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The meteor shower of the spring and summer season starts from this month with the Lyrid meteor shower. The meteor shower show will be running from April 16-25 and the peak of the meteor shower will be on April 22nd, 2018 on Sunday.
The Skywatchers can watch this spectacular meteor shower show from April 16th, 2018 and this meteor shower is said to be the oldest known meteor shower ever occurred on Earth. During the peak time, the rate of the meteor is expected to rise around 10 to 20 shooting stars per hour which will make this how as a medium-brightness shower. You can watch this beautiful show in the early morning before dawn on April 22 and the weather condition should be clear in North Carolina so that this will be a successful show. The last Lyrid outburst has occurred during the year 1982 as stated by Earthshky.org.
The meteor shower occurs when the earth goes through a cloud of debris and dust particles present in our solar system. When this dust collides with Earth's atmosphere, it leads to heat up and the particles start to glow which is called a fireball.
You can watch Lyrid Meteor shower anywhere which has a clear, dark sky. These showers can be dim due to the light pollution which includes moonlight also. So, it is important that you choose a perfect place to watch this how. This Lyrid meteor comes from a small constellation of Lyra which rises in the eastern sky at dusk.
According to NASA, it said that " The number of meteors can vary, and very rarely storm, but on a very dark and moonless night there are usually up to 20 good meteors an hour." Lyrid meteors are fast but not with respect to the Leonids meteors which hit earth head on, as said by Cooke to Space.com

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Throwback Tracks -- April 6, 2017
David R. Smith
A new month, means a new round of songs I get to pick, which will inevitably result in a hodgepodge of songs to listen to in a new playlist!
We've got a lot of classic rock in this week's TBT. I've been pushing a lot of new stuff (and by new stuff, I mean 90s…) of late so I felt like I would push back and get some stuff that's in some cases, nearly 50 years old...
The Guys From do not hold the rights to any of these songs, it is more our hope to expose our readers to new (*cough*) and different retro music, or re-expose them to things they may have forgotten about.
At the top of each section, will be the song name, followed by the artists' name linked to their website (if possible...which is totally hit and miss with oldies), so you can fall down the rabbit hole, finding and supporting what you dig.
Big Love - Lindsey Buckingham
Have you ever heard the Fleetwood Mac version of this song? It's bad.
I designed a Fleetwood Mac musical revue a couple years ago and they used this song and I loved it. I didn't realize the version they used was the Buckingham version. I thought it was Fleetwood Mac's so you can imagine my surprise when I looked it up and heard that weird synth version of it.
I then discovered Lindsey Buckingham's version and it all made sense. The finger picking, the raw intensity… it's just so much better than the Fleetwood Mac version. It was made even better when Cameron Crowe got him to play on Roadies this past year. Made me love the version even better.
Though I must say that the version we did at Stage West might be my favourite. I just lit the ever loving crap out of that song. It was awesome.
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Oh man. This song is so good. I don't typically care for a lot of Ozzy's stuff. A few of his solo songs aren't bad and the rest of Sabbath I'm rather indifferent to, but there's something so good about this song.
I don't know when I first heard this one. It's one of those songs that probably didn't have much of an impact on me when I first heard it growing up. Why would it? My folks didn't listen to heavy metal and I'm not sure I remember it getting much radio play on the classic rock station.
I do remember that it was on one of the Guitar Hero games. I don't care which one. I just remember playing it a lot. And got to know the song pretty well. So when Pearl Jam played Alive in New York in 2010 and Mike McCready tagged it in his solo* (not the only time he's done it, it was just the first time I recognized it) I thought that was something very cool.
Last year when I saw Temple of the Dog play in San Francisco, I saw them cover it. It was cool because earlier in 2016 I saw Black Sabbath do it at the Saddledome and that was cool. But seeing some of my favourite musicians of all-time play it was even cooler. I think it made sense for TOTD to play it instead of Pearl Jam, because Chris Cornell has a better voice to cover Ozzy than Eddie Vedder does. Anyway. here's THAT video too.
*4:55 in the video if you don't want to watch the entire 5:00 of awesome.
Summer in the City - Lovin' Spoonful
One might best know this song for its use at the beginning of Die Hard With A Vengeance. Or, I suppose if one was born prior to say, 1960, one might remember this song from when it first came out, as it was released in 1966.
I definitely had heard the song before I saw Die Hard With A Vengeance. I suppose classic 60s rock was significantly more accessible to me as a child than was a movie with plenty of profanity and violence.
When I did finally get a chance to watch the movie, I was pretty happy to have that song open the movie. It seems very fitting. And really, nothing makes a person want to blow up a building more than hippie rock, am I right???
In The City - Joe Walsh
Ahhhh The Warriors. Nothing like a weird cult classic to introduce you to new songs, am I right? I guess technically I had heard this song prior to seeing the movie, but had no idea it was made for this movie until I saw it.
I don't know what it is about this movie. Every piece of logic in my body tells me it's bad and I shouldn't like it. Yet I own it on DVD and watch it every time it's on TV. And right at the end, when (spoiler alert for a 38 year-old movie) The Warriors get away and it turns out it was the Rogues who shot Cyrus (can you dig it?) this song gets dedicated to the Warriors by the DJ. (Thank you very much, Carmen Sandiego's Lynne Thigpen.)
It's such a weird song to end the movie with, considering the rest of the score is very Philip Glass-esque syth music. But it's Joe Walsh and it's a great song. So it's worth it.
Incidentally, if you want a play-by-play of the movie, the Wikipedia article on the Warriors is very thorough!
Dear Mr. Fantasy - Big Sugar
Okay, I couldn't do ALL classic rock. Though this version of the song came out in 1993 so it's still pretty old. And also, this is a cover of a song that was originally released in 1967 so it's like a bridge between the old world and the new world.
