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TALENTED drama and music youngsters from The Taunton Academy treated audiences to two performances.
Drama from Years 7 to 11 students was accompanied by musical soloists including Alana Kingston, Sam Sully, Ruth Hancock, Harvey Noll-Jefferies, Dulcia Sweet, Laura Cooper, Holly Salter, Charlie Harriss and Lisa Sully, and the academy's acapella singers.
Other entertainment included the Year 11 funk band, The Cantina Band's Star Wars interpretation, Strictly Come Dancing and Pick Up The Pieces.
The choir and musicians, directed by Huw Weston, appeared at the Mayor's charity carol service at St Mary Magdalene Church, Taunton, in aid of leukaemia and lymphoma research, and Taunton Voluntary Action, last week.

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My Husband Never Wants to Spend Money!
You say "budget;" I say "you can't take it with you."
-Melissa Chapman
This will not be a post about bashing my man… but he and I could not have more differing points of view when it comes to finances, or more aptly put: spending the green stuff. I am of the staunch school of thought that no matter how much you hoard it, ultimately you can't take it with you. Whereas I'm convinced my husband thinks someone's going to craft quilt out of cash to bury with him! (Or perhaps just line the casket with it…)
Okay, I don't think he wants to physically take it with him, but gosh darn it he sure doesn't feel at all comfortable spending it while he's here.
My husband, unlike other M.D.s, has never felt inclined to wear his profession like a status symbol and park those M.D. plates on a Porsche. No, he is of sensible Honda stock. I mean he literally drove his 15-year-old Honda until old Bets was almost dead. It's not that I am clamoring for a Bravo Housewives of Beverly Hills lifestyle – I mean how many nannies do two kids need? And do I really want my mouth stretched so tight via surgery that it begins to resemble that of a marionette? Heck no! (Though I'd take just a smidgen of Botox between my brows.)
Read Religion and Marriage: What Happens When You're Not On the Same Page?
However. I think money is here to make your life easier and, if possible, to give you that little bit of extra oomph as you make your way through the day. And, for example, if you're a kid who HAS to wear glasses — with no chance for contact lenses in your immediate future — well then, in my opinion, your face accessory should be as glamorous and fun as you can make it.
Or at least that's how I felt when I took my kids to get their brand spankin' new specs today.
Unfortunately my husband, who'd prefer we get our eye wear at Bargain Vision Village, appeared to be in physical pain as I let the kids choose their frames from that case that screamed big fat dollar signs. And while I was humming "rain drops and roses" and skipping around the store oohing and ahhing at how cute my kids looked in their newly chosen specs, I could've sworn I saw a lone tear trickle down his cheek as he handed over his credit card.
My question to all you guys — and married couples — do these men, who are so utterly attached to holding onto the green, ever let go?
Melissa Chapman blogs about her marriage and everything in between at http://www.marriedmysugardaddy.com/. Her work has appeared in The Staten Island Advance, Care.com, ABC News, BlogHer, Baby Center, Momtourage, Lifetime Moms, Babble, The Washington Post, Time Out NY Kids and iVillage.
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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
When you have some data on a SQL Server instance (say SQL01) and you want to move the data to another SQL Server instance (say SQL02) through openquery(), you can either push the data from SQL01, or pull the data from SQL02.
To push the data, you can run a SQL script like the following on SQL01, which is the source server:
-- The push script
-- Run this on SQL01
use testDB
insert openquery(SQL02,
'select * from testDB.dbo.target_table')
select * from source_table;
To pull the data, you can run a SQL script like the following on SQL02, which is the target server:
-- The pull script
-- Run this on SQL02
insert target_table
select * from openquery(SQL01,
'select * from testDB.dbo.test')
The question is: does it make a difference whether to push the data or pull the data? The answer is absolutely yes. Which method you use makes a huge performance difference. Let's demonstrate the difference with some tests.
First, we need to create two identically-structured tables, one on SQL01 and the other on SQL02. The script for the source table is as follows:
create table source_table (
i int,
filler char(200))
The table script for the target table is as follows:
create table target_table (
Then, let's populate the source table with 50,000 rows:
use TestDB
;with tmp as (
select 1 as i, replicate('a', 200) as filler
union all
select i+1, replicate('a', 200)
from tmp
where i < 50000
insert source_table
select i, filler from tmp
option(maxrecursion 0)
Once we have populated the source table with test data, we can take turn running the push script and the pull script mentioned above. I ran the tests several times in my test environment, each time with the target table first truncated. Here are the results:
Duration (seconds)
The pull method was more than 100 times faster in this test environment. I ran the tests many times. Sometimes, the difference was smaller, and other times the difference was larger. But this seems to be a good enough average. Regardless, there is no mistake that the performance difference was profound. Originally, I was going to plot a bar chart. But with these numbers, the bar chart would look ridiculous!
Why is the performance difference so large?
To see the reason, we need to fire up SQL Profiler on both sides and watch the SQL traffic while running the tests. In the case of the pull method, you'll see that a single SQL statement is executed across the linked server (i.e. SQL01), and the resultset is pulled over from SQL01 to SQL02.
In the case of the push method, you may see the following calls executed 50,000 times across the linked server (the specific values would be different each time):
exec sp_cursor 180150005,4,0,N'[testDB].[dbo].[target_table]',@i=4167,@filler='aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'
This executes something like the following:
INSERT [testDB].[dbo].[target_table]([i],[filler])VALUES(@Param000004,@Param000005)
In other words, the data is pushed one row at a time from SQL01 to SQL02. That's 50,000 round trips between SQL01 and SQL02. Not efficient at all! In addition, the larger the source table, the more pronounced the inefficiency would show.
Hi Linchi
>>The pull method was more than 100 times faster in this test environment.
I see duration for Pull method is 240 , should it be 2 seconds?
It's really a interesting behavior.
Maybe I miss something, but I think the table is wrong.
You say "The pull method was more than 100 times faster", but the table shows the opposite.
David EG
Oops! Thanks Uri and David. I've corrected the table. Oh BTW, that's an embedded test to see if people are really reading :-)
More interesting performance test will be activation of bulk insert from one instance to another using linked server.
I don't dispute the speed differences between the push and pull, but, I found a different reason to change my query from the pull variety to push (i.e. running on the server where the data is located).
In the environment at my company, I have setup the SQL Server service to run under a Windows Domain account, instead of local system. I needed to pull the data from one SQL server which is still being maintained by an outside consultant, so, I am not in real control of that server.
I changed the Service account of that other server and created a Linked Server to the server where the data needed to be pushed to the same Windows Domain account. I then coded a stored procedure on the target server using four part names (instead of OpenQuery) and everything worked fine.
However, the consultant changed the service account to the service account to local system again and the stored proc. started to fail. I don't have the error message handy.
Anyway, I recoded the stored proc. on the source server (running on local system), and there is no longer a problem. I created a linked server on the source server to the target server, and now, it works fine.
Permissions issues may dictate whether you use the push or pull method.
Thanks for that tip.
I had some trouble with insert in a remote server which took me several hours. Now I used the pull method and it's about 10 ten times better.
I know it's been long time since this post was written and commented but I hope anyway to get an answer. Thanks in advance.
I'm facing an a similar issue but in this case the problm is the opposite: a Pull approach for populating a table with data extracted from a remote linked server is taking long time while the Push approach
is taking just few minutes.
I'm interested about Michael Harmon's comment 'cause I'm wondering whether or not that could be my case. Could anyone clarify that point about permission issues? Could it be related to my performace issue?
When creating a linked server, you have the option to enable RPC. Having this option set supposedly makes a big impact on query performance. This may be Matthew's issue.


