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AURORA, Colo. -- Petra Anderson, one of 58 people injured in the Aurora movie theater attack, is lucky to be alive.
Anderson, a 22-year-old aspiring music professor, was hit by a shotgun blast during the assault that killed 12 people. Three pellets struck her arm and one rocketed through her head, but it missed the brain's many blood vessels and key sections controlling vital functions, according to her doctor.
"If the pellet had wavered a millimeter, really in any direction from what it actually took, then she would have likely either died or been severely injured," said Dr. Michael Rauzzino, a neurosurgeon at The Medical Center of Aurora who operated on Anderson to remove the pellet. "I would say this is definitely a miracle," he said, while showing an MRI of Anderson's brain.
The MRI reveals a faint trace of the pellet's path after it entered the left side of Petra's nose, broke through the front of her skull, and passed through her brain, before lodging in the back of her head.
"It would be hard to create a path similar to this where it goes all the way from the front to the back and misses every single blood vessel, doesn't bother any of the major structures, and leaves her able to talk and move everything and not be paralyzed or dead," he added. "Never in my entire career have I seen a case where a bullet has traversed the entire brain like this and not caused severe damage or death."
Among the dozens hurt in the attack on a midnight premiere of the latest Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises," injuries vary widely. Some were treated for their wounds and could walk out of the hospital. Others are still fighting for their lives. And yet others, like Anderson, who plays violin and piano, are dealing with a range of injuries that could require long-term treatment, and perhaps, totally alter their futures.
Doctors performed two procedures on Anderson: one to remove the pellet from her brain and the other to close the hole in her skull where the pellet entered her head. A large hole was left behind that had to be fixed or it could have led to complications in the future, such as leakage of brain tissue or liquid, Rauzzino said.
The pellet crossed the left hemisphere – the dominant one -- of her brain, which generally controls speech, language and memory. Though Anderson now has deficits in those areas, Rauzzino said, they "could be much more severe than what they are."
"Her life is definitely going to be different. She's been shot in the head and nothing's going to change that," he said. "The hope is that with time and therapy and patience that she'll get a lot of things back. And, you know, who knows, maybe she'll get it all back."
Rauzzino denied news reports stemming from a pastor's blog that Anderson had a congenital defect in her brain creating a void, or hole, the pellet shuttled along to save her life.
"Her brain was no different than anyone else's," he said. "What made her so fortunate was the trajectory of the bullet as it passed through."
Escaping death a 'source of hope'
Since last Friday, Anderson's family experienced the ups and downs of dealing with major trauma to a loved one.
"Everything changed, and I could not get past this idea that she had gotten shot in the head. I know that the first big fear I had wasn't actually her dying, but her losing things in her life that have been really important," such as her music, said her boyfriend, Austin Hogan, 23, as he broke down into tears.
(For more on the treatment of the injured in Aurora, watch Kate Snow's interview with Dr. Rauzzino on tonight's Rock Center at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. Central.)
But the fact she escaped death "was such a source of hope for moving forward, I think, for all of us, and we really rallied around that," he said.
Anderson was planning to enter the University of Maryland this fall for graduate studies along with Hogan. The middle child of three siblings, she had come home to Aurora to spend time with her mother, Kim, who was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer in May and is to begin experimental treatments in a few days.
"This has been hard on her," Anderson's sister, Chloe, 25, said of her mom. "She's already not got the best energy levels, and I think the first couple of days just really tanked her energy. But she is a fighter, just like my sister, and so she is there all the time."
Adding to the family's worries are the medical bills: Petra's insurance won't likely cover all of her expenses and her mom's insurance won't pay for her alternative cancer treatments, Chloe Anderson said. So, working with friends, she and Hogan set up a fundraising campaign to raise money for them.
"My mother's recovery is going to be integral to my sister's recovery and vice versa," she said. "I know that both of their recoveries are … intertwined."
But the campaign won't just raise funds for mother and daughter: part of it will also go to other victims. The money will be funneled to the Colorado Organization for Victims Assistance. Also, three of the hospitals in the area that treated victims announced Wednesday they will forgive some or all of the medical costs associated with the attack.
"If you have a blessing, it's great to have it, but it's even better to be able to share," Chloe Anderson said.
"We're not the only ones suffering and going through this," Hogan said. "A lot of other people in this tragedy have a story like this, too, and are suffering … nobody walked in that theater with a perfect life, with no other worries, no baggage."
In the days since Anderson was shot, she has been eating, smiling, and telling the cerebral jokes she is known for, her sister said. She also took a stroll around the intensive care unit but has been in pain, a bit groggy from the medicine, and her loved one have noticed some deficiencies, such as it taking her "a little while to come to whatever it is that she is saying," Chloe Anderson said.
She hasn't asked about what happened at the theater, where she had gone with two friends (one survived being shot several times; the other was uninjured), and her family didn't want to cause her any additional stress by bringing it up.
Her long-term prognosis is good, seeing that she has survived the injuries so far, Rauzzino said, noting that "given the fact that there's not more permanent damage on this study (MRI), we're very hopeful that she's going to make a very good recovery from this."
Shooter not going to have 'last say'
As Anderson's family spends their days immersed in her recovery, which they update on an increasingly popular Facebook page that has in turn provided them emotional support, Chloe Anderson said she doesn't think much about the alleged gunman.
"I've been so consumed with focusing on how to make this a better situation," she said. "It doesn't serve anybody for me to be really angry at him … I need to focus on helping who I can help, and right now, I can help my sister and my family, and maybe help some of the other families, as well."
The shooter also was not going to have the "last say," Hogan said. "From the moment this happened, that hasn't been the story … the story has been about the victims and the survivors and the families and the incredible communities of support."
There was a lot of gratitude "for all of these people that have held up these families in this incredible time of suffering," he added. "Knowing that we can make an impact … that we have an ability to get a voice out there of hope, a message of hope to everybody, to as large an audience as we can, to show that, you know, there is something incredible that can come from something so terrible."
NBC News' JoNel Aleccia contributed to this report.
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Israel's Bomb, Iran's Pursuit of the Bomb
Israel's Bomb
One person possessing the courage to admit guilt for his role in producing the bomb was Albert Einstein. Some five months before his death in late 1954, Einstein declared: "I made one great mistake in my life, when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made, but there was some justification -- the danger that the Germans would make them." (Karpin, pp. 358-59)
Another person, David Ben-Gurion, reached just the opposite conclusion about the bomb. Notwithstanding the role that Zionist settlers played in stirring up Arab hatred in Palestine, in the wake of the Arab attacks on Jews in Jerusalem in August 1929 and the "Arab Revolt" of 1936, Ben-Gurion told friends in Jerusalem, "The danger we face is not rioting, but extermination. The attackers will not only be the Arabs of Palestine, but also the Iraqis and Saudi Arabians, and they have warplanes and artillery. We have to prepare seriously to constitute a substantial force in this country, capable of standing up to a massive offensive." (Karpin, p. 20)
But, if the events of 1929 and 1936 had Ben-Gurion thinking about extermination by Arabs, one should try to imagine the trauma he experienced upon visiting Germany's Dachau concentration camp and the extermination camp at Bergen Belsen in October 1945. According to Israeli journalist, Michael Karpin, writing in his book The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What that Means for the World, it was precisely in October 1945 -- just two months after the United States dropped its hideous atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but almost three years before Israel became a state -- that Israel's future Prime Minister and Defense Minister decided that Israel must have the bomb.
As Karpin also makes clear, it was largely under Ben-Gurion's leadership that Israel engaged in a campaign of lies and deceit -- much like Iran over the past two decades -- in order to obtain "the nuclear option." According to Karpin, not only did Prime Minister/Defense Minister David Ben-Gurion distinguish between ethics and national security, (p. 234) "Israeli public opinion had always drawn a clear distinction between morality and ethics on the one hand and the country's security on the other." (p. 291) (And, thus, how could Israel's leaders today possibly believe that Iran's current leaders are behaving less dishonorably than Ben-Gurion did, when it comes to getting the bomb?)
It began when Israel traded its intelligence about Egypt's role in the terrorism gripping French-occupied Algeria for the secret sale of French jet fighters and armored cars -- in violation of a Middle East arms embargo. Israel then leveraged its tie to France to pull off an even bigger secret deal. It would receive a nuclear reactor from France that was capable of producing plutonium for Ben-Gurion's bomb. In return, Israel would attack Egypt and, thus, provide France and Great Britain with a pretext for intervening to reestablish the peace and, coincidentally, forcibly reopen the Suez Canal -- their real objective.
And although both the United States and Soviet Union subsequently intervened to foil the French/British scheme, Israel lived up to its side of the dishonorable bargain -- by launching an assault on Egypt on October 29, 1956. And, for that, France honored its promise to help build the Dimona nuclear reactor in the Negev. The first French technicians arrived in late 1957, construction was completed in 1962, and Israel produced its first two bombs in mid-1967.
