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The summer seaside palace, often referred to as "the palace of love and hope is located midway between Cha-am and Hua Hin. It was built in 1923 under the royal command of King Rama VI using golden teakwood from the demolished Hat Chao Samran Palace.
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Phetchaburis well-known landmark, the locally known as Khao Wang (Palace Hill) is located up on a 92-meter high verdant hill, in the city of Phetchaburi. It was built under the royal command of King Rama IV and in 1860 became his summer palace. The whole compound is comprised of royal halls, palaces, temples and other buildings which were elegantly constructed in a well-balanced Thai, neoclassical Western and Chinese architectural styles.


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Brands and musicians have an uneasy alliance. For every generation defining Michael Jackson and Pepsi coupling, there's a whincingly regretful pairing of Iggy Pop and Swiftcover.
In the last few years, more and more recording artists are hooking-up with large brands in order to reach a wider audience and make up for dwindling record sales, and it seems brands are much more willing to invest in the music industry lately, especially in terms of live music and event creation.
American Express has recently linked many different media strands together, including live music, online streaming, social video and social media, to create Unstaged, a channel that caters for an online, music hungry audience while offering effective brand promotion.
Let's take a look at the ways American Express Unstaged brings the offline, online with storytelling.
Telling stories is a vitally important marketing tool in engaging with consumers (here are five successful examples) and you only have to watch the latest John Lewis advert to realise how effective storytelling can be.
On its Unstage YouTube landing page, American Express makes clear its narrative intention for the user.
The copy is full of signifiers: "…Create unexpected musical journeys" and "From studio to stage… Unstaged creates unforgettable stories…"
How does American Express Unstaged take viewers on these "unexpected musical journeys"?
Firstly, American Express hasn't been shy of hiring some incredible, and indeed surprising, filmmaking talent to direct the live shows. David Lynch, Terry Gilliam, Werner Herzog, Spike Lee.
These are brilliant and thoroughly unpredictable directors, and are publicised as much as the bands. Not faceless Hollywood drones, but auteurs who the audience know will do something compltely out of the norm.
Teaming them up with against-type bands is also an interesting gambit. Werner Herzog and The Killers anyone? It's a weird combination but it's the first time I've ever been tempted to watch a Killers performance.
David Lynch and Duran Duran? I'm definitely going to watch that.
The creativity extends beyond the live stage. Prior to Vampire Weekend's streamed performance at the Roseland Ballroom, Steve Buscemi created a series of sketches with the band, uploaded onto the Unstaged YouTube channel over the course of a couple of weeks.
Episode five was also used as promo video for Vampire Weekend's single 'Step'.
This is a cross-promotional masterpiece. Not only giving publicity to American Express, but also the live concert due to be streamed in a few days, and Vampire Weekend's new album.
Later this year, Unstaged followed the same format with Kings of Leon and Portlandia's Fred Armisen.
This series is actually a lot funnier than the Buscemi/Vampire Weekend one. I particularly like Caleb Followill's admission that 'none of us are very good individually'.
Using a six episode narrative structure, a great deal of humour, an established and talented artists' own music, a leftfield director, and all of it culminating in a 90 minute long streaming concert, American Express Unstaged has created an impressive package for reinvigorating live music by giving it a new and entertaining online home.
Cross platform interactivity
There have been 13 gigs so far in the last two years, with Kings of Leon being the latest event in August 2013.
The shows themselves can be streamed on multiple platforms: via YouTube and Vevo on desktop, YouTube's iOS and Android apps and mobile sites, VEVO's apps for iPhone and iPad, Xbox 360 and on the American Express Channel available through an app on LG TVs.
In terms of interaction, viewers can choose their own view of the concert, tweet the bands directly, vote for the encore songs and engage with other users.
In conclusion...
This is a powerful and deeply immersive platform, and one that seems to have complete backing from the artists involved. Terry Gilliam states:
Maybe the best way for brands to approach clients is to work with artists they like. Like patrons of art back in the 19th century. There's a new world developing.
Arcade Fire's management has also stated
The days of the label doing the marketing for you are over. The band comes up with the ideas. Labels just distribute. We would work with Amex again, though.
Perhaps it helps that the brand has taken a backseat within this context. It's enough for American Express to finance Unstaged and put its name on it.
By not pushing the hard sell and letting the artists get on with things in a trustful manner, it allows other decent bands and directors to get involved; ones that don't normally align themselves with brands, and therefore bringing quality artists to a larger audience through online channels.
For more digital innovations in the music industry read these six examples of musicians embracing app technology.
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Hi Christopher, - great article and always nice to see some great ideas flowing between label, artist and sponsor. I'm sure there was plenty of money on the table to make this all happen.
Not sure the Duran Duran/David Lynch idea worked did it? must have sounded brilliant in the boardroom...
It might be worth looking online to see how these campaigns were seeded - quite often these expensive video projects are left to rot with minimal online engagement.
That's why I loved the Pet Shop Boys Priceless campaign a few years back with Mastercard - they shot a gig in a fan's front room - what a great idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUjXGNBFrrU
I could not be more in agreement, regarding the power of storytelling as it relates to the sale of insurance and financial services. But how can "everyday producers" take advantage of its effectiveness?
If I may be so bold (2:12)
And a concrete example in 90 seconds:
All the best,
Performing under the name of big brand like Pepsi or Coca cola or any other make you a star in just an event. Basically, brands share their audience wit\h singer who is signing but engaging their in anyway because brands can't think that people forget them in short or long time and these tactics have been done just to stay in touch with the customers and music play a very vital in this.


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Multiphysics Modeling With Finite Element Methods (Hardcover)
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Finite element methods for approximating partial differential equations that arise in science and engineering analysis find widespread application. Numerical analysis tools make the solutions of coupled physics, mechanics, chemistry, and even biology accessible to the novice modeler. Nevertheless, modelers must be aware of the limitations and difficulties in developing numerical models that faithfully represent the system they are modeling.
This textbook introduces the intellectual framework for modeling with Comsol Multiphysics, a package which has unique features in representing multiply linked domains with complex geometry, highly coupled and nonlinear equation systems, and arbitrarily complicated boundary, auxiliary, and initial conditions. But with this modeling power comes great opportunities and great perils.
Progressively, in the first part of the book the novice modeler develops an understanding of how to build up complicated models piecemeal and test them modularly. The second part of the book introduces advanced analysis techniques. The final part of the book deals with case studies in a broad range of application areas including nonlinear pattern formation, thin film dynamics and heterogeneous catalysis, composite and effective media for heat, mass, conductivity, and dispersion, population balances, tomography, multiphase flow, electrokinetic, microfluidic networks, plasma dynamics, and corrosion chemistry.
