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Asking someone if they understand can be unreliable. One reason is that students may give the answer that they think the teacher wants to hear rather than say the through. Another reason is because students may not be able to self-evaluate on the spot the level of their understanding. Rather than ask if they understand, it might be more useful to ask students to complete another task that would allow them to demonstrate their level of understanding.
Of course asking "Do you understand what the homework assignment is?" is different than "Do you understand convergence?" The point here is that if you want know if students understand a mathematical concept, then it is best to ask them to demonstrate it to you rather than just ask if they get it.
Some alternatives:
- "Now that Joe solved problem N, let's see if we can take it another step. Here's a related problem... (write problem on the board)."
- "I would like to know if you understand this concept. Here is a question that I'd like you to work on and answer in the next few minutes..."
- "Can you come up with conjectures that extend the problem just presented? What else might be true (or false)?"
- "We have just started a new section, and there have been a couple of presentations on problems related to definition 25. Here's a question about this definition I'd like you all to answer..."
- "Janis just solved problem 35. Using a similar strategy to Janis, how would you solve this type of problem...?"

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Painting and fine art photography from Canadian artist Roberta Murray, ASA
09 December 2010
M Is For .......
Both images make use of The Wolf texture. Morning In The Mountain has The Wolf with Soft Light at 60% opacity, and also uses Washi Snow with Soft Light at 50% opacity. The instructions for Merry, Merry are below.
Merry Merry How To:
1. Make a new folder in the layers panel
2. Create a duplicate image layer and place it in the folder. Change the blend mode to Multiply & Opacity to 0% (for now).
3. Create another duplicate image layer and change the blend mode to Screen & Opacity to 25%.
4. Create another Levels Adjust Layer. This time change the Output Dark to 20. Then go to the Green Channel and change the Output Dark to 25 and Input Midtone to 1.15 and Input Light to 253. Then go to the Blue Channel and change the Output Dark to 10 and Input Midtone to 1.08.
5. Create a Brightness/Contrast Adjustment layer. Increase Brightness to 30 and Contrast to 20.
6. Create another duplicate of the original image. Drag it to the top layer. Change the blend mode to Overlay and Opacity to 45%
7. Create A Photo Filter Layer - leave it set to Warming Filter (85). Leave the blend mode on Normal but reduce the Opacity to 30%.
8. Create a Solid Color adjustment layer. Fill it with a light turquoise color. Change the blend mode to Screen and Opacity to 10%.
9. Go back to the first duplicate image layer with the Multiply blend mode. Increase the opacity until the image looks good.
10. Drag The Wolf texture on top of all the other layers. Change the blend mode to Soft Light. I left the opacity as is.
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Today is finally the day Before I Wake releases. It is the sixth book in the Soul Screamers series by Rachel Vincent and if you haven't already, you can get your copy at any of these places:
Everybody who has been following my blog, knows how much I loved the Soul Screamers Reading Challenge, and how sad I was when it all ended. Well, Rachel from fiktshun, who hosted the SSRC, stayed true to her word and added an extra month for everybody to write a Before I Wake review or thoughts post.
Needless to say, I have to take to part in it. If you would like to join in as well, simply click on the beautiful button and it will take you to Rachel's post where you can find out everything you need to know.
Honestly, I could stare at this button all day long. Isn't it stunning? I think I'm in love...
I actually finished Before I Wake last night and there is no way I could write a review tonight. I am still trying piece my heart back together, but I am hoping to be able to get my thoughts in order by the end of the week or early next week.
So, there you have it.
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Black Reach set. The mob of slugga boyz, including a nob to lead them, plus the massive warboss are all cleaned, glued and re-posed in some instances. The remaining Nobz and deffkoptas are just snapped together until I can summon up the willpower to tackle them.
Along with the squad of 20 shoota boyz, that gives me a reasonable small force to start gaming with. I just need to do a bit of homework on the rules before the first game later this week.


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We are continuously seeking funding and greatly appreciate new sponsoring initiatives.
Do you want your logo on our website? Or would you like to sponsor a specific training course please contact us.
The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) secures the management of the Distributed European School of Taxonomy.
Furthermore, during the academic year 2012-2013, the RBINS provided grants to 32 participants to help defray expenses associated with course attendance, travel and accommodation.
The Museo di Storia Naturale of Firenze is greatly acknowledged for offering financial support to attend the training course Entomological research in protected areas in 2014
and for the 2015 training.
The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Ferrara and the Municipality of Ferrara are greatly acknowledged for offering financial support to attend the 'Training programme in Entomology (special. Diptera Syrphidae), emphasis on collection management and bioindicator use', edition 2015.
The Abruzzo Lazio and Molise National park and Pettersson Elektronik (Sweden) are greatly acknowledged for sponsoring the course 'Acoustic identification of bats', in June 2014 and 2015.
The World Association of Copepodologists is greatly acknowledged for sponsoring the participation of two trainees in our training programme on Copepoda of 2012.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is greatly acknowledged for sponsoring the international graduate school course 'Basics of Taxonomy', edition 2012, edition 2015 and edition 2016 at the Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences.
Within the framework of the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT), two Expert-in-training programmes (2008-2009 and 2009-2010) and one Modern Taxonomy programme (2010-2011) were organised. During this period, 116 students received financial support to attend their DEST training course.