I love the intro. Partially because it really, really reminds me of Change by Blind Melon, but also because it's got that nice light acoustic feel to it and then, BAM: that heavy distortion that Big Sugar is so notorious for.
Big Sugar is a group that decided to call it quits in the early 2000s and it broke my heart. I love their stuff so much and wanted to see them live so badly. When they broke up, I didn't think I'd ever get a chance to see them. Now; they have since rekindled and I believe they're still touring so maybe one day it'll happen! Until then, at least I have this and so many other songs to keep me company.
Lots of supplementary information in today's Throwback Tracks! New links for you to click and much time to be wasted, if one were so inclined. So go nuts and enjoy today.
As I said at the top, it's a new month, which means that the March Throwback Tracks playlist is now ready for your listening pleasure! And if that's not enough for you, here are the rest of them for you to peruse.
Throwback Playlist for Dec 16/Jan 17
October 2016 Throwback Playlist,
September 2016 Throwback Playlist
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Monday Ranting: So Far Beyond Teenage Rebellion
Hailing from the non-child sect of life, and someone who has never wanted children, reading stories like this doesn't help. This tomfuckery reinforces my already living thought that parenting is a thankless profession. Not that I agree with rewarding something you're supposed to do but there should at least be some recognition for a job well done considering the host of craptacular people you meet when you're walking down the street. In this case, Rachel's parents will not get my sympathies. Somewhere on the road of raising a girl to a woman, they failed. I know that's harsh but well-adjusted children (if there is such a thing) don't sue their parents. Teenage rebellion is real. Of this I'm 84.7% sure but there's a huge difference between throwing a house party when your parents are out of town and running away from home only to file a legal suit against your folks. My first question, where they do that at? I'm so serious. I lived in an environment where I knew my parents brought me into this world and they could take me out…I'm not saying I feared them but I was slightly scared and hashish. I think I turned out pretty decent though so they did something half way right.
When did the shift in respect occur? As much as I want to blame these new generation children I can't because kids are often times direct reflections of how they were or were not raised. Those were indeed shots fired. As much as Rachel is an entitled ninny, her parents raised her to be just that. This is not the first self absorbed, disrespectful act from Rachel; of this I'm sure. I'd bet money Rachel's called her mother everything but a child of God sans repercussions. Acts of defiance don't start at 100. Once a child recognizes that disrespectful behavior warrants little to no response, you should expect the absolute worst. Granted I'm sure the Cannings were horriprised to find out about the lawsuit. What's more shocking to me, the other parents who allowed Rachel to remain in their home as if her parents had done something so incredibly wrong to her. Short of sexual, mental, or physical abuse there would have been not one thing little teenage Rachel could have said that would stop me from calling her parents and telling them, yes telling them to come get their self indulged spoiled nitwit from my home. iCan't and iWon't stand for disrespectful children.
But see this is the culture we created, one where we give trophies for showing up instead of rewarding actual winners and rarely correcting when children misbehave. Don't get me wrong I know that everyone is special in his or her own way but when we smother kids from everything negative and create a dynamic where boundaries don't exist, they are ill equipped to know when they have over stepped their bounds. Children require structure. I'm positive in Rachel's mind she made a reasonable decision to sue her parents for her education costs and living expenses after leaving the comforts of their home because she couldn't abide by their rules. Teenage logic and shyt! Her wrong doing hasn't registered because she's been taught that she wakes up and pisses excellence instead of the truth that just like everyone else in this world her shyt does in fact stink. It angers me to think of how privileged someone must be to take up such an option.
Lawyers help me proceed. While in my mind the case has little to no merit I assume this whole suit rests on the fact that parents are not allowed to forcibly emancipate their underage children. Parents are responsible for their dependent demon spawn and as such child accrued expenses are parental bills. However if said child runs away is the parent still held to the same rules? I don't know…I just watch a lot of Law & Order. While I don't think this would extend to payment for college, college being an optional enterprise and all, there may just be a case for the remaining high school tuition. Maybe! Like I said I don't know all the laws and hashish, this is just my assumption as to why this is even being heard in a court of law.
Oddly enough the children who really deserve to sue their parents, you know the ones who routinely miss meals, end up in hospitals for "unknown" accidents, and are exposed to sex, drugs and violence on a reglah aren't the ones who make my CNN newsfeed. Their files sit on the desks of some lowly social workers who've heard too many horror stories for this nonsense to even register anywhere near a level of abuse. And rightly so, because expecting your child to do well in school, refusing to allow her to comingle with thots, and to make curfew isn't neglectful, irresponsible, or abusive. But what says you Lovelies, any thoughts on the Rachel Canning vs The Parental Units? As always to share is to care and hashish!
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Couldn't agree more! When I read about this I wanted to snatch her back to kindergarten so her parents could start over.


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South Africa is set to have a new leader as the African National Congress (ANC) prepares to kick out President Jacob Zuma in a no-confidence motion.
The party has ordered him to resign but Mr Zuma - speaking in an unannounced interview on Wednesday - called the efforts to get rid of him "very unfair".
"Nobody has ever provided the reasons. Nobody is saying what I have done," he said.
Unless he quits in the coming hours, parliament is poised to remove the scandal-hit Mr Zuma, 75, on Thursday and replace him with deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa.
"We can no longer keep South Africa waiting," said senior ANC official Paul Mashatile.
But Mr Zuma showed no sign of going quietly when he appeared on television and said the ANC had not followed the proper procedure to unseat him.
"I need to be furnished on what I've done," Mr Zuma said. "What is this hurry?"
"This is being done in a manner like I'm being victimised," he added.
The President said he would issue another statement later on Wednesday.
The no-confidence plan is supported by opposition parties and so appears almost certain to succeed in kicking out Mr Zuma, who has been leader since 2009.
