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psychology; nude; selfie; science of social; Techcrunch
The Psychology behind the Naked Selfie
If you're building a tech product that has anything to do with photos then you're probably feeling an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu lately, and it has to do with data security.
It's become so routine that it's hard to imagine a Monday without hearing about another set of iCloud photos that got hacked during the weekend. These aren't just pictures of the girl down the street and her new Black Labrador puppy though. Instead, many of them are more likely to be pictures of her using the puppy as a prop in a nude selfie. And it's not just Apple/iCloud products that are at risk for getting hacked. So is Snapchat, and probably all other major sites hosting photos. Scandals are popping up AGAIN and AGAIN around hacked photos, especially nude ones. Why do we keep seeing these scandals?
There are two opposing camps trying to explain why we're having nude photo leaks, but who's right?
One group says, "Enough, children. Want to stop nude photos from getting hacked? Keep your clothes on in selfies and the problem will go away by itself." Those on the other side of the debate insist we must not blame the victim and instead should demand better privacy protections for iCloud and other digital storage accounts.
Sound familiar? That's because it is. We've had scandals about hacked photos going back every year for almost 10 years, and people keep writing these same reactions after each one.
Annually rehashing this debate for a decade hasn't gotten us too far. While we should expect companies to update security features, we can also expect hackers will continue improving their toolkits. And as for warning people to not take nude selfies, since when has issuing warnings been the key to changing behavior?
Take smoking behavior or drunk driving. Even with the enormous anti-smoking campaigns and Surgeon General's Warning emblazoned on cigarette packs, smoking continues to kill more people than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined. People know the physical and legal dangers of drunk driving, yet, alcohol-impaired drivers are causing 30 fatalities per day. The point is, education and warnings won't solve problems unless the problems were caused by lack of knowledge.
Why, then, do young(ish) people keep taking naked digital pictures of themselves that are bound to get hacked? They were probably aware of the other nude photo scandals that occurred so it's not that they don't know what's going on. Is the answer then that all of these people taking naked pictures are just really stupid and have too much time on their hands?
Not quite. There's actually a science behind why we keep seeing these repeated nude photo scandals—the science of social.
The truth is, sexting—sending sexually suggestive photos or videos via cell phone—is increasingly common among this age group. According to a recent Pew Report, 15% of adults ages 18 to 24 and 22% of adults ages 25 to 34 admit to having sent such a message. Knowing that, it's less of a surprise that in the past year thousands of young people have had their nude photos hacked, including famous ones like Jennifer Lawrence and Mila Kunis.
Are we saying, then, that this is simply a case of peer pressure? Nope, that's not it.
Our research at the UCLA Center for Digital Behavior has taught that our perceptions of what is normal in our social networks affects our behavior. In one study, college students viewed a selection of Facebook photos of their peers and were then asked to estimate the percentage of students who engaged in sex without condoms and sex with strangers, and whether they themselves behave this way. When students saw more sexually-suggestive photos of their peers (e.g., kissing, flirting with the camera, wearing revealing clothing), they reasoned that more of their peers were having unprotected sex and sex with strangers. They also said that they themselves planned on having more sex without condoms and sex with strangers.
The point is, what people think their peers are doing (regardless of what they are actually doing) influences their behavior. If people think their friends are taking naked selfies and putting these pics online (even if the truth is that their friends are sitting at home chatting with mom), then they will start uploading selfies in the buff. And this psychology isn't unique to only youth. It affects all of human behavior.
So what should you do if you're working on a photo-related technology and want a solution other than more data security to keep your product out of the hacking spotlight? My advice, as a behavioral psychologist, is that adding another few lines to your legal page or slapping on a data security warning pop-up about the risks of photo hacking won't work, just like it doesn't work for smoking, alcohol use, or most other behaviors. You've got to change the social environment to change the behavior. The short answer to change user behavior is, build a community around how people upload and share pictures. Create a social norm on what types of photos should be taken and shared using your technology. It might sound difficult, but there's a science behind how to create a community for positive social change, and you can find that information right here.
Effective behavior change campaigns work by understanding and changing the social environment. To combat the increasing trend of sexting, we must similarly apply this science of social.
Sean Young, PhD, MS is the Executive Director of the UCLA Center for Digital Behavior and a Medical School Professor in the UCLA Department of Family Medicine.
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Shortage of Surveyors Slows Land Survey in Benue
The Benue State Special Adviser on Bureau for Lands and Survey, Prof. Jonathan Uever, has said that dearth of surveyors in the state was slowing down land survey processes.
Uever made this known at the accountability press briefing organised by the state council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Makurdi.
"We have acute shortage of staff in the Survey department since government will not recruit now. We have requested staff from the Lands Department to transfer to the Survey department to ease the operations of the department," he said.
The special adviser also said that the bureau had acquired 5000 hectares of land for the proposed cargo airport in the state and a maximum of 200 hectares in each of the 23 local government areas for warehouses preparatory for the cargo airport.
He said that perimeter survey and valuation of the sites of the lands were ongoing to pave way for compensation of all traditional title holders whose lands had been acquired for the purpose.
According to him, the sum of N17 million had been approved but awaiting release for the beaconing and administration of the Nyiev Mega Layout, adding that the bureau had printed 117 Certificates of Occupancy (C of O) for applicants while also scrutinizing files of C of Os that were printed during the previous administration.
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/property/-dearth-of-surveyors-slows-land-survey-in-benue/192884.html

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I have recently begun releasing a new song every week, on Mondays!
Language to describe what we know to be true about God as we wrestle with life's uncertainty and the complexity of this world that we live in.
For me, songwriting is like breathing.
If I cease to do so I will inevitably flat line.
Each of these songs are merely my daily journey of trial, redemption, suffering and hope.
The desire to capture and to share is very simple in nature: to capture the raw energy and life in each song, oftentimes without layering on the complexity of production. In this collection of songs, most of the time you'll hear the song how it was in it's original state as it came to life. And, at times, you'll hear more complex production as each song takes shape in a different and unique way.
Regardless of the sonic form, I'm excited to share this part of my heart and my story. If something moves you, I'd love to hear about it. If a song makes you think of someone, share it with them.
I don't know where this journey will lead, but thanks for joining me in real time as I share my unpacking of the mystery we call life.
Thank you for taking the time to listen!
My prayer is you would be encouraged and challenged by what you hear.


