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St. Bernard School's curriculum is based totally on Catholic principles. Based on our Catholic heritage and traditions, all students are involved in religion class and the celebration of Mass. Students attend Mass or Prayer Service once a week. During all these Masses the classes will sit together to build community. The Diocesan course of study with suggested texts is followed at all grade levels in all areas of the curriculum. Ongoing evaluation of different subject areas provides for a continual updating according to the needs of the study. We make use of a wide variety of supplemental materials to meet the developmental needs of each grade. Our primary and intermediate grades (grades 1-4) have the option of participating in a multi-age classroom. to provide parents with an opportunity to see what students are studying and how well they are doing. We think learning is important and that learning should continue after school hours. The daily homework in no way is to be viewed as punishment, but rather as a way for encouraging and extending learning.

Lavender Brown is so cool now. 1. Sean Biggerstaff, aka Oliver Wood, is still very hot and Scottish. And he's still acting! He recently played a depressed doctor on the stage, and starred alongside Eddie Izzard in 2016's Whisky Galore. He kills in a kilt, plays guitar, and is pretty active on Twitter. 2. Harry Melling, aka Dudley Dursley, has appeared in some TV series and short films since his Harry Potter days. He had brunch in NYC back in 2014. 3. Josh Herdman, aka Gregory Goyle, is a "father, actor and martial artist, amongst other things" — according to his Twitter. He won his amateur mixed martial arts debut in London this year, and says he "struggled a little bit with the attention that Harry Potter brought" because he's shy. 4. Clémence Poésy, aka Fleur Delacour, has done quite a bit of acting work since her time at Beauxbatons. Her Instagram is full of artsy shots. 5. Stan Yanevski, aka Viktor Krum, is frickin' hot. He's worked as an actor since Harry Potter, and gotten a ton of tattoos. 6. Natalia Tena, aka Nymphadora Tonks, has continued landing acting roles, including Osha in Game of Thrones. She's also part of a band, Molotov Jukebox. 7. Hugh Mitchell, aka Colin Creevey, is a composer and actor. He seems to spend a lot of time on boats. 8. Devon Murray, aka Seamus Finnigan, doesn't seem to have done much acting since Harry Potter. But he still makes the convention rounds, sometimes with former co-stars. 9. Alfred Enoch, aka Dean Thomas, is probably best known now for playing Wes on How to Get Away With Murder. He's not on social media because he "doesn't trust himself." 10. Jessie Cave, aka Lavender Brown, is an illustrator. Last year she released a book called Love Sick, and her Twitter game is point. ...but you should really be following her on Instagram, if only for the mini cast reunions. 12. Scarlett Byrne, aka Pansy Parkinson, has had recurring roles on both Falling Skies and The Vampire Diaries. She's also engaged to Cooper Hefner, Hugh Hefner's son. 13. Katie Leung, aka Cho Chang, is appearing in The Foreigner later this year alongside Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan. She wore her Ravenclaw colors to Honeydukes, though she got sorted into Gryffindor (and Thunderbird). 14. Luke Youngblood, aka Lee Jordan, is best known for his roles on Community and Galavant. His Instagram is truly delightful.

Quiz: Create a Rock Playlist and We'll Guess Which Mythological Creature You Are: HowStuffWorks Create a Rock Playlist and We'll Guess Which Mythological Creature You Are Image: kate_sept2004/E+/Getty Images Whether your day is smelling like teen spirit or you've been rocking and rolling through your day, we're here to bring a new perspective into your life. When you start viewing yourself as the mythical creature you are, you will be able to take on the world! All you have to do to find out is make the rock playlist of your dreams. From classic rock to bands out there on the stages night after night, rock 'n roll has been around since the 1950s. Kicked off by acts like Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley, the genre has grown to include most any sort of rock you can imagine. You might like newer bands more than some of the legends, but we will give you the chance to build a rock playlist your friends will love as much as you do. The use of mythical creatures in rock has been a long-standing tradition. Rock never fails to venture to magical places, so it will be easy to figure out which creature you are by learning about your tastes in rock music. Will you be the mythical creature you think you are, or will we surprise you? Only the gods of rock know for sure! Which Nirvana song would start your playlist? "Smells Like Teen Spirit" "Heart-Shaped Box" "Come As You Are" "Lithium" Which Led Zeppelin song would you add? "Four Sticks" "Black Dog" "Stairway to Heaven" "Whole Lotta Love" Which Bon Jovi song gets a slot? I don't like Bon Jovi. "Runaway" "Bad Medicine" "Livin' on a Prayer" What Poison song makes the cut? "Unskinny Bop" "Talk Dirty to Me" "Every Rose Has its Thorn" I don't care for Poison. Which AC/DC song makes the cut? "Thunderstruck" "Hells Bells" "Dirty Deeds" "You Shook Me" Which Black Sabbath song would you add? "Paranoid" "War Pigs" "Sweet Leaf" "Ironman" Which of The Rolling Stones' songs would you add? "Angie" "Wild Horses" "Brown Sugar" "Satisfaction" To which Queen song will you give a spin? "Bohemian Rhapsody" "Fat Bottomed Girls" "We Will Rock You" "Somebody to Love" Which Pearl Jam song makes the list? "Jeremy" "Alive" "Even Flow" Which Journey song would you add in the middle? "Don't Stop Believing" "Open Arms" "Faithfully" "Wheel in the Sky" Which Metallica song would you add to speed things up? "One" "Master of Puppets" "Fade to Black" "Sad But True" Which Aerosmith song gets a play? "Walk This Way" "Dream On" "Sweet Emotion" "Crazy" Which Guns 'n Roses song would make your list? "Sweet Child O' Mine" "Welcome to the Jungle" "Mr. Brownstone" "Shadow of Your Love" Which song by The Beatles gets a slot on your list? "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" "Hey Jude" "Blackbird" Which Rush song makes the list? "Tom Sawyer" "Working Man" "Limelight" "The Trees" Which Pink Floyd song would you choose? "Wish You Were Here" "Another Brick in the Wall" "Hey You" "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" Which Soundgarden song makes your list of choices? "Spoonman" "Fell on Black Days" "Black Hole Sun" "Outshined" Which Jimi Hendrix song goes on your playlist? "Hey Joe" "All Along the Watch Tower" "Purple Haze" I don't know his work. Which Fleetwood Mac song gets a slot? "Go Your Own Way" "Dreams" "Rhiannon" "The Chain" Which Imagine Dragons songs makes your list? "Radioactive" "Thunder" I don't know their music. "Believer" Which Tom Petty song gets to make your list? "Free Fallin'" "American Girl" "Learning to Fly" "I Won't Back Down" Which Neil Young song makes the list? "Old Man" "Heart of Gold" "Harvest Moon" "Southern Man" Which Judas Priest song makes your playlist? "Breaking the Law" "Turbo Lover" "Painkiller" "You've Got Another Thing Coming" Which Alice Cooper song would you add? "School's Out" "I'm Eighteen" "Poison" "No More Mister Nice Guy" Which Creedence Clearwater Revival song would you add? "Fortunate Son" "Bad Moon Rising" "Proud Mary" "Born on the Bayou" Which Deep Purple song would you add? "Space Trucking" "Smoke on the Water" "Woman from Tokyo" Which of The Who's songs makes your playlist? "Baba O'Reilly" "My Generation" "Behind Blue Eyes" "Magic Bus" Which Weezer song would you add? "Buddy Holly" "Say It Ain't So" "Hash Pipe" Which Rod Stewart song makes the list? "Maggie May" "Young Turks" "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" "Sailing" Which Whitesnake song is a must have? "Is This Love?" "Here I Go Again" "Still of the Night" "Give Me All Your Love" Create an '80s Pop Playlist and We'll Guess Which Mythological Creature You Are Which Mythical Creature Lives in Your Heart? Create a Country Playlist and We'll Guess Which Mythological Creature You Are Which Mythical Creature Guards Your Heart? Tell Us Your Feelings About These Animals and We'll Guess Which Mythical Creature Is Your Guardian What Mythical Creature Guards Your Heart? Make an '80s Playlist and We'll Guess What Dog Breed You Own What Kind of Mythical Creature Are You? Create a Hip-Hop Playlist and We'll Guess What Dog Breed You Own Which Sea Creature Are You?

Sunday, March 4–Friday, March 9. Check-in is Sunday, after 3pm. Check-out is Friday, before 11am. Theme: Connection to Self and Others. After check-in, participants are free to explore the retreat site, soak in the healing water, grab a bite to eat at attached restaurant (Latitude 33 where you'll receive a 10% discount), pour a glass of wine and relax for a spell. Then please join as a group for a welcome and sharing of upcoming week's schedule. This first evening's art & meditation activities are designed to bring focus and awareness to our new surroundings and to connecting with ourselves and others. A.M. Yoga workshop, which will follow along with the previous evening's activity. After morning yoga, we will explore the vastness of the sky. As our physical presence will be the subject of Art&Yoga today, we become familiar with our new sense of place and how it feels physically. Lunch break. Afternoon Art workshop, expanding on the morning's teachings of physical connection between breath, air, and sky…sun and moon and stars. This day will be dedicated to integrating body energies with color. We will concentrate on the power of these colors in our lives and in our art as well. By combining our learning of balance, power, flow in Yoga with artistic teaching–focusing on color. We can internalize these energy sources and express ourselves through movement and art. Observing the sky, water and land around us with a connection to color. In the morning we will begin our day with a "Creative Flow" Yoga session, focusing on rhythm and movement. Midday break. Meet in the afternoon for Art session with expanded imagery…combining flowing movement of body and also in our artistic expression. Explore the creative force as we reflect on flowing rivers and healing hot springs…culminating in a luxurious soak! Theme: Connection to ourselves, the land and sky, and each other. On our final full day together, we will reflect on the past several days, sharing our experiences and finding joy in connecting to ourselves, our place, and our companions during this time together. We will use a symbol of the "Tree of Life" to reach downward–earthly–with our roots strong and stable, while stretching upward and outward with our branches to see further and strive for the larger connections where we seek to expand and grow. We will have a closing circle where we can gather together and have a farewell breakfast and spend some special time with a guided art and yoga practice to send us on our lives' journeys!

07-28-2012 Just got back from a week long Penn State Elite High School hockey camp ... Wow, what week! I had tons of Ice time and instruction. I met new hockey buds frpm North Carolina up to Conneticut and even met Coach Gadowsy of the PSU Icers. I played in 5 games and had 4 assists ... My Gold Jersey team came in 2nd place in the playoffs - had a fantastic time!!!

Hooray! I am back on the Cutting Cafe design team and today is my first post!!! I so missed being part of this team. My mandatory break is over and I am itching to get creating. Our first assignment was to work with any file of our choice. It was fun to go through the website and pick out what we wanted to play with. I chose to use the Fun With Snowflakes set! I love snowflakes and fell in love with the die-cut background and just had to give it a try. Here is a close-up shot of the background. I used my Silhouette to do the cutting and it cut like butter. The die-cut swirl is a die from My Favourite Things. It is available at Two Scrapbook Friends. I also used one of the Mini Words sets from the Cutting Cafe to make my tag. I love these sets. They are the perfect way to add a little sentiment to a card! The snowman image that I used was from Sassy Cheryl Designs. I love, love, love her digi's and use them whenever I have the chance. I entered this card in her 'snowman' challenge. You can check it out here. Thanks for visiting my blog. I hope you will take some time and visit the links throughout my post. Stop back again soon as I am busy working on other projects that I will be posting soon. I am super excited to be back on the design team for The Cutting Cafe! I can't wait to start working with all the cool and fun files that they offer. Stay tuned for all my creations starting in January. I have been busy working on another layout for the Two Scrapbook Friends Christmas Online Crop. This crop has been a great excuse for me to pull out my scrapbook supplies and it has also been a good distraction. I did this layout for Christa's challenge. She wanted us to include a list. I have several lists on my page. It is the first of many layouts that I plan to make for the Rangers 50th season. This is the opening night game against the Oshawa Generals at the newly renovated Kitchener Auditorium. I used my Silhouette to create the title on my page and created a shadow for the Rangers word to make it stand out. I added 3 stars to my list to highlight the 3 stars of the game! I recorded all the stats from the game in the squares without photos. I also included the game ticket that has details as well. This album is going to be amazing when it is all done. I only wish my dad could have been here to see it when it is finished. I'm back again with a card that I made for the Two Scrapbook Friends Christmas Online Crop! The challenges are awesome and I hope you are playing along too! This image is from Whipper Snapper Designs. I coloured it with my Copics and then cut out the image with my scissors. I embossed my background with a snowflake embossing folder and my Cuttlebug. Once I had the image coloured, it was a quick and easy card to put together. Thanks for a great challenge Ann! Happy Monday! Over on the Two Scrapbook Friends forum, we are hosting an Online Christmas Crop. It runs from November 30th until December 9th. There are really great challenges and some fun games too! My challenge is called I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas! For this challenge you need to use snowflakes somewhere on your project. I created this 3D snowman using an SVG file from SVG Cuts. I embossed the outer panels using a snowflake embossing folder and added a piece of flannel fabric with snowflakes for my scarf. I hope you will visit the forum and play along with some of the awesome challenges. I finished my first one last night. I will post is later this week. I am starting to get into the Christmas spirit. This week I will haul the Christmas tree up from the basement and start the decorating process. Usually Amanda is the one that helps me decorate the house but she has a place of her own now. I have also been playing around with some new products we have at the store. I used a stamp and embossing folder set from Sizzix/Hero Arts to create this Christmas card. We used it in a demo/make 'n take. It was really popular and all the folders sold out. I used white ink to stamp the snowflakes and then lined them up in the embossing folder and ran it through my Cuttlebug. I added some iridescent bling to the center of some of the snowflakes and adhered some red/white bakers twine around the edge of the kraft cardstock. The letters were cut out on my Silhouette. I love how thin they are and they cut beautifully. I made a strip and placed the letters and added a twine bow with a bling center. Happy Monday everyone! I am happy to say that I am back to do another post (less than a week since my last one)! Hopefully I can keep this up and get back into a routine of posting and scrapbooking. Today I am sharing a layout that I did using a sketch by Laura Whitaker. You can find the sketch I used here! These photos were taken a couple of summers ago at a cottage we rented. The boys had brought a slingshot with them and used a couple of pop cans as targets. This provided hours of fun. I used my Silhouette to create the 'x' and the word 'fun'. I added some wooden letters from Pink Paislee for the rest of my title. I also created the large circle on my Silhouette and added some hand stitching with brown floss. I used the Simple Stories Awesome collection and there were lots of little elements on the papers that I cut out and added pop dots and stitching to accent. I also added a row of brads too. The stickers that went with this collection were perfect so I couldn't resist adding some of them. I thank Laura for an awesome sketch to work with and I am happy to add another layout to the cottage album. Today, I have something really special to share with you. Earlier this summer a dear friend of mine passed away. She was a truly amazing woman, wife and mom! I miss her terribly. Her husband had added me on Facebook (that is how he kept everyone up-to-date with her condition) and I noticed some photos from an outing they had recently taken. The photos really touched me. It was wonderful to see her children smiling and laughing, even though they had just lost their mother. It bothered me that these photos would go 'unscrapbooked', so I decided I would do it, and one day, when the time is right, I will pass this layout on to her family to add to the scrapbooks that she had started. Here are Spencer and Kourtney participating is their first Dirty Dash! I used my Silhouette to create this title, which is perfect for this layout. I added some splats of brown mist, and even smudged a few to make it look realistic. Joanne (my BFF) suggested that I add some chevrons as an accent and tie in the red in the title. I really like how they turned out and what the added to the layout. I also added some paper splats to really bring in the mud theme. I am very pleased with how this page turned out and can't wait to give it to them. I will continue to watch for more photos and make more layouts to pass on the the family. I know it has been a while since I posted something on my blog. Things have been very busy for me with my dad in the hospital, the fall retreat at the store and everyday family life. This past weekend I had the opportunity to go away and scrapbook for the weekend. It was amazing. I managed to complete 4 double-page layouts, 1 single page layout and 8 cards (from a class). Today I am going to share a layout I did using a photo I took at the 'home opening' Ranger game. I took the photo on my iPhone and used an app to change it black & white and add some affects to it. I developed it in a 5x7 and it turned out perfectly. The 'hockey' letters are cut out of one of the papers I used and I popped them up using foam adhesive. I kept the ticket stubs from the game and cut them apart to use as embellishments for my layout. This part shows the date and the fact that it was the home opener! This part shows the time and the team we played against. I used some new mistable stars from Studio Calico and sprayed them with black and silver Mr Huey mists. I popped some of them up with foam adhesive. I had a great time at this game and will always remember it. I plan on documenting many more hockey memories from this years season. I haven't had a lot of time lately for crafting, and that makes me a little sad. Back in September I joined in on a menu challenge that Christa was hosting on the Two Scrapbook Friends forum. I missed the deadline, but I did manage to finish my layout. I used 3 different patterns - chevron, stripe and the strips. The herringbone pattern is a strip of Washi tape. The colours blue and yellow are shown in the stripe, in the stars, and in the journal spot. I also chose photos that had blue and yellow in them. I did use a sketch to create this layout and I cut out 3 diamond shapes on my Silhouette and placed them near the title on page 1. This was a really fun challenge. It was my first time playing along and I will definitely do it again. Thanks to Christa for making me coordinate products that I wouldn't necessarily put together. TSF Autumn Colours Blog Hop! Welcome to the Autumn Colours Blog Hop with Two Scrapbook Friends! You should have arrived here from the Two Scrapbook Friends blog. As soon as the Harvest Lane collection arrived at the store, I just knew I had to create something with it. I found these photos from a few years ago and they were perfect for what I had in mind. I created my own title using my Silhouette! The 'Thankful' word is cut from paper and then shadowed with cardstock. I used the Silhouette pens to write 'so very' and then positioned it perfectly on my layout. These awesome trees are also cut using my Silhouette. I added some stitching with coordinating floss to give them some dimension! I added some copper brads along the striped strip and added stitching to some of my leaves. The leaves I didn't stitch on, I popped up using foam adhesive. I used my Silhouette to add my journaling to my page too! The pens are so much fun to used and it sure beats my handwriting. 1. Leave a comment on all the blogs as you go and then go back to the Two Scrapbook Friends blog and leave a final comment there by October 8th at midnight.. 2. To have a second chance to win, keep track of the HIGHLIGHTED WORDS from each blog and email the phrase to [email protected]. Put "Blog Contest" in your subject line. Be sure to stop by each on the following blogs, leave a comment and keep track of the secret word!

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Rockets 117, Knicks 102: Perhaps if we just play every game at home... Whats that? You're not allowed to do that? By New York Basketball Observer Nov 26, 2017, 5:22am EST Share All sharing options for: Rockets 117, Knicks 102: Perhaps if we just play every game at home... Thomas B. Shea-USA TODAY Sports I don't like people playing with my emotions. I was ready to watch the Knicks test themselves against a great Western Conference team. Fresh off a bad loss to a crummy Hawks team the day before, I figured the Knicks would get a loss, but this new, prideful Knicks squad might play angry and at least compete. I decided, with the help of an Ian Begley tweet, that maybe I should dampen my expectations. Enes Kanter (back spasms) and Kristaps Porzingis (lower back tightness) are out tonight against Houston, the Knicks announce. — Ian Begley (@IanBegley) November 25, 2017 Just then, Air Beasley, the walking bucket himself, drops 17 first quarter points. 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Despite the 30-point effort from Beasley (yes, really), the remainder of the game would alternate between slow Houston runs to chip away at the lead and robust avalanche-like runs where the Rockets would drain four straight long balls. Beasley would impose his will early on the offensive end, but would also eventually lead the Knicks with six of their 18 turnovers. As well as the Knicks played in the first quarter, they would be outscored in the third quarter 37-13. Frank Ntilikina (my godson) did not have one of his finer games, though as Joe Flynn pointed out in the post-game, he would play only 15 minutes. Noooo Eric Gordon made the rook sit down like he at Ikea tryin out bean bags for the living room pic.twitter.com/oRDOssWoje — Rob Perez (@World_Wide_Wob) November 26, 2017 Don't worry, I've already called the cops and filed a report on that Eric Gordon fella. As for Beasley, once the Rockets realized the Ryan Anderson defensive matchup was not going to work (even Larry the snow cone guy knows that), the walking bucket became the occasional bucket, and eventually the walking turnover. Although it took him 27 shots to do so, James Harden definitely cooked to the tune of 37 points and 10 assists. Despite a decent defensive effort and a ton of unnecessary shit-talking from Beasley, Harden also got this little pseudo-highlight which resulted in a Clint Capela dunk. The Beard cooked Beas pic.twitter.com/zZaiPO71te — Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 26, 2017 Willy Hernangomez logged a season-high 21 minutes and looked undeserving of every one of them. His pick-and-roll coverage was still his biggest weakness, only now his offensive polish that made his future so bright seemed dull and muted. Kyle O'Quinn had 20 points (7-9 from the field) and 15 boards, but Clint Capela's size and athleticism was a lot to handle, and O'Quinn battled foul trouble most of the night. Tim Hardaway Jr. seemingly vanished tonight, scoring just 11 points in 37 minutes on 33% shooting. 34-year-old Jarrett Jack played 32+ minutes for the second time in 24 hours and was still somehow productive. Jack's penchant for pushing in transition is surely a factor in Hornacek's adoration for him, but sooner or later we may need to show more caution with a guy who played only 34 games over the previous two seasons. Houston native Damyean Dotson only got about 10 minutes of burn and the rest of the bench (Thomas, McDermott, Ntilikina) were non-factors. Although a season-high from Beasley (30 pts), a big game from Harden (37 pts), and a 22-point blown lead will all be headlines for this game, the three point differential and turnover differential tells the true story — as it so often does. The Knicks actually shot better from the field (49%) than the Rockets (43%), and that is pretty much Morey-ball in a nutshell. Mike D'Antoni (OAKAAK) gets a lot of credit for being an architect of modern basketball offense, and on a night like tonight where the Knicks were forced to play heavy minutes with paint-cloggers like O'Quinn, Hernangomez, and Beasley, it'd be hard to stare into those whiskers of wisdom and deny the dominance of the pace-and-space offense. It's worth noting too that Houston only turned the ball over seven times, which is well below their average of 17 per game. Outside of the first quarter, only Lance Thomas made a three point shot for the Knicks, and he only did it once. It's hard to know which is worse, only attempting 12 3-pointers in the final three quarters, or only making one of them. Nevertheless, the Rockets shot 38% on 47 3-point attempts, while the Knicks shot 24% on 17 attempts. That's your ball game right there, folks.

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Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York have created a bacteria-powered battery on a single sheet of paper that can power disposable electronics. The manufacturing technique reduces fabrication time and cost, and the design could revolutionize the use of bio-batteries as a power source in remote, dangerous and resource-limited areas. "Papertronics have recently emerged as a simple and low-cost way to power disposable point-of-care diagnostic sensors," said Assistant Professor Seokheun "Sean" Choi, who is in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department within the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is also the director of the Bioelectronics and Microsystems Lab at Binghamton. "Stand-alone and self-sustained, paper-based, point-of-care devices are essential to providing effective and life-saving treatments in resource-limited settings," said Choi. On one half of a piece of chromatography paper, Choi and PhD candidate Yang Gao, who is a co-author of the paper, placed a ribbon of silver nitrate underneath a thin layer of wax to create a cathode. The pair then made a reservoir out of a conductive polymer on the other half of the paper, which acted as the anode. Once properly folded and a few drops of bacteria-filled liquid are added, the microbes' cellular respiration powers the battery. Different folding and stacking methods can significantly improve power and current outputs. Scientists were able to generate 31.51 microwatts at 125.53 microamps with six batteries in three parallel series and 44.85 microwatts at 105.89 microamps in a 6×6 configuration. It would take millions of paper batteries to power a common 40-watt light bulb, but on the battlefield or in a disaster situation, usability and portability is paramount. Plus, there is enough power to run biosensors that monitor glucose levels in diabetes patients, detect pathogens in a body or perform other life-saving functions. The innovation is the latest step in paper battery development by Choi. His team developed its first paper prototype in 2015, which was a foldable battery that looked much like a matchbook. Earlier this year they unveiled a design that was inspired by a ninja throwing star. The current work is available online in the journal Advanced Materials Technologies and will be presented at the IEEE MEMS 2017 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on Jan. 22-26. The research was supported by two different grants from the National Science Foundation. Source: Bingham University, press release, 2016-12-21.

Citizen McBride: Professor in Demand to Discuss Late Filmmaker Orson Welles Cinema Professor Joseph McBride has studied filmmaker Orson Welles since 1966, and even landed a role in one of his films. As artists and scholars commemorate the Citizen Kane star and director's centenary all year long, McBride remains in the mix. Having written three acclaimed books on Welles and known him personally, McBride is in high demand worldwide to discuss his work and life. McBride spent six years shooting his role as a pretentious film critic alongside John Huston, Dennis Hopper and Mercedes McCambridge in Welles' Hollywood satire The Other Side of the Wind. The film was never finished, but is now in the process of completion. It is expected to be released in 2016. McBride recently returned from Barcelona and an international Welles conference run by the FilmoTeca de Catalunya. On June 21, he presented two programs on Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons (McBride's favorite film) at the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael. Earlier this year, McBride gave presentations on Welles at the Film Forum in New York City and Indiana University as well as in Woodstock, Illinois, and Welles' birthplace Kenosha, Wisconsin. Later this year he will make a presentation at the University of Wisconsin Cinematheque. Joseph McBride's article on Welles symposium in Barcelona, June 9, 2015 The Jim Engster Show, May 15, 2015 SF State video interview with Joseph McBride, March 14, 2011 Photo: Cinema Professor Joseph McBride (left) talks with Orson Welles' eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder, in Barcelona in June. Courtesy of FilmoTeca de Catalunya.

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Takata Class Action Lawsuit Filed blog home Auto Defects Takata Class Action Lawsuit Filed By Brian Chase on March 1, 2017 - 2 comments Honda Recalls 1.6 Million Vehicles for Defective Takata Airbags A class-action lawsuit representing victims of defective Takata airbags asserted that at least four automakers knew for years that the airbags were dangerous, but covered it up to save on costs. According to an article in The New York Times, a criminal probe led by the Justice Department has thus far painted automakers as unsuspecting victims defrauded by a supplier that manipulated safety data in order to conceal a deadly defect. So far, the faulty Takata airbag inflators have been linked to 11 fatalities and more than 100 injuries just in the United States. Automakers Were Complicit These fresh allegations have been made against Ford, Honda, Nissan and Toyota as part of a class-action lawsuit filed in Florida. The lawsuit points to a deeper involvement by automakers that used Takata's faulty airbags for many years. Honda has already denied these new allegations. The other automakers have remained quiet saying they would "respond through legal channels." This class-action lawsuit came hours before Takata pleaded guilty Monday under a deal announced last month. The airbag manufacturer pleaded guilty to wire fraud for providing false data, which is rare for businesses accused of wrongdoing. Last month, federal prosecutors also said they had charged three Takata executives with fabricating test data and fined the company $1 billion. The class-action lawsuit is a response to a court document filed by automakers last week stating that Takata alone is responsible. Plaintiffs argue that automakers knew much more than they're letting on and that they were in fact accomplices in the cover-up. Takata has only set up a total of $125 million for victims. Extent of the Cover-Up The filing by the plaintiffs as part of the lawsuit shows emails and memos from Honda, which show that in 1999 the automaker was intimately involved in developing a problematic propellant used in Takata's airbag. When the airbag deployed, the inflators broke apart expelling shards of metal into the passenger compartment. Honda's documents show the automaker chose Takata's airbags because they were cheap. The filing also cites internal documents from Ford, Nissan and Toyota indicating that cost was a factor in their decision to go with Takata airbags. As auto product liability attorneys we attempt each time to shine the light on automakers who try to cover up defects. It happens more often than you know. And the motive is almost always to save on costs. That, to us, is unacceptable. It is never okay to put profits before people. 2 Responses to "Takata Class Action Lawsuit Filed" On January 31st, 2018 at 8:02 pm Georgina Chavers said: Hello I have an affected vehicle and I'm on the list for a replacement. There hasn't been any injuries yet, but I'm constantly concerned, especially when my kids are in the car. I use my car as little as possible, which makes work as a Realtor impossible. Do I have any recourse? On February 1st, 2018 at 8:39 am Brian Chase said: Hi Georgina Probably not. Your inquiry raises a difficult issue: can I recover damages for emotional distress caused by worry and concern, and for loss of income, because of an allegedly defective product when I haven't suffered a bodily injury? Usually, in California, the answer to this question is "No". In addition, California law requires an injured person to take steps to mitigate her damages – to use the resources available to her to take reasonable steps to minimize her loss. For your situation, you could use or arrange for other transportation for your kids, to drive another car or borrow or rent a car and maintain your ability to work. A more complete and specific answer to your inquiry depends on the evaluation of the facts of your situation and applying California law which would occur with a consultation with an attorney.