According to Karpin, "For years experts have been busy estimating or guessing the actual capacity, and a consensus of a sort has emerged that the reactor was originally built with a 40-megawatt capacity and was upgraded in the 1970s. This meant it could produce 15-20 kilograms of plutonium and four to five bombs a year." (p. 109) Information subsequently supplied by Mordechai Vanunu indicates that "Israel's annual plutonium output is some 40 kilos, and that it manufactures ten bombs a year." (Ibid) Today, Israel is thought to possess as many as 200 atomic warheads.
Judging by Michael Karpin's book, Israel paid no price for its lies and deceit surrounding its nuclear program, because: (1) the US has always tilted toward Israel (or as Harry Truman observed: "I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of Zionism. I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs in my constituents." (2) Israel was able to deceive the US until Dimona became a fait accompli, (3) American presidents, especially Lyndon Johnson, turned a blind eye to the emerging evidence that Israel was pursuing the bomb until (4) President Nixon and Henry Kissinger finally acknowledged it, but also embraced it as being in America's national interest.
As Karpin acknowledges, although it was US policy to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, Israel "was a special case. The influence of the Jewish vote and the pro-Israel lobby in the United States was growing, and at least three presidents -- Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon -- set their policy toward Israel's nuclear program with one eye on the Jewish electorate." (p. 181)
Special case, indeed! Consider, for example, Abe Feinberg's role in financing Israel's nuclear program during late-1958 to late-1960. Feinberg was President Truman's "close friend," (p. 135) "who had been bequeathed to Kennedy by Eisenhower, who had in turn inherited him from Truman." (p. 185) He also was "Ben-Gurion's representative in charge of obtaining donations from the wealthiest Jews in the world" (p. 136) During late-1958 to late-1960, Feinberg led a secret and successful fund raising campaign to finance Israel's nuclear program.
Thanks to Feinberg's "Dimona campaign" (p. 136), which was bolstered by the contributions of the Sonneborn Institute ("the group formed by the eighteen richest Jews in North America"), "some twenty-five millionaires contributed a total of about $40 million dollars" to finance Israel's nuclear program. Today that $40 million would equal $250 million. (Ibid)
Feinberg's secret fund raising campaign commenced some six months before American intelligence channels first learned of "the building site in the Negev." (p. 154) And it continued, even after an American reconnaissance satellite photographed Dimona in September 1960. (p. 155) President Eisenhower was especially concerned about the source of the funding: "We do not know where they obtained the funds, but have a proper interest in this because of the aid we are giving them." (p. 159)
The fund raising campaign succeeded, notwithstanding the fact that it was official U. S. policy to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. And, it succeeded, notwithstanding the fact that the US already had supplied Israel with a low-power nuclear reactor, one that became operational in 1960. That reactor, however, could not produce the plutonium necessary for bombs.
Thus, it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that the contributors to the Dimona campaign knew precisely what they were supporting. That being the case, just imagine the national outcry -- highlighting America's pro-Israel bias -- were it to be revealed that US citizens of Iranian descent had been making secret contributions to finance Iran's nuclear program!
In December 1960, after the American news media got wind of Dimona and suggested that that Israel might be "developing a nuclear option," (pp. 156-57) Ben-Gurion spoke to the Knesset and lied about the allegations. He lied when he asserted: "This reactor's meant to be used only for peaceful purposes, and is being built under the direction of Israeli experts." (p. 161)
Karpin claims that the departing Eisenhower administration "had no interest in revealing its suspicion that Israel was building a bomb," (p. 158) and that the incoming Kennedy administration wasn't much better. Kennedy accepted the comforting words of two American scientists, who had been duped by the Israelis when they visited Dimona ten days before the president met with Ben-Gurion on May 30, 1961. Thus, Kennedy not only swallowed Ben-Gurion's false assertion that the main purpose of the reactor was to produce cheap energy (p. 193) -- Iran's leaders make similar claims today -- but he also ignored hints from Ben-Gurion that Israel reserved the option to build a bomb. Finally, Kennedy failed to ask Ben-Gurion "why Israel needed a plutonium extraction plant." (p. 194)
After the Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy became much more serious about nuclear nonproliferation. When he met with Golda Meir in December 1962 in Palm Beach, Florida, Kennedy informed her that the United States "has a special relationship with Israel in the Middle East, really comparable only to that which it has with Britain over a wide range of world affairs." (p. 218) He added: "I think it is quite clear that in the case of an invasion the United States would come to the support of Israel." (Ibid)
But when Kennedy issued an "ultimatum" (p. 232) about opening Dimona to inspections, the Israelis stalled until after his assassination. Moreover, when the first inspection finally took place, on January 18, 1964, the Americans were defrauded again.
Kennedy's failure to halt Israel's nuclear program occurred at a time, especially during late 1962 and early 1963, when Israel's Mossad was conducting a campaign of terror (including letter bombs) and intimidation against German scientists who, allegedly, were helping Egypt to build its own bomb. The intelligence behind the terror campaign proved to be "one big cock-and-bull story," (p. 210) but the injuries and diplomatic fallout proved to be all too real. (This nasty business seems to continue. According to The Sunday Times (UK) of February 4, 2007, an Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated by Mossad in mid-January 2007)
Yet, as bad as Kennedy's myopia about Israel's bomb was, Lyndon Johnson's was even worse. It was the product of life-long concern for the Jews and Israel. First, an aunt, who preached the importance of helping the Jews, influenced Johnson's childhood. Second, in 1938 Johnson helped to organize a network that smuggled Jews into Texas and, third, in 1945 he was visibly shaken by a visit to Dachau. When he became president, he was the first to agree to sell Israel offensive weapons.
When he met with Israel's Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in January 1968, Johnson knew that the CIA believed "that Israel already achieved nuclear capability." (p. 296) Nevertheless, although he informed Eshkol that the US was "opposed to the presence of nuclear weapons and strategic missiles in the Middle East," (Ibid) he did not challenge Eshkol's assertion that Israel would not be the first nation to introduce them.
Not only did Eshkol lie, by producing two bombs in mid-1967, Israel already had violated the terms of a March 1965 arms agreement with the U. S., in which Israel stipulated: "The Government of Israel has reaffirmed that Israel will not be the first to introduce weapons into the Arab-Israel area." (p. 257)
Yet, Johnson responded to such lies by Eshkol and Foreign Minister Abba Eban by overruling his own officials -- Dean Rusk and Paul Warnke -- who insisted that Israel submit to regular inspections and sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, before being permitted to purchase technologically sophisticated F-4 Phantoms.
According to Karpin, pressure exerted by Abe Feinberg and Arthur Goldberg -- at the request of Israel's U.S Ambassador, Yitzhak Rabin! -- was decisive. "The assault of the Jewish lobby on the White House and the heads of the Democratic Party had apparently worked." (p. 309) "In his memoirs, Rabin describes how he agonized over the propriety of a foreign ambassador making use of a lobby within the American governmental system." (p. 308)
The lies and deceit directed at the United States finally ended, when the new Prime Minister, Golda Meir, decided to "tell the truth to the American leaders," (p. 315) in 1969. Fortunately, she encountered a Nixon administration that, under Henry Kissinger's tutelage, took a permissive position on nuclear proliferation by America's friends. And, thus, yet more American hypocrisy when it comes to nuclear nonproliferation!
Thus, "the United States accepted the fact that Israel possessed nuclear capability, ceased to demand that Israel sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and stopped sending its experts to inspect Dimona. Israel committed itself to three nos: no publication, no testing, and no provoking the Arabs with its nuclear option." (p. 318) And, thus, Israel maintains such "ambiguity" to this day.
Yet, notwithstanding Israel's policy of ambiguity, it's well known that, on October 9, 1973, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan recommended that Israel use nuclear weapons in order to avoid losing the Yom Kippur war. (Avner Cohen, "The Last Nuclear Moment," New York Times, Oct. 6. 2003) And according to Scott Ritter, Israel put its "nuclear-tipped Jericho missile force on full alert" (Ritter, p. 8) during the 1991 Gulf War.
Worse still (if the January 7, 2007, report in The Sunday Times is accurate), "Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons." Not exactly what one could call ambiguity -- or responsible custodianship of nuclear weapons. (Israel subsequently denied the report.)
Meanwhile, Israeli intelligence has remained vigilant, lest some other Middle Eastern state emulates Israel and sneaks a bomb into its basement. Thus the Mossad's letter bombs against innocent German scientists in 1962-63, Israel's preventive strike on Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981, and the alleged Mossad murder of an Iranian scientist just recently.
Indeed, an Iran in possession of nuclear weapons could pose an existential threat to Israel, especially if the individuals who wield military power, such as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, literally seek Israel's destruction. As Yossi Klein Halevi and Michael B. Oren recently concluded: An Iran possessing the bomb "would be able to destroy the Zionist dream without pressing the button." (Yossi Klein Halevi & Michael B. Oren, "Israel's Worst Nightmare: Contra Iran," The New Republic Feb. 5, 2007) Under the threat of a nuclear attack, people will leave, especially the elite who have opportunities abroad. Foreign investors will flee as well. Consequently, "the promise of Zionism to create a Jewish refuge will have failed, and, instead, Jews will see the diaspora as a more trustworthy option for both personal and collective survival." (Ibid)
Thus, their conclusion: "A Jewish state that allows itself to be threatened with nuclear weapons -- by a country that denies the genocide against Europe's six million Jews while threatening Israel's six million Jews -- will forfeit its right to speak in the name of Jewish history." (Ibid) Yet, precisely because the authors, like many Israelis, discount deterrence and rule out negotiations, one has even more reason to suspect Israel of contemplating nuclear madness.
