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The 45th annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival , running Friday-Sunday and May 1-4 at the Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, boasts a blockbuster lineup of national and local talent.
The first Jazz Fest weekend alone features classic-rock star Santana, pioneering rap group Public Enemy, jam-band Phish, neo-soul singer Robin Thicke, former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant with his new band the Sensational Space Shifters, Plant's British rock star peer Eric Clapton, and enduring funk and R&B favorite Charlie Wilson.
Weekend two of Jazz Fest brings the festival's second appearance by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, singing star and "The Voice" judge Christina Aguilera, pop favorites Foster the People, the second Jazz Fest performance by Canada's super-exuberant musical collective Arcade Fire, and another classic-rock star, former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty.
In addition to the national acts who will perform on the festival's Acura and Samsung Galaxy stages, hundreds of New Orleans artists fill Jazz Fest. That deep list contains artists from New Orleans' 1950s and '60s glory years of rhythm-and-blues, including the Dixie Cups, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas and Walter "Wolfman" Washington as well as later arrivals to the city's music scene such as Hurray for the Riff Raff, Anders Osborne and Royal Teeth.
For the second consecutive year, the internationally touring New Orleans artist Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and his band, Orleans Avenue, will be Jazz Fest's final day closing act at the Acura Stage, the spot the Neville Brothers occupied for decades.
Louisiana Heritage Fair
Taking place concurrently with Jazz Fest at the Fair Grounds, the Louisiana Heritage Fair features music on multiple smaller stages, Louisiana cuisine in two extensive food areas and the works of artists and craftspeople from the Gulf Coast region and world showing, demonstrating and selling their work.
Single-day tickets for Jazz Fest are $55. The gate price ticket is $70. Children's tickets (ages 2-10) are $5 and available at the gate only. General admission Jazz Fest tickets are subject to service fees and handling charges.
Single-day tickets to Jazz Fest are on sale for each weekend, valid for a single day's attendance. Tickets are available at www.nojazzfest.com and www.ticketmaster.com, at all Ticketmaster outlets or by calling (800) 745-3000.
Tickets also are on sale at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome box office at Gate A at Poydras Street, on the Superdome's ground level. Free parking is available in the Superdome's garage 6 on Sugar Bowl Drive. Box office hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday; 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday; and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Getting there
Gray Line Tours operates continuous Jazz Fest Express shuttles to the Fair Grounds from 10:30 a.m. until festival closing time. Departure points are the Steamboat Natchez Dock at Toulouse Street; Sheraton Hotel at 500 Canal St.; and City Park near Marconi Drive and Harrison Avenue.
Round-trip shuttles are $18 per day from the Steamboat Natchez Dock and Sheraton Hotel, and $15 per day from City Park. Each Jazz Fest Express ticket is valid for one round-trip bus trip daily with no re-entry. Tickets are available from Gray Line Tours at www.graylineneworleans.com. For information, call (504) 569-1401 or (800) 535-7786.
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5:10 p.m. Friday
Acura Stage
Fiery electric guitar maestro Carlos Santana can count 1969's Woodstock Music & Art Fair and previous Jazz Fests in New Orleans among his many festival appearances throughout the past 45 years.
Santana's appearance in the music documentary "Woodstock" boosted an already in-flight career that flourishes to this day. He'll release his latest album, "Corazón," May 6. His first Latin album, "Corazón" is another of the guitarist's all-star collaborations. Guest artists include Ziggy Marley, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Juanes, Gloria Estefan, ChocQuibTown, Miguel, Lila Downs and Wayne Shorter.
After emerging in the late 1960s from the vibrant San Francisco music scene, Santana sold 100 million records, performed for 100 million people worldwide and won 10 Grammy Awards. In December, he was among the Kennedy Center's 2013 honorees, an honor that followed his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 and Billboard Latin Music Awards Lifetime Achievement honor in 2009.
The Avett Brothers
5:30 p.m. Friday
Samsung Galaxy Stage
North Carolina's Avett Brothers say they make honest music based on chords and real voices that sing real melodies. The group's 2014 festival appearances include Jazz Fest in New Orleans, Lollapalooza in Chicago and the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn.
The Avett Brothers have roots in their region's traditional folk and bluegrass music. But before Scott and Seth Avett formed the Avett Brothers, they performed in the Greenville, N.C.-based '90s rock band Nemo. The weekly acoustic sessions they played on the side evolved into the Avett Brothers band.
A 2011 Grammy Awards appearance with Bob Dylan and Mumford & Sons exposed the Avett Brothers to millions of potential fans. The group's 2012 album, "The Carpenter," topped its predecessor's Top 20 success, reaching No. 4 on Billboard's all-genre Top 200 albums chart and earning a Grammy nomination.
4 p.m. Saturday
Acura Stage
By the late 1980s, Phish was in line to inherit the Grateful Dead's jam-band crown. Embracing a freewheeling approach on stage, the group straddled the musical realms of rock, jazz, bluegrass, country and pop. By the late 1990s, Phish, featuring singer-guitarist Trey Anastasio and keyboardist Page McConnell, was among the nation's top in-concert acts.
The band broke up in 2004 but reunited in 2009, beginning with three sold-out shows at Virginia's Hampton Coliseum. Phish continued performing at festivals such as the Austin City Limits Music Festival, Outside Lands and Bonnaroo as well as their own Phish-sponsored events. While Phish is in New Orleans for Jazz Fest, band member McConnell also will perform Friday and Saturday with the Meter Men, which features three original members of New Orleans' great funk band the Meters — drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, guitarist Leo Nocentelli and bassist George Porter Jr.
Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters
5:30 p.m. Saturday
Samsung Galaxy Stage
Robert Plant, the former Led Zeppelin frontman, returns to the Jazz Fest with his latest post-Zeppelin project, the Sensational Space Shifters.
Unlike Plant's largely retired Zeppelin bandmate, guitarist Jimmy Page, he's kept up his musical activities since Zeppelin's 1980 end. Plant released solo albums as well as group efforts with his all-star Band of Joy; bluegrass star Alison Krauss (2007's massively popular, Grammy-winning "Raising Sand"); and Strange Sensation (the Grammy-nominated "Dreamland" and "Mighty Rearranger" albums).
A singer whose list of inspirations include Southside Chicago electric blues, West African griot mantras, southwest Louisiana dance halls and Texas two-step, Plant contributed to 2007's Fats Domino tribute album "Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino." No stranger to New Orleans, he's visited the city for both work and pleasure. This year will see his third Jazz Fest show.
Robin Thicke
5:25 p.m. Saturday
Congo Square Stage
Before blue-eyed neo-soul singer Robin Thicke became famous with the hits "Blurred Lines," "Lost Without U" and "Sex Therapy," the Los Angeles native worked behind the scenes. Thicke wrote and produced songs for Brandy, Color Me Badd and Brian McKnight. By 21, he'd contributed to more than 20 gold and platinum albums by Michael Jackson, Marc Anthony, Christina Aguilera, Pink and others. More recently, the news about Thicke, 37, has been about his February split from actress wife Paula Patton.??
Eric Clapton
5:25 p.m. Sunday
Acura Stage
Despite being acclaimed since the 1960s for his guitar prowess, British rock star Eric Clapton sustained his decades of popularity mostly through a rich discography of songs featuring his lead vocals. That golden list features Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love," Derek and the Dominos' "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight" and solo hits "I Shot the Sheriff," "Tears in Heaven" and "Change the World."
Clapton's previous New Orleans appearances include a three-night stand at the House of Blues in 1994, a 1995 show at the Superdome and his 2012 appearance at the New Orleans Arena. After being on Jazz Fest's artist wish list for decades, he makes his festival debut this year.