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Highlights from Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on 19 December 2012
(In a New Year's message on his Facebook page, the Israeli ambassador to Israel said, "If Mary and Jesus lived in today's Bethlehem – may God forbid – the Palestinians would lynch them." The embassy erased the message on the social networking site after two hours because of the negative reactions it attracted.)
Why should the Palestinians do any such thing? But ignorant people, of course, would certainly want to do something bad if we said, "Here he is." That is why Jesus the Messiah will always be in secret until the time comes to declare himself in the time of the Mahdi (pbuh). Insha'Allah. But the presence of the blessed Mahdi (pbuh) will be felt.
Deep faith is the finest blessing. To have unquestioning faith in Allah. One's attention must be on Allah. To concentrate one's attention on Allah. All love goes to Allah. When you love people, you love them as manifestations of Him. We see children and rejoice because they are manifestations of Allah. Cats are also manifestations of Allah. A force we cannot understand has a huge effect on us.
(Surat al-An'am, 135) "Say: My People'" by which He means everyone who can do evil, cheats and despots, the powers that be of the world. "Do as you are doing;" we can tell from this that a Muslim will disregard what the other side may do. He does not tell them to do nothing. "Do as you are doing." Do whatever you can because they can only do what is in their destiny, and nothing else. In other words, disbelievers is not free. Hypocrites are not free. People imagine they are but they are not. They imagine that hypocrites are completely unrestricted, yet their every deed, even the smallest, is determined. "...just as I am doing. [in destiny] You will certainly come to know who will have the best home in the end." This gives a date of 1993. So the way of the Mahdi will go through a difficult path at that time. It gives the date when there will be a policy of oppression against the system of the Mahdi, 1993. "The wrongdoers will certainly not be successful." Evil people will not know happiness.
Surat al-An'am, 133
"Your Lord is the Rich Beyond Need, the Possessor of Mercy." How excellent. Allah needs nothing. He has mercy. He is a protector. His mercy enfolds everyone. "If He wanted, He could remove [destroy] you and replace you with anything else He wanted to, just as He produced you from the descendants of another people."
The dajjal's guys have gone, Allah has eliminated them. The Mahdi (pbuh) and his followers will be from the Turkish people, for instance. This verse is very significant. Insha'Allah.
Verse 134
"What you are promised will come about," who is promised? Jesus the Messiah will certainly come. What else is promised?. Gog and Magog, the smoke, the dabbet-ul-arh and the Day of Reckoning. "...and you can do nothing to prevent it."
You can prevent neither the Mahdi (pbuh) nor Jesus the Messiah.
In verse 129 Almighty Allah says, "In that way We make the wrongdoers friends of one another because of what they have done."
Surat al-An'am, 123
"And likewise in every city" Every country, without exception "We set up its greatest wrongdoers to plot in it. They plot against themselves alone, but they are not aware of it."
Allah will always thwart them, though they fail to realize this. They imagine they are working against Muslims. And yet Muslims' fame and power grow still further.
Surat al-An'am, 124
".... Debasement in the sight of Allah and a severe punishment will strike those who did wrong for the plots that they concocted." I will bring them down, Allah says, I will humiliate them. I will both punish them and humiliate them. And if you notice, they really are humiliated.
Surat al-An'am, 111
"Even if We sent down angels to them," "We will not believe if the Mahdi comes, but we will believe if the angels come." "...and the dead spoke to them, and We gathered together everything in front of them right before their eyes, they would still not have faith unless Allah willed." In other words, unbelievers are so stubborn that even the dead speaking and marvels taking place would not affect them. They still will not believe. "The truth is that most of them are ignorant."
Surat al-An'am, 112
"In this way We have appointed as enemies to every Prophet shaytans from both mankind and from the djinn," it is the same with the Mahdi (pbuh). More than 30 dajjals will oppose the Mahdi (pbuh). He also has enemies from among the djinn. "...who inspire each other with delusions by means of specious words – Mindless slanders concerning Muslims. 'They are perverse and on the wrong path.' They gossip with one another. They talk in secret against the Mahdi (pbuh). "...if your Lord had willed, they would not have done it," Allah means that He creates all this, as well. "...so abandon them and all they fabricate." Let them talk all they like. Let them utter all the slanders they like. They will defame the Mahdi (pbuh) in all possible ways. Allah says, "I create all this, so do not be alarmed." Insha'Allah.
Surat al-An'am, 113
"...so that the hearts of those who do not have belief in the hereafter incline towards them" the immoral, the cheats, those who have no faith, the foes of religion. "...and are pleased with them and perpetrate whatever they perpetrate." They are always delighted when someone says something against Muslims, because it is against them. But Allah says, let them enjoy it, because I am making them do that. Let their sins multiply. Muslims will earn more merit as they (the disbelievers) commit more sin.
Surat al-An'am, 114
"Am I to desire someone other than Allah as a judge" asks the Prophet (saas). Should one have any other foundation than the Qur'an? But some people always want to hear whatever is not in the Qur'an. They do not want to hear about the Qur'an. "...when it is He who has sent down the Book to you clarifying everything." Allah is referring to the Qur'an. He says it was sent down as a clarification. "Those We have given the Book know it has been sent down from your Lord with truth," He says that Christians and Jews in fact know that the Qur'an is the truth. They are not unaware. Everyone knows. "...so on no account be among the doubters." People sometimes say that Christians and Jews are not believers. But Allah says that in fact they do believe. "...so on no account be among the doubters."
Surat al-An'am, 115
"The Words of your Lord are perfect in truthfulness and justice." They are all perfect, says Allah. Perfect in terms of truth and justice. "No one can change His Words." The words of the Qur'an. This tells us that the Qur'an will never change.
Surat al-An'am, 116
"If you obeyed most of those on Earth," you must not go along with the majority. You must obey the Qur'an. "...they would misguide you from Allah's Way." Will so many people tell lies, He asks. Yes they will. But you must look to the Qur'an. "They follow nothing but conjecture," the nonsense they fabricate "...and they are only guessing." This is an exact description of the bigots.
Surat al-An'am, 104
"Clear insights have come to you from your Lord. Whoever sees clearly, does so to his own benefit. Whoever is blind, it is to his own detriment. I am not here as your keeper."
(In response to Daily Zaman columnist Mümtazer Türköne who said that the state should have nothing to do with religious education)
Would he allow schools like the İmam Hatip schools to open? Is that possible? The state must always make a contribution to religion. What he said is out of the question.
Surat al-Ma'ida, 56
"As for those who make Allah their friend, and His Messenger and those who have faith:" so we must love Allah, the Prophet (saas) and other Muslims very much. We must adopt them as friends and guides. "...it is the party of Allah who are victorious!" This is highly significant. The people of Allah. The followers of the Mahdi (pbuh) in other words. 2007 with gemination, or 2055 without. These are the most critical years for global sovereignty. The most evident years. 2007, when the offensive starts, and 2055 when we see the results. The verse number is also very significant in terms of indication, it refers to 1956.
Surat al-Ma'ida, 57
"You who have faith! Do not take as friends any of those given the Book before you" Christians and Jews, "...or the disbelievers who make a mockery and a game out of your religion." But we can be friends if they do not mock the religion but not if they do mock it. Do not make the disbelievers your leaders. Do not put yourselves under their leadership. Do not obey them. "Have fear of Allah if you are faithful."
