Ir/Rational – Lighting and Video
Conceived and choreographed by: Erika Tsimbrovsky
Scenery and Costumes by Vadim Puyandaev
Original Music by: Joan Jeanranaud and PC Muñoz
Ir/Rational was conceived as a ficticious meeting between Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots. The dance and music moved through myriad performance styles from slow abstract movement to contemporary structured improvisation and then looping back to Renaissance musical and dance forms.
The video was built starting with historical documents such as a 16th century map of London, the execution letter written by Elizabeth for Mary, and historical paintings. Original footage of the dancers was also shot and incorporated into the work. Animations were made combining live footage of the dancers with historical paintings and then rotoscoped to create a moving painting that was projected. Various elements were music reactive as well. By taking a live music feed from the musicians and routing it through the video to manipulate and distort it I was able to match both movement and music to the images.
These images were obscured through various geometric masks that were echoed in the lighting. Boxes, diamonds, and parallelograms all created various feelings of confinement and separation for the two queens. Handwritten text scrolled over dancers and lit them as both an environmental element and a lighting source. One set of projectors were placed overhead to blend and create a single wide image on the rear cyc while a third projector sat on the ground serving as footlights. Knowing the two projected images would blend on the cyc, I created the visual imagery to work as a composite of the two sources with fun and interesting shadow play resulting from the floor mounted fixture.
Photography by Aleksey Bochkovsky


US alone. Worst case statistics show approximately 12 ferret attacks ever recorded in the US. Dr. Bruce Williams, DVM, adds: I can say from personal experience that there are many, many more bite incidents with the household dog or cat, and that either of these species tend to do a lot more damage. I have seen children require over a hundred facial stitches from getting between the dog and its food, but never anything like this with a ferret. But I've also been nailed by my share of ferrets too. Personally, I don't recommend ferrets for people with children under 6 or 7 - either the child or the ferret ends up getting hurt.
Subject: (3.9) What are the different ferret colors? Ferrets often change colors with the seasons, lighter in the winter than in the summer, and many of them lighten as they age, too. Different ferret organizations recognize different colors and patterns, but unless you're planning to enter your ferret in a show, the exact label isn't particularly important. Some of the more commonly accepted colors are described in general terms below, adapted from summaries written by William and Diane Killian of Zen and the Art of Ferrets and Pam Troutman of STAR*Ferrets. The albino is white with red eyes and a pink nose. A dark-eyed white can have very light eyes and can possibly be confused with an albino. These can actually range from white to cream colored with the whiter the color the better. A dark-eyed white (often called a black-eyed white) is a ferret with white guard hairs but eyes darker than the red of an albino. The sable has rich dark brown guard hairs with golden highlights, with a white to golden undercoat. A black sable has blue-black guard hairs with no golden or brownish cast, with a white to cream undercoat. The chocolate is described as warm dark to milk chocolate brown with a white to golden or amber undercoat and highlights. A cinnamon is a rich light reddish brown with a golden to white undercoat. This can also be used to describe a ferret with light, tan guard hairs with pinkish or reddish highlights. Straight tan is a champagne. A silver starts out grey, or white with a few black hairs. The ferret may or may not have a mask. There is a tendency for the guard hair to lighten to white evenly over the body. As a ferret ages each progressive coat change has a higher percentage of white rather than dark guard hairs. Eventually the ferret could be all white. White patches on the throat might be called throat stars, throat stripes, or bibs; white toes, mitts (sometimes called silver mitts), or stockings go progressively further up the legs. A blaze or badger has a white stripe on the top of the head, and a panda has a fully white head. A siamese has an even darker color on the legs and tail than usual and a V-shaped mask; and a self is nearly solid in color.
Subject: (3.10) What do you call a ferret male/female/baby/group? A male is called a hob, and a female is a jill. To some people, neutered males are gibs and neutered females are sprites, but these are new terms and aren't as commonly used. A baby ferret of either sex is a kit. The most commonly accepted phrase for a group is "a business of ferrets". Some people spell it "busyness" instead. Another possibility, "fastening" or "fesnyng," is thought to be due to a misreading of "bysnys" long ago.
Subject: (3.11) How can I help the ferret community? There are lots of ways you can help the ferret community at large. If your ferrets are very trustworthy and have had their vaccinations, [9.2] take them with you to the park or pet store and show people what wonderful pets they are, to counteract all the false rumors. (Be very careful, though: if your ferret should nip or scratch someone, even by accident, some states will kill him for rabies testing, even if he's been vaccinated. You may want to only let people pet his back.) Give good ferret information, perhaps a copy of this general FAQ and the Medical FAQs [1.1], to your vet. Adopt, foster, or sponsor a ferret from a local shelter, or donate old towels, shirts, food, litter, cages, money, or time. Many shelters could use help with construction projects, computer setup and use, recordkeeping, etc., as well as day-to-day ferret care, cage cleaning, and trips to the vet. (However, shelter directors are very busy people, and may have established routines they'd rather not have disrupted, so don't be offended if your offer of help is refused. Ask if there's something else you could do instead.) To find a shelter near you, see the STAR*Ferrets list of clubs, shelters, etc. [1.2] or contact a local ferret club. Participate in the "Support Our Shelters" coupon book program, in which you send $25 and receive a book of grocery store coupons of YOUR choice worth at least $200. More information is available by sending the command SEND COUPON ORDER FERRET in the body of email to . == End of Part 1 == -- - Pamela Greene Ferret Central: _URL_ Clan Lord (online game) FAQ: _URL_ This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter.
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"VisualEsxtop.zip" in to a folder you want to store the tool
 - Go to the folder
 - Double click "visualesxtop.bat" when running Windows (Or follow William's tip for the Mac)
 - Click "File" and "Connect to Live Server"
 - Enter the "Hostname", "Username" and "Password" and hit "Connect"
 - That is it…
Now some simple tips:
 - By default the refresh interval is set to 5 seconds. You can change this by hitting "Configuration" and then "Change Interval"
 - You can also load Batch Output, this might come in handy when you are a consultant for instance and a customers sends you captured data, you can do this under: File -> Load Batch Output
 - You can filter output, very useful if you are looking for info on a specific virtual machine / world! See the filter section.
 - When you click "Charts" and double click "Object Types" you will see a list of metrics that you can create a chart with. Just unfold the ones you need and double click them to add them to the right pane
There are a bunch of other cool features in their like color-coding of important metrics for instance. Also the fact that you can show multiple windows at the same time is useful if you ask me and of course the tooltips that provide a description of the counter! If you ask me, a tool everyone should download and check out.
Let's continue with my second favorite tool, perfmon. I've used perfmon(part of Windows also know as "Performance Monitor") multiple times and it's probably the easiest as many people are already familiar with it. You can import a CSV as follows:
 1. Run: perfmon
 2. Right click on the graph and select "Properties".
 3. Select the "Source" tab.
 4. Select the "Log files:" radio button from the "Data source" section.
 5. Click the "Add" button.
 6. Select the CSV file created by esxtop and click "OK".
 7. Click the "Apply" button.
 8. Optionally: reduce the range of time over which the data will be displayed by using the sliders under the "Time Range" button.
 9. Select the "Data" tab.
 10. Remove all Counters.
 11. Click "Add" and select appropriate counters.
 12. Click "OK".
 13. Click "OK".
The result of the above would be:
Imported ESXTOP data
With MS Excel it is also possible to import the data as a CSV. Keep in mind though that the amount of captured data is insane so you might want to limit it by first importing it into perfmon and then select the correct timeframe and counters and export this to a CSV. When you have done so you can import the CSV as follows:
 1. Run: excel
 2. Click on "Data"
 3. Click "Import External Data" and click "Import Data"
 4. Select "Text files" as "Files of Type"
 5. Select file and click "Open"
 6. Make sure "Delimited" is selected and click "Next"
 7. Deselect "Tab" and select "Comma"
 8. Click "Next" and "Finish"
All data should be imported and can be shaped / modelled / diagrammed as needed.
Another option is to use a tool called "esxplot". It hasn't been updated in a while, and I am not sure what the state of the tool is. You can download the latest version here though, but personally I would recommend using VisualEsxtop instead of esxplot, just because it is more recent.
 1. Run: esxplot
 2. Click File -> Import -> Dataset
 3. Select file and click "Open"
 4. Double click host name and click on metric
