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The current system of school reform and accountability has trained us to focus on standardized testing data as the outcome for students— and I agree it has its place in our work. This score is only one aspect of a child's educational development and experience. I encourage you to get engaged in our schools to see first-hand the amazing work happening every day with all of our students. Success is prevalent throughout our district at all levels and in many forms. Success and accomplishments are measured individually, student by student. At Merrillville, our students come first and we make decisions that best serve the needs of all of them.
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Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) is one of the world's most famous artists. Although relatively unknown during his lifetime, his drawings and paintings are now some of the most valuable in the world, and his work has influenced generations of painters. Find out more about this talented but unhappy man, and use our collection of printable resources to test what you have learnt.
Vincent van Gogh self portrait
Fun fact: In 1990, van Gogh's painting Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold for $82.5 million. At the time, it was the most expensive artwork ever sold. The buyer was a 74-year-old Japanese businessman, who died six years later. He said he wanted to have the painting burned and buried with him when he died. Although it is believed the painting survived, no one knows what has happened to it!
"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."
A Short Biography of Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 in the Netherlands. His father and grandfather were church ministers, but other family members worked in the art industry. Vincent was particularly close to his younger brother, Theo. A lot of what we know about him comes from the letters he wrote to Theo.
Vincent enjoyed drawing as a child but didn't work as an artist until he was 27. Before then, he worked for an art dealer (his uncle), as a teacher, in a bookshop, in an art gallery and as a missionary.
In 1880, Vincent took his brother Theo's advice and became a full-time painter. With Theo's financial and emotional support, he went to study at the Royal Academy of Art in Brussels, Belgium. At first Vincent sketched in pencils or charcoal, and painted in watercolours, but later he experimented with oils. He often drew dark, sad pictures of poor people. When his father died in 1885, Vincent finished his first major work The Potato Eaters – a painting of a peasant family eating dinner.
Vincent moved to Paris when Theo told him about a new style of painting there called Impressionism. He befriended other painters such as Monet, Degas and Pissarro. He also became good friends with the artist Paul Gauguin. He began to use brighter colours in his paintings of the Parisian streets and cafes and the French countryside. He painted many self-portraits, too – it was cheaper to paint himself than to hire a model!
Vincent grew tired of city life, however, and rented a house in Arles, inviting Gauguin to join him. Although they were great friends, the two often argued. After one particularly heated row, Vincent famously sliced off part of his own left ear with a razor blade. Gauguin didn't stay long after that!
Vincent was deeply religious as a young man, but lost his faith in his late-twenties, and suffered bouts of depression. He became obsessed with his art and neglected his health – smoking and drinking heavily and often forgetting to eat. In 1889, he committed himself to a mental hospital in Saint-Rémy. During this time, he produced over 150 paintings, including Starry Night, one of his most famous pieces, and Irises, which sold for a record $53.9 million in 1987.
Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
In 1890, Vincent moved to live closer to Theo and to Dr. Gachet, a physician who had treated many artists. Vincent continued to paint but his physical and mental health declined. In July, he shot himself in the chest, dying two days later in Theo's arms. He was just 37. Theo died from ill health six months later and was buried next to his brother.
Theo van Gogh, painted by his brother Vincent
In just ten years, Vincent had produced more than 2,000 paintings, drawings and sketches. His work mixed his observations of the world with his imagination, memories and emotions. Yet he only sold one painting during his lifetime – The Red Vineyard. Vincent died an unhappy man. He never knew the value of his art, and the pleasure he would bring to future generations.
Our Vincent van Gogh Resources
A Letter From Vincent van Gogh Worksheet
Vincent van Gogh moved to a yellow house in Arles in 1888, and invited fellow artist Paul Gauguin to join him. Vincent loved the sunny weather in Arles and the vibrant colours of the house. Can the children imagine they are Van Gogh describing the house to Gauguin?
Design an Award for Vincent van Gogh
Sadly, Vincent van Gogh's work was not appreciated during his lifetime and he only sold one painting, however many now see him as one of the most influential artists of all time. Here's a chance for you to design him a special award to celebrate his achievements.
Guest Post - Learning about Vincent
My daughter is currently working on a few art projects and one of them is an Art History project where she has to choose a famous artist whose work she admires and learn about their life and technique.
Learn to Draw Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh painted over 30 self-portraits between 1886 and 1889. The kids can learn to draw the famous artist themselves using our easy step by step guide.
Vincent van Gogh Booklet
This Vincent van Gogh booklet is an interesting way to record what you learn about the artist's life and work, or perhaps take it with you to write notes if you visit an art gallery? We have blank and lined versions to choose from.
Vincent van Gogh Colouring Page
This simple colouring page is great for younger children studying the famous artist Vincent van Gogh. Vincent is painting his famous Sunflowers here...
Vincent van Gogh Comprehension
Here's a worksheet aimed at older children that will test their comprehension skills and teach them a little about artist Vincent van Gogh too. They need to read the text, then answer the questions at the end.
Vincent van Gogh Exhibition Poster
Here's a fun activity that gets the kids learning about the artist Vincent van Gogh and practising persuasive writing too. Can they design a poster advertising an exhibition of Vincent van Gogh's paintings?
Vincent van Gogh Factsheet
Learn a little about the life and work of one of the world's most famous artists, Vincent van Gogh, by reading our factsheet.
Vincent van Gogh Interview Worksheet
Vincent van Gogh was a fantastic artist and a fascinating person - can you imagine if you could interview him as part of a talk show? What sort of questions would you ask, and what would the audience want to find out?
Vincent van Gogh Newspaper Writing Prompt
Use our Vincent van Gogh newspaper writing prompt to write a story about the famous Dutch artist. Maybe you could write about how different his life could have been if he had become famous when he was still alive?
Vincent van Gogh Notebooking Page
Use these printable notebooking pages to record what you learn about Vincent van Gogh. One of the pages has space for a picture, so you could try and draw your own version of one of his paintings too...
Vincent van Gogh Picture Gallery
My favourite Vincent van Gogh painting is the beautiful "Irises" - but which of his works will the children choose to recreate in our Vincent van Gogh picture gallery? Perhaps "The Starry Night", or "Sunflowers"?
Vincent van Gogh Poster
Here's a poster to print and display featuring Vincent van Gogh painting one of his most famous works, Sunflowers.
Vincent van Gogh Quote Poster
"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." This quote by artist Vincent van Gogh is set against the background of one of his most famous works, The Starry Night.
Vincent van Gogh Quote Worksheet
Our simple Vincent van Gogh quote worksheet features a quote by the famous Dutch artist and asks the children to think about what it means and to write it in their own words too.
Vincent van Gogh Story Paper
Write about Vincent van Gogh or describe some of his wonderful paintings using our story paper printable. Choose from versions with lines or handwriting lines below.
Vincent van Gogh Timeline Worksheet
Timelines are a great tool to help us understand history, and tell us what happened and how much time passed between events. Can the kids fill in some important events in Vincent Van Gogh's life on this timeline worksheet?
Vincent van Gogh Word Search
Here's a challenging word search puzzle that's great for older kids. Can you find the words relating to Van Gogh's life and works on the grid? There are some quite tricky words to find, and we've included the solution too if you need it...
Vincent van Gogh Worksheet
Here's a simple worksheet that's aimed at younger children learning about the famous artist Vincent van Gogh.
Vincent van Gogh Worksheet 2
Here's a simple worksheet which asks the kids to write a little bit about the famous artist Vincent van Gogh, and to list some of his most famous works. It's a great worksheet to fill in if you're learning all about famous artists.
Vincent van Gogh Writing Page
Our writing pages are a fun way to start younger children researching and writing about famous people - in this case, the artist Vincent Van Gogh.
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Senate Panel Assesses Cyberthreats
Need to Ramp Up Efforts to Improve Cybersecurity Stressed Jeffrey Roman (gen_sec) • September 10, 2014
Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del.
At a hearing held the day before the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, representatives of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security joined two senators in stressing the need to ramp up efforts to repel emerging cyberthreats.
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"Assessing these ever-changing, broad threats and making sure our government continues to hone its ability to stop them remains a top priority for this committee, particularly as we approach another 9/11 anniversary," said Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., chairman of the Senate committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The committee hosted the hearing that also dealt with a broad range of terrorism issues.
"We ... hear about actors in cyberspace that want to drain our bank accounts, shut down our financial system and our electric grid, steal our individually identifiable information and our identities, as well as the R&D that will enable American businesses and our military to remain pre-eminent in the world," Carper said.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., the committee's ranking member, expressed his disappointment that cybersecurity legislation hasn't been put on the floor for a vote in the Senate.
"I think it's a shame that the leader of the Senate won't put a cybersecurity bill on the floor, one that creates true information sharing," he said. "Let the Senate debate it so we can actually start to really protect the cyber aspect of our government." (See: Expectations Low for Cyber Legislation)
In his remarks, Coburn cited data breaches against the public and private sectors, highlighting the need for various sectors to work together to address the issue. "We should not fall back from talking about what [nation states] are doing," he said.
Call for Legislative Action
Suzanne Spaulding, undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security, also urged Congress to pass measures designed to beef up cybersecurity. "The mission of strengthening resilience of critical infrastructure requires us to focus on physical risks as well as cyber-risks," she said.
Spaulding contended that more needs to be done to update laws guiding federal agency network security, give law enforcement the tools needed to fight crime in the digital age, create a national data breach reporting requirement, and promote the adoption of cybersecurity best practices within critical infrastructure.
During her testimony, Spaulding also highlighted as a successful example of cyberthreat information sharing the recent notification from DHS and the Secret Service about the Backoff point-of-sale malware hitting retailers.
"In partnership with the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, the results of this analysis were published and enabled U.S. businesses to identify and stop ongoing cyber-intrusions, thereby protecting customer data and mitigating losses," she said.
FBI Activity
The FBI is making cybersecurity a top priority as organizations continue to face threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, global cyber syndicates and terrorists, Robert Anderson, executive assistant director for the FBI's criminal, cyber, response and services branch, told the committee.
"Since 2002, the FBI has seen an 80 percent increase in the number of computer intrusion investigations," he said.
The FBI continues to work with other agencies and the private sector to address cyberthreats, Anderson told the Senate panel. The agency is also working to recruit, develop and retain a highly skilled cyber workforce.
In his testimony, Anderson also called attention to the recent international effort to disrupt the Gameover Zeus botnet (see: International Malware Crackdown Revealed).
Despite efforts made to improve the safety of Americans, there's still a long way to go, Sen. Coburn said. "I think the threat to our country is just as great as it was pre-9/11 based on what's happening in the world," he said.
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Roman is the former News Writer for Information Security Media Group. Having worked for multiple publications at The College of New Jersey, including the College's newspaper "The Signal" and alumni magazine, Roman has experience in journalism, copy editing and communications.
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Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 138 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 21 osób/km² (wśród 2290 gmin Akwitanii Masseilles plasuje się na 1038. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 1314.).

