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Christmas gift ideas for babies are plentiful if you ask Nifty Nicky! Nicky can't believe that so many people have trouble coming up with Christmas gift ideas for babies. The perfect Christmas gift for Baby's first Christmas is a really hot topic!
1. Safety first. Nicky always says, in regard to Christmas gift ideas for babies. Most items for babies, especially toys, are marked to say what ages they are appropriate for. When buying toys, or anything for that matter, make sure they are age appropriate.
2. Developmental toys are great Christmas gifts. Developmental toys are fun for babies and toddlers because they really are toys, but they are toys with a purpose because they help babies to develop various muscle groups and basic skills. Truly, there are no Christmas gifts for babies that are any better than developmental toys.
3. Baby's first Christmas is a big event in any family, especially if the baby is close to a year old and is at the point of being fascinated by Christmas. Because it is such a huge part of their childhood memories, nice Christmas clothing or even holiday adorned baby pajamas are excellent Christmas gifts for babies. Beautiful clothing will make sure your Baby looks great in all the photos that will be taken on and around the holiday.
4. Christmas photo albums are also great Christmas gifts for babies. After all, the baby won't likely remember his or her first Christmas so they will treasure a collection of their first Christmas photos as they grow older.
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5. Stylish baby shoes for beginning walkers are good Christmas gifts for baby's first Christmas. Babies usually start walking (and become toddlers) either shortly before or shortly after their first Christmas.
We all know how fast babies grow! They are sure to outgrow many pairs of shoes and of course, it's tons of fun for mom and dad to dress baby in shoes that coordinate with the baby's clothes. Thus, walking shoes are really good Christmas gifts for babies.
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As Earth Day approaches, I thought I would run one of my all-time favorite upcycled projects! Enjoy this oldie but goodie from last summer!
Are you looking for the perfect accessory for your Disney rain poncho? Well, look no further! You can upcycle some old shopping bags for this unique Disney look!
For this project I used 8 grey shopping bags for the lining, (available from Kohls, Lowes or Walmart in this area) and one large Disney shopping bag for the exposed side of this hat, as well as some white seam binding I had in my stash and purple thread for contrast! Which means that this Disney hat was completely free to make and helps the environment by not putting all that plastic in the landfill. Wouldn't Jiminy Cricket be so proud?
For all the details and instructions from fusing the plastic to creating the hat, I used this tutorial from Makezine. The only change I made was adding the seam binding to the two brim pieces before sewing them together. You could always just seam it the way the pattern suggests, without the seam binding. But I like the extra touch it gives this hat. So cute!
To fuse the plastic, I set my iron to somewhere between cotton and wool/silk, the highest and second highest settings on my iron. Fusing the plastic was the longest part of this project. It seemed to take forever! But setting the iron too hot was also a mistake; when it was set to the highest setting, the plastic shrank so quickly it pulled holes in the "fabric." Not so good for keeping the rain out!
To cut the pieces out, you can actually trace around them with ballpoint pen. That way you can see exactly what parts of the design will show. Just keep in mind that you will have a 1/4" seam around the pieces. And if you do try this at home, make sure the words will not be upside down when you sew the hat pieces together. You CAN pick the seam out of this plastic, but it is no picnic! My advice is to check everything twice before sewing!
I hope to see several of these hats the next time we are in the Disney parks! After all, what better place is there for a fabulous hat than Disney? Until next time, may all your days be filled with fairy dust!

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No Star Trek 2 footage at Comic-Con
Movies.com had a chance to talk to screenwritter Alex Kurtzman recently and had to ask about Star Trek 2, the sequel to J.J. Abram's Trek franchise reboot originally planned for a late 2012 release.
The principle filming for the sequel literally just wrapped, so Kurtzman thinks it would be too hard to show any footage at at Comic-Con in July. (bummer!)
"I will tell you that we had an amazing time doing it." said Kurtzman. "It really was a joy. Originally, as you probably know, Trek had a release date of this year, and we collectively as the brain trust – J.J. and Damon and me and Bob and Bryan Burk – decided that in order to protect Trek, we had to delay it by one year. We just didn't want to rush it. We felt that we had put so much love into the first movie, and we didn't want a mandate to ruin the work that everyone had done. And I think the fans deserve to feel that their beloved franchise is being protected. So we delayed for a year to really work on the script, to have the time to shoot the movie correctly, and I'm really excited with what J.J. did. I think we all are."
The sequel was scripted by Kurtzman (who also scripted the just released Amazing Spider-Man) and Roberto Orci.


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Illinois Campus Master of Health Science (MHS) Programs
Masters in Health Science schools provide various multiple graduate degree paths that explore different facets of human health and health care. These health science masters programs are designed to bolster a student's expertise in their field and to cultivate them as professionals. Consequently, many universities with masters in health sciences programs work to engage learners with a series of core courses. They then encourage students to build skills that align with their goals through an area of emphasis. These areas might include health policy, environmental health, public health, integrative health, wellness, and more.
Masters in Health Science Schools & Health Science Masters Programs
One thing to know is that Masters in Health Science Schools often award degrees from different university departments. Since the field of health sciences is interdisciplinary, some schools could offer MHS degrees inside of medical programs (e.g. microbiology) while others might tackle policy and administration, advanced research methods or fitness. Below are two examples of health science masters programs from our sponsored schools.
MHS – Master of Health Sciences
A Master of Health Science (MHS) degree program often introduces students to key concepts in public policy, statistical and research methods as well as their real-world applications. By nature flexible and inter-professional, a MHS degree program could stack a core of health science courses onto a student's chosen area of emphasis. The health sciences core usually draws content from several disciplines.
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology
- Project Management
- Ethics of Health Care Research
- Health Care Systems and Policy
Therefore, students who work towards their MHS degree on campus might learn face to face from a team of faculty from university departments such as business,
biological and allied health, pharmaceutical sciences and chemistry.
In addition, most universities allow students to tailor their MHS degree to personal goals and interests. Some might want an in-depth biomedical curriculum to prepare them to apply to medical, dental, pharmacy, veterinary or other health-care related schools. Others might want to enhance their grasp of an area such as clinical research administration, informatics, or regulatory compliance.
To earn their masters degree in health science, students may need to complete between 30 and 36 credits, which often includes a thesis or capstone project. Some Master of Health Sciences schools may have part-time study options, but for those who work towards their degree on a full-time basis, it could take about one to two years.
Although specific items vary by university, applicants to a MHS program may need to furnish letters of reference, GRE scores, a resume or CV, personal statement, and transcripts. A bachelor of science degree with a minimum 3.0 GPA may be recommended.
MPH - Master of Public Health
A Master of Public Health (MPH) degree program explores areas such as community leadership, public policy, disease control, and health communication. MPH programs often introduce students to basic concepts of public health, such as epidemiology, environmental health sciences, and biostatistics. They also generally explore the biological, environmental, socio-economic, behavioral, cultural, and other factors that impact human health. Other courses in health services administration, budgeting, and HR could prepare students to lead, think systematically and plan strategically.