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With our generous partners and dedicated staff, together we are a beacon of hope in South Sudan.
Marial Bai Team
VALENTINO ACHAK DENG, Chairperson and CO-FOUNDER
Valentino was born in southern Sudan (now South Sudan), in the village of Marial Bai. He fled in the late 1980s during the second Sudanese civil war, when his village was destroyed by murahaleen—the same type of militia that currently terrorize the Darfur region of Sudan. Deng spent nine years in Ethiopian and Kenyan refugee camps, where he worked for the UNHCR as a social advocate and reproductive health educator. In 2001, he resettled to Atlanta, GA. Deng has toured the United States speaking about his life in South Sudan, his experience as a refugee, and his collaboration with author Dave Eggers on What Is the What, the novelized version of Deng's life story. As a leader in the South Sudanese diaspora, Deng advocates for the universal right to education. In 2006, Deng and Eggers established the VAD Foundation to help rebuild South Sudanese communities by increasing educational access. In 2015, he was the Minister of Education for Northern Bahr el Ghazal and oversaw more than 800 state run schools in addition. Now, in addition to running the VAD Foundation's secondary school (Marial Bai Secondary School), Valentino is the Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility for Black Rhino (The Blackstone Group). He lives in Nairobi with his wife and four children.
U.S. Team
Kira Siebert, DIRECTOR of Special Initiatives and Development
Kira connects U.S. donors and support with our team in South Sudan making sure the students and staff have what they need to succeed. Prior to VAD, she worked on community-led programs in conservation, health, and education as the Director of Communications and Development at the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust. She created thriving donor communities and managed fundraising events as Director of External Relations at the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance. She holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Art in political science from the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon. She is thrilled to bring her passion for education and equality to VAD.
Dave Eggers, Board Member, co-founder
Dave is the author of several books, including You Shall Know Our Velocity, winner of the Independent Book Award, and What Is the What, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France's Prix Medici. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in South Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, run by Deng and dedicated to offering quality education opportunities in South Sudan. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces books, an eponymous quarterly journal, and a monthly magazine (The Believer). In 2002, with Nínive Calegari, he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Ann Arbor, Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Boston. In 2004, Eggers taught at the University of California–Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and there, with Dr. Lola Vollen, he co-founded Voice of Witness, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. A native of Chicago, Eggers graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in journalism. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.
Phil Mays, Board Member
Phil has been part of Valentino's life before What is the What or the foundation were even an idea. Phil is a principal of RocaPoint Partners. Phil was formerly the Portfolio Director and Legal Affairs Manager for EverBank Commercial Advisors, a division of EverBank (NYSE: EVER). He led the creation, implementation and management of EverBank's commercial special assets department containing more than $1.3 billion in underperforming CRE backed debt including the management of the FDIC assisted purchase of Bank of Florida in 2010. Phil has 20 years of real estate investment, development and value maximization experience. He received his undergraduate and law degree from the University of Florida and a Leadership in Financial Organizations certification from The Harvard Business School.
Tiffanie DeBartolo, Board Vice President
Tiffanie is the Chief Executive of the record label, Bright Antenna. She wrote and directed the film, Dream for an Insomniac, as well as authored the novels, God-Shaped Hole and How to Kill a Rock Star. DeBartolo has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.
Scott Schumaker, Board Member
Scott is the Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Bright Antenna Records. Schumaker has a B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master's in Journalism from the University of Colorado. Schumaker is a former professional triathlete.
Reece Hirsch, Board Secretary
Reece is a partner in the San Francisco office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius specializing in privacy, security and healthcare law. Hirsch received his J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1990, where he served on the Southern California Law Review. He received his B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University in 1982. In addition to serving on the board of directors for 826 National, Hirsch is a member of the editorial advisory boards of Bloomberg/BNA's Health Law Reporter and Healthcare Informatics. He is the author of three thrillers, The Insider, The Adversary, and Intrusion that draw on his background as a privacy and data security attorney.
Ann Goldblatt, Board President
Ann has been active in the non-profit sector for 30 years. She oversaw capital campaigns and event planning for both Wildwood School and Windward School in Los Angeles. Ann assisted Dorothy Green, the 1st president of the environmental advocacy non-profit Heal The Bay in the organization's early days. She has been a long term mentor/tutor to students through the Virginia Avenue Project after-school program for the Santa Monica public school system. Ann received her B.S. in Secondary Education, English & French, from Ohio State University and attended the Interior Architectural Design program at Santa Monica City College. She is currently an art consultant to several fine artists in Southern California.
Greg Larson, Board Treasurer
Greg first joined the VAD Foundation at its beginning, serving as associate director from 2007 to 2011 and helping oversee the establishment of the Marial Bai Secondary School. He now works at the U.S. Treasury Department as a senior advisor in the international affairs division. He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in literature and from Harvard Kennedy School with a master's in public policy.
Leslie Danoff, Board Member
Leslie, a former television news and public affairs producer, writer and researcher, is a pro bono communications consultant to non-profits. Among her professional highlights: working with Bill Moyers in public television and with Walter Cronkite at CBS News on Election Night. At CBS, Leslie worked on News Specials and documentaries and developed multi-part series for the Morning News. At New York's public television station, WNET, she won an Emmy for a public affairs series devoted to critical New York City issues. The mother of three sons, Leslie is an independent documentary filmmaker, an artist, and a graduate of the first class of women at Yale. She formerly served on the Board of Directors of Rainforest Trust.
Matthew Murray, Advisory Council
Throughout his extensive career, Matthew Murray has worked at the intersection of U.S. foreign policy, international law, commerce, and political economy. He served the Obama Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He helped lead the Department's efforts to apply commercial diplomacy, strengthen the rule of law, and build mutual prosperity with 117 countries in the EMEA region, as well as the European Union and African Union. He developed innovative programs to build good governance and champion entrepreneurship in Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Tunisia, Kenya, and Nigeria. Then, as Senior Advisor on Governance and Rule of Law at the Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance at the U.S. Agency for International Development, he developed strategies and design development assistance programs to counter systemic corruption in critical nations. Mr. Murray has also worked in the private sector, including as Corruption Risk Manager at TNK-BP Management Ltd., then the third largest producer of oil and gas in Russia, leading a corporate task force to establish a new system of compliance with anti-corruption laws and ethics performance throughout the 65,000 person workforce. His work continues in the field of political economy to include writing, teaching, speeches, and testimony on the importance of voluntarily adopting best practices of ethics, corporate governance, and social responsibility.
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Elizabeth Ann Bloom (D.H.M., D.I.Hom.) is the founder and creative force behind Elizabeth Essentials, an essential oil company sold worldwide. Elizabeth has diplomas in homeopathy, naturopathy and holistic medicine and has been a holistic health practitioner for more than 40 years. She founded and managed the Doree South Clinic in Los Angeles and the Well Center in London, both innovative leaders in the field of holistic medicine. A popular speaker, Elizabeth has appeared on Lifestyle Magazine and in Deepak Chopra's video series, Women's Health. She is on the advisory board and is a contributing editor to eMagazine Invisible Illnesses: SOLVED and is on the advisory board of the Well company in New Orleans.
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Jen Herman brings nearly 20 years of digital entertainment, social media, video games and technology experience to her role as founder of Lucky 29 Media. Ms Herman's extensive professional background includes experience in product development, licensing, business development, distribution and marketing at leading entertainment and gaming companies including Viacom/MTV, Electronic Arts, Zynga and a number of Bay Area mobile gaming companies.
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Megan Carroll is from San Diego, CA. Last year, she served as a White House Fellow at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations' Washington, DC office. Prior to this, she led the United Nations Development Program's Democracy and Participation portfolio in South Sudan focused on the constitutional review process and elections. She has also served as Acting Director/Deputy Director of The Carter Center's Democracy and Conflict Resolution Programs in South Sudan and Sudan; Democracy and Governance Advisor to USAID at a critical juncture when the mission transitioned from a U.S. Consulate to Embassy in a newly-independent South Sudan; and an international observer for South Sudan's referendum on independence.
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She is a graduate of the University of WI-Madison with a degree in nutritional science / dietetics, completed her dietetic internship at the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center in Los Angeles and earned a master's degree in public health from the University of CA-Los Angeles (UCLA).
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Prior to joining Wells Fargo in 2012, Asha worked at Standard and Poor's in New York and interned at the NASSCOM Foundation in New Delhi. She graduated with a BA from Emory University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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New Rules in Oregon (Again?!?)
Well it's been a few months, so of course it's time for new rules in Oregon. We have seen significant regulatory changes several times in the last 2 ½ years and October 1, 2016 is yet another day that will live in cannabis regulatory infamy.
This month marks the formal launch of the recreational system, along with the most significant changes to the medical program since the advent of dispensaries in 2014. What follows should help you get up to speed on the changes in Oregon. We'll start with the new rec system. Then, next time, we'll look at the changes wrought by the OHA.
Click here to read the rest of Matt Walstatter's article in Cannabis Business Executive about the launch of Oregon's recreational cannabis system.