Expelling diplomats, Kremlin escalates a crisis [International Edition] Russia has escalated a confrontation with Europe and the United States over the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. The Kremlin announced the expulsion of US diplomats and the closure of the US Consulate in St. Petersburg in late March, as a mirror response to the mass expulsion of Russian diplomats initiated by the UK and US. Meanwhile, Brazil's supreme court has ruled that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva must start serving a 12-year jail sentence for corruption, a move that may end his political career. These are some of the stories we have in store in the International Edition, a programme that highlights stories packaged by the Editorial team of Euronews presented by Elayne Wangalwa. AU official calls out Germany over leopard jibe that left some offended Russian foreign minister visits Eritrea, an ally in its war on Ukraine Samba schools rehearse in the streets of Rio de Janeiro Russia's Lavrov welcomed in South Africa Mali gets more warplanes, helicopters from Russia South Africa to stage joint naval drills with Russia, China in February

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ACT Test Centers and Dates in Sweden Your search found 1 match. The following is the full list of ACT testing locations in Sweden among which you can pick one to take the exam. Please know that on the test day, test takers can use any 4-function, scientific, or graphing calculator. On the table below, you can also find all test dates through 2019. 2019-2020 ACT Test Dates in Sweden ACT Test Centers in Sweden Goteborg Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet 867720 More about Sweden Sweden, official Swedish Konungariket Sverige [ ko ː n ʊ ŋ ari ː kət sværjə], constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe (2018) 10.2 million residents; The capital is Stockholm. IAMHIGHER: Latest statistics of population in the country of Sweden, including languages spoken, urban population, birth rate, fertility rate and life expectancy for both men and women. The population consists mainly of Swedes, Sami and Finns only live in the very thinly populated north (Lapland). In the second half of the 20th century, an increasing number of foreign workers and refugees came to the country. The share of foreigners in the total population is (2017) 8.42%. In addition, there were 241,000 asylum seekers (at the end of 2017). With an average of 25 residents / km 2 (2017), Sweden is very sparsely populated in a European comparison. Check campingship to see Brief Information About Sweden. Most of the population lives in southern and central Sweden (south of the latitude of Gävle). In contrast, the administrative districts of Jämtland, Västerbotten and Norrbotten are only very sparsely populated with around 50% of the total land area. A lack of economic prospects is causing many northern Swedes to migrate to the southern metropolitan areas. Overall, 86% of the population live in urban settlements. The largest metropolitan areas are Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. Social: With regard to professional and social equality of women and their sexual self-determination, Sweden has made progress like hardly any other country. The employment rate for women is the highest in the European Union, which has also been achieved through a wide range of childcare facilities in day-care centers. The biggest cities in Sweden Largest cities (population, as of 2016) Large municipality Central location Stockholm 935 600 1,515,000 Gothenburg 556 600 572 800 Malmo 328 500 301 700 Uppsala 214 600 149 200 Linkoping 155 800 106 500 The constitution guarantees religious freedom within the framework of its catalog of fundamental rights (Chapter 2, Article 1). Since the introduction of the Reformation in Sweden (1527), the majority of Swedish Christians have belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran "Church of Sweden" ("Svenska Kyrkan"), which was the state church from 1527 to 1999. Religious freedom was enshrined in law in 1951. Since then, every citizen has the right to withdraw from the Lutheran Church, to which, as a state church, all citizens were assigned "by birth" until the official recording practice was abolished in 1995 (decision of the government and church synod). Following the tradition of the Swedish royal family, the king belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran »Svenska Kyrkan«; until 1999 also obliged under state church law to today only "voluntarily" as a member of the traditional national church of Sweden. This structurally consists of an archbishopric and thirteen dioceses; the Archbishop of Uppsala (since 2014 Antje Jackelén, of German descent; with her, a woman was elected to this office for the first time in 2013) is Prima inter Pares (of the other bishops) and as such the highest representative of her church. The church's legislative competence has been exclusively with the church synod since 2000 (until then with the Reichstag). Today around 45% of all people who hold a priesthood in the »Svenska Kyrkan« are women. with her a woman was elected to this office for the first time in 2013) is Prima inter Pares (of the other bishops) and as such the highest representative of her church. The church's legislative competence has been exclusively with the church synod since 2000 (until then with the Reichstag). Today around 45% of all people who hold a priesthood in the »Svenska Kyrkan« are women. with her a woman was elected to this office for the first time in 2013) is Prima inter Pares (of the other bishops) and as such the highest representative of her church. The church's legislative competence has been exclusively with the church synod since 2000 (until then with the Reichstag). Today around 45% of all people who hold a priesthood in the »Svenska Kyrkan« are women. Slightly more than 61% of the population (2016) belong to the Lutheran Church (»Svenska Kyrkan«), around 7% to other Protestant denominations (especially Pentecostals, Reformed [»Swedish Missionsbund Church«: »Svenska Missionsförbundet«], Baptists, Salvation Army; in total around 50 denominations), around 2% of the Catholic Church (exemtes diocese of Stockholm), over 1% of various Eastern Churches. The largest non-Christian faith group are Muslims with an estimated 5-6% of the population (five mosques and Islamic centers, including in Stockholm and Malmö). Numerically smaller religious minorities form the Jewish community (synagogues in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö; the oldest Jewish community is Stockholm, founded in 1775), Hindus, Buddhists and Bahais. 15–20% of the population are regarded as not religiously bound or as atheists. 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You know that feeling you get at 6 AM on Monday morning when you have to drag yourself out of bed and get yourself ready for work? Sometimes it can be the most depressing moment of the week. Some of us have noticed that sinking feeling starts to creeps in on Sunday night. Many people fantasize about a 4-day work week to alleviate this feeling but that would just delay the depression until Tuesday morning. It is not the day of the week that we have a problem with; it is simply the fact that our freedom has ended and we must now get back into robot mode at work. The past 10 years of career coaching has revealed to me how many people, in various levels, are miserable at work. Many of them blame their boss or their coworkers for their misery. Some claim to be bored or express feelings similar to professional claustrophobia. I define professional claustrophobia as a feeling of being kept in the same role, performing the same mundane tasks, turning in the same redundant reports with no challenges. I would wager that the majority of workers feel stuck in their current role, at least one time in their career. After-all, if you do the same exact thing every day for 5 days a week, 50 weeks out of the year, you are almost guaranteed to get bored. Should you leave your growth, satisfaction and overall happiness completely in the hands of your boss and coworkers? Of course not. If your work life is boring, find ways to excite your personal life. If your work life is hectic, focus on relaxation in your personal life. Keep in mind that your job is simply one part of you. It does not completely define you. You are in charge of your own career and happiness. If your job is boring, look for ways you can spice it up. Ask your manager if you can cross-train in a different department. Volunteer to spearhead the next major project. Interview one of the senior leaders in your organization and ask him to be your mentor. Make a list of some of the major challenges facing your department or your organization and offer to create a team to resolve them.

