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Handmade in Italy, the Amalfi Large Photo Album combines supple leather with subtle design features to create a simple, elegant photo album. The sweeping curves of the front flap coupled with the double strap wraparound closure adds a pleasing aesthetic to the chocolate brown album. With each page having a protective overleaf to shield your precious memories; this is the perfect album to store your photos for a lifetime.
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Waterfall Essential Oil Blend
Waterfall was originally developed for a Spa resort in Warburton, Victoria, and flowing through its high citrus notes is a sound vibration of a waterfall or running water. Therefore, the intent of this delightfully uplifting scent is to disperse all layers, or to release the load and wash stress away. It is a non-confronting scent to have at home or to burn where there are many people, as you don't have to be in a certain mood to enjoy it: like a waterfall, it has universal or popular appeal.
Synergy of jasmine, neroli, lemon myrtle, rosewood, grapefruit and sandalwood.

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One of the books I've consistently been recommended at the many conferences I've attended of late is Academically Adrift. In it, authors Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, two academics, analyze the American higher education system and focus on the quality of learning. Ultimately, they encourage universities to create college environments that enhance learning by concentrating on two essential functions of traditional colleges in the United States.
First, they make an argument that the moral (purpose-driven nature) of higher education needs to be restored. Their argument is not a "Christian" one. Rather, they suggest that purpose and meaning, absent in higher education for at least the last 40 years, needs to be reinvigorated. Students need to pursue purpose for both their own health and that of the culture.
The authors note that, historically, most colleges and universities in the United States have embraced both academic and moral education as an essential part of the mission of the institutions. Of recent days, though, they argue that American higher education "no longer has an adequate basis for establishing a consensus of moral values – other than support for diversity and mutual tolerance – and thus is in the midst of a moral crisis."
They quote frequently from psychologist William Damon, who examined purpose in his recent work The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their Calling in Life. Damon writes, "A growing number of adolescents lack a sense of purpose. Rather than embracing a deliberately chosen path to attain a set of valued goals, college students and other adolescents are argued increasingly to exist in prolonged states of 'directionless drift'" (quoted in Academically Adrift, p. 75.). Young people have not found "moral grounding" that anchors their ambitions in the tasks, behaviors and practices required to achieve the ends they view as meaningful. Youth today have been unable to develop a sense of purpose in their lives not only because of general changes in parenting and the larger culture, but because schools have turned away from accepting the responsibility for youth socialization and moral education. Damon suggests that questions of meaning and purpose have been squeezed out of the school day – questions that should underlie every academic exercise. Damon comments, "Our obsessive reliance on standardized test scores deters both teacher and students from concentrating on the real mission of schooling: developing a love of learning for learning's sake – a love that will lead them to self-maintained learning throughout the lifespan" (p. 126-127).
In this context, the authors note that it is important to remember that institutional and individual characteristics shape student lives in college. They suggest that, "although individual-level characteristics are a powerful determinant of many social choices, differing campus cultures influence which options are available or are more widely embraced" (p. 84).
With this premise, the authors stress the importance of residence life programs in forming the learning culture. Many institutions have followed a trajectory of developing single rooms – isolated apartment cultures that do not advance or encourage collaborative activity. In response to this model, the authors quote Lyman Wilbur, former president of Stanford, who noted that "when students are housed together there is developed a strong cooperative sense of loyalty and enthusiasm called the college spirit, which has a profound effect upon the development of the character of the students and upon the welfare of the institution" (p.128). The authors suggest that the residence halls should be designed today to advance learning and to "tie larger communal sentiments to the development of individual purpose and meaning in the lives of undergraduates" (p. 129).
I have worked with Brad Lau and our student life team for almost 12 years now. I was very encouraged when I read Academically Adrift because our student life team is dedicated to developing the type of collaborative community that Roksa and Arum describe. We try to structure our residence communities to reinforce and encourage a collaborative community of learning.
Second, Roksa and Arum focus on more formal learning, and they creatively suggest that learning in college is declining and has been so in American universities since the 1970s. They note, "Many students are not only failing to complete educational credentials; they are also not learning much, even when they persist through higher education" (p. 54). I know that is a pretty bold statement, but when I finished the book I was convinced that they were right.
According to the authors, the American higher education system is in crisis. Note this comment: "The typical student meets with faculty outside of the classroom only once per month, with 9 percent of students never meeting with faculty outside the classroom during the previous semester. Although 85 percent of students have achieved a B-minus grade point average or higher, and 55 percent have attained a B-plus grade point average or higher, the average student studies less than two hours a day. Moreover, half of students have not taken a single course that required more than 20 pages of writing, and approximately one-third have not taken courses that required more than 40 pages of reading per week during the prior semester" (p. 88).
In addition, they argue that students are increasingly placed in environments at our institutions that are not centered on learning. Students are encouraged to engage in all kinds of other activities outside the classroom that minimize their growth in academics. "Undergraduate education is fundamentally a social experience. In a recent study of undergraduate student culture at a Midwestern public university, Mary Grigsby notes that 70 percent of students reported that social learning was more important than academics. And while students did not completely disregard academics, they referred to it as work in contrast to social learning, which was regarded as fun" (p. 59).
Still, it would seem that the way we do things now is working fine. Why change? They argue that, for the first time in recent history, many other countries are graduating higher percentages of young people than the United States. When you consider only the most recent cohort of young adults in an analysis of global higher education, the United States finishes sixth. "They are now educating more of their citizens to more advanced levels than we are" (p. 123). In addition, although 90 percent of employers agree that written communication, critical thinking, and problem solving are very important in the labor market, only 1 in 4 believe that American colleges prepare students well in those areas (p. 143).
So, students have more freedom today, they are placed in environments that encourage focus outside the classroom, and the universities are generally organized for other purposes than learning. That is a rather significant indictment of American colleges. Did the authors find American colleges that actually encourage learning? Yes. What did the authors find that actually stimulates learning?
I don't think you'll be surprised at their findings. Arum and Ruksa found primarily that where faculty have high expectations students learn more. Further, universities at which faculty require more than 40 pages a week of reading and more than 20 pages of writing assignments during a semester experience significant increases in student learning performance. The bottom line is that students learn more when they study, and the impetus for study comes from the faculty (p. 93-94). Fascinating! Actual progress in learning is more closely identified with faculty focus and expectation than with technology, equipment or access to libraries. You need good libraries and equipment, but quality facilities do not necessarily enhance learning on your campus.
The authors define seven things that help determine learning: "student faculty contact, cooperation among students, active learning, prompt feedback (from faculty), time on task, high expectations, and respect for diverse talents and ways of learning" (p. 130). Ultimately, the authors note, all real learning is about culture. "Institutions need to develop a culture of learning if undergraduate education is to be improved. This is not an easy or an overnight process, but one that requires strong leadership . . . Setting student success, and learning in particular, as a priority provides guidance and focus for future action . . ." (p. 127). "We believe that one way for higher-education leaders to communicate a greater sense of institutional purpose is for them to articulate to their respective communities that colleges and universities need to take greater responsibility for shaping the developmental trajectories of students, and to prioritize these organizational goals in decision-making" (p. 127).
