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Motivation - Giving a reason or incentive to achieve something. The interest in or enthusiasm to make the effort to achieve something. The biological, emotional, cognitive, or social forces that move and direct behavior.
Motivation increases an individual's energy and activity level. It directs an individual toward particular goals. It promotes initiation of particular activities and persistence in those activities. It affects the learning strategies and cognitive processes an individual employs.
Sources of motivation can be either extrinsic or intrinsic. Extrinsic motivations come from outside of the person and a task to be performed, can be superficially effective, and typically require repetition to be effective. Intrinsic motivations come from witin an individual and a task to be performed, are apt to result in greater willingness, and are more apt to have long-lasting effectiveness.
Everyone has motivations to attain success and to avoid pain, often via food, exercise, rest, shelter, parental care, sex, and aggression — needed behaviors established either genetically or by training which help to insure our survival. Although the need for money comes as a result of several of these motivations, it can help to satisfy a host of others on many levels.
Artists, students, educators, collectors, gallery and museum people — like every other organism in the world — have reasons for doing what they do. Although much scientific study has been done on animals and humans at biological and psychological levels, much of which might be useful background to readers of ArtLex, this article will focus on motivational issues for people in the artworld.
Operating on several levels is the motivation for new stimulation — variously called exploration, curiosity, or arousal-seeking. This is one of several strong motivators in the artworld. Typical of artists' needs are the ones to produce and exhibit the work. Although artists, like everyone else, thrive on praise and financial rewards, many artists are drawn to their work even more by satisfactions that come from expressing their creative ideas. This can truly be living one's dreams. Some are drawn to the various physical activities or sensory input that comes from working with various materials, tools, colors, forms, allegories, etc., but more artists cite inner satisfactions than outer ones. Although an artist's activities may well be driven by inspiration, more typically they advance from one decision to the next, to the next, . . . . in the expectation that some of an artist's later decisions are better than some previous ones.
The self-control of motivation is increasingly understood as a subset of emotional intelligence; a person may be highly intelligent according to a more conservative definition (as measured by many intelligence tests), yet unmotivated to dedicate this intelligence to certain tasks.
How to motivate others? Although avoidance of pain is a powerful motivator, it has been shown to produce much less desirable results than the lure of success. The studies most often cited are those by such behavioral psychologists as Ivan Pavlov (Russian, 1849-1936) and B. F. Skinner (American, 1904-1990), who found that rewards (called "positive reinforcements") alter behavior more quickly and more enduringly than discouragements (called "negative reinforcements").
To understand how to control motivation, it's important to understand why many people lack motivation. Reasons might be biological, psychological, environmental, etc. Examples include exhaustion, lack of sleep, depression, etc. In the case of teenagers, it can be very helpful to study adolescent psychology and cultures.
Many activities that people find amusing are actually of minimal benefit or are even self-destructive, and yet so many can become habits, even addictions. Often cited examples: drugs, alcohol, smoking, eating, sex, video-gaming, watching television, gambling, religion, and surfing the Internet. Connections in the human brain's neural network are intensified by repeated activity — a "positive feedback loop" — which means that it is often easier to continue to do what one is doing than to do something else. This is how a daily habit can turn into a psychological addiction that is hard to break.
When an activity or a lesson is presented via text or lecture, it's less likely to generate as positive an emotional response as do audiovisual and other multisensory experiences. Similarly, the more a member of an audience is physically involved in processing new information, the more richly that information is remembered.
Children's brains are much more capable of consuming new information than are those of adults. Brain activity in cortical regions is about twice as high in children as in adults from the third to the ninth year of life. Brain activity in children is much higher than in adults, making early influences critical for motivation in later life. After that period, it declines constantly to the low levels of adulthood. Brain volume, on the other hand, is already at about 95% of adult levels in the ninth year of life. (Harold Chugani, Medical Director of the PET Clinic at the Children's Hospital of Michigan and professor of pediatrics, neurology and radiology at Wayne State University School of Medicine; 1996.) A child who grows up watching television but not reading any books may find it difficult in later life to be motivated by purely textual information; a child neglected by its parents may be unable to make motivating social connections later.
It may also be that exposing children to too much simplistic, emotionally driven entertainment will dumb them down, making them more passive, and less capable of taking the risks that come with creative activities. Unfortunately, learning is often equated with memorizing, relying heavily on motivation derived from discouraging unwanted behaviors. Positive experiences are too often discounted.
Among the most basic means to achieving self-motivation is simply organizing one's life — time management, making to-do lists, filing papers, sorting belongings in storage, making distinctions between tasks to be accomplished and those that have been, and making those activities part of one's routine.
Motivation has a direct link to attitude — to what in psychology is called the affective domain, where we experience feelings, emotions. As vital as motivation is in conditioning one's movement toward success, it is not the only attitude needed in order to achieve. A motivated person can simultaneously doubt that he/she is able to accomplish a task successfully. Whether a person's self-doubt is reasonably founded or not, it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy; anticipation of failure easily breeds failure. When confidence-building is needed, here is how to do it: start with easy tasks, and proceed to gradually more and more challenging ones. Studies have proven that every person can learn at any age, no matter what their experience or lack of experience has been.
