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In the Media
March 23, 2015EECS students/graduates team to develop satellite image analysis methods to automate IDing areas for developmentFormer and current EECS graduate students have created new methods to automate identification of potential areas for development in rural villages in both India and sub-Saharan Africa. The group won a $10,000 prize last year from the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge. Read more.
March 17, 2015MIT announced a major thrust toward addressing cybersecurity with the launch of three new initiatives including one focused on technology research to be based in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). Read more.
February 23, 2015Radio chip for Internet of things. Chandrakasan group extends battery life by reducing idle transmitter power leaksThis week, at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE's) International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the group of Anantha Chandrakasan, EECS Department Head and the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor in Electrical Engineering at MIT, will present a new transmitter design that reduces power leakage when transmitters are idle — greatly extending battery life and ultimately enabling the potential for the transmission of data needed for the "Internet of things". Read more.
February 18, 2015Kellis teams with Broad, Picower and other colleagues to track epigenomics of Alzheimers disease progressionOur susceptibility to disease depends both on the genes that we inherit from our parents and on our lifetime experiences. These two components — nature and nurture — seem to affect very different processes in the context of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study published today in the journal Nature. Read more.
February 18, 2015In the quest for improving the speed and efficiency of multicore chips, EECS Assistant Professor Daniel Sanchez and graduate student Nathan Beckmann designed a system that moves data around multicore chips' memory banks — improving execution by 18 percent on average while increasing energy efficiency as well. They won an award for this work in 2013. Now.. Read more.
February 5, 2015Five members of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of a total of eight MIT faculty have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering including Hari Balakrishnan, Sangeeta Bhatia, Anantha Chandrakasan, L. Rafael Reif and Daniela Rus. Read more.
January 9, 2015A record number of Fellow selections from any single institution marks the election by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) of five CSAIL researchers and members of the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department to ACM 2014 Fellow. The ACM has cited Srini Devadas, Eric Grimson, Robert Morris, Ronitt Rubinfeld and Daniela Rus for "providing key knowledge" to computing.
October 30, 2014Professor Muriel Medard working with EECS graduate student Flavio du Pin Calmon and researchers from Maynooth University in Ireland have shown that since existing practical cryptographic schemes demonstrate elements of information-theoretic security thereby preventing extraction of some of their data — it is possible to calculate minimum-security guarantees for any given encryption scheme — enabling information managers to make more informed decisions about how to protect data. Read more.
August 15, 2014Getting to the source of data-visualization aberrations is a big problem in big data. EECS doctoral student Eugene Wu with Sam Madden, professor of computer science and engineering in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have released a new tool, called DBWipes, that pinpoints aberrations and determines which data sources to investigate. Read more.
July 28, 2014Paying attention to the data that says MOOC learning is limited because of high drop rates and other negatives, CSAIL researchers have noted that students need help learning how to watch the videos and these researchers have developed a new way for students to learn how to watch MOOC videos called LectureScape. Read more.
July 19, 2014EECS faculty members Hari Balakrishnan and Devavrat Shah with EECS graduate students Jonathan Perry, and Amy Ousterhout, and Hans Fugal of Facebook have devised a new system to reduce delay time in data center queues. Using Fastpass, the name given to the new system, the group has experimentally reduced the average queue length of routers by as much as 99.6 percent in a Facebook data center. Read more.
June 20, 2014Bernard Haeupler, PhD '13, has been selected by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) as recipient of the 2014 Doctoral Dissertation Award in Distributed Computing. Dr. Haeupler completed his thesis "Probabilistic Methods for Distributed Information Dissemination" in June 2013 under the co-supervision of Professors Jonathan Kelner, Muriel Médard, and David Karger at MIT.
April 9, 2014As the director of MIT's BigData@CSAIL industry initiative, and the co-director of the more research-focused Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Big Data, EECS professor and CSAIL principal investigator Sam Madden talks with the MIT News Office about the growing complexity of data. From social networks and images to real time financial transactions, Madden talks about the issues (and opportunities) of what to do with this data. Read more.
March 12, 2014Today, March 12, 2014, marks the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for managing general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research based in Geneva where Berners-Lee worked at the time as a software engineer. He proposed building a distributed (global) hypertext system which he initially called "Mesh" updating it a year later to the "World Wide Web" as he wrote the code. Read more.
December 18, 2013Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's (CSAIL) Aude Oliva, associate professor of cognitive science at MIT's Brain and Cognitive Sciences working with her CSAIL colleagues including Antonio Torralba, associate professor in MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and also a member of in the MIT Computer Vision Group has developed an algorithm to slightly modify a person's face — making it more memorable without altering that person's overall appearance.
December 11, 2013Professor Piotr Indyk and members of his group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have developed an algorithm that betters his (and Prof. Dina Katabi's) work to develop a faster than fast Fourier Transform in 2012. The new algorithm that uses the minimum possible number of samples to analyze signals has the potential to allow advances in medical devices such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) machines to scan patients.
November 15, 2013Using artificial intelligence tools including probabilistic graphical models, Ying Liu, EECS graduate student working with Alan Willsky, EECS professor and director of the Laboratory for Information and Decisions Systems (LIDS) has developed a technique that can efficiently infer vital information about the propagation of flight delays at U.S. airports. Liu and Willsky will present their work, which has potential application to a wide range of areas, at the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation in early December. Read more.
November 14, 2013The Big Data Initiative at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) today announced two new activities aimed at improving the use and management of Big Data. The first is a series of data challenges designed to spur innovation in how people use data to solve problems and make decisions. Read more.
