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Hasanabad (, also Romanized as Ḩasanābād; also known as Ḩoseynābād and Qanāt-e Ḩājjī Ḩasan) is a village in Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Dashtestan County, Bushehr Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 67, in 11 families.

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Populated places in Dashtestan County


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Q: Matrix of a restriction of a quadratic form Given a symmetric matrix $M$ and its associated quadratic form $Q : \mathbb{R}^n\times\mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is there an obvious way to write down a matrix of the quadratic form $Q|_{U}$, the restriction of $Q$ to $U$ which is a subspace, for example a hyperplane, of the original space $\mathbb{R}^n$?

A: If $B$ is a matrix whose columns form a basis for the subspace $U$, then
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is the matrix of the quadratic form relative to this basis. For an example and a detailed explanation of why this is the case, see my post here.

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anyone interested in learning me and a friend on this area? I wanna see what its like.
Look for people running it. They generally know what they're doing. I've had very good experiences, overall, with this quest.
When the quest starts, don't kill anything. Stay close to the leader so you don't get lost.
Once inside, again - stay close to the main group. Tempest requires a lot of backtracking. It's easy to get lost.
At the end battle, remove your feather fall gear.
Thanks for the tip man, I got into a group running it lastnight and it was poorly implemented as a group. the few that actually knew the area well didnt have group management skills,and we had a few jackasses that pulled all the dam giants. needless to say i hope thats not common. I can make it past the elementals ;) My brother says he finds good groups for this run alot so I am hopeful. hopefully tonight I can find some runs.
we did it on elite in 38 min w/ only 1 death! all were lvl 10-12.
i'd be happy to run with all or any of you again!!!
I also have several guildies that would join up with us.
Ranged only kiting ranger hate mostly.
Seen a lot of them the last month or so.
Background: My second time in the Tempest Spine raid. The end boss is on a ledge with a huge drop all the way back to the beginning of the quest, and he can throw you off the cliff. That happened to me the first time I was there and it took me over an hour to get back to grab my end loot.
I wait for the puzzle to be solved for me to be able to insert the three runes to drop the buffs on the boss, who everyone is fighting on the ledge. My baby starts crying in the next room, and seems wife is not around. The finishing of a raid is only a minute away, I can't leave the computer now!
I decide that the only way to save the raid is to run back up. Other people are still fighting, and they think that there is a small possibility to take down the boss even while he still has the buffs. So, they keep on fighting and I try to find my way back up, not at all sure if I even can do it without getting lost.
I do manage to get up without losing too much time running to dead ends. Almost everyone has died, a few are still fighting and the boss is maybe at half health. I proceed to insert the last rune. The giant boss knocks me down, twice, when trying to insert it. Finally it succeeds and the buffs are off. But he is still strong, we have no healers left and there are maybe two others still standing. No other melees survived.
I attack the giant, doing a fair amount of damage, but getting hit pretty bad. The boss hits me unconscious, but I'm able to revive (I think someone hit me with a health effect, but not sure). I attack it again, but he hits me with his throwing strike and I'm sent flying through the air. I think its finally over for me.
But, I find myself standing on a top of a railing on the edge of the cliff - I did not fall off after all! I jump back down and manage to kill the boss with no health line left at all. Phuuuuh.
Then I still need to pick up a huge pile of stones and run them to the shrine, since no others seem up to the task. Wife returns and scolds me for keeping the baby crying. I go afk after getting the stones to a shrine and apologizing about all the hardships again. I don't hear whether they still yell at me, but I'm glad everything turned out ok for the raid.
I try to explain to wife that I could not ruin the last hours' quest for 11 other people, and that I needed to finish before comforting the baby. But she won't understand, of course. What could I have done?
PS: have to add that the baby was just crying because he woke up in his bed alone, so I knew he was not hurt or anything, just so you don't think I'm a horrible person.
Heh, I know the feeling I have little ones too.Dont worry wifey will get over it.
I've run this a lot on several different characters. Out of tons of runs I've only seen 3 really bad ones - so IMO it's pretty rare and you should be able to find good groups pretty consistently.
Yep, ive run this a million time now, know it like the back of my hand, still plenty of tards that run it,which is why I play in GH with my guildies. Tempest is cool for a little bit,but it really isnt all that fantastic once you get to higher areas. I just use it now to get my mid lvl guys some xp until i get them to GH and what not. When I have time to waste and am looking for some easy fun I run tempest. My ranger can pretty much solo it at this point,not much of a challenge.
Tempest has a distinct disadvantages in it. It's complex, requires teamwork, and is low enough it level most people still don't know how to use a mouse to game with. I jest on the last one, but only a little. A few tips though.
If you are standing in a hallway and see either spinning blades of death or poison. Don't run into them. You would think this is a no brainer but even after telling people to stay there over half the party every time dashes into the poison. Needless to say I skipped taking neutralize poison as an excuse for that very reason. Anyway, the creatures on the other side will turn off the traps before running into the hallway. For the blades one shoot the blackguard on the other side, for the poison one let a WF or higher level Monk, or anyone else with immunity to poison run down and lure. Also the "trap" with the flaming pilers of fire after you run up the mountain outside should never be disabled, it summons fire elementals if you do. The only other note on traps I can think of is the bridge to the inevitable. Again don't run into the acid that kills you, let a poison immune run though the poison traps to lower the bridge or just disable the trap.
One lures the ice reaver down and the party kills and all attack the fire. Seems simple? Nope. To lure you need to know where you're going and have deathward, also PoE & FoM might block dancing, idk. The know where to go part is where most people fail. Just because you in a swarm of 11 other people could drop a giant without taking damage doesn't mean you can endlessly run the halls soloing multiple spellcasting giants and a death spell spamming ice reaver. Expect to spend 20 minutes in here with an incompetent party. To answer your question about the why, fire and ice both have to be killed within 15 second of each other or they respawn. The run to ice is too long to lure fire and most parties are simply too weak to handle being split into two and too incordinated to time killing both monsters.
Lack water breathing? Say something. Wizard is clear on the other side and you whined? Wait a minute, no one is in a hurry to run clear back just to help someone who didn't stand near the caster when WB was cast. This is the 3rd quit point btw. Either people throw a fit and leave after drowning in lava, failing not to run into more lava or they ran off in the wrong direction in fire & ice and lastly drowning here. Quitting will happen at those three points. don't worry, the party is better off without them.
You stand next to the hole and move your view around so you can right click on the beholder. Move closer to the edge and FW it then move back out of sight. Beholder dies, everyone is happy.
No matter how much effort you spend saying the boss is buffed, you won't do much blah blah blah people still run in before the puzzle is completed. Just tell them the boss is invincible until the puzzle is completed and stress the point of him blowing you off forcing you to run all the way up by your self. You'll still get people dumb enough to run in but most of the time the fear of having to run all the way up when they don't know where to go is enough to keep them out. Anyway, the tactic there requires 2~3 people. The tank, who draws aggro of the boss and the reaver in there, the puzzle solver/rune dropper, and the healer who keeps the tank alive. Once the puzzle is solved and the runes are in the rest of the party can come in. FoM, Resist to both Electricity and Sonic are required for all. Barkskin/Blur/Ironskin Chant for the Tank recommended.
You absolutely need a wizard, a healer, and a tank. The wizard can prep knock for the two locked doors and as mentioned in the trap tips, you don't really need to disable anything unless you want the XP bonus. Also there are 18+ str levers and 18+ int runes to use. For your remaining slots I'd recommend a rogue for the trap disable bonus, a bard for ironskin chant and the SP reducing song, a ranger for barkskin, a light pathed monk for his SP booster and the fire combo's +2 to all bonus, second or third healer and the rest is DPS filling. You have 12 slots so post and LFG and enjoy the run. Theres some really good wealth to nab and the XP is great too. The only other f2p quest around this level that gives that much XP is the Pit, another fun quest to try out.
Yup ... we had no one leading and if it weren't for you and I knowing what to do it would have been worse. I stayed quiet until the end and thought if I don't highjack the run and make a plan for the end it will take another 20 minutes.


