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Has anybody done an analysis of octrees verses BSP for culling and collision detection purposes? What situations would warrent the use of one or the other?
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BSP has much faster collision detection but octrees are more versatile
How do you know this? I'm not being smart, I'd just like to see some evidence as I'm about to start implementing a spatial scheme for collision detection.
Well BSP trees are definately faster for collision detection because you can usually use planes for collision. As for octrees being more versatile, I don't know. It seems that octrees are somewhat of a buzzword in hobbyist development circles. If you're doing indoor scenes, I would go with a BSP tree. But that's just my opinion.


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Jim Carrey Bashes His Own Film 'Kick-Ass 2' For Violence
Jim Carrey has spoken out on his upcoming film Kick-Ass 2, condemning it for its use of violence following the tragic events at Sandy Hook last year.
"I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence," the 51-year-old actor tweeted. "I meant to say my apologies to others involve[d] with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart."
Comic book author Mark Millar, who also executive produced the film, wrote a blog post following the tweets to express his opinion on the matter.
"As you may know, Jim is a passionate advocate of gun-control and I respect both his politics and his opinion, but I'm baffled by this sudden announcement as nothing seen in this picture wasn't in the screenplay eighteen months ago," Mark wrote. "Yes, the body-count is very high, but a movie called Kick-Ass 2 really has to do what it says on the tin. A sequel to the picture that gave us HIT-GIRL was always going to have some blood on the floor and this should have been no shock to a guy who enjoyed the first movie so much."
"Ultimately, this is his decision, but I've never quite bought the notion that violence in fiction leads to violence in real-life any more than Harry Potter casting a spell creates more Boy Wizards in real-life. Our job as storytellers is to entertain and our toolbox can't be sabotaged by curtailing the use of guns in an action-movie," he added. Head on over to his blog to read the full post.
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Multi-doodles done while doing an artists residency in Poppi, Tuscany
You can be as casual and messy and experimental as you like.No ones going to see what you do...
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You had me with the bound sketchbooks! Don't think you know I make marbled papers! These are jewels! I also loved the links at the bottom-gondolier studies and Bologna made me want to catch a plane.ReplyDelete
Part of my studies took me to Liège in Belgium where we stayed with a family for 3 months. The father is an architect/artist; this is the link to his sketchbook which i like to share when the subject of sketching comes up. He is part of a group called Urban Sketchers. http://www.urbansketchers.org/
You had a very productive bookbinding period!!! I've been making my own sketchbooks one at a time...and I swear I'm going to start using commercial books because it takes so darn long and I'm not very proficient...but I just made a new one because I had an inspiration I wanted to follow...next sketchbook, COMMERCIAL!ReplyDelete
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Oh may I Pin Away:) I love every image Carol~Just to have and to see:)ReplyDelete
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I love your blog today!
I have always loved Delacroix's sketchbooks and I was in heaven when I saw Turner's at the Tate.
So personal and lovely,like seeing inside the artist's mind.
Your journals are beautiful.
I,too,bind journals occasionally but they do not look as great as yours. Maybe it's that luscious marble paper?
Carol, this post is so very dear to my own love of sketchbooks, studies, and ... the unlimited abundance of artist materials waiting out there to inspire us.
Thank you for the peeks at your own sketchbooks.
The Tate's Turner collection is rather amazing, and I love the way that the museum rotates it for us mere mortals to view.
One of my favorite posts of yours, so far, meraviglioso!
Merci for sharing your treasures with us. :-)
Art Supplies & Sketchbooks, now those are my kind of pastries! In David's class, I fell in love with some of the thumbnails I saw. The spontaneity is what I love! Love your sketchbooks, & also those of Delacroix (visited his studio on Rue de Furstenberg & it was the watercolors & sketches that I loved, verses the big paintings. "Multi-doodles" & "blobs", you sketch great words too!!ReplyDelete
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How wonderful to be able to see inside some of your sketchbooks, & bound by yourself. You have such an abundance of talents. I'm off to start my first blobbing in my sketch book !ReplyDelete


