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Released from prison on a $1 million bond, George Zimmerman is now being protected by a full-time security team at a Florida safe house.
Zimmerman was released from prison on Saturday for the second time after Judge Kenneth R Lester's decision to release him on a restricted bond. His defense team, headed up by Irish American attorney Mark O'Mara, helped him to post 10 percent of the $1 million bond.
O'Mara called on Zimmerman's public supporters' to give monetary donations for an aggressive defense. The trial will begin on 8th August.
On Thursday, Lester said he believed Zimmerman and his wife, Shellie's, deceit in court over the amount of money they had at their disposal in April, could have indicated that they were planning to flee. Despite having revoked his first $150,000 bond, Lester announced that Zimmerman could once more be released from prison.
He said, "This court has, thus far, declined to exercise its contempt powers and the state failed to prove that the defendant may be held without bond."
Lester believes that the court revoking Zimmerman's first bond "thwarted" his attempts to flee the area.
In his ruling he stated that Zimmerman would now be under electronic monitoring as he believes "the defendant and his wife would have fled the United States with at least $130,000 of other people's money."
In a post on Zimmerman's defense team's website, they stated that before the bond was paid his fund had $211,000 and payables of $40,000. O'Mara predicted that immediate upcoming expenses would clear this fund out.
He added, "For those who have given in the past, for those who have thought about giving ... now is the time to show your support."
ABC News reports on Zimmerman hiding out in Florida:
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With approximately 10,500 employees, Getronics PinkRoccade is the market leader in the Netherlands for ICT Services. The software vendor enables constant and secure access to the information required from any location. The portfolio of development, integration and hosting of business solutions addresses global enterprises as well as local businesses. Based upon SAP NetWeaver, Getronics PinkRoccade developed a complete new family of software products for local governments – especially with the help of two key components: SAP NetWeaver Application Server (SAP NetWeaver AS) and the SAP NetWeaver development infrastructure, installed as usage type DI.
SAP NetWeaver AS provides tools for model-driven, service-oriented Java development. The SAP NetWeaver development infrastructure on the other hand handles all processes in the software life cycle – from product creation, to setup of the development landscapes and testing, and to assembly and deployment of the software. The infrastructure, integrated with SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, synchronizes the work of the development teams. In the process, software development is based on SAP's component model, which defines reusable components that form the applications in different layers.
Central availability of sources
The SAP NetWeaver development infrastructure makes both sources and archives centrally available to an development team. Although one database can store all objects, logical storage locations separate the product states. Therefore, access to different states can be filtered and avoid any accidental use of the incorrect version. All dependencies on all levels are well-defined. Each development component (DC) project contains its interfaces and its dependencies in its metadata, the coding itself is not affected. This information is read by the development infrastructure to control the build processes. Multiple items are validated: are all users of other components defined and are they available in a good state?
Other DCs that depend on the one built first are rebuilt automatically – this allows to let developers decide when to build their DCs instead of waiting for a complete build of the whole application. In the next step, the new software components (SCs), units of delivery and installation which gather DCs into functional groups, are assembled and tested to become ready for the use in productive runtime systems, the use in the next software layer or as the basis for the new release. All these processes – check-in of required objects, imports during development and consolidation, and deployment into the production system – are modeled one-to-one in the transport studio of SAP NetWeaver. "Tracks" define the development environments for the development teams. That gives the administrator perfect and separate control of all projects. Developing applications as reusable units in a consistent environment following a clearly defined process is more efficient and significantly lowers development and maintenances costs.
The "CiVision" product family
Getronics PinkRoccade already has delivered several products based on SAP NetWeaver to the market: the "CiVision Event Permit" application allows citizens to request permission to hold public events. The "CiVision Addresses and Buildings" application registers the origin of addresses used by a municipality; the midoffice "CiVision Publiekszaken" application handles all the data flowing between a municipality's Web site and the SAP R/3 back-office and vice versa automatically. "The sales of our SAP-based products exceed our expectations," says Ronald Spoor, Director Operations, Sector Local Government, Getronics PinkRoccade. "The SAP NetWeaver development infrastructure has been a decisive win in helping us create the new software product family 'CiVision'."
The product architecture "CiVision" features a user interface (UI) based on Web Dynpro and Java running in SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal. The interface connects the user with an ABAP back-end system. Part of the functionality handles all the requests from a municipality's Web site. The midoffice application generates a high volume of such requests and transmits them to legacy applications and applications running on an ABAP stack. Getronics PinkRoccade built these applications by using Web Dynpro Java and some new business logics and persistency based upon ABAP.
Consistent application development
The architecture of the CiVision products is structured in layers, with intense reuse of middle and basis layers by the application layer on top. The basis layer contains software components (SC) developed by Getronics PinkRoccade and those delivered by SAP: It contains all the technical features that are reused by all other components. The second horizontal layer consists of two components that contain the common functional features that are reused by the components built on top of the horizontal layers. The third layer is made up of all applications built for a specific functional purpose.
Using that structure, the administrator sets up the development environment for each layer, which defines the development systems for the creation of each release. After one layer's release, the results serve as starting point for the next layer. The entire process is aligned with the SAP component model. All objects are created in the context of this model and all steps – from setting up the development landscape to the transports of software from development to testing and delivery – occur in one centrally hosted environment. The environment's features include source code control, central build and archives management, and central landscape and transport administration. It allows perfect separation of code lines of different products in a single SAP NetWeaver development infrastructure – even for different releases – and creates an option to ship sources, allow modifications, and even merge them with support packages later on.
Work in all layers followed the same process. The team gained immediate access to the central development environment. By sharing access to the centrally stored object versions – both sources and archives – relevant for the project, the team developed new functionality on top of the existing layers. Developers could always access up-to-date objects in a consistent state. "They were able to find all objects in the development configuration they loaded into their integrated development environment (IDE). And they explicitly put the structure of their application into their projects. This significantly boosts reuse and makes changes and maintenance more predictable."
