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Magic Piano by Smule
By Smule
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From Bruno Mars to Mozart, play the hottest songs!
Relax your soul with beautiful sounds of piano while playing your favorite tunes on original #1 piano rhythm game. Featured by TIME, New York Times and Apple's Best New Apps.
- New hits added daily - 1000+ hits across genres
- Rhythm and tempo control - recreate the music!
- Pair with real vocalists on Sing! Jams mode
- Instrument options: classic, harpsichord, Funky 80's synth, organ and more
Current most popular songs (all genres):
** All of Me - John Legend
** On Top of the World - Imagine Dragons
** Safe and Sound - Capital Cities
** Counting Stars - One Republic
** Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke, ft. T.I. & Pharrell Williams
** Wake Me Up - Avicii ft. Aloe Blacc
** Treasure - Bruno Mars
** Cups - Anna Kendrick
** Stay - Rihanna ft. Mikky Ekko
** Bubbly - Colbie Caillat
** What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction
** Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5
** Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
** Rock You Like a Hurricane - Scorpions
** More Than Words - Extreme
** The Final Countdown - Europe
** Bring Me to Life - Evanescence
** The Magic Flute - Mozart
** Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
** Phantom of the Opera
** Jurassic Park Theme
** Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
** Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
** I Believe I Can Fly - R. Kelly
** Hero - Mariah Carey
** Respect - Aretha Franklin
Want a song that's not available? Suggest songs on Smule's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/smule
Magic Piano makes you sound like a piano prodigy - any time, anywhere. Play your favorite songs with your own spin and sound great every time.
-Follow beams of light to guide your fingertips to the correct note. You control the notes, rhythm and tempo, allowing your creativity and expressivity to shine.
-Try out different instruments - change your piano into a harpsichord, Funky 80's synth, organ and more!
In the new Sing! Jams mode, you can play the piano alongside real vocalists from the Smule community!
-Broadcast your performances on the in-app Smule Globe or listen to other players' songs and give their performances some love.
-Share your pieces through Facebook, Twitter and email.
- You can subscribe for unlimited access to our full song and instrument catalog
- The subscriptions are $2.99 weekly, $7.99 monthly and $39.99/annually*
- You'll be able to play all available songs on any instrument for the duration of your subscription
- Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
- Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package
- Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase
- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period
*Price are equal to the value that "Apple's App Store Matrix" determines is the equivalent of the subscription price in $USD.
What's New in Version 7.2.4
We are ready to go for iOS 9!
Touch pressure recognition
- Enjoy more dynamic music play with Apple's 3D Touch (6s and 6s+ only). Control the volume of each note and express your creativity.
Check it out!
Customer Reviews
Magic Piano by Smule
I admit I pay for VIP in order to get lots of songs....and I feel it's worth it! I really enjoy playing this and am oddly, for me, really enjoying the classical music. I LOVE the white and blue snowflakes from the Christmas songs they are EASIER TO SEE! Thanks for adding the colors. Only gripe is that with a new update, my songs aren't on my iPad waiting for me anymore to play whenever I want. I pay....why did you cut access?to update my review...thanks for the added colors, and the advice to turn off the slide to expand screen feature on my iPad...I can now challenge myself with the Hard level! One request PLEASE...an ability to alphabetized songs AND Artists within Categories. It is very difficult to find my Favorite pieces! I play this Every day and will take piano lessons soon because of it. A suggestion, how about Grand Canyon Suite by Greig? You could cut it into two or three segments, and please give us ENTIRE songs instead of chopping off large portions as in Debusseys Clair De Lune and Joplins Entertainer...it RUDE! I don't turn my car off til the end of a good song!! Thanks for all your Hard Work...please keep it coming!
Love this game
I really love this game. It's really fun, it's amazing,and it's one of my all time favorite games. but I just wish that there are more songs by Michael Jackson. If I were to make any suggestions, they would be: leave me alone, the earth song, smooth criminal, thriller, bad,stranger in Moscow, beat it, remember the time, they don't care about us, Billie Jean, the way you make me feel, who is it, I just can't stop loving you, dirty Diana, black or white, speed demon, give in to me, rock with you, streetwalker. These songs should be takin into consideration, because they are truly amazing, and they are very near and dear to me. I treasure these songs, and it would be so spectacular to be able to play them. Michael Jackson is my biggest idol, and I think that by adding these songs to the playlist, it would be a great way to honor and remember the greatest, most brilliant entertainer that will ever grace the planet. Thank you very much for reading this. I hope you take my suggestions into serious consideration. Thanks again and sorry this is so long lol.
