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Ball over the top of our defence for Vardy scares the shit out of me like.
Gutted about this one already. Was taking my dad but the doctors and nurses at the home where he lives say he's not well enough to travel at the moment. We've both been looking forward to it for months as the nearest PL fixture to us.Anyways - not wasting the ticket, there is another resident called John who's a Notts County fan and hates Forest, Derby, Leicester so I'm taking him instead and he can be an honourary Evertonian for today. Hope he has a great day out and sees Leicester getting smashed!
He's been going with Pickford kenny jags Williams baines gueye Davies Rooney Lennon DCL KM Keane has a knock. Apparently still not sure on 11.Doesn't rate Klaasen. He's going to try and get shut if he gets the gig full time. Too slow. Only time we'll see him is in the EL.
Hope your dad improves mate
Ball over the top of our defence for Vardy scares the shit out of me like.
Well I'm watching this one from a bar near Malaga, on honeymoon - the short term success of my sex life depends on a positive result here so don't let me down you bastards!Need a win.
I would be disappointed if that is genuine.No Vlasic even on the bench.Would that team mean Kenny or Martina at RM/RW?
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Deutsche Bank publishes Annual Report 2013
Deutsche Bank (XETRA: DBKGn.DE / NYSE: DB) today published its Annual Report for 2013. It consists of two sections: the Annual Review and the Financial Report. The Annual Review describes Deutsche Bank's corporate profile, including business divisions and infrastructure functions, charts the development of the share price, provides details of the Bank's staff composition, and outlines its corporate responsibility activities.
The Financial Report contains the Bank's audited Consolidated Financial Statements for the 2013 financial year, prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and includes the Compensation Report. As per the audited results, net revenues for the year 2013 were EUR 31.9 billion, down by 5 % versus 2012. Noninterest expenses were down 9 % to EUR 28.4 billion versus the prior year. Income before income taxes was up 79 % to EUR 1.5 billion while net income was EUR 681 million, an increase of 116 % versus 2012. As previously reported, the Bank's CRR/CRD 4 pro forma fully loaded Common Equity Tier 1 ratio at the end of 2013 was 9.7%, up from 7.8% at the end of 2012.
On February 20, 2014 subsequent to the disclosure of the Bank's preliminary unaudited 2013 results on January 29, 2014 but before completion of the Annual Report Deutsche Bank reached a settlement with Kirch Group to conclude all legal disputes between the two parties. Taking into account existing risk provisions this settlement resulted in a charge which had to be reflected in the fourth quarter 2013 results. The Bank also took additional impairments on specific assets in the Non-Core Operations Unit. These factors reduced the Bank's previously announced and preliminary income before income taxes by EUR 615 million to EUR 1,456 million and net income by EUR 401 million to EUR 681 million.
In addition the Bank's litigation reserves declined to EUR 1.8 billion at the end of 2013.
The proposal of the Management Board and the Supervisory Board for a cash dividend of EUR 0.75 per share remains unchanged.
Final and audited results at a glance:
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Jürgen Fitschen and Anshu Jain, Co-Chairmen of the Management Board, said: "In 2013, Deutsche Bank made significant progress in implementing Strategy 2015+. As a result, our financial results reflect the impact of investments in our platform and our determination to deal decisively with litigation matters arising from legacy issues. These factors produced an unsatisfactory financial result for shareholders. Nonetheless, operating performance in our core businesses was the second highest in a decade, and was achieved with a leaner, safer and better balanced platform. We are focused on making further progress, step by step, in implementing Strategy 2015+."
In its Financial Report, the Bank also presents an outlook for the global economy, the banking industry and Deutsche Bank. In 2014, the banking sectors in many advanced economies could see a return to modest revenue growth in line with a continuing broader economic recovery. Business model adjustments for a variety of banks – including traditional investment banks, banks in former credit-boom countries and banks that received government bailouts during the financial crisis – should continue for the time being but may be largely completed in 2015.
Commenting on the outlook for Deutsche Bank, the Financial Report notes that "the strategic realignment started in 2012 has strongly contributed already to an improved revenue basis in 2013. Setting the continued focus on core businesses may help to create further possibilities for a sustained successful development of our bank and hence may support our revenue growth and profitability. Strict focus on cost discipline has already led to significant cost reductions in 2013. Ongoing analysis of processes and further investments in our IT platforms for the reengineering of our systems could help us to become even more efficient. Competitors' withdrawing from markets and ongoing de-risking of non-core assets as well as enhanced transparency on the regulatory environment may have a positive impact on the size of our new business and thus strengthen our financial position in 2014."
Variable Compensation awards for the Bank's 98,254 employees in 2013 were EUR 3.2 billion in total, essentially unchanged versus 2012. Total compensation amounted to EUR 9.9 billion (2012: EUR 10.2 billion). The members of the Management Board collectively received for the 2013 financial year compensation totalling EUR 38.5 million (2012: EUR 26.3 million). This development reflects the fact that the Co-Chairmen of the Management Board, and some Management Board members, served in their current functions for 12 months of 2013 versus seven months in 2012, stronger year-on-year performance, and the new Management Board compensation system, approved by the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting of 2013, which aligns the performance-related compensation more closely with fulfilling the defined strategic objectives of the Bank. Of the Management Board compensation EUR 10.4 million (2012: EUR 9.6 million) was for base salaries, EUR 27.1 million (2012: EUR 15.5 million) for performance-related components with long-term incentives and EUR 1.1 million (2012: EUR 1.3 million) for performance-related components without long-term incentives.
Corporate Responsibility
Deutsche Bank also published its new Corporate Responsibility (CR) Report today. This document highlights key achievements in implementing cultural change and outlines the manner in which social and environmental considerations influence business decisions. The report also describes the implementation of additional internal controls and the development of an enhanced risk culture. It articulates the progress of integrating Deutsche Bank's new values and beliefs as part of the cultural change program, changes in performance management and compensation practices and the Bank's Diversity Strategy 2.0. Last but not least, the report features the Bank's approach to Corporate Citizenship and the contributions of some 19,500 employees as volunteers in community projects during 2013.
The CR Report focuses on how sustainability is being embedded in the core business. The Bank's approach to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues is reflected in an expanded process to assess potential environment and social risk arising from transactions. In Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management a newly formed ESG Head Office is not only responsible for the implementation of the strategy, but also for the coordination, development, and strengthening of the ESG investment capabilities. The FairShare concept and its benefits for private clients are also detailed. Moreover, the report explains how the Bank partners with corporate clients to raise financing for renewable energy projects.
The Annual Review and Financial Report 2013 can be downloaded from www.deutsche-bank.com/reports. For the first time the online version is in a 'responsive design'. The new Corporate Responsibility Report is available for download via www.db.com/responsibility.
Also available on the reports-website: the final version of the Financial Data Supplement 4Q2013 (as pdf- and Excel-file). The Annual Report on Form 20-F, which will be submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the course of today, will also be made available following submission (in English only) on the website specified above.
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PRETORIA, South Africa, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Viktor Bout, a Russian who allegedly sold vast amounts of weapons that fueled Africa's countless wars over the last two decades, is awaiting extradition from Thailand to the United States on terrorism-related charges.
His arrest in a U.S. sting operation in March 2008 for plotting to sell 700 anti-aircraft missiles and other weapons to Colombian rebels may have ended his long career as the most prolific merchant of death in Africa but it hasn't stopped that deadly trade.
On Sept. 30, U.S. federal prosecutors said the defense minister of the troubled West African state of Ivory Coast, Michal Amani N'Guessan, was involved in a plot to smuggle weapons from the United States in defiance of a U.N. arms embargo.
The minister was luckier than Bout. He and others implicated in the $3.8 million plot have diplomatic immunity to shield them from prosecution.
But his front man, Col. Yao N'Guessan, who brokered the deal in the United States for 4,000 9mm Glock handguns, 200,000 rounds of ammunition and 50,000 tear gas grenades, was indicated Sept. 30 in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif.
N'Guessan and other government officials in the Ivory Coast, a former French colony, had made little effort to hide their involvement. They claim the country's security forces, supposedly outnumbered and outgunned by the opposition, need the weapons to ensure that presidential elections scheduled for Oct. 31 are conducted peacefully.
Ivory Coast was torn by civil war from 2002 until May 2007 when U.N. peacekeepers were deployed. The United Nations imposed an arms embargo after the government broke a peace agreement in 2004.
The election is the first presidential poll in more than five years in the violence-plagued nation.
The crisis in the Ivory Coast, a major cocoa producer, is only one of a score of conflicts simmering or in progress across Africa.
The Democratic Republic of Congo, which has some of the world's richest mineral deposits, has been gripped by a 15-year war that involves half a dozen states.
Uganda has been plagued by a brutal rebellion by the Lord's Resistance Army for two decades.
Angola and Sudan were ravaged by civil wars for many years until recently but Muslim Sudan faces a secession by its Christian and animist south in the months ahead and both sides are reported to be rearming.
Violence-ridden Chad, one of the world's poorest and most corrupt states, has been torn apart by political violence and civil war since 1960.
Now it's on the brink of a humanitarian disaster after its government demanded a 3,300-strong U.N. peacekeeping force withdraws, leaving some 500,000 refugees in the east at serious risk from armed marauders and brigands.
The International Crisis Group, a Brussels conflict resolution organization, warned in September that Guinea's armed forces threaten democratic rule that could throw the country, and much of West Africa, into chaos.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation with 150 million people, is gripped by political turmoil as a divisive presidential election scheduled for January looms closer.
Its oil-rich southern region faces the resumption of an insurgency that has slashed oil production by one third since 2005, while Muslim and Christian militants are slaughtering each other in the central region.
There are other flash points across the continent, which means good business for arms dealers, sometimes in their own back yard.
According to arms watchdog Ceasefire Campaign, South Africa, the only state on the continent with an indigenous arms industry outside of Egypt, is one of the main providers of weapons on the continent.
In June, the lobby group said the Pretoria government had sold arms worth $1.7 billion to states blacklisted by South Africa's National Conventional Arms Control Act because of human rights abuses, because they are engaged in conflict issues or are subject to U.N. embargoes.
South Africa's arms exports are classified. But Rob Thomson, a senior Ceasefire Campaign official, said his organization had been able to piece together a comprehensive list of sales since 2002. Buyers included Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Colombia and the United Arab Emirates, he said.
All told, he declared, "there are 58 countries that we have sold arms to in the last 10 years that we shouldn't have sold arms to."