As a revision of Process Modeling and Simulation with Finite Element Methods, this book uses the very latest features of Comsol Multiphysics. There are new case studies on multiphase flow with phase change, plasma dynamics, electromagnetohydrodynamics, microfluidic mixing, and corrosion. In addition, major improvements to the level set method for multiphase flow to ensure phase conservation is introduced.
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- Analyzing Evolution Equations by the Finite Element Method
- Multiphysics
- Extended Multiphysics
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- Changing Geometry: Continuation and Moving Boundaries
- Coupling Variables Revisited: Inverse Problems, Line Integrals, Integral Equations, and Integro-Differential Equations
- Modeling of Multi-Phase Flow Using the Level Set Method
- Modeling of Free Surface Flow Problems with Phase Change ?Three Phase Flows
- Newtonian Flow in Grooved Microchannels
- Electrokinetic Flow
- Plasma Simulations via the FokkerPlanck Equation
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Lately, though, the Joneses have been reading about climate change, and they're getting worried. Ecological crisis has never felt so urgent before. Even little Joey Jones is talking greenhouse gases—he learned at school that scientists are predicting a worldwide climate catastrophe that will change the rest of his life, unless we stop the worst effects by making big changes in the next ten years. The Joneses decide: change is necessary, and they're ready to do their part. But how much can they really do? A lot, it turns out.
In 10 years, without sacrificing their way of life, the Jones family eliminates the CO2 emissions that their home and transportation used to create—the bulk of their carbon footprint.
|A Big Difference from Small Changes
The family starts off with easy changes: They wash clothes in cold water and air dry them in the summer, replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents (CFLs), turn off their computer when not in use. That's an instant, virtually free savings of 6,200 pounds of CO2. They make one simple transportation change: One of the adults commutes by bus three days a week—enough to see whether it can be done, but keeping the second car just in case. That's worth another 2,200 pounds. They're down to 51,600 pounds and it hasn't cost them anything but the price of the CFLs and a clothesline. They're actually saving money.
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They stop donating so much heat to the outdoors: attic and basement insulation, sealing and insulating heat ducts, and patching the large air leaks typical of standard construction saves them a whopping 7,100 pounds. These savings aren't free up front, but the savings in heating and cooling bills will repay the cost over time. Besides, Mrs. Jones is handy with home repair, and does a lot of this work herself. Down to 44,500 per year.
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The bus commute's gone well, so Mr. Jones now buses to work all the time. They've worked on consolidating trips outside work, and find they can do without the second car altogether. That's 5,900 pounds gone. They finish weatherproofing their house: beefing up wall insulation, weatherizing doors and windows, and upgrading to high performance windows. Another 1,800 pounds disappear. They're at 36,800.
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Instead of flying for their annual vacation, the Joneses take the train: a leisurely way to save 7,200 pounds every year. (If they took the bus, they'd save even more.) They're at 29,600 pounds per year—halfway there a year early.
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Time to replace the car. Thanks to consumer demand, electric cars have become widely available, and they buy one. Even charging on dirty power, they save 9,000 pounds. Household total is now 20,600.
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They improve their water system, including insulating their hot water heater and their pipes, and also lower the temperature of their water heater: 1,000 pounds down. When the old refrigerator kicks the bucket, the Joneses buy a new energy-efficient one and finally unplug a second fridge in the garage, knocking off another 1,300. Total remaining: 18,300.
|Close to Home
Grandma and Grandpa retire and move nearby. The Joneses now vacation within the range of their electric car, saving 3,300 pounds of CO2 each year. The city converts its bus fleet to clean electricity, which saves another 1,200 pounds. They're down to 13,800.
|A Few More Things Around the House
An efficient clothes washer saves carbon on its own, and saves dryer time. With all the money they're saving, they decide it's time to invest in a solar hot water system. Total: 2,000. Leaving 11,800.
|Electric Bikes
While the Joneses have been on this journey, their town has responded to citizen pressure and gone bike friendly. The new bike paths make it easy for both to ride to work. To ease the hills, they buy electric bikes. There are four months of the year when they can't bike, so they continue their usual commute patterns then. Savings: 3,500.
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The Joneses' furnace has been groaning and working overtime. They replace it with an electric heat pump, which also cools the house in summer. They also buy certified green, renewable power from their electric company, and the switch from coal plants eliminates the remaining 8,300 pounds of CO2 produced by the electricity for their house and car.
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America's Cup, one of the oldest and best-known trophies in international sailing yacht competition. It was first offered as the Hundred Guinea Cup on August 20, 1851, by the Royal Yacht Squadron of Great Britain for a race around the Isle of Wight. The cup was won by the America, a 100-foot (30-metre) schooner from New York City, and subsequently became known as the America's Cup. The American winners of the cup donated it to the New York Yacht Club in 1857 for a perpetual international challenge competition. In 1987 the San Diego Yacht Club took control of the U.S. competition.
Since the 1920s the America's Cup race has been between one defending vessel and one challenging vessel, both of which are determined in separate series of elimination trials. Each competing vessel must be designed, built, and, insofar as possible, outfitted solely in the country that it represents. The original terms of the America's Cup donation imposed many disadvantages on challenging yachts. Not until 1956 was a clause eliminated that required a challenger to sail on its own bottom to the scene of the contest, forcing a heavier style of construction than that of the defender. Until 1995, the America's Cup competition was a best four of seven races; from that year until 2007 it required five of nine races to win. From 1958 to 1987 each race was run over a six-leg 24-mile (39-kilometre) course by yachts of the so-called 12-metre class. (No measurement on the 12-metre yacht was actually 12 metres. The "12" was a result of a complicated mathematical formula used in the yacht's construction.)
In 1983, after American yachts (sponsored by the New York Yacht Club) had successfully defended the cup 24 times without a loss since the first defense in 1870, the Australian yacht Australia II won the cup. In the next race, in 1987, the Americans (now from San Diego) regained the cup. The controversial race of 1988, between the winning American 60-foot (18-metre) catamaran and a New Zealander 132-foot (40-metre) monohull, had to be decided in the courts and provoked a redefinition of the rules governing future races. For 1992, a new and faster yacht was designated as the International America's Cup Class (IACC)—75 feet (23 m) in overall length—to race over an eight-leg 22.6-mile (36.4-kilometre) course. The 1995 event was run over a six-leg, 18.55-nautical-mile (34.4-kilometre) course. It was won by the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, only the second victory by a non-American challenger in the history of the competition. The skipper of the New Zealand victory in 1995 was Russell Coutts, who also led New Zealand to a win in 2000; Coutts, skippering for a Swiss team, won a third consecutive victory in 2003. In 2007 the Swiss team, with Brad Butterworth as skipper, defended its title. An American team owned by businessman Larry Ellison, Oracle Team USA, recaptured the Cup in 2010 in a two-race competition that was delayed by numerous court battles. In 2013 the U.S. had one of the most-dramatic comebacks in sporting history: the American team (captained by Jimmy Spithill and racing in a newly designed 72-foot [22-metre] catamaran) was trailing New Zealand 8–1 in a best-of-17 series and then won the remaining eight races for the most-unexpected America's Cup victory of all time. See also yacht.
