text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Aristotle - The "Mother" of All Teachers Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Aristotle - The "Mother" of All Teachers Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Kent F. KruhoefferJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2129Location: 中国 Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:56 am Post subject: Aristotle - The "Mother" of All Teachers Hello EFL Forum People When I read this quote today, I felt suddenly inspired to post it here. "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle Back to top itslatedoorsJoined: 17 Feb 2003Posts: 97 Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 7:27 am Post subject: Aristotole... ...Yawn.....Yawn Back to top Kent F. KruhoefferJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2129Location: 中国 Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 7:46 am Post subject: Hello Mr. Doors! Greetings Mr. Doors How nice of you to 'pop in' on my little post, thus ensuring it stays up near the top of the board, where countless more millions will now be lulled into the sleepy-but oh-so-wise World of Aristotle! As usual, it's always good to read your witty, insightful commentary. Regards, kENt PS: In the subject line of your reply, you misspelled Aristotle. Back to top johnslatJoined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 13859Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 4:14 am Post subject: CALLing all teachers Dear Kent, Don't feel too bad. My post asking for comments about CALL labs got exactly NO responses - zero, zilch, nada. Not, it seems, either a popular or interesting subject. But your quote makes me wonder - isn't it begging the question then, of WHY we " act rightly " ( if, indeed, we do )? And, is there a " universal standard " for " right action "? There you go - now, if you have any comments about CALL labs . . . . Regards, John Back to top bnixJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 645 Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 4:21 am Post subject: Oh..Well.. Why not the "Father of Teachers"?And I would not pay too much attention to "doors".He can't be bothered with niceties like spelling. Back to top johnslatJoined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 13859Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 4:30 am Post subject: Mommy, Daddy Dear bnix, Well, I could be wrong, but I suspect the " Mother " usage was prompted by Saddam's (in)famous " Mother of All Battles " remark. Anyway, " Mother " or " Father " might be inappropriate, since Plato preceded the " Master of Them That Know ". Regards, John Back to top Kent F. KruhoefferJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2129Location: 中国 Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 5:57 am Post subject: "Inquiring minds demand an answer!" Hello Bnix and Johnslat Johnslat is right. My choice of "mother" was figurative, based on that now famous "mother of all battles" phrase coined by Mr. Hussein. Of course I know Aristotle had a weenie. I suppose the underlying inspiration for posting this quotation in the first place came from that spate of earlier posts on dating students and professionalism. When I read the above quote for the first time, it just seemed obvious to me that this was the 'icing on the cake' with regard to all of those "ethics & morality" topics. In other words, actions speak louder than words. I hate like hell to paraphrase Aristotle, but I think that was his main point, and I would have to agree with him. On that note, have a nice day! RegardsAsAlways, kENt PS: Sorry, John, about the lack of replies to your CALL lab post. Here in Russia, a CALL lab consists of something like this: "Hey Vladimir, the phone is ringing!" Back to top arioch36Joined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 3589 Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 2:20 pm Post subject: Actually I think it is amazing the insight the greek philosophers had. Was it Socrates or Aristotle that said the unexamined life is not worth living? Does anyone no the verbatim quote? I like to use it with my students. Back to top johnslatJoined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 13859Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:04 pm Post subject: The moderately examined life Dear arioch 36, It's in Plato's Apology that Socrates states that the unexamined life is not worth living. On the other hand, the overly-examined life isn't much fun, either. Moderation in all things, you see - another Plato/Socrates quote. Regards, John Back to top Kent F. KruhoefferJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2129Location: 中国 Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 3:29 am Post subject: for Arioch36 Hello Arioch36 Here is the quote you were asking about, in context: "Some one will say: Yes, Socrates, but cannot you hold your tongue, and then you may go into a foreign city, and no one will interfere with you? Now I have great difficulty in making you understand my answer to this. For if I tell you that to do as you say would be a disobedience to the God, and therefore that I cannot hold my tongue, you will not believe that I am serious; and if I say again that daily to discourse about virtue, and of those other things about which you hear me examining myself and others, is the greatest good of man, and that the unexamined life is not worth living, you are still less likely to believe me. Yet I say what is true, although a thing of which it is hard for me to persuade you. Also, I have never been accustomed to think that I deserve to suffer any harm. Had I money I might have estimated the offence at what I was able to pay, and not have been much the worse. But I have none, and therefore I must ask you to proportion the fine to my means." And here is the link to Plato's Apology, for a rainy day. http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Plato/Apology/ Back to top arioch36Joined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 3589 Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 11:21 am Post subject: kent, Thanx Chris Back to top itslatedoorsJoined: 17 Feb 2003Posts: 97 Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:19 am Post subject: Spelling A typo is a typo,examine the proximity of the letters o and l on the keyboard....duh?Have a nice day..ha ha ha.... and don't forget,excellence is a result of habit,so is being a wanker. Back to top Kent F. KruhoefferJoined: 22 Jan 2003Posts: 2129Location: 中国 Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:43 am Post subject: to beep or not to beep ... Dear itslatedoors: I do strive to be consistent. And I have taken your thoughtful advice and carefully examined the proximity of the letters "l" and "o" on my keyboard, and you are absolutely correct! Ahh yes, "to *beep* or not to *beep*, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous EFL commentary, or take arms against a sea of negativity, and by opposing, end it? To die, to sleep; No more! ... perchance to read a positive post from itslatedoors..." 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The government of zimbabwe faces a wide variety of difficult economic problems as it struggles with an unsustainable fiscal deficit, an overvalued official exchange rate, hyperinflation, and bare store shelves. its 1998-2002 involvement in the war in the democratic republic of the congo drained hundreds of millions of dollars from the economy. the government's land reform program, characterized by chaos and violence, has badly damaged the commercial farming sector, the traditional source of exports and foreign exchange and the provider of 400,000 jobs, turning zimbabwe into a net importer of food products. the eu and the us provide food aid on humanitarian grounds. badly needed support from the imf has been suspended because of the government's arrears on past loans and the government's unwillingness to enact reforms that would stabilize the economy. the reserve bank of zimbabwe routinely prints money to fund the budget deficit, causing the official annual inflation rate to rise from 32% in 1998, to 133% in 2004, 585% in 2005, passed 1000% in 2006, and 26000% in november 2007. private sector estimates of inflation in 2007 are well above 100,000%. meanwhile, the official exchange rate fell from approximately 1 (revalued) zimbabwean dollar per us dollar in 2003 to 30,000 per us dollar in 2007.
Deforestation; soil erosion; land degradation; air and water pollution; the black rhinoceros herd - once the largest concentration of the species in the world - has been significantly reduced by poaching; poor mining practices have led to toxic waste and heavy metal pollution
Parliamentary democracy
11,350,111 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to aids; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (july 2008 est.)
Southern africa, between south africa and zambia
Total: 390,580 sq km land: 386,670 sq km water: 3,910 sq km
Slightly larger than montana
Conventional long form: republic of zimbabwe conventional short form: zimbabwe former: southern rhodesia, rhodesia
Name: harare geographic coordinates: 17 50 s, 31 03 e time difference: utc+2 (7 hours ahead of washington, dc during standard time)
18-24 years of age for compulsory military service; women are eligible to serve (2007)
Botswana built electric fences and south africa has placed military along the border to stem the flow of thousands of zimbabweans fleeing to find work and escape political persecution; namibia has supported, and in 2004 zimbabwe dropped objections to, plans between botswana and zambia to build a bridge over the zambezi river, thereby de facto recognizing a short, but not clearly delimited, botswana-zambia boundary in the river

