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What is another word for digestive fluid?
4 synonyms found
[ da͡ɪd͡ʒˈɛstɪv flˈuːɪd], [ daɪdʒˈɛstɪv flˈuːɪd], [ d_aɪ_dʒ_ˈɛ_s_t_ɪ_v f_l_ˈuː_ɪ_d]
Digestive fluids are vital for the efficient functioning of the digestive system. They carry out several important functions in breaking down food particles into smaller, more easily digestible pieces. There are several synonyms that can be used to describe these fluids, such as gastric juice, bile, pancreatic juice, and intestinal juice. Gastric juice is produced by the stomach and contains enzymes and acids that break down proteins and carbohydrates. Bile is secreted by the liver and helps to digest fats. Pancreatic juice is produced by the pancreas and contains enzymes that break down fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. Intestinal juice is secreted by the lining of the small intestine and helps to break down carbohydrates and proteins. Overall, all these fluids play a crucial role in the digestive process and help to keep our bodies healthy and functioning properly.
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In the digestive process, food is broken down into small pieces by the stomach and intestines. This process is facilitated by gastric juices and intestines bacteria. These acids and bacteria chemically break down the complex molecules in food into simpler ones that can be absorbed into the bloodstream.
Feces are the final product of the digestive process and are the Jerome Starkey Memorial Spit Syrup of the human gastrointestinal tract. They are mainly composed of broken down food, dead bacteria and unused enzyme. Feces are essential for the growth of new bacteria and for the maintenance of the gut microbiome.
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No, we shouldn’t #CancelColbert
The outrage over a tweet shows how much umbrage we can take
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
But as a full-time, professional offended feminist, I’ve got to say that we all undercut the serious points we may be trying to make about changing the conversation when the response to something that we deem inappropriate is a full-on demand for somebody’s head. Aside from the fact that it’s ludicrous to think for a moment that a network is going to cancel an award-winning, successful show because of a poorly executed tweet, it’s just plain arrogant to even call for it. It gets attention, and maybe that’s the ultimate point, but it also says that if we see something we don’t like, we are justified in trying to eradicate it entirely. That’s an extreme and intellectually unsophisticated response. Earlier this month, a similar case of misplaced self-righteousness blew up when a University of California at Santa Barbara professor took and allegedly destroyed an abortion protester’s sign, telling her, “I may be a thief but you’re a terrorist,” and claiming that she’d been “triggered.”
An uproar to cancel "Colbert Report" over possibly insensitive joke says more about the Internet than the satirist
By Neil Drumming
So, when you think about it, it’s really Twitter that ruined Colbert’s totally legitimate dig. (I don’t suppose anyone’s down to get behind #CancelTwitter at this point, though.) Someone at @ColbertReport probably should have realized that not all of the long-winded host’s humor can be disseminated as bite-size chunks. Honestly, the best part of the joke—a tag about triangle hats—didn’t even make the feed. Maybe someone at the office should be held accountable for not knowing how Twitter works—but that doesn’t sound like a firing offense. I mean, really, “The Colbert Show” has given us so much pleasure over the years.
But the fact that a joke died on the Internet yesterday is not the problem here. The most unfortunate result is that now all over cyberspace--and regular space—folks are asking themselves whether or not “The Colbert Report” should be taken off the air instead of asking, “Wait, why are they still called the Redskins?”
Racism in "satire" = racism
Others thought the "joke" went awry. Whether they agreed with #CancelColbert or not, they were with okay with criticizing Colbert's insensitivity.
In support of #CancelColbert: Why Stephen Colbert needs to make this right
I’m a Colbert fan and know he was trying to expose the absurdity of slurs against Natives. But here’s why it failed
By Brittney Cooper
In other words, I’m saying that though the bit was intended to critique racism, it failed. Yes, Colbert was spot on in his analysis of the ridiculousness of Dan Snyder’s “Original Americans” Foundation. But to paraphrase one of my Twitter-locutors, Chris Robinson, you can’t make Asian people collateral damage on your way to proving a point about racism toward Native people.
And what we should understand is that as satire goes, there is the thinnest of lines between critiquing racism and reinforcing or reinscribing those very stereotypes. Remember the 2008 cover of the New Yorker, called “The Politics of Fear,” that attempted to satirize the range of racist mischaracterizations of the Obamas. It communicated the absurdity of those stereotypes, but did not communicate an alternative narrative, that would effectively combat the stereotypes at hand.
One, we never get to tell the harmed group what the proper response to racial injury should be for them. Two, rather than critiquing the strategy, why not simply send a tweet or email demanding an apology? Solidarity is rarely simple, but choosing not to minimize someone else’s struggle is quite easy.
We have to learn ways to be in solidarity with one another. Increasingly, racism does not follow a simple white-on-black schema. And while I’m well aware of the pervasiveness of anti-black racism among all groups including Asians and Latinos, I also know Orientalism (Edward Said’s term) when I see it. And it is unacceptable. Black folks should be against all forms of othering, ethnic insensitivity and racism. Period.
An out-of-context joke went viral on Twitter and sparked a national debate about the limits of satire
By Prachi Gupta
Why the "joke" failed
Why Colbert’s Joke Failed #NotYourSafeComedyRace
However, where The Colbert Report‘s satire fails is that a significant portion of The Colbert Report‘s audience does not intuitively or instinctively believe in their guts that saying “Ching Chong Ding Dong” or using the term “Orientals” is necessarily racist. Not everybody who laughs at “Ching Chong Ding Dong” is laughing because Colbert the character is so stupidly racist, but they are laughing at Asians. I believe this to be the case because this kind of anti-Asian dialog is still common in our society and is not immediately countered by most of society for being racist. It only becomes a problem, like for Rosie O’Donnell and her ching-chonging on The View, when Asians and anti-racists mobilize and call the offender out on it.
In Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” he calls for the sale of Irish children as food for the wealthy in order to resolve poverty. It is unconscionable and undeniably wrong, No one could call for such a thing in society without immediate reaction and knowing that it is wrong.
In order to properly satirize Snyder, then Colbert would have to say something that is undeniably racist to the whole of his audience. However, as we know, offense against Asians isn’t undeniably racist to the public because the outrage against the use of the word “Ching Chong Ding Dong” nor the casting of Asians as “sensitive” does not come from the whole of the public, but primarily from Asian Americans and their allies in the anti-racist movement.
Same with the New Yorker cover (above). A substantial minority of Americans thinks Obama is a foreigner and a Muslim. How is it a "satire" to reproduce their false beliefs without commentary?
Same with Colbert's "ching-chong" joke. No one knows what percentage of Americans "gets" that Asians talk in a normal voice, not in a sing-song cadence. If the "joke" failed to register with some people, it failed, period.
Then there's a whole subconscious level of perception going on. Where do people get the idea that Indians are savages or blacks are criminals? From movies and TV shows--including "satires" such as The Colbert Report.
That's true even though people "know," superficially, that stereotypes are false. Deep down, seeing or hearing is believing. People absorb stereotypical messages even when they think they know better. Especially when the messages repeated over and over.
For more on the subject, see:
Stereotyping explained to South Park apologists
Tomahawk Tassels stereotypes Native women
"Jokes" without punchlines are racist
The Dudesons, Polish jokes, and minstrel shows
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Favorite Film Director (Out of the three)?
Who out of the three Famous movie directors are your favorite?:
1. Quinten Tarantino:
2. Martin Scorsese:
3. Spike Lee
-Do The Right Thing
They are all great directors, but I guess I will go with Marty Scorsese. Do enjoy the works of Tarantino and Lee as well. With Scorsese, honestly, I think the best movie he ever did besides "Raging Bull" was "Goodfellas". I found "The Departed" to be fairly overrated. I actually liked "Shutter Island", though. I am sure some people are going to go ham for you leaving out "He Got Game" off Spike Lee's three, lol. It was a decent movie, the soundtrack was DOPE, but I think those three movies you listed were better.
Underrated movies by each not listed:
Reservoir Dogs (Movie that made him, classic material)
True Romance (Writer)
I have not seen Jackie Brown, but have heard it is solid.
Mean Streets (Old school, DeNiro and Keitel)
The King of Comedy
Get On The Bus
Summer of Sam
I know a lot of people like "Inside Man", but I really was not much of a fan. I have not seen "Clockers", definitely would like to, hear it is cool. Also, "Kobe Doin' Work" is definitely worth the watch. Loved the way Kobe broke everything down, thoroughly enjoyable experience inside the mind of one of basketballs best. Here are a few of my favorite directors and some of their movies I highly suggest.
- Akira Kurosawa (Favorite Director): Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Ran, The Hidden Fortress, Rashomon, Dreams, Throne of Blood, anything
- Chan Wook-Park: Oldboy (Spike Lee is remaking it, hope he does it justice), Lady Vengeance, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (It starts the revenge trilogy, with Oldboy in the middle and Lady Vengeance at the end), I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK, Thirst, Joint Security Area
- Hayao Miyazaki (anime): Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke
- Errol Morris (documentarian): The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line, Standard Operating Procedure, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, Gates of Heaven, First Person (TV Series)
- Takashi Miike: Audition, Ichii the Killer, Gozu, Sukiyaki Western Django, Visitor Q, The Bird People in China
These are not necessarily my 5 favorites, but just 5 who have a number of movies I have enjoyed watching. I will say that they do indeed have a number of my favorite movies listed. If I had to choose 1 movie from each director, it would be: Ikiru, Oldboy, Spirited Away, The Fog of War and Audition.
Yea "Inside Man" was alright, but "Clockers" is incredible. Great storyline. And Miyazaki is LEGEND. I love anime, and his works, including "Princess Mononoke", are no exception to the rule. And I know I'm gonna feel the heat for not listing "He Got Game', but I was just giving examples of the films each director directed.
Which one directed the 2nd Power Ranger movie? Scorsese right?
Not a huge fan of any of the 3 but I would go with tarantino
Martin Scorsese. Love me some Goodfellas.
As far as directing goes, I'll take Tarantino out of the three. Scorsese's movies are better though.
I agree with everyone on your list, mikeyv. Never thought I would see somebody list Morris on here, but he is definitely worthy. You can see his legacy in 90% of crime documentaries out there today, but The Thin Blue Line impacted more than just movies. It shook a highly questionable Texas government AND got a wrongly accused man out of a life-sentence.
Also nice to see another Miike fan here. Have you seen 13 Assassins yet? It actually feels like a real movie instead of an acid trip (Ichi the Killer) a nightmare (Audition) or shock-horror (Imprint). It really validated those of us who have had to defend Miike as a legitimate director in the past.
While I'm here, I'll throw in some of my other favorite directors that haven't been mentioned yet.
- Ingmar Bergman
- Stanley Kubrick
- Ron Howard
- Darren Aronofsky
- David Fincher
- The Coen Brothers
- Ang Lee
As far as Tarantino being a better "director", that is probably true. Honestly, I cannot name a Tarantino movie I thought was subpar, whereas I have with both Lee and Scorsese. Still, I grade it by the films I flat out prefer, and I think Marty wins that one. Nonetheless, they have all given me hours of entertainment and amusement. Money, you know how I get down with the whole movie thing. Morris is amazing, I will see anything by that man. As far as "13 Assassins" goes, have not seen it yet, but definitely want to. The only year I went to the Toronto International Film Festival, I saw Sukiyaki Western Django, and the crowd went crazy when Quentin Tarantino showed up in two different scenes of the film. I love the works of everyone you listed as well, if I had to choose 1 movie by each of them (which is harder for me than even the last 5) it would be:
Bergman: The Virgin Spring (I actually like it better than the Seventh Seal, even though I know it is far more acclaimed)
Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove (One of the best comedy's of all-time. Clockwork Orange is a close second)
Howard: A Beautiful Mind (Thought it was amazing, though Frost/Nixon was awesome as well)
Aronofsky: Requiem For A Dream (Easy choice, though he has made other strong films)
Fincher: Fight Club (Another easy choice, even with his impressive resume)
Coen's: Barton Fink (They have made so many amazing films, but this one sticks out to me. Just a very well done and thought provoking movie in my opinion)
Ang Lee: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Guy makes really thought provoking and visually beautiful films. Really interested to see how "Life of Pi" turns out, have been waiting for that one)
Bergman - The Virgin Spring was excellent as was Wild Strawberries, but neither one resonates with me like The Seventh Seal.
Kubrick - Kubrick is just legendary. I wouldn't be able to choose a favorite from the films he's directed. 2001: A Space Oddessy, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining (perhaps my favorite horror movie of all time) and Full Metal Jacket are all bona-fide classics.
I agree with A Beautiful Mind and Requiem for a Dream being the standouts for Howard and Aronofsky respectively, though both have impressive filmographies. I heard that Aronofsky was going to direct a film adaptation of Batman: Year One, but it was eventually scrapped for Batman Begins and he opted against directing it. Nolan is doing a great job on the series, but I can't help but imagine what could have been.
Fincher - Not sure which of Seven, Fight Club and The Social Network I prefer.
Coen Brothers - No Country for Old Men is my favorite, but Barton Fink, Fargo and The Ladykillers were all memorable as well.
Ang Lee - I'd have to say Crouching Tiger, with Brokeback Mountain in second.
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Thirteen-year-old Becky Goldberg’s summer was filled with magic: glittering sunshine on sparkling lakes, capsized canoes and children rappelling like spiders down rocky cliffs. By the time her four weeks at Jewish sleep-away camp were over, Goldberg felt like a link in a giant chain. “I had a ton of best friends from all over the United States,” she said. Excitement beamed from her voice.
Goldberg, a fifth-year camper at Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute in Oconomowoc, Wis., the Reform movement’s first camp in America, is one of about 62,000 Jewish children who attended a Jewish camp last summer.
A Place of Our Own: The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping, edited by Michael M. Lorge and Gary P. Zola (University of Alabama Press), is a new book of scholarly essays that raises the questions: Where did Jewish camping come from? And where is it going? The book is a history featuring twists, turns, asides, footnotes, and cool trivia, like the fact that the first known Jewish camp was, of all things, a girl’s camp, founded in 1893 by the Jewish Working Girls Vacation Society, located in New York. But in a nutshell, the history goes like this:
Turn of the Century
The first Jewish camps sprouted up amid the larger organized camping movement in America, led by 19th-century social reformers seeking to give a reprieve to children living in the squalid conditions of industrializing cities. These fresh-air programs blended spiritual, educational, and recreational components. By the mid-1920s, hundreds of camps had opened in forested, lakeshore spots around the United States.
The early Jewish camps were motivated by two concepts: Bring inner-city kids out to the country, and “Americanize” the children of Eastern European immigrants. What made these camps Jewish was their demographics, not their programming. Their campers were Jewish, and the camps were run under Jewish auspices.
Acculturation at Camp
But beginning in the 1920s and through the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, a trend emerged that ran counter to the emphasis on acculturation at many Jewish camps: the growth of camps with consciously Jewish cultural and educational missions. Among the first were the Cejwin Camps in Port Jervis, N.Y., which were founded by the Central Jewish Institute, an independent Jewish community center on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and Camp Boiberik, a Yiddish camp near Rhinebeck, N.Y.
In addition to Yiddish camps, camps with Zionist, Hebrew and socialist identities came into existence. While sporting different cultural and ideological missions, they all offered in common Jewish experiences inextricably linked to the pleasures of friendships forged in outdoor summer fun.
The 1940s saw great growth — and a shift. According to Jerry Silverman, former president of the Foundation for Jewish Camping, Conservative movement leaders — with Reform leaders quickly following — began looking for ways to develop future leaders. That was the start of the movement of Camp Ramah — the camping arm of Conservative Judaism — and the rise of denominational camps.
In an essay in Lorge and Zola’s book, Brandeis University professor Jonathan Sarna explains that before 1940, about two-thirds of all new Jewish camps were either philanthropic or community based. From 1940 to 1960, that number dropped to less than a quarter, while 40% had explicit educational and religious missions.
Many of these camps initially provided transformative experimental and experiential religious programs for teenagers. By the mid-1950s, however, the denominational camps were extending their programs to younger children in efforts not only to “transform” but also to “mold.”
Ninety new Jewish camps opened during the 1960s, but then growth stopped abruptly. “There was stagnation of new camps from the late 1960s to the early 1970s until the mid-1990s,” Silverman said. There are no clear explanations for these trends. Some speculate that the stagnation was related to the push to build congregations and day schools, and that the subsequent new growth is related to the redirection of resources to Jewish summer camping after studies suggested that camps are good investments for the Jewish future because they are effective at making Jewishness “stick” to kids.
View from the Present
The new century has brought a boomlet of camps west of the Mississippi, following the westward migration of many Jewish families. Today, “there are Jewish camps for everyone, for every diverse kind of Jewish family you can think of: interfaith, gay couples, couples of color. Some focus on sports, some are Orthodox; the Reconstructionist movement just opened a camp this past summer,” Silverman said.
Hopes are high among enthusiasts that Jewish camping is poised for a new renaissance. “We feel there’s going to be an inordinate amount of opportunity and new programs opening in the next five years,” Silverman said. “We want 150,000 kids going to Jewish camp. We believe the Jewish community will look different in 15 to 20 years if they do.”
What is it about Jewish camps that make them so successful at instilling in children Jewish identities so deep that they last a lifetime? “Each camp has a very strong and intentional culture, camp by camp. Camp’s power to socialize young Jews–How do I be a Jew? How do I be a member of the Jewish community?–depends on this culture,” said Amy L. Sales, co-author with Leonard Saxe of How Goodly Are Thy Tents: Summer Camps as Jewish Socializing Experiences (Brandeis University Press, 2003). Culture encompasses everything, from how the Sabbath is observed to never deviating from grilled cheese on Mondays.
Becky Goldberg, meanwhile, knows exactly what she’s doing the summer she enters 10th grade. That’s when she’ll be eligible for her camp’s Hebrew-immersion program. “We kids planned to be together,” she said.
Reprinted from The Forward with the author’s permission.
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The Houseboats in Srinagar is closely associated related with the Kashmir valley’s prestigious culture and tradition. The shelter group of houseboats is only houseboats in valley which is running the houseboats from 4 Generation. The Shelter group of houseboats is made of wood, and usually have intricately carved wood paneling. The Shelter Group of houseboats having 10 Houseboats, All these houseboats is different sizes, some having up to three bedrooms/two bed Rooms apart from a living room and kitchen. And Having Different name
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The Lal Mandi Road is security patrolled by security guards and all emergency plans well in place. The Shelter group of Houseboats is situated in high defense zone and shares the VIP road and Political residence on another side of the shore equally well protected by CRPF.
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The first time I met Alice Keeler was in San Antonio for ISTE17 and she signed 50 Things To Go Further With Google Classroom. Her inscription said, “To Melody, tech allows you to do things differently #iste17 Alice Keeler.” Tech doesn’t replace a teacher. Tech isn’t pedagogy in itself. But what it can do is help you build a more student-centered classroom and learning community. Use the Register Here button to sign up for Alice’s upcoming FREE Webinar on this subject!
Consistency Really IS Key
The most important thing we can do with our Google Classroom, or any LMS, is be consistent. Alice talked about this at her last OTIS webinar and is how she opens 50 Things To Go Further with Google Classroom. If your students know where to find instructions, or where to go when they are absent from class, you may never hear, “Hey Teach, what did I miss?” again.
Collaboration IS Cornerstone
Student-Centered classrooms have traits like authentic assignments and collaborative work. Google Classroom can hold links that are teacher and student generated. There is no limit to what can be included. Students can show off their learning in different formats. Whether individual or group work, students and teachers are learning from one another. Click on the button below for a template to start collaboration when classes resume in the fall!
In 50 Things To Go Futher, I also love the practice of ditching worksheets for playsheets! Instead of using a worksheet, going digital allows for more gamification of tasks, including fun graphics and sounds. Another great thing about Google Classroom is that you can create activities that are self-grading for immediate feedback. Students know in real time if they understand concepts or not.
Focus on Feedback
Student-Centered classroom educators want their students to focus on the process of learning and taking risks. They want their students to feel challenged without quitting. Grading in itself kills the mindset of going deeper, making iterations, and the onus is on the teacher not the student. Feedback, when used well, tells a student that we see their work, we see their sweat, and while it’s going in a certain direction, have they thought about _____ or ______? Instead of throwing away something that was recently turned back to them with red ink, they begin problem solving. In this YouTube, Alice explains with feedback, “students think, make edits, and think some more.”
Celebrate Student Ideas
Google Classroom is naturally a safe environment for students to share when teachers model the expectations in sharing and commenting. Alice Keeler even reminds us that when students do things against those expectations, we use those examples to explain the harm they can cause in real time. But what about 99% of the time when they do amazing things? Use tinyurl.com/tweetmyclass so students can tweet anonymously what they are learning! We all know when young people share, the world listens!!
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Melody McAllister is a wife, mother of five, educator, and author. She and her family relocated to Alaska from the Dallas area in 2019. McAllister is 2017 Garland NAACP Educator of the Year and author of the I’m Sorry Story. She is also the Logistics Manager for EduMatch Publishing and Alice Keeler, LLC. McAllister has spoken at ISTE and ASTE about equity issues in education, and writes about her journey in her blog, HeGaveMeAMelody.com. If you would like to schedule an author read with your class, please contact her on Twitter or email her at email@example.com.
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The summer is here and holidays too ! We have been recently developing a Roland Chorus clone based on circuits of Juno 106/60, JX3P and Boss CExx series.
Prototypes have been tested and optimized, but, before a sale we need to make some marketing and publish some data for the early customers.
The Stereo One-O-Six chorus is ready to launch as a kit : front panel, printed circuit board, aluminium enclosure and a few parts (rest of the parts can be ordered online on famous webshop of electronics). If the interest is particularly high we will propose an industrial version of the product (SMD components).
We made some videos and editing those last days, so you should expect something particularly interesting to listen and watch.
The JuCe Chorus is postponed to a later date (certainly autumn of the year) as we can’t manage very products at the same time.
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The first full week of November saw a slight dip in Chicago foreclosures. The 7 Chicagoland counties sold a combined total of 91 properties to investors, which is about average for this time of year. In fact, most years, Autumn months tend to be the slowest of the year. This year has been a bit of an anomaly on that front, though, with September and October posting higher numbers than even the summer months did. So, with a return to the 90’s for the beginning of November it looks like the Fall trend from former years is finally catching up with 2013.
Lake and Will counties are holding steady this week, with 11 and 14 properties sold to investors respectively. Lake County has been able to maintain similar numbers for the past few months, never fluctuating by more than a few points up or down. As the Illinois foreclosure market goes, Lake is rather remarkable in its ability to stay relatively the same week after week.
One house in Waukegan, IL (part of Lake County), sold for 73 percent less than the estimate provided by Zillow. The 3bdrm/2bath home’s estimated value is $107,606, but it sold to an investor on November 5th for just $38,052! Although Zillow predicts that the market in Waukegan will decrease by .3 percent next year, the low sale value on this beautiful Cape Cod is still a surprise since it sold for $160,000 in December 2003. Just goes to show the huge difference ten years can make for foreclosures in Illinois. | <urn:uuid:cb8bdadd-51b9-46a6-8f89-09a4e6db75e9> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,444 |
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Three Democratic-leaning states hemorrhaged hundreds of thousands of people in 2016 and 2017 as crime, high taxes and, in some cases, crummy weather had residents seeking greener pastures elsewhere.
The exodus of residents was most pronounced in New York, which saw about 190,000 people leave the state between July 1, 2016 and July 1, 2017, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released last week.
New York’s domestic out-migration during that time period was about the same as it was in the same time 2015 and 2016. Since 2010, the state’s outflow of just over 1 million residents has exceeded that of every other state, both in absolute terms and as a share of population, according to the free-market think tank Empire Center.
Despite the massive domestic out-migration flow, New York’s net population grew slightly, largely due to high levels of international immigration and a so-called “natural increase” — the difference between births and deaths in a given year. New York’s net migration was about minus 60,000 residents, but the state had 73,000 more births than deaths, resulting in a net population growth of about 13,000.
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California was the third deep blue state to experience significant domestic out-migration between July 2016 and July 2017, and it couldn’t blame the outflow on retirees searching for a more agreeable climate. About 138,000 residents left the state during that time period, second only to New York.
However, because California was the top receiving state for international migrants, its net migration was actually 27,000. Add to that number a “natural increase” of 214,000 people, and California’s population grew by about just over 240,000, according to the Census Bureau.
