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At First Baptist, we choose to keep these children-almost-teens in the children's department for developmental reasons. Preteens are only just beginning to think abstractly. This cognitive change affects almost every area of growth and development. As young children, they thought of God only in concrete terms. As preteens, they are developing a larger collection of intellectual tools that includes abstract-thinking abilities. These new ways of thinking will find expression in their views of God, grace, salvation, relationships, and just about everything else. Our desire is for this ministry is to help preteens grow mentally, emotionally and socially, but most importantly spiritually. The following activities are offered as ministry to these very special pre-teens.
Open House
Sixth grade open house is a time for parents to gather information about 6th grade ministry. We have a time of fellowship followed with ministry highlights. The open house is held on Sunday morning, at the beginning of the Sunday school hour just after the beginning of the school year.
A Tree for the Children
The Sunday afternoon presentation of the Living Christmas Tree in December is "A Tree for Children." The sixth graders assist by being child-friendly ushers for the event. Our responsibilities are to assist in passing our orders of worship and helping parents find childcare and restrooms.
Throughout the year sixth graders will be given opportunities to reach outside themselves to help others with age-appropriate mission projects. These may include: serving meals at Manna House, collecting and/or sorting toys for Christmas Charities, adopting our own Christmas Angel, etc. The goal is to allow the 6th graders to participate in hands-on ministry.
Messy Games
Messy Games are scheduled during the week of Music Camp. Parents are encouraged to join us for this super fun, super messy night of activity. Be sure to mark your calendar. This is always a favorite!
Bible Presentation
Sixth Grade Bible presentation is scheduled for the last Sunday morning before Sunday School promotion in August. It is an event at which parents have an opportunity to renew their commitment to God in providing a Christian home and education for their children. And, sixth graders have an opportunity to commit themselves to personal responsibility in studying God's word. As a gift from Children's Ministry, we present the outgoing sixth graders with a Teen Study Bible.


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Reece Killworth focuses on Manchester United in the wake of their 3-2 derby victory over Manchester City on Sunday
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When the noisy neighbours are "screaming" there are two things you can do. Stick your fingers in your ears in the hope of blocking it out, or fight fire with fire and take your own volume up a couple of notches.
At the Etihad in May, Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson took the first option. The selection of Ji-sung Park - starting a Premier League game for the first time since January - ahead of Antonio Valencia was the clearest sign of that. Though Park rarely let Ferguson down, Valencia had been one of his shining lights and surely deserved a starting spot for the biggest game of the season? Of course hindsight - and the fact Joe Hart could have lit a cigar at the first whistle and barely been disturbed in the 90 minutes that followed - says yes.
Suitably chastened, on his next trip across town Ferguson reverted to type, the oldest gunslinger in town reverting to the 'you score six, we'll score seven' mentality that has served him so well down the years. Valencia in from the start, Tom Cleverley back in the side just days after hobbling off against Cluj and ignoring what must have been a real temptation to throw one of his trusted lieutenants - Paul Scholes or Ryan Giggs - in. To pick either would have been a mistake.
It was the team most United fans would have gone with. And though City had much the better of the opening exchanges, as is to be expected of a home side, they did not have to wait too long for it to bear fruit. Sixteen minutes in, United put operation counter-attack into play. Fifteen seconds, 10 touches and from Patrice Evra at left-back, the ball had found its way via Robin van Persie, Ashley Young and Wayne Rooney to the bottom corner of the Manchester City net. Just before the half-hour they came again, this time down the right. Valencia linked with Rafael, one of United's stand-out players so far this season, and the Brazilian crossed for Rooney to slide home the second.
No coincidence
United have mastered the art of winning when not playing well - the mark of champions, we are told - but this was counter punching of the highest order. It was nothing new. Fielding two wingers, soaking up pressure and hitting quickly and devastatingly, Ferguson had merely gone back to the future. Young, enjoying one of his better games for United, netted a third just short of the hour mark only to be denied by an incorrect offside flag.
That City would score almost immediately merely added insult to injury. Then when Pablo Zabaleta pulled City level, they looked the probable winners. United did not sit back and take their punishment, though. Forward they went. Danny Welbeck forced a mistake from Gael Clichy, Rafael drew a foul from Carlos Tevez and Van Persie did the rest, aided in no small part by former Arsenal team-mate Samir Nasri in the wall. Fortune played its part, of course, but United supporters will rightly wonder how things would have turned out had Young's goal stood.
But there are still some decisions for Ferguson to take. He must decide on his first-choice goalkeeper - and stick with him. It can be no coincidence that David de Gea's best form for the Red Devils came when Anders Lindegaard was injured. Virtually assured of his place, the young Spaniard was not casting anxious glances over to the bench if he made a mistake. For a man who has regularly stressed the importance of a settled back five, Ferguson is doing neither player any favours with his rotation policy. Lindegaard provides a solid back-up option but De Gea - who showed his class at the Etihad with a quite magnificent double save just before Toure's goal - should now be No.1 for an extended period.
Ferguson's other headache has long been discussed - midfield. With Nani appearing to be on his way out, Valencia and Young made compelling cases at the Etihad for the two wing roles. Centrally, Cleverley and Michael Carrick certainly did not let Ferguson down. Cleverley's form this season has been fitful at best but though his passing and decision-making are not yet as good as theirs, his obvious mobility brings a dimension to the United midfield that Giggs and Scholes cannot.