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Op-Ed: Choosing a non-education president
The Founding Fathers were wary of giving their new federal government too much power. Education, for example, isn't mentioned in the Constitution. History teachers and textbooks have cited it for generations as the classic example of territory that doesn't belong to the federal government.
This, of course, makes it difficult to explain how there's a Secretary of Education. We sidestep this awkwardness by making federal education programs voluntary, as in, "You don't have to cooperate, but if you don't, you won't get any federal money." Other education programs get filed under civil rights. Unfortunately, the forty-year ledger of our national education experts is written in the red ink of our national report card.
Early in his first term President Bush invited "one hundred advisers and representatives from Washington think tanks" to his Rose Garden to kick-off "Education Week." It's an inauspicious start when you lay plans to save our schools without consulting the real world. No wonder we keep recycling the same pipedreams, bad ideas, and resuscitated slogans.
Like every other "success for all students" incantation, the President's slogan, "No Child Left Behind," was a lie. We're one year away from NCLB's impossible deadline for making every student proficient in reading and math, and according to the law's equally ridiculous mandated testing, roughly eighty percent of the nation's schools are failing.
In case you're thinking that one hundred percent success had always been an absurd goal, by 2010 The Washington Post was reporting that most policymakers and experts also regarded it as "unreachable" and "unrealistic." Of course, they were the same policymakers and experts who'd hailed it as a great idea eight years earlier when a bipartisan Congressional majority had endorsed NCLB, a feat which proves that bipartisanship, however desirable, doesn't guarantee that the government won't do something stupid.
President Obama's education blueprint has featured a flurry of NCLB waivers and procedural changes, but schools are still evaluated based on burgeoning reams of expensive, time-consuming, unreliable standardized testing. Instead of expecting schools to ensure that every student is "proficient" by 2014, his plan expects schools to render every student "college and career ready" by 2020. Fortunately, Mr. Obama's target isn't "an absolute deadline" because we won't be meeting that one either.
The President's signature "Race to the Top" initiative rewards states whose reform proposals incorporate "standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace," "data systems that measure student growth and success," and strategies to employ "effective teachers and principals."
Does anybody seriously believe that schools haven't been trying to prepare students for college and jobs, or that school boards have been trying to hire ineffective teachers and administrators? Where's the magic wand that can transform the testing industry from an avaricious embarrassment to a reliable source of information? How can the same reforms and reformers who have plagued schools for forty years save them now?
While Mr. Obama makes some provision for "public school options," Mr. Romney favors "school choice" for every parent and child. While both candidates endorse including student test scores in teacher evaluations, Mr. Romney would amend NCLB so teachers are designated "highly qualified" and licensed based on their "results in the classroom." In addition, Republican policymakers pledge to "push accountability" for parents. They also favor "rigorous academic standards," "full-day school hours," "year-round schools," and character and abstinence education.
It's laughable to suggest that schools that aren't permitted to discipline students will somehow muster the power to require anything of those students' parents. It's tough to find anyone who isn't in favor rigorous standards - until students fall short of them. It's difficult to understand how the party that bills itself as the guardian of family values now prescribes keeping kids in school away from their homes, morning to night, September through August. It's hypocritical for politicians who crusade to keep government out of people's lives to also demand that the government's schools teach character and take a position on contraception.
President Obama pledges to "make education America's national mission." In a less than stark contrast, Governor Romney touts education as the key to "opportunity for the next generation." While Mr. Romney does complain about money wasted on ill-advised reforms, it's unfair for Democrats to charge that Republicans only "see education as an expense" and not an "investment." While Mr. Obama does recommend spending more money on schools, it's just as inaccurate for Republicans to depict his education platform as "Don't mend it, Just spend it."
Both parties are wrong on a host of crucial issues, from their reliance on outrageously costly, unreliable assessments, to their paradoxical promise of rigorously high standards that all students will attain. Both grant too much credibility and power to experts who don't know anything and education conglomerates with a product to sell. Neither party or candidate has the answer to saving our schools. Even more to the point, our schools can't save the rest of us.
Our essential school problem resides in us, in the children we send to school, and in the responsibility, diligence, and good conduct that characterize those children when they're there. When we solve that problem, then and only then will schools be able to do their job, too.
Peter Berger teaches English in Weathersfield, Vermont. Poor Elijah would be pleased to answer letters addressed to him in care of the editor.


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For most financial instruments we can go long or short and make a bet on the price. In the case of options we can bet on derivatives of price and other factors (e.g., interest rates).
Is there an instrument or a strategy that can benefit from changes in trading volume, besides buying and selling equity in an exchange?


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According to two recent articles from Red Herring, it is apparent that bloggers have become of interest as potential money-making assets to large media organizations.
In the article titled, "Whose Gossip is it Anyway," Sunshine Mugrabi from Red Herring believes that celebrity bloggers have recently stepped up their street cred with the ability to report breaking news in real time. With the recent Michael Richards' racist rant, Mel Gibson's DUI arrest and Britney Spears partying habits, bloggers are able to provide an uncensored point of view on these types of news items. According to the article, television networks like Fox and Warner Bros. are taking notice and have recently offered a contract to online celeb blog TMZ to host a 30 minute television program in the fall. Even editorial staff and advertising reps from more traditional publications are moving to blogs to make their imprint.
However, major television networks aren't the only ones trying to cash-in on the blogosphere.
According to another article, "Newspapers Go Blog Crazy", Alexandra Berzon said editorial staffs at major newspapers have taken notice. Blogs have become a way for newspapers to offer unique online content, like "The Poop," San Francisco
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A suburban jewelry store that offered thousands of dollars in refunds if it snowed three inches or more New Year's Day was robbed Tuesday.
"We will not be open today, burglars broke into our store this morning," PK Bennett Jewelers posted on their Facebook page. "The police have been here, insurance has been here now we are waiting for the cleanup crews."
Mundelein Deputy Police Chief John Monahan said the incident was a typical "smash and grab."
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Two thieves smashed the store's front door around 7:15 a.m. and took off with an unknown amount of jewelry, police said.
The thieves were caught on video, but officials could not detail what was seen on the cameras.
"It's an ongoing investigation," Monahan said. "Some evidence is still being reviewed."
The store's owners said they are cleaning up the mess but "will probably reopen [Wednesday]."
It was not immediately clear if the robbery was related to the promotion the store recently ran.
The store announced plans to refund more than $150,000 to customers who made purchases between Black Friday and Christmas Eve if it snowed more than three inches between midnight and noon on New Year's Day.
But the owners of the jewelry store said the insurance company that wrote the policy claims only 1.1 inches of snow fell at O'Hare International Airport and therefore will not be refunding customers.
"Although we are extremely disappointed in the outcome of this promotion, we are very thankful for the support and fun it has brought to our customers and our business," the jewelers posted on their Facebook page. "We are in the process of using several resources at our disposal to verify the measurement. If anything changes you will be the first to know."
Reports showed O'Hare Airport recorded a total of 4.8 inches of snow Wednesday night.
Rich and Peggy Bennett said they were looking forward to the snow and a chance to give something back to their customers.
They even planned a "cash and champagne" event if the snow forecast came true.
"We are also going to a take a few days to digest this and will have more information to come," the jewelers said on their Facebook page.


