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Earrings with Czech glass domes
* Each component (beads, charms, spacers, findings, etc) has been made in Europe, by specialised craftsmen, and all the jewellery is assembled by hand by me.
** All the jewellery is lead free, nickel free and cadmium free.
*** Please note that the glass beads can display some irregularities. There are not defects at all. At the contrary, these irregularities add some charm to the jewellery, making it truly unique! And don't forget the pictures are made with a macro lens : it means that if you see some little "defects" on the photos, you won't see them "for real" with your eyes.
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Our only excursion during our week in Corfu was a day trip to Corfu town. It is a pleasant place to stroll around, and we ended up at the Old Fortress, with magnificent views of the town and surroundings. This is a UNESCO World Heritage site, with a lot of history if you want to look into it.
Signs pointed the way to a café, where I was pleasantly surprised by the beer list. Almost fifty beers, lots of Belgian and German imports. The standard Greek pale lagers, but also a good selection of Greek micro beers, including smoked lager and a dunkel from the Craft brewery in Athens and the whole range from the Corfu brewery.
I had the smoked lager from Craft. A fine hoppy lager with a little campfire added. Cereals, long dry finish. And a small glass of the Corfu lager, which was not quite in the same league, but it did its job nicely on a hot day.
Note that this bar/café/restaurant is inside the fortress, which is a museum with limited opening hours.


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I am looking for any information on Thomas Livingstone born 1884 P.E.I. married a Barbara I have info on the rest of the family did they stay in P.E.I. or where
parents were Sanuel Livingstone 1852-1941 and Mary Catherine [Horton] livingstone 1859-1933
siblings were :john Samuel 1878
George 1880
Flora isabel 1882
Joseph Henry 1886-1973 my grandfather
mary Jane 1889
Myra 1899


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On his ThisLab blog, Fred Wu has posted some quick benchmarks comparing some of the popular frameworks out there - Ruby on Rails/Passenger versus CodeIgniter/Kohana.
Last few days I have been playing with Ruby and Rails, again. Today, when someone was asking on a forum about the efficiency of web frameworks, I thought I'd give the few frameworks I work with some more benchmark testing.
His benchmarking is based on basic "Hello World" page requests for each of the frameworks. His results were interesting with CodeIgniter coming out with the fewest number of requests responded to (per second) and Rails coming out on top by a margin of about eighty or ninety over CodeIgniter/Kohana.


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Title 15
290.7 Proposal selection process.§ 290.7 Proposal selection process.
Upon the availability of funding to establish Regional Centers, the Director shall publish a notice in the Federal Register requesting submission of proposals from interested organizations. Appliclants will be given an established time frame, not less than 60 days from the publication date of the notice, to prepare and submit a proposal. The proposal evaluation and selection process will consist of four principal phases: Proposal qualification; Proposal review and selection of finalists; Finalist site visits; and, Award determination. Further descriptions of these phases are provided in the following:
(a) Proposal qualification. All proposals will be reviewed by NIST to assure compliance with § 290.5 of these procedures. Proposals which satisfy these requirements will be designated qualified proposals; all others will be disqualified at this phase of the evaluation and selection process.
(b) Proposal review and selection of finalists. The Director of NIST will appoint an evaluation panel to review and evaluate all qualified proposals in accordance with the criteria set forth in section 290.6 of these procedures, assigning equal weight to each of the four categories. From the qualified proposals, a group of finalists will be selected based on this review.
(c) Finalist site visits. NIST representatives will visit each finalist organization. Finalists will be reviewed and assigned numeric scores using the criteria set forth in § 290.6 of these procedures assigning equal weight to each of the four categories. NIST may enter into negotiations with the finalists concerning any aspect of their proposal.
(d) Award determination. The Director of NIST or his designee shall select awardees for Center Operating Awards based upon the rank order of applicants, the need to assure appropriate regional distribution, and the availability of funds. Upon the final award decision, a notification will be made to each of the proposing organizations.


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Flint & Genesee County
See what's possible in Flint and Genesee. There are diverse attractions, beautiful parks, and lots of neighborhoods to explore. Whether you're staying for one night or for a weekend, you will not be bored. There is a lot to see and do in Flint and Genesee. Take a look, you'll be pleasantly surprised by what you see.


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Jersey Shore peninsula reawakens 10 weeks after Sandy
- Toms River peninsula area was among the hardest hit by the October hurricane
- Less than 30 households returned to stay Monday night
- 7,000 homes were damaged or destroyed
TOMS RIVER, N.J. — Luxury on the peninsula portion of this Jersey Shore city devastated by Hurricane Sandy is defined in simple terms for the handful of residents who ventured back to live in their homes for the first time in 10 weeks Monday night.
For Candace and Don Popaca, who are the only homeowners to move back to their house in the Normandy Beach section of town, it means having neighbors return so their houses will light up an otherwise dark street.
For Joy and Joe Romeo, it means having cable, so the college Bowl Championship final game can be on as background noise while they unpacked boxes of their belongings.
And for Bryan Boyle and his girlfriend, Maria Fox, it means a 30-pack of Coors Light to entertain them and their friends as they fix up his family's house in the Ocean Beach section.
This area was among those hardest hit by the October storm that blasted the East Coast, killing more than 100 people and causing an estimated $65 billion in damage.
Less than 30 households returned to stay Monday night after the city opened the peninsula to residents who had electricity, gas and water. Homeowners had been allowed to return home during the day for the last two months, but had to leave by sundown.
Residents will return home gradually, says Police Chief Mike Mastronardy. He says about 7,000 of the 7,400 homes in this part of town were damaged or destroyed, making a speedy return difficult.
He drove the darkened streets Monday night, checking in on residents. The city has a pedestrian curfew from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m.
"I'm surprised more people didn't come back," he says as he drove through one dark section where most of the homeowners live year-round.
The Popacas couldn't wait to get back home. "We are giddy," says Don, 65, a retired manufacturer whose company made bathroom sinks.
He and his wife, Candace, 64, a retired teacher, had been living with their daughter and her sister since the storm in October. Their five-bedroom house stands 7 feet high and was not damaged, save for the garage. The couple have lived in Normandy Beach since they got married 40 years ago, most of it in four different houses on Fourth Street, where their home is located now.
"There was no question we were coming," Candace Popaca says. Now, they're waiting for more friends and neighbors to slowly trickle back, so the dark streets that surround their house will show light once more. "When you leave, it is going to be very quiet here," Don Popaca says to a reporter.
In the Ocean Beach section, where houses collapsed or were washed away from their foundations and where sand still covers streets, Boyle, 21, was fixing his family's summer house. He's torn out the dry wall and insulation and replaced it in the ranch style home. He's living in the house full-time and working construction, repairing other homes, on the peninsula.
Boyle and his girlfriend, Fox, 21, are the only people staying for several blocks. The rest of the neighborhood is dark. Around them stands the devastation wrought by Sandy.
The house of one neighbor whose home was washed off its foundation lies on its side. Other houses are empty, stripped down to the studs after they were flooded.
Boyle, sporting a Restore the Shore sweatshirt, was on the phone with the cable company on Monday night. He says once he gets cable, he's set.
"There aren't many of us, but I'm amped," he says. "It's my home."
Joy Romeo, 70, and her husband, Joe, 72, want to get life back to normal as quickly as possible. That's why they decided to move back home, even though they are the only ones back on their street.
"You look up and down the street and there's nobody here," Joe Romeo says. "It's desolate."
The couple's home, perched on a foundation nearly 10 feet high, was not flooded. But they had to move to a senior community while waiting for authorities to allow residents to move back in.
The Romeos spent the evening unpacking boxes. They already have cable, phone and Internet. Joe Romeo remembers the first time they came back to their block about two weeks after the storm. Houses all around them had been flooded and the sodden, ruined possessions of all of their neighbors were piled high on the sidewalk.
"Everybody had everything on the street," Joe Romeo says, stopping and his tears welling at the memory. Joy says returning home is a good first step – even if they are the only ones for now. She says, "We just want to get back to normal."