The best app EVER
It's been a long time since I've seen any new Classical pieces. You get new songs in all the time, but I'd sure like to see some more clssical. More Chopin, Schuman, Liszt and especially the Beethoven Concertos: Apassionata, the Emperor, Waldstein, and his late ones too, please.
This is still the best Piano apps on Itunes, and my request and I believe others too was to change the color of the notes. I see you have done that and the added rhymm line also makes things easier. Now the only thing is add more classical as in Beethoven etc and also slow down some of the pieces that are so fast it makes them almost impossible to play; mainly because this is not a piano where you can slide your fingers down the scale. Here we have to play each note individually.
But I am extremely happy with this app despite some minor problems. Just keep going guys and do what you do best and KEEP THIS APP AROUND.
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- Category: Music
- Updated: Sep 24, 2015
- Version: 7.2.4
- Size: 42.9 MB
- Languages: English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Seller: Smule
- © 2010-2014 Smule, Inc.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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APP OF THE DAY: Britannica Kids - Ancient Rome review (iPad)
Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
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Britannica Kids - Ancient Rome
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Firstly, let's clear up any confusion over the price. When Pocket-lint was first sent details about the Encyclopaedia Britannica's new kids app - Britannica Kids - Ancient Rome - we were told that it would cost £4.99. But it's showing in the App Store now for nada.
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Snowdonia National Park Forecast
The Snowdonia National Park.
Viewing Weather Forecast for Saturday 10th October 2015
Forecast last updated on Saturday 10th October 2015 at 9:10am
Summary for all mountain areas
Low cloud and a little drizzle at first over the far northwest of Scotland. Drier, slightly colder, southeasterly winds over England and Wales will extend north across Scotland with clouds lifting and more in the way of sunshine.
Headline for Snowdonia National Park
Dry with sunny periods.
How windy? (On the summits)
Easterly 20 to later possibly 25mph.
Effect of wind on you?
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How Wet?
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Cloud on the hills?
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Chance of cloud free summits?
Sunshine and air clarity?
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All mountain areas of Britain from Sunday 11th October 2015
High pressure centred away to the northeast with a ridge to the UK will give mainly fair conditions on Sunday. A weakening band of drizzly rain will move south early Monday and fizzle out over central Scotland. High pressure centred west of Ireland will then bring a good deal of dry and fairly sunny weather early next week. As the high sinks southwards some rain, drizzle and low cloud may start to affect the north and west of Scotland from time to time later in the week.


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A charming, turn of the century farmhouse, The Bed & Breakfast at Peace Hill sits on 30 acres of working farmland and has been named by Virginia Living Magazine as one of the top bed & breakfasts in eastern Virginia. It offers the peacefulness of the country in historic Charles City County. It is only minutes from Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, The James River Plantations, Civil War sites and Colonial Downs racehorse track. Other attractions include Busch Gardens, antiquing, outlet mall shopping, fishing and golf. The three guest bedrooms have private baths and feature country\Victorian decor including a claw-foot tub and are examples of the superior craftsmanship of a bygone era. Children five years and older are welcome. Refreshments are served upon arrival, dinner is available upon request at an additional charge and our full country breakfast gets raves! Guest refrigerator, books about local attractions and piano. Free Wi-Fi in all rooms.
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on March 18, 2015
My friends and I decided to try The B&B at Peace Hill for a "Girlfriend Getaway in Williamsburg". We wanted to visit the nearby winery and Antique Mall, so this was the perfect end to our day. Relaxing, peaceful, great food and hosts! We enjoyed ourselves so much we decided to put this hidden treasure on our future getaway list.
on March 18, 2015
We loved our stay at Peace Hill. It has country feel, yet with lots of amenities. We stayed in the Holdcroft Room, which is ideal for a couple looking for a getaway. The hosts, Mike and Tanya, were very warm and hospitable--getting to know them enhanced the experience. The proximity to the "Historic Triangle" of Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown was a plus. I wish we had booked a second night.
on February 22, 2015
Life at a slower pace was desired and received on our stay at Peace Hill. Having the place to ourselves was an extra benefit, only adding to the need for a night away from life. The surrounding countryside covered in snow added to the serenity of the place. Our evening supper and breakfast were very good with homemade biscuits and jelly. Thank you for a great stay.
on January 28, 2015
Lovely peaceful country escape with lovely interesting people at the helm!
on January 25, 2015
Great place to stay and a wonderful weekend getaway! The hospitality that Mike and Tanya displayed was like we were their best friends. A tasty breakfast and comfortable beds with local wineries!
Drew& Jenn
on October 11, 2014
We have had a very good experience at the Peacehill B&B.
