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"Through the Players Trust, Major Leaguers have been true partners to Volunteers of America, and have become familiar members of our team working to improve the lives of young people and others we serve," Volunteers of America National President Mike King said. "We are truly honored and proud to have the Players Trust as a partner."
Melissa Persaud, director of the Players Trust, said, "Major Leaguers are proud to continue their decade-long practice of providing grants from the Players Trust to Volunteers of America's local offices to help increase the reach and impact of important programs that benefit children, seniors and veterans, among others. Together, the Players Trust and Volunteers of America continue to help improve the lives of our neighbors in need, and we encourage others to do the same."
This year's winning programs received Players Trust grants ranging in size from $8,800 to $47,700, which were presented on June 5 at Volunteers of America's national conference in Tampa. The six programs serve thousands of people in all regions of the United States:
Volunteers of America Greater Baton Rouge, Parker House and Baton Rouge Youth residential programs: Players Trust funding will provide durable and child-appropriate bedroom furniture for the Parker House and Baton Rouge Youth residential programs, which serve some of the most abused and neglected children and youth in the state of Louisiana. This grant will be used to purchase 16 beds and 16 chests of drawers for the children's bedrooms. The long-term impact of this funding will be a safer, more comfortable environment where children can heal from past trauma.
Volunteers of America of Western Nebraska, Center for Health Promotion: The grant will be used to upgrade 1980's exercise equipment at the Center for Health Promotion. The center's rural location makes providing adequate services to low-income people difficult. The 27-year-old health promotion program provides the only exercise facility in its county. The center offers low-cost classes and memberships to promote healthy lifestyles among children, families and adults.
Volunteers of America of North Louisiana, Highland Club: Funding will be used to establish the Highland Club, a service program for high-risk teenagers in Caddo Parrish, La. The club, targeting high school students, will run in the evenings and provide a safe haven for those without other secure or supportive alternatives. The Highland Club will help ensure teens get the support and guidance they need to make the right choices to become successful, productive, confident, independent and healthy adults.
Volunteers of America of Oregon, Kids Explore Oregon Project: Grant funds will be used to launch the Kids Explore Oregon Project to teach young people how to have fun without drugs and alcohol. The project will target those ages five to 18 at six public housing sites whose families don't have the resources to engage in fun community or outdoor activities. These funds will purchase a 12-passenger van to transport more than 300 children on numerous outings in and around the local community, as well as field trips further afield. These outings will promote healthy lifestyles by getting young people outdoors, exercising and exploring their surroundings.
Volunteers of America Colorado Branch, Brandon Center: The Players Trust grant will be used to enrich an existing on-site Children's Program at the Brandon Center. The grant will also be used to renovate the "Children's Playhouse" space in the facility reserved for children's programming. With the help of trained volunteers and designated homework computers, children will have access to tutoring, an appropriate study space, and assistance with homework. Brandon Center provides emergency shelter, meals and support services to dependent children of single mothers who are homeless as a result of domestic violence or other crises.
Volunteers of America of Massachusetts, Rebound Adolescent and Family Treatment Center: Funds will be used to remodel the kitchen and dining areas at the Rebound Adolescent and Family Treatment Center. The center is a 15-bed residential treatment facility in Boston serving male youth, ages 13-17, coping with drug addiction and alcoholism. The new space will create a multipurpose cooking and eating space where residents will learn the importance of healthy eating as they develop skills to prepare nutritional and affordable meals. Renovations will also all for a dining area that can double as a meeting space.
Volunteers of America has partnered with the Major League Baseball Players Trust since 2002. The centerpiece of this relationship is the Action Team program, which encourages young people throughout the United States to volunteer in their communities. Action Teams, consisting of Major League baseball players and team captains from area high schools, work together in cities nationwide to encourage young people to get involved in their communities by volunteering. To date, Action Teams across the country have inspired more than 40,000 high school students to help more than 145,000 people in need by volunteering in their communities.