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August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This is the start of the slow agony of the greatest King of France from gangrene, surrounded by his doctors and closest advisors, speaking in frantic, whispered tones about their options, in an era in which little is known of such illnesses. Albert Serra's new film, The Death of Louis XIV, is an adaptation of the Duc de Saint-Simons memoirs, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as the Sun-King. The cult actor, who worked with all major directors from the Nouvelle Vague after being discovered in Truffaut's The 400 Blows, plays the dying king who can barely move from his bed in the Château de Versailles. His relatives and his closest counselors come in turns at his bedside, but he attends only a few meetings and can barely rule his kingdom. His secret wife Madame de Maintenon, and his doctor Fagon dread his last breath and try to hide it from the public, to preserve the future of France. Shot in rich colour with extraordinary lighting, Jean-Pierre Léaud, in his costume, hair and poses, fully embodies the last few days of the longest serving king of France, who, with his seventy two years in power, changed the face of the monarchy and of France.
Directed by: Albert Serra
Written by: Albert Serra & Thierry Lounas
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick dAssumçao, Marc Susini and Irène Silvagni
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At this point, we all spend most of our time bracing for a zombie attack anyway... might as well see what happens when people actually experience one.
The latest NYC-based "adverprank" (term per Chris Person) is in service of AMC's The Walking Dead, which returns to finish out its latest season this weekend. Important question raised in Kotaku group chat: How many people do you think spilled drinks on these guys?


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Bluffton High's Catie Meighan went 1-2 in the SCHSL state singles tennis tournament last weekend.
Meighan, an eighth-grader, opened with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Abby Cook of Easley. She lost to eventual state runner-up Rachel McNeely of West Oak 6-4, 6-1 in the second round.
South Aiken's Kayla Calvert eliminated Meighan 8-5 in the consolation bracket.


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Sony Xperia U slips out ahead of launch
Smartphone sees a shrink
Sony is set to launch a shrunken version of its Xperia S handset at MWC 2012, after images of the Xperia U leaked online.
While specs are yet to be officially unveiled, the Sony Xperia U will apparently feature a 3.5in, WVGA display powered with a 1GHz processor, Brazilian site Xataka reports.
Unlike the handset's larger sibling, the Xperia U still bears the Sony Ericsson logo as it entered development prior to the two tech giants parting ways.
The Xperia U, previously dubbed the Kumquat or the ST25i, is expected to be revealed in full at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 in Barcelona next week.
The handset's beefier brother, the Sony Xperia S rolls out on 5 March for £429. ®


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Topsy Turvy
During the summer after my junior year of high school, I worked at Tecumseh Woods Camp in Tipton, MI. I was the breakfast cook. Every morning, I would get up just after dawn, shower and make my way down to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for all of the campers and staff. On this particular morning when I entered the dining hall, there were no benches or tables. The whole hall was empty. I knew the visiting pastors were prone to pulling pranks on staff. Several staff had been pranked throughout the years, so I figured it was my turn. I looked all over - inside and out - for the benches and tables, but couldn't find them anywhere. About a half hour later, my breakfast staff arrived. They were just as surprised to see that the hall was entirely empty. Finally, in desperation, I sighed and looked up. There were the tables and benches. They had been attached to the ceiling! Till this day, I still have no idea how they did it!


