 21 operation and it is effective when only a data transfer operation through the bus bridge 16. このような場合には、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑをバスアービタ２０及びバスブリッジ１６にだけ供給し、バスグラント信号の制御によってオンチップバス２１に接続されるバスマスターの動作を停止すると共にバスブリッジ１６の動作を停止すれば、問題が生じる可能性がある全ての動作をクロック制御前に停止することが出来る。 In such a case, the clock control request signal req is supplied only to the bus arbiter 20 and bus bridge 16, bus bridge 16 stops the operation of the bus master is connected to the on-chip bus 21 under the control of the bus grant signal if stopping the operation, all operations which may cause problems can be stopped before the clock control.
図１と図７とを比較すれば分かるように、第４実施例のような構成にすれば、クロック制御リクエスト信号ｒｅｑによる制御対象のモジュール数を少なくして、回路規模を削減することが可能である。 As can be seen from the comparison between FIGS. 1 and 7, if the configuration of the fourth embodiment, by reducing the number of modules controlled object by the clock control request signal req, can reduce the circuit scale it is.
以上、本発明を実施例に基づいて説明したが、本発明は上記実施例に限定されるものではなく、特許請求の範囲に記載の範囲内で様々な変形が可能である。 Although the present invention is not limited to these embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications are possible within the scope of the appended claims.
結果として、クロックギアの切り替えやパワーダウンモード遷移等の処理を行う際に、制御対象であるモジュール毎の特有の仕様やそれによる制約を気にすることなく、容易にクロック制御プログラムの開発をすることが可能となる。 As a result, to when executing the process of switching and power-down mode transition or the like of the clock gear, the constraints and specific specifications by it for each to be controlled module without having to worry about the development of easily clock control program it becomes possible.
【図１】本発明によるプロセッサの第１実施例の構成を示す図である。 Is a diagram showing a configuration of a first embodiment of the processor according to the invention; FIG.
【図２】図１のプロセッサにおける各信号を示すタイミング図である。 Is a timing diagram showing the signals in the processor of FIG. 1. FIG.
【図３】クロック制御判定部の構成例を示す図である。 3 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a clock control determining unit.
【図４】クロック制御対象であるバスブリッジにおけるクロック制御機構を示す図である。 4 is a diagram illustrating a clock control mechanism in the bus bridge is a clock controlled.
【図５】本発明によるプロセッサの第２実施例の構成を示す図である。 Is a diagram showing a configuration of a second embodiment of a processor according to the present invention; FIG.
【図６】本発明によるプロセッサの第３実施例の構成を示す図である。 It is a diagram showing a configuration of a third embodiment of a processor according to the present invention; FIG.
【図７】本発明によるプロセッサの第４実施例の構成を示す図である。 It is a diagram showing a configuration of a fourth embodiment of a processor according to the present invention; FIG.
該クロック生成部は、該第２のモジュールに供給する該クロック信号の動作周波数を変化させるか或いは該クロック信号の供給を停止することを特徴とする請求項１記載の半導体装置。 The clock generating unit, the semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the stopping the supply of or the clock signal to change the operating frequency of the clock signal supplied to the second module.
該第１のモジュールはＣＰＵコア回路であることを特徴とする請求項１記載の半導体装置。 The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the said first module is a CPU core circuit.
該第１のモジュールは該１つ又は複数の第２のモジュールからの該クロック制御アクノリッジ信号が全てアサートされると該クロック生成部に対してクロック制御イネーブル信号をアサートし、該クロック生成部は該クロック制御イネーブル信号に応答して該クロック信号を選択的に変化させることを特徴とする請求項１記載の半導体装置。 The first module asserts the clock control enable signal to the said clock control acknowledge signal from said one or more second module is asserted all the clock generator, the clock generator is the the semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein in response to the clock control enable signal and wherein the selectively changing the clock signal.
該第２のモジュールは該バスアービタのみであることを特徴とする請求項１記載の半導体装置。 The second module semiconductor device according to claim 1, characterized in that only the bus arbiter.
該第２のモジュールは該バスアービタ及び該バスブリッジのみであることを特徴とする請求項１記載の半導体装置。 The second module semiconductor device according to claim 1, characterized in that only said bus arbiter and said bus bridge.
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2019-04-20T11:09:20Z
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https://patents.google.com/patent/JP4733877B2/en
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It was Jones’ third career ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards victory and first for his team – Ranier Racing with MDM.
Briscoe’s second-place finish in the No. 77 Big Tine Ford padded his point lead after eight events.
Jones’ teammate Kyle Benjamin led one lap and finished third in the No. 28 FEVR Chevrolet.
With an empty tank, Weatherman lost two laps getting back to pit road, relegating the Wentzville, Missouri driver to 12th in the final running order.
Briscoe led the first 30 laps from the outside front row starting position and pulled away by more than a second early on before Jones began to reel him in. Jones got to within a length of the leader before the first caution waved on lap 28. Both Briscoe and Jones came down pit road for service; however, Jones beat Briscoe off to take the lead.
Back under green, Jones and Briscoe continued to race for the lead and swapped the top spot on lap 37. Jones took it right back to lead the 38th lap. In clean air, Jones began to show his strength and pulled away.
Jones only gave up the lead once more when he and Briscoe pitted under green for gas on the 79th lap. That handed the lead to Weatherman who chose to stay out. Weatherman led 17 laps up through lap 96 before he ran out of gas.
Travis Braden finished fourth in the No. 01 West Virginia University Chevrolet, the only steel bodied car to finish in the top-10. Matt Tifft, in the No. 15 Cometic Gasket Toyota, finished fifth, the last car on the lead lap. Brady Boswell, AJ Fike, Matt Kurzejewski, Dalton Sargeant and Shane Lee completed the top-10, respectively.
Just two cautions for minor incidents slowed the race for 15 laps.
The ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards heads next to Madison Int’l Speedway for the Montgomery Ward Father’s Day 200 next Sunday, June 19, live on the American Sports Network.
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2019-04-23T11:05:55Z
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http://karnac.com/flanews/front-page-news/brandon-jones-cruises-to-victory-lane-at-michigan-wins-arca-corrigan-oil-200/?shared=email&msg=fail
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Fans of the '80s movie "Heathers" were ecstatic over the 2009 announcement that a sequel to the movie about the original high school mean girls was in the works. But the flick's follow-up may have been killed, and star Shannen Doherty couldn't be happier.
Ryder, however, is disappointed that the sequel talks have stalled.
"There was an idea, and I was sort of, like, on their back about like, 'We've gotta do it because, you know, Heathers exist outside of high school,'" Ryder, 39, told MTV. "There was this whole idea that [screenwriter] Dan [Waters], you know, came up with, with some little additions from me. At one point, I really wanted it to happen and was trying to get everyone riled up. But last I heard, who knows?"
According to Ryder, her co-stars seem unwilling to commit. "Everyone's doing their things right now," she said.
Wow! I would have though Shannon would want the pay check, she's not getting a whole lot of work these days anyway!
Considering that Kim Walker died in 2001, I don't see how or why a sequel should be considered.
Kim Walker's character also died in the original so she wouldn't really be needed for a sequel.
But Hollywood always screws up good movies by making quick cheap sequels. Or quick cheap remakes.
The movie was a cult classic but I don't think a sequel would be good. It was very funny and a hit with my generation. It was in a pre-Columbine time. I think because of shootings and suicides recently the comedy if made today would be politically incorrect. I hope to see Ryder in other things though because I am a big fan and miss her in the movies.
OMG...what is up with these actresses and their cheek fillers? Don't they know how rediciculus they look? Katie Holmes looks the same stupid with hers.
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2019-04-24T04:47:35Z
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http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/13/shannen-doherty-i-dont-want-a-heathers-sequel/
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Notts County play their first away game of the season on Saturday, facing Cambridge United at the Abbey Stadium.
After a goalless draw with Colchester at Meadow Lane in the season opener, the Magpies are looking to secure their first win of the campaign and inflict a second successive defeat on the hosts.
Cambridge’s season got off to a slow start as they were beaten 3-0 at Port Vale on the opening day, so they will be looking for a vast improvement.
With County touted as likely promotion candidates in pre-season, they will be looking to put down a marker to the rest of the division with a win on the road, but it is unlikely to be straightforward.
The U’s lost just five home games in League Two last season and are looking to extend their seven-game unbeaten run against the Magpies.
“We’re definitely hindered by their start to the season because they’ll want to turn that round and no two games are the same.
“They’re very strong at home and have been for a number of years now. That’s where they’ve picked up the majority of their points and it’s been a big part of them comfortably staying in this league.
“We know it’s going to be tough but we’ve got to make sure we match them and remain patient so that we can break them down.
“Notts County were there or thereabouts last season and will be expecting to be there again this year.
“There was a bad feeling in this group after last week’s result, but we’ve talked about how losing one game isn’t the end of everything.
“Now I’m looking for us to get out there and compete against a good outfit because it’s still the beginning of the season.
Nolan hopes to have the majority of his players available for Saturday, with Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain still absent but making good progress in his recovery from a broken leg.
Andy Kellett has trained all week and the boss is hoping that Ben Hall will recover from a groin strain to take a place in the squad.
Dunne says his Cambridge side lacked identity last week and is pleased to welcome back Brad Halliday and Jabo Ibehre after both missed the opening-day defeat to Port Vale.
The U’s have had George Maris training with the squad all week after his proposed move to Rotherham failed to materialise but the game comes too soon for Jevani Brown and Harrison Dunk.
Notts were beaten 1-0 when they travelled to Cambridge last season, where Medy Eito scored the only goal of the game.
At Meadow Lane, Notts came from three goals down inside the last 20 minutes to earn a point last season.
Lewis Alessandra kick-started the comeback in the 74th minute before late goals from Shaun Brisley and Jonathan Forte earned a point for the Magpies.
Notts last beat Cambridge in 2004 when Matty Williams and Chris Palmer scored either side of Shane Tudor’s goal to secure a 2-1 win.
Sky Bet have Notts priced at 17/10 to pick up the three points, while the hosts are 8/5. A draw is priced 9/4.
A repeat of County’s opening day 0-0 is 17/2, while a 1-0 win for Notts is 7/1. Cambridge are 13/2 to win by the same scoreline.
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2019-04-20T09:25:56Z
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https://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/2018/august/cambridge-a-match-preview/
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Conference of Chief Justices and Conference of State Court Administrators Annual Meeting July 29-August 2, 2006 Indianapolis, Indiana.
Schotland, Roy A. (2007) "Judges' Pay: A Chasm Far Worse Than Realized, and Worsening," Indiana Law Journal: Vol. 82 : Iss. 5 , Article 10.
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2019-04-19T00:38:40Z
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https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ilj/vol82/iss5/10/
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Cancer is complex – there is no routine cancer. That means each patient’s treatment is personalized, targeted and individualized to that specific person.
If you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, would like a second opinion or would like to speak with an OSUCCC – James cancer specialist, please call the James Line at 800-293-5066 or 614-293-5066 to make an appointment.
A specially trained oncology nurse will discuss your needs, schedule an appointment and review the items you will need to bring with you to your first appointment. The nurse will also ensure you are sent an information packet with even more helpful details about planning for your first visit.
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2019-04-22T02:42:59Z
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https://cancer.osu.edu/patient-support/what-to-expect-at-the-osuccc-james/becoming-a-patient
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← Indy Jazz Fest is almost here!
Have you ever worked on a postcard, business card or other piece that had one page rotated 90 degrees? Tired of turning your head so you could see what you were designing?
InDesign has a feature that will rotate the page on screen for you so it is easier to read.
Once you have set up your document in InDesign, you go to the Pages Tab and click on the thumbnail of the page that is straining your neck. Then from the Pages sub-menu go to Rotate Spread View and select the direction of rotation you need to be able to see the page without being a yoga master.
Once you are finished you can remove the rotation by going back to that menu and selecting “Clear Rotation”. The rotated setting will save with your file so you won’t have to rotate the page each time you open the document.
Also, it has no effect on the page output. It is only rotated on screen. A great neck saving feature in InDesign!
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2019-04-23T12:34:13Z
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https://printingpartners.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/rotate-your-view-in-indesign/
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It's one of those rare rainy fall days in Los Angeles, which can only mean one thing: It's time to break out the Islay Scotch. For those unfamiliar with the nuances of Scotch Whisky (not Whiskey... that's Irish), it comes from 5 basic regions: Highland, Speyside, Lowland, Campbeltown and Islay (although some will drop Campbeltown and only refer to 4 regions, others will also include the Islands). Scotch Whisky regulations are strict about labeling—you can only label a whisky as being from a locale if it was actually distilled there, although distilleries are allowed more specific about location if they should so choose. For example, a whisky distilled in Orkney can be labeled as Orkney Scotch Whisky, rather than by a more generic geographic term.
Each of the five geographic regions has its own distinct characteristics that can be used as a rule of thumb when considering which malt to buy. Highland comes from the hilly northern parts of the country. It tends to be full-bodied and peaty. Speyside comes from a particular section of the highlands surrounding the Spey River on the northeast coast. These whiskies are generally sweeter, with hints of honey and wildflowers and just a touch of peat (most of my favorite whiskies are Speysides). Lowland whiskies are often triple distilled, similar to Irish whiskies, resulting in a lighter body. At the opposite end of the spectrum, Islay whiskies (from the island of Islay off the southwest coast) tend to be heavy, and are not for the faint of heart. Picture a bearded, burly and weathered old sailor who spent a lifetime fighting the salty North Atlantic, sitting next to a crackling, damp campfire of dried peat moss, and that's the Islay scotch. I have yet to sample a Campbeltown whisky, though from what I understand, they tend to be something of a mix between Islay and Highland.
Having said all this, I should also be clear that each distillery is also going to be unique, and you will find exceptions and a great deal of variety within the five regions.
Today I have a new bottle of Bowmore Small Batch Single Malt Scotch Whisky. It’s not clear how old this whisky is, but it’s less than 12 years. How do I know? Any whisky aged that long is sure to be marked, as 12 years has become something of a standard minimum for a good malt. Then there’s the fact that Bowmore also offers a 12 year old single malt.
Bowmore was established in 1779, and is currently owned by the Japanese beverage company Suntory. If you’re ever in the area, tasting tours are only 7€.
Some of the Islay Scotch Whiskies will literally knock your socks off, and I’m not manly enough to drink them with a cigar (I think I would die). But if you're interested in getting to know the Islay's, Bowmore Single Malt Small Batch is a great place to start. It has all of the characteristics of a heavier Islay malt, without being overbearing.
Nose: vanilla, toasted marshmallow, peat, peat, lemon zest, ocean.
Taste: Peat, vanilla, citrus, smoke.
Bottles of Bowmore seem to run in the $40 range, but I picked this one up at Costco on sale for around $25.
Woa, such an infomative article. Nice, thanks for sharing these interesting wine articles.
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2019-04-22T18:34:35Z
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https://commonlyfine.weebly.com/blog/bowmore-islay-scotch-whisky
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uproxx
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Currently, a small group of technology companies, namely Apple and Google, are suing the crap out of each other in courts around the globe. At the heart of the problem is the fact that Apple thinks it’s patented putting your finger on a piece of glass and moving it around. But, according to the U.S. Patent Office, maybe not!
[Santa Clara University Professor of Law Brian] Love noted that 89 percent of patents subject to re-examination survive in some form or another — they’re either unchanged or approved in amended form, so the odds that Apple’s iconic patent will be tossed entirely are slim.
“At this point, the ultimate fate of Apple’s patent is far from clear, and Apple has many options for how to proceed,” Love said. Apple can make additional arguments that the claims are valid, and possibly persuade the examiner to change his mind — we know all too well how persuasive Apple’s legal team can be. It can also appeal the decision and/or amend the claims that the examiner found fault with.
The problem for Apple is really this: If they have to amend their patent, or give up portions of it, then they also have to amend all the various lawsuits they have going or shut them down.
This may not be entirely unwelcome to Apple. Going after other operating systems, especially Android, was partially a legacy of the Steve Jobs days and partially a legal strategy: Sue them before they sue us. Jobs pretty infamously hated the fact that Android dared, dared, to imitate iOS in some respects, calling it a stolen product, and arguably one of the worst things he did was help touch off a patent and lawsuit arms race.
So, if this patent is fully wiped (which it should be) or at least partially invalidated, it might really be the best for everybody… Apple included.
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2019-04-19T14:35:37Z
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https://uproxx.com/technology/apples-attempt-to-patent-the-touchscreen-swipe-may-be-headed-for-the-dustbin/
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Donegal middleweight Jason Quigley has chalked up the sixteenth professional win of his career after outclassing Finland's Mathias Eklund in London's Cooper Box Arena.
On his UK pro debut - his previous 15 fights took place in the United States - the 27-year-old won inside the distance for the twelfth time when he stopped the Finn in the second round. The Donegal fighter now moves to 16-0.
Elklund was stunned by a right hook from Quigley which landed flush on the side of his face in the second round and the Finn never recovered.
Initially he tried to hang on until the bell but his legs betrayed him and though Quigley didn't manage to land many more clean shots, there was no way back for the limited Eklund with the referee intervening to stop the fight.
Now based in Sheffield, Quigley will be hoping that this win injects some momentum into his career.
Given his unbeaten record and his pedigree – he is a former world amateur silver medallist – he ought to secure bigger fights in the months ahead as he pursues his ambition of landing a world title shot.
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2019-04-21T09:04:45Z
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https://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/boxing/jason-quigley-moves-closer-to-world-title-shot-after-dominant-win-in-london-37944689.html
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Welcome to the Roselle Park Veterans Memorial Library, located in the heart of historic Union County New Jersey. Set in the Veterans Memorial Park and surrounded by one of a kind specimen trees, the library has a scenic vista to observe in all seasons. We are open six days a week from September to June and we close on Saturdays during the summer.
Our Children's Department with close to 10,000 volumes is a warm place for children to gather either for story hours, homework or browsing. We have computers with access to the Internet and programs designed just for youngsters.
The library offers several services to all our patrons. Daily newspapers are kept for a month. We subscribe to more than 125 magazines, with older issues able to be borrowed for a week. We have books on tape, large print books, music CDs, and movies. Our computer stations are due to be renovated soon, with Internet access and printing ability.
Please stop in and see us. We can promise a friendly smile.
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2019-04-26T08:01:46Z
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https://sites.google.com/view/rpvml/about-the-library
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The most important task associated with your job search is learning how to articulate your skills and accomplishments so you can write a great resumé and cover letter and effectively answer interview questions. All other job search skills build on this, so this is where you should begin.
You've Got Skills and Self Reflection: Learn how to identify the skills that you have to offer and use them on your résumé, cover letter and during your interview.
What Employers Want: Graduate Opportunities provides this list of transferable skills most desired by employers.
Your Skills and Accomplishments: The Government of Alberta provides this explanation of different types of skills, why you need employability skills, how to identify the skills you have, and how to explain your skills to employers.
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2019-04-22T23:01:04Z
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https://careers.yorku.ca/students-and-new-grads/looking-for-a-job/identify-your-skills-and-accomplishments/
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On April 4, police investigating Ruttenberg’s body in Room 133 reviewed surveillance video. The motel video camera had been covered with an unknown substance about 8 p.m. but was cleaned by motel employees about 10:30 p.m.
According to court records, video showed a person entering Room 133 several times between 10:30 p.m. April 3 and 12:41 a.m. April 4. Hotel staff members identified the person as Mckissic, a resident of Room 149.
Additional video surveillance depicted Mckissic putting several items in a hotel trash container.
A search of the container revealed personal items that had belonged to the victim, as well as a wooden board wrapped in tape on one end and covered with what appeared to be blood.
A guest in a nearby room told investigators that he knocked on the victim’s door April 3 and saw Mckissic looking out the victim’s window. She didn’t answer the door, the guest said.
Medical examiners said Ruttenberg, 44, died after being beaten with a blunt object.
Kansas City police crime lab personnel conducted a test that revealed a blood trail between Rooms 133 and 149. A search warrant obtained for Room 149 revealed more blood evidence.
Witnesses told investigators that they had seen Mckissic with a wooden board wrapped in tape, similar to the board recovered from the trash container.
About two weeks later, Blue Springs detectives transporting Mckissic to a court appearance gave her a Miranda waiver to sign after she volunteered that she wanted to speak to them regarding the investigation. After signing the waiver, Mckissic said she had been in and out of the victim’s room on April 3 and had thrown away items from the victim’s room while wearing gloves.
However, she denied killing Ruttenberg.
Earlier this month, a Kansas City police crime lab report indicated that Ruttenberg’s DNA had been found on the interior and exterior of shoes and gloves collected from Mckissic’s room.
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2019-04-18T17:35:31Z
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https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article323005/Blue-Springs-motel-resident-is-accused-of-killing-neighbor.html
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A new book details how the John W. Gardner Center's Youth Data Archive represents a new direction in university-community partnerships.
Why do students in a local school district rack up so many absences? How can a community college improve student success? Clues may abound within academic records and family services or law enforcement case files. Yet solutions are elusive unless the people with a stake in solving a problem share what they know.
The book’s title refers to a trajectory that really starts with building relationships over many months, even years, through the Youth Data Archive (YDA), a research tool of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. The Gardner Center has long conducted high-quality actionable research in northern California, and the YDA continues the tradition with a twist: It links longitudinal data gathered on individual youth across public and nonprofit agencies to tackle otherwise unanswerable questions. McLaughlin is the Gardner Center’s founding director, and London is a senior research associate there.
From Data to Action reveals how the YDA model brings together practitioners and policy makers in education, health, child welfare, and other sectors and encourages them to replace rhetoric with the common and dispassionate language of data. Once trust blooms, the partners slowly pull back from their own agendas and focus on youth as the common denominator. They look at the system functioning as a whole and rationally and effectively begin to collaborate to improve their communities.
Throughout the process, the findings belong to the partners with the local experience to decide how to best convert them to action. “The ability to drive and control a project all the way through means everything to community stakeholders,” said Amy Gerstein, executive director of the Gardner Center, who along with associate director Kara Dukakis, works shoulder to shoulder with community leaders to inspire their leap of faith in the YDA. “We never underestimate the value of ownership,” Gerstein said.
The authors of Data to Action’s nine chapters, all veterans of the YDA process, share their distinctive and instructive journeys from data to action. They identify hurdles such as data gaps, personnel turnover and organizational regulations, to name a few, and offer insights on clearing them. Finally, they describe incremental changes on what everyone recognizes as a continuum.
In the book’s conclusion, McLaughlin and London reflect on the YDA as a resource for strengthening the local youth sector. They note that its university-community research partnership model, and others like it, push current notions of scholarship and raise tension within academic institutions. Yet they hope, as evidenced by the projects profiled in From Data to Action, its value is clear in advancing the field of youth development.
Pamm Higgins writes for the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities.
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2019-04-20T20:43:55Z
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https://ed.stanford.edu/news/data-action-community-approach-improving-youth-outcomes
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Brian's skated an unbelievable number of programs over the years. Now we're going to start featuring some of those performances here. Our goal is to try and choose three performances to feature each month. We'll keep the previous versions up as long as disk space will allow.
A breakout performance by Brian that brought him to the attention of more fans worldwide. As one of the best free skaters of his time, with this program in Sarajevo Brian took his first Olympic silver medal.
Brian takes the step to the top of the Worlds podium with this incredible performance.
The famous 'Battle of the Brians' in Calgary. Brian skated an electric long program and with it took his second Olympic silver medal.
One of Brian's more unique costumes, this number is from his first skating special after turning pro. Something you see once and never forget again.
A classic Brian ballad, this program is done on a set that looks like a rooftop.
It's not everyone who can match their skating skills with a crocodile! But no one can stand up to Brian's footwork.
Brian's first win of a pro-am competition as a professional. Brian was the oldest skater in the field and beat out younger skaters such as Kurt Browning and Todd Eldredge. This program is a review of the history of skating starting with figures.
The first of the ISU Open series where Brian faced off against the eligible skaters fresh off the 1998 Olympic Games. With this stellar short program he finished ahead of reigning gold mesalist Ilia Kulik.
Brian came in second against Todd Eldredge with this number, but it still shows that the senior pros can give a performance that's worthy of the best of them.
One of Brian's first professional programs, it featured a well planned theme program with phenomenal charisma. The program shows that Brian would be a creative force on the pro scene.
No video premiere would be complete without a version of this program. Choosing one was a toughie, so many are great.
One of the premiere programs of Brian's this one is always a fan favorite. performed only once, it featured a duet with Tommy Tune. Brian and Tommy worked for tirelessly to get the choreography to match and it was a smashing success.
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2019-04-19T10:49:27Z
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http://canadianexcellence.com/videos.html
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The Greater Western Sydney Giants have destroyed finals aspirants Port Power in a dominant display at Manuka Oval on Sunday afternoon in Canberra.