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Ms. Guay earned her Bachelor of Applied Sciences in Geological Engineering from Université Laval and her Masters in Environmental Management from Université de Sherbrooke. She also earned an advanced executive certificate in general management from Queen's School of Business.
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01 May 2019, 10:33am
25 years on, bhaji on the beach is still essential viewing for british asians
This cult 1993 film, from the director of 'Bend It Like Beckham', was groundbreaking in its depiction of domestic violence, racism and the life of young British Indian women.
For those of us who are British Asian in our twenties or thirties, our earliest memories of being represented on TV likely involve references to a group of Asian lads 'going for an English' courtesy of late 90s BBC sketch show Goodness Gracious Me. Our first memory of a British Asian woman rejecting stereotypes may well have come with M.I.A's Bucky Done Gun in 2005. But in 1993, Gurinder Chadha (who later directed Bend it like Beckham) had already set the pace and smashed the template for British Asian female representation when she brought the "double yoke of racism and sexism" to the British big screen in Bhaji on the Beach, a film that showed the experiences of female British Asians in a way that hadn't been done before.
The film, written by Meera Syal, follows a troop of British Punjabi women of all classes, ages and backgrounds on a daytrip to Blackpool. It explores interracial relationships, domestic violence and anti-blackness, presenting all these issues through the lens of intergenerational conflict. There is tension between the older, more conservative and traditional 'aunties' and the younger members of the community, who are struggling to balance the freedoms of British society with the social pressures put on them by the aunties.
Immigrants sometimes have to splinter and separate their existence between two cultures. In one scene at a fairground, for example, the youngest members of the group, Ladhu and Madhu, get their kicks by flirting with the local white boys, much to the aunties' disapproval. Asha, a religious married older woman, hits it off with an eccentric, white British artist. However she is tied to traditional notions of honour, and feels she must stay in her marriage regardless of her feelings. Ginder is a young woman married to an abusive husband and is subjected to victim blaming by the older members of the group, who question what she must have done to make her husband to abuse her. Their beliefs uphold patriarchal power structures, despite the fact that they're victims of those structures too.
Of course, while these issues are by no means exclusive to the British Asian community, they certainly haven't disappeared from it in the years since the film came out either. Domestic abuse in the British Asian community is a complicated issue, but holding victims responsible for their own abuse still happens today. In the last few weeks, Sri Lanka-born Packiam Ramanathan was jailed for manslaughter, beating her husband to death after years of emotional and physical abuse. She'd repeatedly tried to go back to Sri Lanka to escape the abuse and stay with her family, but was pressured into looking after her wheelchair-bound husband. There's still an overwhelming pressure for Asian women to be loyal to their husbands, with no consideration for their own wellbeing. The case mirrors that of Kiranjit Ahluwahlia, who famously set fire to her husband after 10 years of abuse 40 years ago, and is an urgent reminder that British society is still in need of more organisations like Southall Black Sisters and Imkaan, both of which address gender-related violence against women of colour and provide support, resources and advocacy for those affected.
At the time of Bhaji on the Beach, there was a propensity for many of the organisations supporting women of colour to lump the Black and Asian community together under the umbrella term "politically black". Political blackness was the idea of a shared struggle against whiteness for people of colour in the UK, which makes us all "black" — an idea which often erased the identity of Asians, and ignored anti-black sentiment in the British Asian community. While in 1993 political blackness was still fairly in vogue — although admittedly beginning to fall out of favour — Bhaji on the Beach presented a nuanced representation of relations between the black and Asian communities that looks remarkably similar to those today.
This is explored in the film through the character of Hashida, a budding artist who is due to start medical school, who finds herself pregnant by her British Caribbean boyfriend Oliver. Despite having kept her relationship quiet from her parents for a year already, Hasida's secret is uncovered when, in the fairground toilets in Blackpool, she tells Ladhu and Madhu, not realising that the eldest, most conservative member of the group, Pushpa, has overheard everything. It's striking that Pushpa is more distressed by the fact that the father is black than she is by the fact that Hashida is pregnant at all, showing how deep the anti-black sentiment in British Asian communities runs.
Hashida and Oliver also experience difficulty with Oliver's friend Joe. While he had been supportive of their relationship to begin with, mainly because Hashida wasn't white, upon learning of the pregnancy, Joe rejects any sense of political blackness. Clearly, to begin with Joe felt that the struggle against whiteness was more important than the struggle for individual black or Asian rights. Yet having seen what Oliver had gone through to hide the relationship from the British Asian community, Joe's change of opinion reminds us that, as people of colour, just positioning yourself in relation to non-whiteness erases your own identity and reinforces the power of whiteness. When he says to Oliver, "Black don't mean 'not white' anymore. Forget the melting pot and respect the differences. But that's what's missing between us and them — respect," he's highlighting the disparity within the concept of political blackness. In refusing to minimise the anti-blackness in the British South Asian community, Bhaji on the Beach is far ahead of its time, highlighting an element of the British South Asian community some still ignore or even reinforce today.
Bhaji on the Beach is a film which seems to have been unfairly forgotten against the backdrop of male-centred British South Asian films like East is East and Four Lions. A film made by and featuring British South Asian women that passes the Bechdel test was both nearly unthinkable and revolutionary in 1993. While some of the themes the film deals with, like the idea of living a 'double life', have now become cliche in British Asian representation, it's because of directors like Chadha and writers like Syal that these stories have been able to be told at all. Bend it like Beckham may have its place in British film history cemented, but Chadha began to pave the path for British Asian women when she made Bhaji on the Beach — and it's still a fundamental film in the history of British Asian female representation that all young British Asians should see.
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The costs of bad hiring decisions can sneak up on an organization and ambush profits, competitiveness and market share, not to mention affect employee retention and morale. It's no secret that costs increase when the same hiring errors are made repeatedly. Although we hope to learn from our mistakes, unfortunately that's not always the case. When it comes to bad hiring decisions, the cost to replace a misfit can be astronomical. How confident are you in your selection process? Are you tired of fighting for good people? Is your team's performance a casualty of high turnover? Are you disappointed when what appears to be a good hire becomes a discontented troublemaker? Are you facing a labor shortage, or could it be you're facing a shortage of skills?
You become a valuable contributor to the corporate balance sheet by hiring quality people the first time. If you control the costs of a bad hiring decision, you can impact the bottom line in your organization. Mistakes go beyond losing the services of one person. There are administrative expenses and indirect costs to the business, including diminished productivity in the weeks before the employee leaves. Increased workloads, and the disruption in operational flow for the people who remain, reduce the effectiveness of everyone.
In preparing for the interview, decide what you want to know. Ask each candidate the same or similar questions. It's much easier to compare candidates if you measure everyone against the same criteria. If you develop your questions before the interview, based on the information you need to know, you can increase your confidence. It's true that you'll probe for additional information based on individual responses, but you'll still initially ask each candidate the same or similar questions.
Give me two examples of things you've done in previous jobs that demonstrate your willingness to work hard.
What could your past employers count on you for without fail?
Tell me about the last time you lost your temper at work.
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Megan Parlen (* 9. Juli 1980 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) ist eine US-amerikanische Filmschauspielerin.

Drei Jahre in Folge, zwischen 1997 und 1999 gewann Parlen den Young Artist Award für ihre Darstellung in der Sitcom Hang Time.