October 16, 2013MIT EECS faculty members in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab CSAIL Frans Kaashoek, Nickolai Zeldovich and Armando Solar-Lezama along with EECS graduate student Xi Wang have created a system they call Stack which will automatically scan programmer's code to avoid compilers from tossing bits of code that might not appear essential. Read more.
September 13, 2013Daniel Sanchez, assistant professor in the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (EECS) and principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and his student Nathan Beckmann have developed a software alternative to manage high-speed on-chip memory (cache). Read more
July 26, 2013The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) announced on July 25, 2013 that Professor William Freeman has been honored with the Test of Time Award for his paper "Orientation Histograms for Hand Gesture Recognition," co-written by Michal Roth in 1995. The award was presented at the 2013 IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition Conference in Shanghai, China.
July 19, 2013Researchers from CSAIL and Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing have developed a TCP congestion-control system called Remy, which they will present at the annual conference of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Data Communications. Hari Balakrishnan, the Fujitsu Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and EECS graduate student Keith Winstein are the authors of the work titled "TCP ex Machina: Computer-Generated Congestion Control".
July 11, 2013EECS Professors Regina Barzilay and Martin Rinard (and their respective graduate students Nate Kushman and Tao Lei) have demonstrated that ordinary language can be used (in specific cases) to aid in generating code for computer programs. Read more
July 10, 2013Faculty members in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT are converging on a wide range of research issues through game theory, which used to be a staple of economics research in the 1950s. EECS faculty members Asuman Ozdaglar, Costis Daskalakis, Munther Dahleh, and Silvio Micali discuss their approaches in this Technology Review feature. Read more.
July 1, 2013Srini Devadas, the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and members of the Computational Structures Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have developed a new system that not only disguises a server's memory-access patterns, but also prevents attacks that rely on how long computations take.


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To experience an undiscribably amazing sensation in your mouth after biting into a fresh, mouthwatering cookie.
Nick had a cookiegasm after biting into a delicious, homemade chocolate chip cookie.
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Can you define these popular missing words?
To have an orgasm as a result of eating cookies.
"Oh, I have a cookiegasm whenever I eat your moms sugar cookies"
by The King of No Pants August 17, 2005
The sound created when biting into a perfectly baked cookie.
(eater bites into cookie)
Eater- oooooh yessssss
bystander- I think they just had a cookie-gasm
Eater- oooooh yessssss
bystander- I think they just had a cookie-gasm
by coffeeshopgirl April 10, 2010
A period where someone has so many cookies, they moan in pleasure.
1.Marilyn ate so many cookies she had a cookiegasm.
by Kaiine Joshua Sims December 05, 2007
the pure, unadulterated joy attained by eating a cookie (preferably friom scratch) that came straight out of the oven
I had a cookiegasm from those fresh snickerdoodles last night
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Hello. I am a slightly pudgy, slightly greying, slightly middle aged happily married woman with four sons that seem to be turning out to be great guys. I am blessed. We bought our house in what was a really small tourist/rural town near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of Canada about fifteen years ago. The boys have now reached ages that I no longer have to wear a referee's shirt and have returned gratefully to my garden. My husband does not seem to mind mowing less and everyone likes the white tomato sauce. To get those white tomatoes I deal with a 95 day long season, that is a zone 2b/3a...I want a hoop house. Which will have to wait until the bake oven is done, and then that will have to wait for the rains to stop, and then I will have to give everything a good weed and mulch. I am a great believer in mulch. I also have to weed the berry hedge, clean out the pond well really more puddle, and there's at least a flat of herbs the last of the spring plantings. We had our last frost here June the 7th....yep June. Last year I had a decent snow in July....gotta love our weather. I have a community garden in the front yard, and a corn hedge. I grow heirloom varieties, I demonstrate container gardens and talk passionately about food, plants, seeds, soils and water. About how you don't need a lot of room, how this can be great and it tastes better...all the other stuff just a bonus. I have rain barrels, I recycle, I have a smoker in the garage, I can, freeze. dry, and still am trying to get a decent sauerkraut made I write letters to governments when they are stupid and I ask them why. Love making wines, my one son makes a wicked beer. The neighbors have Auracana chickens, I want buff Chanteclars and I want to design a chicken tractor I can move through my garden on my raised beds to clean up, fertilize etc my garden...I also want meat rabbits. I believe in Victory gardens and have a great antique book that tells me how to convert my garden for wartime.... Well that is me Cheers Bina
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After spending a lifetime traveling, teaching and establishing her own commercial real estate business, Lynn Mitchell retired to Daphne to focus on a new phase of her life: volunteering and giving back to the community.
And because of her community service, she was recently inducted into the Senior Citizens' Hall of Fame by the Area Agency on Aging.
"I've lived all over the country, but my favorite place was in the north Georgia mountains, where the Appalachian Trail starts," Mitchell said. "I lived near Springer Mountain and I had my own commercial real estate business there."
Her career didn't begin in real estate, however. Mitchell didn't actually graduate from high school, but she didn't let that stop her. She obtained her education degree at the University of South Alabama and spent several years working in the magnet school program in Mobile.
"I worked at a school in Bayou LaBatre and then I worked at (Clark-Shaw) school, which is the magnet school for Math and Science in Mobile," she said. "From there I moved to a small rural school in Georgia, but I didn't care for it."
That's when she got involved in real estate, which she says is a great field for former teachers.
