With a renewed sense of youth (thanks to Botox and all of the wonderful skincare companies I work with), I have found myself missing that sense of freedom and escape, which both the open road and an amazing car provide.This brings me to my current predicament of deciding which breed, pedigree and personality traits I am looking for in a vehicle.
Cut to 2019: I am currently on the hunt for a new car to take me through the next stage of life. Shortly after starting this search, renting many vehicles and testing out friend's cars, I discovered a lot has changed in the realm of technology, attractiveness and options. I am a millennial, so of COURSE I want to optimize every single possible aspect of my life—from food delivery to dating to getting from one destination to the next in the fastest, smoothest and most comfortable way possible. Let the courting begin!
For anyone who has ever driven a Lexus you know the only words that can accurately describe driving this care are "smooth." I not only drove this car home to North Carolina and back but, also, went for a day adventure to Roaring Gap, N.C. to test this car on some winding roads up a mountain. No matter which bumpy and windy road I tested my coffee never spilled. The internal dashboard was filled with the latest technologies integrating every Apple app on my IPhone to Alexa and it's own custom Lexus app know as "Enform" to help access everything I could possibly need for an amazing and connected ride.
– The all-new ES is the first Lexus model to fully integrate with Amazon Alexa, allowing for seamless home-to-car and car-to-home access. In addition to Alexa's standard features like listening to audiobooks and hearing news briefings, users could start their Lexus remotely or turn on any smart devices at home from their car.
– Strikingly styled from the ground up, the first-ever ES F SPORT provides dynamic performance not typically found in this segment.
– With Apple CarPlay in the all-new ES, you can easily make calls, get directions, send text messages and listen to music via the navigation display.
Check out our adventures below first on our day trip to Roaring Gap, NC where you can see Pilot Mountain in the Background.
As far as luxury vehicles go in terms of pricing and value I give this a rave review and look forward to testing out other Lexus rides to report back and compare.


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Тайфунник Соландра, или буроголовый тайфунник () — морская птица из семейства буревестниковых. Видовое название было дано в честь Даниэля Карлссона Соландера (Daniel Carl Solander, 1733—1782) — шведского ботаника и зоолога.

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Длина крыла самцов 296—317 мм, самок 284—316 мм, длина клюва у самцов 33—37 мм, самок 30—36 мм, длина хвоста самцов 122—135 мм, самок 120—134 мм. Среднего размера темно-серый тайфунник. Половые, возрастные и сезонных различий в окраске отсутствуют. Верхняя часть тела темно-серого цвета. Передняя часть головы и горла беловатые, часто бывают с тёмными пестринами. Низ тела и подхвостье серо-бурого цвета. Подкрылья несут на себе белые пятна треугольной формы в основании первостепенных маховых перьев. Клюв относительно массивный и чёрный. Ноги темно-серого цвета. Пуховой наряд тёмный, пепельно-серый снизу.

Ареал и миграции

Океанический вид, который тяготеет к открытым водам океана. Вид гнездится на острове Лорд-Хау в Тасмановом море. В XIX веке в большом количестве вид гнездился на острове Норфолк.

В южном полушарии встречается преимущественно в юго-западной части Тихого океана. В северном полушарии встречается в западной части океана, где отмечается восточнее островов Рюкю, восточнее Хоккайдо и Курильских островов. Отмечался у Гавайских островов.

В небольшом количестве встречается у южной части Курильских островов в весенне-летне-осенний период. Тайфунник Соландра посещает воды Дальнего Востока России во время летне-осенних кочёвок.

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В морской период жизни птицы активны в любое время суток. На гнездовье ведут ночной образ жизни. Размножаются колониально, но на море птицы держатся рассеянно. Питаются головоногими моллюсками, ракообразными и другими морскими животными. Пищу птицы берут с поверхности воды, для чего прерывают полёт и садятся на воду.

У берегов Лорд-Хау основу рациона составляли кальмары (преимущественно из семейств Cranchiidae,  Onychoteuthidae,  Spirulidae  и Histioteuthidae) и рыбы (семейство Myctophidae); меньшую роль в питании играли ракообразные (Decapoda и Isopoda). Могут нырять на глубину до 5,2 м, что свидетельствует о возможности добычи пищи на глубине. В желудках обнаружены остатки крупных кальмаров и птиц, что подтверждает клептопаразитизм у данного вида.

В места гнездования прилетают в марте. Яйцекладке предшествует весьма длительный подготовительный период. Гнёзда строят из растительности, устраивают в норах или в расщелинах скал. Норы располагаются на склонах гор. В кладке одно белое яйцо. Откладывание яиц отмечается в июне — июле. Птенцы развиваются в августе — октябре. Слёт молодых происходит в октябре — ноябре.

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Буревестниковые
Птицы Азии
Животные, описанные в 1844 году
Таксоны животных, названные в честь людей

