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PhD in American Culture, University of Michigan, 2003
MA in American Culture, University of Michigan, 1998
AB in Law, Letters and Society, University of Chicago, 1996
G101 – Gender, Culture and Society
G105 – Sex, Gender and the Body
G206 – Gay Histories/Queer Cultures
G290 – History of Feminist Thought and Practice
G300 – Core Concepts and Key Debates
G340 – Gender, Geography, Sex and Space
G350 – Queer Theory
G600 – Concepts of Gender
G701 – Graduate Topics in Gender Studies: Queer Historicism
G702 – Researching Gender Issues
G704 – The Cultural Politics of Sexuality in the 20th Century
My research focuses on the history of gender and sexuality in the United States during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. My first book, Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America, dealt the history of gender non-conformity and same-sex sexual behavior in the rural United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Although it is still in the very early stages of development, my second project examines the historical relationship between "anti-social" behavior and sexual alterity, particularly as these currents of meaning played out in the lives of notably solitary figures such as the shut-in, the hermit and the recluse. In addition to the history of gender and sexuality, additional areas of interest include 19th and 20th century US regional literature, the history of agriculture and the environment, queer theory, psychoanalytic theory, postcolonial theory, and the study of material culture. Over the years, my research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Smithsonian Institution, The Johns Hopkins University's Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, the University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the University of Helsinki's Ruralia Institute, McGill University's Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Johnson, Colin R. Unfriendly Thresholds: Misanthropy and Sexual Difference in American Culture [In Progress].
Johnson, Colin R. Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. Published as part of the Sexuality Studies book series, Janice Irvine and Regina Kunzel, eds. Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies.
Gray, Mary L., Brian Gilley and Colin R. Johnson, eds. Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2016.
Johnson, Colin R. "Men and Women Like That: Regional Identities and Rural Sexual Cultures in the South and Pacific Northwest" in Understanding and Teaching U.S. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender History, Susan K. Freeman and Leila J. Rupp, eds. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014. 166-177. Winner of the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Anthology.
Johnson, Colin R. "Unfriendly Thresholds: On Queerness, Capitalism and Misanthropy in 19th Century America" in Unarchived Histories: The 'Mad' and the 'Trifling' in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, Gyanendra Pandey, ed. London: Routledge, 2013. 110-124.
Johnson, Colin R. "Homosexuals from Haystacks: Gay Liberation and the Specter of Queer Majority in Rural California, circa 1970" in Subalternity and Difference: Investigations From the North and the South, Gyanendra Pandey, ed. London: Routledge, 2011. 41-56.
Johnson, Colin R. "Casual Sex: Subaltern Sexuality 'On the Road' in Early Twentieth Century America" in Subaltern Citizens and Their Histories: Investigations From India and the United States, Gyanendra Pandey, ed. London: Routledge, 2010. 63-76.
Johnson, Colin R. "Casual Sex: Towards a 'Prehistory' of Gay Life in Bohemian America."Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 10.3 (November 2008): 303-320.
Johnson, Colin R. "Homosexuals in Unexpected Places? An Introduction." American Studies48.2 (Summer 2007): 5-8.
Johnson, Colin R. "Camp Life: The Queer History of 'Manhood' in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1937." American Studies 48.2 (Summer 2007): 19-36. Winner of the Stone-Suderman Prize given by the Mid-America American Studies Association in recognition of the best essay published each year in the journal American Studies.
Johnson, Colin R. "The Thin Line of Embodiment," Bridge 11: Lia Cook, Mariko Kusumoto, Anne Drew Potter. Pittsburgh: Society for Contemporary Craft, 2011. n.p.
Johnson, Colin R. "Dandyism," "Dating," and "Metrosexuals," in Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Fedwa Malti-Douglas,ed.Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 369-371, 376-382, 1006.
Johnson, Colin R. "Rural Space: Queer America's Final Frontier." The Chronicle of Higher Education. 13 January 2006. B15-16.
Johnson, Colin R. "Urban, Suburban, and Rural Geographies" in Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America, Marc Stein, ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004. 217-222.
Johnson, Colin R. "BOOK REVIEW: The Rural Midwest since World War II edited by J. L. Anderson." Michigan Historical Review. 41.1 (Spring 2015): 103-104.
Johnson, Colin R. "BOOK REVIEW: Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves." New England Quarterly. 88.1. (March 2015): 162-164.
Johnson, Colin R. "BOOK REVIEW: Rural Fictions, Urban Realities: A Geography of Gilded Age American Literature by Mark Storey." Indiana Magazine of History. 110.4 (December 2014): 397-398.
Johnson, Colin R. "BOOK REVIEW: Putting the Barn before the House: Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York by Grey Osterud." Enterprise and Society 15.1 (March 2014): 183-185.
Johnson, Colin R. "BOOK REVIEW: William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker by Benjamin E. Wise." Journal of American History 99.4 (March 2013): 1261-1262.
Johnson, Colin R. "BOOK REVIEW: Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities by Julie Abraham." Journal of the History of Sexuality 22.1 . (January 2013): 161-163.
Johnson, Colin R. "BOOK REVIEW: Un-Natural State: Arkansas and the Queer South by Brock Thompson." American Historical Review 117.1 (February 2012): 247.
Johnson, Colin R. "BOOK REVIEW: New York Hustlers: Masculinity and Sex in Modern America by Barry Reay." Social History, 36.3 (August 2011): 376-377.
Lewis, Miles D., Anthony Amato and Colin R. Johnson. "BOOK REVIEW: Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and Environment, 1945-1972 by J. L. Anderson." Social Science Journal 48.2 (June 2011): 411-412.
Johnson, Colin R. "BOOKS IN BRIEF: Feeling Our Way Toward a History of ACT UP. A review of Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS by Deborah B. Gould." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 17.2-3 (Winter 2010/Spring 2011): 432-434.
Johnson, Colin R. "BOOK REVIEW: The Lesbian and Gay Movements: Assimilation or Liberation? by Craig R. Rimmerman." American Studies 50.1/2 (Spring/Summer 2010): 250-251.


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When it comes to a Joint Regional Sewer Authority resolution now before the member cities, it's Greg Dietterick's recommendation to release Oconee County from an annual $610 thousand obligation to the JRSA. The city administrator serves as an authority commissioner. Last night, in a report to the mayor and council, he gave the following basis for his recommendation: "I believe that the funds should be given back to the county so that they can go ahead and invest that in other projects. This (the Golden Corner Commerce Park line) is just a start," he said. Dietterick also responded to individual Seneca councilmen who asked about Walhalla's hesitation to approve the resolution. Seneca City Council received Dietterick's report last night as information. No action taken.

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The Office of Sustainability has launched a number of new initiatives this year, including the Campus Conversations program, which offers an opportunity for faculty, staff, students and members of the community to discuss issues related to Auburn's commitment to sustainability.
Campus Conversations replaces the office's Green Lunch Series, and sustainability staff said the new series offers an opportunity for more dialogue and audience participation.
"We want to create a community of practice and encourage everyone to think about how we can all do what we do better," said Michael Kensler, director of campus sustainability operations. "We want to engage and empower people to make a difference."
The most recent conversation centered on the topic, "I believe in Auburn and love it! Exploring what this looks like in action," and encouraged the community to look at what it means to believe in Auburn, how a love for Auburn appears in daily life and what that has to do with Auburn's commitment to sustainability.