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July 5, 1974 - October 1, 2013
Pine Bush, NY
Michael D. Bernal, a lineman for Pro-Line Cable TV in Wallkill, entered into rest Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at Orange Regional Medical Center in Middletown, NY. He was 39.
The son of Jesus Humberto and Kathleen Hermance Bernal, Michael was born July 5, 1974 in Newburgh.
Survivors include his parents, Humberto and Kathleen of the Town of Newburgh; his children: Halie and Janelle Bernal, both of Pine Bush, NY; a brother, Matthew Bernal of San Francisco, CA; and sister, Michelle Bernal of West Harrison, NY; as well as many cousins.
Memorial Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, October 4th, at White & Venuto Funeral Home, 188 North Plank Road, Town of Newburgh, NY.
A Memorial Mass will be offered at 10 a.m., Saturday, October 5th, at Our Lady of Fatima Church, Rt. 32, Plattekill, NY, with Father John Jaume officiating. Burial of Cremains will follow at Calvary Cemetery in New Windsor, NY.
Cremation took place at Cedar Hill Crematory.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations in Michael's memory to a charity of one's choice.
Funeral arrangements under the direction of White & Venuto Funeral Home, 845-562-6550, www.WhiteandVenutoFuneralHome.com


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New stock on the blockOctober 30th, 2012
Mason Graphite's grade even surpasses Lac Knife
by Greg Klein
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Graphite's back in the news with two major announcements, one of which shows a new contender fast approaching Canada's vanguard of advanced projects. On October 30, the day after Focus Graphite TSXV:FMS released its much-anticipated PEA, Mason Graphite TSXV:LLG hit the world stage—or at least the TSX Venture exchange.
The result of a reverse takeover with a capital pool company, POCML 1 Inc, Mason's trading debut opened October 30 at $0.90 and dropped to $0.68 before closing at $0.75. The newcomer's Lac Guéret project in northern Quebec overtakes Focus flagship Lac Knife's claim to have the highest-known graphite grade.
The 11,630-hectare Lac Guéret has measured and indicated resources of 7.6 million tonnes grading 20.4% carbon and an inferred resource of 2.76 million tonnes grading 17.29%. CEO Benoit Gascon tells ResourceClips, "I visited many graphite mines that operated or still operate during my 20 years. This one is unique for that level of grade."
Gascon was president of Stratmin Graphite, former owner of Quebec's Lac-des-Îles Mine, the largest of Canada's two producing graphite mines. In 2002 Gascon negotiated Stratmin's takeover to form Timcal Graphite & Carbon, which now operates the mine. Gascon stayed with Timcal in senior roles.
Mason picked up Lac Guéret earlier this year from Cliffs Natural Resources, which got the property as part of its 2011 acquisition of Consolidated Thompson. The price tag for Mason totals $1.5 million in warrants and $15 million cash, which includes $2.5 million on completing feasibility and another $5 million on beginning commercial production.
Lac Guéret's resource was calculated last summer, based on 2006 drilling. Any day now an 18,000-metre drill program will wrap up, with one resource update planned for December and another for Q1 2013. December's also slated for a PEA. Looking further ahead, feasibility is scheduled for Q3 2014 and commercial production in Q4 2015.
As for community relations, the company hopes to have an impact benefit agreement finalized with the Pessamit Innu band by Q3 2013.
Lac Guéret is a flake graphite deposit, says Mason's corporate development officer Simon Marcotte. Early indications show that "large- and medium-sized flake together is north of 60% [of the resource], but we're hoping it'll be more than that. We'll have a better idea by year-end," he says.
Marcotte doesn't understate his optimism about the resource updates. The project will boast "not only the highest grade of graphite in the world but also the biggest deposit by far—no two ways about that—by a very significant margin."
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The Squire Animus is a type of familiar. It can only be equipped by the Squire, Countess, and Barbarian.
It attacks enemies with multiple heroic arrows. These arrows can penetrate through walls and have a damage multiplier based on the Hero's Damage stat.
Unlock Conditions
Players will automatically receive the Squire Animus after defeating the Ancient Dragon in The Summit on at least Insane difficulty while playing as the Squire or Countess.
- The Squire Animus has a level requirement of 60. However, this is increased to level 74 for items of Mythical Quality.
- As of PC patch 7.16c, Animi are now 7x more effective on Nightmare Difficulty.
- Rewarded by completing the Death From Above challenge as an Squire on at least Medium Difficulty.
Related Items
Other animi are unlocked by defeating the Ancient Dragon in The Summit on at least Insane Difficulty while playing other hero classes. Note that these familiars can only be equipped by their corresponding hero class (e.g. an Apprentice or Adept can only equip the Apprentice Animus).
- Apprentice / Adept - Apprentice Animus
- Huntress / Ranger - Huntress Animus
- Monk / Initiate - Monk Animus
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Texan pleads guilty in massive dog fighting case
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Three more people have pleaded guilty in a multi-state dog fighting investigation, including a Texas man who admitted winning $35,000 at one fight in Alabama.
Demontt Allen of Houston pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge Tuesday in Montgomery, along with Lawrence Watford of Adel, Ga., and William Antone Edwards of Brantley, Ala.
Allen admitted he brought a dog from Texas to a fight near Auburn in August 2011. He said he later got stopped by police with $35,000 in cash that he acknowledged winning at the fight.
Federal prosecutor Clark Morris says thousands of dollars were bet on each dog in the high-stakes fights staged in east Alabama between 2009 and 2013.
Seven people have now pleaded guilty in what Morris called "a horrendous case."


