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Freddie Mercury... no one else.
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So you're telling me someone who can't sing but sung Queen would be as good?
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everyone's voice is "one of a kind" he's a good singer but there's not a BEST singer in the world as if the world won't spew out better ones throughout the years.
Watch the video I posted.
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We can't have an answer for this question. How many amazing singers were there in history that we never heard about? Actually that nobody heard about?
We should also consider that some people will prefer a voice and other people will prefer a different kind of voice.
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Saying thanks is nice
Life is a box of chocolates
Yesterday I received a surprise gift that arrived on my doorstep (in a big box, a real one, not a virtual one) that put a smile on my face and delighted my family.
It reminded me that I need to get back to communicating the old-fashioned way ... by mail, in person, on the phone, sending gifts. Funnily enough, it coincided with the day Twitter went down, a day remarkably free of the constant ping, ding, beeps and tweets of my multi-tasking online life.
What was in the box? Extravagant, adventurous, delicious dark chocolate truffles by Artfully Chocolate Kingsbury Confections.
They were probably the best I have ever eaten, well, the best since I lived in France.
They were sent by InfoStreet, the Web site I reviewed recently.
What did this make me think?
- InfoStreet is a company that's embraces constructive criticism. Isn't that What Google Would Do? Well done.
- Here's a smart bit of PR that continues the good press. Any company can stand out by going against the current trends by sending a big fat envelope a curiously shaped parcel by snail mail. Check out the U.S. Postal Service's woes to see that sending something by mail has a rarity value these days.
- Saying thanks never goes out of fashion. I didn't expert it, nor does it affect what I say, but I sure did appreciate it.
Thanks InfoStreet.
By the way, the chocolates were amazing and interesting. My favorites were the Mimosa Twist, the Chipotle Cinnamon and the Brie (dark chocolate and sesame seeds). By the way, check out the ChocObama novelty chocolate (see image above).
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- Add a weapon to a unit. The unit must be local to the computer where command is executed. For a global version of this command see addWeaponGlobal.
Infantry units can only carry a specific number of weapons, once the weapon slots are filled, any further addWeapon commands are ignored.
- 句法:
- unit addWeapon weapon
- 参数:
- unit: Object - unit or vehicle to add the weapon to
- weapon: String - weapon class name. See the topic Category:Weapons for reference about possible values.
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- 范例1:
player addMagazine "30Rnd_556x45_Stanag"; player addWeapon "BAF_L85A2_RIS_SUSAT";
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An_2 addMagazine "100Rnd_762x51_M240"; An_2 addWeapon "M240_veh";
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- addWeaponGlobalremoveWeaponremoveAllWeaponsaddMagazine
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- Notes from before the conversion:
To ensure that the weapon is loaded at the start of the mission, add at least one magazine (addMagazine) before adding the weapon. To remove weapons use the removeAllWeapons or the removeWeapon commands.
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The United States Navy Memorial's "Authors on Deck" book lecture series proudly welcomes Lieutenant Commander Benjamin F. Armstrong, USN as he discusses his new book 21st Century Sims: Innovation, Education, and Leadership for the Modern Era (Naval Institute Press, 2015)
For more than two decades William S. Sims was at the forefront of naval affairs and was a central figure in preparing the U.S. Navy for World War I. During the war he served as the senior naval commander in Europe and was instrumental in the establishment of the convoy system. Despite the fact that he won a Pulitzer Prize for history and had a dramatic impact on the U.S. Navy, Sims' books and articles are still often overlooked.
This book is a collection of Admiral Sims' written work, and it investigates his relevance in addressing the questions facing today's military personnel and policymakers. Armstrong's introductions and analysis of these essays links them directly to the issues of innovation, professional education, and leadership that are as important at the start of this century as they were at the start of the last.
Following the presentation, Armstrong will be available for a Q&A session and book signing.
WHEN: Wednesday, May 27, 2015
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Man, streaks are hard to maintain.
Wednesday's game had all the makings of a game the Quad-City Mallards would lose, not so much because of poor play, but it just made sense. The Mallards were coming out of the holiday break, Indy had just scored six goals in an 8-6 loss to Fort Wayne the other night, and no matter how much a team struggles, 14 straight losses is really hard to pull off.
You have to think at some point the bounces would go Indy's way, and it just felt like tonight would be the night.
The Mallards did their best to help.
The first period was dominated by the Mallards, and they looked the far better team, but could only put up one goal. As the second period went on, the Fuel started mounting some pressure, and it felt like the Mallards needed at least one more goal to win, even with C.J. Motte playing well in net.
Unfortunately, the Mallards never could pad their lead, and Indy finally broke through.
I will credit the Mallards for responding, but Indy definitely played the third period like a desperate team, and I'd expect nothing less from a team trying to snap a streak of futility that is one of the worst in league history.
However, the Mallards' biggest strength this year has been C.J. Motte, and he came up big in the shootout, keeping the Mallards alive until Alex Petan scored the shootout winner.
It's not a good win by any means for the Mallards, but it's not a bad one. Indy is going to be a very tough team for anyone who plays them while this streak is going. The Fuel will be playing desperate, and the opposition will be tentative for fear of being the team that breaks the streak.
Credit to the Mallards for coming out of the holiday break and getting a win that might have eluded them in years past.
Here are a few other thoughts.
Defensive improvements
C.J. Motte was incredible, but that's old news by now. He was superb in the shootout, and that shouldn't be glossed over, because he had all the pressure on him each time the Mallards failed to capitalize on their end.
However, I am gaining more confidence in the growth of the team's defensive zone since the start of the season. Early on it was clear Indy's plan of attack was to try and get pucks to the slot and beat Motte with a one-timer or wrist shot. The Mallards consistently got sticks in the passing lanes and broke up several Fuel chances early. That wasn't happening early.
