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Just as there are different operators for comparing strings and numbers, you should be aware how that affects accessing elements of hashes.
Consider the following: Obviously, $key1 == $key2, but $key1 ne $key2. That is, they are equal as numbers, but since $key1 is a string and $key2 is not, then they will not match using the eq string operator. This leads to the following: This is particularly important when working with databases, for example, where the key field may be zerofilled.
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The first half of 2014 is behind, and we are full-swing into summer. July is a fun and exciting month in the United States as its Independence is celebrated throughout the country on the 4th. The first of July is also a big day for our neighbors to the north, as they celebrate Canada Day. In honor of these patriotic holidays, the designers at Scraps N Pieces have an awesome monthly collab.
Introducing This is My Country...
This month's CU Grab bag has gone metal, and is 25% off.
This month's Bits N Pieces' colors are so soft and pretty, and the participating designers rocked the color palette with such creative themes. Remember, each piece is $1 each during the first week. Grab some and be sure to participate in the monthly BnP challenge for forum points.
Have a couple hours free time? Who does really? But in case you do, be sure to jot down the July speed scrap dates. Join in to complete a layout and earn a participation prize.

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The Best of the Year (So Far)
I won't be updating the site this coming Sunday, November 13. And when I noticed that I've made over 175 posts to this blog since it started in January 2005, I thought it would be fun to pick 10% or so of what I think are the best designs of the year. Here's a start, in no particular order. More to come.
Which ones are *your* favorites?
PS: I stand by my selection of Johnny Mad Dog :-)


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4 February 2010 Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020304057_pf.html |
The world's largest Internet search company and the world's most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity. Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according to cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter. The objective is to better defend Google -- and its users -- from future attack. Google and the NSA declined to comment on the partnership. But sources with knowledge of the arrangement, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the alliance is being designed to allow the two organizations to share critical information without violating Google's policies or laws that protect the privacy of Americans' online communications. The sources said the deal does not mean the NSA will be viewing users' searches or e-mail accounts or that Google will be sharing proprietary data. The partnership strikes at the core of one of the most sensitive issues for the government and private industry in the evolving world of cybersecurity: how to balance privacy and national security interests. On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair called the Google attacks, which the company acknowledged in January, a "wake-up call." Cyberspace cannot be protected, he said, without a "collaborative effort that incorporates both the U.S. private sector and our international partners." But achieving collaboration is not easy, in part because private companies do not trust the government to keep their secrets and in part because of concerns that collaboration can lead to continuous government monitoring of private communications. Privacy advocates, concerned about a repeat of the NSA's warrantless interception of Americans' phone calls and e-mails after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, say information-sharing must be limited and closely overseen. "The critical question is: At what level will the American public be comfortable with Google sharing information with NSA?" said Ellen McCarthy, president of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, an organization of current and former intelligence and national security officials that seeks ways to foster greater sharing of information between government and industry. On Jan. 12, Google took the rare step of announcing publicly that its systems had been hacked in a series of intrusions beginning in December. The intrusions, industry experts said, targeted Google source code -- the programming language underlying Google applications -- and extended to more than 30 other large tech, defense, energy, financial and media companies. The Gmail accounts of human rights activists in Europe, China and the United States were also compromised. So significant was the attack that Google threatened to shutter its business operation in China if the government did not agree to let the firm operate an uncensored search engine there. That issue is still unresolved. Google approached the NSA shortly after the attacks, sources said, but the deal is taking weeks to hammer out, reflecting the sensitivity of the partnership. Any agreement would mark the first time that Google has entered a formal information-sharing relationship with the NSA, sources said. In 2008, the firm stated that it had not cooperated with the NSA in its Terrorist Surveillance Program. Sources familiar with the new initiative said the focus is not figuring out who was behind the recent cyberattacks -- doing so is a nearly impossible task after the fact -- but building a better defense of Google's networks, or what its technicians call "information assurance." One senior defense official, while not confirming or denying any agreement the NSA might have with any firm, said: "If a company came to the table and asked for help, I would ask them . . . 'What do you know about what transpired in your system? What deficiencies do you think they took advantage of? Tell me a little bit about what it was they did.' " Sources said the NSA is reaching out to other government agencies that play key roles in the U.S. effort to defend cyberspace and might be able to help in the Google investigation. These agencies include the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. Over the past decade, other Silicon Valley companies have quietly turned to the NSA for guidance in protecting their networks. "As a general matter," NSA spokeswoman Judi Emmel said, "as part of its information-assurance mission, NSA works with a broad range of commercial partners and research associates to ensure the availability of secure tailored solutions for Department of Defense and national security systems customers." Despite such precedent, Matthew Aid, an expert on the NSA, said Google's global reach makes it unique. "When you rise to the level of Google . . . you're looking at a company that has taken great pride in its independence," said Aid, author of "The Secret Sentry," a history of the NSA. "I'm a little uncomfortable with Google cooperating this closely with the nation's largest intelligence agency, even if it's strictly for defensive purposes." The pact would be aimed at allowing the NSA help Google understand whether it is putting in place the right defenses by evaluating vulnerabilities in hardware and software and to calibrate how sophisticated the adversary is. The agency's expertise is based in part on its analysis of cyber-"signatures" that have been documented in previous attacks and can be used to block future intrusions. The NSA would also be able to help the firm understand what methods are being used to penetrate its system, the sources said. Google, for its part, may share information on the types of malicious code seen in the attacks -- without disclosing proprietary data about what was taken, which would concern shareholders, sources said. Greg Nojeim, senior counsel for the Center for Democracy &
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Science fiction used to be all about the future, but in steampunk, it's gone back to the past to create a steam-powered alternate Victorian era full of airships, goggles and rayguns where Tesla trumps Edison. If you think that steampunk is just about creative costumes, there will be plenty walking the halls of AnachroCon, this weekend (Feb. 24-26) at the Holiday Inn Select Perimeter, but there will also be so much more from literary to art to performances. Read more about the many facets of this fast-growing subculture in our recent interview with STEAMPUNK BIBLE co-author S.J. Chambers, then head on down to AnachroCon to experience the city's biggest annual steampunk gathering live.
As Anachrocon's Website says, it's the "place in the South for Steampunk, History, Alternate History, Science, Music, Classic Sci-Fi Literature and the most amazing costuming you've ever seen!" Here's our top nine coolest things to do at Anachrocon. For times and locations, check the full con schedule here.
1. Costumes Extraordinaire
Men in top hats, boots and goggles. Ladies in their finest Victorian dresses with rayguns tucked into their beaded evening bags. Gizmos galore. In the case of steampunk, accessories make the outfit and it's not just a look but a way of life for some followers who meticulously craft their eccentric wardrobes in home workshops. Expect to see an amazing array of hall costumes, but the best of the best compete in the Costume Contest at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Or learn to make your own from award-winning costumers in the Fashion and Fabrication programming tracks.
2. A Marvelous Menagerie of Musical Acts
If steampunk has a look, thanks to a motley menagerie of talented musicians, it also has a sound – a diverse blend of jazz, ragtime, gypsy, classical, goth and even a touch of rock n roll. At Anachrocon, you can hear some of the best in the region and nation including The Hellblinki Sextet (do we need to say more than pirate cabaret to pique your interest?!), The Extraordinary Contraptions, Frenchy and the Punk, Aeronauts, The Ghosts Project, The Gin Rebellion, The Vauxhall Garden Variety Players, Play It With Moxie and more. Dance the night away to several DJs including "self-described eccentric audio arranger and morally ambiguous scientist" Dr. Q, the mad mastermind behind The Artifice Club which stages quarterly steampunk shindigs and is the official sponsor of the Friday night main entertainment track provocatively titled Fallout Frenzy. Read an interview with Dr. Q here about The Artifice Club here.
3. Trick or Tease: Burly-Q and Carnivale Steampunk-style
Burlesque arose out of vaudeville and sideshow hoochie-coo, all of which go back to the bawdy dancers, singers and comedians of the Victorian music hall. Circuses and carnival sideshows for general public pleasure also came of age in the 19th century. See steampunk versions of both this weekend. Award-winning Atlanta burlesque beauty Talloolah Love invites you to Burlesque At the End of the World (Fri. midnight) featuring flavors of Bertolt Brecht, The Muppets, and Hollywood heresy; "you've never seen a burlesque show like this!" Guest stars include Knoxville's Rosey Lady, the Blooming Beauty of Burlesque; Katherine Lashe of Syrens of the South Productions; The Chameleon Queen; and Sadie Hawkins and Barbilicious of Blast-Off Burlesque. Meanwhile under the motto of "Doing the extrordinary with the ordinary," the talented performers of Oklahoma's Carnival Epsilon (Fri. 5 p.m.) test the limits the human body can be pushed to with sharp blades, burning fire and a silver fork. And Wicked Hips Bellydance, a professional troupe with members from the US and Europe, presents an art form once considered so risque that it would have inspired proper Victorian ladies to grasp their smelling salts (Sat. 7 p.m., Sun. noon).
4. History, Science and the End of the World, Oh My!
Yes, the whole idea of steampunk is based on an alternate history and a different direction in science and energy. Costumes are not mandatory to attend these bonafide actual history and science with fascinating panels on such topics as "the history of passive-resistance and non-violent protest" (Fri. 3 p.m.); "evolution of small arms" (Fri. 5 p.m.), "Sex in Classical Greece and Rome" (Fri. 11 p.m.), Van Gogh at Remy (Sat. 5 p.m.) and much more including culinary discussions, Vikings, shipwrecks and a Sunday-morning gnostic mass. Well, with the Mayan calendar's abrupt end this year, we give them some slack for a few more apocalyptic (and maybe not so hard-factual) programs such as "This is the Way the World Ends; Eschatology 101″ (Fri. 2 p.m.), "Mayan Calendar 2012″ (if the world's coming to an end, it only makes sense there's also a mead-making 101 class out by the pool at the same time), and "Surviving Those Pesky Zombie Apocalypses" (Sat 8 p.m.). Does that mean we'll see some Walking Dead Steampunks drunk on mead? Well, we can only hope.
5. A Little Etiquette & Indulgence Can Do You Good
The Victorian Age was known for being prim and proper, unlike our uncouth contemporary era, so it seems only fitting that AnachroCon's newest last-minute programming track is centered on Etiquette & Indulgence. Run by Peter Beer Slayer and Richard Carnival, "their mission [is] to make the world a better place by providing instruction on the Social Graces and how to truly enjoy life by using their combined powers to become the Traveling Revelers!" Take ConSociology classes on "how to meet people at cons" (Fri. 3 p.m.); "the zen of flirting" (Fri. 7 p.m.); "the art of social cues, green lights/red lights" (Sat. noon),and enjoy a "morning refresher" course (ok, early afternoon, Sun. 1 p.m.). Or engage in proper Tea Dueling at 11 a.m. Sun. morning.
6. Viva the Revolution – Meet the Founding Fathers
Tea Partiers and Ultra-Liberals, take note! OK, AnachroCon isn't breaking out the Ouija Board (well, not right now anyway; we kind of think there has to be some Ouija-ing going on somewhere), but professional Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin impersonators (J.D. Sutton and Bill Pacer) will be on hand to share their wisdom on government, electricity and even provide a Q&A. Find out what the founding fathers really thought about freedom of religion, gay rights and sleeping with French prostitutes – we dare you to ask them!
7. Astounding Alt-History Literature & Pop Culture Panels
At the end of the day, it's sometimes forgotten that steampunk started not as an aesthetic movement but in the pages of books and now is a lively literary genre. Panels discuss classic influences from Edgar Allan Poe (Sat. 1 p.m.) to a Victorian Science Fiction Roundtable (Sat. 9 p.m.) where we imagine the names Jules Verne and H.G. Wells might get a few mentions. More topics include how to write alternate history (Sat 4 p.m.), modern steampunk literature (Sat. noon) and Growing Up Steampunk (Fri. 7 p.m.). Author guests include Mark P. Donnelly, Kathryn Hinds, O.M. Grey, Emilie P. Bush, Kimberly Richardson, Alan Gilbreath and Dan Hollifield.
8. Sensational Steampunk Marketplace
Need a pair of goggles, a trusty ray gun, a corset, jewelry, custom leather items? All of these and more are available in the Vendor Room, a veritable bazaar of steampunk-related merchandise, with a little Medieval-Renaissance-Celtic thrown in for fun. Well, steampunk does share some roots in modern fantasy which is often inspired by those eras. Be sure to also visit the Artisans Room where you can buy unique, one-of-a-kind creations by jeweler Corey Frison (Labrys Creations), art prints and jewelry by Kerry Mafeo (Fantastic Visions), chainmail by Thandor (and watch him craft it before your very eyes!), the geekiest T-shirts on the planet from Aardvark Screen Printing and works by award-winning artist and illustrator Mark Helwig.
Do we really have to say anything else but those three words? OK, you may have seen the Elvis Stormtrooper at DragonCon but Steampunk Boba Fett has taken this helmeted STAR WARS mercenary to a new level of eccentric creativity. Dubbing himself humbly, "the galaxy's most feared Steampunk Bounty Hunter since 1878 (Earth Time)," to see him is to be inspired! Now go home and get to work on your costume so you'll be ready to enjoy Anachrocon this weekend!