Using ESXPLOT for ESXTOP data
As you can clearly see in the screenshot above the legend(right of the graph) is too long. You can modify that as follows:
 1. Click on "File" -> preferences
 2. Select "Abbreviated legends"
 3. Enter appropriate value
For those using a Mac, esxplot uses specific libraries which are only available on the 32Bit version of Python. In order for esxplot to function correctly set the following environment variable:
export VERSIONER_PYTHON_PREFER_32_BIT=yes
Limiting your view
In environments with a very high consolidation ratio (high number of VMs per host) it could occur that the VM you need to have performance counters for isn't shown on your screen. This happens purely due to the fact that height of the screen is limited in what it can display. Unfortunately there is currently no command line option for esxtop to specify specific VMs that need to be displayed. However you can export the current list of worlds and import it again to limit the amount of VMs shown.
esxtop -export-entity filename
Now you should be able to edit your file and comment out specific worlds that are not needed to be displayed.
esxtop -import-entity filename
I figured that there should be a way to get the info through the command line as and this is what I came up with. Please note that <virtualmachinename> needs to be replaced with the name of the virtual machine that you need the GID for.
VMWID='vm-support -x | grep <virtualmachinename> |awk '{gsub("wid=", "");print $1}''
VMXCARTEL='vsish -e cat /vm/$VMWID/vmxCartelID'
vsish -e cat /sched/memClients/$VMXCARTEL/SchedGroupID
Now you can use the outcome within esxtop to limit(l) your view to that single GID. William Lam has written an article a couple of days after I added the GID section. The following is a lot simpler than what I came up with, thanks William!
VM_NAME=STA202G ;grep "${VM_NAME}" /proc/vmware/sched/drm-stats | awk '{print $1}'
References
The following documents / articles have been used as a reference:
Changelog
07-01-2010 | decreased %RDY from 20 to a value of 10
22-01-2010 | added CPU –> TIMER/S
22-01-2010 | added MEM –> N%L
24-01-2010 | added sections (howto)
02-02-2010 | expanded analyze section and included screenshots
10-02-2010 | decreased %CSTP from 100 to 5
10-02-2010 | decreased KAVG from 5 to 2
23-03-2010 | increase %SWPWT from 1 to 5
23-03-2010 | added "e", "V", "i", "2", "4", "6", "8" in the "views" section
16-06-2010 | added "-l" functionality and stressed NFS added option
08-11-2010 | added "l", "e", "l", "#", "%SYS", "ZIP/s", "UNZIP/s", "CACHEUSD"
11-11-2010 | added threshold for "CONS/s
12-03-2011 | Redid some of the formatting
25-05-2011 | added "limiting the view section"
03-01-2012 | added NUMA details
08-07-2013 | added VisualEsxtop
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How did a Roman brick from the British Isles get to Washington state's Fort Vancouver?
Fort Vancouver Historical National Historic Site
At some moment a few years after Jesus Christ died but before the second century began, someone made a brick on the island that would become the cornerstone of Great Britain. The area was controlled by Rome then, and known as Britannia and as the brick lay green, awaiting the kiln, a cat walked across the wet clay and left its footprints before wandering off to do something else. The clay was fired, the prints fixed, and the brick itself presumably became a piece of a building or road.
Two thousand years later, a Sonoma State master's student named Kristin Converse was poking around the holdings of the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in Washington state. She was writing her thesis on the business and technology of brickmaking in Portlandia (known more formally as the Willamette Valley). A brick caught her eye. It was part of an odd group that was not of local origin. In one corner, there were the footprints of a cat. Where had this cat lived?
Back in 1982, the bricks in question had been examined by an archaeologist named Karl Gurcke who specializes in the identification of bricks. "The only bricks that come near to matching this type in size are the so-called 'Roman' bricks," Gurcke wrote in a report on excavations at Fort Vancouver. This suggested that the "type may indeed be Roman in origin," and that they were "shipped over from England."
Converse tested the presumed Roman bricks, using a process called neutron activation analysis, which allows scientists to determine the elemental components of a material. Bricks made from different clays and at different times show particular chemical signatures, so she could compare bricks from the Fort to bricks from Endland. "They tested very well like Roman bricks from England," Bob Cromwell, an archaeologist at Fort Vancouver told me. "It is still a hypothesis, but the data is all pointing in that direction: the size and the elemental analysis compares very favorably with definitive Roman bricks."
The question became, then, how did a Roman brick from the British Isles get to Fort Vancouver?
Fort Vancouver Historical National Historic Site
The answer: the mercantile empire of the Hudson's Bay Company, a commercial entity substantially older than the United States, having been incorporated in 1670. The Company controlled the entire Pacific Northwest under a local company official known as the Chief Factor. Although after 1818, the region was nominally under the shared control of the U.S. and Britain, the only real western power was the Hudson's Bay Company, and the only real resources it could draw on came from its global network of trading ships and outposts.
Fort Vancouver was the seat of the Company's west coast operations. It was established in the winter of _PHONE_ on the banks of the Columbia River, a few miles north of what would become Portland, Oregon. With the Willamette and the Columbia right there, it was like setting up shop at the intersection of two major highways. But despite the great location and abundant resources of the region, they didn't actually have the equipment or know-how to do a lot of things.
While there were roughly 25 Native American tribes in the region, there were not any brickmakers among them, which meant there weren't any bricks. So, the Hudson's Bay Company, which ran the Fort, had to order them from a world away.
"You can certainly bring over brickmakers to look at the local lays and the Columbia River silts are great for making common brick. But at the time, when they are out there establishing their post, if they want some brick for their chimney, there just isn't any," Gurcke said, when I reached him at his job with the Park Service in Skagway, Alaska. "So they ship them from, in this case, England. We do have some records of them shipping bricks very early from England."
It often took two years for the bricks to reach the Fort, which is one reason that many brickmakers sprung up in later decades. Converse, in fact, found several spots in the Willamette Valley that could have provided bricks to Fort Vancouver in later decades as settlers arriving via the Oregon Trail figured out that the little city was a good market.
But those are hard stories to tell, as Converse discovered, because the early brickyards have long since been built over with houses and TGIFriday's. She can prove that many bricks at Fort Vancouver were made from Willamette Valley clay, but it's hard to say more.
It's almost easier to tell the global story than it is to tell the local one because the strangeness of the material can be pinpointed more easily. For example, the mortars that were used to cement bricks together were made from Hawaiian corals.
"They had a trading station at Oahu, harvesting coral, and shipping it here," Cromwell said. "We have bricks with this coral mortar still adhering to it. They would break up the coral, mix it with sand and water and you'd have an instant mortar."
And none of this is to mention "the Village," which sprung up outside the Fort and housed up to 600 people from all over the world including "English, French-Canadian, Scottish, Irish, Hawaiian, Iroquois, and people from over 30 different regional Native American groups." They learned to speak Chinook Jargon, a mixture of Chinook, English, and French. Every once in a while, Cromwell told me, people from other European nations would show up, too, or a few Japanese sailors would come by after having been shipwrecked.
So to make a lowly chimney in some house in the employee village near the Fort, you might have Roman bricks, mortared together with Hawaiian coral, and built with the labor of a Portuguese worker or an Iroquois visitor. Globalization! And it was the middle of the 19th century: Mark Twain was still a child.
What's fascinating, too, is that this story can be told with an almost unthinkably mundane object, the common brick, which turns out to be uncommon if you look hard enough.
"At a glance, bricks appear all alike, yet upon examination, they can exhibit a frustrating degree of variation. Unbranded bricks in particular provide an unsatisfying ratio of information gained to curation space occupied, and many excavated bricks went unrecorded, uncollected, and even discarded," Converse notes in her master's thesis, with just a note of despair. "Yet bricks have a story to tell if we can coax it from them, and contain potential information regarding the development of industry, trade networks, construction techniques, resource utilization, and even attitudes and status."
And sometimes, they tell you a story about a mischievous cat whose imprint traveled all the way around the world, then ended up in a museum. Which I learned about because Cara Tramontano tweeted it after words started going around about another cat who left his imprint on a southeastern European scribe's work from March 11, 1445.
Where, exactly, do the epistemology books cover this sort of thing? I'm sure I'll find out soon, after a cat walks across someone's keyboard and accidentally tweets me a link to a letter by a philosopher who will turn out to be my mother's cousin's best friend, and the world expert on serendipity in Jacksonian America.