After reflecting on Academically Adrift, I am convinced that we are doing many of the right things. We need to continue to focus on learning as our primary goal. In that context, we also need to work to create a facility culture that encourages collaboration and community work among our students and faculty. It is my hope that George Fox will become known as a place where students grow spiritually and learn vibrantly!


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Latitude: 51.6965 / 51°41'47"N
Longitude: -3.0378 / 3°2'15"W
OS Eastings: 328370
OS Northings: 200259
OS Grid: SO283002
Mapcode National: GBR J4.46L9
Mapcode Global: VH79S.9MDB
Plus Code: 9C3RMXW6+HV
Entry Name: West Monmouth School
Listing Date: 28 August 1997
Last Amended: 28 August 1997
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 18841
Building Class: Education
Location: In Cwm Fields about 1000m west of Pontymoile roundabout.
County: Torfaen
Town: Pontypool
Community: Pontymoile (Llanfihangel Pont-y-moel)
Community: Pontymoile
Locality: Cwm Fields
Built-Up Area: Pontypool
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
A very large school built in 1897 by the Haberdashers Company and designed by Henry Stock FRIBA. It was developed from the similarly established school in Monmouth. It was built as a boys' private day and boarding grammar school, but became a local authority grammar in 1957 and a mixed comprehensive in 1982. There is a large detached Science Block built in 1934, and a considerable extension built in 1982.
A very large school built of hard red brick with stone bands and dressings, and with Welsh slate and lead roofs. The main block faces south and has additional blocks attached to the rear and to the north end. Three storeys with basement.
Main south elevation : This is in the Jacobethan style, on the E-plan with central projecting three storey porch and wings on either side. 2 : 3 : 2 : 3 : 2 bays, except that each section has three windows on the top floor. Basement and top floor windows are two over two sashes, the rest are two over four sashes; all excepting the central ones on the first and second floors which are opposite to the rest of the floor. The entrance is reached up steps which go from double to single, and have a polished granite plaque recording date, architect etc. on the front face. The door is within a stone porch with cusping in the head and carving above including the school and Haberdashers Company's arms supported by two goats rampant and motto SERVE AND OBEY. Above this is a paired window in a segmental head with central stone mullion. The gables on the outer bays are plain except for pinnacles and stone copings; that in the centre also has an elaborately carved face. The octagonal stair-towers are behind the outer wings on each side. The roofs are plain with tall brick stacks all now lacking pots. The lead roofs on the towers are panelled.
West wing : This projects forward of the main front and has two windows. Crow stepped gable to the front and to the side.
East wing : This stretches back from the right hand stair-tower and continues in the same character. There are three gables all in the same plane with a full height buttress up the face of each; and these have a paired window on either side. In addition there is a crow stepped gable on the end of the wing this has two smaller buttresses on the east face and is blind except for two samall windows on the ground floor. The north elevation has a paired window under a segmental head on the gorund floor and above it a very large window of four lights and two transoms each pane also dived in four. This is flanked by 2 four over four windows. This was clearly built as the Art Room.
Rear (Courtyard) elevations : These are all much plainer, and nearly all the windows are three over twelve with top opening lights, but some are smaller. Several small gables at eaves level.
This is very little altered apart from some partitioning and almost ubiquitous false ceilings. The classrooms have dado vertical boarding; the one significantly different one is the old Art Room at the north end of the east wing. The Boardroom, now the Headmaster's Study, is panelled and has several built in trophy cabinets. The Hall remains unaltered with a coffered ceiling supported on transverse beams on brackets. Dado panelling, balcony on large console brackets, and there is a WWI Memorial stained glass window as a later addition. The tower staircases are concrete and the attic rooms, originally dormitories are largely unaltered.
Included as an unusually large and well detailed late C19 school.
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Four semifinalists in direct speech
After this Saturday's matches, we got to listen to the protagonists of the day.
David Goffin
"It was a tough match and that was exactly what I needed. A great fight, with great intensity. We both had chances to win, but was a little bit better in the end. There were not many points where I could make the difference, in a match where the ascendant has changed many times. I've had opportunities, mas he saved them all with a wonderful tennis.
It's been a positive week for me. I came to gather some pace. I've had three matches and I played well today, despite losing."
Stefanos Tsitsipas
"I just loved the match today, it was really tough and proved once again that I like this kind of challenges and I'm capable of producing good results under pressure. It was hard to believe I still could win the match while I was facing break points in the third set, and I managed to saved them. From that moment on, I was born again. I feel like I'm getting better dealing with adverse situations.
He played really well, returned at his best level and put a lot of pressure on me because he was stepping on the baseline, a different tactic then the ones he used when we met for the last times."
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
"It's been an incredible week, one of the best of my my life. Pablo (Cuevas) was really consistent was I was really tired because of the match against Monfils and that caused great damage. I tried everything to beat him, but I couldn't make it."
Pablo Cuevas
"It's been an atypical week: I finished my participation at ATP 250 Budapest Friday around 7 pm and took an early flight to Portugal in the following morning so I could be playing here in the afternoon. Winning that first match gave me the possibility of playing qualifying's last round, which later on gave the possibility of entering the final draw as a lucky loser. Then, I got to face precisely the player who had beaten me in the qualifying, which is something that doesn't happen often. The truth is that I am really enjoying this week. It's being a long way, but I'm happy to stay until the last day, witch chances of becoming champion.
Fokina also came to this match after many hours on court over the week. I noticed he was starting to feel less comfortable after I took the lead in the second set, and that made me feel a little bit more calm and also made me forget about my physical condition. I realized that I was in worst shape than I was. So I rolled up the sleeves and I knew I had to be consistent and withstand the moment."
The winners of the day also made their predictions for this Sunday's final.
Stefanos Tsitsipas
"Cuevas is going to be a tough test for me. He is a clay court specialist and has won too many great players in this surface, so he knows what he needs to do. I'll have to learn how to deal with his game plan.
I remember we faced each other in Antwerp. I played really well, but it was in an indoor hard court, which is different. I won't even think about that match, it's like it never happened. He is a different player on clay courts, where he has probably played five times more than I have.
I hope this Sunday I can do the same Sakari did (won her career's first title in Rabat). It would sort of a "Greek combo".
Pablo Cuevas
"Tsitsipas is a really young player, mas his short career has a lot of experience within it. One's age isn't the only thing that makes one experienced, but also the level of play one can produce. It's going to be a tough match, he is one of the best players on tour and he usually plays really well in clay courts. I think I have enough tennis to face him and beat him. Now it's time to take a rest so I can be confident and well prepared for a complicated match that obviously I want to win.
Before Budapest I had also played a challenger in Tunes, where I had many matches, but that also gives me confidence to win matches. I remember something Nadal said long ago: 'You're tired when you lose; It's harder to be tired when you win'. In the last six months of 2018, I almost didn't win a match, and that was when I was feeling tired and thinking of giving up. But now I'm happy and in shape. Yes, I'm tired. But the will to win is greater than that".


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He stood on the top of the world when he reached the peak of Mount Everest in 2010 at the tender age of 13, but Jordan Romero thinks he can still scale to new heights in 2011.
Romero, now 14, is the youngest person to climb the world's tallest mountain, and he's attempting another record-setting year. His sights are set in reaching the peak of Mount Vinson, Antarctica's highest point.