Students in MPH programs could decide to focus on a given area of public health, such as family and community health, global health, and health care management and policy. For instance, an emphasis in community health might explore media campaigns, social services and public health nutrition.
To earn their masters degree in public health, students may need to complete about 39 to 48 credits of coursework and a thesis of applied public health project. Students who work towards their degree on a full-time basis might complete their degree in about two years.
Applicants to some universities may need a bachelors degree with completed college-level introductory psychology or sociology as well as statistics. Other required material could include a copy of your current resume, letters of reference, transcripts and an essay. Refer to individual schools for more details.
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Sometimes the best way to get your mind around a new topic is not by tackling the most complex treatise in the library but by scanning the least complex. If you were new to copyright law, for example, you may not want to start off with Nimmer on Copyright, a venerable 11 volume, several thousand page looseleaf set under constant revision, when Copyright law in a nutshell is nearby. Nutshells are generally 300 to 500 pages, assume no real prior expertise, and offer a broad view of a topic. And that's why people like them.
Nutshells represent a class of library materials known as study aids. The Jameson Law Library has recently purchased the West Publishing Study Aids package which is available electronically and includes several series such as Nutshells, Stories, Acing, Hornbooks, as well as materials on academic and career success. 1L and 2L/3L course subjects are also covered.
Here is an example of the materials available in the academic success section:
How to Write Law Exams: IRAC Perfected
Strong, S. I. / Desnoyer, Brad
1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the …
McClurg, Andrew J.
Darrow-Kleinhaus, Suzanne
A Weekly Guide to Being a Model Law Student
Ruskell, Alex
Darrow-Kleinhaus, Suzanne
The Eight Secrets of Top Exam Performance in Law School
Whitebread, Charles H.
Law School Secrets: Outlining for Exam Success
Batoff, Jeffrey S.
A Short and Happy Guide to Being a Law Student
Franzese, Paula Ann
Darrow-Kleinhaus, Suzanne
Law School Success in a Nutshell
Burkhart, Ann M. / Stein, Robert A
Get a Running Start: Your Comprehensive Guide to the First Year …
Gray, David C. / Gifford, Donald G. / Graber, Mark / Richman, William M. / Super, David A. / Van Alstine, Michael P.
Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success
Shapo, Helene S. / Shapo, Marshall S.
The west study aids package is available to all UM Missoula students and faculty. You can access the package through the Law Library Databases list.
While the Law Library maintains paper copies of many of these titles, using the electronic versions offers two advantageous: they are always available (including the most current edition), and you don't have to return them on time.


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Designed by Heinrich Strack, the monument was made to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War.It is erected to a height of 66,89 metres and topped with a bronze sculpture of Victoria which stands 8.3 metres high and weighs 35 tonnes.The statue is called Goldelse which means "Golden Lizzy" in English. (Source from Wikipedia and Berlin.de)
Visitors are allowed to take a closer look at the statue by going up a steep spiral staircase counting to about 285 steps to the top.From the top you'll get spectacular views of the Berlin City.Simply magnificent!!!
Lets take a look at the pictures... :)
As the Victory Column is located in the middle of a roundabout, we have to go through a tunnel to get to it.
This is really cool!
The lighting follows the movement of the people going through the tunnel...
You'll find sculptures of army troops, enemy canons and martial scenes around the base of the Siegessäule.
The foundation stone of the Siegessäule
Display of other significant monuments around the world
Taking a few steps to the base column
The Siegessäule is located in the Tiergarten's main roundabout called The Grosser Stern.
The roundabout is a central intersection from which five avenues stretch out to different directions around the compass.
From the base column, you'll get to see the view of the city from the roundabout.
Mosaic masterpiece around the middle part of the base column
The frieze (outer decorative band) are examples of allegorical representations linking German traditional mythological symbols to its imperial days
Going up to the top!
It's a lil bit uncomfortable to go up this Siegessäule as the space between the staircase is too narrow.But I believe it's worth it to go up to the top as you'll get a beautiful panorama view of the Berlin City from the Siegessäule.
Such a great view....
Exiting the Siegessäule
There's a small exhibition before going out of this monument.You'll get to see and read about other monuments in different parts of the world.There are also small models of buildings and paintings to enlighten you all.
Till the next post...
Tschüss und mach's gut!


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We have been working on the interface, Registration, Admissions, and Billing modules, but to continue much further with the project we require some form of sponsorship to make it happen. Please let me know if you have any ideas for this.
The interface now looks like this:
The icons along the top left of the toolbar represent different security tokens that the user will have in their login. For information about the security tokens used in KwaMoja see this blog post here.
Holding the mouse over one of these icons brings down a menu containing those options allowed for that security token.
Clicking on any of these options loads up that script in the browser.
We have created a minimal framework that enables forms to be designed, and submitted. Also all forms can be edited, and each element in a form can be made mandatory, and it's visibility can be toggled on and off. This can be used for all forms, and converting the current forms in KwaMoja and Care2x to this framework is very easy.
The registration form contains many elements, a few of which can be seen below, but any of these can be hidden, or added, made mandatory, or optional.
There is a stock type of "Registration Items", and any items set up with this category will appear as options at the bottom of the registration screen:
There is a new patient search facility, which is the same as used throughout Mtuha when a patient number needs to be found. When you start to type in any of the search fields, the list of possible patients automatically updates. At the far right of each patient details there is a small icon. Clicking that icon will bring up a list of options that the particular user can choose to perform on that patient record.
This particular user can only modify the registration details, or admit the patient. If the user was a cashier then they would see options to bill the patient.
Clicking to admit the patient takes you to the admissions form shown here.
Like the registration form it is fully customisable, and all fields can be made optional/mandatory, or be hidden/shown.
As with the registration form, there is a stock type called Admission. Any items setup with this stock type will appear at the bottom of the admissions form. You can select one or many of these billable items, just as with registration.
If the user then logs in as a cashier, and searches for a patient they are then presented with an option to bill the patient, rather than previously seeing the options to register and admit. Selecting that option brings up this screen, showing any unpaid items for that patient.
Clicking on the button prints a bill for this patient. However it also does a lot more. If any of the items are physical stock items then the required stock movements are processed, together with all related General Ledger transactions. Each cashier has a separate cash account set up for them, and processing this bill will debit that account, and credit the profit and loss account with the sale. At the end of their shift there is a report that should be run by the cashier detailing all the cash they should have received. This report is checked against the physical amount of money the cashier has, and is then passed on to the accounts department.
As I said at the beginning of this article, what we really require now is funding to hire more African developers, and pay for my time.


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The strong responses from readers about the season premiere of Sister Wives shows how starkly the issue of polygamy divides people, from some who envy the Browns' communal family to more skeptical readers who point out how much we don't see on the reality show. (If you missed it, here's my review and the comments; thanks to everyone for responding and feel free to add more.)