Yet, Iran denies pursuing nuclear weapons. Indeed, in September 2004, Ayatollah Khamenei issued a fatwa forbidding the "production, stockpiling, and use of nuclear weapons." (Ritter, p. 170) Whose religious edicts count in Iran, if not his?
Moreover, as Israel, America's Israel lobby and its bootlicking neocons prod the Bush administration to wage war against Iran, by attacking its nuclear facilities, it's worth recalling that the 1981 attack on Osirak backfired. For, as Joseph Cirincione has written recently, "After the Israeli strike on the Osirak reactor in 1981, Saddam Hussein turned the program from one involving 500 workers into a more ambitious, secret 7,000-person drive that came closer to delivering a bomb by 1991 than the open program would have" (Joseph Cirincione, "The Clock's Ticking: Stopping Iran Before It's Too Late," Arms Control Today, November 2006)
An attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would certainly provoke Iran to seek nuclear weapons with a vengeance. And an attack using nuclear weapons would outrage the world.
Thus, although there are plenty of reasons to suspect that Iran's leaders, like Israel's before them, are lying about their nuclear program -- a matter to be examined in Part Three of this article -- there also are plenty of reasons to believe that an Osirak-like strike would be even more counterproductive this time around. As a 2005 study by two scholars at the National Defense University concluded: "The costs of rolling back Iran's nuclear program 'may be higher than the costs of deterring and containing nuclear Iran.'"(Elaine Sciolino, "Chirac's Iran Gaffe Reveals A Strategy: Containment," New York Times, Feb. 3, 2007) Consequently, a different approach is required.
Walter C. Uhler is an independent scholar and freelance writer whose work has been published in numerous publications, including The Nation, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Journal of Military History, the Moscow Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also is President of the Russian-American International Studies Association (RAISA). He can be reached at: email@example.com.
Other Articles by Walter C. Uhler
Bomb, Iran's Pursuit of the Bomb and US War Preparations (Part One)

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A suicide attack is carried out by a suicide attacker (Arabic: Shaheed) sometimes also referred to as suicide bomber or homicide bomber when explosives are used. A suicide attacker is a person who premeditatedly sacrifices themself to kill others.
When using explosives, the bomber detonates himself in a crowded place with the goal of killing as many people as possible. Homicide bombers are terrorists who kill people indiscriminately, men, women, infants, children, elderly, even their own compatriot believers. They use explosives secretly carried on their persons, knowing that they will be killed in the attack. The sometimes refers to these people as "suicide bombers" although their intent is to murder others, not to commit suicide.[1]
The typical homicide bomber is a young man, although in a few cases women[2] or teenagers have been goaded into doing this. Sometimes the homicide bomber drives a truck or other vehicle containing a more deadly load of explosives. Airplanes have been used (see Kamikaze below; also 9/11).
During the Vietnam War, adults reportedly strapped live grenades onto a child's body and sent him into a G.I. bar knowing that lonely American men being fond of children would be unlikely to be suspicious of a child.[Citation Needed]
Many people mistakenly believe that Islam endorses the use of suicide bombing as a tactic in warfare. Whatever the official position of different Islamic scholars on the issue, the fact remains that this practice is encouraged and widely used by Muslim terrorists waging Jihad, and that the murderous homicide bombers are celebrated as martyrs by their communities. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein used to pay $25,000 to the families of Palestinian homicide bombers who attacked Israelis.[3]
The kamikaze were Japanese pilots who flew their planes into Allied naval vessels in World War II as a human substitute for guided missiles. The term kamikaze is derived from the Japanese name for the hurricanes that drove back the Mongol invaders; meaning "divine wind" or "wind of the gods".
- ↑ Suicide bombers head to Iraq from Damascus, Times Online, October 7, 2007
- ↑ About 30% of the suicide operations in Sri Lanka have been conducted by women.Suicide terrorism: a global threat - Jane's Intelligence Review
- ↑ FOX News: Saddam Is Sending Money to Families of Suicide Bombers (July 27, 2002)


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Hmm... when you would need to change any setting there, it would mean the browser there doesn't supports the WebVR API...and that is using the old Gear VR settings of:
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Hmm... when you would need to change any setting there, it would mean the browser there doesn't supports the WebVR API...and that is using the old Gear VR settings of:
Note - when there is a 'VR setup' button, then the browser doesn't provide the a WebVR API and krpano is only faking/poly-filling it (by manual tracking and manual lens-distortion).
Real WebVR API support would (should) be better - because then the browser could better utilize the hardware (better tracking, faster screen refreshes, headset-specific lens-distortion). But also note - in this case the browser itself is responsible for the correct VR rendering (regarding fov, lens-distortion and so on).
What browser is used there?
The 'Oculus Browser'?
In the GearVR that browser has WebVR support, so I normally would suspect it there too.
(Btw - I have also ordered a Oculus Go, but not received yet, so I can't say much myself about it yet).
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That is exactly our perception as well. Very difficult to articulate exactly what the difference is, only that Something just feels a little "off" from the GEAR.Only seems a little bit different the angle of view and the perception of the distance to the objects in relation to VR Gear.
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(The Root) — Defying your parents' orders not to march in Birmingham, Ala., in the 1960s could have meant a whipping for teens. Defying the police commissioner's order not to march protesting segregation could have meant attacks by dogs, blasts from fire hoses and a lockup in jail.
Fifty years ago in the spring of 1963, thousands of youths in Birmingham did just that — often disobeying their parents because they wanted to join a unified call to end segregation. A re-enactment of the Children's March (also known as the Children's Crusade) is set for Thursday, May 2, in downtown Birmingham.
In 1963, pictures from Birmingham were shown around the world of children blasted by fire hoses. Of children attacked by dogs. Of children singing, "We Shall Overcome."
Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, was 12 and a freshman at Ullman High School when he left school to march downtown. Before the day was over, he had come face-to-face with the city's iconic, racist public-safety commissioner, Eugene "Bull" Connor, and found himself locked up in a juvenile detention facility.
"I guess you could say I learned an early lesson from a Birmingham jail," said Hrabowski, named last year by Time magazine as one of its "100 Most Influential People in the World." "If I had to do it all over again, I would do the very same thing."
While he was locked up, Hrabowski remembers Martin Luther King Jr. coming to the juvenile facility and speaking words of encouragement outside. "He said, 'What you do this day will impact children who have not been born,' " Hrabowski said. Days earlier, Hrabowski had heard King speak at his church, Sixth Avenue Baptist. "He told us that by marching in the movement, children would help end segregation and improve education. That caught my attention. We had great teachers at the time, but we were told that our resources were not the same as whites. I wanted to see change."
When Hrabowski told his parents he wanted to march, they told him, "Absolutely not."
"Then I did something you just didn't do back then. I asked them why they would take me to hear this man [King] talk about marching for better education, but tell me I couldn't do it," he said. "My dad said, 'Boy, go to your room.' "
Hrabowski insisted on marching, and when the crowds left Ullman that May day, he left, too. They marched from south of town about two miles to 16th Street Baptist Church. "As a child, I was a fat nerd, but I loved school. I wanted to be part of anything that would bring better education," he said.
The youths assembled in the church and received their instructions for the day. When they made it to the Birmingham City Hall, they would kneel and pray. That's where Hrabowski encountered the public-safety commissioner whose image was synonymous with segregation — Bull Connor.
"My knees were shaking. He looked at me and said, 'Little nigra, what do you want?' I said, 'We want to kneel and pray,' " Hrabowski said. Not long after that, he and hundreds of others were hauled away and locked up.
Washington Booker, also a student at Ullman, was among the youths who were locked up. He had been reluctant about participating in the marches — not because he didn't believe in the cause, but because he knew what could happen. Booker grew up in the projects in a place called Loveman Village. "It was nothing for the police to call you over to the car and tell you to stick your head in the window so they could tell you something. Then they would roll up the window on you," he said. "Rarely did a day go by when you didn't hear about a black man or a black boy being abused by police.
"We knew what the police would do. I was thinking, let's just let the little middle-class kids go down there and march. I had planned on just doing as I did before — standing behind the crowd and chunking bottles and bricks at the police," he said.
But the more he heard about plans for the May Children's March, the more he became caught up with the idea of participating.
"They told us this would be a nonviolent movement, but when I went into the church that day, I was carrying a pocket knife. They passed a collection basket, and we were told to put all of our weapons in the baskets. I dropped my pocket knife in, but I wished I had tucked it under a pew so I could have come back to get it."
Booker, a Marine, community activist and political consultant, was 14 at the time of the Children's March. While he is proud of their actions in 1963, change, he said, still came at a very slow pace. "The laws changed, but prevailing attitudes changed much slower."