Over 50 students from the College of Liberal Arts participated in the annual Graduate Student Showcase on November 11th, with many taking home awards. Take a look at a snapshot below of the amazing work our students showcased. Read more about the award winners here.
I am curious as to how under served and undocumented people navigate the complex institutional and governmental domains requisite for attaining social assistance. Through my research at The Family Center I explored the tangled web of available social services in the city of Fort Collins. I interviewed front line workers to gain their perspective on the internal contradictions inherent in providing social services to people legally marginalized by their immigration status. By doing so I discovered both inspiring solutions and frustrating complications inherent in the local systems of social assistance.
In my drawings, I combine unfamiliar and familiar geometric forms in spontaneous ways to evoke my cultural identity and memory to explore the relationship with the places I have been seen. In my studies, I researched artists from the last one hundred years. They have shown me the appeal of looking to the past and offers new contemporary way as a source for inspiration. I am interested in drawing with magic water beads and aroma beads to capture fluid motion and energy; because It allows me to explore various creative materials and techniques to realize my creative vision.
In this competitive world we live in, we have to find a way to stand out, market our strengths, and grab the attention we have worked so hard to get. In my design, I strive to push the limits, think outside the norm, and explore outside the flat dimension. I needed an innovative resume to demonstrate my skills as an "anything but ordinary" graphic designer. My solution was to create a deck of cards showcasing 52 reasons why to hire me. This has gotten me the attention I was looking for from employers.
In an attempt to reach the most suicidal of men, Colorado launched the ManTherapy campaign in 2012. The campaign told men that they couldn't fix their mental health with duct tape and that grilling animal meat was just aromatherapy for men. What the campaign failed to address was the way in which creating a separate branding of therapy for men exerted stigma, power, and control over the way that women, queer, and people of color experience mental health problems. ManTherapy didn't consider how medical insanity came to be. By ignoring its roots, tools for healing became simply tools of control.
Thorstein Veblen, writing in 1921, correctly predicted that the United States economy was not structured to have a revolutionary overturn. Rather, he envisioned an outcome in which technicians would begin to accumulate capital and themselves become what he termed "the captains of industry". While this latter prediction may not have been true in its totality, capital accumulation by technicians has been apparent in the technological sector. This paper compares Veblen's theoretical approach to the realities of the contemporary American technological sector, examining the hypothesis that a "practical soviet of technicians" exists today.
Text books for English as a Second Language vary widely on the reporting verbs that they choose to teach to students. Normally, those chosen are not justified according to research. This poster outlines a recent study that determined which reporting verbs are actually most characteristic to academia, as compared to spoken English and pop publications. For the first time, it offers teachers a definitive list of the reporting verbs most crucial for improving the academic writing of English language learners. The study was based off of a 300-million word body of academic texts, pop publications, and transcripts of spoken English.
Growing vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers is enjoying a renaissance. We want to eat fresh food because it tastes good and it is good for us. Not everyone has the same access to fresh food, or the means to grow it. Often the people who need to eat better are excluded from the fresh food conversation inadvertently or deliberately. This project and gardening curriculum are based on that premise. The Mentor the Garden Mentor Gardening curriculum is designed to close the gaps that marginalized people experience and teach them how to build a garden and grow food.
In the nineteenth century, the traditional female Hawaiian social position was wildly transformed due to the arrival of Western men in the area. Examination of primary sources from the period revealed that the larger role of women in both Hawaiian social classes was an essential contribution factor to the modification and eventual dissolution of the native power structure. History is most often told through a male lens, but this research reveals that the drastic cultural change during the nineteenth century was a product of female actions.
Social media sites, Houzz and Pinterest, show homeowners are interested in Do-It-Yourself (DIY) home projects and find design inspirations browsing the internet. Current real estate research shows DIY home improvement market strongly parallels the housing market. The real estate industry is currently trending upwards; therefore, DIY home renovations are trending upwards. Through content analysis, surveys, and interviews a design app was created. Mint Designs Curb Appeal allows consumers to take a photo of the exterior of their home and utilize specific house templates integrated in the app to demonstrate how their specific house exterior could look based on personal style preferences.
I am the Lone Wolf. On my own and free to share with the students at CSU what it's like to be a fiercely independent and sensitive mammal. Listen as I share with you all that we have in common. I am also Lara Mitofsky Neuss, a graduate clarinet performance major at CSU. I study mindfulness, am certified in Reiki, and I have a strong emotional connection to non-human mammals. Journey with me for a peek inside my world as I show you how I, the Lone Wolf, think, dream, and experience the world that we share.
The Middle School Outreach Ensemble (MSOE) is a multi-tiered program that fosters the development of musicians and future music educators. On the collegiate level, this program gives undergraduate music education majors the opportunity to plan and teach weekly lessons, harnessing their teaching skills in a supervised environment. We implement a feedback system in which all teachers and ensemble conductors receive feedback from a peer or supervisor on their lesson plans and implementation of teaching strategies. This peer feedback system is the educational backbone of this program and allows all participants to gain practical experience throughout the program.


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As a part of 4 refreshers training events, the Activating Village Courts in Bangladesh project organized its first day-long refresher session on the VC (amendment) Act 2013 at CCDB Hope Centre at Savar.
The training aims to orient the key field staff with the amendments and its salient features. The amended Act, gazetted on 25 September 2013, reflects several important changes e.g. increase in the pecuniary jurisdiction from BDT. 25,000 to 75,000; introducing option for mandatory women representation in the decision making panel, penalty for filing false cases, increasing penalty for contempt of court or non-compliance, etc.
The first batch covered the field staff from Dhaka division where 28 participants took part. Participants of this refresher training are expected to support effectively and efficiently in further organizing and facilitating the field level stakeholder trainings particularly for UP elected representatives at their respective working areas. Mr. Anamul Haq, Training Officer and Adv. Uzzal Bhattacharjee, Program Support Officer of Village Courts Project conducted the sessions while Mr. Kamrul Hassan, Programme Specialist and Mr. Sarder M. Asaduzzaman, Project Coordinator were present at the beginning.


This home is representative of the luxury and outstanding lifestyle that spells Boca West Country Club. Membership is required. A must see. Totally renovated a year ago. Warm, comfortable & beautiful appointments. Master bedroom has 2 full bathrooms...a one time atrium is now part of the breakfast/kitchen, den area. Formal dining room. Salt water pool & private garden view from den, living room & master bedroom. 2 new A/C. Central vacuum. 80 gallon water heater. Custom closets in master. Kitchen Aid appliances. 2 ovens, one wall. Wood floors throughout & carpet in bedrooms.Separate laundry room. Screened porch. Great location cul de sac....So much to tell....Equity membership required. $70,000. paid at closing and social membership $13,348. Golf &tennis available with extra fees! Dining room ceiling light fixture, 2 sconces on wall at entrance, built in desk in alcove in family room and built in wood chest in master bedroom do not convey. Come see why it's #1 Residential Private Country Club in the country .......An amazing lifestyle!


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Q: How to choose operation point from precision recall curves for multi-label classification Is there a commonly accepted method for selecting an operating point for a multilabel classifier to optimize for each of these aggregate metrics:

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*(for clarification on operational point selection/threshold selection for binary case: How to choose a good operation point from precision recall curves?)

*micro and macro averaged f measures

I've found nothing on the matter except two papers that deal with (2):

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*"A Study on Threshold Selection for Multi-label Classification"
https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/papers/threshold.pdf

*"Threshold Optimisation for Multi-label classifiers"
This paper goes into this matter for macro and micro averaged f1 measures. Every point on this PR Graph comes from adjusting only one of the thresholds at a time. (exponential computation in number of classes)
Paper on Threshold Selection: https://pralab.diee.unica.it/sites/default/files/pillai_PR2013_Thresholding_0.pdf

These sources handle problem (2) but not problem (1)

