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Sanderson's books are puzzling. Take their surface, their visual ideas and the overall story and you're left with a rollicking adventure that occasionally goes deep. Add his stilted, unoriginal prose and method of solving conflicts and you're left with a generic Fantasy book that doesn't insult the reader. After reading his essays and his view on the genre I've come to the conclusion he's an awful writer who stumbled upon some great ideas.
The problem with Sanderson isn't the story itself, but his approach to storytelling. He views his stories as a mechanical process, with the purpose of everything is get to the end. Characters, magic and objects have meaning which is determined only by how much they can solve conflict.
If we're talking reality, this view can make sense. Life is full of conflicts and we need tools to solve it. Literature and Philosophy can be such tools. The difference is in the nature of conflicts in real life, and conflicts in fictional world. The conflict in real life is imposed on us. By that, I mean we don't fully control it. We can instigate, but never design it from scratch. I can go out and start a fight with someone I don't like, but I don't control all the elements – our personal histories, which influence the conflict, are out of our control. The other person's reactions and choices are also out of my control.
Fictional conflicts are the opposites. You build them from scratch. This is something many people forget when they talk about stories. Authors fully control their work. Authors can – and should – impose laws on their work, but even those laws are something the authors can control. Creating a problem just so you could solve it is like the brilliant Useless Machine. It's a contraption that you turn on so it would turns itself off. If the purpose of everything in your story is that you'd solve the conflict, why create the conflict in the first place?
Sanderson's parts fit nicely, but I see nothing admirable about that. Complexity doesn't equal depth, and depth is what matters in fiction. Compexity can be engaging in activities that are thinking for thinking's sake, but Chess also involves human interaction and a real conflict whose elements you don't fully control. Reading the Mistborn novels is like playing Chess against yourself, only with a fancier dressing.
It was so disappointing when Sanderson took an important symbol and turned it into the final plot coupon. Sazed's story is absorbing. It is the existensial crisis made physical, questioning what the hyper-intellectual who only researches, instead of providing answers and doing things, will do when the world is ending. The idea is sometimes explored, but Sazed mostly stares off into space and ruminates. By the time he takes the center stage, he realizes all his knowledge is the last screw to seal the Bad Ending's coffin.
Too many scenes are about doing Allomantic stunts. Sanderson writes them like they're a blow-by-blow account of a role-playing game. Even in those role-playing games, they are the most boring parts. No one cares about Fallout's battle systems. Planescape: Torment is a towering achievement because of the writing. These games can employ a battle system, because the person experiencing the art actually gets to use them.
Fantasy authors often forget that the position of the reader isn't like the writer's. The author may feel like he's discovering a new land when writing. For the reader, it's all laid out, no exploration of thought needed but just an info dump. The author may feel like he's using a complex system of game rules to solve conflicts, but the reader only gets to observe it. The reader doesn't actually use these rules. Imagine if a sports caster told you exactly how the basketball player's legs work.
All these details in those big fights don't matter. They don't affect anything. Remove them, and the battle will be slightly shorter. In general, battles don't work in literature. Violence is visual and immediate, something that's hard to replicate in the relatively calm activitiy of reading. It's also swift, so exact descriptions of it come off as silly. People don't experience violence like Sanderson writes about it. It's always over before we know what happened. He never once tries to capture the thrill of violence.
The story is more focused this time around. Stalling, the defining feature of the second book, is gone. Sanderson also deserves credit for his ability to structure stories. He never gets lost, never rambles too much or digress. He understands epicness doesn't have to come from how many miles your characters walk, but the scope of the conflict. So making his story about stopping the end of the world is a good idea, and there is an energy in the final scenes, the emotionally appealing concept of the world torn between creation and destruction.
I want to hear Sanderson tells such a story. He can tell it without losing track, but when it's covered in dull prose I lose hope. Many a pointless sentence fill the book. Inner thoughts drown the books in obvious or unnecessary details. I truly don't understand why authors do this so much. I sometimes edit out of kindness prose of young writers, and they do it all the time. Are they afraid that nobody will understand? So long as you don't write like Hegel, we can understand you just fine.
I do give him credit for not digressing too much. Scenes do gel together for a coherent story. One arc does feel like it's separated from the main story, but Sanderson tells it like it's self-contained, with its own conflict and resolutions. It doesn't exist just to add details, but as an actual story. His descriptions are often to the point.
His exploration of themes is particularly bad. He wants to say something, and his fairly sparse story means ideas emerge clearly. For all the talk of worldbuilding, there aren't too many details to keep up with. When the ideas emerge though, they're just there. Sanderson does nothing with them. The secondary arc is about the evils of revolution, but all it has is a bunch of extremists using the government for their own selfish needs. There is no understanding or insight or sympathy towards them. It doesn't reveal anything about this archetype, but perpetuates an empty pattern. The final antagonist also stands for nothing but death'n'destruction. It's fun enough in a simple story, but Sanderson aims higher – a complex machine which has no reason to exist but to turn itself off.
Occasionally, it's fun and it concludes. Mostly, it's a Useless Machine, but not as amusing and not as offensive as George R. R. Martin. I understand some people dig epic fantasy, but this is 700 pages. Dunsany wrote a brilliant novel with only 230 pages, and reading it three times will keep revealing new things and is a better usage of my time.
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SANDY, Utah — Real Salt Lake and FC Dallas both extended streaks on Saturday night, following a 0-0 tie at Rio Tinto Stadium.
Although the draw allowed RSL to tie the MLS record for the longest unbeaten streak to open a season, the Claret-and-Cobalt (6-0-6) dropped two points at home against a Dallas team that played a midweek game and has been headed in the opposite direction.
Meanwhile, the scoreless tie extended Dallas' winless streak to seven games — though it represented an improved result from the midweek loss to LA.
After a relatively quiet first half in which neither team could put many chances together, the game opened up after halftime. And both teams left the field looking back on a number of "what if?" moments that could have turned the tie into a win.
In the 55th minute, RSL defender Nat Borchers nearly put in a header, only to see it cleared off the line. In the 66th minute, a Dallas midfielder crossed the ball almost perfectly in to forward Tesho Akindele, who put it wide right.
It was that kind of night for Dallas and RSL.
Real Salt Lake not only didn't win, they suffered a potentially serious loss to their squad. Forward Joao Plata had to come off the field after re-aggravating his left hamstring — the same injury that took him out of a March 22 game against the LA Galaxy and kept him out of the lineup for the next three-plus games.
The injury also leaves RSL perilously short of forwards, with Alvaro Saborio off training with the Costa Rican national team ahead of the World Cup.
For the first time this season, Salt Lake forward Robbie Findley saw action. He underwent knee surgery in December and was in the 18 for the first time on Saturday, getting subbed in in the 66th minute. But he and forward Olmes Garcia — who came in for Plata in the first half — could not produce a goal.
Real Salt Lake (6-0-6) go on the road next Saturday to Seattle — a matchup of the top two teams in the Western Conference. FC Dallas (5-6-3, 18 points) — which started the season 4-0-1 before a 1-6-2 stretch — head home to take on the San Jose Earthquakes.


