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What Services does SSS offer?
- Connect-to-Campus Program for new students
- Designated tutoring and study areas
- Personal, career, and academic advising
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- Campus visits to Oregon's four-year schools
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LASSI - Learning and Study Strategies Inventory
The LASSI provides you with reliable diagnostic information about your strengths and weaknesses in relation to college preparedness (e.g., attitude, motivation, time management, anxiety, concentration, information processing, test strategies).
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This is a personality type assessment that will help you understand your strengths and weaknesses. Information from this inventory can help your understand your learning style, study smarter, and make career choices.
Strong Interest Inventory
This test measures your interest in a broad range of occupations, work activities, leisure activities, and school subjects, It's a solid, dependable career planning tool.
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Current Courses Recommended by Student Support Services.
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TRIO Student Support Services Tutoring
The SSS tutoring lab is unique in that students meet with the retention specialist for an evaluation of their skill level and learning style prior to receiving tutoring. Students may take the Compass Diagnostic Test for math, reading, and writing which gives an in depth look at their skill levels in specific content areas. This information allows students to identify and target areas that need the most improvement.
For more information, please contact our Director/Retention Specialist in Randolph 06.
Peer Mentors
Members of Student Support Services are provided the opportunity to visit prospective colleges within the region. This is one of the benefits of being a member. During the school year, visits are scheduled to four-year college and university campuses. SSS pays all travel expenses for members.
Oregon Universities
Do I Qualify for TRIO SSS?
To qualify for membership in Student Support Services, you must meet the following criteria:
- You are registered as a full-time, on-campus student at Southwestern
- At least one of the following applies to you:
- Neither parent has a 4-year (bachelor's) degree
- You meet the low income requirements for federal TRIO programs
- You have a documented disability (physical or learning)
- You complete an application to join SSS and have an interview with an SSS staff member
For an application or more information, please contact us:
Phone: 541.888.7419
Email: [email protected]
Student Support Services Staff
TRIO/SSS Director
Michelle Benoit is the Director for the SSS program. She has worked as an academic advisor at Southwestern since 2006 providing services to a diverse group of students. As a result of her own experiences in college, she is dedicated to helping nontraditional and disadvantaged students achieve their educational goals. Michelle holds a Bachelor of Arts in French from Michigan State University and a Master of Science in Education from Oregon State University. She has taught College Success and Survival, Transfer Success and Intermediate French at the college level.Phone: 541.888.7421
Email: [email protected]
Ian Bailey
TRIO/SSS Student Success Advisor
Ian Bailey is a Student Success Advisor for the SSS program. As a community college graduate and transfer student, Ian is dedicated to helping students aspire and achieve academic and life success. He has a MS in Development Sociology and is currently a PhD candidate at Cornell University. He has taught lower and upper division sociology and college writing courses and was a Graduate Fellow at the Center for Teaching Excellence at Cornell.Phone: 541.888.7379
Email: [email protected]
Chloe Eberlein
Student Success Advisor
Chloe is a Student Success advisor for the SSS program. She is a local graduate of Marshfield High School who loves helping students find what they enjoy and want to study in college. Being a health advocate she loves promoting a healthy lifestyle emotionally as well as physically. Chloe holds a bachelor's degree from Oregon State University in Animal Sciences with a Chemistry minor. She strives to help students discover what they are passionate about and how to get there.Phone: 541.888.7497 Email: [email protected]
Financial Literacy
Student Support Services provides financial literacy education to students. Financial literacy is the ability to understand and analyze your finances and make wise financial decisions. Applying the knowledge and skills necessary to manage financial resources effectively can lead to a lifetime of financial well-being. Southwestern Oregon Community College provides financial literacy education for all students via the iGrad website. SSS participants will receive login instructions during the intake process.
TRIO Student Support Services
What is Student Support Services?
Student Support Services (SSS) is one of the federally funded TRIO programs for education. The goals of SSS are to help students graduate from Southwestern, to encourage students to transfer to a four-year college or university and to assist with the transfer process. To be eligible for SSS, students must apply to the program and meet at least one of the following criteria: neither parent has a four-year (bachelor's) degree, meet the federal low income requirements for TRIO programs, or have a documented disability (physical or learning). SSS services are free and include tutoring, counseling, advising, campus visits to Oregon's four-year schools, cultural enrichment activities and supplemental grant aid for qualified students.
The Student Support Services project at Southwestern Oregon Community College is one of the TRIO programs funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Division of Special Services for the Disadvantaged. Title IV, Higher Education Act of 1965. One hundred percent of the SSS project at Southwestern is financed by federal funds of approximately $291,000 per year.


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Photography genre is the most commonly used genre on Android devices. Talking pictures, especially taking selfies have now become a trend. All of us wants to look more beautiful and gorgeous from others. The default application of Camera is not always up to the mark so people always want to find a software or an app through which they can make their selves more beautiful and unique. Keeping this in my mind I have used on the photo app which includes all features. You will experience different filters with beauty camera and also make collage through it. The name of the application is Moldiv which is presented to you by the developers of the JellyBus Inc. In this guide, I have to tell you that how you can use Moldiv for Laptop which runs on Windows and Mac Operating System. Let me tell you something about the app before we move toward its downloading process.
Moldvic is an exciting application which works a photo camera for you. Whenever you want to take the selfie ot picture you can use this app. The best thing about this app is that you can use filters and take pictures. Other applications have filters but they can only use after capturing the picture. But in Moldiv you can take pictures within using filters but it does not mean that you can use the filters afterward. You can use it on your existing pictures. Moreover, you can also make a collage for a friend and a person you loved. Basically, Collages are made to express feelings or to remember a memory. So all and all it is one of the best application through which you can easily make your pictures look more amazing and wonderful. In short, you can say that it is one of the best application which includes each and everything related to photo editing. Below you can see the instructions through which you can easily get Moldiv on PC.
How to Download Moldiv for PC On Windows:
To download Moldiv for PC, you need to follow the instructions given below in this post. By using BlueStacks, BlueStacks 2, BlueStacks 3 Android Emulator you can install Moldiv for PC. It is very easy to use Moldiv for PC on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 8.1, MacOS and OS X.
Installation of Moldiv for PC (Bluestacks Method):
- Firstly download and install BlueStacks emulator on your PC with this {Link}.
- After the completion of BlueStacks App Player, You will see an icon of BlueStacks on your home screen.
- Double click on the icon to open it.
- Give your Gmail address in order to set up the Google Play Store.
- Now use the search tool at the top right corner and enter the word Moldiv on it.
- After finding the application install it.
- Now go to "My Apps" in BlueStacks, where you can see Moldiv in your apps.
- Click on the application in order to use it on your PC.
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Our experience tells us that we are not all things to all people, but we are all things to some. This is why our first meeting with a prospective client is to simply determine if there is a mutual fit. We never ask our prospective clients to make a decision, nor do we make any decisions during this first meeting.
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Only after some time away and mutually determining with our prospective clients that there is a fit do we engage in our process.
The financial world is more complex today than ever before. Events in one part of the world can create a domino effect that can impact your finances on this side. From Geo-Political events to technological advances, forces beyond anyone's control can impact your financial future. This is why we focus our practice on things that matter to you, and on things that we can control. What we can control are the utilization of strategies that take advantage of beneficial tax-law provisions and removing as much risk as possible so that regardless of how things evolve, the things and people that matter to you are always protected.


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CUSTOMER PANELS are the best way to know what your customer is thinking. Your customers are constantly using your products and services. You can count on the fact that they have opinions — both good and bad. A POWER MARKETING RESEARCH customer panel allows you to ask them questions, test out new ideas and get valuable feedback. Keep reading to learn how customer panels can help you, and what kind of questions they can answer...
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How Customer Panels Help You Succeed
Customer panels are composed of groups of your current customers who are periodically asked to provide their insights via surveys or other research. This panel can provide opinions quickly and allows you to gather data continuously.
Customer panels can be a valuable part of your company's marketing research toolkit. They allow you to reach out to a pool of customers who have agreed to be contacted for marketing research purposes. This establishes an ongoing relationship with the customer, and gives you insight into their opinions. The end result is products and services that better meet the needs of your customers.
