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KDE Architecture - Advanced (Developer's) Text Editor
Somewhere in the history of computing, there was a point where computers were no more than glorified typewriters (that's how Big Blue earned the "Big", in the end :-)
Anyways, more seriously, editing texts is one of the tasks computers are most often bound to accomplish. Programmers find important to enhance their usual editors in ways which simplify the coding work. Sometimes the amount of enhancements brought us sacred monsters like Emacs :-).
Respecting one of its own initial goals (provide most useful tools with the basic installation), KDE provides Kate, KDE's Advanced Text Editor. Many programmers will find this editor very useful for coding thanks to the following features:
Of course, Kate can be very well used as an ordinary editor. If we can call it ordinary :-). To this respect, Kate provides:
Kate uses the editor component Kate Part which is also used in KDevelop, the Integrated Development Environment of KDE.
Thanks to the marvels of Object Oriented Programming principles that KDE uses extensively by the means of the C++ language, Kate is programmed in quite a modular manner. Thus, adding a colored syntax highlighting for a new language isn't a complicated endeavour. Further information can also be found on the official Kate homepage.

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Even though many people don't want to admit it, their home entertainment systems are status symbols for them. Americans generally feel a sense of competition with one another, which is probably due to the fact that the country's spirit that gets instilled in young people has always been pretty competitive. Whether you like it or not, that competition often transcends nearly all boundaries in society, so that even friends and neighbors feel competitive with one another. It's quite common for people to compare themselves with their peers and to feel jealous or desire to cause others to feel jealous. Those feelings often crossover to the realm of home entertainment systems, especially with men, who often take a great sense of pride in the system they have set up. If you feel as though you're competing with your friends, then it's time to make sure you have a nice flat-screen TV and satellite TV service because everything else is secondary.
A lot of people spend time and money investing in surrounds sound systems, blu-ray players, video game systems and much more. All of those accessories are quite nice to own, but when it really comes down to it, the two most important parts of any home entertainment system are the TV and the service that viewers use to watch TV. These days, flat-screen TVs are becoming much cheaper so nearly every household has at least one, and many households have several. What some households lack, however, is satellite TV. Some people avoid signing up for the service because they think that their four basic cable networks and DVDs or blu-rays are good enough to keep them entertained, but most people find that that isn't true. Most Americans have diverse interests, so there are typically several different shows they enjoy watching on TV, but those shows generally aren't on the four bigger networks. Anytime you want access to more than those networks, satellite TV subscriptions are the way to go. With those subscriptions, viewers have hundreds of different channels they can choose from, which is the best entertainment option currently available. That's why people who feel competitive always have this kind of service, because they know that if their friends don't have it, then they have the superior home entertainment system.
Satellite TV is better than other entertainment packages in large part because of all of the perks that come with it. In addition to so many programming options, viewers also get their equipment and installation for free, and receivers come with DVR capabilities. If you sign up for DVR service, then you can make all of your friends jealous by recording plenty of great shows and movies to watch whenever you want. You may even record so many that you run out of space, but don't worry because you can hook up a hard drive to the DVR and record even more content. If all of those things aren't enough to make your friends jealous of your home entertainment setup, then the fact that you have access to the greatest number of channels being broadcast in high definition should. With these perks, your setup will certainly outpace your friends' systems, and you'll be much happier with your entertainment choices.


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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has provided forensic scientists with a valuable tool for determining the source of DNA recovered from damaged, degraded, or very small biological samples. MtDNA is a small circular genome located in the mitochondria, which are located outside of a cell's nucleus. Most human cells contain hundreds of copies of mtDNA genomes, as opposed to two copies of the DNA that is located in the nucleus. This high copy number increases the likelihood of recovering sufficient DNA from compromised DNA samples, and for this reason, mtDNA can play an important role in missing persons investigations, mass disasters, and other forensic investigations involving samples with limited biological material. Additionally, mtDNA is maternally inherited. Therefore, barring a mutation, an individual's mother, siblings, as well as all other maternally-related family members will have identical mtDNA sequences. As a result, forensic comparisons can be made using a reference sample from any maternal relative, even if the unknown and reference sample are separated by many generations.
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I loved Metroid Prime 1. Loved the atmosphere and the idea that it really felt like you were in some futuristic armor.
Hunters was a mistake, IMO. For all intents and purposes it should be a fine portable Metroid Prime game, I mean, the graphics were sufficient enough, there were some decent ideas. But the controls were AWFUL, the locations boring and repetitive, and it introduced me to the premise that no Metroid game should go planet hopping... which inevitably hurt Prime 3 later.I'll re-itterate that I thought Prime 3 was quite a step up from Prime 2 though. I thought the locales were interesting and almost as good as Prime 1. However, the whole setup was so bad that the atmospheric feel suffered greatly. Yes, its overall setup is Haloish, but the design is decidedly not: still smaller areas, lots of navigational puzzles, really interesting skills. But it still can't hold a candle to Prime 1.
Kid Icarus had wonky controls too, but not as bad as MP:H. Problem is that 3D Metroid requires a lot more controls than KI, so they had to pepper the entire unit with random controls and gestures. Let's face it, first person games were never meant to be controlled with a stylus.But at least it's not the bizarro 2d/3d mess that Other M was.I actually really feel that Metroid works really well as a first person than 2nd person in 3D. One of the things that really makes the series is exploring these natural alien worlds. Sure, there is some construction built-in to them, but the vast majority of the settings are natural. It then is really jarring to have a giant yellow/orange robot suit standing in the middle of it. It was fine in the 2d sidescroller games because the player was quite small, but 3D games require much closer cameras, so you have Samus taking up a much larger part of the screen and it destroys the natural quality of the environment.BTW: I don't want to see another "Samus explores giant spaceship" game. Both Fusion and Other M do that and I found them to be the weakest in the series... too much emphasis on sterile, man-made construction. Super Metroid, Metroid Prime, and Zero Mission are the highlights of the series because they concentrate so heavily on essentially natural environments with bits of installation built-in.
Let's face it, first person games were never meant to be controlled with a stylus.
Well, apparently those new copies don't even come in the original steelbook cases... So it's definitely not worth 85$.