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NASCAR Canada Velocity Thunder racing through Saskatoon
Ladies and gentlemen, rev up your engines.
NASCAR Canada's Pinty Series 2019 Velocity Prairie Thunder Twin 125s race through Saskatoon's Wyant Group Raceway on Wednesday. It's part of a two-day event, preceded Tuesday by pro truck, sportsman and super late model stock racing at WGR. Here are five things to know about this year's Velocity Prairie Thunder Twin 125s …
Once again, racing fans will get two NASCAR Pinty's Series Prairie Velocity Thunder races, each of them covering 125 laps Wednesday instead of the previous 250-lap format.
The first race goes at 6 p.m. at the Wyatt Group Raceway, located north of Saskatoon and south of Martensville. The second Velocity Thunder Twin 125 is slated to start at 8:30 p.m.
There are also sportsman and pro truck races taking place Wednesday.
The two-day event begins Tuesday with a slate of pro truck and sportsman heats, as well as the Shell V-Power Nitro-plus sportsman feature race and the super late model's Co-op Agro 150-lap feature race, which is a Canada short-track national qualifier.
Front gates open to the public Tuesday at 6 p.m. and Wednesday at noon.
A year ago, a couple of NASCAR Pinty Series first-time winners took the checkered flag in the Velocity Prairie Thunder twin bill.
Donald Theetge, of Boischatel, Que., captured race No. 1 over runner-up Cole Powell, leading for 110 laps. Alex Tagliani placed third. Kevin Lacroix led for the other 15 laps.
In the second race, Powell won ahead of L.P. Dumoulin, who had led for 78 laps. Powell, who hails from Mount Brydges, Ont., grabbed the lead for the final 47 laps to take the checkered flag. Theetge placed fourth.
A pair of female racers — local driver Shantel Kalika and Julia Landauer — will be among those competing at Wyant Group Raceway.
A year ago, Kalika placed 14th in the Prairie Velocity Thunder No. 2 race and 15th in race No. 1.
Landauer is an American driver from New York, N.Y., who races in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series.
There's also a contingent from Western Canada competing in Saskatoon. Noel Dowler and Jamie Krysik are expected to make their returns to the Pintys Series alongside NASCAR Pinty's Series regulars Brett Taylor and Jason White.
4. GREYBEARD WHITE MAKING 100th START
White, a native of Abbotsford, B.C., is set to make his 100th start on the NASCAR Pinty's Series when the green flag drops for the second Velocity Prairie Thunder Twin 125.
White ran a special Humboldt Broncos tribute theme a year ago in Saskatoon. Now based in Sun Peaks, B.C., he's the only driver from B.C. in the field.
White, 46, also races in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series. He's been involved with NASCAR for the past 12 years. He made his first career start in 2007 at Motoplex Speedway in Vernon, B.C.
There's not much distance between bumpers in the 2019 point standings: the top five drivers are separated by only 34 points.
Saskatoon's double-header could potentially provide a big swing in the standings.
Andrew Ranger leads Lacroix by only two points. Tagliani, who won last week at the Toronto Grand Prix, sits in third spot and 14 points back of the lead.
Reigning Pinty's Series champion Dumoulin is in fourth, 22 points behind, with DJ Kennington sitting fifth.
Dumoulin and Kennington have both won before in Saskatoon at WGR.


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NFL -- Parents will stay neutral at 'Har-Bowl'
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Jack Harbaugh, left, talks with former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game between Indiana and Penn State, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, in Bloomington, Ind. Indiana won 72-49. Harbaugh, a former college football player and coach, is the father of Jim and John Harbaugh, the head coaches of the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens NFL football teams respectively. The 49ers and the Ravens are scheduled to play in Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans on Sunday, Feb. 3. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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Driving is a dangerous business. You could be driving down the road, minding your own business, listening to the radio or something. Then suddenly, an SUV could come flying through the air out of nowhere and smash though your windshield.
Wait, what?! Yes, you heard right friends. This actually happened.
A lady in Korea had the misfortune of enduring just such a freak crash, and not surprisingly, ended up in the hospital. The word on reddit is that she survived the crash and is still in the hospital. Does anyone have any more information?
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Hypothetically, lets assume that I am testing the "Search and compare flights" functionality of this website*, and I want to apply a combinational testing technique.
Where should a tester start this testing process? What should their first steps be?
*I am not really testing this site, this was just chosen as an example for this hypothetical question.


