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Update:This is turning into a lot of work. Why did I start this?
Oh, I remember. Because this is a really bad feature that could screw up a lot of software for years to come.
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...from Phil Dawes...Blimey, that's gonna cause a bit of a ruckus.
Wrong Programming Model
Not much love over at LtU. So LtU readers -- here's the gist of my diatribe -- the programming model is simply not needed and will lead to shared memory code at least as complex as the stuff we're writing today. Should everyone switch to Erlang? Well that is the general direction general purpose languages should go. Switching from today's monitors to transactional memory is not going to be a baby step either! It's a huge step. In the wrong direction. So, yeah, as long as we have to step this way or that way to get into a multiprocessor, multinode, concurrent world -- let's do step in a direction that is a good bit simpler than the one we're in today *and* far simpler than the one proposed by the transactional memory folks.Meanwhile back at the comments...
Guillaume Germain, the author of Termite, a really nice Scheme-like, pretty much shared-nothing, concurrent programming system, comments...
I think STM has some very attractive aspects, most notably efficiency and composability. I see it as a better replacement for other low-level concurrency constructs, but not for large scale systems.The efficiency of a mechanism may not translate into efficient *use* of the mechanism. As for composability, I think that could very well turn out to be an academic attribute. Is this something most programmers should be composing concurrent threads with? No. Absolutely not. Most programmers should not be using shared memory threads at all.
Then Guillaume comes to his senses, 8^)...
I have a few concerns about it...rektide then comments...The first concern is that I'm not sure how much the composability of STM will scale. If layers upon layers of transactions are built, I fear some dependencies between layers might start surfacing at upper levels, causing surprising conflicts. It could become hard to get it right. I can see misguided programmers starting to sprinkle their code with 'atomic' statements ("just in case"), a bit like one would do with 'yield' statements in a non-preemptive concurrent system. Also, 'atomic' statements could be forgotten, causing nasty bugs...
But my main concern with it is that after all, STM is still shared-state concurrency. It mixes together the control flows of programs in ways that can be hard to visualize and comprehend. Erlang doesn't have that problem, because every "connection point" of a process with the exterior is obvious and well-defined...
in the end, it seems to only solve a small part of the problem, and it doesn't really help with the actual design of concurrent systems.
the one thing i really like about STM is that good implementations are exactly like ZFS, copy on updateAnd hey, if you want to build a persistent file system, by all means the mechanisms in ZFS are neat. But does this automatically transfer over to main memory shared everything concurrent programming as a desired programming model for most applications? No way. I can't make that leap so easily. At all really.
And he writes...
currently, any place where data over time is relevant requires user implementation to store history, which usually means debugging tools and printf(). to me, history is just a series of transactional states, and being able to lookup old states seems like second nature. i would really like to see more Saga like transactions available in the mainstream.And I am all for making the history of state available and first-class. Yet there are many ways to do this within a sequential process, not requiring main memory shared everything concurrent programming.
if you've got magic bullets for [distributed shared state], the world is always buying.No. Avoid distributed shared state. That doesn't mean all concurrent, distributed problems go away. It just means they are that much more manageable. This shared everything transaction thingy makes the problem much worse than it has to be. I think the starry-eyed admirers see how hard shared memory monitor-based programming is. But that programming model should *never* have been admitted into the Java language to begin with. There are already better solutions than this proposed garble.
From the ACM Queue, "Multicore Programming With Transactional Memory"...
Transactional memory brings to mainstream... programming proven concurrency-control concepts used for decades by the database community... Under the hood, a combination of software and hardware must guarantee that concurrent transactions from multiple threads execute atomically and in isolation. The key mechanisms for a transactional memory system are data versioning and conflict detection.By the way there are a few folks at Gemstone Systems who've done this far better than anyone else. They've been doing it for over two decades and it's in production in heavy use at financial institutions, factories, shipping, and so on. They've got it working in distributed shared, multi-user transactions with efficient distributed garbage collection. I pointed some researches that way. Not the ones in this paper.
That said, this would be the most tragic turn imaginable for programming in the 21st century. There is no way I would want to do this in the small on one machine or in the large in a Gemstone-like system. That is the wrong way to program concurrency for most systems.
Very wrong. And it is scaring me how shiny this thingy looks in so many people's eyes right now. I don't think it will be so long before this shows up in Java and C#.
Wrong, Wrong, Misguided, and So Wrong
We need to be headed primarily toward shared *nothing*. Sharing at the level prescribed in this paper, whether with locks or transactions, is simply uncalled for 99% of the time. Sequential processes with shared-nothing message passing should be the direction.Get better isolation mechanisms for conceptually multiple JVMs and dotnet runtimes in a single OS process. Better yet, turn these systems into legacies and just move onto something better for future work.
You can hold me to this: transactional memory if turned out into the wild will turn out to be a *mess*.
Damien Katz writes in the comments (and since he agrees with me so well, I promote it here)...
I *completely* agree. Shared state threading is a hack built on to existing languages. A useful and fairly efficient one, but a hack nonetheless. And like raw pointers and unprotected memory, it's hard to justify it's use for most programming tasks. Compared to languages like Erlang, it's nearly impossible to justify it on efficiency or performance concerns.In another comment worth displaying up front, Dan Creswell expresses, well, let's have Dan's quote. It even deserves its own subtitles...Transaction memory is another hack bolted on to all the previous concurrency hacks, and somehow it's going to make all the other concurrency hacks to work reliably. Yeah right.
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I read the same article and it just frightened me. All that magic hidden under the covers, bleuch.8^)It's deadly shine'y because at the surface it appears like it just makes all the concurrency stuff such as locks "go away" in line with many a programmers desire to ignore such details. Couple that with the familiarity most have with transactions and you're looking at premium car-wax, retina burning shine'y.
I don't even want to imagine debugging one of these systems. You're going to be confronted with some strange behaviors due to transaction conflict or whatever and because it's all supposed to be done by magic under the covers wading in there to understand what's broken will be a nightmare. It'll make debugging from Java thread-dumps look like a holiday.
More comments. This is great.
Here's part of one from Nat Pryce...
Does software transactional memory support coordination? Or must that be supported by other primitives, such as semaphores or monitor condition variables?From what I can tell you still have to build up from the basic transaction mechanism and the shared variables. But it is worse than that.
Most systems today should be ignorant of the "inside my OS process", "on my same node", and "on some other node". The benefits of that can be seen in Erlang, which Damien pointed out. This mechanism is still an "inside my OS process" mechanism.
Well, at the lowest level of runtime implementation of an OS process, you need some mechanisms like this. I would argue all the machinery, hard and soft, for transactions, is way overkill for that level of systems programming.
But to continue to have application programmers deal with this mess for the next umpteen years is nothing but ludicrous. As Damien also wrote, it's like continuing to have today's programmers deal with raw points and memory. No way -- very few programmers should be dealing with that level of complexity.
Nat also writes...
The interaction between distributed (and therefore concurrent) activities involves two things: data transfer and coordination. Synchronisation to avoid race conditions is just one form of coordination. Systems also need to coordinate activities that don't share data.Yes, absolutely. Let's focus on the real problem for software development. Transactional memory is *not* it.
And now sigfpe (Dan Piponi?) writes...
it's nice to know that there are other people in the world having issues with STM.Yes, now's the time to raise a ruckus.
And Cale Gibbard comes to the defense of the dang thing...
