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"It's tradition, and we're trying to keep it going."
"I don't worry about it. We work on situations everyday in practice. What can you do to prepare for that? Do you make the game close to prepare for that? We're focused enough to make decisions. All we can do is work on it in practice. We're trying to do the same thing whether we're up or down."
"We're getting smarter. People don't realize we only start one senior. We got to get focused and keep focused. I'm still pleased with them. Not satisfied, but pleased with them."
"Oh boy. He might be one of the most talented big men we'll face."
"He's not as long or as tall as Witcher, but he plays a different type of big-man game than Witcher. He puts the<|fim_middle|> if you take care of business Saturday, that's where you'll go. I think you need to know what your destination is. That's not to say that you're looking past anybody. But you need to know what you are playing for. You are playing to go to Richmond."
"They're my kids, that's the way I look at it. They're good boys. I know they think they're men, but they're still boys. They're good young men and they're trying to do the right thing."
"One of the big boys. Ridge or J.C., one of them will guard him."
"They set goals at the beginning of the year. We are just trying to do them one at a time, one at a time, one at time. You can only do that one at a time. I want them to be excited about it (the title), but it is only one step." | ball on the floor a lot more than Witcher."
"He was raised up to serve God. I think that background has been good to him."
"Franklin County fought hard tonight. We set goals and our team has knocked them off one by one."
"That just comes from them playing with each other. Because they are good friends off the court, you get a good feel of where each other is going to be at."
"Our last two games he's just held everybody together. He's led by example. The guys trust him. That's big if they trust you."
"People need encouragement and need support. People want to know they can work through this."
"That's the first time we've ever shot the ball like that this year. You've just got to keep coaching defense because the shots are eventually going to drop. You build your house with defense."
"They need to understand that | 177 |
The Beech Court Care Centre is based in Romford and is a 51-bed capacity, purpose-built care centre with a tranquil and calm setting.
Mary Zuwaradoka manages a team of registered nurses, mental health nurses, qualified care assistants, housekeepers, chefs and an administrator, creating a comfortable and enjoyable living atmosphere for residents and service users. Providing elderly care, younger<|fim_middle|> number of amenities in close proximity. Beech Court Care Centre also features off-street parking for visitors. While visiting times aren't restricted, the team recommend visiting between 10.30am and 18.30pm to allow staff to coordinate hygiene and meal routines.
If you'd like more details about Beech Court, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. We're happy for you to visit the home and our team to learn more about the suitability of the home for you or your loved one. Alternatively, we can supply you with a brochure containing more information. | care, end of life care, respite care and nursing care, the team at Beech Court also care for those with conditions such as Parkinson's, dementia and other mental health issues.
All rooms at Beech Court Care Centre come with an en suite toilet and hand basin. Rooms also include phone points and internet access is available – with WiFi used by some residents. The home features an enclosed garden with a range of flowers and plants, as well as open space and gazebos for residents to sit in and enjoy.
All food at the care centre is prepared on site by a dedicated chef and kitchen assistants, ensuring a nutritional and balanced diet for residents, with cake baking for birthdays and special occasions.
To help keep residents stimulated and entertained, a regular range of activities are on offer, including film screenings, arts and crafts, bingo and sing-along entertainment. Fun days are also held to promote socialisation, with barbecues, bric-a-brac sales, raffles and other entertainment.
Situated close to the city centre, there are local transports links and a | 216 |
Lockhart acknowledged that the league was aware of the Cowboys owner's threat to sue but to the spokesman's knowledge no lawsuit has been formally filed.
Cavaliers: When he left to get stitched up, James only had eight points and his streak of double-digit games appeared in jeopardy. But he scored on a layup in the third, giving him 809 straight regular-season games with at least 10 points.
Hellebuyck, who has a 12-2-2 record with a 2.45 goals-against average and a .925 save percentage, wrested the starting job away from Steve Mason, who was signed to an $8.2 million, two-year free agent contract in the offseason.
It has been a turkey of a November for Los Angeles, who own a 2-5-1 record in their past eight games after a strong and unexpected 10-2-1 start.
Elliott sat out his first of six games this past Sunday against the Falcons after the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied his request for an emergency injunction at a hearing Thursday in New York.
A series of injunctions and restraining orders had allowed Elliott, 22, to play before Sunday, but a three-judge panel decided another injunction wasn't in the cards for the Cowboys running back.
Elliott is eligible to return for a Dec. 24 matchup with the Seahawks in Dallas. The Cowboys (5-4) have turned to Alfred Morris, Rob Smith and Darren McFadden in Elliott's absence.
OTL's assertion was part of a long report that confirmed the New York Times' story on Jones' threats to sue the NFL and his fellow owners over ongoing negotiations on the commissioner's new contract.
"I think you want to protect the player a little bit. Players in the league will target certain parts of the body," he said.
But Hitchcock refuted that notion. "The players don't go out and say: 'He has a broken left pinkie and we're going to go after that 'pinkie.' Nobody thinks like that," he said.
Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks blasted the NFL's injury disclosure policy in September, saying it was specifically tailored to benefit those gambling on games.
Ben Simmons had a career-high 27 points and 10 rebounds, a fired-up Embiid added 15 points and 11 rebounds despite a sore knee, and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the cold-shooting Utah Jazz 107-86 on Monday night.
The injury-prone Embiid skipped the morning shootaround because of pain his surgically-repaired left knee. But he posted his seventh double-double and got under Utah's skin at a decisive time in the fourth quarter.
Ben Roethlisberger added<|fim_middle|> protocol isn't followed properly.
Wilson told reporters after the game he was fine after the hit and only stayed on the ground because he thought his jaw might be stuck. | another milestone to his Hall of Fame career.
A 3-yard completion to tight end Jesse James in the second quarter of Thursday's 40-17 win over the Titans gave the Steelers quarterback 4,000 completions for his career. Roethlisberger is the ninth quarterback in NFL history with at least 4,000 completions.
The Steelers selected Roethlisberger with the 11th overall pick of the 2004 NFL Draft. The former Miami University quarterback was the Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2004 and has won a pair of Super Bowls while leading the Steelers to another title game. The five-time Pro Bowler has thrown for 49,411 yards and 317 touchdowns with 170 interceptions. He's also rushed for another 1,209 yards and 16 scores over his 14-year career.
Roethlisberger, Giants quarterback Eli Manning (4,287 completions), the top pick in the 2004 draft, and Rivers (4,005 completions), fourth overall in 2004, are the only quarterback trio from the same draft class with 4,000 career completions.
NFL concussion policy requires a player to be cleared by a team physician and an independent neurological consultant before returning to a game or practice if there's any sign of concussion symptoms.
The Seahawks eventually punted on the drive and Wilson spent time under an examination tent meant for concussion testing before playing the next series.
The Seahawks are subject to league discipline if the concussion | 333 |
We survived the 4 hour plus jaunt home from<|fim_middle|> Josh and he'll be the big man at Kindergarten this abbreviated week. | Jersey to Springfield yesterday (the highlight being the 20 straight minutes that Alex and Rebecca spent screaming and crying at the end of the trip). We all had a great Christmas up North and it was good to get away for a while. Now that we're trying to get used to normal life (IE. not lounging around the Gecik house all day), the kids need to go back to school (daycare for Alex). Despite Josh's random fever and slight sickness (which Motrin helped quell), the two got in my car this morning for the return to normalcy.
I fully expected Alex to have a major meltdown in returning to school for the first time in 12 days. He normally puts up a minor fight in being dropped off at school (it's been getting better and better though). When I was about to leave him today I could see him getting ready to start bawling as usual, but to the rescue came his classmate Sam W. (Alex has three Sams in his class so he's known as Sam W.) Sam ran up to Alex screaming "ALLLLEEEXX!!!" and gave him a big bear hug. Alex immediately started to smile and went off with Sam to do the arts and crafts activity that the other kids were doing. Alex's teacher Ms. Minnie said to me "well that's one way to keep from from crying in the morning." I agreed and hurriedly left the classroom, as we passed the room from the other side, Josh and I peeked in and saw Alex having fun without any morning tears.
It's good to see that Alex is making friends at his new school and hopefully he can eventually get into a cry-free routine in the morning. Josh was excited to go to school but a little disappointed to see that only two other kids (both girls) would be in school this week as the Kindergarten roster is severely cut for the holidays. Needless to say, both girls adore | 397 |
We all know people that live in big, beautiful (expensive) homes, drive gorgeous (expensive) cars, travel to exotic (expensive) destinations, and send their children to prestigious (expensive) private schools. They must be rich!
But are they? By all outward appearances they seem rich. But are they really as wealthy as they look?
We'll never know for sure. The only way to tell is to take a look at their Net Worth.
A person's Net Worth is a simple way to know how rich they really are today– not how rich you or I think they are with their big house and fancy cars in the driveway.
Why do we say today? A Net Worth is an actual snapshot of your current finances. It's your reality, or your bottom-line number. It says how rich you really are.
And so how do you calculate your Net Worth? It's pretty straightforward. If you could sell all of your stuff today, pay off all the people you owe, how much would<|fim_middle|> other words, your Net Worth = Assets – Liabilities.
Your Net Worth is more than just a number. It's actually a useful financial tool that can help you measure, monitor, and manage your success (or failure!) in achieving your financial dreams.
It can help you monitor your finances so you can decide where you need to make changes. By filling out a Net Worth Statement once or twice a year, you can gain better insight into whether or not your wealth is growing.
It can help you manage your financial resources better. How? By having a clear snapshot in front of you telling you exactly what's happening (or not happening!), it can force you to make changes. In other words, your Net Worth can help guide your financial decisions.
If you've never calculated your Net Worth before you will need to begin by listing all of your assets and liabilities in a simple table called your Net Worth Statement.
Note: If your life is simple with few assets and liabilities then you can easily use old-school tools (pen and paper) to create your Net Worth Statement. But if you have a more complicated life, then you may want to make your calculation easier by using an online tool such as our Net Worth Statement tool that can be easily and conveniently saved in My Folder for future review and updating as your circumstances change.
Did I mention accuracy counts?
When completing your Net Worth Statement be sure to use real numbers. Don't estimate or guess! If you use imaginary numbers, then you're only pretending to get a handle on things.
If you don't have a current market value for your home, then use the government's assessed value on your property tax notice.
Don't know what your RRSP, TFSA or RESP are worth? Then use the account's last statement to get the real numbers.
What about your boat, car or RV? Don't use your purchase cost, they're depreciating assets. Be realistic. Search online to find out how much you'd get if your toys were sold today.
Not sure how much you owe? Well, call your financial institution or mortgage planner and get a current loan statement with the actual dollar amounts.
Once you have real numbers punched into your Net Worth Statement, you'll know how rich you really are and have a much better chance at getting a real handle on your financial starting point.
And the next time you drive by that big beautiful house, remind yourself that it would be nice to know what the owner's Net Worth really is, because without the real numbers, you'll never know the true picture. You might actually be richer than the guy with the nice house. | you have left over? In financial jargon, that leftover is your Net Worth.
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East Broad Street replacement windows are a type of window that you should consider getting if something happens to your home that would cause you to need to replace the window of your home. Because of all of the different East Broad Street replacement windows that are out there for you to purchase, it might be difficult for you to determine which ones are going to be the best fit for you. When you are considering getting some East Broad Street replacement windows for your home, you should look into<|fim_middle|> which kind you think would be the best one for you to purchase for yourself. Though you might find that these kinds of windows are particularly pricy, in the end, chances are it is going to be worth the effort because of all of the benefits that will come along with them. Just remember to be diligent when you are shopping for them so that you know that you are getting the best price for the window that you are purchasing for yourself and for your Columbus home. | these specific types that you can get. In doing this, you will be able to better determine whether or not getting East Broad Street replacement windows at all is going to be a good thing for you to consider doing. Once you have decided that you are going to get new East Broad Street replacement windows for your home, you will find that it is much easier to shop for them when the time comes. Take a look at some of the more popular types of East Broad Street replacement windows so that you can get a good idea of what your options are when the time comes for you to get them for yourself.
One of the main kinds of Columbus replacement window glass that you can get for your home is what is known as tempered glass. This is a special kind that is crafted in a very specific way. Basically speaking, most windows are crafted like this; the pane of glass is heated to the peak temperature and then cooled off at a slow pace so that a measure of consistency is leveled all throughout the pane. However, this is not the case for these particular kinds of East Broad Street replacement windows. Tempered Columbus glass is made like this; the pane of East Broad Street replacement glass is heated to a specific temperature and then cooled off at a rapid pace so that an inconsistent level of softer glass has a chance to form at the center. This makes tempered glass far more durable than most other kinds of East Broad Street replacement glass that are out there.
Another kind of glass that you can get for your East Broad Street replacement window fixtures is what is known as laminated glass. This is the kind that is formed by fusing two panes of glass together by one single fusing point. That fusing point is a thin layer of OH plastic that rests in between the two panes of glass. This layer of plastic is not just there for strength, however. Unlike most kinds of windows that are liable to break in many shattered pieces, laminated Ohio replacement windows glass is formed to where if it does break, it will break in much larger segments so that it is easier to clean up and easier to detect. One of the biggest concerns that people have about windows is that they are too difficult to clean up after in the event of them breaking. If a window that you have is not made of the laminated material, it is more likely to break and shatter so that it is much more difficult to clean up. This is why laminated East Broad Street replacement windows are so valuable.
A final type that you should gain a cursory knowledge of is what is known as energy glass. This is a kind that is formed in a separate way as well. Though the tempering process is much the same as the general window tempering process, throughout the pane of the glass are flecks of silver. This silver contributes to the glass's ability to reflect heat on both sides. Basically speaking, this means that it will provide a measure of insulation to your windows that is much more conservative of energy in your home, hence the name. This kind of Ohio replacement glass is often purchased by individuals who are looking to save money on a long term Ohio replacement situation for energy bills, which make them more of an investment than just a window.
Now that you understand what some of the basic OH types of East Broad Street replacement windows are, you can determine | 669 |
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The goal of researching your keywords is to find the keywords that aren't being widely used by the competition. By coming up with keywords that are less used, you will find yourself higher up on the results list of search engine queries. There are quite a few methods that can be used during your research process for finding just the write keywords to use within your website content.
The easiest tool for keyword searches is Google. By doing a general search for a basic industry term associated with your business you will quickly learn who your competition is and what they're using in their content. You may find that your results will bring both larger corporations in your field as well as smaller businesses you're not familiar with. You will now have the knowledge on what potential customers are finding with general search terms.
Once you learn who your competition is it's important to check out what they're using to get to the top of that search engine list. There are many sites offering Keyword Density Tools that allow you to insert a website and learn what keywords the tool finds within the site. Sites like these (for example SeoBook) will give you results that vary in word length and give you the density percentage as well as count the amount of times the word or words are used on the page. By taking note of the words your competition is using and how often, you can start to decide which keyword combinations will work best for you.
Another tool that may assist you in targeting good keywords for your business is a keyword suggestion tool like Trellian. This tool allows you to input a simple or "base" keyword(s) that you're considering. Once you click "search" the tool will then compile a list of keyword phrases that include your base keyword. This will give you a very good idea of the types of phrases that go with the keyword you're considering. The tool linked above will also give you the amount<|fim_middle|> of interest in your keywords over a year long time period as well as regional interest. This tool can be great at figuring out where the interest lies within the regions you're reaching out to.
Finding the right keywords to use for your website may be a tedious job, but in the long run it will bring you more customers. If you're using keywords that are just like the competition, you may find yourself losing customers to them online. But, if you do the leg work and check out all the details related to the keywords in your field, you will absolutely see the results long term. | of times the specific keyword phrases have been searched for in the past year, making this a great way to also see what potential customers are looking for during these searches.
If you have a lot of different keywords coming to your mind once you've completed all of your searches, you may want to consider using a tool like MergeWords. The site allows you to add words into three different boxes, so it is important to mentally categorizing the words you plan to use. If you sell custom made clothing, you may want to separate your words into categories like: clothing article type, fabric types, and design type. By entering each word you consider important to your company or products and clicking "merge", the site will come up with all the keyword combinations that can be made with those words.
From there you may have hundreds of keyword combinations sorted for you. But some of these may not be right for your company or may not make sense in general. So you have to go through the list and jot down those that will work for you. Once you have what you can use, head to Google's AdWords Keyword Tool. Here you can refine your list by inserting all your keyword phrases and find exact (make sure to choose "exact" under "Match Types") matches that your competition is using. It will show you how often searches for these keyword phrases are done both globally and locally as well as how much competition is out there for each phrase.
From here it can be valuable to take the list you've now narrowed down to and check on how they may do for you. Google Trends allows you to search keyword phrases and gives you the amount | 328 |
Watch this space on any active day for the latest hail reports of severe hailstorms and<|fim_middle|> are phoned any later or entered later.
Who provides hail reports?
Hail reports are provided by Skywarn storm spotters, storm chasers, the public and also emergency service personnel.
The Storm Prediction Center is a US Government department that provides the forecasts for regions as well severe thunderstorm watches. Once storms occur, it is the task of the National Weather Service in each regions to provide their specific warnings.
As regions encounter severe hailstorms, reports begin to flow in to the relevant departments and these are entered as soon as possible depending on staffing. It also depends on the intensity of the outbreak. In major hailstorm and tornado outbreaks, hail reports may flood in quite quickly.
A similar system although nowhere near as organised exists in Australia. Hail reports are reported by storm spotters and other sectors of the public and emergency service personnel. However, such reports are not always available immediately and may take weeks if not months to be entered on some occasions depending on the state.
Maps of hail and associated locations may be provided upon request so please feel free to contact us for hail maps. A nominal fee may apply. | their locations on a map! At the moment, the live reports are relevant to the US.
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The whole concept of hail reports details live the locations where hailstorms occur. The hails reports provide information about hail size. They also provide their location and time of occurrence. Please note that not all hail reports are live as some | 74 |
Before giving birth to her second child, singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette knew she may have to face postpartum depression<|fim_middle|>, and never giving up. | (PPD) once again.
The iconic songstress best known for her chart-topping album, Jagged Little Pill, had struggled with PPD after the birth of her first child, Ever Imre, now 6. In a recent interview with People Magazine, Morissette describes being "at the ready" to face the darkness once again.
Symptoms such intense physical pain, insomnia, lethargy and "horrifyingly scary" visions of her family being harmed were not new to Morissette, but this time she was more aware of what was going on. The singer admits to waiting to get help for her PPD the first time around until her son was 16 months old.
I can relate, as I waited until my third child was 18 months old before getting help for my depression. My doctor informed me that because my PPD had gone untreated for so long, it would now be considered major depressive disorder. What I had considered to be a condition that would just go away with time, was now going to be a bigger part of my life than I ever imagined.
The hopelessness and debilitating darkness that surrounds you can be such a difficult thing to explain to someone who hasn't experienced PPD. Even the smallest tasks seem insurmountable. And it can strike anyone – even celebrities who seem to have it all.
Finding a creative outlet can definitely help. I dealt with my pain through writing, but that wasn't enough. Eventually, I realized that medication was necessary for me. I fought it and have started and stopped numerous times, but have come to realize that I am a much healthier person when I take my medication regularly.
And Morissette knows that it's not just her family that has noticed the change in her. As she says in the interview, "There are people who are like, 'Where's the old Alanis?' and I just think, 'Well, she's in here. She's having a minute.'" And that's a perfect way to describe it. Some days I don't feel at all like myself, but I know that the real me is still inside somewhere. "I just know that there's a light at the end of the tunnel and try not to beat myself up," she says.
I, too, am sorry that she – or anyone – has to experience depression. It robs us of so much, but speaking our truth may be the first step to a healthier life. Darkness can be broken by letting in the light, seeking the help that we need | 515 |
Kolkata, March 24 (CRICKETNMORE): Andre Russell's blitzkrieg in the death overs took the game away from us, Sunrisers Hyderabad's spinner Rashid Khan said after Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) beat them by six wickets at the Eden Gardens in an IPL game on Sunday.
Chasing 182 for victory, KKR were up against it despite Nitish Rana's 47-ball 68. Needing 53 runs from the last three overs, Russell came in to bat after Rana's dismissal and smashed Siddharth Kaul for 19 runs and Bhuvneshwar Kumar for 21 runs to take the game away from the visitors with two balls to spare.
"We just couldn't finish well in the last three overs. That happens in T20 cricket. Russell played a great knock. He took the game away from us. He played all the shots, the bowlers did not bowl bad deliveries, but he just smashed all of them," said Rashid, who took the wicket of Rana after a 12-minute power failure to push Sunrisers closer to victory.
"Russell, the way he played, changed the game. It's crucial when the lower order gives you<|fim_middle|> that we scored less or batted badly. We just could not finish well, and that happens."
Rana, meanwhile, said he would fail to describe in words how brilliant Russell was. "I cannot describe his batting in words. It was unbelievable".
"In 18 balls we needed 53 runs and we won the match with two balls to spare. That's how capable he is. The game plan was whatever we needed, we would leave it to Russell and that worked."
Rana chose not to review after being trapped by Rashid and he said he did not go for it as Russell was batting in full flow at the other end. "I decided not to take the DRS because I wanted to keep the review for Russell. This win was important for us especially at the start," he said. | 30-35 runs in 10-11 balls that takes the score from 150 to 180 and from 180 to 210. That is really important. We will have that in mind. To have someone who can do that for us," he said.
Sunrisers posted a competitive 181 as comeback man David Warner hit 85. Asked if they were 15-20 runs short, Rashid said: "180 plus was a good total. Usually, at Eden 170 plus is a good total and can be defended. The bowling line-up that we have, it was not | 142 |
Erin Wahed, Designer and Connector, Co-Founder of Bande Des Quatre
Everything happens for a reason and those reasons took Erin from Montreal and dreams of photography to New York City and a successful career as a talent representative. Did we mention that she's also a ridiculously talented jewelry designer? And she used to work at Pentagram? No bigs.
Do you remember your first week in New York?
Yes, I lived across the street from where I live now on 12th and 3rd, that was my NYU dorm in my freshman year. I was 18 and I moved to New York to study photography. I remember it was awful [laughs]. I was looking forward to studying at NYU but I knew absolutely no one. I was very different to the way I am now. I was very shy.
I grew up as an only child in Montreal. I went to an all girls private school with only 40 kids in my graduating class. I was one of the only ones that left Montreal to study, everyone else went to Concordia University or McGill. My mother was very overprotective and didn't want me to leave while my father was very much like "you need to go, it's good for you. You need to break out of your shell and this is your way". I knew I was in a bubble in Montreal.
That first week here was such a challenge. I remember I didn't want my parents to know that I was unhappy so I had to fake it. I cried to my cousin every single day that week.
The cool thing about NYU was that my program was super small. I think there were 28 kids in my year but within a big school of 40,000, so you can make your friends within that.
I never did photography in high school so I had never been in a dark room. I didn't even know how to use a manual camera. I wasn't part of the group of full-fledged photo nerds that carried around cameras everywhere.
"I truly believe that everything happens for a reason, that you're born to do something. I'm not religious in anyway but I believe in fate and destiny."
When I was finishing high school I was debating whether I wanted to do graphic design or photography. I went to a high school that was very technology oriented. We started learning Photoshop at age 10, right when it first came out. I started by taking images from the internet and compiling them into landscapes. My teacher was like "you can't steal images off the internet, you have to take your own." So, that's what brought me to photography. I felt like that was more me than graphic design. But after about a year at NYU I realized that although I loved photography it wasn't for me. To be a fine art photographer you have to wake up and want to create. I need projects to drive me.
Did you finish the degree in photography?
Yeah, I studied photography and I was planning on doing a minor in<|fim_middle|> tailed with nothing but $800 and a very loud GPS to help her... | math, because my father's a businessman and thought I should have something to "fall back on". I love math and I'm really good at it but it was fucking hard. I managed to get an 'A' the first semester but when I started the second semester I remember walking out of the first class and calling my father and saying "I love you but I'm not doing this."
I switched to a minor in Italian. I've been going to Italy as a child every year with my family, because that's what my father did with his family and he likes tradition.
Is he Italian?
No, he's Egyptian.
What happened when you finished your degree?
During college I realized I didn't want to be a photographer and was more interested in the business side of photography.
I remember asking my parents if I could stay in New York in the summers and they said not unless I had a job. I thought "great, I've got to find a job!"
I was babysitting this kid at the time who was a child actor and model and his mom hooked me up with a woman that had worked with him. I kept calling her every week and leaving voice mails. Finally I ended up meeting her and becoming her intern, and then her assistant.
My parents didn't want me to be a freelancer, especially being on a Canadian visa, so this photographer helped me meet a lot of different people at photo agencies and I ended up getting a job right out of school at Management Artists, which is a photo agency that represents Mark Abrahams and Mark Seliger, to name a couple. I was producing for about six photographers for about a year. That was definitely paying your dues!
I met some of the best friends I have today during that job. But after a year there I thought that was enough for me. A year felt like three. I would never replace that experience though, I think it was essential to what I'm doing now.
At the end of that year my mom and I officially started Bande des Quatres. My mother is a jeweller and she's been making jewelry since she was 15.
One year she grew too fast. She grew two inches in the summer and her tendons and ligaments were too stretched so the doctors had to cut them. They put her in a cast from her ankles to her hips and her parents sent her to camp that summer.
They sent her to camp when she had a full leg cast?
She could walk but she had to walk with her hips.
That's so cruel!
Obviously she couldn't do any sports, all she could do was arts and crafts and that's what started her love for jewelry.
I grew up around it, but I always knew I didn't want to be a jeweller. People think that if you grow up with a jeweller as a mother that you have tons of jewelry but I never wore it, I hated the feeling of it on my hands.
During my senior thesis show I was given the lobby wall of Tisch to display my work. I was like "I've got the prime spot so I want to look the part for the opening night". I had just seen the Michael Jackson This Is It movie, I love Michael Jackson, I love his outfits, and he was wearing these sequin pants, I was like "that's it! That's my outfit. I want those pants!"
I found someone in Montreal to make them for me. My mom suggested that we make some jewelry to go with my outfit. We were on vacation at the time and we were sitting in this hotel with all these beautiful design books and we just started sketching this ring, the Van der Rohe.
Van der Rohe ring. Photography by Hugo Arturi.
I started wearing it everyday and people on the subway and in restaurants would stare at it because they thought it was piercing through my finger. I never thought that, for me it was just two lines. This is back in 2011, so no one had really done anything like that. I would get stopped about three times a day. So I called my mom and said "why don't we make a ring line?"
I never wanted to be a jeweller and I still don't consider myself a jeweller, but for me it was a business to create. I wanted to create a brand that is recognizable and has meaning.
So we started designing and came up with the first line, which was only rings. For me the exciting part was creating the brand. I have this photographer friend, Hugo Arturi, who still shoots all of my editorial stuff. I wanted to shoot the rings on people doing everyday things. The first campaign was very much that, I used friends as the models, I always use friends actually. I didn't want it to look "fashion", I wanted it to look normal but I wanted the ring to be in focus so you can see the illusion it creates.
The first collection was very much inspired by the Bauhaus movement. The coolest part was getting all these people on board. We managed to get on Vogue.com, which was huge. I think the first year was a lot of personal sales and then I started reaching out to stores.
I knew that my line was going to be marketed very differently to my mother's. For me it was going to be a line that worked in fashion stores. I didn't want it to be just in jewelry galleries like my mother's stuff.
We don't mass produce, every piece is made to order but we will make multiples and every collection is always available. For me, the pieces are timeless and will always be relevant. It's all about shapes and lines, which is exactly what my photography was about.
Where can we find it in the city?
Right now a couple of pieces are in Steven Alan and it will also be sold in the Whitney when it reopens. I'm very excited about that. Getting into the Whitney store is one of my biggest accomplishments. That actually came about from a cold email I sent to their "info" contact. The coolest thing about it is that the Whitney is designed by Renzo Piano and I have a bracelet that's inspired by Renzo Piano. I had no idea that the building was designed by him. I got an email back and they made an order.
Can you tell us about the name?
Bande des Quatres is French for Band of Four. There's not four of us, there's two of us but we started with rings that are bands that go across four fingers. Also, when you own a piece you become part of this little group.
It seems like the brand has a really solid foundation. It's not like you just decided to create a brand out of nothing.
It's interesting career wise. I truly believe that everything happens for a reason, that you're born to do something. I'm not religious in anyway but I believe in fate and destiny. There's a reason I came to New York, there's a reason I studied photography and there's a reason I started a jewelry line.
Do you know what the next step is going to be?
Well, after working for the photo agency I went to work at the design consultancy firm Pentagram. That was awesome. I was there for 2 1/2 years. I was Eddie Opara's project manager for about a year and then I became Natasha Jen's project manager. It was awesome to be around all of that creativity.
I realized that I'm great at organizing and managing, but I also need the creative side. At Pentagram I could at least be around creatives and see the designs happen, but it still wasn't enough. At the time I was also working on the jewelry and people would start contacting me about needing a designer or a photographer for their projects, and I became seen as a "connector". Eventually I was introduced to this woman, Tara Averill, by an old mentor from NYU. Tara runs RepresentationCo and that's where I work now.
I truly believe that everything is very interconnected. I love representing talent and meeting people, my job is really about meeting people. The jewelry plays a big role in that because when you're sitting down with somebody you don't want to just talk about your talent. It's important to have something else that will stand out.
Is there any advice you would give your 18 year old self?
That's a hard one. I think it took me a little long to break out of my shell so I wish I would have stepped out of my comfort zone a bit more.
You've been in New York about 8 years now, have you mostly lived around the East Village?
I have lived in the matter of a four block radius. I love this area and I love my apartment.
Do you have any favorite spots around here?
I love Village Yokocho. It's Korean mixed with Japanese. There open really late and it's super easy and a great vibe. I love Café Mogador and Café Orlin.
In terms of bars I like Black and White. That's a fun one. There's Angel's Share inside of Village Yokocho, which is like a speakeasy. They have great drinks.
And what do you think of when you think of New York?
The one thing that I love about New York is the feeling of coming back here. When you go over the bridge into the city I still get chills.
The other thing I love is that at anytime of day I feel safe, which is the opposite of what most people think. There are always people around.
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Tag: Ardoch Youth Foundation
October 17, 2016 .Reading time 7 minutes.
Star Weekly Newspaper: Sunshine Primary School student Elizabeth age 10 (front) with Makayla age 10 author Emma Bowd and Kenny age 8. Best selling author Emma Bowd has been conducting a book-writing workshop at Sunshine Primary School over the last two months.
I'm delighted to share my experience of being Ardoch's 'Writer in Residence' at Sunshine Primary School, where I recently conducted a weekly story writing workshop for two Grade 3 and Grade 4 classes – culminating in the illustrated story book 'Pencil Pandemonium'. The programme ran during one school term and involved 5 weeks (10 hours) of classroom workshops and many more hours of writing and editing outside the classroom.
Pencil Pandemonium reflects how a school community can come together to foster literacy – coupled with the good will of Ardoch, an author and a printing business.
Before I explain a little more about the process of how we wrote the book, here's a joyous slideshow of our Book Launch on Friday 14th October, in brilliant sunshine (of course!). With the inspirations for our story – the six majestic pencil art installations – sharing the limelight.
The book launch also would not have been possible without the support of Ardoch and Bizworks Brighton Printing. Nor would it have been complete without Rob – the school handyman. Rob works one day/week and spent a whole year making the giant pencils for the school 🙂 He was so excited to be a part of our book launch and quietly chuffed that six coloured pencils could inspire a story which is now part of the school's folklore. The pencils all have names too – Baxter Blue, Yuki Yellow, Olympia Orange, Penelope Purple, Gilbert Green and Roger Red – and the children talk to them each day!
These six huge pencils have inspired the imaginations of a class and an entire school. The physical structures stand proudly at the school's entrance – announcing to all the vibrancy and ingenuity of what lies within. A brilliant example of how art lives and breathes in our community and can spark great things!
I've conducted my story writing workshops over the past 10 years, and this is the first time that I've been invited to an Ardoch partner school. I've always provided the workshops 'pro bono' as part of my commitment to early literacy and to share my love of storytelling and story writing. The dozens of hugs, enthusiastic smiles and messages I got from the Sunshine Primary students about their love of Pencil Pandemonium cannot be measured in monetary terms. And I urge any writers reading this to consider being a 'Writer in Residence' for Ardoch or a similar literacy charity, too.
My workshops are a little unusual, compared to other authors, in that I'm very clear with the children and their teachers that I will write the story – with the assistance of the children. I explain to the children that we will put all of 'my ideas' and all of 'their ideas' into a giant washing machine, and we'll mix them all up and put a wonderful story together. And they're always wonderful!
I want the children to be free to imagine and explore without the pressure of punctuation and assessment, pre-testing or post-testing. I want them to learn 'from me' by going along the process 'with me' – from blank page to printed book.
I also like to professionally print the story books at the completion of the workshops to give the children a sense that their story is real and important. I always incorporate current learning units (in Sunshine's case it was 'machines') so that the books dovetail with their curriculum. The end result is a true collaborative effort, where each child can clearly identify their input into the 'whole' project. I believe that it's important to show the students that they are ALL important contributors to the book – irrespective of their literacy proficiency levels. For example, often some of the best ideas and 'light-bulb moments' during the plot-making, as well as drawings, are contributed by the students with the least strong reading and writing levels.
I'm beyond thrilled with Sunshine Primary School's Pencil Pandemonium! It reflects the children's genuine love and respect for their school – something that they wanted to write about. Not all students I visit are this passionate about their school!
One of my favourite memories from this story writing experience, was after we'd finished writing the story about the pencils who sneak into the classroom at lunchtime when nobody is looking – and one of the students asked me to look out of the window, and just 'check' that the pencils were still there . . . What if they weren't? This is such a lovely example of how these children have not only had a hands-on learning experience of turning imaginings and ideas into a story . . . but they've kept the story alive in their heads . . . and that for me, as a writer, is what the magic is all about!
This quote from author, Michael Morpurgo's speech, 'The Power of Stories' at the Inaugural Book Trust Lecture, Sept 22nd, 2016, Guildhall, London also sums this up beautifully:
"Let the children go home, simply dreaming of the story. Re-living it. Wondering at it. Loving it." Michael Morpurgo (2016)
Ardoch School Readiness Book Drive
October 10, 2016 .Reading time 1 minute.
Author, Emma Bowd
I'm thrilled and honoured to be the Ambassador for education charity Ardoch Youth Foundation's School Readiness Book Drive, which is in full swing this month of October! To read more about my passion for supporting early childhood literacy campaigns like this, please click here.
Ardoch has pledged to support 1,000 children from local disadvantaged communities who are starting school in 2017 by providing them with School Readiness Packs. Each pack contains 5 books and 5 activities to enhance their fine motor skills.
This means we need to source 5,000 children's books for the packs before the end of the year!
My sincere thanks to the two amazing schools of Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak and St Joan of Arc Brighton, for coordinating book collections, as well as all four Melbourne Bayside Libraries (Brighton, Beaumaris, Hampton and Sandringham).
Book Donations can also<|fim_middle|> a word. Yes, a word! How exciting for an author to own a word. All in support of one of my favourite children's literacy charities: Melbourne's Ardoch Youth Foundation. But just like chocolate…how can I possibly be expected to stop at one word! | be made directly to Ardoch via online purchases from Robinsons Bookshop – who will not only deliver the books but ALSO give a 25% discount to all Book Drive books.
Two special memories from this past week of National Book Week. . .
The week started off with the exciting announcement that I am the Ambassador for Ardoch Youth Foundation's School Readiness Book Drive. As an author, former Occupational Therapist and a mum, I am so proud and beyond thrilled to have been asked to help with this campaign, which pledges to give 1,000 children in disadvantaged areas five books and fine-motor activity packs at the end of this year, in readiness for their school start in 2017. I'll be writing a little more about this in coming weeks, but please click here to read about why I'm so passionate about the book drive.
And on Tuesday, I was at my beloved weekly volunteering position at Scholastic Australia's Book Bunker children's library, at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. I had a lot of fun with some of the Starlight Captains who popped in to visit us! We sang songs and read books – my favourite being our book-of-the-day: Tony Wilson's award-winning and endearing 'The Cow Tripped Over the Moon'. It's a clever back-story about the several attempts that the cow actually made before she had a successful moon-jump. An instant classic in my mind, with a special message of courage, determination, perseverance and the help of your friends.
I Own a Word!
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Home / See & do / Top Sights / Wallonia, land of water 2019! / "By the water" / The Marionville nature reserve or the Eldorado of birds
The Marionville nature reserve or the Eldorado of birds
Imagine a place where water, vegetation and birds take precedence. In total, 65 hectares of marshland and ponds (an area equivalent to 60 launch football pitches), surrounded by willow trees and hawthorn bushes and colonised by species of all types.
A site that shows the mark of mankind, but also that of nature
Originally, the Haine passed through the site, touching the wetlands. Then, man started extracting coal and after the second world war, the land began to collapse. The land became saturated with water and was less and less productive. Over time, it was transformed into swampy woods and reed ponds. Farmers turned away from it and nature reclaimed its rights. The fauna and flora inhabited the land, and so the Marionville nature reserve was created in 1978 and it extends into the towns of Saint-Ghislain and Quaregn<|fim_middle|> a real adventure park
The Jemappes Park, leisure centre | on. Today, this marshland represents the largest ornithological reserve in Belgium.
There is no other field of observation like it
In the northern part of the reserve, you will find a dozen or so small shallow ponds. The ideal hideout for amphibians and insects. It is teeming with dragonflies. Open your eyes because there is also a very rare vegetable species: the bladderwort, a carnivorous aquatic plant!
In the middle, there is a large lake of around 10 hectares, due to the land subsidence of this old mining site. A bird for every season! During nesting season, the ducks churn up everything. In the spring, it's the turn of the Black Tern and the Pygmy Seagull to appear. In the autumn, shorebirds pass through the mudflats.
Here and there reed ponds are found, populated by willows. Many birds take refuge in this environment, with some quite rare species such as the bluethroat and the common gull.
To the east, the reserve extends over the old railway line. A walking trail has been established here (around 3 km return trip), that takes you to two observatories on the edge of the main pond. Along the trail you will note the willow trees and hawthorn bushes. Listen to those songs… maybe you can recognise the nightingale, the robin red breast, the tit, the blackbird or the warbler? All these small birds, sometimes well hidden, will charm you with their beautiful concerto! But with a little bit of luck, patience and especially discretion, you will no doubt be able to see them with your own eyes.
#WallonieTerredEau
Car park provided in Tertre, along the Rue Olivier Lhoir, between the Rue des Marionville and the railway crossing (start of the path at the bottom of the car park, on the railway side).
Free access.
Guided tours possible with the Natagora association: www.natagora.be
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Migration of Jews to Frankfurt
Money-lender /banker
Grüner Baum, Stiefel and Vogelsang
Banking / Money-lending
Court factor
The Metz family name occurred quite frequently among Frankfurt Jews. Some of the families originated from the the town of Metz in Lorraine, while others had lived there temporarily.
One particularly notable member was the moneychanger Moses Elkan von Metz, who lived in the Vogelsang and controlled very substantial financial and trading businesses throughout central Europe. He had business associates in Amsterdam,<|fim_middle|>679.
© Jüd. Museum Frankfurt 1992-2002 / Sources | Hamburg, and Cologne. The family also had dealings with Princes, including the Bishop of Würzburg and the Prince of Bavaria. Liebmann, who died in 1714 and was the son of Moses Elkan Metz, eventually rose to become court factor in Würzburg.
Not all the great financial ventures of the Metz family were successful, however. They were continually at risk from the bankruptcies of major business associates, such as that of Job Meyer of Amsterdam in 1 | 103 |
I am a 32 year<|fim_middle|> be. | old mother of a beautiful baby girl. My daughter officially turns 6 this July, but unfortunately, her first year of life will be a year that I will never forget. I decided 4 years ago to share my story with other women, in hopes that it can help even one woman or family in coping with Perinatal Mood Disorders. After searching the infinite internet in hopes of finding other women with similar stories to my own, I was shocked to read about the numbers of women diagnosed with my same condition. Their stories were right in line with what I experienced after having my daughter.
I will begin by saying I have always thought of myself as an honest and upfront girl, a "tell you like it is" woman, but to find the right words to correctly describe my feelings after my daughter's birth, is incredibly difficult. At that time, I felt like a failure as a new mom, as a friend, and as a wife. I didn't want to ask for help. I thought these feelings would just go away. My body was so very sick at that time, and I didn't even realize the struggle that lie ahead of me.
I had a wonderful pregnancy. I wore high heels up until the last 2 weeks! I was never sick, never depressed, only filled with pure joy about becoming a mother. I remember when my husband and I would sit together at night after work and talk about how blessed we were to become parents. I felt like I was on top of the world. In the hospital, I felt great. I had a perfect delivery…I think I was on a natural high to be honest. These feelings were shattered in the weeks following the birth of our daughter, Abigail Grace. Once we got home, it was a completely different story. In the beginning, I was told by family and friends, that I must have a bad case of the "baby blues". I willingly accepted the fact that I would possibly be unhappy for a few weeks. But, over the next month, I began to spiral downward into a deep feeling of complete helplessness. I didn't cry that often. I would just sit and stare at this strange little person and feel pure anger, confusion and panic. How could I look at my own child and feel no love or joy? I felt as if I was having an out-of-body experience. To say that I was in a "fog" was an understatement.
Along with my emotional rollercoaster I was riding, my daughter was showing signs of Colic. Not only did my daughter cry often, she didn't sleep very well. My mother and mother-in-law began taking night shifts with Abigail. I honestly had no desire to feed, change, or interact with my daughter. I would run to the grocery store and not want to go back home. I began avoiding all of my friends and anything that required interaction and getting out of the house. I was inching further and further away from the image of what I thought was a good mother, and yet I felt nothing.
My mother finally convinced me to call my family practitioner, who in turn called in some sleeping and anxiety medication. After that failed, I then called my OB and told her I needed an appointment as soon as possible. I believe they could tell by the tone of my voice that I needed help quickly. At the appointment, my doctor told me that she believed I had early signs of Postpartum Depression. I wanted to look at her and say, "You think!" Thank Goodness someone had finally given this "black cloud" that was haunting me a name. I was put on a SSRI based medication and my 4th round of sleeping medication, which was continuing to fail to do its job. I was a walking zombie. I would drive down the road for hours and forget where I was going. I would have conversations with people and remember nothing. I would believe on occasions that Abigail was suffocating or choking so I would just sit and stare at her for hours in sheer panic. I was watching myself go through the motions of daily life, but not really living in the present moment.
Four months after Abigail was born, I was diagnosed with Postpartum Psychosis as well as Postpartum Thyroiditis. I was explained by my endocrinologist that sometimes these 2 disorders go hand in hand. My thyroid, which is considered the "motor" of our body, basically crashed and burned. My feelings of nervousness, rapid heartbeat, hair loss, weight loss, fatigue and delusions, were related to my "motor" going haywire.
A little over a year after having Abigail I began to feel close to the old Christy I knew. I was beginning to see the light at the end of the long dark tunnel I was stuck in for so long. Now, I look at Abigail with glowing love and light in my eyes. She is my heart, my soul, my everything. It is the relationship I always envisioned having with my child.
I believe whole heartedly that I was intended to share my story in hopes that I may help another mother in desperate need of some answers, so I became a co-coordinator of PSI (Postpartum Support International). I think no matter what your faith may be, no matter what your beliefs are, you cannot truly overcome this disorder without help from others. Postpartum Depression and other Perinatal Mood Disorders are not a hot topic of conversation with new and expecting mothers. I was certainly not well informed of them, but I don't believe any book or article can prepare you for what these disorders truly entail. It is often difficult to admit that you need help, but there's too much at stake not to reach out to someone.
Statistics show that 1 in 8 women are affected by Postpartum Depression. Some studies even show the numbers to be closer to 1 in 6. These are huge numbers taking into consideration how many children are born each day in the world. I am honored to share my story with any woman that needs the encouragement to take another step and get through the day. Accept help whenever you can and take some time each day for yourself. Remember with help, strength, and love, you WILL get better and you will get the opportunity to be the mother you had always strived to | 1,287 |
We continue following the path of the Illuminati as our story wends through Rome. Vittoria has been kidnapped and Professor Langdon struggles on his own. He desperately tries to connect<|fim_middle|> Gary Granfield or courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. | the series of clues: earth, wind, fire and water. Using his knowledge of symbology, he heads toward Piazza Navona. He suspects Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or the Fountain of Four Rivers is the source of the "water" clue.
The massive fountain sits in the middle of Piazza Navona, one of Rome's most famous squares. The open space is actually long and oval shaped, rather than four-sided, because it was built over emperor Domitian's ancient stadium. The name derived from "in agone" meaning the place of combat. But today, instead of gladiator fights, we find a festive atmosphere.