Origin Part V Some things are better left undiscovered! Charlie silently followed her as she stepped across the threshold, and as she did a faint blue glow illuminated the center of the room. She stopped and stepped back, suddenly unsure if she should continue, and the blue light faded to darkness. Stepping forward again, she was rewarded with the return of that blue glow that seemed to emanate from the center of the room. Following the beam of her flashlight, they both ventured deeper into the chamber, coming to a stone bench on their right. She played the beam of the flashlight over the dust-covered surface of the bench, noting how it curved to the left as it vanished into the shadows. There was another bench thee feet in front of the first, it too curving into the emptiness that pressed in on all sides. With growing confidence she pushed on, coming to a third bench in front of the second one. As they ventured deeper into the chamber, she slowly became aware that the blue glow was coming from an object to her immediate front. She stopped, took a deep breath, and switched off her flashlight. "Turn off your light," she said. Charlie complied and as her eyes adjusted to the darkness the blue glow grew stronger until she could make out the shape of a large blue globe hanging suspended an unknown distance before her. More details came into focus and she began picking out tiny spots of light high above her head all around her. The image reminded her of a planetarium during a showing and she suddenly realized that what she was gazing upon was the home world of whatever had built this structure. "See what?" "Close your eyes for a minute and let them adjust to the dark." Sandra closed her own eyes and when she reopened them that alien solar system was once again laid out before her with that faint blue sun in the center. "What the hell," Charlie said. "I think that's why they came here." "Those who built this structure. Their sun was dying." "A star system, their home." "Of course, who did you think I was talking about?" "How can you be so sure?" "I'm not absolutely certain. Not one hundred percent. But the explanation fits." "Then where are they now?" Sandra shrugged. "I don't know." They had moved forward to a raised dais a foot higher than the rest of the floor. Stepping up together, they approached the blue sphere, beneath which rested a small white box. Charlie reached the item first, marveling at the craftsmanship that had gone into constructing this small object. It looked like fine marble cut into very thin sheets, somewhat transparent, its contents were a faint smudge against the white. "What is it?" Charlie said. "I don't know." Sandra touched the surface of the box and when she did her mind was suddenly filled with ancient images of an alien place that was all but a memory. She saw a vast valley beneath a blue sun. From the floor of the valley rose an immense tower. The spires of Beizel in the valley of tears. The name came to her from the black depths of a consciousness that stretched into the antediluvian void of their past. She could feel them around her, the followers who had trekked to this desolate plain, and the faithful who had come to seek redemption. Their thoughts washed over and around her, a single voice in a seething populace whose movements were so perfectly timed they took on the appearance of the surface of the ocean as gentle swells raced from one end to the other in a continuous cycle. They had come seeking salvation and found it in the singularity of one thought that washed through them with a solitary voice. The individual parts of the whole had come together to form a distinct thought, and that was survival of the species. Their sun was dying, the time for the planet, for their reign, had come to a close. But one chance remained, the survival of the species lay with the chosen who would reach out into the great beyond; to ensure the survival of the species they would venture into the farthest reaches of the cosmos in their search for a new planet to call their own. Sandra stepped back from the box, her fingers numbed by the contact, struggling to catch her breath as the true meaning of what she had briefly seen began to sink in. They did not belong here. In the shadows around her their memories moved with a sinuous ease through the deeper night. "Are you all right?" Charlie said, resting his hand on her shoulder as he stepped forward to look at the box resting on the raised dais. "Don't touch it," she warned him. But he ignored her, reaching out to grasp the box in one hand as he softly whispered, "So beautiful." Before she could stop him, he had flipped open the delicate hasp and was raising the lid to gaze upon what the box contained. 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Research Article | December 2005 Unfocussed spatial attention underlies the crowding effect in indirect form vision Hans Strasburger Generation Research Program, University of München, Germany Department of Medical Psychology, University of Göttingen, Germanyhttp://www.hans.strasburger.de/[email protected] Journal of Vision December 2005, Vol.5, 8. doi:10.1167/5.11.8 Hans Strasburger; Unfocussed spatial attention underlies the crowding effect in indirect form vision. Journal of Vision 2005;5(11):8. doi: 10.1167/5.11.8. We studied mechanisms underlying the crowding effect in indirect form vision by measuring recognition contrast sensitivity of a character with flankers to the left and right. Attentional and featural contributions to the effect can be separated by a new paradigm that distinguishes pattern location errors from pattern recognition errors and further by manipulating the focusing of spatial attention through a positional cue, appearing 150 ms before the target. Measurements were on the horizontal meridian, at 1, 2, and 4 deg eccentricity, and a range of flankers' distances were used. Our results show that in normal indirect viewing, the impairment of character recognition by crowding is—in particular at intermediate flanker distances—caused to a large part by spatially imprecise focusing of attention. In contrast, the enhancement of performance by a transient positional cue seems mediated through a separate attentional mechanism such that attentional locus and focus are controlled independently. Our results furthermore lend psychophysical support to a separate coding of the what and where in pattern recognition. When targets are seen in the presence of neighboring patterns or contours, their visibility is reduced. This phenomenon is known as the crowding effect in the ophthalmic and vision literature but is referred to as lateral masking in experimental psychology (Strasburger, Harvey, & Rentschler, 1991). The effect is small in foveal vision (Flom, Heath, & Takahaski, 1963; Flom, Weymouth, & Kahnemann, 1963) but plays an overriding role in the normal peripheral visual field (Bouma, 1970), in amblyopics and dyslectics (Stuart & Burian, 1962; Geiger & Lettvin, 1989), as well as in children and juveniles (Atkinson, Pimm-Smith, Evans, Harding, & Braddick, 1986). Experimental psychology and vision research have independently of each other discovered what is probably the same effect. Averbach and Coriell (1961) had used Sperling's (1960) iconic-memory paradigm using spatial cues—a "bar marker" pointing to the target character or a "circle indicator" around it—to attract attention within a 2 × 8 letter string. Whereas the bar cue was effective, the circle unexpectedly decreased rather than enhanced recognition performance and thus lateral masking was shown. Eriksen and co-workers, in a series of papers, followed up on this work using the bar cue and started modern research on spatial attention (Strasburger, 2003b). In particular, Eriksen and Rohrbaugh (1970) introduced an analysis of perceptual errors (also used in this study) that would have allowed to separate sensory and attentional influences on the lateral-masking effect. However, Eriksen ruled out the relation of their findings to crowding on the wrong assumption that the stimulus positions they used was essentially equivalent to foveal presentation (they were at 2.2 deg eccentricity), such that the results by Flom et al. (1963, 1963) would apply: Flom et al. had shown foveal crowding to have a much smaller range of interaction than the distances in Eriksen's stimulus arrangement. It was only later that Bouma (1970) showed the strong influence of retinal eccentricity on the crowding effect. Thus, even though the crowding effect, described as early as 1936 by Ehlers, was well studied in amblyopic vision in 1963 and in normal foveal vision in 1970—where it is small and of little practical significance—its important role in indirect and peripheral vision became apparent only much later. In the following, both in the cognitive sciences (for reviews, see, e.g., Desimone & Duncan, 1995; Gazzaniga, 1999, chap. 43–49; Schneider & Mojzisch, 2001; van der Heijden, 1987) and in vision research, effects of spatial attention and of lateral interactions were widely assumed to be unrelated to each other, even though on different grounds. In vision research, we were the first to show that the crowding effect in indirect vision can be understood at least partly as an effect of spatial attention (Strasburger et al., 1991; Strasburger & Rentschler, 1995). In that paper, we analyzed at an eccentric position (4 deg) the percentage of localization errors, that is, the percentage, out of the failures of recognizing the center (target) character, of correspondences between the observer's response and one of the flanking characters. We showed that there was agreement in a large percentage of cases. This can be understood as pattern recognition accompanied by a loss of the positional information, for example, from an inability to precisely focus spatial attention at eccentric visual field locations. The current paper secures and extends these findings. He, Cavanagh, and Intriligator (1996), who used a grating adaptation task, took a similar view stating that "this crowding effect reflects the limited resolution of the spatial attention mechanisms" (for a review of research on the crowding effect and lateral masking, see Strasburger, 2003b, chap. 6). In the present report, three paradigms are used to analyze the influence of spatial attention on the crowding effect in indirect vision, all three operating at the contrast threshold of character recognition. A crowding condition similar to that in Strasburger et al. (1991) is compared to (1) a cued condition, with a circle around the target, and to (2) a condition in which positional information is separated from the pattern content. Thirdly, Eriksen's error analysis is used to demonstrate independent processing of pattern content and position by the visual system. Contrast thresholds for the recognition of characters were obtained in a 10-alternative forced choice (10-afc) adaptive procedure (R_Contrast; Strasburger, 1997) based on the ML-PEST maximum-likelihood algorithm (Harvey, 1986; 1997). The procedure is the same as that used earlier (Strasburger et al., 1991) except that the software was ported to current PC hardware (Jüttner & Strasburger, 1997) and uses dithering to achieve higher than 8-bit grey scale resolution on a standard graphics card (Bach, Meigen, & Strasburger, 1997). Thresholds are defined as the point of inflection on a Weibull function, which, for the 10-afc task, is at 67% correct identification performance. Stimuli were the 10 digits 0–9, presented for 100 ms as white patterns on the grey background of 50 cd/m2 luminance (Figure 1). Their images were in multiples of a 5 × 7 pixel matrix and letter size was specified as letter height; so the width of a character is ∼0.71 times the specified letter size. Stimulus contrast was varied from trial to trial as specified by ML-PEST; a run was ended when the estimated threshold confidence interval reached a prespecified level of 0.2 log units (i.e., ±0.1); on average this took 30 trials (29.77). For a sample run, see Strasburger (2001b, Figure 3). Contrast is specified in the Michelson measure, i.e. CM = (Ls − Lb)/(Ls + Lb) (with Ls and Lb) denoting the stimulus and background luminance, respectively). For readers interested in results in the Weber measure CW = (Ls − Lb)/Lb, which is popular in character recognition, it is useful to know that the two measures are related by CW = 2CM/(1 − CM). View OriginalDownload Slide Stimulus layout in the flanked and cued crowding condition. Letter size ( s) is specified as letter height in degrees of visual angle; flanking distances ( d) are measured from the respective character centers. e = eccentricity. Twenty young observers of both genders (aged 20–30) were tested at identical conditions. A total of 34,000 trial responses were obtained (1,700 per subject). Crowding conditions Three crowding conditions were compared to a single character condition: a flanked condition, a flanked-and-cued condition ("cued" in short), and a flanked condition termed "content-only threshold", explained below. In each case, the three characters (target and flankers) were of same size and contrast, subjects are instructed to report the center character, and the dependent variable was the contrast threshold for recognizing the central, target character ( Figure 1). In the flanked condition, the target is surrounded by a neighboring character left and right. Distances were well above that where the characters would touch (which would be at 0.42 deg flanker distance for the 0.6 deg size). In the cued condition, there are again flanking characters left and right (of same size and contrast as the target) but additionally attention is attracted to the central character by a black circle around the latter, appearing 150 ms before the stimulus onset and disappearing with stimulus onset. The SOA of 150 ms was chosen based on Eriksen and Collins' (1969) finding that at this delay the cueing effect is optimal. Nakayama and Mackeben (1989) similarly report that a transient cue, which appears at 70–150 ms before the stimulus, has an optimum cueing effect. Content-only contrast threshold A third condition was designed to separate positional information from pattern content. The perceptual and attentional aspects were identical to the flanked condition; that is, The target character was flanked left and right by a character of same size and contrast and, as before, subjects attended the central character that they were instructed to identify. However, the thresholding algorithm was altered in that correspondence of the observer's response, not only with the target but also with one of the two flanking characters, was treated as correct responses by the adaptive algorithm. Note that the contrast of all three characters is thus lower. Both in this and the standard flanking condition, the flanking characters were different from the central one and different from each other to know which position the observer had responded to. Subjects were not aware of that because they attended to one character only and stimuli were often not recognizable. No feedback was given to the subject (in any condition) with respect to whether the response was correct or incorrect. The resulting contrast threshold measures sensitivity to recognizing pattern content, irrespective of the pattern's location, in a flanked condition with sustained attention focused at the center character. Relative to the standard flanked condition (1), there are thus two manipulations, one which (according to accepted models) manipulates attention (2), and one which leaves the percept unchanged but analyses the psychometric function in a different way (3). The proportion of correct responses by chance alone (the guessing rate γ) is different in the content-only task from that in a standard n-afc task, being γ = 1/10 + 1/9 + 1/8 = 33.6%. The thresholds are expected to be unaffected by that, however, because the maximum likelihood algorithm converges to the point of inflection on the psychometric function (Harvey, 1986), which is independent of the guessing rate. The situation is illustrated in Figure 2, which shows psychometric functions (normalized to threshold) for a 10-afc and a 3-out-of-10 task, with the guessing rates set to 10% and 33.6%, respectively. The logistic function is chosen as the underlying sigmoid, so that the functions are given by p c = γ + ( 1 − γ − λ ) / ( 1 + 10 β ⁢ x ). Psychometric functions for a 10-afc task and a 3-out-of-10 task. The guessing rate γ is 10% and 33.6%, respectively. The slope has been set equal in the two functions, to 4.9 pc/log 10, based on the mean value reported by Strasburger (2001b) for the 10-afc task (β = 9.67 and β = 11.44; for the conversions, see Strasburger, 2001a). Lapsing rate λ is set to 2%. The functions are given by pc = γ + (1 − γ − λ)/(1 + 10βx). The slope at the point of inflection has been set equal for the two functions, to β′ = 4.9 pc/log 10, based on the value reported by Strasburger (2001b) for the 10-afc character recognition task (the resulting values of β in the logistic function are β = 9.67 and β = 13.21; for the conversions, see Strasburger, 2001a). The lapsing rate λ (the rate of failures at high contrast) was set to 2%. The point of inflection, that is, the point towards which the algorithm converges, occurs at slightly different criterion levels (54% and 65.8%, respectively) but is (independent of this) at threshold, as indicated by the dashed line. Stimulus parameters The extent of the crowding effect depends upon the size of the stimuli, their separation distance, stimulus contrast, and the position in the visual field or in particular its retinal eccentricity (Bouma, 1970; Strasburger et al., 1991). So to study the effects at more than one retinal location with the same set of flanking distances while maintaining comparable perceptual conditions, stimulus sizes were M-scaled (equal sizes in the triplet), based on our earlier results (Strasburger, 2003a; Strasburger et al., 1991) and those of others. Table 1 gives the stimulus parameters. The scaling corresponds to an E2 value of 2 deg visual angle in the equation S = ( 1 + E / E 2 ) S 0 where S = stimulus size, S0 = foveal size, and E = eccentricity (see Levi, Klein, & Aitsebaomo, 1985). Stimulus size was varied by changing the viewing distance (target height on the screen: 13.6 mm, 30 × 42 pixels; ring cue diameter: 20 mm). Distances were large enough that accommodation did not play a role. View Table Stimulus parameters. Eccentricity (right meridian) (deg) Size (deg) Cue diameter (deg) Viewing distance (cm) The measurements were carried out by an experimenter who entered the subject responses on the computer keyboard. Subjects watched the stimulus monitor in a comfortable chair in a dimly lit room of constant low photopic illumination. A run of 30 trials (one threshold) took around 2–4 min; short pauses were taken after 10 runs or whenever the subject wished, to avoid fatigue. The design was within-subjects, all subjects ran all conditions. Data for a subject were typically collected in two sessions of 1 1/2 hr each. Thresholds in the three conditions were obtained in a balanced series to counter act series effects like learning and fatigue. Figure 3 shows the obtained mean recognition contrast thresholds over flanker distance. The thresholds for the single-character presentation against which the crowding conditions need to be compared are shown as thin horizontal lines. The standard error varied little between conditions so for clarity in the graphs it is only shown once in each subgraph as error bars on the single condition. On average, the standard error was 0.069 log units or a factor of 1.17. Recognition contrast thresholds for the three crowding conditions as a function of flanker distance, at three eccentricities on the horizontal meridian (top to bottom graph 1, 2, and 4 deg, respectively). The thresholds for the single-character presentation are shown as thin horizontal lines; the error bars on the corresponding data point show the mean for all the data points in that subgraph. As expected, at all three eccentricities the standard crowding condition (filled circles) gives the highest thresholds. Crowding is absent at sufficiently large flanker distances, as seen in the top and middle graph, and gradually and systematically sets in at decreasing distance. Obviously, Bouma's (1970) rule of thumb that crowding sets in at approximately a flanker distance of half the eccentricity value can only be a rough guide for selected conditions. (Bouma specifies the flanker distance as free space, so his distance values are by one letter width smaller than those given here; see Discussion and conclusions). Contrast thresholds in the cued condition are always below that of the standard flanked condition (for significance, see the Results of the ANCOVA section) but far from that in the unflanked ("single") condition. Thus, except for the character size at 4 deg eccentricity, the cue was partially effective in focusing attention at the central character. Reasons for the cue not being more effective could be a too small circle size, such that some masking was introduced along with the capture of attention (Averbach & Coriell, 1961). Possibly, a steeper M-scaling function is needed for a positional cue than for other visual functions. Another effect could be a general decrease of the effects of positional cueing with increasing eccentricity. More on the cue's role will be apparent from the analysis of the correspondences given below. Contrast thresholds are lowest in the condition of loosened attentional focus (filled squares). For 1 and 2 deg eccentricity—except for the closest character spacing—they are nearly equal to those in the single presentation (dashed line). At 4 deg eccentricity, these thresholds are elevated relative to the single condition but still far below those of the standard flanked condition. Thus, in a large part of the region where crowding occurs, the recognition of a character, irrespective of where in a string it is, is nearly as good as that of a singular character. Analysis of the correspondences Figure 4 shows the correspondences of the observers' incorrect responses with one of the flanking characters in the flanked condition; that is, what Eriksen in his original flanker paradigm termed "error analysis" (Eriksen & Rohrbaugh, 1970; for a review of the later flanker task, see Eriksen, 1995). A total of 4,105 errors were made in the flanked condition. Chance performance is indicated by the dashed line in the figure. It is at 1/9 + 1/8 = 23.6% because the flankers are different from the central character and different from each other. Correspondences of the observers' incorrect responses with one of the flanking characters in the flanked condition, as a function of flanker distance. Chance level (at 23.6%) is indicated by the dashed line. The difference between the proportion of correspondences and chance level can be interpreted as the proportion of localization errors. These are the responses where the observer correctly and not by chance reports a pattern content but missed the location. As apparent from the figure, these localization errors are absent at sufficiently large flanker distances—at 3 deg and more—but are increasingly evident with decreasing flanker distance, and the more so the more peripheral the position of the central character is. At their maximum, the correspondences are as high as 52%, in other words there are close to 30% recognitions at the wrong location and only 48% true errors. Note that these performance figures refer to a situation where a majority of stimuli are at or around the contrast threshold, where of necessity (by the definition of threshold) failure of recognition occurs in part (in 45% of the cases). The rising of correspondences above chance level with decreasing flanker distance is gradual, but nevertheless one can determine an approximate point at which it sets in. Table 2 shows the flanker distances where performance is still at chance (with respect both to the correspondences in Figure 4 and the contrast thresholds in the flanked condition in Figure 3). Even though these critical distances are only approximate, their similarity is apparent. Thus, localization errors occur if and only if there is crowding. Approximate critical distances. Critical distance (deg) Eccentricity (deg) for correspondences of thresholds (in flanked condition) Results of the ANCOVA To test the effect of the three crowding conditions on contrast thresholds and on correspondences for statistical significance, two analyses of covariance were performed, with crowding condition as a factor. Because the perceptual performance in our paradigm strongly depends on retinal eccentricity and flanker distance (Strasburger et al., 1991), the variance introduced by the latter two variables was removed by introducing them as covariates. To linearize their influence (which improves the removal of variance), derived measures were used in the ANCOVA according to M = 1 / ( 2 deg + E ) , w ⁢ h ⁢ e ⁢ r ⁢ e E = e ⁢ c ⁢ c ⁢ e ⁢ n ⁢ t ⁢ r ⁢ i ⁢ c ⁢ i ⁢ t ⁢ y , a ⁢ n ⁢ d d i = 1 / d , w ⁢ h ⁢ e ⁢ r ⁢ e d = f ⁢ l ⁢ a ⁢ n ⁢ k ⁢ e ⁢ r d ⁢ i ⁢ s ⁢ t ⁢ a ⁢ n ⁢ c ⁢ e . Equation 2 linearizes the dependency on retinal eccentricity of many visual performance measures, as Weymouth (1958) has already shown. That Equation 3 will improve linearity can be seen by noting that the curves in Figure 3 can be approximated by a hyperbola. The target measure in the first ANCOVA was the increase ΔlogC of contrast threshold in one of the crowding conditions over that in the single condition; that is, Δ ⁢ log ⁢ C = log C c − log C s = log C c / C s with Cc = contrast in one of the three crowding conditions, and Cs = contrast in the single condition. The ANCOVA design was 3 conditions × 5 flanker distances × 3 eccentricities × 20 subjects. Its results are summarized in Table 3. ANCOVA of contrast thresholds (df = 38; significance levels, Bonferroni corrected: *5%, **1%, ***1‰). Least squares means Log contrast increment Contrast increment as factor t value (raw) p > | t| (raw) Cued 5.9*** <.0001 Flanked 7.25*** Content only 3.36** Differences of least squares means Versus condition Log contrast ratio −0.05197 −3.23** As the first part of the table shows, all three crowding conditions are effective in increasing the contrast threshold over that in unflanked presentation. The effect is highest for the flanked condition, with a mean increment, after the influences of retinal position and flanker distance are removed, of 0.28 log units (a factor of 1.9). The mean effect is smaller (0.23 log units) when a cue is added and is smallest but still highly significant for the content-only threshold condition. Thus, even though in the latter the thresholds are much better than in a standard (flanked) crowding condition, there does remain a loss of sensitivity relative to a single-character presentation. It amounts to about half the log increment (0.13) than that of pure crowding (0.23). The second part of the table shows that all three crowding conditions differ highly significantly from each other. Thus, in particular the difference between the cued and flanked condition—that is, the influence of the cue—is large enough at 1 and 2 deg eccentricity to compensate for the rather small difference at 4 deg eccentricity, so that the latter can be safely interpreted as a peculiarity of the stimulus arrangement at 4 deg rather than as a general effect. Table 4 shows the results for the ANCOVA of correspondences of observer responses with either one of the flankers. For the flanked and for the cued condition, they are, on average (over flanking distances and contrasts), at 39%. (The somewhat lower rate of correspondences in the content-only threshold condition [34% still far above chance level of 23.6%] is an indirect effect of the fact that on average contrast is set lower by the adaptive algorithm. Because sensitivity is best in the center of attention, fewer characters outside that center are recognized.) The central point here is that these correspondences are all highly significantly above chance (1% level in all three cases). So there is—beyond doubt—recognition at locations other than the intended one. ANCOVA of correspondences (significance level, Bonferroni corrected: *5%, **1%, ***1‰). Estimated proportion of correspondences 13.15*** Standard estimate Content-only threshold 2.96* Importantly, the correspondences are nearly equal between the flanked and the flanked-and-cued condition ( p = .78). As such, even though the cue is effective in improving recognition performance (as shown above), this improvement does not stem from removing attention from the flanking characters. Table 5 shows the correspondences with either flanker broken up into the proportions for those with the left and the right flanker, separately. There seem a little more correspondences with the left than with the right flanker. Because, however, the difference is small and the stimulus presentation was not balanced with respect to laterality (presentation was on the right meridian only) this difference is not further considered. Correspondences with left and right flankers. Correspondences (%) Loose attention Three effects are striking and need to be discussed: (1) At intermediate flanker distances, from ∼3 deg down to 1 deg and less center-to-center distance, the crowding effect is to a large part explained by imprecise coding of the character to be recognized (i.e., is for a major part reduced when positional errors are treated separately). (2) A ring cue, presented in advance of the target, enhances recognition performance and in this sense sharpens spatial attention but at the same time leaves the positional coding equally imprecise. (3) Pattern content and pattern location are coded separately. Gestalt and closedness With respect to effect (1), the results lend new support to the Gestalt idea that the whole is more than the sum of its parts: Whatever the components or the features of any one of the three characters are (Gabor patterns, wavelets, edges, t junctions, end points), they are processed together such that any one (or more) of the characters are recognized, somewhat irrespective of their location. The whole (the character) is not just the sum of its parts (features) but includes some mechanism of binding those together. The joint processing of features is induced by the characters being separated by a gap or, as Gestalt theory would say, by the closedness of their Gestalt. The uncertainty which character is to be processed increases with decreasing distance (as is seen from the localization errors; Figure 4), but the processing itself remains much less affected, as is apparent from the content-only thresholds (in which the locus of processing is left free) being similar to the single-character thresholds. It seems as if an attentional spotlight can focus on any one of the characters, with a preference at the intended location. This focusing-in becomes less precise with increasing eccentricity in the visual field. An impreciseness of coding the letter position has already been shown by Eriksen and Rohrbaugh (1970) for a circular stimulus arrangement of 2.2 deg radius. Recently, Huckauf and Heller (2002b) have shown that the impreciseness increases with eccentricity (1–7 deg). Chung, Legge, and Ortiz (2003) have provided additional evidence for the same, using a linear arrangement. They find that the standard deviation of position noise (as they call it) scales with letter size and increases with eccentricity, from 0.5 letter spaces in the fovea to 0.96 letter spaces at 4 letter positions from fixation. Role of the ring cue The role of the ring cue is intriguing. As the analysis of variance has shown, the ring cue does improve recognition performance. In common understanding, this is evidence for spatial attention being concentrated at the target, either by enhancing neural activity at the target position or by suppressing activity at neighboring positions. The cue is, however, not effective in reducing correspondences with flanking characters and is, in this sense, not effective in removing attention from the flankers. Thus, the ring cue can be said to increase attention at the target without reducing attention at surrounding locations. This result might be understood in terms of the distinction between transient and sustained attention (Mackeben, 1999; Nakayama & Mackeben, 1989; see the Theoretical accounts: focusing attention and the field of feature integration section). The ring cue, appearing shortly before the target, would be expected to attract transient attention, whereas the instruction to the subject to attend to the center character is expected to mobilize sustained attention. Note that this account would imply that transient attention does not improve the positional coding in indirect or peripheral vision. For the performance enhancing effect, the timing and the size of the ring cue are important as is known from previous work. The timing seems well chosen in the present experiments as evidenced by the results of the ANCOVA. The cue size was perhaps a little too small and (from the results at 4 deg eccentricity) might need to be scaled with eccentricity at a steeper rate than the increase of receptive-field diameter. Separate coding of pattern content and location? The difference between the proportion of correspondences and chance level has been interpreted as the proportion of localization errors above. What underlies these responses? As an anonymous reviewer has put it, are these "true" mislocalization errors in the sense that the observer perceives the identity of the target to be that of the flanker? The latter would imply that the observer was unaware of the difference in identity; that is, it raises the question of how conscious the mislocalization was. Subjects when asked are mostly unaware of the error. Awareness might be a separate process, though, and a more neutral way to state the assertion is that pattern content is, at a certain stage, coded independent of its location. Huckauf and Heller (2002a, p. 122), who find that flanker onset is of critical importance, speak of failures in "the process of coding a letter as being at a target location". An alternative interpretation, offered by the same reviewer, is that observers are "just biased to respond in that manner when they are unable to identify the target". In other words, a pattern recognition mechanism in the brain has extracted the flanker's pattern content and that information then influences the response system when the sensory input from the target is weak. Still, however, the pattern content is treated somewhat irrespective of its location, perhaps at a later processing stage. Based on our paradigm, we cannot decide between such possibilities. What we can conclude is that the pattern content at some stage in processing acts independent of the pattern's location. Separate coding of pattern content and pattern location at that stage seems a simple way to summarize the basis of the phenomenon. Flanker distance: Bouma's rule Bouma (1970) has formulated a memorable rule of thumb for the critical flanker distance needed in the discussion below, which states that this distance (in the radial direction; Toet & Levi, 1992) amounts to approximately half the eccentricity value. Because Bouma's rule is now more widely cited—Chung, Levi, and Legge (2001, Table 1), and Pelli, Palomares, and Majaj (2004, Table 4), both provide tables of results from the literature on that matter—it is useful to note that Bouma has defined the flanker distance differently than seems now more popular, namely, as the gap between the target and the flanker rather than the distance from center to center (as in this report and others, e.g., Chung et al., 2001; Pelli et al., 2004; Strasburger et al., 1991). If w denotes the width of the target stimulus, Bouma's rule states d B ⁢ o ⁢ u ⁢ m ⁢ a = 0.5 E = d − w where d = center-to-center flanker distance, E = eccentricity, and w = target width; all in degrees of visual angle. Bouma used character widths between 0.16 and 0.29 deg and eccentricities from 2 to 8 deg; so his rule would correspond to approximately d ⁢ ≈ ⁢ 0.5 E + 0.225 deg ⁢ ≈ ⁢ 0.57 E. The critical distance according to Bouma (1970) is thus somewhat larger than half the eccentricity value and is around 0.6. Because it is not sharply defined, the precise form of that equation (linear, either passing through w or through the origin) is not important. Results by Pelli et al. (2004, Figure 3b) suggest that the curve d(E) is slightly nonlinear and curved upwards. Interestingly, Pelli finds typical slope values in the above equation to be somewhat lower, at 0.3 to 0.4. Note that Bouma's rule in its correct form as in Equation 5 is formally equivalent to M scaling, as in Equation 1 above, specifying that an item of spatial extent varies with retinal eccentricity by a linear function which does not pass through the origin: d = 0.5 E + d 0 with an E2 value of E2 = w/0.5 and a foveal d value of d 0 = w. Bouma's rule (in the range that he studied) corresponds to an E2 of about 0.45 deg. Chung et al. (2001), for example, find a d0 of 0.5 deg and E2 of 1.7 deg. Theoretical accounts: focusing attention and the field of feature integration In a comprehensive analysis, Pelli et al. (2004) have characterized crowding as a process of impaired feature integration occurring in the visual periphery, in contradistinction to (lateral) masking as occurring from impaired feature detection anywhere in the visual field. We have ourselves characterized the visual periphery—where the interesting cases of crowding occur (Strasburger et al., 1991)—as differing from the fovea by the architecture of feature integration (Strasburger & Rentschler, 1996). That argument was based on the differing dependence-on-eccentricity functions of contrast sensitivity for grating detection and for character recognition (Strasburger, 2003b; Strasburger, Gothe, & Lutz, 2000; Strasburger, Rentschler, & Harvey, 1994) and by showing that the difference between the two cannot be explained by a spatial scaling concept (M scaling, cortical-magnification scaling). We concluded that there must be architectural differences across the visual field—in particular between the fovea and the rest of the field—that concern feature integration not feature detection. In a hierarchy of task complexity ranging from (1) pattern detection (present/nonpresent), (2) coarse grating discrimination1 (horizontal/vertical), (3) fine grating discrimination (orientation threshold), and (4) character recognition or identification, Tasks 1 and 2 can be treated as more or less equivalent and as different from Task 4. The distinctive characteristic of the highest-level perceptual tasks–recognition or identification–as compared to the lower level (discrimination) we there suggested to be the dimensionality of the decision space, i.e. the requirement for the observer to chose his or her response from a comparatively large number of alternatives. 1The term "discrimination task" is sometimes used in a different meaning, implying the judgement of a quantity being larger or smaller than another (the corresponding psychometric function then goes from −1 to 1). This is not implied here, the intended meaning being that the observer can discriminate between two broadly different stimuli and thereby identify each. The term "identification task" is sometimes used for that case but is avoided here to reserve the concept of identification for those tasks where discrimination between a few cases will not solve the identification. Pelli et al. (2004) have chosen Bouma's rule—that the critical distance scales with eccentricity—together with our finding (Strasburger et al., 1991) that this rule holds independent of signal size, as the defining criterion for crowding (as opposed to lateral masking). The area within that critical distance (we might call it Bouma's area) is interpreted by Pelli as the area of feature integration. What I propose here is that this field of feature integration is related to spatial attention and indeed could be the same as what in the attention literature is referred to as the attentional spotlight, and in light of the distinction of sustained and transient visual attention (Mackeben, 1999; Nakayama & Mackeben, 1989) could be called a field of sustained visual attention.2 The evidence is in the meaning of the word attention: Subjects in our task were instructed to attend to the central character; they did so as well as they could and when asked reported that they needed to attend outside the point of fixation. Regarding the distinction between sustained and transient visual attention, our task classifies as the former because subjects were well aware in advance of where the stimulus would appear (within any run of about 30 trials, the stimulus appeared always at the same location). What we cannot clarify based on our paradigm is whether that area (that focus, spotlight) of attention includes all three characters. In other words, is there a separate mechanism responsible for choosing the central character and a further mechanism that defines the three areas of integration, or does the focus of attention zoom-in on the area of one of the three characters but is imprecise in doing so, both with respect to locus and size? Parsimony leads us to assume the latter, that all this is accomplished by a single, sustained visual–attentional mechanism. 2The term "sustained attention" is used in a different, unrelated meaning in the more general attention literature referring to alertness and vigilance. The notion of features being processed together does not contradict the opposite, that of free-floating features (from the flankers) getting jumbled or miscombined. Tjan and Chung (2004), for example, show the importance of similar spatial frequency between target and flanker that supports the latter. Indeed and correspondingly, the content-only thresholds presented here are still elevated relative to the single condition. (Graphically, feature binding relates to the area above the content-only thresholds in Figure 3 and feature jumbling to the area below.) Pelli et al. (2004) consequently assume that the area of feature integration in the crowding situation includes the target plus flankers (so that features get jumbled across the characters). With our finding of feature binding, Pelli's assumption of a large integration field would thus require a further, smaller integration field contained within, or the presence of an attentional gradient, to integrate those features that belong to one but not another character. Our finding would then also contradict elli's idea that the periphery is lacking small enough integration fields (Theory point a, in Table 3, p. 1153). On the other hand, the interpretation favored here, namely, a smaller integration field centered on the recognized character, but with a soft outline such that features from farther away get included, would encompass all the empirical findings discussed here. The role of the positional cue is then one of modulating transient spatial attention. Thus, we assume further that there is a separate area of transient attention, often but perhaps not necessarily within the focus of sustained attention, that enhances either feature detection or feature integration. For tasks that do not require feature integration to be solved, the characteristics as discussed above need not hold. This applies in particular to the now often-used task introduced by Flom et al. (1963) in their seminal paper on contour interaction, where the orientation of a Landolt-C embedded in bars is to be selected. Thus, the interpretation of the area of feature integration being the same as the sustained attentional spotlight forwarded here is consistent with Nazir's (1992) finding that precueing has no effect on crowding in the Flom task, as well as the report of Wilkinson, Wilson, and Ellemberg (1997) of the same for grating targets, because neither of the tasks involves feature integration. Similarly, the contradiction between Hess, Dakin, Kapoor, and Tewfik (2000) and Kooi, Toet, Tripathy, and Levi (1994; see the paragraph on flanker similarity below), where Hess et al. find that in the near periphery flanker polarity plays no role in lateral masking and Kooi et al. and others find the opposite, can be resolved by noting that Hess et al. used the Flom task that does not require feature integration and is thus not directly comparable to a character crowding task. Huckauf, Heller, and Nazir (1999) show limitations of the feature interaction account for explaining the crowding effect, but indeed their findings support both Pelli et al.'s (2004) conclusions and those presented here. Huckauf used trigrams of constant-size (0.51 deg) letters, rotated letters, and pseudoletters of high contrast presented at eccentricities up to 7 deg and flanker distances up to 2 deg and measured the percentage of correct recognition of the center stimulus. She shows that feature interaction cannot account for the differences between the crowding effects from different flanker types and concludes that a higher-level mechanism ("letter level") above the feature detection stage must be of influence. That stage processes different flanker types differently and thus influences the amount of the crowding effect. According to Huckauf et al. (1999), feature jumbling is not the source of crowding. Note, however, that their paradigm directly tests the effect of flanker type only, which accounts for only 5% of the crowding effect's total variance. Whether the main effects of crowding—that is, the effect of flanker presence, modulated predominantly by retinal eccentricity and flanker distance—are, or are not, mediated by feature jumbling, cannot be decided by their paradigm. So their claim is that of the participation of higher-level mechanisms, not of their exclusive effectivity. The similarity of the flankers with the target plays an important role for the strength of lateral interaction (Chung et al., 2001; Eriksen & Eriksen, 1974; Kooi et al., 1994; Nazir, 1992). Kooi et al. (1994) show in particular that the crowding effect—for a letter T embedded in Ts—is radically reduced when the flankers are of the opposite contrast polarity. The authors discuss that finding with respect to the salience of the target within the flankers ("pop-out") and conclude (p. 276) that (cortical) mechanisms at a lower level than the attentional are likely to mediate crowding. I here propose the alternative explanation that the salience of the target (or the flankers) attracts a field of feature integration—a field of spatial attention—and if the salience is weaker, then recognition is not impaired but is indeed taking place unimpaired, just at the "wrong" location. The position code is lost, as is the information from which eye the stimulus was received (Kooi et al., 1994). Similarity and salience thus govern where recognition takes place, not how. The concept of an attentional spotlight dates back at least to Johannes Müller in the early 19th century and was empirically supported already by von Helmholtz (1871; see van der Heijden, 1992). It has received widespread attention in the last decade both in the behavioral (e.g., Tsal & Lavie, 1988) and biological cognitive sciences, and it is now widely agreed upon that with a few amendments (e.g., Stoffer, 1988) the spotlight metaphor, with a spotlight of variable size and locus, is a concise, empirically well-supported concept capturing many aspects of visual spatial attention. (Stoffer, 1988, proposes to model spatial attention not by single, movable spotlight but by a battery of spotlights of various sizes and loci that can get turned on and off.) In Bundesen's related computational Theory of Visual Attention (TVA) (Bundesen, 1990, 1998), two selection processes are postulated, one that priorizes objects ("pertinence") and one that priorizes features ("pigeonholing"). Within that framework, the results presented here would mean that the pertinence selection mechanism often selects the wrong character. In summary, I propose here that an attentional spotlight, with a focus size larger than one of the characters, is voluntarily but only approximately pointed at a locus in the visual field where the trigram of characters is, and further, that within that field, a field of feature integration is established, the latter sharpened in its boundaries by pattern segregation algorithms (Gestalt formation). A transient occurring at or near (or pointing towards) the actual locus of attention, like the suddenly occurring ring cue here, will further enhance processing in the attentional field, but without changing its locus. Flanker contrast Chung et al. (2001, Figure 9) and Pelli et al. (2004, Figure 10) used a crowding stimulus arrangement similar to the one introduced by us and used here (trigrams of characters of same size and contrast where the recognition contrast threshold of the center character was the criterion variable; Strasburger et al., 1991) but used different contrast between target and flanker to study the dependence of crowding on the contrast of the flankers. Both studies report that the flankers become effective in masking only when they have the same as, or higher contrast than, the target, with a monotonic increase (i.e., no facilitatory effects) from that point on. Pelli et al. (2004, Figures 10a and b) report that the corresponding function of contrast threshold for target recognition versus flanker contrast has a peculiarly high slope and fast saturation, similar to a psychometric function. Furthermore, they report that the critical flanker contrast for crowding (the lower knee of that function) is independent of the flanker distance. Even though both groups of authors frame their results in a bottom-up theoretical account, these findings fit rather well with the ideas presented here: A steep slope of the psychometric function is, as we have shown previously (Strasburger, 2001b), characteristic for target recognition or identification as opposed to target detection or discrimination. Thus, Chung's and in particular Pelli's findings are accounted for by assuming that their flanker-effect function reflects the psychometric function for the recognition of the flankers. The critical flanker contrast in Pelli et al. would then be the recognition contrast threshold of the flankers. This would predict all three, the steep slope, saturation, and the independence of the critical flanker contrast of flanker distance. The flanking characters will sufficiently attract feature integration fields (sustained attention fields) if and only if their contrast is comparable to the alternative patterns in the field, and, if that is the case, character identification can take place in the field of the flanker, provided the integration field is inadvertently centered there. The notion that crowding occurs through unfocussed attention is thus compatible with that of information being pooled over the extent of the trigram, as Chung et al. and Pelli et al. conclude, but it also goes beyond that interpretation. Letters and digits Note that the present results were obtained with trigrams of digits and will with respect to semantic influences not directly generalize to letter trigrams: There is a word-superiority effect for letter strings such that the center character is more easily recognized when it occurs within a word than in a meaningless string (e.g., Fine, 2001). In digit strings, this cannot happen because all strings are equally meaningful. In a sense, digits are more suitable than letters to test characteristics of pure pattern recognition and its underlying mechanisms because the semantics play no differential role. Care should be taken when the standard crowding task (recognizing the center character) is compared with a task where the surround is also attended to as in recognizing a three (or more)-letter word. The attentional focus can change in size and scale (e.g., Stoffer, 1994), thereby changing its characteristics, as the research on Navon patterns has shown (Navon, 1977). As an aside, note that reading usually takes place at high contrast and comparatively small letter size so that for the involved pattern recognition process a predominant mediation by the parvo system is commonly assumed (e.g., Vidyasagar, 2001), whereas at the contrast threshold of character recognition a dominant or even exclusive involvement of the magno system is rather likely (Strasburger & Rentschler, 1996). Neural mechanisms of crowding How does the proposed model fit in with current theorizing on brain mechanisms of crowding? Flom et al. (1963) have shown that the lateral interaction in their paradigm occurs also in dichoptic presentation—when the target and flanker are presented to different eyes. They conclude that the neural basis of the interactions must be at a stage where the information from both eyes has come together, that is, must be cortical. Several researchers have since verified the finding of dichoptic masking, in the fovea and in the periphery. A particularly striking example is presented by Tripathy and Levi (1994) who show dichoptic masking at the blind spot, with the flankers around the blind spot and the target presented to the other eye at the blind spot's corresponding position. This is amazing because the blind spot's projection area in the primary visual cortex—that is, in that part of the visual cortex that is most distinctly organized retinotopically—is believed to be monocular (e.g., LeVay, Connolly, Houde, & Van Essen, 1985). Tripathy and Levi (1994) propose that this is solved by long-range horizontal connections in the striate cortex that have not been identified anatomically yet. Our results and theoretical account allow for a simpler neural interpretation (that does not require such horizontal connections). The concept of spatial attention relies on a spatially selective enhancement or inhibition of neural bottom-up activation through top-down mechanisms. The selectivity is assumed to be mediated by retinotopically organized brain structures—referred to as maps—that need not be cortical (for reviews, see LaBerge, 1995; Vidyasagar, 2001; suitable candidate structures are the lateral and inferior pulvinar of the thalamus [LaBerge, 1995; LaBerge & Brown, 1989] or the reticular nucleus of the thalamus [Crick, 1984, based on Skinner & Yingling, 1977]). The gating itself could happen in early cortical visual areas or even in the lateral geniculate nucleus, which is commonly assumed to subserve a gating function in the retinocortical pathway. For example, Vidyasagar (1998, 2001) has shown attentional modulation in single-cell studies as early as in V1. In his 2001 model, he proposes that the attentional spotlight receives its steering information from the magno pathway that would explain why the low-contrast characters used here can steer the "spotlight" (Strasburger & Rentschler, 1996). As a working hypothesis, then, frontal and posterior–parietal regions involved in attention could —mediated through the pulvinar and V1—selectively enhance or suppress retinotopically organized bottom-up activation such that, by a subsequent winner-take-all network, the dominant stimulus representation is the only one processed in the higher-up areas involved in visual feature integration (like the fusiform gyrus in humans or the inferotemporal cortex in the macaque; Fujita, Tanaka, Ito, & Cheng, 1992; Tanaka, 1996). Hence, if the neural map information is imprecise in locus or spatial extent, the feature integration area will operate in an unintended visual field area so that the perceived pattern does not coincide with the target. The corresponding observer response will be counted as incorrect, which leads to a decreased proportion of correct responses for the target and a seemingly increased contrast threshold. The preappearing ring cue, on the other hand, is assumed to preactivate the corresponding (retinotopic) location in the map without influencing other locations. Note that any such attentional "top-down" explanation as proposed here will not contradict but rather complement low-level masking accounts favored by others where masking might already take place in the retina. Where and what In a surprising way, our results lend psychophysical support to the now widely held proposition of separate neural processing—and independent coding—of pattern content and pattern location; that is, of the what and where being processed in a ventral and a dorsal stream, respectively (Ungerleider & Haxby, 1994; Ungerleider & Mishkin, 1982). According to our results, when an object is recognized in indirect vision, more often than not the position code is imprecise or is lost, so that a pattern may be recognized, while it is not clear which pattern that was. 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Editor: This is the ONLY article on the deployment of American troops on American soil from the mainstream media, a story originally published by ArmyTimes, and launched into the blogosphere by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now in September. The 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry, which was first into Baghdad, Iraq, in 2003, started its controversial assignment Wednesday.The First Raiders will spend 2009 as the first active-duty military unit attached to the U.S. Northern Command since it was created. They will be based in Fort Stewart, Georgia, and focus primarily on logistics and support for local police and rescue personnel, the Army says. GO HERE FOR OUR EARLIER POSTS ON THE TROOP DEPLOYMENT. Older Article: Psssst, it's our 1st Birthday! Newer Article: These are exciting times, and oh – by the way – will there be a peaceful transfer of power?

Group Of Tulsa Business Owners File Lawsuit Against Mayor Bynum, City Council Over Mask Mandate Tuesday, August 18th 2020, 12:17 pm TULSA, Okla. - Some local doctors and citizens are suing Tulsa's Mayor over the mask mandate. The lawsuit includes Tulsa Health Department and city councilors, saying the masks can make people sick and the mandate should be lifted. One of the things the lawsuit said is that people are not wearing masks properly and could be causing more harm by spreading bacteria on the masks each time they are used. "Lots of people have respiratory diseases and disabilities and genetic changes that make wearing a mask uncomfortable inducing anxiety, dizziness, brain fog, etc. and we have to understand that and we need to allow those people with those disabilities to make a decision for themselves," said Dr. Jim Meehan, MD. Dr. Meehan along with several Tulsa business owners filed the lawsuit. Back in July when the mask mandate passed, Mayor G.T. Bynum said it was the right decision based on the advice of health experts. "We're hearing from doctors from around the state that something like this should be put in place. We're hearing from the superintendents of all three of our school districts now that we need this in place," said Mayor Bynum. The lawsuit said the mask mandate puts the burden of enforcing the ordinance on business owners, which puts them at risk for a potential lawsuit. "They were made to be enforcers of the city ordinance. So when an employer is forced to enforce a mask mandate in their employees and they are also violating OSHA occupational safety and health administration regulations that's a set up for a real problem," said Dr. Meehan. News On 6 reached out to Mayor Bynum's office, Tulsa City Councilors, and Tulsa Health Department for a comment, but they said they cannot comment at this time since this is ongoing litigation. Watch: Tulsa Dream Center Talks Importance Of Volunteer Work Watch: Broadway Actress Discusses 'Jesus Christ Superstar' Musical In Tulsa Meteorologist Stacia Knight Announces Birth Of Baby Girl

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Since I live in a cold climate, I feel for all the people who work outside in the winter. From the construction worker to the volunteer crossing guard, these individuals brave the elements every day to provide services to our community. Panera Bread wants to thank all these hard working individuals during the month of February. The program is called Warm Up Wednesdays. Throughout Chicagoland, Panera Associates will be heading out to give free hot beverages and freshly baked treats to these brave individuals. To kick off this amazing event, tomorrow, February 1, Panera is offering a FREE cup of coffee to its MyPanera card holders. Simply bring in your MyPanera card tomorrow to receive your free cup of coffee. Don't let Panera be the only ones paying it forward. Next time you see a person braving the elements, think about sharing a little warmth with them.

