text: sdj64 640 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 (edited) Ziv said: After several years of Space Exploration Kerbals have gained a lot of experience in building and blasting rockets, spaceships, stations, and landing on other bodies. The government started to look for other fun stuff to support so they want to cut the Kerbal Space Progam fundings. but there is still one huge thing to do: they still haven't landed on any of the Jool moons! Jebediah called a meeting with the other Kerbonauts and engineers. In face of funding cuts, they have to reduce the number of missions. And so they have found only one solution: To execute one giant mission, the bravest and craziest of all time, in which they will land on all the moons and come back in one! Many of the less crazy engineers and sane common Kerbals immediately started to proclaim that this is impossible, even with the bravest and most stupid Kerbonauts and engineers. This idea gained a lot of interest and attention in the public and even in the government. Jebediah and the others realized that with this new, huge publicity the Space Program may be saved and they can continue to do what they love the best! They started to think about the details of this enormous mission... LINK to the old Jool-5 thread. There are hundreds of pages of entries and discussion, so look at it to see what worked and what didn't! IMPORTANT INFO The Jool 5 Challenge has a new owner! @JacobJHC has started the new thread here: The Ultimate Jool 5 Challenge Continuation for 1.4/ Making History Post your new entries there! This thread is now closed to new entries. CHALLENGE RULES Given the scale of this challenge, everyone who completes the mission successfully gets a spot in the hall of fame. 1. No cheating, including the stock debug menu cheats, HyperEdit, or file editing. HyperEdit is allowed for testing but get rid of that H when you fly the real mission! 2. No part-clipping of functional parts (fuel tanks, batteries, crew pods, engines, science parts, SAS) into each other. It is okay to clip structural and non-functional parts, wings, and heat shields. 3. Any number of launches are allowed to assemble the ship in Kerbin orbit. All launches must be flown! 4. There's funding for one main ship only so all the crew, lander(s) and other stuff has to go to Jool as one big ship. The ship can separate once in Jool's SOI. 5. Kerbals must be in a pod or cabin (no seats) for the interplanetary journey. Seats are okay for landing and flying within the Jool system. 6. One refueling mission is allowed in the Jool system if you run out of fuel, unless your ship uses ISRU. The refueling mission can only transfer resources, not parts, to your Jool 5 craft. This mission must actually be flown! 7. On all of the landings, the Kerbal must be able to get out and walk (or swim!) around on the surface. Make sure your ladders work! 8. Use Normal difficulty or harder, except, any ComNet settings are allowed including turning it off completely. 9. All the Kerbals have to arrive back to Kerbin surface at the end of the mission, happy and alive. You are allowed to optionally send up a craft to return them from LKO. 10. Mods:STOCK: only mods which do not add parts and do not change physics are allowed. This includes any informational, planning, visual, autopilot, or automatic functions.MODDED: Use of most parts mods and certain game mechanics mods are allowed. You NO LONGER HAVE TO ASK if your favorite part pack is allowed! Some parts mods are prohibited. Please see below. Specific Mods: Spoiler Examples of popular mods allowed in stock entries: MechJeb, KER, KAC, Precise Node, Transfer Window Planner, EVE, Scatterer, Chatterer, Pilot Assistant, Docking Alignment Indicator, TAC Fuel Balancer, Throttle Controlled Avionics, X Science. Examples of allowed game mechanics mods that would count as modded:FAR, DRE, Remote Tech, ScanSat, Kopernicus, part welding, any life support, any new science experiments, fuel switchers Prohibited Mods (powerful enough to make the challenge trivial, or too confusing to judge): Tweakscale KSP Interstellar Near Future Propulsion OPT Spaceplane B9 Aerospace Kerbal Atomics Atomic Age Extraplanetary Launch Pads OSE Workshop Impossible Innovations Solaris Hypernautics Deep Space Exploration Vessels Any Orion nuclear pulsed propulsion Any warp drive or propellant-less space engine Any physics alteration that makes the challenge easier (reducing gravity, moving the moons, HyperEdit, or debug menu cheats) ENTRY SUBMISSION RULES 11. Submit your challenge as an imgur album, with good captions and descriptions, as a video or series of videos, or as a thread in Mission Reports. 12. Pictures or it didn't happen! Please keep the resources tab open, as well as show the informative windows from Mechjeb or KER if you use them. Take a picture of every important moment, including transfers, dockings, landings, stagings, and refuelings. For Jeb's Level, also take pictures of the science screen when you recover your craft. Alternatively, video submissions are a great way to show everyone your mission as well. These will help future participants to see exactly how you accomplished each part! CHALLENGE LEVELS 1ST LEVEL: one Kerbonaut lands on all the moons and come back safely. 1st level low mass and low cost sub-challenges: with stock parts and physics, how low can you go and still accomplish the mission? 2ND LEVEL: two or more Kerbonauts land together on all the moons together and come back safely. 3RD LEVEL: There's not enough time left for training one crew member to be an expert on all of the moons, so five Kerbonauts must go to the mission, with at least one unique Kerbonaut landing on each moon. JEBEDIAH'S LEVEL: collect as much Science as possible! Your score is the number of science points from the Jool system only, returned to Kerbin (not transmitted). Only stock experiments count for this! To score, take pictures of the science screen(s) when you recover the data. Otherwise, the rules are the same as 3rd Level. ISRU: Use of ISRU will get a note ISRU on the entry description in the hall of fame. This includes stock ore harvesting and converting as well as mods such as Kethane and Karbonite. ISRU is allowed for any level of completion. GRAND TOUR: Not officially part of the challenge, but landing on all planets and moons in the Kerbol system in one mission will earn a GRAND TOUR note and the everlasting praise of all of Kerbal kind. Rule 4 is waived, but any Kerbals on the mission cannot return to Kerbin in between any landings and you still must follow the other rules. Additional optional information to help others see how the mission was accomplished: - Which game versions did you use? - What mods did you use, if any? - How many Kerbals are on the mission? - How many launches were needed to start your mission from Kerbin? - How much did your mission cost? - Did you needed a refueling mission? - Did you bring additional stuff like satellites, rovers, etc? - Share the delta-V information too, if you tracked it! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Well, now this big announcement is in the Kerbal News, all the public is excited about this mission and even the Government is watching! Now it's up to you, to the engineers and to the bravest and craziest Kerbonauts of all time! Completion Badge: Anyone who has finished the challenge can add this badge to their signature. The Low Mass Feather badge is available for entries in the low mass sub challenge. 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[URL="http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/123950-THE-ULTIMATE-JOOL-5-CHALLENGE-Continuation-for-KSP-1-0%21"][img=http://i.imgur.com/Z5hSyCv.png][/URL] 1.2 and 1.3 Hall of Fame 1st Level- DustInTheWind (MODDED, 1.2, reusable nuclear lander, Tylo lander, Laythe plane, 1 refueling mission, also went to Eeloo and Dres, hopes to continue to finish the Ultimate Challenge) Eidahlil (STOCK, 1.2.1, giant 12000 ton asparagus, no docking, no nukes, no jets, launched straight up from Kerbin to a Jool intercept without orbiting first) slouis (MODDED, 1.2.1, long stack of landers and boost stages, assembled in multiple launches, collected 7468 science, 3 crew and 1 on each landing) IncongruousGoat (STOCK, 1.2.2, GRAND TOUR, separate transfer stages for large moon landers, one mothership each for inner and outer planets, ion lander, Eve lander with wings for precision landing) Jetski (MODDED, 1.2.2, GRAND TOUR, bunch of landers bolted together to make the mothership, pancake ion lander, compact Eve lander, no nuclear engines, unconventional outer planet order - Jool > Eeloo > Dres > Duna) HarrySeaward (STOCK, 1.2.2, ISRU, SSTO self refueling plane, separate staged Tylo lander that is also a rover, drove from the equator to the pole on each moon) foobar (STOCK, 1.3, asparagus drop tanks, plane for Laythe, Tylo lander upper stage doubles as small moons lander) Jetski (STOCK, 1.3, drop tanks with only one Nerv, compact command seat landers, ion lander, also visited Eeloo and Dres) Kerolyov (STOCK, 1.2.2, Laythe plane, Tylo lander upper stage doubles as small moons lander, nuclear tug, separate fuel section left in high orbit) jonny (STOCK, 1.3, ISRU, spaceplane with nuclear engine on the nose, 3 crew, small one-seat Tylo lander, plane lands on Vall by flipping to activate Rapiers) Xyphos (STOCK, 1.3, no quicksaves, design for safety, nuclear transfer stage with drop tanks, jet lander with parachutes for Laythe, high dV Tylo lander, reused top stage for Vall, ion lander for Bop and Pol) astrobond (STOCK, 1.3.1, ISRU, bird-like spaceplane with 2 nuclear engines and 2 rapiers, 1 crew, incredibly low cost of 1535 after recovery) PhoenixRise86 (STOCK, 1.3.1, Falcon Heavy inspired launch, universal lander with Laythe and Tylo boosters, 3 crew on mission, no nukes, 3883 science collected) foobar (STOCK, 1.3.1, ISRU, small spaceplane with Tylo lander in cargo bay, no reaction wheels on Tylo lander) McQuacker (STOCK, 1.3.1, staged nuclear mothership, Tylo and Laythe landers, Tylo upper stage becomes small moons lander, 2 crew, 9131 science collected) Low Mass Challenge- foobar - 28.8 tons astrobond - 32.5 tons jonny - 43.6 tons zanie420 - 53.1 tons Low Cost Challenge- foobar - 63606 funds jonny - 94452 funds zanie420 - 111869 funds astrobond - 120273 funds 2nd Level- DerekL1963 (MODDED, 1.2, big 4-pod mothership, similar short wide Tylo and Laythe landers, moon orbit ferry, mothership parked in Jool orbit) HarrySeaward (STOCK, 1.2.2, ISRU, huge asparagus launch, disposable landers, SRB assisted on Tylo and Vall, main ship mined on Bop and Pol, video) zeta function (STOCK, 1.3, no nuclear engines, asparagus tanks and Mainsail, disposable multistage landers with seats, Laythe rocket lander with Thud engines, rescued Laythe lander using refueling mission) IncongruousGoat (STOCK, 1.3, crew and science pod with modular lander attachments, cage-like mothership keeps landers centered, gravity assists, career with limited tech) 3rd Level- Nefrums (STOCK, 1.2, launched in an SSTO, fully reusable without mining, Laythe plane, all landers packed into a Mk3 cargo bay long+short size) JessShadowheart (STOCK, 1.2, divide and conquer with each lander splitting in Jool SOI and meeting back up afterwards in Tylo orbit, plane to return to Kerbin) IncongruousGoat (STOCK, 1.2, small mothership, Laythe and Tylo landers with their own transfer stages, ion lander for Bop and Pol, mothership parked in Vall orbit) JacobJHC (STOCK, 1.2.1, mothership with many drop tanks, modular ion ferry and command seat landers took the Kerbals to the moons, fixed video here) Magzimum (STOCK, 1.2.1, 25 Kerbals with 5 landing on each moon, interchangeable lander crew/upper stage, Laythe planes deployed from lander, giant mothership refueled at Minmus but did not carry ISRU to Jool) AeroGav (STOCK, 1.2.2, ISRU, 7 Kerbals, large spaceplane carrier, rover, separate Tylo lander, lounge constructed from parts in a cargo bay, razor thin TWR and fuel margins many times) Alchemist (STOCK, 1.3, ISRU, two space shuttles with 4 crew each, Laythe shuttle brought a mobile base and a hydrofoil plane, Tylo shuttle brought onboard ISRU, also completed the Shuttle Challenge V5 and Elcano Challenge) McBalsam (STOCK, 1.3.1, splitting SSTO carrier, small landers each capture to one moon for simultaneous landings, everything recovered, SSTO re-docked for runway landing) IvanBatura (STOCK, 1.3.1, small ship, 5-seat Laythe plane, 2-seat lander with Tylo booster stage, crew rode a heatshield on seats for Kerbin reentry, included gifs of cool parts of mission) Jeb's Level- zanie420 (STOCK, 1.3, ISRU, 56927 Science, small SSTO plane with mining and science equipment, 6 crew, small one-seat Tylo lander) Cpt Kerbalcrunch (STOCK, 1.3, 1510 Science, no nukes or jets, Mk 1-2 pod switched between landers for each moon, 3 Kerbals per landing with 5 total, landers stacked in middle of transfer stages) 1.1 Hall of Fame Spoiler 1st Level- Aegolius13 (1.1.3, low part count Mk3 mothership, high delta V landers, Laythe plane, flyby maneuver at Vall) Nefrums (1.1.3, using KScale64 (6.4x rescale!), enormous single launch, many nuke stages, 13000 dV Tylo landing, vertical jet Laythe lander, high speed reentries) Low Mass Challenge- Nefrums - 12.511 tons (1.1.0, plane launch, single Rapier for Kerbin ascent and Laythe, Ion scooter with almost 6000 Ec did Vall Bop and Pol, Tylo lander with no-electric final stage) Mesklin - 10.775 tons (1.1.2, antenna used as heat shield, Ion scooter, tiny LFO Vall lander, Tylo lander with no batteries or SAS, jumped out to land back at Kerbin) Nefrums - 8.600 tons (1.1.2, drag minimizing design, only 3 engines, extensive gravity assists, jetpack use, and fuel minimization, staged batteries to land on Vall with ions, jumped out to land back at Kerbin) 2nd Level- Derpiderp (1.1 pre-release, used the inflatable heat shield, separate landers for each moon, middle of ship becomes ion-powered return craft, took breaks to watch YouTube, video submission) Ripper2900 (1.1.3, ISRU, modular stacked design, no nukes or ion, creative rearrangement mid-mission fixed Tylo lander problem) 3rd Level- Sean24135 (1.1.2, big mothership, aerodynamics on opposite day, Tylo lander top stage does small moons, VTOL jet Laythe lander) littlebuddy0 (1.1.2, long skinny mothership with lots