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WALTHAM - There are players in this year's NBA draft who can point to their accomplishments in college when auditioning for lottery teams, and those who can tantalize with potential. Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart is the rare combination of both who will surely be a cause for strong consideration if the Celtics keep the No. 6 pick in the June 26 draft.
WALTHAM - There are players in this year's NBA draft who can point to their accomplishments in college when auditioning for lottery teams, and those who can tantalize with potential.
Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart is the rare combination of both who will surely be a cause for strong consideration if the Celtics keep the No. 6 pick in the June 26 draft.
Thought to be a possible top-three pick after his freshman year at OSU, Smart bucked the one-and-done trend and came back for a sophomore season in which he improved statistically nearly across the board, but which didn't exactly do wonders for his draft stock.
A combination of a much stronger draft class, and some maturity questions stemming from a midseason incident when he shoved a courtside fan after allegedly being taunted with a racial slur, could have Smart sitting there at No. 6 where the Celtics would get a chance to bring in a 20-year-old player who could contribute right away with his 6-foot-4, 220-pound frame and with a ceiling that is still yet to be reached.
"I thought he was good," Celtics coach Brad Stevens said of Smart after a workout that included Smart, Michigan State's Gary Harris and Michigan's Nik Stauskas. "I thought he was physical. I thought he was a leader. I thought he shot the ball well in drills.
"Clearly, he's got a way about him where people follow him. He's a very tough guy. He competed the whole time. My expectations for him were high from that regard, but he certainly met them. He's going to be a good player."
Smart clearly believes that as well and carries himself with a confidence that only Arizona's Aaron Gordon has matched in post-workout interviews this week. Only Gordon's confidence is still based mostly on raw athletic ability, while Smart's is grounded in his inherit charisma and his already-sturdy credentials on the court.
"I do have that presence," Smart said. "I don't know – I was born with it. A lot of people say so. It just translates on the court.
"It's a little swag too."
Smart said that "swag" was one of the reasons why he was fully ready to work out with several guards Friday perhaps considered lower than him in the draft prospect list, as he subtly took a shot at other players who pick and choose workout competition, or refuse to work out for certain teams at all.
"You see all these guys dodging," Smart said, "saying 'I'm not going to work out if he's there.' My biggest attribute, to me, is being a competitor. I show my best skills when the game's on the line, somebody's guarding me, and there's competition. Whoever you put in front of me, I'm not going to back down.
"I've never backed down from a challenge. That's not me. That's not what my make-up is. I'm working out against guys who may be ranked lower than me, and might move up because of going against me, but that doesn't scare me because I'm a competitor."
Smart averaged 18.0 points per game last season after averaging 15.4 as a freshman. He also averaged 6.0 rebounds and nearly three steals a game as a point guard.
He's also shown the ability in his college career to be a bit of an irritant on the court.
"They say the game of basketball is 20 percent physical, 80 percent mental, or something like that," Smart said. "If I can get under an opponent's skin before the game starts, or before the play starts, I've already won the match."
While Smart contended he won't back down to anyone on the court, he allowed there is a player on the Celtics – Rajon Rondo – whom he looks up to both on and off it. Smart had high praise for Boston's four-time All-Star and said the presence of such an established point guard would not disappoint him in anyway if the Celtics choose him No. 6.
"If I'm fortunate enough that Boston picks me, and that means I have to sit on the bench behind Rajon Rondo, that's an honor to learn from one of the greatest players and point guards," Smart said. "He's been playing it for a while. He's a veteran. He knows what he's doing.
"Everybody knows Rondo's a fighter. He's a guard on defense who harasses the ball. He's a pest. That's kind of what I am."
It may be exactly what the Celtics need going forward if they continue down the rebuilding path in this month's draft.
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COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) - A local Auburn fan is on his way to Pasadena, Calif. for the BCS Championship thanks to a generous customer who booked a room in the Columbus Hilton Garden Inn where he works.
Jonathan Spearman, of Phenix City, says he's rooted for Auburn ever since he was a little boy. A friend got him a ticket to the BCS Game, but he could not afford the flight to California.
When a regular guest at the hotel heard about this, the guest transferred his frequent flier Sky Miles points to Spearman to help him.
"He was like, 'I booked your flight to California for the days of the National Championship, now go have fun! You're a young person, you deserve to go witness your team, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.' So I was real ecstatic and happy, I was smiling all day!" says Spearman.
The generous guest, Shawn Frey, is a general contractor from Florida who works frequently on Fort Benning.
Spearman's friends say he is a good luck charm at Auburn games. They say his standing or sitting impacted the results for the Iron Bowl game and a game against UGA, which he attended at Jordan-Hare Stadium. And thanks to Frey, he will be there for their final game, too.
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You may remember Emily Rapp from her heartbreaking essay on living in the moment with her dying son. Now she's written another searing piece for Slate, admitting that although she loves her son Ronan dearly, if she'd known while she was pregnant that he had Tay-Sachs—a painful genetic disease that has left him blind and paralyzed, and will likely claim him some time this year—she would have chosen to have an abortion. She writes:
I'm so grateful that Ronan is my child. I also wish he'd never been born; no person should suffer in this way—daily seizures, blindness, lack of movement, inability to swallow, a devastated brain—with no hope for a cure. Both of these statements are categorically true; neither one is mutually exclusive…
I love Ronan, and I believe it would have been an act of love to abort him, knowing that his life would be primarily one of intense suffering, knowing that his neurologically devastated brain made true quality of life—relationships, thoughts, pleasant physical experiences—impossible.
That's not to say a life with a disability is not worth living. Rapp herself was born with a congenital defect that led to the amputation of one of her legs, and yet she describes her life as fulfilling. But she believes that pregnant women should have the power to make their own decisions about whether to continue a pregnancy, with as much information as possible.
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The Arkansas Senate voted Monday to allow concealed handguns in churches and other places of worship, rejecting complaints from a handful of Democratic lawmakers that it undermines the idea of the institutions being sanctuaries from violence.
The Arkansas Senate voted Monday to allow concealed handguns in churches and other places of worship, rejecting complaints from a handful of Democratic lawmakers that it undermines the idea of the institutions being sanctuaries from violence.
By a 28-4 vote, the Republican-controlled Senate approved the legislation that would leave it up to individual places of worship to decide whether to allow concealed handguns inside. Churches are currently listed as places where concealed handguns are prohibited.
The proposal is among several aimed at loosening the state's firearms restrictions, including a bill filed Monday that would keep secret the list of Arkansas residents permitted to carry concealed handguns.
Sen. Bryan King, the sponsor of the guns in church bill, said the measure would help rural churches far from police or law enforcement that can't afford to hire security.
"This just gives each church the ability to handle their own security," King, R-Green Forest, told senators before the vote.
Of the 49 states that allow concealed handguns, Arkansas is among 10 that specifically prohibit them from churches, according to the National Rifle Association. Past efforts to allow guns in churches have failed in the Legislature, but gun rights advocates believe they're poised to change that now that Republicans are in control.
Eight Democrats voted for the measure in the Senate. Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe has indicated he'll likely sign the measure into law should it reach his desk.
The proposal faces opposition from some church leaders, including the Episcopal bishop of Arkansas and the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock, who say that churches are no place for weapons. Sen. Linda Chesterfield, D-Little Rock, echoed that complaint Monday as she urged lawmakers to vote against King's proposal.
"My Lord's house is a house of prayer, not one with guns," Chesterfield said.
King said he planned to bring his proposal before the House Judiciary Committee later this week. House Speaker Davy Carter told reporters he supports the legislation and expects it will pass the House, where Republicans hold 51 of 100 seats.
"The question that the General Assembly has in front of it is: Should they have the right to make that decision for themselves?" Carter, R-Cabot, said. "I think the answer to that is yes, and I think the bill will pass the House."
The House also unanimously approved Monday a non-binding resolution that urges the federal government and other policymakers not to limit Second Amendment rights.
Another proposal filed Monday would keep secret the list of Arkansans licensed to carry concealed handguns. Sen. Bruce Holland, R- Greenwood, said he filed it in response to a New York newspaper that published the names and addresses of permit holders last year after the Connecticut school massacre.
Under a 2009 law, Arkansas only releases the names and ZIP codes of concealed carry permit holders. The law was the result of a compromise over a similar proposal that year to keep the entire list secret.
"I think that's a pretty private issue," Holland said. "Nobody needs to know where the guns are and who has guns in their home, make those people a target of burglaries or anything else."
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(Reuters) - Authorities on Thursday killed a man suspected of shooting dead four people a day earlier in separate incidents at a barbershop and a car wash in neighboring upstate New York towns, police said.
The suspected gunman, identified as Kurt Myers, 64, was killed in a shootout with police and FBI agents at a building in Herkimer, New York, where he had barricaded himself the previous day, New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico said.
As the authorities entered the first floor of the abandoned building, the gunman, described as a loner, opened fire on them, striking and killing an FBI police dog, D'Amico said. The gunman was then shot and killed.
"He engaged them almost immediately," D'Amico said at a press conference. "It all took place shortly before 8 a.m. this morning, and it all unfolded and concluded in a matter of minutes. We know he had the shotgun with him that he used in yesterday's attacks."
Four people were killed and two others critically injured in the shootings on Wednesday in the sleepy New York villages of Herkimer and Mohawk, which face one another across the Mohawk River. The villages are about 220 miles northwest of New York City.
Police said they did not know of a motive behind the shooting sprees.
"The violence that was inflicted yesterday on these victims was horrible," D'Amico said.
Shortly before 9:30 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Myers drove to John's Barber Shop in Mohawk, and after a brief exchange of words inside the shop, he opened fire with a shotgun, according to police.
Two customers were killed, and the owner and another customer were critically wounded, D'Amico said. They remained in critical condition on Thursday, he said.
"Totally unprovoked, we believe he fired a number of rounds from the shotgun," he said on Wednesday.
Myers then drove to Gaffey's Fast Lube in the neighboring Herkimer, and fired again, D'Amico said, killing two people.
State police in military garb and using an armored vehicle surrounded an abandoned building in the downtown section of Herkimer, a town of 7,700 people, on Wednesday afternoon. Shots were fired from inside the building and police returned fire.
Myers' arrest record includes a drunken driving charge in 1973, police said.
The killings took place shortly after a fire was reported at the Mohawk apartment house where Myers lived, said Mohawk Mayor James Baron.
A search of the apartment turned up a cache of guns and ammunition, according to officials.
In January Cuomo signed into law one of the country's toughest gun control measures, the first enacted in the wake of the mass shooting in December that killed 20 students and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
The law expands the state's ban on assault weapons, puts limits on ammunition capacity and has new measures to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. It also mandates a life sentence without parole for anyone who murders a first responder.
Those killed in the car wash shooting were identified as Thomas Stefka, an employee at Gaffey's, and Michael Renshaw, a 20-year employee of the New York State Corrections Department, state police said.
The barbershop victims were Harry Montgomery, 68, of Mohawk, and Michael Rancier, 57, of Herkimer. The shop owner, John Seymour, and a customer, Dan Haslauer, were rushed to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Utica in critical condition, state police said.
The two towns are located about midway between Albany, the state capital, and Syracuse.
(Reporting by Barbara Goldberg and Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)