Surat al-Ma'ida, 64
"The Jews say, 'Allah's hand is chained.' Their hands are chained and they are cursed for what they say!" They imagine that this verse is addressed to all Jews. No, only to those who say that. In other words, they have become mean and parsimonious. So it is some Jews who say that. Allah is also telling us that. There have been Jews who say, 'Allah's hand is chained.' Those who say that are cursed, and Allah also chains their hands. "No! Both His hands are open wide and He gives however He wills. What has been sent down to you from your Lord increases many of them in insolence and disbelief." They become even worse when they hear revelation. You say, "The Qur'an is sufficient," and the bigots go crazy when they hear it. "We have incited enmity and hatred between them until the Day of Rising." Bigots and fundamentalists really are full of hatred. "Each time they kindle the fire of war," whenever they try to spread corruption, to spread terror and anarchy, or to spread war between regions, "...Allah extinguishes it. They rush about the earth corrupting it. Allah does not love corrupters."
Of course the verse is saying that there are such types among the Jews, predominantly among them. Such types appear at all times; people who are predisposed to spreading war and conflict and anarchy. But there are more Jews who are opposed to that. The supporters of the Messiah are far more numerous, but there are also Jews who favor war and support the dajjal.


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Senate Launches Pension-Sale Probe
A Senate committee launched an investigation of a controversial business in which retirees sell pieces of their future pension income to investors for a lump-sum cash payment.
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As some of you already know from my earlier mistakes, I propose we rename the following jutsus:
Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan --> Super Big Ball Rasengan
Ultra-Fast Regeneration Technique --> Super Fast Regeneration Technique
Sage Art: Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan --> Sage Art: Super Big Ball Rasengan
Ultra-Many Spiralling Serial Spheres --> Super Multi Spiralling Serial Spheres
Sage Art: Many Ultra-Big Ball Spiralling Serial Spheres --> Sage Art: Multi Super Big Ball Spiralling Serial Spheres
Ultra-Big Ball Rasenshuriken --> Super Big Ball Rasenshuriken
超/chō has previously been translated as "super" for Super Multi-Size Technique and Super Open Hand Slap, so we should rename these to keep the consistency. Also, you can't put a hyphen in-between two adjectives (e.g., Ultra-Big.) Besides that rule, hyphens are being less prevalent in literature today.
多/ta translates as "multi" using Denshi Jisho (which I find very reliable.) I have no idea where ShounenSuki got "many" from. Perhaps he also got "multi" from 多/ta but opted for "many."
We haven't had "multi" by itself as a name for a jutsu. I think it fits well. Overall, these jutsus wouldn't sound as convuluted.
Again, sorry about the spam earlier. General Awesomo 18:41, May 6, 2013 (UTC)
超 can be translated as several different prefixes, others include but are not limited to trans-, hyper-, and mega-. 多 also translates to many. I use Tangorin. Regarding why some techniques use ultra instead of super, at least in the Rasengan area, ShounenSuki stated in Forum:Rasengan Variants that for that case, ultra is better. Since he's the one who speaks Japanese, I trust his judgement. Also, there are some techniques in which ultra is the correct translation. For example, Earth Release: Ultralight-Weight Rock Technique. Ultralight is the term used for very light weight air-crafts. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 22:21, May 6, 2013 (UTC)
- Ah, Tangorin. I was trying to find it in that one post where Cerez365 told me about it in Flying Thunder God Slash's talk page.
- I agree with ShounenSuki's opinion that Naruto and Jiraiya would use "big" instead of "great" for 大/ō. Plus, 大玉/ōdama gets translated as a phrase, as large ball or giant ball. Actually, why wasn't Big Ball Rasengan translated as "Large Ball Rasengan" or "Giant Ball Rasengan?"
- But I'm not sure about "ultra/super" for 超/chō. Both sound like things Naruto and Jiraiya would say. Both sound "super hero" like.
- I still feel "multi" sounds better for 多/ta. And I still stand by my statement that you can't put a hyphen (-) between two adjectives. General Awesomo 22:54, May 6, 2013 (UTC)
I think "giant" would give the idea it was bigger than it was. Big was probably used instead of large for being a simpler word, same reason it was used over "great". It probably was used for alliterative effect as well, but that's just my guess. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 23:47, May 6, 2013 (UTC)
- Yeah, I guess not using "giant" was a good idea, seeing how big some of the derived jutsus were, such as Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan. Still, "large" could've worked.
- So that's the Rasengans. What about the 超/chō in Ultra-Fast Regeneration Technique? Sure, it's a jutsu for a non-canon movie character that no one probably gives a crap about, but I just want some opinions. General Awesomo 00:00, May 7, 2013 (UTC)
Page was first created using a generic name, before a subbed version became available. When it became available, someone added the kanji and literal English, it was an unregistered user. I don't have the movie, but that's probably how the technique was translated in the subbed version, released either by Taka or Dattebayo, groups who released subbed versions of episodes and the movies before Crunchyroll came into existence. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 00:03, May 7, 2013 (UTC)
- Huh. I guess I'll leave the "ultra" part in the name alone. So, in conclusion, I would make the following changes:
- Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan --> Ultra Big Ball Rasengan
- Ultra-Fast Regeneration Technique --> Ultra Fast Regeneration Technique
- Sage Art: Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan --> Sage Art: Ultra Big Ball Rasengan
- Ultra-Many Spiralling Serial Spheres --> Ultra Multi Spiralling Serial Spheres
- Sage Art: Many Ultra-Big Ball Spiralling Serial Spheres --> Sage Art: Multi Ultra Big Ball Spiralling Serial Spheres
- Ultra-Big Ball Rasenshuriken --> Ultra Big Ball Rasenshuriken
- I'll respect ShounenSuki's "ultra" decision. I'll just take out the hyphens. "Many" and "multi" are interchangeable, but "multi" sounds better in this case. General Awesomo 00:18, May 7, 2013 (UTC)
As far as grammar goes, I don't oppose the dropping of the hyphens, the only reason I'd hesitate in making the move is because sometimes page moves trigger weird infobox behaviour, such as things not showing up, or things showing up twice. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 01:28, May 7, 2013 (UTC)
- Well, I went ahead and made the changes. Except...some of those jutsus disappeared from some infoboxes and Rasengan's derived jutsu list. And Ultra Big Ball Rasenshuriken is still listed with a hyphen under Naruto's jutsu infobox. I hope this is something that can be automatically corrected after some time. Oh dear... General Awesomo 04:11, May 7, 2013 (UTC)
I have no problem with the current naming of the Rasengan variants. That's our naming convention, it'll only lead to unnecessary problems. As for adjectives being hyphenated, to my knowledge there is nothing wrong with that if it represents a single idea describing a noun; it is correct grammar. Minor changes like Many to multi serve no great difference it'll only create unnecessary issues such as the one Omnibender mentioned.--Cerez365™(talk)13:46, May 7, 2013 (UTC)
So apparently, General Awesomo has already gone ahead and moved several of the Rasengan articles. So I'll make my points for reverting them:
- Sage Art: Multi Ultra Big Ball Spiralling Serial Spheres is no less convoluted than Sage Art: Many Ultra-Big Ball Spiralling Serial Spheres is. If anything the former makes no grammatical sense with the word multi there.
- There is nothing wrong with hyphenating adjectives. Ultra-big is supposed to express a single thought (the size of the Rasengan). In fact that's how it's supposed to be done.
All the changes have done is make the name look like a list instead of a actual title. The technique's name is now commas short of sounding like something Charlotte Chuhlhourne invented. I trust ShounenSuki's translations not only because he knew Japanese but he also actually studied languages.--Cerez365™(talk) 14:00, May 7, 2013 (UTC)
- Aight, I'm fine with these reverts. General Awesomo 09:24, May 8, 2013 (UTC)


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Major requirements
Biology major with Pre-Medical Preparation
Biology major with Pre-Nursing Preparation
Biology major with Pre-Physical Therapy Preparation
Biology major with Pre-Physician's Assistant Preparation
BIO 111 Evolution and Ecology
BIO 112 Cells and Genes
(Biology 111 and 112 can be taken in any order.)