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Hybrid robot flies, dives, swims and propels itself out of water.
We've seen RoboBees that can fly, stick to walls and dive into water. Now, get ready for a hybrid RoboBee that can fly, dive into water, swim, propel itself back out of water and safely land.
New floating devices allow this multipurpose air-water microrobot to stabilize on the water's surface before an internal combustion system ignites to propel it back into the air.
This latest-generation RoboBee, which is 1,000 times lighter than any previous aerial-to-aquatic robot, could be used for numerous applications, from search-and-rescue operations to environmental monitoring and biological studies.
The research is described in Science Robotics. It was led by a team from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering at Harvard.
"This is the first microrobot capable of repeatedly moving in and through complex environments," said Yufeng Chen, who was a graduate student in the Microrobotics Lab at SEAS when the research was conducted and is first author of the paper. "We designed new mechanisms that allow the vehicle to directly transition from water to air, something that is beyond what nature can achieve in the insect world."
Designing a millimeter-sized robot that moves in and out of water has numerous challenges. First, water is 1,000 times denser than air, so the wing flapping speed must will vary widely between the two mediums. If the flapping frequency is too low, the RoboBee can't fly. If it's too high, the wing will snap off in water.
By combining theoretical modeling and experimental data, the researchers found the goldilocks combination of wing size and flapping rate, scaling the design to allow the bee to operate repeatedly in both air and water. Using this multimodal locomotive strategy, the robot to flaps its wings at 220 – 300 Hz in air and 9 – 13 Hz in water.
Another major challenge the team had to address: at the millimeter scale, the water's surface might as well be a brick wall. Surface tension is more than 10 times the weight of the RoboBee and three times its maximum lift. Previous research demonstrated how impact and sharp edges can break surface tension on a RoboBee's entry into water but the question remained: How does it get back out again?
To solve that problem, the researchers retrofitted the RoboBee with four buoyant outriggers — essentially robotic floaties — and a central gas collection chamber. Once the RoboBee swims to the surface, an electrolytic plate in the chamber converts water into oxyhydrogen, a combustible gas fuel.
"Because the RoboBee has a limited payload capacity, it cannot carry its own fuel, so we had to come up with a creative solution to exploit resources from the environment," said Elizabeth Farrell Helbling, graduate student in the Microrobotics Lab and co-author of the paper. "Surface tension is something that we have to overcome to get out of the water, but is also a tool that we can utilize during the gas collection process."
The gas increases the robot's buoyancy, pushing the wings out of the water and the floaties stabilize the RoboBee on the water's surface. From there, a tiny, novel sparker inside the chamber ignites the gas, propelling the RoboBee out of the water. The robot is designed to passively stabilize in air, so that it always lands on its feet.
"By modifying the vehicle design, we are now able to lift more than three times the payload of the previous RoboBee," said Chen. "This additional payload capacity allowed us to carry the additional devices including the gas chamber, the electrolytic plates, sparker, and buoyant outriggers, bringing the total weight of the hybrid robot to 175 miligrams, about 90mg heavier than previous designs. We hope that our work investigating tradeoffs like weight and surface tension can inspire future multi-functional microrobots – ones that can move on complex terrains and perform a variety of tasks."
Because of the lack of onboard sensors and limitations in the current motion-tracking system, the RoboBee cannot yet fly immediately upon propulsion out of water but the team hopes to change that in future research.
"The RoboBee represents a platform where forces are different than what we – at human scale – are used to experiencing," said Robert Wood, a professor of engineering and applied sciences at Harvard and senior author of the paper. "While flying the robot feels as if it is treading water; while swimming it feels like it is surrounded by molasses. The force from surface tension feels like an impenetrable wall. These small robots give us the opportunity to explore these non-intuitive phenomena in a very rich way."
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Before the snow's arrival yesterday, I walked through Rutgers Gardens. I started out by walking through the ornamental conifers to see if anything unusual was hanging around them. There was very little activity, so I moved on. My impression is that there are not a lot of seed cones on them, so winter finches there are probably unlikely.
From there I walked through Helyar Woods. There were quite a lot of trees down in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. A lot of trails were blocked by fallen trees, especially the trails close to the lake, which are blocked in multiple places.
On a sad note, there was a dead Cooper's Hawk near the bamboo forest. From the plumage and size, I would say that it was an adult female. The cause of death was not visibly obvious, but the location suggests an auto collision.


