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1: "There now his majesty can read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!." John Hancock
2: Section 1: People
4: George Washington | George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 He an American patriot. He is best known for being the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, administering over the writing of the Constitution, and for becoming the first President of the United States. He was also a commander of the colonial forces at the beginning of the French and Indian War. After the Revolutionary War, George Washington became the President of the Constitutional Convention and also became the first President of the United States. He preferred to be called "Mr. President" over other fancier titles. After retiring from his two-term presidential reign, he devoted much of his time to farming and other business interests of his. He died at his home on December 14, 1799.
6: King George the 3rd | King George the 3rd was born on June 4, 1738. His real name was George William Fredrick. He was the leader of the loyalists. He was the main single person that the American colonists hated and constantly pointed to as the cause of the American Revolution. King George the 3rd never wanted to give up on winning the American Revolution even after Parliament knew it was time to give up. King George the 3rd still remained the King of England for many years after the American Revolution. He went on to fight against Napoleon and the French Republic. At the height of his popularity in 1810, he was virtually blind. He died on January 29th, 1820.
8: Paul Revere | Paul Revere was born on January 1st, 1735. He was an American patriot. He is best known for warning the Continental Army that the British were approaching before the battles of Lexington and Concord. He also engraved the famous picture of the Boston Massacre and was one of the leaders of the Boston Tea Party. After the war, Paul Revere opened a hardware and homing goods store and opened a workshop for casting iron and brass to make money. He also supported protecting Boston during the War of 1812. He later died on May 10th, 1818.
10: Nancy Hart | Nancy Hart's exact date of birth is unknown, but it is believed she was born around 1735. Others argue that she was born in 1747. She was an American patriot. Most of what is known about Nancy Hart comes from a famous story about her in which she shot two of several British soldiers after they demanded that she cook food for them. It is rumored that the other soldiers were hung when her husband and neighbors when they arrived at her house while she held them captive. It is also rumored that she was an unofficial Revolutionary War sniper and that she would enter camps of British soldiers disguised as an old man to gain military information. Shortly after the war, Nancy Hart became a Methodist Christian. One Georgia governor said that she "fought the Devil as manfully as she had fought the Tories." In the late 1780's, she moved to Brunswick, Georgia, where her husband died. In 1803, Nancy's son took her to live with her relatives. She died there in 1830 and was buried in her family cemetery.
12: Governor James Wright | James Wright was born on May 8th, 1716. He sided with the loyalists. He was the 3rd and last royal governor of Georgia, appointed in 1860. Though he was popular among some of the colonists, he was arrested by rebels from Georgia in 1776. He returned to Georgia to govern Savannah for three and a half years after the British captured the city. He left Savannah in 1782 when the British evacuated the city. He was successful in helping to slow the revolutionary movement in Georgia. After the war, he returned to London where he served on a board of American loyalists seeking repayment for their losses in the Revolutionary War. He died at his house on November 20, 1785. Wrightsborough was later named for him.
14: Button Gwinnett | Button Gwinnett's exact birthdate is unknown, but he is thought to have been born anywhere between 1732 and 1735. He was an American patriot. Being a respected person in Georgia, Gwinnett was appointed the commander of the continental militia in Georgia, a position he declined. He was elected to attend the Continental Congress and became one of Georgia's three signers of the Declaration of Independence. He also unsuccessfully tried to protect Georgia's southern border by invading Florida and ran for Governor of Georgia. He died three days after his duel in 1777 with his long standing political rival, Lachlan McIntosh. He died before the American Revolution ended.
16: Lyman Hall | Lyman Hall was born on April 12th, 1724. He was an American patriot. Being a strong supporter of revolutionary politics in Georgia, he received unwanted attention from Governor James Wright and positive attention from patriots. He was elected to the Continental Congress and given the task of supplying food and medicine for the Continental Army and also became one of the Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence. After the war, Lyman Hall was elected to the House of Assembly and eventually became the Governor of Georgia. After serving one more year in the House of Assembly and serving one year as a judge, he retired and went to his private affairs of developing agriculture in Georgia. He later died in 1790.
18: George Walton | George Walton was born in 1741. His exact date of birth is unclear. He was an American patriot. George Walton was elected secretary of the Georgia Provincial Congress and was also made the President of the Council of Safety. He served as a soldier in the Continental Army and also was a governor of Georgia. He was one of three Georgians to sign the Declaration of Independence. After the war, he was sent to work with the Cherokee nation in Tennessee. He was also appointed Chief Justice of his state and elected governor once more. He was also sent to serve in the United States Senate. He later retired and died in Augusta in 1804.
20: Thomas Paine | Thomas Paine was born on January 29th, 1737. He was an American patriot. He is best known for publishing his work Common Sense, a pamphlet that defended American Independence and criticized the British government and leadership. He is also known for writing The Crisis, a work that inspired the Continental Army. Paine's plain language helped the American people realize that breaking free of Great Britain was the only option for America. Slightly before the American Revolution ended, Paine went to France to help promote the French Revolution through his pamphlet The Rights of Man. He was later imprisoned in France in 1793 and was freed in 1794 because of the effort of James Monroe, the United States Minister to France. He returned to America to find that his efforts to help the American Revolution had long been forgotten. He died in 1809 in New York.
