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Back in 2007 when I was 17 I joined the National Guard to pay for college and the $20,000 bonus. Well this semester I went to college and dropped out. I have always made good grades but I never studied and didn't really start in college. And I chose Biology as my major because I knew it would lead to a good job, but I'm not interested in Biology and biology is really hard to study if your not interested in it. I am going to go Active duty but I can't right now because I have to wait 6 months the Georgia National Guard is deploying and my commander wouldn't let me until at least halfway through the deployment. I don't have to go, my unit is already full on deploying and I could get a job at some fast food place or go back to college for a semester (I have college first in my contract) until then. But I don't want to do that and I'll come back with at least 20,000 since overseas pay is tax free and you can't really spend your paycheck in Afghanistan. I'm in the process of volunteering and don't know how long it will be until I leave.
My MOS is chemical operations ( the reason for my bonus) and I feel pretty confident in it because from what I hear its easy. Mostly I just make sure the company I am in knows how to put their MOPP on quickly (which is part of deployment training) and manage the chemical gear, which in a National Guard unit isn't going to be very fancy. And I kept all the manuals from AIT unlike some of the other guys/girls who threw them away. But I doubt I'll be doing that, I'll probably be doing the same thing as all the cooks, truck drivers, and Air defense artillery guys, which is guard convoys, FOBS, etc. When I go active duty I'm thinking about being a translator, electrician, lab tech, or computer repair. When I get back if I remeber I'll let you guys know how it went.


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For years, there has been scholarly analysis that shows fairy tales hide darker secrets. If you've heard the analysis that posits the variety of sexual connotations of "Little Red Riding Hood," you might never read it to children again.
Here's my reductive analysis of Christmas songs I despise. By over-explaining their imagined hidden content, I hope to make them unplayable.
"The Hat I Got For Christmas is Too Beeg" is clearly a neo-Marxist attempt to subvert the tenets of Christmas commercialism that we all hold so dear. On the one hand, the outrageous accent used throughout the song suggests that those who do not match the accepted standards of North America will face inherent racism, never being allowed to fit in, an argument that skilfully hidden in the suggestion that even their hats won't fit. (Don't get me started on the name of the song's writer: Mel Blanc!)
That claim of racism is further buried in the subtext that though the simplest solution for ill-fitting clothing is to return it, even that solution is apparently not available to immigrants facing suspicious merchants.
Metaphorically, there is also the message of a lack of understanding: if you're not from here, we can't be bothered to get your hat size right.
It is, of course, all an attempt to enrage an emerging underclass and seek revolutionary overthrow, made exceptionally clear in the lines, "I'll ring the bells to be polite, but if I see that Santy Claus, I going to start a fight."
Play it, and you issue a call to arms.
Now turn to "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus."
Obviously, this is paganism's triumph over Christian morals. Why, even the kids believe that, under the powerful spell of pagan mistletoe, Christian marriage vows fly out the window and everyone's lip-locking with imaginary characters at a moment's notice.
The anti-feminist message is also clear: faced with the tableau of a woman kissing a poorly disguised husband, the children leap immediately to the idea that women, represented by their mother, are weak. Not only that, but there's the introduction of threat; some versions indicate that the child plans to tell their father about the dalliance, leading to "humourous" results. "Oh, what a laugh it would have been, if Daddy had only seen, Mommy kissing Santa Claus last night."
Clearly it is meant to introduce Carl Jung's Electra fantasy, a modification of Sigmund Freud's Oedipal complex. As Mommy is engaged in tickling Santa Claus "underneath his beard so snowy white," the child is planning to engineer Mommy's downfall and replace her in the family unit.
This is a call for the dark destruction of the social and moral order.
"Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer." Hidden inside an anthem suggesting the need for Christmas safety — if you are inebriated following eggnog overindulgence, stay home — is actually a violent subtext. Grandma is murdered, with a stagey hoofprint on her forehead. The blame goes to Santa, someone even the narrator suggests people think is imaginary.
And Grandpa? "He's been taking this so well, see him in there watching football, drinking beer and playing cards with cousin Mel."
Ladies and gentleman, we have a suspect, and it ain't Mel.
I'll be short. This is not a Christmas song. This is a detective novel about covering up family violence, waiting for that last, decisive chapter.
"Feliz Navidad"? I have one word: numerology. Deceptively simple, every line of the song is precisely five beats. "Fel-iz Nav-i-dad. Pros-per-ous an-o. Y Fel-i-ci-dad." Do you see? The number five is connected to thoughtlessness, selfishness and irresponsibility, with a tendency for alcohol, drugs and sex. Couple that with the Christmas, and we're looking at a bacchanal here.
Oh, and "The Little Drummer Boy" was clearly on speed. What else can you say about a song that uses the word "pum" 63 times in just four verses?
These songs are dark. Stop playing them.
Russell Wangersky's column appears in 35 SaltWire newspapers and websites in Atlantic Canada. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com — Twitter: @wangersky.

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No. 11 WVU women win 71-69 at No. 6 Baylor
WACO, Texas (AP) Ever the self-proclaimed downer, West Virginia coach Mike Carey was quick to tell his No. 11 Mountaineers they still have one more game before being able to at least have a share of the Big 12 title.
Carey also realizes they have that chance only after taking down the three-time defending champ on the road.
Asya Bussie had 21 points before fouling out, Averee Fields stole an errant pass and drove for a go-ahead layup with 12 seconds left and West Virginia beat No. 6 Baylor 71-69 Sunday, handing the Lady Bears their first conference home loss in four years. The teams are tied atop the Big 12 standings with one game left in the regular season.
"This is a very big win for us. We just came in here really focused and stayed focused the whole game," Bussie said. "We have goals, and one of our goals was to beat Baylor, and that's what we did. `'
Odyssey Sims, the nation's leading scorer, had 39 points in her final regular-season home game. But the senior guard also her first career 10-turnover game, including the pass that Fields got in the Baylor end of the court, before Sims then missed a last shot.
West Virginia (26-3, 15-2 Big 12) never even led until 5:20 was left. The lead changed six times after that, the final time on the play by Fields that gave the Mountaineers their ninth consecutive victory.
"I told the girls, I'm very proud of them. Win or lose, we played hard. I just felt like the first time we played them, we weren't aggressive at all – offensively, defensively – kind of sitting back, kind of intimidated," Carey said. "This game, win or lose, I thought we were aggressive. I just wanted everybody to know that we showed up today, and our girls did a good job of that. `'
West Virginia, in only its second Big 12 season, plays at home against Kansas on Tuesday night. That game starts about an hour before the Lady Bears (25-4, 15-2) play at Iowa State that night.
When Bussie fouled out with 47 seconds left, Sims made both free throws for a 69-68 lead.
But the Mountaineers then turned the ball over when Crystal Leary was called for a charge that was drawn by Sune Agbuke. That lead to the game-deciding play.
Sims had the ball and was making a move when she tried to make a pass. The ball went to Fields, who drove for a layup that made it 70-69.
"I was trying to keep the ball in my hands. I figure they would foul," said Sims, who two months ago scored a career-high 48 points in a 16-point win at West Virginia. "I turned it over. I gave it up too quick."
Baylor still had another chance, but Sims missed a jumper. Freshman Nina Davis grabbed her 16th rebound, but lost control of the ball out of bounds with 1.4 seconds left. Linda Stepney made a free throw after being fouled.
"I thought the setting was perfect to win a Big 12 championship," Baylor coach Kim Mulkey said. "We put ourselves in a position to do it, and we just didn't get it done there at the end."
Christal Caldwell had 17 points for West Virginia, and Bria Holmes 12.
Davis had 12 points and her 10th double-double for the Lady Bears, who had won 11 in a row overall.
West Virginia's first lead came when Caldwell made a 3-pointer from the left side near her bench to make it 61-58 with 5:20 left.
But Baylor quickly got even when Sims pushed the ball up court and made a long pass to Makenzie Robertson in the right corner near the Baylor bench for a 3-pointer, the senior starter's only made basket in the game.
West Virginia shot 50 percent (27 of 54), only the second opponent to make half its shots against the Lady Bears since an NCAA tournament loss in 2006. The Mountaineers joined Stanford as the only teams to shoot 50 percent against Baylor in a span of 282 games.
"We're disappointed, but I'm not disappointed to the extent that we lost a Big 12 championship," Mulkey said. "We may now just have to share it."
