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wordpress | Darwell Area Conservation Society is a new organization that is in the process of formation. A number of people have come together who share a love of this area and a desire to understand it better, and ensure that its beauty is conserved and passed on to future generations.
Everywhere man is trashing the planet, and we believe that by coming together to protect our local area, we can be part of a wider movement to reverse this trend. Some people may say nimby; others take the view that if we all looked after our own backyards, the world would be a much better place.
To celebrate the diversity of our local natural environment, the architectural quality of our buildings and the historic and archaeological significance of the locality.
To work, when appropriate, with the Parish Councils and other organizations to protect the area around the Darwell Valley.
To support and, whenever possible, participate in local conservation activities.
To consider local planning applications for any development within the area.
Planning policy discourages unnecessary and inappropriate development within the rural areas of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, restricting the outward expansion of our villages and encouraging careful design and appropriate use of materials for both new buildings and extensions and for alterations to existing buildings within the village envelopes, so that they fit in with their settings. Village growth should be modest in scale, well-designed, and should include affordable hsing so that the health of our villages can be maintained by retaining a balance population. Most importantly, the Society keeps a watching brief on all proposed developments that might affect our area.
The society will use its funds to further these aims and objectives, and will raise money towards this through fund-raising activities that also help to generate a sense of community.
There is an annual subscription and we also accept donations as we rely on members’ generosity where both cash and practical help are concerned. We produce a quarterly newsletter and email alerts for members.
If you would like to raise any local conservation matters please leave a comment below.
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wikipedia | Vinnipeq (ing. Winnipeg) — Kanadanın Manitoba əyatlətinin mərkəzi.
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wordpress | Des is an Australian writer, musician and educator. Des studied Arts at La Trobe University, majoring in Philosophy, Literature and Studies in Western Traditions before going on to roles in complaints management and concreting as a means of broadening his skill set. He then was awarded a Graduate Diploma in Education and has been teaching in secondary schools for the past ten years. Always a keen musician, he went from teaching English and History in the classroom to a role teaching Instrumental Music (i.e. Guitar and Bass), including music theory, composition and improvisation. Along with his philosophical, literary, historical and musical interests, Des is part of the organising committee for the Southern Hemisphere’s longest running pagan gathering, the Mount Franklin Annual Pagan Gathering, and has written and spoken publicly about Wicca, Paganism and the occult for many years.
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wordpress | CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has become the first State in the country to come up with a separate e-waste policy in the country. While welcoming the move, and the policy on collection by community-based organisations (CBO), activists and organisations are awaiting specific details.
“We have taken the utmost efforts even while drafting to be as close to the national e-waste policy as possible,” Santhosh Babu, managing director, Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (ELCOT), says. The ELCOT was one of the key organisations that worked on preparing the policy for the State. The 11-12 members who were on the Board were drawn from several allied sectors were given the mandate to keep in tune with the national guidelines.
While at this point of time, the e-waste policy remains a mere document, it will be followed in the next six months with a series of government orders and a set of rules that will ensure the implementation of all the features mentioned in the policy.
But he pointed out that it would be necessary to take up collection and segregation in a careful manner. “Sometimes the value of the recovered after recycling may not be able to cover even the transportation costs,” he said. He called for a partnership among all stakeholders to make the process successful.
Abhishek Pratap, Greenpeace Toxics campaigner, said, bringing local bodies and community organisations into the collection of e-waste was welcome. He said it was important to incorporate very specific targets and for co-ordination between various bodies.
“Building an end-to-end recycling facility is a very costly proposition. So it will be better to have a few central facilities and to have different States co-operate in the process,” he said.
Dr. Santhosh Babu said that once the rules were in place, key stakeholders, who have been identified already, including manufacturers, pollution control boards, local bodies, and ELCOT, would be apprised of their roles.
Specific questions as to how extended producer responsibility would be answered and the structure of the collection and disposal chain would be ensured.
The government would also take up a massive awareness programme to tell consumers of the huge quantities of e-waste they are accumulating, and suggesting responsible means of getting rid of them.
“It is the next biggest threat, the way we see it. We are slowly, subtly, sometimes unknowingly polluting our environment with electronic goods. Citizen awareness is the first step in trying to address this problem,” Dr. Santhosh Babu added. | 2019-04-18T10:29:55Z | https://myviews4life.wordpress.com/tag/e-waste/ | Porn | Business | 0.843413 |
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wordpress | This entry was posted in Personal Musings, Uncategorized and tagged compassion, first responders, grace, heart, life, trauma. Bookmark the permalink.
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tripod | Israel is widely believed to possess a substantial arsenal of nuclear weapons and intermediate-range ballistic missiles to deliver them. There is also speculation that it may have chemical and biological weapons programs. Israel acceded to the Geneva Protocol on February 20, 1969..
The Israeli government refuses to officially confirm or deny that it has a nuclear weapon program, and has an unofficial but rigidly enforced policy of deliberate ambiguity, saying only that it would not be the first to "introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East" . Israel is suspected to be one of the three nuclear-armed, sovereign nation-states not to sign or ratify the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the other two being India and Pakistan.
The first public revelation of Israel's nuclear capability (as opposed to development program) came in the London-based Sunday Times on October 5, 1986, which printed information provided by Mordechai Vanunu, formerly employed at the Negev Nuclear Research Center, a facility located in the Negev desert south of Dimona. For publication of state secrets, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for treason and espionage. Although there had been much speculation prior to Vanunu's revelations that the Dimona site was creating nuclear weapons, Vanunu's information indicated that Israel had also built thermonuclear weapons.
According to The Nuclear Threat Initiative, based on Vanunu's information, Israel has approximately 100-200 nuclear explosive devices and a Jericho missile delivery system. A United States Defense Intelligence Agency report (leaked and published in the book "Rumsfeld's War: The Untold Story of America's Anti-Terrorist Commander" by journalist Rowan Scarborough in 2004) puts the number of weapons at 82. U.S. intelligence sources in the late 1990s estimated 75-130 . The difference might lie in the amount of material Israel has on store versus assembled weapons.
Israel has operated three modern German-built Dolphin class submarines since 1999. Various reports indicate that these submarines are equipped with American-made Harpoon missiles modified to carry small nuclear warheads and/or the larger Israeli-made 'Popeye Turbo' cruise missiles, originally developed for air-to-ground strike capability .
No known nuclear weapons test has been conducted within Israel, although the boosted weapons shown in Vanunu's photographs may well have required testing. It is also possible that the Israelis received results from French nuclear testing in the 1960s. In June 1976, the West Germany Army Magazine, Wehrtechnik, claimed that a 1963 underground test took place in the Negev, and other reports indicate that some type of non-nuclear test, perhaps a zero yield or implosion test, may have occurred on 2 November 1966. In September 1979, a Vela satellite may have detected a 3 kiloton oceanic nuclear explosion near to South Africa, accompanied by underwater acoustic and ionospheric effects which may have been a joint nuclear test between Israel and South Africa (see Vela Incident).
Israel has signed but not ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). There are speculations that a chemical weapons program might be located at the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) in Ness Ziona. Professor Marcus Klingberg, deputy director of the institute, was sentenced in 1983 to 18 years in prison for being a Soviet spy, a matter so sensitive that it was kept secret for a decade.
In 1993, the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment WMD proliferation assessment recorded Israel as a country generally reported as having undeclared offensive chemical warfare capabilities. | 2019-04-23T08:26:07Z | http://jeromekahn123.tripod.com/onwars/id24.html | Porn | Reference | 0.257719 |
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columbia | MSAE E3010 Introduction to Materials Science, I. 3 points.
Introduction to quantum mechanics: atoms, electron shells, bands, bonding; introduction to group theory: crystal structures, symmetry, crystallography; introduction to materials classes: metals, ceramics, polymers, liquid crystals, nanomaterials; properties of single crystals: optical properties, electrical properties, magnetic properties, thermal properties, mechanical properties.
MSAE E3011 Introduction to Materials Science, II. 3 points.
Introduction to polycrystals and disordered materials; noncrystalline and amorphous structures; grain boundary structures, diffusion; phase transformations; phase diagrams, time-temperature- transformation diagrams; properties of polycrystalline and amorphous materials: mechanical properties and failure, the Drude model of electrical properties, thermal properties; corrosion; materials selection for engineering design.
MSAE E3012 Laboratory in Materials Science, I. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (MSAE E3010) MSAE E3010.
Measurement of electrical, thermal, and magnetic properties of single crystals. Single crystal diffraction analysis, polarized light microscopy, and infrared microscopy in Si single crystals, written and oral reports.
MSAE E3013 Laboratory in Materials Science, II. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (MSAE E3011) MSAE E3011.
MSAE E3111 Thermodynamics, kinetic theory and statistical mechanics. 3 points.
An introduction to the basic thermodynamics of systems, including concepts of equilibrium, entropy, thermodynamic functions, and phase changes. Basic kinetic theory and statistical mechanics, including diffusion processes, concept of phase space, classical and quantum statistics, and applications thereof.
MSAE E3141 Processing of metals and semiconductors. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (MSAE E3103) or equivalent.
Synthesis and production of metals and semiconductors with engineered microstructures for desired properties. Includes high-temperature, aqueous, and electrochemical processing; thermal and mechanical processing of metals and alloys; casting and solidification; diffusion, microstructural evolution, and phase transformations; modification and processing of surfaces and interfaces; deposition and removal of thin films. Processing of Si and other materials for elemental and compound semiconductor-based electronic, magnetic, and optical devices.
MSAE E3142 Processing of ceramics and polymers. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (MSAE E3103) or MSAE E3103 or the equivalent.
Established and novel methods involved in the processing of polymers and ceramics. The fundamental aspects of the structure and properties of polymers and ceramic materials; strategy in the preparatory, synthesis,, and processing methods for obtaining them. Topics include polymer synthesis, elastomers, thermoplastics, thermoset materials, design and molding processes. Ceramics: inorganic glasses and composites, materials production and principle inorganic chemistry. Processing methodology, conditioning, drying, forming, sintering, and microstructure development. Relevant aspects of transport phenomena, colloid and sol-gel science, contemporary issues in modern polymer and ceramic processing.
MSAE E3156 Design project. 3 points.
May be repeated with the permission of the undergraduate adviser. E3156: a design problem in materials science or metallurgical engineering selected jointly by the student and a professor in the department. The project requires research by the student, directed reading, and regular conferences with the professor in charge. E3157: completion of the research, directed reading, and conferences, culminating in a written report and an oral presentation to the department.
MSAE E3157 Design project. 3 points.
MSAE E3900 Undergraduate research in materials science. 0 points.
This course may be repeated for credit, but no more than 6 points of this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements. Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation in materials science or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report.
MSAE E4090 Nanotechnology. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (APPH E3100) and (MSAE E3111) or their equivalents with instructor’s permission.
The science and engineering of creating materials, functional structures and devices on the nanometer scale. Carbon nanotubes, nanocrystals, quantum dots, size dependent properties, self-assembly, nanostructured materials. Devices and applications, nanofabrication. Molecular engineering, bionanotechnology. Imaging and manipulating at the atomic scale. Nanotechnology in society and industry. Offered in alternate years.
MSAE E4100 Crystallography. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403) and (PHYS UN1403) and (APMA E2101) or equivalent.
A first course on crystallography. Crystal symmetry, Bravais lattices, point groups, space groups. Diffraction and diffracted intensities. Exposition of typical crystal structures in engineering materials, including metals, ceramics, and semiconductors. Crystalline anisotropy.
MSAE E4101 Structural analysis of materials. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (MSAE E3111) or or corequisite: MSAE E3103 or the instructor's permission.
Geometry of crystals, basic diffraction theory. X-ray diffraction. Techniques and theory of electron microscopy. Analysis of crystal structures and orientations. Microstructure characterization and analysis of crystalline defects.
MSAE E4102 Synthesis and Processing of Materials. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (MSAE E3011) or MSAE E3011 or equivalent or instructor’s permission.
A course on synthesis and processing of engineering materials. Established and novel methods to produce all types of materials (including metals, semiconductors, ceramics, polymers, and composites). Fundamental and applied topics relevant to optimizing the microstructure of the materials with desired properties. Synthesis and processing of bulk, thin-film, and nano materials for various mechanical and electronic applications.
MSAE E4105 Ceramic Nanomaterials. 3 points.
Ceramic nanomaterials and nanostructures: synthesis, characterization, size-dependent properties, and applications; surface energy, surface tension and surface stress; effect of ligands, surfactants, adsorbents, isoelectric point, and surface charges; supersaturation and homogenous nucleation for mono-dispersity.
MSAE E4132 Fundamentals of polymers and ceramics. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (MSAE E3111) or instructor's permission.
The science and engineering of polymer, ceramic and composite inorganic materials. Fundamental aspects of structure, processing and properties. Polymers: classification, synthesis, elastomers, thermoplastics, thermosets; ceramics: Crystal structure, morphology, classification, oxides, nitrides, carbides, silicates. Electrical, mechanical, thermal and optical properties. Common and advanced technological applications, electrical/optical devices, catalytic and environmental applications.
MSAE E4200 Theory of Crystalline Materials: Phonons. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (MSAE E4100) or instructor's permission.
Theoretical understanding of vibrational behavior of crystalline materials; introducing all key concepts at classical level before quantizing the Hamiltonian. Basic notions of Group Theory introduced and exploited: irreducible representations, Great Orthogonality Theorem, character tables, degeneration, product groups, section rules, etc. Both translational and point symmetry employed to block diagonalize the Hamiltonian and compute observables related to vibrations/phonons. Topics include band structures, density of states, band gap formation, nonlinear (anharmonic) phenomena, elasticity, thermal conductivity, heat capacity, optical properties, ferroelectricity. Illustrated using both minimal model Hamiltonians in addition to accurate Hamiltonians for real materials (e.g. Graphene).
MSAE E4201 Materials Thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (MSAE E3011) or equivalent or instructor's permission.
Review of laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic variables and relations, free energies and equilibrium in thermodynamic system. Statistical thermodynamics. Unary, binary, and ternary phase diagrams, compounds and intermediate phases, solid solutions and Hume-Rothery rules, relationship between phase diagrams and metastability, defects in crystals. Thermodynamics of surfaces and interfaces, effect of particle size on phase equilibria, adsorption isotherms, grain boundaries, surface energy, electrochemistry.
MSAE E4202 Thermodynamics and reactions in solids. 3 points.
Review of thermodynamics, irreversible thermodynamics, diffusion in crystals and noncrystalline materials, phase transformations via nucleation and growth, overall transformation analysis and time-temperature-transformation (TTT) diagrams, precipitation, grain growth, solidification, spinodal and order-disorder transformations, martensitic transformation.
MSAE E4203 Theory of Crystalline Materials: Electrons. 3 points.
A phenomenological theoretical understanding of electrons in crystalline materials. Both translational and point symmetry are employed to block diagonlize the Schrodinger equation and compute observables related to electrons. Topics include nearly free electrons, tight-binding, electron-electron interactions, transport, magnetism, optical properties, topological insulators, spin-orbit coupling, and superconductivity. The course is illustrated using both minimal model Hamiltonians in addition to accurate Hamiltonians for real materials.
MSAE E4206 Electronic and magnetic properties of solids. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (PHYS UN1401) and (PHYS UN1402) and (PHYS UN1403) or equivalent.
A survey course on the electronic and magnetic properties of materials, oriented towards materials for solid state devices. Dielectric and magnetic properties, ferroelectrics and ferromagnets. Conductivity and superconductivity. Electronic band theory of solids: classification of metals, insulators, and semiconductors. Materials in devices: examples from semiconductor lasers, cellular telephones, integrated circuits, and magnetic storage devices. Topics from physics are introduced as necessary.
MSAE E4215 Mechanical behavior of structural materials. 3 points.
Recommended preparation: a course in mechanics of materials. Review of states of stress and strain and their relations in elastic, plastic, and viscous materials. Dislocation and elastic-plastic concepts introduced to explain work hardening, various materials-strengthening mechanisms, ductility, and toughness. Macroscopic and microstructural aspects of brittle and ductile fracture mechanics, creep and fatigue phenomena. Case studies used throughout, including flow and fracture of structural alloys, polymers, hybrid materials, composite materials, ceramics, and electronic materials devices. Materials reliability and fracture prevention emphasized.
MSAE E4250 Ceramics and composites. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (MSAE E3142) and (MSAE E3013) or instructor's permission.
The course will cover some of the fundamental processes of atomic diffusion, sintering and microstructural evolution, defect chemistry, ionic transport, and electrical properties of ceramic materials. Following this, we will examine applications of ceramic materials--specifically ceramic thick and thin film materials in the areas of sensors and energy conversion/storage devices such as fuel cells, and batteries. The coursework level assumes that the student has already taken basic courses in the thermodynamics of materials, diffusion in materials, and crystal structures of materials.
MSAE E4260 Electrochemical Materials and Devices: From Structure to Performance. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403) and (MSAE E3010) or equivalent, or instructor's permission.
An overview of electrochemical processes and applications from perspectives of materials and devices. Thermodynamics and principles of electrochemistry, methods to characterize electrochemical processes, applications of electrochemical materials and devices, including batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, electrochemical sensors, with a focus on the link between material structure, composition and properties with electrochemical performance.
MSAE E4301 Materials science laboratory. 1-3 points.
Materials science laboratory work so conducted as to fulfill particular needs of special students.
MSAE E4990 Special topics in Materials Science and Engineering. 1-3 points.
This course may be repeated for credit. Topics and instructors change from year to year. For advanced undergraduate students and graduate students in engineering, physical sciences, and other fields.
MSAE E4999 Supervised Internship. 1 point.
Prerequisites: Internship and approval from advisor must be obtained in advance.
Only for masters students in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics who may need relevant work experience as part of their program of study. Final report required. This course may not be taken for pass/fail or audited.
MSAE E6081 Solid state physics, I. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (APPH E3100) or equivalent. Knowledge of statistical physics on the level of MSAE E3111 or PHYS GU4023 strongly recommended.
Crystal structure; reciprocal lattices; classification of solids; lattice dynamics; anharmonic effects in crystals; stress and strain; classical electron models of metals; and periodic, nearly periodic, and more advanced analysis of electron band structure.
MSAE E6082 Solid state physics, II. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (MSAE E6081) or instructor's permission.
Semiclassical and quantum mechanical electron dynamics and conduction; dielectric properties of insulators; semiconductors; defects; magnetism; superconductivity; low-dimensional structures; and soft matter.
MSAE E6085 Computing the Electronic Structure of Complex Materials. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (APPH E3100) or equivalent.
Basics of density functional theory (DFT) and its application to complex materials. Computation of electronics and mechanical properties of materials. Group theory, numerical methods, basis sets, computing, and running open source DFT codes. Problem sets and a small project.
MSAE E6091 Magnetism and magnetic materials. 3 points.
Lect. 3.Not offered during 2019-20 academic year.
Prerequisites: (MSAE E4206) and (APPH E6081) or equivalent.
Types of magnetism. Band theory of ferromagnetism. Magnetic metals, insulators, and semiconductors. Magnetic nanostructures: ultrathin films, superlattices, and particles. Surface magnetism and spectroscopies. High speed magnetization dynamics. Spin electronics. Offered in alternate years.
MSAE E6100 Transmission Electron Microscopy. 3 points.
Theory and practice of transmission electron microscopy (TEM): principles of electron scattering, diffraction, and microscopy; analytical techniques used to determine local chemistry; introduction to sample preparation; laboratory and in-class remote access demonstrations, several hours of hands-on laboratory operation of the microscope; the use of simulation and analysis software; guest lectures on cryomicroscopy for life sciences and high resolution transmission electron microscopy for physical sciences; and, time permitting, a visit to the electron microscopy facility in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
MSAE E6120 Grain boundaries and interfaces. 3 points.
Lect: 2.Not offered during 2019-20 academic year.
Suggested background: basic knowledge of materials science, dislocations and point defects. The course gives an overview of the classic approaches in studying grain boundaries. Topics include boundary geometry and structure, boundary interactions with crystal defects, boundaries as short-circuit diffusion paths, applications of boundary concepts to interfaces, and roles of grain boundaries in material properties and in kinetic phenomena in polycrystalline materials.
MSAE E6221 Introduction to dislocation theory. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (MSAE E4215) or a course in theory of elasticity, or instructor's permission.
Point and line imperfections. Theory of dislocations. Relation between imperfections and structure-sensitive properties.
MSAE E6225 Techniques in x-ray and neutron diffraction. 3 points.
Crystal symmetry, diffraction, reciprocal space and Ewald sphere construction, radiation sources, analytical representation of diffraction peaks, diffraction line broadening, Fourier analysis of peak shape, texture analysis, diffraction analysis of stress and strain, diffraction analysis of order-disorder thermal diffuse scattering, small angle scattering, instrumentation in diffraction experiments, error analysis.
MSAE E6229 Energy and particle beam processing of materials. 3 points.
Prerequisites: (MSAE E4202) or MSAE E4202 or the instructor's permission.
Laser-, electron-, and ion-beam modification of materials to achieve unique microstructures and metastable phases for electronic and structural applications. Fundamentals of energy deposition and heat flow during laser- and electron-beam irradiation. Atomic displacement processes in ion-irradiated materials. Beam-induced microstructural evolution, crystallization, surface alloying, rapid solidification, and metastable phase formation. Review of current industrial applications.
MSAE E6230 Kinetics of phase transformations. 3 points.
Principles of nonequilibrium thermodynamics; stochastic equations; nucleation, growth, and coarsening reactions in solids; spinodal decomposition; eutectic and eutectoid transformations.
MSAE E6251 Thin films and layers. 3 points.
Vacuum basics, deposition methods, nucleation and growth, epitaxy, critical thickness, defects properties, effect of deposition procedure, mechanical properties, adhesion, interconnects, and electromigration.
MSAE E6273 Materials science reports. 0 points.
Formal written reports and conferences with the appropriate member of the faculty on a subject of special interest to the student but not covered in the other course offerings.
MSAE E8235 Selected topics in materials science. 3 points.
This course may be repeated for credit. Selected topics in materials science. Topics and instructors change from year to year. For students in engineering, physical sciences, biological sciences, and related fields.
MSAE E9000 Materials science and engineering colloquium. 0 points.
Speakers from industry are invited to speak on the recent impact of materials science and engineering innovations.
MSAE E9259 Research topics in materials science and metallurgical engineering. 1 point.
Discussion of a group of technical papers related to a topic of current research interest.
MSAE E9260 Research topics in materials science and metallurgical engineering. 1 point.
MSAE E9301 Doctoral research. 0 points.
Prerequisites: The qualifying examination for the doctorate.
MSAE E9309 Proposal of Research for the Doctorate. 0 points.
A written report prepared by the prospective doctoral candidate defining the proposed research for the dissertation, and oral defense of the proposal at the time of the qualifying examinations.
MSAE E9800 Doctoral research instruction. 0 points.
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration in M.S.E. E9800 may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.
MSAE E9900 Doctoral dissertation. 0 points.
A candidate for the doctorate may be required to register for this course every term after the course work has been completed, and until the dissertation has been accepted.
MSAE S4999 Supervised Internship. 1 point.
MSAE S6273 Materials science reports. 0 points.
MSAE S9301 Doctoral research. 0 points.
MSAE S9800 Doctoral research instruction. 0 points. | 2019-04-19T02:21:55Z | https://bulletin.engineering.columbia.edu/courses | Porn | Science | 0.98849 |
wikipedia | Curtis Gates Lloyd (17 de julho de 1859, Florence, Kentucky – 11 de novembro de 1926, Cincinnati, Ohio) foi um micologista norte-americano .
Ele publicou 26 edições do The Bulletin of the Lloyd Library; seis delas versam sobre assuntos micológico.
(1908). Mycological Notes 2: 205–412.
(1912). Index of Mycological Writings 4 (39): 510–540. Cincinnati, Ohio; Lloyd.
(1916). Puerto Rican collections. Mycological Writings 5: 582, 1 fig.
(1916). Puerto Rican collections (letter 63: 8, 13). Mycological Writings 5: 626, 1 fig.
(1917). Notes on the Xylarias. Mycological Writings 5: 675–679.
(1917). Notes on the Xylarias. Mycological Writings (Myc. Notes No 51) 5: 724–725.
(1917). The globose Xilarias. Mycological Writings (Myc. Notes No 51) 5: 727-728.
(1917). Rare or interesting fungi. Mycological Writings (Myc. Notes No 51) 5: 729–732.
(1917). Aleurodiscus vitellinus. Mycological Writings (Myc. Notes No 52) 5: 736–737, 1 fig.
(1917). Letter No. 65. March 1917. Mycological Writings 1–16.
(1917). The genus Cyttaria. Mycological Writings No. 48 5: 671–674.
(1917). Puerto Rican collections. Mycological Writings 5: 675–676, 6 figs.
(1917). Puerto Rican collections (letter 66: 6, l0). Mycological Writings 5: 726, 3 figs.
(1918). Puerto Rican collections (letter 67: 9, 68: 6, 12). Mycological Writings 5.
(1919). Rare or interesting fungi received from correspondents. Mycological Writings (Myc. Notes No 57) 5: 816–828.
(1920). Mycological notes no. 64. Mycological Writings 6: 985–1029.
(1921). Mycological Notes 6: 1–1101.
(1921). Puerto Rican collections (Fink). Mycological Writings 6: 1044, 1071–1072, 1 fig.
(1922). Mycological Notes 7(2): 1135–1168.
(1922). Puerto Rican collections (Chardón). Mycological Writings 7: 1114, 1123.
(1923). Novel and noteworthy specimens received from correspondents. Index of the Mycological Notes7: 1105–1364.
(1925). Puerto Rican collections (Tucker). Mycological Writings 7: 1353, 1354, 5 figs. | 2019-04-25T04:20:12Z | https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Gates_Lloyd | Porn | Reference | 0.170648 |
msu | J. Kevin Ford is a Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University. His major research interests involve improving training effectiveness through efforts to advance our understanding of training needs assessment, design, evaluation and transfer. Dr. Ford also concentrates on understanding change dynamics in organizational development efforts and building continuous learning and improvement orientations within organizations. He has published over 50 articles and chapters and four books relevant to Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Currently, he serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology and Human Performance. He is an active consultant with private industry and the public sector on training, leadership, and organizational change issues. Kevin is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He received his BS in psychology from the University of Maryland and his MA and Ph.D. in psychology from The Ohio State University. Further information about Kevin and his research and consulting activities can be found at http://iopsych.msu.edu/jkf.
Bell, B., Tannenbaum, S., Ford, J.K., Noe, R.A., & Kraiger, K.
Baldwin, T., Ford, J.K., & Blume, B.
Yelon, S. & Ford, J.K.
Huang, J.L., Ford, J.K., & Ryan, A.M.
Huang, J.L, Blume, B., Ford, J.K., & Baldwin, T.P.
Yelon, S.L., Ford, J.K., & Anderson, W.A.
Yelon, S., Ford, J.K., & Bhatia, S.
Ford, J.K., & Meyer, T.
Yelon, S., Ford, J.K., & Golden, S.
Ford, J.K., Yelon, S., & Billington, A.
Ford, J.K., & Foster-Fishman, P.
Huang, J.L, & Ford, J.K.
Weissbein, D.A., Huang, J.L., Ford, J.K., & Schmidt, A.M.
Ryan, A.M. & Ford, J.K.
Foster-Fishman, P., & Ford, J.K.
Ryan, A.M., & Ford, J.K.
Blume, B., Ford, J.K., Baldwin, T., & Huang, J.
Ford, J.K., Kraiger, K., & Merritt, S.
Mothersell, W., Moore, M., Ford, J.K., & Farrell, J.
Transforming our models of learning and development: How far do we go?
Ford, J.K., & Ruchi, S.
Advances in the research and practice of training evaluation.
Bell, B., & Ford, J.K.
Yelon, S., Sheppard, L, Sleight, D., & Ford, J.K.
Intention to transfer: How do autonomous professionals become motivated to use new ideas?
Ford, J.K., Weissbein, D., & Plammondon, K.
Schmidt, A., & Ford, J.K.
Ford, J.K., Smith, E.M., Weissbein, D.A., Gully, S., & Salas, E.
Baldwin, T.P., Ford, J.K., & Naquin, S.S.
Ford, J.K., & Schmidt, A. | 2019-04-25T18:49:31Z | https://staging.psychology.msu.edu/people/faculty/fordjk | Porn | Business | 0.833793 |
wordpress | Well, Glen Beck seems to be all over the place. Some are pretty upset, not with him, but with the majority of evangelical leaders for aligning themselves with him. This is what happens when you try to wage spiritual wars in a political way.
I’ll say it again. The kingdoms of this world are slated for destruction. Jesus is in the process of setting up His kingdom. The church acts as a steward possessing the keys to the kingdom prior to the official manifestation of the kingdom here on earth. Why would you want to align yourself with something that will be burned up as worthless when Christ returns?
No matter how many Republicans are elected, that will not give any Christian any more opportunities to preach the gospel (the gospel of the kingdom). No matter how many Democrats are elected, that will not give us any more freedom to preach the gospel. Jesus has already given us the keys to the kingdom of heaven. We have the authority to preach the gospel now. What are we waiting for?
One thing that I found interesting about Glen Beck is the idea of the eschatology of Mormons. I have not researched this, but PJ Miller does not print spam at Sola Dei Gloria. There is an article which gets at the end times beliefs of Mormons which include trusting in the constitution to save the USA. So why is Glen Beck doing what he is doing? Read the article here.
And if you have no idea what I’m talking about….
…good. You don’t need to know who Glen Beck is to be a good Christian.
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I’ve said for a few years now that Glenn Beck is my favorite Mormon. I’ve heard his testimony and have tried to explain away his mormonism by saying he’s just untaught. But this is actually rather scary, Orange. His agenda is a mormon agenda, which makes him a false teacher – possibly even a false messiah – not just an ignorant, recovering alcoholic. I enjoy conservative radio, but lately I have veered away from all the Constitution praise, as I have heard him say that God “inspired” the godly, Christian men who wrote the constitution. I haven’t been comfortable with the direction he is heading and with this interview, it makes sense. Thanks for posting it.
I’m glad we’re on the same page, Nike. I hesitate at posting this stuff about politics, because many times I feel like it’s not worth mentioning. I’d rather be focusing on the scriptures and the coming of our LORD Jesus. But this issue is pretty huge right now. If you read Sola Dei Gloria at all, you know that Glenn Beck is not on PJ Miller’s favorite person’s list. PJ views what is going on as a companion to Dominionism, with all of its apostasy. I’m not as well read on that, but I do know that the business of Christ’s body is preaching the gospel and ministering to those within the body. | 2019-04-26T15:43:42Z | https://theorangemailman.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/glen-beck-in-the-news/ | Porn | News | 0.959781 |
wikipedia | Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret. Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work with the actor Yves Montand, with whom he would collaborate three times later in his career, including Police Python 357 (1976) and La Menace (1977). He directed Gérard Depardieu in the screen adaptation of Tous les matins du monde in 1991.
Corneau died in Paris on 30 August 2010 from cancer, aged 67 and was interred at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
^ Martin, Douglas (30 August 2010). "Alain Corneau, César-Winning Film Director, Dies at 67". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2010. | 2019-04-21T18:27:50Z | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Corneau | Porn | Arts | 0.407734 |
salon | How can we savor the time we're here -- and how do we want to be remembered when we're gone? Table Talkers search for answers.
There is a certain kind of rush that is elicited by the beginnings of a romantic involvement, a "high" that is prolonged even further when the involvement is a suitable and effective one. I know this is certainly the case with me.
I believe it is important to examine this feeling. Nothing in one's life has really changed, except for the fact that there is another person with whom we have developed a mutual interest. And yet, life seems suddenly golden, as if our relationship to the world is right and good, as if we are suddenly girded with the ability not only to face but to laugh at what yesterday seemed like insurmountable problems. We feel healthier, with a gleaming sense of well-being. We look in the mirror and see a handsomer, smarter, more confident man reflected back at us.
And yet, what has changed, exactly? Did our new Sig Other get up in the dark of night and fix all of our life problems while we slept? Did she arrange for secret cosmetic surgery to make us handsomer, or sleep courses to make us smarter? Did she inject us with vitamins to make us healthier?
No. She did none of these things. All of the wonderful "effects" we are attributing to the romance are things we did ourselves, changes enacted within us, by us alone. The Sig Other simply represents a key to the door to these feelings. The Sig Other represents an "OK," and approval, that we somehow think we require to open the door to a happier M.O.
The point I am making is that I believe it is important for each one of us to look within and examine why we need someone's OK to just feel good about life, to feel good about ourselves, to feel good about the day, and the day after, and the day after that. If we can only find the wherewithal to open that door on our own, we will not burden our partners with the requirement that they be our Saviors. We will then have that great life that others are interested in sharing, not supplying. We will be quite happy alone or with a partner, because we will not be dependent on a partner to bring us our happiness.
I always hate those roadside shrines that pop up where someone died. All right, hate's too strong a word. But I dislike them. I understand the desire to mourn, to recognize the end of a life, to memorialize. Once a spot has been marked, that's enough. Don't decorate it, you ghoul.
Why can't people translate that impulse into action for the living? Instead of leaving a teddy bear where a child was killed, why not give it to a child who doesn't have one? If you don't know such a child, there are many charities that would appreciate a contribution, and you can put it in the name of the dead person if that makes you feel better. A bouquet of flowers left at the base of a tree where the car crash happened will turn into trash within hours or days. Give the flowers to someone who's around to appreciate them.
This isn't to say that I don't understand putting flowers on graves of loved ones. No, that makes sense to me. But if the deceased is a stranger, how much better to celebrate the living. How much kinder and more meaningful to show those around you that they are appreciated, cared for. If I have the misfortune to die in an accident or at the hands of a killer, it's what I would want. Don't decorate the place where I died. Decorate the world in which you live. | 2019-04-19T06:30:28Z | https://www.salon.com/2006/07/21/post_149/ | Porn | Reference | 0.521851 |
wordpress | Forgiveness is not a selective process to choose only when the situation is easy and convenient. Forgiveness means evaporating one’s ego and desist from living in a realm of power. Forgiveness takes time for reflection, to acknowledge hurt and resolve to start a new day in light, not darkness. Forgiveness emulates the Lord who is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in compassion. Forgiveness helps us to realize wrath and anger are hateful things that sinners hug tight. Forgiveness of another’s injustice is rooted in prayer and knowing one’s own sins will be forgiven. Forgiveness ceases to nourish anger and overlooks faults for healing. Forgiveness trusts not in bombs and guns, but God’s love, Jesus who affirms non-violent, peace building and the gifts of the Holy Spirit for examples and strength to forgive. Forgiveness lives not for oneself, but for the Lord.
Have each family member share a prayer for the grace to forgive someone with mercy and compassion.
In our friendships, do we share sincere appraisals of words and actions? We must choose between articulating caringly, not judgmentally, our perceptions of friends’ faults or expounding praise of niceties that reinforces continuing blundering. Do our parishes sugar coat the Gospel or expound the challenging truth? To say that stealing only means a forcable, physical taking of another person’s property or also Biblical stealing that means denying a person what is due them –be it the equitable distribution of material goods or discrimination stealing their human dignity. Do we choose to define coveting by desiring the resources extracted in another continent and plundering their eco system? If our parishes are to be catalysts for the redemption and transformation of social relationships, we must acknowledge beyond superficial definitions when our actions do evil to neighbors, next door or the next continent. In this demeanor, we hear God’s voice and harden not our hearts to the reality of our decisions. This process roots itself in knowing the facts of where our food is grown, do workers making our clothes receive a living wage or is the paper we use in our printers have a sustainable forest designation. An effort not of diligence but love. As Church, we should speak out to let the facts of injustice be known and dissuade our brothers and sisters from refusing to listen.
On the Internet, read paragraphs 2258 to 2463 and 2534 to 2557 from the Catechism of the Catholic Church on killing, adultery, stealing and coveting. Write down five new perspectives you learned about the depth of these commandments and pray how you will integrate these insights into your life.
As a family, research on the Internet which cell phones and computers are the most environmentally and socially responsible. Learn about resources needed to make these products and the environmental challenges in recycling them.
The reflection may be used in parish bulletins, newsletters and for faith sharing groups without copyright concerns.
Do you dwell on Jesus’ discourse of persecution or His victory on the third day to define your faith? In our lives, of spiritual worship and offering ourselves as living disciples holy and pleasing to God, we face challenges of those with unbelief, the ridicule of derision and discrediting, disgrace of reproach. Transformed by renewal of our minds, as our souls thirst for the Lord our God, the totality of the Paschal Mystery helps us to take up our cross and deny ourselves to follow Jesus. A passion, too strong for us to deny, inflames our hearts with a spiritual fire. To liberate it from being imprisoned in our being, we must share the power and glory we amassed from gazing toward God, so our lips shall glorify Him. And stronger than words, we loose our life for His sake by giving ourselves to serve others. People may envision this mentality as being duped, but they think only as human beings conforming themselves to this age of individualism and self satisfaction. God asks us to not dwell in this focus as as obstacle to His ways. By His mercies, we are parched and lifeless no more, but satisfied by the riches of His banquet to know what is good, pleasing and perfect.
On a late summer, Sunday afternoon, retreat from your busyness for one hour to reflect and pray about how you thirst for God.
How will you share this information with your parish?
This reflection may be used in parish bulletins, newsletters or for faith sharing groups without copyright concerns.
God, the impact of injustice imprints the denial of human dignity in the eyes of our soul. Let not despair reign in our consciousness, for we seek the hopefulness of your compassionate justice that proclaims the sacredness of human life. By your Spirit, direct us to affirm this in our families, communities and social institutions to preserve the common good and well being of all. May we assess governance of the earth by how well it meets the needs of all people. Guide us to always question consumption for consumption’s sake, so we acquire in thanksgiving from the earth for our needs and not selfish desires to provide for the needs of the poor and vulnerable first. Help us to see work, not as a job, but our continuing participation in your creation, supported by living wages and humane working conditions for all. We know the sun never sets on our sisters and brothers, so we ask for the grace to stand in solidarity with all people, for their challenges are our challenges, their dreams, our dreams. Lord, thank you for helping us to visualize the interconnectedness of the fabric of life, where we all participate in the bounty and take responsibility for its prudent care. Everyday, as we plant our footprint on the earth, let us absorb the radiance of your hope, celebrate in awe the world you bestowed for us to inhabit and remain in prayerful dialogue for the strength to embrace the journey for justice and peace. For this we pray in the name of your Son, Amen.
Jesus asks us many questions in the Gospels. Reflect upon these questions as you read The Questions of Jesus by Fr John Dear.
Have each family member discuss how they can be less proud and more lowly.
Jesus shed the taboo of His culture to not only speak to a woman, but a woman from another heritage. His initial response doused potential hostility. In listening to the core of her commitment, Jesus dispelled prejudicial notions to send her away. His affirmation to dialogue allowed the woman access to morsels of mercy for her great faith. From this encounter, we observe what is right and the Lord’s justice compassionately revealed. All who join themselves to the Lord, with prayer and sacrificial offering of time, talent and treasure, to become His servants will be acceptable on His altar. But do our parishes portray this example of Jesus or do subtle forms of prejudice appear as exclusion or crevasses of ignoring silence? Do we deny God irrevocable call and gifts for our parishes to be called a house of prayer for all peoples? And all means people that speak a different language, were born in another country, have a different skin color, are in a different stage of life, have a different education level, live with a different sexual orientation, work at a job unlike ours and represent all levels of economic means. When God say all, He means ALL. God delivered all to disobedience that He might have mercy on all of us. He let His face shine upon us and His way be known upon earth. We partake in the mercy with joyful praise. When we welcome all as God welcomes all, we will be healed of prejudice from that hour forward.
See if your town has an interfaith council and attend a meeting. Be attentive to appreciate the goodness in all people.
Does your town have an interfaith Thanksgiving or care for creation prayer service? If there is attend. If not, network with people of different faith traditions to establish these as annual events. | 2019-04-23T22:30:32Z | https://peaceonjustice.wordpress.com/2011/08/ | Porn | Reference | 0.628322 |
wordpress | I have again chosen to remain alcohol-free throughout the month of January. It is an exercise in self-control and self-denial. It gives me the time to reflect on my relationship with alcohol. The reflection then spreads into other areas of my life, like beer spilled on a polished table.
I enjoy the taste of real ales, and miss these when I visit pubs for lunch during this period of self-imposed abstemiousness. I enjoy the taste of wine with my meals in the evening. These are little joys to look forward to. I enjoy the initial feelings of warmth, lightness and disinhibition that come with the first few sips of an alcoholic drink. At times, I want those later feelings, of being on the edge of self-control (of thoughts, of tongue, of body), that come with increased consumption. Rarely, I am overcome with a desire to drink to excess, to lose control, but this is often followed by regrets and always by a large degree of physical discomfort. I like the idea of being drunk, but in reality I do not enjoy the feeling, and find myself eating rubbish food to soak up the alcohol – a classic case of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. In terms more in tune with the subject, it is like trying to put the cork back into the Champagne bottle.