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Researchers theorize that GABA naturally stimulates the anterior pituitary gland to secrete higher levels of Human Growth Hormone (HGH). Because HGH is far too complex and delicate a molecule to deliver through oral supplements, some people believe that GABA supplementation will help them increase their HGH levels.
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Dr. Eric Walle, a psychology professor at the University of California Merced, accidentally discovered early in his career that babies who are walking have significantly larger vocabularies than children who are crawling. After he replicated the finding across languages, he set about using LENA technology to try to determine why.
"It wasn't just a matter that these kids were older. It was that these kids had begun walking," he said. "Walking seemed to give them an added boost to their vocabulary development."
His process of discovery is highlighted in episode six of a new Netflix documentary series, Babies. The episode follows a baby named Penelope and her mom during a LENA Day, while Dr. Walle explains how he examines the data provided by LENA.

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White House to host science fair
U.S. President Barack Obama is set to honor scientific achievements of students Monday as part of a push to strengthen science education in American schools.
Mr. Obama will host the White House Science Fair, celebrating students who have won competitions in science, technology, engineering and math.
The projects to be presented at the event include a model solar car, a water purifier for rural communities and a toilet designed to conserve water.
The president said last year that students should be recognized for science achievements in the same way the White House has historically honored American sports teams.
Professional and collegiate athletic champions are routinely invited to the White House for ceremonies celebrating their wins.
Mr. Obama has made science, technology, engineering, and math priorities in his education platform.
That push includes a $4 billion program to encourage states to improve those subjects, as well as increase participation among women and minorities.
Mr. Obama is also expected to announce he will appear on an upcoming episode of the popular Discovery Channel show MythBusters. The show uses scientific methods to test urban legends.VOANews


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Large-scale forcing of the European Slope Current and associated inflows to the North Sea Robert Marsh et al.
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To the west of Britain and Ireland, a strong ocean current follows the steep slope that separates the deep Atlantic and the continental shelf. This "Slope Current" exerts an Atlantic influence on the North Sea and its ecosystems. Using a combination of computer modelling and archived data, we find that the Slope Current weakened over 1988–2007, reducing Atlantic influence on the North Sea, due to a combination of warming of the subpolar North Atlantic and weakening winds to the west of Scotland.
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The well cut exceptionally attractive yellow agate pyramid is highly polished. This distinctive pyramid appears to be glassy with an inconsistent color as the yellow color is derived from chloride particles, while the highly opaque and vibrant color is due iron oxide. The red spots on the pyramid resemble the colour of blood. The solid dark yellow color and the visible brownish effect itself speak of the quality of the stone used to craft this pyramid. Size – 58 mm.
This yellow agate pyramid stimulates dreaming and is a powerful revitalizer. It boosts courage and assists in acting in the present moment. This yellow agate pyramid calms and revitalizes the mind, dispels confusion and enhances decision-making. It assists the user in adjusting to unaccustomed circumstances. It helps reduce irritability, aggressiveness and impatience.


the package used for reading and printing
Current-package is an ld special (see ld). The accessor is (current-package state) and the updater is (set-current-package val state), or more conventionally, (in-package val). The value of current-package is actually the string that names the package. (Common Lisp's ''package'' objects do not exist in ACL2.) The current package must be known to ACL2, i.e., it must be one of the initial packages or a package defined with defpkg by the user.
When printing symbols, the package prefix is displayed if it is not the current-package and may be optionally displayed otherwise. Thus, if current-package is "ACL2" then the symbol 'ACL2::SYMB may be printed as SYMB or ACL2::SYMB, while 'MY-PKG::SYMB must be printed as MY-PKG::SYMB. But if current-package is "MY-PKG" then the former symbol must be printed as ACL2::SYMB while the latter may be printed as SYMB.
In Common Lisp, current-package also affects how objects are read from character streams. Roughly speaking, read and print are inverses if the current-package is fixed, so reading from a stream produced by printing an object must produce an equal object.
In ACL2, the situation is more complicated because we never read objects from character streams, we only read them from object ''streams'' (channels). Logically speaking, the objects in such a channel are fixed regardless of the setting of current-package. However, our host file systems do not support the idea of Lisp object files and instead only support character files. So when you open an object input channel to a given (character file) we must somehow convert it to a list of ACL2 objects. This is done by a deus ex machina (''a person or thing that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty,'' Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary). Roughly speaking, the deus ex machina determines what sequence of calls to read-object will occur in the future and what the current-package will be during each of those calls, and then produces a channel containing the sequence of objects produced by an analogous sequence of Common Lisp reads with *current-package* bound appropriately for each.
A simple rule suffices to make sane file io possible: before you read an object from an object channel to a file created by printing to a character channel, make sure the current-package at read-time is the same as it was at print-time.


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(x,y) = 2(sin
x)(cos y)+3(sin x)(siny)+6(cos x).
- Minimum Value Problem [7/14/1995]
I need to find the minimum value of E for E = be^(-ar) - dr^(-6) where b,
a, and d are constants and r is the variable.
- Min, Max of 3-Variable Function [8/16/1996]
Find all the critical points and determine their nature for the function
z = x^3 - 6xy + y^3.


't need it written down and they don't need it to be calm formal written standardized work in the book we make a little bit disparaging analogy and then say it's like training wheels on a bicycle it will help you to learn but at some point somebody's got to give you a push without the training wheels where you're actually riding the bike so what the leaders are doing is asking questions listening and helping actually supporting people at the gamba and they have to learn it and like anything that you learn that's complex it doesn't happen in a one week or two week or two day classroom training course none of these leaders none of these leader teachers would even consider the possibility of certifying their students in a one week or two week course it's going to take years it's going to take trying it's going to take PDCA over and over again they know that they don't know PDCA is they didn't hear about Deming but they know how to teach the skills that they've mastered so in summary what neatly mean lean leaders need is to manage from the gemba and they need to develop themselves and others to live the core values the philosophy to manage effectively from the gamba so that they actually know what they're doing when they're making these standard walks to become a role model for a disciplined problem-solving and to become a teacher and a coach for discipline problems on staff we all do it and then they have to be a teach others to do it and the final note is from a former executive VP who says the most important factors are patience focus on the long term rather than the short-term reinvestment in people product and plant and an unforgiving commitment to quality thank you


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For people visiting China for the first time or even the first few times, it can be a bit of an adjustment to initially figure things and not getting too lost in the process. One way to help visitors more easily adjust is with sharing a network with them, here are a few examples and benefits you get from doing so:
- Share over your own network. This could be adding them to one of your existing networks or creating a new network just for them.
- Create a folder for Travel. You can name it whatever is appropriate, such the name of the city being Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing and others. Share the folder with them once created.
- Create sub-folders for logistics. This could be one folder for the airport, one for hotels, one for restaurants and other places of interest.
- Add actions for things needed beforehand, such as getting a Visa getting updated or booking the flight.
- Add a note of specific directions, helpful for more personalized perspectives.
- Add websites as appropriate, such as for the hotels or other points of reference.
- Visitors can add comments to any content you've added for additional confirmation.
- Use in your preferred language, including Chinese (s), Chinese (t), English, Japanese, Korean and if visitors are from Europe, have available to use in French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Finnish, Swedish and others.
- Share the network with other people the visitor will be seeing and create folders just for them. This helps to have a central place for uploading and sharing any content beforehand and easily have available when needed.
Additionally, you and others can get started for free with the Basic plan, including the ability to create networks, use the applications and have initial storage for your files.
Learn more about having your own networks in China, including using the applications, languages available, solution examples and other relevant blog articles.


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Pumpkins are great for pies and curries—and of jack-o'-lanterns, of course—but don't forget that the seeds are super nutritious, too. Here's how to store pumpkin seeds all season long.
Harvest the Seeds
Once you've carved out the pumpkin, use a strainer to rinse the pumpkin seeds and remove any residual pumpkin fibers.
Roast the Seeds
If you want to keep the seeds from spoiling quickly, make sure any excess moisture is toasted out of them. You can use spices like salt, nutmeg, cayenne pepper and chili powder to add flavor.
Let Them Cool
Cool the pumpkin seeds before storing to avoid trapping moisture in the container. Pumpkin seeds go rancid more quickly if exposed to moisture.
Store the Seeds
Store in an airtight container. A hard or disposable storage container is ideal because it creates an airtight seal to keep the seeds fresh. If you live in an arid climate, you can store the seeds in a plastic ziplock bag.
Refrigerate or Freeze
Pumpkin seeds can turn rancid even after you roast them if left at room temperature. They stay fresh for up to two months if refrigerated.


Memory and Anxiety related cognitive issues, psychotherapy approach
Memory is often effected by stress, anxiety and other mental health conditions. It can be assisted with the use of appropriate mental health support, including CBT based psychological therapies, psychoanalysis and counselling. It can also be helped in a more specific way using hypnotherapy, NLP and coaching.
Anxiety effects memory, psychotherapy can help
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Data Presentation and Interpretation - 10 credits (HST303)
This module introduces students to numerical reasoning in archaeology and conservation. Numerical reasoning is not simply the use of statistics, it also involves the nature of the following: datasets and variables; statistical distribution; and the problems of sampling. Students will be introduced, and will use, Microsoft Excel and Access to input, manipulate and present numerical data. Students are assessed by completion of workshop exercises. Major topics studied: numerical reasoning; the uses and abuses of statistics in archaeology; simple significance tests such as the chi-squared test; using MS Excel and Access.