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A new show launching at The International Centre in Telford claims to have sold more than half its total floor plan one year out.
The new Fabricator Installer Trade (FIT) Show is focused on fabricators and installers working in the window, door and conservatory industry and will be held from 16 to 18 April 2013. Show co-organiser and company director Paul Godwin pointed out the home improvement window, door and conservatory market was still worth £3.7bn annually, despite the impact of the economy on the industry in recent years.
"Most markets of this size enjoy their own annual showcase. It continues to be a dynamic, vibrant industry that is constantly changing and demanding new ideas and energies," Godwin said.
"The FIT Show is designed to provide information, ideas, inspiration and a powerful forum for fabricators, installers and the trade to come together in a friendly, creative environment that will also be fun."
Show co-founder Matthew Glover said its research indicated potential visitors preferred a Midlands location, leading to its choice of Telford. He highlighted the venue's free parking, Wi-Fi connectivity and motorway connections as key selling points.
According to its market research, 95.2 per cent of people wanted to visit a national window, door and conservatory trade show with a focus on new products and services, networking, establishing new business contacts, meeting existing suppliers and attending seminars and presentations.
The organiser claims the FIT Show is the first national event for the glass and glazing sector for more than three years following the cancellation of Emap's Glassex show.
Godwin and Glover, who have a history in the glazing and glass industries, expect to attract 150 suppliers to the show and have now added an additional 600sqm to the floor plan. Alongside exhibitors, the new event will feature demonstrations, seminars, discussions and debates and will be complemented by a gala dinner.
Telford's International Centre claims to have also witnessed a rise in public exhibitions this year including Tattoo Freeze and the British Sugarcraft Exhibition.
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Did the same thing again as an idea. I took a photo that Jerry White had taken of what had been the Eastern edge of the FB at Can Giuoc. If I got my directions right in my head....problematic I admit, I'd think the big corrugated metal mess hall sat not far West of this line. I just grabbed a collection of photos. Some from Mike Kirby. One of mine. One from Jim Tierney. One from Rick Ackers.
The swamp is no longer. It's just looks mostly like fields now days. Check out the photos in the album if you haven't already.
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A challenge to Alva Noë's account of perception, and Sean D. Kelly's missed opportunities.
Two weeks ago I nearly brought about the tragic deaths of 9 people. We were caught on the ground floor of an unfamiliar building the upper floors of which were filled with what we were told by a fire safety officer was a raging fire belching thick black smoke. It was imperative to get out of the building as quickly and safely as possible and it was my responsibility to lead everyone out of the pitch darkness. Sidling along the walls feeling for doorways and constantly describing my movements whilst asking for a roll call from everyone behind me was stressful to say the least. Eventually in the distance I could make out the tell-tale crack of a doorway and carefully, though perhaps a little overcautiously, I led everyone towards it.
As we emerged into the light we were met by a fireman from Strathclyde Fire Brigade who informed me that I'd made a fundamental error. Despite my methodical manoeuvres and despite the fact that I'd registered and recovered a straggler from the group, I had missed a doorway that might have led us to safety much earlier in our proceedings. In any other situation I'd have been hailed as a hero for saving everyone but this wasn't any ordinary situation, this was a fire safety simulation at Strathclyde Fire Brigade's newly constructed fire safety training centre. In my determination to overcome the obstacles confronting us I'd made an elementary mistake: I'd failed to take sufficient notice of the contours of the walls and in the process I'd missed a door. No doubt the simulation had been arranged in such a way that the doorway would be difficult to distinguish in the darkness and as such it was obviously intended to point out the importance of swift but comprehensive checks of all tactile clues. In my defence I knew - or thought I knew - that there couldn't be a genuinely useful doorway so early in the simulation and this presumption had led to my ultimate failure in the task. The moral? In situations that call for vigilance to subtle clues, leave no stone unturned.
At the beginning of a paper from 2006 entitled "Real Presence" (available here) UC Berkeley Philosopher of perception Alva Noë writes:
"A satisfying account of perception must explain how a silver dollar can look both circular and elliptical… The content of perceptual experience is two dimensional, and this needs explaining."
For Noë, perception (though he only really mentions vision) is a "two step" phenomenon in which we see a silver dollar say, as both circular and elliptical at the same time. Noë cites several theorists who adopt differing opinions on this issue and in the process he makes very little real progress due to his inability or unwillingness to tease out the underlying reasons for his conflicting tendencies to say on the one hand that a tilted coin is elliptical and on the other that it is circular. The vital question that Noë fails to address is how the perception of ellipses (where there are in fact circular objects) might be of use to us as evolved organisms. For him the duality of appearances – the co-existence of what we know and what 'appears' – is simply a matter of viewpoint, a visual fact in which two perceptions happily – or at least "commensurably" - coexist:
"Experience contains within it precisely two aspects, or dimensions, to which we can turn our attention." – Alva Noë
Noë concludes by stating that perception is an encounter with how things "present themselves to a vantage point". For him perceptions are "ways of coming into contact with the world." Well, we might not wish to quarrel over these modest claims but then again they are far from the "satisfying account of perception" - let alone a satisfactory one - that we were led to expect from the introductory paragraph. A satisfactory account of perception must explain everything we would subsume under the title of "appearances", not only the 'look' of tilted silver dollars, and by doing so it will, as a consequence, explain a great deal more than how things present themselves to a vantage point or our coming into contact with the world.
To put it bluntly, as admirably clear and diligent as Noë's method is, he has made exactly the same error as I did in my fire safety training: he has missed a possible route out of the difficulties that he, and thereby we, have found ourselves in, and in the process he leaves us pretty much where we started: in the dark with no real clue of how to make our way out into the light of understanding.
In the same article, Noë cites a 2004 paper by Sean Dorrance Kelly of Harvard University (formerly of Princeton) in which Kelly claims that we are only able to see the similarities between a tilted disk and an elliptical representation if we shift our attention to an "unnatural" attitude; what Kelly calls a "detached attitude", as opposed to the "natural attitude" of ordinary perception. Kelly argues that this is an especially difficult shift to bring about:
"But we humans have somehow learned to adopt this attitude. I'm not sure how this happened or whether there are animals who can do it. I wouldn't be surprised though, if our own capacity to adopt this attitude is as little as 600 or so years old, dating back to the discovery of the laws of perspective. Learning to paint realistically, after all, requires learning to adopt the detached perceptual attitude."
Noë dismisses these speculations by stating that he finds it "impossible to believe" that they are true and in so doing he passes straight by what are admittedly the barely discernable signs of a way out.
And what of Kelly – does he fair any better in navigating the obstacle-ridden shadow-world of appearances? Kelly catches the barest glimpse of the solution but he is already transfixed by a glimmering that he senses in the darkness. After a cursory pause, Kelly's attention is drawn towards what he believes is a more revealing illumination emanating from the work of French Phenomenologist philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and as such he is committed to an account of perception that leads him and us, if we choose to accompany him, headlong into the most stifling and disorientating phenomenological smog.
In a more recent paper Kelly (2009) returns to these issues, once again with Merleau-Ponty in tow, quoting him thus: "To say that a circle seen obliquely is seen as an ellipse is to substitute for our actual perception the schema of what we would have to see if we were cameras." Of all of the sentences comprising Merleau-Ponty's oeuvre it is unlikely that Kelly could have selected a more pertinent one and it is no wonder then, that he omits its companion sentence: "In fact, we see a form which oscillates around the ellipse without being an ellipse." These latter words can only be described as those of someone who barely knows what he is talking about. However, the preceding sentence shows that even Merleau-Ponty has occasional moments of murky inspiration.
So what do the schema of camera vision and the laws of perspective have in common? They are both ways and means of producing a very particular and immensely powerful form of representation, a form of representation that, with the help of technical reproduction, has come to pervade our world. When we find ourselves inclined to say that something 'looks like' something else, that it 'appears' in such and such a way, what we are in fact demonstrating is that we are aware of how one thing might be substituted by another thing; of how it might be represented to others of our species. The content of perceptual experience is by no means two-dimensional, as Alva Noë seems to think. Only the content of two-dimensional things (principally pictorial representations) is two-dimensional and it is a profound error to fail to notice this fact, especially if you're seeking to explain appearances.
I never did find out what was on the other side of that door at Strathclyde Fire Safety Training Centre. It might have been firmly locked for all I know. One thing is certain though, if I'd noticed it, I'd have been duty bound to try to open it and if it yielded to my attempt to open it then I would have been duty bound to make a swift but comprehensive evaluation of its potential to lead us to safety.


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Archaeological Reconnaissance of Paintsville-Louisa Road, Culverts and Stream Channelizations, Lawrence County, Kentucky
Author(s): Kurt H. Fiegel
Year: 1982
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Archaeological Reconnaissance of Paintsville-Louisa Road, Culverts and Stream Channelizations, Lawrence County, Kentucky. Kurt H. Fiegel. 1982 ( tDAR id: 143392)
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A recent decision by China to open up its skies could be a "game changing" move for low-cost carriers, Brian Davis, vice president, Asia-Pacific at Honeywell Aerospace, said on Tuesday.
"At the end of 2013, China's new leadership opened up the skies to embrace and attract low-cost competition to mainland China. This is a significant game-changing move," Davis said on the sidelines of the Singapore Airshow.
(Read more: New Dreamliner fleet 'game changer' for Scoot: CEO)
"As the citizen base starts to move into the middle class, the low-cost carrier market is going to certainly attract a lot of people that have the income to start flying," he added.