One major question the Browns have been asked by Oprah and others, but never answered adequately: how do they support all those kids? Or rather how did they before they got a TV show? Even if three of the four mothers work, we're talking about 16 children!
Then there's the religious belief that husbands should have many wives but not the other way around. (Both shows go out of their way to note that polygamy is no longer condoned by the mainstream Mormon Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints; the polygamists are renegades.)
HBO's drama Big Love began to tackle the issue of sexism this season when first wife Barb decided she was called to the priesthood and went searching for a church that would allow women to minister. She didn't go so far as to question why women don't have several husbands. But thanks to Big Love (the finale to the entire series comes this Sunday) and now Sister Wives, polygamy has become so entrenched in pop culture that a flood of comic responses have been based on that extremely obvious, serious double-standard.
Most are too obvious to be very funny or trenchant, but the latest, best satire came from an unexpected source: the ABC comedy Raising Hope. The sitcom is about a family that is not so much unconventional as lax about everything; teenaged Jimmy had a one-night stand with a woman who soon got the death penalty for murder, leaving him and his family with a daughter to raise. It's not cutting or sophisticated humor, but it is class-conscious, and in this clip it is dead-on in its take on the arrival of a cousin and his new bride.
It seems to me that the Browns on Sister Wives are just as much cardboard characters as the sitcom people here. Take a look:
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The double LP discography from Adelaide's finest Punk/Hardcore contains all their recordings from 7" later on as 12" pressed, the "How to Teach Your Budgie to Talk" LP, and several tracks from the "A Positive Alternative To torture" Tape. The first LP includes the material from their "How to Teach Your Budgie to Talk" LP recorded in june 1985, the 12 tracks sounds like a bit catchy brit punk style. The 2nd LP has the tracks from the tracks from the "A Positive Alternative To torture" Tape which is recorded in 1983, the songs from the "Intoxicated" 7" EP recorded in 1984 and first time the tracks from the "A Positive Alternative To torture" Tape recorded in '83 on vinyl. This Discography contains also the tracks from their split LP with Vicious Circle which comes out for their US tour in 1985. The tracks from the split LP are marked. The double LP contains a 16 page full color booklet with massive pic ture, lyrics posters and liner notes. The first pressing comes in transparent yellow vinyl!!


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Golfers have been dropping out of the Olympics seemingly every day. Who's next? And who can actually win this thing?
To say that the Rio Olympics are in turmoil is an understatement. At this point, any good news out of Brazil's flagship city would be surprising. A corruption scandal involving Petrobas, Brazil's largest oil company, and hundreds of high-ranking politicians, including President Dilma Roussef, has rocked the South American nation. Citizens protest in the streets of Rio de Janeiro for Roussef's impeachment daily, while Brazil's economy has plummeted.
Michael Madrid - USA Today
The most damaging news from the host city has been the outbreak of Zika. A mosquito-borne virus, Zika cases in newborns have numbered in the thousands. The fears of many athletes were realized last week when Jamaican runner Kemar Baliey-Cole was diagnosed with the virus.
On the heels of such negative press, in a sport where the Olympic Games may not even be a priority for most, where does golf stand in the midst of this Brazilian crisis? Here are two questions in dire need of an answer before the 72-hole tournament officially kicks off on August 11.
1. Will Jordan Spieth Play?
A major champion and bona fide golfing prodigy at just 22 years old, Jordan Spieth would qualify for the Rio through his No. 1 ranking alone. Yet Spieth has wavered on his interest to play in the Olympics. Last week, Spieth spoke to reporters about the factors he must weigh in his decision to play.
"Right now I'm uncertain," said Spieth. "Always been excited about the possible opportunity, but there's quite a few different factors that would turn somebody away from going… I personally have not received enough information that would allow me to make a confident decision either way at this point, so it'll be as we gather further information I'll be able to lean one way or the other, and when I feel confident on either side, I'll make the choice, (cbssports.com).
When asked to clarify these "factors", Spieth cited "security" and "bacteria" as a few of his concerns.
Without Spieth, the U.S. would be at a huge deficit. The two-time major winner has the fourth lowest scoring average on tour at just over 69. In the 2016 season, Spieth has also averaged close to five birdies per round—that's the highest average on tour. In a tournament that has already seen the likes of Jason Day, Rory McIlroy, and Adam Scott drop out, losing another star-studded golfer would drive the tournament's prestige down the gutter.
2. Who Will Fare Best On The Links-Style Course?
The par-71 Olympic Golf Course at Reserva di Marapendi will play a long 6,552 m for the men. As a true links course, the Gil Hanse design plays with large, sweeping fairways and greens that make the course's 970,000 square meters feel every bit as long. Not to mention the fact that coastal winds on Rio's coastline could cause fluctuating scores.
One marquee name that stands above the rest, a man who is "one-hundred percent in," (wkyc.com) as of yesterday, Bubba Watson has the shot-shaping ability to win gold at Rio. The power hitter is ninth in average driving distance this season. From tee to green, Watson is seventh on tour at getting the ball on the green in regulation.
The one facet of Watson's drives that are not stellar is his driving accuracy. Hitting the fairway just 57% of the time is good enough for just 144th on tour, but with such wide fairways in Rio, expect that percentage to improve.
If the 2012 Masters was any indication, Watson is a master shot-shaper.
The ability to shape one's shots is especially important on a links course because of the huge factor wind will undoubtedly play at the Olympics. Without any trees to block wind coming from the ocean, the ability to play a punch or a slight fade could mean the difference between a ball sailing 100 yards into the ocean and landing safely on the green.
The U.S. Will Win Gold
Golf is very much an individual sport. The format of this year's Olympics does nothing to dispel that notion. The tournament will be 72-holes of stroke play. So, this is not a tournament set-up that promotes any team camaraderie of any kind. Just 60 men and 60 women playing four rounds of golf. So while there are teams, who cares?
Based solely on individual performance, the U.S. will win gold, if not silver or bronze as well. With Jason Day, Adam Scott, Rory McIlroy, Charles Schwartzel, as well as many other marquee names dropping out of the tournament, the U.S. will have a loaded roster of potential candidates to choose from. When the new IGF rankings were released on June 27, four American golfers were ranked in the top five. Depending on whether Brazil still remains a viable option for a few of the American golfers, the U.S. could be sending a golfing foursome to Rio with over 20 PGA Tour wins between them, the most for any one team.
The fact that golf is returning to the Olympics after a 112-year hiatus is something that should be celebrated. Unfortunately, the turmoil surrounding this year's Olympics will be hard for some stars of the game to look past (and for good reason). But if the American golfers commit to bringing home the gold, that's exactly what they will do.
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Take two sheets of the same-sized paper. Crumple one of the papers into a ball. Hold the crumpled paper and the toned paper high above your head. Drop them both at the same time. The force of gravity pulls them both downward.