Carrick is something of a Mr Marmite in the eyes of United fans - some love his composed, simple passing game while others think he is not in the class of Roy Keane as a defensive midfielder or Scholes as an attacking threat. But he plays a key role in breaking up attacks and setting United going. Given the world-class talents the Red Devils have had in their midfield down the years, though, you can perhaps understand why some do not 'get' him.
Whether Ferguson looks to the transfer market - Dutch schemer Wesley Sneijder is again being linked with United - remains to be seen but while his current options are fine domestically, they are likely to be found wanting in Europe. Regaining the Premier League title will suffice for the United fans this season, though, and Sunday shows going back to the future provides the route to glory.

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Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the burgeoning growth of these massive online communities, Wikinomics proves this fear is folly. Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success.
A brilliant guide to one of the most profound changes of our time, Wikinomics challenges our most deeply rooted assumptions about business and will prove indispensable to anyone who wants to understand competitiveness in the 21st century.
Based on a $9-million research project led by best-selling author Don Tapscott, Wikinomics shows how masses of people can participate in the economy like never before. They are creating TV news stories, sequencing genomes, remixing their favorite music, designing software, finding cures for disease, editing school texts, inventing new cosmetics, and even building motorcycles. You'll read about:
An important look into the future, Wikinomics will be your road map for doing business in the 21st century.
©2006 Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams; (P)2007 Tantor Media Inc.
"A clear and exciting preview of how peer innovation will change everything." (Booklist)
"This clear and meticulously researched primer gives business leaders big leg up on mass collaboration possibilities." (Publishers Weekly)
"Editor please"
This book contains some interesting concepts to which I was happy to be introduced and some great stories, mostly from the worlds of business and academia, that illustrate and flesh out the concepts. It is also, unfortunately, tedious and repetitive. A good editor could shorten it by half and vastly improve it by doing so.
The content of the book is excellent, especially for executives not really clued into the wikiness of the tech world. But the narrator, who has a beautiful and strong speaking voice, is so forceful with every sentence, one would think the book is a series of proclamations on how wiki will save the world. As a result the book's message and content began to seem redundant after Chapter 2. Less would have been more in this case.
"sadly, a disappointment"
I was expecting a lot more from this book. If you're looking for something insightful and interesting to listen to, I would suggest either "Freakonomics" or "The World is Flat".
"Wikinomics" blathers on and on about an open-source revolution, and companies that do not embrace the open-source movement will ultimately lose out. I personally would like to believe this, and perhaps there is evidence to really support this general claim, but you will not find it in this book. The author does point out wikipedia and linux and a few other success stories, but these are already very well documented; the author would have you believe he's really pulling back the curtains to show you a world out there that people don't already know about.
The narrator isn't the best, but even an amazing narrator couldn't make this book interesting. The tone of the book is often preachy. This author will not keep your interest beyond the opening passage. A very dull and uninspired book.
"Nothing new here"
Absolutely nothing new here. Tapscott seems to wait for the latest trends to pass and then writes about them as if they are new. If you've heard of Flickr, YouTube or Facebook, you already know what's in this book.
"Not as good as expected"
I heard the author speak at a conference recently and he was/is a super speaker, but this book.....
I am half way through the book now and am finding it a bit slow and heavy on words and opinions but light on examples and cases. There's certainly some good stuff in the material, I was just expecting more.
Incredibly curious and love to listen.
"This book is now outdated"
I purchased this book, as well as Crowdsourcing, the latter of which is the much of the same subject matter, but from 2008, instead of 2007.
The narrator of Crowdsourcing is also much better, with the Wikinomics narrator sounding like he had to take smoke break every 10 minutes, having the raspy voice of a 60 year old chain smoker. Not exactly the sound of a young technology writer. His emphasis when reading is also so measured, it sounds like he's narrating a 1960s PBS documentary. He has no relationship to the material: he actually almost breaks into laughter as he says "Web 2.0".
Buy Crowdsourcing instead.
It explores how some companies in the early 21st century used mass collaboration (or peer production) and open-source technology such as wikis to be successful. According to Tapscott wikinomics is based on four ideas: Openness, Peering, Sharing, and Acting Globally. The use of mass collaboration in a business environment, in recent history, can be seen as an extension of the trend in business to outsource: externalize formerly internal business functions to other business entities. The difference however is that instead of an organized business body brought into being specifically for a unique function, mass collaboration relies on free individual agents to come together and cooperate to improve a given operation or solve a problem. This kind of outsourcing is also referred as crowdsourcing, to reflect this difference. This can be incentivized by a reward system, though it is not required.
While, there are some interesting examples and some valuable insights, the book is far from being a critical study. Even when it is insightful, it is like listening to people smoking pot. Every idea is clever as long as nobody is sober.
The section on Sharing is toothless in examining the implications of the loss of property rights. Real companies should be real careful about drinking this exuberant koolaid. But don't take any of it too seriously - if the authors believed what they were saying, then why didn't they just blog the book for free and make money from "incentives"?
In fact, here is a Godelian puzzle to ponder:
The last chapter will be written by viewers, and was opened for editing on February 5, 2007. So, if the authors truly believed what they are saying in the first chapters that are not open for editing, then why wouldn't they let the wisdom of the crowd edit the first part as well?
If you are going to read this, then please also read The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen.
By the way, the first paragraph of my review was lifted from wikipedia.
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"Ra Ra, but Where's the Beef"
The book looks at Wikipedia and a cluster of other very recent open source success as though this were a wild new idea with little or no precedence. The result is almost propagandistic.