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Home Economy Rusal Shares to Rise More After Reaching 10-Month High, Analysts Say
Rusal Shares to Rise More After Reaching 10-Month High, Analysts Say
A 71% increase in the price of shares in Rusal, the world's second-largest aluminum producer, since the beginning of the year is not the end of the upward trend for the company, analysts told the South China Morning Post.
The Rusal share began climbing after the United States signaled its intention seven weeks ago to lift sanctions against the company, and later followed through after a deal with the U.S. Treasury saw the company restructure its leadership and reduce a stake by billionaire oligarch owner Oleg Deripaska.
Some analysts consider the stock to be undervalued. The Hong Kong-listed company has been beaten down by a geopolitical spat between the U.S. and Russia, which last April led to U.S. sanctions against 23 Russian heavyweights and the firms they control, including Rusal.
"Rusal trades on very depressed multiples – 3.4 times this year's estimated earnings and 2.8 times the enterprise value multiple over earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization post-sanctions. A deep discount on both global and even Russian peers," Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts said in a note last week.
Rusal shares closed 3.5 percent higher at HK$3.84, a ten-month high, on Monday. The analysts suggested a target price of HK$5.5, which they said represents a 30 percent discount on its global peers and reflects its "complicated shareholder history and structure." They said Rusal was a high-risk stock because of its higher geopolitical risk exposure compared with peers.
Meanwhile, analysts at brokerages Citi, BCS and Renaissance Capital and independent research provider AlphaValue have given target prices that range from HK$4.18 to HK$4.6 for Rusal, which closed at HK$4.64 a day before it was hit by the U.S. sanctions in April 2018.
On January 27, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) lifted the sanctions on Rusal and its parent, En+ Group. It also forced a reduction in shareholding in En+ by former controlling shareholder Oleg Deripaska to 44.95 percent from 70 percent. Personal sanctions against the oligarch will remain in force.
Deripaska is also obliged to hand over any voting rights above 35 percent of En+ shares to a trust that must vote in the same way as most shares held by shareholders other than him. En+ has a 57 percent stake in Rusal.
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Solving Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Dilemma
Prostate cancer diagnosis may be aided with drug therapy
(RxWiki News) Men can have elevated PSA (prostate-specific antigen) levels, and later undergo a biopsy only to find out that they do not have prostate cancer. That's a problem with PSA tests - they don't distinguish between benign (non-cancerous) disease and prostate cancer.
Drugs designed to shrink enlarged prostates in men with abnormal PSA levels but normal biopsies can help to diagnose prostate cancer.
The drugs finasteride and dutasteride can help to tell the difference between benign prostate disease and prostate cancer.
"Discuss prostate cancer screening with your doctor."
Steven A. Kaplan, MD, professor of urology at Weill Cornell Medical College and director of the Iris Cantor Men's Health Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, led the study.
"At a time when the value of PSA is being increasingly debated, we have shown that when used in a specific way, it can be of great value in identifying men with previously undetected prostate cancer," said Dr. Kaplan.
"We have shown that using PSA with these drugs can help us differentiate prostate cancer from benign prostate disease in patients who are difficult to diagnose," says Dr. Kaplan.
Finasteride is sold under the brand names Propecia and Proscar, along with generic names. Dutasteride is sold as Avodart.
These drugs are known as 5 alpha-reductase inhibitors and both are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat enlarged prostates, as well as male baldness. They work by blocking male hormones.
E. David Crawford, MD, professor of surgery, urology, and radiation oncology, and head of the Section of Urologic Oncology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC) in Denver, told dailyRx, "Men on these agents should have an approximate 50 percent drop in their PSA after 6-9 months of therapy, and if they don't, this could signal prostate cancer."
The two-phase study involved 276 men who had PSA levels of greater than 4 ng/ml. They had each had digital rectal exams and at least two negative biopsies that revealed nothing.
For the first phase, 97 men received 5 milligrams of finasteride or 0.5 milligrams of dutasteride daily. They had PSA tests after 6 and 12 months. An ultrasound and biopsy were performed at 12 months.
PSA levels dropped an average of 48 percent in all men during the year. The decrease was much greater in men with benign prostate disease - and much less with men who had a positive biopsy.
In the second phase of the study, 179 men took the same drug therapy, but had biopsies only if their PSA changed by 0.4 ng/dl. A total of 47 men had a biopsy and 54 percent of these men had prostate cancer. This means, of course, that nearly half of the men who had the therapy and biopsies did not have cancer.
Dr. Crawford, who says he has seen this dilemma in his own practice, said, "The PSA drop on 5 alpha reductase agents becomes a diagnostic test for the absence of cancer as a cause of PSA elevation."
"In my experience, even in men who cut their PSA in half, any change from these new baseline, is worrisome and may indicate the need for more thorough biopsies which we label-mapping biopsies," said Dr. Crawford, who was not involved in this study.
"There are some other tools that can help us discern who has cancer including a urine test called PCA3, which was recently FDA approved to use in men who have had negative biopsies. Additionally, a prostate MRI can be helpful," Dr. Crawford said.
This study was published in the September issue of The Journal of Urology.
Funding information was not available. Dr. Kaplan disclosed financial relationships with pharmaceutical manufacturers Pfizer, Astellas and Watson. Other authors have relationships with Imalux anb Boston Scientific.
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We originally set up a private sailboat charter with Morningstar Aruba but due to several days of snafus (weather, fire on the other side of the island), we were left one day before our departure without a private sailboat operator. Scrambling to see who had availability during the very busy Week 51, we happened across Octopus Aruba. We contacted them via email after breakfast and received an immediate response stating they had availability for a private charter sailboat snorkel tour. We agreed on a 3:30pm departure.
One of the positives is the location. We were quoted $100 US round-trip from our Marriott to Morningstar. The launching point for Octopus Aruba requires no taxi if you are staying in Palm Beach. It is conveniently located between Playa Linda and Holiday Inn Beach Resorts.
Another is the payment method. Octopus Aruba conveniently uses Paypal so no need to carry large sums of cash or call ahead to an international number with credit card details.
We gave ourselves a good 30 minutes to walk down the paved beach promenade and arrived 15 minutes ahead of schedule.
An energetic Dutch woman let us know the boat had not yet arrived. We were seated under the shaded tent where the kids could play in the sand and watched our launch time come and go. Sunset was rapidly encroaching on our 3-hour excursion. But...we had been on the island a while at this point. We realized we had to find it within ourselves to stop watching the clock and just roll with the punches.
When the beautiful white and orange catamaran sailboat did finally arrive, we were more than pleased that this was to be ours for the next 3 hours.
My family kicked off our flip-flops and boarded the small dingy that carried us to the proper sailboat. Along came the Dutch woman because the Dutch-speaking Captain did not speak much English.
We were so excited to begin our first sailboat ride and the closer we got to the ginormous catamaran, we were mesmerized by its beauty. The boat just went through a major renovation and we were the first to take a ride in the comfort of the new digs.
My family crawled up the long ladder to find an immaculate and roomy boat with several great spots to lounge.
Juice was brought out for the kids and the Aruban signature drink (Aruba Arriba) for the adults. We moved at a gentle pace close to the shore. A fresh fruit platter of Cantaloupe and Pineapple was presented.
We were getting closer to our snorkeling destination and we were questioned about sandwiches. My vegetarian husband requested veggie, my little one and I opted for turkey and we said Kid Allergy would just eat cheese and no bread because he was allergic to wheat.
We dropped anchor and off we went to explore the Antilla Shipwreck.
The Antilla was a German freighter boat caught in Dutch waters on the coast of Aruba when Germany and Holland went to war in 1940. When Dutch Marines went to confiscate the boat, the German captain refused, opened the valves and set fire to the boat. The 44-member crew was arrested and the Dutch could do nothing more than watch the boat sink in the harbor. The Dutch struck a deal with the British who agreed to take this crew along with 185 other prisoners of war to an internment camp in British Jamaica where they would spend the remainder of the war.
Today, the Antilla is the largest shipwreck dive in the Caribbean. The entire wreckage is 400 feet long and houses a host of marine life.
The little one decided to stay on the boat. He happily snacked his way through our snorkeling adventures on potato chips and Dutch heart shaped cookies.
Honestly, visibility was a bit more obscured than I would have liked due to some choppy waters, but we did get the opportunity to see a handful of fish and the hull of the ship.
When we returned to the boat, we were knackered from fighting the waves and were each given a sandwich.
Why? Because while we were snorkeling someone had rowed out to the boat with an arsenal of gluten free food they purchased especially for Kid Allergy!
WOW. Now that is impeccable service!
The chips were labeled in Dutch so our lady guide translated the ingredients to ensure there was no gluten that could harm Kid Allergy. He opted for some paprika flavored chips and gobbled two packages down quite quickly.
When we arrived at our second snorkeling spot, my youngest son decided he wanted to come in the water. We brought a noodle to aid in floatation.
But...the ocean was getting more and more rough and it was very difficult to get him to shore. I lost control of the noodle and there were tears. I had to quickly throw the little on the pebbled beach and swim back out to retrieve it.
Exhausted, I finally made my way back to land. I was too tired to even want to snorkel. I just lay face to the sand like a beached whale.
But my rest was soon interrupted. I began to hear complaints about the beach being too rocky and unappealing for sandcastle play. The little one wanted to swim back to the boat. He preferred cookie eating to hanging out on this beach.
So I battled the waves to get the toddler back to the sailboat.
Eventually, I did go back in the water. I found a large starfish colony in the sea grass and I hunted for sea turtles (although I never succeed in finding one).
When I returned, I was handed a dry salad of walnuts, carrots, fresh greens and Brie with a dollop of chicken salad. It really hit the spot.
We set sail heading toward our original pickup location while the bright orange and yellow sun was setting in the distance. Mid sunset my little one announced he had to potty. And no...he couldn't hold it.
Luckily, the Octopus Aruba sailboat has a bathroom aboard! It is spotless with room enough for mom and toddler. It made for a quick in and out ensuring that the whole family could be together to finally enjoy the last ray of sunshine on our final night on this one happy island.
He loved that they kept him snacking the whole trip on good tasting safe gluten free food.
The service was incredible. Like...I have never been cared for so warmly. We take maybe 5 boat charters a year across many different countries. I can say hands down this was the best service my family has ever received on a private boat charter.
Private chartering a boat of this size for only four people is very expensive. We only went with something so large because we couldn't find something smaller at the last second. We were able to negotiate with them on price though so if the initial quote doesn't fit your budget don't be intimidated to ask if you can meet halfway.
If you can, advise them ahead of time of any food allergies. They were very accommodating and took it very seriously.
Be careful with your footing as the the sailboat can be slippery. My husband slammed his knee in to a metal piece of the boat while carrying the toddler. We were offered a ride to the hospital (that we declined) and we did get follow up texts inquiring about his health the next day. We very much appreciated this kind of customer service.
Be clear: you are taking this boat for sailing and service not necessarily for snorkeling. It is not smooth like Belize or Grand Cayman. It isn't even like the sometimes rough waves of Mexico. The ocean is very strong and choppy here and snorkeling visibility is impacted by this.
The snorkeling conditions for children are particularly challenging. Make sure your kids are strong swimmers. They will spend a bunch of time fighting the ocean and not necessarily a large portion of time finding treasures.
Many thanks for your kind words! Kid Allergy Travel is a new blog, started in Feb 2018. It is born from the desire to provide information to keep everyone exploring the world, even those who have kids and allergies like our family! Our own adventures had to be modified when my husband and I had kids and then again when EoE came in to the picture. Like so many others out there who face changes of varying kinds, Kid Allergy Travel hopes to inspire everyone to find their super strength to enjoy adventuring no matter what their circumstance. Please spread the word about our site if you continue to enjoy following it. Our success depends on building a strong community!


To combat high rates of wetland loss, restoration and creation projects are necessary to recover ecosystem structure and function, as well as ecosystem services upon which humans depend. While wetland creation can achieve similar vegetation structure to natural wetlands, it often fails to fully recover similar ecosystem functions, like primary productivity, carbon sequestration, and nutrient removal. The objective of this project is to compare and contrast ecosystem structure and function in a natural tidal salt marsh and two 30-year old, created marshes along the Fowl River in Mobile County, AL.
Our team is characterizing hydro-edaphic conditions, bioturbation, plant community composition, primary productivity, organic matter decomposition, nitrogen removal capacity, and carbon stocks and fluxes in all three sites. The proposed work will be the first to thoroughly examine the constructed marshes of the Fowl River, and will serve as the foundation for a series of studies on plant productivity, decomposition, and carbon and nitrogen cycling at these sites. This project will (1) permit evaluation of wetland creation success, (2) identify shortcomings and trajectories of wetland recovery, and (3) inform management strategies to recover ecosystem services.
Our team has experience in community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and biogeochemistry of tidal marshes. In addition to Drs. Cherry and Mortazavi, the group includes post-docs (Drs. Lorae' Simpson and Corianne Tatariw), graduate students (Taylor Ledford, Erin Smyth, Sommer Starr, and Abbey Griffin Wood), and a number of undergraduate students.