If he succeeds, he'll be the youngest person to climb the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents.
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Jordan Romero at the summit of the Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia, Sept. 2, 2009.
"I just wanted to do this at a young age and for that I feel really lucky," Romero said about possibly completing the Seven Summits circuit.
"What I believe in is somebody climbing for the right reason and that's for the experience, not for records," he told AOL News.
He's not alone in his quest to finish the Seven Summits tour. His father, Paul Romero, and his father's girlfriend, Karen Lundgren, formed a traveling mountaineering family in 2006 when they climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the first of their continental conquests.
During the southern hemisphere's summer in December, the trio departed for the 16,050-foot Mount Vinson, which is not as difficult to climb as Mount Everest or Denali in Alaska, North America's highest point. However, the polar location poses unique challenges, Romero said.
"The logistics of getting there is the most difficult part," the younger Romero said. "That's what makes this mountain the most difficult to get to and perhaps the most expensive one as well."
The new year will be a busy one for Romero even before he launches the three-to-five-week expedition to Antarctica. The ninth-grader from Big Bear Lake, Calif., plans to crisscross the country, climbing the highest mountain in every state as part of a campaign to encourage kids to exercise and enjoy the outdoors.
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The Everest Himalayan range in Nepal. At 13 years old, Jordan Romero became the youngest person ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 22, 2010.
"I'm really stoked about touring all 50 states. We're giving presentations to schools and clubs. We're going around to get the message to kids across the nation to go outdoors," he told AOL News.
A ski bum in the making, Romero wants to eventually study ski-area management in college. He also likes mountain-biking, kayaking and any other adrenaline-packed activity.
"You look at the youth today -- it's all about video games, soda and not doing stuff with family," said Romero. "For me it's been the opposite. I don't drink soda. I've never really owned video games in my whole life. We're just about spending time together as a family."
The physical feats and outdoor lifestyle also led to commercial success for Romero. Sporty products, like the natural energy drink FRS made him a spokesman, and he was promoting the beverage on New Year's Eve atop the company's billboard in Times Square in New York City.
Don't expect Romero to grow roots in a crowded, urban setting.
"I'd probably go crazy with all the cars and the city. I want to be in mountains with the snow," he said before ringing in the New Year.
Critics attacked Romero, his father and Lundgren in their quest for high-elevation dominance, especially last year's ascent of Everest, where deaths are not uncommon, and the body's limits are tested in the thin oxygen above 26,000 feet.
"It is totally against the spirit of true mountaineering. This sounds like it's about mass marketing, money and it's verging on child abuse," said David Hillebrandt, medical adviser to the British Mountaineering Council, The Guardian reported last April.
But the youngster brushed off the naysayer.
"Age does not definitely matter, but I would not recommend all young kids to wake up and say 'Hey, I want to go climb Mount Everest. It took me four or five years of climbing other mountains, and a lot of training," said Romero.
"If you think you are prepared and you have a really good team and your parents are behind you, then go for it," he added.
Since he climbed Everest last April from the Tibetan side of the mountain, the Chinese government imposed an 18-year minimum age to get permission to climb. On the other side of Everest in Nepal, the minimum age is 16, so Romero's record could stand for some time -- not that it matters to him.
"The record is something I could really care less about. If a kid were to break my record," Romero said, "Kudos to the kid."


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In 2012, with Hurricane Sandy barrelling up the US east coast, the MIT Sloan Executive Education team was in a quandary. They could cancel the on-campus session starting the morning Sandy was due to hit Boston, but many of 100 or so course participants had already arrived. The solution was for those unable to make it to attend in virtual reality.
Once the physical classroom, in a hotel meeting room in Boston, was connected with a virtual classroom, those not there in person could participate using avatars and a live video feed from the meeting room.
A virtual roving microphone in the virtual classroom allowed the avatars to speak to people in the physical classroom, who could watch their fellow participants in the virtual classroom via large screens set up in the hotel room.
The experiment was a success. "The faculty and participants in the physical classroom thought this was interesting," says Peter Hirst, associate dean of executive education at MIT Sloan School of Management. "It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try something out that might have been difficult to persuade people to do otherwise."
Sloan now regularly uses avatars and virtual classrooms as online learning tools and it is not alone. Since last year, Stanford Graduate School of Business has offered a virtual reality experience to distance-learning students on its LEAD certificate programme.
So far, says Peter DeMarzo, faculty director for educational technology at Stanford, it has proved a useful addition to other forms of virtual communication. "We also use [online conferencing tools] Google Hangouts and Adobe Connect," he says. "But we find there's something unique about having a virtual three-dimensional space we can interact in."
Within the virtual environment, students can take their avatars to work on team projects before returning to the main space to report back to the rest of the class.
While the platforms used by Stanford and MIT Sloan do not offer superheroes or fantasy characters as avatars, students do have the option of changing certain things about themselves.
"My former boss came in to one of our programmes," says Mr Hirst. "She's a short, dark-haired lady and in the virtual world, she was a 6ft blonde."
Other features include proximity-based audio, which allows students to move to another part of a virtual room and have a conversation that others cannot hear. "That turns out to be really helpful in debates," says Mr Hirst.
Nevertheless, virtual reality is more applicable to certain parts of the business course than others. "It lends itself to topics that rely on soft skills," says Mr Hirst. "Learning how to calculate net present value [can be done] more effectively in a more traditional online learning environment."
And the technology has limitations, particularly as it requires high-speed broadband. "Virtual reality is a high-calorie network experience," says Ashita Saluja, a senior manager at Salesforce Marketing Cloud and a Stanford LEAD executive programme participant. "But in executive education, it's normal to be in a meeting in a hotel or at an airport — and there you're not talking great internet connections."
Ms Saluja also found that some adapted to the virtual environment more quickly than others. "There's a discomfort and people's barriers to getting over that varies," she says.
For one school, virtual reality was an interesting experiment but did not prove to be its most effective tool. After two years using avatars, Lake Forest Graduate School of Management decided to phase them out.
The principle reason, explains Bryan Watkins, vice-president and chief academic officer, was that the Illinois-based school relies entirely on business practitioners, rather than full-time members of staff, for its faculty and students wanted to see their professors on video rather than as avatars.
"Students wanted more interaction with the faculty," he says.
Nevertheless, some have found that virtual reality is an effective way for students who are separated geographically to come together.
"Traditional videoconferencing is great for presentation and having students respond to the presenter," says Fernando Contreras, associate director for extended learning at Stanford Graduate Business School. "But there's a higher engagement between the participants in the virtual environment."
For Ms Saluja, a visit to Stanford for one of the face-to-face sessions revealed another more unexpected benefit to having spent time in the virtual reality environment. "It was so easy to find my way around the actual campus," she recalls. "Because I already knew it through the virtual campus."
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How to clear contents of combo box with VBA code in Excel?
Normally, you can clear contents of a combo box by clearing the Input Range list data. But how about clearing contents of all combo boxes in an Excel worksheet? This article prepares two VBA codes to help you not only clear contents of a combo box but also clear contents of all combo boxes at the same time in an Excel worksheet.
Easily clear contents of combo box by VBA code
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Easily clear contents of combo box by VBA code
The below two VBA codes can help you clear contents of a combo box or all combo boxes in active worksheet. Please do as follows.
