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You may have seen her on various nerdy platforms and sundry, and Sam Maggs wouldn't have it any other way. She's all about sharing her brand of geeky media and feminism with everyone she meets. With her first book, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy, Sam brings fangirls of all types together to revel in their geekiness.
You may have seen her on various nerdy platforms and sundry, and Sam Maggs wouldn't have it any other way. She's all about sharing her brand of geeky media and feminism with everyone she meets. With her first book, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy, Sam brings fangirls of all types together to revel in their geekiness. This year, she'll be spotlighting 25 amazing women throughout history in Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History (out October 4, 2016).
Sam recently chatted with WWAC about the year since Fangirl's Guide first came out, how her feminism has grown in tandem with her fangirl life, and the women that inspire her every day.
Your first book, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy–I did get a chance to read it last year–it was quite interesting as someone who's been in fandom for over 10 years. Those are some of the kind of things I wish I had known growing up.
Yeah, you know, my approach writing the book was–when I was 15 and didn't really know anyone who was into this stuff and didn't really know how to connect with people, didn't know that I wasn't the only girl who liked these sorts of things–what kind of book would I wish I could have gotten from the library and picked up? What information would I have wished I had known going into this process ten years ago?
I tried to write it so that that girl could pick it up, but then also, you know, the 26-year-old who's been in fandom for ten years could still hopefully learn some new things from it or take some new tips from it. Or the girl who's never really thought about feminism before and could be like, "Oh, that's what that means." So that hopefully fangirls of all ages and experiences could find something in there that interests them.
I found that really interesting actually, how you tied in being a fangirl: That you don't exist in a vacuum and you do interact with sociocultural concepts like feminism. I found it interesting that you chose to tie them so closely together.
Being a fan is being a cultural critic. As much as it doesn't seem that way, sometimes it is. You don't live in a vacuum, we live in a society that conditions us to like certain things or to think about things in a certain way, and it's good to be educated when you start to watch or read things.
It's okay to like things that are problematic as long as you understand what makes them problematic…"
In that sense, I'm gonna turn it back to you. It's been about a year since Fangirl's Guide came out. Have you learned anything new about your own feminism and your own being a fangirl in the year that's passed? What has helped revitalize or helped change the way you practice your feminism?
It's a constant learning process, in part because we're always learning how to be better people. I think because the discourse is always developing and evolving, it's your responsibility in a certain sense to stay on top of that. In the year since that book came out–I really struggled when writing the book with this sense of imposter syndrome, of, you know, "Who am I to be an authority figure on this?" I know this stuff, but I don't want to feel like I'm speaking for other people. In writing the book, it was this process of being like, "No, your voice is important, you have important things to say, other people will benefit from it." Which was great in writing the book, but in the year since that book has come out, I've really–through my experiences, on social media and in that online space–I've learned when [this is ironic to say in an interview] to not speak. When it's not super important for my voice to be heard.
I think I've spent a lot of time this year listening to other marginalized voices or other people with different experiences than me and lifting up–I try as often as possible to lift up other voices because, you know, people of color don't need me to speak for them. They need to speak on their own experiences. Stuff like that. So I think that's been a really important lesson for me this year and one that I wish I had hit a little bit harder in the book actually. I don't think I touch on that overly much. It's super super important to know when to speak and when to listen.
Yeah, it's definitely a learning process. Some people learn it really early and some people learn it later in life, but we're all working to get there.
It's super super important to know when to speak and when to listen.
Related to that, what would be your advice to girls, like young women of color or girls whose life circumstances prevent them from pursuing things that they like? What would you say to girls interested in geeky pursuits who might not be able to access them?
I can't recommend libraries enough! Like talking about my next book, Wonder Women, libraries were super invaluable to me during that process. And they're getting so good [about it]. Libraries are expanding their graphic novel sections, which are really cool. They have free internet. They have big video libraries. And teen librarians–I've been to a couple [conventions], like ALA, over the last year for Fangirl's Guide, and they're so passionate about this kind of material and getting it to girls. If you go to your local library, there will be a librarian there who will be stoked to help you find anime or manga or a cool Batgirl [issue].
You did mention Wonder Women, which features 25 women who have changed history. I'm sure you had a hard time picking and choosing which women to feature. Were there one or two whose stories drew you in immediately?
It was obviously super hard to narrow this book down to 25 women! There were so many women through history who've contributed great things, who people never seem to mention. So for me, the narrowing down process–once you get into the research and you start discovering all these women, the ones that history has mostly written about have been straight white women. This is what happens.
So, it was important for me as I was writing the book to include a significant number of queer women and women of colour, and that helped me narrow down the list a lot. So, that's how I made those decisions. I think two of my favourite women in the book–it's so hard to pick favourites–I really liked Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi, who was the first Indian woman to ever get an education in Western medicine. She was actually the first Hindu woman to come to North America.
It was the late 1800s, and she was 19 years old. And women of her caste–women in India weren't really allowed to be educated. Her husband wrote to a Christian missionary newspaper and was like, "Listen, my wife really wants to come to America to be educated as a doctor, can you help me with this?" Cause he had seen that they had sponsored other people to go to America, and this Christian missionary magazine, instead of writing him back, published their response in their magazine. And they basically said, "We would love to help you, but you have to renounce Hinduism and become a Christian." And [Anandi and her husband] were like, "Well, we're not gonna do that."
In a dentist's office in New Jersey, a 30-year-old widow named Theodicia Carpenter was waiting for her appointment, picks up an issue of the Christian missionary magazine and sees this response in the back. She thinks to herself, "Well, that's not very Christian." So she reached out to the publisher, got Anandi's address in India, and sent her a letter. And the two of them became pen pals, best friends talking all the time about everything, and [Carpenter] was like, "Why don't you just come live here with me, and I'll help you to go to medical school?"
So at 19, this girl has nothing, leaves her husband behind in India, comes to live with her pen pal in America, and ends up being the first Indian woman with a medical degree from the Pennsylvania Women's Medical College. Sadly, she passed away from malaria after that. But it's such an amazing story. So her story is really great.
But every woman in the whole book–they were up against such extreme odds to do the things that they did…
But every woman in the whole book–they were up against such extreme odds to do the things that they did because, you know, you couldn't get a patent if you were a woman, because a patent is property and women couldn't own property. So that's gonna stop you from inventing things for a very long time. Black women often wouldn't file patents, because if it got out that the invention was by a black woman, then white women wouldn't buy it. So they would often file under a man's name or their white employer's name, so it's hard to discover how many black women were really inventors. For the longest time, there was no education; there was no availability of these things to become scientists and explorers. It was so difficult. The fact that so many women still managed to do things even when up against seemingly insurmountable odds is really incredible.
Switching tacks a little bit, at Fan Expo, you will be interviewing the cast of Carmilla.
[Carmilla] fills this space, this empty space in media, of women who love women that don't have tragic endings.
For sure! I started watching about midway through the first season, episode 17. I saw a bunch of those GIFs and I was like, "Wait I'm sorry, there's a story about queer girls who get to be like, flirty and romantic and not be like, dead right away?"
How did you discover the series initially?
Honestly, the same way you did, through GIFs and Tumblr. Cause like, the Tumblr community is so strong–Creampuffs are such a strong fandom that I was just seeing it all over social media and people talking about it, and I was like, "What is this?" And so, I was like, "Oh, I can watch it all on the internet for free?" So I watched the first episode and was like, "I know what I'm doing for the next eight hours of my life." I just sat there and marathoned the entire first season. So that was–it was the social media presence. Cause people are excited to have that representation, you know? So I think that's why you see it everywhere online.