22: Benjamin Rush | Benjamin Rush was born on December 24, 1775. He was an American patriot. Being active in the Sons of Liberty in Philadelphia, Rush attended the Continental Congress and became one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He also became Surgeon-General of part of the Continental Army. After he resigned from the position, he secretly campaigned for George Washington's removal as head of the Continental Army. Once he was caught by Washington, he avoided any activities related in any way to the American Revolution. After the war, Rush was elected treasurer of the United States Mint, a position that he served until 1813. He continued his medical and teaching profession for the rest of his life. He also tried to bring about the abolition of slavery. He died in his house at the age of 68.
24: Section 2: Causes
26: On March 5 1770 a group of about a thousand colonists gathered in front of the custom house where a sentry for Britain hit a colonist that was tormenting the sentry. The colonists then gathered around the sentry. The sentry called for backup thus eight British soldiers and captain Preston arrived and took formation in front of the colonists. After trying to break up the mob one soldier was hit with a piece of wood by a colonist and fired into the crowd and then the rest of the soldiers proceeded to fire into the crowd but Captain Preston stopped them. Afterwards to please the crowds Governor Hutchinson arrested the soldiers and promised the people that there would be a trial. John Adams and Josiah Quincy took the defense of the soldiers and Preston. The soldiers went to trial in September and they and Captain Preston pleaded innocent. The eight men and Preston were tried separately and only two were found guilty. | This affected the colonies and threw them into an outrage because British troops fired into a crowd of unarmed citizens and most leaving untouched by punishment.
28: This act affected Georgia because Georgia couldn't print its newspaper. As a result of that Georgia colonists could not know what was going on in other colonies or in Georgia. | The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains The actual cost of the Stamp Act was relatively small. What made the law so offensive to the colonists was not so much its immediate cost but the standard it seemed to set. In the past, taxes and duties on colonial trade had always been viewed as measures to regulate commerce, not to raise money. The Stamp Act, however, was viewed as a direct attempt by England to raise money in the colonies without the approval of the colonial legislatures. If this new tax were allowed to pass without resistance, the colonists reasoned, the door would be open for far more troublesome taxation in the future. | This affected the colonies because even though the tax itself wasn't that much money if they did not fight back it could lead to larger future taxation.
29: Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising 40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies. The result was the resurrection of colonial hostilities created by the Stamp Act. Reaction assumed revolutionary proportions in Boston, in the summer of 1768, when customs officials impounded a sloop owned by John Hancock, for violations of the trade regulations. Crowds mobbed the customs office, forcing the officials to retire to a British Warship in the Harbor. Troops from England and Nova Scotia marched in to occupy Boston on October 1, 1768. Bostonians offered no resistance. Rather they changed their tactics. They established non-importation agreements that quickly spread throughout the colonies. British trade soon dried up and the powerful merchants of Britain once again interceded on behalf of the colonies. | The affect of this was that the colonies established a no importation agreement and didn't buy from the British. | THE TOWNSHED ACTS
30: On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. But because of corruption, they mostly evaded the taxes and undercut the intention of the tax — that the English product would be cheaper than that from the French West Indies. This hurt the British West Indies market in molasses and sugar and the market for rum, which the colonies had been producing in quantity with the cheaper French molasses. The First Lord of the Treasury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Grenville was trying to bring the colonies in line with regard to payment of taxes. He had beefed up the Navy presence and instructed them to become more active in customs enforcement. Parliament decided it would be wise to make a few adjustments to the trade regulations. The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, while Grenville took measures that the duty be strictly enforced. The act also listed more foreign goods to be taxed including sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico, and further, regulated the export of lumber and iron. The enforced tax on molasses caused the almost immediate decline in the rum industry in the colonies. The combined effect of the new duties was to sharply reduce the trade with Madeira, the Azores, the Canary Islands, and the French West Indies (Guadelupe, Martinique and Santo Domingo (now Haiti)), all important destination ports for lumber, flour, cheese, and assorted farm products. The situation disrupted the colonial economy by reducing the markets to which the colonies could sell, and the amount of currency available to them for the purchase of British manufactured goods. This act, and the Currency Act, set the stage for the revolt at the imposition of the Stamp Act.
31: The effect of this act was that the colonies boycotted these items to make Britain stop their taxes. | In March 1765, Parliament passed the Quartering Act to address the practical concerns of such a troop deployment. Under the terms of this legislation, each colonial assembly was directed to provide for the basic needs of soldiers stationed within its borders. Specified items included bedding, cooking utensils, firewood, beer or cider and candles. This law was expanded in 1766 and required the assemblies to billet soldiers in taverns and unoccupied houses. | The effect of this act was that many colonists didn't like having the soldiers in their home and requested it to be repealed | The Sugar and The Townshed acts | The Sugar and The Townshed Acts
33: Section 3: Events
34: The Battle of Lexington and Concord was the first battle of the revolution. It is often referenced to the "Shot Heard 'Round the World". When the British were on their way to Concord to intercept Revolutionary War Rebel Leaders they were stopped by three hundred minute men. THe British drove off the colonists, and continued marching. When they arrived in Concord, they found no rebel leaders and no supplies but instead, over a thousand angry colonists. The British were they beaten and driven away from the city.