1. In the worksheet you need to clear contents of a combo box, please press the Alt + F11 keys at the same time to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, click Insert > Module. Then copy below VBA code into the Code window.
VBA 1: Clear contents of a combo box in worksheet
Sub ClearAComboBox() ActiveSheet.Shapes.Range(Array("Drop Down 2")).Select With Selection .ListFillRange = "" End With End Sub
Note: In the code, "Drop Down 2" is the name of the combo box you will clear contents from. Please change it to your own.
VBA 2: Clear contents of all combo boxes in active worksheet
Sub ClearComboBox() Dim xOle As OLEObject Dim xDrop As DropDown Application.ScreenUpdating = False For Each xOle In ActiveSheet.OLEObjects If TypeName(xOle.Object) = "ComboBox" Then xOle.ListFillRange = "" End If Next For Each xDrop In ActiveSheet.DropDowns xDrop.ListFillRange = "" Next Application.ScreenUpdating = True End Sub
3. Press the F5 key or click the Run button to run the code.
Then you can see contents are cleared in the specified combo box or all combo boxes in the active worksheet as below screenshot shown:
Note: the VBA codes can be applied to both Combo Box (Form Control) and Combo Box (ActiveX Control).
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We do things a little differently here at Imagery Winery. For example, you probably won't find us pouring your usual California Chardonnay; not that we don't love Chardonnay, we just think it's been done (and done well) by a lot of Sonoma wineries. What you will find are far more rare and interesting varietals such as Petite Sirah, Viognier and Lagrein. We make these special wines in small lots and we source them from special vineyards such as our Upper Ridge Vineyard located about an hour North of the winery in the Pine Mountain / Cloverdale Peak AVA.
As anyone who has visited our winery knows, your taste won't be the only sense attracted to Imagery. Over the past couple decades, we have amassed a huge collection of original artwork commissioned from artists and displayed on our labels. Many of the original pieces hang in our tasting room and gallery so our guests can enjoy them while sipping our wines, click here to enjoy them while browsing the internet.
There are some great stories behind these pieces of art, and some even better ones behind the wines. We plan to post those stories here, along with some interesting tidbits about the people who make it happen and some helpful tips on pairing our wines. We hope you'll come back often to learn more about Imagery Estate Winery. Remember, even if you can't pronounce the name of the wine, doesn't mean you can't enjoy it.


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Courtesy of Drew Magazine. Article originally appeared in the Spring 1996 edition, by Sara Nuss-Galles
Confirmed vegetarian Matthias Beier had not planned to experience American cuisine at the local Burger King. Certainly when he came from Germany, the Ph.D. candidate in religion and society didn't anticipate that he would sacrifice moral convictions to research. He enrolled in Drew's Newark Project intent on delving into the relationship between racial issues and economics. "I was interested to see how European-Americans responded to being a minority and whether there is some racial connotation in the division between rich and poor," he recalls.
To explore his thesis, the Newark Project placed Beier in the primarily white North Reformed Church in the largely non-white city. The moral battle ensued, however, when homeless participants in the church's Jug and Loaf Program "invited me to accept a voucher and join them at Burger King."
Beier was pleased to accept the men's overture until he discovered the vouchers could only be used for hamburgers. Wrestling with his conscience, he concluded that, the more he blended in, the more effective his experience would be: "So I made the great sacrifice of Sunday Whoppers."
The weekly gatherings prompted not only a change of his diet but also a refocus in this thesis to the relationship between socioeconomics and religious life. More important, trading stories over a burger and fries helped the student/minister forge friendships with the homeless men. "Many homeless people have great gifts; they are fighters," he came to realize. "But they don't have the institutional power to change the infrastructure."
The group particularly impressed Beier with their ideas for surmounting poverty during an intense Bible class discussion. Praising their acuity, he then posed a challenge: "But I don't know what you do all week long when you leave here." That comment provoked the group to strategize about building a community, an exercise Beier believes will empower them.
By placing participants in real-life situations, the Newark Project offers graduate students like Beier meaningful research opportunities. At the same time, the Project teaches seminarians how to be ministers in an urban center, explains Project Director Karen McCarthy Brown. Brown's commitment to field education sustains the Newark Project, which was launched in 1993 with grants from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund and The Prudential Foundation. The heart of the Project, she says, lies in doing just what Beier has done, forming friendships with groups and individuals.
As an integral component in these nascent relationships, "field faculty" hired by the professor of sociology and anthropology of religion provide knowledge and access to the community. They include a dean of a community college, leaders in health care and religion, and business people, who share their expertise and function as indigenous researchers.
In that role, Rev. Elizabeth Kaeton, Episcopal minister of Newark's House of Prayer, shepherds M.Div. students through the complex world of HIV and AIDS. By apprenticing themselves to patients, students encounter "racism, homophobia, sexism, poverty, and hunger. Because of the population affected, everything is there," Kaeton explains.
By using an "action-reflection" model, students experience urban ministry firsthand, Kaeton explains, then reflect on those experiences and their readings in the classroom. As the Project makes "religion relate to people's lives," the pastor has observed that students "begin to question the nature of charity and find ways to revolutionize the system. I can see seeds being planted for a new style of leadership in the church ... to change systematic problems in how church and government deal with poverty and homelessness."
Brown stresses that relationships fostered by the Project must be reciprocal. "We don't want to make sectors of the Newark population into objects of our scholarly gaze," she explains, "or to interfere with the serious work of social service agencies by placing untrained students in them."
The Project's AIDS legacy work clearly illustrates reciprocity in action. Last year's student participants worked exclusively with mothers. The women commonly feared that they would die and their children would forget they ever had mothers who loved them. So, in addition to providing willing ears and emotional support, the students took photographs and recorded oral histories. After transcribing the stories verbatim, the students compiled them in albums for the clients and, ultimately, their children.
"As far as I'm concerned, I met an angel," second-year M.Div. student Tood Jordan asserts of client Nadine Haskins. Despite her initial nervousness, the thirty-ish mother of three "was a lot more articulate than she thought," says Jordan. During visits in her apartment and occasionally in the hospital, Haskins shared a life lived against a backdrop of abuse, poverty, violence, drugs, and AIDS. "Nadine wants her name and story told so that people can know what's going on," Jordan explains.
Fleeing an abusive mother, Haskins lived on the streets. She danced in topless bars at 15, got pregnant at 16, yet always did "what she had to, to make sure her kids were taken care of," Jordan says. Listening to his client, he "realized how geographic and socioeconomic factors affect lives. Things that were unthinkable where I grew up are everyday for her."
When Jordan presented the transcription, Haskins was moved to tears. "She felt good that her condition might help others," Jordan recalls, and was honored that "someone actually took the time to listen to her. What I gave was an ear; what I got..." he says, pausing with a deep sigh, "I was moved spiritually; my perspectives were widened."
Beauty Maenzanise's progress with her HIV-positive client was more gradual. In fact, she admits that, initially, she was as skeptical of the relationship as her client was reluctant. "She didn't trust that I could keep confidential information," Maenzanise relates, even accusing that "some people just come to learn but don't want to share." The mother of three's reticence deepened when she learned that Maenzanise was a pastor. Unaccepted by many denominations because of her HIV status, the woman had grown wary of religion.