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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The daughter of jailed former Ukrainian premier Yulia Tymoshenko urged Western nations Thursday to impose sanctions on officials involved in her mother's imprisonment.
Tymoshenko, the country's top opposition leader, is serving a seven-year prison sentence on charges of abuse of office after a trial that was condemned by the West as politically motivated and which strained Ukraine's ties to Europe and the United States. Tymoshenko denies the charges and accuses President Viktor Yanukovych, her longtime foe, of orchestrating the trial to bar her from politics.
With Tymoshenko in jail, Ukraine's fragmented opposition forces were unable to muster a majority in parliament following an election in October, and Yanukovych's allies again control the legislature and the government.
In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, Tymoshenko's daughter Eugenia, 32, said prosecutors and judges involved in her mother's case should face Western sanctions such as travel bans and freezes on bank accounts.
"We understand that we cannot do it by ourselves inside Ukraine and that is why we need great international support, but also (an) understanding of our international friends that Yanukovych will not just voluntarily give up his power," Eugenia Tymoshenko said in her mother's office in central Kiev. "People like judges, like prosecutors ... they have to be put forward for sanctions. Those are the main executors of repression. Of course, there are people behind them who are in the ruling party, but it could be the first step."
The European Union suspended a key cooperation deal with Kiev over the Yulia Tymoshenko case.
Separately, Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin, who is in charge of the ex-premier's prosecution, recently had his long-term U.S. visa revoked. The U.S. Embassy in Kiev would not comment on the move, citing its privacy policy.
But the visa cancellation followed efforts by Kuzmin to question U.S.-based witnesses in a nearly 15-year-old murder case in Ukraine in which Kuzmin claims Yulia Tymoshenko is implicated. She denies all the accusations.
Her daughter also exhorted the international community to investigate and prosecute alleged instances of "international corruption" involving Ukrainian officials in the West. For instance, Yulia Tymoshenko has petitioned American authorities to investigate how Ukraine's Justice Ministry commissioned a top U.S. law firm to analyze her trial for what Ukraine's government says was a mere $12,000.
Tymoshenko's lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko has said that such a report must have cost well over $1.5 million and accused Yanukovych's allies of paying for it illicitly. The report by the New York-based firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom claims that there is not sufficient evidence that Tymoshenko was prosecuted for political reasons, though it finds numerous flaws in her trial.
The law firm has not commented on its fee for the report, which was dated September but not made public until earlier this month.
Yulia Tymoshenko has been in prison for about a year and a half, but Eugenia Tymoshenko expressed hope that Western pressure could eventually free her mother so that she could run against Yanukovych in the 2015 presidential election.
"Yanukovych's main task was to keep my mother in prison for the elections in 2015," Eugenia Tymoshenko said. "It (takes) great responsibility and great power and energy to stop this train that's been going on the reverse side for Ukraine — away from democratic, European values."


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Learners create art inspired by authentic NASA planetary image data while learning to recognize the geology on planetary surfaces, uniquely inspiring learner engagement. This presentation and accompanying activity use the elements of art - shape,... (View More) line, color, texture, value - to make sense of features in NASA images, honing observation skills and inspiring questions. It aligns with the NGSS cross-cutting concept of Patterns. Videos, images, and an interactive poster that breaks down activity elements deepen user access. (View Less)
This textbook chapter introduces the buffalo as a keystone species, and describes the environmental impacts of its near extinction, including today's predominance of non-native species in the Great Plains. Human activities that contribute to... (View More) species extinction are addressed. Students graph historical sightings of buffalo, and calculate the number of buffalo killed for bone used in refining sugar and fertilizer and in the production of bone china. The resource includes a link to current news articles and a teacher's guide. This is the second chapter in the unit, Losing Biodiversity, examining the endangerment and extinction of entire species of plants and animals throughout the world due to human actions. The resource is part of Global System Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
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Students will learn about the Landsat spacecraft and its study of Earth from space through reading a NASA press release. By viewing a NASA eClips™ video segment, students will see how Landsat monitors conditions in the Chesapeake Bay. Then... (View More) students will use fractions to understand land use on Earth based upon Landsat data. This activity is part of the Space Math multi-media modules that integrate NASA press releases, NASA archival video, and mathematics problems targeted at specific math standards commonly encountered in middle school textbooks. The modules cover specific math topics at multiple levels of difficulty with real-world data and use the 5E instructional sequence. (View Less)
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Designed for use in the high school classroom, this curriculum uses Earth system data, models, and resources from five NASA missions (Aqua, Aura, ICESat, Landsat, and Terra) to engage students in a systems approach to climate change. The curriculum... (View More) consists of 21 lessons divided into four modules: 1. Introduction to Eco-Schools USA and NASA data. 2. Factors That Influence Temperature, 3. How Climate Change Affects Natural and Human Systems, and 4. Renewable Energy and a Call to Action. Each lessons provides technology tips, supplements, student worksheets, answer keys and appendices. (View Less)
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Clouds serve as a theme in a series of linked introductory explorations in math, language arts, and science. After participating in a demonstration of cloud formation, students are directed to create an acrostic poem (a poem that uses the letters in... (View More) a word to start each line of the poem) and peer review and edit each other's work. The class collects atmospheric temperature and cloud cover data over a period of days and then construct graphs to assist in analysis. This lesson is supported by observation protocols, teacher resources, and a glossary of scientific terms. This activity is related to the NASA CERES Students Cloud Observations Online (S'COOL) project. (View Less)
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Math skills are applied throughout this investigation of windows. Starting with basic window shapes, students determine area and complete a cost analysis, then do the same for windows of unconventional shapes. Students will examine photographs taken... (View More) by astronauts through windows on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station to explore the inverse relationship between lens size and area covered. This lesson is part of the Expedition Earth and Beyond Education Program. (View Less)
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In this lesson, students compare different habitats based on satellite imagery and identify land features in the satellite image. This is lesson 3 in a unit on remote sensing that is a companion to an interactive adventure that uses a Landsat mosaic... (View More) of Arizona as the interface. Students need to interpret satellite imagery to receive clues to Echo the Bat's location. As students find Echo, additional content about remote sensing and biodiversity is introduced. (View Less)
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This is a lesson about the phenomenon of ice and about scientific inquiry. Learners will ask scientific questions about ice, will delve into the nature of science, embark upon scientific inquiry, and will practice scientific enterprise. Activities... (View More) include thinking and acting like scientists and keeping scientific journals. Also includes an activity called "Act Out the Science" - a whole group participatory activity in which students act out the parts of a story. An optional small group version is included in which students act out their own stories. This is the introductory lesson for Exploring Ice in the Solar System. (View Less)
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This investigation requires students to locate several major U.S. cities using four different sources: an outline map, a nighttime lights image, an atlas map, and a space shuttle image. After analyzing and comparing the information from those... (View More) sources, students will offer explanations for establishing cities in particular locations. The URL opens to the investigation directory, with links to teacher and student materials, lesson extensions, resources, teaching tips, and assessment strategies. This is Investigation 4 of four found in the Grades K-4 Module 3 of Mission Geography. The Mission Geography curriculum integrates data and images from NASA missions with the National Geography Standards. Each of the four investigations in Module 3, while related, can be done independently. Please see Investigation 1 of this module for a two-page module overview and list of all standards addressed. (View Less)
This investigation teaches that physical and human features are used to characterize places on Earth. Since types of both features are visible from space, students will use NASA images to complete several activities: matching images to geographic... (View More) places, matching images to the features described in verses of "America the Beautiful" then attaching those images to the appropriate areas on a hand-drawn outline map of the U.S. and finally, writing their own poem to describe those images. The URL opens to the investigation directory, with links to teacher and student materials, lesson extensions, resources, teaching tips, and assessment strategies. This is Investigation 2 of four found in the Grades K-4 Module 3 of Mission Geography. Note: The authors recommend that students first complete Investigation 1 in this Module (What Are Physical and Human-Made Features?) to acquaint them with identifying features.The Mission Geography curriculum integrates data and images from NASA missions with the National Geography Standards. Each of the four investigations in Module 3, while related, can be done independently. Please see Investigation 1 of this module for a two-page module overview and list of all standards addressed. (View Less)