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Today(May 22,2014),UP Biodiversity Board celebrated International Biodiversity Day at Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh ,India.The venue was Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University ,Lucknow.The chief guest was Dr. S. W. A. Naqvi,Director, National Institute of Oceanography,Goa,India.The other invitees included Dr. Gurdeep Singh,Vice Chancellor of the law University,Sri B.C. Chaudhury, Sri Deepak Apte, Smt Meetali Kakkar, Dr. Rauf Ali, Dr. A. R. Tirunavukarsu,Dr. Dhruv Sen Singh.Here below is the gist of what I said:
The issues related to ecology , environment and climate change are becoming really urgent , as each day passes.There are a large number of tuberculosis cases reported in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh, due to the contamination and pollution of drinking water supply , caused by the effluents discharged by Thermal Power Plants , Coal mines , Cement plants and a few large industries in that district .National Green Tribunal has passed orders for supply of pure drinking water through tankers , and also installation of Reverse Osmosis Plants at the sources of drinking water .This situation shows the need for taking urgent action on the model of development that we must choose .Any development model must take ecology and environment into account.Otherwise it could be at the cost of health of the citizens.This urgency was also emphasized by Al Gore in The Inconvenient Truth.
While the theme of International Biodiversity Day , 2014 has been declared as Island Biodiversity, and I have no doubt that it is important to conserve biodiversity of islands.But I decided to focus on biodiversity issues in general , with special reference to Uttar Pradesh.I was sure that chief guest and other speakers will cover the theme of Island Biodiversity.There is a need to preserve and coserve the endangered species like Vultures,Dolphins,Turtles , Ghariyals and Lions in U.P.But equally important is the conservation, preservation and governance of biodiversity , in general in every nook and corner of the state.
While the Biodiversity Act of 2002 is over 11 years old , the awareness of its importance is yet to reach in all over one lac villages of Uttar Pradesh.Local Biodiversity Management Committees have to be set up in all the 53000 Gram Sabhas.Also People's biodiversity registers have to be made in each gram Sabha, by biodiversity resource mapping.Thirdly , commercial exploitation of natural resources requires regulation , and also there is a need for equitable distribution of profits.
For good biodiversity governance, we must involve:
1.Government departments and agencies.
2.local communities.
3.local self governance institutions and local bodies like municipal corporations and district Panchayats, etc.
4.Government supported institutions such as Joint forest management committees and Eco development councils.
5.Companies and businesses.
We also need to manage our Protected areas better.After intellectual , legal and technical discussions , we need to take biodiversiy issues to the masses.
With the partnership of Centre of Environment Education(CEE) and state agencies like UP Pollution Control Board ,UPO Biodiversity Board and Lucknow Zoo , we have decided to take three initiatives:
1.Running of a Biodiversity Bus to schools.
2.Environment youth leadership awards.
3.Setting up of a state of the art Interpretation Centre at Lucknow Zoo.


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THE amazing Embrace are the latest act to thrill music fans with a stunning show at King Tut's in Glasgow - just for the Sunday Mail Centenary Fund
We caught up with delighted frontman Danny McNamara backstage after the show and he was obviously thrilled to be back in Tut's with us.
Embrace jumped at the chance to play the legendary venue as part of our 7Nights Sessions series of shows, bringing massive bands back to the tiny room that has made countless careers.
It was their first official show in almost eight years and the band clearly loved every minute - and of course raised much-needed funds for our charity
Don't miss 7Nights magazine this weekend with the Sunday Mail for the full review and look out for our next 7Nights Session being announced very soon.


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Fatty liver disease is characterized by the buildup of fat in the liver; it can be classified as alcoholic liver disease, or ALD, or nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, as stated by WebMD. Both conditions can lead to serious complications.
Around 15 million people in the United States overuse or abuse alcohol, as claimed by WebMD. Around 90 to even 100 percent of those people develop fatty liver disease. Fatty liver can occur in drinkers after just a short period of drinking heavily. Heredity can influence the level of liver enzymes that are needed to breakdown alcohol, and ALD can also be influenced by other factors, including diet, obesity, iron overload in the body and the presence of Hepatitis C.
The most common cause of chronic liver disease in the U.S. is NAFLD. Some instances of NAFLD are simply fatty livers that are abnormal but not necessarily serious if the condition doesn't lead to damage or inflammation. Other times, nonalcoholic steatohepatisis can develop, leading to permanent liver damage over time. This condition causes an enlargement of the liver and the development of scar tissue, which is known as cirrhosis. This can lead to liver cancer, liver failure and even death.


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Jogging Routes Nearby Grand Canal Hotel
Do you like to keep up your fitness regime while on holiday or away with work? We are located in such a picturesque area with lots or great places nearby to go for a run or even just for an evening stroll to unwind or see the surrounding areas so we've put together some routes for you to use. You can do them in full if you like to run long distance, do them in sections, or use them as a guide and pick your own route.
Herbert Park
Herbert Park is just up the way from the hotel and it is beautiful. It is perfect to go for a nice walk or a jog. The length of the walking/jogging circuit around Herbert Park is 1,570metres (approx.).
|(Image from http://www.dublincity.ie/)
If you are looking for a longer route, the surrounding areas are also suitable and there are some really lovely residential areas in this part of Ballsbridge which you can take in. The route below around Herbert Park is around 10Km
View of the gorgeous Herbert Park:
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Sandymount is just a short distance from the hotel and even has a beach. Sandymount strand is a perfect spot to incorporate into your route. Take in the fresh air and the contrast from the usual hustle and bustle of the city.
|Sandymount Stand (Image from Google Images)
The route below is a mix of the Ballsbridge area and Sandymount and is is just over 10Km.
For a shorter distance run/walk with a view you can take the following route(s) to South Bull Wall in Ringsend.
(Times mentioned on the map are one way)
|South Bull Wall (Image from Google Images)
No matter which direction you turn when you step out from the hotel, there are so many beautiful areas around Grand Canal Hotel. If you're more of a free spirit when it comes to your running/walks and you prefer to just see where the wind takes you rather than following a route, you can't go too wrong around here. There are so many lovely sites to take in including Grand Canal Dock and Merrion Square as well as some areas seen on the maps above.
If the impending colder weather turns you off, don't forget all our guests can enjoy complimentary use of the gym during their stay so there is plenty of ways to keep up your healthy lifestyle.......or kick start it while away from home.
Looking for more information on the local areas or for a map with routes just ask at reception and they will be more than happy to help.
The Grand Canal Hotel enjoys a fabulous location in the picturesque and leafy areas of Ballsbridge. With many lovely walks around the area including the banks of the Grand Canal and Herbert Park, the hotel is also within walking distance of the Aviva Stadium, the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, The RDS, The 3Arena and the The Convention Centre. And perhaps most importantly, the hotel is only a delightful stroll away from the shopping Mecca and historical haven that is Dublin city centre itself.
Modern rooms at the contemporary style Grand Canal feature free high-speed Wi-Fi and interactive smart TVs. Executive rooms & suites are also available. Guests can enjoy casual food and drink in the lively Gasworks Bar or opt for more formal dining in the Epic Restaurant. The Grand Canal Hotel has a fully equipped gym and offers guests free private parking in its 2-story car park.


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Gamification has been tossed around a lot in the marketing world lately and has become very popular for B2C. However, it's also become a little muddled by overuse. Think of it as the writing term "personification" except instead of overlaying personal attributes to non-human characters it's when you use game attributes to describe non game type activities.
We've all been to sites where people earn badges right? Gamehouse.com has a great gamification setup. Now of course they sell games so it makes sense for them that their audience would be into game-like marketing. Downloading products, visiting a site and making purchases is not competitive…unless you decide to make it so through gamification. Are you following me?
I just watched a stellar webinar with Jeremiah Owyang and the people of PowerReviews.com. It was about how to get sales from social. And like anything Jeremiah or anybody from Altimeter group touches, it was amazing. Since PowerReviews.com deals with mostly B2C sites (they do more than help you set up site reviews but as you can imagine that is a lot of their business) the content of this webinar was mostly dealing with B2C concerns.
I think there are some very important hallmarks to sites that can leverage gamification successfully.
1) Is your audience naturally competitive or does your product provide a platform for authority building.
Take SEOmoz, the SEO resource program. They have successfully built a large community of SEO interested individuals that are often selling SEO services themselves. This means that like minded people are going to this site to find answers to questions on a regular basis. More often than not, these questions lead to powerful networking, and possible sales.
I know that I personally really enjoy the gamification at SEOmoz because I can spot right away how active a person is by their amount of Mozpoints. I also adore SEOmoz because it is such a powerful link and niche community that I get absolutely lovely traffic from over there. And of course if you are a complete newbie to SEO you can spot authorities right away which can be incredibly helpful and often hard to do among all the "SEO gurus" out there toting their wares.
2) Do you have a strong enough community that this will be viewed as a good thing to brand new site visitors?
Ian Lurie did a great post (as always) last week, about the LifeCycle of Internet Marketing. In it he describes the cyclical process of building your community, expanding and building an even stronger community on top of it. It would be unwise (to put it nicely) to launch a gamification out of the gate with little to no traffic. Especially when you have a sitewide ranking system, it will show just how little traffic you have. And like anything else, you don't want to emphasize the negative. Maybe a system where people earn points is great – but don't assign badges or allow people to see "top members" until the stats are more impressive.
We've all been to forums that have zero discussions or 30 members. It's no fun. And it makes the whole site look bad.
3) Do you have something of value to give away with the activity you want to see the most?
The SEOmoz example of course is that you gain authority in the community. They also provide a free month's worth of their Pro subscription if you do so much participating in a single month. Obviously their goal is to see more participation in their community.
Another example could be an ecommerce site that gives points to social sharing or reviews. Maybe you really want to beef up your Facebook traction. So you give double points over Tweets for sharing on Facebook. Just make sure that you are providing a decent gift certificate or something else so that the inconvenience is outweighed by the reward.
4) You have the technical staff to keep spammers at bay.
There's no two ways about it. If you are going to give away anything of monetary value online, spammers are going to find a way to win it cheaper and quicker than anybody else.
If you don't have the technical backing to protect yourself from fraud either hire someone to create the system and do the ongoing maintenance or forget it. It's not worth losing your brand image over a marketing tactic.
Gamification is a solid technique, but only for the right companies. It's the kind of thing that could get really bad, really fast. Remember that just like anything else in marketing, have a solid concept of your entire plan before you start rolling it out. Otherwise you will be up a creek without any sales.