More transparency and control
The benefits of the new development process appear even in small teams. However, the bigger the team the bigger the gain – especially if the team is spread over different locations. The teams' work can be integrated to synchronize the independent release states and to define the layers and the reuse of components of a complete application. Administration of development becomes much easier with clearly defined roles for transport and landscape administration. Administrators have a central point of view. "We are in full control of all development projects with the SAP NetWeaver development infrastructure and have been able to shorten our time to market dramatically," explains Spoor. "The layered development, change management, and software logistics features are strong and unique in the market. This really helps us keep track of our development, delivery, and maintenance tasks at an affordable cost and with reasonable effort," says Spoor. "SAP NetWeaver helps us continually meet requirements in a fast changing local government market."

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Destiny Offers Pre-Order Exclusive Vanguard Armory
With the Destiny beta on hold for a day, gamers who pre-ordered the ambitious first-person-shooter are understandably annoyed that they don't get to jump into the open universe today. In an effort that may ease the sting of the beta maintenance, Activision has announced a special Destiny pre-order bonus that will allow early adopters to gear up with exclusive weapons and armor as well as an exclusive player emblem.
Destiny pre-order customers will have access to the Vanguard Armory. This exclusive shop will grant access to weapons and gear that can't be found anywhere else. Tons of weapons are shown in the video, as well as a selection of helmets that change players' abilities while giving Guardians a unique look. The Agema White option is especially fetching, and should pair nicely with the orange "V" logo of the Vanguard Armory, which adorns every weapon in the store. The Vanguard Armory is no giveaway shop, though; players will still need to earn the exclusive upgrades in the game.
Some small print on the video reveals that the "exclusive" content is actually a timed exclusive, and may eventually be available for all players sometime after fall 2015.
Destiny is set for a Sept. 9 release date on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox 360. The beta returns on Wednesday for both PlayStation and Xbox platforms.


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April 1 --The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on April 1 announced a final rule (RIN 1218-AB67) to update protections for workers performing construction or maintenance at power plants or on power lines, closing out more than a decade of rulemaking.
The new rule brings OSHA's electricity construction standard in line with present industry consensus standards, replacing OSHA rules adopted in 1972 and 1994.
The new final rule applies to general industry employers covered by 29 C.F.R. 1910.269, Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and construction employers covered by 29 C.F.R. 1926 Subpart V, Power Transmission and Distribution. The rule primarily affects companies "that construct, operate, maintain, or repair electric power generation, transmission, or distribution installations," the rule's preamble states. It also will cover manufacturers and other companies "that own or operate their own electric power generation, transmission, or distribution installations as a secondary part of their business operations," OSHA said.
Among the significant changes, according to OSHA, are:
• Host and contract employers must share information on safety matters and coordinate their work rules and procedures;
• Employers must provide protective equipment to workers exposed to electrical hazards from electrical arcs no later than April 15, 2015;
• Line-clearance tree trimmers must have training on how to recognize and avoid electrical hazards;
• Qualified workers must use fall protection when climbing or changing locations on poles and towers, unless the use of fall protection gear poses a greater hazard or is infeasible, starting April 15, 2015;
• Multiple crews working together on the same line must either coordinate their activities under a single worker or independently comply with the standards for de-energizing transmission and distribution lines;
• New minimum approach distances, effective April 15, 2015, and
• recognition of a new class of electrical protective equipment, Class 00 rubber insulating gloves.
The agency estimated the rule will save about 20 lives and prevent about 120 serious injuries each year and that employers would incur approximately $50 million in annual compliance costs. Roughly one-third of the compliance costs are related to requirements to provide arc-flash protective equipment.
"Electric utilities, electrical contractors and labor organizations have persistently championed these much-needed measures to better protect the men and women who work on or near electrical power lines," OSHA chief David Michaels said in an April 1 statement.
Charles Kelly, director of safety and human resource issues for the power industry group Edison Electric Institute, told Bloomberg BNA April 2 that the organization is still reviewing the rule.
"We are pleased that it is coming out and look forward to working with OSHA on communicating and educating compliance requirements," Kelly said.
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers spokesman Jim Spellane declined to comment April 1 on the rule, saying that the union is still reviewing the 1,600-page rule.
The rule's requirements will become effective 90 days after its publication in the Federal Register. The rule delays compliance dates for several requirements related to fall protection, approach distances and arc-flash protections until April 2015. The agency estimated the final rule will generate about $180 million in benefits each year.
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When we went camping last month, we decided to check out an area of Mount St. Helens we hadn't yet explored: Ape Cave Lava Tube.
At over two miles long, Ape Cave Lava Tube is considered the longest lava tube in the continental United States. What is a lava tube? Basically, as lava flowed long ago, the outer portion of the lava cooled and hardened creating tubes through which fluid lava continued to flow. The fluid lava drained away, leaving the empty tube behind.
If you like caving, Ape Cave is for you. The cave is long, and dark, and big, and did I mention dark?
Not a lot of photos here because... dark. But the kids had a blast exploring this huge tube. We just let the kids freely hike about while wearing headlamps and holding flashlights or lanterns.
A word of caution; the stairs and ladders can get a little slick, so I encourage the use of railings. Also, if you don't do well on uneven ground or in the dark, this activity if probably not for you. And keep in mind that if you go the whole two miles, you still have to get back. We didn't really think about that going into our explorations and we ended up with a couple of overly tired kids by the time we came out.
Fees: During the summer, a Northwest Forest Parking Pass is required - $5/day, $30/season
What to bring: Warm clothes, flashlights, water, a snack
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No. Enc.: 1d4 (1d4)
Alignment: Chaotic
Movement: 90' (30')
Burrow: 90' (30')
Armor Class: -4
Hit Dice: 17
Attacks: 2 or 1 (trample, tail slap or sonic blast)
Damage: 8d8, 2d10 or 10d6
Save: L17
Morale: 10
Hoard Class: None
Earth Eater are immense Kaiju that live in the deepest parts of the earth, burrowing through deep rock and eating ores and certain types of stone. Earth Eaters are bulky creatures resembling a titanic ankylosaurus (perhaps its ancestral form) with two antennae sprouting from its forehead. An Earth Eater is 100 feet from head to tail. These monsters have a particular liking for processed man-made materials such as concrete, processed metal, and petroleum products, which can bring them into conflict with the surface world. Such encounters are rare, but devastating.