The major advantage of STM as a system is that it gives you certain guarantees about composability of already working systems. It's not magical, it doesn't always ensure that things will play nicely together, but it does give you far more guarantees about the correctness of compositions than previous systems have.But Cale, there's not that much Haskell code out there yet anyway. Don't lets have the Haskell people start in with transactional memory just because there still trying to demonstrate they can do imperative programming better than the rest of us.
The world is getting ready for shared nothing, semi-functional programming. Get out of the backwater and catch up to your audience.
And if some group is going to retrofit transactional memory into some significant Java or C# system, well, they would be far better off investing that time into a simpler, shared-nothing rewrite into a language like Erlang, a simpler language like Smalltalk, or even a better shared-nothing coordination mechanism like Javaspaces.
All that low-level monitor-based garble? Just leave it will it is now. Walk away from it slowly. Turn your back, and run.
Cale again...
That being said, if you understand the additional compositionality guarantees, what exactly is it that you find lacking?Em, simplicity? Em, elimination of totally unnecessary mechanisms too far removed from the domain problem?
And on...
Limiting shared state is obviously good -- there's nothing in this system which prevents that. However, it's a system for cleanly sharing any state which should be shared.Yeah, right. People would abuse that mechanism all to bloody hell. If a relatively small group of programmers can develop the various soft real time Erlang systems we've seen over the last several years, there is no indication in my mind the effort required to implement and teach this transactional memory thingy would benefit anywhere near 90 some percent of programmers on this earth. No evidence whatsoever.
Other forms of communication, including those in Erlang still have this problem to deal with.Yes, complex problems remain with implementing concurrent systems. But mechanisms like Erlang's raises them to a higher level, closer to the problem domain. This transactional memory is a false hope covering a bottomless pit that could have easily been walked around in the first place. Stay on the path.
Suppose you have a bank server with clients happily communicating deposits and withdrawals to it, and everything is working. How do clients implement a transfer between accounts safely?First let's not turn every little data structure into a bank account transfer problem. That's just not the case. Second, these cases that really do exist should be well isolated and the mechanisms not put in every programmers' hands. Third, account transfers have been occurring quite a bit over the years without this new transactional main memory thingy. Why complicate everything for everybody, even if this were the best way to transfer funds???
Sorry, that is just a *really* unconvincing example.
Anyway, this is getting long and I probably can't do as good of a job of it as the paper can, so everyone please check it out before writing more gibberish about transactional memory.Yep, read 'em. This is not the first time I've commented on it. Just now it seems like it is gaining momentum. The people writing the gibberish are those inventing these things without comprehending the damage it will do.


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getting sick on cycle, just part of the game?
getting sick on cycle, just part of the game?
I got sick for the entire 3rd week of my 1t/4ad cycle, puking/diarrehea upset stomach etc for 2-3 days, and generally felt like **** for the whole week. I finished up the cycle with 1 week of M1T because I ran out of 1t and 4ad trans but had no more problems after that week. Then when I was one week into my pct with nolva I got sick again! same type of upset stomach, diarrehea, NO puking and only sick for 3 days.
Is this just part of the whole ph/ps/aas game or a freak thing? If this happens every time I do a cycle it kind of defeats the purpose because in the one week I was sick I lost all of the weight I had previously gained and then some. I did manage to get an overall weight gain of ~ 7lbs for the whole cycle but it should have been 12+.
What can I do to avoid this in the future? - 04-11-2005, 11:57 AM
IMO I believe that this is an occurance due to your immune system being weaker due to the suppression a cycle causes, or due to the immense stress placed on your internal organs..
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I would simply suggest to take ancillaries that boost your IM, starting with megadoses of vit C, echinacea, etc etc.
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I think it 1-test compounds (1-test/m-1-t) and not the 4ad which is causing flu-like symptoms. For some people it can be pretty bad. Stay away from it and you'll be fine I suppose, no way around it. - 04-11-2005, 01:39 PM
I just went thru this too my friend. I'm currently on a 4-ad trans. only cycle (first cycle), and after about 2 weeks i got a HORRRIBLE flu! I don't think it was from the 4-ad, but just the intense training and (for lack of a better excuse) not washing hands, eating utensils, plates, etc. enough. I was hospitalized for 2 days, and am just now getting better after being out for 2 days. I think these things just sorta happen. I don't think the AAS helps in these cases but I don't think it's the cause. At any rate, i'll be taking a lot more care for myself from now on out. That's my best advice.
I had the same thing from my 1T/4AD cycle back in February. Check this link out.
Immune Function and PH - 04-11-2005, 02:49 PM
I always get sick on nolva. It is because the nolva lowers WBC count because the estrogen is blocked, and thus you become sick very easily. As for the 1-test and M1T, "M1T" flu is common, although I don't know the specific reason. I know I got a cold while on it.
We shall see how well I do on the next cycle at the end of summer. It'll be the same as the first just higher doses.
I don't think my diet caused the problems as all I changed was the amount of food I ate not what it actually was. I will also be adding in the Vit C, echinacea, and whatever else will help.
Really if it werent for the diarreah (which lasted longer than the puking) I could have probably at least trained a little bit, but it was like I had to **** 100 x a day and if I dare let my guard down I could have been in for a mess
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" * Alternative B: A 50% chance of gaining $1,000.
"The other group was given the choice of:
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" * Alternative D: A 50% chance of losing $1,000.
"These two trade-offs aren't the same, but they're very similar. And traditional economics predicts that the difference doesn't make a difference.
"Traditional economics is based on something called "utility theory," which predicts that people make trade-offs based on a straightforward calculation of relative gains and losses. Alternatives A and B have the same expected utility: +$500. And alternatives C and D have the same expected utility: -$500. Utility theory predicts that people choose alternatives A and C with the same probability and alternatives B and D with the same probability. Basically, some people prefer sure things and others prefer to take chances. The fact that one is gains and the other is losses doesn't affect the mathematics, and therefore shouldn't affect the results.
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"The authors of this study explained this difference by developing something called "prospect theory." Unlike utility theory, prospect theory recognizes that people have subjective values for gains and losses..."
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Where did this bizarre interpretation of utility theory come from?
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Note that it's 11:30 pm right now so I might be getting something wrong. But the point is, the magnitude of the bet clearly matters, even in baseline mainstream models. I don't think the standard models imply the type of "consistency" this author believes.
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Hidden City Philadelphia pulls back the curtain on the city's most remarkable places and connects them to new people, functions, and resources. We celebrate the power of place and inspire social action to make our city a better place to live, work, and play. We do this through four complementary programs.
The Hidden City Daily, our online publication, fosters public dialogue by exploring the intersection of people and place, and the tension between the past and the possible future. The Daily publishes 10-12 posts a week (Monday through Friday) that cover planning, preservation, architecture and design, along with articles that explore the city's history.
Our Hidden City Tours & Events provide immersive experiences of remarkable places, illuminate their stories, and afford networking opportunities among our growing number of members. Our tours range from focused explorations of single sites to walking tours drawing thematic connections among multiple sites.
The Hidden City Festival started it all in 2009, with an award-winning and widely acclaimed event encompassing nine heritage sites and ten major artist projects, and was visited by over 10,000 people. The Hidden City Festival 2013 took place in nine new heritage sites, and ten artist projects, along with a number of performances, talks and tours.
Our Community Services offer ongoing support to past participating Festival sites and their communities as well as the Greater Philadelphia artistic community. Activities range from new program design and planning, to site scouting for artists, and historical research.


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Hi everyone! I'm an argentinian cosplayer, who loves environmental sciences, martial arts, learning things, travel, dance, play fighting videogames and (off course) cosplay.
