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Despite all evidence to the contrary, NASA still has Martian intentions.
The space program folks made that clear with the release of their latest plans for the next Mars rover. There have been three rovers so far -- Spirit, Curiosity and Opportunity -- and the vehicles have been collecting data to figure out whether Mars actually has the ability to support life, while also searching for signs of past Martians. The 2020 rover will focus on making oxygen and looking for potential farmland, more practical steps in the journey toward actually putting human feet on the red planet. Making oxygen could both give astronauts something to, you know, breathe if they ever arrive on the planet. It could also be used to make rocket fuel to allow the astronauts to leave (which sounds significantly better than Eli Musk's one-way ticket plan to land people on Mars.)
It all sounds pretty nifty, but NASA is supposed to have astronaut boots on red ground by the 2030s. Way back when, NASA did manage to get from the Earth to the Moon faster than anyone ever thought possible, but will they be able to pull that off with Mars?
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It's possible that NASA could be ready to make the trip, and experts say it could even be affordable, according to space.com. The catch is, it's going to require a huge increase in the NASA budget, with a big dollop of funds set aside specifically for getting to Mars, the problem with today's setup that has been noted by many critics.
The expense is a huge part of NASA's problems these days, since the space agency doesn't pull down a big chunk of the budget these days, and the budget it has is seemingly always being cut. Plus the money allotted has to be split up between all the agencies, each of which has its own projects and agendas.
President Obama has announced a mission to lasso an asteroid, and said this mission is the one that will put astronauts on the path to Mars. That mission -- which isn't even slated to take place until after Obama is out of office -- with the 2020 Mars rover are supposed to signal Martian intentions, which is nifty, but good intentions don't add up to much if no one ever actually sets foot on Mars. Add in that there is a big faction of NASA folks who say that this asteroid program is the wrong way to go, and that NASA should be looking to the moon as the next step to Mars, and the whole thing gets even less certain. Right now, barring a return to the Soviet-era space race, it seems like Ray Bradbory's Martian Chronicles could stay fictional for a long time to come, despite encouraging NASA news releases about the 2020 rover and all the plans in the works. Plans, plus 50 cents will get you a soda (if you can scrounge up another quarter.)
On the upside, the U.S. isn't exactly cuddly with Russia right now. Maybe the cosmonauts will start thinking red planet sometime in the near future. Being scared of the Soviets got us to the moon so perhaps they'll scare the U.S. into getting super-focused on Mars, with a fat budget and everything.


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At EvensonBest's New York City headquarters, there was running a joke about needing to protect the network guru, Martin Silverman, from being hit by a bus.
The company had a secondary IPSec VPN network, so that if a primary MPLS link failed, the backup link would take over. But that wasn't good enough. "Routing protocols aren't as responsive as they need to be," says Silverman. "If I have two networks and can route over two networks, and the first one goes down, within a minute or two, it will fail over. But if the first network is dropping every third packet or retransmitting a lot of packets, the network may be crawling, but it may not switch over automatically."
"The four-hour support you get with an MPLS service contract—which is the best you can get—is great except for when your business is actually down for four hours."
What he needed was automation. "It became necessary to find a solution to allow us to make the network bulletproof to failure and network degradation," Silverman says.


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I see that some of my Blogstream friends have rejoined the Blogger experience. Since their last attempt here, things have changed. Which means that all those so very used to the simplicity of Blogstream are going to have to challenge themselves in order to learn what each and every little doodad on their pages will show them. I'm thinking that I just might be grateful I don't live with any of them. Those growing pains can be pretty frustrating. I'm sure there will be a lot of cursing, throwing up ones hands and decisions to quit before they all figure it out enough to be satisfied. Then again, maybe they'll never be satisfied because it isn't Blogstream. I know that sounds sarcastic, but it is something they all need to take into consideration because facts are facts.
Blogstream was a "build it and they will come" kind of place. Blogger is not. To have a successful blog here takes work. A lot of work. And it means a lot of posts that don't get attention from others. Mostly because Blogger is a place where it's members apply balance to what they do. They actually spend more time in real life. As a matter of fact, so do I.
I don't get back in sometimes for days on end, but I'm never gone completely. The welcome mat is out, same as it always is. There are a few more cat hairs on it than there used to be. It's seen so little activity that Butterscotch has been using it to nap on. I guess he'll have to start using that cat bed I bought him. Or whatever else he chooses to sack out on. He's not picky, he can sleep on anything. My bones require soft, comfy surfaces, his are made of rubber and adapt to anything.
While all my rowdy friends were off in another place trying to recreate something they believed they'd lost, I was learning to adapt to things new and different. While I was doing that, I learned that you really can't lose what Blogstream was. It never was the place, it always was the people. And No, Ice. I wasn't being nice. I was being honest. I have missed your brand of writing. I may not always know the destination, but I've always enjoyed the journey.


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DS: Hi Jamie, thanks for joining us today. Before we get started, can you tell us about your background and how you got your start in sound? How did you work your way up to being a sound designer, re-recording mixer, and sound effects editor on shows such as 22 Jump Street and Zero Dark Thirty?
JH: I studied film at USC and my work-study job was in the sound department, as a Pro Tools tech and all-around audio engineer. After graduating, I happened to hear from a TA about a job as a runner at a sound house in Glendale. The TA in this case was Addison Teague, and I took over for him as a runner and gumby at Steve and Judee Flick's Creative Café. There I started out as an assistant, which I did for several years under a couple supervisors: Flick, Jon Johnson, Ron Eng, Cameron Frankley and some others.
This whole time I was also designing and mixing shorts and independent projects for my friends from school and when Paul Ottosson needed an extra editor on The Hurt Locker I got the call and that was my first credit as an editor! I worked for Ottosson and other crews at Sony for the next six years, on shows like Zero Dark Thirty, 22 Jump Street, 2012, Fury and a bunch of other things.