I am not experiencing any cravings for alcohol, but I am aware of something rewarding missing from the changed rhythm of my life. I feel a need to activate my pleasure circuitry in other ways, to get that satisfying ping of dopamine release – be it with chocolate, or biscuits, or a savoury snack . This desire has to be balanced against my other life and health goals, particularly my marathon training (more of which in later posts!).
I feel I have arrived at a stage of life akin to a seaside town out of season. There are chill winds coming off the sea under grey skies. The paint is beginning to peel from the window frames of the souvenir shops along the seafront. The partially illuminated sign advertising the amusement arcade is a taunting misnomer – the first missing “m” could be replaced with a “b”, and would there really be any difference? The fairground rides are still, the garishly painted horses tethered for the winter, and tarpaulins draped over the fire engines and police cars, their sirens silenced.
Yet even in this diminished landscape, little joys can be found – the last fish and chip shop still open, enjoying their offerings while huddled in a shop doorway to escape the wind; the sound of waves breaking; the smell of the sea and everything visceral that Robin Hood’s Bay in February offers the senses. This time, so long ago, and this place, so far away, have always been emblematic of melancholia, and in a sense I have come home for a while. The only fear is that the summer visitors do not return.
“This time, so long ago, and this place, so far away, have always been emblematic of melancholia, and in a sense I have come home for a while. The only fear is that the summer visitors do not return…” Ok, Derek, my friend. I need a word “intervention” here. Are we talking about getting older? What exactly does that comment about the visitors mean? Hey, dude! Do I need to be worried about you???
It might be cold and snowy today, but through by windows I can see helebores trying to flower and there are catkins on the hazel tree. Chin up, Derek; all is not lost just yet. | 2019-04-22T04:08:30Z | https://frothyfilosofy.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/alcohol-free-melancholy/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.604641 |
wordpress | Happy New Year! We didn’t really celebrate anything last night. I put the kids to bed just before my husband got home from work and we were able to have a nice dinner together, without the kids. Then we sat on the sofa and watched Modern Family before the musical beds for the night began (I’m hoping that 2014 will be the year that both my kiddos learn to sleep by themselves, through the night, in their own beds. I can dream.
I’m aware that it looks like a pile of raw meat. It wasn’t, it was skirt steak, marinated, with broccoli and roasted purple potatoes. It was delicious.
I also made my newest obsession, a s’mores martini. Oh my. These are so delicious (if you like sweet drinks. If you prefer, say, a dirty martini, as my oldest friend does, then these are not for you) and that is what makes them dangerous. They go down like candy so not only do you (or I) drink them quickly, but you also end up drinking more. Two is my limit (but maybe three on special occasions).
Pour some chocolate syrup on a plate. Crush a graham cracker and put the crumbs on another plate. Coat the rim of your glass with the chocolate syrup. I did an initial dip.
Then I sort of moved it around to make sure it was well coated.
Then dip your glass rim into the crushed graham crackers.
Again, you may need to move it around to ensure proper coating.
Once it’s coated, let it stand for a moment.
Meanwhile, if you have a cocktail shaker, fill it with ice. If not, a large glass will do, fill that with ice. Then add the vodka and Bailey’s to it. I’m not good enough at this to do it freehand so I measure.
I also don’t have a cocktail shaker but do have a milkshake maker. Go figure. So I use the cup from that.
You could shake it as with a shaker or you can pour it back and forth between the large glass and another several times, which is what I do.
Yes, we drink a lot of milk in our house. Plus our recycle is full. This is my life.
Now, if you want to be super fancy, you can decorate the inside of your martini glass with chocolate syrup, which I recommend. I, of course, can’t do this part in a pretty way so I leave it to my husband, the former bartender.
He sort of pours in the syrup and tilts the glass at the same time, making a pretty pattern.
Then carefully pour your cocktail into your glass, making sure not to drop in any of the ice. Way more easily done with a proper shaker.
Then enjoy. Try not to drink too many. Good luck with that.
So, that was the old. Now, the new.
It’s traditional to eat black eyed peas on new year’s so I made the Pioneer Woman’s Black Eyed Pea Dip, which is delicious. But I made a few changes. So, at what point does it cease to be her recipe and become mine? I’m not sure. At any rate, I’ll show you what I did and link you to hers here. I also didn’t measure. Some things don’t change.
Black eyed peas, cooked or from a can (drained and rinsed), NOT the dry kind.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl or the dish you’ll bake it in, mash the black eyed peas, leave a few whole for texture.
Chop your onion- I used about 1/4 of one. PW says to put it in raw but I cooked mine just a bit first.
Grate your cheese- I probably used about 1-2 cups. Add to the peas. Add your onions.
Then add a few tablespoons of salsa and a few tablespoons of sour cream.
Mix it all together and add salt and pepper to taste. Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes or until all the cheese is melted and bubbly.
Serve with tortilla chips. Mine was definitely not spicy as I think PW’s probably is because I didn’t use the jalapeno pepper she did. It was good- cheesy and creamy and soothing. Plus, you know, lucky because of the beans.
Here’s to a year that is lucky for all of us, full of laughter, joy, love and delicious food!
Where’s my cauliflower fake alfredo sauce? | 2019-04-25T09:44:31Z | https://laughcooklove.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new/ | Porn | Home | 0.202029 |
wordpress | Dogs die on cheap chow?
The process is similar in cattle, except you sample at day 14 after treatment, not 10-14 days, as in sheep and goats.
For checking efficacy of flukicides, collect faecal samples (for purposes of doing a fluke egg count) ~28 days after treatment.
Carnivore: eats red meat? Omnivore: eats red meat and chicken?
Local Land Services outperform DPI?
A northern NSW sheep producer recently had deaths caused by liver fluke and is now madly drenching all his sheep to prevent further losses.
They normally don’t drench for liver fluke on this property because they rarely get confirmed deaths from liver fluke and are not aware it is a cause of ill-thrift.
They could be right of course, and it may not be economic for them to treat for fluke. However, as we know from roundworms, 80% of the losses to the Australian sheep industry from worms is from loss of production, much of which goes unnoticed, unless you deliberately measure productivity, for example, growth rates. The situation is similar with liver fluke: most of the cost is from reduced productivity.
The deaths in this case followed a classic pattern. Rainfall of late had been below average, and the sheep were grazing a lot in gullies and along creeks where the remaining ‘green pick’ was. This is also the place for liver fluke.
This producer has a good vaccination program, so at least black disease, a clostridial disease which can be associated with liver fluke infections, did not become an extra problem.
It would be a good idea for this farmer to test for liver fluke a few times a year. Testing around the usual times to treat for liver fluke – April, August and February – would be a good start, and then review the situation after a couple of years. Drenching all stock this April or May at least – when the cold weather starts – would be a good move too, especially if we get good rain in summer and autumn, which will increase numbers of liver fluke on pasture.
I have suggested that, 3-4 weeks after treating for liver fluke, he gets a fluke worm egg count done, as a rough test of drench efficacy. There are cases of flukicide resistance.
This is not new information, but it is worthwhile revisiting or at least book-marking.
A couple of years ago, Tony Lisle, who was the technical officer for famous Australian parasitologists, Ian Barger, and Hugh McL Gordon before him, showed me the Clunies Ross drench gun (which I photographed). This was just before Tony took it to its new home with parasitologist David Emory at the University of Sydney.
Ian Clunies Ross drench gun. Presented to him on his retirement by Hugh McL Gordon of CSIRO.
Tony tells me that Hugh Gordon, then at CSIRO‘s McMaster Laboratory next to the Sydney Uni vet school, presented this inscribed drench gun to Ian Clunies Ross on his retirement. After Clunies Ross died, his family gave it back to Hugh Gordon for safekeeping. It then passed into the care of various other people in CSIRO, including Leo Le Jambre, and more recently Tony Lisle.
noun 1. Sir (William) Ian, 1899–1959, Australian veterinary scientist; involved especially in research.
2. John, Scottish seaman; founded a settlement on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in 1827, establishing hereditary rule on the islands, which lasted until 1978.
“Ian Clunies-Ross studied veterinary science at the University of Sydney. After postgraduate work in England he returned to the university, where he was professor of veterinary science (1940–46) until his appointment to the executive of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Later this reconstituted body became the CSIRO and Clunies-Ross became the first chairman, retaining the position until his death. He was the writer of more than 60 research papers and was honoured by many institutions”.
Never ever use your phone while driving.
Regularly disconnecting from your electronic communications devices is critical, to give your brain time to recuperate and archive information. Taking time for your brain to “do nothing” can boost your productivity.
“Star Wars has been called a “space opera” or a “space western” — but what’s the true shape of this cult story that happened “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”?
“In the lead-up to the release of new Star Wars movie The Force Awakens, we set out to log and map out every scene from every Star Wars movie.Yes, we even watched the prequels.
We were inspired in this endeavour by xkcd’s hand-drawn movie narrative charts, but our mission was to write code that could adequately replace artist Randall Munroe’s illustrations.
The charts below show all the scenes from the first six Star Wars movies, mapping out interactions between the characters. The horizontal axis represents time and vertical groupings are based on how regularly characters interact.
I like xkcd’s hand-drawn charts (e.g. of ‘Lord of the Rings’) better.
From the opening part of the Star Wars VII movie: “Luke Ste Skywalker has vanished..” Maybe he is just on leave.
Douglas Adams (“Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy” etc), said the Force was like duct tape: it has a light side and dark side and it holds the universe together.
What about worms? Well in some ways worms can be ‘forces for good’, e.g. in some cases worm infections can modulate the immune system of human hosts to, for example, reduce immune reactivity in the case of allergies, and moderate the immune response in ulcerative colitis, and in coeliac disease.
Local Land Services outperforms DPI?
Too busy for recreational reading?
Read abridged classics. See here.
Reading and writing on paper best?
So, the visible or obvious cost ($94M) is ~ 22% of the total cost, whereas the biggest cost (~78%) – production losses – are largely invisible, unless deliberately measured. (“If you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it”).
Likewise, worms themselves are more or less invisible, and so is drench resistance, unless you deliberately test for it.
Parasitic diseases are generally the most important health problem of grazing livestock but, like many other important things in life, they rarely scream for attention.
…however, book flights asap to avoid missing out’.
Spectrum of Gluten-Related Disorders: People Shall Not Live by Bread Alone?
From wiki: ‘Alessio Fasano is an Italian medical doctor, pediatric gastroenterologist and researcher. He holds the W. Allan Walker Chair of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Furthermore he is Vice Chair of Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research and Division Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at the MassGeneral Hospital for Children in Boston.
Coeliac disease: the clinical chameleon.
Reading and writing on paper can be better for your brain?
The article says 25% of people have some degree of colourblindness. Take the test for colour blindness.
Some of this will be lost on those not familiar with Australian culture, history and cricket. Who, for example, is Bill Birmingham? Billy Birmingham is ‘an Australian humourist and sometime sports journalist, most noted for his parodies of Australian cricket commentary in recordings under The Twelfth Man name’. As for Ned Kelly, coeliac disease, in the past at least, has been thought to be more prevalent in those of Celtic origin, despite the ‘sledging’ (in the video) by nardoo (ngardu)-eating Burke and Wills.
Sadly Richie Benaud died 10 April 2015, shortly after this video was first aired. | 2019-04-22T23:05:01Z | https://wormmailinthecloud.wordpress.com/2016/01/ | Porn | Science | 0.155616 |
wikipedia | Frank Lloyd Wright (8 June 1867 – 9 April 1959) early 1900's ke ek jaana maana architect rahaa. Uu dher rakam ke buildings, jisme banks, holiday resorts, office buildings, churches, ek synagogue, ek gas station, ek beer garden aur ek art museum rahaa. Uu American style ke building design ke suruu karis rahaa aur 20th century ke sab se barraa architect maana jaawe hae.
Frank Lloyd Wright ke janam ek kheti waala town, Richland Center, Wisconsin, United States me, 1867 me, bhais rahaa. Suruu me uske naam Frank Lincoln Wright rahaa, lekin uu aapan mai-baap ke divorce ke baad me, aapan maiya ke palwaar ke honour kare ke khai, ii naam ke badal liis. Uske pitaji, William Carey Wright (1825–1904) ek locally admired orator, music teacher, occasional lawyer aur itinerant minister rahaa. William Wright, Anna Lloyd Jones (1838/39 – 1923), jon ki ek a county school teacher rahii, ke uu time milis jab uu Richland County me superitendent of school rahaa. William Wright, originally Massachusetts se aais rahaa, jahan pe uu ek Baptist minister rahaa lekin baad me uu aapan aurat ke palwaar ke Unitarian ke join kar liis. Anna ek barraa aur dhani Lloyd Jones family of Unitarians ke member rahii, jon ki Wales se Spring Green, Wisconsin immigrate bhae rahin. Anna ke ek bhaiyaa, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Unitarian faith in me Western United States me ek khaas admii rahaa.
Wright family ke paisa ke tangais rahaa aur uu logan Spring Green, Wisconsin laur gain, jahan pe Lloyd Jones, William ke kaam paae ke khatir madat karis. Uu logan Madison me settle hoe gain, jahan pe William music parhaat rahaa aur Unitarian society ke matri rahaa.
Jab Wright 14 saal ke rahaa, tab uske mai-baap separate hoe gain, kaahe ki Anna aapan admi ke paisa kamae ke dikkat se khusi nai rahii. Ii divorce 1885 me finalise bhais jab William , Anna ke uppar lack of physical affection ke khatir mukadma kais. Iske baad William Wisconsin chorr ke chal diis aur Wright uske fir nai dekhis. Ii time Wright ke middle name ke badal ke Lloyd se Lincoln kar dewa gais.
John A. Mosher House Wellington Ohio 1902 1903-04 Original unbuilt house designed for Mosher in Willmette, Illinois. No drawings exist at Taliesin for this house as built. It is also not included in several complete lists of Wright works.
River Forest Tennis Club River Forest Illinois 1906 Moved 1920 to present location.
(Andrew T. Porter House) Spring Green Wisconsin 1907 1907 Based on "A Fireproof House for $5000"
Stephen M. B. Hunt House I La Grange Illinois 1907 1907 Based on "A Fireproof House for $5000"
G. C. Stockman House Mason City Iowa 1908 1908 Based on "A Fireproof House for $5000"
Rev. Jessie R. Zeigler House Frankfort Kentucky 1909 1910 Based on "A Fireproof House for $5000"
Most recently (in 2008) determined to be a Wright design with addition by Van Bergen. Other sources have yet to confirm William A. Storrer's finding.
Displayed at The V&A London, U.K.
↑ "About Frank Lloyd Wright". www.wrightplus.org. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
↑ 43°07′31″N 89°24′13″W / 43.1253016°N 89.4035947°W / 43.1253016; -89.4035947 per "Wright Studies: Robert M. Lamp Cottage, Rocky Roost, Lake Mendota, Wisc. (1893) (S.021) Remodel (1901)". The Wright Library. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
↑ Hertzberg, Wright (2004). Wright in Racine: The Architect's Vision for One American City. Korea: Pomegranate. p. 84. ISBN 0764928902.
↑ Storrer, William A.sizes/o/. "Henry and Lily Mitchell Residence in Racine, Wisconsin". FLlW Update. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
Clayton, Marie (2002). Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide. Philadelphia: Running Press. ISBN 0-7624-1324-7.
Thomson, Iain (2002). Frank Lloyd Wright: A Visual Encyclopedia. London: PRC Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-85648-533-1.
"Chronology of Selected Events in Frank Lloyd Wright's Life". Wright's Life + Work. Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. 2010. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
↑ 46°34′17″N 114°03′21″W / 46.5713541°N 114.0558743°W / 46.5713541; -114.0558743 per "Wright Studies: Bitter Root Inn, Bitter Root, Montana near Stevensville (1908) (S.145)". The Wright Library. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
↑ Storrer, William A. (2008). "The 29=30 discovered works". FLlW Update. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
↑ Heinz (Heinz, Thomas (1999). Frank Lloyd Field Guide, West, Volume 3. Academy Press. pp. 18. ISBN 0471977470.) and Storrer (Storrer, William (2002). The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog. University of Chicago Press. pp. 354. ISBN 0226776220.) give the place as Issaquah, Washington, but this address has been within the city limits of Sammamish since the incorporation of that city on August 1, 1999.
Ii panna ke 11 September 2018, ke 00:32 baje, pichhla time badla gais rahaa. | 2019-04-26T13:50:46Z | https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright | Porn | Arts | 0.942351 |
wordpress | Just like the rain drops in the tree branches after a shower, the taste of home lingers in your tongue even after months.
I sprung like a kid already, when I saw the gongura leaves in Devon – fresh and On Sale ($3.99 when even the wilted ones usually go till 6.99). I bought a bunch, came home and called my mami (Uncle’s wife). The reason is that this is very famous in Andhra and my mami lives in Tirupati, she makes this in the authentic way . She is my inspiration and the standard in our cooking lingo. 🙂 Thanks Radha Mami!
Snip the leaves, wash and dry them.
In a heavy bottomed pan, dry roast coriander, cumin, mustard and chillies. Powder them to a fine paste and keep aside.
In the same pan, add 1 or 2 tsp of oil and wilt the leaves till they change color and soften.
Grind the wilted leaves into a fine paste adding no water /minimum water.
Heat oil in another pan, sputter mustard and add minced garlic , followed by the leaf paste and the masala powder. Add salt to taste and turn off the heat.
Enjoy the summer while it is there!
Our Grandma ,Lakshmiammal is one great personality known for selflessness, love and generosity. Even when she was young she had made several sacrifices that no other normal girl would do in her personal life. Many days she used to feed the food she had for her to the poor begging at her door.
When we moved to Chennai, to a highly compact apartment, she made many new friends. When the young ladies return from their work , they got to pass by our apartment. So they will stand by to say ‘Hai’ and ‘Bye’. My Grandma knowing how tired they will be and will make/ share her tea with them. Such was her thoughtfullness. She never had a selfish motive or desire. All her life was spent in the kitchen making delicious food and her happiness was in making people happy through her ‘kaipaagam’. She is more than Grandma to me and my three brothers for she brought us up since our primary school.
It is now 10 full years since she left the world (April, 8, 1998) but memories of her love has not faded even a bit. To any women who know her , she was a great inspiration and an ideal women.
I started this blog to honor her and her unique recipes. At this point of time of remembrance, here is another classical chutney recipe of my grandma.
Heat a skillet , add a tablespoon of oil, roast the dall, keep it aside.
Simlarly roast the chillies. Slice the onion and tomato and fry them till they are cooked well.
Grind all with tamarind , coconut and salt to a grainy/smooth texture.
For those who like crunchy bits, (My mother does this) fry another 1/8 cup of urad dall till golden and add to the mix at last . Do the tallipu and add it too. Pulse the mixer for once or twice.
Yummy chutney is ready to be served with Idly or rice as thogaiyal. | 2019-04-20T07:15:25Z | https://lakshmiammal.wordpress.com/tag/chutney/ | Porn | Home | 0.438426 |
wordpress | He satisfies the longing soul….
So I returned to the campus. And I continued my walk with God. It was brought to mind that I would have to get to know God. If I was going to seek Him first as Matthew 6:33 said. So I would read a chapter of Proverbs (my favourite book in the Bible) from my Scofield Study Bible in the morning and eventually one in the evening. I had to find out what God was saying for Himself.
And then woke up in the EARLY mornings (like 0300hrs) and I read Judges, Kings and Chronicles with the SDA Bible Commentary right next to me. The history I found was amazing. God opened up my mind. And it showed in my academic work too.
I also started reading the best book (besides the Bible) on the life of Jesus. “The Desire of Ages”. It made me envision the life of Christ as I never had. My fear that it would take me away from the Bible was dismissed once I realised that it never did contradict what the Bible said, in fact it made me want to read the gospels more. See Christ for myself.
All this seeking God showed itself in my life. I was more careful about what I watched. I had more time to actually do academics. I would make it on time for things. I would be able to keep my word. I would not get angry over pins dropping. I would not lie because I was not as afraid of people. I could tell the truth in love and leave the consequence with God. I knew that the future was not determined by bad luck or some universe turning against me (I had gotten mixed up in horoscopes, signs and tarots without fully realising it, -whole other story-).
Where before, I had a feeling that nobody would miss me if I just killed myself (which seriously crossed my mind) or if I just slept to never wake up. I now had a purpose to live.
This entry was posted in Stories, Uncategorized and tagged bible, ChristianWalk, early, God, Jesus, Journey, purpose, return, storytelling, Study, testimony. | 2019-04-19T08:41:22Z | https://insteadofsinging.wordpress.com/2016/09/04/by-the-power-of-their-testimony-11/ | Porn | Reference | 0.235058 |
salon | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It was a satirical story about an "$8 billion Abortionplex" opening in Kansas. But U.S. Rep. John Fleming, or someone on his staff, appeared to take it seriously in a Facebook post.
The article from theonion.com — well-known for its news lampoons — was posted Friday on the Shreveport Republican's Facebook page with the comment: "More from Planned Parenthood, abortion by the wholesale."
The post has been removed, but was captured and posted on the website Literally Unbelievable.
A Fleming spokesman said in an email Monday that the article was "posted inadvertently and taken down within minutes." The spokesman said Fleming's office would not comment further.
The article included references to a sprawling 900,000-square-foot facility with the amenities of a shopping mall and "2,000 rooms dedicated to the abortion procedure." | 2019-04-21T14:04:08Z | https://www.salon.com/2012/02/06/satire_treated_seriously_on_la_reps_fb_page/ | Porn | News | 0.589189 |
wordpress | The Fear of Girls . . . oooh, it’s funny because it’s true.
These two guys love there roll playing games and live in another world. Very funny!
I remember playing these games at 8 . . . | 2019-04-24T11:51:28Z | https://motorphilia.wordpress.com/tag/aaronmanleysmith/ | Porn | Games | 0.806594 |
livejournal | I started my new job today. I am working for a English teaching company called ALTIA. I am teaching English at some elementary and junior high schools for ALTIA in Miyoshi, Hiroshima. But, I am living at the same place. Most of my schools are close to my house in Iinan, Shimane. Actually, my wife Signe is now working at the schools I worked at before August. I am working at the schools she used to work at, too. We switched positions!
I started teaching English at Sakugi Elementary School today. The school only has 75 kids, so the classes feel really friendly. I am always nervous before I go to an elementary school, but if the kids are energetic I get energetic, too. The 5th graders were especially active in 6th period. They were laughing and giggling all throughout the games we played. There is no chime or bell between classes at Sakugi Elementary. That is a bit odd for Japan.
Yes, HK Airport rocks. There's a freakin Popeye's in it!!
If you take a long weekend in Korea, let me know. I seriously want to go and play LAN games for a weekend. Seriously, yo. | 2019-04-20T01:12:23Z | https://trevmex.livejournal.com/162819.html | Porn | Kids | 0.469404 |
wordpress | This entry was posted on March 18, 2010 at 10:34 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. | 2019-04-19T14:17:58Z | https://wisdomsplendour.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/hello-world/ | Porn | Reference | 0.153427 |
cnn | STUDENTS: However long it takes, they will be hunted down.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm so excited.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I thought that was that other robot when he turned around.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't know. It looked like a near head-on collision.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We had 15 people working super hard to get our robot working.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Carlos is here. Jackie's here.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN HOST: It's before dawn on a Saturday in January. And across the country, thousands of teenagers are up and ready to go.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm very excited.
O'BRIEN: From New Jersey to Arizona. To Tennessee.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're about to go and find out what our objective is.
O'BRIEN: It's opening day. Broadcast live from New Hampshire. But this is no ordinary sport. America's future is on the line.
It's a robotic competition that brings 50,000 high school students into stadiums across the country. They call it an Olympics of the mind. The purpose is to inspire kids to take challenging math and science classes to prepare them for the high-tech jobs of the future.
It's what American public schools often fail to do.
ARNE DUNCAN, SECRETARY OF EDUCATION: We've basically had a 19th century model of education that is not preparing enough young people to be successful in the 21st century of global economy.
It's amazing to me that at a time of high unemployment rates we actually have over two million unfilled high-wage, high-skilled jobs.
DUNCAN: That are unfilled, high-wage, high-skilled jobs, because we haven't produced what we need to do.
URSULA BURNS, CEO, XEROX: The work has to be done, so we send the work to people in other places that can get it done. This is absolutely backwards.
O'BRIEN: You run a Fortune 500 company. Are you worried about finding employees for your company who can do the job?
BURNS: The answer is, more than worried. I'm living with the problem. I'm panic-stricken about it.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): And that's why companies like Xerox are funding this robotics competition.
Among this year's competitors, Maria Castro, Brian Whited, Shaan Patel. Three kids from three different economic backgrounds. With very different opportunities.
MARIA CASTRO, STUDENT: I want to become a solar engineer and I want to go to Stanford University.
O'BRIEN: Junior Maria Castro is a student at the mostly Latino Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix, Arizona. The average family here makes less than $30,000 a year.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Maria, what is the ratios of the 45?
CASTRO: The one and one and the radical two?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: One, one, the radical two. Beautiful thing, right?
O'BRIEN: Maria wants a career that pays well and is pushing herself and her school to get it.
CASTRO: I was like, well, why isn't anybody, like, challenging me? I mean, I would do a whole week's lesson a class period. And I was just like, OK, this is too simple for me. It's like, OK, what's next?
O'BRIEN (on camera): Do you worry that when you go off to college you're not going to be prepared to compete?
CASTRO: Yes. I -- and especially like with this example, English. We're learning how to capitalize and when to capitalize. I mean, that's things my little sister should be learning, you know.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): It's because more than half of the 220 students at Maria's school don't pass statewide tests in reading and math.
FREDI LAJVARDI, COACH, FALCON ROBOTICS: When they come to school, you know, they come with fourth grade reading level and behind in math, so we really have a lot of catching up to do.
O'BRIEN: Guitar player Brian Whited is from middle class Seymour, Tennessee. This senior is about to become a programmer on his school's brand new robotics team.
BRIAN WHITED, SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT: I guess I'm a nerd. I've got all the honors classes, got the scholars bowl, bands, jazz bands, and now robotics to tack on to that. National Honor Society.
I guess I just do all the higher level education things.
Should we connect them side to side?
O'BRIEN: Brian wants to get into a top engineering school, but already he's at a disadvantage.
(On camera): Are there classes that you are not able to take because they're not offered in this school that you'd like to take?
WHITED: Well, I guess, any AP classes at all.
O'BRIEN: There's no AP classes here?
O'BRIEN: No choice. Not biology, chemistry, physics, history?
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Advanced placement classes give a leg up to students who want to get into top colleges. Brian hasn't taken one.
Sophomore Shaan Patel is from upper middle class Montgomery, New Jersey. The son of Indian emigrants Shaan is already taking two AP classes which leaves him little time for his favorite hobby, dancing.
SHAAN PATEL, SOPHOMORE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT: I'm taking (INAUDIBLE) Honors, Spanish 4, AP U.S. History 1, AP Statistics, English Honors and Chemistry Honors.
And then after school, I have Boy Scouts, robotics and dance.
O'BRIEN (on camera): So AP classes, honors classes, a full slated of after-school activities and how much homework every night?
PATEL: Like two to four hours usually.
O'BRIEN: That sounds like you're swamped. Do you feel pressured?
PATEL: Well, I mean I get stressed, but the thing is, like it was my choice to take all these classes, it was my choice to take extracurriculars. O'BRIEN (voice-over): In the U.S. students have a choice. And most choose not to take the tough math and science classes. But in most industrialized countries, classes like chemistry and physics aren't optional. It's one reason why out of 34 countries, American students rank 17th in science, 25th in math.
(On camera): Shanghai, China, Finland, South Korea, Slovakia, Canada, Australia, Estonia, Ireland, Belgium. That's just a partial list.
O'BRIEN: Who are ahead of us?
O'BRIEN: Why does it matter that we're number 17 and 25?
DUNCAN: We should be leading the world in education. And one generation ago we did. One generation ago we had the highest percent of college graduates in the world. We're flat lined, we've stagnated. It's simply not good enough.
DEAN KAMEN, FOUNDER OF FIRST: If we don't generate the next group of innovators, scientists, engineers, problem solvers in this country, our standard of living, our quality of life, our security will plummet.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Dean Kamen has made his millions with inventions from the insulin pump to the Segway.
KAMEN: If you want kids to study math and science, you don't create a science fair.
O'BRIEN: That's why he created the robotics competition he calls FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. This year's challenge, to build a robot that can race across a field and score points by hanging tubes on pegs. And this time a new twist. Students must build a second mini robot.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Race to the top of the towers.
CASTRO: That is to cool.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: First mini-bot the top gets a 30-point bonus.
PATEL: I think this looks really awesome and I can't wait to get started. The mini-bot was kind of confusing, though.
O'BRIEN: Is the answer to America's future in this box of parts?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I call this robotics Christmas. O'BRIEN: -- into a working robot.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These are different. I've never seen this kind before.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This would be rotational momentum.
O'BRIEN: In New Jersey Shaan's team is counting on figuring it out with the help of an advanced physics. But Maria's team has a secret plan. Which one will have the advantage?
CASTRO: Well, there's a secret and arrow down our design hopefully so next thing we can start building.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a 35 by 27 inch.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going to be working on just prototyping out of Legos.
O'BRIEN: Week one in Arizona. The key to doing well at this robotics competition, create a fast robot with an arm that can grip and score.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Two little arms like this.
LAJVARDI: How high can the arm go that we're building? A three-piece arm, a two-piece arm? All these kind of things that we're working out.
O'BRIEN: Maria is vice president of the robotics team.
CASTRO: It's just my little sister and I.
O'BRIEN (on camera): Because everybody is older and moved out.
CASTRO: Yes, everybody moved out. Or got kicked out.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): She's the sixth of seven children.
CASTRO: All of my brothers and sisters were straight A students.
CASTRO: Yes. They did. My sister got pregnant when she was younger. And like, everybody was kind of just expecting me to follow into their same footsteps, you know.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Everybody, including her father. She overheard him two years ago at her (speaking in foreign language), her 15th birthday party.
CASTRO: He was like, just a matter of time before she fails.
CASTRO: Yes. He's just like -- it doesn't really matter what she does right now. I mean, she'll eventually give up.
O'BRIEN: Did it motivate you in any way?
CASTRO: Yes. I kind of just took and looked around, you know. Now it's like, OK, if I'm going to get straight A's it's not just for you anymore, it's for me.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): By 2015 minority students will be more than half of U.S. school children. Latino students are the fastest growing group and they have the highest dropout rates.
DUNCAN: We have dropout rates in the minority community of 40, 50, 60 percent. That's morally unacceptable and economically unsustainable.
O'BRIEN (on camera): What's the risk if black and Latino students are not taking those high-level math classes?
BURNS: It's just a disaster. The risk is that you have a country with a population who are excluded financially from the success of the nation.
O'BRIEN: Because that's where the jobs are.
BURNS: That's where the jobs are.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Maria's goal, to study solar engineering at Stanford. Of the 30,000 who apply there annually, 2300, just 7 percent, are accepted.
CASTRO: I've analyzed, like, all the classes I was taking. And with what I have, I wasn't going to be able to take calculus before the end of my senior year. O'BRIEN (on camera): What's wrong with taking just pre-calculus?
CASTRO: Well, I -- to get into the university I want -- I have to have -- at minimum calculus.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): So Maria took action, signing up 31 students and a teacher for an accelerated math class which combines algebra and pre-calculus into one. Next she had to find the money for that after- school class.
CASTRO: Everybody else is, like, I'm not going to go. Are you kidding me? Go talk to the principal? No. What if I get in trouble? I'm like, you're not going to get in trouble, you're asking for something.
O'BRIEN: Maria's mother came with her to school every day to push for the new class.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She's an exemplary student. I am very proud of this, just of her being my daughter.
O'BRIEN: Maria's father emigrated from Mexico in the 1960s. He learned English working in the backs of restaurants. Now he supports his family with Social Security retirement checks.
(On camera): What do you think motivates her?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Her own will. I mean, she's oneself -- she can do a lot of things. She wants to be better than probably many people around her.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): After months of lobbying, Maria finally got the math class.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tangent of 30 is what, Maria?
CASTRO: Radical three over three.
O'BRIEN: It started in September with 32 students. But five months later, only 12 are left.
(On camera): Is she unusual?
LAJVARDI: She's unusual. There are kids that have some degree of Maria in them. Maria tends to be the one out in the front.
CASTRO: We're studying for our math final.
Am I to use just sign or co-sign?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Co-sign and then you can use the sign.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is multithread into that.
O'BRIEN: -- while her team tests and adjusts the robot's army.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now where is it hitting?
O'BRIEN: It's been nine years since Teacher Fredi Lajvardi started the team. His robotic alumni now work as engineers at Intel and Microchip, making two, three, four times what their parents earn.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have something to show you.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This looks very exciting.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's going to blow your mind. It is an arm segment.
LAJVARDI: Are you satisfied with it?
LAJVARDI: Once we point out to the kids that these jobs are available, and look at the salary you can make, once they see that, I don't even have to push them anymore. I need to just get out of their way.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here, lift it up.
O'BRIEN: They want to go all the way to the nationals in St. Louis, where they'll face off against wealthy, highly rated schools.
O'BRIEN (on camera): Are you worried that they've got a major advantage in this competition?
CASTRO: As much as money they have, that's how much heart we have into it. That's how much harder we have to try.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): This year Maria's team is working on a secret strategy. It's something neither the team in Tennessee nor the team in New Jersey has.
O'BRIEN: Shaan is only a sophomore but he's already a year ahead of Maria, a junior, in math.
(On camera): You'll take calculus next year.
O'BRIEN: That's a college level class, right?
PATEL: I think so. I think a lot of schools do that. I think a lot of kids do take calculus in high school.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): He's wrong. Only 16 percent of U.S. students take calculus in high school.
NEEPA PATEL, SHAAN PATEL'S MOTHER: Well, the way it works here is by sixth grade the children begin only for math instruction. They start differentiating.
O'BRIEN: In Montgomery, parents put kids on the track to advanced math in grade school.
PATEL: I try to take classes that will challenge me. I'm trying to challenge myself as much as I can.
O'BRIEN (on camera): Your brother is autistic.
PATEL: My brother has autism, yes.
O'BRIEN: Do you think you view the word differently because you have a brother who's autistic?
PATEL: I feel that I have, like, no right not to use any abilities that I have and that's why I want to challenge myself so much.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): So he's loaded his schedule and he's a builder on his school's robotics team.
PATEL: Push in from the bottom up.
O'BRIEN: Acquiring skills that will make him successful in an engineering program. This year Shaan's dad, a mechanical engineer, is volunteering on the robotics team. The first challenge for this team, their arm.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's going to be an elevator type thing, so we'll start off like this and then it will just push it up like that.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have two unknowns here. We have acceleration and torque.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. This would be rotational momentum.
CASTRO: We both take AP physics. The class is helping me now because we know how to solve for, like, the amount of force needed in order to, you know, lift up the elevator.
O'BRIEN: Shaan's teammates believe they have a winning design. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ready? Enable.
O'BRIEN: The programmers are testing their new code.
O'BRIEN: And it doesn't work.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's my code. Why doesn't it work?
O'BRIEN: In classrooms across Tennessee, there's a completely different sort of struggle. Following a stunning admission from the former governor.
O'BRIEN: In Tennessee rookie programmer Brian has taught himself the code to make his robot move.
WHITED: It's like learning a new language. You know you learn a little bit. You figure it out more as you go. But we don't know much of it but we know enough for now.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can have forward and backwards so it would be up and down.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On the first arm. And If you pulled the trigger, that's the second arm.
O'BRIEN: This is the very first year Brian's team is building. Wiring and programming.
WHITED: You go backwards. Of course it goes backwards.
O'BRIEN (on camera): Can you show me what the code looked like?
O'BRIEN: Did you map it out first?
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Brian is a senior at Seymour High School. Here, more than 70 percent of students will go on to higher education.
(On camera): What age did you know you were going off to college?
WHITED: I was maybe 7 or 8.
O'BRIEN: Years old. WHITED: Yes.
O'BRIEN: You knew you were going to college.
O'BRIEN: Because your mom was, like, you're going to college?
O'BRIEN (voice-over): His mom, Juanita, didn't attend college. She's making sure her three children don't make the same mistake. Brian is the youngest. This last year has been very difficult for the family. Brian's father, Jeff, fought leukemia for years. He was only 48 when he died last spring.
JUANITA, BRIAN WHITED'S MOTHER: I've started to realize which things are important and which things aren't.
O'BRIEN (on camera): After your husband died?
JUANITA: It didn't matter how much money we had. I would rather him have done more that he wanted to do.
O'BRIEN: What's your vision of the best for Brian?
JUANITA: I would want him to do something that he loves and something that he's passionate about. I would also like him to be comfortable.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Comfortable means a high-paying, high-tech job. Brian took the ACT college entrance exam just two days after his father's funeral. And he aced it. Scoring in the top 1 percent of the entire nation. Suddenly, Brian had a world of opportunity open to him.
(On camera): Brown, MIT, so what's more?
JUANITA: And the strange thing was, that when he took his ACT, he did not put any of these schools at all, so they must have a way of tracking people.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Yale also sent an application. And it became his top choice.
(On camera): What do you think his chances are for getting in?
O'BRIEN: Do you think his education is as good as anybody else in the country?
JUANITA: No, no. Definitely not. I mean, I -- O'BRIEN: That's a nice school. That's a good school.
O'BRIEN: Full of middle class people.
O'BRIEN: With great middle class values.
O'BRIEN: And you don't think he's getting a great education?
JUANITA: It might be my misperception but I always keep thinking that it's better everywhere else.
L O'BRIEN (voice-over): Maybe not a misperception. After this revelation from Tennessee's former Governor Phil Bredesen.
O'BRIEN: Out and outlying to parents about how well their kids were doing?
O'BRIEN: What was the real number?
O'BRIEN: 22 percent instead of 84 percent.
BREDESEN: Instead of 84. And you just say, look, you know, you may feel good for a minute.
O'BRIEN: But it's a lie.
BREDESEN: If you think that, but you're not doing these kids any favor by lying to them like that.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): High scores on easy state tests made Tennessee seem like an educational powerhouse. The truth, Tennessee was one of the lowest performing states in the country.
GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: Today begins a new era, a new time in public education in our country.
O'BRIEN: In 2001 the passage of "No Child Left Behind" tied student test scores to federal education dollars.
(On camera): President Bush's "No Child Left Behind" law, the states have to report their standardized test scores but they're making their own tests. You're going to need to report your numbers but guess what, you get to design your own test. I mean that's what "No Child Left Behind" do.
O'BRIEN: They dumb down the tests.
BREDESEN: Let's make it work. Let's make it work.
O'BRIEN: And make it work mean they dumb down the test?
O'BRIEN: Governor Bredesen said very bluntly, we lied. We lied to parents in the state of Tennessee. How many other states are lying?
DUNCAN: In many, many states we have been lying to children and lying to families.
O'BRIEN: What's many, many? More than half?
DUNCAN: Yes -- yes, probably more than half, absolutely.
DUNCAN: Well, you -- you know, you can go -- you can do the math and look at those disparities.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): We did look. Out of 30 states that have reported test scores for 2010, 29 claimed their eighth graders are doing better in math than national tests indicate.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: First we have to change that after we set it up.
O'BRIEN: In Tennessee easy tests came with low standards. But reforms put in place by Governor Bredesen are now raising the bar for all students.
O'BRIEN: The focus of Tennessee's reforms, the math and science curriculum. The idea, pay those teachers more, create specialized science schools in poor neighborhoods and put into place some of the toughest graduation requirements in the country.
Governor Bredesen also joined more than 40 other states in developing a set of high national standards in reading and math.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is just to give a visual -- UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is just to give a visual, yes.
O'BRIEN: But Tennessee's reforms come too late for high school seniors like Brian.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Your sum value at zero.
O'BRIEN: At Brian's school, only about 20 students a year out of 1300 take calculus or physics, the top math and science classes offered.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We started out with, I believe, eight or nine and several dropped.
O'BRIEN: Seymour's calculus teacher can't keep students in her classroom.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And then they realize, well, I'm going to have to work. And I think some were burnt out their senior year. And I think, oh, we're going to have to work. I don't know if I want to put in this much time.
O'BRIEN (on camera): What about the parents? I mean do the parents call you up and say, put Jimmy in physics, I want him to be the most prepared?
GREG CLARK, PRINCIPAL, SEYMOUR HS: No.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): What parents do call the principal about, sports.
CLARK: We live in America. Our sports are important to us.
O'BRIEN (on camera): Does that drive you crazy?
CLARK: Well, no. It's it is what it is, I guess.
O'BRIEN: That's a value system.
O'BRIEN: How do you change a value system?
CLARK: People, it has to be important to them. You know, you've got average, and there's nothing wrong with average. Average middle class, we're very happy, this is wonderful, we're moving along here.
