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Faculty & Staff
The LAC is a comprehensive and secure digital testing centre. The LAC builds and administers digital assessments in a comfortable, but highly secure environment.
Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Weekday evenings and Saturdays may be available upon request)
The LAC requires booking requests to be submitted a minimum of 5 business days in advance, and are accepted on a first-come first-serve basis. Book early to secure the dates and times you prefer.
Faculty Exam Booking
Six easy steps to book an exam.
What You Need to Know
What kind of assessments can I book at the LAC?
The LAC customizes their service to fit almost any kind of assessment (essays, selected response, multi-media, etc.). Contact us to discuss your particular needs. Most instructors are pleasantly surprised at how flexible digital assessments can be.
What is the difference between a Block Exam and a Flexible Exam?
Exam booking requests fall into two categories:
- Block Exams - All students write together in the LAC at the same time.
- Flexible Exams - Scheduled within a designated date and time range (usually two or more days). The instructor determines the date and time range, and students are allowed to book a time that works for their schedule within that specified timeframe. As the exams are administered outside of class time, instructors have more class time for course content.
How do I book a block exam?
- Complete the online booking form.
- Identify what materials or items, if any, students require to write the exam. Examples include calculators, textbooks, notebooks, etc. Please be specific (i.e. open book using non-digital resources only).
- Optional: Instructors may choose to stay for the full length of the exam block, however, this is not required.
How do I book a flexible exam?
- Complete the online booking form.
- Indicate the date(s) you would like students to complete the exam. For example, instructors can allow students to write an exam over a 24 hour period, a few days, or longer if needed.
- Indicate the duration of the exam. This refers to the time students have to complete their exam once it has been opened.
LAC Services
Pre-Exam Services
- Exam Digitization
Convert and upload paper-based exams to a digital format.
- Question Creation
Professional support in the creation of high-quality test questions.
- Digital Question Bank Management
Creation, storage and maintenance of questions in digital format. Questions can be tagged according to a variety of criteria, such as the level of difficulty and relevant learning outcome(s).
- Student Self-Booking System
Web-based exam booking allows students to write at their own convenience without taking up class time and or the need for instructor involvement.
- Email Reminders
Helpful automated reminders for AR (formerly SAS) student list and exam submission deadlines.
- Exam Consultation
Professional support in the creation of high-quality exams.
Exam Delivery Services
- Check-in/Out
Secure student entry and exit through multiple sources of verification and authorization.
- Live Proctor
Trained proctors invigilate at a ratio of 1 to 50 students.
- Remote Proctor
Service available for students writing at an off-campus location.
- Highly Secure Lab
One-hundred locked down workstations.
- Student Accommodation
We are able to support accommodations such as: extended time, larger font, and a reduced distraction environment.
Post Exam
- Post-Exam Report
An exam administration summary is sent to the instructor providing details on the average time students took to write the exam, proctoring notes, and a list of students who did not write the exam.
- Automatic Scoring
Results are immediately available for most question types.
- Exam Analysis
Exam performance measures are immediately available for most question types.
- Customized Reporting
Generate custom reports to students, ensuring high quality feedback.
- Question Analysis
Individualized sessions with professors to analyze test items and make revisions.
Saving You time
This short video compares traditional exam administration efforts to digital services provided by the LAC.
Commonly Asked Questions
Are "open book" exams allowed in the centre?
Yes. The LAC accommodates instructor requests for this exam style. We have administered open textbooks, open internet, and "open anything" exams.
Does the instructor have to proctor the exam?
No. It is not necessary for the instructor to attend the exam. We will contact you should an issue arise.
Can I have students write in the LAC during my specific class time?
The instructor can choose as large or small a window as they are comfortable with, provided it does not conflict with other bookings.
What format should I use to prepare my exam? (Word, Google Docs?)
We support exams in multiple formats, including Word, Google Docs, Excel and Google Sheets.
What is the benefit of a digital exam in comparison to a traditional paper exam?
- Multiple choice and short answer questions can be instantly marked without using Scantron sheets.
- Students can type short answer or extended response essay formats with ease. Instructors are not required to interpret student handwriting.
- Students can use the accessibility features on the computer to accommodate vision difficulties and preferences.
- Exam markers can access all of the exams in one place from flexible locations. No need to lug around exam booklets for marking.
Is the LAC available as a proctored space for students writing paper-based exams?
The LAC is available for students writing eClass exams. On occasion, the LAC will proctor paper-based exams by request of the instructor.
Is the LAC available for exams during any term and course duration such as IFX and AFX terms?
The Learning Assessment Centre is open year round. The LAC can accommodate exams at any time throughout the semester — regular or condensed, fall, winter, spring and summer.
Learning Assessment Centre Satisfaction Survey
Thank you for using the Learning Assessment Centre. We appreciate any feedback that you are willing to share with the team. Your opinions are highly valued and will remain confidential.


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|Cool Cucumber from DT
Ingredients: Black tea, honeydew melon, cucumber, sunflower, blue mallow blossoms, natural and artificial flavouring.
Yet another you-can-only-get-this-in-the-spring-collection tea. Even though Laura gave me her bag from her collection, I actually tried it for the first time at DavidsTea in store the other day. I had a free tea for joining some frequent customer thing or something (I wasn't paying too much attention and only heard "FREE TEA"), so she suggested Cool Cucumber on ice. Why not?