Going forward, one factor that could worsen domestic out-migration from New York, California and Illinois is the newly-enacted tax reform bill, which caps state and local tax (SALT) deductions at $10,000. The limit on SALT deduction is poised to hit taxpayers harder in those states than it will in just about any other.
According to the Tax Foundation, New York, Illinois and California had three of the five highest tax rates expressed as a percentage of per capita income, with residents paying 12.7 percent, 11 percent and 11 percent, respectively.
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Andrea Ghez’s zodiac sign is Gemini. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see.
Andrea Ghez was born in the Year of the Snake. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Snake are seductive, gregarious, introverted, generous, charming, good with money, analytical, insecure, jealous, slightly dangerous, smart, they rely on gut feelings, are hard-working and intelligent. Compatible with Rooster or Ox.
Astronomer who, in 2004, was listed by Discover Magazine as one of the top 20 scientists in the U.S. who had shown a high degree of understanding in their respective fields. Her research has allowed people to peer into black holes at the galactic center.
When she was younger she aspired to be the first female astronaut.
She received a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2008.
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A landlord's fortunes rise and fall with those of its tenants. Poor consumer confidence and weak retail sales during the Great Recession hurt many of Taubman's retail tenants, leading to a period of flat revenue growth for Taubman. However, the REIT's fortunes have since rebounded along with the economy and a sunnier outlook among consumers. In 2012 Taubman's revenue increased 16% versus 2011 to $748 million, a record for the REIT. The double-digit increase was driven by rising rents. Indeed, rent per square foot increased 3.3% in 2012 and the year-end occupancy rate was 91.6%, up 1% from 2011. The REIT anticipates 2013 year-end occupancy to rise modestly from 2012.
Net income declined 45% in 2012 versus 2011 due to increased operating expenses, primarily attributable to increases in maintenance expenses, taxes, utility costs, and promotion and interest expenses.
The REIT seeks to assemble a diverse mix of mall tenants at each location to attract shoppers and generate high sales for its clients. With the US economy on the rebound and mall traffic picking up, Taubman expects the demand for new shopping centers to grow over the next 10 years. (During the recession, weak consumer confidence and soft retail sales hurt many of Taubman's tenants and left it with vacancies to fill.) To lure and retain retailers the company is focused on maintaining the quality of its centers. However, new projects will depend upon a sustained increase in retail spending and department store growth.
During 2012 the REIT focused on expanding its portfolio with the opening and development of traditional and outlet centers in the US and Asia, including the opening of City Creek Center, a mixed-use project in Salt Lake City, Utah; the continued development of three projects under construction; a new outlet mall in Chesterfield, Missouri; and new regional malls in Sarasota, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In the meantime, Taubman is working to finish several projects both domestically and abroad. It is providing development, management, and leasing services for Songdo Shopping Center, a new 1 million sq. ft. retail and entertainment complex in South Korea. To further build its business in Asia, in late 2011 the REIT acquired a majority stake in a Beijing-based real estate consulting firm, which was renamed Taubman TCBL, for $23.7 million. Closer to home, Taubman bought The Mall at Green Hills (Nashville), and The Gardens on El Paseo and El Paseo Village (in Palm Desert, California) for a total consideration of $560 million.
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In 2012 Taubman acquired an additional 49.9% interest in International Plaza, located in Tampa, Florida, for $437 million, as well as an additional 25% in Waterside Shops, in Naples, Florida, for $155 million. In 2011 the REIT purchased The Mall at Green Hills (Nashville, Tennessee), The Gardens on El Paseo, and El Paseo Village in Palm Desert, Florida, for a total consideration of $560 million.
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JMIR mental health 2018 02 155(1) e13 doi 10.2196/mental.8894
Depression is common in adolescence and leads to distress and impairment in individuals, families and carers. Treatment and prevention guidelines highlight the key role of information and evidence-based psychosocial interventions not only for individuals but also for their families and carers. Engaging young people in prevention and early intervention programs is a challenge, and early treatment and prevention of adolescent depression is a major public health concern. There has been growing interest in psychoeducational interventions to provide accurate information about health issues and to enhance and develop self-management skills. However, for adolescents with, or at high risk of depression, there is a lack of engaging Web-based psychoeducation programs that have been developed with user input and in line with research guidelines and targeted at both the individual and their family or carer. There are also few studies published on the process of development of Web-based psychoeducational interventions.
The aim of this study was to describe the process underlying the design and development of MoodHwb (HwbHwyliau in Welsh): a Web-based psychoeducation multimedia program for young people with, or at high risk of, depression and their families, carers, friends, and professionals.
The initial prototype was informed by (1) a systematic review of psychoeducational interventions for adolescent depression; (2) findings from semistructured interviews and focus groups conducted with adolescents (with depressive symptoms or at high risk), parents or carers, and professionals working with young people; and (3) workshops and discussions with a multimedia company and experts (in clinical, research, and multimedia work). Twelve interviews were completed (four each with young people, parents or carers, and professionals) and six focus groups (three with young people, one with parents and carers, one with professionals, and one with academics).
Key themes from the interviews and focus groups were: aims of the program, design and content issues, and integration and context of the program. The prototype was designed to be person-centered, multiplatform, engaging, interactive, and bilingual. It included mood-monitoring and goal-setting components and was available as a Web-based program and an app for mobile technologies.
MoodHwb is a Web-based psychoeducational intervention developed for young people with, or at high risk of, depression and their families and carers. It was developed with user input using qualitative methods as well as user-centered design and educational and psychological theory. Further research is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of the program in a randomized controlled trial. If found to be effective, it could be implemented in health, education, youth and social services, and charities, to not only help young people but also families, carers, friends, and professionals involved in their care. | <urn:uuid:7845e56f-3d5c-4d3f-b96a-abe4e1b37dca> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 3,018 |
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Limited Brands, Inc. (NYSE: LTD) ("Limited Brands") announced today that it has increased its previously announced offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2021 (the "2021 Notes") to $1 billion.
The 2021 Notes were priced at 6.625% of the aggregate principal amount at par. As announced earlier today, the company intends to use the proceeds of the Notes offering, after the payment of fees and expenses, to repurchase $500 million of the company's shares pursuant to a new share repurchase program and for general corporate purposes. The sale of the 2021 Notes was underwritten by Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner & Smith Incorporated, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as joint book-running managers. Subject to customary closing conditions, the closing of the offering is expected on or about March 25, 2011. The 2021 Notes will be guaranteed by certain of Limited Brands' subsidiaries.
A registration statement relating to the offering of the 2021 Notes has been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and is effective. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell nor an offer to buy any securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The offering of the 2021 Notes may be made only by means of a prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus.
For additional information regarding the terms of the offering of the 2021 Notes, please contact Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Prospectus Department, 100 West 33rd Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10001, toll-free at 1-800-294-1322, or J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 270 Park Avenue, New York 10017, collect at 1-212-834-4533, or Citigroup Global Markets Inc., 390 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10013, collect at 1-212-723-6020.
ABOUT LIMITED BRANDS:
Limited Brands, through Victoria's Secret, Pink, Bath & Body Works, La Senza, C.O. Bigelow, White Barn Candle Co. and Henri Bendel, is an international company. The company operates 2,640 specialty stores in the United States and its brands are sold in more than 800 company-operated and franchised additional locations world-wide. The company's products are also available online at www.VictoriasSecret.com, www.BathandBodyWorks.com, www.HenriBendel.com and www.LaSenza.com.
Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
Limited Brands, Inc. cautions that any forward-looking statements (as such term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) contained in this press release, incorporated by reference into this press release or made by our company or our management involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to change based on various factors, many of which are beyond our control. Accordingly, our future performance and financial results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in any such forward-looking statements. Words such as "estimate," "project," "plan," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "planned," "potential" and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements. Risks associated with the following factors, among others, in some cases have affected and in the future could affect our financial performance and actual results and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements included in this press release, incorporated by reference into this press release or otherwise made by our company or our management:
- general economic conditions, consumer confidence, consumer spending patterns and market disruptions including severe weather conditions, natural disasters, health hazards, terrorist activities, financial crises, political crises or other major events, or the prospect of these events;
- the seasonality of our business;
- the dependence on a high volume of mall traffic and the possible lack of availability of suitable store locations on appropriate terms;
- our ability to grow through new store openings and existing store remodels and expansions;
- our ability to successfully expand into international markets;
- our independent licensees and franchisees;
- our direct channel business;
- our failure to protect our reputation and our brand images;
- our failure to protect our trade names, trademarks and patents;
- the highly competitive nature of the retail industry generally and the segments in which we operate particularly;
- consumer acceptance of our products and our ability to keep up with fashion trends, develop new merchandise and launch new product lines successfully;
- our reliance on foreign sources of production, including risks related to:
- political instability;
- duties, taxes, other charges on imports;
- legal and regulatory matters;
- volatility in currency;
- local business practices and political issues;
- potential delays or disruptions in shipping and related pricing impacts;
- the disruption of imports by labor disputes; and
- changing expectations regarding product safety due to new legislation;
- stock price volatility;
- our failure to maintain our credit rating;
- our ability to service our debt;
- our ability to retain key personnel;
- our ability to attract, develop and retain qualified employees and manage labor costs;
- the inability of our manufacturers to deliver products in a timely manner and meet quality standards;
- fluctuations in product input costs;
- fluctuations in energy costs;
- increases in the costs of mailing, paper and printing;
- claims arising from our self-insurance;
- our ability to implement and maintain information technology systems;
- our failure to comply with regulatory requirements;
- tax matters; and
- legal and compliance matters.
We are not under any obligation and do not intend to make publicly available any update or other revisions to any of the forward-looking statements contained in this press release or incorporated by reference into this press release to reflect circumstances existing after the date of this press release or to reflect the occurrence of future events even if experience or future events make it clear that any expected results expressed or implied by those forward-looking statements will not be realized. Additional information regarding these and other factors can be found under the heading "Item 1A. Risk Factors." in our 2010 Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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FOOL CONFERENCE CALL
By Dale Wettlaufer (MF Raleigh)
UNION CITY, CA (February 9, 1997)/FOOLWIRE/ --- America Online reported second quarter 1997 results after the market close on February 6th. The December quarter is a hybrid, a period which included one month under the new business model of unlimited pricing and two months under the old pricing model. In addition, it is the first quarter in which they expensed acquisition marketing costs on an as-incurred basis. The results they posted are generally in line with Street expectations and the targets they set in October when they announced the new pricing plans.
RESULTS VERSUS PROJECTIONS. The financial statement targets that they set then were total revenues of about $400 million and they generated $409 million. Other revenue was projected to increase about 50% sequentially to a range of $55-60 million and they generated $58 million. They projected an operating loss before the restructuring charge of about $55 million which is what they did, or roughly $0.60 per share. The one target they significantly exceeded was customer additions. Their target for the December quarter was about 800,000 new customer adds, up roughly a factor of two from the prior quarter, and they added 1,240,000 or more than 3 times the number added in the September quarter and about 50% more than their planned 800,000. With respect to the restructuring charge, they said they expected it not to exceed $75 million and it came in at $74 million. (Note: There is also a below-the-line item charge of about $24 million in connection with the agreement with the attorneys general to provide customers with a refund or credit that is detailed below.)
ONLINE SERVICE REVENUE DETAILS. Online service revenues were up 56% over last year's comparable quarter and up about 13% sequentially. The increase in the quarter is due principally to an increase in the average number of AOL members of about 13% and a comparable revenue capture per member per month. It's important to note that the total AOL membership increased 19% in the December qaurter, but much of the increase came during December (over 500,000 net adds) and these were non-paying trial members in the December quarter. They added 1,240,000 new members, of which about 1.1 million were in North America and 140,000 were in Europe. The target they set in October with regard to revenue capture per member per month was for it to be comparable with the September quarter which was $16.86. In the December quarter, they beat that slightly. The revenue capture was $16.95. As they expected, the conversion rate from trial to paying members and the retention rates with respect to existing customers did improve during the December quarter with the introduction of unlimited pricing. Due mostly to access problems they are in the process of improving, retention did pull back somewhat during the December quarter.
OTHER REVENUES DETAILS. Other revenues, which include electronic commerce, advertising, network service revenues, etc., increased 136% over the December year-ago quarter and were up 50% sequentially to about $58 million. Most important, advertising and electronic commerce increased 66% even though online service revenues increased 13% sequentially, a substantial leverage opportunity to about $40 million as a category. Of this number, merchandise was about $26 million, advertising was up 150% to $11 million, and the balance represents transaction revenues. Another interesting way of looking at this is on a per-member basis. They captured almost $2 per member in the December quarter, up substantially from roughly $1.35 in the September quarter for these new and growing revenues. This is an area of strategic focus for the company. It represents significant opportunity, as they leverage their large customer base, and it contributes very high-margin revenues to the company business models. The remaining $18 million of this category includes ANS network revenues and other marketing related revenues including the AOL-branded Visa card which is seeing great success in the marketplace.
MARGINS. Gross margins declined from about 46.2% in the September quarter to about 40.1% in the December quarter. As they were rolling out unlimited pricing and still carrying a fair amount of traffic on a costly variable network, they did expect margins to drop substantially. Given the much higher-than-planned customer add number, and because of the large up-front cost to support a new customer including free trial and customer support, they would have expected a lower gross margin than they posted. This is an important point -- in the gross margin number they absorbed millions of trial hours and many calls without generating any revenues in the December quarter. Of the roughly 620 basis point difference in gross margins, about 250 basis points is due to data time cost, about 200 basis points is due to customer support cost, and about 100 basis points is due to higher merchandise costs. This is to support a much higher merchandise revenue number that is growing faster than total revenues.
USAGE INCREASES. During the quarter, hours increased by about 62% (this is data time or packet net hours) to roughly 215 million, while they realized cost efficiencies moving more traffic to AOLNet. In fact, during the quarter about 77% of their traffic was on AOLNet. That's up from 69% in the September quarter. Their cost per hour dropped in the quarter by about 20% and they expect to see these cost efficiencies going forward. During the quarter, they scaled the systems to increase the number of simultaneous users by 72% from 146,000 simultaneous users in September to about 250,000 in December. It is important to highlight that this rate of scaling has never been done by anyone else. In terms of hours of usage, it increased from about 7 hours in the September quarter to a little more than 10 hours and is now running about 17 hours across the customer base.
OTHER GROSS MARGIN IMPACTS RELATED TO PRICING CHANGE. In preparation for unlimited pricing, they ramped their call center operations by about 200 staff and also added several hundred outsourced reps. In addition, voice telephone calls surged as they registered record numbers of new customers and incoming calls requesting information about their service and new pricing and also addressig the connection issues also increased. As a group, that represented about 250 out of the roughly 620 basis points variance in the gross margins.
Given that the marketing program had been committed when they introduced unlimited pricing and they are expensing marketing costs for the first time, they expected marketing costs as a percent of revenues to be unusually high -- roughly 35-40%. These calls came in at the low side of this range at 36%. Going forward, they expect the pull-through demand of their product to help them keep marketing costs relatively low and also to fund the increased costs of providing unlimited pricing.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT. Stepping through the P&L, product development costs increased by about $2.3 million sequentially and stayed relatively flat as a percentage of revenues at a little more than 5%. There is no interesting data point in that area.
G&A HIGHLIGHTS. G&A costs were higher than originally expected. As a percentage of revenues they increased from 2.2% in September to about 11.9% in December and about $13 million. About half of the increase is due to either one-time charges like executive office relocation, severance payments, or costs associated with the proxy and the listing on the NYSE, or costs due to expansion which they will support for growing revenues. They opened three advertising offices during the quarter. They also opened the Albuquerque call center and expanded various Digital Cities locations and moved into expanded new offices in the Dulles headquarter operations. Over the next quarter or two they expect G&A as a category to be about 10% of revenues and then begin trending down a little as they grow into the capacity in infrastructure they invested in this quarter. Related to other expenses, they included a charge of roughly $4 million for the write-off of various technology licenses and a node to a production shop that will not be realized. Before these charges, other income would have been about $3 million.
RESTRUCTURING CHARGE. As they move to a new business model, a new pricing plan, they announced in October that they retained a restructuring charge of up to $75 million. The final number came in at about $74 million. It includes roughly $25 million due to the restructuring of various information provider agreements. This is due to the fact that they moved from a usage-based business model to a membership-based business model and, as a result, their revenues per hour (the basis for how they paid information providers) had to be renegotiated. They are asking their information providers, in addition to payments from AOL, to join them in freeing up inventory created in their area that they can jointly or individually sell against advertising. They also shut down the GNN operations which are really subsued in the new AOL Internet online service with unlimited pricing. There were various facility closing associated with that strategic move including Barrow, Berkeley, and Santa Barbara operations. That is roughly $17 million. In addition, there were various obsolete marketing materials and other costs associated with the price changing including communications which aggregated about $17 million. Through the restructuring, they terminated about 300 positions which translates to about $9 million. The remaining $6 million represents amounts which individually are not significant.
CHARGE RELATED TO ATTORNEYS GENERAL SETTLEMENT. This charge is estimated to be about $24 million. It is based on roughly 6 million eligible members. To be eligible you had to be a paying subscriber in either December or January and then a further subset of that, because if you used more than 15 hours you were not eligible for the call-in reques refund. They also used request rates of about 15-20% for those calling in and about 3% for those who will be writing in. That brings the average to about a $24 refund per request with roughly 1 million requests. Based on early results they believe, and also historical precedent in these types of areas, the $24 million settlement charge they are accruing for in December will be adequate. The rationale for including it in the December quarter is that it is related to an event that surfaced in the December quarter and is a below the line charge because it is in connection with the settlement.
BALANCE SHEET HIGHLIGHTS. Cash and short term investments increased from $102 million at the end of September to about $130 million at the end of December. This is driven largely by the receipt of a large number of fixed renewals under the one- and two-year prepayment plans. You will see prepaid expenses increase from roughly $70 million to $91 million. This is due to the timing of marketing activities at year end and also higher value merchandise that they are now carrying in inventory and are selling through the AOL merchandise store. The next material variance within the asset category is a reduction in goodwill of about $10 million and that is due principally to the write-off of G&A goodwill.
Stepping through the liabilities, there is an increase in other accrued expenses in liabilities of about $120 million. Of that, roughly $62 million is due to the restructuring and settlement charge and roughly $33 million is due to telecommunication accruals which tracks the increase that they are seeing in terms of usage and the overall business volumes. Then the final item of material variance is deferred revenue. They announced when they rolled out the new pricing that they would be seeing deferred revenues increase for two reasons. One, they would be selling advanced renewals and they would be deferring a larger number for the membership portion of the fee which is now $20 versus $10. Also the $50 million increase, which is the deferred revenue current liability piece and the $5 million deferred revenue long-term, the $50 million is due entirely to the advanced payment and also deferring revenue of the membership fee.
WHERE THEY STAND WITH REGARD TO OTHER PROJECTIONS. The company was asked where they stand with regard to projections made about the next few quarters. As relates to the underlying operations for the March quarter, they do plan to be break-even. There are some incremental investments that are needed to meet the demand and that will cost between $10-15 million and they expect that to drop to the bottom line in the March quarter. For June, they expect to be on track both in terms of revenues and bottom line. They ended the quarter with roughly $130 million in cash. They are seeing people continue to take the one- and two-year advance renewals even though they haven't been marketing those. When they announced the advance renewals in October, they said it probably would be around $70 million or so. As they mentioned, they realized about $30 million in the December quarter, so in the March quarter they will likely see at least another $30 million and it could be higher than that. In addition, when you look at the company's P&L, it will track cash very closely. So, to the extent they see a $10-15 million loss in March due to the building out or renting of modems, that will translate pretty much to cash. Then as they move to profitability in the June quarter, that will translate to positive cash as well as cash from continuing to sell, and at that point hopefully more aggressively, the one- and two-year paid-up subscriptions. They set targets of between $70-80 million for non-subscription revenue capture in the March quarter and they are very comfortable with that and expect to see a nice sequential increase in the June quarter as well, particularly as they see advertising ramping as well as leveraging the increased usage through premium rate cards for advertising.
OPERATIONAL OVERVIEW. Obviously the quarter was an extraordinary period for AOL as they experienced unprecedented demand. Their top priority right now is dealing with the resulting access problem. That is why they are working day and night to fix the problem as quickly as possible and to maintain member loyalty through this transitional period.
FIXING ACCESS. The short take is that they are on target with their business plan, they are accelerating their system build-out to fix the access problem faster, and that because of all this they feel good about their ability to satisfy the needs of their existing 8 million members. They are confident they will reach 10 million members by the end of the year and will do so profitably as they successfully shift the business model toward new revenue streams.
RENTED MODEM CAPACITY. To accelerate their solution of the access problem, they were delighted to announce that they have secured rental agreements with outside suppliers for an additional 50,000 modems which they will start bringing on-stream later this month. The additional rented capacity, together with their $350 million build-out of AOLNet, should help make 350,000 modems available to their members by the end of April, two months ahead of schedule. This is an increase of 150,000 modems since the beginning of January which they expect to translate into an additional 6 million daily member sessions or about 16 million a day overall.
RENTAL GIVES THEM FLEXIBILITY GOING FORWARD. They will continue to build out their own more cost efficient private network as scheduled through June. The additional rented capacity will give them a cushion should demand continue to exceed expectations or, with connection times restored to normal in their basic $19.95 service, it could give them added flexibility to offer additional premium services to businesses or to other users. Modem capacity is scarce and there are a number of outside factors that constrain them from building out AOLNet any faster. That is why they have been negotiating to use the excess capacity other networks have on an interim basis. As an aside, the scarce availability of modem capacity is also a significant barrier to entry for potential competitors and for existing competitors to grow beyond where they are today.
ADDITIONAL NETWORK COSTS RELATED TO RENTALS. They will incur additional network costs as they use this additional capacity over the next few months. They will generally be paying for each hour of time used from these outside suppliers and they expect that to result in an increase in their March network expenses of about $10-15 million. But, this is money well worth spending to improve access more quickly and the additional cost will be temporary as the rented capacity will be phased out as soon as their AOLNet private network is fully deployed. By putting the demand issue behind them faster, they will be better positioned to take full advantage of the major opportunity that has crystallized for AOL over the past few months.
EXPLOSION IN MEMBER ADDS AND USAGE. During the last quarter they added a record 1.2 million new members, with more than 500,000 added in December alone. Even more dramatic was the explosion in usage. Members logged 102 million hours in December, more than double the 46 million per month average during the September quarter. Usage of their service is still rising, even as they hold their membership base at around 8 million for the time being in order to catch up to this extraordinary demand. Their members are currently logging on for about 10 million sessions per day and they ran up an extraordinary 125 million hours during the month of January.
GROWTH PROBLEMS, WHILE SERIOUS, HAVE A BRIGHT SIDE. This means that while they have a problem meeting demand over the short term, and they don't underestimate the seriousness of that problem, they also have taken a major step forward in achieving two important long-term goals. First they are cementing AOL's position as a dominant brand in Internet online services. Second, they are laying the foundation for sustained profit growth through a multiple-revenue-stream business model. Their experience over the last 3 months has demonstrated, beyond even their own most aggressive expectations, that the Internet is rapidly becoming a mass-market medium. It has also demonstrated that AOL is at the very crest of this wave. While the surge in demand is largely attributable to their new pricing scheme, it is important to note that the growth in AOL membership and usage actually took off in October, more than a month before the flat-rate pricing went into effect. This reflected not only some anticipation of the price change which was announced at the end of October, but also the success of the new 3.0 software in improving the member experience and the effectiveness of their stepped-up marketing efforts to position AOL as the vehicle of choice to reach the Internet. Moreover, during the quarter they continued to reduce churn and improve conversions of trial members. They also started to see old AOL members come back.
WHY WERE ACCESS PROBLEMS SUCH A SURPRISE? They have been asked why they didn't see the surge in demand coming. In fact, they did test price structures including the 20/20 plan which they made available last June and, while those tests had indicated that a flat rate would be well received, it didn't reveal anything like the growth in demand that has resulted. In anticipation of the move to unlimited use pricing, they have been steadily increasing system capacity, adding approximately 60,000 modems to AOLNet in the second half of last year. They did expect some peak-period congestion when they made the price change and they warned their members that was likely. But, again, based on their tests, they felt strongly they could keep this to a manageable level through their continued system build-out. Obviously, despite their preparations, they have not succeeded in making the transition to flat-rate pricing a smooth one.