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Lens replacement surgery: say hello to a clearer future
Charlotte Mcclure
Published: 3:38 PM September 24, 2019 Updated: 12:50 PM October 13, 2020
Spire Hartswood Hospital is a well-established provider of private hospital treatments. Photo credit: Spire Hartswood Hospital. - Credit: Archant
Lens replacement surgery (also known as refractive lens exchange surgery) is one of the most commonly performed procedures in the UK according to clinical data.
Mr Jagmohan Chawla is an experienced Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon specialising in multifocal lens implants, refractive lens exchange and complex cataract surgery. Photo credit: Spire Hartswood Hospital. - Credit: Archant
The procedure is similar to removal of cataracts. It removes the natural crystalline lens in the eye and replaces it with a clear artificial intraocular lens (IOL). This procedure can help improve your eyesight, often eliminating the need to wear glasses or contact lenses.
Mr Jagmohan Chawla is an experienced Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Spire Hartswood Hospital in Brentwood, Essex, specialising in multifocal lens implants, refractive lens exchange and complex cataract surgery. We spoke to Mr Chawla to find out more.
Lens replacement surgery helps to correct your eyesight and achieve sharper focus; reducing your need for glasses. Photo credit: Getty Images. - Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto
What is lens replacement surgery?
Lens replacement surgery requires replacing your eye's clear natural lens with an acrylic artificial multifocal lens. This is done to correct your eyesight, restore near vision or achieve sharper focus; reducing your need for glasses. The artificial lens is a permanent replacement for your natural lens and is designed to last for the rest of your life.
Mr Chawla told us: "Following surgery to both eyes, lens implants will enable you to focus at all distances. The customised lenses can also help to eliminate pre-existing blurred vision caused by astigmatism, a condition where light is focused at more than one place in the eye."
A recent patient's perspective of lens replacement surgery on both eyes with Mr Chawla: "On both days of my surgery I was naturally nervous but felt reassured by Mr Chawla. The team at Spire Hartswood Hospital were so kind, efficient and helpful. Following both surgeries I was contacted with a follow-up call, which I wasn't expecting - this was such a great service, particularly as I live on my own."
The procedure usually takes about 25-30 minutes and is performed as a day case procedure. Each eye is done separately, usually about 1-2 weeks apart. Mr Chawla explained: "The operation is usually done under local anaesthetic and mild sedation. It can take a couple of days for your sight to become clearer, and vision for near and far distance should stabilise in 2-4 weeks."
What is the recovery time?
You will usually be able to go home on the same day as the procedure: however you'll need someone to accompany you as your vision will be impaired. Mr Chawla says: "It takes around 2 weeks before you can resume normal daily activities including light exercise, swimming, and using computers. Driving is possible within 3 days if one eye has already been done earlier."
Lens replacement surgery has proven results. Mr Chawla's previous patients have said:
"I am very pleased with the result, I look and feel less tired and world weary!"
"I cannot thank Mr Chawla and his team enough. He has changed my life after suffering bad eyes all my life."
"My eyesight is now amazing, the colours and clarity are astounding."
Does lens replacement surgery sound like something that could suit you? Find out more by visiting spirehartswood.com, or calling the hospital on 01277 508 619.


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RHODE ISLAND, PROVIDENCE (USA). Academic pathology practice at renowned women and infants hospital seeking two BC/BE Pathologists with fellowship training in Gynecologic and or Breast pathology to join their team in beautiful coastal Rhode Island. link
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RHODE ISLAND, PROVIDENCE (USA). The Department of Pathology at Rhode Island Hospital, Newport Hospital and The Miriam Hospital is seeking a Pathologist to join the Lifespan Academic Medical Center with clinical duties in both anatomic and clinical pathology (AP/CP). Minimum requirements include: board certification in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology by the American Board of Pathology (or Canadian equivalent). Training in adult surgical pathology with subspecialty expertise is highly desirable. link
Academic Position in Women's Pathology
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PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND (USA). We are seeking two BC/BE pathologists with fellowship training in gynecologic and or breast pathology to join our team at one of the nation's premier women and infants' hospitals in beautiful coastal Rhode Island.
• Academic hospital practice and Brown University faculty appointment
• Surgical pathology examinations (outpatient and inpatient), including gynecologic, breast and gastrointestinal specimens
• Education and clinical supervision of medical students, and pathology and OB/Gyn residents and fellows
• Weekday schedule with call 1 week every 9 weeks and every ninth weekend
• 70% clinical; 20% academic; 10% administrative responsibilities
• Competitive salary plus health, life, disability, occurrence malpractice and retirement
We are affiliated with Care New England health system - a three hospital system based in Providence - and with the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University.
Providence combines the accessibility and friendliness of a small town with the culture and sophistication of a big city. One hour from Boston, Hartford and New Haven and three hours from New York City, the city is home to a number of higher education institutions including Brown University, Johnson & Wales, Providence College and the Rhode Island School of Design.
For more information, please contact Kim Kania at (401)-236-1364 or kikania@carene.org.
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Lifespan Academic Medical Center
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PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND (USA). The Department of Pathology at Rhode Island Hospital, Newport Hospital and The Miriam Hospital is seeking a pathologist to join the Lifespan Academic Medical Center with clinical duties in both anatomic and clinical pathology (AP/CP). Lifespan is an EEO/AA employer and encourages applications from minorities, women and protected persons.
Minimum requirements include: board certification in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology by the American Board of Pathology (or Canadian equivalent). Training in adult surgical pathology with subspecialty expertise is highly desirable. Clinical pathology consultative skills, particularly in laboratory hematology and transfusion medicine, are also required.
While performing duties at Rhode Island and The Miriam Hospital, the incumbent will also be expected to participate in the teaching of residents and fellows in graduate medical education training programs, teaching of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine courses, supervising clerkships for medical students at Brown University, and/or providing instructional support to the medical technologist training program in the Department of Pathology.
As a surgical and clinical pathologist at Newport Hospital, the candidate will have surgical pathology responsibilities as delineated above, as well as significant involvement in clinical laboratory consultation particularly in the areas of hematology and transfusion medicine.
The successful candidate must qualify for a full-time medical faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor to Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Those candidates applying at the rank of Associate Professor must have a national reputation and scholarly achievements appropriate to this level.
The Miriam Hospital/Rhode Island Hospital is an EEO/AA employer and encourages applications from minorities, women and protected persons.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until a candidate is hired or the search is closed.
Please apply through Interfolio System at https://secure.interfolio.com/apply/66039
If you have any problems with the Interfolio system,
contact Lissi Marte (401)-606-4467, or Lissi.Marte@Lifespan.org
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Do international genre films stand a chance with awards voters this year?
Hungary celebrates new box-office champion
By Blanka Elekes Szentagotai2002-08-28T04:05:00+01:00
Hungarian director Gabor Herendi's A Kind Of America, the story of a young film director longing to make his feature debut, has become the most successful Hungarian film ever.
In addition, it is now also the film that has spent the most weeks in the box office top ten, pushing James Cameron's Titanic off the top spot. Twenty-nine weeks after its release A Kind Of America has spent twenty-seven weeks in the top ten - compared to Titanic's twenty-six.
Herendi's movie has been seen by over 280,000 people in Budapest and nearly 480,000 across the country. And while it is still behind the Titanic's total of more than 1 million viewers, the director is confident of reaching the 500,000 mark.
"All is together for this goal to happen, as still 7,000 - 8,000 people watch the film every week and many smaller theaters have just recently got the longed-for copies", said Herendi (pictured). Several theaters will also keep the film on their repertoire after it comes out on video and DVD in October.