A longer term perspective that looked at GNU (a precursor to Linux from the early '80s) and professional societies (a very early kind of open sourcing) would have revealed more weighty questions. Most open-source movements have largely failed, especially in computing. Even Linux is starting to seriously lag the state of the art. Reading this book creates the opposite impression.
Wikipedia is amazing; it is changing the world. But why? And will it last? Is it representative? Is it even the right story or is the destruction of Britannica the important story?
I suspect that in the future open source will be primarily a tool that businesses use to compete with each other, with results that are as often destructive as creative. But this book doesn't even create a framework for discussing this possibility.
Thought provoking.. One of the most eye opening technology books out there! Don't let the name of put you off .. I thought I understood the internet , well I now have an understanding of true collaboration in the globe market .. If you have enjoyed books like : The world is flat or the Innovators Solution or What's Next . This book will help pull it all together..
I loved listening to books during my commute to work. Maybe I shouldn't have retired!
In the future, people (mainly youngsters) and forward-looking corporations will collaborate and accomplish amazing things. There, I just saved you 13 hours of listening to this book. Talk about having one idea and beating it to death over and over and over. Also, the narrator uses the same inflection for every single sentence he reads making it just that much more painful to listen to. My advice: skip this book.


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Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]
Sports and Bieber. Not only is that the title of my upcoming memoir, but it about sums up the biggest Twitter trends on this week's chart.
International soccer, a trend that has hovered around number three or four on our chart for weeks, has finally broken through to the top slot, thanks to some big matches and the discussion of FIFA politics.
Stateside, the NBA finals kicked off between the Miami Heat and the Dallas Mavericks. Tweets about the tournament propelled the topic to the number two spot — a rare feat for American sports on Twitter.
And like a warm blanket, the reassuring presence of Justin Bieber returns to this week's top 10, thanks in part to some fervent Beliebers in Latin America. The Biebs rings in at number three.
To see the full list, check out the chart below. Because this is a topical list, hashtag memes and games have been omitted from the chart. The aggregate is based on Twitter's own trending algorithm, and does not necessarily reflect raw tweet volume.
You can check past Twitter trends in our Top Twitter Topics section.
Top Twitter Trends This Week: 5/27 - 6/2
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Soccer/Football |
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May 28 was the UEFA Champions League final between Manchester United and Barcelona. Barcelona won, 3-1. Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes annouced his retirement from playing football on May 31. He will now work as a coach with the club. Soccer fans also discussed their displeasure with FIFA president Sepp Blatter who was unopposed in his controversial re-election. |
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NBA Finals |
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The NBA Finals series began this week between the Miami Heat and the Dallas Mavericks. Users came up with some new nicknames for players: Batman & Robin, LeBum, LeChicken and Dirk NoRingski. The series is tied, 1-1. |
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Justin Bieber |
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This week, Bieber fever continues unabated with new trends primarily coming from fans in Latin America. |
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Sean Kingston |
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Singer Sean Kingston got in a jet skiing accident in Florida and was in critical condition. He has now stabilized. |
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Gil Scott-Heron |
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Gil Scott-Heron was an influential poet and musician who died on May 27 at the age of 62. His most well-known piece is the radical "The Revolution Will Not be Televised." |
#6 |
Spanish Protests |
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At approximately 7 a.m. on May 27, the city council of Barcelona decided to send 350 police officers from the Mossos d'Esquadra and another 100 or so from the Guàrdia Urbana to temporarily vacate Plaça de Catalunya so that it could be cleaned ahead of the final of the Champions League final on May 28. According to police figures, more than 12,000 people gathered in Barcelona through the course of the day, angry about the earlier actions of the police.The clearing of the Barcelona camp was broadcast live by two Spanish television channels, including Antena 3, and was also widely dispersed through social networks like Twitter. |
#7 |
Demi Lovato |
1 |
"Lovatics," or Demi Lovato fans, took to Twitter to send supportive messages to her. |
#8 |
Britain's Got Talent |
1 |
This UK variety show aired semi-final rounds every night this week, garnering the series a lot of time in Twitter's top trends. Contestants generating the most discussion were organist Jean Martyn, Steven Hall, Edward Reid (who sang a bunch of kids' TV theme songs), Joe Oakley, Ronan Parke and Jay Worley. |
#9 |
Marilyn Monroe |
1 |
Users noted Marilyn Monroe's 85th birthday would have occurred on June 1, 2011 if she were still living. |
#10 |
Single Ladies |
1 |
VH1's first scripted series, Single Ladies, stars Lisa Raye and Stacey Dash, and premiered this week on Monday night. The show is written and created by Stacy Littlejohn and directed by Tamra Davis. |
Data aggregate courtesy of What the Trend.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, 123render


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New cases of lupus10/03/2000 |
How many people get lupus every year.Thank you
More than 8 per 100,000 in women and more than 1 per 100,000 men develop lupus every year.It is worrying that the incidence of lupus has markedly increased in recent years - a recent study compared the incidence (new cases per year) of lupus between 1950-1979 and 1980-1992 in Olmsted County, Minnesota: In 1950-79 the incidence in females was 2.47, it increased to 9.4 in 1980-92 (more than trippled). Similarly, in males, it increased from 0.5 to 1.54. Moreover, many cases with a milder disease or atypical presentation remain undetected. In this study, the prevalence (i.e., total cases in the population) was 130 per 100,000. The incidence and prevalence is higher in certain ethnic groups - e.g., African-American women appear to have a higher incidence.