Eventually I think I just wanted some more responsibility and a change of scene, some friends introduced me to the head of post at Blumhouse, and for the last few years I've been supervising and mixing projects for Blumhouse, WWE, Paramount and others.
DS: Our current topic is Field Recording. Can you name a couple of shows where you did a good amount of field recording? What sounds did you record for those shows? Can you name a few and talk about them?
JH: I think the project I did the most recording on myself was The Alamo, Jon Johnson supervised. We did a bunch of field recording sessions with authentic weapons, cannon, multiple kinds of targets and perspectives. I did not personally participate, but the location crew on Fury in the UK—Lisa Pinero, Eilam Hoffman and others—did a huge library of recordings on the extant Sherman tanks used in that film, including turret movements, switches and actuators, operating sounds (like shell casing foley), and they also collected useable IRs (impulse responses) of the interiors, which we used extensively.
I admit that on my more recent projects my schedule is incredibly short and I don't have much time for recording, I am a happy customer of A Sound Effect and other sites!
My field recording very much is focused on fixing immediate problems: on Stephanie I did a bunch of practical recordings of kitchen appliances, trying to get a little drama and horror out of a blender in particular (I eventually used an impact drill for the final effect). On Amateur Night me and the director borrowed a neighbor's Volvo, and I got a complete series to suit the comedy chase/action scenes in that show. One of my first features was a zombie film, Dance of the Dead, and on that film I was also the production mixer, and this gave me a lot of opportunities to collect sounds on set, with crowds of people playing and performing zombie voices, vehicles, and then coming back to the studio and recording a lot of gore and horror elements with Charles Dayton.
DS: What are a few of the most interesting sounds that you've recorded? Do you have a favorite sound that you've recorded? Anything that stands out?
JH: It sounds pretty boring but a sound I keep using constantly is the sound of a wet rag wrung onto a wood floor. I recorded it for Dance of the Dead as a blood splatter sweetener for gunshots, and I just use it all the time. It's such a nice addition if you see any blood spray on-screen.
I've also taken some pride in building my own kicks and punch elements, which I recorded for a short with Hamilton Sterling. In that case I came over to his studio and helped him troubleshoot some ground loops. As a trade we recorded. We punched each other in the chest and crunched various vegetables with his excellent ribbon mic and mic pre at 192K.
DS: At what point do you know that you're going to need to do some field recording for a show? Is there a certain point when you're working on something and you just feel like it's time to go do some field recording?
There are certain sounds I know, even from the script, that I'll want something to be authentic.
JH: There are certain sounds I know, even from the script, that I'll want something to be authentic. I have a project coming up this summer, and in the script, the screenwriter says, in so many words: "A Grumman Widgeon seaplane arrives," so I'm strongly inclined to find that. I'm extremely allergic to using library sounds that I've heard before for "hero" sounds – things I know will be prominent on screen and be significant characters.
DS: What kind of gear do you use for field recording?
JH: I have a Sound Devices 702T, an Audio-Technica stereo shotgun and some SM57s. I also have a Sennheiser 416 from my production recording days that I keep around for dialogue recording and I always bring it when I'm dubbing, for use as a stage mic. If I'm ever recording backgrounds or quiet sounds I try to borrow a friend's Sanken CSS.
DS: Besides your main recording rig, do you also have a smaller pocket sized recorder for quick and dirty stuff? Which recorder do you recommend?
JH: Yes, I always have my Røde iXY clipped to my bag. I pick up a ton of casual sounds with it, a lot of the short sounds in my library are from that. It's just so easy get it out, get the sound and then pop it up to my Dropbox from my iPhone.
DS: Do you get advice from people on what to buy or do you research it yourself?
JH: I try to stay up to date with the sales literature, and I'm always reading Gearslutz and a few blogs for user reviews.
DS: Do you go alone to record or do you need help?
JH: I've mostly gone out by myself lately, but you can always use one or two people to hold microphones. It's impossible to record vehicles without multiple people.
DS: Do you typically record in stereo, mono, 5.1, or other format?
JH: I just record in stereo. I think if I were in a market for a sound rig at this time, I'd invest in an A-format ambisonic capsule of some kind, like the Sennheiser AMBEO.
DS: What sample rate and bit depth do you like for recording?
JH: I always record at 24 bit. Any kind of short sound, any kind of engine or technology I try to record at 192 KHz. Backgrounds I'll only record at 96K or 48K depending on if I'm using the 702T or iXY on my iPhone.
DS: How long do you stay out to record?
JH: I think you have to commit a day for a particular project, like a vehicle, or a weapon, or a location.
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DS: Do you have a list of things that you want to record when you go out recording and then work off of that list?
JH: It depends, if I'm on a project I'll have a list of sounds for that project. If I know I'll have a particular piece of equipment, I'll make a list of sounds to fully cover the subject. I do think recording is something you have to do with an eye to building a general library, and not just fill the need of that project, that day.
I think I have a similar relationship with my synthesizers: I turn it on in the morning and just have to resolve to record anything that sounds interesting, full in the knowledge that I may make a lot of cool stuff, but nothing I make that day may be useful for the project I'm currently working on.
You have to give yourself liberty to discover things and let the day's work take you where it takes you
It's hard enough to create sounds on-demand when you know exactly what kind of thing you're trying to record: like a Grumman seaplane, or a Volvo station wagon. It's a measure again more difficult to create horror stings, or whooshes, or drone beds on Tuesday for a show you're mixing on Thursday. You have to give yourself liberty to discover things and let the day's work take you where it takes you.
Recording is the same way, you get the car, and you discover it makes a certain kind of sound with the clutch down, you record that sound, and you experiment, even if the car in the movie happens to be an automatic.
DS: What is your process for cleaning up and mastering your recordings?
JH: I'll do some de-noising if necessary in iZotope but I really try to be conservative about that, maybe some notching and then some EQ and a limiter like Pro Limiter or Flux Elixir. Once it sounds right I'll convert the WAV files to Apple Lossless, write out the metadata with Sound Grinder Pro or ffmpeg, and that's what goes into the library.