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Xbox One Revealed
I don't think I've ever hated a piece of cloth so much in my entire life.
It's Monday morning in mid-April, and I'm sitting in a many-couched conference room at Microsoft's campus in Redmond with three other entities: chief product officer Marc Whitten; senior VP of marketing strategy Yusuf Mehdi; and a pedestal in the corner with a cloth draped over it. For 30 minutes, the two executives have been talking about the future of Xbox—about the need to "re-architect the living room for the 21st century," about "a new generation of entertainment," and other lofty corporate statements that tend to go hand in hand with many-couched conference rooms. They've also been pointedly ignoring the pedestal. I know what they're doing, and it's working. I want to see what's under that cloth, and it's driving me crazy. Little-kid-on-Christmas-morning crazy. Very-nearly-squirming-in-my-seat crazy. Finally, Whitten takes pity on me, and he walks over to the pedestal. "Here it is," he says; he lifts the cloth.
And here's the Xbox One.
The front is nearly without embellishment; even the optical disc drive slot blends into the frontpiece of the box. On the whole, it looks more like a TiVo than any gaming console I've ever known.
My first thought, honestly, is how boxy it is. In 2010, Microsoft released a "slim" version of the Xbox 360 that was literally streamlined, with a curvilinear X-shaped form that made its predecessor feel clumsy in comparison. The Xbox One is a bit bigger than the 360 and as rectangular as it gets. It's not without its flourishes, though. It's a deep, glossy black that the industrial design team calls liquid black. The top of the console is subdivided into two 16:9 rectangles, derived from the traditional aspect ratio of widescreen televisions—one is solid and glossy, the other a matte panel that's entirely vented to help as much air pass through the system as possible. The front is nearly without embellishment; even the optical disc drive slot blends into the frontpiece of the box. On the whole, it looks more like a TiVo than any gaming console I've ever known.
A deep chamfer at the base of the front panel makes it appear to levitate, and similar touches on the Kinect sensor make it look almost cantilevered, like Wright's Fallingwater. Both are squatter than their predecessors, with a powerful heft. The controller, too, is noticeably changed: the humplike battery pack on the underside is all but gone; the odd circular directional pad has been replaced by a more precise cross-shaped one, the triggers and shoulder buttons are carved from a single graceful swath of material that extends from one side to the other. Over the next two days at Microsoft, I'll see just about everything that went into making the Xbox One, from laser-printed controller mock-ups to Kinect-enhanced game prototypes. But standing on that pedestal right now, it's all just a cipher.
The humplike battery pack on the controller's underside is all but gone; the triggers and shoulder buttons are carved from a single graceful swath of material.
The Mission
The Xbox 360 has been on the market for 90 months now. Seven and a half years is a long time for a game console, especially when you consider that the original Xbox lasted barely four. Each year since the 360 came out, Whitten, who reports to Don Mattrick, president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business division, has asked himself one question: Is it time to build the next console?
For a long time, the answer to that question was, "No." But by the time 2011 rolled around, even Whitten had to admit that the 360 was, he says, "a bit long in the tooth." While it had received a hardware refresh, its specs still sounded like a Model T in the age of the Tesla Model S: 512 megabytes of RAM and a graphics processor that had been overtaken by halfway-decent PCs years before. While game developers were eking everything they could out of the 360's ancient architecture, Whitten and the rest of the entertainment division also knew that a fundamental shift had happened—not necessarily in gaming itself, but around it, and in ways that would change it permanently.
When the 360 launched, smartphones hadn't yet trickled out of the corporate world; Netflix was strictly a DVD delivery service; the "cloud" was something that got in the way of a suntan. (Hell, in 2005, people suntanned.) And a big part of the 360's longevity was Microsoft's ability not only to develop games but also to forge partnerships that took advantage of these new staples of online life. So as those deals proliferated, so did the things the Xbox 360 could do. People played Halo 3 on their Xbox, but they also watched Netflix. They bought Kinect sensors for controller-free experiences, but they also burned through seasons of Deadwood on HBO Go and caught sports highlights on an ESPN app. But all of this new functionality was built on patches and firmware updates. The 360 simply wasn't constructed that way, so when the Xbox One was greenlit in the fall of 2011, "the decision wasn't, 'We need a gamebox,'" Whitten says. "It was, 'We need a living-room experience.'" Built that way from the ground up.
So the charge was twofold: the new Xbox had to deliver enough horsepower to fuel a generation's worth of gaming—but it also had to deliver everything else: live TV; an OS architecture that allows for smartphone-style multitasking; a new Kinect sensor that can handle hi-def Skype calls and monitor your heart rate. The Xbox One isn't just a console. It's an entertainment borg that hopes to assimilate everything from your Blu-ray player to your cable box.
The Hardware
But still, first it is a game device. And to that end, it needs to feel like a step forward. For seven generations now, consoles have delivered increasingly sophisticated visual experiences, from the soundless and rudimentary Magnavox Odyssey in the pre-Pong mid-'70s through the Nintendo-Sega wars of the '90s to the lens-flare and motion-capture effects of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 today. As we brush against photorealism in our games, though, we also reach the problem of too perfect. It's a corollary of the uncanny valley, that conceptual chasm that induces a faint feeling of disgust when we see virtual humans that are not quite right: the ideal is actually not ideal. So early demos of racing game Forza Motorsport 5 for the Xbox One try to skirt that issue by modeling imperfection itself: scuffs on wheels, orange-peel pattern on paint, tire marks where Armor-All has worn away.
Quantifying graphical performance is notoriously squishy. That being said, Microsoft touts the Xbox One as delivering 8 times the graphic performance of the 360. If you were to go by raw transistor count, that performance jump would be closer to tenfold: the Xbox One boasts 5 billion to the 360's 500 million. More concretely, those paltry 512 MB of memory have been boosted to 8 GB.
As PC gamers know, though, the more horsepower you've got under the hood, the more heat you generate; the more heat you generate, the more airflow you're going to need to dissipate that heat. Usually, that is going to come from fans, but the engineering team kept things quiet by shrinking a number of internal components for better airflow within the console. Allow me a few sentences of total geek-out on this: A custom-built Blu-ray–capable optical drive was designed in-house to fit along with a 500-GB hard drive. A single 28-nanometer chip contains an integrated CPU, GPU, and embedded memory rather than three separate units crammed onto a 90-nm chip in the 360. In fact, a custom SOC (system on a chip) module made by AMD contains the CPU/GPU chip, the memory, the controller logic, the DRAM, and the audio processors, and connects directly to the heat sink via a phase-change interface material. Whew.
Perhaps most intriguing, however, is that Xbox One gives game developers the ability to access Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform. That leads to a few obvious and immediate applications: All your downloaded and installed games and achievements are synced to the cloud and can be accessed and played without interruption on any Xbox One you sign in to; stable, dedicated servers for every multiplayer game rather than the notoriously fragile practice of hosting matches on one participant's console; even multiplayer matches that can grow to 64, even 128 participants, rather than the usual limit of 16 or 32.
But other possibilities also come to mind. If developers are able to offload significant chunks of processing power to the cloud—conceivably even fundamental game mechanics like physics engines or collision-detection systems—that frees them to use local processing for even more intensive processes. In other words, the possibilities are limited only by the imaginations of thousands of game programmers. "It's not like on day one, everyone will have figured out how to take advantage of that power," Whitten says. "It's just one of those stakes we're placing."
The Kinect
The original Kinect sensor, introduced in 2010, arguably extended the 360's lifespan by attracting an entirely new audience: 8 million Kinect units were sold in its first two months. But while the sensor's gesture and voice control allowed for controllerless gameplay and the admittedly Jetsons-era ability to say "Xbox, pause" to interrupt a Breaking Bad binge, its internals were clearly a first draft. So if the revision of the console consisted mostly of upgrades to its components and architecture, the Kinect received a head-to-toe retooling.
If the revision of the console consisted mostly of upgrades to its components and architecture, the Kinect received a head-to-toe retooling.
When the original Kinect launched, apartment dwellers lamented that they had to move couches and tables just to be recognized by the its depth sensors, let alone play a physically involved game like Dance Central. The restricted field of vision also made it next to impossible for different-sized people, like parents and kids, to play the same game. This time around, a 1080p camera enlarges the sensor's field by 60 percent—a fact that the entertainment division's lanky hardware guru, Todd Holmdahl, demonstrates for me by walking his 6′ 4″ frame toward the sensor. Even 3 feet away, the Kinect's onscreen display clearly registers his entire body, and he still has room to lift his hands above his head.
The camera can also capture video at 30 frames per second for two-way services like Skype—but more impressive still are the Kinect's tracking capabilities. It's now so sensitive that it can measure your pulse by monitoring pigmentation change in your face. (It's partially done via infrared light, which means it works regardless of skin tone.)
The original sensor mapped people in a room using "structured light": It would send out infrared light, then measure deformities in the room's surfaces to generate a 3-D depth map. However, that depth map was lo-res to the degree that clothing and couch cushions were often indistinguishable. The new model sends out a modulated beam of infrared light, then measures the time it takes for each photon to return. It's called time-of-flight technology, and it's essentially like turning each pixel of the custom-designed CMOS sensor into a radar gun, which allows for unprecedented responsiveness—even in a completely dark room. (See the video for the evidence.)
In fact, the Kinect will be used for that most fundamental of tasks: turning the whole thing on. Xbox One utilizes multiple power states; it can thus ramp up as needed and consume different amounts of juice depending on use, whether games or movies. And it also possesses a low-power standby mode, allowing Xbox Live and game updates to be pushed to the Xbox One overnight — or whenever the box knows your usage is lowest — without keeping the console all the way on. (Don't worry; you can still play a single-player game without being connected to the Internet.) It also means that when you walk into your room and say "Xbox on," the Kinect sensor hears you and turns on your entire setup via infrared blast: TV, Xbox One, even your cable box.
But why, you may ask, your cable box?
The Entertainment
Live television is the main competitor of any online gaming service. Take Xbox Live: 48 million people use the service, whether for gaming, Netflix, or anything else, an average of 87 hours a month. Meanwhile those users are watching television somewhere around 150 hours a month. Microsoft wants to be part of those 150 hours. Its gambit: Turn the new Xbox into a TV conduit.
Last year, Nintendo's new Wii U console delivered some television tuner functionality, but it was a kludgy and fragile experience, and many users (like me, with my cablecard-equipped TiVo) were shut out. Xbox One will utilize a few different methods to deliver live TV to the Xbox universe. Chief among those—at least in the US—is HDMI pass-through, in which the cable box, satellite box, or similar device (e.g., the aforementioned cablecard-equipped TiVo ) connects directly to the Xbox One, which then passes the mediated signal to the television via an HDMI-out port.
Because of that direct pipe from your TV provider to the Xbox One, you can watch TV with varying degrees of Xbox overlay. It can look exactly like your plain old TV interface, being controlled with the original remote. Alternately, you can use Xbox's electronic programming guide, which presents a lineup based on your favorite channels or tells you what your friends are watching and can be controlled via voice, gesture, and game controller. Or, thanks to Xbox SmartGlass, the second-screen functionality that Microsoft introduced in limited capacity last year across multiple mobile platforms, you can use your smartphone or tablet to change channels with a no-look flicking motion. (For more granular control, SmartGlass will eventually be able to turn your phone into a skeuomorphic remote control, able to emulate any other control device.)
Ashley Speicher, principal development manager of Live TV, walks me through a demo. The team has been working feverishly to get it ready for the official unveiling, but this is clearly an early build; when she turns on the program guide, the green screen of the developer's OS screen shows through in the gaps between tiles. "Xbox," she says, and a small faint Xbox logo in the upper right-hand corner of the screen begins to glow; the Kinect is listening. "ESPN," she finishes. The guide, which is currently highlighting Seattle's local channel 4, switches to channel 206: ESPN. Because the Kinect's voice control is already engaged, she doesn't need to prompt it again, so she just says "watch." There's a flash as the connected DirecTV makes the change, and all of a sudden SportsCenter comes on the screen. The most shocking part about it is the ease; there's no more hunting through your guide for FX or Travel Channel or whatever network or show you're looking for. You can just say "Xbox, watch Travel Channel" or "Xbox, watch Sons of Anarchy," and you're there. If the show itself isn't on, a global search will collate all of your options for watching it, from on-demand to streaming services.
But then Speicher goes one better. She goes back to the Xbox One's home screen—a mashup of the 360's Xbox Live environment and the Microsoft design language so familiar from Windows 8 on PCs and Surface tablets—and opens Internet Explorer instead. Now the TV is filled with Bing's landing screen. "Xbox," she says, "snap in Live TV." A sidebar slides onto the screen from the left; at its bottom is a list of her favorite channels, and at the top is SportsCenter, playing live. "Switch," she says, and the sidebar is highlighted, allowing her to pick and watch any of those favorite channels. "Watch," she says, and the sidebar takes over the whole of the screen. Back to SportsCenter.
"Snapping in" is the Xbox One's task-switching mechanism, and it's made possible by some serious operating system kung fu. The Xbox One simultaneously runs three separate operating systems. First comes the tiny Host OS, which boots the machine and then launches two other hard-partitioned systems: the Shared partition, an environment that runs any apps (Skype, Live TV, Netflix, etc.) and helps provide processing power for the Kinect sensor and its gesture and voice controls; and the Exclusive partition, which is where games run. Because of the way memory is apportioned in the Shared partition, you can switch between apps with little to no load times, and even snap them into another app or game to use both at the same time.
This, more than anything, is the Xbox One's killer app: instant access to all the entertainment services you already use, and true multitasking. Skype calls while you're playing a game? Sure. The Kinect already uses a combination of noise- and echo-cancellation and waveform "beam steering" to hear you over the sounds of anything you're playing and watching, so you won't even have to raise your voice above normal conversational levels. Keeping an eye on your fantasy football team while you watch Monday Night Football? Done. It's the second-screen experience—all on one screen.
The Future
At this point, fewer than 2 million Surface tablets have been sold. Windows Phone has a 3.2 percent share of the smartphone market. The Xbox 360, on the other hand, has sold 77 million units and has been the bestselling game console in the US for 28 straight months. Not to take anything away from Microsoft's other consumer products, but there's no longer any question which side the company's bread is buttered on. And if the Interactive Entertainment Business division gets this right, the Xbox One is going to be a very, very big piece of bread.
We have no idea what the videogame landscape will look like seven years from now, just as we had no idea in 2005 how foundationally streaming and smartphones would change everything. The very concept of any physical media box may well be obsolete within a decade. But even if this is the last true console we ever see, one thing is for sure: Gaming isn't just games anymore. And the Xbox One intends to keep it that way.
The real question, though, is what that means for Microsoft's future plans. Apple's a hardware company, and Google's a software company, but they both offer an integrated experience that takes place within their walls (whether or not you look at those walls #throughglass or not). Microsoft makes both hardware and software—and does it well—but the company also knows that it doesn't have the install base to lock down the experience. And more important, it's lacking connective tissue. If its investment in Azure lets the cloud become that tissue, then the Xbox One could be the hub of the integrated experience Microsoft sorely needs.