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Indica Bookshop
- I am typing this while on the run from various secret agents from the CIA, M16, PTA, FBI, and people pretending to be from all of the above agencies, so please excuse my speling. (In fact, I believe the only government agency that isnt pursueing me is FEMA, but that should suprise no one.)
The Indica Bookshop was a secret 1960s safe place for the justice-seeking, freedom-loving, world-wide scret organization known only as the Brotherhood of Endorsing Anonymous Transactions of Love, Equality, and Serenity, or the B. E. A. T. L. E. S, for short. The four lead members, whose names are guarded with utmost secrecy, used their undercover identity of a band to travel the world to help bring down the Man. Their safe place, finaced by their "bassist", code name The Cute One, helped organize followers and inspire new ideas for spreading their message]. Sadly, even this safe haven was infilterated, and the B. E. A. T. L. E. S. crushed.
The Fall[edit]
One day, the "lead singer", code name The Cynic, met a female artist at the Indica Book Shop. Little did he know that she was sent by the Powers That Be, to seduce him ,destroy the B. E. A. T. L. E. S., and cleverly engineer his death She succeeded, and the members, including code name The Quiet One and code name The Clown scattered. The Quiet One died shortly after The Cynic of sinister methods. The Cute One and the Clown live on.
HOWEVER, among us former B. E. A. T. L. E. S. followers, there is a rumor that the two "dead" B. E. A. T. L. E. S. actually live on, trapped by the enenmy. This is why i flee the law, aided by none, to get this all-too-important crystal decanter to my friends. Its secret will save us all...
They are closing in... NO!!... just a FEW more yards...................................................................................
I am typeing this from an undeerground dungeaon. it is dimly lit and i am to be executed, so please excuse my speling.
they think theyve won. but i have the last laugh. i have found a way to pass the decanter on. I am typing this so the world my kno the truth. Pass it on.
"Non Illegitmi Carborundum"
"Dont Let the bastards grind you down"
I have risen from the dead to edit this page. Are ya happy, uptight Uncyclopedia nerds??? I mean, proper speeling and grammer? I WAS BEING CHASED FOR MY LIFE AND THE FREAKING FUTURE OF THE FREAKING WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!! I have no time to turn on spell check! What is this, the freaking Encyclopedia Britannica?


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Avoiding Mistakes Made Using Axis2
There are a number of major areas where users can get into trouble when using Axis2. In this article, I provide possible solutions and suggestions to most of the problems you may face when you start to use Axis2. Even though this article is titled 10 Biggest Mistakes Developers make in Axis2, rather than just citing problems and relevant solutions, I go one step ahead by explaining the major areas where you are most likely to get into trouble and by showing you how to overcome those situations.
1 — Trying To Do Advance Tasks Without Knowing Basics of Axis2
Axis2 is the next generation of web services stack, which is built on a new architecture. It was introduced in order to have a much more flexible, efficient and configurable Axis. Even though the architecture is new, some of the well-established concepts from Axis 1.x are preserved in Axis2.
Axis2 does, however, come with a lot of new features, enhancements and new industry specification implementations. Items such as AXIOM, Asynchronous Web service, MTOM, MEP support and archive-based deployment architecture are considerably esteemed among these new features and enhancements.
One of the main reasons of introducing Axis2 was to have proper XML processing model. Axis 1.x used DOM as its XML representation mechanism, but the draw back with DOM is the need to keep the complete objects hierarchy (corresponding to incoming message) in memory. For a message of small size this wont be a problem, but when it comes to a large message this becomes an issue. It is to over come this problem Axis2 introduced a new XML representation for it base.
AXIOM (AXIs2 Object Model) is the base of Axis2, where any incoming SOAP message is represented as an object model called AXIOM inside Axis2. The advantage of AXIOM over other XML inforset representations is that it is based on PULL parser technique, while most others are based on PUSH parser technique. The main difference of PULL over PUSH is that in PULL technique invoker has the full control on the parser and can ask for the next event, where as in the case of PUSH, when the parser is asked to proceed it will fire the events until it reach the end of the document.
Since AXIOM is based on PULL parser technique it has so called on-demand-building capability where object model will be built only if it is asked to do so, and, also if it is required one can directly access underline PULL parser from AXIOM and use that rather than building OM (Object Model).
If you dont have a good understanding of AXIOM, then developing Web services with Axis2 is not an easy task. You will encounter different problems and you most likely won't use its optimization mechanisms. Of courses you can develop simple services without knowing anything about AXIOM, but if you are going to implement WS-spec or perform certain advance work with Axis2, its wiser to learn AXIOM first.
2 — Lack Of Knowledge On Axis2 Repository
In simple terms Axis2 is a SOAP processing engine with the main function of delivering incoming SOAP messages into the correct applicationsand here every application is assumed to be a web service. In the mean while, just delivering an incoming message to an application is not enough. It is also required to have quality of services (QoS) like security and reliability.
To provide those QoS, or rather to extend Axis2 main functions, Axis2 has introduced the concept of extension modules. Axis2 repository keeps those two kinds of resources (web services and modules), in a simple term repository, a directory in the file system, which has some specific structure as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Axis2 repository
As you can see there are three sub directories inside the repository and usage of them are as follows:
|if both services and modules want to share some third party libraries then those should be placed in lib directory
|all the extension modules, or rather, module archive files should be in the modules sub directory
|all the web services or rather service archive files should be there in the services sub directory.
The repository may contain Axis2 configuration file (axis2.xml) as well. When you start Axis2 for the very first time by giving repository location, if there is no axis2.xml found in the repository, it will copy the default axis2.xml file into repository and start the system using that axis2.xml. Thereafter a user can change that axis2.xml file if desired. Next time when the user starts Axis2, the system will be configured reflecting those changes as well.
Note: There is minor modification in the structure of the repository after Axis2 0.94 release. The axis2.xml file is located inside some other sub directory called conf inside the repository.
3 — Lack of Understanding regarding the Generation of WSDL
When working with WSDL files, it is possible to generate a service using WSDL that is given to you when you deploy the service. However, at run time you can end up receiving different WSDL when you ask for the specific services WSDL (?wsld).
In the Axis2 development process you should always think about the usability of product. Therefore a number of tools & IDE plug-ins have been developed to perform various tasks in Axis2. One such tool is WSDL2Code generation tool. As its name implies WSDL2Code generation tool generates source code for languages like Java and C++ using given WSDL. Note that only the WSDL2Java part has been completed and fully tested successfully.
In simple terms code generation is the creation of source code in some programming language for a given WSDL, so that users need not to worry about the WSDL or generating correct SOAP messages. All of this is handled by the code generated by the WSDL2Code generation tool.
The most common problem users face is that they generate server side code or rather service skeleton for a given WSDL and then they filled the skeleton the way they want (it is the nature in contract first approach). Then they create a service archive file for that service and deploy it in Axi2.
When Axis2 finds a service what it does is first it check whether there are any WSDL files in META-INF directory. If there is give the priority to the WSDL files and using those Axis2 web service will be created. If no WSDL files are found then it goes through services.xml file to find the service implementation class. Using that class, it generates a WSDL file using a process called Java2WSDL. This will only taken place if the service class was implemented using Java. Bottom line, when some one ask for ?wsdl for that particular service it will show the generated WSDL.
