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Shikwa-Episode 12
Okay, so this was another decent episode of 'Shikwa'. Apart from Mehar and Saqib's growing relationship, Sidra's Prince Charming and some greedy relatives' schemes, the story didn't progress much.
Mehar has finally accepted Saqib as her husband whole-heartedly. She has come into terms with the reality that she's now Mehar Saqib! She can't stand anyone looking down upon Saqib. And this is the very reason she was enraged by that 'abbu wala comment'. One thing did confuse me though: when Saqib confessed his love for Mehar, why did she seem so surprised? She watches so many movies and all, so why Saqib's confession caught her off-guard? I mean, after all Saqib was doing for her, you didn't have to be a psychic to guess that he was in love with her! Well, Saqib and Mehar have now started living a normal married life. Saqib's slightly romantic side was a bit too umm 'funny' to digest but then again, I won't say the scenes were lackluster! Saqib really deserves his share of happiness.
Saqib is about to leave for Sharjah and one of his friends has planted this seed of suspicion in his mind of 'not leaving Mehar all alone in an empty house'.
Moving on to the side-track, our handsome doctor does have a name-Shariq! Shariq lives with his mother and sister. Munazzah and Adeel are clearly impressed by Shariq's thoughtfulness and good manners. He even drove them home from the hospital. Up till now he looks like a pretty decent guy, and it's evident that he has grown fond of Sidra! I don't understand what were they thinking when they picked that girl for playing Sidra's character. Since the side-track has to do a lot with her, she should know how to deliver her dialogues properly but sadly, the director didn't pay much attention to her.
"Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create." I think this explains the cheap tactics of Mehar's relatives. Mehar's Phupo is keen on getting his son employed in Saqib's company while Mehar's Chachi wants her brother to go abroad through Saqib's reference. I wonder why these greedy relatives are given so much coverage-they better have some significant role to play in the upcoming episodes because right now, their constant nagging is putting me off.
After watching the whole episode, I couldn't help thinking why Mateen and his mother were totally out of the picture this time because considering the end of the preceding installment, I feel they should have showed how Mateen reacted to this insulting rejection.
So, this was it folks! What did you guys think of the latest installment? Feel free to share your thoughts!
P.S: I apologize for submitting the review so late this time. This weekend was quite busy for me. Sorry guys!
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An Air Force sergeant may omit the words "So help me God" from his enlistment oath. Ergo Christians are the real victims.
Last week, an anonymous sergeant in the U.S. Air Force made the news for omitting the words "So help God" from his Oath of Enlistment when he tried to reenlist at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. The Air Force proceeded to freak out, and insisted that the sergeant must say "So help me God" or he wouldn't be allowed back in. But on Wednesday, the Air Force reversed course after the Department of Defense General Counsel said that enlistees could omit the phrase, just like they're allowed to do in all other branches of the armed forces.
"There's a Left wing radical named Mickey [sic] Weinstein who has got a group about people against religion or whatever he calls it. And he has just terrorized the armed forces. You think you're supposed to be tough, you're supposed to defend us, and you got one little Jewish radical who is scaring the pants off of you. You want these guys flying the airplanes to defend us when you've got one little guy terrorizing them? That's what it amounts to. You know we swear oaths and this 'So help me God,' what does it mean? It means that with God's help, and you don't have to say that you believe in God. You just say I want some help beside myself that the oath I'm taking--it's just crazy. What is wrong with the Air Force? How can they fly the bombers to defend us if they cave to one little guy?"
This is the Christian persecution complex at its finest, and it becomes even more absurd when you consider the fact that in this heavily Christian country, 53% of Americans say they would be less likely to vote for an atheist for president.
For Robertson and his ilk, when an atheist objects to being compelled to recognize god as a condition for serving his country, it's not the atheist who's the victim of institutional religious biases, but rather it's those Christians and other faithful who are who are unfairly forced to tolerate the mere existence of nonbelievers who refuse to play along. And as annoying as such nonsensical whining and hand-wringing by religious nutjobbers is, it could very well be a sign that they're running out of effective ways to counteract the continued secularization of American society.