Exactly, comparing it to like, the reaction to The 100 and Clexa, everyone was like, excited "oh my God," and then to have that kind of ending–Carmilla and Laura are nice; it's nice to have that alternative. It should be the rule instead of the exception.
Absolutely! So I'm really excited to chat with them about the third season of the show, which is premiering this fall. And to kind of find out what is next for the two of them.
This is a little bit spoiler-y, but what would you like to see play out in season 3?
The writers are so good at their jobs that I don't want to be like, "I want x, y, and z to happen!" But for me, my favorite parts of the show–I love the plot and the crazy stuff that happens to them–but the character moments are my favorite part of the show. Like, the supporting cast who are so amazing and who I feel deserve all the love; they're all just good distinct unique characters. I want so many of those little cute moments and glances that will end up being turned into photos and GIF sets. That's like my bread and butter, those cute character moments. So I'm hoping for a lot of that.
I totally get you. The cute little things that you don't notice when you're watching the episode the first time.
Right, like, "You're right, she does touch her shoulder there!"
So that's one exciting thing happening for you at Fan Expo–and I'm hearing we might be seeing a preview of season 3?
Yeah, I think so! And I've got some signings as well. I know we should have some Wonder Women posters and Fangirl's Guides, so I'll be there all weekend.
What are you looking forward to at Fan Expo?
There's so many good things happening! The Doctor Who stuff–the companions panel, like all the women from Doctor Who, I'm so stoked about that! These are so kickass–to see them all on a panel together is gonna be great.
Yeah, I'm sad Billie Piper couldn't be here.
Yeah, I saw her at Calgary Expo, and she was so delightful, so I'm sad she couldn't be here, too. But the rest of the gang is all coming, and I'm really excited Michelle Gomez is coming too!
Last question is rapid fire: What are some new geeky things that you're into? First off, books?
This is such a hard question, cause I'm reading like a million! This is not the rapid fire answer that you want, but I'll give it to you anyway: I'm on a female science-fiction kick right now, written by women and featuring female protagonists, and there are so many good ones. Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach, Lightless by C.A. Higgins–she's like a real physicist that wrote this book about this ship's engineer in space. Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman, space exploration. I just finished Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel, which was really good. Oh, and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, which was my favorite book of 2015, and the sequel A Closed and Common Orbit is coming out in October, so I'm rereading the first one right now, which is a great female-led story.
Any movies you're into?
I just saw Star Trek: Beyond, and I waited the whole movie for them to screw up Jaylah, the new kick-butt female character, and they didn't! She's amazing! She's nobody's love interest. She's never rescued. She's like a fully realized character.
And TV show?
Honestly, I'm rewatching Parks and Recreation, because that show is so positive and happy and feminist and intersectional and good, in so many ways. So, whenever I'm feeling down, it makes me feel better.


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THE campaign for a Yes vote in the independence referendum has hailed a new poll as representing "the tide beginning to turn" as it recorded a seven-point shift in opinion over the winter.
Ipsos MORI has recorded support for a Yes vote up from 30% to 34% since October, while backing for a No vote has gone down three points to 55%.
That is still a 21-point lead for those backing the Union, but a significant narrowing of the gap from 28 points in October.
One source in the Yes camp said: "This is only one poll, so we are not getting carried away. However, it underlines a trend that might indicate the tide is beginning to turn in our favour and it is certainly in line with the feedback we are receiving from our supporters and volunteers on the ground."
A significant finding in the poll for The Times was a surge in support for independence among those aged under 25. The survey did not include those aged 16 to 17, but among those aged 18 to 25 the number backing independence has risen from 27% to 58% since October. Even within the Yes camp there was some scepticism about the credibility of this figure, but overall there was a bullish confidence the trend is now moving their way.
Yes Scotland chief executive Blair Jenkins said: "With the referendum question now agreed, coupled with the full impact of the Westminster Government's welfare cuts becoming more apparent on a daily basis, we are confident people will choose the more positive, optimistic and fairer path that a Yes vote offers."
Better Together leader Alistair Darling said: "Being ahead in the polls is always better than being behind. However, there is no doubt the only poll that matters, and the poll we are absolutely focused on, is the one that will be taking place in autumn next year. We will do everything we can between now and then to win the arguments and win the votes of people in every part of Scotland."
A total of 1003 people in Scotland were polled, with Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon getting a higher approval rating than Mr Darling.
Ms Sturgeon, who is spearheading the campaign for independence, had a net approval rating of +17, with 50% of those surveyed satisfied with her performance compared to 33% who were dissatisfied.
Meanwhile, 33% of people said they were satisfied with the job former chancellor Mr Darling is doing as head of the Better Together campaign, with 32% dissatisfied – giving him a net approval rating of +1.
Ms Sturgeon's approval rating was also higher than the +7 scored by First Minister Alex Salmond, with 50% of voters happy with his performance in the role, but 43% unhappy.
While the proportion of Scots who are satisfied with Mr Salmond has remained at 50% or more for the last 18 months, his net satisfaction rating has fallen from +35 in December 2011.
Labour were celebrating a minor coup as leader Johann Lamont's approval rating, although based on a lower recognition factor, achieved +8.
Just 27% of Scots are satisfied with David Cameron's performance as Prime Minister, while 67% are dissatisfied, giving him an approval rating of -40.
The SNP came top in Holyrood voting intentions, with 43% of those polled saying they would vote for the Nationalists if there was a Scottish Parliament election tomorrow, compared to 35% for Labour, with the Tories and Liberal Democrats having the backing of 13% and 7% of those questioned respectively.
l Labour and the SNP are at loggerheads over the use of the word "separation" after it was banned from the title of a Westminster debate. Scottish Labour insisted it would not stop using the word, despite the ruling. But the SNP – who claim the term is pejorative – insisted a precedent had been set.
The Commons Scottish Affairs Committee uses "separation" in the title of its inquiries into the consequences of independence.
But the word has been barred from a debate due to be held in Westminster Hall. A Commons spokesman said the primary reason was that independence was hypothetical and ministers could not be expected to answer questions on potential scenarios.


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Man charged with killing woman; had prior domestic arrest
Memphis Crime Stoppers allows people to anonymously submit tips to crimes they may have witnessed. Here are several ways you can submit a tip to Crime Stoppers. Wochit
A man with a prior domestic violence arrest has been charged with murder following the fatal shooting of a woman early Monday in southeast Shelby County.
Corry Merriweather, 31, faces charges of first-degree murder and reckless endangerment in the death of 29-year-old Chandra Mays, Sheriff's department Asst. Chief Deputy Newt Schaeffer wrote in a statement.
Deputies were called to the 6000 block of Ragan Farms shortly after 2 a.m. on New Year's Day and found the victim shot to death, Schaeffer wrote.
According to the statement, the victim was visiting with Merriweather at his home when the shooting happened. The Sheriff's department is calling it a case of domestic violence.
The area is near the Mississippi state line.
Merriweather had been arrested on March 6, 2016, accused of hitting a different woman with a closed fist, according to an affidavit. He was charged with domestic assault, but the case was dismissed in February 2017, according to online records. It's not clear from the records why the case was dismissed.
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Whoever said flowers were out? Fresh-smelling blooms in eye-catching colors, especially when arranged in style, can definitely set the mood for love. The flower experts at Michi Calica Fresh Flowers are out to prove this as they go the extra mile to craft chic couture bouquets for the season of hearts.
Says fashion designer Michi Calica,"Over three years ago, my deep love affair with fresh flowers began. I discovered that arranging flowers was a truly uplifting experience. Couple inspiration with an excellent biz partner (her good friend Steph Camus), and business is literally blooming."