In the case of automatic WSDL generation, it first investigates the service implementation class using both Java reflection and JAM (annogen) and then generate XML schema for the given class and then generate the rest of the WSDL document. Most of the time (99% of the time) the generated WSDL file will differ from the original WSDL file that was used to generate service skeleton.
Note: I you generate client side code or stub using both of the above WSDL files you will get completely different set of classes, but that wont affect to the request SOAP message.
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Moments after 24-year-old Nina Davuluri was crowned Miss America on Sunday night, her detractors rushed to post their views of the win on Twitter.
The first Indian American to hold the title, Davuluri's victory was met with vitriol rather than adulation when the social media platform was inundated with displays of racial intolerance and ignorance.
Remarks concerning "this Arab" and numerous 7-11 convenience store references flooded in. Some comments went as far as linking Davuluri to terrorism, while others stated Miss America should be more "American."
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"I am literally soo mad right now a ARAB won. #MissAmerica," wrote DallasRobinson8, who followed that Sunday tweet with, "Only reason she won is bc her people said they would lower gas prices," on Monday morning.
Other users chose to attack Davuluri for being Muslim, despite the fact that she is the daughter of Hindu immigrants.
Fox News commentator Todd Starnes - an outspoken supporter of competitor Miss Kansas - also disagreed with the judges' decision, tweeting, "Miss Politically Correct America" and "The liberal Miss America judges won't say this - but Miss Kansas lost because she actually represented American values."
"I was the first Indian Miss New York, and I'm so proud to be the first Indian Miss America," Davuluri said after she was awarded the title. The native of Syracuse, N.Y. wants to be a doctor, and is applying to medical school, with the help of a $50,000 scholarship she won as part of the pageant title.
Whether her detractors knew, or even cared, is now beside the point, but Davuluri's platform for the competition was "Celebrating Diversity Through Cultural Competency." For the talent portion she performed classic Indian dances fused with Bollywood moves.
Sunday night's pageant featured five Asian American contestants, more than any in Miss America history.
Davuluri's supporters also took to Twitter in an attempt to balance the verbiage:
Sending strength to the first Asian American #MissAmerica, Nina Davuluri!!! @MissAmerica, you're awesome! — pimpimpim (@pimpimpim) September 16, 2013
I'm very proud that Miss America is Indian-American. I'm also quite tickled that a dark skinned woman won. She's breathtakingly beautiful. — QueenLinda83 (@QueenLinda83) September 16, 2013
For all the people bashing the new @missAmerica, I'm embarassed and ashamed for you. Congrats Nina! Be awesome! — Katrina Hamilton (@ScooterKat4) September 16, 2013
For her part, Davuluri graciously dismissed the haters: "I have to rise above that," she said. "I always viewed myself as first and foremost American." Monday morning she continued to take the high road, tweeting:
Overjoyed by the amazing response & support from so many people across the U.S.! I'm so proud to be your new #GirlNextDoor! @MissAmericaOrg — Nina Davuluri (@MissAmerica) September 16, 2013


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Le Quattro Volte, the nearly wordless second film from Italian director Michaelangelo Frammartino, compresses a year in a mountainous spot in the southern Italian region of Calabria into the length of a short feature. It's a remote location, but Frammartino's canny eye, wry humor, and careful sense of rhythm make it feel like the best possible spot to observe the workings of the world, from ashes to ashes. Literally: The film begins and ends with a group of men creating charcoal, then cycles through a series of connected vignettes filled with images of death and rebirth taken from everyday life in and around a centuries-old village.
Split into four sections, Le Quattro Volte at first follows an aging goatherd (Giuseppe Fuda) as he goes about the lonely business of tending his flock, aided only by a dog whose vivaciousness contrasts with the goatherd's own failing health. Following a folk custom, Fuda mixes the dust from a church into his drinking water in an attempt to fend off illness. When he succumbs to the inevitable, the film shifts focus to a newborn goat before shifting twice more as it follows a circular path back to where it began.
Frammartino has suggested the concept of reincarnation factored into his conception of the film, but any mysticism here comes from earthy material. Frammartino uses long, carefully observed takes to capture the natural world and the way the same patterns keep erupting from beneath humanity's attempts to impose order upon it. What sounds potentially tedious in bare description proves dynamic on the screen: An architect by training, Frammartino has a painter's sense of how to use every portion of the frame meaningfully. But he also has a comic's sense of how to put a gag together. In the film's most memorable scene, a group of men dressed like Roman centurions arrive late for a reenactment of the Passion. As the procession passes by, a dog barks angrily at soldiers and the Savior alike as a group of goats watch indifferently before getting loose, wandering through town, and becoming a bunch of cloven-hoofed Monsieur Hulots.
Frammartino is so skilled at creating low-key observations of the junctures between human and animal life that that latter portions of Le Quattro Volte, which turn their attention elsewhere, can't help but feel a little less spirited by comparison. But as the film rolls to its close and Frammartino casts some doubt as to whether the cycles of village life will roll on or wind down, it feels like a privilege to have visited such a little-traveled part of the world, and to have been shown so much while by watching it.


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When we first finished the bodywork and paint on project Brutus at Rubio's Auto Body, we left the bed untouched. At the time, we did this to save money due to the additional supplies and materials it would have required. In the months to come, Brutus will eventually haul various parts; call it a shop truck of sorts. What we realized is that a coat of paint isn't enough protection for the bed against dents and dings sure to be caused from our heavy-duty hauling plans.
To combat the wear and tear, we learned that the same material professionals use to spray late-model truck beds with can be purchased as a complete do-it-yourself kit, and be easily applied in the comfort of your driveway. We headed over to Classic Industries, best known for replacement and restoration parts, for the bedliner kit. The Al's Liner kit is a one-stop system that features three separate jugs of easy-to-use chemicals, a primer, coloring agent, and an air gun with hopper. In a nutshell, here's the procedure: mix the chemicals thoroughly and start spraying-that's it.
One thing you will need access to is an air compressor, along with plastic or paper tarping to protect against overspray. While we knew this would protect our bed, even offering UV protection, the benefits don't stop there. The good news is that the liner can be applied to areas of the chassis as well, such as the undercarriage and frame.
Before we got to work applying the liner, we had a little bit of prep work ahead of us. After a few hours of sanding the bed, our El Camino was ready to be sprayed. In the end, we are proud of the finish, ease of installation, and the fact that we have a professional looking bedliner without having incurred a professional cost. Check out the following pages to see what's involved and how simple it is to protect your investment with a quality spray-in bedliner.
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Ben Collins-Sussman is one of the founding developers of the Subversion version control system, and co-authored O'Reilly's "Version Control with Subversion" book and more recently O'Reilly's "Team Geek: a Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others."
Ben co-founded Google's engineering office in Chicago, ported Subversion to Google's Bigtable platform, led Google Code's Project Hosting team, and now manages the engineering team for the Google Affiliate Network. Prior to joining Google, Ben was a senior software engineer on the version control team at CollabNet. He has been an active open source contributor for over twelve years, contributing to projects related to version control and gaming.