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Allentown, Pa., Mar 20, 2012 / 09:27 pm ().- The inquiry into the sainthood cause of Fr. Walter Ciszek, S.J., a missionary who was imprisoned in the Soviet Union for 23 years, has taken a "major step forward" with the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints issuing a declaration that the investigation is valid.
"This breakthrough in the process is very encouraging and a testimony to the commitment and dedication of all those involved," Bishop John Barres of Allentown said March 19.
The Diocese of Allentown's investigation into the priest's life, virtues and reputation for sanctity is valid, the congregation declared. The congregation transferred responsibility for the cause to the Diocese of Allentown from the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic, N.J., in 1996.
The diocese's inquiry into Fr. Ciszek's reputation for holiness collected materials and documentation, including testimony from 45 witnesses. It also gathered the priest's published and unpublished works and forwarded them to Rome in 2006. At the congregation's request, in 2011 it sent additional documentation from the Father Ciszek Center in Shenandoah and from the Jesuit archives in the U.S. and Rome.
"This is a major step forward in the effort to see Fr. Ciszek canonized as the saint of the Church," Matt Kerr, the Diocese of Allentown communications director, told CNA March 20.
"Fr. Ciszek grew up in Shenandoah, in a small town upstate here. The church where he was baptized is still an active church in the diocese."
The ruling means that the focus of the cause now shifts from the local diocese to Rome.
Msgr. Anthony Muntone, the diocesan co-postulator for Fr. Ciszek's canonization cause, said the next phase of the process involves a presentation from the Roman postulator, the writing of a biography, and the compilation of the information proving Fr. Ciszek's heroic virtue.
Nine theologians will then examine the information to determine whether the priest heroically exhibited the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity and the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance.
If the theologians agree that Fr. Ciszek's life showed heroic virtue, they will recommend his cause to the bishops and cardinals of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to study. If that congregation approves, Pope Benedict XVI will receive the results of the inquiry and decide whether to declare Fr. Ciszek "venerable."
Upon papal approval, Fr. Ciszek's cause will then investigate any claims of miracles before he can be officially recognized as a saint.
Fr. Ciszek was born in 1904 in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. He entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1928 and was ordained in 1937, after being trained to say Mass in the Russian rite.
After two years in Poland, he used the chaos of World War II as cover to enter the Soviet Union so that he could minister to Christians who lived under Communist persecution.
He was arrested by the Soviet authorities as a supposed spy in 1941. His imprisonment included torturous interrogation, solitary confinement and years of hard labor near the Arctic Circle. Despite the dangers, he said Mass in secret and heard the confessions of other prisoners.
When he was not imprisoned, he also ministered to several parishes.
The priest was returned to the U.S. in a spy exchange in 1963.
He recounted his trials and reflected on their spiritual meaning in his popular memoirs "He Leadeth Me" and "With God in Russia."
Fr. Ciszek died at Fordham University in New York on Dec. 8, 1984.
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"Programming" book for toddlers?
So... I came upon this last night. It seems to be a brand new book, so I'm guessing nobody here has bought/read it yet, but I'm intrigued (but reticent to purchase a book without a "look inside" button.) Still, I love programming and I have two young'uns. So I thought I'd put this out here. Anybody know of anything similar?
I hear velociraptor tastes like chicken.
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Re: "Programming" book for toddlers?
I know code.org targets young kids, but probably not toddlers. I've never seen anything for toddlers. It seems like simple numbers/counting books would be just as good. Though obviously coding parents may be inclined to buy this book simply because projecting your personality on young children is a common thing.
The kickstarter page describes it as
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It's an alphabet book that aims to help us share what we do with the kids in our life, and spark children's interest in coding.
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Adnan Habib, 10, and Arsalaan, four, were killed when the car they were in crashed close to junction 15, near Stoke-on-Trent, on Tuesday. The brothers, described by their family as "precious jewels", died alongside their 32-year-old aunt, Bushra Tazarib.
More than 2,000 people attended a funeral for the brothers at a mosque in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, on Saturday. Hundreds spilled out into the street from the packed mosque and said funeral prayers in pouring rain.
Among the mourners was Khan, who this morning tweeted: "In Wycombe for the funeral of 2 young kids + aunty who died in a car crash on way to a cousins wedding last week. Condolences to the family."
Fellow mourners said they had seen the boxer arrive at the mosque among hundreds of people who travelled from the north of the country to attend.
Khan was at the same wedding the three crash victims were travelling to on Christmas Day and has described how the occasion turned from joyous to "despair" as news of the tragic accident spread.
One mourner, who did not want to be named, said: "This is basically the whole community, as well as people who have travelled from outside Wycombe to come. It's such a tragedy, everyone feels the family's pain."
Before the funeral ceremony, the bodies of Adnan, Arsalaan and their aunt were laid to rest in another mosque nearby, where grieving relatives, friends and members of the community - including what appeared to be fellow schoolchildren - paid their respects.
Coaches and taxis arrived with mourners from the north of the country, including Manchester, and crowds watched as the coffins, covered in embroidered drapes, were carried inside. Floral tributes were also brought, which read "Adnan", "Arsalaan" and "sister". Afterwards, the coffins were moved to the town's nearby main mosque where the funeral ceremony was held. A private burial was due to take place in the afternoon for the two boys.
Their aunt's body is to be transported to Pakistan, police said. An inquest into the three deaths has been opened and adjourned by North Staffordshire Coroner Ian Smith.


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An inmate using a homemade weapon assaulted and killed a guard at a federal prison in northeastern Pennsylvania, the first fatal attack on a federal corrections officer in nearly five years, officials said Tuesday.
Correctional Officer Eric Williams was working in a housing unit at the Canaan federal penitentiary when an inmate attacked him Monday night, according to prison officials. Other prison staff restrained the inmate, and Williams was rushed to a hospital where he was pronounced dead around 11:30 p.m.
'This is clearly the darkest day in our institution's short history, and we are in shock over this senseless loss of a colleague and friend,' Warden David Ebbert said in a statement.
An autopsy performed Tuesday revealed that Williams, 34, suffered blunt head and neck trauma and multiple stab wounds and cuts. Lackawanna County Coroner Timothy Rowland ruled Williams' death a homicide.
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An FBI spokesman in Philadelphia declined comment, saying details would be released when the inmate is charged. It wasn't immediately clear when that would happen. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Harrisburg expressed condolences to Williams' family and colleagues, but declined further comment.
At least three inmates have been killed at the prison, which houses 1,350 high-security male inmates. A satellite camp houses 136 minimum-security inmates. The complex, about 20 miles northeast of Scranton, opened in 2005.
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Williams, from Nanticoke, began his career with the bureau on Sept. 11, 2011. His sister said he graduated from King's College with a criminal justice degree and worked in supermarket loss prevention and as a police officer before going to work in the federal prison system. 'It was more of a stable job,' she said.
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In an announcement that stunned scientists, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has cancelled grant applications for what was supposed to be a $20-million, four-year green chemistry program.
The mysterious cancellation, announced on April 6, came less than three weeks before the April 25 deadline for the grant proposals.
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"My reaction is shock that it happened and total dismay that what appeared to be a novel program was cancelled without warning or explanation," said Eric Beckman, a chemical engineer at the University of Pittsburgh who was working on a proposal.
Terry Collins, a green chemist at Carnegie Mellon University and a pioneer in the field, said the announcement "stunned me." Collins was on a team of green chemists and other environmental scientists that had been working for months to put together a funding proposal.
Beckman said he'd never seen such a thing happen before – a government agency pulling the plug on a request for proposals so close to its deadline – in his more than 20 years in academia.
The $20 million in funding would be "one of the most significant sources of dedicated support for green chemistry so it is a blow to the community that the call for applications was cancelled without explanation," said Evan Beach, a green chemist at Yale University. "Everybody was in the home stretch on writing. The preparations took several months."
The EPA offered no reason for the last-minute cancellation.
"Given the new and emerging research areas...EPA determined that it was necessary to further explore these research areas and also consider changes to its usual review process," Kelly Widener, assistant director for research communications at EPA's National Center for Environmental Research, said in an email response to Environmental Health News.
Widener, who declined to elaborate, said the EPA anticipates re-issuing its requests for proposals in June or July.
Green chemistry, according to the EPA, is "the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances…across the life cycle of a chemical product, including its design, manufacture, and use."
The new program – to create Centers for Material Life Cycle Safety and Centers for Sustainable Molecular Design – was announced in late December as a part of the EPA's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program.
The green chemistry centers were to draw together scientists from wide-ranging disciplines, including engineering, chemistry, social science and physics, to develop "improved methods for the design of next generation chemicals," the EPA said when it announced the available funding.
"This holistic approach to design, which considers all the stages of a material's life cycle, provides an opportunity to produce materials which minimize, and preferably eliminate, any associated potential environmental and human health impacts that may occur during the life cycle," the original request for proposals said
That funding for such a promising area of science was halted without explanation at the last minute has many researchers scratching their heads.
"For the EPA to treat so wastefully the field that holds most of the keys to a good future for the relationships between chemical products and processes and the environment and health is mystifying to say the least," Collins said.
This story was reported by Brett Israel and was reprinted with permission from Environmental Health News.