Since 2013, Clapton's band has featured Paul Carrack, the soulful British singer-organist known for his solo hits and his years with Squeeze and Mike + The Mechanics.
Vampire Weekend
5:20 p.m. Sunday
Samsung Galaxy Stage
A New York City band influenced by Afro-pop and indie-rock, Vampire Weekend formed while the group's members were students at Columbia University. In 2007, a breakthrough year for the band, Vampire Weekend toured extensively, performed at the CMJ Music Marathon and signed with XL Records.
Vampire Weekend's self-titled album debut, released in 2008, reached the Top 20 in the U.S. and U.K. The group's 2013 album, "Modern Vampires of the City," debuted at No. 1 and won a Grammy Award in January for best alternative music album.


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President Mahinda Rajapaksa launched the train service linking Colombo to the northern town of Kilinochchi.
Kilinochchi was the de-facto capital of the LTTE during the civil war that lasted for nearly three decades.
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Like my colleague, Web Editor Jason Goodman, I sometimes see the glass half empty and tend to believe there isn't anything new under the sun. Since that includes everything, I wasn't surprised to get some strong feedback from a Water & Wastewater News e-newsletter subscriber on New Jersey's "innovative" thinking.
In an April issue of the newsletter, we ran an article about how the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection proposed new rules to encourage more reclamation of treated wastewater for irrigation and industrial processes.
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I thrive on reader feedback and was excited to get an e-mail message from Dan Chase, senior engineer at Penfield & Smith in California.
He noted that southern California has been reusing wastewater long before 1985, when Chase started in the business. "The first project I ever worked on was a recycled water system for irrigation of cemeteries, greenbelts, golf courses, and parks. The water from the plant that fed the system had to meet potable water standards as mandated by EPA. EPA and the wastewater company had to monitor the system and kept lab staff on site."
That 10 million-gallon-per-day (mgd) plant has been upgraded to about 16 mgd now, Chase said. (Not only was California's reuse of wastewater newer, it also seems to be sustainable.)
Chase asked: Why does New Jersey think this is new?
I can't speak for Ms. Jackson, but maybe some marketing person put that word in her mouth, rather cavalierly. Or perhaps she was expressing that wastewater reuse is a new concept to state residents. It would be better if we had more appropriate phrasing, like New Jersey is at the forefront of recycling good ideas to tackle environmental challenges.
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What ever happened to all those 'trade for Derrick Williams' rants?
If i remember right back before the 2011 draft some people were saying trade McGee + 6th pick for the 2nd pick which would be DWill. If we could go back in time i would take that deal in a heartbeat. McGee isn't here and if we make that deal Vesely and Nene (with his huge contract) wouldn't be here either.
So far this season DWill's per 36 numbers are 18/9 with a TS% of 53%.
Couldn't we trade Nene(traded McGee to get him) and Vesely(6th pick) and get Derrick Williams?
They would have to throw in filler like Roy and another contract.
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The character (kanji) on the sweater means "love" in both Japanese and Chinese. It expresses my affection for Japan, where I lived for four years, and my desire to do some small thing to help it during its current tragedy.
There's a bonus to the pattern in that by buying it, you also buy the rights to re-use the intarsia chart in your own work:
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I would like to write a program that determines the combinations of certain furniture my store can hold. I want to maximize my possible revenue but the catch is that I can only hold 250 feet of furniture. For example,
Lamp - $20 - 5 Feet needed
Chair - $50 - 10 ft needed
Couch - $200 - 30 ft needed etc etc
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combination algorithm
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This is known as the "knapsack problem" and is NP complete, so in two words: forget it.
That being said, you can try to "guess" a good solution using a genetic algorithm. This should work pretty well (though I haven't applied GAs to this particular problem). If you don't need to know that the result is "optimal", that is (since NP is equivalent to VP (can be verified in polynomial time), this in itself is next-to-impossible for any n > 10). If you really want to try all combinations (which is what you have to do otherwise), you can use std::next_permutation in combination with std::accumulate (go through all size permutations and count the revenue generated).
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NP complete doesn't technically mean 'next to impossible', but it does mean 'not practically computable' --meaning that it is usually fairly difficult to solve (as
said) for any N > 10 or so.
However, if I may be so bold:
Maximizing space, while important, is not the prime mover in display sales. (Clutter/visual overload actually
Make sure you have good inventory tracking, accounting for time of year and special events (like holidays that sends people shopping for furnature), and build a few attractive displays of furniture arrayed as it might in a domestic environment. Avoid monochromatic or extremely conservative or extremely bright stuff, but make sure you have some nice, strong colors highlighting the woods and leathers and whatnot. That way, when people walk-in, they can feel comfortable and stimulated in any one of the sections. Either on the coffee table keep a catalogue, or on the side (near, but not part-of, the display) have examples, catalogues, pictures, etc. of variations on the elements within the display.
Make sure they are well-lit with natural lighting (avoid using the overhead flourescent lights as your primary lighting) --either via direct sunlight or some properly arranged lamps.
The point is to direct people's attention to something they like --or similar to what they want, then provide them with easy options to browse for the variation they have in mind or colors they prefer (or price they want to pay, etc).
It might be worth your money to hire someone (like an interior decorator) to spend a few days helping you arrange things.
Tracking what people want throughout the year, highlighting new items within a comfortable environment, and a subliminally directed shopping experience will increase sales more than fitting everything you have on the showroom floor. An 'open stockroom' (either allowing people to browse it directly, or if that is illegal or dangerous, indirectly by having the help pull stuff out for a customer --and liberal use of catalogues/other visuals) is just as effective as having it on the floor if something on the floor directed the customer's attention to it.
BTW, I've done sales and inventory and display, but I am not a professional expert on the subject, so don't take my word for absolute gospel. I didn't make any of this up though.
Good luck!
If you are just starting out, take a day or two just to visit
furnature stores in the area (within 60 miles or so) and take notes on what works and what doesn't (for you, personally!). If you don't have your own inventory data, you can ask your suppliers for information on what is hot, when, trends, etc. Since you are
customer, and they make money through
sales, it is worth their time to help you out.
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Brian Justin Crum sang "Man In The Mirror" for his "America's Got Talent" finals performance on Tuesday. Check out the video below!
As Gossip Cop has reported, Crum has been one of the standout singers during season 11 of the NBC competition. He's repeatedly wowed with inventive covers of "Somebody To Love," "Creep," and "In The Air Tonight." And after Crum performed "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" for the semifinals last week, Howie Mandel deemed him the "best" of the night.
But he wasn't the only singer to make it to tonight's final round. With steep competition from the likes of Grace VanderWaal, Laura Bretan and Sal Valentinetti, Crum had to give his best performances yet and win America's vote one last time. For that, he went with his version of Michael Jackson's "Man In The Mirror."
And like all the acts before for him, Crum received a standing ovation from the entire panel. Mel B gushed afterward, "Brian, Brian, Brian. I mean, every time you perform it's just absolutely stunning. That was a risk to do that song, but I think that risk is going to pay off because you owned it and made it your own."
Heidi Klum sad, "I mean, no one sings with that much drama, with that much intensity, like you just did. It was really powerful. It felt like you were singing for your life today — or a million dollars." Simon Cowell admitted that at first he thought the song choice was a "huge mistake, and then halfway through, I thought, you just made the best decision of your life with that song."
"It's really incredible," he went on, adding, "You are just a naturally-brilliant performer. Congratulations." And Howie Mandel deemed the performance "epic." Watch below!


