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I finally have a VIN (00496) and expected delivery in second week of October. Any other deliveries in AZ scheduled? As luck will have it I will be in Phoenix for a conference the week of 15 October. If anyone wants to visit, compare notes, go for a spin, let me know.
Mark V.
Hi Mark: If the offer is still open and your car is delivered, I'd enjoy connecting with you this weekend. Congrats on being the first (that we know of). Mark 602-980-1875 cell, 480-948-7137 home
Yet another delay. My delivery window was 7-21 Oct. with early in the window being "predicted". That slipped to the second week. I received my final paperwork and made my final payment on the 11th so the timing seemed reasonable. The second week slipped to the end of the window. Here it is the 20th and still no notification of delivery all I can do is hope for the best. I will let you know when the car actually arrives.
Well the car is finally here. Arrived Friday afternoon. Going to ADEQ today and then DMV. Licensing is not an easy task. Planning on going to the GoE3 charging station unveiling/grand opening at Picacho Peak next weekend if I can find out exactly when and where. Not sure when I will be in the valley next.
Congrats! I'm sure you know we're all jealous as hell. You noted that licensing was not easy. Given that I'm P1312, I probably won't see the car until easly 2013, but would appreciate knowing anything that might minimize the chaos at DMV. This info would likely be appreciated by other AZ members. Thanks. Mark
What it boils down to is that the car must be inspected by ADEQ before they will certify that it is indeed an electric car so you will have to physically take it to them. After that you can then go to DMV and get it checked again and all that paperwork completed. This is not too bad other than the hassles of waiting in lines and dealing with people that are not familiar. You will be billed by TESLA for the sales tax due. TESLA will then issue a check to DMV for that tax. Problem is that if the check is not exactly the same as what DMV calculates then you have to go back to TESLA and get another check issued. In our case TESLA calculated the tax based on our residence in Pinal county which came out 7.7% and DMV used 6.6% which is the state tax only. Granted we got money back but it took over a week to get this all done. Watch the calculation of license and registration closely. Not all of the DMV staff know how to make the calculation. Your license and registration should be in the range of $33 (plates) + $8 (for alternative fuel plate) + $8 (registration) +$4 (TVL whatever that is) for a total of about $50-$55. I have suggested to TESLA that they just write the check for the taxes to the owners that way you can write a different check to DMV if the amounts do not match rather than Fed-Ex'ing things back and forth. If you want a personalized plate, you must first purchase the regular plate and then apply for the personalize plate.
Even if you have problems with DMV, you will have a 90 day temporary plate (window sticker) from California and you will be enjoying your car and the hassles if any will seem insignificant.
We have over 1000 mile in two weeks and are spoiled rotten. Our other vehicles are now, all of a sudden, really lame.
Mark, Congrats on the delivery! Definitely envious of you and all the others getting their deliveries now. I'm hoping to finalize in the next month or so, and looking for a March-May delivery. I stillneed some ducks to get into alignment for that to happen, but I'm working on it.
As a note, the $4 VLT (which is what I think you meant instead of TVL) is the Annual vehicle license tax. It's what some people call the annual registration fee for the car. So, $4 is awesome. That's because the biggest AZ incentive for EVs is the reduced VLT. For a new ICE, the VLT is calculated:
$2.80 for every $100 of assessed value of the car. The assessed value for ICEs is 60% of base new car price.
But for EVs, the VLT is calculated:
$4.00 for every $100 of assessed value of the car. The assessed value for EVs is 1% of the base new car price.
So, for the Tesla, the VLT is: 58000 * 1% / 100 * $4 = $4 since its the minimum. I beleive it is off of base regardless of options. But even if it was the retail price, it still would be on $4 since it would have to be over $100000 for it to be more than $4.
Compare this to a $58000 ICE: 58000 * 60% / 100 * $2.80 = $974.
So, in this case, the AZ EV incentive is $970. And since this is paid ANNUALLY, it accumulates over the lifespan of the car. The subsequent years are reduced by about 15% each year, but still it'll only be $4 per year for the Model S (whereas an ICE would still have payments in the hundreds each year).
I was wondering how the sales tax would be handled. And thanks to your experience, I have an answer. So it looks like AZ will only collect the state sales tax (6.6%) and not the municipal portions of the sales tax. This makes sense to me, but I wonder if your county/city will come at you for the additional 1.1% you referenced. (Have they? Or will you have to file something to pay it?) If not, this is also a savings since if I bought a car here in the PHX area, I'd have to pay the full 9.1%.
Anyways, congrats again on the car!!!
DMV made no mention of the county coming after us for the additional 1.1% tax. I can only surmise that the reciprocity between states over taxes does not apply at the county/city level. I do agree that this may end at some time when the governments figure out how to make it work. Hopefully it will not be retroactive. Looks like you are in for even more benefit with a 2.5% differential. Good luck.
Congrats to MarkV. This is all great to hear. Just heard that my delivery window is Dec 15-31. OMG . . . maybe it will really happen. Been waiting a hellova long time.
MarkV: and thanks for all of the very useful information regarding dealing with DMV. Perhaps by the time that I get the car, they will have come to some understanding that Tesla is indeed an electric vehicle.


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The NBA Development League's New Mexico Thunderbirds will move to Canton next season and be owned and operated by the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The NBA Development League has grown from humble beginnings in the American southeast to a league where some teams are solely backed by NBA franchises.
Canton's new D-League team will be one of them.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have bought the New Mexico Thunderbirds and will move the team to Memorial Civic Center for the 2011-12 season. The Cavs will become the fifth NBA team to own and operate their own minor league affiliate, joining Golden State, the Los Angeles Lakers, Oklahoma City and San Antonio.
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Hi,I just made small daysack out of Tyvek. Nothing new here I know, but I just wanted to share it with you guys here at MYOG forum.Thank you all for your shared experiences in your pack making..yours "tips and tricks" were of great help to me.It's my first ever homemade pack and I had great time making it. Everythingexcept cord, cordlock and ladderlock is made out of Tyvek "homewrap". Seams are all glued with 3M super glue. I like the look of GossamerGear Riksak and had it in mind while creating "Tysak". Most of the seams are made with overlapto get more strenght (thanks again for the tip about overlaping seam).It holds around 15 liters and weighs in at 2.84 oz. Using different lighter typeof Tyvek, like soft R type would bring the weight further down. I knowit will not last long but that's why I made it at first place to see how durable tyvek is and to start learning how to make a backpack.Thanks again!P.S.Sorry for my bad sounding Englishedited to add another picture
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I like the design. I'm a huge rucksack fan. Very nice work, I may have to make one just for the cost efficiency.EDIT: Did you use some sort of template or did you just improvise?Cheers!
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Velimir,Very well done. Simple and elegant!Todd
Hi,thank you both very much. Yes clean and simple is what I like as well! @Dan no there was no actual pattern, just few sketch ups and lots of ideas/thoughts from this site while making it. I think i didn't improvise as all parts were thought out before cutting them to save on Tyvek. Yes you should try to make one as well, it's dead easy and more important it's the start of my backpack making learning curve:). As you can see from the picturesit's not ideal but still I had lots of fun.and view from backcheers
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How open-minded are you when it comes to jokes? How far does your sense of humour go? Do you believe there are things people shouldn't joke about? Are there any topics you think should be avoided when it comes to jokes? What are those topics (if any) for you?