Hi i'm Rena :3 I'm an artist and designer from Ecuador and I love animals, anime and cosplay :3 you can visit my fb page :3 https://www.facebook.com/RenaNinaCosplay
Hello everyone my name is Austin you can call me senpai I am a pretty outgoing guy i am a beginner in cosplay and hoping to make many friends on here from all different kinds of countries.. I hope we can all enjoy cosplay and get lots of experiences from it ^^ I don't have much to say but i guess I can say im a video game anime collector and I have a pretty good idea on what cosplay I want to do next if anybody wants to recommend me some ideas I would love that...
I'm just your everyday otaku loving girl. I've loved anime from a very young age & It's always played a huge role in my life.It's apart of what makes me...ME! I'm a huge collector & freelance artist. I'm happy to be here sharing my passion with all of you!! Some of my hobbies include art's & craft, collecting anime figures & merchandise, drawing, cosplaying, reading & photography . I'm a nice person but be aware that I will treat you the way you treat me!
hi guys, i am anita , I'm cosplayer of Mazatlan and took three years doing I hope you like my work ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ hola chicos , soy ana , soy cosplayer de mazatlán y llevo 3 años haciendo espero que les guste mi trabajo
Hi there! Im Andy Stark! Cosplayer, cosmaker and propmaker from Argentina :) Hope you like my cosplays as much as I enjoy doing them <3 Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
Cosplayer and сrafter from Russia. My contacts: https://vk.com/siam_fox http://ask.fm/andrwizard https://coub.com/dmitrii.timakov My group: https://vk.com/diko_club
Hi there! My name is Ailen Dias Fiorito but everybody calls me Flaquii and I adapted it to be my artistic name. I'm 21 years old and I work as an English teacher, I have a beautiful daughter who is 2 years old (a future cosplayer too) <3 I started cosplaying a year ago when my mom gave me the little push I needed to start :3 Well hope everyone like my work, cause i really put all of me on my cosplays. Thank you so much for letting me share this with you <3
Cosplayer, Virtus Legion Gaming Team Founder. I like Gaming, music, Programming, Design & Illustration, Comunidad Axxess Dev and photographer :D I live in Rosario, Santa Fe. Argentina · http://about.me/cristiancorvalandesigner
Buenas! mi nombre es Jaqueline, me dicen Jackie ^^ Soy cosplayer de Argentina. Hace poco empecé con el cosplay y estoy aprendiendo, espero que les gusten los trajes!!! Acepto críticas constructivas :) Saludos!!!! Gracias por pasar por acá ^^ dejo mi web para que pasen: http://www.myparadises.com Face cosplayer: https://www.facebook.com/ParadiseCosplayJackie/
Hi (^ω^) I'm a girl from Russia.I like cosplay ♥ I hope you like my works ♥♥♥ My VK:https://vk.com/skitls_thorin My Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/skitls_reiko/
Hi there, I'm Maira from Italy. I do my cosplay "all" by myself since 2014. I hope you like my works ;) Thank you <3 You can also follow me on facebook. I've a private profile and not a page :/ https://www.facebook.com/maira.daleffe
Hi everyone! This is Guen Yuuei, a member of Mystic cosplay team. Nice to meet you. I love mecha, idol and twins. Thank you for the follow and the favorite. Please message me if you have something to ask or wanna contact with me. I'll try my best to answer it as soon as possible. _______________________ ☆Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hayate_VN ☆Ask: http://ask.fm/GuenYuuei
Hi, I am Jaijai (also feel free to call me as Panda too). I am 17 years old and I am Thai >< I speak both Thai and English. Nice to meet you all! I am interested much in Disney/Dreamwork animations / movies and TV series and also love Japanese anime too. Most of the costumes and props I did it myself. You can ask me for how to or the suggestion if you interested to do so :] FB: https://www.facebook.com/kaonashi.panda Twitter: Paspiz_jaijai
みなさん、こんにちは!私はTGS16東京で9月になります。私は写真のために書くことができます! I am a cosplay photographer from Argentina. I usually travel to cons in South America, USA and Japan like Anime Expo in L.A. and TGS in Japan every year. Feel free to contact me for photos. Travels: Sep. 2016 Japan TGS. Let's shoot! My pages: https://www.facebook.com/PhotographesSansFrontieres https://www.facebook.com/ferpsf http://ferpsf.deviantart.com/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/ferpsf/ https://twitter.com/Fergntw - Fernando
I'm Chono Black from Vietnam. I fall in love with cosplay from the begining of 2014. o((*^▽^*))o My favorite are Jrock, cosplay, manga, anime o((*^▽^*))o [Facebook] https://www.facebook.com/Chono.Black.Cos [INSTAGRAM] https://www.instagram.com/chonoblack03/ [TWITTER] https://twitter.com/BlackChono


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A single water drop, studio recording. It's actually that thing where you flick your cheek and push your tongue up.
A harsh monotonous drone hit rich in harmonics. Made these FX with a custom effect synthesizer made with synthedit.
Another sound produced with the Explor3r VST synth.http://www.kvraudio.com/news/13214.htmlA phaser was added to the signal path creating an interesting effect.
The sound of a large glass pane (.75cm thick) getting smashed by a metal hammer.
I was recording sounds of a summer storm from inside a garage with the garage doors open. As it happens, ...
4 1/2 minutes of heavy rain with a couple of thunders in between. Recorder with a Zoom H4n.
I recorded the sound at my door when it was windy and the wind houls in the door.
White noise processed with TL Space. Sound effect for wind, clouds, spooky ghost and paranormal activities.


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Farming and ranching is the cornerstone of rural Colorado's economy, and it has always been an integral part of our way of life.
Agriculture production is the cornerstone of rural Colorado's economy, and it has always been an integral part of our way of life. In fact, the agriculture and food industry contributes over $40 billion annually to our state's economy. America's growing population continues to increase the demand on agriculture producers, who face a unique set of challenges, including water scarcity, access to public land, and increasing environmental regulation.
As the Vice Chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus, I am committed to preserving the prosperity of American agriculture by ensuring that our farms and ranches are both safe and productive. I will advocate for policies that allow farmers and ranchers to continue to provide job opportunities for rural America, affordable food for our citizens, and an economic engine for our communities.
I frequently hear the concerns of many family farmers and ranchers who are facing a mountain of new federal regulations. We all understand that some federal regulation plays a role in keeping our country safe; however one-size-fits-all, excessive regulation is unnecessarily harmful to rural communities.
Providing greater regulatory relief—especially from legislation or agency rules that are duplicative and bring no added environmental or food safety protection—will enable agricultural communities to flourish and help get the nation back on the path to prosperity. While our nation's farmers are expected to continue meeting the needs of a growing population, unnecessary regulations that increase burdens on America's family farms are making production more costly and challenging—hurting jobs and economic recovery.
Key Issues:
- Country of Origin Labeling: On June 10, 2015, I supported the House passage of the Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) Amendments Act of 2015 (H.R. 2392), which amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to repeal the country of origin labeling requirements for beef, pork, and chicken. Country of origin labeling requirements are administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and require a retailer to inform consumers of the country of origin of a covered commodity. The requirements have led to some countries imposing astronomical tariffs on U.S. products. On December 18, 2015, the president signed a funding bill into law that lifted the labeling requirements on beef and pork products.