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Brazil and France have initiated a groundbreaking $1.1 billion program aimed at safeguarding the Amazon rainforest, a vital ecological asset. The investment, spanning over the next four years, comprises both public and private funds, with a focus on preserving the Brazilian and Guyanese regions of the Amazon.
The announcement unfolded during French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Brazil, commencing a three-day diplomatic mission. The rendezvous occurred in Belem, strategically situated near the mouth of the Amazon. President Macron was received by his Brazilian counterpart, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, marking a significant collaboration between the two nations.
In a joint statement, both leaders emphasized their commitment to fostering an international initiative dedicated to the protection of tropical forests. Their collaborative effort aims to combat deforestation in the Amazon by 2030, thereby contributing to global climate mitigation efforts. Notably, this initiative precedes Brazil's hosting of the COP30 climate negotiations in Belen scheduled for 2025.
The presidents underscored their dedication to the conservation, restoration, and sustainable management of tropical forests worldwide. They outlined an ambitious agenda, including the development of innovative financial instruments, market mechanisms, and environmental service payment frameworks.
During the visit, President Macron and President Lula embarked on a symbolic river boat journey to witness sustainable development endeavors firsthand. Their itinerary included a visit to a project focused on chocolate production located on an island near Belem, where they engaged with Indigenous leaders.
At the event, President Macron conferred the National Order of the Legion of Honor upon Chief Raoni Metuktire, a prominent Indigenous leader and environmental advocate from the Kayapo community. Chief Raoni, renowned for his environmental activism since the 1980s, voiced concerns about the proposed Ferrograo railway project. He highlighted potential adverse impacts on Indigenous communities, urging President Lula to reconsider its construction.
Despite prior environmental disputes, Franco-Brazilian relations have undergone significant reconciliation since 2019. Tensions peaked during President Jair Bolsonaro's tenure, particularly amidst international scrutiny over Amazon fires. However, recent diplomatic efforts signify a renewed commitment to bilateral cooperation and the restoration of strategic ties between France and Brazil.


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Law professors warn that new legislation allows state to seize websites merely for linking to other websites that host copyrighted material
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
New legislation that would give the US government the power to seize website domains on a whim with no oversight merely for linking to sites that host copyrighted material has been labeled a hallmark of "repressive regimes" by a group of law professors who warn that the bill allows the state to "break the Internet addressing system".
The Protect IP bill, currently stalled in the Senate, represents a death blow to Internet freedom of speech. It would turn the entire web into a clone of the YouTube model, which routinely censors and deletes material when requested to by governments or corporations and shuts down user channels without recourse.
The legislation merely codifies what Homeland Security is already practicing, seizing and shutting down websites without any form of legal proceedings and in many cases not even notifying the owner.
In an open letter penned by Professor Mark Lemley of Stanford University, David S. Levine of Elon University and David G. Post of Temple University, they warn that the bill would require Internet hosting companies and search engines to de-list entire websites on the basis of a mere copyright claim by a copyright holder, with no independent or legal process undertaken.
Even linking to a website that copyright holders claim is in violation of intellectual property laws would be grounds for the feds to seize your domain and impose criminal penalties.
"At a time when many foreign governments have dramatically stepped up their efforts to censor Internet communications, the [Protect IP Act] would incorporate into U.S. law — for the first time — a principle more closely associated with those repressive regimes: a right to insist on the removal of content from the global Internet, regardless of where it may have originated or be located, in service of the exigencies of domestic law," states the letter.
Suggesting that removing websites with no oversight whatsoever is a clear violation of constitutional law as interpreted by the Supreme Court, the professors add that the bill would hand government the power to "break the Internet addressing system."
"It requires Internet service providers, and operators of Internet name servers, to refuse to recognize Internet domains that a court considers "dedicated to infringing activities." But rather than wait until a Web site is actually judged infringing before imposing the equivalent of an Internet death penalty, the Act would allow courts to order any Internet service provider to stop recognizing the site even on a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction issued the same day the complaint is filed. Courts could issue such an order even if the owner of that domain name was never given notice that a case against it had been filed at all."
Search engines, credit card companies and even advertisers would then be mandated to refuse to deal with the owners of the site under the proposed law, making it "extraordinarily difficult for advertisers and credit card companies to do business on the Internet."
As we have exhaustively documented, proponents of web regulation like Senator Joe Lieberman have openly stated their intention to create a Communist Chinese-style system of Internet policing, handing Obama the power to block entire areas of the web with a figurative kill switch.
Indeed, Amazon's Cloud network notoriously deleted the entire Wikileaks website from its servers following a phone call made by Senator Joe Lieberman's Senate Homeland Security Committee demanding the website be axed.
Lieberman spilled the beans on the true reasons behind the move towards web censorship during a CNN interview when he stated "Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too."
During a more recent interview with the network, Lieberman labeled claims that he was working to create an "Internet kill switch" as "misinformation," yet went on to repeat the same statement that the US government needs the power to "disconnect parts of its Internet in a case of war."
Of course as we have proven, China doesn't disconnect the Internet "in case of war," it only ever does so to censor and intimidate people who express dissent against government atrocities or corruption. This is precisely the kind of online environment western governments are trying to replicate as they attempt to put a stranglehold on the last bastion of true free speech – the world wide web.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for PrisonPlanet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos.
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Combined Bachelor's/Master's Degrees in Policy Studies and Secondary (Social Studies) Teacher Preparation Program
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This combined degree option, offered by the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education meets the academic requirements for the New York State teaching certification for the area of study. It is an alternative to the existing undergraduate Arts and Sciences/Education dual program in these areas, and an option that often takes less time and fewer credits than earning the entire master's degree in education after completion of a general Arts and Sciences degree.
The combined bachelor's/master's teacher preparation programs were designed to meet the needs of Arts and Sciences undergraduates who, because of a later decision to become a teacher, would need to add a semester or more to their undergraduate study to complete the existing undergraduate Arts and Sciences/Education program. It also serves those who want or need more flexibility in their undergraduate program than the dual undergraduate degree allows.
Both the Arts and Sciences undergraduate degree with a major related to the subject to be taught, and the School of Education master's degree are conferred at the same time, after all requirements are met - typically at the end of 5 years. Students begin taking education courses as undergraduates, including some in the fourth year that are taken for graduate credit, and apply to become graduate students for their last two semesters. Some summer study (not necessarily at SU) may be required.
The combined program has a two-stage admission process. The first stage involves meeting with the School of Education contact as early as possible to develop a plan, and, if a decision to pursue the program is made, completing a form signed by Education and a new declaration of program of study form in Arts and Science to declare the Arts and Sciences program with "Teacher Preparation/5 year" appended to the title (e.g., "History (TchrPrep/5yr)" instead of "History"). The second admission stage involves an application to the Graduate School. Each admission stage requires a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA and a minimum 3.0 GPA in the courses from the subject to be taught. The second stage also requires successful performance in the undergraduate education courses.
The choices of Arts and Sciences majors, and the course requirements for the Arts and Sciences major, the Liberal Arts Core, and other requirements related to the major are the same for these combined programs as those for students completing the dual enrollment undergraduate Arts and Sciences/Education program. These details about specific adjustments necessary to the Liberal Arts Core and to Arts and Sciences major may be found in the section describing Dual Arts and Sciences/ Education Programs.
Because of the specific course requirements and sequencing of courses, it is important that students interested in one of these programs meet with the School of Education contact as soon as possible to develop a plan. EDU 204, the first education course, must be taken no later than spring of the junior year.