"Everybody teaches and everybody sells," she said. "Teachers make great Realtors. In education, I sold ideas to the toughest market in town."
Birthplace: San Mateo, Calif.
Hometown: Daphne
Occupation: Retired
Activities: Community service, volunteering
For eight years she ran Mitchell Realty Group, a commercial real estate investment company, and then in 2007 she sold the business and "retired" to Daphne.
"I'm 55 years old, so I wasn't planning to stop working," she said. "I'm now focused on community service. I have time and there's an economic crunch. And what I get back from volunteering far exceeds what I put into it."
Mitchell is involved in several local groups, including the Mobile Chamber of Commerce, SCORE small business counselors, and CCIM, a commercial real estate organization. But her passion is working with Job Seekers.
"We meet Mondays at 6 p.m. at Daphne United Methodist Church to help people find jobs," she said. "We teach people how to be the chosen resume, how to build the relationships that help them get jobs, and how to polish themselves. We have a 100 percent placement rate."
Job Seekers works with any individual looking for work, she said, and the organization's biggest problem is finding individuals to help. Mitchell's other passion is working with the Retired Seniors Volunteer Program, known as RSVP.
"RSVP is a placement service for people needing volunteers," she said. "We find staff for events like the Azalea Trail Run and other area activities."
And with the holiday season at hand, Mitchell urges individuals to get involved and give back.
"There's no reason to be alone at the holidays. There's a volunteer place that needs you," she said. "I'm passionate about volunteer work, and there is no greater need than at this time of year to do it."
When she's not volunteering or at the gym, Mitchell enjoys teaching Sunday school and preschool in Mobile, and she took her recent recognition in stride.
"I don't think education or status in life defines you," she said. "You define who you are, and where you want to be."
---Leigh T. Moore, Correspondent


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Why, wouldn't it be wiser to hold until FDA news comes?
Everyone but Stupid and his fellow morons are smart enough too see this is a bust.
Its a scam. Nothing here but BS and morons.
It's not a scam, it's a low risk/reward penny stock. Now, if they get approved, that's a whole different story. But, that may not happen for some time.


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Mariotti Show Recap: Wednesday, Nov. 13th
Missed part of the show? Here?s a rewind of the program on November 13, 2013.
The Mariotti Show streams live M-F noon to 3 ET.
Hour One on The Jay Mariotti Show: November 13, 2013:
Somehow, One-and-Done Night lived up to megahype in college basketball
Wiggins, Parker, Randle all impressive and project as top NBA picks. Expectations, comparisons unfair, shrug it off.
Jay, like Mike Krzyzewski, hopes NBA teams won't be tanking games for better lottery position.
Calipari has a coaching job to do at Kentucky with six elite freshman.
Michigan State actually has SENIORS, and Jay is glad Tom Izzo continues to run a program that demands players stay a while and don't immediately bolt to the NBA.
One-and-doneism is a sham, mocks academia while developing NBA talent and giving David Stern/Adam Silver a year of free publicity for their future stars.
Jordan's ``Sick Game'' shoes are being auctioned off.
Dwayne Bowe will start for Chiefs after weed bust. Jay wonders why Andy Reid, who lost a son to drugs, wouldn't make a larger statement by at least benching him for a half beyond NFL jurisdiction.
Hour Two on The Jay Mariotti Show: November 13, 2013:
Let's see how Chiefs respond to first adversity
Martin-Ross meeting delayed, league wants Martin first
What happened to Miami Dolphins over time?
Jerry Jones: Is there a dumber football guy out there?
Gronkowski, latest insensitive episode
Kaepernick's regression, updates on Wilson, Griffin
Jerry Rice on Megatron: Far to go
Coaches on hot seats
More Broncos-Chiefs: protecting Manning vs KC sack fiends
Del Rio on spot, Fox says coming back before long
Every team has issues in watered-down league
Scott Tolzien in GB? Why backup QB is so vital, same goes for Denver
Hour Three on The Jay Mariotti Show: November 13, 2013:
More raves about the One-and-Done freshmen. Jay says it shouldn't be called college basketball, but NBA development basketball.
Jay lays out the summer of 2014 and how LeBron could end up with the Lakers and how other teams will tank for Wiggins, Parker, Randle, etc.
How would the new college football selection committee handle this year's circumstances?
Ohio State, because of weak Big 10, could be aced out for years, which could lead Urban Meyer to the NFL.
Jay thinks Meyer's successor at Florida, Will Muschamp, doesn't have much rope left at program accustomed to elite coaches.
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Books are Fun
Children who are read to often will be eager to learn how to read for themselves.
- Check out a Discovery Pack for this skill at your library
- Read books with your child every day.
- Children want to copy the grownups in their lives. Let them see you reading too.
- Have plenty of books around the house and in the car so books are part of everyday play.


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Evil Clown Stalks Children for FunBethany Sanders
Remember how you felt the first time you saw that evil clown in Stephen King's It, peeking out from below the sewer grate?
Now you can give your kids a real, live scary clown for their birthday … complete with stalking!
Dominic Deville, professional child scare-er, will dress up like an evil clown and stalk your children for a week. If he catches them, he'll smash a cake in their face. If he doesn't, the cake is theirs to eat, along with a gift of years of therapy to recover from their week of terror.
Deville, who only stalks kids in Lucerne, Switzerland, will follow kids home from school and/or work, leave threatening text messages, make prank phone calls, and set scary traps.