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In many databases, it is helpful to have the same form open automatically every time that you open the database. To set the default startup form, you specify the form in Access Options.
Note: The functionality explained in this article does not apply to "Access apps." For more information about working with Access apps, please see <insert link to placeholder topic>
Specify the default form in Access Options
This procedure assumes that you have a database open and that you have already created the form that you want to display.
Click the File tab, and then under Help, click Options.
Click Current Database.
Under Application Options, in the Display Form list, select the form that you want to display when the database starts.
If the database is to be published as a Web database, in the Web Display Form list, select the form that you want to display as the default form in the browser.
Note: To bypass this option and other startup options when opening the database in Access, hold down the SHIFT key while you open the database.


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I have created different views for different columns. I want the output of the AQL statement to be displayed in a file. Is it possible??
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I have created a view for name using aql. The thing is that when I run AQL statement, I will get output in console. But I want the output to be viewed in a file. Can that be done? Please help me out with this.
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(1) If you are developing extractor using BigInsights Text Analytics eclipse tooling, then there is an option to export results either in csv/html format.
(2) Run the extractor through the java APIs, specifically OperatorGraph API, and later serialize the output from OperatorGraph.execute API using standard java i/o APIs. Here is the link to tutorial on Text Analytics java API: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/bigins/v2r0/topic/com.ibm.swg.im.infosphere.biginsights.analyze.doc/doc/text_analytics_apis.html


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We've seen more than our fair share of great ideas make their way through Kickstarter. Anthony Griesel of Salt Lake City, UT is trying to get his new project, Neva, off the ground and we must say, it is a brilliant idea.
If you've ever partaken in winter sports such as skiing or snowboarding, you know that when your phone rings, you have to decide if it's worth freezing your hand for a few seconds to check it. Also, if you're on a lift, you need to exercise extra caution so that you don't spend the next hour trudging through the snow attempting to locate your device in the woods.
Neva is a ski pole that integrates a 0.96-inch OLED display on the top of your ski pole that supports gestures to communicate with your device via Bluetooth. The display can show caller ID information and allow the skier to answer the call with a finger swipe. Currently it can display short text messages and may add text to speech in the future. When not communicating with the rest of the world, Neva integrates with SlopeScience.com to give you current slope angle and aspect of terrain, time, temperature, and elevation literally at your fingertips.
Neva will also come with an app that is compatible with both Android and iOS that supports additional features such as tracking various stats and routes while you ski.
It looks as through the initial run will be targeted at skiers only, but hopefully if Neva performs well, Anthony will consider offering this same tech into a wearable wristband or something of the likes so snowboarders could take advantage of this great idea.
If you want to get on board with Neva and help bring better balance to your skiing and mobile life, head on over to Kickstarter to pledge some cash to this project.
source: Kickstarter via Textually


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Everything online journalists need to protect their legal rights. This free resource culls from all Reporters Committee resources and includes exclusive content on digital media law issues.
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled yesterday that state public bodies must record in public meeting minutes the names of those members who voted against or abstained from voting on a measure, even where the vote is not taken by a roll call.
Earlier this week the Georgia Supreme Court declined to review a lower court decision in the long-running libel case against The Atlanta Journal-Constitution filed by Richard Jewell, who was wrongfully accused of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing, and carried on by his family since his death in 2007.
Reporters at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution did not libel a security guard, who was at first hailed as a hero after the 1996 bombing at Centennial Olympic Park, when they reported authorities were investigating him as a suspect in the bombing, the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled this month.
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed a friend-of-the-court brief Monday asking a federal appeals court to revisit the U.S. Marshals Service's "inane" policy of releasing federal suspects' mug shots based on the requestor's physical location.
The McDuffie (Ga.) Mirror reported that a Georgia trial judge issued an order prohibiting reporters and other attendees of a criminal court proceeding from publicly disclosing the testimony given at the hearing.
The Georgia House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation Tuesday that will exempt crime scene photos depicting a victim's dismembered body or exposed genitalia from the state's Open Records Act, the Rome News-Tribune reported.
Hustler magazine's request for photos of a slain hiker has prompted a push by Georgia lawmakers to quickly pass a bill that would block the release of certain crime scene photos without the permission of the deceased individual's family or a court order, The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported.
Republican legislators in Georgia voted today in a secret ballot to close the doors and keep the press out of an open caucus meeting.
A Georgia man yesterday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit his conviction for drug trafficking on the grounds that the public was improperly excluded from the jury selection hearing, called voir dire.
Several news organizations are asking a federal judge to release prosecution evidence on the eve of a terrorism trial in Atlanta, The Associated Press reports.
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Carlos Andrés Gómez: "How to Fight"
Carlos Andrés Gómez, award-winning poet, actor, and writer, performs his poem, "How To Fight." Like most men in society, Gómez grew up believing in traditional notions of masculinity. Through his acting he discovered how aggression dominates what young men are taught and the true cost of repressing emotions. Carlos is a performer and panelist at the 2014 Women & Power Conference Women/Men: The Next Conversation.
"How To Fight" by Carlos Andrés Gómez
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Blessed John Cornelius (born of Irish parents at Bodmin, in Cornwall, on the estate of Sir John Arundell of Lanherne, in 1557; executed at Dorchester, 4 July 1594) (called also Mohun) was an English Catholic priest and Jesuit. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.[1]
Sir John Arundell took an interest in the boy and sent him to the University of Oxford. John Cornelius went on to the seminary at Reims, and a little later, on 1 April, 1580, entered the English College, Rome, to pursue theological studies. After ordination he was sent as a missionary to England. He was there for nearly ten years.
While acting as chaplain to Lady Arundell, he was arrested on 24 April, 1594, at Chideock Castle, by the sheriff of Dorsetshire. He was met on the way by Thomas Bosgrave, a relative of the Arundell family, who offered him his own hat, as he had been dragged out bareheaded. Thereupon Bosgrave was arrested. Two servants of the castle, John (or Terence) Carey and Patrick Salmon, natives of Dublin, shared the same fate. When they reached the sheriff's house a number of Protestant clergymen heaped abuse on the Catholic religion, but the sheriff stopped the disputation.
The missionary was sent to London and brought before the Lord Treasurer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and others, who, by words and torture, tried to obtain names of those who had given him shelter or assistance. He was brought back to Dorchester and with his three companions condemned to death, 2 July, 1594. He was accused of high treason, because he was a priest and had returned to England; the others were charged with felony, for having rendered assistance to one whom they knew to be a priest; but all were assured that their lives would be spared if they embraced Protestantism.
While in prison, John Cornelius was admitted to membership in the Society of Jesus. The first to ascend the scaffold was John Carey; he kissed the rope, exclaiming "O precious collar", made a solemn profession of faith and died a valiant death. Before his execution Patrick Salmon exhorted the spectators to embrace the Catholic faith, for which he and his companions were giving their lives. Then followed Thomas Bosgrave, who delivered a stirring address on the truth of his belief. The last to suffer was John Cornelius, who kissed the gallows with the words of St. Andrew, "O Cross, long desired", etc. On the ladder he tried to speak to the multitude, but was prevented. After praying for his executioners and for the welfare of the queen, John Cornelius also was executed. The body was taken down and quartered, his head was nailed to the gibbet, but soon removed. The bodies were buried by the Catholics.