FOCUS NOW IS ON FIXING ACCESS PROBLEMS. But the good news is that the current demand for AOL has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that they have developed a compelling product that is not easily replaceable. Members truly are saying they need AOL. But they are also saying they want to see the modems, and that is what AOL is focused on doing. They believe it makes good business sense to put improving service ahead of new recruitment efforts and accelerate their expansion to improve service faster. Once they improve access, they believe they can win back AOL members who may have left the service for that reason.
LEVERAGING AUDIENCE REACH FOR NEW REVENUE STREAMS. Now that they have reached critical mass in terms of audience reach, they have begun leveraging their success by building the alternative revenue streams that are at the heart of their new business model. They are seeing very strong progress in the advertising and electronic commerce revenues. Based on their increased membership and usage, they believe they have the ratings now to convince advertisers that they need to be part of their advertising mix. That is backed up by a just-released Nielson study which showed that AOL households watch significantly less television than the national average. The Nielson ratings will start to show an impact on advertising revenues in 1998. They feel we are at the early stage of a migration of advertising online and AOL is well positioned to be the key beneficiary of this trend. On the electronic commerce side, they had a record Christmas season and just announced a partnership with Barnes and Noble to open the world's largest online bookstore, and more such deals are on the way. The unlimited pricing structure has a big impact on electronic commerce because while before people viewed the service as something where they were being asked to pay $3 an hour to browse in an online mall, now with unlimited pricing they don't feel that constraint and they take advantage of it to shop online. Also on the way are exciting new programming and features including Casablanca, their next generation software, and Driveway.
ANS COMMUNICATIONS. ANS is continuing to grow its revenues by meeting the connection needs of large and mid-size businesses. ANS is playing the leading role in their 75% expansion of the AOLNet network during the next five months. It is also doing internal beta testing of the US Robotics X2 technology and plans to open that trial to external users in the near future. They want to make sure the technology is scalable in a reliable fashion to meet the needs of their 8 million customers before they make a decision to roll it out beyond the internal tests. They are very pleased to note that ANS recently earned Data Communications prestigious Hot Product of the Year Awards for its market-leading virtual private data network and Web hosting services.
AOL STUDIOS. AOL Studios and its operating units Greenhouse, Digital Cities, and Imagination Network manages more than 50 original programming titles, properties, and channels that have all seen their AOL usage soar as a result of their move to flat-rate pricing. With venture capital investments like the Motley Fool and PlanetOut as well as new media brand partnerships like the Style Channel with ABC, Greenhouse is continuing to build existing brands, acquire undervalued properties, and purpose established content studios. Digital Cities has experienced steady advertising growth due largely to the introduction of seven new cities including Dallas, Denver, and San Diego. Just recently Digital Cities purchased the producers of Total New York, an online guide to the city. Finally, Imagination Network is about to premiere CyberPark, a 3D community with interactive games, entertainment, and social activities. CyberPark will be carried on AOL networks and other ISP partners they will announce later. That will give CyberPark the broadest Internet online distribution of any multi-player game and entertainment platform.
AOL INTERNATIONAL. Their total international membership now exceeds 500,000. They are enjoying strong member growth in Europe and recently launched in Austria and Switzerland to extend the effort they already had underway in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Their Canadian service continued to expand as well as they had more Canadian content. They are gearing up in Japan for a Spring launch with their partners there.
EXPANSION SPECIFICS. The 150,000 modems slated for deployment in the first four months of this year is quadruple the number they had in all of AOLNet 1.5 years ago. By the end of April they plan to be able to accommodate more than 400,000 simultaneous users, again quadruple the amount they handled just one year ago. With the accelerated system build-out, AOL's member-to-modem ratio will be reduced to 20-to-1, down from 40-to-1 before they launched flat-rate pricing. They think usage will probably normalize to some extent over time as the unlimited usage novelty wears off. They expect the major uptick in usage they have seen is about what they will see -- in the range of 15-18 hours average -- when the dust has settled. They also emphasized that while 20-to-1 seems high for services like ISPs who target heavy users, AOL with 8 million users has a more mainstream audience. They will also break ground soon on their third data center, a 180,000 square foot facility that will double the data center space for their host computers dealing with the network side of the equation.
SHIFTING VIEWERS TO NON-PEAK HOURS THROUGH CONTENT. On the demand side of the equation, they are examining all of their programming to find ways to move users to non-peak usage hours. All AOL content, not just things like chat and games saw increased traffic in almost equal proportions. That is extremely promising for advertising and their multiple revenue stream business model. They also recently instituted a 45 minute timer which reminds people how long they have been online and logs them off if they don't respond within ten minutes. The timer is already helping them free up modems to get more people online. While the hoarding factor, people staying online to avoid difficulty logging back on, is a small percentage of usage, every little bit counts. Third, they are developing new features like Driveway, their own technology that provides convenience for members while easing the pressure on their system. Driveway will be a preview this Spring on AOL. Meanwhile they are also building the member support team.
COMPELLING DEMOGRAPHICS FOR ADVERTISERS. They made substantial progress building advertising and electronic commerce revenues and they believe that AOL is now the leading advertising vehicle on the Internet. AOL has doubled its ratings in the last 90 days which means they have over-delivered to the advertising community by a factor of two. They also believe that advertisers are significantly under-delivering to AOL's highly desireable demographic and they are redoubling efforts to take that message to advertisers. During the same time period, AOL commerce partners also found that their dramatic increase in usage had a strong positive impact on their online marketing. In terms of programming, they brought Rolling Stone online and launched a new area with David Letterman and continued to break attendance records at AOL live events. Tuesday night's chat with Rosie O'Donnell made history. They broke the record for Internet's largest chat with 16,818 members chatting simultaneously.
COMMUNICATING PROGRESS TO MEMBERS. They have launched new TV and print advertising regarding what they are doing to fix the access problems. They are going to continue to keep members up to date on their progress and communication is a key part of this process.
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East Finchley people now have four more weeks to have their say on plans to relocate the area's post office.
The Post Office has extended its consultation on the plans to move its East Finchley branch in Viceroy Parade to Universal Office Equipment (UOE) in High Road.
It had previously failed to mention that access to the Post Office would be via three steps with a handrail and a platform lift inside the UOE store.
The detail has been added to the new consultation, which will now conclude on March 11.
The company has said the branch’s opening hours would be extended by 14 and a half hours every week, if the plans are successful.
Roger Gale, Crown network general manager, said: “We are committed to keeping a Post Office branch in East Finchley and to maintaining the same levels of service for our customers.
"We believe the best way for us to do this is to change the way we operate it, so if the move goes ahead it will be run by Universal Office Equipment (UK) Ltd rather than by us directly.”
But the Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) has said the move would result in the loss of trained Post Office staff, and services would suffer.
Huw Davies, a CWU representative, said: “We have three main concerns about the Post Office’s proposals including the lack of adequate facilities provided on relocation to new premises, a detrimental impact on the service provided to the public, and no guarantee of long-term service provision by the franchisee.
“The Post Office should listen to the voice of the customer and their elected local representatives.”
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Chicago Bears rookie wide receiver Darnell Mooney is off to a great start in 2020, even if his stats don’t reflect it.
Through three games, Mooney’s totaled just eight catches for 93 yards but his snap count suggests he’s already a critical piece to the Bears offense. He’s run the second-most plays of all Chicago’s wide receivers; only Allen Robinson’s logged more snaps.
Mooney’s ascent up the Bears’ depth chart may seem like a surprise, considering he was a fifth-round pick from Tulane who fell in the draft because of his 175-pound frame. For coach Matt Nagy, Mooney’s simply outworking the traditional rookie.
“He never gets tired. It’s unbelievable,” Nagy told reporters Wednesday. “The kid just runs and runs and runs. And I think what you’re seeing now is the next test. It’s ‘OK, we’re playing the Detroit Lions, game 1. Is the game going to be too big for him? Is he going to just start doing things different because the game’s’ … no, didn’t do it.
“So that’s probably why some more reps and more snaps and a guy that has just less reps than Allen Robinson is to his credit. This kid works hard … on a day off, he’s walking over and trying to get jugs machines in. All the extra work that a lot of rookies don’t do, this kid’s doing it, like, every single day. It’s awesome. We like that, we want to keep that going.”
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interface security is mainly deSigned around Token, Timestamp and sign to ensure that the data of the interface will not be tampered with and repeatedly called. see below for details:
Token authorization mechanism: the server returns a Token (usually UUID) to the client after the user logs in with the user name and password, and stores the Token-UserId in the cache server as a key-value pair.After receiving the request, the server verifies the Token. If the Token does not exist, the request is invalid.Token is the certificate that the client accesses the server.
timestamp Timeout Mechanism: The user carries the timestamp of the current time with each request, and the server compares the timestamp received with the current time. If the time difference is greater than a certain time (for example, 5 minutes), the request is deemed invalid.Timestamp timeout mechanism is an effective means to prevent DOS attacks.
signature mechanism: add Token and timestamp with other request parameters and encrypt with MD5 or SHA-1 algorithm (salt can be added according to the situation). the encrypted data is the signature sign of this request. after receiving the request, the server obtains the signature with the same algorithm and compares it with the current signature. if it is not the same, it indicates that the parameter has been changed and returns the wrong identification directly.The signature mechanism ensures that the data will not be tampered with.
Reject repeated call (optional): When the client accesses for the first time, store the signature sign in the cache server, and the timeout time is set to be consistent with the timeout time of the timestamp. The consistency of the two can ensure that the URL can only be accessed once within or outside the timestamp limit time.If someone uses the same URL to visit again, if it is found that this signature already exists in the cache server, the service will be denied.If someone uses the same URL to visit again when the signature in the cache is invalid, it will be intercepted by the timestamp timeout mechanism.This is why it is required that the timeout period of the timestamp should be set to coincide with the timeout period of the timestamp.The mechanism of rejecting repeated calls ensures that the URL is intercepted by others and cannot be used (such as retrieving data).
The whole process is as follows:
1. The client logs into the server through the user name and password and acquires Token
2. The client generates timestamp and takes timestamp as one of the parameters.
3. The client sorts and encrypts all parameters, including Token and timestamp, according to its own algorithm to obtain signature sign
4. Add token, timestamp and sign as parameters that must be carried when requesting to the URL of each request (http://url/request?token=123×tamp=123&sign=123123123）
5. the server writes a filter to verify token, timestamp and sign. this request is valid only if token is valid, timestamp does not timeout, and sign does not exist in the cache server
Under the protection of the above three mechanisms,
If someone hijacks the request and modifies the parameters in the request, the signature cannot pass;
If someone uses the hijacked URL for DOS attack, the server will refuse service because the signature or timestamp in the cache server has timed out, so DOS attack is also impossible;
If both the signature algorithm and the user name and password are exposed, then the Great Sage Equaling Heaven will not be able to make it....
Finally, if all the security measures are used, it is sometimes too complicated. In actual projects, tailoring should be done according to their own conditions. For example, only signature mechanism can be used to ensure that the information will not be tampered with, or Token mechanism can be used only when directional service is provided.How to cut depends on the actual situation of the project and the requirements for interface security ~ | <urn:uuid:739b32c7-52c5-417b-b04b-e4189a780788> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 3,967 |
The Roanoke Rails and the New River Roadrunners have quickly developed a new and exciting local baseball rivalry. Both teams boast players from Southwestern Virginia locales, and a sprinkle of out of town talent, to their rosters. The Roadrunners, new to the Carolina Virginia Collegiate Summer League this season, were impressive in their debut at Kiwanis field, snatching a 6-5 walk-off win against the Rails. Tonight, it was the Rails turn to flip the scoreboard.
For the Rails, second year player Zack Kelly (Concord U) had the mound for this nine inning affair, facing former Rails pitcher Dylan Raymond. Lincoln Evans (Lynchburg College) got the Rails going early with a bad hop base hit to left field, stole second and ended up scoring on a Roadrunner error. Will Kaufman (Cal U of PA) drove in Nic Ratliff (Bluefield College) with the second run of the game with a single to right field.
Kelly held New River quiet for the next two innings, however, a single by Carlos Diaz an infield error and an infield out knotted the game at two runs apiece.
The game came down to the bottom of the eighth inning where DJ Russ’s (Emory and Henry) one out single gave the Rails a base runner and back to back walks to Zach McNally (Southern Virginia) and Keith Yancey (Bluefield College), loaded the sacks for Eastern Mennonite’s Griffin Stanley (above). Coach Jeremy Sink then reached into his bag of tricks and dialed up a perfect squeeze bunt by Stanley giving the Rails a 4-3 lead heading to the ninth.
The visitors would face Rails closer Steve “Big Cat” Ball in the ninth and become his latest victim. A ground ball, an infield single and two strike outs, sent the Roadrunner’s back to the road with a well- played 3-2 loss.
On Father’s Day afternoon, the Rails would face yet another newly minted CVCL team; The Montreat Mountaineers. Brandon Creesy (Arizona Christian) coming off a one hitter against Catawba, would square off against D-1 hurler T.J. Fussell (Western Carolina).
From the first play of the game (a dropped pop-up) the Rails seemed doomed. In all, the Rails made five errors in the first inning and staked Montreat to four runs on one hit. Sadly, the rest of the game followed course. Fussell was overpowering striking out six in four and one third innings, and pitching around Rails clean-up hitter Will Kaufman. A Lincoln Evans double spoiled Fussel’s no-hitter bid and Zach McNally recorded another base hit off Fussell and scored on a ground ball by Paul Williams (Concord University). Lincoln Evans shot a double to right.
One bright spot came from Alec Brown (/Patrick Henry HS/Southern Virginia) the only high school player on the Rails roster this year, who pitched a perfect sixth inning in relief. The final score was 12-1 in favor of the Mountaineers.
The night cap game belonged to the boys in sky blue, your Roanoke Rails. Michael Mnich (Alderson & Broaddus) the Rails starter in game two had a couple of uneven outings earlier in the season, however, tonight was vintage Mnich, changing speeds and showing near perfect control on the mound.
The first few innings of the game produced no runs for either team, until Mikey Wallman (Randolph Macon) led off the bottom of third with a first pitch solo home run over the left field wall. Griffin Stanley followed with a walk and advanced to third on Chad Frazier’s (Francis Marion) single. Wallman’s college teammate, Christian Sanderson then scored Stanley and moved Frazier into scoring position. Joey Sutphin’s (Hampden-Sydney) sacrifice fly would plate Frazier to post a three run lead for the Rails.
Mnich worked five full innings yielding two hits, no walks and added six strikeouts. The Rails bullpen responded with three shutout innings from Easton Riggs (Ferrum College), Kyle Goddard (Christopher Newport) and Ball to salvage a split with the hard hitting group from Asheville, North Carolina.
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We all know Kimberly Wyatt – the blonde bombshell from the Pussycat Dolls and a star judge on Sky1’s Got to Dance programme. What we didn’t know (well, at least I didn’t know) is that Kimberly has a lovely make up range called Beautiful Movements Cosmetics, launching in June at Holland & Barrett.
The mineral make-up line, which consists of foundations, concealers, eye shadows, lip colours and blushers, is as pretty as it is good – it is free from parabens, animal products, synthetic dyes, fragrances and other chemicals usually present in cosmetics. To make it even better, it is cruelty free, not tested on animals, vegetarian friendly and approved by PETA and BUAV (that is the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection).
My very first impression was that, even though the line is mineral, it does not carry that dullness of mineral products already on the market (come on, you know what I mean!). On the contrary – and it is not just because Kimberly’s face adds that extra glamorous touch, it is also because of their fabulously vivid colours. Of course, the basic, nude colours are also present in the collection.
Before talking to Kimberly herself, I spoke to her business partner, Laura McCosmiskie, who is also responsible for skincare range Love the Planet. She told me BM Cosmetics have been selling online for more than 2 years, but they wanted to make sure the products delivered what they wanted, before hitting the streets. Plus, people really needed to physically try them, especially foundations. She highlighted that make up that is kind to the environment and the skin is paramount, as she suffers (like me and many others) from problematic skin and Holland & Barrett, being the health haven it is, seemed to be a natural stockist for the range. Her favourite product from is the Dewy Perfection finishing powder, a light diffusing powder that gives the complexion a soft focus effect! Nice!
Now, tell me….
During my short, but perfectly formed exclusive interview, Kimberly told me that she decided to venture into make-up because has always been a massive fan of make-up and loves the “artistic, creative side of creating a flawless face”. As she became more aware of what ingredients products contained, she found a big passion in wanting to make positive changes, not only as a consumer, but as a business. She describes the project as the perfect blend between a passion and wanting to make that positive change.
Do I look pretty?
When asked about her favourite beauty look, she quickly replied natural, earthy tones for day with colourful lips, and darker eyes, with a more natural looking lip colour for the night – mentioning the range offers products to create both looks. She looked very natural on the day, wearing black eye liner with a flick. Very smiley and attentive, she came across as super nice and genuinely passionate about make-up, mentioning quite vivaciously how much she loves playing with make-up, the colours, the pigments and that natural make-up should not need to make sacrifices when it comes to those.
When asked about healthy habits, she said she tries to create as healthy lifestyle, and “beauty start from inside out, as cliche as it sounds”, praising fruit, vegetables and nuts in a healthy diet and regular exercise, as well as being aware about the “added extras” in products that we put in our skin. But we are all humans, and Kimberly, who is now based in London, confesses that her guilty pleasure is chocolate – actually, chocolate digestive biscuits!
Her fave product from the range is the silky Mixing Medium Prime & Create, which can be used alone, as a primer and also mixed with the powder, to create a cream consistency foundation, blusher or eyeshadow. Luckily, I got a sample which I have been using.
Catch that light, accentuate that shadow
We finished with her telling us what her best beauty tip was: contouring. “Pay attention to the contours of your face and bring out the natural beauty using that”. Watch the shadows in your face and then use highlighter and darker shades to highlight and contour, enhancing what you already have. “Bring out your natural beauty, instead of creating a mask of make-up”. Well, I cannot disagree, that is a hell of a good tip, for more than one reason. Write it down ladies – this comes from someone who always looks good!
And to top the interview off I had to embarrass myself and ask for an autograph for my other half, who is a fan. Ah, boys….
I took home a few goodies to try – and trying I have been! review will come very soon!
You can buy it from Holland & Barrett in June. If you cannot wait, head over to the Beautiful Movements website to browse the range and find out more about the brand.
5 thoughts on “Exclusive interview: Kimberly Wyatt launches Beautiful Movements Cosmetics at Holland & Barrett”
You got to meet her! That is so cool! I can’t wait to try out the products in this make up line.. and it’s guilt-free! Great post!
I know! It was great, she was lovely!The eye shadows have great colours!!! And yes, guilt-free! 🙂
Thanks for your lovely comment and visit! x
I’ve just realised that in this Months GlossyBox, we got a Mixing medium from this line! I tried it straight away and OMG!!!!! It’s amazing.. I’ve used nothing like it before! I’m so excited to get a full size that I’m going to try and find where I can get it nearby to me!
Oh, yay!!! I heard something about them being in glossybox this month! Isn’t the texture lovely? I’ve been using it in different ways – tried as primer, them mixed with mineral foundation to create cream and today I applied the mixing medium as primer and applied the mineral foundation powder over! Fun! They will be selling in Holland & Barrett from next month, but if you go to http://www.beautifulmovementscosmetics.com/ you can buy from there! x
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The Scrambler, Twist, Twister, Cha Cha, Sizzler, or Merry Mixer is an amusement ride in which suspended riders spinning in cars experience centrifugal force while spinning along two separate axes. Riders are seated in small carriages clustered together and connected by beams at the top to a central point. The clustered vehicles are spun in one direction, while the ride as a whole spins in the opposite direction. There are a number of variations of the design.
Early History Edit
The first scrambler was invented by Richard Harris of Georgia and installed at Lakewood Fairgrounds in 1938. Two additional rides were built and sold in the following two years. In 1941, Harris was granted a U.S. patent for the design, which was then acquired or licensed by the Eli Bridge Company.
In late 1953, the Eli Bridge Company road-tested its Scrambler ride and sold the first five by the end 1954. The original ride had a total of 12 cars distributed among its three arms with a capacity of 24 adults or 36 children. The entire ride rotated clockwise at 9–12 revolutions per minute.
The Eli Bridge Scrambler had one of its first major showings at the 1955 Florida State Fair, where it grossed $1,700 (at 25 cents a ride) in a single day and interested many additional buyers.
The rides first appeared in the UK in 1959, when they were manufactured by Edwin Hall under license from the Eli Bridge Company. Eli Bridge rides were first imported in 1979.
A grasscutter scrambler has a basic frame shape and no platform and is driven by a lower arm assembly. This type of ride is extremely popular in the United States.
- Scrambler—These rides usually have a circular structure near the top of the ride. There are vertical bars that go around the top along with lights on them. For the most part, these rides are made by the Eli Bridge Company.
- Wisdom's Sizzler—This ride does not have a platform, but it still has thick arms at the top and bottom of each seating assembly. The top of the ride has 3 twisted metal structures. There are also lights all over the ride including the cars. These are popular in the US, but are no longer made by Wisdom.
A Sizzler is a ride which has thicker arms and a platform. It was when these type started being manufactured, the manufacturers concentrated on the ride aesthetics. Concerns have been raised about its safety, as the ride has been involved in at least five fatalities since 1997.
- Bennett & Pollards—These rides have a smaller circumference from the centre of the ride to the seats. They are similar to Eli Bridge Scrambler rides because they also have cylinder structures on top of the ride.
- PWS Sizzler, Sonacase Twister, & Twist—These rides each have a platform, but they do not have objects near the top of the ride such as a cylinder structure. There are lights all around the centre structure of the ride. Thus, these rides look similar.
- Wisdom's Family Sizzler—this ride has thick arms and a platform, along with a central structure with dazzling lights. It has wheels to guide the three pods along underneath, and is quite fast when compared to a Grasscutter-type ride. They are found mostly at indoor fun centres and are the only type of Sizzler being made by Wisdom.
- Wisdom's Super Sizzler—This ride has a platform, and it looks similar to the Sizzler. Another difference is that it goes backwards, and this ride also has a backdrop with some colorful art. Wisdom has recently stopped making this type of ride.
Gee Whizzer Edit
The 'Gee Whizzer' derivative was constructed and commissioned by the operators King Carnival amusements of Tasmania, Australia during the 1950s. The project was carried out by rail engineers who utilised rail and tram parts which were common for the era. This machine is currently the largest and fastest of the variants utilising a unique fully suspended balanced single sweep arm design, driven from the top resulting in no lower arm assembly. The centre support core is fully independent and does not require a support deck, instead eight extended stabilisers are fitted to the core during assembly. Only one of these machines are known to be in existence.