With customer panels you can:
- Test a new product or service to see if it will be successful
- Continuously gauge customer service metrics
- Make discoveries that lead to new innovations
- Build brand loyalty by engaging your customers
- By using a customer panel you are demonstrating a commitment to listening and responding to the needs of your customer base. You will earn their trust and inspire brand loyalty. In turn, your customers have an opportunity to provide direct input into the development of products and services.
Questions customer panels can answer:
- Do my customers like Product A or Product B?
- Are the marketing messages we're using resonating with customers?
- How do I continuously measure our customer service?
- Does this packaging design look attractive?
- Will our customers be interested in the new service we're thinking of offering?
- How do we get our customers to discuss our company honestly?
- How do we gather feedback that will help us make important management decisions?
Customer panels don't provide you with in-depth information about opinions and motivations — that's where focus groups come in.


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Chipotle challenged over misleading 300-calorie burrito signage
Chipotle challenged over misleading 300-calorie burrito signage If you think a Chipotle burrito consisting of tortilla, white rice, cheese, tomato salsa, black beans and chorizo can't possibly add up to 300 calories, you're not wrong. Three Los Angeles customers are filing a class-action lawsuit against Chipotle, claiming the restaurant misrepresented the calorie count of its new chorizo burrito, which actually adds up to about 1,050 calories, based on Chipotle's online nutrition calculator. One of the customers said he was misled by the 300 calorie sign, and "felt excessively full" after consuming the burrito. Chipotle apologized to a different customer via tweet for the confusing sign,Read More →


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TM Centanni, ES Norton, A Park, SD Beach, K Halverson, N Gaab, JDE Gabrieli (2019), Brain responses to print predict future reading outcomes in children at risk for dyslexia. NeuroImage: Clinical.
TM Centanni, D Pantazis, DT Truong, JR Gruen, JDE Gabrieli, TP Hogan (2018). Inconsistent neural responses in cortex: a potential neural mechanism for heterogeneity in dyslexia. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 34, 7-17.
TM Centanni, ES Norton, A Park, SD Beach, K Halverson, N Gaab, JDE Gabrieli (2018). Early development of letter specialization in left fusiform is associated with better word reading and smaller fusiform face area. Developmental Science. doi:10.1111/desc.12658
TM Centanni, LW King, MD Eddy, JDE Gabrieli (2017). Development of sensitivity versus specificity for print in visual word form area. Brain and Language. 170: 62-70. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2017.03.009
TM Centanni, AB Booker, F Chen, AM Sloan, RS Carraway, RL Rennaker, JJ LoTurco, MP Kilgard (2016). Knockdown of dyslexia-gene Dcdc2 interferes with rapid speech sound discrimination. The Journal of Neurosicence. 36(17): 4895-4906, doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4202-15.2016
CT Engineer, KC Rahebi, MS Borland, EP Buell, TM Centanni, MK Fink, KW Im, LG Wilson, MP Kilgard (2015). Degraded neural and behavioral processing of speech sounds in a rat model of Rett Syndrome. Neurobiology of Disease. 83: 26-34.
TM Centanni, JR Green, J Iuzzini-Seigel, CW Bartlett, TP Hogan (2015). Evidence for gains at 15q11.2 as a susceptibility factor for inherited language impairment. Frontiers in Genetics. 6:272, doi: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00272.
TM Centanni, JN Sanmann, JR Green, J Iuzzini-Seigel, C. Bartlett, WG Sanger, TP Hogan (2015). The role of candidate-gene CNTNAP2 in childhood apraxia of speech and specific language impairment. American Journal of Medical Genetics, part b; doi: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32325.
K Farquharson, TM Centanni, C Franzluebbers, TP Hogan (2014). Phonological and lexical influences on phonological awareness performance in children with Specific Language Impairment and Dyslexia. Frontiers in Educational Psychology; 5:838, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00838.
AC Reed, TM Centanni, MS Borland, CJ Matney, CT Engineer, MP Kilgard (2014). Behavioral and neural discrimination of speech sounds after moderate or intense noise exposure in rats. Ear and Hearing; doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000062.
CT Engineer TM Centanni, KW Im, KC Rahebi, WA Vrana, NA Moreno, MP Kilgard (2014). Speech training improves auditory cortex responses to speech sounds in a rat model of autism. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience; 8:137, doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00137.
TM Centanni, F Chen, CT Engineer, AB Booker, RL Rennaker, JJ LoTurco, MP Kilgard (2014). Speech sound processing deficits and training-induced neural plasticity in rats with dyslexia gene knockdown. PLOS one; 9(5): e98439. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098439.
TM Centanni, AB Booker, AM Sloan, F Chen, BJ Maher, RS Carraway, N Khodaparast, JJ LoTurco, MP Kilgard (2014). Knockdown of the dyslexia-associated gene KIAA0319 impairs temporal responses to speech stimuli in rat primary auditory cortex. Cerebral Cortex; 24(7): 1753-66.
CT Engineer, TM Centanni, KW Im, KC Rahebi, EP Buell, MP Kilgard (2014). Degraded speech sound processing in a rat model of Fragile X syndrome. Brain Research; 1564: 72-84.
CT Engineer, TM Centanni, KW Im, MS Borland, NA Moreno, RS Carraway, LG Wilson, MP Kilgard (2014). Degraded auditory processing in a rat model of autism limits the speech representation in non-primary auditory cortex. Developmental Neurobiology; doi: 10.1002/dneu.22175.
TM Centanni, AM Sloan, AC Reed, CT Engineer, RL Rennaker, MP Kilgard (2014). Detection and identification of speech sounds using cortical activity patterns. Neuroscience; 258: 292-306.
TM Centanni, CT Engineer, MP Kilgard (2013). Cortical speech-evoked response patterns in multiple auditory fields are correlated with behavioral discrimination ability. Journal of Neurophysiology; 110(1): 177-189.
TM Centanni, Neural and Genetic Mechanisms of Dyslexia, Translational Neuroscience of Speech and Language Disorders, Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience, Springer, Manuscript in review.
TM Centanni, JA Christodoulou, JDE Gabrieli. Neural Basis of Reading Interventions, Wiley Handbook on Cognitive Neuroscience of Developmental Dyslexia, In press.
CT Engineer, TM Centanni, MP Kilgard. (2015). Rodent Models of Speech Sound Processing, Neurobiology of Language, 1st Edition.
AM D'Mello, TM Centanni, JA Christodoulou, JDE Gabrieli, Cerebellar engagement during fluent reading: implications for adults with dyslexia. Manuscript in revision.
TM Centanni, AR Halpern, A.R. Siesler, MJ Wenger, Minor melodies capture attention: frequency differences during the critical note in musicians versus non-musicians as measured by EEG. Manuscript under review.
TM Centanni, M Anchan, et al., S Petrill, Sight reading ability correlates with performance on reading tasks requiring short term memory and content integration. Manuscript under review.
TM Centanni, TP Hogan (2015), An SLP's Guide to Neuroscience: How Knowledge of Brain/Genetics Can Better Inform Your Practice. American Speech and Hearing Association, Denver, USA
TM Centanni, JN Sanmann, TP Hogan, J Iuzzini, WG Sanger, JR Green (2014), CNTNAP2 deletion in two children with childhood apraxia of speech without language impairment. American Speech and Hearing Association, Orlando, USA
CONFERENCE POSTERS (* indicates TCU student authors):
VJ Thakkar*, AS Engelhart*, N Mattox*, G Pecoraro*, Z Richardson*, TM Centanni (2019). Auricular vagus nerve stimulation as a method for driving neural plasticity in learning a novel orthography. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA.
AS Engelhart*, J Iuzzini-Seigel, JR Green, TP Hogan, TM Centanni (2019). Comparing the somatosensory and pre-motor planning theories of childhood apraxia of speech: a magnetoencephalography study. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA.
TM Centanni, AR Seisler, AR Halpern, MJ Wenger (2019). Minor critical notes evoke attention-related ERP components in musicians over non-musicians. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA.
TM Centanni, SD Beach, O Ozernov-Palchik, SC May, JDE Gabrieli (2019). Heterogeneous neural deficits in dyslexia during speech sound processing tasks. Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.