of RCS, tiny landers for each moon, Laythe submersible spaceplane, video submission) Thomas H. (1.1.3, giant single launch, dozens of RemoteTech satellites, all 5 Kerbals landed at the same time, KOS landing algorithm) Jeb's Level- Paranoid Shark (1.1.3, ISRU, 13016 Science, two modified Space Shuttles, small landers for airless moons, shuttle landing on Laythe, tiny atmospheric exploration plane) 1.0 Hall of Fame Spoiler Level 1: Stratzenblitz75 (1.0.2, First completion in 1.0, video submission, near-death reentry, no docking!) E805BzRo (1.0.4, Laythe plane, Tylo lander with top stage that landed on all the other moons, big nuclear powered mothership) JebsDead (1.0.4, UFO styled mothership, Laythe plane, 2 crew, video submission) IncongruousGoat (1.0.5, 3 crew on the mission, tall Laythe lander, much asparagus, career mode without all tech researched) Jetski (1.0.5, modular mothership, one command pod shares all landers, going for the Ultimate Challenge but left early to do this one) EvermoreAlpaca (1.0.5, Grand Tour!, single launch, no refueling, crazy ion landers with enormous battery capacity, lauched on a plane, whole thing is recovered back to Kerbin except the Eve lander, video submission) JacobJHC (1.0.5, tiny asparagus, mothership with asparagus tanks, bonus Minmus visit, video submission) ---Low Mass Sub-challenge Entries: 1. Nefrums (13.485 tons, 1.0.4, high orbits for efficiency, multiple gravity assists, tiny fuel tanks and just enough to make it home, battery powered ion lander that can land on Vall, plane style launch from runway) 2. Mesklin (18.821 tons, 1.0.4, whole craft starts under a fairing, battery powered ion lander, purposeful overheating to shed weight on Kerbin ascent, plane style launch from runway) 3. Nefrums (19.996 tons, 1.0.4, ion scooter lander, great use of high elliptical orbits to minimize dV requirement, plane style launch from runway) 4. astrobond (23.925 tons, 1.0.4, tiny tiny landers and lots of gravity assists, plane style launch from runway) Level 2: iLikeRovers (1.0.4, efficient specialized landers, 4 kerbals on mission and 2 per landing, awesome .gif animations of landing and staging) Foxster (1.0.4, single lander for all moons, huge mothership and nuclear tug) Starhawk (1.0.4?, 3 kerbals on all landings, plane for Laythe, lander with outer stage for Tylo and core that landed on the smaller moons, long mothership with ring of nuclear engines, creative refueling mission prompted rule #7 clarification) Claw (1.0.5, brought rovers and a boat for Laythe, ground circumnavigations of each moon!, nuclear transfer tug/lander combination for small moons) Level 3: nigelvn (1.0.4, plane for Laythe, two hulled mothership with the landers in between, no aerobraking to enter the Jool system or on return to Kerbin, multiple drop pods for returning the crew) steveroof (1.0.5, small mothership, multi-use transfer stage, tiny lander with Tylo and Laythe boosters, precarious (hilarious) crew switching, video submission) Byronacles (1.0.5, simple approach, universal lander top stage, Tylo and Laythe stages, unique style with long thin external tanks on most craft) Typrax (1.0.5, separate disposable lander for each moon, overcame and recorded several problems during the mission, used an RTG as a structural element) Thalamask (1.0.5, small efficient landers, Tylo stage had to be delivered before going to Laythe, then back to Tylo, top stage doubles as small moon lander, refueling mission required) Jeb's Level: Nefrums (45513 science!, 1.0.2, huge ship, two launches from Kerbin, multple biome landings, rover for Tylo, plane for Laythe) sdj64 (11473 science, 1.0.4-1.0.5, Grand Tour!, single launch, no refueling, ion and LF landers with disposable stages for Laythe and Tylo, long skinny mothership with lots of drop tanks, big heatshield made from a fairing) Draradech (16623 science, 1.0.5, enormous single-stage reusable mothership, high mass but low part count craft, daring rescue intercepting ship on Kerbin escape trajectory) ISRU Level: EvermoreAlpaca (1.0.4, Grand Tour!, separate Eve lander, huge SSTO mining ship that used nuclear and Mammoth engines, dockable rovers for exploring on planet surfaces, video submission) cubinator (1.0.4, Almost a grand tour! Every planet except Eve, four crew SSTO with 5300 delta V, no landing gear, no parts discarded) astrobond (1.0.4, Almost a grand tour! Every planet except Eve, big stylish ship with one engine, two crew, no parts discarded) EBAO (1.0.4, brought a lab, 5909 science, ion scanning satellite, USI Life Support, many videos, no parts discarded) vasco (1.0.4, 59661 science, small-ish all-in-one ISRU ship, 3 crew, landed in all the biomes) Mikki (1.0.5, large mothership with lander cage, separate ISRU lander, 3 crew landed on Tylo and Laythe and 2 on the other moons, scanning satellite and asteroid tug, career mode, 3304 science) astrobond (1.0.5, compact SSTO mining ship with 4 crew, 7855 science, no parts discarded) Racescort666 (1.0.5, enormous complicated mothership with two miners, 6 Kerbal crew, "tour pod" that landed on all moons) rudi1291 (1.0.5, massive mothership, Pol orbit station left behind, only mined on Pol with 30+ trips, 3 Kerbal crew with 2 landing on each moon) Edited May 13, 2018 by sdj64 entries Quote Link to post Share on other sites


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MUD is the thing that all GROUCHES LOVE almost as much as they LOVE TRASH & everything that's TRASHY in the world. OSCAR THE GROUCH of SESAME STREET usually just has the MUDman deliver all of his daily orders of MUD to his TRASH CAN.
& since GROUCHES CAN'T STAND to be clean, they tend to bathe in MUD, not just collect it constantly. OSCAR THE GROUCH has stated that WORMS, including his WORM, SLIMEY, enjoy playin in MUD as well as takin baths in it.
- SESAME STREET (1969 - present)
- Episode 0297 (1971): When OSCAR puts up "NO" signs all over his TRASH CAN, the MUDman sees a "NO Salesmen" sign & refuses to sell OSCAR his fresh supply of MUD.
- EPISODE 0329 (1972): When OSCAR doesn't need any MUD, the MUDman tries to sell some MUD to Tom, who only needs dirt & water. After the MUDman tells Tom that dirt & water mixed together is MUD, Tom buys 2 quarts.
- The SESAME STREET 1, 2, 3 Storybook (1973)
- BIG BIRD's Busy Book (1975) ("Front & Back Masks")
- Who's Who on SESAME STREET (1977)
- The SESAME STREET Bedtime Storybook (1978)
- The SESAME STREET Dictionary (1980)
- SESAME Seasons (1981)
- A Day in the Life of OSCAR THE GROUCH (1981)
- OSCAR's ROTTEN Birthday (1981)
- City (1982)
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- MUD page on the OSCAR THE GROUCH Wiki
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Graeter's Summer Peach Ice Cream Review
This Summer, Try Graeter's Peach For a Taste of Regional Americana
Pop off the lid of a pint of Graeter's Summer Peach Ice Cream ($5 in stores), and you're greeted by a peachy-pink surface generously studded with chunks of the stone fruit. Dip your spoon in, and its true-to-life peaches and cream flavor washes over your mouth, urging you to take just one more bite. Refreshing, sweet (but not cloyingly so), and creamy, it's peach ice cream done right.