"We wanted to ask what it means in practice, what that looks like and how the practice of that belief relates to sustainability," Kensler explained. "Beneath that ideal is a value system, and really, underlying sustainability is a value system about the way we treat each other and the world around us. I really think they are the same values, so we wanted to get people thinking about that at a deeper level."
Campus Conversations will be held throughout the year and will take on topics including water policy and use, energy conservation and efficiency, transportation, waste and food.
"Through the program, we'd like to raise awareness and understanding about the broad range of issues related to sustainability and also create a community of conversation, a community of learners, so that together we can figure things out," Kensler said. "It's not the experts in sustainability who will figure things out; it's everyone working together. Our real goal is to create a community that is exploring these ideas together and to figure out where we go from here."
This year, the Office of Sustainability plans to develop a Sustainable Office Program, designed to decrease Auburn's environmental and monetary waste and increase Auburn's ability to serve and positively impact its faculty, staff and all those connected to it; the Sustainable Living Guide, which will be a resource and a how-to manual to guide sustainable behavior; and an awards program to acknowledge progress made by individuals and groups on campus.
"We see the Office of Sustainability's role is to increase awareness, understanding, involvement and practice of sustainability on campus and off," Kensler said.
The new initiatives are being put in place to assist Auburn in meeting the goals and commitments of the strategic plan, raising awareness and understanding of sustainability and encouraging and increasing sustainable practices.
"Auburn has a lot going on already, but we have barely begun our journey to create an ethic, practice and culture of sustainability across campus," Kensler said.
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In this paper a quaternion-based Variable-State-Dimension Extended Kalman Filter (VSD-EKF) is developed for estimating the three-dimensional orientation of a rigid body using the measurements from an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) integrated with a triaxial magnetic sensor. Gyro bias and magnetic disturbances are modeled and compensated by including them in the filter state vector. The VSD-EKF switches between a quiescent EKF, where the magnetic disturbance is modeled as a first-order Gauss-Markov stochastic process (GM-1), and a higher-order EKF where extra state components are introduced to model the time-rate of change of the magnetic field as a GM-1 stochastic process, namely the magnetic disturbance is modeled as a second-order Gauss-Markov stochastic process (GM-2). Experimental validation tests show the effectiveness of the VSD-EKF, as compared to either the quiescent EKF or the higher-order EKF when they run separately.
Accurate determination of the three-dimensional (3D) orientation of rigid bodies is important in several technical fields, including robotics and virtual reality [
Usually, a fully integrated inertial measurement unit (IMU) consists of three vector-sensors, namely an accelerometer, a gyro, and a magnetic sensor; each of them has three mutually orthogonal sensitive axes. The 3D orientation can be computed by time-integrating the gyro output from initial conditions that are given by the aiding sensors (accelerometer and magnetic sensor). The gyro integration errors tend to grow unbounded over time because of time-varying biases and wideband measurement noise superimposed to gyro output. On the other hand, the accelerometer can provide drift-free inclination estimates by sensing the gravity field; the magnetic sensor, which would sense the Earth's magnetic field, helps providing drift-free heading estimates. However, the interpretation of the accelerometer output is critical because of the presence of the acceleration components related to the body motion [
Sensor fusion techniques are needed in order for the aiding sensors to help mitigate the gyro integration errors, while the errors incurred by the aiding sensors are mitigated using the gyro output [
State-augmentation is a useful technique to estimate the state vector of interest,
Because of some difficulties in tracking abrupt magnetic distortions [
The VSD-EKF estimates the following state variables: the quaternion between the body-fixed frame,
The time-derivative
In (
The discrete-time equivalent of (
In this paper the IMU signals are sampled at
The conditions for accurate orientation determination using a magnetic sensor are that the magnetic field be homogeneous and accurately known. The homogeneity is difficult to achieve [
The GM-1 model assumes that
The GM-2 model assumes that the time-rate of change of
In response to body angular velocity
The orientation matrix
The deterministic errors associated with inertial and magnetic sensors can be compensated using the procedures described in [
The VSD-EKF adopts two state models: the quiescent state model, where the state vector is
The discrete-time model allows employing the sampled measurements of the IMU for propagating the state vector:
In (
The process noise component
Since the process noise components
The measurement equations can be written as follows:
The rotation matrix can be derived from the quaternion [
The measurement equations are non-linear, hence we need to compute their Jacobian matrix
The detailed calculation of (
Vector selection methods for measurement noise covariance matrix adaptation can be applied to guard against the effects of body accelerations and magnetic disturbances, as discussed in, e.g., [
The state-transition matrix
The filter initialization is carried out in conditions when the IMU is still and no time-varying magnetic dipoles influence the local magnetic field. The sensor measurements are averaged during an initial rest period of 1 s. The inclination is computed by processing the initial average vector of acceleration measurements. The local magnetic field is estimated by projecting the initial average vector of magnetic measurements using the estimated inclination; the magnetic distortion is initialized to zero. Finally, the initial quaternion and its covariance matrix are computed using the TRIAD method [
The default operating mode of the proposed algorithm is based on the GM-1 model for the magnetic distortion (quiescent EKF). When necessary, extra components are added to the system's state vector, as prescribed by the GM-2 model (higher-order EKF). The higher-order EKF is reverted to the quiescent EKF by another decision. When the magnetic perturbations are small or negligible, using the higher-order EKF increases the state estimation errors. Conversely, using the quiescent EKF may yield maximum estimation accuracy—no information is wasted on estimating components that are zero or small. However, if fast changes of magnetic direction and intensity are experienced, the quiescent EKF may not effectively track the magnetic distortion, which is essential for accurate orientation determination.
To implement the VSD-EKF we apply the technique discussed in [
The experimental validation tests were carried out using the Xsens MTx orientation sensor, whose raw data were delivered to a host computer via a USB interface at a rate of 100 Hz. The manufacturer expressed the measurements of the magnetic field in arbitrary units (a.u.).
Before starting each test the IMU sensors were calibrated [
The ground-truth orientation was obtained by processing the marker coordinates provided by the optical motion analysis system as described in [
The magnetic field was estimated directly from the magnetic sensor measurements during the static test, since we assumed that the E-frame and the B-frame were aligned; as for the dynamic test, the ground-truth orientation was used to project the magnetic sensor measurements from the B-frame into the E-frame, yielding a good approximation to the magnetic field (ground-truth magnetic field). The strength of the magnetic perturbation was computed by taking the difference vector between the ground-truth magnetic field and the initial field
The following filter implementations were assessed: the VSD-EKF, the quiescent EKF and the higher-order EKF. Either the quiescent or the higher-order EKF were made adaptive, although we did not develop specific switching rules for adaptation. Our approach was to adapt their state-transition and process noise covariance matrices by changing the value of the parameters valid for the condition Perturbation OFF to those valid for the condition Perturbation ON, or vice versa, using the OFF-ON and ON-OFF switching times computed by the VSD-EKF. For the purpose of a fair comparison between the various filter implementations, the OFF-ON switching times for adapting the quiescent and the higher-order EKFs were taken at the beginning of the fading memory window used by the VSD-EKF to reprocess the IMU measurements. The standard deviation of the random-walk model for gyro-bias compensation was set to
The Kalman-based filters were written in Matlab for off-line data processing using a MacBook Pro computer and the virtualization technology from Parallel Desktop 4.0 for Mac. The VSD-EKF cycle time for a single iteration was about 4 ms, on average.