Q: Is there any way to completely remove the focus border of a wxTextCtrl object on OSX? I am building a project in OSX (Yosemite) with wxWidgets 3.0.2. I can remove a blue border around the wxTextCtrl window by using wxBORDER_NONE. But when I put it in a sizer, it has a 3 pixel grey border that I just can't get rid of. What's the point of having 2 borders, one of which cannot be removed? Surely people want to customise more than that? Is there any possible way to remove it? I don't really want to hack at the wx source, but I will if I have to. Or is there another way of controlling layout without using sizers, than might cause the border not to appear? Update: It seems to be the focus highlight border. I don't want it. Is there any way of disabling the border around the focused UI object? It's so frustrating because it is such a minor thing, but my program is useless if can't remove it. A: In case someone else stumbles into this post, this answer is for the updated question: Update: It seems to be the focus highlight border. I don't want it. Is there any way of disabling the border around the focused UI object? Using wxWidgets APIs, NO, there is no way to remove it, since it's a behavior of the native NSTextField class. I was only able to remove it by editing the wx source itself to set the focusRingType property of the underlying NSTextField object to NSFocusRingTypeNone: File: core/textctrl.mm Func: wxWidgetImpl::CreateTextControl NSTextField* v = nil; if ( style & wxTE_PASSWORD ) v = [[wxNSSecureTextField alloc] initWithFrame:r]; else v = [[wxNSTextField alloc] initWithFrame:r]; ... // remove glow/border when textfield gets focused [v setFocusRingType:NSFocusRingTypeNone]; I've also set BORDER_NONE on my wxTextCtrl. Of course, this sort of changes the standard OS X look-and-feel, so maybe that's why this wasn't exposed as a wxTextCtrl API? Or it breaks something else? But so far it's working OK on my end. Plus, my app needs to have its own custom theme that doesn't go well with the glow border. I'm using wxWidgets 3.1.0 (cloned from their repo) and OS X 10.12. A: This worked for me -on Windows-: First --> bind the EVT_SET_FOCUS to a styling method. Second --> reset the fg and bg colours to your original design. Python code: button_1.Bind(wx.EVT_SET_FOCUS, focus_without_border) def focus_without_border(evt=None): element = evt.GetEventObject() element.SetForegroundColour( wx.Colour( 241, 241, 241 ) ) element.SetBackgroundColour( wx.Colour( 40, 41, 42 ) )

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Epic Illustrated (1980) #5-9 edited by Archie Goodwin. OK, I meant to do one post per day, really, but finding time to read these comics has proven problematic. These magazines are chock full of material, so it's taking even longer than I thought it would take, and I thought it would take twice as much time as I estimated. (I'm in software.) Anyway! We're in EI's second year, and about half of the ads are now for movies (mostly sci-fi and humour). I had no idea that the movie above existed: American Pop? Is that it? (It's a three page ad.) By Ralph Bakshi? I thought he went bankrupt after Lord of the Rings? No, it exists: Seems like it's well-liked, too? Anyway! EI steps up the publishing rate and it's now bi-monthly (so I'll be aiming for plowing through six issues per blog post, which means *gets out sliding rule*) four more of these posts before we get started with Epic Comics proper. Oh, and Jo Duffy joins the editorial team. We get the conclusion of Almuric, which means that that's the last Tim Conrad barbarian face we have to look at. I normally enjoy Roy Thomas barbarian stuff just fine (I mean, I don't seek it out or anything, but it's usually readable), but Almuric was just a non-starter. Basically nothing of interest happens: It's just a bunch of pointless running around until they've filled the required number of pages. It's not Robert E. Howard's most famous property. For a reason. The text pieces remain EI's weakest point. Reading a comic with an eye-rolling twist ending is somehow much more acceptable than when it's prose? Here's Ralph Macchio… not doing a riveting story. I mean, like this Rick Veitch story: It's basically just a gag, but that's fine. There's just something about the panel arrangement of the guy stepping on the bananas that just makes it. 50% more issues per year means that you can put more non-comics (i.e., cheaper to produce) stuff into the issues without people feeling let down, I think? Well, OK, or perhaps it just feels more well-rounded to have other things in here, too. One can be too cynical sometimes, right? RIGHT?!? I think it kinda works. While reading this, I just skimmed these columns (there three of them; one about books, one about movies and one about games), and I think I would have liked them when I was a teenager. But I just don't have time to read them now. So busy! Speaking of busy, Jim Starlin is busy experimenting with new painting techniques in every segment of his Metamorphosis Thingy. I wondered whether this might just have been a printing accident, but… it's hard to imagine what accident would have this solarising effect? I mean, it looks nice, doesn't it? And it does help having a continuous story going through these issue: Just reading one short piece after another after another is fine as far as it goes, but some longer pieces does help with the… texture. But putting in 18 pages of interviews with The Brothers Hildebrandt is pushing it. I mean, they're not really comics artists, are they? Mostly illustration? Hm. Perhaps it really is about the budget. The vast majority of the creators employed by EI are men, but the occasional woman does show up, like Margaret Gallagher here in a very flower-powery style. It's unusual in an EI context, too, in that it doesn't end with the protagonist getting horribly mutilated and killed on the final page. EI is way into "edgy, ironic" endings. I guess it's the insidious influence of EC Comics by way of Warren? It does get a bit grating after a while, at least when reading these issues like this. Wow! An ad for a movie that's not sci-fi! "The social impact of fantasy games has yet to be studied." I guess that's still true? Bob Aull does a quite undergroundish thing that follows the template of the protagonist getting reamed (sort of), but in this instance, he totally deserves it, so it's a gleeful, happy ending. In the context of the other stories, that's a twist. Wow. Starlin's way weird. Ken Steacy illustrates another Harlan Ellison story, and these are the best illustrated stories in the magazine, still. Steacy leans into having a lot of text on the page, but still manages to be graphically interesting, while making that design be relevant to the story. This story is about who can't move because a robot will kill him if he does, so it's basically just a guy sitting on the floor, which is a challenge to make arresting visually. And the story's pretty satisfying, as these stories go. Jo Duffy's column is about books, mainly, but she also writes about comics. Here's her take on Cerebus, and basically the only negative she can find is the inconsistent verb tense in the captions. SR Bissette and Steve Perry do an inventive story about cult movies. I mean, I didn't really… understand what it was all about in the end? Was it a Groundhog Day thing? But how can you not like a comic with Divine in it? And that's an excellent movie lineup there in the background. There's a long thing by Neal Adams called Holocaust that I couldn't quite make out what was about. I mean, I know what it's about about, but it didn't really make much sense on a page to page basis. And the reproduction is really bad, which is unusual for EI. It was done (apparently) as a record booklet in the 70s, but never used, so it was dusted off here. Didn't Adams have the originals any more, and it was shot from photocopies? That's what it looks like. We get 17 pages of interview from Barry Windsor-Smith, which makes more sense. This is by JK Potter and Tim Caldwell. Is that any relation to JK Rowling? Anyway, I think I've seen Caldwell's stuff around in the undergrounds, and it's this hyper-realistic photo-based fumetti-like thing… that's really offputting. Yes! It's not Nov. 30 yet! Get your 14K gold chain for $10 plus $2 shipping! Quick! That's a weird ad to have in a magazine like this, so I'm guessing it's a scam? People are clamouring for more serials, which is surprising in one way… Hey! Trina Robbins! Her art style is well suited for some Egyptian pharaoh thing. In the first few issues of EI, Goodwin desperately tried justifying printing some nice artwork by having people come up with accompanying prose stories. He's fortunately given up on that by now, and instead we just get some nice artwork with some chatter. This article is about the "portfolio" phenomenon which was all the rage around this time. I wonder whether there was an editorial change of policy, because there were no penises in this magazine up until now? I mean, even that character was devoid of one in earlier issues. Perhaps they just got more daring as they realised the rules on the "adult" magazine newsstand marked was radically different from the comics stands. I'm always up for some Charles Vess, but I feel the story here wasn't very engaging. Hm. A "retail display plan"? Is that like a Marvel-branded stand or something? It was apparently a big deal, because they even alerted the retailers about it on the cover: Perhaps Marvel didn't have any other way to reach the retailers? Independent distribution was mysterious. In the ninth issue, The Metamorphetc ends, and it turns out that the entire thing was rather underwhelming. Spoilers: After collecting four people, the bald guy blows up the galaxy and then a million years later they surface in another galaxy. He had to blow up the galaxy, see, because some space aliens were evil and etc. It doesn't really make much sense dramatically. But it's a good read nonetheless. We get an interview with Starlin, who doesn't look at all like he's a caretaker at a remote hotel in the middle of the winter, and he tells us what he's got planned for the Odyssey thing now. He says that the "Vanth" character is a different character now, which is what I remember from reading Dreadstar as a teenager. But we'll see: Dreadstar is the first Epic Comics comic proper, so I'll be reading it in… er… a week's time? Virtually everything Epic Illustrated published until now has been creator-owned. The exception was a Silver Surfer story in the first issue, but now we get Weirdworld, which had been published by Marvel before. This iteration is written by Doug Moench, and it's pretty entertaining. I love the style Lee Marrs uses here. Coloured with crayons? I have no idea, but it looks great, and very different from anything else in EI. (And, yes, the story has a twist, but it's fun without being a straight-up joke.) Hey! I don't think I've seen this P. Craig Russell thing before. "The Ideal: Opus 11". It's quite unusual for being reproduced from his pencils: He usually inks his linework. And it's usually in colour. This is very lovely, and expertly printed here. A letter writer isn't impressed by all the violence in the book. Oh! It's catherine yronwode! Is this before she started working for Eclipse Comics? I guess it must have been, but not by long. Goodwin counters, disingenuously, by claiming that yronwode must think that all stories without violence are good stories, which is something she did not say at all. Anyway, that's the end of Day Two of my Journey into Epic Illustrated. It was, again, a very pleasant way to spend the evening. Author larsmagne23Posted on November 29, 2019 Categories Uncategorized

« 2014 in review, Thank you All! This entry was posted on January 1, 2015 at 1:26 pm and is filed under 1980s, Heavy Metal, Music, Uncategorized with tags Americans, Amon Amarth, Classic Rock, disco, hard rock, Heavy Metal, Mellow out rock, melodic rock, Ozzy Osbourne, progressive rock, Queen, The 1980s, The Sun, Toto, Wayne's World. 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. Happy New Year. I hope the Ozzy disappointment is the last one you experience for the next 12 months. Thanks for giving Toto some attention. This is a great album that often gets overlooked (actually, the band themselves don't get a lot of respect from critics or rock fans). Obviously it was a slight disappointment for you but they went on to record some heavier material in later years. Have you explored their deep catalog or just the early years. To be honest, I haven't explored much of their stuff after 1984 but I will be doing so as I progress through the years. It was a slight disappointment but I didn't think it was a bad album in anyway. Toto were talented musicians and should get a bit more respect.

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Heat oil in a pan and saute chicken for 2-3 minutes or until golden. Just brown the ingredients to seal off the flavours but don't cook completely - this is done in the oven. Add garlic, spring onions, corn and capsicum and cook for 2 minutes or until vegetables have heated through. Reduce heat and stir through the asparagus, then stir through remaining ingredients to coat well. Stir the sauce through the sauteed chicken and vegetables and allow to cool. Never add hot filling to raw pastry. Melt the butter over a medium heat and add the flour, stirring constantly. Gradually pour in the chicken stock stirring to avoid lumps. Continue stirring until a thickish sauce consistency is achieved. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. Add the butter and rub through the flour until a breadcrumb appearance is reached. Add the cold water gradually and incorporate until a soft dough consistency is formed. Turn out and knead on a floured surface until smooth. Line a 22cm pie dish with half the prepared pastry. Trim the pastry around the edges of the tin. Add the pie filling, push down well and cover with remaining pastry (or you may prefer to use puff pastry for the top). Tuck edges into the side of pie tin to neatly seal the top. Brush with beaten egg, sprinkle with cornmeal and make 2-3 small cuts in top of pastry to allow steam to escape. Bake in preheated 190C oven for 30 minutes, or until pastry is cooked through and filling is hot. Serves 6.

Devils Games Game 39: Devils @ Carolina By John Fischer Jan 6, 2009, 9:00am EST Share All sharing options for: Game 39: Devils @ Carolina Expect to see the same New Jersey Devils we saw over the last week or so: Gulitti reports that Colin White did not make the trip and Scott Clemmensen will start in net. How the Devils will play, well, that's not certain. The overtime win against Ottawa wasn't all that and a bag of chips; the win over Montreal was pretty good; and the two games prior didn't feature a lot of defense or smart hockey - especially after a decisive win over Our Hated Rivals. It's been an up-and-down 5 games for the Devils in terms of performance. Yet, they've come out winners for most of them and that's truly the important thing in a results-oriented league like the NHL. Carolina, as you may not have expected, have been the same in terms of results. Check out their last 5 games. Hurricanes' Last 5 Games @ Tampa Bay Sat 01/03 W 3 - 2 St. Louis Fri 01/02 W 2 - 1 Atlanta Wed 12/31 W 3 - 1 Boston Sat 12/27 L 2 - 4 @ Atlanta Fri 12/26 W 5 - 4 OK, not exactly wins over the cream of the crop; but they are wins, they build confidence within a team, and they are worth 2 points regardless of it coming against Tampa Bay or coming against Boston. Believe it, or not, the Hurricanes only sit 4 points behind the Devils in the conference with a record of 20-15-5. And that they have this solid record so far is a testament to the fact that numbers don't always tell the whole story. Let me hit you with some numbers from NHL.com. The Carolina Hurricanes have scored a total of 105 goals, the fourth lowest in the league and tied with the Islanders; while letting in 117 goals in total. That's an average of 2.60 goals per game and 2.82 goals against per game. Much worse than the Devils' 2.97 goals per game and 2.53 goals against per game. The Hurricanes, believe it or not, are worse than the Devils in killing penalties (80.5% to 78.4%) and even on the power play (16.8% to 15.5%). Brutal. Home record for the Hurricanes: 11-9-1. Yep, they just went over .500 at home recently. Here's a fun stat: The Hurricanes win only 50% of the games they score first in - tied with Ottawa for the second worst winning percentage in the entire league in this case. Have another fun one: The Hurricanes have the third worst winning percentage in the NHL when they are leading after the first period with only 53.3% The have the fifth worst winning percentage when leading after two periods: 76.5%. Considering all this, is this really a team that's 20-15-5? They don't score a whole lot of goals, they let in a good amount, their special teams are bad, and it's definitely not a good that scoring first or leading after one doesn't necessarily lead to a good result for Carolina. This is a team that sits seventh in the conference? It is. While they don't look so good statistically after scoring first; they win 50% of the games wherein they let up the first goal. Moreover, they shoot nearly as much as the Devils on average (31.1 to the Devils' 31.2 shots per game) while being almost as stingy in allowing shots from their opponents (Devils: 28.9, Canes: 29.3). And they are playing productive hockey recently. They are 7-3-0 in their last 10 games, and won their last 3. Eric Staal and the potentially ageless Ray Whitney are guys I would ignore on the ice were I looking to lose hockey games easily. 2008 - Ray Whitney 40 12 21 33 -9 8 2 0 1 1 120 10.0 2008 - Eric Staal 40 18 12 30 10 32 7 0 4 0 168 10.7 Basically, when you think you've figured out the 'Canes, you learn some other things about the team that make you scratch your head a second, third, or seventeenth time. All I can really conclude is that this is a game where the old cliche of playing all 60 minutes really comes into play. This is a team that isn't great with a lead, but they aren't hopeless without it; and it's a team that's won quite a few games as of late. Not to mention that Cam Ward has stepped up his game tremendously. Tremendously winning the NHL's third star of the last week. They have momentum. They have a purpose. Should they show up the Devils, it'll send a strong message to the rest of the league that the Southeast is definitely not a one-team division. I feel that the only way you can really counter that without relying on your opponent to fail is to play smart hockey for 60 minutes. Not the first and third period, not for 10 minutes within each period, the whole game as best as possible. It doesn't have to be necessarily aggressive, up tempo, and/or playoff style hockey. It just needs to be smart. It means aiming shots instead of firing them right into the shins of the defense; blocking shots is something Dennis Seidenberg is looking forward to as he's sixth in the league with 92. The Devils would be wise to make sure those efforts hit Ward (and the net, of course) and not some other Hurricane. It means being calm on power plays and setting up the shot. Just like they did to win the game in overtime on Sunday. It requires being aware of who's sneaking in the back door when on defense. Something the Devils got caught on Sunday. Could the Devils beat the Hurricanes. Sure, why not? But don't think the hurricanes are should be an easy two points for the Devils. They have every reason to do well Tuesday night as well. They are at home, they are playing well as of late, and they're better than what some stats currently say about them.

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Ruth Benedict, ameriška antropologinja, * 5. junij 1887, New York, New York, ZDA, † 17. september 1948, New York, ZDA. ↑ 1,0 1,1 Blain V., Grundy I., Clements P. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present — 1990. — P. 80. Čas zadnje spremembe strani: 21:25, 21. oktober 2015.

In 1898, the Chapin Mining Company built a residence at 106 North Carpenter Avenue for General Manager James MacNaughton. In 1901, Otto Conrad Davidson replaced MacNaughton as manager and the home served as his family's residence until 1935. It stood empty until 1945 when Davidson's widow sold the home to F. Albee Flodin and Martin D. Thomas. Flodin and Thomas had a vision for the property. It was to turn the home into a clubhouse, primarily to host visiting businessmen. With assistance from Lake Shore Inc., they watch their vision become a reality. Renovation materials were in short supply due to World War II so many of the renovations were done using original wood from various parts of the residence. In 1945-1946, the bar was built in what is now the ladies restroom using wood from sliding doors and woodwork from within the house. The kitchen was enlarged and improved to function as a commercial kitchen. The main floor was opened up to create a dining room. In 1947, the remodel was complete and the doors were open business. The Beginning of the Club In January 1945, F. Albee Flodin and Martin D. Thomas set out to establish a private club in Iron Mountain to host out-of-town businessmen. They purchased the private residence of Chapin Mining Company Manager Otto Conrad Davidson at 106 North Carpenter Avenue. The inspiration for the Club was two-fold – replicating an experience Flodin and William Lewis had while on a business trip to Pascagoula, Mississippi and fulfilling a need within the community In February 1945, a meeting of local leaders was held at the 6-7-8 Club on the top floor of the Commercial Bank to discuss the feasibility of establishing a private club. On December 11, 1946, the Chippewa Club opened as a non-profit, unincorporated association. By law, this type of association cannot own property. Ownership was transferred to three club members for $10,000 and they were designated as trustees. The Club operated in this manner with various members serving as trustees until 1973 when it became a non-profit corporation Simon Poulin Cameron Kazianka Christy Miner Jaclyn Bal Chef's Assistant Brooke Giancola Message the Board of Directors Nate Goudreau, President Chief Risk Officer, First Nat. Bank-IMK Began working at First National Bank & Trust of IMK in 2012. Spent the previous 25 years with Associated Bank. Nate and his wife, Dolly, have two children and three grandchildren Pete Merckx, Vice President Zorn Compressor & Equipment Co. Began working at Zorn Compressor & Equipment Co. in 1979. Moved from Wausau, Wisconsin to Spread Eagle in 2011. Pete and his wife, Shelby, have two children and two grandchildren. Erick Hackstock, Treasurer Controller, Champion, Inc. Born & raised in St. Clair Shores, graduated from NMU with a BS in Accounting and computer information systems. Moved back and started at Champion in 2004. Melissa Wentarmini, Secretary Accountant, Dickinson Area Community Foundation Raised an Air Force "brat", Melissa has lived in Iron Mountain since 1994. She serves on various committees and boards of local non-profits. Resides with husband, Dan, and their seven children. Randy Erickson, Director VP Erickson Jewelers, Master Goldsmith Born and raised in Bark River, Michigan. Married to Sherri Erickson for 26 years. moved to Iron Mountain in 2008 to start Erickson Jewelers. Randy and Sherri have three children, Lexi, Brady, and Zac Mark Klossner, Director VP of Marketing, BOSS Snowplow Native of southeastern Wisconsin; relocated to Iron Mountain in 2009. B.A. graduate of UW-Oshkosh. Serves on IM DDA Board of Directors, City of IM Planning Commission and Our Saviors Lutheran Executive Council. Married to Kellie and has two teenage sons, Harrison and Bennett. Matthew Lutz, Director Chief Financial Officer, First Nat. Bank-IMK Born and raised in Iron Mountain. BA in Economics & Management Albion College, Master's in Accounting Marquette University. CPA in Chicago for six years prior to returning home. He and wife, Stacy, have two kids, Luka and Lakelynn. David Pasahow, Director Blue Line Advisors, Founder David Pasahow and his family have been Members of the Chippewa Club for 25 years, and family participants since the mid 1960's. His parents were active Members for over 30 years. David and his wife Clair, celebrated their Wedding at the Club as well as many anniversaries and daughter Meredith's birthdays. They reside seasonally in the Hill Country of Texas and return to Spread Eagle every Summer. David is founder of Blue Line Advisors, an executive search and leadership firm focused on the aerospace, transportation and other selected sectors. He also has more than 30 years of experience in executive and leadership consulting services. David holds an A.B. degree from Kenyon College (Ohio) and an M.B.A. from Keller Graduate School of Management. He serves on the boards of The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) where he serves on the Executive Committee and Chairs the Governance Committee and privately held Conax Technologies. Jane Santini, Director Carol Quandt, Past President (non voting) Chief Operating Officer, 41 Lumber Iron Mountain native and 3rd generation Club Member. Graduated from Michigan State's Eli Broad College of Business. Worked in public accounting before joining the family business in 2011. Janie was born and raised in Iron Mountain. After graduating from college with a BSN, she returned home where she used her degree to raise her three children. Having seven grandchildren, she continues to put her nursing skills to use. Board of Director meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month at 5:30 pm CST in the Club Board Room. All members are welcome to attend. Interested in joining the Board? Click to find out why you should. Click to submit a nomination Message the Board The Chippewa Club 106 N. Carpenter Ave. [email protected]

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A recent Time magazine story said that our culture's fascination with science fiction is being replaced by an interest in "fantasy, a nostalgic, sentimental, magical vision of a medieval age." In other words: space travel out, Tolkien in. Paramount hopes there's at least enough interest left in laser blasts and warp speed star-hopping to sustain Star Trek: Nemesis, which is billed as the final theatrical adventure for Captain Picard (Stewart) and his Next Generation crew. In Nemesis, Riker and Troi's honeymoon is interrupted by a political crisis. The Enterprise must intervene when Shinzon, an embittered clone Picard never knew he had, threatens to destroy earth. Caveats are minor for a PG-13, while the sci-fi subtext speaks volumes about our world today. The action violence is typical of Star Trek films (a lot of shootouts, explosions and hand-to-hand combat), though one villain gets run through with a steel rod. A scene of the married couple kissing in bed is short of explicit, but is unsettling when Mrs. Riker suddenly sees Shinzon in her husband's place. Just four mild profanities beam into the dialogue. Nemesis raises questions about destiny and free moral will, while valuing our desire for self-improvement. As always, friendship, loyalty and duty rule—leading one beloved character to make the ultimate sacrifice. When Picard urges a galactic terrorist to set aside hate and realize his potential, it sounds like the civilized world appealing to the humanity of Saddam. As science fiction uses that cultural mirror effectively, the genre will live long and prosper.

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Teresa Palmer, Game of Thrones' Michiel Huisman and The Railway Man's Sam Reid head the cast of 2.22, director Paul Currie's romantic thriller which starts shooting in Sydney on Monday. The Dutch-born Huisman plays Dylan, an air traffic controller in New York who nearly causes a fatal mid- air collision at the strike of 2:22. Forced to go on leave, he meets and falls in love with Palmer's character Sarah, who coincidentally was one of the passengers on the plane. To his horror Dyan realizes the same patterns in his life are happening every day. Reid plays Jonas, a high profile New York-based artist who is an ex-boyfriend of Sarah's. The cast includes Richard Davies as a fellow air traffic controller, John Waters as Dylan's boss, Maeve Dermody as his ex-girlfriend, Kerry Armstrong and Remy Hii. "We're creating a smart, stylized romantic thriller," Currie tells IF. Much of the film takes place at New York's Grand Central Central Station, which has been recreated on sets at the Fox Studios. Creative studio Spinifex Group is creating an in-camera hologram using 3D projector mapping, which Currie says will create a 3D environment in 2D. The DoP is David Eggby. Huisman's credits include World War Z and the TV series Treme, Nashville and Orphan Black. Palmer's busy slate includes Kriv Stenders' Kill Me Three Times, Terrence Malick's Knight Of Cups, Ericson Core's Point Break remake and John Hillcoat's Triple Nine. This is Currie's second film as director; his first was One Perfect Day in 2004. His directing credits include episodes of TV's Twentysomething and the feature documentary Every Heart Beats True: The Jim Stynes Story. He co-wrote the screenplay with American Todd Stein, who got the idea after meeting his future wife at a Buddhist retreat where no one spoke. Currie's Lightstream Pictures is producing with Wild Eddie's Jodi Matterson, Walk The Walk Entertainment's Steve Hutensky and Icon's Bruce Davey. The EPs are Bill Mechanic, Todd Wagner, Ben Cosgrove, Jackie O'Sullivan, Stein, Garrett Kelleher, Charlie O'Carroll and David Whealy. Icon will release in Australia, Good Universe is handling international sales and Currie's agent UTA is the US rep.