Four 200-level courses, at least three of which must have a laboratory.
Three 300-level biology courses, at least two of which must have a laboratory.
CHEM 153 Chemical Principles
CHEM 232 Aqueous Equilibria
or CHEM 253 Organic Chemistry I
Three related courses normally from biology, chemistry, mathematics/computer science or physics or other courses as approved by the department.
The 200- and 300-level biology courses must include a minimum of one course from each of the following biology areas: cells and molecules, organisms, systems.
The capstone in biology can be fulfilled by a senior seminar. Senior seminars (BIO 401/BIO 402) focus on selected topics within the field of biology. If approved in advance by the department, students may fulfill the capstone with an independent research project (BIO 499) ; the capstone may also be fulfilled by an honors thesis (BIO 500), with the understanding that the public presentations of honors thesis work is what constitutes the thesis as a capstone.
Characteristics of Senior Seminar include: research using primary literature, oral presentations, written reports, drafts with deadlines, communicating about science, and opportunities to interact with other majors in the biological sciences. Senior Seminar topics allow a wide range of students to build on their past experiences as majors and to explore topics of interest to them within the guidelines of the course.
Biology departmental honors will be awarded on the basis of a B+ or better average in the major, an overall average of B or better, and a grade of B+ or better on the individual research project.
Area requirements
To ensure students are exposed to all levels of biological organization, biology majors must take at least one course in each of the three following areas: cells and molecules, organisms, systems.
Cells and molecules
BIO 211 Genetics
BIO 219 Cell Biology
BIO 221 Microbiology
BIO 254 Developmental Biology
BIO 305 Biochemistry
BIO 316 Molecular Biology and Genomics
BIO 321 Immunology
BIO 324 Neurobiology
BIO 226 Comparative Animal Behavior
BIO 244 Introductory Physiology
BIO 252 Parasitology and Symbiosis
BIO 255 Vertebrate Evolution and Anatomy
BIO 261 Economic Botany
BIO 262 Plant Biology
*BIO 290 Biology of Whales
*BIO 291 Introduction to Marine Mammals
BIO 330 Comparative Biomechanics
BIO 375 Ornithology
*BIO 390 Biology of Fishes
BIO 201 Environmental Science
BIO 215 Ecology
BIO 231 Marine Biology
BIO 303 Evolution
BIO 317 Molecular Ecology and Evolution
BIO 318 Tropical Field Biology
BIO 320 Evolution of Invertebrates
BIO 364 Freshwater and Marine Botany
*BIO 380 Wetlands Ecology, Hydrology, Restoration
*Offered through the Boston Marine Studies Consortium.
Related majors
Students interested in the biological sciences may consider declaring a major in Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Environmental Science or Neuroscience, and should meet with the designated program coordinators to discuss the program of interest.
Health professions
Students planning a career in medicine, dentistry, veterinary or other health professions should consult a health professions advisor early in the first year in order to plan a suitable program. Medical schools require a minimum of two semesters of biology, two semesters of physics, two semesters of mathematics, four semesters of chemistry and two semesters of English. The MCATs include material from physiology, microbiology, genetics, cell biology and biochemistry as well as other biological topics. Therefore, some 200-level course preparation is recommended.
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Brainiest fish follows its chin, according to an article in news@nature 23 Aug 2007. The elephant nose fish is a weird looking fish with an elongated projection sticking out from its chin. This contains numerous electrical senses than can detect distortions in the fish's own electric field to help it navigate around obstacles in the dark.
Scientists at the University of Bonn, Germany, have tested the ability of the fish to distinguish different shapes in its environment by placing a cube and a pyramid in its tank and rewarding it with a worm when it swam to the pyramid. After the fish had learned to recognise the pyramid the scientists substituted it with a wire frame in the shape of a pyramid and the fish still picked it out, suggesting that the fish could use its electric sense to form an impression of a shape from just its outline. If the pyramid wasn't present the fish swam towards the object that was the closest match in volume. Gerhard von der Emde, who led the study, commented: "It's very impressive how detailed their view of the environment is."
The elephant nose fish has the biggest brain (relative to body size) of any fish, and these experiments indicate that it can build up "sophisticated three dimensional images of its natural environment" using the electrical sensors. In its natural environment the fish sweeps its "nose" over the ground like a person using a metal detector to find its way around obstacles and find food. The researchers are hoping to copy the "electrolocation" system and develop electric field sensing devices that could be used to give night "vision" to underwater robots.
Editorial Comment: The electric sense of this fish is clearly superior to any man made metal detector and if scientists are able to copy it they will again have proven that it takes creative design and engineering to make such a device. This fish is not the first creature discovered to use electric senses to find its way around in the dark. The "duckbill" of the platypus also contains electric sense organs that enable it to swim along the muddy bottoms of rivers with their eyes closed, avoiding obstacles and finding food. (Ref. Design, biomimetics, bio-engineering)
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Re. The SLSA Postnatural conference, which was so fabulous (thanks to all the participants and the organizers in particular), and also Tim Morton's trope of wrapping the world in plastic.
Head to the theatre and join the fight against climate change.
Get your tickets now: https://fandan.co/2ucigMW #BeInconvenient
Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock.
Movie Screening,
Hosted by Chicago 350.
Wednesday, July 26,
7:00 – 9:00 pm.
Harold Ramis Film School,
230 W. North Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60610
See more information here.
An Inconvenient Sequel. Advanced screenings, June 6th. Find a location near you: https://www.gofobo.com/index.php/main/blp/YWlzc2NyZWVuaW5ncw
People's Climate March
Saturday April 29th, 12 – 4 pm.
Federal Plaza to Trump Tower
Come out for this vitally important event.
More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/263200760768048/
Volumes Bookcafe is proud to present
Jeff Vandermeer, best-selling author of the Southern Reach trilogy, as he kicks off the book tour for his new book, Borne. Vandermeer will be joined in conversation with local author Jac Jemc on April 26th at 7pm at the Chicago Athletic Association.
The Event will be held in the Madison Ballroom at the Chicago Athletic Association. Entry is easiest through 71 E Madison. Take the elevator to the 8th floor.
Ravi Agarwal
Fluid Landscapes: Rivers as Contested Ecologies in India
Monday, April 24, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Arts & Letters Hall, 203
DePaul University
2315 N. Kenmore, Chicago
March for Science, Chicago
On Earth Day, April 22, 2017, we will march in Chicago to take a stand for science. Find more information at https://sciencemarchchicago.org/.
Jeff VanderMeer at DePaul University
Storytelling in the Anthropocene
Wednesday, April 19th, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Reception at 6:00 p.m.
McGowan South, Room 105
1110 West Belden Avenue
Open to the public
SSCBP Fundraiser
For the first time ever, the Coalition to Ban Petcoke is having a fundraiser. It will be on March 3rd at 7 pm, at the Patagonia Mag Mile store in downtown Chicago.
We received generous donations from local artists, breweries and restaurants and it will surely be a fun night. There will be good music, a panel discussion, a short movie and a special surprise performance.
One Earth Film Festival.
Chicago, March 3 – 12, 2017. Be there. http://www.oneearthfilmfest.org
Please Note: Divestment Meeting at City Hall Postponed
The City of Chicago fossil fuel divestment resolution hearing, previously scheduled for February 21st at 11 am, has been postponed.
Environmental Graphiti: Events and Exhibits
Environmental Graphiti is a venture that uses contemporary art as a vehicle to enhance public awareness about the science of climate change. Each of the pieces in the series of 50+ digital paintings is based on a chart, graph, word or number representing a key fact about climate change.