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|From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 3 23:00:43 EDT 2010
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > You could do that in Simula 67, and what you need for that is a pair of control stacks, not a continuation tree. There's a paper in TFP 2010 by Konrad Anton and Peter Thiemann that discusses these under the rubric of coroutines, with history going back to Simula. -- sam th samth at ccs.neu.edu
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If you need a brief respite the from the gloomy news of a perhaps impending massive legalization program, here are some immigration oddities reaped from the January 14 issue of Interpreter Releases, the sober-sided, irony-free trade paper for immigration lawyers.
We have:
- USCIS being hoist on its own petard regarding investor (EB-5) visas for wealthy Chinese;
- DHS offering prospective Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to, among others, a few citizens of two warring nations who were not in the United States at the time of the announcement; and
- DOL providing guidance on the appropriate wages for alien (H-2A) wool gatherers.
Investor visas. After years of promoting the EB-5 Program, USCIS is running into a major complication; later this year the newly increased use of the program will probably run directly into the provision of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA) that limits the admission of any one nation's immigrants to 7 percent of the world-wide total (of numerically limited classes).
This will complicate life immensely for the agency, and for all the middlemen who have been profiting from the comparative dribble of investments created by this program. Something like 99.9 percent of new foreign investment in the United States each year comes from non-immigration related capital flows.
Immigrant investor, or EB-5 visas, are given to aliens (their spouses and their children) whose sole required qualification is the ability to write a check for half a million dollars, and sometimes more. With families assumed to include three people each, and most of the investments at the half-million level, this means it takes six visas to raise one million dollars.
This bit of math — say $167,000 or so per visa — is never mentioned by supporters of the program.
About 80 percent of these visas go to people from China, and there's the rub. With the nearly 10,000 ceiling for these visas likely to be reached this fiscal year, the country-of-origin cap will come into play for EB-5 investors from China and that will cause: 1) substantial delays in visa issuances for those aliens; 2) complications for both USCIS and the States Department; 3) uncertainty among the potential investors; and 4) more fees for the middlemen.
The interactive complexities that will result led to a 3,600-word lead article in the current IR, written not by the staff but by two-EB-5 lawyers. Such editorial treatment means that the subject is regarded as a big deal by the immigration bar. A term frequently used in the article is "visa retrogression", meaning, approximately, the imposition of the national-origin ceilings on a program.
The weeds are too thick in this area for a summary of a readable length, but this paragraph from the article gives a flavor of the complications:
Chinese EB-5 priority date retrogression will make it imperative for counsel to carefully track the ages of a petitioner's [i.e., the alien's] children and to strategize how to prolong the I-526 petitioning process if a child is close to aging out [i.e., becoming 21]. It will also be imperative for counsel to make certain that the immigrant visa is applied for within one year of the priority date becoming current, in order to be able to take advantage of the period of time the child's age is frozen during the petitioning process.
One of the unrecognized glories of obtaining foreign investment in non-EB-5 ways is that no government agencies have to worry about the age of the children of the resident of Cape Town, for instance, who simply tells his broker to buy, say, 1,000 shares of Apple.
Incidentally, another matter not mentioned in the IR article is that every visa that goes to an investor, or his or her kin, means one fewer visa for one of the truly talented immigrants, the "best and the brightest", in another one of the EB (employment based) visa categories.
If some parts of the INA complicate the inward flow of some sets of migrants (rich Chinese, in this case) other parts of it are extremely welcoming to different populations, as the following item reveals.
Temporary Protected Status. A significant immigration benefit conferred by the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security without congressional action. Typically, it is retroactive. If the alien had been in the United States at the date of the big storm in his home country, for instance, then he would have a chance to register with DHS, pay a fee, get a work permit, and be assured of no legal action against him, even if here illegally. The general idea is that the home country is too disrupted to accept the return of its own nationals.
The status lasts 18 months, but as Mark Krikorian pointed out, more than a dozen years ago, "There's nothing as permanent as a temporary refugee". DHS routinely rolls over TPS status for another 18 months for the aliens from all the nations covered by these programs.
The latest decision on TPS, also reported in IR, extends that status to newly arrived people from either Sudan or South Sudan, two nations more or less at war with each other; eligibles — illegals or otherwise — can apply for that status from January 9 through July 8. There has been a TPS program in place for years for people from those areas, but there had been no recent opportunity for newcomers to sign up until earlier this month.
What I found remarkable was the timing of the eligibility. There were two parallel Federal Register announcements on January 9, one concerning Sudan, and the other the newly created state of South Sudan (which had been part of the older, larger nation). The line between these two nations is a continuation of the informal one that divides Islamic Africa from Christian and pagan Africa and, which further west, in Mali, is now involving the French Army.
The fine print in the FR of January 9, said that the "redesignation of South Sudan allows additional individuals who have been continuously residing in the United States since January 9, 2013, to obtain TPS".
Thus if the alert former resident of Sudan or South Sudan had been in, say, Montreal, or less likely, Matamoros, on the morning of January 9 and heard about the new TPS ruling, he could then, legally or illegally, enter the United States later that same day and, if he moved swiftly, could file an application shortly thereafter saying, accurately, that he had lived in the United States continuously since January 9.
Talk about instant gratification!
Gathering wool. Meanwhile, in case you want to know how much an American employer has to pay an alien wool gatherer, the U.S. Department of Labor has recently released its detailed adverse effect wage scales for various kinds of agricultural tasks involving nonimmigrant (H-2A) workers.
Wool gathering, despite one's image, is a real job, essentially that of a laborer at a sheep-shearing operation. While the job title originally involved gathering bits of wool that the sheep had left on fences and shrubs around the pasture, my sense is that it has been widened to also include people doing the less-than-skilled work during the shearing season. (There are different, and equally exploitative, pay scales for alien sheep herders, but that is another occupation.)
Needless to say, the sheep shearers, yet a third group, are better paid and, in my eyes, are awesomely talented people, combining the skills, the wiles, and the strength of a professional wrestler with almost a surgeon's ability to separate the sheep from its wool without drawing blood. Currently (and I know this because my wife is a spinner and a weaver and we sometimes go to sheep and wool shows) the shearers use electric shearing devices.
The trick is to flip the sheep on his back, make sure that none of its feet touch the ground, and then hold the animal firmly while clipping the fleece, preferably with a series of single strokes right next to the skin, as "second cut" wool, shorter bits of it, are much less valuable than the full-length fleece.
This is piecework and there is a perfectly understandable, gender-related pay scale, with the variable being the sex (and the age) of the animal, not the human, with these being the rates quoted by the Labor Department:
Sheep, Buck/Ram — Shearer $4.00 Per Head
Sheep, Ewe — Shearer $2.00 Per Head
Sheep, Feedlot Lamb — Shearer $1.50 Per Head
Since the rams are harder to handle, and often produce larger fleeces, the differential wage scale makes sense. However, given the general tilt of the department on agricultural wages (i.e., not very demanding of the employers) I suspect that these are not very generous rates.
My wife and I roamed the Internet for retail prices of fleeces and found a wide variety, and we know that wholesale prices for fleece sold into the wool pools are lower. With the Navaho-Churro sheep, the going price was $3 a pound, with weights for adult fleeces ranging from 4 to 10 pounds. A more valuable wool, from a Lincoln, was selling for $25 for a five-pound fleece, and at the high end, an Icelandic lamb fleece of one and a half pounds was quoted at $28. All these prices are for raw fleece.
The nonimmigrant wool gatherers do not get piece rates, and are to be paid a flat $8.00 an hour, which is a bit more than the long-out-of-date federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour, but less than the more current state minimum wages in New Mexico ($8.25/hour), Oregon ($8.95/hour), and Washington ($9.10/hour). All of these states use alien wool gatherers. I do not know if these state minimum wages apply to farmwork, but they do provide a general benchmark for wages at the bottom of the labor market.