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Recent Acquisitions
William Kurelek
The Dream of Michael Negrich 1966
gouache on masonite
75 x 151 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of Ronald D. Macdonald
© Estate of William Kurelek, courtesy of the Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Born in Alberta, raised in Manitoba, William Kurelek began painting seriously while receiving psychological treatment in England in the early 1950s. Returning to Canada in 1956, Kurelek's star rose through a series of popular and, at times, controversial exhibitions at the Isaacs Gallery in Toronto. The Winnipeg Art Gallery became the first public art museum in Canada to mount a solo exhibition of Kurelek's work in 1966. Nadia Negrich (then Skremetka) helped coordinate Kurelek's visit to Winnipeg for the exhibition's opening. She and her future husband, Michael Negrich, befriended the artist and hosted him on some of the many subsequent trips he made to Manitoba.
As yet, no written account of Michael Negrich's dream has come to light. Kurelek's painting unfolds as a series of disparate vignettes. It exudes an otherworldly, apocalyptic mood that testifies to Kurelek's deeply held affection for Northern Renaissance artists like Bruegel, Bosch, and Patinir. Billowing clouds, grain silos, an erupting volcano, moon, flying teacups, seagulls, and the Virgin Mary populate the painting's background. In the right foreground, the semi-prone figure of Michael Negrich slumbers among wildflowers in a field alongside a black dog. To the left, the prairie field opens to reveal an underworld vision of a demon leering at two oblivious children playing.
William Kurelek's work has been collected by major institutions across Canada, including the National Gallery of Canada and Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as the Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the London Transport Museum.
Shuvinai Ashoona
(b. 1961)
Sinking Titanic 2012
graphite, coloured pencil, Pentel pen on paper
124.5 x 122 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with funds realized through sale of Inuit prints
Shuvinai Ashoona has lived her entire life in the community of Cape Dorset on Baffin Island and is a member of one of the most prominent artistic Inuit families. She began making drawings in the early 1900s and quickly distinguished herself as an artist with an unconventional vision. She has had her work featured in many exhibitions since then and is the subject of a 2012 film by Marcia Connelly. In recent years, her drawings simultaneously chronicle the past (Titanic history) and the present (rock band on deck). This is the first of Ashoona's large-scale drawings to be acquired by the Gallery.
Jules Olitski
American (born in Ukraine)
Harlow Flow 1964
oil miscible acrylic on canvas
210.8 x 203.2 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of Fredrik S. Eaton
© Estate of Jules Olitski / SODRAC, Montréal / VAGA, New York (2015)
One of the first and most celebrated practitioners of Colour Field abstraction, Jules Olitski immigrated as an infant to the United States from Soviet Ukraine in 1923. He studied art in New York and, after the Second World War, in Paris with Ossip Zadkine. Back in the United States, he befriended the influential critic Clement Greenberg and began teaching at Bennington College in Vermont. In 1964, the same year that Harlow Flow was painted, Olitski led the Emma Lake Artists' Workshop in Saskatchewan. Unlike Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Colour Field painters like Olitski consciously sought to remove any reference to painterly gesture. Their practice was deeply informed by Greenberg's aesthetic ideas, which emphasized material and formal issues over and above those of subject matter and personal expression.
Harold Edgerton
Milk Drop Coronet 1984–1985
dye-transfer print on paper
50.8 x 40.6 cm Image: 46.7 x 34 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of Angela and David Feldman, the Menkes Family, Marc and Alex Musso, Tory Ross, the Rose Baum-Sommerman Family and Shabin and Nadir Mohamed
© 2010 MIT. Courtesy of MIT Museum
Aqjangajuk Shaa
(b. 1937)
Hunter Carrying a Caribou 1985
stone (green serpentinite), antler
108.5 x 47 x 26.7 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with funds realized through sale of Inuit prints
Aqjangajuk Shaa has been one of Cape Dorset's leading sculptors since the 1960s. Born at Satuqitu camp on south Baffin Island in 1937, he has been carving for over fifty years. He has been in numerous exhibitions, both solo and group, from 1970 to the present, in Canada, the U.S., and Germany. In 2003 Shaa was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. His hunters, drum dancers, polar bears, caribou, walruses, and birds are presented as energetic and sometimes even heroic figures. The exaggerated quality of his imagery is characterized by mannered poses that still retain a fine sense of balance. This depiction of a hunter carrying a captured caribou is a good example of his aesthetic. The strength and stamina of the hunter is impressive, as he carries a large bull caribou which, strangely, seems to be still alive. It is as though the caribou, even in death, is struggling heroically to defeat its captor.
Kye-Yeon Son
Korean/Canadian (born in South Korea)
(b. 1957)
Embracing 2011-2 2011
steel, enamel
42 x 42 x 23 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with funds from the Winnipeg Rh Foundation Inc. and with funds from the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance program/Oeuvre achetée avec l'aide du programme d'aide aux acquisitions du Conseil des Arts du Canada
At the heart of Kye-Yeon Son's practice is the concept of containment. Rooted in traditional utilitarian principles, her works serve as receptacles of spirits and memories. The titles of her work often allude to emotions and sensations. Indeed, she aims to synthesize the character of the metal with these very feelings. Her sculptures convey a lightness and elegance worthy of close inspection and quiet reflection. This particular piece relies on the essential simplicity of wire to interpret the complexity of the human experience. Soldered together in a network of interdependent constituents, Embracing 2011-2 is a quiet, poetic form which conveys the flexibility and adaptability of nature, the lightness and ethereal quality of core energy, and the fragile yet enduring strength of the spirit.
Kye-Yeon Son was born in South Korea, receiving her BFA from the Seoul National University in 1979 and her MFA from Indiana University, USA, in 1984. Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Precise: Craft Refined at the WAG in 2011. She holds the position of Professor at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, in the Jewelry department.
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Tom Eblen: Landscape architect Lyle Aten's many designs decorate Lexington
You may not have heard of Lyle Aten, but if you live in Lexington, you see his life's work every day.
Since moving here in 1952, the landscape architect has had a hand in creating master plans and site designs for more than 60 projects in Central Kentucky.
Aten and his firm helped design neighborhoods such as Eastland, Cardinal Valley, Lansdowne, Stonewall, Merrick Place, Hamburg, Hartland, Beaumont and Wellesley Heights.
His shopping centers include Lexington Green, Hamburg, Beaumont, Tates Creek Center, Lansdowne, Lansbrook and Palomar.
Aten helped with the realignment of Main and Vine streets downtown and the epic reconstruction of Paris Pike. He worked on the IBM campus, Commonwealth Stadium, Coldstream Research Park and the Lexington Legends' baseball field.
He helped plan Lexington's Jacobson and Phoenix parks, as well as several state parks, including the lodge complex at Lake Barkley.
"I've been very fortunate," said Aten, 86. "I was in the right place at the right time. And, most of the time, I had clients who let me do what I thought was right."
Aten grew up in Macomb, Ill., and didn't know what a landscape architect was until a career counselor gave him an aptitude test and pointed him toward the profession and the University of Illinois.
"Fortunately, I was on the GI Bill or I couldn't have done it," he said.
His timing was perfect: one of his instructors was Hideo Sasaki, who would go on to become one of America's most influential landscape architects and the longtime head of Harvard University's landscape architecture program.
After graduation, Aten joined the Peoria, Ill., firm Scruggs & Hammond, which sent him to Lexington to work on a couple of projects. Kentucky had only a half-dozen landscape architects at the time, he said.
"That was good and bad," Aten said. "People didn't know what a landscape architect was. It wasn't about putting bushes around a house."
As Lexington began an era of rapid growth, the Scruggs & Hammond office Aten headed found plenty of work and grew to 30 employees. In addition to design work, Aten taught as a longtime adjunct at the University of Kentucky, wrote several local environmental ordinances and, after retirement in 2000, served eight years on the city planning commission.
All of that made me think Aten would be a good person to talk with about development in Lexington — the successes, the mistakes and lessons for the future.
Lexington has a better history of planning and managing growth than most places. That has included protecting rural land and fertile soils with the nation's first Urban Services Boundary and the Purchase of Development Rights program.
"Very few places in the United States have gone through this process, where we give value to our environment," he said.
But a lot of mistakes were made, too.
"The first thing you have to do is to find out what nature is doing and respond to nature's systems," Aten said. "When you start to conflict with those systems, you get into some expensive problems."
Among Lexington's mistakes: trying to bury or reroute streams, which contributed to flooding and water-quality problems. The best example of that was the decision a century ago to bury Town Branch Creek beneath downtown.
"Now we're going back and rediscovering the quality of that drainage way there and making it an asset rather than something you turn your back on," he said.
Aten has been impressed with the master planning processes being used for the Rupp District and Town Branch projects downtown, he said.
"I think it can work out real well," he said. "I really appreciate the approach that the mayor is taking to these things."
The key to good planning and design decisions, Aten said, is a process that includes sound research, a collaboration of talented professionals and public involvement.
Metro Lexington must find better ways to increase density, do more mixed-use development and limit sprawl, especially in low-tax counties surrounding Fayette where tax revenues never manage to pay for sprawl.
"We have to learn to live closer together in more quality ways," Aten said. "But you fit the city to the land. You don't alter the land to fit the other pattern."