February Events:
Oakton Community College
A Solo Exhibition Is Planned For Jan 25 Through Feb 25 At Oakton Community College, First Floor Lobby, Lee Center, Des Plaines Campus. Reception – Jan 25, 11-12:15.
(All profits from sale of the art will benefit The Oakton Community College Foundation)
A Cross-Disciplinary Panel Discussion With Oakton Professors Regarding The Art And The Science It Represents Will Be Held On Feb 1, 11-1, TenHoeve Center, Room 1610, DesPlaines Campus.
Loyola University Chicago
A collection of the art (19 pieces) will be permanently installed at the Institute of Sustainability at Loyola University Chicago's Lake Shore campus on Feb 27.
Past Guests of the INC:
Jeff VanderMeer
Stacey Alaimo
Glenn Albrecht
John Arndt
Thomas Berry
William Cronon
Lois Gibbs
Michael Howard
James Howard Kunstler
Barry Lopez
Richard Louv
Charles Mann
Bill McKibben
Curt Meine
Carolyn Merchant
Timothy Morton
Anthony Paul Smith
Leslie Paul Thiele
Dylan Trigg
Trish VanderBeke
Tyler Volk
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Reggie Gerko, Helen Chesar, Richard Chesar of Byesville and David Chesar of Dayton, l to r, took The Daily & Sunday Jeffersonian with them on their recent 17-day Rick Steves' Tour of eastern Europe. Having a deep desire to return to the homeland of their heritage the four of them, after watching many episodes of Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door tours on PBS, embarked upon their journey June 22. The trip began in Prague in the Czech Republic and highlights included tours of many churches, Prague Castle, Old Royal Palace, historic Charles Bridge and viewing the third oldest astronomical clock in the world and it is the oldest one still working (installed in 1410). Then they traveled to Krakow, Poland, and visited the Polish Salt Mines and Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps. Hungary's visit included Eger and Budapest, including an evening boat cruise on the Danube River and a tour of the Kohari Winery. Travel in Croatia included a tour in Plitvice National Park which has about 16 crystal clear lakes and a hundred tumbling, cascading waterfalls. They also stayed on the Island Rab, which adjoins the Adriatic Sea. The trip ended in Slovenia traveling through the Julian Alps, the Skocjan Caves and boat rides on Lake Bled. This trip was a dream come true and another thing to cross off of their "bucket list."


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FAIRTRADE fortnight in Dudley is set to be packed with ethical initiatives to help change lives for foreign producers.
From February 24 to March 9 the borough will host a number of events by Sedgley Fairtrade Initiative and Stourbridge Fairtrade.
The fortnight kicks off early with a Fairtrade coffee morning in Sedgley on Saturday February 15. The event at the Sedgley Community Association Coffee Morning on Ladies Walk runs from 10am to 12 and includes a display and stall.
Sedgley Fairtrade Initiative's main event is on Friday February 28 from 11am to 2pm at the Sedgley Co-Op on Dudley Street and will include Fairtrade cookery demonstrations, Fairtrade tastings and a Fairtrade craft stall.
Other activities across the borough include a free Faitrade tea and coffee tasting session organised by Stourbridge Fairtrade on Saturday March 8 from 10am to noon at St Thomas's Church Hall on Market Street.
This includes an art competition for borough schoolchildren, featuring a banana shaped person, animal or object which reflects Fairtrade. Entries should be brought along by 10.30am.
The Mayor of Dudley will be dropping by Sainsbury's Amblecote on Friday February 21 to see their range of Fairtrade items and to view their Fairtrade bananas as the fruit is the focus of this year's campaign.
Councillor Pete Lowe, deputy leader of Dudley Council, said: "I'm really impressed with all the activity happening during Fairtrade Fortnight.
"These drop-in taster sessions are a great way to find out about Fairtrade and how something as simple as changing the tea you buy can literally transform someone's life on the other side of the world.
"I'd like to congratulate Stourbridge Fairtrade on retaining Fairtrade status for the town and encourage Sedgley Fairtrade Initiative on its own bid.
Fairtrade aims to provide better prices and working conditions plus local sustainability and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world.


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As many as 15 million Americans suffer from a condition that slowly robs them of their central vision. That number is expected to double in the next 20 years. These patients all have a genetic predisposition for a condition called age-related macular degeneration or A.M.D., which is the number one cause of severe vision loss in people over 60.
Now there's a first-of-its-kind implant to help patients see clearly again.
"It's blurry, very blurry, and I can't make out definite shapes," said Nathan Bark as he described what it's like to live with A.M.D. The condition slowly destroys the retina and with it, central vision.
"Initially there's' a central blur, then in progresses to where there's no vision at all in the central eye so there's effectively a hole, where they're looking they don't see anything at all," said Dr. Marc Gannon, the Director of Low Vision Institute in South Florida.
For the worst of cases, like Bark, there's new hope through a new surgical treatment called CentraSight.
A telescope about the size of a pea is implanted in one eye, after removing the natural lens. The telescope implant magnifies what is captured and projects the image onto healthy areas of the retina.
"This gives us the ability to assist patients with macular degeneration to improve their vision substantially," said Gannon.
After the procedure, patients can see an improvement anywhere from two to five lines on the vision chart.
"From the standpoint of seeing things in the distance, faces and signs and things of that nature, from not seeing anything to seeing," Gannon added that's a good thing.
Bark is able to read and watch TV with the help of special glasses. But he marvels at the thought of being able to see again without them.
"That would be priceless, I can't even conceive of it," he said.
Only one eye is treated in the procedure. The other eye is left untouched to allow for peripheral vision. Rehabilitation and prescription eye glasses are necessary after surgery.
The CentraSight procedure is only approved for people age 75 and older with end-stage macular degeneration.
CentraSight told Channel 4 that right now, the closest center to Jacksonville for this procedure is Orlando. To find out more or to see if you are a candidate, you can call CentraSight toll free at 877-99-SIGHT (877-997-4448) or go the website CentraSight.com.
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Credo Mutwa Cultural Village
The Credo Mutwa Cultural Village is located in the heart of Soweto. It consists of a remarkable collection of buildings and sculptures, which attempt to document African art, culture, folklore and architecture. The village is also a journey into the mind of one of South Africa's most intriguing cultural figures. more
Sudwala Caves Cultural Village
While the caves invite you to discover the history of the earth itself, the village invites you to discover Nguni history, art and culture. Look out for beadwork, clay pots, woven items, woodcarvings and ceremonial artefacts of the Zulu and the Swazi; and the Ndebele people. more
DumaZulu Cultural Village
At DumaZulu Cultural Village, visitors are invited to experience authentic hospitality and learn about traditional arts, crafts and ways of life of the Zulu Kingdom. Experience the beat of the Zulu drums, taste the locally brewed beer and discover the rich cultural significance of Zululand's famous beadwork, basketry, pottery and weaving. more


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Malkovich – Great Expectations
After the release of his mixtape Ayatollah Presley, Malkovich starts 2013 with a very high standard as he presents his free album "Great Expectations". The album is fourteen tracks in length, with guest features from the likes of Omni and Gotham Green amongst others. Great Expectations is the start of a busy year for Malkovich, as we fully expect to see more videos, and features throughout the course of the year. You can download Great Expectations by clicking the download link above, and furthermore you can watch the most recent video from Malkovich for the single "What I Know" on the youtube player below.