In downing the Power by a whopping 86 points the Giants set a number of club records including registering their highest score and biggest winning margin in their short history.
Fremantle had been flying under the radar of more glamorous performers in recent weeks, but now sits in second position on the Ladder after comfortably dispatching the Greater Western Sydney Giants in Round 17. Starting as favorites, the Dockers ran over the Giants despite spirited opposition and it wasn’t until the final quarter that Fremantle really put the foot down to take the game beyond reach of their young Giants' opponents.
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2019-04-22T06:25:55Z
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https://www.afana.com/players-and-coaches/lachlan-whitfield
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Three bedroom, fully-furnished home available to rent from Sept-Dec. 3, 2012. Ideal for visiting scholars, the home is a 10-minute drive to Memorial University and downtown St. John's, and is on major bus routes. Grocery stores, walking trails, playgrounds, and schools nearby. Rent is $1400/month, which includes heating, electricity, and phone (no long distance). If you would like additional details, please contact Dr. Jamie Skidmore at (709)738-0594 or [email protected].
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2019-04-18T13:26:12Z
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http://www.mun.ca/gazette/issues/vol44no12/class.php
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Yes I do have a mirror, but I didn’t consider myself fat. I always thought of myself as voluptuous and statuesque. Usually things like this don’t really bother me, but for some reason, this just hit me and I’m not going to lie, it hurt. As I finished my run on Saturday I thought to myself, we live in such a society that if you’re not a size 2 through maybe 6, you’re outside of the realm of ‘hotness’. Then the brain flash that I had was I was born several centuries too late, in the 15th Century I would’ve been considered HOT and maybe even have modeled for Botticelli.
The battle of the bulge is not for the faint of heart. It really isn’t. If you’ve never battled it you have no idea what its like. The thing is I’m very fit, I’m just not thin. I run marathons, I do triathlons, and I’m open to try anything athletic at least once. But I’m not thin… I recently started keeping a food diary (myfitness pal – android & iphone app), and let me tell you, once you start keeping track of what you eat you realize a lot of things about your eating habits. I’m not going to lie, I’m not the healthiest of eaters. But I have to work with what will work for me, which is eating what I like but just a lot less. I’m trying to listen to my body when it starts to tell me that it’s full, even though I sometimes ignore it. Growing up you were taught to eat everything on your plate, because the poor children in Africa were going hungry. If I would’ve had left overs, how would they even have gotten to Africa? But now I know better.
I usually don’t tell anyone I’m trying to lose weight. Because then I get the ‘you shouldn’t eat that’, or ‘really you’re going to have 2nds?’. I know that folks mean well, but it never settles well.
So far since the start of the new year I’m down 7lbs… Will I win the war? Who knows… But I’m working on this battle one day at a time. So at least when some guy passes by me on a bike when I’m running he won’t call me fat.
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2019-04-25T00:44:37Z
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https://lorelama.wordpress.com/tag/diet/
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Proponents of the property sector want to pare back third-party appeal rights on development applications, as residents groups question why they've been left to police illegal developments instead of the planning authority.
An ACT parliamentary inquiry looking into the problems with the development application process in Canberra is holding its first public hearings this week.
Representatives from residents groups and community councils from across the city lashed the current planning approvals system as opaque, complex, and stacked too heavily in favour of developers.
Kingston Barton Residents Group spokesman Peter Moore said flawed DA processes had eroded members' confidence in a "crucial mechanism of government".
He said group recently requested plans for a DA that were completely unreadable, so they went to the planning directorate to look at the plans they had on file, only to discover they were illegible too.
"The government made a decision on a critical DA without actually being able to read the plan. We were astounded," Mr Moore said.
Griffith Narrabundah Community Council president Dr Leo Dobes said his group recently found a wrongly ticked box on an application that falsified the plot ratio of the development.
"One of our committee members was able to spot the mistake in 10 seconds and it had gone through the planning process and been approved," Dr Dobes said.
However Christine Gingell of the Friends of Hawker Village group said the review process made residents feel like they were in an "uphill battle and the situation is unfairly stacked against you".
Ruth Cully of the Hughes Resident Association said the system had "perverse incentives", which failed to penalise people for putting forward incomplete or incorrect information.
"We don’t have the funding and the resources to operate as a kind of organised scrutineer of every development application that gets put up," Ms Cully said.
Dr Dobes said a recent case where a developer put forward a DA that was exempt and amended it, which does not trigger the requirement to notify interested parties under the current system.
"The developer knows they can put forward an acceptable DA, and then amend it later and the community will never find out about it nor can they appeal it. Developers know the rules, they can game the system," Dr Dobes said.
However advocates for the property sector say the opposite is true.
Master Builders ACT chief executive Michael Hopkins said the low barrier to lodging an appeal meant anyone could hold up a project if they wanted to.
He said third party appeal rights should be cut back to cases where the development proposal was significantly different from the territory plan or master plan, or where the planners had failed to properly assess the impacts of the proposal.
"It costs about $200 to lodge an appeal in ACAT. It can be open to abuse by vexatious stakeholders who are sometimes commercial competitors or it can simply be used to delay a development proposal by the objector in the hope that a 12-month delay will lead to the project being unviable and often that's successful," Mr Hopkins said.
"If consultation is carried out early in the process and DAs are approved in accordance with the resulting planning rules, we don't believe third party appeal rights should apply.
"Likewise, if the planning authority uses its discretion to approve a development with an alternative or innovative solution, third party appeal rights shouldn't apply, the judgement of the planning authority should be supported."
However Mr Hopkins acknowledged the planning authority needed more resources.
"At the moment we're seeing a large [amount] of development activity. I'd say the sheer resources in the planning directorate haven't kept up with that and government would do well to provide more resources in the development assessment areas so they can keep up with that and properly administer the planning laws," Mr Hopkins said.
Property Council ACT executive director Adina Cirson said there was an "urgent need" for more resources in the planning directorate.
“We do have confidence in planning officials to make good decisions for our community and for our members but time is money and delays to planning approval processes ultimately result in poor outcomes and worse quality," Ms Cirson said.
The Property Council was also scathing of third party appeal rights in its submission, saying the threat of ACAT costs - sometimes in the hundreds of thousands of dollars - was a "disincentive" for innovative design.
“We are finding our members need to have contingencies anywhere from $200,000-$300,000," Ms Cirson said.
"One member told me last week they had a contingency of $5 million to safeguard against third party appeals. We do think it’s time to look at that system and see if we can get some better outcomes for that."
Housing Institute of the ACT executive director Greg Weller said the criteria for exempt developments should be widened to prevent "unnecessary delays" through consultation and third party appeals.
"The housing industry is concerned that the consequences of an underperforming approvals process is not being recognised, and the commensurate level of resources therefore being provided by government is less than adequate," Mr Weller wrote in his submission.
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2019-04-22T05:08:52Z
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https://www.theage.com.au/politics/act/property-sector-calls-for-third-party-appeals-to-be-cut-20180911-p5032v.html
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The Canadian Intellectual Property Office is responsible for the administration and processing of all areas of intellectual property within Canada, including copyright. Their website provides an overview of copyright information including what is it, and why and how to register, along with links to services and additional resources. They have also put out a useful "Guide to Copyright."
The Copyright Board of Canada, a body created by the Copyright Act adjuticates copyright disputes and assigns royalties or tarrifs. The website contains a list of decisions, information regarding untraceable copyright holders, links to legislatio, and a FAQ.
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2019-04-25T13:15:55Z
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https://libraries.dal.ca/services/copyright-office/learning-resources/GovernmentWebsites.html
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This work presents a new automatic differentiation method, Nilpotent Matrix Differentiation (NMD), capable of propagating any order of mixed or univariate derivative through common linear algebra functions – most notably third-party sparse solvers and decomposition routines, in addition to basic matrix arithmetic operations and power series – without changing data-type or modifying code line by line; this allows differentiation across sequences of arbitrarily many such functions with minimal implementation effort. NMD works by enlarging the matrices and vectors passed to the routines, replacing each original scalar with a matrix block augmented by derivative data; these blocks are constructed with special sparsity structures, termed “stencils,” each designed to be isomorphic to a particular multidimensional hypercomplex algebra. The algebras are in turn designed such that Taylor expansions of hypercomplex function evaluations are finite in length and thus exactly track derivatives without approximation error.
Although this use of the method in the “forward mode” is unique in its own right, it is also possible to apply it to existing implementations of the (first-order) discrete adjoint method to find high-order derivatives with lowered cost complexity; for example, for a problem with N inputs and an adjoint solver whose cost is independent of N – i.e., O(1) – the N × N Hessian can be found in O(N) time, which is comparable to existing second-order adjoint methods that require far more problem-specific implementation effort. Higher derivatives are likewise less expensive – e.g., a N × N × N rank-three tensor can be found in O(N2). Alternatively, a Hessian-vector product can be found in O(1) time, which may open up many matrix-based simulations to a range of existing optimization or surrogate modeling approaches. As a final corollary in parallel to the NMD-adjoint hybrid method, the existing complex-step differentiation (CD) technique is also shown to be capable of finding the Hessian-vector product. All variants are implemented on a stochastic diffusion problem and compared in-depth with various cost and accuracy metrics.
Dunham, Benjamin Zane, "High-Order Automatic Differentiation of Unmodified Linear Algebra Routines via Nilpotent Matrices" (2017). Aerospace Engineering Sciences Graduate Theses & Dissertations. 167.
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2019-04-18T15:09:44Z
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https://scholar.colorado.edu/asen_gradetds/167/
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Karen O'Donnell is an associate professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences and assistant professor in pediatrics. Her research interests are in early development risk: drug exposure, HIV infection, and iodine deficiency. She has ongoing research in developmental outcomes of children exposed prenatally to drugs and alcohol. They include the Infant Care Project (pediatrics) and the Family Care Project (psychiatry).
O'Donnell is co-investigator on a NIDA study of SIDS risk with prenatal cocaine exposure. She is also involved at Duke and nationally in the study of the neurodevelopmental effects of pediatric HIV infection. She chairs the Pediatric Neurology Scientific Committee for the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (NIAID), coordinating the development of protocols for new drug trials and data analysis of completed ones.
In addition, O'Donnell serves as Director of Early Intervention/Global Initiatives for the Center for Child and Family Health, and holds a senior leadership role at Family Connects International.
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2019-04-20T16:38:42Z
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https://childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/people/profile/?t=faculty&p=kod
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LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The share of investment-grade euro corporate bonds with negative yields fell last month to its lowest level since at least June 2016, data from Tradeweb showed on Monday, as the effect of monetary stimulus fades and European economic growth slows.
Of the roughly 3.02 trillion euros of euro investment-grade corporate bonds in the Tradeweb system, about 361 million, or 11.94 percent, yielded less than zero at the end of November, Tradeweb said.
That is the lowest since June 2016, when Tradeweb started providing Reuters with data on negative-yielding bonds in the euro area, and less than half the 27 percent share in the same month last year.
“In general, corporate bond spreads have widened in Europe,” said Seamus Mac Gorain, fixed income portfolio manager, JPMorgan Asset Management.
European borrowing costs dropped after the European Central Bank began its 2.6 trillion-euro bond-buying scheme in early 2015. Corporate bond yields in particular shrank even further when they were included in the programme in 2016.
The share of negative-yielding corporate bonds peaked at 31.04 percent in February 2017, according to Tradeweb data.
This meant investors were effectively paying to lend to those companies.
As the end of ECB stimulus nears — quantitative easing is expected to close at the end of this year — those yields are moving higher.
Still, companies such as Deutsche Bahn, Sanofi and Nestle are still recording negative yields on some of their short-dated euro debt.
Deutsche Bahn’s bond maturing in November 2020 , for example, was trading at a yield of minus 0.211 percent on Monday, according to Tradeweb data.
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2019-04-26T11:55:32Z
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https://uk.reuters.com/article/eurozone-bonds-corporates/update-1-pool-of-negative-yielding-euro-corporate-bonds-smallest-in-over-2-years-tradeweb-idUKL8N1Y83EU
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Vigo County (/ˈviːɡoʊ/ VEE-goh or /ˈvaɪɡoʊ/ VY-goh) is a county located along the western border of the U.S. state of Indiana. According to the 2010 census, the population was 107,848. The county seat is Terre Haute.
Vigo County is included in the Terre Haute, Indiana, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The county contains four incorporated settlements with a total population of nearly 63,000, as well as several unincorporated communities. It is divided into twelve townships which provide local services to the residents.
The county is one of the best bellwether regions for voting in U.S. presidential elections; it has voted for the winning candidate in every election since 1956 and in all but two elections since 1888. Only one county in the United States (Valencia County, New Mexico) has voted for the winning candidate longer.
Sullivan County was formed in 1817, and the area that later became Vigo County was part of it until 1818, when the county was created by an act of the Indiana General Assembly which took effect on February 1. Its borders changed several times; in 1821, part of the county was formed into Parke County, and later that year Putnam County was formed which also affected Vigo's borders. The final change came in 1873 when the present boundaries were defined. The county is named in honor of Colonel Francis Vigo, of Italian heritage but a citizen of Spain due to residence in St. Louis. He is credited with great assistance to George Rogers Clark both in financing Clark's exploration and American Revolutionary War efforts, and in service as an agent obtaining military information for Clark against British campaigns on the then frontier.
To the north of Vigo County, the Wabash River defines the boundary between Vermillion and Parke counties; the river then enters Vigo County and winds to the south-southwest, defining the southern portion of the county's western border before continuing south along Sullivan County's western border. Vigo County is thus the southernmost county in Indiana on the right bank of the Wabash. Clay County lies to the east. Across the state line are Edgar County to the northwest and Clark County to the southwest. According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 410.45 square miles (1,063.1 km2), of which 403.31 square miles (1,044.6 km2) (or 98.26%) is land and 7.14 square miles (18.5 km2) (or 1.74%) is water.
In 1819, the year after the county was formed, it was divided into four townships: Honey Creek, Wabash, Harrison and Independence. Prairie Creek Township was formed later that year. In the following years more townships were formed and township borders were altered several times. Otter Creek, Raccoon and Sugar Creek townships were created in 1820, and Independence Township became known as Paris Township. Raccoon and Wabash townships became part of Parke County when it was split from Vigo County in 1821. Nevins and Riley were formed in 1822. In 1824, Paris Township was renamed again to Fayette Township. Pierson Township was created in 1829, then Lost Creek in 1831, then Linton in 1841 and finally Prairieton in 1857, for a total of twelve townships.
There are four incorporated settlements within Vigo County. The largest, Terre Haute, has a population of almost 60,000 and covers all of Harrison Township and extends into several surrounding townships. West Terre Haute, as its name indicates, lies to the west, along U.S. Route 40; it has a population of about 2,300. The town of Seelyville lies to the east of Terre Haute, also along U.S. Route 40, with a population of about 1,200. The smallest town, Riley, is southeast of Terre Haute and has a population of only 160.
Interstate 70 passes through the southern part of Terre Haute from east to west on its way from Indianapolis to Saint Louis, Missouri; U.S. Route 40 roughly parallels Interstate 70 and passes through the middle of the city. Both highways intersect U.S. Route 41, coming from Chicago to the north; U.S. Route 150 enters from Paris, Illinois to the northwest and joins U.S Route 41 in downtown Terre Haute, and both continue south toward Vincennes.
Several CSX Transportation railroad lines meet in Terre Haute; one enters from the north, another from the Indianapolis area, and another from Vincennes; and two others enter from Illinois. There is also an Indiana Rail Road line which runs southeast from Terre Haute toward Bedford.
The public schools in the county are part of the Vigo County School Corporation. During the 2009–10 school year, the schools served a total of 16,014 students.
Vigo County is served by the Vigo County Public Library.
Colleges in Vigo County include Indiana State University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. For a fuller list, see the List of schools in metropolitan Terre Haute.
In recent years, average temperatures in Terre Haute have ranged from a low of 18 °F (−8 °C) in January to a high of 87 °F (31 °C) in July, although a record low of −24 °F (−31 °C) was recorded in January 1977 and a record high of 104 °F (40 °C) was recorded in September 1954. Average monthly precipitation ranged from 2.13 inches (54 mm) in January to 4.46 inches (113 mm) in May.
The county government is a constitutional body, and is granted specific powers by the Constitution of Indiana, and by the Indiana Code. The county council is the fiscal body of the county government and controls all the spending and revenue collection in the county. Representatives are elected from county districts. The council members serve four-year terms. They are responsible for setting salaries, the annual budget, and special spending. The council also has limited authority to impose local taxes, in the form of an income and property tax that is subject to state level approval, excise taxes, and service taxes.
The executive and legislative body of the county is made of a board of commissioners. The commissioners are elected county-wide, in staggered terms, and each serves a four-year term. One of the commissioners, typically the most senior, serves as president. The commissioners are charged with executing the laws and managing the day-to-day functions of the county government.
The county maintains a small claims court that can handle some civil cases. The judge on the court is elected to a term of four years and must be a member of the Indiana Bar Association. The judge is assisted by a constable who is also elected to a four-year term. In some cases, court decisions can be appealed to the state level circuit court.
The county has several other elected offices, including sheriff, coroner, auditor, treasurer, recorder, surveyor, and circuit court clerk. Each of these elected officers serves a term of four years and oversees a different part of county government. Members elected to county government positions are required to declare party affiliations and to be residents of the county.
The county is one of the best bellwether regions for voting U.S. presidential elections; it has voted for the winning candidate in every election since 1956 and in all but two elections since 1888 (1908 and 1952). The results in the county have largely mirrored the nationwide popular vote. In every presidential election from 1960 to 2012, the county voted less than five percentage points from the national result. This changed in 2016, when the county voted nine percentage points more Republican than the nation as a whole.
In statewide races for governor and the U.S. Senate, Vigo County has in recent years become more receptive to candidates from the Democratic Party, even when the county had simultaneously voted for a Republican presidential victor in question. The county has gone Democratic in 9 of the last 10 gubernatorial races since 1980, and in 8 of the last 13 Senate races since that year also.
Vigo is part of Indiana's 8th congressional district, which is held by Republican Larry Bucshon.
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 107,848 people, 41,361 households, and 25,607 families residing in the county. The population density was 267.4 inhabitants per square mile (103.2/km2). There were 46,006 housing units at an average density of 114.1 per square mile (44.1/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 88.3% white, 6.9% black or African American, 1.7% Asian, 0.3% American Indian, 0.6% from other races, and 2.2% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 2.3% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 22.6% were German, 20.2% were American, 12.2% were Irish, and 10.3% were English.
Of the 41,361 households, 30.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.9% were married couples living together, 13.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 38.1% were non-families, and 30.6% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.95. The median age was 36.1 years.
The median income for a household in the county was $47,697 and the median income for a family was $50,413. Males had a median income of $42,014 versus $30,217 for females. The per capita income for the county was $20,398. About 13.3% of families and 19.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 27.5% of those under age 18 and 9.5% of those age 65 or over.
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^ The leading "other" candidate, Progressive Theodore Roosevelt, received 4,988 votes, while Socialist candidate Eugene Debs received 1,862 votes, Prohibition candidate Eugene Chafin received 707 votes, and Socialist Labor candidate Arthur Reimer received 144 votes.
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The Graphic Design program enables a student to develop the skills and techniques required to engage in the various fields of advertising art.
2At least 40 upper level hours are required, General electives cannot include art courses.
3Art history electives ART 3113 Art History, American, ART 3133 Art History, Americas & Africa, ART 3143 Art History, Asia & Pacific, ART 4113 Art History, Art After 1945, ART 4723 Art History Seminar, ART 4823 Art Criticism and Aesthetics can be used toward this requirement.
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Very nice. I really like Goku's innocence here. He genuinely doesn't understand the situation, but he's trying to. I especially like the conclusion that he arrives at in the end, that it was too bad that he couldn't have done more, but his actions produced a much, much better result than if he had done nothing at all. Good job.
My take on the Gojyo-Hakkai relationship comes mostly from the part early on in the Kami-sama arc when Goku and Hakkai are in the desert dreamscape inside the gourd. Hakkai is so clearly in loco parentis, and when he changes back from his youkai form, Goku is hugging him and saying he likes the regular Hakkai better. And in fact, he seems fascinated by Hakkai from the first - by the fact that he can fight more effectively than you'd guess, and that he has such pretty eyes. So I was thinking that this horrific scene would weigh pretty heavily on him, but that he'd be stretching himself to understand as much as he could. And Sanzo has given little indications that he really can be a very effective teacher, when he calms down.
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The Ryan Budget: Is Returning to Clinton-Era Levels of Fiscal Restraint Really Asking too Much?
It can be very frustrating to work at the Cato Institute and fight for small government.
Consider what’s happened the past couple of days.
Congressman Paul Ryan introduces a budget and I dig through the numbers with a sense of disappointment because government spending will grow by an average of 3.4 percent annually, much faster than needed to keep pace with inflation.
But I don’t even want government to grow as fast as inflation. I want to reduce the size and scope of the federal government.
I want to restore limited and constitutional government, which we had for much of our nation’s history, with the burden of federal spending consuming only about 3 percent of economic output.
So I look at the Ryan budget in the same way I look at sequestration – as a very modest step to curtail the growth of government. Sort of a rear-guard action to stem the bleeding and stabilize the patient.
But, to be colloquial, it sure ain’t libertarian Nirvana (though, to be fair, the reforms to Medicare and Medicaid are admirable and stem in part from the work of Cato’s healthcare experts).
But my frustration doesn’t exist merely because the Ryan budget is just a small step.
I also have to deal with the surreal experience of reading critics who assert that the Ryan budget is a cut-to-the-bone, harsh, draconian, dog-eat-dog, laissez-faire fiscal roadmap.
To get an idea of why this rhetoric is so over-the-top hysterical, here’s a chart showing how fast government spending is supposed to grow under the Ryan budget, compared to how fast it grew during the Clinton years and how fast it has been growing during the Bush-Obama years.
Well, I would have received a perfect score if asked to identify the outlier on this chart.
Bush and Obama have been irresponsible big spenders, while Clinton was comparatively frugal.
And all Paul Ryan is proposing is that we emulate the policy of the Clinton years.
Now ask yourself whether the economy was more robust during the Clinton years or the Bush-Obama years and think about what that implies for what we should do today about the federal budget.
At the very least, we should be copying what those “radical” Canadians and other have done, which is to impose some genuine restraint of government spending.
The Swiss debt brake, which is really a spending cap, might be a good place to start.
Breaking out Bush from Obama would be helpful.
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An autopsy was performed Wednesday on a Polk County Jail inmate who died at a hospital Tuesday while he underwent heart surgery, the Sheriff's Office said.
Michael Ennis Nichols, 55, was serving a 100-day sentence when he complained Sunday of shortness of breath.
He was sent to the infirmary at the Central County Jail, located in Bartow. On Monday, he was taken to Bartow Regional Medical Center for further treatment.
Hospital doctors determined Nichols had fluid surrounding his heart and decided to operate to relieve the fluid.
About 3:20 p.m. Tuesday, Nichols went into cardiac arrest and died while doctors were operating.
Nichols, who was serving a sentence for possessing drug paraphernalia, told jail staff when he was booked-in that he was diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disorder.
He was treated by jail medical staff for heartburn and swelling of the feet, the Sheriff's Office said.
Nichols has several prior arrests in Polk County and was sentenced to prison for a variety of charges including lewd/lascivious assault on a child under 16 and cocaine possession.
The Sheriff's Office Administrative Investigations Section is conducting an internal review and the agency's Bureau of Criminal Investigations is conducting the death investigation.
All investigative results and findings will be forwarded to the State Attorney's Office for review, the Sheriff's Office said.
The results of the autopsy are pending further testing. But a medical examiner did find Nichols had cancer throughout his body, which was most likely the catalyst that caused his fatal heart attack, a Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said.
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Nick Guyatt’s and Luke Clossey’s recently piece, ‘It’s a Small World After All? Geographical diversity and history teaching in the UK’, in the American Historical Association’s Perpectives on History (May 2013) has started a lively debate about the breadth and quality of teaching and research in our universities. Have universities got the right balance between European/North American history, and wider world history? If not, why not? How can we account for disparities in the way this balance seems to operate in US/Canadian universities versus British ones? Is the UK falling behind? Does that matter? Is the challenge simply to persuade departments to hire more wider-world historians or do we need to tweak the culture of university research and teaching to ensure that early career historians in wider world topics realise their potential? What are the connections between this debate in the university setting and the arguments about ‘the history of us’, the National Curriculum and school teaching. And in any case, why should students/pupils be interested in wider world history in the first place? Should we emphasise the value of wider world curiosity by embracing instrumental arguments about the (international) career opportunities and the global economy that await school-leavers and university graduates?
Panellists on this Question Time-style event will include Machel Bogues, Professor Sir Richard Evans, Nick Guyatt, Su Lin Lewis, Nicola Sheldon, Jason Todd and Peter D’Sena (chair).