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"Facilitating the Watchstander's Voice Communications Task in Future Navy Operations", in 2011 IEEE Military Communications Conference, Washington, DC, 2011. Download PDF (433.78 KB),
"Finding the FOO: a pilot study for a multimodal interface", in Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2003. IEEE International Conference on, 2003. Download PDF (433.31 KB),
"From Specific Information Extraction to Inferences: A Hierarchical Framework of Graph Comprehension", in PROCEEDINGS of the HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS SOCIETY 48th ANNUAL MEETING, New Orleans, LA, 2004. Download PDF (283.52 KB),
"A generalized process model of human action selection and error and its application to error prediction", in 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, Canada, 2014. Download PDF (412.99 KB),
"Goal-Driven Autonomy with Case-Based Reasoning", in Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, Alessandria, Italy, 2010. Download PDF (425.97 KB),
"High assurance human-centric decision systems", in ICSE-13 Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering, San Francisco, CA, 2013. Download PDF (1.01 MB),
"Human control of multiple unmanned vehicles: effects of interface type on execution and task switching times", in Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction, New York, NY, USA, 2006. Download PDF (182.54 KB),
"Human-Robot Collaboration and Cognition with an Autonomous Mobile Robot", in In Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-8, Amsterdam, The Nederlands, 2004. Download PDF (267.89 KB),
"A hybrid cognitive-reactive multi-agent controller", in Proceedings of 2002 IEEE/RSJ International conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2002), Switzerland, 2002, pp. 2807-2812. Download PDF (476.82 KB),
"Identifying people with soft-biometrics at fleet week", in Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2013. Download PDF (1.06 MB),
"An Illustrated Situation Calculus Abstraction for Iterative Explanatory Diagnosis", in 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Workshop on Goal Reasoning, New York, NY, 2016. Download PDF (758.27 KB),
"Image Surveillance Assistant Architecture: Status and Planned Extensions", in IJCAI-16 Workshop on Deep Learning for Artificial Intelligence, New York, NY, 2016. Download PDF (542.13 KB),
" Improving offensive performance through opponent modeling", in Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, Stanford, CA, 2009. Download PDF (0 bytes),
"Incorporating Mental Simulation for a More Effective Robotic Teammate", in Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2008), Vancouver, 2008. Download PDF (114.22 KB),
"Integrated learning for goal-driven autonomy", in Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, 2011. Download PDF (504.79 KB),
"Integrating Cognition, Perception and Action through Mental Simulation in Robots", in Proceedings of the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium on Knowledge Representation and Ontology for Autonomous Systems, 2004, pp. 1-8. Download PDF (167.43 KB),
"Integrating vision and audition within a cognitive architecture to track conversations", in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2008), Amsterdam, 2008. Download PDF (1.5 MB),
"Keypoint density-based region proposal for fine-grained object detection and classification using regions with convolutional neural network features", in 2016 Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition (AIPR) Workshop, Washington, DC, 2016. Download PDF (3.47 MB),
"Labels or attributes? Rethinking the neighbors for collective classification in sparsely-labeled networks", in International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, San Francisco, CA, 2013. Download PDF (338.46 KB),
"Learning event models that explain anomalies", in Explanation-Aware Computing: Papers from the IJCAI Workshop, Barcelona Spain, 2011. Download PDF (170.83 KB),
"Maritime threat detection using plan recognition", in Annual IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Boston, MA, 2012. Download PDF (908.29 KB),
" Meta-prediction in collective classification", in Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, Daytona Beach, FL, 2010. Download PDF (648.07 KB),
"Mobile Autonomous Navy Teams for Information Surveillance and Search (MANTISS)", in Workshop on Crossing the Reality Gap: Control, Human Interaction and Cloud Technology for Multi- and Many-Robot Systems, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, 2014. Download PDF (3 MB),
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1. Changes in the structure of your organization.
No changes
2. List current chapter members and their activities
• Cecil Su: Chapter Lead, Early Warning System, Honeypots deployment, Data Analysis.
• Nicolas Collery: Development, Malware analysis and RCE, Honeypots deployment, Data analysis.
• Vicky Khan: Development, Malware analysis, Research
• Vijay Vikram: Center Manager, Research, Development, Honeypots deployment.
• Eugene Teo: Research, Malware analysis and RCE, Data analysis.
• Emil Jingwei: Research guide.
1. List current technologies deployed.
During the last year we took down our honeynet setup from the National University of Singapore's IT Security Lab as the system owner had wanted to install the "great NUS firewall".
We recently found a new home with the blessing of the Dean from the local James Cook University (Singapore campus), but have yet to re-instate back our boxes. We are fortunate to have James Cook University donate the rack space as well as a range of public routable IPs for our honeynet deployment.
2. Activity timeline: Highlight attacks, compromises, and interesting information collected.
We had been advisors to the local IHLs (Institutes of Higher Learning), and currently have two polytechnics running with their own honeynets.
They have collected some sample malware and are willing to share the samples if needed.
1. List any new tools, projects or ideas you are currently researching or developing.
The Chapter members have been working with two tertiary institutions, Singapore Polytechnic and Temasek Polytechnic.
Singapore Polytechnic:
The Chapter members have been mentors to the final year project students for the last 3 years. Over the course of 2010/2011, the following projects were completed with our mentorship:
1. hBot – Instant Messaging Honeynet (2010)
2. Honeynet Sinkhole Project (2011)
The projects were also showcased in "SPinnovex 2010/2011" events and received "Gold Award" for their achievement. We hoped the students have benefited from the projects and gained a much greater depth of understanding in IT security domain, particularly in the area of Honeynet technologies.
The first generation of honeebox have also been deployed over here at SP's IT Security Lab.
Temasek Polytechnic:
We have been asked to give an introductory presentation on the current threat landscape and we spoke on honeynet technologies and botnets.
Temasek Polytechnic had also recently deployed their honeynet infrastructure to support their new diploma studies in CyberSecurity.
2. Explain what kind of help or tools or collaboration you are interested in.
We are interested to cooperate in Honeywall development/improvement and learning about new Malware attack vectors.
To work with polytechnics and universities to extend the reach and promote honeynet-related technologies.
Collaboration in Malware and Botnet-related research (Fast-flux tracking, Botnet tracking and so on).
Not from our honeypots – as we have yet to get them re-instated at our new home, JCU.
Although a number of our members do run some of their pots at home as well via their broadband networks.
1. Are you working on or did you publish any papers or presentations, such as KYE or academic papers? If yes, please provide a description and link (if possible)
"Introduction to Honeynets" at JCU
"Honeynets & Botnets" at TP
2. Where did you present honeypot-related material? ( selected publications )
Half-Day Security Workshop, February 2011, James Cook University
Security Day 2011, Temasek Polytechnic
1. Which of your goals did you meet for the past year?
We have been rather quiet last year and would like to make amends for it.
Nicolas worked with other chapters on one of the forensics challenges
Locating a sponsor for housing our honeypots
2. Goals for the next year.
Presenting more honeypot-related materials at local polytechnics, universities and conferences
Collaborate with local government agencies or commercial entities to work together on honeynet activities
Help evaluate tools written by chapter members
Have useful contents on our new local website
Deploy (and improve on) our honeypots and data analysis system
Publish a forensic challenge on "covert channels forensics"