Filmografie

Filme
 1987: Krach um Bobo (Walk Like a Man)
 1990: Sisters (Fernsehfilm)
 1991: My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
 1991: Snoopy's Familientreffen (Snoopy's Reunion, Kurzfilm, Sprechrolle)
 1995: Ein Engel für Sam (Dad, the Angel & Me, Fernsehfilm)
 1995: Attack of the Killer B–Movies (Fernsehfilm)
 2003: Elysium (Sprechrolle)

Fernsehserien
 1989: Hardball (eine Folge)
 1990: Shannon's Deal (eine Folge)
 1990: L.A. Law – Staranwälte, Tricks, Prozesse (L.A. Law, eine Folge)
 1992: Raumschiff Enterprise: Das nächste Jahrhundert (Star Trek: The Next Generation, eine Folge)
 1993: Das Leben und ich (Boy Meets World, eine Folge)
 1994: Superman – Die Abenteuer von Lois & Clark (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, eine Folge)
 1995–2000: Hang Time (104 Folgen)
 1996: Saved by the Bell: The New Class (eine Folge)
 1997: Diesmal für immer (Something So Right, zwei Folgen)

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This week at T-Hugger: The environment is destroyed thanks to fools who turn up the heat and open the windows at the same time. Mr. T has no pity for those fools. Get a brain, suckas. Protect yo environment. Buy hybrid cars! Recycle! Drink your milk. Do your homework. Stay away from drugs. Uuuuuuugggh.
This week at TreeHugger: Osram shouts 'victory' with a warm white OLED breakthrough (efficiency of 46 lm/Watt!). Spain broke wind power records last week with 40.8% of total electricity demand. Thin-film solar is coming of age with a new efficiency record of 19.9%, and California wants to turn big-box stores into solar power plants.
Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) are very promising. They are more efficient than incandescents without the downsides of CFLs (fragility, mercury), and they have the potential to become less expensive than regular LEDs. Osram announced a breakthrough with the production of a warm white OLEDs with an efficiency of 46 lm/W and a life of more than 5000 hours at a brightness of 1000 cd/m2. That's close to the efficiency of fluorescent lamps, and more than twice that of incandescent lamps.
The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has created thin film solar panels that are very close to competing with their more traditional silicon-based cousins. "The copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cell recently reached 19.9 percent efficiency in testing at the lab, setting a new world record."
Southern California Edison (SCE) wants to build a 250-megawatt solar farm with a twist: It will be distributed among many commercial rooftops, starting with southern California's Inland Empire, San Bernardino and Riverside counties. They are planning to install 1 megawatt per week starting in August. Once the project is finished, it will take up 65,000,000 square feet of roofs that would otherwise be unused and produce enough clean energy to supply about 162,000 homes.


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Faith (18+)
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Gabriel Project (3)
Home (202+)
Homeschool Ministry (5)
Knights of Columbus (4+)
Ladies Auxiliary (1+)
Legion of Mary (3+)
Liturgy (2+)
Men's Mornings of Recollection (3+)
Ministries (33+)
Music Ministry (5+)
News & Events (71+)
Prayer Shawl Ministry (3+)
Project Rachel (1+)
Purgatory Society (1+)
RCIA (23+)
Religious Education (123+)
Sacramental Reservations (106+)
Separated and Divorced (1+)
Trail Life (2+)
Saturday, January 28, 2023, 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Joyful Child Atrium
Fellowship Hall - Theresa Schlenz
Saturday, January 28, 2023, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sunday, January 29, 2023, 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Blessings for Expectant Families
Fellowship Hall after the 9:00am and 10:45am Masses
Tuesday, January 31, 2023, 7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Men's Bible Study - Robert D'Orso
Children Choir
Church Mezzanine
Family Choir
Thursday, February 2, 2023, 3:00 PM - 11:59 PM
40 HOURS EUCHARISTIC DEVOTION
Church from 2/2/2023 at 7:00PM - 2/4/2023 at 12:00PM NO Baptisms, Weddings or Funerals
Thursday, February 2, 2023, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Spanish Choir
Friday, February 3, 2023, 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Church from 2/2/2023 at 3:00PM - 2/4/2023 at 2:00PM NO Baptisms, Weddings or Funerals
Saturday, February 4, 2023, 12:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Saturday, February 4, 2023, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Rooms 1 & 2
Sunday, February 5, 2023, 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Donut Sunday
Hospitality/Fellowshiphall
Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Confirmation Parent Meeting
Virtus seminar
Len G / auditorium
Saturday, February 11, 2023, 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Fellowship Hall & Garden Room - Theresa Schlenz
Saturday, February 11, 2023, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sunday, February 12, 2023, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday, February 14, 2023, 7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday, February 16, 2023, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Friday, February 17, 2023, 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Homeschool St. Valentine Party
Auditorium. Event 1-3pm
Saturday, February 18, 2023, 7:30 PM
NO Religious Education Classes Today - President's Day Holiday
Monday, February 20, 2023, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Separated and Divorced Ministry
Garden Room / Elizabeth McGuirk
NO Religious Education Classes Today
NO Religious Education Classes Today - Ash Wednesday
Friday, February 24, 2023, 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Lenten Meatless Meals
Hospitality / Auditorium
NET Confirmation Retreat
Parish Center Auditorium and All Classrooms
Saturday, February 25, 2023, 9:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Iris Pollock - Spiritual Direction
Saturday, February 25, 2023, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Sunday, February 26, 2023, 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM


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Josh Hurley to Debut New Fortis Watches Audi S4 at Mid Ohio
New Audi S4 Tests at Auburn Airport
APR Motorsport began testing the brand new Audi S4 with Josh Hurley at the helm early last week at Auburn airport. Getting the car ready for this weekend's race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course has been a race against time, and once again the team has delivered. While the test was originally scheduled for a true racing facility, tropical storm Lee had other plans. When the storm had shut down the area's track, APR Motorsport got creative. Using the good will they had developed within their community, the team was able to secure a large portion of the Auburn airport for testing.
Josh Hurley was there to conduct the testing for the team. "I'm really proud of the team for getting the car ready, and for finding a way to test the car despite the storm. It's been a tough time with the previous Audi but we've learned a lot, and that knowledge is evident in the new car," said Josh at the end of the test day.
Last Year at Mid Ohio
Josh Hurley and the Fortis Watches–Perfect Pedal–APR Motorsport crew have had a great history of success at Mid Ohio. However, last year the team suffered an initial setback in qualifying, which forced them to start in 24th position.
After 30 minutes of racing, the team called to have Kevin Stadtlander come into the pits to turn the car over to Josh Hurley. Josh then began to move up the field, and after only 40 minutes, Josh had taken the lead.
Sadly the lead wasn't to last. With only 20 minutes left in the event, a competitor in another class spun just in front of Josh's Fortis Watches-Perfect Pedal-APR Motorsport Volkswagen.
With nowhere to go, Josh stuck the other car, damaging crucial duct work in the front of the car. Despite the damage, Josh was able to nurse the car home to an excellent 2nd position, netting a Hard Charger award for gaining the most positions, as well as leading the most laps.
So with past history on their side, look for Josh Hurley and the entire Fortis Watches-Perfect Pedal-APR Motorsport crew to be challengers throughout the weekend at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington.
If you're in the area make sure you come watch as the Fortis Watches–Perfect Pedal–APR Motorsport team take on the competition in their new Audi S4.
Fortis Watches Official Timepiece of Josh Hurley
Fortis Watches is the official timepiece of Josh Hurley of the APR Motorsport Team for the 2011 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Season. Josh's watch is the limited edition automatic black-dial Fortis Spaceleader.
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The XaXa™ (pronounced "Ksa·Ksa") is designed to stimulate the senses, it's for playful, curious people and kids of all ages.
The adaptable balls invite you to experiment and explore. It comes with a solid core-ball and 2 shells which can be opened and clicked together.
To be filled with whatever you want to hide, add properties (weight, sound) and influence the behaviour of the ball.
Covered and protected by the super-elastic rubber-skin, it provides great tactile and sensoric comfort and response.
Great for rhythmic games, all forms of sensoric/therapeutical work and fun and creative stimulation for kids of all ages.
Approximate Product Dimensions: (W) 7 cm x (L) 7 cm.
"This is really 2 balls in 1 - the inner is made of shock-resistant clear plastic which can be divided in 2 so you can fill it with whatever you like (rice, coins etc - the possibilities are endless) so it makes a nice noise when shaken. The outer is made from a super stretchy elastic-rubber skin which is really tactile and great to hold and stretch. The inner ball can easily be popped in and out of one of the holes of the outer and then you can fill the outer with all sorts of fun stuff. Already a firm favourite in our household!"


In Chamrousse, you will find 10km of footpaths, for the greatest delight of walkers. Take the groomed forest track linking Chamrousse 1650, 1750 and the Arselle Nordic area and enjoy the silence and the view of the Grenoble valley.
In this ideal place for nature lovers, you will meet sledge dogs and cross-country skiers. Our dog friends are admitted if kept on a lead.
At the Nordic area, take the footpath located in the heart of the Arselle plateau and admire the splendour of the Taillefer mountain in a setting worthy of the most beautiful Nordic landscapes.
Our dog friends are welcome to Chamrousse, please keep them on a lead and clean up after them.
Chamrousse 1650 : at the camper van area and on public toilets wall.
Chamrousse 1750 : entrance of Chalets des cimes, Bachat-Bouloud 6-man chairlift, kindergarten chalet (road side).
Chamrousse 1700 : departure of the footpath near the Martinets building.