There are 14 rooms available for each week but if there are still yoga places available additional rooms can be booked nearby if necessary. All rooms can be either single or twin/double. Some rooms can be used as triple or family rooms. Please note that we do not allocate shared rooms to strangers. If you are spending time in Crete with a group of family or friends who are not participating in the yoga and would like to book your own independent self-catering accommodation please ask us - there are places locally that we can recommend. Please note, we are not taking deposits until 1 January 2019. Please do not book a flight until we have confirmed your place.
Email us to check availability and request an application/booking form. We will also send you a copy of our terms and conditions.
Return your completed form and wait to hear that your place is confirmed. We can only confirm your place once we have received your booking form. For new students it is particularly important that yoga/medical information is declared fully on the form.
Once we have confirmed your place we will then request your deposit payment of €200 per person, and you can then go ahead and book your flight/travel. Places are not secure without the deposit payment. We will provide details of how to pay the deposit by bank transfer, we prefer payment by this method.The balance is payable by 6 weeks before the holiday.
Payment is taken in euros if you are coming from outside the UK.
7 nights accommodation in single or double ensuite rooms which also have air-conditioning (€5 per day), tv & fridge.
Transfer by taxi from Chania airport or Chania bus station (We no longer offer taxi transfers from Heraklion due to the high cost but for flights arriving there morning or afternoon it is possible to take a bus and be picked up from Chania bus station. Hiring a car for the duration of the holiday from Heraklion airport is of course also possible.) There is no refund offered if the taxi transfer is not used.
The courses run from Tuesday to Tuesday but there are no classes on the Tuesdays (see the schedule on the Yoga Holidays page). If you can't find direct charter flights to Chania on Tuesday, both Aegean Airlines and Olympic Air have daily flights from many European cities to Athens which connect with domestic flights to Chania (only 40 minutes) and these are good value if you book well in advance. There are also plenty of flights going into Heraklion airport. Chania is also served by daily ferry from Piraeus (Athens). Please visit our links page for some useful travel sites. Car hire is available locally or can be pre-booked with your flight from Chania or Heraklion airports.
All classes are in English but Marios is also a native speaker of Greek and fluent in German.


If the first days of games of the opening round of the NBA playoffs are any indication of what we can expect from here on out, buckle up your seat belts! This is going to be one heck of the ride. Six out of the eight games went down to the wire. We saw some unbelievable individual performances, and the Knicks even played defense for 48 minutes. But when I look back at all of the games, something stood out more than anything else. The Young Guns are coming while the Old Vanguards might be riding off in the sunset.
It seemed as if each game was settled in the final seconds. The Chicago Bulls needed a Herculean effort in their 104-99 comeback victory over the Indiana Pacers. They were down 10 points with a little more than two minutes to go and then they seemed to flip the switch. Derrick Rose had a monster game, scoring 39 points, dishing out 6 assists and grabbing 6 boards. Most will focus on the points, but the two assists in the final two minutes blew me away. The kick out to Kyle Kover for his go ahead three pointer was one thing, but Rose threading the needle on that bounce pass to Joakim Noah was a thing of beauty. Rose just willed his team to that win, refusing to accept defeat.
The Philadelphia 76ers got off to a hot start and made the Miami Heat sweat it out in the end of the 97-89 Miami victory. The Big Three got theirs (LeBron James 21 points, Chris Bosh 25 points and Dwyane Wade 17 points). However, Philadelphia showed that they were not going away quietly.
Knicks head coach Mike D'Antoni was out coached by his counterpart Boston Celtics head coach Doc Rivers. Down the stretch, Rivers went to the players with the hot hands, while D'Antoni and his Knicks forgot that Amar'e Stoudemire was even on the court. Stevie Wonder could see that Amar'e was on fire in the final period (12 points, 6-7 from the field) and the fact that he did not touch the ball once in the last seven possessions was inexcusable. You have to give the Knicks credit for their defensive performance in their two-point defeat at the hands of the Celtics. However, it was mind-boggling that Stoudemire did no see the ball down the stretch. Rivers drew up plays and his crew executed them to a tee. D'Antoni's crew looked lost down the stretch. That is the difference between teams who move on in the post season and those who go home early.
Kevin Durant demonstrated why he deserved serious consideration for the MVP award this year, as he scorched the Nuggets for 41 points in the Thunder's 107-103 victory over Denver. The Nuggets put up a valiant effort, but they just could over hump, Durant's play, and perhaps, some bad officiating.
The Dallas Mavericks outlasted the Portland Trailblazers on the backs of their seasoned veterans Jason Kidd, who scored 24 points, and Dirk Nowitzki, who added 28 points and 10 rebounds. That was good for the first game but if they are going to outlast the Trailblazer for the series, they are going to need more from their bench, especially Jason Terry.
You have to give big ups to the Memphis Grizzlies for their 101-98 victory over the San Antonio Spurs. Without Manu Ginobili, it is going to be an uphill battle for the Spurs, especially considering that the Grizzlies were the hottest team in the NBA after the All Star break.
I was not surprised that Chris Paul, 33 points and 14 assists, went off on the Los Angeles Lakers during the New Orleans Hornets 109-100 victory over the defending champs. Lighting-quick point guards have traditionally given Lakers head coach Phil Jackson and his crew fits. The thing that did shock me was how small the Lakers' bigs played. Eight points from Pau Gasol, REALLY?
After watching the Lakers, Celtics, Spurs and Mavericks either lose or struggle in their respective game ones of the playoffs, one has to wonder if this post season will be the last call at the bar for these teams. Jacksonis retiring and it appears that the Lakers have squeezed the most out of the existing unit.
The Spurs' Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Ginobili have logged a lot of minutes during their tenure under head coach Greg Popavich. They all have spent significant stretches on the disable list over the past few seasons and they do not seem to bounce back from injuries like they use to.
The Boston Celtics looked as if they have lost more than the toughness of Kendrick Perkins. The Knicks should have beaten them on Sunday, but the Celtics of three years ago would have run away with that game.
I never believed that the Mavs had the firepower and the heart to emerge from the Western Conference anyway. If they beat the Trailblazer, they would then lose to the Lakers. There are too many hurdles for them in the West.
The window of opportunity is obviously closing on the Spurs, Celtics, Lakers and Mavericks. The Bulls, Thunder, Trailblazers, Grizzlies and even the Knicks now have a chance to seize the moment. You know that the Heat are poised to dominate over the next 5-to-10 years if they stay healthy. I can see any of the aforementioned teams being the teams-to-beat in the not-to-distant future. The Heat, Bulls and Thunder are on the verge. The Knicks are a player away and the Grizzlies and the Trailblazers need a little more seasoning.
Rivers and Jackson most likely will not be manning the sidelines of the Celtics and Lakers next year. It might be time to break up the Mavs and the Spurs are getting old quick. By Tuesday and Wednesday, this might be a moot point as the favorites bounce back with game two victories. And, I expect them to. Don't be surprised if the Thunder, Bulls and perhaps our Knicks along with the Heat are the teams to beat next year.
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Germany a land with many facets of dynamism, everlasting energy, power, football and followers of strict norms and rules.
Germany travels Visa is issued for 90 days in which the visa petitioner is not allowed to work, but can only roam to various places.
The Germany Travel Visa cost in the range 60-80 pounds as the Visa fee.
Germany a land with many facets of dynamism, everlasting energy, power, football and followers of strict norms and rules. Germany travel visa can get the feel and fervor of this jubilant nation and its cities.
The Germany Travel Guide gives you the idea of its incredible aura and aesthetics. Germany has been known for its historical events and lavish cars. The capital city Germany, Berlin is one of the highly rated cosmopolitan city which gives a preview of the best technology, merchandise, automobiles, and perfumes. Germany travels Visa is issued for 90 days in which the visa petitioner is not allowed to work, but can only roam to various places.
Applicant's leave certificate from the current employer.
Marriage certificate, birth certificate of any child and any other valid proofs.
Germany has a very stable and sustainable economy which thrives on various key aspect and tourism being one of them. An individual can travel from Munich to Berlin via a train. The train schedules and routes are set on a map which can be configured with an application interface on a mobile. You can get yourself a rail pass which can be returned with the amount refunded the excess amount present in the pass.
There are numerous world-class museums in Germany. It is mostly cold throughout the year excluding few months. It can be effective and help you with the ease of travel if you carry with yourself a jacket, comfortable shoes and a shopping bag which would enable you to collect the desired holidaying stuff which an individual likes to buy during that period.
If it is snow falling in Germany, you can put on the Ski chalets and get in the snow and try your hand at skiing in the snow.
The topmost places to keep in your Germany travel guide are Berlin's East Side Gallery, Pergamon Museum and Altes Museum. Munich has the Dachau short ride and the Neuschwanstein castle as the main city highlights. If you visit, Frankfurt Main Tower is the highest point where you can have the glimpse of the city views.
All this and other cities like Cologne, the Baltic coast, Hamburg is not to fulfill your dreams but can be in reality if you avail yourself a Germany tourist Visa.