SD Beach, D Pantazis, O Ozernov-Palchik, SC May, TM Centanni, JDE Gabrieli (2019). What can machine learning tell us about human categorical perception? Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.
O Ozernov-Palchik, TM Centanni, SD Beach, SC May, JDE Gabrieli (2019). Distinct patterns of hypoactivation during naturalistic reading in low comprehenders and decoders. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.
V Thakkar*, A Mason*, A Jefferson*, C Stacey*, N Khodaparast, TM Centanni (2018). Effects of auricular vagus nerve stimulation on novel orthography acquisition. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA (This abstract was selected as a Hot Topic and a lay summary was provided to the press)
D Wilmot, A D'Mello, R Romeo, C Peek, O Meegoda, TM Centanni, K Halverson, JDE Gabrieli, J Christodoulou. (2018). Neural correlates of phonological processing in dyslexia and comorbid dyslexia-ADHD. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA
TM Centanni, V Thakkar*, A Jefferson*, C Stacey*, N Khodaparast (2018). Effects of auricular vagus nerve stimulation on novel orthography acquisition: a pilot study. Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Quebec City, Canada
O Ozernov-Palchik, TM Centanni, SD Beach, SC May, M Brown, JDE Gabrieli (2017) Connections between implicit learning and reading fluency: an fMRI investigation, Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore
TM Centanni, F Chen, AB Booker, AM Sloan, SD Beach, O Ozernov-Palchik, SC May, MP Kilgard, JJ LoTurco, D Pantazis, TP Hogan, JDE Gabrieli (2017) Translational research in dyslexia: genetic rodent models inform understanding of mechanisms in humans, Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore
SD Beach, TM Centanni, O Ozernov-Palchik, SC May, D Pantazis, TK Perrachione, JDE Gabriei (2017) Neural correlates of the categorical perception deficit in dyslexia, Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore
H Beckius, K Halverson, TM Centanni, J Walters, C von Karolyi, E Winner, JDE Gabrieli, JA Christodoulou (2017) Examining the global visual-spatial advantage in dyslexia, ASHA, Los Angeles
TM Centanni, SD Beach, O Ozernov-Palchik, S May, JDE Gabrieli (2017) Neural correlates of single phoneme versus rapid auditory processing in adults with and without dyslexia, Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC
TM Centanni, SN Del Tufo, JDE Gabrieli, JA Christodoulou (2016) Altered brain bases of rapid naming in adults with dyslexia, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego
TM Centanni, D Pantazis, L Denna, JDE Gabrieli, TP Hogan (2015) Variability in the auditory-evoked neural response as a potential mechanism for dyslexia, Society for Neuroscience, Chicago
TM Centanni, AB Booker, F Chen, CT Engineer, AM Sloan, K Trull, N Wasko, RL Rennaker, JJ LoTurco, MP Kilgard (2013) Speech sound processing deficits and training-induced neural plasticity in rats with dyslexia gene knockdown, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego
CT Engineer, TM Centanni, KW Im, NA Moreno, WA Vrana, MS Borland, RS Carraway, JA Shetake, KG Ranasinghe, JR Riley, JD Seale, LG Wilson, MP Kilgard (2013), Auditory cortex speech sound processing impairments in a rat model of autism, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego
TM Centanni, CT Engineer, KW Im, MS Borland, KC Rahebi, MP Kilgard (2013), Impaired Neural and Behavioral Discrimination of Speech in Rat Models of Rett and Fragile X Syndromes, International Meeting for Autism Research, San Sebastían, SpaiN
TM Rosen, AB Booker, F Chen, N Wasko, K Trull, N Khodaparast, AM Sloan, RL Rennaker III, JJ LoTurco, MP Kilgard (2012), Neural and behavioral speech discrimination impairment in a rat model of dyslexia, Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans
TM Rosen, AM Sloan, RL Rennaker, MP Kilgard (2011), Evaluating neural correlates of compressed speech discrimination in the adult rat, Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C.
TM Rosen, AM Sloan, CT Engineer, RJ Cheung, CL Mains, RL Rennaker, II, MP Kilgard (2010), Effects of inter-stimulus interval and presentation rate on speech discrimination in the adult rat, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California
CT Engineer, TM Rosen, WA Vrana, JR Riley, JA Shetake, KG Ranasinghe, JD Seale, MP Kilgard (2010), Animal model of speech sound processing in autism, The Emerging Neuroscience of Autism Spectrum Disorders, San Diego, California
TM Rosen, AM Sloan, CT Engineer, RJ Cheung, ZM Abdulali, RL Rennaker, II, MP Kilgard (2010), Effect of presentation rate on speech discrimination in the adult rat, The Tucker-Davis Symposium on Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neurophysiology, San Diego, California


text: In general you shouldn't need access to CodeContext for doing anything - unless you're writing an API which will be consumed by script code. And the hosting APIs don't expose CodeContext instances so it can be challenging to get one without jumping through hoops. Obviously there's a bunch of things people want to do that are Python specific and aren't covered by the DLR hosting APIs. It'd be interesting to collect all of those things so that we can make sure we get all of the features that people want. So far I think the interesting ones would include: file exception info module access (built-ins at least and possibly Python modules) type caller (which will actually going away, so no big deal there, but might be worth a discussion) There's also some cleanup here for example creating ScriptScope's from the DLR doesn't give you a very usable Python module but we'll be fixing that. Are there other things that jump out at people as missing? Also, is there much interest in a 1.1 compatible hosting API or should we just expose this additional functionality? -----Original Message----- From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Curt Hagenlocher Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:15 PM To: Discussion of IronPython Subject: Re: [IronPython] 2.0B1 Hosting: Creating Python Types On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Dino Viehland <dinov at exchange.microsoft.com> wrote: > > CodeContext isn't actually internal but it's also not available to you via the > hosting APIs. Does this mean that we shouldn't be creating CodeContexts? I'm using the class "IronPython.Runtime.Operations.PythonTypeOps+TypeCaller" to construct new objects from Python types. This process requires a CodeContext, which I'm currently building from scratch as needed. (The same approach could be used with the PythonType "IronPython.Runtime.Builtin.file" in order to build a Python file object a little more efficiently.) -- Curt Hagenlocher curt at hagenlocher.org _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users at lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com


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The British sent eight fire ships toward the Armada, causing the Spaniards to worry about their wooden vessels. This painting, by Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom (creator of the House of Lords tapestries), depicts the still-famous event. Entitled "Day Seven of the Battle with the Armada, 7 August 1588," the oil-on-canvas is now maintained by the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, in Innsbruck (Austria).
Sir Francis Drake had tried a new technique in a prior battle with the Spanish. Setting old ships on fire, then using the wind to send them toward enemy ships, had been effective at the Spanish port of Cadiz in 1587.
Drake thought it would work well again during the summer of 1588. The idea was also in keeping with Lord Effingham's orders to assault the Spanish fleet rather than attacking the Armada head-on.
The British used eight old ships, loaded them up with flammable materials, set them on fire and directed them toward the Spanish fleet. Although they failed to set opposing ships ablaze, the fire ships terrified some of the Spaniards.
They broke their crescent formation, despite Medina-Sedonia's explicit orders against it, thereby setting up the fierce battle of Gravelines (off the then-Flemish coast) which occurred the next day. Worse, to get away quickly, they cut their anchors, leaving them without future protection against storms (among other things).
William Camden, who wrote that he used all available sources to record the most accurate history he could for both sides, says this about the fire ships:
... the Lord Admirall made ready eight of his worst shippes, besmeared with wild-fire, pitch, and rosin, and filled with brimstone and other combustible matter, and sent them downe the winde into the dead of the night under the guiding of Young and Prowse, into the Spanish fleete.
Which when the Spanyards espied approaching towards them, the whole sea being light with the flame thereof, supposing that those incendiary shippes, besides the danger of the fire, were also provided of deadly engins and murdering inventions, they raised a pittifull cry, weighed anchor, cutt their cables, and in a terrible panic feare, with great haste and confusion put to sea.
Amongst which the great Galleasse [a ship with sails and oars, capable of moving with no wind], having broken her rudder, floated up and downe, and the next day fearefully making towards Calys [Calais], ranne aground upon the sands ... (Camden, Annales Rerum Angliae et Hiberniae Regnante Elizabetha, 1588, Section 26)
The August 8th battle of Gravelines was so fierce that both sides effectively exhausted their ammunition. For much of the battle, like much of the entire campaign, the Spanish were fighting both the British and the wind (which appeared to be pushing Spanish ships into the shoals).
