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City Commission Candidates Make Their Cases in First Debate
Six of the eight candidates running for Covington City Commission appeared Monday night at Ninth Street Baptist Church in the Eastside in the first of what will be three debates or forums leading up to November's election. The sole incumbent seeking reelection to one of the four seats on the commission, Steve Frank, was joined by former Commissioner Mildred Rains, first-time candidates Chuck Eilerman, Greg Paeth, Michelle Williams, and recently retired firefighter and write-in candidate Chip Terry. Candidates Neil Gilreath and Roger Hamilton did not attend.
The format called for an opening statement, two questions from the audience answered by each candidate, four minutes of direct questioning from the moderator to each candidate, one question from each candidate to the other candidates, and then finally closing statements. The event was sponsored by OASIS, Inc and moderated by Michael Monks of The River City News (see comment at end of post).
Is the City's financial condition really as gloomy as it often seems at commission meetings? That question from audience member Jerry Avery, also a member of the Covington School Board, got things rolling. Commissioner Frank, who is nearing the end of his first two-year term, accused previous administrations of balancing the budget by ignoring infrastructure costs in order to make payroll. "We've built up a $35 million deficit in infrastructure maintenance," Frank said before warning that the City's pension obligation could be more than $100 million.
Other candidates gave credit to Mayor Chuck Scheper and the current city commission for its work on the City's financial troubles. "If we presume that all the numbers we've heard about from the city commission over the last six months are accurate and that we are in dire financial straits, a lot of the heavy lifting has been done," said Greg Paeth, former longtime President of the Old Seminary Square Neighborhood Association, noting that he is also not in agreement with all the methods used to stave off financial worries. "Certainly code enforcement is an issue with me. I believe the way we grow the city is by improving the neighborhoods, get tough and aggressive and dilligent in enforcing every regulation on the books so new property owners don't come in and become incredibly disappointed when someone next to them buys the house and lets it go downhill." Paeth also expressed concern over the reduction of a nickel on every hundred dollars worth of payroll tax at the same time the commission did not approve the compensating tax rate increase on property.
"It's not unique to us," said Chuck Eilerman, a commercial real estate agent, of the financial worries in Covington. "Covington was not uniquely poorly managed. We're seeing this problem across the country." He noted that the pension system is largely controlled by the state and mostly out of the hands of the local governments and suggested that the best way to improve the financial situation is to "grow our way out of this."
"We've had nineteen studies recently and a study to study the studies to develop the city," said Chip Terry, the former assistant fire chief. "A simple fireman can figure out if you don't have revenue you have to cut spending. The Center City Action Plan is a wonderful document with which we can improve the city and do it quickly and now is the time to act. We have to move forward with something."
"You have to clean up the City of Covington before you ever attract business," said Mildred Rains, the longtime housing inspector and code enforcement department head. "We need an economic development director who knows what they're doing."
"I wouldn't necessarily agree with all the cuts that had to be made, but I'm looking at ways to generate funds," said Michelle Williams, a board member at OASIS, Inc. I know cutting things is a way to save money but we need to look at ways to generate funds in the city so we don't have to cut social services and so our police and fire departments don't have to be cut."
Reaction to Management Partners report
A second question from the audience sparked accusations from Rains that the recently concluded Management Partners report, in which the Cincinnati-based consulting firm reviewed each department at City Hall and made recommendations on how to improve efficiencies, may have been influenced by the City Manager and the commission. "Was it truly just the Management Partners or was it tweaked by the mayor, the (city) manager, and the commission? That would be my question," Rains said. "Is it truly the city or did someone help them along?" Rains was particularly angry at the recent decision to change the way code enforcement is operated, including the dismissal of its director and the use of part-time employees.
Steve Frank defended the Management Partners report. "On June 30 we'd have been bouncing everybody's paychecks had we not acted," he said. "There was only a little amount of time because of the situation the city found itself in." Frank did not support the premise of the question, from resident Teri Meyer, that suggested there may have been a less than forthright process in which the way the report was conducted. "We did budget roadshows, we were out in the community, we interviewed department heads. The commission did not just accept everything on a blank slate. We'd have privatived EMS if we did. It's not like we just swallowed everything they gave us. Some folks were just never gonna be happy with any cut."
Other candidates agreed that the public process of discussuing the report could have been handled better. "I was actively involved in all the meetings where Management Partners' report was displayed and the community was not informed as to all the information that the city had," said Williams. "We had slideshows and screenplays but really, if that's what they were using to base their decision on then I would have to question that. For them to make decisions and ask for public input without us having al the input I felt was a little wrong."
"When people have questions about transparency I think that brings into question the system," said Terry. "I don't want to infer that anything untoward was done. I disagree with a lot of the findings, especially in regards to the fire department. We need to spend more time getting more input from the public and brining stakeholders directly affected by these decisions into play."
"I just wonder hwy every meeting has to be preceded by an executive session at four o'clock on a day of a six o'clock meeting," Paeth said. "I just think the process, the format of the meeting should be opened up a bit in sich a way that you can really welcome public input from citizens who can take the time to come down there at six o'clock on a Tuesday and have something to say. I think the way it's structured now, all the decisions have been made."
"We need to be articulated more effectively with more material to the citizens." said Eilerman. "In large part (at commission meetings), our city clerk reads the resolution and someone seconds it and the commission members give speeches about whatever's on their mind and they vote and there we go. I hope there will be much more discussion and things will be given more time to air." Eilerman also suggested that the city manager be more involved in the meetings, leading the discussions.