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6 Things I've Learned From Riding an E-Bike
It's not unusual to find my bike surrounded by curious onlookers.
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For the past five months I've been riding a bright orange electric cargo bike around town. It came from Rad Power Bikes and, although it arrived during what most people consider to be the off-season for cycling, I've put it to good use. Riding an e-bike has been an interesting adventure thus far and I've learned a few lessons I'd like to share with readers.
1. People Have Lots of Questions
I get stopped everywhere I go by curious passersby who want to know what my bike is, where I got it, how I like it, and what it can do. Perhaps this has something to do with living in a small town where people tend to be chatty, but I think it's also because e-bike technology is fairly new and not yet widespread, so there's novelty in encountering someone with an e-bike. People want to see something in person that they've only heard about online.
I'm always happy to chat – indeed, the more I can spread the e-bike love, the better! – but it's reached the point where I have to allocate extra time for errands in anticipation of people wanting to talk. My e-bike chats must be working, though, because I know one person who has bought the exact same e-bike after trying mine; she's now looking at getting a second one for her partner to ride.
2. The Miles Really Add Up
I never realized how many kilometers I racked up just running errands around my (very) small town. I was under the impression that I don't go anywhere, since I work from home, live downtown, and my kids' school is a block away. But the odometer proves me wrong. It just surpassed 125 miles (200 kilometers), which is decent for an assortment of super-short rides around town throughout a snowy winter (yes, you can ride an e-bike in the snow) that are probably never longer than 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) at a given time. While I may have walked or biked some of those in the past, many would have required use of the car to carry groceries or children – both factors that the e-cargo bike resolves.
3. Nothing Beats It for Running Errands
The e-bike is fabulously convenient for running multi-stop errands. About once a week, I take it to the post office, the library, the bank, and wherever else I need to go, and it's faster than the car because parking is a non-issue. I pull up right in front of whatever building I'm entering and lock it to a bike rack or pole. I zip past traffic, often traveling faster than the cars around me and pulling to the front of lineups at stoplights. When I have a child with me, it's faster to have them hop on and off the back seat than buckle them into a booster seat – and they love it.
4. My Kids Are Learning More About Traffic
Delivering Christmas cookies and soup to neighbors on the RadWagon e-bike.
Riding with children on the back of an adult's bike, whether in the form of a passenger-carrying cargo bike or a tagalong, teaches kids to navigate traffic and roads in a way that riding solo does not. Kids get used to adult speed, to the proximity of cars, to waiting at lights and turning and signaling, in a real, physical way.
This is common practice in the Netherlands, where cycling is the most popular form of transportation, and a bike built to carry someone else is known as a backie. To quote Michele Hutchison, co-author of "The Happiest Kids in the World: How Dutch Parents Help Their Kids by Doing Less," "Backies allow children to build that crucial traffic awareness from an early age. By the time they get their own bikes, children are accustomed to the sensations of balance, speed and traffic around them. As with all things in a Dutch childhood, gradual, regulated exposure seems to be the key to progress."
There's a time and place for teaching a kid to ride in a park or somewhere else that's safe and calm, but eventually, they need to get out where the action is, and being attached to a parent's bike is a great way to do that.
5. There's No Perfect Place to Ride
I've realized with some disappointment that there's no great place to ride where I live. The highways where I live are jam-packed with oversized trucks and SUVs that are not used to having bikes around. The traffic lights don't recognize a waiting bicycle, which means I have to haul the bike up the curb to hit the pedestrian crossing button or hope a car shows up. The sidewalks are narrow and bumpy, and I'm not supposed to ride on them anyway. There are few designated bike trails, and the ones that do exist are meant for scenic touring, not for getting from point A to point B efficiently.
I have the same issues when I ride my regular bike, but now that I ride more frequently, the lack of infrastructure is more noticeable. Admittedly, I feel safer on the e-bike because it's bigger, heavier, and brightly colored, but it's still frustrating that choosing a healthier and more eco-friendly mode of transportation means having to deal with sub-par urban planning.
In costume: The e-bike got me to and from an '80s-themed gathering several weeks ago.
6. It's Not Cheating
A friend complained that e-bikes will kill the mountain bike industry, that I'm contributing to its downfall by riding, but I disagree. They're totally different experiences. I prefer to think of the e-bike as a car replacement, not a bicycle upgrade. I do still take my regular bike out for pleasure rides on occasion and when I'm accompanying my kids (who obviously cannot keep up to the e-bike).
And I can attest to getting a workout. I ride the e-bike at a similar intensity level to my regular bike; the only difference is that I'm going faster and farther. To criticize anything that's getting people outdoors, moving around, and out of their cars is baffling to me. This is such a game-changer, such a simple yet effective way to improve both health and transportation congestion at the same time that I don't know why anyone would oppose it.
Until you try it, you can't possibly understand how fun an e-bike is to ride. It feels like magic, hopping on that seat, giving the throttle a little juice to get moving from a full stop, and then pedaling as if you have jet packs under your feet. It's unlike anything you've ever experienced before, and I highly urge you to give it a try if you can.
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NAD+ and sirtuins in aging and disease.
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD(+)) is a classical coenzyme mediating many redox reactions. NAD(+) also plays an important role in the regulation of NAD(+)-consuming enzymes, including sirtuins, poly-ADP-ribose polymerases (PARPs), and CD38/157 ectoenzymes. NAD(+) biosynthesis, particularly mediated by nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT), and SIRT1 function together to regulate metabolism and circadian rhythm. NAD(+) levels decline during the aging process and may be an Achilles' heel, causing defects in nuclear and mitochondrial functions and resulting in many age-associated pathologies. Restoring NAD(+) by supplementing NAD(+) intermediates can dramatically ameliorate these age-associated functional defects, counteracting many diseases of aging, including neurodegenerative diseases. Thus, the combination of sirtuin activation and NAD(+) intermediate supplementation may be an effective antiaging intervention, providing hope to aging societies worldwide.
Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. Electronic address: imaishin@wustl.edu.
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Injury/Rehab Notes: Steckenrider, Davis, Strickland, Middleton
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The Marlins placed righty Drew Steckenrider on the 10-day injured list due to inflammation in his right elbow last night, and Andre Fernandez of The Athletic tweets that the 28-year-old righty is undergoing further testing in Miami today. Entering the season, Steckenrider looked poised to hold down a significant role in the Miami relief corps. The offseason addition of Sergio Romo to the bullpen gave him some immediate competition for saves, but Steckenrider was in line for a prominent late-inning gig regardless of what inning he pitched most frequently. Through the first 99 1/3 innings of his big league career in 2017-18, Steckenrider posted a 3.35 ERA with 11.6 K/9, 4.1 BB/9 and 1.0 HR/9. Steckenrider, though, struggled through a rough second half last year and hasn't looked right this season, pitching to a 6.28 ERA in 14 1/3 frames. After allowing seven homers all of last season and just 11 dating back to 2017, he's served up six long balls already. His velocity has held up, and he isn't necessarily having trouble throwing strikes (3.1 BB/9). However, Steckenrider is falling behind hitters more than he has in the past and seems to be struggling to locate within the zone.
Some more injury updates of note…
Slugger Khris Davis departed last night's game due to "lingering effects from the left hip contusion he suffered on Sunday in Pittsburgh," the Athletics announced. There's no word on whether Davis will require any additional absence at this point, though he already sat out a pair of games with that issue before last night's early exit. Last year's home run leader is hitting .227/.306/.477 with 10 long balls on the season so far. His health status will be worth keeping an eye on, as his availability could directly impact Kendrys Morales' place on the roster now that Matt Olson has returned from the injured list.
Mariners right-hander Hunter Strickland has been cleared to resume throwing, writes Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times. Strickland opened the season as the closer in Seattle and picked up a pair of saves with two perfect outings in his first two appearances. He was torched for three runs in his third appearance of the season, though, and landed on the injured list due to a strained lat that'll sideline him more than two months when all is said and done. As Divish notes, Strickland had to restart his entire throwing program, so there's no guarantee that he'll be ready for activation when his 60-day minimum window is met on June 5. The Mariners have tried out Anthony Swarzak in the ninth inning with Strickland on the shelf, but he's blown three of his past four save opportunities. Lefty Roenis Elias, too, has been in the mix for saves and has thrown more effectively.
Angels righty Keynan Middleton had a minor setback in his rehab from Tommy John surgery last week but has resumed throwing, general manager Billy Eppler told reporters yesterday (link via Mike DiGiovanna of the L.A. Times). Middleton ramped up his throwing a bit too aggressively and had to scale back his rehab for a week, but he's still on track for a return for a midsummer return (late June or sometime in July). A healthy Middleton would only add to a relief corps that features plenty of quality arms even with Cody Allen struggling. Ty Buttrey has emerged as one of the American League's most impressive young relievers, and he's but one of four Halo relievers averaging at least 10.7 K/9 with a sub-3.00 ERA on the season. The flamethrowing Middleton averaged 96.7 mph on his heater and logged a 3.43 ERA with a 15 percent swinging-strike rate in 76 career innings before undergoing surgery last season.
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import android.widget.SimpleAdapter;
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import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

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public class CardsListAdapter extends SimpleAdapter {
	private List<Card> cards;

	public CardsListAdapter(Context context, List<? extends Map<String, String>> cards,
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import React from 'react';

import './Legend.css';

const types = [
  {
    type: "available",
    label: "Available"
  },
  {
    type: "booking",
    label: "Busy"
  },
  {
    type: "closed",
    label: "Closed"
  }
]

const Item = ({ type, label }) => (
  <div className={`legend--item legend--${type}`}>
     {label}

);

const Legend = () => (

    {types.map(({type, label}) => (
      <Item key={type} type={type} label={label} />
    ))}

);

export default Legend;


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Q: how to change dilation and translation coefficient in pywt I am new to pywt and wavelet analysis.
I am now facing several problems, and I hope someone can help me with them.