During the static test the variation of the magnetic field intensity and of the dip angle, namely the angle that the total field vector makes with respect to the horizontal plane, are about 62% and 31%, respectively); the RMS value of the magnetic distortion is about 181 a.u..
The fading memory average that is monitored for switching to the higher-order state model is shown in
The dynamic test is carried out in an environment where the RMS value of the magnetic distortion is about 75 a.u. (the variation of the magnetic field intensity and of the dip angle are about 20% and 30%, respectively). The acceleration magnitude is 1
The GM-1 model is used in most reported Kalman-based-filters for explaining the magnetic distortion, either in fixed-parameter or adaptive implementations. The filter response to a magnetic perturbation is faster and more accurate when the standard deviation of the process noise is increased and, although to a more limited extent, its correlation time constant is decreased [
Quite typically, the yaw estimates produced by the adapted quiescent EKF may drift even when quiet magnetic conditions are restored after a disturbance occurrence. This is due to its limited capability of accurately tracking the time-changes of the magnetic field when they occur. The inability of the adapted higher-order EKF to produce accurate yaw angle estimates in magnetically perturbed conditions is quite surprising, in the face of the success met by the SVD-EKF, whose model in magnetically perturbed conditions is essentially the same. A possible explanation is that the higher-order EKF is extremely sensitive to the strength of the GM-2 driving noise. In conditions of magnetic quiet, the higher-order EKF tends to diverge when the driving noise strength is too large. With those values of the driving noise strength that are acceptable in conditions of magnetic quiet, the algorithm tends to perform very poorly when the magnetic field is about to change. This does not occur with the SVD-EKF, which relies on the quiescent EKF in conditions of magnetic quiet. As expected, the switching to the higher-order EKF increases the algorithm capability of accurately tracking the time-changes of the magnetic field. In conclusion, we catch the best by combining the two models together as done in the VSD-EKF, which shows good accuracy of the estimated yaw and good compensation of the magnetic disturbances.
The results of the dynamic test show the effectiveness of the proposed VSD-EKF and basically confirm the results of the static test. Not surprisingly perhaps, the RMS errors affecting the roll and pitch angle estimates are worse than in the static test. A possible reason may be due to slight imperfections in the synchronization process between IMU and Vicon data streams and errors incurred by the optical motion analysis system itself in generating the ground-truth reference orientation data used for computation. Another reason is certainly that the acceleration measurements cannot be explained by gravity alone. Although slow in nature, the IMU motion determines additional components in the acceleration measurements that cannot be taken into account when they are used in the measurement update of the EKF. The trick we choose to mitigate this problem is to increase the values of the accelerometer measurement noise standard deviation in the matrix
Another interesting observation from our tests is that the gyro-bias compensation generally helps produce more accurate estimates of either orientation or magnetic field. This may be quite surprising, since the gyro output is submitted to a bias capture procedure during the filter initialization and the gyro bias cannot change significantly over the limited time duration of the tests. Our interpretation is that adding a limited amount of pseudo-noise to the gyro-bias components of the state vector has a useful stabilizing effect, which is beneficial in producing more accurate estimates. The injection of limited amounts of process noise is often suggested as a means to stabilize the behavior of Kalman-based filters [
The results of the tracking tests reported in this paper are quite representative of the behavior of the investigated filters. We may state that the quiescent EKF with gyro bias compensation and the higher-order EKF without gyro bias compensation perform similarly, and both are inferior to the SVD-EKF, sometimes remarkably.
In conclusion, we have presented in this paper an adaptive variable-state-dimension EKF for processing the data from an IMU integrated with a magnetic sensor. The proposed algorithm estimates the quaternion of rotation and attempts to compensate magnetic disturbances and gyro bias. The filter switches from a quiescent EKF, built around a first-order Gauss-Markov model for describing magnetic distortions, to a higher-order EKF, built around the same stochastic model applied to the time-rate of change of the local magnetic field. Experimental validation tests show the effectiveness of the proposed approach in magnetically perturbed environments.
The author is indebted to Andrea Mannini for his help in performing the experiments described in the paper.
Static test. (
Fading memory average used for switching from the quiescent state model to the higher-order state model in the VSD-EKF (static test).
Estimated yaw angle for the three different filters (static test).
Components of the ground-truth reference magnetic field. The horizontal bars at the top of the plot show the time intervals of sojourns in the higher-order state model (dynamic test).
Ground-truth Euler angles and estimation errors incurred by the VSD-EKF (dynamic test).
Parameter tuning.
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|Correlation time constant, s
|Correlation time constant, s
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Parameter tuning.
Euler angles and magnetic distortion RMSE (static test).
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Euler angles and magnetic distortion RMSE (dynamic test).
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Penguins minor league report: Thompson gets fresh start in Columbus system
WILKES-BARRE — From Brian Gibbons to Jayson Megna to Zach Sill, the Penguins have had their share of undrafted-prospect-makes-good stories this season.
Paul Thompson was not one of them. After struggling through the first four months of his third pro season, Thompson was dealt to the Columbus Blue Jackets for Spencer Machacek in a swap of 25-year-old right wingers earlier this month.
The first two years of Thompson's pro career went according to form. After a 28-goal senior season at New Hampshire, he signed an NHL deal with the Penguins in 2011. In the AHL, he improved from 10 goals as a rookie to 20 goals last year and started to look like he had potential as a sturdy, 6-foot, 200-pound NHL third liner.
Then his game fell off a cliff. He had four goals and a team-worst minus-8 rating in 39 games before being traded. Coach John Hynes was nothing but complimentary in his comments about Thompson, but it's no secret the Penguins weren't pleased with his lack of competitiveness on the puck, and it showed no signs of improving.
"Sometimes guys get in a situation where a change of scenery helps or a different voice helps," Hynes said.
In return, the Penguins got Machacek, who is no longer a high-ceiling prospect in his sixth pro season, but he can play in all situations for the Baby Pens and be a call-up option.
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He has played 25 career NHL games, putting up nine points in a 13-game stint with Winnipeg in 2011-12.
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All-Star oddity
The AHL changed its all-star format, having a team of the league's best players face Farjestad BK of the Swedish Hockey League in an exhibition Wednesday night.
Gibbons had two assists in a 7-2 win, but the interesting part is how he got them. Because the game resembled an actual hockey game, rather than the no-defense scrimmages all-star games often become, Gibbons was active on the forecheck. Twice, he forced turnovers to set up Ryan Strome, a New York Islanders prospect, for goals.
Hall of fame
The Baby Pens are inducting the inaugural class into the team's hall of fame Saturday. Popular enforcer Dennis Bonvie and captain-turned-assistant-coach Alain Nasreddine will be the first two players enshrined.
Night to remember
Notre Dame right wing Bryan Rust, the Penguins' third-round pick in the 2010 draft, had a game to remember against Maine on Feb. 8. He scored the tying goal with 1:08 left, then netted the game winner 24 seconds later to lead the Irish to a 3-2 victory.
The 5-11, 198-pound Rust projects as a checker as a pro, but he has 11 goals and 24 points through the first 29 games of his senior year.
Jonathan Bombulie has covered the Baby Pens for the Citizens' Voice in Wilkes-Barre since the team's inception in 1999.


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How to Make Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin pie is a tradition for a reason. Everyone's favorite holiday pie is easier than you think.