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News :: School board learns of impact of iPads, 1 to 1 laptops at VSHS
· 5:19pm January 14th, 2013
Members of the Vinton-Shellsburg School Board saw several demonstrations of how modern computer technology can help with education.
Several teachers demonstrated how students are using Apple iPads and laptop computers to create videos, and learn reading and pronunciation skills.
But first, the school board members had a chance for some training on their own iPads. The school district has replaced the laptop computers that the school board members used for meetings with iPads. Technology specialist Kim Meyer spent a half hour giving board members basic instructions in how to use the devices.
The meeting took place in the library of Tilford Elementary Monday afternoon.
District considering 1 to 1 computers at VSHS
High School Principal Matt Kingsbury joined Meyer in sharing with the school board their proposal for providing each student at VSHS with his or her own laptop computer. The program would cost $700,000 with the money coming from the PPEL levy; no additional tax revenues would be required.
The purchase would be repeated every four years; middle school students would eventually use the computers after the high school students received new ones.
Kingsbury said the $700,000 includes computers, carrying bags, security and software. Kingsbury and Meyer told the board why they believe Macintosh computers are better than PCs.
VS leaders have spoken about the 1 to 1 computer program with other districts. Students in those schools generally took very good care of their computers.
Kingsbury and Meyer said that the tech committee at VSHS is putting together policies governing computer use, as well as possible fees for families if a student accidentally damages a computer.
A survey by school officials indicated that 157 people responded that they were in favor of each student having his own computer; 25 respondents said no; and 76 said maybe. Concerns expressed in the survey included the cost of the program, the expense for families of students, and filtering to make sure that students do not use inappropriate web sites. Meyer and Kingsbury explained how current technogology allows the school IT personnel to monitor every computer in the system.
The school board heard how students have used already computers to do several projects, including creating radio broadcasts and e-books.
Kingsbury said he is working with VSHS staff on setting up training sessions for students and teachers, as well as a meeting for parents; the plan is to have the computers available for the next school year, if the district and board grant final approval.
"No decision has been made, but there is some momentum building," said Superintendent Mary Jo Hainstock.
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INTERNSHIPS OPPORTUNITIES at NASA GSFC CCMC/SWRC:
Summer:10 weeks (full-time: 40 h/wk)
Academic year: (part-time, 8-16 h/wk)
Here is the information on SWRC's forecaster structure and on how to achieve different forecaster levels.
Summer (10 weeks) internship:
This is an opportunity for highly-motivated and qualified college and high school students to learn the fundamentals of space weather and to gain first-hand experience of how scientists/forecasters at NASA/GSFC Space Weather Center carry out analyses needed to predict space weather events and safeguard NASA's assets as well as society's interests at large.
After the intense training during the first two week of the summer internship (SW REDI training CAMP) in space weather science and operational procedures, along with mock-up space weather event analysis, students will be encouraged to work as a group to carry out the functions/duties of a space weather forecaster.
Expected opportunity outcome: knowledge about the solar system and impact of the solar storms on the earth's environment and society; system science perspective for students interested in further pursuing space weather related scientific research; entry level space weather analyst & forecaster skills; the decision-making skills and knowledge acquired during the program will be beneficial to any future career pursuit.
Successful completion of summer internship will certify students to serve as entry level space weather analysts/forecasters.
Prerequisite: High school level math and physics is required. Love for science. For college students 200-level university physics is recommended but not required.
Academic year (September - May) part-time internship:
Students certified as entry level (or higher) space weather forecasters are eligible for follow-on academic-year part-time employment (8-16 hours/week). Evening and weekend shifts are possible/expected. After successful completion of 8 months of forecaster duties students may be promoted by SWRC management to advanced levels with opportunities to combine space weather operations and research and participate in training of new students. College students are compensated for their work.
Prerequisite: SW REDI semester-long 3 credit course or SW REDI 2-weeks intense training camp. Certification by the SWRC management as an entry-level space weather analyst/forecaster that requires at least 20 full 8 hours shifts of shadowing advanced forecasters. Summer internship is recommended.
A variety of space weather related research topics are available. Prospective interns and/or their supervisors are recommended to contact Antti Pulkkinen and Yihua Zheng for a possible internship opportunity and for selecting a research area.
Comments: The internship can be used as course credit, a course project and/or to satisfy graduation requirements (with permission from the applicant's university). However, exceptions are possible pending on the intern's performance.
Prerequisite: Strong background in math and physics. Knowledge of fundamentals of space weather, preferably after a 2-week SWx REDI training camp and/or SW REDI semester long course.
A variety of software development projects are available in supporting CCMC/SWRC activities. Please contact Justin Boblitt for details.
Selected interns will be compensated for their summer internship. Follow-on part-time internship during the academic year is possible. The part-time internship can be used as course credit, a course project and/or to satisfy graduation requirement (with permission from the applicant's university).
Prerequisite: Strong programming skill in the required areas and willingness to participate in the introductory part of space weather REDI training.
The selected intern will support NASA Goddard Space Weather Research Center social media activities. The social media program is intended to communicate the science of space weather and heliophysics, as well as STEM related information to the general public and education professionals in a fun and informal way. Another goal is to improve science literacy and knowledge, especially among under-served and under-represented communities. The activities include generating website content, YouTube space weather update videos, Facebook, Twitter updates, etc.
Competitive applicants will demonstrate: - Experience in social media with regularly updated content; - Creativity in turning science ideas into appealing general public-level stories; - Excellent written communication skills; - Proven ability to work in both a team environment and independently; - Experience with video editing software (e.g. iMovie, Final Cut Pro) is a plus;
Comments: This is an unpaid internship (e.g, can be used as course credit with permission from the applicant's university). However, exceptions are possible pending on the applicant's performance.
Prerequisite: Basic understanding of space weather, preferably after an introductory part of the 2-week SWx REDI training in addition to basic skills in social media
As a part of CUA Space Weather Course's (taught at GSFC) in Fall 2012 final project two undergraduate students designed a Space Weather Forecaster Training (SWFT) Program for the SWRC. As part of an additional independent research credit through CUA, students are implementing this program during the spring semester of 2013. Students are traveling to GSFC once a week and teach high school students as well as other participating NASA personnel about analyzing space weather phenomena and following SWRC forecasting procedures.
- Mentoring new interns and high-school students
- Combining Space Weather Operations and Space Weather Research

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phoros: tributeOriginal Word: φόρος, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Phonetic Spelling: (for'-os)
Short Definition: a tax, tribute
Definition: a tax, tribute, especially on persons.
tax (2), taxes (3).
STRONGS NT 5411: φόρος
φόρος, φόρου, ὁ (from φέρω, hence, properly, ὁ φέρεται; cf. φόβος), from Herodotus down, the Sept. for מַס and (2 Esdr. 4:20 2Esdr. 6:8; Nehemiah 5:4) for מִדָּה, tribute, especially the annual tax levied upon houses, lands, and persons (cf. Thomas Magister, Ritschl edition, p. 387, 13; Grotius as quoted in Trench, § 107:7; see τέλος, 2): φόρον, φόρους διδόναι, Καίσαρι, Luke 20:22; Luke 23:2 (1 Macc. 8:4, 7); ἀποδιδόναι, Romans 13:7; τέλειν, Romans 13:6.<1>
From phero; a load (as borne), i.e. (figuratively) a tax (properly, an individual assessment on persons or property; whereas telos is usually a general toll on goods or travel) -- tribute.
see GREEK phero
see GREEK telos φόροι φορον φόρον φόρος φορόυ φόρου φορους φόρους φόρων phoron phóron phorous phórous
Strong's Greek 5411
φόρον — 3 Occ.
φόρους — 2 Occ.
Luke 20:22 N-AMS
BIB: ἡμᾶς Καίσαρι φόρον δοῦναι ἢ
NAS: for us to pay taxes to Caesar,
KJV: for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or
INT: for us to Ceasar tribute to give or
Luke 23:2 N-AMP
BIB: καὶ κωλύοντα φόρους Καίσαρι διδόναι
NAS: to pay taxes to Caesar,
KJV: to give tribute to Caesar,
INT: and forbidding tribute to Ceasar to give
Romans 13:6 N-AMP
BIB: γὰρ καὶ φόρους τελεῖτε λειτουργοὶ
NAS: pay taxes, for [rulers] are servants
KJV: cause pay ye tribute also: for
INT: indeed also taxes pay you servants
Romans 13:7 N-AMS
BIB: τῷ τὸν φόρον τὸν φόρον
NAS: what is due them: tax to whom
KJV: their dues: tribute to whom
INT: to whom the taxes the taxes
Romans 13:7 N-AMS
BIB: φόρον τὸν φόρον τῷ τὸ
NAS: to whom tax [is due]; custom
KJV: to whom tribute [is due]; custom
INT: taxes the taxes to whom the


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the error seems to indicate that the step that initiated the write has as input a DynamicFrame with some data issue. It could be a special characters that splits one record in two lines, but it is not really possible to say with the limited info.
You should try to look at the logs of the job.
In Glue Studio open the jobs then select the tab Runs or in the left pane select Monitoring then follow the instruction in this documentation page.
You can also try to enable run insight to get a different formatting for the logs, that should be easier to read.
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Why are religious Jews scared of dogs? Whenever I walk mine past an observant family, all the kids hide behind their mother's skirt in terror. Is there some curse on dogs?
I know exactly how your dog feels. I often get a similar reaction from Jews. While many observant Jews are scared of dogs, many unobservant Jews are terrified of rabbis. There's something in common between dogs and rabbis that make us both objects of trepidation. And it's not the facial hair.
People fear the unfamiliar.
Most religious homes do not have pets. Perhaps because families with many kids are less likely to seek non-human companionship, perhaps because it can be tricky to care for animals on Shabbat, or perhaps it's just a cultural thing, but other than the odd goldfish, pets are rare in observant communities.
So those who are unaccustomed to canine company are often scared of dogs. People are scared of rabbis for the same reason. Both dogs and rabbis are loved by those who know them, and instill fear into those who don't.
But that's where the similarity ends. The underlying causes of these two fears are very different, almost opposite. The fear of dogs (cynophobia) comes from the fear of being bitten. Fear of rabbis (rabbinophobia) comes from the fear of being inspired.
What many Jews fear the most is that if they learn a little bit about Judaism they might like it. And if they like it they might want more. And if they want more they may have to live more Jewishly. This means change - and change, even for the better, is scary.
The cure for cynophobia is to play with a few dogs and see that there is no basis for your fear. But the cure for rabbinophobia is to look into Judaism and to actually let your greatest fear come true - you will like it, and you'll want more.


Exploring auction databases through interactive visualization
TitleExploring auction databases through interactive visualization
Publication TypeJournal Articles
Year of Publication2006
AuthorsShmueli G, Jank W, Aris A, Plaisant C, Shneiderman B
JournalDecision Support Systems
Pagination1521 - 1538
Date Published2006/12//
ISBN Number0167-9236
KeywordsAuction dynamics, Bid history, Online auctions, time series, user interface
We introduce AuctionExplorer, a suite of tools for exploring databases of online auctions. The suite combines tools for collecting, processing, and interactively exploring auction attributes (e.g., seller rating), and the bid history (price evolution represented as a time series). Part of AuctionExplorer's power comes from its coupling of the two information structures, thereby allowing exploration of relationships between them. Exploration can be directed by hypothesis testing or exploratory data analysis. We propose a process for visual data analysis and illustrate AuctionExplorer's operations with a dataset of eBay auctions. Insights may improve seller, bidder, auction house, and other vendors' understanding of the market, thereby assisting their decision making process.