Maenzanise, too, had inhibitions to overcome. In her native Zimbabwe, the pastor says people avoid dealing with diseases like AIDS. That background made helping her client both "challenging and empowering." In time, "I accepted her as she is, and she accepted me," Maenzanise reports. "Now she calls me her pastor."
Kaeton relates that feedback from clients, "people who have been mostly ignored by organized religion" has been strong. Participants at HIV/AIDS support sessions recently greeted her with "How do I get onto this list?" and "Hey, I want me a seminarian, too." Knowing that "their stories are being heard makes them feel connected," Kaeton explains, "and that is very powerful." Usually, Brown adds, "people listen to policy setters, to caregivers, but not to the people affected. We are."
An interest in adolescent pregnancy prompted student Kathleen Bishop to conduct her Project field work at a Planned Parenthood clinic last year, sitting in on counseling sessions, learning the issues. This year the graduate student works with "at risk adolescents" at a satellite mental health clinic in a Catholic school.
"As a scholar," she says. "I'm trying to understand the context in which adolescent pregnancy occurs." However, she points out that her work is not pure research since she also functions as a therapist, "advising and hearing their personal stories, the challenges of being a high school kid in an urban school."
Bishop has observed an inordinate gap between when girls first suspect pregnancy and when they confirm their suspicion with a doctor's visit. "They wait until it is too late to prevent and too late for prenatal care... increasing the risk of delivering an unhealthy baby, as well as the fi9nancial and psychological risk of having a baby they can't care for."
Bishop's mandate as the Catholic school's sexuality educator "is not to present the options of birth control or abortion." She admits, however, "If they ask me, I can tell them. These kids are so at risk, I don't face a lot of opposition."
The "extremity" work these students engage in is not for everyone. Thus, the Newark Project offers options. Those who prefer to stay on campus can choose among courses that integrate facets of the Project within the curriculum. For instance, a theodicy class brings speakers to have AIDS to campus for case studies, and students may or may not follow up with further involvement.
Students may also join walking and van tours providing overviews of the city. Led by Project administrator Peter Savastano, a native of Newark's North Ward, the exploration of Newark's nooks and crannies provides experiential perspective as well as two generations of fascinating lore. "I remember when there were no shopping malls and everyone would come here to shop if they didn't want to go to New York," he recalls, pointing out schools he attended and clandestine spots where he and his friends caroused their teens away. "Movie theaters, restaurants, you could pretty much find it in Newark."
Snaking through the city's front and back roads, the Ph.D. candidate in religion segues smoothly from the imposing Tiffany silver factory turned condos to the stone-fences monastery occupied by an order of cloistered nuns. Sill, painful realities abound; abandoned buildings, rubble strewn lots, seemingly aimless people on street corners.
From the sanctuary of a van, M.Div. student Masahiko Sagara seems stunned by the pervasive barbed wire and wrought iron enclosures erected by residents in often futile attempts at security. "How difficult the daily lives are," he observed. "Security is a crucial thing we all need for harmony."
For some, the tours are knowledge enough. For others, they are merely an introduction. Graduate students interested in ethnography can delve deeper by participating in a walking census of Newark's burgeoning religious life. Assigned sections, they walk every city block, writing and recording on film and tape all evidence of religion observed. Besides traditional manifestations, students document any spiritual expression, including fortune tellers, Tai Chi parlors, tarot card readers, lawn altars, monuments, even signs and bumper stickers.
The walking census is part of a larger religious mapping project, Brown says, that seeks to "chart the full spectrum of religious expression in a contemporary urban environment and consider how the dimensions of the pictures work together." The endeavor includes exploration of nontraditional spirituality. For example, Brown says the students have learned that people with AIDS, prompted by feelings of disaffection, often formulate their own rituals. Their funerals, which tend to mix religious traditions, take place in rented halls, away from churches that have been unwelcoming.
The young have also been found to embrace the non-traditional. When a young person is killed, Brown relates, friends commonly paint a memorial wall where they light candles, bring flowers, and hold services. Needing more intimate expressions of grief, friends even tattoo memorials for the deceased on their bodies.
Religious mapping often reveals the unexpected. Students have learned, for example, that the largest single group of Episcopalians in Newark hail from Liberia. Mapping also illustrates "multiple religious allegiances," according to Brown. Ghanians, for instance, largely attend Presbyterian and Methodist Churches, but perform private ceremonies from their traditional religions. Likewise, many Haitians practice Catholicism and baptize their children, then have Vodou ceremonies to heal problem areas of their life, such as job loss and love. Home based religions including Santeria, Epiritismo, and Palo Monte also thrive in Newark, but locating them requires an in, which students try to cultivate.
Beyond these spiritual explorations, the Newark Project affords uncommon opportunities for students to work within their own ethnic groups. Ph.D. candidate Gye Ho Kim lived with a Korean immigrant family for three days. Up buying produce at 5 am, the immigrants regularly worked in their grocery store until 10 pm. Too exhausted to play with their children, who had been under a sitter's care all day, the couple arrived home, "cooked, ate, and went to bed."
"Their everyday life is hard," Kim recalls, citing, "the language barrier, totally different customs, and problems with customers who are mostly black." Despite recurring shoplifting, the grocer told Kim, "my customers are not bad." He pointed out that blacks and Koreans had similar backgrounds of struggle and colonization: "If we understood each other, the problem would be much reduced."
Kim relates that bureaucratic procedure often perplexes the immigrants. In one instance, the grocer asked Kim to accompany him to court in response to a legal summons. The man had amassed numerous parking violations, and, daunted by the settlement process, he ignored the tickets and owed hundreds of dollars in fines.
Perhaps avoiding further governmental red tape and the expenses involed with on-the-book employees, the grocers hired all undocumented workers, according to Kim. Generous and kind to their all-Hispanic staff, the couple managed to keep them despite a competitor's offer of more money. Such competition however, ultimately forced the grocers to close shop, Kim says. "The major reason they emigrated was to give their children opportunity," he reflects. "It wasn't working for them."
The experience taught the minister the heightened significance of the church in Koreans' lives after they leave their homeland. "The church is extended family. Everybody speaks Korean; they get information and take care of each other." Hr also discovered that "the Korean minister's main job is to introduce new immigrants to jobs and housing."
Documentation of field work such as Kim's, transcriptions of oral histories, and the trove of religious, social, political, and economic data gathered from the Newark Project
are being archived on campus. Hereafter, students and researchers seeking information on urban population issues and, specifically, Newark will find a wealth at hand.
Brown believes the Project's findings prove those who have been raising alarms about religion "are dead wrong. A number of years ago sociologists predicted the waning of religious influence." Instead, she asserts, "there has been a rebirth, but not where it was expected; spiritual energy is teeming throughout the city."
Savastano, too, recognizes this energy. He hypothesizes that "issues of violence, crime, and AIDS almost necessitate a response, affirmative or negative, raising traditional questions of why, wherefore, and how come. Grassroots level theologizing comes directly out of peoples' experience ... rather than from the top down."