First, I would like to change dilation (D) and translation (x) in my_wavelet, but I do not know how to do it exactly. I will be very grateful if anyone provides an example(s).
Second, can I add zeros at the edge of array s? Since the output of value cA and cD are in size 7 while input s is size 13. Or is there any method to avoid the reduction of size?
Third, is C_P,D in the formula above the same as cA output from pywt.dwt function? I still don't understand why in the formula there's only one output but pywt.dwt gave two?
s = [1,2,3,7,8,9,5,1,1,0,1]
my_filter_bank = ( [1,1], [-1,1], [1,1], [-1,1] )
my_wavelet = pywt.Wavelet('haar', filter_bank = my_filter_bank)
cA, cD = pywt.dwt(s, my_wavelet)

Thanks in advance.

A: I think that you get mixed-up between the Continuous Wavelet Transform and the Discrete Wavelet Transform. The formula that you provide is that of the CWT, yet what you try computing in Python is the DWT.

First, I would like to change dilation (D) and translation (x) in my_wavelet, but I do not know how to do it exactly. I will be very grateful if anyone provides an example(s).

You don't have to, at least not if you're planning on applying a DWT to your signal s. DWT will decompose your signal using a single level (using dwt) or multiple levels (using wavedec). Think of each level as being related to the scale of the wavelet, i.e. how dilated it is. So the dilation and the translation of your wavelet are already "taken care of".

Second, can I add zeros at the edge of array s? Since the output of
value cA and cD are in size 7 while input s is size 13. Or is there
any method to avoid the reduction of size?

The size of cA and cD is defined here:

Length of coefficients arrays depends on the selected mode. For all
modes except periodization:
len(cA) == len(cD) == floor((len(data) + wavelet.dec_len - 1) / 2)

For periodization mode ("per"):
len(cA) == len(cD) == ceil(len(data) / 2)

The fact that cA and cD have a different size than your input signal s should not bother you. Of course, you can add zeros at the edge of your signal, but this would only result in you computing the coefficients from the zero-padded signal.

Third, is C_P,D in the formula above the same as cA output from
pywt.dwt function? I still don't understand why in the formula there's
only one output but pywt.dwt gave two?

No, they are not the same thing. C_P,D in your formula is the wavelet coefficient for a given scale and position, whereas cA and cD correspond to the detailed and approximate coefficients.
One last tip: I personally find it very hard to get an understanding of the wavelet transform with a small array such as yours. I would suggest analyzing example data such as scipy's ecg:
import pywt
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy.misc import electrocardiogram

s = electrocardiogram()
plt.plot(s)
plt.title('INPUT SIGNAL')

my_wavelet = pywt.Wavelet('db2')
cA, cD = pywt.dwt(s, my_wavelet)
plt.plot(cD)
plt.title('DETAILED COEFF.')

plt.plot(cA)
plt.title('APPROXIMATION COEFF.')