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One powerful feature of Google Analytics is the ability to create filters to limit and modify the traffic data that is included in a profile. Custom filters can be made on specific fields of data; our users have long been asking for more data to filter, especially for mobile and social. We have listened, and are glad to announce an expanded fields list. Full descriptions of the new fields and values are documented here, and following is a summary:
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Is there any movie star who has a more thrilling relationship with avant-garde fashion than Tilda Swinton? The actress is the star of a new short film directed by photographer Katerina Webb titled The Future Will Last a Very Long Time. Webb created the film during rehearsals for a live happening called The Impossible Wardrobe, which artist Olivier Saillard will stage during the Festival d'Automne à Paris, to be held at the Palais de Tokyo from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1.
In the film, which will be played on a loop during the happening, Swinton walks around the Musée Galliera's archives wearing a white lab coat and white gloves while holding some of the garments from its archives, including an item worn by Napoleon Bonaparte and a coat designed by Madeleine Vionnet. For added ghostly effect, the faces of the garments' wearers will be projected onto Swinton's image.
This is not Swinton's first experience with high-concept fashion. Many of her most memorable film roles — like the White Witch in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe or Emma Recchi in I Am Love — have required forward-thinking costumes. A look at Swinton's own impossible wardrobe here in the gallery — and in another fashion-focused short she created with Dazed & Confused, below.


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The winners of this year's CODiE awards have been announced by the SIIE and we're very pleased to share the great news regarding Adobe Presenter. Adobe Presenter Video Creator, one of the favorite new features in Adobe Presenter 8, has been recognized as the winner in the Best Video Tool category.
The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry's only peer-reviewed awards. The first round review of all nominees is conducted by media, publishing, and information services executives with considerable industry expertise, including members of the industry, analysts, media and bloggers, and bankers and investors. The judges are responsible for selecting the CODiE Awards finalists. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products and the scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners.
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"What a beautiful wind"
Avatar request please.
Episode 1
OP (starts when the OP shows Taiga fixing her stockings or something)
Timeframe: 0:02 - 0:07
It's alright if the file size is more than 50kb since I'll be using it in another forum (with credit of course) but it would be great if anyone can find a way to make it 50 kb like deleting some frames or some sort.
EDIT: Sorry for the double post! It was accidental. Had some net problems >_<
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Hey guys I made a sig and wanted to share it:
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Here's some of a few avatar requests for Episode 4. Thanks in advance to whoever makes them.
They're free for all, since I'm not really in a mood to change avatars yet, but feel these Taiga images would make great avatars and do her dere-ness superb justice.
0.42-0.44 Taiga waking up
1.42-1.46 (anywhere in between's fine) Taiga getting all mushy-mushy about the photos
3.48-3.49 and 4.14-4.15 Taiga: Ohaaa!!!
8.22-8.23 and 8.24-8.26 Taiga getting all giddy
9.01-9.03 and 9.15-9.19 (anywhere around is fine) Taiga completely stiff while preparing to eat
10.29-10.30 Ryuji stuffing two meatballs into Taiga's mouth
10.42-10.44 Taiga munching on the meatballs
10.45-10.47 Taiga swallowing them
12.58-13.01 Taiga being called a klutz by Ryuji (Can someone make a sig of this at 12.58 with the Toradora titles by the side as well please? No need to put my name on it so anyone can claim it. )
And here's one for Inko-chan
21.50-21.53 Inko: Isn't it good?
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Here are some of the avatars you have asked for. Not sure if I captured the right moments, though:
Mushy mushy one:
Giddy giddy ones:
More closed up:
Face only:
Unrelated one:
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Thanks teachopvutru.
Here are the remaining requests that have yet to be made. Can someone hopefully please pick up on these?
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Besides my requests above that have yet to be picked up on, I have two requests for episode 5:
15.54-15.56 Minori raising her arms in the air with an angel like expression
15.56-15.58 And then descends into a hideous demon like expression as she crosses her arms
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The names were names of those lost to murder, drunk driving and domestic violence, and the gravity of the evening was not lost on this reporter. Many of the names I recognized because I had reported on their deaths.
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New homes planned at county lake
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What was a 21-acre horse ranch on the northeast corner of the county lake could become new suburban residential and lake lots if everything goes right.
Developer Gary Dunnegan has applied for a conditional use permit, which is required for land that is zoned agriculture.
"With our zoning regulations, you cannot build a subdivision on land that's zoned ag," Planning and Zoning Director Tonya Richards said. "We have to re-zone the land to something that would allow him to subdivide and plat, which would be suburban residential."
Dunnegan can apply for a conditional use permit for the actual subdivision after the re-zone is finished.
"It's not like just getting a permit and starting building," Richards said. "You've got to notify people of the public, people within 1,000 feet of the property, and let them be able to voice any concerns."
Once a surveyor completes the plat for the project, a majority vote by the county planning commission would send the matter to county commissioners for final approval. A meeting at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26 at the lake hall will give county residents a chance to voice any concerns.
Dunnegan said the land would be split into 10 60-by-100 feet cabin lots, six 2½-acre lots for horses, and five ¾-acre lots. He already has land at the lake at 71 Lakeshore Drive. The new subdivision would be at 77 Lakeshore.
"There just aren't any lots available if you want to move to the lake," Dunnegan said. "Marion County Lake is the crown jewel of the county," Dunnegan said. "I think it's going to be a great deal for the county."