O'BRIEN: But no one is knocking down the door saying, make this school great?
CLARK: Right. I want to provide the best education I can for the students. That's my job. Everybody should be pushing toward the top. But getting them to do it, you know, jumping on board and saying, hey, let's go, is not as easy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No one turns revolutions into engines.
O'BRIEN: -- getting the arm built on time.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So we've got that arm set as big as it's going to be angle wise. It's about like that.
WHITED: This week is going to be programming the arm, building the arm, putting the arm on, seeing what we're going to do with the mini- bot, we're not entirely sure on that.
O'BRIEN: Will their inexperience keep them from winning? What role do parents play when it comes to getting kids to tackle math and science?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do we know which way is front?
O'BRIEN: Three weeks left to finish the robot. Maria's veteran team is test-driving their secret weapon. If their plan works, it could give them a huge competitive advantage. Six days a week her team is building and practicing, but twice a week Maria must miss robotics for the accelerated math class she fought for.
CASTRO: Oh, my god, it's the final.
O'BRIEN: Four more students have dropped. Only eight remain.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do all your work on a scratch paper. Just like we've done in the past.
O'BRIEN: Today Maria has a big test. To advance to pre-calculus, she has to pass.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You solve that.
O'BRIEN: Only hours later Maria gets good news.
CASTRO: Yes. I got an A.
O'BRIEN: She'll be ready for calculus as a senior.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have to compensate. It starts varying. It's still off. So now you just have to worry about getting the right gear going.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. That's good enough.
CASTRO: Yes. Let's go home.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Go home and do your homework.
CASTRO: I'm so tired. Make sure the door's locked.
(Speaking in foreign language) I got an A on the test.
O'BRIEN (on camera): So how do your parents feel about it? Do they support you?
CASTRO: They do but, I mean, there's not much they can do to support me. So, like, there's no money. And they -- educational wise, my dad dropped out of sixth grade, my mom dropped out of fifth grade because their fathers, both of them, had their fathers pass away.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): The Patels are watching President Obama's State of the Union address. The president's focus, education.
For Shaan, the focus is midterms.
PATEL: I guess I have to stay up pretty late, until 12:30, 1:00-ish. You can't really have bedtime when you have a lot of stuff to get done.
N. PATEL: I think he's very much the typical American teenager, hanging out with his friends, going to the movies. Same old thing.
O'BRIEN (on camera): And taking classes that most American teenagers will never take.
N. PATEL: But in this town they do.
N. PATEL: We knew they had a great school system and that was really the clincher.
PATEL: We're going to get together tomorrow night to study.
CHARLIE PATEL, SHAAN PATEL'S FATHER: Education is what us parents can give to kids to give them a sound footing.
O'BRIEN (on camera): Do you think your kid is getting a great education?
PATEL: He's been saying that for week. He's doesn't -- he never believes that.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Sixty over N square, times J, divided by four plus square.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): At Shaan's school it's mostly children of Asian immigrants who are taking the very top math and science classes.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How about 20? How about 20? Twenty?
O'BRIEN: This is advanced placement physics.
(On camera): So your school is 30 percent Asian, but when you look at advanced placement classes, physics, 89 percent of the students taking that class are Asian. Chemistry, 72 percent. What do you think is the reason behind those numbers?
PAUL POPADIUK, PRINCIPAL, MONTGOMERY HS: It's probably where the student and parents wish to go as far as trying to get into a specific field. Engineering or math, science, chemistry related fields. They're kind of charting that path very early on.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Asians are 5 percent of the U.S. population. But they make up more than a quarter of the engineering graduates at top engineering schools like CalTech and MIT.
PATEL: I think it's more like the parenting than it is just being Asian.
N. PATEL: But we think current events are important, Shaan. That's why. That's why we ask you, OK?
PATEL: I get that. I'm just saying we don't do it in class. Education is the most important thing.
N. PATEL: I think he learned. He did it.
PATEL: Grades come first, and I know that. And a lot of kids, a lot of houses are like that.
O'BRIEN (on camera): Do Asian families put a greater emphasis on math and science? Do they place a greater value on math and science?
N. PATEL: I think they see careers in the math and science fields as a way to success. These are poor countries you're talking about, so you're looking for a way out sometimes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Just double check.
N. PATEL: And what better way to get it than ensure that you will be able to get a job.
PATEL: Perfect. That's -- yes, that's the reverse turning, not the forward.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Two weeks left and Brian Whited is working on the robot every single day.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right. Here we go. Go. Wow.
WHITED: What did you do?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: One of them -- you have to put as a negative to make it turn.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right. So that's false. No, this one's true. False, true, false, it should work. Let's try this.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, it worked. It worked.
WHITED: What is it finding?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The three foot line it works.
O'BRIEN: His rookie team has never done any of this before.
(On camera): This is the mini-bot?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the mini-bot and it is built to climb up this pole, put it on.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It automatically turns on.
O'BRIEN: Is it going to win?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm going to try to do this in one motion.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Off with his head.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): That arm needs to get fixed fast. Because across the country the battle for a spot at finals is getting under way.
O'BRIEN: One week left to the finish. In New Jersey, Shaan and his teammates are putting in the long hours, completing their robot.
(On camera): What makes you think you have the best robot?
PATEL: It's fast. And it's maneuverable.
O'BRIEN: Are you feeling the pressure already?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not yet, but I know last year we were in finals, I could feel it.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Their goal -- finish early and give Tenet (ph), the driver days to practice.
O'BRIEN: No button, just push down.
O'BRIEN: OK. That's my right. That's my left. I'm not sure I have it down yet. Sorry.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just back up. It's fine. So now you know one of the pressures I face.
O'BRIEN: Think you're going to win?
PATEL: I think we're going to win.
O'BRIEN: There's glass all around the outside of it?
CASTRO: For the most part.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Only hours left until the robot must be completed.
O'BRIEN (on camera): That sounds like a lot for 24 hours.
(Voice-over): Maria's team is frantically checking wires and testing circuits. Six weeks of work comes down to this one moment.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're in good shape.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Remember 116205, verified.
O'BRIEN (on camera): Think you're going to win?
CASTRO: Yes. I think we're pretty dangerous this year.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): Especially dangerous because of their secret strategy. They built a second identical robot. That means even after their robot is packed, they'll have a full month to practice. Most teams don't.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm so excited .
O'BRIEN: Early spring and as 48 regionals across the country, thousands of teams are competing for a shot at the finals in St. Louis.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You need to plug that in. This is ready to go.
O'BRIEN: Maria's team has never built a winning robot. Could their secret strategy give them the advantage they need?
CASTRO: I have really high hopes we're going to win right now.
O'BRIEN: Shaan's team, the kids taking the top math and science classes, is competing in the Pennsylvania regional. They're excited to test their robot, number 1403.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Let's hear it for team 1403. Three, two, one, go.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You guys score. We'll play defense.
O'BRIEN: To play, three robots work together to form the red team. Another three make up the blue team. They score points by hanging tubes and deploying mini-bots. Get the most points, win the round.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We got first. We got first.
PATEL: Both my parents, my brother came, and my grandma and my other grandma and grandpa all came. So it's just really great that they all came to support me. I'm so happy to see them all. And I got to show them my robot.
O'BRIEN: At Brian's Tennessee regionals, he and his mom are anxiously watching their robot, 3675. And the arm isn't working.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right. Fifty second left to go.
O'BRIEN: They can't hang any tubes which means their robot can't score for the team. Can these first-timers make a comeback?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can't move. I can't move.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We can't score. We can't score.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: One of our wires popped and then our limit switch broke.
O'BRIEN: Shaan is on the pit crew. Their job is to fix the robot and get it back in the game quickly.
O'BRIEN: The robot is back in, but will the team score enough to make it to the finals?
PATEL: We hope we're going to win. We're not so sure, but we think we can.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Got to go through it.
O'BRIEN: In Arizona, Maria's team must win the next two out of three matches to advance to the finals. Game one, easy win, but their robot is taking a beating.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I thought it was that other robot when he turned around. It looked like a near head-on collision.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Back up and go forward. Go forward.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, you're not on.
O'BRIEN: A loss. Everything hangs on game three.
O'BRIEN: Three teams, three chances to go to the finals in St. Louis. Who will make it?
O'BRIEN: It's down to the wire at the regionals. The teams must win to advance to the final competition in St. Louis. In Tennessee, Brian's team is still unable to score.
WHITED: Might as well just get in there. The robot didn't do too well. It achieved well for us being rookies.
O'BRIEN: But their hard work is rewarded.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our next award is the Rookie Inspiration Award. Congratulations 3675. From Seymour, Tennessee.
WHITED: I didn't expect to get an award.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, back, mini-bot, mini-bot.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: 1403, and set, fire. Here we go. Oh, burst.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You have to argue that. We're not taking that penalty.
PATEL: I'm pretty sure we got second or third.
O'BRIEN: Shaan's team wins an Engineering Award. But they don't score enough to advance to St. Louis.
PATEL: I'm kind of disappointed right now. But I'm not -- I don't feel too bad because we definitely had a great time.
O'BRIEN: New Jersey and Tennessee are out.
O'BRIEN: In Arizona, Maria's team is still in. Everything hangs on this last game.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Blue, blue, blue.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Drop it. There you go. Right there. Up, up. Down.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mini-bot, go. Mini-bot. On the way. Wait. Fire. Yes.
O'BRIEN: Their secret strategy, all the extra practice time, pays off with a victory.
LAJVARDI: Everything that we've been telling the kids and everything the kids have been working for really paid off and they can see it. That's what winning today means.
CASTRO: Four, three, two, one, zero.
O'BRIEN: Starting now, they have one month to practice for the finals.
CASTRO: I've sacrificed a lot to be on this team. And I hope that once we win nationals, it will finally pay off.
O'BRIEN (on camera): What do you see when you look up in these stands?
KAMEN: I see the same thing you see. The future of this country. It is undeniable that those kids in 10 years will be the work force and the leadership of this country.
O'BRIEN (voice-over): More than 15,000 students have traveled to this stadium for a shot at the championship. Maria's team, the top seed from Arizona, isn't doing well in the qualifying rounds.
CASTRO: Everything was just going really, really bad. And the only thing we had good yesterday was the pizza.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, no. He called penalty.
CASTRO: Did he go into the lane?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Go, go, go.
O'BRIEN: They must win the next match or go home.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stay with him. Stay with him. Push that white one. Push the white one.
CASTRO: Now we're playing defense.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Push it. Push it. Push it. Push it. Compensate. You can do this.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We lost that one, guys.
LAJVARDI: Yes. Got first and second on the mini-bot, so we're out. They had a huge experience here. There's a lot of new kids here and we're going to come back stronger next year.
CASTRO: Don't worry about it. You do. It's a good job. I'm proud of you all.
O'BRIEN (on camera): Do you feel like you're a winner?
CASTRO: Yes. Our team fought hard.
CASTRO: I'm proud of us.
O'BRIEN: You're proud? Congratulations. You've been fun to follow. No crying. No crying.
(Voice-over): For Maria and her team, it's time to pack up.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Looking at first and second. A tied score. Now 70 seconds remaining. Looking for second. Ten seconds remaining. They're going up.
O'BRIEN: The winning team is made up of student from California and Indiana. They come from schools in mostly middle class communities.
CASTRO: Regardless of whether we won our lost, our team is a lot stronger as a whole. And I think everybody has matured a lot more. You know? Including myself.
KAMEN: These kids at the end of one season are permanently changed. What these kids are building is self-respect, self-confidence. What they're building is an understanding that in the real world, being smart is really cool. It's really important. It's really accessible. It can lead them to career options that they never thought about.
O'BRIEN (on camera): And it's all shaped like a robot.
KAMEN: The robot is a way to make it fun. But these kids walk away saying, I can do that.
WHITED: There are probably several kids but I will never know, but because of the stuff our team did, they will end up creating a career in engineering and they wouldn't have done it if they wouldn't have had a chance on the robotics team that we started. | 2019-04-23T18:16:23Z | http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1111/24/cp.03.html | Porn | Kids | 0.362504 |
wordpress | Imagination is a wonderful thing – except when you are three years old in a dark room and you can hear something scraping against the window. If the sun was shining, even a toddler would work out that it was just a branch moving in the wind but, after dark, and especially after a couple of hours of peppery television, it’s not surprising if monsters and bogey men are more likely explanations.
Of course, fear of the dark is irrational and silly, but I have too many silly irrational fears of my own to go mocking anyone else’s phobias. Many kids suffer from it, but there are a few things you can do to lay their fears, and the children themselves, to rest.
For thousands of years, color has been thought to have power over our emotions. Artists, interior decorators, fashion designers, and advertising agencies utilize the meaning of different colors to influence human behavior and attract customers. By considering the lessons of these experts, how can we as parents use the science of color to guide our children’s mood? Does the color we paint their rooms really affect how happy they feel or how soundly they sleep?
Several ancient cultures, including the Egyptians and Chinese, used color for healing purposes as far back as 2,000 years ago. This type of therapy is called chromotherapy, light therapy, or colorology, and is still used today as a holistic or alternative treatment.
It is believed that color therapy uses the visible spectrum of light and color to change a person’s mood and their physical and mental health. Each color is part of a specific frequency and vibration that can affect certain energy, or chakras, in our body.
Practitioners also believe that certain colors entering the body can activate hormones causing chemical reactions that ultimately influence emotion and help the body heal. Red, for example, is used to stimulate the body and mind and to increase circulation. Orange heals the lungs and increases energy levels. Blue treats pain, while indigo cures skin problems. Finally, green relaxes patients who are emotionally unbalanced and yellow invigorates those suffering from depression.
Psychologists have found that color can influence how we feel and can even cause physiological changes in our body. Keep in mind, however, that there are different interpretations of color’s impact on emotions depending on culture and circumstance.
Research shows that certain colors can increase blood pressure, metabolism, and adrenaline. Other studies have found that certain colors can improve sleep habits, boost memory, and enhance academic performance. One study discovered that seeing the color red before taking a test can hurt performance. Students who were shown a red number before taking the test scored more than 20 percent lower than those shown a green or black number.
Just as color influences our mood, it can also be used to describe how we feel. A study reported in the journal BMC Medical Research indicated that people with depression or anxiety were more likely to associate their mood with the color gray, while happier people preferred yellow.
Researchers at the University of California determined that young children chose bright colors to represent positive feelings and dark colors for negative feelings. They were even able to identify how specific colors made the children feel: red is for mad, blue is for sad, yellow is for happy, and green is for glad. Color can therefore be a very helpful tool in accessing children’s emotions instead of relying on them to tell us how they feel.
Institutions like the American Red Cross, St. Jude’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Scholastic incorporate this ability to connect feelings to colors as a way to better understand the emotions of young children. So if our children tell us they feel gray or blue, are seeing red, or feel green with envy, we will know what they are talking about can guide them through their emotions.
Over time, studies have shown how different colors impact us in unique ways. Warm colors, such as red, yellow, and orange, stimulate emotions ranging from comfort and warmth to hostility and anger. Typically, warm colors make us feel happy and cozy. Bold shades of warm colors also help stimulate our mind and energize our body.
I found “The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog” a fascinating read and would recommend it to anyone who is interested in child psychology or who works with traumatised children… or even if you just have a general interest in how our minds (and the developing minds of children in particular) respond to trauma. The full title of this book is “The Boy Who was raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook, What Traumatized Children can Teach us about Loss, Love and Healing” and the authors are Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D, and Maia Szalavitz.
One of the things I liked about this book was that, despite saying that traumatic events can “leave indelible marks on the mind [and the]…impact of PTSD [Post Traumatic Shock Disorder] is actually far greater on children than it is on adults” [p.2], the overall tone is positive and hopeful, both for children who have been affected by PTSD as a consequence of severe abuse and/ or neglect or due to witnessing horrific events, as well as for adults affected by PTSD. Bruce D. Perry, a child psychiatrist and Senior Fellow of the ChildTrauma Academy (USA and Canada) is the “voice” of this book, which he wrote together with Maia Szalavitz, an award winning journalist who specialises in science and health. Perry compassionately and respectfully acknowledges the immense importance of “The Forever Years” (childhood) and the importance of investing in and creating a serious strategy of therapy for children affected by trauma.
Source: “The Boy who was raised as a Dog,” appendix, figure 2, p. 248.
The younger a child is when a traumatic event occurs, Perry says, the greater the affect on the lower and most central regions of the brain. This, he explains, is “developmental trauma” (as opposed to inherent anxiety or stress disorders caused in utero or by genetics). Trauma in early childhood causes “altered receptors” or heightened sensitivity to “threat”: an over-exaggerated “fight or flight” reaction, based on triggers which the person may not even be consciously aware of themselves and which, in others who have not undergone similar trauma, would probably not cause such a reaction. A clear indicator, Perry realised, was that children with this “heightened sensitivity” had, even when calm and resting, an accelerated heart rate at a level significantly above that of their non-traumatised peers of the same age and gender.
The responses of traumatised children, Perry explains, can be to create more “chaos”, as this has been their “norm” in the past and brain pathways of accepting chaos as normality have been set up. Adults who undertake social work or foster care, for example, should be aware of this. “The responses of traumatised children are often misinterpreted. …new situations are inherently stressful… attempting to take control of what they believe is the inevitable return to chaos, they appear to “provoke” it in order to make things feel more comfortable and predictable. …we tend to prefer the “certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty.” This response to trauma can often cause serious problems for children when it is misunderstood by their caregivers.” [p.55].
This is where the amazing capacity of our human brains to “heal” and create “new pathways”, even years after traumatic events which have occurred during early childhood (during the first, early stages of brain development) comes into play.
“…we tend to care for our children [and, interestingly, for ourselves as adults] the way we were cared for ourselves during our own childhoods, [so] a good “brain” history of a child begins with a history of the caregiver’s childhood and early experience.” [p.83]. Our “Forever Years”, then, are also effected by the “Forever Years” of those caring for us when we are young. The diagnosis “failure to thrive” in a child ” (discussed on p.88) can stem from a parent or parents not having thrived themselves during their own childhood years. In extreme cases, even when other, basic needs (such as for food, shelter and clothing) are met, if a carer is emotionally “distant” a child may fail to gain weight or be delayed in other ways (such as speech or other developmental milestones). This is purely a “nurture” (or lack of nurture) issue, and nothing to do with anything innate in the child. Perry talks about how until recently, doctors were “...unaware of the damage that neglect alone can do to the brain. They assumed that something so clearly visible on scans had to be evidence of a genetic defect or intrauterine insult, such as exposure to toxins or disease; they couldn’t imagine that early environment alone could have such profound physical effects.” [p. 129].
“Fortunately the positive cycle is every bit as cascading and self-amplifying as the vicious cycle,” Perry says, [p.121] and while emotional scars may always be present, the intervention of a loving, understanding environment can reprogram reactions and triggers. This is enormously positive when considering the effect on future social interactions (including romantic relationships) for traumatised children as they grow into adulthood and becomes parents themselves. The more relationships are positively retained and jobs and parenting situations are handled in constructive ways, the stronger and more confident the “traumatised child now adult” will become, which in turn further aids healing of old, emotional scars.
Perry doesn’t just put this forward as a vague hypothesis, however. Throughout “The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog” he gives concrete examples through case studies of real patients he has worked with (obviously, these children’s names have been changed to protect their privacy). Each is an example of a child suffering from severe trauma, including the “boy who was raised as a dog,” who gives the book its title. Through his work, Perry says, he and his colleagues “…only gradually came to understand how the sequential development of a child’s brain is affected by trauma and neglect. It only gradually dawned on us that this understanding could help us find possible treatments. These insights led us to develop what we call the neurosequential approach to theraputic services for maltreated and traumatised children.“ [p.125].
I love the “neurosequential” approach Perry and his colleagues take, along with the immense positive ramifications it has for the children they are working with. The nuerosequential approach works on the basis of assessing which areas in a patient’s brain have sustained damage or neglect from past experiences, and then addressing these one by one. “We would use enrichment experiences and targeted therapies to help the affected brain areas in the order in which they were affected by neglect and trauma (hence the name neurosequential). If we could document improved functioning following the first set of interventions, we would begin the second set appropriate for the next brain region and developmental stage until, hopefully,… [the patient] would get to the point where his biological age and his developmental age would match.” [p.139].
Just as our brains develop sequentially, then, neurosequential therapy is aimed at addressing “loss” in development (caused by abuse, neglect or trauma) in a sequential manner. Perry uses the example of a boy called Connor (not his real name), now aged fourteen, who had suffered from severe neglect as a baby. “In Connor’s case, It was clear that his problems had started in early infancy, when the lower and most central regions of the brain are actively developing. These systems respond to rhythm and touch: the brainstem’s regulatory centres control heartbeat, the rise and fall of neurochemicals and hormones in the cycle of day and night, the beat of one’s walk and other patterns which must maintain a rhythmic order to function properly.” [pp.139-140]. For Connor, “treatment” began with massage therapy, as early neglect had left him with an aversion to touch which was affecting his ability to even make eye contact with others, and hence affecting his social relationships.
Perry goes on to describe the “levels” or “layers” of neurosequential therapy, each of which respond to and attempt to address a deficit caused by trauma earlier on.
Touch is, of course, our earliest form of validation and security from our carers. This is the reason for the importance placed on giving newborn babies “skin to skin” contact and the psychological benefits of this can be seen throughout life. (See previous articles on this blog about the importance of positive touch in early childhood and throughout life, by following the links below).
Many of us parents take our preschoolers to “Music and Movement” groups thinking that that’s just “what you do” and that it gives us a chance to socialise with other parents and connect with and focus on our children in a child-centred environment. All of this is true and the benefits of music to our babies and children has been well documented. (Again, there is a link to follow below if you would like to read an article about the benefits of music to our kids).
After reading “The Boy Who was raised as a Dog”, I came to realise that, beyond being merely “beneficial”, music and movement are essential in brain development, affecting crucial areas such as language acquisition and breathing and heart rate regulation. Music and humanity have been linked since the dawn of time, with every culture having songs and rhymes for children passed down from generation to generation. They are part of the fabric of who we are.
Perry describes how “play therapy” is used in treating traumatised children and in particular talks about Sandy (not her real name), a three year old girl who witnessed her mother being raped and stabbed to death, before having her own throat slit and being left for dead. Sandy was alone with her mother’s body in their apartment for eleven hours before being discovered, taken to hospital and having the wounds on her neck treated. [p.33]. Perry discovered that Sandy had a need to role play the scene which had traumatised her again and again. This involved Perry himself lying on the ground, in the role of Sandy’s mother, while Sandy attempted to “wake” him and “feed” him, which she had done with her mother during the eleven hours after the brutal attack on them both. [p.52]. “While she did this [role play] , I had to do exactly what she wanted: don’t talk, don’t move, don’t interfere, don’t stop. She needed to have total control while she performed this reenactment. And that control, I began to recognize, would be critical to helping her heal.” Over the course of many months, Sandy began to alter this re-enactment and, on her own, changed it to a scene where Perry would read her a story book, thus reverting to a positive memory of times with her mother before the attack. This is not to say that Sandy wasn’t scarred by her extremely traumatic experience. But “play therapy” in this way enabled her to process what had happened and move towards healing. Perry says that, with ongoing therapy and encouragement, Sandy went on to lead a satisfying and productive life, despite her horrific early experience.
Perry says the next step in neurosequential therapy is being able to aptly interact with peers. This is a big step, as adults make allowances and try to protect or help a child who they see as having “issues”, but successful peer interaction (and acceptance of and by peers) is necessary to be able to function throughout the rest of life, with implications for all future relationships. Perry discusses the case of Peter (not his real name) a seven year old boy who was adopted at age three from an orphanage in Russia. Due to early lack of stimulation and neglect during his time at the orphanage (where intentions were good, but there were simply not enough adults to go around, meaning that Peter and the other three year olds there were fed and changed, but spent all day in cots), Peter, who was an intelligent boy, showed behaviour which was young for his age and, inspite of loving and patient behaviour from his adoptive parents at home, this caused him to be rejected and marginalised by his peers… which in turn led Peter to having angry, bewildered outburts (which only served to further ostracise him from his classmates).
“The behavior of his classmates was predictable. What was happening was a small version of what happens all across the planet in various forms every day. Human beings fear what they don’t understand. The unknown scares us. When we meet people who look or act in unfamiliar, strange ways, our initial response is to keep them at arms length. At times we make ourselves feel superior, smarter or more competent by dehumanizing or degrading those who are different. The roots of so many of our species’ ugliest behaviors– racism, ageism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, to name just a few– are the basic brain-mediated response to perceived threat. We tend to fear what we do not understand, and fear can so easily twist into hate or even violence because it can suppress the rational parts of our brain.” [p.225].
The biggest predator of humans is humans and we have, therefore, a built in fear of other people who seem “different”. Perry says, “...Peter was intellectually advanced, but socially clueless. I realised that if he was going to catch up, he was going to need the help of his peers.” [p.226].
What followed was an amazing (and yet simple) exercise in understanding. Our fear reaction so often kicks in, but the empathy reaction can take longer to activate (in children or adults), but, it has been shown, empathy once activated is stronger than the fear reaction. To get Peter’s peers “on side” in his healing, Perry (with the permission of Peter, his parents and the school) came along to his class and spoke about the brain… at a level at which seven year old children could understand.
“I talked about how they were exercising their “ABC” muscles [of the brain] in school and about the importance of repetition. I described how they had many other similar kinds of “muscles” in the brain that also needed certain kinds of attention to grow big and strong. I talked about how the brain develops and what makes everyone’s brain work, emphasizing how the brain changes.” [p.228].
Perry then went on to explain how Peter had had a different and more difficult start in life than the other children in his class.
An orphanage in Eastern Europe. Source: National Geographic.
“When he was a little boy, he spent every minute of every day for the first three years of his life in one crib. … Peter was born in another country where they did not know very much about the brain. … Peter never had a chance to walk around, to play with friends, to get a hug from any loving grown-ups. His brain didn’t get very much stimulation. … his new parents came… [then] Peter’s amazing brain started to learn so many things. Even though he had never heard English, he learned English in just a couple of years. … every day in school, Peter learns things from all of you. He watches how you do things, he learns from playing with each of you and he learns from just being your friend. So thank you for helping Peter. And thanks for letting me come and talk about the brain.” [pp.228-229].
Perry says that, in the weeks that followed, the children’s “natural goodness” came to the surface and they “included him, protected him and, ultimately, provided therapeutic experiences that helped Peter catch up…. adults have much more influence over the process [of helping children understand those who are different] than they may believe. When children understand why someone behaves oddly, they give him or her more slack…” [p.229].
“The Boy Who was raised as a Dog” has many more examples of the amazing capacity of the human brain to recover from early neglect or trauma, including the story which gives the book its title. Perry also worked with the children from the WACO Texas cult and talks about his experiences with them in this book. While Perry’s patients are extreme examples of trauma or abuse, he says an estimated 40% of children will experience some level of trauma before they reach adulthood [p. 233] and that some of our current practices of therapy and childcare are actually causing more harm than healing [p.235]. He advocates for an “infant and child literate society” [p.239] and a nurturing of empathy– which is why we at “The Forever Years” love this book, which fits in so well with our own ethos, of viewing the world “through the eyes of a child”, an ethos which Perry certainly puts into action when treating children who have suffered from trauma or neglect.
As parents, there is a constant temptation to shield our children from bad news. But sometimes, and in particular with acts of terrorism, bad news is unavoidable – it’s in on television, it’s on social media, and it’s on our minds.
Like most people, I’ve been carefully following the news from Paris. My family has close ties to France, and my children’s ears perked up when news of the attacks came on the radio.
For guidance on how to talk to my children about the attacks in Paris, I rang Gemma Allen, a senior bereavement counsellor at Winston’s Wish, Britain’s leading charity for bereaved children, who offers the following tips for talking to children about terrorist attacks.
• Language matters: For children of all ages, the most important thing is to reassure them that they are safe. Don’t get into the political context with primary-aged children. That may come up in conversation with older children, but the importance at any age is offering the reassurance that they are safe.
For pre-school children, use concrete language: don’t say “This person went to sleep” or “We’ve lost that person” – because that could instil fear or anxiety in that child about going to sleep. And what does lost mean? They’re lost at the shops? Be accurate and mindful of the impact of your language.
• Age-appropriate conversations: For pre-school, think about how much exposure they’ve had. Maybe they’ve overheard the news, so the conversation could be quite brief: acknowledge what has happened, and say that lots of people have died as a result of a really bad incident. You can say that we don’t know why this has happened.
As the parent or teacher or carer, the most important part is to offer reassurance: this is very unusual, there are lots of safety checks in place to protect us. Use age-appropriate language, and be aware of what your child understands: do they really know what “died” means? It’s usually not until the age of 5 or 6 that children understand that death is permanent.
With primary school, the majority will understand what “dead” means. So it may be that you can add details – you may be able to sit down and watch the 6 o’clock news together.
• Social media awareness: Secondary school aged children will have come across news about the Paris attacks already on social media. Remind them that some of the things they have read there may be incorrect. Have a conversation with your child about what they think has happened. Talk about the images they’ve seen – these can be more powerful than words. If they see an image, and haven’t had a conversation with someone they trust, they will build up these images something that is so big that it’s unmanageable for them; you don’t want a child to start fantasising that someone is going to come after them.
• Promote peace: As I explained to my children, who are primary and pre-school age, the facts of what had happened, I tried to shift their focus towards the coming together of the people of Paris, and the work people around the world to keep everyone safe.
• Shield them: From certain politicians’ dangerous reactions – for example, by sayings that terrorists were carrying out “an organised attempt to destroy Western civilisation,” Jeb Bush granted these men more power than they have. This hysteria is exactly what the people carrying out these acts want. And it is exactly this sort of hysteria that we, as parents, need to protect our children from.
Part 2 of “ReMoved”, the short film about one girl, Zoe, and her journey as a foster child, is now here… see below. Part 1 was previously on “The Forever Years”. Sensitively portrayed, a “must see” for all intending foster parents. Realistically shown “through the eyes of a child”. | 2019-04-18T10:26:52Z | https://theforeveryears.wordpress.com/category/anxiety-in-kids/ | Porn | Science | 0.455565 |
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wordpress | I love all your wonderful gooshy paint and texture! Lovely.
Such congenial color palettes. Here’s a weird question: Ever had one of your paintings purchased specifically for someone’s waiting room (e.g., doctor, dentist, counselor)? They have a wonderful soothing quality.
Congratulations on the show and your paintings are very beautiful in texture and color.
Hi, I love the textures of your painting. Lay it on thick! | 2019-04-22T20:01:15Z | https://trishfalin.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/centered-on-the-center-huntington-beach-art-show/ | Porn | Arts | 0.588153 |
wordpress | This type of speech gives rise to fear and a movement toward ungodliness, but is the narrative justified by the data? Most people remain within there race and although there is an increase in interracial marriage, this is not an indication of the end of white supremacy. White women have been having sexual relations with black men since the beginning. Of course, this attack on white women is a deflection from the real issue, which leads us back to white supremacy.
In Christ, we are all one and there is no marriage in heaven. In light of this, how should we responds as Holy Ghost filled believers? Nothing changes for us. We contend for the faith and we love God with everything we have and God will empower us to love our family, neighbor and enemies. God’s promises will be fulfilled in your life when you remain on God’s path.
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wordpress | Thinking that since we are in this together.
We could help each other become better.
I have extended pardon to you a million times.
Neither is the experience getting sweeter.
Without care, without regard for our budding union.
But I’m glad the courage to move on I could find. | 2019-04-24T04:44:23Z | https://wisepoems.wordpress.com/2018/09/30/poem-courage-to-move-on/ | Porn | Reference | 0.41148 |
wordpress | But is this really what a great many Iraqis want? They surely want order, commerce, fair treatment, and the good of their individual tribes. But freedom? And if they celebrated the fall of Saddam, hasn’t it been clear that for some this was a signal that they now could oppress their erstwhile oppressors?
The sorry history of liberal movements in 19th Century Europe and South America should give some pause to those who believe that people everywhere desire freedom. That desire has often been fleeting or coexstensive with darker desires of envy, revenge, and license. We’ve seen this in our own times, particularly in Eastern Europe, where misguided notions of freedom left a great many Russians, Poles, and others with unfortunate disrespect for free markets, borne by the rapidity of the social change and the inclusion of accidental aspects of free societies that could have been disregarded in deference to national cultures and other goods.
I see quite clearly that, whenever nations are poorly governed, they are very ready to entertain the desire for governing thesmelves. But this kind of love for independence, which has its roots only in certain particular and passing evils brought on by despostism, never lasts long; it disppearas along with the accidental circumstnaces which caused it. They seemed to love freedom; it turns out they simply hated the master. When nations are ready for freedom, what they hate is the evil of dependency itself.
At home and abroad, a desire for security by the lower classes above all is the main competitor of freedom. Instead of looking to export this difficult to maintain good overseas by military force, America would be better served to cultivate its own national independence at home. But instead of the Republican evils of imperial adventures abroad and the false freedom of unproductive financial gimmicks at home, Obama promises humanitarian interventions overseas and crippling debts at home in the name of economic stimulus. Having replaced the old stawart American people with a newer breed through mass immigration, and having accelerated that old breed’s decadence at home with the welfare state begun in the 1930s, the various effects of liberalism have rendered the old American type that “hate[d] the evil of dependency itself” in short supply to say the least. | 2019-04-23T18:56:21Z | https://mansizedtarget.wordpress.com/tag/political-science/ | Porn | Society | 0.513275 |
wordpress | For those readers who are professional artists, or artists by education, this will all seem sophomoric at best but I want to analyze “Hayfield” as it now exists and note the changes I want to try.
The idea was to imply distance perspective agains the black underpainting by using very dark values near the right side and moving to lighter values to the left. That worked to my satisfaction at least.
As I look at the result, it seems to me the blocking image of a tree in the upper right corner should really have been changed to a dark, almost brooding cloud formation with maybe some backlighting. I may try to change that.
The hayfield itself turn out darker than I wanted but I think I’ll leave that alone, or I could change the paintings title to ‘Plowed Field?’ Nahhh!
The yellow trees however did not work out at all. In retrospect I forgot that yellow blended with black produces a green — in this case quite a sickly one. I’m going to try to change those to something more like a dried yellow color indicating the season. I also need to add a little highlighting, especially to the trees in the left portion of the painting.
And I notice there is no real focal point, although my eye at least seems to gravitate to the green tree popping up from the reds and oranges at the right upper thirds point. I think I will see if I can rework the vine on the fence a bit to become a morning glory to pop a little color closer to the bottom right thirds point.
I need to study the amount of impasto – the thickness of paint – needed in these acrylic images. When I do a knife based painting in acrylics the impasto is deeper and the colors look better — I may have been brushing the color out too thinly here which is why I can see the weave of the canvas so easily.
Most of all I need to work up my paint transparencies chart to avoid some of these problem situations.
This entry was posted in acrylics and tagged analysis, painting, rework on July 27, 2018 by westfloridavideoarts.
This painting was an unexpected surprise. As I looked at it when finished I saw a valley running near a mountain with pine trees. Yet it started as just blocks of color in order to practice the “pine tree” technique. I had to ask myself, to what extent does the painting ‘suggest’ and the mind ‘interpret’ what is seen. Not a particularly surprising thought, but a bit startling to actually experience it. The larger version ‘Three Pines’ is at this gallery page.
This entry was posted in acrylics and tagged acrylics, art, landscape, mountain, painting, pines, rustic, woods on April 25, 2018 by westfloridavideoarts.
I stumbled across an old photograph taken in the 1980s. It was when I was just learning how to set aperture and exposure time to take low light photographs. I was using Ektachrome 35mm slide film at the time. All I have left of the slide is this very bad scan, also done on the first scanner I ever owned — the name of which escapes me.
I always liked the photo mostly for sentimental reasons, recalling my joy at being able to capture what the sun looked like and being able to position the shot to have the sun setting right on top of the dock.
I wanted to know what would happen if I tried to capture this same image as an acrylic painting – I needed some experience mixing colors in acrylics which has turned out to be a problem since I cannot mix on the brush for some reason.
I began the painting by using painter’s tape to mask off the horizon line, and used black gesso for the sky. After that was dry I painted in the sky and let it dry. Next was to mix a color for the water and add it up to the horizon line. The rest of the painting was done by mixing colors (very dark browns, very dark greens) and finishing the components, adding the sun highlights at the end.
This entry was posted in acrylics, decor and tagged "Boca Ciega Bay", "St. Petersburg", acrylic, art, dock, florida, painting, Pinellas, sunet on April 10, 2018 by westfloridavideoarts. | 2019-04-19T10:24:41Z | https://westfloridavideoarts.wordpress.com/category/acrylics/ | Porn | Arts | 0.157267 |
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The two finalists both pulled off stunning upsets in the semifinals. German powerhouse Bayern, a four-time Euro champ (1974, 75, ’76, ’01) eliminated Real Madrid while England’s Chelsea, a finalist in ’08, shocked cup holders FC Barcelona.
Prediction: With all due respect to Iker Casillas (Spain, Real Madrid), Gianluigi Buffon (Italy, Juventus), Victor Valdes (Spain, FC Barcelona), and, yes, Chelsea’s Petr Cech (Czech Republic), Bayern Munich’s Manuel Neuer will emerge from the match having cemented his place as perhaps the world’s best goalkeeper.
And if he doesn’t, he has plenty of time to do so. Already a World Cup veteran, Germany’s No. 1 is just 26. | 2019-04-21T01:10:53Z | https://soccerstoriesbook.wordpress.com/tag/iker-casillas/ | Porn | Sports | 0.812994 |
yahoo | Sasha Yodashkin checks out Sunday's slate and expects Odell Beckham to follow up his big Monday night with another productive game against a vulnerable Bucs secondary.
The Sunday-only main slate for Week 2 consists of 14 games. We’ve gotten a chance to see everybody in action, but there are still plenty of question marks about which players are primed to repeat their Week 1 performances and which ones are due for a major correction, be it positive or negative. Many of the same names that carried lineups last week are in position to do so again, but there are also a few fresh faces ready to capitalize on favorable matchups.
Brees costs as much as any quarterback on the slate, but his upside in this matchup makes him worth paying up for. Not only did Brees just complete 82.2 percent of his passes for 439 yards and three touchdowns, but his defense gave up 48 points, suggesting that the veteran quarterback will be asked to air it out early and often. With the Browns coming to town, it wouldn’t be surprising to see Brees replicate last week’s fantasy performance if not exceed it.
Oakland’s wide receivers couldn’t create any separation last week, so Derek Carr ended up completing nine passes apiece to Richard and tight end Jared Cook. The vaunted Denver pass rush should force the ball out of Carr’s hands quickly, which should lead to plenty of checkdowns to Richard. Given the half-PPR scoring, Richard’s capable of putting up a monster performance at the minimum price if Oakland falls behind and is forced to abandon the run.
Beckham caught 11 balls for 111 yards in Week 1 despite going against Jacksonville’s Jalen Ramsey, who’s arguably the best cornerback in the league. Dallas doesn’t have anybody near that caliber to match up against Beckham in Week 2, and there’s no better stage for him to announce that he’s back and better than ever than on Sunday Night Football against America’s Team.
The Bills looked atrocious in their season opener, as Joe Flacco carved them up for three touchdowns in a 47-3 blowout. Flacco threw for just 3,141 yards and an 18:13 TD:INT last year, while Rivers produced 4,515 yards and a 28:10. After throwing for 424 yards and three scores in the Week 1 loss to Kansas City, Rivers looks like a safe bet to at least match Flacco’s production against the Bills.
Those who missed out on Conner at $11 in Week 1 shouldn’t discount him now just because his price jumped up to $24. The Steelers gave him a Le'Veon Bell-like workload, as Conner finished with 31 carries and five catches for 192 scrimmage yards and two touchdowns. With a dangerous wide receiver duo keeping defenses occupied and a strong offensive line blocking for him, Conner could be in for a repeat performance against a Chiefs defense that surrendered 292 scrimmage yards to the Chargers’ running backs in Week 1.
Thompson needed just 11 touches to produce 128 yards and a touchdown in Week 1, suggesting last season’s broken leg didn’t sap any of the explosiveness he showed before going down. Adrian Peterson was terrific in the opener as well, but he was prone to inconsistency in 2017. Thompson has already proven capable of providing excellent value in his current role, and that role could expand even further should the 33-year-old Peterson come back down to earth.
In the six meetings between these NFC South rivals over the previous three seasons, Jones has averaged 137 receiving yards per game. He did everything but get into the end zone with 10 catches for 169 yards against the Eagles last week, so the sky’s the limit for Jones against this familiar foe in Atlanta’s home opener.
It’s amazing that Thomas’ price dropped from $37 last week to $30 this week considering he put up 180 yards and a touchdown on 16 catches. As in Brees’ case, Thomas’ stock soars higher the worse New Orleans plays defensively. If their opener was any indication, the Saints will be relying heavily on their passing game against a Browns defense that allowed Antonio Brown and JuJu Smith-Schuster to combine for 212 yards and a touchdown on 14 catches.