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With Adapted Bikes – There is no Disability
Ability Motorcycles website was created to enable the sharing of information and projects to benefit others.
The focus of the website is to provide motorcycle related information to improve access for people with disabilities.
Ability Motorcycles contains examples of Modification Projects, Sidecar and Trike Accessibility options, All-Terrain Off-Road Access, Tour/Hire, a Workshop and much more.
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- For missions in GTA 1 associated with the car, see Bulldog (mission 1) and Bulldog (mission 2).
The Bulldog is a vehicle in Grand Theft Auto 1. It has great speed and handling, but it has low durability. It closely resembles an Aston Martin DB7. This is the first vehicle available to the player in Liberty City.


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Ok, there are a lot of things that no one tells you about being pregnant. But what's really odd is this: you feel the kid move. All the time. It's not just that sometimes the kid kicks and you can feel it - no, you're sitting at your desk, and he's moving. You're walking to your car, and he's moving. You're in a meeting, in the shower, watching TV, trying to sleep, having a conversation, doing dishes - and he's moving. Kicking, squirming, poking. Imagine someone following you around for four months or so, poking you in the stomach. Except that you love this person a lot, so it's not as annoying as you'd think.
It's weird. It's cool, but it's really really weird. That's all.
What They Don't Tell You
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
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Ahhhh.....the alien inside of me feeling. I remember those days.
And then, they come out. And they KEEP DOING IT. Hanging on your clothes. Pulling on your arm. Reaching for your nose, hair, glasses, shirt ...
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MLB may announce punishment for Brewers' Gomez on Tuesday
Third base coach Ed Sedar describes what he heard, saw
There is no word yet from Major League Baseball about what will happen to Brewers star Carlos Gomez after a fight during Sunday's game in Pittsburgh.
During the third inning, Gomez hit what appeared might be a home run, but it hit off the wall, and Gomez slid into third for a triple.
That's when things got explosive. Pirates pitcher Garrett Cole said something to Gomez, who came off the bag and responded. Soon, the benches cleared, and a brawl began. Punches were thrown.
Gomez was ejected, and suspensions from the league office are expected to follow, perhaps Tuesday.
WISN 12 News caught up with Brewers third base coach Ed Sedar, who was in the thick of it all.
"You were right in the middle of it. What did you see?" WISN 12 News reporter Kent Wainscott asked.
"Well, I saw Carlos hits a triple. Cole comes over and says something like, 'If you going to do a home run trot you better hit a home run.' Then, I try to break them up, and you can see I'm walking back to the mound with Cole, and didn't see all of what happened behind me," Sedar said.
"What do you expect to come of this?" Wainscott asked.
"I don't know what to expect. It'll be interesting. I don't know what they expect you to do when someone comes after you, just lay down? It'll be interesting to see what all comes about it," Sedar said.
"You never want to see it come to blows like that, but there was some wrong, you know? We weren't the first ones to clear the bench. So it is what it is, and obviously, you don't want to see someone get hurt, but I definitely know that our guys have each others' backs," Brewers pitcher Kyle Lohse said.
Gomez said Sunday he would appeal a suspension but appeared to backtrack Monday.
"Whatever they say, if I feel like it is not fair, I'm going to appeal," Gomez said. "If I feel like it is fair, I'm going to take it."
Gomez said this incident was different from last September's.
"Last year was a different case," Gomez said. "Last year, I disrespected the Braves. I'm not that guy. It was the heat of the moment, and I don't try to disrespect nobody."
Gomez said he wasn't trying to show up Pittsburgh.
"Ask my teammates," he said. "I ask every time, 'Where's the ball at?' They say, 'Is this a joke?' I say, 'No, I'm serious. I don't look where the ball is at.' I don't look at the pitchers. That's the way the way I throw the bat when I hit it. And I run the bases hard, like anybody, with my head down. That's it. People get sensitive over stuff that I do every time. It's not disrespect. It's not like I'm showing people up. I'm not going to get sensitive when they strike me out. I'm not going to say, 'Hey, why you throw me 98 (mph)? Why are you throwing me a slider in the dirt? Why? Why are you throwing me a ball in the neck?' It's baseball.
"It's 2014. It's a game. Just enjoy it. Whoever does the best job on the field is the one that's going to win games. That's the only reason we are here, to win games. It's not to go fight. It's not for complicated stuff. It's to win and compete. That's what I like to do, compete."
Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said he understood why Gomez reacted the way he did Sunday and had a brief chat with his leadoff hitter Monday.
"Gomey needs to be himself and do what he does," Roenicke said. "When things happen, yeah, he can be calmer than what he is. But there's no way any player is not going to respond to a guy saying something to him and yelling at him right off the bat. There's no way any player is just going to sit there and not say anything."
After Jonathan Lucroy caught all 14 innings Sunday, Roenicke started Martin Maldonado behind the plate Monday, admitting that he might not be able to get Lucroy a break if Maldonado is also suspended for his role in the brawl, when he punched Pirates outfielder Travis Snider.
If Maldonado is suspended, utilityman Elian Herrera would serve as the Brewers' backup catcher.