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Hello from Cabin 5151 onboard the Carnival Miracle somewhere on the Atlantic Ocean at Mike Filsaime's annual Internet Marketers Cruise!
Internet Marketers Cruise 2009 (Click on photo to enlarge)
The Internet Marketers Cruise is always a great way to kick off the new year, and I have been fortunate to be a part of it every January for the past few years.
This time, our 8 day cruise around the Caribbean took us to St. Marteen, St. Kitts and Tortola, which is a beautiful island on the British Virgin Islands.
As always, the organizers of the Internet Marketers Cruise never fails in over-delivering, and I want to personally thank Mike Filsaime, Paulie Sabol, Donna Fox and Tom Beal – along with Captain Lou Edwards – on organizing yet another million-dollar mastermind vacation of a lifetime!
Previous years, the Internet Marketers Cruise was by invitation only, and the only way to receive an invitation is if you are within the "inner circle" of the Internet Marketers.
One of the reasons (and in my opinion, the major reason) this year's Internet Marketers Cruise became the best one yet is that we have actually extended the invitation outside of just the "inner circle"…
And as you can see from our group photo above, the Carnival Miracle was literally dominated by Internet Marketers who took full advantage of the amazing week-long fun and networking experience!
Over the course of the 8 days, I had a ton of fun hanging out with members of the new "Rockstar Platinum" crew – Lee Collins, Robin Collins, James Lee, James Delong, Lasse Rouhiainen and Amanda Swigert.
It was also great to re-unite with previous Internet Marketers Cruise alumni, including Mike Morgan, Holly Morgan, Deborah Micek, JP Micek, Armando Montelongo, Veronica Montelongo, Joel Therien, Illona Therien, Mark Braunstein, Scott Tousignant, Bob Jenkins, Jennie Armato, Gary Byrne, Eelco de Boer, Howard Tiano, Cynthia Tiano, Matt Mazur, Michelle Galvin and Steve Pdilla.
I was also very excited to see some of my friends on the Internet Marketers Cruise as well, like Jeff Dedrick, Frank Sousa, Simone Blum, Tom Bell, Micheal Savoie, Frank Rumbauskas, Stacy Makdad, Reed Floren, Odinn Sorensen, Tracy Repchuk, Tim Houston, and Nathalie Fiset.
However, the best part has gotta be meeting completely new friends onboard, and have gotten to know Dr. Letitia Wright, Rich Cook, Jon Atwood, Vince Mitchell, Kelly Mitchell, Mike Deiure, Arnel Ricafranca, Susanne Jorgensen, Chris Cho, Annette Dubow, Matt Haslem, Jeanette Fisher, Julio Mattos, Amanda Steadman, Sharon Worsley, Mike Mahon, Jose Soto, Vince DelMonte, Wendy Joy Hart, Cindy Battye, Clay Franklin, Phil Henderson, Juliet Easton, Jon Benson, Wayne Buckhanan, Martyne Lo Russo, Scott Spurlock, and literally dozens more that I can't remember right now!
The mastermind sessions, organized social events and island excursions have made the 2009 Internet Marketers Cruise a remarkable experience…
But I must say that one of the biggest highlights of the trip was finally meeting and getting to know one of my biggest inspirations in entrepreneurship, Robert G. Allen.
Hanging out w/ Robert Allen on the beach in St. Marteen
I had met Robert Allen once back in May of 2006 when I attended the Enlightened Wealth Institute seminar in Anaheim, but we never had the chance to really connect at that event.
We almost shared the stage once as well in September 2007 at the World Internet Main Event in San Francisco, but that didn't work out either when Robert Allen was unable to make it.
But this time, stuck on a cruise ship with me for 8 whole days, Robert Allen had nowhere to go, and I finally had the chance to lock him down to have some private conversations with him.
Robert Allen and I actually hit it off quite well, not only spending some time on the beach, but also in his suite along with the Rockstar Platinum crew setting up his new Twitter account and teaching him all about how to use the most powerful force in social media today.
In Robert Allen's suite moments before he sent his first tweet
Robert Allen's actual first tweet :)
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All in all, I had one hell of a business vacation, not only by having tons of fun with an amazing community of people, but also one of my more productive business trips yet – literally lining up my entire year's worth of projects (in addition to the 50% of the time I'm already spending traveling internationally!).
If you'd like to join us for next year's Internet Marketers Cruise and experience the mastermind vacation of a lifetime for yourself, I encourage you to visit our website now so you can sign up on our pre-notification list and be the first to know when plans for Internet Marketers Cruise 2010 is ready :)
In the meantime, help me keep the memories of Internet Marketers Cruise 2009 alive by viewing and commenting on some of the most memorable moments of the event captured on camera…
Photo w/ Mike Filsaime ruined by Robin Collins
Internet Marketers Cruise Kickoff Party
Rockstar Crew private meeting
Orpheus Bar at the back of the ship on Lido Deck
Karaoke night at Mad Hatter's Club
Informal dinner on the ship
Dinner with Robert Allen & Rockstar Crew
Elegant night for Captain's Dinner
Elegant night w/ the colorful Tom Beal & Jeff Dedrick
Beach day at St Marteen
Enjoying some sun w/ Mike Filsaime, Tom Beal & gang at St Marteen Beach
Rockstar Crew filming videos on St Kitts
Rockstar Crew relaxing w/ rum punches after a long day's work
Looking for Internet at Tortola
Hanging out w/ big scary guys at a Tortola beach
Rockstar Party Crew w/ Mike Filsaime & Tom Beal
Rockstar Crew on Elegant Night
Talented Carnival Dancers Team
Yuliya Baravik – our awesome waitress


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This month's carnival topic couldn't be more appropriate for us. Last week was our first official week as homelearners. Of course, as the carnival theme points out, "we're all home schoolers" and "children, of whatever age, are learning all the time" whether they attend traditional schools or not.
In fact, our daily routine this past week really didn't differ much from our routine over the summer. The difference now is just that as I've officially signed up with a home learning program, I'm responsible. Ack. How nerve wracking!
The program we've signed up with is called SelfDesign and it isn't curriculum based. We can learn any way that we want and follow our kids' whims and interests. There really are very few constraints and I love that the program recognizes exactly the theme of this month's carnival: kids are learning all the time, just by going about their daily activities. We are assigned a learning consultant who helps us come up with a learning plan for the year. They encourage you to do mind maps with your kids so they have input into what they want to do over the year. The learning plan becomes the road map that guides us. The more overwhelming part is that we must report weekly to our learning consultant. The report includes a journal and reflection on our weekly activities and we must log a certain number of hours spent in these activities each week.
Initially I felt really worried that we wouldn't DO enough to account for all these hours. I have ordered some books and art supplies and other project materials that I intend to have in a cupboard to dig into when the little sister is napping. But alas, they haven't arrived yet. Swimming lessons don't start until October. We're still deciding on some other group activities. What were we going to do every day?!
It turned out that the answer to my dilemma wasn't to rush to the computer and start googling and printing off worksheets for my not even 5 year old, pre-literate little one. The answer was to just start observing our day with fresh eyes (funnily enough our reports are called Observing For Learning).
What did I see?
The first day, Rain was outside in the garage with his dad. He came inside with a board. Onto the board he had screwed some fasteners to hold down some flexible hose. He had attached some plumbing bits to the hose, including a spout and a tap/valve. He showed me his handiwork and then went straight into the bathroom to test if his valve worked. Sure enough, it did. Water poured from the faucet at the bathroom sink, through his hose, past the valve (which he had put in the open position) and straight onto the bathroom floor. Success!! We mopped up the water, and put him in the bathtub with his contraption and he proceeded to play experiment for another 30 minutes. Early science experiment disguised as play.
Later that day, we went for a walk on the beach for an hour. Rain ran about and dug for crabs by following the air holes in the sand at low tide. He identified various types of shells, filled our van with rocks and driftwood and watched some kite surfers playing in the wind. A walk at the beach became both science class and gym class.
And what about the questions I answer all day long? In the last couple of days, I've answered questions on why the tide always changes, how to identify an evergreen tree, why someone might lie or steal and whether or not it's a good thing to do, what is in the center of the earth, and a surprisingly tricky one to answer: what is math?
It's a little tricky getting the hang of logging our "schooling" hours but it's not from lack of time spent learning. It's more a matter of quantifying all these little moments spent in conversation through the day, as we drive, as we grocery shop, as I keep a little one on the toilet company, as we eat lunch, as we pick up toys, as we tuck them in to bed at night.
I do look forward to the arrival of our supplies and to using them to add a bit more routine to our day but I'm certainly a lot less worried about what we're doing in the mean time.
How do you observe your kids learning at home? I would also love to hear some of the great questions your little ones ask!
This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting. This month our participants have shared how their children learn at home as a natural part of their day. Visit Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama to find out how you can participate in the next Carnival of Natural Parenting!
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I haven't done any research into how we'll HS yet, but I really like the idea (at first, anyway) of being accountable somehow. If not to "motivate" us, but to show us that we really are learning all the time – what a great concept!
.-= Dionna @ Code Name: Mama´s last blog ..Learning Through Play- September Carnival of Natural Parenting =-.
Twitter: CodeNameMama
All the little questions they ask, it really makes you see how much there is to learn and how much of the day is about learning. Most of it without a desk, teacher, or tests. 🙂
.-= Summer @ FindingSummer´s last blog ..Every Day Is A School Day =-.
Twitter: summerminor
I just love kiddo's questions because it shows just how curious and keen they are to learn…everything! I just love your approach to schooling. I daydream about homeschooling and it looks a lot like what you are doing now! I will have to check out that program. Thanks for the great post!
If I ever did homeschooling I'd have to have an outside guide like what you're using. I bet it also helps to keep you thinking about what it is you've actually taught that day; even if it doesn't feel like teaching.
.-= Jessica – This is Worthwhile´s last blog ..Lessons learned by bowling yes- bowling =-.
I like how just the need to reflect on what you're doing has given you "fresh eyes" (as you put it) on what you've been doing together all along. I'm inspired to take that kind of look at my days with my little Critter.
.-= Rachael´s last blog ..Unschooling the School of Me =-.
Twitter: RachaelNevins
I think I tackled the "what is math?" one myself recently. I also struggle to explain complex cultural references. For instance, today we listened to the song "Little Boxes" and my daughter wanted to know (1) what ticky tacky is and (2) why they put children in boxes. Not that straightforward for a 5-year-old to understand.
Really, there's no way to make children STOP learning. Whether they're learning the lessons you want them to or not might be a different story, but they're picking things up all the time.
.-= Amber´s last blog ..Exiting Gracefully =-.
Twitter: AmberStrocel
Well, first of all, maybe SelfDesign is exactly the sort of thing I need: a little structure, but still child-led. It sounds from you like the curriculum guides the parent more than the kid, and I like that!
I really love hearing your stories. The valve water successfully pouring onto the floor made me laugh. Your post has inspired me to really be present and observe Mikko playing/experimenting/observing with fresh eyes this week, to see the ways he interacts with and learns from his world, if I just let him. Thank you!
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Hey Lauren,
Self Design can be done in the States too. We're doing it with our daughter and I have recently noticed they have it down there too even though it originated in BC. 🙂
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This sounds like an incredibly peaceful way to learn, too. And I'm sure it inspires more learning as there are no negative feelings to it. Awesome.
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Alodia Gosiengfiao is one of the famous cosplayer in the Philippines, but she is not just popular here in the Philippines rather she is well known to other countries because of her talent in cosplaying.
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PACT: Performance Assessment for California Teachers
All student teachers who enter a credentialing program after July 1, 2008 must now complete a Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA) that is aligned to the California Teacher Performance Expectations (TPE) and approved by CCTC prior to receiving his or her credential.
Sonoma State University will be using the Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT) Teaching Event for their teaching performance assessment. PACT includes lesson planning, video taping and analysis of student work. The Teaching Event measures the Teaching Performance Expectations (TPEs), which are teaching standards for California student teachers.
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So tomorrow is World Refugee Day and a protest march has been called in little ol' Adelaide at 1pm, beginning at the Hall behind Pilgrim Uniting Church, 12 Flinders St Adelaide.
Be there, or don't. But remember, the Australian government is up to some serious mischief with the world's Refugee and Asylum Seekers who are already in a critical situation and that is a mischief that needs to be opposed.