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Chris Marker, 'La Jetee' director dead at 91
PARIS - Chris Marker, the influential French filmmaker whose career spanned six decades, has died, France's Culture Ministry confirmed Monday. He was 91.
President Francois Hollande led tributes to the director, whose large body of work includes the 1962 classic "La Jetee" — an award-winning post-apocalyptic movie that's often ranked among the best time-travel films ever made.
In a statement, Hollande said the 28-minute black and white film comprised almost entirely of stills "will be remembered by history."
Set in a post-World War III nuclear-devastated Paris, "La Jetee" tells the story of a prisoner sent to the past and future to save the present. The film was one of the first to use sci-fi notions of circular time and has since spawned a myriad of references.
"La Jetee" will probably be best remembered as the inspiration behind Terry Gilliam's 1995 feature "Twelve Monkeys," but many critics say its influence stretches as far as James Cameron's 1984 and 1991 "Terminator" movies.
Marker — born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve and still active into his 80s — was also known for the documentary style seen in his other famous work 1983's experimental essay-film "Sunless," which again takes up the time themes used in his earlier material.
In "Sunless," the thoughts of a world traveler are narrated and used to look at the failings of human memory; especially in creating world history.
Marker's work was often politically engaged, and in 1967 he produced "Far from Vietnam," a documentary film featuring pieces by Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais that opposed U.S. involvement in southeast Asia.
Cannes Film Festival President Gilles Jacob on Monday called Marker an "indefatigable filmmaker."
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I went here to inspect the property for possible purchase on 5/5/14 with a contractor. The foundation is bowed in about 5" with a vertical crack on two walls! It would cost about 100k to fix not to mention the other issues it has. The foundation is a deal breaker though. Good luck to whoever buys it.See this property: 603 S WISCONSIN ST, HOBART, IN
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The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has announced nominees in the fields of television, new media, radio and promotional writing. New shows such as "Better Call Saul," "Mr. Robot" and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" were cited alongside favorites like "Game of Thrones," "The Americans" and "Veep."
In the drama series category, "The Americans," "Better Call Saul," "Game of Thrones" and "Mr. Robot" garnered nominations. For comedy, "Broad City," "Silicon Valley," "Transparent," "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" and "Veep" got the call.


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Paul di Resta has revealed that Force India is targeting fifth place in the constructors' championship in 2013.
The team was aiming to build on its encouraging sixth place in 2011 last season, but a competitive year saw it finish seventh despite scoring 40 more points than the year before. With the previous season in mind, di Resta admitted that while the team has set a target of fifth, he'd be content with another improvement on this season.
"We're hoping to finish fifth overall in the constructors' championship next season," di Resta told the Scotsman newspaper. "Personally, my first objective is to at least get back to sixth. Anything more than that would be a bonus."
Di Resta is more confident having solved the chassis problem that plagued the end of his 2012 season, but he admits he was frustrated at how long it took the team to come up with a solution.
"Obviously I won't go into specific details, but the car slowly but surely got worse as the season progressed. And we didn't pick the problem up quick enough. You tend to think these problems will iron themselves out over time, but instead it continued getting worse. It cost us time in Suzuka and in India. We changed the monocoque for Abu Dhabi, but in the end we had to replace the whole chassis, and that cured the problem. Unfortunately, that came right at the end of the season."