You might find ArtLex's article on creativity useful. It describes various means to cultivating creativity, and ways to deal with blocks to creativity.
Take the time you need. Gather your resources. Otherwise, you have no further excuse. Get going!
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N.C. House panel considers medical marijuana bill
Published: Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 7:08 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 3:28 p.m.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) People who smoke marijuana for medical purposes in North Carolina told House members it relieves their chronic pain, but a bill legalizing its use isn't likely to pass.
The proposal considered Thursday by the House Health Committee would exempt from prosecution patients who possess a small amount of marijuana or grow it for themselves.
Janet Osburn of Clayton is a nurse who testified smoking marijuana eased her constant pain from spine and muscular disease.
But the Rev. Mark Creech of the Christian Action League of North Carolina said legalizing marijuana would create unintended consequences and other prescription drugs can bring the same effects.
No vote was taken. Committee co-chairman Rep. Bob England said he didn't expect one this late in the session.
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When browsing through the commercial real estate listings on sites such as the Atlanta Business Chronicle or CoStar, tenants will find that office buildings are often classified as being a Class A, Class B, Class C or "Trophy" building. Building classifications assist in setting general characteristics for category, but unlike the LEED certification detailed in a prior blog post, there is no specific checklist for classifying an office building. Classifications in commercial real estate are truly "in the eye of the beholder."
Here's a breakdown of classification standards in the Atlanta area market:
Class A
"Luxury" is a common denominator for buildings in this category. Most are recently-constructed towers built to the highest standards in the office marketplace. The infrastructure and design aesthetics are top quality. The amenities reflect the building's prime location with covered parking, perhaps a café, and with access to shopping and hotels. Fitness and daycare facilities are often found in a Class A building. Even the restroom fixtures are deluxe—automatic faucets and soap dispensers are common. The prime location of Class A buildings and accessibility to amenities attract high-quality tenants and the highest rents.
Because of its high-end amenities, the Concourse is considered a Class A building.
Class B
Buildings in this category are generally older than Class A buildings, but may still offer a quality office environment in a desirable location. The infrastructure in Class B buildings is generally still solid, and even though the building may not offer the amount and variety of amenities, it may provide perks such as a coffee shop or covered parking. Fixtures and building décor may be "dated." Class B buildings rent at a lower rate than Class A buildings, and attract tenants who put an emphasis on value but still want to make certain amenities available to their employees and clients.
This Class B building is located in Buckhead Centre.
Class C
Class C buildings are generally older than Class B buildings, may not be convenient to major transportation, and don't offer the prized location of a Class A or B building. The architecture and infrastructure is sharply outdated, and may even be in need of renovation. The amenities are usually sparse: covered parking, coffee shops and automatic faucets are not offered in Class C office buildings. What a Class C building does offer is a low rental rate that may appeal to tenants who are not looking for variety and luxury, but instead seek a bare-bones office environment.
Clarkston Professional Building
Trophy buildings
The most architecturally significant office buildings in the market are usually referred to as "trophy" buildings. Trophy buildings are brand new, high-rise structures that offer state-of-the-art functionality and design across the board. From their infrastructure to their fixtures, their quality is unsurpassed. They offer peerless amenities with stylish restaurants, shops and access to luxurious hotels. Because of their status and significance in the market, Trophy buildings are desirable to competitive companies that are willing to pay the highest rents in the marketplace to vie for top-notch talent or high-end clients. These companies view rental expense in Trophy buildings as an investment in their success and necessity to attract the right clientele.
The building at 3630 Peachtree Street features state-of-the-art design typical of Trophy buildings.
So how does a tenant decide on the building classification that's best for their business? It is important that buildings be viewed in context to each tenant's specific needs and financial considerations. An experienced tenant advisor with thorough market knowledge is the key to negotiating the variables in commercial real estate offerings at all classification levels.
Blog contributed by Jason Jones, Principal at Cresa Atlanta
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Fantastic Four reboot news update
Seth Grahame-Smith is the latest to jump aboard Josh Trank's new Fantastic Four movie...
At the end of last week, it was revealed by Mark Millar that Matthew Vaughn had joined the reboot of the Fantastic Four movie series. Millar, who's acting as consultant on 20th Century Fox's Marvel movies, broke the news on his Twitter account. It's been known for some time, too, that Chronicle helmer Josh Trank is the man directing the new Fantastic Four movie.
The film isn't expected to go before the cameras until the end of the year, but one or two new pieces of information have come to light.
Firstly, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, as well as screenwriter on Dark Shadows and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, has come on board to do some script polishing.