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St. John's Episcopal Church dates to 1610 and the founding of the community now known as Hampton, Virginia. Its church was built in 1728. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service
[Episcopal News Service – Hampton, Virginia] No Episcopal parish has been a witness to a longer span of American history than St. John's Episcopal Church in the heart of this coastal city's downtown.
The city and parish share an origin story, which dates to the earliest Colonial beginnings of both the United States and The Episcopal Church. In 1610, some of the British settlers who had been suffering from illness and hunger in Jamestown, about 35 miles away up the James River, attacked and expelled the indigenous Kecoughtan Indians from their village here. The settlers took over this land near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, coveted for its abundant natural resources and proximity to the ocean. They established an Anglican parish, and when the community was renamed Elizabeth City in 1619, the parish became known as Elizabeth City Parish.
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Today's Hampton is a city of about 135,000 residents, more than half of them African American. Last year, commemorations marking 400 years of African American history generated renewed public interest in the city. The Episcopal Church joined in some of those commemorations, including a kickoff worship service hosted by St. John's, and the Diocese of Southern Virginia is planning a pilgrimage in the Hampton area on March 6 and 7.
"It's a small town, but there are these rich stories," said the Rev. Charles Wynder, a Hampton native and The Episcopal Church's staff officer for social justice and engagement. Wynder sees something representative in his hometown and its churches' struggles to honestly assess the past. "These churches' narratives reflect stories of other parishes and the witness of Episcopalians throughout the church."
A historical marker notes this stretch of shoreline is where the first enslaved Africans were said to have been the first bought ashore in British North America in 1619. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service
The St. John's congregation has been Bob Harper's "church family" for more than 20 years. "The longer you're in a church, the more you appreciate the different personalities that make it up," said Harper, who serves as senior warden.
After retiring from the Army, Harper, who is white, said he chose to move to Hampton because of its racial diversity. But that diversity is not reflected in Hampton's Episcopal congregations.
St. John's, with an estimated average Sunday attendance of 125 to 150, remains mostly white, while most black Episcopalians worship at St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, just west of downtown. St. Cyprian's, which Wynder grew up attending, was founded in 1905 because St. John's at that time didn't welcome African Americans.
More than a century later, St. John's now opens its doors to worshipers of all races and backgrounds, and the two congregations have come together for various special events. But "on Sunday morning, we don't have a lot of blending of the congregations," Harper said.
Only in the last 15 years has The Episcopal Church, a denomination with a membership reported to be 90 percent white, taken deliberate steps to acknowledge uncomfortable truths about its past complicity with slavery and segregation and to encourage racial healing.
In 2006 and again in 2009, General Convention called on dioceses and congregations to research their history of supporting and benefiting from racial oppression. They were asked to confront long-ignored truths and, as appropriate, to repent of past sins. Some have done the work but certainly not all, said Byron Rushing, vice president of the House of Deputies.
"The history of The Episcopal Church is parallel to the history of the United States," Rushing said in an interview with Episcopal News Service. "That's a lot of time, and that's a lot of stories."
Seeking the truth of the church's racial past
The Episcopal Church took the additional step in 2015 of identifying racial reconciliation as one of its core priorities, along with evangelism and care of creation, and that year the church also elected Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, the first African American to lead the church.
In 2017, church officers endorsed Becoming Beloved Community, now The Episcopal Church's cornerstone racial reconciliation initiative. "Telling the Truth" about the church's past is a critical component of the initiative.
"We wanted people to just go back and do their own history of their relationship as organized Episcopalians to people of color," Rushing said. "Because if you're in the United States, you are a very, very peculiar Episcopal church if you have a history that does not coincide in any way with people of color."
Hampton has four Episcopal congregations, including Emmanuel Episcopal Church, which formed in 1897 as a mission of St. John's, and the smaller parish of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, a 57-year-old congregation that last year moved out of its own church building and began worshiping at St. John's partly due to financial strains.
In 2013, following the recommendations of General Convention, the Diocese of Southern Virginia held a Service of Repentance, Reconciliation & Healing in Norfolk, just south of Hampton. The diocese also assembled a brief written summary of its history with racism and encouraged its congregations to do the same, and then-Bishop Herman Hollerith issued a formal apology on behalf of his diocese's churches for their roles in sustaining slavery and segregation.
"Spiritual common sense would suggest that a community of faith cannot move forward in its common life in Christ until it has first confessed its wrongdoing," Hollerith said.
The four Episcopal congregations in Hampton organized their own Service of Repentance in 2015. It was modeled after the diocese's service and held at St. John's, but five years later, the host congregation has only recently begun engaging in deeper discussions about its historic ties to slavery and the Confederacy.
"I don't know that churches are always good at talking about uncomfortable things," the Rev. Samantha Vincent-Alexander told ENS. She has served as rector at St. John's for the past six years, and last fall, she began leading a group of about 20 parishioners through Sacred Ground, The Episcopal Church's 10-session discussion series on racism and racial healing.
"I think everyone is getting something out it," Vincent-Alexander said, including the experience of "talking about things we're not accustomed to talking about."
In her first years at St. John's, she recalled it "never occurred to us" that re-examining the congregation's past ties to slavery might be a necessary step toward racial reconciliation. "I think that's something you need to lay groundwork for, and I don't think we were there." She also senses that some members believe that the church's past already is well-known and that the congregation isn't trying to hide anything negative, so it would be better to move on and look instead to the future.
But St. John's also proudly celebrates its long history, and going forward, Vincent-Alexander wants to encourage the congregation to confront less-comfortable stories as well. "If we want to take pride in who we have been," she said, "then we also have to take ownership in the negative things that we have done."
In historic church's cemetery, Confederate markers abound
A chest-high brick wall encircles the cemetery and buildings at St. John's Episcopal Church, identified by a sign out front as the "oldest continuous Protestant church in North America." Inside the wall, monuments to the dead form constellations that envelope the church and stretch north to a back corner of the cemetery.
An estimated 3,000 people are buried here – native Hamptonians, transplanted Northerners, church rectors, vestrymen, husbands and wives, young children and 145 Civil War veterans, whose Confederate service is dutifully marked along with their final resting places. A 20-foot monument looms just 15 paces off the path that leads to the church's front doors, its inscription memorializing "Our Confederate Dead."
"It's a cemetery, but it's also a historical landmark, too," says David Bishop, walking among the graves. The church and its cemetery are "one of the centerpieces of just about every map that's drawn of Hampton."
David Bishop, the St. John's cemetery administrator, indicates the grave of Solomon Fosque, who served the church as sexton in the early 1900s. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service
Wearing a University of Virginia hat over his Ray Ban sunglasses, the 64-year-old cemetery administrator walks the paths with the unrushed gait of someone who retired in June after teaching history at Kecoughtan High School for 22 years. A St. John's member since 1991, Bishop is an adept guide. Rectors are buried near the church, such as the Rev. Reverdy Estill, who served from 1905 to 1911. Over there is Alaska Bishop John Bentley, originally from Hampton. And here are the graves of James McMenamin and J.S. Darling, two Northerners who helped revitalize Hampton's economy after the Civil War through the city's burgeoning crab and oyster industry.
A large headstone behind the church marks the grave of Solomon Fosque, the parish's "faithful sexton" who died in 1936. Another longtime sexton, William Parker, died in 2012 and is buried nearby. Fosque and Parker are the only African Americans buried in the cemetery, as far as Bishop knows. "It would be very unusual for there to be any more," he says.
Yet African American history and parish history overlapped nearly from the beginning. Two of the enslaved Africans who landed here in 1619 were thought to have been taken into the household of prominent Elizabeth City parishioner Capt. William Tucker. The couple, Anthony and Isabella, had a son named William, who was baptized either in Jamestown or Elizabeth City – the baptizing church is up for debate, as is the family's status, whether slaves or indentured servants.
St. John's, however, makes no reference to slavery in its online history, which instead focuses primarily on the various church sites and the structures that were built upon them. The congregation now worships in a church that was built in 1728 on the parish's fourth site in the city. In 1830, it took its present name, St. John's.
Some of the earliest details of St. John's complicity with slavery are presumed lost to history. Surviving vestry books go back to 1751, leaving a gap of more than 140 years from the founding of Elizabeth City Parish. Other documents begin to flesh out the lives of ministers, vestrymen and parishioners, but "the life of the slaves owned by these gentlemen and other residents of Elizabeth City County went unrecorded in the pages of history," historian Rogers Whichard wrote in 1959.
Though details of their lives may have gone unrecorded, those early African Americans left lasting marks on the community – including presumably in the bricks that have formed the walls of the church for nearly 300 years, though no one knows for sure: Slave labor likely was used to build the church.
"I would be surprised if it didn't," Harper said.
St. John's Heritage Working Group members Billie Eiselen and Carolyn Hawkins look at some of the archival material collected in a storage room in the parish hall. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service
Billie Eiselen also assumes so. She is a member of the parish's Heritage Working Group, which formed after St. John's celebrated 400 years in 2010. Its main tasks are to sort and manage the church archives and assist outside researchers, but the group is doubtful that the archives contain any details about the church's construction.
"I would think that slaves would have helped in this," Eiselen said, but she can say for certain only that Henry Cary Jr. was the contractor hired to oversee the job. She thinks the group might be able to find documentation of Cary's projects, possibly including use of slave labor, at William & Mary College in Williamsburg, though the group hasn't undertaken that research.
Congregations around The Episcopal Church have similar unanswered questions about their racial history, both in the North and the South, Rushing said, and as the highest-ranking, most prominent black lay leader in The Episcopal Church, he believes that researching such uncomfortable details is a crucial task in a Christian denomination that describes itself as anti-racist and reconciling.
"We are doing this in order to get to a point where we can talk to each other about how we understand where we are right now. Because that is completely based on where we have been and what we have been," he said. "We need to be on the same page, and the same page is truth."
More history to be told
Other researchers have found ways of confirming and quantifying The Episcopal Church's complicity in slavery. Julia Randle is one.
The Diocese of Southern Virginia split from the Diocese of Virginia in 1892, but during the era of slavery there was just one Virginia diocese. Randle, who serves as registrar and historiographer of the Diocese of Virginia, confirmed with census records that at least 84 of the 112 Episcopal clergy in the diocese owned at least one slave in 1860. Her research was published in a diocesan article in 2006 and presented to General Convention that year.
"In a slave society, in a slave economy, you cannot escape it. You are a part of it no matter what you think," Randle told ENS. "It is a rare congregation that has really looked hard at it."
The Hampton congregations, though still unlikely to blend most Sunday mornings, have attempted to bridge their racial divides on special occasions, such as a joint potluck dinner in November that drew about 60 people to St. John's parish hall. Harper, the senior warden, collaborated on planning that dinner with Stephanie Kendall, the senior warden at St. Cyprians, and they hope to partner on more events in the future.
St. Cyprian's worships in a modern church building about five minutes west of downtown Hampton. Kendall doesn't have to look back far to recall who built St. Cyprian's. She remembers bringing them "lots of chili and Brunswick stew," a regional specialty.
Stephanie Kendall talks about the history of St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church, where she is senior warden. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service
She and other parishioners volunteered their time for three years to complete construction of the congregation's present building. It hosted its first worship service in 1985.
Wearing a pendent cross over her black shirt, Kendall stood in the aisle at the rear of the sparsely appointed nave and recalled those days of transition. "We had a lot of sweat equity on the weekends. The men of the church would come and lay the brick and do lots of things, except what had to be contracted like the electrical and plumbing," said Kendall, who now serves as senior warden.
In 1905, the Rev. C. Braxton Bryan, rector at St. John's, was among the local leaders credited with helping 10 black residents of Hampton found St. Cyprian's. Bryan made no effort to hide his own paternalistic views toward the black community, which were based in a since discredited belief in white racial superiority. But he and his congregation were willing to support St. Cyprian's in its early years as a mission of St. John's.
"St. Cyprian's was born in a different time from today," the historically black congregation says in a brief written history. "It was a time of strict segregation of races in all areas of life's activities."
Kendall has called Hampton her home nearly all her life, and her spiritual home has always been this church. Now 68 and retired after a career in clinical pathology, she proudly took time out of her afternoon to point out the features of the church, parish hall and offices.
She grew emotional in recounting two stories of her childhood experiences with segregation and integration – neither of which she wanted shared publicly. And when asked whether she thought St. John's could do more to face its own historic complicity with slavery and segregation, she declined to comment about another congregation's decisions.
Instead, she framed her response in terms of her own congregation.
"If there were more history to be told about St. Cyprian's, I would want to know it," she said, "simply because it's my church and I love it.".
– David Paulsen is an editor and reporter for Episcopal News Service. He can be reached at [email protected].
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How is Data Science Transforming Businesses?
by Derek Cook
Data science, in a nutshell, is a rapidly evolving area, which is the study of obtaining valuable insight and information with unstructured or structured data. The information captured from these digital data sources can result in future discovery, insights, and innovation. This technology provides several strategies for companies such as exploring historical data, enhancing comparisons to competitors, analyzing the market, and creating recommendations on how to sell your products or services.
Most organizations and companies are not using their data sources to their full potential when it comes to data extraction. It is common to understand the importance of data science within a company, but it is uncommon to reveal its value. As the market for this advanced technology increases drastically, it illustrates a key role in helping the concept of transforming businesses digitally.
A business operations study written by the Stable Kernel content team explains that companies such as Netflix, Delta, UPS, and Airbnb, have utilized data science to help bring value to their company. Netflix reduced its customer churn by at least $1 billion because of implementing a content recommendation engine to maintain the attention span of its watchers. Delta is the first airline to create a mobile device application that uses RFID (Radio-frequency identification) generated data to let customers track their luggage. UPS has developed Orion, short for On-Road Integrated Optimization and Navigation, which understands how to optimize driver routes, engine idling times, and data point analysis of package deliveries and shipping points. Airbnb's data science team decided to record end-user behavior by redesigning their website and displaying top travel destinations in foreign countries versus the abundance of browsing neighborhood photos. Airbnb's updated website design led to an increase in bookings among foreign countries.
Why data science is important
Predominantly, data science proves to be the fuel that powers the knowledge in businesses by managing today's vast data volume. It demonstrates superior decision making, product relevance, talent recruiting, staff training, and target audience location. Data science makes it possible to produce more relevant reasoning than what might have been considered beforehand by taking a more analytical approach to the numbers and statistics within a company.
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Providence ministries recognized as America's Best Hospitals
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Providence sets the highest standards for ourselves and our ministries as we strive for Health for a Better World. Healthgrades' annual America's Best Hospitals awards for 2021 highlights our value of excellence. Below are the 2021 Healthgrades awards we are excited about.
America's 50 Best Hospitals Award:
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center – Portland, OR (2021)
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center – Mission Hills, CA (2020-2021)
America's 100 Best Hospitals Award:
St. Jude Medical Center – Fullerton, CA (2021)
Providence Portland Medical Center – (2019-2021)
America's 250 Best Hospitals Award:
Queen Of The Valley Medical Center – Napa, CA (2019-2021)
St. Joseph Hospital – Orange, CA (2020-2021)
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital – Santa Rosa, CA (2021)
St. Mary Medical Center – Apple Valley, CA (2020-2021)
Every year, Healthgrades evaluates hospital performance at nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide. For this year's list of recipients, we are proud to have:
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center as the only hospital in Oregon to receive an America's 50 Best Hospitals Award
St. Jude Medical Center earn the America's 100 Best Hospitals Award for the first time
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital earn the America's 250 Best Hospitals Award for the first time
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Alphons Pelzer
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Full figure portrait of Christopher Columbus standing with his right leg forward and his head bent down, looking at the globe in his left hand. His right arm is bent slightly and reaching forward. Next to him is a rectangular pedestal on which a sphere sits. Water cascades down each side of the base's front.
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Sculpture's base:
West side East side North side South side
Christopher Columbus, an Italian navigator, launched four voyages of discovery to the new world. Donated by the Josephinum to the State of Ohio. This statue was relocated to Capitol Square. The fountain honors Ohio's sister state bond with Liguria, Italy, the navigator's home.
The Pontifical College Josephinum commissioned this statue from the W. H. Mullins studio.
Fountain:
West side South side East side North side
the spirit of discovery
has the power to change
the course of human history
as demonstrated by
the voyages of
whose imagination
shattered the boundaries
of the western world
Modern history has been shaped by
one man's courage to pursue a dream. 1892
A dream shared
by later generations
who explored a vast continent
where freedom and opportunity
beckoned to those with
the courage and immagination
to venture westward. 1932
Westward into Ohio
came the successors
to the spirit of Columbus,
naming the capitol city
of the new state
after the man who symbolized the spirit of the frontier… 1992
Frontiers explored
by later generations of Ohioans
extend beyond land and water
to a new world
whose potential
remains to be unlocked
by the spirit of discovery.
The statue was commissioned by The Pontifical College Josephinum in honor of the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage. It was purchased by Mssgr. Jessing in 1892 for $400 or $500. The sculpture was originally located at Pontificial College Josephinum, on 18th Street between Mound and Main Streets, in Columbus between 1892-1932. It was presented to the State in 1932
Christopher Columbus Discovery Plaza.
Located along the south side of the Statehouse, this 1892 statue by Alphons Pelzer was commissioned by Monsignor Joseph Jessing for display at the Pontifical College Josephinum courtyard (at 821 E. Main Street). It was moved to the Statehouse in 1932, a gift to the State when the Josephinum moved to Worthington.
The statue is similar to those in Peoria, Ill., and Phillipsburg, N.J.
This monument on postcards
Click here for the postcard(s) and enlargement(s)
Alphons Pelser (... - 1895), German-American sculptor in Salem, Ohio, worked for W.H. Mullins Company.
Sources & Information
Ohio Outdoor Sculpture Inventory
Capitol Square Tour: Statues & monuments
Old photo from "The Manufacturer and Builder", November 1892 (page illustrated on the website Making of America by Cornell University)
Town: Columbus
Mullins Company, W. H.
Pelzer, Alphons
Statue (Columbus)
Location (N 39°57'41" - W 82°59'58")
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When I started in the industry back in 1998, having moved from traditional cinematography through nonlinear editing and on to videoconferencing, I wrote up a list of major issues the streaming industry needed to solve before streaming could replace television, or at least become the consumption platform of choice.
The list was fairly simple, with no more than 20 primary issues to address, but the tasks themselves were quite daunting. One, for instance, was to scale beyond television-sized audiences. As we now know, that has inspired several different ways to scale, and the latest approach— using HTTP-based dynamic streaming, in various flavors such as HLS or DASH—still leaves lots to be desired.
One area that no one seemed to touch, though, was the fundamental way that encoding quality could be improved.
Yes, we've had one or two iterations, but nothing revolutionary. If you think about it, H.264 was part of the videoconferencing world long before it was part of streaming. I wrote about the history of H.264 in my "Decade of Streaming Media" article in 2008 (which is not online, unfortunately), and it will probably still be central to the "Two Decades of Streaming Media" article in 2018.
H.265 is mostly a variation on a theme, as is VP9, which means that we need another way to solve the quality issue without sacrificing performance. And that will require fundamental research.
Ideally, a new set of algorithms would need to be created and fed into the encoder—at the time of encoding, not in a post-encoding process—to fundamentally alter the output of the encoder and achieve better quality at the same bitrate. Conversely, if the algorithms were good enough, the same "status quo" quality could be maintained at lower bitrates, or so the theory goes.
So let me take this first column of 2016 (a leap year) to issue a challenge the industry to leap into the year with the intention of solving some additional issues from my list.
There are three more issues from that list that could be addressed in the near term.
First, there's a need for codec-agnostic quality optimization. That means we're not stuck with a single codec, such as H.264 or H.265 or even VP9, but have the flexibility to apply these learnings across a wide variety of codecs.
Second, and this is a challenge to the industry, as we all need to get back to basics and solve fundamental issues: We need to figure out a way to lower our broadcast latencies, from the delay of 70 seconds or more that we currently see for live streaming, to a number much closer to a traditional broadcast delay of 3 seconds or less.
Finally, there are several other minor issues to be addressed: object-based or model-based encoding reuse—great for indexing, search, and retrieval technological needs—as well as the need to revolutionize audio codecs so that we can get AAC+ equivalent surround sound down around 16Kbps.
Doing these things won't be easy, but we've got the right circumstances coupled with the right minds to be able to solve these problems in the upcoming year. So leap in and let's fix these things!
As 2016 begins, StreamingMedia.com looks at the content, monetization, and workplace challenges that face the industry. The more things change, the more they stay the same.