Brenda Phillips Hong, a graduate of Western Olin High School in West Birmingham's Ensley community, said the youths felt a sense of urgency in 1963. The walk from her high school to downtown Birmingham and 16th Street Baptist Church was more than five miles, but at the time, the detail was not important, Hong said. "This was something we had to do."
Her mother had told her not to march, but Hong slipped away to the march organization and training sessions by telling her mother she was going to her older sister's home. "We were marching and singing all the way," she said. "We had strong student leaders who helped keep everyone focused."
The students were given signs to carry in the march. Shirley Holmes Sims, a graduate of Parker High School, recalls her sign: "We Shall Overcome." "My mother had told me not to march and said I'd better not go to jail. But this just felt like something we were supposed to do," she said. "I didn't have sense to be afraid. I thought about our lives at the time. You look back and think, my God."
Sims had listened to the speeches on nonviolence but admits that it was difficult to remain nonviolent while being taunted. "Not long after the march, I was boarding a bus to ride home, and a little white boy spat on me," she said. "It was all I could do to keep from slapping him, but I knew that was something I could not do."
C. Virginia Fields, the former Manhattan borough president in New York City and president and CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, marched as a Birmingham teen in 1963 and found herself in a Birmingham jail at the age of 17. "I didn't march in May because I had been jailed for marching in April, and my case was still tied up in court," said Fields, who graduated from Carver High School in January 1963. "I spent six days in jail after participating in the Good Friday march led by Dr. King.
"My mother was a leader in the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. We attended Bethel Baptist Church where Rev. [Fred] Shuttlesworth had been our pastor," she said.
"We were teenagers, and we had already seen so much. We knew this had to change. My church was bombed. My pastor's home was bombed. We wanted a better life," she said. "This started me on a path and believing that using my voice, I can make a difference."
Denise Stewart grew up in Birmingham, Ala., in the 1960s and is a freelance journalist based in Alabama.


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With the existing system comprising 175 lighting points covering 140,000 m2, upgrading the lights would not be easy. The clinic wanted to replace the outdated mercury-vapor lamps with modern LED ones. However, the new lights needed to match the building characteristics while utilizing the existing lamp fittings.
Philips stepped up to the challenge. We installed 12 modular SpeedStar streetlamps along the visitor entrance on Lohmühlenstrasse. Some of the parking areas had previously been left in the shadows due to the tall trees, but the arching design and bright beams of the new parking lot lighting corrected this problem. Across the pavement, we replaced the old lamps with nine modular CitySpirit LEDs, which create decorative accents and bright illumination that cuts through darkness.
CitySoul LEDs were installed around the clinic's grounds and in Kirschbaumallee , the hospital's central thoroughfare. The consistent quality of light now makes the clinic exterior a pleasant and safe place to be at night, with improved navigation for visitors. The ecological goals have been met, too – in 2011, the clinic received the Hamburg Environmental Partnership certificate, in recognition of its green efforts.
Since the outdoor lighting solutions were introduced, the clinic has saved 52,800kWh per annum. This is a 55% reduction on the former yearly rate. In addition, the new lights in Kirschbaumallee have delivered an impressive energy saving of 90%.
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Monday, July 22
Signs Of Summer
I've been working on my speech for the Texas Style Council coming up here REALLY soon-- I'm so nervous and excited about it. Are any of you going? I'm really hoping to meet some of you!
Blue bathing suit in 1st photo c/o OFabz; Bathing suit in 2nd photo from ModCloth; Sunnies in last photo from BonLook
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Cute bunch in the second pic! :-)ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh I almost ordered that exact swimsuit but they were out of my size! The blue one! Precious!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2013 at 12:32 AM
Eek! We're so cute! Even in our swimmies. So glad we got (most of) the kiddos to rally for a pic.ReplyDelete
oh my goodness...I'm so in love with both bathing suits! I'm loving the high-waisted look, and you pull it off so well!ReplyDelete
Love love the bikini! XxReplyDelete
What an adorable bikini!! Those first sunnies are from Tumbleweeds, right? I can't seem to find another pair like them but I adore the wood frames!!ReplyDelete
It is "winter time" here in Australia (although for a Canadian it feels more like fall) but I can't wait for it to get hot again next month!!
Have fun!
xo Becky
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both bathing suits are soooo cute! you look fab as usual.ReplyDelete
Your swimsuits are oh so pretty! I wish I could go and listen to your speech, but Texas a long way far from London, UK! Good luck with it though! Have a lovely day :)ReplyDelete
Love that polka dot bikini - too cute! Wishing I could head over the the Texas Style Council, looks set to be awesome...its a pretty long way from here >>> kinda hoping that you'll share a round up after the event! :D xoxReplyDelete
Loving those retro looking bathing suits Katie ! :)ReplyDelete
Our summer in the UK seems to have gone overnight - we had the most incredible electrical storms! But now it's all grey and miserable. Easy come easy go!
what a lovely bathing suit!ReplyDelete
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love that suit!!! wish i could pull it off!!!!ReplyDelete
Your swim suits are adorable!!! I love the bright blue one with the ruffles. I've been searching for the perfect high waisted 2 piece. Thanks for the links.ReplyDelete
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I'm from KC and the mosquitoes ARE terrible! Forget watering flowers- you'll come out look like you have the chicken pox. I love your vintage inspired suits- I'd love to get one next year! xoxo, SuzyReplyDelete
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Yay! I'll be there! Can't wait to meet you!ReplyDelete
That blue bathing suit is soo cute!ReplyDelete
So fun! I'll be at the Texas Style Council ^_^ Have you been to Austin before?ReplyDelete
Love these two bathing suits!ReplyDelete
Ill be at TxSC! And although I don't have children I'm really excited to hear your perspective and hopefully meet you!ReplyDelete
See you at TxSC! Excited to meet you!ReplyDelete
Fun! Those swimsuits are super cute!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2013 at 12:03 PM
I love the bikini! and your hair! I really wish I had hair like that, particularly in the summer :)ReplyDelete
I adore your swimsuits! They're exactly what I've been looking for.ReplyDelete
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That blue swim suit is so cute!ReplyDelete
If I still lived in TX, I'd love to come. Good luck with your speech! You have the most adorable swim suits, by the by :) But are the tan lines weird with high-waisted bikinis?ReplyDelete
xo Ashley
Those are some cute suits!! I love the blue polka dot. The retro look is so adorable on you. Have fun in your pool.ReplyDelete
Ah! I have been dying for a high waisted swimsuit. They have an adorable polka dot one at Jcrew that I have been drooling over.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJuly 23, 2013 at 7:06 PM
Katie!! I'm going to be at TxSC in August!!! I'm SO excited to be going and am really, really hoping I'll get to meet you there! And I know that your workshop is going to go well. I'm sure your speech is great! See you soon!ReplyDelete
P.S. Lovin that blue swimsuit!
I have to agree with all of the above comments, LOVE the bathing suits;)ReplyDelete
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living vicurously through your summer because im stuck in the middle of winter sounding like a man!ReplyDelete
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Love your bathing suit choices! I am looking for something that style myself.ReplyDelete
Love the sunnies. It's raining like crazy here! (Nottingham, England, if you were wondering)ReplyDelete
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I'll be at TxSC! I can't wait and I can't believe it is already next weekend! I am really looking forward to it. I hope I get to meet you. :)ReplyDelete
P.S. Both of your bathing suits are so cute!
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The first soil moisture maps with a spatial resolution of one km are available online for the entire southern African subcontinent. As soil moisture plays an important role in the global water cycle, these maps, based on data from ESA's Envisat satellite, will lead to better weather and extreme-event forecasting, such as floods and droughts.
"Predicting when and where floods are likely to happen is becoming more and more important," Geoff Pegram of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, said. "Although we cannot prevent floods, we can anticipate them and hopefully get people out of the way. This brings hydrology into the 21st century and makes life better for people."
Soil moisture is the water stored in the soil within reach of plants. When there is too little soil moisture, rain-fed crops and natural vegetation wilt. When there is too much soil moisture, the risk of flooding, flash floods and erosion increase.
Despite its importance for agricultural planning and weather forecasting, there has been a lack of soil moisture information in Africa because of the high costs of in-situ measurement networks. In addition, unlike satellite observations, point-based measurements are often not sufficient to provide an overall picture over large areas that may be effectively used in models.
The ESA-backed SHARE (Soil Moisture for Hydrometeorological Applications in the Southern African Development Community Region) project, funded through the ESA's Data User Element, is the first to demonstrate that spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instruments can deliver soil moisture data of high spatial (one km) and temporal (less than one week) resolution.
The SHARE project team combines expertise in soil moisture remote sensing from Vienna University of Technology with specialists in hydro-meteorological applications from University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.
"I think it is really a breakthrough. Envisat is the first satellite to provide us with the good temporal coverage that we needed for the algorithm and the methods to be successful," Wolfgang Wagner of the Vienna University of Technology said. "Chinese scientists have already used our data to initialise weather forecasts and demonstrated they could better predict the location and intensity of a precipitation event, which resulted in a flood. Soil moisture is such an important variable that it influences vegetation, soil, run-off and weather, affecting the lives of us all."