In the same report, it's been revealed that Josh Trank is looking for a 'grounded superhero and sci-fi' direction for the film. The film will also, according to The Hollywood Reporter, 'tap deep into the comics mythology'.
We'll keep you posted as we hear more. Fantastic Four is due for release in March 2014.
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Alternative Investments Make Me Cringe
Do you recommend individuals hold "alternative" investments? And if so, which ones?
GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS: I do not recommend "alternative" investments. They are just not worth the inherent risks they carry. They tend to be complex, illiquid, nontransparent, hard to value and very expensive. Will investors be compensated enough to overcome the fees and lack of transparency and liquidity? Maybe, but I certainly would not invest my money in these products, so why would I ever recommend to my clients that they should? Even with those products that bring immediate positive results, the longer out you go, the lower the chance that they will outshine a properly diversified, low-cost, regularly rebalanced portfolio.
Lately I am seeing a lot of efforts by companies to push all kinds of "alternative" investments. I wonder if the reason is the high commissions paid to their salespeople. As a fiduciary adviser I do not sell investment products and I cringe when I hear the enthusiastic pitches about some of them. Next time you are asked to invest in this "opportunity," do yourself a favor and ask how much commission the salesperson will be paid. Ask about one-time and annual costs. Tell them to send you their reply in writing on a single sheet of paper on the company's letterhead. You may never see some of these people again, which is great!
Also, before you buy one of these investments, please inform your CPA. Find out how he feels about it and how much your tax preparation bill will go up. They can be maddeningly complex come tax time and very difficult to do any tax planning around.
Finally, we like to deal with boring investment portfolios that yield as little excitement as possible. In a previous column I advocated that investing should be as exciting as watching paint dry. Investing in any of these alternative products may instead cause sleepless nights and/or heart attacks. No thank you, we will pass.
George Papadopoulos is a fee-only wealth manager in Novi, Mich., serving affluent individuals and families. You can follow him at twitter (@feeonlyplanner), connect with him at Google+ or visit his firm's website.
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Sudeep's Just Maath Maathalli releasing on Feb 5
Kichcha Sudeep was fuming over Ramya after she created a havoc on the sets by insulting the choreographer Harsha and other dancers. Now he seems to have forgotten everything and gone cool due to his busy schedules in both Kannada and Hindi. He says that his on-screen chemistry with Golden babe in Just Maath Maathalli is excellent.
Sudeep is very sure that the film Just Maath Maathalli will also be a big success like Mussanje Maathu. JMM is a love story scripted by Sudeep along with his friend Naveen. Produced by Shankare Gowda, the film has been shot in Bangalore, Sakleshpur, Singapore and Germany. Rabhu Dixit composed music will be a major attraction of the film, says Sudeep.
However, Sudeep has also planned to direct the Hindi remake of JMM, which is to be produced by Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani fame Ramesh Taurani. He has already narrated the story to John Abraham and Shahid Kapoor. Anyone of them will be roped in for the lead role. Meanwhile, he is also in talks with Asin and Deepika Padukone for the heroine's role.


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Technical Q and A for classic motorcycle maintenance and repair.
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May/June 2014, Keith Fellenstein, Kawasaki, tech corner
Editor's note: If you're having trouble with that old Suzuki, BSA or BMW, Keith Fellenstein is your guy. From motorcycle tuning tips to detailed motorcycle engine repair, he can draw from a wealth of experience to help guide you to success. Send questions to: Keith's Garage, 1503 SW 42nd St., Topeka, KS 66609, or send an e-mail with "Keith's Garage" as the subject.
Q: When my daughter moved away, she left me her 1989 Kawasaki Eliminator 250. It starts immediately when cold and it runs well. When it gets really hot and I shut it off, it will not start using the starter until it cools down. It will start immediately when being push-started. I suspect failure of the coils when they get hot. They are located behind the radiator in the hot airstream. I would try new coils, but they are no longer available. Can you recommend a suitable coil? Was there a problem with their coils? I can also try to shield the coils from the heat or relocate them. — Otto Hoffman/via email
A: Overheated coils would be a good guess, except that you say it starts immediately if push-started. That leads me to think the problem is more likely to be in the electric starter motor itself. My guess is it's drawing too much amperage, but the troubleshooting should start with the battery and follow the circuit down to the starter. First, clean the battery connections, then check the point where the ground cable is attached to the frame and clean it, also. Have the battery tested for cranking amps, especially when hot. If it checks out, clean the connectors on the heavy duty cable connecting the battery to the starter solenoid. Test or bypass the starter solenoid with a heavy-duty jumper when the bike is hot to see if the starter then turns over. Clean the connections on the heavy-duty cable connecting the solenoid to the starter motor. Finally, check the amperage draw at the starter. I wouldn't expect it to be more than 55 amps or so, but I don't have a manual for that model to confirm the exact specification. If it's higher than that and the problem persists, you'll have to remove the starter motor and either disassemble it to clean it, or replace it. MC
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The Marietta High School a cappella group Vocal Point performed Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" at the start of Monday's Marietta City Board of Education meeting, but district representatives are hoping to get a more definitive response from local businesses today.