35: Battle Of Lexington and Concord
36: The French arrived at Savannah declaring to the British holding the city, "Surrender or die." A few days after arrival, the French began firing but the gunmen were drunk and unable to fire correctly. Several days after this mishap, the ALlies directed an attack at night but began shooting one and other because it was dark. Finally, after suffering ships being destroyed, scurvy, and lack of food, the French and Americans attacked Savannah but the officers were inexperienced causing the difficult attack to be a failure. The French general would not surrender because of hi pride and instead allowed his men to be killed. LAter, after only an hour of attacking the French withdrew from the British' smaller forces, the French and COntinentals began arguing with one and other, this ended the Siege of Savannah the bloodiest battle during the American Revolution.
37: The Siege of Savannah
38: The Battle of Kettle Creek took place on Sunday February 14, 1779. This was a surprise attack against the Tories form the Continentals. The Tories had been winning but then their leader was killed causing mass confusion among the Loyalists. | The Battle Of Kettle Creek | THe Battle of Kettle Creek took place eight miles form Washington, Georgia.
39: This battle was meant more to be a random attack on the British, a surprise, but in the end it turned into full combat. | This battle was important due to the needed supplies and moral booster given to the COntinentals.
40: The Battle of Quebec
41: The battle of Quebec was an attempt by the Americans to take the city of Quebec on December 31, 1775. Due to the frozen river forcing the COntinetals to have no naval support, General Guy Carleton had to rely on a small force of regulars and the local militia. THen due to poor weather and timing, the attack went poorly causing over four hundred men to be captured along with many of the officers dead. Five months later, months full of fighting, the AMericans were forced to retreat because reinforcements for the British arrive on ships. THis was the Continentals Army's first military defeat.
42: This battle was the final straw in the war against the British; this siege is the reason we won the war. THe British, a few weeks before this battle , removed their navy form the area and the French navy took control. Lashimbo and Washington, both generals, brought together a force a myriad of siege artillery and over 16,000 men all located in Williamsburg.Cornwallis, a mear twenty four miles from the Continentals, had decided to set up his fighting forces in a European conventional war fare attack. | The Siege | The Siege
43: Including sixty five guns, trenches, and palisades, yet that night, they retreated, giving up their outer defenses and weaponry. Cornwallis was out numbered four to one and had pulled his men back to have enough men in Yorktown till reinforcements arrived. Within days, Yorktown was under heavy fire from the Continentals. | They continuously fired thirty-two pound cannon balls firing day and night. This continued for nine days. That night, a British fort was taken, ending the defensive line outside of Yorktown. Due to large numbers of desertions and the constant firing , the British surrendered. Due to illness, Cornwallis didn't surrender but sent his second in command instead. He gave his sword to the French for in the English' eyes , this had been a French victory. They wouldn't take it. Instead said that it belonged to Washington. ThisOne week after the surrender, reinforcements arrived from England but they were too late. | of Yorktown | of Yorktown
44: Section 4: A New Beginning
46: The Articles of Confederation The Articles of Confederation were drafted by the continental congress from 1776 1777. It was finally ratified by congress in 1777. However the Articles of Confederation had many weaknesses, for one it gave far too much power to the separate states and not enough power to the central government. This weakness was a significant road block stopping the U.S. from becoming one united nation. For example, the central U.S. government could not have a national army or navy, they could not issue a national tax, and Congress lacked strong leader ship. The states carried almost all of the power; they could have their own currency, set taxes for other states, and if the U.S. congress decided to declare war the states had the right to stay out of it. So if war was ever declared by the U.S. during the time period when we were governed by the Articles of Confederation there was always the possibility that only the state of Rhode Island would fight for the U.S. As you can see these issues needed to be addressed and quickly before Rhode Island got angry.
48: The Constitution of the United States of America In May 1787, representatives from every state but Rhode Island met in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation. However simple revision would not do to unite the states into one unified country so the old ideas were scrapped and the Constitution of the United States was born. The U.S. Constitution was the first of its kind, a revolutionary new system of government run by the people, for the people. The Constitutions legendary first ten amendments the Bill of Rights gave citizens of the United States complete freedom to express themselves. The Constitution was also unique because it allowed itself to adapt as new problems arose. The governments set up by the Constitution divided power equally between the three branches of government witch were: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. The Legislative branch of government known as Congress creates laws. The Executive branch is made up of the President and his cabinet approves laws and is in charge of national defense and foreign policy. The Judicial branch which contains the supreme court and is in indirect control of all of the courts in the nation they have the job of deciding if a law is constitutional or not. In this way not all branches of government has more power than another which keeps the U.S. from breaking out in civil war(mostly{just wait till unit 5}) GA signers of Constitution William Few and Abraham Baldwin
49: Abraham Baldwin | William Few
50: Georgia's first state constitution Georgia's first state constitution was ratified by the state government in May of 1777. The state constitution was changed from the previous bicameral legislature to a unicameral legislature. Most of the laws were based of the U.S. constitution however, the power of the state governor was extremely limited. This was because in the pas t Georgians disliked their previous governors, this was because their last governor James Wright was a loyalist and governed the city of Savannah while the British controlled it. Georgia's new constitution got rid of Georgia's original eight parishes and replaced them with 8 all new counties. The new counties were; Wilkes, Richmond, Burke, Effingham, Chatham, Liberty, Glynn, and Camden. All of these counties were located on the Atlantic coast, and bordered the Savannah River.
