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The chosen approach for the projects is closer to the engineering method than the scientific method seen in Figure 1 (Science Buddies, 2015). Especially at the third and fourth steps, the requirement specifications and brainstorming steps the differences were emphasized.
Comparision of the scientific and engineering approach for problem solving (Science Buddies, 2015)
During the first year of studies the students perform three different projects. The aim of the first introductory project during the second autumn period is to get familiar with the PBL process, how to organize a project, roles and group dynamics training. The professional substance content plays a minor role. The two projects during spring semester are more focused on substance learning and the subject for these projects are to get familiar with industrial processes of the field. Each group performs one project based on a food technology or a biotechnology process, the other based on a chemical engineering or a surface treatment process. The study process follows a cyclic Problem Based Learning approach (Figure 2).
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San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Connor was denied a chance Wednesday to argue in court against a two-boat race for the America's Cup next fall.
She flew cross-country to appeal last month's New York State Supreme Court decision, which ordered the San Diego Yacht Club to meet New Zealand's surprise challenge in huge boats with 90-foot waterlines. The match could cost San Diego, proposed site of a multinational 1991 Cup regatta, more than $1 billion in lost revenues if the Cup were lost.
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Update: It is official, new Street Fighter V beta will go live on December 17-20.
Original Story: While there has been no announcement that a Street Fighter 5 stress test could be taking place soon, the beta has been updated. Capcom has been teasing at some testing in the future, so this update may be a sign that they are preparing to once again let fans play the game.
Eventhubs is reporting that the update version of the game is 1.06, and the size of the update 2.26GB. Obviously this is a big update, and it is obvious that Capcom won't update the beta version of the game for no reason. With The Video Game Awards 2015 happening this week as well as the PlayStation Experience though, it could also be something related to these events.
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High Heat made a name for itself last year with hardcore baseball fans. Despite some lackluster graphics, the game was considered by many to be the most realistic baseball sim to date. We sat down with Senior Director Mike Saperstein and Senior Producer James Coliz to discuss the latest incarnation of High Heat. And be sure to check out IGN's review for our take on the game.
IGN: What were your goals for this year's version of High Heat?
Mike Saperstein: There were two main things we set out to accomplish with High Heat 2003 PS2. First, improving the graphics was our biggest priority. You'll see much smoother animation. Also the stadiums are much better looking thanks to textures that feature double the bit depth from last year. Second, High Heat needed to be a more complete game. We added new ways to play the game, including Playoffs, Batting Practice, Home Run Derby, Fantasy Draft, Create-a-Player, Player Editor, and our new 3DO-only mode "Two on Two Showdown". Other than that, we wanted to make sure that everything which was great about High Heat got even better. We tuned the gameplay further, tweaked the controls and physics, bolstered the audio, added a new color man, etc. In other words, we continued to pay attention to the little details that make a game great.
IGN: There's no franchise mode this year. How come? Did you want to put one in? What will it be like next year?
M: The High Heat team maintains an enormously high quality bar for gameplay. The career and franchise modes that we want to add are going to be the best ever created for a console sports game. The level of detail we add to the franchise mode next year will be unlike anything anyone has seen. Will we stop people after 20 seasons? No way. This level of perfection takes time, and we really just weren't ready to put it out this year.
James Coliz: When High Heat's franchise mode comes out, it will be the sort of thing that really compels people to play through a couple thousand games, or more. High Heat is the only baseball game that you could play that long and still love it.
IGN: Can you talk a little bit about how the development cycle works?
M: We obviously start a development cycle by evaluating the previous year's game. We look at the reviews, see what the competitors did right and wrong, talk to customers, and check out the message boards. From that we build a picture of where we need to start. Then we ask ourselves, "What would we want to see in a game? What would be cool?" And of course, Trip has a few things he wants in, like tuning the curvature of the pitches. We spec all of that out in detail, and dive into game production. Along the way, we create evaluation builds to see how it's coming out, showing them to the press, retailers, Sony, etc. for input and feedback. At the end of the cycle, we go into a testing and coding frenzy to get every little feature working perfectly, and every single bug flattened. That's about the time you give the Tech Leads plenty of space. And then of course, we top it off with a celebratory glass of The MacAllan 18* when the game enters manufacturing.
(*Editors Note: This is scotch whisky, for the uninitiated.)
M: The only [other] thing I wanted to talk about is on how we decide on some of the features. I just can't stress enough, we have guys on the team of varying interest levels in different aspects of the game. But we have experts in almost every area. So we'll have an art expert, and a baseball expert, and a hardware expert, a gameplay expert. These guys are constantly discussing, and arguing, and pushing, and trying to figure out ways that they can all get the most important things that they want into the game. And I would say, overall, everybody gets in the most important things until eventually you have something that looks really smooth and good, but plays responsively and plays like real baseball.
J: Actually they're all baseball experts.
M: By our definition of baseball expert... it's like an unbelievable, ridiculous baseball expert compared to the real world. Those of us who do not consider ourselves experts would probably be considered fairly expert in regular society.
IGN: What were some of the challenges you faced in bringing High Heat to the market this year?
M: We had a really big vision of what audio could have been in this year's game. And in order to do that, it was extraordinarily technically demanding on the system and on our software. At the beginning of the cycle, the low level software, the software that was going to handle the audio requests and deal with the PS2, wasn't nearly where it needed to be. It required a lot of time and effort on the low level side. So by that, we couldn't really test how the high level stuff--the crowd or the announcer or whatever--was gonna work, because the low level software wasn't working yet. That software, we kept running into unexpected roadblocks, which kept delaying that software, which meant many, many long nights for the guys involved with the audio software, just getting it to work at all, before we could start getting in our crowd, and announcer, and all these things we had these big plans for. So, in the end, I'd say we probably hit maybe--
J: 75 percent.
M: I was going to say 70 percent, James is saying 75 percent of our goals. Our announcer now says a lot more phrases and doesn't repeat himself nearly as much. Our crowd is better than last year, but in some ways we didn't quite reach the goal we hoped to, because of those technical limitations. The good news on that is that now we know where we stand. And we can get right back to work with more lofty goals for the crowd as we move forward to next year.
J: One of the toughest challenges is satisfying everyone on the team. The High Heat team has dedicated people of all stripes. There are baseball hardcores, arcade game players, audio geeks, SportCenter types, visual purists, etc. Finding the balance that everyone is happy with takes patience. And results in some spectacular barn-burner arguments.
M: The other challenge is the tyranny of the calendar. You know when baseball season starts, and you know you need to get your baseball game out in time. There's so much we want to do, we have to know when to stop.
IGN: Is High Heat only going to be appearing on PC and PS2 next year?
J: That's something that we're really discussing right now. Heck, as far as I'm concerned, I'd love to see it on lots of platforms.
IGN: What are some of the graphical goodies we might see during the game?
M: You name it, it's in there. The biggest new one we added was the super jump at the wall for an outfielder. So depending on the park and how a ball is hit, there's a chance that they can snag a home run from you. Or just miss, more often than not. It's really, really cool the first time you see the computer guy goes up there and misses by an inch, or gets it. Even if you're mad that you lost the home run, it's just really a cool feeling to see that in a [video] game. It's just like seeing it in a real game. It's like, "Wow, I can't believe it." There's a number of other little touches that are in there. You'll see the third base coach giving signs. You'll see a lot more pitcher celebration and frustration animations. Different little throw types, like tossing the ball around the horn. Or, once in a blue moon, a guy on artificial turf might bounce the throw over to first base, just like they do in real life on rare occasions. You really have to play, and play, and play, because, much like real baseball, things don't happen all the time. They only happen once in a while, these special things. The more you play, the more you'll see.
J: We have a lot of visual rewards buried in there. Especially for the guys who play a lot. You'll see things in like game 30 and game 40, like the break dancing ump, that you had never seen before. And it completely freaks you out. Like, "Where did that come from? I hadn't seen that before."
IGN: Is there anything you have to do to get the umpire to break dance?
M: Nope, it's just part of the game. Play enough and you'll see it sooner or later.
J: You can't be a renter. You can't be one of those guys who plays, like, just three games.
M: Well you might, if you get lucky.
J: Yeah, but it's sort of like winning the lottery.