Looking for that pie grandma used to make? This is it. Canned pumpkin, fall spices and a flaky crust combine beautifully together to make this holiday classic.
Step 1
Gather the Ingredients
Make sure you have your key players: A can of pumpkin puree, 3/4 cup sugar, one teaspoon of ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves, two eggs, one can of evaportated milk, a pinch of ground nutmeg and a pie shell.
Step 2
Mix the Dry Ingredients
Preheat your oven to 425° F. Mix sugar, salt, cinnamon, ginger and cloves in a small bowl and set aside.
If you prefer to use a pumpkin spice mix, substitute an equal amount of mix for the cinnamon, ginger and cloves.
Step 3
Whisk the Eggs
Beat 2 large eggs together in a large bowl.
Step 4
Add the Pumpkin & Milk
Whisk the pumpkin puree and the sugar-spice mixture into the beaten eggs. Gradually whisk in 1 can of evaporated milk.
Step 5
Pour the Filling into the Crust
Pour the pumpkin mixture into a chilled, unbaked pie shell and then sprinkle a mixture of ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg over the filling.
Step 6
Bake the Pie
Bake at 425° F for 15 minutes. Reduce the temperature to 350° F and then bake for 40 to 50 minutes longer. To test if the pie is done, insert the tip of your knife. If it comes out clean, you're good.
Keep an eye on your crust. If it becomes too brown after 40 minutes, remove it from the oven and cover the edges with a pie ring or strips of aluminum foil. Return it the oven to finish baking.
Step 7
Serve & Enjoy!
Allow the pie to cool completely on a wire rack. This will take about 2 hours. Slice the pie and top with a dollop of whipped cream and serve immediately.
You can store the pie in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days (but we doubt it will last that long).
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The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (RURA) has published data on the number of mobile phone subscribers in the country. As at the end of June 2012, Rwanda was home to 4,759,130 wireless subscribers, up from 4,453,711 three months previously. The regulator had previously projected that the number will increase to more than six million by the end of the year, although at the current growth rate this appears unlikely. The countrys newest operator, Airtel, added 55,000 customers in May and a further 55,000 in June, outstripping its rivals MTN (46,000 net additions in June) and Tigo (38,800 net additions in June).
Source: TeleGeography.
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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
Viewing 21–30 out of 15,832 events
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Friday, June 24, 2016
CityParks PuppetMobile Presents Puss in Boots
at Main Park House (in Cunningham Park), Queens
4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Despite his reputation as a sly trickster, Puss soon proves himself a caring friend to all, willing to help at any cost!
Category: Best for Kids
Summer Sports Experience at Williamsbridge Oval
at Williamsbridge Oval, Bronx, Williamsbridge Oval Recreation Center (in Williamsbridge Oval), Bronx
4:00 p.m.–6:45 p.m.
The Summer Sports Experience provides a friendly introduction to sports for kids!
Category: Best for Kids, Sports, Summer Sports Experience
Drag March Prep at Le Petit Versailles!
at La Petit Versailles, Manhattan
5:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Ring in the forthcoming Pride Weekend with us as we dress and make ourselves pretty for Tompkins Square Park!
Category: LGBTQ Pride Month
Randall's Island Historical Tour (North)
at Randall's Island Connector (in Randall's Island Park), Manhattan
6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Randall's Island has a rich, unique and varied history. RIPA's staff loves nothing more than to share this fascinating history with interested visitors. Two colossal bridges,…
Category: History, Tours
Teen and Young Adult Open Mic
at Brownsville Recreation Center (in Brownsville Playground), Brooklyn
6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Teens and young adults will be able to express themselves through poetry, spoken word, singing, or any form of creative expression.
Category: Art
Game Social
at 40th Street Plaza (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Make new friends and play some of the most exciting strategy board games at this social event.
Category: Games, Seniors
Bryant Park Presents Modern Dance
at Bryant Park Stage (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
The events feature one emerging, one established, and one veteran dance company on each evening.
Category: Dance
Arts, Culture & Fun Presents: Marques Toliver's In Transit
at Pelham Fritz Recreation Center (in Marcus Garvey Park), Manhattan
6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Joe's Pub at The Public and The Public Theater's Mobile Unit present composer and musician Marques Toliver's In Transit, a concert featuring his original music created for and inspired by the Mobile Unit's Spring 2016 production of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
Category: Accessible, Concerts, Dance, Art, Festivals, Film, Theater, Free Summer Concerts, Seniors
Family Camping: Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan
at Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan
7:00 p.m.–7:00 a.m.
To enter your family in the lottery, visit nyc.gov/parks/rangers/register on Wednesday, June 15.
Category: Nature, Family Camping
Summer on the Hudson: Freshen Up Friday Concert Series - Tattoo Money
at 125th Street and Marginal Street (in West Harlem Piers), Manhattan
7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Meet up in West Harlem Piers Park with friends on the last Friday of the month for great music, fresh air, and beautiful scenery.
Category: Accessible, Concerts, Festivals, Free Summer Concerts, Waterfront
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Opera House, October 19
THE young audiences of Meet the Music concerts are usually generous with their praise, but the five standing ovations that greeted Nigel Westlake's Missa Solis - Requiem for Eli (six if you count the premature applause during the final movement) indicated a special enthusiasm for the work's blazing sounds and empathy for its composer.
Although completed in tragic circumstances - the death of his son - the work is a bold hymn to life, the sun and the stars (indeed much of the music was originally conceived for the IMAX film Solarmax).
Written in eight movements with texts including the Tibetan book of Living and Dying, a hymn of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, words by Galileo and Shakespeare and a recurring madrigal by Giovan Leonardo Primavera, ''O sun, immortal life giver'', Westlake's musical language is direct, with clear shape and strong gesture.
Westlake had a natural ease - as composer and conductor - with the large scale of his material, moving fluently between cinematic elements, minimalist patterns, drum interludes, sharp irregular rhythms and simple songs in a way that sustained interest over the work's 40 minutes.
Cantillation provided a splendidly polished choral sound, particularly in the closing chorus which returned to the madrigal text and texture heard earlier but with emphatically fateful punctuation from percussion.
The work's expressive heart, however, lies in the two strophic songs for boy sopranos, eloquently pitched and enunciated by Liam Crisanti and Neil Baker. The first is a carefully shaped angular melody, the second expressive of serene joy at Galileo's wonder at seeing the moons of Jupiter.
This work came after an enigmatic opener, conducted by Richard Gill, of Charles Ives's The Unanswered Question, in which a gnomic trumpet phrase, over bland, comforting strings and four chattering flutes, is repeatedly posed and left dangling.
Beethoven's incidental music to Goethe's play Egmont, also under Gill, filled up the second half somewhat less strikingly, though soprano Kiandra Howarth sang the two arias with secure pitch and a thrilling ring to the sound.
Eddie Perfect narrated a compressed account of the play that would be perfect for Reader's Digest but not quite so for Beethoven or Goethe.


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The main duties of the Council Representative are to work in conjunction with the Executive Director to prepare the Young Botanists of the Year nominations. The call for nominations states that the top 25 nominees will be selected based primarily on their accomplishments, described in recommendation letters and any supporting materials. These 25 will receive a Certificate of Special Achievement from the Society and have their names published in the Plant Science Bulletin. It further states that all other nominees with strong records of achievement (at least a 'B' average, and meritorious activity in plant biology) may receive a "Certificate of Recognition," complimentary student membership for the rest of the calendar year, and have their names published in the Plant Science Bulletin.