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I originally wrote this report to my local administrators about two years ago to help myself, and hopefully them, understand the correlation between CSU admission standards in English and Fountain Valley High School's students' college readiness. This research was done in 2011. Many schools in California are currently implementing an entire curriculum based around the EAP/EPT test given by the CSU system. Based on the research below this may not be the best focus for an entire year's curriculum.
For the past six years FVHS students score around 55% on the CSU EAP (Early Assessment Program) test given each year to our 11th grade students. This is about the same score for every school with a similar API in Orange County. I have yet to find a comprehensive high school in Orange County who is scoring consistently higher than anyone else. I've been looking at the scores on the state website every year since I was the WASC coordinator six years ago.
The CSU EAP is given to all 11th grade students in the form of the annual CST exam and includes a supplemental essay that is given within a month of the CST exam. At FVHS our CP and AP students are traditionally given the supplemental essay and are told about the CST component.
Passing the EAP exam in the 11th grade year.
Passing an AP English exam with a grade of 3 or higher.
Passing the SAT Critical Reading section with a score of 500 or higher.
Passing the EPT (English Placement Test) given by the CSU schools on-site before enrollment.
Since 2003 our average SAT score for seniors has been between 531 and 539 and about 50% of our seniors have taken the SAT.
If students do not show up at the CSU campus with a "college-ready" score, then they are required to take and pay for a three week course in the subject. Ninety-five percent of all students pass the EPT after this three week course.
Over the last thirty years a first year freshman graduates from a CSU school in six years or less: 50% of the time.
Annalise Winkle and I have been interested in the topic of CSU EAP testing for the past several years. We attended training and information sessions for three days on this subject several years ago. This year Assistant Principal Kirk Kennedy and I attended an informational meeting on the CSUF campus regarding the EAP and EPT. When I found out that 95% of all students pass the EPT after taking a three week course on their campus I raised my hand and asked, "Can you please distribute the curriculum of this course because I would like to see how you get students prepared to pass this test in three weeks with a 95% pass rate when we have students for four years and can only achieve a 55% pass rate." This question was met with stony silence. I then asked a follow-up question, "Can you at least show us our student scores disaggregated by multiple choice section and essay component so we can see what we need to work on at the high school level." This question was answered by an emphatic "No we are not going to do that." I found this shocking since the college board does this for the AP and SAT test and the entire purpose of the EAP test as stated by the CSU system is to help students see what they need to work on senior year to get ready for the CSU system, but yet they won't tell the schools where the students need more assistance.
If the CSUs don't really care to give us the information we need to prepare our students for college-readiness and success on the EAP and EPT, then perhaps they don't want students to succeed, and instead want them to take an additional class to generate more revenue.
This past fall (2010) CSULB only admitted seven percent of the freshmen who applied. UCLA admitted nine percent. The average GPA for incoming freshmen at CSULB in 2010 was 3.75. While CSULB is not as difficult to win admission as CSUSLO or CSU Pomona, or even CSU San Diego, it is obviously a competitive school for admission, and is only accepting our above average students.
Our average SAT score for Critical Reading (CR) is around 535 and students just need a 500 to avoid taking the EPT at the CSU.
Therefore our students who were accepted to CSULB should have a very high number of "passing" SAT scores (500 or above).
Perhaps we don't need to worry about the EAP at all.
*This information was found by going through the test score cards of all graduates from 2010. It took about five hours. It would be nice if this information was available on Illuminate.
Note A: One of the students with no scores has a sister currently attending FVHS. I asked her to talk to her sister about the missing scores. She told me her sister scored a 580 on the SAT and a 4 on her AP exam. I'm not sure why her scores were missing from our records. The registrar also told me that sometimes if students don't mark in the school information correctly then the SAT scores are not sent to FVHS.
Note B: One student with a non-passing score took the test sophomore year but didn't retake the test junior or senior year.
I am shocked that more of our CP students who have a high GPA and are accepted to the CSU system don't have a score above 500 on the Critical Reading section of the SAT.
Unless our records are wrong, very few of our students retake the test senior year, even though they were close to a passing score of 500 on the SAT CR test.
Too few of our CP seniors take the SAT test, and far too few of them taking the test do any studying for the test in the form of a study guide or class.
Very few of our CP students take the ACT.
I think very few of our sophomores and juniors know about the SAT 500 standard or ACT 22 standard and that it will get them out of a remedial class at the CSU school.
What are we doing as an institution to get students ready for the SAT?
You can find out more about the ERWC curriculum here.
Personally I think we would be serving our students better if we focused on improving our students SAT Critical Reading score by either including a short unit during the school year or creating after-school or saturday SAT prep sessions. Not only will this help our students avoid the EAP/EPT problem, but it will raise their SAT scores which can assist in getting into a better college and getting more money for college.
Lastly, where in the ERWC curriculum is there room for Inquiry Based Learning, Project Based Learning, Problem Based Learning, Habits of Mind, (a PDF curriculum of Habits of Mind) Student Choice, Google 20% or Genius Hour projects (example from Sean Ziebarth) My own 150 point project – My end of the year senior project etc… It's pretty limiting.
A picture from one of my 150 point projects- This would be difficult to achieve with the ERWC curriculum.
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Blog>Company>Our first acquisition: Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG)
Our first acquisition: Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG)
Expanding Bakkt's risk management, compliance and treasury operations
As we work to complete our first acquisition, the New Year is starting as deliberately as 2018 ended — punctuated by the closing of our first capital raise.
As those who've followed us since our first announcement in August know, our mission is to build the first integrated, institutional grade exchange-traded markets and custody solution for physical delivery of digital assets. In parallel, we're building a secure, scalable platform for transacting with digital assets so that our regulated ecosystem serves consumers, merchants and institutions.
To advance that effort, I'm pleased to share that we have entered into an agreement to acquire certain assets of Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG), an independent futures commission merchant with nearly 100 years of earning clients' trust. In December, RCG announced the sale of all its customer accounts to Marex Spectron, one of the world's largest commodity brokers. As part of that transaction, our aim was to purchase certain valuable assets related to developing our platform. We expect to close the transaction in February, and are excited to welcome members of the RCG team to Bakkt.
How does this advance our work? First, it will enhance our risk management and treasury operations with systems and expertise. Other aspects of the transaction will contribute to our regulatory, AML/KYC and customer service operations as we help enable digital asset acceptance by bringing more choice and control to buyers and sellers.
This acquisition underlines the fact we're not standing still as we await regulatory approval by the CFTC for the launch of regulated trading in our crypto markets. Our mission requires significant investment in technology to establish an innovative platform, as well as financial market expertise to deliver the most trusted fintech ecosystem for digital assets.
Our vision is to bring digital assets into the mainstream by enabling efficient transactions between consumers and merchants. Distributed ledger technology (DLT) has the potential to contribute to a lean, modern transaction platform that is compatible with existing merchant infrastructure. While DLT and cryptocurrencies are early in their development, we are committed to expanding the use of this technology to promote choice by building a fair, efficient platform for digital assets globally.
Bringing Digital Assets Mainstream
Bakkt completes $300 Million Series B financing
Continued growth of our team


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Boarding Schools for Boys in Riverview, Florida
Home » Boarding Schools for Boys in Riverview, Florida
Such Schools May Not Accept Boys Who are Struggling with Disrespect, Peer Pressure, Minor Trouble with the Law, or Failing Grades. But Safe Harbor Does, and Molds them into Calm, Confident, Respectful, Disciplined and Knowledgeable Young Men.
As you are searching for boarding schools in Riverview, Florida that will help your boy who is struggling, will you take a minute to look at Safe Harbor? Safe Harbor is a more affordable alternative to therapeutic boarding schools in Riverview, Florida, with similar success and outcomes.
Safe Harbor transforms at-risk teenage boys into mature and capable young men. Boys who enroll at Safe Harbor may be caught up in depression, defiance, behavioral and school issues, minor drug use or trouble with the law, or the upheaval of a loss in their life. Typically, young men who are struggling need help gaining a broader view of the world, one not so centered on themselves or keeping up with their peers.
While you may be looking for a boarding school in Riverview, Florida, please consider that the Safe Harbor waterfront experience combined with the one-on-one attention, counsel and training lead to an unparalleled setting for growth and change in behavior.
For at-risk boys, Safe Harbor boarding school teaches boating and maritime skills, offers practical life training, and builds character in the context of vocational training, all while boys pursue their high school diplomas. The boys (many have come from Riverview, Florida) make their home on board vessels at this waterfront boarding school. They gain mastery in boating on the ocean and rivers while developing respect for self and others, self-reliance, perseverance, and much more. Each boy who successfully completes Safe Harbor discovers how to captain his own vessel, both literally and figuratively.
Registering Boys from Riverview, Florida, Safe Harbor is Boarding School in Florida with Year-Round Education
At Safe Harbor, practical knowledge means as much as academic knowledge. In addition to all aspects of boating and seamanship, we offer vocational training in a variety of topics, including woodworking, boat refurbishing, navigation, log keeping and map reading, welding, boat maintenance and repair, and basic electrical skills.
Normal high school classes run year-round and can be accelerated, giving students a chance to catch up wherever they may be lagging academically. Boys who complete the Safe Harbor program receive a Florida high school diploma, and a lot of them continue their education at two-year and four-year colleges.
We also think boys should be capable in basic life skills. Students of Safe Harbor are taught to balance a checkbook and handle credit responsibly, find employment using appropriate resume and interview skills, understand basic nutrition, and handle grocery shopping and cooking, to name just a few of the topics we cover. Our goal is to make your boy respectful, self-reliant, confident, and competent.
Safe Harbor is a Boarding School that Helps Boys from Riverview, Florida Make a Change of Heart and Attitude
Concerning counseling, our program incorporates group and individual counseling, both from a mental health professional and from a pastoral counselor. The small number of boys in our program guarantees ample interaction time for boys from Riverview, Florida with professional staff and mentors.
As you continue your search in Riverview, Florida and elsewhere, thank you for looking at Safe Harbor Maritime Academy situated on the East Coast in Jacksonville, Florida.
To discover more, we invite you to explore the rest of our website, then use our online inquiry form or contact us directly at (904) 902-0136.
Boarding Schools for troubled boys from Riverview, Florida
More about boarding schools in Riverview, Florida:
Riverview is an unincorporated census-designated place in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. It is located near Brandon. The population was 71,050 at the 2010 census.
Many of Tampa Bay's radio and television stations broadcast from an antenna farm in the Riverview area, on Boyette Road, southeast of town.
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AMAZING OPPORTUNITY to be a home owner! This WELL MAINTAINED and humble abode is located in the Community of Bowness and possess a total living space of 820.77 sq. ft. The house gives off a cozy and tranquil ambience complemented with its sturdy and gleaming hardwoord flooring. 3 bedrooms and a 4-piece bathroom ideal for your family.