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Nov 2018: Attending a kid friendly international conference in Budapest
Attending a kid friendly international conference in Budapest
Budapest, 12 November 2018 – A number of studies have shown that it benefits both parents and their workplaces, when both parties are amenable, if they stay in touch while the parent is on maternity or paternity leave. The OPEN Conference, held in Budapest, was one of the first conferences to offer participants a children's corner. Organisers hope that the event will offer, at the very least, a few hours' worth of professional inspiration and networking opportunity to mothers and fathers who wish to remain up-to-date in the world of employment while raising their young child. This year, at the third OPEN Conference, business leaders and professionals from a number of countries will explore how a more open corporate culture can serve competitiveness.
According to the latest figures of the Central Statistical Office, there are 60,000 vacant positions in the private sector in Hungary today. This figure saw a steady increase in recent years, and the trend is typical in the case of other Central and Eastern European countries. The practical experiences of major corporations, as well as research data, both show that the establishment of an open workplace culture may be one key of competitiveness: this helps seek out and retain future colleagues, and also helps win customers. Additionally, a 2017 survey by McKinsey & Company also highlighted that ethnically diverse companies may achieve up to 33% better financial results than the industry median, while this figure is up to 21% higher in the case of companies where gender balance is more even. The Boston Consulting Group found that diverse companies are able to realise higher revenues when introducing a product or service. The over 1000 international and Hungarian companies which have joined the WeAreOpen organisation strive to establish an open corporate culture, because they believe that being open, and judging everyone based on their actions, makes sense for companies, and makes for a better workplace for employees.
Conference speakers include such internationally recognised experts as David Pearson, KPMG's Director for Global Inclusion & Diversity; Zdravka Demeter Bubalo, the MOL Group's Vice President for HR; Paralympic athlete Claire Harvey, managing director of the organisation Diversity Role Models; and Vera Budway, Chief Diversity Officer of the Erste Bank Group. Taking place for the third time, this year's conference will welcome participants from the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic and Austria, among other countries, as well as Hungarian decision-makers. The event will also include the unveiling of a service which companies can use to assess how women and men feel at a given firm; businesses may use this information to base their relevant corporate decisions on specific data.
WeAreOpen also seeks to support parents on maternity or paternity leave: the 14 November event will offer a children's corner, where childcare specialists and entertainers from AS Játékvilág will be available to watch children during the day. Additionally, discount day passes will be offered to any mother or father who is on maternity or paternity leave, and would like to participate in the event.
The OPEN Conference looks forward to welcoming business leaders, decision-makers dealing with HR, communications, marketing and diversity matters, as well as stakeholders and anyone interested. The conference will take place 14-15 November at the Budapest Music Center and at the offices of Citi and Eaton.
Citi is the principal sponsor of the event. Prezi, espell and Google are platinum sponsors; Microsoft is a special sponsor; CMS, Diageo, Eaton, HOLD Asset Management, Morgan Stanley and Shaw + Scott are gold sponsors; Loffice Budapest, RTL Hungary and Vodafone are silver sponsors; and Dramatrix is a bronze sponsor. The conference is not-for-profit: its proceeds support the operation and campaigns of the WeAreOpen nonprofit organisation.
About WeAreOpen
The WeAreOpen community initiative was launched by Prezi, espell and Google in the summer of 2013. WeAreOpen's principal sponsor is Citi. In the past five years, more than 1,000 companies, organisations and communities have joined WeAreOpen, including Hungarian businesses, brands with a prominent Hungarian and international profile, and civil organisations and communities. WeAreOpen will be participating in Budapest Pride for the fifth time. It has also launched more than 10 other campaigns, including in support of gender equality at the workplace and equal treatment of people with disabilities.
Those joining the WeAreOpen initiative hold the fundamental belief that everyone is to be judged solely on the basis of their actions and achievements, without regard to their age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national or ethnic identity and origin, political, religious or other views and physical or other factors.
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On a rainy day in Sands Point, Arnold Saltzman—the 96-year-old former roving ambassador, esteemed art collector, successful businessman and generous benefactor— was discussing the weakness of American government, the savagery of German expressionism and the pleasure of his favorite poetry. He was sitting in his spacious study that publishing magnate Max Schuster had built in the 1920s and lined with book shelves. Saltzman and his wife Joan bought the property almost 40 years ago, kept Schuster's library but razed the rest and redesigned their new house around it.
Gazing at the Sound, its horizon hidden in mist, Saltzman heard his wife talking in the kitchen with their housekeeper and his eyes sparkled.
"I can look at my wife's face every day and smile," he says. They just celebrated their 75th anniversary. Their courtship had lasted three months. Now they have three children and five grandkids.
Saltzman's father had left Russia for America when he was five and settled in Brooklyn, where Arnold was born in 1916. Saltzman's elementary school had 48 kids in one classroom. After graduating from Columbia University when he was 20, he went to work for the Roosevelt administration during the Depression and later enlisted in the Navy.
Over the years Joan and Arnold Saltzman have both left their mark on our region. Their names are on a new reading room at the Port Washington library, the Joan and Arnold Saltzman Community Services Center at Hofstra, where he's trustee emeritus, and the Arnold and Joan Saltzman Fine Arts Building at the Nassau County Museum, where he was the founding president, and recently showed some Marc Chagall paintings from his private collection for an exhibit. Perhaps most fitting, considering that Saltzman served five U.S. presidents as an envoy on diplomatic missions, his moniker adorns the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia.
President Richard Nixon, Saltzman says with a wry smile, wanted "no part" of him because he'd opposed the Vietnam War. "I'd been a pain in the neck to him," Saltzman says.
Saltzman says that the Cold War was a much simpler time than the war on terrorism, because the "mutual deterrence" between the America and the Soviet Union kept both sides from using their nuclear weapons. "There is no such thing now," he says with regret.
But having played a hand in postponing Armageddon might be enough for most people to rest on their laurels, but not Saltzman.
You could say the same thing about Saltzman today. May his example inspire others for years to come.


Alfred Sully (22 May 1821 - 27 April 1879), was a military officer during the American Civil War and during the Indian Wars on the frontier. He was also a noted painter.
Sully was the son of the portrait painter, Thomas Sully, of Pennsylvania. Alfred Sully graduated from West Point in 1841. During and after the American Civil War, Sully served in the Plains States and was widely regarded as an Indian fighter. Sully, like his father, was a watercolorist and oil painter. Between 1849 to 1853, he became chief quartermaster of the U.S. troops at Monterey, California, after California came under American jurisdiction. Then, Sully created a number of watercolor and some oil paintings reflecting the social life of Monterey during that period.
Sully headed US troops out of Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, in June 1861 as captain and occupied the city of St Joseph, Missouri, declaring martial law. Violent secessionist uprisings in the city during the early Civil War prompted Sully's occupation.
Sully was commissioned colonel of the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry on February 3, 1862 and served in that rank until promoted to brigadier general on September 26, 1862.
Also during the Civil War years, the Indian Wars continued in the West. General Sully was sent to command cavalry troops and played an important role in the Indian Wars, becoming known as a successful leader. On September 3, 1863, at Whitestone Hill, Dakota Territory, as reprisal for the Dakota Conflict of 1862, his troops destroyed a village of some 500 tipis that lodged Yankton, Dakota, Hunkpapa and Sihasapa Lakota. Warriors, along with women and children, were killed or captured. The troopers' casualties were small.
Stationed at Fort Randall, South Dakota during the Minnesota Sioux Uprising, aka the Dakota War of 1862, he met a young French-Indian girl of the Yankton Sioux tribe who reminded him of his young Mexican wife whom he had lost to cholera during an epidemic in California. This marriage made him the son-in-law of Saswe, aka François Deloria (Saswe being the Dakota pronunciation of François), a powerful Yankton medicine man and chief of the "Half-Breed band".
Sully's daughter, Mary Sully, was known as "Akicita Win" (Soldier Woman). She became the wife of Rev. Philip Joseph Deloria, an Episcopal priest, aka Tipi Sapa (Black Lodge), a leader of the Yankton/Nakota band of the Sioux Nation. Tipi Sapa is featured as one of the 98 Saints of the Ages at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. as the first Dakota Christian minister to his own people. Among their descendants are Vine Deloria, Jr. and Ella Deloria, noted Yankton Sioux scholars and writers.
"Alfred Sully". Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23309. Retrieved 2009-03-01.


I joined the infarAMA team mid November 2012. I have a Master in Biomedical Sciences and since my graduation I've always worked in clinical trials. At this moment, as Junior Drug Safety Officer, I am mainly handling all kinds of pharmacovigilance tasks. Little by little, I'm also finding my way in the Regulatory Affairs department.


