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Blowing through the desert at 85 miles per hour, Teri kept her eyes on the road. When she slowed to 55 mph the world seemed to shift and tilt, pale colors coming into sharper focus. I thought of a flight attendant gripping a microphone saying 'this is our final approach, please stow your tray tables' and all that shit, but it occurred to me that we might be landing in a dimension I knew nothing about, unprepared with stun guns and a few magazines of .40 ammo, our Glock 23s and a shotgun. I had a feeling this wasn't a .40 caliber world anymore. Teri slowed down so she could make a left turn and braked nearly to a crawl to get over the first thick ridge of hardened clay that formed a barrier. We cleared the clay ridge and looked west over an empty prairie plain, sagebrush, scraped clean with wind that had been blowing for eons. Teri eased the big Chevy into the rutted road moving the steering wheel with little flicks of her wrists. After a mile and a half of bumping along the clay, Teri slowed, rolled the window down.
"Smell the sagebrush?" She said.
"Beats that fucking putrid rest stop bathroom stall stench. Jesus." I shook my head and opened the door staying strapped in the leather bucket seat. "Teri, I know that gas station -Navajo-tourist-stop is right around here somewhere, but I'm just not seeing it right now. My eyes blurred up when we screeched to a halt on that runway back there. Tell me when we get there."
"We're there."
"Come on, I gotta pee."
"The world is yours, Mat. Do what you gotta do."
Forging out to a stand of brush that hid my doings, I took a leak. Then I took another look around. Off in the distance a third of a mile stood a low bungalow, half of it was pale ochre, the other rust red. A man sat on a stool wearing a wide brim hat and a bright turquoise shirt. No privacy anymore, I thought, nowhere to hide your moments of necessity. I walked through the soft clay dust and got back in the Chevy. Teri steered the big SUV another seventy five yards in the direction of the hut, stopped it a hundred yards away and shut it down. She motioned to get out and we walked past a scattered collection of tin cans, skeletal remains of barbecue grills, microwave ovens, a vacuum cleaner that had sucked its last dust and a torn half panel of what looked like a small billboard with the pasted photo of an Indian man with a wrinkled face the texture of fault lines viewed from five thousand feet in the air. When Teri stopped, I stopped. She raised her hand at the man, who remained still. Finally, slowly, the wide brim lowered into a nod of acceptance, and Teri touched my left arm just above my elbow. Walking toward the man, I could see his eyes now, deep-set in thick folds of bronze skin, his hands folded in front of his large belly. Held between his thick clasped hands, a thin wooden shaft with brown and white feathers tied at one end.
"There are cold drinks in the refrigerator," he said. Teri went inside and the man called out, "Bring the folding chairs next to the water cooler." In a moment Teri came out holding three cans of Sprite and two brown folding metal chairs. I set up the chairs and we sat and all three of us popped open the cans.
"You have come from Flagstaff?" the man said.
"Yes," Teri said. "This is Mat Arroyo, my partner from the Yuma office. Mat, this is Sicheii."
"Grandfather," I said. I smiled at him.
"You know Navajo?" he said.
"A few names is all."
"Teri, I see your father in my dreams many times these days. He says you are protected and the land, it is no longer the sacred place. The big birds are everywhere."
"Airplanes?" Teri said.
Sicheii nodded with his wide brim felt hat. When the brim dipped below his eyes it was if the sun had gone down, the light gone from his soul until he brought his head up again and the brilliant black of his eyes focused on me. He pointed to the west with his thumb, over his shoulder. "That way. At night mostly. They don't have lights but I can hear them."
I looked at Teri. "Airplanes are landing out here, on the Reservation?" I said.
Sicheii said yes, his brown brim flapping up and down.
"If you want ice," Sichee said, "there is some in the freezer. You have to pick it out with the hammer in the top drawer by the toaster. There are glasses. I don't use the glasses anymore." He laughed and grinned, the wrinkles spreading around his dark eyes. "I don't like to wash them."
"Hey," I said, "I don't wash dishes as much as I used to, either. You're sure the airplanes are landing? Or just cruising the edges of the canyon."
Before Sicheei continued, Teri unfolded the USGS Topographical map and showed it to him. "Sicheei, how far are the fire lookout towers from here? According to my map, there are two along the canyon rim, but they look like they're still several miles from here. Do you know?"
"Two, maybe. Many years ago I used to ride out there to the canyon. Not for a long time."
I said "Does anybody from the Rez go out there?"
"First, Mr. Arroyo, I hear the engines of the planes. After midnight. They have come in right over this house. Then the engines stop. Later they start up again, and they rev them up to high speed when they take off."
Teri looked at me. Then she spoke in Navajo. She explained to me that she wanted to speak to Sicheei in his native words so she could be sure what he was talking about. Later on in the Tahoe she would explain to me what was going on. Sicheei motioned to me, then out to the land, and I took a walk. At the Tahoe, I spread out another map on the back seat and tried to pinpoint the position of Sicheei's house. Fifteen miles from his house, was the eastern end of the Canyon. The Colorado River separated the Navajo reservation from the National Park. Teri would know the road conditions and roughly how many houses might be in between Sicheei's house and the Canyon. Scanning the sky over the horizon, only white clouds were moving, and there weren't as many as when we'd been coming down into the rest stop. Fewer than when we'd left the stop after the Highway Patrol had secured the area. Across the rich red prairie, the breeze freshened and the sage and white fir, blue spruce and Douglas fir offered a pure fresh scent. Underneath the tinkle of spruce, beat the low notes of rubbery creosote. Off to my left was Sicheei's pile of rusted metal. To the right, north, the Colorado tumbled down steep canyons from Utah, dammed at Page and Lake Powell and continued its epic journey through the carved desert. Down in Yuma the desert offered plenty of dump sites, municipal sites where locals alternately dumped and went looking for gems in the piles of refuse, and the random remote sites where refrigerators, stoves, old cars and mattress springs went to die. Often, I'd come across piles of bottles, cans, remnants of nights stewed in alcohol, syringes, ripped open packs of cocaine, heroin, long since given up their street-valuable contents to raiders, law enforcement and cartel thugs. What I saw, now, off in the distance, wasn't the reflection of a can or bottle, a windshield or a flying machine. It was low, on the ground, the reflective glare of binoculars. There . . . fading now. Again. And gone. I didn't see it again. Someone glassing the area. My face, the Tahoe, in the field of some 7x40 or larger binoculars. I didn't move. Possibly a rifle scope. Slowly, I folded the map and moved so that the Tahoe shielded me from where I'd seen the reflection. Teri was walking toward the Tahoe, and I positioned myself so that she could see me, but still hidden from the position of the reflection of glass. I held my fingers around my eyes, like two lenses, until she saw me. She scratched her left shoulder, the signal that she saw me and what I'd just signaled had registered. Her pace didn't vary, she gave nothing away. When she got to the Tahoe she handed me a cold can of Sprite and put a double plastic bag of ice under the front seat and got in, closed the door, waited until I'd strapped in and closed the door.
"Binoculars?" she said.
"Yeah. Three o'clock." Teri looked out the windshield. "Sicheei says the planes have been coming for three weeks. Only at night. He's driven out there a couple of times but he doesn't want to go out there again by himself. There's no phone in his house."
"Did Sicheei say anything about finding anything out there? Junk, debris, like someone had dumped stuff out of a plane?"
"No. He didn't see anything. No signs of any big fires, either. How far away would you say those binoculars were?"
"At least a mile. With the sun in that position he wasn't looking at me. At least not at that moment. The angle of reflection would mean he was scanning southwest, or due south."
"Can you get a bearing?"
My day pack was stowed behind my seat. From one of the outside pockets, I pulled the compass and set it on the spot where I'd seen the reflection.
"323 degrees."
"Set it."
The GPS took the coordinates and the Tahoe humped along at the designated heading.
"You've known Sicheei a long time," I said.
"Almost my whole life. Actually, more than my whole life. According to my father, Sicheei blessed me when my mother started showing. Two, three months. I can't even see a woman showing at three months. Not that I ever look."
The horizon was accepting the evening light, a pale shade of rose fading up in the west. It was a beautiful time to look at the Canyon. For now, I swept the landscape with my eyes, 180 degrees, back and forth, slowly, as Teri maneuvered the big SUV. When Teri was speaking to Sicheii, I had checked the pump action Remington 870 and stocked the ammo case strapped to the stock. The binoculars I used were high quality Nikon and they brought the distant red rock into sharp focus.
Teri wore her Oakley wrap-arounds and driving gloves, grappling with the weight of the Tahoe like a bull rider tugging on the reins. Every time I thought she'd taken one too many unpaved roads on a high speed bump and run, she'd proved me wrong. A blind corner on a dirt road was time for Teri to put it into a slide, get some air, test the suspension, kick up a fantail of desert dust. Her hope was one day to drive in the Baja 500, or the big daddy, the 1000.
The binoculars were up against my eyes, ranging across the landscape. I kept them there and spoke. "The Remington's loaded and the stock pouch is full."
"Sicheei hasn't seen smoke all month. The planes fly low and the way he described the sound, I'd say single engine. Fast single engine."
"So we're looking for a vehicle, somebody moving around on the ground with binoculars. Maybe some kind of an airstrip. A camp or a trailer. What happens, typically, if someone is on the Reservation without authorization. You call someone? Approach them by yourself?"
"People wander out here sometimes for bird watching, maybe photography. It's okay to travel on the rez as long as you don't camp, hunt or hike. Basically you can drive around and photograph."
"Population. Density. About how many homes are out here, out to the rim of the Canyon."
"Not many. The closer you get to the Canyon the lower the water table is and you won't be able to drill a well."
"So what are these planes doing out here?"
"Hell if I know."
"Sicheei say he's seen any vehicles out here roaming around? Campers, trailers, people?"
"He's not as alert as he used to be. He's starting to listen more to the spirits and not watching the land. I love him."
"All alone out here," I said, "what's going to happen to him? He's got some mileage on him."
"He'll wander off."
"The old way."
Teri nodded, her Oakley's reflecting a pink glow now from the setting sun. She gripped the wheel at 10 and 2. "This is about a mile." We got out of the SUV. Teri stood at the hood and I took the back. The binoculars revealed nothing. I looked at Teri, who had her back to me. Slowly, she turned and looked at me, over her right shoulder, her Oakley's black and shiny. I reached into the Tahoe and pulled out a can of Sprite and took it to her. She snapped open the can and while it was close to her lips, she spoke.
"Campfire smoothed over. Fifty yards, ten o'clock."
The campfire was hidden, but visible. Black rocks and smudges of charcoal surrounded it in the dirt, smothered and ground in. Sicheei's house was a mile away, a bump that blended in to the landscape at this distance. "Sicheei would see it," I said. "Unless a barrier hides it."
"They're not going to be landing planes this close to his place," Teri said.
"Let's take a look," I said, pulling open the door and reaching for the shotgun.
Inside of a low ring of rock, grey and black charcoal embers were mixed with the soil and doused with water. The soil was cold. Teri kneeled down to inspect the ground a few feet from the fire ring. I watched the area in the distance for anyone moving, metal reflections, cans, bottles, debris. The last light of the afternoon sharpened the shadows, casting a relief pattern in the rocks giving a crisp glow to sage and conifer shrubs that wiggled in a slow wind. I was standing erect, a full target for a shooter, and a bullet would pierce my skull before I heard the sound and recognized what was coming. The bullet-proof vest would hold off the penetration of a high-caliber weapon from a distance, and a head shot took great skill from two hundred yards in a slight wind. Factors, calculations, angle of incidence, all of the judgment calls made on the fly in the wild, gave little hope for what I knew we were most likely dealing with. Drug cartel weapons men were among the best in the world, but most of their work was close-in, ten yards, twenty at most with fully automatic weapons. Spray and pray. A well placed head shot from two hundred, three hundred yards was the exclusive domain of experienced hunters, military snipers.
Teri stood up, looked around at the parched desert glow of sunset, nodded one time and kicked a small rock with her left boot. When we got back in the SUV, I sat in the driver's seat. Teri closed the door on the passenger side.
"Couple of 9mm casings," she said. "And a .308 Winchester."
The Tahoe slid forward, and I steered past the burned out fire pit and headed west towards the Canyon.
"I could see a 9 mil fired without Sicheei hearing it when the wind is right," I said. ".308 makes some noise."
"We don't know if this airplane stuff is connected with our guy. Could be but we've gotta decide if we . . ."
The impact sounded like a heavy metal skillet banging into the driver's door and the next shot put a spider-web of cracks through the windshield, the back seat taking the bullet with a slapping thud.
"Goddamnit, keep your head down," I yelled. Teri sandwiched into a folded torso so her head was below the dash. The steering wheel pulled lightly and I jammed the foot pedal all the way down until the wheels started to spin and I backed off. The Tahoe shot into the slanting sun's rays while I heard the boom of a third shot that missed. Teri kept her head down while I fought the wheel of the big machine as it leaped and skidded around the corner of a thin edge of dirt road that looked recently scraped. Instantly, I pulled the vehicle off of the red dusty path, thinking it might be the runway and then I saw a smudge pot on the left side, then another forty yards ahead.
"This is the landing strip, Teri. I'm pulling off the road again. Hang on."
"Don't go to Sicheei's house," Teri shouted.
Warning shots, intent to kill, misplaced drunks doing some critter hunting, it made no difference and I was driving over what appeared to be a runway now, the last few yards before it emptied out into the low grass and shrubs.
I glanced at Teri hunched over with her hand on the console. "You okay?"
"Yeah, just keep going. Get out of this shooting gallery."
Stunt drivers and second unit production crews spent millions to capture scenes just like this on film. Then they called 'Wrap', and everyone slapped each other on the back and met at the catering truck. No chance. This was live, in your face, and the Tahoe had taken a hit. The windshield was intact, minus a piece about a third of an inch just under the rear view mirror in the middle of the vehicle, but the shooting had stopped.
"Hold on I'm going to do some spins and kick up some dust." Doing a rough mental fix, I figured the shots from the northwest, from the door shot and the windshield shot. If I could put some dust in the air, enough of it to cloud a sight picture, I could put distance between the shooter and be out of range in a matter of moments. Even an experienced shooter with a rifle scope and high powered cartridges would be hard pressed to make a hit from three hundred yards. Possible, but doubtful. The thick steering wheel pulled easily and turned forty-yard radius NASCAR-type donuts sending up dirty cover until even I couldn't see. Punched it over the rev limit then, and the beast propelled down range until we were out of the target range. A half mile ahead a low stand of trees provided more cover.
"If he's got a night vision scope," I said, "we'll be visible, maybe not in his target range."
Teri unfolded herself. She didn't say anything. I slowed down when we approached the stand of spruce and maneuvered the vehicle between a few saplings on the edge of the small forest, until the trees were too dense to continue.
"Just one shooter, you think? Teri said. Her hand was on the radio mike, but she didn't key it up.
"Two hits on a slow moving vehicle, unknown range. Possibly .308. Doubt it's the 9mm.
"The suspect in custody could have lied and said north rim to throw us off."
"Then why give us anything near the Canyon? Could say they're off to Gallup. Kingman. Anywhere."
"He gives up his buddy and we find him, that'll be in his favor, he thinks."
"Planes and guns, Teri. And a big stash of cash and weapons coming across the border. Preliminary indication?"
"We're outgunned. We don't know how many shooters there are, but we do know what we have. It's not enough to take down multiple shooters. We can radio in our position and call for backup. Hold it down in here."
"Is there a way we can get to Sicheei's house and get him out of danger without putting the focus on him?"
"When it gets dark, but night scopes can track us."
"That's a tough shot if we're going evasive at 50mph."
"They know he's there. Up until now he wasn't a problem. Old man living alone. If these are cartel men they know he's got no phone and they know his habits. They see a black SUV pull up they know it's Marshals."
"Teri, I couldn't live with it. We got to get him out of there."
"I'm going to radio. We stopped at a roadside stand and we heard about planes coming in at night. You agree?"
I nodded. "Tell the truth. That's why you're a Marshall, Teri. You know the territory better than anyone in the office."
"Unit one to base."
Hissing and popping. No response. I looked up out the windshield. The tree tops were only fifteen feet high but the sightline to the repeater could be blocked.
"Unit one to base."
"Hold on," I said. "We may have to move out of these trees."
"Unit one to any unit."
The topo map and the GPS synched up, showing we were approximately a mile and a half now from Sicheei's house and approximately two miles from the rim of the canyon. Darkness was settling in making it difficult to see the ground without putting on the headlights. It would be a challenge to get around the stand of trees, moving towards the direction the shots could have come from, and making it in the open another mile to his house.
"You're a better driver," I said. "Don't worry about it, doesn't bother me. Get in there, get us out of here." I climbed in the back seat and looked at the torn rear seat back, reached in as Teri crawled over the console into the driver's seat. The fabric of the back seat was torn in a small hole. My knife split the fabric enough to reach in my hand, but the thick springs were about an inch below the surface making it hard to move my fingers around. Teri said she'd wait a moment while I tried to find the bullet. The heavy foam of the seat back didn't have much give and a bullet would even pass all the way through if the shot was from somewhat close range.
"I can't get to it." Just when I'd strapped the seatbelt over my shoulder and punched it in the lock Teri cranked the vehicle into reverse and started backing out of the trees.
"Go," I said. "I'll keep trying the radio." Outside of the trees the space opened up in a wide swale of rock and low sage that took on the look of a gray marshmallow pie in the dusky early evening light.
We kept our heads low. No binoculars, I held only the Remington and I knew Teri had her Glock strapped in on her weak side for cross draw. The SUV shuddered over rough terrain but moved through paces like a thoroughbred heading for the barn. Teri varied her speed from death-defying to Oh Fuck―occasionally spinning tires until they locked into traction. I gave her headings from the GPS so she could keep her eyes on the horizon, dark now in the southeast. So far no shots, but I urged Teri to do evasive maneuvers, swiveling the steering wheel both ways so our path was S-shaped and random. Our speed reduced, but so did the target acquisition ability of a marksman.
We picked up a dirt road about three quarters from Sicheei's house and Teri stayed on it all the way to the bungalow. Teri kept the vehicle running, jumped outside and went up to the house. I couldn't see any lights. In the direction from where I'd seen the reflection of binoculars two hours earlier, darkness had taken over.


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Francois Michaud, D. Letourneau, P. Lepage, Y. Morin, F. Gagnon, P. Giguere, E. Beaudry, Y. Brosseau, C. Cote, A. Duquette, J.F. Laplante, M.A. LEgault, P. Moisan, A. Ponchon, C. Raievsky, ...
The design of interactive mobile robots is a multidisciplinary endeavor that profits from putting robots with people and studying their effects and impacts. To do so, two main issues must be addressed: giving robots capabilities in order to interact in meaningful and efficient ways with people, and the ability to move in human settings. This paper briefly describes four robotic platforms that are going to be demonstrated at the AAAI 2005 Robot Competition.
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The West Yell coast is automatically installed when you install Fishing Simulator 2 from the CD ROM, however, there may be some users who registered in the shareware days who may still need access to the venue, so it can be obtained from the download above. Also, the whalefirth peg isn't included in the CD ROM version but has been added to the download above. The number of consecutive downloads is logged and capped, so if the link above comes up as file not found, please try again later at a time when the load on the server is less.
Also, West Yell uses fish stocks contained in the species/stocks folder, another addon has incorrectly overwritten these in the past causing all venues that use these stocks to have the incorrect checksums. If you participate in any interactive matches or records, and your checksums do not match the checksums for this venue on the right, you will need to download and import www.fishsim.net/spcstk.zip ( 32 Kb ) to cure this.
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A checksum in Fishing Simulator 2 is a way to ensure that a venue or peg is correct and the same as everyone else who uses FS2. This is only useful for record submission and matches to ensure that everyone is fishing on the same versions and with the same fish levels. If you just fish by yourself at home, then you do not need to worry about these, but if participating in a match on the Internet or submitting your record catches to the global records page, you will need to ensure you have the correct checksum before you catch any fish.
To check to see what checksum you have on a peg, you will need to start fishing simulator 2 and go fishing on that peg, then press the F9 key, in the top left hand corner shown in light blue, that will be your checksum and it should match the table above, if not and participating in any interactive parts of FS2, you may get disqualified or catches refused.
Also with record catches, the checksum at the time the record is caught is stored, which is not necessarily the same as it is when checked.
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Even though this venue is part of the default installation of fishing simulator 2, information on getting the rest of the venues on the CD ROM into FS2 is often unclear. The default installation does not contain a lot of the extra addons, however they are on the CD ROM ready to be imported into the game. To do this, make sure the FS2 CD ROM is inserted, it may try to autorun and install again, if so, click exit setup. Then start FS2 up, and from the main menu, click Options -> Advanced -> Import addon
This will list all the addons that are currently available to be imported in the fishing simulator folder, and will probably be blank. The button at the bottom, which toggles between Disk and CD ROM can be clicked so it will list all the addons available on the CD ROM. After clicking it, you will see these.
You can then click on each one, and import them into the game, some will be new venues, others new bits of tackle, but the most important one, is xspecies, as this contains extra species of fish, of which many of the addons on the CD ROM contain.
To import an addon, click the addon name in the list and then the import button, you will receive a message saying the addon won't appear in FS2 until it has been restarted, you don't have to restart after importing each addon, you can import as many as you like, then do one single restart. After an addon has been imported once, you do not need to import it again, and the CD ROM isn't required in the drive.


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Moving ceremony focused on 'Sacrifices across the Land'
By Marni Walsh
Centre Dufferin District High School students Meaghan Weirmier and Hunter Milsap were the Masters of Ceremony at two assemblies held Monday morning to mark Remembrance Day. The poignant ceremonies, themed around "Sacrifice across the Land," had to be moved from the original time November 10th when a water main break in Shelburne closed the school for the day.
Principal Wendy McIntosh, who was born in a third world country and lived in several different developing nations growing up, told the students that she was grateful everyday to live in Canada - a country of freedom with liberties that many people across the world do not have. She said it was her hope that the students "never take their freedom for granted."
Coordinator of the Remembrance Day assemblies, Social Science teacher Shannon Rankin said the theme "Sacrifice across the Land" centred on Canada as a whole, with less of a Dufferin focus, in recognition of Canada 150. "Men and women come from all across Canada to protect this entire land coast to coast and the values we hold dear as a collective nation," she said.
There was also a focus on diversity, including the first black battalion in Nova Scotia where black soldiers from all over North America enlisted in WWI, as well as the military service of 12,000 First Nations, highly skilled marksmen, scouts and fearless soldiers. Peacekeepers and contemporary conflicts were also included, in addition to the traditional focus on WWI and WWII.
Music teacher Andrea Parsons conducted the school band and vocal students with a variety of beautiful music to support the theme. The young instrumentalists were at their best, and the compositions from "Sketches from Canada" were filled with sweeping emotion befitting the accompanying montage of Veteran Affairs videos.
The vocal students performed Newfoundland's "Great Big Sea," and later the beautiful ballad "Last Rose of Summer" while heart rendering images of soldiers, the unfathomable hardship and sacrifice, their persistence and courage, were projected behind them. Hunter Milsap asked students to "consider the cost to remain free in this great place we call home."
Student Wiley McGowan read "In Flanders' Fields" and the Roll Call of 11 CDDHS students who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country in times of war. Teacher Mr. Scott played the "The Last Post" followed by a minute of silence. As the ceremony came to a close, Meaghan Weirmier invited her fellow students to "keep the spirit of remembrance" with them throughout the year.
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If you are a KWK fan just like us, you would agree that Sunday night brings with it loads of controversies and some candid statements made by our favorite Bollywood celebs we love to watch. And at the end of it all, we are left with the Koffee Tease, which is a sneak peek of next Sunday's episode. Admit it or not, we love those promos, they stay with us for the whole week and they kind of make sailing through the week a wee bit easier. And yes, Priyanka Chopra's Koffee Tease, which was revealed last night, did just that. So until you wait for next week's episode, we figured you should know about Chopra's look on the couch.Now we all know it's going to be one helluva episode, because Priyanka is sure to sizzle on that famous KWK couch. While PC is busy with her current overseas ventures, she made time out of her busy schedule to appear on the couch. And yes, she went solo.Chopra's style on the show was trendy and on point, to say the least. PC is seen wearing a maxi dress by Fendi with a plunging neckline that features some multi-colored embroidered floral work on the ruffled sleeves. She has gone the minimalistic way when it comes to the accessories donning a delicate gold chain around the neck and rings by Nirav Modi. To complete the look, Priyanka sported the brick-red pout, which is a huge trend this year. Her hair fell perfectly well over her face, as she opted for a naturally straight look. We think the overall look was effortless and let's just say, UH-MAZING. Our love to her stylist, Ami Patel.With PC making all those honest statements about her calling an ex and about her marriage plans, we feel the episode is surely worth waiting. She goes on to talk about the cultural difference when it comes to boys asking her out in Bollywood versus Hollywood. KJo is even seen playing the Koffee Quiz with PC, where she was finding it a tad bit difficult to keep up with those general knowledge questions.Looking at this promo, we can only say this is definitely going to be one of the best episodes of KWK Season 5. What do you think?
From talks of marriage to shots of Koffee, @priyankachopra will be on the couch getting 'personal' with @karanjohar! #KoffeeWithKaran pic.twitter.com/YBJVVtN7ks
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Producer's Letter - January 2015
Index to all News postings
Producer's Letter
Originally posted 7 January 2015 [1]
Hello all! I'm Athena "Vyvyanne" Peters, Executive Producer of The Lord of the Rings Online.
Thank you for welcoming me. I am really excited to be exploring Tolkien's world and all the adventures that have and will take place here!
2014 was a great year for LOTRO, and we hope you agree! Our focus for the year was expanding our story into Gondor, improving Epic Battles with Pelargir, and introducing a new class – the Beorning. Our progress in these areas sets us up for ambitious goals in 2015.
Our story continues in 2015 with both Osgiliath and Minas Tirith! Although there will be multiple updates throughout the year, these major locations will be the focus of our largest releases. Each expands the world of Middle-earth even further, and puts us in view of the Ephel Dúath and Mordor itself.
Major 2015 Initiatives:
Legendary Items: With the Osgiliath update, you will be able to Imbue Level 100 Legendary Items. An Imbued item continues to gain experience and will no longer need to be deconstructed to advance. These items are already in internal testing! There are many details still to work out, but you should expect a developer diary on the topic early this year.
New Fellowship Challenges: As we push into the heart of the War of the Ring, this is the perfect time for us to renew our focus on group content and instances. Expect new instances in Osgiliath, along with additional Roving Threats and group content on the landscape.
Quality of Life: We have been working to identify your most persistent bugs. You can expect a renewed focus on resolving issues that may be small but troublesome, to improve overall gameplay experience.
Episodic Content: We are currently in development on a new type of quest content that will roll out like an episodic TV show, a little at a time, as you follow a new friend across Middle-earth seeing familiar places in a new light.
Server Populations: Based on your feedback, we're taking measures to get everyone onto the more populous servers, so that finding parties is easier and festivals and live events are more fun. We are working on both improved server transfer tools and upgrades to our environments to improve playability. Also we will be moving our European servers back to the EU! More details on this coming soon!
PvMP: The team is also seriously investigating a new PvMP map in Osgiliath. This landscape would tell the story of the Battle of Osgiliath, and the layout of the city (split by the Anduin) is perfect for smaller and more tightly focused conflicts than the Ettenmoors. This would make the perfect platform for gradual improvements to the PvMP experience, overall. We'll provide additional updates on this initiative as we get deeper into 2015.
And that is just for the first half of the year! Stay tuned for more detail on all of the above and more on what will come along with Minas Tirith as we get deeper into the year. As always we look forward to your feedback and suggestions as we take this journey together.
We look forward to seeing you in Middle-earth as LOTRO enters its 8th year!
Happy New Year!
Producer's Profile
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I have been with Turbine for 4 years working on Dungeons and Dragons Online for most of that time but have spent a few months transitioning to LOTRO. I have been a DDO and LOTRO player since beta :) Prior to this I worked for a few start ups and on several MMOs working at companies like NCsoft, Realtime Worlds and Wolfpack Studios.
Online games have been my passion and career since 1999 when I fell in love with the genre.
Forum Posts Regarding Servers
Follow-up forum post
[3] Post 54
Hi all! I am so glad to hear the mostly positive reception to the things we have outlined for the year so far. I wanted to hop on here and address a couple of points of confusion/ requests for clarity on a few items. Vagueness: Yes, we dont give a lot of detail in the Producer's letter for the year. This is because many of these things are still in design and thus subject to change or are simply ideas that will not be fleshed out for months to come. We will be putting feedback posts and more detailed threads on the specific features as they solidify and can be focused on for feedback individually. This letter is intended as an overview. Group Instances in Osgiliath: We are specifically referring to a cluster of instance content for 3 & 6 man fellowships that is neither a Big Battle or a Raid. We evaluate the type of content we build with each region for what is appropriate and feasible. So we might do a raid again some day, but Osgiliath is not the time to do it. Osgiliath PvMP map: This will be a different "layer" to the map. This way players will be able to explore Osgiliath in PvE mode in Update 16 and the goal is to then also provide a PvMP version shortly thereafter (not on the same release date). Music: We currently have our sound engineers looking into the issues with the newer version of the music system that we pulled out late last year. Our hopes is that we can have it fixed with or next update, but I am still awaiting implementation and testing of the fixes to see if they are affective. Once we have it in we will of course be placing it on Bullroarer so we can get feedback before it is released. More info once I have it. EU Servers: This will simply be a move of the physical servers to Amsterdam. The service will still remain in the hands of Turbine, so we will all still have the same downtime, updates, etc in sync with one another. Better location and newer hardware should result in better performance all around. Server Populations: We are still working through the details, but part of our efforts here are to make the transition as seamless as possible for Kinship leaders to keep the players together. The idea is to bring you together, not spread further apart. This effort also includes upgraded hardware and a move to a better location for internet traffic for the US servers. This is a large and complicated process which I am fully focused on. More details on this in the coming weeks as more of the timelines and tech solidify.
An additional follow-up post
[4] Post 110
Originally posted by Gedachtnis: Will Mithril Coins, Destiny Points and other server bound things be put as account items so we don't lose them? If I were to need to move servers because mine was closing losing things like that is going to make me very unhappy and I can just imagine how it will make those that bought MC's feel. Yes, one of the top priorities in improving the transfer system is making sure that account level purchases like Mithril coins could transfer from server to server with you. I know that many are worries about Server transfers. It is a scary thing to have to change a much settled in environment. This is why there will be many articles., announcements, communication and requests for feedback before anything actually happens. The goal is to be able to give you the ability to move to a more populous and stable environment of your choosing (EU or NA), with your friends and kinships, and the things you have acquired over the years with as little loss, downtime or hassle as possible.
Another Follow-up post
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Level Cap increases: Not in the cards for this year Group & Solo content: Both of these styles of play are very important to the development team, so there is never an intention to only do one for the foreseeable future. In fact, just the opposite. We are constantly trying to balance the availability of play for all styles of adventure. Just because one update has group content in it, does not mean that it will not also have content that is solo-able or that the next update wont fit that bill. I personally, due to the random times I have to jump in and out of game, tend to be a solo player, so I would hate to see that option go away. Minas Tirith: will not be an expansion. It will be another large regional update slated for the second half of the year.
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Itemization: We are constantly looking into ways to improve itemization. I wont jump into that heavily because it is very detail specific and is better handled by the developers working directly on it. As we get closer to the Osgiliath release you should see Dev Diaries and posts outlining the specific design ideas and asking for feedback. Release Schedule: We are looking at 2 major region releases for the year. Osgiliath in the Spring and Minas Tirith in the Fall. Between those releases will be smaller updates with other features, fixes, etc. I do not believe in assigning or announcing dates on updates until we are nearing a completed state as that impedes the opportunity to make corrections based on feedback or testing. This is why I also dont talk in details about things you might not see for a couple months or more, because details change. As designs solidify, individual developers will bring those to threads and/or to the testing environment to discuss details and incorporate your feedback. The idea here is that the Yearly plan is not just us sitting in a room, making a list and then telling you what you will get for the year and hoping you like it. It is about trying to find what you the community of LOTRO need to improve upon your game experience and how we can get that to you with the resources at our disposal. It is a living document which we have released merely the frame of, the details will come out as we work with you down the plan throughout the year.
Server Move information
[7] Post 4
The Server moves will be started with a listing of preferred servers, their new locations and an opening of free transfers to the servers. None of this will be limited by EU or NA. You can play on whichever server you like on the preferred server list regardless of where you might physically be located. We are working on some tech that will make transfers smoother and more beneficial which is why this has not yet begun. More info as we get closer to that.
Follow-up on Server moves
[8] Post 47 (9 January)
I'll clarify a couple things here without going into details that are still being worked out. There will be no forced data merge from one server to another, or to combine two servers. When/ if players move, they will make the choice themselves of which of the available worlds they want to move each of their characters and account or kinship to. Yes, we are likely to close a number of servers to play, but only after a large grace period and even after that the characters will remain available to be moved to another server to play on indefinitely. We have an idea of the servers we will wish to keep and which to close, but that list is not yet set in stone and may be subject to change as we see the results of transfers and some of the hardware investigation we are doing. Also it appears I may have posted some incorrect info yesterday. We may not be able to allow EU <-> US transfers due to data concerns that remain from prior merges. But we are looking into it to see if any of our new tech might bridge that hurdle. Cross server play/ chat is something we looked into but was not feasible with the age of our code and sheer amount of character data that could conflict. I have more meetings on the transfers in the next couple of weeks to clarify some of the questions that remain. After that I should be able to start releasing more info on the plans and possibilities.
Follow up on Forced Server Merges
[9] (January 8)
|I'll clarify a couple things here without going into details that are still being worked out.
|There will be no forced data merge from one server to another, or to combine two servers. When/ if players move, they will make the choice themselves of which of the available worlds they want to move each of their characters and account or kinship to. Yes, we are likely to close a number of servers to play, but only after a large grace period and even after that the characters will remain available to be moved to another server to play on indefinitely. We have an idea of the servers we will wish to keep and which to close, but that list is not yet set in stone and may be subject to change as we see the results of transfers and some of the hardware investigation we are doing.
|Also it appears I may have posted some incorrect info yesterday. We may not be able to allow EU <-> US transfers due to data concerns that remain from prior merges. But we are looking into it to see if any of our new tech might bridge that hurdle.
|Cross server play/ chat is something we looked into but was not feasible with the age of our code and sheer amount of character data that could conflict.
|I have more meetings on the transfers in the next couple of weeks to clarify some of the questions that remain. After that I should be able to start releasing more info on the plans and possibilities.
- ↑ https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/2015-producers-letter
- ↑ https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?562265-Official-2015-Producer-s-Letter/page6
- ↑ : https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?562265-Official-2015-Producer-s-Letter/page3
- ↑ https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?562265-Official-2015-Producer-s-Letter/page5
- ↑ : https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?562265-Official-2015-Producer-s-Letter/page5
- ↑ https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?562265-Official-2015-Producer-s-Letter/page6
- ↑ https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7296326#post7296326
- ↑ https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7297210#post7297210
- ↑ https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?562355-Producer-s-Letter-Forced-server-merges&p=7297210#post7297210


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EPA Orders Rocking BS Ranch to Cease and Desist Unauthorized Discharges
Release Date: 09/25/2007
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(Dallas, Texas, Sep. 25, 2007) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a cease and desist administrative order to the Rocking BS Ranch near Wetumka, Oklahoma, for violations of the Clean Water Act, including an unauthorized discharge of pollutants flowing into an unnamed tributary to Middle Creek and then into Middle Creek in Hughes County, Oklahoma.
The ranch, an unpermitted Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO), is located approximately three miles south and eight miles east of Wetumka. The ranch has been ordered to immediately stop all discharges of pollutants from its facility. The ranch has been given seven days to properly reconstruct a lagoon spillway where the discharge occurred, and 30 days to finalize the reconstruction and survey the lagoon to determine the quantity of solid manure buildup and total capacity of the lagoon. The ranch has also been given 60 days to submit to EPA a summary and photographs of completed work, and 90 days to apply for permit coverage.
"This action is a reminder to those who own and operate animal feeding operations of their responsibility to protect public health and the environment," said EPA Regional Administrator Richard E. Greene. "When these facilities fail to follow the rules, immediate actions will be taken to ensure compliance with the law."
In April 2007, an Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry (ODAFF) inspector conducted an on-site inspection of the Rocking BS Ranch and observed an unauthorized discharge from the west lagoon entering an unnamed tributary to Middle Creek. The facility was also cited for discharging without a permit.
Based on these findings, the owner and operator of the Rocking BS Ranch has been ordered to immediately take action to bring the facility into compliance with the Clean Water Act.
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Tagging, transport and possession- if you leave it, tag it!
For tag species such as wild turkey, in 2017 hunters must again possess their carcass tags while hunting. Upon killing a turkey, hunters must immediately validate the carcass tag by writing the date and circling a.m. or p.m. in the space provided. No hunter may leave the turkey carcass unless the validated carcass tag has been attached to it.
All harvested turkeys must be registered either online at GameReg.Wi.Gov or via phone at 1-844-GAME-REG (1-844-426-3734) by 5 p.m. the day after harvest. Hunters will need the carcass tag number from their carcass tag to begin harvest registration process. Again this year, there are no in-person registration stations are available. Following the registration process, hunters will be given a harvest registration confirmation number which must be recorded on their carcass tag at the time of registration.
The 2017 spring turkey season will run from April 19 through May 30, with six seven-day periods running Wednesday through the following Tuesday. A total of seven zones will be open for hunting. For more information regarding turkey hunting in Wisconsin, search the DNR website, dnr.wi.gov, for keyword "turkey."
Spring turkey hunting regulations can be found within the 2016 Small Game Hunting Regulations, 2016 Fall Turkey Regulations, and 2017 Spring Turkey Regulations.
Youth hunters ages 12-15 who have completed hunter education may hunt during the youth turkey hunt on April 15 and 16 while accompanied by an adult over the age of 18. In addition, thanks to the Mentored Hunting Program, turkey hunters ages 10 and 11 may also participate in the 2017 youth turkey hunt without first having completed hunter education, as long as they do so with a qualified adult mentor and follow program rules.
For any questions or to report a violation, call Conservation Warden Paul Sickman at 715-684-2914 ext. 120.
Paul Sickman is the conservation warden – Bureau of Law Enforcement for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.


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Dalim Software donates production automation applications to the RIT School of Print Media
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Press release from the issuing companyKehl, Germany - Dalim Software, a global leader in the design and development of innovative and automated professional production workflow software for prepress, print, packaging, advertising and publishing, announces that it has donated an entire suite of Dalim Software solutions, including the DALiM MiSTRAL project management and job tracking system, DALiM TWiST production automation software and DALiM DiALOGUE online softproofing server application to Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Print Media for the school's educational programs. Systems installation and training was kindly provided by Dalim Software reseller, Blanchard Systems. RIT has a number of courses where the capabilities of the DALiM TWiST workflow solution would enhance student learning through their study and application of collaborative and distributed workflow systems. The faculty expects to find its most in-depth applications in courses that cover aspects of production workflows utilized in publication, imaging, packaging and other forms of graphic media. RIT also intends to use Dalim Software solutions to produce Reporter magazine, RIT's weekly student publication. "As production automation becomes more prevalent and, at the same time, more complex, we consider it important for our students to develop a strong proficiency in integrated and comprehensive solutions," remarks Patricia Sorce, Chair, School of Print Media, RIT. "We are grateful to Dalim Software for their generous donation. With the help of advanced workflow systems such as those provided by Dalim Software, all of our students will have access to a broad range of capabilities and user interfaces of workflow solutions." "Through our work over the years with a number of RIT alumni, we have come to respect the technological knowledge that RIT's School of Print Media imparts to its students," comments Dr. Carol Werlé, Dalim Software CEO. "With our donation, we are delighted to help prepare students to manage the sophisticated systems they are likely to encounter when they enter the work force."
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A New Paradigm for Learning
At Rollins College (Fla.), we're always looking for new ways to enhance student learning experiences. A signature feature of liberal arts schools is the intimacy and strength of engagement in the classroom. With this philosophy, you might assume that virtual classrooms don't have a place at Rollins. But technology's role in higher education isn't synonymous just with distance learning and online courses. Technology is a tool that can enrich the liberal arts learning experience and make it more meaningful. That's why the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), a consortium of 16 liberal arts colleges throughout the Southeast, is developing the New Paradigm Initiative.
This initiative allows us to use high-definition video-conferencing technology for inter-institutional learning—generating chances for students to select from a larger number and wider variety of courses, while maintaining the advantages of a small liberal arts learning environment. Our alliance of 3,000 faculty and 30,000 students enables us to pool our resources and act collectively in ways we couldn't individually.
Making it Happen
This process began two years ago when Rollins' modern languages lecturer Li Wei, who specializes in Chinese, collaborated with a colleague at Southwestern University (Texas) who was also teaching Chinese studies. As web cameras linked the two classes, Wei delivered a lecture on Chinese music. A few weeks later, his colleague delivered a shared lecture on the language's poetry. They were inspired by the Sunoikisis program, created by the ACS in 1995 to enable faculty in Latin and Greek studies to share their knowledge with participating institutions.
The possibilities for the New Paradigm Initiative are vast. Faculty members can teach courses on their own, or they can team-teach with colleagues in various locations. Either way, the technology enables professors and students in both places to interact as one class. Without video or audio delays, the software creates seamless communications. ACS collaborators are raising the intellectual capital of students and faculty. This "blended learning" preserves the experience of one-on-one classroom interaction, since students and faculty can see and talk with each other and ask questions in real time.
With 3,000 faculty and 30,000 students, we can pool our resources and act collectively.
These classes are designed to offer upper-level, specialized material to deepen the focus in one subject area. Our intent is to limit them to this purpose. We aren't interested in offering massive open online courses or increasing our class sizes. We are excited about the potential for additional uses of the program, including helping faculty and undergraduates collaborate on research and broadcasting the presentations of guest speakers.
The collaboration requires the endorsement of faculty. Luckily, we have champions on our campus who understand that technology is secondary and the New Paradigm Initiative's focus is enhancing the educational experience. We also assure that a technical assistant is present so faculty members new to the process can focus on teaching and not be distracted by the technology.
As an organic process, the program will evolve based on the feedback we receive. For instance, we've learned that audio clarity is critical to language study, such as for the nuanced tones essential to learning Chinese. For these classes, we run a wideband teleconference concurrently with the videoconference to ensure crystal-clear sound quality. We're also developing ways to promote more student interaction during and after lectures through chat and information-sharing tools.
Mission Completion
At Rollins, we encourage students to embrace global experiences and broaden their perspectives, and the New Paradigm Initiative complements our mission. For example, a Rollins student majoring in Asian Studies planned to study abroad in Australia for a semester. While he was overseas, there were no courses available for him to maintain his Chinese language skills. The New Paradigm Initiative technology allowed him to take a Chinese course at Rollins, and he wasn't forced to choose between a global experience and keeping up with his language studies.
We value the working relationships we have built with our ACS partners over the past two decades. Our hope is that the New Paradigm Initiative will provide an interactive, educational experience that enriches students' learning opportunities on our campus and throughout the consortium. By working together, we can use technology to strengthen our bonds in higher education to benefit all of our students.


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|Wednesday, 07 December 2011
"The measure of a man's character lies in his conscience."
Walking in after first lot
A dark stormy morning and I arrived at the yard to be greeted by a hailstorm which may have lasted only a few minutes but was very fierce with great big bits of ice. The weather forecasters are telling us that tomorrow there will be high winds and storms, so I have sent Ian off at the crack of dawn to Garrowby to bring back another batch of horses. First lot went out all wrapped up in waterproof sheets to keep them from the elements but in the event we got there and back without getting too blown about.
The Halling ex Trew Class yearling
Locum ran another sound race yesterday at Southwell to be fourth. He was never in the right place in the race at any time and I think on another day the result would have been different. The Racing Post were commenting on him being 0 from 14 on the all weather, but if you look at his record he has been second 5 times and third 4 times. His lifetime record is 41 runs and 28 times in the frame - I call that really good and his loyal owners have had plenty to shout about on many occasions. He is a great horse to own.
The fillies yard after first lotPlenty of political goings on yesterday both in England and Ireland with the Irish sorting out the overseas bookmakers and the exchanges. They are very much, as a nation, into horseracing as I said yesterday, and are very dependent on the employment and the tax that racing brings in. In England the BHA failed to get the Betfair exchange member off the Levy Board committee even though they are not based in this country. A strange decision but not surprising if you know how little we, as an industry, are thought of by any government.
From the left, the Manduro ex Astromancer and the Rail Link ex Nutmeg fillies
The Namid ex Missouri colt (Waajid)The yearlings continue to progress very well and we are now venturing out on to the Heath to use the all weather canters and the yearling circuses, which are areas of ground reserved for yearlings only. These were used historically but are now unknown to some of the younger trainers who were only brought up on the all weather tracks.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Justin Klein of Phoenix, Md., shot a 2-under-par 35-3570 at the Bay Hill Club yesterday, and was later tied by Tiger Woods of Cypress, Calif., for the first-round lead in on-site qualifying for the 44th USGA Junior Amateur championship.
Klein, 17, had two birdies and a bogey on the front nine, got to 4-under par with his third backside birdie at No. 17, then double-bogeyed the 441-yard finishing hole.
The other Maryland scorers in the rain-delayed round were Scott Tiernan, Bethesda, 39-4281, and Danny Mensh, Woodmont, 41-4182.
USGA Women's Amateur
CHEVY CHASE -- Debbie Eckroth of Harrisburg, Pa., the first player to finish, posted 38-3775 at Columbia CC, and it held up as the low qualifying score. LaRee Sugg of Petersburg, Va., the last player to finish, was in position to be low among the 22 vying for eight available places, but she four-putted the last hole and finished 37-3976.


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Superior Performing Buildings (SuPerB) through colaborative Building Life Cycle Performance Opitimisation
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Total cost:EUR 100 000
EU contribution:EUR 100 000
Coordinated in:Ireland
Call for proposal:FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIGSee other projects for this call
Funding scheme:MC-CIG - Support for training and career development of researcher (CIG)
This resubmitted Career Integration Grant (CIG) proposal is for a researcher that has been in the USA for 3 1/2 years. The overarching objective of this novel proposal is to create a methodology and implementation environment that fosters collaborative stakeholder interaction for the purposes of optimised Building Life Cycle (BLC) performance analysis, in a physical and virtual environment called Performance Framework Platform (PFP). The grant will enable the researcher to commence work at University College Dublin, Ireland, in a research area of that can have a major societal impact as buildings account for approximately 40 % of EU CO2 emissions and the majority of buildings (approximately 190 million in the EU) consume 20-30% of energy unnecessarily. This proposal also aligns with current EU objectives through the Europe 2020 strategy which demands a 20% increase in energy efficiency and specifically promotes a "Digital Agenda through high innovation and skills that leverages networking, interoperable data exchange and information technology.
A key limitation during building operation is a discrepancy between design/retrofit design intent and actual operation. During operation, individual buildings should compare measured performance against an ideal predicted equivalent; that is only available through a virtual building representation in a simulation model. Furthermore, recent advances in interoperable Semantic Web technologies provide innovative ways of dealing with simulation measured data from sensors and other traditionally disconnected data sets including human resources or room scheduling databases. This CIG will significantly enhance the researcher's long term integration into Europe by building on skills acquired at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford University to deliver outstanding research with associated deliverables and to disseminate the outputs to undergraduate and postgraduate students and the public.
EU contribution: EUR 100 000
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
How to Ask a Question Well During a Q&A Time
And one or more of those chosen to ask a question spends way too much time trying to:
a) Impress the speaker with the depth of his or her knowledge of the speaker's work
b) Impress the speaker and the audience with a recitation of his or her experience, background, or accomplishments
c) Give all sorts of set-up and context for a question that really doesn't need it.
We ought to be gracious in thinking of these "Me Monster" interlocutors, but they ought to be gracious with the rest of those present, as well. :-)
Is this person you? Do you know that the more time you take not asking a question during your moment can be a manifestation of self-centeredness? Not to mention that it robs other people of being able to ask questions too. The longer you take, the less time there is for others.
So how do you ask a question during a Q&A time?
1. Skip the autobiography unless a concise personal note gives needed context for your question.
2. Skip adulation of the speaker unless you can offer a short "thank you for speaking here today."
3. Just ask a question.
If the speaker needs more details or context, he or she can ask for them.
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- B-U-R-L-Y said...
The best ever "me monster" question at an event where I was present was at Northwestern U. Tim Keller (he's a mild-mannered pastor out of a little church in small town New York) came to speak at a Veritas event. The question-er said:
"I'm a huge fan. I've listened to about 150 of your sermons. I was wondering why you basically ignored any discussion of Melchizidek in your sermon series in Genesis." Keller was super-duper-gracious. The question had absolutely-positively-nothing to do with anything Keller had just spoken about.
I rarely ask questions at events like these, but if I were to do so, I'd start out by declaring "I'm in the limelight; because I rhyme tight." I'd then "sweep the leg" (so to say) of the presenter with my vast knowledge. But I digress (like the me monster that I am) ...
- May 25, 2011 at 9:48 AM
I see a similar thing with prayer requests in church.
Rather than just saying something like "My daughter has the flu, please pray for her", it turns into a 5-minute monologue of everything that's happened to the kid since birth. It dominates the time keeping others from getting their requests heard.
Some people just love the attention, I guess.
- May 25, 2011 at 11:14 AM
- Doug Hannah said...
We have a saying in radio -- "The longer the question, the shorter the answer".
- May 25, 2011 at 11:44 AM
- Roberta said...
Maybe handing out 3x5 cards for people to write down their question on would be helpful. If a person would have to give background they would probably make it short.
- May 25, 2011 at 1:12 PM


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Afterschool funding database
Search for funding for your program!
Afterschool funding database
Search for funding for your program!
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Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)
The Child Care and Development Fund is a multibillion-dollar federal and state partnership administered by Office of Child Care to promote family economic self-sufficiency and to help children succeed in school and life through affordable, high-quality early care and afterschool programs.
The Child Care and Developement Fund's webinar of eligibility and other important information can be found here.
American Honda Foundation
With the mission to help meet the needs of American society in the areas of youth and scientific education by awarding grants to nonprofits, while strategically assisting communities in deriving long-term benefits, the American Honda Foundation engages in grant making that reflects the basic tenets, beliefs and philosophies of Honda companies, which are characterized by the following qualities: imaginative, creative, youthful, forward-thinking, scientific, humanistic and innovative. The America Honda Foundation supports youth education with a specific focus on the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in addition to the environment. $20,000-$75,000
Take a quiz to see if your organization qualifies for a grant from Honda here.
Science Education Partnership Award
The Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) Program funds innovative pre-kindergarten to grade 12 (P-12) science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and Informal Science Education (ISE) educational projects SEPA projects create partnerships among biomedical and clinical researchers and teachers and schools, museums and science centers, media experts, and other educational organizations. SEPA K-12 resources target state and national K-12 standards for STEM teaching and learning and are rigorously evaluated for effectiveness. SEPA is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).1
Grant awards for direct costs of up to $250,000 annually per grantee and an estimated $2,000,000 in total grants. Grants are for 5 year periods.
Higher education organizations, non-profits, for-profits, governments, other (ie faith and community based organizations, housing authorities).
Ezra Jack Keats Foundation Mini-Grants
The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation is offering funding of up to $500 to design and implement a creative program for your school or library! Public schools, public libraries, and public preschool programs are encouraged to apply. Previous successful projects have included a public story walk, a multicultural portrait project, a school garden, a bookmaking workshop, and an intergenerational storytelling day.
Public schools, public libraries, public preschool programs in the the United States and U.S. commonwealths and territories, including Puerto Rico and Guam.
Marathon Kids Running Club Grant
Marathon Kids is excited to announce a new grant opportunity for out-of-school time programs for spring/summer 2018. Marathon Kids' evidence-based program uses the fun social environment of a running club to increase current physical activity levels while empowering participants to adopt lifelong healthy behaviors.
Additional information about Marathon Kids running clubs can be found in our FAQs here.
All out-of-school time (including summer) programs in the United States are eligible to apply for the Marathon Kids Running Club Grant. Programs not directly operated by a school or district will be given priority. Programs that have previously participated in Marathon Kids are required to complete past seasons' Finisher Surveys to be considered for the Marathon Kids Running Club Grant.
GO! Grants
GO! Grants are $1,000 to $5,000 grants to public and charter K-6 schools to spark and sustain physical activity programs that take place before, during or after the school day. The funds may be used for equipment, facilities, professional development for adults and programs that increase students' physical activity to the recommended 60 minutes or more per day. (Webpage description)
Schools and districts with students grades K-6
Agricultural Science Education
The U.S. Department of Agriculture seeks to assist eligible entities, through grants and technical assistance, in implementing farm-to-school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools. Grants range from $20,000 - $100,000.
Schools, state and local agencies, Indian tribal organizations, small- and medium-sized agricultural producers, and nonprofits. Eligible schools are defined as preK-12 school food authorities, nonprofit private schools, charter schools, Indian tribal schools, and others that participate in the National School Lunch or Breakfast Programs.
America Walks: Community Change Micro Grants
This program awards up to $1,500 to fund or help to catalyze smaller-scale, low-cost projects and programs that increase the prevalence of walking, expand the diversity of people and organizations working to advance walkability, and help to make walking safer, easier, and more fun for all community members. (From webpage). Grantees have included community schools, YMCAs, health centers, cities, parks and more. Keep youth and residents physically active with health and wellness projects dedicated to keeping people walking in their communities.
Non-profit organization
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program
This program assists Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) expand their role and effectiveness in addressing community development needs in their localities, including neighborhood revitalization, housing, and economic development consistent with the purposes of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. The HBCU program also encourages greater citizen participation in the local/neighborhood planning process and, ultimately, in development of their localities' and states' Consolidated Plan for submission to HUD.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities as determined by the Department of Education in 34 CFR 608.2 pursuant to that Department's responsibilities under Executive Order 12677, dated April 28, 1989.
Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant
Under this program, financial assistance is provided to states and territories to support projects for the development and implementation of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation activities directed to the diseases of alcohol and drug abuse. Funds may be used at the discretion of the states for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation activities.
State and U.S. territory governments; or tribal organizations. NOTE: Only the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians is eligible for direct award of SAPT Block Grant Funds, per the PHS Act.


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There is so much pressure in this world. It feels like we are told from a young age that what matters in life is that we should be the best we can be, that we should constantly push forwards and progress. Somehow, we seem to have gotten it in our heads that this is all we need to care about, that all else pales into insignificance when compared with the bettering of our culture and its people. For example, take the fact that schools are now expected to give out a certain amount of homework to children around the age of five every week. I'm not saying that it is a bad thing for 5 year olds to learn things at home, but having seen the sheer amount of homework they are given, I makes me wonder what the powers that be really think is important when it comes to bettering ourselves.
Bettering ourselves is important, that much is evident. There are clearly benefits in becoming better, though not all of us agree on what exactly defines us as being better, and it is a logically fitting concept that we should carve this goal into our lives as our end goal. But what is the exact nature of this end goal? How can we say whether something is working towards this goal or not?
Firstly, I don't think that this goal can be efficiency. At least, not efficiency alone. This is because efficiency may be a good quality, something that is desirable, but it is only important when applied to something else.It's all well and good to say that we should attempt to be as efficient as possible, but then we are faced with the question, "but what should we be efficient about?"
Secondly, I don't think that we can say that what matters most is survival. Biological theories such as natural selection embellish the concept of survival of genetics as being the ultimate aim of the entire family of all living things. However, imagine the situation of the Lone Immortal. Say that a single human being achieved complete immortality, so much so that nothing could kill him, that no matter how long he lived, or how seriously his body was damaged, he would endure and heal. Now say that there was a terrible war on our planet which resulted in the destruction of the entire world's living population, leaving only this immortal man. Without other individuals, rational beings, his life would become meaningless. Additionally, without any other forms of life, there would not be the option of simply waiting for several million years for something else to evolve into a rational state. His life would become empty of all meaning. Survival is not our ultimate goal, but perhaps it is a part of it.
Personally, I think that our ultimate goal is to better ourselves in as much as trying to be accepting people. When we reach the point at which we can truly claim without any doubt that our cultures, our societies have cast off the chains of all prejudice and discrimination, when we have finally acknowledged that we as a race are flawed and finite, when we realise that science and efficiency and cold, clinical numbers are not everything, at this point and this point alone will we be bettered.
The only thing that give our lives purpose is how we interact with other people. Alone, we are worthless and mean nothing. In others, we find our own worth.


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Prom night is a very special moment and the first thing that girls prepare for the occasion is the dress. Yes, everyone wants to look like a celebrity on that night with the cute prom dresses, accessories and cute shoes. You may also do the same thing to prepare your upcoming prom night. You do some research to find the best dress that can transform you into an elegant and beautiful princess. Well, finding the dresses is actually an easy task. The difficult part on your research is to find one that is charming yet the price is still affordable. This is because most cute prom dresses are commonly sold in high price. of course, you don't want to spend all of your saving just to buy a piece of prom night dress, right? To find a beautiful dress that fits your budget, you can do the tips below:
1. For a more affordable dress, the local vintage shops are the first places you should scour. These places generally sell items that are more affordable than the department stores. It is cool to find a strapless A-line dress that girls used to wear in the 60′s. You will not only save your money for this dress but also have a different appearance.
2. Before heading to the department stores, it would be better to check the closets of your older sisters, your cousins or even your mom. They probably still have cute prom dresses that you can borrow. You can also check your aunts' closet if you want to present the vintage look.
3. Check some shops that offer discounts. At first, you are probably afraid to buy discounted items since their quality is sometimes below the standard level. However, it is not always necessarily the case. There are some shops that sell affordable dresses with good quality level. You can also search for a discounted dress online. There are many online stores offer affordable cute prom dresses that you can't find on the local shops.
4. Design and make your own prom dress. To find a model that fits your taste, do some research on department stores, magazines or websites. Then, buy the materials needed to make the dress. You can have the tailor sew it if you can sew one yourself.
5. Another good idea is to check an auction site like eBay. This site sells various new and vintage prom dresses at lower price. To get the best item, check the sellers' feedback rating and obtain clear description about it.


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The East Wind - Challenge #46 ~ Flag On the Play (banners, flags, bunting) January 2016
Happy New Year! from Nannymac Creation (Jane McNally) another year of new and exciting Challenges awaits me.
The East Wind very first Challenge for 2016 is called Flag on the Play
I have created a design - Using image MAC0216 Untitled.
Coloured using Copic Markers - Dark skin Combo I created.
- Aboriginal theme..
Thank you
Jane McNally