The child feels more and more that it is being pursued,' Deville told Metro.co.uk. The clown's one and only aim is to smash a cake into the face of his victim, when they least expect it, during the course of seven days."
Deville has boundaries: He won't break into a residence or bug kids at work, and any time that a kid feels like he's had enough, the stalking stops.
You know, I used to think the meanest prank in the world was those fake lottery tickets that make people believe they've won $10,000, but I think Evil Clown Stalker tops them all. Riding a roller coaster or watching a horror movie — fun. Being stalked? Freaky. Just ask any celebrity who's been there.
Deville and his clown friends say it's all just fun and games, what do you think?


text: Dewey's in Columbus is nestled between the Tri-Villages of Grandview Heights, Marble Cliff and Upper Arlington. The Tree-lined streets' of the Tri-Villages are a wonderful place to experience community, culture, fine arts and beautiful parks. Enjoy shopping at unique boutique and specialty shops, galleries, time tested restaurants and friendly taverns. Dewey's family oriented approach in a modern industrial setting serving unique pizzas and salads makes the Tri-Village a perfect location. Top-notch service and value makes Dewey's a great spot for your lunch outing. Or come and enjoy Dewey's Pizza after an afternoon of shopping, riding bikes or catching an OSU game.


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A complete mispelling of an already mispelled word....pwned. People only use this spelling of the word when they are trying to be extra-retarded.
"I powned Jameel in Counterstrike"
"Your momma got powned last night"
"Your momma got powned last night"
dari JameelVega Selasa, 04 Oktober 2005
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Can you define these popular missing words?
To smack someone with your dick. Mainly across the face. then instantly saying powned.
*smacks guy with dick* you say "POWNED!".
dari Derikk Rabu, 13 Agustus 2008
Player owned, Killed, destroyed, sniped, Beat down,
Dude, you were so P'owned by that sniper
dari Funnyjunk2012 Rabu, 13 Juni 2007
An Arabic term used to describe a punch from your Uncle.
Was that your uncle? Dude, you got POW-NED!
dari WebsterLewis Kamis, 14 November 2013
The incorrect way to pronounce "pwned". The actual way to pronounce it is "pawned", as the O is being REPLACED by the P, as opposed to being latched on to the front of the word.
Guy 1: You got powned!
Guy 2: It's pawned or pwned..
Guy 2: It's pawned or pwned..
dari 5449 Selasa, 02 Juni 2009
When your ballsack smacks against someones forehead.
Bitch, you just got powned!!!
dari Justin Jumat, 28 Mei 2004
The grammatically correct way to spell or say pwned or powned without being leet.
It can stand for player owned, or in the case of p-ownage, possibly pure ownage.
It can stand for player owned, or in the case of p-ownage, possibly pure ownage.
"I am teh p-ownage."
"I am teh p-ownage."
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Sen. Wendy Davis halts tough abortion law with Texas Senate filibuster
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State Sen. Wendy Davis talked with Kirk Watson before the filibuster began.
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The two life-size nude statues were lent to the Newark Museum for exhibit more than 75 years ago. Today, they're taking up valuable space in a storage area.
The marble pieces - a reclining Eve and an untitled standing female figure by the artist Mildred Jerome - no longer fit the museum's mission.
Yet they can't be lent to other institutions, be published in a catalog, or even be cleaned without the permission of owners and heirs - who can't be found.
The statues must be insured and kept secure, in the proper temperature and humidity, at a cost of more than $1,000 a year. Moving them could cost thousands more.


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About Us
International Links
The Comenius Project
International Links
"Pupils show great pride in their school and are very eager to share with visitors the things they think make it special, such as the links with international schools"
Ofsted Report 2008
Boughton Monchelsea Primary School was awarded the prestigious International School Award in the Autumn of 2007. This award, organised by the British Council for the Department for Children, Schools and Families, gived the school accreditation through to September 2010. The school also gained the award in 2000 and 2003 and became one of a select number of schools to have recieved this distinction three times. A portfolio of the year 2006/2007 was sent to the British Council and their judgement was:
"An excellent range of activities. This was a real pleasure to read and we understand why Ofsted has given the international work in your school so much due praise"
Former Deputy Heateacher, Peter Hirons, recieved the award from George Alagiah, the BBC TV journalist, in the presence of Jim Knight MP, Minister of State for Schools and Learners.
Boughton Monchelsea School recognises that we all live in an increasing global society where communities are becoming more and more dependent upon working together. Learners need to have opportunities to understand what it means to be European and global citizens and develop attitudes where stereotyping, racism and biggotry do not exist. International education provides the basis for spiritual, moral and social development and provides a real focus for many other curriculum activities.
Over the last 18 years Boughton Monchelsea School has worked closely with several schools in Europe, one in the USA, one in Japan and another in Africa.
Our first ever link was with Ecole Pasteur in Roubaix, France. This involved Year 6 children in a pen-pal type project with theur counterparts. It worked successfully for three years with the french pupils visiting Kent and coming into our homes. We visited Boulogne each year.
Around the same time, a tiny link was made with a small school in Cliasmol in the Outer Hebrides, on the Isle of Harris. This school had just four pupils who were two sets of sisters.
In 1995 a partnership was developed with Diego Valeri School in Favaro Veneto, Italy. Favaro Veneto is adjacent to Venice. Again this was limited to Year 6 pupils. During the latter part of 1996 it was decided to try and seek funding to develop our work in the European Dimension and include a wider range of pupils. This required finding another school as the French partnership was lost following the organising teacher changing jobs.