52: Cited Sources used by:(in order of importance) Jacob Sparks(Team Leader) Delaney Hilton (Happy Birthday) Antonio LaFratta(proud owner of The Son Of Neptune) Ike Forrester (No Caption Necessary )
53: Works Cited "United states constitution."Wikipedia. Wiki media, 02 10 2011. Web. 6 Oct 2011.


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This week we learn from Winston Churchill through this famous quote. We focus a lot on kindness in our homeschool. I truly believe the world needs a lot of it and it is honestly so simple to give. I want to help T recognize that while our academic studies will lead to his paycheck one day, that his paycheck will only be a part of his life. His life will not be defined by what he gets but more importantly by what he chooses to give.Especially those things we give without any hope of return or compensation or fame. They are precious in a way that money can never match. Those are the things that make a good life. Those are hte things that result in a life well lived.
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don't expect to get ocean view even if you requested it 7 months out they say theydont have them available but if your willing to cough up 300.00 more dollars they can get you one
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Age: 55-64
Travel: 1-2 trips/year
Make food and drinks available at all times. Rooms too noisy. We could hear dishes clanking from 6am-10pm. Beds too hard.
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From: Los Angeles, CA
Age: 45-54
Travel: 3-6 trips/year
There is a reason it is only 3 1/2 Stars, there are some points that are excellent but other details were they lack. Door lock never worked properly in one of our rooms, Don Quijote restaurant was always full and could not accomodate our entire party and reception area is way to small with not enough personnel for the check outs and check ins, about 1 hour waiting each time. Food is of very good quality with plenty of it. Service around the pool is good especially if you tip them, otherwise you might not see them for a long time. Rooms were clean and staff friendly, minor repairs do need to be taken care of. You are getting what you paid for overall, that is why I would recommend it, value.
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We're Thankful That 'Fun Home' Is At The Fabulous Fox In St. Louis
"Fun Home" is funny in a lot of ways. And if you think your family gatherings are complicated or even suspenseful — Hello, Thanksgiving! — wait until you see this show at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis.
"Fun Home" is based on the acclaimed graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel, with its title coming from the nickname for her family's business, a funeral home in the Appalachian hill country. And that ought to tell you right away what kind of deliciously grim irony you're in for.
But it's also the surprisingly bright story of a daughter's quest for her father's love, made fascinating by the fact that both are gay — he, secretly; and she, during a period of great discoveries — in a story adapted by lyricist Lisa Kron and composer Jean Tesori. Sam Gold directs this raw but artful musical of a father and daughter, set in the repressive 1970s. Neither can talk openly about their sexuality, and yet teenage perseverance makes the struggle to love and be loved universal.
Karen Eilbacher plays Joan, Allison's first love. "At the heart of it, it's about family, and your memories of family — whether it's a lack thereof, or you're well-integrated into your family — and what those memories have come to serve in your life, ten, twenty, fifty years later," she says.
And, in a year of holier-than-thou political campaigns, "Fun Home" is almost blindingly honest and direct. Eilbacher spoke with ALIVE from Chicago, the previous stop on the tour. "'Fun Home' brings theater to life, [its] walking truth, living truth. And it's literally, like, can I breathe and walk on stage in the realist sense. There's no difference between it and real life," Eilbacher says.
The show must also have its darker moments, too.
"Fear gets in the way," Eilbacher explains. "Audiences really respond to the love between these two young women, but again, we come face to face with fear, and sometimes you don't know where it comes from. And it's important to make more space inside yourself so you can bring others in.
"It's really tantalizing, and there's just this energy in the theater. And at the stage door, people are coming by quite consistently to share their genuine heartfelt thanks," she continues.
The touring production of "Fun Home," Broadway's "Best Musical" Tony-winner in 2015, runs through November 27 at the Fabulous Fox Theatre.
Featured photo of Karen Eilbacher and Abby Corrigan by Joan Marcus.


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Area: Hamilton Heights
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Address: 529 W 147th St. #2-B
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Apartment 2-B is a garden facing 2 bedroom, 2 bath condominium with a split bedroom layout. The apartment features strip red oak floors throughout. Each bedroom features oversized windows and 2 large closets. Both bedrooms and the living room feature through the wall air conditioning to maximize the natural light from the windows.
The large Master bedroom features an en-suite bathroom. The second bedroom is of near equal size as the master bedroom with direct access to the shared second bathroom. The kitchen features granite countertops, stainless steel appliances- including a dishwasher and is open to the living room. Just off the kitchen is the laundry with venting for the dryer.
This professionally managed boutique elevator building features just 2 apartments per floor. The building recently upgraded to a video intercom system and has been upgrading common areas as well. There is a video security system, backyard accessible to all residents, a trash chute on every floor and outdoor bicycle storage. The building has a 25 year tax abatement- at an insanely low rate for the first 20 years, which started in 2006. Riverside Parc Condominium is dog and cat friendly.