Sanders demonstrated an excellent rapport with new Broncos quarterback Case Keenum last week, hauling in 10 balls for 135 yards and a touchdown. The duo should pick right up where they left off in Week 2 against a Raiders defense that allowed the seventh-most passing yards per game last year. Oakland traded star pass rusher Khalil Mack before the season, so that pass defense will likely be even worse in 2018.
Reed’s always been a productive player when healthy, and he looked to be at 100 percent last week. His four catches for 48 yards and a touchdown all came in the first half, as the Washington passing attack powered down after halftime with a huge lead. Alex Smith’s rapport with Travis Kelce in Kansas City suggests the new Redskins quarterback knows how to keep his tight end involved, so this could be the beginning of a renaissance campaign for Reed.
Are the Lions really so horrendous or are the Jets just that good? The answer to that question likely lies somewhere in between, but there’s no denying New York put on a show in all three phases of the game during Monday night’s 48-17 road win. Andre Roberts looked terrific in the return game, averaging 45.7 yards on three punt returns and taking one to the house. Defensively, the Jets’ improved secondary accrued five interceptions, and that was without starting strong safety Marcus Maye (foot), who could be back for this one. With the crowd sure to be buzzing in Sam Darnold’s first career home game, this unit is primed for another strong showing against a Miami offense that isn’t exactly teeming with weapons. | 2019-04-20T11:01:21Z | https://sports.yahoo.com/yahoo-dfs-football-week-2-000000784.html?nhp=1&bcmt=1 | Porn | Sports | 0.644414 |
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wordpress | The psychiatrist scoffed. First, he gasped with a bit of laughter mixed in—that scoffing sound—then he chided me. “Autism is a serious condition. A diagnosis would be life changing. I think you need to take this more seriously.” In truth, he didn’t direct that statement to me, he said it to Sonia. I wasn’t noticing before my comment, but I was for the rest of the meeting. He never looked at me again.
Our third meeting with this guy—we’re addressing Arti’s anxiety. We tried therapy several years ago, twice. The first one, a psychologist, diagnosed Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Arti wouldn’t talk to her. “Willful,” she said. Arti was still young. The four of us met together.
The next one, a therapist. Well respected and known throughout our school district. He’s an ex-disk jockey, has a ponytail. He relates to the kids. “You’re wasting our money” Arti said. “A hundred dollars to play video games together!” We stuck with that one for months.
“This isn’t working,” Ponytail said, “he hasn’t talked to me in weeks. I spend our hour together catching up on my invoicing.” At least he gave us the Anxiety diagnosis. Something Sonia and I already knew–we knew it since Arti was an infant.
We moved on to meds. Prozac. It’s clearly working. He goes to school every day now. No more panic attacks. Rarely any outbursts. He’s stopped wigging on his sister when he doesn’t get his way. Mostly. With the Prozac comes periodic appointments. Arti checks in, gets interviewed by the psychiatrist.
My comment: “Regardless of whether Arti has Autism, he needs support. Half of our answers to your Autism questionnaire are yes.” That’s what I planned to say. I didn’t get very far: “Regardless of whether Arti has Autism…” And this is where we began. This is when he scoffed.
He’s the only child psychiatrist in town. It’s clear to both of us that we dislike each other. He doesn’t like Arti either. And I can’t stand the way he handles delicate topics, topics that change our opinions of each other, of ourselves.
At thirteen, I don’t see why Arti can’t graduate to an adult psychiatrist. At thirteen, I don’t know why Arti wasn’t evaluated a decade ago.
Some of you are nodding your heads. Some are rolling your eyes. Others take secret pleasure in the knowledge that our seven-year experiment with a nontraditional lifestyle failed so miserably. There are no shortcuts. No secret recipes. We’re all in the same boat. Playing the same game. Following the same rules. Sonya gave up her career as a massage therapist; she took a full-time job. An office job!
At one point, we were rich. Not rich like a rich person thinks of as rich, but today, when I look back at that prior-me, I think “That dude was rich.” I had a spreadsheet. It showed us retiring at sixty-five. You know, rich.
I’m not counting on that retirement anymore. I’ve got kids to put through college. When I’m sixty-five, Arti will still be in school.
Baling on massage therapy… it wasn’t the wages. Massage is a good way to earn money. The hourly rate is amazing. It’s physically and mentally taxing though, so the hours are fairly limited. OK, maybe a little bit about the wages. The real problem was the health insurance.
We’re old(er). Health care premiums are only affordable for the young—those people who don’t need health care. They don’t need colonoscopies, biopsies and hemorrhoid surgery. We were spending $1,300 each month on insurance. That’s more than our mortgage. After our monthly expenses, there wasn’t anything left for extras, for emergencies. And there’s always something extra, always an emergency. Radiator repairs, back to school clothes, yet another crown, Christmas! When our roof started leaking, Sonya sent out her resume.
Her company-paid health insurance alone was like a $15,000 raise. This is where my story could take a political turn. Medicare for All! Middle class adults need to work full-time to afford insurance. The luxury of having a part-time parent at home organizing the household and tending to the kids is financially unviable. Too much scrimping, too many deferred expenses.
This isn’t about my liberal agenda. I can write another post about that. This post is about relief. Sonya started working in August; we’re finally getting caught up. No more worried looks shared when our kids need to replace their sneakers. The roofers are coming next week. Christmas didn’t freak us out.
I liked it when Sonya was home during the day. When she wasn’t massaging, she was running family errands, keeping house, helping the kids with homework. We took that step, she became a massage therapist, because we thought it would be relaxing. Her free time during the week would leave our evenings and weekends unencumbered. It turns out that financial stress is worse than being overbooked. All the extra time was just used to worry.
Actually, it is a toy.
He has a point. “Don’t talk about God; don’t talk about Jesus; don’t talk about church; don’t talk about drugs; don’t talk about guns; don’t talk about death. For God’s sake, don’t talk about Trump.” These subjects are tripwires, the topics I want to avoid. They spur awkward silences and sidelong looks, debate and disagreement, admonishments from Artie’s cousin. These are the topics that prove to them they are better than us.
And the cousin: They’re just greedy. Greed is a sin of the soul.” He’s fifteen.
“You could argue with them,” you say. “Explain about depression and PTSD. Talk about privilege.” Contradiction is an argument. I don’t want to ruin Christmas Eve with debate. Besides I won’t change any minds. They haven’t changed mine.
Artie is thirteen. He’s testing things out. Looking for talking points that raise people’s eyebrows, that get him attention. “I saw Crack Cocaine last week, Heroine too.” It was a school education thing with a cop. He leaves that part out. He lets his drug connection linger like he’s street. This is when they catch each other’s eye. They know about my past drug abuse. This is evidence that I passed it on to my kids.
The comments about God and Jesus, he’s being immature. Picking away at something he doesn’t understand. He doesn’t understand their commitment to religion. Their feelings about Christmas. Their obvious disdain about us celebrating Christmas.
The gun was a gift. I don’t know where his fascination comes from, but he’s been talking about it for months. It’s a “recreational sport gun” called an Airsoft rifle. It’s made to shoot at friends in a mock war. Friends wearing proper eye protection. I wasn’t convinced. I bent over and had him shoot me in the backside.
When he saw the gun, his grandfather shook his head. He started quizzing Artie about gun safety. Cautioning him that the BBs would break skin. I could read his disappointment in me. His exasperation with Artie. Artie’s had a BB gun since he was seven. After he first got the safety drill in scouts.
We didn’t stay for dinner. This is the year we planned on celebrating alone. Relaxing, no judgement, together, just our family. | 2019-04-26T00:48:51Z | https://anonym1z3r.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Kids | 0.618553 |
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carleton | Awarded annually by the Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies on the recommendation of the Director of the Institute of European and Russian Studies to an outstanding student studying Franco-German relations. Recipients will be pursuing research in some aspect of French-German relations; Canada’s relations with France, Germany, or the European Union; or aspects of German or French external policy. A major work of the student will be submitted to the Centre’s on-line journal, The Review of European and Russian Affairs for publication. Eligible recipients must also demonstrate financial need, be Canadian Citizens or permanent residents of Canada (landed immigrant or a protected person), and must meet OSAP’s Ontario Residency requirements. Endowed in 2010 by Cynthia and Yves Bled. | 2019-04-22T18:58:47Z | https://futurefunder.carleton.ca/giving-fund/cynthia-and-yves-bled-bursary-in-european-studies/ | Porn | Reference | 0.42309 |
yahoo | CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (Reuters) - Hours before the Tennessee shooting that killed five U.S. servicemen, the suspected gunman texted his close friend a link to a long Islamic verse that included the line: "Whosoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, then I have declared war against him."
His friend thought nothing of it at the time, but now wonders if it was a clue to Thursday's rampage in Chattanooga, which has re-ignited concerns about the radicalization of young Muslim men.
"I didn't see it as a hint at the time, but it may have been his way of telling me something," the friend told Reuters on Saturday. He requested anonymity for fear of a backlash.
The suspect, Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, a 24-year-old Kuwaiti-born naturalized U.S. citizen, was killed in a gunfight with police. The FBI is investigating the attack as an act of terrorism, but said it was premature to speculate on the gunman's motive.
While a firm connection between the suspect and radical Islam has not been established, the shooting follows a series of attacks or thwarted attacks in the United States and other countries by Muslims claiming to be inspired by Islamic State or other militant groups.
Abdulazeez's friends said he had returned from a trip to Jordan in 2014 concerned about conflicts in the Middle East and the reluctance of the United States and other countries to intervene.
He later purchased three assault rifles on an online marketplace and used them for target practice, the friends said.
"That trip was eye-opening for him. He learned a lot about the traditions and culture of the Middle East," said the close friend who received the text message.
Abdulazeez was upset about the 2014 Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza and the civil war in Syria, he said. "He felt Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia were not doing enough to help, and that they were heavily influenced by the United States."
Another friend said, "He had always talked about it, but I'd say his level of understanding and awareness really rose after he came back."
U.S. authorities said Abdulazeez sprayed gunfire at a joint military recruiting center in a strip mall in Chattanooga, then drove to a Naval Reserve Center about 6 miles (10 km) away, where he killed four Marines before he himself was shot dead.
Three other people were injured, including a U.S. Navy petty officer who died from his wounds on Saturday.
The Navy did not give the name of the sailor, but his step-grandmother identified him as Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Smith of Paulding, Ohio, who left behind a wife and three young daughters.
"He was an awesome young man," Darlene Proxmire told Reuters. "He loved his wife and children. He loved the Navy."
Abdulazeez, an engineer, went to the Middle East in 2010 and visited several countries, according to his close friend. He then went to Jordan in 2014 to work for his uncle, and lived with his uncle and his grandparents there, he said.
After Abdulazeez returned, he seemed more mellow, less interested in partying. "That is part of what drew us closer. He was a guy who wanted to settle down and get his life going. That connected us," he said.
The night before the attack, just after 10 p.m., the close friend received a text from Abdulazeez with a link to a Hadith, or Islamic teaching: http://sunnah.com/nawawi40/38.
The friend said he had been asking Abdulazeez for job advice, and continued to text him that evening and into Thursday but did not get a reply.
The friend said he was interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI declined to comment on Saturday.
For jihadists and ultraconservative Salafist Sunni Muslims, the Hadith "is usually understood within the context of al-wala wa-l-bara (or) love for Islam and hatred for its enemies," said David Cook, an associate professor who specializes in Islam in the department of religion at Rice University in Texas.
According to Abdulazeez's friends, he had purchased three guns on armslist.com after returning from Jordan, including an AK-74, an AR-15, and a Saiga 12. They said he also owned a 9mm and a .22 caliber hand guns.
Armslist.com is an online listing site on which individuals can buy and sell firearms through private transactions. Critics say it enables people to obtain weapons without background checks, though the site has a disclaimer that it requires users to agree to follow all state and federal firearms laws.
Emails seeking comment from Armlist.com and Armslist Legal Defense Fund, created to defend Armslist against lawsuits, were not immediately answered.
Abdulazeez had occasionally smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, and struggled to reconcile that with his faith in Islam, his friends said. At one point, in 2012 or 2013, Abdulazeez received therapy for his drugs and alcohol use, they said.
"He used it to de-stress, when things were difficult at home, or whatever," the close friend said, adding that tensions between Abdulazeez and his Palestinian parents had upset him. His parents nearly got divorced in 2009, according to court records.
In April, Abdulazeez was arrested and charged with driving under the influence. He was facing a July 30 court date for his DUI charge.
Abdulazeez also had problems with local youths that sometimes took on a religious and racial tone, his friend said.
"There were rednecks, ignorant people, who sometimes would cause problems. Mo never fought, but he used to get worked up and yell and stuff," he said. "Afterwards he would calm down, and just say it doesn't matter."
Over the past few months, Abdulazeez and his friends practiced shooting in the Prentice Cooper state forest near Chattanooga, sometimes two or three times a week.
"He was always interested in guns, since he was young. He started with a BB gun and paintball, and went on from there. We would go out shooting quite often," said the close friend.
Abdulazeez also liked driving fast in the hills surrounding Chattanooga.
Two nights before the attack, he and some friends went joyriding in Abdulazeez's rented gray convertible Ford Mustang, passing through the towns of Whitwell, Dayton and Jasper.
"Fast car on a rainy night. We were flying, doing tight turns and drifting," said the friend, adding that they returned home at about 3 o'clock in the morning.
"He seemed totally normal. We made plans to hang out on the weekend," he said.
He said Abdulazeez had a good paying job and many plans for his life, including possibly starting a computer sales business in Chattanooga. "He wanted to buy a car. He wanted a video console, to make a man cave - every guy's dream."
He said it was difficult to understand how his friend became the suspect in the rampage.
"The signs just weren't there," he said. "The only thing I can think of is that it was a combination of things - what is happening overseas, his family problems, maybe some of the issues with the less educated people here. I don't know." | 2019-04-21T16:15:44Z | https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-petty-officer-dies-wounding-tennessee-attack-130542080.html | Porn | News | 0.304264 |
google | In a method for copying retouch in color picture reproduction, color values are initially acquired by image-point-by-image-point trichromatic color picture scanning and digitization. The color values are deposited in a storage medium and are addressable by image point coordinates. With the coordinate pen of a coordinate acquisition means, the retoucher first marks a read point within a first image region from which a pattern is to be taken and a write point within a second image region into which the pattern is to be copied with image point precision. A distance between the read and write points is determined from the acquired image point coordinates and is fixed. The retoucher then acquires all image point coordinates within the first image region with the assistance of a coordinate pen. The image point coordinates of those image points within the second image region exhibiting the respective fixed distance from the acquired image points are simultaneously identified and a double coordinate pen is thus simulated. For precise pattern transfer, the color values of the first image region addressed with the assistance of the double coordinate pen are replaced image-point-by-image-point by the simultaneously addressed color values of the second image region or by values calculated from the color values.
The invention relates to electronic reproduction technology, particularly to the production of corrected and retouched color separations by means of an electronic image processing system (retouch station).
In electronic reproduction, three primary color signals are acquired in a color scanner by means of image point-by-image point and line-by-line, opto-electronic scanning of an original color image. These primary color signals represent the color components red, green, and blue of the scanned image points. A color correction computer corrects the primary color signals and generates the color separation signals required for the production of the color separations therefrom. These color separation signals are a measure for the amounts of printing ink required in the later print. The color separation signals are digitized and stored in a storage medium image point-by-image point as digital color values.
In an image processing system, the stored digital color values of various individual originals can be united according to a layout plan into the dataset of an entire page and/or can be altered for the execution of a subsequent, partial retouch.
In order to record the color separations, the altered digital color values are read out from the storage medium, are converted back into analog color separation signals and are supplied to a recorder in which the rastered or unrastered color separations "magenta", "cyan", "yellow" and "black" are exposed for the production of the printing forms.
A method for partial, electronic retouch is already specified in U.S. Pat. No. 4,393,399, incorporated herein by reference, wherein the digital color values are altered image-point-wise, and partially in accordance with the desired retouch effects in the color image or in the color separation under visual control on a color monitor. The image point coordinates of the color values to be retouched and the desired degree of retouch are defined with the assistance of a marker means in the form of a coordinate pen of a coordinate identification means such that the retoucher guides the coordinate pen similar to a retouch brush over the image part to be retouched.
It can occur in reproduction that the original color image is already damaged in certain parts or that it is damaged during the reproduction process. The retoucher must then attempt to regenerate the damaged image parts of the color image by means of retouching. The success of such a retouch is very imperfect with conventional brush retouching and with the known electronic retouch method, particularly when the damaged image part exhibits a wealth of detail such as, for example, a herringbone pattern.
It is therefore an object of the invention to specify a method and an apparatus for copying retouch by which information or data of arbitrary image regions are transferred image-point-wise to other arbitrary image regions with high precision.
FIG. 6 shows a flow chart for a computational sequence in the arithmetic stage 57 shown in FIG. 4.
FIG. 1 shows the fundamental format of an apparatus for the execution of a copying retouch in color image reproduction. Such an apparatus is usually referred to as a retouch station.
In the selected sample embodiment, color-corrected digital original color values Y, M, C and K for the color separations "yellow" (Y), "magenta" (M), "cyan" (C) and "black" (K) of a color image to be reproduced are stored in a storage medium 1 (magnetic disc, magnetic tape, etc.). Let the original color values Y, M, C and K--referred to below as F--have, for example, a word length of 8 bits so that 254 gray scales can be discriminated in addition to "black" (0) and "white" (255).
The color image to be retouched can be both an individual image as well as a composed printing page. The digital color values of an individual image were previously acquired in a color scanner by means of point-by-point and line-by-line trichromatic scanning an original color image, by means of color correction, and analog-to-digital conversion of the color separation signals into the digital color values. The color values of an entire printing page arose, for example, in an apparatus for electronic page make-up according to British Pat. No. 1,407,487, incorporated herein by reference, by means of combining the corrected individual image color values according to a layout plan. Uncorrected color values F or color values F already retouched according to U.S. Pat. No. 4,393,399 can, however, also be stored in the storage medium 1.
The retouch station has a color monitor 2 at its command, the color image or a color separation consisting, for example, of 512×512 image points being displayed on its picture screen 3 for visual control during the retouch. The color values F required for the display on the color monitor 2 are selected or calculated from the entire dataset of the storage medium 1 by a process control computer 4 before the beginning of the retouch and are simultaneously transferred into an original memory 7 and a copying memory 8 image point by image point from the storage medium 1 over data busses 5 and 6, so that the contents of the memories 7 and 8 are identical at the beginning of a retouch. The original memory 7 and the copying memory 8 are constructed in the form of image repetition memories for generating a still image on the picture screen 3 of the color monitor 2 and, in accordance with the plurality of color values F required for the representation of the image and their word length, exhibit a respective capacity of 512×512 memory locations of 8 bits each per color separation. Every stored color value F of an image point is addressable in the memories by means of the corresponding locus coordinate pair x and y of said image point. A single image repetition memory can also be employed instead of two image repetition memories.
A memory control unit 9 selectively calls in the addresses of the original memory 7 and/or of the copying memory 8 cyclically over an address bus 10. The stored color values F are read out line-by-line and, within each line, image-point-by-image-point over data busses 12 and 13 with a read clock on a control bus 11 generated in the memory control unit 9 and are supplied to multiplexers 14, 15, 16 and 17. From the multiplexers 14, 15, 16 and 17, the color values F proceed over a shared data bus 18 to a light mark generator 19 and proceed from there to a digital-to-analog converter 20 that converts the digital color values F into four analog color separation signals. A following print simulation computer 21 generates three drive signals r, g and b for the color monitor 2 from the analog color separation signals, whereby the print simulation computer 21 sees to it that the displayed image already conveys the chromatic impression of a true multicolor print. Such a print simulation computer is disclosed in detail in, for example, the U.S. Pat. No. 4,285,009, incorporated herein by reference.
The recording on the picture screen 3 of the color monitor 2 occurs according to progressive interlace in order to obtain a flicker-free image. Based on the technology standard in video, a clock generator 22 generates the horizontal and vertical deflection signals as well as the line start and image start pulses required for the image display on a line 23. Over a further line 24, the memory control unit 9 supplies vertical and horizontal synchronizing pulses to the clock generator 22 so that the point-by-point image displaying on the picture screen 3 of the color monitor 2 is synchronized with the readout of the color values F from the original memory 7 or from the copying memory 8.
The retouch station further comprises a coordinate identification means 25 for marking the locus coordinate pairs x and y, a following coordinate computer 26, an arithmetic circuit 27 for calculating substitution color values F as well as an input stage 28 with a keyboard for the selection of specific functions. The structure and functioning of these components are described in conjunction with the following explanation of the copying retouch.
With the copying retouch, according to the invention a pattern or a structure is taken from an arbitrary image region, referred to below as the read region, and is transferred or copied image-point-wise with high precision into another image region, subsequently referred to as the write region, that is freely selectable with respect to shape and size. The write region can thereby be either a damaged image part in which patterns or structures must be restored or, on the other hand, an image part into which patterns or structures appearing only once in the original color image are to be transferred. The copying retouch can ensue in the color image, i.e. in all color separations, or, on the other hand, in selected color separations.
For the execution of the copying retouch, the original color values FR of the image points of the desired read region are taken from the original memory 7 and are converted into substitution color values F*W in the arithmetic circuit 27. Subsequently, the color values FW of the corresponding image points of the desired write region are replaced in the copying memory 8 by the substitution color values F*W.
In a first method step, the desired write region and read region are roughly defined in that the retoucher marks a write point W1 and a read point R1 within the regions with the assistance of a marker means of the coordinate identification means 25 and the distance between the points is determined in the form of coordinate differences.
The coordinage identification means 25 consists of a digitizing table 29, of a marker means in the form, for example, of a coordinate pen 30, and also consists of a measuring stage 31.
The calculated differential coordinate values xD and yD are likewise stored in the coordinate computer 26, whereby the distance "D" is fixed.
In a second method step, the retoucher marks the desired write region 34 in terms of size and shape by guiding the coordinate pen 30 over the corresponding surface line-by-line in the manner of a retouch brush, whereby the corresponding read region 33 is marked simultaneously according to the invention.
The additional write point W coordinates xW and yW marked when sweeping the write points W of the write region 34 proceed directly through the coordinate computer 26 and an address bus 38 to the arithmetic circuit 27 and, as write addresses for the copying memory 8, to the memory control unit 9.
In this manner, a secod coordinate pen is, so to speak, simulated. It moves at a fixed distance "D" from the coordinate pen 30 synchronously therewith, and sweeps an area as read region 33 which, given the operating mode described, corresponds in shape and size to the write region 34. The transfer or copy of patterns and structures with image point precision is achieved in an advantageous manner with the assistance of this double coordinate pen that simultaneously marks two image points situated at the distance "D" from one another. "Image point precision" means that the image information of each image point within the read image region is transferred exactly to the respective image points within the write image region so that patterns and structures are copied without distortion.
The read point coordinates xR and yR output by the coordinate computer 26 likewise proceed to the arithmetic circuit 27 over an address bus 39 and also proceed to the memory control unit 9 as read addresses for the original memory 7.
An instruction "coordinate change", moreover, is always generated in the coordinate computer 26 when the coordinate pen 30 executes a shift by one image point. The instruction "coordinate change" is transmitted to the arithmetic circuit 27 over a control line 40.
Upon a respective instruction "coordinate change", the arithmetic circuit 27 calls over the address bus 10 the read addresses xR and yR in the original memory 7 under which the original color values FR of the read region 33 to be taken are deposited and also calls the corresponding write addresses xW and yW in the copying memory 8 under which the original color values FW of the write region 34 to be replaced by substitution color values are stored.
By means of actuating corresponding keys in the input stage 28, the retoucher determines from which color separations color values FR are to be taken and in which color separations color values FW are to be replaced, and also determines the type of color value change. Corresponding instructions "color separation selection" proceed from the input stage 28 over the control line 41 to the arithmetic circuit 27. The retoucher thus has a free hand. The color values FR of one color separation or of any desired combination of color separations can be transferred into the same color separation, into a different color separation, or into a different arbitrary combination of color separations.
The called original color values FR and FW in the original memory 7 and in the copying memory 8 are transferred into the arithmetic circuit 27 over the data bus 6. The substitution color values F*W are calculated in the arithmetic circuit 27 from the original color values FR and, under given conditions, from the original color values FW as well. The substitution color values F*W then are overwritten over the data bus 6 into the addressed write region of the copying memory 8, and the color values originally residing there are cancelled and the color values of the original memory 7 are retained.
Ghost images can, for example, be produced with this type of copying retouch. The copying retouch is not restricted to the described types.
In order to evaluate the accomplished copying retouch, the original color image can also be displayed on the picture screen 3 of the color monitor 2 for comparison to the retouched color picture. For this purpose, the original memory 7 or the copying memory 8 can be selectively connected through to the color monitor 2 with the assistance of the multiplexer 14 through 17. The retoucher actuates a corresponding key in the input stage 28, whereby an instruction "picture change-over" is forwarded from the input stage 28 to the multiplexers 14 through 17 over a further control line 42.
The copying retouch can be partially cancelled. For that purpose the retoucher sweeps the desired partial image region with the coordinate pen 30 and the original color values FR of the addressed memory region of the original memory 7 representing the partial image region are overwritten into the corresponding addressed memory region of the copying memory 8. The copying retouch can also be entirely cancelled. For that purpose all original color values FR stored in the original memory 7 are overwritten into the copying memory 8.
It had been assumed in order to explain the coordinate identification that a color image is situated on the digitizing tablet 29. This is not present in the actual operating mode of the retouch station. In order to render the points marked on the digitizing tablet visible in this case, corresponding light marks 43 are mixed or gated into the picture screen 3 of the color monitor 2, these moving across the picture screen with the spacing "D" synchronized with the double coordinate pen. For this purpose, the memory addresses cyclically called for the image display are compared in the memory control unit 9 to the addresses marked by the coordinate identification means 25 and, given respective address equality, the instructions "light mark" are forwarded from the memory control unit 9 to the light mark generator 19 over a control line 44. The instructions "light mark" appear precisely at those points in time at which the electron beams of the color monitor 2 sweep the marked write and read points on the picture screen surface. The instructions "light mark" activate the light mark generator 19 which briefly generates identical drive signals for the color monitor 2. As a result thereof, all three electron generating systems of the color monitor 2 are simultaneously switched on with the maximum possible luminance, whereby the "white" light marks 43 arise on the picture screen 3. In order to distinguish the two light marks 43, one of the light marks could be presented flashing or could exhibit a different shape.
The write-side and the read-side image point area influenced by the double coordinate pen can be enlarged in order to be able to sweep larger parts of the color picture faster similar to an enlarged surface of the retouch brush. In this case, the coordinate pen 30 itself marks only the respective center point of the image point area at the write side, whereas the write coordinates xW and yW of the write points falling within the image point area at the write side are calculated in the coordinate computer 26 from the marked center point coordinates xWM and yWM. The corresponding read point coordinates xR and yR of the image point area of the double coordinate pen at the read side are likewise determined in the coordinate computer 26. Size and shape of the image point areas can be defined by the number and position of image points arranged around the marked center point. Size and shape of the image point areas can be prescribed in the coordinate computer 26 over a control line 45 proceeding from the input stage 28. The expanded image point areas or surfaces are indicated by means of correspondingly enlarged light marks 43 on the picture screen 3 of the color monitor 2.
A scale change can be simultaneously executed in the copying retouch in an advantageous manner by means of setting the two image point areas or surfaces of the double coordinate pen differently in terms of shape and size, whereby the scale factor is defined by the area ratio of the image point areas. The substitution color value F*W is calculated either by means of a combination or by means of an interpolation of color values since a different number of color values FR in the original memory 7 to be taken and of color values FW in the copying memory 8 to be replaced are respectively addressed given different image point areas or surfaces of the double coordinate pen.
Various shapes and sizes of image point areas or brush surfaces of the double coordinate pen are illustrated in FIGS. 2a through 2c. FIG. 2a shows a square image point area or surface 48 that encompasses 5×5 image points 49; FIG. 2b shows a rectangular image point area 48 having 3×7 image points, and FIG. 2c shows an image point area approximated to the shape of a circle.
For the determination of the write point coordinates xW and yW as well as the read point coordinates xR and yR by means of the double coordinate pen, FIG. 3 shows a graphic illustration with a section of the digitizing tablet 29 of the coordinate identification means 25 with the write-side image point area 48 and the read-side image point area 48' in an arbitrary position of the double coordinate pen.
Within the X/Y coordinate system 50, the write-side image point area 48 has the center coordinates XWM and yWM and the read-side image point area 48' has the center coordinates xRM and yRM. Auxiliary coordinate systems 51 and 51' are allocated to the image point areas 48 and 48'. The auxiliary coordinate systems 51 and 51' respectively proceed through the centers 52 and 52' of image point area 48 and 48', respectively, and shift with the movement of the double coordinate pen. The auxiliary coordinates xWH and yWH or xRH and yRH of those image points participating in the formation of the image point areas 48 and 48', with respect to shape and size are defined in the auxiliary coordinate systems 51 and 51'. The centers 52 and 52' of image point areas 48 and 48' have the fixed distance "D" or the coordinate-oriented spacings xD and yD.
FIG. 4 shows a sample embodiment of the coordinate computer 26 for that case in which the double coordinate pen exhibits expanded image point areas or surfaces.
The center coordinates xWM and yWM supplied by the coordinate identification means 25 proceed to an adder stage 54 over the bus 35 and a comparison stage 53.
Successive pairs of center coordinates xWM and yWM are continuously compared to one another in the comparison stage 53 and, given a coordinate change appearing upon a displacement of the coordinate pen 30, the comparison stage 53 supplies the instruction "coordinate change" to an address counter 55 on the line 40. The address counter 55--respectively initiated by the instruction "coordinate change"--calls all possible coordinate values cyclically and line-by-line, these being supplied to an arithmetic stage 57 over a data bus 56. Over line 45 and a programming input 58, the arithmetic stage 57 is programmed with the parameters of the desired point areas or brush surface 48 or 48' according to one of the FIGS. 2a through 2c. The coordinate values called by the address counter 55 are subsequently investigated in the arithmetic stage 57 as to whether they fall into the prescribed image point areas 48 or 48'. When this is the case, the called coordinate values are the corresponding auxiliary coordinates xWH and yWH or xRH and yRH of said prescribed image point areas 48 and 48'. The corresponding auxiliary coordinates xWH and yWH of the write-side image point area 48 are forwarded over a data bus 59 to the adder stage 54 in which the write point coordinates xW and yW on the address bus 38 are formed according to equations (8). The corresponding auxiliary coordinates xRH and YRH of the read-side image point area 48' proceed over a data bus 60 to a further adder stage 61. The differential coordinate values xD and yD have been previously calculated according to equations (1) in a spacing computer 62 and deposited there. The center coordinates xRM and yRM are calculated in adder stage 63 from the center coordinates x WM and yWM of the write-side image point area 48 and the stored differential coordinate values xD and yD from spacing computer 62 according to equations (2), and are supplied over a data bus 64 to the adder stage 61 in which the running read point coordinates xR and yR are generated on the address bus 39 according to equations (9).
The arithmetic stage 57 is programmed with the desired image point area or brush surfaces 48 or 48'. This operation shall be explained in greater detail below with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6. FIG. 5 shows a further graphic illustration of an image point area or brush surface and FIG. 6 shows a flow chart for a computational sequence in the arithmetic stage 57.
As can be seen from FIG. 5, an image point area is first defined in y-coordinates by means of specifying an upper and a lower y-boundary coordinate yHL =yH1 and yHU =yH7, between which the y-coordinates yH2 through yH6 lie. The definition of the image point area in x-coordinates occurs by means of specifying corresponding lower and upper x-boundary coordinates xHL and xHU for each y-coordinate, for example, the x-boundary coordinates xHL1, xHU1 for yHL.
The corresponding y-boundary coordinates are first stored in a first table memory of the arithmetic stage 57 for various shapes of image point areas or brush shapes and sizes of image point areas or brush sizes that are identified by a brush number p. The desired brush number p is therefore first input into the arithmetic stage 57 and the corresponding y-boundary coordinates are called in from the first table memory. The x-boundary coordinates xHL and xHU corresponding to the brush shape are tabularly deposited for each y-coordinate value in a second table memory of the arithmetic stage 57.
The auxiliary coordinates xH and yH of the image points of the image point area respectively differ by "1": yH2 =yHL +1; yH3 =yHL +2; etc. For example, the address counter 55 first calls in yHL and then calls in all possible x-coordinate values which are only output as auxiliary coordinates xH and yH. This occurs, however, only when the x-coordinate values that are called in lie within the x-boundary coordinate values xHL and xHU1 for the y-coordinate value yHL. The address counter subsequently calls in the y-coordinate value yH2 and then again calls in all possible x-coordinate values which are then correspondingly checked. This cycle proceeds according to the flow chart of FIG. 6.
The process control computer 4 and light mark generator 19 are standard assemblies well known to those in this art and are also employed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,393,399, incorporated herein by reference. The memory control unit 9 is shown in FIG. 9 of U.S. Pat. No. 4,393,399. The print simulation computer 21 is known from U.S. Pat. No. 4,285,009 as previously noted. The input stage 28 is a standard keyboard well known to those skilled in this art. Coordinate identification means 25 including digitizing tablet 29, coordinate pen 30, and measuring stage 31 are commercially available and can be purchased for example from Summagraphics Company, 35 Brendwood Ave., Fairfield, Conn., U.S.A. Color values are calculated in arithmetic stage 27 according to the previously specified equations. Simple commercially available arithmetic modules may be interconnected in known manner according to the previous specified equations. For example, two multipliers and one adder may be interconnected for equation 7 previously set forth.
(h) replacing said original color values of the image points within said write image region by said substitution color values to obtain a retouched color image within the write image region, whereby a desired copying retouch of the color image is achieved.
(h) replacing said digital original color values of the image points within said write image region by said digital substitution color values to obtain a retouched color image within the write image region, whereby a desired copying retouch of the color image is achieved.
3. A method according to claim 2 including the step of generating said substitution color values for a given color component from original color values of the same color component.
4. A method according to claim 2 including the step of generating said substitution color values for a given color component from original color values of a different color component.
5. A method according to claim 2 including the step of generating said substitution color values from original color values of image points within both said read and write image regions.
6. A method according to claim 2 including the step of generating said substitution color values by a weighted addition of original color values of the corresponding image points within said read image region and original color values of said image points within said write image region.
(c) synchronizing the motion of said two movable light marks with the motion of said movable marker associated with said coordinate identification means.
8. A method according to claim 7 wherein said two light marks are distinguishable from one another.
(d) displaying said color image or said retouched color image on said color monitor.
11. A method according to claim 2 including the step of cancelling the transferring of image information by replacing said substitution color values with said original color values.
(b) simultaneously determining coordinates of a plurality of corresponding image points in a retouch area within said read image region corresponding to said retouch area within the write image region.
(c) synchronizing the motion of said two movable enlarged light marks with the motion of said movable marker associated with said coordinate identification means.
14. A method according to claim 13 including the step of providing different sizes for said retouch areas within said read and write image regions.
(g) means for replacing said digital original color values of the image points within said write image region by said digital substitution color values to obtain a retouched color image within the write image region, whereby a desired copying retouch of the color image is achieved.
(f) a coordinate computer means connected to the memory control means, the arithmetic circuit means, and the coordinate identification means for determining coordinates of image points in the read image region from the coordinates in the write image region identified by the marker means.
17. A system according to claim 16 wherein means are provided for selectively connecting the original memory means and the copying memory means to the color monitor means.
(g) a third adder stage means for determination of coordinates of image points within the read image region, said third adder stage means being connected with the arithmetic stage means and with the second adder stage means. | 2019-04-22T20:32:27Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/US4577219A/en | Porn | Recreation | 0.432966 |
wordpress | New York City’s Lower Manhattan is home to many small galleries holding some of the most prestigious artwork of our generation. When I went home for fall break a few weeks ago, I visited a few of these galleries. There are over 30 galleries within a few blocks of each other, making it easy to travel to many different kinds of shows. The galleries feature photography, sculpture and painting shows next door to one another for blocks in every direction.
One of these galleries is Sikkema Jenkins and Co. Currently, Sikkema Jenkins is showing a Kara Walker exhibition. Kara Walker is an African American painter, print maker, installation artist and film-maker. She is best known for her room-size silhouette black paper cut outs. Through her work, Walker explores the themes of race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity.
The title of Walker’s current show is long enough to be a full artist statement. It is supposed to replicate a newspaper headline, as this work is her a response to the current political climate. She created all of the pieces displayed within the past year. The show consists of three small rooms in a gallery space. Walker’s work is strictly two toned, black and white, and has overlapping imagery in all of her pieces.
The most Astounding and Important Painting show of the fall Art Show viewing season!
Collectors of Fine Art will Flock to see the latest Kara Walker offerings, and what is she offering but the Finest Selection of artworks by an African-American Living Woman Artist this side of the Mississippi. Modest collectors will find her prices reasonable, those of a heartier disposition will recognize Bargains! Scholars will study and debate the Historical Value and Intellectual Merits of Miss Walker’s Diversionary Tactics. Art Historians will wonder whether the work represents a Departure or a Continuum. Students of Color will eye her work suspiciously and exercise their free right to Culturally Annihilate her on social media. Parents will cover the eyes of innocent children. School Teachers will reexamine their art history curricula. Prestigious Academic Societies will withdraw their support, former husbands and former lovers will recoil in abject terror. Critics will shake their heads in bemused silence. Gallery Directors will wring their hands at the sight of throngs of the gallery-curious flooding the pavement outside. The Final President of the United States will visibly wince. Empires will fall, although which ones, only time will tell.
To learn more about the show, visit Sikkema Jenkins and Co.’s website. | 2019-04-21T00:21:38Z | https://gundassociates.wordpress.com/2017/11/01/kara-walkers-most-astounding-and-important-painting-show-of-the-fall-art-show-viewing-season/ | Porn | Arts | 0.614018 |
wordpress | A couple of stylish & versatile geared/singlespeeds, New Mexico bound.
Lyn’ s Fifty-Five is ready for racing, primarily as a singlespeed, but has geared capability. It’s lightweight but sturdy enough to take a beating.
The three bottle mounts accommodate large bottles- not always an easy task when building a smaller frame size.
Good tire clearance allows for high volume tires.
And the curry color looks darned good, doncha think?
We experimented with different decal color options- the curry powdercoat plays surprisingly well with a wide range of color.
Rita’s ride is a full 26″ Hydra- set up primarily for geared use, but with singlespeed capability. She’s building it up awith a Sid fork & a pair of Crank Brothers Cobalt wheels. The fit & geometry is optimized for versatile use- everything from singletrack to cruising around town hauling the kiddo in the bike trailer.
I was really pleased with the way the decals turned out… a good match for the wheels.
wow that curry is a cool color!
I can’t wait to see Rita’s bike with the Cobalt wheels. | 2019-04-23T19:04:00Z | https://sirenbicycles.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/lyn-ritas-rides/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.950494 |
wordpress | Killer Quotes – Macolm X on the power of the media.
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in 1925 and rose to prominence as a civil rights activist the early 1960s.
His father was murdered by white supremacists and at least one of his uncles was lynched. Malcolm X turned to Islam and rose to a position of influence and prominence in the Nation of Islam as a cleric and activist.
What he says of the power of the media and their influence is more true today than it was even in 1965. With the saturation of information in today’s media diversity in opinion and sources of news and information, whilst greater, it is more difficult today to assimilate and differentiate fact from theory, from fiction, from conspiracy theory than it was in the day of Malcolm X.
The lesson, therefore, beware what you believe from the media. Be discerning in the sources you place trust and credence in and before you act always, always question where your opinion comes from and how you came by it.
The truth is out there, somewhere, hidden amongst all that information, opinion and speculation.
Killer Quotes – Carl Sagan on the need to democratise knowledge.
Carl Sagan was a planetary astronomer, astrophysicist and science educator who was a driving force behind the SETI program. He was also the writer of one of the most influential books in my life. That book ‘Cosmos‘ and the television series hosted by him based upon that book awakened in me a love of learning and knowing and inquiry which have served me well through my teenage years, through my university days and into my professional life. If you can get a hold of the series do not delay. Do it immediately. You will not regret it, not for a moment. Alternatively, or rather additionally, get hold of the book and read it and re-read it and read it to your children and let them read it too.
Sagan is gone but his legacy lives on in the light his work in science and science education has shone on the subjects he has touched for the generations privileged to be touched by his genius during his lifetime and through this illumination for generations to come.