The room was confortable and extremely clean. The King bed was fabulous.
The breakfasts were delicious and it was with anticipation that we arrived in the breakfast room as they were different everyday!
Tanya and Mike were extremely good hosts discussing with us the region and nearby attractions. The place was very peaceful. We'll make sure to come back.
Dominique and Marc
on July 05, 2014
This area has always been a respite for me...if you haven't found your way out here yet, do yourself a favor! The inn is absolutely beautiful and Tanya and Mike are the most wonderful hosts. They go above and beyond in every way. Your stay (and your meals!) will be amazing!
on June 22, 2014
Tanya and Mike were exceptional host. We stayed at the cottage and it was more than we could have asked for. The food was excellent! And the rosemary scones Tanya sent us off with were awesome! If you are looking for a place to just get away from it all then Peace Hill is for you! Again thanks Tanya and Mike for being such fabulous hosts! We will be back again!
on May 27, 2014
This was the perfect getaway. The cottage is huge and so quiet, and we loved the walk to the farm and the pond. Sunrise over the crops was gorgeous and fireflies at night brought back tons of childhood memories. Breakfast is awesome and innkeepers so kind.
on February 12, 2014
loved our stay at Peace Hill! Mike and Tanya and great inkeepers with great food!
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Bright, cheery with four-poster bed, beautiful heart pine floors. View of woods, fields and beautiful maple tree and yard. The private bath has a hand-held massaging shower head. There is a refrigerator in closet in the hall stocked with bottled water and soft drinks.
Nightly Rate:
$100 - $120
This is a room filled with history - antique, queen-sized iron bed, travel chest with books in keeping with the period. The colors and decor give a garden feel. View of woods, fields, beautiful maple tree and yard. The private bath has a hand-held massaging shower head. There is a refrigerator in the closet in the hall stocked with bottled water and soft drinks.
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$110 - $130
Antique furniture original to the house with an antique brass, queen-sized bed with an elegant, crocheted bed cover. The large bathroom features a claw-foot tub and shower. Terrific view of farm. There is a refrigerator in a hall closet adjacent to the room stocked with bottled water and soft drinks.
The Suite consists of two adjoining rooms. The rooms are the Chickahominy and Charles City Rooms. They are connected by a bath with a tub and a shower with a hand-held, massaging shower head. The Chickahominy Room has a antique iron queen size bed and the Charles City has a four poster double bed. Perfect for families or friends traveling together. There is a refrigerator in the hall stocked with bottled water and soft drinks.
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$150 - $160
Farm, Lake, Countryside, Historic Plantations, Colonial Williamsburg, Historic Jamestown,
Richmond, VA (RIC)
I64 to Rt 155 south 5 miles left on Rt 614-Sturgeon Point-for 6 miles, turn left on Rt 615-Glebe Lane-for 4 miles. Large white house on the right.
Antique Shopping,
Gourmet/Fine Dining,
Historical interests,
National/State parks,
Nature area,
Many southern plantations within 15 miles, Williamsburg 20 miles., Hunting and fishing, Amazing Corn Maze, Civil War sites, Tour real Alpaca farm,
Outlet Stores,
Religious Services,
Other, Private Home Bed and Breakfast
Bath robes, Board games, Ceiling fans, Desk, Fireplace, Library, Piano, Private entrance, Telephone, Washer/dryer, Wedding Facilities ,
Cultivated fields and views of wildlife, morning coffee or tea served to room, Fresh flowers and bedside chocolates, Screened porch with hammock and sun room, walking path through woods
Air conditioning, Hairdryer, Internet Service, Wi-Fi, Wired internet
Bird watching, Boating, Canoeing, Fishing, Golfing, Hiking trails, Hunting, Revolutionary War sites, Relaxing, Civil War sites, Books, Games, Shopping, Sight-seeing
Mike and Tanya Moore
English, Spanish
Mike and Tanya have been married 40 years and have three children and four grandchildren. They have worked hard at the "married life adventure" including staying at bed & breakfasts in four states. They know what makes a b&b special and have incorporated that into The Bed & Breakfast at Peace Hill.
Low fat , Restrictive , Vegetarian , upon request
too many to nameEggs from neighboring, happy chickens and locally grown sausage. Hot breads get rave reviews!
$100 per night
Innkeepers: Mike and Tanya Moore
Guests: 2
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Oakwood Friends School
|Oakwood Friends School
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Oakwood Friends School is a college preparatory school located at 22 Spakenkill Road in Poughkeepsie, New York. Founded in 1796, it was the first college preparatory school in the state of New York.[1] First located in Millbrook, New York under the name of Nine Partners Boarding School.