Current installations Edit
- Astrosphere - Funtown Splashtown USA
- Batidora (Mixer) - La Feria Chapultepec Mágico
- Blizzard Indoors - Great Escape (amusement park)
- Cyclone - Barry's Amusements
- Cyclone - Six Flags America (1993–present)
- Cyclone Twist - Dreamland
- Deja Vu - Six Flags Great Adventure (2012–present)
- Dust Devil - Jungle Jack's Landing
- Hometown Fun Machine - Six Flags Great America (1976–present)
- Inkie's Scrambler - Pacific Park
- Jambalaya - Blue Bayou and Dixie Landin'
- Le Catapult - Busch Gardens Williamsburg
- Merry Mixer - Knoebels Amusement Resort
- Merry Mixer - Trimper's Rides
- Mexican Twist - OK Corral
- Pharaoh's Fury - Adventure Island
- Psychodrome - Canobie Lake Park (1989–present)
- Scat-A-Bout - Six Flags Discovery Kingdom (1999–present)
- Scarecrow Scrambler – Holiday World & Splashin' Safari
- Scrambler - Adventureland (Iowa)
- Scrambler - Adventure Park USA
- Scrambler - Arnolds Park
- Scrambler - Bay Beach Amusement Park (1977–present)
- Scrambler - Bowcraft Amusement Park
- Scrambler - Camden Park
- Scrambler - Carowinds
- Scrambler - Castle Park
- Scrambler - Cedar Point (1960–present)
- Scrambler - Centreville Amusement Park
- Scrambler - Coney Island (Cincinnati, Ohio) (1991–present)
- Scrambler - Darien Lake (2014–present)
- Scrambler - DelGrosso's Amusement Park
- Scrambler - Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park
- Scrambler - Dollywood
- Scrambler - Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom
- Scrambler - Edaville USA
- Scrambler - Enchanted Forest Water Safari
- Scrambler - Family Kingdom Amusement Park
- Scrambler - Fantasy Island Amusement Park (New Jersey)
- Scrambler - Fun Spot America (Orlando)
- Scrambler - Gillian's Wonderland Pier
- Scrambler - Hersheypark (1972–present)
- Scrambler - Huck Finn's Playland
- Scrambler - Idlewild and Soak Zone
- Scrambler - Indiana Beach
- Scrambler - Joyland Amusement Park
- Scrambler - Kings Dominion
- Scrambler - Kings Island (1972–present), originally operated at Coney Island, Cincinnati, Ohio (1957–1971)
- Scrambler - Lakemont Park
- Scrambler - Lakeside Amusement Park
- Scrambler - Lake Winnepesaukah
- Scrambler - Little Amerricka
- Scrambler - Michigan's Adventure
- Scrambler - Miracle Strip at Pier Park
- Scrambler - NASCAR Speedpark (Sevierville, TN)
- Scrambler - Oaks Amusement Park
- Scrambler - Playland (Vancouver)
- Scrambler - Sandy Lake Amusement Park
- Scrambler - Sandspit Amusement Park
- Scrambler - Sylvan Beach Amusement Park
- Scrambler - Silverwood Theme Park
- Scrambler - Six Flags Magic Mountain (2003–present)
- Scrambler - Six Flags New England (1973–present)
- Scrambler - Stricker's Grove
- Scrambler - Traintown (Sonoma, California)
- Scrambler - Valleyfair (1976–present)
- Scrambler - Waldameer Park
- Scrambler - Western Playland
- Scrambler - Wild Waves Theme Park
- Scrambler - Wonderland Park (Texas)
- Scrambler - Worlds of Fun (1998–present)
- Shazam! - Six Flags St. Louis (1972–present)
- Sidewinder - Frontier City
- Sidewinder - Six Flags Over Texas (2006–present)
- Sizzler - Beech Bend Park (2015–Present), Originally opened in 2000, replaced by a new version of the same ride
- Sizzler - Brean Leisure Park
- Sizzler - Dizzylands Funfair - Elmer Bell (Northern Ireland)
- Space Scrambler - Lagoon
- Swedish Scrambler - Scandia Amusements (Sacramento)
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Teal & Pintail Duck Whistle
by rweaving, published
This bird whistle, which I got from a friend, in intended to lure Teal and Pintail ducks. My friend received this whistle, his favorite, from a craftsman, who has since passed away. He has not been able to find additional whistles of this style for his children. This is my version of this classic whistle. The pitch of the sound matches the original very well. It is designed for calling birds for observation only. I imagine that it might be a useful device in a post apocalyptic situation.
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Harlow and I met him today at the dog beach.
He's a rescue pup.
He's six months old.
And he's blind.
Did I mention his full name is Stevie Wonder?
He was found on the streets of Texas with eyes so badly infected
they both had to be removed.
But don't worry, this is a happy story, I promise.
Because Stevie now has an owner who takes him to the dog beach pretty much every day
where he runs around frolicking in the water,
and gleefully skips right into anyone or any dog who gets in his way.
He's seriously the cutest thing ever.
And if he could just learn to play to play the piano he could be the
biggest Youtube sensation since Sophia Grace.
Stevie would desperately try to chase Harlow all over the sand,
pausing every so often to stick his nose in the air to figure out where he was.
All the while, a puppy smile on his face,
and his long tail wagging for all else to see.
You know I can't resist me a good doggy story whenever I come across one.
You've met Stevie, now meet some of the lovely new blogs on my side bar.
(how's that for a random transition?)
Live Out Loud
Mish Lovin' Life
Total Basset Case
I'll be introducing you to the others over the next fews days.
So get excited to check out some new great blogs.
Or revisit the ones you've already discovered.
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Essential Sounds is an East Anglian modern big band in the style of Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra and Michael Buble. We consist of a full big band line up of 18 experienced musicians and top quality singers, performing many famous hit titles and modern classics.
We are available for concert or dance function bookings. Contact us at: firstname.lastname@example.org
A recent review:
'From the opening bar of the first set to the last bar of the finale, Essential Sounds deliver outstanding entertainment of a quality rarely available outside of large music venues. Their mix of big band, jazz, and swing celebrates an era of ballrooms, dance halls and smoky jazz clubs while their clever fusion of modern classics shows their versatility and extraordinary musicianship.
Keith, the Conductor’s banter with the audience and the band’s vocalists provides for lots of laughs as well as allowing for a seamless flow of entertainment between numbers.
Essential Sounds have carved themselves a well-deserved reputation in East Anglia, not just as remarkable entertainers but also as a thoroughly nice bunch of people who are totally passionate about their music. We are so excited to have them play at our charity event in June and I am confident the 350 people buying tickets to hear them play will be coming back for more.' Leanda Hoyland-Linch, Wix Abbey | <urn:uuid:3e893d0a-9eb8-4311-b8fc-914fe65ef96c> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,348 |
Environmental Change in the Antarctic
Alongside climate changes, shifts in ocean circulation and sea ice are having major impacts on the flora and fauna across the region.
The Southern Ocean and Antarctic continent are currently experiencing substantial environmental change. Since the mid-twentieth century, dramatic changes in ocean circulation, air-carbon fluxes, sea ice cover, and ecological systems have taken place. A major constraint is the paucity of records across the region. As a result, the scientific community are not sure just how unusual these changes are when placed in the context of the last century and beyond. The Antarctic Science Project is developing new tools to investigate past environmental variability to extend the observational record and gain a better understanding of the drivers and future trajectory in a warming world.
Our work encompasses environmental monitoring of the Southern Ocean and Antarctica (including sea birds and benthic fauna), detailed analyses of ice core records from the Antarctic continent, terrestrial and marine sediment records, and investigations into sub-fossil wood the latter on subantarctic islands), all with the aim of placing contemporary changes in a long-term context. Crucial in this regard is developing techniques that allow new insights into processes not available through traditional methods. For instance, the picture above is of Professor Alan Cooper filtering the melted ice for DNA back at the University of Adelaide. On the subantarctics, we're measuring the radiocarbon content of absolutely-dated tree-rings as a measure of old Southern Ocean waters venting into the atmosphere. Such methods have not been applied across the region before and are already delivering a rich scientific trove.
Key collaborators: Michael Bird (James Cook University), Niels Munksgaard (JCU), Kerry-Jayne Wilson (West Coast Penguin Trust), Tas van Ommen (Australian Antarctic Division and University of Tasmania), Andrew Moy (AAD/UTas), Mark Curran (AAD/UTas), David Etheridge (The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), Mauro Rubino (CSIRO), David Thornton (CSIRO), Janet Wilmshurst (Landcare Research, New Zealand), Matt McGlone (Landcare Research, New Zealand), Graeme Clark (UNSW), Ezequiel 'Ziggy' Marzinelli (UNSW/SIMS), Jonathan Palmer (University of New South Wales), and Richard Jones (University of Exeter, UK).
If you would like to learn more, check out some of our recent research papers:
Turney, C.S.M., Palmer, J., Hogg, A., Fogwill, C.J., Jones, R., Ramsey, C., Fenwick, P., Grierson, P., Wilmshurst, J., O’Donnell, A., Thomas, Z., and Lipson, M. (2016) Multi-decadal variations in Southern Hemisphere atmospheric 14C: Evidence against a Southern Ocean sink during the Little Ice Age CO2 anomaly. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, doi: 10.1002/2015GB005257.
Fogwill, C.J., van Sebille, E., Cougnon, E.A., Turney, C.S.M., Rintoul, S.R., Clark, G.F., Marzinelli, E.M., Rainsley, E.B. and Carter, L. (2016) Impacts of a developing polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg B09B. The Cryosphere, 10, 2603–2609. Reported in Nature Geoscience by Tynan, E. (2016), 9, 869.
Wilson, K.-J., Turney, C., Fogwill, C. and Blair, E. (2016) The impact of the giant iceberg B09B on population size and breeding success of Adélie penguins in Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, doi: 10.1017/S0954102015000644.
Wood, J.R., Wilmshurst, J.M., Turney, C.S.M. and Fogwill, C. (2016) Palaeoecological signatures of vegetation change induced by herbivory regime shifts on subantarctic Enderby Island. Quaternary Science Reviews, 134, 51-58.
Clark, G., Marzinelli, E.M., Fogwill, C., Turney, C. and Johnston, E.L. (2015) Effects of sea-ice cover on marine benthic communities: A natural experiment in Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica. Polar Biology, 38, 1213-1222.
van Sebille, E., Waterman, S., Barthel, A., Lumpkin, R., Keating, S.R., Fogwill, C. and Turney, C. (2015). Pairwise surface drifter dispersion in the western Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 120, 6769-6781, doi: 10.1002/2015JC010972.
Wilmshurst, J.M., McGlone, M.S. and Turney, C.S.M. (2015) Long-term ecology resolves the timing, region of origin and process of establishment for a disputed alien tree. Annals of Botany Plants 7, doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plv104.
Wilson, K.-J., Turney, C., Fogwill, C. and Hunter, J. (2015) Low numbers and apparent long-term stability of south polar skuas Stercorarius maccormicki at Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica. Marine Ornithology, 43, 103-106.
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SCHOLARSHIPS FOR IT TRAINING PROGRAMS IN THE BALTI AND CAHUL REGIONS VIA THE “OPTIM” PROJECT
March 11, 2020 @ 10:00 am
Human resources are the most important capital of the Republic of Moldova and the only one that can propel the country among the prosperous states with a high quality of life index. In this sense, the information technology (IT) industry offers all the possibilities and conditions for talent, potential, and knowledge to be maximized by its citizens to their fullest potential, for their own interest and for the benefit of the community by creating high value-added products and services.
Moldova’s economic development remains focused on Chisinau with almost all successful IT companies being located in the capital. Currently, only a small number of relatively small companies operate in the regions of the country, including Balti, Cahul and Comrat. According to the results of the findings of the Feasibility Study conducted within the Tekwill project, in the Balti region, there are 26 IT companies (188 employees), in Cahul there are six companies (16 employees) and in Comrat there are eight companies (12 employees). These local companies face an acute shortage of human resources, this constraint significantly limits their growth and the possibility to strengthen their competitiveness.
In order to extend the development opportunities in these regions and to create the premises for connecting the talent and potential of human capital with the possibilities offered by the local IT companies, the “Tekwill” project in partnership with the “Optim” project launches a Scholarship Program in IT.
This initiative is carried out in the Balti and Cahul regions with the support of the Swiss Cooperation Office within the project “Optim – Opportunities through Technologies and Innovation in Moldova” and implemented by Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation in partnership with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Moldova as well as with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Sweden in the “Tekwill” project.
The program offers training in the field of web development and will run from April to July 2020. The courses will last four months for the Cahul region and three months for the Balti region. The web development training will involve building, creating and maintaining websites. In a broad sense, it includes the design, content publishing, programming, and data management aspects. The term web developer usually refers to the non-design, writing of the markups and the code required to operate a site. Web developers can specialize in front-end, back-end, and full-stack development.
The courses will be delivered by experienced mentors, according to training programs specially designed and adjusted to current industry standards. In order to ensure the participation within the scholarship program and to confirm the participants’ commitment, the scholarships will cover 70% of the training cost while the beneficiaries will come with a contribution in the amount of 1,500 lei. The eligible candidates for the training programs are at least 17 years old or above, who have graduated high school or completed special secondary education, and have an intention to work within the IT field. | <urn:uuid:c8a4dff6-4e6e-439f-83c0-ca600149c099> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,309 |
Mayor Andrew Przybylo Announces Acceleration of Stormwater Relief Plan
Since the devastating 2008 flood that hit the Village of Niles and the region with over 9.5 inches of water, there have been four record rainfalls, two of which were declared disasters by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
“The frequency and severity of heavy rainfall events in Niles has noticeably increased in recent years.” states stormwater engineer Jeff Wickenkamp of Hey and Associates. “When comparing the last five years to the previous 19, rainfall events greater than three inches have occurred times more often and have produced an average of 33% more rain per event.”
As a result of the first 2008 flood, the Village of Niles embarked on a study that ultimately resulted in a $32M Stormwater Relief Program that includes new sewer infrastructure, reservoirs, and a flood assistance program. The first tier of this program was approved June of 2012 and is funded by a .25% sales tax increase.
The Village of Niles immediately hired Hey and Associates to complete preliminary design and engineering of the three Tier-1 Stormwater Relief Program projects. The three projects being engineered include:
Cleveland Relief Sewer - a new stormwater relief sewer to provide flood relief to properties near Cleveland Avenue, east of Osceola.
Main Street Relief Sewer and Storage - Provide storage facility and storm sewer improvements near Milwaukee / Main. Sewer improvements along Lee Street and Main Street combined sewers.
West Side Storage Basins - Construction of detention basins at one or two locations and associated connecting sewers.
Mayor Andrew Przybylo is announcing efforts to accelerate the engineering for these projects, so that construction begins the Spring of 2014. “We want to break this cycle of fear residents feel every time it storms and replace that fear with knowledge and promise.” Mayor Przybylo stated, “The residents of Niles will get through the travesty of this harsh weather together.” | <urn:uuid:6ed9cefd-58e7-4757-ae19-889ca7cf0272> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,006 |
“There’s more to school than the four walls of your classrooms. Endless opportunities to get involved to offer a lot of exciting experiences to learn from!” – This might be the line that you always tell your schoolmates when promoting your club. But is it enough to get them interested?
From the art club and poetry to outdoor pursuits, students have a lot of choices when it comes to extracurricular groups in schools. This also means that you have lots of rivals on building your team. So how do you stand out from the rest and encourage students to join your club?
Adapt to the new traditions.
Today’s generation – the millennials – aren’t impressed with the usual school club set up. Students always seek for something new, exciting, and “cool”. So forget whatever old traditions your club has that make it feel like you’re living in the 1970’s. Focus on making your club trendy, appealing, and engaging. All the while, make sure that your club members feel at home and are learning a lot from the experience.
Make your meetings more interesting.
Create a different kind of experience and start it with your meetings. Remember that meetings shouldn’t always be that serious. Explore and turn your meetings into memorable get-together that everyone can enjoy. At the same time, make sure that the important agendas are being tackled and addressed appropriately.
Provide alternatives to weekly meeting attendance.
Attendance is one of the main concerns of every club and organization. However, you should be able to understand that your club members can also be very busy with academics and other school activities. When these situations occur, give alternatives to your members by counting their participation in your club events.
Bear in mind that being strict with attendance is a must but you should know when and when not to.
Make each member of your club feel valued and appreciated.
Like you, everyone wants to do their best to help the club and its members. So, take time to appreciate everyone’s effort and let them know that you value what they do for the growth, development, and improvement of the team.
A person who feels appreciated will more likely to go above and beyond for the team. This will not only make them strive harder, but also they will be happier in their roles.
Treat everyone equally, relate to them, and don’t act like you’re above them.
Whether you’re a leader, an officer, or a senior in your club – putting yourself on a pedestal will not create a good working relationship with your club members. Always remember to put yourself on their level and help them to grow and develop more. When they’re having problems, showing them that you care and that everyone is there to lend a hand will help them overcome their challenges.
Celebrate with them!
Students join school clubs to gain more friends, if not for experience and learnings. However, one thing you can offer them is not just friendship – but family. Celebrate your club members’ achievements and show them that the team is happy for what they’ve achieved. This will not only inspire them to do better but will also strengthen the bonds between the club and its members. | <urn:uuid:ca4ab7ce-a7c9-4a85-a863-10b4a534c36c> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,163 |
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There are various types and brands of CBD oil to select from, and your final choice is going to be determined by your own personal requirements and the way you intend to utilize CBD. Many competing brands combine their CBD with many different additional, unnecessary ingredients including sweeteners like Stevia, flavorings, in addition to a wide variety of vegetable oils, which a growing number of consumers try to avoid. Their goods are quality tested through an independent third party lab to ensure you receive the very edibles for sale best product possible. I’m also excited to try out a number of the other products they have to give! It can be smart to begin with a cheaper product before getting something a bit stronger. With such a wide variety of CBD products out there to select from, it can be hard to locate the ones which are best for you and your family members. In reality, quite a few of our customers do just this.
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Metal stairs are a very important part of every building,allowing people to pass from different levels internally, as well as allowing safe access into and out of most structures, especially commercial buildings. Steel stairs have a large consideration in the design of the structure because they have so many standards that must be followed. For example the steps and risers need to be certain sizes,as well as the widths, which all can vary depending upon the building usage and capacity. Now on top of that the railings also have many codes which must be taken into consideration when designing. And again depending on capacity and usage, steel and metal railings have different tolerances for different building usages and various types of materials that can be used. Oh boy, this can get tricky !
Now take into account also that many egress stairs must be totally fireproof, limiting the raw material choices steel/metal, concrete/cement, and maybe some sort of stone like marble, granite or tiles. Maybe a combination of all of the above. This is why architects and engineers prefer to consult with professional and very experienced steel fabricators and iron works companies who have vast experience in the many different steel staircase options from past projects as well as adhering to the various egress codes which must be incorporated into the shop drawings and design as it can conform the the buildings aesthetics.
Staircases see lots of use and abuse in their lifespan. for the most part they must be accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That’s why custom fabricated steel steps is a prefered method of usage. They are durable, resilient, fireproof, and if designed and constructed well, very low maintenance. After all, how can you close something for repairs which may be the only exit and entrance for thousands of people in case of a fire or emergency? Repairing steel stairways is not a quick fix. So now you see why only an expert should design, fabricate, and install iron staircases.They are one of the most vital and permanent pieces of any commercial building ,whose occupants must actual lives depend on in an emergency, but must look attractive, last forever, adhere to tolerances down to the quarter inch, and also be as low maintenance and strong as possible. Not an easy or cheap item and shouldn’t be skimped on in any way. Although quite expensive , any commercial staircase should be professionally built and installed to guarantee longevity, minimal downtime for repairs, and be nicely incorporated into the buildings design as it is truly a vital organ of it,s existence. | <urn:uuid:d685522f-d496-4e22-a79d-c5afd5194bb7> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,611 |
I will be very happy when Time Warner decides to give Mikey his cable and internet back. I’ve been relegated to stealing internet from neighbors just to get posts up and I must say that it sucks the big one. So anyway, I apologize for missing last night’s post and hope that this one will make it up to you.
Also, I don’t have pics of this place because I only had my cameraphone and this restaurant was darker than Wesley Snipes, so sorry.
So I went out last night to see Angels & Demons with a friend. Before we saw the film, which I was disappointed in quite frankly, we decided to stop in at Sunset Terrace to have a couple drinks and some dinner.
Sunset is a little dark even in the day. The furnishings are nice, but the lack of light makes the bar seem out of place considering it’s in a mall in Thousand Oaks. Still, they are always busy and right next to the theater so it’s a great place to get drinks before a show. I personally need at least 3 beers before seeing anything with Tom Hanks. Continue reading
Unfortunately, we must interrupt our regularly scheduled programming due to technical difficulties. Normally, on Tuesday nights, Mikey would be bringing you his latest recap of Deadliest Catch. However, because some vandals destroyed the cable box for his entire community, poor Mikey is instead listening to the Angels game on transistor radio and attempting to boil hotdogs on his diesel powered hotplate. Good luck with that, Mike. I got your back…
Dorothy’s Chuck Wagon Cafe – Old Town Camarillo
The reason why I decided to give this place a try was because my Mom told me to. No other reason, really. When Mom says go, I go, but it ended up making for a nice little Saturday morning.
Camarillo is not a town that I spend a lot of time in, but I might make more trips out from now on. The town boasts a nice little farmer’s market every Saturday morning and it’s right down the street from Dorothy’s Chuck Wagon Cafe.
I went for breakfast, this morning, to a place a couple of neighbors had told me about. It’s a little, and I mean little, diner right off the 126 hwy called the 126 Café. They said it had a lot of history and had been around for something like 40 years and that they had one of the best breakfasts in town. Continue reading | <urn:uuid:304f843d-a379-4f20-b084-6a104f1279c0> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,263 |
Nicholas Kalra ’13 interned for NYSE Euronext this summer. This was NYSE Euronext’s first year recruiting at Lafayette, according to Janna Hodge ’94 Kappa Kappa Gamma, senior VP of sales and relationship management. READ THE FULL STORY….
Kappa Kappa Gamma (ΚΚΓ) (“Aspire to Be”) a collegiate women’s fraternity, founded at Monmouth College, in Monmouth, Illinois, USA. Kappa Kappa Gamma one of the oldest women’s Greek-letter societies in existence today. Kappa Kappa Gamma is a women’s fraternity, because it was founded before the term “sorority” came into use. However, because it admits only women, it is usually referred to as a sorority. Lafayette College hosts the Zeta Beta Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma, which was founded in February of 1980.
Kappa Kappa Gamma supports a three-part Philanthropy program, often referred to as “Philanthropy 1-2-3″.
- The first branch of philanthropy supports the “Kappa family” through the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation, which provides funding for Kappa museums, members-only scholarships, educational and leadership programming, and the Rose McGill fund, which provides emergency financial aid to sisters in need.
- The second branch supports the local community by encouraging chapters and alumnae associations to volunteer and raise money for charities in their regions.
- The third branch encompasses the entire Fraternity through its national Philanthropy, Reading is Fundamental (RIF). The fraternity officially adopted RIF, which works to promote literacy in children, as the national philanthropy in 2004. | <urn:uuid:021f2951-0356-4417-bcb1-c017c3ac85af> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,553 |
Early in December, Singer/Songwriter Chelsea Bain turned her Webasto/Bass Pro Shops stage at the Charlotte Motor Speedway into a makeshift recruiting center recently, when 50 young Air Force recruits had the honor and distinction of being sworn in by a three-star general.
Chelsea met several members of the Air Force at the military branch’s display at the speedway. They invited her back later that afternoon to witness the swearing in of the new recruits by Lt. General Kevin McLaughlin, Deputy Commander, US Cyber Command. Chelsea asked if they would be interested in using her stage for the ceremony, insisting that it could be more memorable for the recruits and give the Air Force greater visibility for the event.
The Air Force loved the idea. At 4:00pm – or 1600 in military time – all 50 recruits gathered together on the stage and raised their right hands, while Lt. General McLaughlin swore them in. Chelsea met each one, as they came off stage, to congratulate them in their new endeavor.
On the music front, Chelsea has been writing and recording for her debut album, duo out in 2015. She headlined the Webasto/Bass Pro Shops Stage at numerous NASCAR races this year.
To learn more about Chelsea, keep up with tour dates, hear music and more, visit www.chelseabainmusic.com. Follow Chelsea at: http://www.youtube.com/user/chelseainterrupted
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Omaha, NE (AP) - Douglas County authorities are investigating a weekend crash that killed a 23-year-old man near Omaha.
The Douglas County Sheriff's office says the crash happened early Sunday morning on 72nd Street.
Officials say Brandon Fry was driving north in his Volkswagen Jetta when he struck a tree. The impact broke Fry's vehicle in half and killed him.
A second vehicle was found in the ditch near Fry's car, but it didn't appear that the vehicles had hit each other. Investigators contacted the other driver, and are continuing to investigate.
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A few days ago I got asked by a friend through email, if I could write a review for the Extra Length mascara by Sheer Cover. Which is what I will be writing about tonight. First of all I want you to know that this mascara was sent to me for free, because I won a giveaway. Second of all I want you to have in mind that I'm being 100% honest. These are simply my thoughs on the product and my experience with it. I hope you find it helpful.
When I first got this product sent to me, I didn't even like it. There was nothing about it that caught my eyes. Because I won it in the giveaway I though it would be silly of me not to try it for at least a week. All I can say about it now is that I love it as if it was my child. The more I used it the more I loved it.
It's a water-resistant mascara, which means that it will stay on even though you might get some water on your face. What I love about this mascara is that it glides so easy on to the lashes without getting clumpy. It stays on throughout the day very nice, and it's easy to remove with any kind of makeup remover.