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This 10mm focal length lens, manufactured by J.A. Maurer, Inc., was used on the data acquisition camera (DAC) placed in the Apollo 11 Command Module during its July 1969 mission. To document different technical procedures during the mission, such as docking and undocking with the lunar module, different lenses were available to the astronauts in order to capture these mission elements. A lens of this type would offer a fairly standard viewing angle of the subject.
NASA transferred this lens to the Museum in 1969.
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INDIAN LAND – The groundbreaking for the new Del Webb Library at Indian Land will take place at 3 p.m. Dec. 2.
The new library, to be built as an anchor to the Carolina Commons shopping center, is scheduled for completion in November 2008.
Members of the Lancaster County Council and the Lancaster County Library Board of Trustees will be present at the ceremony. Rudy Carter, Council chairman, David McDonald, principal of Indian Land Elementary/Middle School, and Trish Douglas, lifelong resident of Indian Land, will offer short remarks about this event.
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Hazardous act: UVA grad had 'JFK' moment
Sarah Lyman Kravits, UVA class of 1988, was in grad school in Washington when she was picked for a few moments of screen time in Oliver Stone's 1991 film, JFK. "Oliver Stone wanted everyone smoking," remembers Kravits, a nonsmoker. "I was trying to concentrate on not looking like an idiot smoking."
The nonsmokers were given clove cigarettes. "They were making me feel ill," says Kravits in a phone call from New Jersey, where she now lives. "I didn't want to put it out because I wasn't very good at lighting cigarettes."
Ten takes later, they had the scene in which Donald Sutherland walks through the Pentagon past Kravits, who plays a general's secretary and waves him into a smoke-filled meeting room.
"Oliver Stone kept calling me 'honey,'" says Kravits. Sutherland was quite a character– and shoeless, she reveals, although that wasn't visible to viewers.
Kravits has moved from drama to parenthood and textbook writing, but she fondly remembers her bouffant-haired stint as an extra in JFK, which will have a 20th anniversary screening with Stone at this year's Virginia Film Festival.Read more on: jfkoliver stonesarah lyman kravitsvirginia film festival
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Were there any UVA grads implicated in the assassination? More compeling..........
Donald Sutherland a local character ? He must be the only one ,good eye though Donnie !
Does Mark Lane still live in town? As counsel for the estate of Lee Harvey Oswald and author of Rush to Judgment, he's been an important figure in the search for the truth in the Kennedy assassination since long before Jim Garrison. Wonder why he's not included in the discussion.
**** perhaps he is not included is because the truth has long been known.............."Rush to Judgement" was a very good book, albeit a bit fictional.
and this story is relevant because?
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Computer Science ColloquiumIm Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums, das von den Instituten des Fachbereichs Informatik, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung (ADV) sowie der Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) abgehalten wird, spricht
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Managing the Evolution of FOSS with Model-Driven TechniquesZeit: Wed 21.9.2011, 13:30, 60 Minuten
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ZusammenfassungFOSS (Free and Open Source Software) systems present interesting challenges in system evolution. On one hand, most FOSS systems are based on fine-grained units of software deployment -called packages- which promote system evolution; on the other hand, FOSS systems are among the largest software systems known and require sophisticated static and dynamic conditions to be verified, in order to successfully deploy upgrades on users´ machines. The slightest error in one of these conditions can turn a routine upgrade into a system administrators nightmare. In this tutorial we introduce EVOSS - a model-based approach to support the upgrade of FOSS systems. The approach promotes the simulation of upgrades to predict failures before affecting the real system. Both fine-grained static aspects (e.g. configuration incoherences) and dynamic aspects (e.g. the execution of configuration scripts) are taken into account, improving over the state of the art of upgrade planners. The effectiveness of the approach is validated by instantiating the approach to widely-used FOSS distributions.
VortragenderAlfonso Pierantonio is Associate Professor in computer science at the University of L`Aquila (Italy), he is currently director of the Master in Web Technology degree program. His current research interests include Model-Driven Engineering and in particular the theory and practice of model versioning/evolution with a specific emphasis on coupled evolution. In particular, he investigated the problem of co-evolution between metamodels and other artifacts in order to define the basis for their (semi) automatic adaptation. He has been and is currently part of program and organization committees of conferences and has been among the initiators and in the steering committee of the International Conference on Model Transformation (ICMT). He co-edited several special issues on Model Transformations appeared in different scientific journals and is associate editor of the Springer Journal of Software and Systems Modeling. More information on http://www.di.univaq.it/alfonso
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Set of two Australian Animals Monotremes maxicards
This maxicard set contains the two maxicards from the Australian Animals Monotremes stamp issue.Read more
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This maxicard set contains the two maxicards from the Australian Animals Monotremes stamp issue. A maxicard is a *prepaid postcard with a stamp affixed and postmarked on the view side. The subject matter of a maxicard is common to the card, stamp and postmark.
A *prepaid postcards can be posted from any red post box located in Australia or at your local Post Office and can be sent worldwide or to domestic locations.
This stamp issue features graphic illustrations of two iconic Australian animals against a backdrop of native foliage. The Playtpus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) and the Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) are both egg-laying mammals, known as monotremes (from the animal order Monotremata).
Monotremes share similarities with other placental mammals; they are warm-blooded, covered in hair and produce milk for their young. But there are also differences, including a lack of teeth as adults.
The Platypus is a semi-aquatic mammal found in freshwater environments within the eastern states of Australia, including Tasmania, and on Kangaroo Island. Its dense fur serves as insulation, and its broad, flat, duck-like bill helps it to detect the electrical fields of its prey. The diet of the Platypus includes crustaceans, worms and tadpoles.
There are two genera of Echidna still in existence – the longbeaked Zaglossus (three species) and one species of Tachyglossus – the Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus). It is the Short-beaked Echidna that is found widely throughout Australia (as well as in parts of New Guinea). The Short-beaked Echidna eats mainly ants and termites, and uses its snout and claws to find food.
Echidnas are covered in both fur and spines, the spines serving as a protective mechanism for this shy creature.
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- Issue date: 26 September 2016
- Issue withdrawal date: tba
- FDI withdrawal date: 25 October 2016
- Denominations: 1 x $2.10, 1 x $2.95
- Stamp illustration: Mary Callahan Design
- Product design: Mary Callahan Design
- Printer: RA Print
- Paper (gummed): Tullis Russell Red Phosphor
- Paper (self-adhesive): Avery B100
- Printing process: Offset lithography (Flexography)
- Stamp size: 26mm x 37.5mm
- Minisheet size: 130mm x 80mm
- Perforations: 14.6 x 13.86
- Sheet layout: Module of 50
- FDI postmark: Green Valley NSW 2168
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If your data model has a hierarchy, you can use it in Power View. You can also create a new hierarchy from scratch in Power View.
The advantage of having the hierarchy in a data model is that you can use it in every Power View sheet or report you build on that data model. You can only create a hierarchy in the Data Model in Excel by going to the Power Pivot window. Read about creating hierarchies in Power Pivot.
This data model already has a hierarchy called SDE, consisting of the fields Sport > Discipline > Event. With one click you can add the hierarchy to a Power View report.
If your data model doesn't have a hierarchy, you can create one in Power View, too. Just adding multiple fields to the Rows or Columns box for a matrix creates a hierarchy for that matrix. Adding multiple fields to the Axis box of a chart creates a hierarchy for that chart. With this hierarchy, you can now drill up and drill down in the chart or matrix.
You can put fields in any order in a hierarchy. It needn't be a natural hierarchy like Category > Subcategory > Product. It could be Category > Year > Continent.
SQL Server Analysis Services tabular models can also have hierarchies that you can use in Power View sheets or reports.
See Also
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Power View and Power Pivot videos
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Tutorial: Import Data into Excel, and Create a Data Model