Nine Partners School[edit]
In 1794, the New York Yearly Meeting appointed a committee of twenty-five to establish a school; their first meeting was on January 13, 1795. On May 1 of that year the New York Yearly Meeting purchased a house and ten acres from Joseph Mabbet, a Quaker from Connecticut, for 1600 pounds, a down payment of 214 pounds was made from the donors: Tripp Mosher, Isaac Thorn, William Thorn, Joseph Talcott, Shadrach Richetson and Jonathan Deuel. With plans of opening a school for the children of nearby Quaker families, it opened on December 20, 1796, and was given the name, Nine Partners School in Mechanic which is now in South Millbrook, New York.[2] By founding the school it made it the state's first co-educational boarding and day school. The school's first superintendent was R. Tripp Mosher and its first principal was Jonathan Talcott, a notable children's book publisher. The school had a total of one hundred students: 70 boys and 30 girls. Children between the ages of seven and fourteen years old for girls and up to age fifteen for boys. A well-known teacher at the school was Jacob Willets [3][4] who was one of the first pupils its opening day of the school, became the head teacher in 1806 and taught until 1828. He was the author of an arithmetic, geography and an atlas, textbooks which were highly recommended and extensively used throughout the academic day. He and his wife Deborah, who was also a former pupil, and became teacher of grammar and mathematics, were head teachers together and contributed to the success during the early years of the school's opening.[5] Another well-known teacher and former pupil, was Lucretia Coffin Mott who entered the school at age thirteen in 1806 and graduated in 1810. While there, she met teacher James Mott, son of one of the founders, whom she married in 1811. Lucretia later led abolition and women's suffrage campaigns as well as working as a teaching assistant. Around that same era, a notable student of the school was Daniel Anthony,[6] who would one day become the father of Susan B. Anthony, another famed early pioneer of women's suffrage.[7]
Friends Academy & Oakwood Seminary[edit]
In 1853, the school and its land was sold to a private party who kept it until 1863. In 1857 the New York Yearly Meeting was eager to open a boarding school in Union Springs which was in central New York. Later that year on September 1 a property southwest of the town of Auburn was purchased for $9,842. The first day of classes was May 11, 1858 with grades 1-12 with only four boarders and twenty day students. Changing its name that year to Friends Academy. On March 23, 1876, the school officially changed its name to Oakwood Seminary, the name was adopted after the large oak grove on the grounds. The school taught regular classes with extra class optional for an extra cost, such as commercial, literary and science courses and by 1896 a biblical course was established. Around the same time the school dropped its lower grades and offered grades 8-12 for both boarding and day students, over the age of twelve years old.
In the 1890s, the school dropped the lower grades and only offered grades 8-12 for both boarders and day students; only requirement was that all students be over 12 years old. In 1915, English teacher Eliezer Pattington was acting head of school while they searched for a permanent head of school. In 1916, William J. Reagan was appointed Principal of the school consisting of sixty-one students. However his first months were not easy, on January 2, 1917, a fire damaged a small portion of the upper levels of the main building, so much so that the board needed to consider the school's future.
Oakwood School[edit]
In 1918, the board decided that with the damage of the fire and the declining population of Quakers in the Union Springs area, they were to relocate the school. The final graduating class was in 1920, and that September the school moved to the 75-acre Coleman Farm in Poughkeepsie, New York. Its first day of operation was on September 28, 1920, with a total of one hundred and twelve students from grades 1-12, in total about 58 were Quaker. Although proper buildings were not ready on its opening day, the school made due and quickly reorganized to comply with the regulations of New York State.[8]
|Boys, Girls
|Walking Club
|Boys, Girls
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Distinguished alumni[edit]
- Keith Bunin, playwright[9]
- Clark Poling, protestant chaplin on troop transport Dorchester[10]
- Bonnie Raitt, singer-songwriter[11]
- Mark Strand, poet[12]
- Jonathan Talbot, artist [13]
- Juan Williams, journalist[14]