The quote I have extracted above is indicative of the concern he had for the state of the balance of power and understanding in the world. Where politics is a cult of personality where those in power are not versed in the technology behind the power at their disposal and where vested interests have interests in keeping the method and mechanism behind the technology and science which is the engine of their success mysterious, esoteric and the exclusive province of the narrowly focussed. The powder keg is primed and the fuse is lit and unless someone has the will and the power to shine an illuminating light on the way in which the wheels that power the engines of industry, society and innovation turn then someone is going to press the button marked ‘idiot‘ and let the genie out of the bottle. Once the bottle is unstoppered and the genie is out then there’s no way to get it to return to the bottle. | 2019-04-22T02:39:22Z | https://categoryzero.wordpress.com/tag/power/ | Porn | Reference | 0.224002 |
livejournal | I wish there had been MORE poppers.
Ah well. Dave has them now, and we'll pull them out one day soon. | 2019-04-23T13:57:44Z | https://here-be-dragons.livejournal.com/506191.html?thread=4202575 | Porn | Reference | 0.238981 |
wordpress | This week, Bug had Tot School at home and on location. Our local Attachment Parenting group put together a rotating tot school where each week, we hold a session at another member’s house. It was so much fun to be able to play with other little tots, as well as explore new ideas for learning!
At the travelling Tot School, Bitty Bug really loved a simple homemade game the hostess had made. It was an oatmeal container with a lid on top that had a slit through it that resembled a piggy bank. The baby then puts jar lids into the slit, much like putting money in a bank. I have to steal this idea for home-use because Bug really enjoyed it!
Bug also enjoyed playing outside with the other little ones–especially with sidewalk chalk on the wet patio!
When we got home, we went down to the Montessori room so that Monkey could do her homeschooling. Bug always loves joining in, so we have a special shelf of toddler-aged montessori work set out–which doesn’t really stop her from attempting the preschool work! One of her favorite preschool aged work is the rock spooning activity. She sometimes transfers with her hands, but she often does it with the Asian soup spoon. She’s getting really accurate at transferring with a spoon (but she’s also really good at using utensils to eat with as well). Sometimes she gets distracted by the pretty colors of the rocks though, so she stops to look at all of the different colors.
Bug also decided to explore the music cabinet today. She really enjoyed the little plastic flutes, the shaker toys, and the drums! And as you can tell, sometimes, she attempted to be a one man band with multiple instruments at once! Here she has the stick from the wooden cricket, a drum, and one half of a sandpaper block toy.
And last but not least, Bug’s favorite activity as of late is coloring. She will color every minute of the day if you let her (and she’s already broke in our new house by drawing a “mural” all over the living room wall, right before continuing that mural on the couch. Doh. ) So, usually during tot school times, Bug will dart straight to the art room, grab a marker, and start drawing!
Jedi is 6 years 7 months old. Monkey is 3 years 4 months old. Bitty Bug is 17 months old.
This past week was fairly busy since Jedi & Monkey both had martial arts camp (for an hour a day each day last week). We took a break from homeschooling so that “life school” could take over. I didn’t want the kids to get worn out! But between martial arts camp, nature studies, and various trips, the kids had a great week.
We got back in our Montessori room today, and Monkey seemed to focus on colors a lot today. She’s been really working to try to learn the names–she can match fairly well, but doesn’t seem to be putting the color names with that (but as I mentioned last week, she has some special needs that include language processing issues).
We don’t have the red rods because I could only choose one set of rods during our initial purchase, and chose the red & blue ones instead. Today Monkey decided to hold them up and compare sizes…right before she built a train track out of them. LOL!
While not Montessori per say, Monkey found our wooden USA floor puzzle on a shelf, and decided that she wanted to put it together, so her and I worked on that together. She’s getting really good at putting together puzzles that “link” verses the puzzles where you just match the piece with the large knob with the pre-shaped hole.
She then chose to explore the geometic solids (we’re not really at the stage where we are naming them or anything…but she found the box on the shelf and wanted to look through it.) She also worked on the alphabet foam puzzle as well.
Jedi found the new science item that I just purchased–I hadn’t gotten a chance to open it yet, so we looked at it together. Since our subdivision doesn’t allow backyard chickens (and because we’re an egg allergic family and raising chickens for eggs probably isn’t a good idea. 😉 ), I bought this set. It’s 21 eggs, and when you open them, you see what happens each day of a baby chicken’s development. Jedi thought this was *so* cool!
And after all three kids worked hard this afternoon, they decided to blow off a little steam on the mini trampoline. Look at the height on Monkey’s jumps!
Today we started the Outdoor Hour nature study for the first time. The Outdoor Hour is based on the book The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock and is hosted by the Handbook of Nature Study blog. The first challenge for the summer season is on mosquitoes and the sense of smell.
To prepare, I read the chapter on mosquitoes out loud to Jedi and Monkey. The book was not really written for very young children (Jedi is 6 1/2 years old, Monkey is 3 years 4 months old, and Bitty Bug is 17 months old), so I had to change the wording a bit so that younger kids could understand. Both of the kids really liked the line drawings in the book, and talked about what they observed about the pictures of the mosquito pupae and larvae.
-Pupae have two tubes near the neck: one is a breathing tube, and one has a flap that opens and closes to help the pupae float.
-Mosquito eggs float on the top of water, and are bunched tightly together. When the larvae hatch, they exit though the bottom of the eggs.
-If you put oil on the surface of the water, you will kill the larvae and pupae because of the inability of the breathing tubes to work if coated in oil.
-Before learning to fly, the pupae sheds out of it’s skin. It then remains at the surface of the water while attempting to learn to use it’s wings. If a breeze comes while this is happening, the mosquito will likely drown.
After we read the chapter, we went outside. It was just after dusk, and it was about 20 minutes after a brief rainstorm ended (and our observation time ended approximately 30 minutes before a bigger thunderstorm began).
Sight: Both kids noticed a large amount of lightening bugs outside. They also noticed that most of the lightening bugs flew right above the fields surrounding our yard, but not in our yard (which was freshly mowed). Jedi hypothesized that lightening bugs preferred taller grass so that it was easier for the bugs to hide.
Smell: Jedi noted that it smelled “like worms” outside. The ground was damp from the storm and it smelled just like a rainstorm.
Hearing: While we were outside, we didn’t really hear any insects buzzing, but we could hear faint thunder in the distance. We also heard birds singing and crickets chirping.
After the initial senses training, we went to a part of the yard that has been dug out for a small pond. After several recent rainstorms, the hole had filled with water, about 3 foot deep. The water has been there for a couple weeks. The kids sat next to the water and observed bugs skating across the surface. We then took two samples of the pond water in observation jars to bring into the house.
In the house, we looked at the jars. The first jar didn’t seem to have anything living in it. The second jar, which was taken closer to the shore line of the pond, had several very tiny larvae that were very hard to see with the naked eye, and several larger pupae that were about the size of a grain of rice. The larvae tended to swim upright, with one end towards the top of the jar and one end towards the bottom, bobbing up and down. The larger pupae stayed in a fetal position with the tiny breathing tubes towards the top of the body arch. The pupae stayed at the surface for the most part, but if someone touched the observation jar, the pupae would dart straight down to the bottom of the jar and “convulse” by shaking the entire body back and forth.
We haven’t done our formal “Outdoor Hour” challenge for the week, which is on mosquitoes, but we will hopefully be able to do that this weekend. The kids did explore their back yard this week and found an unexpected surprise! While Jedi was out looking for worms for his fire belly toads that he has as pets, he actually found a small toad in our yard. All three children thought it was really interesting to watch and all of them observed something interesting….
Jedi’s observation was that the toad was the same color as the dirt, and the toad was hopping around in the dirt. We got to talk about how some animals are small and vulnerable, and blending in to surroundings is one way to hide and protect itself from predators. Jedi also noticed that toads are very hard to catch, although he was very proud when he finally got to hold on to the toad.
Monkey observed that the toad was small and was probably a very young. It was only about an inch long. She also noticed that the fire belly toad inside was brightly colored but this toad had no bright colors. In Ohio, the toads aren’t poisonous and tend to blend in with the dirt, so there is no need for bright colored “warnings” like the fire belly toad has.
Bitty Bug observed the toad’s hopping and enjoyed following the toad. She would squeal with delight when she finally got close enough to touch it.
After all three children got to observe the toad, they let the toad go back to hopping around in the grass and noticed that it also liked to swim in the pond!
I think I’m going to attempt to reorganize my postings. They seem all over the place! There are always things going on around here, so I either forget to post, or I remember to post but it’s about a lot of things all at once. There are also a couple fantastic blog carnivals out there that I want to get linked up with, so I’m going to try planning my posts around that.
Montessori Monday is hosted by http://onehookwonder.blogspot.com/ . This will basically be an overview of the Montessori work that went on in the previous week, mainly by Monkey.
The second blog carnival is Tot School.
Tot School is hosted by Carisa at 1+1+1=1 http://lapbooksbycarisa.homestead.com/TotSchool.html. Tot School is a time set aside for children under 3 where you focus on playing with your tot, while “sneaking” some educational things in. It’s a fun time where they use their imagination, explore, create, and learn. Of course, being a Montessori family, Bitty Bug’s Tot School time will also be Montessori in nature.
The third blog carnival is actually an outdoor nature challenge hosted by http://handbookofnaturestudy.blogspot.com . It’s based on the book “The Handbook of Nature Study” and involves studying the world in your own backyard, appreciating nature, and just exploring the world around you. This carnival has The Outdoor Hour Challenge.
Of course, the randomness will still pop up every now and then, just because there are also people reading the blog that are reading for family updates. So, I’ll try to get that in here every now and then as well.
Goodness, I apologize for the lack of posts. Things just got very busy around here, very fast. Jedi’s out of school for the summer and our days have been filled with almost daily field trips, some Montessori stuff (it’s awesome to have Jedi home during the days to work in the room with Monkey and Bitty Bug!), and we’ve also been working a lot on landscaping. Honestly, that’s been taking up a huge amount of time–there’s only a small window of time during the year to do new plantings, and with a newly built house, landscaping becomes quite the task!
I do plan on starting up posting again, at least a few times a week! We’ve been going on so many great trips and enjoying the outdoors, and it’d be nice to document those as well! In the past few weeks, the kids have pet flamingos at the zoo, came face to face with zebras and giraffes at a safari animal conservation center, went strawberry picking, visited farmer’s markets, and went to the lake (for swimming…but they also observed minnows and shells).
We’ve been doing quite a bit in the montessori room as well. One of the big things we’ve been trying to work on with Monkey is colors–she has a very hard time identifying the names of the colors, but she can sort them just fine. I’m not quite sure how to help her with this (she has some processing issues that make understanding words a bit difficult for her. She’s always had delays in speech & language because of her selective mutism and other special needs, and verbal processing is one of the last things she’s developing). I did get her a “colors of nature” work where she sorts various animal figures and plant figures into the primary colors. She does pretty well with this (and Bitty Bug joined in…she hasn’t quite gotten it yet, but it’s interesting to watch her none-the-less. She definitely doesn’t sort, but she does carefully observe each piece–more on that in a second…). I do have to research some ideas on helping her get the names of the colors as well…three part nomenclature cards won’t quite work yet as she’s not ready for letter identification just yet. If there are other Montessorians out there who have worked with children who have processing issues, or if you have an idea for me, please do let me know!
Back to Bitty Bug and her little things obsession. This child *loves* tiny things. She will pick up every rock, shell, piece of carpet fuzz, you name it. And then she will observe every single inch of it. It is really quite interesting to watch. She enjoys going to the lake for this very reason…there are so many tiny little pebbles and shells for her to pick up and observe. She definitely will have an eye for detail, that’s for sure! | 2019-04-19T09:27:32Z | https://barefootinsuburbia.wordpress.com/2010/06/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.447276 |
wordpress | I saw these two older issues of Marvel’s Amazing Adventures, both from 1973, and I would have ignored them entirely had I not noticed that the stories took place 45 years into the future, i.e., right now in 2018. Well, actually, I noticed the future date of the story and then ignored them entirely. But I kept it in mind to share these pages because it’s interesting what kind of scenarios people think might represent a believable future. Half-naked people fighting in the streets with swords and axes clearly missed the mark. The page below, however, accurately predicted one thing about 2108. Can you guess what it is?
If you guessed “man bun,” you win.
Let’s move on to the false advertising in comics to which I and countless other children were subjected. While this may sound like a complaint, those ads managed to fuel my imagination with their wildly false promises like “a bowl full of happiness” (which sounds more like an ad for a laxative). That sense of wonder remained with me for a long time, mostly because I was never able to afford a lot of that stuff and consequently never discovered it was all junk (unlike like the poor souls who pedaled their hearts out delivering newspapers to earn money, only to find out they were duped).
This wasn’t even the most blatant misrepresentation (in later years, the company ran its ads showing a small image of how these creatures actually appear; probably an inclusion that was necessitated to fend off angry parents and their lawyers. However, I wanted to show you one of the misleading versions of the ad I saw as a kid). Some ads actually featured these critters in lab coats and, as you can see above, these critters were “so eager to please. They can even be trained” (a promise sounding like it belongs in mail-order bride catalogs). Honestly, I thought this is what they looked like and I wanted to own my own little people so bad. I dreamed about training them to do cool stuff and they could be my minions (I have kids now, so that itch has been scratched, though not really because they wont perform juggling tricks for me). This is the only product from a comic ad that I eventually was able to see in person because some friends of mine were duped into buying them. Imagine my chagrin when I saw what looked like small bits of pulp floating in watered down citrus juice rather than a collection of Lilliputians that included what would be the closest thing to an actual naked lady a ten-year-old boy would ever get to see in person (I’m kidding. That thought actually never entered my mind. No, seriously, it didn’t. No, really, I’m being serious). Anyway, that dream ended on a sour note, but there was always … the nuclear sub!
“Learn how to become a GAME WARDEN, GOV’T HUNTER” and you could catch “America’s favorite pet” for free, saving the cost of $29.95 (but be careful, because that “Rascal” will tear your eyes out given half a chance).
Or, you can keep your she-man voice if you like. Maybe alternate between the two when you want to have fun during a job interview.
Okay, enough silliness for now. Keep an eye out for more comic ramblings later.
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salon | Facebook announced a massive security breach to its the website Friday, which impacted about 50 million user accounts.
Facebook's engineering team discovered the breach Tuesday, has begun an investigation into the matter and alerted law enforcement, according to a blog post released by the company. "Since we’ve only just started our investigation, we have yet to determine whether these accounts were misused or any information accessed," the social media juggernaut disclosed.
"We face constant attacks from people who want to take over accounts or steal information around the world," CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook account. "While I'm glad we found this, fixed the vulnerability and secured the accounts that may be at risk, the reality is we need to continue developing new tools to prevent this from happening in the first place."
In its blog post, Facebook said that the attackers exploited a vulnerability in its "View As" feature, which allows people to see how their profile appears to someone else on the platform. The social media network first became aware of a possible attack when it observed a boost in user activity on Sept. 16, according to CNBC.
This vulnerability allowed hackers "to steal Facebook access tokens, which they could then use to take over people’s accounts," Facebook's blog post added. "Access tokens are the equivalent of digital keys that keep people logged in to Facebook so they don’t need to re-enter their password every time they use the app."
The company claims to have fixed the vulnerability and has reset the access tokens of the 50 million accounts who were directly impacted, as well as another 40 million accounts that could have been been at risk through the "View As" feature. This means approximately 90 million people will have to log back in to Facebook or into any apps that rely on their Facebook login.
"Facebook has had a hard year, and it just got worse," Adam Levin, founder of CyberScout, the company that assists businesses with cybersecurity, said in a statement." "In a world dominated by trillion-dollar advertising platforms consisting of multi-billion member communities, 50 million users may no longer seem like a big deal, but it is. The number of people affected by this breach is roughly equal to the entire population of the west coast of the United States."
In the meantime, Facebook said it has temporarily disabled the "View As" feature in light of the security investigation.
"This attack exploited the complex interaction of multiple issues in our code," Facebook's blog post continued. "It stemmed from a change we made to our video uploading feature in July 2017, which impacted 'View As.' The attackers not only needed to find this vulnerability and use it to get an access token, they then had to pivot from that account to others to steal more tokens."
Facebook does not yet know who the hackers are or where they are based.
In his statement, Levin said that, because the breach occurred after an upgrade, "any changes made to networks, software and other systems must be immediately and continually tested and monitored for vulnerabilities that may have been caused in the process. The traditional 'patch and pray' approach to cybersecurity is obsolete. An effective vulnerability management program is crucial."
Facebook was already trading down, but after the disclosure, the company extended losses up to 3.5 percent, CNBC reported.
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tripod | It was a given that the Fantastic Four would face the Silver Surfer and the planet eater Galactus in the first sequel to the successful film FANTASTIC 4. Yes, it would be silly if Galactus turned out to be a giant human in a purple costume with a big hat in the film (like he did in the comic book which somehow worked). Glactus is more ominus in FANTASTIC 4: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER. The story wisely focuses on the four heroes (Reed Richards, Johnny Storm, Sue Storm, and Ben Grimm), the Silver Surfer, and Dr. Victor Von Domm (back for another round of evil). The Fantastic four end up teaming with Victor to stop to the Silver Surfer despite the team's mistrust of Doom. Reed and Sue are trying to get married, but the coming of the Silver Surfer wrecks havoc on the planet and leads to ominious news.
FANTASTIC 4: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER has the same tone and humor as the first film. The sequel flies by at good pace and it is over before you know it. Excellent popcorn entertainment for the summer movie season. The team faces all types of conflicts (including Johnny being able to switch powers with any of the other members is he comes into contact with them, Doom's motives, Reed wanting to be a hero while wanting to make Sue happy, and more). Humor is helps make the sequel a fun trip (Reed's bachelor party, Johnny's troubles with his powers). I do think it is faithful in spirit to the issue of the comic book that introduced the suilver Surfer and Galactus. Watch out for the Stan Lee cameo and stay around for a few second during the end credits for an extra bit. I just wonder what the third FANTASTIC 4 will bring (maybe a son for Reed and Sue- hopefully not the silly robot from the first cartoon). With scant amount of deleted and extended scenes on the Power Cosmic Edition, I wonder if there are a few more for an extended cut later on.
Disc 1 has two audio commentaries recorded for the film (one with Director Tim Story and the other with Producer Avi Arad, Screenwriter Donm Payne, and Film Editors Peter S. Elliot and William Hoy). I do agree on the second track that they should have did the scene during the end credits a little differently. Tim Story (on commentary track number 1) reveals little secrets about why certain things were done for the story.
Disc 2 has the majority of extras. Many will probably just buy the one disc and miss out on a few interesting extras. The extended and deleted scenes (with optional commentary by Dirctor Tim Story) don't amount to much like a full title credits sequence and few throwaway scenes. The theatrical teaser and full theatrical trailer are included on the disc along with trailers for the first F4, the three X-MEN films, Deck The halls, and a DARK ANGEL DVD spot. Three still galleries (Behind The Scenes, Characters, and Concept Art) are also included in addition a very lame Interactive Fantasticar Experience (Nuff Said).
The Best Extras are the documentaries and featurettes.
FAMILY BONDS: THE MAKING OF F4- THE RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER is presented as a Pre-Production and Production featurettes which can be play on their own or as a full documentary. They focus on the prep work right before production and the things that happen during Production (like how snow caused them to compress the shooting of the final scene on the last night of filming).
THE POWER COSMIC looks aty the special effects work that went into creating the Silver Surfer for the film with the help of Doug Jones in a Silver Surfer costume (as a stand-in) and a CGI Surfer created by WETA.
CHARACTER DESIGN WITH SPECTRAL MOTION focuses on the work and improvenments that went into The thing costume for the sequel.
SCORING THE FANTASTIC takes us into the process of recording the film's score.
SENTINEL OF THE SPACEWAYS: COMIC BOOK ORIGINS OF THE SILVER SURFER is the best documentary on the disc as it's four chapters go into detail of the creation of the Silver Surfer, the Silver Surfer comics written by Stan Lee and others, and how the Surfer took off in the 1980s 20 years after he was first created. The first two Silver Surfer storylines in the FANTASTIC FOUR comic book more the basis for much of the storyline in the sequel.
FINAL ANALYSIS: FANTASTIC 4: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER is a popcorn sequel which will please some and still disappoint others who didn't like the first one either. The Power Cosmic Edition does have some interesting featurettes and documentaries on disc 2. I just wonder if an extended cut is planned for in the future to coincide with a third FANTASTIC 4 film. | 2019-04-19T09:21:57Z | http://enterline2.tripod.com/f4_silversurfer_powercosmic.html | Porn | Reference | 0.115739 |
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livejournal | She was only Buffy Anne Summers for 40 hours. She spent 14 years as Athena Luthor. And now she is moving to Smallville.
Buffy joins the Air Force after the events of "Becoming Part 2"
This is a Kelvin-timeline story parallel to my TtH "Paths" story.
A series of stories written for Twisted Shorts August Fic-A-Day Challenge.
Zeppos unite as Xander joins Rip Hunter and the Legends.
The Awaited One Rampant Misunderstandings 9/?
The Awatied One - Trade Agreements 8/?
Timeline: Firefly-post BDM seven months after, Buffy – takes into account all of television series of both Angel and Buffy but no the comic books.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Buffy/Angel mythos and Firefly/Serenity are property of Joss Whedon, Mutant Inc., etc.
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yahoo | Budapest (AFP) - Hungary is set to launch another state "national consultation" about US financier and philanthropist George Soros, the government said Tuesday, six months before expected general elections.
The campaign would be to investigate public views on the "Soros plan", and would likely be launched next month, government spokesman Bence Tuzson told public radio, without giving further details.
Last week a top official in the ruling Fidesz party, Lajos Kosa, said that this "Soros plan" includes Europe accepting a million migrants per year and the demolition of Hungary's anti-migrant border fences.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has regularly attacked the Hungarian-born Soros in the last year, calling him a "public enemy" for his alleged backing of uncontrolled mass immigration.
An image of the 87-year-old laughing adorned billboard posters alongside a message urging Hungarians "not to let Soros have the last laugh".
The posters, some of which were daubed with anti-Semitic graffiti, were widely condemned including by Soros himself and Hungary's main Jewish organisation, which called them "poisonous".
The drive is the latest of a series of taxpayer-funded "national consultations" by Orban's government comprising questionnaires sent to households and accompanying mass media "public information" campaigns.
The first one, in 2015, included a questionnaire asking households about "immigration and terrorism".
That survey was sharply criticised, notably by the UN refugee agency UNHCR which expressed "shock" at its questions and said it could boost xenophobia in the EU country.
Another campaign titled "Let's Stop Brussels" asked citizens for advice on how to deal with European Union policies that the government said threatened Hungarians' independence.
Hungarian media reported Tuesday that Orban told a recent closed party meeting immigration would be the main theme of the run-up to the next election, likely to be held in April. | 2019-04-18T17:45:47Z | https://www.yahoo.com/news/hungary-set-fresh-anti-soros-blitz-144955168.html | Porn | News | 0.804072 |
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wikipedia | The 2007–08 Ukrainian First League is the seventeenth since its establishment. There were 20 teams competing. Two teams were relegated from the Ukrainian Premier League 2006-07. Four teams were promoted from the Ukrainian Second League 2006-07.
On July 24, 2007 the team of "Fakel" changed its name to "Prykarpattia".
^ FC Volyn Lutsk was docked three (3) tournament points in accordance with the decision of the Bureau of PFL of 15 April 2008.
^ MFK Mykolaiv informed the PFL season on 26 June 2008 that the City Administration of Mykolaiv will not be financing the team in the 2008/09 season. On 1 July 2008 the team was dissolved. On 17 July 2008 the club reapplies to the PFL and are readmitted into Druha Liha Group A for the 2008-09 season.
^ Prykarpattia Ivano-Frankivsk remains in the Persha Liha after MFK Mykolaiv dissolved and relegated.
^ FC Dnipro Cherkasy docked six (6) tournament points in accordance with the decision of the Bureau of PFL of 19 June 2008 and 3 July 2008.
On June 26, 2008 MFC Mykolaiv was withdrawn from competitions. On July 1, 2008 the club was announced about the official disbandment. Due to the public pressure and with help of Hryhoriy Surkis, it became possible to preserve the club in professional competitions. MFK Mykolaiv was admitted to the 2008-09 Ukrainian Second League instead of the third team of Dynamo, FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv.
^ Decision #33 of the PFL Bureau of Ukraine. July 24, 2007.
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Going on is the only way to get what you want.
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Yes…been there and done that the last ten years. Hopefully, writing will change my Karma.
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wordpress | It’s almost a month into summer break, and as the only cook in the house I’ve learned one thing : I NEED a meal plan! See, during the school year we only have the kids every other weekend and every thursday. Usually I just find a way to make it through, throwing “this and that” together on the fly, or at best, only planning for the next 24 hours. Well now….with the kids here for a week at a time during the summer that plan of “cooking on the fly” hasn’t been working so well for me, to say the least.
This week my husband wanted Pho soup (it’s hot out, but what does that matter, right??), which means that a roast is also thawed. We never use the whole thing to go with the Pho, so I had at least 1/2 of it left. Thinking ahead for once, I was trying to figure out what I could make that would freeze well, as the kids don’t come for another few days. Then I remembered them mentioning Beef Stew, which I’ve never made before, but I’m willing to try as long as the recipe is simple. My go-to site is always Food.com, and that’s where I found this recipe for beef stew. I read thru some of the reviews and of course made a couple changes, as I can NEVER follow a recipe exactly as written…yes, I’m one of THOSE people.
This turned out to be very tasty, and more on the brothy-soupy side as far as Beef Stews go. Meaning, there is almost as much liquid as there is meat & veggies. This would be perfect with my favorite 5 minute Artisan bread, which I’ll make for the kids to round out the meal. And hey, if you do have left over broth at the end just turn it into a gravy to go with mashed potatoes, that will be DELICIOUS. Now I’m kinda hoping there will be some broth left!
1. Heat oil over medium/medium low heat in a large dutch oven.
2. Meanwhile, put flour, salt and pepper in a large ziploc bag, shake to blend. Then place meat in the bag and shake until all the beef well is coated, there will be extra flour in the bag (keep that).
3. Shake off the extra flour from the meat pieces and then add them to the oil, stirring until slightly browned.
4. Add to the dutch oven the remaining flour from the bag and the finely chopped onion, stir well and allow to cook for a 5-7 minutes. Check on it a couple times to re-stir and make sure nothing burns.
5. Add in all of the remaining ingredients EXCEPT the potatoes. Cover and simmer over low heat for 35-40 minutes.
6. Then add in the potatoes and cook for another 35-40 minutes or until they are just getting tender. Turn off the heat and let it “rest” for 5-10 minutes, the potatoes will finish cooking in this time.
7. Adjust salt level as needed. The brand of beef broth I used was a little on the salty side, so I added in another 1/2-3/4 cups of water at the end and it was perfect.
That sounds and looks delish!! I have to do meal plans in our house. It helps me stay on task and on budget.
I am going to make this stew tomorrow! I have everything except the beef, thanks for the recipe. | 2019-04-21T22:29:20Z | https://choosingsimplicity.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/beginners-brown-beef-stew/ | Porn | Reference | 0.261298 |
wordpress | The tree above Bag End is a fake.
Ralph Bakshi, who directed “The Lord of the Rings” in 1978, suggested that it didn’t matter what Hobbits look like as everyone has an idea of what they look like. Well, fans of “The Shire” might beg to differ. Tolkien had very clear ideas about their stature, their features and their personalities and Jackson’s later ‘epic’ retelling sought to stay as faithful as possible to the author’s vision. Those who have read, and therefore viewed the reproductions of Tolkien’s drawings, would be able to discern a hobbit, dwarf or fairy from the Green Dragon Inn to the outer edges of West Farthing.
Bakshi’s filmic interpretation, whilst supposedly a financial success in box office terms, had severe budgetary issues in the making and failed to raise enough capital to complete the story, no such bad luck for Jackson. The “Lord of the Rings” trilogy was financed to the tune of $250M and “The Hobbit” trilogy, a tad under $1bn and the viewer can readily tell that the longer book story suffers from ambition over resource in several areas, perhaps most notably in the “Flight to the Ford” scene. Never mind Jackson’s version will become, if not already, the de facto “public edition” of both books, ensuring our view of those characters, those scenes, those panoramas will tend towards the Jackson perspective.
“The Hobbiton Movie Set Tour” is a two hour guided walk around the set developed for “The Hobbit”. The original set for “The Lord of the Rings” soon became dilapidated as it was built as a “movie set” i.e. a facade for the camera lens, an impermanent construction to provide spectacle. The later incarnation, which now attracts around 50,000 visitors a year, and constructed a year before filming of “The Hobbit” began, is built to last as part of a deal with the owner of the land – Alexander Farming Genetics, and Jackson, who between them pocket the profits.
One of the key ingredients to help decide this particular site was, apparently, the “rolling countryside”, a small lake or pond and a large circular tree. The tree would be cast as the “party tree” and which appears in both books in a supporting role. On my tour the guide was keen to mention that the tree he was standing in front of was indeed “the party tree”. And I couldn’t help but agree with him, the tree that I looked at was entirely similar to the vision I have of “the party tree”. It is an entirely consistent simulacrum of what I now know as “the party tree”, and it is so because the vision I have of it now is that which Jackson provided. The resolution of “The Hobbit”, filmed at 48fps providing more “real”, as Jackson declares: “Now, in the digital age, there’s no reason whatsoever to stick to 24 fps. […] Science tells us that the human eye stops seeing individual pictures at about 55 fps. Therefore, shooting at 48 fps gives you much more of an illusion of real life.” The spectacle becoming more “real”, more Baudrillard perhaps, replacing the simulacrum with its filmic version of itself, becoming the referrant.
Above “Bag End” is a construction of a tree that, in the subsequent film “The Hobbit”, telling a tale some sixty years or so before “The Lord of the Rings”, needs therefore to look like a tree that is sixty years younger. The tree was made by the film studio’s art department from a range of synthetic materials. The 200,000 or so leaves apparently having to be repainted a few days before shooting because Jackson decided that they were the wrong shade of green – back to the verisimilitude of 48fps again – and then all placed, by hand we are comforted to be told, before filming could begin.
I wanted to beg to differ with the guide. I wanted to suggest to him that the tree he defined as “The Party Tree” was in fact a common or garden tree, though beautifully endowed as it was with ageing limbs. It was impersonating something it could only ever aspire to. It was a spectacle of a spectacle of Tolkien’s imagination. It cannot be “The Party Tree” as no such thing ever existed, no matter that Tolkien drew it and referred to it. The “Party Tree” was, and is, a work of fiction. The whole film set is a spectacle, is a facsimile and beautifully rendered it is too.
The tree above Bag End is a fake, however it might be the only real thing on the set.
It certainly looks beautifully done. I wonder if there’s one on Second Life – must have a look. Were the ageing limbs on the Party Tree stuck to it or just old branches of it?
The big tree in the first photo is alive (albeit very old), it’s stature was one of the attractions that drew Jackson to this specific site – the other two were the pond and rolling countryside. It certainly felt ‘otherworldly’ though. | 2019-04-26T12:24:12Z | https://johnumneyblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/06/the-above-bag-end-is-a-fake/?share=google-plus-1 | Porn | Reference | 0.213416 |
yahoo | In retrospect, Tuesday’s news that Dean Foods (NYSE:DF) was exploring strategic alternatives should have been a clue that Wednesday’s earnings report would be anything but great. Thriving companies don’t need to change a thing. Still, the actual depth of the company’s woes was shocking. Dean Foods stock plummeted nearly 14% on Wednesday, after falling short of already-low earnings estimates and suspending its dividend.
Most damning of all, however, was legitimate analyst concern that the company behind brand names like Land O Lakes, Dairy Pure and TruMoo wouldn’t actually find a willing buyer for the company as a whole, or in pieces.
It’s not exactly Dean Foods’ fault. Although milk prices have been stable since 2015, they’ve stabilized at roughly one-third less than 2014’s average.
Worse, Dean Foods now competes with the very companies that were and still are distributors of its product. Kroger (NYSE:KR) and Walmart (NYSE:WMT), along with other retailers, now offer so-called ‘private label’ house brands.
End result? The organization lost 50 cents per share of Dean Foods stock last quarter, versus analyst expectations for a loss of 26 cents.
The poor report extends an ever-worsening streak of fiscal trouble.
In short, time has caught up with Dean Foods. Something has to change now. There’s no assurance it will, or even can change, however.
Clearly the company knew on Tuesday when it announced it was mulling strategic alternatives Wednesday’s quarterly report would again be dire enough to leave it no choice but to seek out a partner, or buyer. Indeed, Dean Foods has likely sensed for a while this day of reckoning would arrive.
The dairy outfit may have waited too long, however.
The current DF stock price stands at just below $4.00.
Matters could get worse before they get better. Morgan Stanley analyst Pamela Kaufman, who optimistically holds a price target of $6.00, conceded the company’s current cost and pricing challenges could persist through 2019.
That’s time, however, Dean Foods may not have.
The outlook for milk prices this year is only a very modest improvement on last year’s average. And, although still producing positive cash flow, each passing day provides more opportunity for rivals like Kroger and even Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) to expand their in-house supply chain.
Dean Foods is pushing back by aiming to serve that particular market rather than compete with it. CEO Ralph Scozzafava commented during the earnings call, “To win in the private-label piece of the business, we must be the low-cost provider and also transform the way we go to market.” But, the company appears to be behind on both fronts.
Dean Foods may have just passed its expiration date.
The post Dean Foods Stock Has Passed Its Expiration Date appeared first on InvestorPlace. | 2019-04-19T22:35:50Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dean-foods-stock-passed-expiration-161807782.html | Porn | Business | 0.854338 |
wordpress | LOS ANGELES, CA – Lawyers for Amaru Entertainment scored a major victory against Morgan Creek Productions in the Superior Court for the State ofCalifornia on Tuesday, September 1, when Judge Richard E. Rico ruled in their favor and upheld Amaru Entertainment’s cross-complaint for tortious intentional interference. A trial date has now been set for Tuesday, April 13, 2010.
The litigation started when Morgan Creek filed suit against Amaru Entertainment in February this year, alleging that the company had “backed out of negotiations” and was currently “refusing to honor and perform a contract of a production for a film based on the life of Tupac Shakur.” In actuality, there was never any agreement as key deal terms had never been agreed upon between the parties. This was a scheme by Morgan Creek to bully Amaru Entertainment into doing a movie with them and interfere with Amaru Entertainment’s negotiations for the film with other studios. | 2019-04-21T06:49:01Z | https://cwgmagazine.wordpress.com/category/2pac/ | Porn | Business | 0.574623 |
wordpress | Ep 225 – My Brush Sprung a Leak!
Sometimes You Just Need to Walk Away! or Quit Making Mistakes!
SOTD – Why is My Synthetic Brush Dripping On Me?
SOTD – No More Drip!
Ep 164 – Nope! Just Don’t Do It!
← Ep 224 – Trying to Get a Handshake Deal! | 2019-04-26T07:51:00Z | https://brushnsoapnblade.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/ep-225-my-brush-sprung-a-leak/ | Porn | Business | 0.641927 |
wordpress | Unless the envelope is orange-ish, most Americans don’t like seeing the IRS return address on a piece of mail. (The orange envelope contains a paper check for a refund.) Most folks know that if you don’t pay your tax bill by a certain date (or make arrangements for quarterly payments), the interest will begin to mount on what you owe. But does the IRS pay interest if they owe you money over a certain time?
Our family had some tax complications due to adopting children and moving around for my husband’s job with the military. Adopted children are initially assigned a temporary number, the ATIN, used on tax paperwork for up to two years while the parents sort out issues with Immigration & Naturalization, re-adoptions in home states (for international adoptions), and other paperwork that continues long after you’ve brought your precious child home.
Unfortunately, we received bad information from an immigration official who told us our sons would have to live in the US for two years before we could apply for their citizenship. It just so happened that we were stationed in the US when we got this erroneous info, so we waited the two years. The ATIN numbers expired, we finally got citizenship for them and passports as the US Army moved us back overseas.
Problem, we were now living overseas and filing our 1040 with the IRS, but we did not have social security numbers for our younger two sons. The Social Security Administration would not accept Citizenship documents, or US passports–they wanted birth certificates from a US state. Federal stuff was no good.
We tried registering foreign birth and had issues with our state of legal record because they wanted us to prove we were legal residents of that state at the time of the adoption. The state would not accept the letter from the US Army listing my husband’s legal address as also being my legal address as well. The fact that we both have drivers licenses from there, vehicles registered there, and even vote in elections there was not good enough proof. Eventually we had to hire a lawyer in our home state and adopt our children again (which was very confusing to them. They’d been with us for over two years. “Aren’t you already our parents?” “Are we your children or not?”).
This all took another two years during which we dutifully filed our tax returns and continued to list the expired temporary identification number. After we filed, the IRS would send a letter adjusting our return because they removed our two youngest children from their equation.
Finally, we received those social security cards in the mail. Yay! It was a day to celebrate. It was also a day to begin our amended tax returns for the past two years. The most recent year we owed money because our book sales and one investment took us over the edge to pay for the first time. That amended return only showed us owing less.
For the year before that, however, the IRS owed us $2000, as shown on the amended return. We received a white envelope with the IRS return address and opened it to good news; the letter affirmed the amount owed was $2000. There was no indication any interest would be paid.
Did the IRS pay us interest on the amount they had owed us for two years?
Yes, they did. When our orange-ish envelope came, I am pleased to report the total amount on the check included interest.
Makes me wonder about that audit from so many years ago. Turns out, years of interest only accumulate if you owe the IRS, because you’ve only got three years to file that amended return.
Kristin King is a paranormal fiction author, military spouse, and mother to four sons. She is contracting new covers for her vampire series, after which the first novel will become a free ebook. Rather than blogging about books and writing, which would make too much sense, she blogs about travel, food, living abroad, current events and other random topics.
Sitting in the IRS Office at 31 Hopkins Plaza in Baltimore, MD, I wait. I peruse the documents, the ID’s. My babies’ faces before they knew they were mine. Eyes wide, droopy, glassy with, I surmise, fear, malnutrition, hopelessness. I lay these African passport photos side by side with their U.S. Visa photos. (Passport Y0306009002 Visa KIN 201195900301) U.S. Visa photos from before my children met us, same big eyes, same fear, but perhaps, a little rounder faces. Our youngest sons have had better nutrition these last eight months.
I notice the numbers, the ever-increasing, never-ending numbers. I tire of the numbers.
Passport numbers times six–one for each family member. Visa numbers, permanent resident card numbers. A-file numbers, case number for ever call I’ve made to the IRS, the Social Security Administration, US Immigration and Naturalization, Department of Homeland Security, etc. Calls that represent forms like the 1040, the W-7, the 181-H, the I-600. The W-7 is the issue this day, here to apply for another number, the ITIN.
I am overwhelmed by the numbers. My husband and I began indie publishing last year. The numbers, ISBN, ASIN, Smashwords, CreateSpace ID’s, individual book ID’s, times 16 for fiction works and times 22 for nonfiction. There’s the publishing business numbers, EIN, new bank account, royalty tracking ID’s. What’s a DUNS number? I found out when I had to get one. Did I mention we’re co-founding a nonprofit? EIN, 501c, and every piece of paper federal and state has an application moniker, case #, final assigned ID. A quagmire of numbers threatens.
This day, though, the numbers are about the faces I examine as I wait. I carry U.S. ID’s taken only four months after we brought our youngest sons home. Eyes are slits, shoved together by round cheeks bulging above smiles that show every tooth. I sit in the Federal Building, tears brim.
The A-file, the W-7, the ITIN, the passport, the visa, the permanent resident card.
I love these numbers. These precious, precious numbers. They say, “This is my child. These are my boys. My babies.” A million numbers can never express my joy. My grateful heart.
Thank you, God. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you for the numbers. | 2019-04-25T03:53:29Z | https://kristinkingauthor.wordpress.com/category/adoption/ | Porn | Reference | 0.20619 |
wordpress | I studied Printmaking at Limerick School of Art & Design (1986-1990) and received an MA by research from Crawford College of Art, Cork (2004). I am a full time member of the Limerick printmakers since 1999 and I am on the Board of Directors since 2010. I am a director and co-founder of Parralle Editons a fine art publishing house here in Limerick. I teach part-time in the print department in LSAD, and I also run workshops in the Limerick Printmakers.
My own practice is print specific but I enjoy using alternative materials and diferent ways to present my work when possible. The printmaking medium also influences how I work, through process led techniques and image making. I work in across a variety of printmaking mediums and I am constantly interested and influenced by new processes as well as the more traditional techniques. My prints are generally combinations of techniques in one finished piece from photo etching, monoprinting, silkscreen, chine colle, and collagragph. I like to present my work in instillation format as well as the conventional framed print.
The images and themes in my work are from my own familiar environment and I also draw inspiration from occurrences in the everyday that I encounter. My response and reflection on these events mark for me a specific time but they are open and inviting to interpretation.