The defiant TV appearance came after an early morning raid by the elite Hawks police unit at the luxury Johannesburg home of a business family linked to President Zuma.
The Indian-born Guptas are suspected of using their ties with him to influence cabinet positions and land state contracts. They and Mr Zuma deny any wrongdoing.
Sky's John Sparks, in Johannesburg, said police appeared to be acting fast to stop any documents and people from potentially leaving the country.
President Zuma has been discredited by a number of corruption scandals and Mr Ramaphosa was chosen in December to replace him as ANC leader.
He was due to take over in 2019, when Mr Zuma was to stand down, but it now appears he will assume power much sooner.
The party - once led by Nelson Mandela - is desperately trying to resolve the leadership crisis and bounce back in popularity ready for the country's next election.
As well as the Gupta claims, Mr Zuma is also waiting for South Africa's chief prosecutor to make a decision on whether he will face old charges of corruption tied to an arms deal two decades ago.
The 783 charges were reinstated last year after being thrown out in 2009.
The country's top court also ruled in 2016 that the President had violated the constitution when he used state funds to pay for multi-million dollar upgrades to his private home. He repaid some of the money.


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madison moore is a cultural critic, dj and assistant professor of queer studies at virginia commonwealth university in richmond, virginia. he is creative director and resident dj at OPULENCE, a queer techno party and art-collective with roots in london, berlin and richmond, virginia. madison writes widely about popular culture, queerness, fashion, nightlife, music, visual culture and contemporary art and was most recently a guest artist in the yale school of drama, where he offered workshops on club culture. raised in ferguson, missouri, he holds a ph.d. in american studies from yale university and has been profiled by both the new york times and the new york observer.
madison is the author of fabulous: the rise of the beautiful eccentric, published by yale university press in april 2018 — a study that positions fabulousness as a radical aesthetic practice. with topics ranging from vogue balls, Instagram, nightclubs, street fashion and prince, and weaving together autobiography and cultural analysis, madison writes with vigor, grace and humor about how marginalized people turn pain and struggle into opulence. fabulous is a rich and accessible piece of pop queer theory that'll take you through the WERK of fabulousness.
before joining the department of gender, sexuality and women's studies at virginia commonwealth university, from 2014-2018 madison was a european research council (ERC) postdoctoral research associate in "modern moves" in the department of english at king's college london, where he was also the director of the queer@king's research centre. at king's, madison led the queer studies reading group, organized a conference on queer performance and curated lectures by performance artist dominic johnson and queer and trans nightlife artists kiddy smile, shaun j. wright and honey dijon. in all of this, madison works to close the gap between "theory" and "practice," expanding who and what kinds of bodies get to be seen as "theorists."
in 2017, with berlin-based cultural producer an.do and london-based art director jelly luise, madison launched OPULENCE, a multi-dimensional culture project that centers pleasure, queer nightlife, aesthetics, techno and experimental music, with an emphasis on DJs of color and of queer and trans experience. in just under a year, OPULENCE has gained a reputation in london for its forward-thinking music in a party space that centers queer people and femmes. and in november 2018, OPULENCE was featured in a short film released by boiler room about the value and importance queer nightlife.
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And the Swans striker, 26, insists the passionate Liberty Stadium crowd will put the frighteners on the leaders.
Last season's Championship play-off winners have already beaten Arsenal on home soil and taken points off Chelsea and Tottenham.
Now they are hell-bent on snatching their biggest scalp of the season.
City hammered Swansea 4-0 in the opening match in August but Graham (left) is predicting a different game.
He said: "It's up to us to get amongst them from the start.
"That will give the fans a lift. They are very vocal down here and like to get behind the team.
"It's great to have that and I am sure they will make it hostile for Man City.
"Hopefully that will work to our advantage.
"We are probably still classed as a little club in this league. They could be thinking they have got Swansea away and that's the best way to bounce back from a European defeat.
"But it's certainly not going to be that easy.
"If we can get the fans right behind us early on and we can get at them and unsettle them, it could work in our favour.
"We took a bit of a beating up there but we have always thought we are good enough to remain in the Premier League.
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1 Outline / Table of Contents Conducting a Video Conference Class Best Practices &Tips for Instructors Preparation - page 2 Course Materials; Communication & Collaboration Tools; Activities & Projects In the Classroom - page 3 First Class - page 3 Every Class - page 3 Engage the Students - page 4 On-Camera Tips - page 5 Eye contact - page 5 Movement - page 5 Speaking - page 5 Clothing - page 6 Room Specific Tips - page 7 AV Guidelines - page 8
2 VIDEOCONFERENCING BEST PRACTICES & TIPS FOR INSTRUCTORS PREPARATION Make course materials available. Post assignments, handouts, notes and supplemental materials on NYU Classes and give access to students before the course begins. This will give students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with materials and the other students. Include agenda, syllabus, presentations, reading list, guide lines for videoconference etiquette, ground rules, policies for attendance/makeup work/advisement times, contacts, phone numbers, s, and any other necessary information or material relevant to all participating sites. Consider sending a personal to each student introducing yourself at the beginning of the semester. Develop the use of communication and collaboration tools. The distributed environment can cause students to feel isolated and disconnected by the physical distance separating them. To counter this, it is important to connect with each student to keep them interested and involved. Classes with remote locations should plan and provide for student-to-student, student-to-professor and professor-to-student communication and collaboration. Plan how you will connect the type of activity and what technology you will use. In addition to video conferenced classes, consider , chat, discussion boards, telephone or on-to-one video. Plan activities and projects. Videoconferencing is by definition, interactive / designed to bridge the gap of the distributed environment. Develop projects and activities that promote collaboration and discussion across and between the remote and local locations. For example, plan an icebreaker activity for the first class and be sure to devote class time to a combination of lecture, discussion and/or activities. The more you can encourage interaction the better. Examples of strategies and activities you can incorporate include: Student projects - Consider team projects or assignments involving students across the sites Presentations - Design research and reporting / presentations that capitalize on the different local experiences of students at different sites Discussions, debates, skits and role-playing, brainstorming and group problem-solving. - Design group activities designed to involve students across the sites Another advantage of videoconferencing is that is supports diverse materials and media. Consider creative use of PowerPoint and other standard programs, video and Internet resources. Be aware of both the possibilities and limitations of video conferencing. Not all video conference rooms and systems are the same so make sure you fully understand what the system can do. Going into a room without understanding the equipment can be discomfiting. Become familiar with the equipment in advance to help you be more comfortable and enable you are to make adjustments if / as needed. 1