Sims banged her right shoulder hard with 1:44 left in the first half, and was on the court writhing in pain. She got up and went to the locker room, but was on the court at halftime for recognition of the Lady Bears' three seniors and then scored their first nine points after halftime.
"It just popped," she said.


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I'm not going to start a new thread to ask this, so I figured this was as good a place as any. Is there a spot to put Tarfull's club on his body? It does have a small hole in it, but I couldn't find any peg to put in said hole.
There is a small magnet on the base of his spine that connects with where (I guess) his coccyx (sp?) would be
His ass.
I'm curious, and I'm just guessing now that Tarful's a Col. 1 figure too, but what is his deal with the articulation.Not terrible arm articulation, could use wrists though (reuse VOTC CHewie's even... Save a buck on sculpt/tooling), but what's up with his legs?Why are they jointed, but only twist. Am I missing something? Does he have knee articulation? I can't tell, honestly. Mine's legs just spin, which is an incredible waste of time/$ tooling an articulation on both legs that serves no purpose, but whatever...Anyone have insight? Is there a knee joint there I'm missing all together or something?BTW that bowcaster blows something fierce too. Yikes. Nice bland figure, but not $6-ish nice.
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Nov 19, 2007
CSS 3 selectors explained
Here's a nifty CGI that figures out what all those CSS selectors mean.
permalink | computing/web/sites | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
Using Blosxom
I wrote up a page on how this site uses blosxom, and the standard and custom plugins that I use. Since I use blosxom in both static and dynamic mode, I had to hack a bunch of plugins to work correctly in both places, and write my own in some cases.
Blosxom proved to be very flexible. It's simple enough to go hacking, yet rich enough, with all the plugins available, to do some fairly complex stuff. Its flexibility is both a blessing and a curse: you can do almost anything that you'd want to, but you often have to go hacking in the plugins to make things work if you want to do anything out of the ordinary. Once you have more than a few plugins, you also start to run into conflicts between them, which can only sometimes be fixed by the rename-ordering dance.
permalink | computing/web/blog | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
Batch changing file types/creators
For some reason when downloading files via FTP with Interarchy, all my .html files
end up being owned by IE (yuck). Here's a handy one-liner to fix that (run from the directory containing the errant files). You'll need the developer tools installed to get
find . -name "*.html" | xargs /Developer/Tools/SetFile -c R*ch
This sets the file creator to
R*ch, which is BBEdit's creator code.
Of course the
*.html can be changed to change other files, like
You can also use the
-t option to set the file type, for example
-t TEXT.
permalink | computing/mac/tips | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
Apple's WWDC 2004
I'm off to WWDC in San Francisco tomorrow. It's exciting; this will be the first time that I've had a badge all to myself, and will be able to go to the keynote.
permalink | computing/mac/wwdc | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
CSSEdit is another nice web development tool for Mac users. It's not much use for positional-type stuff, because it doesn't know anything about your page structure, but it's great for color, border and font tweaking.
permalink | computing/mac/software | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
GUI wrappers around SSH
I just spent most of the weekend writing a tool that provides a nice GUI frontend
for SSH, specifically for creating SSH tunnels. Yeah, I know about
SSH Tunnel Manager, but it has
a fiddly UI, and, as I found when looking at the source, the author doesn't care
too much about security (it writes your password to a short-lived file in
So about 10 hours of hacking later, I had a nice little app with an
NSStatusItem which showed the connected state of tunnels,
and some tunnel editing UI.
Then Google presented me with SSHKeychain. Wow, what a neat little app. It does everything mine did, and more. Hopefully it will make using CVS over SSH with mozilla a little less painful.
permalink | computing/mac/software | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
Color Schemer
In a previous entry I pointed to Color Designer as a nice color design application, useful for web pages and more.
Apple's downloads page recently featured a different application which does much the same thing, called Color Schemer Studio. This one comes as a 15-day free trial, after which it's $50. Color Schemer is nicely designed, and seems a little more polished than ColorDesigner, but doesn't have quite the flexibility.
permalink | computing/mac/software | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
How They Improved Mac OS X Performance
MacIntouch just pointed to this really interesting review of various performance improvements in Mac OS X, on kernalthread.com.
Note to self: should read the other articles on kernalthread.com.
permalink | computing/mac/os | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
Fixing MT-NewsWatcher bugs
I spent a few hours this weekend fixing some MT-NW bugs, which is long overdue. I've been distracted by other projects, like redesigning this web site.
For the curious, the bug fix list so far looks like:
- Fixed file type/creator reversal when saving binaries.
- The "Mark as not junk" menu item works for article windows now.
- The Advanced dialog in the binary extration prefs has a sensible title now.
- Fixed the display font for UTF-8 messages to use the font prefs, rather than default to 9pt Monaco.
- Fixed an odd behaviour clicking on the radio buttons in the filter edit dialog for a date filter.
- Fixed a linkage issue that could cause library errors on launch on some machines (GSS-related).
- Fixed some minor message window layout issues (helpful for translators).
- Accented characters are no longer stripped when pasting.
- When bringing up the Spelling panel with a misspelled word selected, it no longer goes to the next misspelled word.
- MT-NW will now try to authenticate when requested in more situations, making it less necessary to use the 'Always authenticate' option.
- Underscores ('_') will no longer be converted to spaces in message with a Content-Transfer-Encoding of Quoted-Printable.
- Fixed some bugs relating to Smart cut and paste in message editing.
I also ran into another long-standing bug (it's amazing how pretty fundamental bugs can go lurking unreported for years!) which I started to fix, and then backed off. It's a stupid issue where "child" windows are tracked via a parent window and an index into the parent window's list (e.g. the group index in the parent window). That works fine until the parent's array changes, for example by a resort or quicksearch.
It may sound easy to fix, but there are some complications with the full groups window that make it a bit more tricky.
This is one of those bugs that makes me tempted to start rewriting MT-NW from scratch in Cocoa, and pull in code from the old codebase bit by bit. However, this is a huge task (probably over a year of heavy part-time work), and not one that I'm prepared to embark upon.
Thinking about this also put me in mind of the the real cost of writing and maintaining a freeware application. Taking into account the hundreds of hours that I've put into MT-NW over the past 8 years, and using a pretty conservative hourly rate that a developer would get paid, the cost is at least $100,000. Makes you think, eh?
permalink | computing/mac/mtnw | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
I just found a pretty nice color design tool called ColorDesigner (screenshot), which is ideal for picking combinations of colors to use on web sites. All the color suites you see on this site were chosen using it.
You can find get it from the author's site, or download from freshmeat.net
There seem to be a few bugs (like failing to track saved documents), and there's some stuff that I don't understand, but it's pretty neat, and spits out CSS-compatible hex values.
permalink | computing/mac/software | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
Eastern Sierras Timelapse
We spent an excellent weekend in the Eastern Sierras (CA), recently, and I captured this timelapse sequence over Sunday breakfast. Unfortunately most of the cloud action is over the peaks in the distance, but there are some interesting vortices closer to the camera.
(Click the movie for a larger 17.1Mb version)
permalink | pictures/timelapse | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
Time Lapse Sunset
Here's another time lapse example, taken with the Pclix. I used a 5 second interval this time, and the result is quite a bit smoother. This was made from about 1380 images. It's a good idea to set the camera to take smaller JPEGs for this kind of stuff, as you don't need high resolution images anyway.
(Click the movie for a larger 12.9Mb version)
permalink | pictures/timelapse | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
Time Lapse Photography
I've always wanted to play around with timelapse photography, and recently found a cool little device, the Pclix, that makes it really easy. This is a little box that triggers the camera to take shots at a predetermined interval.
Today was a good cloud day in Sunnyvale, so I managed to get almost three hours of cloudscape, shot at 10 second intervals, and converted the resulting 930 images into the following movie (QuickTime 7 required):
(Click the movie for a larger 24Mb version)
The clouds get dark and moody half-way through, and there's an interesting counter current of wind in the lower right corner (possibly some bay-effect wind) that leads to some nice turbulence.
permalink | pictures/timelapse | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
BEAM Robotics
I've been spending some time recently slaving over a hot soldering iron, building BEAM bots. You can see the results here.
permalink | computing/robots | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
Choosing a cellphone and carrier
The time has finally come for me to crawl out of the dark ages and get a cellphone. But what a rat's nest this is!
GSM, or CDMA? Do you want AMPS with that? How about TDMA? Oh, and if you want some data, how about WCDMA or 3G?
GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) is a open standard for mobile phones which is widely used in the rest of the world (especially Europe and Asia). It's based on TDMA. The advantages of GSM are that there are more cool phones, you can easily switch phones (as long as they are unlocked) by swapping your SIM card, and data service is readily available.
In the US, Cingular (including the recently merged AT&T) and T-Mobile use GSM networks. Cingular/AT&T have more coverage than T-Mobile, but T-Mobile has better plans. Cingular's network uses the 850MHz and 1900MHz spectrum whereas T-Mobile is exclusively 1900MHz; 850MHz gives better in-building reception, so if you want to go GSM, Cingular seems to be the best choice (Cingular and AT&T are actually converting away from an older digital technology, TDMA.)
CDMA is a technology developed and owned by Qualcomm (no open standards here), which works in a different way to TDMA. It has technical advantages over GSM, in that networks can have a higher capacity (at the expense of voice quality), but is not necessarily technically superior. Also, some CDMA phones also include analog (AMPS) capability (more of which in a minute).
In the US, Sprint and Verizon use CDMA networks. Sprint uses a 1900MHz spectrum (again, poor for in-building reception), and Verizon mostly uses 800MHz CMDA, which gives better reception. So, if you want a CDMA phone, go for Verizon.
There is a third, older form of "cellular" technology, AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System), which is an analog system that has much greater coverage than the digital networks (GSM and CDMA). AMPS is used by road-side emergency phones and GM's On-Star system, but it's being phased out. However, if you want coverage in rural areas where the digital networks don't reach, then you want a phone with analog capability, which really constrains your choice of phones. No GSM phones support AMPS, so if you want analog, you have to go for CDMA.
If you are now totally confused, here's a table which summarizes the repercussions of the technological issues.
So, after digesting all that, I figure that I'd get the best coverage and reception from Verizon with a 850/1900MHz phone with AMPS capability (aka analog roaming). Looking at their phones, the Motorola V710 is one of the few non-sucky phones with some hope that it might be able to sync on Mac OS X over iSync. Furthermore, the V710 has analog roaming.
However, what Verizon don't tell you is that the V710 you get from them is crippled. They turn off a bunch of features on the phone (like Bluetooth OBEX object exchange) so that you have to use their pay-per-use services instead. Oh, and they just discontinued the V710, replacing it with the E815 which doesn't have analog. Great.
So, maybe I should look into Cingular/GSM. The choice of phones is certainly much greater, and may more of them are iSync-friendly.
permalink | computing/equipment | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
Certificate UI
In browsing through the open Camino bugs I came across bug 151656, which has always niggled at me. To be a serious contender for some users, we need to have basic certificate handling capability.
Some quick LXRing showed that we just need to implement
nsICertificateDialogs. However, we should also be able to display certificates (so that the user knows what they are accepting), and give the user a way to get at the certs they've accepted before. In other words, we need a bunch of new security UI. Fun!
permalink | computing/camino | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
It's about time I started keeping people up to date on what I've been doing with Camino, just so so that Mike doesn't get all the glory!
Recently I implemented global history on the Go menu. Before we just had session history there, which was pretty much useless, so having global history makes it a lot more useful. The menu and its submenus are build using a HistoryDataSource object that I wrote for the history view, so the implementation was fairly easy.
I also beefed up our site icon (aka favicon) code a little, adding support for site icons in <link> elements (thanks to a patch from Ludovic Hirlimann), adding a cache of site icon images, and added site icon display to the history menus, and the history view. It's not ideal, because the site icons are cached in Necko's disk cache, which goes away if you crash, and it doesn't retain
https data, so icons for sites that serve them up over https, like Bugzilla, aren't retained. There are also some odd issues if you try to load icons from the disk cache while in the process of displaying the history menus; the submenus don't show up. Finally, you can't synchronously say "give me the image for this site" (because necko disk cache loading isn't synchronous), so you can't populate all the menu items in history with icons the first time.
To solve these issue I've been pondering writing a simple directory-based cache for site icon images. It would just use a plist catalog file, and hash the icon url to get a filename. We could then load the images directly from disk when we needed them.
permalink | computing/camino | 2007.11.19-22:33.00
Plant PicturesPictures of various plants, with an emphasis on flowers in the genus Salvia.
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Arthropod picturesThis gallery contains images of insects and spiders.
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Carnivorous Plant PicturesThese are some pictures of carnivirous plants that I've taken at various botanical gardens, and at California Carnivores.
View the gallery.
permalink | pictures | 2007.11.19-22:31.00
Welcome to my web log!
I've finally come up with a web site that I'm relatively happy with, using blosxom. There's more about that in the computing section.
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A member of the Microsoft security team watches over the newly unveiled Xbox One videogame console at the Microsft campus in Redmond, Washington, on May 21, 2013. Microsoft unveiled its eagerly awaited new generation Xbox One videogame console, touting it as a home entertainment hub that goes far beyond games. The beefed-up hardware is powered by software that allows for instant switching between games, television, and Internet browsing, according to Don Mattrick, head of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business. Skype was also integrated for online video calls. AFP PHOTO/GlennCHAPMANGLENN CHAPMAN/AFP/Getty Images ORG XMIT: US-ENTERT
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Project ASTRO How-To Manual: Ten Steps to a Successful Partnership
1. Plan and make at least 4 classroom visits, plus an extra first visit for the astronomer to observe the class anonymously.
Make multiple visits to the school or classroom, and begin with an observation visit so that the astronomer can see what the school and classroom are like. We've found that four visits are the minimum number for the astronomer and students to have time to get to know each other. With at least four visits, the astronomer can do longer term projects with students, and can join the teacher at key points in the curriculum. Also because each school visit may take some preparation, making more than four visits may not be possible for really busy astronomers. Of course, we encourage you to make more than four visits if possible – some Project ASTRO astronomers have enjoyed visiting as often as once a week for the entire school year.
2. Visit the same classroom over time.
When he or she works with the same students over time, the astronomer really gets to know the kids (and vice versa). We suggest that the astronomer work with one (or at the most two) self-contained elementary classrooms during a school visit, or in middle or high school, with no more than two science periods. Go for depth rather than exposure.
Start small.
We know that teachers who see more than one class each day ideally want to expose all of their students to the astronomer. Resist this kind impulse! This can place a great time demand on the astronomer (who is, after all, a volunteer) and make it more difficult for him or her to learn the children's names, let alone form relationships with them. Although you will initially involve a smaller group of students, these kids will benefit much more from the astronomer's multiple visits and personal contact. (In our pilot program, the visiting astronomers who faced many classes each time reported that they had a much less satisfying experience than those who "adopted" one class.)
Teachers can use the new skills they develop to enhance astronomy with other classes. If all partners agree, you can add additional students after you have been working together for a while. To reach more students, consider inviting them to special events (the entire sixth grade to a star party), have a one-time assembly for more kids, or have your students teach other classes.
3. The teacher should be responsible for student discipline and classroom management.
Visiting astronomers, as volunteers in the classroom, should not be expected to manage student behavior in the classroom. Rather, teachers should stay actively involved in the classroom, both to model learning and curiosity to students and to assist the astronomer with any discipline or logistics. At the same time, astronomers need to be aware of classroom rules and routines, and use them appropriately during their visits (such as having students raise their hands before speaking). It is a good idea to clarify what these rules are before the first visit.
"I thought I was going to have to teach astronomy and my teachers would go off for a bagel and coffee, but this was not the case. We worked together in partnership." — Project ASTRO Astronomer
4. Commitment and communication are the keys to a successful partnership.
Strong partnerships develop when everyone has a high level of enthusiasm and commitment to the project. You will need to devote enough time to communicate and plan with your partner, to get ready for visits, and of course, to be in the classroom. Be careful not to overcommit at first. But, do follow through by keeping in touch with your partner teacher or astronomer. It's also important to communicate clearly and openly about any concerns, needs, or suggestions you may have.
5. Teachers and astronomers should enter the partnership as equal, but differently skilled, partners.
Teachers are likely to be more knowledgeable about how students learn, what students need to know, and about how to structure and manage a classroom activity. Astronomers are likely to know more about astronomy and technology. Your partnership will be more successful if you enter it with respect and an expectation of equality. But don't expect your partner to know everything or to do everything perfectly the first time. Let your partnership and your own skills develop as you get to know each others' strengths.
6. Provide adequate time for planning and follow-up.
Focus on a few themes and goals and add more ambitious activities (field trips, star parties, site visits, simulated missions to Mars, etc.) after you have been working together for a while. An initial planning meeting or two will help you understand each others' needs and interests. It is important for astronomers to listen and respond to teachers' needs – you will be stronger allies this way. Build from your strengths. And, check in with each other about students' reactions and how the activity went after each visit.