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The draft, the early days of free agency and the development camp are now history, and the dog days of summer are coming at us fast.
But unlike past years, when most hockey business would be done by now, there's still a lot of work to complete — for the Bruins and other teams, in particular ones chasing Ilya Kovalchuk.
There's no better time that right this second to take stock of where the Bruins stand and look at a few questions they need to answer before they set their roster for training camp.
1. Are they going to keep or trade Marc Savard?
The notion that the Bruins would waive Savard and see if they could get him out from under the salary cap is preposterous. For the club to do that to a player they signed to a lifetime deal just eight months ago would send a message that dysfunction reigns on Causeway Street. It's more likely the Bruins will wait and see where Kovalchuk lands and then try to make a deal with one of the teams that doesn't land the superstar Russian. Or they could convince Los Angeles that Savard would be the perfect setup guy for Kovalchuk in a reunion of former Thrashers and try to pry away one of the Kings' prized defensemen in a deal. That last notion might be only dwarfed in it's long-shot status by the idea of waiving Savard.
2. Why do the Bruins want to trade Savard?
We all know it's about cap space, but the team has hopefully taken these couple weeks since the trade rumors heated up and cooled off during the draft to realize that there are better ways to make cap room. First, they could start by waiting until Tim Thomas proves he's healthy in camp and then deal him somewhere he's willing to go. The other is to give Michael Ryder no more than a week of training camp to prove he has re-dedicated himself, or otherwise you drive to Providence and bury that $4 million in the minors. Of course, that would take a major commitment from ownership, which has approved that sort of move with Shawn McEachern and Peter Schaefer in the past. But neither of those washed-up forwards was making $4 million.
3. Does it make sense to trade Tim Thomas?
Most of the better back-up-type netminders on the free-agent market have been bought up already, so the pickings could be slim should Boston deal Thomas and not get a goaltender in return. That would put a huge burden on Tuukka Rask not only to match or surpass last year's second-half performance, but to stay healthy and increase his workload. I don't think anyone's counting on Nolan Schaefer swooping in to save the day. However, the Bruins made this mess with Thomas by granting him such a long extension at an advanced age with a no-movement clause, and now they have to live with it or clean it up. To me, if the Bruins are going to deal from one of their strengths, I would trade Thomas instead of Savard. Of course, if they could clear the cap space another way, I would keep both.
4. What's Blake Wheeler going to make and who will it affect the team?
The Gregory Campbell arbitration ruling, if it goes to a hearing, isn't going to break the bank. However, Wheeler's award could make things even tighter than they are. I've already broken down the comparables, and if Wheeler gets a $2 million or more award, that might force Boston's hand as far as trading someone for next to nothing. Unless Boston is planning to just walk away from a hefty award — an idea that's been brought up in some circles but makes little sense considering the type of asset Wheeler could be in trade talks — their best move would be to make sure they're in control of what he makes before letting an arbiter determine that for them.
5. Will there be any buyouts?
The second buyout period could be another chance to send Ryder packing. It would save the club $2.7 in cap space this season, which is nothing to sneeze at considering the team's troubles. If the Bruins were impressed enough by some of the other kids at development camp to determine at least one, other than Tyler Seguin, will be ready for the NHL this fall, a buyout wouldn't be the worst thing (especially if there's no way ownership allows a $4 million player to be demoted to the AHL).
A lot of questions will be answered as we move closer to August. It seems that Kovalchuk's signing, if and when it happens, will set the dominoes falling. And then we'll find out just what the 2010-11 Bruins are going to look like.


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Beware the "free" email account. Especially if it is an account set up with your mobile telephone number.
Some extremely important lessons have been learned about them – and (lack of) customer service – in the past week.
I concede this posting might make me appear totally naive when it comes to the ways and wherefores of the interweb, but so be it. I know there are more people like me than there are superhighway aficionados.
Some of the blame might lie at my feet, but Orange has an awful lot to learn about customer service and its procucedures after what happened to me recently.
I set up an orange.net account in September last year when I knew I was going to be made redundant and would be attempting to scratch a living at freelance journalism. It was chosen because I had an Orange mobile phone.
But when I decided to upgrade from pay as you go to a monthly contract last week, Orange committed the offences of serious lack of customer care and appallingly stupid procedures.
Within three hours of my new mobile phone being activated (I kept the same telephone number), my email account disappeared.
Not only had it disappeared, I was informed that no such account had ever existed. Confused? Well, I'm afraid I was. Trouble was, I couldn't get through to Orange to get an answer. It took three attempts – I was on hold for at least 20 minutes each time – before I actually got through to a human being.
Yes, said the "customer service representative", my account had gone. It was in the terms and conditions that I'd obviously read and digested when setting up the account all those months. It stated that if I changed my contract, the email account would be wiped from its server.
No, there was nothing he could do about it. It was tough. Read the small print, idiot, was pretty much how it was summed up (yes, I was abusive back. I was angry at the lack of information imparted by Orange representatives in the store where I bought my phone; furious that there was no warning about my email account being wiped; and in shock that my work contacts, folders, work-related paraphernalia had gone).
Another call made the following day and there was a glimmer of hope: I argued there must be back-up, that my emails must be somewhere. This time, the representative said he thought so, too, and promised to look into it and try and get my account address out of quarantine.
I heard nothing.
A posting on complaintcommunity.com produced better results. A woman from Orange's executive office took my complaint seriously. My address was retrieved from quarantine, but nothing could be done about getting back my emails. She was told that as it was a free account, there is no back up, no help offered in these cases.
She was shocked by the lack of thought on the part of Orange, that no procedures were put in place to warn customers what would happen. "I've never read terms and conditions in my life," she said. "It's not a customer-friendly system, is it?"
She has recommended procedures should be put in place so that customers are warned about what will happen if they make changes to their accounts; ensure that customers have 24-48 hours' notice so that important emails, addresses etc can be backed up; and offering a system whereby customers can pay to ensure their account is backed up if something goes wrong with the server.
Will it happen? No idea, but I'm making sure that every important email I receive is copied onto my hard drive. If I had more technical nous I'd probably set up a forwarding account, too. I'll look into that later (if it's not too late).
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Remember back when people would talk about how online companies were going to wipe out their brick-and-mortar competitors? This was especially supposed to be true of travel agencies -- where the theory was that there was simply no need for them in the face of online competition. Well, apparently that's not true. Travelocity and Expedia are both rapidly rolling out brick-and-mortar kiosks staffed by human employees to help travelers with their travel booking needs in real life, rather than over a computer. So far, these seem most focused on local tourist sight-seeing in tourist-trap areas, rather than full fledged travel agencies, but the fact that both companies are doing this, suggests they've realized the limitations to being online only.