Maybe you have flown a paper aeroplane? Sometimes it twists and loops through the air and then comes to red, gentle Avion En Papier Pro as a feather. Additional times a paper be airborne climbs upright, flips over, and dives headfirst into the ground. What keeps a paper aeroplane in the air? How will you make a paper aeroplane go on a long flight) How can you allow it to be loop or change! Does flying a paper aeroplane on a blowy, gusty, squally, bracing, turbulent day help it to stay aloft? What can you learn about real aeroplanes by making and flying paper aeroplanes? Why don't experiment to learn some of the answers.
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Why is paper aeroplanes soar and plummet, loop and slip? Why do they take flight in any Avion En Papier Qui Vole Longtemps Et Loin way? This book will show you how to make them and clarifies why they do things they do. Making paper eeroplanes is fun and. using the author's stepby- step instructions and doing the simple experiments he suggests, additionally, you will discover what makes a real aeroplane travel. As you make and fly paper planes of different Designs, you will learn about lift, thrust, drag and gravity; you will see how wing size and ships and fuselage weight and balance impact the lift of a aircraft: how ailerons, alleviators and the rudder work to make a plane great or climb. loop or glide, roll or spin and rewrite. Once you
have appreciated these principles of trip, you will be ready to take off with varieties of your own.
Clear diagrams and delightful drawings show each step for making the aeroplanes and illustrate the experiments suggested by the author.
Attempt moving the paper slowly and gradually through the air. Does the air push upwards the slowmoving paper as much as before? What do you think happens when a paper be airborne stops moving forward through the air? You can show that a similar thing will happen if you run with a kite surrounding this time. The air pushes against the tilted underside of the moving kite and lifts it up. What happens Youtube Bateau En Papier to the lift pushing up on the kite if you walk slowly and gradually rather than run?
You want a papers aeroplane to do more than just fall gradually through the air. You want it to move ahead. You make a papers aeroplane move forward by throwing it. Usually the harder you throw a paper aeroplane the a greater distance it will fly. The forward movement of an be airborne is called thrust Pushed helps to give an aeroplane lift. Here's how. Hold one end of a sheet of paper and move it quickly through the environment. The flat sheet hits against the air in its route. The air pushes Origami Paper upward the free part of the moving paper. The paper aeroplane must undertake the air so that it can stay upwards for longer flights.
Here's how you can see and feel what happens when air pushes. Location a sheet of papers flat against the hands of your upturned hands. Turn your hand over and push down quickly. You can have the air pressing against the papers. The paper stays in place against your hand. You can see the paper's edges pushed back again by the air. Now hold a piece of crumpled paper in your palm. Again turn your odds over and push down. Small surface of the paper hits Origami Box less air. You are feeling less of a push against your odds. Unless of course you push down rapidly, the paper will drop to the ground before your odds reaches the surface.
Air is a real substance even though you can't see it. A flat sheet of document falling downwards pushes against the air in the path. The air shoves back contrary to the paper and slows its fall. A crumpled piece of paper has a smaller surface pushing against the air. The air doesn't push back as strongly as with the flat piece, and the ball of paper falls faster. The spread-out wings of a paper aeroplane keep it
The secret lies in the shape of the side. The front edge of an aeroplane's wing is more rounded and heavier than the rear advantage.
The particular front edges of the wings of a real be airborne are usually tilted a bit upwards. Just like a kite, the air pushes against the tilted underside of the wings, giving the plane lift. The greater the angle of the tilt the more wing surface the air pushes against. This particular results in a greater amount of lift. But if the angle of the tilt is too great, the air Bateau En Papier Facile pushes from the greater wing surface presented and slows down the ahead movement of the plane. This really is called drag.
Move functions slow a airplane down, as thrust works to allow it to be move forwards. At the same time, lift functions make a plane go up, as gravity tries to make it slip. These four forces are always working on paper aeroplanes just as they work on real aeroplanes. There is still another way most real aeroplanes and some paper aeroplanes use their wings to increase lift. The top-side as well because the bottom side of the wing can help to give the plane lift.


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When Does The Sun Come Up?
Boy...I forgot how fast 4:30am comes.
I am filling in for Doc Holliday this morning. I used to do mornings years ago at WLBK in DeKalb. I forgot how dark it is when that alarm goes off. Even the drive was pretty dark.
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EESI's Carol Werner Clarifies the Climate Impacts of Biofuels in Solar Today Article
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Biofuels have been touted in recent years as a leading solution to many of our nation's challenges. In December the president signed into law the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, including a substantially increased renewable fuels standard. This standard calls for biofuels production to reach 36 billion gallons by 2022, with 21 billion gallons of that amount to be advanced biofuels — those derived from biomass other than corn starch and emitting at least 50 percent less greenhouse gases compared to gasoline or diesel. Congress has strongly supported expanded development of biofuels for energy security and economic benefits and to reduce greenhouse emissions. Not even concerns about biofuels' effect on global food prices have been a stopper; proponents argued that they could be addressed by advancing nonfood feedstocks like switch grass. Then, in February, Science published two articles that call into question the carbon-neutrality of biofuels. The articles have generated considerable doubt and controversy regarding the true benefits of biofuels...
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At the Ninth Coordinating Committee Meeting in The Hague, the Netherlands on 12-13 April, the GCTF Co-Chairs, Morocco and the Netherlands, presented their 2016-2018 Plan of Action outlining five strategic priorities for the GCTF's work: Results, Resources, Relations, Reinforcement and Renewal. Integral to all of these priorities is promoting awareness and implementation of the GCTF's framework documents to as wide an audience as possible, and strengthening the Forum's ties with non-member countries and organizations.
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Red, Green, Re-factor (Red-Green for simplicity in this entry) is the mantra of Test-driven development. (TDD) The goal being to satisfy a requirement you write a test that fails, then write the functionality to satisfy solely that test, then re-factor as you implement further functionality. There's definitely nothing wrong with this approach, but I don't think it's for everybody. An alternative to TDD is Test-soon development. (TSD) In this model you write tests soon after you're satisfied that target requirements have been met. However, TSD is still Test-driven development, it just isn't Red-Green. TDD is test-driven because design decisions place an emphasism on meeting requirements with testable and, most importantly, tested code. This is obvious when you write the unit tests first, but is no-less true when writing unit tests second. The key is that the code is written with tests in mind. When you choose to write them is irrelevant, so long as you test it right.
TSD is less disciplined than TDD in that it is easier to defer testing as you continue to implement related functionality. This accrues up technical debt, leaving a larger pile of unit testing required. Tools like NCover are excellent at tracking your technical debt bill, so if you're using TSD, NCover is an absolute must. Another negative point against TSD to the TDD purist is that unit tests against working code would be written to pass, so they would be less reliable since they may not actually fail when they need to. This is a significant concern, but I think it applies just as much to Red-Green TDD as it does to TSD. In Red-Green you might only write tests that satisfy the "chosen path" but not exercise the code properly when paths cross. Either way you need to really think about behaviour to test, not just satisfy the obvious aspect of a requirement.