In this month's blog from Audio T Cardiff we thought we would take you step by step through a Michell Gyrodec turntable build and set up..
The system we have chosen consists of Michell Gyrodec including Techno arm, HR power supply and Ortofon 2m Black cartridge. Leema essentials phono stage, NYTECH CP202/CPA402 and Spendor A1.
Displayed below we have the packaging of the Gyrodec including all relevant parts for building. We have removed the top section here, which contains the clear acrylic plinth with a fitted, hinged lid.
Acylic plinth with hinged lid.
One of the first jobs in the build is to fit the adjustable threaded feet x3.
Now the feet are in place the plinth can be put in position over the separate motor housing. At this point we also level off the plinth by adjusting the threads on the three feet.
Plinth levelled correctly with motor in place.
Next, you can see above the labelled suspension springs ready to be fitted to their relevant points and below the initial collar is being gently placed over the first spindle.
All three collars in place ready to take the suspension springs.
Suspension springs threaded onto the collar ready for adjustment.
Gyro chassis ready for the Techno tonearm.
Above we have the last spacer/thread fitting to the Gyro chassis and below the Techno arm being placed before being screwed down.
Offering arm to Gyro chassis.
Tonearm cables can now be dressed correctly on the underside of the chassis. The tonearm is earthed to the chassis.
Above the cartridge has been fitted to the arm and the bearing housing has been attahced to the main chassis of the Gyrodec. The main chassis is then placed over the suspension springs ready for the platter and then levelling.
View from above before the platter is placed over the bearing and spindle.
Platter in place from the front of the turntable.
Platter in place - view from above.
Once the platter is in place and the belt fitted around motor pulley and turntable platter we can level the suspension using the threads on the top of the suspension springs. Once the platter is level and the drive belt sits nicely on platter and pulley, we can start making adjustments to the cartridge position, arm height and lastly the tracking force for the cartridge. Before we continue with the arm and cartridge adjustments we can now fit the finishing caps to the suspension springs.
Arm height adjusted using the three point mount collar and thread.
Adjusting tracking force for cartridge using the Pro-ject "measure it".
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"If that kind of evidence is not enough to make you plead guilty, we could reopen the coffin and let you clearly see whether or not that thread on Miss Zhou's fingernail is the same as the one on your handkerchief.""No need. I confess."Suyun's ghostly voice floated out. Her previous malevolence had dissipated into utter hopelessness.Ji Yunshu didn't anticipate that Suyun would admit to her crime this quickly, causing her to clench the handkerchief in annoyance!
The girl who revealed a sinister expression earlier, at this instant, didn't show any hostility or fear.That complete reversal of attitude was comparable to a monolith! Even in her frail body, her temperament had turned steady and firm. "That's right. I killed the young miss. It was my doing!"Her expression underwent another transformation. Her pale lips hooked into a forced smile as she looked at Ji Yunshu, Lord Zhou, and Madame Zhou. Then, she spoke, "Milord, Madame… I killed her. You can send me to the yamen. For this crime, I'm willing to pay with my life."Madame Zhou glared at her with bloodshot eyes, brimming with endless grief and rage. She stepped forward and raised her hand. Her raised palm slapped down fiercely.The slap sent Suyun to the floor. Blood trickled down the corner of her mouth, but she kept quiet and weakly lay on the floor, accepting everything happening to her."Why did you want to kill my daughter?! In the end, what did we owe you?! My daughter shouldn't have died. She shouldn't have died! Why did you want to kill her…" Madame Zhou madly bellowed.Yet, in reply, she only heard Suyun's increasingly lively laughter.Suyun's voice was loud and clear, "Teacher Ji's conjectures were all correct. Why do I want to kill the young miss? It's because she killed my child.""You're lying! It's impossible for my daughter to do that to you.""Since things have reached this point, I have no need for lies." Then, she pointed at the box in Ji Yunshu's hand and continued, "Every time Miss stabbed those needles in me, it hurt so much… It was excruciatingly painful. But each time, I kept holding on. If it wasn't for that… if it wasn't for me enduring that much pain, my baby wouldn't have died at her hands! My poor baby!"Her smile vanished, replaced by an expression of extreme hatred and fury.The crowd didn't utter their surprise, as if they were watching a good show! Madame Zhou shook, but she too quieted down.Lord Zhou spoke, "Suyun, my daughter has already passed away, but you still want to slander her."This was a great family's skeleton in the closet, so naturally, even if you beat them to death, they wouldn't acknowledge it! Right at this time, the trembling Qiaoxin suddenly knelt and cried, "Milord, Madame! What Teacher Ji and Suyun said were all true. Whenever Miss was slightly unhappy, she would vent her anger on us. Since she was worried that other people would find the wounds on our bodies, she would only pierce us with the silver needles. We didn't dare to speak out and had no other option but to endure it.""Qiaoxin, are you insane? I can't believe you're protecting this homicidal killer! My daughter was young but so sensible. It's impossible for her to do such things.""Madame, everything this servant spoke of can be verified!""Nonsense! I don't believe you!"Ji Yunshu sighed. This conversation would go nowhere. With a frown, she spoke, "Lord Zhou and Madame Zhou, your daughter was really a clever and pleasant person, but it's undeniable that she had a serious illness. When her illness flared up and she experienced an episode, even if she knew about it, it was hard for her to control herself. Her distress, due to extreme anxiety, led her to harm people and possibly even kill them!"Madame Zhou asked, "Illness? If my daughter had an illness, how come we didn't know about it?""This kind of illness doesn't exhibit symptoms like a physical illness or disease would. To be precise, her illness came from her mind. Whenever she became slightly unhappy, that feeling would be amplified in her mind, triggering a panic attack. Aside from those moments, she would look the same as any ordinary person. Since Miss Zhou was also intelligent, she knew how to conceal herself well. So, not knowing about her illness isn't surprising."The behavior of those with OCD was truly not easy to explain with concrete words! Considering that she didn't expect to explain so much, it actually didn't turn out too bad.
Madame Zhou's angry expression didn't fade. She still ferociously glared at Suyun. "Even so, my daughter didn't deserve to die! You murderer! Pay with your life!" She turned to a servant and ordered. "Grab her and drag her to the yamen! I want her death to pay for my daughter's life."The male servants quickly recovered their minds and were about to advance toward Suyun, but was blocked by Ji Yunshu."Wait a moment, please. I still have a few questions to ask Miss Suyun."Then, Ji Yunshu squatted down such that her mouth drew near Suyun's ear. She questioned her. "Since things have reached this point, are you sacrificing yourself in order to cover for your lover?"Suyun's eyes grew big, but she didn't utter a word!"Soon, you are going to die, but he's still hidden in the crowd. You really loved the wrong person." When she spoke those words aloud, Ji Yunshu's eyes swept a quick glance at the people present.Suyun's originally calm eyes suddenly revealed nervousness.In an instant, Ji Yunshu took out a dagger from who knew where and yelled in a clear and resounding voice, "It would better if you help me find him!"Ji Yunshu raised the dagger high above her and ruthlessly plunged it toward Suyun's heart.The dagger flashed through the air. A finger's length away from the target, a shadow flew out of the crowd, disarming Ji Yunshu in a split second and sending the dagger skittering across the ground. In the next instant, the shadow sent out a palm strike towards Ji Yunshu's chest.It was only when the palm strike was millimeters away, at the last possible second, a strong force seized Ji Yunshu's waist and dragged her body back.