- Genetically Modified Food (GMO) Labeling: On July 29, 2016, the president signed into law a bill that requires the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop and finalize regulations for labeling food containing genetically modified ingredients. I did not support the passage of this bill in the House, because the mandatory labeling provision creates a gateway for additional unnecessary labeling requirements and is yet another example of federal overreach.
- Trade: Congress passed the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) in June 2015. The TPA facilitates a greater role for Congress in directing goals for international trade agreements, including the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). In 2016, the TPP was signed by leaders from the United States and the eleven Pacific Rim nations. Congress must vote to enact the agreement before it goes into effect.
- Water: I support a common sense approach to water management that embraces conservation efforts, protects existing water rights, and takes steps to responsibly store water for our growing farms and cities. I stood up to the USDA when it decided to move forward with implementation of a permit condition to require the transfer of privately held water fights to the federal government as a permit condition on National Forest System lands. Language from my bill, the Water Rights Protection Act (H.R. 1830), has passed the House three times in the 114th Congress.


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Climate Change Overview
The SENTINEL missions support climate change studies by providing data that can be used to supplement heritage time-series acquisitions. This information can provide additional weight to data acquired by European and international earth observation programmes, and will support the response and management of related policy issues within Europe at federal, national and local levels. SENTINEL-1 provides the ability to provide data on forest fire scar mapping, which can be used to map the history and lifecycle of forests, with particular regard to the carbon content. Fire scar mapping also plays an important role in mapping of forest fire scars, can be an important part of mapping the carbon history of a forest and provides support in the estimation of carbon emissions. SENTINEL-2 will provide land monitoring support to climate change via monitoring of aspects such as soil use and land use change. This information can be used to support European environmental policy, and help to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the international humanitarian response to climate related emergencies.More information on the MSI instruments support to this application can be found here. SENTINEL-3 will provide SST data for use by the climate scientific research community, and support ocean forecasting and weather prediction.
Climate Change News
Improving land cover mapping with Sentinel-224 March 2017With the pair of Sentinel-2 satellites now in orbit, users are looking ahead to mapping global land cover at 10 m resolution.
Specific Area - Climate Change
Land monitoringThe impact of climate change on the Earth's surface can be studied from orbit, offering a broader perspective than in-situ observations. Marine Environmental MonitoringThe study of the marine environment is primarily utilised by the fishing industry to monitor algal blooms and phytoplankton distribution, both key elements of the oceanic food chain. Atmospheric MonitoringSpace-based sensors help detect otherwise invisible changes, peering either sideways or down through the atmosphere to build up three-dimensional views of its chemical composition, sensitive to a few parts per billion. |
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International News Japan: A New Spin on Sex Education for a Sexier New GenerationJune 1, 2004 Revisions to Japan's sex education classes are being contemplated following the news that increased discussions about pregnancy and STDs have failed to stem annual increases in teenage abortions and STDs among youths. The Education, Science and Technology Ministry policy has been to teach pupils about physical changes to the male and female bodies, pregnancy, healthy gender concepts and family values. But today's children "know more, are freer with sex and are thus vulnerable to a host of sex-related problems, said Hirotaka Kujrigaoka of the Tokyo Board of Education.
Adapted from:Sex education, which begins in the third grade, has run into difficulties with parents who have protested the use of graphic material, the education ministry reported. Many conservative parents also argue that displaying condoms and other contraceptives in class is against Asian values and could promote early sexual activity. Surveys indicate that Japanese girls now begin to menstruate at ages 10-12, at least two years earlier than their mothers. Of third-year high school students, 30 percent report they have experienced sex at least once, compared to two decades ago when sexual debut was most often at age 20. In 2002, almost 50,000 abortions were recorded among Japanese age 20 and below, compared to 27,838 in 1994. Youths ages 10-19 comprised 29.8 percent of new chlamydia cases reported in 2002. Inter Press Service 05.27.04; Suvendrini Kakuchi This article was provided by CDC National Prevention Information Network. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.


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usb key boot on laptop
I'd like to put linux onto a usb key and use it to boot my (windows) laptop. I can't. I've tried with: DSL Feather Slax following several tutorials; the last one is this: http://applications.linux.com/applic...7.shtml?tid=13 Unfortunately, none works. The usb key is actually detected by the laptop BIOS; but when trying to boot, it just stands still for a couple of minutes on the first boot screen, then windows starts. Could it be any hardware problem with my laptop, booting from a usb key? My laptop is a Toshiba Tecra. I can't use a boot floppy, since it has no floppy drive. Any hint? |
Did you remember to install LILO or GRUB on your USB key as a bootloader? In order to do this, your USB key will need a bootloader.
I have Puppy installed on USB. Works fine. Boots and loads really fast I use it as rescue on windows machines
Anyway, I'd try and install grub on the usbkey. Thank you. EDIT BTW, is this OK? Code:
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10 Beautiful examples of responsive Web design
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These days, everyone is consuming content differently. My mom has a netbook, I have a laptop, my friend has a 27″ iMac, my girlfriend and I have smartphones and her mom has an iPad.
Since your content is now being viewed on more devices and browsers than ever before, you have to design it with that in mind. Websites that adapt to things like screen sizes and operating systems are known as responsive designs, and this list of 10 sites shows off the future of the flexible Web.
Bread & Pepper
"This event was off the charts"
Gary Vaynerchuk was so impressed with TNW Conference 2016 he paused mid-talk to applaud us.
Bread & Pepper is a software company that creates simple interfaces with spicy code.
Though most browser windows aren't constantly dragged around, it's nice that this site adjusts seamlessly (never jumpy).
Food Sense
The logo bounces from the side to the top-center on this site.
➤ Food Sense (via Splashnology)
Instead of building out separate apps, Jux has heavily invested in a single, responsive Web design to elegantly adjust to different devices, like the iPhone, iPad and desktop (Disclosure: I worked with them before TNW).
➤ Jux
Endloop Mobile
Endloop Mobile's site was built off of a heavily modified responsive wordpress theme.
Gravitate looks elegant at any size.
➤ Gravitate (via WebDesignDev)
Think Vitamin
Think Vitamin completely kills its sidebar at smaller sizes.
Clean Air Works
Clean Air Works completely reformats its menu at smaller sizes.
➤ Clean Air Works (via WebDesignDev)
CSS Grid
CSS Grid's site is built around the purpose of using a flexible grid.
➤ CSS Grid
Responsive Illustration
Built using HTML/CSS + media queries, "this is a simple interactive experiment with responsive design techniques." We wrote about it previously, here.
The growing connectivity in our society leads to some amazing results, keeping information flowing at an astounding rate, while bringing people closer together. But there some downsides to this new era of consumption, one of them being the way websites are currently designed.
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Supernatural - Rite of Passage
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After Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious supernatural force as young children, their father taught them how to hunt and destroy the paranormal evil that exists in the dark corners of America. Following their father's demonic death, they discovered that they are descended from a long line of hunters and chose to continue their mission.
Laurel Hill, New Jersey, is beginning to look like one of the unluckiest places on Earth when an escalating series of accidents and outbreaks hit the town. But Sam and Dean suspect it's more than just bad luck. Along with Bobby Singer, the brothers soon realize that a mysterious figure is at the center of the chaos. When they uncover a connection between the stranger and three teenage boys at the local high school who are experiencing some unusual growing pains, they know they will need far more than good luck to prevent an all-out disaster.
A brand-new Supernatural novel, set during season 7, that reveals a previously unseen adventure for the Winchester brothers, from the hit CW series!