She was also struggling to get to sleep in the evening. After a full on day with both girls, I would crave the evening, when I could have some peace and quiet, and a bit of time to me and Sean before bed. But Ella was resisting bedtime. She'd go to bed, then cry and shout for us, and ask to come downstairs. Where she used to go to bed around 7pm and be asleep by 7.30pm, she was staying awake until 9pm and sometimes later. I was often going to sleep at the same time as her.
About a week before Christmas, there was one night when she fell asleep on the sofa about 6.45pm, was carried up to bed, and then slept all night. It was on a day when she didn't nap. The next day was a nursery day, where she never naps, and the same happened again.
So, we realised, it was time to wave goodbye to the nap!
I definitely dreaded Ella dropping her nap, as it was the only space I had in the day to get stuff done. Be it some business work, a bit of blogging, sorting something out in the house, or catching a few z's myself if I'd had a particularly bad night the night before. So, I was reluctant to let it go. She was still sleepy in the day at nap time. She still could have been pushed in to a nap.
But the impact on the night time meant something had to be done. So, at naptime, she didn't go for a nap. I'll be honest, it's been a real struggle most days to keep her awake. There have been days that she has fallen asleep on the sofa while I've been upstairs settling Sienna for a nap, or fallen asleep in the car. And, on those days, the issues have returned. She's been awake late and waking in the night. So, I have to battle as soon as I see those eyes start to droop, or I have to quickly get some sugar in her!!!
The upside has been that bedtime with her is a doddle. She generally can manage to last until 7pm now, though in the first few days she was asleep by about 6.30pm. Generally, she starts to nod off as I'm reading to her. If she doesn't, she's asleep within minutes of me leaving the room. There are no fights, no arguments, no up and down the stairs. An evening back to being just us. And I'd definitely rather have that than an hour during the day and no evening.
The night time has mostly been better too. She has still woken a fair few nights, but it's a simple case of telling her to go back to sleep, and she does straight away. I think a lot of it is related to her having a cold, as she's been much better the last couple of nights, and not woken at all, since her cold has gotten better. It means I'm getting more sleep too. And, thankfully, Sienna's sleep has also improved. Things just seem so much better now that sleep is occurring!
When Ella was napping, our afternoons were pretty set around her nap. But we now have a bit more freedom. While I still feel a little led by Sienna's naps, as she prefers to sleep in her cot, I know that she can nap in the car or in the pram if need by. So it gives us the freedom to be out and about all day. I would rule out agreeing to doing things in the afternoon, as it would depend on what time Ella went to sleep and woke up. Now we're not restricted, and have a lot more flexibility in our day.
And, I get more one-on-one time with Ella, while Sienna is napping, as Ella would usually nap at the same time as Sienna having her longest nap. It's nice to get a bit more time, where I'm not holding Sienna, or trying to please her too.
So, it's not all as bad as I thought it would be. And, missing that hour is more than made up for by gaining back the evening and at least a little more sleep!
Much better at night time, but definitely feeling the loss!


Talent Garden Dublin is an innovative space opened in Dublin City University's Innovation Campus, DCU Alpha. Just up from the National Botanic Gardens, in the beautiful red-brick neighbourhood of Glasnevin, the location provides coworking space for more than 350 coworkers, digital skills training by Talent Garden's Innovation School, a TAG Cafè, hundreds of events every year as well as creating international connectivity for startups looking to scale up in other markets.
Dedicated desk in the open space.
24/7 access to the campus, 3 hours of free meeting room use per month per person, free access to the other campuses.
Hot desk in a shared table.
Access to the selected campus for 20 hours per week, 2 hours of free meeting room use per month per person, free access to the other campuses.
Private and lockable office for 2 up to 20 people.
Move-in ready, 24/7 access to the campus, 3 hours of free meeting room use per month per person, free access to the other campuses.
Hot desk at a shared table.
Access to the selected campus and related community activities for one day.
Reserved desk for up to 10 people.
24/7 access to the campus, 5 hours of free meeting room use per month, 20 hours of access to the other campuses.
The ideal location for panel discussions, product launches, corporate events, exhibitions, meetups and hackathons.
Two workshop rooms ideal for training events, courses, classes and brainstorming sessions. Fully equipped with smart screens and whiteboards.


White and navy with hints of green brought an elegant feeling to the nuptials of Kristen Buchta, a 31-year-old physical therapist, and Brian Musser, a 30-year-old HR consultant. The couple met a Halloween party, and after some persistence from Brian, Kristen quickly fell for her future husband. Brian later proposed with an heirloom diamond ring at a Florida restaurant. "We were celebrating my 30th birthday, and Brian had the waitress put the ring on a piece of Key Lime pie," Kristen says. "The ring was full of whipped cream, but Brian grabbed it and put it on my finger. The entire restaurant stood up and started clapping." Following a 15-month engagement, the couple married in front of 160 guests in a church ceremony in the bride's Wisconsin hometown and celebrated with a cocktail hour and reception at her family's country club. "I wanted the wedding to be simple, but classic," Kristen says. Flowers were used as the main decorations for the day, and the couple made a special effort to only use local small business vendors. Kristen says that although there are little things that go wrong when planning a wedding, it's really not worth getting upset. "Don't sweat the small stuff," she advises.


This fun, interactive workshop by artist and beachcomber Katie Fowlie of Scottish Beach Finds will encourage you to create pigments and explore mark-making using materials foraged from coastal landscapes. Make your own brushes using driftwood and wild grasses, and combine these in a playful manner with pigments made from organic raw materials. The workshop will prompt reflection and learning about how to use nature creatively – celebrating the richness of coastal landscapes which characterised Robert Callender's work.
Suitable for families and children (aged 5+). Free, drop-in, no need to book.
A second drop-in session will take place that same day from 13:30 – 15:30pm.


The Boss Factor by Richard Boston (LeaderSpace; Pb £14.99), reviewed by Tara Dean.
A new role with HF Mencap.
Evidence-based tips, pulled together by our journalist Ella Rhodes.
An appreciation from Eileen Griffith.
Sister organisation to 'Mad in America' formed.
Alexander Bird with a different view on psychology's 'crisis'.