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*1686 (Klášterec nad Ohří), †1721 (Prague)
Czech sculptor: son of J.Brokof, brother of F.M.Brokof. As an artist he started his career in his father´s workshop and later on was trained by other Prague woodcarvers, particularly by F.O. Quitainer. After his father died he became in charge of the family business but after some time he left this position to his brother. Michal´s work definitely represents a transition between his father´s style and his brother´s peak Baroque sculpture. In comparison with his brother´s works, his creations are simpler, less spatially distinctive, stiffer and less harmonized.In spite of that, M.J.J.Brokof belongs among the most outstanding Czech Baroque sculptors even though he stayed in the shadow of his more famous brother.
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It's a perfect start to the holiday season.
Jeremiah beams as the parade arrives. He sees fire trucks, motorcycles, friends and family … even Santa himself! An old-fashioned fire truck follows, overflowing with presents for the entire family. Volunteers string lights and unload gifts – inside and out, the house comes alive.
Today is a turning point. It marks the end of months in the hospital and the loss of Jeremiah's right eye. And it brings his community together. People who heard about his wish pitched in with donated goods and volunteer time to give Jeremiah an experience that could change his life. Before the wish, associates at the local Home Depot met Make-A-Wish® volunteers shopping at their store for Jeremiah. They donated lights, an artificial Christmas tree and other decorations. And the community's participation grew from there.
From firefighters to motorcycle club riders, people who have never met Jeremiah give their time to make his wish come true. His wish for Christmas lights grows into an event that unites his community.
"He hadn't had a chance to celebrate anything this year – his birthday, Easter – because he was in the hospital," Jeremiah's mom, Ida says.
It's a perfect start to the holiday season. Even better, the cancer is in remission. And, for now, the long chemotherapy treatments are over.
Jeremiah's visitors leave his house decorated inside and out. They also leave his family feeling connected to the community like never before.
He hadn't had a chance to celebrate anything this year – his birthday, Easter – because he was in the hospital.
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Fiyero Wolfsbane, A little something extra
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Name: Fiyero Wolfsbane
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Summary: Fiyero is a very simple man in his demeanor. Battle-hardened, yet cheerful and sociable. The men in his army are pleased to not only call him a commander, but a friend as well. When outside of battle, people are immediately drawn to his kind eyes and jovial nature. To his men, he is very quick to make jokes or otherwise socialize in a boundary-breaking fashion. To the ladies, he acts nothing short of chivalrous. His soft nature towards women, unbefitting of a brawler's, comes across as strange. His men, though they would never admit this to his face, have raised questions as to why Fiyero does not pursue the barmaids like they would.
However, his open book personality shuts immediately once the topic of his past surfaces. A boy who not more than a few years ago joined the army, he has already found himself commanding a small squadron of soldiers. People wonder where he came from, and receive only dismissive answers. "A farm in the north.", "Somewhere up by the waters." These vague answers are all he's ever revealed about his past. No mention of family or lovers have ever sprung from his lips.
In terms of appearance, Fiyero is deceptively strong. It is a true testiment to his strength that he is able to wear the aqua armor that he is trademarked to. His facial build is soft and fair, devoid of any facial hair. His eyes are large and doe-eyed. When he announces his age, 24, people struggle to believe him. Certainly he must be but a boy. But, what he doesn't show in person, he shows on the field.
When he enters the battlefield, a switch flips. He stops being the kind, boisterous man he once was, and becomes a soldier. Impaling the enemy without any remorse, it's almost as if he's taking some anger out on the unfortunate enemy who crosses his path.
Appearance: Standing in at a mere 5'5 feet (165.10) meters, and weighing only 145 pounds (65.7 kilograms), Fiyero is not an imposing figure at all. His soft, close-shaven face, as well as large doe eyes, do nothing to combat his meek appearance. His body build is toned for a fighter, but lithe for a knight. His armor does well to cover up the build of his body. The dark sapphire armor gives him bulk in his shoulders and chest, where it would usually be svelte and womanly. His head is covered by a matching blue helmet. Usually it is left open when outside of battle. But when he enters battle, the covered helm does nothing to differentiate himself from his squad. To the enemy, he is just as much of a man as the rest of them. Armor adorns his legs as well, protecting from battle's low blows (which are often literal low blows.)
His face, as immediately noticed, is very childish. His large blue eyes capture the hearts of many maidens (and in one peculiar case, that of a fellow male soldier). His nose is small and petite, owing much to a familial influence. His jawline is soft, leaving a very female quality to his face. His hair, a lusterous blond, is kept hidden underneath his helm. Occasionally he takes it off, revealing a short shaggy mat of blonde hair. His skin matches the light hair he is bestowed with, a lightly sun-kissed skin which betrays his duties as a soldier. In part, this is due to his helmed covering his face and shielding him from the sun. In another part, this is also due to the pale genetics his mother bestowed on him at birth.
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~ Fiyero was not born with his chosen name. Nor was he born with his chosen gender. He was born Marotte, a female from Valhassa. She is not a cross dresser, nor is the male identity a ruse. She is transgendered and identifies fully with being a male.
~In terms of sexuality, he identifies as a straight male. Which means he is attracted to straight women. Another man has no sexual appeal to the knight. A lesbian may or may not be attracted to him physically, though it is doubtful since he embodies a straight male with feminine features.
~He is a runaway noble and advisor's son from Valhassa. He joined the Azgarthan army after fleeing there and craving the call of battle.
~He earned an incredible reputation in the Azgarth army for his excursions into the unexplored lands. In particular, he was one of the first people to slay a giant spider, a feat which earned him commemoration.
~Currently he travels with a small fleet of two other soliders: a Valiant named Elphaba Flynt, and a Brawler named Dmytri Calecgos. They are his closest friends and battle-hardened allies.
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Address: 1406 Short 18th StreetNeighborhood: Woolen MillsAsking: $215,000Assessment: $145,800Year Built: 1940Size: 916 finished sq. ft., 814 unfinishedLand: .17 acresCurb Appeal: 7 out of 10Listing Agent: Courtney Sargeant, Roy Wheeler Realty Co. - 434-962-3100
There's more to the bungalow sitting at 1406 Short 18th Street than first meets the eye.
The front door opens onto a living room painted a bold blue accented by white crown molding and oversided base trim, which lends an air of formality to the space. Two modest bedrooms, also freshly painted, are situated off the living room and share a functional and pristine hall bath. Compact room dimensions, ceiling heights, and closet spaces are reflective of a home built during the 1940s.
But all that ends when you get to the kitchen where stainless appliances, a double sink, numerous cabinets, and ample counter space invite all manner of culinary endeavors. A space along one wall could easily accommodate a kitchen table, a prep area with a pot rack above, or even a retro character piece like a refurbished Hoosier cabinet to act as a counterpoint to the modern finishes.
Adjacent to the kitchen is a small porch. A bit too tiny to house a full-sized table, this room could be used as a cozy sunroom or a quiet breakfast nook. With its tile floor and French doors opening to the backyard, it could also serve as a place to de-boot on rainy days.
A door off to one side of the kitchen opens to a staircase leading up to finished attic space. Ringed with windows, this room feels open and airy despite its modest size. Though billed as a third bedroom, the space seems better suited as an office, a studio, or a playroom, particularly given its distance from the home's sole bathroom.
Stairs in the main hallway lead to a full basement where recessed lighting and access to the side yard help counterbalance the low ceilings. With ample room to expand the living space, accommodate hobby areas, or simply to function as storage space, the basement offers numerous possibilities.
A small raised-bed garden sits near a storage shed in the backyard. Buyers who want to continue– or expand– the gardening effort will be pleased to note the amount of sunlight the backyard enjoys. A concrete pad off to one side is an ideal spot for a gazebo, a swing, or a barbecue command center.
The current owners have made some significant improvements by renovating the kitchen and the bathroom and by replacing all the windows. Wood floors, found throughout the main living area, add character while front and rear decks allow for outdoor living.
That's not to say that there's not still work to be done, though. The front entry offers a view of the bare gravel underside of the deck, though this could easily be screened with lattice. Replacing the hollow-core doors and the cracked tile on the enclosed porch would continue the effort at modernization on the main level. And installing new flooring in the upstairs nook, which currently features lackluster carpet, could make this space the highlight of the home.
The neighborhood is relatively quiet– Short 18th dead-ends at the nearby cemetery gate– and offers easy access to Pantops, Belmont, and downtown. And when summer days lead to thoughts of taking a cool dip, the Greenbelt portion of the Rivanna Trail is within walking/biking distance, and the Onesty swim park is right down the road in Meade Park.~Thrice a month, a brave local seller invites the Hook in for a candid, warts-and-all review. Email to schedule yours today.
Pretty decent bare bones 125K house, but a Total hose job at the asking price.
Some fool will probably buy it, disregarding the reality that many city assessments exceed the value of the house. It couldn't rent for much more than a grand and that don't make a $215K house.
Most of the properties in Woolen Mills are over priced right now, and this one is no different. You've got an older house on Chesapeake that has a $256 per sf asking price (ridiculous) as well as a new house whose builder is using archaic building practices (R13 in the wall, R38 in attic for insulation) and yet is asking $325k. Go around the corner to Chisolm Place and there is a new house that has been on the market for a couple of years now, probably because it is over priced as well. Charlottesville is a great place to live, but now you can see why so many people are moving out to the surrounding counties.
Fine little ticky tacky box, (worth 70K anywhere else) by cville, standards this should be going for a half million...
The overpriced house for sale on Chisholm Place is actually a proposed house to be built on a vacant lot.
Since any buyer has access to this information (from city assessor's website) unless they rely on the ethics of realtors, here we go.
Sold for $100K in 04/04 to interim owners who sold it in 08/06 to current owners, well sort of 'cuz it looks like a marriage or partnership foundered a couple years into their tenancy and the female ended up with the gift deed transferring his interest to her. So they paid $249K for this place in 08/06...ouch, that had to hurt. So at $215K she's getting a haircut, but if someone pays $215K for a house assessed at $145K in this market, they're getting a haircut too. With those numbers, good luck getting financing once an appraiser crunches those numbers. But, maybe stainless appliances and a dinky little slab of granite are worth that $115K bump. Bet the person who owned it for 28 months and sold it to the current owners did the kitchen-to-die-for renovation before skinning the current owners alive..Nothing about this makes any sense to any "prudent buyer".