Ben collects hobbies which tend to explore the tension between art and science. He has given numerous talks about the social challenges of software development. He writes interactive fiction games and tools, and was the co-winner of the 15th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. He has co-authored several original musicals and received multiple awards for musical theater composition. He has an Extra-class FCC license for amateur radio, and also spends time learning DSLR photography and playing bluegrass banjo. Ben is a proud native of Chicago, and holds Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Chicago with a major in Mathematics and minor in Linguistics. He still lives in Chicago with his wife, kids, and cats.


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Related to table: Table Mountain, IKEA
table,article of furniture employed for household or ecclesiastical purposes. Elaborately decorated tables of wood or metal were known in ancient Egypt and Assyria, and the Greeks used small tables of low construction to be placed beside a couch. During the Roman Empire massive rectangular pieces were developed, which were made of marble and supported by carved end slabs as well as square or circular forms of bronze supported on a pedestal or on legs often representing wild beasts, sphinxes, or other figures. Although small tables of various shapes, some covered with precious metals, were used during the Middle Ages, the most common form was the long trestle table that was disassembled and removed after meals. Tables of the Italian and Spanish Renaissance were rectangular with end supports braced by stretchers; they often had an arcade of columns through the center. The magnificent Farnese table of marble inlay, attributed to Vignola (Metropolitan Museum of Art), is a notable piece from this period. Tables of the Elizabethan Age were supported on bulbous legs and included the draw table, forerunner of the extension dining table. By the end of the 17th cent. the console, the gateleg, and a variety of occasional tables had come into use. Striking tables of modern workmanship include elegant, simple designs in glass and chromium or stainless steel, and in a great variety of unvarnished woods. Tables vary in size with their purpose from the smallest candlestand to the great banquet table. They are named according to the place for which they are intended (center, library, side, sofa, tavern), their use (tea, china, drawing, writing, sewing, billiard, dining), their form (folding, console, extension, parson's trestle or sawhorse, piecrust, gateleg, butterfly, drop-leaf, tilt-top, nest), period or style (Gothic, Queen Anne, Empire), or the names of designers who created distinctive types (Adam, Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton, or Phyfe).
What does it mean when you dream about a table?
Tables usually represent social functions, such as dining together at a table, though tables can also represent work if one has a desk job or a job where one crafts objects on a table, for example. Tables in dreams can draw on meanings associated with the "head of the table," "a bare table," "the tables are turned," being paid "under the table," or "on the table."
(building construction)
A horizontal projection or molding on the exterior or interior face of a wall.
(computer science)
A set of contiguous, related items, each uniquely identified either by its relative position in the set or by some label.
The flat face forming the top of a brilliant-cut stone.
An array or listing of computed quantities.
(mechanical engineering)
That part of a grinding machine which directly or indirectly supports the work being ground.
(mining engineering)
In placer mining, a wide, shallow sluice box designed to recover gold or other valuable material from screened gravel.
A platform or plate on which coal is screened and picked.
1. A stringcourse or other horizontal band of some size and weight; a horizontal molding on the exterior or interior face of a wall.
2. A flat surface forming a distinct feature in a wall, generally rectangular and ornamented.
3. In medieval architecture, the frontal on the face of the altar.
4. A slab set horizontally and carried on supports.
1. any flat or level area, such as a plateau
2. a rectangular panel set below or above the face of a wall
3. Architect another name for cordon
4. Music the sounding board of a violin, guitar, or similar stringed instrument
5. a tablet on which laws were inscribed by the ancient Romans, the Hebrews, etc.
6. Palmistry an area of the palm's surface bounded by four lines
a. either of the two bony plates that form the inner and outer parts of the flat bones of the cranium
b. any thin flat plate, esp of bone
A collection of records in a relational database.
table(1) A collection of adjacent fields of data. Also called an "array," tables may permanently reside in a program or be in storage and read at runtime. Tables may remain static (unchanged) or be dynamically updated. For example, tables in a hard disk's or SSD's file system are continuously updated as data are written into the sectors (see FAT and MFT). See table lookup, decision table and HTML table.
(2) A collection of records (a file) in a relational database. See DBMS and file.
A table suggests assimilation, or the "coming together" of varying parts of the dreamer. It could be that you are working on becoming aware of your own multi-dimensional nature and are attempting to become a more harmonious individual. The table usually represents nourishment, friendship, and unity. When interpreting this dream consider the primary function of the table in the dream as well as its shape and those who have gathered around it. Most people can make many associations with this piece of furniture. It could represent emotionally charged events, such as a family dinner, contractual negotiations, or pleasant/unpleasant meetings. The emotional reactions to the situation in this dream will lead you to its interpretation.


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Thank you for stopping by the Weather Watch 12 blog! A new weather pattern has arrived! The start of October signals the unofficial start of the new LRC. In today's blog we review the basics of the LRC and show how it will be used to make accurate and pinpoint forecasts weeks or months in advance.
The LRC or Lezak's Recurring Cycle has been used by WISN 12 over the past four years with tremendous success from winter right through summer.
Here are the basics of the theory.
- A unique weather pattern sets up every year between the start of fall and mid-November.
- Long term long-wave troughs(low pressure) and ridges(high pressure) become established. These dominant repeating features are clues to where storm systems will reach peak strength, and where they will be their weakest.
- Once the weather pattern is set it cycles, repeats, and continues through winter, spring and into summer. Identifying the cycle length helps tremendously when making long range weather predictions.
- The LRC is a 10-11 month pattern! There is a pattern! It isn't just one long-wave trough, storm system, or ridge. It is a sequence of troughs and ridges that are cycling around the Northern Hemisphere.
To put this in very simple terms, once the new weather pattern is established, it cycles or repeats from winter, spring, and into summer. The cycle length is UNIQUE each LRC season. The most recent LRC pattern(October 2012 to August 2013) had a cycle duration of 51-53 days.
I like to compare the start of a new LRC weather pattern to roulette. The next 6-8 weeks are like a roulette wheel spinning, as the weather pattern is becoming established. Once the ball drops, the weather pattern is set and will drive our weather for the next ~10 months.
During the next 6 weeks clues will be revealed each day helping to piece together what will eventually be the winter forecast. The storm system impacting the Midwest from Thursday-Sunday may be a big piece of the puzzle, and a key feature to focus on in coming cycles.
The forecast map below shows the 500mb level or the middle of the atmosphere for Sunday, October 6. The arrow points to upper level low pressure, or vorticity maximum indicated by the 'X'. Where these 'vort maxes' move and reach peak intensity is a key to the LRC. If storm systems continue to favor the Midwest over the next 6-8 weeks, the potential would increase for an active winter(rain/mix/snow).
Each week I will try to give insight to the LRC right here in the Weather Watch 12 blog, so check back often. If you have questions feel free to tweet me @jnelsonweather or email them to email@example.com
While the Weather Watch 12 winter forecast is about 6 weeks away, the Climate Prediction Center recently updated their temperature and precipitation outlooks.
The CPC is calling for near average temperatures for southeast Wisconsin December-February. Areas of west of the Mississippi River are forecast to finish above average.
The precipitation forecast calls for equal chances of above or below average, or near average totals this winter.
