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Atrium House: State of the Flip, Vol. 2
It's been about a month since my last post, so I figured I would put in a little bit of an update on our Atrium House flip! Ok, here we go.
The days that I get to work on the house are few and far between, as we end up having to pay for double childcare on the days that I can work (Imogen's school + a babysitter!) but we've been trying to squeeze it into the budget because I really love getting to put my time into the house, too. I'm not remotely as handy as Josh is, but I do love painting, staining, sanding, etc.
To be honest I think a month ago, we both thought the house would be nearly done right now! A month sounds like a long time but when you think about all the small things that need to get done that take up extra time, and factoring in unexpected things you find (Josh found a beam that he had to replace that was rotten, and just added a couple of extra days to the timeline, for example), you really start to see why renovating a home can take so long. And I probably mentioned this before, but we had no clue how much time it adds to bring in subcontractors (like electricians, plumbers, drywallers, etc). Because you think, "Oh drywall - that'll take a couple of days, right?" But you don't think about the time it takes to call drywallers, leave messages, wait for someone to call you back, wait for that person to be available to come give you an estimate, wait for that person to actually put together and send that estimate, wait for that person to be available to come and work on your house once the estimate is approved... It adds a couple of extra weeks onto what you thought was going to be a quick job! There's a lot we knew we would have to learn the hard way on our first flip, but this is the thing that is my most significant takeaway thus far. Allow lots of extra time.
So the most significant changes this past month have been to the exterior! Josh has been working tirelessly in 110 degree temps- repairing the woodwork on the overhang / trim, sanding and painting it (we went with a dark gray and I'm loving it! Can you believe it was ever brown!?), replacing the rotten beams, and adding these KILLER BEAUTIFUL slats. We decided to stain them with Behr Cordova Brown (sorry Josh - I made him go back to the hardware store like a few times to find that perfect shade. In the end I think it was worth it but it was touch and go there for a minute, haha).
Okay - why the slats? Well besides the fact that they look really beautiful and add an interesting element to the atrium area, they provide the master bedroom with tons more privacy (especially once we add the plants to the area). See those sliding doors? Yep - Master Bedroom. My first thought when we walked through the house was "Wow, that's awkward" because you could see straight out to the street and beyond. But the slats allow for loads more privacy while still allowing a lot of light in!
A view from the front - we're getting our new glass front door / side window panes in soon, I think maybe this week? Still trying to decide what color to paint the frame! Leaning towards peach still, but we'll see.
The back porch! It's really happening (and even more has happened since Josh took this photo - he's added a small privacy wall on the side of the covered porch area with some matching slats, too). Originally, this was all covered in (badly done - faux brick fireplace, wood paneling, duct taped windows, and all). We tore the walls all down, and the roof and beams were all painted a dark brown, so Josh spruced it up with this beautiful shade of white. I forget what it was called, something about a flower or lace or Jasmine or something. I'll figure it out. But basically, after he painted the back porch and the back of the house, we realized that it looked so nice that I think we'll be re-painting the entire house this same white, too. It just looks so nice and fresh. And we want the best for you, House!!
Okay, back to the inside! Like I said, the most noticeable differences have happened on the outside, but here you might be able to tell that now we have all of our updated can lighting in (as well as places for our new hanging pendants to go), and the drywall has been repaired. Just trying to find someone now who can tape and mud the drywall to give it that nice finished look!
Just a shot of my dumb feet and these poor neglected cactus cuttings that I still haven't planted (we just rotate them in the water). Hah! I hope they don't die.
So let's talk a little about staging! This has been one of my favorite things I've ever done. I originally started off thinking I wanted to buy EVERYTHING second hand to stage with. But as my collection grew, I think it started feeling very thrift-store-ish and less clean, sleek, modern. What I'm looking for is something between the two, that feels new and fresh, but still retains the storytelling and charm of pieces that you've had forever. So I'm doing a great mix of both. I've had the best luck so far with the app Let Go, (where I scored the hanging chair above!) but also good ol' Craigslist has still got it (the rug below is one of my best finds - it's an 8x10' 1960's wool flokati rug! Scored for about $180 I think?).
And then this bassinet, it nearly moved me to tears. I can't remember how much it was - it may have been around $50. But I probably would have paid double that. I'm so excited to set up a little nursery as one of our bedrooms!
I've got so much more to share. My staging collection is nearly done, and I'm going to start planning the rooms out pretty soon once everything else I've ordered arrives! Mostly I'm so excited to share sources of cool things I've found online (I've had some surprising sources for lighting, like a copper and wood pendant light from Nordstrom Rack sale on the Haute Look app!? It was crazy). I'd also love to talk about items that I think are okay to splurge on and items that I think you shouldn't (obviously just one lady's opinion though) and maybe the struggles of reeling yourself in when you just wanna put the best things in the home - this is a constant thing that Josh and I are talking about. Because we both want to build this incredible home full of good-quality things, but the reality is that whoever buys the home might not like exactly our tastes, so maybe don't spend $1000 on a front door, but don't get the cheap $200 front door, and spending $500 front door is a great middle ground. That kind of thing. (those are just random numbers, too. I actually don't know how much our front door ended up costing, hah!) Does that make sense? We are just figuring out which things to find the balance in. And some things really matter to us that quality work is invested in the house, but those things are things you can't see usually (good reliable plumbing and electricity. A good roof that will last 15 more years.).
Anyway! Hope you guys are enjoying following along. It feels a little surreal to be doing this, but mostly, it feels like the most natural thing in the world. I am overjoyed every day that this is our life and our venture. It's stressful at times, and hard work, and it feels risky, but already there is so much reward in taking a step out into the unknown and loving it. I am just so grateful! Thank you everyone for your kind words and emails, and let me know what you'd like to see more of in this process! <3


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Yesterday I was featured on PAIL's Monday Shapshot. Here are a couple more photos I took during the same banana breakfast on Saturday morning:
So that was a fun look back at what was a pretty nice weekend. This week's pretty much turned to crap already, frankly. This morning as I was driving down the highway to drop Ike off at my parents' house before work, a little star in my windshield that we had "repaired" a while ago decided it was high time to get crackin'. Literally. Not sure how well you can see it here, but it split almost all the way across, near the bottom of the windshield.
Was actually kind of cool to see happen, but it would have been a lot cooler if I didn't have to pay to have it replaced. I'd even settle for the middle-of-the-road-cool of having a clue as to how I'm going to pay to have it replaced. Terrible timing, as all unforeseen financial obligations are, I suppose. Motherfucking MEH. I had really been hoping to purchase the digital files, or at the very least a few more nice, larger prints from Ike's six month photo session, but it looks like I can pretty much kiss that idea goodbye. Breaks my heart a little bit, but clearly having a structurally sound windshield on the car in which he's most often transported is more important.
I would really like to get back to actually writing more often here. Too many months have gone by in which I've barely posted anything beyond my letter to Baby Ike, and while I'm still amazed that I even get to do such a thing, I can do better. I hope, anyway. I don't know if it's some seasonal affective-type stuff, and hopefully not delayed PPD, but I am feeling not so chipper lately. Not that chipper is a word I'd actually use to describe myself even in the best of moods, but you know what I mean, I'm sure. I probably just need more sleep (and to write a post about that, at some point, too). Thankfully, PAIL also has the perfect meme to get me going again, at least with posting SOMETHING, if not actual writing – I have 20 questions to answer, hopefully tonight. Please feel free to harass me if you don't see them, along with answers, posted soon!


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2 cups all-purpose flour
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Stir all ingredients together to form a smooth batter. Pass through the iSi funnel & sieve directly into the 1 pint whipper. Screw on 1 N20 cream charger and shake vigorously. Leave the batter to rest for approx. 10 minutes.