Choose from their different arrangements of fresh blooms that range from P1,000 to P7,500. Each arrangement is designed to match the recipient's personality (from sweet and dainty to fun and sassy) and the sender's message (devotion, admiration, love, and more).
Steph Camus gave SPOT.ph the lowdown on gifting your loved ones with flowers: "Know the recipient well. Is he or she traditional or adventurous? Is there a particular bloom that is significant in your relationship? What is his or her favorite flower? Timing is everything. A bouquet of red roses in the morning of Valentine's Day is good but gifting him or her three days before Valentine's Day with flowers and gifts make a more memorable Valentine."
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HARDIN COUNTY, IL (KFVS) - A dog was rescued on Tuesday by several people including a deputy and fire chief.
According to the Hardin Co. Sheriff's Office Facebook Page, around 4:15 p.m. on July 11, the Hardin County, Ill. Sheriff's Office received a 911 call.
According to the sheriff's office, the dog was caught in the current and drowning in the river near the Cave-In-Rock State Park.
When Deputy Donnie Vaughn arrived, the dog couldn't keep his head above water and was struggling to swim.
Deputy Vaughn jumped in and swam out and used his belt to bring the dog towards the shore.
Elizabethtown Fire Chief Michell Conkle dove in and helped the deputy to rescue the dog.
The 911 call was placed by a couple from Joliet, Ill. who were visiting.
Rick Swolley and Joyce Schneider-Swolley helped to rescue the dog named Bailey, and kept it in their sight until help could arrive.
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Kicking their way to the top: Philippine National Taekwondo Team gears up for World Championships
Ceej Tantengco on May 30, 2017 11:29 AM
Team Philippines at the 2016 Asian Taekwondo Championships. (Photo by Martin San Diego)
After bringing home 16 medals in the ASEAN Championships last April, the Philippine National Taekwondo team is suiting up for the season's first major challenge: the Taekwondo World Championships to be held in South Korea this June 24 to 30.
"With one month to go before the World Championships, I can say we're at 60 to 70 percent ready, and focused on winning this tournament," says Coach Dindo Simpao. "Kailangan pa naming kinisin 'yung skills nila, yung techniques, pero we're especially focusing on strength and conditioning."
Stronger for longer
From their usual sparring practice of three two-minute rounds, the Philippines' top jins have stepped up to five-minute periods to improve their breathing and stamina. Starting this week, they also begin practicing thrice a day for six days a week.
The team has also brought in a nutritionist as well as the services of Jay Futalan, the strength and conditioning specialist who helped train 2016 Olympic silver medalist Hidilyn Diaz.
Elaine Alora (right) and the victory that qualified her for the 2016 Olympics. (Photo by Martin San Diego)
Of course, the team has an Olympian of its own in 27-year-old Elaine Alora. "Sa laban ko [noong Rio Olympics], yung opponent ko was six-footer, parang basketball player," she shares. "My height was my disadvantage noon, kaya ang fino-focus ko ngayon is speed, stamina, at yung aggressiveness din."
"Most likely among Asians, stamina nagkukulang compared to European countries and Americans," observes Alora, who hails from Laguna. "Kaya ang team namin, doon nagfo-focus talaga."
Samuel "Butch" Morrison (right) at last year's Asian Taekwondo Qualifying Tournament for the 2016 Olympics. (Photo by Martin San Diego)
First step to 2020
Though the 2020 Tokyo Olympics may seem distant to the average Filipino, it certainly isn't for our national athletes. Every win and every medal is a step closer to sending the maximum number of qualified athletes and reaching the much-anticipated podium finish.
The World Championships in Muju is an incredible platform for any jin hoping to qualify for the 2020 Olympics. Gold medalists in each of the 16 weight categories win 120 ranking points, while silver winners will bring home 72 points and bronze medalists get 43.20.
The Philippine contingent celebrating Pauline Lopez' gold medal at the 2016 Asian Taekwondo Championship. (Photo by Martin San Diego)
The road ahead
The contingent will then head to the Korea Open in July, followed by the SEA Games in August. There, the Philippines will compete in both the kyorugi (sparring) and poomsae (forms) events.
Though Simpao acknowledges that the World Championships are an uphill climb, he's confident about the national team's chances in the SEA Games. After all, not only did they win big in the preseason ASEAN Championships—they did so while keeping their aces at home.
"We didn't send our full SEA Games lineup, but they were already beating their counterparts na sila 'yung ipapadala sa SEA Games," Simpao explains.
"I'm very excited," adds Simpao. "What keeps me going, what keeps me up is our dream of making it to the Olympics, of making it to the podium, of getting that gold medal. Ayokong sabihing elusive. We're pushing hard to get that."
Ceej Tantengco is a reporter and writer for S+A. Follow her on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.


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Whitehills Marina in the press
There's a great piece in this months' Yachting Monthly about legendary sailor Roger Taylor and his epic voyage last summer from Whitehills to Svalbard in the Arctic Circle. Featuring pics by our very own harbourmaster, Bertie. Well worth a read. Roger is one of our regular visitors and we look forward to seeing him again soon.
"It was my third trip from this delightful harbour, and so it was something of a homecoming"


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Having multiple form-up times Provi-Bloc decided to use one as a training exercise for newer members. There was a red structure deployed in JEIV-E and knowing that PAMFAM would be busy hitting a Fortizer that the owners no longer wanted the decision was made that while PAMFAM would be busy hitting the Fortizer it would be easier to take out the red structure. Caracals were formed to try and achieve the objective.
With Intel coming in that PAMFAM had deployed an Apostle with interceptor support and with bubbles the Caracal Fleet decided that the fight might be worth taking. When the Caracals landed in JEIV-E we docked up at a Fortizer first in order to get a good warp in on the Apostle we managed to do that although anchoring was a slight issue for the pilots. The FC kept taking us out of our missile's range, and as we started to put pressure on the Apostle a cyno went up, PAMFAM had bought a small carrier group of 4 to the fight. As they did we switched targets to the fighters and tried to defang the carriers however while doing so we took quite a few losses.
The support fleet were forced off grid and so were we one by one, the FC actually got headshot quite a few times, and the calls to reship were done multiple times as we were in disposable ships. Killing the Tech II fighters being deployed by the carriers meant our Killboard was heavily in the green in terms of ISK. Our initial objective wasn't successful as we didn't manage to reinforce the structure nor did we kill anything other than the deployed fighters, but the objective of having fun was met because there were people laughing and joking on comms about reshipping and going again.


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Split a field in an SQL table
By Ashwin on Wednesday 4 July 2007, 07:34 - MsSQL - Permalink
Many a times there are situations when you want to split a string in a field based on a separator like a comma(",") or maybe
Many a times there are situations when you want to split a string in a field based on a seperator like a comma(",") or maybe a semicolon(";"). Here's an SQL function which would allow you to do just that.
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[Split_with] (@sep varchar(max), @s varchar(max)) RETURNS @mytab table (rowid int,keys varchar(max)) AS BEGIN WITH Pieces(pn, start, stop) AS ( SELECT 1, 1, CAST(CHARINDEX(@sep, @s) AS INT) UNION ALL SELECT pn + 1, stop + 1, CAST(CHARINDEX(@sep, @s, stop + 1) AS INT) FROM Pieces WHERE stop > 0 ) INSERT @mytab SELECT pn, SUBSTRING(@s, start, CASE WHEN stop > 0 THEN stop-start ELSE 512 END) AS s FROM Pieces OPTION (MAXRECURSION 10000) RETURN END
To make the function work you need to call it like:-
SELECT * FROM Split_With(',',(SELECT {field} FROM {table} Term where {filter a single row} ))
Ofcourse the function will work on a single field at a time. All you need to do a recurse through the entire table using a cursor or a while loop.