To that point, students visiting Newark for the first time express amazement at the sheer quantity of storefront churches, often several on a single block. "Churches can empower and ease some of the disease, it's possible," graduate student Monica Shumate reflected on a van tour. Then, her voice trailed off, "But it doesn't always happen that way." To make churches more effective, Newark Project participants have found that church leaders must bridge the chasm that exists between rich and poor, black and white.
Early on in his meetings with the people in the Jug and Loaf program, for example, Matthias Beier sensed an unease within the general church community: "Some members were concerned everything would be given to the poor" and their traditional programs would suffer. Gradually, Beier saw those fears allayed by the parish ministers' unswerving commitment to the destitute and by seeing the homeless folks succeed.
Todd Jordan, too, continues to work hard plugging gaps widened by differences in class and race. A parishioner recently brought her visiting mother to services at the African American church where Jordan serves as pastor this year. "Who's that white man up there?" the elderly woman kept asking. Eventually realizing that her mother meant Jordan, the daughter replied, "That's no white man, that's Minister Todd."
Courtesy of Drew Magazine. Article originally appeared in the Spring 1996 edition, by Sara Nuss-Galles


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Some of the best journalism schools in the country are on the list of this year's award winners from the Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education. The Meek School is on that list, too, thanks to Prof. LaReeca Rucker.
The Challenge fund seeks to encourage the "teaching hospital model" in journalism education, which involves hands-on, experiential learning in the classroom. Rucker's student-run news service, Oxford Stories, is designed to give those in introductory journalism classes an opportunity to get published.
"Thanks to our news partners, we were able to create something unique in college journalism with OxfordStories.net that, as far as I know, has not been done before in the state," said Rucker. "It has been fun being part of the program's evolution over the past two years."
Launched in the fall of 2015 as a website where University of Mississippi journalism students could publish their work and share it on social media, Oxford Stories first teamed with The Oxford Eagle and HottyToddy.com, providing exclusive content for both publications. Student stories were reprinted in the newspaper and on the website, respectively. OxfordStories.net later added The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal and The Oxford Citizen as partners.
Other schools winning challenge grants include the University of Southern California-Annenberg, University of Georgia, University of Miami, Ohio University and Michigan State University.
Rucker says she hopes students at the Meek School will learn about the power of journalism through their work on the site.
"I emphasize to students that small work can be big. They never know who their stories will touch," Rucker said. "A woman might read one of their stories about a cancer survivor and decide to schedule an appointment for a mammogram that saves her life. Another person might read a story about a creative teacher and be inspired to become one, positively influencing the lives of hundreds of students as a result.
The award comes with a $35,000 grant to expand the program, and Rucker hopes other faculty and students will help grow and improve the project.
"We want our small Oxford Stories to have a big impact throughout the state, and one of our goals is to reach out to other publications statewide to help get student work published and operate as a fully functioning student news wire service. This is what we hope to realistically accomplish."


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- For another variant, see KG M-21.
The Browning Automatic Rifle is an American light machine gun found in every World War II installment of the Call of Duty series, as well as in Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Call of Duty and United OffensiveEdit
- "The Browning automatic rifle is a squad support weapon, used to lay down accurate suppression fire at enemy positions. It is most effective when used while prone."
- — Call of Duty manual description.
In Call of Duty and Call of Duty: United Offensive, the BAR is generally hard to find, but is very powerful, capable of killing with one hit at any range. Because of this and its easy to use iron sights, it is a fairly effective long range weapon. It also has a relatively high magazine capacity of twenty. It has fairly high recoil, but its already somewhat low rate of fire allows for very easy tap-firing. As it is already fairly hard to find, ammunition can get to be very scarce throughout the campaign. It has fast-auto and slow-auto firing modes; when found it is normally on the latter firing mode.
The BAR is issued to the Americans in multiplayer, it is fairly powerful, capable of killing an enemy with one shot to the head or two to the chest, or two to the head and three to the chest at maximum range in Call of Duty: United Offensive. Its primary flaw is the small magazine, which is not as large as the comparable MP-44, therefore may force the player to reload more often.
Call of Duty: Finest Hour Edit
- "The Browning automatic rifle is a squad support weapon, used to lay down accurate suppression fire at enemy positions. It is most effective when used while prone."
- — Manual description
The BAR returns in Call of Duty: Finest Hour and has the same sights as the M1 Garand, and will down an enemy in two-five shots, depending on the range. It is available in all of the American missions except for "Come Out Fighting", and ammunition is plentiful.
Call of Duty 2Edit
The BAR is a fairly rare weapon, but is quite powerful and much easier to find than in the original Call of Duty, as almost every American mission has at least two soldiers using this weapon at a time. An enemy can be killed with just one hit at close range, or with a headshot at any range, but requires two shots to kill at maximum distance with anything but a headshot. Its magazine size is still small, and ammunition is not always readily available.
In multiplayer, it is issued to the American team. It is not as powerful as the earlier version, taking two rounds to the chest to kill, or one shot to the head. Its recoil can throw a user's aim off, so tap or burst firing is a useful tactic. It can take on bolt-action users at long-range with tap-firing, and even submachine gun users at close range by going full-auto, although its magazine size is fairly small, meaning it may need to be reloaded fairly soon after beginning a firefight.
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One Edit
- "The U.S. M1918A2 BAR was Clyde Barrow's (of Bonnie and Clyde fame) weapon of choice during his spree. .30-06, 20-round cartridge clip."
- — Description
In Call of Duty 2: Big Red One, the BAR (referred to as Browning Automatic Rifle in the Bonus Materials) is a rare weapon. It is in Denley's hands in every mission after "Tankers" until his death in "Farewell to Friends". It first appears in Counterattack as an available weapon in some areas of the mission. It does not appear again until Crucifix Hill, where it is given as a starting weapon for this mission. The BAR is most useful at medium to long ranges firing single shots or short bursts. It has some visual recoil, but no actual recoil. It is recommended that the player fires in short bursts to conserve ammunition, since it only takes a few shots to kill an enemy.
Call of Duty 3Edit
- "M1918A2, caliber .30-06. The Browning Automatic Rifle was a robust, full automatic, gas-operated light squad machine gun with a detachable 20 round box magazine."
- — In-game description
The BAR appears in Call of Duty 3 in the levels "The Island" and "Chambois". It has a very slow rate of fire, high accuracy and high penetrative power. The player should fire in single shots as this is accurate and saves a lot of ammo with no cost to power. Typically, two - three hits are needed to kill, but with proper aim, a single round to the head will kill an enemy.
The BAR appears in multiplayer mode and is only obtainable for the Allied Heavy Assault class. It is moderately accurate, but has a very slow rate of fire. It's magazine size of 20 .30-06 rounds is outclassed by the Axis's MP44, which has 30 rounds per magazine, but the BAR has more damage per shot than the MP44. The BAR's reload is about on par with the MP44, but is still longer than the MP40's and the Thompson's.
Call of Duty: Roads to VictoryEdit
- "The BAR M1918A2 was the standard automatic rifle of US forces in World War II."
- — In-game description
In Call of Duty: Roads to Victory, the BAR appears in one level of the American campaign: "Nijmegen". Surprisingly, the BAR can kill with one shot, similar to the StG-44. However, the BAR's image looks exactly from the one in Call of Duty 2: Big Red One.
Call of Duty: World at WarEdit
- "American fully automatic machine gun with high power. Effective at medium range to long range."