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The Trimble® Tablet for Construction is a rugged, versatile and fully connected handheld computer for heavy and highway and marine construction professionals. Now you can truly connect your office to the construction site. By incorporating a cellular modem, laptop, GPS and controller, Trimble has drastically advanced in-field computing and eliminated the gap between office design and field implementation.
This easy-to-use Trimble Tablet allows construction professionals to make design changes in the field, connect to the office for on the spot approvals and communicate changes to field crews. From the field, to the truck cab to the office, users stay connected and work faster. With instant email access and data synchronization from the construction site, there is no more delay associated with driving data updates to and from the office and field.
Trimble has simplified in-field computing and eliminated the need for multiple costly devices. Combine the Trimble Tablet with Trimble SCS900 Site Controller Software to stay connected, work faster, reduce downtime, improve return-on-investment and increase productivity.
Trimble SCS900 software takes full advantage of the features of the Trimble Tablet. The widescreen 7" sunlight readable screen and retractable interface sidebar give the user the choice to display the map on the whole screen or to view satellite or total station information and have one-touch access to all the options they require associated to the task they are performing. Large buttons, dialog boxes and touch screen keyboard characters make the Trimble Tablet simple to use with gloved fingers.
The Trimble Tablet connects wirelessly to the SPS series Total Stations and GNSS Receivers. If your task doesn't require high accuracy GNSS, just use the Trimble Tablet's internal GPS with SBAS corrections.
The Trimble Tablet delivers unmatched power, accuracy and performance in a rugged, compact unit. This unit offers numerous features and benefits, including those listed below:
|Why the technology?
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|7 inch sunlight readable display
|Lets you read text, graphics and complex maps under any field conditions.
|Front and rear cameras
|Record geotagged photographs for documentation and analysis.
|Integrated wireless LAN
|Let's you quickly receive design changes or updates in the field and deliver results back to the office for on-the spot approvals. It also has the ability to rapidly communicate on site problems, remedial actions or requests for information to the project engineers.
|Long life Lithium-ion batteries
|Ensure a full day of field computing without the need to re-charge or swap batteries.
|Windows 7 Operating System
|Can run Microsoft applications, letting you use the Trimble Tablet as a complete field computer.
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|Simplifies measurement tasks and provides an easy-to-use graphical interface that enables surveyors, grade checkers, site engineers, and foremen to do the job faster and more efficiently.
This easy-to-use tablet PC with built-in connectivity allows construction professionals to quickly receive design changes or updates in the field and deliver results back to the office for on-the spot approvals. It also has the ability to rapidly communicate on site problems, remedial actions or requests for information to the project engineers.
Use the Trimble Tablet and SCS900 as a controller with a Trimble SPS GNSS Receiver or Total Station for:
The Trimble Tablet was designed specifically to take on the perils of the construction job site. It is extremely rugged, with an IP67 environmental rating; long battery life; solidstate hard drive to withstand drops and vibration; and tough washable housing.
Features of the Trimble Tablet include:
For more information on product specifications, please see the Trimble Tablet data sheet.


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Jifty::Test::WWW::Selenium - Subclass of Test::WWW::Selenium with extra Jifty integration
use Jifty::Test::WWW::Selenium;
my $server = Jifty::Test->make_server;
my $sel = Jifty::Test::WWW::Selenium->rc_ok( $server, lang => 'en_US.UTF-8' );
my $URL = $server->started_ok;
Jifty::Test::WWW::Selenium creates a Test::WWW::Selenium object associated with your jifty application to test. In addition, it starts selenium remote control for you, unless
SELENIUM_RC_SERVER is specified when the test is run. You might also want to set
SELENIUM_RC_TEST_AGAINST to your local IP address so
SELENIUM_RC_SERVER can test against you.
SELENIUM_RC_BROWSER tells the rc server what browser to run the tests with. You may want to set
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2012 USA Wakeboard Nationals To Be Held Sept. 22-23 in Littleton, N.C.
2012 USA Wakeboard Nationals
To Be Held Sept. 22-23 In Littleton, N.C.
AF Wake will host 14th annual event on Lake Gaston
POLK CITY, Fla. – USA Wakeboard, in conjunction with AF Wake, is pleased to announce that it will hold the 14th USA Wakeboard Nationals, Sept. 22-23, on Lake Gaston in Littleton, N.C.
The USA Wakeboard Nationals is open to men and women of all ages and all levels of riding. The events are part of USA Water Ski's National Championships Series of Events. A USA Wakeboard membership is required for all events. Membership and registration information is available at www.USAWATERSKI.org.
Spectators and fans can cruise by land or water to cheer on the riders, meet the AF Wake coaches, rack up on product giveaways, enjoy music and announcing provided by DJ SK, and check out sponsor and vendor booths. The event is free and open to the public.
AF Wake owner Adam Fields is excited about hosting the event and promoting wakeboarding. "AF Wake is stoked to bring the USA Wakeboard Nationals to Lake Gaston," Fields said. "This is a great opportunity for all riders to connect with one another, and for riders to get the opportunity to compete in a national wakeboard tournament."
For more information about the event, including participant registration, contact AF Wake at (252) 536-9063. Information also is available at www.afwake.com.
AF Wake is the East Coast's most established wakeboarding school and instructs students from all over the world at Lake Gaston. AF Wake enjoys all aspects of coaching, from motivating excited first- timers to teaching advanced students big, technical tricks for their next competition.
USA Wakeboard is one of nine sport discipline organizations of USA Water Ski, which was formed in 1939 as a non-profit organization promoting water skiing in the United States. USA Water Ski is affiliated with the International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (world governing body) and is recognized by the United States Olympic Committee and Pan-American Sports Organization as the national governing body of organized water skiing and wakeboarding in the United States.


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Finished summer dresses
by exercisebeforeknitting
Now that I am officially free of the MCAT, the crafting bug has returned in force to ExerciseBeforeKnitting. I have many sewing projects to debut! This first dress is a bit delayed but you don't mind, do you?
Pattern: McCall's 4768
Last March, I was feeling a little bored of toddler sewing and anxious for summer to begin so I decided to try my first adult-sized garment. Let us just say that the only nice thing about this dress is the fabric: the sewing is sloppy, the fit is off and the pattern was tedious. Nevertheless, I am still terribly proud of it and will wear it in spite of the flaws. This garment taught me how to select future patterns, the importance of combining sizes and how a great print can hide many errors.
I learned that side darts stretching from the armholes to the hips on both sides look easier than cutting separate pieces for the top, middle and bottom, but that's a dirty, rotten lie. Not only were long darts harder, they were painfully tedious. I'm quite certain most of the work of this dress is in the darts. Small darts on skirts or at the bust are fine but I am officially done with torso-length darts!
I also learned not to cut a larger size based on the rationale that it is easier to take in than cut anew. Just because I want a dress to fit does not mean I ought to allow an extra 5/8″ at every seam just in case. With regards to sizing, I tried to get away with only using one size for the top, middle and bottom of the dress; this was a fatal mistake. After careful measurement, I discovered I need four different sizes at various points. Not two, not even three, four. This made me reconsider what kind of dress to choose. If I wanted a fitted dress, a darted, one-piece dress probably was not the best choice. For the next dress, I selected a pattern with multiple pieces so I could customize each to fit. I started this dress earlier this summer and although I had little sewing time, I snuck a seam or two in here and there. I finished this the day after my exam.
Pattern: New Look 6699
Fabric: Joel Dewberry Ginseng Collection, Spade Damask in Ivory
Since I used so many different sizes, I worried they would not join well together but I hardly noticed a problem. Modifying the pattern to fit was so easy to do and ultimately, more satisfying than cutting a larger size to (sort of) fit. But tell me, does it look like I'm wearing an evil version of the Nike swoosh? That's what I see in this fabric, although I like the overall effect!
It took me a long time to get these straps right. I still might shorten the right strap a little, as it does not feel as snug as the other one.
I was worried that the middle piece would look strange, since it is cut on the bias when the top and bottom pieces are not. I think the difference adds a bit to the garment overall, plus it makes for a more stretchy piece. My only regret is that the skirt is a smidge too big – I probably should have dropped down one size but having a little extra room never hurt anyone, right?
This is a weird angle but I wonder if this is how I look to tall people? Specifically, to Aaron, since he is 13 inches taller than me!
There may be more dresses to come but I think I will stick to faster, easier projects (like skirts) for now. But who knows? There may be time-consuming, harder projects (like quilts) waiting in the wings!