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Being around the 'wrong' kind of people complicates your energy and your life.
So it seems obvious to be around positive people. I hear you saying "well of course!" Unfortunately actually pulling it off is sometimes a challenge.
Deep down we are social beings, we crave connection.
However, that doesn't mean spending your time with any Joe-shmoe who's available or with people you just happen to find yourself with because you met 15 years ago.
If your circle of friends consists of "negative" people, then I assure you your life will sooner or later become extremely complicated, full of negativity and problems. And you spending time in those relationships means more recovery work for you afterward.
What qualifies as a 'negative person'? Well that's up to you and determined by how you feel when you're around them, how you feel after being with them.
If you're drained, stressed, anxious or tense – they may not be 'your kind'. If your energy is just trashed and you have to disconnect from everything to recover – I'd say that's a pretty good sign.
On the other hand, if your friends have an uplifting spirit and a positive mindset you're in the right friend zone.
People you spend time with should help you to grow into the best version of yourself and do their best to bring more happiness into your life.
Therefore, you should make sure to choose your friends carefully. Why people spend their precious time and energy trying to convince someone of their goals, dreams or self-worth is beyond me.
You are not 'required' to stay friends forever based on the length of time you've known them, what they once did for you when you needed it or because they're really going through a rough patch right now. Hell, you're not even required to stay connected because they are your parent.
This is your life. Your experience. You owe no one.
If someone does not value you, support you or encourage you – it's best to walk away or keep your interaction minimal.
Buddha said to have uttered the following words:
"If you cannot find a good companion to travel with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress."
True that.
I've walked alone many times. But never for very long.
The Universe seemed to know just when to fill that space with someone I really needed, enjoyed and appreciated. People who helped me become the best version of myself.
The same goes for you.
Looking for more positive people who really get you? Join us at The Happy Place for Highly Sensitive People. I know you'll be surrounded by the most positive people on the planet. Sensitives have a way of shining their light to make it a better day.
Is there someone in your life that brings you down? Or worse, do they knock you down? Maybe it's time to revisit the future of that relationship.
Who lifts you up? Who positively challenges you? Who helps you become the best version of you? Those are the keepers.


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Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
When: 8 p.m. Nov. 15
Where: Presented by the La Jolla Music Society at Copley Symphony Hall
Admission: $27-$97
Phone: (858) 459-3728
All Esa-Pekka Salonen wanted was for someone to fix the leaks in his house caused by an uncharacteristically wet Southern California winter. ■ So he called a roofer. ■ "He came to see the worst problem spots and said, 'It's actually not the roof that leaks, it's the deck,' " recalled the former music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. " 'That's why you get water in your garage. You have to call the deck man.' " ■ He called the deck man. ■ "At this point, the story gets surreal because here comes the deck man and he says, 'It's not the deck either, it's the threshold between the deck and the house.' I said, 'Now you are going to tell me to call the threshold man?' He said, 'Yes, that's what I'm telling you.' " ■ He called the threshold man, who fixed the problem. ■ "I thought, this is symptomatic of what we're dealing with in our culture today," said Salonen on the phone from Dortmund, Germany, where he is conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra on tour. "The trend is that people control an ever narrower slice of reality, professionally speaking. People have very, very specific areas of expertise. ■ "And if somebody does two things like I've been trying to do, that's already kind of alarming. So there must be something wrong with that because nobody can do two things." ■ There's nothing wrong with Salonen, even if he is a distinguished composer and conductor. ■ Best known in the U.S. for revitalizing the Los Angeles Philharmonic during his 17-year tenure as music director, he's now principal conductor and artistic adviser of the London-based Philharmonia Orchestra, which the La Jolla Music Society brings to Copley Symphony Hall on Thursday.
He's also artistic director and co-founder of the Stockholm-based Baltic Sea Festival, an endeavor whose goal of promoting unity and environmental awareness among Baltic Sea nations reflects Salonen's core belief that music can be a substantial force for good.
That same impulse is apparent in his compositions. Earlier this year, he received the Grawemeyer Award, generally considered the Nobel Prize of classical composition, for the violin concerto he wrote for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Leila Josefowicz. It has just been released by Deutsche Grammophon with Salonen conducting Josefowicz and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
"Composer, conductor, it's only words," Salonen said. "Because I cannot separate the two, ever. Nobody has given me a lobotomy yet. I cannot separate the two halves of my brain."
Role models
From the beginning, when the Finnish-born Salonen studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, he studied composing and conducting. He made his debut with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1979 (at the age of 21), the Philharmonia in 1983 and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1984 (his U.S. conducting debut). All three orchestras have been instrumental in his artistic development and supportive of his multiple aspirations. Not surprisingly, he views his role as a conductor, especially in the digital age, as more than someone who just waves a baton.
"The role of a conductor becomes somewhat extended when you start doing social media, Internet, HD, apps and this and that," Salonen said. "You kind of become, not exactly a teacher, but a guide into the inner working of the orchestra."
Salonen and the Philharmonia have developed several groundbreaking digital projects, including "Re-Rite" (a multimedia installation allowing the public to step inside the orchestra while it digitally performs "The Rite of Spring"), "Universe of Sound" (now at the Science Museum in London) and, next month, a new digital app for the Philharmonia, in which Salonen is your musical host.
"The app is about trying to explain what is going on," Salonen said. "(In an orchestra), you have all these men and women on stage, dressed in 19th-century dinner outfits, playing these very odd-shaped instruments that are built out of ancient materials. … This is a very analog kind of reality.
"Then there's a guy or a girl on a box who waves a stick around. And while it looks purely ceremonial, there seems to be some kind of weird connection to what you're hearing. I'm kind of surprised how mysterious a lot of it is to seasoned concertgoers, let alone people who don't go to concerts."
Salonen admits he's a "geek," someone who is fascinated by technology and carries around at least four cell phones, and he is enthusiastic about using that technology to help classical music cut through the pop-culture noise that is becoming increasingly deafening.
But it's not just a matter of employing the latest bells and whistles to deliver, contextualize and enhance classical music. Salonen is committed to building the repertoire and contributing to it. He's programmed and commissioned new music wherever he has conducted.
"How do these gigantic trees of Northern California have this incredible longevity?" he said. "Of course it has to do with the fact they keep growing. If our repertoire doesn't keep growing, it will stagnate and ultimately die."
Making a connection
For a significant part of the 20th century, however, composers like Pierre Boulez suggested the musical equivalent of chopping down those giant redwoods and starting fresh. Salonen's formal training tended toward that same mindset, and one of his most influential mentors was the adventurous Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski. But Salonen's music has evolved and he has a more congenial (or at least more immediately discernible) relationship with the past than either Lutoslawski or Boulez.
"For me, the most vital situation is where new works have a dialogue with existing music, not that it would emulate it, necessarily, or it would quote it," Salonen said. "It's not necessary to reinvent the wheel every time you start writing a new piece, because the wheel has been invented and it actually works."
But exactly how it works, and why it works, are complex issues.
"A composer writes a symphony, which takes a couple years to finish and then takes another couple years to be performed, and then you don't know what the future holds for the piece," Salonen said. "Still, the very gesture of writing this piece means you believe in peaceful development of our society, you believe in the future of the art form, and you believe that enough people with the right frame of mind will one day want to hear your piece."
He views that very act of composition as an optimistic gesture. And given his single-mindedness, he views conducting the same way.
"People who hear a masterpiece, say, Mahler Nine (the symphony the Philharmonia will perform in San Diego), it's very hard (for them) not to be moved by it," he said. "I'd think after an experience like that you would not be prone to destructive thinking or destructive action. Quite the contrary: When you have had a great artistic experience, you come out of it and you realize how wonderful it is to be alive, how wonderful it is to be able to see and hear and smell and taste things and feel. And how lucky you are to have people around you who have shared the same experience as you.
"These are the things that make it a profound communal experience, i.e., we discover that there's more that unites us as opposed to things that divide us."Copyright © 2019, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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It always feels so odd doing these strips without the swirlies.
Vote for Tripp at Topwebcomics! It feels better than acupuncture!
@DocSavage - If there were notes to be taken, he'd be there. :)
@Ultimate the Hedgehog - I like the reference.
@Driftingwolf - Haha, I am.
@SnowTheHedgehog - Whatever timeline you're in, love is tough.
@Ultimate the Hedgehog - Good point.
@Xailenrath - She came back to save his life, the falling for him came later. (mostly)
@The_Hankerchief - I'm practicing for my next comic after Tripp. :)
@qazox - Yep.
@Francisco - True.
Mr "Expert" would probably be inside taking notes.
Poor Proxy... maybe she shouldn't have pulled a Kyle Reese.
If there were details, I hope you are enough of a bro to dedicate a whole page to it.
As much as I'd like to hear of these »details«, I can feel with poor Proxy. Being ripped out of her timeline by own choice, only to guard a guy on a perpetuous acid trip who loves another. And what makes it worse, she kinda »had« him already... for a few extatic hours... well, and then there was that other moment with the kiss (but I wouldn't really take that into consideration). Anyway, consider me this, consider me that, I can definetely feel with poor Proxy.
Just saying. While I do like Proxy, she really must've known about Tripp's feelings for Coco. The whole reason she had to protect him was because he rescued Coco from aliens. One does not do that for a girl he just simply has a crush on. If she wanted to win Tripp over, she should've traveled back in time to before Coco was kidnapped.
Faultless Logic!!
I like your backgrounds without the swirls. This one came out awesome.
He does have a point there.
Which doesn't really make the situation any better for Proxy.
Proxy, there are plenty more fish in the sea. After all, there's...{thinks about all the other males in the strip}...always the option to seek further afield.