In 1997 the school's Headteacher, and Deputy Headteacher travelled to Helsinki along with four teachers from Diego Valeri School and after several meetings with teachers at Postipuu School, Espoo, a city just a few kilometres from Helsinki, we agreed to link together and applied for a funded Comenius Project. Our project ideas were accepted by the British Council and we commenced work in September 1997.
Project funding gave us a real boost as it enabled all the cost of materials and communication to be met. Crucially it enabled teachers to travel to each other's schools for meetings to arrange programmes of work, review different education systems, gain ideas and teach in very different situations. The whole of Key Stage 2 was involved in this project.
From these small beginnings much has been achieved. The school is currently in its fifth project involving European schools. By the end of this school year, 13 teachers, 3 teaching assistants and two school governors will have, over the years, had professional development opportunities by travelling to one or more of our partner schools. Since 2002 the British Council have funded travelling opportunities for small groups of pupils. By the end of next year we will have taken pupils to Greece, Italy, Finland, Spain, Austria and Germany. Several families have continued their friendships and travelled to each others homes outside of the project which is just brilliant! Pupils and teachers from these countries have visited our school on a regular basis.
Here is a list of our projects and schools we have worked with
Culture, Traditions, Values and Ways of Life Within our Countries 1997-2000
The Impact of Weather and Climate on our Lives, Culture and Environment 2000-2003
Learning Procedures as a Vehicle Towards a European Dimension in School Education 2003-2006
Culture and Community in the New Europe and Wider World 2006-2009
The Effect of Media and New Technologies on Conformity, Diversity and Creativity in Todays Extended European Partnership 2009-2011
Boughton Monchelsea Primary School, UK
Diego Valeri School, Venice, Italy
Postipuu School, Helsinki, Finland
S. Avgoulea-Linardatou School, Athens, Greece
Colegio Publico San Isidro, Aranjuez, Spain
Dalhemsskolan, Helsingborg, Sweden
Sir Karl Popper School, Vienna, Austria
Grundschule Comenius, Paderborn, Germany
Linacre Primary School, Bootle, UK
We now have all our pupils involved in some way in our project. In addition, following the Deputy Headteacher visiting Louisville, Kentucky, USA on a Teachers' International Professional Development course, a link was established in 2002 with Tully Elementary School. In 2005 a project started with some pupils in Years 4, 5 and 6, working with Mimura Shogakko School in Japan.
The European Project has supported two schools in the developing world these being:
Piquiucho School, Piquiucho, Ecuador in 2007/2008
Yalding School, Farato, Gambia in 2008 - onwards with our regular supply teacher having taught there as a volunteer.
Our French Club has linked with Ecole Ronsard near Lille in France.
Boughton Monchelsea School's work in this area has received wide recognition along with its three International School Awards. We have featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Kent, along with publicity in a range of magazines and journals. Kent County Council has used the school as an example of good practice, regularly sending groups of Headteachers and Administrators from all over Europe to see the school at work. The project coordinator has spoken at conferences, headteacher meetings and for the British Council about how this kind of work can impact positively for schools.
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Tom Clancy dies at 66
Tom Clancy, best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science novels, died late Tuesday in Baltimore at the age of 66.
Many of Clancy's books, set in the aftermath of the Cold War, were turned into successful films, starring big-name actors.
Video games that bear his name also became hugely popular in recent years. Clancy was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles, and his bid to buy the Minnesota Vikings fell apart when a divorce settlement cost him tens of millions of dollars.
Clancy was born in Baltimore and graduated from Loyola College in that city in 1969. Before making his literary debut, he spent some time running an independent insurance agency.
'Simpsons' producer says major character will die
"The Simpsons" may be going strong in its 25th season, but a major character from the long-running animated series will soon meet his or her maker.
Executive producer Al Jean revealed plans to kill off a character in the season ahead. "We're actually working on a script where a character will pass away," Jean said. "I'll give a clue that the actor playing the character won an Emmy for playing that character, but I won't say who it is."
"Simpsons" fanatics will know that this hint doesn't exactly narrow things down: Nearly every member of the core ensemble of voice-over performers has won an Emmy, including Dan Castellaneta (Homer, Barney, Krusty), Julie Kavner (Marge, Patty, Selma), Hank Azaria (Apu, practically everyone else on the show), Nancy Cartwright (Bart) and Yeardley Smith (Lisa).
Def Leppard's Campbell recovers from cancer
Rocking with Def Leppard between bouts of chemotherapy proved healing for guitarist Vivian Campbell.
The 51-year-old musician relied on his bandmates and the thrill of performing to help him through a diagnosis of Hodgkins lymphoma (he started treatment in April). The band hit the road this summer for a monthlong tour that wrapped up in July.
"We've actually been able to work through it," said Campbell. "We did the shows in Europe while I was doing chemo, ... and mentally that was a big part of my recovery.
"I'm glad I had the opportunity to work through it instead of stay at home and feel sorry for myself," he added.
Screenwriter gives Ja Rule a chance
Ja Rule, who recently spent nearly two years behind bars for illegal gun possession, landed a role in a new movie because screenwriter Galley Molina empathized with the rapper's missteps.
"People used to ask, 'Well, you know he's a felon?' And I would say, 'Well, so am I,'" recalled Molina, a 44-year-old pastor who was locked up for five years for drug trafficking.
"I know his heart. I know what type of dude he is and he was probably one of the most professional guys on the set."