At the meeting, held in the high school library Monday, Marietta City Schools director of community outreach Tasha Werry updated the board on the efforts of the Building Bridges to Careers initiative, including a "social" scheduled for this evening.
Over the years, the Partners in Education initiative has fallen by the wayside, with no one person overseeing it amid various administrative changes, Werry said. Today's social, slated for 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. in the high school cafeteria is a chance to "let them know that we're here and we'd like to talk again," she said.
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In addition to current partners, any other businesses interested in working with the district are welcome.
"It's open to all businesses," said Putnam Elementary Principal Jona Hall.
Building Bridges to Careers is a countywide initiative, started by Marietta City Schools and Washington County Family and Children First, emphasizing college- and career-readiness. The group has been working with various local businesses to learn about what potential jobs and needs exist in the community, as well as developing real-world scenarios teachers can use in their classes.
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Sarah Rauch, center, sings a solo in a performance of Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger" by Marietta High School's Vocal Point a cappella group at the start of Monday's Marietta City Board of Education meeting in the high school library.
Werry showed the board the new website, buildingbridgestocareers.org, where businesses can reach out to the group, and teachers can access scenarios that have been used in classrooms. There's also a survey businesses can take.
"It's a very simple way for them to let us know they're interested and give us information that we can (share with) our students," Werry said.
Although Marietta has taken the lead on the program, Werry said the model can be used by other schools. In fact, representatives of Belpre City and Warren Local Schools are active participants in BBC meetings.
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What: BBC Partners Kickoff Event.
When: 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. today.
Where: Marietta High School cafeteria.
Who: District partners in education, Building Bridges to Careers participants and businesses interested in working with the schools.
In other business, Superintendent Harry Fleming recognized Putnam Elementary first-grade teacher Alicia McIntire for her work in helping develop an online course for the nonprofit Battelle for Kids. McIntire said she assisted with a module dealing with formative instructional practices for first-grade math. Formative instructional practices involve determining how a student is doing on certain subjects and adapting how one teaches the student prior to a final test.


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The Hundred Dresses. by Eleanor Estes. 1944. Harcourt Children's Books. 96 pages. ISBN: 9780152051709
The Hundred Dresses is a short realistic fiction novella by Eleanor Estes that received a Newbery Honor in 1945. It is a story, based in part on the author's childhood, about the impact of bullies. Wanda Petronski is a poor Polish-American immigrant, who comes to school each day in the same clean but shabby blue dress. One day, when her classmates tease her for her unusual last name and style of dress, Wanda claims to have one hundred dresses all hanging in her closet From then on, Peggy and her best friend, Maddie, ask Wanda every day how many dresses she has, punishing with their taunting her for what they know must be a lie. It is only when Wanda's family leaves town to escape the cruelty of their neighbors that Maddie - who is the story's main character - feels a sense of remorse for what she has done.
Though some things make it clear that this story is not set in the present day, for the most part, I was amazed at how well this book holds up 67 years after it was first published. Entire lifetimes have come and gone since the book was first written, and yet kids still need to learn the same hard lessons. The relationship between Maddie and her best friend, Peggy, who leads most of the teasing, reminds me of so many friendships I have read about in children's fiction. Peggy can be likened to Wendy, who makes whale jokes about Linda in Judy Blume's Blubber, or even to Jennifer in E.L. Konigsburg's Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, who makes demands upon Elizabeth to prove their friendship. Today's "mean girls," who appear in practically every middle grade novel about female friendship, all seem to follow in the footsteps of Estes's Peggy. I tend to think of bullying as a new phenomenon, because we talk about it more nowadays than ever before, but this book reminds everyone - kids and adults - that cruelty has been around for a long, long time.
Just after I finished reading The Hundred Dresses, I read on School Library Journal that the Open Circle Program at the Wellesley Centers for Women has named it the number one best book for Kids' Social and Emotional Learning. I instantly understood why. Reading books helps kids become more empathetic - reading books about bullying helps kids step into the shoes of both bully and victim and hopefully gets them thinking about why they would not want to be cruel to a classmate. I certainly don't think books alone will combat the problem of bullying, or provide a complete emotional and social education, but this book is a perfect choice for getting the conversation started and for getting kids to think critically about their behavior. By taking a kid's eye view of a real-life bullying situation, it gets away from the preachy tone of well-meaning adults and instead give kids the power to make the right choices, and to make amends when they do the wrong thing.
I borrowed The Hundred Dresses from my local public library.
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Old School Sunday: The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes (1944)
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|Product photo from Adafruit.com (don't sue me)
This is a great little pump! It's positive displacement and self priming. The best part is, it's reversible!
In the vid, we use this pump to actuate a syringe plunger back and forth.