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Assuming that you meet semester continuation requirements, if you earn a single grade of F or a second grade of D, you will be sent a letter of Academic Warning. If you receive such a letter, you are not required to take any formal steps (as you would if you were placed on probation). However, you should seriously consider the circumstances that led to that D or F grade and evaluate what steps you might take to enhance success in the future. You may want to discuss the Warning with your academic dean.
Note: No more than two courses graded D may be counted toward the 34 cc total needed to graduate. A third or subsequent D will not count in this way toward graduation requirements, but it can fulfill other curricular requirements, such as Area of Knowledge and Modes of Inquiry requirements, semester continuation, and requirements of the major.


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Solar simulators for PV modules often consist of several lamps arranged side by side to provide the irradiance necessary for PV module testing under standard test conditions. Since these simulators are no point sources, the angular distribution of the radiance emitted by the simulators can lead to systematic deviations in measured PV device's performances. To quantify the opening angle of a solar simulator, pictures of a digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera and irradiance measurements of a CCD-array spectroradiometer were combined to derive its approximate spectral radiance distribution. We applied our technique to an LED-based solar simulator, where the radiance of 18 different LED colors could be examined separately and thus an approximation of the spectral radiance emitted by the simulator can be made. An angle of incidence of 15.6° has been observed for this system at the center of a PV module, raising to about 21.5° towards the edge of the test plane.


As you know, the cryptocurrency rate always changes. The same happens to the rate of collateral you pledged to get a loan. If collateral is insufficient or exceeds the necessary amount, you will get a notification. But you can actually increase your collateral on at any time.
Step 1.
Log in to your account and tap "My Account."
Tap "Wallet."
Choose "Deposit."
Currently, there are 3 cryptocurrencies accepted as collateral currencies ꟷ BTC, EMC and USDT. Choose any to your preference. The system will automatically generate a corresponding wallet address for collateral (upon your choice ꟷ BTC, EMC or USDT), copy it and transfer funds from your personal crypto wallet to the provided wallet address.
Step 2.
Actually, made borrowing simpler and accessible. Now you can deposit collateral while reviewing Loan Requests placed by qualified lenders. Simply tap "Deposit Collateral."
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This page was originally created by Whizzball1 - [1].
Mystcraft is a mod that provides you with the ability to create new dimensions to play in, known as Ages. At first the Ages you visit will be random, but as you continue you'll gain the ability to shape these new worlds to your desires.
Ages can vary wildly in appearance. They can be similar or near-identical to the Overworld, or somewhat similar to the Nether, or sky islands similar in style to the End; or they can be completely alien, with strange crystals or tendrils, brightly coloured skies and too many suns.
Safely using Mystcraft requires knowing how to make Linking Books and Descriptive Books, as well as what to keep in your hotbar. It is possible to get stuck in an age, and be unable to return to the Overworld, or any other dimension, without cheating. This is both known, and intentional; this mimics the source material the mod is based on.
Setting Up
In order to start creating new ages you will need:
 - A steady supply of sugarcane for paper
 - A large supply of cows or leather for books
 - A nearby water source capable of spawning squids for ink sacs
 - A couple of glass bottles for Ink Vials
Main article: Linking Book
Linking Books allow you to teleport from anywhere in any dimension to the location where that Linking Book was linked. This is the first type of Mystcraft book that you will want to create. The other type are Descriptive Books, sometimes called Age books, which allow you to create and travel to a new Age. Linking Books are how you get back out of an Age, and are often the only way to return: If you die in an Age, you will respawn in that Age.
To make a Linking Book, you need an Ink Mixer, in which you can use Paper and Ink Vials to create Link Panels. Combine a Link Panel with a piece of Leather to make an Unlinked Link Book. Take it to the location you wish to link to, and face in the direction you want to come out facing in, then right click with the book to create the link.
Warning to server operators: Linking books permit extremely cheap and almost unrestricted teleportation between any place your players have been to. If you want to restrict the free teleportation, look into Linking Tweaks.
Bookstands and Lecterns
Bookstands and Lecterns serve to hold books in safety. Both are identical in function, differing only in their aesthetic appearance.
When you travel through a book, the book you use will stay behind. If you use a book from your inventory, you will drop it as you teleport. Dropped books appear as an entity, not as an item, and can take damage; a book that gets wet, including on the ground when it rains, will take damage, and will eventually be destroyed. A book that is placed in a Lectern or Bookstand will never take damage.
New Ages
Main article: Age Creation
Once you have Linking Books which link back to your home, you can begin to consider going to new Ages. A random Age can be made by putting a linking panel and leather into a Book Binder. Additional pages can be added if you want to influence the resultant world, but are not needed.
For safety, you want to bring at least the following items with you to the new Age:
 1. Three return linking books home. Two in the hotbar, one in inventory.
 2. Two bookstands or lecterns, in hotbar.
 3. A chest, in hotbar.
 4. Some light sources (such as torches, glowstone, etc.), in hotbar.
 5. Recommended: A Potion of Night Vision. Your new age may be a Cave World, which have a similar terrain generation to the Nether, but lacking the natural background lighting and glowstone.
 6. Recommended: Backup weapons, tools and armor. If you die, these might come in handy.
On arrival, plan to do the following:
 1. Immediately place one bookstand/lectern, and place one of the books from your hotbar into it. This is your primary way home. Place down some lighting around it.
 2. Look around. Assess the immediate area, and see what's in the distance. If the world appears to be highly unstable, you can use the book you just placed down to escape.
 3. If you plan to stay for any length of time, then move a short distance away, place down the chest, and into it put the spare linkbook and spare bookstand/lectern from your inventory.
 4. If you brought any backup weapons/tools/armor, leave those in the chest as well. If you die, you'll respawn where you entered, close to this chest.
 5. The third linking book remains in your hotbar at all times. This is your emergency exit, so keep it available!
If you die in this new Age, you will respawn in the Age at the location where you first entered. Upon respawning, the very first thing you should do before anything else is retrieve the backup book from the chest, and place it on your hotbar. Don't forget to replace the book in the chest once you're able to! Alternatively, you may wish to immediately leave the Age using the primary book on the stand/lectern, and retrieve tools/weapons/armor and a new linking book from your home base before returning.
Never remove the last return home linkbook from your hotbar. Keep it available at all times. Regard this as the number one rule of Mystcraft in all cases.
Further reading
There are several topics you can look at to do more with this mod.
The Writing Desk will let you make copies of symbols, and is useful as a place for storing and organising notebooks.
You can use a Notebook to store pages; these can be placed in the writing desk, or used to transfer pages to and from the book binder. (In later versions, the Notebook has been replaced with the very similar Collation Folder and the Symbol Portfolio.)
Archivist villagers can be found in approximately half of the villages generated, and will trade you symbol pages.
Libraries are found in every Mystcraft age. These always have some wood, and stone, as well as lecterns. You will often find Pages in Libraries; this is the main way in which you'll locate new symbols. The wood and stone will always give you access to basic tools, even if the world you are in has no trees or stone ground to work with. Furthermore, if you destroy the book cases there will be a chest in one of the corners; this chest contains pages and sometimes a notebook. Note that in some cases, you might not be able to reach the Libraries.
Crystal blocks can be found in some ages. These glowstone-like blocks can be used to make portals, that a linking book can be placed into. Such a portal can be almost any size (limited by loaded chunks), and will permit arbitrary entities to pass though -- including minecarts (chest, hopper, etc). Some mods, such as RotaryCraft, permit interactions across these portals.
Getting Home Without Linking Books
If you get into trouble, this is what you want to know.
Without Cheats
Every Age has a roughly one in ten chance of containing a Star Fissure, which appears as an irregular-shaped hole located close to the Age's spawn point which passes all the way down through the bedrock into the void. Jumping into a Star Fissure will return you to the Overworld, near spawn - this is the in-game mechanism for getting home, without cheating. You may also be able to find a page for a Star Fissure in a library; if so, you can use that in a book binder to create an Age that is guaranteed to have one.
If you are playing in multiplayer, you may be able to get a friend to enter the Age you are in and bring linking books for you both to leave again.
Using Cheats
If you need to cheat to get home (for example, if you are trapped in a rapidly decaying or otherwise deadly Age), the command to use is "/tpx 0". If you are in single player, and cannot normally use cheats, you can "Open to LAN", and enable cheats there.
If a server op needs to get someone else home, then "/tpx playername 0" will work.
Main article: Instability (Mystcraft)
Instability affects some Ages and manifests itself in various ways; the effects of instability can range from non-stop lightning and detrimental potion effects, to sunlight so intense that it will light you on fire. At its most extreme, the terrain of the Age can be torn apart and consumed by the spread of Decay.
There are two main sources of instability which a player will typically encounter.
Worlds whose symbols cause them to generate extra resources will be unstable. This is often the result of the Dense Ores symbol being used, or a result of a particular terrain feature being made out of a valuable block or liquid. The more valuable the resource, as well as how abundant it is, will determine the amount of instability. The most frequent source of instability tends to be oceans of some mod-added liquid -- Ages with these will generally be so unstable that the Age will need to be abandoned.
The second, usually lesser source of instability is badly written worlds (if you are using the book binder to make customized worlds). If symbols are included in the