DS: Is there anything else that you would like to add?
I'm looking forward to when I can source ambisonic IRs, and reproduce environments and materials in 3D surround!
JH: There are two new trends in libraries which I hope develop over the next few years: Ambisonic recording and the recording of IRs.
Among all the surround recording formats, I think Ambisonic has the most potential: you get a soundfield in three dimensions which is (or will soon be) adaptable to all the existing theatrical/broadcast 3D processes, and also to the next generation of immersive, interactive and video game content. There are some drawbacks, but for background recording in particular I think it's the state-of-the-art choice, particularly for library, as it's more future-proof than any discrete-channel format.
I mentioned before we used IRs recorded on-set for Fury and it added a lot to the interiors. We processed foley, gun ricos and dialogue with them. Having that authenticity was so useful and there's no way we could have gotten as close to it as we did with a synthetic or post-hoc process. Any linear-time invariant system can be modeled as an IR, so this category need not simply just be spaces: it can be the effect of passing sound through water, or materials like metal or wires, pipes, old gear, musical instruments, any thing or process that transmits waves. I think there's a lot of original sound design waiting to be discovered in this area.
Even better, I'm looking forward to when I can source ambisonic IRs, and reproduce environments and materials in 3D surround!
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...some of the particles we flew through were less than one micron in diameter, and even at those limits we didn't experience any engine parameter failures or any indications whatsoever, but the engine manufacturer who did the work specified that we probably would have started seeing performance degradation in some of the engines in as little as 100 flight hours because of the loss of cooling and other things...Read more about the 2000 research flight here.


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Nicki Minaj has taken to Twitter to defend herself after negative comments about her ability emerged in a debate about female rappers.
Bossip – a site which describes itself as "the premier destination for African-American pop culture and entertainment" – was hosting a debate about female rappers on its Twitter account, during which they retweeted comments about Minaj.
Minaj posted several tweets in response, saying:
"I've gone toe to toe w/ everyone of your favourite male MCs. To undermine my skill and diversity as an MC is actually comical at this point. I saw Bossip RTing ignorance, so I thought I'd put that out there. lol. The greats give me respect. The great journalists as well."
She continues "If a male rapper was on tracks w/ Wayne, Jay, Eminem, Kanye etc. going round for round, he'd be hailed as a great as well. Jealousy is a disease. Not giving me my props doesn't stop me from being great."
One of the retweets mentions Minaj's ass, to which the rapper responds: "To imply someone's ass is the reason they get on tracks and hold their own with every great MC who is still alive 🙁 black people, do better lol"
Bossip later explained that their retweets didn't mean they agreed with the views expressed.
Minaj recently revealed that she's likely to be dropping a first free mixtape in six years in the near future, saying in the process that she's hoping to set an example for female rappers.
She said: "I'll definitely drop a mixtape. I have to," adding "Well, I want to touch a couple of beats that I wasn't on. I could have bodied a lot of the records that came out in the last year. But the main thing is, I have to set an example for female rappers. I'm at the top of that food chain, and it's important to lead by example."


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University of Ilorin and four others have bagged the National Tertiary Admission Performance Merit Award for their outstanding performance in the 2018 admission by Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who handed over the awards to the recipient institutions in Abuja on Thursday said tertiary institutions played important role to the survival of a nation.
Osinbajo, who was represented by Mrs Maryam Uwais, Senior Special Assistant in the office of the president, urged every institutions to maintain and attain an acceptable standard.
He said that standard should not be measured in terms of being a minimum or maximum but in terms of being an all standard that is required of all institutions.
University of Ilorin bagged the most subscribed institutions by candidates with a total of 86,401 candidates and Kaduna Polytechnics bagged the most national institution with best in national spread of intakes as 0.25 which is admitting one in every 400 candidates.
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, bagged award for institution with the highest number of admission of international students with 37 intakes and Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, bagged the most improved institution over previous year in intake of female students.
Also, the University of Maiduguri bagged the most compliant institution in keeping within guidelines, rules and regulations of admission.
Each of the university received a cheque of N25 million each by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), which organised the award.
The Vice President said that normal standard of requirement in teaching, learning, curriculum, research should be present in every tertiary institutions in the country.
"From the experience of the developed world it has been empirically proven that the future of a nation can be premised on who and what are taught in the instructions.
"The teachers, the students, the curricula, the researchers, the environment and other key components that operates in our nation's tertiary institutions will continue to have great influence on the future of any nation.
"In the develop client, the output from their universities, technological institutions, teacher training college and schools of innovations have largely been responsible for the various achievements.
"Therefore, as important as who and what operates and are obtained in the tertiary institutions are, the access ways and manners of recruitment of employees, admission of students, sustenance of the employees of students and their exit should also carry the same important.
"That is why I believe that the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board as a gateway to access to the nation's tertiary institutions is of strategic importance to the government," he said.
In a remark, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu congratulated all tertiary institutions for the sustenance of peace in their various institutions.
Adamu also urged other parastatal of government to support institutions in their bid to promote national development.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede said the idea of the award was developed during the policy meeting on admission into tertiary institutions in 2016.
Oloyede noted that the introduction of the Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) in 2017 by the board led to the automation of the admission processes, devoid of any human interaction or influence.
He said this was aimed at ensuring that the candidates that genuinely prepared and excelled in their matriculation examinations are suitably placed in tertiary institutions.
He added that certain criteria were followed for the five categories of awards and prizes.
He, therefore, urged beneficiaries of the awards to submit a project for execution in their institutions, which would not be more than N25 million on which the amount would be expended.


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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. – Karl Marx
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent among those who are. – H.L. Mencken
Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government. – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. – Lysander Spooner
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. – Noam Chomsky
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. – Krishnamurti
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. – Noam Chomsky
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. – Frederick Douglass
"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality." ― Pierre-Joseph Proudhon


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All the designers have gotten together to create this great collab called "We Go Together Like. . . ." I just LOVE this kit! You can get Dandelion Dust Designs' portion for only $1.00 at the time of this publishing at the ScrapTakeout Shoppe.