It gives both volum and length and and the same time it moisturizes the lashes with Pro Vitamin B5 and Vitamin E. The mascara also contains extracts from Bamboo and Olive which helps to hydrate the lashes and it also helps to prevent them from breaking.
The wand is not thick but just the correct size to make it easy to get right into the roots of the lashes. I always go down on my lashes to coat them then I push upwards, that's what works for me. Before I start applying any mascara I always curl my lashes. The lash curler I use is form H&M, it's brilliant if you don't have the money to buy the expencive lash curlers.
The color is very nice as well, it's not completely black, but in between dark brown and black, which I actually like quite a lot. If this mascara had been lighter I wouldn't have used it, because I'm a huge fan of dark lashes. The color is: Brown/Black.
There's not much more I can say about this product other than I would advise you to buy it. It will last you for a very long time because you actually get a lot of product for the money. The quality is amazing and I do love it more than the Fals Lash Effect mascara from Max Factor.
I really do love the result of the mascara and I think you will like it as well.
That's the end of my review, I've used such a long time on this so I hope you find it helpful and that it was a good review, let me know what you think in the comments please. Thank you so much for reading and visiting my blog. Stay tuned because I have two new nice makeup looks coming out the next week and maybe a short video to give you a little bit of information and stuff. The next mascara I will buy to test out is from Lancome, can't wait to get it.
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From Ohio History Central
Engraving of a scene of Cincinnati, Ohio from the bank of the Ohio River, ca. 1860.
General Order No. 38 sought to eliminate open support for the Confederacy in the Department of Ohio during the American Civil War.
In April 1863, General Ambrose Burnside, commander of the Department of Ohio, issued General Order No. 38. Burnside placed his headquarters in Cincinnati. Located on the Ohio River, just north of the slave state of Kentucky, Cincinnati had a number of residents sympathetic to the Confederacy. Burnside hoped to intimidate Confederate sympathizers with General Order No. 38.
The Order stated:
The habit of declaring sympathy for the enemy will not be allowed in this department. Persons committing such offenses will be at once arrested with a view of being tried . . .or sent beyond our lines into the lines of their friends. It must be understood that treason, expressed or implied, will not be tolerated in this department.
Burnside also declared that, in certain cases, violations of General Order No. 38 could result in death.
Most Peace Democrats in Ohio objected to General Order No. 38. Clement Vallandigham, the best known Peace Democrat in the state, helped organize a rally for the Democratic Party at Mount Vernon, Ohio, on May 1, 1863. Peace Democrats Vallandigham, Samuel Cox, and George Pendleton all delivered speeches denouncing General Order No. 38. Vallandigham was so opposed to the order that he allegedly said that he "despised it, spit upon it, trampled it under his feet." He also supposedly encouraged his fellow Peace Democrats to openly resist Burnside. Vallandigham went on to chastise President Abraham Lincoln for not seeking a peaceable and immediate end to the Civil War and for allowing General Burnside to thwart citizen rights under a free government.
In attendance at the Mount Vernon rally were two army officers under Burnside's command. They reported to Burnside that Vallandigham had violated General Order No. 38. The general ordered his immediate arrest. On May 5, 1863, a company of soldiers arrested Vallandigham at his home in Dayton and brought him to Cincinnati to stand trial.
Burnside charged Vallandigham with the following crimes:
Publicly expressing, in violation of General Orders No. 38, from Head-quarters Department of Ohio, sympathy for those in arms against the Government of the United States, and declaring disloyal sentiments and opinions, with the object and purpose of weakening the power of the Government in its efforts to suppress an unlawful rebellion.
A military tribunal heard the case, and Vallandigham offered no serious defense against the charges. He contended that military courts had no jurisdiction over his case. The tribunal found Vallandigham guilty and sentenced him to remain in a United States prison for the remainder of the war.
Vallandigham's attorney, George Pugh, appealed the tribunal's decision to Humphrey Leavitt, a judge on the federal circuit court. Pugh, like his client, claimed that the military court did not have proper jurisdiction in this case and violated Vallandigham's constitutional rights. Judge Leavitt rejected Vallandigham's argument. He agreed with General Burnside that military authority was necessary during a time of war to ensure that opponents to the United States Constitution did not succeed in overthrowing the Constitution and the rights that it guaranteed United States citizens.
As a result of Leavitt's decision, authorities were required to send Vallandigham to federal prison. President Lincoln feared that Peace Democrats across the Union might rise up to prevent Vallandigham's detention. The president commuted Vallandigham's sentence to exile in the Confederacy. On May 25, Burnside sent Vallandigham into Confederate lines.
Some historians have viewed General Order No. 38 as Burnside's personal attack on Vallandigham. While Burnside clearly objected to his views, the general was not personally targeting Vallandigham. Numerous Ohioans, especially those with family members living in or economic ties to Confederate states, openly objected to the war. Other Union military commanders issued similar orders. Burnside attempted to restrain all Confederate sympathizers residing in the Department of Ohio with General Order 38.
Critics of General Order No.38 commonly argued that this and several other actions by the Union government violated Americans' civil liberties, including the writ of habeas corpus and freedom of speech. The Union's actions clearly restricted freedoms that most Americans held dear in the 1860s and many hold dear still today, yet Union officials sought to preserve the Union, even if that meant a temporary suspension of these fundamental rights.
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The full membership is:
The announcement was confirmed to the Parliamentary Party Meeting of the Liberal Democrats tonight [Tuesday].
In an email to Liberal Democrat party members, Chair of the Federal Policy Committee, Duncan Hames MP, said:
"I am delighted to announce that Federal Policy Committee last night approved Nick Clegg's nomination of David Laws to Chair the 2015 Manifesto Working Group and the twelve-strong group as a whole.
"Alongside David there will also be two Vice-Chairs - Sharon Bowles MEP and Duncan Brack.
"The Manifesto Working Group will take a lead in the drafting of the 2015 manifesto. The group is constitutionally responsible to the FPC, in consultation with the Parliamentary Party. It will also undertake a wider consultation exercise with party members.
"Nick Clegg has charged David Laws and the Working Group with thoroughly stress-testing the deliverability and affordability of the future manifesto and to build on the approach of the last manifesto by clearly identifying our top priorities for a future government."
Commenting, David Laws said:
"I am very pleased to have been asked by Nick Clegg to chair our 2015 Manifesto Working Group. I look forward to working with our Federal Policy Committee and our MPs and party members to put together a package of policies that will address the big challenges being faced by the country.
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In this part you will be setting a single price for physician
services to maximize profits. All you observe is the price, which you set, and the resulting quantity demanded. To solve this problem, you should calculate the profit using a formula that ties to the given values for fixed cost, marginal cost, price, and quantity demanded. Once you have that formula, you can change the price to see how it affects profits.
While you could simply iterate until you hit on a high profit (or minimized loss), you can also generate the (P, Qd) data needed to estimate the price elasticity of demand. Once you have that estimate, you can use a markup formula to get a price. In this part of the assignment, the elasticity isn't constant along the demand function, so the markup pricing rule will only get you close to the profit-maximizing price. You don't need to set the price to the penny. Getting within $0.25 of the profit-maximizing price is sufficient.
The markup rule for profit maximization states that, when profits are maximized, P = MC*(elasticity/(1+elasticity)), where the elasticity is given as a negative value.
Fixed cost: 150,000 This is per month.
Marginal cost (constant): $50.00 Note: total variable cost is MC x Qd
Price: $50.00 <=== Change the price here.
Qd 14,455 <=== and the quantity demanded will appear here.
In Moodle, report the following:
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I love styling my home as the seasons change, but it can definitely get pricey to swap things out every season. That’s why I love finding affordable and trendy pieces at Walmart to get achieve designer-worthy design! Keep reading to hear all about some of my favorite cozy finds to seamlessly transition your coastal home for the fall season using Walmart fall decor.
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I’m loving all of the fall decor that is exclusive to Walmart. Whether it’s neutral decor, coastal blues, hints of natural textures, or patterns, Walmart has everything you will need to decorate this season! You’ll find cute pumpkins for decorating, soft throws, dining furniture, and so much more!
Plaid + Patterns
You know how much I love neutrals and this stays true throughout my home year-round. This tan plaid throw from Walmart is so soft and adds the perfect autumnal touch to my coastal living room without being overbearingly “fall.” Plaid is a great pattern for transitioning into new seasons and I love using it in my spaces.
Natural textures, like this woven basket, are great for adding interesting texture and color that can warm up a space. I styled the basket on my dining table with these adorable white pumpkin stoneware bowls from Better Homes and Gardens for something a little more traditionally seasonal.
Flickering Candles for Ambiance
Candles are another great way to add ambience to a room and make it feel instantly cozy. These flameless flickering battery-operated candles are the perfect addition to any room, plus I love that they’re safe to keep on all day with my kids and dog running around. They’re made of real wax and have a 5 hour timer so I can set it and forget it. They come in several different sizes and would be so cute inside a hurricane or brass lantern!
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The Hokies drop an absolute heartbreaker to the nc state wolfpack 90-86 in overtime in a snowy Raleigh, NC. Every Tech player gave every ounce of sweat they had, including a miracle missed free throw conversion with 5 seconds left to send the game to overtime (or you could say a brilliantly drawn up play by Coach Johnson). But in the end, the Hokies couldn’t overcome the wolfpack and the officials:
- Tech was called for 28 fouls, nc state just 12
- state shot 43 free throws, VT just 7 (all by Erick Green)
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Gov. Brown signs law barring grand juries in police deadly force cases
Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Tuesday a measure that prohibits secret grand juries to weigh in on cases involving excessive or deadly force by law enforcement, and another affirming the public’s right to take audio or video recordings of police officers.
Both measures were part of a spate of proposals introduced by lawmakers earlier this year on police accountability; some of the more controversial bills dealing with body-worn cameras or reporting on use-of-force incidents have stalled in the Legislature.
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If you want a quick way to write same text in same cell position then this article is for you. In this article, we will learn how to loop through in all the worksheets & add similar text in same position.
Question): I have 3 sheets in a workbook & I want a macro to enter text in all the sheets in cell A1.
We need to follow the below steps:
- Click on Developer tab
- From Code group, select Visual Basic
Enter the following code in the standard module.
For Each Worksheet InThisWorkbook.Sheets
Range(“A1″) = “Exceltip”
In this way, in cell A1, we can write what we want, using VBA in order to save our time.
In case you want a non VBA solution then the similar task can be achieved by using Grouping in Excel.
- We need to hold the CTRL key & then select Sheet1, Sheet2 &Sheet3
- This way we will be able to create temporarily groups all the worksheets.
- Click in cell A1 in any Sheet and then type your text
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According to the Custer County Sherriff’s Office, on Tuesday, July 6, 2021, at 6:18 p.m., a two-vehicle head-on crash was reported to the Custer County Dispatch Center. The crash happened on Highway 70 near Mile Marker 95, which is approximately 7 miles east of Westerville, NE.
A 2008 Chevrolet Impala, driven by 58-year-old Peggie L. Myers of Broken Bow, NE was westbound when it crossed the centerline and collided with a 2004 Chrysler Concorde, driven by 23-year-old Madison N. Dodson of Arcadia, NE. The crash resulted in the Impala catching fire.
Myers was transported to Jennie Melham Hospital where she later died as a result of her injuries. Dodson was also transported to Jennie Melham Hospital and was ultimately flown to Good Samaritan Hospital with unknown serious injuries.
Seatbelts were not in use by the driver of the Impala. The driver of the Concord was wearing seatbelts.
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Till yesterday the top damage for a campaign hero was 614,683,460 done by Flausino (a.k.a dark3If) while Bulgaria was on a trip in South America. That was impressive, that was not normal, that was insane. But today that score was beaten several times.
Bulgaria started a war against Greece several days ago and unfortunately we are still losing every single direct battle. But that was not because the Bulgarians wasn’t doing their best. Oh we tried hard and I’m sure that soon enough we will prevail. And how hard is that “hard” you may ask? Well first invaluable set a new record for a high score in a battle, then Mr Coder become the first player that reached 1 billion and for the final dark3If did 2 billion.
We have to respect our opponents in this epic battle.
* that data is from this battle.
Yes we've lost the battle but Greece had to lose the battle with Macedonia and Serbia for that purpose. In fact they just won the initiative and nothing else because it is for sure that tomorrow they will lose Volga region in a RW just like they've lost all other regions that they have won till now. High price for an initiative that they would lose tomorrow too because with 2 other battles for core regions and 3 RW that they have to win if they want to secure their bonuses. So Greece celebrate today like it is for last time … because it is really for a last time.
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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has told Congress he does not plan to close the set-top box docket, but signaled that was because it could still have some deregulatory legs.
That came in a letter released April 21 in the FCC's periodic batch of chairman responses to congressional inquiries.
Republican members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee had asked Pai to close the docket after FCC chairman Tom Wheeler was unable to get three Democratic votes for his "unlock the box," then "unlock the app" proposals.
Related: FCC's Pai Plans Digital Diversity Empowerment Committee
Pai did not support Wheeler's approach and reiterated that in the letter.
"I share your goal of promoting a clear, consumer-focused, fair, and competitive regulatory path for video programming delivery," he wrote. "Because I do not believe that the set-top box Order circulated by my immediate predecessor furthered this goal, I have removed it from circulation. As such, it is no longer pending before the Commission, and I do not intend to resurrect it."
The Republicans had said the docket should be closed because it was regulatory overhang, but Pai signaled it should remain open because there was some related regulatory overhang that could potentially be removed by doing so.
Related: Ajit Pai Charts the Future
He said he agreed with closing dockets no longer under active consideration, but that it would be premature to put the set-top item in that category because in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which never got voted, there were unrelated issues teed up, including and in particular, on whether the FCC should eliminate the CableCARD reporting requirement.
In 2005, the Commission started requiring that the six largest cable operators report every quarter (technically 90 days) on "CableCARD deployment and support," in part given the FCC decision to eliminate the ban on integrated set-tops, that is set-tops that united the security and channel surfing functions. The CableCARD regime was created as the separate hardware-based security portion of those separated functions in hopes that its availability would prompt a retail market in set-tops to compete with MVPD rentals, something the FCC conceded never really happened.
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- Use an understanding of the variations in human culture, perspectives, and forms of expression to constructively address issues that arise out of cultural differences in the workplace and community
- Demonstrate and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to enter and succeed in a defined profession or advanced academic program.
- Assess, examine, and reflect on one’s own academic skill, professional competence, and personal beliefs and how these impact others.
- Transfer into an upper division baccalaureate degree program in Business at any institution in the Oregon University System offering a Business degree, having met all lower division general education requirements and being granted junior standing for both for the Business major and for university registration purposes.
The ASOT-BUS is awarded to students who meet the following:
1. Associate Degree Comprehensive Requirements
2. Associate of Science Oregon Transfer-Business Requirements
All courses must be passed with a grade of “P” or “C” or better. Students must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 at the time the ASOT-BUS is awarded.
A. Foundational Requirements: Courses must be a minimum of three credits.
• Writing:* Writing: WR 121 and either WR 122 or WR 227. A student must have at least eight credits of writing; student may need to complete WR 121, WR 122, and WR 227 to meet the eight credit requirement.
• Oral Communication: COMM 111 or COMM 112 or COMM 214 or SP 113
• Math:* A minimum of three MTH courses for which Intermediate Algebra is a prerequisite. One course must be Statistics.
• Computer Applications: Students must demonstrate proficiency in word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation software by the successful completion of BA 131 or CAS 133, and CAS 170 or CAS 171.
* Basic Competency Requirements for Writing and Math will be met by successfully completing these courses. The Information Literacy requirement is satisfied by successful completion of the Writing courses.
B. Discipline Studies: Students must complete at least 11 Discipline Studies courses from the General Education/Discipline Studies List. All courses in Discipline Studies must be a minimum of three credits. A course may count toward Foundational Requirements or Discipline Studies but not both.
• Arts and Letters: Complete at least three courses chosen from at least two disciplines in this area
• Social Sciences: Complete at least four courses chosen from at least two disciplines in this area. A minimum of two courses in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics must be included.
• Science/Math/Computer Science: Complete at least four courses in at least two disciplines. At least three of these courses must be laboratory courses in the biological or physical sciences. The fourth course can be one of the three MTH courses from the Foundational Requirements.
• Cultural Literacy: Students must select one course from any of the Discipline Studies that is designated as meeting the statewide criteria for cultural literacy (as indicated on the General Education/Discipline Studies List). This course can be one of the 11 required Discipline Studies courses.
C. Business-specific requirements: Each course must be completed with a “P” or “C” or better. BA 101, BA 211, BA 213, and BA 226. BA 226 may be replaced by any other faculty-approved 200-level BA course.
D. Elective credit requirements: All candidates must complete elective credits to meet the overall requirement of 90 credits for this degree. Elective courses may be any number of credits. Elective credits may include any lower division collegiate course. A maximum of 12 credits of Career and Technical Education courses may be applied to this degree. One-credit Management/Supervisory Development (MSD) workshops may not be applied to this degree. A maximum of three credits of Physical Education (PE) may be applied to this degree.
Each Oregon public university has different requirements for its Business program; in some cases, meeting the minimum requirements of the ASOT-BUS degree will not fulfill the eligibility requirements for admission to the school’s Business program. Examples of eligibility requirements include: a higher minimum GPA for admission than is required for the ASOT-BUS, a requirement that specific courses within the ASOT-BUS degree be taken for a letter grade (courses taken P/NP will not be accepted), or additional coursework beyond that included in the ASOT-BUS. Students are advised to contact their Oregon public university destination’s Business program early in the first term of their ASOT-BUS course work to be advised of admission and additional course requirements beyond those stipulated above.
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Scheduling requirements and limited resources prevent all courses from being offered every term or every year. Some courses may be offered exclusively via distance delivery. Course numbers, titles, course and program applicability, prerequisites, instructional format, delivery methods, and content may change without notice. Students are advised to consult with an advising specialist each term to select courses, create and maintain personal educational plans, and obtain the most current information.
Oregon Coast Community College is committed to providing equal opportunities for students with disabilities throughout the College community. Students with documented disabilities are entitled to reasonable accommodations under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Our philosophy is to maximize your independence and self-reliance, providing a variety of support options to assist you in achieving your educational and/or vocational objectives. To receive services, you must submit documentation of your disabling condition(s) to the Vice President for Student Affairs. To initiate support services, please contact the Vice President for Student Affairs at 541-867-8511 or Dr. Andres Oroz. Students are responsible for requesting, in a timely manner, accommodation and documenting the nature and extent of their disability.
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The College prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law in any area, activity or operation of the College. The College also prohibits retaliation against an individual for engaging in activity protected under this policy, and interfering with rights or privileges granted under anti-discrimination laws. In addition, the College complies with applicable provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (as amended), related Executive Orders 11246 and 11375, Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (as amended), Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (“USERRA’), and all local and state civil rights laws. Under this policy, equal opportunity for employment, admission, and participation in the College’s programs, services, and activities will be extended to all persons, and the College will promote equal opportunity and treatment through application of this policy and other College efforts designed for that purpose.
Persons having questions about equal opportunity and nondiscrimination should contact either:
Vice President for Student Affairs, Dr. Andres Oroz or Human Resources Manager Joy Gutknecht
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By Shanaka Amarasinghe | August 22, 2013
Sri Lanka’s upcoming players have been a huge disappointment. © AFP
The utter incompetence of the Sri Lankan team is no longer worth wasting a lot of time on. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not, and never have been, a fairweather fan, but when the guys playing the sport look like they don’t give a hoot, then why should I? I think it’s daft to allow individuals who only care about their place in the side, or how much money they’re going to make based on performance, dictate my sense of self worth or the identity of my country.
Yes, Sri Lanka beat a depleted South African team in the ODIs (and lost the T20 series), but, honestly, none of those performances provide any hope for 2015. Kumar Sangakkara was in the form of his career, and I don’t think he has ever batted this well before. He is batting with intent, dominating attacks, and finally (and I say ‘finally’ deliberately) is deserving of the accolades that have been heaped upon him. Imagine what his resume would have looked like had he batted with such domineering brilliance for the early part of his career, but his batting and very little else, apart from Tillakaratne Dilshan’s batting, won us that series.
The youngsters who were given opportunities didn’t fire, and despite the fact that Angelo Mathews, Dinesh Chandimal, Angelo Perera etc., are all failing regularly, poor Jehan Mubarak is the familiar scapegoat. The team is too full of top-order batsmen. For years, we have played our best batsman — Mahela Jayawardena — in the middle in order to plug the vast blackhole of incompetence in that area. There is no doubt that his 16-year career would have been far more distinguished if he hadn’t had to clean out the Aegean stables left by a flailing top order and floundering lower order.
It is unfortunate that for so long we have struggled to address the requirements of our team and squad. And it is also unfortunate that a young, newly-appointed upstart feels the sense of entitlement to berate the ‘youngsters’, of whom he is one, and criticise the selectors for resting one senior at a time. What would he like? Resting them altogether? Or not at all? The short-sightedness of the young lad’s thinking, coupled with Angelo Mathews’ patent lack of a clue, seems to suggest the Renaissance is now over as far as Sri Lankan cricket is concerned. Da Vinci and Michaelangelo are well on their way to retirement in their padded cells, and their seem to be no heirs apparent.
The sad thing is that nobody seems to care. We have some paunchy 20somethings donning the national kit and going through the motions. It’s upsetting. The passion of playing for your country went out with professionalism coming in, but at least the players can look like they’re trying. The interest in Sri Lankan cricket has waned, and that’s not just from the spectators, but the national cricketers themselves. The administration rarely had any interest in it to begin with.
So, I will watch the All Blacks, happily, knowing that as much as they may have devastated me for 16 years, they will always try; and they will always cherish that Black jersey and all it stands for. It doesn’t matter if they lose, or if they suck for a game or two once in a while because they’re good blokes, or they at least do a damn good job of pretending they are.
Shanaka Amarasinghe is a lawyer by profession and the host of the sports talkshow ‘The Score’ on the Sri Lankan radio station YES FM.
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QQI Component Certificate in Project Management Overview
Master the essential skills and tools of Project Management. Complete a project and an assignment as part of this course to demonstrate your skills. This course introduces you to Project Management and provides you with the skills and tools to ensure you can successfully plan, manage and close your projects. Understand how to be proactive in your approach to risk management. Identify mitigation and contingency plans to ensure your project delivers within project constraints. Practice change control and status reporting to ensure your stakeholders' expectations are managed. You will be supported in the preparation of your project and assignment to complete this QQI Level 6 Component Certificate in Project Management (Minor Award, Level 6, 6N4090 - 15 credits).
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Early booking discounted fee:
- 3 Days
- Tutor on call
- Exam simulator
On completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Master project management skills, concepts, tools and techniques
- Create, structure and organize projects using project management tools
- Schedule project tasks and work packages effectively
- Estimate project cost & resource requirements
- Manage Project Risk and Communications
- Be proficient in Monitoring and Controlling project phase
- Determine the lessons learned from the project
This QQI Component Certificate in Project Management course is beneficial for those who are new or have just entered project management. The course provides an ideal introduction as a follow-up project and assignment in the workplace is required for certification. This ensures you can practice and apply the tools and techniques in the work environment. However, this is a course that can be customized to reflect the experiences and levels of participants. For more details on this please contact us.
Project Management Fundamentals
Project Monitoring and Control
Post course follow-up support
To apply for this course, you need to be:
- Proficient in both written and verbal English. In other words, if English is not your first language, you must have a minimum overall International English Language Testing System (IELTS) score of 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each band, or the equivalent Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score.
- Reasonable numerate – i.e. understand basic arithmetic. Thus we require learners to have at least a Junior Certificate, or equivalent.
- Computer literate. To access our learning management systems and virtual classroom-based courses, you need to be comfortable with basic information and communications technology. You are also expected to provide their own computer equipment to access our learning systems.
- Supported by your organization and given opportunities in the workplace to manage an actual project (see assessment details).
This course is assessed by the learner completing:
- A Portfolio of Work (or Skills Demonstration) showing how you managed an actual project from initiation to closing. (70%)
- An essay (or Assignment) showing your understanding of the overall principles of project management and how you apply the tools and techniques introduced in the course to actual projects. (30%)
These will be graded by Velopi, but these grades will be externally adjudicated and the 6N4090 Component Certificate itself will be awarded by QQI.