The spot always stays boisterous and bustling, except for " one certain night" in Angels & Demons! If you visit, you'll find a cadray of street performers, lively music, outdoor cafés, fine restaurants and even night clubs.
The square is also home to the Church of Saint Agnes in Agony, commissioned by Pope Innocent X. Legend says this is the site where St Agnes was stripped naked, but miraculously saved from disgrace by her hair's extraordinary growth. Shall we say, a cross between discreet Lady Godiva and a spontaneous Rapunzel.
Bernini constructed the massive Fountain of Four Rivers between 1647 and 1651. To me, it resembles the famous Trevi Fountain, not in shape, but for the inclusion of heroic statues and platforms amidst roaring water. At night floodlights radiate underwater creating a greenish-golden glow.
The four rivers are represented by the Nile, Ganges, Danube and the Rio de la Plata. They depict the then known continents under papal power. These rivers spalsh from a central marble rock, where a Roman obelisk rises high above. The obelisk honors the ancient founder of the square.
Bernini's statue, naturally baroque in style, contains symbolic touches. Bracing against the currents are pagan river gods, animals and plants, each supposedly appropriate to the continent. For instance, the Ganges carries a long oar, representing the river's navigability and a snake slithers nearby.
The Nile's head is draped with a loose piece of cloth, because no one knew the location of the headwaters. An African lion lurches from the middle of the basin, a specimen of the continent.
The Danube touches the Papal coat of arms, since it is the largest river closest to Rome. A regal horse dramatically charges through the pool.
And the Río de la Plata god sits on a pile of coins, a symbol of the riches the Americas could offer to Europe. At the time not much was known about the animals in North or South America, so a strange looking crocodile, armor-plated like an armadillo was chosen as the representative creature. Be sure to look for it.
Coin-tossing kids and sweaty tourists love to stand close, allowing the cool mist to spray on their body. They watch the water cascading down the stones, amazed at this outdoor wonder. Professor Langdon didn't have time to appreciate the masterpiece; he was too busy trying not to drown.
Fortunately, visitors to the Eternal City find life-sustaining fountains galore, each spewing a seemingly endless supply of aqua. Water, water everywhere… oh, where will our story flow?
Mimi (Debi Lander) did not, nor is she now, receiving any compensation from Dan Brown, Sony Pictures or the Angels & Demons tour company. She paid her own travels and tour expenses.
Images by Debi Lander, | 743 |
Home News DeSoto ISD Breaks Ground On Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet Academy
DeSoto ISD Breaks Ground On Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet Academy
Joshua C. Johnson
DESOTO—School district and municipal officials gathered Monday to break ground on the newest elementary campus in DeSoto.
DeSoto Independent School District Superintendent of Schools Dr. David Harris was joined by School Board President Carl Sherman Jr. Including other members of the DeSoto ISD Board of Trustees: Karen Daniel, Kathy Goad, Aubrey C. Hooper and Sandre Moncriffe. As well as city officials including Mayor Curtistene Smith McCowan and Mayor Pro Tem Rachel Proctor.
"What an exciting day for DeSoto ISD, the City of DeSoto and the entire southwest region. The Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet Academy is a testament to DeSoto ISD's vision and commitment to address the increasing need for innovation and leaving no stone unturned when preparing our students to compete globally in the 21st century," said Mayor Curtistene McCowan. "In any community, the quality of our schools makes a difference. The addition of an elementary technology academy in DeSoto will also help drive the economic development by strengthening the city's position in the recruitment and retention of businesses in DeSoto."
Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet Academy, scheduled to open August 2018, will<|fim_middle|>. Johnson has steered the periodical that reaches more than 35,000 homes daily and is the official paper of record for DeSoto, Duncanville, Cedar Hill, Lancaster and Glenn Heights, Texas. Under his leadership the paper has won a number of awards from the Texas Press Association, the Dallas Bar Association and the Dallas Press Club. | accommodate 900 students in grades K-5. The planned 115, 228 sq. ft., two-story building is part of the DeSoto ISD 2005 Bond Program. The state-of-the-art building will be environmentally-friendly and energy-conservative.
Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet Academy Is A 21st Century Campus
"The vision you are about to participate in has been a long time coming. This will not only alleviate crowding at our schools but will put us on the cutting edge of technology here in DeSoto," said Superintendent Dr. David Harris.
DeSoto ISD is a public independent school district serving more than 9,800 students and 1,200 employees. The district is comprised of 12 campuses serving students and families in DeSoto, Glenn Heights and Ovilla.
"As you look around, there is an even bigger vision even for what's happening here now. If you look at the site where the school is being built, we are hoping this becomes a community school," said Harris. "As the City of DeSoto continues to improve and develop Meadow Creek Park, we expect this area to look very different in a few years and we are excited about that. DeSoto ISD and the City of DeSoto are committed to working together to develop this area."
The Johnson Tech Magnet Academy is being developed with a progressive design concept that re-imagines educational facilities in a manner that supports the innovative learning and instructional practices necessary for 21st century, future-focused education.
"We've spent countless hours planning the features for the Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet Academy which include a robotics lab and spaces in which students can learn coding, digital music and digital arts," said Assoc. Supt. Dr. Gabrielle Lemonier. "We are excited about the possibilities, we are excited about the future and we believe the sky is the limit for our students."
With a focus on technology, The Johnson Tech Magnet Academy will provide opportunities for students to engage in project-based, collaborative learning with opportunities for STEM, robotics and coding.
"The attention to detail and progressive design put into planning this building gives us confidence in knowing that this building will maintain its luster for decades to come. Because we have held on to our commitment to provide magnet level offerings at every level at every campus, DeSoto ISD continues to grow," said Board President Carl Sherman Jr.
The Life of Katherine Johnson
The Johnson Tech Magnet Academy is named in honor of one of the first African American mathematicians employed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in Hampton, Va. (NACA) which later became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the 1950s.
On Nov. 24, 2015, Katherine Johnson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, from President Barack Obama, who said "With her razor-sharp mathematical mind, Katherine G. Johnson helped broaden the scope of space travel, charting new frontiers for humanity's exploration of space, and creating new possibilities for all humankind.
From sending the first American to space to the first moon landing, she played a critical role in many of NASA's most important milestones. Katherine G. Johnson refused to be limited by society's expectations of her gender and race while expanding the boundaries of humanity's reach."
"Think of your typical elementary school. Throw it out of the window. What we've done here is create a completely new school for the city," said Project Manager Dan Holt. "Think of collaboration, robotics, and computer labs. It's nothing like you've seen before."
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The small town of McArthur serves as the county seat of south-central Ohio's Vinton County, much of which still remains natural, with rolling hills, dense forests and pristine lakes, ponds and creeks. More than 70 percent of the county is wooded,<|fim_middle|>
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The Vinton County Wild Turkey Festival, typically a four-day event held during the first full weekend in May, takes place in downtown McArthur, mostly along Main Street. The festival is timed in conjunction with Ohio's spring wild turkey hunting season, which lasts from late April to mid-May. The festival, which started in 1985 and is organized by the Vinton County Convention and Visitors Bureau, features free admission.
The festival includes a variety of contests and competitions each year, including a pageant to determine the Wild Turkey Festival queen, a Little Mister Gobbler and Little Miss Gobblerette contest, baby contest, children's coloring contest and a karaoke competition. Other past events have included turkey-calling competitions and baking contests. For runners and walkers, the Turkey Trot 5K is typically held the Saturday morning of festival weekend and includes awards for overall and age-group winners.
Other Events and Activities
In addition to the contests, the Vinton County Wild Turkey Festival includes a number of other attractions. The air is filled with the sounds of live entertainment playing on the main stage and the savory, tantalizing smells of festival fare served by food vendors. Other activities include the festival's Grand Parade on Saturday evening, carnival rides and games, raffles, a classic car show, quilt show and a tent with a variety of arts and crafts, including turkey-themed wares.
Nearby Attractions and Accommodations
During your trip to the festival, you can also take time to visit some of Vinton County's other attractions. Lake Hope State Park in McArthur is a recreational haven set amid the rugged forests, gorges and ridges of Zaleski State Forest. The park is home to campsites and vacation cottages, 15 hiking and mountain biking trails, and a 120-acre lake for swimming, boating and fishing. Perhaps the best way to take in the natural wonders and history of Vinton County is through a driving tour. Lake Hope State Park and the Vinton County Convention and Visitors Bureau have mapped out several loops that showcase the region's historic quilt barns, covered bridges, iron furnaces and railroad tunnels. If you're staying overnight, McArthur and Vinton County feature a number of accommodation options.
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Your first design might not meet people's needs.
That's where you dial up human-centered Design Thinking. Design Thinking redefines the problem as a goal—e.g., "to engage with information anywhere"—in a way that deeply understands and meets the needs of the ultimate end users: real people.
Cisco, a new customer of 5<|fim_middle|> Changing the workspace changes the collaboration and the kinds of thinking that go on. | Dynamics, is doing just that and has enlisted our methodology in the cause. As cloud technology (the distribution of information processing and storage) and other competitors try to upend core parts of Cisco's business, the networking giant has responded by creating a "Transformation Team" in its Enterprise Networking Group to launch a variety of initiatives, including design thinking.
Enterprise is by far the largest of Cisco's four product groups. Its major initiative, Digital Network Architecture, emphasizes virtualization, automation and analytics, adding a higher level of intelligence and value to Cisco's traditional offerings.
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Nations hit the fiscal sweet spot with sugar taxes
By Gavin O'Toole on 25/09/2017 | Updated on 24/09/2020
Michele Cecchini, Lead Economist (Public Health) in the OECD Health Division (Image courtesy of OECD).
Rising obesity threatens to hit wellbeing, productivity and public finances – but Gavin O'Toole finds that more countries are embracing tax measures that can drive down sugar consumption
A growing number of countries are taxing unhealthy foods in a bid to bring down spiralling obesity rates, which are expected to drive up public spending and drag down productivity over the coming<|fim_middle|> root causes of obesity in this country. Some new evidence I have seen points to the lack of bacterial diversity in the gut being one problem – what causes this?.
Education also has a role, rather than resorting to a fiscal disincentive that penalises those who consume sugary drinks sensibly. Surely self control and moderation have a place in the mix too. There are some groups of vulnerable people have been negatively affected by the changes made to lucozade for instance, such as Diabetics and others with health issues, who used to use this drink medicinally – some of these groups – although a minority – seem to have been forgotten in all this.
On sensible use, perhaps there are other measures that could be looked at that would be more effective, such as banning multi-buys which encourage people to buy larger volumes and so drink and eat more, because it is being made cheaper to do so. Perhaps there should be a fixed unit price by volume.
I don't know if you have noticed but certainly on my most recent trips to the supermarket and convenience shops I have noticed the shelves are full of sugar free, zero drinks and low in stock of the full sugar ones – the implication being that people are not buying these sugar free alternatives. It is also still really easy to get a sugar fix from confectionary if one so wished, so the policy is not consistent. Anecdotally I don't see this measure working for the UK.
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development data show that obesity levels have grown over the past five years across its member countries, where more than half of adults and nearly one in six children are now overweight or obese. The OECD warned in 2010 about the consequences of the obesity epidemic, but data published by the Paris-based organisation this year suggests that there has been only limited success tackling the problem; it projects that the problem will increase until at least 2030.
England is one of three countries, alongside the US and Mexico, where obesity has been growing fastest; the government's Public Health England says the cost of treating diabetes is £10bn (US$13.5bn, €11.3bn) a year – nearly 9% of the National Health Service budget.
Sugar, a contributing factor to global obesity (Image courtesy: cowbridgeguide.co.uk).
As well as creating a burden on public services, obesity can hold back growth and labour productivity. Michele Cecchini, lead economist for public health in the OECD Health Division, points out that "people that are overweight or obese are less likely to be employed. But if they are employed they are more likely to have issues associated with absences – so not as productive as someone who is in a good physical condition. This is a problem at a country level because clearly the productivity of the labour force and labour force participation are lower, but it also has implications for the economy of households."
The OECD is now investigating the economic impact of obesity, says Cecchini, and is likely to publish its findings next year. Obesity and the sicknesses it causes account for 3-4% of government spending on healthcare within the OECD; and the condition has a disproportionate impact on lower income groups, with European research indicating that obese people are less likely to be employed, less productive, and earn less.
Shrinking sugar
But early evidence from those nations which have introduced sugar taxes suggests that they could provide an important tool to help tackle the trend towards obesity. When Mexico introduced a 1 peso (4p) per litre tax in 2013, sales of soft drinks fell by 5.5% in the first year and 9.7% in the second.
In 2016 the World Health Organisation urged all countries to tax sweetened drinks, and Euromonitor International says that 19 countries have so far introduced such "sin taxes" in the spirit of this guidance. Some 11 OECD nations now tax unhealthy foods of various kinds; in the UK, taxes will be levied on soft drinks in April 2018. And by the end of 2016, eight jurisdictions within the US had adopted "soda taxes", covering more than 8 million people.
Taxes on sugar content are attractive to governments because they're relatively easy to monitor, with many countries targeting sweetened drinks. And if their revenues are hypothecated for spending on public health projects, says Cecchini, they can win widespread public acceptance. In the UK, the projected annual £1bn revenues will be spent on school sports.
Obesity is not a new phenomenon, but it used to be confined largely to the very wealthy; nowadays, in the western world it is more common in low-income groups (Image courtesy: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images).
Getting the right recipe
According to Cecchini, Mexico's experience shows the importance of carefully planning and policy design. "There are technical issues that need to be overcome, meaning that the tax needs to be extremely well designed and planned – something that other countries can learn from Mexico," he says. "But the Mexican case and others have also shown that we can do the maths quite well, in the sense that the effect of this taxation on consumption reflected what was forecast before implementation."
It is, for example, important to guard against the risk that taxing one kind of product pushes people into eating other equally unhealthy foods. And systems can become complex if extended beyond drinks into other consumables – though some countries have done so, with Hungary taxing sweetened foods such as jams and condiments.
Sugar taxes can raise questions about equality, because they can have a greater proportional impact upon lower-income groups. But their proponents suggest that this only creates additional benefits, as these groups tend to be at greater risk of diseases caused by excess sugar consumption – and thus gain most from behaviour change.
The sugar barons
Governments must also be ready to navigate a difficult political landscape. In Mexico, campaigners have urged the government to double the drinks levy. But sugar taxes face fierce resistance from food and drinks manufacturers, which have considerable political muscle: Vicente Fox, Mexico's president 2000–06, used to run Coca-Cola Mexico.
On some occasions, sugar taxes have failed. In Indonesia a sugar tax was scrapped in 2004 after the government decided it had crippled drinks manufacturers, and in Colombia the drinks industry lobbied successfully to ban a television broadcast warning about sugar consumption. Denmark taxed saturated-fat content between 2011–13; but the tax was abolished after just 15 months, following evidence that it had stoked inflation, encouraged cross-border shopping and caused job losses – while having a negligible impact on consumption.
In the final analysis, Cecchini says, no single policy can by itself address the scale of the obesity crisis. "The OECD argues that countries should put in place a comprehensive package of interventions to tackle obesity," he says. "Our analysis shows that fiscal policies can be one of the pillars of this package, and countries should think about including these – but even the highest levels of taxation wouldn't, on their own, be able to solve this problem."
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About Gavin O'Toole
Gavin O'Toole is a freelance writer and editor in London. He has written for leading newspapers, magazines, wire services and business schools about financial markets, business and regulation around the world. He has a particular interest in international relations, and a specialism in Latin American affairs. He has conducted research on this region's political economy and has also published a number of books about its politics and natural environment. His latest title, Environmental Security in Latin America, will be published by Routledge in September 2017.
Deborah Ward says:
Many companies seem to have introduced Aspartame as a sweetener to substitute for sugar in drinks because of the sugar tax. While on the surface this seems to be well meaning in that Sugar levels are reduced and the company is not subjected to the Tax – great right? However I am not so sure – Aspartame tastes really bad and there seems to be a substantial body of new evidence that shows it and either sweeteners could cause more obesity than sugar. It is disrupts the way the gut functions because the body doesn't know how to process it. New studies have also shown that some artificial sweeteners are linked to high blood pressure and heart disease. We could well be gunning for the wrong bad guy with the sugar tax and make no difference whatsoever to health wellbeing. The replacement of sugars with artificial Sweeteners could all translate to more future problems for our beleaguered health care system.
Much in the same way as we now know that hydrogenated and trans fats are bad for the body, so too are some of these substitute sugars. You may also remember a time when everyone thought fat was simply bad for you, and we saw a lot of low fat, high sugar foods come onto the market. We now know that fat is far from being the bad guy and that some fats are essential for the body to be able to absorb certain nutrients.
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San Francisco: Man gets stuck in chimney at Presidio Heights apartment building
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SAN FRANCISCO — A man got stuck in a chimney at an apartment building in San Francisco on Sunday night and while investigators are unsure why he ended up there, they have ruled out that it was Santa Claus doing a pre-Christmas test run, a police spokesman said Monday.
Officers responded shortly before 11:35 p.m. to the 3300 block of Clay Street in the city's Presidio Heights neighborhood, where the man was reportedly trapped in a ventilation duct, police spokesman Officer Gordon Shyy said.
After being stuck in there for roughly an hour, fire crews were able to free the man after dislodging some bricks in the chimney. He was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with minor cuts and scrapes, Shyy said.
No charges are pending against the man, according to Shyy, who said he did not know why the man ended up in the chimney.
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Pupils at St Peter's Primary School have been presented<|fim_middle|> of Generosity, Compassion, Courage, Forgiveness, Friendship, Respect, Thankfulness, Trust, Perseverance, Justice, Service and Truthfulness.
Our world is increasingly connected and our hope is for our children to grow as responsible global citizens who care about issues such as the environment and access to healthcare.
Caroline Weir, Education Coordinator at Christian Aid, said: "The Global Neighbours Scheme was launched in partnership with the Church of England's Education Office with a vision of helping young people understand more about the inequalities in this world and helping them to become courageous advocates for those who have no voice.
It's wonderful to see how staff and pupils at St Peter's have taken this to heart and are seeking to tackle injustice."
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From recycling, saving energy and litter picks to donating food for local people, pupils and staff at St Peter's Primary School have been working hard to take their place as global citizens.
St Peter's Church of England Primary School in Rochdale has achieved Bronze Award status in Christian Aid's Global Neighbours scheme in recognition of its wide-ranging steps to love their global neighbour.
This accreditation scheme celebrates how we help pupils learn about global poverty and the Christian responsibility to tackle it, as well as giving them the tools to play a confident part in creating a fairer world.
We are thrilled to be recognised for the work we have done as a whole school community to raise awareness of the extreme inequalities across our globe and perhaps more importantly, the steps we can take to address these. The pupils learn about global issues each week and gain an understanding of injustice in our world. Our team of Earth Stewards has worked hard to monitor our energy usage and encourages all of us to recycle and reduce single use plastics in school.
We have a link with the Tiyamike Mulungu Centre, Malawi. Children in both communities have written letters to find out about how life is lived in another part of the world. Pupils have been learning about examples of people who faced adversity and overcame this to be courageous advocates for change. These stories have challenged the whole school community to think about how each of us can make a difference in our local community and globally. We took part in Christian Aid's scheme because it gives us a practical way of living out our school values | 330 |
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Listen with headphones or a good pair of earbuds to hear the 3D effect.
Kindly comment where and when you hear the most appealing bell sounds (couldn't help the pun!). I'm especially interested in your personal experience of unusual sounds projected by the carillon throughout the Square.
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A few years ago, I gave a keynote speech to the annual convention of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (the professional folks who design and shape the outdoor space between buildings).
One thing that has always puzzled me (and I said as much to the audience) is why so little attention is paid to the sound of public spaces. The acoustics of Winston Churchill Square, for instance, in the heart of Edmonton's downtown core are particularly troublesome.
And while it may look more interesting — there have been several retrofits and extensive remodeling of the aesthetics of the place — to my ear, the audio image of the Square is still uninviting; passersby tend not to linger long unless, of course, there is a special event that keeps them there.
"The most interesting thing," I said, about the spot "is how the carillon bells echo and bounce off buildings."
And then I got an idea.
A prior self-directed residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts — an investigation of 3D 'binaural' audio — taught me that you don't have to put up with ugly sound in the environment; it's possible to offset the overall pitch by adding frequencies to harmonize with an offensive soundscape (more about this research farther along in the blog).
I had it in mind that the bell tower beside Edmonton's city hall was perhaps useful in ways that were never imagined for Churchill Square.
The same organization I spoke to offered a remarkable opportunity with a Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation grant to "push beyond the boundaries of everyday practice," with particular attention to "exploring new design theories" and out of the ordinary "speculations," which could lead to advances in the art of landscape architecture.
My proposal for 'seed money' was accepted: To remediate the unpleasant sound of a large public square in the downtown of a major Canadian city by creating the conditions for acoustic standing waves, noise-cancellation effects, as well as strategically add sounds from a carillon to create a 'harmony of the square'.
That's how it began. This website is my progress report.
HARMONY OF THE SQUARE : reshaping urban racket
Unpleasant noise is everywhere.
The rattle and roar — the hum of Edmonton's downtown core — is relentless as the winter; it's a fact of life in our city. So if you can't fix it, why not feature it?
Carillon bells have shaped the sound of communities all over the world.
Using 3D acoustic modeling software, HARMONY OF THE SQUARE illustrates how bell sounds can be added into our urban mix — to play upon constructed space — harmonizing with the persistent racket in and around Churchill Square.
And as the pitch of sound in the downtown ebbs and flows throughout the day and season, the carillon bells atop the Friendship Tower overlooking | 586 |
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Once Human have released their new song "Sledgehammer" as well as an accompanying video!
A first hint to a new album which will be scheduled for 2020.
Well, more of a statement than a hint, as Logan M<|fim_middle|> YouTube alone. The new single "Sledgehammer" is testament to the fact that this evolution never stopped and Once Human keep surprising us with new elements. Stay tuned for what is to come in 2020.
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"Sledgehammer smashes from start to finish. With insane riffs, relentless drumming and Lauren Hart just kills it! Vocally showcasing totally new and powerful cleans in the massive chorus hook, it marks a new chapter in Once Human sound. I had tons of fun producing and mixing this track. Utilizing more analog gear than I normally do it's really explosive. Our last album sounds good but this one actually smokes it."
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Public Health Guidance for Reopening
Alabama Department of Public Health Guidance for Reopening
The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) is using data and metrics to make recommendations to assist the Governor's Office, partners, and stakeholders across the state in making decisions about safely reopening Alabama. COVID-19 remains very contagious and our data and metrics tell us that we should continue to take preventative measures to protect ourselves and our communities and reduce the spread of COVID-19.
We are committed to continuing to do the work to protect the health and safety of Alabamians by giving guidance based on the best science and public health practices available. We will continue to maintain and update the statewide data and metrics and provide consistent localized data for use in local decision-making for reopening plans.
Risk Categories
A color-coded health guidance system has been developed by the State of Alabama to guide health behaviors for individuals and businesses. Categories: Very High (red), High (orange), Moderate (yellow), and Low (green) indicate the risk of spread in the community. Each level of the dial is guided by a rigorous measurement system which can be different by county.
High-risk individuals in the red risk category, including older adults and those who are immunocompromised, should continue to follow stricter protocols, and exercise all possible caution. Individuals who work or live with persons in high-risk categories should also continue following stricter guidance.
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Principles of War: A Handbook on Strategic Evangelism
by Jim Wilson
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Evangelism is a battle. Fight to win.
In the study of warfare, great men have concluded that there are some overriding principles which, if followed, will always tend toward success in battle, and if neglected or ignored, will tend toward defeat or even destruction. These principles have been entitled the "principles of war." But not all warfare is waged on a battlefield: every Christian is called to be a soldier. Our fight is against Satan, our objective is the acknowledgment and fulfillment of God's commands, and our ammunition is the power of the Holy Spirit. In Principles of War, longtime evangelist and preacher Jim Wilson outlines the time-tried, fundamental principles of war and explains how we can employ them in our daily spiritual battles as we fight a war which our commander in chief has already won for us.
Principles of War is the first book in the Practical Evangelism series, followed by Weapons and Tactics and Taking Men Alive.
"One of those books that I've resolved to be reading and rereading and rereading. It really is a classic and deserves to be." -Douglas Wilson, son and pastor
Jim Wilson has been a pastor, counselor, and the director of Community Christian Ministries in Moscow, Idaho, for over forty years. Before that, he served as a naval officer for nine years and worked with Officers' Christian Fellowship for twelve years. Jim has authored several books, including Principles of War: A Handbook on Strategic Evangelism, Taking Men Alive, Weapons & Tactics, and Being Christian. He is a father of four, | 367 |
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James McAtee commits future to Manchester City
James McAtee has committed his long-term future to Manchester City, signing a contract extension with the Premier League champions until the summer of 2026.
After snubbing a number of loan offers during the January transfer window, the 19-year-old penned a three-year extension with City on Wednesday afternoon.
Having already spent eight years with the Blues, McAtee has excelled with the youth teams, progressing through the academy set-up, before making his first-team debut earlier this season.
Coming on as a substitute during September's Carabao Cup victory over Wycombe Wanderers, McAtee went on to make his first Premier League appearance against Everton in November.
However, it is with the under-23s where McAtee has caught the eye the most this season, making 15 Premier<|fim_middle|>James McAtee | League 2 appearances for the Elite Development Squad, netting 14 goals and assisting a further one.
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A dynamic midfielder, McAtee has already shown his boasts the capabilities to become a regular in Pep Guardiola's first-team plans, with the contract extension a signal of intent from the Blues. With reports from earlier in the campaign suggesting McAtee was considering a future away from the Etihad Stadium, it is clear the Salford-born maestro feels at home with the five-time Premier League winners.
Speaking to the City website following the announcement, the teenager expressed his pride around securing a new deal:
"This is a really proud moment in my career, and I am so grateful to the club for showing their faith in me. I've been here since I was 11 and I can't thank everyone enough for everything they have done for me.
"I've been really pleased with my progress this season and I am sure I am in the right place to keep improving, so it feels amazing to know I will be a Manchester City player for another four years."
McAtee becomes the latest player behind Phil Foden and Cole Palmer to make the leap from the Academy, to the City first team.
Reminiscing on his development over the last 12 months, McAtee revealed in his first interview since signing the extension, he "couldn't sleep" after making his Premier League debut:
"When I made my Premier League debut, I went home that night and I couldn't sleep. I was so happy."
The youngster continued:
"There is a lot more to come and I have still got a lot to improve on. I can make my game better in many ways."
Set to continue his development with City for another four years at least, the future remains bright for McAtee in a sky blue shirt.
Written by: @AmosMurphy_
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Essaycrest.com writers<|fim_middle|> success would lead them to bigger responsibilities.
We have mentioned before, that it is a bad habit to waste your time in vain. The point is, unsuccessful people concentrate on things they think to be important, but those things do not fit their personality. Some students go on studying on a faculty that irritates them, because they are just too afraid to change something. And so on. | know that every person dares to success in many fields of his or her life, but only some people really reach their goals. The same thing can be said about students: them all want to study well, but only a few ones really do something about that. Your behavior and your way of thinking can help you conquer the world, or lead you to a great failure. A conscious analysis of your actions leads to understanding things that should and should not be done in certain situations.
In this article, we are about to concentrate on mistakes most unsuccessful students do. These mistakes are mainly reasons of your failures.
One of the main problems for modern students and regular people it their lack of will to make a first step. That step is associated with a fear of a failure, a fear of success, and other risks in their heads, so they prefer going on to do nothing. And the scale of a project or task has no matter here, because procrastination infiltrates every field of life.
There are various ways to with that disease, but the most effective one would be about dividing your big task into smaller parts and completing them one by one. Do not perceive your coursework as a whole huge document. There are only some smaller chapters. Can't you write a single chapter?
A person who will learn to concentrate on a single task at a single moment will conquer the world.
When unsuccessful students do not get what they want, they start looking for someone or something to make them guilty. It's either bad weather or bad health condition they suffer from and that is the cause to skip studying today. Bad coworkers make their career progression impossible, talentless and lazy people get better job positions and such an injustice is the reason to quit. There is always more against them than they can actually change. Quite suspicious bad luck they suffer; indeed, it's time to stop dramatizing and get on with surviving.
Successful people rarely whine and moan. They keep their mouth shut and work their hands to the bone. They seek for opportunities to work and/or to earn more, not the reasons why they cannot work or earn. See the difference?
Rationalizations are important but not in the case they justify misbehavior. That is what losers do when they fail: make it look like their fall was inevitable instead of repeating the learning routine and looking for ways to make it work out. As a result, they suffer failures and then blame others (point two).
So next time you want to waste time, just speculate over the reasons why you still have no job instead of reading "How to make a killer resume" manual.
An intrusive will to make empty assumptions leads to the situation, when a person refuses to find out facts even if having such a possibility, they are so limited with their own borders that they do not think that to be necessary. They just "know".
Not that I want to say that knowing the reason is not important. It is. But some people just stop the moment they find it out while the reasons must be dealt with. Make the next step, which is the decision. Then, action.
Why did that failure happen? How to prevent it from happening again?
How to influence that person/situation?
Logic says that listening to others is much more effective than speaking, because you can hear more info and then use it. But unsuccessful people having their unsatisfied ego inside, speak more. They think they know more than the others, and that is why they refuse to learn and improve their skills.
Successful people know how to listen to others, and they like listening. This is how they not just know more, but build strong connections becoming reasons of their success later.
Every day every human makes this or that decision where risk is. Even food buying can turn into health problems. But these decisions people make only because they do not have any possibility to go another way. When it touches business questions, money and huge possibilities, unsuccessful people refute to take a risk automatically.
Unsuccessful students always give up, and then find tens of excuses. One of the most popular ones sounds like: "That is not my deal. I just look for myself".
Such approach can be correct for one or two first times, but when this situation happens again and again, the point is about the person. The reason is hidden in their priorities which are that easy to be changed. that is a behavior of a pampered child who refuses to take the world and its problems as they are.
This is one of the most destructive emotions. Unsuccessful people feel envy on others, because those people reached success they didn't deserve (that is what unsuccessful students think). Envious thoughts take a great amount of their time, they influence their psychology and push people away from them.
Successful people feel glad about successes of the others, they get inspired like that.
If to sum up, there can be got five hours per day that could be spent on things leading to success and happiness. It is wonderful, but once a person stops doing useless things, he or she starts developing their personality automatically.
Unsuccessful students never accept this fact to be true. They will say they were trying as hard as they could, but there appeared external factors that were out of their control. In fact, they expected the failure, because their | 1,066 |
Thinking is a dangerous pastime. Given very little time indeed, you get to pondering all sorts of thing like how good was the past actually was or whether there is anything better in the universe than Guinness or Korean pop music .One day Guinness will, of course,<|fim_middle|> songs and the acoustic guitar thing but, to avoid accusations of keeping things simple, had brought along a recalcitrant drum machine that, as if haunted by the ghost of some disgruntled percussionist, took advantage of every opportunity to derail his set. True to his obvious good nature, however, he carried on regardless.
KVASIR, on the other hand, initially appeared playful - right down to his illuminated fencing mask - but his electronic concoctions remained too close to the click tracked damnation of the dancefloor to raise anything as uplifting as a chorus.
Sonny Marvello, despite their two year respite from making the world a better place for everyone with ears, proved themselves to be the princes of power pop that the righteous have always believed them to be. Their new songs rightly prevailed but the classic - and I use the term in the hope that time will do justice to these warriors against musical mediocrity in song writing - hits that should have been such as "Tiny Little Sparks" and the blue collar anthem "Pull Me Up" lifted their set into the sky.
Come to think of it, the stars up in the sky would surely appreciate a soundtrack provided by Sonny Marvello and that would truly be M-A-G-I-C. | be declared a health food but probably not tonight and to instead distract me from the lo-fi surroundings of Stereo were Sonny Marvello, KVASIR and Kevin Harper.
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Bash Brothers
Dominguez High linebackers Maurice and Marquis Simmons are the youngest of seven siblings to play the position
MELVIN SIMMONS JR. sat in his usual seat, on the<|fim_middle|>0 tackles.
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BRAD LOPER/DALLAS MORNING NEWS | wooden bleachers three rows in front of a tiny press box as his sons Maurice and Marquis took the field against Crenshaw (Los Angeles) last Friday night. He has sat on those same bleachers at Dominguez (Compton, Calif.) with his wife, Kathleen, for nearly 20 years watching his seven sons play Pop Warner and high school football.
Each of the boys—Melvin III, 26; Marvin, 24; Marlin, 21; twins Marcel and Marcello, 19; Maurice, 17; and Marquis, 16—has played linebacker on the overgrown grass field. "They all like to hit," says their dad, who gave his sons first names beginning with M and middle names beginning with L to honor his father, the Reverend M.L. Simmons. "They've been hitters all their lives."
The two youngest sons have learned valuable football lessons from their siblings. Maurice, a 6'1", 210-pound senior with 4.45 speed, is ranked as the No. 4 weakside linebacker in the country by Scout.com. Last season he had 95 tackles and 13 sacks. "[Playing linebacker] comes pretty easy," he says. "I already know what the coach will call because I've been watching my brothers for so long."
At 6'2" and 225 pounds, Marquis, a junior, is bigger than his brothers were at his age. In 2006 he played nine games and had 65 tackles and nine sacks. "I may be taller or weigh more, but everyone still keeps an eye on me," Marquis says. "They always want to tell me something I'm doing wrong." Maurice and Marquis have orally committed to USC, where they hope to follow in the footsteps of Melvin, a captain of the Trojans' 2003 co--national title team.
All the Simmons boys have won a major championship in high school or college, and Melvin Jr. and Kathleen, a middle school teacher, have equally high expectations for them off the field. Spending most of his time at home since a construction accident in 1988, Melvin makes sure his children—including his four daughters—stay out of trouble. He won't allow Maurice and Marquis to attend a party at a house he isn't familiar with and won't allow guests in their home unless he or Kathleen is present.
"Why would I take them to a party that I can't go to?" says Melvin Jr. "What kind of party is that going to be?"
The Simmons boys are grateful for the support and discipline. After Dominguez won its second straight CIF Southern Section division title last year, Maurice and Marquis gave their championship rings to their dad.
"He and my mom raised us up in football, so when we get a ring, we give it to him as a token of appreciation for always being there," said Maurice after the Dons beat Crenshaw 49--12. "Hopefully my brother and I can give him a few more rings."
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McDONOGH 35 AT ST. AUGUSTINE, Sept. 21
The longtime New Orleans rivals, separated by about a dozen blocks, played last year following a one-year hiatus after Hurricane Katrina, and St. Augustine lost 33--6 to the Roneagles en route to a 1--9 season. Now the Purple Knights are off to a 2--1 start, while a young McDonogh 35 squad is 0--3 and has scored just 14 points. A capacity crowd of 27,000 is expected at Tad Gormley Stadium; look out for St. Augustine running back N'Gal Tillman (above), who had 136 yards and a TD in a win over Bonnabel two weeks ago.
National Notebook
UNDISPUTED NO. 1
Before 31,896 at SMU's Ford Stadium in Dallas and a national TV audience, No. 2 Miami Northwestern beat No. 1 Southlake (Texas) Carroll 29-21 last Saturday night, thanks in part to wideout Tommy Streeter, who had four receptions for 140 yards and touchdowns of 32, 19 and 75 yards. Quarterback Jacory Harris (above) added a fourth TD pass to fellow Miami recruit Aldarius Johnson in the contest between the reigning champions from the largest classes of the two football-crazed states. "We did it for the state of Florida," Harris said. Carroll, which committed five turnovers, lost for just the second time since 2001.
SHORT BUT SWIFT
Lake Oswego (Ore.) senior running back Zach Young—all 5'8", 165 pounds of him—ran 31 times for 159 yards and two of the Lakers' three TDs in a 21--0 victory over two-time Class 6A champion Jesuit, ending the Crusaders' 28-game winning streak. Lake Oswego more than doubled Jesuit's output of total yards (381 to 179) and first downs (23 to 10).
SI's Top 10 Power Rankings
1 NORTHWESTERN (Miami) 3--0
Nation's new No. 1 gets a well-deserved rest during bye week
2 ST. XAVIER (Cincinnati) 4--0
Late rally gave Bombers 47--31 W over Louisville power Trinity
3 CARROLL (Southlake, Texas) 1--1
Coming off painful loss, will face 1--1 Rockwall (Texas)
4 SOUTH PANOLA (Batesville, Miss.) 3--0
Next up: resurgent Memphis Trezevant (2--1) at home
5 KATY (Texas) 2--0
Tigers star RB Aundre Dean will run over A&M Consolidated
6 NORTHSIDE (Warner Robins, Ga.) 3--0
Expect easy W vs. underdog Jones County (Gray, Ga.)
7 NOTRE DAME (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) 2--0
Tough test ahead at Birmingham (Lake Balboa, Calif.)
8 MATER DEI (Santa Ana, Calif.) 2--0
Last week QB Matt Barkley threw for 440 yards, five TDs
9 HAMILTON (Chandler, Ariz.) 4--0
Huskies face high-powered Red Mountain (Mesa, Ariz.) offense led by running back Jarison Johnson
10 ROSWELL (Ga.) 3--0
Beware Walton (Marietta, Ga.): This D has allowed only three TDs
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Mission: Impossible II film review
Two reviews of the film.
James Brundage, the exuberant fan:
John Woo is back in the saddle again. After turning out useless Hollywood drivel from emigration up until Face/Off, enjoyable Hollywood drivel with Face/Off, and intelligent and enjoyable Canadian drivel in Once a Thief, John Woo has finally reestablished himself as a grandmaster of the romantic action movie.
I say this having just watched, for about the last 12 hours straight, every John Woo film since Hard Boiled, plus the first Mission: Impossible to boot. And, having just sat through 12 hours of John Woo material, I can say without a doubt that M:I-2 is not only proof that John Woo is back in the saddle, it is also the best English-language action movie he has churned out to date.
Mission: Impossible 2 (or M:I-2 for short), probably this summer's most-anticipated flick, is an entirely different animal from its predecessor. Mission: Impossible was your standard espionage flick (better directed and told in a slightly Hitchcockian style, but still your standard espionage flick) with a few nice capers and a very impressive action scene thrown in. Story-wise, everything was par for the course. We even had the obligatory "break into the unbreakable place" sequence. M I-2, on the other hand, is a whole different animal.
In M I-2, rogue agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) steals all of the cure to a superflu known as Chimera, as well as a sample of the virus. Like any modern-day bad guy, Ambrose is a capitalist, and is planning to sell the cure<|fim_middle|> any decent action in it.
I won't go into the pedestrian, stomach-turning plot, which James described above. The main problem with M:I-2 is that the writing team of Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga and Robert Towne have concocted such an unoriginal and trite piece of storytelling. It's a damn shame because both Moore and Braga wrote Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Generations and Robert Towne wrote Chinatown. Mission Impossible was an incredible TV show that incorporated unique story lines, amazing character interactions, and some great villains. It ranks up there with The A-Team in my book. The first Mission Impossible film was a decent effort that just lingered too long like a teenage boy on his first date.
But M I-2 represents a blatant rip-off of the James Bond films. It completely removes the element of teamwork and cohesiveness needed to successfully complete the missions and replaces it with a loose cannon, a brooding ladies' man who beds the female lead within ten minutes of meeting her. It's also a shame that Ving Rhames is reduced to playing a monkey punching buttons on a laptop with the Mission: Impossible logo as wallpaper.
The main question I think everyone will want to ask is: What the hell has happened to John Woo!? Every since he started working in America, his films have been complete shit. Even the opening scene of Ethan Hunt climbing a rock face with sweeping helicopter camera shots makes me think, Am I watching Cliffhanger 2? Renny Harlin, get on the phone and call your lawyer.
That said, all of your traditional Woo-isms are here: The slow-motion shots, the children, the pigeons, religious figures, people flying around with guns firing. The only problem is that Woo is using the same stuff he has used since The Killer in 1989. Nothing seems original at all. He is starting to remind me of the late, great Sam Peckinpah: A good, solid director who lost his way and his ambition toward the end of his career. Mr. Woo, get out a piece of paper, write a good script, and give Chow Yun-Fat a call.
M I-2 is an utter disappointment and a delusion of a film.
Review by James Brundage and Max Messier © 2000 filmcritic.com
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posted August 21, 2008 by Contributor | to the highest bidder, after he has unleashed Chimera upon the world. And, of course, it falls upon the IMF to stop him. Heading up the team is Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise); joining him are agents Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Billy Baird (John Polson) and, per the instructions given in a cameo by Anthony Hopkins, the final member of the team must be Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton), a professional thief who Ethan must recruit.
Let the games begin.
M I-2 is an action movie, an espionage flick, a terrorist flick, a kung fu movie, and a romance all rolled into one. But instead of botching it by doing too many things at once), M I-2 juggles all of its balls in the air and never even gets close to dropping one. This might be because master craftsman screenwriter Robert Towne (Chinatown) wrote the script. Then again, it might be because John Woo is such a damn good director.
The one thing M I-2 is not, however, is a mystery. You may find the most impressive action sequences of 2000 in M I-2¸ but you're not getting much in the way of plot twists. If you are in suspense, waiting for a particular blow-your-mind plot twist, it is because you expect M I-2 to be even remotely like the original Mission: Impossible, which it is not. M I-2 is a much more energetic film. It is strengthened by bringing a stylistically brilliant director as John Woo into the game. Woo uses slow motion, fire, birds (his perennial favorite), incredible backgrounds, everything in the book to suck an audience in and keep them holding their breath. Even when watching an otherwise dull conversation, Woo keeps us right on the edge of our seats, waiting for the next big bang. Hiring Woo over having Brian De Palma to direct is one of the smartest moves Cruise has ever made as a producer, if only because De Palma favors old style, more stagnant camerawork whereas Woo uses the camera to make all of the motion in the film fluid. The acting may not win any Academy awards, but each actor does his job well enough. Hans Zimmer's impressive Latin score (a far cry from the normal percussion-laden and instantly recognizable action flick score that he uses on just about every Jerry Bruckheimer production) adds to the tension, and the Limp Bizkit take on the Mission Impossible theme is more suited for the genre than the prior one. Robert Towne serves up snappy dialogue, a good plot, and imaginative sequences for us, and Jeffrey Kimball handles the cameras damn near perfectly.
So, you might ask, what is my gripe? Well, it would have to be the birds. Ever since the shootout in the bird teahouse at the beginning of Hard Boiled, Woo has loved things that fly and aren't made out of lead. Birds make many appearances here, way too many. There are a few moments when having birds present makes sense, but their presence in the number of scenes that they are there (about half of the suspense scenes) makes you feel like Woo is still grappling with his urge to be an experimental director.
But hey, if I go to an action movie that kicks this much ass with a PG 13 rating, keeps me glued to my chair through 2 hours, twenty minutes, and 32 ounces of coke, then he can put as many damn birds in as he pleases.
Max Messier, the flabbergasted critic:
I used to love the delicacies that are offered during the summer movie season. We would get generous portions of turkey action films fat with production budgets, sickly sweet comedy yams starring over-paid television stars, comic book adaptations tasting like stuffing from Boston Market, and independent films that fill the belly like Momma's honey rolls you fight your grandfather and cousins over.
Those days are over. Since the launch of the 2000 summer movie season, everything that the studios have put on the dinner table since the beginning of May has stunk and made me sick to my stomach.
The biggest turkey so far has to be Mission Impossible 2. (Mind you, I don't count the bloated corpse of Battlefield Earth – that deserves its own section of hell.) A hodgepodge of misguided direction, pathetic acting, grade school visual effects, unbelievable action scenes, and Melrose Place-schooled scriptwriting, Mission Impossible 2 would have been passable as an action movie, only there isn't | 940 |
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By all accounts, Disturbed had emerged as one of rock's shining new stars in just a very short time and while they were definitely on top of their game, the road to the band's third album Ten Thousand Fists was anything but an easy haul. The biggest hurdle came in the form of a lineup change. The band parted ways with bassist Steve "Fuzz" Kmak not long after the completion of the second edition of their Music as a Weapon tour. The spot remained vacant for the better part of a year until the group found their new bassist in John Moyer , freshly free from early s radio rockers Union Underground. That said a lot.
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This may be Disturbed's best. It has everything I love about the band, and it works excellently. Rhythms change up in each song, building on one another, which is marked departure from simple verse-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus-end structures that classic progressive rock is known for. Each track stands as a message, a work and an effort in its own right. Tracks on "The Sickness" are memorable for vocal dexterity and riff.
Tracks on "Ten Thousand Fists" you will know by the coalescing of instrument into harmony with a precision that is utterly gripping. Each instrument lends its own voice in its own right but in a way that blends every player together. Draiman's powerful voice is allowed to growl, grunt and sing with emotive and viscous resonance yes, viscous, not viscious, though that he can be.