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— Aggregate form with anterior end of body rounded, the posterior end is somewhat fusiform. The test is bluntly pentagonal and never echinate. M1-M3 and M4-M5 are fused mid-dorsally; both groups of muscle bands are separated in lateral view. The nucleus has a posterior projection. The test is pentagonal posteriorly. The number of muscle fibres in M1-M5 is 15-17, normally 16. The atrial opening is not central and there is a posterior lateral protuberance on one side only.
— Solitary form with smooth test, atrial palps simple and straight; lateral projections small, medioventral projections are small and of unequal length, the anterior ones are the smallest. All test projections are echinate. M1-M4 are continuous dorsally and ventrally; M5 is narrowly interupted ventrally. M2-M4 and M5-M6 are converged mid-dorsally over a short distance only. The stomach partly extends into the middle posterior projection.
Length of aggregate zooids 1.8-18.2 mm. Length of solitary zooids 2.3-11.7 mm.
Epipelagic, living in the upper 100 m, does not perform diurnal vertical migration.
Possible occurring in the northern North Sea as a seasonal visitor.
Cosmopolitan, eurythermic species from warmer waters; roughly occurring between ca. 60°N and ca. 40°S. Also present in the Mediterranean Sea.
In solitary zooids, the number of muscle fibres in M1-M6 shows clinal variation, decreasing from higher to lower latitudes, in other words, from colder to warmer waters (see Van Soest, 1975b). Shoals of T. democratica occurring off the Hebrides in July-August were reported by Sewell, 1953.
Subphylum Tunicata
Class Thaliacea
Order Salpida
Family Salpidae
Subfamily Salpinae
Genus Thalia
Species Thalia democratica
Accepted name: Thalia democratica (Forsk�l, 1775)
Salpa democratica | Forskål, 1775
Salpa mucronata | Forskål, 1775 (used for the solitary form)
Salpa spinosa | Otto, 1823
Dubreuillia cirrhosa | Lesson, 1830
Salpa caboti | Desor, 1848
Thalia democratica var. orientalis | Tokioka, 1937
Thalia democratica f. typica | Sewell, 1953
Thalia democratica ssp. democratica | Borgelt, 1968
Apstein, C., 1905. Salpen der deutsche Tiefsee-Expedition. Wissentschaftliche Ergebnisse der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899, 12(3): 245-290 (7 plates). Fisher Verlag, Jena.
Bone, Q. (ed.), 1998. The biology of pelagic tunicates. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 340 pp.
Fraser, J.H., 1981. British pelagic tunicates. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series), No. 20. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 57 pp.
Godeaux, J., 1998. The relationships and systematics of the Thaliacea, with keys for identification. In: Q. Bone (ed.), 1998. The biology of pelagic tunicates. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp 273-294.
Sewell, R.B.S., 1953. The pelagic Tunicata. The John Murray Expedition 1933-34 Scientific Reports, Vol. 10, No. 1. British Museum Natural History, London. 90 pp.
Soest, R.W.M. van, 1973. The genus Thalia Blumenbach, 1798 (Tunicata, Thaliacea), with description of two new species. Beaufortia, 20(271): 193-212.
Soest, R.W.M. van, 1975b. Zoogeography and speciation in the Salpidae (Tunicata, Thaliacea). Beaufortia, 23(307): 181-215.
T.democratica-a (aggregate form)
T.democratica-s (solitary form)
For further info about Thalia democratica, you can also look up this species under:
Thalia democratica (species group: Zooplankton of the South Atlantic Ocean)
You can continue searching for Thalia democratica on one of these Web sites:
Thalia democratica


HomeQ: What is a hostel?
A: Hostels provide short-term accommodation to travelers, particularly encouraging outdoor activities and cultural exchange for the young. In a hostel guests rent a bed (sometimes a bunk bed) in a dormitory and share bathroom, kitchen, and lounge rooms. Private rooms are often available. The main benefit of a hostel is that one gets to meet other travelers from all over the world. Hostels are usually less formal and less expensive than hotels. They are most frequently used by young travelers. Hostels provide a great opportunity for multi-cultural enlightenment. There is more interaction between the guests than in traditional hotels.


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Q: Get SQL Server database backup size in .Net We want to take db backups programmatically. For this we used the SqlServer.Management.Smo namespace and its classes, and it is working perfectly.
Now we have a requirement to determine whether there is enough space is there in the location to hold the backup files before saving the db backup to the specified location.
And if there is not enough space, we want to alert the user of that fact.
One way we found is that put a try catch and catch the exception if there is no enough space in memory. But we are looking for a solution to get the size before saving it.

A: There is no way to get the exact backup size until you try backing up the database.
Approximate size can be guessed at by looking at database file sizes.  This is useful if you have no idea how big it will be and you need to "publish" some estimate to the unfortunate user whose disk is full.  But the real database sizes will likely be much smaller.
SELECT CAST(SUM(size) AS DECIMAL) * 8192 from sys.database_files

Given that you will have to add that try-catch clause anyway, much easier and more accurate estimates can be obtained from looking at the last backup size like this:
SELECT TOP 1 database_name, backup_size FROM msdb..backupset ORDER BY backup_finish_date DESC

You can compare either of these values to the amount of free disk space.  It may be useful to add some margin to the number obtained by the latter method to account for some expected gradual database growth.


Goose & Berry combine seasonal local produce with fabulous taste, a wealth of experience and impeccable execution to a create a luxury experience. Perfect for your event, however large or small.
With catering options including canapés and cocktails, fine dining, food stalls, dessert rooms and roving oyster bars, Goose & Berry are brimming with creative solutions to impress your guests or clients.
We love bringing our unique style to venues and private residences in London & the home counties.


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Dhrangadhra war ein 3010 km² großer Fürstenstaat Britisch-Indiens im Nordosten der Halbinsel Kathiawar im heutigen Bundesstaat Gujarat. Hauptstadt war der Ort Dhrangadhra. Der Vorgängerstaat Jhalawad wurde 1090 von Harpal Dev Mokwana, einem Jhala-Rajputen, gegründet. Aus diesem entstanden durch Erbteilung die kleineren Fürstentümer Limbdi, Wadhwan, Chuda, Saila und Than-Lakhtar. Im 16. Jahrhundert wurde das Gebiet von den Großmoguln unterworfen. Aurangzeb (1658–1707) gab die Stadt Halvad den Jhalas zurück. Das Fürstentum erreichte seine moderne Form 1735. 1807–1947 war es britisches Protektorat. Raj Sahib Ghanshyamsinhji Ajitsinhji (1911–1942) wurde 1918 zum Maharaja erhoben. Dhrangadhra hatte 1941 eine Fläche von 3022 km² und 102.000 Einwohner.

Im Rahmen des "attachement scheme" erhielt man 1943 knapp 78000 Einwohner zugeschlagen. Zum 10. Juni 1943 wurde aus dem Chotila Thana Ramparda integriert, zum 7. Dez. folgten die Zwergstaaten Chuda, Lakhtar, Muli und Sayla. Am 1. Dezember 1946 folgte noch der Anschluss des Wadhwan-Bhoika-Thana (508 km²). Dadurch vergrößerte sich die Fläche des Landes auf insgesamt 4780 km².

Der Maharaja Mayirdhwajsinhji Meghrajji III. (1911–1956) betrieb nach dem Abzug der Briten (siehe Geschichte Indiens) den Zusammenschluss der Fürstenstaaten der Halbinsel zur Union Saurashtra, die am 15. August 1947 gebildet wurde. Am 15. Februar 1948 vollzog er den Anschluss an Indien und war bis 1952 Ujrajpramukh (stellvertretendes Staatsoberhaupt) von Saurashtra. Am 1. November 1956 wurden alle Fürstenstaaten aufgelöst und dem Bundesstaat Bombay einverleibt. Durch die Teilung von Bombay am 1. Mai 1960 kam Dhrangadhra zu Gujarat.