Direct questioning from the moderator
Steve Frank has a well-known history of heated public exchanges with Covington firefighters and often points out that very few of them live in the city. "Out of 115 in the fire department, eight of them live here," he said again Monday night. "You don't have quite the same stake in a town when you don't live in it." Asked how much a new firefighter or police officer should be paid, Frank responded, "Enough to keep them in their seats. Pay has become an end in itself. In private business you offer people enough money to attract a candidate that will fill that job in a way that you expect them to work. The premise is not to get the largest package but government is different."
Asked about his previous role as a board member at Renaissance Covington, a non-profit organization housed at City Hall and charged with promoting and helping to revitalize Downtown, Chuck Eilerman said the group was successful, pointing out that Renaissance played a significant role by way of a half-million grant to have the Odd Fellows Hall restored after it was severely damaged by fire.
Greg Paeth was asked about his role on the board of the Urban Partnership which hopes to initiate the Business Improvement District, a program in which Downtown commercial property owners would agree to tax themselves an additional fee to pay for promotions, maintenance, and other benefits. Paeth is confident that we will see a BID in Covington.
Michelle Williams, whose Eastside neighborhood will soon see new residents living in the River's Edge at Eastside Pointe development, wants to see changes at the Housing Authority of Covington which is developing the mixed-income apartment community. "I've been dealing with HAC for a while, not just on this project but all the housing projects in Covington, she said. "I think there's a lot of issues that need to be addressed, a lot of secrecy. People are not always informed as to what their plans are." Williams said that she supports a change in leadership at HAC.
Though his former union recently ended a lengthy contract battle with the city that saw both sides end up in court, Chip Terry thinks he could be a bridge between the public employees and City Hall. As a fireman, "my focus was to protect the citizens of Covington, that's your job," he said. "As a commissioner my job will be expanded, so I have a responsibility to make sure the citizens are taken care of. We have to take the whole city into account. The firefighters support me now, not because I'm a mouthpiece or member of the union. They respect that I am there for them." Terry added that he hopes to grow the revenue base in order to fill the lost positions in the fire department due to budget cuts.
For more on the candidate debate, including their candidate-to-candidate question session, and their opening and closing statements, check back at RCN later Tuesday.
NOTE: This article is written by Michael Monks who moderated Monday night's debate.


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It's always interesting what you can find on the back of a DVD box. MTV Splash Page uncovered the title of the next DCU Animated feature on the back of the packaging for the upcoming 'Superman/Batman: Public Enemies'.
The box promotes a "sneak peak" at 'Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths'. Few other details are known, although we can presume it relates somehow to the original "Crisis" stories from the 1960s, which saw the Justice League meeting up with their classic counterparts the Justice Society. Back then, the teams existed in separate dimensions, which were first bridged in the two-issue crossover stories "Crisis on Earth-One!" and "Crisis on Earth-Two!".
DC has made use of the title "Crisis" at various points ever since, with perhaps the most noteworthy being "Crisis on Infinite Earths" which ushered in a the age of "event" crossovers in comics, and had far-reaching implications for storytelling in the DCU.
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SECTION 4: Codes & Regulations 8 - 14%
- Invert distance
- Wood grain patterns
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Kurt! Question about Architectural graphic standards... I have been searching and contemplating actually buying this book for no other reason than having it for my career beyond the exams. After thinking about it for days I decided to look again at my firm's resources and realized we already have it!! Yay for free resources...
Ok my question: How did you use it? It's gigantic. Did you have known weaknesses you were trying to cover or did you just browse through and take as much in as possible? I'm leaning toward doing the latter, sort of using it as an "I'm tired of reading, let me look at fun drawings for a couple of days" resource.
Just curious how you used this as your "primary resource" for PDD. Thank you!
I would add to your note on case studies - the Case Study questions are worth the same amount of points as the rest of the test but they're the most time intensive questions on the exam, It's important to leave enough time to answer the case study questions, as Kurt mentioned, but if you get to the case study questions and you're stuck on one that's just sucking up your time, plug in a best guess answer and move on to the next question. Running out of time is worse than getting a case study question wrong. Especially if you could have answered 3 or 4 other questions in the time you spent stuck on the one.
Also, I strongly recommend that everyone check out the case study questions before answering any questions and just write down which documents they include (IBC excerpts, ADA excerpts, etc.) You will likely find a question in the exam regarding information that can be found in the case study supplements which can save you valuable head scratching time and a possible wrong answer.
Randall -- hell no, I didn't have any weaknesses! WTH???? Hah -- JK...
The AGS is gigantic, you're right -- no need to actually read it all word for word, but paging through it really doesn't take all that long. I probably slowed down and studied through the thermal and waterproofing sections -- an an example, but definitely skipped over the oddities and specialties like, say, sauna design.
It's a great book to pore over and absorb as much as possible -- much of the exam is very graphics-oriented -- the AGS gets you in that mindset.
Amazing write-up Kurt! I still have to take PPD before getting to this one but I couldn't resist the urge to read every word. I knew there would be some helpful overlapping suggestions.
I am currently 3/4 of the way through BCI(constr.) and have already read once through ASC(mostly the systems chapters). My next pass through will be creating note cards which help me better understand the topic and then allow for easy review in the car, in between Netflix episodes, etc... My life schedule has been hectic lately, was looking to get PPD in before Christmas but I think I'm going to push it to first week of January and then do PDD at the end of January.