Earth Eaters have a sonic blast that is usable 3 times per day. It is a 100ft long, 5ft wide, cone. It inflicts 10d8 sonic damage, and characters must save vs stun or be or be stunned for 2d4 turns. If used on buildings or underground this sonic blast collapses buildings and tunnels. Any creature caught inside a collapsing cavern or structure takes 7d6 points of damage from falling debree. If opponents are not killed or driven off by its sonic blast, an earth eater will trample foes and attempt to pummel them with its huge tail club.
The only known weakness of Earth Eaters is water, which burns these creatures like acid, dealing 1d10 points of damage as the creatures flesh is turned to mud.
Mutations: Damage turning, energy beam (sonic), reflective epidermis (heat), epidermal susceptibility (water)
Setting Notes
The Alamo Empire has had recent encounters with an Earth Eater. This conflict was devastating as this particular monster, requiring focused assault by Guardian Class robots. Though the kaiju was killed, the victory was costly, destroying four Guardian robots and twenty-five Alamo Guard troops and an unknown number of slaves before the monster was put down. Additional sightings of other earth eaters are unconfirmed, but still disturbing.'


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Monday, January 29, 2007
Dismaying Story #107: The Sponge Lady
I am a forty year old woman with a husband and three small children. Though my husband is a very nice man, we used to have disagreements over the division of household tasks and the issue of him and the kids being messy. We stopped having disagreements because I gave up and just did everything myself. I see now that I shouldn't have done that, but to make a long story short, it was out of life-long habit that I did so. I have recently discovered how much I still resent the losing battle that led me to just give up like that. My husband and I have been discussing the topic recently and he is angry with me because I have resentment over that old situation. I think the only way to get rid of the resentment is to work something out now that would seem fair and reasonable to both of us. We are just beginning to talk about this and we have just started re-organizing some rooms in the house. Also, we don't have a lot of time to devote, so this will be a slow (agonizing) process. Now I see anew why it was so easy for me to just give up.
My husband feels personally attacked if I desire something that he thinks is unreasonable and he also feels this way when I bring up the previous pitfalls that made me throw in the towel. If I don't bring up what went wrong before, how can we avoid the same outcome?
I gave up my job to take care of things and became a homebody. After years of following my family around with a sponge, I just can't take it anymore. I'm tired, disillusioned and the house has become disorganized and it's starting to get messy. My husband does do some things now that he didn't used to do, like cook and wash the dishes and I appreciate it very much, but what I need most is for me and my husband to be able to work together to really set things right again in the house and come up with a fair plan that involves everyone.
I can't seem to help complaining to him about how I got into this mess - he's the person I talk to about everything! But, still - I don't want to fight about it.
What can I do? It seems that my choices are:
1) forget the whole thing, suck it up, be quiet, trudge along doing the best that I can and try to find a way to be happy with it (this doesn't work for me anymore); or
2) keep working with my husband on reorganizing and talk to him about my needs and feelings around this, let him get angry and defensive, endure the arguing (which we both hate) and then hope that something good comes of it.
The second choice worries me because we both have baggage and I'm afraid it will all come bursting out of the closets and bury us. He was raised and catered to by a Mrs. Cleaver type, while his father was demanding and disapproving. I was the 'Cinderella' of an extremely dysfunctional and abusive family. We are both dealing with the after-effects of abuse from my past, in the sense that any hint of physical closeness and sexual excitement can send me into a panic attack. I'm seeing a therapist, but still I'm afraid I might be like this the rest of my life.
Surely there must be other choices for dealing with our impasse. I would even be okay with a way to make choice #2 bearable. Do you have any ideas?
Signed, The Sponge Lady
Dear Sponge Lady,
You have many issues going on all at the same time, any one of which would be difficult to deal with on its own. I'm glad you're getting professional help.
It can be easy in your situation to come to the conclusion that your husband is lazy when it comes to housework or that he doesn't care about your needs. While I've seen those elements before, I think the dominant element for you is misunderstanding. Your husband's mother taught him it was "fair" for the woman to look after the house and the kids. Since you are a full-time homebody, he likely has the same understanding as many other men -- that you have plenty of time to do the housework. He undoubtedly figures that he has his job and you have yours. He doesn't ask you to help with his, so it isn't fair to expect him to have to do yours. He probably figures he is already going above and beyond the call by doing more cooking and dishes than his father ever did, and STILL you complain.
Men want to be appreciated and considered competent. When you ask for more, it is easy for him to hear, "You are failing me." If he already feels he is trying hard, this is an incredible turn-off for him. "Why should I try harder?" he thinks to himself. "No matter what I've done, she still tells me I am failing her." There is the source of his resentment. He doesn't resent the idea of being supportive, he just wants it to be "fair" and for him to be appreciated.
One fundamental problem is that he doesn't understand your need for more help. He doesn't understand that being a full-time parent and homemaker is more than a full-time job. If you can, get him to read this article about Traditional Work Sharing. Many men have the common misperception that it is fair to treat the housework as "her job" for the stay-at-home mom. In that article I explain why that is anything but fair. If you can get him to understand this one point, you will be a long way to resolving your issue. Thanks to his Mom you have an up-hill journey to reach that point.
The other thing you can do is adjust how you approach the issue when you discuss it. Be aware of his need to be appreciated. Which do you currently do more: tell him how much you appreciate the things he does, or suggest that it would be great if he could do more? You will help your own cause if you can get into the habit of loading up on the former, which will help pave the way for doing the latter.
I would stay completely away from bringing up the past failures. I disagree that this is a necessary step to future success. Instead, it merely re-opens old sensitivities and makes him feel attacked.
Start the conversation by giving him a gift instead of what he perceives as an insult. Maybe you could explain that you now have a better understanding of the situation from his point of view and you're sorry that the way the two of you have dealt with the situation up until now has made him feel criticized. Tell him how much you appreciate what he is doing. Offering an olive branch is often the best way to start a dialog, since this sets a tone of conciliation, goodwill, and cooperativeness. Often your partner will be prompted to respond in kind.
So in short, you need a way to get him to alter his "Mrs. Cleaver" view of the world, and you need a more effective way of communicating so you don't unintentionally insult him and make him defensive. Often the key to the communication is having an empathetic understanding of how stressful the situation is from his point of view. Get him to have the same empathy for your situation and you should be well on your way.
I have focused on your housework question, but I'm also aware you have larger issues stemming from past abuse. No doubt it is more difficult to work through supportiveness and communication problems when your closeness is compromised as you describe. I'm sorry to hear of all your struggles and I wish you and your husband all the best as you work through them.
