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It is a big day for Haley Roneese, my 2nd daughter. It is her 4th month today and we are so grateful. I posted updated pictures of her in my FB account.
What can I say? As a Mom, I've been so amazed how fast they grow up. It wasn't too long ago when I was still carrying Ate Keanna in my arms and now it is her who's very eager to carry her sister. They are so fond of each other. As one of Roey's (baby's nickname) milestones, she squeals at the sight of her Dad or her big sister Keanna. She would smile and laugh whenever Keanna starts to point to her nose or touch her cheeks. It is so overwhelming to watch them having fun. I really thank GOD for so many blessings, most importantly, for having Roey and K. The photo insert is me with Roey and it was Keanna who took the shot.
The second reason why I'd like to send my double thanks is that Ate K won 1st place in their declamation contest yesterday. The winners were announced, we've heard their names, Keanna not included. I was saddened but in question, honestly. I found myself already thinking of the right way on how will I approach either the judges or announcer just to inquire why Keanna didn't win. She delivered her piece with mastery which is 30% of the criteria. Her classmate did well too but somehow made a mistake in his delivery. That same mistake happened with Keanna too, last year. She didn't win that time, didn't make it even just a 3rd placer. Good thing, Mr. Antonio Go which is one of the judges noticed the mistake (he's really keen about it as we all know - he's the man behind the fight against error filled books) and stood up, said something and Mr. Dizon went on ahead and announced that Keanna won 1st place too. Having heard her name was announced, Keanna delightfully approached me and we walked up to the stage. I'm so proud of her and really thankful that the award brought back her confidence. This was her 1st award in declamation since Grade school. She never failed getting an award though in the same field when it was her Kinder and Preparatory years. For once, I thought I'll accompany a sobbing princess, haha! I have a video of Keanna delivering her piece and took pictures of her classmates too. Congrats my sweetie, keep up the good work!
With all these, I have not but just double TYs... I have EVERYTHING to thank for. To HIM be the glory! What wonderful it is to be a MOM!

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NBC News is reporting that Solicitor General Elena Kagan is Obama's nominee to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens.
UPDATE: I'm looking forward to seeing how Obama will describe Kagan as the best person for the job. Tom Goldstein at SCOTUSBlog has a lengthy discussion on what to expect after tomorrow's formal announcement at 11am. My immediate thought is that if we thought Sotomayor perfected the post-Bork robo-nominee act last summer, we've got another thing coming. I'm bracing myself for full-fledged opacity coming from her side of the hearing room as the senators continue more of the same old charade from the last two decades. It didn't have to be this way, and I hope Kagan will surprise us, but it seems as though Obama chose to continue following this bit of script in exchange for departing from the de facto federal appellate judge resume requirement.