Can't make it into a Graeter's storefront? Don't worry about missing out: this Cincinnati family-owned favorite has expanded beyond its hometown, with pints available at select grocery stores countrywide, as well as online. We don't often find mail-order ice cream worth the expense of overnight shipping, but in this case, we wholeheartedly endorse the practice for this satisfying Summer treat — a six-pack of pints (the smallest shipping order available) makes for a great gift for Father's Day, birthdays, and more. Just make certain to try a scoop before the flavor's limited Summer run is over.


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Enjoy luxury at your fingertips at our beautiful two-bedroom penthouse, with river views. You'll be staying in the heart of the iconic capital city, surrounded by world-renowned attractions and heritage that has formed over centuries.
Grand floor-to-ceiling windows welcome plenty of natural light, as well as breath-taking views of the River Thames, The Shard, and Tower Bridge that you can view from your very own balcony. The River Penthouse at Three Quays sits proudly in London's most desirable location.
You'll be taken aback by a grand open-plan living area as you enter your spacious new home via a private corridor. The main reception room boasts tasteful décor, feather-soft rugs, and beautifully hanging chandeliers.
The oversized sofa at the centre of the lounge will invite you to get comfortable straight away, providing the perfect spot to unwind after a day of touring the city, or to simply catch up with family and friends.
If you'd prefer to socialise even more, the fully-fitted kitchen is ideally designed for this as well. You'll have access to a large island bar for you and other guests to cook and prepare meals together, as well as high-quality kitchen appliances and a stylish dining tablewith seating for six. We'll even include scrumptious welcome hampers packed with delicious snacks and treats.
Both bedrooms include generous king size beds, both en-suite and providing you with plenty of storage for your clothes and other belongings. Spoil yourselves with high-end toiletries from The White Company and bathrobes and slippers; we'll provide these for each guest at the residence, at no extra charge.
And we've not forgotten our mini VIPs either; they'll be treated to "George" the cuddly Unicorn, as well as their very own child-friendly bathroom products from Childs Farm.
Whether you're a regular business traveller or first-time city tourist, you're guaranteed to experience London like never before from our luxury River Penthouse.
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A robot is a mechanical or virtual artificial agent, usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by a computer program or electronic circuitry. Robots can be autonomous or semi-autonomous and range from humanoids such as Honda's Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility (ASIMO) and TOSY's TOSY Ping Pong Playing Robot (TOPIO) to industrial robots, collectively programmed 'swarm' robots, and even microscopic nano robots. By mimicking a lifelike appearance or automating movements, a robot may convey
12:00 noon – 1:15 pm Physical modifications to the robots will not be allowed after the team is registered. Only programmatic changes will be allowed on the day of the competition. No laptops will be provided. Each team is responsible to bring a fully-charged laptop with the LEGO Mindstorm software. Assume that electrical outlets are not available in the competition area. Remember to install fresh batteries before the start of the competition. Robots with dead batteries will be disqualified. Team rules:
Robot Essay • Introduction: A new kind of machine is making it´s entry in thise years. There has been thoughts about this machine, more then a half century. It has in a long time fascinated scientists, writers and ordinary people alike. This machine is a robot, and this kind of machine will revolutionise the human way of living in the future. The robot can be humanitys loyal servant, but it can also be mankind's worst enemy, which may be our doom. • Main part: The robot is has allready
I was introduced to my first sociable robot on a sunny afternoon in June. The robot, developed by graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was named Mertz. It had camera sensors behind its eyes, which were programmed to detect faces; when it found mine, the robot was supposed to gaze at me directly to initiate a kind of conversation. But Mertz was on the fritz that day, and one of its designers, a dark-haired young woman named Lijin Aryananda, was trying to figure out what
Men as Robots and Robots as Men Karel Capek's R.U.R (Rossum's Universal Robots) is a science fiction play, which introduced the 1920's audience with Robots. The term "Robot" was new to the audience at that time. It provided them with an imaginary vision to see the world through a different perspective, where men were replaced by robots and how this leads to the end of the humanity. There is a detailed disruption provide in the play about the robots and how they work by the discussion between Helena
Will robots take over the world? This is a question that has grown in concern over the last few decades and with the sudden arrival of the Digital Age it does not show any sign of stopping. Headlines such as "The robots are coming to steal our jobs" manage to instil fear into the general public while not explaining why or how this will happen. Furthermore, many media outlets may lead you to believe that it is already here. I say otherwise. Robots will not 'steal' our jobs and they are certainly not
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While I wish to move forward with the business of the council, I have no choice but to respond to the baseless commentary made by Mr. (Past Del Rey President Mark) Redick about the incoming Del Rey Neighborhood Council board. The facts outlined below demonstrate transparency by all members of the Del Rey Neighborhood Council. These comments are mine as an individual and do not necessarily represent the beliefs of the board.
During his last year as president of the neighborhood council, Mr. Redick established an audit committee. As chair of that committee, he never once called the committee into session. In my role as chair of the Budget and Finance Committee, I routinely presented a public review of all council expenditures. Mr. Redick did not like that practice, and directed the committee to meet only to pass a budget for the council and not to address any other issue.
Mr. Redick subsequently removed me as chair of the committee. The new committee chair did not convene a meeting for over three months. I continued to serve as the council treasurer and continued to present a public itemization of council funds, at which times Mr. Redick praised me for my "great work."
The only lack of transparency about these public proceedings is that the minutes of this meeting were never submitted to the council for approval, which was the responsibility of Mr. Redick and the chair that he appointed.
As for the issue about the ethics training, Mr. Redick's statements are untrue. The minutes of the public meeting reflect the actual discourse, which was that multiple members of the board stated Mr. Redick's motion was unnecessary and potentially against the bylaws of the council. At no time did I, or any member of the council, deny the need for all members to pass ethics training as soon as possible. Likewise, not one single member of the board supported Mr. Redick's motion. Due to the lack of support from the board, the motion was pulled.
Mr. Redick had considerable authority to address any issues of transparency while he was president. There is not a "dark cloud" over the new council.
Any suggestion that there is should be equated to the decisions made by the past president.
The Del Rey Neighborhood Council election earlier this year turned out the largest number of voters in its history. People wanted a change, and they got it. Neighborhood council members are volunteers who take time out of their busy lives to work together to improve their community. Sometimes mistakes are made; rarely are these malicious acts.
Mr. Redick's comparison of an oversight by a volunteer citizen to the (former President Richard) Nixon presidential crimes demonstrates real contempt for this Neighborhood Council and extreme disrespect of the efforts provided by the thousands of residents in the 91 neighborhood councils.