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General Education requirements provide the liberal arts tradition, the intellectual foundation that enables students to expand their perspectives beyond the focus of a major. UMass Global graduates will be intellectually flexible, creative, articulate, and prepared for active and life-long participation in the knowledge-based world of the 21st century. UMass Global GE requirements are comprised of 6 Subdomains and 13 Competencies:
SUBDOMAIN: Communications
COMC 410 Interpersonal Communications
Understand the skills required to interact effectively with others.
COMC 101 Oral Communications
Deliver a well-organized oral presentation using delivery techniques and supporting materials appropriate for the audience
ENGC 103 Written Communications Level A
Identify and apply key components of effective writing skills and APA.
ENGC 104 Written Communications Level B
Compose written arguments that are coherent, grammatically correct, and rhetorically aware.
SUBDOMAIN: Humanities
PHLC 110 Creative and Critical Thinking
Develop a creative solution to a historical, social, ethnic, economic, technological, and/or geographic problem.
HUMC 110 Disciplinary Relationships
Analyze relationships between disciplines such as history, literature, religion, philosophy, and the fine arts.
HUMC 115 Human Experience
Analyze the ways in which the human experience is influenced by historical, social, ethnic, economic, technological, and/or geographic contexts.
SUBDOMAIN: Information Literacy
LBSC 320 Information Literacy Level A
Evaluate and cite various information resources to understand ethical research practices.
LBSC 321 Information Literacy Level B
Apply academic research practices to complete an academic research project.
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NSCC 115 Methods and Applications
Apply the principles, concepts, and methods of the natural sciences.
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When did people start talking about User Experience as a role/domain similar to the way that it's used today?
The earliest reference I can find is the Norman, Miller, Henderson CHI 95 piece on Apple's set up (Donald Norman, Jim Miller, Austin Henderson: What You See, Some of What's in the Future, And How We Go About Doing It: HI at Apple Computer. Proceedings of CHI 1995, Denver, Colorado, USA)
Anything earlier?
[Edit - after @Andrew's nice answer we have 1993 as an earlier date
"I invented the term because I thought Human Interface and usability were too narrow: I wanted to cover all aspects of the person's experience with a system, including industrial design, graphics, the interface, the physical interaction, and the manual." - Don Norman
(I'm writing a talk on communities of practice relating to UX - and want to get my time lines right ;-)


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September 12, 2013
By Donald Hunt
Special to the NNPA from The Philadelphia Tribune
Allen Iverson is preparing to officially announce his retirement from the NBA soon according to a SLAM Web report. Iverson hasn't played an NBA game since 2010 when he played for the Philadelphia 76ers. In 2011, he played professional basketball in Turkey.
Iverson, 38, played 13 seasons in the NBA. He averaged 26.7 points a game for his career during the regular season. In the playoffs, he tallied 29.7 points a game. Interviewed at a Sixers' game on March 30, Iverson told SLAM, "My No. 1 goal is trying to accomplish to be the best dad that I can. And if basketball is in my near future, then God will make that happen. But if not, I had a great ride and I've done a lot of special things that a lot of guys have not been able to accomplish and people thought I couldn 't accomplish."
Iverson played six years (1997-2003) for head coach Larry Brown with the Philadelphia 76ers, who now coaches SMU. Brown has vivid memories of coaching one of the NBA's most explosive players.
"He might be the greatest athlete I've ever seen," Brown told SLAM. "I don't think there will be another one like him."
Iverson was a tremendous scholastic basketball and football player at Bethel High School in Hampton, Va. He played his college basketball at Georgetown University from 1994 to 1996. The 6-foot, 165-pound shooting guard, was chosen by the Sixers with No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft. He was selected the NBA Rookie of the Year during the 1996-97 season. Iverson was named Most Valuable Player during the 2000-2001 season. That year, he led the Sixers to the NBA Finals.
He won four league scoring crowns. Iverson was selected to 11 NBA All-Star Games. He won the MVP honors in the 2001 NBA All-Star Game as well as 2005. He played for the Sixers from 1996 to 2006.
In 2006, he was traded to the Denver Nuggets. He played two seasons for the Nuggets. In 2008, he was traded to the Detroit Pistons where he played for one season. In 2009, he signed with the Memphis Grizzlies. That same year, the Sixers re-acquired him.
According to SLAM, Iverson will be eligible for enshrinement into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.