For more information about this event click on the IHR events page. To access the live stream go to the History SPOT podcast page and click on the video option.
Day two of the 82nd Anglo-American conference of Historians continued the wide-ranging discussion of food throughout history. From the second day we recorded two plenary talks and a lunch time policy forum. These are now available as podcasts on History SPOT.
All podcasts from the plenary sessions of the Anglo-American conference are available on History SPOT under the Anglo-American Food in History section. For more information about the conference see our Anglo-American conference website.
Film director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick discuss their book and forthcoming television series.
The Untold History of the United States re-examines America’s financial, diplomatic and military influence on the long twentieth century to produce a polemical account of the rise and fall of the American Empire.
Oliver Stone begins by talking about how he and Peter Kuznick got together in the 1990s and which has now resulted in this current collaboration on this project to look at the Atomic bomb, the cold war, and United States history to the present day. A massive hurdle that they had to overcome was to convince the government that the American people were ready to deal with the history of the Atomic bomb seriously and critically. This book and television series is the result, offering an alternative and controversial look at the United States, and its role in history.
How have peers in academia have responded to this project?
Is this project a step into a new field for you, away from what you had done before?
How do you balance in these popular formats the need to entertain with the complexity of the past?
Does the panel ascribe to the belief of the new world order?
How did you decide on what would be contained in each segment of the series?
Are you really suggesting that Stalin had no interest in occupying Eastern Europe and Western Europe, and it was only because of the Atomic bomb that he did that?
What evidence do you have the Harry Truman knew the evidence rather than having to make a hard political judgement?
How do you think we should take this awareness of other versions of History to the youth of America?
Were Wallace and Truman both searching for legitimisation of American capitalism?
Production of a rewritten history – is this a new way of bringing the war home?
The Atomic bomb was originally built with the Germans in mind, rather than the Japanese. What affect does this have on the opinions you have put forward?
What about the Latin American and the eastern aspects of the story.
Is Obama a pivot of history?
Although the title of this paper might remind you of a James Bond film, this paper is not about the media or large conglomerates but about the industrial revolution, and in particular the trade and use of cotton textiles. The Cotton industry formed a major component of the British Industrial Revolution but because of that the story is often formed around the rapid transformation of cotton and textiles in the nineteenth century, and generally focused around the British story. This is not the approach that Giorgio Riello outlines in today’s paper. Riello believes that the story of the cotton industry is made more interesting and accurate by looking at a wider picture over a longer period of time and across the world. Cotton has a long history well before it arrived in Europe and so Riello looks at its use from 1000 AD up until the sixteenth-century as well as mechanisation in later centuries. Through this prism it is possible to see that the changes evoked in Britain were part of a wider story that crossed from India, to China and the Americas, even a little into Africa. Riello’s primary questions are why this major industry moved from predominantly India and China to Europe and why and how this because mechanised. The arguments form the backbone for a forthcoming book on Cotton and the Early Modern World.
Francis Boorman has discussed Chancery Lane before in a previous podcast on History SPOT called Chancery Lane: politics, space and the built environment, c.1760-1815. That paper was delivered in 2011 so this gives us an opportunity to catch up on his work.
This paper investigates Chancery Lane as the intersection between the City and Westminster. It is a local investigation into what Jerry White calls the dynamics of urban renewal in London in terms of a public collective. For parts of that argument see the podcast City Rivalries and the making of Modern London, 1720-1770 by Jerry White also in 2011. The paper investigates this model in opposition to that offered by Eric Hobsbawm about the negotiations of individual citizens in the public sphere, but with influence from Peter Clark’s argument concerning the dissociation of parish administrators with the local elite.
The public space of Chancery Lane took a long time to progress and change because of politics between rival local interests, none of which could easily agree on their individual responsibility or ownership. Francis Boorman examines the models presented by other historians and considers what this might mean for his study of Chancery Lane, which intersected both the City and Westminster.
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If you tried to watch this week’s DARK VAULT OF PUBLIC DOMAIN, you may have noticed something missing – namely, THE WHOLE SHOW!!!. I’m guessing aliens are involved again. The screen went to black and that’s as far as we got with our transmission this week. I’ve contacted our technical experts, but it looks like this weeks show will not materialize this week. We’ll get to the bottom of this and hopefully have it remedied in time for next week’s broadcast. Stayed tuned – UNCLE PETE is on the case!
~ by UNCLE PETE on January 11, 2015.
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T.J. Oshie picked a good time to set a career-high in goals. With 29 goals, Oshie currently leads the team. Should that hold, he will be the first player other than Alex Ovechkin to lead the Caps in goals since Robert Lang in 2003-04, before Ovechkin was drafted. In fact, Oshie has set a career-high in goals in each of his two seasons in Washington.
Why is that good timing? Because Oshie is currently in the final year of his contract and the need to re-sign him was made clear on Saturday with his hat trick performance.
As a top-line caliber winger who will likely hit the 30-goal mark this season, Oshie will not lack for suitors this summer. Getting a deal done before he reaches free agency will likely be high on the Caps’ to-do list after the season.
While Oshie acknowledged after practice on Monday that he has thought about his contract status, he was also quick to say he is keeping his mind on the task at hand.
“When you have a wife and two kids, you have to think about it a little bit, but anyone that knows me knows that I'm extremely present,” Oshie said.
Right wing on the top line was a bit of a revolving door before the Caps traded for Oshie in the summer of 2015 to fill that void. He has since cemented himself in that position with his strong play beside Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom.
But the fact that he has played so well could potentially be an issue after the season. Oshie’s salary this season is $4.5 million and, as he stands to be one of the top free agents in the NHL, he will be due a significant raise. At 30 years old, this is also likely going to be his last “big” contract. That means he will be looking for term and looking for money.
An article published by NHL Numbers estimates Oshie’s next contract on the open market will be worth $6 million for six years, but even acknowledges that is a “conservative” estimate. Re-signing Oshie was already not going to come cheap, but considering the money he stands to gain if he reaches free agency, it may take a very hefty contract to keep him in Washington.
But there are other potential factors that could work in the Caps’ favor.
Oshie’s production in Washington is no accident, clearly this team and coach are a good fit for him. His family also seems to have settled in well with the area.
That’s encouraging for the Caps, but even if Oshie is willing to take a discount to remain in Washington, it’s not likely to be a significant one.
Whether the Caps would be willing to offer him what it will take to keep him here is also a point worth considering. Oshie is, after all, on the wrong side of 30. If he does get $6 to 7 million per year, how much longer will he be able to play up to those numbers?
Landing a player in free agency almost always requires overpaying them. Whatever the Caps will be willing to pay Oshie, chances are another team will be willing to pay more. Whether the Caps will be able to keep him from getting to that point where he can start listening to other offers remains to be seen.
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Have you ever treated yourself to spa facials? Not only do they make nice gifts, however when in awhile, it's time to treat yourself. There are many types of facials to choose from, depending on the type of experience and individualized attention your beautiful face needs.
Balancing facials are among the most popular options. First of all , might come to mind is balancing your skin tone, but these facials do much more than that. They assist to fight off toxins that age your skin, and they keep it moisturized, soft and youthful.
When choosing one of these facials, only the best organic ingredients are used that will nourish your skin layer back to a balanced and healthy state. Sometimes those with sensitive skin or different pigment concentrations wonder if facials are satisfactory, and you should know that an all-natural balancing facial is wonderful for everyone.
Deep cleansing facials are another very well liked option, kind of like how deep tissue massages are a popular massage option. Because the name implies, this facial deeply cleanses your epidermis, clears your pores and works as a healing mask for irritated skin. As you know, this type of facial can be great for all kinds of skin.
This facial will and also nourish your skin with vitamins and nutrients, and it is considered a great treatment for acne and also other unsightly blemishes. If the skin needs a deep cleansing, this facial is good for you, and couldn't everyone's face benefit from a deep cleansing?
When looking at the different day spas to go to in your area or while you're on vacation somewhere, see what signature facials, peels and other types of services they provide. Each day spa will probably be unique, and you might want to opt for one of their signature facials. It will likely be a unique experience, and you simply might find out that it is your favorite one.
There's also packages for services available on the market. Instead of just opting for a facial, have you thought to get the deep cleaning facial and also the deep tissue massage which was mentioned earlier, all within the same day. Day spas regularly offer body wraps, makeup solutions and all other kinds of services.
It truly does pay to know what to expect from a spa prior to going. This helps make you more comfortable, and it also helps you choose the best day spa. This is allowed to be a time of relaxation and healing for you, so the last thing you want to have is added stress as a result of discomfort.
You don't have to know everything about a day spa, as part of pampering is most likely the unexpected. Still, understand the different day spa facials as well as other services out there. Understand what to expect, and have this type of good time that you'll be coming back again and again.
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Nottingham Forest have announced the signing of striker Matty Fryatt on a three-year contract from 1 July.
The former Leicester and Hull City forward arrives on a free transfer from The KC Stadium and brings a wealth of attacking talent having scored 129 career goals.
After rising through the youth system at Walsall, Fryatt was soon loaned out to Carlisle United where he notched his first professional goal before returning to The Banks’s Stadium to find the net another 30 times.
His talent in front of goal caught the eye of a number of clubs but it was Leicester who earned his services for an undisclosed fee in January 2006. Following The Foxes’ relegation to League One, Fryatt struck 32 goals in the 2008-09 season to fire them back to the Championship.
The 28 year old suffered a broken jaw in February 2010 which disrupted his time at The King Power Stadium and so in January 2011 he opted for a fresh start by making the move to Hull.
After grabbing 16 goals in his debut season on Humberside, Fryatt struggled for game time and made a loan switch to Sheffield Wednesday at the beginning of the 2013-14 campaign. It was to prove a timely boost for the striker as he netted four goals in just seven starts at Hillsborough.
Upon Fryatt’s return to Hull, he scored six more times before the season’s end including a goal in The Tigers’ 5-3 FA Cup semi-final win over Sheffield United and a consolation in the 3-1 defeat at Manchester United last month.
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If you are not on Facebook, then you will need to create an account on Facebook.
Now just click join on the below link for joining Facebook group –India Group for Homeschoolers & Alternative Education.
To share a link or write directly.
Copy and paste the web address (URL) in the Publisher at the top of the group’s main page. The links will be visible to everyone who views the group. Or just write in the publisher.
The group discussion board is a forum for conversation between group members. You will be able to start a new topic or reply to current posts. Everyone who looks at the group’s page will see its discussion board content.
You can do this by clicking the “Photos” icon in the Publisher at the top of the group’s main page. You can select up to five photos at a time to upload, or move as many photos as you want from an existing album. The photos will be visible to everyone who views the group.
You can do this by clicking the “Video” icon in the Publisher at the top of the group’s main page. The videos will be visible to everyone who views the group.
Cheers ! That’s it !!!
India Group for Homeschoolers & Alternative Education.
Hi! We are struggling to retain our student-centric curriculum against rigid Govt controls.. Need options asap.. How does alternate education provide affiliations..
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I enjoyed your review. I sounds like a decent movie. There have been other Christian movies that just didn’t pull it off for me.
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One of the Gold Standard projects our customers have helped to support is in the Shimba Hills District of Kenya.
Shimba Hills cover 250km2 and lay approximately 40km south-west of Mombasa. The area was listed as National Forest as long ago as 1903, being one of the few large areas on the south coast that at the time was still well forested.
The fragile ecosystem of the area is surrounded by poor farming communities whose lifestyles often impact negatively on the ecosystem, especially due to harvesting of trees for firewood. One of the major challenges facing the district is the persistent and increasing incidence of poverty. 32% of adults in this district live below food poverty level, and 26% below absolute poverty. In addition to carbon savings this project creates opportunities for economic enterprise, if you know where to look.
One of the most powerful benefits resulting from our stove projects is the amount of time saved by women through the use of the new stoves. For most women in rural Kenya, a typical day involves waking up at sunrise and walking to the nearest forested area to collect their firewood for the day. Often, women might have to walk for 2 to 3 hours to do this. Once home, they immediately begin preparing food for their families. On a traditional open fire stove, cooking times for meals can be long. The co2balance improved cook stoves drastically reduce the amount of firewood used when cooking, with a corresponding reduction fuel and in time spent collecting firewood. The new stove design is also highly efficient; as a result women see a reduction in cooking time as well. Some women can now have over an hour a day to themselves to get involved in other activities that can be of benefit to them. We travelled to Rukanga a remote village in the region to meet with some women who are maximizing the time saved with the new stove, and using this new found time that they have, to get involved in income generating activities that benefit their entire families.
From these interviews it is clear that the women we work with are all motivated and determined individuals who want to cultivate change within their own lives. By simply giving them time to do so, and freeing them from the responsibility of firewood collection daily, they are able to take the initiative and get involved in opportunities to improve their standard of living, with both social and economic payback.
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I was pretty happy with this book in general as it was a fun read and fairly engaging. It did remind me of another book series from another author but only in the comedic sense. The characters were all real defined and interesting and in some ways the support characters were stronger and more memorable than the main character.
Main character Gerald Dunwoody is a wizard of the 3rd level and seemingly incapable of any real magic or holding a job. He tramples through life until he answers an ad for a court wizard out of necessity. Desperate for work, he forgets to ask the important questions and accepts the position out of hand not realizing his life was about to change forever. Accompanied by his companion Reg, a female talking bird with a history and support from his genius wizard friend Monk Markham, Gerald finds himself in a political situation like no other.
Karen Miller writing as K.E. Mills does a good job of creating a believable world and comical but yet serious situation to create her series in that keeps the readers nose in the book and wondering what is coming next. With a limited setting, Miller does what most authors don’t which is to tell a real story about characters, growth and companionship. My only real complaints are the lack any real sense of time period and a twist that seemed fore shadowed but led a different direction. It’s hard to imagine what the world looks like except for a couple points in the book in which Miller gets a bit more detailed.
All in all it is a good book with solid character development and a story that compels you to keep reading to find out what happens. A solid 3 ½ stars out of 5 for me as it is a light read. It is definitely worth the read and following up with the other books in the series.
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We're happy to offer the first post from Flea--a guest blogger who's also pediatrician in the northeast. You can check out his drfleablog, here.
A pediatrician shouldn’t be writing about medical malpractice. We fleas don’t get sued very often. Our malpractice insurance premiums are a fraction of what our colleagues on OB/GYN pay. Parents like us. We wear cute ties and nice fuzzy animals on our stethoscopes.
But pediatricians and other fleas do get sued. If a bad outcome occurs in a hospital, the hospital may get sued as well. Hospitals don’t like to be sued. They will do anything legally and reasonably in their power to prevent medical malpractice suits.
A few years ago, a baby born at a hospital in my community died of a rare condition known as kernicterus. It seems the baby had a very high level of a substance called bilirubin in his blood. Bilirubin is the yellow pigment that gives rise to the yellow skin condition known as jaundice. In high enough concentrations, bilirubin can be toxic to brains and can even cause death. The hospital settled for an undisclosed, but presumed very large amount of money.
A few months later, the hospital decided to implement a universal bilirubin screening protocol. In other words, every baby born at the hospital would have a bilirubin test, regardless of how yellow the baby appeared. The chairman of the department of Pediatrics confided in me that the main reason for the policy was to prevent any more damaging medical malpractice suits.
In the course of the next several months, neighboring hospitals developed their own universal bilirubin screening processes. As a result, cases of bilirubin toxicity have declined, but at a cost of delayed discharges, unnecessary phototherapy, and costly testing for the majority of healthy newborns that need no such testing.
The champion of bilirubin protocols, Vinod Bhutani, has advocated universal screening since 1998. The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that hospitals create neonatal hyperbilirubinemia protocols, but has not recommended universal bilirubin screening per se.
The energy behind implementation of universal bilirubin screening derives from fear of litigation, as was the case at my local hospital. There is no question in my mind that defensive medicine as opposed to medical common sense is driving the (yellow) bus here.
Regardless of the hospital's intention, it is not necessarily poor form to implement such screening protocols. Kernicterus, although not common, has increased in incidence despite our current efforts and it is a devestating condition. One way to solve this issue is with the use of transcutaneous bilirubin meters. These have been shown to be fairly accurate. One study showed in around 400 children that they were never off by more than 3. Check every baby and if the addition of 3 to the cutaneous level would change your managment get a venous level. Much fewer sticks, better screening than the "looks kind of yellow" protocol.
thanks for dragging me over to this fascinating site.
Now, a question. Immunisations. Which we have been covering.
Have there been any cases yet (I say yet, because it is the USA and I bet there will me) of children who, at the insistence of their parents, have NOT been immunised according to recommendations and then gone on to contract measles or whatever, suing their parents for neglect?
Not to my knowledge, John. But there have been dumber, more outrageous suits filed here, the litany of which would be hilarious if it weren't all so damned serious.
Reading about the baby that died due to Kernicterus and just wondering do you have any more details on that case because I myself had a baby and she died when she was 3 months old due to same problem. Basically my healthcare provider didnt gave me the adequate care during my pregnancy which lead to her problems.
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Putin Says Those Aren't Russian Forces In Crimea : The Two-Way Contradicting reports from the ground, the Russian leader insists that the armed men are "local self-defense forces." He also says Russia has no plans to annex Crimea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin during his news conference Tuesday.
Instead, he told reporters that the heavily armed men are "local self-defense forces."
What's more, anything Russia has done, Putin said without offering specifics, has been part of a "humanitarian mission" to protect ethnic Russians in Crimea.
But even as he said no Russian troops have been involved in the latest events in Crimea, Putin drew comparisons that would seem to indicate they had been. "Our actions are often described by the West as not legitimate, but look at U.S. operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya," he said, according to a BBC translation of his comments. "Our actions are legitimate from the point of view of international law, because Ukraine's legitimate president asked us for help. ... Defending these people is in our interests. ... We do not want to 'enslave' anyone."
Putin made the claims about a lack of involvement by Russian forces even though Russian military helicopters have been seen in the skies over Crimea, Russian trucks have been seen moving the armed men to key locations, and the soldiers in unmarked uniforms speak Russian and in some cases have told reporters and local residents that they are members of the Russian military.
The Russian leader's news conference followed word from Moscow that "tens of thousands of Russian troops participating in military exercises near Ukraine's border" are returning to their bases.
That's being taken "generally as a good sign," NPR's Peter Kenyon, who is in Crimea, said on Morning Edition.
There was also no "military storm" — a rumored attack by Russian forces — Tuesday morning.
But the rumors about a possible Russian attack had been debunked earlier. As for the order for troops taking part in exercises on the Russian side of the border with Ukraine to return to their bases, New York Times correspondent Steven Lee Myers pointed out on Morning Edition that those exercises had already been scheduled to end today.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Kiev today for talks with officials from the interim government that replaced the Yanukovych regime. He arrives, the White House says in a statement released early Tuesday, with the news that the Obama administration "is working with Congress and the government of Ukraine to provide $1 billion in loan guarantees aimed at helping insulate vulnerable Ukrainians from the effects of reduced energy subsidies."
After landing in Kiev Tuesday, Kerry brought flowers to a shrine to those killed in recent weeks and reiterated that the U.S. stands with Ukraine "for self-determination."
Saying that people had "put themselves on the line" for Ukraine's future, Kerry said at a news conference from Kiev that Ukrainians who had asked for their rights and for democracy had instead been met with snipers' bullets. He also said he spoke to several people who pleaded for help.
Of the military tensions in Crimea, Kerry said, "we are in a new phase" of the confrontation.
Kerry spoke around the same time that President Obama unveiled his 2015 budget blueprint today; he was asked about the situation in Ukraine and what Russia has been doing.
"There have been some reports that President Putin is pausing for a moment and reflecting on what's happened," Obama said.
Then he added that "there is a strong belief that Russia action is violating international law. ... President Putin seems to have a different set of lawyers doing a different set of interpretations. ... I don't think that's fooling anybody."
In Kiev, Kerry seemed surprised by a reporter's question about Putin's remarks earlier Tuesday.
"He really denied there are troops in Crimea?" he asked, interrupting the question.
Although the situation in Crimea has been tense since the armed men showed up Friday to surround military bases and take over some strategic locations, there has been no serious violence. Ukrainian forces have stayed in their barracks. The only confrontation reported so far came Tuesday, when some of the armed men fired warning shots in the air after Ukrainian military personnel — who weren't armed — tried to enter an airfield that has been taken over.
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Dr Rufus Edwards is Professor in the Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Edwards' research focuses on human exposures to air pollution emissions and subsequent health effects. These include populations in the industrialized world and assessment of exposures and subsequent health effects from household emissions from solid fuel use and small scale industries in developing nations. Dr Edwards was a member of the WHO Indoor Air Quality Guidelines Development Group (GDG) to establish air quality guidelines for household combustion sources, and was lead convening author for the evidence chapter on emissions from household solid fuel use and a lead author for the chapter on models to link household energy use with indoor air quality. Dr Edwards was also consultant to the WHO to develop the Household Energy Assessment Rapid Tool (HEART) to conduct rapid situational assessments and stakeholder mapping of a country’s readiness to address access to clean energy technologies and has worked with the WHO Urban Health Initiative to identify evidence based strategies to reduce the burden of air pollution in Accra, Ghana, and Katmandu Nepal. Dr Edwards was Senior International “Air Pollution” Consultant to UNICEF Mongolia to address effects of air pollution from rapid urbanization on children’s health, and currently is working with on strategies to reduce air pollution exposures in Ulaanbaatar. He also serves on the Environment/Climate Advisory Committee for the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.
PUBHLTH 167. Air Pollution, Climate, and Health.
PUBHLTH 171. Human Exposure to Environmental Contaminants.
EPIDEM 269. Air Pollution, Climate, and Health.
EPIDEM 270. Human Exposure to Environmental Contaminants.
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Despite new spending curbs linked to President Bush's tax cut, lawmakers are seeking billions of dollars for individual projects in their home districts, causing tension between the Bush administration and its allies on Capitol Hill.
According to figures compiled by congressional staffers, House members have requested 18,898 "earmarks"--targeted expenditures for such home-district projects as highways, dams, parks and museums--in spending bills now making their way through Congress. If all were approved, the total cost would amount to $279 billion, almost the size of the Pentagon's annual budget.
Taking care of the folks back home by means of the appropriations process is hardly a new phenomenon in Congress. Nor is frustration on the part of the executive branch, which prefers to make spending decisions on its own. But as the number of earmarks has increased sharply in recent years, rising more than threefold since Republicans seized control of Congress in 1995, some say the practice has spun out of control.
Chief among them is White House Budget Director Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., who has launched what one senior House staffer describes as a "jihad" against thousands of proposed earmarks in the 13 annual spending bills that Congress will pass by year's end. In many cases, Daniels says, such targeted expenditures steal resources from more deserving uses, undercut states' authority to determine their needs and increase pressure on government to spend beyond its means.
"They're sort of a natural, traditional part of the process, but it's gotten out of hand," Daniels said in an interview, adding, "In all honesty, I don't think we've had much success so far" in curbing the congressional appetite for earmarks.
Bush's tax cut is based on the assumption that government spending will not increase by more than 4% a year. Lawmakers are already chafing under that limit: Last week, for example, the House passed a $23.7-billion natural resources spending bill that bumps up the president's request by $1.2 billion, much of it earmarked for water projects and beach restoration.
The competition for resources will only intensify later this year when Congress and the administration try to fulfill their pledges for big increases in education and defense spending.
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2019-04-22T18:55:08Z
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jul-05-mn-18875-story.html
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23 Things for Digital Knowledge – a self paced online learning course from Learning, Teaching and Web.
CMALT Scheme – a scheme by Information Services Group offering bursaries to fund and support learning technologists to become Certified Members of the Association for Learning Technology (CMALT).
Copyright Enquiries Service – a service run by the Library, staffed by a team of experienced professionals from a range of different backgrounds, which offers help and support with copyright-related queries.
Copyright, Licensing and OER – training, workshops and events from the OER Service.
Digital Footprint MOOC – a Coursera MOOC from the University of Edinburgh.
EdWeb editing your profile – a step by step guide from Website and Communications.
Effective Digital Content (Writing for the Web) – a self paced learning course from Website and Communications.
Getting started with your new blog – WordPress training resources and tutorials from Lynda.com and other providers.
Google Analytics – a training workshop from Website and Communications.
Practical Strategies for using assessed blogs – a workshop from the Institute of Academic Development.
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https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/professional-blogging/2018/11/05/additional-training/
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Lamborghini Miura SV is one of the prettiest cars of all time.
The GT and R8 get my votes.
This is my "mid-engine" car. Which I have along side my C7. Personally, I really like the lines of the R8, more so than the Lambo, IMO. this one is also the RWS model, so its rear wheel only and is made on the same assembly line as their LMS race car.
That's a keeper! 1 of 320 in the U.S.