With warm regards,
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- Anonymous12:51 PM
Me and my man have had similar arguments like this lady has had. I don't know if it will work for her, but what I have started to do is just ask for help in a manner that makes him feel needed not demanded upon. He has even said that by making him feel needed more, that I am making him feel inspired to help more. It still drives me crazy sometimes to have him sit there while I fold laundry, but I figure I have come a long way with him and will work on it as we go along.ReplyDelete
Thanks for visiting my blog. I checked out your archives a bit and I found them pretty interesting! Good luck!ReplyDelete
Great advice. The key is to remember that change is a process not an event. Change takes, this will not happen overnight.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:38 PM
Hi again! Andrew asked me to come by and give an example of how I ask my man in a way to make him feel needed...Well, of course it depends on the man, but mine has made it a point to WANT to feel needed. So, let's take organizing his closet for example. I will go into the abyss and tool around for a few minutes. Then I will come out and say just simply, "Honey, I need your help for a minute. Would you mind?" I try to be as sweet and sound as needy as possible :) He may scoff, but will come help me. Usually I will say something like, "I know you like this organized a certain way and I want to make sure it's done right so I thought you could help me do that." That usually does the trick. Or, if I need him to help me make the bed, I will go in, start and then come out and say, "Honey, I just can't get these sheets on right. Would you please come help me, I know you have the hand strength to get the sheets tight." that usually does the trick too. Same goes with just about anything I need him to do. OF COURSE there are things that I figure I'm better off doing by myself just to keep myself from getting annoyed. But, like I said, I try to make him feel needed. Kinda like he is rescuing his little woman :) I hope this helps and doesn't sound too weird!ReplyDelete
thanks for stopping by my blog Andrew! I hope you visit often!
Thank you, Andrew. There are several things in your response which would definitely benefit our situation, some of which I have already begun doing (I dug around in your archives).ReplyDelete
The bad news here, is that the way our household functions has to change for my own healing. I am DONE with the way things were for us. It took a confrontation that turned into a major meltdown to even get him to really see that there is no going back to the 'old way'. I stood my ground and I will defend it, but I will do it kindly and with respect for my husband's feelings. We have to keep working until we both can say, "That sounds fair enough." The good news is that we both are committed to the marriage, even if things are hard. Apparently, like many other things, this is a process which will take some time and patience.
Some things are slowly improving a little already. My husband helped me sort through the children's clothing today. I can tell this whole thing has him out of his comfort zone, but I give him credit for having the guts to make a move for change. I KNOW how difficult that can be, especially when it means having to take a good, hard look around.
I appreciate the thought you have put into your response and your willingness to have a feel for both sides. After all, a marriage IS about two sides AND the space in the middle. Thank you, Andrew. It's sweet of you to care.
Lynn -- The Former Sponge Lady
I usually avoid "lovey" books like the plague, but have recently been reading "The Five Love Languages" by Gary Chapman. This sounds just like many of the couples he counseled. Maybe her/your husband needs to understand that his helping around the house would communicate love to you in a powerful way, just like some things communicate love to him more than others. At least, that's what Mr. Chapman would say. . .ReplyDelete


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We love to splurge on the best creams possible to keep the dreaded wrinkle and aging away, however shopping for the best cream is more like walking into a department store with a wide variety of products which promise to keep the aging away, that will leave one clueless with the choices available.
What to look for in an anti-aging cream?
- Before buying any skin care product, it is always advisable to check the ingredients on the cover to make sure one is not allergic to the chemicals, take the patch test to be on a safer side
- Retinol is the mainly used in most of the products which claim to work on the skin and keep the muscles tight, look for this in serum form or as an ingredient in the cream,
- The cream of serum should have an active ingredient to keep the skin hydrated, hence rice protein is also used to stimulate the collagen production and keep dryness away
- Vitamin A is helpful in keeping the wrinkles which stimulate aging, hence look for products which have this vitamin as a base as they are suitable for sensitive skin keeping the skin smooth and soft
Where to shop for anti aging creams
After trying to understand what suits best for the skin, one has a plenty of choices to shop for them:
- The nearby drug store is the most commonly visited place when is unsure what to look for, as all of them claim to "defy age with this skin cream" however the variety is limited to a maximum of 4 or 5 products.
- The exclusive skin care outlets in shopping malls or nearby supermarkets have a wide range of skin care products which has all that one is looking for in an anti-aging cream
- Consulting a dermatologist is safer, and addressing the skin care when one has a very sensitive and allergy prone skin.


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Question: How should followers of the teaching practice patience?
Answer: They should be patient with the vexatious acts of others and should not harbor thoughts of vengeance, and they should also be patient in matters of gain or loss, honor or dishonor, praise or blame, suffering or joy, etc.
The Awakening of Faith (trans. Hakeda), p. 94. Punctuation and diction altered slightly


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I don't read too many biographies or memoirs, but I recently read one of Amy Clipston's Amish novels, so this one intrigued me.
Amy is a Christian fiction writer, and her dream begins to be fulfilled during the darkest days of her life.
Her father suffers a stroke while she is still in college, giving her young adult life much difficulty. During those days, she meets her soul-mate Joe, and the story is sweet but still has very many turns ahead. Just a few years into their marriage, they realize Joe has a kidney disease. But before too much time goes by, he receives a new kidney and they hope life can gain some stability again.
Only it seems life will stay wrought with stress and toil for a while as his body rejects his new kidney. It takes several more years before they can once again find peace. As Joe's body has to undergo dialysis, he is weak, irritable and the entire family hurts and suffers.
Not only is there poor health to deal with, but Amy finds herself struggling to parent their two sons, while working full-time to provide health insurance and to pay the bills. A publishing company gives her a contract for an Amish series. This gives Amy an escape from the stress that surrounds her, and also helps provide extra income.
Amy is determined to be a kidney donor, but is disappointed to find she is no match for her precious husband. So they sign up through a paired donation program and are accepted. After a few months, there is a match! Miraculously, they are paired with another couple. Amy's kidney goes to a suffering woman whose husband donates his healthy kidney to Joe. It is a precious thing, and the couples are able to meet and talk while in the hospital.
This is a very sweet story and anyone would enjoy reading it.