The Fuel upped their pressure throughout the game, but for the most part, the play in the defensive zone was solid. One goal came on a bad pass from Dylan Labbe in the neutral zone which led to a 2-on-1, and the other came because Justin Kovacs lost position on Josh Shalla in the defensive zone. Kovacs' lapse wasn't good, but a small blip on what I felt was a strongly played defensive game.
LaPorte coming on
It was a slow start to the season for Nolan LaPorte, pointless in his first five games, but the rookie is starting to really come on strong for the Mallards.
He is currently on an eight-game point streak and has three goals and eight assists in that span. He was all over the place Wednesday, scoring the game's first goal and getting several other great looks throughout the night.
It seems LaPorte and Chris Francis are really starting to click, and that could be a big boost for the Mallards. I thought LaPorte was a great addition just before the start of the season, coming out of the Washington Capitals' camp, and he's starting to look like a pretty solid scoring threat.
Monfredo reaches 300
This was defenseman Mike Monfredo's 300th game with the Mallards, and that does deserve mentioning.
In a league where roster turnover is pretty high, it's impressive that Monfredo has been with the Mallards as long as he has. It speaks to his consistency and durability that he's been able to play in so many games, and he's been a very solid player on both ends of the ice.
He's got a little ways to go to catch the all-time Mallards' greats, but if he plays another few seasons here, he might find his name up in the rafters in the iWireless Center at the end of his career.


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Wall Street is betting as big as ever
JPMorgan Chase last week disclosed a surprise $2 billion loss from unsuccessful trades.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Wall Street's risk appetite is back, and the bets are as big as ever.
JPMorgan's announcement last week of an expected $2 billion loss from the bank's trading activities offers a painful lesson: It's hard to limit and define what kind of trades might mitigate risks for a bank with roughly $2.3 trillion in assets.
"If this type of problem can happen at JPMorgan Chase, (JPM, Fortune 500) which has better risk management, it can happen over time at others with weaker infrastructures, such as Citigroup (C, Fortune 500) and Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500)," said Mike Mayo, a bank analyst at Credit Agricole Securities.
In the past two years, most major banks have shut down their proprietary trading desks, which had let them make massive speculative bets on everything from market direction to housing.
Banks took that proactive step in anticipation of the Volcker Rule, set to go into effect this July, which restricts banks from operating them. JPMorgan's CEO, Jamie Dimon, has been one of the rule's most strident critics.
But JPMorgan's big bad bet, which was supposed to act as a protection against risk, would not be considered a violation of the Volcker Rule.
"What do you call a hedge and what do you call a bet? There are many situations when there's a very gray area between the two," said Andrew Lo, a professor of finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For JPMorgan, the losing trade was carried out by its chief investment office in London that was essentially tasked with keeping JPMorgan from losing big under any adverse conditions.
In recent years, Dimon had built up this central risk office and brought in players from proprietary trading desks and hedge funds, and given the unit large pools of money to work with.
JPMorgan's bad trades used the same instrument that caused the downfall of AIG (AIG, Fortune 500): credit default swaps — essentially insurance contracts that investors use to insure against, or profit from, a default.
For most of this year, JPMorgan's traders had been placing large bets on an index comprising a basket of investment grade companies, according to several market participants. Many of these bets were complex and highly leveraged.
"We're a big bank [and] the securities portfolio had an unrealized gain of $8 billion," Dimon told David Gregory Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"In hindsight, we took far too much risk. The strategy we had was barely vetted. It was barely monitored. It should never have happened," he added.
As hedge funds and other trading desks took notice of the bank's bets, they essentially ganged up on JPMorgan by taking opposing positions.
"People started becoming more aware that someone had one big position, and it was going deeply underwater. It was like sharks seeing blood," said a source in the trading unit of a competing firm.
JPMorgan's trader, dubbed the "white whale," found it difficult to unwind his outsize positions, leading to last week's disclosure.
"Hedging should make your bank less risky. In this particular case, we made a terrible mistake," Dimon said Sunday. "You're not going to make banks risk-free, but we agree with the standards that make it safer."
This isn't the first time in recent years that JPMorgan has taken big bold bets.
"For some time, JPMorgan has been taking huge positions in commodities, currencies and credit derivatives," said Janet Tavakoli, president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, who formerly worked for JPMorgan's Dimon at Bank One. "It looks to me this was being run as a prop desk, not to hedge the firm's overall risk."
Sadly, details about just how big these bets are at any bank remain sparse. "Derivatives don't appear on balance sheets," said Lo. "There's an unfortunate complexity in these scuttles and there's an inability of the accounting framework to show them."
Dimon addressed the question of just how much he knew last month when he called news reports saying these bets had gone awry a "tempest in a teapot."
"First of all, I was dead wrong when I said that," Dimon said during his "Meet the Press" interview. "I obviously didn't know or I never would have said that."
"We got very defensive, and people started justifying everything we did. The mistake had been brewing for a while," he added, while also acknowledging that it's right for regulators to be investigating, which they reportedly are, both in the United States and the United Kingdom.
JPMorgan did not return further calls for comment.
As the markets await more details about what happened, analysts and trader agree on one thing. This may appear to be an anomaly right now, but there are more billion dollar fumbles to come.
"We've seen it before and we'll see it again," said Mayo.


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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Review by lylemcd
"Dragon's Lair for the year 2001"
Ok, so I got the PS2 for Christmas that I wanted. Although I was supposed to get Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3, it didn't come in time. So I went and picked up my other first choice game, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Having played and (mostly) enjoyed Metal Gear Solid, and after reading the reviews, as mixed as they were, I wanted to check it out.
Now, looking at the other Gamefaqs reviews (not to mention the ones in the video game magazines), MGS2 looks like possibly the greatest game ever made. 9 and 10 out of 10 reviews here and 5 stars in the video game magazines should indicate a revolutionary new game, right? As with a few other reviews on Gamefaqs, you can tell that I disagree, since I only gave the overall game a 5. I'll explain the somewhat odd title of this review in a second since that ties in with the problems. First let's get the easy stuff out of the way.