I enjoy working with other artists on Collaboration projects and find these opportunities important to my practice as these encounters expose how other artist work as well as re-examining my own approach to making and creating. | 2019-04-22T10:13:40Z | https://16boxset.wordpress.com/suzannah-oreilly/ | Porn | Arts | 0.993409 |
yahoo | NEW YORK (Reuters) - After an eight-year absence from the music industry, actress and singer Hilary Duff released her fifth studio album this week, "Breathe In. Breathe Out," an upbeat dance album that touches on themes of self discovery, romance and failed love.
The former child star who shot to fame as the titular character in the Disney Channel's "Lizzie McGuire" in 2001, has married, had a son and split from hockey player Mike Comrie since the release of "Dignity" in 2007.
"Metamorphosis," her second album released in 2003, sold nearly 4 million copies in the U.S. and topped the Billboard 200.
Despite a lengthy break and starring in the comedy/drama "Younger" on the cable network TV Land, Duff, whose record sales top 15 million worldwide, said she always knew she would go back to making music.
"It wasn't the right time until it was, until I was inspired and felt like I had something to say," she said in an interview.
With 12 tracks and collaborations with English singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran and Swedish pop star Tove Lo, Duff, 27, said "Breathe In. Breathe Out" is her most personal album to date.
The Texas native spent a year in the studio trying to find the right sound for the album that started out as more of a folksy pop record and changed just as she did.
"I feel like it was a big growing process. It took a lot to find myself in the studio again," she said. "I'm an adult now and I was a kid before."
"Sparks," the first single from the album, is a catchy pop song with a repeating whistle sound.
"You can promise castles, treasures, babies. I don't care. Cause right now you're just enough for me I want you near," she says in the lyrics.
Duff regards the title track, "Breathe In. Breathe Out," as sort of her mantra.
"It's something that really helps me and I think we all should remember to make all of those breaths count, through the good times and the bad times," she explained.
Every song on the album, from the hopeful love tune "Night Like This" to the break-up song "One in a Million" and the love tune "Confetti," have a special meaning for her.
"Everything on the record I connect to, whether I wrote it or I didn't, it grabbed me in a certain way and I wanted to tell the stories," she said. | 2019-04-20T04:25:38Z | https://news.yahoo.com/hilary-duff-dives-back-music-breathe-breathe-215832706.html | Porn | Home | 0.080762 |
livejournal | :: Monday Night :: Monday nights are stay-home nights. I dun… - Dreams are what you wake up from.
Monday nights are stay-home nights.
I dun know anyone who does dinner on monday nights.
But we had our dinner anyway.
turned what was to be a "hey I've gotta go and study for my exam"
to one ending close to midnight.
The word of the day was : prescient.
You are in unfamiliar country walking on a path.
You encounter a single armed warrior at a fork in the road.
Each branch of the fork leads to a village.
You know that one road leads to a group of peaceful people who always tell the truth and will give you food.
The other leads to a village of congenital liars who will kill you.
The people from the two villages look alike.
You are permitted one yes-or-no question to the warrior and then you must choose a fork and meet your fate.
but no movie tickets to give away sorry.
wah! a honourable mention on your LJ!
do i get free tickets for answering my own question correctly?
we go watch together lah. Fabian haven't watch yet.
thanks for the invite lor!
aya. just point one direction and ask is ''this where u come from?'' if its''yes'', then that direction leads to the peacful place, and if its ''no'', just take the other direction lo.
coz both guys will say yes when pointing to the safe place ma.
haha. i answered this question when i was in pri 6 over a radio programme leh.
wow wow.... 2 variables, 1 equation. and you figured it out at primary 6.... did you get it by elimination or intuition?
monday night... to the club?
point to road A & ask, "if i were to ask somebody who is from the other village, 'does this way lead to the peaceful village?', will he say yes?"
was good to catching up. ur question was buzzing in my head at 5 30 when i woke up from a very deep sleep (thanks 2 3 bottles of wine courtesy of jin_n_juice).
ask hotdoggie don work so hard lah.
Yes, very fun evening. I'm exhausted today.. Thanks for the wonderful company.
Oh, I only brought one bottle - the good ones were caspersg's! We must try into_the_wild's Asti some time. | 2019-04-19T00:32:40Z | https://into-the-wild.livejournal.com/250483.html | Porn | Health | 0.174595 |
wikipedia | The barbiton, or barbitos (Gr: βάρβιτον or βάρβιτος; Lat. barbitus), is an ancient stringed instrument known from Greek and Roman classics related to the lyre. The barbat or barbud, also sometimes called barbiton, is an unrelated lute-like instrument derived from Persia.
The Greek instrument was a bass version of the kithara, and belonged in the zither family, but in medieval times, the same name was used to refer to a different instrument that was a variety of lute.
Theocritus (xvi. 45), the Sicilian poet, calls the barbitos an instrument of many strings, i.e. more than seven, which was by the Hellenes considered to be a perfect number, and matched the number of strings customary in the kithara.
Pollux (Onomasticon iv. chap. 8, § 59) calls the instrument barbiton or barymite (from βάρυς, heavy and μίτος, a string), an instrument producing very deep sounds which comes out of the soundbox. The strings were twice as long as those of the pectis and sounded an octave lower.
Pindar (in Athen. xiv. p. 635), in the same line wherein he attributes the introduction of the instrument into Greece to Terpander, tells us one could magadize, i.e. play in two parts at an interval of an octave on the two instruments.
Although in use in Asia Minor, Italy, Sicily, and Greece, it is evident that the barbiton never won for itself a place in the affections of ancient Greeks; it was regarded as a barbarian instrument affected by those only whose tastes in matters of art were unorthodox. It had fallen into disuse in the days of Aristotle, but reappeared under the Romans. Aristotle said that this string instrument was not for educational purposes but for pleasure only.
Often Sappho is also depicted playing the barbitos, which has longer strings and a lower pitch. It is closely associated with the poet Alcaeus and the island of Lesbos, the birthplace of Sappho, where it is called a barmos. The music from this instrument was said to be the lyre for drinking parties and is considered an invention of Terpander. The word barbiton was frequently used for the kithara or lyre.
In spite of the few meagre shreds of authentic information extant concerning this somewhat elusive instrument, it is possible nevertheless to identify the barbiton as it was known among the Greeks and Romans. From the Greek writers we know that it was a deep toned instrument, with pitch range of at least two octaves, that had enough features in common with the lyre, and kithara, to warrant their classification as a family of related instruments.
The later, unrelated instrument, is described by the Persians and Arabs as a kind of rebab or lute, or a chelys-lyre, It was first introduced into Europe through Asia Minor by way of Greece, and centuries later into Spain by the Moors, amongst whom it was in the 14th century known as al-barbet.
It has the vaulted back and gradual narrowing to form a neck which are typical of the rebab and the stringing of the lyre. In outline it resembles a large lute with a wide neck, and the seven strings of the lyre of the best period, or sometimes nine, following the “decadent lyre”. Most authors in reproducing these sculptures showing it represent the instrument as boat-shaped and without a neck, as, for instance, Carl Engel. This is because the part of the instrument where neck joins body is in deep shadow, so that the correct outline can hardly be distinguished, being almost hidden by hand on one side and drapery on the other.
The barbat (also called “barbiton”) pictured to the right is unlike the instrument depicted on Greek vase paintings.
Barbiton, from a bas-relief in the Louvre, Achilles at Scyros.
Inter quas instrumenta non nulla barbito simillima effinxerunt cujus modi sunt illa quae vulgo appellantur theorba, quae sonos graviores reddunt chordasque nervosas habent.
The people called it theorbo, but the scholar having identified it with the instrument of classic Greece and Rome called it barbiton. The barbiton had nine pairs of gut strings, each pair being in unison. Dictionaries of the 18th century support Fludd's use of the name barbiton. G. B. Doni mentions the barbiton, defining it in his index as Barbitos seu major chelys italice tiorba, and deriving it from lyre and cithara in common with testudines, tiorbas and all tortoiseshell instruments. Claude Perrault, writing in the 18th century, states that "les modernes appellent notre luth barbiton" (the moderns call our lute barbiton). Constantijn Huygens declares that he learnt to play the barbiton in a few weeks, but took two years to learn the cittern.
The barbat was a variety of rebab, a bass instrument, differing only in size and number of strings. This is quite in accordance with what we know of the nomenclature of musical instruments among Persians and Arabs, with whom a slight deviation in the construction of an instrument called for a new name. The word barbud applied to the barbiton is said to be derived from a famous musician living at the time of Chosroes II (590-628 CE), who excelled in playing upon the instrument. From a later translation of part of the same authority into German we obtain the following reference to Persian musical instruments: Die Sänger stehen bei seinem Gastmahl; in ihrer Hand Barbiton(i) und Leyer(ii) und Laute(iii) und Flöte(iv) und Deff (Handpauke). Mr. Ellis, of the Oriental Department of the British Museum, has kindly supplied the original Persian names translated above, i.e. (i) barbut, (ii) chang, (iii) rubāb, (iv) nei. The barbut and rubab thus were different instruments as late as the 19th century in Persia. There were but slight differences if any between the archetypes of the pear-shaped rebab and of the lute before the application of the bow to the former – both had vaulted backs, body and neck in one, and gut strings plucked by the fingers.
The barbitos is part of the Lost Sounds Orchestra, alongside other ancient instruments which Ancient Instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application (ASTRA) have recreated the sounds of, including the epigonion, the salpinx, the aulos, and the syrinx.
The sounds of the barbitos are being digitally recreated by the ASTRA project, which uses Physical modeling synthesis to simulate the barbitos sounds. Due to the complexity of this process the ASTRA project uses grid computing, to model sounds on hundreds of computers throughout Europe simultaneously.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Schlesinger 1911.
^ a b West, Martin L. (1992). Ancient Greek Music. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-814975-1.
^ Schlesinger 1911 cites: Polit. viii. (v.), 6, ed. Susemihl-Hicks (1894), pp. 604 (= 1341a 40) and 632; Daremberg and Saglio, Dict. d'ant. gr. et rom., article "Lyre,", p, 1450, for a few more references to the classics.
^ W. D. Anderson. (1994). Music and Musicians in Ancient Greece. ISBN 0-8014-3083-6. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
^ Schlesinger 1911 cites: Enumeration of Arab Musical Instruments, xiv. c.
^ Schlesinger 1911 cites: (a) See C. Clarac, Musée du Louvre, vol. i. pl. 202, no. 261. (b) Accompanying illustration. See also Kathleen Schlesinger, "Orchestral Instruments", part ii., "Precursors of the Violin Family," fig. 108 and p. 23, pp. 106–107, fig. 144 and appendix. (c) Sarcophagus in the cathedral of Girgenti in Sicily, illustrated by Carl Engel, Early History of the Violon Family, p. 112. A cast of preserved in the sepulchral basement at the British Museum. Domenico, Lo Faso Pietra-Santa, le antichrita della Sicilia (Palermo, 1834), vol. 3, pl. 45 (2), text p. 89. (d) C. Zoega, Antike Basreliefe von Rom (Giessen, 1812), atlas, pl. 98, sarcophagus representing a scene in the story of Hippolytus and Phaedra.
^ Schlesinger 1911 cites: In Jacob Locher's Navis Stultifera (Basil, 1506), titulus 7, is an illustration of a small harp and lute with the legend nec cytharum tangit nec barbiton.
^ Schlesinger 1911 cites: Historia Utriusque Cosmi (Oppenheim, 1617), tom. i. tract ii. part ii. lib. iv. cap. i. p. 226.
^ Schlesinger 1911 cites: Lyra Barberina, vol. ii. index, and also vol. i. p. 29.
^ Schlesinger 1911 cites: "La musique des anciens," Oeuvres complètes (ed. Amsterdam, 1727), tom. i. p. 306.
^ Schlesinger 1911 cites: De Vita propria sermonum inter liberos libri duo (Haarlem, 1817). See also Edmund van der Straeten, La Musique aux Pays-Bas, vol. ii. p. 349.
^ Schlesinger 1911 cites: See The Seven Seas, a dictionary and grammar of the Persian language, by Ghazi ud-din Haidar, king of Oudh, in seven parts (Lucknow, 1822) (only the very long title of the book is in English). A review of this book in German with copious quotations by von Hammer-Purgstall is published in Jahrbucher der Literatur (Vienna, 1826), Bd. 35 and 36; names of musical instruments, Bd. 36, p. 292 et seq. See also R.G. Kiesewetter, Die Musik der Araber, nach Originalquellen dargestellt (Leipzig, 1843, p. 91, classification of instruments).
^ Schlesinger 1911 cites: The Seven Seas, part i. p. 153; Jahrb. d. Literatur, Bd. 36, p. 294.
^ Schlesinger 1911 cites: Fr. Ruckert, Grammatik, Poetik und Rhetorik der Perser, nach dem 7ten Bde. des Hefts Kolzum (Gotha, 1874), p. 80.
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wordpress | There is something very exciting about making a restaurant reservation well in advance. The anticipation starts from the moment confirmation arrives. I knew, when headed for The Restaurant at Waterkloof, that I was in for a special treat. The restaurant had been closed for a few weeks to accommodate a movie shoot, and I had booked for the first day after re-opening.
I met chef Greg Czarnecki a decade ago when he arrived in South Africa. In those days I ran a PR company, and we had been tasked with launching a restaurant at which he was the chef. His talent was obvious then, and it has been a pleasure to see him take his place on the global platform of lauded SA chefs. His plating is exquisite, his attention to detail superlative. Each course of 13 is perfectly paired with one of the Waterkloof organic wines.
After admiring the spectacular setting and sweeping views of vineyards and sea from the glass promontory I had a quick chat to Greg. Here is a man who knows the value of design and architecture, and sourcing ingredients as locally and sustainably as possible – it is highlighted on each plate. We started with a glass of bubbles with the tandoori and langoustine, the oyster and saffron cauliflower and the vichyssoise with caviar. Only this innovative chef would consider having a mould made of his hands as a serving dish. The tomato, served with their flagship Sauvignon Blanc, was a stand-out – each cherry tomato’s juice had been replaced with a herb – basil, chives, rosemary and verbena – and served inventively in a consommé. When I heard that the snails were served with spinach, mint and blue cheese I did think that the cheese would overpower, but each flavour danced delicately with the others, without one overpowering the other. Forget traditional dousing in garlic – these snails stood their own! We moved our way through many a delectable dish – morels, a dusky kob, poached chicken with local truffles, and Belnori with pear and pistachio. An imaginative version of Crêpes Suzette before milk, milk, milk – a blend of buffalo, cashew, cow, goat’s milks. The dessert presentation takes your breath away in beauty and quantity. My man and I had to admit defeat when we were presented with the chocolate and petit fours, and unashamedly left with these beautifully packaged as a gift! On our way out I quickly snapped a pic of Greg in front of his JHP Gourmet Guide™ two-plate award from 2017. The bon bons were too amazing to refuse, and it was many hours later, firmly ensconced in front of a fire, that we enjoyed each one of them, discussing the stylish, unforgettable experience.
Den Anker is a must-do for beer-lovers and for visitors to the Mother City – they have the best view of the table in town, Table Mountain. Their winter special, which is running until the end of September, celebrates sharing – two people can have fish (in beer batter of course) and chips, mussels or a sirloin steak – with a glass of Jordan wine or an Anker beer. The price too is palatable and make sure to try their bamboo encrusted prawns – a hot new addition to their wide menu.
Natalie, our Gourmet Guide brand manager and I headed there for a working lunch, and to offer our congratulations to waiter Christiaan Ndaya. Christiaan used to work in our go-to coffee shop, and we were always impressed with his cheery attitude and willingness to please. One needs to acknowledge such talent so we decided to construct a CV for him and help him find a job where he can grow. Our perfect choice – Den Anker. How exciting to see that he has now completed his three-day Jordan’s wine course, and is earnestly increasing his knowledge of, and passion for wine. What next, we asked? “Whisky”, he says, with that characteristic grin. He learnt about coffee first, and has gleaned all he can about beer at Den Anker, and is keen to continue on the journey of taste. Watch this space as we continue to watch him grow.
Last week the Belgian Beer Company celebrated ‘Art of Glass’, its maiden partnership with an African artist, who has transformed the Duvel tulip-shaped glass into a work of art by Lizette Chirrime. She was born in Maputo and is known for creating large textile-driven art on canvas in abstract form. They are an illustration of her own life stories, told in a colourful and meaningful manner. Fabrics are off-cuts, which she believes demonstrates how we in Africa would use what we have and be inspired to work together in unison. Rejeanne Vlietman, director of Belgian Beer Company, is delighted that they have partnered with a female artist, and said, “Women brewers dominated alcohol production on every occupied continent until commercialization and industrialization of brewing occurred, so to celebrate and keep that history alive we wanted to partner with a female artist.” Duvel glass is known for producing not only great beer, but also bespoke beer glasses. This one, in the shape of Europe’s tulip, holds 330ml beer. Look out for the glass at Lizette’s show at WORLDART Gallery, and in exclusive bars and restaurants. Not sure where to find it – head to Den Anker, enjoy their winter special and ask if you can see one! | 2019-04-25T06:40:52Z | https://jennyhandley.wordpress.com/2018/09/14/food-with-a-view/ | Porn | Health | 0.166214 |
wordpress | Are all countries just corporations?…what ‘Canadians’ can do…etc.
How legalese, the use of legal language, is used to fool you.
John Harris’s talk ‘It’s an illusion’ , on the 24th January 2009. John is preseting in simple terms Political and Legal history, Common Law, Statute Law, Contracting and much much more.
A CHINESE bestseller titled The Currency War describes how Jews are planning to rule the world by manipulating the international financial system. The book is reportedly read in the highest government circles. If so, this does not bode well for the international financial system, which relies on well-informed Chinese to help it recover from the present crisis.
Such conspiracy theories are not rare in Asia. Japanese readers have shown a healthy appetite over the years for books such as To Watch Jews is to See the World Clearly, The Next Ten Years: How to Get an Inside View of the Jewish Protocols and I’d Like to Apologise to the Japanese – A Jewish Elder’s Confession (written by a Japanese author, of course, under the made-up name of Mordecai Mose). All these books are variations of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Russian forgery first published in 1903, which the Japanese came across after defeating the tsar’s army in 1905.
The Chinese picked up many modern Western ideas from the Japanese. Perhaps this is how Jewish conspiracy theories were passed on as well. But Southeast Asians are not immune to this kind of nonsense either. Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamed has said that “the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.” And a recent article in a leading business magazine in The Philippines explained how Jews had always controlled the countries they lived in, including the US today.
In the case of Mahathir, a twisted kind of Muslim solidarity is probably at work. But, unlike European or Russian anti-Semitism, the Asian variety has no religious roots. No Chinese or Japanese has blamed Jews for killing their holy men or believed that their children’s blood ended up in Passover matzos. In fact, few Chinese, Japanese, Malaysians, or Filipinos have ever seen a Jew, unless they have spent time abroad.
Such paranoia is widespread in Asia, where almost every country was at the mercy of Western powers for several hundred years. Japan was never formally colonised, but it too felt the West’s dominance, at least since the 1850s, when American ships laden with heavy guns forced the country to open its borders on Western terms.
One of the great ironies of colonial history is the way in which colonised people adopted some of the same prejudices that justified colonial rule. Anti-Semitism arrived with a whole package of European race theories that have persisted in Asia well after they fell out of fashion in the West.
In some ways, Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia have shared some of the hostility suffered by Jews in the West. Excluded from many occupations, they too survived by clannishness and trade. They too have been persecuted for not being “sons of the soil”. And they too are thought to have superhuman powers when it comes to making money. So when things go wrong, the Chinese are blamed not just for being greedy capitalists, but also, again like the Jews, for being communists, as both capitalism and communism are associated with rootlessness and cosmopolitanism.
As well as being feared, the Chinese are admired for being cleverer than everybody else. The same mixture of fear and awe is often evident in people’s views of the US and, indeed, of the Jews. Japanese anti-Semitism is a particularly interesting case.
Japan was able to defeat Russia in 1905 only after a Jewish banker in New York, Jacob Schiff, helped Japan by floating bonds. So The Protocols of the Elders of Zion confirmed what the Japanese already suspected: Jews really did pull the strings of global finance. However, instead of wishing to attack them, the Japanese, being a practical people, decided they would be better off cultivating those clever, powerful Jews as friends.
As a result, during World War II, even as the Germans were asking their Japanese allies to round up Jews and hand them over, dinners were held in Japanese-occupied Manchuria to celebrate Japanese-Jewish friendship. Jewish refugees in Shanghai, though never comfortable, at least remained alive under Japanese protection.
This was good for the Jews of Shanghai. But the very ideas that helped them to survive continue to muddle the thinking of people who really ought to know better by now.
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wordpress | I buzzed my beard down yesterday, and now my face looks odd and small when I look in the mirror. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. I like my beard, but I also feel like a change of appearance is good when starting a new chapter in my life. It allows for a reset, an ability to discard the parts of who I was that are no longer healthy or necessary for me.
My beard, and to a lesser extent my hair, was a part of my nomadic ride. I had not really shaved it in over two years. It was a symbol of the journey I was on, a mark of my ride into the wilderness. Now, I am a bit more domestic. I’m still the same person, but in some ways, I am not. My responsibilities and expectations are completely different, but they are also exactly the same. My substance is the same, even if the particulars have changed.
This isn’t the first time I’ve changed my appearance based on a new chapter. The most obvious one was when my head was shaved before the military. But I’ve also buzzed my head before each Burning Man, dyed my hair several times, and even gotten tattoos to commemorate the end of one adventure and the beginning of another. There is something valuable to me about changing my appearance, particularly in transitionary periods. It gives me a feeling of control and of completion.
I’m not sure if any other changes are coming soon. I think I like the long hair (though, it gets in my face all the time… which is annoying) and tattoos are a bit out of my price range right now. But who knows? Maybe some inspiration will come mind soon. | 2019-04-18T10:33:30Z | https://wanderingoak.wordpress.com/tag/hippy-jesus/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.69387 |
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wordpress | I read this and it really resonates with me. I see so much of my loved ones in it. I just wanted to share it with you as it really shows how hard the struggles can be and how they add up.
I think I should be fired from adulting effective immediately. So many people tell me I’m high functioning, but the reality is that’s a load of bunk on two counts: 1) I am not high functioning because I can barely do the tasks they think makes me high functioning and 2) functioning labels are all kinds of animal feces. What follows is a list of the things that have happened in the last week.
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sfgate | "Transparent" tops the list of returning shows for 2015, which includes the pics on the following slides.
2015 wasn’t a particularly stellar year for television in general, but it was significant for one reason: The number of scripted series on all content platforms broke the 400 mark for the first time. That’s pretty remarkable, considering that not too long ago, there was a good deal of hand-wringing among those who care about well-written TV that reality shows were going to take over the entire medium.
According to a study by FX Networks released last week, there are now 409 scripted series on TV, up 9 percent over the total number of scripted shows in 2014 and 94 percent since 2009.
2015 saw measurable growth in scripted series on “each distribution platform — broadcast, basic and pay cable, streaming — led by significant gains in basic cable and digital services,” according to Julie Piepenkotter, executive vice president for research for FX.
The biggest growth in scripted series was in the basic cable category. Not only are channels like FX creating more scripted shows, we’re also seeing reality show platforms sticking their toes into the water with scripted series as well, no doubt seeing the handwriting on the wall that audience interest in reality TV is finite. As recently as 2011, there were only two shows available through online services; there are 44 today (Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu/Plus, Crackle, Yahoo).
In some ways, you already knew that, simply because there are many more shows to choose from now than there were a couple of years ago. Factor in the increase in the ways to access TV content, including smartphones, tablets and computers, and you have another reason for the exponential growth in content in general and scripted content in particular.
But what does it mean for the TV viewer? First, it means that, for a while, the industry may have been fiscally wise to count on reality shows, because they’re cheaper to make. But over time, many have worn out their welcome, especially as imitators popped up on other channels. “American Idol” begat “America’s Got Talent,” “Dancing With the Stars,” “So You Think You Can Dance,” “The Voice”— and now “Idol” is exhausted and heading into its final season next month.
More scripted material may seem like a good thing, but it hasn’t necessarily resulted in more high-quality scripted material. This year, broadcast seems to have tacitly acknowledged it can’t compete on the same quality level as streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, or basic and premium cable. Most of the new broadcast shows of what’s left of the fall season were imitative and mediocre. Watchable in some cases, but nothing to write home about.
The fact is, if you’re looking for extraordinary television, you have to go to cable and streaming content providers. There is still a place for broadcast and it’s an important place, but the networks have to step it up or risk losing an even greater share of the TV audience to digital channels, cable and streaming platforms, all of which are adding new shows to further increase the options for TV viewers. Of the new broadcast shows, “Quantico,” “Limitless” and “Blindspot” were among the better options, but they don’t quite hit the level of creativity and imagination you see in shows like “The Man in the High Castle,” “House of Cards,” “Transparent” or “Red Oaks” — all streaming content.
The sheer number of new shows available in 2015 means that there are going to be more mediocre shows, which, to be simplistic, means the great ones stand out even more.
Noah Hawley’s “Fargo” is not only the year’s best drama, but the best show of the year. The second installment of the anthology series was even better this year than last, exuding an additional sense of confidence after racking up a bunch of Emmys in September. Aziz Ansari’s “Master of None” is comic perfection. USA doesn’t find itself on end-of-year best lists very often, but “Mr. Robot” more than earned a spot on the list. The show was so smart, so moody, so hip that it even hooked increasingly elusive viewers in their 20s.
“American Horror Story” has had OK seasons and very good seasons, but this year’s “Hotel” was off the chain, with Lady Gaga swanning her way through the vacant, shadowy halls of a once-elegant hotel.
To compile the list, I looked at the full calendar year simply because the fall season is a fast disappearing vestige of another era. There are no “seasons” anymore, so why consider only the shows broadcast channels (for the most part) offer in September? “Empire,” the only broadcast show on the list, made the cut largely because of its first season, which launched in January. The second season was fun but suggested the possibility of plateauing in the future. Still, the show gets that it’s not an embarrassment if television is actually entertaining.
1. “Fargo,” FX. The second installment of the anthology series created by Noah Hawley maintains its link to the original Coen brothers film and the show’s first season, but with new characters and situations, this year involving an organized crime family in North Dakota. It was funny, bleak, almost Beckettian. The show is getting compared to “Breaking Bad” and Hawley to Vince Gilligan, which more than justifies the sweet production deal he just signed with FX.
2. “Master of None,” Netflix. Aziz Ansari stars as an Indian actor in a masterpiece of sly, smart and really funny comedy that the former “Parks & Recreation” actor created with Alan Yang.
3. “Difficult People,” Hulu. Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner play two absolutely insufferable people, and you love every minute of laughing at their self-obsession and near-total obliviousness to the existence of other people in the world.
4. “Deutschland 83,” SundanceTV. Jonas Nay stars in a gripping, smartly nuanced drama about a young East German (Jonas Nay) who is recruited by the Stasi in 1983 to spy in West Germany. The show’s writing and character development were top notch, and nothing was lost in translation in the subtitled German import.
5. “Mr. Robot,” USA. Rami Malek was the breakout star of this USA drama about a young, disaffected computer engineer with significant social adjustment issues and a drug habit who is recruited by a group of cyberterrorist hackers. Their target is E Corp., which Malek’s character calls Evil Corp. TV’s hippest show in years.
6. “Casual,” Hulu. Hulu scored again this year with a slyly dark comedy about a recently divorced woman (Michaela Watkins) who, with her teenage daughter, moves in with her younger man-child brother and tries to re-enter the dating world, where love need not apply.
7. “Catastrophe,” Amazon. An American in London on business hooks up with an Irish woman and the two then go about their business, until she (Sharon Horgan) tells him (Rob Delaney) she’s pregnant. Now what? “Unknown,” and that’s what makes the basis for this sublime comedy about two people just trying to work things out.
8. “The Diplomat,” HBO. The late Richard C. Holbrooke, who died in 2010, was a singularly gifted diplomat and not always a great father. His son David wanted to know what made his father the smartest man in any room where international negotiations were taking place. What he learned becomes a useful lesson in foreign policy history with obvious implications to where we stand in the world today.
9. “Empire,” Fox. Big, brassy melodrama about a family-owned record label, starring Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard, with killer original music. The themes are Shakespearean, but Lady Macbeth has nothing on Cookie Lyons (Henson).
10. “American Horror Story: Hotel,” FX. The best installment yet of the over-the-top Ryan Murphy-Brad Falchuk anthology series gives us Lady Gaga, Kathy Bates, Matt Bomer, Sarah Paulson and others dressed to the nines and slinking around a once-elegant Art Deco hotel with a lurid past. The hotel, and Gaga’s character as well.
1. “Wicked City,” ABC. An icky drama about a pair of romantically involved serial killers defied the odds this fall: At a time when nothing was getting canceled in broadcast, ABC pulled the plug on the show after three episodes. Deep into the season, it became broadcast’s first canceled show.
2. “Truth Be Told,” NBC. An unfunny sitcom about a young ethics professor and his wife and friends who cannot seem to have even a casual conversation without tripping over some perceived land mine of political correctness. The premise was exhausted before the end of the first episode.
3. “True Detective,” HBO. The first year of the anthology series was brilliant; the second year, with an entirely different cast, was a mess from the get-go, but there were glimmers of hope that creator Nic Pizzolatto would pull it out of its tailspin. He didn’t. It got worse, and unwatchable.
4. “Backstrom,” Fox. Rainn Wilson starred as a heavy drinking, unlikable Portland detective in a dreary drama that was supposed to have darkly comic undertones. It was a sad misuse of Wilson’s otherwise considerable talent.
5. “Mr. Robinson,” NBC. Craig Robinson starred as a music teacher and part-time musician who had a terrible lounge act. The lounge act was better than the show itself.
6. “Into the Badlands,” AMC. The show has great martial arts scenes, and Danny Wu is credible as chief henchman for a feudal baron, but the rest of the show is a mess. For some reason, the evil baron lives in a McMansion and talks like Foghorn Leghorn, leaving us desperate for Porky Pig to pop up with the relieving announcement, “Th-th-th-that’s all folks.” No such luck.
7. “Dr. Ken,” ABC. Ken Jeong could do no wrong, until he signed onto this thuddingly unfunny sitcom about a doctor and his psychologist wife.
8. “One Big Happy,” NBC. The Ellen DeGeneres-produced sitcom about a lesbian (Elisha Cuthbert) carrying her best friend’s baby and trying to get along with his live-in girlfriend was a concept in desperate search for decent writing and actual humor. It lasted one big unhappy season.
10.“Agent X,” TNT. Sharon Stone played the vice president of the U.S., who secretly oversees a special agent to execute “Mission Impossible”-like capers. Stone was nothing more than set decoration. Dan Quayle would have been a better casting choice. The show was impeached by critics and viewers and canceled by TNT. | 2019-04-25T22:31:42Z | https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/More-TV-in-2015-and-some-of-it-was-great-6707125.php | Porn | Arts | 0.09016 |
livejournal | So, daernhelm and I were discussing Waiting for Godot this morning, and the conversation went left, and we contemplated a crossover with Cats. It wouldn't quite work out.
"Can't you see them sitting there saying things like, 'And Colin who could forget the joys when we saw Rum Tum Tiger on the Orient Express?'"
That one scans too, by the way.
And as I write this, I now have this nagging feeling I may even have seen someone perform a comedy sketch along these lines. Does anyone remember something like this? And if not, any further suggestions? | 2019-04-18T13:04:20Z | https://collacentaur.livejournal.com/213024.html | Porn | Arts | 0.958304 |
wordpress | In this week’s lecture we watched everyone’s projects and presented our own. I thought that the quality of presentations was really high, even though at times Second Life acted up and I couldn’t quite hear exactly what people were saying. The presentations on PowerPoint were very professional looking, and I found it easy to understand the points everyone was making.
I thought it was great how, even though all of the project had the same brief and were ostensibly about the exact same things, that none of them were remotely repetitive, and I found them all to be very engaging.
The response to our video was very positive, which I think was great considering the amount of hard work and time we both put into it, and I think it was far easier to send everyone the link to a video and get them to watch it rather than try and give a presentation over Second Life itself.
I enjoyed doing this project immensely, and found it to be very valuable, especially in terms of learning more about referencing than I had done before for essays; this video required a much wider range of references than I was used to, especially in terms of images. I think that even though our video turned out to be quite long, there was so much more that we could have included had we had the time.
Here is a link to our finished project.
In the last few weeks leading up to the project, Jakle and I have been working on Discord to collaboratively finish the group project. We have been collecting images and references for all of the topics that we want to touch on, and have been surprised at the amount of data collection that has to happen before we start writing the script for our video.
We have decided to create a short video with a voiceover from the both of us, reading a script that we have written on our own bullet points. I found it particularly difficult to cut down the amount of writing I had- the video can only be up to ten minutes long, and at one point I personally had about eight minutes of material that I had to then trim to be a more reasonable length. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing though, I did find the project really fascinating, and found it incredibly easy to come up with things to say about the various things that we looked into.
We found it useful to use google docs as well as Discord for this project, so that when we have written things that we might not want to clutter the chat with, we can link each other to the document we have written and then comment on each other’s work and make suggestions. So far we have found it easy to agree with each other on most of the direction of the project, and it’s good being able to ask clarification from another person on things I might be unsure of.
I don’t think that I have contributed as much as Jakle might have to the project, if we measure purely by time put into it- since video editing takes a very long time and there’s nothing I can really do to help with that process. However, as far as actual content goes I think that we have a pretty even split in terms of who has done what, and I feel confident that we both put a lot of effort into making the project as good as it can possibly be with the limited resources we have available to us.
We were asked in this lecture to consider the difference between personal and professional identities, particularly when it comes to online interactions with people.
I think that it varies from discipline to discipline whether your personal and professional identities will be indistinguishable from one another. If you are working in a place that requires you to be relatively anonymous, such as, for example, a prison guard who has to regularly interact with prisoners in a way that there is no overlap in between their personal and professional lives, then you won’t want people to know very many things about you, and you will behave differently in your work than you do outside of work.
I also think that there is a difference in personal identities anyway, not just between personal and professional. I think there is a difference in how I would act around my parents versus how I would act around my friends, and those are all different identities. There is also a difference in how one acts online and how one acts in real life, regardless of whether or not it’s professional or personal.
This week we spent most of the lecture discussing the project in a lot more detail, and then discussing the metoo hashtag and campaign in a lot of detail with the rest of the class. Afterwards, Jakle and I tried to find the third member of our group, and as it turned out, they had actually left the class. It was difficult to tell that because we weren’t actually in a physical lecture together, and instead had to rely on reaching out to other people via Facebook to see if they had heard from the. Jakle and I had already started dividing up work, as we felt that we couldn’t really wait much longer for the third person to show up, so this didn’t turn out to be too much of a problem.
We have been using Discord to continue with the project, which I have found to be such a valuable resource, and we also use Facebook occasionally to communicate also. We have decided that I am going to focus on the first and last bullet points of the project, and Jakle will focus on the two in between them. I think that this will be a good way to make sure we are covering a lot of different topics. We are trying to also discuss with each other about our points, as well as about the project in general, to make sure we are on the same page as far as what direction we want the project to go in.
We think that it would be boring to just present a factual account of what happened with the #metoo project, and as well as that want to include some of our own opinions to make the piece more interesting. I think that I have a very biased view when it comes to this issue, and it’s interesting working with someone who sees it as much less black&white than I do, and it’s good to have discussions about this and about our own personal experiences.
We have, on top of dividing up work, decided that our medium for the project will be a video, since we think that it will be much more effective to have everything done and set by the day of the project, so we don’t have to rely on Second Life’s notoriously faulty voice system in order to give our presentation.
In this week’s lecture we discussed the group project, and the brief that had been posted to the virtual environments page. I had mixed feelings about the brief, on the one hand I really like the idea of doing a project about the metoo campaign, and the current happenings in Hollywood and the world at large, because this kind of thing is really interesting to me as someone who considers themselves to be a feminist. I think that the opportunity to dig deep into a topic that is close to my own heart will be really interesting and valuable, and I’m definitely looking forward to that side of the project.
On the other hand, I am a little wary about the lectures on this topic, and about talking about such a sensitive issue with people who I don’t know. I think it’s such a difficult thing to discuss sexual assault, even with people who you know and talk to on a regular basis, let alone an entire group of classmates. I’m not even talking about personal stories of sexual assault or harassment, I’m talking about the kind of opinions people might have that I might find uncomfortable or difficult to agree with or listen to. I am hopeful that the people in class find the metoo campaign to be a positive thing with many positive effects, though.
My group has three people in it; jackmittons, JakleUuki, and I, and we spoke about the best way to keep in contact with each other regarding the blog. The only person I spoke to was Jakle, because we found it very difficult to contact jackmittons without knowing their real name, which is probably indicative of the class as a whole, who seemed to have a few of the same issues.
Jakle and I discussed what the best option would be in regards to communication about the project, and thought that both Facebook and Second Life didn’t really have the types of features we needed to be able to be clear about what we were going to, and in order to set goals for ourselves. Also, if we were working on Second Life, we would need to arrange another, separate way of communicating with each other the times when we were going to be online, which seemed to us to be unnecessarily complex.
We decided, after Jakle suggested it, to use Discord to connect with each other, which I believe is a tool originally used by gamers in order to conduct live streams etc, but was very useful for us to communicate. We are able to divide our chats into different subject with different subject headers, and we are able to also use voice chat to communicate- which makes things a lot quicker and easier to follow.
I am really looking forward to getting a start on the project, I think it’s going to be a really great topic and a really interesting way of working that I haven’t really tried out before.
After the lecture was over this week I decided to again stay on Second Life and try and generate some things to talk about in this blog post. I was quite wary of talking to people on Second Life, even though that wasn’t much of a problem the first time I was on there, since I didn’t actually see that many people outside of the lecture time, and even though those people were technically strangers, in that none of us had met in real life, it wasn’t really the same situation.
I decided the best place to go to find some people on Second Life would be one of their advertised events, since I thought that it was likely a lot of people had seen the same adverts as me and would go to the places looking to meet people. I went to a sort of Halloween-themed treasure hunt that someone on Second Life had set up, and immediately there were more people there than I had encountered so far on my experiences in Second Life.
I thought it would be really interesting to talk to the person who had actually created the treasure hunt, because it seemed like something that only someone who was really dedicated would put the time and the effort that only a few people would probably see. Unfortunately they weren’t around at the time when I was there, but there was a tip jar there where people who had visited and enjoyed themselves could donate some money to the person who had created it as thanks. That made me think about the fact that they weren’t actually making any money (other than generous people leaving them tips) from this area on Second Life, and therefore its even more impressive that people make places like these in the first place.
A few people struck up conversations with me in this area. One person wanted to know where I had got the cat that came with my avatar, and then gifted me a horse when I told her that. Another person immediately started asking me personal questions about myself, such as my age, gender, and name.
I found it easy to deflect these questions, especially since they were coming from a stranger, but I do think it might be more difficult for others to do so, especially younger people on Second Life who mightn’t have the same kind of experience with talking to people online that some others do. I also thought it was interesting the contrast between conversations on Second Life, and conversations in real life. I think that if I were out in daily life minding my business, I think that anyone would have a hard time coming up to me and outright asking me those kinds of questions about myself with absolutely no prior discussion, and I wonder what it is about the internet, and particularly Second Life, that makes people more inclined to be so direct.
I think one answer to that is anonymity; if nobody knows who you are then there isn’t much chance that your online behaviour will impact your real life in any meaningful way. It is possible, with Second Life and with other online tools, to construct a completely different persona than the one you might have in real life. I also think that the fact that there aren’t really any direct consequences to anonymous actions online have something to do with it. It becomes far more easy to do things or say things that you might never do in the real world for fear of repercussions, which is why the internet can be such a dangerous place sometimes.
Second Life, while having a distinctly abandoned air to it, doesn’t feel like a hostile environment, most of the people that spoke to me were friendly and direct, and didn’t seem as though they wanted anything more than to talk to someone else online in a friendly manner.
The first time I went onto Second Life was before our first online lecture, to make sure that I was prepared to show up to class having familiarised myself with the way that Second Life worked. I first set up an avatar, which I chose from one of the presets, but I did explore a little the kind of creation tools they have available to create avatars, and it was very detailed. I think it’s interesting that the creators put so much effort into making sure that users would be able to customise their avatars down to the tiniest details, and I think that even though I only used a preset for class, if I were a person who actually did spend long periods of time on Second Life I would definitely be making use of this feature to customise my avatar in more detail than I currently have. I also think this feature must draw people to Second Life, since you can feasibly create any persona you want that looks any way you want it to look.
The first place I went in Second Life, after the initial tutorial, was to the lecture theatre in the DIT Second Life Campus, for class. Afterwards I was very interested to know if other colleges had similar things, and spent a while exploring other college campuses, most of which are grouped together in a particular part of the Second Life map. I did find that most of these campuses are private, which means that only students can get into them to go to lectures, which is probably to make sure that nobody uninvited interrupts lectures. I don’t think that DIT has the same sort of system, which I did find a little surprising and I wondered why this was.