3 Practice An effective class depends on good delivery. Rehearse in front of the camera if possible. It is also helpful to be familiar with the layout of the room, so at least one rehearsal should be in the room you will be using. Make sure you are comfortable with your surroundings and you understand the equipment being used. Don t read directly off of your slides, handouts, etc. Be natural. Develop student assessments and course assessments. Develop a simple evaluation tool for assessing student satisfaction, with the course delivery method and suggestions for the course. You will be able to modify your course structure and delivery if needed from the students responses. 2
4 IN THE CLASSROOM A videoconference class is probably a new experience for everyone. Students may be unsure of how to act and feel uncomfortable in front of the camera. In addition, remote students may feel like they are watching television and lapse into a passive mode. It is important to have strategies for engaging students, putting them at ease, facilitating discussion and making everyone feel a part of the class. A. The First Class In most cases the remote sites will act very passive, especially in the beginning. Assure remote students that you can see and hear them, and are responsive to their questions and learning needs. Let students know the protocol for asking questions. Do you want them to interrupt you (with a question or raised hand) or will you set aside time for questions? Start the first video conferencing session with an icebreaker activity to help the class get acquainted. Have each student at the local and remote sites give a short introduction. Have them state their name, their degree program and something personal that they would like to share with the class (family, children, job, favorite local restaurant, favorite hobby or activity). The icebreaker activity will also allow students to become comfortable using the video conferencing equipment and speaking in front of a camera. Set expectations of students. Discuss etiquette, roles and responsibilities. Announce when and how you will conduct office hours for the local students and remote students. B. Every Class Arrive early. At the beginning of each session, remind students that they are expected to participate. Remind the students that this is a two-way video, which means that anything they say or do may be amplified and will be seen by all. Have materials out and ready to present before connecting. If using handouts be sure to have them supplied to all students at all locations. Ensure that the remote location can see and hear the instructor, the class and any projected media. Always ask if everyone can hear and see you properly before you begin. 3
5 C. Getting the Students Involved Show Interest in Both Participant Groups It is important to treat both local and remote groups of students equally, giving each equal attention. It is more difficult to capture the attention of the remote group, however, do not try to overcompensate by focusing too much attention on the remote group or you will lose the attention of the local group. Engage Students, Encourage Dialog, Establish Rapport and Promote Interactivity: Arrive early to the class. Before the class starts, talk with the students at the local and remote site via the videoconference. Learn the names of your students. Ask questions directly - by name and site. When asking the class if anyone has any questions, it is a good idea to ask the remote site if they have any questions. For example, "Does anyone in Abu Dhabi or in Shanghai have any questions?" If you cannot tell who asked a question, ask. Balance the interaction among all sites. Take as many questions from the remote site as from the local site. Encourage discussion. Remote students may have trouble jumping into the class discussion since body language that indicates they want to speak is less noticeable. So it is important to periodically ask for opinions and see if there are questions. When answering questions Look into the camera and answer the person who asked the question. See if the question can be answered by another student at a different site to generate discussion. 4
6 D. Best Practices on Camera Show interest in all students: Make a point of communicating with remote students by name and/or location. Remote students may have difficulty staying engaged, if the lecturer is not engaged, tense or bored. Make the session as energetic and interactive as possible. Try not to think of yourself as being on camera, just behave and talk naturally. Be aware of outgoing video. Assume that the remote students can see and hear everything, even when the camera is not on you. Remember: In video conferencing visual and non-verbal aspects become more significant. Eye Contact To help remote students feel connected, create eye contact by looking at the camera when you are speaking to them and when they are speaking to you. If you do not create eye contact, students will feel as though they are just watching, not participating in the class. You may look at other students while you are speaking however try not to look beyond the scope of the camera. For example, if your eyes wonder out a window or into a hallway, remote students can feel disconnected from what they cannot see. You may want to practice with a monitor so you know what this looks like to the remote students. Movement Video processing takes a toll on the transmitted picture and can result in ghosting or pixilation. To minimize these effects move and gesture naturally and smoothly: Avoid sudden rapid motions, swaying, rocking or pacing. Sit up straight, don t lean back and avoid reading excessively; it shows off the top of your head. Be aware of the camera range and stay in it otherwise remote participants will not be able to see you. Minimize distractions; avoid things such as tapping or clicking a pen, fixing your hair or clothing. Try to relax and act natural. Speaking Speak clearly in your normal voice and enunciate clearly. Talk naturally, using inflection and body language. Pause when you expect a response from the remote site. Repeat questions if necessary, and wait for remote participants to finish speaking before you respond. Speak at a comfortable pace but not too quickly. Do not participate in side conversions, everyone will hear you and it shows you aren t listening. 5