Graphics: 10/10
There's no debate, MGS2 has reached a new level of graphical excellence. Considering the power of the PS2, this isn't really that much of a shocker. Frankly, a sub-par graphical game on the PS2 would be more of a surprise. The models are great and everything looks about as close to realistic as it can right now. Just beautiful overall.
Controls: 10/10
Although there's a lot going on and a lot of button controls to learn, the controls are tight and playable. You'll never have something go wrong control-wise unless you screwed up.
Sound-effects: 10/10
Amazing, as to be expected. The objects in the game have sounds that are as realistic as they can be. From slight differences in footsteps depending on whether you're walking or running, the sound of shell casings hitting the floor, etc. At the same time, there are enough video-gamey sounds (like when the guards are alerted to your presence) thrown in so that it's not just an exercise in hyper-realism.
Music: 10/10
The music was scripted by an individual (I forget his name offhand) who has done a lot of movie work. As you can imagine, it matches the tone/situation of the game well. Tense situations get tense music while sad situations get sad music.
Story: 5/10
This is where the game starts to run into problems. First, there is a LOT of story, told through endless full motion videos (which look beautiful) and Codec (communicator) sequences. Quite in fact, watching/listening to the story unfold takes up the majority of the play time of the game.
On top of that, the story is just too convoluted. The constant plot twists (although some are just too obvious), not to mention some of the forced melodrama and cliche is just a little too much to handle after a while. Dealing with the rather preachy/philosophical stuff near the end of the game (which was, admittedly, part of the ending of MGS as well) is simply tiresome. There are times when I sat there just asking myself 'Do I get to play again yet?' And then another 5 minutes of FMV before I did. Which brings us to:
Gameplay: 3/10
Yup, that's right, I gave it a 3. This is where I feel the game goes horribly wrong. Yes, I realize that the Metal Gear franchise basically invented the idea of tactical espionage and sneaking instead of running and gunning and that's great and inventive. But I just didn't find MGS2 fun to play. And not just because of the sneaking aspect. I have no problem with a more strategy based game and some of the situations you get yourself into are pretty tense. And, in a lot of ways, it is more challenging to have to find ways to sneak past guards than just kill everyone in sight. So it's not the concept itself I have trouble with.
It's the overall game play. Which happens to remind me of Dragon's Lair so it's time to explain my review title. Ok, for those of you too young to remember, Dragon's Lair was a 'revolutionary' laser disc video game of the classic age that looked like a cartoon (it was done by Don Bluth of Disney fame). In Dragon's lair, you had to follow a very set script, with little variety. If you did so, you got a little bit of video that advanced the 'story' (rescuing Princess Daphne from the dragon) ; if you did something wrong, you died. Basically, it just took a ton of trial and error (and in this case, quarters) to figure out how to get through the game. Make a move, die. Make a different move, die. Make a third move, die. Put in new quarter. Make a fourth move, aha ; game continues to next sequence. Frankly, the game was way more fun to watch than to play.
That's what MGS2 feels like to me. In this case there is a bit more freedom in what you do to get past a certain task. You can sneak past the guards, you can tranquilize them with your gun, you can distract them, etc. And there's more twitch action involved compared to Dragon's Lair (where the options were right, left, up, down, button). Aiming, timing shots, that sort of stuff does add a bit and is all necessary to accomplish your goal. But fundamentally it's about the same. Do your task, then you get your reward, a lovely full motion video (some of which go on forever) and then you move to the next task. A lot of the levels in MGS2 are simply try, die, repeat ; until you figure out how to get past it. Then the FMV then the next thing to do.
And even though the game feels 'open-ended', it's really not. Between locked doors, strategically placed boxes, and your cast of characters prodding you in certain directions, your path through the game is actually fairly set. There are a few exceptions but detailing them would act as a spoiler so I'm not going to.
I guess what I'm getting at is that MGS2 is more like playing an interactive type movie than a game. Frankly, I think Hideo Kojima would be better off making a movie (similar to Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within) although he'd need a better scriptwriter. MGS2 isn't far off from that.
Replayability: N/A in my case
I suppose MGS2 has replayability but I'm not going to find out. The main task revolves around getting up to 150 dog tags off the guards, which sounds more like an exercise in tedium than anything else. Unlike the original MGS, there aren't even alternate endings so there's no real reason to play through for that either. And while the idea of playing on impossible difficulties, or trying to get a better rating (which is based on such things as hwo many times you die, save, use rations, etc) might be interesting to the most hardcore of gamers, I just can't seem to see the point in it. I've played to the end, I got my cheese, I was left unfulfilled. Not only won't I be replaying MGS2, I'll be trading it in for another game very shortly.
Overall: 5/10
Beautiful? Yes. Great sounds and music? Yes. Tight controls? Yes. Story? Well.....
And frankly, I just didn't find it fun. Getting to the end was more an exercise in 'Well, I've played this far so I might as well see what happens' than 'Man, I can't wait to fire this game up.'
Buy or rent: UNless you're one of the insane hardcore who's going to spend hours getting every dogtag or finding every little hidden easter egg or stuff like that, I see this as a rental. With a little effort, finishing it to the end in the 5 days you get to hold onto it should be plenty.