"I'm in Love With a Church Girl" will debut Oct. 18 in more than 280 theaters. Ja Rule stars as a high-level drug dealer who struggles to leave his illegal lifestyle behind.
Georgia group buys Harlem Globetrotters
Georgia-based Herschend Family Entertainment Corp. has acquired Harlem Globetrotters International Inc. from Shamrock Capital Advisors.
Terms of the deal were not revealed.
Herschend, based in Norcross, Ga., is a family-owned company that owns and operates 26 theme parks, aquariums and other attractions nationwide. Among its operations is a partnership with country singing star Dolly Parton for Dollywood and Dollywood's Splash Country in Tennessee.
The Phoenix-based Globetrotters have provided basketball entertainment to the masses since 1926, performing 25,000 "games" around the globe. Currently, the Globetrotters display their antics in about 400 games per year.
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Most people never get to meet the president, but Flat Adam and Flat Daniel did.
Third-grade students at Margaret Wills Elementary School started mailing their class project - laminated paper dolls they named Flat Adam and Flat Daniel - around the country at the beginning of this year.
Penny Gardner and Jennifer Petersen, third-grade teachers, decided they would arrange for Adam and Daniel to meet some classy friends.
Petersen's brother, John Scarberry, said he and his production team were filming President Bush at a fund-raiser in Oklahoma City for gubernatorial candidate Steve Largent.
"I held out Flat Adam and (Bush) came by and posed with it," Scarberry said.
Adam and Daniel also have met former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
The project gives teachers a chance to talk about many subjects with their students, not the least of which is geography.
The dolls have traveled all over the country, including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Tennessee and North Carolina. Sometimes, there's a reason the dolls go where they go.
"We got to make them in class, and our moms and dads wrote where we were gonna send them to," said C.J. McKnight, a third-grader. Each member of the class made their own dolls. McKnight's has traveled to Maine, Las Vegas and California. He said it's on its way to Australia.
"My mom's aunt knows someone in Australia," he said.
As if meeting the president isn't enough, Principal Gay Ham said she and the teachers are trying to get astronaut Rick Husband to take Adam and Daniel when he goes into space in January.
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From the beginning, my intention was to make something other than a so-called "art film." I wanted to capture how these two ordinary people accomplished the extraordinary in the field of art collecting. This film is about the power of passion and love, and is a celebration of life.
The story of Herb and Dorothy Vogel is unique, not only because of their avant-garde vision and discernment as collectors, but also because of their love and dedication. It is through their loving partnership that the viewer truly experiences this remarkable story.
The Vogels' message is also about access. Art is not limited to the elite few. You don't have to be wealthy or an art school graduate to enjoy art. If you are interested in collecting art, you don't have to follow trends or others' advice. Just listen to your own voice. Trust your eyes and instinct. Simply take the time to look, look, and look.
In today's world, where art is treated as another commodity and a work's investment value takes precedence over its artistic value, Herb & Dorothy offers us an important question: What is it to appreciate and collect art?
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CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - An Israeli organization is launching a PR campaign aimed at giving Europeans and Americans an inside look at victims of Islamic terror groups.
Sponsored by Almagor, the campaign hopes to provide an Israeli perspective on the three-week operation in the Gaza Strip.
"We are hearing all the time how many civilians were killed in Gaza, but we feel the focus needs to be widened to highlight how many Israeli civilians have also been killed by Hamas terrorists," Almagor head Meir Indor said.
"We are planning to meet with members of the US Congress and their aides, as well as members of the Jewish community," he said.
"We want to awaken them on how Israel suffers regularly from terrorism," he said.
Among the participants of the information tour is Yossi Zur, who lost his 17-year-old son Assaf in a suicide bombing on a bus in Haifa in 2003.
"Seventeen people were killed in that attack," Zur said. "Nine of them were under the age of 17," he said, pointing out that his son "took that bus every day at the same time."
The suicide bomber, dispatched by Hamas, chose that particular bus "because he knew it would be packed with school children," Zur said.
"I think the international media is very one-sided, and I believe the main reason for this is something that I call 'pain competition,'" he said.
"In 30 seconds, the TV media is not able to present the reality here. It is so much easier for them to play the 'pain game,'" he said.
More than 1,200 Israelis have been killed by suicide bombers since 2000.
In a recent Channel 4 documentary, a suicide bomber was quoted as saying that "every person in Israel can be justifiably killed because either they were once a soldier or will become a soldier some day."
With regard to Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, both Zur and Indor believe the premature cease-fire disallowed any lasting achievement in the three-week operation.
"Hamas is still in power. [Captured IDF Corporal] Gilad Shalit has not been returned, and I read in the newspaper today that within a year, Hamas will have rockets capable of reaching Tel Aviv," Zur said.
"People in the South had very high expectations for this war," Indor said. "Most of those whom I spoke with were disappointed that it ended without any real results," he said.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
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McDowell's Spearman takes unusual path to states
HERSHEY -- From takedowns to time splits, and back to takedowns.
That's how Tyree Spearman's unusual winter sports season has gone at McDowell.
As a 160-pounder wrestler, Spearman is one of six Trojans coach Shane McChesney will guide in the PIAA Class AAA tournament. The three-day meet starts today at Hershey's Giant Center.
Preliminary matches in its Class AA portion will begin at 9 a.m., with the AAA action set to start at 4 p.m.
Of Class AAA's 214 entrants, it's likely that Spearman is the only one who switched to another sport in midseason, only to return to the mat.
Spearman abruptly decided to join McDowell's indoor track and field team in the midst of his junior wrestling season.