7 Eliminate Background Noise Background noise can be very distracting to the video conferencing class. Avoid noise such as rattling keys, side conversations, tapping pens, papers rattling near microphones and doors opening and closing. Remind students to turn off their cell phones at the start of each class. Clothing Clothing and accessories look different on camera than in person.. There are limitations to the video medium; strong contrast is difficult for the camera. As a result, the wrong choice of clothing or accessories can cause visual distortions, glare and bright reflections which can be distracting to remote students. What works best on camera: Solid colors or muted patterns, in dark or neutral colors. Blue is the best color. Dark or neutral colors, earth tones and pastels also work well. Subtle jewelry. What to avoid on camera: Busy patterns. Plaids, pinstripes, tweeds, checks, prints and glittery or reflective fabric. All white or a strong black/white contrast. Reds and blacks. They tend to bleed on the screen. Dangly, shiny jewelry or accessories can cause glare. 6
8 E. Room Specific Notes When possible, arrange tables and chairs in a U shape so that students can see the video screens and are in the camera s visual range. If the class is not full, encourage students to sit in the middle of the class instead of on the sides. If the room has wireless microphones, the Microphones should be located in a charger on a side counter. When in the charger, the light on the Mics will be solid green when they are charged. Distribute them evenly throughout the room. Push the button to turn on the Mic. It will flash green while trying to sync with the system. When it has connected and is ready to use it will show solid green. Instruct the students not to tap microphones, move them around or bang/tap on table. Also be careful not to cover microphones with papers or hit the mute button. If the room has individual push-to-talk microphones on the desktop. Instruct students to press down on the talk button when they are speaking and release it when they have finished. 7
9 AUDIO-VISUAL GUIDELINES Use colors in the middle of the color spectrum. Yellow on blue is commonly used. Black text on a pastel background is always safe. Avoid reds, oranges, and pinks they tend to bleed when projected and black print on white paper they tend to vibrate on screen. For Powerpoint and document camera presentations use large, bold, legibility text. Arial, Helvetica, Palatino, Lucida Sans, and MS Sans Serif fonts are good choices because of their equal thickness. Fonts with thin horizontal lines will vibrate on the television screen. Use the Master Slide Template within the Powerpoint program if possible. This will create a background and font style that carries through on all slides. It also makes it easier to make any necessary changes. Minimum font size for legible body text is 24 points; Optimal font size is 32 or larger; Use a 36 point for headers. (Sans Serif fonts are generally preferred.) Do not prepare material in ALL CAPS. Text will be too difficult to read. However, you can emphasize a point using caps. Do not underline unless necessary. When underlining, use a thick line. Thin lines will vibrate on the video screen. Keep all text and images 1 from all screen edges. Bullet information. Avoid the use of glossy or shiny material. Keep graphics and charts simple and use large labels. If graphic is complex, consider building it in subsequent steps. Set spacing to 1 ½ or 150% of font size. Use a horizontal format (landscape) opposed to a vertical (portrait) format. Print on 8 ½ x 11 paper for document camera material. For overheads use the 6 x 6 rule: 6 words or less per line and no more than 6 lines down. For Powerpoint use the 5 x 5 rule: 5 words or less per line and no more than 5 lines down. Ask the question, Can I stand 10 feet from my computer and see my material clearly? Spreadsheets are generally not successful; figures in cells are usually not readable. Pay attention to the screen s aspect ratio. Make sure printed visuals fit within a 3x4 ratio. Use landscape orientation. There are different outcome views from different equipment. Make sure you adjust your presentation to fit the television screen from whatever equipment you may be using. When possible, test ahead of time. Allow time for viewing graphics. Leave materials up long enough for a slow reader to read. Make a hard copy of visuals available before the session. 8
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2 . PDF Data for Web based Reading Users hate obtaining a PDF FORMAT file while browsing, because it breaks their flow. Even simple things such as printing or saving papers are hard because standard browser instructions don't do the job. Layouts tend to be optimized for the sheet of paper, which in turn rarely has the exact size of the user's browser window. Bye-bye smooth moving. Hello little fonts.
Most detrimental of all, PDF FILE is an undifferentiated blob of articles that's hard to browse.
PDF is great for printing as well as for distributing manuals and other big documents that really must be printed. Arrange it for this purpose and convert any information that should be browsed or read on the screen in real web pages. 3. Not Changing area of Stopped at Links
An effective grasp of past routing helps you understand your current location, since it is the culmination of the journey. Learning your previous and present locations in return makes it easier to choose where to go next. Links undoubtedly are a key factor with this navigation procedure. Users may exclude backlinks that turned out fruitless in their earlier visits. Conversely, they might revisit backlinks they uncovered helpful in previous times.
Most important, understanding which webpages they've already visited opens users by unintentionally returning to the same internet pages over and over again.
These kinds of benefits just accrue under one essential assumption: that users will be able to tell the difference between visited and unvisited backlinks because the site shows them in different colors. When seen links typically change color, users display more navigational disorientation in usability diagnostic tests and inadvertently revisit the same pages over and over again.
4. Non-Scannable Text
A wall of text is deadly for the purpose of an fun experience. Daunting. Boring. Painful to read. Write for via the internet, not publications. To pull users in the text and support scannability, use well-documented tricks: • subheads • bulleted lists • underlined keywords • short paragraphs • the inverted pyramid • a straightforward writing style, and • de-fluffed language devoid of marketese. 5. Fixed Font Size
CSS style sheets regrettably give websites the power to disable a Web browser's "change font size" button and specify a set font size. About 95% of the time, this kind of fixed size is tiny, minimizing readability substantially for most people older than 40. Admiration the customer's preferences and enable them resize text for the reason that needed. As well, specify typeface sizes in relative terms – quite a bit less an absolute range of pixels. 6th. Page Titles With Low Google search Visibility
Search is the most important way users discover websites. Search is also one of the most important ways users locate their method around person websites. The standard page name is most of your tool to draw new guests from search listings and help the existing users to locate the precise pages that they can need.