I was nervous... the smell of the tea is strange, to say the least. Like... gum? It's a very sweet kind of peppermint and it is quite strong. But Chris smelled it and said I was being weird and should try it, so...
Is this tea supposed to be like a cucumber mojito??
The melon and the peppermint are both outstanding flavours, but you do get a good taste of the cucumber as well. The closest flavour likeness that I can think of is the melon flavoured Hi-Chew (like a delicious Japanese starburst kind of candy). The flavour is nowhere near as assaulting to the nastebuds as the scent is to the nose. Light and sweet with a really cool twist of peppermint. It's very unique, and I actually would not mind buying more. I found it really relaxing to sip at. And it would probably make an excellent cocktail base!
Chris even tried it and said that it was not bad. THAT'S A BIG DEAL, GUYS! He also said it reminded him of watermelon fruit roll-ups.
General consensus; it apparently tastes like a variety of melon-y candies.
I have not tried this hot, but I'm quite sure that it was not meant to be enjoyed that way... at least not by me! I may update in the future when I feel like giving it a go, but for now... try it iced; very lovely.
It grows on you.
Yup, I need to buy more!
Happy steeping,
PS No pictures because I drank it all while we wandered the mall.


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Chromate conversion coatings have been widely used for conferring protection to a range of metals. However, their formation is carried out primarily from hexavalent ion CCrVI) solutions, thus causing effluent disposal problems. Molybdates and tungstates are members of the same periodic group, their toxicity is much lower and hence they are logical alternatives. [Continues.]


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Report: Marine general's crude remarks, treatment of women, created a negative work environment
By TOM VANDEN BROOK | USA Today | Published: June 20, 2019
WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — The Marine Corps Commandant's former representative to Congress bullied his staff – including saying he'd castrate one of them – devalued women and created a negative work environment, according to a Pentagon Inspector General report released Wednesday.
Brig. Gen. Norman Cooling was the focus of the inspector general's investigation after the Senate Armed Services Committee complained about his behavior in February 2018. The inspector general referred Cooling's case back to the Marine Corps for discipline, and officials there are reviewing the report, Maj. Brian Block, a Marine spokesman, said Wednesday.
In a letter to investigators, Cooling challenged their findings. He wrote that "aggressive leadership is incorrectly deemed by the investigator to be negative.
"It was my responsibility to maintain the trust and confidence of my subordinates and I clearly pressed them to the point where some experienced work-related stress and may have questioned my motivations," he wrote. "It should be noted that the comments perceived by some as inappropriate were related to substandard performance."
The Marine Corps removed Cooling from his post after seven months. He is currently assigned to the Marine Corps headquarters, Block said.
In a statement, Cooling said the investigation showed that he broke no laws. He also thanked the Marine Corps, which he called his life for 33 years.
"My intent was always to increase the performance of the office, but I did not account for the politically charged environment in which it operates," Cooling said. "I inadvertently offended some through random remarks that were taken in a different context than I intended."
The report on Cooling comes as the military continues to address abuse in its ranks, including sexual harassment and assault. In its latest report, the Pentagon found that reports of sexual assault, for example, had increased 38% from 2016 to 2018.
Among the allegations substantiated by the inspector general against Cooling:
"He publicly yelled to a staff member that if the staff member did not give him requested budget information he would castrate the staff member."
The Senate complaint alleged that Cooling told "members of his staff and a female Marine who was aiming to be a Marine pilot that he would rather have his daughter work in a whorehouse than be a female Marine pilot."
In a meeting with Senate staff, Cooling "made the statement that opening combat roles to women had negatively impacted men because women are physically inferior to men and men could no longer refer to their rifle parts by the names of female body parts."
Cooling disputed many of the findings in the report. For example, he wrote that the castration comment was a joke and that he had used the term "brothel," not whorehouse. He denied making the comments about women in combat.
The inspector general largely disagreed. Investigators interviewed 37 witnesses and reviewed 11,650 emails.
"We substantiated the allegation that Brig. Gen. Cooling's overall course of conduct toward subordinates disparaged, bullied, humiliated them and devalued women," the report concluded. "We determined that Brig. Gen. Cooling conducted himself in a less than exemplary manner in his treatment of subordinates or in comments that devalued women on seven occasions during his 7 month and 17 day tenure at (the Office of Legislative Affairs.)"
The Marine Corps is reviewing the report and will take appropriate action, Block said.
"The Marine Corps expects every Marine, uniformed and civilian – and particularly those in leadership positions – to hold themselves to the highest standards in their personal and professional conduct," Block said in a statement. "When Marines fall short of our standards they are held accountable."
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The Chernobyl cover-up: Chilling book reveals how Soviets knew for 10 YEARS that the reactor which blew a mile-high plume of radioactive dust across Europe was an accident waiting to happen
It was past midnight, and even at Chernobyl, the vast nuclear power plant overshadowing the quiet Ukrainian town of Pripyat, there was little sign of life aside from two off-duty workers fishing in the darkness on the concrete banks of a cooling pond.
Their lines were still sunk in the warm outflow from the nuclear reactors when a thunderous boom engulfed them, an explosion so loud it sounded like an aircraft breaking the sound barrier.
The ground trembled. They were struck by a shock wave. And they watched as a plume of black smoke and hot debris arced upwards from the ruined plant.