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The end of the season for Fort Wayne's Bach Collegium culminates in the Grand Finale on May 5 at Zion Lutheran Church.
Most of this season's programs have been centered on the observation of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and have showcased some of the musical heritage the Reformation preserved. The Season Grand Finale changes it up a bit, doubling the experience by featuring both the Bach Collegium Singers and Baroque Instrumentalists, conducted by Daniel C. Blosser, a Fort Wayne native who went to Snider High School, and the Indiana Wesleyan University Early Music Ensemble, conducted by Jason Luke Thompson.
The two groups go "Bach and Forth" during the performance celebrating music from the mid to late 1500s through Bach's death in 1750.
Featuring music from both Catholic and Reformation composers, the common thread is that it is for multiple choirs of singers and instruments. Of particular interest will be the accompanying instruments, all of which are of the time period of the music. They will have early trombones (posaunen or sackbuts), a cornetto (a very interesting double-reed instrument that has a trumpet-like sound), recorders, oboes, and baroque strings.
Some of the music planned for the evening builds on familiar Reformation chorales, including J.S. Bach's "Prelude in C Minor" and "Sing a New Song to the Lord," Schutz's "Psalm 42" and "O Good, O Sweet," and Telemann's "Concerto for Two Oboes and Strings."
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The Turnpike Art Group agreed a special limited contract with artist Elise Wehle, which entitled us to reproduce, by means of stencil, her artwork 'Sown by the Mountain'. The total quantity of reproductions was not to exceed one, as a one-time use.
We liked this approach a great deal. The fascinating 'construction' method for this unique cross-Atlantic collaboration involved the artist sending a digital file to TAG, which was then resized, and printed onto A0 paper sheets. These were then combined into a single composite, roughly 1.5 metres square. Then began the time-intensive process of hand-cutting the intricate design into a delicate paper stencil.
When completed, the stencil was then temporarily glued to the wall in question, before being sprayed with our chosen colour treatment.
Such a process is reminiscent of artists such as Sol LeWitt, and his instruction-based artworks of the early 1970s. A set of detailed instructions allowed a remote group of individuals to work to the artists 'blueprint' and execute a certified artwork without the artist being present.
With Wehle 'pushing' her piece of art to us via the internet, from her studio in Orem, Utah, TAG were then able to receive it in London, and fabricate the work nearly 5,000 miles from its origin.
TAG would like to thank Trea Clenaghan for her generosity and support, in allowing this artwork to be created.