The page name is contained within the HTML
Page titles double as the default gain access to in the Preferred when users bookmark a site. For your home-page, begin with the corporation name, then a brief information of the internet site. Don't commence with words just like "The" or perhaps "Welcome to" unless you desire to be alphabetized within "T" or "W. inch
For various other pages compared to the homepage, begin the title with a few of the most salient information-carrying words that identify the particulars of what users will see on that page. Considering that the page name is used as the home window title inside the browser, it's also used mainly because the label for that window in the taskbar within Windows, which means that advanced users will push between multiple windows beneath the guidance with the first one or two words of each and every page title. If all of your page titles start out with the same thoughts, you have significantly reduced usability for your multi-windowing users.
Taglines on homepages are a related subject: in addition, they need to be brief and quickly communicate the purpose of the site.
several. Anything That Appears like an Advertisements Selective attention is very effective, and People have learned to quit paying attention to any ads that get in the way of all their goal-driven course-plotting. (The key exception becoming text-only search-engine ads. )
Unfortunately, users also dismiss legitimate design elements that look like prevalent forms of marketing. After all, as you ignore anything, you don't study it in more detail to find out what.
Therefore , it is advisable to avoid any designs that look like advertisements. The exact significance of this suggestion will vary with new forms of ads; at the moment follow these kinds of rules:
• banner loss of sight means that users never fixate their eyes on whatever looks like a banner advertising due to form or situation on the webpage
• computer animation avoidance makes users dismiss areas with blinking or perhaps flashing text message or other aggressive animations
• pop-up purges means that users close pop-up windoids before they have even fully rendered; at times with wonderful viciousness (a sort of getting-back-at-GeoCities triumph). eight. Violating Design Conventions
Regularity is one of the strongest usability concepts: when elements always behave the same, users don't have to stress about what will happen. Instead, they really know what will happen based on earlier knowledge. Every time you relieve an apple over Sir Isaac Newton, it will eventually drop in the head. Which good.
A lot more users' expectations prove correct, the more they may feel in charge of the system and the more they may like it. And the more the machine breaks users' expectations, the greater they will look insecure. Oops, maybe merely let go of this apple, it is going to turn into a tomato and bounce a mile into the sky.
Jakob's Law of your Web Consumer Experience expresses that "users spend most of their time on various other websites. inch
This means that that they form their very own expectations to your site depending on what's commonly done of all other sites. In case you deviate, your web blog will be harder to use and users can leave. being unfaithful. Opening New Browser Glass windows
Opening up new browser house windows is like vacuum pressure cleaner sales representative who starts a go to by draining an lung burning ash tray in the customer's carpeting. Don't dirty my display screen with any more windows, thank you (particularly as current systems have bad window management).
Designers start new internet browser windows over the theory that it keeps users on their site. But also disregarding the user-hostile message implied in taking over the user's machine, the strategy is self-defeating since it hinders the Back switch which is the normal way users return to previous sites. Users often no longer notice that a brand new window has got opened, particularly if they are using a small monitor where the glass windows are maximized to fill the screen. So an individual can who attempts to return to the foundation will be puzzled by a grayed outBack button.
Links that don't become expected weaken users' comprehension of their own program. A link should be a simple hypertext reference that replaces the actual page with new articles. Users hate unwarranted pop-up windows. If they want the destination show up in a new page, useful to them their browser's "open in new window" command – assuming, of course , that the website link is not really a huge piece of code that interferes with the browser's standard tendencies.
10. Certainly not Answering Users' Questions
Users are highly goal-driven on the Web. That they visit sites because there is certainly something they want to accomplish – maybe also buy your product. The ultimate failing of a web-site is to are not able to provide the info users are looking for. Sometimes the solution is simply not right now there and you remove the sale mainly because users have to assume that your product or service is not going to meet their needs if you don't let them know the facts. Other times the specifics happen to be buried within thick part of marketing and bland coupure. Since users don't have the perfect time to read all sorts of things, such concealed info may almost too not end up being there.
The worst example of not answering users' problems is to steer clear of listing the buying price of products and services. Not any B2C e-commerce site tends to make this miscalculation, but it could rife in B2B, exactly where most "enterprise solutions" happen to be presented so you can't notify whether they will be suited for 100 people or perhaps 100, 000 people. Price are the most specific piece of information customers use to understand the character of an supplying, and not offering it makes people look and feel lost and reduces all their understanding of a product or service line. We have hours of video of users asking "Where's the cost? " while tearing their head of hair out.
Even B2C sites often make the associated mistake of forgetting prices in product lists, such as category pages or search results. Knowing the price is type in both scenarios; it enables users distinguish among companies click through to the most relevant types.


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THE WORLD Health Organisation has advised countries to enhance Ebola virus surveillance and preparedness activities. According to a statement, the WHO has advised against any restriction of travel and trade to the Democratic Republic of Congo due to the outbreak.
"As investigations continue to establish the full extent of this outbreak, it is important for neighbouring countries to enhance
surveillance and preparedness activities. WHO will continue to work with neighbouring countries to ensure health authorities are alerted and prepared to respond," the statement read in part.
The WHO added that it continued to monitor travel and trade measures in relation to the Ebola outbreak. The WHO further indicated that geographically, confirmed and probable cases were currently localised to five health zones in North Kivu
Province (38 cases, including 13 confirmed and 25 probable), and one health zone in Ituri Province (five probable cases).
"Suspected cases are currently under investigation in one additional health zone of Ituri Province. The affected areas host over one million displaced people and shares borders with Rwanda and Uganda, with frequent cross border movement due to trade activities. The prolonged humanitarian crisis and deterioration of the security situation is expected to hinder response to this outbreak," the WHO stated.
The world health mother body added that further laboratory testing had detected Ebola-virus in three of the initial batch of six samples from Mabalako Health Zone.
"These results are highly suggestive that Ebola Zaire species is the cause of this outbreak; however, genetic sequencing is necessary to definitively confirm the virus species…characterization of viral sequences will help to inform the potential use of vaccines and therapeutics, and any link to the recent outbreak in Équateur Province-located in the far west of the country, some 2 500 km from the current outbreak. Currently there is no evidence to suggest that these events are related," added the WHO.