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Canyoning in the Blue Mountains
Eco-friendly activity
Canyoning is a combination of bushwalking, swimming, abseiling, li-loing, caving and rock climbing. It involves following a watercourse wherever it goes, particularly into dark and narrow chasms, and as a result can be a dangerous activity, particularly if water levels start rising rapidly. However, it propels participants into some of the most beautiful terrain in the Blue Mountains – deep, smoothsided canyons that only receive direct light for an hour or so each day, freezing, swirling streams abundant in yabbies and native fish, fern-covered valley floors, and waterfalls spilling out into the sunlight from dark caverns.
There is a wide variety of canyoning in the region – some courses that barely wet your toes and others that are relaxing floats along rivers, while at the more extreme level, some involve difficult multi-pitch abseils down thundering waterfalls. Because of the dangerous nature of this sport, the real potential for hypothermia and the difficulty of navigating, you are strongly advised to start with a guide (see details below) or an experienced canyoner.
One of the most pleasant days out for inexperienced canyoners is li-loing down the Wollangambe River near Mount Wilson. It involves a little bit of rock-hopping and a steep walk out at the end of the day, but is a great introduction to the sport. More experienced canyoners head for stunning canyons with dark and difficult abseils or squeezes, including Hole in the Wall and the Claustral. If you are tackling one of the popular canyons, go on a weekday to prevent having to wait for a large group (dangerous in the freezing conditions).
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Hey guys so I just wanted to stop by and say hey..... I know I just disappeared last year, and I wanted to come tell yall whats up and been happening since then. Well March last year at 10am I got a knock on my apartment door. I opened it an 4 mexican gang bangers kicked it the rest the way in and held me at gun point a stole my laptop and desktop ( xbox 360 and all my dvd's ,ect).... So after that I havnt logged into everquest since then. I moved to Dallas for a few months. Now I live back in my mom's house getting my life in order. Got back into college,and I am doing pretty good now. I should be able to buy my own computer again soon, and when I do I will start playing EQ again. I dont know if I am still guilded or not but if you guys will have me I will re-app or w/e, but will cross that bridge when I get my computer.
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Dutch Gouda cheese has a unique taste (pronounced HOW-dah in the Netherlands but Goo-dah everywhere else). Most of the chemicals that make up this unique taste have been identified. The bitter taste is due to CaCl2 and MgCl2 plus various peptides derived from incomplete digestion of milk protein. The sour taste is due to lactic acid and phosphates. The salty taste comes from sodium chloride, sodium phosphate and the amino acid L-arginine. Monosodium l-glutamate and sodium lactate contribute the umami taste. (The five tastes are sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami.)
Combinations of all these compounds at the appropriate concentrations mimicked the taste of Gouda cheese but something was missing. The "mouthfulness," and the complexity of the mature cheese was not present in the artificial concoctions. The missing taste is called the kokumi sensation.
A Sense of Smell
Toelstede et al. (2009) have found the missing chemicals. They mostly consist of various γ-L-glutamyl dipetides such as γ-Glu-Glu, γ-Glu-Gly, γ-Glu-Gln, γ-Glu-Met, γ-Glu-Leu, and γ-Glu-His. The structure of γ-Glu-Glu is shown below.
Most people don't realize that peptides and amino acids can impart very powerful tastes. Monosodiun glutamate (MSG) is an obvious example. So is aspartame, a powerful sweetener that's a modified tripeptide (Asp-Phe-Ala methyl ester).
Isn't biochemistry wonderful?
Here's a tough question. Let's say you could identify, with absolute certainty, all the chemicals that make up the taste of Gouda cheese. Let's say you make them in a lab and mix them with tofu and get something that tastes exactly like Gouda cheese. Would there be some people who want to ban that artificial Gouda cheese because it has chemicals? Would those same people be happy to eat the "natural" cheese because it doesn't have chemicals?
Toelstede, S., Dunkel, A., and Hofmann. T. (2009) A Series of Kokumi Peptides Impart the Long-Lasting Mouthfulness of Matured Gouda Cheese. J. Agric. Food Chem., 2009, 57 (4), pp 1440–1448. [DOI: 10.1021/jf803376d]


text: Greetings! I made the following recipe today and it was delicious. I adapted it from a recipe which was published last week in the Atlanta Constitution. The original called for butter or margerine, but I left it out without a problem. It came out a little soupy and I'm not sure it was supposed to. However, it was good anyway. You could probably add a little thickener like flour or corn starch if you wanted. Also, I didn't have the ground cloves, but it still tasted pretty good. Next time, I'll increase the curry and perhaps add a bit of ground red pepper. Indian Chickpea and Potato Dinner (serves 4-5 very large appetites or 7-8 not so large) 3 large potatoes, diced 1 10-oz package frozen chopped spinach, thawed 1 large chopped onion 1 clove garlic 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger 2 15-oz cans chickpeas 1 3/4 teaspoons each ground coriander and curry powder 1/4 teaspoon each ground cloves and cardamom 1 14-oz can stewed tomatoes, drained, pureed Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large Dutch oven, cook the potatoes in a small amount of water (this is where they called for the margerine/butter) until they begin to soften. Stir in the spinach and cook about 2-3 minutes more. Add the onion, ginger and garlic to the pot. I added a bit more water at this point to keep it from sticking on the bottom. Puree one can of chickpeas until smooth, add to the pot, and stir to combine. Add the remaining can of chickpeas along with the coriander, curry powder, cloves and cardamom and cook, stirring for 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer half of this mixture to a 8" x 12" baking dish and smooth it into an even layer. Spread the pureed tomatoes in an even layer on top of this. Top this with the remaining potato-chickpea mixture. Cover and bake 45 minutes or until potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork. Incidentally, the newspaper, adapted this recipe from "Healthy One-Dish Meals in Minutes" by J. Roders (Rodale). Hope you enjoy this as much as I did. Thanks everyone for all your contributions! Kathleen E. Desch madcap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Bill & Kathleen Desch Fayetteville, GA madcap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------


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Tagliatelle au Pistou Recipe
In Provenacal dialect, pistou literally means pounded. It brings together the two cornerstones of Provenacal cuisine: garlic and olive oil, simple, but essential ingredient to the sunny taste of Provence. Grinding together garlic, olive oil and basil makes a vibrant green sauce, which can be used to flavor numerous Provenacal dishes.
In a way, pistou is very similar to its Italian cousin pesto from Genoa. Both have the same basic ingredients, but pistou traditionally has no pine nuts, is saltier and much heavier on the garlic.
Generous amounts of garlic do not exactly make pasta with pistou sauce a romantic dinner material, but rather a healthy meal for midweek dinner or a choice for sunny Sunday brunch.
With the exception of soup, pistou is a raw sauce and should never be heated, for a couple of reasons. First, making pistou is all about using the best quality ingredients, especially an excellent extra-virgin olive oil. Heating olive oil even for a short period of time will affect its strong flavor, which is very welcome in dishes such as this. It will also reduce the health benefits that extra-virgin olive oil brings.
Traditionally pistou is pounded in a mortar with pestle, but can also be done in a food processor. If both are absent, then simply mix the minced garlic with finely chopped basil and olive oil and it will work just fine.
In Provence, many variation of pasta with pistou sauce can be found. Some recipes call for tomatoes, some even add pine nuts, which give a nice texture to the pasta.
If using pine nuts and tomatoes, add the pine nuts at the stage of grinding basil with garlic while the tomatoes can either be stirred in together with olive oil (no grinding!) or served on top.
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Servings: 2
500g fresh tagliatelle
2 large garlic cloves, chopped (or 4 small ones)
a large handful of fresh basil, roughly chopped
4-6 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
20 g Parmigiano Regianno
Coarse salt and freshly grounded black pepper
1 tbsp pine nuts(optional)
1 tomato, peeled, deseeded and chopped (optional)
1. In a mortar add garlic, basil, a generous pinch of salt and pepper and pound everything till you have a paste like consistency. This will only take 30 seconds -1 minute of work. Stir in the olive oil and your pistou sauce is ready.
2. Cook the tagliatelle according to package instructions, drain and mix with pistou sauce. Serve with some grated or shaved Parmigiano Regianno on top.