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Apple's habitat is changing. From engineers working on a pet project to employee discounts, Apple employees are seeing a change from the more austere regime under founder and late chief executive Steve Jobs.
The pet projects, the discounts and now highlighting stock grants by dollar amounts are now making Apple more attractive in recruiting in an ever perk-driven Silicon Valley, according to the Wall Street Journal. But Apple remained perk-less until relatively recently because Jobs and others believed "the opportunity to work at the company and on its popular products compelled people to stay."
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Perhaps that's true, because Apple employees tend to be true believers. They would have to be to ignore the other perks -- like free lunches, massages and the like from other tech companies. It was actually likened to being part of the military.
However, under new chief executive Tim Cook, things seem to be changing. Cook lavishly praises employees at media events, he's introduced corporate benefits, a charitable matching program, sabbaticals and flexibility. The reason? Retaining employees.
The biggest lure is Apple's stock price, which is why the company has highlighted the dollar amount of the stocks rather than the number of shares. The company's pay rate is about the same as other Silicon Valley companies of its size, so it can really stand out by emphasizing its steady shares although they have been a little less as of late. So in order for Apple to keep its edge, it may have to start doling out perks.
Otherwise, Apple may be losing valuable employees. One executive at an executive search firm said that now Apple employees are picking up the phone when previously they wouldn't be interested in leaving.
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We have been observing the children very carefully these past few weeks to identify the schemas in action in our classroom in order to learn more about each child's personal learning process.
Schemas are patterns of repeatable behaviour the children use to test out ideas and to make sense of the world around them. Once a schema is identified, it is very important to offer the child appropriate activities which will nurture the patterns allowing the develop and progress of learning.
After a few weeks of careful observations, it emerged that a group of younger kids in particular shared the same schema called "positioning". The children love lining up toys or placing objects in very specific ways . It does not necessarily follows the logical thinking process of an adult but it seems to make complete sense to their little minds. And I dare you to try to "reorganise" everything... Tantrums may follow, tears or screams of frustration. We have observed children positioning, ordering and arranging objects sometimes in very obsessive manners. They sometimes line them up in order of size, colour or shape or texture too. They also love "stacking" activities: cylinders, blocks, lego, cubes, animals on top of each other, books etc... Some of them also like their food to be placed in a certain way on their table mat and they can be very particular about it. Or they may not like if certain type of food is touching.
Keeping this schema in mind, we had a look in our classroom to make sure the children had enough opportunities to play and learn . Below, are a few of the "Positioning" activities children are presented with or can choose from in our setting. These activities are usually loved by smaller children and though the materials themselves might have a more direct objective (such as counting and representing quantities or matching colours), we let the children in a "positioning" schema use them freely. They just enjoy placing the counters in a certain way. Later, as their learning expand, they will start using them in the way they are meant to.
This game is supposed to help children learn about following patterns with colours and shapes. Many of them just love stacking the beads onto the rods, following their own design.
Some children also like lining up the crayons. As simple as this.
This is not the right way to use the Montessori Pink Tower but here again, you need to step back and recognise the child's schema and allow him to test his ideas. Observe the need for lines, order and association in the picture.
Our bear counters are a favourite. We use them with the wooden grid to associate numbers and quantities or to categorise them by size or colour. But children make their own rules, placing the bears in the way they like.
The Montessori Brown stairs is often used by little ones in a "positioning" schema. Here, it has actually been used correctly but the little girl decided to use other material and is placing them on top of the stairs in a manner that allows her to problem-solve, question, predict, imagine, speculate and develop independent choices as she was making decisions in an area she was familiar with.
Blocks can be lined up, stacked up. We have coloured blocks and natural colour blocks. Children use them to build anything. They sometimes choose to place them in a certain order that make sense to them, mixing them up with other blocks or other materials. It may seem random to you but the fact is that children use that type of play to develop a methodical, systematic and logical collection of information through heir senses and their movement.
Here are a few more examples of classical positioning schema:
Here are a few more examples of classical positioning schema:
We also use our sensorial table as an invitation for "positioning". Last week, keen on creating further experiences, I filled our table with all sorts: wooden dice, plastic letters and numbers, bear counters, plastic counters, wooden beads, etc... I place a sorting wooden tray on the opposite side of the bin and let the magic begin. The children were immediately attracted to the activity. I didn't give them any directions but let them explore the possibilities themselves. Some recognised the potential for categorising or sorting. The younger children enjoyed choosing a place for each item, deciding on placing one or two or more items together, on top, beside etc...
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The United States of Google
Oct 1, 2012 5:00 AM PT
I was watching "The Daily Show" the other night and Jon Stewart walked through the failures of the Obama administration, concluding that anyone who did this badly couldn't be reelected if not for the Democrats' secret weapon. He then showed Mitt Romney as that secret weapon, along with a number of troubling clips that made a powerful point about the impressive number of mistakes Romney is making. It's so bad it reminded Stewart of the book Flowers for Algernon.
I was coincidentally working on a series of articles on reputation management and reviewing a number of cases, many of which involved politicians, in which the Internet -- and specifically, Google -- was used to do massive damage by spreading false information or changing rankings, and I remembered the close scary relationship Eric Schmidt has with President Obama.
The working theory is that Schmidt was trading favors in advance of Apple's anticipated legal win that might lock Google's Android platform out of the U.S. market unless Obama were to use his trade override authority.
Romney is no fan of Google, suggesting that even if Obama didn't ask for Google's help, it might clandestinely provide it in order to prevent a likely catastrophe, given the Samsung judgment.
In any case, Google has massive control over what we see on the Web and virtually all news services pull from this source. We likely should be anticipating a time when a company like Google could control elections and move to prevent it before we become the United States of Google.
I'll explore that this week and close with my product of the week: the service that I was researching, which is specifically designed to prevent the kind of thing I'm alleging Google may be doing to the Romney campaign from happening to you.
Search Results Manipulation
The fact that Google manipulates search results is a matter of record. Advertisers can pay to ensure their pages rank higher than competitors. This kind of manipulation by third parties used to be far more prevalent a few years back. It was how reputation protection firms used to operate, I recently found out. Because so many people were manipulating the results, Google made some changes that now make it nearly impossible for anyone to engage in this practice -- anyone but Google, that is.
Any manipulation would have to be a bit subtle. You'd want to push reporters looking for stories to generally positive ones on the candidate you were supporting and negative ones on the one you didn't support.
This line of thinking admittedly relies on some assumptions; one I'm making right off the top is that a very successful president will likely have a higher percentage of positive vs. negative comments. But even for a successful president, I'd assume that negative comments would tend to be more pronounced than positive ones, because a president's decisions touch so many people, and we tend to write more prolifically if we are pissed off.
A challenger who's not holding office just won't have the opportunity to touch as many people negatively -- directly or through proxies -- and thus wouldn't be in a position to piss off as many folks. You'd think this would be a problem, even for a strong incumbent.
Obama, as Stewart pointed out in his own piece, isn't that strong. In fact, most of the high-profile metrics -- economy, unemployment, etc. -- are well below where they typically would need to be for reelection. Even foreign affairs, where he is typically strong, is suffering due to the death of a diplomat who apparently was negligently underprotected.
So, even with Romney's gaffes -- and he has made a few -- you'd expect Obama's first page results to display a more negative trend. Not being an office holder, Romney can't really be blamed for any of the pronounced national problems.
The Results
My test was to bring up two Web pages in Google -- one on Romney and one on Obama -- to compare tone.
Romney's top listings as of last Thursday:
- PolitiFact -- Mitt Romney's File, which largely debunks Romney's comments
- Mother Jones -- the people who brought you the 47-inch debacle
- NYTimes.Com -- Things Mitt Romney Can't Do
- CNN.com -- It's not all over for Romney
- Romney Takes Hits in Republican Party as Obama Gains Edge
- Huffington Post -- Mitt Romney Picture, Videos, Breaking News
- Political Hotsheet -- Romney: "My campaign is about the 100 percent"
- Google+ -- Wow... no Wonder he likes the Romney Tax Plan (and in what world would Google+ come up long before Fox News?)
Now let's look at Obama's top listings:
- CBS -- President Obama Arrives for San Francisco Fundraisers
- The Atlantic -- Obama, Explained
- CBS -- Obama Campaign Announces October 8th SF Visit
- Obama: Romney "sure can afford to pay a little more" in taxes
- Official Obama Website (Joint the fight. Help Barack create an economy that's built to last
The reason there is a shorter list for Obama is that news on Romney starts with item two after the official Romney site, followed by a couple of items on Romney before a list of mostly negative comments and anti-Republican sources.
The Obama news comes after "We have a choice" - Barack Obama, Images of the guy, Whitehouse.org (OK, there has to be one natural advantage of being in office), and his biography (positive).
In fact, from the first page results, you'd conclude that the president must have been the best damn president we've ever had. Even under news, Romney is primarily pounded by the YouTube video of his ill-conceived 47 percent remark (YouTube is owned by Google), while Obama's news focuses on his being ahead in the polls. There's also the NFL ref controversy, with comments from both candidates, and there is a piece about Romney pointing out weaknesses in Obama's performance. Other than the Romney comments, which clearly look biased, I didn't see anything on the economy, foreign relations, unemployment -- or even Joe Biden, who traditionally has foot-in-mouth disease.
So, flipping to page two, we see mostly negative comments on Romney on poll results, his 47 percent comments, and his campaign reset. For Obama, it must have been one hell of a San Francisco trip, because it is mostly that, followed by comments on Obama's "new economic patriotism" and his improving poll results.
There's nothing negative about anything connected to the administration, and that one 47 percent comment would appear to be the most important thing happening in the world.
I started this thinking I was going to have a little fun, and I'm ending it having an "oh crap!" moment.
Wrapping Up: The United States of Google
Based on this simple test and my belief that there is a quid-pro-quo agreement either in place or implied between Google and the administration, I think there is a high probability that Google is influencing search results to favor Obama.
We know that there are about 47 percent of the people who will vote Democratic regardless, and about the same percentage who will vote Republican. It is the 6 percent in the middle who are struggling, and I think it likely that Google is manipulating its information to favor that 6 percent.
Now you might wonder why I didn't test against Bing, which is because Google believes Microsoft pulls from its search results suggesting that even if they were the same, Google would likely be the cause.
I later went back and did the Bing check just for jollies, and it was different. While the Obama results were very similar; the Romney results were far more positive. You should try this yourself. WTF!
So, whether you agree with me or not, I think there should be a set of controls making sure this can't happen. I doubt any of us, particularly those working at Apple, wants to live in the United States of Google. Apple has proven it can beat Google, but even Apple can't beat the U.S.
I think the idea of Google deciding a U.S. presidential election is not only unfair -- it's frightening.
Product of the Week: Cyber Investigation Services
What really got me started on this was a letter from a guy who was being smeared all across the Web by a couple of criminals he'd caught stealing from him. He asked for my help, and I suggested a number of reputation firms that had good reputations but that I'd never used. In exchange I asked him to share which one he picked and what the results were.
A few days later he wrote me saying the attacks had stopped, and he was actually getting more Web business as a result of his US$2,500 expense. So I contacted the firm myself and found it was a blend of traditional private investigation and Web expertise, and it was partnered with the leading law firm on reputation protection.
It actually has a free book called Winning the War on Internet Defamation that is worth reading if only for the stories.
One is about a top woman executive who was blackmailed by old personal pictures. The attacker wanted both to have sex with her and get $10K the morning after, or he would destroy her career with the photos.
The company's name is Cyber Investigation Services. If you are ever in this kind of nasty trouble -- or know someone who it -- these folks may be able to get you out of it.
Google and law enforcement aren't much help, and at some point you'll likely have a pissed off coworker, ex-spouse, ex-employee, or crazy stalker out to destroy your reputation or career. When that happens, remember this post. Because Cyber Investigation Services helped the guy I sent them, its services are my product of the week.