458 and 488. Both lust worthy, the 458 appeals more to me because the lack of the large rear intake. This brings me to the one issue with the ME C8 test cars we have seen. It's not necessary the leading edge of the intake, it's the way it comes off the rear quarter at the top, this area.
That has been on all the cars we have seen, could be fake, it certainly looks uninspired to me.
I saw one of these (in this color) on the road recently and in person they are absolutely stunning. I work right down the road from Ron Tonkin Ferrari, so I see way more Ferrari's driving around than I do Corvettes.
To me, the 488 is the best looking mid engine design of all time.
Good investment. If you purchase one now for the current value of $3mil., you would double your money in a year. Peanuts for a guy like you.
Lol, guy like me! Haha, love it. I live comfortable not generational wealthy. Plus that over my budget for any car!
How new does it have to be to be considered "modern"?
Kind of an itch to pick up a 308 and get a GTO kit for it. Those cars are gorgeous.
Best I have ever seen that car look!
IMO The La Ferrari is incredible but for pure styling, the 488 is the sexiest modern car.
Your garage styling is amazing. Who did that floor? Love that it covers the foundation as well.
I agree. 488 in person is an amazing sight, especially when its in motion and not just sitting in a parking lot.
Well dam its easier just to say i like anything i CAN'T afford!!!
BAC Mono for the uninitiated.
Beautiful, did it ever make production in that form, thought it was a prototype? It is spectacular!
The proportions of this AM are not only obsolete for AM's FE cars, but completely wrong for their ME car. A C5 and a C7 is the way to go for FE and ME cars alike.
C8 reveal at Geneva Motor Show ?
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New theory and techniques for processing information received from wireless sensor networks are being investigated for the ultimate purpose of monitoring the nation's infrastructure, including bridges, buildings and related construction. Named, "Sensing Sensors: Compressed Sampling with Co-design of Hardware and Algorithms across Multiple Layers in Wireless Sensor Networks," this new five year, $3M multi-disciplinary research program funded by the National Science Foundation includes a diverse team of faculty in the areas of circuits (Prof. Michael Flynn, Principle Investigator, and Prof.David Wentzloff), systems (Profs. Mingyan Liu and Wayne Stark), mathematics (Prof. Anna Gilbert) and civil and environmental engineering (Prof. Jerry Lynch).
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Office suite ideal for small business or professional service providers. 1,150 sf includes 4 offices, flex room that can be used for conference or cubicle set up, RR, beak room and storage. Great, easy to find location in St B area near Warfield and Wilma intersection. Attractive building and signage.
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Our spring feasts — often centered around Passover and Easter — typically call for a center-of-the-plate star like brisket or lamb. Of course they’re delicious, but both can seriously ramp up the fat and calories in a meal that tends to put the groan into groaning board even before the main course is served.
So how about roasted chicken instead? Wait a minute, you say. If you eat the bird with its skin on, you might as well be eating lamb. And yet there’s no way to cook a chicken properly without the skin.
Looks like a problem, but here’s a solution: roast the chicken with the skin on, then remove the skin after the chicken is cooked. And, if you roast the chicken my no-fuss way, you’ll find yourself with ample time to devote to the rest of the meal.
I learned the best way to roast a chicken during my restaurant days. Every evening just before service began, the whole staff would sit down for “family meal.” If chicken was on the menu, we’d simply throw several 3 1/2-pounders into the oven — which was always cranked to 500F — and blast away.
Given that we were cooking only for ourselves, there was nothing fancy about how we prepped those birds. Everything we’d learned in cooking school about the need to truss, turn and baste a roasting chicken turned out to be unnecessary. All we did was sprinkle them with salt and pepper, rub them with a little oil, and roast them at high heat.
Forty minutes later they were done. We let them rest for 15 minutes, then carved them and moistened the pieces with the juices that had pooled on the platter. It was almost too simple — and it certainly was not traditional — but the result was delicious.
There is, however, one serious caveat when it comes to cooking a chicken at a temperature this high: your oven must be clean. A dirty oven blazing away at 450F (which is what I call for here) will smoke up the whole house. Also, be sure to place the bird in a heavy roasting pan with sides so the chicken juices don’t splatter over the sides and burn on the bottom of the oven.
Finally, the resting time is key. After you pull the bird out of the oven, its juices need time to redistribute. If you don’t let it rest, but carve it right away, all the juices will come streaming out and you’ll end up with dry meat. Happily, some of those juices pool on the platter during the resting period anyway, and they add a ton of flavor to the sauce.
Spray the chickens all over with the cooking spray, then season them with salt and pepper. In a large roasting pan, place the chickens, breast side up, side by side. Roast, uncovered, until a meat thermometer inserted into the leg-thigh joint registers 165 F, about 55 minutes.
While the chickens are roasting, in a small bowl whisk the lemon juice with salt and pepper to taste, whisking until the salt is dissolved. Whisk in the olive oil, thyme, and oregano, then set aside.
When the chickens are done, transfer them to a large platter and cover them loosely with foil. Let them rest for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, pour any drippings from the roasting pan into a fat separator. Add the chicken juices from the fat separator to the herb mixture and discard the fat.
After the chicken has rested, remove and discard the skin and cut up the chicken. Whisk the juices from the platter into the herb mixture. Divide the chicken between serving plates and spoon some of the herb mixture over each portion of chicken.
Nutrition information per serving: 290 calories; 120 calories from fat (41 percent of total calories); 13 g fat (2.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 135 mg cholesterol; 1 g carbohydrate; 0 g fiber; 0 g sugar; 41 g protein; 390 mg sodium.
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http://food.lohudblogs.com/2014/03/28/roast-chicken-with-fresh-herb-sauce/
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throughout Florida. Learn more about us today and how joining Millennium as a patient, a provider, or a team member can benefit you. We are here to connect you to a healthier life."
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2019-04-20T21:11:04Z
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Repeat Rows 6 – 13 until the headband measures about 15 inches, depending on the size of your noggin. You want the headband to stretch and be a little tight.
Sew the cast on edge to the bind off edge.
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The emergence of the social media phenomenon has spawned new ways of communication and engagement for consumers and companies alike. In particular, social networking sites such as Facebook have gained popularity and a strong membership base due to its pervasive nature and opportunities for seamless engagement. However, the concept of online consumer engagement on social media is an emerging construct in marketing literature and remains vague due to lack of academic research and empirical support. Furthermore, many organizations are unclear about the value and financial returns that investment in social media brings to their business. As such, the aim of this study is to provide an exploratory insight into the construct of customer engagement in the realm of online social media. In addition, the impact of customer engagement activity on driving purchase intent is also examined. The social networking site, Facebook was used as a basis to evaluate the research objectives, using a quantitative online survey. The findings suggest that online social media users engage with brands on Facebook on a superficial level, rather than on an in-depth basis. More importantly, consumer engagement on social media is found to have a significant impact on driving purchase intention for the brand. This study provides insights into the role that consumer engagement on social media brings to the business and presents practical implications for marketing practitioners. Finally, directions and opportunities for future research are also discussed.
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http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26973/
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Dr. Michael P. McDonald is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Florida and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California, San Diego and B.S. in Economics from California Institute of Technology. He held a one-year post-doc fellowship at Harvard University and previously taught at George Mason University, Vanderbilt University, and University of Illinois, Springfield.
His research interests are in the areas of elections and methodology. His voter turnout research shows that turnout is not declining, the ineligible population is rising. He is a co-principle investigator on the Public Mapping Project, a project to encourage public participation in redistricting. He is co-author with Micah Altman and Jeff Gill ofNumerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist and is co-editor with John Samples of The Marketplace of Democracy: Electoral Competition and American Politics. His research appears in several edited volumes and in scholarly journals including American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science,Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political Analysis, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, PS: Political Science and Politics, Social Science Computing Review, The Election Law Journal, and the law review journals of New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, Duke J. Constitutional Law and Public Policy, University of Richmond Law Review, Case Western Law Review and the Georgetown Law Review.
On the practical side of politics, Dr. McDonald has worked for the national exit poll organization, consulted to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, consulted to the Pew Center for the States, served on campaign staff for state legislative campaigns in California and Virginia, has worked for national polling firms, has been an expert witness for election lawsuits in Florida and Washington, and has worked as a redistricting consultant or expert witness in Alaska, Arizona, California, Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia. He has worked as a media consultant to ABC and NBC, and is frequently quoted in the media regarding United States elections. His opinion editorials have appeared in The Washington Post, The Politico, The Hill, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, The American Prospect, and Roll Call.
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2019-04-19T04:15:45Z
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https://polisci.ufl.edu/michael-mcdonald/
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Nov 24 12:57:56 nexus libsafe.so: detected an attempt to write across stack boundary.
Now this caught my attention, because for the past two days, I've been getting a handful of program crashes from 'attempt to write across stack boundary.' Most commonly, whenever I try to view an e-mail that is more than about 1k in size, it's been dying on me too.
So, I thought back to what I've upgraded on my Linux box in the past day or so, and I remember installing the new optimized libc6 (glibc2) package, libc6-i686 (I have a dual PPro box). Ever since I installed that, I've been getting that error.
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2019-04-24T08:36:24Z
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https://topher.livejournal.com/20929.html
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Posted by Rhett Mcdaniel on Thursday, February 12, 2015 in Resource.
Last week we examined the nature of student knowledge organizations and possibilities for making those structures visible. This week, we’re taking a look at how we can help our students move along the spectrum towards more robust and expert-based knowledge organization, i.e. big picture thinking. Since the move towards big picture thinking and complex knowledge organization can sometimes be difficult for students, making their own processes visible not only to us, but also to the students themselves can be a valuable first step. A second step towards helping our students understand big picture thinking is being transparent with our students about our own expert knowledge organizations and how we created them.
In this second video, Dr. Kathy Friedman, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University, and Dr. Jennifer Osterhage, Lecturer in Biology at the University of Kentucky, discuss how they applied the evidence they gathered from their concept maps towards their respective classroom structures and how this application helped move their students towards big picture disciplinary thinking.
For Dr. Friedman, the evidence generated by her students’ concept maps indicated that she could spend more time in class helping students make nuanced connections between major disciplinary ideas. This lead to a gradual move toward the flipped classroom model, which allowed students to experience first exposure before class and work on the application of knowledge in the classroom, thereby making room for the development of those nuanced connections.
For Dr. Osterhage, the concept map structure provided the framework for how she organized the whole course. As the course progressed, each class session was spent building the concept map incrementally and generating connections that would ultimately lead to students not only seeing the big picture, but also creating it for themselves.
For more information on student representations of knowledge organizations, please see the video below, featuring our CFT Director, Derek Bruff. For more information on the flipped classroom, check out the CFT’s Teaching Guide on the subject here.
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2019-04-24T18:45:07Z
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https://wp0.vanderbilt.edu/cft/2015/02/thinking-stem-teaching-stem-a-blog-series-6/
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"Columbia matrix 3457. Good advice / Arthur Collins." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2019. Web. 22 April 2019.
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I would like to share 2 of 100 spirit orb photos that were taken last night June 2 2010. The first photo with the many orbs, one golden orb and notice our outdoor light, this photo was taken with my kodak 3.2 mega pixel camera. The second spirit orb photo was taken with my kodak 6.1 mega pixel camera. Anyone can take these type’s of spirit photographs, you just have to keep an open mind and of course take some photographs. It doesn’t matter if your indoors or outdoors. I use mostly two kodak digital cameras and a few of the $4.00 disposable cameras. I prefer the digital cameras because I can instantly download the photos to my computer and see what I have.
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https://signsfromourlovedones.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/spirit-orbs/
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Martha Berry invite Mr. Faegele to speak on Sunday in chapel for the students.
Miss Martha Berry, “To Mr. Charles Faegele from Martha Berry.” Martha Berry Digital Archive. Eds. Schlitz, Stephanie A., Chelsea Risley, et al. Mount Berry: Berry College, 2014. accessed April 20, 2019, https://mbda.berry.edu/items/show/13524.
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Nicole Kibler ’18 chose Syracuse University‘s Martin J. Whitman School of Management because she felt she would be given a well-rounded business education. According to Kibler, she is now well equipped for the professional world. This, she feels, could not have been accomplished without the tools and experience she gained at the Whitman School.
Kibler has been able to use her knowledge to impact this past summer when she interned at Ross Stores as an assistant buying intern. She was responsible for managing vendor relationships, providing creative product development solutions, ensuring key inventory was delivered and processed and writing purchase orders.
Her experience doesn’t stop there; she has been a committed volunteer for the Special Olympics of Central New York, where she has contributed over 120 hours of service. On campus, she is a student caller for The Fund For Syracuse where she raised over $20,000 for scholarships and is a member of the sorority Delta Gamma.
According to Kibler, one of the most beneficial aspects of her Whitman education was completing the Capstone EEE class.
Kibler is still looking for an opportunity in New York City after graduation where she hopes to find a role pertaining to her majors: in supply chain planning and operations, buying or allocation.
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Saw these photos at the Frederick, MD Artomatic. Love them. LOVE. THEM. Hi, Alex Arzt. I took four of your 4×6 “business cards”. Sorry, I know one was the ethical limit, but I couldn’t help it.
It’s Black Friday, the most terrifying day of the year. Let’s celebrate its end with more collages from Alejandra Villasmil (I love these).
Ohhhh. Look at these. YES. Work by Agatha Ruiz De La Prada.
Smart, pretty work by Swedish Jacob Dahlgren.
In love with these funny, quiet photos by Swedish Anna Strand. So, so great.
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Jim Crace’s novel, “Quarantine,” centers around a 40-day fast in the desert. But this is not just any fast — it is the time when Jesus heads off for his 40 days of fasting, culminating in his resisting of the temptations. But Crace is not writing a religious novel in the Christian sense. Instead, we see Jesus as one of group of both intentional and unintentional pilgrims.
We have Musa, a bullying trader who is on the verge of death when Jesus appears and places a drop of water on his lips. Instead, of dying, he comes fully back to life, much to the dismay of his pregnant wife, Miri, who is off digging Musa’s grave when Jesus shows up. Musa and Miri had been left behind by their caravan, but now stay so Musa can make money off of three other pilgrims: Shim, a young, ascetic want-to-be; Marta, who wants to become pregnant before her husband throws her out; Aphas, and elderly Jew seeking a cure for his cancer, and an agile peasant who is unable to speak.
Jesus is not the center of the novel or the group. He traveled apart from the group, and chooses a cave separate from the others. His only direct interaction with them comes toward the end of the novel. As we watch the others as they progress through their 40-day fast, which is broken an sundown, we also see Jesus, refusing any subsistence. His prayers become part of his body and breathing, while at times he struggles with madness. He strips off all his clothes, sees the offers of food from the others as a temptation, and dreams of glory even when he knows he should not.
This is not a Jesus of miracles, but a young man wrestling with God’s intentions for his life. Crace sounds like the novelist, Nikos Kazantzakis, in his earthly portrayal of Jesus. But Kazantzakis clearly sees the divinity of Jesus, while Crace does not take that step. Instead, it is up to the reader to impart their own beliefs on the struggles of Christ. Crace leaves the reader options to do so, even right to the end. But Crace will not be seen as supporting the divinity of his creation.
rer. While some can see Jesus’ loss of rational thought in the book as a sign of disrespect, the fact is that the Christian faith calls for a fierce irrationality which can look foolish to others.
In addition to the controversy, “Quarantine” has also won both praise (NY Times Notable Book)and prizes (Whitbread Novel of the Year and Booker Prize finalist). I question if it would have done so without the insertion of Jesus as a character, although most of the novel does not involve him. At times the story seems as lost as its characters, although it always finds its way back to the center. The 1997 novel has also been adapted for stage. You can learn more about Jim Crace and his work at his website.
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https://derekemerson.wordpress.com/tag/quarantine/
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Little Kritters Camp includes fun age appropriate activites, giveaways, exciting games and much more!! Music from a Live DJ and a camp soccer to take home!!
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https://midstatesoccer.com/mid-state-soccer/mysl-camp/little-kritters-camp/
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I facilitated a breakout group at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Assessment in Introductory Computer Science. We started talking about what students know and should know, and several of us started using terms like “notional machines” and “mental models” — and there were some strong disagreements. We decided to have a breakout group to define our terms, and came up with a fascinating set of issues and questions. It was a large group (maybe a dozen?), and I think there were some differences in attendance between the two days, so I’m not going to try to list everyone here.
We agreed on the definition of a notional machine (NM) as a set of abstractions that define the structure and behavior of a computational device. A notional machine includes a grammar and a vocabulary, and is specific to a programming paradigm. It’s consistent and predictive — given a notional machine and a program to run on that machine, we should be able to define the result. The abstract machine of a compiler is a possible notional machine. This definition meshes with duBoulay’s original one and the one that Juha Sorva used in his dissertation (which we could check, because Juha was there).
Note that a NM doesn’t include function. It doesn’t tell a user, “Why would I use this feature? What is it for?” Carsten Shulte and Ashok Goel both found that students tend to focus on structure and behavior, and significant expertise is needed before students can discern function for a program or a NM component.
In CS education, we care about the student’s understanding of the notional machine. Mental model isn’t the right term for that understanding, because (for some) that implies a consistent, executable model in the student’s head. But modern learning science suggests that students are more likely to have “knowledge in pieces” (e.g., diSessa). Students will try to explain one program using one set of predictions about program behavior, and another program in another way. They respond to different programs differently When Michael Caspersen tried to replicate the Dehnadi and Bornat paper (Camel has two humps paper, and its retraction), he found that students would use one rule set for interpreting assignment in part of the test, and another set of rules later — and they either didn’t care or didn’t notice that they were inconsistent.
An early form of student understanding of the NM is simply mimicry. “I saw the teacher type commands like this. So if I repeat them exactly, I should get the same behavior.” As they start to realize that the program causes behavior, cognitive load limits how much of the NM students can think about at once. They can’t predict as we would like them to, simply because they can’t think about all of the NM components and all of the program at once. The greatest challenge to understanding the NM is Roy Pea’s Superbug — the belief that the computer is in fact a human-like intelligent agent trying to discern our intentions.
We define student misconceptions (about the NM) as incorrect beliefs about the notional machine that are reliable (the student will use more than once) and common (more than one student uses it). There are lots of misunderstandings that pop up, but those aren’t interesting if they’re not common and reliable. We decided to avoid the “alternative conception” model in science education because, unlike natural science, we know ground truth. CS is a science of the artificial. We construct notional machines. Conceptions are provably correct or incorrect about the NM.
One of the challenging aspects of student understandings of NM is that our current evidence suggests that students never fix existing models. We develop new understandings, and learn new triggers/indices when to apply these understandings. Sometimes we layer new understandings so deeply that we can’t reach the old ones. Sometimes, when we are stressed or face edge/corner conditions, we fall back on previous understandings. We help students develop new understandings by constraining their process to an appropriate path (e.g., cognitive tutors, cognitive apprenticeship) or by providing the right contexts and examples (like in Betsy Davis’s paper with Mike Clancy Mind your P’s and Q’s).
We know that some misconceptions come from making analogies to natural language.
Teaching can lead to misconceptions. Sometimes it’s a slip of the tongue. For example, students often confuse IF and WHILE. How often do we say (when tracing a WHILE) loop, “IF the expression is true…” Of course, the teacher may not have the right understanding.Research Question (RQ): What is intersection between teacher and student misconceptions? Do teacher misconceptions explain most student misconceptions, or do most student misconceptions come from factors outside of teaching?
Under-specification. Students may simply not see enough contexts or examples for them to construct a complete understanding.
Students incorrectly applying prior knowledge. RQ: Do students try to understand programs in terms of spreadsheets, the most common computational model that most students see?
Notation. We believe that = and == do lead to to significant misconceptions. RQ: Do Lisp’s set, Logo’s make/name, and Smalltalk’s back arrow lead to fewer assignment misconceptions? RQ: Dehnadi and Bornat did define a set of assignment misconceptions. How common are they? In what languages or contexts?
RQ: How much do students identify their own gaps in understanding of a NM (e.g., edge conditions, problem sets that don’t answer their questions)? Are they aware of what they don’t understand? How do they try to answer their questions?
One advantage of CS over natural sciences is that we can design curriculum to cover the whole NM. (Gail Sinatra was mentioned as someone who has designed instruction to fill all gaps in a NM.) Shriram Krishnamurthi told us that he designs problem-sets to probe understanding of the Java notional machine that he expects students to miss, and his predictions are often right.
RQ: Could we do this automatically given a formal specification for an NM? Could we define a set of examples that cover all paths in a NM? Could we develop a model that predicts where students will likely develop misconceptions?
RQ: Do students try to understand their own computational world (e.g., how behavior in a Web page works, how an ATM works, how Web search works) with what we’re teaching them? Kathi Fisler predicts that they rarely do that, because transfer is hard. But if they’re actively trying to understand their computational world, it’s possible.
How do we find and assess gaps in student understanding?
We don’t know how much students think explicitly about a NM. We know from Juha’s work that students don’t always see visualizations as visible incarnations of the NM — for some students, it’s just another set of confusing abstractions.
Carsten Schulte pointed out that Ira Diethelm has a cool way of finding out what students are confused about. She gives them a “miracle question” — if you had an oracle that knew all, what one question would you ask about how the Internet works, or Scratch, or Java? Whatever they say — that’s a gap.
RQ: How we define the right set of examples or questions to probe gaps in understanding of a NM? Can we define it in terms of a NM? We want such a set to lead to reflection and self-explanation that might lead to improved understanding of the NM.
Geoffrey Herman had an interesting way of finding gaps in NM understanding: using historical texts. Turns out Newton used the wrong terms for many physical phenomena, or at least, the terms he used were problematic (“momentum” for both momentum and velocity) and we have better, more exact ones today. Terms that have changed meaning or have been used historically in more than one way tend to be the things that are hard to understand — for scholars past, and for students today.
State is a significant source of misconceptions for students. They often don’t differentiate input state, output state, and internal states. Visualization of state only works for students who can handle those kinds of abstractions. Specification of a NM through experimentation (trying out example programs) can really help if students see that programs causally determine behavior, and if they have enough cognitive load to computer behavior (and emergent behavior is particularly hard). System state is the collection of smaller states, which is a large tax on cognitive load. Geoffrey told us about three kinds of state problems: control state, data state, and indirection/reference state.
State has temporality, which is a source of misconceptions for students, like the common misconception that assignment states define a constraint, not an action in time. RQ: Why? Raymond Lister wondered about our understanding of state in the physical world and how that influences our understanding of state in the computational world. Does state in the real world have less temporality? Do students get confused about temporality in state in the physical world?
Another source of misconceptions is state in code, which is always invisible. The THEN part of an IF has implicit state — that block gets executed only if the expression is true. The block with a loop is different than the block after a condition (executed many times, versus once) but look identical. RQ: How common are code state misconceptions?
Scratch has state, but it’s implicit in sprites (e.g., position, costume). Deborah Fields and Yasmin Kafai found that students didn’t use variables much in state, but maybe because they didn’t tackle problems that needed them. RQ: What kinds of problems encourage use of state, and better understanding of state?
RQ: Some functional curricula move students from stateless computation to stateful computation. We don’t know if that’s easier. We don’t know if more/fewer/different misconceptions arise. Maybe the reverse is easier?
RQ: When students get confused about states, how do they think about? How do they resolve their gaps in understanding?
RQ: What if you start students thinking about data (state) before control? Most introductory curricula start out talking about control structures. Do students develop different understanding of state? Different misconceptions? What if you start with events (like in John Pane’s HANDS system)?
RQ: What if you teach different problem-solving strategies? Can we problematize gaps in NM understanding, so that students see them and actively try to correct them?
So this reminds me a lot of the work that Stella Vosniadou has done regarding the mental models of children and the day-night cycle. She has expanded the work to do larger descriptions of systems thinking and conceptual change. She was at CMU for a semester while I was there and thought CS had some nice examples of developed misconceptions and it would be interesting to look at conceptual change of students through various stages of the CS learning process.
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https://computinged.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/notional-machines-and-misconceptions-in-cs-developing-a-research-agenda-at-dagstuhl/
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Here's what you need to know about the slithering critters, should you spot one on a trail run.
Q: Most people want to know, first and foremost, what they should do if they encounter a snake on a trail.
A: "Giving it a wide berth is the best thing to do. Let it be. Don't provoke it. It'll likely try to get away from you as quickly as possible.
Q: Where do snakes tend to hang out?
A: "Snakes are cold-blooded, so they like to come out when it's warm and sun themselves. The like the sunny side of a little rock area, a cliff edge, a rock wall. We get reports of encounters when people sit on the edge of a sunny cliff and dangle their legs down.
Snakes also tend to be near water, especially if it's an otherwise dry environment. If you're in an area near a spring or a seep in an otherwise dry area, keep an extra eye out.