7. Children learn best when they are actively involved and engaged in learning, by observing, measuring, discussing, etc.
The philosophy and focus of Project ASTRO is to involve students in active, hands-on astronomy activities, as opposed to listening to lectures (although an occasional lecture may have a place in a well-thought-out program). Doing hands-on activities may require a more cooperative approach with both partners actively engaged.
"I learned that lecture style is not the way to go with kids. It has its place but Project ASTRO is more about hands-on activities and having fun." — Rich Combs, Amateur Astronomer
8. Involve school administrators, other teachers, and families.
It's always a good idea to keep the school principal and other administrators informed about Project ASTRO. Be sure the principal meets the visiting astronomer, and invite school administrators to special events and visits. If other teachers express interest in the program, invite them as well. In addition, you'll find that astronomy offers great opportunities to involve families in their children's science learning. "Star parties" for families and nighttime observing as homework activities are opportunities to get families out to look at the night sky, making science fun for all. Also, make use of other resources in your community. See Sections 7 and 9 for more ideas.
"It's nice to meet students and parents on common ground outside of the school facility. At the middle school level, so often the only time we get to meet parents is when something is wrong. Project ASTRO was a great way to have a more positive experience with students and parents." — Project ASTRO Teacher
9. Involve community resources when possible.
Don't feel that the two of you need to do it all alone, especially if you are planning a special event. Seek out astronomy resources in your community, such as:
- the local amateur astronomy club
- public or private observatories
- a planetarium or science museum
- a NASA facility (including one of NASA's Teacher Resource Centers or Space Grant College programs)
- college or university astronomy departments
- a community college with an astronomy program
- parents with telescopes
See the sections on finding an astronomer and involving the community for specific ideas.
10. Create a plan that addresses both the teacher's and the astronomer's needs and interests, and don't forget to keep the students in mind!
Sometimes, teachers and astronomers find that they want different things from the partnership. For example, the teacher may want students to learn about scale and distance, and the astronomer may want to share his or her knowledge and enthusiasm about telescopes and observing. It is important that both the teacher's and the astronomer's interests get met to some degree. You may need to clarify what the underlying issue is and make a few compromises so that the teacher's classroom needs are met and the astronomer does what he or she is most enthusiastic about. The best solutions often involve working more closely together or sharing roles.


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Weakening the axiom of naive comprehension has not been a popular way of escaping from the set-theoretic paradoxes because no consistent weakenings seem to be particularly well motivated or even to lead to understandable models. At any rate, that is so of the most famous consistent (well, probably consistent) weakening, New Foundations. Nonetheless, it could be illuminating to understand the partial order of consistent subtheories of naive set theory. My question would be: what is known about it? Unfortunately, however, that question seems ill-posed in that an arbitrary axiom $\psi$ can be coded as comprehension for $(\psi \land x\neq x)\lor (\lnot\psi \land x\notin x)$. But can anything interesting be said?
Besides NF, I am aware of just one type of set theory that is (almost) naturally thought of as arrived at by admitting only a subset of all possible instances of naive comprehension. These are the so-called positive set theories. Unfortunately, I know nothing about them except that they admit a universal set (like NF), and they apparently do require some extra axioms that are not naturally expressed as instances of comprehension. In particular, according to Wikipedia, the theory known as $GPK^{+}_{\infty}$ requires the axiom of infinity, the empty set axiom (!), and an axiom scheme of "closure" giving, for each formula $\phi$ with one free variable, the intersection of all the sets that contain every $x$ such that $\phi(x)$. This seems to me arguably in the spirit of restricting naive comprehension because comprehension is still the main set construction principle, and in particular there is no need for powerset or replacement. Are there other "natural" examples of set theories that can be thought of as arrived at by weakening naive comprehension? Perhaps ones that don't admit a universal set?
Even non-effective examples (examples where the set of instances of comprehension that is admitted is not computably enumerable) might be interesting. Also, there might be interesting ways of weakening naive comprehension that are different from simply restricting the allowed instances of the schema. For instance, maybe some set of disjunctions of instances of naive comprehension is interesting, or maybe it is interesting to consider an axiom that would only guarantee the existence of a set that is in some sense "close" to the class of objects satisfying $\phi$.
The context in which this question came up is that I was trying to explain Russell's paradox to someone, and their reaction was, well you should just throw out the instance of the comprehension axiom that leads to paradox. Of course, throwing out literally that one instance won't restore consistency. But pointing out a flaw in any particular proposal someone with this attitude toward the paradoxes might propose wouldn't show that some more sophisticated proposal might succeed. I was hoping for some sort of general argument that, say, proceeding in this way inevitably leads to a system that is either like NF or like positive set theory (if it is not inconsistent or extremely weak). (What else could be wrong with $x\notin x$ except that it is unstratified or that it involves negation?) Or at least an argument that you won't get an extension of ZF by any natural weakening procedure would be nice! Both NF and positive set theory, if I understand the situation aright, could serve as a foundation for mathematics, but both are less intuitive and convenient than ZFC, and it is sort of an article of faith for set theorists that any alternative to ZFC we might ever find is either somehow worse than ZFC or not deeply different from it, yes?


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Go Sieve
The newly announced Go language set the Internet abuzz this week. I'm not going to write extensively about it, partly because I haven't had much time to examine it in detail, and partly because other people have already written a lot about it. It is interesting to note that CHP and Go share a common heritage in Hoare and Roscoe's CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes). I will be mentioning CSP in a couple of posts next week; CSP is a process calculus used to describe message-passing concurrent systems.
CSP inspired occam, which in turn became occam-pi (using ideas from the pi-calculus), which is still under active development. occam and occam-pi also inspired various libraries for CSP-style concurrency, such as JCSP, C++CSP, PyCSP, and many more including CHP. But CSP also inspired Newsqueak, and Rob Pike went on from that to work on Limbo and now Go which retain the CSP influence. It's certainly nice to see other people looking at message-passing concurrency.
I did get time to glance at Go's tutorial, and saw that they have an example for generating prime numbers using a process pipeline which uses the exact same design as my CHP primes example. So you can compare the CHP version to the Go version if you wish. (I took the design from the JCSP version; I wonder if the Go developers did too.)
November 16, 2009 at 7:58 pm
I've implemented the faithful Eratosthenes sieve here , still using CSP and Go. It is optimized and massively faster than the one given in the tutorial.
It is still however, slower than Haskell's fastest implementation: ONeilPrimes from . But that is unfair comparison because that one use cons'ed list instead of channels.
Now if you rewrite your sieve to be faithfully Eratosthenes (and still using CSP channels) then we can compare speed!
November 16, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Links didn't like being inside angle brackets. Here they are:
and faithful Haskell implementations:
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The open houses, on March 16 and May 19, take place at 6 p.m., in Miller Hall, Room 112, on Loyola's main campus. Following a reception, MBA program directors will hold an information session and answer questions about the program. The College of Business will also reduce the MBA program application fee to $30 for those who attend one of the open houses.
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Whale researchers spotted Springer this week in the Inside Passage off B.C.'s North Coast.
"They appear to be healthy and robust ... normal in every way," Lance Barrett-Lennard from Vancouver Aquarium's Marine Mammal Research Program, wrote in an email from the field. "Great stuff."
Springer — or A73 — was two in January 2002 when she was found in Puget Sound, near Seattle, ailing and separated from her pod of northern resident killer whales. Her mother was dead.
Unlikely to survive on her own, she was captured and confined in a huge ocean net pen for about a month while Canadian and American officials came up with a plan.
On July 13, 2002, Springer was transported by high-speed catamaran to Blackfish Sound, near Alert Bay off northern Vancouver Island, and held in a floating net pen until her pod appeared.
She is believed to be the first orca to be rescued, rehabilitated and successfully released back into the wild.
Springer and her calf — A104 — were first seen last year and the latest sighting is reassuring to biologists that the young whale has survived the most dangerous period of life for the animals.
"This sighting is great news for everyone interested in the welfare of killer whales off the west coast of North America — and will be particularly gratifying to those who were involved in the many aspects of Springer's identification, assessment, rescue, rehabilitation, transportation and release 12 years ago," Barrett-Lennard wrote to the aquarium.
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With hot a pooner like this in the stands and on Timmy's speed dial, we have no idea how he is able to concentrate at his home games.