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Perennial favorites and Major Rager Alumni Umphrey's McGee are making a stop on their summer tour Thursday, June 1st in Augusta, Georgia! Umphrey's will perform at Augusta Common with rising star The Marcus King Band as support. This will be the first time Umphrey's has returned to Augusta since last year's Major Rager, and the first time for Marcus King since playing with Blues Traveler last October. Fans of both bands will be thrilled to see this pairing and await the incredible sit-in potential it garners.
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Umphrey's McGee
More than just a rock band – through nearly two decades, they have proven to be on the cutting-edge of both music and technology, super-serving their fans through a community that stretches from the campus of Notre Dame to the hallowed halls of Abbey Road
After 19-plus years of performing more than 100 concerts annually, releasing nine studio albums and selling more than 4.2 million tracks online, Umphrey's McGee might be forgiven if they chose to rest on their laurels. But then that wouldn't be consistent with the work ethic demonstrated by the band, which consistently attempts to raise the bar, setting and achieving new goals since forming on the Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Indiana, in 1997. After releasing their eighth studio album, Similar Skin, the first for their own indie label, Nothing Too Fancy (N2F) Music (distributed by RED), the group continued to push the envelope and test the limits. The London Session, was a dream come true for the members having been recorded at the legendary Studio Two at historic Abbey Road. The stealth recording session yielded 10 tracks in a single day, proving once again, the prolific UM waits for no one.
The Marcus King Band
Songwriter. Guitarist. Singer. Bandleader. At only 20 years of age, Marcus King's dazzling musical ability is evident throughout The Marcus King Band, the young phenom's 2nd full-length LP and first for Fantasy Records. Operating within the fiery brand of American roots music that King calls "soul-influenced psychedelic southern rock," the album highlights King's gorgeous, rough-hewn vocals, soaring guitar work and heartfelt songwriting all amidst a group of masterful musicians who, together, are quickly becoming one of the country's most sought after live acts.
Friends With Benefits is built on a social mission with a focus on community driven events with world-class entertainment through the live concert experience. Our core belief is "The Music Will Give" and because of that strong belief, we have created annual events that benefit worthy nonprofits under Friends With Benefits Fund. Since our founding, we've raised over $250,000 for some amazing nonprofits with artists ranging from Umphrey's McGee to Jason Mraz.http://fwbpro.com/


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Modern Lakeside Living In Switzerland
Lake Lugano House, Switzerland by JM Architecture
This stunning house, perched on the hillside above Lake Lugano in Switzerland, certainly takes advantage of the views of the lake and the idyllic, historic village of Brusino Arsizio with a population just under 500.
The residence and office, designed by Milan-based architect Jacopo Mascheroni of JM Architecture for a financial consultant and her family, consists of two sections: a rounded glass pavilion and a reinforced concrete structure that is partially inserted into the mountain.
The glass pavilion overlooks two very defined areas: the first, toward the mountain, is a very private zone resulted in the area between the property line and the building setback line according to the local building code. The second is a garden overlooking the lake. In the same way, the bedrooms face a garden enclosed by the building and the perimeter wall.
A 3,700 square-foot glass house forms the most visible part of the residence and resembles a viewing pavilion of a major sightseeing attraction. It is an open-concept living space, with a white-walled central section that contains the kitchen, bathroom, stairway, storage and mechanical room.
The underground level houses the entry hall, three bedrooms, two baths, an office, laundry, staircase, and playroom. The bedrooms open to an inner courtyard garden.
Radiant heating, use of natural light, geothermal heat pumps and a rainwater collection system are the main environmentally friendly features of the structure.
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Dear Friends & Fans,
If you're looking for a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon- then please, join my trio and I every Sunday for the best of jazz, swing and "The Great American Song Book". Desmond's is in the heart of Times Square, just a few blocks from the Theater District and Madison Square Garden. The venue is first class and the staff is friendly and warm. Come, stop by and enjoy the music, while you dine on their very special and affordable brunch menu. We look forward to seeing you.
This week:
Tim Regusis: piano
Rick Stone: guitar
John Ray: bass
Come sit in.. Guest musicians and singers welcome


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Appartement Le Sleidan is a large studio located in Strasbourg, a few step from Le Palais Universitaire. The modern-style accommodation features parquet flooring, a flat-screen TV and free Wi-Fi access is available.
The bathroom is fitted with a shower and includes a hairdryer.
The open-plan kitchen includes a large refrigerator, a dishwasher and an oven. All types of restaurants and bars can be reached within a walking distance.
Activities in the surrounding area include cycling and bowling.... The property is 200 metres from The Botanical Gardens and 500 metres from St. Paul\'s Church.
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Team Keane Sculling School,
81 Hartington Road,
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Team Keane is a community based rowing club. We are a true open rowing club encouraging people of all ages to get active regularly. We run learn to row course for adults and juniors as well as regular training activities. All levels are catered for, from complete beginner to race-experienced.
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I'm going to give a set of these to one of my banner suppliers. My iPad paintings are here.
I also thought that I can use the painting tools on the iPad to visualize how a painting might look on a recycled vinyl banner background.
Beautiful cards. I love the Canadian Car Wash one especially!ReplyDelete
Thanks, Doris. I had fun making the Canadian Car Wash drawing as stereotypically Canadian as possible. I like to have freebies to give my banner suppliers, and these cards really fit the bill. Plus it was an incentive to get me going on completing a card-making goal.ReplyDelete


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Bavaria, Telepool set up joint company
Bavariapool to finance international co-productionsBERLIN -- Just ahead of MIPCOM, German production/sales giants Bavaria and Telepool have set up a new joint venture to finance big-budget international co-productions that neither would be able to bankroll alone.
Bavaria and Telepool-subsidiary Europool will jointly control the new division -- dubbed Bavariapool International Coproductions -- which former Bavaria managing director Dieter Frank will run.
While officially competitors, Telepool and Bavaria have several common shareholders, with German public broadcasters BR, MDR and SWR all having stakes in both companies.