- Eliza Maria Mosher, physician, educator,founder of the American Posture League and professor of Physiology at Vassar College [15]
- Ethelwyn Wetherald, journalist and poet,[16]
- Lucretia Coffin Mott, abolitionist[17]
- James Mott, anti-slavery activist[18]
- Annie Finch, American poet and author [19]
Notable former faculty members[edit]
- Jonathan Clark Rogers, President at the University of Georgia from 1949 to 1950 [20]
- George Aaron Barton, author and clergyman [21]
- Goold Brown, grammarian[22]
- Lindley Murray Moore, educator, abolitionist and Principal at Haverford College[23]
- Rufus Jones, writer, philosopher, and social reformer [24]
- William J. Beal, teacher of Natural Sciences, botanist, professor of botany at Michigan Agricultural College [25]
List of headmasters[edit]
- Joseph Talcott, 1796-1806
- Jacob Willets, 1806-1828
- Benjamin and Mary Griffin, 1828-1844
- Jarvis and Lydia Congdon, 1844-1858
- Ezra and Jane Willets, 1858-1859
- Fowell B. Hill, 1859-1860
- William J. Beal, 1860-1862
- Egbert and Martha Carey, 1862-1863
- Thomas and Mary Burgess, 1863-1864
- Frank S. Hall, 1864-1866
- Henry K. Pinkham, 1866-1867
- George Sisson, 1867-1868
- Jacob and Lucy Vining, 1868-1869
- Elijah Cook, 1869-1889
- Charles H. Jones, 1889-1894
- Isaac Sutton, 1894-1897
- Elijah Cook, 1897-1898
- Jonathan Dickinson, 1898-1899
- Leslie A. Bailey, 1899-1900
- Thomas H. Chase, 1900-1901
- Francis N. Maxfield, 1901-1903
- Samuel H. Hodgin, 1903-1905
- Walter Hallock Wood, 1905-1915
- Eliezer Partington, 1915-1916
- William J. Reagan, 1916-1948
- Joesph B. Shane, 1948-1950
- William W. Clark, 1950-1956
- Charles W. Hutton, 1956-1962
- Thomas Purdy, 1962-1968
- John J. Jennings, 1968-1973
- David L. Bourns, 1973-1979
- Theodore Lehmann, 1979-1980
- Clark McK. Simms, 1980-1988
- Robert R. Coombs, 1988-1991
- Stephen Waters, 1991-1993
- Lila A. Gordon, 1993-2000
- Peter F. Bailey, 2000-2015
- Chad Cianfrani, 2015-
- ^ http://www.oakwoodfriends.org/
- ^ "Dutchess County Historical and Genealogical Record Chapter 1". genealogytrails.com.
- ^ "Key to Willetts' Mental and Practical Arithmetic: Solely Designed for the Use of Teachers". Internet Archive.
- ^ "Home of Jacob and Deborah Willetts". New York Historic.
- ^ "History of Washington, NY". rays-place.com.
- ^ "The Underground Railroad in the New York Hudson Valley « Fergus Bordewich: The Imperfect Union". fergusbordewich.com.
- ^ "Lucretia Mott's Heresy - Carol Faulkner". upenn.edu.
- ^ http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/41947332?uid=3739832&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21106461350453
- ^ Keith Bunin, "From the Writers' Picket Lines: 'I Hate That I'm on Strike", Beliefnet, November 15, 2007.
- ^ "Clark V. Poling". Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation.
- ^ "Americana Awards: Levon Helm celebrated; Bonnie Raitt honored for lifetime achievement", Poughkeepsie Journal, September 13, 2012.
- ^ Associated Press (30 November 2014). "Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Strand dies at 80". The Poughkeepsie Journal.
- ^ "Jonathan Talbot: Reference Points—An Artistic Chronology in Progress: 1955-57 - Oakwood Friends School" (accessed 2014-01-22).
- ^ "Oakwood Friends School Welcomes Juan Williams '72" (accessed 2014-01-22).
- ^ "emosher - Staff Memoir Project". umich.edu.
- ^ "Wanda Campbell - Hidden Rooms - Confederation Poets - Canadian Poetry". canadianpoetry.ca.
- ^ Carol Faulkner, Lucretia Mott's Heresy Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America (2011).
- ^ Thomas C. Cornell, "Adam and Anne Mott, Their Ancestors and their Descendants" (1890).
- ^ http://www.anniefinch.com/
- ^ http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/archives/uga97-099.html
- ^ "Guide, George Aaron Barton Papers (UPT 50 B293), University Archives, University of Pennsylvania". upenn.edu.
- ^ "Holdings: Biographical dictionary of American educators /". yorku.ca.
- ^ "Lindley M. Moore House, Rochester New York". Historic Structures.
- ^ "ACCCC: Bio > Jones, Rufus Matthew". yale.edu.
- ^ "Abstract". agronomy.org.
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- Commander-In-Chief's Trophy on line in Air Force vs Navy Updated: Oct-02-15 1:10 pm
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland - Before the college football season began, Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds said one of the main goals of the senior class was to "get the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy back where it belongs."
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EAST HARTFORD, Connecticut - Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds keeps moving up the record books and the Midshipmen keep winning.