"A hangover is the wrath of grapes."
With so much collective experience on the subject and, in our pursuit of a Nobel Prize, we here at the Chicago Bar Project have decided to share our collective wisdom on a subject that has undoubtedly affected the vast majority of our readers, perhaps as recently as last night: hangovers.
We begin with the words of one of America's most beloved founding fathers and a man that was undoubtedly familiar with the subject, Benjamin Franklin: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." In this spirit, we believe the best hangover remedy is simply this: two Alka-Seltzers before bed. I first learned of this practice from my wife, but actively resisted trying it until one-too-many-mornings-after of waking up at 3pm, with what felt like a herd of elephants ridden by Wisconsin mahouts thundering through my head. I finally gave Alka-Seltzer a shot and never looked back. Thank god for Costco and their man-sized Alka-Seltzer box containing 116 packages, especially after a night of whiskey at Delilah's or Duke of Perth. Upon seeing the giant neon sign at the factory outside of Cologne, Germany, I found a new deity to worship in the form of Bayer AG: The God of Hangover Prevention. Additional Chicago Bar Project tip: use cool water to dissolve the Alka-Seltzer tablets as they take longer to dissolve in very cold water.
"Two heads are better than one. Unless you have a hangover."
If you've had an all-day drinking session, have an average night with my friend Sebastian, or are visiting New Orleans, we recommend you partake in a greasy meal (in addition to Alka-Seltzer) before retiring for the evening (or morning). Preferably, your post-inebriate nosh will take the form of a burrito, cheeseburger, late-night breakfast, or other food item that is similarly greasy. If you're in Chicago, I highly recommend ordering huevos rancheros at Taco Burrito Palace #2 at 2459 N. Halsted. It's not on the menu, so just mention my name and, if you need to use the restroom, it's through the kitchen. A steak burrito at Burrito House on Lincoln, just south of Addison, is also an appropriate substitute. For anyone heading to La Bamba for a burrito as big as your head, I offer my condolences to the lining of your stomach, particularly if you had the chorizo. People sometimes ask me if there is a Taco Burrito Palace #1. My answer is that I don't know, I don't care and I don't want to talk about it.
"Is there anything more miserable than a hangover? Not only does a proper hangover—and by proper I mean the sort brought about by drinking until you think you can drink no more and then drinking another seven pints—feel like a slow, lingering death must feel, it is also the one complaint for which it is impossible to get sympathy."
"Having a fry this mornin' are we?"
If you've neglected the advice above, if you drank enough beer to fill Montrose Harbor, and if you've exercised particularly bad judgment with several shots of Jagermeister or Irish car bombs towards the end of the night—or if you did all of the above, perhaps in your own Five Stages of Drinking—you will have to focus on damage control and calling in the big guns. This is why the Irish developed the "Traditional Irish Breakfast." In Ireland, they call it simply a "fry" as everything on the plate is fried: eggs, sausages, rashers (Irish bacon), black pudding (don't ask), white pudding (don't ask x2), hash browns, beans, and even the tomato. Even the brown soda bread is often fried though, if it isn't, one is required to slather it with (full fat) Irish butter. A fine Irish breakfast can be had all day at such fine Chicago pubs as Irish Oak, Hidden Shamrock and Abbey Pub.
"Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider crab on the tarry shingle of the morning. The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again..."
If all else fails, the only remedy short of slipping into a self-induced coma is The Hair of the Dog Remedy. This idiom refers to the ancient belief that, if bitten by a rabid mongrel, putting a hair of the dog that bit you into the wound would prevent the victim from acquiring hydrophobia (rabies). While this wisdom led many to wind up foaming at the mouth, it has been extremely effective in relieving hangovers. The simple idea is that a relatively small amount of alcohol can assuage even the most raging hangover, whether it be in the form of a beer, a shot of whiskey or, the author's favorite, a Bloody Mary—as long as it is not made by a maniacal bartender who wishes your hangover to merely be delayed until the next day. For example, after a lengthy drinking session on my first night in Copenhagen, I was forcibly made to drink Tuborg by my Danish host—a beer I fell in love with the day before, drinking it along the city's picturesque canals, but which I had come to despise the next morning. This single beer got me back into the swing of things after choking it down. Fortunately, the next morning, hot bread from the bakery around the corner was administered prior to bed... Ernest Hemingway is said to have relieved his own, presumably numerous hangovers with a remedy he named "Death in the Afternoon" after one of his novels, which consisted of absinthe topped off with champagne. While no scientific evidence exists as to the efficacy of this time-honored hangover remedy, it is our belief that at least 60% of the time, Hair of the Dog works 100% of the time.
"When a man has had a debauch, he is advised to take next morning 'a hair of the same dog,' in allusion to an ancient notion that the burnt hair of a dog is an antidote to its bite."
Further remedy can be had from drinking as much water as you can stand, getting back into bed as soon as possible after breakfast at whatever time of day that happens to be, and by yelling at children. Things that should be avoided with a hangover: conventions, mothers-in-law, tapioca with a hair in it, Bourbon Street at 9am on Sunday, sitting next to a cappuccino machine, lectures on statistics, polka music, curdled egg nog, younger siblings, the middle seat of the middle row of a Boeing 777, archery, sour candy, New Orleans in August, high-speed cutting equipment, bowling, restrooms in the St. Petersburg shipping terminal and at Indiana gas stations, politicians, operating aircraft or heavy machinery, any beverage of a green color, garbage trucks, driving 20 hours straight, any references to The Magic Pudding, mountain roads in Colombia, lettuce, marathons, Memphis, and carpentry.
"He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer."


Codex, a cryptographic, decentralized title registry service for the arts and collectables market, has launched a protocol to provide for anonymous bidding and title registration on an immutable blockchain, it was announced earlier this month. The Codex Protocol is being developed with primary funding from Bessemer Venture Partners and FJ Labs, with a distribution crowdsale planned for early 2018.
have translated or verifiable financial records. It says it plans to use an anonymous title-escrow system, named Biddable, that requires what a user is willing to bid to be established before an auction begins, showing that they will be able to pay for their purchase and reducing the number of auction winners who renege on their bids. This system, it says, makes the art and collectibles market more accessible while offering cryptocurrency holders a way to diversify their wealth into non-correlated assets.
Powered by the BidEx token, the open source Codex Protocol will allow various industry participants, including collectors, dealers and museums, to build applications and utilize the tools under development, providing access to over 5,000 auctions, with arts and collectibles worth in excess of USD 6 billion, says the company.
To learn more about the Codex Protocol and Biddable, visit www.codexprotocol.com.


Chancellor Angela Merkel has for the first time publicly spoken about her Christian faith, which she has always held to be a personal, private matter, despite being leader of the Christian Democratic Union.
"I am a member of the evangelical church. I believe in God and religion is also my constant companion, and has been for the whole of my life," she said on a videoblog when answering questions from a theology student.
"We as Christians should above all not be afraid of standing up for our beliefs," she added.
The structure of the world relating to belief was a, "framework for my life that I consider very important," she said.
The Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper noted on Tuesday that until now Merkel had been very quiet on the subject, despite the much-cited fact that her father was a protestant pastor.
She was more intensely affected by her family home and the Christian faith than she was by her study of physics and scientific thinking, her biographer Volker Resing suggested to the paper.
"And now she has realised that her avowal of Christianity is important - as a signal within the secular society, but also to her party members who have often accused her of not being concerned with the C [in the party's initials CDU]," he said.
Just less than a year before the general election in Germany, is the chancellor fishing for votes from the declining Christian community, despite friction with the Pope and her liberal position on stem cell research, the Frankfurter Rundschau asked.
Such a suggestion has always been too low for Merkel, which is in part why she has always kept religious questions private, the paper said. But it also suggested that her comments were a reaction to the strong media presence of the Muslim community in Germany.


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It's not the economy, stupid…it's the turkey.
It's not the economy, stupid…it's the turkey!
Short and sweet. The new attack plan that will surely land the White House for the Democrats in 2004 came to light last Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, in Iraq.
Bless their hearts. The economy is booming. Progress in Iraq is proceeding, despite what you may have heard. Bush's approval rating jumped to 61% over the Thanksgiving weekend. OH NO!!! Aaaaaahhhhhh! What do we do?
The following link is to an article that was in the Washington Post on December 3rd. Please read it. I hope the same questions that popped in my mind pops into yours…Are they out of their minds? Do they not have more important issues to address?
Please find your people something to do. They have far too much time on their hands.
PS. Hey libs…we all know the turkey was never intended for the troops. The President was on his way to serve the Halliburton reps visiting Iraq.


War of the Rebellion: Serial 010 Page 0620 Chapter XXII. KY.,TENN.,N.MISS.,N.ALA.,AND SW.VA.
On Tuesday General Sherman's brigade, of the enemy, came to within a mile and a half of us, but being attacked by our cavalry, which General Breckinridge had stationed in the rear, that brigade was routed, losing 40 or 50 killed and about 75 prisoners, who were sent to Corinth.
Here I must be permitted to bear testimony to the resolution, ability, and endurance of General Breckinridge, which in these last days were severely taxed, but were not wanting to the demands of the occasion.
Thus I have given an account of the conduct of this brigade in the battle of the 6th and 7th instant and in three or four days succeeding.
I cannot too highly commend the gallantry and steadiness of these brave men. The courage, coolness, and ability of Colonel Hunt, of the Fifth Kentucky, were conspicuous, as were also those of his lieutenant-colonel, Robert A. Johnston, who was wounded on Monday morning, but kept his place.
No man could have possessed more gallantry than was shown by Colonel Lewis, of the Sixth Kentucky, and his lieutenant-Colonel, Cofer.
Major Hays, too, of the same regiment, behaved well.
I had occasion often to remark the self possession and ability of Lieutenant-Colonel Hynes, in command of the Fourth Kentucky, who was wounded, but did not leave the field, as also the conduct of Captain Joseph P. Nuckols, of this regiment, who had been wounded.
The conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson, commanding the Third Kentucky, is reported to me by one of my aides as having been extremely gallant, as was that of Major Johnston, both of whom were wounded.
Lieutenant-Colonel Crews, commanding Tennessee battalion, behaved well.
Major Clifton, commanding Alabama battalion detached from me early on Sunday, did not again come under my notice, but is said to have done his duty.
Lieutenant-Colonel Galbraith, commanding Thirty-first [Fifty-second] Alabama Regiment, executed to my satisfaction several orders I gave him, and in the early fight sunday, although not drilled, his regiment did excellent service.
Captain Byrne, as I have already said, managed his battery with skill and fought with great gallantry.
Captain Cobb, commanding light battery, unfortunately lost most of his horses and two of his pieces, but is represented to me as having fought with great courage and skill.
Captain John H. Morgan, with his squadron, was not under my immediate control, and has only to-day returned from the scene of conflict. On receiving his report I will add a supplement to this. His conduct is represented to have been such as all expected of so gallant a commander.
The captains and subalterns of the command who fought with distinguished courage are too numerous to be mentioned in this report. Regimental reports are referred to for justice to them. It may not be out of place to say, however, that the Third Kentucky came from the battle-field and from Mickey's house under command of First Lieutenant C. H. Meshew.