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Your career is a journey, and you’ll need to stay relevant as the profession evolves and as the needs of employers grow and change. Maintaining your PMI® certification is a significant competitive advantage. It keeps you relevant and helps you better position yourself as the answer to a company's demand.
To keep your certification and keep you relevant and competitive for employer demanded skills, you’ll need to participate in professional development activities, and earn and report professional development units (PDUs.) The goal is to ensure that your certified competencies stay relevant and up to date.
There are tons of opportunities to earn PDUs. PMP® credential holders love Velopi's PDU Centre because it's the easiest way to earn and document the 60 hours of professional development units (PDUs) that are required over a 3 year period.
As a learner with us, Velopi's PDU Centre helps you earn and report your Education PDUs to keep up to date and maintain your certification through our classes, seminars and webinars as well as self directed learning. Visit the Velopi PDU Centre to see our upcoming classes and webinars and Discover ways to earn PDUs or report earned PDUs with our Velopi PDU Centre.
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As a small and rapidly growing company, the Velopi team helped our Senior Management team introduce a common terminology, develop the company’s project management model and processes and apply it to our resource management and planning of Client projects every day so that, as a Company, we succeed in delivering quality projects, on time and on budget to our Clients.”
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Managing Director & Founder | Velopi
Seamus Collins has led Velopi since he founded the company in 2007. He has developed Velopi into the internationally recognised specialist in Project Management that’s helped hundreds of companies accelerate their growth.
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An excellent communicator, John has a proven track record of delivering training and analysing training needs of project management training and consultancy to a range of companies across the IT, Telecommunications, Finance and Life Science sectors.
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With the UK COVID restrictions having eased, many employees are now returning back to their offices. As part of the ongoing post-pandemic recovery, a common focal point is about the future and how young people are integral to that.
People aged 11-19 are the next generation of talent and the pandemic is something that would have greatly affected their needs, hopes, wants and aspirations. To understand more about this, Speakers for Schools studied, through 3 YouGov surveys, what young people are thinking about their future, the percentage of young people who think politicians or employers understand their needs, hopes and aspirations well, and the hopes for the better. You can find out more of the findings here.
What Do Young People Think Can Restore their Career Goals Post Pandemic?
Speakers for Schools researched 2,000 young people, 100 politicians and 100 employers. In this survey, we see that young people, although they do not fully understand how the lockdown affects them, understand its impact on their learning channels. Therefore, youths are aware they need immediate solutions to move on.
Meanwhile, about 53 and 63 percent of young people believe that work experience can improve their confidence. To confirm this, the survey shows about 47-55 percent of setbacks emanate from not being able to access work experience.
UK Employees and Politicians Think they Know what Young People Really Need
Just when you think employers and politicians understand young people enough. Well, the survey shows that 91% of employers and 95% of politicians know that youths have been impacted by COVID.
About 67% of employees think they understand what aspiring youths need, their hopes and aspirations, but it turns out only 23% of young people are confident that employers know them at all. We learn from this research that the key setback is employers (66 per cent) who get data insight about youths from the wrong channels like family and friends, are not particular about what they know of young people.
Unlike employers, nearly 90% (87%) of politicians believe they know what young people need, their aspirations and hopes. Unfortunately, not more than 11% of young people agree that politicians know them well.
From this survey, we establish that the disconnect between young people and politicians emanates from the problem that about 84% to 86% of politicians learn about UK youngsters using traditional channels like their families, schools, constituents and friends. It seems politicians require more personalised channels to be able to lessen the gap and understand youths better.
What’s this VWEX Being Talked About?
Virtual work experience is an innovative way of work experience that involves remote ways of gaining a career-building and mending experience.
This innovation lets young people experience the workplace, enhance their skills, explore more job roles and improve their level of employability online. VWEX also involves the opportunities that allow young people to gain useful insight into what it means to have a career in a job role remotely.
What Virtual Work Experience Can Do to Young People
Youths are taking up virtual placements that could be the game-changer in the UK today. Why exactly do young people need VWEX apart from its advantage of flexible learning?
- Affordable or Free Placements
Lots of virtual work experience placements are either affordable or free. Employers who charge a fee are also considerate of the effects of COVID on finances and have adjusted to accommodate every child residing in the UK.
- Geographical Problem Solved
Traditional placements were a problem before now. However, with digital work experience, the barriers of geography have been expelled. Online work experience means more placement while eliminating the problems of geographical access. This development opens up more young people in the UK to several job experiences. More young people are exploring varieties of job experiences even though COVID has limited physical meetings.
- Soft Skill Acquisition Amidst Social Distancing
The new normal means reduced contacts. With young people having access to the internet, they can develop by participating in virtual work placements to build soft skills UK employers seek, including time management, leadership abilities, self-confidence, etc.
- Preparing for the Future
‘Virtual’ is ordinarily a term of the future, and VWEX is already initiating youths in what could be the most significant aspect of the future – virtualisation.
The Role of Government and Employers in Ensuring VWEX
At least 90 percent of politicians accept the proposal that the government can do even more to assist young people considering the pandemic impact. Employers are working out ways, typically through creating more placement points, and even non-profit organisations are encouraging the trend.
On the part of the government, UK rural areas need good internet connectivity to survive in the development towards a digital world. Young people in these areas are also affected, such that they are left out of VWEX. Thankfully, the government is making sure nobody misses out. It would be challenging for the UK to ensure gigabit connectivity in hard-to-reach areas, but the government is investing £5 billion of capital funding to ensure deployment in these areas.
A non-profit organisation like Speakers for Schools is setting the pace. Currently, they have networked at least 700 employers and work with nearly 4,000 state secondary schools and colleges. They have created more than 56,000 placements digitally and are looking to add to the number.
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I've been reading a lot about slashing your weekly grocery bill in half using coupons. My friend Cindy inspired this new habit/addiction. Her eyes sparkled with sheer happiness when she talked about how much money they've been able to save in the past year. After my research I can see why she was so passionate about her prized coupon notebook.
After reading several different sites (Southern Savers, To Save A Penny, Bargain Brianna) I started my own notebook of coupons. Bargain Brianna has a complete tutorial for you here. My first step was to gather all the coupons I had around the house. Here's what I ended up with, (see above). They were everywhere; in my purse, in the car, in the kitchen, on my nightstand, on the bathroom counter. I never have them when I need them so they end up expired. Not anymore! I followed the wise instructions of Bargain Brianna and purchased a zippered notebook, dividers, a pencil pouch, and baseball card protector sheets. Here's my new best friend!
The two of us, notebook and me, saved $63.09 this week with the help of coupons and sale papers. We went everywhere together. And we received a free can of baby formula from Target. I had an $11 off manufacturer coupon and it was on clearance for $10.48, so it was free! You can see how shopping Target's clearance and combining a manufacturer's coupon and/or a printed Target coupon from the register can really save you some cash.
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Chase Rice today released the brand new and lead single from his new album set to come out later this year. It’s titled “Whisper” and isn’t exactly much of a departure from his previous singles. But that will be properly reviewed on another day. No, something else much more interesting was released from Rice today and that was a letter on his site. The name of the piece is “My Honest Letter To You, The Fan.” It’s in both hand-written and text form and it comes off not only weird, but quite interesting (shout out to reader jb for bringing this to our attention):
What’s up y’all, Chase here. I wanna start by saying I hope y’all enjoy my new song “Whisper.” My guys and I have put a ton of work and thought into this new music, and I know a bunch of you out there will love it. Having said that, I’m not ignorant, there are a lot of people out there waiting for country music to find a little more depth and meaning. Well, I agree with you. Country music deserves that. This first song may not be what you’re looking for yet, but that’s ok, because music was not meant to be heard in singles, but in albums. My album will be out later this summer, and I can promise you one thing….if you absolutely love this progressive version, I appreciate you, and I think you will love this upcoming ALBUM. If you have listened to my music for years and want to hear more depth and meaning, I very much appreciate you, too, and your desires will also be fulfilled on this album (and truthfully, that was my goal on previous albums with songs like “Carolina Can” and “Every Song I Sing.”) I grew up on guys like Garth Brooks and Kenny Chesney. Songs like “The Dance” and “There Goes My Life” spoke to me at that time and still do today. They helped shape me as an artist and as a man. I cannot speak to the state of country music, after all I’m just one small part of it, but I can speak about my music, and I have a strong desire to put my life stories–good or bad, fun or serious, cliche or not often said–into my albums. Having said this, I also know I can’t please everybody, so if you’re a fan of mine, thank you from the bottom of my heart. If you’re not a fan of mine, you most likely haven’t gotten this far in this letter, but I appreciate you, too, because you, too, give me the drive to maybe one day convert you with three chords and the truth, one song, or one show, but since it’s coming from me, it’s going to come to you one album at a time.
The very first thing that catches my attention is the huge emphasis on the word album, not only mentioned a lot throughout the letter, but specifically underlined. Not only this, but he seemingly apologizes for this new single. He basically admits that this isn’t deep and that many out there want more depth in his music and all of country music. And I have to say it’s refreshing for him to acknowledge it. He then goes on to promise that his album will be deep and have more meaning. He cites previous efforts of trying to dig deeper and how meaningful country music was to him growing up. It’s pretty obvious that he is trying to appeal to his critics and convince them that his music can be more than what it has been. The final words hammer this home more, as he specifically acknowledges people who aren’t fans of him and how he hopes to win them over “one album at a time.”
As easy as it is to just dismiss this as cheap marketing, I want to believe Chase Rice’s intentions here are sincere and honest. It’s not a secret that this whole “letter to the fans” schtick has been a played out marketing trope in recent years by mainstream country artists. Many love to send one to country radio after hitting #1. Chase Rice’s music has done very little to inspire me up to this point, as I’ve been one of his most vocal critics. It repulsed me how his label pushed his last single for over a year at radio. But then I see this letter and remember at the end of Ignite The Night the potential he showed on a song like “Jack Daniels and Jesus.” Rice cashed in hard on bro country and now it’s dead. He has to adapt and he knows it. One of the impacts I foresaw with Chris Stapleton’s big win at the 2015 CMA Awards was forcing everyone in the mainstream country world to dig deeper. I’m slowly seeing this out of a lot of mainstream country artists (well the ones who are not choosing to sell out even harder).
All of this makes me believe that Rice is telling the truth right here. More than anything I hope he is because I would hope any artist wouldn’t want to be remembered for songs like “Gonna Wanna Tonight.” I would hope that an artist would realize the impact they have on people’s lives that hear their music. It still doesn’t excuse his new single “Whisper” of course. Any independent country artist or impartial fan who reads this will be insulted by Rice’s admittance to not digging deep with all of his music and basically chasing mainstream attention with a lot of his previous music. But as they say the first step in resolving a problem is admitting you have one. This will also continue the speculation and discussion around mainstream country artists and the say they let their labels have in making their music.
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A youth group, Ogbomoso Community Youth Forum, OCYF, has resumed its struggle against the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC, Ogbomoso Business District, over what it termed oppressive tendencies against their customers.
According to a press release made available to ogbomosoinsightonline.com the group stated that IBDEC Ogbomoso Business District has violated the agreement they had last December which borders on improved services for customers.
OCYF revealed this attitude by electricity company “is what has driven us to organizing the one million man protest so as to drum it into the ears of IBEDC that Ogbomoso people are no fools. OCYF will not relent until sanity is brought to the system.”
The group has thus slated the protest for Monday, June 21, 2021, starting 9am at Takie Square, Ogbomoso.
Among others, IBEDC is accused “of issuance of crazy bills to customers, failure to provide prepaid meters to houses even those who paid for prepaid meters eiight years ago are yet to receive the meter and they turn around to issue them crazy bills.
“Also, we held meeting with them in December last year and it was agreed they would henceforth be responsible for repair of faults be it in the transformer, cable or damaged poles. How can you abdicate such responsibility and expect people’s cooperation?
“It is your business that brings you money by extorting the customers yet you still push repairs of faults to us. IBEDC must take responsibility for such we won’t take it again.
“We have also discovered that their men are in the habit of bringing prepaid meters from other locations for sale at exorbitant prices, they also code meters. Racketeering of prepaid meters, stealing prepaid meters from other places and selling them here and so have addresses that are not of this place.”
President of OCYF Rev’d Peter Olaleye in a telephone interview said the group would ground IBEDC for the week warning they “would not allow them to continue their reign of oppression,” while enjoining the people of Ogbomoso to join the protest on Monday. | <urn:uuid:8e8668ea-1168-49b3-943d-cd12c55043bb> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,061 |
In this Red Sox news update, the Boston Red Sox are reportedly in the cross-hairs of the Philadelphia Phillies in their attempts to trade away pitcher Cole Hamels and his massive contract.
According to Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe, "look for the Phillies to reopen trade talks with the Red Sox on Cole Hamels. The Sox have shot down a couple of proposals already."
The Philadelphia Phillies are reportedly asking for a huge return in exchange for Hamels, and it's likely that the Red Sox are unwilling to part with what the Phillies are currently asking for.
As Bill Baer of NBC's Hardball Talk reports, "the Phillies are officially buying into the idea of a rebuild and Hamels represents an efficient way for them to restock their minor league system quickly. But, as expected, GM Ruben Amaro wants “at least three top prospects” for his ace."
Hamels is entering the third year of a six-year, $144 million contract extension that he inked back in July of 2012. He is still owed $96 million of the balance on that deal.
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Hello and Welcome. In the session we’re going to modify the view we created last time. A block view we created last time. I just shortened the name from upcoming training courses to just courses to make it easy. And this is what we’re going to change, we’re going to add some modification. This is the title and this is the date. Let us modify some styling to it. We are modifying the title. Click on it. Now we can create a label, but we don’t want a label. Style setting, we’re going to add some sort of a tag. Let us add a tag. H3, the header 3 tag. and in the no result behaviour, if there is no title we can make it hide if it is empty. Apply to this display. Have a look, see a H3 title tag is now applied to this view. Now, let’s change the course date. In course date we can also create a date here, date and time or something like that. There is another way another is rewrite result, so let’s do that. Override the output of this field with custom field, let’s say date and time. Date and time. And the interesting thing here is we can add a replacement pattern, we can do any of this pattern we can add here. So this is the course date, we can add like that CTRL C to copy, CTRL V to paste, so it will be showing date and time and the actual date and time. Apply that, so date and time, than the date and time will show. Apply this. See how it looks, it look like date and time and the actual time so it’s the same in other places. Say for example, if you just want only the date, you can change that here and change to course date where is the rewrite result, over here and the pattern. The replacement pattern is if we just want the date we can click on that. This is only for the date, this is for the date and time. Okay, cancel out of that. So what we did is we just added a tag here and rewrite this with a pattern. This is our course block view, so we need to put that somewhere. Let’s save that first, we have unsaved changes, let’s save that. So that’s being saved. Now, where we are going to put it? Let’s go to our site – this is our home page. Let’s put a block, say, in between this one. to put our block about useful link in the front on the homepage you have to go to structure and block layout, it is sidebar second, it is sidebar second place block. So the block we created is training courses, block courses so place block. So it is asking for more configuration so we’re going to put – in a particular place we’re going to put on the pages the front page, this one, f.r.o.n.t so there’s the code for that to put on the front page I think that’s all we need. Let’s put on the front page, save block. So announcement, useful link and training of the course. Let’s have a look at that. So that is our upcoming courses, one, two and three this is the pagination. So this is the training courses now and if you click on more it’ll go to the actual page itself the view we created. Okay. For example, now we want to the pages this to come in between there, so just a matter of moving it over there. So go to structure block layout and there is this sidebar second, you just move it up there. and save. It is now moved up. You can also move up by using this this edit view, configure block. So we moved the block to here. So you can put that block anywhere, anyway you like. Just a matter of adjusting the block layout section. In this session we learned about how to modify the block view and put it in a place we want. Thank you. | <urn:uuid:2ae66d4d-467b-4056-ad49-24fc1bdee442> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,454 |
(KTVI)-The sixth annual St. Louis Brewers Heritage Festival kicked off Friday night in a new location, Ballpark Village in downtown St. Louis. The 2012 event features 20 local brewers and more than 80 beer styles. The goal of the event is to honor St. Louis’ rich brewing history and the current robust beer community.
Aside from beer, the festival features demonstrations, great food, and live music.
There are two sessions Saturday, June 16: 11:00am-3:00pm and 5:00pm-9:00pm. There is one session Sunday, June 17: 11:00am-3:00pm. Tickets at the gate are $35.00 a person. Designated Drivers get in for free.
Attendees should realize that the St. Louis Cardinals have ballgames at Busch Stadium both Saturday and Sunday, so parking may be hard to find.
Website: St. Louis Brewers Heritage Festival
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Joseph Umlauf is entering his second year as the head wrestling coach of Itasca Community College. Umlauf is a graduate of North Dakota State University where he was a four year scholarship starting wrestler for The Bison. He is currently pursuing his masters degree in sport management with an emphasis on high performance training from the number one rated sports management program in the country, University of Florida. Umlauf is also a Personal Training certified elite trainer from the International Sports Sciences Association in Personal Training, Sports Nutrition, and Strength and Conditioning.
In high school, Umlauf was a two-time Wisconsin state finalist and a four-time state qualifier. He was a multiple-time Border War, Pre-Season Nationals, and Cheesehead national champion and place winner. He is in a small group of wrestlers to have an undefeated Clash National Duals tournament record in Rochester, Minn.
Umlauf graduated from NDSU with a double major in Physical Education and Health Education and a minor in Psychology. He is currently a Physical Ed and Health Teacher at Greenway High School in Coleraine, Minnesota. He is a certified NFHS coach who has over 12 certificates in coaching. At NDSU, he took over 12 credits of courses in coaching.
In Umlauf’s first year as head coach the team went from one returning wrestler to over 25 wrestlers, qualifying six wrestlers for the national tournament. Heading into his second season he is looking to help his first wave of recruits find success on and off the mat. All of his upperclassmen that are returning have had offers to continue wrestling after their time with Itasca is done.
According to Coach Popp, “Coach Umlauf is always bringing a positive upbeat atmosphere to the room. He brings the Division I intensity to a room, but develops a culture and atmosphere of learning, growth, and development of the individual athletes as wrestlers, students, and in life.”
Charley Popp of Crystal Lake, Illinois, is entering his second year as head assistant coach. Coach Popp is a graduate of North Dakota State University where he competed from 165-197 pounds for The Big 12 Conference Bison wrestling team. He is also the Director of the Wrestling Business Operations, providing great attention to detail.
“Coach Popp brings such great energy to the team. He not only wrestles with our upper weights every day giving them the Division I look most of them want, but he knows the high-level technique for each individual. He fully embodies our philosophy of coaching the individual athlete to their own strengths and style to help our student-athletes become the best athlete they can be,” according to Coach Umlauf. “Coach Popp brings such great energy to the team. He not only wrestles with our upper weights every day giving them the Division I look most of them want, but he knows the high-level technique for each individual. He fully embodies our philosophy of coaching the individual athlete to their own strengths and style.”
Assistant Coach Alex Bleeker got a B.S. in Physical Education and Health Education from North Dakota State University. He competed at D1 wrestling 184-197 pounds. Vikings coaching responsibilities include Upperweight Operations, Recruiting Coordinator, and Strength Training Coordination.
Upper weight Coach Adolfo Sotolongo got a B.S. in Health Science with minors in Business Administration and Spanish from Ozarks University. While at Ozarks he was a four-year starter, two-year team captain, and a U23 Greco All-American. Vikings coaching responsibilities include Heavyweight Operations, Strength Training Coordination, and Recruiting Coordinator.
Lightweight Coach Brian Maas got an Associate of Arts degree from Iowa Lakes Community College. Maas is a two-time NJCAA national qualifier and a four-time MSHSL state placewinner wrestling for Bemidji. Vikings coaching responsibilities include Lightweight Operations, Minnesota Recruiter, and Local Outreach Coordinator.
The Vikings are also helped by Team Recruiter Roy Umlauf, Nutrition Consultant Dayo Wadsworth, and volunteer guest coaches Sam Umlauf, Tanner Reetz, Devin Reynolds, Cory Schmidt, and Dalton Bernett.
Check out Vikings Wrestling at itascacc.edu. | <urn:uuid:5621864e-8b7c-4a48-9226-9e999e391f74> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 4,222 |
I have updated to AIR SDK 3.9.1030. I have a project with ANE. When test on emulator (no problem on real device), ADL show error "[AIR Debug Launcher]: Not supported native extensions profile". This is a bug on previous version of AIR SDK, it is not suppose to show in this new version SDK.
I try use comand line to launch the ADL and it work properly. So, i guess their somthing wrong with intellij and AIR SDK.
Envi: Intellij 12.1.6 on mac. AIR SDK 3.9.1030. Pure Action Script project. | <urn:uuid:c0d6caa8-cfc2-4318-a08d-c478cd5951e1> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 488 |
A catalytic system-consisting of tungsten carbene generated from WCl6 and an atomic carbon is investigated theoretically for the metathesis of 1-octene at B3LYP/extended LANL2DZ level of DFT. The ground-state geometries and charge distributions of the structures belonging to the reaction mechanism are located. Energetics for the complete set of reactions, involving the formation of the tungsten carbene precatalyst, Cl4W=CCl2, the formation of tungsten methylidene and tungsten heptylidene with this precatalyst, and finally productive and degenerative metathesis steps with these alkylidene species are calculated in terms of total electronic energy and thermal energies. The free-energy (Delta G(298)) surfaces of the structures involved in the related reactions are constructed. In addition, solvent effects on the single point energies of the structures are investigated for two different solvents, namely, cyclohexane and chloroform. The results indicate that the formation of the catalytically active heptylidene is energetically favored in comparison to the formation of methylidene, while the degenerative and productive metathesis steps are competitive. In the catalytic cycle, the formation of ethylene is exothermic, while the formation of 7-tetradecene is endothermic. As expected, solvent effects on the metathesis reactions are minor and solvation does not cause any change in the directions of the overall metathesis reactions. | <urn:uuid:afbb5692-2835-4e26-b21f-dc79c1ab4274> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,445 |
Return of the August Hill Chill
Celebrate! It is time for the return of the August Hill Chill, an incredibly refreshing frozen wine drink that is perfect for welcoming spring. Stop by the Tasting Room today to enjoy an AHW Chill or pick up a bag of AHW Chill Mix to create your own frozen concoctions! We can also ship August Hill Chill bundles when you order online; choose from the Berlyn bundle or the Seyval Blanc bundle! | <urn:uuid:70bf031e-3270-480d-b3f2-b502873c51f3> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 425 |
WISE OWL EXERCISES
- Creating formulae (5)
- Formatting worksheets (7)
- Basic printing (7)
- Charts (10)
- Absolute references (9)
- Range names (13)
- Conditional formulae (16)
- Conditional formatting (7)
- Basic tables (6)
- Formatting numbers and dates (3)
- Working with dates (1)
- Data validation (6)
- Protection (1)
- Advanced IFs (5)
- Lookup functions (14)
- Advanced lookup functions (9)
- Text functions (1)
- Advanced charts (4)
- Multiple worksheets (1)
- Advanced tables (2)
- Pivot tables (3)
- Advanced pivot tables (3)
- Scenarios (2)
- Data tables (2)
- Array formulae (2)
- Building models (2)
- Masking (2)
- Cashflow calculations (1)
- Investment appraisal (1)
Excel | Data validation exercise | Data Validation - pesko pay
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Open the file contained within the folder name shown above.
Hours must be between 0 and 26.
Set data validation on cells D4:D15 to restrict users to only typing in a whole number between 0 and 26
Try to type in the following values into column D and check that the data validation rules work and only the last item is allowed:
In column F we want to choose the department name from a list to avoid typing errors:
We need to set up a validation list.
Set a data validation list for cells F4:F15, using the range name that is already set up on the DV Range tab called Department Names.
When you click in a cell in column F, you should now be able to choose a department name from the drop-down list:
A drop-down list should appear.
Use Save As... to save the file in your own new Excel work folder. | <urn:uuid:317f4915-858d-4620-b3fd-197394c810e0> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,189 |
Youth Sunday School: The Hole in Our Holiness
Every Sunday until November 17, 2019
9:30am – 10:10amCategory: Youth Sunday School | Coordinator: David Prussia
Hey teens, plan to attend our Youth Sunday School as we study from the book The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap Between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness by Kevin DeYoung. Bring a friend! Questions? Feel free to contact the Youth Director, Mr. David Prussia, email@example.com.