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PAMPLONA, Spain (Reuters) - Alonso Ceardi nearly died when a half-tonne bull gored him in the chest during Spain's San Fermin festival last year, but he's still addicted to the thrill of running with bulls and is back again this week.
The Chilean-born waiter is one of the thousands of adrenaline junkies who have packed the streets of the northern Spanish town of Pamplona each year since the death-defying running of the bulls ritual inspired novelist Ernest Hemingway, who spread its fame around the world.
Ceardi, 24, who has attended San Fermin since 2008 is looking forward to his 10th outing on Thursday morning when the bulls are herded through Pamplona for the first day of the week-long festival.
"When you're out there, in front of the bulls, it's an enormous high, that's the way it is. It makes you want to run, to feel on top of the world," Ceardi said.
Last year Ceardi was running through the medieval streets with other fans in traditional white garb and red kerchiefs when one of the six bulls turned on him.
It wasn't much of a contest: Ceardi weighed in at 81 kg (179 lb), the bull at more than 500 kg (1,102 lb). Local media have tallied 15 dead in the annual festivities since 1922.
"It hoisted me, I fell to the ground and then it got me in the leg, through my hip," Ceardi said. "I felt afraid, a lot of pain and thought that would be the last thing I'd ever see."
He shouted what he thought would be his last words, "Long Live Chile!" in honor of the country he left to work as a waiter pouring cider in Spain's northern Asturias region.
Ceardi was lucky. The bull's horns tore a huge gash in his chest and came close to piercing his heart. That, and a thigh wound, could have maimed him for life. But he has recovered since he was discharged from hospital with little more than some horrendous-looking scars and his enthusiasm remains undimmed.
In addition to the usual garb, he will sport a Chilean flag emblazoned across his chest and don a Santa Claus bonnet, "So I can be seen on television."
Meanwhile, the Red Cross will be standing by with 350 people to try to prevent accidents and deal with the usual crop of broken bones or worse.
Pamplona and Hemingway have been intimately linked since a visit to the town in 1923 inspired "The Sun Also Rises," his booze-sodden tale of a group of bickering Americans and Britons which sealed the reputation of both town and author.
The U.S. Nobel Literature Laureate died 50 years ago, but thousands still follow the "Hemingway trail" of bars, cafes and restaurants where he enjoyed the Navarra region's distinctive cuisine.
Tourists descend on Pamplona in such numbers that hotels lining the route and the bull ring itself are booked up for years in advance. Many sleep rough or not at all, preferring instead to join in non-stop street parties so raucous that many local residents wear ear-plugs to bed at night.
However, runners dicing with death remain the main draw as thousands pack the streets to watch the four-minute race every morning, in addition to millions on television across Spain.
The festivities kick off on Wednesday with the launch of a firework rocket — known as the "txupinazo" — and the first bull run follows the next morning. The bulls are then lined up in the afternoon to be dispatched in traditional bullfights.
July 7 also sees the procession of Saint Fermin through the same streets where, as local legend has it, the martyr was dragged to his death by bulls at the start of the 4th century.
Until July 14 tourists can enjoy folk dancing, rural sports, a livestock fair or a procession of larger-than-life figures dubbed "giants" and "big-heads," as well as less traditional feats such as diving into the crowd from on top of a fountain — or just getting very drunk.
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Hope you are all doing well!
If you may or may not recall, a few months ago I went to Barcelona as a Birthday Present from the hubs and I bought some OPI goodies!
One of the nail polishes I bought was a particular shade which has been on my wish list for quite some time, Jade is the New Black!
This polish comes in the famous sleek OPI bottle which contains 15 ml of product. Unfortunately I do not remember how I paid for the polish since I bought it months ago! As you can see from the above picture, the polish works well with just one coat, however, I prefer wearing two coats in order to achieve the desired colour!
I absolutely love the fact that the nail polish dries with a glossy finish and therefore does not need a top coat in order to achieve that glossy finish!
Another plus to this polish, apart from the gorgeous jade colour is the fact that it dries quite quickly and unlike other polishes which dry fast compared to other polishes, it doesn't dry with a flaky consistency!
I wore this nail polish for around 10 days and was quite impressed by the longevity of this product, in fact, check out the above photo which should you not place your face so close to the screen, you will probably not even notice that there is some chipping going on! Quite impressive right?
All in all, I loved this product, especially the colour and believe me when I say that Green nail polish is not usually my thing, however, OPI nail polishes are on the pricey side but the quality does make up for it!
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Tanishia Lewis and her young children were filling trash bags in a parking lot Tuesday morning, joining others who hoped to quickly erase the scars left by rioters. But the problems in her West Baltimore neighborhood run much deeper than a night of burning and looting, and won't be easily scrubbed away.
"I have to go outside my community to go to the supermarket," she said. "I don't feel safe for my kids playing in the playground.
"There are some really good people here," said Lewis, 31, who works for a nonprofit community group and still lives in the neighborhood where she grew up. But "there's no investment."
Downtown Baltimore has seen large-scale projects dating to the 1990s — a popular aquarium and a trendsetting baseball stadium, to name two — that have turned the Inner Harbor into a prime example of urban renewal, admired and imitated by city planners around the nation.
But the poor neighborhoods of West Baltimore that formed the epicenter of this week's riots could be mistaken for parts of Detroit. Block upon block of three-story row houses lie vacant, with smashed-in windows, boarded doors and garbage. In the commercial blocks, a yellow ribbon promising "Coming soon: 99 cent store!" is faded and frayed, placed above one of many storefronts that have only shards of glass in the window pane. A few shops that remain in business cash checks, sell discount cellphone plans and rent furniture.
Until Monday, there had been one bright spot amid the despair: a relatively new CVS pharmacy, hardly a luxury showcase but good enough to fill prescriptions and sell milk in a neighborhood that had little.
Now, after it was burned by rioters Monday, it is a bleak symbol, the spot where angry protesters, police in riot gear and live television trucks converge to tell a story of an American city in distress.
"This is a ghost town. The only store we have, they burned down," said Ashley Ewell, a 27-year-old debt consolidator, standing near looters this week.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake lamented the lost jobs in a neighborhood that badly needs them.
"What are they going to do?" she said.