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If statement, act on the element being checked
noob question here.
Let's say I want to check through my document and see if a p element has a class.
if ( $('p').hasClass('theClass') ) {}
It will return true or false based on checking all p elements (or will it stop after it finds the first true??)
If it checks all elements, can you get it to execute a method on all true elements?
if ( $('p').hasClass('theClass') ) {
$(this).css('border','red');
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.hasClass( className ): Determine whether any of the matched elements are assigned the given class.
So, $('p').hasClass('theClass') returns true or false and not the list of all element having the class.
For this you need to select elements by tagname and class (just to replace your example): $('p.theClass') and this will returns the list you need on which you can apply a loop:
$(function () {
 var x = $('p').hasClass('theClass');
 console.log("$('p').hasClass('theClass') returns: " + x);

 console.log("$('p.theClass') returns a list of N. " + $('p.theClass').length + " elements");

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 $('p.theClass').each(function(index, element) {
 $(element).css('color','red');
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Using nile red-adsorbed gold nanoparticles to locate glutathione within erythrocytes.Langmuir. 2005 Nov 08; 21(23):10676-83.L
An aqueous solution of Nile Red (NR)-absorbed 32-nm gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been used to sense glutathione (GSH). When the NR product is displaced by GSH on the AuNP surface, the fluorescence of the solution increases and the AuNPs aggregate. To determine the concentration and distribution of GSH within erythrocyte cells, a homemade fluorescence and scattering microscope was constructed. This system allows monitoring, within individual cells, of the uptake and transportation of the NRAuNPs and the displacement of the NR product from the NRAuNP surface by GSH. The fluorescence and scattering images clearly indicate the location of GSH inside the cells; these findings are supported by images recorded using 2,3-naphthalenedicarboxaldehyde, which is a highly selective fluorogenic reagent for GSH. Microscopic fluorescence measurements of the NRAuNPs revealed that the GSH concentration inside erythrocyte cells is 1.30 +/- 0.31 mM. To confirm this result, lysed erythrocyte cells were analyzed by applying capillary electrophoresis in conjunction with laser-induced fluorescence using NRAuNPs; accordingly, the average GSH concentration in a single erythrocyte cell was determined to be 1.32 +/- 0.06 mM.


A laser beam of wavelength =632.8 shines at normal incidence on the reflective side of a compact disc. The tracks of tiny pits in which information is coded onto the CD are 1.60 apart.
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In 1996, an unexpected and remarkable archaeological discovery of Jewish significance was made by an Armenian bishop, Abraham Mkrtchyan. The bishop came upon a number of large inscribed gravestones in a river and an adjoining forest at the edge of Eghegis, in the Siwniq region of southeastern Armenia. These stones, which were shaped from granite into oblong cylinders, contain Hebrew and Aramaic inscriptions and are the first known physical evidence of a Jewish community in Armenia prior to modern times. The community existed contemporaneously with Jewish communities in neighboring regions like Georgia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Dagestan, the Crimea, and Ukraine. It may have consisted of about 150 people, according to Frank Brown, writing in the Jerusalem Report ("Stones from the River"). The stone inscriptions contain dates ranging from the middle of the 13th century to 1337.
An archaeological team was assembled from Israeli and Armenian experts, thanks in large part to Bishop Mkrtchyan. Israeli participants included the archaeologist Michael E. Stone (of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), the archaeologist David Amit (of the Israel Antiquities Authority), the Armenologist and photographer Yoav Loeff, and the archaeological assistant Sheila Bishop. Igor Dorfmann also participated. Armenians who helped with the research and excavation work included not only Bishop Mkrtchyan but also Mayis Mkrtchyan, Hussik Melkonian, Niwra Hagopian, Gohar Muradyan, Aram Topchyan, and several others. A preliminary survey of the Jewish cemetery took place during October 2000. The second phase of excavation took place in May 2001. The third phase is scheduled to take place in the spring of 2002.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR ARMENIAN JEWRY
To date, over 62 Jewish gravestones have been located at various sites in Eghegis -- including the Jewish cemetery, the foundation of a mill, and the lower support of a foot-bridge. At the cemetery, some of the stones are positioned on open graves while others are on sealed graves. A number of the stones had magnificent ornamentation. Some of the symbols on the Jewish gravestones -- like a spiral wheel -- were also in use on Armenian Christian stonecrafts around the same time. It is most interesting that the same decorative motifs were shared by Jews and Christians. While some of the inscriptions were worn down over the centuries, a lot of them are decipherable. Here are some examples:
* A gravestone dated the 18th of Tishrei of the common era year 1266 contains an inscription dedicated to the memory of "the virgin maiden, the affianced Esther, daughter of Michael. May her portion be with our matriarch Sar[ah]..." The opposite side quotes "Grace is a lie and beauty is vanity" from Proverbs 31:20 of the Hebrew scriptures and continues with a statement that Esther was "God-fearing". This stone was found in the bank of a flour mill.
* A gravestone in the bank of the same flour mill read "Rachel, daughter of Eli, may her repose be in the Garden of Eden." Rachel's stone also contains geometric ornamentation.
* A gravestone recorded the death of Baba bar David in the month of Tamuz in 1600 (the equivalent to the year 1289 of the common era). The other side of this stone reads "A good memorial and rest for the soul" in Aramaic.
* One gravestone includes a Hebrew blessing of Aaron the Priest from the ancient Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
* There is a gravestone containing an emotional statement from a father mourning his son's passing. In this inscription, the father claims that the soul is eternal and cites passages from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah that relate to the resurrection of the dead.
It is evident from the gravestones that many typical Hebrew names were in use among the Jews of medieval Armenia.
The archaeologists learned that the cemetery of the Orbelian royal family of Armenia, at the other side of Eghegis, had gravestones made of the same material and in a similar style as the Jewish gravestones. Michael Stone thinks it is possible that an identical workshop had produced both the Jewish and the Christian stones.
At the time of Jewish settlement in Eghegis, the city was an important commercial, cultural, intellectual, and governmental center, serving as a provincial capital. Apparently, Jews were wealthy and important members of the society at Eghegis, though Armenian Christians predominated in the city's population. The Mongols ruled Armenia during the period of Jewish habitation.
On the wall of an Armenian church outside of Eghegis, an inscription mentions that the plot of land where it stands was purchased from a Jew.


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I have a messaging system that is a.NET 2 ASMX web service, very basic system. I push messages and would like to have newline symbols in the message so it's formatted on the receiving end. For example, I'd like to send a string such as: "Hello\n\nMy Name Is..." and have it have two line breaks. When the receiver reads the text it's actually outputting the \n's in the text. How can I get the \n's to be interpreted as if I was writing it in C#? Or \t etc.
Thank you.
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Have you tried sending \r\n instead? – Blorgbeard May 24 '12 at 23:39
How is the'receiving end' outputting the text? – RJ Lohan May 24 '12 at 23:49
It sounds like your string is being escaped somewhere along the way. Have you looked at the raw text in a debugger or somwhere? I suspect you'll see either C# or html escaping in the raw text. Either way it should be simple enoungh to unescape it on the client side. – Mike Parkhill May 24 '12 at 23:54
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You should compose the message using Environment.NewLine to insert the character(s) used to represent a newline on your system.
See here for references
However using Environment.NewLine has some problems.
For example, your message should be written in this way
string msg = "Hello" + Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine + "My Name Is...";
a bit cumbersome to use from a programmer point of view.
Then you could write an extension method for the string class which takes your message and insert at the place of a placeholder the Environment.NewLine chars.
This example use the | (pipe) character as placeholder for the newline pos.
public static string InsertLineBreaks(this string inMsg)
 Strinbuilder sb = new StringBuilder(inMsg);
 sb.Replace("|", Environment.NewLine);
 return sb.ToString();
and you can call this extension in this way
string msg = "Hello||My Name Is...".InsertLineBreaks();
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That will only work if the receiving environment is the same, which can't be guaranteed by the service, right? – RJ Lohan May 24 '12 at 23:48
_USER_ given the tags I suppose that this was the case. However waiting for clarification from the OP – Steve May 24 '12 at 23:52
Both sides are.NET – Neal May 25 '12 at 0:18
it can make help in stored templates, can replace like MessageBody.Replace("{{newline}}", Environment.NewLine) ;) – ali youhannaei Aug 18 '13 at 14:18
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The web service is likely sending the message back with carriage returns listed as "%0D". What I have done in my programs is use:
str.Replace("%0D", Environment.NewLine);
That seems to work for me.
I'm sure you could also use:
str.Replace("%0D", "\n");
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You have to replace the \n with something that is interpreted as a new line by the browser, i.e. . I suppose you're using it as an HTML string.
Besides you need to get sure that it isn't HtmlEncoded, i.e., that your isn't converted into <br/>. This shouldn't happend if you're using JSON serialization. but will happen if you serialize it as XML and isn't properly decoded in client side.
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Use this:
string returnString = "Hello" + Environment.NewLine+ "My Name Is..";
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Definition of magnetic :
1. A magnet.
2. Alt. of Magnetical
3. Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian.
electrical (part of speech: adjective)
attractive (part of speech: adjective)
- Campfellowship inspired all the great captains and established the magnetic current between the leader and the soldier. - "Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862", Adam Gurowski.
- 16. If you would be magnetic in personal relations, you must splendidly believe both in yourself and in other people. - "Mastery of Self", Frank Channing Haddock.
- In R. F. becomes black and magnetic. - "The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis", Frederick Hutton Getman.