OR. . . . go to ScrapTakeout.com and find out how to get the whole collab for FREE!
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Happy Scrapping! :-)
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Peace Be With YouFriday, August 19, 2011
10 Loving Words
Love your blouse my Dear:*ReplyDelete
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you look amazing! I'm loving that top it reminds me of those beautiful blue butterflies <33ReplyDelete
Thank you my lovelies! You really are amazing <3ReplyDelete
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You are so pretty! ^^ i love your hair :) the outfit looks so good! Pretty blouse ^^ReplyDelete
i absoly love... very gorgeous... i like your style!ReplyDelete
I looove that shirt, especially its cape-like shape :) And it fits you so well :)ReplyDelete
U look like a butterfly!! So pretty!!!ReplyDelete
Oh darlings you're all so kind! Thank you ever so much <3ReplyDelete
I always appreciate the love and support you give with your comments. I read them all and always make sure to answer so you can come check it out if you ask a question for example. Take care! :)
J'apprecie toujours l'amour et le soutien que vous me donnez avec vos commentaires. Je les lis tous et je prends toujours la peine de repondre, vous pouvez donc revenir voir la reponse si vous posez une question par exemple! :)


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my #2 oil is a luvFIND that i am taken with. shu uemura makes a hair serum, ESSENCE ABSOLUE Nourishing Protective Oil, which last year won best of beauty 2011 award by Allure magazine. i have tried many magic elixirs for the hair, and this is the magical one! dress your hair, wet or dry, with just 2 drops of ESSENCE ABSOLUE Nourishing Protective Oil and your hair will be silky, shiny, and frizz free. this is thebestdressup hair splurge.
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Pivot Firebird
Nothing new about the Firebird. It's been a top contender in the best 6″ AM category for a few years now. I reviewed the FB when it debuted at I-bike four years ago. I really wanted to like this bike and if you read my review there was a lot I did like…. it just wasn't very plush.
So four years later and I've never had the chance to ride the Firebird again. So this year, after reading many reports of folks loving their FBs I figured I should give it another chance to redeem itself.
I picked up a medium with an RP23 shock (just as I did in 2008) to try and keep things as equal as possible and headed for the shuttle. We did the technical chunkfest of Skyline to East Leg on this run to get a good feel for descending ability and its ability to take squared off and consecutive hits (same run we took on the original test run 4 years ago). Some things did not change. The bike is still beautifully built, laterally stiff, still climbs and pedals with the efficiency that escapes most bikes with this much travel and burliness, and it still has some noisy chain rattle issues going on around the front derailleur in the rough. I love, LOVE, a solid, quiet bike. I want to hear the thump thump beat of big tires pounding out a raucous drum riff off the rocks when I'm descending through this kind of gnarl. And that's all. It also had a creak in the headset area that was distracting. I know it may not effect the performance of the bike…. but it effects my overall experience while riding. Points deducted for noisiness.
So the big question. Was it plush? The simple answer is yes, it was much more plush than the first FB I rode back in '08. Was it as plush as my coil sprung Delirium T? No, but few things short of a full on downhill bike are. One of the things contributing to the overall improvement this time was the 180 Float fork (I was told later at the booth that it was lowered to 170mm). The Fox handled the oncoming chunder and junk with confidence and authority. While not as plush as a 180 coil fork it did not wag its head, flex, or transmit excessive harshness back into the handle bars. It tracked true and the rear end followed suit only feeling a little overwhelmed on the roughest of hits and fast consecutive shots.
Float 180 lowered to 170mm was a good match for the rear end.
I was reminded why I like 26 inch tires in this kind of riding. The whole package just felt so compact and responsive. In fact I liked the Pivot quite a bit (other than the noise) and really doubted when craigstr kept hollering up at me how much fun the Carbine 275 was and how much I was going to enjoy it. Could a Carbon bike based off the same Carbine 26er we rode last year come anywhere close to exceeding what I was feeling on the Pivot?
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The Miami Herald and other news sources have recently reported that the Frost Museum of Science has run out of money to finish the construction of its new facility in Museum (ne Bicentennial) Park in downtown Miami. It was originally supposed to open by 2012.
This community is thus confronted with three choices:
(1) stick with the deal made by Miami-Dade County and Museum of Science, Inc.: the County would pay up to $175 million of the estimated $275 million needed to construct the new facility, and the privately-run not-for-profit would raise and pay for the rest.
(2) let the taxpayers of [fill in the blank] make up the difference.
(3) allow the Museum structure stand, unfinished, as a monument to another failed attempt to prove that Miami is a "world class city."
The Unfinished Frost
Cynics might prefer option (3) but expect option (2) to prevail, with the only question which public entity—the County, the City, or the Omni CRA (which is funded by the County and the City and is, for all intents and purposes, the City)—will fork over taxpayer dollars to this private venture.
Before doing anything, however, all three public entities must stand firm and do nothing until there has been a searching and thorough investigation into how we got here. To paraphrase County Commissioner Dennis Moss, as quoted in the Herald, before we know "how do we fix this mess?" we need to know "what went wrong."
Since the Museum's financial statements are secret, there is, as of yet, no public information establishing exactly how much is needed to finish construction and get the Museum up and running, how much the MSM has raised, and what resources are likely to be available for future operations. Yet the MSM has already been receiving millions of dollars of taxpayer money both for construction and pre-opening activities. And the MSM long ago agreed that it alone would be responsible for paying all design and construction costs above the amount allocated for this purpose by the County.
We need to start with some relevant history.
The owner of the proposed Museum is that not-for-profit corporation, Museum of Science, Inc. It used to operate the science museum on U.S. 1 near Vizcaya. That was shut down last year.
Over ten years ago, Miami-Dade County voters approved the issuance of general obligation bonds to fund more than 300 capital improvements throughout the County over the ensuing 15 to 18 years, including $175 million for the design and construction of a new science museum on Bicentennial Park, owned by the City of Miami. (The same bond issue covered the Perez Art Musuem, which has since opened.)