My question: Did you study the "math" for these exams while studying for PPD or did you wait and brush up on equations and such for the short exclusive PDD study time between tests? I have been generally glossing over things like beam / duct sizing because it seems those won't show up too frequently for PPD? Is this a correct assumption?
Hi Randall,
Sounds like you're getting there already in terms of studying. Scheduling the exams is such as individual choice. I don't want anyone showing up unprepared, but there's also no return in over-studying. I'm sure the Holidays tend to factor in for most candidates.
For the "math... as you said: "I have been generally glossing over things like beam / duct sizing because it seems those won't show up too frequently for PPD?" That was really my strategy. As I wrote above, I think you need to understand some really basic math for both of these exams, but in my experience, these questions are indeed basic, and very limited in number.
Good luck with your studying!
Randall -- more than anything, there are many questions on the exams where -- yes -- you need to pull out the calculator, but these aren't typically the scary ones like calculating max shear at a given point... lot more like the simple arithmetic that you'd do day to day on projects.
Kurt, thanks for the clarification. I will keep this in mind as I continue studying,
Another thing I continue to gloss over a little bit is general/standard sizes of things like door hardware and their locations A.F.F. or the spacing of them. Or other items like how far your roof overhang can be depending on the structural system you choose and how far a 2x6 can span compared to a 2x12? Is it enough knowledge to know the 2x12 has a greater span or is it important to know the 2x12 can span a little more than 20'?
Or the size of nail and spacing for a 2x6. I would hope this information is way too in depth for what we need to know but it seems a question or two tends to show up out of nowhere.
Hi Kurt, I see this post is from a while ago, but hopefully you'll still get this. I see that one of the items you listed that is included in the exam is invert distance. I'm trying to find information about where to best locate an invert on a site plan. I understand how to calculate slopes, but that's not what I'm looking for. Do you know of any useful resources for this?
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The CIPR today published its financial report and its 'Integrated Report' for the year.
The accounts themselves show a deficit for the year of £132,909, although the board report contained within the financial statements says that the "final result after tax" for the CIPR was only £32,909. However, that lower figure does not appear within the official income statements.
The report says that the institute is obliged to recognise dilapidation costs - money that will be spent on returning to the condition it was in when the CIPR's tenancy started - before these are actually incurred. While the landlord of its Russell Square premises has estimated these at £168,000, the board said in its report that £100,000 "is more realistic". This sum takes the deficit to its final figure.
The CIPR's lease on the property ends in 2019, but it hopes to move sooner. A spokesman for the body said it should save £250,000 per year on rent after it has moved.
The CIPR had registered a loss of £159,936 in 2015, although its CEO told PRWeek at the time that it was "financially stable, despite difficult trading circumstances". The board report for 2016 says the reduced deficit "was a significant improvement on the 2015 performance, though it fell short of intentions".
Membership income for 2016 dropped slightly from £1.6m to £1.58m, but training income rose by nearly £50,000 to £1.02m. Awards income also rose, and overall income rose from £3.95m to £4.08m.
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The integrated report shows that overall membership numbers fell from 10,337 at the start of 2016 to 9,907 at the end. At the start of 2015, membership totalled 11,125.
It says: "The decrease was anticipated – candidates for CIPR qualifications were previously obliged to become CIPR members, but from 1 April 2015, this requirement ceased. As a result, the number of new recruits fell, while the number of those completing their qualification and lapsing their membership remained the same as in previous years."
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Scientists should stick to science
Ruling out creationism as bunk, with "proof" based on a six-day creation, is a mistake. Were these six 24-hour days or six eons? Scriptures were not written by scientists, but historians, authors and poets. Scientific explanations? That wasn't their purpose.
Another mistake is trying to be omniscient, explaining with certainty things that happened eons ago, based only on clues. Consider how vastly our understanding of dinosaurs has changed in the last decades, and could change tomorrow.
Finally, is the tool of evolution-survival of the fittest robust enough to explain all life? I submit that it is not. Life requires DNA. OK, given the right soup and enough lightning strikes, shazam, the double helix is formed. However, RNA must exist to read the DNA and build the organism called for by the DNA coding. More lightning? Consider the myriad perfections in every species having nothing to do with survival as the theory predicts.
Scientists have a place in theorizing, quantifying and testing. They do themselves and the world a great disservice stating theory as fact, and we do our children an injustice teaching them that evolution is more than an incomplete theory.
Evolution and creationism are not mutually exclusive. Both can and should be taught in public schools as President Bush suggests, without concern about violation of church and state.
We must recognize that calling one "science" and the other "religion" is a smokescreen that would abolish teaching creationism as a "correct" exercise of separation of church and state.
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In the State of the Union speech, Presbo hinted that the Keystone pipeline might be on the table if he could get his precious carbon taxing plan going again. They almost did it the first time and America didn't know how close it came to a boot on its neck. The Chicago Climate Exchange was going to be levying an EXTRA tax on every transaction done in America.