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Модулярный идеал или регулярный идеал ― правый (левый) идеал  кольца , обладающий следующим свойством: в кольце  найдется хотя бы один такой элемент , что для всех  разность  принадлежит  (соответственно ).

Элемент  называется левой (правой) единицей по модулю идеала .

Свойства
 В кольце с единицей всякий идеал является модулярным.
 Всякий собственный модулярный правый (левый) идеал можно вложить в максимальный правый (левый) идеал, который автоматически будет модулярным.
 Пересечение всех максимальных модулярных правых идеалов ассоциативного кольца совпадает с пересечением всех максимальных модулярных левых идеалов и является радикалом Джекобсона этого кольца.

Общая алгебра


From two new Seattleites comes Celine Patisserie.
Alexei and Daniela Bucos hadn't been in Seattle for even a week when they signed the lease on the Phinney Ridge spot—formerly Picnic—that has become Celine Patisserie. The well-traveled couple chose to open the café they'd long dreamed of here because of the community, and because of the vibe, which is less frenetic than that of their previous home in Dubai, but more urban than the small Italian town where Daniela grew up.
They loved the Bay Area—where Daniela learned how to masterfully fold croissants and craft elegant tarts at the San Francisco Baking Institute—but couldn't find the right space (for the right price) there. A lengthy cross-country road trip last spring landed them in Seattle, where they'd never been and knew no one.
Now, the charming couple has made a home for their family here while creating the kind of cozy neighborhood spot where regulars chat over Italian espresso, and young kids, like their own (they recently welcomed a third daughter), beg for the jewel-toned macarons ($1.95 each) in the glass pastry case.
Mornings bring picture-perfect galettes (sweet with seasonal fruit or savory with bacon or goat cheese, $4.75) and burnished croissants; midday means house-made soups; and afternoon necessitates a sweet pick-me-up, such as a personal-size lemon meringue or fresh fruit tart ($5.95). It's a simple café and the owners, who are new to the industry, are figuring things out as they go. But with friends helping in the open kitchen and a lot of passion, they're hoping to make it a success.
Phinney Ridge, 6801 Greenwood Ave. N; 206.466.5378.


God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging (Psalm 46:1-2 NIV).
You can have peace in the midst of storm. An art contest was once held in which the artists were asked to illustrate peace. Most of the contestants handed in paintings of quiet, calm scenes of the countryside–absolute tranquility. Well, that's a form of peace. But the hardest kind of peace to have was illustrated in the picture that won the award. It depicted the roaring, raging, foaming rapids of a storm-swollen waterfall, and on a little tree branch overhanging the torrent was a nest, where a tiny bird sat peacefully singing in spite of the raging river.
Trusting is a picture of complete rest, peace and quiet of mind, heart and spirit.
When Catherine Booth, co-founder of the Salvation Army with her husband William, was dying, she quietly said, ?The waters are rising, but I am not sinking.? But then she had been saying that all through her life. Other floods besides the waters of death had gathered about her soul, but she had never sunk! The good Lord made her buoyant, and she rode upon the storm!
This, then, is the promise of the Lord–not that the waters of trouble shall never gather about the believer, but that he shall never be overwhelmed.
When we put our cares in God's hands, He puts His peace in our hearts.
Some years back, when sea travel was much more common than air travel, a trans-Atlantic liner was caught in a storm. For two days the wind raged. Passengers were frightened. At last an anxious passenger climbed to where he could see the pilot. Returning to his fellow-passengers, he spread glad tidings of peace. ?We are all right!? he said. ?The ship will make port. I have seen the pilot, and he is smiling.? With the great Pilot directing our life, we can smile on through every storm and, smiling, be at peace.
A slumber drugged from pain, a hushed repose.
And fiercer grew the onslaught of my foes.


Residents are pushing for Illinois officials to change how they run a dam to prevent flooding in several lakes that flow into the Fox River in Chicago's northern suburbs.
Property owners are petitioning the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to intervene in the management of the Stratton Lock and Dam on the Fox River downstream in McHenry Township, the Chicago Tribune reported . But an official with the federal agency said residents need to petition local leaders before going to the federal level.
Flooding is the natural result of a system that isn't equipped to hold all of the water it gets, state officials said. The state has no plans to expand the dam's capacity.
State officials warn that opening the dam and letting more water out of the Chain O'Lakes could worsen flooding.
But residents along the group of lakes that straddles Lake and McHenry counties have suggested opening the dam gates to let water out sooner rather than waiting for the rain to fall. The alternative plan is a major departure from how the Illinois Department of Natural Resources operates the dam.


So you want to be President of the United States?
What do you have to do first?
What do you have to do next?
What is the significance of Iowa and New Hampton?
How was it looking by March 2008?
Be nominated at the National Convention and select a running mate.
How do you get people to vote for you?
How does the US elect its President?
Each state has a number of electors or electoral college votes (ECV) California has the most (54), Montana, Vermont and Alaska have the least (3). The electorate vote in their states for who they want to be President.
The Presidential candidate who gains the most votes gains all the electoral vote for that state. The electors meet in their state capitals and vote for President. The candidate with the most ECV votes wins.
What happened in 2000? What was significant about it?
Who else do Americans vote for?


That is one plant to stay away from for sure , thanks for the info Flint .
yikes, that is one nasty plant. It didn't say if it was native.
Sounds like some bad stuff. Kill it all.
If it ain't one thing, it's another!! Bad stuff there!!
Man that looks like some pretty bad stuff...wow, you guys keep it up there and we will keep the Kudzu down there.....Robert E. Lee started once to going to give a suicide squad of Confederate armed with Kudzu and do a midnight raid and plant the stuff and let it take over the North....it would have worked if those brave soldiers had gotten through!!!
We have Hog Weed in NY too.It was brought in to this country by plant lovers.There is another one that is similar but you best stay away from to be sure.In NY...our DEC will eradicate it for you if found.There is no cure when exposed.