- — Description
The BAR appears throughout the Pacific Campaign and is the players starting weapon in "Hard Landing." Like in Call of Duty 3, it's a powerful and versatile weapon, killing in one hit to the torso, but ammo is scarce as few of the Marines use it in levels other than "Hard Landing", "Breaking Point" or "Relentless." It can also be found in some of the trenches in "Burn 'em Out."
The BAR is unlocked at level 4, and is the second weapon unlocked in Call of Duty: World at War. It hits hard with high random recoil, and high power. When fired it is loud and intimidating, but has a low fire rate and a relatively small 20 round magazine. Even with a slow rate of fire, a magazine runs out fast considering it only has 20 rounds. The BAR will kill in 3 hits at any range, and with Stopping Power it can kill in 2 hits at close-mid range, although it may take one or two more shots to kill depending on whether the target has Juggernaut and/or Second Chance. It can also be fitted with a bipod that, when mounted, completely eliminates recoil. Double Tap can be used to help boost the low rate of fire, but at the expense of the already high recoil being increased further. With Double Tap equipped, firing single shots is harder and the sporadic recoil becomes even more unmanageable.
Considering that the BAR has high recoil, the general strategy is either to burst fire or quickly fire single shots despite also having a fast view kick recovery. Semi-automatic shots with the bipod equipped allows for very steady shots, rivaling that of bolt-action rifles. The open sights, solid first shots, medium ammo capacity and alongside the rather attractive fully automatic fire capability makes the BAR an especially effective weapon. However, fully-automatic fire usually ends up being inaccurate and is better off at close-mid range (whenever accuracy is less of an issue). The BAR is the only Machine Gun to have the movement speed multiplier of a rifle while aiming down the sights.
The BAR, even with the ability to one hit kill, is ill-advised in Hardcore game modes due to the very low rate of fire and high recoil. It is usually outclassed by most other weapons, including single shot rifles in rare circumstances.
Nazi ZombiesEdit
In Nacht Der Untoten, it is available upstairs, for 1800 points; in Shi No Numa and Der Riese, the BAR appears in the Mystery Box for 950 points. In Verrückt, it costs 1800 points, or 2500 with a Bipod. Double Tap Root Beer is very effective with it, as the significant increase in rate of fire can make the difference in a life-or death situation. Speed Cola is also nice to compensate for its low magazine capacity. Still, medium damage, low rate of fire, and small magazine stop this weapon from being effective against Zombies past round ten.
When upgraded, using the Pack-A-Punch machine in Der Riese, it becomes "The Widow Maker". When upgraded, it has a higher rate of fire, higher damage, higher reserve ammo and a larger magazine. However, even with the upgrade, ammunition supplies can become problematic in later rounds, which makes some players skip upgrading the BAR altogether in favor of other weapons.
BAR vs. The Widow MakerEdit
Weapon AttachmentsEdit
- For attachment images, see BAR/Attachments.
Call of Duty: World at War (Nintendo DS) Edit
The BAR appears in the Nintendo DS version of World at War as the only portable machine gun available for use. Unlike the console versions, the BAR has a higher rate of fire, slightly less bullet damage, different irons sights, and more recoil. The iron sights are not as precise; it is often considered obstructive.
In the campaign, the BAR is first used in "Into the Darkness" as a starting weapon, then is featured in "Castle Approach" and "Storm the Walls" as a starting weapon as well. Its modest rate of fire and damage make it a good weapon, though it is recommended to burst fire at long range. If there is an ammo shortage, one should swap it out for a Type 100, as ammunition for it cannot be found anywhere other than ammunition boxes.
In multiplayer, the BAR is available for use once again, though exclusive to the USMC faction. Given its qualities, it is better using it for close ranges. Due to its small magazine, just 20 rounds, it is best not to spray n' pray with it, and use the iron sights for more precise, accurate shots. Just like all other automatic weapons featured in game, it only has upwards recoil, so aiming downwards while firing will effectively counter the recoil.
Call of Duty: ZombiesEdit
The BAR can be found in the Mystery Box, or off the wall in some levels. Unlike the console version, there is no bipod variant. Compared to its Call of Duty: World at War counterpart, the Call of Duty: Zombies BAR has much more power, boasting a one hit kill ability on zombies until round 10. All of the deployable versions have been replaced with the regular one for the regular price.
Call of Duty: World at War: Final FrontsEdit
In Call of Duty: World at War: Final Fronts, it is aesthetically similar to its Call of Duty 2 variant. It only appears in the mission "Ettelbruck". It has a 20 round magazine with 400 rounds to carry. Ammo is quite scarce because it only appears in one mission and very few soldiers are seen carrying the BAR and they do not get killed at any point but because the BAR has quite good stopping power. It is advised to aim down your sights and go for headshots. It is better swapping the Thompson for the MP40 than the BAR, as the Thompson uses more ammo and is less accurate. It will always kill in one bullet to the head, and sometimes it will kill in one shot to the torso and a couple more to the limbs.
Call of Duty: Black OpsEdit
The BAR returns in the revised Call of Duty: World at War zombie maps available for the Prestige Edition and Hardened Edition (or from the Rezurrection map pack) for Call of Duty: Black Ops and is available off the wall. It is virtually identical to its counterpart in the previous game, except that it cannot be obtained from the mystery box, but rather only from its outline on the wall. Because it does not appear on the wall in Der Riese, the Pack-A-Punched BAR cannot be obtained in Call of Duty: Black Ops. The standard BAR is available in Nacht der Untoten and Shi No Numa, whereas the one with a Bipod is available in Verrückt. It is also held slightly differently then the World at War version. The BAR also appears to have much less sporadic recoil.
Call of Duty: WWIIEdit
- "Automatic rifle with moderate recoil and fast fire rate."
- — Description
The BAR returns in Call of Duty: WWII.
Contrary to what the in-game description states, the BAR has very low recoil, and is among the lowest-recoil weapons in the game. It also boasts high damage, netting three-shot kills up close and dropping off to a four-shot kill past about twenty meters. The high damage is accompanied by a high rate of fire, second highest in its class, bested only by the M1941. These three strengths allow the BAR to have a fast time-to-kill in relation to other automatic rifles such as the STG44 and the FG 42. However, the BAR's main weakness is its low magazine capacity of 20 rounds, which, due to the high rate of fire, runs dry rather quickly. As such, accuracy is key to using the BAR effectively, as spraying and missing shots can result in the player running out of ammo mid-gunfight.
Although the BAR has a small magazine capacity, playing aggressive and rushing objectives is probably the best way to use the BAR effectively. This allows the player to take advantage of the fast time-to-kill up close, and with sufficient accuracy, one can even take on multiple enemies before their magazine runs dry. The BAR can be used at longer ranges, but at longer ranges, missing shots is more likely, and the magazine size becomes a problem.
As far as attachments go, optical attachments are preferred by some players, while others are perfectly fine with the BAR's iron sights: although rather large, the iron sights are not unduly obstructive and can be used to great effect at both close and long ranges. The Quickdraw Grip, as on most weapons, is a solid and dependable choice, and boosts handling at close quarters. Similarly, Steady Aim is also recommended to allow the player to shoot from the hip at close quarters. High Caliber has the potencial to make most engagements 2 shot kills as long as one of the 2 are a head shot. Like most rifles, FMJ is useful for shooting through cover without worrying about damage dropping off. Finally, the Extended Mag has the potential of drastically improving the BAR's handling, but is not unlocked until Weapon Level 10, which can be a problem for new players. Advanced Rifling should be avoided as the BAR receives the least benefit from it compared to other rifles.