None of this is constitutional of course but they cannot let this go. The money-making potential here for extracting equity from America is beyond huge. The CO2 resalers are going to become Bill Gates wealthy and don't have to do anything except juggle numbers on paper. They missed doing it with the Chicago Climate Exchange. Had ALL the connected lib-prog insiders all on board. Presbo, Podesta, Gore, Jarret, Axelrod. All founders/major stakeholders. They were going to be raking it in so fast that they couldn't count it. They were going to be able to run with Soros instead of just doing his bidding. And then the friggin' world screwed it up by being cooler. After having the cooked numbers come out in the press, it just wouldn't fly. They lost a few bills. Now they are still hungry and drooling to get it restarted. Not as easy now that people are worried and aware. Harder to set up and harder to get inside to be able to do some serious money raking. But there will be so MUCH money for them to play with. It is just too juicy to pass up.
Have to do something different. A new name. Like they rebranded Acorn after Acorn got caught shilling votes and welfare dollars. They split them up, printed new letterhead with new nice-sounding emotive names and then set up shop doing the same thing in the same offices with the same people.
The new name for the carbon trading scheme will be the Energy Security Trust Fund. The lib-progs won't be able to be behind-the-scenes stockholders like before, but they will still be able to collect mega-dollars from America and direct it do their supporters (aka big donors). So there will be one more loop in the process. The money will have to be laundered through failing "green" democratic businesses before it gets into their pockets. So they will not get billionaire-wealthy from it, only millionaire-wealthy.
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Give plain-Jane pumpkin a break this year. Thanks to a quick blitz in the blender, the filling is ultra-velvety; plus, brown sugar and dark chocolate contribute an intriguing richness. But this pie isn't as decadent as it seems. Low-fat evaporated milk is the secret to its creamy consistency.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Roll dough into a 12-inch circle on a lightly floured work surface. Fit dough inside a deep-dish 9-inch pie plate, pressing into bottom and up sides of plate; crimp edges. Freeze 10 minutes.
Top frozen crust with a sheet of parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang of paper over edges of plate. Fill with pie weights. Bake in preheated oven until edges are set, 12 to 15 minutes. Carefully remove parchment and weights from crust; bake an additional 5 minutes. Let cool completely, about 30 minutes.
Microwave chopped chocolate in a small microwavable bowl on High until almost melted, about 1 minute. Stir until smooth. Slowly add to squash mixture, stirring until smooth. Pour into cooled piecrust.
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Monte Carlo WRC: Evans retakes lead from Ogier
Elfyn Evans has snatched the lead of the Monte Carlo rally from his Toyota WRC teammate Sebastien Ogier after a strong Saturday morning loop.
Ogier had started the morning with a 1.2s lead over his teammate, and extended it by 1.6s in the opening SS9 stage, but Evans fought back in the La Breole-Slonnet loop to win the stage by 7.6s and take the lead of the rally by 4.8 seconds.
Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville remains third, having won the St-Leger Les Melezes - La Batie Neuve test, but the 2019 WRC runner-up lost 14 seconds in the second stage, leaving him 11.8s behind Ogier.
Sebastien Loeb had a tricky morning, losing time to the leaders in the first two stages of the morning loop, and the nine-time champion admitted that he had "slowed down too much" after trying to save his tyres in SS10.
His cautious approach meant he ended the stage 20 seconds off the pace and is now 1m39.6s behind rally leader Evans.
M-Sport's Esapekka Lappi ended the morning in fifth place, but was unhappy as he found there wasn't as much ice on the road as his pacenotes had suggested, but despite that, he still extended the gap to Kalle Rovenpera in sixth to 19.5s.
The first of the WRC3 runners were next, with Eric Camilli moving up to seventh place in his Citroen C3, with Toyota driver Takamoto Katsuta dropping down to eighth place.
Katsuta spun his Yaris in the middle of St Leger Les Melezes - La Batie Neuve stage, costing him just over three and a half minutes as he stopped to clear snow from his radiator before continuing to finish.
Citroen C3 driver Nicolas Ciamin is second in the WRC3 class, and ninth overall, ending the morning 19.6s ahead of WRC2 leader Mads Ostberg, who rounded out the top ten.
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Lenore Myka
(2016 - Prose)
from "Mascots"
We came from many corners of the globe, though in truth they were corners found primarily in North America and the European Union, which is to say, the corners of the globe that mattered. We were employed by our governments or the big acronyms—IRC, UNESCO, USAID, ICRC, WHO—and like twins who create a language only they can understand, we discussed IFBs and RFPs, the OAU and OAS; the newest IO partnering with a local NGO.
We'd come via other corners of the globe, but those corners were places that hardly mattered—Somalia and Bangladesh; Sudan and Afghanistan; all the many refugee camps scattered like breadcrumbs, those purgatorial, in-between places. Hardship posts, though the more sanctimonious among us refused to call them by such a name, insisting that we'd never gone anywhere more beautiful (The mountains! The seaside!), more rich in cultural tradition and history (The pottery! The ruins!).
Once, a Swede—a baby—declared that he loved Papua New Guinea.
We sniggered. It had been his first post after graduate school; he'd only ever been there and here; it was too soon in his short career for him to realize that he was lying, most especially to himself. The rest of us understood that saying you loved Papua New Guinea was like saying you loved it here, in this country with its clay roads naked children ran about and shat in, its miles of tin shanties you averted your eyes from whenever you took an air-conditioned car to or from the airport. Saying you loved Papua New Guinea was like saying you loved this place where you couldn't buy a decent loaf of bread much less a bottle of Bordeaux; where you lived and worked behind high walls and locked yourself behind bars, fastening them over the windows and doors of your home at night, and found yourself eyeing the guard at the gate, the gardener and housekeeper and cook, wondering if one of them hadn't been responsible for the disappearance of the opal pendant you'd inherited from your grandmother or the fifty euros you'd sworn you left in your trousers last Saturday night when you'd come home from the disco drunk and reeking of other expatriates' sweat.