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Lent - Sunday, March 13 - The Fifth Sunday
Posted on March 13, 2016
Why do you call me "Lord, Lord" and do not do what I tell you? - Luke 6:46
This is a Sunday wake-up call from Jesus. He does not want mouths that say all the right things, unless the actions follow through. In our world of fluid words we might forget that ultimately they are not what counts. It is what we do that has meaning and impact.
Let us in our prayer seek today to know how to answer Jesus.
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on 8/13/2017 5:27:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
"Make Me Pink" is a bit misleading of a name in my opinion. If I could give it a better name, I'd choose Make Me Mauve.
This purplish, mauve-y color doesn't have much pink at all. Don't get me wrong, it's a pretty color but I don't understand why it's called Make Me Pink. So the color was definitely disappointing seeing how they advertized it as a pink.
Even though the color didn't live up to its name, it's still a stellar formula - very creamy and smooth, which helps it looks very natural on the lip, like a My Lips But Better.
Since I didn't want to use this lippy due to the unexpected shade, I decided to wear it as blush because it looks less purple when its blended into my skin, so I was able to get some use out of it! I wear it every day on my face under my highlighter! It lasts longer than a powder blush thanks to its creaminess
Bottom line: if the only pinks you like are true pinks, steer clear. If you like mauves, give it a try!
on 3/5/2015 12:53:00 AM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Green
This lipstick is a really pretty light cool toned pink tinged with lilac. The formula isn't drying and it seem to wear for a decent amount of time. Since changing my hair from red back to its natural light ash brown, I've been looking for cooler toned makeup. This definitely fits the bill. I really think this would work for anyone with fair to medium cool skin and ash or neutral hair. If you have obviously warm hair and skin, this shade would be a dud.
on 2/23/2015 12:23:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Other, Medium
Eyes: Blue
NW13. True Summer.
This is a fantastic pink lipstick, leaning rose on my pigmented lips.
This color is cool toned. I can wear this during the day, as a polished look. It looks natural-ish, this is no MAC Saint Germaine, but is not a nude, like I see many people saying. It also is not a mauve, it is definitely pink, not purple.
It is a medium-depth pink-rose.
Wears very well, does not show dry patches. Lasts and fades well.
on 11/24/2013 11:57:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
This is one of my top favorite drugstore pink lipsticks ever! The formula is awesome; super creamy and moisturizing -- it is definitely my go to drug store brand. I'm in love with pink lip colors that have blue undertones, and this is a beautiful example of that. I wouldn't call it a Barbie pink because I think it's more wearable than that. I would totally buy this again...
on 1/14/2013 7:01:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Red, Wavy, Other
Eyes: Blue
This is my favorite lipstick. I wear it constantly and am always replacing it. The color is a soft pink that looks good on just about everyone. It's very natural and soft looking. I highly recommend it. :)
on 1/1/2013 7:42:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Oily, Fair, Cool
Hair: Black, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Black
OMG OMG OMG! I love this shade so much. It's the perfect, cool toned pink that I've been looking for. I finally found my HG pink lipstick. Color payoff is good and I love that it doesn't have any shimmer. I always wear mine with clear gloss on top and my lips look lovely and kissable. Staying power is good. I've really got nothing to complain about.
on 7/18/2012 1:07:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Dry, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
Yay!! I finally found my go-to lipstick! I've been looking for one that is close to my lip color but isn't too bright (for school), so I found this and am totally happy with the results!! I also love the smell, the feel, and how it doesn't make my lips look extremely dehydrated.
on 7/12/2011 1:46:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
Edit: It does dry out your lips a bit, especially after you drink water and it dries down. Same thing with all color sensationals.
I really thought this is lighter...maybe because i've seen it on darker skin tones. i'm very pale with yellow/green undertones.
i actually like it anyway although on me it isn't bubble-gum, it's like a medium lavender-pink, cool, but not scary cool.
it's creamy and doesn't dry out my lips.
last 3 pics are mine.those with my face n lips and the lippie
on 4/3/2011 7:09:00 PM
Age: 44-55
Skin: Normal, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Other
This is a mauvey-pink that pops, but in a classy way, it is not too fuschia, nor is it too lilac, not too pale nor too dark. It gives me an edgy youthful feel - with my 50-something fair skin and silvering hair. I normally go for high end lipsticks - I actuallty 'never' buy Maybelline and this little lippie has me pretty impressed. It is a tad drying but that can be remedied by topping it with my Cle de Peau or Juicy Tubes gloss.
on 2/18/2011 12:56:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Red, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Blue
This is a nice everyday mauvey pink cream lipstick. It's very flattering on my pale skin, but I think it would work equally well on just about any skintone.
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As a mother, you never dreamed though a bit chagrined
That the child you nurtured, loved, and disciplined
Would leave home without your watchful eye unprotected
And face the world alone while being subjected
To life's wrath and to mankind's unthinkable wickedness
Naïvely stating, "I'm going to fix the world's mess."
As a mother, you developed your offspring's foundation
Though some days, tears were felt, instead of elation
Yet, lessons you learned and taught helped you resolve
To allow freedom hoping that right would evolve
But some choices, though tough, left you with little doubt
You might lose your child and be left forever without.
Today we honor your sacrifices and hope you understand
That we are here for you to hold your trembling hand
And let you know your grief is felt from both near and far
Pain felt and seen by everyone like the brightest star
An eternal reminder of your sorrow and of your sacrifice
Knowing your child fought bravely and paid the price.
We honor your love and devotion to a child that is gone
To the memory of a soldier that sees no dusk or dawn
We honor you today as an American Gold Star Mother
And ask your forgiveness, as we remind one another
That freedom has a price and it cost you a daughter or son
Preserving peace though the battle has not been won.
Lloyd A. King, Commander, The Military Order of the Purple Heart, William E. 'Bill' McKenzie Chapter #504
Copyright (C) Lloyd A. King, 2006
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A Glen Burnie cardiologist has agreed to stop practicing medicine for six months, get psychiatric treatment and take a course in medical ethics, as a result of two sexual harassment complaints filed against him with the state agency that regulates physicians.
Dr. Krishan K. Singal, a cardiologist with offices in the 1300 block of Crain Highway South, agreed to the conditions as part of a May 25 order issued by the State Board of Physician Quality Assurance.
The board, which could have revoked Dr. Singal's license, also found him guilty of unprofessional conduct. The order takes effect June 15.