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First, some background: Bob Andelman, in the biography Will Eisner: A Spirited Life, describes the scene where, in 1978, Will Eisner tried to pitch his book, A Contract with God, to Bantam Books.
Eisner called up Oscar Dystel, then president of Bantam Books, and pitched the concept. Dystel not only knew Eisner but was said to be a fan of his work on The Spirit. Dystel remembered him, but he was a busy man, as publishers usually are, and he was impatient. He wanted to know what it was that Eisner had, exactly. Eisner looked down at the dummy, and an instinct told him, Don't tell Dystel it's a comic book or he will hang up on you.
So Eisner thought for a moment, and said, "It's a graphic novel."
"Oh," Dystel said, "that sounds interesting; I've never heard of that before." (290)
As the story goes, Dystel ended up rejecting the work once he saw it and determined that it was a comic book. But this story, repeated frequently by Eisner and his biographers (Michael Schumacher repeats it on pages 200-01 of his recent biography, Will Eisner: A Dreamer's Life in Comics), is cited as the point, in a fit of sudden and desperate inspiration, where Eisner first came up with the term "graphic novel" to describe A Contract with God.
It is now fairly common knowledge that Eisner neither invented the term itself nor the form that we call a "graphic novel," but it is fair to say that he popularized the term when he later used it to promote the book upon publication from Baronet Books in 1978, and, for better or worse, the term has stuck.
However, for some time after, Eisner was credited as the "inventor" of the graphic novel and the first to use the term. Even as late as 2003, Stephen Weiner wrote in Faster than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel,
"The first modern 'graphic novel' was written and illustrated by veteran cartoonist Will Eisner, who coined the term while trying to persuade the editors at Bantam Books to publish the book-length comic book" (17).
There are, of course, a few contentious points in this statement, leaving aside the point that A Contract with God is a series of short stories, rather than a novel per se. First, it is well known that Eisner did not "coin" the term. In North America, the term "graphic novel" has been traced back to fanzine writer Richard Kyle, who first used it in November 1964, and the term later appears on the dust jacket of George Metzger's 1976 work, Beyond Time and Again, as well as Richard Corben's Bloodstar and Jim Steranko's Chandler that same year.
Also, several earlier works that could now be described as "graphic novels" precede the publication of A Contract with God in North America, in addition to the ones mentioned above, and, therefore, make it difficult for one to call that work "the first modern 'graphic novel.'" This is by no means an inclusive list, but Gil Kane and Archie Goodwin's His Name Is … Savage (1968) and Blackmark (1971) and Arnold Drake, Leslie Waller, Ray Orsin, and Matt Baker's It Rhymes with Lust (1950) all fit most formal definitions of "graphic novel," and those alone are enough to call into question the statement that Eisner's was the first modern one. However, such claims persisted even beyond the point that comics historians had proved them wrong.
Later in life, Eisner did admit that he was not the first to come up with the term, as Schumacher quotes:
"I thought I had invented the term," Eisner admitted, "but I discovered later that some guy [probably Kyle] thought about it a few years before I used the term. He had never used it successfully and had never intended it in the way I did, which was to develop what I believe was viable literature in this medium" (201).
And this has become the accepted story of how Eisner arrived at the term independently, and how he managed to begin popularizing it around 1978, with the publication of A Contract with God. Yet no one has found a connection between these earlier uses of the term "graphic novel" and Eisner's own use of the term.
At the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, I read through Eisner's surviving letters, including business correspondences and fan mail from around 1963 to the late 70s and early 80s, mainly doing research on my larger project on race and comics. About 90% of the fan mail consists of requests for sketches and original art, accompanied by Eisner's polite refusal (most of the time-he did provide sketches and prints on some special occasions). Therefore, while there was a high volume of fan mail during this period, much of it was very easy to move through quickly.
One of the qualities that struck me in Eisner's correspondences, though, was how generous, encouraging, and detailed he was in the critiques he provided to up-and-coming comics pros who sent their early work to him.
One such pro was Jack Katz (often cited as the creator of one of the precursors to the graphic novel) who began a correspondence with Eisner in August 1974, with the inclusion the first book of Katz's epic fantasy series The First Kingdom. In his introductory letter, dated Aug. 7, 1974, Katz writes,
Here is the first book of a series of 24 books which it will take to complete the epic. … What I am starting is a graphic novel in which every incident is illustrated.
Katz goes on to explain the plot and themes of the entire epic at length, and he thanks Eisner for his continuing inspiration.
On August 26, 1974, Eisner responds in his typical polite and encouraging fashion:
My compliments to you on an imaginative piece of work. There is strength, drama and great picture value.
I'm particularly impressed with the enormity of your undertaking. It is efforts like this that move the standards of our art form upward. (The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, The Will Eisner Collection, Box WEE1, Folder 22)
The correspondence between Eisner and Katz went on for many years, at least to the end of the Eisner letters that OSU has collected, which is about 1978. In all, exchanges survive through January of 1978, in which Katz sends Eisner book 7 of The First Kingdom. Throughout these exchanges, Eisner is detailed in his praise and critiques of Katz's work, citing in particular the improvement of Katz's inking skills from the first book on, and continued recommendations for Katz to work on integrating images and text better (anyone who has ever read The First Kingdom will know that this is sound advice). Eisner, in fact, frequently refers back to earlier letters to note this progress, and he often cites how Katz's project renews his faith in the progress of the comics form. Notably, it is during the latter part of these correspondences that Eisner is generating the idea for and composing his first graphic novel, A Contract with God.
Now, I want to resist speculating too hard on what all this really means, but it is safe to say, at least, that Eisner was introduced to the term "graphic novel" by Jack Katz in 1974, and Eisner exhibited a clear memory of their exchanges over the course of four years, up to the composition of A Contract with God. Some kind of cross-pollination between Eisner and Katz is likely here.
Beyond that, what can we say? Did Eisner recall that first letter from Katz while under pressure to come up with some descriptive term for Bantam? Or did the term just float through his transom at that point in 1974, only to emerge on its own again in 1978 with no connection to its past use? We probably won't find answers to those questions, but the latter may be the most likely scenario. I would hesitate to conclude that Eisner's use of the term and subsequent failure to credit Katz with introducing him to it constitute some kind of willful omission on Eisner's part (though, as Ken Quattro's recent discovery reveals, Eisner was prone to a kind of historical revisionism that tended to place him in a better light than the historical evidence would otherwise prove).
But what remains is still useful: we now know Eisner's earliest known exposure to the term "graphic novel," which at least provides an addendum to the oft-repeated story of how he came to use the term to describe A Contract with God. And, therefore, the accepted wisdom of that story needs to be revised.
Works Cited
Andelman, Bob. Will Eisner: A Spirited Life. Milwaukie: M Press, 2005. Print.
Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, The. The Will Eisner Collection.
Schumacher, Michael. Will Eisner: A Dreamer's Life in Comics. New York: Bloomsbury, 2010. Print.
Weiner, Stephen. Faster than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel. New York: NBM, 2003. Print.


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Pudd'nhead Wilson is an 1894 novel by Mark Twain. Its central intrigue revolves around two boys—one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys, who look similar, are switched at infancy. Each grows into the other's social role.
[edit]- There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.
- A Whisper To The Reader.
- Tell the truth or trump — but get the trick.
- Ch. 1.
- "I wish I owned half of that dog."
"Why?" somebody asked.
"Because I would kill my half."
The group searched his face with curiosity, with anxiety even, but found no light there, no expression that they could read. They fell away from him as from something uncanny, and went into privacy to discuss him. One said:
"'Pears to be a fool."
"'Pears?" said another. "Is, I reckon you better say."
"Said he wished he owned half of the dog, the idiot," said a third. "What did he reckon would become of the other half if he killed his half? Do you reckon he thought it would live?"- Ch. 1.
- Adam was but human — this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
- Ch. 2.
- Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
- Ch. 3.
- Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.
- Ch. 4.
- There is this trouble about special providences-namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.
- Ch. 4.
- Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Ch. 5.
- Remark of Dr. Baldwin's, concerning upstarts: We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.
- Ch. 5.
- Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Ch. 6.
- Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
- Ch. 6.
- One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- Ch. 7.
- The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
- Ch. 8.
- Consider well the proportions of things. It is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.
- Ch. 8.
- Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
- Ch. 9.
- It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
- Ch. 9.
- All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
- Ch. 10.
- When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
- Ch. 10.
- There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1 — to tell him you have read one of his books; 2 — to tell him you have read all of his books; 3 — to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart.
- Ch. 11.
- As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
- Ch. 11.
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!-incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who "didn't know what fear was," we ought always to add the flea-and put him at the head of the procession.
- Ch. 12.
- When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
- Ch. 13.
- October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
- Ch. 13.
- The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world's luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.
- Ch. 14.
- Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Ch. 15.
- Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET".
- Ch. 15.
- If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Ch. 16.
- We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.
- Ch. 16.
- Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo dies; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.
- Ch. 17.
- July 4 Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
- Ch. 17.
- Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.
- Ch. 18.
- Thanksgiving Day. Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys; they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.
- Ch. 18.
- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Ch. 19.
- It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
- Ch. 19.
- Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman: if you have witness, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say she did it with her teeth.
- Ch. 20.
- He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
- Ch. 21.
- April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.