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I'm incredibly jealous of people who can read a book while riding in a car or hang out on a boat in choppy waters or act completely normal on a plane without getting motion sickness. Those bastards.
So why is it that the rest of us get motion sickness? It's an eyes and ears thing, apparently. Watch it. [ASAP Science via Geekosystem]


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We ate up some clock and forced a few time outs, yes, but that was a very defensive offense possession. Our punting has been great and same with our D – but they are one play away from taking the lead.
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The Malays
The Malays make up 21% of the population in Sarawak. Traditionally fishermen, these seafaring people chose to form settlements on the banks of the many rivers of Sarawak. Today, many Malays have migrated to the cities where they are heavily involved in the public and private sectors and taken up various professions.
Malay villages (kampungs) - a cluster of wooden houses on stilts, many of which are still located by rivers on the outskirts of major towns and cities, play home to traditional cottage industries. The Malays are famed for their wood carvings, silver and brass craftings as well as traditional Malays textile weaving with silver and gold thread (kain songket).
Malays are Muslim by religion, having brought the faith to Asia some 1000 years ago. Their religion is reflected in their culture and art and Islamic symbolism is evident in local architecture - from homes to government buildings.
The Melanaus
The Melanaus have been thought to be amongst the original settlers of Sarawak.
Originally from Mukah (the 10th Administrative Division as launched in march 2002), the Melanaus traditionally lived in tall houses. Nowadays, they have adopted a Malay lifestyle, living in kampong-type settlements. Traditionally, Melanaus were fishermen and till today, they are reputed as some of the finest boat-builders and craftsmen.
While the Melanaus are ethnically different from the Malays, their lifestyles and practices are quite similar especially in the larger towns and cities where most Melanau have adopted the Islamic faith.
The Melanaus were believed to originally worship spirits ina practice brinking on paganism. Today many of them are Christian and Muslim, though they still celebrate traditional animist festivals such as the annual Kaul Festival.
The Chinese
The Chinese first came to Sarawak as traders and explorers in the 6th Century. Today, they make up 29% of the population of Sarawak and comprise of communities built from the economic migrants of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The first Chinese migrants worked as labourers in the gold mines at Bau or on plantations. Through their clan associations, business acumen and work ethic, the Chinese organised themselves economically and rapidly dominated commerce. Today, the Chinese are amongst Sarawak's most prosperous ethnic groups.
The Sarawak Chinese belong to a wide range of dialect groups, the most significant being Hokkien, Foochow, Hakka, Teochew, Cantonese and Henghua. Hokkien and Mandarin are the most widely spoken dialects. The Chinese maintain their ethnic heritage and culture and celebrate all the major cultural festivals, most notably Chinese New Year and the Hungry Ghost Festival. The Sarawak Chinese are predominantly Buddhists and Christians.
The Iban
The Ibans form the largest percentage of Sarawak's population, making up some 30%. Reputed to be the most formidable headhunters on the island of Borneo, the Ibans of today are a generous, hospitable and placid people. Because of their history as pirates and fishermen, they were conventionally referred to as the "Sea Dayaks".
The early Iban settlers who migrated from Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of Borneo south of Sarawak) set up home in the river valleys of Batang Ai, the Skrang River, Saribas, and the Rajang River. The Ibans dwell in longhouses, a stilted structure comprising many rooms housing a whole community of families.
The Ibans are renowned for their Pua Kumbu (traditional Iban weavings), silver craftings, wooden carvings and beadwork. Iban tattoos which were orignally symbols of bravery for the Iban warriors have become amongst the most distinctive in the world.
The Ibans are also famous for their tuak, a sweet rice wine which is served during big celebrations and festive occasions.
Today, the majority of Ibans are practice Christianity. However, like most other ethnic groups in Sarawak, they still hold strong to their many traditional rituals and beliefs. Sarawak is unique to colourful festivals such as the Gawai Dayak (harvest festival), Gawai Kenyalang (hornbill festival) and Gawai Antu (festival of the dead).
The Bidayuhs
Originally from West Kalimantan, the Bidayuhs are now most numerous in the hill country of Bau and Serian, within an hour's drive from Kuching. Historically, as other tribes were migrating into Sarawak and forming settlements, the meek-natured Bidayuhs retreated further inland, hence earning them the name of "Land Dayaks". The traditional Bidayuh abode is the "baruk", a roundhouse that rises about 1.5 metres off the ground.
Typical of the Sarawak indigenous groups, the Bidayuhs are well-known for their hospitality, and are reputed to be the best makers of tuak, or rice wine.
The Bidayuhs speak a number of different but related dialects. While some of them still practice traditional religions, most modern-day Bidayuhs have adopted the Christian faith.
Orang Ulu
The phrase Orang Ulu means upriver people and is a term used to collectively describe the numerous tribes that live upriver in Sarawak's vast interior. Such groups include the major Kayan and Kenyah tribes, and the smaller neighbouring groups of the Kajang, Kejaman, Punan, Ukit, and Penan. Nowadays, the definition also includes the down-river tribes of the Lun Bawang, Lun Dayeh, Murut and Berawan as well as the plateau-dwelling Kelabits. The various Orang Ulu groups togther make up roughly 5.5% of Sarawak's population.
The Orang Ulu are artistic people with longhouses elaborately decorated with murals and woodcarvings. They are also well-known for their intricate beadwork detailed tattoos. The Orang Ulu tribe can also be identified by their unique music - distinctive sounds from their sape, a stringed instrument not unlike the mandolin.
A vast majority of the Orang Ulu tribe are Christians but old traditional religions are still practiced in some areas.
Some of the major tribes making up the Orang Ulu group include :
There are approximately 15,000 Kayans in Sarawak. The Kayan tribe built their longhouses in the northern interiors of Sarawak midway on the Baram River, the upper Reiang River and the lower Tubau River, and were traditionally headhunters.
They are well known for their boat making skills, which they carve from a single block of belian, the strongest of the tropical hardwoods.
Although many Kayan have become Christians, some are still practise paganistic beliefs.
With a population of approximately 3000, the Kelabit are inhabitants of Bario - a remote plateau in the Sarawak Highlands, slightly over 1,200 meters above sea-level.
The Kelabits form a tight-knit community and practise a generations-old form of agriculture. Famous for their rice-farming, they also cultivate a variety of other crops which are suited to the cooler climate of the Highlands of Bario.
The Kelabit are predominantly Christian, the Bario Highlands having been visited by Christian missionaries many years ago.
There are few findings on the exact origin of the Kenyah tribe. Their heartland however, is Long San, along the Baram River. Their culture is very similar to that of the Kayan tribe with whom they live in close association.
The typical Kenyah village consists of only one longhouse and the people are mainly farmers, planting rice in burnt jungle clearings.
The Penan are the only true nomadic people in Sarawak and amongst the last of the world's hunter-gatherers. The Penan make their home under the rainforest canopy, deep within the vast expanse of Sarawak's virgin jungle. Even today, the Penan continue to roam the rainforest hunting wild boar and deer with blowpipes.
The Penan are skilled weavers and make high-quality rattan baskets and mats. The traditional Penan religion worships a supreme god called Bungan. However, the increasing number who have abandoned the nomadic lifestyle for settlement in longhouses have converted to Christians.