It's no coincidence that the incident that touched off the unrest happened just six blocks from the CVS. Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old who died last week after he was injured in police custody, was a product of this neighborhood too.
Gray is the latest and most incendiary example of the mutual distrust between police and many black Americans. Some Baltimore residents, echoing complaints from other troubled cities, say the police act almost as a force of occupiers instead of public servants.
"They're more like an overseer," said Damon Speaks, a black property manager here who said police once chased him, rather than a white burglar, when he reported that an intruder had broken into one of his buildings.
But Gray's family decries the violent retaliation of Monday's riots.
"They say they're doing all this for my cousin," said Jazz Aiken, 19, while buying a grape snow cone a few blocks from the CVS on Tuesday. "But that's not why they doing it.
"You've got some people that don't got jobs," she said.
This neighborhood, site of the gritty television drama "The Wire," has followed a familiar pattern of urban decay: a decline of good jobs, interstate highways that ripped across historical enclaves, and public housing projects that became magnets for crime.
Generations of families who have grown up here in poverty say the brutal 1968 race riots that followed the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have become part of the neighborhood's narrative fabric, and the community has never fully recovered.
For four days that year, the city was under virtual siege, with bombs going off, buildings burned and looters rampaging. There were hundreds of injuries and thousands of arrests, and federal troops had to be called in to bring the city under control.
"History repeats itself, I guess," said Briana Moore, 22, a junior at Coppin State University in Baltimore, as looters raided the nearby Mondawmin Mall. "To me this is stupid. This is not going to solve anything. Breaking into malls, breaking into liquor stores, what does this have to do with Freddie Gray? This ain't about justice no more."
Many of the African Americans who have pushed themselves out of poverty have left, moving to middle-class suburbs in Baltimore County. That has left the local population even more isolated.
The West Baltimore neighborhoods where the worst rioting happened — Sandtown-Winchester and Harlem Park — are drowning in some of the deepest poverty in one of the poorest cities in the country. About a third of buildings are vacant or abandoned, according to a study by the Justice Policy Institute. More than half the residents aren't working, and about a quarter receive welfare.
Thurgood Marshall's path from an elementary school in the area to the Supreme Court is celebrated on the "local heritage trail," but most current residents don't even finish high school.
About half the high school students are chronically absent and about 60% of adults don't have a high school diploma. The area has the highest incarceration rate in the state and one of the highest rates of heroin addiction in the country.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr. on Tuesday walked past the burned CVS store, handing out voter registration forms, as a scrum of reporters and residents trailed him.
"People need houses, healthcare, jobs and education," he said. "That costs, but it costs a lot more not to do it."
Robert Everett, a 51-year-old construction worker, grew up hearing tales from his relatives about the heyday of Pennsylvania Avenue, the neighborhood's main artery, when it was filled with clubs featuring Cab Calloway and Fats Waller. A statue of Billie Holiday, who spent her childhood in Baltimore, stands near a theater where she performed.
"I ain't ever seen nothing like this," Everett said. "It's crazy, man, just crazy."
Lewis, the community group worker who spent Tuesday cleaning up, lives on what she said is a good and safe block. She believes there are some subtle signs of gentrification: a few more Latino and white residents than she remembers and a proposal to knock down a housing development and replace it with a more modern complex of retail and residential units.
Even though she earned a college degree in social work and might have more options than others, she does not plan to leave.
"It's where I'm from," Lewis said. "I know it's going to change soon for the better."
Then she paused, as if to convince herself. "Hopefully soon."
Times staff writers W.J. Hennigan and David Lauter contributed to this report.


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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Talking Heads from CodeMash
I got ambushed by someone with a video camera again, but it wasn't too painful. Just after my keynote at CodeMash, someone from Enerjy approached me and asked if he could film me chatting about some of the themes I suggested in my keynote. Well, it isn't hard to get me to talk about software, so he filmed some short segments. He also nabbed some of the other speakers and asked them similar questions, putting them together in themed video shorts. The first one is here: myself and my friend Andy Glover talking about the perpetual argument of art vs. science in programming.
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Hero of Twilight (Revised and Expanded)(Ebook)
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Young Bathmal was born nothing and was destined to be nothing, until, on a cold winter's day, his life suddenly changes forever.
The Hero of Twilight is the first step on a road that will see Bathmal become an immortal legend, or a forgotten speck on the dusty pages of history.
Children of The Forgotten (Ebook)
Children of The Forgotten (Print)
The Vrilkist, an advanced alien race bent on galactic conquest and annihilation, has been eating away at the borders of The Imperial Confederation of Ertho—an empire already plagued by rebel and separatists factions—in an ongoing war. The three-front conflict has left the empire short on fighters and material while the Vrilkist, in contrast, appear to have unlimited resources and firepower.
Desperate, the empire gathers everything it has to launch a last ditch assault on the enemy. Success will buy the empire time to regroup and restock; failure will mean the end of everything.
Cornelius Coleman, student, pugilist, loner, soon becomes a reluctant player within the larger scheme when he is conscripted to fight in the imperial forces. His journey will begin on Old Earth, but it will end very far away.
Army of The Nameless (Ebook)
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The war continues… It's been three standard years since The Battle of Bloody Eye and the Vrilkist War has ground to a stalemate. While The Imperial Confederation of Ertho readies for the long awaited counter-strike, The Black Lions are delegated to hunting down stray separatists in an effort to bring the agitators to justice.
But these elite soldiers are eager to return to the "real" war against the Vrilkist. This holds especially true for Captain Coleman, whose hatred for the Vrilkist is tempered by the guilt he feels over the loss of Sabrina and his fallen comrades. Even so, the war has already taken a heavy toll on him physically and mentally, and he finds himself questioning how much more he can take. The future of the universe balances on the razor's edge, and gale force winds are gathering in the distance.
Vatters of Klon (Ebook)
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0060706288378—a vatter living within the compound of Klon—has been asking himself a variety of questions of late, such as: what is the true purpose for which vatters exist and, most importantly, why do those whom the guilders and Protectors of Klon call The Renegades wish to invade Klon in order to kill the vatters. But ask all he might, no one seemed to have the answers he wanted.