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Middle school and high school students from Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover and Pender school systems competed in math and science events at the annual ROCAME Regional Jamboree on April 26 at E. A. Laney High School in Wilmington.
Brunswick County won the championship trophy (overall points) for the third consecutive year.
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Write It Do It: second place, Hailey Winstead and Maranda Hansley (SBM)
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Conservatism has been unfairly maligned as racist, Gerard Alexander writes in op-ed in today's Washington Post. "From an immigration law in Arizona to a planned mosque near Ground Zero to Glenn Beck emoting at the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech," he writes,
the controversies roiling American politics in recent weeks and months have featured an ugly undertone, suggesting meanness, prejudice and, in the eyes of some, outright racism. And it is conservatives—whether Republican politicians, Fox News commentators or members of the "tea party" movement—who are invariably painted with that brush.
I agree with Alexander's broad point: American conservatism is not racist, either in theory or in practice, and most of the accusations hurled against conservatives are ill-founded. His analysis of debate about the mosque near Ground Zero, though, is too hasty. "The planned Islamic center near Ground Zero raises alarms, in part, because the insensitivity of its architects to 9/11's emotional legacy suggests their deeper distance from American sensibilities." Conservatives' opposition to the center, he argues, rests on the principle that "[j]ust because someone has a legal right to do something . . . does not mean it is a wise, desirable[,] or respectful thing to do." But it's only unwise, undesirable, or disrespectful to build an Islamic center near Ground Zero if you take the position that the mosque's supporters and future patrons are and will be Muslims, just like the 9⁄11 hijackers.
But they are 2 different sets of Muslims. The mosque's supporters are part of the American cultural pastiche, and should be presumed—unless shown otherwise—to accept America's world standing and to be normal, loyal Americans who are not committed to the violent overthrow of the United States. (Whether they agree with current American policies is irrelevant; no one—not even the president—agrees with all current American policies. We don't hand out building permits on the basis of policy preferences.) The 9⁄11 hijackers, as they demonstrated to horrific effect, were committed to the violent overthrow of the United States.
Sure, both groups read from the same Qur'an, and so some New Yorkers might be reminded of the hijackers when they see the mosque near Ground Zero. I do not begrudge the person who involuntarily makes that connection, but the connection is unfortunate—something to be overcome, not accommodated. It would be unwise to make an exception to America's pluralist ideals until the 9⁄11 generation dies off in 60 or 70 years. Allowing the mosque to be built will allow more non-Muslim Americans to meet and know their Muslim fellow citizens, and hopefully to develop new connections so that the thought of Islam does not immediately bring to mind 9⁄11.