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Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Reflections of Confusion:
Robert Browning's
Robert Browning makes no attempt to make his poetry accessible for his readers. Accessible poetry to Browning is poetry that shows the reader something that he already knows and is therefore easily extractable and identifiable in the poetry. For Browning, the aim of poetry is to "put the infinite within the finite" (Erickson 134). This is clearly an intricate task, but in Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, Browning elevates and perfects this dictum. Childe Roland is a difficult poem because of its potential depth and obscurity, and it can be interpreted in numerous ways. I see Childe Roland as a poem illuminating the utmost spiritual confusion. This in part explains the obscurity of the poetry: the verse mimics the theme.
On a first reading it is not likely that the reader should have any decent formulation of what happens in the poem. The narrator is Roland, a man who is on a quest through a foul and hideous land to a place called the Dark Tower. He will face a difficult trial there which none have passed. On reaching the Dark Tower and his trial, the poem abruptly ends. What happens to Roland? Does his quest fail? What occurred for him at the Tower? It is all confusion and mystery.
The reader knows that Roland loathes his quest and his life. With Roland's desire to pass his trial at the Tower, he has spoiled and squandered his present life and reality to such an abyssal degree that the victory he once sought is now beyond the capacity of his reason. All he wants now is to fail and be done with a life wretched and grotesque. Roland has dedicated his whole life to a trial which he no longer wants to win. Browning turns the whole world upside down. The poem is given in past tense, yet the reader is led to believe that the poem may end with Roland's death (this is left unresolved by Browning). Roland claims that he "had so long suffered in this quest," and yet he is addressed as a childe (37). A childe, as Bloom points out, is "a noble youth not yet a knight" that must accomplish an act of bravery (Bloom 81). This all seems quite queer to the reader and that is Browning's intent. Who is the narrator? The true landscape, the identity and age of the narrator, and the meaning of the Dark Tower, are all confusing and left a mystery by the author.
Roland's foul personality creates the atmosphere of confusion. Roland himself is unreliable. The poem begins with Roland speaking of the "hoary cripple" that "lied in every word" (2,1). Yet by the third stanza Roland speaks of that same lie as "that ominous track which, all agree, / Hides the Dark Tower" (14-15). The "hoary cripple" is clearly not lying as his directions are correct and prove to be so later in the poem. This creates the primary confusion of reality that Browning never resolves: what is real and what is not.
Roland borders on madness. He is paranoid and delusional. The cause of his psychosis is his fear of failure and the uncertainty of whether he is "fit" enough to overcome the trial that lies before him. The torment and anguish of such an obstacle casts a melancholic shadow of gloom upon his world. It is not that he has fears, all men do, but that he dwells on them unceasingly. His life physically transmogrifies into this inner despair. In depression, he no longer sees why success is worth his agonizing effort. With the tainting of his present life by fears of failure, the goal he seeks becomes devalued.
The imagery of Childe Roland suggests that the trial Roland faces at the Dark Tower is his death. The quest to The Tower is metaphorical to Roland's life, reaching the Dark Tower is his death; the success or failure of his quest is whether, through death, he will earn an afterlife. Roland's quest for The Dark Tower is consistent and analogous with a human understanding of life. Roland talks about "The Band" that has come to the Tower and failed, but on his own path, there is "No foot-print leading to that horrid mews, / None out of it" (135-136). No one has lived his life or walked his path. His quest is his own, and this assists the reader in understanding the grotesque landscape of the poem. The scenery of the poem is painted by the confusion of the quester only. There are no other people on his path (The cripple put him on the path but was not on it himself.). Through his journey and fear of his goal, Roland neglects and thereby spoils the life he has. He grows wicked and distrustful through the implausibility of his own mission. He dwells on it. The portrayal of the landscape of the poem is warped by this inner-squalor of Roland's mind and spirit and are not his true physical surroundings - though, it is logical to think that his perceptions are mal-distortions of those true physical features. The confusion, then, is a spiritual confusion of how to live and how to die. Roland is too preoccupied by the future.
The future that has captivated him is the reaching of the Dark Tower. It is the goal and focal point toward which the poem and its madness move. For Roland, the Dark Tower is the realization of all of his hopes and dreams. It is the end and goal of his quest and the location of his trial. All who have come to The Tower before him have failed. He calls his predecessors "The Band" and views them with both honor and contempt (39). On reaching The Tower, Roland sees "The Band" anthropomorphized in the mountains surrounding him, "ranging along the hill-sides, met, / To view the last of [him]" (199-200). Browning leaves the ending ambiguous; whether or not Roland succeeds or fails like all the others is maybe the most tempting mystery of the poem.
The Dark Tower is the incarnation of his fear; it is the mystery that plagues his dreams and poisons his reality. The Tower is a "round squat turret, blind as the fool's heart, / Built of brown stone, without a counterpart / In the whole world" (182-184). What is important is that the Tower is always in the future. The poem ends with his reaching it. It is the goal, but the poem represents the quest, and the quest is obscene. It is logical then, to see Roland's quest and the Tower as reflective of each other. Because his fear and knowledge of the Tower predate his quest, the Tower, then, has tainted his quest and not visa versa.
If the reader believes that the Dark Tower is a metaphor for Roland's death, then it is understandable why he sees death everywhere around him. In each example, in everything Roland encounters, there is an image of death. It starts with "the skull-like laugh" of "the hoary cripple," to the metaphor of the dying man, to the failures of "the Band," to the horse who "might be dead," and on and on (10,2,39,79). The horse is a telling example because, through the suffering of the horse, Roland actually sees the metaphor for his own life where he doesn't see it elsewhere (meaning he doesn't realize that it is he that is projecting his reality). He says, "I never saw a brute I hated so," as he surely hates his life (79). In the suffering of the horse he sees his own suffering and misery. The example is also curious in his statement that he thinks the horse "must be wicked to suffer so" (80). There is no other direct evidence of Roland hating himself, but he clearly hates his life, and here the reader sees that he holds himself to blame and not some higher force or being.
Roland meets also "Apollyon's" bird, another image of death, which he deems as a guide for the remainder of his quest (160). The devil-bird brings a new image to all of Roland's projections. Now Hell can be considered as a label that the reader may choose to categorize this world of Roland's. It is fitting. Due to the shear desolation and near unrivaled grotesqueness of Browning's landscape, it is conceivable that Roland is in Hell. However, I don't insinuate that Roland is dead. The past tense would support such a claim, but he has not yet faced the Dark Tower and his judgment. Childe Roland is in a living Hell, self-created and born of his own fear and confusion. It is that he cannot see that he is in hell, and that his path there is self-appointed, that is the author's interest. If Roland creates his own reality by projecting his inner-consciousness upon his landscape, then where he built a hell with bricks of fear, he could have grown a heaven by planting seeds of acceptance and reaping beauty and peace. The fear Roland festers is by worrying and living in the confusion of an uncertain future. It can be inferred, then, that by living and concentrating on the present, Roland could have forgone his confusion of the future and found value in the present.
It is with this thought [inner-reflection] where the deepest interpretation of Childe Roland can be found. Browning himself promotes the analogue to life and death, but that itself serves as a metaphor for a more subtle meaning. Life and death are analogous for path and destination. This is similar to quest and the Dark Tower, but now in a universal sense and understanding. I refer to all goals and the means by which we come to them. This is the "infinite within the finite" that Browning writes with his poetry. He shows the reader a quester is a miserable search for a Tower. The reader is lead to sense that it represents his life and death; it does, but it is also his every action, his every pursuit and goal.
Through Roland, Browning shows what happens when a person is fixated on the future goal and not appreciative of the path and means by which he acquires it. Love and beauty are not inconspicuously absent, rather they are blatantly and intentionally so. These are the missing elements of Roland's life. Roland once mentions "not shaming such tender love," but the love to which he refers is itself twisted. He speaks of the love of those who would plan his death and burial while in his presence. He hopes to die in order to not shame this "tender love" by making their plans untimely. This also is only a thought in his mind. Roland never mentions any family or friends, anyone whom he loves or is loved by. He is alone and cannot see love or beauty anywhere. In fact, he never looks for it. This is the root of his confusion. The hell he suffers is his perception. There are always two points of view and Roland only sees the darker half. Wasn't that horse's perseverance commendable? What of the solitude, or the sunset he saw? The possibilities of the present were not important to Roland.
At the end, I believe Roland realizes that the present moment should have been important to him. There is a change in the mood of the poem in the last stanzas, a stay in the confusion. There is a new vitality in the language, an optimism in the phrasing that is new to Roland. It begins in, "Dunce, / Dotard, a-dozing at the very nunce" (178-179). This language is almost playful. Roland seems to rise up and challenge his own death. He doesn't flinch, saying, "Now stab and end the creature - to the heft!" (192). The change is that the moment that Roland has been awaiting for so long has finally arrived. He is on the threshold of what he has long desired. The uplifting language represents the uplifting spirit of Roland. He feels a joy and in this he finds a small sort of revelation. Roland calls the Tower "blind as the fool's heart" (182). He is the fool and only now, on reaching his goal, can he see or sense beauty (the beauty of accomplishing a goal). Only on reaching his goal can he realize how blind he has been along his quest.
Roland is a Tom O'bedlam character whose dread for his own future dominates and therefore taints his own reality. Only at arriving at his destination does he see that his confused reality could have been otherwise, that, had he chosen, "The dying sunset kindled within the cleft," could have kindled for other glories in the world (189). Through Roland, Browning teaches his readers to appreciate the moment, to live in the present, or else you may make for yourself a hell. Look for beauty and love in the world, in the present, and the path shall be as worthwhile as the destination. Is it too late for Roland? Browning doesn't share, but Roland blows his horn triumphantly and sings his own song: Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.
Bloom, Harold. How to Read and Why. New York:
Scribner, 2000.
Browning, Robert. The Poems of Robert Browning.
Ed. Donald Smalley. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Comp., 1956.
Erickson, Lee. Robert Browning: His Poetry and His
Audiences. Ithica: Cornell University Press,
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Denis said...
Wowsers! Read it and loved it.
mrdeadpt said...
Jonah,
Thanks for your interpretation of "Childe Roland". I've just finished Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series and have become interested in the poem that inspired him. I'm a climber, too! And now, the father of a six-month-old boy. Sail on!
Dave Pfurr
The Great De-Centering
Whitman's Elegies:
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
Joyce and Existentialism
Joyce's Ullysses
Blake and Emerson
Hamlet's Melancholy
Beckett's Waiting for Godot
I am beginning the process of resurrecting this blog. If you are reading this -- stand by.