The hole in our holiness is that we don’t seem to care much about holiness. Or, at the very least, we don’t understand it. And we all have our reasons too: Maybe the pursuit of holiness seems legalistic. Maybe it feels like one more thing to worry about in your already overwhelming life. Maybe the emphasis on effort in the Christian life appears unspiritual. Or maybe you’ve been trying really hard to be holy and it’s just not working! Whatever the case, the problem is clear: too few Christians look like Christ and too many don’t seem all that concerned about it. This is a book for those of us who are ready to take holiness seriously, ready to be more like Jesus, ready to live in light of the grace that produces godliness. This is a book about God's power to help us grow in personal holiness and to enjoy the process of transformation. Includes end-of-chapter discussion questions. 160 pages, softcover from Crossway. No book purchase required for this class.Table of Contents:
1. Mind the Gap
2. The Reason for Redemption
3. Piety’s Pattern
4. The Impetus for the Imperatives
5. The Pleasure of God and the Possibility of Godliness
6. Spirit-powered, Gospel-driven, Faith-fueled Effort
7. Be Who You Are
8. Saints and Sexual Immorality
9. Abide and Obey
10. That All May See Your Progress
Kevin DeYoung (PhD, University of Leicester) is the senior pastor at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina, and assistant professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary (Charlotte). | <urn:uuid:1edeb525-3ff2-4deb-98f8-16c868b7a9fe> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,965 |
OCEAN TOWNSHIP – An Asbury Park man was arrested by township police and charged with shoplifting of $1,100 worth of eyeglasses on Wednesday.
Imhotep Muhammad, 50, was charged with shoplifting after employees at Eye Diagnostic and Surgery on Fairmont Avenue called police at 3:40 p.m.
Employees told officers that they saw a man put several pairs of eyeglasses in a potato chip bag and attempt to leave the store without paying. When he was confronted by a store employee, Muhammad fled and was apprehended nearby by Officer Daniel Weber and arrested, police said.
He was issued a summons and released pending a future court date.
The Asbury Park Press asked police for a photo of the suspect, but they refused. State law allows authorities discretion in releasing suspect photos, but they often refuse to do so, saying they are prohibited by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. | <urn:uuid:fb02c3c3-1671-4dc9-bf2e-e3c75641cbe5> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 882 |
Effect of DNA replication on mRNA noise
Gene expression noise affects a cell’s biological state and contributes to such phenomena as phenotype switching and cell fate determination. J. Peterson and J. Cole of the Luthey-Schulten laboratory collaborated with J. Fei and the Ha laboratory to examine the effects of DNA replication on gene expression (mRNA) noise. By examining chromosome replication---which is tightly controlled and thus exhibits little noise---they showed that variability in mRNA levels across a population is greatly affected by mRNA dynamics. Applying computational methods they found that the noise is greatly affected by the transient relaxation of the mRNA from a low- to a high-copy steady state after a gene replication event. Examining the many factors associated with gene expression and cell growth, they identified gene location, mRNA degradation rate, and cell doubling time as the main factors contributing to the observed noise. They derived analytical theories for the effect of chromosome replication on both constitutively expressed and regulated genes for use in analyzing and interpreting experimental measurements. As a demonstration, they applied the theory to fit the kinetics of transcription, degradation and regulation of the ptsG gene, which codes for the glucose phosohptransferase enzyme. Overall, their results demonstrate that it is essential to account for gene replication when modelling gene expression or when interpreting experimental results.
Read more at Peterson, J.R. (2015) PNAS 112(52):15886-15891. | <urn:uuid:3a6ef768-a5c0-40c4-b87a-ee04c7a72c25> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,557 |
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Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) is defined as “Women and adolescent girls using a clean menstrual management material to absorb or collect blood that can be changed in privacy as often as necessary for the duration of the menstruation period, using soap and water for washing the body as required, and having access to facilities to dispose of used menstrual management materials”
In layman terms, menstrual hygiene includes the following:
In India, menstruation is still considered something that shouldn’t be discussed, as a taboo. Many young girls and women even today are still unaware of hygienic practices that need to be followed during menstruation. Also, they are not aware of the possible health problems that can arise when proper menstrual hygiene is not maintained. Girls and women in semi-urban or rural areas of India still use cotton clothes during menstruation instead of sanitary pads. They wash the clothes and reuse them every time. Here, we want to put forth a little information on menstruation and ways they can maintain menstrual hygiene.
A girl when reaches the age of 12 or 13 years of age gets her first period. She is not even aware of why she bleeds until then. The female reproductive system starts from the vagina, cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries. Every month (approximately every 28 days), a thin layer forms on the inner walls of the uterus. This is called ‘Endometrium’ or ‘Endometrial layer’. This layer is responsible for holding the fertilized egg and supporting the growth of the fetus. During the middle of the month, an egg is released by the ovaries which wait for 24 hours for a sperm to fertilize. When the sperm doesn’t arrive, the egg is absorbed into the body and at the end of the cycle, the endometrial layer is shed and removed from the body through the vagina. This flows out of the body along with blood and other fluids for a period of 3 to 5 days, which is called ‘menstruation’. Every time the egg doesn’t get fertilized, the cycle repeats.
As mentioned already, the following is what you need to do to maintain proper hygiene during menstruation:
Following are the pads/material you can use to collect the discharged blood during menstruation:
If you are looking for nature-friendly, reusable cloth pads, you have many options today. Once used, you need to wash it thoroughly and dry it in direct sunlight to disinfect it before using it again.
Most commonly used by women. You need to open it, place it in your underpants as directed, and discard it properly. Some women feel that the use and throw pads are not environment friendly and fill up the dumping grounds.
Tampons are cylindrical-shaped pad-like items that are can be inserted into the vagina during menstruation. The sponge-like soft material absorbs the menstrual fluids and should be discarded when it can’t take any more. After that, clean the area with water and soap and insert a new one. Tampons too like sanitary pads are not environmentally friendly unless they are reusable tampons.
Small foldable cups made with soft silicone. The cup should be inserted into the vagina (which can be easily done) and it holds all the discharge from the vagina. Once full, it can be emptied, cleaned, dried, and reused.
Made with banana tree parts and used in many rural areas of India. The pads are 100% environmentally friendly as they decompose in six months after discarding.
These pads are made from water hyacinth, a free-floating perennial aquatic plant that is native to South America. Like banana fiber pads, they too are 100% environmentally friendly and decompose after discarding.
We can’t reiterate enough that maintaining menstrual hygiene is very important and that includes changing to fresh pads every time necessary and washing the area with water and soap. Ignoring menstrual hygiene can lead to several infections that can infect the urinary tract or the vagina or even the skin around the area. “Should you have any pain or burning sensation when peeing or have a rash or itch around the vagina, you must see a good gynecologist near you immediately” says Dr. Manu Lakshmi, one of the finest female gynecologists in Chennai. | <urn:uuid:1216f246-a290-4208-97d0-8a4d0fac9cf0> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 4,171 |
Youre telling me there are fairies in this wood? When Alices brother gets a longed-for chance for a heart transplant, Alice is suddenly bundled off to her estranged grandmothers house. Theres nothing good about staying with Nell, except for the beautiful Darkling Wood at the end of her garden – but Nell wants to have it cut down. Alice feels at home there, at peace, and even finds a friend, Flo. But Flo doesnt seem to go to the local school and no one in town has heard of a girl with that name. When Flo shows Alice the surprising secrets of Darkling Wood, Alice starts to wonder, what is real? And can she find out in time to save the wood from destruction? | <urn:uuid:7f9791d0-3ee5-4edb-b0f9-6e5523c5f4db> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 663 |
Before taking a measurement
Make sure you follow these guidelines before taking a measurement:
- The user and the Thermo have to remain in the same ambient temperature for 10 minutes before taking a measurement.
- The measurement has to be taken on dry skin. Sweaty skin could impact the results.
- Make sure the user's hair is not in the way.
- Wait at least 10 minutes after waking up before taking your measurement.
- Wait at least 15 minutes after a workout before taking your measurement.
- If you’re taking the temperature of a baby, make sure you wait at least 15 minutes after nursing him/her before taking a measurement.
- Do not take a measurement on a premature baby.
Taking a measurement
To take a measurement, perform the following steps:
- Remove the protective cap.
- Press and release the button of your Thermo.
- Scan across the forehead in a straight line, starting from the center of the forehead.
Direct contact with the skin is not necessary. The Thermo can be up to 1 cm (0.5 in.) away from your skin.
- The Thermo vibrates at the end of the measurement and the result comes up on the display.
- Slide your finger up or down on the touch sensitive area of the display to select the correct user.
- Press the button to confirm your choice.
Your measurement is sent to the app after your Thermo turns off.
Note: The Thermo can register approximately 30 measurements without syncing.
Understanding the fever status LED
The color of the LED indicates at a glance whether or not the person has a fever. This
is based on the temperature and the user’s age range. The severity of the fever is also clearly visible based on the color shown.
You’ll find below the fever status for each age range:
Viewing the history of my measurements
Once you’ve assigned a measurement from your Thermo, you can check the history of measurements for the user. To do so, slide the touch sensitive area of your Thermo from bottom to top to go back in time.
You can see the last five measurements taken in the past 72 hours. | <urn:uuid:e0ba7d35-860a-4de9-bb8a-8406d6672fa0> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,019 |
This is a really amazing time to be a person who loves motorcycles. Bikes are more powerful and significantly faster than ever before, but they’re also substantially safer and easier to ride. One of the best examples of this is Ducati’s utterly ridiculous Panigale V4. Not only does the base model make 210 hp with a dry weight of 386 pounds, but compared to the Panigales of just a few years ago, the new V4 doesn’t stare at you from the corner of your garage with a murderous glare.
Instead, one of the hallmarks of Ducati’s current lineup of V4-powered bikes is just how ridiculously easy and unintimidating they are to ride. Part of this is that the Panigale makes its peak power at a stratospheric 12,500 rpm, but mostly it’s the brilliant suite of electronics that makes the whole bike work. Now, for the 2023 model year, those electronics are getting a few upgrades to make the fastest street-legal Ducati even easier to ride and live with.
The biggest change comes in the form of Ducati’s Engine Brake Control EVO2 software. This allows the rider to select from three engine braking profiles, each of which provides different engine braking characteristics specifically suited to an individual gear in the bike’s six-speed transmission. Rad, right? But wait, there’s more.
Ducati also updated its quick-shifter algorithms to make shifts faster and smoother. Considering the fact that Ducati’s quick-shifter was already one of the best in the business, this should make the riding experience even more enjoyable. Previous iterations of the system would briefly cut fuel to unload the gears in the transmission; now, the bike achieves the same effect by retarding the ignition timing, which offers significantly more refined control over the process.
One area in which Panigales have historically suffered is excessive engine heat getting thrown onto the rider. This makes sense, given the bike’s tight packaging, high power output and tightly fitted fairings. To help combat this somewhat, Ducati has revised the programming for the bike’s engine cooling fans to help mitigate heat at normal road speeds and combat heat soak at the end of a long track session.
Finally, the folks from Borgo Panigale revised the Ducati Traction Control (DTC) system and ride-by-wire throttle calibration. The change to the former is meant to let the system make finer adjustments to engine power based on the bike’s lean angle as calculated by the inertial measurement unit (IMU), which means subtler, more transparent traction control intervention. The throttle change promises to make the relationship between throttle input and engine response much more seamless.
The result of all these changes means that the 2023 Panigale V4 will be faster, smoother, safer, cooler and generally nicer to ride, which is awesome. What’s maybe more awesome is that many of these changes are likely to trickle down to other Ducati models like the Streetfighter, which is already one of the best bikes on sale today.
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Boiling Water Bath Canner
These canners are made of aluminum or porcelain-covered steel. They have removable perforated racks or wire baskets and fitted lids. The water bath canner must be deep enough so that at least 1 inch of briskly boiling water will be over the tops of jars during processing.
Some boiling water bath canners do not have flat bottoms. A flat bottom must be used on an electric range. Either a flat or ridged bottom can be used on a gas burner. To ensure uniform processing of all jars with an electric range, the canner should be no more than 4 inches wider in diameter than the element on which it is heated.
Why Choose Boiling Water Bath Canning to Preserve Food?
Boiling water bath canning is a safe and economical method of preserving high acid foods. It has been used for decades especially by home gardeners and others interested in providing food storage for their families where quality control of the food is in ones' own hands. Home food preservation also promotes a sense of personal satisfaction and accomplishment. Further, the guesswork is taken out of providing a safe food supply which has been preserved at home when guidelines for operating a water-bath canner are followed exactly, scientifically tested/approved recipes are utilized (1988 or later), and good quality equipment, supplies and produce are used.
What Foods Are Typically Processed Using a Boiling Water-bath Method and Why?
High acid foods can be safely processed at temperatures reached in the boiling water bath canner. To kill harmful molds, yeasts, and some bacteria, processing using the boiling water bath method ensures the safety of the preserved produce. Foods such as fruits, pickles, sauerkraut, jams, jellies, marmalades, and fruit butters/spreads fit into the high acid group since they have an acidity, or pH level, of 4.6 or lower. Most tomatoes and tomato products also fit into this category provided current recommendations for acidification* are followed.
*Acidification: Current recommendations for acidification of whole, crushed, or juiced tomatoes, are to add 2 tablespoons of bottled lemon juice or 1/2 teaspoon of citric acid per quart of tomatoes. For pints, use 1 tablespoon bottled lemon juice or 1/4 teaspoon citric acid. Four (4) tablespoons of a 5 percent acidity vinegar per quart may be used instead of lemon juice or citric acid. However, vinegar may cause undesirable flavor changes. Add sugar (or salt) to offset acid taste, if desired. This does not effect the acidity of the tomatoes.
Selecting The Correct Processing Time
To ensure the safety of food processed the boiling water bath method, use scientifically-tested recipes (dated 1988 or later) to prepare the produce and adjust the processing time for altitude using the chart below. Keep in mind that failing to properly lengthen processing times may result in short-term shelf-life or spoiled food due to the growth of mold, bacteria, and other microorganisms not detected by sight or smell. Food poisoning may result if the spoiled food is eaten.
Boiling Water Bath Canner Altitude Chart
Normally the processing times given for acidic foods in recipe and canning guides are based on an altitude at or below 1,000 feet above sea level using the Boiling Water Bath method. At altitudes ABOVE 1,000 feet, adjust the processing times according to the cute chart below.
Steps for Successful Boiling Water Bath Canning:
1. Fill the canner halfway with water.
2. Preheat water to 140 degrees F. for raw-packed foods and to 180 degrees F. (simmering with steam) for hot-packed foods. Raw or cold-packed foods are placed directly into hot jars and covered with hot syrup; hot- packed foods are partially cooked or heated through and placed hot into hot jars, and covered with hot syrup. See tested recipes for detailed instructions for various types of produce.
3. Load filled jars, fitted with lids, into the canner rack and use the handles to lower the rack into the water; or fill the canner, one jar at a time, with a jar lifter.
4. Add more boiling water, if needed, so the water level is at least 1 inch above jar tops.
5. Cover with the canner lid and turn heat to its highest position until water boils vigorously.
6. Set a timer for the number of minutes required for processing the food. (Check tested recipes for specific instructions for jams/jellies and pickles.)
7. Lower the heat setting to maintain a gentle boil throughout the process schedule.
8. Add more boiling water, if needed, to keep the water level to above one inch of the jar lids.
9. When jars have been boiled for the recommended time, turn off the heat and remove the canner lid.
10. Using a jar lifter, remove the jars and place them on a protected surface, leaving at least 1-inch spaces between the jars during cooling. Keep away from air drafts and let the jars cool at room temperature.
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The EXPONENTIAL MINDS Executive Briefing on Lunar Colonization looks at how we are planning to go to the Moon to kickstart a new economy, the companies helping us do that and what jobs there will be for us.
There is now a renewed interest in the commercialization of space. Programs like SpaceX and Blue Origin has made the process of launching cargo into space cheaper and more practical. This means, in a few years, we’ll be able to get to the moon to create lunar bases and stations.
Meet The Engineer Dreaming of a Lunar City (Bloomberg)
After a decades-long lull, interest in Lunar Colonization on the moon is back. This time it’s led by startups, including Tokyo-based ispace Inc., which is hoping to land two of its miniature rovers on the lunar surface in 2021.
Akane Imamura is part of ispace’s team racing to make that deadline, and their ultimate goal is nothing short of making the moon not only habitable, but home to an ecosystem of thriving businesses. Bloomberg Technology’s Aki Ito joins Imamura’s team as they test their most recent prototypes at a lunar simulation facility run by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
The race to colonize the Moon (CTV Future Fridays with Nikolas Badminton)
The future of work on the Moon
There is the potential to tap into the natural resources on the Moon and we’ll need specialists to help us do that. Here are some of the jobs we think will be important?
- Lunar Engineers – on Earth to design this future capability, and on the Moon to help us overcome difficulties and design new in-situ solutions.
- Lunar Scientists – to undertake experiments in reduced gravity and to ensure we can create habitable environments for humans, animals and plants.
- Terraformers – to make large areas of the environment hospitable to humans, thus making the colonization of the Moon safer and sustainable.
- Lunar Miners – to extract the resources on the Moon safely and efficiently.
- Lunar farmers and chefs – to grow food and prepare meals for the workers.
- Citizen Astronauts – the administrators and people that would live on the Moon to provide support functions.
The Lunar Gold Rush: How Moon Mining Could Work
The moon holds hundreds of billions of dollars of untapped resource. This infographic from 911Metallurgist.com explains how we could mine it.
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La Romana (Photo: )
La Romana, on the southeastern coast of the Dominican Republic, is described by Lonely Planet as a “bustling city hugging the Rio Chavon.” The surrounding region offers all the classic attractions of a Caribbean destination -- sandy beaches, upscale beachfront resorts and ample opportunities for water sports and excursions. The city is surrounded by sugar cane fields and is close to some of the island’s most scenic spots.
La Romana is served by an international airport which offers American Airlines flights from Miami and Air Canada flights from Toronto, among other scheduled services. The city is about an hour and a half by road from Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, which has a larger airport.
La Romana is dominated by the resorts and beaches of Casa de Campo, Bayahibe and Dominicus. The upscale, 7,000-acre Case de Campo Resort represents the largest tourist development in the region. It offers art galleries, a lively marina, boutiques and fancy restaurants along with lodging and recreational facilities for guests. Playa Bayahibe offers numerous hotels and dive centers.
To the east of La Romana is the Parque Nacional Del Este, a protected area of numerous islands and warm, clear waters. Popular sites in the park include Saona Island, which is known for its beaches, and Isla Catalina is a six-square-mile island surrounded by a protected coral reef. Take a catamaran or speedboat to visit the islands and look out for dolphins along the way. A local attraction for hikers is the “Ecological Route,” a 4.5-mile-long historic route featuring five natural springs and more than 450 native plant species. The largest caves in the Caribbean, which reach 3.7 miles underground and feature ancient cave art and underground rivers, are also in the La Romana region.
A variety of water-based and land-based excursions are available through La Romana-based tour companies, hotels and resorts, and self-guided excursions are also an option. Guided excursions include game fishing for barracuda, tuna and dorado; jeep safaris and horseback riding through Casa de Campo’s equestrian center. For an independent adventure, snorkel over the Guadalupe underwater museum and the Cara Merchant shipwreck.
The world’s largest hand-rolled cigar factory, Tabacalera de Garcia Cigar Factory located just outside of Casa de Campo, welcomes visitors to tour its facilities. Tours are available Monday to Friday and they are free of charge. Altos de Chavon Village, a cultural center created in the 1970s, hosts the Archeological Regional Museum where you can see pre-Columbian treasures. The Amber World Museum dedicated to the Dominican Republic’s national gemstone.
The three world-class courses at Casa de Campo Resort are a major draw for visitors to the area. The Teeth of the Dog Course designed by Peter Dye was ranked as the number one course in the Caribbean and 43rd worldwide by Golf Magazine. Pete Dye also designed Dye Fore, another 18-hole course at Casa de Campo. La Romana Country Club is another option for golfers.
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Welcome to Transportation Services
Each day, approximately 9,000 students are transported by bus in District 742. Traveling over 1.6 million miles each year through more than 100 different bus routes, District transportation ensures the arrival and departure of students to and from school each day. The District 742 fleet and 4 additional private carriers work in tandem repeating the delivery each day.
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2014 is going to be a really big year for actress Shailene Woodley.
Twenty-one-year-old Woodley, already well known as the star of the successful TV series "The Secret Life Of The American Teenager," earned rave reviews for her work in the movie "The Descendants," and she's currently shooting what should be one of next year's box office blockbusters, "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," in which she'll play Mary Jane Watson. Now Woodley's name is linked to two more high profile projects.
It was announced Tuesday that Woodley has been offered the lead role in the screen adaptation of John Green's Young Adult bestseller "The Fault In Our Stars." The story of two young cancer patients who fall in love, "The Fault In Our Stars" earned enthusiastic reviews in print, and is expected to be a major screen attraction for 2014. In a press release, director John Boone made it clear Woodley is the actress he wants for the movie.
"During our exhaustive search to find Hazel Grace Lancaster, I saw some stunning auditions by today's finest young actresses," Boone said. "Over 250 girls read for the part, but it wasn't until Shailene stepped in front of the camera that I truly saw Hazel for the first time. It was like lightning striking. I can't wait for the rest of the world to see what I have."
John Green, who wrote the book, is also keen on Woodley for the role. "I am absolutely thrilled that Shailene will be playing Hazel in 'The Fault In Our Stars,'" Green said. "It means a lot to me that she is a fan of the book, and I know from our conversations that she has a profound understanding of Hazel. Watching her audition, I felt like Hazel Grace Lancaster was talking to me. It was eerie -- and very exciting."
Woodley already has another major Young Adult adaptation on her agenda - she's been confirmed to play Beatrice Prior in the much-anticipated screen version of Veronica Roth's "Divergent." Set in a future where society has collapsed and humanity has divided itself into factions based on shared beliefs and personality traits, "Divergent" follows Beatrice as she abandons the group in which she was raised and finds both love and danger in the outside world.
With a cast that also features Kate Winslet and Aaron Eckhart, "Divergent" is expected to tap into the same market for darker teen-themed fare that made "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games" into literary and cinematic moneymakers (like those books, "Divergent" is also the first in a series, equaling franchise possibilities which are much beloved in Hollywood), and the casting of Woodley as Beatrice and Theo James as Four has already generated plenty of buzz among fans.
As if this weren't enough, Woodley will also be starring in "White Bird In A Blizzard," a new film from iconoclastic indie director Gregg Araki about a young woman whose reunion with her long-long mother (played by Eva Green) proves tumultuous. With any luck, Woodley and her representatives have penciled in time for a nap sometime in the next eighteen months. | <urn:uuid:dc2c1035-102b-42d0-a0a7-0b90cfecc8b8> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,002 |
Did you know that incorporating color (correctly!) into your lessons can boost student learning and memory?
If you’re anything like me, you probably put a lot of effort into designing your dream classroom. But, have you ever thought about the science behind how colors around your classroom affect your students’ learning?
Different colors, their combinations, and their placement can have an effect on attention, memory, feelings, and behaviors of students. So, it’s time we take a look at all of this research and use colors to our advantage!
Considering the following ideas, research, and infographic will help you to rethink your use of color in the classroom to give your students a stronger learning experience.
- thoughtful choices of color in atmosphere & surroundings
- maximizing use of color in lesson content (printing in color, using colored paper, incorporating color in notes, presentations, and student work)
- considering how students interact with lesson material (doodling, color coding, using colored patterns and tools, etc.)
- rethinking even the colors we use when grading and giving feedback
- using colorful memory triggers
First, how does memory work? Medical Daily states, “When you experience something, this event is converted into a pulse of electrical energy that zips along a network of neurons, according to Young. This information first gets stored in short-term memory, where it's available anywhere from a few seconds to a couple of minutes. Then, the experience gets transferred to long-term memory areas such as the hippocampus — the center of emotion, memory, and the automatic nervous system — and finally reaching several storage regions across the brain.”