I look forward to working with a new group that is committed to a spirit of collaboration and dedication to the Del Rey community. As always, I welcome the community to attend all events and meetings to judge the actions of the new council for themselves.
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My girl wants to Mario Party all the time… [ COMIC ]
Its a long running joke between my friends and I about Donkey Kong's frisky nature in Mario Party. In the first four Mario Party games, Donkey Kong was a playable character and there was a mini-game called "Grab Bag". Innocently enough, the object of the game was to grab another player's bag and shake the coins out of it. When the characters grabbed, it look like they were shaking the bag… expect for Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong looked like he was molesting the other character. For that reason alone I always played as Donkey Kong, simply because I looked forward to that moment of the game.
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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh rubbished the rumours of removing of two Ministers from the State Cabinet.
Virbhadra Singh has taken a strong notice and said that it was totally false and such news items were planned and mischievous.
The Chief Minister asserted that news regarding destabilizing the State Government was being knowingly published in certain newspapers for the past few months which is condemnable.
He said that few people were trying to create a situation by airing baseless issues to spread a message as if every thing was not well in the Government. These include few frustrated BJP leaders who were trying to create rumors through selective newspapers, CM rued.
Chief Minister said that the Congress Government in the State was stable and it was working hard for the welfare of the people.
He added that since the formation of BJP Government at the Centre, the State BJP leaders were involved in malicious propaganda to destabilize the democratically elected State Government. He said that the people of the State were well aware of cheap gimmicks of the BJP and would never fall prey of their nefarious designs.


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From an outsider's perspective, Harrisonburg may not seem to be the most diverse place in the world. But after living here, you soon realize the breadth of cultural diversity that shapes the lives of Harrisonburg residents. This diversity is reflected everywhere from restaurants to churches to art, and makes Harrisonburg what it is today.
Beginning Monday, September 22nd running through Sunday October 5th Harrisonburg will celebrate its international community through a series of events kicking off with JMU International Week, featuring the Explore More Museum's: One World Exhibit and closing the Latino Film Festival at Court Square Theater.
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At Cedar Creek Bible Church, we believe in investing in the future – our children. AWANA is a wonderful program that nurtures their spirits while challenging their minds and bodies with awards for scripture memory, Bible lessons that really hit home, and games that keep them running and laughing.
Our kids are having a blast on Wednesday nights while growing in their relationship with God. Come from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. to join the fun and see what it's all about!
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Regina to Las Vegas - $228 CAD roundtrip including taxes
Air Canada Rouge is selling off some seats from Regina to Las Vegas for $228 CAD roundtrip including taxes.
The flights have 1 stop each way, in Calgary.
None of them are the ideal 2 to 3 night weekend flights. They are week long trips.
It would also be worth checking out the Las Vegas package prices at the moment on the Air Canada Vacations using dates from the list below.
Availability for travel
January, February 2018
Here's how to find this deal...
1. Go to the Air Canada Vacations website (you won't see them on AirCanada.com because they are Air Canada charter flights)
2. Click on the 'Flights' tab
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3. Search for a flight from Regina (YQR) to Las Vegas (LAS)
Use one of the the following date combinations:
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Wed Jan 17 to Wed Jan 24
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NOTE: When you see $457, that's the total roundtrip price for 2 passengers, unless you changed the default number of passengers.
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National has launched a petition to repeal the Government's new fuel taxes to "relieve some of the financial pressure" on Kiwis, the party's leader Simon Bridges has said.
"Ordinary hard-working Kiwi families don't need the worry of figuring out how they're going to drive to school or get to the supermarket."
He said this Government was "pricing them out of their cars."
On September 30, a new fuel excise tax of 3.5c a litre came into force.
Transport Minister Phil Twyford said the tax would help pay for initiatives such as light rail and better public transport.
"This funding will allow $5 billion more investment in the next decade. The alternative is gridlock in our cities, lost productivity in the regions and more deaths on our roads," Twyford told the Herald earlier this year.
But Bridges said the cost of the taxes is too high and cost are only going to increase as fuel prices climb and the Government imposes new taxes.
"The average New Zealand household is now paying $200 a year more in petrol taxes than this time last year and in Auckland, that figure is $324."
That's why National has launched an "axe the tax" petition calling for the Government to scrap these new fuel taxes, he said.
"The Government should provide immediate relief to New Zealanders by cancelling the new fuel taxes it's imposed and putting a stop to its plans to add more."
In 2010, Labour also ran an "axe the tax" campaign, lobbying the Government to remove the GST from fruit and veggies.
On Monday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern blamed the petrol companies for the high price of fuel, saying that consumers were "being fleeced".
"I am hugely disappointed in the level of price that consumers are currently paying at the pump for fuel."
She said between 2008 and 2017, the margins importers were taking for themselves more than doubled from 7 per cent to 16 per cent.
But the petrol companies were quick to fire back, with BP blaming the higher prices on the Government's taxes.


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Yuggler, the most popular App on the App Store for families, a Parents' Choice Approved Award winner and Webby Awards Honoree for discovering fresh ideas for kids activities.
Discover kids activities in seconds - anytime, anywhere - with the largest, mobile resource of things to do for children.
Bringing you everything that kids love, Yuggler revolutionizes the way parents, grandparents, and caregivers discover, organize and plan kids activities and fun places for children!
YUGGLER IS ALL ABOUT KIDS ACTIVITIES and FAMILY FUN:
DISCOVER family-friendly activities and events for children of all ages, including infants and toddlers, while browsing thousands of things to do for kids in your local neighborhood or at your travel destination.
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PLAN your family fun based on first-hand experiences, tips, and photos from other parents - moms & dads just like you.
ORGANIZE fun places and things to do for kids with bookmarks (to do for the future), favorites (your past experiences that you would like to repeat) and reminders. Yuggler makes planning easy for the next family fun weekend or even a full itinerary for the next trip or vacation.
COLLABORATE with friends & family on activities and collect insights from people you trust the most. Interact directly with others via social media and messaging to discuss and share activities, or set up the next play date at the museum, zoo or playground.
Get INSPIRED by our weekly or monthly campaigns featuring the best, most trending kids activities for the time of the year, via our website's Calendar blog or our "How About?"/ "Hello Month" campaigns.
SEARCH for the most fun places and most relevant kids activities to fit your requirements via the App's most comprehensive and highly refined search capability for family activities. Search for kids activities by specific criteria, such as age, gender, duration, season, weather, cost, location, range, time, type, category and more - Yuggler offers the most data points (over 100) for every kid activity.
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For providers of kids activities: INFORM parents about your own family-friendly business and the kids activities you offer for free and make yourself known! We are all about equal opportunity, and even the smallest provider has a chance to be found in Yuggler.
Access to all permanent and seasonal activities for kids is provided for free if users contribute content, invite friends and family to join, or help spread the word about Yuggler.
If your time is limited, then you can opt for an annual, auto-renewable subscription fee of your choice (pay what you want by choosing between 4 different fees) to also gain access to all permanent activities.
Access to manually curated, local events (one-time activities) is enabled via a monthly, auto-renewable subscription.
All information about our subscriptions is available in our terms of use online at https://yuggler.com/terms-of-use/.