Donegan's guitar work shines brilliantly here because of and through the layered melodies and the brilliant bass and drum work. Wengren's drumming is simply awesome - the drums are their own character. It stands out as its own persona better than any other album even than "Indestructible". Moyer, though a newcomer, lends his basswork excellently though he's not prominently heard.
Such is the bane of good metal bass-players: the guitar can sound tinny without them, but there isn't much chance to stand out unless you want to be compared with Geddy Lee from Rush. Thematically, "Ten Thousand Fists" is more energetic and may not seem as personal of an album to the band.
Much of the lyrical work on "Indestructible", for instance, is deeply personal to Draiman, which gives the album a more intimate feel at times which doesn't always feel reflected in the underlying melody and harmony. It's pure rock. It's a soundtrack to action itself - and would be incredible live.
I bought this album without having heard the previous two. I bought it on the strength of the songs "10, Fists" and "Land of Confusion". I'm glad I did. This album maintains a social and self-awareness not demonstrated in a metal album in my opinion since Marilyn Manson's "Holywood".
Starting the album with "10, Fists" as a call to arms, so to speak, gives the listener an idea of what to expect from the proceeding album. From here, song after song continues to bring your attention to the central theme of the album. The reason this album only gets 4 stars instead of 5 is that as the album progresses, the songs become slightly less memorable.
The obvious exception to this is the cover of Genesis' "Land of Confusion".
March 21, Archived from the original on February 20, The band eventually signed with Giant Records. On February 8, , it was announced that John Moyer was supergroup Adrenaline Mob 's new bass player. Nathan "Karma" Cox. Believe is also considered by several critics to be a step away from the nu metal sound featured on The Sickness , moving towards a more hard rock and heavy metal sound that was continued in their following albums. Kmak skipped the European trek of the tour, but he did perform with the band on January 11 and 12, at Disturbed's show in Chicago.
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Save Cancel. Contained Releases:. Disturbed recently released a virtual reality experience for the band's cover of "The Sound of Silence" via Littlstar. Disturbed headlined the Rock Fest, along with Godsmack and Incubus. The band announced via social media in early January that they had entered the studio to begin recording their next studio album.
Band members also posted a picture via Instagram together at a dinner party in celebration of completion of the recording process. The band's first album in over 3 years and the band's first album in over 8 years to have bassist John Moyer being involved in.
The album, Evolution was released on October 19, On September 21, , the album's second single, titled " A Reason to Fight " was released. The initial dates announced included shows across North America with select Canadian dates, as well as a European leg of the tour. The band also went on to announce that while there would be more dates to follow, they would be touring less in the future than during their earlier days, with Draiman saying "One thing I will caution everyone on is because we're doing this tour the way that we are, because we're doing arenas on our own, because we're doing the two-hour-long set, because we're targeting things the way that we are, it's not gonna be as frequent as Disturbed used to be".
Pop Evil will open the first half of dates and In This Moment will open the second. Disturbed's mascot, named "The Guy", was originally just a drawing of a face with a large grin, as seen on the back of the album The Sickness. The original drawing of The Guy was then edited using a digital distorting program. After the original image had been distorted three times The Guy became the official mascot for the band.
Later, he would be drawn as a full figure by artist David Finch. Classified as a heavy metal [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] or hard rock [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [80] band, Disturbed is also regarded by some critics as nu metal [74] [76] [81] [82] and alternative metal.
While I really love that type of music, it's not what we try to do. If we have to place things in context, we're more hard rock than heavy metal these days. The secret is that we were never really part of any particular trend, although we definitely benefited from the popularity of what was called nu metal at the time We never had the stereotypical attributes that those bands had. We play, in my opinion, classic metal.
Sabbath , Maiden , Priest , Metallica , Pantera : these are the bands that made us want to play. Allmusic reviewer Bradley Torreano described the album Believe as "taking the sort of jump that their heroes in Soundgarden and Pantera made after their respective breakthrough records". Believe is also considered by several critics to be a step away from the nu metal sound featured on The Sickness , moving towards a more hard rock and heavy metal sound that was continued in their following albums.
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By all accounts, Disturbed had emerged as one of rock's shining new stars in just a very short time and while they were definitely on top of their game, the road to the band's third album Ten Thousand Fists was anything but an easy haul. The biggest hurdle came in the form of a lineup change.
The band parted ways with bassist Steve "Fuzz" Kmak not long after the completion of the second edition of their Music as a Weapon tour. The spot remained vacant for the better part of a year until the group found their new bassist in John Moyer , freshly free from early s radio rockers Union Underground.
That said a lot. That he knew the material and played it well said a lot. That we vibed well together onstage -- you know, all those things involved, and when we added them up and compared them to the rest of the potential candidates, he won. He's added a new found energy and excitement to the band.
He's been a great player and we're gelling really well onstage together. The band started recording in early at Groovemaster Studios in their native Chicago with longtime producer Johnny K. While there was some sticking to what had worked prior, Disturbed expanded their musical palette with the Ten Thousand Fists album.
From a musical standpoint, guitarist Dan Donegan welcomed the idea of incorporating guitar solos, while vocalist David Draiman pushed his vocals to include "some more Rob Halford-esque stuff. That brought us back to some of our influences. It made the songs seem like some of them could use guitar solos.
We just thought we would expand on that. We're trying to contribute in our way bringing this element back to music. While on the subject of influences, one of them was Dimebag Darrell , who was gunned down onstage in December , just prior to the start of recording for the new album.
Donegan also stated that the focus on adding guitar solos was in part as a tribute to the late guitarist. Lyrically, Disturbed went a little more political for Ten Thousand Fists , keeping the aggression in place but opening up to more lyrical themes with their third disc.
In addition, the band found they had a growing fanbase in the military and penned the tracks " Forgiven " and " Overburdened " with soldiers in mind.
We couldn't be more proud. Never let it be misunderstood that because we are against war -- which I always will be -- that we are against those who fight. As for the overall sound, Draiman would tell Billboard , "It seems to fuse the brutality and darkness of The Sickness with the added melodic nature and complexity of Believe.
It's more aggressive than the last record, and at times, more aggressive than the first one. On Sept. The group began promotion by issuing the preview track " Guarded " in late June, but the song took off right out of the gate, reaching No. Kind of give back to the core a little bit. It's a song that reflects what choosing this life forces certain people to do in a certain way -- you have to remain guarded on a certain level.
That early success of the preview song did nothing to sway fans from " Stricken ," meant to be the first single from the album. The track arrived a few weeks after "Guarded" and shot right up to No.
When it came time to film the video for the track, the group used an abandoned hospital for the shoot. The set may be recognizable to fans as the set from the classic horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street. Mike Wengren, in particular, shot some of his scenes in the boiler room where Freddy Krueger once toiled. He's too scared. He's got the claws, but I've got drum sticks.
With two hits right off the bat, Disturbed turned to the relationship song " Just Stop " as their third single in early Draiman explained to Launch , "Ever been in a relationship situation where, for whatever reason, the other partner in the relationship is always trying to do things to make things more dramatic? For no good reason? And if they just relax and allow things to be and just grow and develop, that everything would be much happier and more peaceful. So that's the idea behind that song.
That would be the band's cover of the Genesis classic " Land of Confusion. He told the Battle Creek Enquirer that he liked the idea of taking something that sounded nothing like Disturbed and trying to make it their own.
As for the video, the band utilized hot director Todd McFarlane, who needed some time with his team to create the animations for the clip. Finishing out the singles for the album was the live anthem and title track " Ten Thousand Fists ," which dropped just before the end of Speaking of live, Disturbed truly became one of rock's top draws during their touring of Ten Thousand Fists.
After a headlining tour with Ill Nino and 10 Years , the group saw themselves headlining the Jagermeister Music Tour, staging the third Music as a Weapon Tour and serving as de facto co-headliners with System of a Down on Ozzfest when Ozzy Osbourne played only a portion of the run.
However, the band did have to cancel some dates when Draiman ran into vocal issues due to severe acid reflux, thus forcing him to re-examine how he approached life on the road. Ten Thousand Fists became the band's second album to top the Billboard Album chart and eventually went on to be certified platinum.
It also turned out to be a key disc in the evolution of the band, laying the groundwork for their future. Draiman recently reflected with Loudwire, "That one was a very tough one for us because we were coming back with our new bass player at the time, John, and we had to kind of get over the whole letting Fuzz go thing and all the baggage that came with it and prove to the world that we're still here, we're still powerful and still gonna kick your ass.
So Ten Thousand Fists was a statement of our enduring ability to knock doors down. Home Gear Factor. Share on Twitter Share on Facebook. Filed Under: Disturbed.
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After months of being sworn to secrecy, the 66 took to the stage at Speke Hall last weekend for the 1st gig in 4 years!
When we first started the band there was a regular visitor to our practice room and his name was Phil (Pink Floyd) Lloyd. He documented our early practices, made fan videos and also set up the 66 fan club on YouTube. We didn't ask him to do this, but we were happy that he did!
Before our fan-base grew quite substantially, it was Phil who rounded up our first fans from Great Sankey (A place in Warrington where Me, Rimmer and Wilson all lived within a mile of each other) and before we knew it, we had over 100 raucous lads storming Manchester's Dry Bar for our 2nd Manchester Gig. Every band needs that type of initial support, not many are lucky enough to get it. Sometimes the magic just clicks like that.
Our last gig as The 66 was Christmas 2012, where we did a special Christmas Gig (something we used to do every year) at our spiritual home, 'The Lounge' in Warrington, with Danny's picture [which usually hangs on the lounge wall] held aloft watching it all happen.
You may have heard of the venue due to it's close association with Warrington heroes 'Viola Beach'. The Lounge has a lot of Warrington musical history considering how long it's been open, tinged with sadness, hope, joy and fine music. Oh yeah. Alcohol as well!
When Phil approached us about doing the gig, I said yes straight away. The chance to get the band back together again and play in-front of our 1st true fan-base was too much.
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There was a great buzz as Lloyd announced us to the wedding guests and the curtains slowly pulled back as we launched into 'Bordello'.
As you can see, we intended to stream the gig across Facebook. Amazingly, this actually worked with no technical difficulties! I spotted about 200 viewers at the time.
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\section{Introduction}
In recent years, with the rapid development of sensor technology and aerospace remote sensing technology, the amount of information provided by remote sensing images is growing explosively, and this phenomenon also caters to the characteristics of big data. The value of remote sensing images needs to be refined via some cognitive approaches. For example, the semantic cognition of remote sensing can be achieved by the detection technologies, and such semantic cognition (e.g., the accurate semantic labels of objects in the accurate positions in remote sensing images) is of paramount importance to many intelligence applications, such as the poverty prediction \cite{Perez}, city planning \cite{cityP}, and archaeological discovery \cite{archaeology}. Because of the access to the semantic information, the intelligence systems related to remote sensing can provide meaningful cognitive services, and the quality of services mainly depends on the underlying detection technologies.
A main difference between the visible spectral remote sensing images and the ordinary images taken by cameras in our daily life is that the former is overlook maps showing a wide range of scenes from the high perspective. Consequently, as to the remote sensing images, the accurate detection of objects in multiple scales, especially the detection of small objects in a complex background (e.g., planes in large airports can be regarded as such small objects in remote sensing images) still remains a troublesome issue. For example, some small objects can not be located or some located small objects are hard to be classified.
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\caption{(a) Using only single scale features for the faster detection. (b) Some detection systems have reused the pyramidal feature hierarchy computed by a ConvNet. (c) Feature pyramid network is a top-down architecture with lateral connections \cite{Lin}. (d) Our proposed feature fusion network is as fast as (c), but more accurate. In this figure, feature maps are indicated by the rectangular structure with different colors representing the results of different levels.}
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Classically, the feature pyramids built upon image pyramids enable a model to detect objects across a large range of scales by scanning the model over pyramid levels \cite{image_pyramid}. This approach has been widely used in the era of hand-engineered features \cite{HOG} and indeed requires the dense scale sampling. Nowadays, with the development of deep learning, the convolutional neural network (CNN) is capable to represent higher-level semantics. However, the prediction via CNN based on a single topmost feature map (e.g., YOLO \cite{Redmon}) would lose some basic location information of objects (Figure 1(a)). Thus, a combination of CNN and the pyramids architectures comes as the Single Shot Detector (SSD) \cite{SSD}. SSD is the first to use a CNN pyramidal feature hierarchy which means to reuse the multiple feature maps from different layers of CNN (Figure 1(b)). Nevertheless, it misses the opportunity to reuse the feature hierarchy information, which will severely lose contextual information that is important to the detection of small objects.
In a recent study, Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) \cite{Lin} provides a method to combine low-resolution, semantically strong features with the high-resolution, semantically weak features via a top-down pathway and lateral connections (Figure 1(c)). However, we have found that the indiscriminate injection of high-level features into low-level features in FPN will affect the detection accuracy of objects, and thus we hope to modify the connection degree of high-level features to the low-level features for the more reasonable utilization of feature pyramids relationship.
In this article, we propose a novel approach of constructing a feature fusion detector assigning differentiated stimulus degrees among different feature layers for the semantic cognition of remote sensing, named LFFN (Layer-weakening Feature Fusion Network). Our goal is to enable the network to learn to make better use of the feature interlayer relationship by itself instead of the pre-designed indiscriminate injections (i.e., direct adding operation) among layers. The feature pyramid method is important for the detection of objects in multi-scales because of the location and semantic information provided by different layers, and we aim to achieve the more effective feature pyramid structure via the novel feature fusion method. We change the non-differential inter-layer addition operations in the existing work to concat (e.g., Caffe concat layer \cite{Caffe}) operations that are decremented by layers (Figure 1(d)). In other words, we hope to integrate the features of different layers in a more reasonable way and then both the semantic and location information can be better utilized through the learning of the network.
Our proposed system LFFN achieves the highest accuracy at present on the remote sensing dataset from Google Earth, surpassing all the existing state-of-the-art approaches. LFFN has proved effective and practical for remote sensing detection, achieving 89\% mAP (mean Average Precision) which is 4.1\% higher than that of FPN. Also, LFFN can be trained end-to-end with proper inference and training speed. In addition, we modify the basic backbone network (from the ResNet-50 \cite{ResNet} to the SE-ResNeXt-50 \cite{SENet}), construct the adaptive quantization module to increase the correlation utilization ratio of feature channels and integrate the new stochastic non-maximum suppression (NMS) to achieve the advanced LFFN with better performance. Moreover, our approach can also be applied generally on the standard object detection datasets, such as PASCAL VOC \cite{VOC}. LFFN achieves 79.9\% mAP on VOC 2007 and achieves 73.0\% mAP on VOC 2012 test, and advacned LFFN obtains the mAP values of 80.7\% and 74.4\% on VOC 2007 and 2012 respectively, outperforming a comparable state-of-the-art SSD and Faster R-CNN models.
\section{Related Work}
Object detection in remote sensing images has been widely researched in recent years to achieve the valuable semantic cognition \cite{sensing}. Traditional methods mainly use local features to extract characteristics, such as Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) \cite{SIFT}, Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) \cite{HOG}, and Saliency \cite{Saliency}. However, it is inconvenient to acquire the hand-engineered features and the feature extraction is insufficient. Recently, deep learning models have obtained increased attention in the object detection area, and those approaches can be roughly divided into two genres. The first is about two-phase approaches where a reasonable Region of Interest (ROI) is proposed in the first stage, and then the decision-making of the second stage is refined. Another genre is to eliminate the region proposal stage and directly train an end-to-end detector. These one-stage detectors are more accessible to train and more computationally efficient in applications. In the one-stage methods, multiple features utilization approaches can be used to improve the detection accuracy and our work is also based on the one-stage idea.
\textbf{Single feature map.} The first set of one-stage approaches, such as Faster R-CNN \cite{Faster_rcnn}, YOLO \cite{Redmon}, and R-FCN \cite{Dai}, use a bottom-up structure and only the topmost features for detection. YOLO converts the detection task into a regression problem \cite{Redmon}, significantly improving the speed of testing. At the same time, the global information is used in each prediction, so that the false positive rate is greatly reduced, but the detection accuracy is still not satisfactory enough. Moreover, such topmost feature map would lose some basic location information in low-level features, resulting in the limitations for detecting objects in different scales, especially for small objects in remote sensing images.
\textbf{Pyramidal feature hierarchy.} Another type of one-stage approaches utilizes different feature layers of backbone networks. Different feature layers have different scales, and each feature layer corresponds to one output result. However, there is no direct correlation between different feature layers and the output results are all independent. SSD \cite{SSD} combines regression ideas of YOLO with the anchor mechanism of Faster R-CNN \cite{Faster_rcnn} and returns results based on the multi-scale regional features of each position of the whole image. SSD has the good accuracy and real-time performance. However, it misses the opportunity to reuse the feature hierarchy information, which will severely lose contextual information that is important for the detection of small objects. Similar to SSD, MS-CNN \cite{MSCNN} predicts objects without combining the multiple layers of features hierarchy.
\textbf{Feature pyramid network.} To combine the information among different layers, FPN \cite{Lin} fuses low-level features with location information and high-level features with sufficient semantics, and it produces results from each pyramid layer. However, it is inefficient that high-level features are merged with low-level features by element-wise addition, and excessive high-level features can also affect the detection accuracy. A similar work is DSSD \cite{DSSD} which merges a large amount of contextual information based on the deconvolution layer. The deconvolution module integrates information from earlier feature maps and the deconvolution layers, and the integration strategy is the same as FPN. Therefore, how to better utilize the feature interlayer relationship for both the location information and semantics in the detection process is a core issue that we concern.
In fact, besides the design of detector structures, a reasonable underlying backbone network is also an important part for better extraction of features to achieve the satisfactory semantic cognition of images. As to the research of backbone networks, VGG \cite{VGG} and ResNet \cite{ResNet} have proven effective by increasing the depth of network. DenseNet \cite{DenseNet} and DPN \cite{DPN} can improve the learning and representation performance by adjusting the sequential connection mechanism among layers. Grouped convolutions can be used to increase the cardinality, as shown in ResNeXt \cite{ResNeXt}. The dependence of channels is modeled in SENet \cite{SENet} which re-calibrates the produced features based on the squeeze-and-excitation operations on the channels. Different backbone networks have different performances on the model size, computational complexity, and feature mining. Therefore, we also hope to leverage the suitable high-performance backbone network to improve the detection performance of the whole system.
\section{Layer-weakening Feature Fusion Network}
\label{LFFN:1}
Based on the structure of the Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) \cite{Lin}, our proposed Layer-weakening Feature Fusion Network (LFFN) integrates the novel feature fusion module among different layers to pass abundant context information (i.e., the location and semantic information) to the final prediction, learning to take full advantage of the feature interlayer relationship. The architecture overview of LFFN is shown in Figure 2. ResNet-50 is utilized as the backbone network (in grey) to extract the preliminary features. LFFN has the feature fusion module (in blue) that contributes to the significant improvement of the detection performance. The feature fusion module as elaborated in the following section learns to perform the context fusion of features from ResNet-50 among multiple layers. Each of the output feature layers of feature fusion module is used to predict the classification and bounding boxes regression of RPN.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.85\textwidth]{figure/architecture.jpg}
\caption{The architecture of LFFN.}
\label{fig:2}
\end{figure}
\subsection{Feature Fusion Module of LFFN}
\label{LFFN:3}
LFFN contains the basic backbone network for the extraction of features and the feature fusion module to learn to better explore the value of features among different layers. As shown in Figure 2, we find that the backbone network consists of five parts: conv1, conv2\_x, conv3\_x, conv4\_x, conv5\_x. For example, the output feature layer of conv4\_x can be regarded as a higher-level feature map than conv3\_x. These outputs will be the hierarchical inputs of our feature fusion module. The final set of feature maps to the RPN is \{P2, P3, P4, P5, P6\}, corresponding to \{conv2\_x, conv3\_x, conv4\_x, conv5\_x, conv5\_x max pooling\} that are respectively of the same resolution sizes. RPN is followed by two hidden 1,024-d fully-connected layers before the final classification and bounding box regression layers, and then the Non Maximum Suppression (NMS) \cite{NMS} is employed to post-process the predictions to get final semantic cognition (i.e., detection results).
The feature fusion module contains the layer-weakening top-down pathway and lateral connections. In our approach, such pathway leverages the deconvolution layer to upsample the higher level features. The feature fusion module is a computational unit which has a set of transformation functions, just like any given function $Y=F_{fun}(X)$, $X\in \mathbb{R}^{H1\times W1\times C1}$, $Y\in \mathbb{R}^{H2\times W2\times C2}$. For simplicity, we concrete $F_{fun}$ into specific examples $F_{conv}$ and $F_{dev}$, which are the convolutional operator and deconvolutional operator. The kernel size of a simple convolutional layer is $(C_{out},C_{in},W,H) $, representing the output channels, input channels, kernel width, and kernel height, respectively. To make use of the information of different layers, we adopt an expansion-compression process as:
\begin{equation}
Z=F_{conv}(F_{dev}(X)))=\alpha (C_{conv}\ast \delta (D_{dec}^{T}\ast X))
\end{equation}
Here * denotes the convolution operation, $\alpha$ and $\delta$ refer to the ReLU functions. Expansion means that the convolutional layer is scaled from the plane space dimension using a deconvolution operation $D_{dec}$. The compression process $C_{conv}$ is to use the $1\times1$ convolution kernel to realize the dimension reduction.
In order to reduce the influence of high-level features, our upsampling process reduces the number of feature channels. By reducing the number of upsampling feature channels layer by layer, the overweighed influence of higher-level features on detection accuracy is then weakened. We achieve the cross-layer parameters sharing and preserve the intermediate features by connecting adjacent high- and low-level features in parallel, which can effectively reduce the feature redundancy by gradually weakening and reuse the existing features. That is where our work is significantly different from FPN, and it is also the reason for the better detection performance of objects in multiple scales.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.6\textwidth]{figure/upsample.jpg}
\caption{Feature fusion module that constructs the layer-weakening top-down pathway and the lateral connections.}
\label{fig:3}
\end{figure}
Figure 3 shows the details of feature fusion module. We use a deconvolution layer to upsample the spatial feature maps by a factor of 2, and the upsampled feature maps are then processed by a 1*1 convolutional kernel to reduce the number of channels of high-level features. Meanwhile, to cater to the same channels number of output feature maps, we take a 1*1 convolution operation on the features derived from the bottom-up pathway. Each lateral connection merges feature maps produced from the bottom-up pathway with the upsampled feature maps by the concat operation. The concat process is as:
\begin{equation}
\left\{
\begin{array}{lr}
Y\in \mathbb{R}^{H\times W\times C_{1}} \\
Y^{'}\in \mathbb{R}^{H\times W\times C_{2}} \\
Y_{out}=Y concat Y^{'} \in \mathbb{R}^{H\times W\times (C_{1}+C_{2})}
\end{array}
\right.
\end{equation}
Then, these output feature maps transferred to RPN are {P2, P3, P4, P5, P6}. We set the number of channels of output feature maps as 256 in our work, and thus all other convolutional layers have 256-channel outputs.
\subsection{Transmitting Features to RPN}
The feature fusion module outputs more robust feature information by building context relations of multiple convolution hierarchies, and these feature information will be transmitted to RPN for bounding box proposal generation and object detection. To cover objects of different scales, the anchors of RPN have multiple predefined scales and aspect ratios \cite{Lin}. The feature maps that the feature fusion module passed to RPN are \{P2, P3, P4, P5, P6\}, which have different anchors due to different feature levels. The aspect ratios are \{0.5, 1, 2\}, and the scale is 8. With the settings, all anchor sizes are in \{32, 64, 128, 512, 1024\}. The label of the anchor part is positive under these two situations: one is when the anchor part has the largest Intersection over Union (IoU) with a ground-truth box; the other is when the anchor part has the IoU greater than 0.7 with any ground-truth. There is a case where the anchor tag is negative: all IoUs with the gound-truth boxes are less than 0.3. The final RPN outputs have a total of 128 positive and negative samples, and the corresponding ratio is 3:1. Then, we minimize the joint localization loss (e.g., Smooth L1) and the confidence loss (e.g., Softmax).
At the training stage, LFFN's backbone network ResNet-50 loads the pre-trained weight on the ImageNet1k classification set \cite{ImageNet}. Then, the entire neural network of LFFN will be fine-tuned on our training set.
\section{Advanced LFFN}
\label{ALFFN:1}
In this section, we mainly introduce our advanced LFFN which shows the improvements on the detection, considering not only the plane spatial but also the channel dimensions of ConvNet. Specifically, we first introduce the new backbone network SE-ResNeXt-50 in place of ResNet-50 for LFFN. Next we discuss how to add the adaptive quantization module to increase the correlation utilization ratio of channels outputted by the feature fusion module of LFFN, and how to integrate the new stochastic NMS to select the final frame for the advanced LFFN.
\subsection{Backbone Network of Advanced LFFN}
\label{ALFFN:2}
Convolutional neural networks have two spatial characteristics, namely the plane spatial and channel dimensions. The main focus of LFFN is to explore and utilize only the feature interlayer relationship in the plane spatial dimensions. Therefore, we hope to enhance the semantic cognition of LFFN by also taking the information on the channel dimensions into account.
In line with this essential idea, SENet \cite{SENet} can learn the importance of each feature channel automatically, and then improve the useful features according to this importance and suppress features that are of little use to the current task. Thus, our first modification to LFFN is to use the SE-ResNeXt-50 \cite{SENet} as the backbone network in place of ResNet-50 used in the original LFFN. The SE-ResNeXt-50 effectively integrates existing networks and achieves complementary advantages, and its excellent performance has been proved in the three missions of image recognition, image detection and image segmentation\cite{SENet}. In our advanced LFFN, to solve the problems of the increase in model parameters and the heavy calculations caused by the new backbone network, we will adjust some<|fim_middle|>i}}{)}\textless {{{N}}_{t}} \\
0,{ iou(M,}{{{b}}_{i}}{)}\ge {{{N}}_{t}} \\
\end{array} \right.
\end{equation}
As to our stochastic NMS method, the score reset function shows an effective improvement of the NMS method by probabilistically attenuating the detection scores of adjacent detection frames that overlap with the detection frame $M$. The smaller the area ratio between $iou(M,b_{i})$ and $b_{i}$, the less likely the frame is to be retained. More precisely, we first compute the probability $p$ for each frame $b_{i}$:
\begin{equation}
p_{i}=\frac{iou(M,b_{i})}{b_{i}}
\end{equation}
Then, we sample from the distribution based on $p_{i}$ to decide whether to retain the score of the frame $b_{i}$. The classification performance of some categories is improved according to our stochastic NMS.
\begin{equation}
{{s}_{i}}=\left\{
\begin{array}{lr}
{{s}_{i}},{ iou(M,}{{{b}}_{i}}{)}\textless {{{N}}_{t}} \\
{{s}_{i}},{ where \quad i\sim P(p_{i}) \ and \ iou(M,}{{{b}}_{i}}{)}\ge {{{N}}_{t}} \\
{0},{ else}
\end{array}
\right.
\end{equation}
\section{Results and Discussion}
\label{result:1}
In this section, we analyze the performance of our feature fusion detector for semantic cognition in two parts. The first is to analyze the performance of our LFFN based on the remote sensing dataset from Google Earth. Then, to evaluate the generalization of our methods, we also take experiments on the generic datesets VOC 2007 and VOC 2012.
\subsection{Dataset and Evaluation Methodology}
\label{result:2}
We take the experiments on a NVIDIA 1080TI GPU and an IBM x3660 M4 server. We adjust the settings to find the appropriate image size, minibatch size to prevent the error of out of memory. Since the 1080TI graphics card has about 11G of video memory, and finally we make the program take 10G for training.
To evaluate the performance of LFFN, we employ the remote sensing dataset collected from Google Earth. The dataset contains four categories of objects (i.e., plane, bridge, storage, and harbor). There are 95637 training images and 2138 test images, with the resolution as 450*450. The whole network of LFFN is trained for 250,000 steps. The initial learning rate is set as 0.001, and the batch size is 1. In addition, we further conduct experiments on a common dataset PASCAL VOC dataset \cite{VOC} to evaluate its generalization performance in the semantic cognition of objects in multiple scales, especially for the performance of the advanced LFFN. For the VOC datasets, we use the 'trainval' set for training and 'test' set for testing. We train the models on the union set of VOC 2007 trainval and VOC 2012 trainval, and evaluate them on VOC 2007 and VOC 2012 test set. To analyze the performance, we adopt the precision and recall, which can judge how relevant a set of ranked results is for approaches. In addition, we record the Average Precision (AP) which is a metric of object detection performance.
\subsection{Computational Complexity Analysis}
\label{ALFFN:4}
To illustrate the cost of the backbone network of LFFN and advanced LFFN, we take the computation comparison between ResNet-50 and SE-ResNeXt-50. The ResNet-50 requires 3.86 GFLOPs in a single forward pass for a 224x224 pixel input image. However, the SE-ResNeXt-50 requires 3.98 GFLOPs, corresponding to a 0.3\% relative increase over the original ResNet-50 \cite{SENet}.
In practice, with a training mini-batch of 2 images, an iterative process involving forwards and backwards through ResNet-50 takes 2.006s, compared to 2.307s for SE-ResNeXt-50 (both are performed on a server with a NVIDIA 1080TI GPU). The test time for an image is 448ms and 577ms respectively. SE-ResNeXt-50 introduces 2 million additional parameters beyond the 25 million parameters required by ResNet-50, corresponding to a 8\% increase.
\subsection{Results on Remote Sensing Dataset}
\label{result:3}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.75\textwidth]{figure/recall.jpg}
\caption{Precision-versus-recall curves of remote sensing detection.}
\label{fig:3}
\end{figure}
For the comparison purpose, we use SSD \cite{SSD}, YOLO2 \cite{Redmon}, and FPN \cite{Lin} as horizontal comparisons to test the performance of semantic cognition (i.e., the detection accuracy). The object detection approaches return the bounding boxes with the classification scores. A detected bounding box is recognized as matched if the overlap with ground truth is larger than a certain value. The precision-versus-recall curves of these methods on the dataset from Google Earth are presented in Figure 5. It is clear that LFFN outperforms all others state-of-the-art methods by a considerable margin. The lower performance of the methods like the SSD and YOLO2 quantifies the difficulty of the detection task when the Google Earth dataset containing more small objects.
\begin{table}[]
\centering
\caption{Detection results on Google Earth dataset.}
\label{my-label}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|}
\hline
{\textbf{Approach}} & {\textbf{Network}} & {\textbf{mAP}} & \multicolumn{4}{c|}{\textbf{AP}} \\ \cline{4-7}
& & & plane & bridge & storage & harbor \\ \hline
SSD\cite{SSD} & VGG16 & 0.8045 & 0.7316 & 0.8811 & 0.7853 & 0.8202 \\ \hline
YOLO2\cite{Redmon} & Customized & 0.7105 & 0.6358 & 0.8914 & 0.5844 & 0.7302 \\ \hline
FPN\cite{Lin} & ResNet-50 & 0.8475 & 0.8704 & 0.8966 & 0.8723 & 0.7507 \\ \hline
Our LFFN & ResNet-50 & \textbf{0.8885} & \textbf{0.8901} & \textbf{0.9072} & \textbf{0.8894} & \textbf{0.8672} \\ \hline
\end{tabular}%
\end{table}
The detection results, as shown in Table 1, validate that LFFN outperforms all others. LFFN achieves 88.9\% mAP which is 4.1\% higher than that of FPN and is much higher than that of SSD and YOLO2 (8.4\% and 17.8\% higher respectively). Notably LFFN is much better than other methods
which try to include context information such as FPN \cite{Lin}, even though LFFN simply takes a simple and effective context fusion process.
Figure 6 shows some detection examples of object categories with the confidence scores based on LFFN. It can be seen that our approach detects most of the objects in multiple scales with high confidence. However, there are still some boundary occlusion and low-resolution objects. For example, some planes and harbors are missed in Figure 6(a). The main reasons are as follows: the objects and background are similar to a great extent, and in terms of small object, the loss of features after object occlusion has bad influence on object detection performance. We argue that occlusion follows a long-tail distribution, so the influence is limited.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.75\textwidth]{figure/example.jpg}
\caption{Detection examples on remote sensing dataset (e.g., plane, bridge, storage, harbor).}
\label{fig:3}
\end{figure}
\subsection{Results on PASCAL VOC 2007}
\label{result:4}
\begin{table}[]
\centering
\caption{PASCAL VOC 2007 test detection results. Data: "07": VOC 2007 trainval, "07+12": union of VOC 2007 and VOC 2012 trainval. }
\label{my-label}
\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
$\begin{array}{l|l|l|llllllllllllllllllll}
\hline
\textbf{Approach} & \textbf{data} & \textbf{mAP} & aero & bike & bird & boat & bottle & bus & car & cat & chair & cow & table & dog & horse & mbike & person & plant & sheep & sofa & train & tv \\ \hline
Fast \ R$-$CNN \cite{fastrcnn} & 07 & 66.9 &74.5& 78.3& 69.2& 53.2& 36.6& 77.3& 78.2& 82.0 &40.7 &72.7 &67.9& 79.6 &79.2 &73.0& 69.0& 30.1& 65.4& 70.2& 75.8& 65.8 \\ \cline{2-23}
Fast \ R$-$CNN \cite{fastrcnn} & 07+12 &70.0& 77.0 &78.1& 69.3& 59.4 &38.3 &81.6& 78.6& 86.7& 42.8& 78.8& 68.9& 84.7 &82.0& 76.6& 69.9 &31.8& 70.1 &74.8& 80.4& 70.4 \\ \cline{2-23}
Faster \ R$-$CNN \cite{Faster_rcnn} & 07 & 69.9& 70.0 &80.6 &70.1 &57.3 &49.9 &78.2& 80.4 &82.0& 52.2& 75.3 &67.2& 80.3 &79.8 &75.0& 76.3 &39.1 &68.3& 67.3& 81.1& 67.6 \\ \cline{2-23}
Faster \ R$-$CNN \cite{Faster_rcnn} & 07+12 & 73.2 & 76.5 & 79.0 & 70.9 & 65.5 & 52.1 & 83.1 & 84.7 & 86.4 & 52.0 & 81.9 & 65.7 & 84.8 & 84.6 & 77.5 & 76.7 & 38.8 & 73.6 & 73.9 & 83.0 & 72.6 \\ \cline{2-23}
SSD \cite{SSD} & 07 & 68.0& 73.4& 77.5& 64.1 &59.0& 38.9& 75.2 &80.8& 78.5& 46.0& 67.8& 69.2& 76.6& 82.1& 77.0& 72.5& 41.2 &64.2& 69.1& 78.0& 68.5 \\ \cline{2-23}
SSD \cite{SSD} & 07+12 & 74.3 &75.5 &80.2& 72.3& 66.3 &47.6 &83.0 &84.2& 86.1 &54.7& 78.3& 73.9& 84.5 &85.3& 82.6& 76.2 &48.6 &73.9& 76.0 &83.4 &74.0 \\ \hline
LFFN & 07 & 78.2 & 85.6 & 80.5 & 78.1 & 70.2 & 66.3 & \textbf{87.1} & 87.7 & 88.7 & 60.6 & 85.7 & \textbf{71.4} & 87.5 & 86.7 & 79.9 & 79.4 & 48.2 & 79.4 & \textbf{79.0} & 85.6 & 75.9 \\ \cline{2-23}
LFFN & 07+12 & 79.9 & \textbf{90.9} &81.8 & 80.9 & 71.8 & \textbf{72.0} & 81.8 & 80.8 &\textbf{90.9} & 54.5 & 80.8 & 71.4 & \textbf{90.9} &\textbf{88.9} &81.8 & \textbf{81.8} & 81.1 & 72.7 & 70.6 & \textbf{90.9} & \textbf{81.8} \\ \hline
Advanced\ LFFN\ (with \ NMS) & 07 & 78.9 & 86.2 & 86.3 & 78.8 & 73.1 & 66.0 & 83.7 & 88.0 & 89.3 & 64.1 & \textbf{88.3} & 68.6 & 87.5 & 87.3 & 80.1 & 78.9 & 54.0 & 78.9 & 76.0 & 83.1 & 79.5 \\ \cline{2-23}
Advanced\ LFFN\ (with \ stochastic \ NMS) & 07 & 78.9 &86.6 & 86.5 & 78.9 & 73.1 & 65.8 & 84.0 & \textbf{88.1} & 89.3 & \textbf{64.4} & 88.1 & 68.5 & 87.8 & 87.4 & 80.1 & 79.0 & 53.3 & 78.8 & 76.0 & 82.3 & 79.6 \\ \cline{2-23}
Advanced\ LFFN\ (with \ NMS) & 07+12 & \textbf{80.7} & 90.7 & \textbf{86.5} & \textbf{81.5} &\textbf{73.3} & 71.4 & 84.2 & 81.0 &\textbf{90.9} & 54.3 & 81.4 & 71.1 & \textbf{90.9} &88.8 &81.8 & 81.6 & \textbf{81.2} & \textbf{80.8} & 70.2 & \textbf{90.9} & \textbf{81.8} \\
\hline
\end{array}%
$}
\end{table}
To evaluate the generalization performance, we compare our methods against Fast R-CNN \cite{fastrcnn}, Faster R-CNN \cite{Faster_rcnn} and SSD on VOC 2007 test (4952 test images). SSD \cite{SSD} is the latest work with the new expansion data augmentation trick, and it has already been better than many other detectors.
Table 2 shows the test results on PASCAL VOC 2007. The 'data' in the table represents the training dataset. '07' indicates that the dataset is VOC 2007 trainval, and '07+12' indicates that the dataset is the union set of VOC 2007 trainval and VOC 2012 trainval. In general, in the case of larger dataset training, the approaches can obtain better performance. More importantly, by adding the feature fusion module, our LFFN is consistently better than that of Fast R-CNN, Faster R-CNN and SSD (9.9\%, 6.7\% and 5.6\% higher respectively) in the condition of '07+12' data. This proves the effectiveness of our proposed approach.
Especially, the advanced LFFN reaches 80.7\% mAP, higher than that of LFFN, and the performance increases by nearly 1\%. Whether for LFFN or advanced LFFN, when using '07+12' training data, most APs of objects categories increase and the few decreased APs may lie in the over-fitting or inadequate training iterations for the more training data. We also make comparisons in the advanced LFFN when using the traditional NMS and our stochastic NMS. With a stochastic procedure, the system can randomly pick the activation of each frame based on a possibility, and then some categories showed changes in AP values. This is an interesting direction, and we will further explore it in the future.
\subsection{Results on PASCAL VOC 2012}
\label{result:5}
For VOC 2012 task, we follow the setting of experiments on VOC 2007 and describe a few differences here. We use the whole VOC 2007 dataset and VOC 2012 trainval for training and VOC 2012 test for testing.
Table 3 shows the results of our LFFN and advanced LFFN, compared with other state-of-the-art methods. Our approaches can improve the performance of all the categories except bus, table and sofa in VOC 2012. We believe this is probably because of the larger diversity in VOC 2012. LFFN improves accuracy over Fast/Faster R-CNN, with 4.6\% and 2.6\%, respectively. Compared to YOLO and SSD, our approaches are more accurate, though both are faster than ours. LFFN and advanced LFFN based on more complex network, runs at 4 to 6 FPS, and these two are 50 PFS. Compared to LFFN, our advanced LFFN with SE-ResNeXt-50 and adaptive quantization module gives 1.4\% boost to 74.4\% mAP, acquiring better semantic cognition in images.
\begin{table}[]
\centering
\caption{PASCAL VOC 2012 test detection results.}
\label{my-label}
\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
$\begin{array}{l|l|l|llllllllllllllllllll}
\hline
\textbf{Approach} & \textbf{network} & \textbf{mAP} & aero & bike & bird & boat & bottle & bus & car & cat & chair & cow & table & dog & horse & mbike & person & plant & sheep & sofa & train & tv \\ \hline
YOLO\cite{Redmon} & Customized & 57.9 & 77.0 & 67.2 & 57.7 & 38.3 & 22.7 & 68.3 &55.9 &81.4 &36.2 & 60.8 & 48.5 & 77.2 & 72.3 &71.3 & 63.5 & 28.9 & 52.2 & 54.8 & 73.9 &50.8 \\ \cline{2-23}
Fast \ R$-$CNN \cite{fastrcnn} & VGG & 68.4 &82.3 &78.4 &70.8 & 52.3 & 38.7 &77.8 & 71.6 &89.3 &44.2 &73.0 &55.0 & 87.5 &80.5 &80.8 &72.0 & 35.1 & 68.3 & 65.7 &80.4 &64.2 \\ \cline{2-23}
Faster \ R$-$CNN \cite{Faster_rcnn} & ResNet$-$101 &70.4 &84.9 &79.8 &74.3 &53.9 & 49.8 & 77.5 &75.9 &88.5 & 45.6 & 77.1 & 55.3 & 86.9 &81.7 & 80.9 & 79.6 & 40.1 & 72.6 & 60.9 & 81.2 & 61.5 \\ \cline{2-23}
SSD \cite{SSD} & VGG & 72.4 & 85.6 &80.1 &70.5 & 57.6 &46.2 & \textbf{79.4} &76.1 & 89.2 & \textbf{53.0} & 77.0 & \textbf{60.8} & 87.0 & 83.1 & 82.3 & 79.4 & 45.9 & 75.9 &\textbf{69.5} & 81.9 & 67.5
\\ \hline
LFFN & ResNet$-$50 & 73.0 & 85.4 & 81.9 & 74.4 & 58.5 & 58.2 & 76.8 & 77.5 & \textbf{90.7} & 48.8 & 77.9 & 56.0 & 87.9 & 83.0 & \textbf{82.8} & 82.4 & 52.6 & 74.5 & 62.6 & \textbf{82.1} & 65.4
\\ \hline
Advanced\ LFFN & SE$-$ResNeXt$-$50 & 74.4 & \textbf{86.4} & \textbf{82.3} & \textbf{79.1} & \textbf{63.1} & \textbf{62.9} & 77.9 & \textbf{79.0} & 89.1 & 49.7 & \textbf{81.2} & 54.0 & \textbf{88.6} & \textbf{84.2} & 81.8 & \textbf{82.7} & \textbf{53.0} & \textbf{79.0} & 61.1 & 81.6 & \textbf{69.5}
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\section{Conclusions}
\label{conlu:1}
In this article, we propose a progressive feature fusion detection approach LFFN for the semantic cognition in remote sensing images. It aims to address the troublesome detection problems like the scale diversity, diversity of views, small objects, and sophisticated light and shadow backgrounds. We explore the inherent relevance of different layers to the final decision, and the incentives of higher-level features to lower-level features. Moreover, we further explore the characteristics of different backbone networks in the mining of basic features, add the adaptive quantization module to increase the correlation utilization of convolutional channels, and integrate the new stochastic NMS to achieve the advanced LFFN system. Experiments show the high performance of our LFFN and advanced LFFN for acquiring semantic cognition in not only the remote sensing images but also the more general VOC dataset images.
\section*{acknowledgements}
This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61202488 and 61751208.
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| super parameters, such as batch size or input image size, during subsequent experiments.
\subsection{Adaptive Quantization Module}
In addition to the modification of the backbone network, there are also differences in the system architecture of the advanced LFFN. Consistent with the idea of SENet on channels, we propose an adaptive quantization module. It is an adaptive optimized operator, which can construct strong context struture informations by fusing both plane spatial and channel-wise dimension (Figure 4). As introduced before, the basic LFFN can get the layer-weakening feature fusion outputs via the feature fusion module. The output of the feature fusion module is a convolution layer $Y\in \mathbb{R}^{H\times W\times C}$, $Y=[y_{1},y_{2},...,y_{C}]$ and $y_{i}$ is a 2D plane spatial structure ($ i$ indicates the channel number, and $i\in [1,C]$). In the system of advanced LFFN, in order to fully capture the channel-wise dependencies, we follow the basic feature fusion module with a serial operation called adaptive quantization module. The adaptive quantization module can automatically learn how to choose the quantization scale of the channel, and the relationship among channels is obtained through training. We parameterise the adaptive quantization module with one stochastic pooling layer \cite{stochasticNMS} , a fully connected (FC) layer and a Sigmoid function. As shown in Equation (3), a stochastic pooling process is generated by the probability $P(y_{i}(n,m))$ of each element of normalizing each channel spatial plane. The purpose of the stochastic pooling is to get better generalization performance. Then, an adaptive learnable relational network $W_{FC}$ is employed after the stochastic pooling process, $W_{FC} \in \mathbb{R}^{C\times C}$. $\beta$ refers to the Sigmoid function. At last, the final output $Y^{'}$ of the adaptive quantization module in the Equation (4) is computed by scaling the Sigmoid output with feature fusion module output. $G_{scale}$ are the probabilities of a set of channel-wise $Y$. Therefore, this module considers not only the plane spatial but also the channel dimensions of ConvNet on the system architecture for better semantic cognition of objects in the multiple scales.