So why this mini-series? To you, it may seem like a random, sober topic to bring up without much notice or apparent occasion. Well, God has surrounded me with the loss and passing of individuals both in my family and in the family of people I know. So while it may seem random and out of place for you, the topic of life's brevity has been brought to my attention and claimed center stage in my reflections and ponderings as of late.
It all started at a memorial service I recently attended. The woman whose life was being celebrated and remembered came to its conclusion sooner than most would expect. But it wasn't the life cut seemingly too short that struck me, but the stories and testimonies people were sharing. She was a believer in the risen Lord; however, few mentioned or noted her faith and living hope. All memories, influence, and lessons shared were centered around her love for family and deep care for other people. Her whole life was summed up in the well-known adage, "It's not the years in a life, but the life in those years" and that she lived those years well.
While these are commendable and honorable qualities, I was saddened by the lack of kingdom work and labor for the Lord mentioned.
Who will be at my memorial service, and what will they say?
Will people remember me for my love, loyalty, and friendliness? Or will they remember how devoted and passionate I was to God? Will my legacy be that of a life well lived or a life lived for God?
It wasn't with morbidity or aghast that these thoughts sprung into my mind, but rather with a sense of self-examination of my life's purpose. When the day comes, I don't want people to walk up to the microphone and wax eloquent on my personality traits, character qualities, or even heroic and great deeds. I want people to remember and be impacted by my love for the Lord, and the life that was lived in light of that amazing love. I want people to remember my care and concern for their eternal destination and spiritual well-being and not just how their week went. I don't want people to remember my steadfast love, but that through me they saw the love of the Savior. It's not my friendliness towards the loner that I want raised up, but God's heart of love, acceptance, and welcome towards the outcast. It's not the years of my life or life in those years I want future generations to remember, but the One for whom my life was lived.
This is the life I want to be remembered for living, and this is the legacy I want to leave. So now is the time for me to start living that life. With purpose. With direction. With urgency.


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Last Friday, the United Nations announced Wonder Woman as Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls. The decision came as part of a campaign to raise awareness on Sustainable Development Goal 5, which is achieving gender equality and empowerment for all women and girls. It is one of 17 goals set by the UN to achieve a more prosperous, protected planet. This iconic female superhero in DC Comics has made great strides in displacing the stereotypical Damsel in Distress since her inception in the midst of World War II, offering a strong, capable heroine with a strategic mind and and incredible fighting skills.
Though some warm response by the public, some do not view Wonder Woman's UN appointment as a milestone worth celebrating. The decision received mixed views both from the public and those within the UN. Some have gone so far as to petition the Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to retrieve the UN's decision.
When asking Drewids about their thoughts on the UN's decision, many had nothing to add, as they were unaware of the situation. However, others offered insightful commentary.
"I do not agree with Secretary General Ban Ki Moon," said Alex Slotkin ('17), "The Secretary General wants to choose a real life woman, with all of her perfections and imperfections, to be the ambassador. As a general rule, it is better to look toward an ideal image of what we want rather than something that is attempting to enact the ideal. After all, a perfect form of, say, strong 'womanhood' has much more to be desired than someone who at times falls in line with that description and at other times does not. That is not to say there is no value in having a living role model, but what the UN is doing is creating a narrative that, like many cultures have done, begins with a fictional, idealized character and goes from there. I also disagree with subsequent arguments that Wonder Woman's clothing and appearance make her anything but a role model. Although what we wear does matter, how we wear it matters more. Wonder Woman wears a normally 'gendered' piece of clothing to highlight her attempt at breaking gender norms, and I think that is wonderful (pun intended)."
"I love Wonder Woman as a character," said Esther Tobe ('17), "I think this a great opportunity to get word out about women's empowerment, however I think this should not be an honorary position but a real position with a real woman in the position. I think that this is a good start and even though Wonder Woman is not real, she is a mostly universal character that many women can identify with. However, this should only be the beginning to making real change in the world." The UN has not released an official statement countering the controversy.
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Baylor's zone may force KU to play 2 bigs
Smithology
Jan 12, 2019 - 8:19am
Benton Smith
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Kansas forward David McCormack (33) gets up to reject a shot from South Dakota guard Nathan Robinson (24) during the second half, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018 at Allen Fieldhouse.
If Bill Self has to ditch the Kansas basketball team's four-guard lineup, and the head coach puts two bigs on the floor versus Baylor on Saturday afternoon, Self will do so somewhat begrudgingly and not because he's enthusiastic about a return to a traditional look.
Asked following the Jayhawks' home victory over TCU what he thought about a nearly six-minute stretch in the second half, when Dedric Lawson and Mitch Lightfoot played together, it brought about a visceral reaction from Self, his face grimacing in borderline disgust.
"It was fine," Self followed, with his reply.
KU went big for a short stretch, the coach explained, because the Horned Frogs were cutting into the Jayhawks' lead, narrowing it to two just before Self replaced K.J. Lawson with Lightfoot. Self hoped running some plays designed for two big men might provide a variant look, if not a spark.
"And Mitch is the best we have to do that, to give Dedric a touch," Self added.
The No. 7 Jayhawks led 55-50 when Lightfoot subbed in at the 10:55 mark, and 66-59 when he checked out with 5:03 left to play.
Lawson scored all 11 of KU's points during the stretch, as the lead grew by two points. Not bad. But not great, either. Throw in TCU's 3-pointer and a pair of layups during those five-plus minutes and you can see why Self wasn't gushing about the experiment.
Even so, Saturday's matchup with Baylor (9-5 overall, 1-1 Big 12) means Self most likely will have to use two-big lineups to counter the Bears' length within coach Scott Drew's zone defense.
"You're gonna have to play two bigs against them, I think the majority of the time, in order to be able to see inside the zone and be easier receivers," Self figured. ""So I think that as much as we played four guards (Wednesday), I don't know if I'd bank on that (at Baylor)."
This doubles as potentially great news for a couple of KU reserves: Lightfoot, who's averaging 8.8 minutes a game this season, and freshman big David McCormack, who is averaging 6.7 minutes and only checked in for 34 seconds against TCU.
Unless Dedric Lawson proves to be a zone dissector as a passer versus BU, and he's able to hit cutting guards for easy looks, both Lightfoot and McCormack should get relatively extended runs as the other big on the floor.
Self clearly trusts Lightfoot, a junior, more at this juncture of the season, but this could be a great opportunity for McCormack to gain some confidence and take another step toward proving he can handle more than what the coaches have asked of him up to this point.
Both Lightfoot and McCormack are great providers of energy off the bench and solid rebounders. Self won't ask them to do a ton offensively versus Baylor, but the Jayhawks very well could need both of the bigs to fill larger roles than usual, at least for one day.
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Marc A. Feigen
Marc advises and develops the Chief Executives of some of the world's largest and best known enterprises, counseling and training on all aspects of value creation. Marc's clients have enjoyed extraordinary performance, almost all outperforming their peer groups.
Marc is an expert on the role of the high-performing CEO. His long-standing clients include the CEOs of Fortune 150 financial services, consumer, industrial, energy, healthcare, insurance, media, and food companies. Marc also counsels several leading hedge fund, private equity, and professional services CEOs. His pro bono work includes advising the leaders of Cambridge University in England and The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Feigen Advisors has advised 10 percent of the CEOs in the Fortune 50. In recent years, Marc educated and trained nearly one-quarter of new Fortune 100 CEOs for the CEO role.
Marc founded and led a 200-person management consulting firm acquired by Booz & Company in 2009. He is also a co-founder of Prium, a CEO roundtable for Fortune 300 US-based CEOs, and the creator of the Bower Forum, McKinsey & Company's roundtable for new CEOs.
Marc taught at the Wharton Spencer Stuart Director's Institute from 1994-2002. In 2014, the result of three years of collaborative research with Dick Parsons into boardroom governance was published in the Harvard Business Review.
Marc is co-founder and Executive Vice-Chairman of Cambridge in America, an organization that has raised over $500 million for Cambridge. He is a past Chairman of the Gotham Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization in New York.
In 2013, Marc was named an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.
Marc has a BA with honors in History from the University of Pennsylvania, an MPhil in International Relations from Cambridge University, where he was a Thouron Fellow, and an MBA from Harvard. Previously, Marc was an Associate at McKinsey & Company, where he co-authored a best-selling business book on creating growth and performance. Marc has appeared on CBS, and has published articles in the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, USA Today, and Directors and Boards. He is Rear Commodore of the Nantucket Yacht Club. He lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.