Then, the wind shifted. Philip's ships were able to escape into the North Sea. Although battered, the Armada was effectively undefeated. Bloodied, the Spaniards were unbowed. The official Spanish account expresses relief:
From this desperate peril [the battle at Gravelines] we were saved by God's mercy.
But ... Elizabeth's fleet was also undefeated. Philip's Armada, en route for months to achieve his objectives, did not succeed on this August day.
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Got a couple movies on DVD I saw and liked in theaters - Mad Max: Fury Road, and Spy. Speaking of spies...
At the movies: I thought SPECTRE was meant to be Craig's final two-parter, but no, I got that wrong. It's a complete film and might be Craig's last. I don't think I'm ready to say goodbye, though I do think his era has gotten away from what I so loved about it in Casino Royale. Bond #24 is a throwback to earlier eras, not just because the old criminal organization returns (Hail Hydra!), but it's got Moore-era jokes (I hate it when the comedy is driven by extras; the ones that come from Bond himself are tops though), set pieces that seem designed to evoke past films (the Austrian resort is right out of In Her Majesty's Secret Service), a villain with a metal feature (but he doesn't amount to very much), and a "follow clue A to clue B to clue C..." plot from which the worst Bonds have suffered (if this were a role-playing session, the GM would be accused of railroading; Bond even complains about the lack of choice). Bond working with a team, an anti-SPECTRE, in a sense, was the best part, with particularly active parts for M and Q, though Moneypenny necessarily takes a back seat to featured Bond girl Léa Seydoux. I'm not sure I'm behind the big revelation behind Blofeld's origins yet, just a coincidence too far, in my opinion. The Sam Smith theme is the worst since Madonna's. But though he doesn't achieve Skyfall's level of splendor, Sam Mendes still brings his visual brilliance to the film - the tentacle/tendril motif is intense! So it sounds like I'm down on the film, doesn't it? I'm not. It had plenty of good moments, fun gags, exciting action, and the required sexiness. I just wish it were the best spy film I've seen this year, you know?
DVDs: Slow West is a lyrical western in the mold of Jarmusch's Dead Man, about a young Scotsman tracking the (unrequited) love of his life in the Old West, with the help of a bounty hunter who at first means to collect on her and her father's heads. That's the slow-burning plot, but what it's really about is the transformational power of love and death. It's the kid's love that drives the picture forward, and that transforms the bounty hunter's world view, though the influence goes both ways. Writer-director John Maclean has an inventive visual style that delights and shocks, even if his symbolism is sometimes a little heavy-handed. It's a style that is perfectly suited to the New Zealand locations standing in for the American West, a Middle-Earth littered with bodies acting as surreal backdrop for the story. It's gorgeous. A quiet film punctuated by flashes of violence. The DVD includes the action-oriented and wholly misleading trailer, cast and crew interviews, and raw behind the scenes footage.
Listen Up Philip an indie drama about a quartet of characters connected through Jason Schwartzman's Philip, a young author whose sudden success alienates him from his girlfriend (Elisabeth Moss), and brings him closer to his idol (Jonathan Pryce), whose relationship with his daughter (Krysten Ritter) is strained. Writer-director Alex Ross Perry gives us a character study in the "New York" style (Woody Allen is an obvious touchstone, though Perry's novelistic inspiration, Philip Roth, is evident even in the DVD cover design which emulates certain editions of Roth's books I have on my shelf). Schwartzman's stony intellectualism seems right for this bitter egotist, keeping everyone at arm's length but his warmer, but just as intellectually cold, mentor. Moss is a complete contrast, giving a true and emotional performance that makes you wish the movie were more about her. The structure, playing out as character-driven chapters, does allow it to be, for a time, and the inclusion of a third person omniscient narrator is also a nice touch. I respect this kind of film making a great deal, letting actors do their thing and letting ambiguity reign. This is, in fact, what other movies would consider a first act, and only the narrator really allows us to skip ahead to see what else might await these characters. The DVD offers a commentary track, Perry giving us a lot of insight, although also sometimes bitter about the criticisms he's endured. There are about 7 minutes of deleted scenes, 12 of raw behind the scenes footage, a short making of featurette, a teaser with all original footage, and a gallery of one of the characters' book jackets, but not the others (odd since they do appear in the credits sequence).
Neil Blomkamp's Chappie doesn't really deserve the contempt it's attracted, but it's not a great film either, mostly because it doesn't know what tone it should strive for. Part Robocop, part Short Circuit, I'm fairly sure this robot with a soul movie was meant as a tribute to 80s sci-fi films. It's got "futuristic punks" right out of Max Max, Max Headroom and The Dark Knight Returns, slow motion action shots, etc. But it also wants to be a thoughtful meditation on sentience, an allegory about growing up, and an examination of nature vs. nurture. While I appreciate this brand of SF, Blomkamp is always very overt about his metaphors and brings no subtlety at all. Regardless, the film is at odds with itself because it tries to be too many things at once - action film, sf fable, social commentary, goofy robot comedy (this is what it is, mostly) - and it betrays its own narrative with its attempt at a feel good ending. And while I like Hugh Jackman as a villain, he's written as a cartoon, just like the gangbanger punks (who, I understand, are playing themselves, something that doesn't feel cute outside South Africa). When your villains are thoughtless and stupid, it doesn't make your heroes shine too brightly. I would have been more interested in a tragic movie about artificial intelligence - Chappie IS a sympathetic character, well realized in terms of voice and effects - and kept growing bored with its screechy action beats. The DVD includes a brief featurette about the making of the film.
Though a fan of the books and the TV series when I was a teenager (the radio series wasn't available to me yet), the 2005 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy film doesn't quite do it for me. The problem, I think, is that the big budget movie format has replaced much of the humor with spectacle. And while the spectacle is very pretty and impressive, spectacle is not inherently funny. Obviously, it wouldn't have done to make a movie where we consistently go to the Guide and its absurd definitions, but when it does, that's when the film is genuinely funny! Though I have some attachment to the way the TV series did the Guide's imagery, I quite like the film's animation too. The moments when the narrator/Guide takes over are, yes, the best parts. Oh, and the dolphin musical number. And the Improbability Drive effect. A great cast (although Mos Def? really?) sometimes let down by a zany pace, a few neat references to the TV version (try to spot the original Marvin!), but I think viewers less familiar with the book will come out of it simply thinking Marvin was oh so cute, and ah, that's where the babel fish and "42" come from. For those who did think highly of the book(s) or radio original, I think the Infocom text-based adventure game has yet to be dethroned.
When I first reviewed Guardians of the Galaxy, after seeing it in a theater, I was overwhelmingly positive about it. Since then, a certain fellow blogger/podcaster by the name of Diabolu Frank punctured my balloon and made me see its flaws, specifically how sexist it actually is in its treatment of Gamora, as a badass assassin who nevertheless cannot win a fight and must play the damsel in distress. Once thought, that cannot be unthought. #FranksAgenda. Watching the movie again on DVD with this in mind, it's not QUITE as egregious as Frank made it out to me (understand, I'm not blaming him, but my interpretation of what he highlighted), though it certainly doesn't help that Drax keeps calling her a whore. Still an exciting, funny and visually stunning space opera that I hope the next Star Wars can equal in entertainment value. Marvel DVDs suck these days, so just an "exclusive look" at Avengers Age of Ultron (what is this, a DC animated release?) and a single deleted scene, or rather, a few extra lines added to a scene that's in the film. Given how big a hit Guardians was, and the number of obscure comics characters it introduced to the cinematic universe, it's a real shame. Sure, the Blu-Ray special edition has more new content, but I don't think it links back to the comics.