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The IPv6 Forum (http://www.ipv6forum.com) IPv6 Ready Logo Program is a conformance and interoperability testing program intended to increase user confidence by demonstrating that IPv6 is available now and is ready to be used.
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The Hispanic Studies major prepares students for graduate study and careers in communications, business, education, media, and social sciences. Conversation, culture, and literature are emphasized in the program to prepare students for the changing needs of society.
The Hispanic Studies major at the Mount prepares students to speak and write in Spanish. The emphasis on understanding and appreciating the diverse Hispanic cultures is integral to the major. Students are encouraged to practice the language through service learning in the community and study abroad opportunities. Close faculty and student mentoring is a hallmark of the program.
The Hispanic Studies major requires a minimum of 36 credits (39 maximum). The grade on the Mount Saint Mary College Spanish entrance exam determines which level the student can begin. Students take 24 credits of required courses and 12 elective credits. Students are encouraged to study abroad. The Mount offers a summer and spring semester in Segovia, Spain, but accepts other programs as well. Students who minor in Hispanic Studies must take a minimum of 18 credits.
Career opportunities abound in translating, marketing communications, criminal justice, business, teaching finance, healthcare, social work, and government, to name a few.
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See also: Top Ten Reasons to Learn Spanish (studyspanish.com)


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New HIV Drug Dolutegravir Could Soon Be Approved by FDA
Dolutegravir, an investigational integrase inhibitor, has been given priority review status by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In December, the drug was submitted for review for the treatment of HIV, in combination with other antiretroviral agents, in adults and adolescents.
The FDA grants priority review to drugs that, if approved, could offer significant improvement over current marketed drugs, or provide treatment where none exists. The decision on whether or not to approve dolutegravir is expected by Aug. 17, 2013, according to a press release from ViiV Healthcare, the company that is developing the drug.
ViiV Healthcare submitted the application for approval along with results from four phase-3 clinical studies. These studies followed 2,553 HIV-infected patients, including those who are treatment-naive, treatment-experienced or "salvage" patients (those who had exhausted all other treatment options).
As previously reported, one of the phase 3-studies, known as SPRING 2, found dolutegravir to be non-inferior to raltegravir (Isentress) in treatment-naive patients. Both drugs were well tolerated and likely to suppress viral load below 50 copies/mL (88% for dolutegravir and 85% for raltegravir).
A companion phase-3 study found a regimen consisting of abacavir/lamivudine (Epzicom, Kivexa) plus dolutegravir to be superior to tenofovir/emtricitabine (Truvada) plus efavirenz (Sustiva, Stocrin) in treatment-naive patients. After 48 weeks, 88% of those treated with the dolutegravir-based regimen achieved a viral load below 50 copies/mL, compared to 81% of those treated with the efavirenz-based regimen.


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Call for proposals: Breaking systemic barriers to women's participation in science
IDRC is now accepting research proposals to help improve gender equality and diversity in science education.
IDRC is now accepting research proposals to help improve gender equality and diversity in science education.
Canada and France are supporting engagement and leadership on climate action in the French-speaking world through this training initiative, which includes half of the African negotiating group countries at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
IDRC is now accepting applications for the IDRC Research Awards 2020 call.
South Africa's youth unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world — by some estimates it stands at 52%.
Despite the well-acknowledged importance of using evidence for decision-making by many development actors, organizations in most countries are not using timely and responsive mechanisms to effectively support evidence-informed policymaking.
The increase in female-headed households in low- and middle-income countries is a result of a range of factors, including male migrant labour, epidemics such as HIV, and armed conflict.
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Scott on LaTourneau University Dean's List
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Colby Scott was recognized for outstanding academic accomplishments by being named to the LeTourneau University Dean's List for the Fall 2013 semester. Mr. Scott achieved a grade point average between 3.50 and 3.99 for the semester to receive this honor.
He is the son of Jasper and Ginger Scott of Mount Vernon and a 2010 graduate of Mount Vernon High School. He is majoring in business management.