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|"Woman in Black"
|Episode Information
|Air date:
|May 18, 2012
|5.10 million[1]
|Written by:
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Jim Kouf
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"Woman in Black" is the twenty-second episode of Season 1, the twenty-second episode overall, and the Season 1 finale of Grimm. It first aired on May 18, 2012, on NBC.
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SEASON FINALE -- THE SEARCH FOR THE MYSTERIOUS GOLD COINS INTENSIFIES AS THE BODY COUNT IN PORTLAND RISES – MARY ELIZABETH MASTRANTONIO AND BREE TURNER GUEST STAR – As Nick (David Giuntoli) delves deeper into his life as a Grimm, a trail of grotesque murders reignites the search for the elusive gold coins. The arrival of a mysterious woman in black (guest star Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) begins to get in the way of Nick and Hank's (Russell Hornsby) investigation as extra precautions have to be taken to ensure their safety. Meanwhile, Nick's ability to keep his true nature secret from Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) comes to a tipping point. Silas Weir Mitchell, Sasha Roiz and Reggie Lee also star.
Hank Griffin wakes up in the middle of the night, haunted by nightmares of encountering the creature in the woods. ("Big Feet")
The next day, Nick meets Monroe for coffee and worries that despite his stoic exterior, Hank is bothered by his encounter in the woods. Monroe has seen that kind of reaction and warns that most people can't process the knowledge. Nick warns him that Hank also got a good look at Brinkerhoff as he transformed back to human form, and Monroe suggests that Hank might be able to handle it better because he's a cop. As they leave the shop, private investigator Nathaniel Adams takes surveillance photos of them. He then returns to his hotel room, adds the photos to his collection, and calls Akira Kimura, his employer, to tell him that he's found Marquesa, one of the three thieves who came to Portland looking for the three gold coins.
At the station, Nick receives an Interpol file on Kimura and is studying it when a tired-looking Hank comes in. Nick tells his partner that Kimura beat a coin dealer in Hamburg, the same dealer that sold the three coins to Sam Bertram in Portland. Kimura has a tattoo of a Viking sigil on the left side of his head, rumored to give the wearer invincibility, and the file notes that Kimura was last seen in Lisbon fourteen months ago. Nick tells Hank that he is not only involved with the killers from "Three Coins in a Fuchsbau" but is also a suspect in his own parent's murder.
Akira Kimura shows up at Adams' hotel room to look into what happened to his former associates. Adams says that the police found three gold coins within the stomach of a victim, but that these were gone when the body arrived at the morgue. He shows him pictures of Nick, Hank, Monroe, and Renard, but seems pretty sure that Renard has the coins. He asks to be cut into the deal. Instead, Kimura murders him after saying that he no longer needs his help and takes the evidence. Later, a mysterious woman in black is seen spying on him from the shadows. She isn't surprised to find Adams dead and figures he found something that wasn't good for him.
Adalind Schade is at a new apartment, mixing a potion. She then feeds it to a stray Siamese cat she's captured, using a saucer of milk. Adalind shows up at Juliette Silverton's veterinary clinic with the stray and claims it's her pet named "Majique", whom she says has been acting sluggishly and seems sick. She mentions that she and Hank have broken up and that Nick does not seem to like her, and she asks Juliette not to mention this to him. Juliette says the cat seems okay but that she would rather keep it overnight to be sure. During the examination, the cat scratches her hand. The cat's eyes soon change entirely to all black, and its tongue is fluorescent yellow.
The partners are called to the hotel to investigate Adams' murder, and Wu gives them the background on Adams that they have. Someone ripped out his throat, and Nick confirms that someone else entered the room and rolled the body after Adams died. They find the rental keys for Adams' car and confirm that he had cameras in his trunk.
Nick and Hank go back to the station and download the photos from Adams' cameras. They're surprised to discover that Adams was taking pictures of them, Monroe, and Renard, and Nick calls the captain to warn him while Hank organizes security details for his house, as well as Nick's and Renard's.
Kimura attacks Captain Renard in his home after ransacking it and murdering his housekeeper, Patty. He knocks Renard unconscious and then interrogates him at knife point. He does not seem to believe Renard when he tells him that the coins were taken from him by Farley Kolt. The interrogation is interrupted when Sergeant Wu and another officer arrive at the door to check on Renard.
Kimura escapes after attacking one of the officers, but Hank and Nick easily identify him from Renard's description. Wu is able to track him to the Palms Motor Hotel, where the manager at the desk says that Kimura checked in that morning, paying cash for three days. As Wu and another officer approach his room, they instead find the woman in black leaving. After a brief fight in which she displays impressive strength and agility and jumps off the first floor balcony onto a patrol car, she escapes.
Nick talks to Monroe, telling him that Kimura has pictures of both of them and that he may need help bringing him down. He wants to catch this dangerous killer himself rather than kill or arrest him so that he can interrogate him "Grimm-style". In the trailer, Monroe helps Nick look through books and prepares a Doppelarmbrust dart containing a sedative called Schlaftrunk, strong enough to incapacitate the Schakal.
Nick goes home and sees Juliette, who says she is not in the mood to cook and has made reservations for dinner. (Actually a set of reservations in each of their names, so they could choose to be late if they like.) Nick notices the bandage on her hand and asks how it happened. When she admits that she was scratched by a cat owned by Adalind, Nick freaks out and insists that she go to the hospital. They get into an argument, and Juliette insists that Nick explain what his problem with Adalind is. He says she is a witch, which Juliette clearly does not buy. Nick finally decides to tell her the whole truth and takes her to the trailer in order to do so. She does not believe him and walks out of the trailer as Nick excitedly is explaining the Wesen and Grimm world. He catches up to her outside in the rain where she says he needs to talk to someone about this, but that someone is not her. Before going home, Nick asks that she come with him to one more place and give him one last chance. They stop by Monroe's home.
Monroe is taken by surprise and initially does not want to confirm anything. When he sees the scratch and hears that it was Adalind's cat that did it, he agrees to cooperate. He tells Juliette to prepare herself, turns around, and changes. While he is facing the other way, Juliette faints before she sees him transform. They rush her to the hospital.
The doctors are not sure what is wrong. An E.R. doctor states that cat scratches are not usually dangerous, so there could be something else going on with her. He advises Nick to go home as it will take quite a while to run some tests and tells him that he will be called if they know anything. As Nick and Monroe leave, Monroe tells Nick that the doctors will probably not be able to help Juliette and that they will need to find Adalind's cat. They find the cat in Juliette's veterinarian office and take it to Rosalee Calvert's Spice Shop. She says her and Monroe will try to figure out what is wrong by running their own tests on the cat. At the hospital, Juliette suddenly awakes with her eyes having turned entirely black like the cat that had scratched her.
Nick stops by Adalind's home to find her gone and everything missing, except for the bowl of half-drank milk she gave her cat.
Nick returns home to find it ransacked. He then hears Kimura walking downstairs. He fails to shoot him successfully with the Doppelarmbrust, and the two engage in hand to hand combat. Kimura gains the initial advantage, but Nick manages to subdue him, fueled by his anger over the murder of his parents. Suddenly, the mysterious woman in black shows up. She dodges Nick's attacks, kicks him away, and then quickly finishes Kimura off and knocks him out temporarily by injecting him in the chest with a drug. Nick points his gun at her, but she calls him "Nicky", and he is shocked to recognize her as his "dead" mother.
Guest StarsEdit
|Bree Turner
|Rosalee Calvert
|Claire Coffee
|Adalind Schade
|Brian Tee
|Akira Kimura
|Scott Morgan
|Nathaniel Adams
|Robert Blanche
|Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
|Kelly Burkhardt
- Blutbad
- Schakal
- Fuchsbau
- Siegbarste (seen in Grimm Diaries only)
Production NotesEdit
- Bree Turner (Rosalee Calvert) was credited as a "special guest star."
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Kelly Burkhardt) was credited last and separately at the end of the episode.
- Footage from "Pilot", "Game Ogre", "Three Coins in a Fuchsbau", "Plumed Serpent", and "Big Feet" was reused (flashbacks).
- Kelly Burkhardt is revealed to be alive.
- Farley Kolt is not confirmed to be alive nor dead, though his status is put in doubt.
- Nathaniel Adam's hotel room number was 122, the episode number. This is the first time the season and episode number is referenced.
- This episode didn't feature any new Wesen.
- ↑ Friday Final TV Ratings: 'Shark Tank', 'Supernatural' Finales Adjusted Up; 'What Would You Do?' Adjusted Down