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CHILDBIRTH can mean six years of bad sex, or at least sex not as good as it used to be, a medical conference has been told.
Medical practitioners attending the conference were told they should check on the sexual wellbeing of the parents of young children.
It has been estimated that at least a third of couples develop serious, long-lasting psychosexual disturbances after the birth of their first child.
Sexual anthropologist Bella Ellwood-Clayton, who was invited to speak at the conference, said it could take years for couples to resume their normal sex lives. ''Rather than setting the bar for six weeks, I think it's more likely to set at six years,'' she said.
Dr Ellwood-Clayton said pre-existing sexual problems in couples tended to worsen after the birth of their first child and were at their most pronounced three to four years later.
''It's really important that somebody knows that a lower libido is what the couple is going to be dealing with for a few years because it might not come as such a momentous shock for the couple. I think it's important for people in the medical profession to take more of an active role in discussing the sexual side of pregnancy of birthing and of new parenting and for them to routinely inquire about couples' sexual wellbeing.''
Dr Ellwood-Clayton said a loss of sexual desire in women after childbirth could be linked to a range of factors, including post-delivery discomfort, exhaustion, postnatal depression, being overwhelmed with new responsibilities and body image issues.
Men could also be traumatised by watching their partners experience labour.
''There's this myth of ever-lasting passionate monogamy when in all likelihood it is natural for us during the life course to go through periods of having a lower libido,'' she said, ''and I think that should be perfectly accepted and fine.
''But we have these enormous expectations and also a very real issue is two people have different desires in a relationship and some people's sexual needs aren't being fulfilled. That is often the cause of relationship breakdown and I think that's reflected in our current divorce rate of 40 per cent.''
The problem was considered serious enough to be placed on the agenda of the annual scientific meeting of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in Canberra this week.


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Opinion: Food Stamp Fear and Loathing
Editorial board member Steve Moore debunks Democratic concerns about efforts to reform the nation's food-stamp program.
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The LinGO English Resource Grammar (ERG) is a broad-coverage, linguistically precise HPSG-based grammar of English. The ERG is semantically grounded in Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS), which is a form of flat semantic representation capable of supporting underspecification. The ERG is developed as part of the international Deep Linguistic Processing with HPSG Initiative (DELPH-IN) and can be processed by a number of parsing and realization systems, including the LKB grammar engineering environment, as well as the more efficient PET or ACE run-time parsers, among others, for applications.
For easy exploration of ERG analyses, there is an on-line interface for parsing individual utterances. This on-line demonstration, however, is limited in the computational resources available, as well as in interfaces to the various available (views on) syntactic and semantic analyses provided by the ERG. To get started using the ERG on your own hardware, we recommend our instructions for novice users.
The early development and first application of the ERG was in the Verbmobil spoken language machine translation project. CSLI was responsible for building the English grammar for the deep-processing component of Verbmobil, which utilized a semantic transfer approach, requiring both parsing and generation of conversational English dialogues. Since then, the ERG has been used in a commercial application providing automatic response to customer email messages, in a second machine translation research project LOGON for Norwegian to English, and most recently for grammar correction in a large-scale online English Language Arts course used by tens of thousands of elementary school students (see EPGY). The grammar is also being used in continuing research for parsing existing larger corpora including the English Wikipedia (see the WeSearch project), and the familiar newspaper text of the Wall Street Journal (see the DeepBank project).
Dan Flickinger (CSLI) is the principal ERG developer. Other individuals who have made major contributions to the grammar are Emily Bender (University of Washington), Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge), Rob Malouf (San Diego State University) and Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo). Several former graduate students (Brady Clark, Judith Tonhauser, Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Martina Faller, Ash Asudeh, Susanne Riehemann) and visiting graduate students (Jesse Tseng, University of Edinburgh; Ken Bame, Ohio State University; Judith Eckle-Kohler, University of Stuttgart) also did detailed work, including building the lexicon, developing test suites, isolating phenomena found in corpora and developing analyses in the HPSG formalism. Jeff Smith (Professor, San Jose State University) has also spent time at CSLI developing various aspects of the grammar. In addition to this direct implementation work, weekly technical project meetings have provided an important forum for critique of specific analyses, particularly from Ivan Sag (Professor, Stanford) and Tom Wasow (Professor, Stanford).
Dan Flickinger (2011) Accuracy vs. Robustness in Grammar Engineering. in E.M. Bender and J.E. Arnold, eds. Language from a Cognitive Perspective: Grammar, Usage, and Processing, pp. 31--50. CSLI Publications, Stanford.
Dan Flickinger (2002) On building a more efficient grammar by exploiting types. In Stephan Oepen, Dan Flickinger, Jun'ichi Tsujii and Hans Uszkoreit (eds.) Collaborative Language Engineering, Stanford: CSLI Publications, pp. 1-17.
Ann Copestake, Dan Flickinger, Ivan A. Sag and Carl J. Pollard (1999) Minimal Recursion Semantics: An Introduction.
Ann Copestake and Dan Flickinger (2000) An open-source grammar development environment and broad-coverage English grammar using HPSG In Proceedings of the Second conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2000), Athens, Greece.
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It takes several years to build an industrial plant. So once it's finished, operators are understandably keen to go on stream as quickly as possible. When the technical staff are already suitably trained by that point, it means that the plant can start production rapidly, efficiently and without any hitches. In large complexes, 100 or more team members may need training, and some of them might have zero experience. Multiple training sessions, each lasting a couple of weeks, are required to bring everyone up to speed.
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That is why Linde engineers came up with the idea of creating a three-dimensional digital twin of plants under construction. This Virtual Training simulator provides realistic training even during the build phase. "Everything that we needed was already under our noses – stored on our computers," explains Linde project manager Nanna Thiele. "We have digital engineering plans for every plant we built in recent years – and we can turn that data into knowledge." So Thiele and project co-manager Mathias Mostertz teamed up with companies specialised in the creation of digital fantasy worlds for computer games.
Converting CAD plans into virtual worlds
Virtual reality (VR), or the computer-generated simulation of a real environment, converts data that is only intelligible to experts into a realistic three-dimensional world. To immerse themselves in this world, users only need VR headsets with a 3D display, two controllers and a powerful computer – all of which can be easily purchased from any large electronics retailer. The technology is so intuitive that even a layperson can find their way around a virtual plant.
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Virtual training debuts with Russian customers
As a prototype, the development team virtualised a subcomplex of one of the world's largest gas processing plants which Linde Engineering is currently planning in the Amur region of the Russian Far East. The plant is scheduled to go on stream in stages from 2021 onwards. "The aim is to develop an interactive training platform that will allow the future operating personnel to become familiar with the massive complex long before it has even been built," says Benjamin Krebs, business owner of the project and engineer in charge of process engineering and commissioning. He has conducted many training sessions himself and he welcomes the tool as an invaluable enhancement to traditional classroom training.
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The big advantage of VR is that it drills operators on safety procedures, typical interventions and routine processes in a safe environment where trainees don't have to worry about consequences. One or more users can immerse themselves in this virtual world from any place, at any time. All of the required hardware – including laptop, VR headsets and controllers – can be carried around in a specially adapted hard-shell case. Linde Engineering plans to make the Virtual training a standard component of its service offering.