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hmm open-minded...
The term no holds barred-minded is more accurate.
My 'sense' of humor can be more mild flavored at times, although sarcastic and monotone is the norm and it is fueled with an excess of unfiltered associations and analogies forced to surface in mind.
It is not new to me when people have described me as crass, which agrees with my content (assuming they mean what I think they mean by the word) often enough.
In the more absolute sense I do not believe there are things people shouldn't joke about.
Although, what seems appropriate is to add that I do not find value or motivation to joke about certain things.
A quick example:
Child killed by chit-chatting on cellphone driver.
Parents just returned from the funeral.
The notion of bellowing out a jib about their daughter and cause of death ending with a punchline assured to be a gasser does not compute as making sense or hold reason.
Not factoring in that time of the month slightly modifying rationality, there is nothing that would be taboo material. That has nothing to do with having a blank stare unable to understand the humor or just finding certain humor signs the teller is not a mind I want to pick.
I make jokes all the time about things that are taboo, and my friends and family have come to know this about me and usually give me a giggle even if they thought it was a bit insensitive.
Awhile back, I was at a bar with a bunch of friends. One was this girl Louise, who I had dated for a few months, but had broken up amicably about 5 months earlier. That night my good friend Stan came up and told me him and Louise had been dating for a few weeks but hadn't told anyone, and he was very concerned that it would upset me if I found out so he wanted to make sure I was ok with it. Of course I was, and said don't even worry about it.
A little while later, I was talking to Stan, and he pointed out that Louise and this other girl were looking our way and laughing about something. I said "Oh man I know what it is, I bet she was just telling Chrissy what a small dick I have." He was so mad that I said something like that about his new gf (and my ex) that he slammed his beer down and walked out of the bar and wouldn't answer my calls. I had to meet him later in the week and apologize for bringing up such a taboo topic as my ex girlfriend having seen me naked.
Another funny thing about this is that my friend Stan has one of the most irreverent senses of humor of any of my friends, so the fact he got so upset about such an innocuous retort was that much more ridiculous. Years later, of course, Stan married Louise and we all laughed about the story.
Anyway I don't think anything is off limits. I was recently joking with another friend about coming up with a comedy sketch about a girl who, on her way out the door for a blind date, accidentally grabs the dog whistle off the kitchen counter instead of her rape whistle. And well, hilarity ensues...at least in our minds! (if anyone wants to help me film this surefire comedy hit, let me know)
I think everything is open to be joked about I think it's the context that really matters...
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (118 votes).
In short: It must be good cos I keep coming back. Several of my clubmates normally take part, but due to another event they were unable to come, but they will be back next year I am sure. We usually stay on after the race and make a day of it .Date of review: August 31, 2004
In short: Too tough for me, but I'm getting oldDate of review: August 31, 2004
In short: Not to be undertaken lightly, long may this race continue to be run. Challenging and tough. Friendly and informal. Popular with experienced and first time trail runners alike.In full: A great course. Frequent well stocked and well manned drinks stations. Road crossing points very well organised. Leg massage at the finish was a good idea and very well received - my thanks to Sandy who helped ease my troubled calfs! Shame the organisers missed me off the results page though.Date of review: August 31, 2004
In short: A must for any endurance runner...maybe a one off for some though!! Date of review: August 31, 2004
In short: The view from the top of the downs almost made the climbs worthwhile.Date of review: August 31, 2004
In short: Classic off-roader on the South Downs. A few nasty hills and a finishing section that seems to get longer every year.Date of review: August 31, 2004
In short: Lovely route through great scenery but you need to do your hill training - and no mile markers - learn the course, I didn't!Date of review: August 31, 2004
In short: if you like hills do it, this course will test youDate of review: August 30, 2004
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Nuffnang Hidden Gem For The Win!
Alright, I'm gonna go straight to the point…
I (or kenwooi.com to be exact) am a FINALIST for the Hidden Gem category for Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards 2011!
*pops champagne!*
Oh wait, pops champagne? Not yet win also. :/
Anyway, YES!!! kenwooi.com is in the running to become Asia-Pacific's next Best Hidden Gem blog! Wooah! *jumps on bed, sofa and into the air*
And amongst the other Hidden Gem finalists, kenwooi.com is the only representative for Malaysia and it'll compete for the award title with other Hidden Gems from 5 other countries involved in the Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards!
Woahhhhh!!! Can you believe it or not?! O.O
So you can vote for kenwooi.com to win the Best Hidden Gem award!
As much as I rarely to talk about my blog, I believe it would be a customary duty to tell the world oh wait, the world doesn't know about me right? I guess that's why kenwooi.com is addressed as a "Hidden Gem" blog. *shy*
So yeah, my dear readers, here are some reasons (out of zillion, jillion and gadzillion reasons!) why you should vote for me and also why kenwooi.com should win the Best Hidden Gem title…
To start with, kenwooi.com gives you the motivational laughter…
A blog that provides truthful statistics about our daily life…
It shares the best insights to the latest happenings in Malaysia such as the upcoming Warisan Merdeka Tower…
The blog that presents the previews of upcoming epic Malaysian movies…
An unusual blog that offers an out of the ordinary stories of a noob blogger…
Moving on, as awesome as kenwooi.com could be, the blogger behind it deserves a mention as well.
He's the blogger who has a part-time job as Iron Man…
A dude that owns the cute pink Hello Kitty KTM train…
The ordinary guy whose hobby is riding the bike like Mat Rempit…
A camera owner that has skillful camwhore technique which will soon be a trend in the whole wide world…
The Malaysian grown boy that many address as "Banana" for being a Chinese without good Chinese language command…
He's simply a boobs-loving guy…
Okay, maybe not the last one coz I bet girls will scream and run for their life on sight once they see me approaching. Crap!
So yeah, that's every reason why you would give kenwooi.com a *High 5* and vote for my blog as the Best Hidden Gem Blog in Asia-Pacific, if not the whole world.
No? You're just gonna leave without voting?
I guess I have to use my skillful persuasive technique to get votes from you then. Yes – you, you and you!
Here goes…
Uhh… that seemed a little despo, but still…
Click here now to vote for kenwooi.com! It's the only blog representing Malaysia in the Hidden Gem category!
Thank you in advance! :D
I seldom say this – it has been really an honor to have all the support given to kenwooi.com. My blog wouldn't have achieved this without that. I can never thank you all enough!!! :)
52 Comments for Nuffnang Hidden Gem For The Win!
congrats!! u r deserving of it..haha
Congrats! Will definitely be voting for u :)
You made it! *beams* =D
Good luck!
Congratz congratz! I nominated you for 2 categories; best entertainment blog and another one I forgot :P..
Hope that you win.
will vote for you once it's opened! hope you can win the award! :) good luck
Hmmmm….why i go that site it said "Cast Your Vote (Coming Soon)". 16th december baru can do ka?