Lenore Myka is the author of King of the Gypsies: Stories, winner of the 2014 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction. She is the recipient of a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. Her fiction has been selected as distinguished by The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Required Reading series, and has appeared in New England Review, Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review, West Branch, and Alaska Quarterly Review, among others. She received her MFA in Fiction from Warren Wilson College and an MA from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy. She currently serves as Writer in Residence at New College of Florida and teaches Creative Writing at the Ringling College of Art & Design. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Romania and currently lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Author's Statement
As a child, I spent many an afternoon waiting—sometimes for hours—to be picked up from music lessons, Sunday school, friends' houses, while my mother was busy taxiing around, picking up and dropping off my siblings. This experience helped me develop my skill at waiting; it also taught me that I was no more special than the other four people (and sometimes five, if you included my father) my mother spent her days taking care of.
Good lessons, I think, for a future writer. Waiting—for the muse, for a response to a submission, for readers, for recognition—is an essential part of being a writer. And the more experienced you become, the more you meet people like yourself, people who are just as talented, just as deserving, oftentimes more so. We hear much about the writer's ego. But what the discipline really does to those of us who pursue it is cultivate a deep sense of humility.
Unlike my mother, the NEA fellowship was never something I waited for. Instead, I planned to apply until I died, abandoning all hope each time I did. The odds, I understood, were far too remote. When the call came, I did what I do best: I cried and I cursed. Joyously, of course.
What does the NEA fellowship mean? Freedom from the time and financial constraints that frequently inhibit my creative process. Validation from other writers for over a decade's worth of work, work that has, for the most part, gone unnoticed by the rest of the world. Until now. It cannot be said enough and with a deep enough sense of gratitude: Thank you world, for noticing.


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Depth of Field (DOF), one of the photography basics, is how much of the scene in your photograph is in focus. It is the scene in front of and behind the focus point in your picture which looks decently sharp.
Factors that affect Depth of Field include Aperture, Distance between you/camera and the subject photographed and the Focal Length of your camera lens.
Relationship between Aperture and Depth of Field
Aperture is the opening that lies between the lenses of the camera that allows light to enter the image sensor.
Wider you set the aperture opening, more light will enter the image sensor and vice versa.
Aperture is measured in f-stop or f-number. Aperture opening and f-stop (f-number) are inversely related. Wider the aperture opening, smaller the f-number; smaller the aperture opening, larger the f-number.
For instance, if you click a photograph using aperture of say f/4 (small f-number and wide aperture opening), you will be able to see the subject clearly in your snap but the backdrop will appear blur which is known as Shallow depth of field.
And if you take a snap using aperture of say f/16 (large f-number and small aperture opening), the subject as well as the backdrop in your photograph will be clearly visible which is known as Deep depth of field.
Wide Aperture opening = Small f-number = Shallow depth of field
Small Aperture opening = Large f-number = Deep depth of field
How does Distance control Depth of Field
The closer your DLSR camera is to the subject, shallower will be the Depth of Field. Farther your DLSR camera is to the subject, deeper will be the Depth of Field. Hence, maintain the distance between the DLSR camera and the subject being photographed according to your creative purpose.
How does Focal Length of your DSLR Lens control Depth of Field
Focal length will vary depending on how you adjust the camera lens while photographing a scene. For example, in a Canon EOS 1500D DSLR Camera, if you shoot with a wide angle lens, say using 18mm lens, your photo will have a Deep Depth of Field. And if you zoom the lens to 55mm to photograph the scene, your image will have a Shallow Depth of Field
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Understanding Bokeh
Bokeh, a Japanese word, means blur produced (by the lens) in the out-of-focus area of a photo that lie outside the Depth of Field. Bokeh are circular shapes created while photographing a scene with a wide aperture opening, say f/2 (Shallow depth of field) when the lens display out-of-focus points of light.
You can create Bokeh in Portrait Photography if you use wide aperture (shallow depth of field) to make the subject stand out against a blur backdrop. Alternatively, you can also produce Bokeh effect using a small aperture only in cases when the backdrop is far enough.
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After all, my colour scheme did not satisfy me as much as I hoped and because I felt like I was stuck in my process not knowing where to go and what to change, I decided to follow the advice of my tutor and just try another way to do it. First, I copied to structure into a new page (without background) and saved my original design so in case I would not like the result, nothing would be lost.
Then I created a gradient, I liked a lot, in a darker blue then the one I used before. I still wanted to hold on to the structure of splitting my cycle into four equal parts and also hold on to the original idea of the water being in constant flow. But I thought of another idea of how to use the given space, one that I considered in the very beginning, placing the cycle in the middle by using a circle. So I cut out a circle from my background.
What I had to do next was moving my already created design into the empty space.
I tried to drag it in but it turned out more difficult than I expected, so I had to go a step back, taking care of the quarters first. I experimented a little and ended up really being found of a simple gradient design. It separated all the quarters from each other and used colour supporting the original idea of the flow.
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After I had taken care of those basics, I started adding my content piece by piece. It took some time because I had a lot of resizing to do. Also I changed most of the Anker points as well as the colours since they had to fit into my new nicer colour scheme.