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Eminem drops a new surprise album 'Kamikaze'.
Earlier today, Eminem revealed that he will feature on the soundtrack of upcoming Tomy Hardy starrer movie 'Venom' with a snippet and now out of nowhere, Eminem surprised everyone with a full-length album called 'Kamikaze'.
The album is executive produced by Dr. Dre and Slim Shady himself. The 13 track album features guest appearances from Joyner Lucas, Jessie Reyez, and Royce Da 5'9″. The album also features the song from Venom Soundtrack. Stream the full project below via Apple Music and Spotify.


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Dear Parents of EY 5th Graders-
The end of elementary school days is quickly coming to an end. It is a sad time for parents and our staff, but I know the kids are talking more about this and getting both nervous, and a little excited.
Some dates to mark on your calendars and talk to your children about:
May 26- 4th/5th Music Performance @ 2:30- it will be the last one (unless they are in band or choir, so I hope you can make it!)
June 2 – 5th graders travel to CVMS for a building tour
June 16 – 5th grade promotional ceremony (2:00 pm)
We will be putting together a small social gathering following the promotional ceremony. If you'd like to help out, please contact Sheri in the school office. Finally, if your child is getting really nervous about the transition to middle school, can you let Mr. Milner know and he will contact CVMS staff, or Ms. Wilson for some additional support.


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For some, the 770 hp found in the Dodge Hellcat isn't enough, it's just the beginning. Here's how to bolt an extra 100hp to a Hellcat, on pump gas without nitrous.
Owner Keith Turner wanted to keep his daily driven Hellcat on the safe side, so his choices of upgrades matched his personal preferences. The current setup makes an additional 100 hp on the safe side, but there are ways to save some dough. This resulting setup granted him 767 hp at 6,430 rpm and 682 ft-lbs of torque at 4,170 rpm at the wheels, and a goal of a 10.5 E.T. (1/4-mile). The project cost $6,050 in parts (not including wheels and tires).
A stock Hellcat runs 11.7 seconds at 126 mph in the 1/4-mile. That's in full street gear on a prepped track. Keith has taken his Hellcat almost a second faster, at 10.8 seconds best e.t., but expects to knock a few more tenths off that.
The project began by taking the Hellcat to Mass Acceleration Motorsports (MXA), in Denver, North Carolina, a late-model performance Mopar specialist.
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The Dodge Hellcat factory boost rating is 10.5-11 pounds. Metco Motorsports Solutions offers seven pulley options for up to an additional 10 pounds of boost. Innovators West also offers a new balancer, which adds 2 pounds with a stock pulley, but can be multiplied with Metco Motorsport's pulleys to offer even more combinations.
The pulley used on this project is a 2.85-inch pulley, which adds 3 to 3.5 pounds of boost and retails for $259.99. Add another $19.99 for the hex tool and $36.99 for the pin holding tool. According to Metco's owner, Rick Bejarano, this is the most popular pulley, as it's a basic bolt-on without any additional fueling.
"Less than half my customers actually need bigger injectors with the 2.85-inch pulley, but there's really no downside to upgrading other than expense." This particular pulley, according to Metco, will make an additional 60-90 hp with only the necessary PCM upgrade.
MXA also installed the Metco Idler Pulley kit, which retails for $259.99. It's not a necessity, but according to Rick, "it's a safety, durability and cosmetic upgrade." Metco creates an idler that increases grip for the belt. "With boost and that much power, when things go wrong, they go wrong in a hurry."
In order to install the new pulley, the blower snout must be removed first. Using a a vise to hold the assembly in place, MXA used the Pin Holding tool to grab the backside of the pulley, and then a large breaker bar with the Hex Tool inside the pulley and loosened the pulley (reverse threads).
The pulley is installed using six bolts onto a ring, so once you've installed the first one, you no longer need to pull off the snout when replacing it for another Metco pulley. Metco also offers a stock pulley. A replacement pulley-only of any other size is $139.99.
MXA also installed a set of Injector Dynamic 1340cc injectors, compared to the 600cc stock injectors. Rick said about half of the 2.85-inch pulley customers require additional fueling, but the next size up, 2.75, does recommend additional fueling.
"You can get away with stock injectors, but you start to push the limit. The injectors that are in there are a lot bigger and we have room to grow," said owner of MXA, George Adapoe, known as G.
Keith ordered a new PCM from DiabloSport for $629.95, but DiabloSport will also flash of your own PCM for $200.
MXA uses its own tuner, something you would need to buy to do this at home, or source a new shop. There's a map that will get you close to the proper tuning, but MXA used its in-house dyno for final tuning.
"We're looking at the fueling and timing about every 100 rpm. There are a lot of things in the fueling map that need to be tweaked," said G. "Basically, every car is different, from air filter to exhaust, so we try to shoot for anything between 11.5-11.8 air fuel ratio."
"My goal was to make a customer car that wouldn't break," said G. The additional safety work included a new thermostat to help cool the car more quickly now that the supercharger is working harder."
Out back, the team added Mopar Performance 3:09:1 differential assembly, along with a Per4Mance Development differential brace keeps wheel hop to a minimum.
A Driveshaft Shop one-piece aluminum driveshaft cuts down on rotating mass, but it's also a weak point on the Hellcat, especially when you add 17-inch drag radials. This Driveshaft Shop one-piece aluminum driveshaft is good for over 1,000 hp.
The baseline run made 656 hp at 6,000 rpm and 634 ft-lbs of torque at 4,000 rpm. The final tuning made 767 hp at 6,430 rpm and 682 ft-lbs of torque at 4,170 rpm to the wheels. That's a gain of 111 hp and 48 ft-lbs of torque. The power curve looks similar to stock, with a steady strong drive to redline. At the same peak rpm as stock, the engine now makes approximately 100 hp more. It only needs 400 more rpm for the additional 11 hp.
This is more than the estimate horsepower rating for the Metco pulley, "it shows that their tune is spot on," said Rick.
The high expense of the project was also in preparation for future upgrades. Keith has little drag racing experience, so as he progresses, so will the Dodge. They plan to add another 50-100 hp before next year. They're exploring the ideas of retuning for E85 or race gas and more boost.
Unlike the addition of nitrous, the torque curve is still strong, steady and manageable. In short, it's perfect for the track. "Everything's the same, like when boost comes in and same torque curve," said G. "If you were to throw nitrous at it, it becomes a totally different animal, epically with torque."
Parts List:
Modified PCM from Diablosport (Send it only $200, or complete PCM only $629.95)
Metco Hellcat supercharger pulley 2.85 – $259 – adds 3 to 3.5 pounds of boost
Metco Hellcat tensioner and Idler pulley kit – $259
Injector Dynamics 1340cc injectors – $1,800
Mishimoto 180-degree thermostat – $48
Brisk Silver Racing Spark Plugs – $11.25 each ($90.00)
Gates Green HD drive belt – $59.95 sale price ($127.78)
JLT Catch Can; $139.95 – PCV system factory emissions, oil mist, pulls oil out of intake
HP Tuners Software; HP Tuners VCM Suite MPVI Standard Package – $499
Driveline Strengthening
Per4Mance Development differential brace, $199.95
Driveshaft Shop 4in Aluminum Driveshaft – $997.49
Mopar 3.09 differential assembly – $999.95 (Highhores performance)
Street Setup
Mickey Thompson 305/35/20 ET SS Street Tires; $321.50 each ($643)
Factory Reproduction, Style 70 Black – $209.75 each ($419.50)
Drag Setup
Mickey Thompson 305/35/17 ET Street R Drag Radials – $207.50 each ($415)
Race Star Industries 17 x 10.5 Recluse Black Chrome $447.95 each ($895.90)


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|The seven-week point of the tour is the point where you've been on tour too long. It's the point when people are liable to snap at any moment. It's the point where conversations like this happen with the lady behind the counter at the hotel:
Me: I'd like to check out of room 710.