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ANNAPOLIS, Maryland - It was only fitting that on a momentous day for Navy football, the Midshipmen's record-setting quarterback Keenan Reynolds continued to etch his name in the history books.


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Hey everyone, hope the new name hasn't thrown you, but we felt it was time to "spiff" it up a little, streamline a little.
We'd love to see more geotagging on the photos you upload too. (Though we won't force it.) It will help others see what you've see, help them share experiences. Thanks!
We'd love to see more geotagging on the photos you upload too. (Though we won't force it.) It will help others see what you've see, help them share experiences. Thanks!
Group DescriptionWelcome to US Route 66 (The Mother Road)... we're glad you're here.
US Route 66 (US 66 or Route 66), also known as the Will Rogers Highway and colloquially known as the Main Street of America or The Mother Road, was a highway within the U.S. Highway System. One of the original U.S. Highways, Route 66 was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year.
The highway, which eventually became one of the most famous roads in America, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, before ending at Los Angeles, covering a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km). It was recognized in popular culture by both a hit song (Written by Bobby Troup and the Route 66 television show in the 1960s.
Route 66 served as a major path for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. It supported the economies of the communities through which the road passed, and in a few cases, it was the entire economy of some towns. People doing business along the route became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those same people later fought to keep the highway alive in the face of the growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System.
Route 66 underwent many improvements and realignments over its lifetime, but on October 13, 1984, the Interstate finally devoured it, the last remaining stretch of Route 66 was bypassed by the opening of a six mile segment of Interstate 40 at nearby Williams, Arizona. 66 was officially decomissioned as a United States Highway on June 27, 1985. One would think that was the end of the story for Route 66, as it is for many highways, but no... it's biggest fame was yet to come.
In February, 1987, The Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona was formed by a small group of people from Arizona Route 66 communities, led by Angel Delgadillo of Seligman, and Jerry Richard and David Wesson, both of Kingman. From this small beginning, a movement grew, and the Route seemed to take on an almost magical, almost religious quality. Many in the USA felt the need to "explore" Route 66, but even stronger was the desire to travel Route 66 by those from Europe. Indeed, traveling Route 66 today, it's almost impossible not to run into people from all over the world, let alone all over the USA. Hit any of the more popular stops, and you'll find them. Tour buses of people pouring into the streets of Seligman, Asian tourists photographing sites in Oklahoma, folks from the U.K. autographing cars at the Cadillac Ranch. Route 66 is no longer just a US Highway that people take to get somewhere, it is the somewhere they're heading to.
What's welcome here:
This group is for photos taken on U.S. Route 66, or within sight of Route 66 (on ANY official alignment of the highway). Photos can be of most anything (historical sites, places, signs, parades, small towns, etc) as long as they're located on US-66. In particular, stuff like:
• Old Motels, Cafes, Diners, Stores, businesses, operating or abandoned.
• Shots of the road itself. (Please, make them interesting.)
• Old signs. ...NOT new signs or roadsigns, unless it's something funny or strange.
• Roadside weirdness or kitsch, including vintage roadside attractions and tourist traps.
• Since there's a LOT of scenery along Route 66, your scenery shots are welcome, but we don't want to become a "flowers & sunsets" kinda group. We don't need you to post 57 scenic shots of the same mountain, or the same portion of the road.
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• Please post your best shots, not just every/anything you've taken. Please don't post 10 views of the same thing. Pick your best, post that.
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St. Paul Student Said He Had a 'Divine Inspiration,' Did Not Commit Rape
The trial of Owen Labrie continued this week, the former student at the elite St. Paul's School who is accused of raping a 15-year-old classmate. On Tuesday, Detective Julie Curtin testified that Labrie told her he didn't rape the girl. Labrie told the officer in initial interviews that he did put on a condom for what… »


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I have been working at Bright Byte Consulting as a contractor (More than a year)
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Advice to Management
Implement benefits.
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Phenomenal pay. The rate was way above business norms.
The executive employees and owners will ignore you while walking right by your cube. There were many times the person who recruited me walked right by my desk and totally ignored me. Not even a wave as they passed. Expect the upper level managers in Bight Byte to not bother to read your resume even when they are working with you on a project. For some odd reason they seem to assume everyone else is not up to snuff on what they were hired for. No matter what your title is they will assume you are there only to take notes. There is also blatant racism and sexism used by the owners. They seem to always prefer the white person over any other color. While there I overheard them make very disparaging comments to the females. One went so far as to ask one of the single females if she was out hunting for a man to marry and settle down and have kids with.
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Good pay rate, extremely professional and serious environment. Somewhat freedom and time flexibility with your hours of work.