Being the FSU turned USF Cowgirl, Jenn Sterger does not make into Teabow's top 5. Her pooner friend does grace his speed dial and Tim has "chosen the right one."
If there is anyone getting more love on the Gainesville campus than Tebow, it might be this Gator statue. This hot Gator pooner makes a repeat appearance on Poon of the SEC and she is a solid member(s) of Tebow's fave 5.
After looking at the final member of Tebow's fave five list, the Poon of the SEC has a different outlook on home schooling. We would have gladly traded study halls in high school to end up dialing up a pooner like this in college. We suspect when Tebow has Teabag insults hurled his way that this gator pooner might have some consoling ideas.
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The Washington Post's Philip Rucker reports that Obama is holding the press conference — the last of his first term as President — to urge Congress to raise the debt ceiling without strings.
Obama to use press conference to press his case for Congress to raise the debt limit, WH official says. — Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) January 14, 2013
Earlier today, Politico reported that some House Republicans are willing to test the limits of defaulting on the nation's debt in order to force spending cuts from Obama.
Over the weekend, the White House ruled out the option of minting a trillion-dollar platinum coin as a way to work around the debt ceiling — a move that was criticized by Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler. The White House has also said that it doesn't view the 14th Amendment as a possible way around the debt ceiling if Republicans refuse to raise the nation's borrowing limit.
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NORTH NEWTON, KAN. – The Bethel College Women's Association invites the public to the annual faculty public lecture June 5 on campus.
Geraldine Tyrell, newly appointed director of nursing, will be the speaker. The lecture will be at 7 p.m. in Krehbiel Auditorium in the Fine Arts Center on the Bethel campus.
A brief business meeting for BCWA members will precede the June 5 lecture. Following Tyrell's presentation, there will be refreshments and socializing, open to everyone, in the FAC lobby.
The title of Tyrell's lecture is "Through a Lens: A Pictorial Representation of Developing Critical Thinking, Management and Appreciation in Haiti."
"I'll look at the historical makeup of Haiti and the effects of the 2010 earthquake that put the nation into the forefront of service projects," Tyrell said. "Using the experiences that Bethel College students have had in travel opportunities to Haiti over the last three years, the focus will be centered on the ability for students to develop critical thinking skills, resource management and an appreciation for Haitian culture.
"The lecture will engage these aspects from a multidisciplinary approach that includes nursing. The concluding points will look at why it is important to continue with efforts in bringing awareness and education about Haiti to students here at Bethel College."
Tyrell graduated from Bethel with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. She has been on the nursing faculty as an assistant professor since 2008. She assumes her duties as director of nursing July 1.
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New projects from Parrish to South Sarasota County signal restored confidence among builders who are breaking ground at a rapid pace.
Two residential developments now steering through the permitting process could bring nearly 4,000 new homes to the northern edge of Manatee County, the latest in a rush by builders to capitalize on Southwest Florida's blooming home market.
The massive projects joins new developments from Parrish to Punta Gorda that signal the restored confidence among builders, who are breaking ground on new homes at the most rapid pace since the Great Recession battered the industry nearly seven years ago.
More builders also are turning to areas east of Interstate 75, where developable land is less expensive and more readily available.
With planned infrastructure improvements in northeast Manatee, including the widening of U.S. 301 and extension of Fort Hamer Road, Parrish has become a prime target for future growth.
But similar developments are sprouting in Lakewood Ranch and even South Sarasota County — giving way to a residential building boom in the region that mirrors the run-up of the mid-2000s.
"We have seen new home starts jump tremendously," said Tony Polito, regional director of the industry researcher Metrostudy Corp. "We do expect to see continued development, and part of that is there is a big lot shortage in Hillsborough. That will all push growth to those Parrish areas."
Villages of Amazon South
Neal Communities is plunging into Parrish with a project that calls for nearly 2,000 new homes, along with some office and general commercial space.
But the busy Lakewood Ranch-based homebuilder first must rezone 1,204 acres of vacant pasture to move the project forward.
The Villages of Amazon South will be tucked between Moccasin Wallow Road and Dickey Road, west of U.S. 301 in Parrish. Early blueprints include 1,999 residences, with another 60,000 square feet of commercial space.
The Amazon moniker picked by Neal was an effort to capture the hundreds of new workers expected to soon begin punching time cards at the new Amazon.com Inc. distribution center in Hillsborough, just one exit north of the Manatee County line.
The builder plans to sell home sites to four other public builders, with models ranging from smaller retirement abodes to luxury dwellings and larger houses for middle-class families.
Neal hopes to break ground by June.
The project joins 30 other subdivisions in 14 communities — stretching from Parrish to Lee County — where Neal is building homes. That includes the new 732-home Silverleaf subdivision in Parrish and 2,000 houses that can be built in the company's Grand Palm development in south Venice.
"The problem with Manatee and Sarasota has always been jobs," company founder Pat Neal said. "This Amazon center will be a huge economic impact, and there's other companies already inquiring about moving here to serve Amazon. Those people will need homes."
"We are at the beginning of the cycle, and we are going to have a big boom."
Parrish building boom
Neal's new Parrish project is in lockstep with another residential development of similar scope just a block away that also is navigating approval from Manatee County planners.
National builder Homes by Towne has applied for the necessary permitting to build 1,600 residences on 695 acres that sits east of Carter Road, north of Moccasin Wallow Road and south of Buckeye Road in Parrish.
The new Eagle Pointe development will include 740 single-family homes, another 270 attached villas and 600 multifamily units, according to preliminary site plans filed with the county.
A subsidiary of Homes by Towne bought the vacant land from tomato grower McClure Properties at the height of the housing bubble in January 2006 for $28 million, court records show.
The Milwaukee-based company once eyed building 1,000 to 1,300 single-family homes with walking trails, a clubhouse and baseball fields on the property. Those plans sputtered when the market crashed, but the builder has held onto the property despite economic turbulence.
Homes by Towne also is building in Country Club East in Lakewood Ranch, Village of Greenbrook in Lakewood Ranch and GreyHawk Landing in Bradenton.
Company representatives could not be reached for comment on Tuesday.
"In 2005 and 2006, people really started coming to Parrish, but we were hit by the crash just like everyone else," said Leslie Wells, who runs a real estate brokerage in Parrish. "Quite honestly, this is one of the last places left, so everyone is buying up as much land as they can here."
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The recent flurry of homebuilding activity can be seen throughout Southwest Florida.
Residential building during the first nine months of the year in Sarasota and Manatee counties is on track to surpass the region's totals from 2012 by 45 percent and topple the mark set in 2011 by 91 percent, county records show.
If builders continue pulling permits at their present pace, 2013 would finish as the best year for the industry since the recession took hold.
Much of that growth has come in more rural areas like Parrish, where savvy homebuilders plucked chunks of land out of foreclosure at deep discounts during the downturn.
Demand for homes in the Parrish area also is mounting because buyers can generally get more home for their money when compared with other popular housing communities,
Parrish has been fetching buyer contracts from budget-minded baby boomers, but the bedroom community also has become popular among commuters travelling to Tampa, said Alan Anderson, executive vice president of the Manatee Sarasota Building Industry Association.
Anderson expects that cultivation to continue in accordance with the new Town Center mall that is under construction just 10 miles south on University Parkway, the recent business expansion at Port Manatee and the new Amazon distribution center in Ruskin.
"Parrish is still a rural community, and there's an attraction to certain buyers who like that," Anderson said. "That corridor is going to continue to grow because it's so well connected to a larger business market. We have so many folks who work in St. Petersburg or Brandon and live in those Parrish communities."
That was the case for Sake Irfan.
Irfan works as an engineer in Sarasota, but his wife spends her days as an attorney in Tampa. So the couple split the difference and bought in Parrish last April.
Irfan said he liked Parrish because the school district was better, crime rates were lower and taxes were cheaper than most areas of Hillsborough or Bradenton.
"We didn't know much about the community, but we wanted something that was reasonable for both of us," Irfan said. "This was right in the middle. The second thing is we wanted a newer home, and when we looked at the difference between Sarasota and Parrish, it was like $70,000."


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BELMONT � Ever since coming in with a five-player class that has changed the volleyball culture at Belmont Abbey College in the summer of 2009, Kay Schellenberg has spent countless hours scouting film of teams in Conference Carolinas.
While Schellenberg certainly knows how much history she and her senior class and her teammates have set this season, she says she and her younger sister Lydia Schellenberg had a chuckle when they realized their scouting would last into Thanksgiving weekend.