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Dear Jeremy,
You asked me to take over writing about the rest of our trip. I hope it's ok that I'm doing it in letters. I'm just kind of in the mood.
Your honey
P.S. You need to get that Harley out of your sweet little head.
Dear Teresa,
When we came into your store to get the alterations done for Graci's dress, Grace couldn't keep her eyes off the sparkling tiaras. You must have noticed because you brought Graci one that had been slightly broken and told her that we could take it to a jeweler to get fixed and she could have it! I thought it was so sweet of you, but didn't realize until later that it was a $250 tiara! WOW. That was so extremely generous of you. You should know that when we took it to get fixed and they heard Graci's story that they did it for free. People are so good. I also want you to know that Graci LOVED wearing it, and it set off her dress perfectly. The night that she wore it to dinner, I heard more than one little girl exclaim, "Look, it's another princess!"
A grateful mom
Dear Snow White,
We are convinced you are the real thing! Your voice, your charm, your mannerisms—you were perfect! And we found it very "princessy" that you would take time to visit the kid's club and teach the children to do-si-do. Jessica especially loved that. And you are now Xander's #1 top favorite princess—pretty cool!
A family who adores you
Dear Tiana,
You are my Graci's new favorite princess. Thank you for taking so much time to talk to her. Thank-you for remembering her each time she came back to see you. You will be happy to know that she now has a porcelin replica of you sitting on her dresser (from her sweet Daddy). (:
Someone who needs to go out and see your movie
Dear Cinderella,
I am so sorry that Xander experienced stage fright and couldn't make himself get down on one knee. It would have been a perfect photo-op, but I still think the one we got was pretty darn cute.
The mother of a prince
Dear Belle,
You are beautiful! We loved hearing you sing in the musical. I want your dress.
A princess wannabe
Dear Nassau,
I would love to spend a week getting to know you a bit better. As it is, I fell in love with your charm and beauty. Loved your people. Loved your beaches. Didn't love your heat and humidity. (Just look what happened when we pulled the camera out of the bag!) I definitely want to visit you again, but next time I'll try to come when it's a bit cooler.
A fan
Dear Atlantis Aquarium,
Thank-you for giving us a discount upon finding out we were a Make-a-Wish family! We LOVED visiting you! We were fascinated with the variety of fish and sea creatures on display. We will definitely send friends and family your way!
A happy family
Dear Sawtooth shark,
I can't decide if I think you are beautiful or one of the ugliest creatures ever. You fascinated me and my children. Are you for real?
Can't decide if I'm a fan
Dear readers,
You are about to see approximately 5,000 pictures of us parasailing. Just so you know, it was every bit as cool as it looks. You should definitely include it on your list of things to do someday. It only cost (gulp) $420 for the seven of us to go. Thank-you, Make-a-Wish, for giving us an allowance that allowed us to do it! This will go down as one of our favorite family memories ever. We absolutely loved every second of it.
The newest parasailing fans!
Dear Toy Story, The Musical,
WOW, WOW, WOW! We were in AWE the entire show! The costumes, the special effects, the music—it was every bit on par with Broadway. Jeremy and I kept exchanging looks of amazement throughout the production and our kids were riveted. I am uber-impressed!
A girl in love
Dear Alex,
I think you are my favorite person from the trip. I don't know that I have ever met a sweeter and more humble man. Your smile and gracious ways just made our day. Thank you for cleaning up all of our messes each day, preparing our beds each night, leaving us fun "animals" and chocolates. and for being attentive to our every need. We both so wish we had taken a picture with you.
Jeremy and Christianne
Dear Disney,
WE LOVE YOU! We love everything Disney! You plan out everything to the very last detail and somehow manage to make every minute magical. You are the best ever!
A Disney family
Dear Castaway Cay,
You are paradise! What other place on earth can you snorkel, ride bikes, eat all the food you want, go on waterslides into the ocean, have a dance party with Stitch, and leave the little ones to play in their own private "club" making sandcastles and going on treasure hunts while you enjoy relaxing on a beautiful beach?
A girl who could go there every day
(Again, what the humidity does to the camera!)
Dear Colin,
Thank you for everything you did to make Graci feel special throughout the cruise. From the plates of treats left on her pillow to the special notes on her door each day to arranging a special "party" just for Make-a-Wish families to meet with Captain Mickey, to giving us snorkel and tube equipment for FREE, you went above and beyond in making our wish girl feel special.
Two grateful parents
Dear cast and crew of "Dreams,"
This was one of the most amazing productions ever. We loved every single second. You had both of us in tears thinking of our Graci's dream coming true and also of all the children out there who aren't as fortunate. The show was fantastic on every level. I just wish that every child in the world was able to be there.
Parents of kids who love to dream
Dear Violeta and Andy,
You were the best. Thank-you for paying attention to every detail and making each of us feel special and important. We loved your magic tricks and your accents and the way you didn't even blink when Taylor would order THREE entrees at once. You were super cool.
Table 28
Dear Pirate Deck Party,
I'm not sure why you kept zoning in on OUR children and OUR family and putting our images up on the big screen, but it sure made the kids happy!! They loved watching themselves dance and smile and they loved seeing all of the characters in their pirate gear. We also thought it pretty sweet that you served another ENTIRE dinner just three hours after eating our FIRST dinner. Awesome. Jeremy was especially thrilled to find turkey legs (his favorite part about Disneyland) and I loved the warm crepes with ice-cream and topping—yummy! You put on a great party!
The fam
Dear Jesi and Xander,
You were SO MUCH FUN to have on this trip! I loved watching the wonder in your eyes as you saw and experienced things for the first time. I loved that you dared to go parasailing, I loved watching you in the ocean, I loved seeing your faces as you met your favorite characters, I loved the looks on your faces when we said "yes" to almost anything you wanted to do or see or eat! I loved that you were confident enough to walk into the kids club and not look back, and I loved spying on you and watching you enjoy the amazing activities they had planned for you. I love that you are such dear friends. I love YOU!
Dear Parker and Taylor,
I LOVED watching you enjoy your independence throughout the cruise. From watching movies on the main deck while enjoying the swimming pool to having fun at the arcades to playing in the oceaneer lab to ordering room service after midnight—you two really played it up! I am glad that we are able to trust you and that you had so much fun making your own decisions about what to do and where to hang out. I hope you thoroughly enjoyed not having a curfew for a few days, because it will be awhile before that happens again! I'm so glad you are such good friends and made so many great memories together.
Dear Deck 4,
Because of you, we discovered a new family favorite-- shuffleboard! I am now convinced that if we ever are able to build a new home, it must have a long enough deck to accommodate this game! We loved the views as we played and we loved staring off at the beautiful sunsets. We're so glad not many families discovered your charm!
the Greens
Dear self,
In the future, try not to get in any pictures right after you have gone swimming. Unless you remember to wear waterproof mascara. Also, just because all of the food was free didn't mean you needed to eat all of it.
The voice of reason
Dear cruise packages everywhere,
Don't you feel just a bit like you're cheating when you call it a "five day cruise" but require that everyone be off the ship by 9:00 a.m. on the fifth "day?" I'm just sayin'…
A girl who didn't want to leave
Dear Gatorland,
When we found ourselves at the airport with several hours to spare before our flight home, we decided to pay you a visit. We were thrilled upon arriving to find that Make-a-Wish families get in free. Thank-you!! Just thinking about you now makes me smile. You were a cross between a small-town county fair (minus the rides) and a zoo (minus almost all of the animals). We loved watching the alligators "jump" for food. We loved seeing the white alligators and found them quite beautiful. We loved people watching. We loved the rootbeer floats. We loved leaving. (Did I just say that?)
Gator fans
P.S. To be fair, I think we would have loved leaving less if it hadn't felt like 110 degrees outside and if we wouldn't have been exhausted from the few hours of sleep we had gotten on the last night of the cruise. And I think everyone should have the chance to visit Gatorland. Once.
Dear Gator wrestler,
You are OUT OF YOUR MIND.
Someone who tries to stay away from large teeth
Dear Mom and Dad,
Words can never express our gratitude for your willingness to watch Elli. Though we missed her, we were soooooooo glad that we didn't bring her along. She would not have enjoyed the cruise, and we would have enjoyed it 1,000 x less if she had been there. You are amazing and we love you!
All of us
Dear Kent and Terri,
How sweet of you to be there with a sign to welcome us home at the airport! We had no idea that you would be there, but should have—knowing how thoughtful you have been through this whole process. Once again, thank-you for EVERYTHING. It truly was magic. We are so so grateful.
Our family
Dear Graci,
Oh how I love you! I hope that the Disney Cruise was everything you ever dreamed of. I loved watching you throughout the trip. I loved watching you with the princesses, and I hope you know that you are the prettiest one of all! I loved seeing your face each time something special happened just for you. I loved that you were so enamoured with the characters and that you would spend so much of your time taking pictures with them. I loved giving you the freedom to do almost anything you wanted over the course of the cruise. I loved shopping with you. I loved seeing your fuzzy pants and sandals under your "poofy dress" as you walked down the stairs. I love you so much, my sweet Graci. I am so grateful for the memories you have made and for the magic you experienced. I hope you will always remember that it is because YOU ARE LOVED by so many people.
And finally, Dear Elli,
It was SO GOOD to see you again!!
Friday, August 20, 2010
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Why isn't studying the history of philosophy like a visit to a museum of outmoded ideas? The history of early science doesn't usually inform contemporary science? Why is philosophy so different in this respect? Adrian Moore, author of a new book on the history of philosophy, The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics, explores these ideas in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.
Listen to Adrian Moore on Philosophy and Its History
Listen to an earlier Philosophy Bites interview with Adrian Moore on Kant's Metaphysics
Listen to an earlier Philosophy Bites interview with Adrian Moore on Infinity
Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy
NB Nigel Warburton, Julian Baggini, and Natalie Haynes will be discussing the question 'Why Isn't Old Philosophy Just History?' at the Watershed, Bristol on 13th May at 4pm as part of the Festival of Ideas. Further details and booking information for this event here.