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'The Hoerengracht' (1983–8), by American artists Ed and Nancy Kienholz, will transform the Sunley Room into a walk-through evocation of Amsterdam's Red Light District.
This highly polemical tableau explores a theme that has been investigated by artists over many centuries and echoes visual traditions well established within European art.
Recalling in particular the Dutch masters of the 17th century, which are strongly represented in the National Gallery, 'The Hoerengracht' recreates the brick walls, glowing windows and mysterious doorways of Amsterdam's claustrophobic streets. At the same time, the half-dressed, garishly lit mannequins of 'The Hoerengracht' reveal a theatre of grim sociology, filled with the most vulgar, ugly and ramshackle aspects of society.
Made in their Berlin studio, 'Te Hoerengracht' was one of the last major pieces made by the Kienholzes before Ed died in 1994. Their work remains a major reference point for contemporary artists such as Mike Kelly, Paul McCarthy, Mike Nelson and Damien Hirst.
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Zhongshan White Bird Electronic Ltd
Address: Xingda Jiahu industrial zone, Torch development district, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China
Tel: 0760-89873178
Fax: 0760-89873089
Zip code: 528437
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Quick Details
Type: Household Scales Scale
Type: Digital Scale
Use: Kitchen Scales
Place of Origin: Guangdong, China (Mainland)
Brand Name: white bird
Model Number: K301
dimension: 216x177x70mm
display size: 56x26mm
color: orange, yellow, green, blue, pink
capacity: 5kg
division: 1g
unit: lb:oz,oz,ml,g
material: plastic
power: 1xCR2032 lithium battery
N.W: 0.28kg
certificate: CE,RoHS,ISO9001
1.Payment: T/T ,L/C, Western Union
2.Production lead time :30-35 days
3.Sample can be delivered within one week
4.Shipping By Express(Fedex, DHL, UPS etc), By Air or By Sea Shipping freight are quoted under your requests
5.Shipping port: Zhongshan
6.Discounts are offered based on order quantities
7.MOQ:1000pcs, Welcome sample order
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Packaging Details:
Product size:216x177x70mm
Gift box size:240x204x96mm
Carton size:430x265x220mm
Packing: 4pcs/CTN
20' QTY: 3,774 pcs
40' QTY: 7,776 pcs
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2.through the certification of CE, RoHS, REACH
3.low price with high quality
4.good service with OEM
Our Company:
Zhongshan White Bird Electronic Ltd. is a leading corporation in China, specialized in developing and manufacturing electronic weighing instruments including kitchen scales, bathroom scales, floor scales, platform weighing scales, pricing scales, counting scales and others.
With a strong R&D and manufacturing team, we devote ourselves to developing good products with artistic features, convenient practical functions and stable quality. At the same time, we have advanced production systems and quality control systems with scientific and strict management, so we can provide the best cost-effective solutions for customers all over the world and win their high praise.
"Customer first" is our mission, and "innovation, excellence" is our faith. We can constantly develop weighing instruments with high quality to meet customers' actual and potential demands. With good products to interpret accurate weighing and good reputation to build long term friendship with worldwide partners, we would like to cooperate actively with both
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The Clone Wars Campaign Guide is an hardcover supplement to the Wizards of the Coast Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition, written by Rodney Thompson, J.D. Wiker, Patrick Stutzman, Gary Astleford, and T. Rob Brown.
Publisher's summaryEdit
The Clone Wars Campaign Guide launches heroes into the middle of sweeping battles to determine the fate of the galaxy. This book provides everything you need to set your adventures during the conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Separatist forces under the command of Count Dooku.
This book includes new information for heroes on both sides of the war, including new talents, feats, prestige classes, and equipment designed to tailor characters to the unique feel of the Clone Wars conflict. More than just information for players, The Clone Wars Campaign Guide provides Gamemasters with descriptions and statistics for starships, vehicles, allies, opponents, and planets and features in-depth information on material drawn from Lucasfilm's new CG animated series, The Clone Wars.
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"Like fire across the galaxy, the Clone Wars spread."
The Clone Wars have begun, and now the great conflicts of this setting can be relieved - or told for the first time - in your campaigns. Featuring material drawn from The Clone Wars television series, as well as films, comics, and video games set during the Clone Wars, this campaign guide gives players and Gamemasters the tools to create new heroes and design exciting adventures against the backdrop of galactic war.
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*A mass combat system for resolving large-scale battles in any Star Wars campaign.
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- "The Clone Wars Campaign Guide" on Wizards.com (backup link)
- "The Clone Wars Campaign Guide errata" on Wizards.com (backup link)
- Wizards of the Coast 2009 Spring Catalog
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Why a Department of Afro-American Studies?
Only a department devoted to the study of the African-American experience can serve as the home for the new American Griot, if I may invoke an old African tradition. Because of the centrality in the American story of the role of African‑Americans, a consideration of the Afro‑American experience is nothing less than a reconsideration of America. Through the prism of Afro‑American Studies, the light shining from the City upon a Hill is fractured into the rainbow of the composite American experience. When that light is resynthesized, we are presented with a new image of America, an image critical as well as celebratory. Afro‑American Studies is not the Negro Quarter in the ghetto of Multiculturalism -- a vibrant place of strange sounds and smells that the uptown folks can visit on a night out. Afro‑American Studies is the necessary corrective to a four‑centuries‑long misappropriation of the American experience.
But why an academic department of Afro-American Studies? Why not rely on the new American Story to be told by scholars, poets, novelists, and public figures wherever they are situated? The story I have told in this tutorial was taught to me by many people, some in my own department, some in other Afro-American Studies departments, but most of them not in such departments at all. Leon Litwack, Lawrence Levine, Jacqueline Jones, and Charles Joyner are all historians. Leon Higgenbotham taught law when he was not serving as a Federal Appeals Court Judge. Vincent Harding taught at a school of theology. The great W. E. B. Du Bois did not live quite long enough to see the creation of a department of Afro-American Studies.
Nell Painter is a distinguished historian who has served two terms as head of the Princeton University Black Studies program. In an essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education, she spoke of some of the reasons why we need strong Black Studies programs. "To attract and keep black faculty members, an institution needs to have a critical mass of black students and faculty members. Black students and faculty members and black studies flourish in good company and wither in isolation." No matter how many victories are won, the attacks on the legitimacy of Black Studies continue. "So where are we 30 years later?" she asks. "Utterly exhausted! ... It seems like every single change has required struggle, and no improvement becomes permanent. I wonder whether that will always be true."
In order to see why it is so important that there be strong, well-established academic departments of Afro-American Studies, we need to look for a bit at the inner workings of universities. Now this is not a subject that brings delight to the soul, even for members of the academy. But it is in the bureaucratic structure of the university that power is secreted, not in its flowery mission statements or Commencement Day ceremonies.