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2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog
2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog > College of Business and Technology > School of Business Administration > Accounting and Finance Department > Finance Track - Bachelor of Business Administration
Students completing the program should be qualified to:
Graduates will be prepared for entry-level positions in financial management, investment management, financial institution administration, and financial planning. In addition, graduates will be qualified for graduate study in finance, economics, management, marketing or any other field directly related to finance.
In addition to the track courses listed below, the general education, BBA qualifying courses, prerequisite courses, upper division and free electives must be completed. The track in finance is composed of 27 credit hours of specialized courses in finance.
ECON 201 is an SBS II exchange counted in general education.
Students must be admitted to the School of Business Administration program to register for upper division business core courses. Admission requires completion of the business qualifying courses and a cumulative Morehead State GPA of at least 2.25 for all MSU and transfer courses.
BBA 380: (or international cooperative education, or international exchange course experience)
BBA 499C: The capstone is counted in general education.
Any course used to fulfill a BBA/core requirement may not also be used to fulfill a BBA/finance requirement. In such cases, a course or courses from the list of approved finance track elective courses must be substituted for the course(s) used to fulfill the BBA/core requirement.
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I'm not one to get verbose on Facebook as most of my postings are the right length for Twitter. You know, 140 characters or less. There's a tendency to post mainly positive things on social media, the "highlight reel" as it were, but I've noticed a trend, or at least I think I've witnessed something […]Read more »
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A man found guilty by reason of insanity in the stabbing death of Ashland partygoer now says marijuana use might have contributed to psychotic delusions.
Pedro Sabalsa-Mendez made the suggestion during a hearing last week before the Oregon Psychiatric Security Review Board. The Mail Tribune obtained an audio recording.
Sabalsa-Mendez killed 20-year-old Avi Feldman at a party on Nov. 6, 2016. A witness said Sabalsa-Mendez had been acting strangely at the party. He then stabbed Feldman while yelling "Suicide!"
Sabalsa-Mendez, diagnosed with schizophrenia, was committed to the care and custody of the review board. He is being held at an Oregon State Hospital psychiatric facility in Junction City.
Sabalsa-Mendez, however, is starting to question the role drugs may have played in the murder, according to testimony at the hearing.
"Very recently, as in the last week and a half, Mr. Sabalsa has expressed a lot of concern that his symptoms could be substance-induced," Dr. Matie Trewe told the board.
Sabalsa-Mendez said he was using more marijuana at the time than he previously disclosed, according to a recent evaluation report.
But Trewe said Sabalsa-Mendez – before the murder – was seen at least twice at a hospital because of psychotic symptoms. Toxicology tests were performed and he tested negative for drugs.
"To me, that makes it extremely unlikely that his substance abuse alone was responsible for his psychotic symptoms," Trewe said.
Prosecutor Laura Cromwell, who handled the Sabalsa-Mendez case, said it's not uncommon for Oregon State Hospital patients and their defense attorneys to argue symptoms were triggered by drug use. The argument could win a patient's release.
In one case, Heather Marie Everman stabbed a man in Medford in 2014 and was found guilty of second-degree assault except for insanity in 2015. Although she was sentenced to spend up to 10 years under the jurisdiction of the Psychiatric Security Review Board, she was released in 2016 after her symptoms faded away and officials decided she actually had been experiencing drug-induced psychosis.
Since her release, Everman has continued to run afoul of the law for allegedly possessing methamphetamine, fighting with law enforcement, trespassing and stealing, court records show.
Everman also has been found mentally unfit to aid and assist in her own defense in the new cases – raising questions about her actual mental state, her drug use and the relationship between the two.
Since the Everman case, the Jackson County District Attorney's Office has taken a tougher stance on potential insanity cases, pushing for prison sentences when it believes methamphetamine-fueled delusions and hallucinations contributed to violent crimes.
Sabalsa-Mendez tested positive for marijuana after murdering Feldman. In anticipation that Sabalsa-Mendez would make a drug intoxication argument before the Psychiatric Security Review Board, Cromwell had him sign a statement in August that "neither controlled substances nor alcohol played a substantial role" in his actions during the murder.
"I think anytime something comes back positive, that's the only shot. They have to put that defense out there," she said. "I'm not concerned at all in this case. We've had two separate psychiatrists say he actually is suffering from schizophrenia. I think it's normal for him to put that out there. It has been a common defense – sometimes warranted and sometimes not."


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Suffolk gears up to host Queen's Commonwealth baton relay
Final preparations are underway in Suffolk as the county gets ready to welcome the Queen's baton relay tomorrow, ahead of next month's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
It will be the one and only day that the baton visits the East of England as it heads towards Scotland. The relay has already visited nations across the Commonwealth, as far away as Australia, Bermuda and South Africa.
The baton will travel more than 120 miles and be seen by an estimated 10,000 people as it snakes its way through Suffolk.
The baton relay begins at 0800 in Lowestoft. It will coincide with a mini festival of sport with a range of sports and activities available for people to try and a breakfast run along the seafront. Lowestoft's Olympic boxer, Anthony Ogogo, will arrive on Claremont Pier with the baton just before 0745.
The baton then heads to Newmarket Racecourse for 1100. Here, there will be a mass participation relay, with hundreds of local school children taking part on the famous Rowley Mile.
The baton will then appear at two special invitation-only events in Bury St. Edmunds and the Northgate Sports Centre in Ipswich, including an athletics competition for more than 400 disabled children.
The relay's final destination is Christchurch Park, Ipswich, at 1815.
Lowestoft's official baton-bearer Anthony Ogogo, will be joined throughout the day by fellow Olympian and Dancing on Ice star Beth Tweddle and paralympic swimmer Rachael Latham.
The 20th Commonwealth Games will take place in Glasgow between 23rd July and August 3rd.


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Is AirView going to be Apple's go-to-marketed strategy, using an iOS 4.2 iPad or iPhone and Apple TV one-two punch combo get around tradition media? Following up on the discovery that iPad Netflix will stream to Apple TV, Seth Weintraub figures out the following:
AppleTV is a Airplay-compatible device, meaning it can stream video/sound from other Apple devices. We found out last night that it isn't just iTunes content that it will be able to broadcast. Any H.264 content from the web can be broadcast over Airplay to your HDTV.
That includes any video that can play on your iOS 4.2 device, like: Facebook video, YouTube, Netflix, Videos, BBC News, MLB and really anything else you can watch on your iOS device. That also includes videos built into Apps and magazine subscriptions too. All of this can be beamed to your AppleTV via Airplay.
John Gruber adds the following, from a friend:
Apps using the built-in media controller views get AirPlay out for free. Apps that don't (like Hulu) need to roll their own using AVFoundation.
So any iOS app that uses the built-in media playback views is going to be an AirPlay source.
When you think about using iPhone or iPad to locate and bookmark video -- much faster than any remote driven TV device could ever do -- and then shooting it over to enjoy on the big screen, the plan does seem to come together, doesn't it?