If you want a place were you have to be married to your job this is the place. Management has very little idea of what is going on, on an individual level. Management does not do anything to resolve problems.
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Museum sets wine tasting
NORMAN — The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art will host a public Toast to the Arts from 7 to 9 p.m. Feb. 22 to raise money for the museum's student activities and special programming.
Guests ages 21 and older will receive a keepsake engraved wineglass, a cocktail of Cupcake prosecco with St. Germain and a flight of white wines including Ferrari Carano Fume Blanc, Sofia riesling, Eberle moscato, Franciscan chardonnay and Saintsbury rose, provided by Republic National Distributing Co. and Bruce Upthegrove. Sweet and savory foods will be provided courtesy of Local restaurant and Stephanie and Dirk O'Hara of O Asian Fusion.
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YUKON — Hensley's Top Shelf Grill will host a special dinner featuring Chappellet wines at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
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Early 2009, eight human infection cases of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus, with 5 death cases, were reported in China. This again made the world alert on a possible pandemic worldwide, probably caused by avian-origin influenza virus. Again H5N1 is in the spotlight of the world, not only for the scientists but also for the ordinary people. How much do we know about this virus? Where will this virus go and where did it come? Can we avoid a possible pandemic of influenza? Will the human beings conquer this devastating agent? Obviously we can list more questions than we know the answers.
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Varietal: CarignanCarignan is thought to have originated in the Aragon region of Spain, but has spread throughout the Old and New worlds due to its unique characteristics and powerful flavors and features. Today, it is most notably cultivated in Languedoc in France, in Algeria, Sardinia and California, where it is most commonly used as a blending varietal, as its strong tannins and high levels of acidity help boost weaker wines and make them more complex. Carignan is often seen as something of a challenging grape varietal for wineries, as although it often produces high yields, it is particularly susceptible to various forms of rot and fungus. However, when handled carefully and given the correct conditions, the results can be stunning.
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Roots down, heads up: With trees sighted by GPS and huge collections trucked in, Naples Botanical Garden expansion digs toward completion
NAPLES - The thunderheads that boil over Naples Botanical Garden each afternoon literally boom out a warning. Keep planting. Keep planting.
By July 21, most roots must be in the ground, and not just to give them a strong start by drinking in Florida's summer rains. That day, the garden receives 300 plumerias that the staff must plant or propagate and duplicate fairly quickly.
Every aspect of the garden's development is in a race with the clock right now because of the decision to open Phase II a year early, on Nov. 14. Earth movers are crawling around the grounds like herds of electric yellow bison. Brian Galligan, horticulture manager, numbers the plants he and his staff have moved in the thousands — some with high-tech precision. Trees like the house-height strangler fig for the children's garden don't grow in the tiny pleated circle shape architectural drawings show. Major branches stick out in gawky abandon and lean in the directions nature dictates.
"We actually had to put the fig in the ground, then took a GPS to figure out, here's where this tree is going to go and here's where the two tree houses and the bridge go," he explained. "We turned the tree perfectly so it didn't touch any of the structures that were going in around it."
Brian Holley, executive director of Naples Botanical Garden, is playing the role of mother hen, keeping track of the work nearly every day from a golf cart that rambles over increasingly friendly terrain. He's also the proud papa. He's proud of the careful work that has gone into precision digging for underground wells — one foot too far and salt water could leach into its precious fresh water. He's excited about the David Byron Smith Children's Garden, where a net across one of its ponds will allow children to crawl across it like oversize bugs.
He's even more excited about the climbing access to its tree house that will allow children to get to the top using only their arms, which opens it to children in wheel chairs.
"This is the biggest project I've ever worked on," Holley says with a delighted smile," and it's the most fun. I'm really having fun."
The 92-acre development will create three major gardens, a birding tower, an undulating River of Grass swale and walkable preserve, all to be complete in November. A research/studies building project with Florida Gulf Coast University will open in January; work on two more gardens — a Florida Garden and an Asian garden— are scheduled to be complete in 2010, adding 20 more acres. Total bill: $25 million, which has come to the garden in donations, bequests and grants since its 1994 incorporation. The garden is planning a major public opening the weekend of Nov. 14, and 12 weeks of live programming after that to reinforce its appeal.
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The messy work of expansion — as every homeowner knows — usually ends in some last-minute dice tosses. But the garden's board and staff have deliberated every move in a way that has earned it three honors before its doors even open:
* Collier County commissioners presented the garden its WRAP ( Waste Reduction Awareness Program) award this spring for its aggressive recycling program.