The Government of Canada's Criminal Code listing regime is one of many tools for countering terrorism in Canada and globally, and is part of the Government's commitment to keep Canadians safe. Today the Government of Canada has listed the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code.
The actions of ISKP meet the legal threshold set out in the Criminal Code, which requires the existence of reasonable grounds to believe that an entity has knowingly participated in or facilitated a terrorist activity or is acting in association with a listed entity.
Established in January 2015, ISKP is a violent Sunni extremist group seeking to establish the Khorasan province in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region as part of the global caliphate of the Islamic State (IS). ISKP has carried out attacks and kidnappings against a number of targets, including aid organizations, civilians and security forces. ISKP has claimed responsibility for the June 2016 bomb attack that targeted a bus carrying security guards contracted by the Canadian Embassy in Kabul, killing at least 14 people; the October 2016 attack on a police training center in Quetta that killed at least 59 people and injured 100; the May 2017 attack in Kabul on a convoy of NATO soldiers that killed 8 civilians and wounded 25; and, the January 2018 attack in Jalalabad on the international charity "Save the Children" that killed at least 6 people and wounded 27.
In addition to the new listed terrorist entity, the primary name of Jabhat al-Nusra (JN) has been changed to Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and the term Daesh has been added as an alias for the Islamic State. Terrorist groups are continuously forming, merging, and renaming themselves and are known to be strategically changing their names to operate under aliases not yet specified by current sanctions or listing regimes. This is why it is important to constantly review the list in order to adapt it to new realities and improve its accuracy.
The Criminal Code mandates potentially severe penalties for people and organizations that deal with property or finances of a listed entity. It is a crime to knowingly participate in, or contribute to, any activity of a listed entity for the purpose of enhancing the ability of the entity to facilitate or carry out a terrorist activity.
The Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness must review the list of terrorist entities every two years to determine if each entity continues to merit listing under the Criminal Code. The results of the next review are expected to be published by the end of the year.
With the addition of ISKP, there are currently 54 terrorist entities listed under the Criminal Code.
The listing of terrorist entities under the Criminal Code can facilitate the prosecution of perpetrators and supporters of terrorism and plays a key role in countering terrorist financing.
The names of listed entities under the Criminal Code can be found on the Public Safety Canada Website.


Alice won the first prize with her project North Korea, a Life between Propaganda and Reality during Les Rencontres d'Arles in France.
She was the laureate of the Photo Folio Review 2014, which will give her the opportunity to show her work in a solo exhibition at the photo festival next year.
For the past one and a half year, Alice worked on her project about North Korea and she feels greatful for the enthousiast respons this project has recieved in Arles.