The building is located in Hamilton Heights, walking distance to the 1, A, C, B and D trains. The upper 140's in Hamilton Heights has been sizzling hot, with neighborhood favorites such as Harlem Public, The Chipped Cup, Uptown Bourbon, and Hamilton Eatery within a few blocks of this building. Riverside Park and the 28 acre Riverbank State Park along the Hudson River are just a few blocks away.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces using a new Raytheon Co interceptor missile downed another missile in space in a high-stakes test of a shield built to thwart growing capabilities of countries like North Korea and Iran.
The mission off Hawaii late Tuesday was against a medium-range, separating ballistic missile, the Pentagon agency responsible for it said. The mock warhead split from the target's booster section, presenting what is supposed to be a more realistic attack scenario.
"Initial indications are that all components performed as designed resulting in a very accurate intercept," the Missile Defense Agency, or MDA, said in a statement Wednesday.
Richard Lehner, an agency spokesman, declined to say whether the drill incorporated decoys or other so-called countermeasures of the type an enemy likely would use to confuse the defense.
"We don't divulge presence of countermeasures in any of our missile defense tests," he said by email.
The United States plans to deploy increasingly capable versions of Raytheon's Standard Missile-3 through 2020 to help counter missiles that might some day be capable of delivering chemical, biological or nuclear warheads from Iran or North Korea.
The new model, dubbed Block 1B, is to be put in land-based launchers in Romania in 2015 as well as on ships. It is a key part of President Barack Obama's plan to guard NATO's European territory from Iran, at odds with many countries over its nuclear program.
The event was the second successful flight test of the new interceptor after it had failed to hit its target in September 2011, the first attempt. The previous successful test, on May 9, involved a less challenging, non-separating target missile.
The latest test marked a "critical accomplishment" for the current phase of Obama's so-called Phased Adaptive Approach to missile defense in Europe, the MDA said.
Production of the new model, delayed after the initial intercept failure, will start in the fall, Lehner told Reuters on Tuesday.
Obama's fiscal 2013 budget request calls for 29 of the new interceptors in the first production batch, down from 42 projected a year earlier, amid Pentagon budget scalebacks to meet deficit-reduction requirements.
Japan also is expected to seek the Block 1B interceptor now that there have been two successful flight tests in a row, Wes Kremer, Raytheon's executive in charge of the program, said in a telephone interview.
The test was the 23rd successful intercept in 28 flight test firings for the overall Lockheed Martin Corp's ship-based Aegis ballistic missile defense system.
Aegis is the sea-based leg of a layered U.S. shield that also includes some 30 three-stage interceptors in silos in Alaska and California in a ground-based program managed by Boeing Co. The United States is spending about $10 billion a year to develop, test and deploy missile defenses.
A total of 28 specially equipped Aegis warships - 24 in the U.S. Navy and four in the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force - now have the capability to engage ballistic missiles and perform long-range surveillance and tracking missions. The number of such ships is expected to rise to 36 by 2014.
At 11:15 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time on Tuesday (0915 GMT Wednesday), the target missile was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, MDA said.
The USS LAKE ERIE, positioned off the coast of Hawaii, tracked it with onboard radar and launched the interceptor in response.
Using only the force of a direct impact, it collided with and destroyed the target in space in a so-called hit-to-kill intercept.
The SM-3's newest model incorporates an enhanced two-color infrared seeker and uses short bursts of precision propulsion to steer toward incoming targets.
The target in the test, with a substantial range and the second, separating stage, reflects capabilities already in Iranian and North Korean arsenals, said Riki Ellison, a prominent U.S. missile-defense advocate who watched the test from Kauai.
Taylor Lawrence, president of Raytheon's Missile Systems unit, said test scenarios would become more complex "as we demonstrate the full capability of the SM-3 Block IB against more advanced threats."
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Southwest Airlines' hilarious flight attendant Marty Cobb proves US Airways isn't the only viral airline this week
US Airways was scrambling yesterday to save face in the midst of one of the most enjoyable Twitter scandals of all time. In response to a customer complaint on the social media site, whoever runs the US Airways Twitter feed posted a decidedly pornographic image of a toy plane inserted into a lovely lady's vagina. "We deeply regret the mistake and we are currently reviewing our processes to prevent such errors in the future," US Airways said in a statement. The tweet, of course, was taken down but the NSFW image lives on the Internet.
But today is a brighter day for the airline industry. A video posted to YouTube shows Southwest Airlines flight attendant Marty Cobb delivering that flight safety speech we've all had to sit through before the plane takes flight. It's a process George Carlin masterfully covered on his 1992 comedy special Jammin' In New York. But Cobb, although not as incisive as Carlin, does an impressive job weaving comedy into the otherwise boring presentation.
At one point during Cobb's airline safety speech she sends another flight attendant down the aisle. "She's going to make sure your seatbacks and tray table are in their full upright [positions]…and your carry-on items are crammed under the seat in front of you, leaving absolutely no room for your knees or feet," Cobb jokes.
Cobb even takes time to poke fun at Southwest's status as a budget, no-frills airline. "Smoking is never allowed on Southwest because smoking in the lavatory the fine is $2,000," Cobb says, "and if you wanted to pay that much for your airfare you should've flown somebody else."