For a list of America's Cup winners, see table.
|America's Cup
|winning yacht
|owner/team name
|losing yacht
|owner/team name
|America (U.S.)
|J.C. Stevens
|R. Brown
|Aurora (U.K.)
|Magic (U.S.)
|F. Osgood
|A. Comstock
|Cambria (U.K.)
|J. Ashbury
|Columbia (U.S.)
Sappho (U.S.)
|F. Osgood
W.P. Douglas
|N. Comstock
S. Greenwood
|Livonia (U.K.)
|J. Ashbury
|Madeleine (U.S.)
|J.S. Dickerson
|J. Williams
|Countess of Dufferin (Can.)
|C. Gifford and syndicate
|Mischief (U.S.)
|J.R. Busk
|N. Clock
|Atalanta (Can.)
|A. Cuthbert
|Puritan (U.S.)
|J.M. Forbes,
C.J. Paine
and syndicate
|A. Crocker
|Genesta (U.K.)
|Sir R. Sutton
|Mayflower (U.S.)
|C.J. Paine
|M.V.B. Stone
|Galatea (U.K.)
|W. Henn
|Volunteer (U.S.)
|C.J. Paine
|H.C. Haff
|Thistle (U.K.)
|J. Bell and syndicate
|Vigilant (U.S.)
|C.O. Iselin and syndicate
|W. Hansen
|Valkyrie II (U.K.)
|Lord Dunraven
|Defender (U.S.)
|W.K. Vanderbilt,
C.O. Iselin,
E.D. Morgan
|H.C. Haff
|Valkyrie III (U.K.)
|Lord Dunraven,
Lord Lonsdale,
Lord Wolverton,
H. McCalmont
|Columbia (U.S.)
|J.P. Morgan,
C.O. Iselin,
E.D. Morgan
|C. Barr
|Shamrock (U.K.)
|Sir T. Lipton
|Columbia (U.S.)
|J.P. Morgan,
E.D. Morgan
|C. Barr
|Shamrock II (U.K.)
|Sir T. Lipton
|Reliance (U.S.)
|C.O. Iselin and syndicate
|C. Barr
|Shamrock III (U.K.)
|Sir T. Lipton
|Resolute (U.S.)
|H. Walters and syndicate
|C.F. Adams II
|Shamrock IV (U.K.)
|Sir T. Lipton
|Enterprise (U.S.)
|W. Aldrich and syndicate
|H.S. Vanderbilt
|Shamrock V (U.K.)
|Sir T. Lipton
|Rainbow (U.S.)
|H.S. Vanderbilt and syndicate
|H.S. Vanderbilt
|Endeavour (U.K.)
|T.O.M. Sopwith
|Ranger (U.S.)
|H.S. Vanderbilt
|H.S. Vanderbilt
|Endeavour II (U.K.)
|T.O.M. Sopwith
|Columbia (U.S.)
|H. Sears and syndicate
|B.S. Cunningham
|Sceptre (U.K.)
|H.L. Goodson and syndicate
|Weatherly (U.S.)
|H.D. Mercer,
A.D. Frese,
C.S. Walsh
|E. Mosbacher, Jr.
|Gretel (Austl.)
|Sir F. Packer and syndicate
|Constellation (U.S.)
|W.S. Gubelmann,
E. Ridder and syndicate
|R.N. Bavier, Jr.,
E. Ridder
|Sovereign (U.K.)
|J.A.J. Boyden
|Intrepid (U.S.)
|Intrepid syndicate
|E. Mosbacher, Jr.
|Dame Pattie (U.K.)
|E. Christensen and
15 commercial firms
|Intrepid (U.S.)
|Intrepid syndicate
|W. Ficker
|Gretel II (Austl.)
|Sir F. Packer and syndicate
|Courageous (U.S.)
|Courageous syndicate
|T. Hood
|Southern Cross (Austl.)
|A. Bond
|Courageous (U.S.)
|Courageous syndicate
|T. Turner
|Australia (Austl.)
|A. Bond and syndicate
|Freedom (U.S.)
|Maritime College at Ft. Schuyler Foundation, Inc.
|D. Conner
|Australia (Austl.)
|A. Bond and syndicate
|Australia II (Austl.)
|A. Bond and syndicate
|J. Bertrand
|Liberty (U.S.)
|Maritime College at Ft. Schuyler Foundation, Inc.
|Stars & Stripes (U.S.)
|Sail America syndicate
|D. Conner
|Kookaburra III (Austl.)
|K. Parry and syndicate
|Stars & Stripes (U.S.)
|Sail America syndicate
|D. Conner
|New Zealand (N.Z.)
|M. Fay
|America3 (U.S.)
|America3 Foundation
|B. Koch
|Il Moro di Venezia (Italy)
|Compagnia della Vela di Venezia
|Black Magic (N.Z.)
|P. Blake and Team New Zealand
|R. Coutts
|Young America (U.S.)
|Pact 95 syndicate
|Black Magic (N.Z.)
|Team New Zealand
|R. Coutts
|Luna Rossa (Italy)
|Prada Challenge
|Alinghi (Switz.)
|Alinghi Swiss Challenge
|R. Coutts
|New Zealand (N.Z.)
|Team New Zealand
|Alinghi (Switz.)
|B. Butterworth
|New Zealand (N.Z.)
|Team New Zealand
|BMW Oracle Racing
|J. Spithill
|Alinghi (Switz.)
|Oracle Team USA
|J. Spithill
|New Zealand (N.Z.)
|Team New Zealand
|Aotearoa (N.Z.)
|Team New Zealand
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The 145-room hotel still needs the approval of the Design Review Commission, but developers have already presented to that board once before and made architectural and aesthetic improvements to their plan based on feedback from that meeting.
The hotel would be built on the site of the former Grand Union grocery store, more recently Broadway Joe's, and would extend out to Outer Zone Laser Tag.