I reviewed 27 applications for this award. On March 20, 2008. I suggested that all 27 nominees were deserving of the Certificate of Special Achievement" from the Society and to have their names published in the Plant Science Bulletin. These 27 Young Botanists will all receive the Young Botanists Award at the Botany 2008 meeting in Vancouver.
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Theodore and Edith Roosevelt
Teddy Tree
The Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt family Christmas traditions were quite simple. On Christmas Eve, they would pile into the family sleigh (later the motor car) and travel to Christ Church in Oyster Bay, New York. Following the pastor's sermon, TR would deliver one of his famous "sermonettes" on the meaning of the holiday. The service would close with one of his favorite hymns "Christmas By the Sea." On Christmas morning, gifts would be opened and then the family would spend the day hiking, playing games, and going for sleigh rides.
In 1902, a cartoon was drawn depicting Teddy Roosevelt refusing to shoot a captured bear that had been wounded. The cartoon was carried in newspapers throughout the country. A toy manufacturer saw the cartoon and created the first stuffed "teddy bears."
Another fact about "TR" that most people probably don't know is that for many years he played Santa Claus at a school in Oyster Bay, New York, listening to the children and then giving them Christmas presents that he had selected himself. Combining these two aspects of Teddy Roosevelt's personality, we decided to create a Teddy Bear tree for the enjoyment of our holiday visitors. We couldn't have done this without the help of many generous donors who brought us brand new bears for the tree. At the end of the exhibit, the bears were donated to organizations that used them to bring comfort to people in need.


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7 For All Mankind Organic Gwenevere Skinny Ankle Jean
This is a great eco-friendly version of Seven's signature ankle jean. Made with organic cotton, these 5 pocket pants are mildly distressed with contrasting stitching on the pockets. A great basic for this fall/winter that will last forever.
These jeans look cool and vintage in high-rise flare.
These denim jeans have a cool patchy industrial look.
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Black skinny jeans that have only the coolest zipper detailing on them.
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Very flared 7 for All Mankind jeans. Have distressing and holes throughout for FLAVOR!
Another pair of jeans I want to own sooner rather than later. Have a small flare and holes at the knee area.
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The English were determined to get their share of the profits.
English seamen, like Drake, attacked the treasure ships and raided
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I'm reviewing my digital camera, the Sony W710 Cyber-shot today, but firstly I just want to say this will be a very non-technical review. I'm not a technical person myself so I can't even make this stuff up, but I'm hoping this review will be useful for people like myself who are looking into a no-frills digital camera where you can point and click and get some nice pictures.
My partner bought me this camera about 3 years ago and I think he spent about £100 on it. With technology moving so fast I was surprised to see it is still sold, but has gone down to around £50-60, so quite an affordable piece of kit.
First things first - the camera came boxed with a USB wire, battery and battery charger. The charger is square shaped, you have to remove the battery from the camera and slot it into the charger. It only takes a couple of hours to charge and automatically switched itself off when it is fully charged, but the wire is very short and doesn't stretch far at all. When inserted the battery in the camera lasts quite a long time. Surprisingly, this camera didn't have a case included, which I thought was a bit poor. Digital cameras are meant to be taken out and about, and I'd expect a high-quality brand like Sony to provide a case. Luckily the case from my last camera fitted so I could protect my camera when I'm out and about. There is no memory card included in the purchase but they are not usually included so that wasn't a surprise.
The camera is a slinky looking thing, mine is black with silver detailing. There is a wrist strap which can be removed. There is a slide compartment at the bottom which you can move to access the battery and memory card which is really easy to access.
The camera is easily turned on by pressing a button on the top and it turns on very quickly. The button to press to take a picture is fairly large and on the right hand side so quite standard. It is quite sensitive and I can easily lend the camera to friends and it's as simple as point and click. Photos taken can be seen by pressing a button on the back with a triangle next to it, photos can be scrolled through but it's quite slow and the photos take a few seconds to get into focus so it's not ideal. You can also see photos on a grid and zoom in and out of photos, you can also delete from here but they take a few seconds so this isn't a quick process.
There are quick buttons on the machine to do things like change the flash and display settings. There is a 'smile detector' setting which I haven't heard of before, we used it once for a laugh and it actually worked really well! My partner held it up and I smiled and it took the photo and it was actually a really lovely photo - Facebook profile picture worthy for a while!
The screen measures 6cm/5cm so it's a decent size and easy to look back at photos on. The zoom function is apparently 'optical zoom 4x and 28mm wide-single lens'. As I said this means nothing to me, but might be useful to some people reading this review! There are buttons on the back to zoom in and out for photos which I use quite regularly - can be useful for weddings etc where you might be a bit far back but want a nice photo!
In terms of quality, when the flash is off the camera takes very blurry photos. The shutter speed seems to be very slow, and if you don't keep deadly still the photo is a blurry mess. When the flash is on, it's very very bright. It totally washes out anything you take a photo of. I've had my partner look through all the settings and there is nothing to turn down the brightness. It is genuinely a problem and stops me from using the camera. I sell on ebay and if I have the flash off the pictures of my items are blurry and if I have it on you can't see the items as eveything is too bright. I either have to use my partners (much nicer) camera or wait for natural daylight and take a photo very carefully without moving with the flash off - this can be tricky in winter when it's always dark!
The camera came with a wire to plug the camera into the computer to get the photos off, I lost this fairly quickly so I just take the memory card out and whack it in the computer.
Overall I'm not a fan of this camera and I barely use it. It looks great and the settings/buttons are really good, it's very straightforward to use and is the definition of point and click. It should be ideal for somebody like me who just wants to take photos for ebay and photos of family/friends/holidays etc. However, in terms of taking photos there is much to be desired. I can get by with this, but the photos are not very good and I find myself asking to use my partners camera most of the time, even for boring things like ebay. Although this camera is a great price, I would recommend shopping around to get a camera which takes better photos. Memories are important and you need a decent camera to take photos of special moments.
From parties and family portraits to holiday scenes: have fun shooting detail-packed photos and HD video clips. Take this compact light and simple-to-use camera anywhere and get help taking better shots every time? even if you?re a first-time photographer.Effortlessly capture the beauty emotion and excitement of all those special moments thanks to the camera's high-resolution image sensor. From a family holiday to a fun night out you'll take sharp finely detailed photos without fuss. Bring all memories to life with HD video. There's no need to fiddle with complicated controls: a simple switch on the back of the camera selects movie recording. When you?re finished sit back and enjoy the results on your HD television. The DSC-W710 automatically adjusts everything to suit the conditions. Just point and shoot and capture the moment with no menus or settings to worry about.


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Meditrust has rich appetite for golf links
Published June 15, 1998
Meditrust, the largest health-care REIT in the United States, is hitting the links in a big way. It plans to spend up to $2 billion buying 150 golf courses this year and next.
"We expect to be one of the three leading companies in golf," said Abraham Gosman, CEO of the Needham Heights, Mass.-based company.
Meditrust has spent $600 million this year acquiring 49 golf courses, including a $241 million deal to acquire Del Mar, Calif.-based Cobblestone Holdings Inc. and its 31 courses.
Meditrust will spend an additional $400 million this year and $1 billion in 1999, Gosman said.