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Joong-Hwan Oh
Dr. Joong-Hwan Oh is Associate Professor of Sociology Department and was the Director of Social Research at Hunter College. He received his B.A. in Sociology from Pusan National University (South Korea) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in Sociology. He teaches a wide range of courses, including urban sociology, research methods, and classical sociological theory at Hunter College. In Fall 2009 to Spring 2010, he was Visiting Professor of Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at POSTECH and in Spring 2010, Visiting Lecturer of Sociology Department at Pusan National University, in South Korea. His substantive areas of expertise in sociology are immigration, urban poverty and crime, urban gerontology, racial and ethnic inequalities, and East Asia. He has published more than 20 journal articles in these areas that focus especially on the social networks of certain population groups and different forms of their social capital. He is the author of Immigration and Social Capital in the Age of Social Media: Messages of the American Social Institutions on a Korean-American Women's Online Community (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016). He is currently at work on a monograph, Oh My Professor: The Online World of U.S. International Graduate Students, in which he introduces a new form of online social capital by classifying them into two groups: communicative agents and communicative guiders.
Research Interests
Urban Sociology, Immigration, Globalization, Economic Sociology, and East Asia.
Courses Taught
- Immigrant Families: Second Generation (SOC 3251D)
- Classical Sociological Theory (SOC 221)
- Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101)
- Urban Sociology (SOC 211)
- Asians in the US (SOC 225)
- Research Methods (SOC 240)
- Social Statistics (SOC 241)
- Criminology (SOC 319)
- Korean Americans (ASIAN 330)
- Immigration and Economy (SOC 325.2)
- Globalism & Nationalism (SOC 325.12)
- Globalization and the Multi-Cultural Society (In Korea, Fall 2009 to Spring 2010)
- The Contemporary Society (In Korea, Fall 2009 to Spring 2010)
- Intermediate Statistics I & II (GSR 708 & 709)
- Research Method II (GSR 711)
- Neoliberalism and the City (In Korea, Spring 2010)
Current Research
- Racial Neighborhood Poverty in American Central Cities, 1990-2000: A Test of Two Perspectives
- Transnational Discourses in a Virtual Ethnic Community
- Globalization and Localism in the Contemporary South Korea
Oh, Joong-Hwan. Oh. (Forthcoming, 2016). Immigration and Social Capital in a Korean-American Women's Online Community: The Cases of Legal Immigration Status, Ethnic Culinary Culture, and Transnational Plan, New Media & Society.
Oh, Joong-Hwan. Immigration and Social Capital in the Age of Social Media: Messages of the American Social Institutions on a Korean-American Women's Online Community. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016
Oh, Joong-Hwan, Hyun-Sook Kim, and Jung-Hee Lee. 2014. Asian- and Korean- orientated Collectivism and Life Satisfaction among Ethnic Asian Women in South Korea. Asian Women. Vol. 30 (3): 23-55.
Oh, Joong-Hwan, and Jung-Hee Lee. (In Press) Asian Values, Ethnic Identity, and Acculturation among Ethnic Asian Wives in South Korea, Journal of International Migration and Integration. (published online: January 2013)
In, Tae-Jeong, and Joong-Hwan Oh. 2012. The Pre- and Post-Migration Life Satisfaction of Korean Americans in New York, New Jersey, and Boston Areas. Culture and Society. Vol. 12(1):147-189. (In Korean)
Oh, Joong-Hwan. 2011. Acculturation and Work Values: Korean Immigrant Women in the Nail Care Occupation. Development and Society, Vol. 40(2):261-288
Oh, Joong-Hwan, Sung-Chul Lee, and Byung-Soo Kim. 2011. The Impact of International Migration on Unemployment Rates in Urban America: Testing Different Theoretical Approaches. Journal of International and Area Studies, Vol. 18(1):49-64
Kim, Hyun-Sook, Heejae Kim, and Joong-Hwan Oh. 2011. The Determinants of Marital Quality among Married Immigrant Women: The Importance of Life Stress and Social Support, Korean Journal of Population Studies, Vol. 34(1):27-51 (In Korean)
Kim, Hyun-Sook, Heejae Kim, and Joong-Hwan Oh. 2010. Social Support and Marital Quality among Ethnic Asian Women in South Korea, Family and Culture, Vol. 22(3):97-127 (In Korean)
Oh, Joong-Hwan, and Byung-Soo Kim. 2010. Rethinking the Fundamental Sources of Racial Poverty in the Contemporary American Metropolitan Areas, Population and Society, Vol. 6(1):1-29
Oh, Joong-Hwan, and Byung-Soo Kim. 2009. Immigration, Race, and Labor Market Structures in American Metropolitan Areas in Korean Social Science Journal, Vol. 34(2):139-166
Oh, Joong-Hwan, and Sangmoon Kim. 2009. Aging, Neighborhood Attachment, and Fear of Crime: Testing Reciprocal Effects in Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 31(1):21-40.
Oh, Joong-Hwan. 2008. The Quest to Understand Self-Employment in American Metropolitan Areas in Urban Studies, Vol. 45:1769-1790.
Oh, Joong-Hwan. 2007. Economic Incentive, Embeddedness, and Social Support: A Study of Korean-owned Nail Salon Workers' Rotating Credit Associations in International Migration Review, Vol. 41(3):623-655.
Oh, Joong-Hwan. 2006. Immigration and Crime in New York City:An Exploratory Study of Caribbean Immigrants (pp.427-442), in Urban Problems and Shared Solutions: New York City and Rome, Italy, edited by Victor Goldsmith and Eugenio Sonnino.
Oh, Joong-Hwan. 2005. Social Disorganizations and Crime Rates in U.S. Central Cities: Toward an Explanation of Urban Economic Change, Social Science Journal, Vol. 42:569-82.
Oh, Joong-Hwan. 2005. A Dynamic Approach to Population Change in Central Cities and Their Suburbs, 1980-1990: Crime, Employment, and Spatial Proximity, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 64(2):663-81.
Oh, Joong-Hwan. 2004. Race/Ethnicity, Homeownership, and Neighborhood Attachment, Race & Society, Vol. 7(2):63-77.
Oh, Joong-Hwan. 2003. Assessing the Social Bonds of Elderly Neighbors: The Role of Length of Residence, Crime Victimization, and Perceived Disorder, Sociological Inquiry, Vol. 73(4): 490-510.
Oh, Joong-Hwan. 2003. Social Bonds and the Mobility Intentions of Elderly Urban Residents: The Mediating Effect of Residential Satisfaction, Population Research & Policy Review. Vol. 22(2): 127-146.
Oh, Joong-Hwan, and Ken Shin. 2003. Inequalities in Nonfatal Work Injury: The Significance of Race, Human Capital, and Occupations, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 57(11): 2173-2182.
Shin, Ken, and Joong-Hwan Oh. 2002. Changing Patterns of Social Networks in Composer-Singer Relationships: The Case of Popular Music Industry in Korea, 1927-1997, East Asia: An International Quarterly, Volume 20 (1): 24-53.


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GameStop: Baseball for GB - Baseball Game Boy
What is an unsigned rookie to do while he waits for his place in the Show ? Well, gaming is a good option . . . particularly when the game involves baseball. Rookie short stop Mike Moustakas may be playing on the small screen for now, but he may just be in the bigger picture of the Kansas City Royals during the 2009 season.


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Bathing & Soothing Your Baby's Skin
Skin Conditions: Pigmented Birthmarks
In this article
What Causes Pigmented Birthmarks?
The cause of pigmented birthmarks is not known. However, the amount and location of melanin (a substance that determines skin color) determines the color of pigmented birthmarks.
What Are the Symptoms of Pigmented Birthmarks?