Here's the most important date in the Musuem's history: in April 2008 a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") was entered into among the County, the City, the Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority (an agency of the City), the Art Museum, the Science Museum, and HASF. The MOU "reflect[ed] the basic business deal among the Parties," to be formalized in a series of agreements into which the terms of the MOU would be incorporated, and which were.
The Museum and the County agreed that the County would contribute $175,000,000 for design and construction, with the rest to be provided by the Museum. Specifically, the Museum signed a Cost Overrun Guaranty, whereby the Museum would pay and be solely responsible for all construction overruns. That meant that the County would not be on the hook for a penny over its agreed-upon contribution to design and construction, and that the Museum would be responsible for vigorous fund-raising to cover all other construction costs. The Museum agreed to be responsible for operations, management and maintenance.
On January 21, 2010, the County Commission approved amendments to the Omni CRA Finding of Necessity and Plan to expand the area of the CRA to include Bicentennial (Museum) Park, areas north of I-395, and portions of Watson Island, and to extend the CRA's life until March 31, 2030. Then-Commissioner Carlos Gimenez voted against the resolution and stated, during the public hearing: "I have really big problems with CRAs and I don't think I'll be voting for any more, certainly no more creations of and no more extensions of any in the future."
In February 2010 the then-County Manager reported to the County Commission that the total budget for the design and construction of the Science Museum facility would be $272 million, with $175 million coming from the County and the remaining $97 million coming from the Museum, of which, at the time, $22.7 million had been pledged and $5.65 million actually raised. The warning signs were there for all to see.
Now it appears that the Museum has no money to finish the construction, has raised only $35 million in contributions, and has been unable to obtain a construction loan. (It presumably has escaped no one's attention that Dr. and Mrs. Frost, who won naming rights to the Museum by their pledges, recently announced a $100 million to the University of Miami to support basic and applied science and engineering at UM. A worthy donation, no doubt, but the timing was probably "unfortunate," as they say in corporate-speak.)
County Mayor Gimenez, who was informed of these difficulties last fall, has apparently devised a plan to convert a promised annual operating subsidy to the Museum of $4 million—money that would be drawn from hotel and convention tax revenue—into an upfront payment of $45 million for construction. In exchange, the Museum would agree not to ask for operating help for 20 years and to restructure its board of trustees to include the seats for county and city of Miami administrators and elected officials. That is a move in the right direction, but it is not enough.
Recently, the Mayor has presented to the County Commission a Report on Feasibility of Extending the Life of the Omni and Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Agencies. In the Report, the Mayor recommended that, if the Commission were to decide to try to seek to extend the life of these CRAs (needed to continue paying down the PAC debt and to provide operating and capital, i.e., construction, subsidies for the Perez Art Museum and the Frost Science Museum), the County should seek to expand its role in the governance of the CRAs. Currently, the County and the City fund the Omni CRA with "Tax Incremental Financing" (TIF), which is the excess of tax collections from the CRA area over a starting baseline; the CRA is governed by the five City of Miami Commissioners.
The report was "accepted" by the County Commission at its February 2 meeting on a vote of 8-1 (Commission Chair Jean Monestine voting "no" and at least one Commissioner, Levine-Cava, expressing opposition to a CRA bailout), but this acceptance did not connote approval. It remains dicey whether the governing body of the Omni CRA—the five City of Miami commissioners—would vote to spend CRA funds on completing the Museum, not to mention cover its operating deficits. One Commissioner, Ken Russell, has publicly stated he would oppose a CRA bailout, and at least one other Commissioner has privately expressed opposition.
There is a precedent for using CRA funds—limited by state law to financing projects "for the elimination and prevention of the development or spread of slums and blight, or for the reduction or prevention of crime, or for the provision of affordable housing, whether for rent or for sale, to residents of low or moderate income, including the elderly"—to bail out public arts projects built on the basis of pie-in-the-sky projections. In 2007, the City, the County and the Omni CRA agreed that Omni CRA funding would be used to pay the Performing Art Center's debt service through 2027—over $38 million has been paid so far—and to pay for the City's capital improvements to the Park. This leads to this lesson: any time you hear a politician or "civic leader" describe Miami as "world-class," head for the exits and pat your pocket to make sure you still have your wallet. In any event, given the release on February 3 of a scathing Grand Jury Report on the misuse of CRAs in this community, it can fairly be predicted that none of the Commissioners/Board Members running the Omni CRA will vote to use CRA funds to bail out the Science Museum.
This is definitely a game of "hot potato" or dodgeball. The Herald quoted Mayor Giminez as stating: "The public doesn't want to give any more money to the institution. They were pretty generous to begin with." Then he added: "The solution is to go to other entities. And to step up their fundraising. … Not opening up is not an option." The Mayor is apparently happy to hand the hot potato to the Omni CRA, even though over 30% of its annual funding comes from the County. As the Mayor stated: "I'm just saying: Don't come to the county," he said. "The [CRA] is not the county."
As a taxpayer of both the City of Miami and the County, I believe that the issue is not which government instrumentality should bail out this private venture, but whether this should be done, and, if so, under what conditions. No taxpayer funds should be used to complete this job until, for once, local governments decide to look carefully before they leap and make a sound business decision.
First, some basic questions must be addressed before a single penny of additional taxpayer money is spent:
• How much has the Museum raised from private contributions and grants?
• How have those fundraising campaigns been managed and conducted?
• What efforts were made to obtain a construction loan?
• How has the Museum spent its money?
• What are the realistic financial prospects of the Museum if it is completed and opens?
• What external operating subsidies will be needed?
To answer these questions and others, the records (not just the financial statements) of the Science Museum must be made public and thoroughly analyzed by professionals hired by the County, City or CRA. And an honest, non-pie-in-the-sky must be prepared and aired.