And she was right, my ear was bleeding. I dabbed at it and it was wet with blood — not just like a speck of blood, but a full-on pool of blood, like I'd been shot in the side of the head but didn't notice. Without a mirror in front of me I just used the front desk staff's reactions to gage the severity of the situation, and they all looked pretty horrified. I started thinking "when could someone have shot me in the head? I hardly even felt it…"
Anyway, it was probably a shaving accident and Adam had a styptic pencil in his bottomless dop kit, which is good because we went to a radio station in Austin right after that, and at the seven-week point of the tour you don't need a D.J. asking you if your ear is bleeding on the air. Or how you got the name Guster.
Anyway here are some highlights from Texas:
HOUSTON: I steered clear of the Jack-In-The-Box and had an okay time for once in Houston, thanks to a beer-drinking Cat and a beer-drinking bird. A guy named Jeff actually got kicked out of the show for throwing a ping-pong ball at the band during Airport Song. He was the only one who chucked one at us. He was screaming "It's a tradition!!" and flailing his arms as the security dragged him out in a headlock. Or something.
|DALLAS: Hands down the best show we've ever had in Texas. Yay.
AUSTIN: The show hasn't happened yet, but Ryan's adorable seven-year old cousin just soundchecked Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with us on a tiny little violin, and it's gonna be Gold. It *has* to work… the only thing better would be if we could train a puppy or a kitten or a dead bird to play violin on stage.
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The Bank of England says there has been a dip in the housing market activity after the Brexit referendum result - but transactions have so far proved to be "resilient" and stronger than some expectations.
In a broad-ranging report on the economy since June 23 - the first of the Bank's monthly surveys since the Brexit decision - little evidence was found that investment decisions and wider economic activity had slowed.
"There had been little evidence of any impact on consumer spending on services and non-durable goods, although there were some reports of consumers becoming more hesitant around purchases of higher-value goods."
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Marché International des Professionnels de l'Immobilier
AKA … MiPiM
HARINGEY Council Cabinet Members have attended the big MiPiM property fair in Cannes in March, in each of the past three years, including March 2016:
• 2014 Cllr. Strickland (& officers)
• 2015 Cllrs. Strickland & Kober (& officers)
• 2016 Cllrs. Strickland & Kober (& officers)
Those Councillors' attendances were partly-funded by tax-payers and partly-funded by property developers. Here is a sampling of press coverage about MiPiM (not necessarily in date order):
Global Guardians MIPIM Cannes was a great success!
Inside Croydon 'Flat-broke' councils all set for MIPIM's champagne reception
Surrey Comet Kingston Council to spend £4k sending leader to property conference in French Riviera
Your Local Guardian Wandsworth Council leader Ravi Govindia's trip to Cannes paid for by developers
The Guardian Mipim property fair only benefits the rich
The Guardian Anger at Cannes property fair where councils rub shoulders with oligarchs
The Guardian At yacht parties in Cannes, councils have been selling our homes from under us
Express Tycoons, hookers and our council fatcats party in Cannes
VICE Sex and the City: Welcome to MIPIM, the World's Biggest Property Fair
Estate Agent Today Property men hiring prostitutes is a "reputational issue" for industry - claim
Daily Mail This beats work! Councils' jolly in Cannes with sun, sea and booze as they talk property deals on Riviera
There is no suggestion that any of the Borough's representatives availed themselves of the services of the world's oldest profession. However, one could view the spectacle of several of Britain's larger Councils travelling to Cannes – in order to hawk their land and buildings – as a form of prostitution.
Haringey Councillor
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UPDATE on MiPiM:
BBC Radio 4's PM programme this evening has an item on MiPiM networking, plus the sleaze: sexism, drunken parties and prostitution.
MiPiM 2018 is in just two week's time—and is the first year in five in which New Labour-run Haringey Council reps. won't be jetting off too.
Thanks again for your work on this, Clive.
It's very useful to know where our so-called leaders have been spending some of their time and some of our money. Hopefully the persistence of this information on the internet will follow them round in future like the ancient mariner's albatross.
It's also worth saying that a Freedom of Information request disclosed that the commercial contacts made at MIPIM in Cannes were the same companies Haringey could and did meet in London. In other words their journeys were almost certainly unnecessary.
None of the Haringey councillors going to MIPIM will be standing as Labour candidates on 3 May. And while their support for the Haringey Demolition Vileness (HDV) is almost certainly the main factor, I'd hope that at least some Labour Party members were unhappy about the widely reported meetings with property developers and lobbyists at the MIPIM "jollies".
Linking visits to MIPIM with published media reports helps us to judge the whole event. Though the radio programme names no names and identifies no companies or local councils. Also, people interviewed made it clear that the sleaze was very much a minority aspect. Apart from some brief mention of local prostitutes possibly attending external events, most criticism was wrapped up in generalised polite terms. These included "shindig on the Med"; "inappropriate behaviour"; and "boys on tour".
There was strong criticism by some women participants who said that they'd felt uncomfortable at MIPIM. Referring to unacceptable behaviour as "an elephant in the room".
The item is just over five minutes long. 51.20- 56.30 (Move the slider bar). The BBC now asks you for free, one-time registration.
I've extracted the snippet and put it on youtube for ease of reference. I note Alan's caution about how much to infer from this of Haringey delegates' behaviour at the event.. Still , councillors should not be travelling abroad to a 'shindig' when they would assiduously courted by the monied developers whilst remaining in Wood Green. And while we're at it, the Labour whip should never have been employed by a PR company acting on behalf of those monied developers.
TO illustrate what Haringey Council reps are missing out on (for the first time in five years), Inside Croydon has an update. According to Inside Croydon, that Council's housing developer Brick by Brick
At some point between now and 3 May people will be getting leaflets from Council candidates. You may even have someone knock at the door and ask your voting intentions. It might even be one of the candidates in person.
So here's a suggestion.
Like me, you may take the view that councillors and senior staff should not be wining and dining in private meetings with developers - often paid for by those developers. Whether in Cannes or in posh London restaurants. So please ask Council candidates if they have in the past accepted or will in future be accepting these developer freebies. If you get a 'Yes', then please express your disapproval. Depending on how strongly you hold this view you may even wish to inform the candidate that you will not be voting for them.
I heard that one of the freeloaders did a happy little dance when they were reselected as a candidate.
Once every four years we all have a tiny teaspoon of power.
I SEE that one Cabinet Member Councillor (part of the inner cabal but not standing again) continues to be hungry and quite recently too.
Such troughing and sluicing is much the New Labour way and was seen most often in relation to the HDV (q.v.) where Terrapin Communications (PR/Lobbyist) fêted New Labour Cabinet Members on 13 occasions.
£50 (fifty pounds) is a nice round number and it could be regarded as a conservative estimate of a Declared Value for a slap-up dinner. The dinner was on 12th February and it is difficult how the meal could have been disposed off, other than hospitality described as "Retained".