It's not every day you see a beard-shaped basketball net, but then again, when a company defines its brand promise as "weirdly awesome," nothing should come as a surprise. That quirky character is exactly what candy company Trolli (inventor of the gummy worm) wanted to share with NBA fans on Jan. 20 when it unveiled Beardsketball, a tech-driven basketball experience centered on brand spokesman and Houston Rockets star James Harden, who is known for his eccentric personality and bushy beard.
Harden's relationship with the brand launched in 2016 with traditional TV spots, but in 2017 Trolli is elevating the partnership and the company through experiential to showcase just how weirdly awesome both the brand and the bearded athlete can be. That vision first manifested itself in Houston at the Rockets-Warriors game, where attendees lined up around the concourse to play Beardsketball.
The fan experience began the moment attendees walked through the door of the Toyota Center. After being greeted by the PaTrolli, a group of misfit characters that includes "manicorns" and a cyclops, fans were gifted with pink beards and branded sunglasses to get the momentum started. Further down the concourse, they received a t-shirt and an invitation to step into Harden and Trolli's wacky world with a game of Beardsketball.
Featuring an 80-inch, NBA-sized backboard, the Beardsketball experience gave participants the chance to take on Harden one-on-one thanks to technology that transformed the backboard into a digital screen. From the display, Harden directed fans to take a trick shot, hook shot or shoe shot (take off your shoe and toss it) through a beard-shaped net, then either praised or teased the participant based on their performance. Phrases like "You just made my beard tingle" or "Brick!" were among myriad responses fans could receive while interacting with the digital Harden, who also showcased a number of different gestures and facial expressions to make the experience unique to each participant.
Social media was also a critical part of the activation. Before stepping onto the court, fans tossed on a pair of Snapchat Spectacles, allowing them to capture their individual Beardsketball experience and broadcast it to their followers using #TrolliBBall. Even Harden himself sported a pair of Spectacles while warming up for the game to give virtual fans a glimpse of all the action—and there was plenty of it, from pink beard-wearing attendees enjoying free Trolli candy in the stands to fans lining up well past the end of the game to get a shot at Beardsketball.
"This is the best activation I've ever been involved with—not just from the brand perspective, but from the fans' perspective," says Jill Manchester, svp-brand and marketing strategy at Ferrara Candy Company. "You know that you're onto something when you see that authentic engagement and passion… [Harden] has this passionate fan base, the NBA has this great fan base and we are inserting Trolli into that conversation and it's driving our awareness." Agency: Periscope, Minneapolis, MN.


Shuron eyeglasses are the glasses of the 1950s, popularized in pop culture all the way up until now. Eyeglasses and especially sunglasses make a statement about one's personal style and personality – and no eyeglass frames are as distinctive as the frames Shuron created – and still sell. Of the vintage eyeglass brands ("retro style" glasses), there are only a few popular – Ray Ban and Shuron being the top two.
To this day, Shuron Ronsir is a popular frame as well as Shuron Nusir Bouquet and Shuron Nulady Deluxe for the ladies. It seems like any self-respecting hot rod enthusiast, rockabilly fan, retro pinup, or anyone else who loves classic American culture (and needs glasses!) will wear Shuron prescription glasses.
Shuron glasses are what I wear, and Shuron is what site is about! This is the "unofficial fan site" of Shuron glasses. I'm a fan of vintage glasses in general, but Shuron is (in my opinion) the leader when it comes to classic styled frames. The types of vintage eyeglasses I'm talking about are the ones you think of when you hear the terms "rockabilly", "horn-rimmed", "browline", "G-Man", or "Buddy Holly"-style glasses. The ones that used to be called "nerd glasses". That might have been true at one time, but they're not nerdy anymore!
I've written about vintage glasses on this site, and feature some of the the vintage-style Shuron glasses that are still in production. I also talk about other aspects of retro style and vintage items in some of the other articles, which I hope you enjoy. So please stick around, send me your questions and comments, and most of all – enjoy your visit!
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Hannah BILVERSTONE
BIRTH: 1806 [1079]
CHRISTENING: 16 Apr 1806, Great Cressingham, Norfolk [1080]
Father: Robert BILVERSTONE
Mother: Jemima NEWTON
Family 1 : Samuel GOOCH
MARRIAGE: 05 Nov 1832, Great Cressingham, Norfolk [10719]
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|_Jemima NEWTON ______|
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[1079] Source: Approximate year of birth only, assumed from christening date
[1080] Source: Baptism register. Information supplied by Brian Mayes
[10719] Source: Marriage register. Information supplied by Brian Mayes
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Robert George ENNEVER
BIRTH: 1882, Poplar Registration District, Middlesex [9569]
DEATH: 1940, Romford Registration District, Essex [9570]
Family 1 : Emily Sarah PRACY
MARRIAGE: 1920, West Ham Registration District, Essex [11692]
[9569] Source: Approximate year of birth only, calculated from age at death (58 in 1940). In the online GRO births index at FreeBMD.org.uk, must be..... "Mar 1882, Robert George ENNEVER, Poplar, 1c 673"
[9570] Source: Online GRO deaths index at Ancestry.co.uk..... "Mar 1940, Robert G ENNEVER, 58, Romford, 4a 1113"
[11692] Source: Online GRO marriage index at FreeBMD.org.uk,.... "Dec 1920, Robert G ENNEVER & Emily S SEARL, West Ham, 4a 650". Robert George & Emily Sarah ENNEVER had four children.
Thomas Henry HOMER
BIRTH: 1871, Shoreditch, Middlesex [10403]
Father: Thomas HOMER
Mother: Alice WITT
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[10403] Source: Online GRO births index..... "Jun 1871, Thomas Henry HOMER, WITT, Shoreditch, 1c 115".
Approximate year of birth calculated from:
1881 census of Shoreditch, Middlesex - aged 10, born Middx. Shoreditch


After World War I, replacement capital ships for the German Navy were limited to 10,000 tons and 280 mm guns. Admiral Graf Spee cost 82 million Reichsmark to build and much weight was saved by using electric arc welding instead of rivets. Admiral Graf Spee was launched in 1934.She and her two sisters, Deutschland (later renamed Lutzow) and Admiral Scheer, were frequently referred to as pocket battleships by the British. She is considered one of the most famous German warships. A year after her loss, her sisters were reclassified as heavy cruisers.


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Earlier in the week, I got an email from EFF about their Tor Challenge. I had looked at Tor some time ago, but it seemed like a hassle to use. But, I am a support of EFF, and not just because I had lots of ReplayTVs and now a few TiVos.
So, I decided to take another look at Tor....I had started worrying about my privacy with some of my online activities, and I do support various human rights issues, etc.
The challenge called for setting up a relay. So, I continued looking and what I needed to do to make it do that. ORPort prefers to be either 9001 or 443...well, wouldn't go on 9001 on Orac, it conflicted with another service that I'm already running. So, it would have to go on a different port.
It defaults to going with exit relay, and I decided to go ahead...but use the 'reduced exit relay' policy. To see how that would work.
I set bandwidth and transfer limits on things....but first instance on the 'Orac' actually hit the limit, which made it hard to night surf for my own reasons. And, while I was on the torproject site, I decided to take a look at Orbot for both my Android phone and my Android tablet. And, I suppose I'll want to run it on my laptop.
One problem I seemed to have is that I couldn't get tor to work locally on my android phone on wifi, but it worked on 3g. I figured its some kind of conflict with the tor network seeing the relay at the same IP. Though later it started working, maybe that was the relay went into hibernation. I did set up 'Orac' as a central proxy for everything at home. Strange that when I think of private surfing I tend to use my DSL and general surfing on Cox. I had gone with default gateway on 'Orac'...so it was going Cox.
With everything seeming to work well, I opted to set up another instance of 'box' to use my other Internet connection. That didn't go as well, because the ISP blocks a lot more inbound connections than the other. But, I got it working. And, I poked around some sites here and there before calling it a night.
There are 18 years 8 months 26 days 17 hours 19 minutes and 57 seconds until the end of time.
And, it has been 6 years 4 months 20 hours 42 minutes and 59 seconds since The Doctor saved us all from the end of the World!