Reviewer's Rating: 2.5 - Playable
Originally Posted: 01/02/02, Updated 01/02/02
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Siiiggggh, and I wanted it to be simple. This approach looks doomed; nested functions apparently don't play nice in this scenario. The test case that invokes log(val) fails, and digging in a little it looks like the results of nested functions are in the DocValues array, which makes the approach below nonsense unless we do some fancy dancing that would be pretty limited in its utility. Saved again by someone's diligence with the unit tests <G>. can anyone confirm? Thanks, Erick On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Erick Erickson <email@example.com> wrote: > Mostly, I'm checking to see if I'm hallucinating or not before going forward.... > > ScaleFloatFunction.getValues iterates through all the values for a > field in all the documents to find the min and max for a particular > field it's using. So far, so good. But is this really necessary every > time it gets called? I don't think these numbers change if the index > hasn't changed, right? Couldn't the min and max just be cached the > first time around? > > If one were to work up a patch (both 3.x and 4.x I think), I assume > that reader.getVersion() and min and max could be cached the first > time around and the list iterated only when the version changes... > > The only fly I see in the ointment is that the values would have to be > shared amongst multiple threads, what's the preferred way to > synchronize such a thing? It's been a long time since I've been in > Java synchronization methods.... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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This paper investigates the influence of the combination of the scalability parameters in scalable video coding (SVC) schemes on the subjective visual quality. We aim at providing guidelines for an adaptation strategy of SVC that can select the optimal scalability options for resource-constrained networks. Extensive subjective tests are conducted by using two different scalable video codecs and high definition contents. The results are analyzed with respect to five dimensions, namely, codec, content, spatial resolution, temporal resolution, and frame quality.
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Peshawar: Javed Omar and Habibul Bashar put the Pakistan bowlers to the sword on a record-breaking first day for Bangladesh in the second Test at the Arbab Niaz Stadium on Wednesday.
Bangladesh, without a win in their previous 22 Tests, took control at 240 for two by the close after electing to bat first on a pitch that offered nothing to the bowlers.
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Bangladesh lost the first Test in Karachi by seven wickets.
Omar, who made 85 runs in his debut Test against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo in 2001, grinded out 96 unbeaten runs for his side by the end of Wednesdays one-sided play.
He slowed down considerably when he lost Bashar just after tea. Bashar missed out on a back-to-back century against Pakistan when he was declared leg before to Shabbir Ahmed three runs short of his third Test hundred.
The right hander, who scored 71 and 108 at Karachi last week in the first Test, faced 167 balls and hit nine fours.
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Bashar has now featured in eight of the nine century partnerships recorded by Bangladesh.
Pakistan skipper Latif kept ringing the changes in the bowling, hoping to unsettle the batsmen but despite all his efforts there were only two occasions in the day when the batsmen played false strokes.
Bashar, on 57 and with the total on 118 runs, offered a sharp chance to Yasir Hameed at silly point off Kaneria but he did not accept the chance. Than on 84 he played a drive at Shabbir Ahmed and Mohammad Hafeez just got a hand to the ball in the covers.
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Dawson-Boyd (3-1, 3-1)
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If the Blackjacks are to prove they're capable of coming back from a tough loss and rekindling their state-tournament dreams, they couldn't get a better test than this one.
D-B is coming off an 18-14 home loss to Minneota last week, the Blackjacks' first loss in 17 games. Tonight, they'll take on the Dragons, who are 4-0 and ranked No. 3 in Class A. D-B, the defending Class A champ, held the top spot in Class A until the Minneota defeat.
Justin Lee leads the area with 466 rushing yards and Joey Lee is among the area's top passers with 545 yards, six touchdowns and just one interception. What may trouble the Blackjacks' staff, however, is being unable to score in the second half and giving up 384 yards of total offense last week. That definitely will have to change if D-B hopes to get back on track.
ACGC (3-1, 3-1) at Morris/Chokio-Alberta (4-0, 4-0)
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at LQPV (3-1, 3-1)
LQPV holds the wild card in the West Central Conference race. BOLD and Morris/CA lead the league with 4-0 records. ACGC and LQPV are tied at 3-1. But here's where the Eagles could throw the whole thing up in the air: Morris/CA and BOLD won't play this year and BOLD already has defeated ACGC while ACGC plays at MCA tonight. A couple of upset wins by the Eagles and Falcons and the WCC is in a four-way tie.
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Ottertail Central (1-1, 3-1)
KMS won its opener and then was blitzed, 47-0, the next week at Barnesville. But the lopsided loss didn't sap the Saints' resolve and they rebounded nicely, winning at home in their third game and then claiming a 31-5 victory on the road last week.
The Saints share the Prairie South Conference lead with Browerville and Ottertail Central is a game back, losing its only game two weeks ago against Browerville. A victory for the Saints would set up a first-place showdown with Browerville -- provided the Tigers can manage a road win at 3-1 Royalton tonight -- on Oct. 5 in Murdock.
KMS is averaging 21 points per game while allowing 18 per game. Ottertail has been scoring a little more (27.5 points per game) and gives up about 17 points per game.
KMS' Jordan Rothers is among the area's top 10 runners, with 338 rushing yards, and he's scored 7 touchdowns.


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A beautiful new ship!!!: Marina Cruise Review by Joyousness
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A beautiful new ship!!!
Destination: Baltic Sea
Embarkation: Stockholm
The embarkation and disembarkation was spotlessly organized with virtually NO waiting, so this was a surprise given the amount of people. As you enter the ship, you will be floored by the amount of Lalique crystal,and incredible Murano glass decorates the ship throughout. The furnishings are stunning, but not flashy...and the main dining room is a wonder to behold. Our stateroom was larger than any of the other ships we have cruised on (Crystal, Seabourn, Silversea and More Radisson) and the furnishings were beautiful. Our butler was around ALL the time, but unobtrusively.
The room was lovely, spacious and beautifully appointed, a stall shower plus a full size bath, a large walk in closet with every amenity a human being could want. I SHOULD mention though....try NOT to book the 11th floor...take the 9th or lower as the overhang on the 12th is a good ten feet larger on each side and blocks out the possibility of sun on your terrace...this is a big minus for me, so next time PH3 instead of PH1.
We booked our dining reservations through the internet the day after we booked, to insure that we got what we wanted when we wanted. The specialty dining was lovely, Jacques (the French) is a wonderful experience and one not to be missed. Red Ginger (the Asian) also, a stunning dining room, with an innovative menu, a real experience!! Toscana was good, but very much like the other ships, an Italian with all the trimmings. The Polo grill on this ship was disappointing, the steak was mediocre at best, and the first course left a lot to be desired. This restaurant needs some serious work (in my opinion) BUT the MAIN dining room was wonderful....there was something interesting every night on the menu, the service was impeccable, the sommeliers VERY well informed and we looked FORWARD to dining in the dining room.