Another film I saw in theaters and consequently have reviewed before, the existential Birdman was as good on a second viewing. I will again praise its magical realism - which director Alejandro Inarritu always delivers - its technical ballsiness, and its rich thematic underpinnings. The performances are top notch. The story can be understood as a tragic drama, or a satirical comedy. The commentary on the life of a performer is potent. The dilemma every (good) actor faces is the loss of self that comes with taking on a role (including the star persona that movie actors may have to adopt in the public sphere). Michael Keaton's Regan is hounded by the role that made him a star, and his loss of self is represented in his hallucinations (which may become reality), but also his absence as a father and husband, in his grasping for what made him want to be an actor in the first place, in the voiding of his identity on stage in the climax. The other actors in the story suffer from identity crises too (as does Regan's daughter), though it may manifest differently. Inarritu has my box office money forever, man. On the DVD, you'll find a good making of and a photo gallery.
Cougar Town Season 3 is the last released, though the comedy has had three more seasons (to date?) after moving from ABC to TBS. So who knows if and when the rest will make it to DVD. Well, I can stand to take a break. I just chugged three seasons, after all. The third season repositions many of the characters, giving them new jobs and relationships to fuel their personal stories, and I think finally finds a way to make Travis work as a character now that he's left for college (season 2 was a little awkward about this). But it's essentially the same show, delivering funny characters and absurd situations, then cuing up a sad song and letting the emotions fly and melting our hearts. That's how Cougar Town rolls. Diminishing returns on the DVD extras though: Just a few deleted scenes and a blooper reel this time around.
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- snell said...
I'll just say that the decision to turn Hitchhiker's Guide into a romance where Arthur wins Trillian shows how limited the filmmakers' understanding of their source material was.
As for SPECTRE, yeah, it's not bad, but sometime the sense of disappointment can be hard to shrug off, when you were expecting more on the level of Skyfall.
- November 15, 2015 at 9:32 AM
- snell said...
PS--you've got to bite the bullet and make the upgrade to Blu-ray, if for no other reason so you can get beyond the "bare-bones bonus features" DVDs seem relegated to these days.
- November 15, 2015 at 9:34 AM
I was "there", so to speak, when Gamora first appeared in comics (Adam Warlock / Pip / the Magus), so I was plenty disappointed by her handling in "Guardians of the Galaxy". It's a part of her character that she was damaged by Thanos and others, but that never stopped her from being proactive; and I don't recall her ever having interest in romance (i.e., even being potentially won over by Starlord's dance moves).
The biggest flaw in "Guardians of the Galaxy", I felt, was that it was a plot where our heroes had little control over what they did; they kept going from one thing to the next because every other choice was death. With the exception of deciding to help Xandar, it was all like a D&D campaign where there are always moving walls that push you from one room to the next.
But the other biggest flaw in "Guardians of the Galaxy" was our lead's character arc. Not every movie requires one, but I think this movie wanted one, and didn't quite deliver. The best way I've heard it described is, decide how the hero is screwing up his own life, and let the course of events help him overcome that self-defeating tendency. We ALMOST got that but they didn't quite pull it off: Starlord was pretty unable to cope with the loss of his mom (presumably how he is screwing up his life) and I never got the sense that he came up with any sort of answer -- say, by being the man his mom would be proud of, he's carrying on for her.
Maybe I'm just mad that Chris Pratt isn't Andy Dwyer / Burt Macklin / Johnny Karate any longer. That was the role Chris Pratt was meant to play.
- November 15, 2015 at 10:46 AM
- Siskoid said...
Snell: Douglas Adams himself worked on the movie script and felt it was the best way to do the story as a film. I don't disagree, but it's a little formulaic. As for Blu-Ray, I just can't stand to high-def images that are crisper than my own normal vision. That's not how movies look in theaters either. I used to rate extras as extremely important to my movie-to-own experience, but not as much anymore. Still, it stings when a low-budget indie has a better package than a big budget hit. Pretty clear they aren't giving me a choice of format, but actually pushing one format over another.
Anon: So your complaint about GofG is the complain I had about Spectre, except I think Guardians did have choices that needed to be made because the characters weren't a team or altruistic to begin with (as opposed to Bond who was always going to try to stop Spectre). The choices are about relationships and morality. And characters do make choices occasionally. Drax has the agency to lure Ronan to Knowhere, throwing a wrench in the works, for example.
- November 15, 2015 at 2:44 PM
- Brendoon said...
Ahhh! The Hitchhik game. Loved that.
I guess what we're seeing in the Hitchhik (H2G2G) movie is Douglas Adams (DNA) with a whole lot of writing discipline enforced. That was always his strength and weakness: he was an Anarchist when it came to writing. This meant he was able to add a ton of exciting foreshadowing in the books and Radio show (like in Lucas' Star Wars & Empire)as he felt like it BUT THEN failed to deliver on the promises... (Lucas kinda delivered but I'd rather he didn't)...because a whim took the story in a different direction. That's what made the books great, they were unpredictable and every turn was fresh (like life!).
By the way, if you recall there was a commercial 3LP set of the first 6 hitchhik radio episodes... completely rewritten, tidied up and re-recorded with the same cast, released in the early 80's.
It was better than those episodes because the time restraint was removed from the project, total perfection. Because these chaps went broke wihtout paying DNA the royalties due him, the masters went into ownership limbo and were never heard again. HOWEVER, I bought the tapes during the original release and later had them digitised. If you ever have the luck of finding them online they're copies of this very digitisation! Mail me if you want 'em, they're jolly good.
- November 16, 2015 at 1:14 AM
- LondonKdS said...
As I understand it those characters in Chappie aren't non-professional actors, they're South African gangster rappers. Not exploitation of naive people, more like the way rappers used to get cast in American "street" dramas.
- November 16, 2015 at 3:30 AM
- LiamKav said...
"As for Blu-Ray, I just can't stand to high-def images that are crisper than my own normal vision"
Not to question you, but whaaaaaaaaat? The resolution of your own eyes is always going to be higher than "hi-def" (and cinema showings will be higher res than 1080p anyway).
Have you got overly aggressive "image enhancement" going on on your TV? I've been to peoples house where they have the contrast set on "dynamic", they have "edge enhancement" and everything else turned on and it makes things super artificial looking. It's why I got one of Panasonics last plasmas before they stopped making them... I found plasmas much better than LCDs at making things look natural.
- November 16, 2015 at 7:27 AM
- Siskoid said...
Yes that's certainly the problem. Edges enhanced, annoying frame rates, impossible depth perceptions. It just looks wrong to me. I can't stand it.
Note: I don't have 20/20 vision either. Wearing glasses does flatten out details somewhat. Maybe that's part of it.
- November 16, 2015 at 7:46 AM
- Siskoid said...
Brendan: Oh wow, nice. When I get the time (I'm late on my Big Finish listening), I might just have to look for those. As for the Infocom game, I'm still stuck trying to open those stupid doors, but I just can't prove my intelligence!
London: Yes, Ninja even listens to his own soundtrack during the film. Like I said, if you're not South African, you probably don't know these artists, so it's just thick accents and fashion nightmares and you don't get the reference.
- November 16, 2015 at 8:52 AM
- Brendoon said...
The infocom Game....
I haven't played it since... oh,1988? Intelligence wasn't so much the answer as intelligence gathering... back in those days you had to talk with your friends who had talked with theirs and heard a rumour that a friend of theirs had discovered some random object did something unexpected when you did some sort of random thing with another random object. You could make one or two of those discoveries yourself and send 'em back down the grapevine to join the rest...
There wasn't much "intuitive" play to it, but it made you feel awfully clever even if you cheated.
"Those stupid doors": If these are the big doors out onto Magrathea it's no biggie, the game ends at that point with the promise of a part two which never happened.
- November 17, 2015 at 4:37 PM


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Gangnam Style the Korean pop single has just broken many records but this is its biggest yet. On YouTube the video has passed 1 billion views and it's still going.
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Love conquers all, or so we'd like to think. But when a relationship comes up against the ties of family, culture, and tradition, it helps to have the patience of a saint and the skills of a diplomat. Increasing numbers of American couples claim mixed racial heritage, and millions of others come from mixed religious backgrounds. While many of these couples are indeed drawn to one another in part because of their differences, the same qualities that may have attracted them can become relationship stumbling blocks.