MyYahoo!, MyCNN, MyBookmarks, MyThis and MyThat. Internet users have demanded a personal face to the World Wide Web, and Web portals and information providers have responded. Why not MyLibrary? The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) has defined MyLibrary-like services as the number one trend "worth keeping an eye on". "Library users who are Web users, a growing group," the experts agree, "expect customization, interactivity, and customer support. Approaches that are library-focused instead of user-focused will be increasingly irrelevant."
In response to the needs of web-savvy patrons, the Cornell University Library (CUL) implemented a MyLibrary service this year, making finding and using library resources easier than ever. MyLibrary  is an "umbrella" service for two new products: MyLinks and MyUpdates. Other products are in development.
MyLibrary�s MyLinks is a tool for collecting and organizing resources for private use by a patron. These resources may or may not be "official" Cornell University Library resources. Our patrons best understand this service as a "traveling set of bookmarks". Most patrons of the library use a variety of machines to access Internet resources. For example, you may have a computer at home and one at work. Why should you create your bookmarks twice, or carry around a diskette containing your bookmarks? Students who rely on lab computers never know which machine they will use next. With MyLinks, a patron�s favorite sites are just a click away from any machine.
MyLibrary�s MyUpdates helps scholars stay informed of new resources provided by the library. In the past, Cornell University, with its 19 major library units, has addressed this problem by creating accession lists for individual departments. But such lists are cumbersome for library staff to produce, and they can only serve a small number of patrons.
By contrast, MyUpdates periodically queries the on-line catalog to determine which resources are new. If the new resources match the pre-identified needs of a patron, the system notifies the patron. Patrons no longer need to search the on-line catalog regularly to be aware of new resources. MyUpdates searches the on-line catalog for patrons and e-mails the results to them automatically.
The current release of MyLibrary is just the first step towards offering numerous personalized services to Cornell University students, faculty, and staff. The library has invested a lot of time and resources into making MyLibrary a reality. Why is the library doing this when there are commercial sites providing similar services?
Why not use a commercially available site?
What distinguishes commercial, personalized online services from MyLibrary is their inability to meet the research needs of their users. MyYahoo! is not a library-centric service, nor is it likely ever to become one. It caters to the casual Web user�s needs for general information, such as the day�s headlines and local weather, but is unable to feed a user�s knowledge-seeking desires. Moreover, it does so without finesse. It is quite simple to find the closing stock price for Amazon.com and add that figure to a web page. It is far more difficult to suggest to a user quality reference sources that discuss the reasons behind Amazon�s rise to the apex of online specialty retailing. MyLibrary has the potential to be an academic�s primary knowledge-based web space as he or she follows a research path (or, indeed, simultaneous research paths) for many months or even several years. The proposed enhancements discussed elsewhere in this paper detail many of the research-oriented "add-ins" we believe will cause library patrons to rely on MyLibrary as a primary research tool.
Why did Cornell develop MyLibrary?
The acute need for a MyLibrary model at Cornell was recognized after patrons requested solutions for information excess. Just as the number of pages on the World Wide Web is ever increasing, so too is the range of resources in the 19 Cornell libraries; we became concerned with the possibility that the scholars in our community were becoming lost in a plethora of information.
In 1998, Cornell librarians Karen Calhoun and Zsuzsa Koltay conducted a focus group study to gauge library patron use of and satisfaction with the Cornell University Library Gateway . The Library Gateway  is Cornell University Library�s Web presence. The Gateway offers an array of information and online services, including a selection of 2,000 networked resources.
"Add new features to the Gateway such as "What�s New", hot topics, favorite databases, and subject guides."
The study�s findings prompted the Cornell University Library to devise a technological tool that would simultaneously fulfill as many of the above recommendations as possible. In so doing, MyLibrary has developed into a hybrid of the commercial personal portal and Cornell�s own Gateway.
Implementing MyLibrary also furthers CUL�s goal to "provide outstanding service to the university in support of Cornell�s information needs by integrating traditional and digital resources and services" . The traditional services that librarians have always provided include the selection, organization, and provision of enhanced access to useful information. In the past, libraries owned all of the resources in their collections, and patrons would need to physically visit the library to use its materials. Today, however, libraries are competing with other information sources (such as the Internet), and they are also making their own collections available to the public using digital technologies. Now patrons may be predominantly virtual users of resources, and as a result, many public service discussions revolve around how to ensure that patrons will continue to patronize physical libraries. MyLibrary is one strategic way to keep people coming to the library by providing a service that supports Cornell�s information needs. The MyLibrary model accepts the reality that people are finding information on the Internet and provides a way to integrate these "other" resources with the Library resources that have been evaluated and selected by librarians. Proposed MyLibrary enhancements will encourage use of the physical Cornell Library collection (via MyUpdates, for example) while also providing easier access to our digital holdings.
Current library literature and presentations at library conferences discuss how librarians can better market themselves to convey the valuable services that they provide. MyLibrary "allows for incredibly detailed targeted marketing of [the] library�s staff, services and resources based on such factors as patron�s unique interests, the types of sources they use most, their academic major, or any other factor that seems relevant" . The librarian can learn of a patron�s interests and then forward to him/her suggested targeted resources, thereby launching the library into the world of "push" technology. We need to be proactive rather than reactive if we do not want to lose our patrons to commercial competitors.
Traditionally, if librarians know of student or faculty research interests, they attempt to keep those researchers informed of potentially useful sources. Due to the size of Cornell�s research population, it is not possible to know everyone�s research topics. MyLibrary automates this function and allows the user to initiate the updating process. Researchers can save useful resources in MyLinks (resources that they have discovered themselves or ones suggested by librarians via targeted notification) and be automatically notified by MyUpdates of new resources related to their saved search topics. Researchers who travel can access their saved resources wherever they are.
As we create our own digital library products and purchase more commercially available digital information, our patrons become more overwhelmed by their options. It is difficult to organize resources into categories that are intuitive for every patron, especially when our patrons include undergraduate students, graduate students, staff and faculty, all of whom are studying hundreds of different subjects. Cornell University Library�s "Library Gateway" attempts to be a structured web conduit, but MyLibrary gives the user a way to create their own user interfaces, ones which make especial sense to them. They can create these interfaces without even having to know how to make their own web pages.
Beyond the theory of MyLibrary as an excellent information tool lies its human reality: the creation, implementation, and enhancement of MyLibrary requires a serious commitment of staff time. Without an increase in the number of staff, the MyLibrary system must take library personnel away from other duties or projects. It is hoped that the time and effort put into MyLibrary will pay off in more information-literate users who are more aware of the resources that could be useful to them. Additionally, public services staff will be able to track user perception of the usefulness of library and other electronic resources. For example, which database or web site has a patron chosen to put into a MyLinks folder? It might also be valuable to monitor if a subject librarian�s recommendation to patrons (via the MyLibrary Announcement Service described below) results in additions to their MyLinks. This information can then be analyzed according to discipline and patron group, providing vital statistics which previously we have not been able to gather easily. Imagine if every student, staff, and faculty member made visits to their MyLibrary pages a part of their daily routine and we were tracking that activity? The library system in general, and public services in particular, can only benefit from increased patron use of MyLibrary.
The MyLibrary system was developed by the Personal Electronic Services Working Group, a collection of Cornell University librarians and programmers. The members of this working group represented seven of the libraries on campus. This mix of players helped ensure that we developed a product useful to all students, faculty, and staff. The initial charge to the team was to determine which personal services Cornell users needed. We quickly identified the need for a personal set of "shortcuts" to resources (to be called MyLinks) and for notification when items of interest are added to the on-line catalog (to be called MyUpdates). MyLinks and MyUpdates, which share a developmental approach and core technologies, in fact are individual systems unto themselves. In combination, these two products form the current MyLibrary service. The next MyLibrary release will contain additional services.
During the course of the development of MyLibrary, there were several decisions made regarding its implementation and the choice of technologies used. Two of these decisions were to use a formal design process and have the development team adopt certain standards for a web-based application with a database back end.
The Rational Unified Process (RUP) was the project methodology employed. This object-oriented process provided a strong justification to employ an object-oriented language for the development of MyLibrary. As a result, Java programs dynamically create the HTML seen by the patrons on almost all of the MyLibrary pages. Specifically, the design team chose to use Java servlets for implementing access to the database and providing dynamic web content. This choice allowed the use of the JDBC standard for querying, inserting, and modifying records in the database, as well as the use of some pre-written packages for displaying dynamic content.
Oracle is the database technology used for storing information about users of the MyLibrary system. It is a robust database with the capacity to handle the large number of transactions and vast amount of data an application such as MyLibrary might generate.
One of the most important aspects of the MyLibrary system is the authentication of its users. The authentication system ensures that the information users choose to put into the system remains private. The Kerberos Authentication mechanism provides user id and password authentication. Once Kerberos authenticates the user, we use the user's Cornell Network ID to show only the folders and resources associated with that ID. The system associates dynamic database content with the user�s Web browser through the use of the Java servlet sessions mechanism created when the user logs into MyLibrary. When a user is finished using MyLibrary, they merely need to click on a "Logout" link to close the session and prevent subsequent users on the same computer from viewing their personal information.
MyLinks, in both appearance and use, is a very intuitive, user-friendly product. The basic premise of the simple to understand design is that a patron has folders containing links to personally chosen Web sites. Patrons are able to name the resources and folders whatever they choose, order the folders in the manner most useful to them, add new resources or remove old ones from folders, and edit resources if the URLs change. Patrons have the option of selecting from either the librarian-gathered resources in the Gateway or from any Web resource. When patrons enter MyLinks for the first time, they will find two default folders already set up for them. One folder contains links to library services, and the other contains a wide variety of links to Web search engines. The default folders serve as examples to assist patrons in understanding the concept of MyLinks.
The development of MyUpdates was vastly different from the development of MyLinks. MyUpdates allows patrons to identify their areas of interest; the system then notifies the patrons when resources matching those interests are added to the catalog. The concept sounds simple, but the implementation was not.
The first step was to determine how the data would be accessed from NOTIS, the on-line catalog used at Cornell. NOTIS is a mainframe-based system ill suited for the kind of user interaction and search processing that MyUpdates requires. In addition to the technical limitations of NOTIS, the acquisition and cataloguing workflow at Cornell made it difficult to know when a bibliographic record in NOTIS should be considered "new." When a resource is first acquired, a corresponding record in NOTIS is created. Because we want knowledge about the future availability of the resource to be available to the public as quickly as possible, the acquisition record in NOTIS is made available to the public while the item is being catalogued. Widespread notification via MyUpdates of a new resource that was not yet fully catalogued and accessible would, however, be undesirable.
To begin to solve this dilemma, we made the decision to create a local database to temporarily store NOTIS bibliographic and holdings data for new materials. As with MyLinks, we selected Oracle for this purpose. Oracle can support large amounts of information and large numbers of users, and offers powerful techniques for searching through the information it stores. All of these features would be necessary for MyUpdates to succeed.
A cataloguer on the project team worked closely with one of our NOTIS system administrators to create specifications that would help determine which NOTIS records should be considered "new." Multiple criteria were identified to test against each record to determine their readiness for inclusion in MyUpdates, and although these criteria were not fool-proof, tests indicated that most of the records that met the criteria were in fact new; few resources that should be included were being overlooked by the process.
Once this process was complete, the two team members then created specifications for retrieving a subset of bibliographic and holdings information from each NOTIS record while preserving the diacritics each record contained. This information is then stored in our database.
A Web interface allows patrons to create multiple search profiles. Their profiles are stored in the MyUpdates database and are used to search periodically against the database of new records extracted from NOTIS. The Web interface resembles an OCLC-style Boolean keyword-searchable interface. But a concern immediately arose: because Cornell�s libraries serve many diverse disciplines, how could we provide a method of narrowing these keyword searches by subject area so that the results of each search would be more relevant?
The MyLibrary team decided that, particularly for the first release of MyUpdates, using a system like the Library of Congress Subject Headings -- or even an abbreviated version of such a system -- to define subjects would be too difficult to implement. Instead, as a way to roughly limit searches by subject, we chose to add the ability for patrons to limit their searches to materials held at one or more libraries at Cornell which themselves each have a special topical focus.
Finally, before patrons save their search profiles, they can test their searches against the previous year�s worth of new resources extracted from NOTIS. The resources that meet their criteria are displayed in the browser. Patrons can then judge by both the number and appropriateness of the resources retrieved, just how broad or narrow, and also how relevant, are their search profiles. The system calculates an average of the number of resources patrons are likely to receive each time they receive notification of the availability of new resources. By basing this calculation on an entire year of new materials data, we can more accurately reflect yearly acquisition trends and the effect of fiscal cycles on purchasing.
Once a patron is satisfied with a particular search profile, he or she saves the profile (though it can be edited again at any time). The MyUpdates system automatically runs all patrons� search profiles against the most recently-extracted NOTIS records every two weeks. The system then e-mails to each patron a report of the new records that meet the criteria in his or her saved profile.
By automatically e-mailing the MyUpdates reports, we provide a very simple way to approximate the goals of "push technology." Push technology fell from favor because traditional push techniques involved installing a client on an individual machine that waited for information. Often, people received much more information than they expected, and rather than try to limit what they received, people simply stopped using these services.
We recognized that MyUpdates could suffer a similar fate if we did not carefully consider our patrons� needs. By managing search profiles through a Web interface, we hope to avoid the need to install specialized client software on the patron�s machine.
In addition, the Web interface allows patrons to test their search profiles and get a sense of how much information they will receive before they commit to receiving a particular report. Further, patrons can edit and re-test the searches at any time. Taken together, these features may help avoid the previous problems with push technologies of information overload.
Finally, the delivery of reports by e-mail means that patrons receive the reports via software they already use and are familiar with on their computers. Receiving the reports should not be intrusive. For those without e-mail, or for those who are away from the workstation where their e-mail is downloaded, the most recent reports generated for each search profile the patron has created can be viewed through the MyUpdates Web interface. There is also a link to MyUpdates from within the Library Services folder of MyLinks, making the service we call MyLibrary truly integrated.
What is next for MyLibrary?
MyLibrary was conceived not merely as a clever utility, or even a smorgasbord of utilities, but as a vehicle for increased interaction with library users in an otherwise depersonalized digital environment. Future enhancements will expand the interactive characteristics of MyLinks and MyUpdates in several directions.
One certain direction is toward building an area for delivering library-related messages within the user's personal space. A message space or personalized bulletin board could be an extremely effective way of communicating with patrons. The personalized message would avoid common pitfalls of library-patron communications, in particular such just-in-case and dubiously effective methods as mass-mailings and broadcast e-mails on the one hand, and passive media such as web pages on the other. In the MyLibrary model, patrons would choose the kind of message from the library they would want to see and would choose the delivery mechanism. For example, a patron could choose to be reminded of library workshops or instructional programs at a particular point in the semester. They might want to know when important new bibliographic databases are added to the Gateway, or when new web sites relevant to their areas of interest appear. Cross-disciplinary researchers might wish to receive notices from different subject specialty libraries.
With careful management, the library should be able to push information to patrons within parameters the patrons themselves have chosen. Patrons will be able to choose whether to receive messages through e-mail or to be notified when they log into MyLibrary that they have messages waiting on their personal page. Such a page might also prove a useful alternative to delivering MyUpdates reports via e-mail.
At the same time, a MyLibrary message page should provide patrons with easier methods of access to librarians and library services. Since the patron�s area of interest has been profiled, the patron can have e-mail links directly from his or her MyLibrary page to relevant subject specialists in the library. Possibly a link from a page like this will prove the vehicle that finally moves "chat reference" off the starting block.
MyLibrary can make services available to patrons with less fuss. We imagine calling up interlibrary loan forms, renewal requests, requests for purchase and other forms from MyLibrary with personal information already filled in. Since patrons are authenticated when they log into MyLibrary, it should also be possible to pass ids and passwords into these standard forms from a stored profile.
Another interesting direction for MyLibrary to develop is as the basis for providing customized services for groups as well as persons. One possible implementation is to customize services for academic departments. In this model, reference librarians and bibliographers can work together with department representatives to select appropriate collections of links and update profiles for broader academic subject areas. Again, paralleling the personal model, the library can push information to this broader group, while the department has access to clearly identified and easily accessible library specialists through e-mail or chat.
MyLibrary and similar personalized services will provide new ways for libraries to interact with their various patron bases. They can empower individual patrons with a strong suite of utilities and tailored communications. The same service forms a convenient way to embrace user groups such as alumni who otherwise have difficulty identifying and using their alma mater's digital resources. Departments and other academic groupings gain similar benefits, while the library assumes a higher profile in a web-flattening information environment. The MyLibrary concept is simple, but powerful: personalization of services is the key to institutional engagement for the digital library.
 "Technology and library users: LITA experts identify trends to watch." 1999. Available at <http://www.lita.org/committe/toptech/trendsmw99.htm>.
 MyLibrary may been seen and explored via the guest login account at <http://mylibrary.cornell.edu/servlet/GuestLogin>.
 The Cornell Library Gateway is available at <http://www.library.cornell.edu>.
 Executive Summary. Library Gateway Focus Groups Report. 1999. Available at <http://www.library.cornell.edu/staffweb/GateEval/summary.html>.
Cornell University Library Annual Report 1998-1999, Objectives 1999-2000. Available at <http://www.library.cornell.edu/ulib/ar98-99/report.html>.
 Ken Winter. "MyLibrary Can Help Your Library." American Libraries. August 1999: 65-67.