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Ex-con Leo Dudley is on the run for murder. With him are his best friend's girlfriend and Sandy, her three year old daughter. Under the guise of a young family looking for guidance, they settle in amongst the tight-knit religious community of Crossroads. But not long after their arrival, strange and terrifying things begin to happen all across the small town, and as time goes on, Leo begins to wonder what kind of nightmare he'd walked into…or if the nightmare was something he'd brought with him?
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Denial is an understandable part of the grieving process. When we lose someone we love or admire, of course our brains and hearts are going to have a hard time coming to terms with the reality of that situation. But facing the truth is crucial if healing is ever to begin.
This holds true even if the person we're grieving is a celebrity. That's one of the many reasons why the idea of faking your own death is so deplorable. It just hurts so many people. Paul Walker, taken from the world and his family too soon, and his friend Roger Rodas are now being accused of doing just that -- faking the accident that cost them their lives.
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It's just beyond cruel to pick at the fresh wound of Paul and Roger's loss. One website has started trying to SELL PHOTOS of a "still alive" Paul Walker. They claim that the photos of the fiery crash we all saw was a fake -- featuring a man-made fire, and a car placed inside it after the fact. It's an insane gambit on behalf of the site to try and make money at the expense of Paul Walker's good name and if Twitter is anything to go by -- people are furious about it.
There's only one thing to be gained from started this awful rumor -- money. There are, however, countless things to lose. Not only does this keep people from moving forward in the grieving process, but it besmirches the actor's memory. Why on earth would Paul Walker do something so cruel? It doesn't make any sense.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I had a great feeling about this one. Rolling into town on a sunny day, confident that I was ready to sing my beloved Gilda in a house of this caliber, having prepared my other arias to perfection, and wearing a brand new and very flattering dress, I walked into the theater and said, "Hello. I'm Christine Graham, and I'm here for the audition."
The first person I encountered after checking in was a soprano I had met over two years previously at another audition. We sat together in the canteen waiting for the warm-up room to become available, comparing notes about the day we'd met.
"I was sure they were going to hire you," I said.
"That's what I thought, too," she answered, and went on to tell me her side of the story.
Just as I was recounting my story about their asking me how tall I was (seriously - no other questions, just 'How tall are you, Frau Graham?'), another soprano walked in. I'd met this woman a few weeks ago when we were both auditioning for Mozart's Queen of the Night.
After about a half an hour, we were all informed (there were 17 of us, mostly sopranos, but also a couple tenors and maybe one baritone) that there were only three rooms available to warm up in, and in another half an hour, the accompanists would be there to work with us. Five sopranos, including myself, ended up claiming a corner of the somewhat large orchestra rehearsal room and began vocalizing. Others sought out bathrooms and empty hallways, and nobody was very happy about it.
Hearing the sounds around me, I became hopeful that I would indeed be a contender for this job. Not only was my voice in very good shape, but I'd already performed one of the roles being offered, and I had a complete and thorough audition program (and did I mention a brand new, very flattering dress?). My rehearsal with the accompanist went very well. The gleam in his eye as I sang my ornaments flawlessly in the Händel aria showed me that I had his respect as a fellow musician.
I guess that's why I felt that I deserved to be shown a little more courtesy and a little more effort on the side of the theater during the audition itself. Instead, they sat there in their plush theater seats and made 17 people feel like shit. And they did this with one single word at the end of each audition: "Danke."
It took all of my professionalism not to say, "Excuse me? Are you serious?? I just spent a whole lot of money to get my ass way over here, spend the night in a hotel so that I would be well-rested instead of making the trip all in one day, not to mention the cost of the voice lessons and coachings to prepare my repertoire. I look fabulous - not too fancy, not too casual - and I sang an almost perfect audition: clear coloraturas, exquisite phrasing and dynamics, engaged presentation.... And you don't even want to hear a second aria, much less ask me who the hell I am?"
But I bit my tongue, swallowed my pride and said, "Vielen Dank. Auf Wiedersehen!"
In the hallway adjacent to the stage where we were all sort of just hanging out (because there hadn't been any other room specified where we could maybe - oh, I don't know - sit down?!?!), another American soprano and I decided we would grab a drink after this whole thing was over. The girl from the "how-tall-are-you" audition gladly joined us, and we ventured across the street to the bar at the Hotel an der Oper.
There we exchanged more stories about the audition process, including one about a theater manager who had said, "I'm sorry, but we didn't like that at all. That was bad" (I knew immediately who she was talking about - I knew him well). That made "How tall are you?" sound like a compliment, but at least it was more than just "Danke." Our conversations turned to other non-operatic topics, and we formed a camaraderie seldom seen between coloratura sopranos.
After two rounds of Prosecco, we made our way to the station, where we all had to catch a train to Leipzig. While I was buying my ticket, my two new friends both got the grand idea of providing us with yet another round of fizzy beverages. We boarded the train, only to bump into my Queen of the Night counterpart. Although she gracefully declined a drink, she had a number of tales to tell herself - like the time she had traveled all the way to Flensburg (Germany's northernmost city) only to be told she had too much experience for the job. Couldn't they have gleaned that from her résumé before inviting her to make the grueling trip?
We all switched trains at Leipzig (see previous entry: Have Voice, Will Travel), but much to my delight, my two partners in Prosecco would be joining me on the last leg of my trip to Berlin (a slight detour on the way home - warum nicht?). We found a free table in the dining car and happened upon yet another auditionee who joined our happy little club. She also abstained from drinking the Deutsche Bahn Grauburgunder, but she had her share of experience to impart. That day, she was wise enough to record her audition - thereby not subjecting herself entirely to the critique of the adjudicators (which was also just "Danke"), but rather assessing her own performance. Very smart. Very smart, indeed.
As many had done on that day, she sang the same Händel aria as I did, and wasn't asked for a second piece. When she was done, she went to the restroom where she encountered a fellow soprano in tears, obviously distressed by her own audition. She consoled her competitor, and even made her laugh. On the train she told us, "Maybe that's why I was sent here today - not to audition for these roles, but to make that other girl smile. If that's the case, then I know I was successful."
Eventually, the train reached the metropolis of Berlin, making several stops within the city limits. Each one of us - the newly-formed soprano support group Operatics Anonymous - disembarked at a different station. After four or five Proseccos and one fine wine, as the first one of us left the train, we weren't embarrassed to break out into song - "Don't leave me this way" - even if we didn't exactly know the words (the harmonies, however, were impeccable. And high).