Congrats congrats! We are all with you Ken! Malaysia BOLEH!
woots, well deserved!!!
Good to know that you are one of the finalist =)
wew hidden gem!!!! ok ok gimme the link lol
1 vote from me…you trully deserve it.
wow! congratssssss….
You are sure a very funny guy.love your posts. will definitely vote for u.keep up the good work especially those crazy poses pictures.
Congrats! You're on the way, Ken! True, ur blog is a real gem! Love it! Keep up the good work. Sure will vote for you… I think voting starts today – 15th. Good luck, all the best!
P.S. Still "coming soon"!!! Isn't it the 15th today? Tsk! Tsk! That's Malaysian efficiency for you…
SURELY will vote for you… Representing Malaysia wor.. like Lee Chong Wei .. so when? when??
can vote it again and again?? if yeah,then will definitely vote you.. :-p.. ha ha ha.. oh,I should post this in my blog then.. :-p
Your the boom!
sure win one bro!
now i jelly cos u is got nominated.
congrats bro! hope to see you at the awards!!
my vote goes to u ken!
Good Luck! ~
sure win punye :)
AWESOME!! Going to vote now~~
heyyyy!!! Where's the tribute to ME, the one who nominated you???? hah?? hah?? hahahhaah~
All the Best Kenwooi!
Vote for u~ Lalalalala!! Congratulations ya!! ^u^
CONFIRM Will vote for you !! ;)
congrats, u deserve it! Definitely will vote for u :)
BIG CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Gonna vote for you XD
Nice one.. Congrat for being nominated!
still coming soon =)
Congrats bro, my vote surely for you…teh tarikkk wehhh..hahah..gud luck
congrats Ken! will vote for u!!!
Congrats Ken. You deserve it. As somebody who has been following you blog for quite some time now, you'll surely get my vote.
Congrats Ken!! Will vote for you once it is open.
COngrats to u!!! Will definitely vote for you!! :D:D
Will vote for you =) you will win^^
You very famous lorrrr…The Captain Malaysia picture was being circulated over facebook the other day. My friends all shared it. LOL
Congratulations!!!! Will surely vote for you ^^
Hey, congrats for being nominated!
As a loyal reader, of course I'm voting for you.
All the best! :D
Hope you win.
Btw, nuffnang no nomination for best finance blog? Sigh.
you're just awesome bro.. A.W.E.S.O.M.E!!
congratulations. i know that one day you will reach this stage. although i don't really read that much of your blog. :D
ok.. you won my vote :)
congrats and good luck!
Congratz for being selected. Done with my vote have dropped a peel at NAPBAS 2011. Good luck!
waa…all the best!!
http://www.lonelyreload.com (A Growing Teenager Diary) ..
Your hilarious! :)) That's why I voted for you AND followed your blog… I hope you'll win :)
I'm done and voted 2x… hahaha you really deserve to win ^^
congrats to u hehehe i already voted u.. :P
vote jor vote jor~~!!!
Voted for you! Personally, I feel you're the best candidate by far :) All the best and keep up your humor :P
Congrats! You got my vote. :)
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Dioclesian Program Notes
The Prophetess; or, The History of Dioclesian (Z. 627)
by J.J.G.Muller-van Santen
Henry Purcell (1658/9-1695) was born in London at the very end of the Commonweath period. During Oliver Cromwell's Puritan rule public music, both sacred and secular, had been forbidden and the public theatres were closed. Purcell's father and uncle, both musicians, must have had difficulty making ends meet. Henry was still a baby at the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, when Charles II came to the throne. Charles, who adored the theatre and had been in exile both at the glittering court of his uncle Louis XIV in France and that of his sister Mary (married to Stadholder Willem II) in Holland, returned to England determined to equal their musical and theatrical splendor without risking the extravagance which had cost his father the throne and eventually his head. Louis XIV helped by giving him "twenty-four violins" (that is, string players and their instruments) to take home with him; the Court Music was reinstated, the theatres reopened. Charles enthusiastically allowed women on the public stage for the first time and the elder Purcells were fully employed.
Henry Purcell inherited the family musicality and at six or seven he became one of the Children of the Chapel Royal (wearing the same dress uniform Chapel boys wore at the 2011 royal wedding) and was given a solid musical education by teachers who played and composed music for the church, the court and the theatre. So from early childhood he was exposed to the three branches of musicianship in which he was to excel.
At twenty he succeeded his teacher John Blow as Westminster Abbey organist. and around the same time he started composing incidental music for plays performed at the Dorset Garden Theatre, which had been built specifically for what has been called "multi-media spectaculars". Dorset Garden or The Duke's Theatre (becoming The Queen's when James II succeeded his brother in 1685) was run by the actor/manager Thomas Betterton, who was involved in every aspect of the performances.
Dorset Garden had moveable perspective scenery, which slid onto and off the stage from the sides, running in grooves. "Machines" carrying people could come down from above and traps in the floor allowed devils and all kinds of objects to appear. One of the main attractions of the theatre was the rapid scene changes in full sight of the audience, as the curtain did not close during performances. The necessary ropes and capstan were manned (out of sight, presumably under the stage) by ex-sailors under the direction of a boatswain who gave his orders using a whistle. Whistling behind the scenes was strictly forbidden, for obvious reasons, and is still a serious no-no in the English theatre.
Purcell's first major theatrical work was the fifty-minute chamber opera Dido and Æneas, which the latest research dates to about 1683, but is known only in the 1689 version for the Chelsea school run by Mrs. Priest, wife of the dancing master and Dorset Garden choreographer Josias Priest. The libretto was by the playwright Nahum Tate, for several of whose plays Purcell had already composed music.
Charles II died in 1685 and was succeeded by his brother James II, who was at least as enthusiastic a theatre goer and patron. He once even lent the actors his coronation robes for a play. In 1688 James was deposed in favor of his daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband William III. William spent more money on warfare than he did on music which, in contrast to his wife, he seems not to have enjoyed. John Dryden criticised him regarding the war in Ireland in his Prologue to The Prophetess; or, Dioclesian which prologue was suppressed after the first night. William's lack of (financial) interest may have been one of the reasons why Purcell composed increasingly for the stage from 1689 on.
The Prophetess; or, Dioclesian, 1690, was the first of Purcell's so-called 'semi-' or 'dramatick' operas, composed for Dorset Garden Theatre. Unlike the through-composed Dido and Æneas, his dramatic operas were full-length plays with spoken text, instrumental and vocal music and dance. The general structure consisted in the First and Second Music while patrons entered the theatre. The cheap seats were backless benches which sometimes collapsed under the shifting weight of the noisy crowd. This problem was sometimes utilized for dramatic purposes: if a scene change could not be effected quickly enough, someone would be stationed in the back of the hall to break a stick at the operative moment. Everybody in the audience would turn around to see who had landed on the floor and when they turned back, the scene would have changed.