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has anyone ever setup a trusted domain? my friend and I want to connect our domains together and i'm not quite sure how to do it. can someone point me in the right direction?
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Family scholars are providing irrefutable data that the tendency to marry, stay married, and raise children within two parent families has emerged as a potent marker of class, and that the results reinforce class barriers and dramatically affect America's human capital acquisition. The idea of "class" refers to categories of social construction more fluid than race, ethnicity, or caste and more fixed than occupation, religion, or party. Class, in contrast with other categories, is a product of the allocation of resources, an allocation that depends on the organization of the family to channel investment in children. This talk will accordingly examine the social construction of class through the lens of gender and family. In doing so, it will examine the growing economic inequality that has rejuvenated interest in the idea of class and the relationship between the changing economy, gender, divorce and non-marital births. It concludes that an important factor in the relationship between class and family is the role of greater inequality in segmenting marriage markets, skewing the gender gap in wages as a function of class, writing off large numbers of men as effectively "unmarriageable" because of incarceration, chronic unemployment, substance abuse and violence, and the consequent altering of gender ratios to the disadvantage of all but the most elite women.
June Carbone is the Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City and co-author of Red Families v Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture (Oxford 2010).


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Some causes just seem hopeless some days. But you've no doubt met people who insist on tackling intractable problems locally and around the world.
From the Here & Now Contributors Network, Tom Banse of the Northwest News Network introduces us to a particularly dedicated fellow who wages a solo fight each weekday morning against invasive English ivy vines in his home state of Washington.
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A core of dedicated volunteers in Oregon started their new year by helping to stave off an invader: English ivy. Oregon banned the sale or transport of English ivy in 2010 because it's smothering native habitat. Weed killers don't work, so volunteers go into state parks to pull off the weed by hand. From the HERE AND NOW Contributors Network, Tom Banse of the Northwest News Network introduces us to one determined ivy fighter.
TOM BANSE, BYLINE: Most of us have a workday morning routine. For some, a stop to the gym comes first. For others, it's two cups of coffee over the sports pages. In Olympia, Washington, teacher Kevin Head rises long before dawn on school days to go alone to a city park. There, his routine begins by asking the rampant ivy vines for forgiveness.
KEVIN HEAD: Thank you, ivy, for your tenaciousness, your strength. And I ask you to let me take you out for the benefit of the world, here.
BANSE: And then Head leans down with gloved hands and rips and yanks as much ivy as he can slay for the next half hour. The 56-year-old works by the light of a single headlamp. Pretty much anything he grabs in this grove of big leaf maples is bound to be ivy.
HEAD: So, ivy all through here, all down to the bay, all through the trees in there.
BANSE: Head says he's motivated by a desire to restore habitat for native plants and birds. Thick mats of English or Irish ivy crowd out all other greenery. And climbing vines can practically suffocate trees.
This task reminds me of the Greek myth about Sisyphus, the cruel king condemned for eternity to push a huge stone uphill only to see it roll back down every time. Head says he relates more to the kid in "The Star Thrower." That' a children's story in which a boy and his father come upon thousands of starfish washed ashore on a beach.
HEAD: The little boy takes the starfish and throws it into the water. And the dad says: Why are you doing that? There are so many. It's not going to help. And the little boy says: Well, it helped that one. And that's the idea.
BANSE: English ivy is one of the most widespread invasive plants in the U.S. It's present in about 30 states and has also invaded parts of South America, Australia and New Zealand. At the same time, some gardening societies and nurseries still promote the ivy as a useful ornamental plant. Responsibility for combating escaped ivy generally rests at the local level. Land owners typically take the approach described here by Sylvana Niehuser, the City of Olympia's park ranger.
SYLVANA NIEHUSER: With English ivy, it's got a waxy property to the leaves. So spraying is not very effective at all. And you can't mow it because it is just a tangley(ph) mess. And so you're left with manual control by pulling it.
BANSE: Niehuser figures it could take decades - if not a century - to pull all the ivy in Priest Point Park alone. That's the park where Kevin Head volunteers.
NIEHUSER: It can be overwhelming when look at it overall.
BANSE: But she says the battle is winnable when you set your sights on smaller plots and saving individual trees.
NIEHUSER: So we try to focus on prioritizing in large parks like this. And then in our small parks, we try to work on getting it completely eradicated.
BANSE: Niehuser mostly relies on volunteers for ivy control in Olympia parks because of staff cutbacks and tight budgets. Same story elsewhere on the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards, where escaped ivy is most common. The infestation peters out as soon as you cross into the drier terrain of the American heartland.
Oregon is home to one of the biggest and oldest anti-ivy campaigns in the country. Mary Verrilli manages the No Ivy League, a program within the Portland Parks & Recreation Department.
MARY VERRILLI: One other thing that stands out is how much square feet of ivy we have removed. And this is ivy from the ground, and it's been over 4 million square feet of ivy. So it's really impressive to see these stats since 1994.
BANSE: Which is when the No Ivy League started. The non-native vines have had a big head start. Botanical researchers believe English colonists first brought the plant to the New World as early as 1727. Super-volunteer Kevin Head says he's committed to his ivy pulling routine at least until he retires later this decade. One thing that keeps him going is the pleasure of seeing native plants and birds return.
HEAD: I can only get about 10 square feet a day. But it's thrilling to see it start to uncover.
BANSE: For HERE AND NOW, I'm Tom Banse in Olympia, Washington.
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By Lisa Richwine
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - While upstart streaming service Netflix Inc burst into the Emmy party this year, it was cable networks with the most to celebrate on Sunday night as HBO dominated and AMC grabbed the prestigious best drama prize for "Breaking Bad."
Premium cable channel HBO, owned by Time Warner Inc, took home the most primetime Emmy trophies, 27 in total, for series including "Veep," "The Newsroom," and "Boardwalk Empire," plus Liberace movie "Behind the Candelabra." Broadcast network ABC's "Modern Family" won best comedy.
Netflix, which made history with the first Emmy nominations in major categories for a TV series delivered online, walked away almost empty-handed from Sunday's televised awards. The video streaming service landed one honor on Sunday, going to David Fincher for drama series directing for "House of Cards."
The political thriller from Netflix, released all at once in February, lost the best drama trophy to "Breaking Bad," an AMC series starring Bryan Cranston as a meth-dealing high school teacher. Anna Gunn won best supporting actress for her role on the show.
Netflix may have helped boost momentum for "Breaking Bad." Past seasons of the show are available on the streaming service, giving audiences a chance to binge on older episodes to catch up. "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan credited Netflix for helping to build his show's audience. "I think Netflix kept us on the air," he said backstage.
AMC, owned by AMC Networks Inc, also split the final season of "Breaking Bad" in two, enjoying a surge in ratings and a crescendo of critical and social media buzz perfectly timed as Emmy voters cast their ballots.
The first six episodes of the eight-episode ending to Walter White's saga, released weekly starting in August, averaged 5.2 million viewers, more than double last year's audience, according to AMC data based on live and same-day viewership.
Emmy nods bring prestige and can boost viewer interest in shows, which, for most networks, helps attract more advertisers. For pay-cable channels like HBO and Showtime, Emmy recognition can drive higher subscription fees.
Sunday's awards showed cable networks are thriving creatively even as the TV landscape shifts and competition intensifies. In addition to Netflix, other streaming video services including Amazon.com Inc and Hulu are investing in original series and signing up A-list stars.
HBO's awards included a best comedy actress award for Julia Louis-Dreyfus, best actor in a miniseries for Michael Douglas as Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra," and Jeff Daniels of "The Newsroom" for best actor in a drama.
Premium cable network Showtime, owned by CBS Corp, earned seven awards, including best actress for Claire Danes in "Homeland."
"It just seems like there's a real swing in the cable world," said Bobby Cannavale, winner of the best supporting actor award for HBO's "Boardwalk Empire."
"(Movie) studios don't make dramas, so the best place to do drama is you go to HBO or Showtime, or you go to AMC or FX, and I think that was sort of reflected today."
For the second year in a row, broadcast networks were shut out of the best drama category.
But broadcaster ABC won best comedy for "Modern Family," one of four awards for the Walt Disney-owned network. CBS finished second among all networks with 16 trophies, including best comedy actor for Jim Parsons on "The Big Bang Theory."
Netflix won a total of three Emmys out of 14 nominations, including two creative awards handed out a week ago. While it didn't win top series or acting awards, the streaming service with 37 million global subscribers generated plenty of buzz for its original "House of Cards" series and proved that online shows can compete alongside the highest-quality TV dramas.
"I did not see this coming," surprised "Breaking Bad" creator Gilligan said when he accepted the show's drama series award on stage. The first competitor that came to mind? "I thought this was going to be 'House of Cards!" he said.
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Stacey Joyce)