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Leisure in Eltham, New Eltham and Mottingham, London SE9 Bexley Magic Society Bexley N/A SE9 DA6 8 The Bexley Magic Society was formed over 60 years ago and currently boasts some 40 members, some of whom are full time magical performers working in the south east and across the country. Also, several members have achieved membership of The Magic Circle and are very active in its running. So, I hear you say, what has that got to do with me? Well, do you ever struggle to raise funds? Bexley Magic Society prides itself on the shows they put on for local organisations wanting to raise money. Thanks to the likes of Derren Brown & Dynamo magic has recently become a very strong form of popular culture again. So, why not use this to your advantage. A BMS club show is a fantastic event and best of all there is absolutely NO-RISK to you whatsoever. All that BMS ask is for a return on all ticket sales. If for any reason you don't manage to sell many tickets you will still only owe BMS their percentage on ticket sales. If you also decide to provide your guests with food, drink or even hold a raffle all the money you raise, you get to keep. What we can promise you is an unforgettable night of magical entertainment. For more information on this exciting NO RISK fundraising opportunity please contact our Club Event organiser, David Klass: Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 8650 3864 or 0787 656 7181 NJ Theatre Academy Harris Academy Greenwich Middle Park Avenue Classes every Friday from 5:30-8:30 in drama, dance and singing from ages 5-18. All classes taught by experienced professionals. For more info contact Nikki. Make a Noise Choir Footscray Rugby Sports and Athletics Club 239 - 241 Footscray Road Community choir open to absolutely everybody; no audition necessary. FREE trial session. Every Wednesday 7:30-9:30pm. Plenty of parking and a bar. Mottingham Floral Arrangement Society St Andrews Church Hall - Mumbray Hall Meeting on the 3rd Wednesday of every month, visitors are very welcome to their monthly demonstrations/workshops. Visitors £5 per evening. Our meetings start at 7.30pm. Easy parking. 21st September, 19th October and 16 November for 2016 Meeting in 2017 start 15th February with AGM & demonstration, 15th March, 19th April, 17th May, 21st May, 19th July, 16th August, 20th September, 18th October and 15th November Dance Wise 1st Floor, 370 Footscray Road SE9 2AA Dance Wise is one of the leading dance studios in the South East. Dance tuition is available for all levels especially beginners. We specialise in Ballroom & Latin for children and adults and also have a strong theatre school offering ballet, tap, modern and street dance. All the Arts Theatre School Ltd 435 Footscray Road & St Edwards Hall, St Keverne Road SE9 4AQ Affordable classes in drama, singing & dance for children and teens ages 3-18yrs. ATA has branches in New Eltham, Mottingham & Bexley taught by Ex-Brookside actress Lucy Morgans. ATA is a well established and hugely successful performing arts school All sessions include a mixture of dancing, singing and acting with regular opportunities to perform on stage in local and professional productions including Danson Festival, Chislehurst Rocks, Sadlers Wells, The Stag Theatre & The Albert Hall.Children are taught in small groups for concentrated tuition. Vocational exams in drama (LAMDA) and dance (IDTA) are available and the school boosts a 100% pass rate for all exams. Current pupils are performing in the west end production of 'Oliver', 'Carousel' and 'The Railway Children' as well as lead roles in BBC's MI High, Holby City, Zing Zilla's,The Railway Children and the Disney Channel, current commercials include Santander, Asda, Bennetton & McDonalds. 100 of our pupils have performed in professional pantos. All staff are CRB checked, first aid trained and qualified industry professionals including ex-soap and West End actors All the Arts are one of the few local schools accredited by the Council of Dance Education and training, which has awarded them Recognised School Status, ensuring good quality professional teaching and safety at all classes. Winner of 'Most Loved Local Business 2011'- Best of Bexley. Kent champions 2010,2011 & 2012 of Dance Make Your Move. Nominee of Best Preschool Classes- netmums 2012 Regional Winner of Festival for Stars 2012 Winner of the Bromley Business Award 2013 Eltham Park Methodist Church Westmount Road, Eltham Zumba Gold - Ideal for 50Plus Ladies, Returning to Exercise, Beginners, Low Impact (or Higher) Moves. Come and Enjoy Good music, Easy Fun Dance Fitness Moves, Improve your fitness levels suitable for your needs, Improve your Mobility, Flexibility and Balance, Keep your minds active and Meet some new people. Come along and sign in! Give me a call or drop me an email for more information (All Welcome) Greenwich Academy of Music and Drama 43 Beechhill Road Tel: 02084884535 (answer phone) The Greenwich Academy of Music and Drama is an exciting venture for people living, working, and at school in and around the Borough of Greenwich, bringing performing arts groups and ensembles to all members of our community. The Greenwich Academy of Music and Drama Ltd was established in 2006 as an organisation through which to run performing arts ensembles, holiday courses and education workshops. We are a non-profit making company limited by guarantee and aim to provide all members with an experience which is positive, friendly, inspiring and above all of high artistic quality. We run a range of ensembles for wind, brass, percussion and singers during term-time and in the holidays. These ensembles, based on age and ability, provide a clear pathway for each individual's progression as their skills and knowledge develop: Greenwich Youth Band, Greenwich Wind Ensemble, Summer Music Course, Musical Theatre Holiday Course, Greenwich Community Choir, Greenwich Stage Right Marlborough, Greenwich Stage Right Charlton, Greenwich Academy Apprentice Scheme, Greenwich Youth Choir. Adult Social and Activity Group Footscray Road Tel: Ruby Niblett 020 8302 6829 Meetings held on Tuesday afternoons, 2-4pm. Activities include Table Tennis, Badminton, Board games, Refreshments and Conversation Arabesk Arabic Dancers Community Hall, New Eltham Library, Southwood Road (Perform locally and further afield) SE9 3QT Arabesk Arabic Dancers are a troupe, formed of 'Belly Dancing Classes' members and friends, who perform at community and charity events and private functions. If you would be interested in joining the group or would like to book Arabesk to dance at your event please contact Elaine. St Mary's Community Centre SE9 1BJ Come and join the fun! Specialising in pre-school dance classes, BabyBallet introduces little ones to all the enjoyment of ballet dancing through music, movement and laughter. Ballroom and Latin Dancing with Katie Katie Gleeson 6 Cradley Road Katie is a British Ballroom Champion teaching at Dancewise in New Eltham. ISTD qualified and very experienced teaching children and adults. Wedding dances also a speciality. Please call if you would like to arrange a private lesson or maybe you would like to arrange your own group for a private session. Learn the dances you love on Strictly. Come learn and have fun. New Eltham Library Every MONDAY (no classes on Bank Holidays) Beginners and Improvers 7.15-8.30pm Community Hall - New Eltham Library, Southwood Road, London, SE9 3QT For Adults (over 14yrs) of any size or shape. Suitable for Beginners and Improvers, including complete beginners. The classes are 'drop-in', so you can join at any time. Come and have fun, meet new friends, learn a new skill and keep fit at the same time. Wythfield Road The Home of Local Theatre in the SE9 Area, showcasing some amazing local talent. Many local groups use the theatre for their productions. We stage Musicals, Plays and Pantomimes and are also home to many Local Dance School Productions. New for this year is the Comedy@The BHT Comedy Club Bumps & Babies New Eltham Methodist Centre Group for expectant & new mums, with babies up to 12 months. Just turn up - £1.50 per adult each session. Ceroc Eltham Ceroc Dance Classes, UK's most popular partner dance. No partner needed, two left feet welcome, fun and easy to learn. £9 per night £5 Students Ceroc Dance Classes in Eltham on Mondays The UK's most popular partner dance. No partner needed, two left feet welcome. Easy and fun to learn. Eltham, SE9 5EQ Starts from 7.30pm to 10.45pm Civil Service Retirement Fellowship United Reform Chruch 1 Court Road SE9 5AD Open to ex Civil Servants and non Civil Servants (Associate Members). Meetings usually with speakers, outings, theatre trips and holidays. DDA Performing Arts Turning Pages Community Centre Nesbit Road SE9 6HS We provide a variety of classes on a Saturday Morning including Pre-School Dance, ISTD Ballet, Tap & Modern, Acrobatics and Street Dance. We aim to provide a fun and caring enviroment for children to learn and meet new friends along the way. All classes are taught by qualified teachers who have a passion and love for dance which they aim to pass on to their students. We hold annual show and or exams. The first lesson is free so come for a trial. Edith Nesbit Society 26 Strongbow Road SE9 1DT Established in 1996, it aims to celebrate the life and work of the author and her friends by talks, publications and visits. Edith Nesbit lived at Well Hall House, Eltham SE9 from 1899-1922 and wrote many of her books there. 542 Westhorne Avenue SE9 6DH Spanish kids' club in South East London. Build up your child's Spanish language skills and cultural understanding through fun and friendship! Eldorado Musical Productions Grove Park area & Eltham A local amateur dramatic society that meets twice a week Mondays in Grove Park & Wednesdays in Eltham and performs at Eltham's Bob Hope Theatre twice a year. Specialises in musical theatre Eltham and Avery Hill Gardens Society Pippenhall Allotments Bexley Road SE9 2PE Members shop at Pippenhall allotments open every Sunday morning from 9am to 12pm through the Spring and Summer, and from 10am to 12pm during the Autumn and Winter (closed late November to mid January) for all types of gardening products including composts and fertilisers at very competitive prices. Annual subs for 2017: £4, concessions £2. Programme of events through the year for members and their family or friends. See our website for more details. Eltham Choral Society Westmount Road Eltham Choral Society is an amateur, mixed choir of around 90 voices that rehearses at Eltham Park Methodist Church, Westmount Road, Eltham, every Thursday evening in term-time. New members welcome. no audition necessary. We produce four concerts a year, of music from the choral tradition, from renaissance to new music. Eltham Escape Rooms 3 St Marys Place SE9 1BL An escape room, also known as an "escape game", is a physical adventure game in which players solve a series of puzzles and riddles using clues, hints, and strategy to complete the objectives at hand. Players are given a set time limit to unveil the secret plot which is hidden within the rooms. Eltham Lacemakers Progress Hall Admiral Seymour Road SE9 1SL We are a group of ladies who meet on Friday mornings to make Bobbin lace. We meet term time only from 9.15am to midday. We make all types of popular lace and have a very experienced tutor. If you would like to see our work or try to see if it's for you please feel free to pop in. We have the necessary equipment to loan newcomers. Eltham Stars Academy We provide the highest quality of training brought to you, exclusively by current film, TV and West End DBS checked professionals. Our classes are aimed at having fun, making friends, learning new skills and gaining confidence. Our tutors will always be on hand to aid and give advice. So whether you're here for fun, friends or because you want to break into the industry, we're sure we can help and be with you every step of the way. Eltham Writers Group Eltham Writers Group was established in October 2017. We are a friendly group whose aims are to share our writing, provide feedback, allow writers to develop, grow their craft and give support to each other in our writing ambitions. We are a diverse group with a wide range of experiences, memories and gifts which we bring to our writing. Currently we have nearly 20 writers working on short stories, novels, memoirs and plays. People bring along their writing to read and receive comments and encouragement from the rest of the group. EMILY JADE THEATRE ARTS Eltham United Reformed Church Emily Jade Theatre Arts is a dance and theatre training school established by an experienced and professional teacher. Classes for children aged 2.5 - 10 years in nursery, ballet, tap, jazz, drama, musical theatre and street dance are currently available. Trial classes in all disciplines are available by appointment. All classes at EJTA are taught by fully qualified, DBS checked and insured teachers who are experts in their field, and our Patrons are very highly regarded. We endeavour to provide training of the highest standard, helping every child to achieve their full potential in all disciplines. Whether the aim is to have fun learning and developing new skills, or to pursue a professional career in the world of dance and musical theatre, we aspire to meet the needs of every child. Folk Mob Club Blackheath Rugby Club Kidbrooke Lane Wednesday nights, 8-11pm. First Wednesday of the month performers invited from the floor onto the stage, with a PA system, and every other Wednesday an acoustic singaround session. Gambit Juniors Chess Club Eltham Park Baptist Church Friendship Centre SE9 1JE This is one of two children's chess clubs in Royal Greenwich and is for beginners who want to learn to play and children who want to play better chess. Girls and boys from six years old are very welcome to come along to give chess a try. There are however, many children that already play chess and the club invites them to come along as well. All children will be prepared for local chess tournaments and encouraged to take part in these during the ongoing chess season. Mums and dads are welcome to stay during the session to observe. One aim of the club is to identify talented players who may be put forward into teams that will play for Greenwich and represent the borough in tournaments against other London boroughs. SE9 N/A The Greenwich Academy of Music and Drama is an exciting venture for people living, working, and at school in the Borough of Greenwich, bringing performing arts groups and ensembles to all members of our community. H.A.L.O. Middle Park Community Centre Hall SE9 5SD A social group for mentally and physically disabled people. We meet on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Tuesday of the month at Middle Park Community Centre. Could you spare a couple of hours to volunteer and help? Do you know anyone else that would be interested in helping or joining us as a member of H.A.L.O.? For more information, phone Vicky on 020 8856 4629 HookedOnCrochet.net 46 Greenvale Road SE9 1PD I am a passionate crocheter and have coming from a commercial background I decided to start my own (online) business selling my handmade creations, for instance hats, booties, shawls for babies, toddlers, kids. adults, (sun)glasses cases, heat pads and much more. They are ready for purchase or can be made to order in your favourite colour combinations or various sizes. I also design crochet patterns and sell them or include them complimentary to crochet kits. If you are interested to learn the art of crochet I would like to welcome you to one of my crochet classes for single persons and small groups. Last but not least I am (re)selling knitting/ crocheting yarn of my favourite brand, ICE Yarns. If you are interested to learn more about any of my services please don't hesitate to contact me :) Intimate Opera Club Southend Crescent A friendly group that rehearses on Monday evenings in Holy Trinity Church, Southend Crescent and performs concerts of operatic arias, ensembles and choruses, together with items from light opera and musical shows. Joe's Guitar Tuition The Den, 210 Middle Park Avenue (and am mobile!) SE9 5SF Lion Swimming Club for people with Physical or Learning Disabilities The Eltham Centre 2 Archery Road SE9 1HA Tel: none We are the Lion Swimming Club and we have sessions at the Eltham Centre at the following times: Spa pool (temp 32c) Tues, Weds & Thurs evenings 6-30 - 8pm plus Sunday mornings 10am - 12noon. Main and family pools Sunday mornings 10am - 11.30am. The club is open to anyone with any kind of permanent physical, learning, mental or sensory disability. All ages welcome. We are also looking for volunteer helpers. 020 8859 3998. Little Angels - Stay and Play Group Eltham Green Community Church SE9 6DR Little Angels is a stay-and-play group for parents and carers with pre-school aged children. We meet every Tuesday during term-time from 10am-12 noon. Every half term, we have a theme that ties in with a craft activity, a story and song time and also in the play activities we set up, as much as it possibly can. During each session we also provide refreshments. Little Wings music classes 41 Pullman Place SE9 6EG Our Saturday classes are fun for all the family! Everyone is encouraged to join in from young babies to grandmas. There is lots of singing and dancing and the usual parachute and bubble popping fun! There is also free play time after the class where refreshments are provided and parents/carers can get to know other local families. Saturdays 10.30am Location All Saints Church Hall, Bercta Road, London, SE9 3TZ Price £6 (siblings £3) drop in only, refreshments included Mecca Bingo, Eltham Hill SE9 5ED Cheap and exciting nights out with great food, service and atmosphere! New Eltham Community Productions 435-9 Footscray Road New Eltham Community Productions is New Eltham's local amateur drama and musical society, putting on plays, musicals and pantos throughout the year for our local community and beyond. We rehearse at The Centre on Tuesday or Thursday evenings from 8-10pm - visit our website to find out more or email us at [email protected] Coldharbour Evangelical Free Church Southold Rise SE9 3BG Parent and Toddlers Group meet every Thursday at 10.00 am. All are welcome but children MUST be accompanied by an adult at all times. Rotary Club of Chislehurst Chislehurst Golf Club, Camden Park Road SE9 BR7 5HJ Chislehurst Rotary Club is part of the wider national and international Rotary organisation; in Great Britain and Northern Ireland alone, there are 38,500 Rotarians Our aims in Chislehurst mirror those of other Rotary clubs: Service: raising money and directly helping those in the local and wider community. Friendship: weekly meetings of professional and business people offer the chance of mixing with like-minded individuals. International: awareness and fund raising for specific projects overseas identified by the club. We are a group with no political or religious affiliation. We simply believe in helping others and having an enjoyable time in each other's company. Please visit our website to find out more about us and request an invitation to a meeting. Soulja Taekwondo Academy New Eltham Library (C.A.N.E) 3 Southwood Road Friendly and professional martial arts training offering Olympic style Taekwondo and Self Defence classes. Classes at New Eltham Library every Tuesdays and Thursdays 5.50m-7.00pm. Come and try a session for FREE! South East London Meccano Club Falconwood Community Centre 31-39 Falconwood Parade, Welling SE9 DA16 2PG The South East London Meccano Club was formed in 1976 to give Meccano enthusiasts in the area a chance to meet and swap ideas. We hold four meetings a year and an exhibition in the autumn. Members receive the club newsletter SELMEC News four times a year. At the informal meetings members bring along their latest models (completed, or in whatever unfinished state they may be in at the time!) and all are given the chance to give a short talk about them. You can also buy Meccano spare parts from one of the dealers who regularly turn up. The Annual Meccano Show (usually in October) is a one day event in Eltham, open to the public. All members are encouraged to attend - with their models of course! We also attend many other local events. We have over 50 members of all ages, and it doesn't matter if you are an experienced modeller or someone starting with their very first set. By the way, you don't actually have to build Meccano models to join the club - although it is better that you do' the meetings would be dull otherwise - but some members prefer to collect rare parts or sets, or are interested in Meccano literature. In fact, the club is open to anyone, male or female, with an interest in Meccano. The annual subscription is £5.00 for adults/family membership (at the same address). If you would like more information about the club, please contact our Secretary or just turn up at one of our meetings or exhibitions. We look forward to seeing you! St John the Baptist Church Bellringers Eltham High Street SE9 5LX Tuesday: 8.00 - 9.30pm (practice) Sunday: 9.15 - 10.00am (service ringing) If you are looking for a new mental and physical challenge, have you considered learning to ring church bells? No musical ability necessary - although a sense of rhythm helps! We are a small and friendly group, and welcome both existing ringers and new learners to join us. If you are interested in learning, either contact the Tower Captain, David Holdridge, or come along to one of our Tuesday evening practices from 8:00 to 9:30 pm. Storytelling in Hope Circle St Marys Community Centre 180, Eltham High Street Informal storytelling group 8 - 10 pm, Tuesday evenings. We share stories, often around a theme, following the old oral tradition. Beginners welcome. StreetVibes Youth 6 Eltham High Street FREE and subsidised music and media activities for young people aged 14-19 years old. We operate as StreetVibes Academy, a school that offers an alternative, creative curriculum. We have top class facilities and services that we are offering to the wider community. These include recording studio hire, rehearsal rooms, professional tuition in music technology, production and sound engineering, lyric development and vocals, filmmaking and video production, web design and animation. Plus live instrument tuition in bass, drums, guitar and keyboards. Studio SE9 Personal Training and Small Group Classes in fully equipped private fitness studio. Nutrition advice and diet support. Swimming pools open 7 days a week, adult and children lessons. Also houses a fitness centre, and classes. The Priory Players SE9 1 The Priory Players are a friendly group, open to anybody interested in amateur dramatics. We meet every Tuesday at the Progress Hall from 8.00pm to 10.00pm and anybody who is interested in coming along one evening to see what we get up to is most welcome. The Sixties Club SE9 9BZ Social club for people in their 60s. Time Out - A Coffee Club for Over-55s Every Friday morning from 10.30am-12 noon, we meet for tea, coffee, homemade bread pudding and cakes with over 55s from across the local area. We also have a ten minute message. The friendly atmosphere means Time Out has generated a strong sense of community where everyone is welcome. Utopian Operatic Society Lionel Road Community Centre We are an amateur dramatic society who rehearse on a Thursday evening 7.30 p.m. - 10 p.m. New members welcome. Our next show is Snow White to be performed 11th - 12th March 2017.

Lej Assassination Tango hos Itunes for 39 kr. John J. (Robert Duvall) is a seasoned hit man sent on a job to Argentina. When the General he's sent to kill delays his return to the country, John passes the time with Manuela (Luciana Pedraza), a beautiful dancer who becomes his teacher and guide into Argentina's sensual world of the tango. Spellbound by the rich and mysterious world Manuela has shown him, his idyll is shattered when the reality of why he's there comes crashing down around him.

Dominic Matteo gets all clear following brain tumour rehabilitation (Image credit: Paul Barker) Former Liverpool and Leeds defender Dominic Matteo has revealed he has fully recovered from his brain tumour. The 45-year-old had surgery in November to remove the growth and has undergone six months of rehabilitation. Matteo revealed the news on Twitter on Thursday and thanked the staff at Leeds General Infirmary and St James's Hospital. Yesterday I got THE phone call, the one I've been praying for… my brain scan is clear. After 6 months of fear pain rehab surgery and treatment. I'm healthy! It feels unreal! The LGI &St James hospital saved my life. They were simply incredible. Thankyou will never be enough! pic.twitter.com/8nBY0NSHCt— Dominic Matteo (@Dominicmatteo21) April 23, 2020 "Yesterday I got THE phone call, the one I've been praying for… my brain scan is clear," the former Scotland international tweeted. "After 6 months of fear pain rehab surgery and treatment. I'm healthy! It feels unreal! "The LGI &St James hospital saved my life. They were simply incredible. Thankyou will never be enough!" Matteo, who represented Scotland six times, retired in 2007 after also representing Blackburn and Stoke. Dominic Matteo

the fire chief candidate favored by the firefighters. Alameda Councilmember Jim Oddie was found to have violated the City Charter's provision that prohibits political interference. But the independent investigator's report released Wednesday evening was, at the same time, inconclusive, recommending the city amend the specific charter section because it is overly broad. The finding overshadowed the fact that most of the allegations made against the City Council by City Manager Jill Keimach lacked evidence, according to the findings. Posted in Alameda, Alameda City Council, city charter, independent investigation, Jill Keimach, Jim Oddie, report, violation. Bookmark the permalink.

Q: What resources are available to learn how to create an app in Android Studio? Im a noob when it comes to Android Studio and would like to know any websites or books that would help me get started. I know some of the basics but get stuck on moving from one activity to another. I've searched online and even tried youtube with no luck. At this point I don't mind paying for some online courses. A: I used YouTube alot for a 2d side stroller paymon wang-lotfi has a great engine. theNewBoston was also has some great tutorials and ThechernoProject is good for Java game programming. A: The new boston is good as far as learning the very basics for free. But the best that I've found are on Udacity, although not all of their courses are free. So if you really want to understand your code with project-based learning, I would recommend Udacity, as long as you are willing to pay a bit (Although their free courses are still good).

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I dread people asking my opinion on stuff. Whether it be the presidential elections. Or what kind of music I listen to. Cos the truth is I'm not sure anymore. I can't remember the last time I sat down and read the papers. Or watched something other than X Factor on the telly. My cultural references are determined by what Gary Barlow says. I've become an expert at the knowledgeable nod. Combining the authoritative 'ummm', when I find myself, sometimes for the fourth or fifth time that day, totally out of my depth. The best line of defence, I've found, is just don't say anything, otherwise you get your self into a complete conversational cul de sac. I'm sure I used to have opinions about stuff other than whether Tyrone should leave Kirsty if she doesn't go to a counsellor on Corrie. For the meantime, maybe what Nancy and I need is a bit of variety. A greater wealth of collective experience to draw from when I try and cover up the vacuum if someone attempts to engage me in conversation about something current. My dad gave Nancy some money for her birthday and suggested we do something nice for her instead of putting it in her bank account. So I thought I'd get her posh swimming lessons. That way she gets to go in a pool that isn't sub zero temperatures. And I get to take her to somewhere once a week that isn't Card Factory, Boots, or Aldi. So I rang up to book her in. And the woman asked how experienced Nancy was at swimming. And I asked her what she meant. And she said, what's her ability. I said she'd been to loads more lessons than she actually has. And now she has a trial. She's one and she has a trial to see how good she is at something. She's one, and she's being tested against other one year olds. I thought the main hurdle with posh swimming lessons was finding the money to pay 12 quid for half an hour every week. Not testing her to see if she's the next Michael Phelps. Have I inadvertently become a pushy mum? I genuinely only wanted Nancy and I to have a nice time for thirty minutes every Thursday morning. Now I'm nervous for her that she won't remember how to cling onto the side of the pool. Or might freak out if they try to dunk her underwater. To be frank, it's sometimes a complete ball bag trying to work out what kind of person you are after having a child, let alone, what kind of a parent you want to be. I know I don't want to be shouty mum. Or a mum who tries too hard to be down with the kids. I want to be able to cook. Not just hummus on toast, but stuff that looks good, smells nice, and takes longer than 2 minutes to make. I want to know enough about politics that I don't embarrass myself if Nancy asks a question. I want to feel driven by work, committed to my family and know more about what's going on in the world than who Nicole Scherzinger's mentoring this year. But for the meantime, I want Nancy to be a one year old who doesn't have to meet anyone's expectations, other than to be happy and healthy. And especially not when it's costing twelve quid every half hour for the privilege. But, in the words of Gary Barlow, 'I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.' Wise words Gaz. I guess it's difficult to know who to take advice from these days.

More to the Story conversations with refugees Reviews and Media Category Archives: Refugees in WA Ways of Being Here Diverse voices matter in Australia more than ever. Ways of being here is pocket book-sized collection of four short stories that showcases the work of four t alented African writers living in Australia – Raefeif Ismail, Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Tinashe Jakwa and Yout A Alaak. Maxine Beneba Clarke writes in her introduction: "Black people of African descent – black diaspora settlers and migrants and descendants of such – have been living in Australia for over 200 years. Yet local African diaspora fiction has been markedly absent from Australian shelves". Ways of being here is a terrific read. You can read it slowly, dipping into it over time, or in a few hours on an afternoon or evening you might have free. Either way, I guarantee you will want to read it several times. These beautifully written stories will capture your imagination and your attention. The four write of love, loss, the challenge of living between cultures, intergenerational clashes, of being made welcome and of being isolated. Rafeif Ismail's moving story, 'Light at the end', about two young women has language that sings off the page with emotion. He writes: "When did you become this desperate, desolate thing? When did the world's colours dull and laughter have a price? Fear is the chain you wear, shackling you between walls of loneliness, shame, regret and, most terribly, hope." Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes story, 'When the sky looks like the belly of a donkey', tackles the cultural challenges of starting a new life in Australia – a place so different from your home country. Yirga also captures what could be a group of typical Aussie blokes with insightful writing. The story about Ermi, usually mis-pronounced by many of his workmates as Army, is one I have heard from many migrants and people of refugee background. It is about starting at the bottom of the ladder, trying to fit in and always missing the people left behind. I laughed and I cringed but by the end of the story I smiled with hope. All four short stories provide a valuable opportunity to reflect about the lives of others. Ways of being here is published by Margaret River Press and the Centre for Stories, 2017 This entry was posted in Refugee stories, Refugees in WA, Telling other people's stories on May 31, 2017 by More to the Story. Stocking the pantry CARAD is a fabulous organisation in Western Australia that has assisted thousands of refugees and asylum seekers with services such as settlement support, advocacy, referral, financial aid, English lessons, homework support and emergency supplies, including food and other pantry items. As winter approaches and the number of CARAD's non-income asylum seeker clients has increased, the pantry is running low and they need your help. They're looking for donations of the following: cooking oil, sugar, salt, pepper, plain flour, cereal, instant coffee, tea, long-life milk, basmati rice, tinned tuna, tinned tomatoes, tinned fruit, honey, dried chickpeas or lentils, nuts and dried fruit, shavers, shaving cream, body wash or soap, toothbrushes, shampoo, male and female deodorant, laundry detergent, dish washing liquid, and tissues. You can drop off your donations to their office at 245 Stirling St, Perth, Monday to Friday between 9am – 4pm. Please spread the word. For those of you who are keen to get involved and support some of our most vulnerable asylum seekers and refugees, volunteering with organisations such as CARAD is a great option. They have volunteering information sessions coming up, held at the CARAD office on: Monday 22 May from 12-1 pm Wednesday 24 May from 5.30-6.30 pm Sessions will cover what CARAD does, the specific volunteer roles available, and the process for becoming involved. After attending an information session, volunteers will then be invited to participate in a 'Building Bridges' Training Course. To register your attendance please email [email protected]. This entry was posted in get involved, Refugees in WA on May 18, 2017 by More to the Story. Our Common Goal It's not every evening that you get to tour a mosque, cheer on an enthusiastic game of soccer and attend a board meeting! That was how my involvement with the Edmund Rice Centre unfolded on Monday night starting with the launch of our second Common Goal program. Common Goal involves a partnership between the Edmund Rice Centre WA, Football West, WA Police and the Canning Mosque. It aims to give young people opportunities for leadership training and education through a soccer academy. After the launch event, the Canning Mosque team (aged from 14 -18) took to the field against a WA Police team in an evenly matched game. Over 100 people watched and cheered on the game and I have to say some of the skills on display would have rivalled the A-League! Canning Mosque was victorious with a 1-0 win. Common Goal also aims to foster positive relationships between people from diverse communities and assist in strengthening police engagement by providing fun and structured sporting activities where anyone is welcome. As a board member of the Edmund Rice Centre WA, I was delighted to hear the thoughts of the Turkish Muslim Society, Canning Mosque representatives and senior members of the WA Police about how the program was making a difference in the local community. I was also honored to tour the Mosque with the Iman before the game and understand more about this often misunderstood religion. The highlight for me though was watching young people from very diverse cultural backgrounds mingling, playing and laughing together. It gives me hope for our future. This entry was posted in Events, Refugees in WA on May 3, 2017 by More to the Story. I thought I would take this opportunity to reflect on 2016 in relation to refugees, asylum seekers and the importance of stories to help us understand what is happening in the world. There were many low points, but also some inspiring highlights that made me marvel at the strength and humanity of others. I hope you'll take time to read this longer post from me. It was a challenging year in Australia and the international community. The conflict in Syria worsened but I am hopeful that the tentative peace deal brokered by the Russians may help. The escalating violence and insecurity continued in South Sudan and Yemen. We saw an amazing welcome initially from Angela Merkel and Germany in welcoming thousands of fleeing refugees as the crisis of displaced people had a dramatic impact in Europe. Populist groups in the UK, USA, Austria, Denmark, Germany, France and the Netherlands used the world's biggest refugee crisis to spread fear and hate, inflaming tensions about people who may be different to us. In Australia where I live, the re-emergence of the One Nation party led by Pauline Hanson, has reflected these sentiments. Walls, both physical and metaphorical, have been built in countries around the world to stop many of the people most in need from seeking help. According to the UNHCR, 1 in every 113 people globally is now either an asylum-seeker, internally displaced or a refugee. As a writer and former journalist, I followed with fascination and often despair the twitter postings of Bana al-Abed, a young seven-year-old girl whose postings offered the world a glimpse into the deprivation and violence in the besieged city of Aleppo. Bana and her family were recently evacuated to the Turkish capital. I worried about writer and journalist friends in some of the world's trouble spots. I could only be thankful that people like my friend Karl Schembri were able to post on the ground reports from tragic situations in Yemen and Syria. Ben Doherty and the team from Guardian Australia continued to lead the way with the most in-depth updates on the refugee and asylum seeker situation as it related to Australia. In a global exclusive, the Nauru files which included over 2,000 documents showing the despair and horror of Australia's offshore detention, were leaked to the Guardian. This was followed by graphic reports on the ABC's 4 Corners that also screened around the world. I know, as someone who worked in news for many years, a picture can tell a story "better than a thousand words" In 2015 it was the image of Aylan, the two-year-old Syrian refugee, lying face down on a Turkish beach that seemed to galvanise western countries into responding to the urgency of the Syrian refugee crisis. Australia increased its refugee intake by 12,000 to help Syrian and Iraqi refugees. After a very slow start (why did it take nearly a year?) 2016 finally saw some of these refugees arrive in Australia. In 2016 it was the image of young Oman in the back of the ambulance, which I am sure will show up in all your news feeds, as one of the photos of the year. This photograph and video seemed particularly poignant and tragic to me. Oman was wearing shorts and a t-shirt featuring a cartoon character. His hands were in his lap. In a moment of pure horror, he lifted his left hand to his face, ran his fingers through his hair and then back down the side of his face before putting his hands back in his lap. He looked at the palm of his hand covered in blood and, unsure what to do, turns it over and wipes it on the seat. In that moment, he could have been our son, our grandson, our brother or our nephew, trying to get something off his hand. He looked straight at the camera, from a bright orange seat in the back of an ambulance where medics were rescuing people amidst the violence and chaos, towards the voices. He blinked and looked away… but I couldn't look away from Oman. On a brighter note there was the uplifting news of a refugee team being selected for the Rio Olympics. I was drawn to 17 year old Yusra Mardini who saw terror in the eyes of her fellow passengers as the inflatable dinghy she was in trying to cross the Mediterranean began taking on water. Most of the people in the boat could not swim, but 17-year-old Yusra could, and she dragged them to safety. The year ended with good news in Australia with a landmark decision in the Federal Court of Australia that ruled against the Minister of Immigration on the question of citizenship for people of refugee background. The case, brought by the Refugee Council of Australia with pro bono legal support, provides hope for 10,231 people that the department confirmed were in similar situations. This group of people from a refugee background have had their citizenship applications 'put in the bottom drawer', as the Department has dragged its feet in offering this large group of new Australians citizenship. Personally, it was an amazing year with my book More to the story –conversations with refugees published by Margaret River Press selling very well. There are a small number of copies left that can be purchased online. I participated in writers festivals- the highlights being Big Sky in Geraldton and the Perth Writers Festival. I was a guest at community events, such as the Katanning Harmony Festival, where I gave the address on Australia Day. I gave library talks and attended book clubs throughout the year to help raise awareness about refugees and asylum seekers. Throughout the year I met hundreds of people, many of whom told me they were inspired to volunteer for organisations working with people from a refugee background including CARAD, Refugee Rights Action Network and Joining the Dots' Welcome Dinner Project. More of you have signed up to receive information or made donations to organisations like the Refugee Council of Australia, Australian Red Cross, Amnesty International and Edmund Rice Centre WA where I am proud to serve on the board. I truly believe that hundreds of people who have read the personal stories featured in the book have taken time to reflect on what is happening around the world and in their own lives. One of the year's highlights for me was my involvement with Shout Out, a public speaking program for young people from a refugee and migrant background run by the Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network. I feel very privileged to have been a part of helping some fabulous young people to develop their personal stories and public speaking skills. Perhaps the most satisfying experiences in 2016 came in schools where I spoke. I started the year on a high with the Margaret River Senior High School Social Justice group – why don't more schools have a group like this? I visited schools in the Geraldton region and elsewhere around Western Australia, and ended my engagements at Churchlands Senior High School with a day full of talks to different classes. We know that many schools around Australia now have More to the Story in their school libraries or are studying it as part of the curriculum. I continued to be inspired by my close friends – Paul and Naw Bi from Burma; John, Farid and Fauzia from Afghanistan; Piok and Akech from South Sudan. We made more new friends as our lives became more involved with people from a refugee background – some of whom I hope will feature in my next book. We celebrated Karen New Year, Eid and other festivals with people of different cultural backgrounds. We heard sad stories, tragic stories and inspirational and happy stories And finally I made good progress on my doctoral studies about life writing and human rights in relation to refugees. I am approaching the half way mark of a four year course and I hope my research and writing might make a small difference. As 2016 drew to a close I like to believe that hope can shine a bright light in darkness. There are some thoughts on this from World Vision that you might like to read. I hope you'll keep following this website in 2017. You can sign up to follow it and receive information as I post – just click the button on the right. Sometimes it is helpful to have useful information about an issue in one place and don't forget you can contact me via the website or join in the conversation via the More to the Story facebook page. I wish everyone peace in the coming year. This entry was posted in Australian Asylum Seeking Policy, Events, get involved, Global Trends, politics, Refugee stories, Refugees in WA, Telling other people's stories on January 4, 2017 by More to the Story. The theme of this year's Refugee Week celebrations on 19-25 June is "with courage let us all combine" which is taken from the second verse of our national anthem Advance Australia Fair. Refugee Week is time that we celebrate the vital contribution and wonderful diversity that refugees bring to Australia. It is also a time when we think about the courage and resilience of all refugees, as well as all those who speak out against persecution and injustice around the world. World Refugee Day is held every year on 20 June as part of the week and the UNHCR reminds us there are more than 60 million refugees around the world, half of whom are women and children. The Refugee Council of Australia says: "The week is a call for unity and action for a fairer society. The Refugee Week theme encourages Australians to celebrate the best aspects of our nation's welcome of refugees, frankly acknowledge unjust treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, and commit to working together to ensure that we do better." I'm particularly pleased that the national posters (see below) for this year's Refugee Week features the Butler Falcons, an all-women's multicultural AFL team organised through the Edmund Rice Centre here in WA. For more information about Refugee Week, there's a dedicated website http://www.refugeeweek.org.au which includes bulletins, posters and events. I'll also keep you updated about news and events during Refugee Week here on this website. This entry was posted in Events, Refugees in WA on June 8, 2016 by More to the Story. Young refugees being positive role models The Makur Chuot family from South Sudan are an extraordinary success story when it comes to refugees making their way in a new country. The West Australian recently ran a feature article where Akech and Mangar talked about their extraordinary sporting and community achievements. Mangar will head to the Rio Olympics in June as a champion sprinter and Akech is the first African woman to play for Western Australia's State AFL team. Both pay tribute to their mother who has guided and helped them through some of the darkest times in their life to a brighter future in Australia. "The pain of unnecessary death is wielding great power in the young lives of people such as Akech Makur Chuot. The 23-year-old's father, a chief in the South Sudanese village of Pagarau, was killed by rebels in a hail of machinegun bullets barely a month after she was conceived. He died unaware his daughter was on her way. Her mother managed to take her daughter and seven siblings across the border to a Kenyan refugee camp and eventually to their new life in WA. While her father's leadership genes inspired a desire to make a difference, it was the rawness of a recent murder in Makur Chuot's new hometown which accelerated that quest. When her 17-year-old friend Kuol Akut was allegedly murdered during a brawl at a Girrawheen party in February, it was a violent incident like so many others blighting the lives of young African immigrants who should have been on their way to a more promising future. But Makur Chuot and a pack of her Perth peers are compiling compelling resumes through sport and acts of social conscience, anxious to role model positive ways of life." Akech with her Mother and brother Mangar This entry was posted in Refugees in WA, Uncategorized on May 12, 2016 by More to the Story. 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The Saratoga Performing Arts Center will receive $1.75 million in state funds to pay for improvements to its amphitheater. Due to be completed before the beginning of next summer's season, the upgrades will include new surfaces, railings and panels for the ramps from the SPAC lawn to the amphitheater balcony, and new lighting that will preserve SPAC's signature globe lamps but will be more energy efficient. News of the funding, provided by the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, was announced Wednesday at SPAC's annual members meeting, held in the Hall of Springs, adjacent to SPAC's grounds in the Saratoga Spa State Park. In other news from the meeting, two public radio stations, Troy-based WMHT and WRTI in Philadelphia, will broadcast four Philadelphia Orchestra concerts that will be recorded at SPAC this summer. The recordings also will be available for listening on the orchestra's website. Elizabeth Sobol, SPAC's president and CEO, said it will be the first time in the orchestra's 52 years of SPAC residency that SPAC concerts will be broadcast on WRTI and the first time that WMHT has dedicated a series to SPAC performances. Sobol also announced that SPAC is partnering with miSci, the Museum of Science and Innovation in Schenectady, to present the "Out of this World Festival," which will explore art and the cosmos. Related events will take place throughout August, starting off with the Philadelphia Orchestra's performance of Holst's "The Planets," complete with NASA space footage shown on screens. Audiences will be able to star-gaze with at telescopes around SPAC's reflecting pool and attend events for adults and children, including a new speaker series featuring thinkers engaged in the arts and sciences. In another collaborative effort, SPAC, SaratogaArtsFest and Saratoga Shakespeare Company will present "Shakespeare in the Pines" on July 20, which will feature a one-hour musical adaptation of "Romeo & Juliet" prior to that evening's New York City Ballet performance. Finally, Sobol said SPAC will host its first Festival of Young Artists on June 3 on SPAC's grounds. The free festival will bring 450 young dancers, musicians, singers, poets and visual artists from around the Capital Region with events including a poetry slam, student art show, pop-up performances and large concert featuring the Empire State Youth Orchestra, the Capital District Youth Chorale and Northeast Ballet Company.