Second, with the above information, a public instrumentality can decide whether to contribute taxpayer funding, alone or in combination with other agencies. and how. The form of payment must be most advantageous to the taxpayers. For example, any such contribution could be conditioned on the Museum raising a portion of the remaining funds, with the public piece not being committed until the required amount of private money is in the bank. The deal could be structured as a loan secured by a mortgage on the property (with repayment presumably not coming from another governmental agency), rather than as an outright grant. Further, any contributing public agency must decide, on the basis of professional, not political, advice, whether and to what extent it must condition any such payments on reforming the governance structure of the Museum. For example, the agency making the payment could insist on majority representation on the Board of Directors of the Museum of Science, Inc., as well as changes in the current management of the Museum, if warranted.
Mayor Gimenez's reported "plan" appears to lean in the direction of these conditions but they must be made strong…more "shall" than "may."
Even if the taxpayers are ultimately forced to bail out the Science Museum, if it is done only after rigorously following the type of process I am advocating, that would, indeed, be "world class." And it would be one big shock to this cynic.


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Graham Capill completed a spectacular fall from grace today when he was jailed for nine years on child sex charges.
As Christian Heritage Party leader, Graham Capill spoke out against sex before marriage and spent almost 14 years espousing "pro-family" policies.
But the life he led proved far from the moralistic one he preached, as one by one allegations he had indecently assaulted and raped girls emerged.
Capill, 46, last month pleaded guilty in Christchurch District Court to rape, unlawful sexual connection, and three counts of indecent assault against two girls under 12.
He had earlier pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting an eight-year-old girl over a one-year period.
As a teenager, Capill felt he was never good enough to be a Christian.
He said he came to realise Christianity was not about being a good person, "it's for people that know that they're bad people".
"A Christian is a person who knows that they don't have any hope and don't have any future and they need someone to stand in on their behalf and that, of course, is Jesus Christ."
For many years the former police prosecutor was known as a moral conscience of the nation.
"He's become the Patricia Bartlett of the 90s," Auckland University political scientist Ray Miller said, when Capill was leading the Christian Heritage political party.
It was a position he held for almost 14 years before stepping down in August 2003, citing health reasons.
His resignation followed a public row with then deputy leader and former Women's Refuge head Merepeka Raukawa Tait.
She had wanted Capill to resign earlier after the party attracted less than 2 per cent of the party vote at the July 2002 election.
Mrs Raukawa-Tait cited concerns about the lack of financial accountability and "un-Christian tactics" of Capill for wanting him to go.
As leader, Capill was often in the news. He objected to a controversial artwork depicting the Virgin Mary encased in a condom.
He called "obscene" a 2.5m Tokoroa carving of a male Maori holding an erect penis, saying society had become more violent with rape and abuse of women all too common.
"Even soft core pornography" like that could have a "detrimental effect" on some men, he said.
He lauded a chastity programme for secondary students that invited teenagers to sign a pledge promising to abstain from sexual intercourse until they found a life partner.
He opposed the Prostitution Reform Bill, saying casual, promiscuous and extra-marital sex would further undermine the position of the family.
He wanted the family unit strengthened and supported, given the divorce rate, suicide and crime rates, and child abuse.
He said other political parties claimed to be "pro-family" but were not because they aborted children, did not support the traditional view of marriage, and were loading future generations with more debt.
"We're saying that every policy should be written to support family life again," he said while Christian Heritage leader.
He was appalled at the idea of convicted child molester Peter Ellis being allowed to wear women's clothing and make-up in jail because it did "nothing" to rehabilitate people who had been jailed for sex crimes.
He did not see himself as judgmental but as one, in a free society, who should be able to stand up and say "I think something's a load of rubbish".
He and his wife Judy married at 22 and had their first child at 23. They have nine children -- four boys and five girls.
"I think we're probably fairly average New Zealanders," Judy Capill said in a 2000 Sunday Star-Times interview.
"People portray Graham as this straight, narrow boring guy but if they could see him when he's playing with the kids, they'd see a different picture," she said.
Capill has said people thought he was only ever worried about moral matters and family matters, but he was also concerned about poverty, health, education and welfare.
Christian Heritage scored its best result when, as part of the Christian Coalition, it got 4.3 per cent of the party vote at the 1996 election.
Had it reached 5 per cent, it would have won seats in Parliament.
Capill was born in 1959 in West Africa to missionary parents but moved to New Zealand as a child.
He was educated at a Christian school in Christchurch, a city where he has spent most of his life.
His early ambition was to become an orchestra conductor but he served an apprenticeship as an avionics engineer with Air New Zealand.
Involvement with St John's Ambulance -- when "we saw the hurts, we saw the difficulties, we saw the drug overdoes and we saw the busted homes" -- inspired him to enter the Christian ministry.
He studied in Australia, obtaining a bachelor of divinity degree in 1986.
On his return to New Zealand, he became the pastor of a Dunedin church before being appointed leader of the Christian Heritage Party.
He completed a law degree and was admitted to the bar as a barrister and solicitor in 1998.
After stepping down from the party he worked for Christchurch police in the communications centre.
Last year he became a police prosecutor working in the same court in which he was today sentenced.
Graham Capill completed a spectacular fall from grace today when he was jailed for nine years on child sex charges.
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When I wake up every morning I know at least three of these things will happen with the utmost certainty.
Someone will cry... For Connor it will be at least three times.
Someone will instigate the crying... Most likely culprit is his older brother Aidan.
If I mop the floor while Rowan is awake, he will walk on it. Bless his little heart but for some reason he thinks it is the most awesome thing to take chairs out of a room.
Someone will make a mess, that I will have to clean up. (this happens at least four or five times a day)
I will change a MINIMUM of three poopy diapers...
I will make lunch and someone will not like what I cooked and refuse to eat.
If the kids have a bath I will be soaked by the end of it.
I will always have laundry to do.
At some point in the day I will want to pull my hair out.
Yes these things I am confident will happen everyday.
Here is a list of things I did not expect.
We ran out of baby wipes.
Rowan making himself puke not once BUT TWICE!