This second concern of writing tests to fail really got me motivated to ensure tests were exercised fully along-side the code they intended to test. My motto of choice to this effect is Amber, Green, Re-factor or Amber-Green. Essentially I write code to satisfy a requirement, then I create tests, and excercise test & code (Amber) until I'm satisfied they pass (Green) then the code is ready to be re-factored as necessary for future functionality. The reason I prefer this to TDD is that I've invested the time into satisfying architectural decisions that often inter-twine with satisfying requirements. I'm satisfied not "that it works", but rather "that it's going to work". Now the focus shifts to developing the tests to ensure that it truly works. My goal with writing the unit tests is to break the code. I know for a fact that I didn't think of everything so it's time to find what I missed by probing the code with tests. When I write a test that passes first run I alter the code and make sure the test fails as it's supposed to. When I write tests that don't fail then I become concerned that I'm not exercising it fully. Even if I think of something I missed, I write the test, watch it fail, then fix it.
Ultimately the approach isn't much different to Red-Green. With Red-Green it pays to think up-front while fleshing out boundaries and behaviours for code before you write it. Personally I find it's easier to flesh this out once I know what I'm planning to take to production, and switching my mentality to "break it!" helps to really excercise the code.
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Today I am a guest over at Kevin's Corner where I review the Hard Luck Hank Series.
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Let me begin this Halloween-inspired post by stating the obvious: a cat, no matter what its color, cannot influence fortune. But, of course… this hasn't stopped people from believing in the "special powers" of black cats for centuries.
Whether you believe that these inky felines are good luck or bad could largely depend on where you grew up: If you hail from the United States or most European countries, walking in a black cat's wake might make you quake in your boots. But if you come from the United Kingdom or Japan, seeing a black cats cross your path will likely make you grin because your luck is about to change for the better.
The direction the cat in question is traveling also counts for a lot. Leave it to the Germans to have the most precise rule about black cats: if they cross your path from right to left it's considered a bad omen. But if they saunter left to right, the cat is granting favorable times for you. In most parts of the world, a black cat walking towards you is considered a sign that good luck is coming your way, but if they turn around before they reach you, all bets are off.
In Italy, many hold the superstition that if a black cat lies on a sick persons bed, death is not far off. In China, some believe black cats are harbingers of famine and poverty. But when Latvian farmers discover coal-colored kitties in their grain silos they dance with joy. They believe these black beauties embody the spirit of Rungis, a god of harvests. And in Scotland, finding back kittens near your home is a sure sign of riches and happiness to come.
The ancient Egyptians revered black cats and treated them as royalty. In fact, killing a black cat was considered a capital offense. These favored felines were mummified upon their death to preserve them for the afterlife.
Chasing black cats out of your house is thought by some to ensure that yours will not be a lucky home. It is also believed that stroking the fur of black felines will bring health and wealth. Many people around the world claim that there is a single white hair to be found on even the blackest of cats. And if you can pull out that hair without getting a scratch, you'll have a long, happy and prosperous marriage.
So, how did black cats become associated with witchcraft? In the 15th century, witch hunts spread like wildfire across Europe in a horribly misguided effort to put the kibosh on pagan religions. Many people believed that all witches kept "familiars" — small creatures including frogs, birds, snakes and very often cats — to help them cast evil spells. And if that cat was black — a color associated with magic and sorcery — look out. It became "proof" that the unfortunate victim was a witch or warlock and was a sure ticket to a date with some rope and a few stakes.
Puritan Christians believed that witches had the power to transmute themselves into black cats to avoid death, which inspired many stories and legends. While being sentenced to death, a German witch is said to have cackled at the judge, spat threats at the priest and cursed her executioner. As the story goes, she was dragged from the court and tied to a stake for burning. As the flames rose around her there was a flash of light and a black cat leaped from the flames and ran through the astonished crowd.
King Charles I of England is reported to have kept what he believed to be a lucky black cat as a pet. He was so fearful of losing it that he had it guarded day and night. The cat reportedly died the day before Oliver Cromwell's parliamentary troops came and arrested the king for high treason. Not long after, the king was beheaded. Alas, his luck had truly run out.
Regardless of what superstitions continue to circulate about cats — of the black or other varieties — it's safe to say that most people feel very lucky to have them in their lives.
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U of R to host lecture on controversial 'gay panic defense'
April 8, 2015
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There are a host of examples of discrimination against the LGBTQ community within our judicial system, among them is the 'gay panic' defense. This seemingly antiquated line of legal reasoning allows defendants to argue they panicked and killed a LGBTQ person after they received unwanted, non-violent sexual advances.
Yes, this is really a thing. Here's a bit of a breakdown from The Young Turks after California banned the defense.
Ohio State University law professor Joshua Dressler will be breaking down the details of this argument at a University of Richmond event Thursday, April 9.
Dressler, who's talk is called "Nonviolent Homosexual Advances and Provocation Law," wrote an article in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology discussing provocation law, sexual advances and the reasonable man standard.
"Most of the time a criminal law that reflects male views and male standards imposes its judgment on men who have injured other men," wrote Dressler in the 1995 paper. "It is "boys' rules" applied to a boy's fight.'
"The provocation defense has deep roots in Anglo-American jurisprudence."
This gay panic defense uses the same ideas as the provocation defense, which argues that the victim provoked the defendant, a "reasonable man," into a heat of passion and thus incited him or her to commit murder. If the defendant was 'provoked by unwanted homosexual advances' then he or she can be convicted on a lesser charge, even if those advances were nonviolent.
This method allows gay or trans lives to be deemed less worthy than others, because individuals who kill a member of the LGBT community based on their sexual orientation or gender identity would serve less time for voluntary manslaughter than they would for a murder conviction.
Criminal lawyers started employing this strategy in the 1960's, according to Cynthia Lee, graduate of George Washington University Law School and author of "The Gay Panic Defense." In her article, she wrote criminal defense attorneys argued their male clients panicked and killed male victims only after they made unwanted homosexual advances towards them.
There have been several cases revolving around the gay panic defense since then, including the high profile case of Matthew Shepard which inspired the play and television movie, The Laramie Project.
The media and LGBTQ rights groups closely followed the 1998 murder of Sheppard, an openly gay college student in Laramie, Wyoming, as an example of the widespread hate crimes against the gay community.
Sheppard was found tied to a wooden fence and beaten to death about a mile outside of Laramie.
Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were charged with first-degree murder.
McKinney's defense tried to use the gay panic defense, saying Sheppard touched him inappropriately in attempt to make sexual advances. The strategy didn't work in this case and, many years later in a 20/20 interview, McKinney admitted he made up the story about unwanted sexual advances to serve a lesser sentence.
In 2013, the American Bar Association unanimously approved a resolution against the use of the "gay panic defense."
But so far, California is the only state with legislature to that effect. In September 2014 their general assembly passed a bill banning gay panic and trans panic as a defense in criminal courts.
Dressler will speak from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 9, in the Westhampton Center Living Room at University of Richmond.
The event is free and open to the public.
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What's the point? What adult has the time to master this stuff? Could it ever be worth it?