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Berichte der Arbeitsgruppe Technomathematik (AGTM Report)
- 1993 (14) (entfernen)
- Preprint (14) (entfernen)
- Low-discrepancy sequences (1)
- Monte Carlo method (1)
- Van Neumann-Kakutani transformation (1)
- discrete measure (1)
- distribution (1)
- low discrepancy (1)
- particle method (1)
The system of shallow water waves is one of the classical examples for nonlinear, twodimensional conservation laws. The paper investigates a simple kinetic equation depending on a parameter e which leads for e to 0 to the system of shallow water waves. The corresponding equilibrium distribution function has a compact support which depends on the eigenvalues of the hyperbolic system. It is shown that this kind of kinetic approach is restricted to a special class of nonlinear conservation laws. The kinetic model is used to develop a simple particle method for the numerical solution of shallow water waves. The particle method can be implemented in a straightforward way and produces in test examples sufficiently accurate results.
Exact Solutions of Discrete Kinetic Models and Stationary Problems for the Plane Broadwell Model (1993)
Spline functions that interpolate data given on the sphere are developed in a weighted Sobolev space setting. The flexibility of the weights makes possible the choice of the approximating function in a way which emphasizes attributes desirable for the particular application area. Examples show that certain choices of the weight sequences yield known methods. A pointwise convergence theorem containing explicit constants yields a useable error bound.
Discrete families of functions with the property that every function in a certain space can be represented by its formal Fourier series expansion are developed on the sphere. A Fourier series type expansion is obviously true if the family is an orthonormal basis of a Hilbert space, but it also can hold in situations where the family is not orthogonal and is overcomplete. Furthermore, all functions in our approach are axisymmetric (depending only on the spherical distance) so that they can be used adequately in (rotation) invariant pseudodifferential equations on the frames (ii) Gauss- Weierstrass frames, and (iii) frames consisting of locally supported kernel functions. Abel-Poisson frames form families of harmonic functions and provide us with powerful approximation tools in potential theory. Gauss-Weierstrass frames are intimately related to the diffusion equation on the sphere and play an important role in multiscale descriptions of image processing on the sphere. The third class enables us to discuss spherical Fourier expansions by means of axisymmetric finite elements.
In these lectures we will mainly treat a billard game. Our particles will be hard spheres. Not always: We will also touch cases, where particles have interior energies due to rotation or vibration, which they exchange in a collision, and we will talk about chemical reactions happening during a collision. But many essential aspects occur already in the billard case which will be therefore paradigmatic. I do not know enough about semiconductors to handle collisions there - the Boltzmann case is certainly different but may give some idea even for the other cases.
This paper considers the numerical solution of a transmission boundary-value problem for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations with the help of a special finite volume discretization. Applying this technique to several three-dimensional test problems, we obtain large, sparse, complex linear systems, which are solved by using BiCG, CGS, BiCGSTAB resp., GMRES. We combine these methods with suitably chosen preconditioning matrices and compare the speed of convergence.
The paper presents a fast implementation of a constructive method to generate a special class of low-discrepancy sequences which are based on Van Neumann-Kakutani tranformations. Such sequences can be used in various simulation codes where it is necessary to generate a certain number of uniformly distributed random numbers on the unit interval.; From a theoretical point of view the uniformity of a sequence is measured in terms of the discrepancy which is a special distance between a finite set of points and the uniform distribution on the unit interval.; Numerical results are given on the cost efficiency of different generators on different hardware architectures as well as on the corresponding uniformity of the sequences. As an example for the efficient use of low-discrepancy sequences in a complex simulation code results are presented for the simulation of a hypersonic rarefied gas flow.
This paper is concerned with the development of a self-adaptive spatial descretization for PDEs using a wavelet basis. A Petrov-Galerkin method [LPT91] is used to reduce the determination of the unknown at the new time step to the computation of scalar products. These have to be discretized in an appropriate way. We investigate this point in detail and devise an algorithm that has linear operation count with respect to the number of unknowns. It is tested with spline wavelets and Meyer wavelets retaining the latter for their better localisation at finite precision. The algorithm is then applied to the one dimensional thermodiffusive equations. We show that the adaption strategy merits to be modified in order to take into account the particular and very strong nonlinearity of this problem. Finally, a supplementary Fourier discretization permits the computation of two dimensional flame fronts.
Simulation methods like DSMC are an efficient tool to compute rarefied gas flows. Using supercomputers it is possible to include various real gas effects like vibrational energies or chemical reactions in a gas mixture. Nevertheless it is still necessary to improve the accuracy of the current simulation methods in order to reduce the computational effort. To support this task the paper presents a comparison of the classical DSMC method with the so called finite Pointset Method. This new approach was developed during several years in the framework of the European space project HERMES. The comparison given in the paper is based on two different testcases: a spatially homogeneous relaxation problem and a 2-dimensional axisymmetric flow problem at high Mach numbers.


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These are glory days for Rhone wine lovers.
Here we are, with store shelves still groaning under the weight of excellent 1988s, when on comes along the vanguard of the even more magnificent 1989 vintage. And if that isn't enough, just over the horizon are the 1990s, reputedly another blockbuster year for the still-underappreciated Rhone Valley.
Bordeaux and Burgundy may still get more bouquets from the elegant elders of the Cork Sniffers Club, but no region of France offers us flavor freaks as generous a bounty of robust, rounded wine as the sun-drenched slopes of the Rhone.