For a fee, orange sellers would add a billet-doux to the orange some gallant would send a "lady" and people were constantly going in and out. The more expensive seats were in the balcony and some boxes had lattices so nobody could see what was going on behind them. However, it could sometimes be heard, on occasion stopping the show.
The Curtain Tune (i.e. overture: the curtain went up at the beginning and normally did not fall again until the end of the performance) was followed by a five-act play with musical interludes, the acts often ending in masques; that is, musical episodes without spoken text, which originated as English court entertainments. The masques were adorned with spectacular costumes and scenery and usually had a mythological content bearing a metaphorical relationship to the plot of the opera.
The original play, The Prophetess, was written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger in 1623 and contained much less music. The adaptation is mainly Thomas Betterton's and "it gratified the Expectation of Court and City" according to the prompter, John Downes.
The story is loosely based on the career of the Roman emperor Diocletian (who lived around 300 CE) and is superficially about a power struggle in ancient Rome and warfare against the Persians, but actually has the same theme as many other operas: the conflict between love and duty.
Act I Numerianus, one of the three Roman emperors, has just been murdered. His brother Charinus offers co-emperorship and his sister Aurelia both a reward and marriage to whoever kills the murderer.
Drusilla, who has her eye on a rank-and-file soldier in the Roman army called Diocles, lives with her aunt Delphia, a prophetess. To balance this, Diocles has a nephew called Maximian, also a soldier. Delphia tells Diocles he will be emperor when he has killed a great boar, after which he will marry Drusilla. Diocles believes her and starts slaughtering all the wild boars he can find. Nothing else happens. After a time he realises (with a bit of help) that a soldier named Volutius Aper (Aper= wild boar in Latin) is the murderer. There is no music in this act.
Act II: Diocles leads Aper, in chains, onto the stage and kills him- hardly a heroic deed. However music, struck "from the Spheres," shows that the Gods approve and the soloist sings Great Diocles the Boar has killed, followed by Let the Soldiers Rejoyce and Sing Io's. Pallas Athene, goddess of war and Venus, goddess of love, share the honor, as Venus inspires "thund'ring Jove" in G major. Note that when the opera opened, William was away fighting in Ireland and Mary was ruling England alone.
Then Charon the boatman who ferries the dead across the river Styx tells the living to observe the necessary rites for ensuring that the dead Numerianus reaches the farther shore safely, in Royal C major for the dead emperor in accordance with contemporary convention. Sound all your instruments of War/Fifes, Trumpets, Timbrals play; the call to musical arms becomes a very slow Italianate Symphony for Trumpets and Violins back in G major and modulating to C for royalty again after the symphony, for the second half of the quatrain: Let all Mankind the Pleasure share/and bless this happy Day on which Diocles, who has been elected emperor by the army, will be invested. The transitions in both the music and the tripartite text on funeral-war-investiture, all within one musical event, are quite abrupt, anticipating the problems in the next scene. Purcell's setting meticulously follows the windings of the plot.
Soloist: Let the priests with processions the hero attend; Chorus: All sing great Diocles' story. Beautiful Princess Aurelia, the former emperor's sister, again offers to marry the hero and Diocles, now styled Dioclesian, is eager to do so, forgetting all about Drusilla. As the marriage ceremony begins, Delphia and Drusilla are hovering unseen over the stage in Delphia's dragon chariot (every self-respecting magician had one on the 17th-century stage). Delphia is furious and sends a monster to interrupt the proceedings. Thunder! Lightning! according to the stage directions. Everybody runs away as a Monster comes slowly downstage and metamorphoses into a Dance of Furies to Purcell's dramatic music.
Act III
The scene shows "Hangings and figures Grotesk" painted on them, later replaced by dancers coming "off" the curtains and others replacing them there. There is a literal Chair Dance, a dance by chairs.
Aurelia is given a charm by Delphia, making her fall in love with Dioclesian's nephew Maximian, now styled Maximinian. He has been in love with her all along, as shown in When first I saw the bright Aurelia's eyes, a song added for a 1693 revival. Aurelia is portrayed as being very haughty in a sub-plot involving a Persian captive princess, but Maximinian's What shall I do demonstrates that he is oblivious to this. She falls into his arms as Dioclesian enters without her recognising him. All except the bereft Dioclesian leave the stage; enter Delphia, who chides him. He promises (again) to marry Drusilla and back comes Aurelia, the spell now having worn off. She reclaims Dioclesian, he follows her away and Delphia makes threats involving the Persian army.
In Act IV Maximinian and Aurelia are captured by the Persians and Dioclesian decides this is his fault for breaking his promise to Delphia. Reconciliation. Just to show him what would have happened if he had not repented, Delphia conjures a scene with Aurelia's tomb, which eventually turns into a Butterfly Dance, a scene borrowed almost literally from Lully's Cadmus et Hermione. An off-stage battle follows, the prisoners are freed and Dioclesian triumphs once again. Sound Fame, who is personified blowing her trumpet; a virtuoso part for one of the famous Shore family of players.
Let all rehearse (meaning 'repeat' at that time) the story of our hero Dioclesian. In Act V he pardons the King of Persia, returns his crown and hands over his own to Maximinian, along with Aurelia's hand. Dioclesian chooses love in a cottage with Drusilla. Delphia, satisfied, offers the illustrious company a closing masque, with Cupid as Master of Ceremonies.
Call the Nymphs and the Fawns (=fauns) from the woods followed by a page and a half of stage directions calling for four platforms descending and a number of orange trees (symbolising William of Orange) rising from under the stage.
The throne on the topmost stage is for Cupid. Behold O Mightiest of Gods, at thy Command we come. Two Wood-Gods sing Ah! The sweet Delights of Love, followed by a Faun singing what is in fact the credo of the opera; Let Monarchs fight for Pow'r and Fame…Astrea's all the World to me. Then comes another song added for the revival, the famous Since from my Dear. The singer is rudely torn from her sight, to die ambiguously; to seek oblivion too in a bottle, for in comes Bacchus. Drinking song: The Mighty Jove, followed by a dance. Several love songs and duets, include a song by Two Youths, All our Days and our Nights, which had a second stanza, Let us Dance, let us Sing, found in the word-book but not set until the 1693 revival. This pastoral interlude culminates in Be Gone, importunate Reason; in short: seize the day. The masque terminates in the final trio: Triumph, Victorious Love with its chaconne ground bass and the chorus extolling the Glory of Almighty Love.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A small earthquake has rattled nerves near the Southern California community of Big Bear Lake.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the temblor hit about 10 a.m. Saturday, centered about 7 miles northwest of the lake resort.
It had a preliminary 4.6 magnitude - considered a light quake.
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| Woodlawn -- For the average Latino, it's just not Christmas without tamales. And thanks to one advocacy group's fundraiser, many Birmingham-area holiday tables will feature the bite-sized corn-husk delights.
As part of our a la bamba series, WBHM's Steve Chiotakis listened in on the preparation with Isabel Rubio, the Executive Director of the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama, Eva (EH'vah) Tal and Hector Estrada, among many other volunteers working in the kitchen. We also hear from Guermo Castro, a local restauranteur and customers anxious to dig into this Latino Navidad tradition!