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Independent review of Flood Awareness Wales 2016
In December 2015 the Flood Awareness Wales (FAW) team at Natural Resources Wales (NRW) commissioned Collingwood Environmental Planning Ltd to carry out a review of the community engagement element of the FAW programme.
The overall aims of the review were:
- To assess the effectiveness of NRW's approaches to date, specifically in relation to the current model of operation - development of flood plans, which are supported and maintained by local flood volunteers
- To provide evidence and recommendations drawing on local, national and international best practice and approaches to date, to inform future practice in increasing community flood resilience across Wales
The FAW programme was developed by Welsh Government and Environment Agency Wales (EAW, now NRW) in 2010 to contribute to the delivery of flood and coastal erosion risk management objectives by raising awareness and increasing the preparedness of communities.
The Executive Summary presents the findings of the evidence review; a survey of flood plan volunteers; interviews with volunteers and professional partners.
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Using Office Simulation Software in Teaching Computer Literacy Using Three Sets of Teaching/Learning Activities
Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology • Volume 13 • 2016 • pp. 079-088
The most common course delivery model is based on teacher (knowledge provider) - student (knowledge receiver) relationship. The most visible symptom of this situation is over-reliance on textbook's tutorials. This traditional model of delivery reduces teacher flexibility, causes lack of interest among students, and often makes classes boring. Especially this is visible when teaching Computer Literacy courses. Instead, authors of this paper suggest a new active model which is based on MS Office simulation. The proposed model was discussed within the framework of three activities: guided software simulation, instructor-led activities, and self-directed learning activities. The model proposed in the paper of active teaching based on software simulation was proven as more effective than traditional.
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Constant flow of information – ecology of the devices. Sensory architecture.
The ecological system is in constant and dynamic flow of information - sensors register instability in the system – in this case the human presence therefore a reaction in the system is provoked 20. Each member of the system is connected in a sensor network. The system has reflexes and the sensors could be referred to the sensuous cells in the nervous system – they are receptive and respond to the changes surrounding them. The computer is the mind; it has a preprogrammed behaviour like an organism. There is a definite relationship between the parts of the single device (the surfaces of the devices are built in such a way that the arrangement follows a specific order), between the devices themselves (they move in choreographed arrangements) and between the devices and the environment – the observers in the case. The whole system is a unity of dependences and relations – an organism is created, yet an artificial one but with organic qualities.
Such an approach for designing arise the possibility of building environments and systems that "regulate themselves and survive. They adapt and compute. They invent. They co-operate and compete. Naturally they evolve rapidly." 22
The suggested design is a different and extraordinary definition of space – without solid boundaries and walls – the space is created by the network of relationships and is given a final touch by the personal experience of the observers and their perception. A medium between physical and immaterial world is formulated.


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Tonight while working on a web site for a client I was generating a header image that needed to be a specific width to fill out the header properly. The font selected by the client had the letters smashed together so I needed to add some space between the letters. I am not much of a designer so I had to play around with Adobe Photoshop until I was able to find the correct settings which happened to be named kerning and tracking. Kerning is used for a single letter and Tracking is used for a group of letters. These options are located in the Photoshop Character palette and can be modified using the steps below.
Add More Space Between Text Characters In Adobe Photoshop:
In the below steps we will be using an example header image which is displayed below. This first example of the image shows the letters with a lot of blank space to the right of the text.
Example Header Image Used In Steps Below:
- Highlight Text: First click the Horizontal Type Tool in the left navigation menu within Photoshop as shown in the example image below. I personally refer to this tool as the Text Tool and it is the small icon with a T in the middle of it.
Once selected highlight all of the text where you want to add more space between the characters as shown in the below example image.
- Open Character Palette: Now with the text highlighted click on Window in the top navigation menu and select Character from the drop down menu as shown in the below example image.
Once Character is clicked on the Character palette will open as shown in the below example image.
- Modify Character Tracking: Now with the text in the image still highlighted you can modify the space between characters by changing the number in the Tracking field within the Character window as shown in the below example image. The Tracking adjustment has an A-V icon with a right to left arrow below out to the left of the number you can modify. In the example image below there is a -30 currently in the field.
In this example we are changing the -30 to 150 which will add a lot more space between the characters to fill out the entire width of the image as shown in the below example.
Once you have made the changes you can now save the image in the format necessary for you to use it. I would also suggest saving a backup copy as a PSD so you can modify it in the future. Below is the updated version of the example header image displayed before the steps above.
Example Header Image With More Space Between Characters:
As you can see there is a lot more space between characters and the width of the header is filled out.