For people who are staying on well-groomed trails, just look ahead for a snake that might be crossing the trail, and give it a wide berth while it slithers away, if you see one. But if there's a fallen log, there's a chance that a snake might be basking in the sun on the other side, so maybe take an extra big step over the log.
And if you're really off-trail and rock-hopping, the odds go up because there are more cricks and crevices, and there aren't other people around flushing them out. Just be aware."
Q: Are there times of the day that snakes are more likely to be seen on a trail?
A: "Since they are cold-blooded, they like to come out when it's warm.
And most of the venomous snakes in the U.S., with exception of the southeast, are nocturnal predators. They're resting during the day, often sunning themselves, but likely on the edge of a sunny patch in the morning because the mid-day, direct sunlight can be too much. So, if you're running on a cool morning and come across a sunny patch, that increases your chances of encountering one. They seek out the sunny spots and rest in the shade. But typically you won't see them during the day, unless it's the cusp—in the early evening, their activity might be a bit higher."
Q: Are there times of the year that they're more likely to be seen?
A: "There are times when the frequency of sightings goes up, when snakes are seen more often crossing roads and trails. This is in the spring. Snakes hibernate, so in the spring after hibernating together, they disperse into territories for the breeding season. In the fall, they retreat to hibernaculum. They're on the go, and they may be less familiar with the territory so they may be less able to hide themselves."
Q: In the rare occurrence that someone should get bit, what should they do?
A: "Most treatment for snakebites is pretty much the same, no matter the type of snake.
There's basically nothing you can do in the field. You just need to get to a hospital for a treatment with anti-venom. But know that even if a snake is venomous, they don't inflict a lot of venom in their bites; they're just being defensive, not trying to kill you.
The main signs and symptoms are pain and swelling. Transport gingerly—the less movement, the better. Being calm is important. If you're by yourself, and it's your leg, try to hop out. If it's your hand, wrist, or arm, hold it as still as you can, and get help as quickly as you can.
From a trail runner's perspective, just have a little extra vigilance on rocky, sunny areas, logs across the trail, pockets of leaves—but the chances of having any problems with a snake are very slim.
Like any wild animal, they're more afraid of you than you are of them."
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https://www.runnersworld.com/trail-running/a20793795/how-to-deal-with-snakes-on-trail-runs/
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On Saturday, July 28th, I shared the inspiring opportunity to co-present with my friends, Jana Spangler, a Wellness Coach, and with Sara Hughes-Zabawa, a licensed clinical social worker and professional therapist. They are both affiliated with Symmetry Solutions, LLC.
I’d like to share several of the slides from our presentation along with some personal observations.
It seemed like a meaningful percentage of the conversations in which I found myself participating last week at the 2018 SLC Sunstone Symposium dealt with the tender questions and struggles we experience with spouses, family, and friends when someone experiences a change of beliefs.
These experiences can often be very painful for both the person who loses belief and for the persons who remain with orthodox beliefs and practices.
However, the truth is that we are all in mixed faith relationships. Even when we find ourselves married to someone of our same faith tradition, we don’t actually hold exactly all the same beliefs and interpretations as our spouses. Each individual has their own, deeply personal spiritual journey.
In Mormonism and in many other faith traditions, there often exists this sense or narrative that we will all have the same experiences and reach the same conclusions if we follow a particular formula or religious orthodoxy. This narrative often discourages Differentiation. The idea is often reinforced that Differentiation is wrong, that it is a source of contention, and if our own personal Differentiation and experiences don’t follow the same formula that is prescribed to us, there must be something wrong with us.
If everyone around us easily and frequently has “spiritual experiences” and we don’t, the narrative is that something must be wrong with us. Maybe the messages are that we are not humble enough, or worthy enough, or faithful enough, or that others who frequently and easily have these transcendent, inspiring experiences might be more chosen, choice, or favored by God than us.
Alternatively, we may be the one who develops strong, individualized spiritual experiences, faith, and interpretations of scriptures, doctrines, and messages; and we might find ourselves programmed with the narratives that others might be less than us, not as worthy as us, and that we need to help them try harder and be more faithful because others should always have the same experiences as we do if they follow the correct path or formula, and if they are humble, God will reveal to them the same truths as us.
In Mormonism especially, we don’t seem to do Differentiation very well. We often get married very young–long before our pre-frontal cortex of our brain is fully developed. We participate in congregations with volunteer clergy. We are culturally expected to all pretty much bear the same kinds of testimonies, share the same kinds of answers in Sunday classes and in Family Home Evenings, and we all are expected to teach the same information out of the same Correlated Church session manuals and General Conference Talks.
Perhaps this cultural phenomenon, with these narratives, formulas, and programmed messages; a Differentiation of beliefs, faith, habits, etc., can grow to become even more painful and alienating in Mormonism than say for example in a faith tradition where the members aren’t expected to share the same testimonies or as volunteers, teach the same lessons and messages.
If our neighbor is a Jehovah’s Witness and holds the beliefs and faith that God would not want us to celebrate holidays or birthdays, that level of Differentiation is usually not painful to us to observe. We might even perceive beauty in the devotion of our neighbor–even though their devotion doesn’t match our own personal faith and beliefs.
However, if as a Mormon, holidays and birthdays are extremely important, family bonding and social experiences, and one of our loved ones experiences a change of beliefs and becomes a faithful Jehovah’s Witness, we can experience a significant amount of family distress and pain if we then perceive that our loved one suddenly decides they love the Jehovah’s Witness practice of not honoring our birthdays or family traditions for the holidays anymore. Not only might a faithful Mormon perceive that their spouse has chosen put our family’s eternal and divine progression in jeopardy by rejecting LDS Mormonism, but they might also appear to us to possibly love their new faith more than they love us, and we might perceive that they prioritize their new beliefs over our sacred and bonding family traditions and connections by celebrating birthdays and holidays.
Similar pain from Differentiation can result from a spouse deciding that Mormonism isn’t what it represents itself to be anymore. They might decide to remove the symbols of their Temple covenants when those symbols (undergarments) result in too much cognitive dissonance and pain because they perceive the temple as a false betrayal or a representation of something completely different than their active believing spouse believes and experiences. So, the one spouse who loses belief experiences pain and desires actions to reduce the dissonance and pain by ceasing to wear their temple undergarments. The non-believing spouse may deeply need the still active believing spouse to prioritize their marriage over their temple sealing and what the temple now signifies to the non-believing spouse. They need confidence in the love and emotional intimacy from the active believing spouse that they won’t be dropped and set aside due to their change in beliefs. And, the still active believing spouse can perceive the removal of those symbols as rejecting their eternal marriage and the covenants they still perceive as being with both the believing spouse and with God. The active believing spouse might experience fear that the change in beliefs or behaviors might result in the non-believing spouse eventually “removing” themselves from the marital relationship and be “tossed aside” just like the symbols of the temple sealing and covenants.
This Differentiation, when it reaches certain levels–which might vary depending upon the couple and depending on the context of when it happens with that couple–can be extremely painful.
For both spouses, there is often a sense of Fear, which can manifest in Anger or a loss of interpersonal intimacy and connection. Will my spouse still love me? Will my spouse abandon me because our beliefs and spiritual practices have Differentiated?
There can be a sense of Betrayal on both sides.
The spouse who loses belief often senses intense betrayal from the Church and its leaders. There can be a sense of personal self-betrayal because the person feels like they silenced their inner voice that alerted them to problems in the Church in the past, or they silenced past internal dissonance about things in the Church that didn’t make sense to them, or maybe they applied critical thinking to all other areas of their lives, except for their faith tradition. The sense of self-betrayal can be strong.
The spouse who retains active belief often senses intense betrayal from the spouse who loses belief because that spouse essentially, unilaterally “changed the contract”, changed the understanding, changed what were mutual goals, and leaves mutually shared spiritual and religious practices intimacy upon which the marriage was founded and was nourished. Sometimes, it is really hard for the active believing spouse to accept that the spouse with lost beliefs didn’t choose their Faith Crisis.
There can be Shame on both sides, and there is very often a deep Grieving process for both spouses–which often necessitates traversing and periodically revisiting the non-linear Stages of Grief.
A Differentiation of faith and belief can often result in a personal Identity and mutual Relationship Crisis, with many difficult and tender questions to ask, ponder, and process.
Often, when we find ourselves Grieving, and in particular when we traverse the Anger and Depression Stages of Grief (revisiting them from time to time because the process is not linear) we can have a tendency to deeply wound our spouses.
We want our spouse to be there for us when we are in pain and when we are grieving because they are “our person.” However, sometimes the wounding that can occur can “burn ground” in our relationships and intimacy that can be subsequently really difficult to reclaim and to re-build trust and a sense of mutual emotional and spiritual safety.
So, we often need to cultivate and periodically renegotiate healthy Boundaries.
My wife and I have subsequently renegotiated healthy boundaries as needed. I have boundaries that I need her not to cross because I perceive those actions as harmful to our relationship and to our children, and she likewise has boundaries for me not to cross for her to feel confident and safe in our relationship.
Often, the most mutually wounding conversations occur in emotionally charged situations, when one or both of us are in pain. As a result, there is value in having specific times where the difficult, painful subjects are off-limits. Maybe it is a date night, or a camping trip or something, where it is a “pain-free zone.” Likewise, we need to set aside time to address difficult conversations when we are more likely to be able to address things in a non-emotionally charged, less stressful setting.
It is important to understand that Validating someone’s experience is not the same as agreeing with or sustaining someone’s experience.
A person in pain or stress often, more than anything else, needs someone to mourn with and comfort them in their loss, without correcting or trying to fix them.
For example, when an active believing spouse expresses the pain and grief of the loss of their past ideal of an eternal marriage, senior missions, etc., a non-believing spouse can sincerely and with genuine interest, validate how painful that experience is for their active believing spouse, without needing to defend themselves, justify or explain the reasons why their beliefs have changed on these subjects.
Likewise, it is okay, and even vital for an active believing spouse to validate the pain and sense of betrayal from the perceived harms experienced by the Church or by Mormonism for the spouse who has lost belief. This doesn’t mean the active believing spouse agrees with or holds the same conclusions. It is just validation of experience. The active believing spouse doesn’t need to defend the Church or Mormonism, or to try to minimize or explain away the sense of pain and betrayal sincerely experienced by the spouse who loses belief.
It is so incredibly important to spend time discussing the Commonalities that remain instead of focusing on the Differentiation and conflicts. Usually, the majority of all the core foundational values a person had before a change of belief still stay the same–family, integrity, service, love, forgiveness, compassion, etc.
Each spouse needs to spend time and increase their personal capacity for self-care and improvement. There are many practices, habits, and resources the can help.
One of the best pieces of advice that I received from Support Groups early on was to double and triple down on my expressions of attentive, unselfish, undemanded Emotional Intimacy in my active believing wife’s Primary Love Languages so that she could feel completely confident in my love for her–even as I was leaving orthodoxy. My wife needed to be able to distinguish our marital relationship as being completely separate from our temple sealing as I lost belief and left orthodoxy.
It is not uncommon in Mormonism for members to conflate Temple Marriage and Temple Sealing to be the same, inseparable thing. So, when one spouse loses belief, it can often feel like the non-believing spouse is not only leaving the Church, but leaving the Marriage too.
When the Differentiation from a change of belief and faith occurs, the byproducts often include a loss of Spiritual and Religious Practice Intimacy in the marriage.
It is extremely important to attentively work together as spouses to nourish and re-kindle Spiritual Intimacy when a hole in the relationship develops due to a change of faith and belief of one of the spouses.
For my wife and I, we have increased our capacity for shared Spiritual Intimacy through service to others–essentially practicing the teachings attributed to Jesus in Matthew 25:34-40.
So, above you will see picture of a circa 1950s mobile home that is falling apart, with plumbing and insulation problems, etc., where a woman in her 60s lives with her 25 year old disabled daughter. I used to be that family’s High Priest Group Leader–years ago. Today, the husband is now in a nursing home with Alzheimer’s disease, and only the woman and her daughter live in the home.
So, outside of the bounds of the Church, my wife and I have created a fundraising effort to raise money to buy a replacement trailer home for this woman and her daughter. We have raised more than $26,000. It was a sacred, spiritual experience for my wife and I to share to develop this project and to offer it to this woman and her daughter.
It has given me opportunities to re-engage with my LDS friends in a healthy and meaningful way. We have raised funds from both LDS and non-LDS members. One of our key sources–the person who has found the replacement trailer home because it is his business–is not LDS. We have engaged the woman’s Ward for physical labor and help with the move, staging the move, cleaning up the lot in preparation, etc.
My LDS friends view our project as “Ministering.” My sense is that if we define “Ministering” as doing Matthew 25:34-40 things in both literal and in figurative senses, then I am all in–even as a non-member of the LDS Church.
And, maybe that is all it is…Elevation Emotion is something that we experience by our evolutionary design as human beings because we evolved as tribes, families, and communities. We needed these experiences that increased our dispositions for tolerance and charity to survive and evolve.
And, so what if it is just shared Evaluation Emotion? I love the experience either way–whether it is God, or spiritual interconnectedness, or simply a dopamine release and chemical reactions related to the Elevation Emotion.
Regardless, I believe that we need to nourish these experiences in our relationships and our lives.
For some couples, they may experience shared spiritual intimacy in art, music, nature, liturgy, or with other activities.
Whatever those activities might be, I believe that we need to nourish and strengthen mixed faith marriages with healthy, shared spiritual intimacy.
I personally love Brene Brown’s definition of Spirituality.
When we find ourselves in Differentiation, sometimes we have a sense that we need to push our spouse to see things the way that we do.
Instead, consider the imagery of offering someone your hand. It gives the other person a choice as to whether to take your hand, or if they aren’t comfortable or in a place where they are ready to take your hand, they can exercise that choice.
I can request, “I’d really like it if you would hold me tonight for a little while before we fall asleep” (if my Primary Love Language is Physical Touch). This is quite different that a demand my spouse does something for me.
We can make requests and honor our spouse’s choice to respond, and we can trust that our spouse still loves us, even if he/she isn’t in a place to accept that request at the current time.
Imagine that as a family, you are traveling uncharted waters in a canoe. The spouse in the front of the canoe sees an alligator in the water, and she stands up in the boat and starts waiving her hands, yelling and screaming at the danger that is in the water. Imagine that the spouse in the back of the canoe doesn’t see the alligator, but all he can see is that his wife is standing up at the front, screaming and waving, rocking the canoe, risking capsizing the canoe which could throw the entire family into the waters, risking drowning the entire family. The natural reaction for the spouse in the back of the canoe is to not listen patently to his wife screaming and tipping the canoe back and forth, but instead to retrench and hunker down in the back of the canoe to try to stabilize it in order to protect the family.
With this allegory, imagine applying it to the wife encountering disturbing information or Church practices that she perceives places the entire family in harm’s way. Whereas, the husband can’t even begin to see or listen to his wife’s concerns because he is concerned that she risks figuratively “drowning” the entire family with a loss of faith and belief.
To facilitate healthy conversations and relationships, the person in the front needs to be able to find ways to express him or herself without as many painful, emotionally charged and loaded words, without signifiant projection and accusations; and the person in the back needs to slow down a little bit and instead of retrenching, seek to understand the pain and concern of the spouse who is expressing a sense of pain, betrayal, or distress.
These are some fantastic resources.
Please feel free to contact any of us.
The Question and Answer portion of our Session included some very tender and painful conversations. However, I feel like our shared conversations helped attendees feel validated and to gain ideas of how to nourish and strengthen their mixed faith relationships.
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2019-04-24T06:34:55Z
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https://unpackingambiguitycom.wordpress.com/2018/08/04/navigating-and-strengthening-a-mixed-faith-marriage-2018-slc-sunstone-symposium/
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The Old Wives’ Tale is reputed to be the only English novel that deals with the Siege of Paris, one of my current obsessions. I had read it once, too fast, years earlier, and found it quite dull. This time around, though, I adored it. What changed? I took the time to notice how funny Bennett is.
It is superficially a supremely quiet novel. Bennett follows the lives of Constance and Sophia Baines from their girlhood in a provincial English town to their deaths in the same town, even the same house. The novel opens in the early 1860s and ends early in the twentieth century. Bennett wrote it in 1908. It’s an era that spans enormous cultural change which somehow Bennett manages to convey without much fuss. (He makes good use of the changing transportation technologies, for instance.) But his real interest is in the arc of a human being’s life. And what he demonstrates is that to each human, that life is endlessly eventful.
Constance is the more “Victorian” of the two sisters, a girl who exists contentedly within the framework of the family drapery business — that’s in the older sense of a store where the respectable citizens of Bursley buy their fabrics. She absorbs early and happily maintains the drive toward respectability. Sophia, the younger and beautiful sister, rashly runs away from home with a handsome traveling salesman and ends up marooned in Paris. She lives out the Siege by taking in lodgers. Because she had the foresight to hoard food long before the commencement of the Prussian shelling, her greatest anxieties focus on prices rather than on survival. She is barely aware of the issues at hand.
Bennett manages to be ironic about the sisters while remaining affectionate. It’s a nifty trick: he creates a fairly distanced narrative voice, analyzing the characters’ thoughts and emotions yet frequently swooping into their psyches to cite them verbatim. For instance, here is Constance, near the end of the book, as Sophia engages in a battle with a pert maid: “Constance trembled with painful excitement. The horror of existence closed in upon her. She could imagine nothing more appalling than the pass to which they had been brought by the modern change in the lower classes.” (The complaint about the maid? She didn’t close the door when asked to.) I suppose Bennett does patronize somewhat. But at the same time, he does manage to make these two lives somewhat heroic.
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2019-04-19T20:46:05Z
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https://carolwallace.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/arnold-bennett-the-old-wives-tale/
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The 1972 documentary languished for four decades, but it’s finally taking a well-deserved place in the spotlight.
“Amazing Grace,” featuring Aretha Franklin at the height of her powers, is one of the greatest concert documentaries ever made. It reaches so far into transcendence that watching it becomes an almost ecstatic experience.
And yet the film almost didn’t get released. Some brief background: Shot in 1972 over a period of two days in the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in South Los Angeles, it features Franklin, backed by the Southern California Community Choir and the Rev. James Cleveland, recording a live gospel album before an audience mostly made up of parishioners. The album, “Amazing Grace,” went on to become the most popular gospel album of all time, but the movie, for technical and legal reasons, only lately emerged from limbo.
Its original director, Sydney Pollack, had scored a big success in 1969 with “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” but was inexperienced as a documentarian and, astoundingly, neglected to use a clapperboard, making it impossible until fairly recently to sync the picture and sound.
When, thanks in large part to the efforts of record executive Alan Elliott, the 87-minute film was finally assembled from 20 hours of raw footage, Franklin, for murky reasons, blocked its release, though she claimed to love the film. Upon her death last year, her heirs enthusiastically gave the go-ahead to release what is by any measure the finest cinematic record of the Queen of Soul that we have.
Franklin, whose father was the legendary Baptist minister C.L. Franklin, grew up in the church, and the album, coming at a time when she had recorded 11 No. 1 rhythm and blues hits in the previous five years, with five Grammy wins, was an attempt to return to her roots. As the film testifies, she never really left them. Her voice is a balm of sanctity. For the most part she barely moves while she sings, but on her face is a look of rapture. When she sings the words “holy, holy, holy,” she gives each word its own distinct weight. At the beginning of the recording session Cleveland reminds the audience that “this is a church, and we’re here for a religious experience.” His reminder is superfluous.
Franklin, who was also a great pianist, gives the impression in the concert footage of being so spellbound that she barely acknowledges the presence of her audience. She is in thrall to her own God-given inspiration. When she rests between numbers, there’s a stillness to her, as if she has folded inward. And yet even in this setting she remains an exacting artist. We don’t see the rehearsals that preceded the filming, but there’s a moment in the documentary when she suddenly stops and asks for a second take. I heard absolutely nothing wrong with the first take, but I was reminded of Fred Astaire, who reportedly would look at the footage of one of his dance numbers and ask that five frames be trimmed. And he would be right.
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2019-04-20T10:53:14Z
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https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Movies/2019/0405/Aretha-Franklin-soars-to-the-heights-in-Amazing-Grace
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One of the two suspects in the Salisbury poisoning case could give his side of the story as early as next week, according to Russian media.
State TV channel Rossiya-24 claimed it had spoken to Alexander Petrov, who, along with Ruslan Boshirov, has been named by UK prosecutors as a prime suspect in the nerve agent attack.
On Wednesday, the station reported Petrov, who is said to live in Siberia, as saying he would "maybe" give an interview next week.
It comes after Russian president Vladimir Putin broke his silence on the two men, believed to be members of the GRU, when he claimed there was "nothing criminal" about them.
The Russian leader went on to invite Petrov and Boshirov to appear in public and talk about themselves.
Mr Skripal and his daughter Yulia were left in comas for weeks after being exposed to the nerve agent Novichok, while Dawn Sturgess later died and Charlie Rowley was left in a critical condition after they too came into contact with the substance in nearby Amesbury.
CCTV footage from early March shows Petrov and Boshirov arriving at Heathrow Airport from Russia, and also in the vicinity of Sergei Skripal's house on the day of the attack.
Russia has hotly contested the allegations that it is responsible for the attack, and Mr Putin escalated the war of words by denying the men were members of military intelligence, and that his officials “know who these people are”.
"Of course, we looked at who these people are," Mr Putin said.
"We know who they are. We have found them already. Ihope that they will emerge and tell us about themselves.
"It will be better for everybody."
Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
Mr Skripal was a former GRU agent, before defecting and aiding the UK.
Prosecutors deem it futile to apply to Russia for the extradition of the two men, since Moscow does not extradite its own citizens, but a European Arrest Warrant has been obtained and the authorities are also seeking the assistance of Interpol.
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2019-04-22T16:22:37Z
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https://www.itv.com/news/2018-09-12/vladimir-putin-nothing-criminal-about-men-named-as-salisbury-attack-suspects/
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Today many applications in the vehicle are demanding more processing power. Any change in architecture to accommodate continuous change in requirements is becoming more and more tedious. Therefore, the concept of fixed or hardcoded architecture approach will be finding limited applications in the future. Most of the system developers are moving towards a model driven approach to create the architecture from concept. Processor architecture models created must be configurable and accurately execute the newly configured instructions set. The architecture created could meet the processing demand of vehicle applications like powertrain, Infotainment, for example, in terms of, processing power, connectivity and standard interfaces. These architectural models could serve as good innovative platform for performance analysis, system characterization and failure mode analysis. It should be possible to execute the intended automotive applications on this platform and validate the system requirements at a very early stage of the development cycle. This requires a versatile platform that is itself independent of a particular architectural model. In this paper we describe how Sankhya's Meta model driven architecture development platform (SANKHYA Teraptor) fulfils such requirements and enables configurable models of processor architecture to be created, that can be used to simulate and execute the system applications.
In this paper we describe the power of the SMDL and SSDL modelling languages and how quickly these enable the developer to build even a complex processor or system model. We also describe how the models developed meet the functional requirements as well as offer cycle accurate behaviour. This means different instruction sets can be configured and number of clock cycles to be executed can be programmed.
In any complex processor development, simulation and verification of all the functions is a major challenge. In this paper we will describe how Teraptor will automatically generate test vectors and verify the design and how changes to configuration of the processor instruction set can be propagated to automated verification.
In this paper, we will briefly describe how Teraptor can be used to synthesize the simulated and verified architecture to hardware prototype. This hardware implementation has the qualified specifications generated from performance validated model. One can get the major advantage of increased first time success in the implementation.
Citation: Malliah, B., "Meta Model Driven Configurable Architecture Development and Validation," SAE Technical Paper 2012-01-0006, 2012, https://doi.org/10.4271/2012-01-0006.
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2019-04-22T08:57:54Z
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https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2012-01-0006/
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I was 14 when my niece, Gracie was born. That was 6 years ago (7 in December) and in the past 6 years I have become best friends with the brightest, most clever and beautiful little girl.
When I thought being an auntie couldn’t get any better we welcomed my nephew Ethan, who is due to turn 2 in January. I was 19 when Ethan was born. The love I have for this handsome little boy is so overwhelming.
However, I did notice a totally different perspective when Ethan was born in comparison to Gracie. At 14 I was young, naive and I didn’t have much care. It took me a little while to adjust to being an auntie and because I was so young as Gracie got older we bickered like sisters (imagine having a screaming match with a 2 year old.. that was us). Eventually we adjusted and we are so incredibly close now.
I had 4 years with Gracie before I headed off to uni which meant I had 4 years to form the most wonderful relationship. Whereas, Ethan was born in my 2nd year of uni and don’t get me wrong, we’re close but I’m definitely missing out on the milestones he’s having. I missed his first word, his first step and the worst bit, I missed his birth.
At 14 I wouldn’t have cared about these things but now I’m older, I’ve realised that I appreciate these things more than anything and having missed them has broken my auntie heart.