Susan and Arturo are part of this growing trend toward multicultural, multiethnic relationships. Susan, a strawberry-blond optometrist from Seattle, prepared to travel with her fiancé Arturo to spend Easter at his family home in New York City. The couple had met just seven months earlier when the dashing sales rep, originally from the Dominican Republic, came into Susan's store to check his prescription. "One of the things I noticed immediately about Arturo is that he is extremely chivalrous — so different from the guys I knew," says Susan. "Arturo is always appropriately dressed, holding the door open, escorting me somewhere. I had always looked for that chivalry in a guy, but I had been looking in a world where that just didn't exist — until I met Arturo."
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Susan was excited to meet her future mother-in-law, Marie, and Arturo's extended family. But when she arrived at Marie's pleasant Washington Heights apartment, she was wholly unprepared for her greeting: "Oooh, you're so skinny!" said Marie with genuine alarm, leading Susan to the kitchen table and piling high a plate of oxtail stew. Susan, who had recently gone on a diet in preparation for her wedding — and wasn't sure how she felt about oxtail to begin with — didn't want to seem rude by declining Marie's cooking.
As the weekend progressed, Susan felt increasingly disoriented. Since there were a fair number of children in Arturo's extended family, Susan expected a traditional Easter egg hunt. But there were no chocolate eggs in sight. Instead Marie served up a traditional Dominican Easter pudding made with sweet red beans and decorated with a crucifix made of red wafers. Small things, to be sure. Yet taken together, these details had Susan thinking about just how different her experiences had been from those of her fiancé. "Even though it was nice, it was unfamiliar," she recalls. "For a moment, there, I had to ask myself whether I could feel at home with a family that was just so different from mine. But once I familiarized myself with their way of celebrating, I began to relax and enjoy myself."
When Linda, who is black, and Alan, who is white, were first married, they both believed that their love could overcome all obstacles. But from the very beginning, their marriage lacked the support of either of their families. This increasingly painful situation strained their relationships with their parents, and consequently began to try their own relationship. Alan's father, James, with whom he was very close, was the first to fully accept the couple. James became an ally, instrumental in helping to influence the other parents. Tragically, just before Linda became pregnant, James unexpectedly died. And Linda and Alan began to argue about what to name their son.
Learning to Compromise
"I wanted to give him a name that was more traditionally African-American," says Linda. "It was important to me to preserve my culture and to hand that down to my son, who was going to be perceived by the world as a Black man. But Alan wanted to name our child James in honor of his father." Melissa Mertz, a family therapist in private practice in New York, sees this cultural "tug-of-war" often.
"For some couples, the issue of cultural survival is very tricky. But couples have to learn to compromise. The issue of cultural differences is an easy one for people to use in order to stay disconnected from each other." Mertz counsels couples to grow together. "People need to understand that if they're still holding on to the traditions of their family of origin to the extent that it's hurting their relationship with their spouse, they need to divorce their family of origin so that they can really be married to each other."
Mertz herself is a Catholic married to a Jewish man. At one time, she reports, their religious differences caused considerable stress. "We used to fight about the Christmas tree because I saw it as a ritual and he saw it as a religious symbol," she recalls. "Rich and I even went to classes to help us deal with this issue. He began to accept it as a ritual that was important to me, and I was able to communicate to him that my need for it had to do with the fact that it was the only connection I had with my family." This acceptance works to affirm, rather than divide, a family's closeness.
Jenny and Sanjit, who have been married for 10 years and have seven-year-old twins, say that cultural differences have added richness to their family life. Jenny, who is half-Chinese and half-white, introduced Sanjit, who is Catholic and Indian and observes all the traditional Western Christian holidays, to the celebration of the Chinese New Year. Linda and Alan ultimately settled on the name Jamal—similar enough to James to satisfy Alan but with an African-American flavor, which pleased Linda. "We each learned how to compromise," says Linda, "we're too important to each other not to." Like Susan, Alan and Linda learned that cultural identity needn't be a threat to the relationship.
A mixed marriage may not be without its problems, but it adds enormous richness to family life, as well as insight into other communities. "Deciding between my traditions and hers was never an issue," agrees Sanjit. "We just celebrate everything. The twins, of course, think they're the luckiest kids in the world!"
Tips on Bridging the Cultural Divide
* Get in touch with his family before the first big meeting, especially if it's planned for a big holiday. Holidays are emotional times for many families, and therefore not the best time to spring big issues. Getting together for a lunch or dinner date, or for a play or other cultural event can provide a chance to get to know one another a bit under more relaxed conditions.
* Recognize the importance of an ally. As in the case of Linda and Alan, one parent who is accepting of your relationship can ease the fears of the others. Parents may be more accepting if the "seal of approval" comes from one of their own peer group, or because they don't want to be seen as the "unenlightened ones" in the equation.
* As Melissa Mertz discovered, it's important to discuss why rituals and cultures are so important to us. Tell your partner that Easter dinner makes you feel like an important part of your family, since it's something you've always shared, rather than simply insisting on attending.
* Focus on building your own rituals and experiences together. These are the ones you'll treasure in the years to come. Bringing other family members into these events may even lead them to have more respect for your relationship.


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I don't know about you but the amount of sewers that I've seen make the True Bias Ogden Cami is astonishing! I have loved and admired each and every one and thought 'I must make one of those to see what all the fuss is about'! So I did, finally!
My summer vibe helped me wiz up not one but FOUR of these cami's! All made from my stash of 1m leftover fabrics. The floral one was slightly more hence why I made it in to a dress/tunic. This pattern is great for stash busting.
I have to say once I did my first one I fell in love with this pattern – yes these are my first ogden's and yes I think I have been living in a cave to be one of the very few people still left to make this pattern!
The pattern is based on a height of 5ft 5in. As I'm a short arse – 5ft 2in – and have a short torso, I had to shorten this by 2 inches but the strap length was perfect on me so no adjustment there (I am broad shouldered) or to the sizing on a perfect 10. I am a B cup and the pattern is for a C cup. So a little room in the chest area, which was perfect as I prefer tops like these to have a bit of room to swing my arms! Those who are above a C will need to do a full bust adjustment (FBA). Here is a good one from The Pug and Needle blog to get you started.
For the fabric I used two crepe's, the floral one which is lightweight from Sew Me Sunshine and a luxury crepe in the green from Sew Over It. The black cami was a cotton voile from Ray Stitch and the navy with splodges is by Atelier Brunette (Moonstone Blue) from Sew Me Sunshine. All were perfect fabrics with great drape for this pattern. Anything lightweight to medium with superb drape would work well here.
The floral cami I extended in to a dress/tunic by adding 20cm to the length (too short to wear without leggings or shorts or I might keep this as a nightie!). I will definitely make further dresses with extending the length and I will probably go to 30cm to be decent!
A picture of the 'guts' of the cami's here as I think it is important to show you how to 'switch up a gear' in a make. I decided to do extra finishing touches and use some more of my left over fabric by making my own bias binding. I bound the hem of the facing instead of hemming. Love the effect and wearing it knowing how beautiful it looks inside is a wonderful feeling! Another great way to use up those scraps of fabric with contrasting colours. I love how these three turned out.
I know so many people rave about this pattern but honestly it is fabulous, comes together brilliantly and instructions are wonderful. I now can make this without looking and achieved this after my first one infact! I hope this weather continues so I can wear them on rotation, if not they will be layered up!
Here's me in my green one soaking up the sun this morning! Excuse the selfie shot. I will add more pics when I can get one of my brood to take some for me *sighs*.


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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – The Augusta University softball team concluded its 2017 season on Saturday afternoon with a Peach Belt Conference doubleheader at Flagler University. The Jaguars dropped game one 7-0 and fell 12-8 in the second contest.
Augusta finishes the season 9-43 overall and 4-20 in the PBC, while Flagler improved to 35-18 and 18-6 in the conference.
The Saints knocked 12 hits to Augusta's two in the first meeting. Sophomore Kelsea Hunter and senior Erin Rozier turned in a hit each for the Jags and Flagler's Alli-Ann Bigale and Garland Evans each had three hits.
AU freshman Morgan Hunter (4-18) pitched 4.1 innings in the last start of her rookie season and struck out two while allowing nine hits for seven runs. Sophomore Emily Hittinger pitched 1.2 innings and held the Saints to three hits.
Katelynn Smith (8-7) got the win for Flagler and struck out three in the shut-out win.