The project would leave everything intact south of Citizen's Bank, including Purdy's Discount Wine and Liquor and the former location of Friendly's, which is set to become a Turkish restaurant.
The project would feature a restaurant with a patio on the ground floor along Congress Street. Landscaping, street trees and a new retaining wall would be installed between CVS and furthest corner of the hotel.
The developers also plan to re-open roads at the southeast and southwest corners of the property that were closed during previous development of the plaza. That will give pedestrians and vehicles routes to South Federal Street and South Franklin Street, respectively.
Wednesday night, developers answered Planning Board questions ranging from inquiries about traffic patterns to those addressing architectural features.
"I think this moved along rather nicely," Planning Board Chairman Clifford Van Wagner said. "We had some concerns, and (the developers) addressed them and addressed them well."
DCG Development representative Donald MacElroy said the developers expect construction to take about a year. Assuming the Design Review Commission approves the plans, he said they hope to start construction by early summer.


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100 years ago From the Newport Daily News, March 5, 1907
Another deer was seen at the north end of the island yesterday. The animal was seen by Mr. Sill, a watchman at the oyster beds in the west bay, swimming from Narragansett.
From the Newport Daily News, March 7, 1907
Codfish are still being caught in good numbers in the west bay.
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The paymaster and clerk yesterday paid their monthly visit to pay off the garrison at Fort Greble.
The quartermaster at Fort Greble has asked for bids to furnish transportation by ferry from the post to Newport, Jamestown, Saunderstown and Fort Adams for the ensuing year.
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The workmen employed in building ferryboat Newport of the Saunders line struck last week on account of arrears in wages. The matter was settled and the men have resumed work.
75 years ago From the Newport Daily News, March 7, 1932
It was voted (at the annual meeting of the Jamestown Philomenian Library Association), that beginning March 1 the library will be open from 2 to 5:30 Tuesday and Saturday of each week until November at which time a new schedule will be inaugurated for the winter months.
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Jamestown basketball fans will have an opportunity to witness the first championship play-off game in the histion tory of Jamestown Saturday night, March 12, at 8 o'clock, at the Holy Ghost hall when the Pirates, winners of the first round, and the Holy Ghost team, second round winners in the Jamestown league, will play for the championship.
50 years ago From the Newport Daily News, March 5, 1957
The Commerce Oil Refining Corp. expects to break ground on its Jamestown refinery within 60 days. The Commerce official said the firm had access to "75 acres of water, " from which it could draw its daily 2,000,000 gallon supply.
(Dr, Alfred B. Gobeille, Town Council president at a joint meeting with the Recreation Commission) called the (Recreation) building, which has not been operated for the last year, a white elephant. "The error is that it was bought in the first place. It is a waste of money to dump paint on it year after year. … "
From the Newport Daily News, March 6, 1957
Robert Dunhammer and Frank R. Kaiser, representatives of the J. M. Clemshaw Co. of Cleveland, who have been in Jamestown for the past two weeks preparing for the property revaluation for tax purposes, are now about to go into full swing. Starting tomorrow, a house-to-house canvas will be made.
From the Newport Daily News, March 8, 1957
The Navy said in Washington today there is no truth to reports the Navy and Commerce Oil Corp. have signed an accord on the question of the proposed Jamestown refinery.
The Jamestown Town Council last night appropriated $500 for the Planning Board's use in making a study of all town buildings in connection with the board's recommenda- that town offices be transferred to the unused Thomas H. Clarke School.
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The 90th anniversary of the Central Baptist Church in Jamestown will be observed tomorrow at the 9 a.m. service.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News, March 9, 1982
The Jamestown Town Council Monday opposed a redistricting plan that would place Jamestown in the 98th Representative District and the 49th Senatorial District in Newport.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior has awarded $28,713 for the rehabilitation of a building at Fort Wetherill, Sen. Claiborne Pell announced Thursday, rest rooms and a concession stand area will be located in the building. A boat ramp will be built. The grant will be matched by an equal amount of state money.
15 years ago From the Jamestown Press, March 5, 1992
Voters Tuesday, after two nights of debate, approved an amended $7.9 million budget for this year that raises the island's tax rate by $2.95 for each $1,000 of property valuation. The spending budget is made up of a $3.4 million general budget and a $4.5 million school budget.
Workers resumed pouring concrete for the center span of the new Jamestown bridge last Thursday, just several days after it was found that one section of the span was 1 to 1.5 inches too low.
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Voters at Monday's annual financial town meeting approved a $10.6 million town government and school budget for fiscal 1997-98 that will not increase the current tax rate of $14.42 for each $1,000 of property (valuation).
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Objective: SWBAT to understand the magnitude of loss involved in hyperinflation.
Big Idea: Hyperinflation is a real world example that can be understood through exponents and scientific notation.
Start Up
When student enter the room, I display the XBOX One Image with the question, "Did I give you enough money to buy the Xbox One?" At this point students are wondering, "what money?" I then hand each group an envelope with a wad of cash.
The denominations I give out are Zimbabwe currency notes:
- Zimbabwe 1 Billion
- Zimbabwe 5 Billion
- Zimbabwe 10 Billion
- Zimbabwe 100 billion
- Zimbabwe 50 trillion
- Zimbabwe 100 trillion
I mix up the amounts in each envelope, but they should have amounts that are either above, below or exactly 343 or 344 trillion (see below for calculated cost of Xbox One in $Zimbabwe). The idea is to give them amounts that either are or are not enough to make the purchase. I like to give exactly $Z 343 trillion, which is about $Z 312 million short of the required amount.
I ask students, "what do you need to know in order to figure out if you have enough?" Here students will recognize that the price of the Xbox One is given in US dollars. So knowing the ratio of Zimbabwe dollars to US dollars is the key. I show them this graphic and then let them count the cash in their envelopes. The graphic shows that in the year 2008, 688 Billion Zimbabwe dollars = 1 US Dollar.
This makes the problem essentially about multiplication with scientific notation:
499 US Dollars (cost of an XBox One) x 688 Billion $Z per $US
I encourage students to use scientific notation, rounding, and estimation.
Scientific Notation:
(4.99 x 10^2) x (6.88 x 10^11) = 3.43312 x 10^14 = 343,312,000,000,000
This is rounded to about 343 trillion.
With Estimation (I love to encourage students to estimate, which gets them into the habit of developing instinct with numbers):
(5 x 10^2) x (6.8 x 10^11) = 340,000,000,000,000
This is 340 trillion.
Estimation is important for many reasons. I like to ask the class questions like:
- Why is (5 x 10^2) x (6.8 x 10^11) manageable mentally?
- What about 5 x 6.8 is easy?