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What is RAM:- RAM (random access memory) is the place in a computer where the operating system, application programs, and data in current use are kept so that they can be quickly reached by the computer's processor. RAM is much faster to read from and write to than the other kinds of storage in a computer, the hard disk, floppy disk, and CD-ROM. However, the data in RAM stays there only as long as your computer is running. When you turn the computer off, RAM loses its data. When you turn your computer on again, your operating system and other files are once again loaded into RAM, usually from your hard disk.
If your computer slows down when you're working with large files or many programs at once, you might be able to improve performance by installing extra RAM (Random Access Memory - your computer's temporary operating memory). These instructions will work for the majority of machines built in the mid 1990s and later.
1). Determine what kind of RAM you need, and whether your computer has enough open slots to hold it. The new RAM should match the existing RAM's specifications and configuration.
2). Shut down the computer and leave it plugged into the surge suppressor.
3). Disconnect all peripheral devices, such as the monitor, from the computer.
4). Remove the computer cover.
5). Ground yourself to the computer with professional grounding equipment like an anti-static wristband or hold a metal part of the chassis.
6). Remove any cards or internal components necessary to give yourself unobstructed access to RAM sockets.
7). Pick up your SIMM (single in-line memory module) or DIMM (dual in-line memory module) by the ends without touching pins or chips.
7). Pick up your SIMM (single in-line memory module) or DIMM (dual in-line memory module) by the ends without touching pins or chips.
8). If adding a SIMM, find the notched end and turn the SIMM so that it is parallel to the existing RAM card(s). Insert the SIMM into the socket at a 30-degree angle. If adding a DIMM, insert the DIMM straight in so that it is perpendicular to the motherboard.
9). Use slight pressure to keep a SIMM from backing out while rotating the module to an upright position perpendicular to the motherboard.
10). Make sure the small holes on each side of a SIMM fit into holders.
11). Feel or hear retaining clips lock a SIMM into the socket; close the side clips on a DIMM.
12). Gently try to pull the module out to ensure it is locked in position.
13). Replace all internal components.
14). Leave the cover off and reconnect the monitor, keyboard and mouse.
15). Turn on the computer.
16). Check the amount of RAM by right-clicking the My Computer icon in Windows and choosing Properties. On a Mac, use the About this Macintosh command in the Apple menu.
17). If you don't see the right amount of RAM, turn off the computer and try "reseating" the SIMM or DIMM (take it out and put is back in) and reboot. If that doesn't work, call a technician.
18). Shut down the computer and disconnect the peripherals again.
19). Replace the cover and reconnect all the peripherals.
19). Replace the cover and reconnect all the peripherals.


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Kellogg couple applauded for agricultural advocacy12/13/2018 | Ag Awareness
By Lauren Houska, ISA communications specialist
The Advocate for Iowa Agriculture Award, presented by Bayer CropScience, was awarded to Kevin and Julie Van Manen of Kellogg on Dec. 13 in Ankeny for their support and efforts in telling the story of modern agriculture.
Passionate about telling agriculture's story, they raise soybeans, corn, cows and hogs on their Jasper County farm, which has been in the family since 1927.
Though not ones to seek the spotlight, the couple is always eager to help the Iowa Soybean Association (ISA) facilitate media requests. They have been featured in TV spots for various agricultural promotions, including work with the Coalition to Support Iowa's Farmers.
Kevin and Julie also routinely open their farm for tours and are actively involved in the Iowa Food and Family Project (Iowa FFP).
"We welcome a wide range of consumers to our farm through various programs and host field trips for hundreds of students each year," said Julie.
Their advocacy extends beyond the state of Iowa as well. They hosted a family from New Jersey in 2014 through the Iowa FFP "It Starts in Iowa" campaign. They have also hosted veterinarians and other groups from various countries, as well as a group of educators working with the Global Youth Institute through the World Food Prize.
As a teacher, Julie brought the farm into the classroom on a regular basis to ensure students receive an agricultural education. She now works with the Iowa Farm Bureau Ag in the Classroom program and has volunteered with CommonGround™ Iowa since 2013.
Married for nearly 31 years, the couple instilled the same passion for agriculture in both of their children.
"We are proud that our children, Jacob and Emily, chose careers in agriculture and have become great ambassadors for the industry." Jacob farms with his parents and Emily is an ag teacher and FFA advisor. Jacob and Emily also operate a sweet corn business and take advantage of opportunities to advocate for Iowa agriculture.
Katie Johnson, ISA public relations manager, contributed to this report.
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January 14, 2019
Many musicians and artists perform at Coachella each year, but Kanye West, who held a headliner position, backed out and will not perform this year after claiming that the stage is too small. Ariana Grande has taken his place at Coachella.
Coachella Valley Music and Arts is one of the largest and most popular annual festivals among young adults who love music. The two-weekend event takes place in Indio, California from April 12th to April 21st.
Ariana Grande will become the fourth female in history to headline at Coachella and the youngest artist to ever headline at 25. Childish Gambino and Tame Impala will be the other two headliners.
Grande is incredibly favored nationally and even internationally. Her songs lead Billboard, iTunes, Spotify, and more. Her most recent hit is "thank u, next" which is No. 2 on Billboard and has recently broken a Spotify record.