In addition to its health-care holdings, Meditrust owns Santa Anita racetrack. But golf is the only sports business in which Gosman sees profitable expansion opportunities.
"We think it's a growth business that is fairly countercyclical to the economy," he said. "When the economy suffers a hit, people don't take long trips, but they play golf where they are."
Meditrust's plunge into the golf business may be the biggest move ever by a company with that kind of Wall Street muscle, said Craig Silvers, analyst with Sutro & Co.
Two other publicly traded companies, Charleston, S.C.-based Golf Trust of America and Santa Monica, Calif.-based National Golf, also own golf courses, but those firms are smaller than Meditrust, Silvers said. Golf Trust owns 34 courses and has a market capitalization of $258 million, while National Golf, with 123 courses, has a market capitalization of $365 million.
Meditrust has a $3 billion market cap, but more importantly, Gosman has proved he can grow the company profitably, Silvers said. "If he can start showing good numbers out of his golf franchise, I think Wall Street will give him more money," Silvers said.
Meditrust's golf business may carry the Cobblestone name or the name of another golf company yet to be acquired.


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I have a new post up at Global Comment
On Christmas day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to blow up a trans-Atlantic Northwest Airlines flight arriving from Amsterdam in Detroit. Though he is Nigerian, he has alleged contacts with al Qaeda operatives in Yemen. This event would spur a new round of Islamophobia in which western residents would make apologist arguments regarding violence and paint all those of Muslim faith as violent threats to society.
Rather than dealing with the issues that lead to violent action, the default answer has been racial profiling. Birmingham Labour MP Perry Barr Khalid Mahmood, who is Muslim, stated:
"I think most people would rather be profiled than blown up… It wouldn't be victimisation of an entire community. If people want to fly safely, we have to take measures to stop things like the Christmas Day plot. Profiling may have to be the price we have to pay. The fact is the majority of people who have carried out or planned these terror attacks have been Muslims."
This mirrors Anne Coulter's rhetoric: "Not every Muslim is a terrorist, but every terrorist is a Muslim." This kind of logic can only be understood if the working definition of terrorist is applicable only to those who practice Islam. It further characterizes all Westerners as good and pure, thereby demonizing Muslims.
On January 4th, it was reported that a Molotov cocktail (bomb) had been thrown inside of largest mosque in Hamilton, Ontario. The mosque is also the home of the Islamic School of Hamilton. The school educates two hundred children between kindergarten and grade eight. Fortunately, no one was injured in the attack. According to the Hamilton Spectator, the police are investigating the attack as a hate crime. This is the second time this mosque has been attacked. Nowhere in the reporting on this incident have the words "terrorist attack" been used.
MP David Christopherson expressed his pleasure that this incident was being investigated by the police and declared, "We have racism in our community, but we are not a racist society." I suppose it was accidental that both times in which there has been an air attack on the U.S. by a Muslim, this mosque has been attacked. It certainly could not speak to the ways in which Canadians view those practicing the Muslim faith.


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Toll Brothers unveils new models; discounts others
Toll Brothers has introduced two new single-story floor plans at its Wellington View community in West Palm Beach.
"We wanted to offer more home design options to buyers choosing a new home in this outstanding single-family home community," said Toll Brothers Assistant Vice President Alex de Chabert. "We now offer eight different floor plans at Wellington View."
Toll Brothers also is offering several "quick delivery" homes for sale at discounted prices in Parkland Golf and Country Club, which features a Greg Norman-designed golf course.
In Wellington View, the newest designs include the Saranac and the Cassien.
The Saranac, with 2,570 square feet of living space, features three bedrooms and 2½ baths while the Cassien has four bedrooms, three baths and 3,003 square feet of living space. Both of the new single-story designs include gourmet kitchens with granite countertops, private studies and covered lanais with views of the lakes and natural areas surrounding the community.
Homes in Wellington View range in size from 2,189 to 4,700 square feet and are priced starting in the mid-$300,000s.
The recreational features at Wellington View include a clubhouse with fitness center, tennis court, hiking and biking rails and a children's playground. Wellington
View is near "A-rated" schools including Everglades Elementary, a new elementary school serving students in grades K-5 and offering a gifted kindergarten program. The community is five minutes from Florida's Turnpike and 10 minutes from Interstate 95.
The sales center is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. For more information, call 304-3131 or see wellingtonview.com.
The discounted homes in Parkland range from 2,943 square feet to 4,473 square feet and are designed with three or four bedrooms and a bonus room or loft space. The homes feature marble flooring and granite countertops. Some of the homes have lake views or back up to water features while others include a pool and spa.
The 790-acre community includes a par-72, 18-hole Greg Norman-designed championship golf course. Parkland is between Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton near Interstate 95 and Florida's Turnpike. For more information, see parklandgolfandcountryclub.com or call 954-757-7747. ¦


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Just want some good old fashioned ranting with some actual reasoning to back it up, no flame wars please- try keep this mature yeah?
My least favourite is Itachi because:
- The seemingly endless OP and sometimes cheap abilities he has.
- How much Kishimoto loves to stroke his ego.
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hello to the last week of November! You won't hear any "the year is ending too fast" from me - bring it! It's not that I'm slamming the door on 2012, it's just that I'm excited about the future.
hello to Reverb 12 beginning next week - can't wait! Hoping to get around to setting up a separate blog for my entries.
hello to seven new books headed my way - some new (wicked sale), some used ($0.99 + shipping? yes, please!), all self-help-ish. Ahem.
hello to being 100% CAUGHT UP on Project Life. Holla!! I'll be posting the November weeks in the next few days.
hello to only four more sleeps until I meet up with Barb & Kelly in NYC. Soooo looking forward to seeing these girls.
hello to this awesome holiday pledge.
hello to coconut nog (even better with a splash of Bailey's!)
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Move On When Ready legislation passes with strong bipartisan support creating the performance-based Grand Canyon High School Diploma.
Arizona State Board of Education selects the Center for the Future of Arizona to lead the Move On When Ready.
Arizona State Board of Education adopts rules for earning the Grand Canyon High School Diploma, approves the instructional systems available to Move On When Ready schools, and approves college-ready qualification scores for exams in all subject areas.
CFA holds informational sessions across the state for interested schools; 11 schools voluntarily adopt and begin to implement Move On When Ready.
The Move On When Ready Learning Collaborative is created by CFA through support from Helios Education Foundation; providing a unique collaborative approach to the adoption and implementation of innovation whereby CFA brings schools together on an intensive and regular basis to exchange learnings and tackle the work of school redesign.
Additional schools voluntarily adopt and begin to implement Move On When Ready; CFA expands the Learning Collaborative to support the additional schools.
CFA is awarded a $1 million State Board of Education Innovation Education Program grant to support Move On When Ready.
Ready Now Yuma launched by Yuma Union High School District and Helios Education Foundation to increase the number of students entering and succeeding in postsecondary education; Move On When Ready is a central feature and CFA played a critical role in the planning of Ready Now Yuma through a year-long planning grant from Helios Education Foundation.
First students earn the Grand Canyon High School Diploma.
CFA creates the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) diploma program in collaboration with Science Foundation Arizona, the state's public universities, business and industry, and Arizona high schools; providing a competency-based student pathway that graduates high school students motivated and prepared to enter and complete STEM degree programs at the university.