Out of the box it'll provide 1.3 Bar of pressure (19 PSI for our American friends). We used hook-up wire to clamp the tiny tubes and got it up to 1.8 Bar (26 PSI). On a 1" diameter syringe (a big one) that's enough pressure to lift nearly 10 kg!!!!
Arduino controlled hydraulic robot anyone?


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Which proves Apple's allure is as powerful as ever.
It took only two hours yesterday morning for iPhone-crazy consumers to rack up preorder sales of Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4 that broke all of Verizon's first-day sales records. This from Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead in a statement today. Here's the insane note: Those two hours were between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. Eastern time. Desperate much?
Verizon was sold out of its pre-order allotment at 8:10 p.m. Eastern time last night. Consumers can order Verizon iPhones online on Feb. 9 or buy them in-store Feb. 10.
Some more fun facts, according to a new survey of 700 U.S. smartphone users on AT&T or Verizon by market research firm uSamp:
Those were the fun facts. Here are the big ones:
And that's all just for day one.
So, almost half of Verizon users of the much ballyhooed Android phones are throwing them in the trash and switching to the iPhone on day one. That's huge. I wish I could put my finger on what it is exactly that makes the allure of the iPhone so powerful. There's something about it that just makes it "cooler" than other smartphones, and people eat it up. (Full disclosure: I eat it up. I'm an iPhone and iPad user.) Whatever it is, the lesson here for retailers is iPhone owners love their iPhones, and vast numbers of non-iPhone owners want to be iPhone owners. And will be.
Yes, develop your Android apps. But just remember who the most zealous smartphone owners are out there. And let me tell you, their voracious appetite for the hardware is matched only by their insatiable thirst for apps and the mobile web. In a news story I wrote today, 82.8% of all mobile page views at one retailer came from a combination of the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Check your logs and prepare. (And keep an eye on those soaring iPad sales figures, too.)
Welcome to Verizon iPhone week. My best piece of advice: Stay outside of a mile perimeter of all Verizon and Apple stores Thursday.
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SACRAMENTO - The state Senate is planning what may be an unprecedented field trip: All its members are heading to Southern California next week to view career education programs that proponents say should be the model throughout California.
At least 31 of the 37 senators confirmed they will travel to Long Beach for what Senate leaders are calling a two-day Policy Conference on Education. The trip will cost taxpayers at least $27,000 in travel and lodging for the senators and 15 aides, including some security staff, the Senate disclosed Thursday.
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said it was his idea to take senators to visit Cabrillo High School and Long Beach City College on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Long Beach Unified, the state's third-largest school district, is considered a leader in what is known as "linked learning," in which academic and technical classes are designed to lead students from K-12 through college and into an occupation. More than 1,200 businesses, agencies and organizations have formed education partnerships with the district's schools.
Steinberg called it a "good expense of public dollars" to educate senators about linked learning.
"This is the key, in my view, to reducing our unacceptable dropout rate. This is the key to creating a real connection between a public education and our workforce," he said.
Steinberg spokesman Mark Hedlund said that as far as anyone in the Senate knows, no similar conference involving the entire Senate has ever been held outside Sacramento.
Even fiscally conservative Republicans are on board with the trip.
"This is a prime opportunity for senators to get out of the Capitol and experience a day in the life of California high school and community college students," said Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar.
Aside from career education programs, senators will hear presentations on changing state curriculum standards and performance testing, as well as on Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to change the way schools receive state funding.
The conference will be open to the media and public as required by law, Steinberg said, though the goal is to educate senators.
Phillip Ung, a spokesman for California Common Cause, said his watchdog organization had no objection so long as the public is allowed to attend. However, he acknowledged, "I think there are some voters who will have a question about the price tag and what it is that money is paying for."


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In January 2012, I had my black 2004 Chrysler Sebring repainted by the Maaco on 34th Street North on St. Petersburg.
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Scenic Tour to Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong
You will visit China's fairyland —Jiuzhaigou — a colorful wonderland with clear water, a verdant virgin forest, and authentic Tibetan customs. The Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center and Jinli Ancient Town in Chengdu are included to enhance the tour experience.
- Meet the lovely pandas in the Panda Breeding and Research Center
- Wander in the old districts of Jinli Street for trinkets and local snacks
- Walk alongside the streams, waterfalls, and limestone landscapes in Huanglong Scenic Area
- Enjoy the breathtaking views in Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area
What's Included
- Entrance to scenic spots listed in the itinerary
- Guiding by experienced English-speaking tour guide
- Private transfers between the airport, attractions, and hotel
- Flight from Chengdu to Jiuzhaigou
- Meals mentioned in the itinerary
- Public shuttle buses in Jiuzhaigou National Park
- Chairlift going up the mountain in Huanglong National Park
- Hotel accommodation with breakfast
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Suggested Itinerary
Your private driver and guide will be ready for you when you arrive in Chengdu. Sit back in a comfortable, non-smoking car, leave the hassles to your guide, and enjoy a trouble-free transfer to your hotel.