Once again, let me begin with a story. When I entered Harvard College as a young freshman fifty-four years ago, the College was just phasing in a new undergraduate curriculum called General Education. There was nothing fancy about Gen Ed, as it very quickly came to be known. It consisted of a number of large lecture courses in the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Natural Sciences, taught in many cases by the most senior and distinguished members of the faculty. Each undergraduate, as part of his year-long courses [Harvard was all-male in those days], was required to take one course in each category. My freshman year, I took a marvelous course with a fiery red-haired historian named Sam Beer. We studied everything from the Anglo-Saxon wergeld to the fall of the Weimar Republic.
Because these courses were required of all students, and also because they were among the best courses in the catalogue, Gen Ed very quickly became a fixture at Harvard. By the time it was my turn to teach in the program eight years later, it seemed to undergraduates as though Gen Ed had existed forever, and would go on existing forever. But there was no department of General Education. There was a committee of senior faculty who administered the program, recruiting professors to teach the courses, choosing which courses to offer, and approving a small number of Aupper level Gen Ed@ courses which were simply exciting interdisciplinary offerings that someone wanted to teach. Nor was there a faculty of General Education. To be sure, a great many young men [and a few young women] were appointed to Instructorships or Assistant Professorships in General Education and something or other -- my official title during my three year stay in the program was Instructor in General Education and Philosophy. But we all understood that it was impossible to get tenure in Gen Ed. For us, it was a very pleasant professional dead end.
Years passed -- indeed, decades passed -- and finally the Harvard faculty grew weary of General Education. At first, it had been marvelous for senior professors to create broad-scale courses drawing on the widest possible range of materials, which they could lay before three or four hundred adoring undergraduates. But as Max Weber pointed out so long ago, even charisma becomes routinized, and eventually the task of teaching Gen Ed courses was handed off to junior faculty.
So one day -- so to speak -- the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to end General Education, and replace it with something new. There is nothing surprising about this turn of events. Faculties are constantly reshuffling their teaching materials, reconfiguring what they require of undergraduates, creating new courses, new mixes. It keeps all of us young and limber, mentally speaking. But there is a lesson to be learned from it. Programs and requirements that seem eternal to undergraduates may be passing fancies from the perspective of the faculty. Undergraduates, after all, are like May flies. Their entire life span is only four years, which is not even one sabbatical cycle for a professor. In the glacial world of the academy, four years is merely a Spring. Even though General Education lasted at Harvard for thirty years or more, no one ever got tenure in it, no one ever earned a degree in it, and today it is remembered only by people like myself, old enough to tell stories of their youth.
And General Education was not especially controversial. There were no alumni revolts against it. Officials of the Federal Government did not inveigh against it. It did not even generate much opposition from old guard faculty, as educational innovations so often do. Harvard just tired of it, and decided to replace it with something new.
Think now of Black Studies. It was born in turmoil out of struggle and rage. It provoked from the very first moment of its existence the most violent and intemperate opposition. Virtually every college or university administration that agreed to the establishment of a Black Studies program did so for nakedly political reasons -- to avoid campus revolts, to end a building seizure, as a response to the threat of violence. Black Studies did not emerge from faculty committees calmly reflecting on the life of the mind and concluding that the curriculum needed to be enriched by the Black experience. Even the most publicly progressive of academic administrations wanted no more than a token Black presence on their campuses, until forced by the larger events of the nation to open their doors a bit wider. So it is that when Black Studies programs came into existence, the White campuses on which they were housed used every device to make sure that they could be terminated, when things calmed down, without breaking tenure or disrupting the bureaucratic administration of the institution.
The simplest device was the faculty committee -- the arrangement that served Harvard so well during the life of General Education. To an undergraduate who finds a Committee on Black Studies in operation when he or she arrives on the campus, and sees it still functioning four years later, Black Studies looks like a permanent fixture. But to senior faculty and administrators, it is transparently a temporary arrangement. A Committee can be disbanded simply by a memorandum.
The appointment of junior faculty gives a somewhat more settled appearance to Black Studies, even though the positions may not be, as we say in the trade, tenure track. Outsiders may have a hard time distinguishing between graduate student teaching assistants and professors, let alone between tenure track, non-tenure track, and tenured professors, but to the faculty, whose bread and butter depends on these distinctions, there is no confusion. A university can quite easily hire a whole raft of junior non-tenure track Black Studies assistant professors without making the slightest permanent commitment either to them or to their field.
Equally meretricious, though considerably more impressive looking, is the practice of joint appointments. At the non-tenured level, these appointments are a snare and a delusion. The junior professor in, let us say, History and Afro-American Studies, must somehow ingratiate herself both with the senior members of the History department, who care only about her performance as an historian and give her no credit for her contributions to Black Studies, and with the members of the committee administering the Afro-American Studies degree, who come from many departments and neither see nor credit her services to History. What is more, almost certainly a majority of the senior members of the History department will be unsympathetic with Black Studies in general, and unwilling to commit one of their scarce tenure slots to someone who is, in their eyes, not really an historian. Even when politically charged issues are not involved, junior faculty find it forbiddingly difficult to negotiate these rapids. When one adds race to the mix, it becomes nearly impossible.
Finally, there is the device of joint tenured appointments. In a university with a strong tradition of faculty tenure, this arrangement has the very great virtue of protecting Black Studies professors from losing their jobs. But although it protects the professors, it does not protect the field of Black Studies. When the turmoil quiets down, when intellectual currents change direction, when a star professor leaves for a gig somewhere else, or when America goes into a period of reactionary retreat on matters of race -- which it does with great regularity -- Black Studies as an academic field can be terminated at the university, and the faculty distributed to their home departments. After all, the senior professors who taught General Education had tenure. That did not protect General Education from being ended when fashions changed.
Think for a moment about the Harvard Department of African-American Studies, which, for a time there in the late nineties and early years of this millennium, was the hottest thing in Academe. The Harvard department, led by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., so much media coverage that the educated White world was quite aware of the "Dream Team" of distinguished and well-known professors who were gathered there by Gates. Cornell West, William Julius Wilson, Anthony Appiah, Evelyn Higgenbotham -- that is a line-up to make a Dean's heart swell with pride. To the undergraduates at Harvard, it must seem that Afro-American Studies is as permanent as the marble of Widener Library. Nothing, surely, can threaten its continued existence.
And yet -- every single senior and junior professor in the department was hired on a joint appointment – Gates as a member of the English Department, West in the theology faculty, Wilson on the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government, Appiah as a member of the Philosophy Department. Speaking strictly from a purely bureaucratic point of view, there is no Harvard department of Afro-American Studies. Harvard could terminate it tomorrow, and simply redistribute the faculty to their real academic homes.
But surely that will not happen! Gates has raised a vast sum of money, and has made himself far and away the best known Black intellectual in the White community. Harvard gives every evidence of being deeply committed to Afro-American Studies. No doubt. As it was to General Education. But what would happen if Gates were to move on to head up a great foundation or run a major university or even a position in the Federal Government? Cornell West and Anthony Appiah have already been wooed away by Princeton, and during Lawrence Summers' brief and disastrous presidency of Harvard, he made it clear that he did not share his predecessor's enthusiasm for Black Studies. What will be the future of Afro-American Studies at Harvard? It almost died once, after all.