Literatur
 Dhrāngadhr State. In: The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Band 11: Coondapoor to Edwardesābād. New Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, S. 333–334.
 George B. Malleson: An historical sketch of the native states of India. Longmans, Green & Co., London 1875, (Digitalisat).
 Joseph E. Schwartzberg (Hrsg.): A historical atlas of South Asia (= Association for Asian Studies. Reference Series. 2). 2nd impression, with additional material. Oxford University Press, New York NY u. a. 1992, ISBN 0-19-506869-6.

Weblinks

 iiNet: Dhrangadhra (Princely State)
 Imperial Gazetteer of India
http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/ips/main.html
http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_princes_A-J.html

Einzelnachweise

Fürstenstaat in Indien
Geschichte (Gujarat)
Distrikt Surendranagar

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


PlayMonster's Yeti, Set, Go! includes the Snowy Mountain gameboard, 4 Kickin' Yetis, and 24 meatballs. It is a skill-and-action game for 2-4 players, ages 4+. Some adult assembly is required. The object of the game is to be the first player to kick their meatballs onto the mountain. Get four meatballs on the lower mountain ledges, or get one up top, next to the Meatball Mountain flag. If you kick a meatball into an opponent's quadrant, they keep it! Feel free to mix up the rules for younger players, or for the Yeti masters. Yeti, Set, Go! is lots of fun. The Yetis are super-cute and everyone will love playing with their food. And for the vegetarians in the house, let them know that although there's no actual meat in these balls, they still shouldn't eat them!
Yes, everyone will love kicking the meatballs onto the mountain.
Meatball kickers, Yeti fans, and children who love skill-and-action games, ages 4+.
Some adult assembly is required.


Yesterday I ran the half marathon of Zwolle wearing a hat with the previous QGIS logo. My time was not so special (2:08:47) but the medal I earned was. It shows a simple map of the city of Zwolle.
De originele medaille van de halve marathon van Zwolle.
You can see some buildings but which ones?
I decided to georerence the medal and add a map using QGIS.
First I scanned the medal to create a PNG image.
Next I georefererence the image using Georeferencer GDAL plugin that is delivered with every QGIS installation but needs to be activated using the Plugin manager. In het menu Raster you can now start the georeferencer tool.
Then I added the layer "lufolabels" using the PDOK plugin that you can easily install and download using the Plugin manager.
The result you see below.
The buildings are: Broerenkerk, Peperbus, Grote St. Michaelskerk, De Fundatie and Sassenpoort.
Last week not only QGIS 2.14.0 Essen was released but also a great book "QGIS Map Design" based on this new version of QGIS.
A release of QGIS is special but this release concerns an announced LTR release. QGIS 2.8.7 is the current LTR version in which al bugs found between 2.8 and 2.14.0 have been solved in 2.8 as well.
A (Long Term Release) LTR version has two major advantages. It is very stable and in time becomes even more stable and the functionality remains the same over a longer period of time so instructions books and courses based on an LTR version can be used longer. When QGIS 2.16 appears, we will have a new LTR version of QGIS 2.14.1! The name QGIS Essen refers to the city that hosted the hackfest twice. I was there and they were very inspiring and productive.
After QGIS 2.14 will be started with building QGIS 3 which will be a tremendous effort. QGIS 2 is now build on Qt 4 and Python 2.7. QGIS 3 will be build on Qt 5 and Python 3.5. Work has been started a long time ago with putting an excellent test framework in place with lots of unit tests.
Although currently QGIS 2.14 is not yet the QGIS LTR version, new manuals, books and instructions should be written on this new version of QGIS!
The first book that is based on QGIS 2.14 is already out! The book QGIS Map Design is written by Anita Graser & Gretchen N. Peterson and issued by Locate Press of Gary Sherman (The founder of QGIS). This is the first book focused on how to use the possibilities QGIS offers to create stunning maps.
The book presents many "recipes", practical examples how to create a certain kind of map.
I expect to have a lot of pleasure reading this book and using QGIS 2.14!
What has QGIS 2.14 to offer? Please have a look at the List of visual changes.
Hi! In this blog I describe how you can create proper parcels with polygon geometry in from polylines (parcel boundaries) and points (Parcel point with parcel attributes placed inside parcel boundaries).
Since the 1st of januari 2016 a dataset named, BRK (Basis Registratie Kadaster) is available from PDOK. You can download these in GML format for each province and open directly in QGIS.
The BRK holds information on parcels, land areas. Every parcel is registrated with an unique ID at Kadaster, the Dutch Land Registration authority. They also register who owns the parcel of land and the historie of previous owners. De dataset BRK provides a momentary view of the parcels at a recent point in time.
I expected to receive polygons but the BRK included only lines and points. Fortunately, QGIS provides the tools to provide what I want.
2) In this case, I unpack the downloaded zip-file in folder C:\data\brk\input\ and create the folder C:\data\brk\output for (intermediate) results.
3) Activate the Processing Toolbox from the menu Processing >> Toolbox. Turn rendering of in QGIS (right below in QGIS application window) and switch the interface of processing from Simplified interface to Advanced interface.
5) Save both GML files loaded to shape-format, in het layer panel you can select a layer and select in het menu Layers >> Save As…. Using the Processing Toolbox you can use Convert format (Translate format) [OGR] from the GDAL/OGR group of algorithms. When you double click on the algorithm the dialog opens that can be used to convert to many vector formats.
6) Make sure the created shapefiles are opened in QGIS first. To add a spatial index double click on a selected layer which opens the Layer Properties dialog. Use the button [Create spatial index] .
7) To create parcel areas from boundaries, use the Processing Algorithm Polygonize. Search in the Processing Toolbox with "Polygonize".
8) This algorithm takes a lot of time! At 40% it seems to stop, but please be patient. Let QGIS do its job.
9) Now add the attributes of the point layer Perceel.shp to created area layer KadastraalVlak.shp and I saved it to KadastralePercelen.shp.
When you select a parcel using the identify tool you should see following fields.
In this blog I will explain how to recover styles that are included in a SpatiaLite database but are lost after renaming or moving the SpatiaLite database to another location.
It will show how to use the QGIS Field Calculator to change the contents of de field f_table_catalog in the table layer_styles so it directs to the proper full pathname of the SpatiaLite database. Afterwards the styles included in the SpatiaLite database are displayed correctly!
Since QGIS version 2.4 it is possible to save the style given to a layer loaded from SpatiaLite inside the SpatiaLite database. When a new project is opened and you load that layer the saved style is applied. Wonderfull, but if you rename or move the file the saved style is not applied.
This example database (filesize = 8 MB) is actually made using de QGIS plugin Basis NL from which I removed all data outside the small beautiful municipality of Zwartsluis. It contains buildings, addresses and location for houseboats and mobile homes.
For this example I have placed the SpatiaLite database after download in a folder named C:\geodata\buildings.
Open the dialog to load the spatial tables from Spatialite into QGIS. Select from menu Layer >> Add Layer >> Add SpatiaLite Layer… .
In the dialog use the [New] button to create a new database connection to zwartsluis.sqlite. Now select in the list of connections the connection to zwartsluis.sqlite and press the [Connect] button.
Select the option Keep dialog open, select the 5 tables and load these using the [Add] button.
We see that arbitrary styles have been given to loaded layers.
Layers are loaded but saved styles are not used.
Now select the option Also list tables with no geometry in the dialog Add SpatiaLite Table(s). More tables are available for selection including layer_styles, select this table and use the [Add] button to load it in QGIS.
When we open the table layer_styles in the Attribute table dialog, we can see that the field f_table_catalog refers to another file location. We will fix this using the Field Calculator that can be used to change the contents of existing fields!
Select the layer layer_styles and open the attribute table for this layer.
To make the layer editable select the yellow pencil ( Toggle Editing mode) in the toolbar of the Attribute Table dialog.
To start the Field calculator dialog select the abacus in the toolbar.
Now activate the option Update existing field and select the field f_table_catalog in the field selector underneath this option.
In the text entry area give the new full filepath for zwartsluis.sqlite. Surround the text with apostrophes. Use forward slash instead of the backslash that is used on windows OS as a separator. When below the text area Output preview shows the correct filepath, press [OK].
In the Attribute Table dialog the field of f_table_catalog now shows the right filepath.
Select again the yellow pencil and acknowledge you want to keep the changes.
Start a new project and reload the spatial tables from the SpatiaLite database, now the saved styles from the SpatiaLite database are used.
To load public web services provided by the Dutch government, we use the PDOK plugin, written by Richard Duivenvoorde. Here you can select the WMST service brtachtergrondkaart to load this as a background layer. When you go to the extent of the layer pand you will be zoomed in to Zwartsluis. If you zoom in further the objects from the SpatiaLite database become visible.
Now loaded with correct styles!