"I think she deserves this because she has been working hard this year and she has proved her abilities and talent as an artist. Although Kanye is as famous and loved, it was himself who denounced Coachella's stage setup, so it is right that he does not perform," said junior Jihyun Paik when asked if Grande deserves to headline after Kanye dropping out and all the praise that comes with it.
The global pop star has been thriving in the music industry and continues to gain success and popularity.


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Chanukah, Hanukah, The Holiday of Lights…. Whatever you may call it, it's right around the corner. On the night of November 27th we light the first candle and the traditional gift giving ceremony takes center stage. I don't know about your houses, but my kids seem to think that Chanukah is all about gifts. On an idealistic level I would like them to understand the history and meaning and beauty behind the holiday. But let's be realistic. They want presents. And their expectations get bigger and more ludicrous. My son asked me for a cotton candy machine. (huh?) Where is he gonna keep it? Upstairs in his room on his desk?! I can see my dentist liking this post…
He wants to invite the neighborhood over every afternoon for cotton candy. I nixed that request pretty fast. I suggested Monopoly instead. He just rolled his eyes. I guess I'm not staying current with what the kids nowadays find exciting!
What I have discovered after living for 14 years with children who want presents every Chanukah, is that I can never go wrong with chocolate coins. Kids of all ages love getting that little mesh bag of coins (ok, ok, I admit to sneaking one for myself as well).
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What do coins have to do with Chanukah? What's the basis for the tradition of "Chanukah Gelt"? Read the rest of this entry »
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The custom dates back to the seventeenth-century practice of Polish Jewry giving money to their small children for distribution to their teachers. In time, money was also given to children to keep for themselves. Teen-age boys soon came in for their share.
According to popular legend, this practice has its roots in the miraculous victory of the Maccabees over the ancient Greeks. In celebration of their victory, the Hasmoneans minted national coins.
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FIN 403: Seminar in Corporate Finance + denotes a primary reading * denotes a reading that appears in The Modern Theory of Corporate Finance 1. Theory of investment and financing under certainty (Week of Aug. 30) +Fama, E.F. and M.H.
FIN 403: Seminar in Corporate Finance
+ denotes a primary reading
* denotes a reading that appears in The Modern Theory of Corporate Finance
1. Theory of investment and financing under certainty (Week of Aug. 30)
+Fama, E.F. and M.H. Miller, The Theory of Finance (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972), Chapters 1 and 2, excluding Appendices.
2. Theory of investment and financing under uncertainty (Week of Sept. 6)
+Fama and Miller, Chapter 4.
+Fama, E.F., 1978, "The Effects of a Firms Investment and Financing Decisions on the Welfare of its Security Holders," American Economic Review 68, 272-284.*
3. Background--Signaling
Akerlof, G., 1970, "The Market for Lemons: Qualitative Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism," Quarterly Journal of Economics 84, 488-500.
Spence, M., 1973, "Job Market Signaling," Quarterly Journal of Economics 87, 355-374.
4. Dividend policy (Week of Sept. 13)
+Black, F., 1976, "The Dividend Puzzle," Journal of Portfolio Management 2, 5-8.*
+Bhattacharya, S., 1979, "Imperfect Information, Dividend Policy and the Bird in the Hand Fallacy," Bell Journal of Economics 10, 259-270.
+Miller, M.H. and K. Rock, 1985, "Dividend Policy Under Asymmetric Information," Journal of Finance 40, 1031-1051.
Stephens, C.P. and M.S. Weisbach, 1998, "Actual Share Reacquisitions in Open-Market Repurchase Programs," Journal of Finance 53, 313-333.
5. Capital structure (Weeks of Sept. 20 and 27)
+Ross, S., 1977, "The Determination of Financial Structure: The Incentive Signalling Approach," Bell Journal of Economics 8, 23-40.
+Miller, M.H., 1977, "Debt and Taxes," Journal of Finance 32, 261-275.
+DeAngelo, H. and R. Masulis, 1980, "Optimal Capital Structure under Corporate and Personal Taxes," Journal of Financial Economics 8, 3-29.*
+Myers, S. and N.S. Majluf, 1984, "Corporate Financing and Investment Decisions When Firms Have Information That Investors Do Not Have," Journal of Financial Economics 13, 178-222.*
Myers, S., 1984, "The Capital Structure Puzzle," Journal of Finance 39, 575-592.
Harris, M. and A. Raviv, 1991, "The Theory of Capital Structure," Journal of Finance 46, 297-355.
Shyam-Sunder, L. and S.C. Myers, 1999, "Testing Static Tradeoff Against Pecking Order Models of Capital Structure," Journal of Financial Economics 51, 219-244.
6. Firm organization and agency costs (Weeks of Oct. 4 and 11)
+Coase, R., 1937, "The Nature of the Firm," Economica 4, 386-405, esp. pp. 386-398.
+Cheung, S., 1983, "The Contractual Nature of the Firm," Journal of Law and Economics 26, 1-21, esp. pp. 1-10, 16-21.
+Fama, E.F., 1980, "Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm," Journal of Political Economy 88, 288-307.
+Jensen, M. and W. Meckling, 1976, "Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure," Journal of Financial Economics 3, 305-360, esp. pp. 305-333, 351-357.*
Fama, E.F. and M. Jensen, 1983a, "Separation of Ownership and Control," Journal of Law and Economics 26, 301-325.
Fama, E.F. and M. Jensen, 1983b, "Agency Problems and Residual Claims," Journal of Law and Economics 26, 327-349.