In the second meeting, Augusta scored two runs in the first inning, but Flagler responded to tie the game with two in their first at bat and added four in the second. They led the rest of the game and downed the Jags 12-8.
AU junior Marni Greenstein went 3-for-3 with three RBI and three runs and Rozier and Lydia Hausman carded two hits each for the Jaguars.
Senior Kristen Mills pitched 2.1 innings for Augusta and surrendered nine hits for eight runs, before freshman Courtney Browne pitched 3.2 innings.
Flagler's Callie Reed pitched four innings in the start and gave up nine hits for seven runs.
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RIGHT THIS MOMENT is a really special day for Gulliver, for it's ten years to the very day since his column at The Economist opened for business. Search travel blogs and websites to get info written by individuals who have truly visited the country. 23:05 Sevenoaks to London Charing Cross – This service IS NOT GOING TO RUN, and is changed with 23:05 Sevenoaks to London Cannon Avenue calling as follows: As booked to Hither Inexperienced 23:37, London Bridge 23:52, London Cannon Road 23:59.
If this is a concern, make sure to ask about it. I, as a person traveling alone, have personally never encountered an issue with these preparations, and I have stayed in hostels all through Europe, including Rome, London and Amsterdam. It is always wonderful how a lot pointless baggage individuals carry together with them when traveling simply because they aint positive what there are going to need.
Nearly everybody loves to travel, and travel is among the most intriguing and fun activities one can engage in. Travel offers the outstanding ability to see the world from a whole new perspective, and I for one imagine that if individuals traveled extra outside their nation there can be far much less struggle and hassle on the earth. Although it was great fun watching the trains depart and return whereas we had been having our lunch; albeit, earlier within the week we did deal with ourselves to a trip on the other great railway on the Lakes, the Ravenglass and Eskdale railway, which was first opened in 1875.
I've cherished trains ever since although I can't remember the final time I used to be on one. We had an experience when traveling with our two 12 months previous the place he kicked the seat in entrance of us always, since his little ft were resting against the seat-again. 00:05 London Charing Cross to Orpington – This service IS NOT GOING TO RUN, and is changed with 00:06 London Cannon Avenue to Orpington calling at London Bridge 00:eleven then as booked.
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Many kids with one anxiety disorder also have another, and they are more likely than average to be depressed, too. Both are true of separation anxiety. Usually the anxiety condition develops first, and is considered a risk factor for later depression. There is a strong correlation between separation anxiety in children and a diagnosis of panic disorder later in life, and between separation and social anxiety disorders.


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Samsung 840 EVO Overview - New SSDs with Interesting Rapid Mode Cache (Page 3)
Layers and Layers of Cache
We've spoken extensively over the last several months about the latency issues Micron has with new 128Gb flash that came to market with the new 20nm process. Samsung wasn't immune to increased latency at 128Gb and like Micron, the second generation 19nm flash has latency spikes that reach into the 1ms range. To help elevate latency when writing data to the drive, Samsung implemented two new technologies.
On the drive, Samsung implemented TurboWrite, a designated area on each flash die that works in SLC mode. By writing only one bit to each cell with a predefined space limit, Samsung increased performance on the flash itself, which in turn makes for a low cost, non-volatile cache built into the SSD.
The capacity of TurboWrite space varies between each capacity size (charted above). Data writes to the pseudo-SLC layer first and later pushed to the TLC portion of the flash. Extremely large writes will fill the pseudo-SLC layer and at that point, performance moves to TLC levels. In our full disk span tests, we observed both SLC and TLC performance, but the SLC area is so large that most end users will never (or at least rarely) experience TLC-like performance.
Since only one third of the flash capacity for the cell is used, the 12GB SLC like area actually uses 36GB of TLC flash, using the 1TB model as an example. For the last two plus years we've talked about buying more SSD capacity than you need because drives get slower as you increase the amount of data on the flash. With the 840 EVO, the distance between good performance and worst case scenario is large, so you really do need to purchase a larger drive or work at keeping the volume of data on the drive down.
RAPID Mode
To put it bluntly, RAPID Mode changes everything. That doesn't mean the software is best used by everyone or in every environment, but a majority of consumers will benefit from the technology. RAPID software essentially increases the user experience by increasing the perceived performance level of the SSD. With the 840 EVO, performance virtually doubles for a period of time. That period of time is determined by how fast your DRAM is, 1333MHz DRAM will have a longer duration or performance increase time than 2400MHz DRAM because the limiting factor is capacity and not speed. When flushing the data from the cache to the SSD, the SSD is the bottleneck, so regardless of how fast your DRAM is, the flush takes place at the speed of the drive.
First included in Samsung's Magician 4.2 software, RAPID uses up to 25% of your DRAM, but is limited to just 1GB of capacity. I think nearly everyone reading TweakTown has 4GB or more of system memory, so the 1GB rule applies almost universally. Sadly, end users cannot change the amount of DRAM used by RAPID. Those with only 4GB of system RAM may not want to dedicate 25% to RAPID and those with 16GB or 32GB (hurray for two years of low cost DDR3!) of DRAM may benefit from more resources dedicated to the technology.
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Editorial from Mountain Path, July - Sept. 2009:
I have seen a wonder, this magnetic Hill which forcibly attracts the soul! Having suppressed the mischievous mental activities
of the soul, who has thought of it even once, having drawn that soul, inwards, to face itself, the one Reality, and having made
it motionless (achala) like itself, it feeds upon the sweet pure and ripened soul. What a wonder this is! O souls! Be saved by
thinkikng of this great Arunagiri, the desroyer of the soul, who shines in our heart. (Padigam, verse 10)
*It is often assumed that Sri Bhagavan was a strict Jnani whose entire focus was intent on conveying the subtle erudition of
Advaita, the basis of which is that there is no sense of other, there is only one, Brahman, in the apparent world of difference.
He systematically pointed out the delusion of our mind and brought home to us the necessity of remaining still in the awareness
of 'I' devoid of thought. He taught that there is no journey. There is no effort. There is only the One Supreme Consciousness and we
are That.
There was another side of Bhagavan which is equally important and valid. Bhagavan, like Adi Sankara that the other giant of
Advaita, was also a bhakta and His hymns to Arunachala reveal a heart pouring out both its anguish and ecstasy in the presence
of the Beloved. He revealed by the example of His mortal life how we can approach and be absorbed into the divine light of what He
called Arunachala, the Supreme Consciousness.
Sri Bhagavan showed us a way through prayer to open up our hearts to the saving grace of Arunachala. But how can we follow in
His footsteps? For many of us prayer is a challenge. We may have the habit of saying some traditional prayers, each day, which can
become stale ritual. Or when the need arises out of confusion or suffering, our heart breaks out with an inchoate cry for help and we
call it prayer. Ambrose Bierce, the American 19th century satirist defined prayer as it is commonly perceived: 'The act of beseeching
the Almighty to suspend the laws of the universe on behalf of one supplicant, confessed unworthy. (The Devil's Dictionary.)
There are also times, when prayer can become a hymn of gratitude for unexpected blessings. We read in the Vedas, the most
vigorous invocations and expressions of delight in the divine. These hymns of prayers which inspire, for the mantric recitation, has
a deliberate power to elevate us.
There is another approach which is that by calmly waiting in silence, we are receptive to a higher power which may enlighten
our present darkness. By opening our minds and hearts, to the great silence, within, we create the space for insight and blessings
to be born. Prayer implicitly affirms that there is a purpose to our lives, and that there is a higher compassionate power to which we
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For the most part of all these activities are sporadic. How can we remain in continuous prayer or contemplation, like the steady
flow of oil that Sri Bhagavan described in Upadesa Undiyar?
Prayer as we generally know it, is a supplication. But it also can be an affirmation. It all depends on our attitude. Prayer if one considers
it carefully is an act of attention or giving. We give our attention to that which is 'higher' than us. We offer up our minds and hearts,
until we reach the stage of pure meditation when we are one with the object of our quest. We are however in a state of duality
which implies effort, and until we establish within ourselves a strong sense of direction, our efforts, will be nullified by lack of
consistency. The name or image of Arunachala-Ramana effectively assists our concentration both outwardly as well as inwardly through
the mysterious workings of Grace.