It's noted by Tottenham resident Mr. Martin Ball, HERE
If you are blocked for disagreeing with Mr Peter Bingle and can't view his tweet, it's below.
For this thread I've added a black border. Not of course referring to Mr Bingle, who I'm sure will be entertaining people with his comical views for many years.
But in the hope that when even leading lobbyists express disgust about MIPIM it may signal the coming demise of this whole expensive, sleazy and undemocratic system of doing deals with public land at secret unaccountable meetings.
I posted this reply:
In a post-HDV world I'm surprised & disappointed to see lobbyists like @PeterBingle & publicly funded top staff like @HomesNickW were attending @MIPIMWorld.
Had they never noticed or heard about recently publicised appalling behaviour?
Maybe wiser to cut this link in future?
#HDV is the Twitter tag for Haringey Development Vehicle.
@HomesNickW is the Twitter account of Nick Walkley the former Chief Executive of Barnet and now the Chief Executive of Homes England.
In between he was also Chief Executive of Haringey Council. (I voted against his appointment.)
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* U.S. election outcome adding to uncertainty
* Banks still fearful of fresh fines (Writes through with comment, detail, background)
By Kylie MacLellan and Jonathan Saul
LONDON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Trade between Britain and Iran is beginning to grow but the reluctance of large Western lenders is holding back a major expansion of ties and needs to be resolved, government and finance officials said on Wednesday.
Since the removal of international banking restrictions in January, Tehran has secured links with only a limited number of smaller banks as U.S. sanctions remain in force and large foreign institutions still fear potential fines.
Banks remain nervous after U.S. penalties including a $9 billion fine on France's BNP Paribas in 2014, partly for violating financial sanctions imposed in 2012 to pressure Iran to abandon its nuclear programme.
Major global lenders like HSBC have reiterated they have no intention of doing any new business involving Iran, questioning why the United States is encouraging them to do so when U.S. financial firms are restricted.
British trade minister Liam Fox said on Wednesday that Anglo-Iranian relations had improved since Britain reopened its Tehran embassy last year and it would work to expand bilateral trade following the vote to leave the European Union.
"Slowly but with increasing enthusiasm, British companies are starting to do business with Iran again ... We are seeing the first signs of growing trade between the UK and Iran," Fox told a City and Financial Global conference in London.
"The banking sector's ongoing concerns about facilitating payments or providing financial services means that the benefits of sanctions relief are not yet being fully realised. Resolving these problems remains a priority for this government."
Norman Lamont, Britain's trade envoy to Iran and a former British finance minister, said the deadlock over progress on banking access to Iran was "profoundly unsatisfactory".
"This is an embarrassing situation ... these difficulties only strengthen the critics of (Iranian) President (Hassan) Rouhani," he told the event.
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has tried to promote deeper international trade for Iran while still limiting U.S. business engagement due to sanctions that bar U.S. banks from doing business with Iran and prevent transactions with Iran in dollars being processed through the U.S. financial system.
Fox said the government was working with the banking sector to find a solution for Iranian payments, and that Britain was well-placed to help private Iranian banks modernise.
Giles Thomson, deputy director of sanctions and illicit finance at Britain's finance ministry, said while some progress had been made "it is something that is going to take time to really work through and for the full benefits to be realised".
Iran's ambassador to Britain, Hamid Baeidinejad, said the banking problems were "highly troublesome" for Iran, adding that the United States was "disappointed".
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has spent months trying to encourage non-U.S. banks and companies to boost trade, although he has acknowledged the complications.
Last month the Obama administration updated its guidance that non-U.S. banks can do dollar trades with Iran, provided those transactions don't pass through financial institutions in the United States.
Justine Walker, director of financial crime with the British Bankers' Association (BBA), which represents the industry, said primary U.S. sanctions still in place could not be ignored.
"For any of the global banks, they do have a very strong U.S. presence and that is something that they need to get comfortable with in how they insulate their U.S. exposure and that is taking time and involving changing lots of policies," she told Reuters.
Walker said banks were also watching for the outcome of next week's U.S. presidential election.
Investors are rethinking long-held bets of a Nov. 8 victory for Democrat Hillary Clinton on signs that her Republican rival Donald Trump could be closing the gap. Trump has said he would tear up the nuclear deal reached with Iran.
"What we will see is gradual movements (by banks into Iran)," the BBA's Walker said. "Unless the U.S. lifts primary sanctions, there is not going to be a set day ... banks will get to that stage at different times."
Trade sources say many global banks are also trying to win more work in Saudi Arabia as it tries to diversify the economy and wean itself off oil. A perception of being too close to Iran could hamper banks' prospects in Saudi, given hostile relations.
In June FATF, a global group of government anti-money-laundering agencies, decided to keep Iran on its blacklist of high-risk countries.
FATF welcomed Iranian promises and called for a one-year suspension of some restrictions, but this did little to ease the banks' fears.
Iran's politically powerful elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) which has extensive business interests, including through front companies, remains sanctioned, posing more compliance worries for banks and companies.
Charles Blackmore, chief executive of advisory firm Audere International, said the IRGC represented a "shadow economy".
"You have got to look at the transparency of local ownership of companies, you have to identify beneficial ownership. You will get penalised very, very hard if you get this wrong," Blackmore told the conference.
Fox said that while this was an opportunity to put UK-Iranian relations on a new footing, the government was also "deeply concerned" about Iran's record on human rights and a number of British-Iranian dual nationals detained there.
The British government is prioritising opportunities for exporters in sectors such as retail, healthcare, water, advanced manufacturing, mining, airports and aviation, Fox said, and will send a mining sector delegation to Tehran in December.
"Iran does remain, however, a challenging place to do business, and needs to do more to meet international banking standards and instigate reform if it is to enjoy a post-sanctions dividend," he said. (Editing by Hugh Lawson/Ruth Pitchford)


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University of Bridgeport
Assistant - Associate Director of Athletics for Compliance
The University of Bridgeport invites applicants for the role of Assistant - Associate Director of Athletics for Compliance. This position serves in a leadership capacity within the Athletics Department and works in conjunction with the Vice President of Admission & Athletics to provide oversight of the day-to-day operation and strategic leadership and vision to the Department.
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Michael Lewis
Kahneman and Tversky: The Birth and Life of Behavioural Economics
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of Holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy.
Drawing on his latest book, The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World, in this event business journalist and best-selling author Michael Lewis will tell the extraordinary story of a relationship that became a shared mind: one which created the field of behavioural economics, revolutionising everything from Big Data to medicine, from how we are governed to how we spend, from high finance to football. Kahneman and Tversky, Lewis shows, helped shape the world in which we now live – and may well have changed, for good, humankind's view of its own mind.
Tim Harford in the Financial Times described The Undoing Project as 'vivid, original and hard to forget'. Malcolm Gladwell said: 'It's good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like'.
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Hoof Canker
A hoof canker is believed to be caused by a micro-organism, possibly the Fusobacterium necrophorum, which is known to be involved in foot rot in sheep.
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Your horse may have hoof canker. Veterinarian David Wilson, professor of large animal surgery at the University of Saskatchewan, has published several research articles and a couple of book chapters on this topic. Sometimes, he says, canker is mistaken for thrush, but these two diseases actually work in opposite ways. Thrush causes a loss of tissue in the frog; canker causes an overgrowth of tissue. The canker itself doesn't hurt, but the overgrown tissue is soft and doesn't protect the deeper parts of the horse's hoof, so the animal often becomes lame when the tissue is punctured by a stick or stone.