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This part describes building TopLink queries and using them to create, read, update, and delete objects. It contains the following chapters.:
Chapter 108, "Introduction to TopLink Queries"
This chapter describes each of the different TopLink query types and important query concepts.
Chapter 109, "Using Basic Query API"
This chapter explains how to use basic TopLink query options.
Chapter 110, "Introduction to TopLink Expressions"
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Chapter 111, "Using Advanced Query API"
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Two months into public trading and Facebook shared its earnings with the financial world, garnering a collective "you don't say," because it came in with slightly higher revenue than anticipated.
The company had second-quarter earnings of a little more than 12 cents per share, with revenue of $1.18 billion.
Today's announcement aligns with the company's stance, given the company dampened expectations during its IPO period, saying Wall Street expected too much. Just this week, FB also had a marketing firm tell a story of the consumer- and brand-facing products that will keep the platform on the path to profitability.
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Nonetheless, the share price fell 8 percent immediately following the news, taking it below $25 per.
Facebook's co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to investors and analysts on the company's first ever conference call as a public company. He insisted his company is still committed to growing (and earning money) through social networking, but could not turn the downward slip of the stock price around all that much.
On the call, Zuckerberg pointed out that Facebook has seen a 29 percent jump in monthly active users, now at 955 million; also, daily active users jumped by 32 percent. So people are still flocking to the site, even if investors still aren't sure.
On average, analysts were expecting Facebook to post earnings of 12 cents per share on revenue of $1.16 billion, according to a poll by FactSet. In all of 2011, it had net income of $1 billion and revenue of $3.71 billion, according to regulatory filings.
Facebook's revenue streams are advertising and its payment service -- skimming 30 percent of what users pay to play games, on Zynga, for instance.
Zynga's earnings report yesterday disappointed investors, taking its stock down in after-market trading. Zynga payments are 12 percent of Facebook's revenues.


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Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose 25 books include "Fraternity: A Journey in Search of Five Presidents" and "Running: A Nixon-McGovern Campaign Journal." He appears on "CNN Newsroom" Sundays during the 5 p.m. (ET) hour.
(CNN) -- Outside, there was an old black dog next to a tree. The dog kept barking.
Thomas Eagleton, in a little pine-paneled auditorium/recreation hall in the Black Hills of South Dakota, was, with understandable reluctance, discussing his medical history, and his halting words kept being interrupted by the sounds of the dog's barks.
It's curious what sticks with you when you recall turning-point moments in presidential election history. Forty summers ago Eagleton, a U.S. senator from Missouri, had been selected by the Democratic candidate for president, George McGovern, to be his running mate. The offer to Eagleton had been made on the telephone during a hectic Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach; the conversation between McGovern and Eagleton had lasted less than two minutes.
Eagleton, during the conversation, did not mention to McGovern that on three occasions he had been hospitalized for treatment of depression, and that on two of those occasions he had undergone electroshock therapy. In seeking help, Eagleton had done what people of compassion and wisdom -- including politicians -- often advocate for those who are suffering from his kind of anguish. They counsel that mental illness is as real as any other kind of illness, that it can be effectively treated, and that there is no stigma in trying to get better.
But presidential politics is a take-no-prisoners game, and a vice president is always that one famous heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Eagleton had flown to South Dakota, where McGovern was on a post-convention vacation, to belatedly break the news to the candidate, and then to the public. It was a day that would forever change the way presidential candidates select their running mates.
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Right now Mitt Romney is in the process of choosing his own running mate, and the intense, virtually forensic, scrutiny his advisers have undoubtedly been giving the various prospects has a direct link to the McGovern-Eagleton drama of 1972. The hasty way that ticket came together has served as a cautionary tale for candidates in the ensuing years; two recent books about Eagleton -- "The Eighteen-Day Running Mate," by Joshua M. Glasser, and "Call Me Tom," by James N. Giglio -- have revisited the story in the context of 21st-century presidential politics, and a recent front-page story in the New York Times drew a straight line between the Eagleton affair and the way running mates are vetted today.
For those of us who were there in that rustic auditorium in 1972, the memory, in many respects, is that of a day of deep human sadness. Eagleton was a headline name, yes, but he was also a man, and to be within those walls on an otherwise quiet day in the Black Hills was to witness moments bleak and melancholy.
McGovern, a U.S. senator from South Dakota, was spending his vacation in a cabin in a state park. We who were assigned to cover him were lodged at an unprepossessing place at the bottom of the hill in the nearby town of Custer -- it was called the Hi-Ho Motel -- and the week was supposed to be uneventful. McGovern was there to relax, not to make news.
The campaign staff of McGovern's opponents on the Republican side, President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, was portraying McGovern as soft and weak; McGovern, who as a B-24 bomber pilot in World War II had flown 35 combat missions over enemy lines and had been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, was having to fend off the implication that he was somehow spineless. The controversy he didn't see coming was Eagleton's health issues.
This was in a pre-Twitter, pre-Internet, pre-cellphone era; there weren't even telephones in the guest rooms at the Hi-Ho. When we were told that the candidates would like us to come up the hill to the state park, we thought it must be for a so-called photo opportunity, and nothing more.
Eagleton and McGovern arrived at the auditorium with their wives. Eagleton moved among tourists who were standing outside, shaking hands and signing autographs. McGovern, though, looked pensive. He walked into the auditorium without saying a word to anyone.
McGovern opened the session by saying what a pleasure it was to have Tom and Barbara Eagleton in the Black Hills. The few of us present barely took notes. Some of the tourists from outside had wandered into the back of the auditorium, and when McGovern introduced Eagleton, they applauded. Eagleton made a mild joke:
"I don't know if the applause is because McGovern quit talking, or because I got up to talk."
And then he said it.
The hospitalizations. The electroshock treatments.
It was such an incongruous moment, in the bucolic setting. It came out of nowhere. Eagleton began to perspire, and the dog's barks echoed off the wooden walls, and seconds began to feel like days. "I don't relish standing here before these lights and 30 or 40 newsmen, discussing my health," Eagleton said. "This isn't the most pleasant moment of my life."
And he acknowledged that he had first discussed all of this with McGovern only hours before, here in the state park.
The country, and the world, weren't watching; there was no live telecast. The reporters had no quick way to get the news out -- no phones handy. Network television correspondents had to put their footage into helicopters to be flown to Rapid City, South Dakota, the closest place from which to transmit video. What had just happened was like a violent flash of lightning, with the delayed thunder, we all knew, soon to come.
It did. Once reporters got to telephones down the hill in Custer, and the news thus reached the rest of the country, the McGovern campaign publicly avowed support for Eagleton, but the presidential campaign was, in effect, over. People from all over the United States were sending telegrams -- the speediest way to express an opinion -- to McGovern, many of them brutal in tone. The one Western Union telex receiver in the area was not up in the state park with McGovern, but in the makeshift press room of the Hi-Ho. So on the same machine on which the reporters were receiving messages from their offices, they were seeing the telegrams meant for McGovern. It wasn't pretty.
Eagleton stepped down from the ticket within a week, and was replaced by Sargent Shriver. The McGovern-Shriver ticket lost to Nixon and Agnew in the largest landslide in presidential history. You never can know how things will work out, though; both Nixon and Agnew would resign from their offices before their terms were finished, and McGovern would eventually leave the Senate after losing one of his reelection bids. Within 10 years of that somber day in the Black Hills, the only person from either original ticket still serving in national political office would be Eagleton. He would be a senator from Missouri until his retirement in 1987; after that he would return home and resume his life as a widely respected member of the St. Louis community until his death in 2007.
The lessons of that long-ago summer? Probably just that presidential candidates these days, in choosing their running mates, tend to keep in mind the same thing that beginning medical students are always taught:
First, do no harm.
As if that is easy.
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If you view the attempt to complete a deal with veteran closer Grant Balfour totally in its own context, there's no way to fault the Orioles for balking at the results of his physical and pulling out of the two-year contract that was agreed upon by both sides pending the medical examination.
That's just how this kind of thing works. The Orioles have long required extensive physicals for the free agents they sign, and they cannot afford to spend $15 million on a guy who has a higher chance than normal of not being able to fulfill that contract. Sure, we don't know exactly what worried them about what sources said was Balfour's shoulder, but they have every right to expect a clean bill of health before guaranteeing all that salary.
They also have a right to expect some raised eyebrows, but only because they put themselves in this vulnerable situation when they dealt Jim Johnson to the Oakland Athletics earlier this month and waited until this week to make their move to replace him. They have long had a habit of letting the offseason play out before getting seriously involved, a strategy that has saved them a lot of money but also illustrates a reluctance to compete for the best players on the free-agent market.
They came into this offseason needing to add a starting pitcher and a consistent hitter to add more on-base potential to their power-packed lineup. Nearly three months later, they have not addressed any of those needs in a meaningful fashion.
Sure, Dan Duquette has stacked up a lot of warm bodies. He has brought in a number of players who might suddenly step up to fill those roles, but the Orioles have fewer proven major league players than they did when the 2013 season ended with them six games out of a playoff spot.
The Balfour deal -- if it had passed medical muster -- would have validated the trade of Johnson because the Orioles would have gotten a very good closer at a better price and could then have made the case that the acquisition of both a closer and setup man Ryan Webb made the bullpen better than before.
Now, with most of the top free-agent closers already signed, the Orioles are believed to be interested in veteran Fernando Rodney, but they could also take a chance on a high-upside reliever who is coming off an injury if they can reach a deal that balances the risk and possible reward. Failing that, they can always move Tommy Hunter into the role or give Webb a chance to win the role.
Duquette indicated in a Friday conference call that he would continue to look outside the organization for a proven closer, which could come from the free-agent market or in a trade.
The bullpen took another hit on Friday when left-hander Troy Patton was suspended for 25 games at the start of next season for testing positive for amphetamine use, but Duquette also said Friday that the team still feels comfortable with its left-handed depth.