Symptoms of pigmented birthmarks include skin that is abnormally dark or light, or bluish, brown, black or blue-gray in color. Discolorations of the skin may vary in size and can be smooth, flat, raised or wrinkled. Pigmented birthmarks may increase in size, change colors, become itchy, and may occasionally bleed. If they do, they should be seen by a dermatologist as they may require a biopsy
How Are Pigmented Birthmarks Diagnosed?
In most cases, health care professionals can diagnose birthmarks based on the appearance of the skin. If a mole exhibits potentially cancerous changes, a biopsy may be performed.
How Are Pigmented Birthmarks Treated?
In most cases, no treatment is needed for the birthmarks themselves. When birthmarks do require treatment, however, that treatment varies based on the kind of birthmark and its related conditions.
Large or prominent moles that affect appearance and self-esteem may be covered with special cosmetics. Moles can also be removed surgically.
Warning Signs
Since there is an increased risk of skin cancer in congenital nevi, see a doctor if you notice a change in color, size, or texture of a mole or other skin lesion. Also, see a doctor right away if there is any pain, bleeding, itching, inflammation, or ulceration of a congenital mole or other skin lesion.
Can Pigmented Birthmarks Be Prevented?
There is no known way to prevent birthmarks. People with birthmarks should use a good quality sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher when outdoors in order to prevent complications.
WebMD Medical Reference
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No comprende??Originally posted by creek14
I don't know how to break this to you, oregon, but I think that is actually a picture of them in the I-mobile.
Still no truth to the rumor that the I-mobile has a few scratches and dents from clipping one Jose Silva on one of the recent runs.


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Friday, 17 December | 7:00 pm - 4:00 am | Off-Site Venue
This full-day course is an intensive, hands-on practical introduction to Pixar's RenderMan.
In the first part of the course, attendees gain sufficient familiarity with RenderMan's scene-description protocol to edit and manipulate RIB files, which allow modeling and animation applications to communicate with RenderMan. The second part of the course introduces the RenderMan Shading Language (RSL). The goal of this section is to provide an overview of the creative potential of the shading language so attendees can continue their own independent exploration of the shading language. During the final part of the course, attendees are introduced to the Python scripting language and Pixar's PRMan.
Attendees who are interested in this session may join a dedicated queue labeled Introduction to Using RenderMan at the 3rd Floor, Registration Counter, Coex Convention & Exhibition Center beginning at 8:00 am, Saturday, 18 December. The group will leave at 08:20 am with a guide for transporation to Konkuk University (a seven-stop train ride from the convention center), where this course will be presented.
Attendance for this course is limited to 50 attendees. Attendance is on a first-come, first-served basis. Priority is given to those who arrive in the morning. Attendees can not enter the session without a course ticket.
Once the room is full, a sign will be placed on the desk at the 3rd Floor, Registration Counter, Coex Convention & Exhibition Center.
Intended Audience
CG professionals, college students studying to become CG specialists, college instructors, and others who have found it difficult to initiate their own independent study of RenderMan.
Presentation Language
Presented in English / 영어로 발표 됨
Session 1 - Kesson
Rib exercises
RenderMan rib files
Options, attributes, camera, and world blocks
Camera transformations and geometry
Archived geometry (pre-baked ribs)
AOVs - many outputs from a single render
Session 2: - Kesson
RSL exercises
Stereo rendering
Procedural primitives - creating geometry at render-time
RenderMan shading language
Language overview
Patterns (st space)
Session 3 - Kesson
RenderMan shading language
Point-based occlusion
Sub-surface scattering
Session 4: - Hosuk Chang
RenderMan in production
Explanation of the advanced RenderMan techniques used for Blizzard cinematics
Malcolm Kesson
Savannah College of Art and Design
Hosuk Chang
Blizzard Entertainment
Instructor Bios
Malcom Kesson teaches graphics programming at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has presented RenderMan workshops at all five Asia GRAPHITE conferences as well as SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 and 2009.
Hosuk Chang is an effects technical director in the Cinematic Division of Blizzard Entertainment. He is
responsible for creation of elements such as smoke, water, dust and a variety of magical effects in support of the cinematics of games such as World of Warcraft, Star Craft, and Diablo. He also contributes to the on-going development of Blizzard's cinematic FX pipeline.


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The acrimony in Vancouver over the development of a new cycling route shows just how much people hate change. Not in Vancouver, in Winnipeg.
Vancouverites have just weathered a blistering debate about the value of encouraging commuters to get out of their cars and onto bicycles. The redevelopment of Point Grey Road, from Jericho Park to Hadden Park at the Burrard St. Bridge, will construct separated bike lanes, but also dump cars entirely off a one-kilometre stretch of the route.
If you've driven in rush hour in that city, you understand the hard feelings. Closing that one-kilometre chunk of Point Grey will push 10,000 motorists onto other routes.
Nevertheless, the project passed city council 7-2 last week. I say good on them.
No, inertia is Winnipeg's problem. Compare Vancouver's bold plans to what has happened here, what unfolded in 2010 when city council painted miserly bike lanes along residential roads and plopped in some sorry excuses for traffic circles. The customary high-pitched whine turned into all-out revolt. Lawsuits, even.
Living on Grosvenor Avenue, I can tell you the bitterness festers -- I hear the honking horns, and chronic complaints and witness a stubborn refusal to heed the rules of the roundabouts, which remain eyesores on the leafy street. When was the landscaping supposed to be done?
Little wonder, then, city council got away with pulling the fast one on the active-transportation strategy -- the $400,000 for a study that was supposed to devise a plan to pull together all the fractured pieces of various bike routes, lanes, paths, trails and boulevards: quietly cancelled by public works. Coun. Jenny Gerbasi stumbled onto the public works decision by chance.
Mayor Sam's can-do campaign that got him first elected in 2004 made some of us feel he would bring the spirit that built a ballpark to the grinding gears of a city bureaucracy, pave the potholes and bring Winnipeg into the 21st century for urban design.
Meanwhile, Winnipeg's 3.6-kilometre rapid-transit splurge remains a stub of an idea to move bus riders speedily through congested streets. And the $20-million shot in the arm 2011's expansion gave to the active-transportation plan did not, as was hoped, spark real progress toward a safe, dedicated cycling network.
I know cyclists who still ride on sidewalks, even where the city has reserved a metre or so of curbside space for them. Painting the blacktop with white bicycle graphics that rapidly wash out doesn't engender a load more goodwill from motorists.
The difference, I think, is culture. The automobile has reigned supreme for so long in this city, and too few councillors are up to the heat that will come in challenging inertia.
The equivalent here of Vancouver's plan for Grey Point Road would turn one side of Wellington Crescent exclusively over to bicycles, squeezing two-way vehicular traffic to the other side of the boulevard. Imagine the congestion that would erupt on Academy, or Corydon.
That would elicit howls of indignation from many that such a plan favoured the well-heeled residents of the crescent and a small percentage of commuters at the expense of ordinary shmucks just trying to get to the office. (That's what they said in Vancouver, too).
Maybe a few of those motorists would leave the keys at home, though. A dedicated road is a safer, more efficient ride, and security is pivotal to convincing people to commute by bike.
I biked to work once. I can still feel the hair on the back of my neck rising as I picked my way along on Arlington, north of Portage, and up McPhillips.
Others with greater dedication to clean living do it, daily (well, OK, maybe not every day of the year). But they are part of a small, tenacious group of warriors.
That hardy club isn't going to grow much, I think, until we link a series of routes where bikes are separated from cars, which is probably what the active-transportation strategy would have advised.
There are a lot of reasons to envy Vancouverites, but rush-hour traffic isn't one of them. It's congested. You can idle in frustration for a long time, burning gas that costs $1.50 a litre.
That, too, is part of the strategy.