No, in the Byzantine world of the academy, there is only one solid foundation on which to build a discipline: A stand-alone regular academic department with a regular budget lodged in a faculty overseen by a Dean and staffed by a full complement of senior professors who have tenure solely and entirely in that department. Physics would not accept less. Neither would History, Mathematics, or Sociology. Why should Black Studies?
University departments have been around for such a long time that even senior tenured faculty tend to consider them as eternal, but in the life of the academy, which, after all, traces itself back two and a half millennia to Plato's Groves of Academe, they too are a very recent phenomenon. Recall T. H. White's lovely conceit in The Sword in the Stone, in which he has Merlin change the young Arthur into all manner of animals, vegetables, and minerals so that he will have a deep understanding of the natural world before assuming his kingship. At one point, Wart becomes a mountain, and discovers how slowly the world changes from its perspective. We need something like Merlin's trick to see the university department in its true light.
In the Middle Ages, universities were itinerant communities of scholars. Later on, they organized themselves into faculties B of law, of medicine, of theology. When the nineteenth century German institution of the research university was transplanted in America, the faculty at first consisted of a constellation of professors, surrounded by clouds of lesser beings who handled some of the teaching chores. That then changed. As Alain Touraine tells us in his valuable study of the American academic system, "the great American innovation was the creation of departments. They made their appearance at Cornell and Johns Hopkins as early as 1880, at Harvard and Chicago around 1881-2, and at Columbia in the late nineties."
The department was not at first a locus of tenure, for nothing like tenure existed in the eighteen-nineties. The idea of job security as a protection of academic freedom arose during the political assaults on professors triggered by the hysteria of the First World War, and it was not until after the Second World War that the modern protection of tenure became widespread in the academy. By the time Black Studies was launched, however, it had become the settled practice of virtually all American colleges and universities to grant tenure to faculty after a lengthy probationary period and a searching professional review. The practice was adopted throughout the academy of awarding tenure only to regular members of academic departments. Teaching positions were regularly advertised as Atenure track@ or Anon-tenure track,@ and only those on tenure track appointments were even eligible to be considered for promotion with tenure.
There is no way of knowing how long the present system of departments and tenure will last. Tenure was bitterly resisted by administrators and trustees when it was first proposed, and has been fought ever since. University administrations are constantly searching for ways to overcome the stubborn independence of professors. Breaking up departments in the name of innovation, or interdisciplinarity, or pedagogical improvement will always appeal to provosts, presidents, and trustees who are prone to the occupational delusion that they are the university. But for so long as departments are the vehicle for the reproduction of disciplines and the protection of the intellectual freedom of professors, Black Studies must demand full independent departmental status in the college or university.
Here, then, is my answer to the question, Who shall guard and tell the true story of America? The story must have a home in university Black Studies departments that take as their focus the African-American experience -- departments that seek to understand


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When times were hard, the people of Northern Italy needed to find something which would sustain them while working in the fields. They started finding creative ways to make a food staple which would keep the belly full for the day. It is this reason that polenta is known as a poverty food. The Italian cooks would grind wild grains and cook the "grits" with water, to make a porridge-type dish. Buckwheat was one of the grains which was popular because of the distinct flavor it added to the dish. When corn was brought to Italy, the people started making the polenta with the ground corn. Today's popular dish was born.
Polenta is widely used in many European countries as a regular staple at the dinner table. Northern Italy has predominantly been the main area where polenta is used. Now, this versatile dish is served in even the most up-scale restaurants all around the world.
The time it takes to make traditional polenta can be overwhelming. The dish needs to be constantly stirred while cooking. The mixture has the potential to stick to the bottom of the cooking pot and burn. It is now possible to find instant and even pre-cooked polenta in the grocery stores. This dish can be served for any meal. Breakfast would find it pan fried and served with syrup. Lunch time meals may offer it deep fried like fritters. Dinner finds polenta topped with salsa or melted cheese.
The nutritional value of corn meal polenta is not as great as some made with other grains. It is the way this food can be used which contributes to its popularity. Polenta can be used as a substitute for bread when certain dishes are prepared. Many times, it replaces the pasta course in a meal. Using a bit of creative culinary skills, polenta can be used in or with almost any dish.
There are some simple ways to prepare polenta at home without all the work and constant stirring. The traditional way to prepare this dish is to bring 2 quarts of water and 1 teaspoon of salt to a boil. Once the water is at a rapid boil, the chef adds 1 pound of cornmeal. The mixture must be stirred the entire time it is cooking. This keeps lumps from forming and also keeps the mixture from burning. There are few people who have the time to devote to this method of preparation. The best, and easiest, way to prepare polenta is to add the water, salt and cornmeal into a crock pot. Turn the slow cooker on low and allow the mixture to cook overnight. The result is a soft polenta which can be used in any recipe.


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Planning Continues For Library's Young Adult Council
Although displaced from the regular meeting space in the C.H. Booth Library since the beginning of the year, when flooding disrupted business at the facility, the Young Adult Council (YAC) has continued to meet regularly at other sites. The group is made up of young people in grades six and up, and is dedicated to promoting programs and raising funds to benefit the Young Adult Department of the C.H. Booth Library, under the guidance of YA Librarian Kim Weber.
On Monday, February 24, YAC returned to its normal meeting place on the second floor of the library, and continued planning for upcoming activities. High on the list was getting out information on the annual Battle of the Books, a trivia-based challenge in which several teams answer questions "Jeopardy-style," based on four young adult books each has read. The event usually takes place in March, but because the library has been closed for repairs, the Battle of the Books has been moved to April 5.
A mural that had decorated one large wall in the YA section was painted over during recent renovations, so on Monday, three YAC members discussed with St Rose art teacher Samantha Kohler new ideas for an updated painting on the wall.
"We have a lot of different ideas," said Ms Weber, "and I'm really proud of these girls for being the ones to have invited Ms Kohler to our meeting today."
In addition to planning the Battle of the Books event, Hailey Pankow, 12, Caroline Palmer, 11, and Maya Welber, 11, all Battle team captains, threw out other ideas for activities. A party to celebrate the release of the movie Divergent, based on the YA novel of the same name by Veronica Roth, and an overnight lock-in at the library during the summer were two ideas that came up.
The girls also discussed ways to raise money to support the YA department.
"I went to our principal at St Rose School [Mary Maloney], and asked her if we could do a fundraiser there," said Maya. Caroline, also a St Rose student, said that when the school has a dress-down day, allowing students to set aside the required school uniforms for the day, those wishing to take part pay a fee. At the recent dress down day organized by Maya, $483 was collected and given to the Young Adult Department of the C.H. Booth Library.
Another $300 was raised through the efforts of another YAC member, Nicole Palmeri, through her Girl Scout Troop. Nicole raised those funds to purchase new books for the YA Department, said Ms Weber.
The youth group plans to continue fundraising — and raising fun, Ms Weber said.
To find out more about YAC, or to join, contact Ms Weber at 203-426-4533 or at firstname.lastname@example.com, after the library reopens on Saturday, March 8. The YAC meeting schedule can be found on the library's website.


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