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I can think of no better way to welcome in fall than with this pasta tossed in squash 'sauce' with shrimp, garlic and basil. When my eyes fell upon the glorious piles of multi-colored winter squash newly laid out in the market I did a little happy dance right then and there. I love this small window of time when the seasonal produce available overlaps. Farm fresh zucchini and butternut all in the same shopping trip? Life is good.
The sweet and salty sauce is made with roasted butternut and acorn squash pureed with Parmesan cheese and light heavy cream or milk. You have total control over the consistency of the sauce. Thin or thick, smooth or chunky, you decide. There's a chance you may be thinking that shrimp and squash are weird together, but don't. Because they're not. The shrimp are pan-fried with garlic and then everything is tossed together with fresh basil for a well rounded meal that's a cinch to make.
The acorn squash colors the sauce so that it mimics mac and cheese. It's tricky. Mild-flavored, rich and creamy, with chewy pasta and succulent shrimp, this is a near perfect bowl of pasta to curl up with on a crisp fall night.
Pasta with Winter Squash and Shrimp
(adapted from Giada De Laurentiis)
1 small butternut squash, halved, cleaned of seeds
1 small acorn squash, halved, cleaned of seeds
3 tablespoons olive oil, plus 3 tablespoons
sea or kosher salt and fresh ground pepper
4 garlic cloves, minced
12 ounces pasta (like barila whole grain rotini or penne)
3/4 pound medium shrimp, peeled, deveined, tails off
1 cup light heavy cream or milk, plus more if needed
1/4 cup Parmesan, plus more for serving
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil leaves
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Place squash cut side up, drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Bake until fork tender. The acorn squash might cook quicker, remove carefully to a plate and set aside.
2. When cool enough to handle scoop out the squash and add it to a blender of a large food processor. Add the cream and Parmesan, puree until smooth. Add as much milk as needed for a nice creamy consistency, as thin or as thick as you like. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
3. Cook the pasta in plenty of salted water to al dente according to package directions.
4. Meanwhile in a large skillet heat 2-3 tablespoon olive oil over medium-low heat. Add garlic, carefully add prawns, season with salt and pepper and cook until pink, tossing a few times, about 3 minutes, depending on size. Remove from heat.
5. Drain the pasta and add back to the pan along with the squash, prawns and basil. Toss well over low heat, adding more cream if needed. Serve immediately.
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UH breaks ground for new cancer center
October 29th, 2010 | by Cheryl Ernst | Published in Campus News | 1 Comment
No one attending the Oct. 28, 2010, groundbreaking ceremony for a new University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center facility in Kakaʻako understands the need for such a center better than four of the speakers, all cancer survivors.
ʻIolani graduate and UH Mānoa first year student Mari Galiher said she can pursue her dream of becoming a special education teacher thanks to treatment she received in a clinical trial offered through the cancer center after she was diagnosed with leukemia at age 4.
Trevor Maunakea, a Kamehameha Schools and Kapiʻolani Community College alumnus described learning that even an active young man who decided early to live a healthy life can require cancer care. "I come to this day with hope that this center will continue to reach people in need and encourage even prideful young men to consult a doctor," he said.
Maui Sen. Roz Baker was a preteen when her young cousin was diagnosed with leukemia. Her father survived skin, kidney and colon cancers. Thanks to early detection—the result of research that led to the Pap test—she herself survived cervical cancer. "My experience is one reason I am so passionate about this center," she said.
"We are fortunate to have survived and thrived," said UH Mānoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw, who also credits her survival to the work of cancer researchers. "The progress we are making will help ensure there are many more survivors and thrivers in the future," she added, noting that the center also serves as a memorial to the one in four individuals diagnosed with cancer who do not survive the disease.
Maggie Inouye, for one. U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye described sleeping on a cot at his wife's hospital bedside for five weeks and listening as she described her decision to limit medical attention to painkillers and water, knowing that she would be dead in 10 days.
"It was a terrible day that hits all of us," he said. "That's why I'm involved."
Guests from the university and community were invited to write their own reflections of memory, loss and hope. The messages were collected in a lauhala basket, to become part of the foundation of the building.
"My dream is that soon I will be able to tell all cancer patients that they can receive state-of-the-art treatment for whatever cancer they have here in Hawaiʻi surrounded by family and friends, have access to the most advanced tests and be treated by experts who are second to none," said center Director Michele Carbone.
Carbone thanked CEOs Art Ushijima, The Queen's Medical Center, and Chuck Sted, Hawaiʻi Pacific Health, for being early partners in the effort, lawmakers and donors for their support and university administrators for making the project a priority.
The first question after a cancer diagnosis is usually "why," reflected UH President M.R.C. Greenwood. Cancer Center scientists will ask why every day—why certain cancers strike Hawaiʻi residents more often, why cancer occurs at a molecular level—and keep asking until they have answers that will help, she pledged.
Read about the project and cancer center research in the April 2010 issue.