Mountain course - mostly downhill with ski run fairways. Back 9 is through Aspen forest with less drastic elevation, except for the 18th (1219' downhill!). Open late spring to fall. Play is free; lift pass $10 at Powderhorn Adventure Center 801-536-5734 (rentals/pro-shop/scorecards/water). No dogs. Lift runs Fri, Sat, and Sun from 10am to 6pm. At other times, you can park at the Solitude Nordic Center near the Brighton Store and do the 20 minute hike along the Lake Solitude trail. Leave another vehicle at the lower parking lot so you can drive back up to the Nordic Center when you are done. Usually an 18 hole configuration - although an extra 9 hole loop (A to I) is in place after #14 for some of the season.
I-15, to I-215 East. Take exit #6 and go SE to a left up Big Cottonwood Canyon, 17 miles to the 2nd Solitude exit.
Some incredible elevation shots- this course lets you see what your drivers can really do, and tests the rest of your game, too. Beautiful views as you play your way down (and occasionally up) the mountain- finishing on a super sick downhill hole 18.
Because of the huge shots over/through mountain terrain, spotters are almost a must on certain holes- you'll know which ones when you see them. Send a spotter out when needed- you'll be glad you did.
Keep in mind this a mountain hike of a course (a single round can last 4+ hours pretty easily depending on your group). A good workout and a great disc golf experience, be prepared with decent shoes, water, snack, etc. Lots of mountain courses are great fun, but this one exceeds expectations. DO IT!
No doubt, this is a 4.5 - 5 LINK rated course.
1 LINK: BAD. Course is bad, don't bother.
2 LINKS: OK. Course is alright, fun enough to play but not a first choice.
3 LINKS: GOOD. Good course, always fun to play.
4 LINKS: GREAT. These are the courses you want to live near- great quality park, layout, tees, baskets, etc.
5 LINKS: EPIC. This rating is reserved for only the best courses in the world. A MUST PLAY course.
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A SPOTTER ON THIS COURSE.
This course is fantastic. It is set up in the mountains at a ski resort. It is never very crowded and the course is well spread out. It is HEAVILY wooded in some parts and without a spotter or two, you will be spending more time looking for discs than playing.
My favorite shot is a 1600' par3 off the edge of the mountain. It feels good to throw that far!
Crazy course!!! A must play if your even a little close! If the lift is close you have to walk to the top, it takes about 20-30min. There are score cards at the main desk. You might want to bring some extra plastic just in case! There is a hole called The Abyss that is easy to through into but you won't want to go after it! Good luck!!!
A Must play, Salt Lake City's premier disc golf course!
This Mountain course, with 16 holes playing down-hill, has breath-taking views and challenges around every corner. You can take a lift to hole 1 and then play down 2,200 feet of the resorts vertical ski terrain. The mostly down-hill front nines' fairways are lined with tall pine trees and after throwing over the twin Lilly-ponds on #7, the back nine starts to wind you through a mature forest of aspen trees. Bringing you to hole 18, a monster 1,200 ft. down, on the race course ski run called "Main Street", to a gigantic field(the basket barley visible from the tee). Hope I didn't spoil it, go check it out.
Note: 27 holes in play during tournaments!
Local route: takes two cars or some hitchhiking; park at silver lake and hike(more like traverse) along trail to hole 1(but the lift is worth the small price!).