The H-2A program provides alien workers to ranchers in 15 states, all west of the Mississippi; somehow the growers of sheep east of that river manage to run their farms without using nonimmigrant workers.


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The New York Mets looked dead in the water entering July. Coming off a lousy month of June, the Mets appeared to be on the verge of irrelevance before the All Star Break even hit. The Mets lost their first two games of the month to complete a three game sweep in Atlanta against the Braves, and a tough 10 game home stand looked like it could be the knockout blow for the Amazin's. The Mets responded, however, and ended up producing their best mark in July since 2008.
The Mets started a 10 game homestand on July 4th that saw them face the Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, and Miami Marlins. A good home stand has been hard to come by for the Mets, who have struggled at Citi Field since it opened in 2009. Expectations were very low, but the Mets shocked their fans and the baseball world by going 8-2 on the home stand to wrap up the first half. The strong finish moved the Mets into third place and within five games of the .500 mark.
After the All Star Break, a lot was made of a 10 game road trip that would take the Mets to San Diego, Seattle, and Milwaukee. The Mets have finished the first half strong before and proceeded to wilt right out of the break far too often for their fans' liking. The same script seemed to be in order as the Mets dropped two out of three to the woeful Padres and lost the opener of their series with the Mariners. The Mets, however, responded to adversity by winning four of the final six games on the trip to salvage a .500 road trip. The Mets carried the momentum of that trip back home and kicked off a seven game home stand by taking two out of three against the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Mets finished July with a 15-10 mark, their best July record since 2008. The Mets have a lot of people to credit for their strong July performance. Starting pitching was strong for the Mets as Zack Wheeler (2-0, 1.40 ERA) and Jacob deGrom (4-1, 1.39 ERA) anchored a strong staff. The Mets' bullpen was also spectacular as Jenrry Mejia (1-0, 7 saves, 0.82 ERA) and Jeurys Familia (1-0, 0.00 ERA) locked down the late innings. The Mets also got strong contributions on offense from Lucas Duda (.286, 6 HR's, 16 RBI's), Travis d'Arnaud (.273, 3, 12), and David Wright (.266, 2, 11) helped boost an offense that has struggled for much of the season.
The Mets are now within striking distance of .500, and have a chance to go over the .500 mark for the first time since early May in August. The Mets will play a lot of division games in August, so any playoff dreams could be decided this month. The Mets finish out this homestand with four games against the San Francisco Giants, and then head out on the road for a divisional trip against the Washington Nationals and Philadelphia Phillies. The Mets then come home again to face Washington and the Chicago Cubs, before heading out for their final West Coast swing of the season against first place clubs Oakland and Los Angeles. The Mets wrap up the month with another divisional home stand against the Atlanta Braves and Phillies.
The games against Washington and Atlanta will be key indicators of how far the Mets have come. The Nationals are the current division leaders, and the Mets and Nats haven't met since May. The Mets are only 1-5 against Washington so far this season, but the Mets are playing a lot better now than they were in May. If the Mets can finish at or above .500 by the end of August, the Mets could give their fans some September excitement for the first time in a long time.
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Tags: Baseball, David Wright, Jacob DeGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, July, Lucas Duda, MLB, New York, New York Mets, Travis D'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler


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- Salix babylonica
- Weeping willow Weep"ing wil"low (Bot.)
a tree ({Salix babylonica}) of the willow family with slender
leaves, native to China, whose branches grow very long and
slender, and hang down almost perpendicularly. It grows best
where soil is moist, as by the banks of streams and is widely
cultivated as an ornamental tree.
Syn: Babylonian weeping willow. [PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.


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Allow me to express my weariness with Drusilla de Lanor, who in her June 13 letter, "No offense taken to 'that guy,'" called my view bigoted. A careful reading of my June 9 letter, "An offensive religious reference," will show that I do not claim to be a Christian.
Nor do I say that Amy Chavez's flippancy in her June 1 column, "Everyone's own path to enlightenment," will harm anyone's faith. What I said was that demeaning a religious symbol will hurt the people for whom that symbol is important. It is bad manners actually.
The opinions expressed in this letter to the editor are the writer's own and do not necessarily reflect the policies of The Japan Times.


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www.avery1204main.com/pip-tracker. Blood tests results, low lym and low mono
If you are scheduled to have an RPR blood test read on to learn all about this test including how it is done, who you should prepare, whether it hurts or not, why it is done, what normal results are, and what abnormal results mean.
Laboratory Testing question: What if the EOS blood test is 0 percent? EOS normal range is 0. So you would be considered healthy.
Got my blood test and results are: WBC 20.6 10e 9/L NEU 16.4 79.6 %N LYM 2.21 10.8 %L MONO 1.47 7.14 %M EOS .373 1.81 %E BASO .148 .720 %B RBC 4.87 10e 12/L HGB 153 g/L HCT .441 L/L MCV 90.5 fL MCH 31.5 pgMCHC 348. g/LRDW 14.2 %cvPLT 312.
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eos blood test results says: September 26, 2010 at 2:47 am.
Results See how can types Lymphocytes MONO nonocytes. EOS-eosinophils. BASO basophils ZC Li significance detecting s Rh blood type before and by test IgM by company.
A listing of the normal values for medical blood test in both conventional and SI units. . Eosinophils (EOS) Blood. 0-7%
What are the meanings of different blood test results? What does it mean if I have low rbs and low wbc blood counts? range for esinophils is 0-9%. Common causes of elevated EOS...
Describes how the CBC is used, when the CBC is ordered, and what the results of a CBC test may mean. Decreased with anemia; increased when too many made and with fluid loss due to...
Can any doctors or nurses help us understand this? This was her post: I got my blood test results back but did not make an bit elevated. perhaps your friend has allergies.
My Blood Test Results were: WBC-9.1 RBC-3.43 HGB-7.1 HCT-23.1 MCV-67.5 MCH-20.7 MCHC-30.7 RDW-19.9 PLT-321 MPV-7.4 NEUT%-72.3 LYMP%-19.0 MONO%-7.5 EOS % - 0.6 BASO %-0.6 NEUT#-6.6 LYMP#-1.7 MONO#-0.17 EOS#-0.1 BASO#-0.1 PLT EST- ADEQ Now after...
A low RBC. they gave me her blood test results, but no explanation and everyone who knew something was in surgery. Can anybody help? WBC 20.02 (low) MONO 1. %LYM=20.9% %MONO=9.9% %NEU=62.7% %EOS.
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These are just my personal thoughts. The sole purpose of this page is to encourage further research on your part. I hope that you have found this Blood Test Results information page helpful.
blood test results, blood tests: Hello Alejandro: For most blood tests, normal range is set after taking an average of the results say that normal is between 1.0 - 5.0.
Eos definition, the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora. See more. … Eos blood test.
500-2500 mg/dL. 1.3-6.8 mmol/L. EOS (eosinophils) Blood. 0-7% 0-0.07. Eosinophils (EOS) Blood. 0-7%
just got blood test results back had a few high numbers. the doctor that went over the test with me did not 3, Hematocrit: 47.4, EOS: 9, Es absoute: 0.6, what does this mean?


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The Miami Family Medical Centre on the Gold Coast was held ransom late yesterday by cyber-criminals who had encrypted thousands of patient health records, the ABC reported.
The hackers demanded $4000 to decrypt the information.
David Wood, co-owner of the clinic, reassured concerned patients that the data was not stolen.
"It's secure in the sense that no one has taken any of it," he said.