Of course, if you�re one of the fortunate 64 NCAA Division II playoff teams � Belmont Abbey opens Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. at host Armstrong Atlantic in Savannah, Ga. � it�s part of the usual pre-match preparations.
�We were talking about how we�ve never had to think much outside our conference,� said Kay Schellenberg, a senior from Jacksonville, Fla., who was Conference Carolinas regular season and tournament MVP. �And it�s really cool and different and fun that we get to do it this year.�
It�s also remarkably historical for an Abbey program that never dared dream about such things as championships and national playoff appearances until this season; The Lady Crusaders had never won more than 18 games or finished higher than third in their league until this season.
Perhaps because of that history, the Abbey is the No. 8 seed in the eight-team Southeast Regional in spite of its record-setting 26-4 record � or a record that�s the third-most wins of the regional field.
Host Armstrong Atlantic, ranked first in the region for much of the year, is 32-5 after the Pirates won the Peach Belt Conference�s regular season and tournament titles.
Second-seeded Wingate (29-2), winner of the South Atlantic Conference�s regular season and tournament titles, has the second-most wins in the regional.
Earlier Thursday, No. 3 seed Flagler (22-10) meets No. 6 Newberry (18-14) at noon, Wingate meets No. 7 Lenoir-Rhyne (19-11) at 2:30 p.m. and No. 4 Tusculum (22-7) meets No. 5 Lincoln Memorial (21-13) at 5 p.m.
�We know Armstrong Atlantic is a solid team,� said fourth-year Belmont Abbey coach Mary DeJute, who is the only volleyball coach in school history with a winning record (68-49). �Several schools in our conference have prepared us for this (road game). I think we have a team bond that gives us a chance to win against anybody we play.�
Kay Schellenberg, Julianne Pisano, Angela Jubb, Morgan Kirby and Remick Tiller comprise the five-player senior class that has turned the Abbey program from perennial loser into a league champion.
Kay Schellenberg, her younger sisters Hannah Schellenberg and Lydia Schellenburg were joined on the all-league team by Jubb and Caitlin Hankins.
�I don�t think we could�ve asked for anything more out of this season,� Kay Schellenberg said. �This has always been the goal, but it�s really, really special.
�We hope we can make this a regular thing for the Abbey.�
Richard Walker: 704-869-1841; twitter.com/JRWalk22
2012 NCAA Division II Southeast Regional volleyball tournament
At Armstrong Atlantic (Savannah, Ga.)
Thursday�s quarterfinals
Flagler vs. Newberry, noon
Wingate vs. Lenoir-Rhyne, 2:30 p.m.
Tusculum vs. Lincoln Memorial, 5 p.m.
Armstrong Atlantic vs. Belmont Abbey, 7:30 p.m.
Friday�s semifinals
Flagler-Newberry winner vs. Wingate-L-R winner, 4 p.m.
Tusculum-LM winner vs. AA-BA winner, 6:30 p.m.
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Originally Posted by tonyrome: Oh, Vin Diesel said that? Well then it has to be true.Seriously, go change your underoos.
it was just to prove that it doesnt matter how u win, winning is winning... people were saying that was a lucky shot by durant, while that may be true all that matters is that it went in... and now the thunder are going to sweep the mavs and play the lakers next round
Originally Posted by P4P: Thunder/Spurs will be an epic Western final
yeah should be a great series
wow the thunder just put an absolute behind whopping on the lakers, i may be wrong this might be over in 4 games not 5... lakers looked good in the first quarter then they were over whelmed the rest of the game... thunder played as close to perfect as u could...
mad respect to the thunder for coming out ready to play
Originally Posted by buffalo11: okc will choke in the conference finals to the spurs
Thunder too young and too good to ever choke.....Heat or Spurs might beat them.....but they'll have to do just that....beat them........no choke in these guys....
with that comeback its over for the fakers sorry but even the refs couldnt help u tonight
yup and this thread was stared april 30th.... looks like we both know whats up
for the record i have called both series for the thunder, i called a sweep of the mavs and them defeating the lakers in 5....
i think the west finals goes 6 games with the thunder prevailing


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Our Savannah, GA hotel's address is within easy driving distance of several major businesses, including Crossroads Business Park, Georgia Pacific, Georgia Ports, Gulfstream and International Paper. Complimentary high-speed Internet access, a 24-hour Business Center and a 2,400-sq-ft meeting space make conducting business easy when you stay with us in Savannah, GA.
Our hotel's location is ideally situated giving you easy access to historic Savannah's River Street and the City Market. After a trolley tour, carriage rides and exploring, why not spend the day onTybee Island, shopping at one of the malls.
We offer guests an array of complimentary amenities to guarantee a fantastic stay, including a hot breakfast, fitness center and an outdoor seasonal pool (April 15-Oct 31) . You'll find contemporary accommodations and quality amenities when staying at our Holiday Inn Express® Savannah I-95 North.
- Black-out Shades
- Rollaway Bed/Cot Available
- Crib Available
- Iron/Ironing Board
- Separate Hanging Closet
- In-Room Heating and A/C Controls
- Extra Bedding Available
Bathroom/Personal Care
- Private Bathroom
- Bathroom Amenities Available
- Hair Dryer
- Bathtub
- Separate/Walk-in Shower
In-Room Features
- Mini Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Coffee Maker
- Tea Maker
- Flat-screen TV
- Work Desk with Lamp
- Desk-level Electrical Outlet
- Free Local Calls
- Cable/Satellite
- Premium Channels
- Stereo/Radio
- Direct-dial Phone
- Two-line Phone
- Phone with Voicemail
- Complimentary Morning Newspaper
- Windows Open by Guest
Added Value
- Connecting Rooms Available
- Complimentary Coffee/Tea Supplies
- Full Breakfast Included
- Breakfast Buffet Included
- Continental Breakfast Included
- Complimentary Coffee in Lobby
- Off-site Restaurant Delivery Available
Business Services
- 2 Meeting Room(s) Available
- On-Site Business Center
- Printer
- Copier
- Office supplies available
Internet Access
- Free High-Speed Internet in all Rooms
- Wireless Internet service is free for all IHG® Rewards Club members
Entertainment & Recreation
- Outdoor Pool
- Outdoor Pool Hours of Operation: 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM
- Pool Open from: 15-April-2018 to 31-October-2018
Health & Fitness
Complimentary Fitness Center
Enjoy our large outdoor seasonal swimming pool open April 15 - October 31 from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm. Our fitness room includes a stairstepper, 2 treadmill, stationary bike, and weight station. You will also find a T.V. and water cooler in fitness room.
Hours of Operation: 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM
Fitness Center Type: LIMITED
Fitness Center Equipment:
- Stair Stepper
- Treadmill
- Elliptical Machines
- Free Weights
- Stationary Bicycle
Last Renovation of Fitness Center Equipment: 2018
Housekeeping & Laundry
- Daily Housekeeping
- On-site Guest Self-Laundry Facilities
- Hours of Operation: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Added Value
- Wake Up Calls
Hotel Details
7210 Highway 21
Port Wentworth, Georgia 31407
United States
Check In: 3:00 PM
Check Out: 12:00 PM
Check-in Age: 18
Parking + -
- Complimentary Self Parking Available
Accessibility + -
- Public Entrance
- Guest Rooms
- Elevators
- Public Restrooms
- Registration Desk
- Exercise Facility
- Business Center
- Pool
- Number of Accessible Meeting Rooms: 2
Accessible Hotel Areas
- Registration Area
- Accessible Guest Rooms
- Business Center
- Meeting Room
- Exercise Facility
- Pool
Hotel Areas with Accessible Routes from Accessible Public Entrance
- Accessible Self Parking
- Van Accessible Self Parking
- Ramp Access
- Telephone with TDD
- Visual Alarm/Alert in Guest Rooms
- Visual Alarm/Alert in Public Spaces
- Communication Kits with Visual Alarms
Provided by Hotel
Pet Policy + -
- Service Animals Allowed
- Please accept our apologizes. The Holiday Inn Express Savannah North does not accept pets. There are kennels just 6 miles west of the property. Please contact the front desk for telephone numbers.