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Autumn heralds the changing of the seasons with bold colors and in many places, a definite nip in the air – unless you're getting married in Hawaii in which case you can still pull off a tropical-themed wedding! But not everyone is so lucky, so what's a bride to do if you're tying the knot in the continental U.S.? Well, as always it depends on location – an October wedding on the West coast could easily be an all-outdoor affair, but if you're in Maine, staging your ceremony and reception inside is by far the safest bet. Here are some traditional elements to accentuate your fall wedding and make it a sublime and delightful affair.
If you live where the weather is mild and predictable in the fall, you could pull off a stunning outdoor wedding in places like California's Wine Country – the golden hues and ripe fruit hanging from grape vines lend a wonderful touch. And a few strategically-placed space heaters here and there will allow your reception to be held under the stars. Most couples however will opt for traditional locations – from staging a grand affair in a luxurious palace to a more sedate affair in a quaint chapel and ballroom – wherever and whatever you choose, think bold to make your fall wedding a visually memorable event.
Another point to keep in mind is the timing since fall is a busy season, what with all the holidays and other obligations that crowd calendars. As soon as you and your fiancée pick a date, send out a whimsical "date-saver" card in advance of the formal invitation – that way your guests won't be caught out with other obligations.
For your fall wedding you have a rich palette of colors to choose from – brides traditionally wear white, designers offer stunning gowns that shimmer and glitter with gold. Speaking of gold, this is one of the most traditional of colors for a fall wedding – from ribbons around the bouquets to the place settings at your reception – gold is truly a go-to color and one that is perfectly in harmony with the season. Other players that feature in the autumn color wheel are bold magentas, deep purples, burnt oranges, earthy browns and warm peach tones. If your wedding will take place inside, you can still invite the feeling of being in the great outdoors by creating arched arbors with cut branches still draped in their fall foliage.
Without a doubt, lily of the valley is by far the bridal bouquet favorite, but finding them late in the year may either be expensive or not an option at all. Work around this dilemma by choosing traditional in-season flowers – at this time of year chrysanthemums, dahlias and asters are at their best. You can also create stunning table arrangements by incorporating fall fruits and vegetables like crabapples, ornamental peppers and cabbages into your settings.
Another popular tradition is to bring in the texture and the lush hues of the fall with coxcomb and crocosmia, as well as seasonal berries, fiddlehead ferns and soft velvety lamb's ear leaves. And by all means, don't just settle for a clear glass vase which is fine for spring and summer – think copper urns and pots, as well as earthenware or wooden vases draped with lichens and moss.
You'll want to dress your reception tables according to your color theme – whether it's with dark purple damask linens or brown, accented with burnt orange, bold yellow or shimmering gold. Choosing flatware can be made easier if you stick with a theme – for example, twig-shapes lend themselves to a more rustic setting whereas gold-tipped classic flatware is always in good taste at a formal table setting. Your stemware will stand out even more if you select contrasting colors to beautifully offset the main setting – such as purple if your linens are brown; or gold-rimmed if your linens are purple or magenta. Small golden votive candles in rustic clay holders lend romance to the task of illuminating the room, and as for favors, think chocolate maple leaves, nuts or even tiny pumpkins in golden boxes tied with a contrasting ribbon. A popular modern tradition is to simply make a substantial donation to your favorite charity and announce your gift at the table with simple but elegant cards at each place setting – or a larger one at each table.
Serve a grand banquet for your guests by offering dishes made with the warm and cozy foods of the harvest season! Select from a wide variety of heirloom tomatoes, squash and corn. This time of year is also marvelous for pears, apples, grapes and many delicious root vegetables. Hors d'oeuvres can be as simple as gourmet popcorn and pumpkin seeds, to smoked sausages and home-made pretzels with an assortment of tangy mustards. Mini-kabobs and crostini are a popular fall tradition as is an assortment of cheeses and hearty breads like rye, walnut or jalapeño corn bread. As for main courses, you can accent either traditional or vegetarian fare with the bounty of the season. Poultry glazes delightfully with apple cider, and pork of course is marvelous when partnered with apples. With meats you can choose to serve wild or brown rice with nuts and cranberries as well as a seasonal vegetable. For a sumptuous vegetarian main course you can't go wrong with manicotti stuffed with butternut squash, or a creamy mushroom risotto. And lastly, your cake can be white, but it will truly stand out if you dress it up in fall flavors and colors! Think cream cheese with nuts, ginger, carrots and applesauce. Or a sumptuous cheesecake decorated with flowers and nuts is a sure bet. Whatever you choose, fall offers a bounty of colors and flavors that will make your wedding—and your wedding day pictures—something to remember!
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I knit these tags last year but was overcome with yarnbombing laziness. This year I was an artist in residence at The Mendocino Art center all year and I was consumed with drawing the historic buildings in Mendocino instead of being consumed with putting knitting and felting all over them as I did in the summer of 2014.
So I drew all year and the knitting stayed in a bag. Ok too be more honest , last year I wanted to yarnbomb my Isuzu trooper and drive it around but it turns out you can't yarnbombing a totally square car at least I couldn't so I got very downcast about yarnbombing. So anyway it finally stopped raining in Mendocino in July and I yarn bombed this building which is The Mendocino Market where I have spent all my time eating tuna sandwiches and chocolate chip cookies and I wanted to pay tribute to all that happiness.
I had forgotten how much people like yarnbombing and how encouraging they can be. And how much I like free art that isn't judged by moneymaking process.