Global cyber-gangs have targeted victims in Australia recently using ransomware, the digital version of a blackmail letter.
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Meet The Staff
Erin Bernett M.S., CCC-SLP has been a licensed speech-language pathologist for over 19 years. Before opening Monkey Mouths in 2003, Erin worked in the pediatric hospital setting. Erin has formal training in: Vocal Cord Dysfunction (VCD), PROMPT therapy, Vital Stim Therapy for swallowing, Langmore Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES), myofascial release therapy, S.O.S. Feeding therapy, Lori Overland Feeding Therapy, Talk Tools Oral Placement Therapy and Beckman Oral-Motor Therapy, Visualizing and Verbalizing/Seeing Stars/LIPS by Lindamood Bell, Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) and Michelle Garcia Winner's Social Thinking. She has also completed advanced training in Applied Behavior Analysis--both through continuing education and the University of North Texas.
Erin has presented to both SLPs and parents in the areas of Vocal Cord Dysfunction, Oral-Motor/Feeding Therapy, the Sound Card System and Teaching Children with Down Syndrome through Visual Cues. She has served on the Board of Directors at the Green Oaks School of Arlington for 10 years. She also currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Independent Therapy Providers Association of Texas (ITPA).
Erin, her husband Matt and their 12-year-old son Carter attend 121 Community Church where Erin and Matt teach 6th grade Lifegroups. Erin has a passion for issues of injustice--both in the United States and abroad. She spends her free time advocating for the rights of those who cannot speak for themselves.
Patricia Gurinsky, M.A., CCC-SLP has been working as a Speech-Language Pathologist for over 12 years. Prior to starting at Monkey Mouths, she worked at Therapy 2000 home health agency. During that time, Patricia served as a Team Manager II supervising a team of speech therapists and mentoring other team managers. In addition to management duties, she provided mentoring for therapists in feeding and hearing disorders in addition to serving her own patients. Patricia has also previously worked at Arlington Memorial Hospital as the primary pediatric outpatient therapist with cross-training in adult acute care. She has collaborated with occupational therapists, case managers, physical therapists, referring pediatricians and specialty physicians (ENTs, GI, pulmonologists, neurologists, dietitians, etc) and social workers in both settings to provide the best services for each of the patients she has served. Patricia has extensive education and training in working with children with autism (SCERTS model by Barry Prizant, The Hanen Program More Than Words), apraxia of speech (Kaufman Apraxia System, PROMPT, Deborah Beckman Oral Motor approach, Talk Tools), cleft palate/lip and velopharyngeal dysfunction, voice disorders, articulation and phonological processing disorders (Sound Card System, Hodson Approach to Phonological Disorders), language disorders (The Hanen Program It Takes Two to Talk, Tamara Kaspar Sign to Talk), and fluency disorders. Patricia has experience with programming and integrating alternative augmentative communication into daily activities (Dynavox/Mayer Johnson, Tobii, IPAD/My Talk and ProLoQuo2Go, CommLink 3G, PRC, PECS, Tango, LAMP), therapeutic handling for support, and modifications for children with visual impairments. Patricia is passionate about feeding and hearing disorders and has training which includes Advanced Vital Stim, MBSS (Jeri Logeman), G-tube weaning and transitioning to oral feedings (Marsha Dunn Klein), SOS (Sequential Oral Sensory) approach, Special Populations in Feeding: Extreme Food Hyperselectivity, Frasier Water Protocol, Get Permission Approach to Feeding, Breathing, Digestion, and Swallowing in High Risk Infants, AVT techniques for hearing impairment (attended TCU Listening and Spoken Language Summer Institute), use of amplification (BAHA, FM systems), and some sign language. She has provided patient/family training on Passy Muir Valve to produce voice and support safe swallowing for patients with a tracheostomy and/or ventilator dependence, and assists in successful carryover of home programs. Patricia encourages interactive, positive therapy with patients that involves parents/family for meaningful experiences that can be carried into the home and community. Patricia loves watching hockey, attending TCU football games, traveling, singing, and spending time with her husband David.
Stacey Stewart M.S., CCC-SLP has been working as a speech pathologist for over 18 years. Her management experience includes serving as a new employee mentor, intern supervisor, and Clinical Fellow supervisor at Cook Children's Medical Center, and a student intern mentor at Medical Center of Lewisville. In addition, prior to coming to Monkey Mouths, Stacey acted as assistant supervisor at a private practice for children with autism while providing direct, inclusive speech therapy services. She has managed the Monkey Mouths Flower Mound/Coppell clinic location for the last 2 years while providing direct speech therapy services, as well as worked with Monkey Mouths for the last 7 years. In terms of language evaluation and treatment experience, Stacey's autism background includes training from Vincent Carbone PhD, BCBA, Mark Sundburg PhD, BCBA, Tamara Kasper M.S., CCC-SLP/BCBA and Patrick McGreevy PhD, BCBA. In addition to Stacey's strong language background, she has also worked with adult and child oral-motor, swallowing, and feeding disorders with training by Rona Alexander PhD, CCC-SLP, Jeri Logemann PhD, CCC-SLP, Pam Marshalla, M.A., CCC-SLP, Deborah Beckman, M.S., CCC-SLP and Renee Roy-Hill M.S., CCC-SLP with Talk Tools. She has completed evaluations and provided treatment for patients with feeding and swallowing disorders through bedside evaluations and Modified Barium Swallow Studies for children and adults for Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, Medical Center of Lewisville, and Exempla Lutheran Medical Center in Arvada, Colorado. She is also certified in the S.O.S. (Sequential Oral Sensory) Feeding Therapy program. In terms of voice evaluation and treatment, Stacey is trained in Vocal Cord Dysfunction evaluation and treatment and is experienced in evaluation and treatment of children with Velopharyngeal Insufficiency related to cleft lip and palate and other disorders. She is also raising a child of her own who was born with cleft lip and palate. In addition, she has experience with Passy-Muir tolerance for children with tracheostomy. In order to better serve patients with articulation disorders and apraxia, Stacey has trained in the Sound Card System, PROMPT and the Kaufman Apraxia System. Stacey feels that creating a loving and nurturing therapeutic environment for the child with an open line of communication between the clinician and the child's parent is vital to successful treatment. Stacey enjoys reading, writing, and spending time with her husband, Jeff, and their two sons.
Mary Brezik, M.S., CCC-SLP joined Monkey Mouths, LLC in August 2012 as a speech pathology graduate from the University of Texas at Dallas. Upon employment with Monkey Mouths, Mary obtained her PROMPT certification and was trained in the Visualizing and Verbalizing System through Lindamood Bell, Sound Card System, Nancy Kaufman Apraxia System, Lori Overland Feeding Therapy, and Talk Tools Oral Placement Therapy. She uses American Sign Language (ASL) and some Spanish to supplement therapy sessions as needed. Mary is a classically trained soprano and pianist and treats a variety of voice disorders including Vocal Cord Dysfunction (VCD), vocal nodules, and velopharyngeal insufficiency. She pursued clinical voice training with Dr. Shaheen N. Awan, Ph.D., CCC-SLP and Janis Deane, M.Ed, CCC-SLP and attended the UT Southwestern Otolaryngology Department's Singer's Symposium. Her most recent performance was Beethoven's 9th Symphony "Ode to Joy" at Bass Performance Hall with the TCU Concert Chorale and Orchestra. Mary treats a variety of feeding disorders and has pursued feeding training in Infant Feeding at Cook Children's Hospital, is certified in the S.O.S. (Sequential Oral Sensory) Feeding Therapy program, Pediatric MBS: The Clear Picture, and Adult/Pediatric VitalStim Therapy. She was clinically trained in Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) by Susan E. Langmore, Ph.D, CCC-SLP, BRS-S at Boston Medical Center. Mary performs FEES studies and voice evaluations for velopharyngeal incompetency via nasoendoscopy at the Fort Worth clinic. Mary enjoys volunteering, traveling, and supporting local organizations with her husband.