Facility + -
- Number of Floors: 2
- Total Number of Rooms: 81
- Number of Suites: 4
- Number of Non-Smoking Rooms: 78
- Number of Accessible Rooms: 5
- Connecting Rooms Available
- Current Renovation: 06-February-2016 To 31-May-2018
- Renovations in our guest rooms complete. Upgrades in Public areas still in progress
- Public Spaces Renovated in: 2017
- Guest Rooms Renovated in: 2008
Credit Cards + -
- American Express
- Visa
- MasterCard
- Diners Club
- Carte Blanche
- Discover


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OS X Yosemite is Apple's operating system for Mac.
An elegant design that feels entirely fresh, yet inherently familiar. The apps you use every day, enhanced with new features. And a completely new relationship between your Mac and iOS devices. OS X Yosemite will change how you see your Mac. And what you can do with it.
Redesigned interface.
With OS X Yosemite, we set out to elevate the experience of using a Mac. To do that, we looked at the entire system and refined it app by app. Feature by feature. Pixel by pixel. And we built great new capabilities into the interface that put need-to-know
What's New in OS X Yosemite Security Updates
- Improves compatibility with certain email servers when using Mail
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The cold and rain and winter and all things good are here! It's December boys! You know as well as I do that in Socal you have to cherish every ounce of the cold. So here is an outfit I wore to MI when it was below 50 for some winter inspiration in Socal.


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Summer (Pt. 2) and Forward on to Fall
Part 1 -best films, moldy releases, nervous mormons, and summer crushes
For the second half of this Summer Jamboree Joe Reid, Nick Davis, and Nathaniel R (c'est moi) wrap up our summers at the movies and dream of the fall ~ Forward not back!
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Alex Pettyfer in Magic Mike
- Princess Merida, Hawkeye or Katniss? Choose your favorite archer of 2012
- Jeremy Renner in The Avengers
- Movies We Hated
- Sleeping through Snow White and the Huntsman despite Charlize Theron!
- Adapting Cosmopolis
- Did The Dark Knight Rises get away from Chris Nolan?
- Movie Characters We'd Like To Introduce
- Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
- Nick's newfound love of comedy: Ted, Wanderlust, 21 Jump Street
- Retro Screenings This Summer: Sorcerer, Dog Day Afternoon, and Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
- Fall Film Madness: Django Unchained, Life of Pi, Zero Dark Thirty, Zero Dark Thirty, Skyfall, The Hobbit, Flight, Amour and More...
You can download the podcast on iTunes or listen right here at the bottom of the post. Join the conversation!


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Every weekday we e-mail a Christian quotation, Bible verse, and occasional smile, meant to provide inspiration and encouragement in your walk with God. Then on weekends we send an inspirational message to give you a boost in your faith.
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There are a number of ways: 1. Click expand all, click print preview and then print again. 2. Click download, click download, (PDF is default), Click Open, Click Print. You will get a slightly larger version of image and a nice B/W presentation of everything, but the image and some embedded links. 3. Go to FAQ. Paste the following API link in address bar: https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casestatus/sn78787878/content.html. Replace the serial number with the one you are interested in the address bar. Click on the go arrow. Click on file and print. This is the fastest method, if you preload the links for cases of interest in a spread sheet.
Example URL search queries for status are as follow: Status for serial number 78787878 as a pdf https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casestatus/sn78787878/download.pdf Status for serial number 78787878 as a zip that includes XML and CSS files https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casestatus/ sn78787878/content.zip Example URL search queries for documents are as follow: All documents for Serial Number 72131351 as a PDF https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casedocs/bundle.pdf?sn=72131351 All documents for Reference Number Z1231384 as a PDF https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casedocs/bundle.pdf?ref=Z1231384 All documents for Registration Number 3,500,030 as a PDF https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casedocs/bundle.pdf?rn=3500030 Documents sent/received on Nov 30th, 2003 for Serial Number 72-131351 as a PDF https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casedocs/bundle.pdf?sn=72131351&date=2003-11-30 All specimens for Serial Numbers 72131351 and 76515878 as a single PDF https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casedocs/bundle.pdf?sn=72131351,76515878&type=SPE Metadata (in XML) about all documents for Serial Number 75008897 sent/received during 2006 https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casedocs/bundle.xml?sn=75008897&fromdate=2006-01-01&todate=2006-12-31 Metadata (in XML) about all documents for International Registration Number 0835690 sorted from earliest to latest NOTE:The API endind with "date:A" is currently inoperable, please use the API ending with "sortBy=scanDate&sortOrder=desc" https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casedocs/bundle.xml?ir=0835690&sort=date:A The ascending order is the default behavior. The descending order can be requested by appending: &sortOrder=desc to the previous request like: http://tmng-al.uspto.gov/resting2/api/casedocs/bundle.xml?sn=79006201&sortBy=scanDate&sortOrder=desc The Registration Certificate for Registration Number 3,500,038 as a PDF https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casedocs/bundle.pdf?rn=3500038&category=RC The Registration Certificates for Registration Numbers 3,500,038 and 3,500,039 as a ZIP of their original TIFF images https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casedocs/bundle.zip?rn=3500038,3500039&category=RC
If the PDF content is blurry or of poor resolution, you may download the original source content that TSDR used to produce the PDF. To download the original content, select the document(s) you wish to download and click on download. TSDR should display a small download dropdown. Select the original button and click on the small blue download button in the lower right of the download dropdown window. You can either save or open the resulting package of data.
Sometimes, yes. In order to maintain general availability of USPTO information and services provided on the Internet, any activity or operation by a third party that has the potential to cause a denial or diminution (decrease) of services to other customers, whether generated automatically or manually, will result in the Office denying or limiting access to the Office Internet resources to that third party.
Registration Certificate searches are now included in the new multi-search tab located to the right of the Search tab. After clicking on multi-search there will be a checkbox labeled "Registration Certificates". Perform a registration number search as usual and as long as the checkbox is selected the search will return the certificates.
For best results when printing, please use the TSDR "Print Preview" link found above the mark image. The print preview page removes unwanted content to provide a streamlined status printout. From the print preview page you can use the print link in the upper right corner, or you can use the browser's print option. As an alternative, if the page still isn't printing correctly then try downloading the status as a pdf and print the pdf.
From the TSDR Status page you may: Place the cursor over the image and right click and select a number of actions such a copy, save as, or send pictures via email. Any one of these will give you a copy of the image of the trademark. In particular, the "send pictures via email" option may allow you to modify the size of the image, dependent upon the version of browser you are using. Using the API you may: Get a full sized image of a trademark by copying and pasting the URL https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/rawImage/78787878 into the address bar of your browser and substituting the serial number for the trademark you are interested in. Get a zipped file containing a couple (thumbnail and larger) different images of the mark using https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casestatus/sn78787878/download.zip and substituting the serial number for the trademark you are interested in.
Contact the Trademark Assistance Center, at 1-800-786-9199, or e-mail your question to email@example.com.
From this page, the user can access the complete electronic record for all U.S. trademark applications, registrations, and Madrid Protocol applications filed through the USPTO and corresponding International Registrations by entering a U.S. application serial number, U.S. registration number, U.S. Reference Number, or International Registration Number, as appropriate. If you do not have this information, you can find it by searching the mark through the Trademark Electronic Search System TESS. Use the "Status" tab to find the official record for the mark, including the mark information, goods/services, filing basis information, current owner information, attorney/correspondence information, prosecution history, and current location of the application. Use the "Documents" tab to find copies of all incoming correspondence, all outgoing Office actions and notices, search summaries, notes to the file, processing snap shots and the initial application. Should you encounter any bugs, lack of functionality, or other problems, please consult the TSDR FAQs. To provide feedback, please email firstname.lastname@example.com. To provide feedback, please email email@example.com.
TSDR (Trademark Status Document Retrieval) is a web application that provides real-time access to the electronic file wrapper of U.S. Trademark applications and applications for Extensions of Protection, as well as U.S. Trademark Registrations. It also displays information contained in the USPTO records regarding International Registrations and applications for International Registration filed under the Madrid system through the U.S.A. To access TSDR, all that is necessary is entry of a U.S. application serial number, a U.S. or International Registration number, or a U.S. Reference Number.
If an assignment has been filed on a case, you will see a new section at the bottom labeled "Assignment Abstract of Title Information". If there is no assignment filed for a case, that section will not appear. Example URL to retrieve Assignment content: https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casestatus/rn2178784/content.zip
Please send you request to email@example.com along with the serial number or USPTO reference number that identifies the case, as well as a description of what you think is incorrect.
Please send you request to firstname.lastname@example.com along with the serial number or USPTO reference number that identifies the case as well as a description of which documents you think are missing.