I can't really say, as I didn't take an excursion ( we like to do our own thing in each town) but the excursions seemed VERY pricey to me, I would consider carefully each destination and decide whether or not an excursion is really necessary. The destination services provide you with a plethora of info about each town and how to navigate it.
We enjoyed the enrichment lectures, and were sorry there weren't more... but there were a lot of ports and very little time. I wasn't crazy about the entertainment to be honest. We tried it once or twice, and apart from a lovely quartet of brass, piano and guitar, we felt that the ship comes up short in this department...especially the pianist who I found particularly irritating (no concept of harmony at all?????) This is not really a problem when you have so many ports in a short period of time, but if I was sailing for an extended period, this would be very very annoying, and I would want to find out about the entertainment before I embark (cruises of 21 days and more)
In short, Oceania is one of the better cruise lines out there, price quality, it can't be beat, the food, the destinations, the service....really unparalleled. Less
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Enormous room...very very large walk in closet...stall shower AND full size bath, everything you could possibly want. I DO NEED TO TELL you Avoid the 11th floor, as the upper deck is a good ten feet larger and the overhang KILLS any possibility of sun on your terrace...be smart, take the NINTH FLOOR or lower!!!!!Read All Penthouse Suite (PH1) Reviews >>
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My job gives me the good fortune to interact with a lot of different people at many companies across every industry. It's one of the best parts of the job, but it also gives me the opportunity to hear the crazy things we in IT say.
Here is a sample of the dumb things I hear:
1. The system is down (or offline)
What do you mean down? Down where? Why is it offline? Which line was it on in the first place? Let's just try and simplify communicaitons and say it's broken. Be honest.
2. It's dead.
I didn't even know it was sick. Let's not be so morbid. Again, don't be afraid of the word broken.
3. It's a bug.
Come on, seriously? This phrase has been used as far back as 1878 by Thomas Edison, and more recently in 1947 by computer pioneer Grace Hopper, who experienced a problem when a moth became trapped in a relay. Sure the average piece of software is filled errors, but can't we come up with a better excuse?
4. That's odd.
Possible translations: I have no idea. Not sure. Got me. Someone else messed something up. Sorry, not my responsibility.
5. It's a paradigm shift.
No it's not. You're just changing your mind and are now trying to come up with a nice way of saying it.
6. We need to align our work with business priorities.
Is anyone in IT still saying that? If so, stop it right now. Of course we are aligned. We're part of the business and not some distant third-party. Does anyone ask if the finance or human resource groups are aligned? Of course not. Now they might not be (sorry to say it), but it's not questioned regularly. Solving this is squarely on the shoulders of IT. We must stop thinking we are not aligned, and stop behaving like we're a vendor.
7. Benefit Realization.
Isn't it in the very nature of a benefit to be realized? If not, then it's not a benefit in the first place. If you are not realizing the benefit you originally planned for, then stop doing it immediately because it's not adding value.
8. Have you tried turning it off, then on again?
Yup, a nod to The IT Crowd, the British sitcom by Channel 4. I can't explain this better than they do, so this is your queue to go watch. IT people need to stop saying it, and in turn the rest of us need to stop calling for help before trying it. It's part of life, even on a mobile device.
9. That's a feature.
Listen up software developers: No mistake in software code is a feature. We've been saying this for 20 years, and I think quality has improved enough to call a mistake a mistake, an error, or even a problem. Just don't say it was "by design".
10. This project is critical, but there's no ROI.
Did someone say no ROI? Is that possible? Please say no. Absolutely everything must have an ROI (return on investment), but it might not be just cost savings. The ROI could be improved service, cost avoidance, or improved productivity. Just don't say there is no ROI.
11. DMZ, Firewall, Virus, Post Mortem.
Do we have to be so focused on bad things that can kill us? There are too many military terms. Dear IT Security -- I know we are in a war to keep our companies safe, but do I need to be perpetually assaulted by these ominous terms? You can figure out a better way to scare us all.
12. Was it working before?
Really? Well, of course it was working before.
13. We are mobile enabling the application to run on an <insert your favorite phone>, it will do everything your PC does.
Yeah, have fun with that Windows interface on the 5" screen...
14. That can't be done.
You mean you don't want to do it, or don't want to admit that you don't know how to do it. It's embarrassing to think people in IT still say this. We in IT can do absolutely anything that our companies need to be done, with the appropriate funds. Technology is no longer a barrier to driving business success.
15. There's are no stupid questions.
Of course there are. As a matter of fact there are many, many stupid questions. Actually with the rise of cloud and mobile, there are more stupid questions than ever. However it's the job of IT people to deal with these questions in a way that educates and guides the person asking down the correct path.
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Baby Shower Pins-Which One Do You Like?
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they both look nice but I like the one on the left the best. I have a 4 year old named Kyra. Not to many people spell it that way. LOVE THE NAME! (of course I'm partial.)
Thanks! Kyra was the one name me and hubby agreed on. I love it but some of his family doesn't.
I have a Kyra too!
I like the pin with the organza ribbons.
I think I'm leaning towards the organza ribbons. DH likes the other one, though.


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The rough, first draft of MetalMark is done. I've moved on to revising, which for me is sometimes fairly in-depth and requires major heavy lifting. The first thing I did was add a new opening chapter. I decided to post my first six sentences today. Then, when I looked at them, ready to publish, I realized I didn't like them as the first sentences. They weren't enough to bring the reader in. So, a little rearranging and these are the latest opening lines. Let me know, would you keep reading?
Sitting at his desk and ignoring the sick feeling in his gut, he started the signalcast device that was of yet, still unfamiliar to him.