The sassy blonde also addresses that pesky loss-in-cabin-pressure possibility. "And although we never anticipate a loss of cabin pressure – if we did we certainly wouldn't be at work tonight – but if needed, stop screaming, let go of your neighbor and when the plastic tubing is fully extended, place the mask over your mouth and nose and breathe normally."
And then Cobb gets really dark—especially to an audience of commercial airline passengers. "To activate the flow of oxygen, simply insert 75 cents for the first minute… If you're traveling with more than one child, pick out the one that might have the most earning potential down the road." Check out the full video below.
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"The rules apply to everybody, except when they don't." A cursory look at some headlines from last week reveals this to be the new American mantra, a burgeoning sense of individual "exceptionalism" that pulls at the very fabric of fair play. Nowhere is this more clearly articulated than in two cases currently winding their way through the court system.
Charee Stanley, a flight attendant for ExpressJet Airlines, filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last week claiming she was suspended for refusing to serve alcohol due to her religious beliefs. Stanley had recently converted to Islam, so she worked out a compromise with her supervisor where the other attendants would handle alcohol requests on her flights. After one of those attendants filed a complaint that this constituted an undue burden on Ms. Stanley's co-workers, the airline was forced to place her on administrative leave until she agreed to perform all the requirements of her job.
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That's not an accommodation; it's a fundamental shift in reasonable expectation. Cherry-picking one's responsibilities based on religious beliefs is a slippery slope.
One need look no further than Kim Davis, the embattled clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, who's refused to issue marriage licenses for gay couples. Ms. Davis is another religious convert who argues she shouldn't be expected to grant licenses that conflict with her Christian beliefs. U.S. District Judge David Bunning found her in contempt of court for her continued refusal to uphold the responsibilities she'd pledged to fulfill when elected. A reasonable accommodation was offered where one of her five deputy clerks would issue the disputed licenses in her place. Evidently, this wasn't enough to rid the smell of brimstone from her nostrils.
This plague of individual exceptionalism threatens to turn the idea of personal accountability into an anachronism. Both women expect to be treated differently because they feel entitled to a different standard. When they were offered accommodations that didn't fully bridge the gap between the reasonable expectations of society and their own, they resorted to the courts to sanctify this religious entitlement.
Paul Harvey, professor of management at the University of New Hampshire, investigated the behavior of workers like this who self-identified as "entitled" in the July 2010 issue of the journal Human Relations. He found that individuals who identified themselves as "exceptional" tend to feel more frustrated and unhappy with their work lives than employees with a more objective view of their relative worth and contributions.
"Overall, the frustration experienced by entitled workers appears to stem from perceived inequities in the rewards received by co-workers to whom psychologically entitled employees feel superior." Even scarier, Harvey found supervisors who attempt to increase communication with these unsatisfied employees actually increase employee frustration rather than dampen it.
Ms. Stanley and Ms. Davis both suffer from inflated self-importance. When we opt-in to the American way of life, we enter into a social contract. While each of us is special, none of us merits special treatment.
This bloated sense of entitlement might be traced to a series of 70's children's cartoons created by the US Department of Education called "The Most Important Person." The lyrics say it all:
"The most important person in the whole wide world is you, and you hardly even know you. The most important person in the whole wide world is you, come on we'll show you. It's all about the things you feel and do, because you're the most important person in the world to you!"
Who can blame this generation for growing up with the belief that the world revolves around them?
The legitimate need to cultivate a healthy sense of self-esteem seems to have been hijacked to justify the child-like demands of those who feel the rules don't apply to them.
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The Tetris Effect: Re-Wire Your Mind
The Tetris Effect:
When the game Tetris was released, it was insanely popular and became an instant classic. Even the creator of the game himself has said he had trouble finishing the game's programming because he couldn't stop playing it during testing! From the start, the game produced an unforeseen effect on the players' minds when played very heavily – one that was confusing, somewhat alarming, and ultimately fascinating.
Also known as The Tetris Syndrome, The Tetris Effect occurs when people spend so much time doing a particular activity or pattern of behavior that it inhabits their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. With Tetris, the players would see the little tetris block formations, or tetronimos, falling and fitting into rows when they weren't playing anymore. With other games and activities requiring repetitive behaviors, other similar visual experiences associated with the activity take place. It is related to something becoming a habit but with real cognitive changes occurring in the brain.
Memory Science:
In psychology, memory is the process through which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved. There are different types of memory including "declarative memory," which requires conscious recall. In other words, some active mental process must occur to recall the information.
Conversely there is "procedural memory," which is not based on conscious recall but on implicit learning. Implicit learning takes places when a behavior is learned from repetitive practice. So procedural memory works when you automatically know how to physically do something without any conscious effort – like tying your shoe, riding a bike, or reading. Motor skills are developed this way as well as behaviors and patterns of thoughts associated with The Tetris Effect.
Real Studies:
In 2000, a scientist, Robert Stickgold and his colleagues at the Harvard Medical School proposed that Tetris imagery is a separate form of memory likely related to procedural memory. This is from their research in which they showed that people with anterograde amnesia, unable to form new declarative memories, reported dreaming of falling shapes after playing Tetris during the day despite not being able to remember playing the game at all.