AccommodationTibet Hotel Chengdu (4-star)/Sofitel Chengdu Taihe (5-star)
In the morning you will first visit the Panda Breeding and Research Center, about 10 kilometers (six miles) north from central Chengdu. You will visit the nursery to see the highly successful breeding program, stroll among the bamboo groves and shady walkways, and view the pandas at rest or play. It is best to go early in the morning to see the pandas feeding at around 9:30am, when they are most active during the day.
Lunch is at a Chinese restaurant serving Sichuan-style dishes. You can ask for less-spicy dishes or no spices at all.
In the afternoon, you will discover attractions in Chengdu urban area: Wangjiang Park and Jinli Ancient Street. Wangjiang Park is situated on the bank of the Jinjiang River, offering graceful bamboo forest scenery and romantic anecdotes. Jinli Ancient Street is one of the most ancient streets in Southwest China. There you can stroll along and discover the stalls selling local arts and crafts, traditional Chinese goods, and local delicacies in front of the rows of the Qing Dynasty style ancient buildings.
March to May is the "falling in love period" for pandas. If you visit the Panda Breeding and Research Center between late August and December, you will have a greater chance of seeing tiny newborns in the Sunshine Nursery House.
Tibet Hotel Chengdu (4-star)/Sofitel Chengdu Taihe (5-star)
Your private guide and driver in Chengdu will accompany you to the airport this morning. It takes about one hour to fly from Chengdu to Jiuhuang Airport. You will be picked up and transferred to have lunch. After lunch, start your visit in Huanglong Scenic Area.
Huanglong Scenic Area, the best-preserved plateau wetland in China, is neighbored by Jiuzhaigou. Colorful pools, snowcapped mountains, verdant forests, and peaceful valleys are its four highlights. The chairlift going up is included to save you time and strength. You can walk back down through the scenic area to enjoy the view at a relaxing pace.
After the tour, your guide and driver will escort you to a hotel near Jiuzhaigou (about two hours' drive) and enjoy a local dinner.
The options of restaurants in Jiuzhaigou are quite limited, so dinners are recommended and included in the hotel you will stay in.
Jiuzhai Resort Hotel (4-star)/Sheraton Jiuzhaigou Resort (5-star)
After breakfast in the hotel, you will spend most of your day exploring the Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, a wonderland named for its nine Tibetan villages. The valley winds its way across some 80 kilometers and covers an area of 720 square kilometers, and you will visit its main three gullies depending on the schedule: Shuzheng Valley, Rize Valley, and Zechawa Valley. Private vehicles are not allowed inside, so your guide will accompany you to take a public bus in the scenic area and tour around.
There you will appreciate the picturesque natural scenery with clear alpine lakes, overlapping waterfalls, colorful forests, snowcapped mountains, Tibetan customs, and blue ice. Get your camera prepared. A buffet lunch is arranged in the Nuorilang Restaurant, the only restaurant in the Jiuzhaigou area. If you like, we can also arrange a picnic lunch for you.
At the end of the tour, your guide and driver will transfer you back to the hotel for dinner.
Tips for visiting Jiuzhaigou:
Go early: The scenic area starts selling tickets at 7am. Get into the park as early as possible so that you will not only have more time, but will also avoid the tour group crowds.
Go up first: The most spectacular scenery is at the higher parts of the scenic area. You will see the highlights first if you take the public shuttle bus to the top and walk or ride down. Head first to either Long Lake or Swan Lake, then go down to the Nuorilang junction, then go up the other fork. Later in the day, you can see the lakes between Nuorilang and the entrance.
Jiuzhai Resort Hotel (superior class)/Sheraton Jiuzhaigou Resort (deluxe class).
Your private guide and driver will wait for you in your hotel lobby after breakfast. They will accompany you to the airport and help you check-in for your next destination.
Trip Notes
1. Tailoring Your Tour
This tour is very flexible. You can alter the itinerary, extend or shorten it to suit your price, interest, and schedule. If you would like to book the hotels on your own, we can remove the hotel cost from quotation. Please inform your travel advisor about your preference.
2. Possible altitude sickness
At Jiuzhaigou, the altitude changes a lot in different areas. For example, the entrance of the valley is at about 2,000 meters, while the airport is at about 3,500 meters. The altitude sickness varies from person to person, so it is suggested that you consult your doctor. Visitors with heart disease and high blood pressure should be careful and take precautions when traveling to Jiuzhaigou. When in Jiuzhaigou, do not do any strenuous exercise, or drink wine. Keep warm and eat more vegetables and fruits. Take some common medicines with you. If you like, our guide can prepare a small oxygen bottle for you, just in case.
3. Get close to pandas
In order to protect the giant pandas from canine distemper infection, The Panda Breeding and Research Center has stopped all the panda interconnect activities since January, 2015.