Children are naturally surrounded with early math concepts in their play. They give each playmate a cookie, share a toy, and count blocks. Children with special needs may need more direct teaching in this area, but they can also learn math skills through play experiences. The concepts they need to learn can be directly taught and supported in center activities or even free play situations if the teacher provides dialogue and specific direction. Math instruction in the early childhood setting must involve concrete ideas, and be naturally suited to the child's play. It should also be integrated across the curriculum, not isolated in a "math" lesson. With this in mind, let's take a look at some ideas for providing quality math support, and fun, interesting experiences for young children with special needs.
Matching skills according to physical attributes can be taught as part of a dramatic play activity. Place several pairs of clothing items in a dress up chest, such as mittens, socks, gloves, shoes. Encourage the child to locate the matching item when interest is shown towards one of the items that has a match. The child will put on the pair, and the teacher should show the child that they are wearing a matching pair. Children with special needs can learn this skill alongside typically developing students with extra support, and more repetition when needed.
There are a variety of opportunities to teach sorting skills in the early childhood setting. Toys can be sorted at clean-up time. Before an art activity, a child could help the teacher sort crayons by color that are mixed together in a bin. Cars in a play area can be sorted by color or size. Teachers can facilitate these sorting activities in a relaxed, non threatening way with casual interactions during play. These types of activities should be repeated with different objects many times to facilitate generalization of the skill.
Children with special needs learn shapes over an extended period of time. Many different activities can be used to teach shapes throughout the preschool setting. Matching shapes, tracing shapes, and lacing cards of different shapes could be integrated into learning centers. Finding shapes in the toys children play with or the foods kids eat are other ways to teach shapes. The cookie on the lunch tray is a circle. Talk about the cookie, and bring up the fact that it looks like a certain shape, a circle. The block a child is playing with could be picked up and the child could be shown that the block looks like a square. Laminated shapes of different colors and sizes make a great open-ended shape activity that can be used at many student levels. Place small, medium, and large circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, and oval shapes in a small basket. You could even have several colors of each shape. The shapes can be explored during center time. The teacher will use dialogue to teach shape concepts that are appropriate for the individual child's level of performance. Shapes can be identified, sorted by size, shape, and/or color.
A basic understanding of measurement begins in early childhood, although true understanding usually comes later, in early elementary grades. A great way to teach measurement is to add measuring spoons and cups to sand, water, or bean tables. If you don't have any of these, a large plastic container filled with beans can be pulled out as a center activity and then put away when finished. Just allow children to explore measuring out beans or sand and pouring into a bowl. State the amount as the child plays and encourage understanding.
Classroom cooking activities are also opportunities to teach measuring skills. Let children take turns measuring out specific ingredients, and talk about the importance of measuring in order to obtain desirable results.
Make a "ruler" for children to use as a center activity. Using poster board, cut out ruler size shapes. Draw colored circles on the "rulers". Measure small items with them. Ask the child to measure the item by stating the number of circles the item is measured to be.


The Throat Chakra is our divine center of the expression of spiritual truth, expressing our soul's unique nature through sound emanations. It is the portal to express our inner world with the outer world. As we transform our inner state of being we can emanate its radiance through the throat chakra bringing transformation in our outer world. By speaking the highest truth we can clear away limitations and fears in our external world. Through positive speaking, clear communication, and emanating our soul's voice into the world we can alchemically transform old patterns and shift the Earth experience. Bringing the world into harmony, love, and an open connection with spirit.