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| February 22, 2000
The Calm After The Storm
During the drive to work this morning, I reminded David that we had an important errand to take care of this evening.
"Don't forget," I said, "we have to go back to Mervyn's and exchange that bra."
He nodded pleasantly. "Sounds good," he said ... head bobbing, fingers tapping the steering wheel. He was infinitely more *engaged* in Lenny Kravitz, at that particular moment, than he was in Lingerie Chat with his girlfriend.
But then he stopped cold.
"Wait a second," he said, voice filled with dread. "Bra shopping? Now? Today?"
What he meant, of course, was "Bra shopping? Now? Today? While you're premenstrual and bloated and lethal, and if I turn around and take my eyes off you for so much as a millisecond, you'll start whacking the saleslady with an umbrella?"
"Nahhhh," I reassured him. "It's fine. It's perfectly 'safe.' The Seventy-Two Hours of Doom are over."
For this month, anyway.
And it's true. Now that I am technically no longer "PRE-menstrual" -- ifyoucatchmydrift -- the worst of it is over. The dams have burst. The floodgates have opened. (To use a couple of really awful -- but accurate -- analogies.) And I am more or less back to *normal* emotionally. It is those two or three days immediately before my period that I should come equipped with a warning label. Once the period itself finally starts, peace reigns once again in The Castle.
"OK," he said doubtfully. "If you're sure."
"I promise not to turn it into an ordeal," I said. (Bra-shopping, historically, has not been a big bunch of fun. Basically, I am a triple-retrofitted-underwire, living in a Wonder Bra world. But that's another story for another day.) "We'll run in, get credit for the bra that doesn't fit, pick out another one real quick, and then we're out the door and home and eating leftover lasagna in bed."
What could be easier?
He still looked skeptical, but he agreed. "If you're sure you're up to it, then it's fine with me." After the emotional hurricane we've endured this past weekend, it's no wonder he's hesitant. If I were him, *I* probably wouldn't want to go anyplace dangerous with me, either. Like the DMV. Or Lenscrafters. Or the grocery store.
Or bra-shopping, forcryingoutloud.
But you know what? I really truly think it's going to be OK.
So tonight after work David and I are off to the lingerie department at Mervyn's, in order to exchange one incredibly uncomfortable, ridiculously-overpriced undergarment for a slightly LARGER, incredibly uncomfortable, ridiculously-overpriced undergarment.
Tons of fun for everyone!
In the meantime ... now that the floodgates have opened/the dams have burst/the hurricane has blown over/blah blah blah ... let's get this month's apologies out of the way, shall we?
Whoops. Looks like there's a teeny tiny bit of residual *emotional hurricane* blowing through my bloodstream this afternoon, after all.
I'd better keep taking the St. John's Wort.
blurb #1 will go HERE: ok, everybody. here is what i want you to do.
go to your calendar and flip it over to the month of march.
take the biggest, boldest felt-tip marker you can find -- red would be appropriate -- and circle the 17th, 18th and 19th.
then next month ... when that weekend approaches ...
... run like hell.
here's where i'll ask
a *relevant* question:
amazingly profound thought of the day: "I honestly think you ought to calm down; take a stress pill and think things over." ~ HAL, "2001: A Space Odyssey" ~


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Dr. Karun Rawat received his PhD. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Calgary,Canada in 2012. He is currently Assistant Professor in Centre for Applied Research in Electronics, IIT Delhi. He is senior member of IEEE. Before this, he worked as scientist in the Space Applications Center, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Ahmedabad, from 2003–2007, where he was involved in the design and development of microwave receivers for remote sensing applications. After that, he joined the iRadio Laboratory of the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, where he worked as a student research assistant and later Post-doctoral research fellow under the research grant of iCORE and CRC chair, Alberta, Canada. His research involvement has resulted in more than 24 publications in journals and conferences with 15 in IEEE society. Due to his active research activities and publications, he has been recipient of research production award for the three consecutive years from 2009-2012 by University of Calgary. Under his leadership, University of Calgary team won first prize as well as the best design award in the 3rd Annual Smart Radio Challenge 2010 conducted by Wireless Innovation forum while competing against five universities from U.S. and Japan.
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Warwick, R.I. – December 8, 2014: The CCRI men's basketball team travelled to Queens, NY to take on the 5-1 Red Hawks of LaGuardia Community College. The Knights lost to the Red Hawks 61-57. With the loss the Knights fall to 6-4 on the season.
The Red Hawks took advantage of their home court to take a 34-26 lead into the halftime break. The Knights were able to turn-up the defensive pressure to erase that eight-point deficit and take their first lead since very early in the game at 45-44 with 10 minutes to go in the game on a long range 3-pointer from Tri-Captain Malieke Young (Providence, RI). The Red Hawks regained the lead moments later but freshman Marshall Nelson (Perth, Australia) made two free throws to knot the score at 51-51 with 5:42 to play. The Red Hawks again took the lead on a 3-pointer from Juan Ramos-Rivera which was answered by Knights' Tri-Captain Anthony Jernigan (East Hartford, CT) to knot the score at 54-54 with about five minutes left in the game. During the final five minutes intense defense by both teams caused many challenged shots and forced several turnovers. A strong baseline layup by the Red Hawks' Darnell Holmes put LaGuardia in front 59-55 with just 40 seconds left. However the game was not over as the Red Hawks fouled Jernigan with only 25.6 seconds left and he sank both free throws to bring the score to 59-57. The Knights were unable to extend the game with a foul and the Red Hawks able to score an easy layup as time expired to win by the final score of 61-57.
Leading the way for CCRI was freshman Center Grant Gillis (Jamestown, RI) with 12 points and eight rebounds followed by Tri-Captain Anthony Jernigan who had 11 points, five assists and five rebounds. Also helping the Knights was Tri-Captain Malieke Young who added nine points on three 3-pointers with five rebounds, two assists and two steals and defensively they got help from Tri-Captain Jerome Harris (Hartford, CT) with a game-high five steals to go with four rebounds, four points and two assists.
After the game Head Coach Rick Harris commented: "Our defensive intensity was very good today as we held a high-scoring offensive team to only 61 points. We still need to work on our offensive sets and find easier ways to score the ball against aggressive defensive teams. So that is the challenge we face as we prepare for another regional game at Springfield Tech Wednesday night."
The Knights travel to Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) in Springfield, MA Wednesday evening to play the Rams of STCC for a Region XXI non-league game at 6:00pm.
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John D. Rockefeller. Andrew Carnegie. J. P. Morgan. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Henry Ford. These are the men who, at least according to a recent History Channel series, built America. Whether or not you agree with that statement, there is no question that these were exceptional men who were the dominant players during an exceptional time period in our history. Endowed with vision, drive, intelligence, self-confidence and mighty goals, this handful of men believed that they, and they alone, were destined to forge a radically new America by whatever means it took.
They were also ruthless, hard-nosed businessmen who believed in the free enterprise system, without government restrictions or regulations. A system that existed for their own benefit as they created mega-monopolies of railroads, steel mills, oil refineries, and electric companies, that in concert built 20th century America. In so doing, they made themselves the wealthiest and most powerful men in America. As such, they were endowed (or so they thought) with the right to crush their competition, exploit their employees (Henry Ford did break with this and paid his men more than the going rate), and to ignore the environmental damage caused by their activities.
A whole century has passed and we have entered a new millennium, facing a world that has changed. Emerging technologies, along with the industrial model of mass production created by these five titans, propelled us into an age of advancement and consumerism unlike any other in the history of the world. The few voices that were warning us of the consequences of this strange new world never had a chance against the mob mentality that the earth's resources were unlimited.
Resource reality is setting in, and we are now aware that there are consequences to ignoring the effects that our lifestyle has on the environment. So where are the titans of today that can overcome the challenges that are before us? This is not a job for a few (no matter how powerful), it is a job for all of us. We are all responsible for what happens to the world around us.
There are an ever-increasing number of companies that are producing more and more products and services with the environment in mind. We have options at every turn, be it food, clothing, building products, cars, houses, transportation, and on and on. We make the choice, and the future will depend on which options we choose. How we spend our dollars will decide which products and companies succeed and which ones do not. We are the titans and we can create a sustainable world.


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1)As you consider this discussion this week, think carefully about what socialization is, how we are affected by it, and in what ways you are being socialized.
As a college student, there are many influences on you that direct you in specific as well as latent ways.
There are things like discipline (attending to your courses, reading, getting assignments in on time, getting good grades) as well as the content you study (new sociological perspectives in this class, for instance).
You also have to learn to think in new ways when you are in college and you might consider how this is preparatory for a new career.
2)Observe young children playing, either in your own family or in public settings. Based on the games they play and George Herbert Mead's theory of the development of the self, can you tell if they are in the play or game stage?