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Just wish they were 256 px, and preferably PNGs. In any case, they look very good, but not good enough for Windows 7 (and possibly Vista, I forget), which require icons 256 px in size in order to display properly.
Well done! Text is just too small for me, i would like you/me to edit it if you still have the psd file/s. Thanks anyway!
really good work and detailed
love all of the sets, they are great. well done.
Very cool icons! Keep up the good work!
Would you make an IconPackager set once you finish them all? I'd really, really like that.
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Wow, best file-type icons I've seen. I would love to see an entire set in this exact style- black/white/gray
JuriK these are superb, love the way you do your Icons it just goes to show there is no need to have different colors to have a great effect. Thank you for these I have all the other ones. Keep up your great work and thank you.
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For as long as I can remember, I have been searching for the perfect girl. Since I was old enough to begin longing for female companionship, I have been on the hunt. I guess it started out as just a simple dream or fantasy, not unlike most of us. The strange thing about it was that it never stayed just a dream or a fantasy. The more people I dated, the more times I was let down, the more I hungered for that perfect person, the one that would fill all of my needs and desires, the one that would never let me down.
I dated girl after girl. Some of them were great while others got me into some trouble. Some of them made me laugh, but a lot of them made me cry. Through my journey, I found a lot of joy and a lot of sorrow, a lot of happiness and a lot of pain, but never the perfect girl. I had dreamed about her. Dark hair, darker eyes, a slim figure tinte! d golden brown from the sun. She had an accent and could play the cello. She would love to talk, but wouldn't expect me to talk too much. She would always ask me how my day was and would always have a smile on her face; absolute perfection. I began to devise methods in how I would meet the girls I would date.
I knew I wanted an intelligent girl, so I hung out in libraries and museums. I meet this real crazy girl at a library after school one day. She was smart and sexy and, well? crazy. I would rather not go into a lot of details about it. Let's just say she had some real deep-seated anxieties about our relationship and, consequentially, our break up.
I knew I wanted an artistic girl, so I went to music stores and coffee shops, I even tried a couple of classical concerts. I met this wonderfully cute girl who dressed really dark and loved to write poetry. She was great, we used to stay up all night long talking about the silliest things, but she ended up dumping me fo! r some guy who did drugs and rode a motorcycle. I got into a car accident with a girl driving a Pontiac Sunfire. She had no driver's license or car insurance, but she did have a really great smile and the prettiest hair. Instead of calling the police, we called in sick and went out to eat. We dated for a while but eventually came across an irreconcilable difference in opinions. She didn't always feel the need to come "straight home" after work. Okay, to be honest, toward the end of our relationship, she rarely came home at all.
Then there was the girl from the International House of Pancakes. She was an exact replica of my personality. I mean if you had met us both over some Internet chat room, you would swear we were the same person using multiple screen-names. Sounds sweet, huh? Have you ever considered marrying yourself? Have you ever thought about growing old together, just you and yourself? We both found that the whole idea of finding that "perfect person" was to find ! someone different from yourself to fulfill the empty spots within you.
I searched every where. I left no rock unturned, no leaf moved aside, but to no avail. After much pain and heartache, I began to believe that the perfect girl just did not exist. Then one day, I found her.
Her name was Malia. She was from Hawaii, raised in Italy. She wore silk pajama pants to bed. She had written a novel. She loved the beach and hated cats, just like me. She had silky, dark and curly hair that swayed perfectly if the breeze was right. She had a caramel colored body, etched out of a block of pure perfection, and her face was that of an angel. From the very first time I saw her, I could not seem to take my eyes away from hers. She was like a siren, calling my name, beckoning me closer to her, even when she was asleep. The attraction was complete, with no faults, no annoyances. Every time she spoke she mesmerized me and every time she moved she amazed me. She was... well, perfect. Oh, and did I mention
she played the cello?
We spent all the extra time we had together. We spent so much time together that we decided to move in together. We were paying rent on two places, but one of them was doing nothing but coll! ecting dust. We would sit on the porch when it rained and hold each other. We would lay on the beach and soak up a sweet combination of sunrays and pina coladas. Life was good. No, life was perfect and I knew it just couldn't possibly get any better than it was right then and there.
Two years later, Malia left me for a career-opportunity at a really
prominent university in Europe. There were no harsh words, no angry feelings, not even any sad good-byes. She was so perfect that if she wanted to leave, I wanted it for her. That is, until she was gone.
I cried for days, and began to drink for weeks after that. I felt as if my life was over, that the only reason that I had existed was gone, and every breath I took from that moment on was a futile attempt to hold on to something I later found I never had: The Perfect Love.
Malia was perfect. She was perfect in each and every single way, but I was not. Our love for each other was a deeply committed one, but it wa! s far from perfect. I know that now, but if I could go back in time to tell myself that in an attempt to save myself from all of that pain and suffering, I fear I would not have listened to myself.
I slept with many women, sometimes a different girl every week. I drank excessively and spent all of my money on temporary satisfaction. Anything to ease the pain. But the pain did not ease, it only grew stronger. It became a vicious circle of self-inflicted torture that eventually brought me to my knees and forced me to open my eyes to the real world. But not before it made me a bitter man.
I was wiser, but to this day, the decisions made left a coldness in my eyes that made my heart appear as lead to anyone who dared look. I became a loner, staying home on the weekends, saving my money for a healthy but lonely retirement, having accepted my fate. I was to be alone for the rest of my life.
Kathy with a K. Actually, her name is spelled Kathyrn. Quite peculiar, but I didn't think so until later. For the longest time, I never even knew her name. But she was a sight for sore and lonely eyes. I saw her at work. I was her boss (actually, I was her boss' boss) and did not want to risk the chance of even speaking to her. She was just too beautiful, and I had become a beast with a past too horrible to mention. I would just watch her as she passed my office every day. She didn't walk, she frolicked, and I would sneak out for a break whenever she did just to watch that frolicking. She smiled every time someone spoke to her, a smile like the early morning
sun, and her eyes were so dark that you couldn't see her pupils, only the glimmering from the light that made her eyes look like two bright stars. I was under her spell and I didn't even know her name. One day, watching her outside, I convinced myself to ask around about her.! Find out her name and maybe even find out if she was seeing someone. Just as I had decided that she spoke to me. Kathy with a K. She ended up asking me out, you know. I told her I couldn't that night because I had to work late.
Actually, I was too scared. I called her and asked her if she wanted to go to Starbucks after work the next day and she agreed. It turned out to be the most romantic night of both of our lives. We were both still pretty new in town and didn't really know our way around. I had no idea what I was going to do or where I was going to take her next so I winged it the whole way. Like I said, it turned out to be the most romantic night of both of our lives. It was perfect.
She was not perfect, but neither was I. We both carried a truckload of emotional baggage and we both had a mountain of flaws. But it was perfect. She would always forget to plug in her cell phone at night, but I would always remind her. I couldn't do laundry worth a flip, but she showed me how. She could never get to work on time, and she hated to drive, but we both had to be at work on time so I drove us both t! here. Whenever she was slacking I was always right over her shoulder, and when I would lose track of what I was trying to do, she would help to keep me focused. We complemented each other in every single way. Neither of us was perfect, but we were perfect for each other.
When you're out there looking for that perfect person keep these things in mind. People change, no matter how hard they try not to. As you grow older you mature, and with each new level of maturity come different ideas, different needs and wants. The person who was perfect for you at twenty could be the person you hate when you're thirty-five. You have to find some one who will grow with you, change with you, laugh with you and cry with you. A person who fills in where you lack, a person whom you can fill in for when they are lacking. But what about the perfect person, you ask? They do not exist. Even Malia was not perfect because the perfect girl in my dreams was supposed to stay with me.
There are no perfect people, only people who are perfect for each other.
You deserve to be happy not in the arms of someone who keeps you waiting but in the arms of someone who will take you now, love you forever and leave you never...
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For our 2nd day in the Big Apple, Fumika and I both thought that it would be chill and slow because we didn't have a lot planned for this day. Or so we thought. Read on to know all about it!
We were off to 74th Street to visit Ikuma's school and see him practice their dance for their show. Fumika and I were talking too much on the subway that we missed our stop. Ended up in 59th Street. This is us waiting for the subway to take us north (again).
Just had to use my ninja photography skills.
Beacon Theatre!
Not really sure why their pictures were there, but I'm assuming they either have performed or will perform soon in this theatre.
Walked around before meeting Ikuma.
Came across this small book store. The store may be small, but it sure has a lot of books.
The School of Steps! It's such a bummer that photography was not allowed inside the school, but the students were remarkable. They were dancing so 'fluidly', it was hard to look away. It made me wish I continued my drama club experience back in the Philippines.
As we were waiting for our bus stop at 76th Street, Fumika wanted to go to L'Occitane, a beauty botique from France.
As soon as we entered the store, the staff offered us this pink lemonade. She was also so nice in the sense that she was recommending us places to visit in New York City.
Cherry blossoms everywhere.
After Fumika's quick small shopping at the boutique, we hopped on the M104 bus....
...and got off on 53rd Street to go to MoMA, or Museum of Modern Art.
Uniqlo's collaboration with MoMA!
This is why I love Uniqlo.
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí.
Van Gogh.
This has grids and Bauhaus written all over it.
Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld.
The epitome of pop art: Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.
Yayoi Kusama.
I have no idea what this is supposed to be, but it definitely reminded me of Venom from Spiderman, which is totally ironic. You'll find out why as you read on.
Not surprised that Volkswagen supports MoMA. Their vintage advertisements are known for their modern style, with whitespace, rule of thirds, and all the other good stuff.
Now this part of our day was TOTALLY UNEXPECTED. When we left MoMA, near the block was a street filled with so many people and red balloons were everywhere. We went inside a random building and asked someone what was going on, and were informed that it was The Amazing Spider-Man 2's premiere. Which can only mean one thing: WE GET TO SEE THE CAST IN PERSON.
This kid is so ready to fight crime.
First time seeing an actual red carpet.
And here he is, Andrew Garfield / Peter Parker!! This was my first time seeing a Hollywood actor in person. Needless to say I was hyperventilating.
Jamie Foxx / Electro!
Can you guess who this is? The hat kinda gives it away.
You guessed right! It's Pharell!
I wasn't really sure why he was there, but I'm assuming he has a song on the soundtrack of the movie.
Another villain, Dane DeHaan / Green Goblin!
Green Goblin in a green suit. Makes sense.
It's Shaun Ross! I loved him in Beyoncé's music video for Pretty Hurts! But I'm not sure why he's there either.
And of course, EMMA STONE! A.K.A. Gwen Stacy.
She's looking straight into my camera with that smile!! Can she get any cuter than this?!
Right after I took this photo, I was panicking while at the same time asking her if we could take a photo with her.
Emma in all her glory. I'm so starstruck.
This day couldn't get any better. Thank you universe for planning to make this all happen. New York City is truly full of surprises.
It's amazing how they closed down one whole street for this.
After we stood there for what seemed like hours (totally worth it), we were off to look for a place to eat for dinner. We came across this and reminded us of the same sculpture in Shinjuku.
We were too tired to look for a good restaurant so we just settled for Chipotle. *remembers the Chipotle kid Vine*
Spectacular way to end our 2nd day in NYC. New York is definitely on a roll, stealing most of my 'firsts' in just 2 days. The city has so much to offer, and it has got me so pumped up and ready for the next 3 days! Bring it on, NYC!