We're not sure which is more stressful: being the passenger who first realizes he will be seated next to someone else's crying baby, or being that baby's parent. Fortunately for all involved, however, many young babies actually do travel well in flight; quite often it tends to be the crawlers and toddlers who get antsy and upset when confined, but that's a different book altogether.
Babies of all ages do cry for various reasons, so in the space constraints of aircraft, try to be resourceful when trying to calm your crying child. As you do, take comfort in knowing that the drone of the engines usually limits how far a crying baby can be heard. Keeping your own cool can go a long way when you're trying to soothe your baby and have to remain seated.
Check the usual suspects and respond accordingly: Is your baby hungry, wet or dirty, cold or warm, bored? If it's bright, try closing the window shade; if your baby wants a view, show her the one outside the window or in the pages of the airline's magazine.
If all else fails, try not to let a few dirty looks bother you and be assured that most people sympathize with the parents of a crying infant. After all, everyone was a baby once, many have had to try to quiet one in a public place at some time in their past, you're unlikely to have to face any of these people ever again and, lastly, they'll get over it.
Before we discuss ear pain on airplanes, let us first offer you the reassurance that a great many babies never show the slightest signs of discomfort. Until you know that your own child (and you) will be spared, the thought of a baby screaming because of ear pain is easily and understandably one of the most dreaded aspects of air travel. And from firsthand experience, we can tell you it tends to be all the more disconcerting when that baby happens to be your own.
Any of you who have flown before know that ears can be quite sensitive to changes in pressure. Switching to pediatrician-mode for a moment, this is because the outer ear is separated from the middle ear by a thin membrane called the tympanic membrane, or ear drum. Experiencing a difference in pressure across this membrane causes a sensation that as many as 1 in 3 passengers (children more so than adults) experience as temporary muffled hearing, discomfort, or even pain. Unfortunately, having a stuffy nose or a head cold can increase a child's chances of ear problems.
For an adult, chewing gum or yawning is often all that is needed for the middle-ear pressure to equilibrate return to normal and make plugged-up ears "pop." Perhaps part of the reason that babies tend to complain more about their ears than adults is because chewing gum is simply not an option and we have yet to meet an infant who can yawn on command.
If your baby has a cold or ear infection, discuss with your pediatrician whether you should give him an infant pain reliever. Unfortunately, decongestants have not been proven to help, and in fact are not recommended for use in infants. For children with significant ear discomfort associated with a cold and/or ear infection, it may simply be best, if possible, to postpone flying. If your travel plans are not flexible enough to cancel because of a cold, just be aware of your increased odds of dealing with ear pain when you do hop aboard.
Airplane cabin noise levels can range anywhere from 60 to as high as 100 decibels, and tend to be louder during takeoff. Using cotton balls or small earplugs may help to decrease the decibel level your baby is exposed to, and as a result make it easier for her to sleep or relax.
Once on board, it's useful to know that there is a practical and realistic alternative to the traditional gum-chewing approach(which, for obvious reasons, is absolutely contraindicated at this age regardless of your level of desperation) that works very well for babies when it comes to relieving ear pressure. That alternative is sucking.
Pediatricians, flight attendants, and seasoned parents alike commonly suggest offering a bottle, breast, or pacifier during the times when the pressure changes in the cabin are likely to be greatest-during takeoff and initial descent. You'll notice we said initial descent, not landing. That's because the pressure change is typically most noticeable as much as a half hour or more before landing, depending on a flight's cruising altitude. The higher up you are, the earlier in the flight the descent usually starts.
If you generally don't tend to notice your own ears popping and the captain doesn't announce plans for the initial descent, you can always ask a flight attendant to let you know when it would be a good idea to try to get the sucking started. If sucking doesn't cut it and your baby seems to be bothered, stay calm and try rubbing his ears and singing a soothing song. Even if you find that nothing short of reaching solid ground (and normal air pressure) works to calm him down, remind yourself that you've done everything you can, and that most babies who have difficulty with ear pain on airplanes tend to outgrow it.
Learn more about how to keep children safe when flying by visiting this resource from the FAA.
Click here to read about how to find a pediatrician while traveling.


Halo 4 executive producer Kiki Wolfkill and 343i head Bonnie Ross decry Xbox Live sexism.
"There are always going to be jerks out there," says Kiki Wolfkill, the woman Microsoft put in charge of the Halo IP, talking about the problems giving adolescents a broadcast mechanism. "If you give them a way to express that side of their personality without being seen," Wolfkill went on to say, "you're going to see this type of behaviour manifest itself." That's why there's a zero tolerance policy for sexist or discriminatory comments on Xbox Live; players who fall foul of the policy face a lifetime ban from the network.
Both Wolfkill and Bonnie Ross, head of 343 Industries and thus in charge of Halo 4's development, see dealing with the jerk problem as the developer's responsibility. Hence the zero tolerance for sexist comments, but they also feel it's the developer's job to make sure that the game doesn't portray itself in a bad light.
"As developers, we have a personal responsibility to think about how our games come across," said Ross. "With Halo 4, we were very deliberate in thinking about who should be female and who should be male in the game, and if we came off stereotypical, we went back to question what we were doing and why."
Both Ross and Wolkfill are prominent female gamers, but neither wants gender to be their defining characteristic. "When Microsoft created 343 Industries to take over Halo," Ross said, "I was given first choice to run the studio because I had proven myself. My gender played no part in it."
Wolfkill went on to add that perhaps consumer responsibility had a role to play in the way the industry is perceived. A change in perspective, she thinks, is in order; gaming isn't an exclusively male-dominated area any more.
Halo 4 is due out November 6th, exclusively for the Xbox 360.


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Roman theatre may refer to:

Theatre of ancient Rome, the theatrical styles of Ancient Rome
Roman theatre (structure), the theatre buildings of ancient Roman type
Roman Theatre of Arles, an ancient theatre in Arles, France
Roman Theatre (Amman), a 6,000-seat, 2nd-century Roman theatre
Roman Theatre, Aosta, an ancient building in Aosta, north-western Italy
Roman Theatre (Cádiz), an ancient structure in Cádiz, Andalusia, in southern Spain
Roman theatre, Cartagena, an ancient Roman theatre in Cartagena, Spain
Roman Theatre (Mainz), an excavated structure in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Roman Theatre (Mérida), an ancient structure in Mérida, Spain
Roman theatre, Verona, an ancient Roman theatre in Verona, northern Italy. Not to be confused with the Roman amphitheatre known as the Verona Arena


For the Beer Lover in the family. Raye's three beer mustards packaged in Raye's trademark rustic cardboard box.
*We reserve the right to substitute when necessary without notice.
Note: As of 12/10/16 - We will temporarily substituting Shipyard Pumpkinhead for the Bar Harbor Real Ale.


Finally, one of the greatest bars from this year has been immortalized in a music video. I'm obviously talking about "School was very hard (gang.)" While Tay-K's lyrical capacities have yet to be tapped into since his tenure in prison, the rapper is still making waves as the "Free Tay-K" grows every day.
another video shot at The Escarpment.


Primary education consists of year 1 to year 6 or 7 depending on the state of Australia and secondary education can finish at year 10 or year 12. Australian students are required by law to complete until year 10. Students who intend to apply to universities after completing year 10 continues study to year 12. On completing year 12 students take Higher School Certificate exam to receive ATAR (stands for: Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) which they need for admission to universities.
College courses including certificate III, IV, diplomas and advanced diplomas are divided into two groups, the courses provided by the private college and the course delivered through TAFE. College courses focus on practical and professional education complimented by theory lessons.
Foundation courses have been designed to give opportunity to students who have completed/studying secondary education in overseas to prepare for Australian university courses. In foundation courses, international students can build basic knowledge about their major and familiarise with Australian education. Also, international students can improve their English skills. Upon successful completion of foundation course, students can enrol into university course.
In Australia, there are about 39 universities and bachelor degrees are usually 3 years. Bachelor courses commence study usually in February and finish in December. Commonly there are two semesters in a year but depending on the course, students can enroll either in February or July. Australian master degree courses are divided into master's degree by coursework and master's degree by Research. Master's degree course duration stretches from 1 year to 2 years. Student can enrol in master's degree by coursework in February intake and July intake. Student can enrol in master's degree by research regardless of the intake date. PhD courses are provided after completing master's degree course.