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Cooper Quintin is a security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the EFF Threat Lab. and board member of Open Archive. He has worked on projects including Privacy Badger, Canary Watch, and analysis of state sponsored malware campaigns such as Dark Caracal. Cooper has given talks about security research at prestigious security conferences including Black Hat, DEFCON, Enigma Conference, and ReCon about issues ranging from IMSI Catcher detection to fem tech privacy issues to newly discovered APTs. He has also been published or quoted in publications including: The New York Times, Reuters, NPR, CNN, and Al Jazeera. Cooper has given security trainings for activists, non profit workers, and vulnerable populations around the world. He previously worked building websites for nonprofits, including Greenpeace, Adbusters, and the Chelsea Manning Support Network. Cooper was also an editor and contributor to the hacktivist journal, "Hack this Zine." In his spare time he enjoys making music, visualizing a solar-punk communitarian future, and playing with his kids.


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For Story Development |
By Melanie Anne Phillips
Creator, StoryWeaver | Co-
Some time ago I described the difference between the two basic forms of story structure with the following phrase:
You spin a tale, but you weave a story.
The common expression "spinning a yarn" conjures up the image of a craftsperson pulling together a fluffy pile into a single unbroken thread. An appropriate analogy for the process of telling a tale. A tale is a simple, linear progression – a series of events and emotional experiences that leads from point A to point B, makes sense along the way, and leaves no gaps.
A tale is, perhaps, the simplest form of storytelling structure. The keyword here is "structure." Certainly, if one is not concerned with structure, one can still relate a conglomeration of intermingled scenarios, each with its own meaning and emotional impact. Many power works of this ilk are considered classics, especially as novels or experimental films.
Nonetheless, if one wants to make a point, you need to create a line that leads from one point to another. A tale, then, is a throughline, leading from the point of departure to the destination on a single path.
A story, on the other hand, is a more complex form of structure. Essentially, a number of different throughlines are layered, one upon another, much as a craftsperson might weave a tapestry. Each individual thread is a tale that is spun, making it complete, unbroken, and possessing its own sequence. But collectively, the linear pattern of colors in all the throughlines form a single, overall pattern in the tapestry, much as the scanning lines on a television come together to create the image of a single frame.
In story structure, then, the sequence of events in each individual throughline cannot be random, but must be designed to do double-
You won't find the word, "throughline" in the dictionary. In fact, as I type this in my word processor, it lists the word as misspelled. Chris Huntley and I applied the word when we developed the concept as part of our work creating the Dramatica theory (and software). Since then, we have found it quite the useful moniker to describe an essential component of story structure.
Throughlines then, are any elements of a story that have their own beginnings, middles, and ends. For example, every character's growth has its own throughline. Typically, this is referred to as a character arc, especially when in reference to the main character. But an "arc" has nothing to do with the growth of a character. Rather, each character's emotional journey is a personal tale that describe his or her feelings at the beginning of the story, at every key juncture, and at the final reckoning.
Some characters may come to change their natures, others may grow in their resolve. But their mood swings, attitudes, and outlook must follow an unbroken path that is consistent with a series of emotions that a real human being might experience. For example, a person will not instantly snap from a deep depression into joyous elation without some intervening impact, be it unexpected news, a personal epiphany, or even the ingestion of great quantities of chocolate. In short, each character throughline must be true to itself, and also must take into consideration the effect of outside influences.
Now that we know what a throughline is, how can we use it? Well, right off the bat, it helps us break even the most complex story structures down into a collection of much simpler elements. Using the throughline concept, we can far more easily create a story structure, and can also ensure that every element is complete and that our story has no gaps or inconsistencies.
Before the throughline concept, writers traditionally would haul out the old index cards (or their equivalent) and try to create a single sequential progression for their stories from Act I, Scene I to the climax and final denouement.
An unfortunate byproduct of this "single throughline" approach is that it tended to make stories far more simplistic than they actually needed to be since the author would think of the sequential structure as being essentially a simple tale, rather than a layered story.
In addition, by separating the throughlines it is far easier to see if there are any gaps in the chain. Using a single thread approach to a story runs the risk of having a powerful event in one throughline carry enough dramatic weight to pull the story along, masking missing pieces in other throughlines that never get filled. This, in fact, is part of what makes some stories seem disconnected from the real world, trite, or melodramatic.
By using throughlines it is far easier to create complex themes and layered messages. Many authors think of stories as having only one theme (if that). A theme is just a comparison between two human qualities to see which is better in the given situations of the story.
For example, a story might wish to deal with greed. But, greed by itself is just a topic. It doesn't become a theme until you weigh it against its counterpoint, generosity, and then "prove" which is the better quality of spirit to possess by showing how they each fare over the course of the story. One story's message might be that generosity is better, but another story might wish to put forth that in a particular circumstance, greed is actually better.
By seeing the exploration of greed as one throughline and the exploration of generosity as another, each can be presented in its own progression. In so doing, the author avoids directly comparing one to the other (as this leads to a ham-
Plot, too, is assisted by multiple throughlines. Subplots are often hard to create and hard to follow. By dealing with each independently and side by side, you can easily see how they interrelate and can spot and holes or inconsistencies.
Subplots usually revolve around different characters. By placing a character's growth throughline alongside his or her subplot throughline, you can make sure their mental state is always reflective of their inner state, and that they are never called upon to act in a way that is inconsistent with their mood or attitude at the time.
There are many other advantages to the use of throughlines as well. So many, that the Dramatica theory (and software) incorporate throughlines into the whole approach. Years later, when I developed StoryWeaver at my own company, throughlines became an integral part of the step-
How do you begin to use throughlines for your stories? The first step is to get yourself some index cards, either 3x5 or 5x7. As you develop your story, rather than simply lining them all up in order, you take each sequential element of your story and create its own independent series of cards showing every step along the way.
Identify each separate kind of throughline with a different color. For example, you could make character-
Then, identify each throughline within a group by its own mark, such as the character's name, or some catch-
Once you get started, its easy to see the value of the throughline approach, and just as easy to come up with all kinds of uses for it.