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August 24, 1814: Burning of Washington
One of the more humiliating events in American history, the burning of Washington was the low point in American fortunes during the War of 1812.
After the British landed an army to attack Washington, Captain Johsua Barney, a Catholic and Revolutionary War hero, go here to read about him, and 500 of his sailors and marines, joined the American army seeking to stop the invaders. At the battle of Bladensburg on August 24, 1814, Barney and his men put up a spirited defense, with cutlasses and bayonets against the advancing British, and throughout it all Barney rallying his men with cries of "Board 'em! Board 'em!" Ultimately the Americans retreated, and Barney, seriously wounded, was captured one last time in his career by the British. After being paroled by his captors, he spent the rest of the War recuperating at his farm in Maryland. The heroic stand of Barney and his men had given enough time for Washington to be evacuated, and after the war the grateful citizens of Washington presented a sword to the old sailor for the land fight which ended his naval career.
The Brits occupied Washington, plundered it, and burned the public buildings. President James Madison was with the army and First Lady Dolley Madison took charge at the White House, organizing the evacutation of valuables from the White House just prior to the arrival of the Brits, escaping herself in a carriage, clutching an original copy of the Declaration of Independence. The British occupation of Washington lasted only twenty-six hours, a huge storm striking Washington, with a tornado going through the center of the capital, killing both British troops and American civilians. The Brits retreated to their ships, many of which were damaged by the storm. The heavy rains that accompanied the storm extinguished the fires that had been set by the Brits.
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I'm starting to know how those Brits must have felt…
I always wondered how the fires were extinguished. Divine Providence, an answer to Washington's prayer at Valley Forge.
There were times when I worked there…that I wished the British had succeeded in razing the place.
My favorite view of Our Nation's Capital…is in my rearview mirror as I am leaving.
I would have thought that the low point in American fortunes was the failure to take Canada. By August 1814 Britain was in a position to commit substantial forces to the conflict (Bonaparte had abdicated on 11 April) but the Americans were also in a better position militarily. The burning of Washington was humiliating but was a reprisal for the American burning of York (Toronto) and was of no strategic significance. Within a few weeks the Americans had won an important victory at Plattsburgh and the British had failed to take Baltimore. This meant that the British negotiators at Ghent could not insist on territorial concessions and the treaty of 24 December simply restored the status quo ante bellum.
Of course the US, which had declared war in the first place, did not achieve her war aims and incurred significantly higher casualties than the British, so on any fair assessment lost the war; except that the war was to a large extent about national honour, and the Americans did vindicate theirs. It was also a defining moment in the history of British North America (Canada), not to mention the aboriginal inhabitants of the continent.
I see that the British Embassy in Washington has had to tweet an apology for producing a commemorative cake showing the White House surrounded by sparklers. Someone has obviously had a sense of humour failure.
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Nine men have been arrested and booked on child pornography and similar counts after an undercover operation targeting suspected child pornography possessors, state officials said Wednesday.
The men, who live in parishes across south Louisiana, appeared to have been acting individually and not as part of a larger operation, said David Ferris, section chief of the Louisiana Attorney General's High Tech Crime Unit.
Authorities executed 12 warrants between Saturday and Tuesday during an investigation called "Operation Blackjack," Ferris said at a news conference.
Three other people are still being investigated, and additional arrests may be possible, he said.
Of the 145 counts in the arrests thus far, 113 were for pornography involving juveniles, 24 were for distributing pornography involving juveniles, and five were for producing pornography involving juveniles, according to an Attorney General's Office news release.
Agents with the Louisiana Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force coordinated the effort among local, state and federal investigators, Attorney General Buddy Caldwell said at the news conference.
"This has been an unbelievable cooperative agreement between federal, state and local prosecutors to do what I call 'God's work' in getting rid of sexual predators and people that prey on our children," Caldwell said.
The men booked and the counts against them:
- John Andrew Becnel, 22, 42391 La. 621, Gonzales, booked into Ascension Parish Prison on 20 counts of pornography involving juveniles.
- Bradley Bourque, 32, 13535 Devall Road, Baton Rouge, booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on 25 counts of pornography involving juveniles.
- Robert Hawes, 58, 615 W. Napoleon St., Sulphur, booked into Calcasieu Parish Prison on 16 counts of pornography involving juveniles.
- Tony J. Latiolais, 46, 1119 Clifton Angelle, Breaux Bridge, booked into St. Martin Parish Prison on one count each of indecent behavior with a juvenile and computer-aided solicitation of a minor.
- Chad Sonnier, 32, 853 E. Venable St., Church Point, booked into Acadia Parish Prison on a count of pornography involving juveniles.
- Jude Stelly, 29, 1094 Mustang Circle, St. Martinville, booked into St. Martin Parish Prison on 10 counts of possessing pornography involving juveniles and 10 counts of distributing pornography involving juveniles.
- Joshua Villa, 33, 101 Janin Road, Broussard, booked into Lafayette Prison on an aggravated sex crime count; 20 counts of possessing pornography involving juveniles; nine counts of distributing pornography involving juveniles; and five counts of producing pornography involving juveniles.
- Michael Wesley, 57, 22945 Jade Drive, Plaquemine, booked into Iberville Parish Prison on 11 counts of pornography involving juveniles.
- Lucas Wimberly, 27, 648 Arsene Lebleu Road, Lake Charles, booked into Calcasieu Parish Prison on 10 counts of possession of pornography involving juveniles and five counts of distributing pornography involving juveniles.


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Mystic Grand Canyon of Tianshan Mountain has a length of about 5.5 kilometers in the east and west direction and is formed by red brown sand stone carved by the wind as well as the rain. The Grand Canyon is quiet and mysterious with special scenery inside it. The mountain bodies vary in shapes and the peaks stand high into the sky with channel inside channel and vale inside vale. Sceneries like Nantian Gate, Soul Vale, Moon Tooth Canyon, Tiger Tooth Bridge, Motian Cave and Lion Tears and so on are as lively as true. There is a grotto of Tang Dynasty on the mountain cliff about 1.4 kilometers away from the entrance of the canyon and fresco as well as Chinese characters can be found traces on the southern, northern and western walls of the grotto. There is another canyon located about 700 meters away from the Grand Canyon serving as an accompaniment. Mystic Grand Canyon of Tianshan Mountain is a canyon integrating magnificence, danger, quietness, mystery and uniqueness in a whole and anyone who has visited it by himself can not help singing high of it.