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This afternoon the students participated in Stand Up Paddle Boarding and Kayaking. A perfect activity to be active, have fun and enjoy with your friends!
The students get to make their way around the canals of the Noosa river checking out the wonderful houses, beautiful nature and enjoying the spectacular views of the Noosa river.
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Feb 18, 2018
This is the introduction episode for season 2 of the Criminology podcast. Mike Ferguson and Mike Morford will unveil the topic for the second season and talk about what you can expect to hear as it unfolds.
We also have a sample of the type of audio that you can expect to hear: Many hours of interviews have been done with cold case investigators, surviving victims, and victim's family members.
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I added the "on click" add on to my pop up plugin so that when someone goes to the website and clicks a certain link, the pop up appears. My hope was that it would not show up by itself, and only when its corresponding link is clicked. But now when I go to that page, after it loads, the pop up shows in the bottom left hand corner for a second, then goes away.
At the bottom of the plugin's editing page, it's set to show up immediately, and when I change it to another time, the random pop up still shows up, although delayed; also, when I click the corresponding link, it's also delayed, which I don't want. I would like the pop up to display immediately, but only when its link is clicked.
It appears the "on click" add on does not override the regular settings, either that, or maybe I'm doing something else wrong. If anyone can give me some pointers that would be great.


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In today's project, you explored the "if/then" block in Scratch and used it to build an interactive
graffiti project. "If" statements are a type of logic that
helps computers make decisions. Today, you programmed a sprite to make a decision based
on whether or not the mouse button was pressed down.
Computer scientists like you use "if" statements all the time in their code. Any
interactive app requires conditionals. For example, in Angry Birds, if the player touches
the screen, then the bird is positioned to launch. If the player stops touching the screen,
then the bird is released!
In Fruit Ninja, if the player swipes a piece of fruit, then the fruit is destroyed.
Many apps and games also have winning conditions. A winning condition is an if/then statement
used specifically to tell if someone has won the game. For example, in Candy Crush, if
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Stratum's Siren Spot On For Highway Handicap – Trainer Luke Pepper
Last start Wagga winner Stratum's Siren is primed to run a big race in Saturday's Highway Handicap at Rosehill.
Up-and-coming Canberra trainer Luke Pepper says Stratum Siren's two runs at the Wagga carnival were super — culminating in a CL3 win as hot favourite.
"She is a terrific little mare and is spot on for Saturday's race," Pepper says.
"The only query will be a heavy track should that eventuate. The only wet track she has faced was the soft 6 she won on at Wagga, but she got through that well.
"So all signs say she should handle it … but obviously you never know until you have run on a heavy."
Pepper says Stratum's Siren "has been set for the Highway Handicap the whole way through" and third-up at the 1400m looks ideal.
"She is pretty much the ideal little race mare, she does everything right and is easy to train.
"She is not a very big; she's stocky but she is very relaxed and does what she has to do on the track and is like that in her races.
"She doesn't overrace and sits off the bridle and then has that electrifying turn of foot.
"We are really looking forward to Saturday's race and Travis Wolfgram will ride."
Pepper has won a Highway Handicap with Appoint Percy and Canberra trainers generally have a terrific strike rate in Highway races.
Pepper's stable star Hill Spy has been in the paddock for a brief freshen and all going well will be set for a first-up tilt at the 'Newmarket of the bush' — the $160,000 Ramornie Handicap (1200m) at Grafton in July.
"Hill Spy's run in the Wagga Town Plate was super – he had his chance to win and just found a couple better on the day – but he was right there at the finish," Pepper says.
"He is a horse in the right spot at the moment …
"We take real good care of him and space his runs and the Ramornie looks a nice race for him.
"He'd be getting into that type of contest on the minimum and a big speed race suits his racing style.
"He races great fresh and has not lost much fitness. He's been on the treadmill and will be back in the stable on Monday.
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This sunset image was taken on Panama City beach. The beach sand is bright white and the sand dunes are sprinkled with sea oats.
I've been visiting PCB once per year since 1970. Fortunately for me, our family has a beach house right on the shoreline. This image was taken from the deck of the house.
As a kid (some fifty years ago) I recall seeing advertisements that said Panama City was the home of the most beautiful beach in the world.
I currently live in Sarasota Florida. Trip Adviser lists Siesta Key Beach (Sarasota) as the number one beach in the United States with Panama City being listed as number ten. (click here see). I'm not really sure why PCB is so far down on the list because the beach is every bit as beautiful as Siesta Key. Perhaps it's because the weather starts getting cold in Panama City in September, where Sarasota has warm weather most of the year.
More sunset photos taken on Panama City Beach:
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Physical Education
Park Century's physical education program emphasizes sportsmanship, teamwork, cooperation, and respect. Our daily program provides a dynamic and encouraging environment that incorporates different elements of age-appropriate physical activity and instruction to help develop each student's commitment to life-long health and willingness to push beyond their own expectations. All students, regardless of their athletic skills, benefit from the wide array of activities offered in class and the various opportunities to participate.
The gym is considered an extension of the classroom where students are encouraged to persevere, develop resilience and support one another's efforts. Students develop their confidence through participation in sports activities with their peers, improving their coordination, developing spatial awareness and applying their understanding of sports in a safe and supportive atmosphere.
Lower School (grades 2nd – 4th)
Every class starts out with a routine warm-up, exercises, and running laps around the gym.
Lower School students focus on the acquisition of skills and the ongoing reinforcement of those skills necessary for successful participation in both neighborhood play and team sports. Gross motor development is an important part of the program at this level, as is building strength and endurance. Individual skills that are addressed are catching, throwing, batting, running, and following directions in a variety of different active situations.
Middle School (grades 5th – 6th)
In addition to the daily conditioning, the middle school program emphasizes helping students to advance their skills whether they are an experienced or developing athlete. Although not strongly competitive, students are provided direct instruction on how to participate more effectively in such team sports as volleyball, baseball, flag-football, basketball, and soccer. Students learn to play cooperatively without feeling threatened by the physical interactions that can occur during group sports. Students learn to apply their developing skills incrementally, both at Park Century and outside of school, while improving their sportsmanship, team cooperation and level of understanding of specific sports' rules.
Upper School (grades 7th – 8th)
P.E. for upper school focuses even more on the importance of cooperative team participation and sportsmanship. Rules and strategies are incorporated into every session and time is spent dissecting the rules, techniques and fundamentals of sports and fitness. In addition, students expand their understanding of the importance of exercising and the need for proper warm-up and conditioning. Time is also spent teaching students how to win and lose while demonstrating integrity, empathy and maturity.


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On the first Monday of their winter break, two Montgomery High School students laced up their hiking shoes, grabbed their cameras and headed to Pepperwood Preserve north of Santa Rosa to do something that would make many vacationing students cringe: scientific research.
Not these two Viking students, however. They jumped at the chance to contribute to a Sonoma State University inquiry into the effects of climate change on local wildlife by helping Julie Byrne-Wittmann, a graduate student in the university's Girman Biology Group and high school teacher, count frogs and salamanders.
"I love being out here," senior Aaron Dueck said. He stood in the hilly, 3,200-acre preserve near the edge of a small pond and lifted a square sheet of plywood, called coverboard, to see what animals could be found beneath.
Fellow Montgomery senior Mary Young squatted down, camera in hand, and snapped a picture of a tiny reddish salamander nestled in the soil. Later, she would upload the picture to a website called iNaturalist.org, where it would be added, along with GPS coordinates, date and time, to a growing list of reptiles and amphibians found at the preserve over the past year.
By recording their observations online for scientists to use, the two students are participating in a growing movement known as "citizen science." A type of crowdsourcing, citizen science pairs up amateur nature observers with scientists who need large amounts of information. The connection is mainly through social-media- type websites where people can record their observations and receive feedback from experts.
Young and Dueck, accompanied Monday by seventh-grader Aidan Kelly and an adult volunteer, George Jackson, were gathering data for Byrne-Wittmann's inquiry into how reptiles and amphibians are being impacted by the changing climate.
In particular, Byrne-Wittmann wants to determine how the sensitive species are reacting to changes in rainfall and moisture levels in the ground. She hopes her findings can one day be used to inform land management decisions and show how climate change is impacting the county.
Another goal of Byrne-Wittmann's research is to show how citizen science can be used for academic research projects.
The idea was born in 2012, when she was teaching biology at Montgomery High School. Interested in using citizen science as a way to engage students, she incorporated the concept into a spring ecology unit. All 150 of her students participated, heading out into local preserves to observe species and upload their findings to iNaturalist.org.
"They got into it," she said, adding that her students liked the site because it provided a Facebook-like platform where they could share their discoveries with one another and people around the world. Also, they enjoyed using their smartphones to gather and upload information, she said.
The exercise proved particularly rewarding for one student who had struggled in class but loved to use his phone. One day, he photographed a striped lizard at Howarth Park in Santa Rosa and uploaded it online. Experts identified the creature as a collared lizard, normally found several hundred miles to the south in a drier, hotter climate.
The discovery sparked an online debate about whether the animal could have really extended its range so far north, perhaps driven by the changing climate, or whether it had simply been a house pet that was released.