He competed in sprint events for the Trojans as a way to further train for football.
"Then," Spearman said, "I kind of thought again how good I could be at wrestling, so I came back to wrestling. I guess it all worked out perfectly."
Perfect is the best way to describe Spearman's record going into today's meet.
He'll put his 16-0 record on the line in a 160 first-round match against Wilson senior Andy Francos (38-8).
That match will represent Spearman's first state action as an individual wrestler.
He previously competed for the Trojans in the PIAA's AAA team tournament.
"I still get the same vibe being down here," Spearman said Wednesday from the Giant Center. "It's kind of exciting to be here for my first time as an individual (participant)."
Spearman joined teammates Charlie Lenox (106), Paul Deitz (120), Nick Gibson (132), Shawn Spearman (138) and Cody Nolan (145) for casual workouts with wrestlers from throughout Pennsylvania.
That three-hour session normally includes the official weigh-ins, but not this year.
Because of Wednesday's weather forecast, PIAA officials postponed them until today in case teams arrived late.
That means that pound allowances won't be given when the weigh-ins take place today.
Tyree and Shawn Spearman will attempt to emulate what their older brother accomplished twice at Hershey.
Steve Spearman graduated from McDowell as a two- time PIAA gold medalist, winning the second one as a senior in 2012.
"I talk to him all the time," Tyree Spearman said. "He just said, 'Take it one match at a time down here and be confident.' "
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This drawing has already been featured on DeviantArt last week, I just haven't gotten around to posting it up her yet until now (shame on me!) This drawing in particular, I am very pleased with. As I mentioned in my previous post, I am really experimenting with different tools and elements within Photoshop, as well as with my drawing style in general. I believe I have improved with my latest works, but that's just my opinion I guess!
I believe that the colors are a lot smoother than in my usual stuff that I post up. I also noticed that this piece has reached a lot more people at DA than my usual stuff as well. Sure, it does take a little longer to produce better looking stuff, but it's worth it in the end :3.
Okay, so I know it's starting to look like i'm being a major Final Fantasy XIV fan girl posting all these Miqo'te pics (and believe me, it's going to get worse! Mwahahaha!) but really, i'm kind of using me and my bf's characters as models in a way! I get to draw them doing different things in each picture, I tend to have a hard time coming up with new material and I feel like Final Fantasy may be a great outlet for creativity for me. Also, not to mention, my boyfriend and I are having a blast coming up with new things for these two to do xD hehe. Yup, I got my boyfriend on the bandwagon pretty well >:3.


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Good old British Bigot Time!
Oh what a conundrum!
Although belated, I have the excuse of not being a blogger until recently. It seems a senior officer in the Met has been questioned re allegations of rape and assault. The story was broken by the Mirror and expanded on by Ealing Today.
Watching the Electives
As election time approaches, my memory turns to my first incarnation as the WWD. Young, innocent days! How I used to skip merrily to my hefty old computer each morning to see what pearls of wisdom had been left under my inane ramblings! I remember the morning well when I booted up to find my stat counter had gone berserk! A blip? Something in the water of middle England? No. I had a link from the BNP website.
The thorny issue of single patrol....
Our lords and masters, to whom we bow before because we are not worthy, have bestowed upon us the honour of reviewing patrol tactics. Praise be! If it was not for the Home Office and Senior Police Management (tm) I really do not know how we would all sleep safely in our beds at night. Thankfully, the careerists have enlightened us. It seems that the public find it easier to approach a single patrolling officer than two officer patrolling in pairs.
Diversity is Division
There is one issue, and one issue alone that obsesses the police. No it is not criminals, victims of crime or public safety as you would imagine. It is race.
The police service recognises that there are a huge variety of creeds and colours, particularly in our major conurbations. The Home Office demands that the police service is made up of a percentage of visible ethic minorities reflecting the community they serve. A bald and simple demand that ignores every other nuance of difference apart from skin colour. A black man living in poverty in a slum estate in south Manchester has a local officer who attended a private school in the home counties. Objective met. Box ticked. Promotion example obtained. You will be being policed by 'your own kind' who you will clearly be able to relate to better than someone more local. Because you have the same colour skin. You don't agree? Well sorry, but you're not a home office expert. Believe.
Internally, the police practise positive discrimination to reach these targets, in particular in the latest race obsession - promotion. Officers of colour who have been repeatedly unsuccessful in corporate promotion processes are given access to various groups and support services with a view to forcing them into senior positions. A number of such candidates have no shame, and will take every opportunity to further themselves. They are not the best candidates. The police service employs a large number of very capable and able officers from visible ethnic minorities who have the personal integrity to take no part in such falsehoods.
The police are doing themselves no favours by taking such action. Good candidates will not enter an organisation that will promote them purely because of the colour of their skin. Decent officers will not take part in false projects. This only leaves those without integrity to become the police leaders of the future.
The way of the world....
This blog was closed for the reasons shown in the last post. Since that time, the management board of the Met Police has changed - Ian Blair was sacked (but has had the audacity to write a book!) and the rest have slunk back under their stones. I no longer work for the Met, but remain a serving police officer. I am older and wiser, and won't be bullied by people who I have no respect for.
My name is John Brackenridge. I am the World Weary Detective.