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\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{figure/channel_fuse.jpg}
\caption{Comparison between the feature fusion module and the adaptive quantization module.}
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\left\{
\begin{array}{lr}
p_{i}=y_{i}(n,m) \quad where \quad n,m\sim P(y_{i}(n,m)) \\
F=W_{FC}P \quad where \quad P=[p_{1},p_{2},..., p_{c}] \\
G_{scale}=\beta F
\end{array}
\right.
\end{equation}
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y^{'}_{c}=G_{scale}^{c} \cdot y_{c}
\end{equation}
\subsection{Stochastic NMS}
\label{ALFFN:3}
Non-maximum suppression (NMS) is an edge thinning method \cite{NMS}. It first generates a detection frame based on the object detection score, and then the detection frame M with the highest score is selected, while other detection frames that are significantly overlapped with the selected detection frame are suppressed. Here, we introduce a novel, simple and effective method called stochastic NMS for selecting the final frame. The stochastic NMS replaces the traditional NMS operations with a stochastic procedure, randomly picking the activation of each frame according to a possibility. The stochastic NMS is introduced to further improve the semantic cognition of objects. The traditional NMS uses a hard threshold to determine whether the adjacent detection frames are reserved. ${s}_{i}$ indicates the score of the ${i}$th detection frame ${b}_{i}$, and ${N}_{i}$ indicates the NMS detection threshold:
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kolokithokeftedes made with Christina's spin means baking instead of frying
One of my favorite things to do is debunk preconceptions, be it around gender norms and societal roles or what makes for real Greek yogurt in the era of mass-production. Greek cuisine is no exception to many a trite assumption. Non-Greeks tend to assume we live on a steady diet of lamb and spanakopita, and once someone tried to explain to me how the cuisine is just "meat and potatoes." (we will call this act of non-Greeks explaining things about Hellenism to us "xenosplaining," and you're welcome.) But I once ate a three-course Greek meal that was entirely vegetarian. Greek cuisine is evolving and becoming more nuanced. In the U.S. it's never quite had the prestige of French cooking or the mass popularity (and bastardization) of Italian food, but its popularity is on the rise. Internet buzz surrounding the Mediterranean diet has given healthy Greek cuisine a chance to step into the spotlight.
And so, I fell in love with the hyper creative and beautiful instagram of Christina Xenos, aka "My Sweet Greek." She's a journalist, trained private chef, and exceptional curator. Many of her recipes, such as non-fried kolokithokeftedes, offer a spin on traditional Greek dishes. But she also does justice to the lineage of these dishes, preserving the integrity of Greek recipes by way of letting super fresh ingredients do the talking. We also share something of an obsession with fava.
Christina is incredibly knowledgeable. She's cooked for many in her current base of Los Angeles – a city whose health obsession with health pairs well with healthy Greek cuisine. She also just released an exceptional cookbook which I recently finished and plan on gifting this Christmas. Read on to learn about her journey from yiayia's kitchen to private chef and cookbook author in Los Angeles.
P.S. Christina was kind enough to share one of her recipes with our community. You can find it at the end of the interview!
P.P.S. Keep an eye on our Instagram for a chance to win a FREE copy of Christina's new cookbook, OPA! The Healthy Greek Cookbook.
Christina's award-winning spanakopita
Tell me a bit about the journey from yiayia's kitchen to professional chef. What is your background and training as a chef? Where did you get started?
I have/had wonderful yia-yias, and I've always been obsessed with food. Growing up, I trailed my yia-yia Chrysanthe and yia-yia Eleni in the kitchen, observing and helping them out. Then during the summers, my mom would take me to our local Greek Orthodox church and I would spend my days with all the yia-yias there and bake everything for the annual festival: spanakopita, tiropita, tsourekia, koulourakia, baklava, etc. I started cooking regularly because my mom started working when I was 15, and with her and my dad both out of the house working, I didn't think it was fair that my mom had to come home and make dinner, so I started making dishes from the Greek cookbooks in our house. I would make a lot of spanakorizo, and potato soup — I guess the latter isn't really Greek but it was in that particular cookbook. In hindsight, I should have gone to culinary school, but growing up in Ohio during a time when chefs weren't<|fim_middle|> abundance because that's what the tourism industry demands. Regional variations on classic dishes and regional dishes exist because of what was available, and what wasn't. I think in more recent times, with the availability of everything, that's changing drastically as well.
What do you think of a major Greek food meal service? (Like Sakara Life – but Greek?) Possible?
As much as I like the idea of the convenience offered by such services, I'm not a big advocate of them. I think so many things are lost in mass production, and the end result rarely lives up to the expectation or photo on the website. Most Greek dishes are simple in nature, and many of the recipes in our book are simple because we made them that way. With a little organization, it's easy to get dinner on the table with a nominal amount of time. I think it's important to feel connected to your food. Making it and eating it fresh — shopping for and choosing your own produce — is a great way to do that.
Your book really breaks down not just recipes – but how to equip a Greek kitchen, eat seasonally, etc. I Love this! Are there any takeaways from Greek cooking that can make us better chefs in another, completely different type of cuisine?
Recipes across any type of cuisine are only as good as the ingredients you make them with. Buy fresh, buy local, at least take an interest in where your food comes from and how long it has been sitting around. Never buy supermarket tomatoes, and if you have to, try to buy organic or responsibly grown and in season. Otherwise, anything you cook with them will taste like cardboard, no matter who wrote the recipe.
And now a special gift from Christina for Delphi Reclaimed readers…. a peek into her new cookbook! Enjoy this Shrimp Santorini recipe. I'm feeling it as the perfect way to bring something healthy and NOT boring to holiday parties this year.
Shrimp Santorini
Just in time for Christmas… you can buy Christina's book Opa! The Healthy Greek Cookbook: Modern Mediterranean Recipes for Living the Good Life now!
Enjoy this piece? Read our interview with Nounos Yogurt, the family who makes small batch, all organic Greek yogurt in New York. | the celebrities they are now, I knew that I had to go to college. So I did, for journalism.
In a way, I'm really happy about that. It afforded me the opportunity to perfect my writing skills and that fits in perfectly with writing a cookbook. But the publishing industry has changed drastically from the time I graduated college in 2001. A few years ago, I realized that I had strayed from my original goals as a journalist, and I wanted to forge a new path. The New School of Cooking was a mile from my office and they offered professional level night classes for cooking and baking, so I took both series, and it really changed my life.
It's pretty awesome when you realize that you're doing something that you actually have talent in. I LOVED cooking school—100x more than I loved college. I learned so much and I excelled. I was finally genuinely interested in what I was doing. During that time, one of my classmates told me about EatWith and two years later, I finally got organized and started hosting small pop-up dinners in of my house through their platform. That experience proved to me that I really loved cooking and entertaining. This was the catalyst for me to launch my personal chef business and has lead to me working regularly with private clients, continuing pop-ups with EatWith, Feastly, and the cookbook that I co-wrote with my friend Theo Stephan who has a wonderful organic olive oil business in Los Olivos, California called Global Gardens.
It's funny, most people think of Greek food as "meat and potatoes" but during a yoga training I once at an entire three-course Greek meal that was all vegetarian. What do you wish more people knew or understood about Greek cuisine?
That's a really great point! I love doing pop-ups with Greek food because they are so easy to adapt to fit a vegetarian diet and there are so many people in Los Angeles who have adopted that diet. If you think about Greece and its history, you'll discover that historically people didn't really have access to meat as they do now. Greeks of our grandparents and great-grandparents generations had longevity (one of my yia-yia was in perfect health until she was 102 years old) because of their diet that was low in meats and processed food and high in vegetables, grains and legumes. Meat was only eaten on special occasions, feast days, holidays, etc. It was a big deal. I try to instill that patter in my menus for my clients, even if I'm not cooking them Greek food specifically. It freaks me out when people want to eat red meat multiple times a week. We have to realize that just because things are available, it doesn't mean it's ok to eat them all the time.
Lavraki/branzino from the #OpaGreekCookbook
Favorite Greek dish – and why!
Too many!!! This summer we ate tarama everywhere and it was fun to notice all the variations on it. I love octopus, squid and cuttlefish. I also became obsessed with fava this summer and have a really nice fava and shrimp dish going onto one of my pop-up menus. I also love eggplant in all forms, particularly papoutsakia.
Most overrated Greek dish – go!
This was a really hard question. I love everything and have soft spots for the obviously overplayed dishes like horiatiki salata, souvlakia, moussaka and pastitso—especially if someone is making the latter two for me. However, people have a strange obsession with barbounia, but I don't. Eating them is a lot of work with not much payoff. I'd rather eat a whole sea bass or red snapper and really enjoy the experience.
In NYC, it seems a nouveau Greek restaurant opens every week. Do you feel a similar increase in popularity of Greek cuisine in LA?
I guess this is one instance where New Yorkers are lucky. We're not so blessed with Greek food in LA. I think it's because all the Greeks came out here to be in the entertainment industry. The extreme lack of good Greek food in Los Angeles is one of the reasons I started throwing my pop-up dinners. We literally have 4 passable Greek restaurants, and only two of those are on par with the nice ones in New York. I did hear a rumor that Avra might open out here next year.
Let's talk about your new cookbook, "OPA! The Healthy Greek Cookbook." When did the idea for this come about? Tell me a bit about what makes the recipes "modern" and adaptable to life in the US in 2017?
I think people are naturally curious about Greek food, and despite the traditional recipes in the Greek canon, the cuisine has modernized. I was in Athens this summer and it was so inspiring to eat at restaurants that were doing innovative takes on Greek recipes and ingredients like Nolan, Cookoovaya and Kuzina. Don't get me wrong, I still had my share of souvlaki and gemista, but I appreciate the creativity. I think our book is structured like that as well. You'll find a few tried and true traditional recipes, but the other ones like my avocado skordalia that's served with swordfish souvlaki, butternut squash and hazelnut pasta, Theo's stuffed leg of lamb, crab cakes, and feta-stuffed burgers are all indicative that Greek food is evolving.
Christina at work!
How can greek food help us return to ritual (You mention fasting, meals around that in your cookbook)? Or to feel more grounded in an increasingly fast-paced, digital age?
I think cooking, in general, is a beautiful way to calm your mind and refocus. Cooking is the way I meditate. I turn off my phone, close the email, put on some music and just focus on what's in front of me. Going through the recipe is calming: chopping, then sautéing — listening and smelling the aromas along the way — and guiding the ingredients into one delicious outcome. The process of cooking makes me present and clears my mind — as long as I'm not hangry.
People often lump Greek food into a few food groups, namely "lamb, moussaka, and spanakopita." But if you actually spend time in Greece, you see there are regional nuances to the cuisine (i.e. the presence of capers in a lot of island dishes, or major Turkish influences in "Asia minor.")
In the US over the last few years, restaurants have been making a huge deal about their menus being "farm-to-table" ingredients being "local," "fresh from the market" and so on. This has been a way of life in Greece forever. My cousins in Crete grow their own vegetables, harvest their own goats and rabbits and make their own wine and raki. It's not a new thing or a trend there. They are not hipsters. It's just their way of life. I think the Diaspora from Greece is why we think of Greek food with those few iconic dishes, and they exist in Greece in such | 1,470 |
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An inspiring woman who was the driving force behind a new choir for people who cannot sing was a finalist in a "Women of the Year Awards".
Nadine Cooper was one of three contenders up for the Boots-sponsored 'Wellness Warrior' accolade.
The award was introduced to celebrate women who dedicate themselves to improving the health and wellbeing of others.
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Over the last three and a half years, Tuneless Choir members have enjoyed the physical, emotional and social benefits that group-singing brings.
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Nadine said "Although I didn't end up winning the award, it was a wonderful experience to attend the lunch and meet such an inspirational group of women. The Wellness Warrior award was won by Lizzy Hall who has set up The Hygiene Bank to provide toiletries and personal care products to those in poverty in the UK. It was touching, humbling and inspiring to hear about work in Iraq, Syria and with children living with domestic violence in their homes.
"The lunch was attended by Theresa May and Cressida Dick, and Lorraine Kelly received a special award for 35 years in showbusiness."
Actress Maureen Lipman - who like Nadine hails from Hull - has offered to visit the group's Oldham Tuneless Choir while she's in Manchester filming Coronation Street.
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"I obviously haven't done all this alone!", says Nadine. "Bernie Bracha set up the West Bridgford Choir with me and we also run the Nottingham City Choir together every Wednesday lunchtime. We then have a brilliant group of choir leaders and managers in Sherwood, Beeston and further afield. They put their hearts and souls into making Tuneless a success, creating joyful, supportive communities."
Nadine says the choir struck the right note with those who'd been told by parents, teachers and even vicars that they weren't tuneful enough to sing. Nadine herself was told to "please stop singing you are spoiling it for everyone else" by a school music teacher when she was 12.
She has since led the expansion of the choir around the country. The 32nd Tuneless Choir launched in Southampton on the same day as the awards.
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Riding from the length of the country is a feat that many of us dream of – and it doesn't have to be out of reach. Yorkshire mum Gemma Towell completed the journey – clocking up 1,534km – to raise money for charity after three of her friends and work colleagues were diagnosed with cancer.
The 37-year-old from Cowling raised £2,500 in total for Beefy's Charity Foundation who support people with chronic illnesses – but will be completing more adventures by bike over the next year in a bid to raise a total of £10,000.
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The weather wasn't exactly kind for Gemma, either
The mum-of-one said following the ride, which she completed earlier this summer: "It was such an amazing experience, the weather was typically British and I got lost, of course. Looking back I was a little quiet at the start as I contemplated the journey ahead, and what a beautiful journey it was, full of every emotion you can imagine that all came to a head as I reached Land's End."
Gemma was met by her husband, Peter, and daughter Ashleigh when she finally reached Land's End – she described the moment as 'a bit like midnight on New Year's Eve' – saying: "It was such a big build up and nothing actually happens at the end."
The idea of covering such a huge distance can seem intimidating at first – but time and time again we're told that riders find they adapt quicker than expected. Gemma said: "I have to admit, I could have definitely carried on by the end of the ride – I felt physically great. I would encourage anybody to saddle up, especially if it's for a good cause, as it's one of my greatest achievements."
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Describing her motivations behind the challenge to raise such a large sum of money, she said: "I was heartbroken to see the suffering and pain of all three of my friends and their families. I just felt helpless, all I could do was stand by and watch. I have a lot of anger towards cancer and I wanted to put all of this built up hurt to good use and so decided to use it to fuel my fund-raising efforts."
Having completed the ride, Gemma is keen to encourage others to give it a go – here are her tips for potential riders of LEJOG, JOLEG – or any other epic journey by bike…
Gemma's Top Tips for riding from John O'Groats to Land's End
Plan, plan, plan and double check your plan
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During the journey I obtained a very painful ankle injury. This was due to severe fatigue after I hadn't eaten enough. Don't be a fool and finish your food, I would say it's the number one priority before embarking on long cycling journeys.
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The most important thing to remember – why do the journey when you can't admire the beautiful views and enjoy the adrenaline and physical benefits of cycling? Try not to cram everything in all at once. Everybody travels at different speeds and you have to remember, this isn't a competition.
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A theatrical hybrid is making its way to the stage in late January and it's not holding back. Tapestry Opera and Theatre Passe Muraille present the world premiere of Hook Up, a story of the complex freedom and responsibility of being a freshman, away from home for the first time.
Hook Up follows three friends heading into their first year at university, along with all of the new rules, new environment and new freedoms that experience entails. But freedom soon becomes complicated for these young adults. Questions of consent, shame and power begin to surface as they try to figure out what this new life holds and how it works.
For composer Chris Thornborrow and librettist Julie Tepperman, social media and cyber bullying were at the forefront when a few years ago, they created a seven-minute piece for Tapestry's annual LibLab [now called Composer-Librettist Laboratory] workshop. Originally intended for a middle-to-early high school audience, complications arose as the content was considered troublesome.
"There were big language and content restrictions" says Tepperman. The pair had to ask themselves how they would share this important issue, while still staying within the education system's guidelines.
The original test piece was soon scrapped and for their second draft, the idea was to target young adults. High school kids aren't likely to look to their own age group as a role model, so the pair pivoted to a university-setting. "They want to look up to someone older, someone in university," says Tepperman.
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Thornborrow's work manages to straddle a variety of genres—he composes classical chamber as well as film music. With this production, he doesn't have to choose. "Opera sits in between those two worlds," he says. The chamber music elements show up in Hook Up's upbeat rhythms, adding moments of surprise. From his film work, he uses some of the music to subtly tell the story in the background. Together, these elements "create opera. It's a heightened experience."
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Working in a more traditional operatic mode was the original choice for the story—until that didn't work. Having young adults in university singing in full operatic voice "didn't feel authentic," says Thornborrow. "It wasn't a choice of this is the better aesthetic, it was—this [a musical theatre style] is the most effective and impactful way to [tell] the story."
For most performances, there will be an opportunity for audience discussion after the show facilitated by CANVAS Arts Actions Programs. For Thornborrow and Tepperman, the purpose is to have "a platform for people of all ages to engage in a really difficult conversation that isn't often talked about" says Thornborrow.
Hook Up premieres January 30th and runs until February 9th, 2019. Click here for tickets and more information.
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Broad Peak (8047m) local name "Falchan Kangri". It has also been called enormously triple-headed Breithorn (4,165m high three-headed peak of European Alps) of the Baltoro. It has a strong presence in its environs neighboring K2.
The route involves climbing through a rock gully to Camp I (6000m) then by following a large snow face we reach CII at around 6400m. A final camp is placed at 7400m from where a summit bid is made.
The climbing will not be extremely steep but the remoteness of the setting will make this an especially rewarding experience. Whether this is your first 8000m peak or your third, the nature of climbing in this region will have its own unique flavor.
There have been several winter expeditions to Broad Peak since 1987/88 when Andrzej Zawada, a noted<|fim_middle|> and Serguey Samoilov in Alpine style in July 2005. Valery Babanov and his partner Victor Afanasiev climbed Broad Peak central pillar up the West Face via a variation route in alpine style in 2008. | Polish climber, considered a pioneer of winter climbing in high mountain regions led the first.
The new route up the South West Face was climbed by Denis Urubko | 33 |
What Is Required for a Project Management Contract?
Project management refers to the planning, administration and oversight of projects within organizations. For large, specialized or especially critical projects, companies often contract with third-party project management companies to ensure that projects are completed efficiently and thoroughly with the highest quality of output. Several items are required for a project management contract, including provisions for the project's scope, objectives, time frames and payment terms. Understanding these essential elements can help you draft effective project-management agreements for your contractors or clients.
Set forth the objectives of the project early in your contract. List objectives in terms of measurable outcomes, such as a decrease in customer-service time, an increase in departmental profitability or an increase in incoming sales enquiries. Next, describe the scope of the project -- the work to be performed, the functions to be managed, the people involved and any minimum or maximum time requirements. For instance, you might specify that the manager is to oversee your company's entire marketing department for a period of three months while developing new ads. List the expected final deliverables, or end results, of the project. Expected deliverables can be anything from the launch of a new website to the opening of a new office building, and they should always directly address the project's stated<|fim_middle|> to finalize the agreement. Attach addenda to include any relevant documentation needed to govern the management of the project, such as design specifications, blueprints, photos or early cost estimates. | objectives.
Create a timetable listing expected completion dates for different stages of the project, as well as a final deadline for completion. Consult your project manager to identify important milestones based on your organization's needs and the manager's expected workflow. For a project involving the implementation of a new company network, for example, milestones might include finalizing the budget; purchasing and receiving servers, routers and cables; setting up a central server room; running cables and setting up servers; and finally connecting workstations to the network. With these milestones identified, the manager could then make time frame estimates based on his experience with similar projects.
Set forth the payment terms for the contractor in a separate section. List managers' fees in absolute dollar terms, if possible, either by hour or for the entire project. Alternatively, specify the commission to be paid by listing the commission percentage and precisely describing how commissions are to be calculated. For example, you might specify that the contractor will be paid a commission of 10 percent of the total project expenses. Set forth expected invoice and payment dates to avoid conflicts in payment schedules as well.
Complete the main body of the contract by leaving space for a dated signature by representatives of the client organization and project-management contractor | 244 |
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Classic YouTube: The Burndown Battle Of The Rotaries!
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Some guys play checkers, others play chess. For some, the moves are simple: burnout, stage one, stage two, and go when your right foot and brain are in sync with the bulbs on the Christmas tree. Nail the reaction time, hope you're still leading at the stripe, and if luck is on your side, you'll come back again. For a basic racer, that's good enough. But that's basic racing, that's<|fim_middle|> just sitting and waiting, with one of the guys trying to wave him forward before the starter gave the order to move forward.
How much do you want to bet that there were words after this round?
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Bryan McTaggart | checkers. You want to know what the chess move is? The burndown. Not only does it qualify as a head game as each driver crawls into the head of the other, but now you're bringing mechanical parts into the equation. Parts are getting hot, fuel is being depleted. No matter how much the crowd is eating up the drama, sooner or later something has to give. That could be something as simple as the starter's temper (look back to the infamous Warren Johnson vs. Scott Geoffrion incident, when Buster Couch had something to say to both drivers) or you could see a transmission nuke itself into meltdown mode.
The video starts as both of these RX-7s are sitting in pre-stage, with neither driver giving half an ounce of care to the other lane. Nobody is in a hurry to move, nobody is building boost. We don't know how long both cars truly sat, but we will get to see the last 1:26 of the action. The blue late-1980s machine was hotter than Hades and was smoking quite a bit, while the white first-gen closest to the camera seemed more or less unfazed. The white car's team wasn't too thrilled about him | 252 |
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Presenting 55 Radcliffe, commonly known as 24 Thomas. Circa 1872. Comprised of six individually deeded condominiums. Symmetrically designed w/ identical layouts. Many modern updates via the owner's tenure. Character-defining interiors. Over-sized front porches. Large corner lot. The building retains much of its early 20th century historic architectural character. Gated, secured, covered parking. 24 Thomas retains integrity of location, design, and contributes to the significance of the historic district. Steps to CofC, MUSC & the medical complexes, King and Broad streets, The Battery and more. 5/6 condos are rented. 1 condo is currently utilized by the owner. With a long track record of full occupancy and upward potential, 24 Thomas is the perfect real estate medium for savvy investors. The former buildings of 55 Radcliffe were demolished to make way for the impressive structure existing today. 24 Thomas is 6804 sqft and sits majestically on the corner of Radcliffe and Thomas streets. All condos run front to back. Built in 1931, this building is thought to have been fabricated for the city's new nursing school. Today after myriad updates, modernization and improvements the owner can monitor the property, secured parking, and streets from their phone. A secure building with years of dedicated management ensures its outstanding reputation. Interior period finishes have been preserved to include textured plaster wall finishes, wood picture rails and baseboards, transoms, mantelpieces, French doors at arched cased openings, and built-in cabinetry. This property exudes early 20th century design. While there have been extensive improvements to the building, the floor plans have gone largely without change. The front and back porches allow for cross breezes and convenient entry and exit points. Exterior finishes reminiscent of the era include: weatherboard siding, 6/1 wood sash windows, beaded board porch ceilings and exterior stairways, wood columns, and cast-iron railings. The rear East and South walls are constructed of hollow clay tiles, and the interior walls and ceiling are clad in beaded board. Superior cement tile roofing ensures true longevity and protection from the elements. Red-brick chimneys give way to multiple fire places - all are closed off. Most of the early wood and glass paneled exterior doors remain. 24 Thomas stands proudly in distinctive Radcliffeborough. Originally surveyed by Thomas Radcliffe in 1786, this downtown borough boasts historically significant architecture, gardens, ancient trees, and is known for its premier location. With nothing but growth on the horizon for the area, this prime property affords you the opportunity to invest in a building and city considered one of the darlings within the national real estate landscape. Steeped in history, this property offers its owner many options for enjoyment, real estate use and investment.
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Finally all the arrangements are checked and secured and we may publish the Notice of Race! All Formula and Raceboard riders are warmly welcome to the Surfcenter of Finnish Boardsailing Association in Yyteri, Pori! Yyteri has been organizing several international winds<|fim_middle|>1 The Championships will be organized by Finnish Boardsailing Association (Suomen Purjelautaliitto SPLL ry, FBA) with co-operation of Segelföreningen i Björneborg (BSF).
3.3 Conditions to be expected – winds 10-30 knots, water temperature 10-18 Celsius degrees, air temperature 15-27 C, waves normally 0-2,0 metres in July.
4.1 The 2017 – 2020 World Sailing Racing Rules of Sailing.
4.1.1 Formula Windsurfing Class Rules.
4.1.3 No National Authority prescriptions will apply.
4.2 If there is a conflict between the Notice of Race and the Sailing Instructions (SI's), the SI's shall take precedence.
4.3 If there is a conflict between languages the English text will take precedence.
5.1 ISAF Regulation 20 – Advertising Code – shall apply.
5.2 Competitors may be required to carry advertising for event sponsors – both on their sails, and on a lycra vest if supplied by the organizer.
6.1 Finnish competitors shall be members of a National Class Association.
7.1 The Entry Fee is as follows: € 90 (Junior participants € 70) paid on site.
7.2 The Entry Free includes: participation, the use of shower, sauna and toilet facilities at Surfcenter, lunch on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
8.1.1 The Championship shall be an "open entry" event.
8.1.2 There may be separate prizes for, Junior, Youth, Senior, Master, Grand Master, Women and Lightweight/ Heavyweight Men's divisions.
8.1.3 Men and women may race separately, depending on entry numbers.
8.1.4 The maximum "fleet size" shall be 100.
8.1.5 It will be 1 starting fleet for each class.
8.1.6 A competitor must have reached the minimum age limit, in the relevant division, by Dec. 31st 2016.
8.1.7 A competitor must not be older than the maximum age limit, in the relevant division, by Dec. 31st 2016.
8.1.8 Junior (C) is a boy or girl who is under the age of 17.
8.1.9 A Youth (D) shall be under the age of 20.
8.1.10 A Master (F) is a man who has reached the age of 35 or for a woman, 30.
9.2 The scheduled time of the warning signal for the first race each day is 10.55hrs, except the first day at 12.25hrs.
9.3 The racing schedule may be altered, and is governed by the SI's.
10.1 It is the responsibility of each competitor to ensure that his/her board and equipment conforms to its Class Rules, and an Equipment Registration Form is returned to the race office during registration.
10.2 Equipment checks may be made throughout the event.
10.3 Competitors shall bring their own equipment.
11.1 The Sailing Instructions will be available at registration.
12.1 Courses shall be as prescribed in the Sailing Instructions and will be posted on the official notice board on the day of racing.
14.1 Please note that each competitor has his/her own responsibility of storing and safekeeping of his/her equipment during the regatta.
The organizer takes no legal responsibility for damage or theft.
15.2 Medals/trophees shall be awarded to the first three competitors, in each class/division.
15.3 The first man and woman in the championship, shall be known as the Nordic Champion.
16.2 Personal buoyancy is mandatory for all competitors under the age of 18 years and all boat crew members.
16.3 Personal buoyancy may be set mandatory if weather conditions require it.
17.1 Competitors take part in all races at their own risk. The organiser, FBA or any of their officials or representatives or any sponsors or their officials or representatives are not responsible, under any circumstances, for any damage, loss or injury either ashore or on the water either to persons or equipment, which may result.
17.2 Participation in this event, supporting events and in each race in them is at the sole discretion of the sailor and at his/her own risk. Notice is drawn to RRS 4.
18.1 Competitors shall possess valid third party liability insurance with a minimum cover of 300,000 Euro. | urfing events and offers beautiful scenery for windsurfing with moderate winds and good services.
Kindly see the Notice of Race below. If any questions arise, please contact event organizer Sanna Päivärinta.
1.1 The Championships will be held from Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th July 2017.
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Andy Cohen Remembers Daisy Lewellyn's "Wonderful Spirit and Force of Life"
April 11, 2016, 10:43 AM ET
The #WWHL host paid tribute to the Blood, Sweat & Heels style expert.
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Andy's Tribute to Daisy Lewellyn
Following the news of Daisy Lewellyn's passing on Friday, Andy Cohen celebrated the Blood, Sweat & Heels style expert during Sunday's Watch What Happens Live. During his tribute to Daisy, Andy remembered her positivity in the face of adversity as she battled a rare form of cancer prior to her death.
"I've said before that Daisy lit up every room she<|fim_middle|> on social media. "We are devastated to learn that Daisy Lewellyn from Bravo's Blood, Sweat & Heels has passed away this morning after a battle with a rare form of Cancer. Daisy passed on in peace and filled with joy, surrounded by her family and friends. We are all saddened to lose this wonderful woman. Our thoughts and deepest sympathy are expressed," a Bravo spokesperson said in a statement.
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Andy shared that in the coming days Daisy's social pages will be updated with information on her foundation and how you can donate to the cause. "While we are heartbroken to lose her, Daisy's wonderful spirit and force of life is her legacy," he added.
On Friday, Andy as well as Daisy's Blood, Sweat & Heels friends remembered her | 98 |
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Terrorist acts occur at random and unpredictably, making it impossible to protect yourself absolutely. The first and best protection is to avoid travel to unsafe areas where there has been a persistent record of terrorist attacks or kidnapping. The vast majority of foreign states have good records of maintaining public order and protecting residents and visitors within their borders from terrorism.
Most terrorist attacks are the result of long and careful planning. Just as a car thief will first be attracted to an unlocked car with the key in the ignition, terrorists are looking for defenseless, easily accessible targets that follow predictable patterns. The chances that a tourist, traveling with<|fim_middle|>, dress and behavior that may identify you as an American.
Keep an eye out for suspicious abandoned packages or briefcases. Report them to airport security or other authorities and leave the area promptly.
Avoid obvious terrorist targets such as places where Americans and Westerners are known to congregate.
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© 2019 Spanish American Institute of International Education - SAIIE. Página web - Web Design | an unpublished program or itinerary, would be the victim of terrorism are slight. In addition, many terrorist groups, seeking publicity for political causes within their own country or region, may not be looking for American targets.
Nevertheless, the following pointers may help you avoid becoming a target of opportunity. They should be considered as adjuncts to the tips listed in the previous sections on how to protect yourself against the far greater likelihood of being a victim of crime. These precautions may provide some degree of protection, and can serve as practical and psychological deterrents to would-be terrorists.
Schedule direct flights if possible and avoid stops in high-risk airports or areas. Consider other options for travel, such as trains.
Be aware of what you discuss with strangers or what may be overheard by others.
Try to minimize the time spent in the public area of an airport, which is a less protected area. Move quickly from the check-in counter to the secured areas. On arrival, leave the airport as soon as possible.
As much as possible, avoid luggage tags | 206 |
Cameron Mitchell Restaurants' Newest Concept Opens in Grandview
Cameron Mitchell Restaurants is celebrating the grand opening of its 15th restaurant concept in Columbus, Ohio, on February 1. The Avenue Steak Tavern (The Avenue) is located in the heart of Grandview at 1307 Grandview Avenue.
"We're thrilled to be opening The Avenue in Grandview's historic Bank Block neighborhood and believe it's truly a classically designed, timeless and approachable all-occasion steak tavern," says David Miller, executive vice president, Cameron Mitchell Restaurants. "The Avenue has a refined menu of fine steaks and tavern fare and is a place where everything is familiar and 'old school,' reminiscent of good times when life was less complicated, not so busy and more fun."
The Avenue will offer guests mouthwatering appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches, seafood, and steaks. Executive Chef Jeff Lindemeyer, along with the CMR culinary development team, has created a dinner menu with signature dishes that include: Veal Milanese; Steak Frites; Sautéed Branzino; Twin Lobster Tails; Filet Mignon; New York Strip; Prime Top Sirloin; Colorado Lamb Chops.
A carefully selected collection of Old and New World Wines will be featured at The Avenue, as well as classically inspired cocktails, including:Sloe Tom Collins (Plymouth Dry and Sloe gin, fresh raspberries,<|fim_middle|> most vibrant areas and has long needed a neighborhood steakhouse—our team is more than excited to bring this exquisite menu to guests," said Kristen Luff, The Avenue's general manager.
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The Avenue encompasses a 4,830-square foot space and will accommodate 100 guests in the dining room, 35 in the bar area, and 24 on the patio. The Avenue also features a semi-private dining area with seating for up to six people. Although not open for lunch, the dining area is available for reserved luncheons for up to 100 guests between 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. at The Avenue.
"Grandview is one of Columbus' | 205 |
Hands down, autumn is my favorite season. And I'm fairly certain October is the most perfect month. I love the rich, bold, warm colors of fall. The landscape comes alive like a wildfire, and my heart catches some of the sparks. Bright blue chilly skies contrast the golden hues. The temperature is just right... Sweater-weather.
Cinnamon and cloves and all things pumpkin dance through the crisp air. Autumn just smells warm and inviting. Like homebaked apple pie. Gingerbread latte. Chai tea. Chicken tortilla soup<|fim_middle|> alive in the process of dying. Leaves fall. Days grow shorter. The dark, overcast, cold days of winter are slowly creeping upon us. But the trees don't surrender without a statement.
Even in the dying—of dreams, of hopes, of relationships, of seasons—there is still beauty. There is beauty in the brokenness. In the transition. In the change.
The new life of spring actually begins with the dying leaves of autumn.
And the leaves' final shout of stunning color helps me to never forget. | .
But mostly, I love autumn for its symbolism. The vibrant colors come | 15 |
NYC to spend billions to cut greenhouse gases
By Joan Gralla
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City will spend $2.3 billion to cut greenhouse gas emissions from municipal buildings and operations by 30 percent in 30 years, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday.
A couple sit below the Brooklyn Bridge in New York May 21, 2008. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
The city aims to cut 1.68 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents a year from 2006 levels by 2017, with measures ranging from improved heating and cooling systems to fixing methane leaks at water treatment plants and using that gas to run electric generation equipment.
"The city is doing its part, I hope the private sector follows our example and finds conservation savings of their own," Bloomberg said in a statement. The city's government consumes about 6.5 percent of the city's total energy use, and 10 percent of its peak electricity demand.
"It's a cost that, as we know, is likely to grow as energy prices never seem to stop climbing," Bloomberg said at a news conference, saying he believes the city can achieve the results with existing technology.
Bloomberg said the city should break even on its investments, on an annual cash flow basis, by 2013.
"By 2015, we project we will have saved more on our energy bills than we will have spent on all our planned investments to that point," Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler said.
The program will partly be funded with 10 percent of the city's energy budget -- about $100 million in the current fiscal year.
Improved heating, cooling and ventilation systems in city buildings will be used to accomplish 57 percent of the total reductions, Bloomberg said in a statement.
Emissions at firehouses, police precincts, offices, court houses and sanitation garages will also be reduced via repairs<|fim_middle|> series of green proposals to manage the city's expected growth in the next few decades. His best-known proposal, a program to fight gridlock by imposing fees on drivers during peak hours in parts of Manhattan, was killed by the state legislature.
Noting the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state agency that runs the subways, buses and commuter trains, faces shortfalls in its capital and operating budgets, Bloomberg said he was still optimistic the state will enact "an economic disincentive" for drivers that will pay for mass transit.
Editing by Leslie Adler | , ranging from leaky pipes and broken windows to inefficient pumps, along with correcting wasteful systems.
Another 17 percent of the reductions will come at water plants that treat sewage and storm water runoff, by fixing methane leaks and using that gas to run electric generation equipment.
Other steps include buying more vehicles that get better gas mileage. And Bloomberg, who jests with reporters about replacing the light bulbs at his Upper East Side townhouse with more efficient ones, plans to do the same with street lights.
Asked how much he could accomplish before his second and last four-year term ends, Bloomberg noted he only had 542 days left to serve.
"You'll be living here, you'll be breathing the air, and it'll be your children who will suffer. If you believe this is the right way to go, you'll have to pressure whoever so they continue on."
New York City has already committed $900 million for the program and it spent $80 million in its previous budget. The mayor also hopes to tap federal and state dollars, private foundations and so-called energy performance contracts.
The program puts in place one of the independent mayor's so-called PlaNYC initiatives, a | 242 |
In the name of our whole team,<|fim_middle|> include tax and are subject to change. | we welcome you happily to the Eliza Thompson House. Our hotel offers plenty of parking spots for its guests. All our guests enjoy the free newspaper delivered on a daily basis. Access to the WiFi connection is available from the public areas in the hotel. Make yourself at home Our impressive lobby will start your trip off right. Where you will stay Features, for example air-conditioning, are part of your hotel room. Cable TV is standard in our hotel's homy rooms. Our hotel provides its guests a TV (pay) that is present in all the rooms. As a courtesy The hotel features an easy-to-use phone in all the hotel rooms for you to keep in contact with your loved ones. Our visitors are provided with DVD-players in their rooms. You can comfortably get ready in the morning thanks to the hotel's bathrooms that include a shower and a hair-dryer. There are also complimentary bathrobes featured in the bathrooms. Know Before You Go: Set meals are served in guestrooms only (no menus or public dining). Fees: The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out. Self parking fee: USD 14 per day The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not | 256 |
By the time a nonfiction picture book of mine is<|fim_middle|> Book Nominees for the North Carolina Children's Book Award, just a year after Whoosh! was included on the same list.
And the book has been honored with a nomination for the 2018-2019 Crown Award from the Brackett Library at Harding University and the National Christian School Association, as well as a spot on the Lectio Book Award Master List 2018-2019.
[B]y and large, nonfiction has changed so much from my own childhood—when the norm was text-heavy books with small, black-and-white photos or illustrations. So in some ways, I would say I'm now making the type of books I wish I'd had when I was a child. | published, I've already moved on to researching and writing other projects, and by the time that book has had a chance to make much of an impression on readers, there's all the more distance between it and me. One result of that remove is that the arrival of any good news about that book is a pleasantly surprising blast from the past.
The Bank Street College of Education has named the book to its list of The Best Children's Books of the Year, 2018 Edition. Specifically, it's on the list for ages Nine to Twelve, under the History heading.
Read On Wisconsin, a statewide literacy program operated by the Cooperative Children's Book Center, has included Dazzle Ships among its Intermediate (Grades 3-5) books for 2018-19.
Dazzle Ships has also been announced as one of the 2018-19 Junior | 183 |
Having excelled as a call center manager and sales representative in a highly competitive marketplace for more than<|fim_middle|> capacity, she was responsible for maintaining and expanding an existing client base that represented more than 4.4M in revenue, in addition to charting the direction of strategic sales initiatives for major accounts. | 15 years, Brigitte Beaudoin now applies her comprehensive knowledge of sales to the recruitment of sales professionals. Prior to assuming her current position at Sirius Personnel, Ms. Beaudoin was an Executive Search Specialist for Nexa Recruitment, where from 2004 until 2006 she focused exclusively on the recruitment of sales professionals, IT professionals and management personnel for clients in the field of information technology.
Ms. Beaudoin's long and varied career in sales includes tenures as a call center manager and sales representative at Allstream, Cantel/AT&T and Hydro Québec. Having started out at Allstream as a sales representative in 1998, Ms. Beaudoin consistently surpassed very demanding sales targets. She was named to the company's President's Club she also received numerous monthly awards as the company's top sales representative. Ultimately, Ms. Beaudoin was promoted to Client Business Manager, Named Accounts, a position she held until 2004. In this | 206 |
The Lennox Bridge, Glenbrook is a heritage-listed road bridge that carries the Mitchell's Pass across Brookside Creek (also known as Lapstone Creek), located at Glenbrook, in the City of Blue Mountains local government area of New South Wales, Australia. The bridge was designed by David Lennox and built from 1832 to 1833 by James Randall and other convicts. It is also known as Lennox Bridge or The Horseshoe Bridge. The property is owned by Blue Mountains City Council. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The stone arch bridge is a single arch of span and is above water level, with a road width of .
History
The first road up the eastern slopes of the Blue Mountains, built by William Cox (1814–15), was in Governor Macquarie's words "pretty steep and sharp" and was found to be subject to serious washways. This road was superseded in 1824 by what was known as the Bathurst Road (now Old Bathurst Road). It avoided watercourses, but its grade was very steep and this rendered it hazardous to travellers. When Major Thomas Mitchell was appointed as Surveyor General in 1828, one of the first matters to which he turned his attention was the improvement of the Great Western Road. Mitchell's attention was focussed on providing a more direct and easily graded route for the Great Western Road. Mitchell surveyed and recommended the construction of a road along this route midway between the other two in preference to the Governor's suggestion of stationing a permanent repair gang on the Old Bathurst Road.
And on 1 October 1832, only seven weeks after his arrival in the colony, Lennox was appointed (subject to London's confirmation) Sub-Inspector of Bridges in New South Wales. His first task was to plan and organise the spanning of Lapstone Creek on Mitchell's Pass. By early November 1832, he and his selected twenty convicts; with suitable experience had opened a quarry near the creek, had cut a number of stone blocks and were ready to start building operations. The design called for a horseshoe shape to give optimum strength.
By March 1833, the experimental bridge was so far advanced that Mitchell had to decide what should be carved on the keystones. He agreed that on the upstream side (the south side), the inscription should commemorate the man he had chosen so percipiently, so the masons carved "DAVID LENNOX", while on the north side they carved "AD 1833". There has been weathering on the south side but the AD1833 stone is still in very good condition.
Lennox Bridge, opened in 1833, is the oldest surviving stone arch bridge on the Australian mainland. It crosses Brookside Creek (also known as Lapstone Creek) on the road known as Mitchell's Pass. It replaced an earlier crossing of the creek further south, which today survives as a walking track. A nearby quarry is thought to<|fim_middle|> one hundred and seventy years of traffic and one major restoration still stands stable. The bridge is a very fine example of the work of David Lennox and represents the first scientifically constructed stone arched bridge of its magnitude In Australia.
The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.
Lennox Bridge is exceptionally rare. No other bridges of similar age or design have survived on the Australian mainland.
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales.
Lennox Bridge is the oldest scientifically constructed stone arch bridge on the Australian mainland. Having gained his bridge construction experience before arriving in the colony it is highly representative of the techniques used to construct stone bridges at the time in England.
Engineering heritage award
The bridge received a Historic Engineering Marker from Engineers Australia as part of its Engineering Heritage Recognition Program.
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Recipients of Engineers Australia engineering heritage markers | have been created for the purpose of providing stone for the bridge.
A small crack appeared beside the arch but Lennox advised against taking any remedial action. The bridge remained very robust and carried increasingly heavy traffic as the Great Road to the west became busier. The success of the railway after 1867 diverted much transport business away from the road until the twentieth century and advent of the motor vehicle. Mitchell's Pass began to bear more traffic than was comfortable for Lenox Bridge, although the conversion of Knapsack Viaduct from a trail line to a road bridge in 1926 opened a new road route up the Monocline and at last diverted much of the traffic from Mitchell's Pass.
Mitchell's Pass continued to be used, however, and by 1975 it was plain that substantial works were necessary to secure the safety of Lennox Bridge. Restoration works took place in 1976. The bridge served the main route to the Blue Mountains for 93 years until 1926, when the Great Western Highway was re-routed via the Knapsack Viaduct. It was closed in 1967 but later strengthened and repaired with an internal concrete structure and it re-opened in 1982.
Description
Lennox Bridge spans the deep gully of Lapstone Creek at the head of the steepest part of Mitchell's Pass. The foundations are on bedrock, with the water running through a channel cut by Lennox's convicts in the bed of the creek. The bridge is quite small, with a span of only . The single arch is built of ashlared stone blocks mortared together. The arch on the south side has a keystone bearing the inscription "DAVID LENNOX", on the north side, "AD 1833", the packing of the bridge to either hand of the main ashlared section is of coursed rubble revetments, making the total length of the bridge carriageway of almost . The stone parapets are laid above a projecting plinth which begins just above the keystones. The area between the curve of the arch and the horizontal carriageway was packed with small rubble stone.
There was originally a damp-proof lime-mortar course above the vaulting, but this, together with most of the packing, was removed when the bridge was stripped back to the arch in 1976. During these repairs new concrete supports were inserted to bear the weight of a new carriageway utilising steel girders to take the traffic then still using Mitchell's Pass. These changes arc not visible, but the insertion of new blocks of stone and repairs to existing blocks on the main arch are legible. The original stone-cut channel for the creek still exists but is obscured by a concrete channel poured within Lennox's work during the 1976 repairs. Since Mitchell's Pass ceased to take the heavy traffic over the Blue Mountains, via the former Knapsack Railway Viaduct, the road is now one-way only downhill from Lennox Bridge and the traffic is largely for tourist purposes. There is a small amount of car-parking space beside the bridge and a concrete stairwell and path down to the creek on the west side. The visitor can safely walk under the bridge obtain the most attractive views.