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K-State Scientists Receive $5.5 Million in USDA Funding For Wheat and Rice Blast Research
Date Posted: April 24, 2013
Manhattan, KS—Kansas State University researcher Barbara Valent and a team of colleagues have been awarded $5.5 million by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop novel disease control strategies for two closely-related diseases in rice and wheat – the latter of which has wreaked havoc in some South American wheat growing areas.
Valent, a university distinguished professor of plant pathology, is leading a team of K-State and national and international collaborators who are studying ways to protect Kansas and U.S. wheat fields from the deadly disease known as wheat blast.
The team is also studying ways to protect U.S. rice from the deadly rice blast disease.
Unlike wheat blast, rice blast is well established in the United States and in all other rice-growing countries.
"This disease – wheat blast – spreads quickly," Valent said.
"It has not been found outside South America, but if we don't prepare by learning and educating others about detection, and look for ways to curb it if it does strike the U.S., the consequences could be enormous."
Both wheat blast and rice blast are explosive diseases under favorable weather conditions.
Blast disease, caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is a major constraint to global rice production and is an emerging and very serious threat to U.S. wheat, Valent said.
Rice blast research over the past 20 years has provided a wealth of understanding on the molecular basis for blast resistance in rice.
"Our goal is to leverage this knowledge as part of an integrated approach to improve U.S. rice production and protect the nation's wheat crop," Valent said.
Wheat blast was first discovered in Brazil in 1985, and has since been found in Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina.
Three years ago it cut production in Brazilian wheat states by up to 60 percent in some areas.
Rice blast caused significant crop losses in fields in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas in 2012 and the disease has already been reported this year in Louisiana.
"Our goal is to develop resistant varieties for control of both diseases," Valent said.
"We plan to use traditional strategies for finding and deploying resistance genes, as well as novel strategies based on new knowledge generated by research on rice blast."
Additional outcomes will be diagnostic tools, training resources for first detectors and responders, and a disease forecasting model.
"Another important objective for this project is to educate undergraduate students in plant biosecurity."
"Arguably, rice and wheat are the two most important crops in the world," said K-State professor of plant pathology, James Stack, who is one of the research team members.
"In most countries, either wheat or rice is a staple in citizens' diets.
"It's hard for people who have ready access to food to understand, but threats to either of those crops can be the difference between food security and hunger."
Typically, about one-fifth of all wheat grown in the United States is grown in Kansas, according to the Kansas Wheat Commission.
About half of Kansas wheat is exported to other countries.
In 2012, Kansas produced 382 million bushels of winter wheat and overall U.S. production totaled 1.65 billion bushels, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
One of the many problems posed by wheat blast is that it looks a lot like some other wheat diseases, so it's sometimes hard to detect, said Stack, who serves as the director of the Great Plains Diagnostic Network, a consortium of nine states which is part of the National Plant Diagnostic Center.
The GPDN coordinates diagnostics, communications and trains first detectors of plant diseases.
Because wheat blast has not been found in North American wheat, it is critical that the team's research be conducted in a secure facility.
For that reason, the scientists are working in K-State's Biosecurity Research Institute, a facility that provides a safe and secure location to study high-consequence pathogens.
The grant, awarded by the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture through the 2012 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative's Food Security program, was part of more than $75 million in grants recently awarded to teams at 21 universities.
The teams are working in research, education and extension activities to ensure greater food security in the United States and around the world, according to the USDA.
"Millions of American households lack the resources to access sufficient food, and many of those, including our children, may go hungry at least once this year," said Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, in making the grant announcement.
"The grants announced today will help policymakers and others better recognize the food and nutrition needs of low-income communities in our country, while improving the productivity of our nation's agriculture to meet those needs.
"Globally, the population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people (to more than 9 billion) by 2050.
"By investing in the science of America's renowned land-grant universities, our aim is to find sustainable solutions to help systems expand to meet the demands of growing populations."
More information about wheat blast is available at http://www.k-state.edu/wheatblast/.
More information about rice blast is available at www.apsnet.org/edcenter/intropp/lessons/fungi/ascomycetes/Pages/RiceBlast.aspx.
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Did you know?
Mpumalanga means 'place where the sun rises' because it is in the eastern part of the country. Mpumalanga was a new province, formed in 1994 after South Africa's first democratic elections. Before that, this area was known as the Eastern Transvaal.
A honeymoon in Mpumalanga will ensure a marriage begun in the most beautiful of surroundings. This is a province basking in spectacular scenic blessings, with waterfalls, mountains, forests and picture-perfect vistas at every turn.
The Blyde River Canyon, one of the world's largest canyons, is particularly popular with honeymooners. Its length is dotted with breathtaking sites such as the Three Rondavels, Bourke's Luck Potholes and the oh-so-descriptive God's Window, an astounding viewpoint at an altitude of 2000m. The canyon is the highlight of Mpumalanga's aptly named Panorama Route.
Honeymooners are also often drawn to the nearby town of Pilgrim's Rest, once a gold rush town and now filled with interesting, mostly historic, things to see and do. Its romantic, Victorian-style Royal Hotel is much favoured for weddings and honeymoons with an old-world feel.
An Mpumalanga honeymoon could include time spent in nature's own paradise, the Kruger National Park. Rise before the sun and strike out to share in the world of birds and beasts, realising, as the day passes, how wondrous our planet is. Hikes, backpacking and adventure trails afford a closer experience of the wild. While rest camps run by South African National Parks (SANparks) are quite comfortable, perhaps a honeymoon calls for some extravagance and a number of privately owned lodges in the park will take your accommodation up a few notches.
Singita, Tinga, Jock's Safari Lodge and Spa and Imbali Safari Lodge are just some of the facilities to investigate. Sumptuous luxury is also available west of the park in the Sabi Sand Reserve where names such as Mala Mala, Londolozi, Lion Sands and Sabi Sabi have pioneered the art of the upmarket safari.
Honeymoon destinations in Mpumalanga are many and varied. To mention just a few, the fly-fishing mecca of Dullstroom is restful and quaint; the area around the town of Hazyview offers balmy, tropical summers and warm winters; and White River in the Crocodile River valley is surrounded by forests. Further, there are activities and sites galore to make a honeymoon all the more memorable, like hot-air ballooning, gold panning, horse riding, nature trails, golfing, cultural villages and caves to marvel at.
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How to get here
You can hire a car in any of South Africa's major centres and drive to Mpumalanga, or fly in via Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport just outside Nelspruit.
Best time to visit
Spring (September/October) and autumn (April) temperatures are perfect, as the days are generally warm and the evenings and early mornings cool. Summer (November to March) can be very hot and brings with it rain, while winter (May to August) days are warm and sunny but the nights very cold. The temperature can differ significantly from the high-lying Highveld area in the western part of Mpumalanga to the low-lying Lowveld on the eastern side of the province, so check with your travel agent first.
Get around
You can either book a scheduled tour of the top attractions in Mpumalanga or hire a car and do a self-drive trip, as the highways and various tourism routes are all clearly marked.
What to pack
Regardless of the season, sunhat and sunblock are a must. Also check with your doctor regarding malaria prophylactics, as some of the areas in Mpumalanga are malaria areas and the correct prophylactics must be taken before leaving home.
Where to stay
There's loads of accommodation in Mpumalanga, ranging from forest retreats (like Serenity Forest Eco Reserve and Timamoon Lodge), to upmarket bush getaways (try for example Sabi Sabi, Mala Mala, Londolozi, Ulusaba Private Game Reserve, Djuma Game Reserve, Exeter Game Reserve and Leopard Hills). You'll also find accommodation from across the price spectrum in the Kruger National Park, but you'll need to book early (up to a year in advance).