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'Kidnapped' Israeli soldier actually was killed in action, military says
The Israeli army said early Sunday morning local time that an Israeli soldier believed to have been kidnapped by Hamas militants in fighting in the Gaza Strip was in fact killed in action, reversing its earlier reports that he had apparently been seized
An army statement said that a special military committee had concluded that Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin died in an attack Friday that led to the collapse of a ceasefire announced by Secretary of State John Kerry and UN Secretary of State Ban ki-Moon..
Based on initial Israeli reports that the officer had apparently been captured, President Barack Obama and Ban both called for the immediate and unconditional release of the soldier.
Hamas never claimed that it held the soldier. A statement Saturday by its military wing said it had no information on his whereabouts or the circumstances of his disappearance, and that he might have been killed in Israeli shelling that followed his reported capture.
An army spokesman, Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, said that militants had possibly seized the soldier's remains, but that some were recovered in a tunnel to which he was taken. The soldier's blood-soaked uniform and ammunition vest were also found.
Military officials said that Goldin was standing near two other soldiers who were killed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives and other militants opened fire on the troops as they worked to uncover a Hamas tunnel. When the officer went missing, a squad of soldiers went looking for him in another tunnel where they suspected he was taken, recovering his equipment.
Under cover of shelling and airstrikes that killed dozens of Palestinians in the southern town of Rafah, Israeli forces pushed into the area in a search for the missing soldier. On Saturday night the soldier's family publicly appealed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to withdraw troops from the Gaza Strip until the officer was found.
"I demand that the State of Israel not leave Gaza until it brings my boy home," his mother said in a televised statement.
Hours later, the family was informed that he was dead.
Lerner said the family was notified as soon as the military concluded, on the basis of its findings and DNA tests, that the officer had died in the attack. A funeral was planned Sunday.
Netanyahu said Saturday that Israeli forces would pull back to new positions in Gaza, but remain poised to hit back hard at further rocket attacks by Islamist militants.
His announcement, amid Israeli media reports that some troops were leaving Gaza while others were redeploying near the border, came after the army said it was close to completing the destruction of networks of Hamas tunnels, some dug across the border to Israel.
The Israeli government did not send a delegation to planned ceasefire talks in Cairo Saturday, and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, a member of the security cabinet, said Israel would now act "uniltaterally" without seeking a broader truce accord with Hamas.
Israel said Hamas violated a 72-hour ceasefire shortly after it began on Friday in a deadly attack on soldiers.
A redeployment of Israeli forces in Gaza without a truce agreement was likely to leave open the possibility of continued hostilities. A Hamas spokesman said a unilateral Israeli pullback wound not "commit" the group to anything, and that the situation on the ground would dictate its response.
The prospect of no truce accord and inconclusive results of the military campaign, now in its fourth week, could expose Netanyahu to criticism at home for failing to end the threat of rocket fire at Israel from the Gaza Strip.
While the Israeli army says it has destroyed rocket stocks and extensive networks of Hamas tunnels, militants have continued to fire rockets at Israel and infiltrate through tunnels throughout the fighting.
More than 1600 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israeli bombardments and shelling since Israel launched its offensive on July 8. Sixty-three Israeli soldiers have died, along with three civilians killed in Israel by rocket strikes.
"After completing the operation against the tunnels, the Israel Defense Forces will deploy for the continuation of our operation according to security needs," Netanyahu told a news conference on Saturday. "We will deploy in places that are convenient for us in order to reduce friction for IDF soldiers, but we will continue the operation until achieving its goal."
Netanyahu said that Israel would "not accept continuation of firing," a reference to rocket strikes at Israel, and warned that Hamas would "pay an intolerable pricefor continued fire. All options are on the table."
The Israeli military notified Palestinians living in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya that it had completed operations there and that they could return to their homes, although may houses in the town were destroyed or damaged by Israeli strikes.
Livni said that after the collapse of the ceasefire deal announced by Kerry and Ban "we've decided to act unilaterally." The goal, she said, is "to move from an arrangement with Hamas to deterrence."
A Palestinian delegation with members of the Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas traveled to Cairo for proposed truce talks, and was expected to be joined by Hamas representatives from abroad. Hamas leaders in Gaza were blocked from traveling by the continued fighting.
Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al Sisi said that an Egyptian ceasefire initiative was a "real chance" to stop the bloodshed, but Israel's boycott of the discussions appeared to dim prospects for a negotiated truce.
Israeli bombardments and shelling continued throughout the day on Saturday, with reports of multiple members of Palestinian families killed in Israeli strikes on their homes. The army said it had attacked houses of suspected militants, along with five mosques it said had been used as militant command centers and for weapons storage. A building described by the army as a weapons "research and development" facility at the Islamic University in Gaza City was also bombed.
Palestinians reported that at least 35 people were killed in heavy shelling of the southern town of Rafah, where Israeli troops intensified searches for an Israeli army officer thought to have been kidnapped in the area on Friday.
Netanyahu said that in attacking the Israeli forces, Hamas violated a commitment given by its ally, Qatar, that it would abide by the ceasefire terms.
But Khaled Mashal, the Qatar-based political leader of Hamas, said that the group had never agreed to continued Israeli operations against its tunnels during the ceasefire, contradicting Secretary of State Kerry, who said that work against the tunnels could proceed under the terms of the temporary truce.
"A truce is a truce, but the presence of the Israeli forces inside Gaza and destroying the tunnels means it's an aggression," Mashal told CNN in an interview.
"The Palestinian resistance has the right to self-defense and the right to deal with the invading Israeli forces who are inside our Gaza territories," he said. He added that Hamas had made its position known to Kerry via Qatar's Foreign Minister.
"We did not deceive Mr. John Kerry, and we did not deceive the Israelis, we fight honorably," he said. "We told everyone that this is our position. Therefore they are the ones who should be responsible for this."