Condition
As at 28 November 2013, the physical condition was good. The bridge retains a high degree of original fabric. 1976 restorations do not detract from the significance of the built heritage item.
Modifications and dates
The road was closed, the carriageway removed and the bridge stripped down to its bare stone arch in 1976. The Department of Main Roads decided that the stress had to be removed from the original arch and reconstructed the carriageway so that it was supported on two new concrete walls and borne on horizontal steel girders. With other repairs to the stonework and to the channel for the creek under the bridge, the road was reopened in 1976 with the new work largely concealed from view. With much reduced traffic flow and the road to the plains from the bridge made one-way only (downhill), the Lennox Bridge continues to serve as the oldest stone bridge on the Australian Mainland.
Heritage listing
As at 28 November 2013, Lennox Bridge was the oldest stone bridge on the Australian mainland. It commands significance respect as the design of a newly arrived Scottish stone-mason, David Lennox, handpicked by the percipient Surveyor General Thomas Mitchell and as the work of some twenty diligent, efficient, tightly supervised and technically able convicts. It was a necessary part of the road communications between Sydney and the West for over a century and proved remarkably durable. Its historical significance is augmented by its aesthetic and technical values. The original bridge, on a horseshoe curve, was daring, experimental and remarkably attractive; despite significant restoration work in 1976 the structure has retained a high degree of its original fabric and is in good condition. The work did not detracted from the aesthetic and technical values inherit in the design and fabric of the bridge. It has State Significance as the oldest bridge permitting vehicle transport on a route essential to the state's development.
Lennox Bridge, Blaxland was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place is important in demonstrating the course, or pattern, of cultural or natural history in New South Wales.
Lennox Bridge is the oldest stone bridge on the Australian mainland. It commands respect as the design of a newly arrived Scottish stone-mason handpicked by the percipient Surveyor General Thomas Mitchell and as the work of some twenty diligent, efficient, tightly supervised and technically able convicts. It was necessary part of the road communications between Sydney and the West for over a century and proved remarkably durable. It has State significance as the oldest bridge permitting vehicle transport on a route essential to the state's development.
The place has a strong or special association with a person, or group of persons, of importance of cultural or natural history of New South Wales's history.
David Lennox was born at Ayr, in Scotland in 1788. At forty-five years of age Lennox began service under Major Mitchell. Prior to arriving in the Colony he had spent seventeen years on public works executed at the expense of the British Government. During this time he constructed a number of wooden bridges associated with the Gloucester-Berkeley Canal and a stone bridge near Gloucester. In 1832, two years after the death of his wife, Lennox arrived on the Colony on the Florentia. Not long after his arrival, he was discovered by Major Mitchell. On 1 October 1832, following the review of his credentials, Lennox was appointed to the Roads Department as the Sub-Inspector of Bridges. Within six weeks of his appointment Lennox and his men had cut most of the stone and procured lime for mortar. By July 1833, the bridge was complete. The success of Lennox's design is demonstrated through its on-going stability and continued use. Major restoration and safety improvement work was not required until the 1950s.
Lennox Bridge is also associated with at least twenty convicts, an overseer, a constable and an armed sentry that worked on the site between October 1832 and July 1833, the construction gang worked from 7am to 4pm, when they returned to their stockade at Emu Plains. The work involved stone cutting and setting, carpentry and masonry required to construct the bridge. Following completion of the bridge Lennox requested to retain the: services of eight convicts: William Brady, John Carsons, Robert Hyams, John Johnson, Patrick Malowney (Maloney), Thomas Nelson, James Randall and Daniel Williams. The sentences of six of the eight convicts were remitted. The remaining two were reduced after a further six months of work.
The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales.
The original bridge, on a horse-shoe curve, was daring, experimental and remarkably attractive, The stonework has been restored some infelicities have been allowed on the revetment and the changes made in 1976 by introducing concrete to the stone-cut water channel beneath the bridge are unpleasing but David Lennox's concept for the bridge of a very pretty small gorge remains aesthetically pleasing.
The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.
The bridge was carried on a single semi-circular stone arch of ten feet radius. The roadway was thirty feet wide at the crown of the arch and the same height above the bed or the gully. After bearing over | 1,849 |
Q: Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) Coefficient Distribution I have two images :
Original Image
Binarized Image
I have applied Discrete Cosine Transform to the two images by dividing the 256x256 image into 8x8 blocks. After, I want to compare their DCT Coefficient Distributions.
import matplotlib.mlab as mlab
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.pylab as pylab
import numpy as np
import os.path
import scipy
import statistics
from numpy import pi
from numpy import sin
from numpy import zeros
from numpy import r_
from PIL import Image
from scipy.fftpack import fft, dct
from scipy import signal
from scipy import misc
if __name__ == '__main__':
image_counter = 1
#Opens the noisy image.
noise_image_path = 'noise_images/' + str(image_counter) + '.png'
noise_image = Image.open(noise_image_path)
# Opens the binarize image
ground_truth_image_path = 'ground_truth_noise_patches/' + str(image_counter) + '.png'
ground_truth_image = Image.open( ground_truth_image_path)
#Converts the images into Ndarray
noise_image = np.array(noise_image)
ground_truth_image = np.array(ground_truth_image)
#Create variables `noise_dct_data` and `ground_truth_dct_data` where the DCT coefficients of the two images will be stored.
noise_image_size = noise_image.shape
noise_dct_data = np.zeros(noise_image_size)
ground_truth_image_size = ground_truth_image.shape
ground_truth_dct_data = np.zeros(ground_truth_image_size)
for i in r_[:noise_image_size[0]:8]:
for j in r_[:noise_image_size[1]:8]:
# Apply DCT to the two images every 8x8 block of it.
noise_dct_data[i:(i+8),j:(j+8)] = dct(noise_image[i:(i+8),j:(j+8)])
# Apply DCT to the binarize image every 8x8 block of it.
ground_truth_dct_data[i:(i+8),j:(j+8)] = dct(ground_truth_image[i:(i+8),j:(j+8)])
The above code gets the DCT of the two images. I want to create their DCT Coefficient Distribution just like the image below:
The thing is I dont know how to plot it. Below is what I did:
#Convert 2D array to 1D array
noise_dct_data = noise_dct_data.ravel()
ground_truth_dct_data = ground_truth_dct_data.ravel()
#I just used a Histogram!
n, bins, patches = plt.hist(ground_truth_dct_data, 2000, facecolor='blue', alpha=0.5)
plt.show()
n, bins, patches = plt.hist(noise_dct_data, 2000, facecolor='blue', alpha=0.5)
plt.show()
image_counter = image_counter + 1
My questions are:
*
*What does the X and Y-axis in the figure represents?
*Are the value stored in noise_dct_data and ground_truth_dct_data, the DCT coefficients?
*Does the Y-axis represents the frequncy of<|fim_middle|>" distribution of data behind the noisy observed data.
2. Are the value stored in noise_dct_data and ground_truth_dct_data, the DCT coefficients?
Based on the way you've set up your code, yes, those variables stored the result of the DCT transformations you do.
3. Does the Y-axis represents the frequency of its corresponding DCT coefficients?
Yes, but with smoothing. Analogous to a histogram but not exactly the same.
4. Is the histogram appropriate to represent the DCT coefficient distribution?
It depends on the number of observations but, if you have enough data, a histogram should give you very similar results.
5. The DCT coefficients are normally classified into three sub-bands based on their frequencies, namely low, middle and high frequency-bands. What is the threshold value we can use to classify a DCT Coefficient in low, middle or high frequency band? In other words, how can we classify the DCT coefficient frequency bands radially?
I think this question is possibly too complicated to answer satisfactorily on stack, but my advice here to is try and figure out how the authors of the article did this task. The cited article, "Blind Image Quality Assessment: A Natural Scene Statistics Approach in the DCT Domain" appears to be talking about a Radial Basis Function (RBF), but this looks like a way of training a supervised model on the frequency data to predict the overall quality of the scan.
Regarding data partitions, they state, "In order to capture directional information from the local image patches, the DCT block is partitioned directionally. ... The upper, middle, and lower partitions correspond to the low-frequency, mid-frequency, and high-frequency DCT subbands, respectively."
I take this to me that, in at least one of their scenarios, the partitions are determined by a Subband DCT. (See https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/499836) There appears to be a great deal of literature on these types of approaches.
| its corresponding DCT coefficients?
*Is the histogram appropriate to represent the DCT coefficient distribution.
*The DCT coefficients are normally classified into three sub-bands based on their frequencies, namely low, middle and high frequency-bands. What is the threshold value we can use to classify a DCT Coefficient in low, middle or high frequency band? In other words, how can we classify the DCT coefficient frequency bands radially? Below is an example of the radial classification of the DCT coefficient frequency bands.
The idea is based from the paper : Noise Characterization in Ancient Document Images Based on DCT Coefficient Distribution
A: The plot example you shared looks, to me, like a kernel density plot. A density plot "a variation of a Histogram that uses kernel smoothing to plot values, allowing for smoother distributions by smoothing out the noise." (See https://datavizcatalogue.com/methods/density_plot.html)
The seaborn library, which is built on top of matplotlib, has a kdeplot function, and it can handle two sets of data. Here's a toy example:
import numpy as np
from scipy.fftpack import dct
import seaborn
sample1 = dct(np.random.rand(100))
sample2 = dct(np.random.rand(30))
seaborn.kdeplot(sample1, color="r")
seaborn.kdeplot(sample2, color="b")
Note that rerunning this code will produce a slightly different image, as I'm using randomly generated data.
To answer your numbered questions directly:
1. What do the X- and Y-axes in the figure represent?
In a kdeplot, the X axis represents the density, and the y axis represents the number of observations with those values. Unlike a histogram, it applies a smoothing method to try and estimate a "true | 378 |
Bread, bulldogs and great balls of wool. Otherwise known as Stephen.
"What kind of bread do you make?" he asked.
I don't know how to answer this question. What's the elevator pitch for what I do? I make the kind of bread that helps me stay sane? Something, something, sourdough and naturally leavened?
More often then not, I make the same few types of bread. Sesame seed because Chris likes it. Seedy rye guys in Pullman pans because I love how soulful they turn out with such minimal work. Brown rice or a porridge loaf when I get my act together and plan a few days ahead. The same goes for any bread experiments that come out of Tartine No. 3 and whatever ingredients I had the good sense to buy ahead of time. Or on the occasion I have crowds to please, it's toasted walnut or black pepper Parmesan.
I like to think that I'm wildly diverse, well-read, frequently milling new grains in my ever-broadening quest to eat and learn. Not yet. I also keep too much knowledge in my head and don't document my bakes beyond Instagram. A good product comes out of my over more often than not, but I blame my execution a few techniques, not necessarily mastery or knowledge. Within the narrow swath of my home-baking experience (mostly four books, a few San Francisco Baking Institute classes, and many more unread books), there's about seven or eight years of repetition.
The question is especially difficult<|fim_middle|> into my life as a weekly practice over the past seven-ish years. It has been a fun pursuit, a hungry curiosity to explore what was possible from my own two hands. Bread humbles, inspires, comforts, and nourishes. And it's something I just keep doing. It has drawn me closer to friends and connected me with strangers around the world. Somewhere along the way, it has reassured me that I'm OK—no, more than OK—pretty darn good at it, and, more importantly, really good at being me.
I've spent four decades loving eating the stuff. I plan on spending another four making it. And, with a little discipline, I'm going to do my darndest to type about it here every now and then. | to answer when it comes from a baker I respect. He is Earl of Earl's Bread and went from his home oven to a stand at a farmer's market he helped start to baking bagels out of the ovens at All Good Pizza. I had just met him, as we were both at the preview of the new Butchertown Gourmet, a bread bakery and wine tasting room, started by Xan of Fox and Lion Bread. (It was my first time meeting her in person, despite being connected on social media and by different people. These two bread-trepeneurs have inspired me as I consider getting my cottage license and making my bread (aka, DOUGHTOWN into a legitimate business.
I haven't yet figure out my bread point of view. What do I want to offer into the world? Do I need a signature or a take? Does it have to be planned out? Can it keep being all over the place like it was at my old office (who are still begging me to drop bread off there)?
Maybe not planned out, but a little organization could help. I could commit to baking a certain number of loaves on Sundays. I could pre-plan the bakes and send out a newsletter on Wednesdays to announce what's coming. Depending on who wants what, those that aren't going to be picked up at my house would be dropped off during the wee hours on Monday. I should probably be a little more formal in the size of my loaves (pre-bake), maybe even scale them back from their current size.
If I had to distill my personal philosophy or a truth that I've gleaned thus far, it would be "It just takes doing." It's true of baking, running, writing, drawing, reading, knitting or simply being a friend.
Yesterday, I chopped pounds of leeks, shallots, onions, carrots, fennel, celery root and herbs as brown rice bread baked. My soup and leek fritters weren't going to exist if I didn't grab that knife. Same with bread—a series of steps have to occur to rouse the starter from the fridge, build and develop the dough, divide and shape the loaves before shoving it into the oven for its final transformation. Dinner was fantastic, but, more importantly, it existed. The work was the getting there.
Yet, it's so easy to forget. Too often I am lost in a fog of yearning for how things (or I) used to be, or whining about an allegedly unobtainable ideal or achievement. There's no awareness that the path is right there. Granted, I may never be able to create EVERYthing I desire, but I can move in that direction.
Danny Gregory's post this morning (below) drove this home for me… especially as someone who gets mired in self-judgement and tends to look backwards at old accomplishments and fantasizes about future ones, but forgets to be active in the now.
If you haven't gone to the gym in a long time, how do you start again?
If you haven't done a drawing in a long time, how do you start again?
If you haven't written a blog post in a long time …. how do you start again?
You start by starting. By picking up a pen, a dumbbell, and getting to work. There is no magic trick, there is no massive process for preparation. There is simply the active of sitting down at the computer, opening a new document, and starting to type. It may seem painful, it may seem scary, but all that misery goes away as the first letters march onto the screen.
I look forward to creating something new here each week. Sometimes the content is quick and fast, other times deeper. It's not something I've come to think of as a chore, or something I feel obligated to do to sustain a readership. I come at it each week with positivity. And it's this aspect that seems to genuinely surprise some people. Which, in turn, surprises me.
Here's how I approach this site, and have for a long time. I think of it as my practice. It's something I'm committed to, and look forward to being committed to for years to come. Contributing something new each week helps me develop in areas that I find important creatively – cooking, writing, taking photographs – and the only way I'm able to grow is through experience, experimentation, and regular practice.
The lazy writer starts his post—nay, his entire new blog—with someone else's quote. However, there's nothing lazy about Heidi or the sentiment she's expressing. An intentional quest for personal growth and the vulnerable act of creation are two things that have been missing from my life.
It's been all too easy to sit on my duff and point at the rest of the world, coveting the inspiration I find in my friends' projects. Why can't that be mine? I whine. I ought to knit-read-draw-run-design-write-yoga-bake-make more. So much of my perspective has been grounded in the false belief that I need to prove something, or overcome the great flaw that is who I am. Why can't you be better, Stephen?
Without planning it be a "thing," baking bread snuck | 1,083 |
A DEEP, BIBILICAL LOOK AT JESUS CHRIST ALL ARE VERY WELCOME!!!
The better we understand Jesus, the better we understand ourselves. But who was Jesus, this itinerant preacher whom many called the Messiah? In Priest, Prophet, King, you'll discover Jesus as the Anointed One–the<|fim_middle|> and sought to rid the Hebrews of false worship and bring them into obedience to the established covenants. Bishop Barron sees Elijah as the archetype of a prophet, especially in his challenging encounter with and triumph over the priests of Baal, a false, but greatly feared, god.
Until the Fall, Adam, the first priest, walked in easy fellowship with God in the Garden of Eden, in adoratio. The root of "adoration," adoratio means "face to face" and describes the vocation of a priest, living in communion with God and seeking to intercede for the people through sacrifice. Through our Baptism, we are also called to be priests, not ordained, but living in communion with God and seeking to draw others to him through our sacrifices of love. | ultimate priest, prophet, and king foreshadowed throughout the Hebrew Scriptures. Using biblical insights and engaging stories, Bishop Barron affirms that we see Jesus most clearly through the lens of the Old Testament.
The kingdom of God is the very presence of God among men. Jesus is the perfect King because he is, in his very person, the Kingdom. All true kingship rests on order and rule, and is based on truth, not only on authority. The kingship of God flows from the truth about the nature of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Those who enter into the kingdom of God enter into the divine life of the Triune God; they are filled with the power and love of God, able to serve just as the Son of God came to serve. The laity especially fulfil their work of kingship in Christ within the spheres of marriage and family life, the development of culture, socio-economics, public and political service, and international peace.
David, the greatest Old Testament king who foreshadowed Christ and was also his ancestor, ruled the Israelite kingdom according to God's purposes. He was chosen by God and sought to bring glory to God by leading his people justly and according to God's will. David understood that a true king was first and foremost a servant of God, sacrificing his desires and aspirations for the good of the people and the kingdom.
With the Incarnation, the actual Word of God became man and lived among us. Far exceeding the messages from the prophets, Jesus Christ is the Word or logos (mind) of God in the flesh. He is the full revelation of God and so his every word and action transmits the thoughts and desires of the one, true God. He orders all to himself and is the "way and the truth and the life" because of his divine nature.
The prophet speaks the word of God, dispelling falsehood and encouraging all who hear to worship and obey the one, true God. False worship is at the root of all sin. The prophets of the Old Testament proclaimed God's word | 419 |
"Praise be Jesus Christ. Now and Forever."
From the Desk of Father Ed….
Praise be Jesus Christ now and forever!
No one ever followed Jesus because of promises of comfort<|fim_middle|> challenges, is compassionate and consoles.
We pray that our parish family will always be blessed with those who have responded to the call to share in Christ's prophetic mission as catechists. May we too be open to the universal call to service that Christ addresses to all of his disciples, contributing our gifts to the communion of faith, the Church. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.
May you have a good week and may God bless you and keep you always in His love!
This entry was posted in Scripture Reflections by Father Ed. Bookmark the permalink. | , pleasure or money, right? But each of us HAS denied ourselves, given up money or time to do something good for another person. When we love someone, we often live lives of denial taking care of them—raising children, caring for elder parents. This is what Jesus speaks of when he asks us to say "yes" to God's ways, and God's will.
But we can't "walk the walk" without the support of friendships and our community. Alone, we know we can't do much—and it's not as much fun either. In short, we need each other's faith.
O God, our Heavenly Father, you have given us the gift of our catechists to be heralds of the Gospel to our parish family. We lift them up to you in thanksgiving and intercede for them concerning their hopes and needs.
May we be attentive to the presence of your Word in them, a Word that lifts up and affirms, calls forth and | 198 |
Home/News/High turnover for high school sport referees
High turnover for high school sport referees
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High school football season opened in Iowa with nearly 170 games<|fim_middle|>
Emergency Preparedness Month upon us | last weekend, and parents, students and other fans are being reminded to behave responsibly. Chris Cuellar, a spokesman for the Iowa High School Athletic Association, says there's a high turnover rate for athletic directors, coaches and especially for game officials like referees.
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The Boone-based association is issuing guidelines for fans who are heading to the athletic events, with the first rule being: Act your age.
The second guideline reminds parents not to live their lives vicariously through their kids.
There are about 80-thousand boys taking part in Iowa high school sports every year and some parents put a great amount of pressure on their sons to win a college scholarship. Cuellar reminds, that's not what participating in a school sport is supposed to be about.
The main message he offers to sports fans is — be respectful and considerate.
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Carter Melrose
Carter bullied his way onto the KCHA radio waves after spending 4 years at the University of Iowa as a studying journalist. He writes news, short stories, features, but more than anything, he has a proclivity to wax philosophically.
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Gambling on Football Games. Football is an interesting sports game which is offered at the gambling casino site. The game itself is usually played with eleven players each on either side. Players have been able to make money by gambling on this famous sports game that is common in most of the online casino site. The game is played nearly every day thus the players are assured of the availability of the games at the sport betting sites to play in order to make money on a daily basis. Placing the bets on this game is somehow simple but for the players to play it successfully they are required to have knowledge about the team they are betting on and the advantage of several types of betting to be used in gambling. Some of the betting options used in football betting are very easy thus advantage to the players.
Handicap; this is the type of football betting in which the teams that are favoured to win the game are assigned with some negative goals prior to the start of the game. For example, a game can be assigned -3 before the<|fim_middle|> will have to see the net of the opponent. If the game ended without a score, the player will lose his or her bet. Taking an example Manchester playing against Liverpool in English premier league if the two teams score against each other in that particular match the player who decided to place such a bet will have to win it. | game started. Players betting on such a team will have to be paid their money if the team will have the capability of scoring goals that will have to cover the spread if they were to be awarded a prize at the casino.
Total full-time; here the player will have to predict if the game will have an end when the goals scored between the two teams is over a certain value or under that particular value. The value is always offered by trusted soccer site.
Total half time; players also have the option of placing their bets predicting the totals that will have been scored at the end of half time mark.
Money line bet; the players also have the option of predicting whether the games will have to end when the home team is the winner, away team being the winner or the game would end in a draw outcome.
Double chance; double chance is one of the easiest gambling bet on football where the players are required to choose two outcomes in one bet. Home/away imply that either home team or away team would win the game if the home team wins the match the gambler is paid off the money likewise if the away team wins the game the player will be awarded the prize. Home/draw under this bet the player will have to be awarded the prize if the home team wins the game or if the game ended in a draw. Away/draw the player predict that the game will end either with the away team being the winner or draw.
Correct score; this bet is a little bit hard to predict but the odds of such a bet are very high which would result in the players being paid a lot of money. Here the players are supposed to make a prediction about the actual score that is expected in the game. If the player predicts the game to end 1-1 and it ends 2-2 it will have to result in player losing his or her bet.
Both teams to score; this is another bet that is familiar in a football game. Here the player predicts that both the teams playing | 402 |
Kamloops Appliances Advice: Which Dishwasher Suits Your Lifestyle?
Kamloops appliances stores will be hard pressed to match the selection of high-end dishwashers available at Genier's in Vernon.
After every home-cooked meal comes the inevitable (and unenviable) task of cleaning up. Whether it's mac and cheese for family night or baked salmon with asparagus and a bottle of chardonnay on date night, someone has to do the dishes. To make this post-meal ritual a little more palatable, come to the Vernon appliance store with the best selection of top dishwasher brands in the Interior. Most stores carrying appliances in Kamloops can't compete with our array of high-end models that cater to every lifestyle.
Most households use a dishwasher to speed up the dish-cleaning process and clear up counter space. Beyond that,<|fim_middle|>, your guests won't even notice it's running.
Large families create a surprising amount of dirty dishes. By the time breakfast, lunch and dinner have rolled by, you might need an engineering degree to squeeze in those final few utensils. A Bosch Benchmark Series featuring a third rack has 30 per cent more capacity. Storage crisis solved.
If you're cooking for one, you're not likely going to use a conventional dishwasher. It'll take you a week to fill the thing and by then you'll be out of dishes. You could just run it half-full, but that'd be a waste of energy. One option you likely won't find at a Kamloops appliances store is the DCS Double DishDrawer by Fisher & Paykel. As the name suggests, this bad boy can run either a single drawer for smaller loads, or both for when it's your turn to host the family for Thanksgiving dinner.
If any of the above situations intrigue you, but you're worried about the challenges of hard water on dishwashers, take a gander at this post: Use Well Water in Kelowna, Vernon, or Kamloops? Here's a Dishwasher You'll Love.
If you're shopping for a dishwasher at a Kamloops appliances store but nothing excites you, come check out the Interior's largest brand selection at Genier's in Vernon. | the expectation is a clean set of plates and cutlery and not much else. That's a shame because if you've only seen the Kamloops appliances that are available in big box stores, you're missing out. After a trip to Genier's, you'll be amazed at the plethora of dishwasher options you can find in Vernon. Today's dishwasher features can be tailored to suit the style and function needs of any household.
If you're the type that likes to host dinner parties, chances are you're going to be left with a fair bit of stemware at the night's end. Some models boast expandable racks capable of handling two dozen wine glasses. And if you happen to realize you're running low on glassware when the party's just getting interesting, Miele's Professional For the Home series can run a complete cycle in 24 minutes. At a miniscule 48 decibels | 184 |
I have always believed that our body is designed to heal itself if given the proper conditions. I use this belief even today, while working through the effects of gluten on my body. When I first began this journey, I researched many things and sites and found several people who have helped me on my way to optimal health. Today, I would like to introduce you to one of them in the hopes that you can find what she has to teach as helpful as it was to me.
Jenny McGruther is a food educator and the creator of the traditional food website Nourished Kitchen. She teaches workshops on traditional foods, fermentation, and food activism. Her philosophy on food is focusing on combining sustainability, balance, tradition, and community involvement. She<|fim_middle|> was eating, I would not give my body the proper conditions to allow it to heal and give me optimal health. So my walk toward a traditional and gluten free lifestyle began here. Although I am not completely there yet, habit can be very hard to break, but her philosophy is one of many that has been crucial in helping with the change.
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I would like to congratulate her on her recent book, The Nourished Kitchen: Farm to Table recipes for the Traditional Food Lifestyle. I am excited that my copy cam e last week and I get to start using it. If you are looking for a good resource to start a traditional food lifestyle, I would recommend this book. It can be found at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Indiebound, Google Books, and iBooks. (note: I do not receive any payment for this recommendation). | lives with her family in Colorado, where she and her husband started and managed a farmer's market for seven years.
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Texas Sammy
Letter From the Prior
To the Brothers, Alumni, Parents, and Rushees of Texas Sammy:
Let me be the first to say that the Sigma Theta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu is more than just a social club- we are a brotherhood that has had a strong presence at the University of Texas since 1922. Our fraternity has shaped friendships and lives, teaching members the skills necessary for success beyond their collegiate experiences. I am proud to call myself a member of Texas Sammy, and organization that fosters the values of humanity and comradeship.
Today, perhaps more than ever, college fraternities play a relevant role in shaping the lives of young men, and in the last year and a half Sigma Alpha Mu at the University of Texas has shaped my identity in unimaginable ways. Leading such a capable and passionate group of men this year, I am confident that we will see growth in all aspects of the fraternity. Our Council is excited for what's ahead, and our active members are taking on leadership roles with renewed vigor. I look forward to not only upholding our reputation as a nationally recognized chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu, but also to advancing the accomplishments of Sigma Theta by creating a stronger vision for the future.
About the Sigma Theta Chapter
The Sigma Theta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu (Sammy) was founded at the University of Texas on October 22, 1922. Since that day, we have established ourselves as a strong member of the UT Intrafraternity Council (IFC) and continue to make our presence known on campus.
We have been at our current residence in the heart of West Campus, 2501 Leon Street, since 1963 after moving a few blocks from our previous residence at 1919 Robbins Street. Although the men living at the house change from year to year, there are two men that are the glue that holds our fraternity together. Leon "Daddy" Washington, our former house Chef/Porter, has been a staple of the Sigma Alpha Mu house since our days on Robbins St. Even after his unfortunate passing, Daddy's legacy looms large over all members of this fraternity, past and present. Larry Harris, our current Chef/Property Manager, has been a part of Sigma Alpha Mu for 22 years. He learned all of the old tricks from Leon and has picked up a few of his own over the years. Larry is there for us every day to lend advice and take care of the Sammy house.
Brotherhood at its finest
Our chapter<|fim_middle|>okey the Cannon at football games, however at its core they are a service organization dedicated to the University of Texas, the Austin community, and the State of Texas. Moreover, the former President of this organization, Cooper Shear, is one of our own alumni. Unfortunately, the Texas Cowboys are on a brief hiatus from campus.
Often dubbed the most extravagant build in the nation, Sammy's traditional Atlantic City party is truly a sight to behold. Sammy's new members are divided into teams and compete to build the best themed bar. Hard work is put into the construction of bars that are ordained with 1000's of multicolored lights. The entire party is a dazzling display of bright lights and color. People from all over campus are drawn to see the legendary build and enjoy an incredible night.
In 2019, the bars were:
Luau Bar (winner of the "Best Bar")
Landmark (Hollywood) Bar
Castle Bar
Nightmare on 4th Street ft. Lost Kings
In a new tradition, Sammy has started organizing a charity Halloween concert at Cedar Street Courtyard, a premier downtown Austin music venue. This past year, we hosted DJ duo Lost Kings and had Audien & Avstin James the previous year. The party was a major success, raising thousands of dollars for our advisor's cancer battle as well as our charity, the Judy Fund.
At Sammy, we make sure not to forget those who came before us. Composites of years past ordain the living area walls and members can easily locate fathers, relatives, and family friends. Many alumni stay involved in the fraternity years after they graduate and frequently visit the house.
Alpha Epsilon Phi: Nicki Miller, Dorothy Isgur, Sam Bell, Cami Margolis, Yael Kaufman
Independent: Brooke Dykes
Alpha Chi Omega: Taylor Rowatt, Channing Burba, Sloan Wyatt, Sammi Rosenstein, Abby Nichols
Delta Gamma: Sara Hosseini
The coveted Sammy Sweetheart position is granted to the girls who have the best relationships with fraternity members. Our current Sweetheart Chair, Ryan Yablonsky, filled 16 spots with girls who fit the role best. Sweethearts take active roles in our philanthropy and social events, guide and advise new members, and are dear friends and confidants to actives.
Rush represents the influx of new members into the fraternity. Every fall, prospective members rush Sammy to learn about the chapter and find their place in it. Rush captains are responsible for accommodating prospective new members. If you are interested in rushing Sammy and joining the current 150 brothers, contact (972) 762-4199 to begin your journey.
Copyrighted by Texas Sammy 2016. All rights reserved. Created by Eric Binder (PC '14). | has ranked #1 for active GPA among all 26 IFC fraternities every semester for the past few years. These results indicate that we hold our members to a very high academic standard.
Geographic Diversity
Our members come from all over. We have actives from Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, and Fort Worth to New York, Los Angeles, Memphis, Baton Rouge, Chicago, Miami, Seattle, Portland, Connecticut, Cleveland, Georgia, New Jersey, Mexico, Germany, Ecuador, and Kenya.
At Texas Sammy, we value brotherhood. Often times throughout the year, we plan brotherhood events to foster these bonds and bring the chapter closer.
College is about more than just partying, but at Sammy, we work hard and play hard. We take our reputation as one of the best party spots on campus very seriously, and this is extremely evident in the time and hard work we put into our events.
Actives in our chapter hold leadership positions in a variety of different on-campus student organizations such as Student Government, Interfraternity Council, Texas Cowboys, Texas Silver Spurs, University Finance Association, and Undergraduate Business Council.
Texas Sammy cultivates a strong bond between its members and the Jewish community at Texas as a whole through involvement with Hillel and Chabad.
Just a glimpse of life as a Texas Sammy
One of the premier parties in the winter, Cabin Fever encapsulates the diversity of the Sigma Alpha Mu membership in bringing together Hanukkah and Christmas for one wild night. Hot chocolate, freshman elves, and Santa's keystone throne are just a few of the traditions that make this party so fun.
We recognize that the only reason most of us are here receiving a world-class education at the University of Texas is because of the sacrifices made by our parents. As such, we look forward to weekends in the fall and spring when we welcome our parents on the 40 Acres. The weekends are always a great time for all involved, especially last Dad's weekend when the chapter and their fathers visited Desert Door Distillery in Driftwood, TX.
Date Events
There are plenty of opportunities every year for the men of Sigma Alpha Mu to don their nicest outfits and take a date of their choice to a fraternity event. In addition to spring and fall semi-formals, as well as a destination formal during second semester, members and their dates make trips to events around Austin such as Wurstfest and Texas Stars hockey games.
Texas Tailgates
One of the best things about attending school in the South is college football. Here at Sammy, we know how to tailgate with live music, food, and drink every Saturday home game in the fall. After the pre-game festivities at the house, the whole chapter and our guests hop on busses that take us right to DKR where we watch the Longhorns crush their competition!
OU Weekend
Every year in October, the entire chapter and their dates make the drive up to Dallas for the Texas-OU Red River Rivalry football game. Played at the iconic Cotton Bowl in the middle of the annual Texas State Fair, the weekend is always one for the books.
The charter busses are loaded up Friday and each PC enjoys a dinner with their dates once they settle into the hotel. Saturday consists of enjoying all the festivities Big Tex has to offer and then cheering on the Longhorns as they battle the hated Sooners. The weekend is capped off with a big chapter-wide banquet Saturday night before everyone has to get back to Austin on Sunday.
ROUND UP 2019 FT. JEREMIH & 3LAU
The most anticipated weekend of the year is undoubtedly Round Up. Prospective members from all over the country come to Austin to partake in the extravaganza, and Sammy never disappoints. The weekend usually encompasses a Crawfish Boil with 400+ pounds of mudbugs (cooked by our chef, Larry Harris) and big name performers for Carlos and Charlie's, our largest party of the year. This past year we teamed up with Kappa Sigma had Jeremih and 3LAU, two world class artists, perform. In recent years, we have had performances by NGHTMRE, Asher Roth, RL Grime, Soulja Boy, and G-Eazy.
Round Up is not all about fun though. Through corporate sponsorships and ticket sales, we raise thousands of dollars each year for our national philanthropy, the Alzheimer's Association.
Athletics are a huge part of life at Sammy. At the house, there is almost always competitive games of pick up basketball on our newly-renovated court. Additionally, we send multiple teams to compete in UT intramural football, basketball, soccer, and softball, and have had a lot of success in each sport. In the Spring of 2019, Texas Sammy also introduced the Slam Dawg Basketball Association, a basketball league comprised of 8 teams of 9 brothers each playing on our own court at the Sammy House.
Moreover, we pride ourselves with a winning record in the "Matzah Bowl," an annual Freshman flag football game against ZBT in the Spring.
Cowboys & Spurs
Current Silver Spurs: Ethan Scher, Adam Bressler, Nicholas Weiner, Perry Scott, JB Fishman, Jonathan Cohen, Nate Benjaminov, and Ethan Salinsky
Silver Spurs is the honorary student service organization responsible for the care and transportation of BEVO, The University of Texas longhorn steer mascot. Since its founding in 1937, the organization have provided over 2,500 campus leaders with the opportunity to give back to our school and community through philanthropic endeavors associated with BEVO.
Current Cowboys: Adam Waller and Ryan Deibner
Since its inception in 1922, the Texas Cowboys have been an integral part of the University of Texas at Austin. Former Sammy members and alumni of the Texas Cowboys have proudly provided the UT campus with leadership, character, spirit, and service (both before and after graduation). Most visibly, they fire Sm | 1,239 |
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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:OstarMHD_intro}
Magnetism in massive stars has gained significant attention in recent decades due to the unexpected number of these stars that display global, dynamically significant, magnetic fields \citep{Petit2013, Wade2013, Wade2015, Wade2016}. They are unexpected since massive stars have their convective zones beneath a radiative outer envelope; inhibiting the dynamo action thought responsible for generating stellar magnetic fields (see \cite{Walder2012} for a recent review). \cite{Cantiello2009a} report theoretical results which indicate the coupling of subsurface convection with wind clumping and emergence of magnetic field on the surface of O and B-type stars. This picture has proved too simplistic for explaining the approximately 10\% of Galactic O-type and B-type stars with detectable magnetic fields \citep{Wade2013}. The MiMeS project (Magnetism in Massive Stars) has done considerable work advancing our understanding of these stars both from an observational and theoretical stand point \citep{Wade2016}. Now the BinaMIcs project (Magnetism in Massive Stars and Binarity and Magnetic Interactions) is illustrating that massive star magnetism occurs in binary systems as well \citep{Alecian2015}, with $\varepsilon$ Lupi the first discovered magnetic massive binary where both the primary and secondary possess detectable magnetic fields \citep{Shultz2015}. Theoretical and numerical studies are required to help understand the wealth of observational data coming from these projects.
Analytic and semi-analytic modelling of the inner magnetospheres of massive stars have been conducted by \cite{Townsend2005} and \cite{Townsend2007} producing the Rigidly Rotating Magnetosphere model (RRM) and \cite{Owocki2016} producing the Analytic Dynamical Magnetosphere model (ADM). Both models are designed to overcome the limitations of direct numerical simulations and to provide insight without the computationally intensive treatment of full MHD. These analytic models capture the suspension of material on magnetospheric field lines and while successful at reproducing observable emission in X-rays and H$_{\alpha}$, they are unable to describe the free streaming wind or magnetically perturbed material at large radii. As such they are unsuitable for predicting radio/sub-mm emission.
\cite{ud-Doula2002} first studied the role of large scale cylindrically symmetric magnetic fields in shaping the dynamics and structure of massive star winds using 2D isothermal Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. Results showed coherent disk structures forming in the magnetic equator as outflowing wind material is channelled by the magnetic field lines forming a standing shock. This model was improved upon with adiabatic physics by \cite{ud-Doula2008} and \cite{ud-Doula2009} and ultimately 3D simulations of the star $\theta^{1}$ Ori C, incorporating optically thin cooling by \cite{ud-Doula2013}. More recently 2D simulations investigating the incompatibility of large scale stellar magnetic fields and the circumstellar disk found around classical Be stars have been conducted by \cite{ud-Doula2018} demonstrating that large scale fields of the order $\sim 100 \ \mathrm{G}$ will disrupt any Keplerian disk close to the star. Magnetic fields of this order in massive stars are are mostly undetected and the majority of the MIMES sample possess fields of greater strength than this \citep{Petit2013}.
The work presented here builds on the earlier work by extending the studied wind region out beyond the stellar magnetosphere to regions where the dynamic influence of the magnetic field has diminished. More crucially we also allow magnetic obliquity of the dipole, resulting in non-spherical and non-cylindrical symmetric wind evolution. We achieve this through the use of direct numerical MHD simulations. We analyse the resulting wind structure in the context of diagnosis methods developed by \cite{ud-Doula2002, ud-Doula2008, ud-Doula2009, ud-Doula2013, Petit2013}, quantify the departure from spherical symmetry over time and radial distance and finally calculate the synthetic radio lightcurves and continuum spectra; placing the results into what is observably possible with current technologies such as the JVLA and ALMA.
\subsection{O-Star thermal radio emission}
Radio emission from massive stars has historically been the subject of considerable interest \citep{Braes1972, Wright1974, Cohen1975, Panagia1975, Wright1975} as the observed emission from Plank blackbody curve calculations deviate from what is expected \citep[WB75 here after]{Wright1975}. This additional emission is due to free-free interactions in the wind. The emission is known as thermal as the wind temperature is high enough to ionise the species.
Early analytical modelling of the winds of massive stars and the calculation of radio emission from the symbiotic nova V1016 Cyg was accomplished by \cite{Seaquist1973}. The model they developed was based on the assumptions of a uniform, spherically symmetric outflow at constant temperature. The resulting spectral flux density as a function of frequency takes the form $S_{\nu} \propto \nu^{\alpha}$, where the spectral index, $\alpha$, lies between $-0.1 \leq \alpha \leq +2$.
Refinement of the model by WB75 leads to a spectral index of $\alpha = 0.6$ at radio and infrared wavelengths. The relationship between $S_{\nu}$ and $\alpha$ arises due to the optical depth of the circumstellar material possessing a different value depending on the frequency of the emission; hence for higher frequencies, emission originates from deeper within the gas and therefore a greater extent of gas contributes to the emission at that frequency, leading to this positive gradient. This concept will be covered in subsequent sections.
The precise dependence of the spectral flux on $\nu$ allows for calculating the rate at which the star is losing mass through its wind. As such, thermal radio observations provide an important window onto stellar evolution and the impact which the star has on the interstellar medium.
In \cite{Daley-Yates2016} we conducted a theoretical study of the thermal radio/sub-mm emission from a range of representative non-magnetised O-stars; with an emphasis on modulation of the continuum spectra by wind acceleration close to the stellar surface, observably accessible thanks to the sub-mm bands of ALMA. We continue this theme by applying the same analysis to the winds of magnetic massive stars.
At higher than radio/sub-mm frequencies, the observational consequences of magnetically confined winds at have been considered by \cite{Shenar2017}. They conclude that, due to the magnetic field of the star, wind material builds up leading to a density enhancement, observations of which can be exploited to determine mass-loss rates of both magnetic and non-magnetic massive stars.
\section{Modelling}
The model outlined here follows closely the methods used by \cite{ud-Doula2002} and specifically \cite{ud-Doula2013} who performed the first 3D numerical modelling of magnetised O-star winds by simulating the star $\theta^{1}$ Ori C under the adiabatic regime with optically thin radiative cooling. We deviate from this treatment by restricting our models to isothermal behaviour. The additional complication of the oblique magnetic dipole warrants this simplification as the numerical influence of the polar axis singularity becomes non-negligible (this issue will be discussed in Section \ref{sec:BCs}). The following section details the calculations and numerical schemes used to perform this simulation.
\subsection{Magnetohydrodynamics}
The winds of massive stars are accelerated to supersonic speeds within a fraction of a stellar radius, making them ideally suited to modelling via the equations of Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD):
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:mass}
\frac{\partial \rho}{\partial t} + \bm{\nabla} \cdot \left( \rho \bm{v} \right) = 0
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:momentum}
\frac{\partial \bm{v}}{\partial t} + \left( \bm{v} \cdot \bm{\nabla} \right) \bm{v}
+ \frac{1}{4 \pi \rho} \bm{B} \times \left( \nabla \times \bm{B} \right)
+ \frac{1}{\rho} \nabla p = \bm{g} + \bm{g}_{\mathrm{L}} + \bm{F}_{\mathrm{co}}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:magnetic}
\frac{\partial \bm{B}}{\partial t}
+ \nabla \times \left( \bm{B} \times \bm{v} \right) = 0.
\end{equation}
Where $\rho$, $\bm{v}$, $\bm{B}$, $p$, $\bm{g}$ and $\bm{F}_{\mathrm{co}}$ are, the density, velocity, magnetic field, pressure, acceleration due to gravity and acceleration due to the co-moving frame respectively. The additional acceleration term, $\bm{g}_{\mathrm{L}}$, describes the acceleration due to line absorption (see Section \ref{sec:radiative_driving}). $\bm{F}_{\mathrm{co}}$ is the sum of both the centrifugal and Coriolis forces: $\bm{F}_{\mathrm{co}}~=~\bm{F}_{\mathrm{centrifugal}}~+~\bm{F}_{\mathrm{coriolis}}$ which are;
\begin{equation}
\bm{F}_{\mathrm{centrifugal}} =
- \left[ \bm{\Omega}_{\mathrm{fr}} \times \left( \bm{\Omega}_{\mathrm{fr}}
\times \bm{R} \right) \right
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
\bm{F}_{\mathrm{coriolis}} =
- 2 \left( \bm{\Omega}_{\mathrm{fr}} \times \bm{v} \right)
\end{equation}
Here $\bm{\Omega}_{\mathrm{fr}}$ is the angular frequency of the rotating frame with $\bm{r}$ the radial distance vector.
As the simulation is isothermal, we close equations (\ref{eq:mass} - \ref{eq:magnetic}) using the relation:
\begin{equation}
p = \rho c_{\mathrm{iso}}^{2},
\end{equation}
in which $c_{\mathrm{iso}}$ is the isothermal sound speed, given by $c_{\mathrm{iso}}^{2}~=~2 k_{\mathrm{B}} T / m_{\mathrm{p}}$, where $k_{\mathrm{B}}$ is the Boltzmann constant, $T_{\mathrm{eff}}$ the stellar surface effective temperature and $m_{\mathrm{p}}$ the proton mass.
\subsubsection{Radiative driving}
\label{sec:radiative_driving}
The winds of massive stars are accelerated by scattering of the stellar radiation in absorption lines of elements within the wind; as such they are known as line driven winds. The theory of line driving was first established in a seminal paper by \citet[CAK here after]{Castor1975}. The principle result is the description of an expanding wind whose acceleration is governed by the local density and, under the approximation made by \cite{Sobolev1960}, the velocity gradient and is given by:
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:line_accel}
g_{L} = \frac{f_{\mathrm{D}}}{\left(1-\alpha \right)} \frac{ \kappa_{e} L_{*} \overline{Q} }{ 4 \pi r^{2} c } \left( \frac{ \mathrm{d} \bm{v} / \mathrm{d} r }{\rho c \overline{Q} \kappa_{\mathrm{e}}} \right)^{\alpha}.
\end{equation}
Where $L_{\ast}$ is the stellar luminosity, $c$ the speed of light, $\kappa_{\mathrm{e}}$ the electron scattering opacity, $\alpha$ the CAK exponent and $\bm{v}$ and $\rho$ have the above meanings. All the parameters of equation (\ref{eq:line_accel}) are derivable from observations except for $\overline{Q}$ for which \cite{Gayley1995} computed a value of $\sim~10^{3}$ for a range of stellar parameters. The above variables are detailed in Table \ref{tab:parameters}.