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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
All professional education content courses leading to certification shall include teaching and assessment of the Wisconsin Content Standards in the content area.
In this column, list the Wisconsin Content Standards that are included in this course. The Standards for each content area are found in the Wisconsin Content Standards document.
In this column, indicate the nature of the performance assessments used in this course to evaluate student proficiency in each standard.
The structures within the discipline, the historical roots and evolving nature of mathematics, and the interaction between technology and the discipline.
Typically, students will summarize material they read and work problems related to the material read. These, depending on the topic studied, will usually assess at least one of structures, history, the evolution of mathematics or the use of technology.
Facilitating the building of student conceptual and procedural understanding.
The material summarized by the student and the problems they work on are selected to insure the student understands the selected topic.
Helping all students build understanding of the discipline including:
. Confidence in their abilities to utilize mathematical knowledge.
. Awareness of the usefulness of mathematics.
. The economic implications of fine mathematical preparation.
Studying the selected topic on their own and working problems related to that topic measure the student's ability to study and understand mathematics on their own with general guidance from an instructor. This measures both their confidence in using mathematics independently and awareness of how useful mathematics is.
Exploring, conjecturing, examining and testing all aspects of problem solving.
In many cases the selected topic involves a consideration of all aspects of solving a certain type of problem. The problems the student works out and submits will measure this.
Formulating and posing worthwhile mathematical tasks, solving problems using several strategies, evaluating results, generalizing solutions, using problem solving approaches effectively, and applying mathematical modeling to real-world situations.
Depending on the topic selected for study, students may work problems that require alternative strategies, mathematical modeling or going from specific to general solutions.
Making convincing mathematical arguments, framing mathematical questions and conjectures, formulating counter-examples, constructing and evaluating arguments, and using intuitive, informal exploration and formal proof.
Often the student will need to formulate the appropriate mathematical questions as part of the work they submit, constructing either a counter-example or a proof for their conjectures.
Expressing ideas orally, in writing, and visually-, using mathematical language, notation, and symbolism; translating mathematical ideas between and among contexts.
Students will typically give an oral report on their progress on a regular basis to the faculty member directing their work. Worked problems will typically include mathematical notation and language.
Connecting the concepts and procedures of mathematics, drawing connections between mathematical strands, between mathematics and other disciplines, and with daily life.
Depending on the topic studied, problems connecting mathematical concepts, other disciplines and daily life are done.
Selecting appropriate representations to facilitate mathematical problem solving and translating between and among representations to explicate problem-solving situations.
For selected topics of study students may work problems that involve selecting the appropriate representation.
Mathematical processes including:
. Problem solving.
. Communication.
. Reasoning and formal and informal argument.
. Mathematical connections.
. Representations.
. Technology.
Depending on the subject selected, submitted problems can involve any one or a combination of these six mathematical processes.
Number operations and relationships from both abstract and concrete perspectives identifying real world applications, and representing and connecting mathematical concepts and procedures including:
. Number sense.
. Set theory.
. Number and operation.
. Composition and decomposition of numbers, including place value, primes, factors, multiples, inverses, and the extension of these concepts throughout mathematics.
. Number systems through the real numbers, their properties and relations.
. Computational procedures.
. Proportional reasoning.
. Number theory.
Depending on the subject, selected problems covering any of these topics could be done.
Mathematical concepts and procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level number operations and relationships including:
. Advanced counting procedures, including union and intersection of sets, and parenthetical operations.
. Algebraic and transcendental numbers.
. The complex number system, including polar coordinates.
. Approximation techniques as a basis for numerical integration, fractals, and numerical-based proofs.
. Situations in which numerical arguments presented in a variety of classroom and real-world situations (e.g., political, economic, scientific, social) can be created and critically evaluated.
. Opportunities in which acceptable limits of error can be assessed (e.g., evaluating strategies, testing the reasonableness of results, and using technology to carry out computations).
If the topic selected involved teaching number operations and relationships, a presentation or paper on these subject areas would be done.
Geometry and measurement from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and mathematical concepts, procedures and connections among them including:
. Formal and informal argument.
. Names, properties, and relationships of two- and three-dimensional shapes.
. Spatial sense.
. Spatial reasoning and the use of geometric models to represent, visualize, and solve problems.
. Transformations and the ways in which rotation, reflection, and translation of shapes can illustrate concepts, properties, and relationships.
. Coordinate geometry systems including relations between coordinate and synthetic geometry, and generalizing geometric principles from a two-dimensional system to a three-dimensional system.
. Concepts of measurement, including measurable attributes, standard and non-standard units, precision and accuracy, and use of appropriate tools.
. The structure of systems of measurement, including the development and use of measurement systems and the relationships among different systems. Measurement including length, area, volume, size of angles, weight and mass, time, temperature, and money.
. Measuring, estimating, and using measurement to describe and compare geometric phenomena.
. Indirect measurement and its uses, including developing formulas and procedures for determining measure to solve problems.
If a geometry topic is selected for study students would typically work problems from one or more of these areas.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level geometry and measurement including:
. Systems of geometry, including Euclidean, non-Euclidean, coordinate, transformational, and projective geometry.
. Transformations, coordinates, and vectors and their use in problem solving. Three-dimensional geometry and its generalization to other dimensions. Topology, including topological properties and transformations.
. Opportunities to present convincing arguments by means of demonstration, informal proof, counter-examples, or other logical means to show the truth of statements and/or generalizations.
If teaching geometry is selected for study students would give a presentation or a paper on work done in these areas.
Statistics and probability from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and the mathematical concepts, procedures and the connections between them including:
. Use of data to explore real-world issues.
. The process of investigation including formulation of a problem, designing a data collection plan, and collecting, recording, and organizing data.
. Data representation through graphs, tables, and summary statistics to describe data distributions, central tendency, and variance.
. Analysis and interpretation of data.
. Randomness, sampling, and inference.
. Probability as a way to describe chances or risk in simple and compound events.
. Outcome prediction based on experimentation or theoretical probabilities.
Problems from one or more of these areas would be done if statistics or probability is selected as the subject studied.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level statistics and probability including:
. Use of the random variable in the generation and interpretation of probability distributions.
. Descriptive and inferential statistics, measures of disbursement, including validity and reliability, and correlation.
. Probability theory and its link to inferential statistics.
. Discrete and continuous probability distributions as bases for inference.
. Situations in which students can analyze, evaluate, and critique the methods and conclusions of statistical experiments reported in journals, magazines, news media, advertising, etc.
If teaching statistics or probability is the subject selected for study, a paper or a presentation on what was covered related to these area would be done.
Functions, algebra, and basic concepts underlying calculus from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and the mathematical concepts, procedures and the connections among them including:
. Patterns.
. Functions as used to describe relations and to model real world situations.
. Representations of situations that involve variable quantities with expressions, equations and inequalities and that include algebraic and geometric relationships.
. Multiple representations of relations, the strengths and limitations of each representation, and conversion from one representation to another.
. Attributes of polynomial, rational, trigonometric, algebraic, and exponential functions.
. Operations on expressions and solution of equations, systems of equations and inequalities using concrete, informal, and formal methods.
. Underlying concepts of calculus, including rate of change, limits, and approximations for irregular areas.
Depending on the topic selected for study, problems from one or more of these topics may be done.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level functions, algebra, and concepts of calculus including:
. Concepts of calculus, including limits (epsilon-delta) and tangents, derivatives, integrals, and sequences and series.
. Modeling to solve problems.
. Calculus techniques including finding limits, derivatives, integrals, and using special rules.
. Calculus applications including modeling, optimization, velocity and acceleration, area, volume, and center of mass.
. Numerical and approximation techniques including Simpson's rule, trapezoidal rule, Newton's Approximation, and linearization.
. Multivariate calculus.
. Differential equations.
If teaching functions, algebra or calculus is the subject selected for study then either a paper or a presentation on the material read related to these topics will be done.
Discrete processes from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and the mathematical concepts, procedures and the connections among them including:
. Counting techniques.
. Representation and analysis of discrete mathematics problems using sequences, graph theory, arrays, and networks.
. Iteration and recursion.
If the subject studied involves discrete mathematics, problems from one or more of these areas may be done.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level discrete mathematics including:
. Topics, including symbolic logic, induction, linear programming, and finite graphs.
. Matrices as a mathematical system, and matrices and matrix operations as tools for recording information and for solving problems.
. Developing and analyzing algorithms.
If the subject studied involves teaching discrete mathematics, a paper or presentation on what was covered related to these topics will be done.