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Japan explained its easing is for price stability, Aso told reporters in Washington. Central bank Governor Haruhiko Kuroda earlier said nations understand Japan's stance, indicating that he expects no censure.
"The comments from Finance Minister Aso that the plans are seen as unopposed clearly was a trigger point" for selling the yen, said Jeremy Stretch, head of currency strategy at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in London. "A moderate weakening is still on the cards. It looks like we're going to grind toward 100" yen per dollar, he said.
The G-20 will affirm a commitment to avoid competitive devaluation without singling out any nation, according to a draft statement seen by a Bloomberg BNA reporter.
'Dud' Meeting
"This G-20 meeting is more of a dud than usual and it's not going to stand in the way of a lower yen," said Todd Elmer, a foreign-exchange strategist at Citigroup Inc. in Singapore. There had been expectations "we could see some stronger international opposition to yen weakening, but this really puts those concerns to rest."
There's an 85% probability the yen will weaken to 100 per dollar in the next month, according to options data compiled by Bloomberg.
Options traders are the most bullish on the dollar against its Japanese counterpart in almost two months.
The premium for three-month options granting the right to buy the greenback versus the Japanese currency relative to those allowing for sales was as much 0.94 percentage point today, the most since Feb. 18, according to 25-delta risk reversals.
"From a tactical basis we can understand being dollar bullish at the moment," David Bloom, global head of currency strategy at HSBC Holdings Plc in London, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television's "On the Move" with Francine Lacqua and David Tweed. Still, the BOJ measures are not going to work and the dollar "is going to slide back again. At the moment I'm considered the lunatic fringe," he said.
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I recently sat down with Peter Shankman, founder of the network Help a Reporter Out, also known as HARO.
In this interview, Peter reveals why he started HARO, why it works and offers tips for starting your own social network. He also talks about how he built his community using social media.
HARO's tagline is "Everyone Is an Expert at Something" and the site's mission is to connect experts with journalists who are under a deadline. More than 100,000 experts are registered at the HARO site and more than 1,200 media queries are sent weekly to his global audience.


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BOERUM HILL — A playground at P.S. 38 is a hazard to children's safety and has sent several children to the hospital with injuries, according to parents who are pushing for an immediate overhaul.
The playground at 450 Pacific St. near Nevins Street — which serves students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade — has equipment riddled with exposed-metal rivets and is left strewn with trash and broken glass after hours and on the weekends.
Parents said intruders cut open the metal fencing to get in after hours, leaving jagged edges.
"People get in there on the weekends at night, they play basketball and they party," said Tatiana Dierckx, co-secretary of the school's PTA who said the grounds are left littered with trash including broken bottles, condoms and dog poop.
"They keep cutting the fence, which then becomes a problem for our kids during the day.
"Our custodian has to clean up the whole yard so that the children won't be exposed to what's left behind."
On Oct. 16, Corintha Carter's 6-year-old son was playing under the jungle gym after dismissal when he hit his head against the metal-and-plastic play bridge and cut himself on a rivet.
"It was very traumatic. There was blood all down his face," Carter told DNAinfo.com New York.
"Under the bridge of the jungle gym there are pointy things [as a] part of the manufacturing."
Carter immediately rushed her son to the emergency room, where he needed two staples to close the wound in his scalp, she said.
But she still allows her son to play on the playground during lunch because there is no other option, she added.
The school's playground includes a jungle gym, a basketball court and a softball diamond with turf. There is also a separate playground for pre-K students that parents say has similar issues.
A Department of Education spokeswoman said the playground's last renovation occurred in December 1999.
"The school has not reported any incidents involving the jungle gym during school hours," the DOE said in a statement.
"For the first time since 2004, the principal was told about an incident after school hours when a parent used the playground with her child. The principal keeps the playground open after school hours and on weekends for the community to enjoy."
A sign at the playground said it is closed after dark.
An NYPD spokesman said no reports of problems had been received.
Parents are hoping a portion of the $1 million that their local City Council member designated from his discretionary funds to go exclusively to community groups as part of a new participatory budgeting program can be used to improve the playground.
They want security cameras throughout the playground, but also hope to pay for ground resurfacing and the replacement of equipment.
The group has yet to calculate how much funding would be needed to make improvements, but the parents — who will apply as the school's PTA — said they would have a draft of the proposal by mid-January.
"I'm thrilled that so many parents from P.S. 38 and schools across the district have decided to get involved," said Councilman Stephen Levin, who voluntarily adopted the participatory budgeting model, which encourages people to become more involved in council spending.
The program requires proposed projects to have a minimum cost of $35,000, said a representative from his office.
The hope is that the city funds will help fill the gap that community funds alone have not.
"Parents don't have the money to donate to the PTA as much as other schools in the area," said Dierckx.
"We realized that instead of getting money from parents, we really need to reach out to the community and local businesses.
"We have done bake sales, but we're not going to renovate the playground selling cupcakes."


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1xRTT Advanced
Next Step for the CDMA2000® 1X Voice Capacity Improvements is 1X Advanced.
CDMA2000® already offers excellent voice and mobile broadband solutions through CDMA2000® 1X and EV-DO, however carriers worldwide are looking for the further improvements in data rates and voice capacity.
1X Advanced is the CDMA solution developed to increase voice capacity by 3 to 4 times and use freed up spectrum for the EV-DO Rev. B multicarrier solution or other wideband high order modulation schemes, like LTE. LTE may be overlaid on the EV-DO/1X network and seamless interoperability to be supported from day one. Hence, LTE/3G multimode devices will play an important role in the commercialization of the LTE.
1X Advanced builds on the proven CDMA2000® 1X technology platform and leverages interference cancellation, radio link enhancements and mobile receive diversity to provide an unprecedented four-fold increase in capacity over the majority of today's 1X networks. The transition to 1X Advanced has the advantage of being an incremental and economical upgrade.
1X Advanced offers up to 3X voice capacity improvements or up to 70% increase in coverage by utilizing following:
- QLIC (device IC)
- Radio link enhancements (efficient power control, smart blanking of 1/8 frames, early termination, interference cancellation, use of quasi orthogonal function)
- Up to 4x voice capacity improvement with mobile RX diversity and RLIC – reverse link interference cancellation
Operators can transition to full 1X Advanced gradually – with software and hardware updates.
Free up spectrum for the other advanced technologies (LTE, EV-DO Rev. B)
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Chip management and coolant recycling can play a large role in a shop's efficiency and productivity. A first-hand beneficiary of such equipment in its own manufacturing operations, Prab sees twice the incentive in continually strengthening its chip system product line.
Visit the Prab booth (E-5664) for a video lineup that highlights company engineers' understanding of metallurgy, flow dynamics and solid/liquid fluid separation and filtration. These engineers demonstrate the critical design and interworking of the company's Vertical Axis Crusher scrap metal conditioning and processing equipment in looping product videos.
"The Vertical Axis Crusher is engineered to quickly and effectively modify bushy wads of scrap to manageable shovel grade chips," says Jack Huver, engineering product manager. "This process is the critical first step in a comprehensive chip processing system. Once the chips are thumbnail size, further processing and handling of chips and coolant is optimized."
Prab is also showing several models in its new Candle Filter line of coolant filters. "The Candle Filter is a great addition to our overall line," says Tim Hanna, fluid filtration managing director. "This filter is designed specifically to collect fine particulate, down to 1 micron. This level of granularity makes the Candle Filter ideal for grinding applications."
Using permanent media technology, the filter media design also enables carbide and other particulate to form a cake on the filter surface. An automatic back flush periodically cleans the filter as needed. A basket on the filter collects grinding cake and oil for recycling.
Engineers and product managers are available in the Prab booth to discuss equipment and application details with show attendees.