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Two pornographic filmmakers decide, just a few days before shooting one of their standard features, to make a documentary. Despite the explicit sexual nature of this film, it is not erotic in effect, and is surprisingly revealing. The confusion and pretensions demonstrated by these "stars" are every bit as ludicrous as they are among their "legitimate" counterparts. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
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The 2013 Great Gatsby movie the revived interest in 1920s mens fashion is huge! It is not just the ladies who want to bring back some vintage class. 1920s inspired mens clothing has made its way into Ralph Lauren's collection as well as other top fashion designers. Have you noticed men's vests, shawl collar sweaters, newsboy caps, and white collar shirts in your local department stores? All of these clothes began their popularity in the 1920s and now they are back today. Thankfully that makes it a lot easier to re-create Great Gatsby clothes for men.
Since the movie is our inspiration let us take a quick look at what the Great Gatsby and his friends are wearing and then I will give you a guide to dressing like Great Gatsby yourself.
Great Gatsby Movie Clothes
The Great Gatsby– In this scene Jay Gatsby is dressed in his finest suit. It is a brown wool, peak lapel, windowpane pattern, four button jacket with slit breast pocket. He has a coordinating high V notch button up vest (probably 6 buttons.) His pants also are of the same fabric and although I can't see the details I assume they are flat front with a single pressed pleat down the front legs. Since this is 1922 the leg widths are classic, not thin like jazz suits or wide like they will be in a few more years. His shirt is a light blue, pointed collar, french cuff, with a collar bar holding it neatly in place. His tie appears to be burnt orange, blue and white striped (very art deco colors, although I am not sure its very accurate to the 20's.) His pocket square is gold silk. The Gatsby's hands are perched on a walking cane made of wood with gold handle.
Nick Carraway- His wealth is nothing to Gatsby's thus his suit is typical for a middle class man. He is wearing a notch lapel, dark brown wool, 3 piece suit with coordinating vest and pants (it is possible his pants are an even darker brown instead of matching. Another sign that he is middle class.) His vest is a traditional 6 button high V vest with pointed tips. The shirt is a light pink cotton dress shirt with contrasting white pointed button down collar. Removable white collars had been a very popular men's shirt accessory for over a decade. It allowed the shirt to last longer by only replacing the shirt collar when worn out or stained. Nick also wears a diagonal striped tie in green, brown, black and thin orange stripes. The final touch to his suit is a watch chain draped from one vest pocket to the next and attached to the center vest button.
Tom Buchanan – The man everyone wants to hate looks very gangster like in his double breasted, peak lapel, blue wool suit. His matching blue vest is also double breasted and fitted very high up exposing only the knot of this maroon and black striped tie. His suit has to large patch pockets on the front and an angled slit breast pocket with a maroon and gold stars pocket square. Tom's dress shirt is a light blue pointed collar french cuff dress shirt with gold square cuff links. He looks extra gangster with large dark and round Aviator style sun glasses.
Note- Tom's suits is similar to that of Meyer Wolfsheim (pictured top, left.) His is also in a double breasted grey wool suit with peak lapels, flap pockets, maroon tie, white dress shirt, coordinating vest and pocket square. Meyer adds a white straw pinch front fedora hat with wide black band.
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Which Gatsby man do you want to dress like?
At VintageDancer.com I specialize in helping you find modern clothes with a vintage look. Here are some great options to re-create the three Gatsby men styles using new clothing. To shop 1920s style clothes start here, where I have aggregated the best vintage inspired 1920s's mens clothes I can find online.
1920s Men's Suits:
Suits- A medium brown, grey or light blue suit are the best colors to wear in summer. Peak lapel suits were very popular but so were notch lapels. (A peak is the bottom lapel larger and pointed upward then the top collar. A notch is a V cut out of the lapel.) Suits fit very high up so a 4-6 button up suit will be the most like 1920's. Unlike today men tailored their suits to fit snug on the body. When choosing a 1920's suit find one that fits well, not baggy. Learn more about the history of 1920s suits or shop new 1920s inspired suits.
1920s Style Suits
1920s Men's Vests
Vest– A matching suit vest and pants are a must for a Great Gatsby look. He was wealthy and showed it through his coordinated clothing. Middle class and working class men did not always have the luxury of wearing a matching suit. A vest in the same color family as the suit jacket would be acceptable. If you couldn't even afford a suit jacket than any vest in solid colors, fun plaids, checks, or windowpane patterns were the thing to wear. Vests could be single or double breasted with 6 buttons up the front. Shop for vests.
1920s Men's Pants
Pants- Avoid fully pleated pants. The 1920's suit pants had single pleats, button fly's, classic width, cuffed hems at the ankle and were held up by suspenders. Belts were coming into fashion but button on suspenders were still preferred. 1920's pants simple don't exist today. The main challenge is the height of the waist band. They fit very high up to just below the rib cage. Modern pants sit very low around the hip. Do your best to find classic fit men's suit pants or golf pants. They will have the most waist height and usually pre-cuffed legs too. If you can't find coordinating pants then wear one shade lighter than your jacket. If no jacket wear one shade darker than you vest. Learn about 1920s mens pants or shop pants separates.
1920s Men's Shirts
Shirt- A french cuff shirt with cuff links is a must! All classes of men wore them with suits. Pointed collars to round club collars were the two main options. I love the look of the white collar shirt for 20's wear. It screams vintage. You can also wear a solid color shirt with matching collar. White, blue, yellow, pink, and green in solid colors, vertical stripes or subtle checks were best for summer time. Learn about 1920s mens shirts or shop 1920s Style shirts.
1920s Men's Shoes
Shoes– Don't forget the very important vintage style shoes. They will really complete your look. Gatsby loved the new two tone shoes that were increasingly popular during the 1920s. These brown and white or grey and white wingtip shoes coordinated with your suit. The more classic shoe was the cap toe lace up oxford in a medium-orange brown, or fancy wingtip brogue in dark browns. Read more about 1920s men's shoe styles or shop for 1920's men's shoes here.
1920s Men's Hats
Hats- Men always wore hats in the 1920s. It's difficult to capture actor's expressions with hats on so the movie will probably leave them off but it's important for you to have one for your Gatsby look. The working class cap or casual summer hat was the linen newsboy cap or straw boater. Gatsby wore a white newsboy cap in the 1974 movie. A business suit friendly hat was the fedora in light straw for summer and fur felt for winter. A traditional bower or derby hat was still very common in the 1920's as well. Read about and shop for 1920s men's hats.
1920s Men's Ties
Tie- Men's neckties in the 1920s were usually of wide diagonal stripes, polka dots, deco patterns, and paisley prints. The bow tie was equally popular in the same colors and prints as the necktie. Don't forget a matching or coordinating pocket square too. Learn more about 1920's ties and shop for them here.
More Great Gatsby Men's Clothing
Thats it! Now you have the knowledge and connections to buy 1920's style clothing and create you own Great Gatsby men's look. Have fun with it and send me pictures when you are done. need more help? Just contact me.


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February 8th, 2013, 11:10 PM | #22 |
Go lil yellow Roobicon...