A study conducted by Lynn Okagaki and Peter Frensch in 1994 showed that participants who played Tetris for twelve 30-minute sessions (with no previous experience of the game) did much better than a control group in a spatial skills test. The result of the experiment was that the game had positive effects on spatial skills abilities including mental rotation, spatial perception, and spatial visualization.
The experience of seeing falling tetris blocks in your mind hours after playing the game can be somewhat alarming, and you might think, "Did I just fry my brain!?" Playing the game Tetris is very enjoyable for most players, and the somewhat alarming effect of visualizing the game when you aren't playing it might even have benefits like those described in the studies above. Overall, it's a very unique observable scientific phenomenon associated with a popular video game, which is pretty cool.
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Lesson Plan
Learning Objective: This lesson will introduce learners of psychology and memory science to a unique phenomenon that is associated with playing Tetris. Through learning about memory science and having an opportunity to play the game, learners will understand how procedural memory can be altered through repetitive behaviors.


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The fantastic Rumpus returns for the London Games Festival Fringe 2017 on Friday, 7 April, with tickets selling out fast for the indoor festival.
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At the bottom of this page, there are a number of randomly generated tasks – simply complete one of these and send evidence of you finishing it to both email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com and we will send you a link to the ticketing page.
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Sunday, May 25, 2014
Loquat Harvest Time
Back in April during my spring break, I noticed the loquat tree full of little green loquats for the very first time in 20 years or so. Now some of them are turning golden yellow, which means they are ready to be eaten! Of course all the ripe ones are all the way on the top! I had to get some help to reach the fruits. I am so excited!
After picking a basketful of loquats, there are a lot more on the tree. The ones all the way on the top tip of the tree will become bird food. I bet those are the sweetest, too! There are loquat trees all over the neighborhood but most of people don't think about eating the fruits. A couple nights ago I visited a friend in San Jose, and I noticed his loquat tree immediately. It was the only fruit tree in his yard. It was small but had plenty of ripe loquats. I immediately went over and had a taste test. It was sweet! My friend didn't even know what the tree was and never thought about eating the fruit.
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woke up early today,
so gonna talk bout yesterday. XD
i woke up at 7 something yesterday,
packed some stuff
and groomed myself.
when to the TM tower near UM to get the form for streamyx uni pack.
since i'm second year going third year,
this is my last chance.
so borrowed selina's car,
and drove there.
i still still prefer manual cars...
auto cars make the engine sound like it's gonna die soon before the car automatically change the gear.
so, first time i went there,
all those office buildings.
the most ridiculous thing is that the prices for car park.
RM6 sekali masuk was the cheapes. (sekali masuk = per entry)
the most expensive was RM10 sekali masuk.
i went to get a form.
took me 5 mins to find the place and 5 mins to get the form.
and i have to pay RM10?!!
that's juz insane!!
so i juz parked on the side of the road and hoped that the car clampers won't come at that time. XD
advice to anyone going there for matters that don't need much time,
DON'T DRIVE!! ask someone to drive you there.
after getting the form,
half ran back to the car.
still there, and the wheels are free. phew.... XD
drove back to UM which is juz across the fly-over. --___________--lll
but i was in a rush so had to drive. >_________<...
now, the hard part starts.
the failure of bureaucracy.
went to HEP to get the stamp that's required.
the lady told me i had to get a letter from my fac to say that i really am a student there
but why?
can't i juz show u my matrix card?
so i went to my fac and asked for the letter.
they said that i can only get it on MONDAY!!
i'm going back tmr and u ask me to get it on monday?!
can't they juz print it out and ask someone to sign it....
so i figured that i should ask someone to help me with that.
went back to the lady in HEP and try and ask her to sign it without the letter.
no luck.
why can't i juz show u my matrix card and u check if i AM a student here.
it's HEP.
you should have a record of ALL YOUR STUDENTS!!!
in the end i wasted a lot of time and didn't get what i intended to.
after that had to rush back to college to help out with a camp by the old cc committee for the new batch.
it was a loooooooooooooooooong day.
the camp actually started at 1pm,
but had to go there earlier to prepare and stuff.
but i enjoyed it.
there were boring times,
but hey,
it's our fault right?
we are the organizers....
i did have fun.
some of the things they did juz make us crack!! XD
what i love most,
is the marilyn monroe act by soon loong. XD
too bad didn't get a video... >__________<
or i would post it here. XD
that's what J_Fish had to say~ Au Revoir~


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Illustrated movie poster designed by Karel Vaca.
- title: Revue na zakázku | Czechoslovakia / Soviet Union, 1982
- director: Zdeněk Podskalský
- with: Karel Černoch, Oldřich Kaiser, Jiří Lábus
poster designer: Karel Vaca, Czechoslovakia, 1982
Poster is in A3 format. Folded in the middle. Beautiful condition
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- 1982 3rd Prize, The Hollywood Reporter (Don't Call Me Major)
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- 1986 Diploma, Biennale Lahti
- 1988 The Best Poster of the Year, Honourable Mention (The Great Film Robbery)
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Vivitar Wide and Slim with expired Kodak gold 200
a tree decorated
Guest blogger feature on photo-eye
Honored to be a featured blogger on the photo-eye blog. And truly thrilled to have one of my solargraphs hanging in their gallery through November!!!