For the latest weather information watch WISN 12 News, and for weather updates throughout the day follow me on Twitter @jnelsonweather
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A few years ago, I lettered all of a bride's bridesmaids' names and she ordered some jewelry trays to give them as gifts. A photo of the trays ran in Martha Stewart Weddings, and since then, I have been asked dozens of times for the same trays. But the store the bride ordered them from no longer exists, and I have been searching high and low for a way to replicate them. I finally figured it out! These obviously make perfect bridesmaid's gifts, but they could also be a little gift for yourself!
I have been toying with the idea of designing a calendar for years, but this year, when I realized it was going to be TWENTY TWENTY (and I loved the idea of writing that out in calligraphy) I knew I had to do it. (I still sometimes write 1996 on my checks though, so there is absolutely no way I'm going to remember to write out 2020 in real life.) Anyway, I have been fascinated with these abstract, flowy watercolors lately, so I decided to make them backgrounds for each month, and I also thought it would be fun to include a whole bunch of "Instagram holidays," since I've never seen that before, and because sometimes it would be nice to be reminded so that I can post appropriately. I really only included the ones that I thought were fun and appropriate through. Maybe I just made the calendar for myself. Who knows?!?
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Some people like coffee first - but I think a lot of situations call for wine first instead! These fun stemless wine glasses help you declare that out loud, in calligraphy. Cute and festive - a fun gift for a girlfriend or for yourself! - 17 oz. stemless wine glass - "But first...wine" in black lettering - made in the United States - buy individually or in a set of 4
Celebrate a toast with your morning coffee (or anything else you want to put in this mug - I won't judge!) My well-loved "Cheers" print can now also be found on these white ceramic mugs to add a little cheer to your morning.- 8 oz. - Dishwasher safe
Happy Holidays to you! I created these gift tags that you can download, print out and use for whatever you want. All FREE!
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Thursday's Child: Destination San Jose, Costa Rica
28 comments:
- Bkloss said...
Beth! You are killing me! All these places you visit are gorgeous. I'll never manage my destination list now. :)
- March 31, 2011 at 4:25 PM
- Angela said...
Wow, San Jose is beautiful!
- March 31, 2011 at 4:27 PM
- Caryn Caldwell said...
Oh, wow. That looks AMAZING! I've always wanted to go to Costa Rica, but I still haven't gotten around to it. Your post makes me want to book a ticket immediately.
- March 31, 2011 at 4:56 PM
- Belinda said...
I'm still aa-hing over that bed...still imagining that bed is mine...........
- March 31, 2011 at 5:49 PM
- Kittie Howard said...
You're making me wanna get on a jet plane! (My niece married on the beach in CR.)
Beth, my hub and I have been wanting to visit Normandy. After all the articles I've read in travel mags, your previous post said more than anything I've read. Question: Which of the places you stayed at offered easiest access to sightseeing? I'm at email@example.com and would be most grateful for any insight you could offer. We're thinking about going late next spring/early July. Thanks!!
- March 31, 2011 at 5:55 PM
- Lena Coakley said...
Oh my gosh, I want to be there right now. I went about 10 years ago to Tamarindo and it was one of the most beautiful trips I have ever taken. I'd love to go back. That hotel looks amazing.
- March 31, 2011 at 6:06 PM
- Julie Musil said...
Oh. My. Gosh. I am green with envy! That must have been an amazing trip. Those photos are gorgeous.
- March 31, 2011 at 6:55 PM
- Joanne said...
The artisan painting the cart would have been an interesting stop for me. I love seeing the arts in the very act of their creation.
- March 31, 2011 at 7:08 PM
- Beth said...
Kittie, I'd love to tell you about our trip. I'll email you with this information, but I think you'd love the place we stayed in Bayeux. If you're at all interested in World War 2 history, it's close to everything, and the Bayeux tapestry is incredible.
- March 31, 2011 at 7:39 PM
- Lorraine said...
Costa Rica sounds incredible...wow! What a vacation! I am heading over to read your post")
- March 31, 2011 at 7:54 PM
- Reeni said...
What a gorgeous place! I really need a vacation!
- March 31, 2011 at 8:48 PM
Lovely! I really enjoyed all of the beautiful and interesting plants in Costa Rica.
- March 31, 2011 at 8:53 PM
- Justine L said...
So beautiful! Costa Rica is on our bucket list ...
- March 31, 2011 at 8:53 PM
I swear to God, there's something about breakfasts in foreign countries that's absolutely transporting. I STILL vividly remember all of the breakfasts we ate in Europe, from the spectacular to the mundane. Just amazing.
- March 31, 2011 at 9:24 PM
- Fresh Local and Best said...
San Jose is one place that I have been dying to visit. I'd love to start the day with local foods, and imagine that the seafood in that region is amazing.
- March 31, 2011 at 9:38 PM
- Jackee said...
Oh, man! I'm jealous. :o) That looks gorgeous and so relaxing. Thanks for the heads up about places to go and stay when someday--not if!--I get to go on an ecotourist trip. :o) Thanks for sharing!
Have a great weekend!
- March 31, 2011 at 11:45 PM
- Carol said...
Your trip sounds fantastic! Looks like the most beautiful place. I would have loved a nice dip in that pool and a view of that gorgeous foliage!
- April 1, 2011 at 8:19 AM
- Catherine said...
Look at all the beautiful colors and warm sun! Looks like you had a fantastic time Beth ~ good for you!
Hope you have a happy weekend!
xo Catherine
- April 1, 2011 at 8:28 AM
- Katerina said...
Your post made me realize how much I need vacations. Beautiful place Beth! Iam glad you had such a great time!
- April 1, 2011 at 9:37 AM
- Sue said...
Beautiful flowers! I love that the last plant looks like watermelon wedges:) Time to check out your guest post...
- April 1, 2011 at 12:22 PM
What a beautiful place to stay. You are single-handedly expanding my "Places to See" list. I would have enjoyed watching the painter work, and visiting the farm.
- April 1, 2011 at 3:09 PM
- FOODESSA said...
A few years ago I had made plans for a memorable trip to be had in Costa Rica. Unfortunately God had other plans. Mom got some very bad heath news and I decided the trip had to be postponed. Reading your post was a reminder that I need to re-plan a voyage to this wonderful island.
Thanks Beth for a peak through a small part of your travels.
I'll go see your other photos for sure ;o)
Ciao for now,
- April 1, 2011 at 4:58 PM
- The Words Crafter said...
Wow, that trip sounds dreamy. How neat that they try to preserve the environment! And that pool....I'd like to be in it right now.
Thanks for the virtual vacay!
- April 1, 2011 at 5:46 PM
Sounds like a perfect getaway right about now!
- April 1, 2011 at 10:18 PM
- Joanne said...
Oh what gorgeous photos! Given how cold it is here, I definitely wish I were someplace nice and tropical like this right now!
- April 2, 2011 at 9:46 AM
- jenn from midlife modern said...
I'm curious Beth. Were you able to travel as much when your children were younger? Your family seems to get around a lot--so lucky!
- April 2, 2011 at 12:48 PM
- Sharon K. Mayhew said...
I would move to Costa Rica in a heartbeat! We went in 2009 and fell in love with the country. The people, the culture, the land...everything was beautiful. I'm glad you loved it too.
- April 2, 2011 at 3:49 PM
- Monet said...