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Faith Connections, Regis College, and TAVDA invite young adults (18-39) to
An opportunity for young adults from different areas of the archdiocese to experience the gift of spiritual accompaniment over the Lenten season!
The retreat will begin and end with a group gathering. In the six weeks between these gatherings, young adults will:
Beginning with liturgy, a light supper and introduction on Ash Wednesday, February 17, 2010, and closing with a light supper and Easter party social on Thursday, April 8.
Cost: $25. Please register by February 5 by calling Vanessa Nicholas-Schmidt at 416-222-1426 ext 276, or e-mail email@example.com
(Please feel free to download the poster to post in your parish!)
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When Western Power Distribution purchased Llanishen reservoir in 2004, one of its first acts was to stop fishing at the reservoir, thus ending a tradition that had lasted for over 100 years.
Following the reservoir's construction in 1884, a small trout hatchery was built below the main dam using the waters of the Nant Fawr. By the 1900's, fish reared at Llanishen formed its annual stock and the first permits to fish were sold to anglers by the Corporation's water department. Though the hatchery has been disused for many years, the reservoir always received annual stockings of trout.
In those early years, the reservoir was lightly fished, producing an average weight of fish of one pound, although each season would see larger trout caught. The reservoir was set in open countryside surrounded by working farms, shooting estates and narrow country lanes. Apart from the Rhymney Railway that sliced north to south through the parish, there was no other form of public transport in the district prior to the First World War. Even today, with Llanishen becoming a suburb of Cardiff, the reservoir site provides its visitors with superb country views and, though such a short way from the "hurly burly" roads of modern Cardiff, can still give one the matchless sense of being in the countryside.
In 1948, under the leadership of Mr William G. Earle, a local builder of Rhyd-y-penau Road, anglers at Llanishen formed a club. Its aims were to advise the Cardiff water department on the fishing and improve the facility generally. The Cardiff Reservoirs Fly Fishing Club celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 1997, and with rarely less than a hundred members this club has provided, at small cost, an entry into the fly fishing world for hundreds of prospective anglers: men, women and children. The club was a founder member of the Welsh Fly Fishing Federation in 1953. Many of the club's most skilled members have represented their country at National and International events throughout the United Kingdom.
RAG is currently exploring the possibility of restoring fishing to the reservoirs, when we can get the reservoir refilled, in conjunction with former members of the Cardiff Reservoirs Fly Fishing Club.


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Welcome to GAMS Athletics
This page is for the use of students, parents and teachers alike. Come visit to check the athletics events.
Please select the category to the left to view the athletic director's website page, schedules, news, event info, coaching, sportswear, sports physical form, Board activities fees proposal.
Athletic News
Vicki S. Ritchey, Athletic Director
On May 11, 2018, four 8th graders broke school record in the boys' 4 x 400m relay team at the Cumberland Valley track & field invitational.
Posted a record of 3:50.45.
From left to right Hunter Stull, David Niebauer, Weber Long and John Redos.
Congratulations to two of our middle school athletes for some record breaking times this year (2017-2018).
Avery Parks recently broke the 100m hurdle record with a time of 16 seconds.
Weber Long has been busy since the fall season (2017-2018), breaking records.
He now holds the following records:
Outstanding efforts by both of these young student-athletes.
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We are thrilled to be invited back to West Elm as their local pop-up artist of the day! We had an awesome experience just before Christmas last year during their 23 days of Gifts event. We enjoyed interacting with their customers and sharing about our creations.
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Ok - well Sleepy Hollow opens tonight - and I think we're pretty ready. This thing has gone through more permutations than Joan Rivers face. Last week we determined that everything we FIGURED we were gonna do just wasn't gonna be cool enough... all the old timey radio effects were very hit and miss - and it just seemed goofy rather than remotely scary. And thus - we decided instead to embrace modern technology and basically score the entire thing... musically and with a crap load of sound effects... Kind of like Our Town, I guess. Although I hadn't really thought about that until just now. So it's Our Scary Town. Which i suppose can be sometimes fitting for Huntington if you're hanging out with the right people. So what did this mean... well - it meant that in a very very very short time I had to come up with a sound design. And a gigantic one at that. For the first couple days I was just hyperventilating in front of my laptop - the first day of work it took me about eight hours to get through three pages... which, considering I had a week before we opened, was not that encouraging. Because I had to work down and dirty I didn't even attempt to use the more super-complex sound editing program that I have (With my obsessive personality there just wasn't time to obsess about choosing one of eighteen different reverb settings)...so instead I kind of gave myself a crash course in Mac Garage Band which is remarkable powerful, versatile, and QUICK to use and edit with. Rich kept saying "are you done yet?....are you done yet?...are you done yet?" as the clock kept ticking and I just tried to keep on crossing stuff off the list. Thank goodness we did the Tempest, because we had the fantastic program that we used to RUN the sound still. This thing was way too complicated to try and run it from CDs... sounds layer over each other and have to interact and be triggered in an instant. So this thing is amazing.
Originally, in the first version of the show, Rich and I basically shared the storytelling and did the sound effects live. When we scrapped that, Rich thought I should tell the story, and he should run the sound. Which, to someone doesn't realize, could look like I'm doing a lot more than the Pack Leader... but Rich is operating 273 sound cues in the process of 55 minutes... And sometimes he's triggering like fourteen cues on one page. And if he screws up it's kind of like a snowball - everything can go wrong and keep going wrong for like 10 minutes until the stuff catches up with itself... so it takes a lot of skill.
So I was gonna tell the story. Which is all well and good. Except that two days ago, after FINALLY feeling like I was getting about 90% better... I lost my voice. Fun. I mean I could talk - but it sure wasn't easy...and the real problem was that my throat kept drying out while I was talking - and I can't get water every five seconds. So - that's been fun... But we're managing. And I have Po studying the script in case she has to take my place.