Recently, I've decided the answer is yes, even if you're reduced to tears by a hellish game, it can be worth it to plug through. Why? For the same reason it's often worth struggling through many other pieces of art or entertainment that we consider "difficult." Anyone who's slogged through the experimental swamp of Ulysses knows that it seems like a pointless chore at first. But if you're patient, the literary payoff is powerful?er, so I've been told?perhaps all the more so because you've worked hard for it.
Each game offers a different flavor of achievement. The quick-hit delights of Mario Kart are similar to the joys of a detective novel or a romance paperback, while the intense, grinding slog of Ninja Gaiden creates a sort of exhausted exhilaration, like finally reaching the end of War and Peace. Neither one is better than the other, but too many people miss out on the latter merely because the barrier to entry is so high. — Clive Thompson —Tough Love: Can a video game be too hard? (Slate)


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No, not that home educator, you fools! I'm referring not to Cheryl Moy but rather to her friend; Katya Lamb. I had heard vaguely of Katya Lamb, but had no personal dealings with her until this year. She contacted me out of the blue, in a very friendly fashion, in order to tell me that Maire Stafford had bought special computer software to analyse comments on her blog, to see if they were being made by me. Yes, I thought it sounded pretty mad as well. Then, a month or two later, I had another brief exchange with Katya; but this time the mood was very different. Instead of being chatty and amiable and suggesting that we exchange stories, as she had in her first message, she threatened my family. This threat was so explicit and awful, that I think it deserves to be widely known.
After claiming to be a friend of Wendy Charles-Warner, on whose behalf she was evidently speaking, Katya said;
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We have a drive space alert that is happening twice every day at about 6:40am and 12:40pm. I don't want to alter the alert but I do want to find where the drive space is going. I have carefully examined the scheduled tasks and none of them are using the space. I have tried Jdiskreport but this hasn't help me find the temporary filename/location either. Using windows explorer to watch the C drive space I have seen the the drive space drops by about 1gb in the course of 30 minutes and then is released .... looks like some scheduled event is using a 1gb temporary file but I can't find who or where.
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Imagine a tiny cherub in a long line of sweet babes, getting ready to head down to earth (I'm one of 'em). Saint Peter leans over with a smile and says, "Now....for your talents.... do you want to paper piece?" I, hanging over the edge of the cloud, am distracted by the awesome view: "No, I don't want to scrape your geese." I look up and smile brightly at the saint.
He realizes I misunderstood, and tries to clarify (you know saints are patient, right? That is how they get to be saints!), "One day when you are older, do you want to do paper piecing?" Totally confused now, I resumed my scouting of the earth below me, and replied, " I don't think so; pay-for-greasing sounds like a yucky job to me." Saint Peter probably sighed and muttered something under his breath about this generation and their lack of attention span as he grabbed my diaper and pulled me back from the edge of the cloud. And then I guess he gave my sis a double portion of the paper piecing gene, because she is a whiz at it!
You don't believe me, eh? Take a glance here at my very first attempt....
I believe the ground under the lighthousekeeper's house is sinking!
Or, try this one....this is from a pattern called "Crazee Heart" that Marcia of Crafty Sewing and Quilting provided.
I don't know if you can see it, but on the upper right of the heart, I sewed two pieces of fabric together to cover that portion.... and I have a - well, a rumple, a pleat, I'm not sure what to call it, but I'm thinking about some decorative stitching to hold it down!
Now, lest you think that I am totally devoid of any talent, one thing I CAN do is "make fabric" from scraps, and then use it for a project. This is a heart that I made for a friend in the blogging community:
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text: {mosimage}Joyce Arlington's idea a major force 50 years later When Joyce Arlington sparked the idea to create a drama club at Barnstable High School in 1958, she had no clue that it would become the revered organization it is today. On last week's opening night of The Wizard of Oz, the BHS Drama Club's spring production, Arlington was recognized in a special mid-show ceremony. Following intermission, Shakespeare teacher Ed O'Toole called Arlington onstage where each of the five main characters of the play, including Toto, presented her a bouquet of 10 red roses, one for each year of the club's existence. O'Toole offered praise to Arlington for her contribution to the school, noting the thousands of students who have benefited from participating in the club through the years. Arlington, who has attended club shows through the years, wasn't expecting the attention. "It was a total, total surprise," she said, noting that it was research conducted by O'Toole and others that revealed her role as founder of the original club. "It was 1958 and we had moved from High School Road to West Main, our first year in the new big school," Arlington said in a phone interview this week. "I was a junior. I had come to Barnstable from off-Cape, so I was at the old school a year and the new school a year." Because Arlington was not drawn to sports or the clubs that existed at the time, she longed for an activity that would fit her needs while possibly appealing to other students as well. "I think there were a couple of things that inspired me to start the club," she said. "I had this dream that maybe I could be an actress, and I wanted to belong. I wanted to do something that I could be a part of." Arlington went to Principal Briah K. Connor about the idea of starting a drama club. "He said, 'Go find yourself an advisor' and he'd support it," said Arlington. The club's first advisor was Elliot McSwan, a BHS teacher who acted in amateur theatrical shows at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in summers. "I felt that Mr. McSwan would be a good advisor because he had that interest," Arlington said. Unfortunately, Arlington learned during auditions for the club's first show that her acting skills were, ahem, not up to snuff. "My own acting career kind of fizzled," she said. "I had my first tryout and I was so nervous I couldn't speak the words. But I am a born organizer. I love to start things and bring people together. I have a knack for seeing the big picture. I definitely was behind the scenes." Although Arlington's acting career never took off, life offstage has been busy for the Dennisport resident. Following graduation, she attended college and ultimately earned her masters in nursing, working since 1973 as a nurse practitioner, first through New England Baptist Hospital, and now at Preventative Medical Associates in Yarmouth. An avid traveler, Arlington has visited Europe, been a self-proclaimed ski-bum in Colorado, and with friends even chaperoned the first US Olympic luge team. Arlington returned to Cape Cod in 1994 during what she quietly called a "dark period" of divorce and illness. "I came to visit my aunt," she said. "I came for a weekend and never left." Upon returning to the Cape, Arlington reconnected with classmates from the BHS class of '59. "We're all very tight," she said. "We're a very close class." Back in her high school days, Arlington became secretary of the drama club, which in 1958 and 1959 had one production a year, then known as the Senior Show. It was only recently that Arlington realized how big her little idea had grown. "I have to admit that I was in total shock," she said. "I had heard people talk about the Drama Club, but I never realized it was as big as it was. I've known that it's been involved, but I had no idea how involved." Arlington was impressed to learn that shows occur year-round, with two major productions a year, a Shakespeare play, and Shakespeare and family theatre in the summer. "We had 20 kids in 1959," she said, marveling at the 300-plus cast of The Wizard of Oz. What impressed Arlington in the 1950's was that, although the club was small, students from all classes tried out for shows. "What was evident in our first production was that we got kids from all the classes to try out, not just one class," she said. "That was a little taste of what was to come." Arlington credits Drama Club head John Sullivan for helping the program to flourish. "It started to develop under [Jim Ruberti] and John really started flying with it. He brought his artistic talent to it," she said. "He brings a lot of connections to the Drama Club and reaches so many people." Arlington also offered kudos to O'Toole for his involvement with the Shakespeare productions. "They are the proof of the importance of teachers and how important it is that they care about kids," she said. On opening night Sullivan took Arlington to the "old auditorium" (Knight Hall) and caught her up on the club's history. Arlington also talked with technical director Steve Bearse and costume designer Karen Mannal. Arlington enjoyed meeting the folks that came up to her following the show to thank her for creating the club. "I just realized the extent to which the Drama Club has reached people," she said. "I'm still absorbing the whole thing, by the way. "The club just makes me happy because kids are our biggest resource. Children: raising them, caring for them and their education is most important. I see what kids get in trouble with out in the world and I wish there were more places for kids to go. This is meeting a real need. I know how it touches lives and how important it is." So what did the founder of the Drama Club think of its 50th anniversary production? "It was fabulous," she said. "I loved how Broadway it was. It's amazing to me!" Although Arlington doesn't generally make a big deal about the drama club being her brainchild, she deeply appreciated the recognition. "I'm thrilled and I have to say a little proud," she said. "And amazed that they would give me that recognition. It was a sweet, sweet joy." For the Patriot's review of The Wizard of Oz, turn to page C:1.