Historically, according to Wilson, this condition was seen most often in the hind feet of draft horses, probably because many of them were kept in tie stalls with their feet in wet bedding most of the day. Today, canker is seen in all breeds, although Wilson adds that it can be particularly challenging to treat in draft horses because of their very large hooves. While it occurs across North America, it is most common in the southeast US. When Wilson worked in Florida, he saw a couple of cases a month; now in Saskatoon, he sees a couple of cases a year.
Cause & Prevention
Canker is believed to be caused by a micro-organism, possibly the Fusobacterium necrophorum, which is known to be involved in foot rot in sheep. "The lesions of hoof canker are very similar to the foot rot lesions in sheep," says Wilson, "and I suspect one day we may be able to confirm the micro-organism, but we are not there as yet." He explains that when the horse's hooves are wet for an extended period of time, the keratin in the foot structure softens, making it easier for bacteria to enter. Recent flooding in southeast Saskatchewan, for example, led to some cases Wilson treated.
As the bacteria found in hoof canker cases lives in the soil, the best way to prevent the condition is to keep the hoof clean and dry. "Daily picking out of the horse's hooves will likely prevent the condition from developing, and this may be especially important for horses in wetter environments," says Wilson. The other benefit of regular cleaning of the horse's hooves is that if canker does develop, you'll be able to spot it early, making the treatment much simpler and more likely to be successful.
The treatment for hoof canker has improved dramatically over the past 30 years. In the early 1980s, veterinarians would aggressively debride (surgically remove dead tissue from) the affected hooves, often severely compromising the hoof in the process of curing the disease. Today, debridement is still part of the treatment, but it is done much more judiciously so that all abnormal tissue is removed, but as much of the germinal epithelium as possible is retained. Wilson carries this out with the horse under general anaesthetic and using a tourniquet to prevent bleeding. Some veterinarians use a regional anaesthetic and do the debridement with the horse standing. At least one veterinarian is using cryosurgery to freeze and remove the affected tissues. The hoof is then treated with a topical antibiotic, usually metronidazole.
Long-term success
"The most important consideration to both short- and longterm success is the ability to maintain a clean and relatively dry hoof environment after the debridement," says Wilson. "That means long-term bandaging and effective use of shoes with hospital plates." This phase of treatment lasts at least a month, and in some cases, two or three months. Canker doesn't appear to be contagious, so there is no need to isolate the horse, but the treatment program usually requires that the animal being treated is kept separate anyway.
Although a hoof infected with canker can look quite alarming at first, if deeper tissues haven't become involved and there is no damage to other parts of the foot, the horse has an excellent chance of being able to go back to his regular activities. And it's highly unlikely that the problem will return: Wilson says he has never seen a case of canker recur in a horse that has been successfully treated.
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A novel scheme for the generation of background-free pulsed microwave signals is proposed and experimentally demonstrated based on spectral shaping, frequency-to-time mapping, and balanced photodetection. In the proposed scheme, the optical spectral shaper, which consists of a differential group delay (DGD) element, two polarization controllers, and a polarization beam splitter, has two outputs with complementary power transfer functions. By passing a short optical pulse through the spectral shaper and a dispersive element (DE), a pulsed microwave signal is obtained after balanced photodetection. Thanks to the balanced photodetection, the low-frequency components (i.e., the background signal) in the electrical spectrum is suppressed, leading to the generation of a background-free pulsed microwave signal. Meanwhile, the spectral power of the obtained microwave signal is enhanced compared to that obtained by single-end detection. Experimental results for the generation of a pulsed microwave signal centered at 12.46 GHz show that the background signal can be suppressed by more than 30 dB, and the spectral power is increased by 5.5 dB. In addition, the central frequency of the obtained background-free pulsed microwave signal can be tuned by changing the DGD introduced by the DGD element, and/or by changing the dispersion of the DE.
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Designed for theatre students seeking an intensive, practical approach to performance, this program lets you immerse yourself in a conservatory-style acting program. All courses are required and are taught at The National Theatre School of Ireland (Gaiety School of Acting) and IES Abroad.
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Important note: A core value espoused by The National Theatre School of Ireland-Gaiety School of Acting is ensemble. This program is physically and emotionally demanding and all students participate fully in all aspects of the training process. In order to participate in this program, you must turn in a letter of recommendation from a theatre instructor (or equivalent) with your application. You also should have taken at least one university level acting course.
You earn 6 credits total. First you complete a 2-week theatre workshop. Then you begin the 4-week summer NTSI-GSA program.
Worth 2 credits:
- TH394 Theatre Workshop (syllabus below)
- Aims to provide an understanding of theatre production within the context of contemporary theatre-making in a European dramatic tradition.
- Theatre Visits: Students will attend a number of theatre performances during their program. These are included in the program fee.
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- Acting
- Aims to root a strong personal technique in an organic, intelligent, and imaginative engagement with text and process. Focuses primarily on the areas of rehearsal and performance, with reference to the actor's honest connection and performative proficiency amid the differing technical demands of various styles and genres.
- Total class contact time: 60 hours over 4 weeks
- Encompasses instruction and rehearsal sessions – all practical, covering works of Samuel Beckett, John Millington Synge, Brian Friel and Sean O'Casey as well as touching on other Irish writers where relevant such as Martin McDonagh, Marina Carr, Billy Roche, WB Yeats.
- Voice
- Aims to develop an intellectual and bodied understanding of the vocal instrument, cultivating tension-free support, control, articulation, resonance, range, and variation of tone - as well as unblocked access to the emotional apparatus. Begins with an assessment of posture, techniques and exercises, and draws from theorists like Linklater, Rodenburg, and McCallion. The voice is used to explore play texts, political speeches, and poetry.
- Total class contact time: 6-8 hours over 4 weeks
- Covers accent and vocal requirements of all works dealt with in practical sessions.
- Irish Writers Seminar
- Total class contact time: 8-10 hours over 4 weeks
- Covers historical and sociopolitical contexts of works dealt with in practical acting sessions in seminar/discussion class formats. Authors discussed are primarily Beckett, Friel, O'Casey, Synge, Yeats, and McDonagh.
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- Final session of the course – 1 hour (approximately) duration presenting a selection of ensemble scenes rehearsed during the four week program.
Field Trips & Events
IES Abroad Dublin organizes a number of field trips as an integral part of its opportunities for cultural immersion in Ireland. These trips explore areas of significant regional interest and are led by people who contextualize what you are witnessing and experiencing. These field trips are partially subsidized by IES Abroad. Possible destinations include:
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Visit an open farm where you will have the chance to try Irish dancing, bake traditional Irish bread, learn to play an Irish drum called the bodhrán, and jump in a bog.
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IES Abroad Dublin organizes course-related trips that complement what you're learning in the classroom, and contribute to your general knowledge of Irish culture and society. These trips include walking tours of Dublin's significant architectural, literary, and political markers.
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The program begins with an orientation that introduces you to the IES Abroad Dublin staff, your fellow students, and the city of Dublin.