Later, when the smoke had cleared, a shimmering pillar of ethereal blue-white light reached straight up into the darkened sky, disappearing into infinity.
Delicate and strange, the phosphorescence was created by the radioactive ionisation of air – an almost certain sign of an unshielded nuclear reactor open to the atmosphere.
The explosion at Chernobyl on April 26, 1986, remains the worst catastrophe in the history of nuclear power. About 30 workers and members of the emergency services died of acute radiation sickness soon afterwards.
The lives of the families living in its shadow were changed for ever, too. But the disaster went far beyond Pripyat.
Blown high into the atmosphere, radioactive debris from the newest of Chernobyl's four reactors spread across Earth's entire northern hemisphere, from Czechoslovakia to Japan.
A mile-high plume of the most deadly isotopes passed north and west, sweeping round Scandinavia, Snowdonia, Scotland and the Lake District.
In the three decades since the explosion, thousands of people are thought to have died of various cancers, with the estimates ranging from 4,000 upwards to – according to some projections – hundreds of thousands.
After years of work in archives around the world and interviews with scores of eyewitnesses, I have pieced together what really happened on that April night and in the terrible days that followed.
There were many episodes of selflessness and courage.
But the destruction at Chernobyl revealed the incompetence, corruption and moral decay that ultimately helped destroy the USSR from within.
The immediate causes were design flaws and a series of human errors made within the space of just a few terrifying minutes.
In some circumstances, the reactors built at Chernobyl were susceptible to a runaway chain reaction – the same process at the heart of an atomic bomb.
Indeed, there had already been a partial meltdown in Leningrad in 1975, where a confidential study made it clear that accidents were not merely possible, they were terrifyingly likely – even in the course of day-to-day operations.
Yet for more than a decade, the USSR's nuclear establishment kept these design faults a deadly secret.
In truth, the cataclysm was born of the planned economy and communist bureaucracy itself.
For this was an empire of falsified statistics, of unattainable deadlines easily beaten by corner-cutting, sullen indifference to individual responsibility, terror at conveying bad news to superiors and chains of toadying yes-men clinging to their comfortable party privileges. They made the disaster at Chernobyl almost inevitable.
The control room for the fourth reactor at the plant was a large, windowless box, about 60ft by 30ft with a polished stone floor and low suspended ceiling. Beneath the sickly fluorescent strip lights, a rancid haze of cigarette smoke hung in the air.
It was 11.55pm on Friday, April 25, 1986, and the mood was tense. A time-consuming safety test scheduled to finish that afternoon had not yet begun.
It was designed to check whether the water pumps that cooled one of the four reactors could be kept running in the event of a total power blackout.
In such a dangerous situation, the electricity for pumps that kept water circulating through the core would be cut and, although emergency generators would kick in, it would take time – potentially long enough for catastrophic overheating and a core meltdown to begin.
The test should have been carried out before the reactor was commissioned in December 1983 but, anxious to meet state-imposed deadlines, officials skipped it. Now it was to take place during a scheduled shutdown for maintenance.
The controls were manned by a team of four, a shift foreman at the back and three operators who sat at panels festooned with switches, buttons, gauges, lamps and alarms.
It was past midnight when electricity grid officials in Kiev gave the go-ahead and the control room began slowly to reduce the amount of power the reactor was generating so the test could take place.
Stepping up to the instruments on the reactor control desk was 25-year-old Leonid Toptunov.
Just two months into the job, he was about to pilot the reactor through a shutdown for the first time in his life – an extraordinary responsibility.
The test sounded simple enough: operators would press a button cutting power to the cooling water pumps, simulating a power blackout. Moments later, emergency diesel generators would start and the pumps would circulate water through the reactor core once again.
But then, at 12.28pm, Toptunov made a critical mistake and the computer began reducing the power beyond his control.
A series of alarms sounded, but Toptunov couldn't stop the numbers from falling.
Within two minutes, the display was almost at zero – he had all but shut down the reactor before the test had even begun.
It should have been abandoned there and then, but it was not. Instead the order was given that the power should be increased once again ready for the procedure – leaving the reactor now disastrously unmanageable.
It was 1.22am. The control room was calm. It would all be over in seconds. But, by now, Chernobyl Reactor Number Four was a pistol with the hammer cocked.
Then, as the test began, every one of the design flaws moved into a deadly confluence.
Water passing through the core moved slower and grew hotter, and more and more of it turned to steam; reactivity increased further, releasing more heat and creating more steam.
After just 36 seconds, the test was complete, and the order came to shut down the reactor.
But it was too late. Deep inside the reactor, the chain reaction was already out of control. The process leading to meltdown had begun.
A frightening succession of alarms began to sound. Warning lamps flashed red. Electric buzzers squawked angrily. Toptunov shouted a warning: Power surge!
There was a roar and the building started to vibrate. The reactor was destroying itself. Within three seconds, its power leapt to a hundred times maximum. There was a loud bang. The uranium fuel pellets were melting.
The temperature inside the reactor rose to 4,650C – almost as hot as the surface of the sun.
A blast equivalent to 60 tons of TNT demolished the upper walls of the reactor hall and tossed the vast 2,000-ton steel and concrete lid of the reactor into the air like a flipped coin.