Isabel Rubio: "Today we're making tamales. Tamales are a real big tradition in Latin America, much like Turkey is at Thanksgiving or Ham is at Christmas here in the states. So we decided, well, you know, maybe this is something we should try and do to bring more -- introduce more of the Latino culture to Birmingham, through food. I mean, what better way to get to your heart than your stomach?"
Guermo Castro: "Obviously, all around Mexico you've got different kind of flavors -- it's all the same way. It's a corn dough, basically, stuffed with whichever you want to do. You celebrate Christmas inviting your friends, your neighbors, your family, and while you're praying and singing, your tamales are steaming in the kitchen."
Eva Tal: "I'm making the pork with salsa. This is going to go into the tamal with the masa. First we have to cook the pork, because it takes a long time for the pork to cook. So we cook the pork and then we make the salsa and pull apart the pork and mix it all together."
Castro: "You can feed the masses when you have your Christmas parties at home and you just have 100 or 200 tamales ready and steamed for everybody to get a bite."
Rubio: "We approached this with some trepidation and didn't want to be slammed at the last minute, so we said we'll do this on a pre-order basis -- but of course the pre-orders kept coming in way after the deadline, I took one just about an hour ago! It's been incredibly successful and we are very pleased. We have orders for more than 1,100 tamales."
Hector Estrada: "I'll mix tomatoes and put a little water and something like that. Some salt too. Mix fast! It's good!"
Rubio: "The finished product, the finished tamale is a little bundle wrapped in corn-husks. Little bundles of corn meal and meat and all sorts of yummy things and they look -- they look very good! They're about as big as a dollar bill that's folded in half. Bite-size, really yummy. Now we're going to put these in these special tamale pots that we have and steam them for a couple of hours and then they'll be ready to be partitioned off and bundled up to fill the orders that we have."
Rubio: "OK, this is probably our largest order..."
Customer: "Probably is... Just so it makes you feel better, I am buying for other people, I have four other orders..."
Rubio: "Good! Thank you, we love that!"
Customer: "People were so excited..."
Rubio: "OK, 90 bucks."
Other customer: "Did you get any sleep last night?"
Rubio: "This was the night of the tamales... the annual night of the tamales... and Feliz Navidad! Gracias!"
Customer: "(mumbles) A tradition...it just became our tradition now!"
~Steve Chiotakis, December 24, 2003


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Woman's bike stolen from St John's Lane, Bedminster
Posted: January 24, 2013|
AN upset cyclist is appealing for help in finding her beloved vintage bike, which was stolen while she viewed a house in Bedminster.
Emily Arnold was looking around a property on St John's Lane on the evening of Thursday, January 24, when a thief struck.
The 28-year-old puzzle compiler had locked one of the bike's wheels to the frame, but an opportunist criminal still ran off with it between 5.20pm and 5.25pm.
Emily said: "I've had my lovely bike for about five years and I ride it to and from work every day. It is at least 20 years old and is quite rare so it can't be replaced.
"I just hope someone knows where it is and can contact me or the police."
The bike is a vintage Carlton-Courette with a mixte frame, a Brooks saddle and has a Kwiklock basket attachment on it. The back mudguard has a hole in it where the reflector previously broke off.
Anyone who knows where it is, or who witnessed the crime, should call the police on 101 or Emily on 07773141087.


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The end of the year is a time for reflection, personal growth, and new beginnings. It is also a time when every video editor from here to Bollywood feels compelled to cut together an emotionally-charged year-in-film mashup. This one is particularly emotional, and particularly awesome. The Furry Vengeance parts still suck, though. (/Film)
These links sum up the day:
Video Games Make Kids Smarter (Asylum)
Barstool NY Smokeshow of the Day (BarstoolSports)
And Now He's Fired: Dustin Hazelett (CagePotato)
25 Muppets In Unwholesome Situations (HolyTaco)
The 12 Most Insane News Stories of 2010 (FilmDrunk)
The 50 Best Movies of 2010 (MovieFone)
Other Disney Franchises Get TRON-ified (Unreality)
Hotties On the Range (Maxim)
Five Ways to Tame Your Mane (MadeMan)
The 25 Ugliest Christmas Sweaters Ever (Smosh)
Female Chargers Fans vs. Female 49ers Fans (TotalProSports)
Teams Brawl In Mexican Baseball League (TuVez)
Sometimes Children Are Bad People Too (Pajiba)
50 Cent's Home Burglarized (PopEater)
The Five Most Brutal Sports Fails of 2010 (Ranker)
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Robert Reynolds talks System Center and Cross Platform Management
About This Video
Robert Reynolds is the Director of Product Planning for System Center. I was able to get some time with him to talk about the cross platform announcements around System Center and Virtual Machine Manager. Robert answers the question of "Why do cross platform now?"
Published Date: April 29, 2008
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The "Ralph Kramden" BusCon 2013 video series is a hit with record numbers of views. Make sure you get in on the fun and see the latest video and previously released ones here.
The about-face came just six days after an internal audit of the city's public transportation system was released to the council. In it is a recommendation to raise paratransit rates to $2.50 a ride from the $2 fee riders have paid since 1996.
Since the ADA's signing in 1990, AC Transit and BART have worked to ensure disabled residents are able to enjoy the many benefits of public transportation. The two agencies joined together in 1994 to form the East Bay Paratransit Consortium.
A paratransit fare increase may be proposed to fill the gap; however, Pace Executive Director T.J. Ross acknowledged it would be very difficult for those riders to absorb.
A Rutgers study is first step toward making it easier for adults on the autism spectrum to use public transportation.
During a hearing with LAX's disability advisory committee this year, Uber representatives said they had about 10 wheelchair-accessible vehicles available in L.A., provided by a non-emergency medical transportation company.
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12 3/4 in. x 21 5/16 in. (32.39 cm x 54.13 cm)
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Geoffrey Stone, 'The Next Justice: What Obama Wants'
What criteria will President Obama take into account is selecting his first nominee to the Supreme Court? I think four factors will be especially important to him.
1. High level of intellectual ability. As a professor of constitutional law, Obama fully understands the complexity of a Supreme Court justice's responsibilities and the importance of analytical fire-power both to meet those responsibilities and to persuade colleagues. He will want his legacy to include the appointment of Supreme Court justices of whom he can be proud. A very high level of intellectual ability is certainly a prerequisite to that. Anyone can cast a vote. Obama will want much more than that.


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Sometimes a strong reputation can trump any other consideration.
When the first state Class B girls soccer rankings were released at the end of September, Marcellus held the top spot – even though it had lost to no. 9-ranked Skaneateles less than a week earlier.
But that 1-0 defeat on Sept. 23 did serve as a reminder to Marcellus that it had to bring its best game, regardless of the opposition. One-sided victories over Hannibal and Red Creek by a total margin of 21-3 proved that the lesson had taken hold.
And so did last Monday night's easy 9-1 victory over Jordan-Elbridge, where the Mustangs rolled to a 3-0 edge by halftime and put up double that number in the second half, even though Brienna Fabrize scored on a free kick for the Eagles.