Another lovely trip...another page I'm bookmarking for future reference. Thank you for sharing with me tonight. After such a difficult week, it has been so refreshing to return to the blogs (and bloggers) that I love. I hope you have a blessed Sunday, sweet woman!(Your words have brought me such encouragement)
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GUCCI'S PLAYGROUND: Gucci today is launching its first iPad app aimed at the lunch box set. Called Gucci Playground, the app is downloadable from the iTunes store and allows users to dress a virtual kid up in the label's just-launched children's wear line. Various ethnicities of the online "paper dolls" are available and users can paint, wallpaper and color each template with their finger. The images can be sent as an e-card — ideal for underage fashionistas with a yen for pricy clothes that will be quickly outgrown. Gucci is throwing an after-school party in its Fifth Avenue flagship this afternoon for a group of stylish moms, hosted by actress Emily Mortimer, Vogue's Filipa Fino, Celerie Kemble and Stephanie Wolkoff, along with their various broods.
— David Lipke
HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE: The Hollywood Reporter held its 19th annual Power 100 Women in Entertainment event on Tuesday, the first under editor in chief Janice Min's leadership. While the format didn't change from years past — a Lifetime and L'Oréal-sponsored power breakfast followed by a series of industry speakers lauding the magazine's high school mentorship program — the famous faces did. British actress Sally Hawkins gave the opening remarks, followed by new publisher Lori Burgess and Min (Prometheus chief executive Richard Beckman stayed off the stage), then Halle Berry presented the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award to Helen Mirren. "You've always been such an inspiration to me," Berry told her. "You still look hot in a bikini, and you made me like the Queen of England. I didn't think I cared much for her until I saw how you portrayed her in 'The Queen.'" Mirren was as feisty as usual. "I know we are all talking about mentoring the next generation today, but not much has changed in Hollywood filmmaking; it continues to worship at the alter of the 18- to 25-year-old male and his penis. Women control $20 trillion in consumer spending, so how about a bit of g—–n respect?" As Katie Couric concluded in her keynote speech, "I am so happy to be in a room of ballbusters like me."
For her part, Min was tight-lipped about the magazine's plans for the upcoming awards season, joking she was "flying by the seat of my pants," but she did call out one of the most compelling stories in the entertainment industry now. In her old job at Us Weekly, that might have been Mel Gibson or celebrity divorces — but now it's "Netflix and the industry's reaction to it."
— Marcy Medina


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Even after the global financial crisis, banking remains a popular career choice for physics graduates. Physics World talks to Benjamin Rosenberger and Rob Thomson, both of the equities division of Swiss firm UBS, about the ups and downs of working in finance
Physics World (PW): How did you become interested in finance?
Benjamin Rosenberger (BR): I had never really considered a career in finance before I went to university, but in the summer of 2008, just before my last year at St John's College, Oxford, I did an internship at UBS and really enjoyed it. And, of course, one of the obvious attractions of banking is being paid a competitive wage straight after graduating.
Rob Thomson (RT): I was interested in it from a young age because I wanted a job where I could use my analytical skills. I did think about doing a PhD after finishing my degree in physics at Imperial College London, but I thought the pace of life in the financial world would suit me better. I was particularly attracted to UBS because it is a vast global business with 64,000 employees and also a good reputation, most notably in equities. On an average day, about 8.8% of the shares traded through the London stock market go through UBS.
PW: What does your job involve on a day-to-day basis?
BR: I'm an equities analyst on the construction desk, which means that I spend my days researching a wide range of construction firms – from cement companies to UK house builders. To some, this might not sound like a particularly glamorous sector, but it is extremely tangible and you see it all around you. If I spot a new block of flats, I know exactly who is building them, and what build quality you can expect. The research I do can take many different forms, including checking company accounts and talking to independent sources such as the Bank of England for a unique angle on things. I then need to translate my findings into a view on the company's share price. I write my ideas up in a note for clients and talk to colleagues on the trading floor. One thing I did recently was to write a piece about the UK house-building industry, including a discussion of the impact of the UK government's budget cuts on social housing. This sort of document goes out to all of UBS's clients. It is easy to find out how much money the government is spending on social housing (some £3bn in 2010–2011) and how much each house builder is exposed to the cuts. But actually making a trade recommendation on the back of that research – or translating it into movements in share prices – is more difficult, and that is where I add value. It's very satisfying.
RT: I also work in UBS's equities division, but as a quantitative equities trader. One of the luxuries of my job is that it involves a mix of daily tasks and longer-term projects. As well as trading throughout the day, I also get involved in developing algorithms, which can either process client orders intelligently or make "their own" decisions about what and when to trade, over a timescale of several months. This is where the real creativity in my work comes in – figuring out how an algorithm works and why it would be more beneficial for clients to use than their existing strategies. It means that there is a certain amount of freedom in what I do. If I have a good idea that might save the bank or a client money, or improve things in some way, then I have some latitude to explore it further.
PW: What is the best part about your job?
BR: The best thing is being given a lot of responsibility early on. The reports I produce go out to hundreds of fund managers who manage billions of pounds of investments. Hopefully, I influence their decisions. I also like the fact that banking is very mobile; you can move up the ladder quickly, or transfer to other departments or branches if you want to do something different. Obviously, I hope to do well and get promoted, but there are also opportunities to work abroad, and my current job is a good starting point. Finally, and more specifically, I like the culture at UBS – in particular the flat hierarchy. I sit two desks away from my boss, who has worked at the firm for 30 years, and I can go to him with any suggestion at any time and he will listen to me.
RT: I think it's great that I get to use what I studied in A-level maths and my degree – from basic statistics to stochastic calculus or optimization – in a real-world situation. Also, there is a huge amount of problem solving involved in being an equities trader – and a fair amount of creativity, which I suppose many people would not expect. The other great thing about my job is the people I work with. My job has definitely lived up to my image of finance as a fast-paced industry.
PW: What about the worst part?
BR: Probably the hours. I get in at 7 a.m. at the latest and usually do a 12 hour day. But I am completely free at weekends, so compared with being a student, where there is always something hanging over you, it is not that bad.
RT: I agree. The hours are reasonably long; I also get in for 7 a.m. and leave at about 7 p.m. Still, I love my job – and not many people can say that.
PW: How has your training in physics helped in your current role?
BR: There are a lot of transferable skills that you learn in physics, such as being able to express yourself, having an affinity for numbers, being meticulous and being able to summarize large pieces of information concisely. However, I have to say that many of these skills can also be developed through other degrees.
RT: Of all the skills I learned at university, computer programming has been the most useful. Learning a programming language is invaluable for an equities trader like me because having a grounding in programming enables you to automate processes, anything from a simple program to track movements in stock prices to a complex analysis of a trading strategy. Automation means things get done much more quickly. You can get through vast amounts of data to provide statistically meaningful outcomes that you otherwise would not be able to achieve. A less-tangible skill would be problem solving – it is useful to able to take some kind of real-world problem and describe it in terms that you would use in, say, a theoretical-physics environment.
PW: What advice would you give to someone who is considering a career in finance?
BR: My advice to any physicist thinking about going into banking is not to be overwhelmed. At first, I was a bit timid around people who had studied finance, but UBS is actively looking for people with different backgrounds because it widens the knowledge base of the team.