SHARE was one of the projects initiated under ESA's TIGER initiative, launched in 2002 to assist African countries to overcome water-related problems and to bridge Africa's water information gap using satellite data. To date, more than 200 African water basin authorities, universities and other organisations have become involved in TIGER projects across the continent.
The TIGER initiative is implemented in three stages - research, pre-operational and operational. The research stage encourages water authorities in Africa to undertake research initiatives and supports them with Earth observation (EO) data, training and tools. The pre-operational stage aims to demonstrate tailored EO-based services and systems for collecting water-related information. The operational stage is aimed at transferring the leadership of the projects to African water authorities.
SHARE concluded its pre-operational stage last month and will now seek funding and support from African organisations.
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In 2017, NCSE's Science Booster Club program expanded nationally, providing free, engaging educational opportunities to more than 120,000 people in ten states: Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Virginia, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Maryland, Tennessee, and Texas. Our teacher micro-grant program also went national, with grant opportunities expanding beyond Iowa to all the states where booster clubs are active. Booster club members locally raised and awarded ten micro-grants to teachers in six states. These local fundraising efforts allowed teachers to purchase basic equipment such as scales and thermometers, which their districts could not afford to purchase, to enhance their science education experiences. In all, 3,400 students had enriched science learning experiences because of the impact of the micro-grants.
Those of us who coordinate the science booster clubs are inspired by the number of individuals, supporting organizations and institutions, as well as local businesses that came forward this past year to directly support the science booster clubs in their communities. We'd like to thank everyone who supported our grassroots community events, many of which were in Iowa. My sincere hope is that our work in Iowa will provide a national model for growth and change. As we have seen through the success of our national expansion, that process has already begun.
Enduring Partner: The University of Iowa
Our partner in developing our initial science booster clubs in Iowa deserves special recognition. The University of Iowa provided interns who helped launch science booster clubs, helped us access supplies and technology equipment, and provided space for our staff and volunteers. Our enduring public-private partnership has provided significant service in education to the people of Iowa, and a model for national service.
Science Booster Club Supporters
This generous gift supported supply purchases for the national expansion.
The National Science Foundation (NSF)
Our partner at the University of Iowa, Maurine Neiman, was granted additional NSF funds to support graduate student work on the Science Booster Club Program. Neiman's support, energy, and incredible ground efforts as well as those of her team, have translated into not only significant funding, but also being recognized for their evolution outreach efforts by receiving the 2017 T. H. Huxley award given by the Society for the Study of Evolution.
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
We want to thank the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for its first grant to our program which will fund education on genetics and evolution across the state of Iowa.
Integrated DNA Technologies: ATCG Community Foundation Grant
For the second year in a row, IDT supported our summer camp in Iowa and allowed our students to tour the company's facility. We appreciate this opportunity for real-life career modeling for youth who participated in our summer camp.
Steve and Kathie Jenkins
A generous donation from Steve and Kathie Jenkins enabled a veteran intern in Iowa to continue and expand the activities of the Iowa City Science Booster Club over the summer, while I transitioned to NCSE headquarters in Oakland.
Rockwell Collins Green Communities Program
Rockwell Collins has been a strong supporter of our program since 2015. This year, grants from Rockwell Collins funded local education on climate change to thousands of Iowans.
Combined Small Donations
So many people give to the SBC program. Every small donation adds up. Thanks to your support, we make a significant impact across the country.
The UU Church of Ventura gave to our internship program, which contributes to graduate student support at the University of Iowa. Our graduate student interns work hard on the ground, running exhibits at locations throughout the state and teaching kids at our summer camp. The congregation's kind gift not only helped a student, but helped that student reach thousands of other people.
The European Society for the Study of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)
The ESEB has provided significant financial support to the SBC Program since 2016. This year's funding has contributed to the development of new evolution-focused exhibits, with an emphasis on the needs of agricultural communities.
University of Iowa Community Credit Union (UICCU)
A regular donor since 2016, the UICCU always gets us over the hump when we need funds for a local education event.
The ACT Corporation once more gave generously to support our science education programs in Iowa.
Hills Bank, a regular donor since 2016, has helped us bring great education programming to thousands of Iowans in agricultural areas.
In-Kind Donations
Earl May Nursery and Garden Centers
Earl May gave us all the supplies we needed to provide early childhood education on climate change to hundreds of kids across Eastern Iowa.
Iowa City Department of Parks and Recreation
Our friends at Parks and Rec gave us facility access and transportation support to reach underserved kids in Johnson County. We are grateful for its help in providing these opportunities.
Thanks for all the shirts! We wore them with pride.
Do You Want to Give?
You can support the clubs financially here—or send us a postcard. Let us know you care, and what you think your community needs to learn about in 2018.


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rock festival, a series of musical performances by a variety of artists, which generally take place over a number of days. Some festivals are singular events, while others recur annually in the same location. Occasionally, a festival will focus on a particular genre (e.g., folk, heavy metal, world music), but many attempt to bring together a diverse lineup to showcase a broad array of popular music trends.
Rock festivals had their origin in the jazz festivals held in Newport, Rhode Island, and in Monterey, California, in the 1950s. As the folk music revival spread in the early 1960s, the Newport Festival added a folk component, which gave birth to other folk festivals across the country. When the 1965 Newport Folk Festival allowed the Paul Butterfield Blues Band to play and to back up Bob Dylan, controversy over the appearance of electric instruments followed, but the shrewd commercial decision meant that, increasingly, electric performers appeared at these events. The roots of the all-rock festival can be found in the early days of the San Francisco scene, particularly in a 1965 benefit show held at the Ark, a club in Sausalito, California, and in several subsequent benefits for the San Francisco Mime Troupe organized by Bill Graham. Because by the mid-1960s most rock performers were self-contained acts, these festivals differed from earlier phenomena such as Dick Clark's Cavalcade of Stars, which generally presented a series of solo singers or vocal groups who worked with a single backing band.
Monterey, Woodstock, and beyond
The 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, held at the fairgrounds where the Monterey Jazz Festival was produced, was the first major rock festival, but its logistics, expense, and commercial failure deterred other American promoters from mounting similar events until the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, held in Bethel, New York, in 1969, became the prototype. Like Woodstock, many of the subsequent festivals were commercial disasters, which kept any single rock festival from becoming an annual event like the jazz festivals had become, and the Rolling Stones' unfortunate show at Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California, in 1969 (at which several people were beaten and one man stabbed to death) did nothing to improve their reputation. Another inhibiting factor was expense: because so many bands went unpaid by promoters, most who would be major attractions at a festival priced themselves out of the market. Only a trusted promoter like Graham, who presented the Watkins Glen (New York) Festival in 1973, could attract big names. In fact, it was Graham who hit on the most workable formula for a rock festival in the mid-1970s with his "Day on the Green" series at the Oakland (California) Coliseum; it was held in an enclosed area, which made it possible for the promoter to minimize gate crashing and the unauthorized sale of alcohol and drugs.
Of the post-Woodstock festivals, the Atlanta (Georgia) Pop Festival in 1969–70 was perhaps the most important to rock history; it packed the lower end of the bill with local groups and thereby invigorated the Southern rock movement of the 1970s. Rock festivals in the United States tapered off after about 1975, only to be revived in 1991 by Perry Farrell, the leader of the alternative rock group Jane's Addiction, who came up with a very successful formula based on the "Day on the Green" concept. Farrell's touring Lollapalooza event endeavoured to bring underground music to middle America by mixing large- and small-stage performances with political and cultural information booths. Genres represented in the Lollapalooza lineup typically included hip-hop, punk, ska, and shoegazer, although the headlining spot was generally reserved for an alternative or hard rock band that had achieved some degree of mainstream success. Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan launched Lilith Fair, an all-women festival that followed the Lollapalooza model, and Ozzy Osbourne collected heavy metal artists under the Ozzfest banner.
Woodstock inspired a pair of anniversary concerts in 1994 and 1999, but neither would have been mistaken for the generation-defining event of 1969. While the 1994 festival offered a lineup of classic and contemporary rock acts at a location near the original Woodstock site, the 1999 event was tied to the original by little more than name. Relocated to a decommissioned air force base in Rome, New York, Woodstock '99 featured none of the bands who had performed in 1969, and its musical achievements were overshadowed by the wave of arson and lawlessness that consumed the event's final night. In spite of this, Woodstock '99, which was attended by more than 200,000 people, demonstrated that fans were willing to travel great distances to experience music in a festival setting. Promoters seized upon this knowledge, and the "destination festival" became a fixture of the North American concert scene.
Destination festivals
The fires of Woodstock '99 were still fresh in the minds of observers when the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival debuted in Indio, California, in October 1999. Coachella gathered dozens of artists, boasted multiple main stages, and proved that destination festivals could be safe and financially successful. Other destination festivals were soon created: the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, in 2001; a reimagined Lollapalooza in Chicago in 2005; and the Pitchfork Music Festival (originally the Intonation Festival) in Chicago in 2006. South by Southwest (SXSW), an independent music conference launched in Austin, Texas, in 1987, had for all practical purposes become a destination festival by the early 21st century. Originally envisioned as a way to connect emerging artists with industry insiders, SXSW grew into a weeklong event that drew tens of thousands of musicians, journalists, label representatives, and fans.