The idea is that you can almost see that 5 x 6 = 30 and 5 x .8 = 4 (since 5 x 8 = 40) and thus 5 x 6.8 = 34. Then you have 34 x 10^13 = 3.4 x 10^14. I think it is amazing that we can deal with such large amounts in our head.
The next question is dependent upon the estimation and shifts the focus from multiplication to division: Is this estimation acceptable?
It is interesting because students will first notice that our estimation is over 3 trillion Zimbabwe dollars. But does this matter? To best answer that question, we can convert amounts to US Dollars.
Since 688 billion Zimbabwe Dollars = 1 US Dollars and 3 trillion $Z dollars = x $US we can solve with division:
(3 x 10^12)/(6.88 x 10^11 ) = 4.36 $US
Now we can better answer the question, "Is our estimation acceptable?"
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In this part of class, students go "shopping" for other items. The question is: How much would that cost in Zimbabwe Dollars circa 2008?
I print out a variety of fun objects to "purchase" and let students pick blindly from a shopping bag. Their job is to evaluate the cost of the item they pick. The two sources I used to find these items are listed at the bottom of this section. The photos are listed there as well with prices in the name of the file.
For example, students might pick the Aston Martin with a price tag of $1,850,000.
Once students have their items, they begin their analysis. It starts by asking questions that mirror the process in the Start Up and transforms to more questions around division.
I post this question on the board along with several followup questions:
- How much would your item cost in Zimbabwe Dollars?
Followup questions:
- Find a way to estimate this value.
- Compare the estimate to the exact value.
- Is the estimate acceptable? How do you know?
- How many Zimbabwe dollars does the class have in total?
- How many US Dollars is this worth?
- If I had 10^6 Zimbabwe dollars, how many US dollars would I be able to buy?
- If I had 10^9 Zimbabwe dollars, how many US dollars would I be able to buy?
- If I had 10^12 Zimbabwe dollars, how many US dollars would I be able to buy?
- If I had 10^80 Zimbabwe dollars, how many US dollars would I be able to buy?
- If I had 10^100 Zimbabwe dollars, how many US dollars would I be able to buy?
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A list of "most expensive" from the web site Born Rich.
24 ridiculously expensive everyday items from the web site Cool Material.
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Here the focus of activity is for students to share the cost of each item in both US and Zimbabwe dollars and then discuss the algorithms s/he used to calculate the cost. I am particularly interested in the students' ability to break down and estimate numbers. I want to know if students can find reasonable ways to estimate, and, if they can determine if their estimate is reasonable. This opens up a debate for the class.
For example, if a student has an item that cost 1,250 US Dollars, they would find the exact amount in Zimbabwe dollars by multiplying 1,250 x 6.88 Billion. However, they could estimate and solve mentally doing 2 x 6.8 Billion. The question becomes, "Would this estimate be above or below the actual amount?" We would also discuss why this might be a better estimate than "1 x 688 billion," which is typical in rounding (students see 1.25 and think "I should round down.") We could get into more detail by discussing if 2 x 6.8 billion is a better estimate than 1.3 x 6.8 billion. Here, we would talk about the impact of place value on the estimates we make.


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How does this relate to Orthodox-Protestant dialogue?
Earlier this year, Ware lectured at North Park University and Wheaton College about what evangelicals could learn from the Orthodox and what the Orthodox could learn from evangelicals. Christianity Today editor in chief David Neff interviewed him during that visit.
It's not sheep stealing if they truly think Orthodoxy is false and vice versa, is it?
Well, it wouldn't be sheep-stealing in the eyes of those who see Orthodox as non-Christians
QuoteWell, it wouldn't be sheep-stealing in the eyes of those who see Orthodox as non-ChristiansI did missionary work in Eastern Europe when I was a Baptist missionary (Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Russia) and I can tell you that most fundemental baptists (and other permutations of Protestant fundamentalism) think the Orthodox and Catholics and pretty much anyone else who do not use the "Sinner's Prayer" for salvation are not christians. We were trained that they were works for salvation only.So bishop Ware talking about Protestant sheep stealing is very accurate, because I took part in it.primuspilus
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The story behind Middletown's Taino Smokehouse goes back to 2004, but its name goes back to the 15th century.
When owners Chris and Jenny Szewczyk met in New York City nine years ago, the two made a bucket list of fun things to do during their courtship. In 2009, the couple completed a big item from the list: a cross-country trip.


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TOKYO, Japan, July 29, 2012 - Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced that the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (NCGG) *1 will feature Honda's Stride Management Assist device in its new program to assess elder independence solutions, which will begin in late August this year. The Stride Management Assist device is a lightweight, wearable device designed to support people with reduced walking ability. The results of the NCGG program will be leveraged by the Project to Explore Practical Applications of Service Robots, which is an initiative of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) *2. One of the goals of the NEDO project is to develop standards for service robot safety technologies.
Established to research the needs of people whose walking ability has declined due to aging*3, the NCGG program will operate from the Elder Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Center, which opens today in the Resora Obu Shopping Terrace in Obu, Aichi Prefecture. Honda will provide NCGG with 40 Stride Management Assist devices, which will be used in the shopping mall and on certain designated walking paths. Based on data output from the devices after use, Honda will research the applicability of the devices to elder independence solutions.
- *1National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (NCGG) is a national center for advanced and specialized medicine for the elderly based in Obu, Aichi Prefecture that researches aging-associated diseases, develops and promotes treatment options, and provides training.
- *2Japan's largest public management organization engaged in the development and testing of technology, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) was founded to leverage the experience Japan gained from the oil crises of the 1970s and today collaborates with corporations, universities and public research institutions to solve global energy and environmental problems and to increase the technological strength of Japanese industry.
- *3The program will focus on persons with reduced walking ability who are still able to walk under their own power.
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Distance between motors:
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M: 340 mm
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What is libfprint?
libfprint is an open source software library designed to improve the usability of consumer fingerprint scanners on Linux. It aims to provide a simple API to the developer, hiding the nasty details of the hardware that the user is using. It also aims to support a lot of devices and have a nice internal API for drivers.
How does libfprint relate to other open source fingerprint projects?
Most previous open source fingerprint projects have managed to retrieve images from the devices they support, but have stopped there. Examples include dpfp and various Authentec driver projects. Not only does libfprint act as replacement these projects by allowing applications to retrieve images from the devices, it goes a step further and actually processes the images to allow fingerprint verification, leading to functionality such as fingerprint-based login.
libthinkfinger from ThinkFinger is the only other project that offers fingerprint verification capabilities for the devices it supports. libfprint can also act as a libthinkfinger replacement, as it supports these devices in the upekts driver which was based on ?ThinkFinger code anyway.