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Pianist Daniel Hsu wrestles with Beethoven in Lansing Symphony finale
There must be some point where even a searching soul like pianist Daniel Hsu is satisfied with his interpretation of a big concerto and feels ready to roll it out.
"I'm going to go with 'no' on that one," he said. "Flatout 'no.'"
Cocky is not the word for Hsu, 18-year-old guest piano soloist in Wednesday's block buster-heavy Lansing Symphony Orchestra season finale. Every two years, the Lansing Symphony snatches the Gilmore Young Artist from Kalamazoo's sprawling, star-studded Gilmore International Keyboard Festival for a one-night stand in East Lansing.
"Preparing for the Gilmore at this particular moment, this particular day, I'm in the middle of a mid-life crisis," Hsu said in total seriousness.
For Hsu, every performance is a completely new ballgame, a practice that comes with a price.
"Some things work and some things don't," he said. "That's a much better way of looking at things, but that also means you're never quite satisfied."
For the past two months, Hsu has been working on one of the biggest piano concerti in the repertoire, Beethoven's Third. He last played the concerto at 12 years old. Six years later, he has different ideas on how to penetrate its joys and mysteries.
"Part of me was born in the wrong generation," he said. "I don't necessarily take that as a negative thing, but I get called an old man quite a bit."
It's an ambitious concert all around, beginning with "The Phoenix," a soaring, postmodern rouser by University of Marylandbased composer Mark Edwards Wilson.
Tchaikovsky's cyclonic, Cyclopean, cymbals-shattering Fourth Symphony will grind the evening — and the 2015-16 season — into the sands of eternity.
The concert promises a lively display of neurotic minds, from Viking-scaled manicdepressives like Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to the "young old man" at the piano.
At Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, Hsu learned to hack out his own way on the stage, studying with keyboard icons like Gary Graffman and 101-year-old Eleanor Sokoloff, who started teaching in 1936 and is still turning out brilliant students.
Far from being stifled by such revered pedagogues, Hsu felt unlocked. The greatest teachers aren't interested in cranking out clones.
In 2013, dozens of Graffman's students, Hsu included, assembled at the master's 85th birthday party.
"I walked away realizing that every one of them is so different in the way they interpret music, and yet they all studied with the same guy," Hsu said.
He played part of the Beethoven Third for Richard Goode, one of the towering Beethoven pianists of all time, at a Curtis master class. (Goode is also performing at the Gilmore Festival, with an all-Schubert recital at Kalamazoo's Chenery Auditorium.)
Goode encouraged Hsu to break up the rhythms to reflect the turmoil in Beethoven's life when he wrote the concerto.
The music is Beethoven in all his extremes, stern as a prison and lush as a garden. Finding the nectar behind the iron moved Hsu deeply.
"It's all stormy minor (key), and it transitions into the second theme — it's just pure joy, right? It lasts for a little bit, and it swirls back into where it started," he said.
He struggled to dig deeper, using only words.
"It's like — if I were to die here, this is what it is, what made life so valuable," he said.
Hsu used to think of the concerto's ending as "this angry, stormy rhythmic music," but things look different at 18 than they did at 12.
"There are a lot of interesting takes on it that aren't in your face, and they work very well," he said.
Hsu's Lansing appearance is a first, for more than one reason. Two years ago, his older brother, Andrew, got two standing ovations after zestfully ripping into the Schumann Piano Concerto with the Lansing Symphony and music director Timothy Muffitt.
"He's always like that," Daniel said of his brother.
The eldest of three Hsu siblings, Ashley, is also a pianist. For a couple of years, the three Hsus comprised one-sixth of the piano studio at the Curtis Institute. The gang has split up, though. Andrew is working on a master's degree in composition at the Juilliard School, and Ashley is at Columbia University going for a master of fine arts, leaving Daniel alone at Curtis.
"It's a really weird thing for me," he said. "When I have a problem or something I can't quite grasp, they're the first people I turn to. Maybe my teachers won't be happy to hear that."
But the siblings remain close and stay in frequent touch.
"It's a lot of repertoire talk — what goes with what — music discussions, casual stuff like friends and girls and boys and all that," he said.
They share a passion for the CBS TV series "The Mentalist" and compare notes on each new episode. The only thing they don't do is kill each other's vibe.
"We don't have a rule that if one person plays something, the other can't," he said.
"It's a free for all. We play stuff back to back, on top of each other, whatever. It doesn't matter."
In addition to the Lansing gig, Hsu is playing at three Gilmore Festival events, tackling an ambitious slate of Schubert, Liszt and Mussorgsky's epic showpiece, "Pictures at an Exhibition." On June 21, a few days before his 19th birthday, he'll make his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra, playing Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto.
"That's a big deal for me," he said. "After that — summer is the best. You can relax and practice new repertoire."
He'll dive for the first time into the impressionist colors of Ravel and Debussy, with forays into the ecstatic music of Scriabin, the clarity of Mozart and that Schumann concerto, which he'll play in Grand Rapids next season.
"It'll be a good — a great summer," he enthused, mid-life crisis forgotten for a minute.
MasterWorks 6: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Lansing Symphony Orchestra with Daniel Hsu, piano
8 p.m. Wednesday, May 4
Tickets start at $20 Wharton Center 750 E. Shaw Lane, East Lansing
(517) 487-5001, lansingsymphony.org


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Green Election Policy Highly Sophisticated.
As each new election policy is released by the Greens I am impressed by the depth of thinking, costing and multiple benefits that come with them. We have made a convincing impression this election that we are ready to govern and are easily holding our own against the other parties with highly relevant and practical policies.