RT: I have a slightly different perspective, because the advice I would give to physics students thinking about a similar role is "be prepared". A lot of people turn up to interviews knowing nothing about finance. It is essential to have a more holistic understanding of what is going on in the real world – and not just on your physics course.
About the author
Benjamin Rosenberger is an equities analyst at UBS. Rob Thomson is a quantitative equities trader, also at UBS's London office.


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O Christ God, / You have given us the miracles of Your martyrs, Cyrus and John, / as an invincible rampart; / through their prayers, frustrate the plans of the heathens, / and strengthen the faith of the Orthodox Christians, / for You alone are good and love mankind.
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Podoben: "Today the Virgin..." / Having received the gift of miracles through divine grace, O saints, / you work wonders in the world unceasingly. / You remove all of our passions through your invisible surgery, / divinely-wise Cyrus and glorious John, / for you are truly divine physicians.


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The International Polar Year Historical Data and Literature collection (formerly known as the Discovery and Access of Historic Literature from the IPYs (DAHLI) project) is an online data collection consisting primarily of photographs, publications, and observational data records from, and relating to, the first two International Polar Years (IPY) 1882-83 and 1932-33 and the International Geophysical Year (IGY)1957-58. Examples of data contained in observational records include, but are not limited to: air magnetic vertical intensity, air conductivity, atmospheric-electric observations, auroral log data, potential-gradient electrographic data, dust counts, and meteorological observations. Photographs within the collection include those from the Wilkes Station in Antarctica, the USGS survey of Fletcher's Ice Island, and the DTM Geophysical Laboratory Library. Publications within this collection primarily consist of government (national and international) bulletins and reports on activities during the International Polar and International Geophysical years. Other data include audio files of interviews recorded during NCAR's Oral Histories Project, and a video on Drifting Station Alpha during the IGY, published by NSIDC.
International Polar Year Historical Data and Literature, Version 1
This is the most recent version of these data.
Citing These Data
As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set using the following citation. For more information, see our Use and Copyright Web page.Coburn, E., R. Duerr, E. Schlagel, and A. Wallace. 2011. International Polar Year Historical Data and Literature, Version 1. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.7265/N5FT8HZS. [Date Accessed].
Background Information
The original intent of the Discovery and Access of Historic Literature from the IPYs (DAHLI) project was to provide a searchable online bibliography of records and publications from International Polar Year (IPY) events: 1882-1883, 1932-1933, and 1957-1958. When the project was conceived, these materials were (and still are) scattered about the globe, largely uncatalogued and unpreserved. At best, they are difficult to discover and access, and at worst, in danger of total deterioration or destruction. These materials were the legacy of past IPYs and stood as milestones of scientific progress. They continue to be of scientific, historical, and sociological value; but their value cannot be exploited if inaccessible. As older generations of researchers retire, particularly those who participated in the 1957-1958 IPY/IGY, even the memory of these materials is lost. The need was and currently still is imminent to identify and catalogue these materials while these researchers are still available to advise. DAHLI hoped to, and partially succeeded in, correcting this situation. The history of the DAHLI project follows.
In January of 2005, NSIDC submitted an Expression of Intent (EOI) to the International Polar Year Joint Committee to provide on-line access to gray literature from the first three International Polar Years. The proposed approach was to create a searchable portal to materials from prior IPYs. Seventeen organizations holding historical IPY literature expressed interest in collaborating on the project. The EOI was approved by the International Council for Science (ICSU), World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Joint Committee for IPY.
As a follow on to the EOI, NSIDC submitted a full proposal to the IPY Joint Committee in December of 2005 detailing the activities that would be conducted under the DAHLI project as well as a proposal for funding to the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the spring of 2006. Both proposals specified that NSIDC/WDC would host a comprehensive, web-accessible, searchable bibliographic database of materials from the three prior IPYs. The comprehensive bibliography would be compiled from materials supplied by consortium members as well as other collaborating institutions and groups. The project researchers were to eliminate duplications and resolve conflicting entries. The team would also create records for those materials without a readily available bibliographic source. In addition, several participating organizations, including NSIDC, would digitize unique materials held locally, as well as materials provided by collaborating institutions. Links to all digitized materials would be included in the bibliography to allow ready access to anyone with access to the Internet. Where available and appropriate, links to not just the original materials, but also to translations, would be provided.
Rather than accepting the full proposal as is, the IPY Joint Committee suggested that the DAHLI project join the existing International Polar Year Publications Database project (IPYPD) which hoped to provide similar support for the publications of the then upcoming 4th International Polar Year. Consequently the DAHLI project agreed to join The Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS), the Cold Regions Bibliography Project (CRBP), the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) Library, and the NISC Export Services (NES) in populating the IPYPD.
In May of 2006 eleven polar libraries participated in a discussion of DAHLI at the Polar Libraries Colloquy in Rome. Pending NSF funding, the group decided at the very least to create a directory of institutions and their IPY historical holdings. Each institution, as it was able, would digitize what they could, and agreed to collaborate informally by linking together what each created individually. Around this time, NSIDC began conducting its pilot test for digitization of IPY-related materials. This pilot was conducted under the sponsorship of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Data Modernization Program (CDMP), using their contractor, Lason. The pilot began with materials held locally by NSIDC and continued with materials held by the libraries of NOAA's Boulder Labs and other local collections. The pilot allowed the participating parties to test and streamline procedures, as well as to work out issues that could potentially have arisen in such a venture. The pilot helped develop a model for collaboration with outside entities; specifications for bibliographic entries, imaging, keying, and product output; and procedures for materials and stewardship. The first set of materials, IGY General Reports and IGY Glaciological Reports, were sent to Lason for digitization 2 May 2006 and as of October 2007, 28 reports had been digitized and made available. In addition, some 700 images taken during the IGY were digitized and added to NSIDC's Glacier Photograph Collection.
In March of 2007, the IPYPD became available online. It attempted to identify and describe all publications that resulted from, or that describe, the IPY 2007-2008 and the three previous IPYs. The IPYPD is part of the IPY Data and Information Service (IPYDIS).
As of October 2008, funding from the proposal submitted by NSIDC to the NSF IPY had still not materialized. However, digitization funding continued to be made available to the project through the NOAA CDMP. The implications of this funding situation were that several of the activities originally planned did not happen, including organization of an advisory board, quality control of digitized materials and web interface development, and data rescue. Despite the funding situation and its implications, DAHLI digitization efforts through the auspices of the NOAA CDMP continued. In 2008, digitization of the holdings of the Carnegie Institute in Washington, D.C. began. In 2009 over 9,000 pages (45 documents) were digitized. In addition, John Hollin, Fellow of INSTAAR and Research Scientist Emeritus of the University of Colorado donated 30 slides taken during his time at Wilkes Station, Antarctica during the IGY. Materials held by the University of Colorado Libraries were also digitized.
With the cancellation of the CDMP in 2011 and with no resolution to the grant proposal submitted to NSF several years earlier, the DAHLI project came to a close in August of 2011. Over the course of the summer of 2011 all of the collected digitized materials (bibliographic items, images, and video and audio files) were organized, documented, and published in Archon, an open-source system developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where it is intended they will remain accessible to the public for the long-term.