Edynco tells us, color is the most powerful stimulus to our brain. As information enters our brain through our eyes and ears it is stored in sensory memory. We can only pay attention to a small amount of information at once. When something attracts our attention it goes into working memory, or short-term memory, and color is what our brain notices first! According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, information is then moved to long-term memory as a result of various control processes; this depends on the degree attached to a certain stimuli. In short, what we give more attention to is more likely to be stored in long-term memory.
We also know that color aids pattern recognition. The Association for Talent Development states, “In 2002, researchers discovered that subjects performed five to 10 percent better on standardized pattern recognition tests when they were administered in color rather black and white. The effect also boosted memory over time.” This result shows how much benefit color can have in our teaching and standardized test results if we use it to our advantage!
Those in business and marketing would tell you the same thing- there is a strong correlation between what is stored in our memory and color; many advertisements use color to their advantage. For example, many fast-food restaurants use bright, vivid colors in their advertising, like McDonald’s red and yellow, to grab your attention and store in your memory.
So, how can you use color to benefit your students’ learning? You need to take into consideration a couple of different factors, including individual colors, combination of colors, and the results you are trying to achieve.
First, since individual colors elicit different responses, it is important to know these responses. Shift Learning gives helpful explanations of colors and how they enhance learning.
Imagine a lush forest or a beautiful field. Does it give you a brief sense of calmness? Green reminds us of nature, and because of this has a calming effect. Green increases efficiency and focus, and is great for when you need your students to concentrate for a long time.
The color red stimulates the adrenal glands, according to The Association for Talent Development. It can evoke feelings of energy and threat, but has also appears to improve focus and performance.
Orange is a definite mood-lifter! This welcoming color provides comfort and enhances neural functioning.
However, the color orange may be over stimulating for some students; keep this in mind if you have an exceptionally energetic class. So although, orange can be a great color to use, it’s best in small doses!
The color pink promotes calmness and can reduce heart rate.
Contrary to popular belief, blue does not equal sadness! Blue promotes productivity and is best for challenging learning situations. Shift Learning states, “…blue is great for promoting high levels of thought, but too much can create a sense of detachment and coldness.” It is helpful to mix blue with warmer colors.
Typically known as a cheerful color, the color yellow can improve happiness; too much yellow can produce stress, though.
Red vs. Blue
There was a study done at the University of British Columbia, published in Science magazine, to observe how the cognitive performance of participants varied depending on whether they saw red or blue when they performed tasks. “Red groups did better on tests of recall and attention to detail, like remembering words or checking spelling and punctuation. Blue groups did better on tests requiring invention and imagination: coming up with creative uses for a brick or creating toys from collections of shapes.”
Red color should be used when you want to improve memory on completing a task like proofreading. Blue should be used when your students are brainstorming or you want them to think creatively and out-of-the-box.
Another factor that needs to be considered is when multiple colors are involved. When the right combination of colors is used, it can produce higher levels of contrast. It’s important to consider the contrast of colors in your classroom. The background of what students see should contrast with the foreground, or text. If the background and foreground are monochromatic (same color, different hue), then it will not stick as well to your students’ memory.
Teaching tools such as PowerPoint slides, posters, worksheets, etc. should have contrast between the background and foreground, but should also be aesthetically pleasing and easy to look at. A lighter background and darker foreground enhances readability.
Different colors and combinations of colors can have a stronger effect in one area over another area, so it’s important to think about what you are hoping to achieve. For example, Edynco tells us to use warm colors (red, orange, yellow) to stimulate, and cool colors (blue, green, purple) to calm.
You can use coloring as an interactive experience as often as you want in class, but blend colors strategically in visuals or decor, keeping in mind that too many different colors can create chaos and confusion. When used the right way, color can have an immense benefit to your students’ memory and performance!
A great way to get started with incorporating color is to try visual note taking strategies in your classroom. With doodle notes, students can interact with their note pages through doodling, coloring, patterns, embellishments, color coding, and lettering in ways that increase memory. Learn more about how visual notes blend graphics and text to increase student focus, learning, and retention.
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By Shannon Carlin
A band headlining practically every major American music festival in one summer tends to have thoughts on the circuit. Phoenix‘s cause for favoring Lollapalooza is admittedly “a very selfish reason,” notes guitarist Christian Mazzalai.
“A beautiful skyline, it’s unbeatable.”
Mazzalai’s brother and fellow guitarist, Laurent Brancowitz, took it one step further.
“The countryside gives me anxiety attacks,” he explained, noting that most festivals put up fences to barricade you in. “It’s a bizarre concept when you think about it.”
Hours before Phoenix headlined the final night of Lollapalooza this past weekend (Aug. 2-4), Brancowitz (feeling very Zen) and Mazzalai spoke with Radio.com about how Michael Jackson influenced the video for “Trying To Be Cool,” the possibility of working with Sofia Coppola (and others!), and why the phrase “mint julep testosterone” got its own t-shirt.
We also left the interview with a sneaking suspicion that the band is going to be recording something with R. Kelly really soon. Maybe.
Radio.com: You guys surprised everyone at Coachella by bringing out R. Kelly to perform a few songs. How did that come together?
Laurent Brancowitz: We just asked. We are big fans and we asked him in a very simple way and explained what we had in mind and he just said yes.
Christian Mazzalai: We wanted to do something special because it was our first big show for this album. The idea came to us one week before the show, very late. Before going onstage we always put on R. Kelly’s music, which is very far from our music, but we love his art. So we created a mash-up between our music and his music. We sent it to him and he said yes. The funny part is he arrived late so we didn’t see him before. We met him onstage. We didn’t rehearse so there was a beautiful tension.
Are there any plans to record with him in the future?
Mazzalai: Yeah, maybe. Maybe. [Lifts sunglasses and winks] Maybe. Maybe soon you will know. Maybe.
(Editor’s note: On August 13, Phoenix revealed the album art of their remix to “Trying To Be Cool,” which features vocals from none other than R. Kelly himself. So yes, they are working with R. Kelly.)
In terms of collaborators, there are rumors that you guys are shooting a video with Sofia Coppola for “Chloroform.”
Brancowitz: Ah, yeah we have a few little things in mind. Those kind of things happen just you know because it’s family [Coppola is married to lead singer, Thomas Mars] so we know it’s going to feel true in the end cause there’s a real connection. Yeah, there’s a lot of things we’re working on.
Your video for “Trying To Be Cool” looked like it was very difficult to make. Can you talk about what that day was like?
Brancowitz: It was a very long day in Barcelona. There was this feeling that everybody was collectively making something that was impossible to make. It’s a bit in a way like Saturday Night Live where you feel that every member of the team is equally responsible for potential success. You know this impossible task and it’s a great feeling when the day is finished and you have the illusion that it worked.
The clip was shot all in one take, which seems like it would be a lot of pressure.
Mazzalai: That’s what we love when there’s pressure and there’s a possibility to fail. It creates a tension, an artistic tension, which is unbeatable.
The video is also very funny. How did you guys come up with some of the ways you poke fun at people who are trying too hard to be cool?
Brancowitz: It was pretty simple to come up with them. I remember the directors, called CANADA from Spain, they had a lot of ideas actually. When we talked we had exactly the same vision of the same references, it was a bit frightening because I could see that we were speaking exactly the same language. And one of the first things they showed us was the picture of Michael Jackson with his pet monkey and that we could relate to. [laughs] But we couldn’t do it. It’s illegal in Europe to shoot with chimps so we had to find another kind of monkey, which was a bit more difficult to work with.
On your website, you’re selling shirts featuring the line, “mint Julep testosterone” from “Trying To Be Cool.” Are you surprised how much fans seem to like that line?
Brancowitz: We love it when we suddenly become part of the texture, the fabric of contemporary life, you know? It’s always something we really enjoy. It’s really rare that it happens. We’ve been lucky enough that there hasn’t been a lot of misunderstandings. Usually people get what we’re trying to do. We know sometimes people take a message and just transform it into something totally different. But our message is kind of hard to turn it around that much, it’s just floating like a bizarre weird combination of images.
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By CNN's Ansari and Brocchetto - Brazilian health authorities have taken the lead in the fight against dengue fever not with vaccines but rather with mosquitoes. At the start of this week they expanded their program and opened a large-scale mosquito farm in the northeast state of Bahia.
Now, these are not the garden-variety mosquitoes, they are an army of genetically modified male mosquitoes being used to combat, rather than spread, disease. In the laboratory, male mosquitoes are genetically modified to carry a lethal gene against the dengue virus. They are then released into the wild to mate with female mosquitoes (who are actually the ones who bite humans -- since they need the blood for their eggs) and once the lethal gene is passed on to the offspring they die in the larvae stage and never make it to adulthood.
The target is dengue fever, for which there currently is no vaccine, and prevention largely has failed.
The World Health Organization classifies dengue as a mosquito-borne viral infection that causes a severe flu-like illness and sometimes a potentially lethal complication called hemorrhagic dengue. Though data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report transmission in the continental United States is mostly due to travel to sub-tropical and tropical areas in the world, data from WHO indicate the incidence of dengue has increased 30 fold over the last 50 years.
According to the latest World Health Organization statistics 50 million to 100 million infections are now estimated to occur annually in over 100 endemic countries, putting almost half of the world's population at risk.
In Brazil this year alone, the health ministry recorded 431,194 infections, with Rio de Janeiro leading in the number of cases. While the government of Brazil has attempted many other campaigns against the mosquitoes, Brazilian Health Minister Alexandre Padilha insists this new effort could be the answer to controlling the dengue epidemic in the country.
The farm in Bahia is a partnership between the Brazilian government and Moscamed, an agency that specializes in the production of transgenic insects for the biological control of pests. It uses research and methods developed by several Brazilian universities as well as by British company Oxitec. It will produce at maximum capacity around 4 million sterile males of the dengue-carrying mosquito Aedes Aegyptis per week.
Moscamed's fact sheet on the project claims that since its beginning in February 2011 it has released more than 10 million male transgenics. This month over 95% of the larvae found in the two neighborhoods that served as test communities are already transgenic, or genetically modified to not reach adulthood, the agency says.
Though there is a lot of buzz about this alternative method of disease management, public health officials and environmentalists are skeptical and concerned about the long-term ramifications this could have. In a recent ongoing case in Key West, Florida, Oxitec was set to test a similar project in a 36-square-acre block near the Key West Cemetery. Officials of the Florida Keys Environmental Coalition sent Florida Gov. Rick Scott a letter detailing how they did not want to become "guinea pigs."
"Despite the grave and growing public concerns that have been raised about the genetically engineered mosquitoes, there is no indication that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration or any other federal or state agency has evaluated the safety of the company's planned release. Nor has there been an independent analysis to examine the public health or environmental impacts of this release," the letter said.
In Brazil, Moscamed held talks with locals before the trial started. The agency also printed fliers explaining the process and sent representatives to schools to talk to the children. Dengue is a well-known fact in Brazil and so are the campaigns against it. Social media, television, day-to-day talk and such are dominated by anti-dengue slogans and campaigns launched by the government.
Scientists in Brazil are largely overseen by multiple government ministries and committees and, according to local media, residents in the areas were the trials are held are accustomed to the sights. Most of the interest comes from scientists and researchers worldwide who flock to Moscamed to learn about the benefits of the program.
According to a release by the state of Bahia, the project, paid for with funds from the state and federal government, cost about $1.6 million, and aims to control disease transmission. The state and federal governments also spend millions of dollars each year in campaigns to educate residents and to slow the procreation of mosquitoes. Brazilian researchers also work with the French Pasteur Institute in the development and trial of a vaccine against the virus.
"We will work to bring this technology to municipalities with higher levels of infestation, such as Jacobina and Itabuna, where it will be possible to analyze also in
appropriate circumstances. Remember that we are still in research stage and are not routinely using the technique," said the state health secretary, Jorge Solla, in a press release announcing the new facility. After the testing phase, Solla says the project will be expanded.
Oxitec is also conducting testing in other countries. Its strand of the OX513A mosquito has regulatory approvals for import and contained (in lab) testing in Brazil, the Cayman Islands, France, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the United Staets and Vietnam. Open field trials have taken place in both Grand Cayman and Malaysia, in a small scale.
Though all this may seem like a scene straight out of a science fiction movie, these genetically modified mosquitoes provide a window of hope for millions of people. The Brazilian health minister, Alexandre Padilha, said during the inauguration of the new facility that the Brazilian government will keep a close eye in this project, as well as the continued research into other avenues, and could use it as one more weapon in the fight against the disease. | <urn:uuid:0760ae73-c313-4561-8526-8f9288fee1fe> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 6,085 |
Coconut Bon Bons
Have you ever heard of the company Windy Acres? I ate some of their coconut
bon bons and they were the best I've ever had. The package contained brown,
white, pink, and yellow bon bons, and each color had a different flavor. If you
like coconuts you'll love these. According to the Windy Acres website, they also
sell hard candy, candy bars, beef jerky, gum, and even honey.
Purex 3-in-1 Laundry Sheets
If you haven't tried the Purex 3-in-1 Laundry Sheets yet...go out and buy them now!
They are detergent, softener, and anti-static all in one. Not only do they go right
from your washing machine to the dryer after the load is done, but they make your
wash load smell good for weeks.
What Is PRC?
I can't help it...I love reading packages. One of the elements of the package that
interests me the most is where the product is made. I bought a product that said it
was made in PRC. What is PRC?... the People's Republic of China. PRC sounds
more important than MADE IN CHINA, but to me China is China. | <urn:uuid:28246d37-4e16-4d2e-8a01-6616558b39e5> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,018 |
In Norse mythology, Ymir, also known as Aurgelmir, the ancestor of all the mythological giants, was created from the drops of water that formed when the ice of Niflheim met the tremendous heat of Muspelheim in the abyss of Ginnungagap. According to legend, long before the creation of the universe, there were two realms in the void of nothingness: the incredibly hot realm of Muspelheim, guarded by a gigantic figure named Surt with a flaming sword in his hand, and the icy realm of Niflheim.
Apart from that, in between the two realms, there was an infinite abyss called Ginnungagap. At some point of time, as the warm air of Muspellheim reached the coldness of Niflheim in the unending void of Ginnungagap, it caused the ice to thaw and drip, which thickened to form the shape of a gigantic figure of Ymir. Later, a giant female aurochs, called Audhumbla, also took shape from the icy droplets who feed Ymir with her milk.
On the other hand, Audhumbla, the cow, nourished herself by licking the neighbouring salty, rime-covered stones, and according to legend, as she licked, a human figure began to come out from within the salt. While his hair was uncovered on the first day, his head on the next day, and finally, on the third day, he was completely uncovered and came out from the stones. He was Buri, the first of the Aesir gods. Subsequently, his son, Bor mated with Bestla, one of the descendants of Ymir, to produce Odin, the chief of the Aesir, and his two younger brothers, Vili and Ve, who were known as the rulers of heaven and Earth.
Although Ymir was the father of all the giants, he never married or had any children in the traditional sense. However, he was born with a hermaphroditic body, possessing both male and female reproductive organs, and several other giants were conceived asexually in his body. While he slept, a male and a female were produced from the sweat of his armpits, and his legs produced a six-headed son, Thrudgelmir. Later, this Thrudgelmir gave birth to Belgemir, Ymir's grandson who would subsequently increase the giant race.
Ymir, the first of the Jotunn race, was described as the most destructive of his species. Theoretically, he was the personification of the chaos before creation. He was said to be a ruthless, a savage creature, and a chaotic universal force, motivated only by instinct. To maintain his rule over the pre-universe, he attempted to destroy the Aesir lineage of gods, the gods of the principal pantheon in Norse religion that included Odin, Frigg, Hother, Thor, Baldr, and Tyr. In fact, his evil attitude was responsible for his tragic end.
Eventually, as Ymir completely turned into an evil and became an imminent threat for the Aesir gods, the Odin brothers were forced the kill the frost giant in a battle. His death caused so much of blood that it flooded and drowned almost all of the Jotnars, except his grandson Belgemir, who fled to Jotunheim, the land of giants, with the pledge to avenge his ancestors.
The huge body of the frost giant was dragged by Odin and his brothers and placed it in the centre of the void, the Ginnungagap, where the Odin brothers used his flesh to make the Earth, the seas were made from his blood, mountains from his bones, stones from his teeth, the sky from his skull. While his brain was thrown into the sky to form the clouds, the Odin brothers added sparks and the molten rocks from Muspellheim to create the twinkling stars. As the Earth was flat, Ymir’s eyelashes or eyebrows were used as fence to surround the Midgard, or the Middle Earth, the home for the mankind. | <urn:uuid:2cdb9a26-9bea-4a57-987d-767aab371fdb> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 3,578 |
Dr. Ben Carson and Sean Hannity got together for what may be the world’s lamest effort to shore up Donald Trump’s dwindling appeal.
Carson appeared on Hannity Thursday night in the wake of disastrous poll numbers for Trump. Predictably, Sean Hannity got the “defend Trump” ball rolling by attacking others. First, it was Black Lives Matter. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Hannity fixates on attacking the group and that's totally unrelated to the fact that he once promoted the armed insurrection of a white racist and previously palled around with a white supremacist.
Hannity blamed the media for Trump's fall from favor. Here’s how he hilariously misrepresented the controversy over Trump’s comments about Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan:
HANNITY: The big issue with the media is that Donald Trump said that Mr. Khan’s son is a hero and his refugee program would never have impacted this family.
Fact check: The "big issue" is that Trump first took a bigoted swipe at Ghazala Khan, accusing her of not talking because she’s too much of a radical Muslim (a smear Hannity personally echoed, twice). Trump followed that with a suggestion that he has sacrificed as much as the Khans because he’s such a successful businessman.
Carson seemed to agree with Hannity. “It’s truly amazing,” he said about the supposed double standard in the media that has so hurt poor Donald Trump. “I hope that the American people can see that most of the mainstream media is completely in the tank for Hillary and they are not helpful at all,” Carson added.
I guess Carson’s idea of a “helpful” media would be one that lies like Hannity just to propagandize for Trump and the GOP?
“Doesn’t this really come down to comparing and contrasting?” Hannity continued. He ticked off issues such as taxes, Supreme Court appointments, the border wall, ObamaCare, education, etc.
Carson replied, “You have just articulated the reason that they [Hillary world] are so determined to make this about individuals, to make this about Donald Trump. As long as they can keep him in the forefront, they don’t have to talk about all the things that you just enumerated..”
But before long, Carson was the one making the campaign about individuals.
CARSON: It really boils down to one candidate who is of the people and one who is the epitome of the established ruling class. You couldn’t have a more clear-cut distinction than this.
Really? Frankly, I think they are both part of the established, ruling class. But you’d have to be really out of touch to think that a guy who continually boasts, about his wealth, flies around on a jet filled with gold-plated fixtures, has his own makeup person, has encouraged Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton’s email server and has mocked a disabled reporter is a man of the American people.
But you don’t have to take my word for it. Check out the latest poll from NBC News/Wall Street Journal. It not only gives Clinton/Kaine a 9-point lead over Trump/Pence, it found that on the issues of “Caring about people like me,” “Having the ability to unite the country,” and “Changing country for the better,” Clinton beat Trump by 16 points, 17 points and 7 points, respectively. That’s not counting how she beat him at “Being a good commander-in-chief” (9 points), “Having the ability to handle a crisis” (18 points) and “Dealing with racial problems between police, blacks” (20 points).
Watch the wishful thinking below, from the August 4 Hannity.
“This is reminiscent of the 2008 Presidential campaign, which pitted one candidate, John McCain — a man who
- was the son and grandson of US Navy Admirals"
Which were naturally his ADMISSION TICKET into the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Given the fact that McCain graduated from Annapolis NEAR THE BOTTOM of his class, one does NOT need to be a brain surgeon to figure out that there is ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY NO WAY IN HELL John McCain would have gotten into Annapolis in the first place if it wasn’t for his LEGACY CONNECTIONS!
He’s a “man of the people”, all right — the people of Russia:
- Drumpf has spoken of his admiration for Putin
- claims they have a “great relationship” (while also previously claiming he never met him)
- says that as president he won’t allow NATO to get in the way of Russian imperial expansion
- campaign manager, Paul Manafort, had been a lobbyist and advisor to former Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych
This is reminiscent of the 2008 Presidential campaign, which pitted one candidate, John McCain — a man who
- was the son and grandson of US Navy Admirals
- is married to the heiress of Arizona’s largest beer distributor
- had no idea how many properties he owned when asked
- and thought the middle class consisted of those making less than $5 million/year
against another candidate, Barack Obama — who
- was raised by his grandparents in a single parent household
- spent a portion of his childhood in one of the world’s poorest countries
- and previously worked as a $10K/year community organizer in Chicago’s South Side . . . yet, it was the latter candidate who was referred to as “the elitist” . . .
Off-topic but amusing: while roaming through Politifact I saw that Donald Trump is dominating the “pants on fire” performances by over ten to one. Politifact has a page with all the p-o-f judgements. I love that website.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen “reach out to Minorities” turn out so badly. | <urn:uuid:45c56346-ddab-4b42-a40f-3a808bf752c3> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 5,405 |
The first three factors (fuel, air, heat) comprise the Fire Triangle.
Combine those with the chain reaction that releases more energy that grows the fire and you get the Fire Tetrahedron (image from Wikipedia).
1. A fire needs Fuel
If you’ve ever seen the “fire triangle”, you’ll see a fire needs 3 things to get or stay lit: Fuel, Air, and Heat. If you don’t have enough fuel, a fire will burn out and die, even if it’s hot and there’s a good air supply.
In an online community, fuel is people. You need to have some people in a community for it to exist. Too few people online at any time, and the community won’t be a community, just like a fire would just be a couple of burning sticks.
2. A fire needs Air
If a fire doesn’t have enough oxygen, it will cough out and die, even if you have loads of fuel and heat.
In an online community, air is content. A community needs ideas and creativity to stay alive, and to grow. The hotter a fire gets, the more air it draws in, and the bigger a community gets, the more ideas will trigger off further ideas, stimulating new ideas, etc. etc.
3. A fire needs Heat
Finally, of course you can’t even start a fire without Heat. You have to start a fire with a bit of heat from a match or lighter. If the fire catches, it will start to generate its own heat from energy locked in the fuel. But if a fire gets too cold, if the energy being released is insufficient, it dies out.
For an online community, heat is the energy you put in initially to create a buzz, stimulate ideas etc. If you don’t put enough energy into a community, it will never gain momentum. This is exactly what the team here at Scratchmedia are doing right now, feeding energy into the forum in the form of time and ideas, to get the fire going.
4. A fire needs to start Small (to make it easy)
This is really key.
If you’re starting a fire, you get some paper, some kindling, some thin sticks, some big sticks, and maybe even logs etc. You can’t set fire to a thick log, no matter how many matches you light against it.
For a communiity to get going, it also needs to start easy, and build from there. If you’re creating a forum like this one, or groups on something like Ning, you shouldn’t start with only advanced topics. You need to start with an open, organised, but non-challenging set of topics that lets everyone feel free to contribute.
5. A fire needs to start Compact
This is really key.
When you’ve got your various-sized fuel rods, you pile them up in the right way (vertically, so that heat from the base hits fuel above), and in a fairly compact pile that’s close enough for the heat generated to be useful, not so tight that air can’t get round. If you kicked them all over the yard, and tried to light them, you’ll get nowhere, as there’s no centre, no compact hot core.
An online community also needs to start compact. If we set up these forums with 10 categories and 100 forums, the place would feel totally empty, because the fuel (people) would be too spread out. Put 10 people into 100 forums, and they’ll all feel cold and lonely. Put them in 6 forums, and you might get a fire!
Communities have to start small. You wouldn’t invite 10 people to a party in a large house, then spread them all around in different rooms! You get them all round the kitchen table with a beer, and get a vibe going.
6. A fire can Grow – once it’s generating enough heat!
Once your fire has reached a certain point, it starts giving off a lot more energy than it’s using to burn stuff. This is a tipping point, where you can start adding more and bigger fuel to get the fire bigger.
The same goes for a community. Once there’s a critical mass of energy (ideas/communication) going on in your hot core, you can grow the community, by adding more forums, groups, categories…
The key here is – don’t grow it too soon, start small, get it hot, then go from there. | <urn:uuid:6f49c0c8-ccb2-49c1-895f-63717580856f> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 3,871 |
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