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Economic DevelopmentEducation & WorkforceTrade
Modernized North American free trade deal now in action
As business and industry trumpet the start of North America's new trade agreement this month, the road ahead is lined with both possibilities and challenges, experts on multinational trade said.
All three countries now must put in the hard work required to advance the largest tariff-free trading bloc on the globe, they said.
"North America's new regional trade agreement has the potential to propel each of the three member countries individually, and the region collectively, to the highest levels of international competitiveness," said Duncan Wood, an internationally known specialist on North American politics and the director of the Wilson Center's Mexico Institute in Washington D.C.
"Now what we have to consider is how each of the three governments is going to do its job making sure we have the right regulations in place, the right legislation in place, and that we can work with business to take full advantage of this."
Big unknowns
COVID-19 will be one of the biggest concerns on the trek forward, said Marco López, Jr., president and CEO of International Business Solutions, Inc. (IBS), a business advisory firm that provides business development and policy direction to international and domestic organizations.
"We must start thinking and working towards a risk mitigation plan should the economy struggle to meet the new reality post-COVID19," Lopez said. "We have to now think about the millions of American jobs that the country is losing due to the pandemic."
For now, there are many reasons to celebrate, trade experts and business advocates agree.
Most importantly, the new deal allows for the continued tariff-free trade to continue between America, Mexico and Canada, they said.
The new agreement, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), is a reboot of NAFTA — the "grandmother of free trade" — that went into effect in 1994 and has helped create the largest free trade bloc in the world.
Globe's largest tariff-free trading bloc
Since NAFTA's inception, annual American trade with the two countries has nearly quadrupled to $1.3 trillion, and they purchase more than one-third of U.S. merchandise exports, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Today, trade with Canada and Mexico support nearly 14 million American jobs, and nearly 5 million of these jobs are supported by the increase in trade generated by free trade.
A win for Arizona industry
A 2019 report by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry, the Arizona Chamber Foundation and the Arizona-Mexico Commission, found that between 2015-2017 Arizona exported $10.5 billion annually to Canada and Mexico. More than 228,000 jobs in Arizona are dependent on the annual trade and investment relationship.
Arizona is now well positioned to continue to attract new manufacturing and supply chains, Wood said.
The introduction of digital and e-commerce into the trade agreement should strengthen Arizona and North America's competitive edge in global markets with a new emphasis on digital trade and ecommerce, fewer barriers to trade, joint production and the strengthening of existing supply chains, experts said.
Among the benefits cited:
-Raises the "de minimis" customs thresholds under which U.S. businesses may export to Canada and Mexico with reduced paperwork and without paying taxes or duties
-Reduces red tape at the border, reduces costs, and increases predictability for cross-border transactions
-Gives preferential market access for U.S. agricultural exporters, and commitments to fair and science-based trade rules
-Opens up new market opportunities for U.S. dairy and fruit farmers in Canadian markets
-Introduces agricultural biotechnology into the agreement including support for innovation including new technologies such as gene editing
-Introduces a chapter for the first time to support expanded trade for small- and medium-size businesses
Biggest challenges ahead
Covid-19's impact is one of the biggest challenges facing the region. With millions of people out of work, there will need to be investment by both public and private sectors to retrain them for 21st century jobs, Wood said.
"We need to think about the skills the workforce doesn't have or skills the people don't want to learn," he said.
Missed opportunity for Mexico
Mexico is the least poised to benefit from the USMCA, Wood and other multinational trade experts said.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, has done little to instill confidence in investors, they said. A number of his economic policies and weak relationship with the business community have been widely criticized.
UMCA could be a missed opportunity for Mexico to attract manufacturing and supply chains, Wood said.
"Mexico really is in such a privileged position right now and it needs to open up to the world, it needs to provide legal certainty," he said. "It needs to provide a regulatory and legal framework whereby investors feel they are protected."
Positive signs with leaders meeting
A meeting between Trump and AMLO at the White House last week offered signs of a friendlier relationship. But it revealed little about Mexico's ability to meet the demands of the new USMCA like boosting the hourly wage of auto workers and enforcing environmental standards.
It was AMLO's first trip during his presidency to a foreign country. In a joint public appearance to herald the USMCA. Trump said he was "honored" to have AMLO as his guest. AMLO called the meeting, the "beginning of a new stage."
Need for countries to work together to compete globally
While the USMCA is now in place for 16 years, it contains a new clause that allows for review every six years.
That offers an opportunity for dialogue, collaboration and action to incorporate changes, Wood said.
The Wilson Center is launching a series of monthly dialogues with public and private stakeholders from all three countries to identify problems so they can emerge better prepared when the USMCA comes up for review every six years, he said.
"Now, what we have to consider is how each of the three governments are going to do their job making sure we have the right legislation in place, the right regulations in place and that we can work with businesses to take full advantage of this."
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We are more than ready for the WWE to hit the Hub City. In fact, we were just handed two handfuls of tickets. Now, get pumped for the show with this tweet from two WWE Superstars.
The WWE lands in the Hub City on Sunday, September 9th for an early show at 5 p.m. I can already tell that the girl in this video is a meaniehead who might need a lesson in the women's division.
United Supermarkets Arena dropped this hot bomb of a tweet this morning. It features Zelina Vega and "El Ídolo" Andrade "Cien" Almas. Tickets to the event are available at Select-a-Seat.


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Valet Skills: A valet treats Craft, Perform, and Profession as class skills.
Able Assistant (Ex): A valet's master treats the valet as if it had the Cooperative Crafting feat and shares Craft skills and item creation feats with the valet.
Magical Manipulation (Sp): A valet can cast open/close and prestidigitation at will.
Teammate (Ex): A valet is considered to have all the teamwork feats its master has.
Deliver Touch Spells (Su): At 3rd level, when delivering a harmless touch spell to a willing creature, a valet can move before and after delivering the spell, as long as its total movement does not exceed its speed.
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Jammu: University of Jammu, also known as Jammu University, Jammu & Kashmir, has announced the admissions for Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA), Bachelor of Commerce (B Com), and Bachelor of Science (B Sc) programmes, for the ensuing session 2012.
The abovementioned programmes will be offered by the University at its affiliating government and private degree colleges. As per sources, admission will be made on the basis of qualifying examination marks. All candidates, desirous of admission, must apply in the prescribed proforma as issued by the University.
The admission procedure will start from June 25, 2012 and close on July 1, 2012. In case of any seats remaining vacant, the Principal of the respective college may grant late admission on payment of late fee of Rs 150 from July 2 to 8, 2012. However, one can get admission after July 8, 2012 on payment of late fee of Rs 290. The last date for completing admissions, in all conditions, is July 15, 2012.
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Fishing is fun. It's good for your mind and body, and something the whole family can get involved with. You'll always remember the first time you caught a fish!
It's your local angling club that hosts your local Let's Fish! free learn to fish events. Not only can your whole family try fishing for free, at some events, there'll be Explorers activities and canoe taster sessions too.
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Last year's events were really busy as you can see in our video, so you'll need to sign up to the event nearest you as soon as possible.
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If you're Aacme Manufacturing Inc., your starting point on Facebook is simple – you create a Facebook Page. People like it, your staff administer it, and it gives you tools to build interaction with your customers. If you're Joe Bloggs, your starting point on Facebook is equally simple – you get a profile. That's what we all have as individuals.
The difficulty is that few politicians I've ever worked with understand this distinction, and even when they do, the question of where personal matters end and professional stuff starts is never a simple one.
The devil might well be in the detail, as anyone with 'Subscribers' (this vocab is getting complicated) has to be conscious of who reads each and every status update by choosing its distribution when they write something – surely a recipe for people posting private stuff in public by accident.
Secondly, should any politician with a decent following on a Facebook Page (Cory Booker for example) convert those Page 'Likes' into 'Subscribes'?
Third, what is the right thing to advocate to a wannabe politician now? Keep your profile and attract 'Subscribers'? Or go the traditional way and open a page?
Strikes me that this new function is intrinsically not a bad idea, but I fear it's going to cause further confusion in practice.
@Astrid – if anything the vocab is the wrong way around. Surely you should 'Like' a person, but 'Subscribe' to updates from a company? Although intrinsically I find the whole Facebook cheery, positive vocabulary off-putting. You're also right on the page issue – there's no way to follow without 'Liking' that page.
@Paul – I don't think 'Verified' (or lack of it) is a major issue on Facebook, and indeed 90% of the verified accounts on Twitter need not have gone through that, as it's often clear who the real person is anyway. But your point on (broad) reflection of the real world is nevertheless valid – essentially an adaption of Facebook's interface that more closely resembles reality where we might 'Like' a popstar or football club, 'Subscribe' to a newspaper or a politician, and add people as friends. As mentioned on Twitter however, I don't see this happening as I don't see how Facebook's bottom line would improve thanks to its introduction.
The problem is in Facebook's non-existence in the offline world. The logical thing for them to do would be to have an equivalent of Twitter's 'verified' account. So, imagine I'm a politician – I go in, and say "this is my FB profile. I've got lots of 'friends' who are really more like follower – I don't want them looking at my family pics etc, but I'm OK about talking politics to them'. There's also a Page about me that I/someone has created and that I administer. There's also a Wikipedia entry about me that's auto-created an FB page. Sometimes they will also say 'I created a group of my supporters when groups were all the rage on FB." I then take some simple step to verify who I am (an email from my parliamentary email address that is replied to with a special login link) and allow me to merge all o these things into a single 'verified page' that people can 'like' (if they haven't already done so). Group members get turned into 'likes'. The politican can then also move many of the FB 'friends' they have and turn them into 'likes' on the page.
The politician can then free up their personal FB page to just communicate with genuine friends like any normal human being, while having a single 'like' page on FB.
That's what I'd do anyway….
I agree that adding yet another function to Facebook increases the confusion, but it seems to be a great opportunity for politicians as well as journalists, artists etc. to enter a more public debate on Facebook.
How would you convert Likes into Subscribers though? Many politicians have a page (not a profile), and as I understand it, the new function is for personal profiles, not pages.
As a journalist I don't want to 'like' politicians, but I would like to subscribe to their feeds. But if they have a fan page, this is still not an option, as I see it?