At the end of the journey - almost 4000 collective kilometers between the five of us - I had almost forgotten that I'd had an audition at all that day. A shame, in a way, since it was one of the best I've ever sung.
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1. Reflections
Welcome to the new Autograph Newsletter! Each jam-packed edition will look at a specific topic in mathematics and how Autograph can help engage students and enable them to understand the key concepts better.
Hope you enjoy it!
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Diagnostic Question
Free Online Autograph Activity
Ideas for Extension
Video Tutorials
Handy Autograph Tip
Reflection is a topic that lends itself particularly well to being taught in a visual and dynamic way. Students who may struggle with the numeric and algebraic components of mathematics may have a flare for the more visual topics such as reflections, and if you can hook them in then it is likely to have a positive knock-on effect throughout the rest of their studies. Autograph enables you to easily and dynamically manipulate objects and lines to interactively cover every conceivable aspect of reflections, testing your students' special awareness to the very limit!
Diagnostic Question
Diagnostic questions are ideal to use at the start of the lesson to enable you to get a quick and accurate picture of your students' levels of understanding. They are designed in such a way that common misconceptions that your students may hold should steer them to one of the incorrect answers, thus allowing you to learn where the problems lie from their responses. Typically I give my class 30 seconds thinking time and then ask them to hold up their fingers: 1 for A, 2 for B, etc.
Free Online Autograph Activity
Reflection Golf
Can you change the line of reflection in order to fit the green object into each of the black holes? What is the equation of the line of reflection in each case?
These Autograph activities do not require the full version of Autograph to run them. You just need to install the free Autograph Player (you will be guided through how to do this), which means you can use these activities in the classroom or set them for your students to do at home.
Ideas for Extension
The following ideas for extending the topic of reflection require the full version of Autograph.
Idea 1 – Simple Reflection
Introduce students to the idea of reflections using vertical and horizontal lines.
If I move the blue object to the left one square, where do the reflected objects move?
If I change the position of the lines of reflection (drag the circled points), how do the reflected objects move?
If I wiggle the top left corner of the blue object, which corners of the reflected objects will wiggle?
Use the
Scribble Tool to mark the students' predictions
Idea 2 – Diagonal Reflection
Develop your students' understanding of reflection by looking at diagonal lines of reflection.
If I move the blue object down one square, where do the reflected objects move?
If I change the position of the lines of reflection, how do the reflected objects move?
If I wiggle the top left corner of the blue object, which corners of the reflected objects will wiggle?
Use the
Scribble Tool to mark the students' predictions
Idea 3 – Any Reflection
Why be limited by simple lines of reflection? Here, simply drag the circled points around to create any line of reflection you choose
Can you describe how to reflect objects in the line y = 2x?
Idea 4 – Combined Reflections
Now the ultimate reflections test – can your students visualise combined reflections? Here, the blue object has been reflected in the green line to produce the green image, and then the green image has been reflected in the orange line to produce the orange image!
If I move the blue object down one square, where do the reflected objects move?
If I wiggle the top left corner of the blue object, which corners of the reflected objects will wiggle?
How could we get from blue to orange in a single transformation?
Video Tutorials
The following video takes you through, step-by-step, some of the ways you can use Autograph to look at the topic of reflections.
Reflections are found everywhere in nature. In this tutorial you will learn how to use Autograph's
Insert Image to explore the reflectional symmetry in a butterfly.
Handy Autograph Tip
Redo is a really nice way of taking your students step-by-step through a demonstration that you have already prepared. For example:
Open Autograph in Standard Level
Make sure you are in Whiteboard Mode
In Point Mode plot points at (−4, 3), (−2, 3), (−2, 1) and (−4, 1)
In Select Mode drag around all four points, right-click and select Group to Shape from the menu
Enter the equation y = x
Left-click on the centre of the square and the line, right-click and select Reflection from the menu
Now Undo (in the Edit menu or using Ctrl-Z) enough times until you are back to your blank page
You can then ask the following questions, and after each one Redo (also in the Edit menu or using Ctrl-Y) to reveal the next stage:
• What shape would points at (−4, 3), (−2, 3), (−2, 1) and (−4, 1) form?
• What does the line y = x look like?
• Where would the square appear if I reflected it in the line y = x?
Curriculum Coverage
Not teaching reflections today? No problem, Autograph covers much more including statistics, probability, graphing, vectors, coordinate geometry, shapes and transformations, numerical methods, cartesian equations, parametric equations, polar equations, differential equations, calculus, trigonometry and all in two- and three-dimensions.
Douglas Butler's series of
7 Autograph Tutorial Videos
provide a perfect overview of curriculum coverage.
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Autograph installed try
Mr Barton's Autograph Activities
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Autograph trainer Alan Catley has created an impressive collection of
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Be Inspired
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blog, and the blog from Autograph's creator
Douglas Butler
Jonny Griffiths has three resources sites which make use of Autograph:
Rich Starting Points for A Level Core Mathematics
Making Statistics Vital
Carom Maths
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Prediction of Flow Development on Spillwaysby Robert J. Keller, (A.M.ASCE), Engr.; Ministry of Works Central Lab., Lower Hutt, New Zealand; formerly, Research Engr., Inst. for Hydromechanics, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, West Germany,
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A: No. RPS is currently collecting data from our families and staff. This data will be analyzed by our 45/15 team. The team will make a proposal based on the data. There will be public input sessions on the proposal(s). The proposal(s) will be brought to board in November or December of 2016.
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A:This will be part of the proposal as far as offerings during the 15 day intersessions.
Q: Why is the district looking at 45/15 expansion?
A: Currently RPS has one school (Longfellow Elementary) which is on a 45/15 calendar. We have heard from some stakeholders asking for 45/15 to be expanded. We are currently gathering data from our families and staff to guide us in our planning around 45/15.
Q: Has the district considered all of the financial costs in 45/15 schedule?
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Q: I was disappointed that it was only interested in finding out my level of interest and not why. Will there be further surveys to help gather that information?
A: This is an initial exploratory survey. Our charge initially is to get feedback from our 17,400 students. Once we have this initial feedback we will begin to design a plan and recommendations. As the recommendations and proposals are being developed input from our families will be sought and the recommendations/proposals may be tweaked based on this feedback. This is the first step of many.
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