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All I can think of right now is how D I R T Y and M U D D Y the contents of such floorboards would get!Of course, if ya only ever rode when it was nice out, and only ever on clean pavement...Then maybe yer piece wouldn't suffer too much.When I rode (last time was 1988) weather and conditions were secondary considerations. Rain or shine, day or night, winter, spring summer or fall all you got to do is call....NO WAIT! Those are song lyrics!Never mind!-sent from phone...typos possible-
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Senior Captain Goes 4-for-5 to Lift Yale to Game 2 Win
WEST HAVEN, Conn. — The Yale University baseball team put together two of the best wins of the season on Senior Day to help send off the team's three seniors with a doubleheader sweep of Brown with a 4-3 win in eight innings in Game 1 and a 9-3 win in Game 2 on Friday at Yale Field.
With the victories, Yale improves to 11-25 overall and 8-10 in Ivy League play. Brown falls to 5-30 overall and 3-15 in Ivy League play.
Between the two games, Yale paid tribute to its seniors, including team captain Chris Piwinski, outfielder Cam Squires and designated hitter Josh Scharff, as well as team manager and bullpen catcher Zach Kafoglis. The three senior players would all play a big part in the victories in the final homestand of their Yale careers.
In Game 1, Yale jumped out to a 2-0 lead thanks to an RBI single by sophomore right fielder Joe Lubanski and a wild pitch that allowed Lubanski to score the second run with two outs.
Brown tied the game in the top of the fifth inning on a two-run single by right fielder Will Marcal, and the score stayed that way through the end of the regulation seven innings. That's when the fireworks began.
With the game in extra innings, Brown struck first with a run in the top of the eighth inning. Second baseman Tim McKeithan led off with a double and Marcal was intentionally walked. Yale junior pitcher Cale Hanson then relieved Chris Moates and retired Brown catcher Wes Van Boom on a sacrifice bunt that pushed both runners into scoring position. First baseman Cody Slaughter then followed with a sacrifice fly that pushed home McKeithan with the go-ahead run, giving Brown a 3-2 lead. Hanson then retired third baseman Nate Kukowski on a grounder to shortstop for the final out of the inning to end the Brown threat.
Yale did not give up after Brown took the lead. Sophomore left fielder Eric Hsieh led off with an infield single and advanced to second on a single by junior first baseman Jacob Hunter. Freshman outfielder Nate Adams entered the game as a pinch hitter and loaded the bases with an infield single. With one out, sophomore second baseman David Toups tied the game with a fielder's choice that pushed home Hsieh with the tying run.
Now with two outs, Lubanski was down to his final strike when he flared an 0-2 pitch down the left field line. The ball landed on the foul line, kicking up chalk and pushing in Hunter with the winning run.
Junior starting pitcher Rob Cerfolio threw seven strong innings in the no-decision, striking out three Brown batters while allowing seven hits and just two runs. Hanson's (1-2) one inning of work was enough to earn his first win of the season.
In Game 1, Squires was the only senior to pick up a hit in his 1-for-3 outing, but Scharff went 0-for-2 with a walk. Lubanski went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored, while Hunter and Lawson both went 2-for-4 with a run scored to lead the Bulldogs in the opening victory.
In Game 2, Piwinski came through for the Bulldogs in a big way, going 4-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored in his final home game, lifting the Bulldogs to the sweep in a game that was never in doubt.
Yale used a four-run third inning to open up a 6-1 lead, and it never looked back, adding single runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings to secure the 9-3 lead.
Junior right-hander Michael Coleman (3-4) pitched a complete game, his first of the season, striking out four Brown batters. He scattered 10 hits while allowing only two earned runs.
All three seniors picked up hits in the win. Scharff went 2-for-5 with a run scored, while Squires went 1-for-3 with an RBI ground-rule double in the second inning.
Aside from Piwinski's big game, Hsieh also came up big for the Bulldogs, going 3-for-4 with a double and two runs scored. Toups went 2-for-4 with a double, two RBIs and two runs scored, while Lawson went 1-for-3 with two RBIs.
The two teams will meet again on Saturday, this time in Providence as Yale will visit Brown for a doubleheader to close out the 2013 season, with the first pitch scheduled for 1 p.m.
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HamishBS necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 43 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
regularsocks.com is an online service providing convenient delivery of dress socks via subscription. Users are able to subscribe to regular deliveries of three, four or six pairs of black cotton dress socks on a three monthly, four monthy, six monthly or annual basis.
Our service is simple and our culture is easy going - yet professional. We enjoy classic designs (less is more) but with edgy modern and clean lines.
Target audience is men 25-45 yrs who work in white collar (office) environments. Time poor and Internet savvy users use our service to save time, effort and money. Early adopters.
Secondary audience include the partners of the above.
brand name: Regularsocks
Initial design is attached but would like to change completely. Existing logo also attached however will accept new logo if you feel you can improve and it suits your overall design.
We want an edgy creative feel to the website, Web 2.0 style is ok. Keep in mind professional white collar client.
The design needs to be HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL and USER FRIENDLY and make people want to return and recommend to others.
Components of layout are:
* Header Including Login and Follow us buttons
* Top Nav (Our Socks, Subscribe, FAQs, Contact)
* Popular Retailers, brands and shopping centres
* Sign up to newsletters
* New footer including privacy and T&Cs links
* Please keep fixed width to 900px and centred design
* No stock photos please, but stock illustrations and stock backgrounds that enhance the website would be ok.
* Appearance: Web 2.0
* Nice web safe fonts
* Colour scheme is totally up to you. The existing concept was based on classics (Black, beige & red) however we are happy to consider new colour schemes (as with logo). Nothing too bright, would prefer classic corporate colours (blues, silvers).
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This Is How He Looks At Women With Weaves: Doesn't Make Me A Racist (Trey Songz "Love Faces" Parody)
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Awkward Dance Moves Every Guy Does [VIDEO]
Have you seen the video floating around about the moves that every girl makes on the dance floor? Ladies, it's time to fight back. Clearly men are more awkward then women, even when we are having problems with our high heels, so sit back, relax and enjoy all the awkward dance moves men make!
Just in case you haven't seen the chick version, here ya go! For the record, I'm a hair molester!


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I'm new in madCodeHook. I tried to build simple InjectLibrary/UninjectLibrary console application with C++Builder.
C++Builder 10.1 Berlin
madCodeHook 3.1.14
I add include file
"C:\Program Files (x86)\madCollection\madCodeHook\BDS18\win32\madCodeHook.h"
and link with
"C:\Program Files (x86)\madCollection\madCodeHook\BDS18\win32\madCodeHook_.lib"
And I got link error of "cannot open 'WINAPI.WINDOWS.OBJ' ".
Do I include and link correctly ?
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Fun with Music, Neo4j and TalendBelgian beers. But of course I have a number of other hobbies and passions. One of those being: Music. I have played music, created music (although that seems like a very long time ago) and still listen to new music almost every single day. So when sometime in 2006 I heard about this really cool music site called Last.fm, I was one of the early adopters to try use it. So: a good 7 years later and 50k+ scrobbles later, I have quite a bit of data about my musical habits. On top of that, I have a couple of friends that have been using Last.fm as well. So this got me thinking. What if I was somehow able to get that last.fm data into neo4j, and start "walking the graph"? I am sure that must give me some interesting new musical insights… It almost feels like a "recommendation graph for music" … Let's see where this brings us. Basically, the approach I took had three simple high-level steps
- get the data from last.fm
- model that data into a neo4j graph
- pump the data into the neo4j database using an import tool
- query the data for hours on end 😉
Step 1: exporting the data from last.fm.Turns out there are some cool tools out there to get the scrobble data out of last.fm. I used the LastToLibre "lastexport.py" script, which is very easy and simple: run it, give it a user name, and the public scrobbles will be available shortly after in a text file with the date, trackname, artistname, albumname and then the "MusicBrainz" identifiers for the track (trackmbid), artist (artistmbid) and album (albummbid). I did this for myself and two friends, and got a sizeable dataset.
Step 2: create a model out of this.
Step 3: import the dataThis is where it got interesting. The spreadsheet import mechanism worked ok – but it really wasn't great. It took more than an hour to get the dataset to load – so I had to look for alternatives. Thanks to my French friend and colleague Cédric, I bumped into the Talend ETL (Extract – Transform – Load) tools. I found out that there was a proper neo4j connector that was developed by Zenika, a French integrator that really seems to know their stuff. Talend Open Studio for Big Data, which is Open Source Software, just like Neo4j, and started playing around. I found the tools quite intuitive – although I must admit that Cédric was a great help to show me around. All I had to do was to created a Talend job, which consisted of a couple of steps:
- Import the nodes: 2 subjobs, one for nodes with name and type, one other for the nodes that have name, type and a "Musicbrainz Identifier" (artists, tracks, albums),
- Import the relationships: 7 subjobs, one for every relationship type (see model). Important there is that there is an additional step here, which is to make the relationships "unique", and avoid that some relationships would be created twice.
Step 4: do some neo4j Cypher queriesAfter the talend job was done, I started to experiment with some Cypher queries: figure out which artists my friends had been listening to on the same day:
- you can download the resulting music database from over here
- you can download the resulting Talend job from over here
Explore: batch import etl last.fm neo4j talend
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Rik,
very cool! Just one question: where did you get the LastFM CSV files from?
Great post
The example workd like a charm.
Do you have examples of running cypher queries thru talend ?