"Prince Lye," the disemboweled voice answered immediately. Someone always did, though he knew they didn't sit by their communications device anxiously awaiting his decision. "Do we have an agreement?"
"My blood samples in exchange for a seat in the Syndicate."
Edited to Add: Thanks for the catches on "disemboweled". Yes, it should be disembodied. You guys rock! Editors rock. They keep us from doing these sorts of things in public. I'm sure I was caught in the "sick feeling in his gut" imagery & made that mixup. Thanks again & I'm leaving it as is since that's how I posted it!


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Nauvoo the Beautiful
McGavin, E. Cecil
Place Published: Salt Lake City, UT
Publisher: Bookcraft, Inc.
Date Published: 1972
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Book Id: 12163
362pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan cloth covered boards with dark brown ink stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Illustrated map endpapers. Very good. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine with a trace of rubbing at the tips of the corners. The spine is subtly rolled. The dust jacket is in good condition only. Rubbed and creased. 1/4" of the tail of the spine has been chipped away: 1/2" at deepest. 1/4" chip in each of the other corners. There are numerous small closed tears in the edges as well. The longest tear measures 1 inch long.


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On 21 August 2017, a total eclipse of the Sun will cross the United States from coast to coast, giving tens of millions of people in a 70-mile-wide path from Oregon to South Carolina a chance to see the solar corona and experience all phases of the eclipse. The Moon's shadow will sweep across the country starting mid morning in Oregon with just under two minutes of totality and reaching maximum duration of approximately 2 minutes 40 seconds in Southern Illinois before exiting over South Carolina mid afternoon.
The Eclipse 2017 workshop was held in Carbondale, Illinois, on Friday and Saturday, 10 and 11 June 2016, at the SIU Carbondale Student Center, hosted by Bob Baer and Shadia Habbal. Select sessions on both days were open to the public at large with presentations to inform the public about the total solar eclipse of 2017.
Webcasting of Day 1 were done by WSIU campus PBS station staff.
Public Program
Friday, June 10, 2016
SIU Student Center
8:30 am: Doors open to public.
9:00 am – 12:00 pm: Public Session talks and workshops.
Main area Presentations (Ballroom B)
9:00 am: Welcome – Brad Colwell, SIU Carbondale Chancellor
9:15 am: Shadia Habbal – The Magic of Total Solar Eclipses
|Main Area Presentations (Ballroom B)
|River Room Workshop
|9:35 am: Charles Fulco – Eclipses 101
9:55 am: David Baron – Using the Eclipse to Illuminate History
10:15 am: Jay Ryan – Illustrating the Eclipse
|Workshop 1: Eclipse Tourism –Cinnamon Smith, Carbondale Convention and Tourism Bureau
10:35 – 11:00 am: Exhibitor and Poster viewing (Corker Lounge)
Main area Presentations (Ballroom D)
11:00 am: Fred Espenak – Glorious Totality!
11:30 am: Michael Zeiler – Tour of the Path of Totality
12 :00 – 1:00 pm: Lunch Break
1:00 – 1:30 pm: Exhibitor and Poster viewing (Corker Lounge)
Main area Presentations (Ballroom D)
1:30 pm: Matt Penn – The Citizen CATE Experiment
1:50 pm: Lou Mayo, Chris Giersch – NASA Eclipse 2017 Initiative, Part 1
2:20 pm: Lika Guhathakurta – NASA Eclipse 2017 Initiatives Part II.
|Main Area Presentations
|River Room Workshop
|2:40 pm: Bob Baer – Southern Illinois Eclipse 2017 planning
2:55 pm: Michelle Nichols – Adler's Year of the Eclipse
3:10 pm: Jim Todd – OMSI Preparations in Oregon
|Workshop 2: Eclipse cinematography – Mike Kentrianakis, Imaging the partial and total phases of the eclipse.
3:25 – 3:45 pm: Break
Main area Presentations (Ballroom D)
|Main Area Presentations
|River Room Workshop
|4:30 pm: Don Ficken – Eclipse Preparations in St. Louis
4:45 pm: Michael Bakich – Eclipse Preparations in St. Joseph
5 pm: Mike Kentrianakis – How to Work with the Media
5:15 pm: Michael Zeiler – Capitalizing on Social Media
|Workshop 3: Economical Eclipse Activities.
Michelle Nichols, Master Educator at Chicago's Adler Planetarium, will highlight fun, quick, and easy Sun and Moon activities for general public and family audiences using materials you probably already have around the office or your house.
Main area Presentations (Ballroom D)
5:30pm: Shadia Habbal – Closing remarks
Additional Activities during Day 1 breaks.
Poster Signing by Tyler Nordgren
Book signing by Fred Espenack
Solar observation / Sun funnel demonstration by SIU Citizen CATE Team and Chuck Bueter.
End Day 1
Saturday, June 11, 2016
SIU Student Center
8:20 am: Doors open to public
8:30 – 10:00 am: Main area Presentations (Ballroom D)
8:30 am: Ernie Wright – NASA Visualizations
8:50 am: Xavier Jubier – Google Interactive Eclipse Maps
9:20 am: Dan McGlaun – Alaska Airlines Flight 870 – Flying Through the Shadow
9:30 am: Luca Quaglia – Precision Timing through Flash Spectra Videography
9:50 am: End of open public session talks.
10:05 am – 3:00 pm: Citizen CATE Experiment Workshop (public registration required, limited seats)
Training workshop for the Citizen CATE (Continental American Telescopic Eclipse) Experiment hosted by the SIU Carbondale Citizen CATE Team. The workshop is intended for new / potential volunteer observers who are interested in being part of observational teams along the path of the 2017 eclipse.