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Sunderland reporter Chris Young gives his verdict after the Black Cats suffered an opening day drubbing at Leicester City.
Costel Pantilimon: Kept the score respectable with several saves, but beaten four times. 4
Billy Jones: Completely at sixes and sevens and removed for his own good. 2
Sebastian Coates: Exposed when left one-on-one, and a shadow of the no-nonsense defender who finished last season. 3
Younes Kaboul: Deserved some sympathy for van Aanholt's wayward positioning, but it looked like it was his first competitive game since January. 3
Patrick van Aanholt: Partly at fault for three of goals and completely abandoned his defensive duties in the second half. 2
Lee Cattermole: Daft tackle to concede a penalty and was sacrificed for the necessary change of system. 3
Jack Rodwell: Began to be a bit more involved late-on, but utterly anonymous for the first hour. 3
Seb Larsson: Kept working, but like the rest, didn't look sharp. 4
Adam Johnson: Provided a nice through-ball for Defoe's goal, but too many slack passes. 4
Jeremain Lens: Welcome to Sunderland! Some nice touches, but clattered a couple of times. 4
JERMAIN DEFOE: Arguably the only player to emerge with any credit, opened his account and could have had a couple more. 7
Fletcher (for Cattermole, 30): Got a goal and at least managed to hold the ball up. 5
Matthews (for Jones, 54): Didn't look much more defensively solid than Jones. 3
Schmeichel 6, De Laeet 6, Huth 6, Morgan 6, Schlupp 7, King 6, Drinkwater 7, Mahrez 9, Albrighton 8, Okazaki 7, Vardy 9. Subs: Benalouane (for De Laet, 75) 6, Fuchs (for Mahrez 77), 6, Kante (for Vardy 82), 6.