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I am Yi Lv, living in Hangzhou, China. Lv, my surname, is probably hard to pronounce, as in fact, the correct Pinyin is Lü. So, pronounce as Lü and write as Lv:).
From late 2005, while working in Nokia Networks, I started to get acquainted with agile software development, in particular, Scrum. That turned out to be my first experience of LeSS adoption. Bas and Craig were both much involved in it, and I had learned greatly from them. I led a department inside that product organization and focused on developing teams and Scrum Masters to create sustainability. During the year of 2008, I also became the first Certified Scrum Trainer from China. I left Nokia Networks in late 2010 and joined Odd-e till now.
As a coach at Odd-e, I also worked in other industries such as Internet companies. My focus has been on large-scale product development, especially helping organizations benefit from LeSS and/or its adoption. One of those experiences has been documented as a LeSS case study, Huawei - LeSS without Scrum.
I have been learning and practicing systems thinking since 2009, after attending a workshop by Jean Tabaka and Bill Wake in Agile 2009 conference. Over the past couple of years, I wrote a series of blogs to help see system dynamics in organizational design and change. In China, I also initiated a great community group working together to "bring systems thinking to more people" since a year ago.
Why promoting systems thinking as a LeSS trainer and coach? I explained this in my view of LeSS. In short, I believe that LeSS opens up the stairway to a learning organization in the field of product development. I welcome you to be part of it.


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The Green Parking Council has presented the Pioneer Award to ABB's Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure team due to their work mobility innovation, and has also been honored by the Sustainable Parking Association.
The Green Parking Council (GPC) has awarded the 2013 Pioneer Award for Sustainability to Cal Lankton, director of ABB's EV Charging Infrastructure for ABB's North American operations.
"We applaud and recognize Cal for his commitment to GPC as a founding partner as we strive to transform the face of the parking industry," explained the GPC's Executive Director, Paul Wessel. "ABB's accomplishments serve as a role model for deploying sustainable initiatives and sound corporate citizenship within the parking industry."
The GPC 2013 Pioneer Award for Sustainability honors leaders of the parking industry's transition to an environmentally-conscious business model.
GPC Sustainability Pioneers are distinguished by a commitment to sustainability that transcends the walls of their organization and contributes to industry-wide transformation. These "agents of change" in the pursuit of parking, planet and profit are leveraging innovative business practices, accelerating the adoption of high-performance technologies and embracing open-source collaboration.
"I'm honored to be recognized by the Green Parking Council," said Lankton. "This award can be shared by everyone at ABB who is working toward sustainable mobility: from the EV team deploying charging infrastructure, to our cross-divisional work supporting a smarter grid."
This free educational webinar will provide a detailed process for climate-driven "pre-response" in a variety of key areas including: Supply Chain Disruptions, Employee Safety and Productivity, Regulatory and Compliance Risks …and many more areas.


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By John Haffert - PB - 176 pages
Saint Nuño of Portugal: The Founder of the Braganza Dynasty and Father of Modern Portugal was Beatified by Pope Benedict XV in 1918 and Canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.
Don Nuño Alvarez Perreira went to war, in defense of his country. He fought, he killed, and he received many decorations. He was wounded, but he was "lucky" enough to come home.
Five hundred years after he fought his battles, the Blessed Virgin made what was perhaps her most spectacular appearance on earth—her appearance on October 13, 1917, at Fatima, on the very ground on which Nuño fought, and holding in her hands the very symbols under which Nuño led his troops in that place, five hundred years before.
This amazing Nuño—Our Lady's Knight—led a life bridging centuries, stranger than fiction, fraught with the mystery of war and evil, gold-touched by the sun of the promise made in 1917 by Our Lady at Fatima: "In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph and there will be peace."
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Thirteen Years
Chapter Two: Reality Shattered
Chapter Three: Sir Galahad
Chapter Four: Leonora and Andeiro
Chapter Five: Nuno's Sword
Chapter Six: Revolution
Chapter Seven: Leader of Portugal's Army
Chapter Eight: Count of Ourem
Chapter Nine: To Our Lady
of the Scapular and of the Rosary
Chapter Ten: Trial
Chapter Eleven: The Carmelite
Chapter Twelve: Behold Thy Mother
Chapter Thirteen: Nuno's Temple Falls
Chapter Fourteen: Nuno in World War I
Chapter Fifteen: Russia Will be Converted
and There Will be Peace
Long before world War II, when he was a student in Rome, the Very Reverend Gabriel N. Pausback, since become Assistant General in his venerable Order of Carmelites, translated Eliseo Battalia's biography of Blessed Nuno, based on the famous Portuguese work by Oliveria.
During the years that followed, Blessed Nuno's life and message came to have international appeal and significance. Portugal remained neutral through the great war that Our Lady foretold at Fatima. Interest in Portugal, in Blessed Nuno, and especially in the 1917 apparitions at Fatima, grew apace. So Father Gabriel pored over his translation, added to it, asked many persons to read and comment on it, and prayed to Blessed Nuno that it would one day be of some use. Finally, just before departing on a special mission to Australia, in 1943, he left the material for this book. Later he went to Portugal, where he now labors on the last steps to Nuno's canonization.
We have adhered very much to the original, and the very style sometimes betrays it. We have preferred not to elaborate much on the known facts because once the reader has plunged into the book the facts hold their own allure.
However, there is so much that the imagination can legitimately create—about the person of Nuno, about his colorful parents, about all the persons that move through the page from Cleopatra-like Leonora Telles to the gentle Lady Irene—that the reader will gain so much more from the book as he lets his fancy run with it. It bears the buds of high spiritual as well as material adventure.
We pray that the Holy Constable, the Saint in Uniform, the Peacemaker who went to War, the Precursor of Fatima with his panacea of Rosary and Scapular, will persuade the reader in the words of His Lady at Fatima: "Have courage, there will be peace!"
—John M. Haffert.
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We have all been there; you need to take a look at the data inside a file. Sure you can open it in Notepad if it is under 20-30MB, bigger than that and you may run into problems depending on the computer. Sometime WordPad will handle the larger files, again up to about 60MB is where I tend to run out of luck. So what happens if the file is a hundred MB? 200 MB? How about 1 GB?
I've recently been working on a PDW and it isn't uncommon to see files that are many GB in size that need to be loaded into the database. There is no way to view the contents of a file that size. What's worse is when you need to view the contents of the file because of an error. There is no way to load it into a database and look at it if the file has problems. Luckily PowerShell can help in this case using the cmdlet Get-Content.
To use this handy feature fire up PowerShell and let's take a look at the contents of a text file. Here we will look at an export of the Adventure Works Production.ProductModel table.
(You can export the table by running the following at the command prompt assuming you have a local instance with Windows Authentication: BCP AdventureWorks.Production.ProductModel OUT C:\ProductModel.txt -S localhost -T -c)
At the prompt type Get-Content C:\ProductModel.txt (Get-Content FullFilePath)
The results will show the entire file scrolling by on the screen until the end is reached:
Now for the perfect use case; I have a file on my computer that is just over a gig in size; the export of the Contoso Fact Online Sales table containing about 12 million records. This file will never open in Notepad. It also isn't useful to have the entire file stream through a PowerShell window (it's probably not useful on the previous file either honestly). In most cases we just need to take a quick look at the data to see what we are dealing with. The Get-Content cmdlet can be extended to bring in only a subset of the data.
This time at the prompt type Get-Content C:\FactOnlineSales.txt -totalcount 5
This will bring back the first 5 records from the file. A perfect way to preview the file without needing to open something that is potentially gigs in size. Check out below for some cool functions and samples using the ProductModel file we just created above.
Bring back the first x rows of the file: Get-Content FilePath -TotalCount X
Example: Get-Content C:\ProductModel.txt -TotalCount 5
Bring back the last x rows of the file: Get-Content FilePath |Select-Object -Last X
Example: Get-Content C:\ProductModel.txt | Select-Object -Last 5
Some file statistics: Get-Content FilePath | Measure-Object
Example: Get-Content C:\ProductModel.txt | Measure-Object