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Nothing to be Done at the 2014 New Zealand Fringe Festival
Made in England. Raised in South Africa and Brazil. Studied in Wellington and lived in New York. Luwita Hana Randhawa may be Malaysian, but her international and nomadic background feeds well into her personality and her comedy.
After moving back to her hometown Kuala Lumpur in 2012, Luwita began to test her hand at stand-up comedy. Soon, she became a regular open-micer in the local stand-up scene and in September, she won the Best Female Youth Newcomer Award at the Short+Sweet Stand-Up Comedy Festival Malaysia.
As one of only a few up-and-coming female comics in the Malaysian scene, Luwita has in the past year also performed at shows in Hong Kong, Cambodia, Singapore and Sydney. Now she is coming to Wellington with her solo show Nothing to be Done for three nights during the 2014 Fringe.
Luwita finds the root of her jokes in the quotidian, delivering her observations and anecdotes in a dry and at times sassy manner. "I guess I tend to start with myself, poking fun at myself and my life. I think it's a good place to start, to be introspective, and that way the audience gets to know you a little too. I'm looking forward to returning to Wellington, where I studied film and theatre for three years at Vic – there are some good stories in there to tell."
Below are the full details of the show:
Nothing to be Done (45mins) | Feb 19-21, 830pm | Fringe Bar
The collected musings and broodings of a twenty-something former international student of Wellington, comedienne Luwita Hana Randhawa. Half dry, half sassy and mostly funny. Thumbs up.
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"Dexter" returns for its final season in just two short weeks. We've seen the first two episodes, so we thought we'd provide a few teasers for you about the upcoming Season 8.
First off, we're incredibly excited about what the first two episodes set up for the rest of the season. We can't say much because we don't want to spoil it for you, but let's just say there's a twist we did not see coming and it sets up a great ending for this Showtime drama.
Here are a few other things to look forward to. There are minor spoilers, so don't keep reading if you want to be spoiler-free:
- There's a bit of a time jump from where Season 7 left off, providing several new events that have transpired in the unseen months, including Dexter appearing to be living a pretty full life.
- Miami Metro is boasting a new team member in the form of Det. Angie Miller (Dana L. Wilson). She's fairly quiet so far, but you know what they say … it's always the quiet ones.
- A new "Dexter" couple definitely has us scratching our heads, but, hey, whatever works.
- Sean Patrick Flanery, previously announced as a guest star, is the owner of a private investigation firm — and maybe this is our jaded "Dexter" viewing coming through, but we are already suspicious of him.
- Speaking of guest stars, Charlotte Rampling as Dr. Evelyn Vogel (pictured above), a neuro-psychiatrist who focuses on young psychopaths, might be our favorite season-long guest star in the history of the show. She's the woman who Harry turned to to help form Dexter and his code. Can anyone say, "Mommy issues"?
- We've seen in the preview trailers how Debra is on a downward spiral following her killing LaGuerta, but interestingly, she's not the only one who is lost in the wake of Maria's death.
- The killer everyone is hunting this season is The Brain Surgeon, so called because he removes the part of his victims' brains that process empathy. Chew on that for a bit.
"Dexter" returns Sunday, June 30 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime.


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I am trying to leave an expression in a phasor (Euler's Form) format. If my angle theta is a non-decimal number it remains in the form I desire: In[1]: Exp[I 3] Out[1]: Exp[I 3] However, if my angle is a decimal approximation, Mathematica converts to a rectangular format: In[2]: Exp[I .3] Out[2]: 0.955336 + 0.29552 I I would like to have the output remain in phasor notation. Can you help? The specific problem I was working with was: In[3]: Exp[I ArcTan[1/8]] When I tried to numerical approximate the ArcTan[ ], Mathematica shifted to the rectangular format. I have tried numerous techniques but to no avail. Capt Paul Simonich Dept of Mathematical Sciences U.S. Air Force Academy


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The Scottish Tory Party Conference was held in Troon on the Ayrshire Coast this year. The small seaside town has been swarming with police all week, even to the extent of mounted officers patrolling the beach (no doubt looking for kids building sandcastles without planning permission). David Cameron gave a speech to the Tory faithful in Scotland on Friday. Today the STUC held a march and rally of around 1000-1200 protesters.
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Finally!!! We have a confirmation on the second part of each of these sets!!! I know Nute Gunray isn't the most amazing character in the world but I am glad we are getting a proper AOTC version of him as well as new figures of Shu Mai and Passel Argente.
The Jedi council set is gonna be great as well. It's nice to see that, since they killed off these characters, we are going to get Yaddle and Yarael Poof. Yeah... there's old Depa Bilaba but, you know, Adi Gallia needs someone to pal around with!! Thank the maker we didn't have to endure another resculpt in the second Jedi council set. Glad these are all new figures this go around!
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We introduce a phase-control holographic technique to characterize scattering media with the purpose of focusing light through it. The system generates computer-generated holograms implemented via a deformable mirror device (DMD) based on micro-electro-mechanical technology. The DMD can be updated at high data rates, enabling high speed wavefront measurements using the transmission matrix method. The transmission matrix of a scattering material determines the hologram required for focusing through the scatterer. We demonstrate this technique measuring a transmission matrix with 256 input modes and a single output mode in 33.8 ms and creating a focus with a signal to background ratio of 160. We also demonstrate focusing through a temporally dynamic, strongly scattering sample with short speckle decorrelation times.