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2011 Undergraduate Catalog
About the Catalog
This catalog is a general information publication only. It is not intended to nor does it contain all regulations that relate to students. The provisions of this catalog do not constitute a contract, expressed or implied, between any applicant, student, or faculty member and The University of Texas at Dallas or The University of Texas System. The University of Texas at Dallas reserves the right to withdraw courses at any time, to change fees or tuition, calendar, curriculum, degree requirements, graduation procedures, and any other requirements affecting students. Changes will become effective whenever the proper authorities so determine and will apply to both prospective students and those already enrolled.
The online version of The University of Texas at Dallas Undergraduate Catalog is the official version and takes precedence over the printed version. The online catalog will be updated periodically and will contain all major policy changes that occur during the 2010 catalog cycle. The official publication date of this catalog is August, 2010.
Students are held individually responsible for complying with all requirements of the rules and regulations of the University and the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System. Failure to read and comply with policies, regulations and procedures will not exempt a student from whatever penalties the student may incur.
The University of Texas at Dallas is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate through doctoral degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call (404) 679-4501 for questions about the accreditation of The University of Texas at Dallas.
Equal Educational Opportunity Statement
The University is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination, on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status in its provision of services, activities, and programs, and in its treatment of students. Students seeking further information about this policy, or related complaint procedures for alleged discrimination or sexual harassment should contact the Dean of Students.
The catalog is arranged into sections. The sections are titled:
- Admission
- Academic Policies and Procedures
- Resources for Study and Campus Life
- Tuition and Financial Aid
- Degree Programs
- Course Descriptions
- Faculty Roster
- Appendix (Regent's Rules of Conduct and Procedure)
Within each section the topics are arranged alphabetically.


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Clockwise: A charming figure of a young woman nestled in among mounded boxwood, creating a lovely scene that carries into the dormant season. • A winged sprite rests comfortably on a stone garden wall, reading on sunny days as well as in wintry weather. This relaxed figure helps us realize the gentle pleasures to be experienced in the garden. • A curious, diminutive figure hidden among shrubs and bold leaves is a small treasure to be discovered along a secluded pathway.
On a spring morning while visiting Magnolia Plantation and Gardens near Charleston, SC, I left the main pathways and walked onto a narrow trail that led among Spanish-moss draped magnolias and bald cypresses. The trail went past an open glade, wild in its tangle of wisteria vines and solitary azalea and camellia blossoms. It had an eerie and deserted look about it, and I was startled by a white figure standing in the far distance like a mirage. When I looked closer, I realized that it was a white marble statue of a woman. Suddenly this abandoned space came alive. It was inhabited by this lovely sculpture, and my eyes focused on the glistening figure standing evocatively among the tangled vegetation.
The entire space was transformed by this poetic presence, stirring the imagination. It dawned on me what an important part sculpture can play in the garden, giving it a magic touch, a focus, a purpose and liveliness.
When introducing sculpture into your garden, give careful consideration before placing it, making sure it's the most suitable location. As a work of art it should be in harmony with the overall design and become an essential part of the garden.
Classical statuary and urns are most fitting in a formal layout among clipped shrubs. The smooth-flowing or angular shapes of contemporary art give a dramatic focus to an informal setting. Sometimes a garden space is even created around a piece of sculpture to make a contemplative setting. Within a secluded space, sculpture can become a hidden feature, to be discovered by visitors as a delightful surprise, as in the figure at Magnolia Gardens.
Placing Sculpture
Use trees and shrubs to frame the art. For a background, evergreen shrubs are good to highlight your sculpture. A finely detailed figure or urn will be more distinctive against a fine-textured evergreen backdrop of clipped boxwood. A light-colored sculpture of marble or limestone stands out more clearly against dark, even-textured foliage. The massed shapes and bold outlines of contemporary sculpture are best set off within a surround of bolder, leafy vegetation or billowing grasses.
To enhance sculpture as a focal point, a long vista or an allee of trees draws your eye along the distance to rest at the sculpture at its end point. An example of this is the entrance walk into the Sarah P. Duke Gardens in Durham, NC. Bordered by spring-flowering cherry trees along a straight path, the view leads to the elegant Roney Fountain, the centerpiece of the Rose Garden. The fountain, sculpted with cranes spouting crystalline droplets of water into the pool below, is an irresistible enticement to proceed along the allee to reach this magical garden space.
Another design option is to use a garden arbor to concentrate your focus on a lovely figure or piece of art at its center. The arched opening of a gateway creates a great frame for a sculpture placed nearby. A dramatic impact can be achieved by placing a sculpture or stylish urn in an elevated location so its outline is seen in silhouette against the sky.
Sculpture and water go hand in hand. It's often an integral part of a water feature, with a fountain spouting out water and spilling into a basin below. Along a decorative pool a figure placed along its edge gives a double image, with its reflection on the fluid surface.
Choose Your Style
As an evocation of natural forms, contemporary sculpture echoes structures in nature, opening our eyes and senses to the intricate beauty found in the natural world.
Ruth Ellen Brown's larger-than-life sculpture of a black and yellow garden spider along its graceful spiraling net brings to us a heightened awareness of the miracles of nature in our own gardens.
Found objects such as driftwood or moss-covered stones and rocks of dramatic shapes and forms can be suitable as sculptural elements in our gardens. Even well-crafted everyday objects can be displayed as examples of artistic expression to enhance a garden space.
You can also create living garden sculpture in the form of topiary. This involves the precise pruning and shaping of slow-growing and small-leaved evergreens, such as boxwood or yew, into geometric forms or various animal shapes. In Gale Unterberg's garden, a graceful swan glides on a foaming sea of white blossoms. Her careful trimming and shaping of a Japanese holly has produced this fanciful green sculpture.
A comely lass revels among the azalea blossoms, adding liveliness to the spring garden, but her joyful presence also carries through the seasons in the Lowell Hoffman garden.
A sculpture or a well-crafted garden ornament gives your garden liveliness and a touch of excitement that extends throughout the year. When flowers and foliage have faded, your smiling cherub will hold its cheerful demeanor through snow and rain, unruffled by what the weather will bring, and its smile will seem even brighter among the blossoms of your flower border and the green leafiness of the summer garden.
Find the right sculpture or ornament for your garden and place it into the most fitting location to get the desired effect. Enhance the mood of your garden through these man-made or natural objects to give you pleasure and an appreciation of art in nature that enlivens your garden through all the seasons.
A version of this article appeared in Carolina Gardener Volume 24 Number 4.
Photography courtesy of Taimi T. Anderson.