Festivals in Europe and Japan
In Europe, destination festivals had been an essential part of the summer scene for decades, and good organization and payment of bands had always been part of the agenda. Every country has its important festivals, and rock bands tour the festival circuit each summer, just as jazz performers have done for years. Most European rock festivals are just star-studded, crowd-pleasing events, but Denmark's Roskilde Festival and France's Trans Musicales in Rennes, with their balance of big names and developing acts, became important career stepping-stones for international performers, and England's Glastonbury Festival became a cornerstone of the British rock scene for established acts and newcomers alike. England's Reading and Leeds festivals achieved new prominence in the 21st century, and the legendary Isle of Wight Pop Festival was resurrected in 2002. Elsewhere in the world, the Fuji Rock Festival, held in the shadow of Japan's Mount Fuji since 1997, showcased a selection of domestic and international acts.Ed Ward The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica


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Everything You Need To Know About College Life
Going to college can cause excitement and anxiety. http://mashreq.edu.sd / College life can be a great experience, but it can also cause fear before the first semester starts. If you come prepared, then you won't have to fear the new experiences. Knowing more about college can help take away any fears associated with college. That is what this article is about. Read on for some tips. When you are getting ready to go to college you should make a list of things that you need to take with you. Being prepared will make your experience much easier. This holds especially true if you are attending classes far from home. Do not take a test without first preparing all the materials you are going to need. Forgetting simple things such as calculators, notes or other tools, can reduce your success with the test and heighten your worries. Extras are not always available, so stay organized to avoid disaster. Learn all you can regarding your specified career field prior to picking your college. T


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Yesterday, naturalist Sir David Attenborough participated in a reddit AMA, answering questions from the reddit community. One thing that he revealed during the Q&A was the most upsetting thing he has witnessed in his career: chimpanzees hunting monkeys.
redditor GingerbreadHouses asked Attenborough:
Hello, Sir David! I remember feeling absolutely heartbroken watching the elephant calf die in Africa. What has been your most distressing/upsetting moment in your career?
To which Attenborough replied:
Seeing chimpanzees kill monkeys, they do this to eat them. They chase them, set an ambush, catch them, and tear them apart.
Up top is a video chimpanzees in Uganda hunting monkeys, from BBC's Life of Mammals (via nrrrdgrrl), and you can hear the alarm in Attenborough's voice as he narrates the sequence. Head over to reddit to read the rest of the AMA, including a portrait of Attenborough, courtesy of user Shitty_Watercolour.
I am Sir David Attenborough, I'm on reddit, AMA. [reddit via Boing Boing]


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EJB Query Language (EJB QL) is a portable query language that defines finder methods for 2.0 entity EJBs with container-managed persistence. Use this SQL-like language to select one or more entity EJB objects or fields in your query. You can create queries in the deployment descriptor for any finder method other than
findByPrimaryKey is automatically handled by the EJB container.
These sections describe EJB QL:
The deployment descriptors must define each finder query for EJB 2.x entity beans by using an EJB QL query string. You cannot use WebLogic Query Language (WLQL) with EJB 2.x entity beans. WLQL is intended for use with EJB 1.1 container-managed persistence. For more information on WLQL and EJB 1.1 container-managed persistence, see Using WebLogic Query Language (WLQL) for EJB 1.1 CMP.
WebLogic Server has an SQL-like language, called WebLogic QL, that extends the standard EJB QL. You define the
query in the
weblogic-cmp-jar.xml deployment descriptor using the
weblogic-ql element.
There must be a query element in the
ejb-jar.xml file that corresponds to the
weblogic-ql element in the
weblogic-cmp-jar.xml file. However, the value of the
weblogic-cmp-jar.xml query element overrides the value of the
ejb-jar.xml query element.
These topics provide guidelines for using the WebLogic QL extension to EJB 2.x QL:
The EJB WebLogic QL
upper and
lower extensions convert the case of arguments to allow finder methods to return results that match the characters in a search expression but not the case. The case change is transient, for the purpose of string matching, and is not persisted in database. The underlying database must also support
upper and
lower functions.
upper function converts characters in its arguments from any case to upper case before string matching is performed. Use the
upper function with an upper-case expression in a query to return all items that match the expression, regardless of case. For example:
select name from products where upper(name)='DETERGENT';
lower function converts characters in its arguments from any case to lower case before string matching is performed. Use the
lower function with a lower-case expression in a query to return all items that match the expression, regardless of case.
select type from products where lower(name)='domestic';
The EJB QL
ORDER BY clause is a keyword that works with the
Finder method to specify the CMP field selection sequence for your selections.
Example G-1 ORDER BY Showing Order by id
ORDER BY SELECT OBJECT(A) from A for Account.Bean ORDER BY A.id
You can specify an
ORDER BY with ascending [
ASC] or descending [
DESC] order for multiple fields as follows. If you do not specify an order,
ORDER BY defaults to ascending order.
WebLogic Server supports the use of the following features with subqueries in EJB QL:
Subquery return type
Aggregate functions
Beans with simple primary keys
Subqueries as comparison operands
Correlated subqueries
Uncorrelated subqueries
DISTINCT clauses with subqueries
The relationship between WebLogic QL and subqueries is similar to the relationship between SQL queries and subqueries. Use WebLogic QL subqueries in the
WHERE clause of an outer WebLogic QL query. With a few exceptions, the syntax for a subquery is the same as a WebLogic QL query.
To specify WebLogic QL, see Using the EJB 2.x WebLogic QL Extension for EJB QL. Use those instructions with a
SELECT statement that specifies a subquery as shown the following sample.
The following query selects all above average students as determined by the provided grade number:
SELECT OBJECT(s) FROM studentBean AS s WHERE s.grade > (SELECT AVG(s2.grade) FROM StudentBean AS s2)
In the above query the subquery, (SELECT AVG(s2.grade) FROM StudentBean AS s2), has the same syntax as an EJB QL query.
You can create nested subqueries.The depth is limited by the underlying database's nesting capabilities.
In a WebLogic QL query, the identifiers declared in the
FROM clauses of the main query and all of its subqueries must be unique. This means that a subquery may not re-declare a previously declared identifier for local use within that subquery.
For example, the following example is not legal because
EmployeeBean is being declared as emp in both the query and the subquery:
SELECT OBJECT(emp) FROM EmployeeBean As emp WHERE emp.salary=(SELECT MAX(emp.salary) FROM EmployeeBean AS emp WHERE employee.state=MA)
Instead, this query should be written as follows:
SELECT OBJECT(emp) FROM EmployeeBean As emp WHERE emp.salary=(SELECT MAX(emp2.salary) FROM EmployeeBean AS emp2 WHERE emp2.state=MA)
The above examples correctly declare the subquery's employee bean to have a different identifier from the main query's employee bean.
The return type of a WebLogic QL subquery can be one of a number of different types, such as:
Single cmp-field Type Subqueries
WebLogic Server supports a return type consisting of a
cmp-field. The results returned by the subquery can consist of a single value or collection of values. An example of a subquery that returns value(s) of the type
cmp-field is as follows:
SELECT emp.salary FROM EmployeeBean AS emp WHERE emp.dept = 'finance'
This subquery selects all of the salaries of employees in the finance department.
Aggregate Functions
WebLogic Server supports a return type consisting of an aggregate of a
cmp-field. As an aggregate always consist of a single value, the value returned by the aggregate is always a single value. An example of a subquery that return a value of the type aggregate (
MAX) of a
cmp-field is as follows:
SELECT MAX(emp.salary) FROM EmployeeBean AS emp WHERE emp.state=MA
This subquery selects the single highest employee salary in Massachusetts.
For more information on aggregate functions, see Using Aggregate Functions.
Beans with Simple Primary Key
WebLogic Server supports a return type consisting of a
cmp-bean with a simple primary key.
The following example illustrates a subquery that returns the value(s) of the type bean with a simple primary key:
SELECT OBJECT(emp) FROM EMployeeBean As emp WHERE emp.department.budget>1,000,000
This subquery provides a list of all employee in departments with budgets greater than $1,000,000.
Beans with compound primary keys are NOT supported. Attempts to designate the return type of a subquery to a bean with a compound primary key will fail when you compile the query.
Use subqueries as the operands of comparison operators and arithmetic operators. WebLogic QL supports subqueries as the operands of:
these comparison operators:
these arithmetic operators:
<, >, <=, >=, =, <> with ANY and ALL
[NOT]IN comparison operator tests whether the left-had operand is or is not a member of the subquery operand on the right-hand side.
An example of a subquery which is the right-hand operand of the
NOT IN operator is as follows:
SELECT OBJECT(item) FROM ItemBean AS item WHERE item.itemId NOT IN (SELECT oItem2.item.itemID FROM OrderBean AS orders2, IN(orders2.orderItems)oIttem2
The subquery selects all items from all orders.
The main query's
NOT IN operator selects all the items that are not in the set returned by the subquery. So the end result is that the main query selects all unordered items.