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Hollywood has always been enthralled by the end of the world. While we don't actually see the world end in Joseph Kosinski's new science-fiction epic, "Oblivion," there's not much left of it when the film begins.
Hollywood has always been enthralled by the end of the world. While we don't actually see the world end in Joseph Kosinski's new science-fiction epic, "Oblivion," there's not much left of it when the film begins.
Earth, we are told, has been mostly deserted after an alien attack destroyed our moon, causing great environmental upheaval that wiped out a great portion of the population. Eventually, through the use of nuclear weapons, humanity won the war but left the Earth uninhabitable. What's left of the species lives in a giant spaceship called the Tet orbiting the Earth, waiting to migrate to Saturn's moon, Titan, where they will set up a new human colony.
Back on Earth, two humans remain to oversee the mining of Earth's remaining resources to carry to Titan, repairing drones and defending the mining operations from the remaining aliens still fighting a lost war.
Jack (Tom Cruise) dreams of something more, even if his partner, Victoria (Andrea Riseborough), does not. He is haunted by strange memories that he can't explain. Even though Earth was destroyed 70 years ago, he still feels as if it is his true home. But when a mysterious visitor arrives from the sky, Jack uncovers a secret that will forever change the way he sees the world and put him on a path that he could have never expected.
Kosinski (who previously directed Disney's "Tron: Legacy") pays homage to the science fiction of yesteryear, honoring his inspirations while forging his own unique path. There are elements of "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Star Wars" and "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," just to name a few. But "Oblivion" is very much its own movie, a truly original concept with its own unique look and feel. Shot by cinematographer Claudio Miranda, who just won an Oscar for "Life of Pi," the film is certainly stunning to behold, and the thrilling score by M83 sounds like something straight out of the 1980s.
It all makes for an enthralling visceral experience, but Kosinski delivers more than just summer movie eye-candy. He keeps the audience guessing, delivering twists and turns that actually surprise. This is a modern sci-fi film that flirts with greatness, delivering edge of your seat entertainment without sacrificing good writing and strong concepts.
There are a few moments here and there that feel a bit familiar, but so bold is Kosinski's vision that it's hard not to become completely invested in these characters' stories. Kosinski keeps the action grounded in human emotion, all while delivering a wholly satisfying post-apocalyptic adventure that blazes new trails while channeling some of the greatest science-fiction films of all time.
"Oblivion" is a blast, a surprisingly strong genre film where jaw-dropping modern technology meets delightfully old-fashioned filmmaking sensibilities. They don't make them like this anymore, and it's nice to be reminded just how fantastic science fiction can really be.
Matthew Lucas, a former Davidson County resident, studied theater and film studies at Appalachian State University. He now resides in Banner Elk and has a blog where he posts movie news, reviews and commentary at www.fromthefrontrow.net.


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CLEARWATER, Fla. - The Phillies and Braves have been intense rivals for the better part of 20 seasons, most of which came when the Braves moved from the National League West to the N.L. East.
Before that occurred, the rivalry got cranking when the teams met in the 1993 N.L. Championship Series, with the Phillies, managed by Jim Fregosi, winning in six games, with three of the wins by one run.
There surely will be heated meetings in 2014 between the teams, but Wednesday afternoon the organizations joined forces to honor Fregosi, who died last month after suffering a major stroke on a cruise.
With Fregosi's extended family on the field and a lineup of former teammates and players who learned while under his managerial tutelage wearing his various uniforms, the Phillies and Braves held a touching pregame ceremony at Bright House Field.
Both Atlanta president John Schuerholz and Phillies president David Montgomery spoke glowingly of Fregosi, who for the last decade had been a senior advisor for the Braves. In that role he was often at Phillies Grapefruit League games scouting. His hat was placed in the vacant seat behind home plate where he regularly sat.
Among those sporting Fregosi uniforms were former Phillies G.M. and Angels teammate of Fregosi's, Lee Thomas, member of the 1993 Phillies Roger McDowell, Phils third-base coach Pete Mackanin (who played with Fregosi in Texas), former Phils reliever Kent Tekulve (his teammate in Pittsburgh), 1991 N.L. MVP Terry Pendleton (who played for Fregosi in the Cardinals' minor-league system) and 1993 Phillies catcher Darren Daulton.
A video montage of Fregosi's career was shown to 'Winners' by Frank Sinatra, a favorite of Fregosi's.
'I believe Jim Fregosi was a baseball treasure, and we will remember him as such,' Montgomery said.
***The Phillies ended their Grapefruit League losing skid Wednesday. But they didn't start a winning streak.
A successful rundown play in the top of the ninth was sullied when reliever Brad Lincoln tried to make a tough throw to third after tagging the first runner out. The throw leaked into left field and allowed speedy Braves prospect Matt Lipka - who hit the grounder that started the play – to score the tying run.
One thing that was noticeable in the game was that Ryne Sandberg has his fielders applying a more significant shift on certain hitters. That was particularly noticeable against Atlanta slugger Freddie Freeman.
Sandberg confirmed that you will see the Phillies using more of the tendencies of opposing hitters to arrange their fielders.
'We are going to do more moving as far as that goes,' Sandberg said. 'We'll be smart with it and do what makes sense … It's something that has grown and the information is there. Teams have had some success doing that, so that's something to think about and apply.'
Veteran outfielder Bobby Abreu had a single and has reached base seven times (five walks, two hits) in 17 plate appearances and seems to be in serious contention for one of the five outfield spots.
'I think he has quality at-bats,' Sandberg said. 'He battles the pitchers, makes them work, gets his swings in, and he's taking his walks. He's been a base runner quite often. He's quality every time up there … Obviously I'd like to see him get pitched to and allow him to get some swings. I also want to see him in right field.'
The fielding is the biggest question. Abreu was playing rather deep in right field Wednesday and had a couple of balls fall in front of him that a spryer outfielder might have reached.
'He's going to get more games out there,' Sandberg said, 'just to help him with his positioning and see how he comes along as he goes through the spring as far as getting his legs in shape and getting good jumps. We'll see what that continues to look like.'
***NOTES: Cole Hamels will throw to hitters in a live batting practice session Thursday, weather permitting … Sandberg and pitching coach Bob McClure plan on going to Lakeland for the Phils' split-squad game against the Tigers, while Larry Bowa will take care of the home game against the Yankees. Miguel Gonzalez and David Buchanan will pitch against the Tigers, while Kyle Kendrick gets the start against New York … Cody Asche (bruised hand) will be back in the lineup in Lakeland … Reliever Mike Adams threw a bullpen Wednesday and should face live batters next week.


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pittsoccer33 wrote:Troy Loney wrote: There must be some missing trigger in the brain that prevents you from finding humour in something blatantly humorous.
If there is I sure am missing it.
I have around 450 movies in my collection, and I doubt 20 of them are comedies. I just don't find them funny. Things like Step Brothers, Dumb and Dumber, and Anchorman just don't make me laugh. Seinfeld and Saturday Night Live don't make me laugh either.
My favorite comedy is definitely Thank You for Smoking.
Those are 3 of my favorite movies.