My oil cap says 5w-30. Oil is much different than it was even 10-12 years ago...that engine is ancient....and if I ran a stroker probably would not run lighter weight oil either. Just reporting what I have experienced. |
February 9th, 2013, 09:52 AM | #24 | |
The 5w30 on your oil cap was put there buy a engineer trying to make a very old motor pass the tailpipe sniffer, not because he thinks it's the best thing for your jeep motor. Their are no real differences between my stroker and a stock 4.0 when it comes to what oil will make them last the longest. You just need a oil with enough zddp. |
February 9th, 2013, 09:53 AM | #25 |
February 9th, 2013, 10:20 AM | #26 |
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X157447 on the zinc, Zinc is your friend that is basically what most engine oil additives like z-max are
3rd generation jeeper 04 gmc Sierra 2500 crew cab quadrasteer tow pig 87 yj Laredo amc360/ax15/231 amc20/dana30 410s and truetracs 90s Wrambler efi 2.5, t5, built231HD (atlas soon),d44s with 4.88s and detroits |
February 10th, 2013, 03:43 PM | #28 | |
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He used to swear by that stuff
3rd generation jeeper 04 gmc Sierra 2500 crew cab quadrasteer tow pig 87 yj Laredo amc360/ax15/231 amc20/dana30 410s and truetracs 90s Wrambler efi 2.5, t5, built231HD (atlas soon),d44s with 4.88s and detroits |
February 10th, 2013, 05:16 PM | #29 | |
I have studdied oil quite a bit lately after building a few fresh motors and still dont now what the best way to go is. I know you have to be very carefull with oil additives. Zinc needs phosfate to work and their is a correct amount of each for best results. I run brad penn in every thing I own after hours and hours of reading. I think everyone who has a old tecnology motor should spend some time studying new oils so they know what they are putting in there motor. The one good thing is stock jeep inline motors have almost no valve spring pressure and are very easy on the valve train. |
February 10th, 2013, 06:37 PM | #30 |
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to learn about oils google "bobistheoilguy"
the brad penn oils are supposed to be very good. i personally use mobil 1 0w40 tdt oil in my 4.0L. it is a european spec oil for new small displacement diesels. it is one of the higher zddp content oils commonly available. i have used valvoline vr1 10w30 when i could not get my first choice. currently doing 10k mile oil changes with a wix premium filter. oil looks remarkably clean and golden at 10k still. some people think this is all bs, and run what ever is on sale. none of the new diesel oils are high in zddp any longer. i ran 15w40 diesel oil in my first wranger, had no issues in over 110k miles. it was still running well long after i sold it. you could run any quality oil and use a zddp additive also. |
February 11th, 2013, 05:22 PM | #31 |
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How come my 192,000 mile motor makes zero noises and my 140,000 one makes lots of noises.
So much expert in this thread I am sure I can fix it in no time! |
February 11th, 2013, 05:34 PM | #32 |
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February 11th, 2013, 06:06 PM | #33 |
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I think the higher mileage one is a girl (it says Miss XJ on it) The lower high mileage one is most likely male. It smells very manly inside.
The girl one should not be the quiet one in my opinion, that's why I am confused. |
February 11th, 2013, 08:41 PM | #34 | |
The 4.0 was discontinued after 06 because the molds were worn out after such a long production run. The later motors, 04 and later really had a lot of cam shaft to dist clearence problems. The newer the motor, the looser clearences will be. Motors also used different suppliers for parts like pistons and lifters. A piston might be on the small side of acceptable tolerences, and the hole it goes in may be on the large side. You end up with a noisey motor that will run for years. 90% of all aftermarket lifters for the jeep inline are too small if you measure them. Many people put new lifters in to quiet a motor down and end up noisier then before they started. |
February 23rd, 2013, 08:42 AM | #35 |
sit down shut up and ...
gonna replace my cam shaft position synchronizer early next week along with a few other things. I hope that will help with the tick in my 04 LJ. |
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Author:Benjamin Daniel Greene
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←Author Index: Gr | Benjamin Daniel Greene (1793–1862) |
American botanist, trained in both law and medicine; founding member and first president of the Boston Society of Natural History. |
- "Utricularia resupinata" via Jacob Bigelow in Florula Bostoniensis: a collection of plants of Boston and its vicinity, with their generic and specific characters, principal synonyms, descriptions, places of growth, and time of flowering, and occasional remarks. ed. 3. 10. (May 1840)
Works about Greene[edit]
- Asa Gray: "Benjamin D, Greene" in American Jounal of Science and Arts, 2nd ser., 35: 4-19. (1863)
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Problem of the Day Notebook File - Section 1: Problem of the Day
Why Use a Graph? Day 1 - Using 2 Different Color Objects
Lesson 6 of 18
Objective: Students will be able to sort objects, record the data on a graph, and talk about their graph using the words more, less and equal.
Big Idea: By sorting color tiles and representing them on a graph, students learn to create an abstract representation of a collection of objects that can be used to answer quantitative and comparison questions about the collection.
Problem of the Day
I start each math lesson with a Problem of the Day. I use the procedures outlined here on Problem of the Day Procedures.
Today's Problem of the Day:
Look at your shoes. Make a class graph based on the color of everyone's shoes.
The students can use the shoe images with infinite cloner to create a class graph. All students participate in creating the graph. I call on an additional student to answer the question about the graph. If you do not have a SMART board, you can use the pdf. Students can mark off a box to create the graph. You can also create your own shoe color graph.
In this problem, the students are organizing information and comparing the number in each group.
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Presentation of Lesson
I project the Organizing Real Objects Notebook File on the SMART Board. The first slide shows a frog with blocks.
Froggy is playing with his blocks. Now it is time to clean up, and he wants to organize his blocks. Let's help him! (I show the second slide.) We can help him organize his blocks by sorting them by color. We can sort them by color on this graph. To help us sort, I am going to color in the pictures of the blocks to match the colors of Froggy's blocks. Can you help sort the blocks?
I call up students to drag the blocks into the correct row until all of the blocks have been sorted.
Sometimes we want to keep a record of the sorting and organizing that we have done. If Froggy takes his blocks off of this graph, we won't know how many of each color he has. What can we do to help us remember?
I call up students to drag off a block and color in the square beneath it. I tell students that they are going to be sorting and organizing some of their own objects and showing it on a Sorting and Graphing Objects Worksheet.
You are going to be doing this paper on your own, but we are going to go over the directions together. When you get to your seat, do not touch your cup of color tiles. You need to get out a pencil and put your name on your paper. When your name is on your paper hold your pencil in the air, that will let me know that you are ready to start.
I use the procedures outlined here on the Paper Procedures. Prior to this lesson, I placed a plastic cup at each students' place containing several color tiles. Each cup contains two colors. There is at least one of each color and no more than five of each color.
Color the color tiles on this paper to match your tiles. Sort your color tiles and color a box for each tile in the matching row. Share your results with your partner.
The first thing the directions tell you to do is color the tiles on your paper to match your tiles. You need to look into your cup and color the tiles to match the colors that you have. When you are finished, you may start sorting your tiles and coloring the boxes. When you are finished, return your tiles to your cup and tell you partner about your graph. Raise your hand if you need help.
I walk around and make sure that students are correctly sorting and coloring their graphs. As students start to finish. I join in to conversations about the graphs. I encourage students to make comparisons as they discuss their graph. Once I have talked to pairs about their graph, I tell them they can put their paper in the basket and get their center.
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The centers for this week are:
- Conversation Heart Graphing (Sorting Mat and Graph from Teachers Pay Teachers)
- Count Your Lucky Stars (from Kindergarten Crayons)
- I Spy 11-20 (Teacher Created Resource- Use magnifying glass)
- Review Shapes Activity
- SMART Board (Lakeshore Numbers and Counting Adventures similar counting and ordering number games available free from Sheppard Software)
I quickly circulate to make sure students are engaged and do not have any questions about how to complete the centers. I pull three groups during centers and work with them depending on the time they need (5 - 10 minutes).