Almost seven tons of uranium fuel, together with pieces of zirconium and radioactive graphite, were hurled into the sky, together with a mixture of gas and aerosols containing some of the most dangerous substances known to man –iodine 131, neptunium 239, caesium 137, strontium 90 and plutonium 239.
Inside the plant, the surviving workers were met with an apocalyptic sight. Broken glass, shattered concrete panels, tumbled blocks of graphite and lumps of metal lay everywhere.
A few dazed operators ran here and there through showers of sparks and geysers of scalding steam.
The gigantic steel water tanks had been torn apart like wet cardboard, the ends of fractured pipework hung in mid-air and, above the wreckage, where the roof of the huge reactor building had once been, there were only stars. Reactor Number Four was gone.
When the first ambulances filled with firemen and workers from the plant pulled up at Medical-Sanitary Centre Number 126 in the early hours of Saturday morning, the staff were quickly overwhelmed.
At first, no one understood what they were dealing with. The faces of some victims were a terrible purple; others, a deathly white.
Soon all of them were retching and vomiting, filling wash basins and buckets until they had emptied their stomachs, and even then unable to stop. The triage nurse began to cry. By morning, 90 patients had been admitted.
The worst affected would later be taken to Moscow's Hospital Number Six. They had been attacked by radiation from both inside and out.
As their white blood cell counts collapsed, infection crawled across the skin of the young operators and firemen. Thick black blisters encrusted their lips and the inside of their mouths. The skin of their gums peeled back, leaving them the colour of raw meat.
Unlike heat burns, which heal slowly over time, radiation burns grow gradually worse – expanding from wherever radioactive material had touched them, eating into the tissue below.
The men's body hair and eyebrows fell out, and their skin darkened – first red, then purple, before finally it became a papery brown-black and curled away in sheets.
Inside their bodies, the radiation ate away the lining of their intestines and corroded their lungs.
As the scale of the crisis became clear, the Soviet authorities reacted with calls for patriotic sacrifice – and secrecy.
When an official at Chernobyl said the 50,000 inhabitants of Pripyat should be warned, the director of the station cut his telephone lines.
Nuclear engineers on the morning shift tried to warn their families. Some managed to reach them by phone and told them to stay indoors, even though they knew the KGB was listening.
One packed his family into the car to take them to safety, only to be turned back by armed police. The city had been sealed off.
The town knew something was wrong for sure by nightfall when even the radio speaker boxes in every apartment remained silent.
These 'radio points' hung on the walls of homes throughout the Soviet Union, piping in propaganda just like gas and electricity.
But it was a full 32 hours after the accident before the order was given to evacuate, at 10am on Sunday, April 27.
By then Pripyat had already been dusted with nuclear fallout. (Apartment blocks in Kiev – 110 miles away – where the residents of Pripyat were rehoused, were later found to have hundreds of times the normal level of radiation.)
And there was no official statement from the Politburo until Monday evening, almost three days after the event.
'An accident has taken place at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,' said an announcer from Radio Moscow. 'Measures are being taken to eliminate the consequences.'
The following evening, the Soviet Council of Ministers conceded that two people had been killed, that a section of the reactor building had been destroyed, and that Pripyat had been evacuated. There was no mention of a radioactive release, yet there was no escaping it, either.
The cloud of contamination had continued north and spread west to envelop Scandinavia, before drifting south over Poland and forming a wedge that moved down into Germany.
Chernobyl was headline news in the West.
Supported by the KGB, the Soviet nuclear industry was determined to suppress the truth – that the Chernobyl disaster was the conclusion to years of lying and ingrained incompetence.
Initially, the Soviets stated that it was the result of an all-but-impossible coincidence of events.
Then, three months later, following a secret commission of inquiry, the Politburo issued its verdict: 'The accident had been caused by a series of gross breaches of the operational regulations of the reactor by workers at the atomic power station.'
In other words, the workers were to blame. Court proceedings followed and the control room officials who had somehow survived the blast and radiation sickness were sent to prison camps.
There was no mention of any design faults in the reactor. But behind closed doors, Gorbachev and the Politburo already knew the facts – and that the Soviet nuclear industry had been hiding a terrible secret.
They had known since 1975 and the Leningrad accident that one of their reactors was likely to explode – and with unspeakable consequences.
Constructed as giant cylinders of graphite, the Chernobyl reactors were more than 20 times the size of Western equivalents and capable of producing so much electricity that each one could power at least a million modern homes – a tribute to the Soviet obsession with colossal architecture and engineering – 'gigantomania'.
The USSR's evangelical nuclear scientists had proclaimed this model the 'national' reactor and rushed it into production at stations planned from the Gulf of Finland to the Caspian Sea. They didn't even bother with a prototype.
Yet, for all the boasts about the power of the 'red atom', the design of the massive Chernobyl reactors was hopelessly flawed. They were unstable and capricious, particularly at low power.
It is a particular irony that by spring 1986, Chernobyl was, officially, one of the best-performing nuclear stations in the Soviet Union, and scheduled to receive the Order of Lenin, the state's highest honour.
Even the destruction unleashed by Reactor Number Four could not match the explosive political consequences that would follow.
Gorbachev's personal reputation in the West as a reformer had been tarnished.
Now, on the third floor of a gloomy Kremlin office block, he accused the Soviet nuclear establishment of presiding over a secret state.
'For 30 years, you told us that everything was perfectly safe. You assumed we would look up to you as gods,' he said. 'That's the reason why all this happened, why it ended in disaster.'