Center for the Future of Arizona works with the Arizona Board of Regents and individual public universities on admission and credit by exam policies related to Move On When Ready.
Teachers participate in high quality subject-specific professional development from Cambridge and the National Center on Education and the Economy as they continue to refine their performance-based teaching practices.
Wickenburg Unified School District Governing Board approves the Grand Canyon High School Diploma as the standard diploma for all students.
Move On When Ready schools engage in "data dig" sessions, closely examining student exam results data to identify and plan for individualized student support, and to refine course design and teaching practices.
State Board of Education adopts principles of agreement that will guide the development of the next generation of A through F school accountability profiles; Dr. Sybil Francis is on the committee; CFA's experience with Move On When Ready informs the work of the committee.
Carnegie Foundation features Move On When Ready in reportThe Carnegie Unit: A Century-Old Standard in a Changing Education Landscape
Total number of students to earn the Grand Canyon High School Diploma rises to 104


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Edge Strip Kits can be used when pouring self-leveling underlayment (SLU) for any application. When installing electric floor heating systems, either cables or mats, the ESKs help contain the SLU which in turn assists in protecting and encapsulating the heating wire and ensures a flat tile surface.
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Activision has announced a new pre-order bonus for Call of Duty: Ghosts, the Free Fall downloadable map. The level features the new dynamic map event mechanic, and will be available at launch. Free Fall will put players into a skyscraper that's on the verge of collapse, and will slowly fall as the round plays out, causing debris to clutter the battlefield and new pathways to emerge while others are cut off.
Call of Duty: Ghosts will available on November 5 for 360, PC, and PS3. The release dates for the PS4 and Xbox One versions have not been announced, but they are scheduled to ship before the end of the year.
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At the purchase of PHANTOM, you will receive 3 months of unlimited access to TIDAL, the high fidelity music streaming service. Enjoy more than 35 million songs and 85 000 music videos.
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1998 Toyota Sienna Values
The 1998 Toyota Sienna is a seven-passenger minivan available in three trims; the CE, LE, and XLE. All versions of the Sienna are powered by a 3.0L V6 engine which produces 194 hp and 209 lb-ft of torque. The Sienna is available with a choice between one side door or two. Highway fuel economy is rated at 24 mpg which is a solid number for a minivan.Read more Read less
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Welcome to Leisureland Mobile Villa, a great example of the San Diego, California canyon culture. Centrally located in urban San Diego, this 55+ community is adjacent to a dedicated "open space" and minutes from everything. Leisureland Mobile Villa is the most recent chapter in the long and storied Las Chollas Valley history. Request a brochure for some local color.
In addition to the relaxing on-site community center, picnic and pool area, this pet friendly park offers access to:
Travel and Transit Options – 15 minutes to San Diego International Airport, Lindberg Field; San Diego Amtrak Train Terminal; San Diego Trolley Orange Line.
Entertainment – 15minutes to the World Famous San Diego Zoo; Balboa Park; World Beat Cultural Center; Museums; Art Galleries; San Diego Padres Petco Park.
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A rare bit of David Byrne from the best years of the Talking Heads – tunes commissioned by Twyla Tharp for an offbeat piece of dance entitled The Catherine Wheel. A few of the tracks are vocals, and feature some of Byrne's most compelling lyrics from the time – and others are instrumentals, filled with guitar and prophet, and coming up with lots of dark rhythmic sounds that lie somewhere in the territory of experimental work at the time by Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, Adrian Belew, and other mainstream avant rockers. Titles include "His Wife Refused", "Two Soldiers", "Red House", "My Big Hands", "Big Business", and "What A Day That Was". (Includes the printed inner sleeve.) © 1996-2017, Dusty Groove, Inc.
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RECIPES: Recipe Details
Rate This Burger
The O.C.
By adding zucchini and carrots into the burgers it is an easy and sneaky way to make sure everyone gets their veggies. Plus the they make the burgers very moist.
2 small carrots
1 small zucchini
1/4 cup barbecue sauce
1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese
1/4 cup chopped green onion
1 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp pepper
1 1/4 pounds ground turkey
1. Finely chop the carrots and zucchini in a food processor. 2. Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl. 3. Shape into 6 burgers. 4. Pre - heat grill. Cook for 6-7 minutes on each side. 5. Serve on whole wheat buns with lettuce, tomatoe and sliced avocado.


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nice attitude
I cant work with low resolution, i can feel pain in my eyes.
But i cant set my default screen resolution, because ati drivers doesnt work.
When it will be fixed?
nice attitude
What drivers?
Ati dri, doesnt work, i repeat.
We don't know yet, but when it is fixed there will be some sort of announcement made here on the forums.
In the meantime instead of complaining I would suggest you start working on getting a working driver going.
I am sure that if you made one then you would be the coolest guy using BT with ATI drivers.
PS If you have anything useful that you would like to have added here then please PM me or on of the other Moderators and we could probably open this thread back up.
Otherwise it is pretty much dead.


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Northern Kentucky University Symphonic Winds
Brant Karrick Director
Nina Perlove, solo flute (Sankyo Artist)
Wind ensemble transcription by Howard Bolin (US Marine Band), used with permission.
This piece was performed by the NKU Winds at the KMEA Convention 2009. The cuts were made in order to meet the time limit for the KMEA performance. This video was made during a performance at Northern Kentucky University, Greaves Auditorium, Jan. 29, 2009
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|From: Carl Eastlund (cce at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 20 10:13:42 EDT 2008
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote: >>> >>> I followed (abused?) a recipe by using cond and having the first >>> clause handle any amount under 100. It looks like this: >>> >>> (cond >>> [(< n 100) <cents part goes here>] >>> [else (cons <dollar amount and natural recusion occur here>)]) >> >> Natural recursion? What's so natural about it? > > You don't need to do all of the work at once, you handle the part that > you need and let the function do the rest of it. In this case, the > rest is everything under 100. Is this a valid approach if there is > only one recursive step? > > Or were you just giving me a hard time with your reply? Let me put it another way -- what's so recursion about it? To be less cryptic, if you read your purpose statement, and apply it to the recursive call, does it make sense? Are you really solving a smaller instance of the same problem, or are you just solving a smaller problem? The former is recursion; the latter is not (and suggests either inlining or a helper function). -- Carl Eastlund
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Given the variety of types, it will number well into the hundreds, if not thousands.
Has anybody kept track of the above?
All types, all Nationalities, and all locations.
I was idly wondering how large a theoretical air force it would be possible to assemble tomorrow. Weather permitting.
This comes from having watched ten Mustangs in formation in 2005 (I think) and remembering the Duxford Spitfire display a year or two ago.
I've not asked this until now, because without a Mosquito I couldn't be bothered.
Given the variety of types, it will number well into the hundreds, if not thousands.
Tiger Moths ? Piper Cubs ?
What about a Swordfish made in 1938, or a Corsair made in 1946 ?
Do you mean any aircraft constructed in that period?
There's about 60 Spits, 200 Mustangs, 30 B.25's, 10 B.17's
I am hoping that somebody slightly more retentive than I, might actually be doing what I didn't.
A few days ago somebody asked which squadrons had Mosquito XVIs. I got my Mos book and totalled them up for him/her. On a piece of paper. Which I threw away after replying. In these times I hoped that something might exist that would let me dump that for others to see. And so I would not have to ask the original question.