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USGS Groundwater Information: Hydrogeophysics Branch
Handheld Thermal Imaging Cameras > Example: Brook Trout Restoration Activities
The USGS Virginia Water Science Center used a thermal-imaging camera in spring 2012 to support brook trout restoration activities. Field deployment of the handheld camera enabled:
The figures below show two examples of data collected during this study. The images were collected at two different locations along a creek. At each of these locations, USGS hydrologists are studying interactions between surface water and local groundwater discharge to inform trout restoration efforts.
Figure 1. Thermal image displayed as an inset of the true-color photograph taken in the field. The photograph looks upstream from the mouth of a large spring, where flow is in excess of 500 gallons per minute. A thrust fault lines the base of the hill in background. The thermal image spans an area about 4 feet across. The unprocessed image (which shows the range of temperature in degrees Celsius) has not been calibrated to actual water temperature at this location. Image courtesy Kurt McCoy/USGS Virginia Water Science Center.
In the figure 1 thermal image, warmer (yellow) groundwater contrasts with the cooler water (purple) of the main channel on the right. The warmer spring water flows in from the left and is moved upstream along the left bank by an eddy current. The image indicates that thermal mixing in the pool is poor. As a result, thermal refuge for trout is not homogeneous within the pool.
Figure 2. Thermal image displayed as an inset of a true-color photograph taken in the field. The cooler water (blue) of the main creek channel flows in from the upper right. Warmer spring water (yellow) flows in from the lower right. At this location, the creek is about 40-feet wide. The temperature scale is in degrees Celsius. Image courtesy Kurt McCoy/USGS Virginia Water Science Center.
In figure 2, the thermal image indicates that in this area of the creek, the warmer (yellow) spring water dominates the channel, almost doubling the stream flow at this location and with only minimal thermal mixing with the cooler (blue) creek water. Again, there is not broad thermal mixing in this area of the stream.
Use of the handheld thermal imaging camera by the USGS Virginia Water Science Center for this project
For more information about this project, contact USGS hydrologist Kurt McCoy (email@example.com) at the USGS Virginia Water Science Center.
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The University of Maine System board of trustees meets at UMS headquarters in Bangor. Materials may be viewed at: http://www.maine.edu/system/ September23BOTMeeting.php. All board meetings are open to the public.
"Pioneers of Maine's Next Economy," 7 to 9 a.m., breakfast speaker series with Tom Chappell, co-founder of Tom's of Maine. The series is presented by Maine Center for Enterprise Development and Envision Maine and held at Mariners Church, 368 Fore St., Portland. The cost is $20 and includes a light breakfast. Registration is required at www.envisionmaine.org.
"Connecting Maine and the World Through Education: International Students in Maine," noon to 1 p.m., with Thornton Academy international students; part of the World Affairs Council of Maine's Global Connections Lunchtime Series held at CIEE, 300 Fore St., second floor, Portland. Bring your lunch. Free, with donations appreciated. For more information, visit www.wacmaine.org or call 841-3627.
Sustainability Festival and Eat Local Lunch, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., fifth annual event featuring the faculty, staff and representatives from more than 30 local companies and organizations and held at St. Joseph's College, Alfond Center lawn, on the Standish campus. The festival is free and open to the public and lunch is $10 for all you can eat. For more information, call Kimberly Post at 893-7789 or visit www.sjcme.edu.
Environmental Panel, 7:15 a.m., an E2Tech Forum to review the major environmental initiatives of the 126th Legislature, first session. The program will be held at University of Southern Maine, Abromson Center, 88 Bedford St., Portland. Speakers are Patricia Aho, commissioner, Maine Department of Environmental Protection; Pete Didisheim, advocacy director, Natural Resources Council of Maine; Ben Gilman, senior government relations specialist, Maine State Chamber of Commerce; and moderator Jim Katsiaficas, director, Perkins Thompson, and E2Tech board chairman. Visit www.e2tech.org or call 956-1970 for more information.
"Balancing Family, Work and Stress," 4 to 6 p.m., presented by Women in Family Business Affinity Group with guest presenter Maureen Kenney, MSSW. Held at the Cumberland Club, Portland. The fee is $25 for members and $45 for others. Register at www.fambusiness.org.
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text: SOUTH BEND -- Perhaps the worst thing about the New York Yankees falling through a trap door in the first round of the baseball playoffs is the nauseating volume of "George Steinbrenner is mad" stories that will be shoved at innocent people whose world does not start and end with A-Rod and company. George Steinbrenner mad at an early exit? Gee, you think? The Yankees' loss may have a positive residual effect on Notre Dame football, however. ND head coach Charlie Weis is ga-ga over the guys in pinstripes. And the upcoming open week would have afforded him some windows to actually watch some games. And now? "Well, it will probably help the preparation of football," said Weis, whose ninth-ranked Irish (5-1) don't play again until Oct. 21, when they host UCLA (4-1). "I'll have a little extra time on my hands. Baseball season is over, right?" But football season is only half over. And the big questions concerning the Irish are just beginning: Did Notre Dame deserve to be jumped by Tennessee in the AP poll this week? If you look at the Vols' body of work, it's better. Their lone loss is by a single point to the No. 2 team in the country, Florida. They obliterated an admittedly overrated Georgia team Saturday, but Tennessee did it on the road and scored 51 points in the process. Yes, they got a scare from Air Force, but they routed a Cal team that is already back in the Top 10. Which team ranked ahead of Notre Dame is most likely to lose this week? There is only one team (Florida) playing another ranked team (at Auburn), so that would seem like the logical choice. Only Texas at home against Baylor looks like a gimme win and of course Tennessee not playing means the Vols are safe. Great Ohio State seasons have been sideswiped by pedestrian Michigan State teams in the past, but can the Buckeyes really get slapped around by a team coached by John L. Smith? West Virginia playing a 3-3 Syracuse team ranked No. 62 in the Sagarin ratings actually represents the Mountaineers' toughest competition to date. The most amazing thing about West Virginia's schedule, ranked 110th-most difficult in Sagarin this week, is that it's not even purported to be the weakest slate in the conference. Pitt (112), South Florida (121) and Rutgers (145) all have played softer schedules thus far. Which team ranked ahead of Notre Dame has the toughest remaining schedule? USC. The Trojans' final four games are Oregon, Cal, Notre Dame and at UCLA. What does Notre Dame's bowl picture look like? Fuzzy, and no, that doesn't mean Peach Bowl. An 11-1 Notre Dame team could end up in the national title game Jan. 8 in Glendale, Ariz., but it will need lots of help. For starters, Georgia Tech, Penn State and Purdue need to have strong seasons. That helps in the computer element of the BCS. Michigan or Ohio State probably has to lose twice. It's tough to figure the Irish would leap over either if the only loss between the two of them is in the season finale against each other. USC can't fall apart. The Irish need a marquee win at the end of the season. There's no guarantee they can beat the Trojans in Los Angeles Nov. 25, but a two- or three-loss USC team won't give them a strong push in either the polls or the computers. If the Irish are 11-1 and not in the national title game, the Rose and Sugar bowls look like the most likely options at this point, but the Rose gets sticky if either Michigan or USC land there, because a rematch won't be attractive. A lot can change even in the next couple of weeks, but remember the bowl or bowls that lose their anchor team(s) to the BCS title game get first choice. If the Irish are 10-2, they still most likely end up in the BCS. The biggest factors would be what team provided that second loss, the health of quarterback Brady Quinn, and quite frankly not getting blown out at USC, as the Irish did in 2002. If the Irish fall out of the BCS picture -- and keep in mind a top-eight finish guarantees them a spot -- the Gator and Cotton Bowls are the most likely destinations. If the Irish finish 9-3 or worse, a four-loss Notre Dame team is probably looking at the Sun Bowl. Five losses, and it could be the Houston Bowl. Which Irish players are most likely to show improvement over the second half of the season? 1. Travis Thomas. The senior linebacker is still learning. He has missed two games due to injury. And now he has someone crawling up his back to challenge and push him -- Joe Brockington. 2. Brady Quinn. The senior quarterback has climbed from No. 62 to 35 in passing efficiency the past four weeks. He's currently nestled in between Matt Grothe of South Florida and Will Proctor of Clemson. Do you really expect a guy that talented, that committed, that adaptable not to reach the top 10? 3. Sam Young. The freshman offensive tackle's raw talent is equaled by his intelligence and his willingness to learn. 4. Terrail Lambert. The junior cornerback, for the first time in three weeks, didn't have a game-changing play -- just superb coverage. It's going to be tough to push him out of the starting lineup. 5. Victor Abiamiri. The senior defensive end seems to always get stronger as the season goes on. Honorable mention: Ryan Burkhart -- The freshman kicker from NorthWood High School always had the leg. He's finally gathering his confidence; Darrin Walls -- He'll play his way back into the mix at corner and he's already on the rise on the return game; James Aldridge -- Now that he's healthy and had his cameo in mop-up time, expect to see him on more meaningful downs. What is the biggest single factor weighing down the Irish as they try to climb in the polls in the coming weeks? The perception that their defense will fail them in a big game. What is the biggest statistical surprise over the first half of the season? That the defense is actually ahead of where it was, for the most part, at the same point last season, while the offense is well behind its 2005 pace. But isn't Notre Dame's defense painful to look at, at times? No more so than a "George Steinbrenner is mad" story.