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The Journals Of Anais Nin
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Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music, a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine. In the interior monologue there is no punctuation. James Joyce was right. It flows like a river." — The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. TwoI loved Anais Nin's first diary and I enjoyed this one too. Yes, she's extremely self-absorbed and it does get a bit trying reading about how great people say she is but one can't help but admire her for how unapologetic she is, and also for the unique way in which she views life. Her writing is like nothing I have never read before- it's beautiful, thoughtful and poetic. She truly makes diary-writing an art form.In this diary, Ms. Nin is a little restless: should she stay in Louveciennes or should she go to New York? She ends up going to New York where she becomes a psychoanalyst, a point that I found very surprising as she didn't have any training as such. The part when she was in New York seemed a bit surreal- I can't imagine Anais Nin at Madison Square Garden watching a hockey game!The diary was written prior to World War Two so this diary therefore has several political mentions in it:"A war is going on which people doubt will become a real war. It may be a mock war to satisfy those who clamoured for it. We are being deceived, and what is happening is a mystery. Scant news."The diary was full of Nin's interesting observations. Like Proust, Nin also wrote about memory:"Some portions of my life were lived as if under ether, and many others under a complete eclipse. Some of them cleared up later, that is, the fog lifted, the events became clear, nearer, more intense, and remained as unearthed for good. Why did some of them come to life, and others not? Why did some remain flavourless, and others recover a new flavour and meaning?"Overall, I felt more sadness surrounding Nin in this volume. She seemed to have given so much of herself to people around her, and you could tell that the news of the war took a lot out of her.Looking forward to Volume Three.


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Blowing the Bridge: A Software Story
Peter Bolton
intercourse, medicinal drugs, rock'n'roll...we're speaking a few hedonistic track pageant, correct? Nope, no longer in keeping with the narrator of this story. as a substitute, we are speaking approximately an IT division, within the absurd (yet slightly epic) tale a few software program undertaking that used to be doomed to be triumphant. Exposing a few of the extra ridiculous points of company the USA and the insane characters who hang-out its halls, Blowing the Bridge supplies the reader a prying peep behind the scenes, at a few of the extra comical facets of operating with the extra colourful personalities in expertise. Bitterly humorous all through, it additionally painstakingly recounts the fight of a small group made up our minds to navigate a course in the direction of construction anything of excellence, regardless of a mine box of bureaucratic stupidity and the occasional mortar around of tempting prostitutes.
paintings week, after all) that might educate this considered necessary knowledge. (For the main half, any coder worthy his/her weight is an autodidact at middle; additionally, they comprehend the final worthlessness of bought sessions taught via company instruction.) After a number of days, it turned noticeable that those applicants had extra feeling invested in a short lived bowel circulate than within the career which fed on nearly half the hours in their life. I pressed my operator pedal with a view to speed up the belt.
He used to be a guy in his later years, his common discourse published that he had held onto the 12 months 1979 up to he had progressively published his grip on sanity. You couldn't blame him for the slack grip, notwithstanding: it seemed that he had killed a couple of too many mind cells in a number of escapades over decades. For a few cause, he jogged my memory of Ted. Me: "So, you don't have any challenge with operating a section extra the following and there? Like an additional hour on a daily basis in the course of a crunch period?" Mad Hatter: "Nah, man. I'm.
heritage of either Bobby and me, the myths surrounding Ted, and diverse different legends contained in the company. I defined that this actual venture had a name for being cursed, that a few humans believed that this venture could by no means be completed. "Man," Tyrone acknowledged, "I ask yourself what occurred these different times." In reaction, I acknowledged that I couldn't communicate for many of these different times...but i'll inform him what had occurred final time. "You have been there?" Bobby and that i glanced at one another and.
No guffawing matter.) the rest of my workforce struggled to profit Java and the outdated approach whereas we prepared ourselves...but we couldn't make it paintings speedy enough. As any clueless go well with does, Gerry employed consultants...who then mimicked the instructor and the dropout, procuring and ingesting in the course of paintings hours. because the time limit approached and our death was once coming near near, Gerry and the dropout walked out the door, the trainer transferred to a protecting feminist boss, and the remainder of us dispersed all through.
Stupidity...and, regrettably, we nonetheless needed to take care of Tony. although, for these few months which the hot system's release, we have been extra apt to disregard that part. We have been all basking within the afterglow of our good fortune (especially Tony, together with his great ivory smiles) while the inside track of surprising shifts began occurring in the company. at the beginning, it was once just a couple of mid-level managers who moved among departments...but just like the preliminary spattering of raindrops ahead of a typhoon, they have been.


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Bête Blanche ... or "White Animal" ... is often the name that seemingly should be given to some mythical creature. Or perhaps an albino animal. Elysian Brewing Company gave that name to its Belgian Tripel. The Washington-State craft brewer produces this beer as its spring seasonal, giving the impression of a beer used to awaken a beast long lulled into slumber by the winter ales and strong ales that are so prevalent during the cold, winter months.
I have previously reviewed another one of Elysian Brewing's seasonal beers, its Night Owl Pumpkin Ale. While perusing the craft beer selection at a local store with my dad, we decided to buy a bottle of the Bête Blanche to give it a try. Given we both like Belgian tripel beers, and have tried many a tripel, we had some high expectations for this beer.
Elysian Brewering Company uses pale malts, along with German Northern Brewer hops for bittering and Styrgian hops for aroma. As with any tripel, the brewer uses Belgian candy sugar in the boil and Belgian ale yeast.
The Bête Blanche pours a hazy, cloudy yellowish-gold color, clearly what one expects with a tripel. The aromatic elements include a little banana, candy sugar, and a hint of sweetness on the nose. There is some spice, like coriander, also in the aroma. As for taste, this beer follows the traditional Belgian tripel mold ... banana and clove. The finish is a bit dry, with a bitterness from the hops and a little pepper.
The ABV for the Bête Blanche is 7.5% and the IBU is 41. As a seasonal, this beer is available only in the spring. The beer is available at beer stores with large craft beer selections.


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Mandalay, Myanmar
Built along side the Ayeyarwady River, Mandalay combines Myanmar's royal history and the preservation of spiritual traditions. The royal heritage can be found at the Golden Palace Monastery with its exquisite wood carvings. The spiritual heart is enshrined at Mahamuni pagoda, housing the most venerated Buddha statue in Mandalay.
The large seated image is so greatly revered that layer upon layer of gold leaf, placed as a mark of homage by a ceaseless flow of worshippers, have distorted the true shape of the statue. Only the highly polished face, gazing serenely is untouched.
With its wood-carving, stone sculpting, gold-leaf-making and cheroot rolling, Mandalay comes across as a kind of huge oriental bazaar. The shopping hub of upper Myanmar, this is where the colourful hill tribes come together and mingle with the townspeople.
The nearby Sagaing Hill provides stunning panoramic views. The pagoda-studded hill at Sagaing ranks as one of the most imposing sights in the whole of Myanmar, with the view also taking in the Ayeyarwady River itself - a reminder of how the river serves as the very lifeline connecting all the major sights Myanmar has to offer.
General information
Cruise Season – Jan - Dec
Currency - Kyat (MMK)
Language – Burmese
Electricity – 2 vertical Square pins and one perpendicular below British style
Time - GMT plus six and a half hours
International Country Telephone Code +95
Transport Links – The usual way to get into Myanmar would be to fly into Yangon from either Bangkok or Singapore, both which have good connections from around the world and have several flights into Yangon daily.


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I have to agree with Natalia Nowak's analysis here. iPhone X is sized more like iPhone 6, iPhone 7, and iPhone 8, not like the Plus models which have a slightly smaller screen.
iPhone X starts at $999 and because the screen has more pixels and is longer than the iPhone 8 Plus screen– 5.8-inches vs. 5.5-inches– we think we're getting more screen and advanced technology for a couple of hundred dollars more.
That's the sneaky part. You don't get more screen than a Plus. You get less.
What about next year? Now you'll see how sneaky Apple is about price. Assume that iPhone X circa 2018 starts at $999 again. What will the price be on the larger 6-ish-inch screen iPhone X Plus model? It's likely to start at least $100 more than iPhone X in 2017, so $1,099.
Next year we'll see iPhone X Plus and it will cost even more.