Jada Sargeant had her best showing yet, the sophomore pouring in four goals, two of them on well-placed headers, while Brielle Filtch scored twice. Shannon Donahue, Karen Cramer and Molly Tice had the other goals, with Madi Belvito putting up three assists. Filtch joined Emma Blystone, Mia Montreal and Nicole Dillon with one assist apiece.
As if that wasn't dominant enough, Marcellus took apart Solvay two nights later, again getting well into double digits in a 12-1 romp over the Bearcats.
Other than Chelsie Delperuto's goal on a second-half free kick, it proved a Mustang showcase, especially for Filtch, who piled up four goals and one assist before it was done.
Belvito had two goals and one assist, while Blystone, Tice, Laura Dailey, Bri Sammon, Molly MacLachlan and Keelin Kelly notched single goals. Sargeant, Nellie Ramsden and Meghan Witkowski joined Blystone and MacLachlan in the assist column.
It expected to be a lot tougher for the Mustangs in Saturday's game against visiting Cazenovia, who had just upended Skaneateles 2-1 two days earlier. But steady pressure, and strong finishes from a well-balanced attack, produced a 4-0 shutout over that other group of Lakers.
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Reading Is Fundamental to Boost Reading Achievement of Low-Income Students with $4 Million Grant
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2012 – Through a $4.18 million award by the Department of Education's Innovative Approaches to Literacy Program, Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) will launch a new program to combat summer reading loss among children living in poverty.
"Children living in poverty often return to school each fall without having read a single book, putting them further and further behind academically," said RIF President and CEO Carol H. Rasco. "This new program will provide valuable research on a scalable model to stem the 'summer slide' and prepare children for success not only in the classroom but throughout their lives."
RIF's program will reach 22,000 students in 200 schools – in districts where at least a quarter of the students are living below the poverty line – and in 17 states (Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Washington).
Students will select eight books to take home along with age-appropriate activities aligned with the Common Core Standards, focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) themes. Teachers will learn more about summer learning loss and how RIF's intervention can help. Families will be included as partners in their children's reading, participating in a summer and fall family reading celebration that includes parent forums. During the summer reading program, parents will also receive weekly communications with tips and reminders, as well as a face-to-face discussion mid-summer.
Teachers in the participating schools will receive STEAM-based training and a 40-title STEAM-based book collection, along with related teaching materials. Each library or media center will also receive a copy of the collection.
To gauge progress and reading achievement of students, the program will include both qualitative and quantitative analysis to add to the body of knowledge about book access and summer reading.
The program is based on the research by Dr. Thomas White of the University of Virginia and Dr. James Kim of Harvard that shows when students voluntarily read books that match their reading ability and interest, and their teachers and parents are engaged in supporting their learning, learning loss can be stemmed significantly over the summer. In fact, in the Kim and White study published in 2008, children gained 1.7 to 5.1 months in reading over the summer.
More than $28 million was awarded to 46 non-profits and school districts through the Innovative Approaches to Literacy Program, with RIF receiving the largest amount.
"Literacy is the key to higher learning and a window to the world," said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. "These grants will develop programs that help students cultivate skills that will boost achievement, carry them through adulthood and prepare them for success in our global economy."
Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) delivers free books and literacy resources to children and families in underserved communities in the United States. By giving children the opportunity to own a book, RIF inspires them to become lifelong readers and achieve their full potential. As the nation's largest children's literacy nonprofit, RIF has placed 400 million books in the hands of more than 35 million children since it was established in 1966. Learn more and help RIF provide books to kids who need them most, visit RIF.org.
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Unfortunately, all of this stuff really happened.
I woke up at 9:04 that morning with the typical "nothing can possibly go wrong" attitude I like to adopt on holiday weekends. Slightly bloated from the feast of leftovers from Thanksgiving two nights ago, I rolled out of bed. My sister was washing her face in the bathroom to the great dismay of her face, which was suffering from premenstrual syndrome. She asked me if I wanted to go to the gym with her. My brain said, "Eh," but my wobbly gut said, "It really would be in your best interest," and so my mouth (the only one that could truly be understood) said, "Sure". Well her mouth, which seemed to have already adopted a slight downward curvature with the weight of the PMS plaguing the more northerly regions of her face, said "Alright. You've got two minutes to get ready." Well, it was a little less than I had anticipated but no big deal.
Well, I got ready in about four and a half minutes, not that I was really counting, I'm just pretty sure that it was more than two but less than five. Anyway, we went to the gym and had a decent workout except for the fact that the teacher's microphone wasn't exactly working, which is another way of saying that it wasn't working. Oh well, I could still hear her enough to follow the movements of the people in the front of the class who could actually hear her over the sound of the music, which was that kind of music that you know the words to when it's playing but you can't even remember the tune when it isn't. The hour went by and I made sure not to push myself because I knew I would be staying for the next class. Of course that meant that we weren't staying for the next class, because my sister had forgotten that PMS often evolves to the point where you can drop the P. Well, in most people's book, the party is over once you ruin your pants, so we went home. No big deal.
We arrived home at about 10:30am to find our mother on the old dilapidated love seat (the one that would shortly be replaced by a new love seat). This wasn't a particularly unusual position for her; it's just that this time there was a bag of ice seated on top of her foot, which is usually not a good sign. Apparently, common sense is hereditary and my family is not predisposed. My mother had tried to
move the little trailer (onto which the love seat would shortly be moved) by herself despite being well aware of the fact that she could not actually move it by herself. Thankfully, her foot cushioned its fall when it inevitably did. Well, because no one had seen the incident happen, I can only assume that it didn't because she was walking just fine only about five minutes later, when she realized that my sister and I were actually going to help her move it. This is of course assuming that the thing could be moved, which was far from the actual case. The problem with moving something that can't be moved is that it rarely goes anywhere. So the best way to move it is to bring something big to it that can actually move it without injuring itself. That would be our Jeep. By some miracle, we managed to hook them together and
pull the trailer out.
In attempting to back the trailer up the driveway closer to the house, we shortly discovered that my sister can't back up a trailer to save her life. So we would just have to carry the old dilapidated couch and love seat (which had a date with the dump approximately three miles away) to the trailer which was now parked obnoxiously close to a tree. With all the cushions removed and a rather narrow path in the piles of sewing materials to the door, the couch was actually a rather simple move, until we actually reached the door and discovered that magicians must have installed the couches in the first place. The couch was just the right width to look as though it would fit through the door frame, but just wide enough not to. Thankfully, turning it on its side made it narrow enough to get out, as long as we didn't mind losing a little paint off the door (not that we really had an option because it happened nevertheless). Well, the problem with couches that don't exactly fit out of a door is that they don't exactly fit out of a door twice. Luckily, the legs were made of plastic, so I was able to twist them off with only a small amount of discomfort. And so, the couch makes it out of the house. Then it was the love seat's turn. Using prior knowledge, we turned it sideways and got the front end out of the door. Well, prior knowledge only seems to work insofar as the circumstances are the same; well, they weren't. In trying to twist the legs off it was shortly made apparent that they would have nothing to do with it, because, this time, they were made of wood instead of plastic and they were very very secure. For once in the history of furniture, good craftsmanship was given the raspberry.