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An Appropriation Act is an Act of Parliament passed by the United Kingdom Parliament which, like a Consolidated Fund Act, allows the Treasury to issue funds out of the Consolidated Fund. Unlike a Consolidated Fund Act, an Appropriation Act also "appropriates" the funds, that is allocates the funds issued out of the Consolidated Fund to individual government departments and Crown bodies.[1]
Each Appropriation Act has a series of schedules which contain tables that set out how the monies issued out of the Consolidated Fund are appropriated. Each department or body which has money appropriated is noted in the tables which contain columns setting out the things the money appropriated may be spent on, the net resources authorised for use, the grants out of the Consolidated Fund, the operating appropriations in aid and the non-operating appropriations in aid. The money may not be spent for purposes other than that it is appropriated for and it must be spent by the end of the fiscal year covered by that appropriation or returned to the Consolidated Fund.[1]
The typical structure of such an act begins with the long title, which defines which financial years the act applies to. This is followed by the preamble, which is different from the normal British public general Act of Parliament preamble in that it includes additional text before the normal preamble:[citation needed]
Whereas the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled have resolved to authorise the use of resources and the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund towards making good the supply which they have granted to Her Majesty in this Session of Parliament:—
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Until 2000 an older form of preamble was used:[citation needed]
Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sums hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Each Appropriation Act typically covers two or more fiscal years, and will normally repeal earlier Appropriation Acts and Consolidated Fund Acts still on the statute books.[1]
An Appropriation Act normally becomes spent on the conclusion of the financial year to which it relates.[2]
See also[edit]
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Bradley, A. W.; Ewing, K. D. (2003). Constitutional and Administrative Law (13th ed.). London: Pearson. pp. 202–203. ISBN 0582438071.
Further reading[edit]
- HM Treasury (2000). Government Accounting: A Guide on Accounting and Financial Procedures. Stationery Office Books. ISBN 0-11-702668-9.
External links[edit]
- "Appropriation Act 2008". Office of Public Sector Information. Archived from the original on 7 January 2009. Retrieved 2008-12-04.


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Nagercoil is located in Tamil Nadu. It is also the district headquarters of Kanyakumari district. Renowned for its e- governance system, it was merged into the state of Tamil Nadu in 1956, before which it was a part of the royal state of Travancore. It is a highly prosperous town considering a majority of its population are non-resident Indians (NRIs).
Budget Hotels in Nagercoil
There are good budget hotels in Nagercoil. Some of them are Hotel Sri Maniya (Tariff – Rs. 950 and 0.5 km from Kanyakumari Railway Station), Hotel J.S. Homestay (Tariff – Rs. 400 and 2 km from Nagarcoil Railway Station), and Hotel Cape Residency (Tariff – Rs. 924 and 19 km from Nagarcoil Railway Station).
Tamil is the official language. English is also spoken along with Malayalam in certain parts.
Events in Nagercoil
Pongal is the most important festival that is celebrated among the Tamil community all through the state. The other major festival celebrated here is the Malayalee New Year,'Onam'.
Places to See in Nagercoil
The Udayagiri Fort (15 km from Nagercoil station), Padmanabhapuram Palace (14 km from Nagercoil station) and the Vivekananda Rock Memorial (18 km from Nagercoil station) are some of the places of interest.
How to Get There
The airport closest to Nagercoil is Trivandrum Airport (57 km).
Nagercoil has its own railway station and is well connected to different parts of the country.
Online booking of bus tickets has certainly made life easier for travellers. Operators like Tippu Sultan Travels and Kallada Tours & Travels ply their buses to Nagercoil. To keep customers happy, several travel websites offer discount coupons for bus tickets on a regular basis.
Chennai, formally called Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu. It is situated on the south eastern coast of India, which is surrounded by the Bay of Bengal. Traditional music and dance forms are the most popular in the city. In comparison to the hectic life of other cities like Mumbai and Delhi, Chennai tops the list of cities that is famous for its history, culture and tradition.
Budget Hotels in Chennai
There are several star rated and budget hotels in Chennai. Some of them are Mallika Residency (Tariff – Rs 350), Raj Residency (Tariff – Rs.900), Samco Hotel (Tariff – Rs 1725) and Hotel The Orchid Inns (Tariff – Rs.1265).
The official language of Chennai is Tamil . The languages spoken by others who have made Chennai their home include Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi and Telugu.
Events in Chennai
Pongal (January), Natyanjali Dance Festivals (February) and Ganesh Chaturthi (August) are important festivals of this metropolis.
Places to See in Chennai
Travelers can take pleasure in exploring the historical spots and major landmarks of the city. They areMarina Beach(15kms from bus stand), Crocodile Park (1.7kms from nearest bus stand), Elliot's Beach(7kms from bus stand), Parthasarathy Temple(2km from bus stand), Kapaleeswarar Temple(1.2km from bus stand), Ashtalakshmi Temple(2kms from Besant Nagar bus stand), andThousand Lights mosque(2.5km from Cathedral bus stand).
How to Get There
Chennai International Airport is located along Meenambakkam and Tirusulam, 7 km from the south of Chennai.
Chennai Central also fondly called Madras Central is a major railway hub in the city. It is positioned right adjacent to the headquarters of the Southern Railway, as well as the Ripon Building. The other busy railway terminus includes Chennai Egmore and Tambaram.
Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus or CMBT is a major hub of activity that is located Koyambedu. Some of the best bus operators that offer exceptional experience for passengers include Palraj bus operator, Wahaan Tours & bus operator and KNP Tours bus operator. Log on to bus ticket online booking sites like Ticketgoose and book your tickets without any hassle.


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Four faculty members recognized for outstanding teaching
Four Princeton faculty members received President's Awards for Distinguished Teaching at Commencement ceremonies June 1.
They are: Jeremy Adelman, the Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture and professor of history; John Fleming, the Louis Fairchild '24 Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Alison Gammie, lecturer in molecular biology; and James Sturm, professor of electrical engineering.
The awards were established in 1991 through gifts by Princeton alumni Lloyd Cotsen '50 and John Sherrerd '52 to recognize excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching by Princeton faculty members. Each winner receives a cash prize of $5,000, and his or her department receives $3,000 for the purchase of new books.
A committee of faculty, undergraduate and graduate students and academic administrators selected the winners from nominations by current students, faculty colleagues and alumni.
More details are available in a news release.
Contact: Eric Quinones (609) 258-3601


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Prof. Hashim was an invited lecturer at MTS in 2004 and spoke at the 2005 McCormick Days Homecoming Weekend. The 2006-2007 academic year was Prof. Hashim's first teaching role with MTS team-teaching "Religious Pluralism and the Ministry."
Professor Hashim earned her Juris Doctor degree cum laude from DePaul University College of law and he B.A. magna cum laude and With Distinction from Mary Baldwin College having doubled majored in Communications-Broadcasting and Sociology-Social Work.
When she's not in the classroom but in her office, Janaan Hashim is a criminal defense attorney with the State Appellate Defenders Office in Chicago. Out of the office Prof. Hashim serves as the spokesperson for the Council of Islamic Relations of Greater Chicago and sits as chairperson of its Media Relations Committee. The Council is a federation of over 50 mosques, Islamic centers, schools and organizations whose membership allows the Council to represent the voice of the 400,000 Muslims who call Chicago their home. Prof. Hashim is also the Tuesday night host of WCEV's Radio Islam, the nation's first daily, prime time call-in talk show produced by Muslims for the mainstream market; she also sits as its Advisory Board Chairperson. Prof. Hashim is a board member of Sound Vision Foundation and was a founding board member of CAIR-Chicago, the local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Prof. Hashim is an active speaker on Islamic issues, particularly those focusing on American Muslims, having spoken in many U.S. cities and at the 2004 Conference of the Parliament of World's Religions in Barcelona, Spain. At the end of the day Janaan returns home to her husband and three teenage children, often with a warm meal waiting for her in the oven.


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