In the November 9th, 2017 update, the BAR was nerfed to have a decreased fire rate and increased hipfire spread[1]. In the November 29th, 2017 update, the BAR was nerfed to have increased recoil.[2]
Nazi ZombiesEdit
The BAR can be obtained from a Weapon Locker in the maps The Final Reich and The Darkest Shore for 1500 Jolts, and can be obtained from the Mystery Box in all of the current maps.
When upgraded via the Ubersprengen, it becomes the FU-BAR.
|Unlock level
|Upgraded Stats
Lens Sight
|Weapon Level 2
Automatically unlocked in Zombies
|Sight changed to a Lens Sight.
|Weapon Level 3
Zombies level 4
|Faster aim down sights time.
|Weapon Level 4
Zombies level 4
|Reduced recoil while aiming down sight.
Reflex Sight
|Weapon Level 5
Zombies level 11
|Sight changed to a Reflex Sight.
High Caliber
|Weapon Level 6
Zombies level 39
|Increased headshot damage.
Steady Aim
|Weapon Level 7
Zombies level 15
|Reduced hipfire cone size.
Full Metal Jacket
|Weapon Level 8
Zombies level 18
|Increased surface penetration and increased damage done to Scorestreaks.
Increased penetration power against zombies.
4x Optic
|Weapon Level 9
Zombies level 22
|Optic changed to a 4x Optic.
Rapid Fire
|Weapon Level 10
Zombies level 25
|Rate of fire increase to 612 RPM
Extended Mags
|Weapon Level 11
Zombies level 29
|Magazine increased to 30
Reserve ammo increased to
|Magazine increased to 60
Reserve ammo increased to
Advanced Rifling
|Weapon Level 12
Zombies level 32
|Increased damage falloff range.
|Weapon Level 13
|Bayonet added to weapon, giving ability to one hit melee and charge by holding the melee button.
Rifle Grenade
|Weapon Level 14
|Gives two grenades that can be fired from rifle, must be equipped first to fire.
|Old Captain
|10% Bonus Soldier XP
|Old Captain II
|15% Bonus Soldier XP
|Fly Boy
| 10% Bonus Soldier XP
|Dude Up
|10% Bonus Soldier XP
|Dude Up II
|15% Bonus Soldier XP
|Cool Hand
|10% Bonus Soldier XP
|Cool Hand II
|15% Bonus Soldier XP
Call of Duty 2Edit
- The BAR has an unusable folded bipod attached.
Call of Duty: World at WarEdit
- Even though the BAR has a bipod attached in the Campaign and in Zombies, it cannot be deployed without the usage of a glitch.
- The third person model of the BAR has no ejection port or bipod.
- According to the strategy guide for Call of Duty: World at War, the BAR is considered an assault rifle instead of an LMG.
Call of Duty: World at War: Final FrontsEdit
- The BAR has an unusable folded bipod attached.
Call of Duty: Black OpsEdit
- In the revised Call of Duty: World at War zombie maps for Call of Duty: Black Ops, the BAR ejects the shells out of the left side, while in Call of Duty: World at War, they eject from the right side.
Call of Duty: WWII Edit
- The upgraded name of the BAR, the "FU-BAR" is military slang for "Fucked/Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition/Any Repair/All Reason".


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Saturday, Aug. 20, was hot and sunny — perfect for "eXXpedition Great Lakes 2016."
This was an international water research project that took place across the Great Lakes Basin, an area that includes the Great Lakes, Lake Simcoe, Lake Couchiching, the Trent-Severn Waterway, and parts of Muskoka and Haliburton.
From sailboats, motorboats, kayaks, canoes, or by walking into the water from shore, citizen-scientists in two Canadian provinces and eight U.S. states took part in gathering samples of water. The samples are being sent to a central laboratory in Maine for testing for microplastics and microbeads. A number of beach clean-ups were organized as part of this event.
When plastic bags and other plastic garbage get into the water, they break down into tiny pieces that become invisible to the human eye. These pieces absorb toxins from the water, and then are eaten by fish and other creatures — putting disease-causing toxins into the food chain.
Microbeads are tiny pieces of plastic added to such items as toothpaste, facial cleanser and soap, intended to improve the abrasive cleaning effect. In Canada, parliament has declared microbeads are toxic. Some cosmetics manufacturers in Canada have started to remove them from their products, but other companies are waiting until 2018 and even 2019. Before buying toothpaste, facial cleanser or similar product, you should check the list of ingredients. The website for Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, however, says the ingredients list might not say "microbeads." The website says other ingredients that indicate the presence of microbeads in a product are: polyethylene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, polymethyl methacrylate, and nylon.PROBLEM
Most water treatment plants cannot remove microplastics or microbeads from our household waste water during treatment. These particles end up in the water where we swim, boat and fish — the same water that can be the source of our drinking water.
eXXpedition Great Lakes 2016 — the largest simultaneous water sampling for microplastics that has ever taken place — was part of an international project. A group of scientists and citizen-scientists is sampling for microplastics and microbeads in bodies of water around the world, including the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean and the waters around Norway, to raise awareness about the plastics crisis and to determine the extent of the pollution. Next year, a sailboat will go all the way around the United Kingdom to sample water as this project continues.
A number of Lake Simcoe area people took part in eXXpedition Great Lakes 2016, including a team from Parklane Landscapes. The results of the water sampling are expected to be available in October, and will be published in an upcoming issue of Lake Simcoe Living, as well as on the Facebook pages for Lake Simcoe Association and Parklane Landscapes.For more information, go to exxpedition.com/greatlakes2016/


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RPA has become a method to re-evaluate whether humans need to be in the process - not always the endpoint. Business stakeholders get all excited by potential of a tool to reduce costs, increase accuracy, improve compliance and automate the work in a fraction of the time - it is those expectations around RPA; as much of a reason for confusion about the technical capabilities, as the tools themselves.
Understanding functionality and impact of RPA versus artificial intelligence can be challenging. Many businesses (IT) can muddle the intent, terminology, potential (and reality) of a swath of new ones. No one tool alone can solve every unautomated activity in an organisation; and now, multiple layers more of machine learning, artificial intelligence and automation tools on the doorstop for you to consider.
Automation dramatically improves organizational productivity
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Proof of Value rather than Proof of Concept
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Crankworx Whip Off Photo Bonanza!
Another Crankworx, another whip-off. This year there was no qualifier, so either you were in or you were out. The crowd numbers have definitely grown since the first WOW and it's become the 2nd most attended event at Crankworx - despite the mandatory 20-minute hike for those without bikes.
Aggy encountered some harsh headwind on his first run through, so he cranked up the speed for his next run. Unfortunately the wind had died, and he ended up overshooting the jump and had a nasty ragdoll. He was eventually able to get up, but will defnitely be taking some time off the bike. Heal up soon!
Walking home with extra dough this year were:
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