Regards
Bryan
Great article Rik. Thanks for sharing.

Just for info I tried this against a Neo4j 2.0.0-M03 instance and (perhaps unsurprisingly!) I could not get it to work. From a quick poke around it appears that you have to be using 1.9.x.
@bww00: i don't have a real working example lying around, but you just need to use the "tNeo4jRow" component (instead of tNeo4jOutput or the likes). I got it to work quite easily, but performance was slower. I believe it has something to do with the caching/parsing of the cypher queries: if you use tNeo4jRow, every Cypher query is separate and includes more overhead…

@Chris: you are right – it only works on 1.9.x as i understand it…
Great Post. Fast and easy to start querying around. Nice question to ask via Cypher query. It was very engaging to find an optimization. It drops time by 1/10 if you can filter the dates to query
If I may share my try:

START
 sta=node:node_auto_index(name="STA"),
 sno=node:node_auto_index(name="SNO")
MATCH
 sta-[:LOGS]->
Where does destination component 'tNeo4jOutput' stores data? Can I see the path where it stores loaded data from source?
Rik,

Great post !

For the tNeo4jRow component, normaly the request execution plan is kept and is reused for each row ?

Thank you so much for this tuto, i'm beginner with neo4j and i don't know how to create the neo4j graph model , i want to analyse CDR files which contains details of the calls and details about the caller and the receiver.
Should i create two nodes files ? person file and call file ?
any help ?
Hi thank you very much for this post its really helpful.
I'm new with graph databases and i have to create model to load information about calls made and received.
In my xls file i have : the duration of the call, Time of the call, Date of the call, call type (in or out), country, city, the calling number, the called number, gender of the calling, age of the calling and finally comment (no answer, user busy…) .
So i thought about this graph model : 5 nodes : caller, call, receiver, country and city
and 4 relationships: made_call, received_call, located_in and has_city.
Do you think that that's right way to model the data ??
Thank you very much
Great ! But some links aren't working.
Can you give us the new links to the dataset and the python-code ?
Thanks in advance
Hi Rik, I am getting error while running the job. I have done exactly same as you.I am using neo4j 3.0.1 community edition and proceeded as said by you in above video. I am getting error and Lost confidence what is going on at Talend side…


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KIDSfest kicked-off last night with record attendance. And it was such an honor to finally be a part of!
Normally during this time frame, Jennifer and I are off somewhere in the world, so we're never around for New Life's annual VBS week. But this year we wanted to stay home and support our kids, which means Pastor Leah Woodkirk also wrangled us into leading worship. In truth, it's something Jennifer and I've wanted to do for years, and this time around it just worked. What fun! We even wrote a theme song to go with the all-original curriculum, SuperCity.
My hat is off to Leah and her staff for putting on a truly memorable and life-changeing event for our children. Now more than ever, as a father, I appreciate their hard work: Evangeline was at the kitchen table this morning memorizing scripture – using her iPhone to record my voice. That's not cheating, is it? ch:


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Death to Deliverance
It's a curious way to sell an SUV– as the ultimate getaway car to escape from hillbillies. That's the pitch of a recent TV ad starring a handful of urbane buddies on a camping trip. They've only just hauled the hibachi grill from the back when that haunting melody (you know the one) wafts across the mountain stream, sending the would-be nature lovers scampering for civilization, their cooler of beer left in the dust.
"Those nine notes are a non-verbal stereotype," says Parks Lanier, a Radford professor and specialist in Appalachian poetry. "Deliverance came out 30 years ago, and it's still causing us problems."
Lanier, himself an Appalachian "in-migrant" has spent 25 years working to dispel the Li'l Abner image of Southwestern Virginia and promote the literary greatness of the region. Lee Smith, Sharyn McCrumb, Cormac McCarthy, and a triad of poets– Nikki Giovanni, Jim Wayne Miller, and Fred Chapel– are definitive proof, he declares, that the mountains are not populated exclusively by illiterates.
But it's fair to remember that once they were. There is no stronger oral tradition in the country than that which has come from the remote and undereducated population of Appalachia over the last 200 years. Phil Leonard, a folklorist teaching in Lynchburg, reminds us that Jack of the beanstalk and nimble candle-jumping fame came from the hollers of Wise County, where tales of that character were first collected into an anthology by Richard Chase in the early 1940s.
In fact, the culture is back in vogue today. Appalachian studies are a common offering at universities; Old Time music is rising in popularity; and Nicole Kidman and Jude Law contribute their talent, notoriety, and extreme good looks to the Appalachian comeback later this year with the release of the film version of Cold Mountain.
If the box office response doesn't disappoint, hip young men will be dressing in britches and slouch hats and Wal-Mart won't be able to stock enough buckshot and scrapple.
I jest a little, but the latest hi-jinx of the UVA pep-band (which turned out to be, alas, the squad's swan song), is a reminder of how seriously "poking fun" can be taken when leveled at a culture that's had no respite from derision.
So the next time you see the ad with the spooked campers, remember how that SUV got to the idyllic spot in the first place.
"We have interstates in Appalachia," notes Lanier.
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|This article is about a special episode of the Pokémon anime that has not been dubbed into English. As such, its coverage may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.
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(Japanese: ニビジム・史上最大の危機! Nibi Gym - The Greatest Crisis Ever!) is the second spin off of the Diamond & Pearl series of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on February 3, 2011 in a one-hour special with SS024.
|Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.
After his journey with Ash and Dawn, Brock returns home to take care of his siblings as well as studying towards gaining entry to a training school for Pokémon Doctors. Two of Brock's younger siblings come into his room and let him know that it is time for lunch. Brock gathers his siblings to the kitchen so that he can make them lunch, since their parents are away on yet another vacation. Meanwhile, at the Pewter Gym, Forrest calls out his Steelix to battle a challenger. The challenger refuses to battle and requests to battle with Brock or Flint only. After gathering the rest of his siblings, Brock finishes the meal and they get ready to eat. One of Brock's younger brothers runs into the kitchen and tells him to go to the Gym right away and that there is a challenger refusing to battle anyone but Brock or Flint. Brock and his siblings head towards the Gym and Forrest tells Brock about the situation. Brock recognizes that the challenger is really Nurse Joy and falls in love with her. Croagunk stops Brock with his Poison Jab. The challenger reveals that she used to run the Saffron City Pokémon Center but is now a top-level agent of the Pokémon Inspection Agency. Forrest explains to his younger siblings that Gym Inspectors test Gym Leaders to ensure they will present a decent challenge to Trainers, and have the power the revoke the right to give out Badges or even shut down the Gym completely.
Brock explains to Nurse Joy that he gave the Gym Leader position over to Forrest. Nurse Joy tells him that she did not receive any notification of the Gym Leader change. Nurse Joy agrees to battle and assess Forrest's ability to be a Gym Leader. Nurse Joy brings out her Chansey and Brock brings out Sudowoodo. Chansey uses Minimize to avoid Sudowoodo's Hammer Arm. Chansey then uses Attract to infatuate Sudowoodo. Sudowoodo is unable to attack so Chansey hits him with a Double Slap and knocks him out with Egg Bomb when Sudowoodo tries to attack with Flail. Nurse Joy tells them that she will not be giving a good review based on the battle and that they should expect bad news. Nurse Joy tells them she will be remaining in the Pokémon Center until the next day and to come see her if they have any questions or comments. Brock and his siblings start to become very worried that the Gym may be closed down.
Flint and Lola arrive back from vacation with gifts for their children. A Dugtrio ornament for Brock, Vileplume poster, two Exeggutor ornaments in a bag, and a Smoochum ornament for the younger children. Lola and Flint start talking about their trip and how great it was, when Brock interrupts them to yell at Flint about the notification Brock was asked to turn in. Flint explains that he found a rock that he really liked, put the notification envelope on the ground and left it there. Brock is furious when he hears this. While they are arguing, Sudowoodo and Marill are playing around with Brock's baby siblings. Flint and Lola tell Brock that the Gym closing down would be a good thing and that they would be able to change the Gym into a restaurant. However, Brock hates the idea.
Brock heads to the Pokémon Center to speak to the Inspector Joy in her office. Brock asks her to give the Gym another chance and to test Forrest as a Gym Leader for the inspection. Inspector Nurse Joy says that she has to think it over. Just then Pewter City's Nurse Joy comes into the office and says she has a problem and Brock tells her exactly how to solve it. Brock explains to Inspector Nurse Joy that he is studying to become a Pokémon doctor which is why he wanted to hand the Gym over to Forrest. Nurse Joy decides that she will test Forrest with a battle and Brock goes home to tell everyone. Everyone is asleep in their beds but Brock notices that Forrest is not and goes to the Gym to speak about the battle. Brock gives Forrest some encouraging words while their mom and dad look on and say that they are very proud of them.
The next day, Nurse Joy and Forrest prepare to battle, while Lola and Flint give their younger children Hawaiian outfits to wear for cheering on Forrest. Forrest brings out Rhyperior and Nurse Joy brings out the Legendary Pokémon Latias. Everyone is worried that Latias will be too much for Forrest to be able to win. Rhyperior starts off with Megahorn on Latias who uses Dragon Pulse to counterattack. Rhyperior dodges with Dig. Latias uses Recover before Rhyperior comes back to the surface. Latias strikes a strong hit on Rhyperior with Ice Beam. Latias tries the attack again but Rhyperior dodges and counterattacks with Megahorn, which connects. Rhyperior uses Dig again and uses Megahorn from behind to land a hit on Latias. Latias uses Recover once more, followed by Dragon Pulse and Steel Wing. Latias then finishes Rhyperior off with one last Ice Beam. Forrest goes down to his hands and knees thinking to himself that his loss will cause the Gym to be closed down.
Forrest and Brock go to attend Rhyperior, and Brock tells his Pokémon to get some Sitrus Berries so that they can heal Rhyperior. Nurse Joy informs Forrest that she was impressed with the battle and that she will give a much better review than before so they can expect the Gym to keep running. She also tells Brock that after witnessing his skills she is certain he will be an excellent Pokémon Doctor. After Rhyperior is healed, Nurse Joy prepares to leave. Brock expresses his love to her, and Croagunk uses Poison Jab to stop him. Everyone says their good-byes and Nurse Joy heads off.
Major events
- Forrest is revealed to own a Rhyperior.
- Forrest is officially made the Pewter City Gym Leader.
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the timeline of events.
Pokémon debuts
TV episode debuts
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- Pikachu (Ash's; photo only)
- Piplup (Dawn's; photo only)
- Steelix (Brock's)
- Sudowoodo (Brock's)
- Croagunk (Brock's)
- Rhyperior (Forrest's)
- Marill (Lola's)
- Chansey (Nurse Joy's)
- Latias (Nurse Joy's)
- Professor Oak's Big Pokémon Examination: Smeargle
- This and SS024 are the first specials to air on the same timeslot as the main series.
- Brock's Sudowoodo is confirmed to be male in this episode.
- The appearance of Latias in this episode may be a reference to Pokémon SoulSilver, in which Latias appears in Pewter City when the event involving the Enigma Stone is activated.
- Although the move has existed since Generation I, this episode marks the first time that Minimize is used in the anime.
- Brock reads the title card for the episode.
- The background music in the eyecatches is the same that was used in Dare da? segments in the original series.
- Takeshi's Paradise and music from Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias are used as background music during the episode.
- In addition to a trailer for BW019, the airing of this special and SS024 was also followed by a special trailer for the then-upcoming and later indefinitely postponed BW023 and BW024.
- The events of this episode may coincide with SS024 and In the Shadow of Zekrom!.
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|회색체육관 사상 최대의 위기!
|This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime.