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The Southeast of the Balearic island of Mallorca, along the natural beach of Es Trenc, boasts the ideal conditions for the creation of a top quality natural product. The water is crystal clear, a gentle breeze blows throughout the summer months landwards towards Es Trenc, a place with a longstanding tradition of sea salt harvesting.
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Audio Mixers: Dennis Dragon; John Wood ; Roger Mayer.
Liner Note Authors: Greg Prestopino; Joe Boyd; Anna McGarrigle.
Recording information: A&R Studios, New York, NY (1971); A&R Studios, San Quebec, Montreal, QC (1971); Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, CA (1971); Le Studio, Morin Heights, Quebec (1971); New York, NY (1971); Sunwest Studios, Hollywood, CA (1971); A&R Studios, New York, NY (1974); A&R Studios, San Quebec, Montreal, QC (1974); Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, CA (1974); Le Studio, Morin Heights, Quebec (1974); New York, NY (1974); Sunwest Studios, Hollywood, CA (1974).
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God wins. If I had to summarize the message of Revelation in just two words, those would be my choice. They not only convey the point of the book but also hint at its main storyline. Despite what some overly …Read More
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It began as a friendly family game of Monopoly. I informed my son that he had landed on Park Place. His mind stuck on the words and started to spin: "Park Place, Park Place…" Over and over he repeated the …Read More
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John Newton is best known as the writer of the hymn "Amazing Grace". Were that all he bequeathed to the church, it would be an incredible legacy. There is another small work by Newton, however, that I believe could be …Read More
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A great debate and controversy over what is proper worship before God is going on in our time. As I have wrestled with this question, I keep going back to the Old Testament. I know this is a dangerous practice …Read More
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Might there be a time when readers of the Bible will not understand — without a host of reference books — what a sower is? For most of the world's history, the majority of people made their living from the …Read More
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We are made in God's image. The sheer fact that we could spend the rest of our lives contemplating what it means to be made in God's image, without beginning to scratch the surface, reminds us that we are God's …Read More
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The Pastor's Example of Evangelism
In his final letter, Paul charges Timothy, his son in the faith, to "do the work of an evangelist" (2 Tim. 4:5). By these words, the aged Apostle establishes the timeless standard for pastoral ministry, not only for young …Read More
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The Megopolis Hong Kong - What Happens Around Dusk
Believe it or not, there is a small documentary being filmed about me. I don't know what to think about it - only to assume it is going to be rather boring! I think it is going to be a lot like Grizzly Man, just without the bear.
As this gal is going about her process of gathering materials, she asked me for a few of the original shots from Hong Kong so she can show them during the documentary. I was going back through my old shots, and found that I had never processed THIS one of Hong Kong, which has a really moody dusk sky, so I spent a few hours to clean it up for publication.
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Understanding How Earthquakes Affect the Built Environment: Day 4
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This engineering educational module on the behavior of piles in soft clays during earthquake loading seeks to introduce engineering as a viable career to 5th-8th graders and teach students how geotechnical engineers design foundations in marginal soils to minimize damage to infrastructure during earthquakes. A five hour module is presented to simulate real-world behavior of piles in soft clays during earthquake loading, and visually show the improvement in how these same piles behave after being stabilized with a deep soil mixing technique. In this module, soft soil is simulated by using Jell-O®, piles are simulated using Slim Jims® and soil stabilization is simulated using peanut butter, marshmallows or cheese. Each student group has to design a stabilization procedure to strengthen the piles. The students compete to see who can design a pile with the least amount of deflection for the least amount of money. This five-hour module is divided into hour long segments for ease of application.
Pile foundations are an integral part of many civil engineering structures, such as highway bridges, port facilities and tall buildings. Foundations can have a huge impact on an above ground structures' ability to withstand earthquakes. If a foundation is built strong enough, the damage to the above ground structure will be minimal. Therefore, it is important to understand how to build foundations in areas of the world where the soil is not very strong. In some cases, it becomes necessary to improve the soil using material like cement. The interaction between the foundation and the soil is called "soil-structure interaction" and it is very important in geotechnical engineering, but is difficult to "see" because it happens underground. In order for students to fully grasp how a pile foundation in soft soil would be affected by an earthquake and how it would behave after the surrounding soil was improved, it is imperative to use simulated soil allowing students to "see" into the subsurface to observe pile behavior underneath the ground during an earthquake. Jell-O® is used as "soft clay" soil because it is translucent, as well as soft enough to show adequate deflections in an unimproved pile. Slim Jims® (beef jerky) are the pile material, creamy and crunchy peanut butter, small and large marshmallows, as well as sharp cheddar cheese are the stabilizing material to improve the pile performance, and Lollipops are inserted into the top of the Slim Jim® piles to simulate a structure. The students compete to see who can design a pile with the least amount of deflection for the least amount of money using a predetermined cost list and an optimization equation. This module can be administered to a class size as small as 5 to as large as 35 (or more) with enough help. The larger the class, the more Jell-O has to be made. The average 2011 cost per group, including all supplies and after a shaker has been built, is roughly $10, although this cost can be offset by having each student bring in a plastic tub, a box of Jell-O® and some excavating spoons.