Well, we somehow managed to get the love seat out the door to the great astonishment of everyone involved, most of all to the astonishment of the love seat. While the furniture got cozy on the dinky wooden trailer, the couch cushions got comfy in the trunk of the Jeep, except for two cushions that had apparently gained weight over the holidays too. They went in the trailer with the couches that refused to be properly bungeed to the trailer. One bungee even snapped back in protest, hitting me square on the left shoulder. Luckily my pain tolerance was in a good mood that day, so a good shrug was enough to make the pain find somewhere else to play where it wouldn't be ignored so easily. No big deal.
The Jeep, the people in the Jeep, the trailer, and the couches rolled down the gravel driveway and onto the paved cul-de-sac. The shift revealed a rather irritating thumping sound coming from the trailer that was previously obscured by the usual thumping sound that comes from driving a trailer down a gravel driveway. Well, that's probably not good. Upon review, it was found that the right wheel of our two wheeled trailer was in a considerably bad mood. It had a rather unfortunate crack in the side of it that had leaked enough air to yield a visage of concern from my mother. That was no big deal though because, luckily, we had a compressor in the trunk of our other car, and even more luckily, my sister was willing to fetch it. The genius that had invented this compressor made it so that it could be plugged into the lighter of the car, but made the hose only long enough to reach the wheels of the car into which it was plugged. It didn't account for the wheels of a trailer attached to the car into which it was plugged. No big deal. We got the other car and pulled up behind the trailer. This was equally effective, so, in other words, ineffective. It was an easy fix though; we just pulled the other car to the side of the trailer. Now there was no possible way that the cord would not be long enough. However we did not take into account the fact that the genius who had invented the compressor was also a complete nincompoop. Apparently, the genius had installed a release button on the plug. One might compare this to a self destruct button because that is precisely what it did. During the handoff, the entire plug fell apart. The tire continued to not be
filled with air.
After much discussion, we decided that because the dump was only three miles from where we were (at the time blocking anyone from entering or exiting the cul-de-sac), we could just drive the distance at a painfully slow speed with my sister following behind in our other car. This worked for about two miles to the chagrin of anyone following us. Well, when the trailer began drifting into oncoming traffic, we thought, "Huh, that could be a bad thing," so we decided to pull over. We opened the doors of the Jeep to the unwelcoming smell of burning rubber (a smell that most try to avoid). Both wheels of the two wheeled trailer were now flat, only three quarters of a mile away from the dump which was quickly beginning to look like a Mecca in relation to the hell hole we were currently digging ourselves into. One of the overweight couch cushions sensed this and tried to make a getaway only to be run over and then picked up again by my sister in the other car. Hey, no big deal, we were getting rid of the cushions anyway.
Only a hundred feet down the road was a gas station, and if BP's record is any indication of how quickly things can go from bad to worse, we might very well have just given up then. But if there's one thing my family is good at, it's ignoring bad omens. The gas station must have been giving away free puppies with their gas because everyone and their cousin Bob seemed to need to use that particular gas station at the exact same time. Two cars were on either side of the vacuum pump (which was cheerfully labeled) but there was no indication of a hose that might blow air in the outward direction. I went inside and was informed that the air was just a hose in the ground between two yellow poles. We pulled up next to the two yellow poles, successfully blocking the two cars using the cheerful vacuum pumps and successfully being blocked by some poor schmuck on a motorcycle who needed a jump from someone else that managed to park in the exact spot that completed our game of vehicle Tetris. Unfortunately no one disappeared as a reward for completing it. Well, at least the air was free, not that it did us much good, because it was at that time that we realized that the tire that had been feeling a little down in the dumps earlier (pun intended), had taken a page out of the book of the escapee couch cushion. The tire was now halfway off the rim. Well, that might be a big deal.
Via something that can only be described of as voodoo, we managed to finagle our way out of the gas station and into the parking lot of the shopping center only fifty feet away. There was an Ace Hardware in the shopping center that was the most likely to be our saving grace. Unfortunately, though they were well supplied with grace, they were short on trailer tires, and apparently had been so forever. It was 1:00pm. The voice of logic (my mom) called AAA, which must stand for "All About Absence", because they took their sweet time getting there. In fact, they were gone just long enough for my sister and I to eat a late lunch and peruse a nearby used book store (which seemed to have some sort of fascination with leaving both the back and front doors open in 50 degree weather, thus creating the perfect draft that makes you shudder every couple of seconds), while my mom went several miles out of her way to buy a couple of new tires.
When AAA finally moseyed by, it was about 3:00 in the afternoon, and the dump usually closes at 5:00pm. Of course, this is just the right amount of time to make it completely impossible to get the trailer a half a mile down the road, because the tires were not the right size. Why would they be, right? Apparently, 35 dollars is the amount of money it takes for AAA to do absolutely nothing but jack up a trailer. Ace Hardware, still full of grace, was kind enough to let us use a couple of its cinderblocks. So the trailer, full of dingy old couches, sleeps on a bed of borrowed cinderblocks in a little space in the parking lot of an Ace Hardware (half a mile away from a dump that should be full of those old couches) until a time when it can be fixed. So if you see this poor trailer, would you be so kind as to take it?


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One of our dreams is to recapture the sense of kinship that once infused our urban, suburban, and rural communities. Another dream is to modify the "sameness" now common in many neighborhoods. We are committed to creating a diverse community that will embrace and support individuals and families, and that includes people of different backgrounds - including class, ethnicity, age, gender, physical abilities, education, and sexual orientation. We've begun a dialog about creative ways to share our resources with a variety of diverse community groups around us.
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New Tech High SchoolNew Tech encourages students to be in charge of their learning and understand that it is a shared responsibility. Technology plays a role, but is only one part of the equation. More prominent is project-based learning, which turns students into team members, teachers into facilitators, and community members into audiences.November 2011
Students' View of School
Success in school is not just about academics; it's also about students connecting with one another and their teachers. School engagement is key to a student's academic success. A new tool called Kids with Cameras can help you discover what and who connects your students to their schools.
May 2011
Using a Virtual Desktop
With virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), users are no longer tethered to a specific computer at a specific site with a standardized configuration of software that is blind to their needs and interests. Each user has unique profiles for instructional software, administrative tools, and data. All that's required is Internet access.
April 2011
One-to-One Computing in N.C.
A North Carolina district's teachers say one-to-one computing has fundamentally changed their jobs. Now students direct much of their own learning. Instruction is more personalized, as teachers regularly move among individual students or small groups. Many teachers say the change has made their jobs harder but also more fulfilling.
April 2011
Improving Instruction With Technology
Technology is altering the landscape of student testing, in much the same way that student testing altered public education decades ago. Test developers and researchers have moved beyond using technology to process information into the deeper but trickier mission of figuring out what a student knows and how to improve instruction.