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Jail time mandated for motorcyclists death
Don Morgan was sentenced to serve two years in jail, with one year suspended, and an additional four years probation for his role in the 2009 death of motorcyclist Daniel Buttram.
The sentence was handed down in Valdez Court August 4, after emotional testimony given by the victim's widow, Tanya Buttram, who tearfully told the court the hardships she and her two young children have endured after the untimely death of her husband, who was 29 years old at the time of the accident.
Morgan was originally indicted by a grand jury and charged with negligent homicide after police say he ran head-on into Buttram while he was illegally trying to pass a slow-moving construction crane near Milepost 1on the Richardson Highway July 7, 2009. In the plea bargain agreement, Morgan pleaded guilty to a third degree felony assault charge which carries a maximum sentence of two years.
Morgan made a plea bargain with state prosecutor Kerry Corliss the day before his trial for negligent homicide was slated to begin last June.
During the hearing, Morgan's attorney, Elizabeth Valera, asked the Judge Eric Smith to suspend the two year jail sentence and to waive drug and alcohol testing as a probationary requirement.
"Mr. Morgan has taken responsibility since day one," Valera told the court, "He was candid about everything."
Earlier in the hearing, Jamie Major of the Valdez Police Dept. testified that Morgan retrieved marijuana from his truck at the time of the accident, and later admitted he was returning from purchasing it when the head-on collision occurred.
"Though Ms. Corliss is reluctant to call this an accident, it is an accident," Valera said during the hearing, She noted the defendant was properly insured at the time of the fatal wreck and the actual amount of THC in Morgan's blood was low. She also said it was unfair to brand and punish Morgan as a dangerous driver as she felt the prosecutor's case was based largely on incidents that occurred after the fatality.
Morgan was arrested and charged with reckless driving in September of 2009 after a citizen's complaint alleged that Morgan attempted to pass a truck on the Richardson Highway allegedly causing oncoming drivers, including a motorcyclist, to swerve in order to avoid collisions.
"This in not an effort to offend the community," Valera said, nor an attempt to avoid responsibility for Buttram's death. "He has done everything he had to do."
Morgan made his statements to the court after Tanya Buttram's tearful testimony.
"I know I was partly responsible for this accident," Morgan said, "But I can't say that it was all my fault."
Earlier in the hearing, Valera had argued Morgan did not bear full responsibility for the fatality after it was determined that as Morgan attempted to swerve towards the shoulder of the highway to avoid hitting Buttram, the motorcyclist also swerved in the same direction before attempted to ditch the motorcycle.
"I'm sorry it happened," he said "I'm sorry that man died."
Morgan, who was not in police custody at the time of the hearing, stood up and sniffled back tears.
"She is not the only one traumatized by this, I'm hurt too," he told the court, "It hurts so bad."
He said he didn't think he was a bad driver and complained that he often sees examples of poor driving while he rides his bicycle and said it was the job of police to enforce the law, not him. He also continued to blame the victim.
"I'd like to say I'm very sorry for this," he said, "But as far as I'm concerned, it was not all my fault."
After a 10 minute break, Smith returned to the court to render his decision.
"This obviously is a tragedy for everybody," he said, and pointed out that as judge, he was constrained from commented on the plea agreement and the type of charges Morgan faced. He was also noted that two years prison was the maximum sentence allowed by law for the charge.
"He pleaded to recklessly injuring Mr. Buttram," Smith said, but in reality, he killed him.
"He doesn't appear to understand the depth of his error," Smith said, "That's a significant issue."
When sentencing defendants, Smith noted it is a judge's duty to meet certain criteria including rehabilitation, deterring others from similar acts, protecting society and reaffirming societal norms.
"I think society expects jail time" when somebody kills somebody else, Smith said.
In addition to the two years prison, with one year suspended, Morgan will also be subjected to strict drug and alcohol screening during his four-year probationary period, as Corliss argued for earlier in the hearing.
"I know its going to take a long time for everybody to heal," he said, before ordering Morgan to turn himself into the Valdez jail Friday.
Valera declined to comment on the sentence.
"I was pleased with the judge's decision," Corliss said after the hearing.
A civil lawsuit against Morgan that alleges wrongful death was filed in Valdez Court by Buttram's estate on July 7.


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I guess I need to start this post by saying I was horrified and shocked by Trumps election. I would never have voted for him.
However being more socially conservative then anyone else on this board (other than probably WWD) I can relate to the people who feel let down by mainstream politics. Seeing my politicians vote repeatedly against my views on homosexuality and abortion etc is frustrating bust I understand it reflects the society I'm in. However what is not understandable is feeling scared to share my opinions on those issues because of the backlash against me whenever I have done. Until politicians start to take the views of mainstream Christians/socially conservatives seriously and not just announce us all as pure evil I think we're going to continue to see this rejection of 'mainstream politics' and sadly that seems to involve a swing to the right.
All of that said I've seen a lot of my evangelical brethren from across the pond say they voted for Trump on a pro-life agenda. Personally I can't take a misogynistic, racist seriously on tackling pro-life; being pro-life isn't just about abortion/assisted suicide.


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Tool Singer Defends His Lawn: Decries Our Entitled, Uncreative Society
from the fear-of-progress deptReader vegetaman points us to some comments made by Maynard James Keenan (best known as the singer for the band Tool) in an Oregon radio interview that suggest he's reached the "get off my lawn" phase of his career. When asked about music piracy and its effect on the industry, he responded:
I think it's a much bigger conversation. I think part of the problem with most of that is just the foundation of respect or entitlement. I think 'entitlement' is probably the better word. I think, just in general, our society has gotten to the point where just you click a button, you get what you want when you want it. So until we get to a point where we realize you don't necessarily always get what you want when you want it, we're gonna have a problem. So it stems from there. And then things like file-sharing and the Internet kind of lend themselves to that mindset. So, some day, hopefully, we'll adjust that perspective ... And until somebody has actually written a check to record their own record and see everything that goes into it, they don't really understand that if you just take it... The current state of music, I'm sure there's a lot of creative stuff going on out there, but there certainly isn't—of course, I'm being nostalgic—but it doesn't seem like there's as much, creatively, going on, 'cause most people can't afford to do it."
Perhaps he chose "entitlement" over "respect" because he realized that "kids these days don't have any respect" is a bit of a cliché, and not a positive one. But I've heard this "entitlement" complaint before too, and it still doesn't make any sense. People aren't so much entitled as they are accustomed, and that's a natural result of progress. Sure, people (especially digital natives) get frustrated when they can't find what they are looking for online, but how is that different from getting frustrated when you can't find a gas station? It's not some grand sense of technological entitlement, but rather the fact that we structure our lives around the tools that are available to us, and thus come to rely on them. On the internet, the simple fact is that you can get what you want at the click of a button, and people aren't going to pretend that's not true out of respect for those who predate the privilege. The real sense of entitlement is believing that you don't have to grow and adapt to changing technology, and that you can refuse to give your customers what they have grown accustomed to (and can get elsewhere) and expect them to stick around.
Then there's his perception that there is less creativity today, and at least he acknowledges that he's being nostalgic, because he's certainly not being accurate. The cost of creating, distributing and promoting music have all fallen drastically, allowing musicians to bypass gatekeepers and resulting in more music being made, and more financial opportunities for artists, than ever before. To claim that the cost of making music is limiting creativity is just weird (and not the good kind of weird like Tool's album art). Keenan does have an affinity for expensive productions, but it's a shame that he seems to think creative value is directly linked to budget.
Increasingly I feel like someone needs to sit all these aging musicians down and explain to them that the internet is pretty awesome, and it isn't going away.
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Bravo! Our Military Bravo!
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I share your point of view too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMonday, May 02, 2011
Seems like you "get it" more than you think! God bless our brave men and women!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMonday, May 02, 2011
We can't even begin to thank them enough!!!!!ReplyDelete
As the wife of a serving soldier of the British Army, you could not have said that any better. xxReplyDelete
Thank you from an Army wife of 9 yrs. You almost brought a tear to my eye, you said it plain and simple and TRUTHFULLY:)ReplyDelete
You are so right! Thanks to everyone who serves to protect us! We couldn't enjoy our lives like we do without them.ReplyDelete
DITTO, DITTO, DITTO!ReplyDelete
Nice. Agree! Agree! Agree! I'm so grateful for all our freedoms fought before now and in the future. Thank you for such a refreshing post! GOD bless america!ReplyDelete
Your comment touched my heart. My husband, two sons and a son in law serve in the military--one dearly loved son currently in harm's way. I never thought I could do it either but ya do what ya gotta do, I guess. Thanks for your support.ReplyDelete
Having served recently for more than 21 years in the Royal Air Force, your thoughts and wishes are heartfelt.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousWednesday, May 04, 2011
My son-inlaw is a Captain in the Australian Defence Force and spend 8 1/2 month in East Timor last year. He left two weeks after his second daughter was born, he will not be here for his first daughters birthday for the third time and she will only be four.ReplyDelete
Thanks you for this post....
We live in a very dangerous world and it is comforting to know there are brave men and women who would die to protect us. God bless them all.ReplyDelete
Thank you for this post, my husband is currently deployed - 100 days down, 200 to go!!! Go Navy!ReplyDelete
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