A Toronto neighbourhood wants to run its own transit service Do you have trouble getting to the nearest GO station? Perhaps you and your neighbours should consider crowdfunding your own bus service. That's what the neighbourhood of Humber Bay Shores has decided to do. A GoFundMe page started by the Parklawn Lakeshore Improvement Association is seeking to raise $50,000 for the purchase of shuttle buses and implementation of a new, self-made commuter route. The aim is to provide residents with transit access to Mimico GO Station nearby. According to the organization, the goals are twofold. First, to connect residents with the GO station. But the second goal is important as well: to demonstrate the need for transit access from the TTC. The proposed route for the shuttle. Photo from PLIA's GoFundMe. The idea is to sell memberships for the proposed service, which would thus be a public/private hybrid. Membership would be open to neighbourhood residents, but the shuttle wouldn't be available on a per-ride basis. You may remember a few years ago when Liberty Village attempted to create its own transit route. The route was ultimately shut down for violating city rules pertaining to the TTC's status as the city's transit provider. The PLIA ensures that this won't happen with their new service because it's not selling individual ride tickets, which organizers believe is permitted under current city regulations. If funding attempts are successful, the service will begin operation later this year. As of today, the group has raised $400, though the campaign has only just launched. George Socka

Driving distance between Pinesdale, MT and Cameron, MT is 248.76 miles (or 400.35 kilometers). If you drove an average car (using about 3.6 gallons of gas per mile), the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel. Leaving from Pinesdale, MT you would reach Cameron, MT in about 3 hours 56 mins if you keep an average speed of miles per hour, assuming you don't make any breaks or get stuck in traffic. This is a map overview of the best driving route from Pinesdale, MT to Cameron, MT in which you can see the origin and destination points marked with A (Pinesdale) and B (Cameron) respectively as well as blue line along the road route you can take. You can zoom in to see more details, including road numbers and even street names both in Pinesdale, MT and Cameron, MT as well as every other town you may pass by on your way. To cover the 248.76 mi that separate Cameron from Pinesdale you are going to need between of fuel, considering you drive an average car (30 mpg) and , if you drive an SUV or a heavy car (20 mpg). If you drive a fuel efficient car (45 mpg), your consumption will only be . Depending on the fuel efficiency level of your car, driving from Pinesdale to Cameron will cost you between and . An average car would make the trip for . We calculate the route cost using real time average gas prices for the US and other costs such as tolls are not included in this calculation. To help you plan your trip from Pinesdale to Cameron, we offer a detailed map together with full, turn by turn, driving directions from Pinesdale, MT to Cameron, MT. The flying distance represent the straight distance from Pinesdale to Cameron, the length of an hypothetical flight trip between the geographic center of Pinesdale, MT and the geographic center of Cameron, MT. We also offer nearby airports to both Pinesdale to Cameron and a flight ticket price comparison form, in case you want to make that hypothetical flight real :).

Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts Posted on February 12, 2012 by bernardovillela In recent years there have been nationwide screenings of the Oscar-nominated short films, which is a great thing for many reasons: clearly it promotes the filmmakers but also as a filmmaker and Oscar spectator you'd like to have an informed opinion based on more than just the title and/or the snippet shown, which I have operated under many times. Clearly seeing only a few seconds of each film as opposed to each in their entirety can skew your perspective. It's rather enjoyable to discover these films and artists and while I don't feel this year's field is as strong as last year's there are some very good contenders all the same. Pentecost (Irish Film Board) Is a hilarious film from Ireland, which at my screening got the only round of applause upon its completion. It tells the tale of an altar server's chance at redemption at a big service. It plays like a sports film at times and all its laughs are good natured ones. Wotan Wilke Mohring and Julia Richter in Raju (Interfilm Berlin) A tale of the complications a German couple encounters in trying to adopt a child in India. The intentions of the tale and message are fine but there are a few narrative stumbles and predictable moments that hold the film back from maximizing its potential. Ciarán Hinds in The Shore (Screen Northern Ireland) This film from Northern Ireland features not only the only star turn (Ciáran Hinds) in this year's nominees but perhaps the simplest through-line. A great film about forgiveness and friendship above all else. Time Freak Michael Nathanson in Time Freak It seems the American entry is usually comedic (based on these two years I've seen- not much to go on but bear with me). There's been a surreal or silly edge to both, however, God of Love (Last year's winner) is a fully articulated thought and this while funny felt a bit more like an ambitious sketch. There's talent and film craft at work but it wasn't as narratively whole or as ambitious as other entrants. Tuba Atlantic Edvard Hægstad and Terje Ranes in Tuba Atlantic (Norwegian Film School) In a short tonality matters greatly and is harder to establish for you have less time so your choices have to be that much more certain, your intentions that much clearer. Therefore when a short not only plays as comedic and dramatic it's twice as impressive. The film also creates very well-defined and unique but not irrationally quirky characters. It touches on many of the themes that the other nominees do but handles each quickly and deftly and creates its world quickly and precisely. It's full of surprises laughs and emotion and the most complete and fulfilling short I've seen since this time last year. More information about these shorts can be found here. The Academy Awards are on Sunday, February 26th on ABC. Spielberg Sunday- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Harrison Ford and Sean Connery in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Paramount) Owing to the fact that I have decided to honor Steven Spielberg this year with my version of a Lifetime Achievement Award I figured it was an appropriate time to dust off some old reviews I wrote when I took a course on his work. The remarks still hold true, he is an amazing filmmaker. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is better than the original for many reasons. It's a film that doesn't just hit you but involves you more in the story line. Part of why it is easier to go along for that ride is because you've been prepared by the previous film to expect certain things despite this there are also some new and creative elements in this movie which separates it. In the beginning we get what is seemingly an unattached scene. In this one we flash back to when Indiana was a child, played by River Phoenix. His chase for a crucifix establishes a few things. First, it establishes that this will be yet another religious relic that they will be in search of. Second, and more importantly it defines who his arch enemy is. We also get glimpses into the character's psyche whereas previously he was a very external being we get this just through seeing past events. Young Indiana picks up a whip for the first time when coming face to face with a lion. Then we see the interplay between him and his father and can see how the boy doesn't understand how his father could've dedicated his whole life to these adventures especially in his mother's absence. When Indiana is pegged for a mission the discussion of it is much more confrontational than in the first. There is a lot more give and take. Indy shows part of his disbelief in the grail while we are told the history in much more detail than we were in the first film when Indy was in search of the Ark of the Covenant. He's very reluctant to go but is urged on by the fact that his father has been kidnapped this after him mysteriously receiving his father's Grail Diary. This film is full of riddles and mind games which makes it that much more entertaining. He arrives in the library that was a converted church and with Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody) they have to solve a puzzle of where the catacombs are. They look for the Roman numerals but can't find one. Indy on a hunch runs up the stairs and sees the X all across the floor. Down in the dark with all the rats Spielberg reaches a moment of terror with all the rats crawling along. Another great touch this film had was in keeping with the traditions of the 40s and 50s in that we could never quite figure anyone out. I was genuinely surprised by Ilsa both when we were shown she was a Nazi and then later when she mislead her leader in the choosing which grail was the Holy Grail. That coupled with her femme fatale status of seducing men only to ruin them made her seem like something out of a film noir. The tandem of Sean Connery and Harrison Ford worked very well together. Their timing is great especially when they were both tied up and were trying to talk to one another face to face and their heads kept swiveling side to side. Their relationship dominated significant portions of the film and they exchanged great moves and funny lines constantly. On the zeppelin the ball was in Junior's court and stayed their as they escaped but in the plane Senior had to shoot the machine gun and shot the tail off and was hysterical in denying it. Then on the beach he got the seagulls flapping to knock down the second plane. What I also found quite interesting in both this film and the first although it was more prominent in this film was the involvement and use of the Nazis. It was interesting for me because I had believed Spielberg had never addressed any aspect of the war in any sort of way until making 'Schindler's List.' Having established the Nazi interest in the occult and in conquering religion I think that's why there was more Nazi involvement here. It also allowed for a hilarious scene where Ford dressed as a Nazi who comes face to face with Adolf Hitler who instead of burning the grail diaries signs it for him and moves on from there. For me the only stumbling blocks to make this a completely fulfilling experience cam towards the end. When Indiana must spell out the name of God, Jehovah was not the name that immediately came to mind it was, in fact, Yahweh which was the original Hebrew word which people did not speak and when it was written there were no vowels. However, it was later replaced by Jehovah. This is no fault on the filmmakers part its just a slight technicality that some may or may not pick up on. This time, however, I was prepared for what would happen to the man who drank from the false grail because it was foreshadowed and also because it closely resembled the end of the first film. My one question lay in the fact that it seemed to me from the way the situation was explained that Indiana would now be immortalized and would have to guard the grail or his father would maybe perhaps they escape that by trying to remove the grail it did get a little hazy in that regard but nonetheless it was quite an enjoyable film that blended many diverse elements to make for a really entertaining ride.

Q: Flask: button to update value in database so I currently pull a value from a database and display it on the screen. I have a HTML button right next to it that is supposed to increase the score on the screen by 1 every time I click it. Currently, when I click the button nothing happens. The number on the screen stays the same. Python file @app.route('/') def layout(): db = get_db() try: cur1 = db.execute('SELECT score FROM {tn} where name="Tyler"'.format(tn="Score")) score1 = cur1.fetchone() if request.method == 'POST': db.execute('UPDATE {tn} SET score=score+1 WHERE name="Tyler"'.format(tn="Score")) db.commit() except: flash("This person doesn't exist in our database!") return render_template('layout.html', score1=score1) HTML file <form action="{{ url_for('layout') }}" method="post"> <p align="center">Tyler</p> <div align="center"> <tr> <td>{{ score1.score }}</td> </tr> &nbsp; &nbsp; <button type="button">+1</button> </div> </form> Any help is appreciated. Thank you. Edit: updated view and HTML. Same issue. A: Your two view functions are mapped to the same route; but a URL can only be served by one view. Either map your increaseScore1 function to a different route, or combine the logic in one function which checks if the method is POST and updates the score if so, otherwise just displays it.

Ron Knecht I Take Exception — My Rebuttal March 21, 2015 vickielrock1 Comment NV Controller Ron Knecht's "2nd Monthly Report" was published last week in the Humboldt Sun. I took exception with much of what he had to say. Below are his report and my rebuttal which was published in the second edition of this week's Humboldt Sun: Mr. Knecht's Report: The second Controller's Monthly Report is now on the state web site (www.controller.nv.gov). It addresses state revenues, while the first one reviewed state spending. In sum, its findings are … Nevada state revenues include taxes, federal and other grants and contracts, plus charges for services that have amply served the public interest. Both total tax revenues and charges for services have increased slightly relative to Nevada's economy and the incomes of Nevada families and businesses since 2008. Total state revenues have increased at roughly the same rate as state spending, and both spending and taxes have grown significantly faster than our economy, proving again that we have a spending problem, not a revenue deficit. Every cent taken in taxes is an act of destruction of human and social well-being; so, public spending items should not be adopted unless they clearly provide benefits exceeding the damage done by taxes required to support them. The essence of sound fiscal policy is to deploy only the least destructive tax methods and most beneficial spending measures, and to find the taxing/spending balance point that maximizes net social benefits and public wellbeing. All taxes are "unfair" because they can't be charged according to the social costs that people cause, nor the benefits they receive. Fairness being illusory, in taxation and other public policy, we should seek to maximize economic growth and the human well-being that growth fosters. "Ability to pay" criteria, which have a superficial ring of fairness, and "redistribution" policies are particularly destructive to the broad public interest in growth. And claims that taxing one person to subsidize another involves "compassion" are false. The real tax fairness issue is that public spending's beneficiaries — public employees and contractors, plus those receiving public payments — have an unfair political advantage over taxpayers and the public, an advantage that produces excessive taxing/spending levels. So, consider the recent fortunes of taxpayers and public employees. In the last six years, Nevada taxpayers' average incomes declined by nearly 8 percent (from $39,079 in 2008 to $36,039 in 2010) before rebounding slowly back to prior levels ($39,173 in 2014). State employees took 4.6 percent cuts via furloughs for a couple of years, followed by a combination of furloughs and actual pay reductions still totaling roughly 4.6 percent. At present, they still must take furloughs equal to cuts of about 2.3 percent. So, state employees in general have borne roughly the same burden from our economic troubles as have taxpayers. Considering the total package — pay, benefits and job security — state employees in Nevada essentially get total compensation at market levels. Local government employees, on the other hand, have taken fewer, if any, pay cuts and many have continued to get increases. In Clark and Washoe counties, their total compensation levels are much higher than market levels prevailing in the private sector. The accumulated and ever-increasing over-reach of government is greatly responsible for the slow economic growth of recent years and the prospects of the same in the future. So, voters, taxpayers, Nevada state employees and the broad public interest are victims of government excess, while local public employees are to some extent beneficiaries. All these considerations reinforce the conclusions of Controller's Monthly Report #1 that to leave our children a better future, we must stop the growth relative to the economy and to Nevadans' incomes of public spending that drives taxes. We must especially avoid mistakes such as adopting versions of the business margins tax defeated 4-1 by voters last November. We must restructure fiscal processes for real budget constraints and effective cost management, emphasize no- and low-cost reforms in K-12 education and end public employee collective bargaining and prevailing wage rules. My rebuttal to his partisan ideological propaganda: I have some serious problems with Mr. Knecht's "Commentary" in the 3/13-16/2015 Humboldt Sun. "Every cent taken in taxes is an act of destruction of human and social well-being?" Really? Mr. Knecht doesn't believe in ANY public commons? He doesn't believe in public roads? Or public water and systems? Or police and fire fighters? Or public schools and universities? I'm sorry, but all of those do promote "human and social well-being" and they're all part of OUR public commons created using OUR tax dollars. So exactly what is Mr. Knecht proposing, selling off all of our "public commons" at fire-sale prices to the "deserving" richest among us, all so THEY can charge us by the mile, by the book or test, by the flush or by the flame? What about the police? Is he proposing we should submit to a "Robocop" scenario across the state? Isn't that why our fore-father's fled Europe? To flee the tyranny of the rich who oppressed those beneath them? "All taxes are unfair because they can't be charged according to the social costs that people cause, nor the benefits they receive?" What does that even mean? That we should bestow OUR public commons to corporate parasites that pay NO taxes just because they might be the bearer of jobs? Isn't it "corporations" that consume our infrastructure and pollute our lands and waters at the greatest rates, causing destruction of human and social well-being? Isn't it the corporations that choose NOT to pay a living wage NOR to provide health benefits to their workers, leading to the destruction of human and social well-being? Isn't it those same workers who now, no longer have an "ability to pay," again, leading to the destruction of human and social well-being? Is that really what Mr. Knecht's "fair way to run our country" would look like? Then there's his rant about public employees. Every cent of Mr. Knecht's paycheck is paid with public tax dollars. That makes Mr. Knecht a PUBLIC employee. What makes him believe he's so infinitely better than police, firefighters, teachers, or even a clerk at a local DMV? He may talk fondly about our kids/grandkids, but that's just a ruse, a distraction. He does make his intentions clear: to do everything he can to stifle/gut K-12 education programs that might make our children competitive and productive in an ever changing economy. I disagree with Mr. Knecht and with that for which he stands. Instead of looking for ways to improve our "human and social well-being," he's apparently looking for ways to destroy it. I fear that our "investment" in his paycheck will yield only negative dividends for the everyday Nevadan before all is said and done. Advocacy, Economy, GOP, Govt-State, Social Safety Neteconomy, Education, fiscal policy, human and social well-being, K-12 education, Nevada Controller, PUBLIC COMMONS, public employees, public servants, public spending, Ron Knecht, Social Costs, Tax revenues, taxes. Is Ron Knecht rewriting history? —by Rich Dunn, RNDC 2nd Vice Chair In a Nevada Appeal op-ed, Controller-elect Ron Knecht laid out the premise for his ultra-conservative world view as follows: "For 125 years, we've seen the rise of the dysfunctional politics of Progressivism. As it has accelerated in the last five decades, we've had slowing economic growth and reductions in individual liberty, prosperity, opportunity and hope." I doubt that Mr. Knecht was referring to the short-lived Progressive parties of Theodore Roosevelt (1912), Robert La Follette (1924) or Henry Wallace (1948), so I'll assume that he was actually referring to progressivism with a lower-case p. So what is that? Wikipedia observes that "American progressives tend to advocate progressive taxation and oppose what they describe as the growing and negative influence of large corporations. Progressives are typically in agreement on an international scale with left-liberalism in that they support organized labor and trade unions, they usually wish to introduce a living wage, and they often support the creation of a universal health care system." All of the above have been around in one form or another for the past 125 years, and for lack of a better word we can agree to refer to them collectively as "progressivism." And according to Ron Knecht, those progressive ideas have driven the "dysfunctional politics" he sees as responsible for "slowing economic growth and reductions in individual liberty, prosperity, opportunity and hope." I have no clue what Ron Knecht thinks of as individual liberty, prosperity, opportunity or hope, so I'll leave those aside, but economic growth is something that can be objectively measured, so let's do a fact check on that part of his world view. Knecht seems to believe that economic growth has been slowing for the past 125 years, and that perceived slowing has "accelerated in the last five decades." So, is that a true statement? Let's see. Looking back 125 years, we find that nominal GDP in 1889 was $14 billion, which is $360 billion in 2014 dollars. That is 1/47th the output of today's economy. And US GDP fifty years ago (1964) was 743.7 billion, which is $5.71 trillion in 2014 dollars. That is only 1/3rd of today's $17 trillion GDP. I'm not an economist, but to my mind those numbers reflect a pretty robust rate of economic growth. Perhaps the best test of Ron Knecht's thesis that progressivism is bad for economic growth is to look at the years immediately following the Crash of 1929. That will let us contrast the effects of Hoover's pro-cyclical regressivism to Roosevelt's counter-cyclical progressivism. Here goes: GDP growth in 1930 was -8.5%, in 1931 it was -6.4%, 1932 -12.9%, 1933 (FDR took office in April) -1.3%, 1934 +10.8%, 1935 +8.9%, 1936 +12.9%, 1937 +5.1%, 1938 -3.3%, 1939 +8.0%, 1940 +8.8%, 1941 +17.7. It should be noted that the recession of 1938 followed FDR pulling back on his counter-cyclical progressive policies at the urging of conservatives in his own party. The hope was that the economy already had enough momentum to grow on its own (bad guess). Conservative ideologues routinely make the same kind of mistakes here in the 21st century, as witnessed by the tea party's on-going temper tantrum over counter-cyclical recovery measures like QE, TARP and the ARRA. Unlike real world conservatives like George W. Bush and his treasury secretary Hank Paulson, they don't understand that the public and private sectors do not compete in a developed economy, they are in fact complementary. Knecht ties off his progressivism-slows-growth argument with this counter-factual assertion: "Now, after a six-year blowout of it since the Great Recession, we're mired in a long-term non-recovery it has caused." Why do I call that counter-factual? Well, think about it… In response to the Global Financial Crisis, European governments responded with austerity: pro-cyclical fiscal policies that drove the EU as a whole into a prolonged period of near-zero growth and southern Europe into an outright depression, with unemployment rates over 25% in Greece and Spain and joblessness up to 50% among the under-30's. Contrast that with the US, which was fortunate enough to have Democrats in control of both houses of congress when the financial crisis hit in September 2008. The progressive counter-cyclical response turned what was clearly an impending economic depression into a recession that was over in just a few months. Today, after 56 months of continuous job growth, the US unemployment rate is under 6%, the economy is growing at a robust 3.5%, gasoline is under $3 a gallon, the stock market is at an all-time high, and the federal budget deficit has been cut in half, not to mention that ten million more Americans can afford to see a doctor when they get sick. Not too shabby, and I can tell you this with total certainty: Were that the record of a Republican president, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity et al would be crowing about it around the clock. But they are all about politics, not reality, so all you're going to hear about is "Obama's failed agenda." Yeah, right. UncategorizedCORPORATISM, economic growth, Mean15, NV Controller, Progressives, Progressivism, Ron Knecht, Take Our Country Back 125 years, Theodore Roosevelt Who is Andrew Martin? September 26, 2014 NVRDC1 Comment If you were at Winnemucca's Labor Day Parade or the Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, you would have had an opportunity to meet and talk to or at least wave at Andrew Martin who is running for State Controller on the November ballot. As an Assemblyman and member of the Economic Forum Andrew has worked on Nevada's budget, understands our finances, and knows what needs to be done to improve our economy. Andrew is a business owner, Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), and Certified Internal Controls Auditor (CICA). Mr. Martin has over 28 years of professional experience providing accounting, advisory, audit and tax services to a diverse group of business, individual, governmental, and non‐profit clients. His opponent, Ron Knecht, is a "limited government conservative" who was a member of the "Mean 15" and who has signed onto Grover Norquist's "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" of no new taxes. He's a proudly professed NRA member (who also proudly supports "campus concealed carry) and who was elected to the Nevada Assembly once and NOT returned. But, most importantly, where Andrew clearly holds certifications beneficial for the job, Mr. Knecht is a Mechanical Engineer by profession and has managed a few budgets and made a few investments. Really? That's the best fiscal and financial expertise the Republican Party has to offer up? Somebody who diligently works side-by-side with Sharron Angle to shut government down? "Fiscal responsibility, transparency and accountability isn't just a campaign slogan, it is what I believe in, and they are the principals by which I will operate the Office of the Controller." — Andrew Martin As our Nevada State Controller, Andrew Martin has pledged to: Strengthen the State's fiscal oversight and accountability, which will benefit the economic health of Nevada and improve our outlook for the future. Assure that our tax dollars are being spent wisely to accomplish tangible results, linking dollars spent to measurable outcomes that are tied to state-wide priorities, such as higher student test scores, lower crime rates, and a healthier population. Collect debts owed to the State so that Nevadans who work hard and pay sales, gas, real estate and other taxes don't have to carry the load for businesses that don't. Make sure the worldwide financial community knows that Nevada is a great place to invest, improving Nevada's business climate, boosting our economy and stimulating job creation. Personally, when I'm looking to hire a State Controller, I'm looking for someone who is pledging to do what's best for Nevada's citizens, not someone who is beholding to Grover Norquist, someone who doesn't live in Nevada, and who most likely knows absolutely NOTHING about the needs of Nevadans. I don't know about you, but I'm planning to pony up to the voting booth during early elections to cast my vote for the best qualified candidate for the job: Andrew Martin! 2014 Elections, Advocacy, Andrew Martin, Candidates, ElectionAndrew Martin, CAMPUS CONCEALED CARRY, CFE, CFF, CICA, CPA, Grover Norquist, MEAN 15, Nevada, NEVADA STATE CONTROLLER, NRA, Ron Knecht, TAXPAYER PROTECTION PLEDGE Really? Updated College Sexual Assault Prevention Guidelines are Federal Overreach? July 16, 2014 NVRDC — by Zach Hudson, NSDP Communications Director Remember Todd Akin, the GOP Senate candidate in Missouri who talked about "legitimate rape?" Akin's comments were ignorant, insensitive, and out-of-touch. Which is why we were disappointed Nevada Republicans seem to be taking their cues on women's health from Todd Akin. Last week, the Republican nominee for Nevada Controller, Ron Knecht, wrote an op-ed where he essentially said new guidelines to prevent sexual assault on college campuses are an example of federal overreach. He even blamed programs to prevent sexual assault for the increase in college tuition! Let's make sure Republicans like this never get elected to office – join Democrat Andrew Martin's campaign for Controller by clicking here today. Ron Knecht's comments were moronic, but unfortunately not surprising. Whether it's Sen. Dean Heller's support for restricting access to contraception, Rep. Joe Heck's votes to ban abortion for rape victims and to weaken the Violence Against Women Act, or Nevada Republican Senate Leader, and former Tom DeLay operative, Michael Roberson, supporting "personhood" measures which could outlaw forms of birth control, Nevada Republicans time and time again demonstrate they are completely clueless when it comes to women's health. Fortunately, Nevadans have a clear choice in the election for State Controller. While Ron Knecht is focused on criticizing programs to help sexual assault victims, Democratic nominee Andrew Martin will focus on managing the state's finances. Click here to join Andrew's campaign and tell Nevada Republicans when it comes to women's health decisions, #ItsNotUpToThem. 2014 Elections, Advocacy, Andrew Martin, Candidates, CultureWar, Democratic Party, Election, Individual Rights, Violence Against Women, Womens Issues#ItsNotUpToThem, Abortion for Rape Victims, Andrew Martin, Birth Control, Contraception, Culture War, GOP, Government Overreach, Legitimate Rape, Michael Roberson, nevada republicans, Personhood, Rep. Joe Heck, Ron Knecht, Sen. Dean Heller, Sexual assault, Todd Akin, Women's Health