Even though libfprint may have borrowed code (with permission) from other open source fingerprint projects, it is standalone and does not require other fingerprint libraries to be installed.
How well does it work on my hardware?
See ../libfprint/Driver quality.
Why does libfprint keep saying that my fingerprints do not match?
See ../libfprint/Imaging performance.
Does libfprint require BioAPI?
No. (more on this below)
Does libfprint require any special kernel drivers?
No. libfprint has drivers internally, based in userspace, using libusb for device I/O.
Which devices does libfprint support?
See ?supported devices and unsupported devices.
Tell me more about the image processing code?
libfprint includes NBIS and uses it for the image processing (mindtct) and later comparison of new images against previously enrolled prints (bozorth3). bozorth3 is not available on NISTs server due to export control concerns, which I have found do not apply to this project.
This code is fast -- mindtct takes approx 0.15 seconds for a 384x289 image on my 2ghz dual core laptop [only using one core], and bozorth3 takes about 0.1 seconds to compare 2 of those prints. From my testing so far, it appears to be impressively accurate too - I have yet to find a false acceptance.
Why can't I get images from my fingerprint scanner?
Chances are it is not an imaging device, and does image processing in hardware. Hardware driven by the upekts driver falls into this category.
Why no BioAPI?
At first glance, BioAPI is a nice idea. It basically aims to standardize an API for access to biometric devices.
There are a few reasons why BioAPI is not used in libfprint.
- BioAPI is closed. There does not seem to be any way to provide input for API design, unless you are a member.
- BioAPI is not free. While a 6-year old version of the standard can be freely downloaded, the latest version must be purchased.
- BioAPI adoption seems to be very low. I only know of a single freely downloadable software product which uses BioAPI, and that one is closed source: UPEKs own Linux fingerprint drivers.
- BioAPI is vague and complex. It turns out that designing API's to drive biometric hardware in general is a hard problem, and I don't really agree with their approach on things. Actually, I don't feel that I have a complete understanding of it either, despite spending a long time looking at it. Another reason for avoidance.
- BioAPI doesn't do as much as people think. For example it has no image processing code, it just describes an API for how such code might be driven.
- libfprint started as a university project, with a core component being abstraction handling and library design. So at least in the context of the academic project, I had to "reimplement" the kind of thing BioAPI tries to achieve anyway. I may be wrong, and BioAPI may be a good system. However, I believe libfprint's flexibility should make it possible and realistic for someone to slot in libfprint into the BioAPI chain. I would happily endorse and host such a project if someone is up for the challenge.
Additionally, in some ways, it almost makes sense for libfprint to be separate. BioAPI looks at all kinds of biometric applications (including fingerprints), libfprint targets fingerprint scanners exclusively. BioAPI or equivalent almost feels well suited to be a natural 'parent' of libfprint, alongside potential projects like libirisscan, libfacerecognition, etc :)
Aren't fingerprints insecure?
See ../Security notes for discussion. Short answer: libfprint is secure enough for your average user, but overall libfprint is not secure, and neither is typing passwords into your computer. Did I mention you're reading this site over an unencrypted protocol?
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Fund for Animals
Accredited Charity
Meets Standards
200 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
200 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Accredited Charity
Meets Standards
Standards Legend
- Meets Standards
- Standards Not Met
- Did Not Disclose
- Review In Progress
- Unable to Verify
Standards For Charity Accountability
Board Oversight
Standard 1 (Oversight of Operations and Staff)
Organizations shall have a board of directors that provides adequate oversight of the charity's operations and its staff. Indication of adequate oversight includes, but is not limited to, regularly scheduled appraisals of the CEO's performance, evidence of disbursement controls such as board approval of the budget, fund raising practices, establishment of a conflict of interest policy, and establishment of accounting procedures sufficient to safeguard charity finances.
The organization meets this standard.
Board Size
Standard 2 (Number of Board Members)
Soliciting organizations shall have a board of directors with a minimum of five voting members.
The organization meets this standard.
Board Meetings
Standard 3 (Frequency and Attendance of Board Meetings)
An organization shall have a minimum of three evenly spaced meetings per year of the full governing body with a majority in attendance, with face-to-face participation. A conference call of the full board can substitute for one of the three meetings of the governing body. For all meetings, alternative modes of participation are acceptable for those with physical disabilities.
The organization meets this standard.
Board Compensation
Standard 4 (Compensated Board Members)
Not more than one or 10% (whichever is greater) directly or indirectly compensated person(s) serving as voting member(s) of the board. Compensated members shall not serve as the board's chair or treasurer.
The organization meets this standard.
Conflict of Interest
Standard 5 (Conflict of Interest)
No transaction(s) in which any board or staff members have material conflicting interests with the charity resulting from any relationship or business affiliation. Factors that will be considered when concluding whether or not a related party transaction constitutes a conflict of interest and if such a conflict is material, include, but are not limited to: any arm's length procedures established by the charity; the size of the transaction relative to like expenses of the charity; whether the interested party participated in the board vote on the transaction; if competitive bids were sought and whether the transaction is one-time, recurring or ongoing.
The organization meets this standard.
Measuring Effectiveness
Effectiveness Policy
Standard 6 (Board Policy on Effectiveness)
Have a board policy of assessing, no less than every two years, the organization's performance and effectiveness and of determining future actions required to achieve its mission.
The organization meets this standard.
Effectiveness Report
Standard 7 (Board Approval of Written Report on Effectiveness)
Submit to the organization's governing body, for its approval, a written report that outlines the results of the aforementioned performance and effectiveness assessment and recommendations for future actions.
The organization meets this standard.
Program Expenses
Standard 8 (Program Service Expense Ratio)
Spend at least 65% of its total expenses on program activities.
The organization meets this standard.
Fundraising Expenses
Standard 9 (Fund Raising Expense Ratio)
Spending should be no more than 35% of related contributions on fund raising. Related contributions include donations, legacies, and other gifts received as a result of fund raising efforts.
The organization meets this standard.
Accumulating Funds
Standard 10 (Ending Net Assets)
Avoid accumulating funds that could be used for current program activities. To meet this standard, the charity's unrestricted net assets available for use should not be more than three times the size of the past year's expenses or three times the size of the current year's budget, whichever is higher.
The organization meets this standard.
Audit Report
Standard 11 (Financial Statements)
Make available to all, on request, complete annual financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. When total annual gross income exceeds $500,000, these statements should be audited in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. For charities whose annual gross income is less than $500,000, a review by a certified public accountant is sufficient to meet this standard. For charities whose annual gross income is less than $250,000, an internally produced, complete financial statement is sufficient to meet this standard.