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Assessing Strategic Opportunities - A Finance Perspective (and why the wrong analysis is being done
Updated: Jun 19, 2019
Finance is often considered as support. They produce numbers and process accounts.
When opportunities are identified, finance is often called in to 'model' and estimate the opportunity.
This is fraught with danger.
The Real Meaning of Strategy
 One definition of Strategy is "a plan of action designed to achieve a 'long term' or overall aim."
"Long Term".
If initiatives are driven by 'short term' incentives, a finance expert must be able to dismiss this and understand further.
In a corporate world where there is firing, hiring, bonuses, deadlines, etc.. this is not a natural thing. Where the finance expert plays 2nd fiddle, the pressure of 'other parties' can be too much to resist.
The finance expert needs to also be a business expert so it can identify flaws, weaknesses and opportunities like a prophet. And he or she needs to understand the cold hard reality of numbers, or be able to throw numbers out the window if it does not match the true model of 'what would happen'.
The Ideal Strategic Finance Individual - do you have Enough Personality?
Finance people (with the exception of CFOs) have generally been mild mannered people.
But without a sufficiently strong personality and certainty, they are often unable to resist the coercion of 'other parties' who do not have full grasp of the whole project / business and the numbers.
And if they lack the vision and business acumen to understand what would happen themselves, we are no longer talking about a finance voice. More a numbers processor.
It is not the norm for strong personalities and those who desire to see the whole picture, to gravitate towards finance. And those who do often rise to become the CFO.
The idea Strategic Finance person would need to know the numbers, but also the business better than any of the Sales, Marketing and Operations Directors individually. And then have the personality to stand up to and sway them, without coercion for 'to use a specific number instead' ever to enter their minds.
The Dick Smith example
 Much as been made of Dick Smith – their sale by Woolworths to Anchorage Capital in 2012, then sold at an extreme profit to the public in Dec 2013 and now its collapse.
Forensic analysis suggests ratios and profits were manipulated to maximize apparent value. It then went on a semi-expansion agenda not supported by the real world.
One can argue an astute finance person should have been able to highlight these issues, not fall prey and submit to strong 'business managers'.
But here's the main thing about the Business Strategy.
Why is Dick Smith a good business anyway? Forget the accounting numbers.
JB HiFi or Harvey Norman sells Dick Smith's products with greater range and cheaper prices with a much greater store distribution. Most customers can name 2 or more stores they'd rather go to.
The Dick Smith branded items (only items you can't get elsewhere) look cheap and are rated poorly (check online reviews on its own website).
For online sales, Kogan has a stronger store presence for as an online competitor.
As for its original electronics supplies of plugs and wires and bits, that market has shrunk to almost negligible and is mostly done online via China (at 80% cheaper prices).
Its venture entering David Jones stores seems rational, but I'm not sure that Dick Smith branding adds a lot to David Jones.
Projections would have been made by finance. Marketing, Sales and Operations would argue their numbers, but from a good balanced 'finance' view – was it always going to fail?
The banks obviously saw it like that, they pulled the plug. They were finance acting with accountability with enough understanding of overall business.
Yes. There are ways out of that. To change and expand. But they didn't do those things. Instead, Dick Smith was more like a collection of corner shops or butcher stores threatened by 90's style shopping centres - and then announcing they would open more.
In other words, people should have seen it coming.
The Responsibility of Finding the Truth
It's very easy to imagine raising such points at a Dick Smith boardroom. However, is it true?
It would not be very hard to test. Find a Dick Smith store in a shopping centre with a Harvey Norman or a JB HiFi. How does it do? How many have closed down after the others moved in? I've personally always found Dick Smith stores amazingly quiet.
One can imagine a boardroom scenario where the CEO talks about an expansion strategy that makes shareholders applaud. Sales aren't convinced but happy to try and Marketing loves it because it gives them a chance to create a campaign.
Now Operations are thinking about new products it might want to do and Finance is nodding and doesn't want to say we can't do it as the buzz is too good.
Of course, this is hypothetical, but such a scene may have played out in many similar scenarios and organisations.
At some point, projections will need to be made or a financial model done. The questions is – will it be right?
In my experience – mostly NO. But the spotlight doesn't fall on the poor under equipped analyst. Expertise on advice falls too broadly on areas without enough knowledge or too many vested interests.
In descending levels of failure in answer to the question – 'did the numbers turn out right?':
 1. Not sure, we never checked afterwards.
 2. No, but I was asked to put through certain assumptions.
 3. Not quite because of the factors of…
 4. Because…
The person who can advise on this strategy is the person with enough big picture understanding of the business to get it right, have a strong enough personality to resist the wrong and be in a position where others can hear 'yes' or 'no'.
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Which Hospital Patients Need Drugs to Prevent Gastrointestinal Bleeding?
THURSDAY Jan. 10, 2013 -- Researchers have developed a scoring system to help doctors determine which hospital patients can be prescribed stomach acid-suppressing drugs to prevent gastrointestinal bleeding and which patients should not be given such medications.
Gastrointestinal bleeding in hospital patients is rare, but it is dangerous and potentially fatal, according to the study authors.
Although the use of acid suppressants to prevent gastrointestinal bleeding in patients who are not critically ill is not widely recommended, the medications are commonly used for this purpose, said Shoshana Herzig and colleagues at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
The study was published online recently in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
The researchers analyzed data from more than 75,000 hospital patients admitted over three years and found that gastrointestinal bleeding occurred in about 200 of them, according to a journal news release.
Independent risk factors for gastrointestinal bleeding were: being older than 60; being male; having liver disease, acute kidney failure or sepsis; being on a medicine service; taking blood-thinning medication; and having a clotting disorder.
Using this information, the researchers developed a risk-scoring system that helps doctors identify hospital patients who may benefit from being prescribed acid suppressants to prevent gastrointestinal bleeding, as well as patients who do not require the drugs.
Further research is needed to confirm the reliability of the scoring system, the authors noted.
The U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has more about gastrointestinal bleeding.
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During the in-port portion of the UCAD, Lockheed Martin installed the prototype MD-5 ground control station in the Unmanned Aviation Warfare Center (UAWC), the CVN-based control room. The team specifically demonstrated the functionality of the GCS to the MQ-25 fleet integration team, giving them the opportunity to assess design constraints driven by shipboard installation and capture feedback on human system interfaces.
Once underway, the MQ-25 test asset, known as T1, completed a series of test points that evaluated the functionality and capabilities of the deck handling system during both day and nighttime operations. Maneuvers included taxiing and parking on the flight deck, connecting to the catapult and clearing the landing area. Data was collected related to deck motion and wind over deck impacts to controllability and the propulsion system.
The team also coordinated the first Joint Precision Landing System (JPALS) surrogate flight with a King Air. Ship motion data collected during these first representative hardware and software approaches will be extremely valuable in refining the software, Reed added.
MQ-25 "deck operators" used Boeing's new Deck Control Device (DCD) during all phases of the deck handling system evaluation. The deck operators were co-located with the Navy taxi directors (yellow shirts) and provided the corresponding control inputs on the DCD responding to the yellow shirt's taxi directions.
"Early testing allowed our team the opportunity to evaluate many new systems for the first time at sea with T1," said Reed. "Our initial look at taxi operations on the flight deck successfully demonstrated the MQ-25's ability to maneuver just like a manned aircraft in the shipboard environment."
When operational, the director and deck operators will be able to taxi the MQ-25 on the carrier flight deck to the catapult launch position and to a parking location after landing. The MQ-25 will be controlled while airborne from the UAWC where the air vehicle operator executes a pre-planned mission.
The MQ-25 will be the world's first operational, carrier-based unmanned aircraft and is integral to the future carrier air wing (CVW). It will provide an aerial refueling capability that extends the range, operational capability and lethality of the CVW and carrier strike group (CSG).
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Theatre review: FAUST/US by Nine Years Theatre is fiendishly good
Mia Chee (centre) plays Faust in Nine Years Theatre's Faust/Us. The cast also includes: (clockwise) Hang Qian Chou, Neo Hai Bin and Timothy Wan.
Mia Chee (centre) plays Faust in Nine Years Theatre's Faust/Us. The cast also includes: (clockwise) Hang Qian Chou, Neo Hai Bin and Timothy Wan.PHOTO: NINE YEARS THEATRE
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An early scene in FAUST/US has the alchemist Faust (Mia Chee) drawing arcane symbols on the floor to summon an earth spirit. A background hum crescendos into the roar of tectonic plates grinding together.
Something powerful and magical is happening but poor, frustrated Faust cannot understand what the spirit is trying to convey. It takes her until almost the end of the play to learn how to navigate between the ordinary and extraordinary.
Similarly, it takes almost until the end of FAUST/US for the audience to see how different narrative threads and ideas have been brought together to create something out of the ordinary. It is a slow ride at the start, but fiendishly good once it picks up momentum.
FAUST/US is the first work by Nine Years Theatre to be created and directed by the group's associate director Cherilyn Woo. It is based on the 18th century German play by Goethe, in which an ageing academic sells his soul to the devil Mephistopheles in exchange for a life of passion and adventure.
FAUST/US has the academic played by Nine Years Theatre's co-founder Chee, so several plot points in the original have to be reworked. Faust fathering an illegitimate child becomes the contemporary crime of co-authoring an anti-government book with her lover Gret (Neo Hai Bin, who also translated Woo's text into Mandarin). The end result is the same, the lover is condemned to prison. But Woo's treatment of the event is much more than the old morality tale Goethe wrote.
Gret is like Faust and like Mephistopheles (a delightfully snarky Timothy Wan), all caged in prisons of their own making. Gret cannot see past his shackles, even to notice the key Faust brings. Similarly, Faust is so imprisoned in her life of academic success that even viewing her own garden through Mephistopheles' eyes is a transcendental experience.
Wan plays a cheeky devil who has much more in common with Faust than the omnipotent God (Hang Qian Chou) and the repartee between him and Chee sizzles. But many of the best scenes rely on non-verbal action and sound designer Zai Tang. Rushing waves and grinding earth demonstrate God parting the waters and creating the world in a few, breathless seconds. The sound of a demon dog barking is both funny and menacing, as Faust holds Mephistopheles at bay.
Woo has said that FAUST/US is about the restlessness in the human soul, the constant hankering for something more than we have achieved. It is this restlessness that propels humanity towards art, towards creation and towards greatness. Balanced between God and devil, Faust ends the play making the most out of her ordinary life, appearing extraordinary to the people she helps. Not a bad bargain at all.
FAUST/US is sold out.


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The Chinook Arch
November 14, 2001
The above photo was taken at evening twilight in Calgary, Alberta by Jeff McIntosh. On the lee (eastern) side of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and the province of Alberta in Canada, chinook winds occasionally bring respite from cold weather. Chinook is an Indian name meaning "snow eater." These warm, westerly winds result from downslope winds - air moving across the Rocky Mountains and down onto the prairies. During those cold, dull gray winter days, Albertans sometimes look toward the mountains for the Chinook Arch, a curved patch of blue sky (as shown above) that indicates that warm winds are approaching. Over this past weekend, a strong chinook was felt in Alberta and Montana. Chinooks typically occur from early November to late March.


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Former Grand Trunk Railway Station
St. Mary's Junction Station
St. Mary's Junction Station
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Listed on the Canadian Register:
Statement of Significance
Description of Historic Place
The former Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) station at St. Mary's Junction expresses the design of the initial GTR stations. It was built in 1858, and its mid 19th century Georgian form, stone walls and distinctive roof brackets still distinguish it from its surroundings today. This single storey station stands isolated in a field beside the track at the early railroad junction north of the town of St. Mary's.
The station at St. Mary's Junction has been designated a heritage railway station because of its historical, architectural and environmental significance.
The former Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) station at St. Mary's Junction was built in 1858 and is one of the largest and most original surviving GTR stations. Designed as a First Class Way Side Station by British architect Francis Thompson, it follows the modest Italianate style typical of contemporary British station design. It was constructed to the north of the town of St. Mary's as a (manual) control point for the junction of rail lines from Toronto to Sarnia and to London. Young Thomas Edison worked here as a controller during the early days of the station. By that time St. Mary's was already an established community, although it subsequently prospered from the nation-wide market the GTR provided for its local limestone.
The heritage value of the St. Mary's Junction Station resides in both its rarity and in the clarity with which it witnesses the design, composition, materials, and setting of original GTR stations. Value resides in its balanced massing and proportions, and in the elements of its design which express the standard early GTR Italianate style, form and detailing.
Source: Heritage Character Statement, former St. Mary's Grand Trunk Railway Station, May 1993. Heritage Assessment Report RSR-143, 1992.
Character-defining elements of the Former Grand Trunk Railway Station include:
- the rectangular footprint and block-like single storey massing of the station under a shallow pitched gable roof,
- its simple symmetrical composition, balanced proportions, and handsome aspect,
- the regular definition of its arcaded apertures,
- its Italianate details: arched openings, deep overhanging eaves, ornate end chimneys, circular gable window vents,
- the integrity of its exterior materials, particularly its local limestone and wood,
- the skilled craftsmanship with which its stonework is executed visible in regular stone courses, stone surrounds, arcades and chimneys,
- its solid wall construction,
- the integrity of its surviving early interior furnishings and fittings, their (primarily wood) materials, early form, composition, craftsmanship and finishes: including but not exclusive to the station's tongue-and-groove wainscot, wooden baseboards and picture rails and plaster walls and ceilings,
- continued legibility of the volumes and functions of specific spaces within the building.
Government of Canada
Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act
Heritage Railway Station
Theme - Category and Type
- Developing Economies
- Communications and Transportation
- Expressing Intellectual and Cultural Life
- Architecture and Design
Function - Category and Type
- Station or Other Rail Facility
Architect / Designer
Location of Supporting Documentation
National Historic Sites Directorate, Documentation Centre, 5th Floor, Room 89, 25 Eddy Street, Gatineau, Quebec
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Joanie Calem is a musician, singer/song-writer and teacher. Joanie was born in Seattle, grew up in Boston, and went to Israel as a teenager in 1976, where she studied music, worked, got married, had two children, began singing in pre-schools. Twenty-two years later she moved back to the United States, settling in Columbus, Ohio in 1998. In Columbus, Joanie teaches and performs for audiences of all ages. Her goal is to invite people to share a sense of creating community through singing and playing together.