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[ Email | Share ] CHAMPAIGN,Ill. — Recognizing the 65th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision McCollum v. Board of Education, the award-winning documentary "The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today" will be shown at 7 p.m. March 7 in the auditorium of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana.
Following the free screening, three panelists will discuss the implications of that decision and its relevancy today: Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation; Ken Paulson, a former editor and senior vice president of USA Today, now president and chief executive officer of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University; and Adam Schwartz, senior staff counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.
Journalism professor Jay Rosenstein, the producer, writer and director of the Peabody- and regional Emmy-winning documentary, will moderate the panel.
"The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today" tells the personal story of the late Vashti McCollum, of Champaign, and how her efforts to protect her 10-year-old son led to a landmark First Amendment case, which established the separation of church and state in public schools.
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Partnership for affordable power
This month
Frank Stork shares joins with Duncan Kincheloe of the Missouri Public
Utility Alliance to encourage voters to support Amendment 4 on the November
by Frank Stork and Duncan
In just a few weeks, Missourians
will be voting on Amendment 4. The Amendment is designed to save on the
costs of strengthening the states electric resources. It would do
this by promoting cost-sharing partnerships.
Amendment 4 deals most directly with municipal utilities, which now have
special restrictions on partnership arrangements, but the proposal offers
benefits for all Missouri energy consumers as well.
Missouris electric cooperatives
and the electric utilities owned by Missouris municipalities have
much in common. Both are owned and controlled by the people that they
serve. Decades ago, wise planning by Missouri co-ops led them to join
together to organize the generation and transmission co-ops and Associated
By partnering, they were able
to build the power plants that shield co-op members from the wild prices
that are too common in wholesale power markets these days.
Constitutional Amendment 4
would let the states municipal utilities do the same thing. Some
would like to join together to develop new electric generation.
Amendment 4 is necessary for
these power plants to be financed as joint projects and remain controlled
locally instead of at the state level.
The amendment also promotes
opportunities for partnership projects between or among municipal, co-op
and investor-owned utilities, with each participants share regulated
according to its own structure municipal utilities by local officials,
cooperatives by their members and investor-owned utilities by the state
Public Service Commission.
These partnership opportunities
would encourage broader joint planning to strengthen the states
energy infrastructure. This will help us make sure that Missouri doesnt
become another energy-starved California.
Former Missouri Secretary of
State Bekki Cook, former Auditor Margaret Kelly and former state Public
Service Comission Chairman Karl Zobrist believe Amendment 4 will help
Missouri avoid a California-style energy crisis. The three former state
officials are among the leaders of the Yes on 4 Committee
campaigning for voter approval of the constitutional amendment in November.
Missouris investor-owned
utilities and rural electric cooperatives on an overall basis have enough
power plant capacity to serve their customers.
However, most municipal utilities
do not. The bulk of the 88 city-owned utilities are smaller systems that
cannot economically build individual plants to meet their needs. They
now buy electricity, often from out-of-state suppliers, and power contract
costs are becoming unstable and expensive.
Thousands of Missouri families
and businesses depend on city-owned utilities for electric service. These
utilities cant generate enough power to keep up with customer use.
They need Amendment 4 so they can partner and catch up with their customers
power needs most economically.
With electricity use expected
to grow almost 20 percent over 5 years, every sector of the electric utility
industry needs a plan to keep up with needs if Missouri is going to avoid
what happened in California. Passing Amendment 4 would let that planning
take place.
As the language on the ballot
makes clear, Amendment 4 creates no new costs and provides potential savings
of state revenue by preventing duplicate local and state regulation.
Unfortunately, the rest of
the language on the ballot isnt as clear about the content of the
amendment, so voters will have to remember that Amendment 4 deals with
utility projects. The text describing Amendment 4 on the November ballot
will read as follows:
Shall joint boards or
commissions, established by contract between political subdivisions, be
authorized to own joint projects, to issue bonds in compliance with then
applicable requirements of law, the bonds not being indebtedness of the
state or political subdivisions, and such activities not to be regulated
by the Public Service Commission?
This measure provides potential
savings of state revenue and imposes no new costs.
Amendment 4 will affect only a limited portion of Missouris needs,
so it is not a panacea for the states energy future. But its benefits
will be felt in a number of ways:
With energy costs
rising, sharing expenses is a common-sense approach to saving money.
Missouri will be less dependent on electric power generated in
other states.
Generating power locally will keep dollars and jobs in Missouri.
Local generation makes power delivery more reliable.
Missouri ownership of power generation helps keep rates more
stable and affordable than if power is bought on volatile wholesale
New power plants fostered by the amendment are more likely to
use cleaner and more environment-friendly technologies and fuels.
Keeping regulation at the local level will avoid duplicative
costs to the state.
With energy costs
rising, sharing expenses is a common-sense approach to saving money.
Missouri will be less dependent on electric power generated in
other states.
Generating power locally will keep dollars and jobs in Missouri.
Local generation makes power delivery more reliable.
Missouri ownership of power generation helps keep rates more
stable and affordable than if power is bought on volatile wholesale
New power plants fostered by the amendment are more likely to
use cleaner and more environment-friendly technologies and fuels.
Keeping regulation at the local level will avoid duplicative
costs to the state.
At a time when much of the
nations power industry has experienced turmoil, Missouris
leaders have developed a sound and positive opportunity to save money
and reinforce the states energy resources. Amendment 4 means common-sense
partnerships for affordable power.
Call (573) 445-3279 for more
information about Amendment 4.
As CEO of the Missouri Public
Utility Alliance, Duncan Kincheloe serves as general manager of the Missouri
Association of Municipal Utilities, the Missouri Joint Municipal Electric
Utility Commission and the Municipal Gas Commission of Missouri.
Stork was executive
vice president of the Association of Missouri
Electric Cooperatives and a member of Three Rivers Electric Co-op.