The Commonwealth dry dock has always been a placeholder. I created the original image for Korolov Shipping and just used it in the dry dock temporarily. Now I've finally updated the image to match the Commonwealth's new visual style.
The dry dock has 16 separate pressurized bays for building or repairing ships. Each bay can hold a ship up to 50 meters long.
Transcendence 1.7 Beta 1 is ready!
This release furthers the Benedict storyline and reveals more details about the Penitents.
Transcendence 1.7 Alpha 2 is ready!
For this release we've continued to focus on gameplay improvements, including mouse controls, keyboard mapping UI, and galactic map improvements.
The complete series (26 episodes) is now available via YouTube. Watch as the developer of Transcendence tries to play his own game.
Welcome to the first alpha release of Transcendence 1.7. In the 2015 Annual Report I described 1.7 as being focused on gameplay improvements. This alpha release begins those improvements with significant changes to weapons.
In this version we're using DirectX 9, a modern 3D graphics API. While we're not (yet) using any 3D effects, DX9 gives us compatibility with the Steam Overlay and other add-ons.
Transcendence 1.6 Beta 3 is now ready for download!
This version implements the most significant graphical upgrade in the history of the game. Over the last few years I've concentrated on building up the infrastructure (e.g., the Multiverse) and creating more content (Corporate Command and Eternity Port).
Now, as development begins on Part II, I've decided to upgrade the graphics engine, and I'm very happy with the results.
I've spend this week working on upgrading the graphics engine for Transcendence. You can see the results for yourself.
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Transcendence 1.5 and Eternity Port!
Today, Kronosaur Productions announces the release of Eternity Port, the latest official expansion for the indie epic game Transcendence.
Transcendence 1.5 RC 2 is now ready to download! This is almost certainly going to be the release build later today.
Added "external" display attribute for devices (so it shows up in inventory).
Added <LightningStorm> effect (same as paralysis effect).
Destination system is revealed (in galactic map) when the player sees a stargate.
Stations can remove devices even if they can't install them.
The Hercules class is a multirole ship, perfect for transporting cargo through dangerous territories. While it won't win a dogfight against a Wolfen or even a Spartan, the Hercules can easily outmaneuver an EI500.
The Hercules class was developed recently by the United African States, and has grown in popularity among independent captains in the Near Stars.
Transcendence 1.5 RC 1 is now ready to download!
Added +property: to item criteria.
Added omnidirectional property to item types.
waitForTarget order now takes a range and time.
<Station> directive now ignores encounter limits.
Added sovereign= parameter on <Station> to override sovereign.
<GetDockScreen> now expects screen, [data], priority (consistent with <GetGlobalDockScreen>).
Stations now repair all friendly NPC ships, not just ships of the same sovereign.
Fixed missing stations in St. Katharine's Star.
Improved keyboard control for armor screens.
Armor damage indicator updates properly now.
Fixed bug with stations offering to install inappropriate items.
Fixed inconsistencies in buying/upgrading at Commonwealth Fortresses.
An old Ringers habitat floats high above Saturn. This is a screenshot from Eternity Port, the upcoming expansion.
I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Transcendence 1.5 Beta 1!
This version of the core engine is designed to support the upcoming Eternity Port expansion, but it also has many improvements for the core game, particularly for modders.
The Sirius star system is one of the new locations in Eternity Port. Sirius A is a bright, class-A star with a normal retinue of planets and asteroids. But several light-minutes away orbits an exotic star: Sirius B is a white dwarf with the mass of the Sun, but compressed down to the size of the Earth.
Our very own Pixelfck has written an excellent tutorial on the basics of modding.
Suitable for beginners, the tutorial creates a new player ship class (based on the Hammerhead II-class gunship), and includes best practices for creating mods of any kinds.
What is Transcendence? It is not a single game. Transcendence is a universe comprising several interrelated storylines, set in a vast and detailed galaxy.
"Managing and upgrading your ship is one of the key components to surviving each sector of space. Do you spend some of your hard earned credits on a shield upgrade, or refuel? Do you invest in a missile launcher even though you won't be able to install it until the next level? Each decision on how you upgrade feels appropriately tense and important and the game is sure to give you a small amount of latitude in the kind of ship you want to build."
Read the whole thing at: http://teamprocreate.com/blog/reviewsgames/transcendence-stars-pilgrim/.
Michael Tangent's soundtrack for Transcendence was featured this week on the podcast Pod on Pod!
For those of you who aren't familiar with it, Pod on Pod reviews other podcasts. They are part of the ProCreate network. ProCreate is a community of artists in film, music, digital arts, and fine arts. They "help community members expand their network so they can connect and collaborate with other artists." If you guys are looking to expand your network or for fellow artists with whom you can collaborate, you should check them out.
A long time ago, when Transcendence was a tiny game with only a dozen weapon types, I kept a design document describing each weapon and its properties. Whenever I needed to design a new ship I just consulted the design document and picked an appropriate weapon.
And then I added more weapon types. At first I just kept the design document up to date, but eventually the system fell apart. There were too many items and too many changes. And once the design document was out of date, it was useless to me.
The current game mentions star systems like Centauri and Sirius. And of course, everyone wants to see what the Solar System is like in the Transcendence universe. I'm really excited to be finally implementing those systems and giving everyone a chance to visit them.
Kronosaur Productions is proud to announce the release of Transcendence 1.3, the latest and greatest version of the venerable game of space combat and exploration.
We drifted towards the Dwarg settlement in silence. The light of Kinder's Star played across the struts and hull of the massive station and I could see the dark impact sites of Commonwealth missiles, scars from a battle only a few weeks before. Outsiders like me seldom get that close to the fearsome Dwarg, at least not without having to dodge xiphon cannon fire. But I wasn't there to launch an assault—I was there to witness an ascension ceremony.
In honor of the 10th anniversary of Transcendence's first public release, I'd like to show you all the new trailer for the game. Watch it in HD and crank up the volume!
This new trailer is part of an upcoming marketing effort to promote the game, so please spread the link to anyone who might be interested.
Thinking back to the 5th anniversary of the game makes me realize how far we've come. Back then, version 1.0 had not yet been released, there was no Multiverse or Corporate Command, and I was only working on Transcendence part-time.
Five years ago I released an early version of Frontier, a precursor to Transcendence with a familiar look-and-feel. Now, to celebrate the 10th anniversary, Wolfy has created a new playable ship based on the Osaka class depicted in Frontier.
The Osaka Expansion is available right now on the Multiverse!
There is much for me to be thankful on this anniversary, which coincidentally lands on (US) Thanksgiving. As ever, the thing I'm most thankful for is the passion and dedication of this community. You all have made this game your own and created something much much larger than I ever envisioned.
Thank you all and happy anniversary!
Join our friendly and passionate community to learn more about the game.


Archie Gerald Thompson is a NZ-born Australian professional footballer of Papua New Guinean heritage. Archie's distinguished career includes spells at famed European clubs Lierse in the Belgian Pro League and Dutch Eredivisie club PSV Eindhoven as well as eleven seasons with the Melbourne Victory where his fearsome striking ability saw the Victory claim Hyundai A-League championships in 2006-07 and 2014-2015, owing in no small part to Archie's unprecedented 97 goals. Arguably Archie's greatest achievements on the pitch came as a nationally capped Socceroo and veteran of over 50 matches for Australia in which Thompson netted 28 goals including an international record-breaking 13 goals in just one game in the Socceroos 31-0 demolition of American Samoa in 2001. Archie is currently playing for National Premiere League's Victorian side Heidelberg in addition to serving as Club Ambassador of Melbourne Victory. Archie is deeply committed to youth and community engagement and initiatives from visiting children in hospital and youth in correctional facilities to operating the Archie Thompson School Of Soccer, a holiday camp for boys and girls of any level of playing ability.