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HMDA Data Offers Clues on Discrimination Against Gays
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I myself am a HMDA wonk, but one with a rather love-hate relationship to the numbers. I love what they reveal, but hate the headaches that come from wrestling with data.February 20
Banks are looking at a regulatory plan to dramatically expand the data collected on mortgages as a potential ally in their battle to ease separate rules that they say will curb access to credit.February 7
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau penalized two nonbank mortgage lenders on Wednesday for incorrectly reporting data to regulators in a move certain to draw significant attention from the rest of the industry.October 9
Among Home Mortgage Disclosure Act wonks (there are more of us than you think), all eyes were on a recent kerfuffle between Fannie Mae and the Mortgage Bankers Association over loan denials to African-Americans. But what caught the eye of this HMDA geek was another set of figures much less frequently looked at than denials to minorities: denials to same sex-couples.
These were down in all categories in 2012, for male and female same-sex borrowers, but still higher than denials for mixed-sex couples having a male as the primary applicant.
Higher-priced lending to same-sex couples also dropped in all categories but one in 2012 compared to 2011.
Looking at analyses done by the Federal Reserve and by ComplianceTech, which has a HMDA analysis program called LendingPatterns, denial rates for same-sex couples applying for mortgages in 2012 were lower than denials for one-person applicants of either gender. (Having two incomes versus one might explain this.)
Compared to mixed-gender applicants, though, same-sex couples did not do as well, although two-male couples were denied at about the same rate as mixed-gender couples where a woman was the primary applicant.
The Fed report shows denials increased for most categories between 2011 and 2012, while the ComplianceTech report, which includes all conforming and jumbo loans, showed all categories with a smaller percentage of denials.
Definitively extrapolating trends for gay and lesbian loan denials from HMDA data is impossible, since lenders do not survey for sexual orientation for their annual HMDA reports. Same-sex couples are not necessarily gay or lesbian; two male relatives could buy a home, for instance, or two women business partners looking for an investment could get a loan. LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) applicants certainly can obtain home loans and be counted in the single-borrower categories as well.
But the figures are intriguing.
Denials of same-sex couple applicants were down in 2012 versus the year before in conventional (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and jumbo) home purchase and refinancing, and in nonconventional (FHA-, VA- and USDA-guaranteed) purchase and refinancing as well, according to the Fed. In some cases, especially on refis, they were down significantly.
For conventional refis, the denial rate dropped from 24.5% to 21.7% for male same-sex couples and from 24% to 20% for female couples.
On the nonconventional side, the drops were even greater. Male couples were denied in 31% of refi apps in 2011, but just 22% in 2012. Female couples saw denial rates drop from 33.3% to 21.7%.
For conventional purchase mortgages, denials were down for both male and female couples, though not as much as on the nonconventional side. Two-male couples saw 17.2% denials in 2012, 150 basis points better than in 2011. Two-female couples dropped to 16.2%, from 18.5% in 2011.
There is, no doubt, prejudice against LGBT applicants. But there's not a lot of data to show how much.
"We've never studied it. It has never come up for any of our clients," says Michael Taliefero, managing director of ComplianceTech, a fair lending software vendor and consultant in Arlington Va., that specializes in HMDA analysis and supplied me with several custom tables of HMDA data for this column.
Lisa Rice, vice president of the National Fair Housing Alliance, notes that sexual orientation is not a protected class under the Fair Housing Act or the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. (Some states and municipalities have banned LGBT discrimination on their own.)
"We're trying to get the law expanded," she says, to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or against veterans. "It's been a very long campaign for us to get it done."
LGBT discrimination cases can be brought on the basis of gender, she says. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has stipulated by rule there can be no discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in HUD-funded facilities or for government-insured mortgages.
HUD has charged and settled its first case under its Equal Access rule, alleging LGBT mortgage discrimination at Bank of America. The bank agreed to pay $7,500.
The agency last year released its first study on same-sex housing discrimination, in the rental market rather than the mortgage side. It found that "same-sex couples experience unequal treatment more often than heterosexual couples when responding to Internet ads for rental units, and findings show that gay male couples experience more discrimination than lesbian couples." Discrimination was shown in every metropolitan area it studied.
Rice wonders if the drop in denials to same-sex applicants has any correlation to the increasing number of states that have approved marriage equality.
"People may feel more comfortable applying for a mortgage now" in those states, she says, generating a larger number of qualified candidates.
Same-sex couples make up only a small percentage of total borrowers, and that can skew percentage changes. According to ComplianceTech, there were about 92,000 mortgages made to male couples in 2012, and 82,000 to female couples, out of a total of 9.8 million loans. That's a little less than 2% of all mortgages.
There were about 320,000 applications made by same-sex couples that year, according to ComplianceTech. More than 62% of male and female couples' apps were funded. That is better than the male-alone or female-alone categories, and it matches the mixed-couple "female primary" category. Both same-sex categories are considerably below the mixed-couple "male primary" category, which saw more than 69% of loans originated.
Denials are not the only way mortgages are not funded. There is also what ComplianceTech calls the fallout category, meaning applications withdrawn or incomplete. Male couples had a 17.5% fallout rate in 2012, while female couples had 17%. Again, these were better than fallout percentages for single borrower applications, and about the same as female primary, but considerably higher than the male primary category.
For incidences of higher-priced lending (defined as 150 basis points above the average), the only category where same-sex couples did worse in 2012 was in female-couple nonconventional home purchase lending. That category saw an eight basis point increase to 3.33%. All other categories fell for women, and all categories fell for men.
ComplianceTech did a sort for the total universe (including jumbo loans) of male versus female denials (applications with at least one male versus one or more females and no male) and the difference is significant: Females were denied at a rate of 22% for 2012 while males were denied at 17.5%.
Does that indicate discrimination? And what about that figure of less than 2% of mortgages going to same-sex couplesis that simply reflective of their percentage in the population?
My colleague Victoria Finkle has done an excellent job of sorting out the debate over access to credit by minorities as revealed (or not revealed) by HMDA data. That is an important discussion. Gender questions, whether they involve same sex couples or not, could use a thorough airing out as well, and I welcome any reflections on this in the comments box below.
Mark Fogarty, Editor at Large at National Mortgage News, writes analysis and commentary based on his 30 years covering the mortgage industry.


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But what you won't hear is the "what's the best Christmas hip-hop album?" debate. Because there is no debate. Because it's Christmas in tha Dogghouse presented by Snoop Dogg.
It's a lovely, festive treat of guns, bitches and bling. It manages to be simultaneously the best and worst album ever released.
Have a listen. Christmas in the Hood is my favourite, followed by Twas the Night Before Xmas.
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Now, I know we've all heard of people being eaten by snakes & I bet most of us have said, 'If a snake tried to eat me, I'd blah, blah, blah & get away.'
Well, this is a Python & they're extremely aggressive & have a few teeth that they use to hold their prey while they wrap around them & then constrict.
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Allukrainische Konferenz der Vertreter der Mennonitengemeinden in der USSR
Allukrainische Konferenz der Vertreter der Mennonitengemeinden in der USSR convened as a last general conference on a regional scale in Melitopol, Ukraine, 5-9 October 1926. The program indicates that the leaders were fully aware of their task and prepared to meet the challenge of the day. A total of 84 representatives met, mostly of the Ukraine, 64 of who were Mennonites and 19 Mennonite Brethren and Evangelical Mennonite Brethren. Fourteen representatives came from outside the Ukraine: Samara 3, Caucasus 2, Crimea 2, Siberia 3, Orenburg 2, Ufa 1, and Turkestan 1. Two government representatives were present.
The chairmen of the Conference were Jakob Rempel, Johann Töws, Peter Nickel, and Jakob Pätkau. First the Kommission für Kirchenangelegenheiten (KfK) gave a report, after which the delegates to the First Mennonite World Conference reported. Local reports from various communities followed. Considerable time was devoted to the constitution of the Conference, a proposed Bible school, the spiritual life of the congregations, work among the young people, proposed publications (songbooks and Unser Blatt), and mission work.
Highly interesting and informative are the brief reports given by the representatives from the settlements of Molotschna, Chortitza, Zagradovka, Memrik, etc. The proposed constitution was unanimously accepted. Various significant lectures were presented. The total number of Mennonites of the Ukraine given for 1926 was 46,829.
"Protokoll." Unser Blatt II (November 1926): 47-53.
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Krahn, Cornelius. "Allukrainische Konferenz der Vertreter der Mennonitengemeinden in der USSR." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 28 Sep 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Allukrainische_Konferenz_der_Vertreter_der_Mennonitengemeinden_in_der_USSR&oldid=132608.
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Krahn, Cornelius. (1959). Allukrainische Konferenz der Vertreter der Mennonitengemeinden in der USSR. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 28 September 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Allukrainische_Konferenz_der_Vertreter_der_Mennonitengemeinden_in_der_USSR&oldid=132608.
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Report: Pittsburgh's air cleaner than ever, but still dirty
American Lung Association puts out new 'State of the Air' report on air quality
A new report says the air in Pittsburgh is getting cleaner, but is still some of the dirtiest in America.
The American Lung American released its annual "State of the Air" report on Wednesday. It found that the Pittsburgh-New Castle area is one of only two metropolitan areas outside of California to rank on the top-25 list for three major pollution levels: soot, ozone, and short-term particle pollution.
Western Pennsylvania was number seven on the list for worst soot pollution, number eight for daily particle pollution, and 24th for high ozone levels.
Even so, the report also finds that Pittsburgh's air is cleaner than it's ever been.
Pittsburghers walking in Mount Washington on Wednesday didn't buy into the report's claim that the air they're breathing is dangerous, especially when compared to Pittsburgh's past.
"It got dark at noon in Pittsburgh," resident Mike King said. "So the air quality is definitely getting better -- 1,000 percent better than it was 20 or 30 years ago."
The report also gave counties a letter grade based on air quality:
Allegheny County: F
Armstrong County: C
Beaver County: C
Washington County: C
Lawrence County: B
The Lung Association says certain groups are at greater risk of health problems due to polluted air, including infants, people with asthma, and the elderly.