Earthquake Engineering Component
The goal of this activity is to teach students about geotechnical engineering and strengthening foundations to lessen movements and therefore, damages, due to earthquakes. The model is a direct comparison to real-life examples of improving the behavior of bridges built in soft soil by using cement deep soil mixing to strengthen the existing pile foundations. In this case, the cement deep soil mixing is simulated using a variety of edible materials with different cohesive and strength properties, such as cheese, peanut butter and marshmallows. This model is relevant to the field of earthquake engineering because every year, thousands of people lose their lives due to structure collapses during and after earthquakes. Many of these collapses could be prevented by building better foundation systems.
Learning Objectives and Standards
Links to the National Science Standards and to individual State Science Standards are available by using this link:
The specific learning outcomes of this module are to:
1. Learn the importance of geotechnical engineering and foundation systems in keeping structures safe during earthquakes.
2. Improve a zone of soft soil around piles to reduce movement, therefore, minimizing earthquake induced damage.
3. Gain insight into geotechnical engineering to broaden career path opportunities.
4. Improve the perceptions of engineers and the engineering profession.
The standards pertaining to Day 4 of this module are as follows:
OAC 210:15-3-78: Standards for Inquiry, Physical, Life, and Earth/Space Science
Process Standard 1.1. Identify qualitative and/or quantitative changes given conditions (e.g., temperature, mass, volume, time, position, length) before, during, and after an event.
Process Standard 1.2. Use appropriate tools (e.g., metricruler, graduated cylinder, thermometer, balances, spring scales, stopwatches, computers, hand held data collection devices) to measure objects, organisms, and/orevents.
Process Standard 1.3. Use appropriate International System of Units (SI) (i.e., grams, meters, liters, degrees Celsius, and seconds); and SI prefixes (i.e. milli-, centi-, and kilo-) when measuring objects, organisms and/o revents.
Process Standard 3.1. Ask questions about the world and design investigations that lead to scientific inquiry. Identify testable questions based on prior knowledge, background research,or observations.
Process Standard 3.2. Evaluate the design of a scientific investigation.
Process Standard 3.3. Identify variables and/o rcontrols in an experimental setup: independent variable and dependent variable.
Process Standard 3.4. Identify a testable hypothesis for an experiment.
Process Standard 3.5. Follow a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.
Process Standard 3.6. Recognize potential hazards and practice safety procedures in all science activities.
Process Standard 4.1. Report and record both quantitative/qualitative data in an appropriate method when given an experimental procedure or data.
Process Standard 4.3. Evaluate data to develop reasonable explanation, and/or predictions.
Process Standard 4.4. Determine if results of investigations support or do not support hypotheses.
Process Standard 4.5. Communicate scientific processes, procedures, and conclusions (e.g., model, poster, diagram, journal entry, lab report, scientific paper,oral presentation, and digital presentation).
Process Standard 5.1. Ask questions that can be answered through scientific investigation.
Process Standard 5.2. Designand conduct experiments utilizing scientific processes.
Process Standard 5.3. Use the engineering design process to address a problem or need (e.g., identify a need, conduct background research, prepare preliminary designs, build and test a prototype, test and revise design, communicate results).
Process Standard 5.4. Understand the value of, and use technology to gather data and analyze results of investigations (e.g., probes, hand-held digital devices, digital cameras, software, computers, calculators, digital balances, GPS).
Process Standard 5.5. Develop alogical relationship between evidence and explanation to form and communicate a valid conclusion, and suggest alternative explanation.
Standard 2.1. The motion of an object can be measured. The position of an object, its speed and direction can be represented on a graph.
OAC210:15-3-46.1: MATHEMATICS: Grades 6 -8
Process Standard 1.1: Develop and test strategies to solve practical, everyday problems which may have single or multiple answers.
Process Standard 1.2. Use technology to generate and analyze data to solve problems.
Process Standard 1.3. Formulate problems from situations within and outside of mathematics and generalize solutions and strategies to new problem situations.
Process Standard 1.4. Evaluateresultsto determinetheirreasonableness.
Process Standard 1.5. Apply a variety of strategies (e.g., restate the problem, look for a pattern, diagrams, solve a simpler problem, work backwards, trial and error) to solve problems, with emphasis on multistep and non-routine problems.
Process Standard 2.1: Discuss, interpret, translate (from one to another) and evaluate mathematical ideas (e.g., oral, written, pictorial, concrete, graphical,algebraic).
Process Standard 2.2. Reflecton and justify reasoning in mathematical problem solving (e.g., convince, demonstrate, formulate).
Process Standard 2.3. Selec tand use appropriate terminology when discussing mathematical concepts and ideas.
Process Standard 3.1. Identify and extend patterns and use experiences and observations to make suppositions.
Process Standard 3.2. Use counterexamples to disprove suppositions (e.g., all squares are rectangles, but are all rectangles squares?).
Process Standard 3.3. Develop and evaluate mathematical arguments (e.g.,agree or disagree with the reasoning of other classmates and explain why).
Process Standard 4.1. Apply mathematical strategies to solve problems that arise from other disciplines and the real world.