Q: How do I investigate how long it takes one variable to affect another in a time series I am a total newbie when it comes to time series, so it is quite possible this question is duplicated somewhere else, only that I cannot find it because I don't know what this feature is called. My data: I have weekly measurements of a variable "change in rank". I also have weekly measurements of another variable loosely described as "change in goodness". I believe that "change in rank" is dependent on "change in goodness", but I also believe that whenever "goodness" improves, it takes some time before rank improves. A simplistic representation of the data would look like this: change_in_rank = c(0,0,0,0,-10,0,0,0) change_in_goodness = c(0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0) where this constructed example shows that a improvement of 2 in goodness took 3 time steps to lead to an improvement in rank. My question: What analysis method do I use to detect whether such a relationship actually exists between "change in goodness" and "change in rank", and if such a relationship exists, how do I find out how long it takes for a change in "goodness" to flow on to a change in rank. The motivation behind this question: Some additional, non necessary background: it is claimed that search engine optimisation takes time to affect your site's ranking in Google. E.g.: "Why does SEO take so long?" I am trying to find a statistical way of calculating how long it takes for a change in a site to actually reflect in the site's Google ranking. More motivation: Slightly different type of data but similar question... "How long does it take before a change in diet starts to take effect?" A: Try looking at cross-correlations between the two series: correlate series 1 with series 2; correlate series 1 with series 2 lagged by 1 period; correlate series 1 with series 2 lagged by 2 periods; etc. Explore as many lags as can reasonably be expected to be plausible in the context you are in. Also, depending on the context of the application, you may need to look at lagged series 1 against (non-lagged) series 2. Note which lag gives the highest absolute correlation - this will be a rough estimate of the "true" lag. It is comfortable to inspect the cross-correlations visually. In R, you may use function ccf(.) to obtain and plot the correlogram. A: As often in regression, there are several ways to proceed, but the most straightforward one is probably given by the moving-average approach. That is, you assume a linear (linear-in-the-parameters) relationship between your target $y_t$ (change_in_rank) and your regressand $x_t$ (change_in_goodness) given by $$ y_t = \sum_{i=1}^p \beta_{t-k} \, x_{t-k} $$ Here, the input-parameter $p$ determines the maximum lag-time. Next, you fit your model using some seleted data of the form $(x_{j-1}, \ldots, x_{j-p}; y_j)$ where $j\in \{1,\ldots, N_\text{data}\}$, e.g. by using standard least-squares regression. Finally, you can use the result either to forecast (in this case more flexible models like neural networks might be doing better), or to interprete the result using the fitted parameters $\boldsymbol \beta$ (--in interpretability, almost nothing beats linear models). If that model is not flexible enough, you can extend it to higher dimensions and more general functions $f(x_{t-1}, \ldots, f_{t-p})$, and also to autoregressive-moving-average models where you further include some previous regression results $y_j$ for $j<t$.

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The Heat Look To Be Planning A Deep Playoff Run A spectacular Tuesday night of basketball was provided by many of the league's top players, including LeBron James, who is close to getting his 100th career triple-double. Are the Miami Heat on their way to the playoffs? Heat Take Control The Miami Heat are back to winning ways and are increasingly taking a more important position in the rankings. Jimmy Butler had a lot to do with this victory after scoring 28 points, and 12 rebounds, while his teammate Bam Adebayo, back from a knee problem, scored 14 points and in this way, the Heat managed to easily beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 113-98 on Tuesday night. Kelly Olynyk, Tyler Herro, and Duncan Robinson also contributed after scoring 17, 15, and 14 points, respectively for Miami, which has now won 11 of its last 12 games. Collin Sexton led Cleveland with 21 points, while JaVale McGee managed to get 16 points and eight rebounds. The Cavaliers have been through a lot of ups and downs lately, after losing 10 consecutive games, then won four in a row, and have gone 0-4 since then. Larry Nance Jr. and Darius Garland tried to do their best and scored 14 and 11 points, respectively, which wasn't enough to dampen the streak the Heat have been on. Coming up next, the Cavaliers are going to host the Boston Celtics tonight, and the Heat will get some action, as well, visiting the Memphis Grizzlies. Jazz Recover From Recent Loss The Utah Jazz have already achieved the best record in the NBA. If they continue with performances like the one against the Celtics, it is very likely that this record will be even better by the time the season ends. Utah hit a total of 19 3-pointers to overcome Boston 117-109 on Tuesday night. Donovan Mitchell got a total of 21 points, while Jordan Clarkson added 20 points off the bench as the Jazz swept the season series between the teams. Boston led by as many as 11 in the first half but couldn't keep up the pace and eventually faded. For the Celtics, Jayson Tatum led the scoring with 29 points and Jaylen Brown added 28. None of this great effort was enough to be able to battle back against the hot shooting Utah had last night, as Utah picked up 45 points from its bench. The Jazz will visit the Washington Wizards tomorrow, and the Celtics will get some action tonight when facing Cleveland. Sixers Sneak By The Knicks Tobias Harris was unstoppable last night, scoring a game-high 30 points, while Seth Curry chipped in after adding 20 more points, helping the Philadelphia 76ers down the New York Knicks in a tight 99-96 game. Harris scored seven straight points, including a go-ahead layup that made it 96-92. He definitely believed he should have joined teammates Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid in the Atlanta All-Star Game. Joel Embiid couldn't participate in this game as he is still battling injuries. Simmons had a total of 16 points and 13 rebounds and has never lost against the Knicks. On the other hand, Julius Randle had 19 points and 16 rebounds, while his teammate RJ Bartter added 17 points for the Knicks. As part of what's coming next for these teams, the Knicks will face the Orlando Magic on Thursday, while the Sixers are going to host the Milwaukee Bucks today in the teams' first meeting this season. Lakers Pull Away Against Timberwolves King James is missing just one more triple-double to reach the 100 figure in his entire carrier. He got 25 points, 12 rebounds, and 12 assists last night, leading the LA Lakers to a 137-221 victory against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Montrezl Harrell scored 25 points, putting on another great show, which is usual for the defending NBA champion. Dennis Schröder got 16 points and seven assists, while Talen Horton-Tucker and Kyle Kuzma scored 16 points apiece for the Lakers. For the Timberwolves, Karl-Anthony Towns and Anthony Edwards scored 29 points apiece, but that wasn't enough to defeat the great night the Lakers had. The winner of this game will host the Charlotte Hornets on Thursday, while the Timberwolves will visit the Phoenix Suns the same day. Related TopicsBoston CelticsCleveland CavaliersLebron JamesMiami HeatMinnesota TimberwolvesNBANBA Newsnew york knicksm la lakersPhiladelphia 76ersUtah Jazz The NBA is back in action, with some of the league's top teams going... As the NBA regular season continues and the trade deadline approaches, the intensity of... The Heat Look To Upset The Celtics Tonight Tonight's NBA slate promises to be exciting, with several marquee matchups and important games... A Lot Of Tight Games In The NBA Tonight Top Spots In NCAA Basketball Hint At What's Coming

Why the Startup Market Could Boom in 2021 The coronavirus dealt the nation's economy a massive blow, but it also released torrents of entrepreneurial creativity. Here are five reasons startups stand to thrive this year. By John Hall, Co-founder and president, Calendar@johnhall There's no question the U.S. economy took a beating in 2020. If that was the year you decided to open a 12-table bistro or a live music venue, chances are things didn't turn out as you hoped. But the news was far from bad for all startup founders. In industries ranging from telehealth to home fitness to outdoor leisure equipment, the past year presented a bevy of opportunity. As vaccinations take hold and pent-up consumer demand looks for outlets, 2021 could be a banner year for startup activity. Here are the conditions that will make that possible. Changing work expectations The up-and-coming generation of entrepreneurs belongs to a new demographic: Generation Z. Having witnessed Covid-related layoffs and the abrupt, widespread shift to remote work, they have a different perspective on life in the modern workforce. Many will be prepared to skip the usual office norms and work on their own terms. A recent Nielsen survey found that 54 percent of Gen-Zers want to start their own businesses. Why? This age group prefers the flexibility that comes with being your own boss. While owning a startup is hard work, knowing they'd be in control is a strong motivator. Better access to resources and being productive with time Entrepreneurs need substantial capital, physical and emotional support, and enough time to make their dreams a reality. Google calendar developed resources to save time, like speedy meetings, that I've seen more entrepreneurs use this year. The pandemic seemed to help entrepreneurs value their time more, so startups have more time to focus on developing the resources necessary to grow. Easier ways to connect with customers Today's entrepreneurial environment features two indispensable facilitators to would-be startup founders: multivendor platforms and social media. Both enable business owners to get their products into the hands of interested customers friction-free. Once your choices for getting your organic lip balm out into the world ranged from selling it at local craft fairs to pitching it to drugstore chain (a steep climb). Now, you can access millions of customers in an instant via Etsy or Shopify. Getting the word out about your offering has never been easier -- or cheaper -- either, thanks to social media. Establishing a presence on Instagram or Facebook costs nothing but your own creative input. Better yet, you can get your fans to talk you up via user-generated content. When food startup company Banza received 30,000 pieces of UGC as part of a social media campaign, it spread word of the brand and products far and wide. Tons of talent looking for an opening 2020 saw the worst unemployment rate since the Great Depression as the coronavirus fallout decimated businesses left and right. Companies let valued employees go as a short-term cost-cutting solution. While this may have helped them temporarily, it left a lot of people out of work who can now dabble in entrepreneurship to make ends meet. Not only are there more people in a position to give entrepreneurship a try, but also existing startups can snap up these talented individuals to help grow their companies. The accountant who lost her job would make an excellent CFO for an emerging tech company or lifestyle brand. Advances in technology Nothing has impacted the startup world more than technology. Recently, I was able to interview several of the people listed on this most innovative people list for a survey I was doing. They came from different industries, but it was unanimous that 2021 is a year that innovation could have a dramatic effect on startup growth. One mentioned that during the beginning of the pandemic, companies were forced to become more technology advanced. It sparked a movement toward everybody's having to innovate with technology and not just digital companies. Not that tech is critical to startups only on the operations side, as Silicon Valley so amply proves. Today more than ever, it's possible to create a market-capturing offering from little more than brains and bytes. Whether you want to use geolocation to help health departments track remaining Covid hotspots or enable A.I.-driven solutions for managing climate change, the needs of the moment are awaiting tech solutions. While all of these factors can contribute to the success of startup founders around the country, the entrepreneurial spirit is what really pushes them to succeed. No matter how conducive the conditions are, only those who are willing to put in the effort will come out on top.

On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Arcane Mage for each boss of the Uldir raid. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.1.5. This page will be a rough outline of the bosses and mechanics in Uldir. This page will focus primarily on how an Arcane Mage can optimize its performance on the raid bosses in Uldir, and not on an actual raid strategy for the bosses. Initially, this page will focus on Heroic mode and lower, however, as more bosses are being killed on Mythic, the guide will also include optimizations for Mythic bosses. Arcane Mages are looking to be a very strong pick in Uldir, due to their strong burst DPS, which is amplified on multiple bosses. This is mainly due to the bonus damage phases or strict DPS checks on certain mechanics. Additionally, there are no fights which Arcane truly struggles with, since none of the fights contain Arcane's main weakness, 2-target cleave. The fight is comprised of two main mechanics, Plasma Discharge and Sanguine Static. Sanguine Static targets a player in the raid and shoots 5 blood orbs towards the target. Be ready to sidestep the projectiles when he finishes the cast. If you are not running Slipstream, make sure you are not channeling Evocation when you are targeted with this spell, as it will knock you back and interrupt you. A location to drop Plasma Discharge should be marked before the fight begins. You should use Blink (or Shimmer, if you chose the talent) to get out of the group and start dropping the blood. When you are done dropping the blood, you can use Displacement to get back into the group. This mechanic is the main reason for picking Slipstream, as it allows you to still do some damage while dropping these debuffs off, if you get any Clearcasting procs. If Taloc has cast Cudgel of Gore and his weapon remains on the ground, do not stand between the boss and his weapon at any time in Phase One or Phase Three. In Phase 2, you begin your descent into the raid. Taloc goes immune to all damage and begins to spawn two sets of adds, so make sure that you do not use any big DPS cooldowns right before the boss enters Phase 2. Coalesced Blood is the Phase 2-exclusive add and must be prioritized over all other targets. Volatile Droplet will be soaked or burned down quickly as a secondary target. 4.1. Suggested Talents for Arcane Mage on M.O.T.H.E.R. Rune of Power is a lot better for DPS on this boss if you can pull it off effectively, so it is advised that you practice with Rune of Power, only changing to Incanter's Flow if you end up having a lot of issues with Rune of Power. 4.2. Arcane Mage Playstyle on M.O.T.H.E.R. Effectively playing Arcane on M.O.T.H.E.R. is all about how effectively you can deal with the different abilities that force you to move a lot. M.O.T.H.E.R is another 3-phase fight, split into three rectangular boss rooms. Each room is on a timer, based on when the boss enters. All players must pass through the barrier and reach the end to defeat M.O.T.H.E.R. before they are incinerated. Wind Tunnel conjures a gust of wind in the room, which pushes you towards zones of fire. On beta, you could stand against the wall where the boss is tanked to avoid getting pushed into the fire. However, the assumption is that this will be changed to no longer work on live. If this indeed does not work on live, you can deal with this effectively by using Shimmer early on when the wind starts pushing you, and then waiting a couple of seconds and using Displacement to get back to where you Shimmered from. This should allow you to keep DPSing for the entire duration of the wind without ending up in the fire. Purifying Flame creates several void zones beneath players that must be moved from. You can use a stack of Shimmer on this, but make sure you check the timer of Wind Tunnel, and hold on to the Shimmer if Wind Tunnel is coming soon. The main fight mechanic revolves around Defense Grid. Everytime players cross into the next room, the entire raid takes damage and adds spawn, based on how many players crossed the threshold. If many players are crossing over, make sure you preemptively cast Prismatic Barrier, or if a huge number of people are moving over at once, use Greater Invisibility. These adds are the top priority in this encounter. They must be stunned, interrupted, and knocked back until they are dead. If their cast completes, the raid will wipe. Depending on how many people move over at once, you should either burn them down one after the other, or AoE them down if there are 3 or more close to each other. Fetid Devourer is a fight that Arcane Mages should excel on. This is due to the vulnerability phase, which Arcane Mage can exploit very well due to its high burst DPS. During the vulnerability phase, the boss will take increased damage from 50% onwards. If the boss is close to 50%, save your cooldowns to burn the boss. The main boss casts very few abilities. Rotting Regurgitation is a cone ability targeted at a random player, which must be dodged or you will take a large amount of damage and have Malodorous Miasma applied to you. If you are afflicted with Malodorous Miasma, be it random or through the breath, it will evolve into Putrid Paroxysm, which is another debuff which does substantially more damage in a short duration. If you have this debuff, consider casting Greater Invisibility, especially if it lines up with Shockwave Stomp. Shockwave Stomp (Heroic and up) is a raid-wide knockback, which pushes you backwards a considerable distance. Make sure you watch for this timer before using cooldowns, such as Rune of Power. You can use Shimmer while mid-air from this knockback to return back to your original position. Two adds will spawn from six waste disposal units at random. You can save a stack of Rune of Power for these adds to quickly burn them down. Make sure you have enough Mana when these adds spawn, so you can focus on priority damage to them. There are a couple of choices that you can make in terms of talents. It mostly comes down to what your raid needs extra help with. If your group has trouble clearing the phase one Silithid Warriors, you can opt into Reverberate (or Nether Tempest, for a more hybrid approach). This encounter is split into three phases, with a few basic mechanics that persist through the whole fight. The main mechanic is Surging Darkness. This creates three zones of darkness centering where the boss casted the ability. One zone will be safe for every pulse. Make sure you have Shimmer stacks available for this mechanic. Phase 1 spawns many Silithid Warriors that fixate a target and can be stunned and burned down effortlessly. Simply use Arcane Explosion on them when they are clumped up until 4 Arcane Charges, and then use Arcane Barrage, repeating until they are dead. If you talented into Nether Tempest or Arcane Orb, you should use them as described on the Rotation page. During Phase 1, players will be targeted with Eye Beam at random. Players fixated by C'Thun's gaze will have a small indicator below them that will show if they are standing close enough to cleave another player. Always avoid having other players in your circle while being fixated and use a personal coolwdown, such as Prismatic Barrier. Phase 2 is a priority damage phase. Three adds will spawn and begin casting on players. These casters can be interrupted, stunned, CC'd, but not moved. Counterspell should be used to interrupt them. The boss mechanic during this phase casts Roiling Deceit on a handful of players. These players will take damage and then drop a cloud at their feet upon expiration. Get this cloud out of the raid by using Shimmer right before the debuff expires, and then using Displacement to get back to the group. Phase 3 is the final phase of the fight. There will be no more adds or previous Old God mechanics during this phase. Instead, the boss will spawn Orb of Corruption around the boss room. These orbs must be soaked by players. Players who soak the orb get a temporary damage increase and once the buff times out, they will be mind controlled until killed. Mind controlled targets must be silenced, stunned, or interrupted while they live. You should soak one of these orbs while all your cooldowns are ready, so you can maximize the DPS bonus from the orbs. Vectis will begin the fight by casting Omega Vector on a few party members. This debuff does not expire and will bounce from target to target the entire fight. Everytime the debuff bounces, the player contracts one stack of Lingering Infection, which increases all nature damage taken. While Omega Vector deals shadow damage, other fight mechanics deal nature damage. During the "up phase", the boss will cast two abilities. Contagion is a raid wide nature damage explosion and Gestate stuns the target dealing shadow damage to all players around the target and spawns and add. This add must be burned down immediately or the healing absorb debuff it casts on the raid will be too much for your healers. If you get this debuff, you should Shimmer out of the group, and Displacement back into the group after you have spawned the add. Vectis submerges and spawns Plague Bombs, which must be soaked by players. During this phase, Vectis will also send out waves of blood that must be sidestepped or the player will take a stack of Lingering Infection. These waves of blood move quite quickly and are hard to dodge if you are close to the submerged boss, so you should remain relatively far away. If a Plague Bomb spawns close to the submerged boss, you can soak this by using Shimmer to get to it, and then casting Ice Block to avoid getting hit by the waves of blood. If you are very comfortable with the fight, you can run Rune of Power to help burst down adds quicker. However, there are a lot of reasons that make Rune of Power hard to use, especially if you are one of the main soakers for Pool of Darkness, in which case Incanter's Flow is a better option. Additionally, you can run either Resonance or Charged Up, depending on if you need more priority DPS or more AoE DPS. The same choice goes for Touch of the Magi versus Nether Tempest. The main mechanic that Arcane Mages can handle is Pool of Darkness (Heroic and up). Due to having both Shimmer and Displacement, we have a lot of mobility to get into the pools. You can then use Prismatic Barrier to reduce the damage taken from them, or Greater Invisibility / Ice Block if you are soaking these pools at the same time Dark Revelation or Deathwish is happening. There are three sets of adds that spawn in Phase 1. Nazmani Bloodhexer spawn in packs of two and must remain separated. Focus these first and kill them quickly. If your group runs a strategy in which you crowd control these adds, you can use Polymorph on them when needed. The second Bloodhexer may possibly cast Congeal Blood; the add that spawns from this cast is the only target that takes priority over the two Bloodhexers. Bloodhexers can be hard CC'd, knocked back, stunned, and silenced, as well as the add that they spawn. These adds are the ones you will most likely want to use your DPS cooldowns on. Nazmani Crusher is your second priority and Bloodthirsty Crawg are normally just burned down through passive cleave. The Crushers will spawn one at a time and the Crawgs will spawn four at a time. When there are no Nazmani Bloodhexers active, target the Crusher and cleave off of him. The choice between Rune of Power and Incanter's Flow largely depends on how comfortable you are with the encounter. You will want to go the standard single-target DPS talents on this fight, however, Resonance and Reverberate can be considered if your group has trouble killing the groups of adds. Nether Tempest is a good hybrid option if you want to add a bit more DPS to the groups of adds, without giving up a lot of single-target DPS. This fight consists of a boss phase and an intermission phase. During the boss phase, just be aware of any Annihilation stacks you have. Clear them if they get too high, or if you are called to clear them using Existence Fragments. You can limit the number of stacks you receive by avoiding casts of Obliteration Blast, which targets a random player and shoots a laser at them, and its intermission counterpart, Obliteration Beam. If you get Imminent Ruin, simply Shimmer when it is about to expire, and then use Displacement to get back. At 75% Health, the boss moves into the middle of the room and takes 99% less damage, so make sure you do not activate your DPS cooldowns when the boss is close to 75% Health. During the intermission, two large N'raqi Destroyers spawn and must stay separated while being burned down. Additionally, several players will be targeted with Visions of Madness. Try to stay grouped so players can cleave them down easily. Counterspell any adds that are out of the main group. Damage timings are very telegraphed during this fight. Raid-wide damage is dealt after every mind control break, at the beginning of every intermission, and also when Imminent Ruin expires. If any mechanics line up, or you are afflicted with Imminent Ruin, be sure to use your Greater Invisibility or Ice Block. You can run Nether Tempest over Touch of the Magi if you need more add DPS during the first phase. Aside from that, a standard single-target talent setup is recommended. G'huun is the final boss of the raid. The encounter consists of an upstairs minigame portion, as well as three downstairs phases. Arcane Mages are a decent choice (but by no means the best choice) for the upstairs mini-game, as with the double Shimmer usage, they can get very far along the platform to deliver the Power Matrix. So, if your group is lacking Warriors, Monks and Demon Hunters, it is worth trying as an Arcane Mage. Phase 1 is the add phase. Your focus in this phase is to cleave down all units, but have at least one target ready to be focused down. The priority is Blightspreader Tendril (Heroic and up), then Cyclopean Terror, and finally Dark Young. Make sure all casts during this phase are interrupted. The Dark Young add will cast an ability called Dark Bargain in a circle around itself. If you take one stack, you deal increased damage and healing but also take increased damage. If you get a second stack, you will be mind controlled. You can coordinate with your healers to get one stack of this for bonus DPS. You should make sure to line up your DPS cooldowns for this buff. During this phase, G'huun will also cast Explosive Corruption on one random player. This player should move to the edges of the room, so they do not infect any other members. This ability will persist through the fight. You can simply Shimmer out right before it expires and use Displacement to get back in. When G'huun is forced from his lair, he stops stops spawning the adds from the previous phase and brings new mechanics to the fight. Be sure to spread to reduce stacks of Putrid Blood contracted from the Wave of Corruption. A player will be targeted with Blood Feast, rooting them to the ground. Stack up on that player to remove all stacks of Putrid Blood. He will spawn a Gibbering Horror, whose strength is increased by the amount of Putrid Blood stacks that were removed. Focus this down when it is active and avoid being interrupted by Mind-Numbing Chatter. At 15%, the final phase begins. The upstairs mechanics end and the raid takes a large amount of damage. Only two new mechanics are added to the phase, but you are no longer able to remove Putrid Blood, so spreading is very important. Malignant Growth (Heroic and up) must be moved away from if they spawn nearby. G'huun will also be casting Gaze of G'huun, which will fear you if you face him, so make sure to turn away right before it. If you have a Clearcasting proc, you can start the Arcane Missiles channel before Gaze of G'huun finishes, and turn around already, as your channel will not be interrupted from facing away. 30 Aug. 2018: Added guides and talent recommedations for Heroic and Normal modes. 10 Aug. 2018: Added Arcane Mage Boss by Boss page (empty for now).

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Q: Python Tuple Class Memory Why does the use of tuple instead of list in objects below increase memory usage? from pympler.asizeof import asizeof class myClass(object): __slots__ = ('l') def __init__(self, m): self.l = m m = range(10) ob = [myClass(m) for i in xrange(100000)] print asizeof(ob) for o in ob: o.l = tuple(o.l) print asizeof(ob) The first has size 64697936 The second has size 200697784 A: In your original code, every myClass instance points to the same list. >>> ob[0].l.append('foo') >>> ob[1].l ['foo'] In other words: you compared the memory usage of one list to that of 100,000 tuples. Compare it to 100,000 lists instead: for o in ob: o.l = list(o.l) with these results: 6424936 27224856 The original: 6424936 20024784

Gov. Snyder speaks at Detroit Athletic Club, met by protest By Robin Murdoch DETROIT (WJBK) - A handful of protesters greeted Gov. Snyder Monday morning as he arrived in downtown Detroit to speak there for the first time since testifying before Congress last month. Tamika Gaines was one of those protesters outside the Detroit Athletic Club. She held a sign in honor of her 70-year-old mother. "My mother takes dialysis, and she continuously has infections from the ports. So, the port site is constantly being changed. She's running out of places to put the port," says Tamika Gaines. She blames much of her mother's current medical condition on drinking lead-contaminated water from the taps in Flint. Gov. Snyder was the main speaker at the Michigan Chronicle's 42nd Pancakes and Politics at the DAC, which is why the protesters gathered there Monday. The event totes dialogue and discussion with area decision makers, giving local business and education leaders an opportunity to ask the tough questions regarding the issues that affect them. "You kick yourself and say, 'God, how could we have figured this out faster?' The reality is, you have to face the facts you have now and to learn from that," he said at the event Monday morning. During the nearly one-hour forum, the governor talked about his 75 point plan to repair the damage done in Flint, and about the Detroit Public Schools and a bi-partisan package that's already passed the Senate. It's aimed at helping the cash-strapped district and the students, who many say are paying the ultimate price by learning in rat-infested schools and overcrowded classrooms. Protesters say enough is enough. "This man is sinning and committing crimes against the people, and it's gone on too long," says Rev. Malik Shabazz. "And DPS since 1999 - Engler, Granholm and now this guy, who's the worst of them all. He must go." The governor says that, by everyone working together, they will get through this together. This is the sixth time total that Gov. Snyder has spoken at the Pancakes and Politics event. If you'd like more information on the petition to recall Gov. Snyder, visit www.stopsnyder.com. The petition cannot be signed online, but you can request a mailed form or visit any of the listed addresses to sign in person.