It was devastating assessment. Even the Soviet nuclear bureaucracy had been undermined by secrecy, incompetence and stagnation. He knew now that the entire Soviet apparatus was rotten, and it intensified his drive for reform.
The Soviet public, too, began to discover just how deeply it had been misled.
Chernobyl finally shattered the illusion that the Soviet Union was a global superpower armed with technology that led the world.
Even the most faithful citizens faced the realisation that their leaders were corrupt and that the communist dream was a sham.
© Adam Higginbotham, 2019
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After Miss Ohio 2018, I threw myself into travel, law school shopping and focused on moving to a new state. I convinced myself that if I could see myself in those places, then I could find myself in those places. The real Mara existed out there, and she sure wasn't in Columbus, Ohio.
I was certain that if I could just plan where I could go to law school, where I would work after graduation, who would be there with me, and every detail of how my life would look, then as long as I planned it down to the letter, then I would be happy. And there, with all of my pieces of my puzzle in order, I would find the real Mara. And I would live in a beautiful city where I would go to law school, fall in love, eat amazing food, and live a life of complete bliss in this new place where all of the puzzle was just waiting for me to arrive.
If you don't know me very well, here's the inside scoop: I'm a planner, if you haven't noticed. I plan. That's. My. Thing.
So when I held all of these delicate jigsaw pieces in my hands, I tried so hard to put them all together, sometimes forcing pieces into my life that I knew didn't fit there just to be a step closer to the beautiful picture that I thought would be waiting for me at the end.
In my last semester at Ohio State, I didn't get to spend the time I would have liked to enjoy my university. I will love Ohio State until my little buckeye heart stops beating. I wanted to spend my last semester enjoying the school, my friends, and my new title as Miss Franklin County.
Instead, my last semester was spent wasting emotional energy on people who did not deserve it, on classes that I was frustrated with, with the scramble of balancing my mental health, projects, and two jobs. It felt like I was wasting my last six months has a Buckeye. To this day, I still feel like I wasted my last semester of school.
I remember saying (out loud) that I wanted to have hope in the future, and I wanted to have faith that this too would end, but that for the first time in my life I didn't feel a drop of hope anymore. I had no belief in the light at the end. I had no belief that I would ever dig myself out of this hole that I fell into. For the first time in my life, I felt truly helpless.
I didn't know if I wanted to go to law school or get a job right away, what type of job I wanted, or how I was going to get it. I didn't know if things would get better. I didn't know that I wanted to be Miss Ohio anymore. I didn't know that I could ever feel worthy of the title.
I imagine everyone would be afraid of a moment like this. As a type A list-making machine, the path to somewhere I couldn't see through the fog was debilitating. This is when I learned how powerful it could be if I could just of suppress my emotions. This is a very fine line, and I'm the first to admit that I've stepped on the wrong side of it more times than I'd like to admit.
On this road, I scrambled. I tripped, I fell for the wrong things, people and I made more mistakes than I'm proud of. I neglected my duties within the Miss America Organization, I put my crown in a box and tried to pretend that just for once, if I didn't think about it, it didn't exist. But I made it through the fog. I honestly have no idea how.
I graduated a semester early with an honors diploma and a 4.0 GPA in my senior year at The Ohio State University on December 16th, 2018.
On December 20th, I went for a run (red flag) and felt a tug on my heart.
My dream of being Miss Ohio went dormant while I finished school, but on that day I was sure that I was meant to walk the path back to competition in 2019.
In January I hit the ground running, reaching back out to all of the organizations I've made partnerships with like Platform Women, The Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence, and Ohio State greek life. I began new partnerships with amazing people that I met with IGNITE, and began to grow in every step that I took. The day that I sat down to prepare for my first speaking engagement, I wrote a story into my speech that I didn't know I had within me.
There was no stopping me after that. I booked myself for appearance after appearance, learning how to market myself as an advocate and public speaker. I did seven appearances in five days in April, with three in one day. I pushed myself… hard. I wanted to prove to myself that I could do the job of being Miss Ohio.
I didn't want to be Miss Ohio for Saturday night, I wanted to be Miss Ohio for Sunday morning.
And for every second after that. I was ready for the meeting that came the next day at 9 AM. I prepared, I grew, I checked off every single thing on my list, and I am so proud of the person that I put on that stage. The Mara I always knew that I could be, the Mara that I always wanted to be, the Mara that I've been waiting to become.
So June came and went. The women that became my sisters are the biggest reason that I made it through that week.
Miss Ohio 2019 changed my life forever, even without the crown on my head. In 2018, I learned who Mara was. In 2019, I learned to love who Mara is now. Letting the judges into my heart was vulnerable, challenging, and over far too quickly. But no matter what happens on Saturday night, there will always be Sunday morning. And Sunday morning, just like Saturday night, was gone in the blink of an eye.
If you made it this far, you're either super bored or you're one of my parents. Either way, hope it was worth the recap.
(Hi Mom and Dad.)


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On July 30, the Washington National Cathedral released a statement strongly condemning the rhetoric of President Donald Trump. This was before the most recent shootings in El Paso and Dayton and in the context of Trump's inflammatory remarks about Rep. Elijah Cummings and the city of Baltimore as well as earlier remarks about four U.S. congresswomen of color.
The statement was titled "Have We No Decency: A Response to President Trump," and it was meant to recall the tipping point when the inflammatory anti-communism of Senator Joseph McCarthy was finally challenged by some of his fellow senators and a few brave members of the press.
We talked with the rector of St. Stephens Episcopal Church in Sebastopol for local reaction to the story. Rev. Christy Laborda Harris supported the national statement, and has used her own pulpit to encourage the president to modify his anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric. She began by reading from the National Cathedral's statement.
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Suppose is a mixture distribution that is the result of mixing a family of conditional distributions indexed by a parameter random variable . The uncertainty in the parameter variable has the effect of increasing the unconditional variance of the mixture . Thus, is not simply the weighted average of the conditional variance . The unconditional variance is the sum of two components. They are:
The above relationship is called the law of total variance, which is the proper way of computing the unconditional variance . The first component is called the expected value of conditional variances, which is the weighted average of the conditional variances. The second component is called the variance of the conditional means, which represents the additional variance as a result of the uncertainty in the parameter .
We use an example of a two-point mixture to illustrate the law of total variance. The example is followed by a proof of the total law of variance.
Let be the uniform distribution on the unit interval . Suppose that a large population of insureds is composed of "high risk" and "low risk" individuals. The proportion of insured classified as "low risk" is where . The random loss amount of a "low risk" insured is . The random loss amount of a "high risk" insured is shifted by a positive constant , i.e. . What is the variance of the loss amount of an insured randomly selected from this population?
For convenience, we use as a parameter to indicate the risk class ( is "low risk" and is "high risk"). The following shows the relevant conditional distributional quantities of .
The unconditional mean loss is the weighted average of the conditional mean loss amounts. However, the same idea does not work for variance.
The conditional variance is the same for both risk classes since the "high risk" loss is a shifted distribution of the "low risk" loss. However, the unconditional variance is more than since the mean loss for the two casses are different (heterogeneous risks across the classes). The uncertainty in the risk classes (i.e. uncertainty in the parameter ) introduces additional variance in the loss for a randomly selected insured. The unconditional variance is the sum of the following two components:
The additional variance is in the amount of . This is the variance of the conditional means of the risk classes. Note that is the additional mean loss for a "high risk" insured. The higher the additional mean loss , the more heterogeneous in risk between the two classes, hence the larger the dispersion in unconditional loss.
The total law of variance gives the unconditional variance of a random variable that is indexed by another random variable . The unconditional variance of is the sum of two components, namely, the expected value of conditional variances and the variance of the conditional means. The formula is:
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I think we all have them. Times when we have prayed for something and felt like God did not hear us and/or is not answering our prayers.
My 10 year old son experienced this and in a conversation after dinner last night shared with me his hurt around this very subject. He said to me " Mom, I just feel like God does not answer my prayers" and he started crying. This broke my heart and my brain raced as I tried to come up with the right answer. I immediately prayed a silent prayer "God please help me answer this with your spirit and not mess up my kid" ( that is a topic in of itself left for a later discussion, lol) . After all, I knew this really was not merely about the prayer being answered ... but it came down to the fact that he felt like if God did not answer his prayer that meant he did not love him. A very real and raw moment. Although this came from my 10 year old child , how often even as adults we all have this same question, this same hurt, this same reality.
"How come you don't answer my prayers, God?"
First off and most critically I had to address the most important matter at hand ... GOD LOVES YOU! "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son..." John 3:16. No matter what our feelings may tell us we must rely on the truth of God and not how we may feel about Him or how we may feel He feels toward us. An answer to prayer or lack thereof is in no way a measuring stick of His love for us. If we take the bible at it's word and believe what it says ... it tells us that God loves us. We are His creation. He knows every hair on our head , he knows our every thought , and He longs to spend time with us. So even if we feel upset with God or hurt we can proclaim His truth that no matter what He loves us. No where in the bible does it teach us that if God does not answer your prayer than means He does not love you. That simply is not true and comes from only the enemy. So let's recognize it for what it is and make the choice to believe in His truth that He loves us.
Secondly we talked about what it is that we pray for. I used an example that I could pray for a convertible sports car to show up tomorrow morning and probably would wake up to find no such car in my driveway .(bummer!) He laughed at this and said " Well, yah Mom ... that makes sense ". But I challenged him ... sometimes we pray for something that might seem like a perfectly legitimate need to us but God has a wisdom that is so much greater than ours. What it is that we are praying for may be asking for a sports car of sorts . A good example of this might be someone praying to get out of debt. God is a God of miracles and He undoubtedly could perform a miracle to release someone out of debt. But ultimately and most likely the reason why that person is in debt is because of a problem in their lives which requires healing. Simply taking the problem away will temporarily alleviate the symptoms of the problem and since the root cause of the problem still exists the same symptoms or even worse will come up again and again and again. How many times have we witnessed this or even experienced it in our own lives? Consequences are an important part of building our character and through the pain that consequences bring we can heal, learn, and grow. This is much more important than temporarily alleviating our situation. Fortunately, God knows this therefore He would never answer a prayer that would cause us more harm at the cost of our character even if that means we may have to go through some growing pains and struggles. The bible does teach us if we ask we shall receive and many do not have because they do not ask but we have to be careful because it also teaches us ... according to His will. We are to bring our prayers to the Lord but God can not deliver that which is not in His will or in other words goes against His character. First and foremost it goes back to the fact that He loves us and anything that He does for us is out of that love. Probably one of the most mature things we can do as Christians when we ask God for something is to trust Him in that if it is something that is not meant for you ,maybe even harmful to you and not part of His plan/will in your life it may not come to pass. But we can rest assure if that is the case that His plan is the best plan , yes ... better than ours , even though we may try to convince Him otherwise.
Another dilemma in prayer is that sometimes we treat God like a Genie in a bottle and think we can say a prayer and "poof" it will be done. Prayer takes faith ... Jesus tells us in Luke 17:6 that " ... if we have the faith of a mustard seed we can move mountains." Faith is something that is built over time. Sometimes we give up all too easy and don't stick with it. I personally know people who have prayed for years for family members to be healed of addictions, illnesses, and/or finding God. Sometimes it is not that God is not answering our prayers but that it is not in His timing ... right now. He may be working on an aspect of our lives that is ultimately more important and if we are praying for someone else He may be working on that in their lives. As the saying goes "A delay is not necessarily a denial" . Don't give up , keep praying - that is what faith is all about.
Lastly , I had to be honest with my son. God is a God of mystery too - sometimes there will be things that we don't understand. I have seen parents with sick children pray for their child to heal and their child suffers and dies ... and I can't understand why. There is a lot of suffering in this world and unanswered prayers around such suffering that I can not explain. But I know that does not mean that God does not care or that He does not love us ... that His will sometimes will elude us , it will crush us emotionally, and we will want to scream "Why God , why?" but even in the midst of that we can hang on to the fact that He does love us and He is there and someday we will have a greater understanding. In the meantime - we can take that frustration, that anger, that hurt directly to Him ... one of the worst things we can do is to hide from God when we feel hurt by Him ... He is God , He can handle it and we really can't hide anyhow. Take it to Him ... yell, scream, cry ... whatever ... He is your God , a God of relationship.
Will all our prayers get answered ? No. But (not to sound too cliche or hokey) just as the song by Garth Brooks goes " some of God's greatest gift's are unanswered prayers". Someday we will have the big picture ... until then keep praying and keep trusting in Him. It's a journey well worth traveled.
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REM First we need to create a list of files in one of the locations
REM so that we can compare items in that list to the second location
REM and look for a match.
dir c:\mypic /b *.bmp > location1list.tmp
REM now we'll use that to compare to the other location
REM and list any files that match
for /f %%a in (location1list.tmp) do dir c:\mypic\newfolder\%%a > location2list.tmp
REM ok so now we have a list of all the files in location 2
REM that have the same name as a file in location 1
REM now all we have to do is rename those
for /f %%a in (location2list.tmp) do ren c:\mypic\newfolder\%%a 1234numbers%%a
REM ok so now all of the files in location 2
REM that matched a file name in location 1
REM have been renamed with prefix like 1234numbers*.bmp
REM now all we have to do is move the files from location 1
REM to location 2
for %%a in (location1.tmp) do move /Y c:\mypic\%%a c:\mypic\newfolder


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Introduction to Theater students receive a general overview of theater as a whole.
They study:
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- body movement/language
- scene work
- classic plays
- and staged readings of contemporary plays.
The goal of this first class is to help our students find their voice as they are asked to write, direct, act and produce their own work.
Introduction to Theater is followed by Play Production and Advanced Acting.
Play Production
Play Production teaches our students what it takes to produce of a full theatrical event. Our play production students learn more about advertising and marketing events, stage management, lighting, etc.
The goal in this pathway is to prepare our students to be able to leave Northview with a working knowledge of all realms of theater so they can pursue all aspects of theater as a career.
Depending on enrollment, this pathway ends with Advanced Acting or Play Production II. A culminating event for all classes is an outside production. Our teacher facilitates these events. Our students have seen play productions such as Hello, Dolly! and Wicked.
Our Theater Arts presents four productions a year, two of which are entirely student produced.
Students are responsible for auditions, rehearsals, stage management, all technical aspects, and performance, as well as front of house (tickets, concessions, publicity etc.) The final production of the year is also student written.
Our FAME theater track also presents a 6-week Saturday program for Elementary and Jr High School students which introduces them to some of the basics of storytelling, creating characters, improvisation exercises, and short scene work. This program is designed and run by FAME students. Our theater arts teacher has over 35 years of professional theater experience in both performing and directing.


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Okay, so I live in the Midwest and have seen a lot of different states for at least driving through between between Michigan and as far out west as Kansas, and as far east as North Carolina and Florida. I've also been to Arizona (not a huge fan). I just realized that I have no clue what the Northwestern states are really like and want to see one of them at some point.
As far as natural scenery goes, which Northwestern state do you think is the prettiest and most worth going to visit? I'm not looking for hunting and fishing, just being out and seeing the nature. Also, what time of year would be best for doing this?


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Covid19 and the Macroeconomic Effects of Costly Disasters
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NBER Working Paper No. 26987
The outbreak of covid19 has significantly disrupted the economy. This note attempts to quantify the macroeconomic impact of costly and deadly disasters in recent US history, and to translate these estimates into an analysis of the likely impact of covid19. A costly disaster series is constructed over the sample 1980:1-2019:12 and the dynamic impact of a costly disaster shock on economic activity and on uncertainty is studied using a VAR. Unlike past natural disasters, covid19 is a multi-month shock that is not local in nature, disrupts labor market activities rather than destroys capital, and harms the social and physical well being of individuals. Calibrating different shock profiles to reflect these features, we find that the effects of the event last from two months to over a year, depending on the sector of the economy. Even a conservative calibration of a 3-month, 60 standard deviation shock is forecast to lead to a cumulative loss in industrial production of 12.75% and in service sector employment of nearly 17% or 24 million jobs over a period of ten months, with increases in macro uncertainty that last five months.
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PAW Patrol Don't Drop Chase Action Game from Cardinal
Paw Patrol Games Don't Drop Chase Don't Break the Ice Mini Pup Toys Chase Skye Marshall Kids Video
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Can you keep Chase from falling through the ice in this exciting Paw Patrol game?
Chase is on the case but has gotten stuck on the ice. Help him by tapping out ice blocks one at a time with the ice hammer.
Each player taps out one ice block per turn. The more you tap the faster the blocks fall. Tread carefully and don't drop Chase!
A great game for 2-4 players and ages five and up.
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I got a nice message from the Dessert Club's organizer Steve today. The season has ended but next season is right around the corner. I do hope to go to many more shows next season. I hope that we can convert other dessert clubbers as well. So look out we'll be looking for you to come with us for a night of folky fun and fantastic food.
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RARE ACURA WATCH PLUS PKG! Adaptive Cruise Control, Lane Keeping Assist, Lane Departure Warning, Collision Mitigation, Backup Camera, Heated Seats, Moon Roof, Bluetooth, Premium Sound System Push Button Start, Steering Wheel Controls, Alloy Wheels & Tow PKG! Only 29K Miles & In Excellent Condition.
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Omg best service I have ever had
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" I had a terrible sales experience with Hopkins where I walked out and purchased my Acura elsewhere. I dreaded going back for a warranty item, I was pleasantly surprised with Kah he was friendly, helpful, went to bat for me on a warranty item. Got me an Uber and followed up with me. Hopkins May have won back a customer. "
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" his is for the new sales manager, Christian. My first two experiences with Hopkins acura has been a run-a-around and almost took my business elsewhere. I stopped by with my family and was immediately told I can only buy a new RDX with no discount. Second time I called and salesman or whoever was pretty straight forward with the same attitude. From word of mouth from a business partner I know I was referred to Christian (small world) and he approached the situation differently. We had a long conversation about the 2019 RDX and talked more about what me and my wife wanted than just buying the car.... if you ever have the opportunity to deal with Christian you will find a different experience. "
" So impressed by everyone here in the dealer shop!!! Brought my 2013 TL to Acura Dealer in Santa Clara, because of very noisy engine, was sold two very expensive (800+$) services. Nothing changed. Friend recommended Hopkins Acura. Went, mind blowing experience!!! Greeted by KahFai with wonderful service. Shop foreman was able to diagnose the two problems and car was fixed in a few days while I drove a beautiful loaner (no loaner in Santa Clara, thumbs-down). Turns out I have extended warranty. No charge on the repair at all. Better yet, when I was in the dealer, Pablo showed me good deals of new SUV lease, was able to get a really good deal and signed a leasing RDX on the spot. What impressed me the most is: after I signed the lease, drove away the SUV, Kao (internet sales director) and Fiu (sales director) spoke with their finance person and found me a better financing deal, got a hefty refund!!! These gentlemen really go the extra mile!!! Feeling like a kid receiving a X'mas gift. Hooray! Highly recommend this awesome place for your car repair and purchase/leasing needs. "
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The European Union and Ukraine can do a lot to deepen their existing ties before looking at the country`s possible membership of the bloc, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday, according to Reuters.
`We have lots to do to reinforce ties with Ukraine without possible accession,` Sarkozy told a news conference after an emergency EU summit on the Georgia conflict.
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Abbey Clancy left upset over her BRIT Awards dress as she accuses stylist of 'making a fool of her' at the Warner afterparty
The model didn't hold back as she told friend her true feelings about the dress
ABBEY Clancy revealed she hated her striking dress at The BRIT Awards as she told friends her stylist had made "a fool" out of her.
The stunning model was heard telling friends at the Warner Music and Ciroc afterparty how much she hated the "s***" dress, before admitting her husband Peter Crouch also wasn't a fan of the ensemble.
Abbey had posed up a storm on the night as she hit the red carpet in her striking one-shoulder deconstructed tuxedo dress by Haider Ackerman.
The black and white striped dress had been styled with a thick waist belt and she appeared to be wearing a black vest top underneath.
She highlighted her model legs with black heeled sandals but as the night went on it Abbey become more and more frustrated with the outfit.
Abbey was heard moaning to her friends in the ladies room as she branded the dress as a "s***" option for her stylist to have given her.
The star backed up her thoughts by admitting that her footballer husband didn't like the striped dress.
One reason Abbey might have been so upset with her outfit could be the unfortunate wardrobe malfunction she suffered earlier in the night.
Abbey was left pulling her dress down as her rising hemline left her pants on display.
The Britain's Next Top Model host was left red-faced when she accidentally showed off her pants.
Abbey braved the strong winds and was forced to hold her skirt in place as she headed to her waiting car.
The former Strictly champ looked all partied out as she snuggled up to hubby Peter Crouch in the back of a taxi..
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