No, because no PDF documents are shown embedded in the web page. The document viewer will allow a preview of the document, but it is shown in either html or as a jpg image. Documents are available for download as a PDF and then can be viewed through an application such as Adobe. Such an application must be installed on your computer in order to open and view a PDF document. You may down load an Adobe application from the internet. The USPTO does not endorse these particular Adobe products; however, these products have been tested for use with TSDR.
Supported browsers include IE 8.0; and the latest versions of Fire Fox; Chrome; Opera and Safari. These are the browsers that have been tested so far. If you are using a different browser and it does not work with TSDR, you may acquire one of the aforementioned browsers from the internet. The USPTO does not endorse any particular browser.
Right click using the mouse and select "print" from the drop down selection.
Click the download button on the menu bar and a drop down menu will appear with selections: Status, PDF, Document and Original. The user chooses Status and Original, then clicks download from the drop down menu. At this point the Winzip Wizard software will become activated. WinZip makes it easy to create a split Zip file (.zip or .zipx), A Zipx file (.zipx) is a Zip file created with one or more advanced compression methods available in WinZip. Continuing from the point of downloading, a second screen opens with the options: Open, Save and Cancel. The user clicks Save and on the two following screen clicks Next. Then the user will get a warning screen, click yes or check "Do not display this dialog in the future". Next the user will see a screen that has the options: WinZip Classic, Help, back, Unzip Now and Close. The user should choose Unzip Now. On the next screen choose Finish. At this point the files should display on the user's screen.
Download the document(s) to your computer, then use the "print" function of your particular PDF viewer to print documents. If you use the "print" function of your browser to print documents you are viewing, you may find the result to be distorted and not a faithful reproduction of the original. For this reason, the USPTO recommends downloading the document to your computer, and printing via the "print" function of your PDF viewer.
Click the check box to the left of the document(s) you are interested in downloading, or click the "select all" button at the top of the list if you would like to download all of the contents of the file. Then click the "Download PDF" or the "Download Original" button. You will be prompted to indicate where on your computer you would like to save the resulting PDF or Zip file.
The size of the multimedia file will determine how quickly the file loads and starts to play. Consequently, if the multimedia file is large it will take a longer time to load.
Status for Serial Number 78787878 as html... https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casestatus/sn78787878/content Status for Serial Number 78787878 as XML... https://tsdrapi.uspto.gov/ts/cd/casestatus/sn78787878/info.xml


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October 30, 2012 10:59:17 AM
Of Mitt Romney's many costume changes, the new Superman outfit portraying him as the would-be savior of the American auto industry wins for most imaginative. Understood: His infamous "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" op-ed has proven a great inconvenience to winning votes in the industrial Midwest. But continually insisting that one didn't say what one said is severely not honest. Romney is the kind of politician you ask, "Trick or treat?" and he answers "both."
A new Romney campaign ad for Ohio intones, "He has a plan to help the auto industry." A nice sentiment now that the carmakers no longer need saving. His plan in the winter of 2009, when General Motors and Chrysler were clearly going under, was to deny them government aid. (As you may know by now, the ad's riff about Chrysler sending Jeep production to China is untrue.)
Romney was trying to please a Republican fringe that demonizes unionized workers. And he had support from Southern lawmakers figuring that Detroit's collapse would mean less competition for the foreign-owned companies making cars in their region.
President Obama spent those grim days winning government guarantees for automakers over fierce Republican resistance. Consumers were cowering under their beds. It was government help or disaster. Auto industry analysts predicted that even solvent Ford could not have endured the collapsing chain of suppliers that would have undoubtedly followed an unsupported GM bankruptcy.
But Romney lectured the car companies to get private financing at a time when private lending had virtually dried up. Healthy companies couldn't get it.
Interesting that the ad mentions Romney's endorsement by the Detroit News. Everyone should read that editorial. While backing the Republican, it straightforwardly credits Obama for saving the auto industry.
"Don't assume it was a no-brainer for a conservative newspaper to endorse a conservative presidential candidate," the editorial stated in a section subtitled, "Thank Obama for auto rescue."
Romney "was wrong in suggesting the automakers could have found operating capital in the private markets," the Detroit News said. And it dismissed Romney's call for "post bankruptcy" government-backed loans as irrelevant: "What GM and Chrysler needed were bridge loans to get them through the process, and the private credit markets were unwilling to provide them." The editorial went on, "Obama put a rescue team to work, and they were true to the task."
It was rather coy of Romney to offer government assistance "post bankruptcy." That's like letting a house go over Niagara Falls and then offering to insure it if it survived.
Meanwhile, anti-union partisans continue pushing propaganda that the Detroit bailout was a United Auto Workers bailout. The facts: Labor costs at unionized factories were indeed way out of line and had to be brought down. But that was done in the restructuring. Even before, the UAW had accepted cuts for new hires in health care benefits, job security and pensions. The UAW later agreed to slash wages for new workers to half of what they were.
For the first time since Henry Ford raised wages to $5 an hour in 1914, newly hired autoworkers are making less than the average U.S. manufacturing wage. It seems at times that some people won't rest until America's blue-collar workers are turned into serfs.
Obama took an enormous political risk putting so much taxpayer money behind the car companies -- though no leader could have responsibly stepped aside at the time. Remember that the Detroit bailout was started under George W. Bush. "I'd do it again," Bush said a few months ago.
When it came to saving the U.S. carmakers, Romney was no Superman. He was a super-panderer willing to sell out America's industrial heartland for a few right-wing votes.
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NT3 Black Ops 2 Throat Mic Communication System
*whispers* Can you hear me now?
- Throat mic lets you hear and be heard
- Great for clear communication in countless situations
- Compatible with iPhones and most Android phones
As you know if you've ever yelled into your phone in high wind, a standard microphone uses air as its conductive medium, hence "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?" A throat mic, on the other hand, picks up the vibrations generated from within the wearer's neck, so there's no air or noise interference. What does that mean? Quiet and effective communication.
So who's this mic for? Anybody who needs to talk on the phone in a high noise or wind situation. Motorcyclists. Construction workers. Folks who frequent clubs and concerts. People who work at airports or gun ranges. Off-roaders and ATVers. But it's also for folks who need to be able to communicate quietly and effectively without alerting everyone around them. Competitive gamers. Paintball and airsoft teams. Hunters. Flash mobs. NCIS. Non-psychic members of your superhero squad.
Plus it makes a great tactical headset for when the apocalypse comes. Cause Walking Dead has taught us that zombies are attracted to noise. Get it now, and you're already ready for when the inevitable happens.
Optional Accessories available from ThinkGeek:
- Dual 3.5mm Connector For PC: Dual 3.5mm mic and earphone cable for PCs.
- 2.5mm Connector For Xbox: Universal 2.5mm pin wire for Xbox and certain communications devices (see your device's manual).
- Finger PTT System: Brings fingertip push-to-talk functionality to the iPhone, iPad, and most Android phones/tablets. Allows users to answer and end calls while riding, gaming, operating a firearm, or any other "hands free" situation. Includes: Finger sleeve, PTT button, 3.5mm iPhone/Smartphone adapter.
Product Specifications
- Throat microphone cancels all outside noise and picks up a whisper
- Compatible with any phone that you can use with headphones/earbuds
- 2-way radio phone compatibility listed here
- Headphone Frequency Response: 20Hz to 20kHz (20Hz to 8kHz with +/- 10% variance)
- Headphone Impedance: 16 Ohm
- Transponder Frequency Response: 20Hz to 20kHz
- Headphone Power: 5mW (Max 10mW)
- Transponder Sensitivity: -46dB +/- 3dB
- Includes:
- BK2 Throat Mic with Gen 3.0 Noise Terminator transponder and magnetic break-away clasp,
- Black acoustic coil earpiece
- 3.5mm iPhone/Smartphone connector with play controls and a durable braided nylon cable
- Water Resistant
- Measurements: throat strap size 13 - 17"


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Art Nouveau Ladies
Delightful, captivating, and simply enchanting! New from EcoSmart Designs: The Enchanted Factor Collection. This beautiful, new line of elegant images captured in a rectangular bezel are made from 100% eco friendly jewelry materials. We offer an amazing variety of flowers, fairies, art nouveau and world travel art images. Each Enchanted Factor design is made completely by hand at our facility in Colorado and comes on a 32" Satin necklace cord. Also includes a colorful, informative story card. Made in the U.S.A.
Dimensions: 1" x 1"
Material: Lead-Free SafePewter™
Finish: Bright Polished


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