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trailminimumsteps Option
If you prefer to manually edit your configuration files, use the following syntax for this option:
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The Top Trails Report: Minimum Steps (trailminimumsteps) option indicates how many steps must be followed in a user's visit for that "trail" to be included in the top Chart Top Trails (trails) report. (All instances of trails are considered to be visits, but only trails of at least the minimum number of steps are displayed on the popular-trails report.) By default, Wusage sets this option to 3, because shorter trails are usually not of interest. However, you may wish to set this option to 2, or to a higher value. You may specify any whole number of steps. See also the Max. Minutes Between Accesses (trailtimeout) option.
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AMD is a company that has been strapped for cash lately. In late April, the Sunnyvale, CA based company announced that it would offer
Convertible Senior Notes to raise around $2.2 billion USD. AMD set a conversion
point of $42.12 USD per share at a time when its stock price was $14 USD.
The company's efforts to raise more cash have intensified
even further. Yesterday, AMD priced an additional $1.5 billion USD in
Convertible Senior Notes at a conversion point of $20.13 USD per share. The
conversion price represents a 50 percent premium over AMD's $13.42 USD stock price
at close of day on August 8.
AMD plans to use the funds received from the offering to pay an outstanding
balance on a loan from Morgan Stanley Senior Funding in late 2006. The company
borrowed around $2.5 billion USD in loans and $1.2 billion USD in common stock
to fund the $5.4
billion purchase of ATI Technologies. The company also reported a net loss of $600
million USD last quarter while archrival Intel
reported net income of $1.3 billion USD.
quote: This has become a very tiring argument.
quote: Advantage because IBM/AMD (not only AMD!) process is clearly superior to the bulk process of Intel to the point of the SOI DSL without hi-k/metal of IBM/AMD at 65nm, is superior to Intel bulk hi-k/metal at 45nm, otherwise how could IBM manage to get ~5,0Ghz in a 17 stage pipeline DP chip with ~340mm2 at 65nm (>3x size of DP Penryn(107mm2) when Intel is claiming 3,3Ghz and launch top at 3,16Ghz 120W TDP!??...
quote: Get your products out into the market- then talk about them. -thats what IBM does- talk less work more.
quote: With questions about the long term viability over the ATI acquisition, and the huge debt it engendered, AMD's current problems are its own responsibility.To blame any long term business failures of AMD, on possible, as yet unproved, misadventures of Intel, has no bearing on AMD's current precarious position.
quote: but if Fusion,Torrenza and CTM play out good... they may end up with much reasons to celebrate.


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Explore the universe of the film as soldiers and scientists, who must create alliances with other species and defend humanity from hostile alien threats.
Stargate Worlds dev not afraid to delay game
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Armstrong number check
To check whether entered number is armstrong number or not.
Code: C
Re: Armstrong number check
You are printing the wrong output.
Armstrong number: An n-digit number equal to the sum of the nth powers of its digits.
There are no two-digit Armstrong numbers; and there are four three-digit Armstrong numbers: 153, 370, 371, and 407.
1x1x1 + 5x5x5 + 3x3x3 = 153
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I have read the above program and try to understand it but i cannot understand all. I only can calculate the 53 without the 1 and 370 without the 3. I don't know why. Your explanations is greatly appreciated by me and others.
n=n/10; -- Is it the 153 calculate 3 first, then 5 and finally 1.
Sorry for my stupidness.
Your help is greatly appreciated by me an others.
Re: Armstrong number check
Thanks for your help.
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Covers forgiveness in the contexts of deep, personal and unfair hurt. What is forgiveness and how do people forgive? What are the benefits of interpersonal forgiveness? Why are there so many misconceptions associated with forgiveness, and how do those misconceptions get in the way of people's willingness to forgive? A presentation to educate on how forgiveness can be healing for individuals.


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Richard's back -- but no word on whether he's still naked. The granddaddy of reality TV shows is coming back with "Survivor: All-Stars," kicking off after the CBS Super Bowl telecast on Feb. 1, the Associated Press reports.
As announced by the network Monday, there will be 18 players, this time broken into three (rather than the usual two) tribes, and each representing all seven of the past "Survivor" seasons.
And they are: Richard Hatch, winner of the original "Survivor: Pulau Tiga," along with Rudy Boesch, Sue Hawk and Jenna Lewis; Tina Wesson, winner of "Survivor: The Australian Outback," as well as her runner-up, Colby Donaldson, and Amber Brkich, Jerri Manthey and Alicia Calaway; Ethan Zohn, winner of "Survivor: Africa," plus Lex van den Berghe and Tom Buchanan; "Survivor: Marquesas" vets Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien and Rob Mariano; Shii Ann Huang of "Survivor: Thailand"; winner Jenna Morasca and Rob Cesternino, of "Survivor: The Amazon"; and Rupert Boneham, from "Survivor: Pearl Islands."
According to the network, the oldest All-Star is Rudy Boesch, at 76. The youngest is Jenna Morasca, who is 22. The median age of the 18 is 37.
"Survivor: All-Stars," again to be hosted by Jeff Probst, will bring the contest back to the Pearl Islands off Panama, where the most recent "Survivor" was set.
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Sheriffs in five South Carolina counties are offering people a chance to turn in explosives, no questions asked.
Officials in Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Oconee and Pickens counties have set aside this week as Explosives Amnesty Week.
People in those areas can call their sheriff's office to have any explosives, ammunition, weapons, bomb materials or military ordnance removed from their property. Certified bomb technicians will respond to remove and destroy the hazardous materials.
Dispatchers will request information about the materials to be collected, including the address where the materials are stored.
Callers aren't required to give their names and no criminal charges related to hazardous materials reported or collected will be filed against people who participate.
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