Back To News & Views A STRONGER NATION We All Must Do More Lumina President Jamie Merisotis on Leadership for Racial Justice and Educational Equity in the Wake of Charlottesville There are moments that call for moral clarity and public accountability—moments that require us to affirm our core values and commit to concrete action in the face of deep threats. In the wake of shameful acts of racist violence and terrorism in Charlottesville, Virginia, this is such a moment. Our nation has a long, sordid history of racism. At Lumina Foundation, I am privileged to work with many people who take seriously their responsibility to educate all Americans about our nation's history—including the shameful parts that reflect racist beliefs. A battle over our nation's historical memory and the monuments we erect was the context for demonstrations over the weekend that resulted in unspeakable violence. We must directly and forcefully denounce that violence, which was motivated by racial and ethnic hostility. Lumina Foundation has committed to ending systemic inequalities that, throughout this nation's history, have led to persistent and unacceptable gaps in educational opportunity and outcomes. These disparities threaten not only our economy, but the future of our democracy by eroding the moral underpinning on which our country was established. Access to educational opportunity is inequitable in America, at least in part, because of our nation's long history of racism. As a philanthropic organization, we collaborate with many individuals and institutions across the country who work diligently to confront and reverse the effects of this racial history. We will continue to advance this important mission, and we will speak up when we believe our voice needs to be heard. But I am more convinced than ever we can and must do more. This call to action is true for Lumina, and it must apply to every philanthropic organization seeking to drive social change. Ensuring fair and equitable results in a country sullied by hundreds of years of systemic racism and oppression is not just a part of our collective work in philanthropy. It is the work. With a clarity of mission, and with ample resources that give us the opportunity to actually do something, we must accept leadership and hold ourselves accountable for making a difference. Those of us in philanthropy must step up to confront not just the long-term effects of implicit biases, but the immediate and real threat of white supremacy, neo-Nazism, and racially motivated hatred. I am honored to be the leader of a mission-driven, philanthropic organization. But I am also a white man—a father, a husband, a community member, and an American citizen who is outraged at expressions of white power and racism that didn't begin in Charlottesville. Clearly, the nation is engaged in a searching dialogue about economic disadvantage, but it is simply not the case that whites in America are disadvantaged by the color of their skin. We need a conversation about economic opportunity for every American, but it really must begin with the need to achieve equitable results for historically disadvantaged people. We must be clear with ourselves about the realities of privilege and disadvantage—and the roots of both. Expressions of outrage won't stop the ongoing fight over our nation's racial legacy. Frankly, it is frustrating to issue formal statements that seem wholly inadequate to the outrageous bigotry we continue to witness. Yes, we must speak up—standing against hate and against complacency, false equivalencies, and excuses—but we need to do so in ways that commit us to do more. In this moment, it's unclear how we can ever stop racism born of fear and ignorance. Some will say these enduring elements of human character will always write the darkest chapters of the human story. But our rational optimism tells us there's hope, even in the sadness of this moment. At Lumina, we believe postsecondary learning is critical to shared prosperity. We've seen first-hand the transformative effects of learning. We know that from education comes understanding—and that understanding is the first step in the healing that must take place. Lumina Foundation can do more for racial justice and equity. And as the foundation's president, I commit to report publicly on what we are doing, and if it is working. In the coming days and weeks, I will be talking with other foundation leaders about ways we can work together toward greater racial equity, because I believe philanthropy can and must play an important leadership role in this essential work. In the end, we all must do more—in our workplaces, in our families, in our places of worship, in our communities. More with our resources. More with our voices. More with our actions. Our shared future depends on nothing less. The Equity-Minded Civic Learning All Americans Need | Inside HigherEd | Sept. 25, 2017 Kate Snedeker Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States Lumina's Equity Imperative | 2 pg. PDF Proposal for protecting and empowering students and borrowers of color View More by Topic: equity »

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Review: More isn't more as Punisher and Elektra join 'Daredevil' season 2 Alan Sepinwall Senior Television Writer Superhero movie sequels often suffer from the disease of more: more villains, more costumed sidekicks, more (and bigger) explosions, etc. Some of this comes from an understandable desire to top what the audience saw in the original movie, but often it seems to arise from a fear that the superhero at the center of it all is kinda boring, and needs to be surrounded by as many colorful allies and rogues as possible. Netflix's Daredevil had a very strong first season with lots to recommend: great fight sequences (particularly the single-take hallway fight), a compelling villain in Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk, and strong supporting performances from Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Rosario Dawson, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and (for an episode) Scott Glenn. What it never entirely figured out – neither under original showrunner Drew Goddard, nor his replacement Steven DeKnight – was what made the title character, played by Charlie Cox, compelling in and of himself. In his civilian guise as blind attorney Matt Murdock, Cox was charmingly soft-spoken – I would absolutely watch a USA legal procedural starring Cox, Henson, and Woll where Matt had no superpowers of any kind – but whenever he suited up, Daredevil was interesting in combat and rarely outside it. The Daredevil TV writers – now headed up by new showrunners Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez, both of whom worked on season 1 – are far from the first group to struggle to make the hero of Hell's Kitchen distinctive. Daredevil has gone through long fallow periods in the comics, and his title was on the verge of cancellation when a young Frank Miller gave the book a dark, ninja-filled makeover that has come to define him for most of the decades since, until eventually that approach turned into self-parody. (These days, Daredevil comic stories seem to work best when they go in an anti-Miller direction, like Mark Waid's recent, relatively light-hearted run.) And given that Miller's ensuing similar approach to Batman would in time influence every depiction of the Dark Knight on the page and screen, it can be hard in turn for anyone to make Daredevil seem like anything but a Caped Crusader knock-off. Even the costume introduced at the end of the first Netflix season looked more like a DIY Batman uniform than the classic red Daredevil outfit from the comics. So it's hard to fault the show for not having a firm handle on its hero in the first season. But rather than step back and see if they can make Daredevil more distinctive in his second go-around, Petrie and Ramirez have instead gone down the traditional superhero sequel route. Fisk is gone, and two opponents – and, occasionally, allies – from the comics have taken his place: Jon Bernthal as homicidal vigilante Frank "The Punisher" Castle, and Elodie Yung as Matt's martial artist ex-girlfriend Elektra. A lot of time is devoted to building up the two newbies, to arranging a series of interlocking mob rivalries for Punisher and Elektra to intrude upon, and to setting up a rivalry between Matt's law firm and a local prosecutor with a vendetta against costumed heroes. The new episodes (I've seen the first seven) can go long stretches without Matt appearing in either his civilian or costumed identities, and even when he's on screen – particularly in the early, Punisher-focused installments – he often feels like a supporting character on his own show. Some of this is a credit to Bernthal, who's so confident and focused as Castle – who contemptuously refers to Daredevil as "a half-measure" and "a coward" – that it's no surprise there's already talk of a spin-off series. There's a scene at the end of the fourth episode where Castle talks about the events that turned him into a killing machine, and Daredevil might as well not even be there, given how the force of Bernthal's acting wipes everything else off the screen. At the same time, the show also deserves points for making its third episode an adaptation of a memorable Garth Ennis-written Punisher story, which was entirely about making Daredevil look like a loser, in a way that now gives equal weight to both characters. And the Elektra stories feel a bit more balanced, in part because she knew him first as Matt Murdock, and thus he gets to be more human with her even when he's in the costume (which still doesn't look great, even after a few tweaks early in the season). But there's just too much flab(*) – too many characters and subplots, and too many scenes that run on and on for no particular reason – on top of the unmistakable blandness of the guy in the red(ish) costume, for Daredevil to feel as satisfying so far this season. Every now and then, there will be a great moment, like the aforementioned Punisher monologue, or Henson's Foggy calming down a violent situation, but on the whole it's too unfocused to entirely work, and has to lean even more than before on the inherent charisma of its actors. (There's a subplot about Woll's Karen investigating Punisher's backstory that doesn't make a lot of sense, but gets by as a delivery system for one of the show's best performances.) (*) Streaming seasons in general tend to suffer from sagging middle sections, as part of the attempt to treat them less as individual episodes than as 13-hour single stories, but that feeling sets in earlier than usual here. The staged combat remains excellent, of course, as Daredevil and Cinemax's Banshee keep operating on an action level above anything else on TV. In particular, there's a fantastic sequence near the end of the third episode where production obviously decided they had to top last year's hallway fight, and did so. For a few minutes, the new season's more-is-more ethos actually pays off. Mostly, though, the new batch feels lesser than the more streamlined show we got in season 1. Alan Sepinwall may be reached at [email protected] TOPICS#Netflix Review#Daredevil#Netflix TAGSCHARLIE COXDaredevilDEBORAH ANN WOLLELDEN HENSONELODIE YUNGJon BernthalNETFLIXNETFLIX Review

Burgess Petcare is a family-owned company that produces market-leading pet foods from their Cherry Tree Mill plant near Goole. They have undertaken a number of projects to minimise their impact on the environment and reduce costs, ranging from stringent auditing and maintenance of their drains and pipes through to the achievement of zero landfill in March 2012. A major project undertaken was aimed at the reduction of gas use and attendant emissions. Enersol Flomar undertook a detailed survey of steam traps, pipe & valve insulation, pipework design & efficiency and identified a number of areas for improvement, fairly typical of similar installations. A further recommended element was an improvement to the monitoring and measuring regime so that Burgess could not just see exactly how well the plant was performing, but which would enable them to identify problems such as defective steam traps at an early stage. The programme was carried out, and included the replacement of failing steam traps, new high-performance insulation jackets which were custom-made for the plant. Another initiative was the installation of extra 'drop out' pockets which enabled excess condensate to be removed, thereby reducing the risk of waterhammer and its attendant dangers to both plant & personnel. Finally, a new ethernet-enabled monitoring and metering system was installed which enabled the Burgess energy team to log in at any time and see the plant's performance in real time. The system paid dividends immediately in that the team identified that their weekend shutdown was anything but – the plant was 'ticking over' redundantly and at considerable expense.

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Dacia have celebrated the success of their Dacia Duster by bringing out a new Duster Prestige which comes with two eye catching new colour, cosmos blue and khaki green. The Duster Prestige also comes with parking sensors, a reversing camera and a new Media Nav Evolution 7" touchscreen navigation system including DAB Radio, Bluetooth, USB & AUX. It has been given a facelift on the outside with a new chrome finish on the front grill and body coloured bumpers on the back. The Duster Prestige also comes with new 16" Tyrol Alloys which sets it apart from the current versions of the Dacia Duster that are available. It is available with the tried and trusted 1.5 Diesel engines and the Duster Prestige is available in 4x4 or 4x2 wheel drive.

There will likely be a lot of traffic congestion on the first day of school. Families are encouraged to avoid driving their student to school if possible (please have them walk or take public transportation if you can). There is very limited parking in the neighborhood surrounding the school, so if you must drive you should plan to park several blocks away.

10 Amazing Female Israeli Tech Leaders Who Put Quality In Equality By Sophie Imas, NoCamels May 12, 2014 8 minutes People Technology Top 8 Israeli Women Who Put The 'Quality' In 'Equality' via BigStcok James Brown sang "It's a man's world," but as these 10 Israeli women show, that couldn't be farther from the truth. NoCamels has sifted through the Startup Nation to bring you the top ten key female figures in Israel's booming tech scene. And if you think we've missed other bright and bold female leaders, tell us in the comments below. Dr. Kira Radinsky – Next-generation oracle Kira Radinsky This 27-year-old has had the world watching her with wide eyes ever since she used her unique software to predict Cuba's first Cholera outbreak in 130 years several months before it occurred. By using complex algorithms, this young prodigy developed software that is capable of predicting the future. At the young age of eight, while most children were still playing in the sandbox, Radinsky had already started coding, taken extra courses at a special Russian after-school in Israel, and earned a black belt in Karate. Radinsky then began studying at the Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology, at the age of 15, and had completed her PhD in data mining by the time she was 26, not without taking a break in the middle to serve as a software engineer in the army. Staying true to her passion of predictive analytics, Radinsky founded SalesPredict in 2012, a company which works to advise salespeople on how to identify and handle promising leads. Already, Radinsky's keen foresight has earned her a spot on MIT's list of Top 35 Innovators Under 35. With such a lengthy list of accomplishments at the mere age of 27, only time, or perhaps her software, will tell where Radinsky's genius will lead her next. Sivan Borowich Ya'ari – Bringing Israeli innovation to Africa Sivan Borowich-Ya'ari Sivan Borowich-Ya'ari has been branded the "Israeli sunshine girl" for a reason: in 2008, Borowich-Ya'ari founded Innovation:Africa, a non-profit organization bringing Israeli clean technologies in solar energy and water to regions in need throughout in Africa. Borowich-Ya'ari's connection to Africa is deep-seated, her father and mother emigrated to Israel from the northern African countries of Algeria and Tunisia. So far, the organization has carried out 68 projects in Ethiopia, Uganda, Malawi and Tanzania, providing more than 450,000 people with electricity through sustainable energy sources, enough to power schools, orphanages, medical clinics and water pumping systems. For its efforts, the organization has obtained consultative status at the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and received the UN Innovation Award. Not only has Borowich-Ya'ari taken on the task of helping communities in Africa obtain vital resources, this philanthropist operates under the declared mission of using Israeli innovation to change the world for the better. Dr. Michal Tsur – The "Iron Lady" of Israeli innovation Michal Tsur Dr. Michal Tsur, nicknamed the "Iron Lady" of Israeli startups has already accomplished more than most people hope to achieve in a lifetime. With a successful startup exit under her belt, she is now the co-founder and president of a multi-million dollar company. But Tsur ended up in the startup world entirely by accident, after earning a doctoral degree in application of game-theory to law from NYU, and a post-doctoral fellowship from Yale. Her lack of coding knowledge didn't stop her from co-founding Cyota, an online security firm (which sold for $145 million just a few years after its creation), only to move on to co-found another leading Israeli company, Kaltura, an open source video platform that collaborates with big names such as AT&T, Disney and ABC. But Tsur's success doesn't stop there: she is also an advisor and angel investor in several successful startups, and is a pro at juggling her family life with a fast-paced, intercontinental business routine. With all this under her belt, even Kira Radinsky might find it hard to predict what Tsur will bring to the table next. Malvina Goldfeld – Breaking through cultural boundaries Malvina Goldfeld Malvina Goldfeld is the definition of cosmopolitan: she was born in Moldova, grew up in Israel, studied in Canada, the US, Japan and Chile and has worked in Ukraine, Italy, the UAE and Vietnam. Being fluent in five languages (English, Hebrew, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese), Goldfeld has broken through cultural and business boundaries, holding a number of prestigious positions at large corporations worldwide, allowing her to foster her passion for learning new languages and reading literature. Since July 2013, (when she had not yet turned 30), Malvina has been the Head of Business Development for Africa at PayPal, working to connect sub-Saharan Africa to the global marketplace. Previously, Goldfeld worked as the Vice President at Battery Ventures, a global venture capital fund focusing on investments in e-commerce and internet applications and as a business analyst for McKinsey & Company in Israel and Eastern Europe. Goldfeld began to build her profuse resume as a camp counselor at Seeds of Peace, a summer program working to promote dialogue and build bridges between Israeli and Palestinian youth. In 2013, she was one of the speakers at TEDxTelAvivWomen, a conference of the leading women in Israeli innovation, and in her spare time (apparently she has some), she mentors young girls in the coastal city of Bat Yam. Orit Hashay – Serial Entrepreneur Orit Hashai This serial entrepreneur is no stranger to the startup world, joining the industry over 10 years ago. Perhaps the very epitome of an entrepreneur, Hashay hasn't rested a moment since she entered the market. Armed with 15 years of experience in software and business development for companies like Emblaze and Comverse, Hashay has a knack for providing tech-savvy solutions to women's daily problems. So far, she's founded mit4mit.com (a popular Israeli portal for wedding-planning), Ramkol.co.il (a business review site), Brayola (a personalized, crowdsourced form of online bra shopping) and Vetrinas (a virtual shopping site). And her success hasn't gone unnoticed; in 2012 alone, she was included both in the Top 50 Most Influential Women in Israel list, compiled by "Globes" and the Top 100 Girls in European Tech by the international Girls in Tech Network. Daphna Nissenbaum – Putting an end to plastic Daphna Nissenbaum Although she started out as a computer engineer, this Israeli mom couldn't shake her passion for sustainability and the environment. After holding management positions in companies in Israel and the United States, Nissenbaum founded Tipa, a green tech startup, in 2010. The company's aim is to fulfill the growing need for genuinely ecologically sensitive food and beverage packaging. This savvy businesswoman developed 100 percent biodegradable and compostable packaging that decomposes within 180 days and acts as a seamless alternative to regular plastic, cardboard or aluminum packaging. So far, Nissenbaum and Tipa's efforts to contribute to the green revolution has been met with impressive international recognition. In 2012, Tipa won first prize at Israel's Cleantech out of 50 promising companies, as well as the Anuga Foodtec prize, a leading food industry packaging conference in Germany. And just last month, Calcalist reported that Tipa is raising $10 million, led by Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing's Horizon Ventures and joined by existing investors Aviv Ventures and GreenSoil. Amit Knaani – Giving kids access to tech Amit Knaani Amit Knaani began her journey into the world of startup development at what some would call the top. She started off as the Senior Product Manager at WiX.com, the world's leading platform for website development, and then quit her prestigious job to join BabyFirstTV, a TV network for toddlers, as Product Manager in 2010. Together with Yami Glick, this mother of two then created her own startup in 2012 called Vikido, a video messaging service designed to allow kids and parents to communicate via video messages using an interface with no reading prerequisites. At the same time, she worked as Head of Product for ooVoo, a free video chat and instant messaging application, which has won a number of awards from "PC Magazine" since its founding. Today, she is the Vice President of Product at another up-and-coming website creation site called duda, specializing in the creation of mobile websites for businesses free of charge. Triinu Magi – Connecting with the spirit of Israeli innovation Triinu Magi While she originally hails from Estonia, Triinu Magi has successfully caught the Israeli innovation bug. An expert data and security analyst and software architect by trade, Magi recently co-founded Neura, a system which allows users to profile their connected environment and create logical connections between devices, people, locations and the web. Before Neura, Magi worked as the head of Israeli company RSA's (a leading global software corporation) emerging technologies and fraud detection models. She has also previously worked as the data analyst and project manager at Estonia's Ministry of Justice, being one of the youngest people to help build the country's e-services and e-government infrastructure. Undoubtedly, the future looks bright for this new Israeli immigrant and leader of the revolution of The Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. Liat Aaronson – Teaching entrepreneurship for a brighter future Liat Aaronson This lady's got the passion for entrepreneurship in her bones. From educating the business leaders of the future, to getting budding startups on their feet, Liat Aaronson is working hard to make innovation and entrepreneurship indelible parts of Israeli culture. A lawyer by trade, Aaronson currently serves as the Director of the prestigious Zell Entrepreneurship Program at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, an exclusive program that teaches the promising business leaders of tomorrow everything they need to know to make their venture succeed. As part of her job, she travels all over the world to coach the program's 252 alumni and current students as they develop and promote their ventures, including by introducing her young protégés to Warren Buffett. In 2009, Aaronson attended TEDIndia and decided to launch the viral conference series in Israel, becoming the co-organizer of two TEDx events, one in Tel Aviv and another focused on Israeli-Palestinian discourse called TEDxHolyland, in 2010. From 2009 to 2013, Aaronson was also the director of Startupseeds, a non-profit organization for technology innovation for high school students. Ayelet Noff – The blonde queen of the social media scene Ayelet Noff Ayelet Noff is convinced that not only do blondes have more fun, they are also masters of social media networks. At least that was the idea when she founded her new media public relations agency Blonde 2.0 in 2006 at a time when Facebook was still in diapers. But before she set off on her own, Noff was the Marketing Manager at one of the first and most successful Israeli instant messaging startups, ICQ, and was a contributing writer for major tech news portals like TechCrunch and The Next Web. Now, she and her team of 20 at Blonde 2.0 promote over forty Israeli companies to the likes of HP, Mobli and Viber on social media networks. Noff got the message early on that when it comes to social media, when a [smart] blonde says it, people listen. Photo: Image of businesswoman breaking bricks with hand by Bigstock

Sales force automation (SFA) has been growing steadily over the past few years, and the folks at CRM Buyer predict that when the economy leaves its slump, SFA will surge. Most apparently, SFA is making inroads with new price points and offerings for different verticals. Catering to specific industries is a smart move to stay competitive; the change in pricing was a bigger necessity. A Gartner analyst noted that many companies subscribing to SaaS SFA platforms are nearing the end of their contracts, and are both shopping around and negotiating lower prices for the service already in use. In addition, there's been an emerging demand for role-based pricing. Several CRM sectors have seen boosts with the downturn, and SFA is one of them—companies looking to do more with less money frequently turned to automated systems. However, the "more with less" motto is not a recession-era fad, as it's always trendy to save money, so SFA is expected to do well after the economic decline. With this expected increase in demand, new technologies are surfacing: Shadetree Technologies recently released an application that marries marketing automation and SFA. Whether or not more such apps emerge, SFA will likely see a boost through the purchase of marketing automation applications, as they work best in an SFA environment. And many SFA applications are getting service information integrations, which will help sales departments learn more about customers. CRM Buyer did point out a slightly surprising absence: Facebook. While other enterprise systems are enjoying the information and opportunities created by social networking, SFA applications are eschewing them. LinkedIn still interests vendors because it maintains a professional tone throughout, but Facebook (and probably Twitter) are too unstructured and leisurely, and serve mostly as distraction.

Q: is there any script which can stop to show ALT="text" as a tooltip in IE 6 and 7? is there any script which can stop to show ALT="text" as a tooltip in IE 6 and 7? A: I wouldn't worry too much about it. It's a known bug and it's fixed in IE8. A: $('img').each(function (i, el) { if (!el.hasAttribute('title')) { el.setAttribute('title', ''); } }); That should give all images without a title attribute an empty one. I'm not sure if it will fix the problem for IE6 and IE7 but I think they support title and this might override it. A: <!--[if IE]><script>for(i =0;i<document.images.length;i++){document.images[i].alt='';}</script><![endif]--> at the end of the page should do it. A: In IE before IE8 the only way to avoid the browser to show images alt text as tooltip are: * *not to use the alt attribute (which is not a good idea because it's not valid HTML and it's not good even for Google SEO and text readers that can not see your images). *place in each image a title="" empty attribute. In order to accomplish point (2) using a simple Javascript with no jQuery, you have to place this small piece of code before ending BODY tag, like this: <!--[if lt IE 8]> <script> for(var i = 0, imgs = document.images, len = imgs.length; i < len; ++i) if(!imgs[i].title) imgs[i].title = ""; </script> <![endif]--> </body> You can write it in one line if you prefer. The advantaghe of this code is that it does not screw up the alt tag attributes of your images, it simply sets the title attribute to empty string, unless a title attribute is already defined in this last case I suppose the title attribute was defined because you want to show whatever you wrote in title attribute as a tooltip (which is a cross-browser behaviour). A: $$('img').set('alt', ''); No other way, apart from setting the title attribute. A: You could do the following but it would be very intrusive (and a bit slow): $('*').attr('alt', ''); A: Presumably for alt attribute, you just mean image elements? $('img').removeAttr('alt'); You may also consider removing the title attribute from elements in the DOM $('*').removeAttr('title'); A: Do screan reader run javascript? If not then why bother with this mod? Setting alt to "" would hide the alt "tooltip" in IE < 8 which seems to be all you are after. Plus this should be done anyway for all image or else screen readers have a habit of of rendering out a default "image placeholder" speech. If you set it to blank then it won't bother and will skip it, ideal for images that are simply used for design rather than content. Unfortunately there is no special flag or switch you can flick via JS or any other method to tell IE to behave any differently in this regard which is what I believe you are asking for. An alternative is to switch any alts you find in images to be titles but this does not get rid of the tooltips, you just end up making them appear in all browsers then rather than just IE. So the final fix is to simply clear all alt attributes in images (and there are scripts in other answers here that do just that). You asked the question but I think you should ponder about what it is you are trying to achieve and more importantly, why and is it that essential?

Are you loving the lights, colors, and the frenzy all around for Diwali? The street corners are lined with intricate diyas and the malls are glittering in bright colors. The choices as a consumer are endless to dress our homes this season. In case you were caught up in cleaning and shopping for clothes and didn't get around to shopping for the home, I have put together a few essentials that will instantly bring in the much-needed glitz and glamour to your home. Most of them are priced below Rs.600. Let's get shopping! Hurricane candle holder for Rs.1,149. Shop with me: 7 picks for your home to make it boho-chic.

In the thirty-seventh episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I welcome friend of the podcast Jef Burnham of CadaverCast to discuss the classic toy line, Transformers. In this episode, the three recall with fondness how these toys impacted their lives, but in doing so, they also focus on the relationship between nostaglia and brand longevity. The Transformers franchise has survived for over 30 years by being, like its core toys, able to transform as the market changes. In their conversation about this brand's adaptability, they also consider whether or not fan nostalgia helps or hurts the brand, and to what extent it has hidden its Japanese origins, some of which you can see in this collection of Diaclone commercials. As always, you are encouraged to become a part of this conversation by visiting any of the podcast's social media sites. You can also talk with Christopher Olson on Twitter (@chrstphrolson) and at his academic blog seemsobvioustome.wordpress.com. And you can talk to CarrieLynn Reinhard on Twitter (@mediaoracle) and at her website www.playingwithresearch.com.

National Park Foundation Announces 2010 National Park Holiday Celebrations Monday, November 29, 2010National Park Foundation WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 29, 2010) -- Today, the National Park Foundation, the official charity of American's national parks, announced some of the best national parks for visitors to participate in holiday festivities this year. Each year, the holiday season is kicked off in grand style in Washington, D.C.'s President's Park with the National Christmas Tree Lighting which can be seen December 9th LIVE at 5pm ET/2pm PT at www.thenationaltree.org. In addition, there are many other exceptional holiday festivities to take part in local national parks across the country. ARIZONA: Petrified Forest National Park – Holiday Open House – Enjoy hot drinks, cookies, treats and holiday cheer at the Painted Desert National Historic Landmark. CALIFORNIA: San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park - Turn the clock back to Christmas in the year 1901, where you will meet and talk with captains, wives, and crews aboard the historic vessels at Hyde Street Pier. Lamplit guided tours HAWAII: Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park - Na Leo Manu Heavenly Voices - Home for the Holidays – Enjoy a free evening of festive Hawaiian music. KANSAS: Fort Larned National Historic Site – "Christmas Past" visitors enjoy historic sounds of the season MARYLAND: Thomas Stone National Historic Site - 18th Christmas tour by candlelight. MISSOURI: Wilson's Creek National Battlefield hosts a memorial procession and illumination tour. NEW JERSEY: Thomas Edison National Historical Park – Holidays at Glenmont Estate – Visit the Glenmont Estate when it is dressed up for the holiday season, including a tree, banquet dinner, and other decorations. NEW YORK: Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site features Christmas organ concerts. NORTH CAROLINA: Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site – "Christmas at Connemara" features a festive celebration folk musicians and storytellers. TEXAS: Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park – Christmas at the LBJ Boyhood Home – Relive a 1920's small town Christmas WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Ellipse at President's Park - Santa's Workshop – Meet Santa and his elves in their workshop while listening to holiday music performances. These and many other national parks offer an exceptional variety of holiday celebrations and festivities. With lights, music, and holiday cheer to be found at many of the 393 national parks throughout the country, there's no reason to miss out on the season's festivities. For information on events in a national park near you, please go to the full listing of national parks at National Park Foundation or the National Park Service. You are the owner of 84 million acres of the world's most treasured landscapes, ecosystems, and historic sites -- all protected in America's nearly 400 national parks. Chartered by Congress, the National Park Foundation is the official charity of America's national parks. We work hand in hand with the National Park Service to connect you and all Americans to the parks, and to make sure that they are preserved for the generations who will follow. Join us in supporting your national parks -- this is your land. www.nationalparks.org.

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