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The bad news was I told no one about that bad idea, as a result, no one ever warn me to spent some effort to develop other skills I would be need in future. Currently, all communication skills in English are equally important to me. I'm still have to read very much text but as much as I have to speak, listen and write. Nowever, with only strength reading skill, I found it quite suffer from lacking of other skills.
Fortunately, I love to watch films without any kind of translations in last few years. It gave me a lot of passion to develop listening skill and it was a quite good starting point to improve speaking, as well.
From now on, with full awareness of real world usage, I intend to fullfill those skill I missed to strengthen my weakness from when I was young. I am aware that developing those skill at this age is much more harder but no one ever died from learning, did not it?


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Boxer vows to fight on – after 51st defeat in row
Hollywood boxer Rocky Balboa said it was not about how hard you can hit, but how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
But British fighter Rockin' Robin Deakin is feeling floored – after losing his 51st fight in a row.
The 27-year-old welterweight, believed to be Britain's worst boxer, suffered his latest defeat at the hands of Poland's Damian Lawniczak.
'I have had my confidence knocked so much. Dunno what to do. Got the talent just can't get out of this rut. #gutted,' he tweeted afterwards.
'Struggle has become my identity, I prepared for the fight. The occasion got to me. Thanks for all the loyalty. I will still fight. I won't quit #boxing.' He blamed nerves for Saturday's defeat on points in London.
'Loads going on in my head. Doing overtime. Need a great trainer work on conditioning and my mental condition. I suffer with nerves real bad,' he added.
Manager Dave Murphy said: 'Robin has been given the chance to prove his worth, and I think he shows that in everything he does.'
Deakin, from Essex, turned professional in 2006 after 40 amateur wins out of 75 bouts.
He fights under a permit from Malta after the British Boxing Board of Control suspended his licence over health concerns in 2012.


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In 2016 Michigan law was changed to support statewide literacy efforts for students in Michigan. This law requires that Michigan's school children read at grade level by third grade. The resources below have been provided to help school districts support this legislation.
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The Family Learning Connection was develped through a partnership of local school disticts and Ingham Intermediate School District. This interactive website provides a roadmap for families who want to stay connected to their children's education. The roadmap was devloped to provide all the check points and tools needed to navigate through a child's educational journey.
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I teach a Creative Writing elective. I chose to read Ellen Madden's article on digital storytelling in search of a tech-savvy (ok, brag-worthy) instructional gimmick that might impress a room full of kids who would rather take their digital tech class again. But what I found was much more practical – and much more exciting – than a gimmick. Madden follows two teachers as they plan and implement a digital storytelling unit on The Outsiders. In this extremely practical overview of how we can use digital storytelling to target English Language Arts CCSS proficiency, Madden describes teacher approach, instructional methods, and the task of teaching the tech alongside the standards and the novel.
Let me explain why this is such a big deal. To start, here's an example of something I'm trying to squeeze out of apathetic and underserved (but completely delightful) 6th graders in Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.5 – Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
I want my students to be able to analyze one moment in an unfolding plot, and then tell me how it relates to the bigger picture. To comprehend a novel's themes, students must drill down into key passages to analyze and make connections. So I might ask my students to analyze one chapter of the novel we're reading right now, and tell me what that chapter contributes to the novel's themes. How does the author use Chapter 9 to make some statement about friendship, or culture, or identity?
When I ask questions like this, I'm placing my students across the table from a text or author, in a posture of interrogation. This is great fun for a grown up with an English degree; I know what questions to ask. But many 6th graders aren't great interrogators – they don't always have specific questions about plot elements or character change. They aren't interested in Socratic discovery. They are interested in making stuff.
In 2010, Grunwald Associates LLC reported that, "Teachers value digital media as instructional resources that empower them to engage student interest, promote creativity, and differentiate instruction." It follows that, when I invite my students to create a digital representation of a text, I'm inviting them to sit next to – not across from – the author. Using a digital storytelling platform (my district uses Microsoft Sway) students look at the text and the author's strategies as a co-creator. This kind of creative imitation requires just as much analysis as interrogation, but it's a great deal more accessible to kids. In other words, it's fun.
Madden describes how the process of digital storytelling can be broken down into meaningful pieces which more explicitly reveal different elements of the story. The process begins with personal preference and individual goals – students choose the scene they find most compelling, and set out to convey that scene's unique tone. Students also manage their own learning throughout the process as they work to meet mini-deadlines, continually evaluating their progress. Teachers can leverage these deadlines to blend instruction with assessment by explicitly tying all this creative activity to the technical concepts of characterization, setting, and juxtaposition. Most importantly, students learn literary concepts by rolling up their sleeves and interacting with the text in a personal way. As students create alongside the author, they confront a sincere need to communicate their ideas well. They are compelled to look more closely at what the author is doing – how the bullets flying in the background highlight the life-giving quality of friendship (or whatever). Re-creating the tone of a scene requires students to choose and consistently fold in repeated contributions to that tone – the way an author does. They learn what tone is by "doing" tone – this is the very definition of authentic learning!
Maddin, Ellen (2013) Teaching Literary Analysis with Digital Storytelling: An Instructional Approach [PDF]. Retrieved from http://encompass.eku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1063&context=kjectl.
Grunwald Associates, LLC (2010). Deepening Connections: Teachers Increasingly Rely on Media and Technology. Retrieved from https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/992608/files/39077531?module_item_id=8641931


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I don't care if it's raining for 2 weeks straight in NYC, I'm happy cuz its Friday! I hope you're all finding yourselves happy, healthy and in the company of good friends, love and laughter. As you know, I am very passionate about my friends and am so very proud of each and every one of them. Today, I'm taking this space to say I LOVE YOU to one of my bestest friends in the world, my one and only "Barnesy" aka MikeLyrik.
Let me tell you about my "Barnesy"...
MikeLyrik is an internationally known performing artist who's been rocking the stages of the underground music scene for as long as I can remember. His awesome talent, drive and determination have landed him to perform as the opening act for many of today's hottest artists, as well as tour for major music venues in Dubai, Hong Kong, Muscat, and Abu Dhabi, just to name a few. Read his official bio on reverbnation.com
Last night, MikeLyrik performed at a Fashion Event in NYC's posh & fabulous Juliet Supper Club, which was attended by everyone and their mother... and I kinda hate myself for missing it! I never miss his shows, but last night was a bit crayzay... I'm still mad, cuz I should've been screaming and hollering for my Barnesy...
after all, I am his biggest fan :D
Spirit perfectly captured!
Why Make-Up Love? Read more to find out :)
For all the Pop/R&B/dancehall lovers:
Make-Up Love by MikeLyrik (check out the cameo by yours truly)
This video was shot last summer (well before I started this blog), and when I first heard the song title, I totally thought it would be a perfect theme song for my blog if I had one. It just makes sense, even though it's about a different type of make-up love haha...
Some stills from the video shoot...
♩♫ Oooh get it in, get it in ♫
♬ Ain't no arguin'... no arguin' ♫
♬ And it works out when you know where you belong ♩♫
♪... Yeah, ain't it goood... ♩♫
♩♫ Aaaah we makin' up tonight ♪
♬♪ Make Up Love ♫
MikeLyrik in da House!
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