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Bushipunk wrote:So, either Frank's brain-squid has eye beams, or its eyes glow when it's using more powerful manifestations of its telepathy (say, psychic attacks against the Shan). The way the latest comic is drawn, though, we can't really tell... I'd be fascinated to find out. This is Frank's first time in an "action" scene, and I'm wondering if we'll see more of it in the future.
Also worth noting is that Frank and Hook have never looked cooler than in that last panel, and they're one of the coolest-looking pairs of characters going in any format, that I know of.
Seriously, that's a teaser poster for the Strange Daze movie right there.
Seafog the 3rd wrote:Tri-Stat? Isn't that what they use for those anime games?
If it is, I always thought it was a poor system. Too undefined for me, or not undefined enough (I like Amber, now thats pretty freeform). Maybe not enough one or the other. And is all you liked the character creation? How is the actual game play?
If options is what you want, how about GURPS? The game of options.
Seafog the 3rd wrote:I'll have to look at my Tenchi RPG again. Only tristat thing I own. I was turned off by some of the things they did because they missed some canon info. I also got a Mickey Mouse feel from the different tristat products I'd seen.
Have you guys run Silouette games?
Zerethkat wrote:Steve Jackson Games is also coming out with GURPS Fourth Edition soon, but I don't know how they're changing thigns in that.
Mirober wrote:Seafog the 3rd wrote: Have you guys run Silouette games?
Not yet, but I've been meaning to take a look at Tribe-8 for a while now; I like what I've heard about the setting.
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Dr. Jason G. Gillmore of the Hope College chemistry faculty has received an award of more than $500,000 through the "Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program" of the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a multi-faceted project intended to shape learning and teaching at Hope and beyond.
The CAREER awards are for new faculty members pursuing academic careers involving both research and education. The NSF's goal is to enhance science education in the United States by supporting the early development of outstanding beginning professors in the sciences, mathematics and engineering.
The $549,000, five-year award is the largest single research grant ever to an individual member of the Hope faculty. More extensive support has been to collaborative teams of faculty members, as was the case with two awards of $1.2 million received from the NSF for projects this past fall.
"Dr. Gillmore's grant is extremely significant for many reasons," said Dr. Moses Lee, who is dean for the natural and applied sciences and a professor of chemistry at Hope.
"First, given that only about 15 percent of NSF CAREER proposals are funded, this is a tremendously competitive process, and only the best and most compelling proposals are funded. Dr. Gillmore's work is in the top-echelon of projects deemed fundable by NSF, and the award raises his stature as a scientist and it brings significant recognition to Hope College," Lee said. "It also helps to nudge the Natural & Applied Sciences Division toward the uncharted academic excellence as part of our Vision 20/20 plan."
"Second, the grant does not only provides significant support for his research program, it enables Dr. Gillmore's plan to positively impact the learning by students and postdoctoral fellows, especially toward training the latter group of becoming professors as predominantly undergraduate institutions," he said. "Third, the funds will provide the needed equipment to enable his work with students and contribute to the scientific literature. This is a great day for Hope College."
Gillmore's grant will support not only his on-going research, which he conducts collaboratively with Hope students, but also additional initiatives on behalf of the college's science curriculum. More broadly, it will enable him to establish a series of workshops to help other young scientists from throughout the Midwest as they prepare for their own careers as scholar-educators, providing them with the sort of training and insights that Gillmore would have liked to have had prior to beginning his independent faculty career in 2004.
"The vast majority of people holding post-doctoral positions at research institutions have not received training in the other activities in which they will engage at undergraduate institutions that combine teaching and research, which is where most available faculty positions are to be had," he said. "There's a real need, and it's a need that the NSF has recently recognized explicitly in their grant proposal guide."
The workshops, which will be held every two years beginning in April 2011, will focus on career development topics ranging from how to apply for an undergraduate position, to grantsmanship, pedagogy, assessment and the tenure process. One of the workshops will focus on the unique pedagogies and interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship particular to Hope College, so that the fellows can get a sense of how all of the components can fit together.
"Maybe one or two of the things that we do here will strike a chord and give participants something to emphasize in their own application materials and eventual faculty careers," Gillmore said.
Gillmore's own research program is focused on photochromic photooxidants. He is exploring the same type of chemical reaction through which photo-sensitive corrective lenses darken to become sunglasses outside and lighten while inside. Gillmore's goal is to understand and ultimately control the changes in the electronic properties that inherently accompany the color change in these dyes. Eventual applications span a variety of materials applications. Gillmore noted that one possibility, for example, could be the development of new high-density digital storage media - such as material the size of a sugar cube that could store a thousand DVDs' worth of information.
Hope students learn alongside Gillmore as collaborative researchers. He typically involves three to five students from Hope College and partner two-year institutions in his research during the school year and summer. The CAREER grant will provide summer stipend support annually for two or three of them, as well as supplies and travel money to support the entire group.
The grant also includes $115,000 for the college to purchase a new gas chromatography mass spectrometer (GCMS) in support of his research program. The new instrument will be used by nearly half the department's 14 faculty research groups on projects of their own. It will complement a 12-year-old GCMS already at Hope that Gillmore noted is heavily in demand, running nearly full-time day and night.
In keeping with the CAREER program's focus on education as well as research, Gillmore's award and research project will extend beyond his laboratory and into the college's curriculum in two ways.
The grant will enable his department to recruit and train upper-level students as peer leaders in the college's organic chemistry course. The upper-level students will help facilitate groups of students working together to complete group problem sets in the course in a pedagogical model known as Peer-Led Team Learning. This model, which Gillmore observed being used for organic chemistry during his doctoral work at the University of Rochester, is intended to give the course's students additional exposure to the sort of collaborative problem solving in which they will engage as science professionals while providing the student leaders with additional review of key material as well as crucial "soft skills" in facilitating a group.
Gillmore will also be sharing additional laboratory work with students enrolled in the college's upper-level organic chemistry laboratory course, through which students pursue independent synthesis projects. He anticipates that his research will require materials of the sort that students in the laboratory course are able to prepare, providing them with an opportunity not simply to do their work as an academic exercise but to contribute meaningfully to an active research project.
Gillmore joined the Hope faculty as an assistant professor in 2004 and has been promoted to associate professor with the coming 2010-11 school year. Previous external support of his work has included a Faculty Start-Up Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc., which he received immediately upon his arrival at Hope, and a Research Corporation Cottrell College Science Award he received in 2006. He delivered an address concerning photoresponsive materials and his research program in conjunction with the college's "Winter Happening" program in January 2008.
Prior to teaching at Hope, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University. He completed his bachelor's and master's degrees at Virginia Tech in 1996 and 1998 respectively, and his doctorate at the University of Rochester in 2003.


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This is a quick set of analyses of the California Test Score dataset. The post was produced using R Markdown in RStudio 0.96. The main purpose of this post is to provide a case study of using R Markdown to prepare a quick reproducible report. It provides examples of using plots, output, in-line R code, and markdown. The post is designed to be read along side the R Markdown source code, which is available as a gist on github.
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Getting Started with R Markdown, knitr, and Rstudio 0.96
This post examines the features of R Markdown
using knitr in Rstudio 0.96.
This combination of tools provides an exciting improvement in usability for
reproducible analysis.
Specifically, this post
(1) discusses getting started with R Markdown and
knitr in Rstudio 0.96;
(2) provides a basic example of producing console output and plots using R Markdown;
(3) highlights several code chunk options such as caching and controlling how input and output is displayed;
(4) demonstrates use of standard Markdown notation as well as the extended features of formulas and tables; and
(5) discusses the implications of R Markdown.
This post was produced with R Markdown. The source code is available here as a gist.
The post may be most useful if the source code and displayed post are viewed side by side.
In some instances, I include a copy of the R Markdown in the displayed HTML, but most of the time I assume you are reading the source and post side by side.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
How to plot three categorical variables and one continuous variable using ggplot2
This post shows how to produce a plot involving three categorical variables
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Okay...little overdue but here goes...
Vocabulary (WHAT HOPE SAYS) at 18 months:
She is still just using one word at a time (although recently she has started attaching the word MY in front of certain words, so I guess possessive pro-nouns are her thing. That's right. I know about grammar.)
Words that are EMPHATICALLY capitalized signify the tone in which she usually says them.
-Daddy (MY daddy)
-Ba Ba ("Bottle")
-Ack ("Jackson")
-NO (This is her favorite word SURPRISE SURPRISE)
-Nigh Nigh ("Night Night")
-Bye Bye
-Go (She says this to her babysitter when I get home)
-Yes (She rarely says yes, but I heard it a few times in reference to a popsicle)
-Mine (Also in reference to popsicles)
-Papa (For her Grandad)
-In Annie ("Aunt Annie")
-da (dog)
-kiyee (kittie)
-Nummy ("Yummy" This word is mostly reserved for when we have scrambled eggs.)
-Appy ("Apple")
-Wa wa ("water")
-OH and OOH (for pumpkins and anything else that fascinates her)
A few other fun things about Ms Hope:
She is finally starting to sleep in her crib, but only for naps and the first few hours of night time. I made her a night time CD of soothing music, and we read her a few books every night. She loves, loves, loves books. Especially books about babies. She loves babies! If we see a baby (anyone under the age of 2, basically) she shouts, "Baby" and runs over and starts petting their head and face. Some of these 'babies' are bigger than her.
Hope has A LOT of opinions. And she is very vocal, determined, strong willed, and pretty aggressive in making sure everyone understands what the deal is. Jackson often tells me he is scared of her. Jackson was never a 'hitter' but Hope will hit you right in the face if you don't listen to what she has commanded you to do. But, her second favorite thing to do after hitting everyone she loves in the face is to give us all kisses. Lots and lots of kisses. And giggles. So, right there, that's all the ingredients for us to be in love with this little sweetie. We just can't get enough of her. Well played, Hopey, well played.


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There is a region to the northeast of Kurtulus Caddesi which I have always loved. The narrow streets follow the contours of the hills or go uphill, the houses are often painted in bright colours. These are shots of that area. Bay windows on the first floor (and eventually on higher floors too) are common in 19th century civil architecture in Anatolia. In all medium size and larger homes, the ground floor was organised as a 'service area' (depots, kitchen, residence of the staff, etc.). The 'haremlik' (= private living area for the owner's family), as well as the 'Selamlık' (reception room where male visitors were received) were located at the upper floors, beginning with the first floor.The main room of the 'haremlik', where the women of the household spend most of their free time, was generally located at the street side of the house, and often had such bay windows. These windows were (almost always) equipped with wooden grills: the women could easily keep an eye on what was going on in the street, without being seen by (male) passers-by. So, the 'harem' – a closed and sacred area, when observed from the outside – appears to have had eyes that observed the outer world (and did so without his knowledge). Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.Source: 'Anadolu Mirasında Türk Evleri' (T.C. Kültür Bakanlığı) 1995.
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At the bottom of Davy Jones' locker is a silent eerie graveyard of ships and planes that have been taken over by the sea and are waiting to be explored by curious divers. Each one has its own fascinating story to tell and with wrecks scattered all over the world's oceans, the mysteries of the deep will challenge and satisfy the adventurer inside every diver.
1. RMS Rhone (1865-1867): Salt Island, British Virgin Islands
The story of the Rhone is a tragic tale that involved a Category 5 hurricane, the routine decision to have about 120 passengers tied to their bunks and locked in their cabins to prevent injuries and a captain who was swept overboard by a huge wave, never to be seen again. The violent storm tossed the ship against the rocks, filling the full steam boiler room with seawater causing an explosion. The ship broke in half with the stern and its restrained passengers sinking very quickly. The stern now sits at a depth of 35 feet while the bow is resting at 80 feet and the entire ship is covered with multi-colored corals and sponges.
2. SS Yongala (1903-1911): the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Known as Australia's "Titanic", the Yongala was a steel steamer ship that sunk in a cyclone off the shore of Townsville near Cape Bowling Green, taking with it over 120 passengers, a prize bull and a race horse. At the depth of 328 feet the aft, engine room, steam room, toilets and even human bones can be seen at this artificial reef.
3. The German World War I High Seas Fleet (1913-1919)- SMS Köln, SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm, SMS Markgraf, SMS König: Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands
The Germans were ordered to surrender all U-Boats and surface warships to the Allies at the end of World War I. Over 74 warships were interned at Scapa Flow waiting for the end of peace negotiations. When the Treaty of Versailles was ready the German Admiral was concerned Great Britain would take the fleet for its own. When a window of opportunity opened the Admiral ordered his fleet to be scuttled and within an hour over 400,000 tons of steel was sent to the bottom of the sea. The Köln lies on its starboard side at 114 feet, while the Kronprinz Wilhelm, the Markgraf and the König all sit virtually upside down between the depths of 98 to 131 feet.
4. Umbria (1911-1940): Red Sea, near Ras Muhammad
Although Italy was not yet in World War II the 500 foot long Italian cargo ship, the Umbria, was loaded with Fiat cars, wine, lifeboats, over 300,000 bombs, 60 boxes of detonators and other war commodities totaling 8,600 tons. The Royal Navy feared that the cargo would end up in enemy hands, but could only delay the ship at Port Said for so long before it was allowed to proceed on its way. The British forced the Umbria to anchor once more as they searched it. The captain of the Umbria happened to be listening to his radio the morning that Italy joined the war and then proceeded to scuttle his ship so the British could not have it. The Umbria's cargo is still in tact at a depth of 118 feet.
5. SS Thistlegorm (1940-1941): Gulf of Suez, Sharm-El-Sheikh
The British merchant navy ship, the Thistlegorm, was carrying a full load of wartime cargo such as Bedford trucks, rifles, motorbikes and tank ammunition when it came under attack. It was this tank ammunition that exploded during World War II German bombing subsequently ripping open its roof and exposing its entire contents for divers to investigate. The depth range is between 42 and 98 feet making it a very popular dive destination.
6. SS President Coolidge (1931-1942): Vanuatu
A must for any wreck diver is the accessible President Coolidge. It has its origins as a 654 foot long luxury liner, but it sunk as a World War II troop ship when it ran into an American minefield. It now rests on its port side with the bow at 49 feet and the stern at 82 feet. It would take several dives to see all this massive wreck has in the way of cannons, a 10-wheel GM truck and jeeps.
7. B17 Bomber "Black Jack" (1942-1943): Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
Another casualty of wartime is the Boeing B17 military bomber aircraft known as Black Jack. It lies in Papua New Guinea's clear waters at a depth of 175 feet. It went down during a bombing mission in Japan, but is still intact and quietly waiting for divers to check out its turret guns and cockpit.
8. Fujikawa Maru (1938-1944): Truk Lagoon, Micronesia
One of the best wrecks to see of the 60 ships and planes of the Japanese "ghost fleet" is the Fujikawa Maru. This 7,000-ton freighter's hold was loaded with Zero fighter planes when it was torpedoed during World War II. The ship sits upright at a depth of 437 feet making it easy for divers to get to and explore.
9. USS Saratoga (1927-1946): Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
The Saratoga was the second aircraft carrier of the United States Navy and the fifth ship to bear her name. With 8 decks and an 888-foot flight deck it was 6 ft longer than the Titanic. It had a grand history during World War II of being very prominent in the Pacific, with the part it played in Iwo Jima being the pinnacle of its career. Once retired from duty, the Saratoga was brought to Bikini Atoll to be used as a target during the A-bomb tests. It went down with ammunition, 4 planes, dive-bombers, a torpedo bomber, 500 pounds of bombs and an assortment of anti-aircraft guns. At a depth of 40 feet the bridge can be seen, the flight deck appears around 90 feet and the hanger around 130 feet with its deepest depth being 190 feet.
10. SS Andrea Doria (1951-1956): Nantucket, North Atlantic
The Andrea Doria's existence was cut short when it collided with the Stockholm, a Swedish freighter, in thick fog. Although the Stockholm suffered a blow to its bow it was able to stay afloat. The Andrea Doria was not so lucky, filled with water and sank 11 hours after the collision. The 700-foot luxury liner has been considered "the Mt. Everest" of scuba diving with only the most experienced technical divers being able to maneuver around the continually collapsing hull at 240 feet below sea level. It is also known as a "noisy wreck" due to the sounds of hall deterioration and metal being moved around inside by the currents.
11. MS Zenobia (1979-1980): Larnaca, Cyprus
The story goes that the Zenobia, a Swedish roll-on-roll-off ferry fully loaded with 104 articulated trucks with trailers, sunk on its maiden voyage due to a faulty computerized ballasting system. A maintenance crew was called in to fix the list from port to starboard side to 5%, were then prematurely dismissed, and then 9 hours later the ship capsized and sank. She now rests on her port side at 141 feet, with her starboard side at 52 feet.
12. USS Oriskany (1944-2006): Florida
The "Mighty O" was a 911-foot long US Army Essex-class aircraft carrier that had its first deployment in the Mediterranean and then the Korean War. After that the ship and its crew starred in 2 Hollywood films, The Bridges at Toko Ri and Men of the Fighting Lady. The Vietnam War was the last war for the Oriskany. It was decommissioned and 30 years later was purposely sunk to create the world's largest reef at a depth between 65 and 147 feet.
Take a dive through history at any one of these underwater cemeteries and experience the sense of loss as well as the thrill of discovery.


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Senator Jim DeMint announced today that he was retiring from the Senate in order to run the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank.
He's also probably getting quite a raise.
DeMint does not have a particularly high net worth.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, he's the third-poorest person in the Senate, worth only $16,000 and $65,000.
As a Senator, he makes $174,000 per year. At Heritage, he'll probably make at least $1 million.
We looked at the Heritage Foundation's Form 990 they submitted to the IRS for fiscal year 2010. In it, there's a listing of all salaries for members of the firm.
Then-President Edwin J. Feulner Jr. made a $1,025,922 annual salary, plus $66,161 annually from "related organizational" activities.
Feulner founded the organization in 1977. It runs on around $80 million per year.
Were DeMint to get that salary and benefits — he must have received a generous offer if he decided to leave the Senate for a think tank gig — it would be six times what he would be making now in the Senate.
He'd also earn his current maximum estimated net worth sixteen times a year.
DeMint told staffers at Heritage: "Leaving the Senate to become president of The Heritage Foundation is a big promotion." That's actually pretty accurate, it seems.


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She was born in Liverpool in about 1826 to Thomas STEERS / STEARES and Sarah EDMONSTONE. She married Joseph CEARNS in Liverpool in 1849 and she died there in 1908.
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Seed for two new drought-tolerant corn varieties will be in limited release this spring. They're targeted for farmers on the western edge of the U.S. Corn Belt.
DuPont (Pioneer Hi-Bred) and Syngenta developed the new varieties through traditional breeding techniques -- with a little advanced technology thrown in to speed the process of picking which parent plants to try.
The duo's entry into the world market could start decades of fierce competition for rain-challenged growers' business. Biotech varieties in the pipeline for future release may have an even bigger impact than today's hybrids, said Kraig Roozeboom, agronomist with Kansas State University Research and Extension.
"Either way, drought-tolerant corn could expand seed companies' markets," he said. "Continued expansion of corn acreage at the expense of other crops, such as wheat and sorghum, will mean greater corn seed sales –the most profitable sector of the seed market."
Roozeboom said technology isn't the only reason new-generation corns are arriving so fast, compared to the new offerings for other standard crops. The seed industry for some time has been making larger investments in improving corn yields, largely because corn has been generating more dollars to invest.
Herbicide- and insect-resistant corn varieties, for example, were earlier money-makers.
Market favors corn
Market factors have been pulling agriculture toward increased corn production, Roozeboom explained. If nothing else, corn remains the primary base for U.S. ethanol manufacturing. World consumption of animal protein has been on the rise, too, increasing demand for feedgrains.
The agronomist said that so far, the best ways to address those market forces are to:
- Get more acres into corn production, including land that has been considered marginal, due to limited precipitation.
- Reduce the risk of corn crop losses while also increasing average yields in water-limited production areas, such as central and western Kansas.
"Untimely, rains or dry conditions can have a big impact in our state—sometimes causing substantial yield reductions or complete crop failures," Roozeboom said. "Corn is more sensitive to the timing of rainfall than Kansas' other major row crops."
Annual rainfall in the state ranges from more than 40 inches in the southeast to an average 16 inches on the western border, he said.
Without timely rains, however, even southeast Kansas can experience moisture problems because during mid-summer the shallow topsoils there can dry out in two weeks. The area has a dense clay subsoil that limits corn roots to a narrow band of topsoil. Other subsoils may have moisture, but crop roots can't effectively reach them.
In contrast, much of western Kansas has deep silt loam soils with high water-holding capacity. So, despite the area's sparse rainfall, growing dryland corn successfully is possible, so long as enough stored soil moisture is available to complement limited rainfall during the growing season.
Roozeboom said that as global temperatures continue to rise, on-going improvements in cropping systems may also be necessary to maintain and expand corn acreage and production. High residue, no-till production systems have already been essential for the success of dryland corn in more arid environments. Cropping systems that conserve both water and soil will become ever more important for sustaining long-term production.
"Of course, moisture problems aren't as big a worry for irrigated farms," Roozeboom said. "However, irrigated farms with limited well capacity could also reduce risks if the new-generation hybrids perform as advertised. Water is a scarce resource that is getting scarcer."
What's coming?
Syngenta, the world's No. 3 supplier of corn seed, announced its initial drought-tolerant Agrisure Artesian hybrids last July. Syngenta Biotechnology scientists developed the Agrisure Artesian platforms in conjunction with the company's (U.S) Midwest and California breeders, who conducted the field testing. The Switzerland-based company will sell its new seeds for 2011 under the Garst, Golden Harvest and NK brands.
DuPont announced five hybrid platforms in early 2011. It tested them from 2008 to 2010 in 223 water-limited efficiency trials concentrated in California, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The company's agribusiness arm, Pioneer Hi-Bred, will sell the drought-forgiving seeds this year under the Optimum AQUAmax brand.
Both companies and Monsanto, the world's top seed seller, are developing genetically engineered corns. Their aim is more predictable drought resistance, plus greater yield potential, Roozeboom said.
In developing its drought-tolerant seed, Monsanto has been collaborating with Germany's BASF, the world's leading chemical company, in a $1.5 billion partnership. Monsanto's first drought-resistant biotech corn is now going through the federal regulatory approval process required for gene-modified products in the United States.
DuPont announced this month that its biotech challenger won't be ready for the market until later in the decade. A Syngenta spokesperson has said its competitor will require "years."
Roozeboom said, however, that the seed companies will still have room for further improvements.
"Drought itself is a complex subject. And corn's ability to handle dry conditions involves a number of genes," he said. "Beyond that, drought-tolerance alone simply addresses the problem of having to produce in a water-limited environment. Kansans know that heat can be just as damaging. Both water availability and heat stress can depend on or interrelate with soil type, pests, nutrient levels and each farmer's management practices."


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2014 CMS Summer Meeting
University of Manitoba, June 6 - 9, 2014
CMS Annual General Meeting
Sunday, June 8, 12:30 - 13:30
The CMS Executive is inviting all CMS members and meeting participants to join them at an informal luncheon to focus on what was achieved in 2013. There will be a short presentation followed by questions and answers. This is an opportunity for participants to get together with the CMS Executive and discuss emerging issues as well as directly voice their opinions, concerns and interests.
Sunday, June 8, 17:15 - 18:15
Ballroom B, Delta Winnipeg
In recent years across Western Canada, Ontario and the Maritimes there has been a trend in the Education Community toward idiosyncratic instruction methods and elimination of core aspects of mathematics from early and middle years education -- in particular, the memorization of math facts and the teaching of standard algorithms are no longer supported; in some instances they are militated against as if they were harmful. The supporting ideology appears to hold that higher-thinking skills ("understanding", "problem solving", "critical thinking") can be taught in the absence of fundamental skills and broadly connected factual content knowledge. Although many hold that mathematics is relentlessly heierarchical, with new content built upon previously mastered supporting skills, the current Education ethos appears to assume that this understanding is not only wrong, but harmful; some advocates go as far as to argue that these standard foundational elements are antithetical to understanding and the development of problem solving skills. As this view is incorporated into public school curricula and teacher training we have seen Canadian scores steadily decline in international assessments. Many mathematicians feel that math education in Canada is at a crossroads -- perhaps even a crisis. A similar series of changes occurred somewhat earlier in the U.S. and in Britain, with similar outcomes and responses by the mathematical community. Both of those countries have recently changed course, re-introducing aspects of foundational mathematics back into their curriculum. We have gathered a small panel of mathematicians with a variety of expertise to briefly discuss the situation in Canada, and the road ahead.
Featuring four panelists:
Canadian Mathematical Society Awards Banquet
Sunday June 8
Reception 6:30pm - 7:15pm
Dinner 7:15pm - 10pm
PanAm Room, Winnipeg Convention Centre
The Canadian Mathematical Society invites you to their awards banquet to highlight exceptional performance in the area of mathematical research and education. Prizes will be awarded during the event.
Communicating your research: a reflection on mathematical presentations
Studc is inviting all graduate students and postdocs to participate in a special scientific session focused on clearly communicating their work. This session is mainly meant to give young researchers an opportunity to reflect on and refine their academic presentation skills. To emphasize the focus on communicating clearly, students will be challenged with presenting an introductory talk about their field to a general mathematical audience. All participants are encouraged to opt into receiving anonymous feedback on their talk from both the session chairs and members of the audience. This constructive feedback will allow participants to identify their strengths and weaknesses as presenters in order to become more effective and engaging speakers in this interactive scientific session.
To register please submit your abstract here.
STUDC Student Workshop - Intermediate LaTeX Tutorial
Friday, June 6, 13:30 - 15:30
This workshop is designed to help participants improve the quality and readability of their LaTeX documents. Topics include advanced mathematical formatting, an overview of the mathtools and tikZ packages, optimal usage of equation environments and theorem environments, and tips and tricks to improve workflow. Attendees should be familiar with basic LaTeX (for example, be capable of typesetting an assignment, article or small set of notes).
Madeleine Bastien, Team Leader for the Research Grants at NSERC, will provide an overview of
program news and results of the 2014 NSERC Discovery Grants competition. This will be followed
by an information session on the Discovery Grant evaluation process.
In this session, Pearson will highlight their post-secondary learning resources that support innovation in teaching
mathematics. MyMathLab adaptive learning, MyMathTest adaptive testing and Learning Catalytics, the
new 'bring your own device' classroom student engagement, assessment, and classroom intelligence
system will all be covered. Please bring your own web-enabled device and engage with Learning Catalytics first hand.
Lunch will be provided.
The student population is part of a generation known as the "digital natives". We will discuss some of the characteristics of this generation and methods for engaging them in mathematics education. Refreshments will be provided.


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I just got this yesterday and used it for the first time last night all over my body. It was relatively easy to apply (although I washed my hands throughout the application process to avoid staining them). I was so happy with the results that I used it on my face when I woke up this morn. I just went into the bathroom at work and was like, "I look tan!!" I've been avoiding the sun for the past three years, so it's the first time I've seen myself tan in a looong time, and I love it!! It is a nice, golden color, too--exactly the way my skin looks when it's really tan. The smell is nice when you put it on, but it does fade into that self-tanner smell after awhile. That and the price are the only drawbacks--well worth it in my opinion. Review posted 3/12/2012.
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The best quality of this self-tanner is that it contains a color guide that actually stains your skin (some of it washes off, but part of the color guide remains and is long lasting) and so the color guard tint adds to the DHA self-tanner color...this makes the resulting "tan" more realistic than a DHA self-tan alone would be. Normally I avoid self-tanners with color guides as they tend to be messy, to stain clothing and look dirty, but this product's color guide actually has a purpose in that it improves the final tan color. That usually isn't the case, especially with most drugstore self-tanners. Also, this product has very little of that unattractive self-tanner scent. Lastly, because the concentration of DHA is quite high, you use less (one or two coats) to get a dark color, but you avoid being orange because of the residual stain of the color guide. The end result is a reddish brown tan color. This is pricey, but will last a long time and a worthwhile investment if you tend to turn orange with self-tanners. Good product! Review posted 11/7/2007.
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Ingredient List: Sun Laboratories Self Tanner Strictly Face Cream
Octinoxate, Dehydroxyacetone, Oxybenzone, Emulsifying Wax, Glycerin, Cetyl Alcohol, Stearic Acid, Hazelnut/Pecan Oil, Polysorbate 60, Cetyl Acetate, Acetylated Lanolin Alcohol, Phenyltrimethicone, Glucose Tyrosinate, Phenoxyethanol, Cetyl Phosphate, Magnesium Aluminum Silicate, Sugar Cane Extract, Citrus Extract, Apple Extract, Green Tea Extract, Isopropyl Palmitate, Propylparaben, Tocopheryl Acetate, Sordium Metabisulfite, Fragrance, Triethanolamine.
Directions: Sun Laboratories Self Tanner Strictly Face Cream
Apply a liberal amount of lotion to face and neck using the fingertips. Reapply as often as desired for dark tan appearance. Can be applied in the morning under make-up or in the evening as a facial moisturizer.


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Two early events pay homage to King
In one of two events held Sunday in advance of the Martin Luther King Jr. March, local businesses and community organizations gathered to lay wreaths at the Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza to honor King's life. Christopher Herring, co-owner of New Horizons School and national recipient of the prestigious NAACP Roy Wilkins Renowned Service Award, was the guest speaker.
An interfaith service also was held at St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Members of the local religious community gathered at the afternoon service. Followers of Sikh, Bahai, Jewish, Muslim and Christian traditions attended the event and prayed in their own ways. The keynote speaker was Anthony Vance, director of external affairs for U.S. Bahais.
Today's march will begin at 10 a.m. at the MLK Academy in the 3500 block of MLK Drive and end at Pittman-Sullivan Park. San Antonio claims the largest march in the country.


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Discipling Every Age
For the first time in the history of our country, four generations are living and working together. There are the Traditionalists (born 1925–1945), the Baby Boomers (1946–1964), Generation X (1965–1980), and the next demographic explosion, the Millennials (1981–1999). Each of …Read More
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Rev. Brad Waller is senior pastor of Grace Church of the Islands in Savannah, Ga. He served at Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Ga., for six years.


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Andrew Coyne's Connections to Free Market Think Tanks; Disclosure LackingRead time: 3 mins
Kevin Grandia | October 2, 2012
By Kevin Grandia • Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 06:00
Andrew Coyne,
the a former editor of Maclean's magazine, founding opinionator for the National Post and frequent political pundit on CBC, has a rather long history tying him to free-market think tanks in Canada.
According to the Canadian government's charity registry, Coyne has been a director for at least the last six years in a group called the Aurea Foundation. The Aurea Foundation was founded by Peter Munk, the head of Barrick Gold, and is a major funder of a small but influential network of free-market think tanks in Canada, including: The Fraser Institute, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, the Frontier Center for Public Policy, the Montreal Economic Institute and the MacDonald Laurier Institute.
Most of these groups espouse a philosophy similar to US free market think tanks like the Competitive Enterprise Instiute, the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. In fact, most of these think tanks and some of their Canadian counterparts have been a major focus of the DeSmog team's work dissecting and exposing the climate change denial machine.
Making this complicated for Coyne is that the fact that some of these Canadian think tanks have been used as sources of information for Coyne's articles and op-ed pieces without the disclosure by Coyne that he sits on the board of Aurea.


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Bowie leads N. Illinois past Ball St. 70-56
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) Darrell Bowie scored 17 points and Northern Illinois had a 37-13 advantage in bench scoring to pull away from Ball State 70-56 on Saturday.
Aaron Armstead led the charge off the bench with 11 points and his brother Aaric and J.J. Cravatta had nine each for the Huskies (14-16, 8-10 Mid-American Conference).
Frank House had 19 points and Majok Majok 12 for the Cardinals (5-24, 2-16), who have lost 12 of 13.
Northern Illinois led 28-27 at the half. Chris Bond made a basket for Ball State at 18:42 to tie the game at 41 but the Cardinals were limited to four free throws until Mark Alstork had a three-point play with 7 minutes left. By then the Huskies led 48-39.
Ball State ended up 2 of 11 from 3-point range and had 19 turnovers. Northern Illinois was 24 of 31 from the foul line.