At this point I would have though I wouldn’t have much of a bond with Baby Ethan but that isn’t what’s happened. When Ethan see’s me he runs at me to kiss me, when I’m on FaceTime he gives the biggest smiles. He acknowledges me and knows me which is something I didn’t think would happen.
These two children are my best friends, without them our family really wouldn’t be complete. I wouldn’t say it wasn’t challenging at first. With me being so young when Gracie arrived I still wanted attention, in fact I craved it more than ever. She was this perfect little doll-like baby and she was taking my thunder (I was the baby in the family). My parents became grandparents and they were having a totally different experience as well. My brother became an uncle (didn’t really bother him as he was older).
Admittedly, I didn’t grow out of these feelings as fast as I should have. However, now I have I realised how much I appreciate and love having these little ones in my life.
Being an auntie means so much more than I could have ever thought. When I’ve picked Gracie up from school and I hear that she has spent the whole day talking about Auntie Beth picking her up, it gives me so much happiness.
Seeing Ethan smile, develop and grow into such a clever boy really is amazing. I have spent the last 3 years studying childhood studies but nothing prepares you to actually watch a child grow.
Being an auntie is so much more to me than I ever could have imagined. I can’t wait to see these children grow and do amazing things with all the potentional they have.
We see all of those posts telling you a 101 things that people love but what about the things that you don’t? I’m not saying you have to express every single thing that irritates you. However, it’s natural to have these feelings and I’m not afraid to tell someone when something is irritating me. So, instead of telling you 9 things that I love. I’ll tell you 9 things they irritate me instead, just for you guys to truly get to know me.
Lying is my number 1 no-no. I don’t tolerate it and I don’t do it. I’m known for my honesty and I like it in return.
The sound of cracking bones. I feel physically sick when I hear this noise.
Wasting food isn’t funny, it’s frustrating. Use it for compost, give it to the homeless. Stop throwing away good, unexpired food. Even expired food can still be eaten.
Laziness. Not the “I’m going to sit here and watch Netflix all day because I can’t be bothered” type because occasionally we all need this (granted some people take this a little overboard). I do mean those people who refuse to get a job and everything is given to them on a plate.
People who look for drama. Just simply that.
People who cannot accept that others have opinions and a right to express them.
Crowds. I hate crowds so much.
Not having my own time and space. I thoroughly enjoy a little time to myself and enjoying my free time. Let me have it occasionally.
People who walk slower than me and get under my feet.
Are Audiobooks Worth The Hype?
I was given a 3 month free trial of Audible and I’ve been taking advantage of having someone else read to me whilst I relax in bed, in the bath, whilst I cook or even when I travel. I can’t say I’m totally converted to audio books because I love having the real paperback or hardback in front of me but I definitely see why people enjoy them. Honestly though, they’re not entirely for me.
They definitely have their benefits! Once you’ve paid your monthly subscription they’re then free to use, which I think is fantastic. You have unlimited books to listen to and read and it’s so lovely to know you can pick a new book at the click of a button.
I love listening to them whilst I’m doing other things. I really struggle to keep up if I’m doing serious things like an assignment or a blog post but I definitely enjoy listening to them whilst relaxing and especially right before bed. I know reading a book is incredibly time consuming and for some they simply don’t have the time to pick up a book and relax during the evenings with a glass of wine (I recommend both every day of the week).
Admittedly, you can listen to some audio books and struggle to relax because the narrator has the worst voice in the whole world and everything they say irritates you. However, you can find some audio books that have narrators you literally send you to sleep. The comfort and peacefulness of their voice’s can be so relaxing and comforting and it can definitely act as a calming motive for some. I find that when I’m most stressed I’ll pop on an audio book with a narrator who has a soft and gentle voice and it’ll calm me down within minutes.
Let me know what you guys think of audio books, love them or hate them?
Insecurities are something everyone has, they’re so natural to experience and often leave people with a lot of anxiety and stressful thoughts. I know this as I experience them so often, however, I recently experience them more now I’ve started dating someone new.
For some this is the exciting part, they love to meet someone new and really find out who they are. For me, I’d rather just skip to the point where I’m completely settled, comfortable and know them and until that happens, my insecurities will be on fire. From the moment I knew I had feelings for him I had instant insecurities. Does he like me back? Why would he like me? I know he can do better. Apparently these were my favourite thoughts right up until our first date. Before that though, I had already turned down the offer of a date because I was so nervous. After constant thought about this, I definitely regretted it and was over the moon that he asked again (he must have the patience of a god).
With that in mind, I realised quickly that if I let my insecurities more important than how I really felt for him then the relationship wouldn’t happen. I recognised that I needed to do something and fight my insecurities, so these are my thoughts on fighting your insecurities at the beginning of a new relationship.
Say yes to the dateOnce I realised I had said yes to going out on a date I worried for days about whether I could hold a conversation, what if we went on the date and we had absolutely nothing in common and nothing to talk about. Then we would have to sit through our food totally ignoring the fact that it was the worst first date ever (this wasn’t my only concern obviously). Luckily this didn’t happen and we had such a lovely first date and I’ve not regretted it since.
Stop concentrating on previous relationships It’s so easy to compare your previous partners to your new one. It’s not nice to do so but it’s your mind’s way of making sure you don’t experience anything that you have previously. For me I was so afraid of having to change and be someone different. I was afraid of being with him and he wouldn’t accept my anxiety and mental health problems and I was scared it would just chase him away. So I just told him straight out that I do struggle with panic attacks and mental health and instead of thinking the worst of me, he was totally supportive. My point is, you have to just see what they’re like before knocking them.
Appearance isn’t everything Try not to spend all your time concentrating on your makeup, hair and outfit. Just do what feels natural and comfortable to you. I guarantee they aren’t that bothered whether you’re wearing a dress or jeans, heels or flats. I know I still do it but I like to make so much effort when I’m going to see him so he doesn’t think I’m a total troll. when I realised that I was still doing this I started toning it down a bit by wearing less or no makeup at all. Hanging out in my comfiest leggings and oversized t-shirts whilst having lazy sofa days. By doing this I learned that he actually doesn’t mind what I look like and it’s helped me to feel so much more relaxed.
Take it slow We all have this feeling of rushing, wanting to be the best, wanting to just get to a point. Embrace the new relationship, the first kiss, first trip, the first anything. Enjoy spending time together and learning more about each other. It’s okay to just enjoy each other’s company. With this relationship I’ve promised that I’m going to take it as slow as possible, I see no reason to rush what we have and I’m enjoying just seeing where things go. We all worry about the future but it’s okay to just enjoy being with each other in the present time.
Enjoy the firsts The thought of the firsts really gives me anxiety and it still does. The first of anything you do together it so scary regardless of what it is. So many of us try to prevent doing the firsts through fear but I’ve learned that it’s okay to be excited about them. The first kiss is supposed to be magical and I was so apprehensive about it but it was even worse for me. I had to experience it twice! Our first kiss, I was drunk, like totally out of my face drunk. I can barely even remember it but I do remember how happy it had made me. I guess I’m lucky enough to have gotten to experience it for a second time whilst sober. Right at that moment I realised that I just wanted to enjoy all of our first moments together and now I look forward to them.
Talk to them If you really do have a specific insecurity that is just eating you up inside, just talk to them. You have to start communicating and opening up at some point so why not start with something that really bothers you. Talking helps any couple from and develop the comfortable feelings and gain trust. You have to start at some point and I think talking about your insecurities is something that you’ll bond over because it’s probably likely that they too are feeling the same!
Distance is ok Over these past few months I’ve learned that I quite enjoy being around such a variety of people as well as still have alone time. You don’t have to speak all the time, you don’t have to see each other every day, you don’t have to just be with them on nights out. Distance means you won’t become too reliant on that person and you can still live your life the way you want. Except for a few nights a week or whenever you want, you get to really enjoy the time with them and look forward to it. I know that it’s easy to get comfortable in relationships and forget that you have other friends and other hobbies that you enjoy. Fortunately for us, we have he same friends and we do go on nights out together. But I love nothing more than dancing like idiots with my friends as well as him, I couldn’t imagine being one of those girlfriends who only wants to be with their boyfriend. I like him but I need my own time. It’s so easy to let your insecurities overwhelm you, it’s also easy to totally ignore them and eventually they build up.
I love a good tag post as much as the bendy guy. So when I saw this one I just knew I wanted to do it. Admittedly, nobody tagged me in it but loulabellrose.co.uk posted this and encouraged everybody to do it, so well, I follow orders.
These questions are so different and unique that it intrigued me instantly and now I, going to share some facts with you guys that you may not know!
01. What’s your favorite candle scent?I don’t really burn candles very often but if I do, I always buy the Yankee Candles and my favourite for the autumn or winter is Christmas Eve.
02. What female celebrity do you wish was your sister?
Jennifer Lawrence. She just seems so funny and down to earth.
03. What male celebrity do you wish was your brother?
I can imagine Andrew Garfield to be a pretty decent brother.
04. How old do you think you’ll be when you get married?
Honestly, I can’t tell you. You have to be in a relationship to determine that and I’m not. Realistically I would like to be around 27.
05. Do you know a hoarder?
I probably do but nobody really springs to mind.
06. Can you do the splits?
07. How old were you when you first learned how to ride a bike?
08. How many oceans have you swam in?
I don’t swim in oceans, they creep me out.
09. How many countries have you been to?
I love the names Evelyn, Francesca, Emilia, Payton and Harper.
I love the names Harry, Max, Lucas, and Carter.
I got an F in Maths GCSE but eventually built my way up to a D.
14. What was your favourite TV show when you were a kid?
Barney was my all time favourite.
My mum used to dress us up in bin bags, a witches hat and a broom.
British, the America on accent is awful.
No. I was a dancer though.
24. Do you spell the colour grey or gray?
Fusion King in Aberystwyth. It’s essential Asian foods.
Yes once and it’s essentially just expensive chicke.
I have no idea! My dad wanted to call me Myfanwy though.
34. Who’s your favourite person in the world?
I love both but I’m more of a city girl.
I have too, if I don’t I feel sick..
The Pill and Asthma inhalers.
Asthma and Degenerative Disc Disorder.
Yes! Not my favourite though.
Generally New Look but I do love River Island jeans.
I don’t know. Someone said my new hair looks nice.
I like regular tea but I really enjoy mint green tea.
None but they are free to choose what they want.
I was really struggling with anxiety and panic attacks and thought having a blog would maybe distract me, it did.
Feel free to post this yourself and answer the questions! Tag me in them, I love to read them.
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2019-04-22T12:10:14Z
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Sometimes in the battles and testings of life one must be reminded of his Source…Christ Jesus. God is looking for total dependence in any relationship with Him, so that HE is able to fight the battles.
Keep looking on Him, keep listening to His voice, and keep following His commands so that you may enjoy total victory!
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2019-04-23T14:10:53Z
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https://momentsofpurpose.wordpress.com/2018/02/01/february-1-standing-on-gods-promises/
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The luxurious, all inclusive, five star Tadrai Island Resort has been named in the top 3 best resort in Fiji in the annual 2014 Fijian Top 10 Hotels by Trip Advisor.
The awards are based on millions of reviews and opinions from TripAdvisor travellers’. Aaron McGrath, Managing Director of Tadrai Island Resort said “We are extremely proud to be recognized by our guests as one of the very best resorts in Fiji.
Since opening our doors in 2011 we have continuously strived to be seen as the ultimate paradise for guests, who experience an exceptional level of Fijian service and hospitality. We pride ourselves on personalised service and even know guests favourite foods, music, wine and which pillow they prefer to sleep on before they arrive”.
Tadrai Island Resort is the ultimate luxury destination created exclusively for couples. Situated on the northern side of the picturesque Mana Island in the Mamanuca Island Group of Fiji, Tadrai is easy to get to with free helicopter transfers departing from Nadi Airport or Denarau and arriving direct at Tadrai’s own helipad.
The resort consists of five elegantly designed ultra deluxe villas, located on a serene and secluded cove with exclusive access to Selena Beach.
All villas are 100sqm in size and feature their own outdoor plunge pool, private deck with day bed, personal butler service, king beds, indoor/outdoor showers, complimentary high speed wireless internet and iPad, iPod/iPhone docking stations, air conditioning and ceiling fans, flat screen LCD TV’s, cable/satellite TV, DVD Library, in-house movies, personal wine coolers, larger stone bathtubs, in room safe, IDD telephone, and espresso/coffee machines and tea making facilities.
The resorts signature restaurant, Na Vatu is a stunning indoor/outdoor restaurant overlooking the magnificent pool area and directly out over the Pacific Ocean. Guests can request any dish they feel like or daily changing menus showcase the finest of fresh ingredients, with an emphasis on local seafood. Guests can also indulge in in-villa dining, or for true romantics a picnic for two can be organised at any of Tadrai’s three secluded white sandy beaches.
Cocktails can be enjoyed daily at Na Vatu Bar and also found in the resort’s central facility is the resorts large fresh water pool and a guest lounge and library.
Resort activities and excursions are tailored to individual guest’s interests and include sea kayaking, hobie catamaran sailing, handline fishing, reef snorkeling, surfing, diving tours, game fishing and inter-islands excursions.
For those looking for the ultimate pampering experience, they can indulge the senses at the Wai Siliva Alfresco Spa.
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In celebration of the Olentangy Watershed Alliance’s 20th Anniversary this year, we have organized a volunteer fish habitat assembling effort. OWA will be working with the Army Corps of Engineers to assemble porcupine crib fish habitat that will be placed into the Delaware Lake once finished.
Students and faculty have been working a project to implement a storm drain net in the Delaware Run on campus. The purpose of the net will be to remove trash and green waste/debris from the Delaware Run behind Merrick on campus.
DELAWARE, Ohio – Ohio Wesleyan University student Janelle Valdinger is one of fewer than 20 undergraduate and graduate students across the country invited to participate in January in the first national Workshop on Community Geography.
For the Spring of 2018, Dr. Amador-Rowley and Dr. Allen along with student Janelle Valdinger have organized a “group independent study” course focused on creating better maps for areas of rural Tanzania through a non-profit organization called Crowd2Map.
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BENGALURU: A 14-year-old specially abled boy, who went missing from his house in Madhya Pradesh (MP) eight months ago, has been traced to a children’s home on Hosur Road here, thanks to a face recognition tool developed by Telangana police and hosted on a Union government portal.
According to Karnataka police sources, Salman Shaik, a resident of Chimanganj Mandi in Ujjain of MP, left his house in June last year, following which a missing complaint was filed in jurisdictional Chimanganj Mandi police station.
MP police collected photographs of the boy and shared them on the Union government’s dashboard for Analytical Review of Projects Across Nation (Darpan) portal, where data from various departments from across the country are consolidated and made available on one centralised, easy-to-access platform.
Telangana police who have developed a facial recognition tool on the portal ran a search for photographs matching those of Salman and found that a boy with similar details was housed in the Bengaluru home.
Telangana police contacted Lalitha, who is in charge of Government Children’s Home located on Hosur Road. She confirmed Salman’s presence at the facility.
Telangana police informed MP police about Salman’s presence in Bengaluru. On Saturday, police from the central Indian state and Salman’s family members arrived in Bengaluru to take the boy back home.
Swati Lakra, IG (law and order) and in charge of women’s safety, Hyderabad, told TOI that Salman’s is the 17th case where their face recognition tool and Darpan have united a missing person with his/her family through processing images available in public domain. “It is another example on how artificial intelligence can help trace missing people,” she added.
According to police officials, information of all missing persons and those lodged at various child and rescue homes across the country are stored in Darpan database.
Swati said they have uploaded as many as 85,000 missing persons’ photographs from across the country and some 25,000 photos and information collected from children homes and other institutions across the country. The face recognition tool is equipped with artificial intelligence and matches a missing person’s photograph with those from shelter homes to trace the former.
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2019-04-26T16:02:47Z
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Obamacare is in the news again and like so many previous stories, this one is scandalous, too.
The accusation, commonly called the Senior Swindle, is that to salvage votes from seniors, a large and reliable voting population, the Obama administration constructed a temporary payment program to funnel $8 billion to them between now and 2014. The payments hide the effects of Obamacare’s $200 billion in Medicare Advantage cuts. It’s the classic political game — pay them now, get their vote and stiff them later.
Now House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman, Darrell Issa, is squaring off with Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The reason for Issa’s beef is the reluctance of the Department of Health and Human Services to supply his office with documentation requested months ago. This is eerily similar to Issa’s confrontation with Attorney General Eric Holder during the investigation of Fast and Furious. Holder refused to provide documentation and it lead to a contempt of Congress vote against him. Obama stepped in and used executive privilege to provide additional cover for his keystone cop.
As for the bonus program, the administration says all is well.
Except the Government Accountability Office doesn’t necessarily agree with that outlook. Earlier this year the GAO questioned the legal authority of the program. The shortcomings highlighted by the non-partisan watch-dog included a lack of a control group, paying “bonuses” to average performing plans and an excessive focus on 2012 payments. Go figure.
Chairman Issa claims the bonus payments mask 71% of the Medicare Advantage cuts that took place this year as required by Obama-care. In a demand letter to Sebelius, the chairman stated she had until Thursday to provide the documentation or his committee will move to subpoena.
This legislation is a disaster. There is no other way to say it. Against the will of the people, rabid, over-zealous liberal-progressives made back-room deals and twisted-arms to get votes to make this happen. Even today, more than 60% of Americans are still against it.
Obamacare has hurt the economy because employers have decided not to expand or hire since few people know the true ramifications of the behemoth law. And how could they? It wasn’t even written when it was passed. And the select few that do know the details are politicians willing to lie to the citizens to cover for the law.
Most doctors and nurses are against it. Virtually all medical industry endorsements for Obamacare were manufactured by sweet-heart deals. The law is so expensive unions and businesses that are Democrat supporters demanded — and were given — exemptions.
As Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney point out, it robs Medicare of about $700 billion. It introduces some 20 new taxes which represents perhaps the largest tax increase ever. This hurts citizens and businesses.
We now know there will be a shortage of doctors, premiums are increasing, companies are dropping their existing plans and death panels, pardon me, bureaucrats rationing heath services to keep costs down were part of the original plan.
Obamacare is a horrifically profane law sold to Americans with blatant lies. It is bad for the country and was fashioned by perverted politicians that care more about themselves and their progressive-socialist political ideology than the well-being of the America.
Like it or not, with his ruling this summer, Chief Justice Roberts forever tied the fate of Obamacare with Barack Obama. In order to rid yourself, your family and your country of this nightmare law known as Obamacare, you must rid yourself and your country of this nightmare politician known as Barack Obama.
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In step one of the the fried chicken project, we prepared the chicken. Part two is to cook the chicken. As my mother would say, you just put it in the pan and cook it until it is done. Those of us who need a few more directions than that are in the majority this days. The picture on the right is the first pan of chicken that we produced.
To get started, the ladies decided to coat the chicken with flour by rolling it in a stainless steel bowl. While Glenda was doing the flour coating, the electric frying pan with somewhere between one half and three quarters of an inch of Wesson oil was preheating to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
When the light on the frying pan indicated it was preheated the chicken was carefully placed in the pan skin side down. Glenda also added a couple tablespoons of butter just after adding the chicken. We made sure there was some space around each piece of chicken, and Katie sprinkled some Paprika on each piece. We then cooked the chicken five or six minutes before turning over and sprinkling the other side with Paprika.
We then put the lid on the electric frying pan, closed the steam vent and cooked the chicken for eight minutes with the lid on and without peaking.
My assumption is that the steam cooks the chicken so that it gets thoroughly done at the same time it gets golden brown.
After we took the lid off, I turned the chicken once again, and we cooked until golden brown which was another five or six minutes, depending on the size of the piece of chicken. As the chicken got done, it was placed on a platter covered with paper towels.
As soon as we had the first batch of chicken out of the pan, we started the process over with the second pan of chicken. We didn't do anything to the oil or the pan, we just kept on cooking.
I have a hard time understanding how my mom did all of this my by herself. I guess practice makes perfect and she had plenty of practice. I pretty much devoted myself to the chicken turning and watching while the ladies got the rest of the food ready.
After the second pan of chicken was finished. Glenda took out almost all of the oil and grease and put it in a jar to store in the refrigerator in case we do this again. My mother always said the oil cooked better the second time. We'll have to check that out.
After the grease was removed from the pan, she added flour and milk in some mysterious ratio and made the gravy. I will not attempt to explain making gravy since it appears to be more art than science.
The net result of all the work was a veritable feast which even my mom would have been proud of putting on the table.
We ended up with five times as much gravy as we needed, but other than that things worked out exceptionally well. The mashed potatoes and peas were a nice compliment to the chicken. Of course the only possible beverage for this meal would be iced tea.
Fortunately we had decided not to fix any rolls or biscuits. None of us had room for more food.
There's even lots of chicken left over for that cold fried chicken meal that I have planned for tomorrow.
The tomatoes also came from Yadkin Country. They were a gift from my cousin Kenny. Mom would have appreciated that.
Of course what meal is complete with a fried chicken guard dog. Dozer, Katie's dog, agreed to handle the job just for the privilege of smelling the freshly fried chicken.
Before anyone asks the question, I washed up the pots and pans since the one problem with frying chicken is that it makes a big mess. With three people cleaning up, it didn't take long get everything ship shape.
All and all, I would have to say Project Fried Chicken was a success. I'll report on part three, eating the leftovers, tomorrow. It's a tough job, but someone has to do it.
Your dining room is very beautiful! The fried chicken looks delicious!
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Brown ground beef in a frying pan. Set aside.
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Sean Silcoff, award-winning business writer with The Globe and Mail, will be visiting the University of New Brunswick's Fredericton and Saint John campuses in August to launch his book, which was co-authored by Jacquie McNish, a senior writer with The Globe and Mail titled, Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry.
During his 17-year career, he has covered just about every area of business, from agriculture to the credit crisis; toys to airplane manufacturing. He led the paper’s coverage of the rise and fall of BlackBerry and many of the other major business stories of the decade, including the takeover battle for telecom giant BCE Inc.; the contentious merger between brewers Molson and Coors; and the near-death struggles of plane and train manufacturer Bombardier Inc.
He has won a National Newspaper Award, an Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award and the Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Canadian Journalists. He lives in the Gatineau Hills near Ottawa with his wife and three children. Sean will be discussing his new book, Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Blackberry.
Losing the Signal is the riveting, never-before-told story of one of the most spectacular technological upsets of the 21st century. Unlike Enron, which was undone by its executives' illegal activities, or Lehman Brothers, which collapsed as part of a larger global banking crisis, BlackBerry’s rise and fall is a modern-day tale of the unrelenting speed of success and failure. It is a thrilling account of how two mismatched CEOs outsmarted more-powerful competitors with a combination of innovation and sharp-elbowed tactics; and how, once on top of the world, they lost their way.
Register online to attend the Saint John event on August 13 at 7 p.m. or the Fredericton event on August 14 at 1:30 p.m. to get an inside look at the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of one of Canada's most iconic brands.
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"Introduction to project management. Problem definition. Design principles and practices. Implementation techniques including circuit design, software design, solid modeling, PCBs, assembling, and packaging. Testing and evaluation. Effective presentations. [2-0-6] Credits: 6."
Pre-requisites: One of CPEN 291, ELEC 291, ELEC 292, EECE 281 and two of EECE 352, ELEC 315, EECE 356, ELEC 301, EECE 359, EECE 360, ELEC 341, EECE 364, ELEC 311, EECE 373, ELEC 342.
In Summer 2018, the ELEC 391 class will be divided into six teams of four or five students.
ELEC 391 alumni will be both confident and capable of pursuing Electrical Engineering design projects of moderate complexity and length in their fourth year and beyond.
- Where public safety or legal liability are issues, it is generally necessary to have a Professional Engineer assume responsibility for the correctness of a design or results by signing or sealing a design document or report.
- Professional engineers are often required to seal the results of tests and measurements conducted on communications and control systems, especially where deficiencies in such systems could affect public safety.
- Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (formerly Industry Canada) currently requires Professional Engineers to sign or seal most licence applications concerning broadcasting or microwave systems that operate in licenced bands.
- Many clients now require that their consultants carry errors and omissions insurance. This is very difficult to obtain if one isn't registered as a Professional Engineer.
- RFP's (Requests for Proposal) and RFQ's (Requests for Quotations) for consulting services often stipulate that bidders be registered as Professional Engineers to be eligible for consideration. This is especially common for work done on behalf of a provincial government or another consulting firm.
- Because the Professional Engineer designation is awarded to those with documented experience in designing engineering solutions based upon established and accepted principles, many consultants feel that it gives them instant credibility with prospective clients.
- If you aren't certain whether you need to register, your manager or director will not hesitate to advise you!
This schedule only covers contact hours. Expect to devote significant non-contact hours to the course as well!
This includes reviewing lecture notes, reading assignments, group meetings, report writing, and project work.