Normally having to have Rich rehearse a show would be crazy enough - because he's always so busy doing audience prep stuff - tablecloths, and seating arrangments, and tickets, and food choices, and bar stuff etc etc. that he hardly has time to breath - never mind do rehearsals. But this time it's been mega nutty because we're going through so many changes. Tonight is the very first night that we are doing the food in-house... so that has all of us a little nervous. Jean Anne did a great job on everthing - but she felt like the bump from 50 to 70 people had been a huge adjustment and was an awful lot for her. Plus she's running Nicks in the evening now.
So we got the kitchen fully approved as a space for cooking. We bought two huge refrigerators and a freezer... a new double oven (so there are now three in the kitchen) and Rich, on top of everything ELSE, had to study for the food prep test thing that one of the owners has to take in order to cook food on location. It was like a twelve hour online course - some of which was really complicated (diseases and diseases and diseases) and others were like... "Carol has just dropped a container of rat poison on the salad. Should she: a) throw it out b) rinse it off c) take a few bites to see if it's still ok.
They are also very very big on TEMPERATURES. Rich can now tell you the exact temperature that anything from pork to monkey's brains needs to be in order to serve. Then he had to schedule TAKING the actual test BEFORE the shows opened.. And it turned out the only place where he could get a slot was four hours away! So, that had him out of commision for a whole rehearsal day as well.
We looked at about twenty candidates for our new in-house Supper Club cook and met some really great people. We went with a fantastic gal named Sarah Gooley (which we found very suitable for the Halloween show!)... she's from Orlando, and went to culinary school and is a whole heap of Queen Latifah-like fun. And if it's one thing this theatre needs... it's another Queen. So, as I type this she is down there chopping and simmering away for the first show. The pork loin, I have to say, is pretty freakin' awesome and I'm excited to get to have it every night after the show.
Another big hiccup in the middle of Sleepy Hollow prep was that I had committed to being a judge for the Miss Three Rivers pageant in Fort Wayne before we even knew we were DOING the show. And that was two days before we had our dress rehearsal (which had an audience...so it basically was opening night). When I said yes to this, I figured - Oh - judging a pageant - ok.. I'll show up at like 6:00pm the show will be at 7:00, home by 9:45. Hahahahahahahahaah. Nope. I had to be there at 9:00 am. AM. Yes, AM. And you all know how efficient I am in the mornings. At nine am I would have given this gal a 10 for evening gown.
The school where the pageant was being held ALSO was on a road whose name is not unique. There are TWO of the same named roads in Fort Wayne and GPS systems only know the WRONG one. We only discovered this when about four of the judges ended up driving to an area very populated by barns, goats, and probably the occasional banjo.


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A short film based on the retirement letter of Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers great, earned an Oscar nomination that in any other year might have been a no-brainer.
The six-minute "Dear Basketball," an adaptation of his 2015 love letter to the game that was published by The Players' Tribune, is among the nominees for Best Animated Short Film and showcases the work of Disney artist Glen Keane and composer John Williams. Bryant's words and the images show that this is clearly worthy of an Oscar nomination, except for one thing.
What's not to love about an NBA great talking about his affection for the game?
In the wake of Hollywood's Harvey Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement, it is raising reminders of the time Bryant was accused of sexual assault. In July 2003, he was arrested in Eagle, Colo., and charged with sexual assault, accused by a 19-year-old hotel employee of rape. The accuser told authorities that she was assaulted while he was staying at The Lodge and Spa at Cordillera awaiting surgery. Bryant claimed that the two had consensual sex, and he publicly apologized to his wife, Vanessa.
Bryant's accuser refused to testify, and the criminal case was dropped, with a civil suit settled out of court for an undisclosed sum of money. An apology was part of the settlement, and the words echo in the apologies we're hearing out of Hollywood and other places today.
"First, I want to apologize directly to the young woman involved in this incident. I want to apologize to her for my behavior that night and for the consequences she has suffered in the past year," his statement read. "Although this year has been incredibly difficult for me personally, I can only imagine the pain she has had to endure. I also want to apologize to her parents and family members, and to my family and friends and supporters, and to the citizens of Eagle, Colo.
"I also want to make it clear that I do not question the motives of this young woman. No money has been paid to this woman. She has agreed that this statement will not be used against me in the civil case. Although I truly believe this encounter between us was consensual, I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did. After months of reviewing discovery, listening to her attorney, and even her testimony in person, I now understand how she feels that she did not consent to this encounter.
"I issue this statement today fully aware that while one part of this case ends today, another remains. I understand that the civil case against me will go forward. That part of this case will be decided by and between the parties directly involved in the incident and will no longer be a financial or emotional drain on the citizens of the state of Colorado."
Now, Bryant is an Oscar nominee. Perhaps the passage of time or Bryant's superstardom with a team that moves the needle in L.A. helped the academy forget. At any rate, he expressed delight and surprise at the nomination.
"What?? This is beyond the realm of imagination," he tweeted. "It means so much that the @TheAcademy deemed #DearBasketball worthy of contention. Thanks to the genius of @GlenKeanePrd & John Williams for taking my poem to this level. It's an honor to be on this team. #OscarNoms"
In an interview with the New York Daily News in April 2017, Bryant explained that he was thinking of an animated film even as he wrote the letter.
"When I sat down to write, I could either say what I was feeling to the game, or I could visually communicate. If I'm speaking to someone, I think it's always better to speak through stories, to speak through visual images. . . .
"It's an arc of understanding that things come to an end. When things come to an end, we can either embrace that change and welcome the change, or we can be resistant to that change. I found myself being at peace with this transition, and with the finality, with my career coming to an end."
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