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Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel sounded more like the administration's chief innovation officer than its CIO at a government technology event Feb. 6., offering few clues to where the administration's tech policies are heading next.
The US government's top IT official has made few public appearances in recent months, a fact he attributed to temporarily serving in "three Senate-confirmed jobs at once" as fed CIO, administrator of the Office of E-Government and Information Technology, and acting deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget.
In his first public appearance since returning full-time to his CIO duties, VanRoekel said he has "spent a lot of time over the last few months" helping the administration formulate its fiscal year 2015 budget. But he declined to elaborate on what the president plans to present to Congress, or on his office's plans, except to say "the prevailing theme throughout the budget is tech and innovation -- it's part of everything we do -- and to drive its impact [on a large] scale."
VanRoekel hinted that the fiscal 2015 federal IT budget will remain in line with recent budgets, at about $82 billion, according to the last available figure for FY 2014. Too many federal officials think that to do more you have to spend more, but the opposite can be true, he said, noting that federal budget cutbacks have demonstrated that constraints can lead to more creative approaches.
[Administration officials examine public concerns on IT. Read: White House Launches Big Data, Privacy Review.]
"We have a modest tech budget compared to the [total] federal budget, but we are moving a sector of the economy through our actions, and... moving the world," VanRoekel said, referring to the administration's efforts to get agencies to adopt cloud computing, embrace open data standards, and improve IT security.
VanRoekel's remarks were part of a half-day event called "Igniting Innovation," sponsored by the Institute for Innovation, a unit of trade group ACT-IAC. The event showcased 30 innovative public service projects enabled by IT. Among the organizations and projects that received awards:
The Environmental Protection Agency for its How's My Waterway app, a map-based tool for citizens to determine the water conditions and pollution concerns for almost every body of water in the US. The EPA earned high marks for taking highly technical scientific data and translating it into a service that benefits local consumers.
The Department of Veterans Affairs and Agilex Technologies, which developed an iPad app that lets VA caregivers securely access and share the personal health information of veterans with VA care teams.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, whose Integrated Public Alert and Warning System uses wireless cellular technology to broadcast emergency messages without adding to cellular network congestion during emergencies.
These types of innovations, VanRoekel suggested, are what happens when agencies and companies focus on delivering services from the customer's point of view.
VanRoekel spoke about the innovation lessons he says he learned while at Microsoft and the FCC. "It's all about culture," getting "all hands on deck," and being willing to break the entropy that prevents organizations from changing with the times, he said.
Too often in government, "big ideas lead to big RFPs, which lead to big vendors and to big contracts" -- and eventually to big failures. "It's unsustainable," said VanRoekel, who encouraged IT leaders to work with colleagues, customers, and vendors on more bite-sized projects.
VanRoekel also cautioned against allowing "sunk costs or sunk culture to define your forward path." He credited an FCC staffer for making the distinction between "red laws and blue laws" -- those laws that are required by statute versus rules that employees follow out of habit.
Leaders need to put walls around legacy investments if they're to begin moving forward with new approaches, he said. At the same time, he added, IT departments must "nail the basics" -- manage a single email system rather than a dozen of them, for example -- and they must involve their employees to sustain changes.
Finally, he urged, don't let IT tactics drive your strategies: "Have your strategies define the outcome you want, and work backwards."
Find out how a government program is putting cloud computing on the fast track to better security. Also in the Cloud Security issue of InformationWeek Government: Defense CIO Teri Takai on why FedRAMP helps everyone.Wyatt Kash is a former Editor of InformationWeek Government, and currently VP for Content Strategy at ScoopMedia. He has covered government IT and technology trends since 2004, as Editor-in-Chief of Government Computer News and Defense Systems (owned by The Washington Post ... View Full Bio


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Weil's proof of the Riemann Hypothesis for projective curves relies upon the following positivity result: Let $\mathbb{F}q$ be the finite field with $q$ elements, $\overline{\mathbb{F}q}$ its closure, and $X$ a projective curve defined over $\overline{\mathbb{F}q}$. Let $D$ be a divisor class on $X \times X$ (where two divisors are related if they differ by a principal divisor), and let $\{p\} \times C$ and $C \times \{p\}$ denote the classes containing these elements. Define an integer valued mapping Tr on the divisor classes by
Tr$(D) = D \bullet (\{p\} \times C) + D \bullet (C \times \{p\}) - D \bullet \Delta$,
where $\bullet$ is the standard intersection product, and $\Delta$ is the diagonal divisor class. Now let $\circ$ be the multiplication induced on divisor classes by composition and let $D^t$ be the divisor given by the composition of $D$ and the permutation of the two factors of an element of $C \times C$. It can be shown that
Tr$(D \circ D^t) \geq 0$,
for all $D$. This result is usually called Castelnuovo Positivity, or Weil Positivity. My questions are as follows:
(1) Does anyone know of a good expository proof of this result available online?
(2) Does the result hold for any projective surfaces which are not curves? More specifically, does it hold for $\mathbb{C}P^2$ or for flag varieties?
(3) Is the failure of this Castelnuovo Positivity for projective varieties in general the sole reason that Weil proof does not generalise to all projective varieties?


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Ahead of her new multimedia album and performance residency, we invited Björk to explore her influences in a special collaborative issue of Dazed, featuring some of the world's leading scientists, creative technologists and musical pioneers
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Ahead of her astonishing multimedia album, iPad 'App Suite' and performance residency, Dazed invites Björk to explore her influences in a special collaborative issue of Dazed, featuring some of the world's leading scientists, creative technologists and musical pioneers — plus Björk herself!
Cover Story: Björk
An intimate interview at her home in New York by Dazed editor Rod Stanley, discussing the three-year process that led to a project using new technology to bring the worlds of music and nature together. Exclusive fashion shoot with artist Sam Falls and stylist Katy England.
The Fashion
Influenced by some of the varied 'worlds' of Björk's project, such as DNA, viruses, and crystals, experimental and visually stunning shoots from Robbie Spencer & Richard Burbridge, and Katie Shillingford & Ruth Hogben.
Crystalline: Stefano Pilati & Roger Hiorns
The designer at the head of the house of Yves Saint Laurent has created a crystalline dress for Björk, and discusses his ideas and inspirations. Artist Roger Hiorns discusses how he once coated an entire south London flat in blue copper-sulphate crystals.
Scott Snibbe
An interactive media artist, researcher and entrepreneur. He is one of the first artists to work with projector-based interactivity, and has worked with Björk on some of the key iPad apps in her upcoming Biophilia project.
Drew Berry
Drew Berry is one of the world's foremost animators working in biomedical visualisation, animating the behaviour, dynamics and physical properties of DNA, bio-molecules and proteins. He has designed an app and created animation for Biophilia.
Cult VIP: Norman McLaren
An influence on Björk, Norman McLaren (1914 –1987) was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). McLaren was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including drawn on film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound.
Matthew Herbert & David Paterson
Two cutting-edge sound artists go head to head and discuss their work in volcanoes, tectonic activity and BASS.
Henry Dagg and the Sharpsichord
Henry Dagg is a sound sculptor who formerly worked as a sound engineer for the BBC. His works include a pin barrel harp or 'sharpsichord' which was commissioned for the English Folk Dance and Song Society, and a 'cat organ'. Björk has recorded a song with the sharpsichord.
Andy Cavatorta
The MIT designer of robotic musical instruments reveals his thinking behind the creation of the giant pendulum harps in Björk's live show.