If it transpires that there is not, and it definitely was not my intention, might I be on to something that is worth doing?
I should also say that I have also wondered if there was an online diary/calendar showing which air force sent which aircraft into action and their losses/achievements etc. That could automatically correlate with the opposing force.
It would take years to build, but the data could then be drilled to show an accelerated animation of what happened, when and where.
Paul Cogan and Warbirds Worldwide did some great books with the most up to date listings of WARBIRDS ! I think the last one was out in the early 90s, If i can find the books I will start a listing but of course lots has changed since then.
Interesting to see how many are out there
It was excellent at the time and I feel it would be the same in todays market, Paul did a fantastic job and set a standard which nobody has achieved since, such a shame Paul had to wrap things up , must be 12 yrs now the last one was published.
Paul if your on this forum maybe good time to getting writing again?
Regards jay
Paul is unfortunately no longer with us.
I Wandered Lonely As A Clown...
Add the T-6/Harvards, L-4s, C-45s, C-54s and C-47s...add these "other"
types (those we don't always think of as warbirds) and the number grows to 3-4 thousand on top of the Mustangs, Spits, Corsairs...
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There are two sides to every story. The truth is usually somewhere between the two.
I'm sure the exercise did eliminate a lot of the 'dross' though, doubtless along with the registrations of some stored projects where the owners have passed on or just didn't bother or otherwise neglected to reregister them.
Boguing, I think you're overestimating the power of archive documents.
Historians have been trying to reconstruct the details of WWII air battles for half a century, but in order to do so, you have to actually have access to precise documents from both sides of the conflict, and that is rarely the case. Being interested mostly in Pacific and CBI theater of ops I read quite a bit on the subject and one thing stands out - in many cases crosschecking exact air victories / losses of both sides (especially from Philippines campaign onwards) is very difficult, because of lack of Japanese records, which were just lost before the end of the war, or destroyed soon after. Creating a big database or a "calendar" showing "which air force sent which aircraft into action and their losses/achievements etc." is just impossible then.
Simple example: to this day, nobody knows for sure how many Zero fighters actually took part in an engagement over Bougainville, which ended admiral Yamamoto's life. According to IJN, all six fighters providing cover landed undamaged at Kahili, while USAAF pilots were reporting hitting a couple of them - were there any additional Zeroes from Kahili operating in the area? Maybe - we'll never know, because Japnese reports from that day do not exist anymore, while American ones are not precise (Mitchell's pilots initially claimed downing three Bettys, which obviously was not true). And If such a "famous" interception (maybe the most famous of WWII?) has not been precisely reconstructed to this day, what can be said about hundreds of other, "ordinary" air battles?
Getting back to today's warbirds database topic, I suppose it wouldn't be easy either - do you remember that cool short documentary posted (linked to) somewhere here a couple weeks ago, the one about C-47s transporting people and goods all over Columbia? I enjoyed watching it and the thing that struck me was - nobody aboard the old plane knew how many flight hours it actually had done in its life so far, 'cause when they bought it, they only got a handful of papers with it. They just know it's a surplus WWII machine and they obviously do all the required paperwork now, but there's a "document hole" in the operational history of this particular A/C and nobody seems to be able (or willing) to fill it. I wonder how many similar cargo warbirds with "messy" or incomplete papers are still flying / rotting in the bushes in Latin and South America, Africa etc. Tracking them and their history must be hell.
An excellent reply.
I have an answer, but it will take a day or two.
Thanks for taking me seriously.
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For the second straight year, a colt by Deep Impact out of U.S. Horse of the Year Azeri was the star of the Japan Racing Horse Association's foal sale.
On July 15 in at Northern Horse Park in Hokkaido, Riichi Kondo went to ¥250 million ($2,450,981 in U.S. dollars) to acquire this year's highest priced foal, offered by Northern Farm. The youngster is a full brother to last year's sale-topping foal, also bought from Northern Farm and yet unnamed, for ¥240 million ($2,352,942) by Shigehisa Tanabe of Desk Valet Co. Ltd. for an undisclosed client.
Azeri, a daughter of Jade Hunter, was America's Horse of the Year in 2002 and a three-time champion older female (2002, 2003, 2004). From seven foals, she has produced four winners from as many starters, including 2012 Monmouth Oaks (Gr. II) winner Wine Princess and stakes-placed runner Arienza.
Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm bought the now 16-year-old mare for $2.25 million at the 2009 Keeneland November breeding stock sale, where she was offered by John Sikura's Hill 'n' Dale Sales Agency for the Allen E. Paulson Living Trust.
Day two of the JRHA select sale saw 189 foals change hands for total sales of ¥6,547,050,000 ($64,186,765). The average price was ¥34,640,476 ($$339,613) and the median was ¥24,000,000 ($$235,295). The clearance rate was 85.9%.
The first foal by undefeated European champion Frankel to be offered in Japan--a Japanese-bred filly--who garnered much attention from both foreign and domestic buyers, sold to Toshio Terada for ¥96,000,000 ($941,177). Out of the winning Foxhound mare Goodwood March, the youngster is a half sister Hong Kong stakes winner Gold-Fun, runner-up in the 2013 Hong Kong Mile (HK-I), and English stakes winner Body and Soul. The filly was offered by Mishima Farm on behalf of Qatari Sheikh Fahad Al Thani, who is in the process of securing an owner's license in Japan.
Sheikh Fahad bought the sale topper at the previous day's yearling sale, spending ¥260,000,000 ($2,549,020) for colt by two-time Japanese Horse of the Year Deep Impact out of English group I winner Listen.
Sheikh Fahad, through racing manager David Redvers, bought eight foals during Tuesday's sale, spending ¥610 million ($5,999,050), the highest price of which was a colt by Deep Impact out of multiple French group winner Musical Way, by Gold Away, for ¥180 million ($1,764,706).
Of the five foals cataloged from the first crop of U.S. champion and dual classic winner I'll Have Another , three went through the ring. A colt out of the winning King Kamehameha mare Eva sold for ¥18 million ($176,471) to Matsuju Onoue out of the Shadai Farm consignment; and Hirano Farm' colt out of the Special Week mare Special Woman brought ¥9.7 million ($95,099) from Tsuneo Namba. Eiko Take's colt out of the Deep Impact mare Queen's Trail failed to meet his reverse price.
I'll Have Another, champion 3-year-old male of 2012 after winning the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands, Preakness Stakes, and Santa Anita Derby, all grade I, launched his stud career in 2013 at Big Red Farm in Hokkaido after being sold by owner J. Paul Reddam for $10 million.
The first foal by Gainesway stallion Tapizar to be offered at auction sold for ¥10 million ($98,040) to Yoshimi Ichikawa out of the Orion Farm consignment. The Japanese-bred colt is out of the grade III-placed Bluegrass Cat mare Bluegrass Chatter.
Among other offspring of U.S.-based sires to sell at the foal sale, Northern Farm's filly by WinStar Farm 2011 leading sire Distorted Humor out of two-time grade I winner Diamondrella sold for ¥40 million ($392,157) to Hajime Satomi. Hidaka Taiyo Farm offered a filly by Lane's End resident Candy Ride out of Sweet and Savory, a half sister to champion Sweet Catomine, who was bought by Toshio Terada for ¥36 million ($32,942). Four foals by Darley sire Street Sense sold for a total of ¥64 million ($629,356).