– The Citizen CATE Experiment will use a fleet of telescopes to observe the total solar eclipse of 21 Aug 2017. As the shadow of the moon travels across the continental USA, citizen astronomers from more than 60 sites will take images of the brightness of the inner solar corona. While the totality phase of the eclipse will last only 2 minutes at each site, the combined Citizen CATE Experiment data set will reveal for the first time how this part of the solar atmosphere changes during 90 minutes. CATE16 data from Bob Baer and Sarah Kovac, Tanjung Pandan, Indonesia. Additional information on the Citizen CATE Experiment: https://sites.google.com/site/citizencateexperiment/
10:05am: Welcome
10:10am – 11:50: CATE Training seminars
12:00 – 1pm: Lunch
1:10pm – 3pm: Training Activity – Solar imaging using the CATE prototype instrument
End Day 2
Parking and Location of Conference
The AAS 2017 Eclipse Workshop will be held in the Student Center (1255 Lincoln Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901) on the Southern Illinois University Carbondale campus. Parking will be made available in the metered lot 13 and Lot 13B, directly east of the Student Center
Event Webcasting
Webcasting of Day 1 is to be done by WSIU (campus PBS station).
About the speakers:
Michael E. Bakich is senior and photo editor of Astronomy magazine. He has authored five books on Astronomy and has traveled to 13 total solar eclipses as a guide and eclipse expert. Michael serves on a national task force under the American Astronomical Society to help prepare the public for the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse. In Missouri, he has arranged a huge public eclipse‐watching event in St. Joseph at Rosecrans Memorial Airport. He currently hosts the only 2017 eclipse-related podcast on iTunes. In 2017, he will conduct the largest public eclipse watching event ever. His latest book is "Your Guide to the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse." Asteroid 131245 (Bakich) is named for him.
David Baron is a Colorado-based author, eclipse chaser, and former NPR science correspondent. His forthcoming book, to be published next June, tells the story of a total solar eclipse that crossed America in 1878 and inspired the country to scientific greatness.
Bob Baer is a staff member in the SIU Physics department where he directs the public astronomy observations and general physics outreach events. He is a member of the Astronomical Association of Southern Illinois and is the Illinois State Coordinator for the Citizen CATE (Continental America Telescopic Eclipse Experiment. He is the co-chair of the Southern Illinois Eclipse 2017 – 2024 steering committee and is coordinating citizen science and eclipse outreach partnerships for the SIU Carbondale eclipse events.
Fred Espenak's aka "Mr. Eclipse" is a retired NASA astrophysicist and world authority on the prediction of eclipses. He has written over a dozen books on eclipses including his recent "Eclipse Bulletin: Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 August 21." Espenak runs 3 web sites on eclipse prediction (www.EclipseWise.com), eclipse photography (www.MrEclipse.com) and astrophotography (www.AstroPixels.com). He has witnessed 27 total eclipses of the Sun and will speak about some of them in his presentation "Glorious Totality." Some of Fred's books will be available for sale at the conference by the author.
Trish Erzfeld is the director of the Perry County Heritage Tourism program serving the City of Perryville and Perry County Missouri. She is a member of the St. Louis Eclipse 2017 Taskforce and is the chairman of her local Perry County Eclipse Taskforce of which she organized in November of 2015. Trish served nineteen years as Perry County's Deputy County Clerk and has acquired thirty years of non-profit experience in cultural and historical preservation before accepting the newly created position as Perry County's heritage tourism director in 2015.
Since learning about the total solar eclipse event, Trish has spent the last six months educating her city officials and county leaders concerning the influx of visitors, customizing and creating unique ways her local businesses can be involved and promote the eclipse event and has generated a frenzy of excitement among the educators of her county about the unique educational opportunity they must capture. Follow Perry County on Facebook
Don Ficken is a member of the St. Louis Astronomical Society and Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri. Don founded the St. Louis Eclipse Task Force in 2014 and has grown the task force into an active community collaboration whose focus is to raise awareness, safety and planning in the St. Louis area related to the 2017 eclipse.
Chris Giersch is employed with Genex Systems and is the Education and Public Outreach Manager for the Space Technology and Exploration Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA.
After working as a high school math and science teacher for a number of years, Chris accepted the position at NASA Langley as Program Manager for NASA CONNECT™, the show that connects you to math, science, technology, and NASA. He worked on 20 episodes over a five-year span winning three regional Emmy Awards. Chris transferred to the Exploration Office in 2004. Chris is the co-creator, project manager, and host of NASA EDGE, the vodcast that takes an inside and outside look at all things NASA. The award-winning vodcast has been downloaded over 55 million times since 2007 with over 135 titles.
Shadia Rifai Habbal is a professor at the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii. She specializes in the Sun and the solar wind, leading scientific expeditions to explore the physics of the corona during total solar eclipses. She will give an overview of the importance of total solar eclipses for research in astrophysics and for public education.
Xavier M. Jubier is an engineer by formation and IT manager by profession. He maintains a website related to eclipses with tools widely used by the eclipse chasing community and outside as well, and has been directly involved in a few world premieres related to eclipses. His website gives you access to interactive eclipse maps that lets you know the local circumstances and how well you're doing in terms of positioning by geolocating you which is handy on your smartphone. Other specialized software is also available to automatize the photography of solar eclipses and much more. Xavier will provide a hands-on session using his eclipse tools to help you get the most of it.
Lou Mayo is a planetary scientist and program manager working for ADNET Systems at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and a professor of astronomy at Marymount University. He has over 25 years experience supporting NASA space and Earth science missions and data systems, including 11 years managing the Voyager IRIS and Cassini CIRS instrument teams for private industry. He has published a number of papers on the atmosphere of Titan focusing on modeling atmospheric aerosols and condensates. Lou is the Program Manager for the NASA Heliophysics Education Consortium (HEC) that is overseeing NASA's Eclipse 2017 Science Education program. He is a member of the DC Space Grant Consortium and the American Astronomical Society/Division for Planetary Sciences education committee. He is a frequent author and speaker on topics in astronomy and space physics and was a columnist for Mercury Magazine for three years. Lou runs an international network of after school astronomy clubs and is active in developing nationwide space science education programs for NASA.