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Should You Be Drinking Alkaline Water?
Alkaline, or ionized, water has become a trendy item in the health food world. The companies selling these products declare the need to alkalize our acidic bodies to prevent internal damage to prevent disease and achieve optimal health.
After a quick Google search of alkaline water products, I was appalled at the claims being hurled at consumers, which are uninformed at best and predatory at worst. Healthy glowing skin! Increased metabolism and energy! Slow the aging process! Optimal hydration! Prevent bone loss and cancer! Antioxidant power!
From pricey bottled waters to ionizing machines costing hundreds of dollars, these companies have everything to gain by convincing you that alkaline water is crucial for health and wellness. Unfortunately, these claims are a lot of noise with no science to back them up. Further, a basic knowledge of human anatomy and physiology debunks some of them without even digging for scientific research and here's why.
When we are talking about acidity and alkalinity we are referring to the pH. The pH is the measure of the concentration of hydrogen ions in a solution. The scale runs from 1 to 14, with 7 being neutral. The lower the pH, the more acidic the environment and the higher the concentration of free hydrogen ions. The higher the pH, the more alkaline/basic the solution and the lower the concentration of free hydrogen ions.
Balancing pH within the body is a perpetual act of managing gains and losses of hydrogen ions that we acquire as a result of our body's normal metabolic processes and at our digestive tract from the foods we eat.
If there is one thing these companies have right, it is that pH is important. In humans, a blood pH that is too low, or acidic, can have life altering consequences for the body by changing the shape of proteins, damaging cell membranes and altering enzyme activity among other things. But, a blood pH that is too high, or alkaline, can have just as detrimental effects- it just clinically isn't as common.
What they don't tell you, is that a healthy body already has several mechanisms in place that keep your blood pH tightly regulated, between 7.35 and 7.45 (slightly alkaline). In fact, if it ventures too far beyond these parameters you will not be far from death if you aren't dead already.
While foods can be alkaline-producing (fruits, nuts, vegetables, legumes) or acid- producing (animal products, caffeine, alcohol, refined sugars), the foods we eat and the fluids we drink have zero effect on body pH.
HOW DO OUR BODIES REGULATE pH?
As mentioned, the human body is constantly producing acids as a result of normal metabolic processes, and without compensatory mechanisms could not survive. Homeostasis of blood pH is maintained by several buffering systems and mechanisms peformed by the kidneys and lungs. For the purposes of this post, I will be referring to how our body regulates acidity in a healthy human body.
ONE: There are three main buffering systems utilized by the body to maintain pH. A buffer is a substance that reacts with a hydrogen ion and by this act helps to stabilize pH.
TWO: Kidneys synthesize their own buffers that react with free hydrogen ions. These compounds are then secreted into urine for excretion. So, acid-producing foods may raise the acid content of your urine, but will not change the acidity of your body.
THREE: Healthy lungs do their part to eliminate acids by expelling carbon dioxide when we exhale.
The best part? Your body does this for free!
Another thing the ionized water companies fail to mention, is one particular area of the body where a highly acidic environment is crucial- your stomach. Hydrochloric acid (HCl), secreted by the stomach's parietal cells, creates a highly acidic environment at a pH of 1-3. This acidity enables the activation of the enzyme pepsin, which assists in breakdown of proteins, releasing amino acids, and bound vitamins and minerals so that your small intestine may absorb them.
In addition, HCl in the stomach is your body's first line of defense against pathogens lurking in foods you consume. Wondering why that low pH doesn't destroy your stomach? Another type of cell in your stomach, the goblet cell, produces a mucus that lines your stomach to protect it.
Okay, so when food leaves the stomach, that's when we need alkaline water to neutralize the stomach acid, right? Nope! As the acidic contents of your stomach enter the duodenum (the first part of the small intestine), they are hit with a heavy dose of sodium bicarbonate (an alkaline substance), courtesy of your pancreas. The bicarbonate neutralizes the acidic contents, so the mass may travel through the remainder of the GI tract without causing tissue damage.
Seeing a trend here? Your body is a fantastic machine that is designed and well-equipped to manage your pH. If your kidneys or lungs are not functioning to achieve this, you are not going to want alkaline water- you'll want to go directly to the ER.
The pH of human blood is tightly regulated within a narrow range. Acids produced by normal metabolic processes and the foods we eat are offset by regulatory mechanisms within our body. At this time, there is no science to support the grandiose claims made for alkaline water.
The RD says, don't expect to have an unhealthy diet and count on so-called "alkaline" water to keep you healthy. Instead of purchasing expensive ionizing machines and bottled water, spend your money on fresh, whole foods like fruits and vegetables- things that ARE proven to support health. And....plain and simple, just drink more water.
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Following its line of special Minecraft controllers, Microsoft has started taking pre-orders on a special, limited-edition Xbox One controller based on Rare's upcoming multiplayer pirate game, Sea of Thieves. The controller is pretty slick-looking, with a slightly translucent, purple base, etched barnacles, a single, gold trigger button and a glowing (literally glow-in-the-dark), green skull right under the Home button. There's even a compass drawn around the main analog stick.
The Sea of Thieves controller will release on February 6, 2018. It's $74.99, and it comes with a few bonus goodies. The controller comes with a 14-day Xbox Live Gold trial, along with a separate, 14-day Xbox Game Pass trial. It also comes with an exclusive DLC set for Sea of Thieves: the Ferryman Clothing set. Buy this thing new, and everyone online will be able to tell if you choose to show off.
Sea of Thieves is certainly getting a merchandising push, as a comic book series is also coming within the next few months.
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I would not consider my thumb to be particularly green, but I most definitely have a way with violets. My mother recently transferred custody of two that had been given to her as gifts, only to grow sad and sickly over time. She knew that their only hope was to come live with me.
As much as I was tempted to cut off the shriveling, mildewed outer leaves, I trusted my intuition and let them be. Sometimes a hard prune can stimulate healing but other times it can serve as the crushing blow. I sensed that gentleness was called for here. They needed tender tending and for me, for the most part, to leave well enough alone.
Clearly, there had been some enthusiastic watering going on in their past. Violets like to be moist, but a steady diet of sopping-wet and they will surely drown. I find that they actually prefer to lean toward the dry side. Once their dirt has dried out completely, I sit them in a bowl of room temperature distilled water to soak up from the holes at the bottom of their pot. This big drink happens every 10 days or so, depending on the time of year. With our furnace at full blast these days, it's high dry season in my house, so I tend to water more like once per week.
I am already being rewarded with new growth. They are giving birth to leaves that are sturdy, unmarked, and robust in color. In a few more weeks, I will add a wee pinch of epsom salts at the root base to stimulate flower production ... but they may very well surprise me and produce buds on their own.
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A Hypothetical Choice, what would you do?
so here it is.
you're offered a straight choice between being the following
a well known,successful but terrible Band. everyone derides you on drowned in sound as being the worst music ever, but its a good living and you get to play all over the world and meet your heroes.
an unknown but totally brilliant band writing the greatest music of all time, you'll never get any praise or recognition though apart from the Odd JAG in Drowned in Sound and a web blogger with 3 followers saying your his favorite band ever.
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Generally, even the pickiest eater will like green beans. They are a safe side dish when you are trying to please everyone. This version of green beans is super simple and looks fancy enough to serve at a formal dinner party or for a weeknight dinner.
I have to give credit where credit is due. I did not come up with this recipe on my own. I was given this idea by a friend….. Jason Becker. My husband Lee and I met Jason and his lovely wife Stasha while we lived in England. Jason is the chef in the Becker household and according to Stasha, I understand that he is quite the connoisseur of food and enjoys cooking for his family. (My husband doesn't feel that way.) 🙂
By the way…. Stasha has an amazing blog Northwest Mommy where she post beautiful photos that she takes of their son Julian and the two family dogs, Max and Bruce, all with the beautiful Pacific Northwest Landscape as a backdrop.
Jason, Stasha, Lee and myself were at a Thanksgiving gathering where everyone brought a dish to serve with the turkey and dressing. As a rule, people usually bring side dishes such as, heavy-fat green bean casseroles, mac and cheese or sugar-filled congealed salads. Jason however, brought to the Thanksgiving meal these wonderfully healthy and flavorful green beans. I was pleasantly surprised. I fell in love with these green beans and I have been serving them in our home since that time.
This side dish is unbelievably quick. Olive oil, garlic, green beans, chopped tomatoes, salt and pepper makes for a delicious combination of flavors and very simple. Even if you don't consider yourself good in the kitchen….. you can handle this. Serve with a grass fed steak, grilled chicken or salmon or on top of quinoa pasta with a smidge of high quality grated parmesan cheese.
Give these green beans a try the next time you need a quick and simple side dish. Happy Saturday!
|Italian Style Green Beans
- 1-2 Tbsp. of organic extra virgin olive oil
- 3-4 cloves of garlic, crushed
- 1-2 Tbsp. of water
- Organic green beans, enough to fill a sauté pan, trimmed (I like to use French green beans, Haricot Verts)
- 1½ cups of chopped tomatoes (I use Pomi brand)
- Real Salt or sea salt and cracked black pepper to taste
- Heat oil in a sauté pan over medium heat.
- Add crushed garlic and brown slightly, stirring and making sure to not burn the garlic.
- Place green beans in the sauté pan and toss to coat with oil and garlic.
- Reduce heat to medium-low and add water to pan.
- Cover pan lightly with foil and allow beans to steam a bit. Checking often and stirring. Allow to cook for approximately 5-8 minutes until tender crisp.
- Pour in tomatoes and heat through, approximately 1-2 minutes.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
2007 calendar
Industrial wasteland
The downfall of western society
These images were created specially for the 2007 calendar. As you can see by the mood of the pictures and their titles, they are a comment on the current turmoil in the world. Both of them contain elements of paintings made by my mother. November 2006
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- Chew Toy said...
You have an untamed sense of saturation. It really pulls a sureal quality into your work, and as for myself, I LOVE it. It's candy for the eyes, even when the message is bittersweet.
- Luciano75 said...
Hmmm saturation schmaturation! Yes I tend to go all out on it hehe... maybe one day there will be a 'subtle' period. Right now I'm more in an extreme period. I want to push the boundaries of layers, of contrast, of density.


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IndiaUncut reports a comment worthy of a vicious wtf!!
"Through this arduous struggle and till his last breath, Comrade Shibdas Ghosh resolutely fought against all shades of bourgeois, petty-bourgeois social democratic and modern revisionist ideology while he carried on at the same time a tireless inner-party struggle for elevation of the proletarian ethical, moral and cultural standard of the cadres and leaders as against the vile influence of vulgar bourgeois individualism." [Source]
I am not sure what all that verbose embellishment means but I do know crap when I see it and this is a prime example of a putrid pile of feces. Amidst all the blah blah, the sentence ends with something like Comrade X fought against individualism and that too bourgeois individualism (?). Being an ardent fan of individualism, I find this claim repulsive and fit for ridicule.
Follow the "source" link and you are presented with more commie crap - "The SUCI vows to uphold the banner of socialist revolution and proletarian internationalism with every drop of blood of its leaders and cadres.". Adorning such sentiments are the photos of its stalwarts - Lenin, Stalin and chairman Mao. After I saw these photos, I couldn't read anymore as my tolerance limit had been breached.
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My 84 year old "Ain't" Jane still plops down on the floor cross-legged to look at pictures. My 91 year Uncle Bill is by far the preppiest fisherman around. Not was, IS. His next big trip is in November. They are so kind and so generous not only to their family, but to everyone. They eat breakfast at Hardee's just about every morning and I've had the privilege of going with them a few times. It goes a little something like this...
One slice of pepperjack cheese is wrapped up in a napkin before leaving the house. Upon arrival, a chorus of "Miss Jane's here!" rings behind the counter. They all know her and love her. She has received all kinds of trinkets from various employees' vacations. She knows their family histories and life stories. It's a family trait. My mom has it and I suppose I do as well. The order is placed - a three minute ham biscuit with the insides scooped out for her and a ham biscuit plus the aforementioned pepperjack for him and two coffees. Uncle Bill preps the coffee while Aunt Jane gets the food. By the time Uncle Bill is finished prepping his biscuit, Aunt Jane has finished eating and caught up on all the "news." What would be a 15 minute breakfast for most is an hour and a half ritual of fellowship for them. I wish I could go every day.
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Use adults in a sentence
- It is only written for adults. [5]
- These young birds were not albinos, as shewn by the colour of their beaks and legs, which nearly resembled the same parts in the adults. [1]
- The mortality of the adults is also great. [1]
- The young also of these three species in their immature plumage closely resemble the adults in their winter dress. [1]
- But the adults of the congregation appeared to be perfectly satisfied with it; at least they sat bolt upright and nodded assent continually. [4]
- Or the young may have an intermediate character; or again they may differ greatly from the adults in both their seasonal plumages. [1]
- When the adults have a distinct summer and winter plumage, and the young differ from both, the case is more difficult to understand. [1]
- But if we could look still further back to the still earlier progenitors of these two species, we should probably see the adults dark-coloured. [1]
- It will only be read by adults. [5]
- The young of Ardea rufescens and A. caerulea of the United States are likewise white, the adults being coloured in accordance with their specific names. [1]
- This is not an extravagant estimate, as very nearly one third of the deaths of adults in Boston last year were from phthisis. [3]
This page helps answer: how do I use the word adults in a sentence? How do you use adults in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word adults? It may also be related to worksheet, tuition high school, grades, continuing education, and course.
Example sentences with the word adults, a sentence example for adults, and adults in sample sentence.