A classic & stylish vest with lots of wearing versatility!
Looking for a vest that is classic, stylish and goes with everything? "Treyi Vest" fits the bill perfectly! With a simple St st body, the wide border becomes the collar ~ and allows for wearing the vest open, or belted, or pinned, or whatever you desire. The optional waist shaping gives you exactly the fit you want.
With the border/collar knit as part of the body, finishing is quick ~ just the back collar, simple armhole trims & weaving ends.
Knit flat to the underarms, then divided to finish the back & fronts separately, this pattern is written and includes charting for the border/collar. The PDF download link is provided in your payment confirmation email.
*Reynolds has discontinued this yarn. A 100% wool either sport & DK weight (Whiskey was between these two weights), depending on your gauge, are appropriate substitutes.


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Review: The Dead Don't Die
What a strange little film. The quiet little American town of Centreville is about to have a rude awakening when zombies start rising from the grave. It is up to two unlikely local cops to find a solution, and fast. You might be forgiven to think that The Dead Don't Die looks like a cross…
Review: Isle of Dogs
Did you hear the rumour? In the near future, a tyrannical mayor of Japanese city Megasuki, Mayor Kobayashi, deems all dogs be exiled to a remote island due to a dangerous canine virus. Now, dejected and unwanted, the dogs of the island gain new purpose when the young, twelve year old ward of the mayor…
Review: Okja
Like a live-action Studio Ghibli, Okja has tremendous heart, charm and nightmare fuel. Your love of bacon could be threatened. A young orphaned Korean girl living with her grandfather befriends a colossal new breed of pig that they are raising in the countryside. Little does she know, her grandfather was chosen ten years ago as…
One wonders why Marvel, of all franchises, is in a rush? Super surgeon Doctor Stephen Strange has his towering ego dashed to the ground when he is in a terrible car accident that ruins both of his hands. Seeking any medical aid to restore his fame and fortune, Strange is directed to the mystical Ancient…
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The Coen Brothers are back with a satirical take on 1950s Hollywood. An extremely busy production studio owner juggles control over several movie productions that struggle under misfortunes. From an actress losing a legal battle over her child, or an acclaimed drama director being given a lead star better suited for Westerns, to nosy journalists…
Review: Snowpiercer
There are little gems like these that never get the attention they deserve. Luckily I got around to watching it today! Chris Evans is Curtis, a passenger onboard a highly sophisticated bullet train that travels over the globe. However the train contains the last remnants of mankind after catastrophic climate change freezes the entire planet….
Review: The Zero Theorem
A story of a man's existential crisis in a high tech future as he tries to comprehend the meaning of life, and whether or not everything is meaningless. Hard to fathom, but I found this original story to move me just enough to be intrigued. Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz) is a technician, one of many,…


I almost forgot that it was a holiday.
It was cloudy when we woke up. We went out for muffins and cappuccinos because it was a holiday but then we came home. Did the obligatory Saturday morning cartoon thing during which I make grocery lists and to-do lists and eavesdrop on Sophia and Curious George so that I can jump in with pointed questions that my children never hear on the first round and answer reluctantly only after I repeat myself (Me: "Should Sophia have lied to her Mommy about letting the wee sprites in or was it good that she told the truth?" Her: "I knew you were going to ask that!"). We then darted through the raindrops for our new routine: Saturday morning grocery shopping.
And then I remembered. It was just any holiday. It was the holiday when we usually decorate bikes and parade around the park with neighbors and friends.
I checked in as we drove to the store and saw that the outlook for the parade was hazy. I checked in again on the way home, in a downpour, to find out it was on. The rain was expected to pass. The parade would be delayed but it would happen.
Now typically, such a thing would ignite a fire in me. A parade in the rain! Grab the rain boots and sneakers and raincoats and should we wear swim suits because there will be puddles to jump in?! Rain unites people, it makes memories this is going to be fun, we'll remember it forever! Can't you just see us looking back!? Remember that time we paraded in the rain and the ribbons and streamers on the bikes got all soggy and the stickers wouldn't stick and we came home a complete mess but we still had a great time! Typically this would feel like an experience my kids needed to have and I'd run forth full of holiday-fueled gusto to make it happen.
But there was no such fire on Saturday morning.
There was, instead, the absolute certainty that we should skip the parade.
I'm starting to see that there is a reality that comes from not only knowing my children but accepting them. It's not a bad reality. It's actually quite helpful. In a split second of considering going to the parade I foresaw whining over pulling on boots and being forced to wear sneakers instead of flip flops. I saw complaints of "I'm hot" and "This is wet." and "I want to go home." that would ruin the peaceful morning we had already settled into. I saw frazzled nerves and uncomfortable kids and an experience that we just weren't going to make sparkle. And I saw two kids (and two adults) who were just as happy to stay home.
After five years of trying to make my dreams a reality I am beginning to see that, more often than not, my reality is often the dream if I just lean into the curve.
So we stayed home. The boys baked a chocolate cake. My girl and I made fireworks with paint using straws and glitter glue. We decorated our playroom with festive construction paper and ate chocolate cake for dessert after lunch. Both kids were engaged, excited, smiling. They were happy. And both adults were engaged, calm, and smiling. Happy.
And I feel a little strange saying it but I didn't feel badly about this. I didn't feel as though I had denied my children an opportunity for fun or that I had interrupted a multi-year tradition of 4th of July bike parading, even though, technically, those things are true. I didn't worry that I had made the wrong decision or waffle right up to the point when we should have departed. I didn't blame myself later for raining out the holiday or not giving us the chance to be festive. I felt absolute certainty that I had made the right call. I didn't feel guilty. I felt proud.
It can be hard enough to figure out what, of the world of possibilities, is right for our family on a grand scale and in the race of the everyday. Letting ourselves be consumed by guilt when we follow our instincts and do what we know is right is something we just don't have time to indulge in. I'm starting to appreciate that. Doing what everyone else is doing, or even what we've always done, is not the way to make my family happy or help us thrive. If I'm honest with myself and if I give myself the small bit of quiet time to think it through, I know what makes us happy, makes us thrive. It comes to me simply and easily and without question.
And in this world of parenting, in which I question every other step every single day, that feels pretty good.
I'm personally glad Sofia told her mom about the wee sprites because Queen Miranda knew how to get rid of them!
Cassidy was away and it rained here so we missed fun and fireworks. Boo!
It was still lovely to be with my kids, though.
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If you consider teaching students about their intellectual property rights and responsibilities an essential component of a digital citizenship program, I'm with you. So thanks to a recent change by Google and a new Google Docs Add-On by teacher Brandon Dorman, we have two great items to spark discussions on copyright.
Item #1 – Google's removal of the View Image button from image searches – Yes, there has been some public pushback over losing a super-fast way to view and copy an image. Personally, I am glad for the change since image searchers will now use the Visit Site button to view the actual hosting site for images. Although the Visit Site button was always there, image searchers could ignore it.
If you are not yet familiar with the Visit Site button, it is from the host site that you will find out exactly how the creator would like you to respect and/or attribute his/her work through Creative Commons licensing (see the video below for a Creative Commons introduction).
For those opposed to visiting the host site and viewing the creator's licensing, there are already a number of workarounds available. I hope the workarounds do not deter image searchers from giving proper attribution to those who are freely sharing their creative work.
Item #2 – Former 7-12 math teacher's Creative Commons Google Doc Add-On – The best way to bring students on board with respect for intellectual property is to have them create and share their own work. So I was delighted to learn about Brandon Dorman's Creative Commons Google Doc Add-On, which makes choosing and adding CC licensing to a Google Doc a snap.
What would make this Add-On even better? I'd love it if it were included in the Google Docs Tools dropdown menu rather than as an Add-On. Due to the agree-to components of 3rd party Add-Ons (which legally equate to a contract), my district blocks student access to Add-Ons and extensions.
At this point, though, for students 13+, I would certainly encourage them to add Brandon's Creative Commons licensing option to their personal Google accounts.
Note to Self: Need to head to Can I Use That? A Guide to Creative Commons and accompanying hyperdoc lesson and make updates to reflect the above items.
One of the hats I wear as a district technology integration specialist is coordinating our digital citizenship program. I'm lucky to share the responsibility with a very talented and like-minded colleague. She and I have been on what seems like an ever-changing journey for about 10 years now, stemming back to the days of "MySpace hysteria," when we called the topic Internet Safety.
As social media tools and venues grew, with our students making good and bad choices, we soon recognized the need to help keep students safe from others – but also to keep them safe from each other – and from themselves. My colleague and I chat on a weekly (sometimes daily) basis on what needs to be updated on our district digital citizenship website and how we can best support students, teachers and administrators as the digital citizenship lead learners at their school sites.
We've shared resources such as Tanya Avrinth's Rebranding Digital Citizenship with Google Tools (see below), a wonderful example and reminder that it doesn't make sense to teach digital citizenship in isolation when, in an age of Google + affordable devices (Chromebooks, smartphones, etc.), students now have opportunities within the core curriculum to roll up their sleeves and put their #DigCit skills into practice.
We've also given some thought as to whether we should drop "digital" and simply refer to the topic as "citizenship," in recognition that citizenship is citizenship. At this point, however, we know our site VPs and counselors, who typically have to deal with the drama and disruption of the school day brought on by misuse of cell phones, for instance, truly appreciate that we continue to refer to the topic as "digital citizenship." When conferring with the offending student(s) and parent(s), it really helps when students have to start by acknowledging the fact that they've had X number of years of digital citizenship instruction and do understand the consequences of hitting the Submit button.
Our over-arching goal, even beyond the goal that every graduating senior Googles well, has always been to help students in moving from digital to global citizenship. Whether it's Mrs. Petuya's Kindergartners blogging with scientists in Antarctica about penguins or K-12 students posting on a VoiceThread about what it means to cross the line from bystander to upstander, we want students to have opportunties to become connected and contributing digital/global citizens.
But I don't think I'll be suggesting to my district that we adopt Keith's suggestion of renaming our current programs [which cover 1) taking a stand against cyberbullying; 2) building a positive digital footprint; 3) respecting intellectual property; and 4) protecting online privacy] to Digital Responsibility. Instead, I'm thinking more like a SAMR model, where our site programs move from Beginning Digital Citizenship (the above 4 topics) to Advanced Digital Citizenship, where students take their #DigCit skills beyond the classroom, school site, and district and connect with a global audience. Advanced DigCit would most likely happen within the core curriculum and would also likely be project-based.
If you have ideas to share or lessons learned about rethinking, rebranding, and/or renaming school and district digital citizenship programs, please share by leaving a comment.