Data were contributed by several institutions: the University of Colorado Libraries, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), and The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The data collection contains approximately 800 digital objects, formats of these objects include: PDF, TIFF, JPEG, MP3, and MPEG. Most objects are freely accessible and downloadable, except where prohibited by copyright. Temporal coverage of this data collection is between the years 1882 and 1958. Geographical coverage is global, with data originating from Europe, Asia, North America, and South America and relating primarily to specific glaciers and other locations in North America (Alaska and Canada) and Antarctica.
All materials without use constraints are accessible by the public through the ROCS Archives Catalog. Reference images and PDFs of publications and data are available for immediate viewing and download. Please request high resolution TIFF image files through the NSIDC ARC Archives Catalog.
Detailed Data Description
Ablation Zones/Accumulation Zones
Air Temperature
Atmospheric Conductivity
Atmospheric Electricity
Atmospheric Pressure
Cosmic Rays
Electric Field
Electric Fields/Electric Currents
Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Frozen Ground
Glacial Landforms/Processes
Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
Ice Core Records
Ice Depth/Thickness
Ice Growth/Melt
Ice Sheets
Particulate Matter
Periglacial Processes
Sea Ice Elevation
Seismic Profile
Snow Depth
Solar Flares
Solar Radio Wave Emissions
Terrestrial Hydrosphere
Water Temperature
Data were produced during, and surrounding, each of the first two International Polar Years (1882-1883 and 1932-1933) and the International Geophysical Year (1957-1958). Also provided are oral histories relating to the IGY from 2007. The spatial coverage is global and includes locations in North America, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, and South American, as well as certain glaciers.
Table 1 lists the different formats of the data files.
|File Type
|File Format
|Publications and literature
|Portable Document Format (PDF)
|Photograph and diagram reference images
|Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
|Full-resolution photograph and diagram images
|Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
|Audio files
|Moving Picture Experts Group(MPEG)-1, or Moving Picture Experts Group(MPEG)-2, Audio Layer III (MP3)
|Video file
|Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
Below are two sample records from the ARC Archives Catalog system. Figure 1 shows a record that was found by searching for "Adelie" in the search box on the catalog interface, and then clicking on Digital Images and Records and then Search image thumbnails.
Figure 2 shows a sample page from a record found by searching for "Meteorological Observations: Hygrothermograph Weekly Recorder Cahier" in the search box on the catalog interface, and clicking on the title link that appears under Digital Images and Records.
Files in this data set were named with a unique convention. First, there is a string of text identifying the collection (DAHLI). Second, there is a string identifying either the collection or its original disc or directory for tracking or provenance purposes; and third, they each were assigned a four-digit identifier unique to this data set.
The files are named according to the following convention and as described in Table 2:
|Discovery and Access of Historical Literature from the IPYs
|International Polar Year and a three-digit number corresponding to the directory of the original data
|International Geophysical Year
|International Geophysical Year and a three digit number corresponding to the directory of the original data
|The Carnegie Institution of Washington
|Wilkes Station, Antarctica
|Oral Histories (audio files of interviews in the NCAR collection)
|A unique four-digit identifier
|File extension: .jpg, .tif, .mpg, .pdf, or .mp3
Table 3 lists the various sizes of the different file formats.
|File Format
|Video file (MPEG)
|Audio files (MP3s)
|Thumbnail images (JPEGs)
|Reference images (JPEGs)
|up to 15 MB
|Full-resolution images (TIFFs)
|Publications and literature (PDFs)
|up to 550 MB
Data Acquisition and Processing
The following sensors or instruments were used to acquire the data:
- Balance
- Camera
- Compasses
- hygrothermographs
- Magvar Magnetic Variometer
- Multilens Cameras
- Thermometers
- Visual observations
Materials were digitized at various institutions and by Lason and sent to NSIDC upon completion.
Data were renamed according to the convention specified above.
References and Related Publications
Contacts and Acknowledgments
Coburn, Elizabeth, Ruth Duerr, Elizabeth Schlagel and Allaina Wallace
National Snow and Ice Data Center
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Digitization activities at the National Snow and Ice Data Center received support from the NOAA Climate Data Modernization Program (CDMP). Data were also contributed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), The Carnegie Institution for Science, the University of Colorado Libraries, and John Hollin and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado-Boulder (INSTAAR).
Distribution of the data set from NSIDC is supported by funding from NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) and the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC).
Document Information
Document Authors
E. Coburn and A. Windnagel prepared this document.
Document Creation Date
August 2011


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Ayden-Grifton football coach was honored as Coach of the Week by the Panthers.
Ayden-Grifton coach Paul Cornwell was named Carolina Panthers High School Coach of the Week in October after the Chargers bounced back from a 0-6 start with a 28-27 comeback-win over Greene Central.
It was the first game of conference play, and AG went on to sweep the Eastern Carolina 2A.
Cornwell joined this year�s class with nine other coaches from North and South Carolina and was recently notified of the accomplishment during a school pep rally. The COW award winners receive a $1,000 donation from Carolina Panthers Charities, according to the Panthers� website.
Cornwell was also nominated for Carolina Panthers High School Coach of the Year, which he noted would be based on the Chargers� �community involvement with service projects we perform each spring and our off-season leadership program.�
All winning coaches from this season will get a personalized game ball in an on-field ceremony during the Panthers versus New York Jets game on Dec. 15, where the Coach of the Year will be named. The winner receives an additional $2,000 for the school�s athletic department, according to the Panthers.com.
�I am not usually a pat-myself-on-the-back person,� Cornwell wrote in a note, �but this is a big deal for our program, school and community.�
High school athletic directors, principals and media members who cover high school football in North and South Carolina can visit Panthers.com to complete a nomination form for Coach of the Year; nominations are still open.
The Chargers finished 7-7 overall this season and advanced to the third round of NCHSAA 2A state playoffs before falling to Northeastern, 41-35.


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Jay Sullivan
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- Sit with legs extended, abs engaged, back tall.
- Bend right knee and put foot outside of left thigh. Bend left knee and tuck foot by butt.
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- Hold for 5 breaths.
- Rotate to center, then to left. Return to start.
- Switch sides; repeat.
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Targets: Shoulders, chest, back, abs, glutes, and legs
- Lie facedown with arms by sides, palms up, forehead on mat, legs extended and together, toes pointed.
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Jay Sullivan
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Targets: Abs and back
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- Round spine and drop head to look at belly button; hold for 30 seconds.
- Keeping knees lifted, arch back so belly lowers toward floor, and lift head; hold for 30 seconds. Release.
- Do 5 reps.
Jay Sullivan
Advanced: Prayer Twist
Targets: Chest, back, obliques, glutes, and legs
- Stand with feet together, abs engaged.
- Squat, keeping legs together.
- Rotate torso to right, bringing left elbow outside right knee without rounding back. Bring palms together, elbows out, and rotate right shoulder up and back, forming a straight line from elbow to elbow. Look up.
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Jay Sullivan
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- Lie facedown, arms by sides.
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Jay Sullivan
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- Lie faceup, knees bent, feet hip-width apart.
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- Shift weight onto legs and lift right hand.
- Extend left leg, toes pointed forward.
- Hold for 5 breaths. Gently lower.
- Switch sides; repeat.