National's policies look like as if they are just throwing money around where they think they will get some traction, but with no long term vision. Their regional road spending and the building of Auckland schools just look like stuff that they should be doing anyway dressed up to look like new spending and lacking consultation. The carrot of tax cuts is also being dangled in front of voters by Key despite English's reservations that the money exists to do this.
The Green Party are offering tax cuts through our carbon tax policy, we know where the money is coming from because we have generated it first. This policy will future proof our economy by shifting the focus to sustainable business practices and put money in people's pockets at the same time.
Extending our home insulation scheme (that we originally established as part of a memorandum of agreement with the National led Government) will just continue the success of this initiative. Not only are we making families healthier, and less of a drain on our health system, but the scheme supports local businesses and jobs. Like most of our policies this is an investment, not one way spending, as there is a return of $5 for every dollar spent.
Our Green Card is a simple yet effective way of providing financial support for struggling students by saving them around $40 a week in transport costs, reducing traffic and encouraging the use of public transport ouside peak times. It will also allow students to potentially save even more money through renting cheaper flats more distant from their tertiary institutions.
The Safe to School policy is another seemingly simple policy that has multiple benefits. It will allow children to be independent, increase the level of activity for our children to curb our growing child obesity rates, and take traffic off the roads during the congested times before and after school. Councils will be able to access money to make their towns and cities more family friendly without increasing rates.
Another thing I like about our policies is that they are all interrelated and it is our holistic approach that will deliver the 'balance' that National often talks about, but never achieves. A degrading environment, growing inequity and an economy based on borrowing and exporting raw commodities does not constitute balance.
All Green policies make sense because they are grounded in evidence and will force our economy to work for us rather than the other way around. Under National our economy has performed well for only a small section of our society and our environment and our families have had to be unreasonably sacrificed to support it. A well functioning economy should benefit all people and improve our quality of life as well as our environment. Party voting Green will support progressive policies and a cleaner, fairer and smarter future.


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Graphite Weekly Review: ZEN movement in the Graphite GALAXY
The ProEdgeWire sponsor share price index for graphite witnessed a strong rebound last week, increasing almost 40%. There were two companies in particular that stood out: Galaxy Graphite (TSXV: GXY), which witnessed a 333.00% increase in price after announcing assay results from its Buckingham graphite property in Quebec and Zenyatta (TSXV: ZEN), which confirmed the validity of a method able to achieve 99.6% purity. Zenyatta said that thanks to the use of two different leaching processes on samples from its Albany graphite deposit in Ontario it was able to achieve a 99.7% (Carbon) pure graphite; a second and less expensive method yielded 99.96% purity. This kind of purity is on par with synthetic graphite; however, the latter is far more costly because it is derived from petroleum and using methods that create considerable environmental complications. Synthetic graphite easily costs from three to ten times the price of mineral graphite and the only reason for its existence is the purity. Evidently, this kind of purity makes Zenyatta's graphite ideal for graphene.
The two results came in the wake of the fresh impetus to promote graphene research in Europe after the EU granted Nokia and its partner a Euro 1 billion research grant. The Nokia grant will prove to be momentous in the advancement of graphene technology and, ultimately, to the promotion of the value of graphite. The graphite 'revival' that started some two years ago and which saw prices set new records in early 2012 can now expect a steadier outlook. Much of the revival has been driven by the importance of graphite to battery technology and by the promise of graphene, the new 'wonder material'. Graphene now has the chance to truly transform from promise to reality and those graphite plays able to achieve the right characteristics for processing into graphene. Graphene has many applications for researchers and developers; it can be transparent, it is flexible and yet extremely sturdy, which is why it is suitable for so many applications.
Nokia and Samsung have already developed graphene flexible touch screens; there are new light and strong composite materials for the aerospace and automotive engineering sectors and other applications that will allow for faster and smaller computers. There are clearly great hopes placed in graphene research. The European Commission plans to promote the graphene research in the next decade and more details, about the way the one billion Euros grant will be used, were revealed. The research project is divided into eleven sections addressing various areas from material development to optoelectronics and sensors. Moreover, as noted above, one of the more suitable applications will be to make faster computers through the use of graphene in semiconductors thanks to the distinct magnetic moment caused by an intrinsic angular momentum of the electrons in graphene. Not only is graphene being compared to silicon because of its revolutionary potential; it is also being touted as a replacement for silicon in transistors, seeing as silicon appears to have reached its development limits. European researchers are hoping that graphene could replace silicon in the next ten years. Graphene transistors would be able to perform multiple operations simultaneously allowing for faster and more energy efficient functionality. Evidently, this would reduce the load on batteries and enable even more size and weight reduction.
Nokia was but one of the beneficiaries of the billion Euros grant; Philips and Airbus are two of the other industrial giants involved. The EU is placing a great deal of confidence in graphene and expects it to lead a new technological revolution that might also drive the Union out of its growth slump. The EU support program for graphene is unique and is all about keeping Europe as a competitive venue for new technology. One of the unique areas of European research in graphene is chemical in nature. EU scientists have been researching graphene's chemical properties and how the material itself can be further modified. Researchers use alkaline elements such as potassium or sodium to electrically charge graphene, enabling it to bond with other compounds including organic ones, allowing for applications in the biomedical field. Of course all these wonder depend on the ability to produce large quantities and the race is on to achieve true mass scale production. In the meantime, graphite mining will have become more important and graphene should help to sustain demand and price. The next decade will be crucial for the development of graphene from the graphite stage to the mass production and commercialization of products made possible by its characteristics.
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What's funny about this, is the simplest system for psionics ever produced was in 1st edition. The vast majority of people believe that it's the most complicated, when in fact it is the simplest.
Here is how you resolve a psionic combat in first edition.
Declare attack power,
Opponent declares defense mode,
Find result on chart,
Subtract points,
Repeat until defeat,
No die rolls. Just superfast look-up. It is substantially more complicated in 2nd edition and 3rd edition.
So why is the belief that the 1st edition system is the most complex? Two reasons. Special cases and the fact that the system is spread out over 3 books.
If you're at all interested in psionics, then you should check out my free psionics download. It is, at its core, styled heavily after the 1st edition system. That is to say, fast, flavorful, and providing powers that are unique and not magical. If you like it, you should spread the word!
What are my favorite things about it?
- Flavorful combat. In 2nd/3rd/4th edition when you use psionic powers to kill an opponent, they die. Here, you confuse them, feeblemind them, turn them into a robot, or wound their minds forever.
- Simple Power Selection. Playing a psionicist? Pick two powers. No picking a specialty or complicated chains of requirements.
- Simple Power Activation. Declare Power, Pay Cost. No roll under system here.
- Creative Balanced Powers. I've had power gamers play with this system try to break it, and mostly they discover, psionicists are only as good as the creativity of the person playing them.
- Added Value. Of course it has rules. And dozens of powers. And a class. And a selection of kit's/packages. And a Background table. And Items. And Encounter guidelines. And a Combat quick reference sheet.
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