There are many restaurants and dining options in this area!
There are many vegetarian and vegan options, besides your typical salad. The restaurants with these accommodations have a v next to them for vegan and vegetarian options, and a veg next to them for only vegetarian options.


Romance is alive and well in Milwaukee.
Welcome to our new series, I Tried It. Milwaukee Magazine writers are getting out and about, trying all the new things our city has to offer so you don't have to (or so you know what to expect when you do). Before you venture out, check to see if MilMag has tried it first. Read all of our I Tried It installments here.
Bestselling romance novelist Maya Rodale stands before a room of writers at the Wisconsin Romance Writers Association "Write Touch" Conference. Behind her is a nonsense algorithm of some sort — an integral sign, a few coefficients. "I was told there'd be no math here," a woman quips from the audience.
The comment solicits appreciative chuckles from the diligent, note-taking conference attendees, but for me it resounds with a zing. An epiphany of sorts has been fomenting in my mind throughout the two-day conference, one I couldn't quite articulate to myself until then.
People are Instagramming about enjoying a solo bottle of hotel wine with their swag bag paperbacks at night, the introvert's party. Many of the books for sale feature shirtless men or kilts or, most commonly, both, and the silent auction baskets incline toward candles and chocolates, bath bombs and, yes, more shirtless men. Members of the planning committee are tiara-crowned at dinner. My first session of the day begins with a rhetorical "Where's the lone man? We usually have one." Again, an attendee responds: "We do have one." He appears shortly thereafter.
In short: the conference was powered by an ebullition of feminine energy, bottled up and spilling over once a year.
I attended Write Touch expecting only a weekend of writing craft tips. Being a reader and fiction writer myself, though not in the romance genre, I expected sessions on "uncovering emotional wounds" and "the anatomy of a scene" to be cross-generically applicable. And they were.
Headliner Lisa Cron, author of the oft-consecrated Story Genius and Wired for Story, gave a 6-hour session on "writing an irresistible novel," where I took six pages of handwritten notes. Milwaukee novelist Amy E. Reichert broke down her revision process, which felt delightfully like something a project manager would have designed. And yes, I did uncover some "emotional wounds" in a session led by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi, creators of The Emotion Thesaurus and other tools for fiction writers that seem to take their own version of Rodale's algorithm approach, taxonomizing character traits, settings, traumatic backstories and emotional responses in their series of thesauri.
Rodale's session on "how to write the right stories" took the analytical approach further, introducing the audience (or at least, this audience member) to the mysteries of BISAC codes, advocating for writing in series, enumerating the top-selling Romance tropes — shirtless Scots, reformed rakes, virgin widows, dukes. "Put a duke on it" is this community's funny-because-it's-true "Put a bird on it." Here, the specter of 50 Shades of Grey looms large, more exemplar than punchline, "bodice ripper" is pejorative while "trope" is not, and women share in-jokes about "the stepbrothers trend" that assailed the Amazon pickings for about six months last year.
Here's what I didn't expect to take from Write Touch: these women (and the perennial lone man) approach writing with the foresight of a project manager, the acuity of a physicist and the tenacity of a CMO. And they do it all without sacrificing their knitting, their shirtless Scots and dukes, their tiaras. The conference, like the romance genre itself, is culturally, if not biologically feminine, a culture born of circumstance, a culture that has built a billion-dollar industry for a genre that outsells almost all other types of fiction and boasts an eager audience of about 29 million. Romance novels are primarily written by, about and for women, produced by a publishing force that is estimated at 74 percent female. The genre is perhaps the first space that afforded women the opportunity to tell their own stories.
"Emotion translates meaning," Cron said in an impassioned lecture on why storytelling matters. Cron's shtick is connecting brain science with fiction writing, making the argument that humans narrativize by nature, and that fiction writers can improve their craft by understanding how the brain organizes meaning. It is feelings, she says, that make meaning significant, acknowledging the bad (gendered) reputation attached to this quintessentially human response.
Thinking of penning your own happily ever after? Join the Wisconsin chapter of the Romance Writers Association.


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Reid Travis went to Kentucky with chance to return to Minneapolis for 2019 Final Four
Ex-DeLaSalle star Travis hopes to lead Kentucky to the Final Four
By Marcus Fuller Star Tribune
November 8, 2018 — 12:33pm
It didn't take long for Kentucky basketball fans to fall in love with Reid Travis. Before the former All-Pac 12 forward had his first Wildcats practice, he felt at home walking around the Lexington campus this summer after he transferred from Stanford.
"It's crazy," Travis said. "The first day I was out there. I had people recognizing me all over the place."
True, the 6-8, 245-pound Travis stands out on campus. But he also stands out on a Kentucky roster loaded with former five-star recruits and future NBA draft picks. As a graduate transfer and fifth-year senior, the Minneapolis native represents something rare for coach John Calipari: an All-America-caliber player with a few years of experience.
"The biggest thing is he obviously wants me to come in and lead," Travis said about Calipari. "Going against the best players in the country every day in practice also just ups your level of play."
Travis is adding skills to boost his NBA stock, especially after not being invited to the predraft combine in Chicago in May.
"Calipari wants me to move better and be more athletic," Travis said. "Be able to catch lobs and be able to guard multiple positions. Hit an open shot when a defender backs off. … Be a more versatile player."
James Crisp, Associated Press
Reid Travis never played in an NCAA tournament at Stanford, but the graduate transfer now hopes to help Kentucky make its way to Minneapolis.
The former DeLaSalle standout got used to winning titles in high school with three consecutive Class 3A championships. Travis never played in the NCAA tournament at Stanford, but now he'll be dealing with NCAA title expectations with the Wildcats.
Those expectations took a hammering Tuesday night, however. In No. 2 Kentucky's humbling 118-84 loss to No. 4 Duke, Travis was one of the few bright spots, scoring 22 points and grabbing seven rebounds. Still, many will predict the Wildcats will reach the 2019 Final Four in Minneapolis.
"I love Minneapolis and I love Minnesota," Travis said. "That's always going to be home for me. Hopefully, I'm back for the Final Four. I think that's naive to say you don't think about it and you don't know it's in your hometown. For me, that would be a cool experience and something I can share with my family, but that's not on my mind every day when I'm working. The biggest thing is setting goals throughout the season you can attain, and knowing if you accomplish the things we're supposed to, everything will work itself out."
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Emily Lakdawalla • December 13, 2007
Planetary Report erratum
This is just a note to those of you who are members, who should now be receiving your November/December issue of The Planetary Report. It contains a "Year in Pictures" article I wrote, which I hope you enjoy. Unfortunately, though, insufficient communication among myself, the editors, and our designer resulted in the wrong image being printed for one of the selections -- I enthuse for several paragraphs about the amazing mosaic assembled by the Cassini RADAR team of the north pole of Titan, but the image shows just one swath near the south pole. I'm really sorry about that mistake -- not just to you readers but also to the RADAR team, who were looking forward to seeing the mosaic printed in The Planetary Report. The correct image will be printed in the next issue, but in the meantime, below is the image that you should have seen.
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Cassini RADAR view of Titan's north pole, October 2007
This mosaic is composed of all synthetic-aperture-radar maps of Titan's polar regions acquired by Cassini to date. It has been cropped and reduced in size by 50% from an even larger mosaic available here (JPEG format, 10 MB). Approximately 60 percent of Titan's northern polar region (poleward of 60 degrees north latitude) has been mapped as of October 2007, and of this area, about 14% appears to be covered with hydrocarbon lakes. The lakes appear dark in this image because the smooth, liquid surfaces reflect the radio waves away from Cassini. (If Cassini's radar were pointed straight down, it would see a bright specular reflection from the mirror-like surface, but when it captures data for synthetic aperture radar images, the radio beam is always pointed to the side, so lakes will always appear black in these kinds of images.) The image is a polar projection, with zero longitude (the sub-Saturnian hemisphere) toward the bottom. The leading hemisphere (centered at 90 degrees W) is to the left, and the trailing hemisphere (centered at 270 degrees W) is to the right. The largest lakes are clustered in an area on Titan's trailing hemisphere.
For those of you who aren't members, don't worry, my annual Year in Pictures feature, with 20 key images from this year, will be posted on December 26. (If you want to see my choices for past years, check out 2006 and 2005.)
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Jerry Hall (Gonzáles, Texas; 2 de julio de 1956) es una modelo y actriz estadounidense.