You can read my post and see some of my work they have featured here
pinhole photo of the hanging tree
farewell to a rotten old friend…
I mean this in the best way!
For the past 15 years, (that's how long I've been going to the Fort McKavett star party) this old "hanging tree" has been our observing companion at Fort McKavett.
It has been the first thing I looked for upon arrival at the Fort and has always been the last thing I said goodbye to when leaving. It has been a constant sentinel on the observing field and there's no telling how many others have a fondness for it in some form or fashion.
Not to mention the birds, insects and furry little critters that made it their home when it was thriving 'back-in-the-day'.
I've always known it in its current state of deadness….well, there used to be a little more of it, but over the years, it has lost small limbs to nature and decay. Soon, it will be cut down and removed- I guess it's just too decayed to be safe anymore.
Anyway, I thought it was kind of interesting and appropriate to see it fading in the morning fog as I left the Fort this morning.
Farewell old friend, you have been a great observing companion!
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New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India is probing the Cobrapost sting operation on alleged money laundering by top banks. The RBI report has revealed major irregularities in top banks.
The report shows string of violations on several counts. Sources say the RBI report reveals dummy PANs, unknown NRO IDs, unauthorised gold sale, rampant non-compliance of KYC norms and irregular staff trips.
Sources say the RBI probe into ICICI Bank reveals cash transactions over Rs 10 lakh from unknown sources in non-resident accounts. There are close to 1,000 cases of customers with multiple IDs in 14 ICICI Bank branches. It reveals cash above Rs 50,000 accepted without a PAN number.
The report on HDFC Bank reveals violaton of KYC norms. Up to Rs 5 lakh cash was accepted for gold per day per customer, say sources.
The RBI report on Axis Bank shows transactions over Rs 4,500 crore without a PAN number. It shows branch officials accessed internal accounts to park funds.
Cobrapost had revealed that 23 banks and insurance companies have been engaged in money laundering. Among the 23 banks involved are mostly PSU banks including some big names like the State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank, IDBI, Oriental Bank and Dena Bank.
Cobrapost editor Aniruddha Bahal claimed that both banks and the insurance companies flouted the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) rules, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guidelines and KYC norms. The website alleged that banks accepted unaccounted cash and invested in insurance products thereby hinting at a two-way street between the two.
The sting operation also alleged that splitting of transactions among banks happened to avoid detection. Earlier this year, Cobrapost across various branches of private financial institutions had revealed how bank employees were accepting black money from customers to convert them into white money. Cobrapost claimed that the nationwide operation shows how private banking and insurance affiliates launder money as part of standard procedures.
The sting also showed that money laundering services were openly being offered even to walk in customers who wished to launder their money and a variety of options were being offered.


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Whether you are a designer, developer or website owner you can save time and money by recycling the existing outputs of your job.
If I'm honest I'm a lazy guy. If I had my way I would spend most of my life sitting around doing very little. Unfortunately our clients seem unwilling to pay us money for doing nothing. Personally I think this is just downright rude! ;)
If I cannot sit around doing nothing then the next best thing is to work efficiently, so getting the most done with the least effort.
I like to think I have become pretty good at this. This led me to write my latest post for Smashing Magazine on the concept of recycling.
In this post I outline a variety of ways that everybody can recycle various outputs from their job, reusing them again in order to extract more value from them.
I make recommendations for everybody whether a website owner, designer or developer. I cover everything from recycling the content of your website to using code libraries and even old arguments!
If you are interested in working in a more efficient manner, so saving yourself both time and money, then this is a post worth checking out.


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I only have one new year's resolutions this year worth mentioning, admittedly I do have a few, but I don't plan to even write them down. They will remain in my head, but to me the most important one is to declutter.
My one dream is to live in a minimalist house and have a minimalist lifestyle. But I know that won't happen. Why? My husband and I are both sentimental creatures, him more than me actually. We keep things that have sentimental value even though they really ought to be thrown away. And we have too many books, we buy too many books, we love books too much to stop buying them. And that's precisely the reason why I've long accepted that we won't ever have a minimalist household.
I also have to go through all of our books. We somehow manage to duplicate our books. I have two books of Letters of Ted Hughes. One was given to me by my lovely in-laws. Any takers? My husband and I used to dream of owning our own bookshop. It's a lovely dream which won't happen unless I win the lottery.
My desk as always is a mess. But I'll do my best to declutter and get rid of unnecessary things like Folio Society book catalogues I've already looked through numerous times. I don't know why I even bother to keep them when their website is already bookmarked in all the gadgets I use.
T's toys are also on the list. She has too many toys she doesn't even play with anymore. Before her birthday, I did manage to either throw or give some of her toys away. Toys she's outgrown and since Christmas has just happened, it means more toys.
And lastly, clothes. I'm going to go through all our clothes and get rid of or donate clothes which don't fit us anymore. Who am I kidding? I'm never going to be a size 6 again, so why keep them?
This holding on to too many material things is actually weighing heavily on me now. I can feel the physical heaviness on me as if I'm literally carrying all these clutter in my arms. Isn't that a bit strange? Maybe because this whole decluttering business has been on my mind for several months now and I really just need to do something about it.
What about you?
Do you also have the need to declutter?