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Janaia Donaldson interviews YES! Magazine Executive Editor, Sarah van Gelder, on healthcare for all, alternatives to prisons, peak oil, living democracy, climate change, working together, and how each of us can begin creating change.
YES! Video
How can business help create the world we want? Jill Bamburg, Dean of Bainbridge Graduate Institute's innovative MBA program, examines its basic premise: that doing good for people and the planet is good for business.
David Korten's inspiring and extensively-illustrated presentation of his new book The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. David says we are at a defining moment in all of human history.
David Korten, author of "When Corporations Rule the World" on "The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community," at the Veterans for Peace 2006 National Convention in Seattle.
Janaia Donaldson of Peak Moment TV interviews author Michael Shuman, advocate of "Going Local." He describes how local businesses are beating global competition and helping to create self-reliant communities.
Janaia Donaldson interviews David Korten, author of 'When Corporations Rule the World', who implores us to replace dominator-control stories with new stories-affirming life values of cooperation, community and interdependence.
Janaia Donaldson interviews Executive Director Don Shaffer on BALLE's vision of local living economies. He describes how ensuring that economic power resides locally is a counter to economic globalization.
Janaia Donaldson interviews Megan Quinn of Community Solution to discuss her visit to Cuba, and the movie "The Power of Community." This young woman sees Peak Oil as an opportunity to create the communities we want, and to reduce our level of consumption.
Janaia Donaldson interviews author Guy Dauncey whose lively, optimistic solutions for Peak Oil and climate crisis are do-able here and now.
I'm going to the Social Forum because...
Yes Men take on Exxon Mobil, highlighting plans to turn climate change victims into a new type of fuel called Vivoleum.
Musicians gathered at 7 locations worldwide on July 7, 2007. According to Al Gore, one of the event's organizers, the concerts marked 'the beginning of a three-year campaign worldwide to deliver information about how we solve the climate crisis.'
Musicians gathered at 7 locations worldwide on July 7, 2007. According to Al Gore, one of the event's organizers, the concerts marked 'the beginning of a three-year campaign worldwide to deliver information about how we solve the climate crisis.'


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A severe storm, packing wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour, heavy rain, and devastating hail swept through the western part of Hale County Oct. 10, leaving behind hail accumulations of 5 inches, rainfall amounts exceeding 3 inches, and some $15 million in crop losses.
"I have not seen such a destructive hail storm since June 1997," said Michael Dolle, Hale County agricultural extension agent.
Todd Lindsey, meteorologist with the National Weather Service at Lubbock, reported wind gusts of 70 miles per hour with estimated sustained velocities of 40 to 50 miles per hour.
Dolle estimates 100,000 acres in Hale County were affected, some severely. "The hail damage to cotton will probably result in a loss of about 40,000 bales with an estimated value of $10 million. We estimate corn losses to be about $2 million, and grain sorghum losses to approach $3 million."
Doug Nesmith, manager of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station facility at Halfway, said the station was on the eastern edge of the storm and received only 0.64 inches of rain accompanied by some pea-sized hail. Damage to crops was minimal. However, from just 3 miles and further west of Halfway, the story was much different.
One producer reported baseball-size hail that fell for about 45 minutes and then dropped to pea-size. Accompanying rainfall exceeded 3 inches.
His cotton crop was "chewed up" and only plant "stubs" remained after the storm.
Nesmith and colleagues surveyed the area west of Halfway the next morning. "We saw pickups and cars with windshields completely broken out. Every window on the north side of buildings was broken or completely missing. And crops in field after field had been wiped out.
"We saw about 15 center-pivot irrigation systems partially or completely overturned, but we are sure there were many more we did not see," Nesmith said.
Thirteen hours after the storm some hail stones remained in roadside ditches. "We even saw golf-ball-sized hail stones along our route," Nesmith said. "Clearly it was a devastating storm, and a severe negative impact on the area economy."


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Jennifer's Bright Red Bakery Kitchen
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- Name:
- Jennifer
- Location:
- Emeryville, CA
- Square Feet:
- 118
- Division:
- Rent
- What makes your small kitchen so cool:
- A few years ago when we were living separately, Jeremy visited me in San Francisco and bought the huge BAKERY sign right before his flight back to San Diego. He dumped it in my tiny studio apartment, where it lived in a corner for over two years. We signed a lease for this kitchen without seeing it in person and the bakery sign fit perfectly.
- Describe a challenge you've overcome or a smart resource you've found for your kitchen.:
- Trying to keep everything organized and stored. This is still a work in progress.
- What's your favorite meal to cook here?:
- That's a tough question, but I'd have to go with pancakes.


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Darol Anger
- Career Highlights
- Fiddler, violinist, and producer
- Leader of Darol Anger's Republic of Strings, the Duo, and Psychograss
- Cofounder of Turtle Island String Quartet, David Grisman Quintet, Montreux Band, and New Grange
- International performances and tours with the Turtle Island String Quartet, the David Grisman Quintet, Vassar Clements, Michael Doucet, Bill Evans, Béla Fleck, Johnny Frigo, Stephane Grappelli, Michael Hedges, Mike Marshall, Paul McCandless, Edgar Meyer, Bruce Molsky, New Grange, Mark O'Connor, Tony Rice, Dr. Billy Taylor, Tony Trischka, and Yonder Mountain String Band
- Recordings include Republic of Strings and Generation Nation (Republic of Strings); Woodshop (the Duo); Diary of a Fiddler (Darol Anger); Heritage (various artists)
- Publications include instructional DVDs Chops and Grooves and Blues on the Fiddle, and books Darol Anger Fiddle Tunes and Homespun Bluegrass Jamalong with Darol Anger
- Awards
- MacDowell Fellow
- UCross Fellow
- VCCA Fellow
- Rockefeller grant recipient
In Their Own Words
"We have students coming from a classical music background who are interested in playing various vernacular styles—jazz and fiddle music, blues, pop—and then we also have fiddle players who learned by ear or through various traditional routes and who are interested in expanding their theoretical knowledge. That's two very different approaches, although after a couple of years it all evens out. Usually they wind up expanding their taste buds a little bit, so they're interested in more styles. There's a string style for every country, usually four or five."
"Classical players often have never played anything by ear. When you consider that 90% of the musical population of the world are ear players, it's so odd that so many people who do read seem to have blinders on for any other way of approaching music. So the first thing is to just kind of connect them with their bodies. You spend a lot of time doing call and response, and that leads right into functional theory. Which all of a sudden has a lot more relevance to most of these players, because they're not just human jukeboxes anymore; they have to actually figure out what they're doing and why they're doing it. Once they've figured out that the boundaries are artificial, they tend to progress very quickly."
"Then we have players who are more ear players, many of whom have never read a note of music, and in some cases have evolved a whole system of music theory for themselves that may not correspond too closely with what is taught in schools. A lot of times it's breaking small habits and reorienting people to what most people are talking about when they talk about music. In undoing, you have to find what is good about their vision and integrate that into this bigger world. These players are already far along, so bad habits are more difficult to break. It's work for the student, it's work for the teachers, but it's incredibly rewarding, because they're so talented."
"The acoustic music scene is larger than people think. It still feels small, but a lot of that is because most of the people who are real fans also play a little. So there's very little separation between the audience and the most respected performers. The audience is very knowledgeable, like jazz. Certainly, the acoustic music community is centered in Boston, because of Berklee and NEC. Even the people who are not matriculating are still here. There are certainly tremendous opportunities to play together and exchange ideas and form bands. If you really want to be around people who are doing important stuff, you've got to go to Boston."