Today I am focusing on teen numbers with all of the groups. Based on the end of unit assessment for teen numbers and report card assessments that I am currently working on, I have found that my students are still struggling with teen numbers. They have caught on to graphing quickly, so I feel that it is important to use this small group time to practice identifying teen numbers and counting groups of up to 20 objects. I group the students by ability level based on the assessments I mentioned above, but I do the same activity with all three groups. I start with teen number flashcards. I then give each student a number card and the student counts out that number of objects. Finally, I say a teen number and have each student write it on their white board.
Prior to clean up, I check in with each table to see how the centers are going. I turn on Tidy Up by Dr. Jean. Students clean up and return to their seats. This is a paid resource, but there are many free examples of transition songs easily found in a web search. Another transition I have been using lately during clean up has been counting down from 20 slowly. The students like to count backwards with me as they clean up and I can lengthen or reduce the clean up time based on how students are doing and how much time we have.
Resources (1)
Resources (1)
To close, I put a student's paper on the document camera a project it on the SMART Board. I have that student explain their work. I ask another student to share what s/he learned from "reading" the graph. I mention positive things noticed during centers as well as something that needs to be better next time.
I review what we did during our whole group lesson. "Today we learned to sort and organize information on a graph. Tomorrow, we are going to continue to collect data and make a graph."
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- LESSON 1: Math Centers - Graphing and Review
- LESSON 2: Collecting Data- Counting Pictures
- LESSON 3: Collecting Data- Counting Pictures Day 2 Review
- LESSON 4: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Graph
- LESSON 5: Rooster's Off to See the World Graph
- LESSON 6: Why Use a Graph? Day 1 - Using 2 Different Color Objects
- LESSON 7: Why Use a Graph? Day 2 - Using 3 Different Color Objects
- LESSON 8: Graphing- Using a Survey Day 1
- LESSON 9: Graphing- Using a Survey Day 2
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- LESSON 15: How Do We Measure? Comparing Weight Day 2
- LESSON 16: Measurement- Comparing Height Day 1
- LESSON 17: Measurement- Comparing Height Day 2
- LESSON 18: What Have We Learned? (Graphing and Measurement)


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Stephen King's epic fantasy series, The Dark Tower, is being made into a major movie starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. Due in cinemas February 17, 2017 USA.
For listeners new to The Dark Tower, The Wind Through the Keyhole is a stand-alone novel, and a wonderful introduction to the series. It is a story within a story, which features both the younger and older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower.
Fans of the existing seven books in the series will also delight in discovering what happened to Roland and his ka tet between the time they leave the Emerald City and arrive at the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis.
This Russian Doll of a novel, a story within a story, within a story, visits Mid-World's last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.)
Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt ridden year following his mother's death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a 'skin man,' Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter.
Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, The Wind through the Keyhole.. 'A person's never too old for stories,' he says to Bill. 'Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.' And stories like these, they live for us.
©2012 Stephen King (P)2012 Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster Inc.
"Great Classic Story Telling"
I have not listend to any other books in the Dark Tower series exept this one. At the beginning I thought I had made a mistake but after about 2 hours the story just sucked me in. I would like to get more books in the series but I would like to start with number 1 (The Gunslinger) and it is not available at the moment (please do something about this Audible!). The story is quite interesting and I must say that I liked it a lot. The author reads it himself and I kind of wished he had not done that. He actually did it quite well but I found myself comparing him to the late and great Frank Muller and he was just one of a kind. Rest in peace Frank, you still live on millions of Ipods.
"really enjoyed"
it was wonderful to listen to Stephen King read one of his stories, I really enjoyed it and would like to hear more!
"Story within a story within a story"
This is an enjoyable return to Roland's ka-tet but won't solve any great mysteries or provide any profound insights into the Dark Tower series. I liked the concept of the story within a story within a story - while the group are holed up against a storm Roland relates a past event in which he spins tale to young boy.
"Dropping in on old friends for a story"
Like many Dark Tower fans I was drawn to the promise of a new novel like a moth to a flame and on the whole 'The Wind Through The Keyhole' doesn't disappoint. Much like 'Wizard and Glass', 'The Wind Through The Keyhole' delves into Roland's youth in Midworld and tells of a challenge he faced as a new gunslinger. However it weaves itself into a story within a story regarding another young boy's experience with an all to familiar antagonist.
King's narration at first seems a bit half-hearted, but about a third of the way through where he hits his stride, he really breathes a lot of life into his own story. Perhaps it just took him a while to get settled into the flow.
Overall, I'd recommend it to any fan of the Dark Tower series, as long as you don't go in expecting Dark Tower 4 and a half. As the man himself states in the prologue, it's more of a visit to old friends to hear a tale they'd not gotten around to telling. I wish I'd gotten to spend a little bit more time with them though.
I am Yaman, I live in New Zealand, I come from Syria. I love audiobooks, and Audible is the best source for what I love!
"Did not feel like a Dark Tower story..."
I'm not sure why but I did not find this book very enjoyable. I loved the Dark Tower series very very much and found it hard to put the book down, but I found this one a chore to listen to for the most part unfortunately...
I am not sure if my experience would have been any different if I listened to it after Wizard and glass but I doubt it. Stephen King is the author bit his performance is no where near as good as the narrator of the rest of the dark tower!
At least I quenched my curiosity.
"Please Mr King - Stick to Writing"
I can't really comment on the story because the performance was deplorable. I gave the story 2 stars because - well - it's Stephen King. Mr King is a master storyteller but a narrator - he ain't. I couldn't finish it.
To be fair reviews of the written book are excellent but I couldn't persevere with this audio version.
I'm a liberal minded person, enjoying philosophical discussion and dilemas. I read about 45% Crime/Thrillers, 45% Fantasy, 10% Other.
"Great story, shame about the reader!"
Yes, but only because I abandoned this version, read by the author, and sought out another version, excellently read, by, I think, Jack Fox. I am blind so I have access to visually impaired talking book libraries. My time listening to the Stephen King narrated bit that I did listen to, was not time well spent. He reads in a totally flat tone and without any thought put into the phrasing of sentances. It is strange that an author can read such textured dialogue, and yet has little skill in speaking that same dialogue.
Not wishing to give any spoilers away, I will just say that my favourite character was the young lead character in the middle story, followed by, of course, Roland!
As mentioned previously, it is nearly always a waste of a good book to allow the author to read their own work. As much as people might think they are the ultimate solution to hearing the book as it was intended, it does not go without saying, and this is largely due to a basic lack of acting skills. Being a good narrator is a very skilled job, and it would be amazing if an author just happened to have both the skill of writing and that of narrating too.
Nope...don't do movies!
Please, please, could someone who has the power to do so, please encourage Mr King to stop reading his own books. Listening or reading to a book is mostly a once only experience, so lets not allow such sentiment as ''wouldn't it be cool to get the author to read his own work'', or ''wouldn't it be best to let the author read the book in the way he intended'', because it's not true and it's wasting our, the listener, experience with that book. Some of us have no choice but to listen to a book, so let's think about us, the customer, and put us first! I will be seeking my money back on this item, as I feel it wasn't 'fit for purpose'.
"Ok story, poor narration"
A side story of the Dark Tower world, a bit like an old fairy tale. I loved all the other DT novels, this was not as good and too be honest I really disliked Stephen Kings narration, nowhere near the amazing narration of Frank Muller and George Guidall on the original series.