Ananda Mayi Ma has said, 'Whenever you possibly can, sustain the flow of a sacred Name. To repeat His Name is to be in His Presence. Just as a human friend opens his heart to you and tells you all about himself, when you come to him, so, if you associate with the Supreme Friend, He will reveal His true Being to you. Do you refrain from bathing when faced with waves of sea? Surely, you plunge right into the midst of them and take your bath. Similarly, in the very thick of tempest and difficulties of worldly life, endeavor to maintain the remembrance of Him by the repetition of His Name. (See www.anandamayi.org.).
We begin with sporadic acts of prayer until the strength grows to the point where the act of prayer is sufficient reward in itself. We
do not yearn for more but rather revel in the silent sense of completeness where one needs for nothing.
We have seen in the brief descriptions above that prayer can assume a different function according to one's temperament and maturity.
There is in general a series of steps through which the individual passes in the ascent to union with the Beloved.
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Prayer can be compared to the act of archery. There are many similar analogies using the bow and arrow. In our version
we can say that the archery of prayer happens when we place our best foot forward -- a declaration of firm purpose. And
we assume a comfortable stance. We raise the bow which is our mental ability, and draw the string, our skill, to bend
energy or desire to one purpose. We aim the straight arrow, our concentration, to hit the target. (cf: Mundaka Upanishad,
2.ii. 4-5)
Like Bhagavan we clearly hear the call. It may not be the name of Arunachala. It may not be a single startling moment but
we do hear the urgency of the heart to respond to something greater than ourselves. This can be caused by emotional
suffering and mental bewilderment when we realize that our minds cannot grasp the immensity of life's challenge. It can
also be the result of sharp physical distress due to illness or some other causes and we conclude that there must be a better
way to live. There is suddenly a clearing in the debris mind -- the clutter of useless thoughts and negative dark emotions. For
a moment a higher purpose is revealed and a possible alternative to our predicament. We are touched by a ray of light.
There is a leap of faith and without realizing it, we have taken the first step. There are endless variations on this theme and
none of us is an exception.
The second step is a realization that our efforts are inadequate and a higher power is necessary to transcend our limitations,
though for the present we are blind to the intelligent effort required. Without this realization, we would turn in endless circles
of tired thoughts and blind emotion that have no purpose and no end. Like a tedious machine, our mind churns out thoughts
that have neither relevance nor depth. We live on the surface and die a slow death of boredom for there is no meaning, no
connectedness, although there is usually a razor sharp recognition that there must be another way.
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With this second step comes the instinct to pray. It may be patchy, it may not be completely sincere, it may even be outright
begging, but it is a beginning. Initially, we pray for fulfillment of the needs of the hour and forget to pray for that which frees us
from need. Sri Ramana instructs us to seek the source of the 'I' and we should not be distracted by short-lived satisfactions
but move on with either the pulsating holy name alive in or minds or the splendid image of Arunachala-Ramana ever in our sights.
There is wisdom in the maxim that even if we but imitate a skillful process, one day, with diligence and through grace, there will
inevitably arise the ability to achieve the skill itself. We should never give up.
We should be careful that once we tread a particular path, we should remain loyal to it otherwise there is disorder and unnecessary
bewilderment because there are crucial moments when we need to focus all our energy and intention on one goal to the exclusion
of all else. Like a ship we cannot afford a leak of inconsistency on this adventure. We are building, through prayer, a seamless vessel
to carry us safely across the ocean of samsara.
For those of who follow Arunachala- Ramana, the radiating power is so subtle that quite often devotees wonder if they are making
any progress at all. Naturally it is easier to feel the presence of the Divine Power when standing by the Samadhi or under the benign
gaze of Arunachala, but the majority do not have that luxury as they must work for a living elsewhere. We should remember that once
irradiated by that divine presence it is not only unforgettable but also unstoppable. Once we get the taste it starts to work invisibly
to purify our minds and hearts. We begin to question previously accepted assumptions and conventional wisdom. This process is not
usually obvious as there are rarely any dramatic moments. It is incremental and for the most part unobserved by others, and paradoxically even by oneself until some defining moment opens the eyes. A poor swimmer is one who thrashes about in order to stay
afloat, while a good swimmer moves smoothly on the water and uses the natural currents to take him. The more we become attuned to
Arunachala-Ramana the more our personality fades in importance and the more the good ship of our journey glides effortlessly
through the waters, unnoticed.
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This October Half Term Castle Quay are hosting a number of Spooktacular Events! Ranging from bush tucker trial to creepy craft workshops, which will keep the kids entertained in spook-tacular style throughout the week. Kirsty and Buzz will be broadcasting live from the centre on Wednesday morning, so make sure to come and say hello! Everyday Castle will also have FREE face painting in the centre every event day from 10:30am – 3:30pm!
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Message 43 on Rogues' Board of Fiendish PlotsHere's a few ideas for Devices.. Caltrops/Barbs: Items spread around on the ground pre-combat (or while fleeing). Caltrops are 'hidden' so they cannot be seen unless a successful search has been completed. Caltrops prevent movement out of a room by causing a fall and light foot damage. Caltrops could cause a mount to rear and unpleasantly dismount a rider... could also disrupt charge-like commands. Break/sabotage: Render a device inoperable and/or unrepairable, such as a booby trap or door lock. More advanced than disarmtrap or pick, as it can keep the trap/device/lock from being manipulated for a good length of time(re-armed or unlocked with a key). Decant/Mix/Combine/Brew/Extract: Allows a well versed Trickster to breakdown poisons/items into concentrated component parts and then remix them for a variety of effects. Skill level would dictate how many parts extracted, how powerful concentrations, and number of components allowed in a brew. Could also be used to make own drinks or combine existing drinks. Effects could be acid, fire, frost, posion, viral, bacterial, etc. These commands pave the way for lower level commands to gather and extract 'components' from mundane room items (flowers, plants, drinks, monster drops, etc). Could also be used for fun, skill building commands to make (more or less) harmless sp/mp restoring drinks. Craft: glass/beaker/ampule/arrow/dart: Given the proper workspace and materials, a rogue can create containers to store and/or delive their trickster concoctions.... such as small glass ampules, glasses/mugs, bottles, trap refills, etc. These could be sorted into different sizes depending on the intended use. Could also be used to create 1 use weapon ammo for weapons like bows and blowguns. Would open the door again to making some items consumable for parts (gems for glass, different woods/scales/ices for weapons). Flashbang/stunbomb: Trickster throws a medium sized pellet at the targets feet, causing a mild concussion and a huge flash of light... blinding anyone not prepared and possibly knocking them from their feet & causing a little awesome tinitus (maybe with small damage). Used much like smokebomb, but gives the rogue the option to continue combat with a temporary edge or flee undetected. Unsuccessful attempts could result in duds or pellet sailing into nother room, or disasterous attempts could catch the rogue in the effect. Pittrap: A cunning and well prepared trickster can excavate a knee-high (or deeper) pit lined with unpleasantness (spikes, caltrops, acid) and conceal it from sight. Mobs entering the room run a good chance of falling into the pit, causing any number of mobility related and damage effects. Not effective against flyers or in rooms with extra-hard floors (paved streets), but effective against multiple targets before it becomes full. Pits take time to construct (quite a few rounds), so this prevents them from being hasty retreat devices. Great for hearding mobs or when you know you'll have to make a fast escape from a chasing horde... may have to carry a pick or shovel to execute. Highwire: Oldie but a goodie a rogue can boobie trap one exit in a room with a razor thin piece of almost invisible wire at average head level. Targets running through the room (ie, enter and then exit within a short period of time) are more likely to catch wire and suffer greater damage. Knockdown is almost a given, as well as preventing exit to that direction at least once. Wire would be a consumable but recoverable item, and could double as a garotte for strangling. Grenade: Possibly a sub-section of Craft, this allows the rogue to make an explosive device. These devices could have lots of options elemental damage effects from various components, mobility modifiers, sense modifiers sight/smell/speach/hearing), or any combination of the above. Greandes could be 'armed' and placed on a person with a seperate command, where they would detonate if the taget moved or entered combat. Conversely, they could be command detonated with a string or fused (on a timer). They could be used in trap as trap kits as well (or maybe modify trap kits to act like this...?)


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