Review questions are embedded in the lab assignment.
successfully completed) but will not be scored.
for late submission or completion of course requirements.
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He's working on how proteins, after they're made in the cell, acquire key bells and whistles. It's often the difference between health and disease.
Archana Sharma, a senior scientist at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, who was involved in the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, said that CERN will look for more Higgs-like particles.
The $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe will perform the closest-ever observations of a star.
In the last few years, the physicist repeatedly warned us about the threat of climate change, population burden and hostile aliens.
Twitter was flooded with tributes for the legendary British theoretical physicist.
He is survived by his wife Bhamathi Sudarshan and two children.
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Want to see what type of visit is available on the day you hope to visit campus?
Questions? Please contact our Campus Visit Coordinator at 708.239.4715 or [email protected] to plan the visit experience that works best for you.
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For the longest time I thought I’d never find you. I thought I did not deserve you. Accepting and understanding your love is one of the hardest challenges I’ve faced in my lifetime. At the beginning of our relationship there was this part of me that was afraid I only loved you because you were the first in a very long time to love me back. It did not take long for me to let this irrational thought go.
I love you for the way you look at me. The look that is the same whether I am rolling out of bed, sniffling with a bright red nose, makeup running down my face, or spent hours dressing up. You look at me like I matter, like I am worth something.
I love you for the way your mind works. I can look over at you and see the gears moving in your head as your try to think of the perfect comeback or reference. I wish I could see through your eyes sometimes. You see the world so differently than everyone else, you are so aware. I could listen to you talk about your thoughts, the crazy and sane ones, for hours. If you think it, I want to know it.
I love you for your motivation and dedication. You’ve tackled many obstacles in your lifetime, most of them alone. I adore your strength and commitment but I promise to be by your side for every obstacle from here on out.
I love you for your desire for more. You don’t settle, and you never should. It’s okay to have crazy wild dreams, because knowing you, you’ll reach every one of them.
I love you for the future we will have. I love you for the words you haven’t yet said down on one knee. I love you for the nonstop tears you will give me that day. I love you for the wonderful life we will have.
I don’t promise perfect, neither of us is perfect. I do promise arguments over how to cook our eggs; waffles and badly cooked hash browns on the weekends; vacation after vacation to the beach; homemade pizza on date nights; Harry Potter marathons; a dog to call our own; forever trying to play Chinese checkers with you, owning at least double the clothes and shoes that you have; an endless amount of school supply purchases; obsessive organizing; fights over where to eat; convincing you to wash the dishes; and overall, I promise you a lifetime of happiness.
Every day I am thankful for you, I love you.
Today was one of the best moments of my only beginning teaching career.
I have a group of girls in one of my classes who try really hard, but not everything clicks for them. It doesn’t help that they tend to be chronically absent. Today we were doing an activity and these girls were struggling with the problems. I sat down at their table and began to guide them through the process….A few minutes later I stood up from their group and one of the girls looked at me and said, “The only reason I came to school today was to come to math class and see you.” I’m not able to accurately express what those kind words meant to me, but I’ve never been more positive that this is what I want to do with my life. Moments like that are why I am a teacher.
When I look at you I am in awe of the man you’ve become and all of your accomplishments. You are selfless, kind, and compassionate. You are driven, focused, and intelligent. You are my motivation and inspiration. The person you are today made you the love of my life, but that doesn’t change the past.
You should have been told every day of your life how loved you are. You should have gotten hugs and kisses when your parents got home every day. You should have had a kiss on the forehead before bed. You should have been told how proud they were of your hard work in sports. You should have been told.
You should have received unconditional love and support throughout school. Parents, teachers, and coaches should have sat you down and told you how smart you are. They should have asked why you aren’t living up to your potential. They should have asked how they could have helped. They should have motivated you. They should have told you that you could go to college and you could be successful.
You should have had a family. You should have had people you could trust with your problems, people who would be there for you no matter what. You should have had silly family traditions and grew up with grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. You should have had people to turn to when your parents weren’t there. You should have had so many things.
You are the most amazing man I’ve ever met, and when I let the realization in of what you didn’t receive as a child it has the power to break my heart. You are smart, kind, and loving in ways that leave me speechless. I am beyond proud of you and proud that I can call you mine. Introducing you to people makes me so happy because I have so many wonderful things to share and brag about when it comes to you. I can’t change your past, but I promise that from here on out you’ll always have someone in your life to say the things you deserve to be told.
Teaching high schoolers is the best job in the world for more reasons that I can express, but some days it is one of the hardest jobs. Those moments where you have fun and get to know your students are crucial and meaningful for both parties involved. What I am beginning to realize, however, is that those moments are also full of self-reflection.
This semester I have mostly juniors and seniors and so the usual topics of graduation, senior rites of passage, and college come up. I was listening in on some girls discussing plans for prom and their uncertainty over going. I encouraged them to go, mentioning that I regret never going to prom. The girls couldn’t believe that I never went to prom but it was me that was stunned when they asked me why. I did not go to prom because my high school boyfriend did not want to go. I let a boy dictate an important decision at the time. I found myself unable to tell these girls the truth. How do I tell impressionable young girls that I let a boy convince me not to go but they shouldn’t worry about not having a date? It just doesn’t work that way.
Students know I am a recent graduate so they consistently ask me about the school I went to. One day I mentioned that I only went to my university for two years because I had attended community college prior. This began a really important discussion about the benefits of community college and I was impressed that my students could weigh these advantages and disadvantages in such mature ways. Next thing I know I was again asked, “why?” Why did you go to community college? Because my relationship was slipping through my fingertips and I felt like a failure that I did not know what I wanted to do with my life. I couldn’t say those words. I was saved by the bell luckily but I walked away from the conversation feeling like a chicken.
I want students to look up to me, to respect me, and to aspire to their fullest potential because of me and I have not yet decided which of my mistakes/decisions may or may not help them do this. I know conversations like the two I mentioned will only continue to happen, and I expect this internal struggle to continue. I want students to learn from my mistakes when I choose to share them, but I don’t ever want to leave the impression that because I made a certain decision it is okay for them to do the same. I imagine parents go through similar struggles. I want the best for my students, and I want to help them in any way I can. Maybe learning how to share my past will come with experience. I hope it does, because conversations about life with your students are the most important part of the school day.
I spent the majority of college with a broken heart, not knowing my self-worth, and desperate for someone to find me special. The first week of my Spring semester Freshmen year my high school boyfriend and I broke up and I began to spiral. Fast forward to the following summer and I had made some progress but had not recovered. One night my high school best friend asked me to go hang out at the park. He didn’t have a car that summer so I picked him up and we went to the park. We sat on a bench for a while and talked. Then his arm was around me. Then he was tickling me. Then he was holding my hand. I remember awkwardly laughing and getting up to walk around to escape the situation. Eventually we found our way to another bench and he started again with the tickling. I remember turning to look at him desperate to see his intentions in his eyes. Me looking into his eyes was apparently the invitation he needed. His lips were on mine. I remember pulling away, laughing again, telling him to stop. He told me, “You’re laughing you don’t mean that.” I didn’t understand. Was he right? Was I actually enjoying it? We were sitting on a bench in a public park and he was kissing me and no one thought it looked strange or concerning so it must have been okay. I kept saying stop, giggling nervously each time and he kept saying “You don’t mean that.” I do not remember how but eventually we were back to my car. I quickly put the car in drive and he put it back in park. His lips were on my mine. His hands on my body. I said stop so many times. I had my arms positioned in my lap to prevent him from going any further. I did not want this. I begged him to stop saying I needed to get home. He sang along to the radio the whole way to his house. When we got to his house I looked straight ahead and put my foot on the break. He put the car in park and turned my head again toward his. I didn’t fight it. Why would he have kissed me this many times if I didn’t want it? I must have wanted it. As soon as the car door closed I sped off crying the whole way home.
It’s been almost four years since that day. I’ve made a lot of decisions with guys that I wish I could change, but I made those decisions. This day in question was not something I chose to do. A man kissed me despite my protests, despite my lack of consent. It’s taken four years to write these words. I’m in the best place of my life emotionally right now and I think it’s taken me being in that place to finally realize that that night was not just my best friend kissing me, it was a man not listening to me say, “stop.” It was the night I was denied the right to consent.
I had heard about these marches in advance but had no intention of partaking. When I turned my TV on Saturday and watched footage of these peaceful protests I was in awe. Millions of women peacefully gathered together to fight for something they believe in. To me, that is inspiring. Regardless of your political views please take a moment to acknowledge this huge accomplishment. Not a single arrest was made in Washington DC. Peaceful protest is possible. The more footage I watched and the more pictures from friends I saw the more I wanted to be there. I am amazed at the variety of voices that spoke out that day, the variety of rights that were advocated for, and the variety of responses that have since come out.
I am proud to know so many women who fight for women’s’ rights. I wish I had been with you on Saturday. Thank you for fighting for something it took me two days to put into words. Thank you.
Tomorrow is the first day of school: the first day of school where I’ll be getting paid to teach. Binders for each subject have been made, new planner has been filled out, colored pens have been purchased, and a weeks’ worth of math keys have been made. I am ready. I am excited. I am thankful.
Deciding what I wanted to do with my life was quite the journey for something that now seems so natural to me. It took two years of college and continuing to enroll in math classes just for fun for me to find my passion in life. Sitting in my Calculus Two course my sophomore year of college I realized how unbelievably frustrating math can be, and in that moment I was hooked. I fell in love with the puzzle and curiosity of math. I fell in love with the way I could spend hours struggling with a concept and suddenly a light bulb would go off and that sense of accomplishment was unrivaled to anything else I had ever experienced. This feeling started to remind me of something I had experienced in the past. I started to remember in other math classes that I took how I would help friends and peers and the feeling I got when they experienced their own light bulb was incomparably better (and stronger) than my own sense of accomplishment. And just like that, I settled on my career path: High school mathematics teacher.
I come home every day, even the not so good days, knowing that this is exactly what I want to do for the rest of my life and I am so thankful that I can experience that feeling. Tomorrow might not be the first day in my own classroom, that momentous occasion is a few months away, but tomorrow is still a day worth celebrating. It is the start of a job that I love and a job I get PAID for.
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The recruitment of Dennis Smith from Fayetteville to N.C. State involved years of coaching visits, a helicopter and, according to federal investigators, a $40,000 payment to ensure that he'd remain committed to the Wolfpack and, perhaps, to the idea of signing an endorsement deal with adidas.
Smith, who played one season at N.C. State before entering the NBA draft, is not named in the U.S. Department of Justice's most recent indictment in a college basketball corruption case. Yet the details in that indictment make clear that an allegation involving N.C. State is related to Smith's recruitment.
Smith isn't accused of a crime. Neither is any member of his family. Yet his association with an ever-growing corruption case further illuminates the sketchiness of college basketball recruiting, and it raises questions about how, exactly, one of the nation's most talented players wound up at N.C. State.
Smith's journey, in which he went from middle school phenom to an NBA rookie who has found himself associated with a federal investigation, began, it seems, innocently enough.
On his first nationally competitive AAU team Smith and his teammates received lessons, aside from basketball, in civil rights history and social awareness, that coach said. And yet the same path that brought those lessons led, in time, to college basketball's black market, according to the FBI.
Smith's story speaks to corruption - a secondary market created by the NCAA's amateurism rules - that was long assumed in college basketball recruiting, but is now in the spotlight amid the FBI investigation.
When Smith committed to N.C. State in September 2015, he was considered the best point guard in his class in the country. He could have chosen to play in college, essentially, at any school he wanted. He had scholarship offers from North Carolina and Duke, Kansas and Kentucky.
N.C. State, though, had been the first major-conference school to offer him a scholarship. Smith acknowledged that when he committed and, soon, another public narrative emerged to explain his choice: that he'd grown up in a family of Wolfpack fans.
After Smith committed, he said he appreciated N.C. State's reputation as a basketball underdog, relative to its more successful neighbors at Duke and UNC. At the time, during an interview with The News & Observer, Smith said, "I told Coach (Mark) Gottfried, I like being the underdog."
The FBI investigation, though, raises questions about how much of an underdog N.C. State really was, at least in the context of Smith's recruitment. According to the indictment, Smith's services were arguably spoken for, thanks to N.C. State's relationship with adidas, the school's apparel provider.
According to the indictment, Jim Gatto, an adidas executive who faces fraud charges, conspired with "others known and unknown" to "illicitly funnel approximately $40,000" from adidas to Smith's father, who coached a Fayetteville-based, adidas-sponsored AAU team that Smith played on in his later years of high school.
The payment was made, allegedly, sometime after October 2015. It was around then, according to investigators, that an unidentified N.C. State coach informed adidas that Smith "was not happy with his selection of North Carolina State University and was considering de-committing." From there, authorities allege that Gatto and adidas agreed to give $40,000 to the N.C. State coach, who in turn allegedly delivered the money to Smith's father.
Attempts to reach Gottfried, who was hired by Cal State-Northridge as its head basketball coach last month, and former N.C. State assistant coach Orlando Early for comment have been unsuccessful.
At a charity appearance in Dallas on Thursday, Smith answered a question about the FBI case, telling a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that "allegations are just allegations. There isn't any proof behind anything."
The allegations, if true, help explain how Smith chose to play at N.C. State. The Wolfpack, after all, hadn't successfully recruited a prospect of Smith's caliber since David Thompson, in the 1970s. On the surface, however, N.C. State's recruiting victory seemed like the fruits of a job well done.
Gottfried, whom N.C. State fired after the Wolfpack's lone season with Smith imploded, clearly made the point guard his top recruiting priority, beginning during Smith's sophomore year at Trinity Christian School in Fayetteville. Smith was coached in high school by Heath Vandevender, who in 2017 would plead guilty to felony embezzlement of more than $388,000 from North Carolina's taxpayers and who continues to coach and teach there.
Gottfried became a regular at Smith's summer-league AAU games, for one. And not long before Smith gave word he'd attend N.C. State, in September 2015, Gottfried and Early rode a helicopter to visit Smith at Trinity Christian.
"It's pretty humbling," Smith said at the time, according to the Fayetteville Observer.
It was a recruiting gimmick - coaches riding in a helicopter to visit a sought-after prospect - but it was one that worked. Smith informed Gottfried the next day that he'd be bound for N.C. State. Wolfpack supporters reacted with zestful enthusiasm. At the time, Smith's commitment seemed to be something of a turning point for Gottfried's program.
Indeed, Gottfried didn't temper expectations before what turned out to be Smith's lone season. Gottfried then described Smith as "the best guard in the country. Period. Hands down." Evan Daniels, a national college basketball recruiting analyst for 247sports.com, said at the time that Smith was a "game-changer." He was considered one of the best guard prospects in the nation.
By then, Smith was no stranger to life as a prized commodity. Some of the most prominent college basketball coaches in the country - and, undoubtedly, some of the most well-connected shoe company employees, too - had known about Smith since before he ever played a high school game.
The summer before his freshman year of high school, Smith played a leading role for the Karolina Diamonds, a Greensboro-based AAU team coached by Kevin Graves. The team finished second in its age group in the AAU nationals in Orlando, and college coaches who attended, Graves said at the time, included Kentucky's John Calipari, Kansas' Bill Self and former Louisville coach Rick Pitino.
In some ways, Graves' team - which also included Edrice "Bam" Adebayo, who went on to play for High Point Christian and then Kentucky before entering the NBA after one season, and North Carolina guard Seventh Woods - helped introduce Smith on the national stage. Before playing for Graves, Smith had played on the statewide AAU circuit with a team his father coached in Fayetteville.
Smith played for Graves for three summers, beginning with the summer after seventh grade. Smith's future seemed clear even then, Graves said, and it appeared obvious to those who watched Smith that he'd become a high-level prospect.
Smith stopped playing for Graves' team once he entered the 10th grade. By then he was well on his way, and during the summers he played for his father's AAU team, which was now competing nationally.
Aside from the brief comment Thursday, neither Smith nor his father have spoken in detail about the federal indictment that alleges the $40,000 payment to secure his commitment.
Even if they did comment, it would be impossible to know, for sure, how such a payment might have come to fruition. Did Smith, allegedly unhappy with his commitment to N.C. State, ask for money to remain committed? Did his father, sensing an opportunity for a quick pay day? Or did the unnamed N.C. State coach conspire with adidas to offer the money, perhaps as a kind of preemptive move?
In the summer of 2013, Smith played for the final time with Graves' team. He entered his sophomore year at Trinity Christian still relatively unknown nationally. College coaches were already familiar, though, and soon enough a lot of other people were, too. In December 2013, the buzz around Smith building, he played in Wilson, in the Greenfield School Christmas tournament, in front of what The Wilson Times described as a standing-room only crowd. Smith earned MVP honors there.
Less than a week later Smith played in Raleigh in the Holiday Invitational, one of the nation's marquee high school basketball tournaments. He scored 42 points in his second game there. Gottfried watched from a seat near the court, and after the game he offered Smith a scholarship.
"A blessing," Smith told the Fayetteville Observer at the time.
It was, in some ways, his arrival. Kansas offered Smith a scholarship the following spring, and then so did Wake Forest, and Duke, and UNC. Smith now had his pick among some of the best college programs in the country.
Even so, N.C. State appeared to be the leader from the start, perhaps because Gottfried was first to offer a scholarship. In time, so did all three of his rival head coaches at North Carolina's other three ACC schools. Roy Williams, the UNC coach, recently said during a radio interview that he "loved Dennis Smith and "thought he was a wonderful prospect."
"Gosh, I wanted Dennis Smith here," Williams said during an interview on "The David Glenn Show. " "But it didn't work out. We thought we were doing really well (recruiting him) and then we were not. And so it was the kind of thing that his decision was made."
Before Smith officially made his decision, his father became a head coach in the Team Loaded AAU basketball organization. Team Loaded, the organization, began in Virginia, but now, according to its website, "fields over 30 teams" spanning from Washington, D.C., to North Carolina. The elder Smith coached a team that was known as Team Loaded NC. The younger Smith played a starring role.
All Team Loaded teams are sponsored by adidas. In the federal indictment that details the latest charges in the FBI investigation into college basketball corruption, the authorities allege that the $40,000 payment for Smith was intended, in part, "to further ensure" that he signed an endorsement contract with adidas upon entering the NBA. Instead, after the Dallas Mavericks selected Smith with the ninth pick in the NBA draft, Smith signed with Under Armour.
Smith's recruitment ended, officially, on Nov. 12, 2015. He enrolled at N.C. State a couple of months later, in January, after graduating high school early. He spent his first several months there recovering from a knee injury he'd suffered in August 2015.
The expectation, once Smith became healthy, was that the Wolfpack would be competitive - if not for an ACC championship then certainly for an NCAA tournament bid. Instead the season unraveled. Smith mixed in occasional moments of brilliance with others of apathy.
The team won four conference games and lost 10 of its last 11 games. State beat Duke in Durham but suffered losses of 51 and 24 points to Carolina and a loss by 30 points to Wake Forest. State allowed nearly 85 points per game in league play, and the 79.6 points per game the Wolfpack allowed for the season ranked 324th of 351 Division I teams.
Gottfried, now at Cal State-Northridge, lost his job.
Adidas lost its pitchman, if the feds' indictment is true.
Smith, after a strong rookie season in the NBA, with millions to his name, with a burgeoning brand, appears to be the only winner amid all the questions he left behind.
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The Steps Alano Club is a nonprofit organization whose primary mission is to provide meeting space for 12-step recovery fellowships, and to support the recovering community through fellowship, friendship, and service. Founded by members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT)community, the Steps Alano Club welcomes all who seek sanctuary from addiction. 974 Humphrey is at the SE corner of Humphrey St. and Roger Place, 5 blocks (.6 mi.) south of Arsenal St. and 2 long blocks (.5 mi.) west of S. Grand Blvd.
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BEIJING — When Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, the head of the team handling trade negotiations with the United States, landed in Washington on Monday for a critical round of talks this week, what greeted him wasn’t so much a welcome as a broadside.
As his delegation touched down, the Justice Department unveiled allegations that Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies had stolen intellectual property from the United States — one of the main, long-standing U.S. grievances about China’s trade and industrial practices.
Whether the timing was intended or not, two sweeping new U.S. indictments against a globe-spanning Chinese conglomerate are casting a long shadow over a critical round of talks this week between the negotiating teams led by Liu and U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer.
The indictments also added to a sense in both capitals that the U.S.-China rivalry is in full swing, and that a far-reaching deal that would satisfy Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping may not materialize this week even if the two sides agree to a temporary truce.
Negotiators this week are hoping to reach an accord that could at least avert a new 25 percent levy on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods — tariffs that Trump has ordered to begin March 2, absent a deal.
“I’m not saying that there will be an ugly showdown between the two countries at the end of the talks, but it could be a dormant volcano that becomes active every few months and adds uncertainty to the global trade and economy,” Zhang Yansheng, secretary general of the academic committee at the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s powerful economic planning body, told reporters Tuesday.
Although China has offered significant purchases of U.S. exports to close the trade deficit and promised to crack down on intellectual property theft — issues underscored by the American indictment against Huawei — it has not yet offered an acceptable mechanism that would let the United States hold it accountable for those promises, according to scholars and trade group representatives who have spoken to U.S. negotiators.
Additionally, the more fundamental U.S. demands for China to open its market and cut government direction and support for state-owned companies — a central tenet of the Communist Party’s tightly managed economic model — remain a nonstarter for Beijing.
This week’s talks will be led by Lighthizer, a trade hard-liner who is deeply skeptical of China’s willingness to change its trade practices and has been privately dismissive of progress made to date.
The talks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House come amid signs that China’s slowing economy is hurting some U.S. companies.
Computer chip maker Nvidia cited “deteriorating macroeconomic conditions, particularly in China” on Monday, as it slashed its fourth-quarter revenue estimate by $500 million.
Even if there is a temporary deal that includes China buying large quantities of U.S. agricultural products, the question of how to enforce issues such as intellectual property protection remains a key concern. Lighthizer has discussed using the threat of renewed tariffs to ensure compliance, an idea the Chinese reject as creating uncertainty over future trade and investment flows, according to people familiar with the negotiations.
Meanwhile in China, analysts and state media outlets have reiterated that Beijing will not budge over the deep changes to its economic model that the United States is seeking.
In recent weeks, Xi has sent signals to the Communist Party in study sessions with cadres to firmly uphold China’s existing model and brace for “political risks,” said Scott Kennedy, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
At a time when Chinese leaders are bracing the country for the prospect of a protracted tussle with the United States, the indictments against Huawei, an icon of Chinese technological prowess, have reinforced their rallying cry.
A 13-count indictment filed in New York City against the company, two affiliates and its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, details allegations of bank and wire fraud. A separate 10-count indictment in Washington state also charges the two Huawei affiliates with conspiring to steal trade secrets and obstruction of justice.
Separately on Monday, U.S. officials formally asked Canada to extradite Meng, who is wanted in the United States on charges that she defrauded banks to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran. Beijing has been outraged by the U.S. pursuit of Meng, the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei.
Lester Ross, a long-standing member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing and head of law firm Wilmer Hale’s practice in the city, said the Chinese leadership wants to go through with this week’s negotiations and seek a deal at a time when its economic engine is sputtering.
“The Chinese seem determined to carry on with the trade track despite the discomfort of the Huawei case,” Ross said.
Some U.S. officials, including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who has pushed for a deal with China sooner rather than later, have also played down the link between the trade talks and law enforcement actions against Huawei, which have been ongoing for years.
Trump — whose approval ratings sagged during the partial government shutdown — is anxious to hammer out an accord that he can bill as a great achievement, according to several individuals familiar with White House discussions who were not authorized to discuss them publicly.
His administration remains divided between trade hawks such as Lighthizer and White House adviser Peter Navarro, who are intent on forcing China to make fundamental changes in its state-directed economic model, and those, such as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who want to avoid further disruption to global trade flows and calm roiling financial markets.
At the White House on Monday, Mnuchin said he anticipates “significant progress” this week. The talks will focus on U.S. concerns over intellectual property protections, Chinese regulations governing joint ventures with foreign companies and enforcement measures, he said.
Still, Lighthizer’s presence at the negotiating table this week could mean that securing a deal will not be easy. The trade representative has been entrusted by Trump to deliver several deals, including pacts with Canada, Mexico and South Korea, while the president rejected earlier efforts by Mnuchin and Ross to compromise with China, said Kennedy of CSIS.
Liu Yang and Yuan Wang contributed to this report.