Over the past several years, my career path has seemingly meandered as I moved from being an educational technology specialist to an independent learning facilitator to a rowing coach to an early college academic advisor to a college prospective student advisor. It's been quite the adventure…. and one in which each step prepared me professionally for what followed.
This space reflects that eclectic, crazy life journey.
My 'new' life here in Stillwater America involves a fair amount of all three things on a daily basis, and I'm committed to developing professionally in these areas so that I can better serve the students and families I encounter daily. This includes: dual credit, concurrent enrollment, transfer students, articulation agreements, 3+1, 4+1, pre-health advising, enrollment trends, parental influence on college choice, student communication preferences, all things SLATE, some things Banner, multicultural counseling, leadership, team dynamics, student organizations, career development facilitation, and much more.
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Video editing software for Windows ranges from versions targeted especially at beginners to more feature-packed versions for advanced video editing enthusiasts.
They vary as much as the reasons why users take up video editing. You can make home videos, you can become a YouTube star, and you can even create VR experiences.
Most video editing tools for mainstream users are best used for any of these reasons. Whatever software you decide to get, you should first make sure to check out its main features just to see if they're following your specific needs and targets.
Filmora Video Editor is an easy-to-use Windows video editing software. It allows you to edit your videos effortlessly to make them look amazing. The software is ideal for both beginners and pros.
The final product will turn out perfect for your specific purpose. The software comes with an easy interface, and there's no technical knowledge required.
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The HD Video Converter Factory Pro is an all-in-one video converting software that builds more than 250 formats and optimal profiles for hot TVs and portable gadgets. It's able to convert all popular videos flawlessly.
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If you're a video editing lover, you'll love this handy video editing software compatible with all Windows versions.
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This is quite a different breed of video editing software. It's targeted at 3D rather than 2 D editing. This free software packs a lot of features with enhanced functionality.
You can create mixed reality short films.
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The Blender community is enormous, and it's more than willing to help newcomers with tutorials that will teach you how to start your journey and to be able to master the fantastic piece of software.
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Besides offering strong 4K support, Nero also supports the H.265 HEVC video format, and this is a relatively new video compression standard.
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Steven began racing a chariot in 1995 and in 1997 Steven began racing his chuckwagon. Steven Proudly carries Swan Shavings as his chuckwagon sponsor. Steven is a competitive driver who strives to maintain a top 10 finish.
Steven and his brothers Ryan and David, who also race chuckwagons, are first generation drivers. Steven's oldest brother Ryan races with the Prince Albert Professional Chuckwagon & Chariot Assoc. David races with the Western Chuckwagon Assoc.
Steven married Colleen in 2006 which found him joining another racing family. Steven, Colleen and their son Maccoy along with the rest of the family spend their summers traveling across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta racing their chuckwagons and chariots.