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Capstera's process mapping software is 100% online with an easy to use Canvas with feature-rich functionality, and a built-in approach to associate the process maps with capabilities and other entities.
What if you have already created your process models and are using another process map repository? No issues. While Capstera offers good drawing features, it is NOT a full-fledged business process management software platform. Hence, Capstera completely understands your desire to keep using the BPM platform. However, you can still link processes by way of a) Pasting an image of the process for easy reference and then providing a URL for the source process map and b) Custom integration to the business process tool your firm is using.
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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2012, Article ID 143914, 16 pages
Multiple Solutions for a Fractional Difference Boundary Value Problem via Variational Approach
1School of Economics and International Trade, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, China
2Department of Mathematics, Yanbian University, Yanji 133002, China
Received 28 April 2012; Revised 5 November 2012; Accepted 8 November 2012
Academic Editor: Lishan Liu
Copyright © 2012 Zuoshi Xie et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to Cite this Article
Zuoshi Xie, Yuanfeng Jin, and Chengmin Hou, "Multiple Solutions for a Fractional Difference Boundary Value Problem via Variational Approach," Abstract and Applied Analysis, vol. 2012, Article ID 143914, 16 pages, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/143914.


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Chip Nielsen is the senior political law partner in campaign finance, pay-to-play, initiative, lobbying, conflict of interest and non-profit laws and a member of the firm's Management Committee. He also plays a very important role as one of the firm's top government law strategists.
He has been on the Faculty for 38 years and a Co-Chair for 35 years of this PLI seminar.
His Chambers USA ranking is top tier in political law nationwide
Professional Experience
Mr. Nielsen has been actively involved in California state politics and government for over four and one half decades, having been a campaign manager and a political law advisor to numerous politicians and government leaders as well as having served in senior government positions himself, such as Chief Administrative Officer for the California Assembly, Assistant Deputy State Controller and Chief of Staff to the Lieutenant Governor.
Publications and Boards
He is widely published in the area of political law and has been or is a member of the Board of Directors of the California Journal, the Bay Area Council, the North Bay Leadership Council, the American Bar Association Committee on Election Law, the University of California at Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies National Advisory Board, the American Association of Political Consultants, and the Citizens Research Foundation. He was on the President's Panel on Federal Judges, Central District of California, in the 2000s.
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Coro Fellow, Los Angeles
Yale University, cum laude
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Carnegie Hall Concert Link
LUZ DE LUNA, the benefit piano-dance recital will take place at Carnegie Hall in New York City on November 3. 2014. The event's proceeds and sponsorships are Crescendo con la Musica Foundation's (CMF) main fundraising endeavor of the fiscal year. The monies raised will fund and support the Foundation's efforts to
provide musical education to under served children in Guadalajara, Mexico, as well as future projects across Latin America.
LUZ DE LUNA will be the first benefit concert aimed at expanding CMF's fundraising and public relations activities. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, who has been a friend of Crescendo con la Musica, is underwriting this concert gala.
Jorge Viladoms Weber has shared the concert stage with Crescendo con la Musica wherever he preforms. Jorge's concerts throughout Europe and North America has allowed him to spread the vision of the Foundation. Jorge has used the press coverage that has followed him and his sold-out recitals to highlight the dire need for universal musical education and the very personal way his Foundation has championed musical outreach to the children most in need. His passion did not go unnoticed.
Fellow artists and friends listened to his appeal and vowed their allegiance to help Jorge and Crescendo con la Musica Foundation.
Out of this pledge from the Foundations new friends, LUZ DE LUNA, a collaborative piano-dance concert was born. We are honored to announce that the Paris Opera Ballet's Hervé Moreau will make a world premier of a set of dances that has been choreographed by Benjamin Millepied for the occasion.
The main goal of Crescendo con la Musica Fundraising Piano Dance Concert and Gala Dinner is to gather influential New Yorkers, Latin Americans, and Philanthropist of who identified with the Foundation's vision in helping less fortunate children in Mexico to have access to Musical Education, by raising funds.
Simultaneously it will help to spread the work the foundation does in Guadalajara, Mexico, and future projects across Latin America through media distribution, press coverage, and interviews across the main American, Latin American, Mexican and European media outlets.


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The Birth of Blog
A writer, a poet and all around book lover. I write for the same reason that I read, because it fills my life with joy and meaning. Books and a love of words has given me a career and once a trip abroad.
A dear friend suggested that I turn my love of books into this blog. So, here we are. This is a place for me to share my love of books as well as my writing.
Reading can be a wonderful journey; that may sound trite, but it is true. Reading, even, the novels I like to call brain candy has taught me a lot about myself.
Take the time some day and just look at the books you tend to pick up. I realized that over the last decade my book selections have been filled with incredibly strong women who do the right thing even if it isn't the easy thing; that particular insight made me sit back and think for a long time.
Mini Bio
Born in Hershey, PA, I have always been a lover of books and writing. I was rasied outside of our nation's capital, Washington, D.C.. I have been writing since I was in elementary school when I was a Terracenter Tiger. Now as a proud graduate of Virginia Tech, I live and work in the Orlando, Florida area with my three fuzzy sons, Jack, Nu Mu and Luke, and a turtle named Hrothgar. (Grendal the fish was eaten by him a month ago)
I work full time as an English teacher and part time at waterpark; writing at night or when no one is looking.


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Try, learn, iterate, adapt
By Guest Author
Lant Pritchett's alternative road to development effectiveness
by Gastón Gertner*
Is my work at IDB so far from this road?
A few weeks ago, I sat at an Impact Evaluation Seminar organized by the Office of Evaluation & Oversight at the Inter-American Development Bank. Lant Pritchett delivered a provocative presentation: a sassy cocktail mix equally balanced in wit, irony and insights about development effectiveness. From the outset he seized everyone's attention in the room with a simple question: is impact evaluation just a fad or a useful tool for development? His skepticism on the use of randomized controlled trials as a tool for development effectiveness draws on an array of different arguments, some new, others from ideas I have already heard in the past here.
Lant claims there are four problems with RCTs in how they lead to development effectiveness:
In any case, and whatever your opinions are on these critiques, Lant Lant did not stop there. As promised, he continued his presentation looking forward, introducing an approach that shows how organizations that aim for development effectiveness should look like. His Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) model puts the identification of problems and the quest for solutions at the center of development effectiveness.
And as he is going through the slides I'm wondering: "Wait, isn't this exactly what we are doing at the IDB?"
Let's break down the PDIA model:
1. Local Solutions for Local Problems
– me at IDB: …I'm involved in a study on how to increase households' take-up rate in connecting their bathrooms to the public sewage network in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. We plan to help the Government in Bolivia in testing "possible solutions" without claiming we know the answer.
2. Pushing Problem Driven Positive Deviance
– me at IDB: …(in the same sanitation project evaluation mentioned before), we are taking step by step interventions – a promotion campaign, use of incentives – that are assessed progressively, one at a time, to see how these mechanisms operate in making households connect to the sewage.
3. Try, Learn, Iterate, Adapt
– me at IDB: …I'm part of an evaluation for a 2nd phase of a community based nutrition program in El Alto, Bolivia in which continuous monitoring of the intervention will inform program delivery performance on the ground, making adaptation possible.
4. Scale Learning through Diffusion
– me at IDB:…for the evaluations I've been involved in, we dedicate time to build partnerships, disseminate our results in seminars, learn from what works and track for innovative policy designs at low scale to test them, while bringing in top head decision makers.
I remember when the panel ended, I left the room puzzled, filled with questions while craving for immediate answers. Writing this blog has been a useful introspective exercise to look for some of those answers.
Finally, I'm finding out my work here is already venturing into Lant Pritchett's roads to development effectiveness.
* Gastón Gertner is an economist at the Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness at the IADB
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GAYLORD — Gaylord resident Randy Lingenfelter is Hospice of Michigan's April Volunteer of the Month in Gaylord.
An active volunteer since 2005, Lingenfelter visits patients in their homes, relieves caregivers when they need a break, and has even helped out by mowing lawns and shoveling driveways.
He recalls a patient whose dying wish was to go fishing one last time. Lingenfelter accompanied the patient with necessary gear and headed to the water.
"Randy is always stepping in and doing whatever he can to help out," said Shannon Riling, volunteer services manager for Gaylord's Hospice of Michigan. "Everything Randy does is a blessing to both the patient and their family. He is a true asset to Hospice of Michigan and to the Gaylord community. Volunteers like Randy are absolutely vital in fulfilling Hospice of Michigan's mission to provide quality care for patients and families facing end of life."