I picked a few places at random to venture to after I was done looking at other college campuses and what their buildings all look like. Firstly I went to Japan, an area in Second Life apparently modelled after Japan, but having been to Japan I can’t say I saw many similarities. I did notice that in Second Life there is often a lot of audio playing at the same time, when I was in this location there were approx. three radio stations playing at the same time, depending on where I was, and eventually I had to turn my background music slider all the way down just to avoid this problem.
There weren’t many people in the Japan area of Second Life, and when I clicked on the mini-map that tells you where people are in relation to yourself, I only counted about fifteen. I did wonder if this was typical of most areas on Second Life, or if that seemed to be the normal amount of people in any one place.
The next place I went to explore was also chosen at random, and ended up being a sort of housing estate, with all the buildings modelled on Japanese-style houses. There was nobody in this area too, even though this area seems as though it was meant to be quite heavily populated. I thought this because most of the buildings had signs on them saying they were for rent, which presumably means that at one time or another the people who created this area thought that there would be the market for that kind of thing, even though there clearly isn’t now.
That was my main impression of Second Life from my first time exploring it: that it was clearly meant for more people than are currently populating it. Everywhere in Second Life has an odd feel to it, no matter how many people are there, as though it used to have a lot of people there but has since been abandoned. I would be more interested to find out why Second Life declined the way it has, because from what I have heard I think a lot more people did use to use it than currently do. I can’t think why its user-base has declined so much over the years, possibly it might be something to do with the outdated graphics that Second Life has, which probably once would have been considered sophisticated but now look very clunky and blocky. I also think that Second Life as a platform definitely has its issues; in the time that I’ve been using it it’s already crashed twice, and I had an issue with my voice during the lecture that meant that I couldn’t speak or hear the lecturer when he was talking. | 2019-04-25T01:58:50Z | https://msecondlife.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Reference | 0.163767 |
wordpress | HOLY COW. This book was one heck of a thrill ride! I was hooked from the start and sad when it was over. I should have seen the ending coming but I was so engrossed that I was just enjoying the storytelling and mystery. DANG this was good.
Short recap: Gabe is on his way home from spending some time with his girlfriend, Sasha, when he is hit by a car. He has no idea who hit him as the driver is never found. After recovering from his injuries, he realizes that he really is tired of Sasha’s shallow and controlling ways so he breaks up with her. Only Sasha isn’t the type of girl you just break up with. She vows to get Gabe back no matter what. In a parallel story, Elyse has just been given the lead in Romeo and Juliet and she couldn’t be more thrilled! It is the only good thing she has going in her life. Outside of theater, she works nights to pay the bills because her mom is addicted to pain pills and cannot care for herself. Elyse has to be the adult. During one rehearsal for the upcoming play, Elyse rehearses a scene with her teacher and they share a very intimate kiss. This stars these two down a dark and disturbing storyline that really cannot end anywhere good.
There is a lot happening in this book but y’all, it is unputdownable. I could not get enough! I wanted nothing more than to wrap myself in a blanket, shut out the world, and read this book. It sunk it’s hooks into me in a way that was the best. I haven’t had a book do that in a while. I was so involved and captivated with every single character. Gabe had a serious psychopath of an ex-girlfriend to deal with while trying to get to know the new girl, Catherine. Catherine was also in the way of Sasha’s wrath. Catherine had her own demons to deal with and I wanted to know her story so bad. Sasha was clearly messed up in the head. Elyse had some heavy issues to deal with being the adult while her mom chose to stay high on pain pills. Every single character had a story I wanted … no… needed to know more about. It doesn’t seem like these stories have anything in common but they come together in the end and it is perfect. It was done masterfully and I was rendered speechless.
The entire story is told from the POV of Gabe and Elyse. They really do lead very different lives but really do come across as teenagers with their own set of troubles and tribulations. The development of the characters was very well done. They felt completely flushed out and wonderfully flawed. The character I connected with the most and was cheering on the hardest was Gabe. I was so furious that nobody believed him when crazy stuff happened! His parents were always doubting him and siding with Sasha, even after they broke up. They never bothered to even try to find out the truth, they just took her word for it. To be able to invoke that type of emotional reaction from the reader (ME!) proves how great of a writer Donaldson really is.
Even though I am gushing about how much I loved this story, there were some parts that were rather hard to read. There were a lot of serious topics covered: drug addiction, inappropriate relationships, and kidnapping to name a few. The way Donaldson handled them was very well done. She did not mention them and then skirt away. Oh no. She introduced them, talked about them, and then showed about how horrible they are to not just that one person but to the people around them. That may not make sense but I’m trying to say she did a wonderful job of incorporating these serious topics into the entire story. She did not glorify them or make light of them, she knew they were serious and portrayed them as serious. They were all very well handled.
I am not going to be able to say enough good things about this book. I am now a Donaldson fan for life. Her ability to write THAT ENDING put her high on my Auto-Buy List. I should have been able to predict what was going to happen but I just didn’t. It blew my mind. The twists and turns and secrets and lies were just so well written that I soaked them up like a sponge. I highly – highly – recommend this to everyone who loves a good page turner of a story. Happy reading! | 2019-04-19T10:46:56Z | https://agingerlyreview.wordpress.com/tag/jennifer-donaldson/ | Porn | Reference | 0.156742 |
wordpress | Here, she says, is the imperative of investigation: needful research into “the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail.” Arguably, as she confided that she discovered sometime in the sixties, such research into reality—“the thing itself and not the myth”—was a major aim of her work as a poet. But perhaps it hasn’t yet been clearly enough understood how crucially her writings in prose complemented, supplemented, enriched, and, yes, inspired her writing in verse. For in these writings she was not just one of many contemporary poets illuminating her verse through confessional glosses but a major memoirist, essayist, theorist, and scholar.
Listen to Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of Elizabeth Bishop, through the lens of the pieces written about her in the LRB archive.
Read a brief analysis of this poem.
Excerpted from THE SOCIAL LIFE OF BOOKS: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home by Abigail Williams.
At the end, they soberly **** out their names. | 2019-04-25T08:22:24Z | https://roundhousepoetrycircle.wordpress.com/category/study/ | Porn | Reference | 0.755702 |
wordpress | Blackboard Collaborate, an upgrade from Blackboard Elluminate, is now available in Canvas.
This tool will allow you to host, record and archive virtual classroom sessions. Features include audio, video, chat, white board, web tour, document and application sharing. Maximum seating capacity is 250 people.
ALTE has developed step-by-step instructions for getting started with Collaborate. The development of additional training for this new tool is in progress.
At this time, Elluminate will not be available as an LTI tool in Canvas and therefore no Elluminate integration for Spring. The Workaround, which is not too hard, is for instructors to go into Blackboard, create the session as usual, and then copy the URL for that session into their Canvas course. Students access the URL as usual, and Elluminate continues to work.
If you have not yet used Elluminate Live because you are unsure of its capabilities or need more information to get started, then read on! There’s a lot this tool can do for you!
Elluminate Live is a virtual classroom tool that is available within Blackboard and will most likely be available in Canvas. The tool functions similar to a web conferencing tool in that students are invited to attend a synchronous web meeting in which the instructor will present information and can allow opportunities for student interaction.
Features include whiteboard, application sharing, file transfer, and web tour. The software also includes a record feature that allows the instructor to record the class for others to watch later as well as a graphing tool, breakout rooms for group work, and timer. The whiteboard supports the uploading of presentations for viewing on the whiteboard for class or meeting.
Dr. Scourfield-McLauchlan conducts an Elluminate Live session at DL Services in the Library.
Dr. Judithanne Scourfield-McLauchlan uses Elluminate Live to engage her American National Government students in live role-play simulations of government procedures. Students pass the microphone back and forth and communicate via the chat tool in order to take part in the simulation. She records the session for students who are unable to attend the live session so that they can review and complete a reflection assignment. This allows for participation from students who are unable to participate in synchronous activities.
There were ways in which I feel like this online tool actually produced a more robust learning experience for my students for this simulation. I have only ever done this in person before and there is something fun about changing the setting so it is like a city council chamber. I didn’t want to give up my simulations when transferring my course to online format, and with this tool I didn’t have to.
In my in person simulations, I don’t interject while students are speaking, but in Elluminate I was able to provide guidance without interrupting them. Using the chat tool, I was able to answer questions and give suggestions to students while they were speaking. We actually ended up with a simulation that was much better. So, now I am thinking of ways to incorporate this into my face-to-face class as well.
Elluminate Live Student Orientation Slides (PPT) – for you to use during your first session to orient your students. | 2019-04-19T10:34:01Z | https://usfspdistancelearning.wordpress.com/tag/elluminate-live/ | Porn | Business | 0.347246 |
wordpress | I study a social science interested in explaining cultural phenomena. Therefore the NMUN is a unique platform to try and understand the socio-political framework of our time. Participating in intercultural processes and exchange will benefit my personal development as well as my understanding of communication. This will be helpful to gain more practical experiences in intercultural dialogue, the field I want to work in. Getting insight into workings of the UN, honing my rhetorical skills, showing awareness for other points of view, while keeping your own interests in mind are just some of the experiences I am looking forward to. | 2019-04-20T14:59:54Z | https://nmuntuebingen.wordpress.com/lukas/ | Porn | Society | 0.312383 |
wordpress | I finally got around to retrofitting my older projects with the new hotness. I am now rendering the scenes with shader programs, which gives me a lot of nice options for how the scenes look. I can do lots of fancy stuff with them including doing neat things to the screen after the scene has been drawn. Here’s a quick example of one of the things I’ve already tried. It’s a ripple effect I applied to the screen; it looked awful, but I was getting 60 frames per second with it (which is good).
As anybody who’s spent time on this blog knows….well, anyway, I’ve spent a while working on my game on and off. One of the time consuming processes of this was to build textures and level details. All of the art from the screenshots was created by hand using classic MS Paint (not the new-fangled one that comes with Windows 7). One particularly tedious aspect was making bookshelf textures. I had to manual rearrange books and come up with different combinations of books that I thought would be “believable” by the player and not repetitive.
Well, here’s where my new project comes in! Last weekend I spent a few hours writing an algorithm that would generate shelves of books for me. Why is this interesting though? Couldn’t I have just randomized the books and called it a day? Well, the problem with strict randomization is that it looks ugly. It would just be a mish-mash of different coloured books, which is fine for a modern bookstore but as my game takes place in the 1920’s-1940’s, it felt more appropriate to have a bit more organization. Essentially, in older libraries you would be more likely to find books that looked similar because of binding techniques of the days. You’d also find more books that were series of something that would have the same style of cover instead of just a colourful, different cover.
The goal for this project was to generate shelves that had clusters of books. To achieve this, I used a Markov Chain algorithm that would place each book on the shelf one at a time. Depending on the book it would place, it would favour specific types of books for the next book. There is still a randomized aspect to the algorithm, but it is more constrained depending on the state.
Below is a screenshot comparing some of the results of the algorithm to a strictly randomized approach. As you can see, both are somewhat random, but the shelf on the left shows more groupings of similar books.
So at this point in time I’ve had multiple people play through my game demo. The results were actually better than I thought. I think only one person wasn’t able to run it (still not entire sure why, but that’s future Jake’s problem now). There were a couple major issues, but those were found and fixed as well. One of the bugs was that I didn’t include the assets for the 3D objects, so when the players entered the room with columns, the game crashed. There was also some scripting errors driven by not having necessary images wrapped up in the resources archive. Logging definitely helped out there.
The last major issue is unsolved, but lies with some code I threw together for the level selection screen. I think some of the click events aren’t going through, or it’s not loading the levels properly. I think this may have something to do with that particular tester running the game through a zip file though. I was shocked to find out that it worked period though.
I got some pretty decent feedback from one tester in particular though. He gave not only bug reports, etc, but opinions on controls, aesthetics, and game flow as well. Most of those things were explained away as “placeholder” stuff, but still; it was useful information to know what a tester/player is thinking when they see that stuff. When I show most people my game, I need comments like “looks neat and retro” or “I like the camera spin feature”, but not enough people pay attention to tiny details.
Anyway, that’s the update. I haven’t had free time to cut a second build or to work on new levels or anything. | 2019-04-19T20:43:06Z | https://jestermax.wordpress.com/category/computer-science/programming-computer-science/processing-programming/ | Porn | Computers | 0.074313 |
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The required work must be completed and a grade reported within 6 months with the option of a single six-month extension. If the required work is not completed within the time limit, the DF will become U-Unfinished and will be changed to DF/U under the numerical and Pass-No Grade (P-N) grading systems, and to DF/NC under the Credit-No Credit (CR-NC) system. This rule does not apply to graduate thesis or dissertation work.
Dismissal from Primary Status is possible if some provisional conditions are not met on schedule or because of inadequate academic performance. The University requires a yearly review of the performance of each Ph.D. student. A student who has some deficiency will be informed in writing and may be given an opportunity to take corrective action.
At the time of admission, a temporary academic advisor is assigned by the Graduate Director to give a student a point of contact. A student may request the Graduate Director change his/her advisor. In many cases, this temporary academic advisor also serves as the student's initial Dissertation Advisor.
A student's dissertation advisor chairs the student's Ph.D. Guidance Committee and becomes the student's academic advisor. Technically, the dissertation advisor is found by the student, appointed by the Graduate Director (acting for the Department Chairperson) and approved by the Associate Dean of Engineering (acting for the Dean of Engineering). In practice, the initial academic advisor serves as the dissertation advisor until the student informs the Graduate Director of a change in dissertation advisor. The dissertation advisor is formally approved during the process of formally approving the guidance committee and approving the Ph.D. program plan.
The student has the responsibility to form a Guidance Committee no later than the third semester of doctoral study, or within two semesters beyond the master's degree or its equivalent. The guidance committee is formed by the student in consultation with his/her dissertation advisor and must be approved by the Graduate Director (acting for the Department Chairperson) and the Associate Dean of Engineering (acting for the Dean of Engineering). In practice, the guidance committee is formally approved at the same time that the Ph.D. program plan is approved.
The guidance committee shall consist of at least four members of Michigan State University regular faculty, at least two of whom are from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and one of whom is from a department outside the CSE Department. More than four persons may be members of the guidance committee. People who are not MSU regular faculty may serve as members provided the number of such persons does not exceed the number of regular faculty. An application for approving such people to serve on a committee must be approved by the Dean of the Graduate School. The process for requesting such an approval is described here. At least three of the committee members, including the committee chairperson, must possess an earned doctoral degree. If appropriate, the guidance committee may have two members serve as co-dissertation advisors.
The student may make any desired or required changes in the membership of the guidance committee with the concurrence of the dissertation advisor and the Graduate Director (acting for the Department Chairperson). The membership of the guidance committee, with the concurrence of the student, may be changed as appropriate to the dissertation topic.
Within one semester after the Ph.D. guidance committee has been formed, the student must file a Ph.D. Degree Program Plan with the Dean of Engineering listing all courses the student should take. The Ph.D. Program Plan should be developed in consultation with the Guidance Committee. The Ph.D. Program Plan can be modified after full consultation between the student and his/her Ph.D. Guidance Committee with the approval of the Graduate Director (acting for the Department Chairperson) and the Associate Dean (acting for the Dean of Engineering). The course work prescribed by the Guidance Committee insures the student has a comprehensive knowledge of a major field and necessary related subjects. For students who started in the program beginning in Fall Semester 2012, the program plan must be submitted using GradPlan. Starting in Summer of 2017, GradPlan will be the only way to process final degree certification.
The Ph.D. Program plan must include 30 credits of courses at the 4XX/8XX/9XX levels (excluding independent study (890)). At most 6 credits of coursework can be CSE 4XX courses (excluding CSE 429 and CSE 490).
The Ph.D. Program plan must satisfy the breadth requirement as defined by the Master's Degree Program Requirements; this includes taking at least 18 total credits from the courses used to satisfy the breadth requirement. The one exception to this policy is that dual-major PhD students must take a total of 15 credits from the courses used to satisfy the breadth requirement. For students admitted to the Ph.D. Degree Program with an M.S. degree, the breadth requirement must be completed by the end of the third semester (excluding summer semester) in the Ph.D. program. Credits from the M.S. program that are approved by the Graduate Director can be used to satisfy some or all of the breadth requirement. For students admitted to the Ph.D. with only a B.S. degree, the breadth requirement must be completed by the end of the fourth semester (excluding summer semester) in the Ph.D. program.
Students entering the Ph.D. program with an M.S. degree can apply a maximum of 24 credits from their M.S. degree towards the 30 credits requirement. The Graduate Director will determine which credits apply. In order to request that some M.S. degree credits be used to apply towards the 30 credits requirement, students must provide their initial academic advisor(s) a transcript along with course syllabi that includes a detailed description of topics covered and assigned textbooks for the appropriate courses within their first five weeks in the Ph.D. program. The transcript and course syllabi should be translated into English if they are not originally written in English. The academic advisor will then submit a proposal to the Graduate Director with a recommendation on credits and breadth areas to be waived. If you disagree with the decision made by the Graduate Director, you may appeal to the Graduate Studies and Research Committee. This process can be started immediately upon notification of acceptance into the doctoral program.
The student is also encouraged to attend as many department seminars as possible throughout the course of the student's career but especially in the student's first year.
Adding or deleting a course for which a grade has already been assigned under any of the three grading systems (numerical, Pass-No Grade, or Credit-No Credit).
Adding or deleting a course for which grading was postponed by the use of the DF - Deferred marker.
Adding or deleting a course which the student dropped after the middle of the semester and for which W or N or 0.0 was designated.
Adding or deleting a course during the final semester of enrollment in the doctoral degree program.
Adding or deleting an enrolled course after the middle of the semester.
Repeating a course in which a passing grade (2.0) has been received.
In addition to the courses on the student's Ph.D. Program of Study, 24 credits of CSE 999 Doctoral Dissertation Research are required for graduation. Students can enroll for a maximum of 36 credits. A student may not enroll in CSE 999 until the Qualifying Examination has been passed or until granted permission by the Graduate Director. Requests for overrides to exceed the maximum of 36 credits of CSE 999 must be directed to the Office of the Registrar. To do so, access the "Request for RNR Override" at the Registrar's Online Forms Menu at https://www.reg.msu.edu/Forms/FormsMenu.aspx. Select the RN override and fill in the requested information. Should the total number of credits go above 45, the RO will confer with the Graduate School before considering the request for an override.
A student is admitted to the Ph.D. program in Primary Status. However, a student who has completed an M.S. thesis in Computer Science at Michigan State University will be admitted with Qualified Status. The Ph.D. Qualifying Examination is required of all students admitted with Primary Status. Successful completion of the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination moves the student from Primary to Qualified status. A student may not stay in primary status for longer than two years.
In addition, the exam should serve as a chance for committee members to assess the background of the student (and possibly suggest remedies such as future coursework). The background component will be based both on mastery of topics related to the assigned papers as well as a mastery of a list of significant concepts presented to the student by the qualifying examination committee.
Three members assigned by GSRC. The advisor is not on the committee but will participate in the creation of the exam.
The Ph.D. Qualifying Examination consists of two parts: a written survey of a research area approved by the Guidance Committee, and an oral presentation of the survey to the Guidance Committee.
The oral component of the Examination will include a prepared presentation by the student summarizing the main points of the written survey. The Committee members may ask questions in order to assess the student's knowledge of the area and his/her ability to compare and contrast different research contributions.
The committee, in consultation with the advisor, selects a topic area for the qualifying examination as well as background topics the student should be prepared to answer questions on.
The student chooses a set of three papers in the topic area. Each paper should have been peer reviewed and published in a journal or conference proceedings. At least two of the chosen papers should have been published within the last ten years. The three papers should come from different research groups, and authors should not include individuals currently affiliated with Michigan State University.
Once the student has selected the three papers on his/her own, the student should submit the papers to her/his advisor who will either approve the selected papers or reject some of them and direct the student to select others. Ideally, the papers should be chosen and approved by the end of the first week of the examination period.
The student then prepares both a written and oral synthesis of the papers.
The paper is submitted to the committee at least 2 weeks prior to the oral presentation. The paper should be prepared with no feedback from the advisor or other students. The length of the paper should be roughly 4000-5000 words excluding references.
The oral presentation (roughly 45 minutes excluding time for questions and answers) is then prepared with no feedback from the advisor or other students. The anticipated time for the oral presentation with questions is 90 minutes.
The qualifier will be a closed examination open only to the committee.
During and after the oral presentation, the committee may ask questions that delve beyond the specific content of the set of papers; in particular, questions may be asked that relate to the list of significant concepts presented to the student by the qualifying examination committee.
One year for student entering with MS, 3 semesters for students entering with BS. The student must complete the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination by the end of his/her second year in the Ph.D. program.
Student submits short description of research interests by end of fall semester.
Committee selected by 5th week of spring semester.
Committee submits papers/directives/list of significant conceptsto GSRC by 10th week of spring semester.
Papers/directives/list of concepts given 2 weeks from end of summer semester.
Written survey due Friday of first week of classes of fall semester.
Oral presentations scheduled after 3rd week of classes of fall semester.
Student submits short description of research interests by end of spring semester.
Committee selected by 5th week of fall semester.
Committee submits papers/directives/list of significant concepts to GSRC by 10th week of fall semester.
Papers/directives/list of concepts given at end of final exams of fall semester.
Written survey due Friday of first week of classes of spring semester.
Oral presentations scheduled after 3rd week of classes of spring semester.
Student submits short description of research interests by end of spring semester year 1.
Committee selected by 5th week of fall semester year 2.
Committee submits papers/directives/list of significant concepts to GSRC by 10th week of fall semester year 2.
Papers/directives/list of concepts given at end of final exams of fall semester year 2.
Written survey due Friday of first week of classes of spring semester year 2.
Oral presentations scheduled after 3rd week of classes of spring semester year 2.
Student submits short description of research interests by end of fall semester year 1.
Committee selected by 5th week of spring semester year 2.
Committee submits papers/directives/list of significant concepts to GSRC by 10th week of spring semester year 2.
Papers/directives/list of concepts given 2 weeks from end of summer semester year 2.
Written survey due Friday of first week of classes of fall semester year 2.
Oral presentations scheduled after 3rd week of classes of fall semester year 2.
Following the oral presentation, the Guidance Committee will decide whether the student has passed or failed the Qualifying Examination. In the latter case, the Committee may decide to allow the student to retake/revise one or both parts of the exam. The student's performance on the Examination must be approved by a positive vote of at least two thirds of the Guidance Committee members with not more than one dissenting vote from among the Michigan State University regular faculty members of the Guidance Committee.
The committee will decide the outcome based upon the written paper, oral presentation including question and answer period, and the student's academic record.
Student fails and is dismissed from the program.
Student is required to take some courses by a certain deadline with a minimum GPA. The deadline and GPA is to be determined by the committee.
Student is required to retake qualifier in the next semester. A student can take the qualifier at most 2 times.
Student is required to undergo writing training of some form.
A student with Qualified Status can change advisor and/or research area without losing his/her Qualified Status.
The Ph.D. Qualifying Examination will satisfy the University required written component for the Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination. Note: a Ph.D. Guidance Committee may require an additional examination.
The student’s short description of research interests should be roughly one paragraph. It will be used to guide the selection of an appropriate qualifying examination committee.
Students who enter the Ph.D. program with an MS Thesis from MSU will be deemed to have passed the Ph.D. qualifying examination. Their thesis will serve serve as the required written component for the Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination.
Within two weeks of arrival at MSU, the student submits her/his MS thesis to the Graduate Director along with a short justification for why the thesis should satisfy the written portion of the qualifying examination. This written justification should include evidence such as portions of the thesis were published in strong peer-reviewed venues.
If the Graduate Director approves, then the Graduate Director will create a qualifying examination committee to administer the qualifying examination that semester for the student.
The MS thesis will be given to the qualifying examination committee as the written portion of the qualifying examination along with the justification for why the thesis should satisfy the written portion of the qualifying examination.
The qualifying examination committee will briefly review the thesis and prepare a list of background areas the student should be prepared to answer questions on in the oral presentation. The committee may also overrule the Graduate Director and require that the student take our regular qualifying examination.
After a three week period, the student will give an oral presentation of the thesis to the qualfying examination committee and be prepared to answer questions from the committee.
The Qualified Status signifies the student has demonstrated research ability. A student is either given Qualified Status upon admission, or after the successful passage of the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination. A student may not stay in Qualified Status beyond the fifth year after his/her first semester enrolled in the Ph.D. program.
The student's Guidance Committee uses the student's Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination performance to confer Candidacy Status on the student.
The Comprehensive Examination is administered by the student's Guidance Committee, and is expected to be a formal written and oral examination covering the student's background and testing whether the student is prepared to write a dissertation. The Comprehensive Examination consists of a thesis proposal and a background examination. The background examination is separate from the thesis proposal.
The Comprehensive Examination should be taken within two years of completing the Ph.D. Qualifying Examination. It is expected that the prescribed course work as specified on the student's Ph.D. Program Plan will have been substantially completed by this time. Furthermore, the College of Engineering stipulates that the Comprehensive Examination must be completed at least 6 months prior to the Final Oral Examination and defense of the Ph.D. dissertation.
The student's Guidance Committee has the final responsibility for setting the format of the Comprehensive Examination. At least one component of the Comprehensive Examination must be written and must be maintained in the Department office for three years.
The format of the thesis proposal is determined by the Guidance Committee, but normally contains the equivalents of: Chapter 0 - Background and related material for the area of the dissertation; Chapter 1 - Review of current research topics, results and methods of the field; Chapter 2 - Proposed research. In addition to the written thesis proposal, the student will present an oral presentation of the thesis proposal summarizing its main points.
The written proposal should be submitted to the Graduate Secretary and the Guidance Committee members at least two weeks in advance of the oral presentation. The thesis proposal is approved or rejected by the committee after the student's oral presentation of the proposal.
The student's performance on the Comprehensive Examination must be approved by a positive vote of at least three-fourths of the Guidance Committee members with not more than one dissenting vote from among the Michigan State University regular faculty members of the Guidance Committee.
The student is allowed to have one additional opportunity to retake the Comprehensive Examination if the student should fail. A student may be required by the Guidance Committee to re-take the Comprehensive Examination if the student changes his/her major field of research. The duration of each Comprehensive Examination normally will not exceed one month, but in no case may exceed a three-month period.
Usually, the student must be registered during the semester when the Comprehensive Examination is taken. However, if a student takes the comprehensive examination during summer semester and is enrolled in the preceding spring semester or will be enrolled in the ensuing fall semester, the student may apply for a waiver of the enrollment requirement. The waiver request must be sent to the Graduate School and endorsed by the student's department and college.
The date the student passes the Comprehensive Examination is the date on which she/he passes the final component of the Comprehensive Examination. The results of the Examination are recorded and submitted to the Department Chairperson and the Dean of Engineering.
A student may not stay in Candidacy Status beyond the eighth year after their first semester enrolled in the Ph.D. program. A student must complete all graduation requirements for a Ph.D. degree within eight years of the first enrollment date. In exceptional circumstances, the Department may allow a student more than eight years to complete graduation requirements. In such a case, the student must retake and pass the Comprehensive Examination.
Attending major technical meetings in the area of the student's research.
Conducting meaningful correspondence with other researchers in the field.
Becoming acquainted with graduate students and faculty at other universities working in his or her area.
Acting as a referee or reviewer of papers.
Participating in other appropriate professional activities, e.g., collaborating with the faculty, helping to organize or participate in a technical conference, short course, research proposal, etc.
Submitting papers to conferences and journals.
The student shall fulfill the requirements listed in the University and College of Engineering regulations and procedures. Most importantly, this includes completing the Final Oral Examination and submitting the final dissertation to the university.
Students must be registered during the semester in which the Final Oral Examination is taken. Since the student will be in Candidacy Status, the student only needs to register for one credit.
The student must complete a few actions two weeks prior to scheduling the final oral examination. First, the student must submit the doctoral candidate information form at least two weeks prior to the Final Oral Examination. Second, the student must distribute a draft dissertation and accompanying materials to the Guidance Committee at least two weeks prior to the Final Oral Examination.
The Final Oral Examination in defense of the dissertation is conducted and evaluated by the Guidance Committee. This Examination consists of two parts. The first is a presentation that must be open to faculty members and members of the public without a vote. The second is the examination portion of the defense, and only Guidance Committee members may attend this portion of the defense. The dissertation and the student's performance on the Examination must be approved by a positive vote of at least three-fourths of the Guidance Committee members with not more than one dissenting vote from among the Michigan State University regular faculty members of the Guidance Committee. Results of the vote must be recorded and submitted to the Department Chairperson and the Dean of Engineering.
The doctoral dissertation is defined in the Academic Programs Catalog as "original research upon which a dissertation, which makes significant contribution to knowledge is to be prepared and published."
While not required, a public or lay audience Abstract to precede the conventional disciplinary/technical abstract is strongly recommended. The formatting requirements for this additional abstract are identical to those for the conventional abstract.
In computer science, the typical expectation is that some chapters of the dissertation will have been previously published in peer-reviewed venues. Each such chapter that is based on a previously published paper must have a footnote that cites the corresponding paper including title, publication venue, and ordered list of authors. If multiple articles are included in the dissertation, these must be tied together with a required general introduction and summary/discussion.
In computer science, it is now typically the case that papers are multi-authored rather than single-authored, and it is frequently the case that multiple authors are students. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is fully supportive of including such work in a student's doctoral dissertation.
Given the prevalence of papers with multiple authors, we now require the following documentation to be included with all dissertations. This information will be used by the student's Guidance Committee to help evaluate if the student has made a significant enough contribution to merit earning a doctoral degree.
The Department provides no set guidelines as to how a multi-authored paper might be appropriated by each student author towards their dissertations, but the Department offers the following suggestions. There should be some discussion, preferably in advance and preferably moderated by the advisor(s), about which portions of the work might be used by individual students in their dissertations. In general, students should not include work that they did not contribute significantly to. In rare cases, it may be possible for some material to be included in multiple dissertations if multiple students made significant contributions to the work. This should be carefully documented by each student in the supplemental document describing the origin of each chapter of the dissertation.
The student is expected to provide to his/her thesis advisor an electronic copy of the thesis along with any product (software, hardware, etc.) constituting his/her thesis work. The student must abide by other submission requirements set by the Department, College and the University. In particular, students should be familiar with the University requirements for completing the thesis including the final date for submission of the thesis. This final date is typically FIVE working days prior to the first day of classes for the next semester. Graduation on the semester of the electronic submission is only guaranteed if the document is APPROVED on or before the final date for that semester.
A student completes Candidacy Status upon passing the Final Oral Examination defense of his or her dissertation and having the corrected copy accepted by the Graduate School for distribution.
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering supports interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs centered on the student's pursuit of an interdisciplinary research project. The primary goals of such programs are to attract excellent graduate students to Michigan State University, to provide an educational experience making them highly competitive in the future job market, and to foster cutting-edge interdisciplinary research.
Under MSU guidelines, research-based graduate degrees can be designed across disciplines/graduate programs, with the concurrence of the graduate programs involved (see Dual Major Doctoral Degrees). The interdisciplinary graduate degrees outlined here involve the Department of Computer Science and Engineering together with another department (e.g., Biochemistry), with one department being the student's primary affiliation (and home of the principal advisor), and the other a secondary affiliation (home of a secondary advisor). The degree is called, for example, a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, when the primary affiliation for the Ph.D. is Computer Science and the secondary affiliation is Biochemistry. Admission requirements to graduate school are based on the primary department. In order to qualify for such a program, the student's dissertation must include significant research contributions in both disciplines. In particular, simply using existing computational techniques or simply including a programming element is not sufficient to qualify someone for this program. Students must satisfy the same course requirement as all other computer science Ph.D. students with the exception that only 15 credits are required from the courses that make up the breadth requirement. Comprehensive examinations are specified according to the guidelines of the primary department and must meet the standards of a guidance committee including members from both departments. If a student decides to leave the interdisciplinary degree program, he/she can revert to the requirements of the primary affiliation. A student could be admitted as an interdisciplinary degree student with concurrence of the two departments. Currently it is typical that the student is admitted into the primary program and then arranges the secondary affiliation upon choice of a research project and advisor. Finally, subject to dual major doctoral degree requirements, all dual amjor doctoral degrees must be approved by the Dean of the Graduate School, and a request for the dual major degree must be submitted within one semester following its development and within the first two years of the student's enrollment at Michigan State University. A copy of the guidance committee report must be attached. the student must apply for this program within two years of enrollment at MSU.
The Master's Degree Program prepares students for professional opportunities as well as for moving on to a Doctoral Program. In completing an M.S. degree, a student has the option of doing a thesis. The thesis option places emphasis on new research. All M.S. students must satisfy breadth requirements as well as taking a sufficient number of high-level courses.
1. To be considered full time for academic purposes, students without a graduate assistantship must carry a minimum of 9 credits.
2. An international student without a graduate assistantship must carry a minimum of 9 credits.
3. Students with 1/4 or 1/2 time graduate assistantship must carry a minimum of 6 credits in fall and spring semesters and 3 credits in summer semester.
4. Students with 3/4 time graduate assistantship must carry a minimum of 3 credits.
During the last semester in which all the requirements for the degree will be completed, the minimum enrollment is one credit.
Up to a combined maximum of nine graduate credits (excluding research, thesis and independent study credits) earned in another graduate program, an MSU graduate certificate program, or in lifelong education enrollment status may be accepted by the Department. For transfer credits, the completed Credit Evaluation: Graduate Program form is to be included with the program plan. Transfer credit will be given only for courses in which a grade of 3.0 (out of 4) or better was earned and whose content is still relevant and timely.
The student must maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 in all courses listed on the student's Program Plan. Failure to do so will result in dismissal from the master's program. Collateral and transfer credits are not included in calculating the grade-point average. If a course is repeated, grades and credits for all courses repeated are included in the calculation. Students appointed as graduate assistants are expected to maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.5.
A student having an overall grade-point average below 3.0 will be placed on probational status. In such status, the student cannot take any non-competitive special problems courses as part of the Master's Degree Program. In addition, there may be additional restrictions imposed by the Graduate School.
Both the academic progress and the professional potential of the student are evaluated annually by the student's advisor. A copy of this evaluation will be communicated to the student and a copy shall be placed in the student's file. A student whose performance does not meet the standards of quality will not be permitted to continue to enroll in the master's program, and the College and Department will take appropriate action.
The requirements for the M.S. degree must be completed within five calendar years of the date of enrollment in the first course included for degree certification. Normally, teaching assistantship support for students in the M.S. program is limited to two years.
At the time of admission, an academic advisor is assigned by the Graduate Director to give a student a point of contact. A student may request the Graduate Director change his/her advisor.
A Master's Degree Program contains the list of the courses the student is planning to take and the M.S. Plan option (thesis or course work). All M.S. students, with the help of their advisors, must file a formal Master's Degree Program before the completion of their second academic year semester. Failure to file such a form on time may result in enrollment blockage. The program plan must be submitted using the College of Engineering Graduate Tracking System.
1.Adding or deleting a course for which a grade has already been assigned under any of the three grading systems (numerical, Pass-No Grade, or Credit-No Credit).
2.Adding or deleting a course for which grading was postponed by the use of the DF - Deferred marker.
3.Adding or deleting a course which the student dropped after the middle of the semester and for which W or N or 0.0 was designated.
4.Adding or deleting a course during the final semester of enrollment in the master's degree program.
5.Adding or deleting an enrolled course after the middle of the semester.
The student must complete a minimum of 30 credits in 4XX-, 8XX- and 9XX-level courses under Plan A or Plan B. Further, a student's M.S. degree program under either plan must satisfy the Breadth Requirement.
Under this plan, 21 of the required 30 credits must be at the 8XX-9XX level (excluding CSE 801, CSE 890 and CSE 899). Further, the student must complete at least 6, but not more than 8, credits in Master's Thesis Research offered as CSE 899.
1.The student has the responsibility of finding an M.S. thesis advisor. The thesis advisor chairs the student's M.S. thesis review committee and becomes the student's academic advisor.
2.The student, in consultation with his/her advisor, forms an M.S. thesis review committee consisting of at least three MSU regular faculty members, including the thesis advisor. One of the committee members may be from outside the Department.
3.The thesis review committee must be formed and the committee must approve the thesis proposal before the student may enroll in CSE 899.
4.The student is required to make a public presentation and pass an oral certifying examination in defense of his/her M.S. thesis. The M.S. thesis and the student's performance on the examination must be approved by a positive vote of at least two-thirds of the thesis review committee members.
5.The student is expected to provide to his/her thesis advisor an electronic copy of the thesis along with any product (software, hardware, etc.) constituting his/her thesis work. The student must abide by other submission requirements set by the Department, College and the University. In particular, students should be familiar with the University requirements for completing the thesis including the final date for submission of the thesis. This final date is typically FIVE working days prior to the first day of classes for the next semester. Graduation on the semester of the electronic submission is only guaranteed if the document is APPROVED on or before the final date for that semester.
Under this plan, 24 of the required 30 credits must be at the 8XX-9XX level (excluding CSE 801, CSE 890 and CSE 899).
The student's M.S. degree program plan must contain at least one course from each of the following three groups, and the student must receive a grade of at least 3.0 in at least one course from each of the three following groups. Furthermore, the student's M.S. degree program plan must contain at least 18 total credits from the courses listed in the following three groups (the courses eligible to satisfy the breadth requirement).
Integrity in research and creative activities is based on sound disciplinary practices as well as on a commitment to basic values such as fairness, equity, honesty and respect. Through interaction with faculty and students, with their faculty advisors, and by emulating exemplary behavior, students learn to value professional integrity and high standards of ethical behavior.
Every graduate student should become familiar with the resources available relate to the issues of integrity and safety, in particular, the MSU Graduate School website on Research & Scholarly Integrity. The Graduate School also provides information concerning student workshops on a variety of topics including responsible conduct of research. A listing of presentations for the academic year at Michigan State University on aspects of research integrity can be found at the Responsible Conduct of Research website.
Graduate students are expected to exhibit integrity in all aspects of their professional, instructional, research, and educational activities. During the annual review, students will be evaluated on these aspects in addition to academic performance and progess towards the degree. Failure to meet established norms may lead to dismissal from the program.
Michigan State University takes seriously the responsibility to train students in the responsible conduct of research. In alignment with policies established by the University and the MSU Graduate School (http://grad.msu.edu/researchintegrity/), all graduate students within the College of Engineering are required to participate in appropriate RCR training each year. Please see the college website (http://www.egr.msu.edu/academics/graduate/rcr) for information on specific training requirements, reporting procedures, and annual deadlines. Failure to complete and report annual RCR training by the specified deadlines will result in a hold being placed on students' accounts.
Federal and University policies define misconduct to include fabrication (making up data and recording or reporting them), falsification (manipulating research materials, equipment or processes, or changing or omitting data such that the research is not accurately represented in the record), and plagiarism (appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit). Serious or continuing non-compliance with government regulations pertaining to research may constitute misconduct as well. University policy also defines retaliation against whistle blowers as misconduct. Misconduct does not include honest errors or honest differences of opinion in the interpretation or judgment of data.
The University views misconduct to be the most egregious violation of standards of integrity and as grounds for disciplinary action, including the termination of employment of faculty and staff, dismissal of students, and revocation of degrees. It is the responsibility of faculty, staff and students alike to understand the University's policy on misconduct in research and creative activities, to report perceived acts of misconduct of which they have direct knowledge to the University Intellectual Integrity Officer, and to protect the rights and privacy of individuals making such reports in good faith. More information can be found at MSU's Research Integrity Officer web site.
The MSU Human Resource Protection Program's (HRPP) primary mission is the protection of individuals who are the subjects of research at MSU. It is composed of several Institutional Review Boards (IRB).
Federal and University regulations require all research projects involving human subjects and materials of human origin be reviewed and approved by an IRB before initiation. Approval of the research protocol must be in place BEFORE the investigator begins data collection. These regulations are of specific concern to graduate students because research includes the preparation of Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations. By regulation, an IRB may not approve data gathered without its prior review and approval of the project. Only in exceptional circumstances will the Graduate School accept a thesis or dissertation containing data from human subjects does not have IRB approval. Therefore, if you do not receive IRB approval for your project prior to beginning data collection, and keep your approval current during the entire time you collect data, your project may not receive approval by the Graduate School.
Instructions for applying for approval are available on the HRPP website.
The use of vertebrate animals in research, teaching and outreach activities is subject to state and federal laws and guidelines. University policy specifies all vertebrate animals under University care (i.e., involved in projects under the aegis or sponsorship of the University) will be treated humanely, and prior to their start, all vertebrate animal projects must receive approval by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). Information concerning policies and procedures can be found at the IACUC website.