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An introductions into express computational ideas in a language that can be translated to code. Used correctly, thinking in pseudocode may also help find bugs in your program before you even begin writing a single line of code!
Create your first program using a drag and drop block based language called Scratch, which will allow students to learn concepts without getting mired in syntax.
Moving away from a block-based language and more toward C, students will explore the details of how to express programming concepts in a text based language.
Develop an understanding of a variable as a container in which you can store things. Students will then be able to use and update their variables throughout the program.
Every time students declare a variable they must bringing it into existence and specify its type. Students will explore the different variable types in C as well as the differences between static and dynamic typing.
Showing how we program arithmetic and assignment operations while noting the idiosyncrasies of left gets right where the expression x = 10 means x gets the value of 10.
Conditional branching using Boolean expressions are how we as programmers make decisions in our programs. They empower us to take different forks in the road, allowing for different behaviors or different user experiences.
Instead of copying and pasting the same line(s) of code back-to-back, which can get clunky. All modern programming languages contain some variations on the construction of a loop, which permits iteration and repetition.
Students begin to apply computational thinking, learning to express ideas first in pseudocode, then a visual language, Scratch, and finally, a text based language, C. They are introduced to various programming elements, and begin writing basic programs with proper syntax.
LO 1.1.1 - Apply a creative development process when creating computational artifacts.
LO 1.2.1 - Create a computational artifact for creative expression.
LO 1.2.2 - Create a computational artifact using computing tools and techniques to solve a problem.
LO 1.3.1 - Use computing tools and techniques for creative expression.
LO 2.2.2 - Use multiple levels of abstraction to write programs.
LO 5.1.1 - Develop a program for creative expression, to satisfy personal curiosity, or to create new knowledge.
LO 5.4.1 - Evaluate the correctness of a program.
The mission is, quite simply, to have fun with Scratch and implement a project of student?s choice (be it an animation, a game, interactive art, or anything else).
LO 1.2.3 - Create a new computational artifact by combining or modifying existing artifacts.
LO 5.1.2 - Develop a correct program to solve problems.
Students will modify an existing Scratch program to add functionality and additional features.
Students will setup their own instance of the CS50 IDE. Upon completion they will create, compile, and execute their first C program.
LO 5.5.1 - Employ appropriate mathematical and logical concepts in programming.
Using C, students will build a program, which can convert from degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit.
LO 2.1.1 - Describe the variety of abstractions used to represent data.
LO 5.2.1 - Explain how programs implement algorithms.
Write a program that calculates exponential growth based on an initial amount of pennies.
LO 2.1.2 - Explain how binary sequences are used to represent digital data.
LO 4.1.1 - Develop an algorithm for implementation in a program.
LO 4.1.2 - Express an algorithm in a language.
Students will begin using C functions to implement a pseudorandom guessing game.
LO 1.1.1- Apply a creative development process when creating computational artifacts.
LO 3.3.1 - Analyze how data representation, storage, security, and transmission of data involve computational manipulation of information.
LO 7.4.1 - Explain the connections between computing and real-world contexts, including economic, social, and cultural contexts.
Students will implement algorithms to create a program that will print the least number of coins needed to give a specific amount of money.
The goal is to write a program to validate ISBN numbers by implementing a provided algorithm.
Write a program, using loops, to print out the exact number of spaces and hashes to form a half pyramid in the terminal.
Students will write a program, which takes in a credit card number and returns the company it?s from, or that it?s an invalid number.
EU 1.2 (LOs 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3) To build toward EU 1.2, Chapter 1 includes the creation programs in Scratch, a drag and drop language. Students start coding in this chapter and are focused on solving problems in a creative fashion. They also work with modifying Scratch code that we provide them with to create a new project.
EU 1.3 (LO 1.3.1) Students begin to use Scratch and the CS50 IDE to create programs that solve problems in a creative way. They also learn how to solve problems that typically would on pen and paper, more efficiently in a program.
EU 2.1 (LOs 2.1.1, 2.1.2) Students learn about binary and expressing larger numbers using zeroes and ones. They explore limitations of this when it comes to data types and how these levels of abstractions stack to create colors, pixels, images and movies.
EU 2.2 (LO 2.1.1) Students learn about using abstractions to make their code more efficient. In this chapter, they learn how to implement programs using loops, booleans, variables and operators, building upon the fact that the IDE breaks down all of these into series of zeroes and ones.
EU 4.1 (LO 4.1.2) Students start coding in Scratch to develop the skills to solve problems using logic and then transition to C and the syntax that comes along with it.
EU 4.2 (LO 4.2.4) Students use pseudocode to structure the logic behind their programs. Using sentences and phrases to outline. Students solve problems in creative ways and discuss what algorithms are more efficient and the costs of different implementations.
EU 5.1 (LO 5.1.1) Students use Scratch to create a program of their choosing (animations, games and more). They then use these creative skills to solve the assigned problems in Chapter 1 in a new, innovative and creative way.
EU 5.2 (LO 5.2.1) Students learn about pseudocode and after exploring algorithms in the previous chapter. They use this understanding of algorithms as a set of instructions to build on their pseudocoding skills. They are then able to walk through code one step at a time to explain how the computer would interpret each step.
EU 5.5 (LO 5.5.1) Students will create problems using operators, loops, and other mathematical constructs to create programs that solve computational problems.
How are algorithms implemented and executed on computers and computational devices?
Why are some languages better than others when used to implement algorithms?
How can use of variables, loops, and conditionals improve the design of a program?
How do variables, loops, and conditionals allow for more complexity in programs?
How do computer programs implement algorithms?
How do people develop and test computer programs?
Which mathematical and logical concepts are fundamental to computer programming?
How are vastly different kinds of data, physical phenomena, and mathematical concepts represented on a computer?
Have students choose an algorithmic math procedure they know how to do (For example, solving the quadratic equation), and have them express the procedure in words. If there?s time, students can swap procedures and try to guess what the written procedure is supposed to do.
Prepare syntactically incorrect English sentences (missing punctuation, etc). Have students try to decode their meaning. Are there sentences that could mean more than one thing? Explain why computers cannot compile programs with incorrect syntax.
Run a demonstration where selected students try to sum up a number via one sheet of paper without talking. Invite around 4 students to the front, and draw a box on the whiteboard. The first student writes a value there. The other students write a number value on a sheet of paper. Have each student add their number to the number on the board, thus updating the ?variable?.
Have students think of a list of how many types of data they think a computer can store. Likely, you?ll end up with responses like ?pictures, videos? which is an opportunity to revisit how bits and bytes store data.
Have students think about operations from math. Have them review the order of operations. Use examples of expressions with similar numbers and operations but different parentheses to show the importance of placement both in math and computer science alike.
Have students articulate how they have their scratch programs make decisions. When have we decided the cat should meow? (Using a Boolean).
Have students list the most repetitive tasks they have to do in everyday life (for instance, folding each t-shirt, washing each dish, etc). Discuss when would loops be useful in a real-world context.
If a student turns in a particularly compelling algorithm (an interesting task), it may be worth bringing in materials so that the instructions can be carried out.
Have a student instruct another student to walk from one location to another location in the room. The challenge: You can only instruct one step at a time. Then, introduce loops and conditions, so that the statement ?walk forward until you reach a wall? is valid.
As David does in lecture, start with a simple but syntactically correct program. Then, add functionality to it but make syntax errors along the way, soliciting input from the class to fix them.