The organization meets this standard.
Detailed Expense Breakdown
Standard 12 (Detailed Functional Breakdown of Expenses)
Include in the financial statements a breakdown of expenses (e.g., salaries, travel, postage, etc.) that shows what portion of these expenses was allocated to program, fund raising, and administrative activities. If the charity has more than one major program category, the schedule should provide a breakdown for each category.
The organization meets this standard.
Accurate Expense Reporting
Standard 13 (Accuracy of Expenses in Financial Statements)
Accurately report the charity's expenses, including any joint cost allocations, in its financial statements. For example, audited or unaudited statements which inaccurately claim zero fund raising expenses or otherwise understate the amount a charity spends on fund raising, and/or overstate the amount it spends on programs will not meet this standard.
The organization meets this standard.
Budget Plan
Standard 14 (Budget)
Have a board-approved annual budget for its current fiscal year, outlining projected expenses for major program activities, fund raising, and administration.
The organization meets this standard.
Fundraising & Info
Truthful Materials
Standard 15 (Misleading Appeals)
Have solicitations and informational materials, distributed by any means, that are accurate, truthful and not misleading, both in whole and in part. Appeals that omit a clear description of program(s) for which contributions are sought will not meet this standard. A charity should also be able to substantiate that the timing and nature of its expenditures are in accordance with what is stated, expressed, or implied in the charity's solicitations.
The organization meets this standard.
Annual Report
Standard 16 (Annual Report)
Have an annual report available to all, on request, that includes: (a) the organization's mission statement, (b) a summary of the past year's program service accomplishments, (c) a roster of the officers and members of the board of directors, (d) financial information that includes (i) total income in the past fiscal year, (ii) expenses in the same program, fund raising and administrative categories as in the financial statements, and (iii) ending net assets.
The organization meets this standard.
Website Disclosures
Standard 17 (Web Site Disclosures)
Include on any charity websites that solicit contributions, the same information that is recommended for annual reports, as well as the mailing address of the charity and electronic access to its most recent IRS Form 990.
The organization meets this standard.
Donor Privacy
Standard 18 (Privacy for Written Appeals & Internet Privacy)
Address privacy concerns of donors by (a) providing in written appeals, at least annually, a means (e.g., such as a check off box) for both new and continuing donors to inform the charity if they do not want their name and address shared outside the organization, (b) providing a clear, prominent and easily accessible privacy policy on any of its websites that tells visitors (i) what information, if any, is being collected about them by the charity and how this information will be used, (ii) how to contact the charity to review personal information collected and request corrections, (iii) how to inform the charity (e.g., a check off box) that the visitor does not wish his/her personal information to be shared outside the organization, and (iv) what security measures the charity has in place to protect personal information.
The organization meets this standard.
Cause Marketing Disclosures
Standard 19 (Cause Related Marketing)
Clearly disclose how the charity benefits from the sale of products or services (i.e., cause-related marketing) that state or imply that a charity will benefit from a consumer sale or transaction. Such promotions should disclose, at the point of solicitation: (a) the actual or anticipated portion of the purchase price that will benefit the charity (e.g., 5 cents will be contributed to abc charity for every xyz company product sold), (b) the duration of the campaign (e.g., the month of October), (c) any maximum or guaranteed minimum contribution amount (e.g., up to a maximum of $200,000).
The organization meets this standard.
Standard 20 (Complaints)
Respond promptly to and act on complaints brought to its attention by the BBB Wise Giving Alliance and/or local Better Business Bureaus about fund raising practices, privacy policy violations and/or other issues.
The organization meets this standard.
Fund for Animals meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.
Year, State Incorporated
Doris Day Animal League (DDAL)
Humane Society International (HSI)
Humane Society of the United States
Humane Society University (HSU)
Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association
South Florida Wildlife Center (SFWC)
Wildlife Land Trust (WLT)
Stated Purpose
to provide sanctuary, medical treatment, rehabilitation and release or re-homing, and other hands-on care and rescue of exploited, injured, orphaned, and abandoned animals; to promote the humane treatment of all animals and the prevention of cruelty through education and advocacy.
FFA operates several animal care facilities and also educates the public about animal issues. The organizations Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Murchison, TX is a 1,437 acre refuge with an animal population of approximately 1,000 animals year round, representing 42 species. Animals include horses and burros, cattle and buffalo, deer, pigs, tortoise, tigers, chimpanzees, and other primate species. The Fund for Animals Wildlife Center, in Southern California, is a 13 acre facility which provides medical treatment, care and rehabilitation of native wildlife, and releases them back into the wild. In 2014, the organization reports that 550 animals received care and treatment. FFA's Cape Wildlife Center in Cape Cod, MA, is a 5 acre facility and model rehabilitation program for native wildlife, providing medical and rehabilitative treatment to injured and orphaned animals and releasing them back into the wild. In 2014, the organization reports that more than 1,820 animals received care at the center. In addition, the Duchess Wildlife Sanctuary, in Oakland, OR, is a 1,120 acre facility established to care for about 200 formerly abused, exploited and neglected horses. Mares rescued from the Pregnant Mare Urine industry and their offspring make up the majority of the herd at the sanctuary. The center also reports that they provide temporary sanctuary for the rehabilitation and recovery of horses rescued from cruelty cases.
For the year ended December 31, 2014, Fund for Animals's program expenses were:
|Program services
|Total Program Expenses:
Governance & Staff
Chief Executive
Mike Markarian, President
Chair of the Board
Marian G. Probst
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation
Former Assistant to Cleveland Amory, Animal Advocate
Board Size
Paid Staff Size
Method(s) Used:
direct mail, telephone, invitations to fund raising events, grant proposals, internet, planned giving arrangements, cause-related marketing, membership, FR for construction of aviary in CA
FFA incurred joint costs of $1,114,845 for informational materials and activities that included fund raising materials. Of those costs $618,661 was allocated to program expenses, $462,739 was allocated to fund raising expenses, and $33,445 was allocated to administrative expenses.
Fundraising costs were 6% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $7,813,280, are donations received as a result of fundraising activities.)
Tax Status
This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.