If you want to get close to the pandas and do something for them, you can visit the Dujiangyan Panda Base (90-minute's drive from Chengdu). The Panda Keeper Program and taking photo with pandas is only available there now. The program can last for one to three days and the activities may include feeding the pandas, making panda cakes and cleaning the panda enclosures. You can visit here to book 1-Day Chengdu to Dujiangyan Panda Keeper Program Tour.
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Where in the World is 'Arrow'? Watch an Exclusive Clip from Season Two
The season two premiere for the CW Network's "Arrow" begins on the island that helped create Oliver Queen's alter-ego the "Arrow," but this time he's got some more company.
To clear his mind after the death of his best friend and his failure to protect Starling City from the earthquake machine that his mother helped create, Oliver (Stephen Amell) flees to Lian Yu, the island on which he was marooned for five years.
Felicity and Diggle skydive out of a plane and arrive on the island, only to have Felicity step on a landmine moments later. Can Diggle or Oliver save Felicity, or was their trip to rescue Oliver all for naught?
"We're churning through a lot of story and evolving the universe," said Greg Berlanti, a series co-creator, writer and an executive producer.
The second season of "Arrow," the network's most watched show in the 2012-2013 season, will pick up where the first season left off, but not without some significant changes.
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"I'm a massive Willie Nelson fan," Kip told reporters Saturday night (June 9) before he played the CMA Music Festival in Nashville.
Kip says he may have grown to love Willie because his usually conservative mother was such a big Willie fan.
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"My mom was this really amazing, Christian Southern Baptist woman," Kip says. "Her ultimate goal was to play keyboards for Willie Nelson. I think my mom's so cool, I fell in love with Willie Nelson.
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Re: Equitable?
Hi Wendy. I did the Engineering thing too and I totally agree with you!
I don't think the quota filler thing happens too often in aikido. Although, I have seen the teacher's wife/girlfriend get promoted without ever really having anyone really challenge them to the level that other people of that rank were challenged in class. (I think that can be said about the current Doshu to some degree. I mean no disrespect, but honestly, some people are put up on a pedastol whethere they want to be there or not. It is unfortunate for them really.)
From a dojo's perspective, the choice of how you approach learning/teaching aikido is major factor to attracting women (and of course men). Generally, the white belt people are expected to do crude approximations of the waza where turning up the intesity results in yanking and cranking people around AND all challenges to poor technique are met with semi-controlled atemi. Conversely, there are also many teaching approaches where the people are very safe but they never/rarely take it up a notch as far as intensity and drama. I'd imagine that it would be hard for new females (and males for that matter) to have the faith in such aikido to work in a more stressful situation. So, I think that the main issue from a dojo's perspective is that you have to develop everyone towards using incredibly soft yet powerful technique such that everyone can work out as hard as their common denominator of ability allows. The result of getting someone to the ground _at any cost_ needs to be disallowed until a rank that can handle that kind of thing safely - like sandan+.
As far as society contributors, the main thing I can relate to as far as new women to the dojo are concerned is that every class is kind of like the Sadee Hawkings dance for a new female student. This is because most junuior members of the dojo are expected to seek out the seniors for help. In a dojo that is predominately male, that is just not what society has told them is normal.
Also when a senior male tries to continue working out with a new female student or just gives her any encouragement, I have noticed through the years that that genuine *martial* interest or interest in helping the dojo prosper with new students is almost always misinterpretted as sexual interest. Who can blame the new female students. They probably have been hit on by guys since they were 13 or so. Also, there are guys in dojos who do hit on every female that walks in the door. That one is difficult to to deal with as the teacher. In one case, who the heck am I to tell people not to date, but in the other case, the dojo is a safe place where you should not have to worry about that. And, that kind of thing would never happen while I was in ear shot, so I wouldn't know.
I actually had a weird backlash problem with this once. At one point in my training, I joined a dojo that had several female students who were senior to me. I asked some seniors to work with me after class and I got the same feeling from them you get when you ask someone out who is clearly not interested. I picked up on that pretty quickly and stoped asking that person. It took me a while to see that just the female seniors where like that with me - but it was most of them. I really wasn't trying to date them, and I didn't know how to fix the problem, so I didn't ask them to work out with me after class. I thought I might win them over by training with good energy and commitment but it always seemed they just barely tolorated me. That was a bit creepy and weird. Althought, I never had that experience in any other dojo - I imagine this is a manifestation of the the kind of creepy stuff that goes on below the surface level. I don't know how to make things better because it seems like it takes trust in open and honest communication that people might just not have when they first walk in the door.
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Date: 06 December 2013 Time: 04:09 PM ET
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Thursday Newsarama offered own breakdown of all the coolness the Spider-Man 2 trailer had to offer. Friday Total Film got some serious expert commentary and analysis in the form of stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, and director Marc Webb.
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MATTHEWS - At 5 years old, DeeKota Polk already understands the significance of the flag.
"It means America," she volunteered, "because it's American."