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Every 4 year old goes through the same thing:
Parent: "Don't touch the stove. It is hot and you'll burn yourself."
Child: (Touches stove, burns self.)
PArent: "Didn't I tell you it is hot and you'll burn yourself?"
Child: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
You'd think Lindsay Lohan would have more sense than a 4 year old.
Nope. Let's look at it, piece by piece.
So, remember when dumbass was supposed to finish alcohol education classes, and, instead, jetted off to France? Well, Lindsay was on probation when she failed to appear in court last month. That's when Judge Marsha Revel revoked her probation and set bail at $100,000.
In return for bail, Lindsay promised to appear for a hearing on the probation violation, which is on July 6.
Sunday night, Lohan went to the MTV Awards, and apparently have a few cocktails. Her SCRAM anklet detected booze in Lindsay's system, so SCRAM generated a report to officials.
Now, because of the incident, Lohan has FORFEITED the $100,000 bail she posted. The Judge issued a bench warrant for her arrest, and Lohan had to post new bail, set at $200,000, so she can remain free.
Lindsay Lohan's lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, told TMZ that Lindsay's SCRAM bracelet "indicated the presence of a small amount of alcohol on Sunday night."


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Dachshund Cocoa Had Her Surgery
Today was the big day for Cocoa. Not only did she get the tumor removed (which is happily on the way to lab to be tested) but Cocoa got her first ever teeth cleaning, four teeth pulled, plus her nails clipped and her ears cleaned and one other unmentionable procedure dealing with a gland at her back end. Yikes! The vet said she was a great patient and she really came through with flying colors.
Cocoa is resting comfortably beside two of her foster sisters. Every one is thrilled she is safe and sound. I have crafted a fabric collar for her to protect the sutures from dirt and scratching out the cuff of an old shirt sleeve. The more traditional Elizabethan collar couldn't be used due to the location of the stitches.
A small dish of yummy soft canned food was a real treat for Cocoa this afternoon. Boy was she hungry. One week of antibiotics and pain relievers and she'll be good as new. Let's just keep our fingers crossed for a negative test result from the lab.
A huge thank you to all her supporters. Thanks for the cards and emails and posts to this site. Please check back in a week for an update from the vet. We may still have a long road ahead of us if she needs radiation.


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Most service providers lock their LG phones to their network, stopping you from making use of your phone on another service providers. Basically , they want to retain your business because the LG phone will only work only on their Network. LG Phone unlocking is a method of releasing the Network lock from the LG phone. LG C1150 Unlocking can be carried out by a choice between purchasing an unlock code that is calculated from your LG C1150 unique IMEI number or perhaps by downloading unlocking software program to unlock your LG phone directly. Note: An network unlocked 2G phone will not accept a 3G simcard. Nevertheless an unlocked 3G handset can accept and work with a 2G handset. 3G phones have backward compatibility which helps them to recognize and operate with a 2G simcard However, an network unlocked 2G phone can not recognise the newer 3G/4G sim card technology.
Is LG C1150 unlocking illegal?
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Switzerland surprised everyone this year by failing to be the first country to pick their song for Eurovision 2013, piped at the post by Belarus who rushed through their final, once again though we were reminded that Belarus need to rush through their selection as there may be more to come…Switzerland are always a country who put on a good show for a national final, and though we might not always agree with the result it is still something to watch in December.
I quite like the Swiss entry this year I think it offers quite a lot. You and Me is a very please song, though I was not completely impressed by it when I first heard it. My fear for this entry is it may be lost on the night but it does have the advantage of not being surrounded by rock entries which would may have been the case it earlier years.
My issue with this is that the songs appeal, and probably what made it stand out so much at the national final was the songs association with the Salvation Army. Due to the nature of the rules of the contest, this advantage, which would have distinguished it from other entries, will be gone on stage. So it is difficult to say that it will be as distinctive as it was in the national final.
Verdict: A difficult call at this point, a strong song which could be lost in Eurovision but I am going to support it and say that it has the potential to do well. However I don't think this will trouble the top 10.
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A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in the fall of 2016 reports that 80% of US adults with some college and 89% of US college graduate own a smartphone. (Pew Research Center, January 11, 2017). Not surprising as the smartphone is the go-to for recent news, connecting with friends and family, and learning new things. We know that smartphones are popular with the college population but how are college students using them in support of their study, in particular engineering students?
Smartphones are only as powerful as the apps installed — and apps have come a long way. A basic Google search for "engineering apps" retrieves several reliable lists: 20 Apple apps for engineers (EDN), 10 iPad Apps for Engineers (ASME), 9 Android Apps for Engineers (ASME)… and others. Many of these apps fall under the category of productivity based, apps that get things done e.g. modeling, calculations, converters. Students' have their favorite. Listed below are three of the most liked apps of a small sample of students at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Chegg – "a company … that specializes in online textbook rentals (both in physical and digital formats), homework help, online tutoring, scholarships and internship matching." (Wiki)
In terms of pricing, Chegg is a better option than Amazon. Their buy and rent fees are much lower and for additional fees you can request a tutor and help with solution problems. The app is a gateway to the Chegg world. Available at iTunes and Google Play.
WolframAlpha – is the "Wikipedia" of computational data. A student submits a query and instead of linking to an outside source WolframAlpha will compute the answer based on its stored and curated data. WolframAlpha covers mathematics, statistical & data analysis, physics, chemistry, materials, engineering, astronomy, earth science, life sciences, computational sciences, units & measures, weather, health & medicine, transportation and much more; all in the palm of your hand. Wolfram also provides separate apps for disciplines eg Calculus Course Assistant, General Chemistry, Astronomy and others. There is nominal fee. Available at iTunes and Google Play.
AutoCAD 360 (Autodesk) – Modeling apps of all types were the most mentioned and AutoCAD 360 from Autodesk was on top of the list. AutoCAD 360 is a "DWG viewing application, with easy-to-use drawing and drafting tools that allow you to view, create, edit, and share AutoCAD drawings across web and mobile devices – anytime, anywhere." (Google Play). Free. Available at iTunes and Google Play.
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Sail-in Cinema returns to Toronto
Intercept Group will again produce the outdoor movie experience viewable from land or water coming to Sugar Beach this August.
Sail-in Cinema returns to Toronto's waterfront for a fourth year this summer. For the second year in a row the Toronto Port Authority has selected Intercept Group to produce the event, which will see attendees watch movies projected onto a screen on a barge in Toronto Harbour, viewable from land or from the water on a boat. This year the event runs Aug. 14 to 16 at Sugar Beach.
Jessica Walker, account manager, Intercept Group, tells MiC the event is expected to draw about 6,500 people on land and as many as 90 boats, an estimate based on the number that attended last year. The primary target audience is adults 18 to 34, with a secondary audience of families with kids, she says. Based on a poll of last year's ticket registrants, approximately two-thirds of the audience members were aged 18 to 34, and almost half were 25 to 34.
Ranging from cinema pre-roll to cardboard "bum boxes" that offer comfortable, recyclable seating, Walker says the most successful activations from past years have engaged attendees with an activity they can participate in while they wait for the movie to begin. "People show up early because they want great seats, but then they don't really know what to do until the sun goes down," she says. "For example with Toyota who was a sponsor last year, you could go for a test drive while you were waiting for the movie to start."
Walker says the event is being promoted with transit ad buys and other media, adding that in past years, Sail-In Cinema partnered with the Toronto Star, CP24, Metro and various radio stations for paid and in-kind media.