The following information is based on Fund for Animals's audited financial statements - consolidated for the year ended December 31, 2014.
|Source of Funds
|Program support
|Other income
|Event income
|Grants and trust contributions
|Royalty income
|Total Income
- Programs: 90%
- Fundraising: 5%
- Administrative: 5%
|Total Income
|Program expenses
|Fundraising expenses
|Administrative expenses
|Other expenses
|Total expenses:
|Expenses in Excess of Income
|Beginning Net Assets
|Other Changes In Net Assets
|Ending Net Assets
|Total Liabilities
|Total Assets
An organization may change its practices at any time without notice. A copy of this report has been shared with the organization prior to publication. It is not intended to recommend or deprecate, and is furnished solely to assist you in exercising your own judgment. If the report is about a charity and states the charity meets or does not meet the Standards for Charity Accountability, it reflects the results of an evaluation of information and materials provided voluntarily by the charity. The name Better Business Bureau is a registered service mark of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc.
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Country star Taylor Swift is adding to her property portfolio after securing a $17.75 million deal for a new seaside home in Rhode Island.
The I Knew You Were Trouble hitmaker recently went house-hunting along north-east coast with her mother Andrea, father Scott and younger brother Austin, and she appears to have settled on a lavish estate in the town of Westerly.
The property, which boasts five bedrooms and sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean, had reportedly been on the market for $20 million - but Swift managed to use her charms to negotiate the lower price.
Swift is fast establishing herself as a savvy property owner - she allegedly made a profit of almost $1 million earlier this year after selling off an oceanside estate in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, near the compound owned by the Kennedy family. The singer briefly dated Conor Kennedy, the teenage son of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., last summer.


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The MISSIONMaker program uses art and the making experience to investigate NASA mission design, engineering and space exploration. Using common materials, students build a rover that incorporates six simple machines. The building instructions... (View More) include design challenges, background information and examples of how NASA spacecraft incorporate and use those same simple machines. The lesson includes step-by-step instructions, templates, explanatory YouTube videos, and additional related resources. (View Less)
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This multi-phased learning package progresses from guided engineering to an open mission-design challenge. Each step is scaffolded and includes easy-to-implement teaching tools, lessons and art activities. Learners, working in collaborative teams,... (View More) build an O-Rex spacecraft model. The building process incorporates inventing, designing and engineering- leading to a deeper understanding of NASA mission work. A leader guide, instructions, templates and a YouTube video are included and accessed through the Related & Supplemental Resources. (View Less)
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Explore simulated remote sensing techniques to observe a clay model of a planet. Observations are done from the perspective of a telescope at Earth's surface, a telescope above Earth's atmosphere, and from closer proximity to the planet in a... (View More) fly-by, an orbit and a landing. This activity illustrates the integration between science, engineering, technology and teamwork. The lesson is part of the Mars Education Program series; it models scientific inquiry using the 5E instructional model and includes teacher notes and vocabulary. Next Generation Science Standards are listed. (View Less)
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In this lesson, students participate in a skit presenting a mock-up of a planetary surface rover they designed. Students will be able to: demonstrate their knowledge of Mars and rovers by presenting their team skit; present their rover, its... (View More) requirements and features to the class; answer questions asked by the class based on research conducted during the unit; incorporate feedback from others and ideas from other presentations into student work. The lesson plan has a number of appendices, including: standards alignment, essential question, and exit ticket. This is Lesson 15 of the elementary school version of the 6-week Mars Rover Celebration curriculum. (View Less)
In this lesson, students will design a planetary surface rover to conduct a planetary surface investigation. It uses the 5E learning cycle and is designed around an essential question: How will creating a prototype of your rover help you prepare for... (View More) the Mars Rover Celebration? The lesson objectives are to: learn about scientific careers to gain a better understanding of a sampling of careers that have contributed to designing and developing Curiosity; draw a detailed, final-design sketch/diagram of the rover that will be built; identify missions, requirements and features of the rover using labels and captions when necessary. A number of appendices are provided, including standards alignment. This is Lesson 12 of the elementary school version of the 6-week Mars Rover Celebration curriculum. (View Less)
This lesson plan teaches how to select the landing site for a planetary surface investigation, using the 5E learning cycle. Students will be able to determine a landing site for their Mars rover; work with their team to summarize information and... (View More) identify important details in non-fiction writing; research Gale Crater through an online interactive module; use Google Earth Mars to learn about Mars surface features; gather and analyze data to conduct a scientific experiment; collect and record data in a science notebook to draw logical and scientific conclusions; define and identify the role of controls and variables in teams' scientific or technical questions; and differentiate between weather and climate. The lesson plan has a number of appendices, including standards alignment. This is Lesson 8 of the elementary school version of the 6 week Mars Rover Celebration curriculum. (View Less)
This lesson plan uses the 5E learning cycle and is designed around an essential question: How do I know when I've found important information in my reading? Learning objectives include: identify important details in informational texts; learn and... (View More) or review summarizing skills, work collaboratively to locate important information about Mars such as terrain, climate, and atmosphere; understand the rationale and importance of note-taking; develop effective note-taking strategies; and apply note-taking skills to record key information in students' science notebooks. The lesson plan has a number of appendices, including standards alignment. This is Lesson 4 of the elementary school version of the 6-week Mars Rover Celebration curriculum. (View Less)
This lesson plan uses the 5E learning cycle and is designed around an essential question: Why is the method you chose for landing your Rover on Mars the best one for your mission? The lesson objectives include: examine different methods for landing... (View More) rovers on Mars; determine which landing strategy is best suited to land the team's rover; research solutions to different problems that may occur once the rover lands on Mars; learn how to write in a persuasive manner; and present a well-written persuasive argument to teammates. The lesson plan has a number of appendices, including standards alignment. This is Lesson 10 of the elementary school version of the 6-week Mars Rover Celebration curriculum. (View Less)
Building Intuition for In-water Optics and Ocean Color Remote Sensing: Spectrophotometer Activity with littleBits™
This activity demonstrates optical properties of water: that different constituents in water affect the transmission, absorption, and scattering of different colors in the visible light spectrum. Inexpensive, off-the-shelf components are used to... (View More) build a light sensor and source, creating a simple spectrophotometer that can measure light absorption. In the second part of this activity, principles of ocean color remote sensing are applied to measure reflectance. Using components that are clearly visible allows students to configure them in different ways. Playing with the instrument design gives students a practical understanding of spectrophotometers, in-water optics, and remote sensing. As an extension of this concept, students are encouraged to think about how ocean color is used to estimate the concentration of chlorophyll to infer phytoplankton abundance, colored dissolved organic matter, and suspended sediments. (View Less)
In this game, students use the accompanying "playing cards" to plan a mission to Mars. The mission must produce significant science returns while also meeting several constraints such as budget, mass and power. The lesson is part of the Mars... (View More) Education Program series; it uses the 5E instructional model and includes teacher notes, rubrics, student worksheets, background information, playing cards and the playing board. Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are listed. (View Less)
Materials Cost: Free