Finding random toys in a laundry hamper.
Connor screaming while giving him a bath.
It is not all bad though.
Here is a GOOD list of things that will happen during the day.
Connor will stop crying and give hugs and kisses followed with an 'I love you'
If I don't feel like cooking my husband will do it for me.
He will also do the dishes.
At some point in the day my kids will get along.
I will hear laughter of my sweet little boys.
They will go to sleep.
And then I am reminded of why I do it. Why I choose to be a stay at home mom.
It is for them.
Then at the end of the night he will rub my feet. I love him, the kids, and the wonderful life we have together.


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Every 2 weeks, we pick a new retro game from the 80's or 90's. We encourage all listeners to play along and post scores on Twitter and Facebook. After 2 weeks of playing, we record an episode, diving deep into the game and sharing our old and new experiences!
The Retro Gaming Podcast is also CLEAN (NO Swearing), so gamers of all ages can enjoy. But don't worry... it's still funny.
Post your scores and comments on Facebook and Twitter. You could win a copy of our game of the week or hear us talk about you in our next episode!
We were fortunate to interview David Crane, legendary game designer and co-founder of Activision.
The Retro Game Guys, Clockwise from top right:
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Delphi, IBX and the Turkish I problem
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/13
Last year, it took a while to reproduce and it is likely not fixed anytime soon: if you use Delphi and IBX (InterBase Express) to connect to either InterBase or FireBird database, then in the Turkish locale do not use lowercase SQL in your Delphi code as it will break on the
I've decided to put this in a separate post than the one I discovered the issue in as that one focused on the Unicode and language background of the various i/I/ characters and this post on the Delphi part.
So for the non-Delphi part, read Source: Field "id" not found and the The Turkish-İ/I/i/ı and case conversion – Update on the dasBlog Turkish-I bug and a reminder to me on Globalization – Scott Hanselman.
More recently, I learned that the same problem also happens in the Azeri language or Azerbaijani language – Wikipedia via [WayBack] SQL Instance Collation – Language Neutral Required:
uppercase / lowercase mappings (though this only impacts 2 characters — dotted and dotless "i"/"I" — and for only 2 cultures — Azeri and Turkish)
In general, this problem is called [WayBack] Case Folding and many environments do not have good and ready to use solutions for this.
Basically when working with case-insensitive language identifiers, you should always use culture invariant text comparison operations. In most languages, people use either lowercase or uppercase converted operations which for Delphi >= come down to using :
- functions ToLowerInvariant or ToLower(LOCALE_INVARIANT) instead of ToLower() without a LocaleID (LCID)
- functions ToUpperInvariant or ToUpper(LOCALE_INVARIANT) instead of ToUpper() without a LCID
- function LowerCase(string, TLocaleOptions.loInvariantLocale) instead of AnsiLowerCase(string) or LowerCase(string) without a TLocaleOptions enum value (which in retrospect should have been called TLocaleOption as it's not a set type)
- function UpperCase(string, TLocaleOptions.loInvariantLocale) instead of AnsiUpperCase(string) or UpperCase(string) without a TLocaleOptions enum value
The reason is simple:
- without any parameter, ToLower and ToUpper will use [Archive.is] SysLocale.DefaultLCID.
- without any parameter, LowerCase and UpperCase will implicitly behave as if called with TLocaleOptions.loInvariantLocale, but lots of people forget they do.
The functions ToLowerInvariant and ToUpperInvariant were added in Delphi XE3, but ToLower(LocaleID) and ToUpper(LocaleID) in Delphi XE4.
Instead of doing uppercase and lowercase comparisons you could also use the [Archive.is] System.SysUtils.CompareText function.
IBX however uses case conversion, and by now you will probably guessed it: IBX got it all wrong. One reproduction is at https://gist.github.com/jpluimers/643b382944ff991d07ec96abbf85548c and a thread with background is at [WayBack] What's the Delphi equivalent of doing UpperCase with an InvariantCulture in Unicode Delphi versions? (XE and up) – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
IBX isn't alone: just search for other uppercase issues like Turkish i to see tons of other issues.
For IBX, I did the replacements in the diff below to fix it in Delphi XE8. I only replaced where identifiers were compared, not were actual database content was compared.
Unluckily, in the past IBX sources were hosted on CodeCentral at http://cc.embarcadero.com/Author/102 but no new bundles have been released since 2012.
Of all the locations I think IBX should not have used any case conversion here:
function LocalServerPath(sFile: string): string
This function uses
LowerCase()but I think an NTFS specific comparison should have been used, but I've not investigated into a solution for that yet.
PS: Potentially related is [WayBack/Archive.is] FireDAC problem with MSSQL: We have an issue using FireDAC on Microsoft SQL Server 2016, in that we have a case sensitive ( not the insensitive default) … – Tony Danby – Google+
PS: To make it easier finding back the archived URLs of the links above, here is a list:
- [Archive.is] ToLowerInvariant
- [Archive.is] ToLower
- [Archive.is] LOCALE_INVARIANT
- [Archive.is] ToLower (LocaleID)
- [Archive.is] LocaleID
- [Archive.is] LCID
- [Archive.is] ToUpperInvariant
- [Archive.is] ToUpper (LocaleID)
- [Archive.is] ToUpper
- [Archive.is] SysLocale.DefaultLCID
- [Archive.is] LowerCase(string, TLocaleOptions)
- [Archive.is] AnsiLowerCase(string)
- [Archive.is] LowerCase(string)
- [Archive.is] UpperCase(string, TLocaleOptions)
- [Archive.is] AnsiUpperCase(string)
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The New Year of East Bay Theater
Theater's just starting up after a hiatus that featured mainly holiday shows in December. After increasingly vigorous seasons over the past two years, it will be intriguing to see what Berkeley area stage companies have come up with to follow the wealth of productions in the immediate past.