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Entered keyword "education" yielded 224 results.
Education for Sustainable Development Goals in public debate: The importance of participatory research in reflecting and supporting the consultation process in developing a vision for Czech education
Authors: Dlouhá, Jana, Pospíšilová, Marie
The paper reviews recent theoretical discussions on education for sustainable development and competence based teaching, and relates them to the international policy processes of the Sustainable Development Goals implementation where 'the knowledge and skills needed to...
Authors: Linková, Marcela, Cidlinská, Kateřina, Fárová, Nina, Maříková, Hana, Tenglerová, Hana, Vohlídalová, Marta
This document is an outcome of the research project "Analysis of Barriers to and Support Strategy for Gender Equality in Science and Research" implemented in 2017 and 2018 by the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences as part of the Operational Programm...
The aim of this project was to provide reliable data and information on the real and effective distribution of (teaching-related) costs of higher education. The shares of public and private costs were calculated for students of different socio-economic origin, reflecting social d...
Project duration: 2006 - 2007
Authors: Schwarzenberger, Astrid (ed.)
The aim of this project was to provide reliable data and information on the real and effective distribution of (teaching-related) costs of higher education. The shares of public and private costs were calculated for students of different socio-economic origin, reflecting social d...
3. 5. 2018
Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., a katedra sociologie Institutu sociologických studií FSV UK si Vás dovolují pozvat na jarní cyklus Čtvrtečních sociologických seminářů.
Authors: Matějů, Petr, Blanka Řeháková, Natalie Simonová
The chapter addresses a hypothesis according to which inequality in access to higher education did not decrease during socialism, while it has grown during the post-communist transformation. The analysis revealed that the only significant change that occurred during socialism was...
Female Employment, Population Policy, and Childcare: Early Childhood Education in Post-1945 Czech Society
Authors: Hašková, Hana
The author argues that there were four critical junctures that institutionalized a specific path of childcare in the Czech Republic. This policy path established the norm that mothers stay at home with children for 3 years and it also led to one of the highest percentag...
Authors: Večerník, Jiří
This article draws on income surveys from the last two decades to report on trends in earnings disparities and household income inequality in the Czech Republic. Education has been the main axis of change in this area, having acquired a much greater role in the entire process of...
Authors: Hraba, Joseph, Rehan Mullick, Frederick O. Lorenz, Jiří Večerník, Allan McCutcheon
Educated Czechs fared poorly during the communist regime (1948-89) but havedone relatively well since the Velvet Revolution. This phase change is consistentwith transition theory and suggests that educated Czechs may be more supportiveof the postcommunist reforms as a consequence...
Australský systém školného a podpory vysokoškolského vzdělávání [Australian System of Higher Education Contribution Scheme]
Authors: Mysíková, Martina
Authors: Simonová, Natalie, Dimonik Antonowitz
This article aims to compare development in tackling educational inequalities and attempt to evaluate their policies and reforms from the beginning of socialism to-date in the Czech Republic and Poland. A considerable difference in the number of higher education institutions emer...
Authors: Matějů, Petr, Natalie Simonová
The paper addresses the development of higher education in the Czech Republic after 1989, with a special emphasis to the relevant legislation, institutional settings, financing and enrollment. The most significant structural changes in the Czech tertiary education system addresse...
W. Hutmacher, D. Cochrane, N. Bottani (eds.): In Pursuit of Equity in Education: Using International Indicators to Compare Equity Policies
Authors: Simonová, Natalie, David Greger
The book addresses the issue of inequality and inequity in access to education, with a particular emphasis on the role of educational policies. It does so by providing an overview of the main theoretical approaches to the issue and an inventory of existing indicators on which the...
Authors: Konečný, Tomáš, Josef Basl, Jan Mysliveček, Natalie Simonová
The study compares the potential effects of a university admission exam model based on program-specific knowledge and an alternative model relying on general study aptitude (GSA) in the context of a strongly stratified educational system with considerable excess of demand over su...
Authors: Matějů, Petr, Blanka Řeháková, Natalie Simonová
The primary aim of the paper is to compare the development of inequality in access to higher education during the communist and post-communist regimes by testing hypotheses about the effects of economic and cultural dimensions of socio-economic background and gender on the odds o...
Petr Matějů, Jana Straková: Unequal Chances in Education: Educational Inequalities in the Czech Republic
Authors: Smith, Michael L.
An extended book review that overviews the arguments, data and analysis of the book Nerovné šance na vzdělaní (Unequal Chances in Education), edited by Petr Mateju and Jana Strakova.
Authors: Hamplová, D., N. Simonová
The project "Analýza bariér a strategie podpory rovných příležitostí ve vědě" of our department NKC – gender and science releases new publication: "Academics 2018: Proposals for Measures to Support Equality in Research and Higher Education".
A tool for learning or a tool for cheating? The many-sided effects of a participatory student website in mass higher education
Authors: Stöckelová, T., T. Virtová
This paper is a case study of the genesis, operation and, in particular, the educationaleffects of a participatory website established and run by students of one of the largestuniversities in the Czech Republic, the purpose of which is to enable students to sharestudy materials,...
Authors: Mysíková, Martina
This study focuses on earnings inequality within dual-earner couples in four Central-East European (CEE) countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. It aims to analyse the factors that influence earnings distribution within couples. The analysis uses OLS regress...


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Advertising may get on your nerves in the here and now, but it can be a fascinating lens on how the world has changed. These ads from the 1930s-1950s show how advertising, and the world, has changed. Sometimes, but not always for the better. Spot the differences.
All images here are courtesy of the superb New York Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn.
1. People used to assume that advertising was supposed to be useful.
2. And in fact, advertisers used to see it as their duty to fund stuff that people loved (and used advertising to remind them of the fact they'd done it.)
3. The design of many ads used to be truly BEAUTIFUL.
4. Advertisers of the past were not afraid of wading into the gender war. (It's a bit more subtle now, though no less pervasive.)
5. Health claims were not rigorously examined.
6. But you were at least allowed to acknowledge that salt tastes nice.


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Hey all,
Here's my entry for the second round of the Middle Earth LEGO Olympics, Frodo's Lament. This is an illustration of the verse Frodo writes in Lorien:
When evening in the Shire was grey
his footsteps on the Hill were heard;
before the dawn he went away
on journey long without a word.
From Wilderland to Western shore,
from northern waste to southern hill,
through dragon-lair and hidden door
and darkling woods he walked at will.
With Dwarf and Hobbit, Elves and Men,
with mortal and immortal folk,
with bird on bough and beast in den,
in their own secret tongues he spoke.
A deadly sword, a healing hand,
a back that bent beneath its load;
a trumpet-voice, a burning brand,
a weary pilgrim on the road.
A lord of wisdom throned he sat,
swift in anger, quick to laugh;
an old man in a battered hat
who leaned upon a thorny staff.
He stood upon the bridge alone
and Fire and Shadow both defied;
his staff was broken on the stone,
in Khazad-dum his wisdom died.


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French Gothic Capital
A French Gothic capital from Sainte Chapelle in Paris from the thirteenth century. The capitals were tall and slender, concave in profile, with heavy square or octagonal abaci. After the middle of the thirteenth century the carving became more realistic; the leaves, larger and more mature, were treated as if applied to the capital or moulding, not as if they grew out of it.
capital, Cathedral architecture, Classical Architecture, column top, flower post, Gothic architecture, leaf pattern, pillar top
A. D. F. Hamlin College Histories of Art History of Architecture (New York, NY: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1915)


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Dave and Gail
I placed a 2005 Maine Geocoin in our first cache, I didnt write down the ser.#, I just placed it as a prize for someone. Is this O.K.? Reading some of the posts I see that they are trackable and /or can be registered. Does this mean they can be used as a travel bug? How do you register them and what is the purpose? Any info. on these would be appreciated as I have one more to go in my 2nd cache, and one to keep as a collector item for myself. Thanks,,"Dave and Gail" the newbies!


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