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A chiropractor in Steinbach says the increasing use of cell phones, tablets and other screens has led to a condition called tech neck, or technology neck. Dr. Lori Ann Petrilli says many people are developing very poor posture as they slouch forward to look at their devices.
"It's ruining our posture. The head weighs about 15 pounds. For every inch that you hold it forward from your centre of gravity, it weighs ten more pounds. A lot of these kids that we see, I walk into the room and they're sitting there and their head is tilted down five or six inches, so they're walking around with a 55 pound head. So we're using up all our energy and wondering why we're tired and why our upper back is so sore. Well it's from carrying around a 55 pound head."
Dr. Petrilli says to counter the effects of tech neck, she recommends the 20-20-20 rule; every 20 minutes, take a 20 second break and look at a point 20 feet in front of you so you are forced to raise your chin. She notes back and neck problems related to cell phone use have led to a big surge in business for chiropractors.
She also has some advice for people who are sitting for an extended period.
"The best idea is to sit in something that you are supported in and, if you're on the couch, not to put your feet up. Sit on your sit bones and sit up straight. And if you're maintaining your lower back curve, the rest of you can't actually slouch."


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Namibia Day 6 Desert elephants
Off north east to Uig and the Brandenberg Desert Camp, where we set up under a tree with the red, granite, Brandenberg mountains as a backdrop. No sooner had we pitched out tents than a tame Meerkat started to follow us around. There were tracks everywhere and some excitement around the news that Elephants were on their way but at 30 kilometers, it seemed unlikely that they would reach our site in time.
Desert elephants in our camp
Great news. The elephants had been closer than we thought and we could hear them at the waterhole snapping branches and trumpeting. Unfortunately, we couldn't see them. We settled down for our campfire dinner when suddenly Marcus jumped back. He was literally a metre away from an elephant that was looking at us all in our camp. We retreated towards the bus and realised that the whole group (17 in all) were heading our way. Within a couple of minutes they were everywhere. Literally surrounding us, eating from the tree above our tents, next to our bus, looking at us, wandering past. Twice Murray herded us onto the bus for our own safety. Once after a bull had turned, shaken his head and stamped his front feet. The bulls were enormous and when they reached up into the trees with their trunks, looked truly gigantic. Eventually they wandered off to feed but still within a few hundred yards of our camp. Murray and Marcus had never been that close to desert elephants and even they described it as the experience of a lifetime. This is as good as it gets. The combination of fear, wonder and excitement was absolutely thrilling. They were as curious as us and both groups stood staring at each other. At one point Marcus said, 'This is not good'. That was the point I got worried.
Meercat capers
When we retired to our tents Gil lay back to discover the meerkat under her sleeping bag, We had to wake it and try to get it out of our tent. Forty-five minutes of coaxing, and several re-entries later Callum finally trapped it in our bag and lifted it out. The others were fearful of it getting into their tents so the entire Jervis family (all six of them, decamped into a single tent. Meanwhile the meercat had dug a burrow under our tent, under my head to be precise. Jackals repeatedly tried to get him out. We discovered the burrow the next morning, along with hundreds of elephant tracks. They in themselves were huge. They have larger than normal tracks as their feet have to cope with desert sands. There are only 600 of these elephants left in a country three times the size of the UK. We felt so lucky that they had chosen that night to visit that spot.


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Mac OS X 10.5 Likely To Run Windows Apps
There is now speculation that the next version of OS X (version 10.5) will be able to run Windows apps natively within OS X. From Gearlog: "In a stunning move, BAPCo, the industry-standard Windows benchmarking consortium, announced that Apple Computer has joined up as a member. BAPCo is responsible for the SYSmark 2004SE and MobileMark benchmark suites we use at PC Magazine Labs for testing PCs. BAPCo also produces the webserver test WEBmark." The article goes on to say: "This is significant because it means that Apple has now committed to Windows-based performance testing, and it will influence industry-standard testing methodologies going forward, possibly including Mac OS X testing."


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The embattled King of America's Brewing companies, Anheuser-Busch, gave a strong 'No' to InBev's generous buyout offer, but that has only led the Belgian brand to throw down the gauntlet and basically respond 'Are you sure you wanna play this game?'
Today InBev responded to the Bud Brand's hasty rejection, with a very 'hostile takeover'-ish attitude.
First off InBev said it was "surprised" that it had to hear about A-B's rejection via THE PRESS, and not from some friendly e-mail exchange, corporate memo, or jovial voice mail (I'm sure A-B is rolling their eyes and saying 'get real' to that claim).
Secondly, they responded to A-B's claim that the deal was "financially inadequate" by proving that their $65/share offer is 18% higher than A-B's previous all-time high from way back in October of 2002.
And lastly, A-B had said they would "cut costs and boost earnings growth in order to win shareholder support to stay independent". InBev shot back with a nonchalant "That plan has significant execution risks."
Do you smell that?! That's a massive burn, my friends.
So there we have it, InBev will not be backing away from this deal anytime soon. They are in it to win it. And despite all the 'fake' claims of Warren Buffett wanting to get involved, and threats from Missouri politicians, InBev keeps taking the hits and coming back for seconds.
Today's Associated Press article gives more light to the steps InBev is taking:
The Belgium-based maker of Stella Artois and Beck's has already set the stage for a hostile takeover battle by saying it would "pursue all available avenues that would allow Anheuser-Busch shareholders a direct vote."Last week, it filed a lawsuit seeking a declaration that shareholders could oust the company's 13 board members without cause.
InBev made no move to raise its offer, saying it gives shareholders an immediate cash premium of 35 percent above the 30-day average share price prior to recent market speculation.
InBev has basically realized the time is now ripe for these major beer consolidation deals to take place, as scary as they sound. But with A-B dominating revenue in the U.S. with 48% of all beer sales, InBev is definitely licking their lips to get a piece of it.
Besides, look at how A-B is implementing these cost-cutting measures to stay independent: they are cutting jobs in St. Louis because they were afraid InBev would take over and cut jobs in St. Louis. Doesn't make much sense, does it?
Personally, we here at WSF think A-B is pretty cool. Remember when their head Brewmaster responded with a personal rebuttal to one of our beer skunking articles? I can't see some Belgian brewer going through that effort.
This should be an interesting summer for news on this deal. Stay tuned for more drunken fireworks!
AP: InBev to keep pursuing Anheuser deal despite rebuff, July 1, 2008


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