That message of patriotism is just what the members of the Veterans Committee of Noranda hope to spread as they sponsor "100 flags for 100 schools." DeeKota's school, Matthews Elementary at Matthews, is one of the first to receive a flag.
"The Noranda veterans are distributing the flags to instill patriotism and a sense of national pride in our young, America's future," said Jim Burch, a committee member and an employee of Noranda Aluminum Co. in Marston.
At the presentation, Burch was joined by two other Noranda employees and veterans, Harold Burch, who served in World War II, and Jerry Whitehead.
The men pointed out while the presentation of the flags is occurring at a rather appropriate time with the increased interest in patriotism following the terrorists attacks in New York and Washington, it was a result of a long-term project by the Veterans Committee of Noranda, which was formed in 1999 with the help of Noranda and Steelworkers Local 7686.
Whitehead said the 100 flags for a 100 schools was an idea which originated last year. Fund-raising raffles were completed some time ago and the flags ordered.
"We wanted to get more flags into the schools," said Whitehead. He noted the high-quality, embroidered flags are suitable for display indoors or out.
For Jim Bates, building principal, the two new flags are a welcomed addition. Although the flag always is flying on school days and students have recently completed projects creating their own flags, the flags donated by the Committee will be placed in rooms in the school without their own flags on display, he said.
"We certainly appreciate the support and the gifts at a time like this," he added.
According to Burch, Wednesday's presentation has a dual purpose. Not only does it put the flags in the school, but "this is something the committee wanted to do to show our patriotism and to let others know about us."
The Veterans Committee of Noranda includes some 240 veterans employed by the aluminum reduction company. The committee holds several flag raisings throughout the year and hosts guest speakers.
The 100 flags is the second project by the group. Their first effort was to pay for the veterans' names to be inscribed on the Poplar Bluff Veterans' Memorial Wall.


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This example shows how to use ALSA Audio Capture and ALSA Audio Playback blocks from the BeagleBoard™ block library to implement a parametric audio equalizer algorithm with a Simulink® model and to run the model on BeagleBoard hardware.
Parametric equalizers are used to adjust the frequency response of audio systems. For example, a parametric equalizer can be used to compensate for biases with specific speakers that have peaks and dips at different frequencies.
In this example, you will implement a parametric audio equalizer with a Simulink model and then run that model on BeagleBoard hardware. The parametric equalizer algorithm in this example provides three second-order (bi-quadratic) filters whose coefficients can be adjusted to achieve a desired frequency response. A graphical user interface (GUI) is used in simulation to dynamically adjust filter coefficients and explore behavior.
The following sections will describe how the parametric equalizer algorithm is specified, how the performance can be assessed through simulation, and how the model is run on BeagleBoard hardware. You will also learn how the ALSA Audio Capture and Playback blocks are used to input and output audio signals.
We recommend completing Getting Started with BeagleBoard™ Hardware example.
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To run this example you will need the following hardware:
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In this task, you will connect an audio input source, and speakers or headphones to BeagleBoard hardware. The audio captured from the audio input source will be equalized on BeagleBoard hardware and sent to the speakers/headphones.
1. Connect an audio source, such an MP3 player, to the AUDIO IN connector of your BeagleBoard hardware. You may use the audio output of your host computer as an audio input source to BeagleBoard hardware.
2. Connect speakers or headphones to the AUDIO OUT connector of the BeagleBoard hardware.
In this task, you will configure and run the parametric equalizer model on BeagleBoard hardware.
1. Open the Parametric Audio Equalizer model.
2. Select Tools > Run on Target Hardware > Options.... Review the parameters on the page that opens. If you performed a Firmware Update, Board information will be automatically populated with the host name, user name and password of your BeagleBoard hardware. If you have not performed a Firmware Update or you need to change the board parameters, enter the IP address, user name and password of your BeagleBoard hardware.
3. In the Simulink model, double-click on the ALSA Audio Capture block. Note that the Audio sampling frequency is set to 44100 Hz and the Frame size is set to 4410. With these settings, the Equalizer algorithm processes 4410/44100(Hz) = 0.1 seconds of audio data at each sample time hit.
4. In the model, make sure that the Simulation mode on the toolbar is set to External.
5. In the model, click the Run button on the toolbar to run the model on BeagleBoard hardware.
1. As the model is running on BeagleBoard hardware, you will hear audio from the speakers/headphones connected to the BeagleBoard hardware.
2. A GUI displaying the frequency response of the audio equalizer will appear as shown in the picture below:
3. Click and drag the markers or lines in the Three Band Equalizer GUI to specify the desired filter response characteristics. Note the change in audio output as the frequency response of the equalizer changes.
4. Press the Stop button on the model to stop model execution.
Change the volume of the sound sent to speakers/headphones by tuning the appropriate parameter in the model.
This example showed a Simulink model of a parametric audio equalizer. Using External mode, equalizer settings were changed in real-time as the model executed on BeagleBoard hardware.


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