The resident companies are gearing up with shows to be launched in the coming week or two—and further work that will go up by spring. Berkeley Rep is hosting hip-hopper solo artist Danny Hoch in Taking Over, directed by the Rep's Tony Taccone. In February, author-actress-Hollywood to-the-manor-born Carrie Fisher, also directed by Taccone, appears in her own solo piece, "a sobering look at her Hollywood hangover," Wishful Drinking.
Next door on Addison, the Aurora opens Diana Sen's Satellites, in a West Coast premiere, as a Korean-American architect and her African-American husband move into a new neighborhood and find a brick thrown through their window. Directed by Kent Nicholson.
In April, Aurora founder Barbara Oliver directs Ellen McLaughlin's adaptaion of Euripides' tragedy The Trojan Women. Oliver helmed Aurora's production of McLaughlin's version of Aeschylus' The Persians a couple of years ago; this is—quite literally—another classic about the effects of a foreign war ... in this case, the misery of the conquered.
More than a month before The Trojan Women opening in April, Oliver will direct Euripides' seminal—and still hair-raising—late tragedy, performed in Athens only after the tragedian's death in exile, The Bacchae, for the UC Berkeley Department of Theater and Dance at the excellent Zellerbach Playhouse, from Feb. 29 to March 9. Euripides pits the self-proclaimed forces of reason and order against ecstatic religiosity and sexuality. This was the favorite play of theatrical visionary and poet Antonin Artaud.
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The community theaters are also opening with their newest shows. Actors Ensemble of Berkeley goes up this weekend at Live Oak Theatre with Neil Simon's original '60s hit, Barefoot in the Park.
On Jan. 25, Contra Costa Civic Theatre (whose founder, Louis Flynn just died after a long career, appearing onstage in Meet Me in St. Louis last summer as a trolley driver) will open yet another Marx Bros. musical—The Coconuts (music by Irving Berlin, book by Kaufman and Ryskind) at their theater in El Cerrito.
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Bowl Game Association Names 2012 President
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The San Diego Bowl Game Association, the nonprofit that puts on the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl and San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl football games in December, said April 4 that it named John Wertz its 2012 president.
Wertz, a former partner in the law firm of Wertz McDade Wallace Moot & Brower, takes over the job held by Chuck Wasker, who moved over as chairman of the SDBGA board.
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Hypothesis testing of Proportion & Paired T Test
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1. Union Membership Nationwide 13.7% of employed wage and salary workers are union members (down from 20.1% in 1983). A random sample of 300 local wage and salary workers showed that 50 belonged to a union. At ?=0.05, is there sufficient evidence to conclude that the proportion of union membership differs from 13.7%?
2. Free School Lunches It has been reported that 59.3% of U.S. school lunches served are free and at a reduced price. A random sample of 300 children in a large metropolitan area indicated that 156 of them received lunch free or at a reduced price. At the 0.01 level of significance, is there sufficient evidence to conclude that the proportion is less then 59.3%?
3. Automobile Part Production In an effort to increase production of an automobile part, the factory manager decides to play music in the manufacturing area. Eight workers are selected, and the number of items each produced for a specific day is recorded. After on week of music, the same workers are monitored again. The data are given in the table. At ?=0.05 can the manager conclude that the music has increased production?
Worker 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Before 6 8 10 9 5 12 9 7
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Gillian, a sixth former of literary talent, raised the question of travel and safety in the Roman empire. Were there highwaymen? Did people go missing?
If someone disappears now, the obvious fears include killing by a robber or psychopath or rapist, or by some vengeful person with a grievance; but if you report a disappearance to the police, their first assumption will be that the person—the misper in police slang—has gone missing voluntarily.
In the ancient world, such an incident typically had a different complexion. A kidnap would be high on the list of possibilities, in days when a person was a saleable commodity; and if the kidnappers realised they had caught a person from a rich family, then the subsequent ransom note might well be a relief to the grieving family.
Pliny's letter VI.25 is about such an incident, although we do not learn the outcome. His friend Hispanus has a cliens called Robustus, who has now gone missing. He has written to Pliny for help, because Robustus was previously travelling with one of Pliny's clientes called Atilius Scaurus.
Pliny replies that he will send for Scaurus and make investigations, but he fears it will be in vain: he cites one of his own clientes who also disappeared, in the course of a journey to Rome from Comum when he was carrying 40,000 sesterces, and has not been heard of since. 'It is unclear,' Pliny says, 'whether he was abducted by his slaves or with them.' It is interesting which one he puts first.
Both of these disappearances happened in Italy; and it is worth noting that the families reported them to their patroni, who were responsible for the welfare of their clientes (and vice versa, by the way.)
Another difference between the ancient world and today, by courtesy of bankers, is that now a private person has no need to carry large sums of money, and so the occupation of the highwayman is no longer profitable.
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Evaluation reports
How do teachers benefit from Science on Stage? The latest evaluation study on the European Science on Stage festival 2017 carried out by Tanja Tajmel and Ingo Salzmann from Concordia University, Montréal, has demonstrated that Science on Stage has a sustainable impact.
The results demonstrate that the exchange of teachers through the association's activities has a positive effect on the motivation and joy in the profession. Indeed, participating teachers find many inspiring ideas for their STEM lessons and actually incorporate them practically in their own classrooms.
However, the teachers do not only appreciate the exchange of inspiring ideas, but also the possibility to gain and maintain contacts made on an international basis.
The improvement of science teaching and thus the promotion of students to consider a career in science, ICT and engineering, can be a good way to counteract the skilled worker shortage in these areas.
An overview of the results can be downloaded as PDF.
Evaluation report about Science on Stage at the Materials Research Society MRS 2016
Find the detailed evaluation report of Tanja Tajmel from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, which she presented at the Materials Research Society MRS 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts, here.
Evaluation of the Science on Stage festival 2013, Slubice-Frankfurt (Oder)
Overview of the evaluation results carried out by Tanja Tajmel and Ingo Salzmann from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the framework of the Science on Stage festival 2013.
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Evaluation of the Science on Stage festival 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark
This is an excerpt of the evaluation by Danish Science Communication.