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Robots of the World, UniteBy Tim Moran Print
Knowledge sharing goes global for robotic learners.
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As if we don't have enough to worry about, now comes news that robots are getting their own information-packed network. A recent squib on FastCompany.com reports that a European Union-funded project called RoboEarth is building a database and network that will let robots share information about the world—and us. The robots will both contribute to and curate the network, which will allow them to access and share everything they have learned and everything they do.
For instance: If one robot learns how to set a table for dinner, that information can be made available on the robot net so future robots can learn how to do it too. What one robot has learned is available for all time for other robots. At the speed with which Wikipedia and Facebook have taken off with humans, the mind reels at how rapidly robots will know how to do everything humans can do—except program a remote control. Nobody can do that.
Tech-Savvy Kids Can't Tie Their Shoes
When I was a kid, toys were simple and technology was rudimentary. Consumer technology was just beginning to take off with products like the tape cassette, the portable calculator and the transistor radio. We rode bikes, played stickball and collected baseball cards.
Flash forward 50 years: According to a recent study by AVG, an Internet security company, children today are more likely to know how to navigate with a mouse, play a computer game and operate a smartphone than swim, tie their own shoelaces or make their own breakfast. Said AVG's CEO, J.R. Smith: "Technology has changed what it means to be a parent raising children today—these children are growing up in an environment that would be unrecognizable to their parents."
Ya think? Unless their mothers were computers, of course.
When Computers Wore Skirts
Once upon a time, a "computer" was a person, not a thing. In most cases, this person was female, and therein lies the tale of the women who, in 1942, were part of a secret U.S. military program at the University of Pennsylvania, where they worked as "computers" calculating weapons trajectories for soldiers fighting in World War II. A cohort of these women was turned up by LeAnn Erickson, an associate professor at Temple University, whose research led to a video documentary, Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of World War II.
After the war ended, some of these women were hired to work on that new technology marvel, ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. Though the men who created it, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr., received all the kudos, it was the nascent "programming" and vacuum-tube debugging by women "computers" that actually made ENIAC work. But other than a shared certificate of commendation from the military, "the programmers and their hand-calculating counterparts got no recognition." Until now.
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Carsonie's has a location in Upper Arlington as well as one in Westerville. The Upper Arlington location has a full bar.
The stromboli crust is thin with a crispy exterior. It stands up well to its substantial filling.
The vegetarian stromboli is stuffed with onions, black olives, artichokes, tomatoes and an ocean of cheese. The accompanying marinara sauce is sweet and adds a nice punch to the stromboli.
The decor at Carsonie's in Upper Arlington is heavy on local tchotchkes. There is a separate take-out entrance.


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Law enforcement is key to saving one of the world's most threatened marine mammals - the Dugong (Dugong dugon) - and a project funded by SOS - Save Our Species is on the case in Mozambique.
The Dugong is classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - its population has declined by 30% in the last six decades. Applying the correct penalties for illegal fishing is crucial for reducing the entanglement of dugongs in gill nets - one of the major threats to this shy species.
East Africa's last viable dugong population is represented by an estimated 200 individuals found in Mozambique's Bazaruto Archipelago National Park. This population is geographically isolated and remains under threat from entanglement in gill nets and habitat destruction.
Recently, during several patrols, law enforcement officers in the National Park were able to remove two unattended gill nets and confiscate reef fishing gear from a crew operating in a specially protected zone.
"Bazaruto's Dugongs could vanish in as little as 40 years unless the most significant threats to this population are mitigated," says Karen Allen, Dugong project leader. "Through effective partnerships, and applying both a top-down and bottom-up conservation approach, Bazaruto's Dugongs have a chance of survival."
Throughout Mozambique, dugong numbers have been reduced by incidental takes (bycatch) in small-scale gill net fisheries, as well as by deliberate hunting. Local extinctions have occurred where populations were previously robust.
With the support of SOS, South Africa's Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), an IUCN Member, is able to develop a revised law enforcement strategy and establish systems that will enhance conservation of the National Park.
SOS support has enabled the purchase of critical law enforcement equipment which will help the project raise further funds for aerial surveillance and monitoring. This will allow regular observation of the National Park and areas of special protection. The surveillance flights will double as additional law enforcement support and also collect current dugong sightings and distribution data.
It is hoped the long term success of the project will be ensured by transferring conservation management skills to the National Park's law enforcement officers.
For more information please check out the SOS-funded Dugong project.


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• Gameplay on screen while PS3 assault committed.
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• Guy in fact does look like unemployed douche.
Reasons con:
• PS3 Phat trashed; guy could have been planning to buy PS3 Slim anyway
• A little too perfectly executed.
• Apartment looks like it's priced above "unemployed douche" market.


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Do your brain a favour - volunteer!
There are many good reasons for volunteering, whether you want to give back to your community, aspire to develop a new skill or want to expand your social network. But have you considered the health benefits of volunteering? Keeping your brain in shape is another important reason for volunteering, and a healthy brain is vital for healthy aging.
Volunteering not only engages your mind and body, but it can actually help you age well and reduce the risk of age-related diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
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Volunteering is easy! Consider your own interests and skills, then think of who might benefit. It could be as easy as tutoring young people in a subject you enjoy, lending a hand at your community theatre, or joining a board at a local group or charity.
Whatever you do, start early. The sooner you start volunteering, the greater the benefits you'll reap later on in life.
If you've been thinking about volunteering at the Alzheimer Society, learn about opportunities by contacting your local chapter.


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So folks, with todays Vimeo-Post from the Editing-Crew at Conan some might say we finally will get the FCP8 we all want …desperately.
Some say (THAT POST SHOW) that we will finally see PPro CS6 at NAB this year with lost of cool stuff and (a bit) more FCP feel to it (i'll be there…for that).
Now, we all should not make the (same) mistake some did last year with FCPX – getting too excited too quickly – but it sure looks promising!
Fact is there are not that much options left … FCP7 will get really "old school" at some point … FCPX still is pretty much a toy app (even with "all" these updates) … and AVID MC6 sure is an awesome & solid NLE but it's really made mostly for that: Online/Offline for TV & Movies (thats why Hollywood loves it … i guess) there is no AfterEffects or Motion and stuff like that… even through its an awesome Application (don't get me wrong!)
…so in the end the only real FCP7 replacement is / might be PremierePro.
Well we should wait and we shall see.
On a side note: I actually just started a real work project in Premiere Pro CS 5.5 … yes i know i did test that app several times and i said "it doesn't work well on our machines" but now with the latest Blackmagic Design drivers it finally runs kinda smoothly even with 1080p25 ProRes footage … well not finished yet … but it's looking good 😉