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Several weeks elapsed since I met her but I’m having trouble forgetting. I’ll use her first name due to that names relevance to my tale until now. When I hear her name I think of the Supernatural duo and their fight against demon of every type. Lo! This ladies been subjected to my outrage toward humanity despite the eases some people have for ignoring my cynicism. Don’t think for a second I’ve not been tempted to take her by the hand like our junior high school friends ‘d don when they greeted us with smiles and a pat on the back, to keep her informed of natures tormenting me. If I could look at every person on the planet as we’re expected, I’d of already purposed my friendship and it’s entirety. some time even social workers ‘ve been eluded by the awesome pen of the Fates. Some times we’ll need to look at the face of our maker with that same smile and expect acceptance as destined companions. Because Dean Winchester now has Benny, and I have Finney the wonder dog, I think maybe not all our convictions as adults separated the powers of being teenage liberals. We still have fewer friends now and too much space between us. Comrade, aren’t something we adopted willingly, nor something not permitted to engulf us whole. Thank you collective being for allowing our indifference to prevent us being consumed by things we cannot be enlightened in. Simply because I can’t look at adults with the same perception I did those teenage peer during the age of fourteen. I’d really enjoy hearing Sams voice , and I’d really enjoy believing someone brought us together deliberately. When psychology’s the game, no-one asks over eager seeming questions. Thank you for being a friend!
To all bloggers I love; this post intended to keep your interest in the lives of others.
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Mitsubishi Motors and Scottish Rugby have launched a new Kit 4 Clubs scheme to provide rugby clubs and schools around the country with playing kit and equipment to help develop the game.
The initiative will give rugby clubs and schools across Scotland the chance to earn new playing kit, training equipment and rugby gear in return for their members completing a vehicle appraisal and test drive with their local Mitsubishi Motors dealer.
Scotland Internationalists Sam Hidalgo-Clyne and Hamish Watson were invited to launch the scheme with a special training session for pupils at Trinity Academy in Edinburgh.
The session saw Hidalgo-Clyne and Watson offer advice and tips to the pupils during skills and drills that used the full range of playing kit available on the scheme.
The initiative is open to all full Scottish Rugby member clubs or schools, with an array of equipment available that will support teams for many seasons to come.
Produced by Scottish Rugby partners, Gilbert and Macron, the kit available for clubs and schools to earn includes match shirts, practice bibs, tackle pads, balls and more.
Scotland back-row, Watson, said “The game is in great shape at the moment and this new partnership between Mitsubishi Motors and Scottish Rugby is another sign of progress.
Lance Bradley, MD of Mitsubishi Motors said, “We are very proud to continue our commitment to supporting grassroots Scottish Rugby.
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FANS ON ‘ROIDS: HEY, SO WHAT?
This, by the way, is much the same position on drug use adopted by pro wrestling boss Vince McMahon. While pro wrestlers routinely drop dead from drug-related causes before the age of 40, McMahon, a regular past steroid-user himself, has made it clear that as long as wrestling fans don’t care, neither does he.
In other words, if steroid use in baseball or any other sport or form of entertainment doesn’t harm the appeal/financial value of that enterprise, and, if steroid use adds to the commercial appeal in the form of more home runs or the muscles displayed by Hulk Hogan, then steroid use shouldn’t cause anyone to get bent out of shape.
Of course, such a morally corrupt, ends-justify-the-means position – and it’s held by a considerable number of Americans, especially young males – underscores the proliferation of a popular, commercial culture that has been programmed to desensitize consecutive genera- tions while diminishing every standard of common decency.
Then again, we should expect that virtually everything, today, will be reflexively packaged, sold and enjoyed as an Extreme Game of one kind or another. You wanna kill yourself? That’s your business. And a good business, at that.
Speaking of diminished standards, after Antoine Walker missed two free throws with 1:30 left in Game 6 of Nets-Celts, Friday night, NBC’s P. J. Carlesimo said that Walker’s “only a 74 percent foul shooter.” Only? These days that’s good – real good.
Ex-Celt and current Celtic radio man Cedric Maxwell with Richard Neer on FAN Saturday morning said that if you want to examine the excessive, abusive fan who wants to be seen and heard at the game rather than simply watch the game, perhaps we should start, not with Nets’ or Celtics’ fans, but with Spike Lee.
Mike Francesa in a nutshell: Before the start of the Nets-Celtics series, Francesa predicted that the home team would win all the games, thus the Nets would win in seven. After Game 4 – a Nets’ win in Boston – Francesa said that he knew that the Nets would win one in Boston.
Cablevision, which always plays tricks with numbers, claims that it has lost only 5,000 of three million area subscribers to DirecTV since the YES fiasco began. If that were the case, Cablevision’s systems wouldn’t be loaded with anti-home satellite propaganda inserts, all day, every day.
When friends ask, “Why don’t you write about me in your column?” my standard response is that you either have to make a hole-in-one or commit a murder. Barry Lack, Tuesday, succeeded in the more difficult of the two. He aced the 162-yard 13th at N.J.’s Battleground CC.
The Nets’ WOR (710) radio team, Chris Carlino and Kelly Tripucka, has been strong throughout the playoffs. Carlino allows us to “see” the floor and the ball, quite well, while Tripucka throws in lots of good parenthetical stuff with a good feel for when to get in and when to get out.
No one could accuse WFAN yesterday at noon of allowing advertisers to dictate editorial content. Smack in the middle of a pile of callers’ rips of Cablevision vis-a-vis the YES mess was a commercial for Cablevision-owned The Wiz.
1. Highlights and recaps were provided from the studio of the day’s two other games – games that were long over but had actually been played after Cameroon-Ireland.
2. Studio host Terry Gannon led studio analysts Eric Wynalda and Giorgio Chinaglia in a discussion about what to expect in the second half and what Ireland has to do to tie the game, a game that had ended more than 12 hours earlier. As if they didn’t already know that Ireland would come back to tie.
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https://nypost.com/2002/06/03/fans-on-roids-hey-so-what/
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Stalker is available now in all formats, purchase your copy from Amazon and all good book shops!
Wow, hold on a minute while I catch my breath! What a terrifying, gripping read this was. This is definitely not a book to read at night on your own as it gets under your skin and plays tricks with your mind. Every noise or scrape made me jump and I had to get up and close all the curtains whilst reading, carefully avoiding looking out the window in case I saw a face peering in at me!
The beginning is very chilling as the reader is introduced to the terrifying scenario of the stalker and what he is capable of. The woman’s terror as she realises what danger she’s in is almost palpable and had me on the edge of my seat as I waited for the killer to pounce as I knew he would. The author slowly lets each scene unravel so the reader feels they are there in the room experiencing everything alongside the victim which makes for a very gripping read.
I felt very sorry for the police in this book as they seemed very affected by the case and helpless to stop the murders. The casual attitude of Margot grated on me a little and meant that I didn’t warm to her as she just didn’t seem to care that someone was going to get killed. The hypnotherapy sessions were quite interesting to read about and I found the use of them in such a situation very intriguing. It was sometimes a bit hard to follow the theory and methods behind it though as they seemed quite complicated.
This was a fairly fast pasted, gripping novel although it did get a bit slower in the middle. It soon picked up though with a explosive ending and the revelation as to who the stalker is was very shocking. This is a book that will stay with me for a long time, especially the lesson to keep your curtains drawn at night!
This is the third book I read read from these authors and I’m very excited to see what chilling story they come up with next. How these books haven’t been made into films yet is beyond me!
Huge thanks to Abby from Knoff Publishing for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book which I received in exchange for an honest review. If you like chilling, gripping reads then you’ll love this book.
Lars Kepler is the pseudonym for writing duo Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril. They live with their family in Sweden.
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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is effective in Europe (including UK) from 25 May 2018. Chester Apartments / Freetobook has always wholeheartedly supported data protection and transparency. As a family run business we have always known the value of trust, so you can be sure that we will only use your data as outlined in our Privacy Policies.
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← MANTRA – Episode One OUT NOW!
CAGES (Short Surreal Horror) Now in production.
Currently finishing up pre-production for my next short film CAGES. Hope to be shooting in a months time.
This entry was posted in Video and tagged filmmaker, filmmaking, horror, horror films, horror movies, indie, indie film, indie movie, scary. Bookmark the permalink.
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His assertion that President Trump knew in advance about his campaign’s June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower won’t, on its own, stand up in court.
If substantiated, Michael Cohen’s new assertion—that Donald Trump knew in advance about a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Kremlin-connected individuals—would prove that the Trump campaign sought to aid a Russian-influence operation aimed at putting Trump in office.
But Cohen’s word on its own is not enough to prove anything.
Trump denied knowledge of the meeting Friday morning on Twitter, hours after CNN first reported the news. And he’s consistently denied any involvement with the Russian government’s concerted effort to elect him president, as described by American intelligence agencies in a postelection report. If Cohen’s statements about the Trump Tower meeting can be corroborated, they would not only constitute proof of Trump’s awareness of an effort to aid a Russian attack on the election, but they would also provide strong evidence of an intent to obstruct justice.
Additionally, that development would also potentially ensnare any Trump associates who told federal investigators or congressional committees that Trump was unaware of the meeting. Those possibilities would all be of interest to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating potential obstruction of justice as part of his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The public first learned about the Trump Tower meeting last July in a New York Times report. The newspaper revealed that Donald Trump Jr. had set up the meeting in June 2016 after being told by an associate, Rob Goldstone, that Russian government officials had “dirt” to offer on Hillary Clinton. “If it’s what you say I love it,” Trump Jr. told Goldstone in an email. Among others at the session were Trump Jr.; Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law; Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, who has since been indicted by Mueller; and Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian attorney said to have close ties to the Kremlin.
Shortly after the meeting was revealed, President Trump dictated a misleading statement about it for the press, asserting that it was “primarily about adoption” and omitting the fact that Trump Jr. had set it up hoping to obtain information from the Russian government. Whiting noted that if Cohen’s assertion is substantiated, Trump’s statement could also provide evidence of obstruction of justice.
Trump Jr. could also be vulnerable to repercussions from Cohen’s claim because he told congressional lawmakers that his father was not aware of the meeting. If “attorneys for the Southern District of New York,” which is investigating Cohen, “can somehow corroborate Cohen’s claim, then Donald Trump Jr. is in substantial legal jeopardy for having made, at a minimum, false statements to Congress,” said David Gomez, a former FBI agent and a fellow at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security.
Nevertheless, there may be reason to doubt that Cohen’s allegations are true. His turn against Trump, his longtime boss, comes after an April raid on his office and home by federal agents. The U.S. attorney’s inquiry into Cohen is separate from the Mueller probe, and is focused on alleged hush-money payments Cohen made in late 2016 to prevent women who claimed to have had affairs with the president from coming forward in the closing days of the election.
Until recently, Cohen had remained steadfastly loyal to the president, and had not previously asserted that Trump was aware of the meeting (at least not publicly). Cohen might be telling the truth—or he could simply be looking for a deal to avoid prison time.
The rift between Trump and Cohen began in earnest earlier this week, with the release of a tape of the two men discussing hush-money payments. Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani has pivoted from praising Cohen for doing “his job” by making the payments, to lambasting Cohen as a “pathological liar” who has “lied all his life,” as he did Thursday night on CNN after the Cohen story broke.
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The Mount Prospect Fire Department will be utilizing a $1000 grant to purchase hydrant markers, thanks to a grant from Illinois American Water (IAW).
The IAW 2018 Firefighter Grant Program provides financial assistance to fire and emergency organizations serving communities in its service areas. This year, approximately $77,000 will be awarded to 78 Illinois fire departments. Since the program was created in 2010, over 500 grants totaling over $493,000 has been awarded to fire and emergency organizations serving customers in Illinois American Water's service area.
"We are proud to partner with our local firefighters. Illinois American Water tests and operates every fire hydrant annually. We also maintain all of the hydrants, over 29,000 across the state, in our service areas. We know the critical role water plays in protecting homes and businesses and we also know resources for our local heroes often runs short. Through this grant program, we are able to partner on another level and further support our local heroes," said Bruce Hauk, Illinois American Water President.
Illinois American Water's Firefighter Grant Program awards grants to provide personal protective gear, communications equipment, firefighting tools, water handling equipment, training materials and classroom programs.
Fire Chief Brian Lambel thanked Illinois American Water during the check presentation. "The Fire Department and Village really appreciate the relationship that we have developed with Illinois American Water as well as the continuous support given through grant funding," stated Lambel.
About Illinois American Water -- Illinois American Water, a subsidiary of American Water (NYSE: AWK), is the largest investor-owned water utility in the state, providing high-quality and reliable water and/or wastewater services to approximately 1.3 million people. American Water also operates a customer service center in Alton and a quality control and research laboratory in Belleville.
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Nseobong Okon-Ekong writes that the role of the military in the electoral process remains a gaping sore point.
It is not completely right to claim that the Nigerian military has been apolitical, owing to the circumstances that the country found itself at independence; the military was not able to divorce itself completely from governance. Therefore, when the first civilian government was sacked through a military coup, barely six years after, it was the fulfilment of a prophecy by many. A couple of military interventions in the governance of Nigeria followed before the birth of this current democratic experiment, known as the Fourth Republic, which is 20 years on. With exception of a few states, National elections have, largely, been concluded across the country.
However, one of the gaping sore points of the recent national elections was the role of the military in the electoral process. Ordinarily, it is widely believed that the Nigerian Armed Forces have no role whatsoever in the conduct of elections in the country.
Mr. Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria has argued that the maintenance of internal security, including law and order during elections, were exclusive responsibilities of the Nigeria Police. Citing Section 215 of the 1999, he said it was erroneous for INEC to insist that only the military could guarantee security during elections.
"Once INEC has discharged its constitutional duty of fixing election dates, the onus is on the Police to provide security and maintain law and order," Mr. Falana said. "Since election is not a military duty, the police force is at liberty to collaborate with other law enforcement agencies like the Nigeria Customs Service, Nigerian Civil Defence Corps, and Nigerian Prisons Service, etc."
Mr. Falana accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of dragging the military into the conduct of elections when he illegally deployed troops to manipulate the 2003 general elections.
However, he said the courts have consistently advised the Federal Government to desist from involving the Armed Forces in the conduct of elections.
Citing the Appeal Court ruling in Yussuf versus Obasanjo, 2005, 18 NWLR (PT956), 96, he quoted the court to have said, "It is up to the police to protect our nascent democracy and not the military, otherwise the democracy might be wittingly or unwittingly militarized. This is not what the citizenry bargained for in wrestling power from the military in 1999. Conscious step or steps should be taken to civilianize the polity to ensure the survival and sustenance of democracy."
In another ruling in the case between Buhari and Obasanjo, 2005, 1 WRN 1 at 200, the court again held that "In spite of the non-tolerant nature and behavior of our political class in this country, we should by all means try to keep armed personnel of whatever status or nature from being part and parcel of our election process. The civilian authorities should be left to conduct and carry out fully the electoral processes at all levels."
In upholding the judgment of the lower court, the Supreme Court in Buhari v Obasanjo, 2005, 50 WRN 1 at 313, held that the State is obligated to ensure "citizens who are sovereign can exercise their franchise freely, unmolested and undisturbed."
Mr. Falana also cited two recent rulings by the Federal High Court and the Appeal Court that barred the government from deploying troops for election duties.
He cited the ruling on the Ekiti governorship election where the Appeal Court held that even the President of Nigeria has no powers to call on the Nigerian Armed Forces and to unleash them on peaceful citizens, who are exercising their franchise.
However, the argument for the deployment of soldiers to assist in keeping the peace during the period leading to; and on election day is that INEC does not have the numerical strength to carry out the task require of it. For the 2019 elections, INEC insured one million ad hoc staff and electoral officials who would participate in the forthcoming general elections. The chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, said, "The sheer number of Nigerians that we require to prosecute elections means we cannot rely only on our staff. The commission has a staff strength of a little over 16,000 and on elections day, we would require the services of over a million Nigerians. We draw most of our ad hoc staff from the National Youth Service Corps, so we insured the corpers and other election duty staff and we would continue to do so."
As the Nigerian Army personnel continue to be increasingly engaged in various internal security operations across the country, elections day duty have been added to this list. According the army authorities,"95 per cent of Nigerian Army troops were engaged in security duties during the general elections.Out of this, almost 40 per cent are in the North East."
Nigeria is credited with 181,000 total military personnel, 172, 400,000 available manpower, those fit for service stood at 40, 710,000, citizens reaching military age stands at 3, 456,000. Out of the total military personnel, 124, 000 are active while 57,000 are reserved. There have been calls from some quarters that only military personnel who are on the reserved list should be engaged in elections day duties.
Twice, in the course of the current political dispensation, former military rulers were voted into office as civilian presidents. This distinction is held by President Muhammadu Buhari and former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The involvement of military personnel in the electoral process became pronounced during the tenure of Obasanjo, particularly leading to his second tenure in 2003 when he allegedly 'captured' the South-west states.
But stakeholders in the Nigerian polity have never stopped raising the alarm on the dangers of dragging the military into politics. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spokesperson, Mr. Kola Ologbodiyan, has, at different times, cautioned the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, to refrain from acts that will suggest the military is not apolitical. The party said President Buhari's order for the army to participate in the electoral process is an aberration of Nigerian laws and a recipe for crisis. "Gen. Buratai is counseled to note that the loyalty of the military is to the state and that the Ppesident lacks the powers, under our laws, to deploy soldiers for the conduct of elections. "Our party urges Gen Buratai to concentrate on his very demanding assignment of protecting the territorial integrity of our nation and ending insurgency rather than dabbling into partisan politics at the risk of our national cohesion." The PDP further counseled President Buhari and Gen. Buratai, to end their rationalizing of military option, stressing that the courts have previously ruled that soldiers are not needed to guarantee peaceful elections. "It may interest President Buhari to know that the judgment was sequel to a suit filed by the APC Leader in the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, seeking a declaration that deployment of soldiers during elections is illegal and unconstitutional. "In case, President Buhari is not aware, as usual, the court directly held that "the Armed Forces have no role in elections" and if soldiers must vote, they must do so in their barracks. "The PDP therefore cautions President Buhari not to allow his desperation to push him to corrupt the patriotism of our military and use them against innocent Nigerians, whose only demand is for a free, fair and credible election."
Reacting to the situation in Rivers States, the Executive Director, We the People, Ken Henshaw described it as a charade because the Nigerian Army has already taken a position by claiming that those who disrupted collation were thugs in military uniform. Henshaw, who was an observer during the elections in the state said the army decided to set up the committee following the damning indictment slammed on it by INEC for the unprofessional role its personnel played. "Nothing will come out of this because the Nigerian Army has taken a position in this matter already by claiming that thugs in military uniform disrupted the election. So, they mean thugs drove fake tanks, fake armoured personnel carriers and were armed with AK47 all over the state, yet nobody was arrested?"
His position for thorough investigation was supported by a retired director of State Security Service, Dr. Toyin Akanle who has expressed serious concern about the composition of the committee saying the army should have considered other segments of the society in the composition of the committee. He said, "They military needs to get to the root of this issue, if not, before they know it, the confidence of the people in the military would be completely eroded. This is because for the people to see people in military uniforms snatching ballot boxes and intimidating even INEC officials, it is not the best and I don't want to believe that they are members of the armed forces, but if they are, it is very unfortunate."
After the 2015 elections, 38 senior officers were retired for alleged election interference in the elections. In 2019, just four years after, it looks like history is about to repeat itself.
In another incident, the PDP, in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State has accused men of the Nigerian Army, 19 Battalion, of complicity in the governorship and Houses of Assembly elections in the state.
A chieftain of the party in Koko, Chief Attie Okorodudu, yesterday, said: "We have it on good authority that the Army is guilty of carrying out electoral fraud in parts of Delta State, precisely Warri North and Sapele councils.
"They claimed to have escorted electoral materials, but unfortunately the materials being escorted by the Army did not get to their destinations, yet results emerged from such areas." He condemned the actions of the Army during the polls, alleging that its personnel presided over electoral fraud perpetrated in some parts of Warri North and Sapele councils.
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2019-04-20T20:50:05Z
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Discover 19 extraordinary stories ranging from dark fantasy to science fiction and steampunk. Allan Gilbreath has created a stimulating collection of possessed raccoons, doubtful demons, secret potions, Hellish mornings, murderous black holes, dangerous missions, miniature dragons, fake vampires, real ducks, and a cranky detective. This collection showcases Allan’s astounding attention to detail and the sensual imagery his works are famous for.
My House – Enjoy a new house complete with a demonic raccoon.
The Little Demon Doubt – Infidelity and a knife thrower.
Afternoon Lemonade – How to straighten out those pesky teenagers.
By The Numbers – Why you should always stick to the plan.
Just Beneath the Surface – Are you doing the right thing for all the wrong reasons?
Good Intentions – As a matter of fact, the road to Hell is paved by the Good Intentions Paving Company.
Time To Come Out And Play – How do you find something you don’t believe in?
Twilight’s Last Gleaming – If you could travel in time, could you just sit by and watch?
First Impression – How do you make a good first impression with an alien species?
The Glamour Of It All – Now you know how those interstellar cruise ships stay so squeaky clean.
Origins – Accidents and dragons do happen.
Mr. Crump Don’t Like It – Never play where you get the pay.
The Tale Of Two Shelves – You never know what you can do yourself.
The Smile – A touching moment can happen at any time.
An Odd Demise – A locked room and spontaneous human combustion mystery.
Lepus Europaeus – Jack Lago tries to unravel an Easter mystery.
Toradh Of The Gem – Jack Lago solves the case of thieving faeries.
Chill in the Summer Heat!
Take a fascinating and disturbing walk through this collection of stories the darker side of the Gothic/Steampunk point of view as written by a Goth librarian.
Kimberly Richardson guides you through modern situations and intrigues from a darkly poignant point of view. Her characters will take you back to the Victorian mindset as they deal with desperation, obsession, and despair. In this anthology, Kimberly embraces the Gothic/Steampunk style and adds her unique voice to the genre.
Madison de Macabre – Dance if you must.
Non Compos Mentis – Can the long needles make you better?
Silk – Skin so silky smooth.
Dream Guardian – Dreaming in vivid colours and sounds.
Multicoloured Souls – You never know who you might meet.
Peau – Just what is a book?
Sulfur – A tale of elves, demons, centuars, and magic.
Purple and Black – Beware the price of a muse.
Cover Her with Violets – Every family has dark secrets.
Goth Poetry – A unique view into dark thoughts.
Lose yourself in fourteen stories of urban fantasy where make believe and myth collide with the modern world. The magical creatures of old didn’t disappear. They now live hidden among us. All we have to do is pay attention to the signs and beware their mirth and mischief!
Summer is for Short Stories!
From sorcerers to space captains, from common criminals to common housewives, this collection contains the stories of a variety of characters from a diversity of genres. Fans of adventure, suspense, humor, horror, fantasy, and science fiction will find tales to treasure. Every story invites the reader into a world where things are not always what they seem, where events do not always turn out as one expects.
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(Reuters) - Pakistan have long been regarded as one of cricket’s most unpredictable sides, but now their long-suffering army of fans can finally enjoy the benefits of a new level of dependability, at least in the shortest format of the sport.
Consistency has never been a strong point for Pakistan, who, over the years, have built a formidable reputation as a side with a legendary ability to self-destruct.
Their penchant for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory has made supporting them a health hazard, but under Sarfraz Ahmed’s leadership, Pakistan have turned into a winning machine in Twenty20 internationals.
When they completed a 3-0 whitewash over New Zealand earlier this month, it marked a team record 11th consecutive series victory and consolidated their position as the world’s top-ranked Twenty20 team.
“They have been outstanding for a long period of time and the ratings are fair. They are the number one...” New Zealand captain Kane Williamson said after losing the series in the United Arab Emirates.
Pakistan impressed early in the format, finishing runner-up in the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007 before winning the title two years later.
However, a failure to reach the knockout stages of the tournament in 2016 prompted important changes in personnel, with Sarfraz being elevated to the captaincy and South African Micky Arthur replacing Waqar Younis as coach.
Since then, Pakistan have won 29 of 33 Twenty20 Internationals.
“The difference in this team is that we have a host of new faces, so the energy level is very high,” Sarfraz told reporters prior to the series against New Zealand.
Their excellence in the field is a huge boost for a team that often struggled to hide their slower movers and they also seem to have struck the right age balance.
Paceman Shaheen Afridi (18) and all-rounder Shadab Khan (20) hold immense promise, while Babar Azam and Hasan Ali (both 24) as well as Fakhar Zaman (28) look at their prime.
Yet they can always turn to Mohammad Hafeez (38) and Shoaib Malik (36) when they need advice from an older head.
The team have built a solid game based on their versatile bowling which is complemented by a consistent batting philosophy best illustrated by Babar, currently the top-ranked Twenty20 batsman in world cricket.
The Pakistan Super League (PSL) also played a key role in fast-tracking new talents.
Frozen out of the Indian Premier League (IPL) because of political bitterness between the nations, the players have used the PSL to learn from foreign players and coaches.
“With three years of the PSL under our belts, we can see the difference in the way the Pakistani youngsters are performing in a confident manner, and adapting so well at the international level,” former captain Misbah-ul-Haq told PakPassion.net.
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2019-04-19T07:22:30Z
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