"Save it for last."
As a Tower junkie I obviously loved this book but I'm glad I saved it for last. Although he wrote it to fit between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla I would personally recommend saving it so you can return to the story after the last book and revisit the group at their strongest.
"Great story, but mixed narration"
I loved this book as I have enjoyed all the dark tower books. This said the narration by King himself is at times monotonous, but at other times, such as with the tax collector fantastic. This uneven approach balances out, but initially I found it a bit off-putting.
This said I am loathe to criticise him as he wrote such a great story.
"A Good Addition to the Series"
I've read the whole Dark Tower series, finishing some years ago, so a revisit was met with eagerness but also some doubt. This was also my first on audio. The story is as good as any in the series and the stories engaging. I could also see this being a good introduction to somebody who hasn't read the others as it stands on its own well.
I had seen previous comments that King's narration wasn't brilliant but I had no problem at all. There's something about the words read as they were written that makes it special. His voice is softer than I imagined and can suffer a bit from monotone in places but I wouldn't hold off just because of this.
All round an enjoyable experience.
"Great story"
I think Mr King gets away with the narration, mainly because Roland is young during most of the narrative in which he features. The Dark Tower stories put me mind of a surreal, wondrous and melancholic dream, after which you awake a little disturbed but also marvelling at how inventive it was. OK it's not Steinbeck, but King has a similar talent for pulling you into the story, making you feel for his characters. More please ! (However, get a pro narrator in for a older Roland). Mark
"The Wind through the Keyhole"
Initially I was sceptical about this title on two fronts. Most obviously I was concerned King was just cashing in on an established series to pacify his publisher. Second, King chose to read the book himself, and whatever his capacity to spin a yarn, his voice is a tad dreary. But for the most part my concerns were laid to rest. I still think that King should accept his auditory limitations, however, you get use to his drone over time. More importantly, the book itself is a pleasant enough add-on to the main story. I actually think he made a good choice to make the central characters of the Dark Tower a vehicle for a side story, and while I am no closer to understanding why anyone apart from the Crimson King was so interested in destroying everything, or quite why most of them would ever have wanted to work for him, it was still pleasant to be re-acquainted with Roland and his ridiculously named Ka-Tet (I really will not apologise for any spelling mistake on that one.)
"Not a stand alone novel"
I bought this as it says it's a stand alone novel. However, this isn't true at all as the narrative starts with a very long winded history of everything you need to know before the book starts. I really like King's writing so it's not a slur on him at all - just that perhaps you do actually need to have read all of The Dark Tower books first. I now have this two part audio which I can't listen to until I've bought and listened to all the Dark Tower series! Mis-sold in my opinion, but happy to keep because I know it'll be great to listen to after the seven Dark Tower books...
"A superb addition to the Dark Tower series."
King at the top of his game. Engrossing and cleverly structured. Excellent reading and performance.
Yet again Stephen King manages to keep me enthralled for the whole story, a really addictive book for sure.
"A nice asdition to the series"
On the whole a very enjoyable book. Stephen King is very good as the reader, you get to hear the characters as he had written them.
The stort in a story in a story concept works well. though it felt as though the closing parts of each were a little rushed.
"For the story in the story in the story"
I had left this book for a while before reading it because I didn't want to ruin the dark tower my mind had formed. I was unsure how there could be more story after the tale had spun out.
I was wrong.. This could easily be a standalone book and a great one at that. I enjoyed this immensely and would recommend to anyone who just enjoys a good tale.


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On 15 October 2007, armed police conducted dawn raids at 50 houses and places of work across New Zealand/Aotearoa. They arrested and imprisoned 16 activists involved in the Tino Rangatiratanga (Maori self-determination), anarchist, environmental and anti-war movements. All 16 received multiple firearms charges, with the police seeking permission from the Solicitor-General to lay charges under the as-yet-unused Terrorism Suppression Act.
Politicians – including Prime Minister Helen Clark, who authorized the raids – and the media subsequently smeared those arrested with unsubstantiated claims of involvement in terrorist training camps in Tuhoe. This North Island region is populated by the iwi (tribe) of the same name. Unlike many other Maori, they never signed the Treaty of Waitangi with the Crown in 1840 and have always struggled fiercely for their autonomy. As Tuhoe activist Taamati Kruger puts it: 'The history of Tuhoe shows that Tuhoe did not concede, did not cede, did not give up, did not even rent out their sense of sovereignty… their view is as an independent people that want interdependence as a lifestyle.'
Some of the most extreme raids occurred in Tuhoe. In Ruatoki, houses were searched and the town was blockaded by armed police. For several hours they stopped and searched all cars leaving and entering the town and took photographs of their occupants without their consent. Rubbing salt in still-fresh wounds, the blockade was set up on the 'confiscation line', marking the border of a vast tract of land confiscated from Tuhoe by the Crown in 1867.
A solidarity movement sprang up across the country, with people marching, attending court hearings, raising funds and speaking out against the raids. In the first four weeks, all 16 arrestees were relocated to two Auckland prisons, to make their prosecutions more convenient for the police. This meant moving them away from their support networks. Four prisoners were granted bail in the two weeks following the raids. Then on 1 and 2 November all 16 arrestees were heard in one court for the first time. Two more were granted bail.
Valerie Morse, a Wellington anarchist arrested on 15 October, said: 'Arrest was traumatic, but not nearly as traumatic as a month in prison not knowing if we would be charged with terrorism offences. We had no idea what the evidence was against us, yet we were expected to try to defend ourselves. As I have now viewed some 6,500 pages of disclosure from the police, it is very clear that this investigation was prompted by political fear about Maori sovereignty. Tuhoe was used once again as an example for the rest of Maori about what happens if you try to truly resist the neoliberal, white-supremacist paradigm.'
The Solicitor-General decided against laying charges under anti-terrorism legislation, and after four weeks in jail all the remaining prisoners were released on bail. In late December, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights while Countering Terrorism decided to investigate the New Zealand Government over its conduct during the raids, based on 14 specific claims of human rights abuses. This is the first time that a complaint from a group against a nation-state has been accepted by the Rapporteur.
The arrests were not over though: in mid-February three more people were arrested and charged with firearms offences.
Asher Goldman
For background information and up-to-date news on the hearings, see www.october15thsolidarity.info
This column was published in the April 2008 issue of New Internationalist. To read more, buy this issue or subscribe.


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Jadwiga of Poland
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Jadwiga Andegaweńska' (1374-1399) became the King of Poland on 16 October 1384 at the age of eleven.[1] She was crowned as a king, not queen. Her royal title was: Hedvigis Dei Gracia Rex Poloniae, necnon terrarum Cracoviae, Sandomiriae, Syradiae, Lanciciae, Cuyaviae, Pomeraniaeque domina et heres, (Jadwiga the grace of God, the Polish king, and heir to the land in Kraków, Sandomierz, Sieradz, Łęczyca, Kujawy and Pomerania). She was the daughter of Louis Hungarian, King of Poland and Hungary).
Jadwiga married a Lithuania Grand Duke, Jogaila (Władysław Jagiełło) on 18 February 1386. After her death during childbirth on 17 July 1399, her husband became the King Ladislaus II of Poland.[1]
In 1997 she was made a saint by Pope John Paul II.[1]
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First of all, the Lakers don't have everything. They have a 40 plus year old point guard, and aging super star in Kobe, who has said that next year will be his last season. Second of all, you lose the match so you cut your strings out... Yes, let's all blame our equipment because we lose close matches.