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The University of Massachusetts Amherst is shutting down a prominent laboratory after the death of the high-profile scientist who oversaw the research.
In most fields, that would be the end of the story: An employee passes away, she is replaced, and, professionally speaking, everyone moves on.
But in academia, things are rarely so simple. And Lynn Margulis' death last year at 73, from a stroke, has presented UMass with a dilemma: What to do with the colleagues and equipment, not to mention unfinished work, she left behind?
The death of a working scientist is something every research university can eventually face. But there is no standard protocol for how to cope with it, and the circumstances of Margulis's career and death provide a window on just how difficult that task can be.
Margulis's research - an unusual hybrid of evolutionary theory, biology, and geosciences - often involved ideas so bold they met with widespread doubt.
Sometimes, she was right: She radically changed the way scientists view the evolution of cells. Sometimes, she was wrong: She did not believe that HIV causes AIDS.
The university cannot find a new professor to fill her chair. "It would be impossible to replace her," said James MacAllister, one of her graduate students. "There really isn't anybody else remotely doing the kind of big-picture science Lynn was interested in."
UMass is also not in a position to hang onto the lab's unspent grant money - not that there is much of it. Despite Margulis's prominence, most of her funding in recent years came out of the UMass provost's office or her own pocket.
''We were on a shoestring," said Celeste Asikainen, her graduate student and longtime assistant. "When I needed to buy equipment, she'd say, 'Go borrow it.'"
In short, UMass cannot keep a lab going with no leader and no funding. So Margulis's huge collection of fossils and microorganism samples is seeking a new home, and her eight employees are dispersing with the winds.
At least one, MacAllister, who started his PhD at 64 just a few months ago, figures he will abandon his degree.
''Without Lynn here, there really isn't anyone for me to complete my education with," he said, adding: "It's shocking just how unprepared for this kind of thing universities are."
Scientists outside UMass said roughly the same thing. Several told stories of universities that tried, and usually failed, to hang onto grants after the deaths of the recipients. Others said funding agencies had been generous, extending grants almost as a form of condolence, allowing institutions to wind labs down slowly and give employees time to find new posts.
Sometimes, a close colleague will take over a lab - the way spouses are occasionally drafted to fill Congressional seats - as in the case of Richard Spielman, a University of Pennsylvania geneticist. Spielman was deep into several complex projects when he died unexpectedly of an overwhelming infection in 2009. Vivian Cheung, Spielman's collaborator in research and marriage, merged her husband's lab with her own.
''He was writing a grant, and a day later he died," she said. "I think the university wanted to just wait for a while and then say, 'OK, people here are done.' But I didn't have the heart to do that."
James Staros, the UMass Amherst provost, said he could not remember another case there in which a principal investigator died unexpectedly and left loose ends.
True, he added, when scientists retire, universities face some of the same challenges in shuttering their labs, but at least those scientists are around to supervise.
And scientists nearing retirement very rarely take on new graduate students - unlike Margulis, who added three to her lab last semester.
One of those students, Sean Faulkner, said he feared he would have to change academic specialties but was too racked with grief to make that decision at the moment. On the other hand, he said, "Staying at UMass, working in the same building and the same department - I'm not really emotionally ready for that."
For now, the school is sifting through Margulis's lab, trying to determine what should be passed around the department and what should be packed up.
Her papers will be saved by the Library of Congress. UMass is also scanning many of her images and "making an archive of tiny microorganisms that most people have never heard of," said her daughter Jennifer, executor of her estate.
Some of Lynn Margulis's specimens are likely to stay at UMass for teaching purposes. Others are bound for Barcelona, where her romantic companion of 29 years plans to enshrine them at a museum.
Many of her lab-mates would like to see her legacy continue at UMass, too.
The university held a memorial for Margulis in late March, attracting 225 people, including two from Korea who had never met her but were impressed with her work.
Asikainen, her assistant, said she hoped the university would go further and raise funds for a professorial appointment in Margulis's name.
And MacAllister said he intended to continue the research he did with her - whether or not he gets his PhD.
Just before Margulis' death, he said, the two of them discovered a small freshwater organism that appeared to have a strange type of bacterium living inside. It will take another six months to a year to fully describe the bacterium, but with help from colleagues at other universities, MacAllister is determined to see it happen.
Once the description of Margulis' creature is complete, he said, the organism will be named after her.


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KTA Founder Eddy Berhendt
Eddy Behrendt in 1990
Eddy (Edward) Behrendt, Founder of the Kindertransport Association, a Holocaust Survivor organization, passed away on November 9, 2005 from multiple organ failure in Eugene, Oregon. His beloved wife Sarah was by his side. "I found it more then symbolic that he died on Kristallnacht." His fervor for the world to know and accept responsibility for the mass annihilation of a people was overwhelming.
Eddy Behrendt was born January 30,1930 in the Free City of Danzig, which after World War II was renamed Gdansk. Prior to WWII although a Free City under the jurisdiction of the League of Nations, the culture and language of Danzig was predominantly German. In fact, in the early 1930's, the rise of Nazism was stronger in Danzig than on many parts of Germany.
Eddy at 8 yrs old in
Danzig, 1938
Eddy arriving in England on a Kindertransport,
May 1939
In 1939, at the age of 9, Eddy, being of Jewish faith, was one of 10,000 young children who escaped with their lives from the Holocaust just prior to beginning of the war via the Kindertransport, which took him to safety in England. Eddy lived in England until he was 16, when he found his Mother who had escaped illegally to Palestine (now Israel). At 17 he came to the states as his father, who had been a prominent attorney in Danzig, was living in New York City. Eddy was allowed to enter this country as a derivative citizen.
He served 4 years in the U.S. Army, as a member of the Trust Tankers stationed in Trieste, Italy. This Army group was under the auspices of the U.N. Security Council during the Korean Conflict. Eddy holds an undergraduate and graduate degree and retired as Senior Director of Corporate Personnel with American Home Products (Wyeth) Corporation in NYC in 1993.
Master Sgt. Eddy Behrendt, 101st Airborne - Korean War (Frankfurt,
July 1950)
In 1989 Eddy Behrendt founded and became the first President of the Kindertransport Association. He saw the Kindertransport as a part of Holocaust history that had truly never been explored. With the help of the Simon Wiesenthal Center the KTA began searching for the Kindertransport children who had come to the United States. It took every waking hour, many letters, money, and dedication but within a year these children, now on their way to being seniors, met in the Catskills for a Reunion of emotional proportions. Over 500 Kinder and family members attended.
After he retired, the gavel was turned over to others. Eddy and his wife first moved to the Phoenix/Scottsdale area where he served on the Board of the Phoenix Holocaust Survivors Association. In 1995, he and his wife Sarah went to Eugene, Oregon for a vacation and fell in love with the ambiance and University life style and stayed.
Eddy Behrendt & Lore Feldmann on their wedding day
Eddy with his mother, Erna Behrendt, on his wedding day, June 19, 1955
Once settled in Eugene, they decided to form another organization to provide education for all students 10 years old to college level regarding WWII and the atrocities millions had become victim to. It was called "Reach and Teach." Eddy and his wife Sarah hit the road in their motor home and traveled for over four years back and forth across the country teaching youth in our school system the facts about Holocaust history and related events. He also taught this history on-line and was able to reach several thousand students from all over the world. Eddy was also an adviser to the Committee on the Genocide and Intolerance of the National Council of Teachers in English and has written and presented papers on Holocaust education worldwide.
He leaves his wife Sarah, the families, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren as well as his brother, sister-in-law and many beloved friends, colleagues and students. A Memorial service took place on November 9, 2006 at his crypt in Eugene, Oregon.
A Memorial Fund is being established and contributions may be sent to the; Eddy Behrendt Memorial, 1574 Coburg Rd. Eugene, Or. 97401. "May his memory be a blessing to all who knew and loved him."
Read "The First Step" — Eddy Behrendt's Kinder-Link article about the founding of the KTA.


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