Vida y carrera
Su padre (John P. Hall) era camionero y su madre (Marjorie) era bibliotecaria. Jerry tiene una hermana gemela (que trabaja en el mercado inmobiliario) y tres hermanos mayores, una de las cuales es actriz. La familia tiene orígenes irlandeses, ingleses, neerlandeses y cheroquis.

Creció en Mesquite, un suburbio a las afueras de Dallas; se graduó en una escuela local y acudía también a la agencia de modelos Kim Dawson Modelling Agency.

Inicios como modelo
Siendo muy joven, Jerry sufrió un accidente de automóvil y percibió una indemnización, con la cual compró vestidos en la cadena de moda Frederick's of Hollywood y hacia 1972 se trasladó a Francia.

Fue descubierta por el agente Claude Haddad mientras tomaba el sol en Saint Tropez. Se mudó a París, donde compartió un piso con Grace Jones y Jessica Lange, quienes en aquella época trabajaban como modelos. En varias ocasiones colaboró con Grace Jones en atrevidas actuaciones de cabaret.

Poco después Jerry Hall conoció al ilustrador de moda Antonio López, originario de Puerto Rico, y ello le facilitó sus primeros trabajos como modelo. En 1975 apareció en la portada del álbum Siren de Roxy Music y poco después el líder del grupo, Bryan Ferry, quedó prendado de ella y le regaló un anillo de compromiso. No llegaron a casarse y dos años después ella inició una publicitada relación con Mick Jagger.

Modelo millonaria
Ya para 1977 Jerry Hall era famosa internacionalmente, habiendo protagonizado 40 portadas de revistas como Vogue y Cosmopolitan; su sueldo por día de trabajo llegaba a los 1000 dólares, cifra considerable para la época. Su exuberante melena rubia y gran estatura (1,83) la convirtieron en una de las modelos más notorias y fotografiadas. Amasó tal fortuna personal, que se compró un rancho de 8,1 kilómetros cuadrados en Lone Oak (Texas).

A edad madura ha seguido siendo una modelo cotizada y cumplidos los 40 años seguía desfilando para Thierry Mugler. A lo largo de su carrera ha posado para artistas contemporáneos como Francesco Clemente, Ed Ruscha y Lucian Freud.

Trabajos en teatro, cine y televisión
En 1990 se unió a otros invitados para la masiva presentación de The Wall de Roger Waters en Berlín.

Hall fue una de las nueve jueces de los Whitbread Awards de 1999 y estuvo del lado de la mayoría en una disputada votación de 5-4 para premiar como libro del año a la traducción de Seamus Heaney de Beowulf en lugar de Harry Potter y el Prisionero de Azkaban de J.K. Rowling.

A comienzos de 2000 protagonizó en teatro el papel de la señora Robinson en la obra El Graduado, el papel incluía un desnudo en el escenario (el cual horrorizó a la madre de Hall).

En 2005, Jerry Hall protagonizó un reality del canal musical VH1 llamado Kept, el cual giraba en torno a la búsqueda de un casanova. En este show 12 hombres de Estados Unidos se debían transformar de tíos a caballeros refinados a través de una serie de retos, y del dominio de habilidades básicas. El concursante de 34 años llamado Seth ganó el codiciado título del hombre Kept de Jerry Hall.

Además, aparece en Batman (1989) en el papel de Alicia, amante del Joker, al cual éste le deforma su rostro con uno de sus químicos.

Vida privada
Jerry y Mick Jagger se casaron en Bali en noviembre de 1990, y durante su relación tuvieron cuatro hijos (Elizabeth, James, Georgia y Gabriel); pero la validez legal del matrimonio ha sido desde entonces cuestionada. Su matrimonio con Jagger fue anulado en 1999.

Jerry comenzó un romance secreto con Jagger cuando estaba comprometida con Bryan Ferry. Como resultado de esto, Ferry escribió varias canciones como "Kiss and Tell" y "Cry, Cry, Cry". Algunos creen que el álbum de Ferry The Bride Stripped Bare fue un documental de los sentimientos que el cantante tenía por su ruptura con Hall.

Ella ha escrito su autobiografía, titulada Jerry Hall's Tall Tales, publicada en 1985. En este libro describe su juventud en Mesquite, Texas. También relata sus experiencias como joven modelo, viviendo una fabulosa vida en París.

El 5 de marzo de 2016 contrajo matrimonio en Londres con el octogenario magnate australiano Rupert Murdoch.

El 22 de Junio del 2022, se divorció de Murdoch, por diferencias.

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Les ICE 1 sont la première génération d'InterCityExpress de la Deutsche Bahn. Il s'agit de rames automotrices électriques, mises en service à partir de 1989.

Historique

Les ICE 1 produits à 90 exemplaires sont composés de 2 motrices encadrant 10 à 14 voitures (longueur 26,4 mètres), fournies par le groupement AEG, ABB, Duewag, Siemens, Krauss-Maffei, Krupp, Thyssen – Henschel, LHB et MBB. Cette première génération a été conçue pour rouler à 280 km/h, l'ICE1 dispose de 4800 kW dans chacune de ses motrices.

En 2005, la DB a rénové les ICE 1 et a généralisé la composition avec 12 voitures intermédiaires. En 2018, la DB décide de moderniser et raccourcir 58 des 90 rames à 9 voitures intermédiaires. La désignation de ces compositions pour la DB est "ACE 1 LDV" (Lebensdauerverlängerung) et leur durée de vie est ainsi prolongée jusqu'en 2030. Les coûts de ces rénovations prévues jusqu'en 2024 est de 320 millions d'Euros. Les motrices sont équipées du système européen ETCS niveau 3.

Liaisons avec la Suisse
Le premier ICE 1 a débuté le service commercial en . 19 rames ont été adaptées pour les systèmes de signalisation de Suisse (et des archets de pantographes de 1,65 m au lieu de 1,90 m) et 10 pour l'Autriche. Les séries 401 en service en Suisse ont été remplacées le  sur toutes les relations Allemagne - Suisse par des ICE 4, série 412.

Références

Voir aussi

Liens internes

 InterCityExperimental
 Intercity-Express
 Record de vitesse sur rail ()
 ICE 2
 ICE 3
 Velaro
 LGV Est européenne
 Magistrale européenne

Liens externes
 Page d'information d'ICE 1

ICE
Automotrice d'Allemagne
Automotrice 15 kV
Train à grande vitesse Siemens


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