Easterbrook, F., 1984, "Two Agency-Cost Explanations of Dividends," American Economic Review 74, 650-659.*
7. Security issuance(a) Initial public offerings (Week of Oct. 18)
+Ibbotson, R.G., J.L. Sindelar and J.R. Ritter, "Initial Public Offerings," Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Summer 1988, 37-45.
+Rock, K., 1986, "Why New Issues are Underpriced," Journal of Financial Economics 15, 187-212.
+How, J.C.Y. and J.S. Howe, 1999, "Warrants in Initial Public Offerings: Empirical Evidence," working paper, University of Missouri-Columbia, February.
(b) Secondary offerings (Week of Oct. 25)
+Mikkelson, W. and M. Partch, 1986, "Valuation Effects of Security Offerings and the Issuance Process," Journal of Financial Economics 15, 31-60.
+Loughran, T. and J. Ritter, 1995, "The New Issues Puzzle," Journal of Finance 50, 23-51.
Smith, C., 1986, "Investment Banking and the Capital Acquisition Process," Journal of Financial Economics 15, 3-29.*
Kothari, S.P. and J.B. Warner, 1997, "Measuring Long-Horizon Security Price Performance," Journal of Financial Economics 43, 301-339.
Barber, B.M. and J.D. Lyon, 1997, "Detecting Long-Run Abnormal Stock Returns: The Empirical Power and Specification of Test Statistics," Journal of Financial Economics 43, 341-372.
8. Corporate governance
(a) Boards of directors, compensation, and turnover (Week of Nov. 1)
+Jensen, M. and K. Murphy, 1990, "Performance, Pay and Top Management Incentives," Journal of Political Economy 98, 225-264.
+Yermack, D., 1996, "Higher Market Valuation of Companies with a Small Board of Directors," Journal of Financial Economics 40, 185-211.
Vafeas, N., 1999, "Board Meeting Frequency and Firm Performance," Journal of Financial Economics 53, 113-142.
Denis, D. and D. Denis, 1995, "Performance Changes Follow Top Management Dismissals," Journal of Finance 50, 1029-1057.
(b) Ownership (Weeks of Nov. 8 and 15)
+Shleifer, A. and R. Vishny, 1986, "Large Shareholders and Corporate Control," Journal of Political Economy 95, 461-488.
+Stulz, R., 1988, "Managerial Control of Voting Rights: Financing Policies and the Market for Corporate Control," Journal of Financial Economics 20, 25-54.*
+Denis, D., D. Denis, and A. Sarin, 1997, "Ownership Structure and Top Executive Turnover," Journal of Financial Economics 45, 193-221.
+Cho, M.-H., 1998, "Ownership Structure, Investment, and the Corporate Value: An Empirical Analysis, Journal of Financial Economics 47, 103-121.
Loderer, C. and K. Martin, 1997, "Executive Stock Ownership and Performance: Tracking Faint Traces," Journal of Financial Economics 45, 223-255.
(c) The market for corporate control (Week of Nov. 29)
+Jensen, M., 1986, "Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers," American Economic Review 76, 323-329.*
+Comment, R. and W. Schwert, 1995, "Poison or Placebo? Evidence on the Deterrence and Wealth Effects of Modern Antitakeover Measures," Journal of Financial Economics 39, 3-43.
Roll, R., 1986, "The Hubris Hypothesis of Corporate Takeovers," Journal of Business 59, 197-216.
Bradley, M., A. Desai, and E. Kim, 1988, "Synergistic Gains from Corporate Acquisitions and Their Division between the Stockholders of Target and Acquiring Firms," Journal of Financial Economics 21, 3-40.
(d) Other
Karpoff, J., P. Malatesta, and R. Walkling, 1996, "Corporate Governance and Shareholder Initiatives: Empirical Evidence," Journal of Financial Economics 42, 365-395.
9. Corporate focus (Week of Dec. 6)
+Berger, P. and E. Ofek, 1995, "Diversifications Effect on Firm Value," Journal of Financial Economics 37, 39-65.
+Denis, D., D. Denis, and A. Sarin, 1997, "Agency Problems, Equity Ownership, and Corporate Diversification," Journal of Finance 52, 135-160.
Berger, P.G. and E. Ofek, 1999, "Causes and Effects of Corporate Refocusing Programs," Review of Financial Studies 12, 311-345.
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The English classes at the school are optional for the kids. If the kids start misbehaving, I ask them if they want to stay and they usually say yes and I tell them then need to be quiet and I move on. Sometimes, I actually have ask the kids to leave and they reluctantly do so. Two weeks ago, N, a second grader, was misbehaving and after some warnings, was asked to leave. He stayed in the hall way and a few minutes later a mother of another child, came in and she told me he was still there. Well, I told N he could come back in. The mother stayed in the class and waited for her daughter. N had trouble staying quiet and was still a bit disruptive. When the class was over, the mother told N's grandfather and N got yelled at. I felt so bad for this little boy.
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I wrote a note to his grandfather telling him that N had been so good in class and left another note for the teacher. When I left, I saw N with his father. His father asked me if N was really good in class. I told him, he was perfect in class. So good. N beamed! His father went on to tell me that N's mom was working abroad to bring in enough income for the family. It all made sense to me. He missed his mom, and at 8 years old, doesn't really know how to deal with it, so he acts out. I've seen this before with other kids.
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