[NOT]EXISTS comparison operator tests whether the set returned by the subquery operand is or is not empty.
An example of a subquery which is the operand of the
NOT EXISTS operand is as follows:
SELECT (cust) FROM CustomerBean AS cust WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT order.cust_num FROM OrderBean AS order WHERE cust.num=order_num)
This is an example of a query with a correlated subquery. See Correlated and Uncorrelated Subqueries for more information. the following query returns all customers that have not placed an order.
SELECT (cust) FROM CustomerBean AS cust WHERE cust.num NOT IN (SELECT order.cust_num FROM OrderBean AS order WHERE cust.num=order_num)
Arithmetic Operators
Use arithmetic operators for comparison when the right-hand subquery operand returns a single value. If the right hand subquery instead returns multiple values, then the qualifiers
ANY or
ALL must precede the subquery.
An example of a subquery which uses the '=' operator is as follows:
SELECT OBJECT (order) FROM OrderBean AS order, IN(order.orderItems)oItem WHERE oItem.quantityOrdered = (SELECT MAX (subOItem.quantityOrdered) FROM Order ItemBean AS subOItem WHERE subOItem,item itemID = ?1) AND oItem.item.itemId = ?1
For a given
itemId, the subquery returns the maximum quantity ordered of that item. Note that this aggregate returned by the subquery is a single value as required by the '=' operator.
For the same given
itemId, the main query's
'=' comparison operator checks which order's
OrderItem.quantityOrdered equals the maximum quantity returned by the subquery. The end result is that the query returns the OrderBean that contains the maximum quantity of a given item that has been ordered.
Use arithmetic operators in conjunction with
ANY or
ALL, when the right-hand subquery operand may return multiple values.
An example of a subquery which uses
ANY and
ALL is as follows:
SELECT OBJECT (order) FROM OrderBean AS order, IN(order.orderItems)oItem WHERE oItem.quantityOrdered > ALL (SELECT subOItem.quantityOrdered FROM OrderBean AS suborder IN (subOrder.orderItems)subOItem WHERE subOrder,orderId = ?1)
For a given
orderId, the subquery returns the set of
orderItem.quantityOrdered of each item ordered for that
orderId. The main query's '>'
ALL operator looks for all orders whose
orderItem.quantityOrdered exceeds all values in the set returned by the subquery. The end result is that the main query returns all orders in which all
orderItem.quantityOrdered exceeds every
orderItem.quantityOrdered of the input order.
Since the subquery can return multi-valued results that they '>'
ALL operator is used rather then the
'>' operator.
WebLogic Server supports both correlated and Uncorrelated subqueries.
Uncorrelated Subqueries
Uncorrelated subqueries may be evaluated independently of the outer query. An example of an uncorrelated subquery is as follows:
SELECT OBJECT(emp) FROM EmployeeBean AS emp WHERE emp.salary> (SELECT AVG(emp2.salary) FROM EmployeeBean AS emp2)
This example of a uncorrelated subquery selects the employees whose salaries are above average. This example uses the '>' arithmetic operator.
Correlated Subqueries
Correlated subqueries are subqueries in which values from the outer query are involved in the evaluation of the subquery. An example of a correlated subquery is as follows:
SELECT OBJECT (mainOrder) FROM OrderBean AS mainOrder WHERE 10> (SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT subOrder.ship_date) FROM OrderBean AS subOrder WHERE subOrder.ship_date>mainOrder.ship_date AND mainOrder.ship_date IS NOT NULL
This example of a correlated subquery selects the last 10 shipped orders. This example uses the
NOT IN operator.
Keep in mind that correlated subqueries can involve more processing overhead the uncorrelated subqueries.
Use the
DISTINCT clause in a subquery to enable an SQL
SELECT DISTINCT in the subquery's generated SQL. Using a
DISTINCT clause in a subquery is different from using one in a main query because the EJB container enforces the
DISTINCT clause in a main query; whereas the
DISTINCT clause in the subquery is enforced by the generated SQL
SELECT DISTINCT. The following is an example of a
DISTINCT clause in a subquery:
SELECT OBJECT (mainOrder) FROM OrderBean AS mainOrder WHERE 10> (SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT subOrder.ship_date) FROM OrderBean AS subOrder WHERE subOrder.ship_date>mainOrder.ship_date AND mainOrder.ship_date IS NOT NULL
WebLogic Server supports arithmetic functions with WebLogic QL. To specify WebLogic QL, see Using the EJB 2.x WebLogic QL Extension for EJB QL. Use those examples with a SELECT statement that specifies an arithmetic function.
Table G-1 Arithmetic Functions
|Arithmetic Function
Returns the absolute value of a (int, double, or float) number.
Returns the value of
Returns the square root.
EJB QL arithmetic functions may not work with query parameters on DB2.
WebLogic Server supports aggregate functions with WebLogic QL. You only use these functions as
SELECT clause targets, not as other parts of a query, such as a
WHERE clause. The aggregate functions behave like SQL functions. They are evaluated over the range of the beans returned by the
WHERE conditions of the query
To specify WebLogic QL, see Using the EJB 2.x WebLogic QL Extension for EJB QL. Use those instructions with a SELECT statement that specifies an aggregate function as shown in the samples shown in the following table.
A list of the supported functions and sample statements follows:
|Aggregate Function
|Valid Argument Data Types
|Sample Statement
Returns the minimum value of this field.
This statement selects the lowest price for a tire of a given input size.
Returns the maximum value of this field.
This statement selects the maximum number of customers served by any single sales representative in Los Angeles.
Returns the average value of this field
This statement selects the Average Price of a book in the Computer Science category.
Returns the sum of this field.
This statement retrieves the total number of customers served by sales representatives in Los Angeles.
Returns the number of occurrences of a field.
This statement retrieves the number of closed deals for at least 1 million dollars.
In this release of WebLogic Server, you receive an
ObjectNotFoundException if all of the following are true:
your aggregate query uses the
MAX, or
MIN operator
the result type of the select method is a primitive
there are no values to which the aggregate function can be applied
In pre-9.0 releases of WebLogic Server, you received a return value of
0 when the above conditions were all true.
The SQL Specification requires queries that select individual fields along with aggregates to include a
GROUP BY clause.
You can return aggregate functions in ResultSets as described below.
WebLogic Server supports
ejbSelect() queries that return the results of multi-column queries in the form of a
java.sql.ResultSet. To support this feature, WebLogic Server allows you to use the
SELECT clause to specify a comma delimited list of target fields as shown in the following query:
SELECT emmp.name, emp.zip FROM EmployeeBean AS emp
This query returns a
java.sqlResultSet with rows whose columns are the values Employee's Name and Employee's Zip.
To specify WebLogic QL, see Using the EJB 2.x WebLogic QL Extension for EJB QL. Use those instructions with a query specifying a ResultSet as shown in the above query. Use those instructions with a SELECT statement that specifies an aggregate query like the samples shown in the following table.
ResultSets created in EJB QL can return
cmp-field values or aggregates of
cmp-field values, they cannot return beans.
In addition, you can create powerful queries, as described in the following example, when you combine
cmp-fields and aggregate functions.
The following rows (beans) show the salaries of employees in different locations:
Table G-3 CMP Fields Showing Salaries of Employees in California
Table G-4 CMP Fields Showing Salaries of Employees in Arizona
Table G-5 CMP Fields Showing Salaries of Employees in Texas
Each row represents a bean.
The following
SELECT statement shows a query that uses ResultSets and the aggregate function (
AVG) along with a
GROUP BY statement and an
ORDER BY statement using a descending sort to retrieve results from a multi-column query.
SELECT e.location, AVG(e.salary)
FROM Finder EmployeeBean AS e
GROUP BY e.location
The query shows the average salary of employees at each location in descending order. The number, 2, means that the
ORDER BY sort is on the second item in the
SELECT statement. The
GROUP BY clause specifies the
AVERAGE salary of employees with a matching
e.location attribute.
The ResultSet, in descending order is as follows:
You can only use integers as
ORDER BY arguments in queries that return ResultSets. WebLogic Server does not support the use of integers as
ORDER BY arguments in any Finder or
ejbselect() that returns beans.
WebLogic Server supports an EJB QL extension that allows you to pass INDEX usage hints to the Oracle Query optimizer. With this extension, you can provide a hint to the database engine. For example, if you know that the database you are searching can benefit from an ORACLE_SELECT_HINT, you can define an ORACLE_SELECT_HINT clause that will take ANY string value and then insert that String value after the SQL SELECT statement as a hint to the database.
To use this option, declare a query that uses this feature in the
weblogic-ql element in
weblogic-cmp-jar.xml. The
weblogic-ql element specifies a query that contains a WebLogic specific extension to the EJB-QL language.
The WebLogic QL keyword and usage is as follows:
SELECT OBJECT(a) FROM BeanA AS a WHERE a.field > 2 ORDER BY a.field SELECT_HINT '/*+ INDEX_ASC(myindex) */'
This statement generates the following SQL with the optimizer hint for Oracle:
SELECT /*+ INDEX_ASC(myindex) */ column1 FROM ....