The Grand Canyon lies in a shape of camber in the direction of South and North with the entrance bending to the direction of south east a little bit and the ending part bending to the direction of north east a little bit. It is composed of the main vale and seven branch vales with a total length of more than 5000 meters and the natural fall of the top of the vale against the bottom part. The bottom of the vale varies in breadth with the widest 53 meters and the narrowest 0.4 meters which can only allow the passage of one person passing with sideways in the state of bending. The mountains on the side of the canyon are rugged and stand high to show themselves and the peaks are piled up and look magnificent reaching the sky as well as the earth while the mysterious caves and grottos are equipped with special flavors. The vale itself wanders and bends with the roads change suddenly with the peaks change and you will enjoy a different view even only after one step. The spring runs happily and the birds sing gladly all year long with no season differentiation, which is considered to be a wonder by the visiting tourists. The whole canyon is just like a huge dragon sleeping on a broken mountain with its tail on the peak of Tianshan Mountain and its mouth drinking water in the Ku River(it starts from the source of Kuche River) and its body bending for nearly ninety nine times. It can make the nature change the climate and is mysterious beyond people's imagination. What makes people more amazed is that there is a site of the Thousand Buddha Caves Site of the fresco started in the peak period of Tang Dynasty on a cliff wall with a height of nearly 35 meters about 1400 meters deep from the entrance of the Grand Canyon. In terms of written recording and the arts of painting, it is the best and can hardly be compared among all the three hundred Buddha grottos that have been discovered in the region of the ancient Western Region. Vale does not exist without the accompaniment of mountains and the steep mountains make the vale especially quiet. The average attitude of the canyon area is 1600 meters and the highest peak is 2048 meters. All the mountains and peaks composing the Grand Canyon are composed of mud sandstone in the color of red and the local Uighur people call it "Kirzriya" which means red mountain cliff in Chinese. Mystic Grand Canyon is located in the Kirzriya Scenic Spot, one of the nine movie making scenic spots of China. The huge red mountain body was formed in Cretaceous of the Mesozoic Ages that was about 1400 million years from now. Vertically crossed channels and mountains formed after millions of years of erudition and washing of the wind and rain look like Potala Palace seen from far away with the flavor of poems. While the jade like pavilions are like human beings examined closely and they are lively and characterized with all kinds of expressions like people buried in dreams. After seeing this, you can not help admire the great power of the nature creating the marvelous sceneries. Among all the mountains, the three ones standing on the entrance of the canyon (Naitou Mountain, Beauty Mountain and Buddha Face Mountain) are the most magnificent. Especially when you look at them in the light of sun set sunshine or the sunglow in the morning. What is in your eyes is red when you look into distance. And you will have the feeling that you have arrive Fire Flame Mountain although it is not.
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Examines the theory of failure for metallic structures; fatigue properties, fatigue load spectrum, fatigue crack propagation, fracture mechanics, damage tolerance, fretting and corrosion fatigue, design applications, and case studies. Prerequisite: A A 530 or equivalent or permission of instructor. Offered: W, odd years.
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AA 531- Integrity of Metallic Aircraft Structures Winter 2011 Syllabus
Instructor: Dr. Patrick Safarian, PE- (206)999-7885, firstname.lastname@example.com Teaching Assistant: Francesco Deleo, PhD Candidate, email@example.com Classroom: Loew Hall Room 202 Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30-4:50 Text: Schijve, Jaap, Fatigue of Structures and Materials, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2009; Second Edition
Full Course Outline: 1. Introduction to Fatigue Mechanism a. Background and History b. Crack nucleation c. Crack growth d. Fatigue failure 2. Design Considerations a. Stress concentration b. Eccentricity c. Load transfer d. Hard point e. Residual stresses f. Surface treatment g. Computational tools 3. Stress Intensity Factors a. Definition, K b. Elastic crack tip stresses c. Strain energy release rate, G d. Relationship of G and K e. Computation techniques f. Applications
4. Fatigue Properties a. Fatigue limits b. S-N curves c. Fatigue diagrams d. Fatigue crack growth
5. Fatigue Strength a. Notched and unnotched specimens b. S-N curves c. Analytical prediction 6. Fracture Mechanics a. Griffith theory b. Crack growth properties c. Fracture toughness d. Analytical prediction e. Crack tip plastic zone f. Plane stress and plane strain 7. Fatigue Loads and Spectra a. Load spectra b. Variable amplitude loading c. Effects of load history 8. Fatigue Damage Accumulation a. Crack growth b. Residual strength c. Failure analysis d. Fail safety e. Damage Tolerance f. Safe life g. Inspection 9. Fretting and Corrosion Fatigue a. Fretting corrosion mechanism and effects b. Corrosion fatigue mechanism and effects c. Methods to avoid 10. Fatigue and Failure of Joints and Structure a. Fastened structures b. Bonded structures c. Welded structures d. Stiffened structures Supplemental topics throughout the course include: "« Analytical and numerical methods to fatigue and damage tolerance analyses "« An extra session on a Saturday to show FEA applications "« Widespread Fatigue Damage and Limit of Validity "« Lessons learned from accidents "« Case studies
Project: The project will be assigned after the midterm exam, and will be due one week before the final exam. The project should be presenting the results using all good practices of a technical report, including the problem statement, the assumptions, documentation of the approach and results. Format of the project and neatness of your presentation will effect your grade.
Biographies: Patrick Safarian is the fatigue and damage tolerance technical specialist at FAA. Since 1997 he has been involved in ensuring safety of the existing fleet as well as certification of new products in Seattle Aircraft Certification Office, such as 787 and 747-8. Prior to that he spend eleven years at the Boeing Company. During that time he contributed to development of methods and allowables for fatigue and fracture mechanics standards for stress engineers, performed analytical and numerical stress analyses of highly complex structures, including failure analyses in support of in-service problems and accident investigations. Patrick received his BSME from Northrop University in 1983, MSME from California State University, Fullerton, in 1985, and completed his PhD work Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Davis, in 1987. In June 2004 he also completed his Doctorate in Theology at Bakke Graduate School. Patrick has taught damage tolerance and advance engineering mathematics courses while at Boeing for ten years. He has been teaching post-graduate engineering courses in the fields of fatigue, fracture mechanics and finite element analysis in University of Washington and Central Washington University since 1998. Patrick is married to Shohreh, and together they have five children.
Francesco Deleo has received his Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Washington in 2006. In 2007 Francesco joined the graduate program at the Aeronautics and Astronautics department at the University of Washington, where it has been in the top 10% of his class ever since. In April 2007 Francesco was awarded with the George Dragseth Endowed Fellowship for his academic excellence and research involvement. In December 2008, Francesco started his PhD under the supervision of Professor Paolo Feraboli. Now, in his last year as graduate student, Francesco has become the focal for all composite crashworthiness activities, experimental and analytical. He is now taking a leading role within the FAA-sponsored organization known as CMH-17, formerly the MIL-HDBK-17, where together with Professor Paolo Feraboli and Dr. Mostafa Rassaian of Boeing he is attempting to develop new test standards for composite materials and to generate guidelines for analysis procedures. Since 2007 Francesco has authored 6 journal publications and presented at several conferences, including the American Society of Composites (ASC), the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Joint Advanced Materials and Structures Center of Excellence (JAMS) and the Composite Materials Handbook (CMH-17).
Student learning goals
Concepts of fatigue, fracture mechanics and damage tolerance in aerospace structures analysis, including fatigue mechanism, fatigue properties and strength, stress intensity factor, damage accumulation, widespread fatigue damage, constant and variable amplitude loading, load spectra, crack growth, residual strength and failure criterion, fretting, corrosion and inspection methods. Analytical and numerical approaches to fatigue, fracture mechanics and widespread fatigue damage as part of regulatory agency requirements.
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Read chapters of the text book prior to the lectures will help the learning tremendously.
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Weekly homeworks that are due by next class period. Midterm exam is in two parts: 1)in class 2)take home. The final exam is take home. The course project will be assigned after the midterm exam, and will be due one week before the final exam.
Grading Criteria: Midterm 30% Final 40% Homework 15% Project 15%
Grades will be curved if necessary.
Project: The project will be assigned after the midterm exam, and will be due one week before the final exam. The project should be presenting the results using all good practices of a technical report, including the problem statement, the assumptions, documentation of the approach and results. Format of the project and neatness of your presentation will effect your grade.


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