Surveillance of University practices dealing with a variety of environmental hazards will reside with Environmental Health and Safety (EHS). Protective services, fire safety, accident prevention and general safety will be the responsibility of the Department of Police and Public Safety (DPPS). DPPS reports to the Office of the Vice President for Finance and Operations, and Treasurer. The special matter of risk management in the course of delivering treatment in MSU clinics or by MSU physicians, nurses and other licensed clinicians comes under the special risk management procedures of the respective clinic and the All University Risk Management Committee.
The Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies and the Office of the Provost are responsible for promoting liaison between the University faculty, students and staff engaged in interaction, research and service, activities involving environmental hazards including related moral and ethical issues.
EHS provides live and on-line training classes throughout the year to educate the employees and students of Michigan State University on safe work practices. Completion of these courses by MSU personnel ensures the university is fulfilling local, state and federal requirements in radiation, chemical, biological, hazardous waste and environmental safety. The type of training you require depends on the nature of your duties and responsibilities. Details about available and required training can be found at the EHS website.
Michigan State University expects student conduct and behavior to reflect qualities of good citizenship. The out-of-classroom activities of University students should favorably reflect upon the institution and should demonstrate the personal integrity of the individuals. Two documents, Student Rights and Responsibilities and Graduate Student Rights and Responsibilities, provide information on specific policies, ordinances, and regulations and define some of the relevant University expectations.
The University has established a judicial structure and process for hearing and adjudicating alleged violations of recognized graduate student rights and responsibilities.
Conflict involving a graduate student may be handled informally or, at the request of a party or parties, formally. The document Student Rights and Responsibilities contains details of students' rights and responsibilities as well as grievance procedures. Information specific to graduate students is contained in the section Graduate Student Rights and Responsibilities. The College of Engineering's Hearing Board follows specific procedures to deal with such issues which can be found here. The Office of the Ombudsperson is a resource for additional information.
Grievances initiated by a graduate student will be handled according to the procedures outlined here. These procedures correspond to those defined in Article 5 of the Graduate Student Rights and Responsibilities document.
A grievance should be brought to the attention of the department chairperson. If informal resolution of the grievance is not possible and the graduate student initiates a request for a formal grievance, the chairperson will bring the matter to the attention of the Department Hearing Board for adjudication of the grievance in a timely manner.
This section provides current and prospective graduate students in Computer Science and Engineering with information regarding work related policies, information regarding financial support and information regarding tuition and fees.
Financial support for graduate students takes different forms and may include one or more of the following: fellowship, research assistantship, or teaching assistantship. Specific award amounts change with time to reflect changes in tuition, fees, and the general cost of living. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has a limited number of fellowships and assistantships available for qualified graduate students. Applicants for admission into either the M.S. or Ph.D. programs are automatically considered for financial support.
Sources of financial support include the University, the College of Engineering, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and off-campus organizations in both the public and private sector. Qualifications for receiving specific types of aid vary depending upon the funding source. Some financial aid packages place certain restrictions/responsibilities upon the recipient. For example, a half-time graduate assistantship would require the recipient to perform an average of twenty (20) hours per week of duties in service on average to the University during the appointment period.
Most financial support packages require that the student make satisfactory progress toward completing a degree of study. The Department's criteria for satisfactory academic progress includes: course credits completed per semester, the nature of these courses, the grades received, successful completion of required qualifying/comprehensive examinations, and progress in completing M.S. thesis or Ph.D. dissertation research.
In addition to satisfactory progress toward completing the degree, continuation of graduate support depends upon the following: the recipient has performed the assigned duties satisfactorily; past level of support and total number of semesters of support; the availability of funds to continue the current level of financial assistance; the needs of the Department for the particular services for which the recipient is qualified to perform. When resources for financial support are limited and the demand for support exceeds the funds available, continuation of financial support for an individual student will depend upon merit relative to others requesting aid and the needs of the Department.
For graduate assistants holding an appointment during the spring semester, the Department will advise each assistant by some date before the end of spring semester whether or not the assistantship will be renewed for the following academic year. The notification will provide details as to the type of assistantship support and the length of the appointment (fall semester or the entire academic year). For graduate assistants appointed only for the fall semester, the Department will provide notification of renewal for the following spring semester by December 1.
Finally, all TAs and RAs must complete the on-line training about the Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct Policy. To access the training, login to the ORA training website at http://goo.gl/pLh01o. Click "Register", "Complete Registration", and then "Launch" to begin the training. (If it indicates that you have already registered, use "In Progress Training", then "Launch."). You will want to reserve approximately 30 minutes to complete all assignments. If you need assistance, contact the Helpdesk at 517-884-4600 or train@ora.msu.edu.
1.Those students to whom the Department has a prior commitment to provide support, such as students who have received a multi-year support offer on admission.
2.Ph.D. students actively involved in research who do not have a research assistantship, fellowship or other support. Normally, a Ph.D. student will not receive more than six semesters (excluding summer semesters) of support as a TA.
3.M.S. students in a thesis (Plan A) who do not have a research assistantship, fellowship or other support. Normally, an M.S. student will not receive more than four semesters (excluding summer semesters) of support as a TA.
4.M.S. students in the course work option (Plan B) who do not have a research assistantship, fellowship or other support.
Academic performance and qualifications to teach a particular course will also be considered in all TA appointment decisions. For students for whom English is not the official language of their home country, a minimum score of 50 on the SPEAK test is required.
Newly appointed TAs will receive course specific training from the faculty in charge of the course at the beginning of the semester.
Teaching Assistants who do serve as a TA for 6 semesters shall be appointed as Level 3 teaching assistants in subsequent semesters.
Individual faculty members generally select research assistants from the graduate student body and qualified applicants. Research assistants are often selected to work on a specific research project or projects for which the faculty member has funding. Often, but not necessarily always, the work is related to the thesis work of the student. Renewal of research assistantships is based on satisfactory performance and availability of funds.
All teaching assistants should be aware of their rights and responsibilities under the current version of the contract between MSU and the GEU. The Department provides each student appointed as a TA with a copy. The agreement is also available online .
10 hours per week for a quarter-time stipend.
20 hours per week for a half-time stipend.
30 hours per week for a three-quarter time stipend.
The student is expected to be available during the appointment period. Any absences, including for attendance of professional meetings, must be arranged with the supervising faculty member and the Department.
Graduate assistants must be registered each semester in which they hold assistantships. The minimum enrollment for doctoral students who have successfully completed all comprehensive examinations is 1 credit for all graduate assistantship levels in all semesters. Otherwise, the minimum enrollment for doctoral students with any graduate assistantship in any semester is 3 credits. The minimum enrollment for master's students with quarter-time or half-time graduate assistantships in fall and spring semesters is 6 credits; in summer semester or with a three-quarter time graduate assistantship, this minimum is 3 credits. Deviations from these minimum enrollment requirements are only permitted during the semester in which the degree is granted during which time the student must be enrolled for at least 1 credit.
The maximum enrollment per semester is determined by the type of assistantship. For quarter-time appointments, the maximum enrollment for any student is 16 credits (excluding credits in 899 or 999). For half-time appointments, the maximum enrollment for any student is 12 credits (excluding credits in 899 or 999). For three-quarter time appiontments, the maximum enrollment for any student is 8 credits (excluding credits in 899 or 999.
International students should also be aware of minimum credit enrollments to satisfy visa requirements. The MSU Office of International Students and Scholars is an important resource of information in this regard.
For all graduate research assistants and all graduate teaching assistants who are not included in the GEU agreement, current information concerning stipends, tuition and fee benefits, health insurance and other benefits can be found at the Graduate School web site.
For GEU covered assistantships, please see the current MSU/GEU agreement for information regarding stipends, tuition and fee benefits, and health insurance coverage.
Receipt of externally funded fellowships by students who have written their own grant applications and worth at least $20,000 (direct costs) now makes the students eligible for in-state tuition rate. The in-state tuition rate applies only to the semesters during which the student is supported by the fellowship. This policy applies only to grants funded through a competitive process by a US institution/agency/foundation. Funds obtained through non-competitive processes (e.g., need-based fellowships) or from international sources do not qualify the students for in-state tuition rates. For more information contact Melissa Del Rio (mdelrio@msu.edu) in 110 Linton Hall.
Graduate students supported as graduate assistant in the Department are provided with a campus mailbox in the Engineering Building. All graduate students in the Department have access to computer systems maintained by the Department as well as facilities provided by the Division of Engineering Computing Services. Graduate assistants are provided with office space and telephone access for local and campus calls. Copy machines are available in the Engineering Library with a customary charge per page. Teaching assistants may have required materials copied for their teaching duties by the office copying machine without charge.
For current information regarding tuition, fees and housing rates associated with enrolling in the Graduate Programs in Computer Science and Engineering, please see the Online Calculator.
Outside work for pay must be undertaken within any guidelines established by Michigan State University or the College of Engineering.
Students traveling abroad should visit the Travel Smart Web site before their trip. When students appointed as TAs or RAs travel outside the U.S. to conduct required thesis or dissertation research or to collaborate with investigators conducting research abroad, the department or research grant supporting the work will be required to pay for all needed vaccinations and or medications (e.g., anti-malarials) as determined by the MSU Travel Clinic. Students may include those costs in applications for funds from the Research Enhancement or Travel Grant programs administered by the Graduate School.
For master's (Plan A), master's (Plan B) with reserach responsibilities, and doctoral students, it is the responsibility of the student to: a) notify their advisor/major professor and faculty o fhte courses in which they are enrolled of the need for a grief absence in a timely manner, but no later than one week from the student's initial knowledge of the situation, b) provide appropriate verification of the grief absence as specified by the advisor/major professor and faculty, and c) complete all missed work as determined in consultation with the advisor/major professor and faculty. It is the responsibility of the advisor/major professor to: a) determine with the student the expected period of absence - it is expected that some bereavement processes may be more extensive than others depending on individual circumstances, b) receive verification of the authenticity of a grief absence request upon the student's return, and c) make reasonable accommodations so that the student is not penalized due to a verified grief absence. If employed as a RA or TE, the graduate student must also notify their employer. Both employer and student will swiftly communicate to determine how the student's responsibilities will be covered during their absence. Graduate teaching assistants (TAs) should refer to the bereavement policy in the MSU GEU CBU Article 18. Students who believe their rights under this policy have been violated should contact the University Ombudsperson.
Michigan State University has been advancing knowledge and transforming lives through innovative teaching, research and outreach for more than 150 years. It is known worldwide as a major public university with global reach and extraordinary impact. Its 14 degree-granting colleges and affiliated private law school offer 200 programs of study. They attract scholars worldwide who are interested in combining education with practical problem solving.
Students from all 83 counties in Michigan, all 50 states in the United States, and about 125 other countries are represented in the student body of 44,452 students (fall, 2003). There are approximately 4,500 faculty and academic staff, and approximately 6,000 support staff employees. Library resources include a research collection of approximately 4.5 million volumes housed in the main library and nine branch libraries across campus. More than 500 registered student organizations include honoraries; professional organizations and professional fraternities and sororities; recreational and athletic groups; and international, racial/ethnic, religious, academic interest area, political, social service, volunteer, and media organizations.
The Council of Graduate Students represents all registered MSU graduate and graduate-professional students. The Graduate Employee's Union represents Teaching Assistants.
Michigan State University's Engineering College offers graduate programs through six academic Departments: Agricultural Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. The college houses many research centers and laboratories, which vigorously promote the interdisciplinary collaboration of its faculty members with each other, and with other university Departments, other universities and the general public.
A $34.5 million addition and renovation in 1989 provided 167,000 square feet of space for laboratories, classrooms, offices and the engineering library. The Engineering Building, constructed in 1962, underwent a $14-million, 46,000-square-foot addition in 1997, accommodating the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Institute for Materials Research, one of the premier facilities in the world for the study of composite materials. Other facilities include the Engineering Facility at the MSU Research Complex; the Jolly Road Research Facility; and the Automotive Research Experiment Station located in the Hulett Road Research Facility.
The computer science and engineering graduate program has approximately 150 students, of which about 70% are doctoral students and 30% are master's students. The graduate students work in close relationship with the approximately 30 faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in a strong and growing research program. Students also engage in interdisciplinary research through extensive collaborative research projects conducted by faculty of Computer Science and Engineering together with faculty colleagues from many other disciplines at Michigan State University. Indeed, interdisciplinary research collaboration is a hallmark of the computer science and engineering discipline, and is a strength of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Campus cultural and other special centers include the Wharton Center for Performing Arts, Kresge Art Museum, MSU Museum, Kellogg Center, Abrams Planetarium, WKAR-AM/FM public radio and WKAR public television. Sports devotees can follow the performance of any of the 25 men's and women's intercollegiate teams on campus. Those wishing to participate in athletics can take advantage of any of the many facilities available. These include gymnasiums for basketball and racquet sports, an indoor ice-skating rink, five swimming pools, a number of outdoor tennis courts and two 18-hole golf courses. The intramural sports program is one of the largest in the nation.
The campus has been called an "academic park" and the beautiful gardens and landscaping are testimony to many generations of careful stewardship. The 5,200 acres, located three miles east of Michigan's Capitol in Lansing, represent a unique blend of the traditional and the innovative and is adjacent to its college town, East Lansing. The Red Cedar River traverses the campus and offers opportunities for lively activities such as canoe races or quiet reflection for those who wish to walk or study along its tree-lined shores.
The greater Lansing area, with a population of approximately a half-million, boasts a fine symphony orchestra which performs at the Wharton Center; several dance and theater groups, art galleries; the state capitol building, museums, state and local libraries; an arboretum, a zoo, a variety of parks, and a number of restaurants to suit most pocketbooks and tastes.
Graduate students in need of a change of scene can take the train to Chicago from East Lansing or drive an hour or two to Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids or Detroit. In addition, day or weekend jaunts can be made to such attractions as Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum, the Irish Hills, the Kellogg Biological Station, numerous National and State Forests in the lower and upper peninsulas, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron beaches and parks, and Mackinac Island. Recreational activities in Michigan are highlighted by water sports in the summer months and skiing in winter. | 2019-04-25T00:38:38Z | http://cse.msu.edu/Students/Current_Grad/GradHandbook.php | Porn | Computers | 0.364996 |
wordpress | A grouping of simple hypertufa troughs have rested here, forming the edges of a raised bed, since 2014. I made the troughs for this purpose, and planted them that first year almost entirely in Caladiums. A dogwood tree grows from the center of this very shady bed planted mostly with ferns and Hellebores.
Wanting year round interest with a minimum of effort, I’ve added hardy Begonia grandis, evergreen Saxifraga stolonifera, additional seedling Hellebores and various ferns in and around the pots over the seasons since. Vinca minor and ivy volunteered themselves as groundcovers. I have tried establishing moss around the pots, but haven’t met as much success with that as I would like.
There isn’t much space left to add summer Caladiums anymore, especially as the ferns have filled out and the Saxifraga and Begonias continue to spread themselves around. But I still tuck in a Caladium tuber or two each spring. This is easiest to do as the Caladium just begins to grow, before its roots grow too large for the hole I can dig in these shallow pots.
This is one of my favorite spots in the garden year round, now, and we will enjoy the intense pop of color the Caladium ‘Burning Heart’ offers with its intense red leaves. I like how it plays off of the new Begonia leaves and the stipes of these ferns.
When growing over a period of years in shallow pots, it is important to feed the soil and keep it hydrated for best plant performance. I top off these pots with some compost with the changing seasons, sprinkle in some Osmocote ever few months, and water occasionally with fish and seaweed emulsion in the mix.
These pots on May 3, before I groomed and topped them off for the season, and before it was warm enough to plant out any Caladiums. Dogwood petals fell like snow after several days of wind and rain.
This composition of leafy plants holds my interest without a lot of bright flowers. That said, we enjoy the Hellebores from January through May.
Saxifraga stolonifera blooms this week in another shady fern bed. These perennials send out runners, and a new plant grows at the tip of each runner. The plants root when they touch moist earth. They can fill in a large area fairly quickly and bloom by their second year.
The Saxifraga is blooming this month, and tiny pink Begonia flowers will emerge by midsummer.
The flowers here may be subtle, but the foliage in this bed really pops!
Calaldium ‘Burning Heart’ grows in a pot elsewhere in the garden. | 2019-04-22T19:09:25Z | https://forestgardenblog.wordpress.com/tag/shade-gardening-2/ | Porn | Reference | 0.103629 |
wordpress | “I’m the wild child in the family,” claims Laura Rizzotto.
Balestri Valda is a relatively-recent, family-run winery, with vineyards and the cellar perched just above the town of Soave, in the Veneto of Italy.
Laura and her father, Guido, work together on the Balestri Valda winery, while her brother and grandfather are still actively making bubbles for other local producers in Soave and the surrounding area.
The Balestri Valda cellar was clearly a huge investment; it is large and spotlessly clean. Currently 65,000 bottles of wine are made per year and it’s predominantly Soave Classico DOC.
At the end of 2016, Laura finished university and moved back to Soave. She’s taking an increasingly important role at the winery and she’s a huge believer of biodiversity.
Yes, did I mention that Balestri Valda make their own mille-fleurs/millefiori honey?
Laura is bringing in several important changes to the Balestri Valda winery: firstly, that they are in the process of obtaining official organic certification.
Secondly, their new wine “Libertate” – is Laura’s pet project. It is made from Trebbiano di Soave only – a far call from the traditional Soave (from garganega grapes or a blend) – and vinified in amphora and stainless steel. They’re not quite natural wines yet – I’m used to wines with a little less SO2 – but if Laura gets her way, Balestri Valda is heading very much in the right direction! A winery to watch!
It’s hard to find a “young” man as enthusiastic, knowledgeable and determined as Sauro Maule.
Sauro comes from a strong agricultural lineage. His father, Lino, a distinguished and considered man, raised cattle for more than 30 years.
In 2010, aged 25, Sauro made the decision turn the company into one which grows grapes and makes wine. Admirably, he knew that he wanted chemical, herbicide and pesticide-free vineyards, and even ripped up existing vineyards which had been worked industrially in order to start afresh.
This year, 2017, will be his first year making wine in his own winery – situated in the old family property near San Germano dei Berici, in the little-known Colli Berici. The cattle shed has now become a pristine wine cellar.
In terms of the grape varieties at his disposal, Sauro works with garganega, durella, pinot grigio, chardonnay, sauvignon, merlot, cabernet sauvignon and tocai rosso. He makes five different wines: two whites, two reds and a sparkling.
The video above was taken in October 2016 and it shows a truckload of manure arriving to fertilise the soils for a new plantation of tocai rosso. Don’t focus too much on the manure – think instead how lush and unspoilt the area is!
The new tocai rosso vineyard – 8 months old.
Some of Sauro’s vineyards (especially those in Selva) were badly hit by the late frost this spring and as a result, Sauro’s production this year will be lower than usual.
That said, I am sure that he will continue to make the same great, fresh, unfiltered wines that he always has. They are fruit-forward (how I hate that term!) and juicy, with only minimal levels of sulfur dioxide added. Check them out!
They started with 4 hectares but now Géraud and Pauline Fromont work 10 hectares of vineyards in three different villages (Cesancey, Vincelles and Ste-Agnès) all in the southern part of Jura, in what’s known as the Sud Revermont.
The Sud Revermont doesn’t have any of the dramatic hills (i.e. Chateau-Chalon) that the north of the Jura (around Arbois) boasts but the Sud Revermont does have the highest concentration of lesser-known (but still very interesting) winemakers.
Since the very beginning, they sought and then obtained organic certification. Coming from farming backgrounds, the decision to work organically was never up for debate. However, nowadays, despite the presence of a handful of sheep, the farming aspect has been put to one side in order to focus on the vineyards and wine-making.
Because Géraud has such little stock left, most of what we tried were tank samples, settling for a week or so before bottling – therefore, I don’t remember the particular names unfortunately. What I do remember are the sensations.
Savignan is not normally known as being an evocative variety but, my goodness, here they take on a life of their own. One of them – the 8th wine we tasted – had such intense aromas of pepper and spice. Another – from a variety of Savignan Rose (a relative of Muscat and Traminer) smelt of rose, elderflower and lychee.
I also particularly liked a Chardonnay, aged in large wooden barrels (foudre) which I found rich, enticing and, I quote directly from my notes, “super bon!” Géraud treated us to another Chardonnay ouillé (topped up) but this time from the 2015 vintage which was showing its complexity wonderfully. | 2019-04-26T00:16:23Z | https://emmabentleyvino.wordpress.com/category/in-the-vineyards-with-2/ | Porn | Business | 0.226475 |
wordpress | Sat across from you I desperately began my search. I was longing for a different life and you felt like my last chance. But I was still unsure.
I tried to trust you, to trust myself. Inevitably, it felt impossible.
Week by week we waded through my thoughts; thick, tangled, twisted. Alongside you I allowed myself to face the darkness. My darkness.
For so long I had feared what I might find. Was it the truth? I am still unsure.
Fragments of feelings flashed burning and bright rather than the dim and distant memories I dreamed I might discover. They hurt. They still do.
And what am I left with? What might I make of these broken parts? How will I fix them together to form my future?
I have a confession to make: today, I am a terrible mother.
When my daughter was born, I bought in to the idea that breast was best. I loved the suggestion that there was something I could do from day one that could give her the best start. I loved how that made me feel. And, fortunately for me, I found it easy.
As she grew older I could be found pulping and puréeing first thing in the morning. I found myself shopping everyday for yet more fresh fruits and vegetables, fish and foods free from artificial colours or preservatives. I have never been much of a cook but, even to me, it seemed pretty straight forward.
In that first year I also became a familiar face at various mother and baby groups. Something that didn’t come quite so easily. I despised the prospect of singing in pubic and was pretty terrified of socialising with people I didn’t know. But I did it anyway. And survived.
And I filled the days with every manner of enriching activities! From swimming to baby signing, museums and visits to the library, arts and crafts, flash cards, singing and dancing, days at the farm, fresh air and exercise and everything in between. And the reading! Endless hours of reading! Repeated reading to the point where I can recite a whole host of children’s classics from memory alone. Because how could I ever refuse her requests to sit down together and devour a book?!
And, possibly harder than finding the time to fit in all of the above, I found the faith to tell myself that everything I did for her, every choice I made, held her best interests at its heart.
But I didn’t do it because I am perfect.
I did it because I know I am not.
I have been worried about today for a long time. If I am honest, I cannot believe it didn’t come sooner. I never thought I would survive this long.
Because I had already been a statistic. 1 in 4 people this year with suffer with a mental health issue. Depression, anxiety, paranoia…the spectrum is wide and the term encompasses so many different things but, having been there more than once before, I know the symptoms are often the same.
Put simply, it can become hard to cope.
I am reluctant to label the feelings that have been growing inside me for the past few months. I hope that I won’t find myself forced to as I sit opposite the doctor and ask for their help. But these feelings are familiar.
And, for me, the worst part is how they fool me in to thinking I am a failure.
So today, after spending the morning sat on the sofa whilst my daughter watched too much television, feeding her lunch of fish fingers and baked beans for the third time in a week and then driving her to her grandparents to spend the rest of the day and night, I returned home and got in bed.
And now I lay here doing the maths. Will all my efforts count in my favour? Have I done enough to make my workings add up? Or will my weakness cancel out anything I had going in my favour?
What does it take to be good enough?
I paused for as long as I could manage. I broke.
“I guess.” My voice cut the silence with a cool, steely edge. At least, I wanted it to.
She stared straight at me. I wanted to get up walk away. I let my focus become blurred and tried my hardest to escape her gaze. I checked the clock. It was impossible.
She sat there, silent and still, her eyes fixed on me. I wanted to run but, again, I stayed. Something always makes stay. Silent and still, I allowed myself a moment to try to imagine if things were different.
I had nowhere to go from here. I had nothing to say that hadn’t been said too many times before.
So I sat there distressed, silent and still, and waited.
Answering was easy. I knew what I should say. And what I shouldn’t. I may not have known what I wanted to be but I knew how I wanted to feel. And how I wanted you to feel about me. So I shaped my answer carefully and constructed myself in this refracted reflection.
Eventually my identity became defined: a soul shifting herself to become someone whole in all eyes but her own.
Then I found myself. Broken. Lost and alone and looking for a way back to who knows when.
Imagine how, if you had lived in darkness for as long as you could remember, any light, no matter how dim, would come as a welcome relief.
Like the dull, reassuring green glow of the numbers on an alarm clock when you awake from a nightmare long before dawn.
You would stumble around for a bit. Find your way. Step by step. And, eventually, you would learn to see. It may even begin to feel ok. Normal, if you will.
But, after a while (who knows how long?), you would crave something more. Something greater. You would long to see sunrise; natural, beautiful, true.
And, with that, you would become aware of the darkness once again. A black sky suspended in time. Something all encompassing that seemed never ending and impossible to break.
And you would try with all your might to believe that dawn would come once again.
It is 6.22am and I am up and out for a walk. It should be a run but I just can’t do it. I am torn between telling myself I am doing well just for being up and out and doing what I should and tearing myself apart for being too weak to run. I know what will win in the end. But still, I hope not.
The sky is grey and the air is crisp and clean on my sleepy skin. A few houses have their lights on but most remain silent and still. Golden leaves have started to cover the streets.
As I cross the main road, cars race past then nothing but a distant rumble. I pass a man walking two beautiful, bouncing dogs and attempt the half-smile that speaks of a shared situation and feigns a form of confidence that will be so successful in a few hours when I walk along with my daughter, hand in hand. But nothing. Maybe it’s my hood.
I bypass the playing fields in all their green glory, an all too perfect reminder that I should be running, and head towards the shops and station in desperate search for signs of life. The rubbish collection rumbles by and men jump from the truck, their day-glow vests and pitch and pace let the world know their morning is well underway. As I pass the familiar shop fully lit throughout, I realise that in the entire time I have lived here, I have never seen it closed.
I continue on and pass commuters and, listening again, realise the roads have come alive. I walk on towards the big houses. I stop. The future seems inevitable. I turn around and walk back.
To return home and say, yes, it helped.
Sometimes you need to be kind to yourself. To relax. To forgive. Sometimes you need to stop worrying about all that you want to do or be and slow down. Sometimes simply treading water is hard enough. Sometimes you need to stop worrying about all that you want to do or be and simply slow down. Maybe even stop. To rest.
In the middle of my twenties I had a complete breakdown. I say ‘the middle’ because the memory of it now is in montage. It broke me down so much that, at the time, I was just fragments of a person. Little tiny pieces struggling to survive. Often failing. And in order for me to even remember what it was like I have to reach out and grab those little pieces, often painfully, and pull them back. Some now feel familiar but others are still often so far out of reach, so apologies because this is not, and maybe never could be, the whole story.
But I remember the panic attacks. I remember them gripping hold of my heart and taking over my entire body; feeling sick, stiff legs, failing to breathe, head rushing as I screamed and cried uncontrollably. Uncontrollably. I also remember the near sense of relief when it was over. I could breathe. I could sleep.
And then the guilt. And the fear.
A cycle that I felt powerless to break. But that didn’t stop me trying. Smashing away at myself in whatever way I could. Self medication. Self criticism. Self loathing. Self punishment.
I learnt to survive by shutting down parts of me. I say survive but I wasn’t really. I played pretend. I learnt to be whoever you wanted to me to be. Whoever I thought you wanted me to be. Making the rules up as I went but sticking to them as if scripture, I became somebody else. Lots and lots of somebodies. So many that I lost myself in the crowd.
I listened to each one of those people. Some of their advice I followed. Some of their thoughts I lived by. Some of them I fought with. Some of them I struggled to silence. But I was never sure who to trust; who held my heart?
Silence. Silence helped. I stopped. I slept. I shut myself away. I slowed down. I listened. I forgave.
When I was twelve I didn’t see anything.
As I sat on the steps and, with all too much anticipation, watched the world expand, my eyes started to show the first glittering signs of defiance. I ran my fingers through my strong, straight hair to pull it back in to the agreed ponytail and looked on as older girls sat, surrounded by boys even older still, in the centre of the room. Their smiles spoke of something else. Something still secret. And I longed to hear it. To taste the excitement that escaped each time they laughed.
I didn’t see how quickly I would transform in to one of those girls. A transformation greater than rolling the top of my skirt over three times and upgrading to a pair of platform soles. I didn’t see how my smile would speak to other people, how my laugh would echo in their ears. I failed to notice at all so how could I consider the effect? I didn’t see how those glittering sparks would grow to burn hot and angry, silently screaming where my voice would fail to be heard. Where words would struggle to show what my heart would become afraid to say. I didn’t see how strikingly beautiful I would become. Or how little that mattered. Or how much damage that could do. I didn’t see the dangers the excitement disguised. Or how I would ignore all the warnings. I didn’t see my dreams beckon me and whisper gently of all that I might have. I didn’t see how easy that might be. Or how hard I might have to work. I didn’t see how quickly that beauty might transform into something different, into something dark.
I didn’t see how I would long for those innocent eyes. That honest heart.
When I was twelve I didn’t see anything. I was too busy looking for it all.
When, a few weeks ago, people first realised I had begun blogging they text me, sent me messages on Facebook and spoke to me about it when I saw them. They had questions, kind words and, in some cases, stuff they decided to share with me. I loved it all! Thank you.
Everyone is struggling with something. Be nice.
And when I read it I began to see that, for me, this is what my blog is; me struggling to be nice.
And whilst at the moment (this week? today?) I am surviving that struggle, I thought I would share some of my tips for success. And document them so that when I am lost again and need them, they can be found here. But, please note, I am much like Alice as she stumbles blindly through Wonderland because she too “generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it)”.
Not hard drugs (or even soft ones) or cigarettes or alcohol. Much well founded research only serves to prove that this generally makes things worse. Much worse. But find something that makes your skin itch. Something that picks away at your brain screaming at you to do it and do it now. And do it. Everyday. Be it running or yoga or painting or writing (thank you WordPress!) or baking cakes or watching a new TV series on Netflix, find something, anything, that makes you feel good and gives you that buzz. Understand that this is no long term solution but the sticky plaster to fix your focus on something beyond yourself. And do it anyway.
Although probably the worse time to embark upon a new relationship with another human being, when you have fallen out of love with yourself it is the best time to look for love. Look for it everywhere. In the places you go. In the things you do. In the people you meet. Find something that you can fall head-over-heels-crazy-in-love with. New shoes. A favourite book. Your BFF. Give your heart fully and completely to something that makes you smile.
Forgive yourself for feeling horrid. Don’t lay awake at night wrestling with what you should, could or might do to change things or beat yourself up day after day for the mistakes you make. Sleep. Take a bath. Sit down. Turn off your phone and switch off from the rest of the world. Take time to feel all the horrid feelings. Cry. And repeat to yourself over and over and over again until you almost begin to believe that it is true that is ok for things not to be, or even feel, ok.
There comes a point when, whatever your problem, forgiving yourself and being kind is not enough. I am sorry that I cannot tell you when that point is or how you will know when you arrive at it because I have all too often missed it. You will probably notice that your friends stop calling or asking how you are. You may feel that everything is hopeless. You might have given up even caring whether it is or not. But there will definitely come this point. At this point you must stop making excuses. Whatever your problem and whatever its cause, stop giving yourself an excuse. Forget it. Do whatever it is that you need to do to move forward. You will know what to do because it will be whatever it is that hurts the most.
And talk. To everyone. And anyone.
Feeling bad is lonely. And sometimes feeling as if you are alone makes you feel important, special, different (there’s my excuse). But most of the time it just makes you feel worse. Since beginning to write here (and maybe I found my way here because I had already started to see it) I have realised that I am not alone. I have chosen to write about the things that make me feel horrid and the (all be it minor) struggles I have everyday. And the thing that shocked me most was that people weren’t shocked by what I wrote. Some have confessed to feeling it too. Others have simply said nice things.
And that’s nice. And that makes me feel nice too. Thank you. | 2019-04-22T08:01:26Z | https://tryingsohardtobegood.wordpress.com/tag/therapy/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.623116 |
tripod | BIG card collecting = BIG Fun!
They didn't come with gum. They didn't come in packs. They weren't made by Topps or Leaf or any other trading card company. But they're cards just the same and fun to collect. If you're the type who likes the larger things in life, then you'll especially love these sets, because they're big. BIG!
Take for example Prehistoric Animals Flash Cards (McGraw-Hill, 1962). These cards measure 6 X 3 inches! The color artwork is excellent, though none of the artwork has any backgrounds. They just feature the Dinosaur, caveman, or prehistoric mammal against a pastel back drop. The text (on the reverse) is very detailed and a fun read. My set has 47 cards, but I suspect they originally had 48 or 50 in the set. I remember seeing these cards as a kid and they were just as fun back then.
Monster Old Maid (Milton Bradley, 1964) are monster sized as well. They measure 3 1/2 X 5 3/4 inches. These cards feature head shots of Dracula, the Wolfman, The Mummy, the Creature, the Hunchback, and so forth. There are 20 different pictures with duplicates of all but one (the "old maid" is Dracula's Daughter). The photos are black and white with green or purple shades.
There are other "Old Maid" games available from the TV shows "The Munsters" and "The Addam's Family". These are pretty similar except the diversity of photos is much less than Monster Old Maid. (They use more duplicates of the same shots). I'm also told there is an Old Maid game of "12 O'clock High". Apparently, that one's pretty scarce.
Ever see the Odd Rods type set of exhibit cards from Exhibit Supply (1972)? These look like post cards, measuring a little over 3 1/4 X 5 1/4 inches in size. The two-color artwork is rather crude, like something the pimple faced kid in the back corner usually drew during History class. There's plenty of big tires, peeling rubber, and big eyed monster drivers. The reverse is less creative (completely blank). There are 16 in the set.
And speaking of postcards, Star Trek collectors will want to pick up the 1977 post card series. There are 48 color Star Trek post cards in the set. They were initially sold in a booklet, but the cards are often detached. The photos include shots of the Enterprise, its crew (most the stars) and a few aliens. The backs have a 1977 Paramount copyright.
Another fun post card set is unusual in that it breaks all the assertions made at the beginning of this article. Insult Postcards were released in 1966 by Topps (in packs with gum). They feature neat color caricatures of various monsters delivering a variety of put downs. There are 32 in the set and they appear to be drawn by Wally Wood. These cards are often found as singles, but don't despair: It isn't too hard to piece together if you're patient.
The smallest "big cards" discussed here are some of the neatest. Ghoul Agency cards were produced in 1975 by Athol-Research Company. It was part of a beautiful board game called "Creature Features". It came complete with money, dice, tokens, and several different types of cards- but only 32 of them have photos and are worth displaying. The majority of those photos have never been in any other card set. The films highlighted include the usual Universal line up, plus Willard, Dr. Phibes, Them, and Godzilla. The black and white cards measure 2 3/4 X 3 3/4 inches. There are many other board games that include cards, but Ghoul Agency has some of the biggest and best (in my humble opinion).
This isn't a complete list of the big cards, but it's a start. Almost all these sets can be found between $15 and $25 in EX condition. They most often turn up at flea markets or garage sales, or even your attic! Just keep your eyes open for large unidentified lying objects and you're bound to see them sooner or later. After all, they're BIG! | 2019-04-21T10:45:12Z | http://thewrapper.tripod.com/bigcards.html | Porn | Games | 0.47868 |
wordpress | Stallman was born in 1953 in New York City. His first experience with computers was in high school at the IBM New York Scientific Center. He was hired for the summer to write a numerical analysis program in Fortran. Stallman spent the summer after his high-school graduation writing another program, a preprocessor for the PL/I programming language on the IBM System/360.Stallman was also a volunteer laboratory assistant in the biology department at Rockefeller University.In his first year at Harvard University, Stallman was known for his strong performance in Math 55. In 1971 he became a programmer at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.He joined the group of hackers at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
As a hacker in MIT’s AI laboratory, Stallman worked on software projects like TECO, Emacs, and the Lisp machine Operating System. He would become an ardent critic of restricted computer access in the lab, which at that time was funded primarily by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Richard Stallman is considered to be the founding father of free software. He began thinking about this while he was working in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. The lab used a printer that often broke down, but because the lab workers had the source code of the printer’s driver at their disposal, they were able to modify the program so that the printer would send an error message to everyone’s workstation every time it broke down and whoever was available would go the the printer room and fix the problem. One day the lab bought a new, more reliable printer from Xerox. Unfortunately, the source code of the printer driver was not included in the package, and they were unable to put in place the same kind of maintenance set-up they had used before. Richard Stallman later heard that another scientific laboratory had a copy of the source code of the Xerox driver. When he tried to obtain it, he was told that the lab had agreed to keep the source code to themseves and not to make it available to anyone else. Stallman was quite offended by this selfish attitude, and it was then that he became aware of the dangers of a proprietary system.
In 1985, Stallman published the GNU Manifesto, which outlined his motivation for creating a free operating system called GNU, which would be compatible with Unix. The name GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU’s Not Unix.” In 1984, Stallman started the influential GNU project to develop a free operating system called GNU.In February 1984, Stallman quit his job at MIT to work full-time on the GNU project, so that MIT would not be able to claim the copyright on the GNU software, but the university was kind enough to let him use their computers. In 1985, Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation as a tax-exempt charity for development of free software. Knowing full well that it is impossible to use a computer without an operating system, it became clear that the first project of the foundation should be to put together a complete and free operating system,The GNU Project!! The operating system would be compatible with Unix, yet different.
In 1989 the first program-independent GNU General Public License (GPL) was released. By then, much of the GNU system had been completed. Stallman was responsible for contributing many necessary tools, including a text editor , compiler , debugger , and a build automator . The notable exception was a kernel. In 1990, members of the GNU project began a kernel called GNU Hurd, which has yet to achieve the maturity level required for widespread usage.
Stallman has devoted the bulk of his life’s energies to political and software activism. Stallman has written many essays on software freedom and since the early 1990s. In 1999, Stallman called for development of a free on-line encyclopedia through the means of inviting the public to contribute articles.The resulting GNUPedia was eventually retired in favour of the emerging Wikipedia, which had similar aims and was enjoying greater success.
Stallman has participated in protests about software patents,DRM,and proprietary software. Protesting against proprietary software in April 2006, Stallman held a “Don’t buy from ATI, enemy of your freedom” placard at a speech by an ATI representative in the building where Stallman works, resulting in the police being called.ATI has since merged with AMD Corporation and has taken steps to make their hardware documentation available for use by the free software community. Stallman has also helped and supported the International Music Score Library Project in getting back online, after it had been taken down on October 19, 2007 following a cease and desist letter from Universal Edition.
Richard Stallman, , believes that companies like Facebook and Google aren’t helping their users, but are in fact doing the exact opposite because of how they run their social networks. In an interview with RT, he briefly criticized both Facebook and Google+, but then underlined how the former has worse practices than the latter.“Facebook does massive surveillance,” Stallman continued. “If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address of the computer visiting the page even if the person is not a Facebook user. So you visit several pages that have Like buttons and Facebook knows that you visited all of those, even if it doesn’t really know who you are.”You can watch the Stallman interview, which discusses many issues beyond Facebook and Google+, below. | 2019-04-22T20:05:49Z | https://fullmetallinux.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/richard-stallman/ | Porn | Computers | 0.928154 |
wordpress | ~ by rfgainey on September 22, 2016.
Roxanne: Thanks for trying! Appreciate your eye on the piece, but have read through twice now and can’t find any typos….maybe I’ve read it too many times? Where are they? | 2019-04-24T12:36:15Z | https://rfgainey.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/quantum-wonder/ | Porn | Reference | 0.175288 |
wordpress | It’s that time again! Happy New Year’s everyone! I’ve already done my anticipated reads post for 2018, now it’s time to reflect on the books that I absolutely loved reading this year. I read a total of 76 books, so there were a lot to choose from! Most of these are releases from 2017, but some were not. Some were middle grade books. Most were YA. Anyway, in no particular order at all, here are my favorite reads of 2017! (I tried to do 17 books, but I couldn’t push it down past 18. So, one for good luck, or something).
In Which I Declare My Intention to Join Another 2018 Reading Challenge!!
So, remember how I keep talking about how awful I am at finishing series?
Well, I think I just found the perfect challenge for me to join!
The 2018 Finishing Series Reading Challenge is exactly as it says it is: a year-long challenge dedicated to finishing series that you have started prior to the start of 2018.
I am going to keep a list here of all the books in the series I need to read, and come back once I finish them an mark them as read. The order of the list is does not reflect the order in which I plan to read them, but rather just the order in which I thought of them as I wrote them down. I will also be adding them to a Goodreads list, but more for me really.
So far in total I have 12 series listed that I want to maybe finish in 2018, but since I don’t think I will be able to do all of those, I think for this challenge I am going to aim to be a B-List Series Finisher (Complete 5-8 Series). Of the ones below, the ones I really hope to finish/catch up on are The Chronicles of St. Mary’s, The Illuminae_Files, The Nevernight Chronicles, Creatures of Light, Monsters of Verity, The Diviners, and Charlotte Holmes.
*Edit: I FORGOT THE DARK ARTIFICES!! Added below. | 2019-04-25T22:50:02Z | https://booksbeyondimagining.wordpress.com/2017/12/ | Porn | Arts | 0.63896 |
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