Poonch Fort or Poonch Qila is considered to be one of the historically rich castles of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Located at the town of Poonch in the district of same name of the state, the fort was built by Raja Rustam Khan between 1760 and 1787. The architecture of the fort is hugely influenced by the Mughal style of architecture. It was Raja Moti Singh who was so amazed with the architecture of the fort that he kept on renovating it for 40 years. Once, he had hired European architect to beautify the palace in European style of architecture. Now, it has gained importance as one of the attractive tourist destinations of the Poonch.


TEDx West Cork - Geoffrey talks about the effects of nature on people.
BBC correspondent Frank Gardner, himself a keen bird watcher, examines the sometimes surprising links between soldiers and birds and the comfort soldiers find in such an interest in times of extreme stress. It is a relationship that can be traced from those who served in the First World War trenches to troops currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Featured interview with Sgt Geoffrey McMullan and current servicemen and women as well as letters from the front, poetry, music and bird song.
Geoffrey in Boulder Colorado with Mountain Chickadee.


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Impressions of Shing-Tung Yau and His Mathematical World
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Shing-Tung Yau is a name familiar to most mathematicians and theoretical physicists, through his fundamental work in geometric analysis and the theory of Calabi–Yau manifolds. Professor Yau is also known to the educated public, particularly in China, by his many expository works, his publications in the news media, and his tireless work over the years in promotion of mathematics and mathematical education.
This volume presents collected impressions of Yau and his mathematical world, written by his friends, students, and colleagues from past and present. Together, these impressions paint a vivid portrait of an extraordinary kind of scholar.


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Slim Devices introduces Transporter, the ultimate device for audiophiles, and declares the death of the CD player
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July. 25 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Slim Devices introduced Transporter, the most advanced networked audio system available. Designed to appeal to the most discerning audiophiles and music lovers, Transporter's sound quality surpasses that of even the most sophisticated high-end compact disc players. It also offers a broad range of options not available on any CD player, including thousands of Internet radio stations, Pandora's award-winning personalized music service and Rhapsody's two-million track collection of online music. Audiophiles can use Transporter to listen to their entire music collection, regardless of whether it was originally downloaded on their PC or purchased on CD. These capabilities are expected to make CD players obsolete.
The retail price for Transporter will be $1,999. Slim Devices will accept pre-orders for Transporter starting today and begin shipping the product on September 18.
Slim Devices CEO and co-founder Sean Adams explained that Slim Devices has been designing affordable streaming audio products for single and multi-room use since 2000. "Slim Devices' Squeezebox products have long been respected for high sound quality among networked audio systems," said Sean Adams, the CEO and founder of Slim Devices. "With Transporter, we set out to design an even better system by incorporating ideas both from the audiophile community and specialist engineers from around the globe. Transporter is designed not merely to rival traditional high-end sources, but to surpass them in both subjective and quantifiable performance."
Award-winning industrial designer Fred Bould, who previously designed Slim Devices' Squeezebox, is responsible for the case and remote design. Several of his works are included in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Transporter's thick aluminum chassis protects the system from external noise, and gives it a high-quality fit and finish that will complement any system. The case will be available in either black or clear anodized finish
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For Transporter, Slim Devices selected the AK4396 DAC, the newest and most advanced professional-grade converter from AKM. Its performance is remarkable especially at the high frequencies that create the sense of imaging and realism. Hailed as a "miracle DAC chip", its low out-of-band noise allows the use of low-order output filters with higher cutoffs, resulting in preservation of phase and reduced distortion within the audible band.
Transporter's gold plated circuit board is arranged to keep digital and analog sections separate, and to minimize jitter through careful management of clock signals. Power is supplied to the DAC and analog stages by three separate super-regulator circuits. The balanced amplifiers use precision polyphenylene film capacitors. Individual op-amp packages ensure low noise and immeasurable crosstalk between channels.
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The company will begin shipping the product on September 18, 2006 and will accept pre-orders until then. Any order placed before the ship date will receive a free Squeezebox, an ideal solution for customers who wish to listen to their digital music in more than one room. Customers can place pre-orders on Slim Devices' website (www.slimdevices.com).
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