Michelle Nichols is Master Educator at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, IL. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and astronomy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Education degree in Curriculum and Instruction from National-Louis University. Ms. Nichols has been employed at Adler for over 20 years; she is the educator on Adler's Far Horizons high-altitude balloon and CubeSat programs and she coordinates Adler's 'Scopes in the City telescope outreach program.
Matt Penn is an Associate Astronomer with the National Solar Observatory, Tucson, Arizona. He is the PI of the Citizen CATE (Continental America Telescopic Eclipse) Experiment, a Citizen Science project that will use a fleet of telescopes to observe the 2017 total solar eclipse.
Jay Ryan has been using visual media for visual explanations of the visual subject of astronomy, for over 20 years. As the host of AmericanEclipseUSA.com, he hopes to help a new generation of American eclipse chasers understand and appreciate this amazing phenomenon.
Jim Todd is the Director of Space Science Education the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI). He manages OMSI's Kendall Planetarium, which includes many hats: programming in astronomy and space exploration; teacher training in astronomy and space education; coordinating OMSI hosting of star parties in conjunction with local amateur astronomy groups; and Co-Director of the Oregon Star Party. Jim will also coordinate the 2017 solar eclipse viewing from Salem Fairgrounds on August 21, 2017.
Mark Steven Williams, amateur radio callsign K9GX, is a broadcaster and radio amateur who has operated ham radio from North America, the Caribbean and Scandinavia, presented dozens of astronomy and ham radio outreach events including school contacts with astronauts aboard a Space Shuttle mission and the International Space Station. Williams is former Observatory Director at the Louisville Astronomical Society's James Baker Observatory, former President of Louisville's Amateur Radio Transmitting Society radio club and author of "Out of this World Outreach", Sky and Telescope magazine, May, 2014. Known regionally as the "StarGeezer" his astronomy outreach website is www.StarGeezerAstronomy.com
Ernie Wright has been a visualizer in the Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center since 2008. He works primarily with data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter."
Michael Zeiler of GreatAmericanEclipse.com will give a tour of the path of totality through detailed maps and animations. A number of interesting eclipse viewing sites across the nation will be highlighted with special attention to southern Illinois and the surrounding region. Michael will also discuss the path of the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse.
Charles Fulco is an astronomy teacher and the former Planetarium and Space Sciences Director at Port Chester (NY) Public Schools, and currently a curriculum writer and teacher development specialist. He is also the Local Area Director in Westchester County for the International Dark-Sky Assoc. and a frequent lecturer on light pollution. As a member of the American Astronomical Society's 2017 U.S. Total Solar Eclipse Task Force, he has been promoting educational and public eclipse awareness to school districts, organizations and municipalities along the path of totality. As a NASA Solar System Ambassador, he participated in a Northrup-Grumman Zero-Gravity Flight of Discovery, and regularly attends and presents at NASA, NSTA and other workshops and conferences across the country. Fulco has observed total solar eclipses on four continents, and remains an active "sidewalk astronomer," promoting astronomy and dark skies wherever and whenever he can.
Mike Kentrianakis is the American Astronomical Society's Solar Eclipse Project Manager for the eclipse of 2017. He is a former technical manager for CBS News' network and affiliate divisions. Since 1979, he has partaken in 10 total, 4 annular and 3 partial solar eclipse scientific expeditions worldwide. He has been a consultant of astronomical news to local and national media outlets and produced two eclipse documentary films. He also joins in public outreach observing events as a member of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York.
Dan McGlaun is a veteran eclipse chaser, having experienced totality eleven times since his first eclipse in 1991. Dan manages and maintains "Eclipse2017.org, inc.", which has as its primary mission the goal of promoting the safe and enjoyable viewing of the August 21, 2017 eclipse in the United States, working with local and national agencies and organizations to ensure that complete and accurate information is gathered and distributed to the masses, aiding and support their preparations for traveling to and within the USA in the days and weeks leading up to the eclipse. Dan matriculated at Purdue University, and gained an educational background in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering. He holds a High School-level teacher's license for Math, and is actively involved in private math tutoring for students at all levels. He is also a contract editorial reviewer for many mathematical publications within the famous "…for Dummies" series of instructional materials.
Luca Quaglia is an Italian and a New Zealander, holds a Ph.D. in Physics and is currently pursuing a Masters in Financial Engineering in New York. He is passionate about total solar eclipses and has traveled to seven of them. He is interested in eclipse mathematics (eclipse predictions, precise computations of long canons, eclipse periodicities) and in the collection of timing data at solar eclipses.
Cinnamon Wheeles‐Smith joined the Carbondale Tourism staff as the Executive Director in 2012. She is a Carbondale native, and a member of the Southern Illinois Eclipse 2017 – 2024 steering committee.
Register online at: http://conferenceservices.siu.edu/conferences/eclipse-workshop.html
*Food services options will be available both days on the first floor of the Student Center.
*Available for presale: 2017 Eclipse Posters and Eclipse Viewing Glasses.
Southern Illinois Eclipse Collector's Set. This collectible set of matching Southern Illinois Eclipse glasses and poster is available for presale to public conference attendees. Your set of one poster and two glasses will be available for pickup at SIU Carbondale on Friday, June 10, 2016 during the American Astronomical Society Eclipse 2017 conference public session. The poster designer, Tyler Nordgren will be available to sign posters at the conference. Poster is 12″ X 18″ printed on semi-glossy cover stock. Glasses are safe solar viewers produced by Rainbow Symphony.
Find more information and register for the workshop:
- AAS Eclipse 2017 Workshop
- Workshop Public Program (pdf)
- American Astronomical Society
- Workshop Costs and Forms
- Full Participant (includes all sessions, meals, and local transportation): $180
- Student Participant (includes all sessions, meals, and local transportation): $80
- Public Participant Admission (public sessions and snacks): No cost – registration required
- Poster and glasses set $12