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Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis.
What: Shares of Staples (NASDAQ:SPLS) plunged 16% today after the office supply retailer posted disappointing quarterly results and announced a plan to close 225 stores.
So what: The stock has slumped in recent months on concerns over weakening fundamentals, and today's Q4 results -- earnings per share plunged 28% on a top-line decline of 11% -- coupled with the massive store shutdown only reinforce those worries. In fact, Staples' same-store sales during the quarter declined 7% while operating margin contracted 355 basis points, suggesting the company continues to be pressured by intensifying online and discount store competition.
Now what: Management also announced a multiyear cost savings plan, which is expected to generate annual cost savings of about $500 million by the end of 2015. "A year ago, we announced a plan to fundamentally reinvent our company," said Chairman and CEO Ron Sargent. "With nearly half of our sales generated online today, we[']re meeting the changing needs of business customers and taking aggressive action to reduce costs and improve efficiency." More important, with the stock hitting a new 52-week low today and off about 30% over the past three months alone, now might be an opportune time to buy into that turnaround talk.
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Morning guys…. Photo Shoot Miss International Indonesia 2014, Elfin Pertiwi Photographed by Andie Makkawaru, Wardrobe by Ikat Indonesia, Make Up by Moor's Profesional Make Up.
Miss International (Miss International Beauty or The International Beauty Pageant) is an annual international beauty pageant held since 1960. Along with its rivals Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss Earth contests, Miss International is one of the four largest beauty pageants in the world in terms of the number of national-level competitions to participate in the world finals
Miss International is part of the Big Four international beauty pageants.
The current Miss International titleholder is Bea Santiago of the Philippines who was crowned on December 17, 2013 in Tokyo, Japan.
The pageant was created in Long Beach, California, USA in 1960 after the departure of the Miss Universe pageant to Miami Beach. Hosted in Long Beach until 1967, the pageant moved to Japan from 1968–1970, being hosted each year in the same city as the Expo '70. For 1971 and 1972, it was held in Long Beach again, but since that time it has been held annually in Japan.
The pageant is also called "Miss International Beauty". Contestants are expected to serve as "Ambassadors of Peace and Beauty", demonstrating tenderness, benevolence, friendship, beauty, intelligence, ability to take action, and, most importantly, a great international sensibility. The ultimate goal of the Miss International beauty pageant is to promote world peace, goodwill, and understanding.
In 2013 edition, for the first time in history, the winner of Miss International 2012 Ikumi Yoshimatsu of Japan didn't not crown her successor; instead Miss International 2008 Alejandra Andreu took over in passing on the crown to Bea Santiago of the Philippines. This is also the first time when a past winner crowned two Miss Internationals, one in 2009 where she crowned Anagabriela Espinoza of Mexico.
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Fact#1: Before the Election Day, Feb.10, SBP passed a petition to the Electoral Board indicating a request to double check the REAL GPA of Brian Cagara. The ELBO requested NYPD to give a new certified copy of Cagara's grades but NYPD declined ELBO's request.
Question: If NYPD knows that Cagara's GPA is qualified, why do they have to decline the request of the Electoral Board?
Fact#2: NYPD stated "Kapag hindi nadaan sa boto ng Bedista, idaan sa protesta". During the 2005 SC elections, two of NYPD's candidates were disqualified because their GPAs were changed. It was NOT SBP who protested against NYPD's illegal action but a group of Philosophy Majors who brought up the issue to the Administration.
Take Note: For the record, NYPD has passed more petitions to the ELBO against SBP. Most of their petitions were non-sense because it was always dismissed due to lack of evidence.
Fact#3: Ask yourselves Bedans, "Do I still trust NYPD?" The 2005 and 2009 elections marked a shameful history in the SBC Student Council Elections where elected students were disqualified because it was discovered later that NYPD introduced students who are not qualified in the first place.
Question: Where is the credibility of NYPD? Are they "united" when they are in position? Do they REALLY serve the students of San Beda? Or they just want to prove their DOMINATION?
· For the past years, NYPD has been dominating the SC Polls, but where is the new San Beda that they have been promising?
· Don't be fooled by contracts and signature campaigns. The influence of the majority is rarely the CORRECT INFLUENCE.
· SBP is known to be quiet and tame. We know that there is the right time to speak, and this is the RIGHT TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH.
VOTE for REAL CHANGE!
*Ngayon nakita niyo na ang mga tunay na nangyari. Nawa'y maliwanagan kayo.


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As we can't wait to see them on stage in Leuven and in Antwerp we decided to review the EP and use it to get into the right mood. We also believe that this female fronted symphonic metal band doesn't need an introduction.
The Solace System starts with an impressive intro and magical vocals that awakens the nightingale (Simone Simons) in an operatic way, backed up by a powerful choir, symphonic sound, drums that are exploding and guitars on fire. Off course there has to be a beauty and the beast (Mark Jansen) moment, unveiling their typical sound. Fight Your Demons has a nice piano and even a violin, worked out together with the dramatic feel and fitting with the nice title. Pretty fast the fight becomes clear and is nicely exploited by the music and the vocals making it an excellent track to perform on stage. Architect of Light explodes from the start with lots of classical instruments, a powerful choir, hard hitting drums and guitars that hammer you down. You feel the pathos and the energy. Once again you are getting mixed up by Mark's heavy grunts and Simone's angelic voice. Wheel of Destiny is a high tempo rager with a melodic side. It turns a bit round and round and explores different emotions: it goes from Black to white, back and forth. Immortal Melancholy is the perfect ballad: fragile and emotional and yet o so powerful. Vocals and the symphonic sound blend in a perfect way.
Well, they got us hooked and we can't wait to see them on stage!