March 2011
How to Manage E-rateE-rate brings affordable telecommunications and Internet access to schools and libraries. This money has helped to increase broadband connectivity and establish a strong partnership between education and online resources. Broadband connectivity also is making schools safer. Here's what you need to know about changes made in the E-rate requirements since last year.
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A team of biologists has discovered a new remarkable species of Andean semiaquatic lizard in southern Peru.
The team, led by Germán Chávez and Diego Vásquez, both of the Center for Ornithology and Biodiversity in Lima, Peru, discovered a lizard species of the genus Potamites during biological surveys conducted as a part of the COGA's Diversity Monitoring Program.
In the paper, published online on Jan. 31 in the journal ZooKeys, the team says that the lizard, called Potamites montanicola, measures approximately 6 to 7 cm in body length, with a tail measuring about 10 cm, and has highly keeled scales over all its back.
"The first specimen of P. montanicola was discovered in Cajadela Native community by Karla García, a member of our team, in August 2010," said Dr. Chávez in the interview with Sci-News.com. "This only specimen was found when the surveys was ending. One morning, when Karla García was walking back to the camp, this lizard was crossing a trail very close to a creek in a secondary forest."
The authors also note that the species is known only from two localities in the Andes in southern Peru, both separated by 64 km air line and located at the Cordillera de Vilcabamba and Apurimac river valley.
"According to our field data, this species is very restricted to streams with fresh temperatures of 14 to 16 Celsius degrees," Dr. Chávez explained. "The most of the specimens were observed at night, thus we believe that this species is nocturnal (active at night), but we can't confirm this. We also found some individuals at day (some recently collected specimens). They were always spotted under rocks, probably with lower activity than at night when we found the specimens running or swimming."
"The males have great colors on the vental region of the body. They can be light blue, electric blue with black spots or yellow with black spots, while the ventral region in females can be creamy white or light red. Males are longer than females. Although we have no records or proofs that P. montanicola is a part of the diet of some snakes, it is probably that this lizard is prey for snakes such as Bothriopsis taeniata, Chironius monticola and even juveniles of Lachesis muta, recorded in the same location."
The species name is derived from the Spanish 'montano', an adjective to describe something from a mountain, and the Latin suffix '-icola' for 'inhabitant' and refers to the montane forests where P. montanicola lives.
"This species is the first Potamites recorded in mountain forests at elevation above 2,000 m, that give us an idea about an unknown diversity of Andean Potamites," Dr. Chávez concluded. "Over the last years, many species of amphibians have been described from Peru, but very few reptiles. Thus, it is another proof of the reptiles richness in our country."


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VB.NET -> http://visualbasic.about.com/od/lear.../a/LVBE_L1.htm
That link allows you to learn about VB 2005 express edition, the free software available at microsoft.com
Insturctions on d/l the environment are listed. A very good guide explaining Object Oriented Programming.
Also a Free Newlsetter spam-proof is offered. Good luck learning VBE :-)
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TLM, for such a small example for C++ it was unbelievably sloppy -.- lol.
Maybe list LPC? Common language used in client MUD's.
Found a couple decent resources so far:
I just noticed something. In the Perl example, shouldn't you include the shebang? Also for good practice, use warnings;.
To make it clear.
Code:#!/usr/bin/perl # Hello world in perl use warnings; print "Hello World!\n";
Ah, then they should fix it But I guess it isn't that important if it's just a quick example...


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The Agency is, in a
sense, two different bands. There's the one
fronted by Mike Marsh that is a gritty, alt-rock
band and there's the one fronted by Chris
Drueke that is a pop-rock band. The difference between
songs fronted by one or the other of those two is
actually quite significant and results in a total
package that has quite a lot more to offer than
most bands who put out an album of ten songs that
all sound relatively the same.
Marsh is the drummer for Dashboard
Confessional and he takes center stage (about half
the time) on the Agency's third album, "Turn."
Marsh has that gravely voice reminiscent of classic
rock front men like Buckcherry's Josh Todd
but his music isn't so blatant in those roots
and leans toward more modern sensibilities. The
Drueke-led tracks are by far the strongest with
much more focused writing and all the hooks. "I'm
Innocent!" would be right at home on a Third
Eye Blind album and, in fact, the high range of
Drueke's voice is a dead ringer for Stephan
Jenkins. The soaring chorus of "Found"
and the march of "Mary Mourn" are splendid
examples of pop writing at its best.
Both faces of the Agency are so good
that they could easily split and go on to form two
very good bands. As a whole, they're even
better. While the entire band gets writing credits
on each song, I'm guessing that Marsh and
Drueke focused their energies on their own songs
and that results in five great songs a piece rather
than ten average ones together. The Agency's
makeup is not typical and it doesn't always
work, but in this case, it's a 2-for-1 deal
that you should jump on right away.
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The phenakistoscope (also spelled phenakistiscope or phenakitiscope) was an early animation device that used the persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion.
Although this principle had been recognized by the Greek mathematician Euclid and later in experiments by Newton, it was not until 1829 that this principle became firmly established by the Belgian Joseph Plateau.[1] Plateau planned it in 1829 and invented it in 1832. Later the same year the Austrian Simon von Stampfer invented the stroboscopic disk, a similar machine. A contemporary edition of Britannica says "The phenakistoscope or magic disc...was originally invented by Dr. Roget, and improved by M. Plateau, at Brussels, and Dr. Faraday."[2]
The phenakistoscope used a spinning disc attached vertically to a handle. Arrayed around the disc's center was a series of drawings showing phases of the animation, and cut through it was a series of equally spaced radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the disc's reflection in a mirror. The scanning of the slits across the reflected images kept them from simply blurring together, so that the user would see a rapid succession of images that appeared to be a single moving picture.
A variant of it had two discs, one with slits and one with pictures; this was slightly more unwieldy but needed no mirror. Unlike the zoetrope and its successors, the phenakistoscope could only practically be used by one person at a time. The phenakistoscope was only famous for about two years due to the changing of technology.
The first part of the term 'phenakistoscope' comes from the root Greek word φενακίζειν - phenakizein, meaning "to deceive" or "to cheat", as it deceives the eye by making the objects in the pictures appear to move.
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Online sources sometimes refer to this invention as the Phantasmascope or the Phantascope.[3] However, Phantascope is also the name given to two different, later, projection-based moving picture devices.
The Special Honorary Joseph Plateau Award, a replica of Plateau's original phenakistiscope, is presented every year to a special guest of the Flanders International Film Festival whose achievements have earned a special and distinct place in the history of international film making.
See also[edit]
- ^ North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM)
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, 8th edition, 1857, Edinburgh, volume XVI, p. 697.
- ^ [1]
External links[edit]
- Collection of simulated phenakistiscopes in action - Museum For The History Of Sciences
- Another collection of animated phenakistoscopes - The Richard Balzer Collection
- An exhibit of similar optical toys, including the zoetrope (Laura Hayes and John Howard Wileman Exhibit of Optical Toys in the NCSSM)
- Some pictures - Example of the phenakistiscope
- Magic Wheel optical toy, 1864, in the Staten Island Historical Society Online Collections Database


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