In the WebLogic QL ORACLE_SELECT_HINT clause, whatever is between the single quotes (' ') is what gets inserted after the SQL SELECT. It is the query writer's responsibility to make sure that the data within the quotes makes sense to the Oracle database.
WebLogic Server uses a series of accessor methods. The names of these methods begin with set and get. WebLogic Server uses these methods to read and modify container-managed fields. These container-generated classes must begin with "get" or "set" and use the actual name of a persistent field defined in
ejb-jar.xml. The methods are also declared as
protected, and
Query interface contains both find and execute methods. The find methods work like standard EJB methods, in that they return EJBObjects. The execute methods work more like
Select statements in that you can select individual fields.
Query interface return type is a disconnected
ResultSet, meaning you access the information from the returned object the same way you would access it from a
ResultSet, except that the
ResultSet does not hold open a database connection.
Query interface's properties-based methods offer an alternate way of specifying settings particular to a query. The
QueryProperties interface holds standard EJB query settings while the
WLQueryProperties interface holds WebLogic-specific query settings.
Although the
Query interface extends
QueryProperties, the actual
Query implementation extends
WLQueryProperties so it can be safely cast, as in the example in Example G-3, which sets field group settings:
Example G-3 Setting Field Group Settings with WLQueryProperties
Query query=qh.createQuery(); ((WLQueryProperties) query).setFieldGroupName("myGroup"); Collection results=query.find(ejbql);
Query query=qh.createQuery(); Properties props = new Properties(); props.setProperty(WLQueryProperties.GROUP_NAME, "myGroup"); Collection results=query.find(ejbql, props);
If you have an existing application that uses EJB 1.1, your container-managed entity EJBs can use WLQL for finder methods. This section provides a quick reference to common WLQL operations. Use this table to map the WLQL syntax to EJB QL syntax.
Table G-6 Migrating from WLQL to EJB QL
|Sample WLQL Syntax
|Equivalent EJB QL Syntax
When an EJB QL query contains an implied cross product—as opposed to an explicit one—the EJB-QL query can return an empty result.
Consider this example query:
SELECT OBJECT(e) FROM EmployeeBean AS e WHERE e.name LIKE 'Joe' OR e.acct.balance < 100
This query references
AccountEJB, but
AccountEJB is not listed in the
FROM clause. The result of this query is identical to that of a query with
AccountEJB explicitly listed in the
FROM clause.
Compiler error messages in EJB QL provide a visual aid to identify which part of the query is in error and allow the reporting of more than one error per compilation.
When an error is reported, EJB QL indicates the location of the problem within these symbols: =>> <<=. These symbols are highlighted in red in the following sample compiler error report.
ERROR: Error from appc: Error while reading 'META-INF/FinderEmployeeBeanRDBMS.xml'. The error was:
EJB Name: FinderEmployeeEJB
Method Name: findThreeLowestSalaryEmployees
Parameter Types: (java.lang.String)
Input EJB Query: SELECT OBJECT(e) FROM FinderEmployeeBean e WHERE f.badField = '2' O
R (e.testId = ?1) ORDER BY e.salary
SELECT OBJECT(e ) FROM FinderEmployeeBean e
WHERE =>> f.badField <<= = '2' OR ( e.testId = ?1 ) ORDER BY e.salary
Invalid Identifier in EJB QL expression:
Problem, the path expression/Identifier 'f.badField' starts with an identifier: 'f'.
The identifier 'f', which can be either a range variable identifier or a collection member identifier,
is required to be declared in the FROM clause of its query or in the FROM clause of a parent query.
'f' is not defined in the FROM clause of either its query or in any parent query.
Action, rewrite the query paying attention to the usage of 'f.badField'.
If a query contains multiple errors, EJB QL is now capable of reporting more than one of these after a single compilation. Previously, the compiler could only report one error per compilation. Reporting of subsequent errors required recompilation.
The compiler is not guaranteed to report all errors after a single compilation.


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Bizarre growth and leaf color reported in the Dallas area indicates rosebushes are at risk
A symptom of rose rosette disease is growths at the end of a shoot called a witches' broom. The stubby, soft stems have elongated leaflets and the leaves are usually red.
By MARIANA GREENE
The Dallas Morning News
Published: 20 June 2012 04:27 PM
Howard Garrett and I have received several emails from readers asking what's wrong with their rosebushes. After Garrett, a longtime columnist for The Dallas Morning News, requested and received photos, he identified the problem as rose rosette disease.
I had not heard of it, but it disfigures and kills rosebushes. It is not a new disease, symptoms having been recognized in the United States in 1941. It was first identified in Texas in the 1990s, according to previously published reports. A tiny mite, invisible to the eye, transmits the disease, scientists know, "but they are not certain what the disease is," writes Garrett in an email. "Experts refer to it as a viral-like pathogen."
The most recognizable symptom is a growth at the end of a shoot called a witches' broom. This growth pattern produces stubby, soft stems with elongated leaflets; stems and leaves are usually red. Leaves will become deformed, crinkled and brittle with yellow mosaics and red pigmentation. Stems may show black blotches.
Cultivated roses show symptoms of thickened, succulent stems and a proliferation of thorns. The disease causes the plant to be exceptionally susceptible to freeze damage.
University scientists and other experts contend there is no cure. Untreated roses die within two years, so gardeners are advised to remove the entire bush, including its roots. The disease, scientists say, can persist in root pieces left behind from the diseased rose.
tt says he has heard only from a few readers and listeners to his radio show about infected roses, so he does not believe RRD is common or widespread. Dr. Mike Merchant, a Texas AgriLife extension entomologist in Dallas County, blogged about digging up his own roses last summer, due to RRD, on agrilife.org/citybugs.
Garrett, however, says he has seen prescribed organic treatments cure the disease and return a diseased bush to health.
"There is certainly a different route I would try before taking this give-up approach," Garrett writes. "I don't recommend taking the plants out before trimming the damaged growth out and at least trying the Sick Tree Treatment, just as we would for diseased trees.
"I have strong anecdotal evidence that a spray of 3 percent hydrogen peroxide will cure plants infected with viruses. We have seen it work on mosaic virus on squash and curly top on tomatoes."
Cut away the diseased stems and clean the tool's blades immediately using hydrogen peroxide (never bleach). The Sick Tree Treatment should be applied throughout any rose beds.
Choose one of these formulas:
To 1 gallon of Garrett Juice Plus add 8 ounces of 3 percent hydrogen peroxide (available at drug and grocery stores), 2 ounces of orange oil, and a fatty acid product. Spray the plants thoroughly
Spray straight 3 percent hydrogen peroxide on the plants during a cool part of the day, either early morning or dusk.
Spray the commercial product ICT Organics Natural Plant Protection, according to label directions.
The reader who sent the photos sprayed her roses and now reports healthy new growth.
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In our most recent class, Teaparker let us taste a young raw puerh he received from a rich Chinese connection from a luxurious tea room filled with (real) antiques and overseeing a beautiful lake. The cake looked nice with lots of rather big tips and a strong flowery scent. Did I mention it's supposedly made from leaves from a single tree?
wild raw spring 2003 Yiwu cake. Its taste is sweet, smooth and pure. The dry scents are faint, but they become alive in the brew. The aftertaste is very long and harmonious. It's naturally simple and delicious. It's getting more expensive with time, but here we have a rise that is justified by its improvement in taste. That's a solid foundation for real growth. Tea teaches you to disregard packaging, stories and price. What counts is the intrinsic quality of the taste and scents.


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Order tracking will be available and will be sent to you via an email which informs you that the order has left us. You can expect this despatch email to reach you up to 4 working days from placing your order (depending on your selection of delivery type).
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All US orders are shipped with DHL and are fully trackable. DHL will not deliver on Public Holidays.
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FSD - Chair of Flight System Dynamics
Head of the Institute
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Moormann
Fields of Study
Transportation Engineering (Aerospace Engineering)
Main Focus
Flight Mechanics, Automatic Flight Control, Flight Guidance, Spaceflight Dynamics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Autonomy
Research Focus
Main research of the institute is on design and evaluation of flight system dynamics, especially of unconventional and unmanned aerial vehicles:
- determination of flight mechanical characteristics by experiments with full-scale aircraft and with scaled models in wind tunnel and free-flight
- model building and simulation of flight dynamics and system dynamics including human pilot and operator
- optimization of flight control, flight guidance, mission control and automation towards autonomy
- development and design of system dynamics concepts for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) / unmanned aerial systems (UAS)
Facilities: Low-speed wind tunnel, Training-simulator, Research-simulator, Free-flight laboratory, Electronic and mechanical laboratory.
The Institute of Flight System Dynamics offers different lectures and exercises to the topics Flight Mechanics (Flight Dynamics, Flight Control, Flight Guidance, Flight Mechanics Laboratory, Simulator-based Flight Training, Flight Mechanical Design of a Micro Aerial Vehicles), Spaceflight Dynamics and also a Colloquium on Aerospace related topics.
IFD - Chair of Flight System Dynamics
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Welcome to Ireland's newest health Insurer, Irish Life Health. Bringing fresh options and innovation to the health insurance market.
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