Material List
The quantities of these items will depend on the number of students participating in the module, the size of the Jell-O® container chosen as well as the format of the day. For one group of 5 students, using the same size box as detailed here, with a module performed over 5 class periods on different days, the quantities of the material are:
- Jell-O® tub: (1) Plastic, Dimensions: 15" X 11-1/2" X 6"
Figure 1: 15" X 11-1/2" X 6" Plastic Jell-O® tub with 6 Piles; Jell-O® Depth = 3"
- Jell-O® (117 ounces: Each tub contains 13-3 oz boxes = 39 ounces per tub + 12 cups or 3 liters of boiling water + 14 cups or 3.5 liters of cold water)
- Final Design - 1 tub (39 ounces)
- Slim-Jims®: diameter=1 cm (0.39 inches), length=9.5 cm (3.74 inches)
- Final Design - 1
- Soil (Jell-O® Stabilization)
- Cheese (1 block): Multiple molds can be cut out of 1 block to suffice for all three aspects of the experiment (Demonstration, Jell-O® play and Final Design)
- Creamy and Crunchy Peanut Butter: (8 oz of each - about 1/2 of a regularly sized peanut butter container)
- Small and Large Marshmallows: (6 of each, depending on final designs)
- Lollipops
- Final Design - 1
Figure 2: Picture of the Cheese, Large Marshmallow, Slim Jim®, and Lollipop Used in the Module.
- Excavation molds: 1 of each size
Table 1: Aluminum and Plastic Excavation Mold Dimensions.
Mold A B C D E F G D (cm) 0.84 3.00 3.00 3.63 4.88 6.15 7.75 L (cm) 8.92 3.02 6.12 4.60 6.02 10.21 10.16 V(cm3) 4.8 21.3 43 47.4 112.7 304.2 479.2
Figure 3: Excavation Molds: From left to right, G, F, E, D, C, B, A.
- Earthquake Kit: 1 per group
- Spatulas (peanut butter placement)
- Excavation tools (measuring spoons)
- Excavation molds
- Pens
- Ruler
- Note cards
- Rubber gloves
- Wooden dowels (peanut butter placement and compaction)
- Slim Jims®
- Lollipops and a plastic container for the excavated Jell-O® (Figure 4).
Figure 4: Earthquake Module "Kit" for Each Group.
- Shaker A simple shaker was designed and built for roughly $26 (October 2010). The shaker was made out of plywood, toilet partition, drawer pulls, a steel rod, a 3/4 inch steel washer and some nuts and bolts. There was some welding involved to make the bearing of the shaker, however, this part could be manufactured with simple nuts and bolts, alleviating the need for a machine shop and welder. A variable speed cordless drill can be attached to this bearing and used to shake the system at many different frequencies depending on the speed chosen, or a hand crank could be attached to manually shake the system. The closer the hole is to the center, the smaller the amplitude, and the farther away the hole is to the center, the larger the amplitude. This is a very economical and efficient shaker to simulate earthquakes in the school setting (Figure 5).
Figure 5: Low Cost Earthquake Simulator (designed and built by Mr. Michael W. Leary, owner AM Squared Construction Services, LLC).
- Video recorder The most efficient and effective method of recording deflections was using a high-speed video recorder and a simple yard stick taped to the box. The video recorder used in this module was a KODAK Playsport. The video was then played back in slow motion, frame by frame, in order to see exactly where the lollipop moved along the ruler, and this distance was recorded.
Figure 6: Placement of Video Recorder Stand and Deflection Measurements.
Each group's final design was shaken at 1 Hz for 30 sec, 2 Hz for 10 sec and 3 Hz for 10 sec. The competition deflection was recorded near the end of the cyclic loading at 2 Hz frequency for consistency between the groups; however, all deflections were recorded.
The student groups will be asked to recreate their final designs for testing. Each group's model will be tested in the shaking table and prizes will be given under various categories (best performance, best construction, most economical, etc. try to come up with one prize for each group). 1- Testing the final designs a. Deliver the Jell-O® tubs to the groups b. Deliver the Earthquake kits to the groups c. Students will buy stabilization materials from the teacher d. Students should build their stabilized pile e. Groups will place their finished constructed designs on the shaker table and the deflections of the pile will be recorded with the video recorder. f. Video recorder will be played back in slow motion and the deflections will be measured. g. Groups will use their total cost and final deflections to calculate their score using the optimization equation given. h. Winners will be announced.
Links and Resources
A full report on this module is given here:
Cerato, A.B., Taghavi, A., Muraleetharan, K.K. and Miller, G.A. (2011). Understanding and Improving the Seismic Behavior of Pile Foundations in Soft Clays: An Educational Module. Report submitted to NEES-Comm, 80 pp. (https://nees.org/resources/2705)
Jell-O® Activity Day 4:
1. What final design did you choose? Please draw a schematic of it here with relative dimensions and label all parts (e.g., stabilization materials, layers, size, pile, etc.).
2. Did your stabilized pile perform as you had hoped it would? Why or why not? Did your construction technique play any part in the behavior? How do construction practices play a part in building or improving foundations?
3. If you had a chance to do this experiment again, how would your design differ?
This module is based on real life examples. Every structure built on this earth has some sort of foundation system, anchoring that structure to the ground. Buildings without adequate foundations in seismically active areas do not fare well. However all the public sees is the damage to the above ground structure, and thinks that if the above ground structure is made stronger it will fare better during earthquakes. While partially true, if the foundation system is not strong, no matter how strong the structure is built, it will always fail. The foundation system strength and flexibility is one of the major keys to building earthquake resistant structures, and introducing the concept of geotechnical engineering into middle schools can help to educate our future workforce.
This module could also be used at various educational levels, from elementary to high school, as well as at the undergraduate level, with appropriate modifications. For example, in elementary school, the Jell-O® play (Day 3) and Jell-O® design (Day 4) could be the highlights of the module, whereas, in highschool, the science behind soil stabilization could be stressed more, while still allowing the students to play with the Jell-O® and stabilization procedures.