Finally $f_{\mathrm{D}}$ is the finite disk correction factor, which accounts for the finite size of the stellar disk close to the star and is given by:
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:FD}
f_{\mathrm{D}} = 1 - \frac{\alpha}{2 r^{2}} \left( 1 - \frac{v_{r}}{\frac{\mathrm{d}v_{r}}{\mathrm{d}r} r} \right) \left( 1 + \frac{1 - \alpha}{2 r^{2}} \left( 1 - \frac{v_{r}}{\frac{\mathrm{d}v_{r}}{\mathrm{d}r} r} \right) \right)
\end{equation}
(private communication Stan Owocki). Where $\mathrm{d} v_{r} / \mathrm{d} r$ is the gradient of the radial component of velocity in the radial direction, non-radial acceleration is neglected here.
Non-radial contributions to the radiative acceleration become important when considering fast rotating stars \citep{Gayley2000}. As the rotational confinement parameter $W$ is relatively modest as $~11\%$ of critical, we consider non-radial acceleration as negligible. For more complete considerations of non-radial radiative driving see the recent works by \cite{Pittard2009}, \cite{Kee2016}, \cite{Sundqvist2018} and \cite{Owocki2018}.
Equation (\ref{eq:line_accel}) is applied on the right hand side of equation (\ref{eq:momentum}) as a source term alongside gravitational and rotational source terms.
\subsection{Stellar parameters}
For the simulated star, we take parameters from \cite{Daley-Yates2016}, whose stellar models are derived from the data of \cite{Krticka2014}. We use model S3 from the former work and summarise the parameters in Table \ref{tab:parameters}.
The mass-loss rate, $\dot{M}_{B=0}$ refers to the mass-loss rate of a star with the same parameters but with no magnetic field and is calculated, according to \cite{Owocki2004}, in the following manner:
\begin{equation}
\dot{M}_{B=0} = \frac{L_{\ast}}{c^{2}} \left( \frac{\alpha}{1 - \alpha} \right) \left( \frac{\overline{Q} \Gamma_{\mathrm{e}}}{1 - \Gamma_{\mathrm{e}}} \right)^{\frac{1 - \alpha}{\alpha}} \left( 1 + \alpha \right)^{-1/\alpha}.
\end{equation}
Where $L_{\ast}$, $c$, $\alpha$ and $\overline{Q}$ have their previous meanings and $\Gamma_{\mathrm{e}}$ is the Eddington parameter.
We use $\dot{M}_{B=0}$ to specify the initial conditions of the density profile via the expression
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:density_profile}
\rho = \frac{\dot{M}_{B=0}}{4 \pi r^{2} v(r)}
\end{equation}
where the velocity profile is
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:velocity_profile}
v(r) = v_{\infty} (1 - R_{\ast}/r)^{\beta},
\end{equation}
with $\beta$ determining the steepness of the velocity profile and $v_{\infty}$ is the wind terminal velocity. The mass-loss from the star in the simulation deviates from this idealised value due to confinement by the magnetic field, the actual mass-loss rate is measured from the simulation results.
Instead of specifying the equatorial field strength directly, we specify the dimensionless magnetic field confinement parameter to have a value $\eta_{\ast}~=~20$, resulting in a equatorial magnetic field, $B_{\mathrm{eq}}~=~324 \ \mathrm{G}$ (see equation (\ref{eq:eta}), of the following section). This value was chosen as a balance between what is numerically feasible and physically representative, based on data from the MIMES project \citep{Petit2013, Wade2016}. The value is similar in magnitude to the O-type stars HD 108 and NU Ori and the B-type stars HD~66665 and $\sigma$ Lup.
Larger equatorial magnetic field strengths lead to more restrictive numerical time steps. As such, $\eta_{\ast}~=~20$, produces the desired behaviour, in perturbing the stellar wind to form an excretion disk but allows for the simulation to be run in a feasible time span.
The angle of magnetic field obliquity, $\zeta$, is constrained by the presence of the polar boundaries at $\theta~=~0$ and $\theta~=~\pi$. This issue will be discussed in more depth in Section \ref{sec:BCs}, however it is necessary to state here that the boundary restricts the obliquity of the dipole and that greater obliquity leads to enhanced numerical effects at the aforementioned boundaries. The chosen value of $\zeta~=~30^{\circ}$ reflects this issue and was deemed a significant enough obliquity to promote the desired perturbation to the stellar wind, yet small such that numerical effects are kept to a negligible level.
The remaining parameters in Table \ref{tab:parameters} are used to calculate equation (\ref{eq:line_accel}) and to parametrise the simulation code units. For example, in the results in Section \ref{sec:results}, distances are given in stellar radii.
\begin{table}
\caption[Stellar parameters for the simulated O-star.]{Stellar parameters for the study. \label{tab:parameters}}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ccc}
\hline
Name & Parameter & Value \\
\hline
Initial mass-loss & $\dot{M}_{B=0}$ & $10^{-7}$ M$_{\odot}$ yr$^{-1}$ \\
Stellar radius & $R_{\ast}$ & 9 $R_{\odot}$ \\
Stellar mass & $M_{\ast}$ & 26 $M_{\odot}$ \\
Distance to observer & $D$ & 0.5 kpc \\
Effective temperature & $T_{\mathrm{eff}}$ & 36300 K \\
Luminosity & $\log_{10} (L_{\ast}/L_{\odot})$ & 5.06 \\
Eddington factor & $\Gamma_{Edd}$ & 0.11 \\
Q-factor & $\overline{Q}$ & 700 \\
Escape velocity & $v_{\mathrm{esc}}$ & 1000 km s$^{-1}$ \\
Terminal velocity & $v_{\infty}$ & 1228 km s$^{-1}$ \\
Rotational velocity & $v_{\mathrm{rot}}$ & 82 km s$^{-1}$ \\
Keplerian orbital speed & $v_{\mathrm{orb}}$ & 751 km s$^{-1}$ \\
Rotational rate & $\omega$ & 0.2 $\omega_{\mathrm{crit}}$ \\
CAK exponent & $\alpha$ & 0.6 \\
Velocity law & $\beta$ & 0.8 \\
Magnetic field inclination & $\zeta$ & $30^{\circ}$ \\
Rotation parameter & $W$ & 0.11 \\
Confinement parameter & $\eta_{\ast}$ & 20.0 \\
Kepler radius & $R_{\mathrm{K}}$ & 4.56 $R_{\ast}$ \\
Alfv\'{e}n radius & $R_{\mathrm{A}}$ & 3.98 $R_{\ast}$ \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\subsection{Magnetosphere characterisation}
\label{sec:magnetosphere}
\cite{Petit2013} presents a scheme which characterises the global behaviour of a massive star magnetosphere as a function of several dimensional quantities developed by \cite{ud-Doula2002} and \cite{ud-Doula2008}. These quantities are the wind magnetic confinement parameter,
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:eta}
\eta_{*} \equiv \frac{B_{\mathrm{eq}}^{2} R_{*}^{2}}
{\dot{M}_{B=0} v_{\infty}}
\end{equation}
and the ratio of the rotational speed $v_{\mathrm{rot}}$
to the Keplerian orbital speed $v_{\mathrm{orb}}$,
\begin{equation}
W \equiv \frac{v_{\mathrm{rot}}}{v_{\mathrm{orb}}} =
\frac{\omega R_{*}}{\sqrt{G M_{*} / R_{*}}}.
\end{equation}
In the above expressions, $B_{\mathrm{eq}}$ is the equatorial magnetic field strength, $R_{\ast}$ is the stellar radius, $\dot{M}_{B=0}$ is the stellar mass-loss rate in the presence of no magnetic field and $v_{\infty}$ is the wind terminal velocity. $\omega$, $G$ and $M_{\ast}$ are the angular rotational frequency, gravitational constant and stellar mass respectively.
The Kepler and Alfv\'{e}n radii are then calculated from
\begin{equation}
R_{\mathrm{K}} = W^{-2/3} \left[R_{\ast}\right]
\label{eq:radius_kepler}
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
R_{\mathrm{A}} = 0.3 + (\eta_{\ast} + 0.25)^{1/4} \left[R_{\ast}\right].
\label{eq:radius_alfven}
\end{equation}
See \cite{Petit2013} for a detailed discussion of these expressions.
When calculating $R_{\mathrm{A}}$ using equation (\ref{eq:radius_alfven}), a value of 2.43 $R_{\ast}$ was found, this however is an underestimate when compared to that found from the simulation results, 3.98 $R_{\ast}$. To be consistent with our analysis, when using $R_{\mathrm{A}}$, we will use the simulated value rather than the prediction. The simulated value is quoted in Table \ref{tab:parameters}.
The case when $\eta_{\ast} >> 1$ represents a strongly confined wind where the magnetic pressure dominates and conversely when $\eta_{\ast} << 1$ the field is weak and the wind ram pressure dominates. For the rotational parameter, $W = 1$ represents the critical stellar breakup rotational speed, where the gravitational acceleration equals the rotational acceleration at the stellar equator. Together the above two parameters characterise the dynamics of material suspended in the stellar magnetosphere.
\cite{Petit2013} divided massive star magnetospheres into two distinct categories; dynamical and centrifugal. The division is determined by the relative values of the Kepler and Alfv\'{e}n radii. For a star with $R_{\mathrm{K}} > R_{\mathrm{A}}$, it's magnetosphere is defined as dynamical and wind material confined on closed magnetic field lines experiences an unstable equilibrium and consequently there is continuous motion of material as field lines are loaded and emptied. However, for a star with $R_{\mathrm{K}} < R_{\mathrm{A}}$, there exists a region between the two radii in which material experiences a stable equilibrium between gravity, magnetic tension and centrifugal acceleration, below $R_{\mathrm{K}}$ behaviour is still dynamical, as $R_{\mathrm{K}} > R_{\mathrm{A}}$. Under this framework, the star in our simulation has a dynamical magnetosphere. See Table \ref{tab:parameters} for the values of $\eta_{\ast}$, $W$, $R_{\mathrm{K}}$ and $R_{\mathrm{A}}$.
Out beyond both $R_{\mathrm{K}}$ and $R_{\mathrm{A}}$ material undergoes a net outward acceleration as $g_{\mathrm{L}}$ exceeds all other inward acceleration. As this material has already undergone confinement and perturbation away from its initial spherical surface velocity, an excretion disk-like structure develops whose outward path intersects with the apex of the closed magnetic field lines. The net effect is to produce a standing excretion disk-like shaped shock structure with a topology intimately linked to the magnetic field topology. This excretion disk-like structure appears as a spiral when viewed in 2D. Fig. \ref{fig:diagram} illustrates this interplay between outward flow of the wind and its confinement by the dipole magnetosphere. As can be seen in profile in Fig. \ref{fig:diagram}, for an oblique dipole, the shock structure forms a contorted disk.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth,trim={0cm, 3cm, 0cm, 0cm},clip]{Figure_1}
\caption[Cartoon diagram illustrating the magnetic field topology and confinement of the O-star wind.]{Cartoon diagram illustrating the magnetic field topology and confinement of the stellar wind. The blue circle at the centre is the star, annotated are the magnetic field lines with their vector direction and the dipole obliquity, $\zeta = 30^{\circ}$. The blue arrows indicate the path material travels along as the wind interacts with the magnetic field. The orange tear-drop like shapes represent the shocked wind material. \label{fig:diagram}}
\end{figure}
The following section explains the procedure for calculating the synthetic thermal radio emission from the structure described above.
\subsection{Synthetic radio/sub-mm emission}
\label{sec:theory_radio}
The numerical procedure for calculating synthetic radio emission follows the one we developed in \cite{Daley-Yates2016}. For the present study it will suffice to cover the equations directly used in the calculation and we direct the interested reader to the aforementioned paper for a full description of the theory.
Recently, \cite{Fionnagain2018} and \cite{Kavanagh2019} have employed a very similar method for calculating radio emission but for the case of solar mass stars.
The specific intensity of radio emission for each column along the line of sight from the observer through the simulation domain is given by:
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:I_iso}
I_{\nu}(y,z) = B_{\nu} \left( T \right) \int_{0}^{\tau_{\mathrm{max}}(y,z)} \exp(-\tau (x,y,z)) \mathrm{d} \tau,
\end{equation}
where $B_{\nu}(T)$ is the Planck function at frequency $\nu$, $T$ the temperature, $\tau$ the optical depth and $\tau_{\mathrm{max}}$ is the maximum optical depth along the observer's line of sight. Equation (\ref{eq:I_iso}) is integrated to give
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:I_tau_max}
I_{\nu}(y,z) = B_{\nu} \left( T \right) \left[1-\exp(-\tau_{\mathrm{max}}(y,z)) \right].
\end{equation}
Where
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:tau_continus}
\tau_{\mathrm{max}}(y,z) = \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty} \gamma K_{\nu}(T_{\mathrm{eff}}) n_{\mathrm{i}}^{2}(x,y,z) \mathrm{d} x.
\end{equation}
$n_{\mathrm{i}}$ is the ion number density and $\gamma$ is the ratio of the electron and ion number densities, $\gamma~=~1.01$, under the assumption of solar metallicity. The final variable in equation (\ref{eq:tau_continus}) is
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:kappa_nu_t}
K_{\nu}(T_{\mathrm{eff}}) = 0.0178 \frac{Z^{2} \textit{\textg}_{\mathrm{ff}} }{T_{\mathrm{eff}}^{3/2} \nu^{2}},
\end{equation}
which relates the temperature, $T_{\mathrm{eff}}$, metallicity, $Z$, observing frequency, $\nu$ and \textit{\textg}$_{\mathrm{ff}}$, which is the free-free Gaunt factor, given by:
\begin{equation}
\mathrm{\textit{\textg}}_{\mathrm{ff}} = 9.77 + 1.27 \log_{10} \left( \frac{T_{\mathrm{eff}}^{3/2}}{\nu Z} \right),
\label{eq:gff}
\end{equation}
in which the symbols have their above meaning \citep{stevens1995, Hoof2014, Daley-Yates2016}. Finally, the total spectral flux emitted at a frequency, $\nu$, is then the integral of the specific intensity $I_{\nu}$ over the $yz$-plane:
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:flux_contiuns}
S_{\nu} = \frac{1}{D^{2}} \int_{0}^{\infty} \int_{0}^{\infty} I_{\nu}(y,z) \mathrm{d}y \mathrm{d}z,
\end{equation}
with $D$ the distance between the observer and the star, kept at a constant value of $0.5 \ \mathrm{kpc}$ throughout the calculations, and $I_{\nu}$ given by equation (\ref{eq:I_tau_max}).
Equations (\ref{eq:I_tau_max}, \ref{eq:tau_continus} and \ref{eq:flux_contiuns}) are the primary expressions used for calculating the synthetic radio emission, the results of which are presented in Section \ref{sec:emission_res}.
It is possible to determine the mass-loss rate, $\dot{M}_{\ast}$, from the free-free radio emission of massive stars. In a seminal paper, WB75 construct a framework for predicting the spectral flux, $S_{\nu}$ as a function of $\dot{M}_{\ast}$. Their equation (equation (8) of WB75) can therefore be algebraically manipulated to give $\dot{M}_{\ast}$ in terms of the stellar properties, listed in Table \ref{tab:parameters}, and $S_{\nu}$. The exact expression is given by \cite{Bieging1989} as:
\begin{equation}
\dot{M}_{\mathrm{obs}} = \frac{3.01 \times 10^{-6} \mu}{Z(\gamma \mathrm{\textit{\textg}}_{\mathrm{ff}} \nu)^{1/2}} v_{\infty} S_{\nu}^{3/4} D^{3/2 } M_{\odot} yr^{-1}.
\label{eq:WB_M_dot}
\end{equation}
Where $\mu$ is the mean atomic weight, $v_{\infty}$ is in km/s and $D$ is in kpc. The remaining variables are in cgs units.
\subsection{Simulation}
The MHD equations (\ref{eq:mass} - \ref{eq:magnetic}) were solved using the publicly available code PLUTO (version 4.2) \citep{Mignone2007}.
The chosen algorithm was fully unsplit and 2nd order accurate in space and time, using linear reconstruction, Runge-Kutta time stepping and employed the HLL Riemann solver. The extended GLM divergence cleaning algorithm was used to ensure the $\nabla \cdot \bm{B} = 0$ condition.
\subsubsection{Numerical grid}
The numerical grid in our simulation covered a physical extent of $r \in \{1, 40\} \ R_{\ast}$, $\theta \in \{0, \pi\} \ \mathrm{radians}$ and $\phi \in \{0, 2 \pi\} \ \mathrm{radians}$. This provided a computational region extending from the stellar surface to the outer wind, far beyond the magnetospheric radius, thus facilitating the capture of low frequency radio emission generated by the extended wind.
The simulations were performed using a stretched rectilinear spherical polar grid in which the physical volume was discretised with 300 cells in $r$, 120 cells in $\theta$ and 240 cells in $\phi$. This leads to a cell size in the $r$ direction which stretched from $\Delta r_{1}~\approx~0.0007 \ R_{\ast}$ to $\Delta r_{300}~\approx~0.93 \ R_{\ast}$ with a constant stretching factor of $1.0243$. Both the $\theta$ and $\phi$ directions have equal spacing of $\Delta \theta_{j}~=~\Delta \phi_{k}~\approx~0.026 \ \mathrm{radians}$. The stretching regime in the radial direction is required to resolve the sonic point of the wind, which for our simulated star lies at $1.0018 \ R_{\ast}$.
\subsubsection{Initial conditions}
\label{sec:IC}
The initial conditions of the simulations were specified using the density and velocity profile equations (\ref{eq:density_profile}) and (\ref{eq:velocity_profile}).
The magnetic field was initialised as a perfect dipole, centred at the origin and rotated about the $y$-axis, in the $xz$-plane. This configuration then relaxes to quasi-steady state as the simulation evolves.
\subsubsection{Boundary conditions}
\label{sec:BCs}
The outer radial boundary of the simulation is set to outflow. The inner radial boundary is set such that the the star is continually feeding material to the wind and therefore replenishing material in the simulation. As the wind is accelerated to supersonic radial speeds within a fraction of a stellar radii, and as the line driving is dependent on the velocity gradient (equation (\ref{eq:line_accel})), the evolution of the entire simulation is a boundary value problem which is sensitively dependent on the lower radial boundary condition. To account for this sensitivity we used the boundary conditions of \cite{ud-Doula2002} and \cite{ud-Doula2013}. The density is specified via equation (\ref{eq:velocity_profile}), replacing the velocity profile with a ratio linked to the sound speed; $\rho~=~\dot{M} / 4 \pi R^{2}_{\ast} (c_{\mathrm{iso}}/\xi) $ where $\xi$ is a factor parametrised to give a stable material inflow at the boundary and is typically $5~<~\xi~<~30$. Values of $\xi$ outside this range can result in oscillations of the solution at the boundary.
The velocity in the lower radial boundary is specified by linearly extrapolating back from the first 2 computational cells above the boundary, allowing the flow into the computational active zone to adjust to the conditions of the wind and permitting material to also re-enter the stellar surface as magnetically confined material follows field lines back to the stellar surface. Specifying the boundary in this manner also allows the mass loading of the wind to self consistently adapt to the rotation of the star. Large rotational velocities can impact the mass-loss of a star. This is due to the effective gravity at the rotational equator being reduced relative to the poles, leading to material being lifted from the surface more easily.
The boundary of the lower and upper azimuthal direction is made reciprocal such that material can move freely around the star. The upper and lower boundary of the polar direction was set to reflective so as not to act as a sink for material. This final boundary condition is non-physical and a reflective polar boundary can lead to spurious heating along the polar axis. There are several methods designed to overcome this numerical difficulty. One such method is known as $\pi$-boundary conditions in which the fluid quantities are translated $\pi$ around the axis and vector values transformed such that material effectively passes over the pole. This method is implemented in the public codes Athena++ \citep{White2016} and MPI-AMRVAC \citep{Xia2018}. PLUTO does not provide this functionality however. Another means of avoiding the spurious heating is to average fluid quantities over the poles and effectively smooth over the anomalies.
As the current study aim is to quantify the thermal radio emission and as this emission is weakly dependent on the gas temperature ($\propto T^{0.11}$), we have chosen to run the simulation under an isothermal equation of state. This effectively side steps the issue of polar boundary heating, as the temperature is constant at $T_{\mathrm{eff}}$ and not evolved with time. The extent to which the boundary impacts the density, velocity and magnetic profiles is discussed in Section \ref{sec:structure}.
The isothermal assumption forces us to neglect behaviour due to both shock heating and radiative cooling. Both of which have been shown to play a role in the wind dynamics \citep{ud-Doula2008, ud-Doula2013}. As such, this is a limitation of the present study and fully adiabatic simulations with cooling physics are the aim of future studies.
\subsubsection{Steady state criteria}
The simulation were deemed to have reached steady state after a simulation time of 1~Ms or approximately 20 stellar rotations. This time frames allows material to relax from the initial spherical symmetry to the confined configuration. Any excess material is also blown off to the outer boundary within this time frame.
Once the 1 Ms had been reached, we ran the simulation for a further 2 rotations with fine time spaced sampling. This allowed for high temporal resolution for the synthetic radio light curve calculations in Section \ref{sec:rotation}.
\section{Results and discussion}
\label{sec:results}
The following subsections layout the simulation results; starting with the global simulation properties and profiles for the three primary fluid quantities: $\rho$, $|\bm{v}|$ and $|\bm{B}|$. We will then quantify the extent to which the wind has deviated from spherical symmetry and finally examine both the synthetic radio lightcurves and the radio/sub-mm spectrum.
\subsection{Global properties}
Next we will cover the issue of convergence and ascertain whether quasi-steady state has been reached.
\subsubsection{Mass and angular momentum flux}
\label{sec:comparison}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{Figure_2}
\caption[Evolution of the mass-loss rate of the simulated O-star.]{Evolution of the mass-loss over the course of the simulation. The mass flux from the star is initially $\sim~10^{-7} \ \mathrm{M_{\odot}/yr}$ and relaxes to an average value of $6.8~\times~10^{-8} \ \mathrm{M_{\odot}/yr}$ (indicated by the blue dashed line) after $\sim~100 \ \mathrm{ks}$ where it remains for the rest of the simulation.
\label{fig:mass_loss}}
\end{figure}
Fig. \ref{fig:mass_loss} shows the evolution of the mass-loss, $\dot{M}_{\ast}$. The initial mass-loss, $\sim~10^{-7} \ \mathrm{M_{\sun}/yr}$ undergoes a drastic reduction and oscillation as the spherical wind reacts to the presence of the magnetic field. This initial phase then stabilises to an average mass-loss of $6.8~\times~10^{-8} \ \mathrm{M_{\sun}/yr}$ after $\sim~100 \ \mathrm{ks}$.
There is still an oscillation amplitude of $\sim~1.5\%$ about this average value due to motion of material suspended on closed field lines within the inner magnetosphere. As magnetic tension, gravity, centrifugal and radiative acceleration balance in unstable equilibrium, material can either leave or re-enter the stellar surface, resulting in the $\dot{M}_{\ast}$ oscillations.
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth,trim={1.5cm 3cm 1.5cm 3cm},clip]{Figure_3}
\caption{Comparison between MHD and HD models. Left column, radial velocity and density as a function of radial distance from the stellar surface, each curve represents a different value of $\theta$ with the opacity of each curve denoting its distance from the rotational equator $\theta~=~0$, fainter curves being further from the equator, both plots are at $\phi~=~0$. Right column, mass-loss rate and angular momentum flux as a function of $\theta$, each line represents a different value of $r$ with the opacity increasing with distance from the stellar surface, the quantities are averaged in the azimuthal direction. The broad region of enhanced mass-loss and angular momentum flux in the rotational equator is indicative of the excretion disk, highlighting the channeling of material by the magnetic field. \label{fig:comparison}}
\end{figure*}
To gain a clearer picture of the steady state wind and to benchmark the magnetised wind against a simpler, purely hydrodynamic wind, we calculate the mass-loss and angular momentum flux as a function of $\theta$, for successive radial distances. For both quantities, This is done by calculating the point values at every cell at a given radius and then multiply by the area of the sphere at that radius, effectively making each value correspond to an isolated, independent measure of the global mass-loss rate, or angular momentum flux. As we shall see below, both rotation and magnetic confinement break the symmetry of the wind and show two distinct modes; the free streaming wind and a magnetically confined disk region. The two expressions are, for the mass-loss rate,
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:mass_loss}
\dot{M}_{\ast} (r, \theta) = 2 \pi r^{2} v_{r}(r, \theta) \rho(r, \theta),
\end{equation}
and for the angular momentum,
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:am_loss}
\begin{aligned}
\dot{J}_{\ast} (r, \theta) = 2 \pi r^{2} r_{\mathrm{cy}}(r, \theta) \Bigg( v_{\phi}(r, \theta) v_{r}(r, \theta) \rho(r, \theta) \\
- \frac{B_{\phi}(r, \theta) B_{r}(r, \theta)}{4 \pi} \Bigg).
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
Where $r_{\mathrm{cy}}(r, \theta)$ is the cylindrical radial distance from the $z$-axis \citep{Vidotto2014a, Usmanov2018}. These quantities, together with the radial velocity and density profiles are plotted in Fig. \ref{fig:comparison} at 1000 ks. The MHD results (blue curves) are plotted alongside the results for a non-magnetised HD version of the simulation (orange curves) for comparison and to highlight the departure from spherical symmetry. The mass-loss rate displays an overall reduction, with the majority of material confined to flow in the region $-0.6 \ \mathrm{radians}~<~\theta~<~0.6 \ \mathrm{radians}$ either side of the rotational equator. This is consistent with what is expected due to magnetic confinement of the wind material and the moderate extent of the dipole obliquity. Broadening of this region would occur if the obliquity angle were to be increased, and vice versa if reduced. The angular momentum loss rates follow a similar confinement pattern, however $\dot{J}$ is reduced to a less degree and in the equatorial region undergoes an increase with respect to the non-magnetised case. Both the mass and angular momentum loss in the right hand column of Fig. \ref{fig:comparison} shows that our model is capable of obtaining a smooth solution when the magnetic field does not perturb the wind and that there is significant departure from this smooth solution when wind is magnetised.
The radial profiles in the left column show the largest departure from the non-magnetised solution. While the density (lower left panel) displays a profile that is consistent with the mass-loss rate result, reduced for all distances and latitudes, the radial velocity is remarkable as $v_{\infty}$ is more than twice the value of the non-magnetised case at all latitudes. When compared to $v_{\mathrm{esc}}$ it is expected that $v_{\infty}~\sim~3 v_{\mathrm{esc}}$, however we find that when the wind is magnetised, $v_{\infty}~=~7 v_{\mathrm{esc}}$, a significant increase. A $v_{\infty}$ of this order was communicated by \cite{Friend1984}, who attributed an increased $v_{\infty}$ to the deposition of momentum into the wind through magnetic and centrifugal forces. However, their analysis neglected the finite disk correction factor (equation (\ref{eq:FD})), which leads to more modest increases in $v_{\infty}$ when accounted for. The increase in $v_{\infty}$ we observe in our magnetised simulation is larger than the generally excepted value of $\sim~3v_{\mathrm{esc}}$ \citep{ud-Doula2002, Owocki2004} however, as our non-magnetised simulation reproduces this value and that the only difference is the presence of the magnetic field, we can conclude that the radiative driving is behaving as intended and make the assumption that a combination of both magnetic and centrifugal action are responsible for the increased $v_{\infty}$.
\subsubsection{Magnetic field wind modulation}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{Figure_4}
\caption[Mass-loss dependence on dimensionless magnetic and rotation confinement parameters.]{Dependence of the mass-loss $\dot{M}_{\ast}$ on the confinement parameter $\eta_{\ast}$ for $W = 0.11$. The black dot indicates the measured mass-loss reduction from the simulations as the ratio of the initial and averaged quasi-steady state mass-losses and has a value $\dot{M}_{\ast}/\dot{M}_{\ast, B=0}~=~0.68$.
\label{fig:mass_loss_reduction}}
\end{figure}
\cite{ud-Doula2008} derived an expression describing the manner in which $\dot{M}_{B=0}$ is modulated by $\eta_{\ast}$ and $W$ (see equation (24) and Fig. 8 of the aforementioned paper) for a 2D axisymmteric wind. We plot this function for the stellar parameters in Table \ref{tab:parameters} and a range of $\eta_{\ast}$ values in Fig. \ref{fig:mass_loss_reduction}. The curve in this figure represents the prediction of \cite{ud-Doula2008} and the black dot, the measurment directly from our simulation and has a value of $\dot{M}_{\ast}/\dot{M}_{\ast, B=0}~=~0.68$. This result is in contrast to the predicted value of $\dot{M}_{\ast}/\dot{M}_{\ast, B=0}~=~0.25$ being approximately 2.7 times larger. This means that the mass-loss of our simulated star retains much of the equivalent non-magnetic value and is larger than predicted by \cite{ud-Doula2008}.
Our simulated star has non-aligned magnetic and rotational equators, this could potentially lead to a reversal of the effect of $\dot{M}_{\ast}$ reduction induced by the magnetic field. As this simulation is restricted to a single set of stellar parameters, we leave the effect of dipole obliquity on stellar mass-loss to a future parameter study.
As the mass-loss rate evolution in Fig. \ref{fig:mass_loss} attests, the simulation has reached quasi-steady state by $t~=~1 \ \mathrm{Ms}$, the profiles in the following section are therefore taken at this time point.
\subsection{Wind structure}
\label{sec:structure}
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth,trim={0cm 3cm 0cm 3cm},clip]{Figure_5}
\caption[3D representation of the simulation domain for the immediate surroundings of the O-star.]{3D representation of the simulation domain for the immediate surroundings of the star. The blue sphere at the centre indicates the stellar surface, the streamlines are the magnetic field, coloured by the log of the magnetic field magnitude and the yellow contour is an isodensity surface of $5~\times~10^{-14} \ \mathrm{g/cm}^{3}$. While the value of this contour is some what arbitrary, it aids in illustrating the confinement of the stellar wind and the departure from spherical symmetry due to the magnetic field. The two arrows indicate the rotational axis (vertical arrow) and the magnetic dipole vector (oblique arrow). \label{fig:volume}}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth]{Figure_6}
\caption[Density slice plots of the quasi-steady state density structure at $1 \ \mathrm{Ms}$.]{Slice plots of the global quasi-steady state density structure at $1 \ \mathrm{Ms}$. The star is situated in the centre with the confined material appearing as a curved "S" shape. This is due to the disk-like structure intersecting the plain of the slice. Each plot shows a slice in a different coordinate plane, from left to right is the; $xy$-, $xz$- and $yz$-plane. All three columns exhibit the contortion of the expanding excretion disk due to the action of rotation. Top: the full simulation domain. Bottom: close-up of the density structure of the inner $5 \ R_{\ast}$ of the simulation. The density structure clearly shows the confinement of material in the magnetic equator, off-set from the rotational equator.
\label{fig:density_multi}}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth]{Figure_7}
\caption[Velocity slice plots of the quasi-steady state density structure at $1 \ \mathrm{Ms}$.]{Same as Fig. \ref{fig:density_multi} but for the velocity magnitude profile. The top row shows the extended wind with a clear contrast between the free streaming and the slower moving disk material. The bottom row shows the inner wind velocity. The sonic point is reached within a fraction of a stellar radus. The polar axis is visible as a discontinuity in values in the central panel of the bottom row. This jump has however had a negligible impact on the extended wind, as can be see in the cosponsoring panel of the top row. Beyond $\sim5 \ R_{\ast}$, the wind has reached the terminal velocity. The profile in all three panel exhibits a value approximatly twice that expected for the terminal velocity, see section \ref{sec:comparison} for discussion of this.
\label{fig:velocity_multi}}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth]{Figure_8}
\caption[Mangetic slice plots of the quasi-steady state density structure at $1 \ \mathrm{Ms}$.]{Same as Fig. \ref{fig:density_multi} but for the $\log_{10} (|\bm{B}|)$. The central column shows a slice looking down the $y$-axis which is the axis about which the dipole field is rotated; the maximum field magnitude is located on the stellar surface at both magnetic poles. This value is $648 \ \mathrm{G}$, twice the equatorial value. Examining the top row, it can be seen that the magnetic field decays smoothly from the surface to the extended wind everywhere except for the excretion disk, where the current sheet is and is several orders of magnitude lower than in the free streaming wind.
\label{fig:B_field_multi}}
\end{figure*}
3D representations of the star and inner magnetosphere showing the stellar surface, magnetic field lines and isodensity surface are given in Fig. \ref{fig:volume}. Two arrows indicate the rotation axis (vertical arrow) and the magnetic axis (oblique arrow). The yellow isodensity contour illustrates the confinement of material in the closed field region.
The radial extent of this region and the closure latitude are related through the following equation:
\begin{equation}
\sin (\theta_{\mathrm{c}}) = \sqrt{R_{\ast}/R_{\mathrm{c}}}.
\label{eq:closed_field}
\end{equation}
Where $R_{\mathrm{c}}$ is the radial distance from the centre of the star to the apex of the longest closed field line and $\theta_{\mathrm{c}}$ the co-latitudinal coordinate at which the field line makes contact with the stellar surface. The subscript $_{c}$ stands for closure \citep{ud-Doula2008}. \cite{Vidotto2011} use a similar expression to estimate the latitude of cyclotron emission from an exoplanetary atmosphere using the notation $R_{\mathrm{M}}$ indicating the radius of the magnetosphere. As massive stars are the topic of the present study we use the notation of \cite{ud-Doula2008}. As an estimate for $R_{\mathrm{c}}$, we use the mean Alfv\'{e}n radius calculated from our simulation results, $R_{\mathrm{A}} = 3.98 \ R_{\ast}$, which leads to a closure latitude $\theta_{\mathrm{c}}~=~\pm 30.1^{\circ}$. This analysis neglects deformation of the closed field lines by either rotation or wind ram-pressure. By visual inspection of Fig. \ref{fig:volume}, there is qualitative agreement between the prediction of $R_{\mathrm{c}}~\sim~3<|fim_middle|>\sim~10^{3} \ \mathrm{GHz}$) emission originates from. Lower frequency ($\sim~10 \ \mathrm{GHz}$) emission originates from the outer wind where resolution is not reduced (for a spherical grid, the cell size increases with radius). This explains the lack of numerical noise in the $250 \ \mathrm{GHz}$ curves.
\subsubsection{Continuum spectrum}
\label{sec:continuum}
The radio continuum for our simulated star, along with two comparative models, is plotted in the left panel of Fig. \ref{fig:spectrum}. These comparative models are the WB75 model (black dots) discussed in Section \ref{sec:theory_radio} as well as the numerical results of the theory laid out in Section \ref{sec:theory_radio}, applied to the non-magnetic HD simulation (green curve). The stellar black-body radiation is also indicated (black dashes). The MHD wind result shows a clear departure from both the HD and WB75 models for $\nu~<~10^{3} \ \mathrm{GHz}$. At $\nu~>~10^{3} \ \mathrm{GHz}$, both the HD and the MHD curves converge to the black body radiation indicative of the optically thin regime of the stellar surface. This limit is not observed by the WB75 model as its theoretical basis ignores the presence of the stellar surface and the acceleration region where the density profile departs from a $1/r^{2}$ dependence (see \cite{Daley-Yates2016} for an in-depth discussion). This highlights the WB75 models applicability to the extended wind region, where a spherical wind will have a flat velocity profile (equal to $v_{\infty}$) and also its inability to capture the emission behavior at high frequency. The authors clearly stated the limitations of their model at high frequency.
Using order of magnitude arguments, we can determine the approximate limiting frequency of the WB75 model. This can be done by calculating a characteristic radio photosphere, introduced in Section \ref{sec:sph_wind}, which represents the minimum distance from the stellar surface which emission can escape from. The following analysis applies to a spherically symmetric wind only. For an in depth discussion of the effective radius see the original WB75 paper and \cite{Daley-Yates2016} for a more recent account. The effective radius, $R_{\mathrm{eff}}$, is calculated using equation (11) of WB75 and the stellar parameters used in this study as input (see Table \ref{tab:parameters}). $R_{\mathrm{eff}}$ was calculated for three observing frequencies, 1 GHZ, 10 GHz and 100 GHz with the results summarised in Table \ref{tab:R_eff}.
\begin{table}
\caption{Comparison of characteristic radius for the effective radio-photosphere. \label{tab:R_eff}}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ccc}
\hline
Observing frequency & $R_{\mathrm{eff}}$ $[R_{\sun}]$ & $R_{\mathrm{eff}}$ $[R_{\ast}]$ \\
\hline
1 GHz & 317 & 35 \\
10 GHz & 63 & 7 \\
100 GHz & 13 & 1.4 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
The outer boundary of the simulation lies at 40 $R_{\ast}$, slightly larger than the effective radius of the star at 1 GHz. This means that activity from the inner magnetosphere is effectively obscured by the extended wind. Only when the star is observed at frequencies above 10 GHz does emission from the inner magnetosphere become appreciable. This is born out in Fig. \ref{fig:spectrum} where we see significant deviation from the WB75 model at observing frequencies $> 100 GHz$. The WB75 model is the basis for the mass-loss prediction of equation (\ref{eq:WB_M_dot}), its limitations will therefore effect any mass-loss predictions based on the spectral flux via this expression.
The corresponding normalised mass-loss prediction $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{obs}}/\dot{M}_{\mathrm{sim}}$ for the continuum spectra are displayed in the right panel of Fig. \ref{fig:spectrum}. All models show a dependence on $\nu$ with a two orders of magnitude variance. The HD model agrees with the WB75 model in the mid frequency range $10^{2} \ \mathrm{GHz}~<~\nu~<~10^{4} \ \mathrm{GHz}$, which corresponds to a constant gradient for the spectral flux (a spectral index of $\alpha~=~0.6$), but departs either side of this range. For the MHD model, except for agreement with the HD model at high frequency $\nu~>~10^{3} \ \mathrm{GHz}$, there is approximately an order of magnitude reduction in $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{obs}}/\dot{M}_{\mathrm{sim}}$ across all frequencies.
Recently \cite{Ramiaramanantsoa2017} communicated observations of the O4I(n)fp star $\zeta$ Puppis with the BRITE-Constellation nanosatellies. They detected one single periodic, non-sinusoidal component of the emission, which they attributed to the presence of bright surface features. Separate simultaneous spectroscopic observations led them to infer the action of corotating interaction regions (CIRs). While no surface spots are present in our simulation, the modelling of $\zeta$ Puppis by \cite{Ramiaramanantsoa2017} to explain the BRITE-Constellation observations, results in spiral structures of a similar nature to those in Fig. \ref{fig:density_multi}. We do not make direct comparisons to the models of \cite{Ramiaramanantsoa2017}, since $\zeta$ Puppis and our model star are very different. However, we highlight the similarity in the features and that, following further analysis of the synthetic observables at BRITE-Constellation frequencies, magnetically activity may provide a compelling explanation for the origin of CIRs in the magnetic massive star population.
JVLA observations by \cite{Kurapati2016} of seven O-type and eleven B-type stars resulted in the detection of two O-type and two B-type stars. These four stars were all detected at $10 \ \mathrm{GHz}$ while only one was detected at $2.3 \ \mathrm{GHz}$. The lack of detection at this higher frequency is attributed to thermal free-free absorption in the extended wind. In the context of our results, this free-free absorption would need to occur at radii not captured by our simulation or the winds of the observed stars would need to be much denser. As discussed above, our simulations suggest this is unlikely. Mass-loss rates and therefore wind densities of the stars observed may also be lower than that used in our simulation, resulting in lower fluxes. Another possible explanation for the lack of detection is that the magnetic confinement of the stellar wind has, in the manner of our synthetic radio results, reduced the spectral flux possibly below the sensitivity of the JVLA.
\cite{Kurapati2016} report that their theoretical, $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{th}}$, and observationally inferred, $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{ob}}$, mass-loss rates may vary by a factor of 3, as the $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{th}}$ are based on the models of \cite{Vink2000} which assume smooth spherical symmetry and no magnetic confinement. This is indeed the order of variability seen in our synthetic lightcurves and continuum emission, where we see deviation by a factor of 3 for the magnetic wind compared to the spherical wind.
Our results agree with the results of \cite{Kurapati2016} to within the uncertainty stated for their $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{th}}$. However, we draw attention to the fact that magnetic confinement of the wind introduces a dependency of the emission on not only the density profile but also the observing inclination and phase; as both spherical and cylindrical symmetry of the wind has been broken.
\section{Conclusions}
We have performed 3D isothermal MHD simulations of a magnetic rotating massive star with a non-zero dipole obliquity and predicted the synthetic radio/sub-mm observable lightcurves and continuum spectra for a frequency range compatible with ALMA. From these results we also compare the simulation mass-loss rate, to the inferred observed mass-loss rate calculated from the synthetic spectral flux.
Despite the lack of shock heating and cooling physics imposed by the isothermal assumption, spherical and cylindrical symmetry is broken due to the obliquity of the stellar magnetic dipole resulting in an inclination and phase dependence of both the synthetic spectral flux and corresponding inferred mass-loss rate. Both quantities vary by factors between 2 and 3 over a full rotational period of the star, illustrating the divergence from a symmetric wind.
We also show that radio emission with a constant spectral index agrees well with our numerical prediction for a spherical wind at $\nu~<~10^{3} \ \mathrm{GHz}$, however it is unable to capture the behaviour of emission at $\nu~>~10^{3} \ \mathrm{GHz}$. As such we caution the use of such constant spectral index models for predicting emission from non-spherical winds such as those which form around magnetic massive stars. Our results further show that sub-mm frequencies of $10^{2} \ \mathrm{GHz}$ and greater are required to probe the inner winds of massive magnetic stars. Such frequencies, at the sensitivity required for detection, are only available via the ALMA observatory at the present time.
We have also demonstrated that predicting mass-loss rates via observed radio/sub-mm emission is sensitively dependent not only on the observing inclination but also on the rotational phase. As the magnetic field fundamentally changes the stellar wind structure and the mass-loss rate calculation is also dependent on the density structure, any mass-loss rate prediction is a function of the wind magnetic confinement. This make the consideration of the stellar magnetic field vital for accurately assessing mass-loss rates from massive magnetic stars. The method for predicting $\dot{M}_{\ast}$, derived from the theory in WB75, is not directly capable of achieving this. Indeed we find that at an observing frequency of $900 \ \mathrm{GHz}$, $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{sim}}$ is over estimated by up to a factor of three. A situation further clouded by the addition of the phase and inclination dependence mentioned above.
As this is the first 3D MHD simulation of a massive star wind incorporating an oblique dipole, there is a large parameter and physical space left to study. Future work will extend the current model to adiabatic physics, allowing for shock heating and optically thin cooling of the gas. Both of these physical mechanisms are important for the generation of higher energy emission such as X-ray and H$_{\alpha}$.
\section{Acknowledgements}
The authors thank the reviewer for their helpful comments and suggestions; which improved the quality and content of the publication.
Personal thanks goes to Dylan Kee for many useful discussions on which improved the quality of the physics investigated in this study.
A.uD acknowledges support by NASA through Chandra Award number TM7-18001X issued by the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center which is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for and on behalf of NASA under contract NAS8- 03060
The authors acknowledge support from the Science and Facilities Research Council (STFC).
Computations were performed using the University of Birmingham's BlueBEAR HPS service, which was purchased through HEFCE SRIF-3 funds. See http://www.bear.bham.ac.uk.
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| \ R_{\ast}$ and $\theta_{\mathrm{c}}~\sim~\pm30^{\circ}$ and our simulation results.
Another feature shown in Fig. \ref{fig:volume} is the break of symmetry about the rotational axis due to the obliquity of the dipole. \cite{ud-Doula2013} observed symmetry breaking in the excretion disk, however as their simulation included no dipole obliquity, this breakdown of symmetry is due to the interplay between rotation and optically thin radiative losses. This final effect is not present in the current study and any rotational asymmetry is therefore due to the magnetic field topology.
Fig. \ref{fig:density_multi}, \ref{fig:velocity_multi} and \ref{fig:B_field_multi} show multiple slices through the computational domain in the $xy$-, $xz$- and $yz$-planes for $\rho$, $|\bm{v}|$ and $|\bm{B}|$ respectively for both the extended and inner wind regions. In each plot the star is centred at the origin and the wind extends from the surface at $r~=~1 \ R_{\ast}$ to $r~=~40 \ R_{\ast}$ where it leaves the simulation domain.
\subsubsection{Density}
The 2D density profiles in Fig. \ref{fig:density_multi} further emphasis the sharp departure from both the initial spherical wind and the cylindrical symmetry seen in the aligned dipole case. In the central column, in which we look down the $y$-axis, the magnetic field obliquity is clearly visible as the arms of the excretion disk are off-set from the equatorial plane by $30^{\circ}$, the same off-set as the magnetic field dipole vector. The panel on the left looks down the rotational axis and shows a slice along the rotational equator. As the magnetic equator is off-set from this, the slice cuts through the excretion disk, which appears as a contorted S shape. All panels clearly show the confinement of material in the magnetic equator, off-set from the rotational equator, which expands radially to form an extended excretion disk. As the rotation of the star processes, this disk is then contorted.
\subsubsection{Velocity field}
\label{sec:velocity_profile}
For the velocity profile in Fig. \ref{fig:velocity_multi}, there is a clear contrast between the free streaming and the slower moving disk material with a difference in velocity magnitude of the order $\sim~2000 \ \mathrm{km/s}$. However, the entire simulation is supersonic, with the sonic point virtually indistinguishable from the stellar surface.
A faint but important numerical feature, visible in the central column on the velocity profiles, is a discontinuity across the polar axes. Both plots show a non-physical jump in values due to the latitudinal boundary conditions. However, this discontinuity in the velocity has not propagated into the extended wind and therefore we assume there is negligible impact on the wind evolution.
Preliminary adiabatic simulations showed that this polar axis discontinuity results in spurious heating along the pole. As the simulation evolved, this numerical thermal perturbation begins to impact all fluid quantities. This is the primary reason for choosing an isothermal model in which the energy and therefore temperature is constant.
The velocity profile, according to the prediction of CAK theory, should reach a terminal velocity of approximately $v_{\infty}~=~3000 \ \mathrm{km/s}$. This is not however what is observed in the simulation; with the extended velocity profile reaching $v_{\infty}~\approx~8000 \ \mathrm{km/s}$. This is approximately thrice that predicted by CAK theory, this feature has been discussed at length in Section \ref{sec:comparison}. The isothermal nature of the model imposes several restrictions on the physics involved in the radiative driving. Line acceleration is quenched in regions where the gas temperature exceeds $\sim~10^{6} \ \mathrm{K}$ as the line transitions in which the stellar flux is scattered are no longer available due to virtually full ionisation \citep{Pittard2009}. Temperatures of this magnitude have been modeled in 3D simulation of magnetic O-star winds, where gas is shock heated in the disk \cite{ud-Doula2013}. The isothermal condition used in our simulation prevents this shock heating and the temperature is restricted to the stellar effective temperature, well below the ionisation cut-off. Wind speeds seen in our simulations maybe due to this limitation. However, as the radio/sub-mm emission is primarily a function of the density field, we conclude that the velocity fields departure from what is expected has a negligible impact on the results.
\subsubsection{Magnetic field}
The final set of profiles, displayed in Fig. \ref{fig:B_field_multi}, depict the magnetic field in the three axes planes. The central plane clearly shows the obliquity of the dipole with the largest values indicating the two magnetic poles, off set from the rotational poles by $\zeta~=~30^{\circ}$. This magnetic polar field is $648 \ \mathrm{G}$, twice the equatorial value. The magnetic field decays smoothly from the surface to the extended wind everywhere except for the excretion disk, where the current sheet has formed. Within the Alfv\'{e}n radius, close to the star, the magnetic field controls the flow dynamics, however for the vast majority of the extended wind the ram pressure, $\rho v^{2}$, dominates.
\subsection{Spherical nature of the wind}
\label{sec:sph_wind}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth,trim={0cm 1.5cm 0cm 2cm},clip]{Figure_9}
\caption[Radial mass distribution for the total simulation and the inner $16 \ R_{\ast}$]{Radial mass distribution for the total simulation (top panel) and the inner $16 \ R_{\ast}$ (bottom panel). The blow-off of the initial conditions can be seen in the left of the top panel, where a fan of material tracks outwards in the first $~\sim~200 \ \mathrm{s}$. Beyond this point the global radial motion of material is approximately constant with small perturbations resulting in lines tracking outward from the stellar surface coursed by clumps which form in the inner magnetosphere. In both panels the Alfv\'{e}n (dashed line) and Kepler (dotted line) radii are marked.
\label{fig:dmdr}}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth,trim={0cm 0.5cm 0cm 0cm},clip]{Figure_10}
\caption[Average spherical quality factor, $\langle Q_{\mathrm{sph}} \rangle$, averaged over both time and space.]{Average spherical quality factor, $\langle Q_{\mathrm{sph}} \rangle$, averaged over both time (top) and space (bottom). Both plots show a rapid departure from spherical symmetry within the first $100 \ \mathrm{s}$. While the time average falls to 0.055 and remains approximately constant, the spatial average initially decreases then linearly increases out to $40 \ R_{\ast}$ where it reaches a value of 0.104, meaning that the inner wind is less spherical than the outer.
\label{fig:Qsp_av}}
\end{figure}
At this point we shall discuss the extent to which the wind has deviated from its initial spherical symmetry.
As the calculation of thermal radio emission is a function of the maximum optical depth along the line of sight and this in turn is a function of the column density, the wind density structure entirely determines both the magnitude and rotational modulation of the observed spectral flux. Wind clumping, collimation and disk structures will all impact the degree to which emission can escape the system and reach the observer.
In the case of a purely spherical wind, there is an effective minimum radius around the star at which emission from the wind at larger radii can escape to the observer; emission from within the effective radius cannot. The optical depths dependence on the density, means that emission from the inner wind is effectively (from the point of view of the observer) obscured by the extended wind at larger radii. This effective radius is thus the radio photosphere of the star. For a clumped, magnetically confined or otherwise non-spherical wind, this photosphere is not spherical and emission escapes from varying radii. As such, quantifying the winds departure from spherical symmetry is an important step in placing the radio emission in context.
This is accomplished by following the approach of \cite{ud-Doula2008}, who devised an expression to quantify the radial distribution of material in the magnetosphere. By integrating the product $r^{2} \rho\left( r, \theta, \phi, t \right) \sin(\theta)$ over the two angular coordinates, $\theta$ and $\phi$, one is left with the global density structure stratified in the radial direction. This radial mass distribution is given by the following expression:
\begin{equation}
\frac{\mathrm{d} m \left( r, t \right)}{\mathrm{d} r} = r^{2} \int^{2 \pi}_{0} \int^{\pi}_{0} \rho \left( r, \theta, \phi, t \right) \sin(\theta) \mathrm{d} \theta \mathrm{d} \phi.
\label{eq:dmdr}
\end{equation}
Motivated by the need to capture the behaviour of material in the case of an aligned dipole, \cite{ud-Doula2008} chose to limit the integration over $\theta$ to a small angular region centred about the equator. In this study, the behaviour is not constrained to the rotational equator so we integrate over the full range of $\theta$.
Equation (\ref{eq:dmdr}) is plotted in Fig. \ref{fig:dmdr} over the entire radial range of the simulation and for a limited region of the inner $6 \ R_{\ast}$. The first $\sim~100 \ \mathrm{ks}$ of the evolution of $\mathrm{d} m \left( r, t \right) / \mathrm{d} r$ is a striking illustration of the blow-off of the initial conditions, where a fan of higher density material tracks outwards from the surface to the boundary. For $t~>~100 \ \mathrm{ks}$ the global radial motion of material is approximately constant with only small perturbations, as clumps of material concentrate in the closed magnetosphere, breakout and track outwards leading to radial lines in $\mathrm{d} m / \mathrm{d} r$.
Both the Kepler and Alfv\'{e}n surfaces are indicated in the figure and there is little change in $\mathrm{d} m / \mathrm{d} r$ across either. This is consistent with the dynamical magnetospheric behaviour described in Section \ref{sec:magnetosphere}.
As a consequence of the magnetic confinement and the reduction in the mass-loss rate, the stellar wind is overall much less dense than for a corresponding non-magnetised stellar wind (this is consistent with Fig. \ref{fig:comparison}) and emission from deeper in the wind, closer to the stellar surface will be able to escape. However, as the total wind material is reduced, the total spectral flux, $S_{\nu}$, will also be reduced; resulting in a fainter signal reaching the observer. Additional free-free absorption along the line of sight may also contribute to the reduction in observable emission.
To further quantify the departure from spherical symmetry, we now detail the formalism of a dimensionless measure used to indicate the overall spherical nature of the wind.
For a given radius there exists a spherical shell, $S$, of width $\mathrm{d}r$. To quantify the spherical distribution of material within this shell we adopt the following procedure. Each density value within the shell, $\rho \left( \theta, \phi \right)$, is normalised by the maximum density, $\rho_{\rm{max}} \left( \theta, \phi \right)$, in the shell; these normalised density values are then summed over the spherical shell for all vales of $\theta$ and $\phi$. Finally this summation is divided by the total number of sample points within the shell giving the average normalised density in the shell. The final expression,
\begin{equation}
Q_{\mathrm{sph}} \left( r, t \right) = \frac{1}{N_{S}} \sum_{\theta} \sum_{\phi} \frac{\rho \left( \theta, \phi \right)}{\rho_{\mathrm{max}} \left( \theta, \phi \right)},
\label{eq:Q}
\end{equation}
gives the spherical quality factor, $Q_{\mathrm{sph}}$ (not to be confused with the Q-factor, $\overline{Q}$, in equation (\ref{eq:line_accel})), within the range $0~<~Q_{\mathrm{sph}}~<~1$ and is a measure of the departure of the density distribution from a spherical wind within shell $S$ at radius $r$ and time $t$. A value of 1 indicates a spherically symmetric wind while a value of 0 indicates a complete departure from spherical symmetry, a disk structure akin to a delta function. This is un-physical and in reality Q would be asymptotic to 0 but never reach it.
By computing $Q_{\mathrm{sph}}$ for every radial shell and for every time point, it is then possible to calculate both the time average, $\langle Q_{\mathrm{sph}} \rangle_{t}$, for every radial point and the radial averaged, $\langle Q_{\mathrm{sph}} \rangle_{r}$, for every time point. These two quantities are plotted in Fig. \ref{fig:Qsp_av}. Each data point in the top plot represents the $\langle Q_{\mathrm{sph}} \rangle_{r}$ for the entire simulation volume as a function of time and every data point in the bottom plot represents the $\langle Q_{\mathrm{sph}} \rangle_{t}$ across every time point in the simulation as a function of radius.
From Fig. \ref{fig:Qsp_av}, we can see that, for all time after the initial $\sim~100 \ \mathrm{ks}$, $\langle Q_{\mathrm{sph}} \rangle_{r}$ remains constant at $0.055$ (consistent with the results in Fig \ref{fig:comparison} and Fig. \ref{fig:dmdr}). However, the radial profile of the time average indicates an increase in $\langle Q_{\mathrm{sph}} \rangle_{t}$ towards larger radii to a value of $0.104$. This is consistent with a broadening out of the excretion disk as it expands radially.
Temperature is constant in the simulation, however as the disk is denser than its surroundings there is still a pressure gradient leading to an expansion, this together with rotation and diverging magnetic field lines spreads material out at larger radii. For an adiabatic model, this expansion will be made more acute as a temperature would also enhance the broadening and lead to a greater $\langle Q_{\mathrm{sph}} \rangle_{t}$ at larger radii than seen here.
The results for both $\mathrm{d} m \left( r, t \right) / \mathrm{d} r$ and $\langle Q_{\mathrm{sph}} \rangle$ indicate a wind which has undergone rapid departure from spherical symmetry, with a decrease in the overall wind mass from the initial condition leading to lowered column density along the observers view compared to the same wind without the action of a magnetic field. With this in mind, we now turn to the results of the synthetic radio emission.
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth]{Figure_11}
\caption[Intensity of radio emission for an observing inclination of $30^{\circ}$ and phase $216^{\circ}$ at increasingly higher frequency.]{Intensity of radio emission for an observing inclination of $30^{\circ}$, phase $216^{\circ}$ and observing frequencies of $10 \ \mathrm{GHz}$ (left), $100 \ \mathrm{GHz}$ (middle) and $1000 \ \mathrm{GHz}$ (right). The figure illustrates the additional resolution gained by observing at higher frequencies, as the panel, from left to right shows a progressively sharper central star.
\label{fig:radio_wind_freq}}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.665\textwidth]{Figure_12}
\caption[Intensity of radio emission for rotational phase and observing inclination at $900 \ \mathrm{GHz}$.]{Intensity of radio emission for rotational phase and observing inclination, all plots are generated at $900 \ \mathrm{GHz}$. Each column represents observing inclinations of $0^{\circ}$ (viewing along equator), $30^{\circ}$, $60^{\circ}$ and $90^{\circ}$ (viewing down the polar axes) from left to right respectively. Each row are snap shots of the radio intensity for increasing phase from $0 \ \mathrm{radians}$ to $4\pi \ \mathrm{radians}$ (two full rotations), equally spaced by $4\pi/9 \ \mathrm{radians}$. The second column on the left experiences the greatest degree of variability in the disk while the right most column experiences the least, presenting the same disk surface area to the observer over the 2 complete rotations.
\label{fig:radio_wind_phase_incl}}
\end{figure*}
\subsection{Radio/sub-mm emission}
\label{sec:emission_res}
We divide the radio emission results into first a discussion of the emission volume structure as it appears from the radio intensity calculation of equation (\ref{eq:I_tau_max}), together with its dependence on observing frequency, inclination and rotational phase. Secondly, the total spectral flux density, $S_{\nu}$, is calculated to give radio light curves for two full stellar rotations, at three discreet frequencies over a range of phases and inclinations. We then calculate the continuum emission over the frequency range $10 \ \mathrm{GHz}~<~\nu~<~10^{4} \ \mathrm{GHz}$ at constant inclination and phase. This range is chosen as it spans the observing bands of the ALMA which cover the frequency range 84 - 950 GHz (Band 3 - Band 10) and beyond into infrared wavelengths. Currently this range is covered by SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy), however its sensitivity maybe insufficient for all but the brightest O-stars.
For both the light curves and continuum spectra, we calculate ratio of the mass-loss derived from the synthetic radio calculations to that measured directly in the simulation, $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{obs}} / \dot{M}_{\mathrm{sim}}$, allowing us to compare what would be inferred, via radio observation, to the actual mass-loss rate of the simulated star.
\subsubsection{Wind structure in emission}
\label{emission_structure}
To illustrate the concept of optical depth and dependence of observational results on the chosen observing frequency, we plot in Fig. \ref{fig:radio_wind_freq} the intensity of radio emission, $I_{\nu}$, at a phase of $30^{\circ}$ and inclination of $216^{\circ}$ for three dex in observing frequency, $\nu$: $10 \ \mathrm{GHz}$, $100 \ \mathrm{GHz}$ and $1000 \ \mathrm{GHz}$. Form left to right, the figure shows increasing fidelity in the inner region close to the star, where the density profile has its largest values. Higher frequencies thus penetrate further into the wind. Only the highest observing frequency of 1000 GHz is able to penetrate the wind down to approximately the stellar surface (see \citealt{Daley-Yates2016} for a discussion on the frequency dependence of the radio photosphere radius). If $\nu$ is increased beyond $1000 GHz$, emission from the stellar surface black body radiation will begin to dominate, we will discuss this further in Section \ref{sec:continuum}
To gain an appreciation of the rotational modulation and dependence on observer inclination of the intensity map, $I_{\nu}$, we limit the parameter space to a single observing frequency of $900 \ \mathrm{GHz}$; chosen as it provides the highest fidelity images, probing deeper into the wind, while still within ALMA frequency band 10. Fig. \ref{fig:radio_wind_phase_incl} shows time series snapshots for $I_{\nu}$. Rows 1 - 9 show the rotational phase at equidistant intervals of $4\pi/9$ radians across the full two rotations and the four columns show. From left to right, inclination values of $0^{\circ}$, $30^{\circ}$, $60^{\circ}$ and $90^{\circ}$.
The second column, inclination of $30^{\circ}$, shows the greatest degree of variability with the disk presenting both its edge and face to the observer. Looking down the rotational axis, inclination of $90^{\circ}$, the disk exhibits the smallest degree of variability, always showing the same disk extent. However, a face on disk presents the largest ratio of visible surface area to volume for an observer; resulting in the greatest total emission.
For all phases and inclinations, the central star is clearly visible, in contrast to the left image of Fig. \ref{fig:radio_wind_freq}, calculated at $10 \ \mathrm{GHz}$, where the star is obscured by the extended wind and emission from the centre is of the same order of the surrounding disk. As Fig. \ref{fig:radio_wind_phase_incl} is calculated at $900 \ \mathrm{GHz}$, we can conclude that this frequency is sufficient to probe the range of densities, and therefore optical depths, occurring in the simulation.
A final noteworthy result of the rotation and inclination calculation, is the apparent difference of the rotational period between the first column of Fig. \ref{fig:radio_wind_phase_incl} and the other three. For this first column, rows 1, 5 and 9 show the same image, while rows 3 and 7 show the same image but inverted about the $z$-axis. This inversion is evident form the simulation results, as the intensity map effectively shows a resolved source. However, an earth bound observer sees the total flux, $S_{\nu}$, which is the integration of $I_{\nu}$ over both $y$ and $z$. Such inversions of the source are not captured by the total flux and may lead to false predictions of the rotational period, as shown in the following section.
\subsubsection{Radio lightcurves}
\label{sec:rotation}
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.85\textwidth]{Figure_13}
\caption[Radio light curves and recovered mass-loss rate for the simulated O-star and varying frequencies and inclination.]{Left column: radio lightcurves over two rotations for the 4 observing inclinations, top to bottom: $0^{\circ}$ (viewing along equator), $30^{\circ}$, $60^{\circ}$ and $90^{\circ}$ (viewing down the polar axes). Each inclination shows the result for the 3 observing frequencies; $250 \ \mathrm{GHz}$ (red), $650 \ \mathrm{GHz}$ (blue) and $900 \ \mathrm{GHz}$ (green). What is immediately apparent is the lack of variability for all three frequencies in the $90^{\circ}$ inclination plot. This is due to the excretion disk presenting the same surface area to the observer over the 2 complete rotations. For an inclination of $0^{\circ}$, the light curve exhibits 4 distinct and maxima, in contrast to $30^{\circ}$ and $60^{\circ}$ inclinations which only show 2 distinct minima and maxima. Right column: rotational modulation of the inferred mass-loss from the synthetic radio lightcurves. All frequencies and observing inclinations show modulation of the predicted mass-loss except observations at $90^{\circ}$ which shows flat predictions at all phases and frequencies. Rotation at $900 \ \mathrm{GHz}$ and inclination of $30^{\circ}$ shows the largest degree of modulation. Each observing frequency results in a different inferred mass-loss due to the dependence of mass-loss on the spectral flux.
\label{fig:rotation}}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth]{Figure_14}
\caption[Radio contimum spectra and recovered mass-loss for the simulated O-star.]{Left: radio/sub-mm spectrum for 3 models of emission; numerical spherically symmetric (green curve), numerical magnetic (blue curve) and analytic WB75 model (black dotted line). The stellar surface black-body curve is also shown (black dashed line). Both numerical models converge with the surface black-body at $\nu > 10^{4} \ \mathrm{GHz}$ while the WB75 model does not. Right: Corresponding mass-loss predictions for the three emission models using equation (\ref{eq:WB_M_dot}).
\label{fig:spectrum}}
\end{figure*}
We now turn to the time dependence of $S_{\nu}$. Fig. \ref{fig:rotation} shows this dependency for the rotational phases and inclination of Fig. \ref{fig:radio_wind_phase_incl} for observing frequencies of $250 \ \mathrm{GHz}$ (Band 6) and $650 \ \mathrm{GHz}$ (Band 9) in addition to $900 \ \mathrm{GHz}$ (Band 10).
As already apparent in the intensity maps, $I_{\nu} (y, z)$, of the previous section; for an inclination of $90^{\circ}$ there is virtually no variability. This is in marked contrast to the curves of the three other inclination which all show rotational modulation between factors of approximately $1.5$ and $2$.
One would expect the greatest degree of modulation for the $30^{\circ}$ inclination, as this equals the obliquity of the dipole field and therefore the normal to the disk should coincide with the observers line of sight periodically through the rotation. This is indeed what we see in Fig. \ref{fig:rotation}. However, it is the $60^{\circ}$ inclination which results in the largest maximum emission. this is the result of a combination of magnetic tension and disk warping leading to the largest observed surface area for this inclination, at phases 0, 1 and 2.
For an inclination of $0^{\circ}$, the light curve exhibits 2 distinct minima and maxima per rotational cycle (a total of 4 distinct minima and maxima are present in the light curve as two rotational cycles are shown). This is in contrast to $30^{\circ}$ and $60^{\circ}$ inclinations which only show 1 distinct minima and maxima per rotational cycle (2 in total over the hole light curve of 2 rotations). Therefore, the top row does indeed shows an apparent rotation rate for the star which is twice the actual (if we take the time between peaks as the apparent rotation period), as predicted in the previous section.
The different behaviour of all lightcurves across all inclination and phases illustrates the sensitive dependence upon the magnetic field that the radio emission from the inner and extended wind has. Understanding observing inclination, rotational phase and obliquity is therefore critical for placing observed $S_{\nu}$ in context.
In Section \ref{sec:theory_radio} we detailed the method for estimating stellar wind mass-loss rates from the observed spectral flux, $S_{\nu}$. The right column of Fig. \ref{fig:rotation} shows the mass-loss rate inferred from the synthetic radio observations via equation (\ref{eq:WB_M_dot}), $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{obs}}$, normalised to the average simulation mass-loss rate, $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{sim}}$. As $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{sim}}$ is measured directly in our simulation, the resulting reduction in the wind mass and spherical nature due to magnetic confinement should be apparent and allow us to self-consistently assess the discrepancy between $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{sim}}$ and the inferred mass-loss from the synthetic radio emission, $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{obs}}$. Thus $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{obs}}/\dot{M}_{\mathrm{sim}} = 1$ corresponds to the situation where the inferred observed mass-loss from the synthetic radio emission is equal to the mass-loss measured directly in the simulation.
All frequencies and observing inclinations show modulation of $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{obs}}$ except for the $90^{\circ}$ inclination which shows flat predictions at all phases and frequencies consistent with the flat radio curves. These flat predictions still depart from $\dot{M}_{\mathrm{sim}}$ however, with higher frequencies overestimating the mass-loss rate. This becomes more acute as the observing frequency increases, with $900 \ \mathrm{GHz}$ leading to the largest overestimate. Rotation at $900 \ \mathrm{GHz}$ and inclination of $30^{\circ}$ shows the largest degree of modulation, constant with the corresponding $S_{\nu}$. As the mass-loss calculation, equation (\ref{eq:WB_M_dot}), has a functional dependence on the spectral flux of $\dot{M}_{\ast}~\propto~S_{\nu}^{3/4}$, we can expect for a doubling of $S_{\nu}$ to result in a $1.68$ increase in $\dot{M}_{\ast}$, which is approximately what we see for the lightcurves in the left-hand column of Fig \ref{fig:rotation}.
For the signature of magnetic confinement on the rotational modulation and therefore the radio emission and predicted mass-loss to diminish, the wind would have to return to a spherical expansion. For our simulation, this will happen at large radii (and therefore at low observing frequencies). From the lower plot of Fig. \ref{fig:Qsp_av}, we can see that $\langle Q_{\mathrm{sph}} \rangle_{t}$ has increased to 0.1 between the initial confinement, close to the star, and the outer simulation boundary. The physical distance required for $\langle Q_{\mathrm{sph}} \rangle_{t} \rightarrow 1$ is not covered in this work, however, it seems likely that this would happen at radii where the contribution to the spectral flux occurs at frequencies $<< 1 \mathrm{GHz}$. Once $\langle Q_{\mathrm{sph}} \rangle_{t}~=~1$, modulation of the radio emission would no longer happen. However, at this radii, the density of the wind would be so low that any contribution to the spectral flux may not be detectable. Additionally, the wind density would be insufficient to prevent rotationally modulated emission from closer to the star escaping to the observer. At these radii, the majority of the wind gas may have recombined and no longer be emitting, however as we do not calculate the radii at which $\langle Q_{\mathrm{sph}} \rangle_{t}~=~1$, we can not assert this and can only state that it will occur at radii much greater an that studied here ($40 \ R_{\ast}$). From these arguments we can conclude that, for the star simulated at the observing frequencies studied here, the extended wind of the star can not prevent emission escaping the inner wind and reaching an observer.
The noise seen in both the radio lightcurves and the corresponding mass-loss curves, is due to the numerical details of the radio calculation, which involves interpolation from spherical to Cartesian coordinate systems. By doing so, resolution is reduced close to the stellar surface where high frequency ($ | 7,015 |
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"New Voices," 7:30 p.m. Jan. 31 and Feb. 1-3; 3 p.m. Feb. 3, at the Masquers Chinese Theater, Armstrong Center, 13040 Abercorn St. Free, but seating is limited. Advance ticketing is highly recommended. Audience discretion is advised; show not recommended for children. Call 927-5381.
7 p.m. Jan. 31, Frank G. Murray Community Center, 160 Whitemarsh Road. A panel discussion will follow the presentation. Open to the public. Call 233-8001.
8 p.m. Feb. 1-2; and 3 p.m. Feb. 2-3, at Savannah Children's Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Drive. Tickets: $20 adults; $15 children. Call 238-9015 or go to www.savannahchildrenstheatre.org.
7:30 p.m. Feb. 1-2 and Feb. 7-9; and 3 p.m. Feb. 3 and 10, at the Savannah Community Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Drive. Tickets: $10-$25. An English comedy. Call 898-9021 or go to www.savannahcommunitytheatre.com.
7:30 p.m. Feb. 1, Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church, 429 Abercorn St. Four Shillings Short, Michael Amburgey and Tracy Rice will perform. Presented by the Savannah Folk Music Society. Admission: $2 recommended donation. Call 786-6953 or go to www.savannahfolk.org.
7-11 p.m. Feb. 1, Hilton Savannah DeSoto, 15 E. Liberty St. Sponsored by Friends of Oatland Island. The Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love will perform. Tickets: $40 FOO members; $50 nonmembers. Call 898-3980 or go to www.oatlandisland.org.
5:30 p.m. Feb. 1-2, 8-9, 15, 22-23 and 29, Isaiah Davenport House Museum, 324 E. State St. A wine tasting, tour and a party. All participants must be 21 years or older. Tickets: $20 per person. Reservations required at lease 24 hours in advance; four-person minimum/14-person maximum. Call 236-8097 or e-mail jcredle@savbusiness.net.
7 p.m. Feb. 1, Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St. The third annual Perpetual Groove Concert for The Jolly Foundation. Tickets: $25 in advance; $30 at the door. Call 525-5050 or 598-4504.
4-8 p.m. Feb. 1, Tybee Marathon Expo, Tybee gym. Karen Dove Barr will sign her copies of book, "Running Through Menopause." Expo is free and open to the public. Call 352-8053.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Georgia and Alabama will have a volunteer training and orientation session 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Feb. 2, at the Coastal Bank Operations Building, 605 U.S. 80 W., Pooler. Volunteers are needed to create, design and implement 30 wishes pending in Savannah and the Coastal Empire. For information or to register for the session, call 330-0476 or e-mail ledwards@ga-al.wish.org.
3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Feb. 2; 3 p.m. Feb. 2-3, at Savannah Children's Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Drive. Tickets: $20 adults; $15 children. Call 238-9015 or go to www.savannahchildrenstheatre.org.
8 p.m. Feb. 2, Notre Dame Academy Gym, 1709 Bull St. Glow in the Dark String Band will perform. Presented by the Savannah Folk Music Society. Cost: $5 SFMS members; $7 nonmembers. Call 786-6953 or go to www.savannahfolk.org.
7 p.m. Feb. 2, Parish Hall, 11500 Middleground Road. Presented by the Saint Frances Cabrini Catholic School. The Ben Tucker Trio will perform and refreshments will be served. Tickets: $20, include dinner and drinks. For information, call 927-7335.
2:30-9 p.m. Feb. 2 and 12:30-6 p.m. Feb. 3, Oglethorpe Mall. Hosted by the Savannah Camellia Club. Free and open to the public. Call 925-1058 or 356-3591.
6-9 p.m. Feb. 2, The Knights of Columbus, 700 Christopher Drive. Hosted by the Matthew Reardon Center Advance Academy PTO. Adults only. Tickets: $10, include basic bingo packet for 10 bingo games and entry for door prizes. Call 661-1418.
8:30 a.m. Feb. 2, AASU campus, 11935 Abercorn St. The grand prize for the winner is a Nintendo Wii system. Call 961-3074 or e-mail chris.mccarthy@armstrong.edu.
7-10 p.m. Feb. 2, Savannah International Trade Center. Presented by the Tourism Leadership Council. Tickets: $45-$75; VIP tickets are available. Call 232-1223 or go to www.tasteofsavannah.org or www.tourismleadershipcouncil.com.
"A Show from the Heart," 10:30-11:30 a.m. Feb. 2, Brewton Parker College Auditorium, 2140 E. Oglethorpe Highway/Ga. 84, Hinesville. A clown and puppet show featuring the Kingdom Karactors. Free. Go to http://kingdom-karactors.com.
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 2-3, Wormsloe State Historic Site, 7601 Skidaway Road. A living history program. Call 604-1267.
7:30 p.m. Feb. 2, Performing Arts Center, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro. Tickets: $30 per person, general public; $25 GSU faculty, staff and students. Call 912-486-7999 http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/pac.
7:30 p.m. Feb. 2, First Baptist Church of Augusta, 3500 Walton Way Ext., Augusta, GA 30909. The Augusta Symphony presents Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Tickets: $25-$50; discounted tickets are available the day of the show. Call 706-826-4705 or go to www.augustasymphony.org.
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 2, Bluffton Library, 120 Palmetto Way, Bluffton, S.C. Free demonstration and trial use of the invention.
7:30 p.m. Feb. 3, Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Speaker Elliot Chodoff will discuss the current scene in the Middle East. Admission: $10 at the door. Call 351-8111.
3 p.m. Feb. 3, at Savannah Children's Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Drive. Tickets: $20 adults; $15 children. Call 238-9015 or go to www.savannahchildrenstheatre.org.
Noon-4 p.m. Feb. 3, Memorial Park, Tybee Island. Benefit for St. Michael School. There will be a cash bar. Cost: $15.
3 p.m. Feb. 3 and 10; and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 7-9 at the Savannah Community Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Drive. Tickets: $10-$25. An English comedy. Call 898-9021 or go to www.savannahcommunitytheatre.com.
7 p.m. Feb. 5, Georgia Historical Society, 501 Whitaker St. Program: "An Evening with James Oglethorpe: A Dramatic Historical Presentation." Free and open to the public. Call 604-1267.
9-10:30 a.m. Feb. 5, Hilton-Head Island Bluffton Chamber of Commerce, 1 Chamber of Commerce, Hilton Head Island. The program Area History, Growth and the Impact of Technology is a mini-series offering information on the area's business, civic and cultural offerings. Registration: $75. Call 341-8369 or e-mail chavens@hiltonheadisland.org.
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 5 NAACP Savannah Branch, 918 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The NAACP is offering free rides to the polls. Call 232-4161.
7:30 p.m. Feb. 6 and 8, Black Box @ S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry St. A performance of "Visions: Odyssey in Black Dance." A journey through history with African music and dance. Free. Call 651-6783 or go to www.savannahga.gov/arts.
7 p.m. Feb. 7, Main Theatre, Savannah Arts Academy, 500 Washington Ave. Silver Winds Ensemble and Savannah Arts Concert Band will perform as part of the Thursday at Seven series. Conductor: Michael Hutchinson. Admission: $5 general public; $3 students and senior. Call 201-5000 or 695-6305.
7:30 p.m. Feb. 7-9; and 3 p.m. Feb. 10, at the Savannah Community Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Drive. Tickets: $10-$25. An English comedy. Call 898-9021 or go to www.savannahcommunitytheatre.com.
2:30 p.m. Feb. 7, AASU Fine Arts Auditorium, AASU campus, 11935 Abercorn St. Forrest Starling will perform. Free admission. Call 927-5381.
7 p.m. Feb. 7, Wetlands Center, J.F. Gregory Park, Richmond Hill. Kandi Carle will speak. This event is part of Richmond Hill Historical Society's lecture series. Free and open to the public. Call 756-3697 or 756-2676.
"Make Your Life Extraordinary," 7 p.m. Feb. 7, Savannah Marriott Riverfront, 100 General McIntosh Blvd. Guy Riekeman will speak about having a fulfilling future by using tools to conquer mediocrity. Presented by the Ranicki Chiropractic Wellness Center of Pooler. Call 748-1506 or e-mail frontdesk@ranickichiropractic.com.
7:30 p.m. Feb. 7, Performing Arts Center, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro. Tickets: $45 general public; $40 GSU faculty, staff and students. Call 912-486-7999 or go to http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/pac.
7:30 p.m.<|fim_middle|>:30 p.m. Feb. 17, at Old City Hall, Brunswick. Presented by C.A.P.E. Dinner Theater. Tickets: $30 per person. Call 912-554-7760, e-mail capetheater@hotmail.com or go to www.capetheater.org. | Feb. 8, Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church, 429 Abercorn St. Small Potatoes, a Chicago-based due, will perform. Tickets: $10 general public; $8 SFMS members; $5 students/children. Call 786-6953 or go to www.savannahfolk.org.
7:30 p.m. Feb. 8, Savannah Civic Center, Johnny Mercer Theater. World-renowned Hermitage Ballet from St. Petersburg, Russia, presents its premiere performance in the U.S. Classical Russian ballet. For tickets, call 651-6556 or go to www.savannahcivic.com. For information, call 877-662-3605 or go to www.hermitageballet.com.
8 p.m. Feb. 8, Tiger Arena, SSU Campus, 3219 College St. Presented by Savannah State University Alumni. Students will compete for Mr. and Miss Ebony Fashion Fair. Tickets: $25; include subscription to Ebony or Jet Magazines. Purchase tickets from Lester's Florist, SSU or any contestant. Call 234-2565 or go to www.savstate.edu.
4 p.m. Feb. 9, at a private home in Savannah's National Register Historic District. Space is limited to 30 guests. For information and tickets, go to www.ensembleconspirito.org.
8 p.m. Feb. 9, Notre Dame Academy Gym, 1709 Bull St. Presented by the Savannah Folk Music Society. Cost: $5 SFMS members and students; $7 nonmembers. Beginners and singles welcome. Call 786-6953 or go to www.savannahfolk.org.
8 p.m. Feb. 9, Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn. St. Presented by the Savannah Actor's Theatre. A fundraiser for Equality Foundation of Georgia. Tickets: $15. Call 525-5050 or go to www.lucastheatre.com.
8-11 p.m. Feb. 9, Sweetheart Showroom, Savannah Toyota, 11101 Abercorn St. There will be a Chinese auction, food, music, cash bar and a prize for the Funkiest Socks. Casual dress. Tickets: $25 per person. For tickets, call 897-1713 or e-mail therockgroup@comcast.net.
9 a.m.-1 p.m. Feb. 9, Bethesda Home for Boys' historic campus, 9520 Ferguson Ave. Proceeds from this cash-only sale go toward the renovation of Alumni Cottage. Call 598-8099 or 354-2245.
7-11 p.m. Feb. 9, American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. Cross Town D.J. will provide the music. Tickets: $7 per person. Call 233-9277.
8 p.m. Feb. 9, The Ritz Theater, 1530 Newcastle St., Brunswick. Presented by the Golden Isles Arts and Humanities Association. Tickets: $12-$18 adults; $7-$15 students and seniors. Call 912-262-6934 or go to www.goldenislesarts.org.
2-4 p.m. Feb. 10, 104 W. Gaston St. Hosted by the Downtown Garden Club of Savannah. Ladies will dress in period attire and serve tea, sandwiches, cookies, cakes and cheese straws. Tickets: $20; advance tickets available. Call 234-3374.
2-4 p.m. Feb. 10, University Hall 112, AASU Campus, 11935 Abercorn St. Financial experts will be available for high school seniors and their families to fill out necessary forms and get access to federal funds available for college. Call 920-6596 or go to www.collegegoalsundayga.com.
3 p.m. Feb. 10, at the Savannah Community Theatre, 2160 E. Victory Drive. Tickets: $10-$25. An English comedy. Call 898-9021 or go to www.savannahcommunitytheatre.com.
5 p.m. Feb. 11, Georgia Historical Society's Hodgson Hall, 501 Whitaker St. Winners of the contest will give read their essays. A reception will follow. Call 651-2125 or go to www.georgiahistory.com.
6 p.m. Feb. 12, 38 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Savannah's True Animal Lovers Meeting Others encourages attendees to bring their dogs. Happy hour drink prices. Call 234-3336.
10:30 a.m. Feb. 12, beginning at Forsyth Park, north on Bull Street, ending at City Hall. Call 651-2125 or go to www.georgiahistory.com.
5- 7 p.m. Feb. 14, Courtyard garden, Davenport House, 324 E. State St. Weddings will be set in 10 minute intervals. Couples should bring their Georgia marriage license. Ceremonies can be performed in English or Spanish; conducted by Judge Lewis. Cost: $100 donation. Couples must have a confirmed reservation in advance. Call 236-8097.
5:30 p.m. Feb. 14, Magnolia Manor on the Coast, 141 Timber Trail Road. Program: how to live a heart-healthy life. Frazier is a personal trainer. Part of the Renaissance Lecture Series. Call 756-4300 or go to www.magnoliamanor.com.
7 p.m. Feb. 14, Savannah Arts Academy, 500 Washington St. The SAA chorus will perform. A silent auction will be part of the event. Theme: "A Valentine for You." Part of the Thursdays at Seven series. Admission: $5 general public; $3 students and senior. Call 201-5007 or 695-6305.
7 p.m. Feb. 14, City Market. The Rev. William Hester will lead the ceremony. Open to the public. Call 232-4903.
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Paris in France joins Bergen, Norway, and Amsterdam, Holland, as a contender to host WTC2017.
The famous city announced its intention to bid about two years ago, and<|fim_middle|>. | further details were submitted to TunnelTalk this week as the countdown continues to this year's event at Iguassu Falls, Brazil, where a final decision will be made.
The French bid is being coordinated by AFTES - the French Tunnelling and Underground Space Association – which cites hosting an international conference every three years as evidence of its ability to organize a quality event. The last time the country hosted the WTC was in 1981 - some 33 years ago – in Nice on the French Riviera.
"The launch of the €28 billion Grand Paris Express project, which comprises 200km of metro lines, more than 150km of which is underground, and 72 underground stations over a 20-year development period, is an excellent opportunity for AFTES to welcome the 2017 ITA General Assembly," said Yann Leblais, President of AFTES. The theme of the conference would be "Cities Underground: sharing and integration," added Leblais.
"The lectures will focus on knowledge and techniques capable of creating people-friendly underground spaces and cities extending below the ground. Learning together and sharing what we learn are core values for all of us at AFTES," said Leblais.
The venue selected by the French organising team is the CNIT Conference Centre in Paris, with the event scheduled for May 8-11. In addition to the technical programme of events, there is space for a large-scale trade exhibition and sponsors will be arranging events inside a so-called "innovation area" to provide insights into their fields of expertise, technology, products and equipment | 335 |
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Bill's insights, ideas, and user journeys bring people together, fuel positive change, and launch new transformative products across multiple industries.
Expert drawing<|fim_middle|> around him. He never runs out of ideas or paths to difficult solutions that make the project better and more fun. | skills. Master of storyboards. Bill thinks with a pencil and shares images to gain consensus.
Relevant game mechanics, caring social dynamics, and frequent genuine feedback compel users to engage and stay for intrinsic rewards.
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User testing, focus groups, and play testing allow us to iterate our way to experiences that are worth repeating.
How can we put all your data in context, and create communities that support personal growth? When we know how users can "win," machine learning can find new user flows.
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As the Lead Game Designer at MeYou Health, a pioneer in engaging, scientifically-validated, open social health products, Bill fused game design with behavior change theory to deliver data-driven web and mobile products that were fun and effective.
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Darksiders: Genesis is a "hack and slash" action-adventure video game developed by Airship Syndicate and published by THQ Nordic for Microsoft Windows and Google Stadia on 5 December 2019, and Xbox Series X|S & Xbox One One, and PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch on 14 February 2020. Darksiders series has a particular universe, centered on the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse: War, Death, Fury, and Strife. The game is a prequel – "Genesis" – and a spin-off, but even if it is not one of the main games of the franchise, it has its importance in the world of Darksiders. From the story point of view, it presents important events that took place before the original game and introduce for the first time Strife. In terms of gameplay, it introduces a new combat gameplay style.
Let's start with the story. The events in Genesis are taken place after the Four Horseman of Apocalypse punished the Nephilim in the Eden. The Council, have got wind that something may happen soon that may upset the balance between the realms – Heaven, Earth, and Hell. They send two of the Horseman to investigate: War and Strife. From here on, players are taken into an epic battle that begins.
Players will play with Strife and War and are able to switch between the two at any time. When playing multiplayer, each player will assume the role of one of the characters and play cooperatively. War is recognizable from the past games, his weapon is its sword – Chaos Eater. We recognize here the traditional style of the fighting, hack, and slash, with close melee and combos. However, Strife is using its two pistols – Mercy and Redemption. As a result, the gameplay offers now a shooting perspective, as Strife is able to kill enemies from a safe distance. The pair is redoubtable because each character has a different combat skill and they complement each other.
Genesis offers action, shooting, hack and slash combat, exploration, puzzles, and platforming. It is a Diablo-style kind of video game, but it is not a loot game. If players kill enough enemies, they will have burst abilities, meaning they will be able to take down foes much faster. Some items will allow access to hidden areas. Some other collectibles are spread all over the map, encouraging exploration. But the most important thing is to collect souls, that are dropped randomly when any of the Horseman kill demons. The souls will increase strength, speed, and wrath.
Darksiders Genesis may be a spin-off, and compared with previous games is shorter, but the new combat style and the co-op gameplay bring something new that is worth exploring. It is a side story in the Darksiders saga, but it is an important side story, more personal and with deep narrative implications. The gameplay is<|fim_middle|> platformer mechanics. It can be played single-player, with only one character on screen (but you can switch between characters, as mentioned), or multiplayer two-players locally or online – in this case, players can switch their characters if both agree.
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Subdomains are useful extensions to an already existing domain name. One use<|fim_middle|> because of it's relative ease, felt it was unnecessarily difficult to find a step by step guide.
You should now have a working subdomain! | -case for subdomains is the creation of memorable web addresses for unique content on your website. Instead of going to www.yourdomain.com/example, a subdomain could allow users to travel to www.example.yourdomain.com.
This guide will walk you through the process of manually setting up subdomains for the Apache webserver via ssh. I'll assume that you already have a domain name and website which already/plans to use Apache as its webserver, that you are comfortable using ssh from the command line and that you have a web host that allows you to use ssh as a method of administration.
Success! Your subdomain serves up content!
Now all that's left is setting up the subdomain with your domain registrar. This process will vary depending on the particular registrar you go through, but essentially it involves logging in, going to the DNS records settings and adding a new record. For this, I typically create a new CNAME record, give the host name field just the subdomain name (in this case, "example"), plug in the IP Address, and that's it.
If using a VPS such as DigitalOcean, you may need to do a set up phase that mirrors your registrar DNS records as well.
where extrafile.conf is the file you wish to disable. Then, reload via service apache2 reload.
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Karlsson's Penalty Leads to Pens GWG; Did Fehr Flop?
The Pittsburgh Penguins finally broke through on the power play in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final, with an Evgeni Malkin goal set up by a San Jose penalty that some called a 'flop' by Pittsburgh forward Eric Fehr.
With the Penguins leading 1-0, looking to go up 3-1 in the series, a pivotal penalty was called on San Jose's Melker Karlsson. The Sharks' winger was sent to the box for interference against the Pens' Fehr.
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NextPenalty Playback: Sharks/Penguins Cup Final Game 4 | i Malkin deflecting a Phil Kessel pass past San Jose goaltender Martin Jones to give his club a 2-0 lead. Malkin's goal, his first of the series, would eventually stand as the game-winner.
After the game, Sharks coach Peter DeBoer was asked about the call.
Q: The penalty on Melker that led to the goal, looked like the guy kind of flopped. How did you see it?
COACH DeBOER: Well, probably the same way you did.
Following a faceoff win by Joe Thornton, Karlsson and Fehr – aligned to Thornton's right – raced for the puck. Fehr had a step on Karlsson. The two got tangled up and Fehr went down.
Both referees – Wes McCauley and Kelly Sutherland – immediately put their arms up to call a penalty. There's no arguing that both guys were on the same page when it came to the standard of interference on this play.
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This angle offes a bit more as to why Fehr went down the way he did. While the bulk of the interference is up high, you can see Karlsson's right skate hit the back of Fehr's left. That was enough to knock him off balance and send him down to the ice. It's also why, to some, it looked like Fehr flopped.
Fehr was not penalized for diving or embellishment this season or last, so he doesn't have a track record of doing so in the past.
Despite two opportunities of their own, the Sharks were unable to convert on the power play in Monday night's game. Both teams are now 1-for-8 on the power play in the series, each averaging two chances per game.
DeBoer didn't put too much stock in the significance of power plays in the Stanley Cup Final.
"That wasn't the difference in the game tonight," DeBoer said after the game. "I think the special teams battle has been fairly even in the series. I don't think that's been the deciding factor either way for either team."
Sure, no team has had a distinct advantage this series on special teams. In Game 4, though, Malkin's power play goal made all the difference.
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The focus of investigation in this study was the online reading behavior of intermediate learners of French as they read a hypertext with L1 and L2 lexical glosses and their comprehension. By design, access to the L2 translations was constrained by access to the L1 gloss information first. This prescribed path of support was meant to maximize target language input, and to prompt cognitive and metacognitive processes toward the goal of increased comprehension. Comprehension was measured through multiple choice and recall tasks, and questionnaires were used to gather demographic data and learner perceptual variables. The study provides evidence that comprehension is increased with access to the hypertext glosses among readers who accessed both French and English language glosses, regardless of prior ability. Accessing only French glosses was not linked to greater comprehension, and no access to glosses reduced a comprehension factor score. Prior ability, as measured by a standardized FL placement exam, was not related to gloss access or time on task<|fim_middle|> factors in this study. Pedagogical implications are considered, as well as directions for future research.
Cooledge, S.L. L2 reading and hypertext: A study of lexical glosses and comprehension among intermediate learners of French . Ph.D. thesis, The University of Arizona. Retrieved April 22, 2019 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/128263/. | . L2 readers' preference for L1 language glosses in also reaffirmed to some extent, though French language glosses seem to have some appeal. Gender also played a role in the extent to which the text was enjoyed by L2 readers, and there is suggestive evidence for the roles of background schema and formal schema based on a qualitative analysis of recall. Questionnaire data reveal insights on readers' perceptions of FLL, reading, their abilities, and reading online, findings which are related in a variety of ways to other | 105 |
Snacking and dieting, can they really work together?
In today's world, people love to snack. Gone is the mentality of "three meals a day," and often times in its place is the practice of smaller meals supplemented with snacking. Having snacks can have its downsides though, as it can very easily move into the territory of overeating.
If you're going to snack throughout the day, what you eat and how much are key factors to consider if you're looking to maintain a balanced diet and a normal weight.
Mostly, people snack so that they don't get hungry during the day, or to satisfy a craving. Others actually use snacking as a means of controlling weight or eat several snacks as a replacement for a traditional<|fim_middle|> adults found that the total number of calories consumed from snacking, as well as how often the subjects snacked, was unrelated to body mass index or the quality of a person's diet.
The choice of snack, however, played a big role. The percentage of nuts and fruit in a snack was linked to better diet quality, while the snacks like chocolate and other sweets was connected to poor diet quality.
At the end of the day, snacking can be a good way to avoid getting hungry throughout the day and can even improve your diet and health if you're eating the right foods. Just be aware of how much you eat and try not to overgraze, as it can lead to overeating and have negative effects. | dinner. A 2014 Nielsen report showed that 41 percent of North Americans said they ate snacks instead of dinner at least once in a 30-day span.
The most popular snacks, according to the report, included chocolate, chips, cheese and fruit. Fruit came in fifth in the lineup of most popular snacks among those polled, with 55 percent of respondents saying they ate fresh fruit at least once for a snack in the past 30 days.
It's important to be aware when snacking of the line that can be easily crossed. When you start grazing too much or overdoing your portions, it becomes difficult to manage your diet and losing track of how much you're eating. Because portion control is so important to a healthy diet, over-snacking is something to be conscious of.
The best way to manage snack portions in order to maintain a balanced diet is to keep your snacks to under 300 calories. Try having three small snacks of under 150 calories, and make sure to be aware of why you're snacking. Are you feeling hungry at random times, even if you've just eaten? That could be because you're either thirsty or you're emotionally eating.
If you're snacking and health-conscious, it's just as important to be aware of the food groups in your snacks as it is in your meals. Try to include 2-3 food groups in your snacks — start with a fruit or vegetable, and maybe add in a little protein from a nut butter or cheese. Foods that are rich in protein will make you feel full for longer, meaning you won't be hungry all the time and will be able to get through the day without snacking too much.
Also try to incorporate some wholesome carbs into your snacks, like whole grains. Good carbs are rich in fiber and give you more energy.
There are conflicting ideas about just how good snacking is for your overall health. A recent study of over 200 | 402 |
Abington – Jefferson Health's Speakers Bureau provides experts who are available to talk to audiences in our community about a variety of health and medical topics. These healthcare professionals – physicians, nurses, therapists and more – address groups of 15 or more at civic clubs, churches, schools and other non-profit organizations. This service is free of charge. Speakers are available Mondays through Fridays from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Hobbling Hips, Wimpy Knees, Spastic Spine - The latest techniques and minimally invasive procedures for the hip, knee and spine.
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Take Control - An overview of female pelvic organ prolapse and surgical options.
Before calling, please review our list of topics. The coordinator will assist you in determining which speaker and topic is right for your event, and will make the final arrangements. Every effort will be made to accommodate your request. | Oh, My Aching Back - Causes, symptoms, risk factors and treatments for lower back pain.
Considering a Joint Replacement? - Facts and answers on questions about joint replacement.
Staying in the Game - Prevention of sports related injuries in children and adults.
Don't Let Arthritis Keep You Down - Helpful ways to find relief, improve mobility and treat your symptoms.
No Bones About It - Prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.
The Impact of Concussions on Student Athletes - The short and long term side effects and treatments for concussions.
Balancing Act - Techniques and information to help you improve your balance.
Headache or Migraine - Facts about migraine, sinus, and tension headaches.
A to Zzzzzzzzzz's of Sleep - How to get a good night's sleep in spite of insomnia, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome and snoring.
Stroke Alert: When Seconds Count - Stroke symptoms, prevention and recovery.
Alzheimer's or Forgetfulness - Find out the difference between normal forgetfulness and the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Cancer: The More You Know - An overview of the following cancers: breast, colon and lung.
Colon Health: Staying On Tract - Facts on colon health, including the prevention and detection of colon cancer.
Don't Procrastinate: Check Your Prostate - Risk factors, early detection, prevention, and course of treatment.
Don't Get Burned - Early detection and successful treatments for skin cancer.
Breast Health: What Every Woman Needs To Know - Common breast changes, risk factors, screening and diagnostic tests, types and stages of breast cancer and treatment.
Keep Smiling - Gum disease, tooth decay, dry mouth and how dental health prevents cardiovascular disease.
Beating Diabetes - Gain control of diabetes while maintaining an optimal state of health and well-being.
Save Your Soles - Proper foot care for diabetics and how to prevent complications associated with the disease.
What to Expect in the ER - Alleviate stress associated with a visit to the ER.
Safety Prevention - Safety tips to reduce the incidence of accidents.
Cholesterol: Know Your Numbers - The difference between LDL and HDL, prevention tips and treatments for lowering your cholesterol.
You Gotta Have Heart - An overview of risk factors, prevention and treatment for a healthy heart.
Get To the Heart of the Matter: For Women - Cardiac disease is different in women, including different risk factors, symptoms and treatment options.
Love Your Lungs - Facts on asthma, emphysema, lung cancer, smoking and treatment options.
What Is COPD? - Symptoms and treatments available for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Breathe Easy: How to Control Asthma - Management of triggers and current treatments to keep asthma under control.
Don't Let Your Life Go Up In Smoke - Techniques for quitting smoking and staying smoke-free.
Snack Attack - Choose the right snacks and put an end to endless munching.
Make It Quick - Make the best choices when dining out.
Maximize Your Memory - How to remember what you are starting to forget.
Caregiving 101: Taking Care of the Caregiver - Taking care of your health while you are the caregiver.
Healthy Steps - Increase your awareness and knowledge of how to reduce falls.
Chase Your Blues Away - Reasons, symptoms and treatment for depression in seniors.
Using Medications Wisely - Things you can do to make sure your medications work best for you.
Got GERD? - Management of heartburn and gastro-esophageal reflux disease.
Stress Less: How to Find Calm in the Midst of Stressful Living - Reduce stress through meditation, image therapy and mindfulness.
The Change - The transitioning symptoms of Menopause.
No Bones About It - How to | 759 |
The<|fim_middle|> public visual identity; use of the arms was subsequently restricted to official documents such as graduation testamurs and legal documentation. | Macquarie Lighthouse, also known as South Head Upper Light, was the first, and is the longest serving, lighthouse site in Australia. It is located on Dunbar Head, Vaucluse, about 2 kilometres (1 mi) south of South Head) near the entrance to Sydney Harbour. There has been a navigational aid in this vicinity since 1791 and a lighthouse near the present site since 1818. The current lighthouse was completed in 1883.
The lighthouse is still fully operational and is under the control of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. The grounds are managed by the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust.
The lighthouse is featured on the arms of Macquarie University. In 2008, the University introduced an official logo, described as an 'abstract, timeless image' of water lilies, as its | 181 |
Home » Brigade Electronics Queen's Award for Enterprise ceremony, 15th October 2019
Brigade Electronics Queen's Award for Enterprise ceremony, 15th October 2019
Brigade Electronics Founder and Chairman Chris Hanson-Abbott OBE receives the Queen's Award for Enterprise from the Lord-Lieutenant, Viscount De L'Isle CVO MBE. Far left is Douglas Horner DL who read the citation. (c) Victoria Collins.
Brigade Electronics plc, a leading commercial vehicle safety supplier has been presented with the Queens Award for Enterprise in recognition of its international trade success, having been awarded the accolade earlier this year. The company was one of only three businesses in Kent to have received the award.
The presentation took place at Brigade's dedicated engineering facility in Dartford, Kent and was attended by the Lord- Lieutenant Viscount De L'Isle CVO MBE, Viscountess De L'Isle, Deputy Lieutenant Douglas Horner, local dignitaries, Brigade's Founder & Chairman Chris Hanson-Abbott OBE<|fim_middle|> the working environment becomes an ever-increasing priority. It has not however been a sole effort and our continuing success couldn't have been achieved without the hard work and dedication of our team both in the UK and across the world."
Never a business to stand still Brigade is now turning its attentions to combating the latest hazard on Britain's roads – the quiet vehicle – which Chris Hanson-Abbott has described as the 'silent menace'. The company's latest product – its Quiet Vehicle Sounder – is believed to be one of the most significant developments since Chris introduced the reversing alarm to the UK in 1976. | , Managing Director Philip Hanson-Abbott, together with Brigade staff and guests.
Chris Hanson-Abbott received the scroll and commemorative vase from the Lord-Lieutenant who complimented Brigade on its growth and said it served as an excellent example of a British company successfully trading within a global marketplace.
Formed in 1976, Brigade Electronics has been at the forefront of vehicle safety since 1976 having introduced the first reversing alarm into the UK. Since then the company has continued to develop life-saving products which are not only sold in the UK, but across the globe.
Over the years Brigade has evolved to become an innovator in its own right, inventing a more directional reversing alarm sound utilising its unique BBS technology that has won praise from the Noise Abatement Society. New technologies such as a 360-degree camera system have also been developed to eliminate driver blind spots in HGVs.
Today, 43 years on, the company has grown to become a 200-strong business with a turnover of in excess of £50 million with export representing two-thirds of its business.
The Brigade success story all started when Chris Hanson-Abbott was walking down a Tokyo street 40 years ago when he heard a distinctive "beep beep" of a prototype reversing alarm on a truck. Hugely impressed, he tracked down its inventor, Matsusaburo Yamaguchi, and gained permission to import them into Europe. Recognising the huge potential for saving lives, Chris gave up his job as a shipbroker and launched Brigade Electronics. Today it is hard to imagine life without reversing alarms. They're part of everyday life and a vital tool in safeguarding lives and preventing serious injuries.
"It has been a fantastic journey and we are incredibly proud to have received such a prestigious award in recognition of our international trade, which over the years has grown exponentially as safety both on the road and within | 392 |
Vettel, the four-times world champion, cruised to his second win at Albert Park and 43rd overall with a nearly 10-second gap over Mercedes runner-up Lewis Hamilton, proving the Ferrari cars' encouraging winter testing was not just a mirage. A gloom has hovered over Maranello for a number of seasons and it<|fim_middle|> out a dominant win. His team mate Raikkonen finished fourth behind third-placed Valtteri Bottas, who made his Mercedes debut after crossing from Williams. Jock Clear, Ferrari's head of racing activities, said he was uncertain whether their cars were quicker than Mercedes in "absolute terms". Vettel was also far from getting carried away about his prospects of winning a fifth title. "It's not the time to look at the table. Step by step," he said. "(There are) new rules, regulations and generations of cars. "(Mercedes) made good steps forward and we are the ones that need to catch up. "Whatever happens this year, the race today doesn't hurt." | seemed at its most thick last year as Vettel and Raikkonen failed to win a race amid reports of disharmony in the team garage. But it was all bear-hugs and back-slapping at Albert Park on Sunday as Vettel crossed for the team's first win since his last victory at the Singapore Grand Prix in 2015. "We say this all the time, what this team has done in the last six months has been really tough, rough as well," a beaming Vettel told reporters. "(It's) not (been) easy to manage the whole team, but I think the new car in general obviously is fantastic and this is a great reward, a big relief for everyone. "There's been a lot of ups and downs, left and rights in the last 12 months. The big difference was being able to deliver a really good car. "I saw the guys (in the garage), they were smiling and singing, I'm sure we'll see some more of that. "But...it's just the beginning. Motivation has been really high but obviously it helps to wave from the podium." Vettel started second on the grid and had a poor start to give Hamilton clear air but the Mercedes driver pitted early to change tyres after complaining of poor grip. Luck played a part in Vettel's fourth win with the "scuderia" as Hamilton re-joined the race behind Red Bull's belligerent teenage racer Max Verstappen who was not about to let the Briton pass. After his own tyre-change, Vettel re-entered the race with perfect timing, sneaking in front of Verstappen and Hamilton before forging ahead to close | 347 |
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Retired police sergeant inducted into hall of fame
Sgt. Richard Vogel served 34 years with Cincinnati Police
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His teams won numerous championships, and were United States Specialty Sports Association champions in 1976 and 1980, placing fourth in nationals in 1978.
Vogel retired in 1995. | ired Cincinnati Police Sgt. Richard Vogel was one of the four selected.He began his career with the Cincinnati Police Department in 1961 serving as an officer and specialist. After his promotion to sergeant 20 years later, he also served as supervisor in the operations bureau and traffic section.He was chosen as an inductee to the hall of fame for his professionalism, playing ability, and he is a team player.Vogel played first base and was the cleanup hitter throughout the 1970s and early '80s.His teams won numerous championships, and were United States Specialty Sports Association champions in 1976 and 1980, placing fourth in nationals in 1978.Vogel retired in 1995.
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A brief ceremony to honor a retired Cincinnati police sergeant was held Friday.
There was a brief ceremony to honor inductees into the Police Softball Hall of Fame before teams prepare for the 42nd national police softball championship Battle of the Badges.
Retired Cincinnati Police Sgt. Richard Vogel was one of the four selected.
He began his career with the Cincinnati Police Department in 1961 serving as an officer and specialist. After his promotion to sergeant 20 years later, he also served as supervisor in the operations bureau and traffic section.
He was chosen as an inductee to the hall of fame for his professionalism, playing ability, and he is a team player.
Vogel played first base and was the cleanup hitter throughout the 1970s and early '80s | 332 |
Studio des Acacias
Tiffanie Delune
Tiffanie Delune is a French artist of Congolese origin, selected for the 2021 edition of the Reiffers Art Initiatives mentorship program. Her work is akin to a wondering wandering. In a world in tension, which seems deeply saturated, she makes it a point of honor to share a mixed and unfiltered story, in all its depth and authenticity.
Tiffanie Delune, 2020
Life in Paper Houses
Take me higher
Feelings Will Come Find you
Foreign Familiarity
Rooted in an initial focus on personal trauma and childhood experiences, her multi-disciplinary practice instinctively embarks on a wanderlust.
The artist brings together dreamlike apparitions and travel memories with symbols of her diverse family background, touches of femininity and spirituality. Navigating between her shares of light and shadow, between different movements and forms of energy, Tiffanie is interested in the magic of storytelling that engages conversations and evokes emotions. Creating playfully and with intuitive curiosity, she creates multi-layered works on cotton canvas, soft linen and small sheets of paper that invite dialogue between their subject and their scale.
Passionate about textures, senses and memory<|fim_middle|> floss, which unravel themselves for their own amusement.
(...) Delune's works are remarkably structured. In its Kandinksy-esque freedom, elements appear to have settled on the canvas in the most natural of orders, and not a leaf or flower is out of place. This month in Los Angeles, there is hardly better painting to see than works from Tiffanie Delune."
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2023 / powered by Inside Web | , she frees herself from the inhibitions of material choice by using acrylics, pastels and paper as well as glitter, toilet paper rolls, keys, bags and dried flowers. In a world in tension that seems deeply saturated, she makes a point of sharing a mixed and unfiltered story in all its depth and authenticity.
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"In Painting and Identity, Tiffanie Delune Finds Her Light" by Enuma Okoro
— Cultured Magazine, 2021
"Her paintings are luminous and vibrant, evoking feelings of vivid dreams and eliciting joy and sheer delight. That's the best way I know to describe the colorful, mixed media work of French Belgo-Congolese visual artist Tiffanie Delune. Her images tickle our childlike sensibilities while spontaneously inviting us to reflect on the interplay of light, shadow and the movement of our interior lives. Hardly surprising, as Delune is a woman living an intentional life of intimacy with herself, her work and her environment. (...)
She describes her way of making art as "navigating between her shadow self and yet full of light, movement and energy forms." This in turn informs her practices of self-awareness and social responsibility, because she firmly believes that to be a better person in society, and to make authentic work, you first have to have a fuller understanding of yourself."
"Pick of the Week: Tiffanie Delune & Kaye Freeman" by Cole Sweetwood
— Artillery, 2021
"Delune's work is (...) introspective to the degree of being auto-biographical as she draws on her Belgo-Congolese heritage. In her absolutely enchanting paintings, figures, such as the young black girl in Hot Pepper, are lost in a mystical land. Some are cautiously present, or else composed of something entirely different to their environment and thus set apart. This is the case for the figures made of embroidery | 420 |
Crilley, Mark
My Last Summer with Cass
256 pp. | Little | March, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7595-5546-4 $24.99 | Paper ISBN 978-0-7595-5545-7 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-3167-0547-9 $9.99
(2) YA In this graphic novel, Megan and Cass's families have always summered together at a cottage in Topinabee, Michigan, where the girls spend their time collaborating on art projects, to their parents<|fim_middle|>ail's shell, the protagonist doesn't. Neither an acorn nor a thimble creates a satisfactory covering, but our hero--eventually realizing it's a slug--fits in elsewhere, and just by being itself (although still friendly with snails). The story is told in simple sequential panels, and a smart, manageable "slug v. snail" chart is appended. Both books contain useful, identical front matter with examples of differently shaped conversation balloons and a "Quick how-to-read comics guide." (Fish employs a single large panel per page that contains only simple dialogue balloons and narrative boxes, rendering the explanations somewhat extraneous.) The back covers offer sample panels that preview each book's content, allowing readers to decide for themselves if they are ready for that format. Two great concepts: I can read and I can choose. Review covers these I Can Read!: Comics titles: Fish and Sun and Tiny Tales: Shell Quest.
Reviewer: Betty Carter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2021
Animals--Fish
Astronomy--Sun
Emotions--Boredom
Spires, Ashley
Burt the Beetle Doesn't Bite!
56 pp. | Kids Can | June, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-1-5253-0146-9 $12.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-5253-0761-4 $9.99
(3) 1-3 Burt, an affable ten-lined June beetle (aka watermelon beetle), stars in this graphic novel/information book hybrid. Spires's easy-to-decode text and cartoon art relates how Burt finds his purpose, while delivering a few facts about June beetles, some other insects, and spiders along the way. An off-stage narrator emphasizes what June beetles can't do--climb walls, move quickly, fly effectively--while sharing other creatures' "superpowers" (ants: strength, some termites: "paralyzing venom"). Burt starts to believe the narrator's negative talk until his own attributes (heaviness, stickiness) and hugging skills save the day. A final spread offers a few "Super Facts" about six insects. Funny and informative.
Animals--Beetles
Animals--Insects
Animals--Spiders | ' occasional consternation (those are rental cottage walls they're drawing on). When they are thirteen, Cass's parents divorce, and the joint family vacations and the girls' artistic partnership cease. Four years later, Megan has convinced her parents to let her stay with Cass and her mom in Brooklyn for a few weeks. In NYC, surrounded by Cass's artist friends and mentors, Megan steps out of her comfort zone and begins to pursue art on her own terms, without her father's rules and expectations for the future. Crilley's art style would feel at home in a Disney animated film: Megan and Cass have the large eyes and soft, rounded edges of an Elsa or a Rapunzel, and Crilley renders their facial expressions with exaggeratedly effective detail. While the character tropes are plentiful--the small-town girl with a big dream and strict parents; the experienced teen wunderkind; an eccentric girl gang of artists; the wealthy lady patron--there are idiosyncrasies and heart aplenty, and many teens will appreciate the tidy ending, which heralds a new beginning for both Megan and Cass's friendship and their respective art careers. An enjoyable coming-of-artistic-age tale for graphic novel enthusiasts.
Reviewer: Niki Marion | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2021
Seasons--Summer
Khor, Shing Yin
The Legend of Auntie Po
304 pp. | Penguin/Kokila | June, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-0-525-55488-2 $22.99 | Paper ISBN 978-0-525-55489-9 $12.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-525-55490-5 $8.99
(1) YA In this graphic novel, thirteen-year-old Mei Hao shares her homemade pies and homespun tales about the eponymous Auntie Po (a Chinese Paul Bunyan–type figure of Mei's own creation) with her white best friend Beatrice Andersen and many other eager listeners at Mr. Andersen's 1885 Sierra Nevada logging camp. Mei works hard to help her father cook for the camp's lumberjacks, plus separate meals for the Chinese workers, who aren't given board or allowed to eat with the others. But she dreams of a day when she and Bee can open a hybrid bookstore–pie shop together, even as she realizes that dream--and her unrequited love for Bee--may well be impossible. While Khor's pencils are digital, the rawness and unpredictability of their hand-painted watercolors complement Mei's fluctuating emotions and the harsh life at the camp, where incidents of racism and logging accidents can occur, both devastating. Khor frequently uses the whole page for their illustrations and works outside of panels, techniques that aptly enhance the historical and mythic scope of the narrative and that ultimately affirm Mei as the author of her own destiny. A multifaceted addition to the historical graphic novel genre, this unique bildungsroman successfully presents many formidable topics with intentional and comprehensive grace.
Reviewer: Niki Marion | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2021
Chinese Americans
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Family--Aunts
Lai, Remy
Pawcasso
240 pp. | Holt | May, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-1-250-77448-4 $21.99 | Paper ISBN 978-1-250-77449-1 $14.99
(2) 4-6 Lai's finger is always precisely on the pulse of kid humor (see Pie in the Sky, rev. 7/19; Fly on the Wall, rev. 9/20), and she provides laughs galore in this graphic novel. Joanna "Jo" Lin just wants to escape her house, where she feels the absence of her dad (who works overseas) and acutely notices the presence of her vexing siblings. One Saturday, she follows an extremely capable dog running errands downtown. A class of art students immediately mistakes Jo for the owner, and they convince her to bring the pooch (whom Jo, inspired by the curriculum, dubs "Pawcasso") each Saturday to model for the group. What begins as a weekly art class grows into genuine friendships, and the mystery of Pawcasso's true owner unfolds in layers, encompassing an off-leash petition that polarizes the town and provides a B-plot family drama. Lai excels at visually and verbally conveying Jo's anxieties through humorous and resonant gags. A strong reliance on black ink outlines will remind older audiences of classic syndicated comics by Bil Keane or Patrick McDonnell, while Lai's expert attention to angles and perspective makes even small moments cinematic for younger eyes. Move over, Jeff Kinney!
Lamug, Ken
Mischief and Mayhem: Born to Be Bad
256 pp. | HarperCollins/HarperAlley/Tegen | June, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-297076-3 $19.99 | Paper ISBN 978-0-06-297075-6 $12.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-06-297077-0 $10.99
(2) 4-6 Meet Missy and Gizmo, a bookish young girl and her trusty cat sidekick, stars of this graphic novel. Missy loves science and building gadgets while searching for fun and excitement in the ho-hum town of Idleville. Hungry for adventure, Missy and Gizmo join a superhero boot camp and befriend a group known as the "League of Heroes"--only to be kicked out after activating a robot that wreaks destruction. Shifting to a life of mischief, the disheartened duo masquerades as supervillains Mischief and Mayhem, committing pranks such as stealing toilet paper and revealing spoilers at movie theaters. Amidst their zany exploits, a devious mastermind emerges, with intentions to rid the world of all things super. In his debut graphic novel, packed with thrills and quirky humor, Lamug has created characters whose personalities burst with energy. Individual panels capture their vibrant personas through animated facial expressions. Shaded hues of pink, purple, and gray rendered against the violet backdrop of the city enliven the mood. This fast-paced story breathes life into a young, inventive female character who learns that sometimes the greatest powers lie within.
Reviewer: Jerry Dear | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2021
Animals--Cats
Petty, Kate Reed
The Leak
240 pp. | Roaring Brook/First Second | March, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-1-250-21795-0 $22.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-250-21796-7 $14.99
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Andrea Bell. Eager to become an investigative reporter, tenacious twelve-year-old Ruthie begins an examination into polluted water at Particular Lake in her hometown of Twin Oaks. Her inquiry starts bumpily: her research is well-intentioned but incomprehensive, and she manages to ruffle a few feathers with her vigorous pursuit of the truth. With the mentorship of her older brother's girlfriend, who interns at the New York Times, and additional assistance from her science teacher, who teaches Ruthie's class about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, Ruthie quickly learns that her sleuthing must be watertight to stand up to the corporate corruption she uncovers. Given its dedication (to "the people of Flint") and its biracial protagonist, readers might have expected this graphic novel to include deeper discussions of racial inequities in water advocacy, but the narrative does present a detailed, dedicated focus on the proper way to conduct an investigation to hold wrongdoers accountable. Bell's rounded, colorful art style feels modern and accessible to digitally savvy readers; it reminds them that Ruthie is still a kid and still learning, especially when she makes her more embarrassing mistakes. A refreshing addition to the contemporary graphic novel landscape for middle-graders and middle-schoolers.
Augustin, Marion
The History of Western Art in Comics: From Prehistory to the Renaissance!
96 pp. | Holiday | July, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8234-4645-2 $22.99 | Paper ISBN 978-0-8234-4646-9 $12.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-8234-5160-9 $10.99
(2) K-3 Translated by George L. Newman. Illustrated by Bruno Heitz. As Grandpa visits his Parisian grandchildren, they walk around the city and begin to notice and discuss the art of their surroundings, from street art to architecture. This leads Grandpa to start at the beginning, allowing for the titular survey of Western art. The focus here is on painting, sculpture, and architecture as we move chronologically through different time periods and places: from prehistory, to Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, to ancient Greece and Rome, to the Middle Ages, and finally to the Renaissance. The narrative moves at a fast pace to cover all this ground, and the information is quite dense--comic panels incorporate maps, timelines, sidebars, cross sections, occasional footnotes, and a copious amount of typewritten text. This denseness is mitigated by the cartoon style and balanced color palette of the illustrations, the numerous asides shown in speech bubbles, and the continuing dialogue between Grandpa and the kids. While the focus of this history lesson is squarely on the art, it's also made clear that art cannot be divorced from social and political contexts. Back matter includes photographs of various artifacts for each period with generous captions, a glossary, and an index.
Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2021
History, World
Family--Grandfathers
Brown, Don
In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years after the 9/11 Attacks
128 pp. | HarperCollins/Etch | August, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-0-358-22357-3 $19.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-358-21240-9 $14.99
(1) YA Brown's America Is Under Attack (rev. 11/11) offered a superb dramatic account of the events of September 11th for readers too young to have remembered it. Here he returns to the topic with a volume for teen readers and a twenty-year perspective on the tragedy. The book begins with the attack itself and its immediate aftermath, capturing the horror, heroism, and particular personal stories and details--claustrophobic images of survivors entombed for hours until pulled from the rubble, exhausted firefighters and rescue dogs, stranded pets, and shoes "absent their owners" littering the ground. The story continues, as Brown depicts subsequent American attacks on Afghanistan and the Taliban, with graphic images of hooded prisoners, waterboarding, and confinement of captives in small boxes. Meanwhile, in the U.S., 108,342 truckloads of rubble are hauled away, a new Freedom Tower is erected, and hope arises from the ashes, a bright American flag dazzling against Brown's palette of browns and grays. A construction worker on a beam above the skyline delivers a patriotic note: "They hit the World Trade Center. They hit the Pentagon. But they missed America." Once again, Brown (Drowned City, rev. 9/15; The Unwanted, rev. 9/18; A Shot in the Arm!, rev. 5/21) shows his mastery of the graphic format for portraying humanity in the most trying of circumstances. Back matter includes an informative afterword, statistics, source notes, and an extensive bibliography.
Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2021
September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001
History, Modern--War in Afghanistan
A Shot in the Arm!
144 pp. | Abrams/Amulet | March, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4197-5001-4 $13.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-64700-090-5 $12.59
(2) 4-6 Big Ideas That Changed the World series. In this third installment of his Big Ideas That Changed the World comic-format series, Brown lays out the crucial steps in human history that led to the discovery and implementation of vaccinations as a solution to the spread of disease. Narrated by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a key figure in the popularization of smallpox inoculations in the eighteenth century, the book provides readers with a history of the smallpox disease that decimated multiple continents over the course of human history and the various early inoculation methods attempted across the globe prior to Edward Jenner's discovery of a cowpox-derived vaccine. Brown then quickly moves on to Louis Pasteur and the new vaccinations resulting from his work, followed by Jonas Salk and his polio vaccine. Brown employs anthropomorphized cells and microorganisms for a section explaining the ways vaccines work to build our immune systems. A short section on COVID-19 concludes with a hope, "as of November 2020," for an effective vaccine. Brown's (The Unwanted, rev. 9/18; Fever Year, rev. 11/19) typical loose pen and watercolor illustrations, including single pages, double-page spreads, and varied panel layouts, make this well-researched volume--part history, part science--engagingly easy to read. A timeline, notes, a bibliography, and an index are appended.
Medicine/Human Body/and Diseases
Duffy, Chris
The Wild Mustang: Horses of the American West
144 pp. | Roaring Brook/First Second | February, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-1-250-17427-7 $19.99 | Paper ISBN 978-1-250-17428-4 $12.99
(3) 4-6 History Comics series. Illustrated by Falynn Koch. In this lighthearted yet informative offering, two cartoon characters learn from a petroglyph horse about North America mustangs, from prehistoric equids on other continents to the reintroduction of horses by Spanish conquistadors, the dramatic horse raids of the Comanche in the American West, and Velma Johnston's (aka Wild Horse Annie) modern-day efforts to protect wild herds. Dynamic comics-panel illustrations use self-referential techniques to move the humorous narrative forward, while "Mane Idea" asides explore topics like horse diet and digestion. A timeline, further reading (including movies and websites), and appendices covering famous mustangs and mustangers close out this highly accessible volume.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
History, American
West (U.S.)
Animals--Horses
Durfey-Lavoie, Lee
Just Roll with It
336 pp. | Random/RH Graphic | December, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-0-593-12541-0 $20.99 | Library ISBN 978-1-9848-9700-8 $23.99 | Paper ISBN 978-1-9848-9699-5 $12.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-9848-9701-5 $8.99
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Veronica Agarwal. In this graphic novel, sixth grader Maggie starts middle school with familiar worries: making friends, confronting bullies, navigating classes. She carries a many-sided die to roll whenever she's confused, worried, or otherwise at a crossroads, each number corresponding in her mind to an action she should or should not take. Maggie is a gamer and a sci-fi/fantasy and superhero fan, and she decides to join the school's RPG (that's role-playing game, for newbs) afterschool club. She grows comfortable with new like-minded friends--but she's still reliant on her die. At home, surrounded by her loving, supportive South Asian family, she's compelled to flick the lights, color-code her books, etc. What's more, there's a fierce white dragon in her head that second-guesses her thoughts and psyches her out: "That was all your fault...You can't do anything right, can you?" Maggie's compulsions and anxieties are important to the story, but this isn't a book solely about them. Throughout the tale, illustrated in easy-to-read panel art with bubbly character shapes and subdued hues, we meet engaging secondary characters and even tag along as Maggie and friends help solve a (somewhat unlikely) wildlife mystery. An appended note touches on the book creators' own experiences with mental illness.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2021
Ebbeler, Jeffrey
A Giant Mess
40 pp. | Holiday | April, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8234-4639-1 $14.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-8234-4934-7 $7.99
(2) K-3 I Like to Read: Comics series. In this beginning reader in comic format, a kid named Molly pouts when instructed to clean up her toys. She is soon distracted by the sight--and sound--of a Hulkish green giant stomping outside. The giant, named Jack, is also a child; Jack plays with Molly's home, neighborhood, and even Molly herself as if everything were a toy, moving items and people around haphazardly. After the giant ignores his parents' call to tidy up and join them for a picnic, Molly eventually stands up to Jack: "Stop! This is a giant mess! This is your mess. You must pick it up." Jack reluctantly follows Molly's direction, but runs away before the job is complete, leaving some silly visual surprises for readers to discover. The narrative is told exclusively through sequential art, rendered digitally with a clean line, purposeful paneling, and a vivid palette. Humor abounds in the visual imagery; for example, Jack mistakes a construction vehicle for a dragon and is shown shoving items under the grass. Parts of the dialogue repeat through the characters' parallel stories, and word balloons afford beginning readers an opportunity to read with the comfort of hefty white space. Sound effects and exclamations written outside of balloons add detail but might be challenging for some new readers to follow. At story's end, Molly offers to assist with the remaining mess, encouraging us to consider the character's (possible) growth: "Mom! Can you help?"
Reviewer: Elisa Gall | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2021
Behavior--Cleanliness
Hale, Shannon
304 pp. | Roaring Brook/First Second | August, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-1-250-31755-1 $21.99 | Paper ISBN 978-1-250-31756-8 $12.99
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by LeUyen Pham & Hilary Sycamore. In Hale's third graphic memoir (Real Friends, rev. 5/17; Best Friends, rev. 11/19), thirteen-year-old Shannon is now in eighth grade in 1987 Salt Lake City. She has made new best friends who share common interests (drama, glee, creative writing) and yet she doesn't always "feel good" due to her undiagnosed anxiety and mild OCD. She makes a list in her journal--"I would feel fulfilled if I could be: 1. beautiful 2. famous 3. successful 4. liked by boys 5. a good person"--and those items then serve as chapter subjects, featured on the openers as magazine cover titles. But this self-imposed pressure to be "perfect" overwhelms her, leading to fallouts with friends, failed classes, and fights with her parents. Despite the title, this third book is less about Shannon's friendships and more about how she perceives herself--a relatable exploration for many young teens. Hale frankly but sensitively depicts her disappointments, embarrassments, and achievements. Pham's digitally colored ink illustrations skillfully reflect the character's roller-coaster emotions, switching color palettes between reality (bright), fanciful daydreams (pastel), flashbacks (monochrome), and depressed introspection (subdued). Varied panel sizes further emphasize Shannon's feelings, particularly in a heart-wrenching series of large grayscale panels when she is at her lowest ("I hate myself"). While the hopeful ending feels a bit rushed, Shannon's choice to love herself and the realization that she's enough just the way she is help her--and readers--move forward.
Reviewer: Cynthia K. Ritter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2021
Salt Lake City (UT)
Women--Autobiographies
Women--Writers
Harper, Charise Mericle
Bad Sister
240 pp. | Roaring Brook/First Second | July, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-1-250-21906-0 $19.99 | Paper ISBN 978-1-250-21905-3 $12.99
(1) 4-6 Illustrated by Rory Lucey. Skillfully told through the comics medium, this memoir centers on the author's childhood experiences as a self-identified "bad sister": "It wasn't on purpose. The badness just happened." Chapters function as short personal narratives, depicting memories of young Charise and her less-than-stellar treatment of her younger brother, Daniel. In one scene, Charise convinces Daniel to eat cat food; in another, she accidentally breaks one of his teeth with a golf club. As the siblings play, fight, and grow together, Charise develops understanding of and compassion for herself as well as others. Over time she learns to apologize to--and advocate for--her sibling. Raw emotions of guilt, shame, and jealousy are explored, as young Charise interrogates the power dynamics of big sisterhood and recognizes Daniel's strengths. The first-person, past-tense narration is balanced by in-the-moment dialogue between characters. In bubbly, bright hues with loose outlines, Lucey's comics convey thoughtfulness in form, placement, and perspective. Chapter introduction panels that look like Polaroids and the use of Ben-Day dots (like those typically found in newspaper funnies) add to the retro scrapbook-like feel. The soon-to-be cartoonist's artistic endeavors are an ever-present part of this childhood portrait, but the emphasis remains on the highs, lows, and everything-in-between of sibling relationships.
Reviewer: Elisa Gall | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2021
Women--Artists
Kantorovitz, Sylvie
352 pp. | Walker US/Candlewick | February, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-1-5362-0762-0 $24.99 | Paper ISBN 978-1-5362-0763-7 $16.99
(2) 4-6 Author-illustrator Kantorovitz's (Zig and the Magic Umbrella, rev. 5/15) graphic memoir is an engaging and thoughtful story of an observant child who grows into a young adult eager to pursue teaching and art. Kantorovitz and her siblings lived at a teacher-training college in France where her father was the principal. They had the run of the campus, and Sylvie eventually moved into her own private room, a "kingdom" separate from her family's apartment. Her childhood was marked by her mother's moods and her high academic expectations for Sylvie--"it doesn't count if the others also got As." With relatively few words, Kantorovitz describes her parents' difficult marriage and the support she received from her father; it was he who encouraged Sylvie's love of and talent for art. The book's design is open and friendly. Large cartoon-style illustrations, sometimes just one to a page, are uncluttered and attractive, making them inviting even while they explore difficult themes, including Sylvie's fear that her Jewish faith will set her apart from her friends and classmates. Even at a hefty 350-plus pages, the book looks so approachable that it will likely attract a wide range of readers who will discover a strong story about navigating family, school, and friendships while finding one's purpose.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2021
Women--Illustrators
Lewis, John & Aydin, Andrew
Run: Book One
160 pp. | Abrams/ComicArts/Good Trouble Productions | August, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4197-3069-6 $24.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-68335-382-9 $18.65
(1) YA Illustrated by L. Fury & Nate Powell. The story begun in the March graphic memoirs (rev. 1/14, 5/15, and 9/16)--events of the civil rights movement as seen through the eyes of young activist (and later longtime Congress member) John Lewis--continues in this first volume of a projected new series. It picks up after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as Lewis questions his own effectiveness as SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) chairperson. But Lewis's personal story is mostly a springboard to larger events. Depictions of efforts by segregationists to close or move polling stations; the unpunished 1966 murder of young Black man Samuel Younge Jr.; and the prevention of Julian Bond's being seated in the Georgia General Assembly show how white supremacists and segregationists were emboldened to maintain existing power structures. Taking over most art duties from March illustrator Powell (who illustrates the pages leading up to the title page), Fury renders emotionally devastating, often violent events and quieter moments with equal finesse. Her grayscale art is reminiscent of Powell's, but with cleaner-lined, less stylized figures. Extensive back matter includes biographical information on dozens of individuals, meticulous source notes, and additional background on both the civil rights movement and the book's creation. Most of the finished pages were completed before Lewis's death in 2020; plans are in progress for the series to continue with additional material he and Aydin worked on together. As informative and essential an addition to the nonfiction comic canon as its much-lauded predecessors.
Reviewer: Eric Carpenter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2021
Liniers,
40 pp. | TOON | April, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-1-943145-53-9 $12.95
(1) K-3 Liniers (The Big Wet Balloon, rev. 9/13; Good Night, Planet, rev. 1/18) presents a charming celebration of nature, siblinghood, and imaginative play. As three sisters play together on a mysterious island (their backyard), they encounter a plane crash, a tiny gorilla, talking flowers, a dragon, and more. The dragon isn't vanquished until the magic of play is broken by a voice calling the girls in for dinner. ("Only reality can kill a dragon.") As the children run inside, visuals of their scattered playthings reveal the everyday toys and crafts that inspired their creative ideas. A smiley-faced flower in the final spread hints to readers that there might be more mystery in the world than we suspect. Liniers has a strong command of ink and watercolors, as well as of the comics medium, effectively employing panel sizes, close-ups, and layouts to build suspense and pace readers through the thrilling but never-too-scary adventures. Short sentences, repetition, and numbered pages offer additional support for beginning readers, à la Abby Hanlon's Dory Fantasmagory (2014). The sibling relationship is delineated with care and realism; the sisters enjoy the freedom of storytelling and look to one another for guidance as they build on--and sometimes disagree with--various narrative ideas. ("Giraffes don't growl! And we already have a tiny animal.") Endpapers show the characters featured amongst wildflowers in what resembles a spread from a field guide.
Reviewer: Elisa Gall | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2021
Ruzzier, Sergio
Fish and Sun
48 pp. | HarperCollins/HarperAlley | June, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-307664-8 $16.99 | Paper ISBN 978-0-06-307663-1 $4.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-06-307665-5 $4.99
(1) K-3 I Can Read!: Comics series. These two entries in the new I Can Read!: Comics series show its audience range. Fish, for younger, almost-independent readers, features an aquatic protagonist with an all-too-familiar problem: "Mom, I'm bored." Fish leaves the dark, cold depths of the sea and encounters Sun. The two play all day until the sun sets; Fish is disconsolate until discovering that Sun returns the next day--and every day. Uncluttered watercolor illustrations, in Ruzzier's (Good Boy, rev. 1/19; the Fox + Chick books, rev. 7/18, 7/19, and 5/21) always imaginative, slightly off-kilter style, reinforce the playful action; the natural language and phonetic patterns will serve readers well; and the emotional drama is pitch perfect. Shell, aimed at more experienced readers, features two entertainingly cartoony plump and similar-looking creatures; but while one has a sn | 6,684 |
The Scotch Pie Club is delighted to announce that two Buchan companies have been presented top awards at the 16th World Scotch Pie Championships.
Peterhead's The Hame Bakery was awarded Gold for its Scotch Pie while Bert Fowlie of Strichen received<|fim_middle|> in Cumbernauld, all of the butchers and bakers that were shortlisted can truly be proud to have produced some of the best products in the land.
The competition, which has run annually for the last 16 years, aims to highlight that bakers and butchers create high quality artisan pastry products.
Alan Clarke of Scottish Bakers, said: "Once again we have brought together the best pies and baked goods in the land and today we can really celebrate the achievement of our hard working butchers and bakers.
The competition is supported by Scottish Bakers and the Scottish Federation of Meat Traders. | Gold for its Mediterranean Lasagne Pie in the Vegetarian Savoury category.
A spokesperson for The Hame Bakery said: "We are delighted with our win and can go away with our heads held very high indeed.
The ultimate prize and new holder of the title "World Scotch Pie Champion 2015" went to Murrays Bakers of Perth.
This year's competition became the busiest judging day ever with a record entry of 100 butchers and bakers entering some 567 pies, pasties, sausage rolls, bridies, savouries and apple pies.
And with some 300 hopefuls attending the awards luncheon | 136 |
The Rev<|fim_middle|>. | . Dr. Jordan Hillebert was born and raised in the States, completed a PhD in Scotland (University of St. Andrews), and is tutor in theology at St. Padarn's Institute in Cardiff, Wales.
He is a priest of the Church in Wales and serves as an assistant curate in the parish of Christ Church, Roath Park, in the Diocese of Llandaff. His research interests lie broadly in the areas of systematic theology and modern Christian thought. He is the editor and a contributing author to the T&T Clark Companion to Henri de Lubac.
Jordan lives in Cardiff with his wife, Krisi, and their ill-behaved beagle. He is acclimating well to British pubs but still mourns the loss of Southern cuisine.
Barth asked: What sort of country is spread before our eyes when we throw the Bible open?
God is not to be used; God alone is to be enjoyed. Theology is the stubborn pursuit of this enjoyment.
In a section of the Summa on prayer, St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) alerts us to three perennial errors, pitfalls at the intersection of prayer and theology.
The Rev. Dr. Jordan Hillebert was born and raised in the States, completed a Ph.D. in Scotland (University of St Andrews), and is presently Tutor in Theology at the St Padarn's Institute in Cardiff, Wales | 287 |
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