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Political tension, lack of snow may be themes at Sochi Olympics
The Winter Olympics are being held for the first time in Russia, a country known as much for its vast snow-buried landscapes as for literature, ballet and the Cold War decades of communism.
But the site of the Feb. 7-23 Games, which commence in 100 days, is the Black Sea resort of Sochi, a city of beaches and palm trees in the heart of the Russian Riviera.
Sochi, where Joseph Stalin's favorite summer dacha is now a museum, is being transformed into a winter sports capital, as are the nearby slopes of Krasnaya Polyana in the Caucasus Mountains, where President Vladimir Putin likes to ski.
The makeover is part of Putin's grand plan to sow patriotic pride in the new, capitalist Russia by returning the country to Olympic supremacy. But it's going to cost more than any other Olympic Games — $50 billion, which is $10 billion more than China spent on its extravagant 2008 Summer Games and $44 billion more than Canada spent on the 2010 Winter Games.
Russia hopes the investment — as well as the home-field advantage — will be enough to lift its medal count far higher than the dismal total of 15 four years ago, which ranked fifth, behind even Austria and Norway.
The United States' Olympic team, which competes on the soil of its old Soviet-era rival for the first time, plans to build on its world-leading haul of 37 medals from 2010. Skier Lindsey Vonn is back after reconstructive knee surgery, snowboarder Shaun White will go for a third consecutive gold in the halfpipe, figure skaters Meryl Davis and Charlie White are favored to win ice dancing for the first time in U.S. history, and X Games stars are stoked to capitalize on a batch of podium opportunities in new circus events added to the program.
"I fall, I get back up," Vonn said on the Today show Tuesday during a U.S. Olympic Committee countdown-to-Sochi event in New York's Times Square. "It's who I am. Obviously, this was the biggest setback I've ever had, but I'm skiing really well. My knee feels great. I can't tell which one is injured."
South Florida's Olympic hopefuls would feel right at home in Sochi. Short-track speedskater Eddy Alvarez, following the example of four-time, long-track Olympian Jennifer Rodriguez, has won two World Cup medals this season. Lauryn Williams, Olympic silver medalist in the 100-meter dash, is pushing for a spot on the bobsled team. Ex-driver Brian Shimer is coach of the men's bobsled team that seeks more gold after breaking a 46-year winless streak in 2010.
As for hockey, the U.S. men skate for their first gold since the "Miracle on Ice" in 1980 and four years after losing in overtime to Canada on Sidney Crosby's shot heard across the continent. The U.S. women won the inaugural gold in 1998, but Canada, which won the gold medal tally in Vancouver/Whistler, has won every Olympic tournament since.
Curling, biathlon, ski jumping, luge and skeleton are among other sports adding to the action at an Olympics that could be full of political tension and lacking snow.
Athletes have voiced opposition to a Russian law that bans the "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations." Foreigners who break the widely condemned law face $3,000 fines and 14-day jail sentences.
"It's absolutely embarrassing that there are countries and people who are that intolerant, that ignorant," said skier Bode Miller, bidding for a fifth Olympic berth.
Human Rights Watch has called on the International Olympic Committee to pressure Russia to repeal the law.
"The Sochi Olympics risk being remembered as the anti-gay Games unless the IOC is willing to stand up and defend the principles of its own Olympic charter," said Jane Buchanan, HRW's associate director for Europe and Central Asia.
Putin met with IOC president Thomas Bach on Monday and assured him that athletes and visitors will feel "comfortable regardless of their ethnicity, race or sexual orientation." Yet a day earlier three LGBT activists flying rainbow flags as the Torch Relay passed through St. Petersburg were detained by police.
Putin faces other risks in the staging of the Games, including possible disruption by Chechen militants. A North Caucasus suicide bomber killed six on a Volgograd bus Monday, and marchers in Moscow on Sunday demanded the release of "political prisoners," including Pussy Riot punk band members.
If not enough snow falls in the mountains above Sochi, organizers have stored 24.7 million cubic feet — learning a lesson from 2010 when helicopters had to deliver last-minute dumps at Canada's venues. The Rosa Khutor Alpine Center has built the biggest artificial snow-making operation in Europe.
Defending downhill gold medalist Vonn, who postponed her return until Nov. 29 in Colorado, teenage slalom world champion Mikaela Shiffrin, three-time Olympic medalist Julia Mancuso and three-time 2013 world champ Ted "Shred" Ligety could be among the American stars on the slopes.
"It will be the longest Giant Slalom on the World Cup, ranging from 1:30 to 1:40," Ligety wrote on his website after wearing a camera on a run down the course. Ligety, known for his sharply angled turns, said it is neither very steep nor technical, though. "My legs were burning midway not to even mention at the bottom."
As always, the United States is deep in the snowboard events, which includes a slopestyle race in 2014. White has been training at a secluded private halfpipe in Australia. Others vying for spots are Scotty Lago, Louie Vito, Jamie Anderson, Elena Hight, Gretchen Bleiler, Arielle Gold, Hannah Teter and Kelly Clark, who has more career victories than anyone in the sport.
Shani Davis is after his third consecutive speedskating gold. In short track, J.R. Celski, Travis Jayner and Miami's Alvarez try to take up where Apolo Anton Ohno left off.
Steven Holcomb aims to pilot his four-man "Night Train" to gold on Sochi's curvy, technical track and win two-man as well.
Alaska's Kikkan Randall, off a breakthrough World Cup season, could become the first U.S. cross-country skier to make the podium since 1976.
The other Lindsey, Lindsey Van, is the world champion in the new Olympic sport of women's ski jumping. Another addition is halfpipe skiing, in which Americans Maddie Bowman, Simon Dumont and David Wise are X Games medalists.
Figure skating could be in for a changing of the guard with defending singles gold medalists Evan Lysachek and Kim Yu-Na both trying to recover from injuries in time for the Games. South Korea's Kim said she is 70 percent recovered from a foot injury, "mostly pain-free and I can do all the triple jumps," but Lysachek has not competed since 2010 and would have a difficult time beating Max Aaron, Adam Rippon and Jeremy Abbott for the two U.S. men's spots — and they will be underdogs to Canada's three-time world champion Patrick Chan in Sochi. Johnny Weir has retired, but the Russophile is sure to be an entertaining NBC commentator. The top U.S. women are Ashley Wagner and Gracie Gold, who recently switched to Michelle Kwan's coach, Frank Carroll. Japan's Mao Asada has a formidable repertoire of jumps.
U.S. ice dancers Davis and White, who share a coach with and train near Detroit alongside 2010 gold medalists Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, won worlds in 2011 and 2013.
Davis and White have chosen to skate their long program to Scheherazade, by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
"We feel this is the right moment," White said of their choice for an Olympic season they hope will culminate in Sochi. "We have grown into skaters who can make the most of this special music."


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Burial for George and Elizabeth Stroop, Upper Darby. Any Main in Delaware Co
Main in Pennsylvania
Thomas Sidney Main was born 1835. His obituary says Mercer County. The 1880 federal census says his parents were born in Pennsylvania. An Aunt says their names were Samuel and Genevieve. I have never found them on a census record or tax record. I don't know when they were born and I don't know about any siblings. I don't know if they were Irish or German or anything else. I found a Thomas Maine born abt 1836 on the 1850 census. He is living with George and Elizabeth Stroop in Upper Darby, Delaware Co PA. I have researched this family and cannot find the relation to them. He might have been a farm hand but he was only 14 years old.
My thought, If this is the same Thomas Main, is that he is orphaned and living with a relative. Elizabeth Stroop's maiden name is Earle.
Thomas Sidney Main moved to Iowa and married in 1859 Linn County. He married Electa Jane Day. She was born 1840 Ohio. They had 13 children. He worked for a government surveying party until he married then began farming. One of the surveys he worked on was the Northwestern railroad.
I am searching for Samuel and Genevieve Main in Pennsylvania. Maybe they were born abt 1800. I have all the information about Thomas after he married but nothing before.
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