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1) It doesn't mention in these plans if you need to secure the shelves to the frames. It just says to slide the shelves in, and the next step is to add the facing. On some built-in bookshelf plans I found on another website, they have a step to secure the shelves to the frames w/ wood screws once slid into place. Thoughts?
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Large number of party workers had assembled at the party's state office here to welcome the leader.
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Norwich adjusts on the fly
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Norwich varsity boys' basketball coach, Tom Collier, said he was in the unfamiliar position of not having a scouting report on Whitney Point. Sure, the Tornado met the Golden Eagles in the Section IV Class B championship game last season, but only two starters from that team returned, and Point had won its first two games this season by an average of 30 points.
In Saturday's Tom Schwan Tournament opener, Norwich and Whitney Point traded baskets for about a quarter and a half. "It was kind of like two boxers feeling each other out," Collier said in describing the early play. "We weren't sure of the type of stuff they would be running, so we made adjustments until we figured it out."
The tenor of the game changed quickly. Soon after Whitney Point made a tying three to make it 18-18, Norwich shifted to another gear. Over the final half of the second quarter, Norwich scored 16 unanswered points, and rolled into halftime with a 34-18 lead. Storm Cook fueled the Norwich offense early in the game with his aggressive play under the basket, but it was the guards – Mike Sutton, Matt Burke, Chris Trevisani, and Carlos Ithier – who sparked the offensive eruption.
The momentum of the second quarter carried over well into the third quarter. When Mike Oralls made a layup with 2:30 left in their quarter – the final two points of his 20-point evening – Norwich had stretched its lead to 64-26. Doing the math, over a 9 1/2-minute span, the Purple Tornado outscored the Golden Eagles, 44-8. "Let me tell you, Whitney Point is a good team, and they'll win a lot of games this season," Collier said. "We started pushing the ball on offense, and they just weren't able to match up with us."
Collier said he also made an adjustment in Norwich's full-court pressure, one that led to numerous Whitney Point turnovers. Those turnovers were converted into easy buckets. "We just throw waves of players at people, and we wear teams into submission," Collier said. "We had a lot of good players last year, and I think we have even more this year."
Chenango Forks is next on the docket for Norwich, who play at the Blue Devils tonight.
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After marking its golden anniversary last season, the Clyde Cole Wrestling Tournament entered the first year of the next 50 this past weekend at Oxford. Before the finals, the Oxford Rotary, sponsors of the tournament, honored former Oxford teacher and coach – and current Section IV sports coordinator – Ben Nelson with its yearly dedication. It was a well deserved honor for Nelson, who has helped promote high school athletics for over 45 years.
One thing to note in the tournament is the official tournament program, one that is extensively detailed with pictures and tournament statistics. Within those statistics is a listing of every person who has won a tournament title since its inception. According to the program, only two athletes have won six Clyde Cole titles, and both wrestled during my tenure at the paper. Oxford's own, J.P. O'Connor, was a champion from 2000-2005. O'Connor would also win four state titles, and eventually a national collegiate title his senior year at Harvard. Eric Decker of Unatego and later B-G/A also won six Clyde Cole titles. Decker also became the first Section IV wrestler to win six Section IV championships. Decker went on to win three state championships.
I did locate one interesting tidbit. Before Tristan Rifanburg won a state title for Norwich four seasons ago, the most outstanding NHS wrestler I covered was Joe Downey. In his freshman and sophomore years at the CC, Downey ran into a Queensbury wrestler, Dan Stine, who would win one state championship and earn a Division One wrestling scholarship. Downey missed the Clyde Cole tourney his junior year due to injury, but came back his senior year to win his lone Clyde Cole title. That Downey captured just one Clyde Cole tournament speaks to the depth of wrestling talent this yearly event has brought to Chenango County for over half a century.
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The Era of Public Proposals Needs to End
On the TODAY Show Thursday, Simone Jhingoor got what some might call a pleasant surprise. She thought she was asked to join Al Roker to talk about her work at the Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation, but really her boyfriend had lured her there to propose on live TV.
I'm sorry, but no. Your lovely girlfriend thinks she's coming on a nationally televised morning show to talk about her job — which sounds important! — and instead she gets proposed to? By a first-rate grandstander who took a full minute to get down on one knee?
We're not saying that isn't a nice outcome for them, but as far as public proposals go, this one could have been way more thought out.
• Spider-man Fends Off 'Attackers,' Proposes to Girlfriend in Public
• 'Game of Thrones' Fan Proposes to Girlfriend on the Iron Throne
This is just the latest example of absurd, extremely public proposals that just don't seem like they're worth the trouble. Opportunity cost, people. Flashmobs set to obvious pop songs, live lip-dubs, professional-grade movie trailers, and an inside joke-turned-publicity-opportunity. At one point these were all novel, romantic even, but at this point it just seems like people hungry for attention trying to out-do the last viral proposal in hopes of … in hopes of what? Being "that cool proposal guy"? Cool.
Marriage is between two people, and proposals should be the same.
Listen, you have to know your audience. If you really think your boyfriend would love to be proposed to in front of stacks of lumber in a Home Depot, go for it. But the orchestrating, and the choreography, and the recording, and the distribution of the proposal takes a genuine, private moment and turns it into a circus.
Many of these proposals prompt responses like "fellas, take note!" But no, fellas, please don't. Instead, watch this for inspiration: