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"Takes a Dive" is the thirteenth episode of season four and the series finale of the animated children's series The Magic School Bus. It originally aired on December 28th, 1997.
Upon discovering Ms. Frizzle's ancestor was Red Beard the Pirate, Wanda wants to set off to find his treasure. Dorothy Ann, who was her partner for a class project, is upset that she did their project on her own, and she's even more upset when Wanda doesn't want to work together to find the treasure, as the other pairs are all working well together (Keesha and Ralphie, Tim and Carlos, and Arnold and Phoebe). Wanda claims she doesn't need a partner, because she's a pirate, not a weaselly wimp. When Ms. Frizzle comes around, she shows the class the map of her great grandfather Red Beard, who was the pirate. Wanda is engrossed and is convinced that there is real buried treasure at the ocean.
Ms. Frizzle leads the class to The Magic School Bus, which transforms into a ship, and they navigate through the ocean. When they get to their designation, Liz drops the anchor and the class partners up. After they dive in to the water, they notice that fish are absent in the deep end, and Dorothy reads in her book that there's scanty food and shelter for fish to survive in the deep end. Wanda reads the map and the class comes across a school of fish and the coral reefs. Wanda and Dorothy swim to the coral reefs and the two spot a gold chain with a pirate design. Wanda is convinced that the chain leads to the treasure and attempts to swim to it. But Dorothy stops her, reminding her that the two are partners. When Wanda asks what good a partner would do, The Magic School Ship changes everyone into animals that have natural partnerships, much to Wanda's dismay.
Half of the class have been transformed into sea anemone and Dorothy reads in her book that it is a sea animal that looks like a plant. The rest of the class is hermit crabs. Since Wanda is an anemone and can't move, Dorothy, as a hermit crab, attempts to follow the chain, only to get suppressed by a crowd of fish. The class also find that the fish don't swim near anemones because they sting them. Tim notices a hermit crab placing an anemone on its back to protect itself from an octopus. So the students who are hermit crabs place their partners (who are anemones), on their backs. Wanda conceives the idea that Dorothy could place her on her back so the latter could get to the treasure. Liz they arrives with the bus and transforms the class into pistol shrimps and Goby fish. They manage to dig up the hole and hide inside to protect themselves from an upcoming shark. They crawl through the small opening where the chain leads to and follow it. Since Wanda can't see, Liz uses The Magic School Manta Ray to transform the students into sharks and remoras, who attach themselves to sharks. Keesha jokingly says "Those bugs where, bugging me." Then the class says "Keesha!" The class finally finds the treasure, only to find that it has damaged the coral reef. Dorothy and Wanda inadvertently cause an avalanche attempting to haul the treasure and the bits and pieces of the reef fall apart and crumbles right on top of them.
The two swim out of the fallen bits of reef and the treasure is buried under it. Liz uses The Magic School Manta Ray to transform everyone back to their human form and Ms. Frizzle offers the students their magnifiers. Carlos notices that the reef is made of tiny animals called polyps. Tim and Wanda both notice a substance the polyps have on each of them, which Ms. Frizzle informs is called algae — the same as the scum on Arnold's shoe when he stepped into the pond (from the episode Gets Eaten). After remembering the animals they were to make great partners, the class wonders if algae has any partnership with the polyps. Ms. Frizzle explains that algae makes its own food from sunlight and gives out wastes to help the polyps make the reef. Ralphie then notices that the sick part of the reef has no algae partners and Dorothy reads in her book that the polyps get rid of their algae partners once the coral reef gets polluted. The class then digs up the treasure from the bits of coral and learns that the treasure has been polluting the reef due to its copper chest. Thanks to the bus, the class manages to restore the reef, giving the polyps to partner with the algae, and take the treasure home.
When they get back inside the classroom, they open the chest. Inside is a portrait of Red Beard and a model of his ship, a "Magic Spanish Galleon," as Ms. Frizzle calls it.
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- This episode marks the last of a few things:
- The last episode to have Phoebe in the series. Jyoti replaces her in Rides Again.
- The last episode to have been co-produced by Nelvana. Rides Again is co-produced by 9-Story.
- The last episode of the original series because PBS wanted more programming aimed towards younger children. A year after this season aired, the series moved to Fox Kids due to their demand for educational shows.
- The last episode to have Ms. Frizzle as the teacher. Her sister Ms. Frizzle replaces her as teacher in Rides Again.
- Arnold's scum from "Gets Eaten" is mentioned.
- In this episode, Wanda initially did not like being Dorothy's partner. However, in "Gets Eaten", she seemed to like being Tim's partner.
- This is the only episode where Phoebe's scuba suit is red with yellow accents. In previous episodes on aquatic field trips, her scuba suit was yellow with red accents. The change is likely to because of red being her primary color and yellow her secondary color based on the number of outfits she's worn for field trips.
- This is the only episode where the kids return to the classroom in their scuba suits.
- Going by production order, this is the 11th episode of Season 4.


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Deadtown by Nancy Holzner
Are you a fan of urban fantasy and can't wait a few months for the next entry in your favorite series? Then give Deadtown a try.
A while back a strange plague hit a section of Boston and the few thousand people there suddenly fell down and died…and a few hours later they got back up. Deadtown was created out of the quarantine zone that sprung up to house the newly created undead of Boston. Now it is the section of Boston designated for PAs (PA = Paranormal Americans) to live, work and play. Zombies, werewolves, vampires and shapeshifters living together — kind of a strange version of paradise. But of course, things always go wrong in paradise. Enter our heroine, Victory Vaughn, shapeshifter and expert demon hunter. She's got to deal with a teen zombie apprentice, a werewolf boyfriend, mad scientists and a demon that wants to destroy Boston. All in a Halloween's work.
This is suspenseful and edgy entry to the urban fantasy genre. While it is a fast paced thriller, it also makes you think. The rights and status of paranormals is under debate across the country; PAs are considered things, not people, in the state of New Hampshire. This political intrigue, as well as the whole demons trying to destroy Boston, added enough substance to the thrill ride that I'll be looking for the sequel, Hellforged, which is out soon.


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Mike Tyson with Larry Sloman
(Blue Rider Press, 592 pp., $30)
With the more colorful moments of Mike Tyson's life now thoroughly documented in the minds of the American public, this is a book that should simply be quoted at length because it is absolutely bonkers. From Mr. Tyson's epilogue:
"These days I drive an Escalade. Some people might think that's great but in my mind an Escalade isn't good enough to give to a prostitute. I still owe money to the IRS. I'll probably die before I pay them off. I'm not making much money now. I'm looking good but I'm not making nothing. I'm a bum. I can't believe my wife is still married to me. I feel like a dog. I just don't have a good psychological opinion of myself. I hate myself sometimes. I feel like I don't deserve anything. Sometimes I just fantasize about blowing somebody's brains out so I can go to prison for the rest of my life."
Mr. Tyson does present a kind of solution to these problems. When he "wanted to get my head clear," he went to the strip club. "That's just what people did back in the early 2000s," he writes. —Michael H. Miller
Kick and Run: Memoir With Soccer Ball
Jonathan Wilson
(Bloomsbury Academic, 274 pp., $15.99)
Jonathan Wilson's new book, Kick and Run, a "memoir with soccer ball," details growing up Jewish in London, being a young Westerner in Israel and becoming an aging soccer fan in the U.S.
Which is to say a sense of displacement tends to hover over this engaging read: Mr. Wilson's mother slaps him early on when he tells her friends that he wants to grow up to be a footballer. "Why didn't I just say I wanted to be a working-class Christian?" "There's no need to use language like that," the rabbi tells him, when he guesses that the glass-stomping ceremony at Jewish weddings (his own upcoming) might have "something to do with the tearing of the hymen."
The subtitle is accurate, though, and an understanding of the pleasures of soccer are not required to enjoy this book's buoyant tone. The younger sections reminded me of the best goofy logic in James Thurber's My Life and Hard Times, the young man sections of the obsession in Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage (which examines his own development through the lens of D. H. Lawrence) and the older parts of the detached, though still neurotic, observations of Nathan Zuckerman. Americans need not eat around the soccer parts here; simply substitute in your own private addiction from the bench. —Dan Duray


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The phase diagram of the high Tc superconductor has been one of the central research subjects of the Condensed matter physics. If the superconducting dome is removed by a high magnetic field or chemical doping, one can measure various transport properties of the underlying high Tc materials. Often, those transport coefficients reveal universal temperature dependence in the so-called strange metallic region or Quantum Critical region.
We use the holographic methods to compute various physical properties of Schroedinger backgrounds. We compare their universal temperature dependences of magneto-transports in optimal and over doped phases of high Tc cuprates, like resistivity, inverse Hall angle and Hall coefficients, to the experimental data to show that they are in good agreements. Here we present series of slides that contain the plots of these quantities.
This is a promising starting point for understanding the full high Tc cuprates phase diagram from a completely different point of view compared to the conventional approcah. This has been done in collaboration with a high Tc experimentalist and a senior string theorist, and gave me experiences with an experimental lab and related literature.
B. S. Kim, E. Kiritsis and C. Panagopoulos, "Holographic quantum criticality and strange metal transport," New J. Phys. 14:043045 (2012). [arXiv:1012.3464 [cond-mat.str-el]]
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Spleen in Systemic Mastocytosis
The patient was a 50 y/o female with skin lesions, flushing and diarrhea, hepatosplenomegaly, anemia, and thrombocytopenia. Splenectomy specimen showed prominent follicles. Flow cytometry showed the following profile: Positive: CD2, CD9, CD25, CD68, CD117 and tryptase; Negative: CD3, CD4, CD20, and CD34. The diagnosis was Systemic mastocytosis. The photomicrograph shows ill-defined, fibrotic, granuloma-like nodules.


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StumbleUpon Gets Visually Appealing Makeover [News]
According to the online media research site, GigaOM, StumbleUpon has surpassed Facebook as "the biggest traffic driver among social media websites in the US". StumbleUpon has always been one of the go-to sites for discovering new and interesting stuff on the Web, and recently the site has done a significant makeover that gives it a lot more visual appeal.
The new homepage of StumbleUpon replaces the predominately text-based layout (see first screenshot below) with attractive columns of high-quality images and photos linking to topics of interests for StumbleUpon members (second screenshot).
A new "Explore Box" has also been added for making keyword and phrase searches. Unlike Google, when you do a search in StumbleUpon, you are taken directly to sites that other StumbleUpon members found interesting to recommend.
This new design is more in line with the image-driven communication of most contemporary online websites, which often means a photo can draw your attention a lot faster than single columns of text.
As you click the "Stumble!" button in the drop-down menu of the site it begins to feel like you're browsing a museum or exposition, because each click typically takes you to some very interesting places. You can like and dislike pages you "stumble upon", and the ones you like get bookmarked to your account.
Another new feature added to the site are Channels, which are a collection of sites, people, and brands that you might find interesting.
StumbleUpon also has a gorgeous iPad app that includes all of the features of the online website.
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Hello Tripping,Tripping wrote:I love you for capturing that photograph! I got it for Leonard in Cape Town, South Africa - at a point that I was not even sure that I would attend the concert.adriaan1411 wrote:Last night was a memorable one. Itwas an excellent concert and emotional since the thought of this possibly being the final time to see Leonard live, never left my mind. I have posted some photo's on Facebook. I am especially proud of one photo, taken during 'First we take Manhattan." Someone threw, right on cua, a toy monkey on stage. I have captured Leonard, holding the monkey, while singing!
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Should Euthanasia Be Legalized Or Not
"Euthanasia" meaning 'the practise of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering 'is considered to be a crime in several countries across the globe. Approved by the Hippocratic oath of the Greek medical texts, every human being should be given the explicit right to a dignified death. Euthanasia is a dawn to intolerable pain and monotonous suffering. It is not a phenomenon of shortening life-span but is a device of ceasing a torture which eats away every part of the body with every passing day.
Euthanasia often saves a financially sinking family, caught in desperate hope of saving the victim from a cureless disease. It upholds self determination and often relieves individuals of false anticipation. Voluntary euthanasia, a form of 'mercy killing,' is performed by the approval of the patient and is justified. It does not cause harm to others rather it saves them from the evils of its social and mental consequences.
Although the 'anti-euthanasia' public claim that such a practice violates and exploits 'the fundamental right to live' of the individual, they fail to realize that the victim's life is plunged into intolerable pain and despair, to such an extent that he/she chooses death over life. The essence of life fails to instil any hope of recovery in such a tormented state of mind.
The right to die should be given the equal weight to our right to die. Euthanasia in a manner upholds and protects humanity since its disapproval would trespass the essential right of an individual to decide what is right for their betterment. Everyone condemns a life devoid of the basic of life such as inability to move and eat. After a phase of torture, they choose death over such "life-less" soul. Moreover, euthanasia does not violate any rules or norms.
Death is not an evil consisting of horrified pain but a dignified and basic phenomenon. It should not be thought of as a negative term . To let people plunged in a life of suffering would be selfish and thus euthanasia should be promoted.
Euthanasia is not the murder of a desperate body but the rescue of an aching soul. Although involuntary euthanasia may be condemned to a certain extent, voluntary euthanasia should be legalized in all countries for the betterment of the human race. It is a moral phenomenon which brings a relief to the despaired soul and helps in attaining eternal peace.


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Due to the echo chamber in the comments section of my last post on reissuing and a post over at Hooded Utilitarian, I decided to touch on what I guess I'll call "ethical issues" or reissuing in hopes to clarify my meaning.
The biggest headscratcher by Hooded's Bill Randall is his frustration with my description of the weird, awkward issues that come up when something is reissued or released for the first time in a new country, time period, etc. We'll ignore Randall's douchey decision to not fix my misspelling of "excitement" because it's the kind of petty aside that this blog has no time for (we overtly insult people we don't agree with), but I'm baffled by his gross misreading of what I said, which was: "the act of reissuing is a mix of hubris, fan boy excitement gone wrong in the best and worst way, and opportunism." That this was taking as some kind of outrageous and malicious statement is weird, that he goes a step further to suggest that this is all a big dumb cover-up for me not liking the design is...well, it's about as insincere as highlighting a typo.
The point of my description of reissuing is that there's a lot of issues, good, bad, and in the middle that come up when someone chooses to reissues another artist's work. On the positive side, reissuing something, at least as a small, undoubtedly sincere company like Drawn & Quarterly goes, stems from an excitement or love of the work and desire to get it out there so more people can read the thing.
However, that doesn't mean problems don't arise and often these problems stem from the same fan-ish glee that moved them towards falling in love with the work and wanting to reissue it in the first place. I'm sure you guys are aware but you know, sometimes when people really like something, they sorta act like they own it or they internalize it and take it over to some extent. And simply put, no matter how great and back-breaking it might be to put out some work of the past--or from another country--that you love, if you got a brain, you feel a little bit icky about the endeavor because you're getting paid or getting publicity or something of someone else's work. This is okay, this is necessary, but it is still true.
To break this down, I'd like to recount the emotions and concerns that raced around in my head when me and fellow writer here, Jesse, went to work on developing a mixtape for a Baltimore hip-hop group called Mania Music Group. This is also good because it moves these issues out of the world of comics...
My interest in developing a mixtape for free download of Mania mainly came from the fact that I felt they were incredibly slept-on in Baltimore and depressingly unknown outside of the city. It was not only their talent that grabbed me but the sense that their style intersected with a lot of what was going on in hip-hop right now and that if exposed to the right people, they would become huge.
I got the chance to meet them at a show they performed and ended up eating burgers with them and even going to a party with the group. The next day, a friend of mine--who organized the show they did--interviewed them on his college radio show. The result was an hour of hilarity and insight that gave listeners a great introduction to the group--the hour even ended with a ridiculous 10-minute plus freestyle. I immediately thought of how, it would be hard to get non-fans to listen to an hour with a group they've never heard, but that snippets of this interview, along with their music would provide an excellent introduction, sampler, primer of the group.
The additional reason for wanting to provide a sampler of the group is that over at their website ManiaMusicGroup.Com, they provide free downloads to all of their albums and EPs. This is both brilliant and a little overwhelming for an uninitiated listener. To be honest, the site is also a bit busy and hard to navigate and I can imagine it at least turns off a few interested internet-ers with poor connections. I decided to take songs from all of their releases and consult a few others to do the same and develop about an hour of their music.
*First Problem: I'm picking and choosing the songs that will define this band to a new audience. My attempt to curtail complete subjectivity was through asking others' input but this is still not the group. I should add, I asked permission from the group about this project and they thanked me and said "Go ahead" but this did not make me less nervous or unsure of my role in regards to defining the group.
No money was made or exchanged in this project but there were a few ways that I was or could be seen as "using" Mania Music Group. The mixtape was going to be a free download on a new Baltimore music website I was developing and so, if the mixtape was passed around at all, it would indeed not only advertise the group but also the website that created the mixtape.
In another way, they could be seen as the first group that I looked to to celebrate over at this website--something of a small honor. At the same time, the mixtape was also posted on my fairly popular hip-hop blog and so, I was handing Mania's music over to my nearly 10K a month readers. Additionally, to a certain group, my name is more well-known than Mania's and so, in one small way, I'm attaching my name to the project. In my eyes, the uncomfortable ways I was using their music to advertise my new website venture was fair and at the heart of it was a sincere love of the group's music.
*Second Problem: Aligning my name and website with the group. Presenting them through my critical lens in a way that's beyond a review or article but suggesting that I'm connected to the group and can restructure and recontextualize their music.
And so, it came to designing a cover for the mixtape. For those unaware, a "mixtape" in the hip-hop world is basically a CD or even .zip file mixed by a DJ or group of DJs and released for semi-official consumption. Many of the biggest rappers of this past decade have made their names through mixtapes, some of which were totally created by fans and outsiders with no connection to the artist. One of the staples of a mixtape is a relatively outrageous, crazy Photoshopped cover, often a parody of a movie or other aspect of popular culture and sometimes just plain nutty. Go here for some examples.
It's important to note that this, like all aspects of hip-hop is very self-aware and ironic, and so these are not the acts of a bunch of morons with a computer but a developed and accepted aesthetic...the same way rappers know why it's really hilarious (and really awesome) to wear big-ass chains, do they know why its awesome and hilarious to parody Hulk Hogan on their mixtape covers as Gucci Mane does below:
Below is the cover for Gucci's Murder Was the Case album (different than a mixtape, obviously) and you can see the differences in design and color and overall attitude. Still, there's a common, and delightful disinterest in conventional aesthetics going on here too. That's to say, it's not exactly perfect-looking or "clean" in design.
In terms of designing a cover for the mixtape I made, this was important because Jesse would be designing the cover and while he knows a thing or two about Photoshop, dude's Photoshop game isn't super-great or anything. This was good because it would mean some of the sloppier or imperfect aspects of whatever cover we designed would not only be easily excused, but work right in-line with the general aesthetic of the mixtape. At the same time though, Mania Music have sought to stick out from the crowd, to not follow any rules or expectations and so...
Third Problem: Would it be totally right to make a typical mixtape for a group like Mania? If they were doing their own mixtape would it ever look anything like Guccimania? Probably not. Why am I aligning their music with an aesthetic that though they're a part of, they also reject?
Below is the cover of Midas from Mania Music Group's EP Live from the Arcade. Now, this is not a mixtape, so the outrageous design of mixtapes doesn't apply, but there's something playful and wonderfully absurd about Midas' EP cover which shows the group's willing to have fun with their design.
The decision Jesse and I came to was that because we were trying to break Mania in some small way to a rap audience nationwide, it would be important that the mixtape signify their creativity but also in some way or another "play the game", which meant: Give this mixtape a typically mixtape cover, but don't make it too outrageous or silly that it might discredit the group. The result is below:
Named after Midas' description of Mania's music (soul food and sushi as seeming opposites, one hearty and comfortable, one clean and precise), Jesse thought of the hilarious idea to present a Baltimore skyline raining down with sushi rolls and fried chicken and ham hocks and stuff. It fit with the absurd expectations of a mixtape but was even more bizarre and batty, fitting Mania's sense of humor. At the same time, we tried to make it look professional and sleek, like the website of some high-power company: Purples and blacks, both Baltimore Ravens colors and undeniably regal.
Fourth Problem: The cover might even be seen as more than a little offensive, as a group of rappers are shown rapping behind a sea of fried chicken etc. Honestly, this wasn't even a debate because we knew it wasn't offensive, that it wasn't intended to be, and that the soul food images are quiet enough to not invoke racial stereotypes. Still, it would not surprise me if others have seen the design as offensive and maybe even members of Mania, who would think it improper to complain to a group of guys making them a mixtape out of sheer fandom. My guess is they're cool with it but honestly, I'd never know unless they complained and since the whole thing was a rap-nerd labor of love, maybe they'd not complain even if it did bum them out because they'd feel like dicks.
I hope I've outlined some of the issues that Jesse and I encountered just in the decision to make a free, downloadable mixtape and you'll see the problems or concerns we worked-out as well as the ones we ignored or justified in one way or another. I'd imagine all of you will have a different impression of whether we succeeded or failed and that's my point in all this: Reissuing or re-releasing something is a precarious balance of a lot of things...when you throw money into it, it only gets weirder.
For anybody interested, you can download Soul Food & Sushi: A Mania Music Group Mixtape here.
Album Covers
While I understand the want or need to get beyond the original covers for literature (pre-copyright books can be published by many so they need to distinguish, some books are thousands of years old), I do not understand why comics have taken the similar approach and hasn't instead followed the "print the original" route that music reissues follow. Pop, rock, and jazz albums are closer in age to comics than literature and it just seems to make sense. Below's an example of one of the few re-issued albums I can think of in which the cover was changed, Shuggie Otis' Inspiration Information:
Notice how the reissue is sort of frustratingly retro, something that's not only absurd but pointless because you can't get more retro than the actual cover that adorned the album in 1974. This reissue was by David Byrne's Luaka Bop label, mostly known for World Music releases and so, in some attempt at label continuity, Luaka Bop's placed "World Psychedelic Classics 2: California Soul" in the corner even though there's really nothing "psychedelic" about Otis' album and that California Soul, besides not really being a sub-genre, wouldn't properly describe this release anyway. Also odd, this reissue added four tracks from an earlier Shuggie album Freedom Flight and makes them sound like bonus tracks or album omissions. Only after you purchased the album and read the liner notes would you realize that Otis had two previous albums and that these four tracks come from his second album. Huh? Why?
My attack on "hipster design" stems from this sort of being the default approach to new design in the 2000s. And you don't really need more of a reduction of absurdity of this than these recent-ish covers for Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther, originally published in 1774. The first cover, I recall, came out right around the time of The OC which was arguably one of the biggest pushers of "indie culture" into the mainstream. Read this Pitchforkmedia review for a good thinkpiece on the whole topic. I don't think it's too possessive to suggest that the image of a dude--and I use dude advisedly--placing his mouth on a girl's stomach, along with the candy-stripes is pretty silly for turning the novel into what looks like a Young Adult novel for girls or that a teary Calvin Klein model has little to do with Werther's suicidal love.


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Setup Guide - Esxi 6.5 + Nested FreeNAS + Docker Containers
Created: 03/23/2017
Last Tested 03/23/2017
Notice: I am going to assume that you have ESXI and a FreeNAS vm installed at base stock settings. This guide will show you the settings needed to make FreeNAS *vms* and *docker containers* receive a network connection from your DHCP server.
Setting the FreeNAS vm to have Hardware virtualization support form the ESXI host cpu.
For this part please open your esxi host in the web configurator https://IPOFSERVER/ui/.
- Power Down your FreeNAS vm and click edit on the vm.
- Expand the CPU section
- Place a Tick next to: Hardware virtualization, Performance counters
- Save and close the vm settings page.
Setting up Vswitch network used for FreeNAS
In this section we will edit the Vswitch that will provide FreeNAS vms and docker containers a network connection. For this I use the VSphere client to make the edits. My FreeNAS vm and its nested vms are using the same network interface witch is located on the Vswitch 0 in ESXI.
- Find the vSwitch that corresponds to your FreeNAS install to where the vms and docker containers are running.
- Select Properties
- Click on EDIT for the Virtual Machine Port Group
- Select the Security tab
Although it might not be needed for each I did it anyways.
CHECK, ALLOW - Promiscuous Mode CHECK, ALLOW - MAC Address Changes CHECK, ALLOW - Forged Transmits
Booting up FreeNAS and Setting up Networking
Here we will boot FreeNAS and setup networking. My steps below assume that you are logged into FreeNAS under the root user and have no current vms or docker containers loaded.
- Set static ipv4 to the FreeNAS server
- (Network - vmx0)
- Uncheck DHCP
- Type in the static ipv4 that you are wanting Example: 192.168.1.141 and Subnet 255.255.255.0
- Save the settings
- Check and make sure that the Gateway is setup properly
- (Network - Settings)
- Verify ipv4 under (Gateway Settings)
- if it is wrong and needs to be changes untick (Assign Gateway) and manually enter the proper one.
FreeNAS Setting up Docker Host
I like to setup a storage location and decide where my vms will be stored. I have 2 SSD's of equal size in raid-0 config.
- Head over to (Docker + Docker Host) Press the (+) button to add a new Host.
- Add a name to the Docker Host
- CPU Cores - Add the quantity that you feel is necessary *Make sure you have the numbers of cores assigned to the FreeNAS vm in esxi.
- Memory - I set 3GB for Plex. *Make sure you leave some for the FreeNAS os and you have enough provisioned to the FreeNAS vm in esxi.
- Datastore - This is where on what array you want to store the docker vm files. I use SSD storage locations.
- Click on SAVE
FreeNAS Setting up Plex container
This is the last and final step! WOO! So here I currently have a plex server setup as you can see form my screen shot below. Altho Im going to run through this as if I didn't so lets begin.
- Head over to (Docker + Containers) Press the (+) button to add a new Container.
- Scroll through the list to find the plex image and then click it.
- Give your plex docker container a name.
- Docker host: Select the one that you made above or just leave as default for auto select.
- Expose ports: ticked
- Ports: These are pre configured and don't need to be changed.
- Volumes: If you intend to use media stored on your FreeNAS box press the ( + ) button here. You will then want to set the following.
Type: host Path: ''set this to your directory for your plex data'' Container Path: /media ''this is a good location and isn't used by default''
- Environment variables: These are pre configured and don't need to be changed.
- Networking Settings: -
- Primary Network: Set this to Bridged
- DHCP: If you want DHCP then tick if not then input a ipv4 address that you want to use below.
- Mac Address: press {Generate}
- Networks: leave this blank
- Advanced: -
- Hostname: If you wish to set a hostname do it here.
- Memory Limit: Set one if you wish.
- Interactive: unticked
- Privileged: unticked
- Autostart: ticked
- Command: leave this blank
- Press SAVE
- Now press Web UI at the top and plex should open.
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Ethiopia's state-owned power utility Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) has launched a Request for Pre-Qualification for the deployment of 250 MW of PV capacity.
Through the tender, the utility hopes to build two 125 MW (AC) PV plants in the frame of the World Bank's Scaling Solar program. Interested developers must submit their applications by November 21, 2017.
EEP said the RfQ round will pre-qualify prospective bidders with the requisite experience, expertise, and financial resources to rapidly deliver the two IPP projects. The second stage, the utility added, will involve a Request for Proposal from pre-qualified bidders.
pv magazine has previously reported that Ethiopia is seeking to tender up to 500 MW of solar PV via the Scaling Solar program and the first such tender will concern about 200 MW to 250 MW of capacity.
The Ethiopian government is currently running a tender for the 100 MW Metehara project, which initially attracted more than 60 bids. Five bids have been shortlisted and a final decision is expected to be announced soon.
Based on the government's energy plan for the years up to 2020, Ethiopia has prioritized 300 MW of solar PV projects dispersed across three sites.


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I have a MAJOR announcement regarding the future of the main FitGems site:
Ning is undergoing a big change, and one of those changes is that Ning will no longer be a free service. You can read it for yourself here:
Changes is coming to Ning, and I don't like it one bit, and I bet after reading that, you probably don't either. I could keep the site here and make you all pay just to use this, but that's not fair to any of you. I'm looking for sponsorships, but I'll be damned if I make any of you actually pay just to be a member here. Not gonna happen.
What I began to do yesterday is to transfer many of the things on this site to another site. I would highly recommend you to go to the new official website for FitGems Nation.
Ning has made it virtually impossible (as of this writing) to convert the material here to any new site, so I'm doing it manually. It will take some time to move everything. I plan to have a grand reopening of FitGems sometime this summer. If you have ANY questions, please email me as email@example.com. If you have people that would like to join FitGems Nation, tell them to join it at the link above, NOT http://www.fitgemsnation.net (or at least not yet, anyways). Once everything is settled, I will let you know when the URL is linked up to the right site.
Again, my deepest apologize to anyone and everyone on the news. But, as the old saying goes...what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. And trust me, when this is all said and done, FitGems will be stronger than ever before; I guarantee it!
Everything else related to FitGems Nation (blog, MySpace, Facebook fan page, and Twitter) will still be up and running like normal. Once again, my apologizes to all of you here.
FitGems Nation
NEW main site: http://fitgemsnation.socialgo.com/
Blog: http://fitgems.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/fitgemsnation
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/fitgemsnation
Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/FitGems-Nation/172803974346?ref=ts
Ask FitGems Anything: http://www.formspring.me/fitgemsnation
Save Women's Fitness Now Blog: http://savefitnessnow.blogspot.com
Save Women's Fitness Now Twitter: http://twitter.com/savefitnessnow


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What is DESCA
DESCA (Development of a Simplified Consortium Agreement) is a comprehensive Model Consortium Agreement which offers a reliable frame of reference for project consortia. DESCA enjoys broad support within the FP community.
The signature of a Consortium Agreement between the partners of a research project is mandatory for almost every Horizon 2020 project. The European Commission offers general guidance for the drafting of consortium agreements but rightfully does not endorse a specific model consortium agreement. Initiated by key FP7 stakeholder groups, and updated for Horizon 2020 in consultation with the FP community, the DESCA initiative seeks to balance the interests of all participant categories: large and small firms, universities, public research institutes and RTOs, in the spirit of the Responsible Partnering Initiative.
DESCA is a simple and comprehensive model Consortium Agreement, stripped of all unnecessary complexity in both content and language. The modular structure of DESCA, with various options and alternative modules and clauses, provides maximum flexibility. Great care has gone into making sure that these variants remain consistent with the core text. Elucidation notes with concrete examples and detailed explanations about the various options and clauses are provided throughout the model. These notes will help research managers without legal training and first-time Horizon 2020 participants make informed choices about the best wording to protect their interests.
The DESCA Model Consortium Agreement was specifically designed for Horizon 2020 "Research and Innovation Actions" and "Innovation Actions".
The DESCA Core Group is represented by ANRT, EARTO, KoWi, LERU, VTT, ZENIT and coordinated by Fraunhofer and the Helmholtz Association.
The DESCA Consultation Group, which provides vital expertise for the development of DESCA, consists of more than 160 experts from Academia, Research and Technology Organisations and Industry from all over Europe, as well as from other countries involved in the framework programmes, e.g. Israel and USA.


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Hippos were found all across sub-Saharan Africa over the last century, but now they're restricted to very limited areas. Competition with humans over water and space has been the biggest factor in their shrinking range. Illegal hunting and retaliatory killing (for crop damage or attacks on humans) has also contributed to their decline. As hippos decline, wetlands are suffering because hippos are critical to wetland ecosystems.
Gorongosa's hippos experienced a sharp decline from their population of 3,500 in the 1970's but with increased protection, the population is rebounding from 100 hippos in the year 2000 to 250 hippos today. Research on Gorongosa's hippos is underway to better understand how Gorongosa's wetlands are doing with fewer hippos. With increased protection and a better understanding of our hippo population, recovery of Gorongosa's magnificent hippos is off to a good start.


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Friday, April 14, 2006
What freedom of religion isn't
Now, to me, the obvious solution for a person who has moral objections to the job description of being a pharmacist would be to not become a pharmacist, but that solution doesn't seem to present itself to these pharmacists. I say we help them out.
I'm not sure if there already is, but there should be some sort of pharmacist equivalent to the American Bar Association which can de-license pharmacists who refuse prescriptions for illigitimate private reasons. This is a necessary step, because if we grant personal faith as a legitimate reason to refuse to fill prescriptions, then we are granting pharmacists the right to refuse to fill any prescription for any reason. When people's health is at stake, that is unacceptable.
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Great points, H.G. To my dismay (actually, to my outrage and fury), Washington is considering a proposal to allow what it calls "pharmacists' refusal." (A news article quoted a pharmacist opining that this is one of her rights as a citizen.)
How ridiculous. Pharmacists are employed to fill doctors' prescriptions and provide drug information. Period. Not to impose their religious or moral judgments on customers who come to them in times of need - ill, traumatized, or in pain - by adding another level of decision-making, not based on medicine or science, between doctor and patient.
Post-rant: Google brought up the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, which describes itself as "the independent, international, and impartial association that assists its member boards and jurisdictions in developing, implementing, and enforcing uniform standards for the purpose of protecting the public health." Otherwise, it appears that the states operate their own boards of pharmacy.
- Impatient Patient said...
Just had that happen up here in Canada- a good friend wanted Plan B and was told that the pharmacist did not believe in it so she would not dispense it. She did not offer to get someone who would, nor did she refer her elsewhere.
Umm- I don't think that my friend asked what her beliefs were, do you??? oh, and where I am from there is a pharmacists moral objection clause written into whatever.
What if the pharmacist decides screw it- I just don't believe in LIFE one day????? Screw it- no renewals- you can all just croak?
Doctors up here can be just as bad. Never say IUD to a fundamentalist gynecologist who has his head up your ass.....The utensils hurt.
My father was a pharmacist. He would have whole-heartedly agreed with you.


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If so I'd like to hear about it. I think it would make me feel better.
I just hooked up a whoopie sling for the first time and tried putting the marlin spike in the strap. I've gotta warn you; it matters how you flip that strap! I sat into my blackbird and whamo was on floor with pieces of broken toggle around me. Nothing hurt but my pride.
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Spiritual elements run through the current show at Quad City Arts in The District of Rock Island, with two artists interested in the idea of a life-force connection. The exhibit features paintings by David Murray and intaglio prints by Katie Kiley and runs through March 22.
Kiley's work explores the interior landscape of "mudras" - hand positions used during meditation or healing as described in ancient Egyptian and Vedic literature. Murray paints somewhat surreal landscapes, incorporating natural components but using color and juxtaposition that one might never encounter except in dreams.
Kiley probably knows the original use of mudras but, out of consideration for those who aren't into New Age-ish topics, chooses to leave it out of her artist statement: "Mudras are most commonly understood to be symbolic hand gestures adopted for meditation or exposition. They represent the first efforts in sign language and can be found in Egyptian illustrations dating back thousands of years. The word 'mudra' comes from the Sanskrit word for ritual hand gesture and appears in the post-Vedic literature of India to designate a seal or imprint left by a seal. The Hindus and Buddhists borrowed these gestures to import magic and underscore the words of their sacred rituals."
It may be instructive, in looking at her art, to resurrect some of the metaphysical explanations surrounding mudras. Much like chiropractic and acupuncture, many ancient religions believe that the life force of a body flows in meridians throughout and surrounding our bodies. Chiropractors seek to align our bones so that the energy flows in a correct pattern. Acupuncturists seek to correct energy flows by inserting needles in or near meridians. Reflexologists indicate that organs of the body can be represented in our hands and feet. The ancient mudras were hand positions that encouraged "correct" energy flows throughout the body to promote health, healing, protection, or pleasure.
Here is a good test to see whether these energy-flow theories might have any resonance for you. With your mouth closed, touch the tip of your tongue to the roof of your mouth just behind your teeth. Hold it that way for a minute. Then stop touching the roof of your mouth with your tongue. If you feel a difference, a little less grounded, you might be a person who finds something of value in this energy business. If you don't feel a difference, you might find that it's a bunch on nonsense.
Kiley's Mudra II - Blessing & Protection is interesting to me. On a football field, this is the sign for a time out, except that often the right and left hand are exchanged. A time out is pretty much a call for protection and is oftentimes a blessing to the team that calls it. So it looks like some modern hand signals can trace their roots to the pre-history of India and Egypt.
Kiley's draftswomanship is exquisite, proved by the two copper intaglio plates. There are no strikeovers, corrections, or anything else marring the beauty of the plate. Her rendering of the hands in each of the prints is flawless.
I think this abstraction of one part of the human form helps her focus on her drawing; otherwise she might suffer from sensory overload. I say this because of her extremely sensual description of her work: "Above all else, I love to draw the figure. I delight in the infinite beauty of the human form; the bones and muscles, the skin and hair, all the intricacies of the eyes and ears and mouth. ... I watch for those intimate gestures: moving, leaning toward the other, touching, trembling ... those gestures that attest to an intimate communication that needs no words."
David Murray also weaves the spirit into his works. In his artist statement, he writes: "Light is the amniotic fluid of the spirit; it reveals and hides places of mystery and history. The rocks, trees, and waters emanate inner-life. We are welcomed in these landscapes to seek moments of solace and connectedness. It is an invitation to find intimations of something endless and beautiful while keeping our feet on the ground.
"Landscape has meant many different things to me over time. My current efforts continue to explore landscape as a place of life and spirit. I am interested in moments where nature offers a kind of transcendence or alignment. A place where the lands are filtered through emotion, memory, and imagination. These lands are a hybrid, inseparable from humanity but asking us to remember something pure and of power."
If we look at Murray's Ghost Wind, we see an aperture of light flowing through and illuminating a rocky coastline. The image is surreal because the backside of the bluff, which should be in shadow, is illuminated by the light. The colors are believable in this landscape, but not so with all of his landscapes.
Greener Grass has anything but green grass. There is a slender waterfall cutting through the composition, suggesting a feminine influence. The rocks in the foreground provide the sharp contrast to the softer background images. The colors are purples, blues, and grays, not the natural ones we might expect.
Several of David Murray's paintings are quite good, capturing the feeling of transcendence or alignment that he is striving to portray. His compositions often add a contrasting element, like the aperture of light in Ghost Wind, or the foreground rock in Keystone. His work is at its best when it departs from reality and moves toward surreal abstraction.
Spiritual elements run through the current show at Quad City Arts in The District of Rock Island, with two artists interested in the idea of a life-force connection. The exhibit features paintings by David Murray and intaglio prints by Katie Kiley and runs through March 22.
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Give It a Rest: Tips for Improving Sleep
Feeling rested this morning?
If the question itself elicits a yawn and a tighter grip on the coffee cup, you're not alone. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 40.6 million American workers – 30% of the civilian workforce – sleep fewer than six hours per night, well below the recommended seven to nine hours.
And that chronic exhaustion is costing the economy $63.2 billion in lost productivity, according to a Harvard Medical School study.
For years, experts say, employers have overlooked the effect this sleep deprivation can have on employee health and performance, even in the face of a growing body of research that links poor or inadequate sleep not only to low productivity but also to higher rates of depression, obesity, heart disease and cancer.
So, how can we learn to sleep–and consequently, work–better? Some expert tips, after the jump.


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Lifespan Research:
Comparison/Contrast of Early Childhood versus Adolescent Population
Life is a series of stages and we are mere puppets in the game of life. From childhood to adolescence to old age we undergo a series of transformations which are physical, emotional, social and cognitive or mental in nature.
Childhood is said to be the essence of purity and life, which adolescence is said to be the shape of existence. The child is governed by the environment his/she is put into which the adolescent creates his/her own space. The development is gradual up to a point in time in both the phases until society and culture make their marks or stands.
Both phases of life are characterized by change the difference being that in childhood the change is managed by external forces while the adolescent is more or less often the change agent and manager.
Lifespan research has been referred to as the study undertaken to investigate both social and psychological factors which in turn contribute to influencing mental health. The term lifespan denotes the approach utilized i.e. examination of factors from childhood to adolescence to old age. This paper is an attempt to compare and contrast childhood and adolescence with regard to social, physical and cognitive aspects. The paper first sketches out a description of childhood, secondly significant characteristics of adolescence in the first 4 pages, lastly the paper compares and contrasts the two stages over a variety of parameters.
Both phases of life take place in a normal setup of a family unit with supportive parents and an "accepted" upbringing.
EARLY CHILDHOOD (2-6 years)
Early childhood refers to the age group of 2 to 6 years of development and is the stage where multiple changes (social, physical, cognitive) are observed to take place. Many a psychologist has classified this age to be one paramount importance as many critical behavioral attributes develop in this...


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Philadelphia Neighborhoods
Bella Vista
Bella Vista, Italian for "beautiful sight", is a South Philadelphia neighborhood bounded by 6th and 11th Streets and South Street and Washington Avenue. Philly's historic Italian Market stretches along 9th Street between Wharton and Fitzwater, and is home to several notable Italian shops and restaurants as well as the recent presence of other cultures, including Vietnamese and Mexican.
Brewerytown is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia district of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Brewerytown got its name because of the numerous breweries that were located along the Schuylkill during the late 19th century and early 20th century. It is now primarily a residential neighborhood, with an active commercial sector along Girard Avenue.
Callowhill is a neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It is roughly located in the vicinity of Callowhill Street, between Vine Street, Spring Garden Street, Broad Street, and 8th Street. It is named for Hannah Callowhill Penn, William Penn's second wife. Callowhill was formerly home to large-scale manufacturing and other industries, of which an architectural history has been left in the form of grand old abandoned factories. During the 1970s and 80s, the population of Callowhill plummeted, and although numbers are rising, it is a fairly unpopulated section of the city compared to surrounding neighborhoods.
Cedar Park
A fiercely unique slice of West Philadelphia with a rich history and a bright future, Cedar Park is known for its Queen Anne semi-detached houses or "twins", which feature porch-fronts, bay windows, and prominent turrets and chimneys. Spanning the space between 46th and 52nd Streets to the east and west and sealed north and south by Larchwood Street and Kingsessing Avenue, the neighborhood, named for the modest green space at 50th and Baltimore, is primary residential, but the city's restaurant, arts, and music scenes enjoy prominent footholds here.
Chestnut Hill
Chestnut Hill is a neighborhood in the Northwest Philadelphia section of the United States city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The village of Chestnut Hill was part of the German Township laid out by Francis Daniel Pastorius and came to include the settlements originally known as Sommerhausen and Crefeld, as well as part of Cresheim. It served as a gateway between Philadelphia and the nearby farmlands.
Philadelphia Chinatown is a predominantly Asian American neighborhood in Center City Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation supports the area. The neighborhood stretches from Vine Street in the north to Arch Street in the south, and from North Franklin Street and North 17th Street in the east to North Broad Street in the west. The Chinatown Friendship Gate at 10th and Arch Street is a symbol of cultural exchange and friendship between Philadelphia and its Chinese sister city of Tianjin.
Clark Park
Spruce Hill is a neighborhood in the University City section of West Philadelphia. It is between 40th and 46th streets, and it stretches from Market Street south to Woodland Avenue. It has a population of over 16,000. It was built as a streetcar suburb for Center City between 1850 and 1910. It is a racially and ethnically diverse part of the city, where much historic architecture is preserved. A statue of Charles Dickens, cast in 1890 by Francis Edwin Elwell, stands in the neighborhood's Clark Park; it is one of just two known statues of the author.
East Falls
East Falls is a neighborhood in the Northwest section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. East Falls is located adjacent to Roxborough, Manayunk, and Germantown, and Fairmount Park. The neighborhood runs along a stretch of Ridge Avenue that is only a few miles long, along the banks of the Schuylkill River then extends northeast to Wissahickon Avenue.
Fairmount is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The area is sometimes referred to as the "Art Museum Area," for its proximity to and association with the Art Museum. Fairmount enjoys a multiethnic mix from all socioeconomic strata. Its southern half has become increasingly gentrified in recent years, with newcomers to the city settling in the neighborhood for its proximity to Center City.
Fishtown is a neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Located immediately northeast of Center City, its borders are somewhat disputed today due to many factors, but are roughly defined by the triangle created by the Delaware River, Frankford Avenue, and York Street. Some newer residents expand the area to Lehigh Avenue, while some older residents shrink the area to Norris Street. It is served by the Market–Frankford Line rapid transit subway/elevated of the SEPTA system. Fishtown is known as a working class Irish Catholic neighborhood.
Fitler Square
Fitler Square is a public park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, bounded on the east by 23rd Street, on the west by 24th Street, on the north by Panama Street, and on the south by Pine Street. It is in the southwestern part of Philadelphia's Center City on land owned by City of Philadelphia via the Department of Parks and Recreation. Fitler Square was named for late 19th century Philadelphia mayor Edwin Henry Fitler shortly after his death in 1896.
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Southwest Center City (SWCC) is a neighborhood in South Philadelphia bordering Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The neighborhood is bordered on the north by South Street, on the south by Washington Avenue, on the west by the Schuylkill River, and by Broad Street on the east. It is an area adjacent to the Fitler Square and Rittenhouse Square neighborhoods to the North and Point Breeze to the South.
Gray's Ferry
Grays Ferry, also known as Gray's Ferry, is a neighborhood in South Philadelphia bounded (roughly) by 25th Street on the east, the Schuylkill River on the west, Vare Avenue on the south, and Grays Ferry Avenue on the north. The section of this neighborhood west of 34th Street is also known as The Forgotten Bottom. Grays Ferry shares borders with Southwest Center City to the North, Point Breeze to the East, and Girard Estate to the South.
Logan Square
Logan Square is a neighborhood in Philadelphia. Bound by Market Street on the south, Spring Garden Street on the north, Broad Street on the east, and the Schuylkill River on the west, it occupies the northwest quadrant of Center City. The square for which it is named is one of the five "squares", or parks, central to William Penn's design for Philadelphia.
Lower Moyamensing
Lower Moyamensing is a neighborhood in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is bound by Snyder Avenue to north, Oregon Avenue to the south, South 8th Street to the east, and South Broad Street to the west. It is served by the 3rd Police District, located at 11th and Wharton Streets. South Philadelphia, nicknamed South Philly, is the section of Philadelphia bounded by South Street to the north, the Delaware River to the east and south, and the Schuylkill River to the west. A diverse community, South Philadelphia is known for its large Italian American population, as well as its Irish American population.
Manayunk is a neighborhood in the northwestern section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. Located on the banks of the Schuylkill River, it contains the first canal begun in the United States (although not the first completed due to budget problems). The area's name comes from the language of the Lenape Indians (later called the Delaware Indians by Europeans).
Mount Airy
Mount Airy is a neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania. In 2011, the New York Times described the influx of new businesses to Mount Airy as a "cultural revival" buoyed by "the neighborhood's reasonable housing costs and relatively safe streets." In 2013, CNNMoney named Mount Airy one of America's top ten best big-city neighborhoods.
Newbold is a neighborhood organization in South Philadelphia. Its boundaries are from Broad Street on the east to 18th Street on the west, Washington Avenue on the north to Wolf Street on the south. This area is historically part of Point Breeze, however John Longacre (owner of the South Philadelphia Taproom) dubbed the neighborhood "Newbold" in 2003 in an effort to differentiate it from the rest of Point Breeze. Longacre drew inspiration for the name from the original name of Hicks Street. Soon Longacre formed the Newbold CDC and a civic association which gave rise to other area civic groups.
Northern Liberties
Northern Liberties is a neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located north of Center City (specifically, Old City) and is bordered by Girard Avenue to the north; Callowhill Street to the south; North 6th Street to the west; and the Delaware River to the east (from Callowhill Street to Laurel Street; from Laurel Street to Girard Avenue the eastern boundary is North Front Street). The historical boundaries were slightly different, with Vine Street as the southern border and the Cohocksink Creek serving as the northern border.
Old City
Old City is a neighborhood in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, in the area near the Delaware River where William Penn and the Quakers first settled. To tourists, it is best known as the site of Independence Hall and its encompassing Independence National Historical Park, Elfreth's Alley, Carpenters' Hall, the Betsy Ross House, and many of Philadelphia's other historic sites.
Olde Kensington
Olde Kensington is a neighborhood located in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Olde Kensington is north of Northern Liberties, south of Hartranft, east of Ludlow, and west of Fishtown. The boundaries of the neighborhood are roughly between Cecil B Moore Ave (north), Girard Ave (south), Front St (east) and 6th St. (west).
Passyunk Square
Passyunk Square is a neighborhood in South Philadelphia bounded by Broad Street to the west, 6th Street to the east, Tasker Street to the south and Washington Avenue to the north. Passyunk Square is bordered by the Bella Vista, Hawthorne, Central South Philadelphia, Wharton and Point Breeze neighborhoods. The park bounded by 12th, 13th, Wharton and Reed Streets in this neighborhood now known as Columbus Square was formerly known as "Passyunk Square". Geoff DiMasi revived this name when forming the Passyunk Square Civic Association.
Pennsport is a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Pennsport is home to a large working class Irish American population and many Mummer clubs. It was also the site of a controversial push for casinos along the Philadelphia waterfront. Foxwoods Casino was proposed for Christopher Columbus Boulevard at Reed Street.
Point Breeze
Point Breeze is a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is generally bound by 25th Street to the west, Washington Avenue to the north, Broad Street to the east, and Mifflin Street to the south, although the sections between 18th Street and Broad Street are coming into their own neighborhood as Newbold. Southwest Center City lies to its north, and Passyunk Square lies to its east. Point Breeze is separated from Grays Ferry to the west by a CSX railway viaduct over 25th Street.
Poplar is a neighborhood in North Philadelphia. It is located north of Callowhill, between Spring Garden/Fairmount and Northern Liberties, bound roughly by Girard Avenue to the north, North Broad Street to the West, Spring Garden Street to the south, and 5th Street to the east. The neighborhood is mostly residential with commercial frontage on Broad Street and Girard Avenue and some industrial facilities to the west of the railroad tracks along Percy St. and 9th St.
Port Richmond
Port Richmond, also referred to as simply Richmond (and abbreviated as RMD), is a neighborhood in the River Wards section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is notable for its extremely large Polish immigrant and Polish American community. The neighborhood is also home to sizable Irish, German and Italian communities as represented in the various churches and organizations. In more recent years, a sizable Albanian community has moved in. The Richmond Zip Code is 19134 and 19125. The neighborhood is bounded by the Tacony Creek to the northeast, Cumberland Street to the southwest, I-95 and the Delaware River to the southeast, and Aramingo Avenue to the northwes
Powelton Village
Powelton Village is a neighborhood of mostly Victorian, mostly twin homes in the West Philadelphia section of the United States city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a national historic district which is part of University City. It extends north from Market Street to Spring Garden Street, east to 32nd Street, west to 40th and Spring Garden Streets, and to 44th and Market Streets. Commercial activity in Powelton is concentrated on Lancaster Avenue, particularly between 35th Street and 37th Street.
Queen Village
Queen Village is a residential neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that lies along the eastern edge of the city, immediately south of Center City. It shares boundaries with Society Hill to the north, Bella Vista to the west and Pennsport to the south. Historically, the area is part of old Southwark, Philadelphia's first suburb, which was incorporated into the city in 1856 and remains the city's oldest residential neighborhood.
Rittenhouse Square
Rittenhouse Square is one of the five original open-space parks planned by William Penn and his surveyor Thomas Holme during the late 17th century in central Philadelphia. The park is widely considered one of the finest urban public spaces in the United States. The square cuts off 19th Street at Walnut Street and also at a half block above Manning Street. Its boundaries are 18th Street to the East, Walnut St. to the north, Rittenhouse Square West (a north-south boundary street), and Rittenhouse Square South (an east-west boundary street), making the park approximately two short blocks on each side.
Roxborough is a neighborhood in the Northwest Philadelphia section of the United States city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is bordered to the southwest, along the Schuylkill River, by the neighborhood of Manayunk, along the northeast by the Wissahickon Creek section of Fairmount Park, and to the southeast by the neighborhood of East Falls. Beyond Roxborough to the northwest is Montgomery County. Roxborough's zip code is 19128. Most of Roxborough is in Philadelphia's 21st Ward.
Society Hill
Society Hill is a neighborhood in the Center City section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The neighborhood, loosely defined as bounded by Walnut, Lombard, Front and 8th Streets, contains the largest concentration of original 18th- and early 19th-century residential architecture of any place in the United States. Society Hill is noted as a charming district with cobblestone streets bordered by brick rowhouses in Federal and Georgian style.
Spring Garden
Spring Garden is a neighborhood in central Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, bordering Center City on the north. Spring Garden is a neighborhood that combines diverse residential neighborhoods and significant cultural attractions. The residential areas on the north side of the neighborhood (North of Spring Garden Street) are composed mostly of brick and brownstone three-story townhouses built during the mid-to-late 19th century.
University City
University City is the easternmost part of West Philadelphia. The University of Pennsylvania has long been the dominant institution in the area and was instrumental in coining the name "University City" as part of a 1950s urban-renewal and gentrification effort. Today, Drexel University and the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia also call University City home. The eastern side of University City is home to the Penn and Drexel campuses, several medical institutions, independent centers of scientific research, 30th Street Station, and the Cira Centre.
Washington Square West
Washington Square West is a neighborhood in downtown, or Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The neighborhood roughly corresponds to the area between 7th and Broad Streets and between Chestnut and South Streets, bordering on the Independence Mall tourist area directly northeast, Market East to the northwest, Old City and Society Hill to the East, Bella Vista directly south, Hawthorne to the southwest, and mid-town Philadelphia and Rittenhouse Square to the west. In addition to being a desirable residential community, it is considered a hip, trendy neighborhood that offers a diverse array of shops, restaurants, and coffee houses.
Whitman is a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is bounded on the west by Sixth Street, on the east by Front Street, on the south by Bigler Street, and on the north by Snyder Avenue. The name "Whitman" was adopted when the nearby Walt Whitman Bridge was being constructed in the 1950s. When the neighborhood was declared an urban-renewal area in the mid-1950s, the nearby Walt Whitman Bridge also was being constructed.


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"When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such a state is called the function of 'thoughtlessness'. But to refrain from thinking of anything, so that all thoughts are suppressed, is to be Dharma-ridden, and this is an erroneous view."
— Hui-Neng


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BP delays key test on Gulf of Mexico oil well
BP has delayed a key test on a newly installed well cap aimed at stopping the flow of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP and US Coast Guard officials said further analysis was needed before pressure testing could begin.
If it proves successful, the well will be kept "shut in" and the leak halted until relief wells plug it entirely.
The blown-out well has been spewing oil into Gulf waters since April. The US administration has sent BP and other parties a new bill for the clean-up.
The administration says the latest bill is for $99.7m (£65.8m).
The oil giant has already fully paid the last three bills totalling $122.2m (£80.6m) for costs related to response and clean-up of the spill, according to the Obama administration.
'No promises'
The test in the Gulf of Mexico, which was supposed to begin on Tuesday, will determine whether BP's new cap can contain the oil.
Coast Guard chief Admiral Thad Allen said the extra analysis would continue into Wednesday.
This latest move to stop the oil comes a day after the containment cap was placed on the leaking well.
Work on the permanent relief well solution continues.
BP Vice-President Kent Wells said no promises could be made about whether the new cap would work.
"It's not simple stuff. What we don't want to do is speculate around it," he said.
Shutting in the well would provide a temporary solution to the leaking oil. BP is continuing work on the relief well that is expected permanently to stop the oil.
If the test goes as planned, it will mark the first time since the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on 20 April that the leaking oil has been stopped.
During the tests, BP will be monitoring the pressure of the oil in the well.
High pressure will mean the oil has been contained inside the wellhead.
But if the tests showed there was low pressure, Mr Wells said, this might indicate that oil was leaking elsewhere in the well.
He added that if pressure was low the cap would not be kept shut and ships on the surface of the Gulf would continue collecting oil.
- In June, BP placed a cap, known as an LMRP cap, over the top of the Deepwater Horizon well so oil could be collected at the surface. However, this continued to leak oil and has now been replaced with a better fitting device.
- When engineers removed the LMRP cap on 10 July, oil began to freely flow from the top of the blowout preventer once more. However, the Q4000 containment system continued to take some oil to the surface.
- Engineers then bolted on a new capping stack onto the blowout preventer (BOP). This allowed them to conduct a series of tests to see if the flow of oil could be stopped using the newly installed equipment.
- During the test the three ram capping stack has been closed and all sub-sea containment systems collecting the oil temporarily suspended, effectively blocking the flow of oil from the well.
- Once the tests have been successfully completed, BP will resume collecting oil. The Helix Producer ship was recently connected to the BOP to provide another collection route in addition to the Q4000 rig.
The testing will involve closing three separate valves that tightly fit together, stopping the oil from entering the Gulf.
BP expects no oil will be released from the well during the test process, but the company remains cautious.
"The sealing cap system never before has been deployed at these depths or under these conditions, and its efficiency and ability to contain the oil and gas cannot be assured," it said in a statement.
If the cap is unable to take the pressure, a pipe will be connected to the cap to take oil to the ships.
Intercepting the leak
Whatever happens, the well will still need to be plugged, which BP says may not happen until mid-August.
The first of two relief wells has another 30ft (9m) to drill before intercepting the leaking well, Mr Wells said. He expects BP to complete the drilling by late July.
BP will then attempt to plug the blown-out well with mud and cement.
By Monday, between 89m gallons (337m litres) and 176m gallons of oil had leaked into the Gulf, according to government estimates.
US President Barack Obama has labelled the oil spill the country's worst-ever environmental disaster.
BP says it has spent $3.5bn (£2.3bn) on the response effort so far.


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I just posted a craft and writing activity for leap day on TPT. We will be making this on Wednesday. Have a great week!
Sunday, February 26
Leap year craftivity
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So Cute!!! Love it :)
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Edited by Gul Ozyegin, The College of William and Mary, USA.
A must-read for anyone interested in Muslim cultures, this volume not only explores Muslim identities through the lens of sexuality and gender - their historical and contemporary transformations and local and global articulations - but also interrogates our understanding of what constitutes a 'Muslim' identity in selected Muslim-majority countries at this pivotal historical moment, characterized by transformative destabilizations in which national, ethnic, and religious boundaries are being re-imagined and re-made. Contributors take on the most fundamental questions at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and the body.
Several overarching questions frame the volume: How does studying gender and sexuality expand and enrich our understanding of Muslim-majority countries, historically and at present? How does the embodiment of 'Muslim' identity get reconfigured in the context of twenty-first-century globalism? What analytical questions are raised about 'Islam' when its diverse meanings and multifaceted expressions are closely examined? What roles do gender and sexuality play in the construction of cultural, religious, nationalistic, communal, and militaristic identities? How have power struggles been signified in and on the bodies of women and sexuality? How have global dynamics, such as the intensification and spread of neoliberal ideologies and policies, affected changing dynamics of gender and sexuality in specific locales?
Here global dynamics touch down in diverse contexts, from masculinity crises around war disabilities, transnational marriages, and fathering in Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan; to Muslim femininity narratives around female genital cutting, sexuality in divorce proceedings, and spouse selection; to gender crossing practices as well as protesting bodies, queering voices, and claims of authenticity in literary and political discourse. This book brings exciting research on these and other topics together in one place, allowing the essays to speak to one another across time, cultural locales, and disciplines, and enables the reader to engage the volume in comparative and cross-disciplinary fashion.
Contents: Foreword, Deniz Kandiyoti; Introduction, Gul Ozyegin. Part 1 Challenged Masculinities: In vitro nationalism: masculinity, disability, and assisted reproduction in war-torn Turkey, Salih Can Açıksöz; Challenged masculinities: sexuality, ᶜUrfi marriage, and the state in Dahab, Egypt, Mustafa Abdalla; Of migration, marriage, and men: rethinking the masculinity of transnational husbands from rural Pakistan, Aisha Anees Malik; 'Men are less manly, women are more feminine': the shopping mall as a site for gender crisis in Istanbul, Cenk Özbay; Between ideals and enactments: the experience of 'new fatherhood' among middle-class men in Turkey, Fatma Umut Beşpınar; The Janissaries and their bedfellows: masculinity and male friendship in eighteenth-century Ottoman Istanbul, Serkan Delice. Part 2 Producing Muslim Femininities, Sexualities, and Gender Relations: The continuous making of pure womanhood among Muslim women in Cairo: cooking, depilating, and circumcising, Maria Frederika Malmström; Introduction to 'In conversation on female genital cutting': a pedagogical perspective, Victoria A. Castillo; In conversation on female genital cutting, Goran A. Sabir Zangana, Maria Frederika Malmström and Faith Barton; 'I've had to be the man in this marriage': claims about gender roles and sexual practices during judicial divorce cases in Damascus Shari'a Court One in 2005-2006, Jessica Carlisle; Negotiating courtship practices and redefining tradition: discourses of urban, Syrian youth, Lindsey A. Conklin and Sandra Nasser El-Dine. Part 3 Mahrem, the Gaze, and Intimate Gender and Sexual Crossings: Identity in alterity: burqa and madrassah education in Pakistan, Saadia Abid; The daring mahrem: changing dynamics of public sexuality in Turkey, Sertaç Sehlikoglu; Sexing the hammam: gender crossings in the Ottoman bathhouse, Elyse Semerdjian. Part 4 The Desiring, Protesting Body and Muslim Authenticity in Fiction and Political Discourses: Women's writing in the land of prohibitions: a study of Alifa Rifaat and female body protest as a tool for rebellion, Miral Mahgoub Al-Tahawy; Rewriting the body in the novels of contemporary Syrian women writers, Martina Censi; The virgin trials: piety, femininity, and authenticity in Muslim brotherhood discourse, Sherine Hafez. Part 5 Re-theorizing Iranian Diaspora and 'Islamic Feminism' in Iran: Can the secular Iranian women's activist speak?: caught between political power and the 'Islamic feminist', Leila Mouri and Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi; Queering the 'Iranian' and the 'diaspora' of the Iranian diaspora, Farhang Rouhani. Index.
About the Editor: Gul Ozyegin is Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Untidy Gender (Temple University Press, 2000) and New Desires, New Selves: Sex, Love, and Piety among Turkish Youth (New York University Press, forthcoming 2015).
Reviews: 'This is a welcome collection on sexualities and gender ideologies in Muslim majority contexts by established and emerging scholars. It fills a scholarly gap on body-focused regulations, intimacies, masculinities, and queerness. Authors focus on the "crises" produced when everyday forms of sociality challenge dominant sexual and gender ideologies and regulatory practices. This is a fresh and teachable text.'
Frances S. Hasso, Duke University, USA
To buy the book go on this website http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472414540


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I recently did a lunch and learn presentation to my co-workers on the subject of iconography and, after the excessive ragging I got last time for not recording a presentation, I caught it on Silverback. I've included a copy of the powerpoint and the quotes which I used below.
One note – I did realize in going back over my notes that the article is not "Realism in UX Design" but "Realism in UI Design" from UX Magazine. This has been corrected in the Powerpoint version.
"Noobs in the digital space don't understand things holistically. They barely understand the basics. They lack any cognitive surplus to provide themselves with an overview of the environment they interact with."
Thomas Peterson, "Anatomy of a Noob"
"It's pretty rare in the real world that we rely on iconography alone to represent ideas. Bathroom doors generally have an icon of a man and the word "Men." Stop signs have the word "Stop" on them."
Jensen Harris, "The Importance of Labels"
"Part of the user experience effort around Outlook 98 was improving the menu and toolbar structure. One of the problems noticed again and again among non-expert users was that people didn't use the toolbar at all! …In the end, one change caused a total turnaround: labeling the important toolbar buttons. Almost immediately, the toolbars were a big hit and everyone at all skill levels starting using them."
Jensen Harris, "The Importance of Labels"
"Web iconography instantly denotes certain site elements… it's important to appeal to the viewer's sense of familiarity here. A custom set of icons has a certain cachet, but if your ideogram is too obscure, it will fail to communicate the desired message."
Jessica Neuman Beck, "Does Your Copy Hold Up To A Quick Glance?"
"Ever notice how many iPhone icons use analog objects? Phone, envelope, etc. We are wedded to the comforts of familiar objects."
"Yet how many kids growing up these days will know why an icon for a phone is shaped like that?"
Brenden Dawes tweets, "Iconography: Where are we headed?"
"Images are the main content of our thoughts regardless of the sensory modality in which they are generated and regardless of whether they are about a thing or a process involving things or about words or other symbols."
Antonio Damasio
Also referenced are these articles and books-
Realism in UI Design
The Humane Interface
Designing Web Navigation