Among its efficiencies are rain barrel irrigation, refillable printing cartridges, discarded office paper note pads and ceramic coffee mugs rather than plastic foam cups. Its mulch is recycled, ground from nuisance melaleuca trees taken down on the property.
Even some of its gardens will be recycled: a collection of mature Florida trees donated by Collier Enterprises properties will go into the native areas.
* The garden will have the tough LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) credentials. Weighted priorities go into this title, with water efficiency and material re-use at the top. Holley credits board of directors for this vision: "The thinking was, we're trying to preserve nature. To not do this was going against what we're about," he said.
Visitors won't detect much of the garden's innovation. The 18,000-gallon rainwater cistern for irrigation. The recycled materials — at least 20 percent by LEED standards — in its buildings. The slather of shading vines around structures to lower air conditioning costs.
What visitors will notice is fresh indoor air because its paints and furnishings use low or no volatile organic compounds. And at least some percentage of visitors will notice a feature in the men's bathrooms: waterless urinals.
* The International Plumeria Society of America has chosen Naples Botanical Garden to be one of only two centers in the world for every registered cultivar of the fragrant trees known as frangipani. Creators of registered plumeria are bringing samples to the society's annual meeting in Texas late this month for inspection and shipping.
I have no idea what condition they're arriving in," admitted Carolyn Miller, curator of collections at the garden. "They could arrive as plants. They could arrive as just sticks."
But that's not a problem, she added. Plumeria are propagated easily from branches. Further, Miller knows her plumeria: One of her previous jobs was with the Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens at Kauai, Hawaii.
Until the 1970s, few were cultivated in the continental U.S, Yet their heady, sensual fragrance is known the world over. They have been a foundation for perfumes since the 16th century.
"This is a good climate for them, and we can give them security. It's an ideal place to have this kind of collection," Miller said.
Garden in the trees
The plumeria pose a landscaping challenge for the garden. They're dormant three to four months a year, during which a plumeria generally resembles a clay sculpture of stout branches and a pudgy trunk.
"They're basically sticks during the winter," observed Holley. As he treks through the work site, hard hat on and sunblock ready, he acknowledges his staff has far surpassed him in how they're organizing the gardens, so he knows they'll find a way to incorporate them.
Galligan has. He has found an area for the frangipani where they will be an understory tree to silk floss trees. The latter bloom in the autumn, when the shorter plumeria are dormant.
Flowering trees will figure largely here. Galligan and his staff have moved ones that were cramped in the original garden to create bosks, small wooded areas that will serve as punctuation to the major gardens.
"We're planning one for various types of bauhinia (orchid tree), for jacarandas and tabebuias and for the brachychitons (such as an Illawarra Flame Tree from Australia). These are small groupings that make the viewer say, "Oh, here are some I want to read the signs on,'" he said.
He was impressed with Kraft Construction's scheduling, which organized the siting and planting of trees so it could be done entirely with earth-moving equipment, before the walkways and foundations were poured. That's a major savings over dropping plants in with cranes after the concrete features are finished.
"That was something that could have been potentially terrible that turned out to be a good experience," he said. Galligan is extremely aware that he has to keep planting. He says he's watching the garden grow even while he's out in it daily.
"The interesting thing is to take two or three days off," he said. "You come back and really see the change."
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MetLife Turns to NoSQL for Better Customer Service
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by Angela Guess Doug Henschen of Information Week reports, "Developing an integrated customer view has been on the wish list at insurance giant MetLife for at least 10 years, but it recently took a fresh approach to the challenge by choosing a NoSQL database as the platform for bringing together data from more than 70…
Big Data, Better Customer Service
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by Angela Guess Sean Madden of FastCo has written an article regarding how Big Data is improving customer service. Madden writes, "Last month, I talked to Amazon customer service about my malfunctioning Kindle, and it was great. Thirty seconds after putting in a service request on Amazon's website, my phone rang, and the woman on…
Beyond Sentiment
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[Editor's Note: This guest post is by Tom Reamy, Chief Knowledge Architect and founder of KAPS Group, a group of knowledge architecture, taxonomy, and eLearning consultants. Tom has 20 years of experience in information architecture, intranet management and consulting, and education and training software. Tom will be presenting a tutorial, Text Analytics for Semantic Applications…
Semantics in Customer Service
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The Cogito team has been working on applying semantic technologies to customer service operations.
#SemTechBiz Keynote: Semantics – the B2C Game Changer (Video)
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Bill Guinn, CTO Product Enablers, Amdocs Product Business Unit, delivered a keynote at the 2011 Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco. His talk was one of the highlights for anyone interested in how Semantic Technology can be used in enterprise systems. "I truly believe that semantics can be a game changer in just about any…