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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health Marks Construction Milestone for the New Patient Pavilion
Steel Structure for DHMC's new Patient Pavilion Complete
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health achieved a significant milestone in the construction of its 212,000-square-foot, five-story Patient Pavilion at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) on Friday, June 18, 2021, when one of the final beams in the building's steel structure was installed.
The occasion was marked with a traditional "topping off" ceremony, which is a long-standing tradition in the construction industry to mark the completion of a building's structure—specifically the placement of the final steel beam. In keeping with tradition, the beam was outfitted with a small evergreen tree (known as a construction "Christmas tree") on one side and an American flag on the other.
"This particular beam is very special," says Scott T. Slogic, RCP, RRT, director of the Patient Pavilion Activation Team. "We brought this beam into the hospital for two weeks earlier this spring and invited patients, visitors and staff to sign it. This gave everyone an opportunity to touch the building, to sign the beam and to be a part of the future of this magnificent structure."
Construction on the Patient Pavilion began in July 2020, with an anticipated completion date in early 2023. With the steel framing complete, construction crews will begin pouring concrete slabs on each level and installing prefabricated exterior panels to enclose the structure. The building enclosure is scheduled to be complete this fall.
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*Tanaka Bushu
*Kelvin Tinashe Choto
*Noah Sahombe (02 February 2019 at Parirenyatwa Hospitals from injuries sustained in assault)
*Noah Sahombe - 02 February 2019 at Parirenyatwa Hospitals from injuries sustained in an assault
*Alexio Maune - ZRP constable killed by protestors on 14 January 2019.
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January 2019 Protests,
Part of ZCTU Stayaway
Protestors In Zimbabwe 2019
Caused by
Fuel Price Hike
Reducing Cost Of Living
Stayaway, Protest March, Riot
Parties to the civil conflict
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions,
Citizens,
Government of Zimbabwe (Police, Army)
Peter Mutasa,
Evan Mawarire,
Emmerson Mnangagwa
5 dead, several hundreds injured
1 police officer dead
The January 2019 Protests was civil unrest and riots that occurred in Zimbabwe and the violent response from the government from 14 to 16 January 2019. There are different figures provided on the number of people that died but a common figure is 5, most of them from gunshot wounds and beatings by the police and Zimbabwe military.
1 Follow Shutdown Zimbabwe and Aftermath News Here
2.1 1 - 11 January 2019
2.2 Saturday, 12 January 2019
2.3 Sunday, 13 January 2019
2.4 Monday, 14 January 2019
2.5 Teusday, 15 January 2019
2.6 Wednesday, 16 January 2019
2.7 Thursday, 17 January 2019
2.8 Friday, 18 January 2019
2.10 Sunday, 20 January 2019
2.11 21 January 2019
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There's an acute shortage of vehicle fuel countrywide with queues of cars waiting to fuel stretching for kilometers. See more: Zimbabwe Fuel Shortage Crisis (2018 - 2019)
The government insists that there's no real fuel shortage and that the shortage has been artificially created by saboteurs, criminals, and small cars that are wasting fuel on luxury purposes.
On the night of 12 January, Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa announces at a press conference that the price of fuel has been increased. Blended Petrol is increased from $1.32 per liter to $3.31 and Diesel from $1.20 to $3.11. Mnangagwa is accompanied by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga and Finance Minister, Mthuli Ncube. Mnangagwa says that government will ensure that businesses do not increase the price of other products in response, saying the government will provide rebates to compensate businesses for the fuel price increase.
Analysts and Zimbabweans on social media say the move is a mistake as it will result in other products also increasing in price.
The president flies out to Russia later starting a 5 country roadshow seeking investment.
The president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions calls for a 3-day nationwide stayaway from 14 - 16 January 2019.
The MDC Alliance joins in calls with the party's Youth wing urging Zimbabweans to stay away on the 3 days
Popular #ThisFlag activist, Pastor Evan Mawarire calls on ordinary citizens to join in the stayaway in solidarity with ZCTU.
Reports trickle in the morning saying that some roads into town are barricaded with rocks and burning tires as protestors attempt to stop anyone from going to work or school.
Pictures from Epworth show streets with huge rocks preventing traffic flow
A Choppies supermarket in Mabvuku is looted Later other Choppies supermarkets around the country are also looted. Protestors have a perception that the supermarket is linked to the Zanu-PF government.
Zimbabwe Republic Police trucks are burnt in Harare and Bulawayo.
School teachers who had reported for duty in Chitungwiza are visited by police and army who beat them resulting in the closure of the schools as both teachers and students are sent home.
Makoni Police Station is burnt
A tollgate along Harare-Masvingo road after the Mbudzi roundabout is ransacked and burnt.
A ZUPCO bus is burnt in Harare
A Puma fuel station in Harare belonging to Zanu-PF senior member Webster Shamu is ransacked
A Zuva fuel station in Harare is also burnt.
A man with a gun is seen along the Bulawayo - Harare road near Kuwadzana apparently controlling traffic but some report it's not very clear what he was doing. Later a gunman is filmed shooting at targets in a residential area. It's said he was shooting at residents.
4 people are said to have been shot in the Epworth high-density residential area. Pictures of a woman with a deep and wide gunshot wound on the thigh circulate. Other pictures of gunshot wound victims also circulate.
The army and police are deployed countrywide to contain the protests
Messages circulate in the evening that the army and police intend to do overnight door to door raids especially in high-density areas to harass and arrest men.
Pastor Evan Mawarire, thanks Zimbabweans who stayed at home, denounces violent protests and calls on Zimbabweans to stay home again the following day as per ZCTU planned stayaway.
Teusday, 15 January 2019
Reports say that the army and police visited houses in several high-density residential areas breaking in and randomly assaulting young men and arresting them. RThese raids are continuing into the day.
Reports circulate in the morning that the government intends to block access to social media apps and sites. Several people report not being able to access WhatsApp and Facebook
Subscribers of Zimbabwe's largest mobile internet provider Econet report that the provider has blocked access to the whole internet. Later NetOne and Telecel subscribers also report that they can't access the internet at all. It is feared that a total internet shutdown has been ordered by the government.
At around 12 midday, providers that still had some access, ZOl and Liquid Telecom also shut down the whole internet, plunging Zimbabwe into an internet blackout.
Meanwhile reports continue to says that the army is doing door to door raids in various high-density suburbs, destroying property and arresting young men.
Later that evening, Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Energy Mutodi, says that the internet has not been blocked at all and that it really is just congested. This is proven to be a lie a day later when Econet Wireless reveals that they were ordered by the government to shut the internet down.
Most businesses are closed and people stay at home, mostly in fear of the retribution by army and police.
Econet Wireless sends an SMS message to its subscribers saying notifying them that the internet is down because of a government order received from the Office of the President.
Pastor Evan Mawarire is arrested on charges of inciting public violence
Zimbabwe spends the second day under the internet blackout.
Reports of army and police beating Zimbabweans in door to door raids continue
At 3PM President Emmerson Mnangagwa posts a message on social media from Russia saying that his roadshow is necessary for an economic turnaround, says that Zimbabweans are free to protest and that they should do so peacefully. He also says that economic progress is being made even though it's not always visible.
At about 5PM the internet is restored, however access to social media is still blocked.
the government orders the internet providers to block access to Virtual Private Network (VPN) services in order to prevent Zimbabweans bypassing the social media blockade.
The social media blockade continues
the Zimbabwean government finally admits that it blocked access to the internet. Says it was necessary given a threat to national security.
A report in the government-controlled publication The Herald, says 3 people died, 30 vehicles were burnt and that 600 people were arrested.
Pastor Evan Mawarire has an additional charge of treason brought against him - subverting a constitutionally elected government.
Evan Mawarire is denied bail and is remanded in custody to 31 January 2019
Beatrice Mtetwa, Mawarire's lawyer says that there's a deliberate ploy by the justice system in Zimbabwe to deny justice to the people arrested for Shutdown Zimbabwe protests. Says human rights lawyers are also being deliberately stretched to deny justice to protestors.
Government says that about 700 people have been arrested so far for Shutdown Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Youth Alliance president Kumbirai Learnmore Magorimbo appears in court facing charges of seeking to subvert a constitutionally-elected government after he allegedly posted messages on his Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp walls, inciting workers to take part in the stayaway.
In the evening of the 19th, Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) President, Obert Masaraure is abducted from his home in Harare. His organisation has been protesting against the government since before the ZCTU Stayaway.
It emerges that ARTUZ president, Obert Masaraure, was handed over to the police as they bring him to court on charges of treason - Subverting a constitutionally elected government.
Police and Military do a joint press conference where they announce that there are civilians who are in possession of police and military uniforms and that some of these individuals are former force members who "retired, deserted, absented themselves without official leave". They also say that these individuals are committing crimes.
Rumours emerge that there's a group of Zanu-PF senoir members led by Chris Mutsvangwa who are plotting to remove Mnangagwa from the presidency through impeaching and other processes.
Mnangagwa is reported to have abandoned his trip and now making plans to come back home. He is expected in the country within 24 hours.
Zanu-PF politician Mayor Justice Wadyajena says that some Zanu-PF senior members plotting to impeach President Mnangagwa threatened to kill him and harm his family for not supporting them. Former Deputy minister Terrence Khupe says he has faced similar threats. Both indicate that the plot has been foiled.
Mnangagwa returns to Zimbabwe at midnight
President Mnangagwa says he has opened up for dialogue with other leaders over the crisis faced by Zimbabwe
President Cyril Ramaphosa calls for the lifting of sanctions against Zimbabwe
Tanaka Bushu
Kelvin Tinashe Choto
Noah Sahombe - 02 February 2019 at Parirenyatwa Hospitals from injuries sustained in an assault
Alexio Maune - ZRP constable killed by protestors on 14 January 2019.
January 2019 Protests
January 2019 Protests, a woman is carried in a wheelbarrow after being shot on the thigh by police, army
Tyre burning during January 2019 Protests
Tyre burning during the January 2019 Protests
Street Barricading during the January 2019 Protests
Marchers during the January 2019 Protests
Pastor Evan Mawarire is arrested on 17 January 2019 Protests. He's later charged with treason.
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In the Colombian town of Turbaco is the City of Women, a neighborhood built by local women. They came together when violence displaced them, seeking — and finding — security and solace together. "They were victims of the warring factions, including leftist guerrilla groups, rightwing paramilitary armies and even government forces," says Brodzinsky. "But what brought them together was their new struggle to survive." We were moved by this compelling story of women joining forces to create something so vital for themselves, and a light for others as well.
For a small food business, getting shelf space in the stores of industry giants like Whole Foods can be huge for a venture's brand awareness — and, of course, its bottom line. However, many businesses in this enviable position have found themselves underprepared to suddenly and significantly scale up to take advantage of the opportunity. Here, Haimerl examines the challenges with the help of several female food entrepreneurs, learning how they adapted their businesses — those who chose to join forces with the big guys, that is.
Chariot for Women is a rideshare service that exclusively hires and caters to women, promising protection from harassment and potential danger as they move about town. It's set to launch soon in Boston, but has already sparked debates about the legality — and necessity — of its female-only policies. Zalkind starts and ends her piece with an anecdote from her time as a driver, when she grappled with untoward behavior from two inebriated male passengers. "If … Chariot for Women, launches as advertised, drivers will never have to interact with the men's lacrosse team, as I did while driving for Uber and Lyft for about a year," she says.
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Now tuning to new compiler and rpi4!
This code work on RPi1/3 only.

This is Frame Buffer sample code.

Connect HDMI to 1080p/24bit color display.

If you can run this program,
you'll see color pattern.
(This pattern is Japanese broadcast standard ARIB STD-B28.)

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For Raspberry Pi Zero/1/2/3 Bare Metal code by AZO.

How to make:
1. install "arm-none-eabi-gcc".
2. Open "Makefile " with texteditor, and change options.
BOARD=RPZERO/RP1/RP2/RP3
3. make
4. If successfully, output "kernel.img"(RPZero/1) or "kernel7.img"(RP2/3).

How to run:
Put follow files to FAT SD card.
* "bootcode.bin"
* "start.elf"
* "config.txt" <- config_rp01.txt or config_rp23.txt
* "kernel.img"(RPZero/1) or "kernel7.img"(RP2/3)

Firmware:
Grub "bootcode.bin" and "start.elf" at
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot

Reference
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- PeterLemon/RaspberryPi: Raspberry Pi Bare Metal Assembly Programming https://github.com/PeterLemon/RaspberryPi

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Kingdom - Season 1 Episode 1
In this zombie thriller set in Korea's medieval Joseon dynasty, a crown prince is sent on a suicide mission to investigate a mysterious outbreak. ..
In this zombie thriller set in Korea's medieval Joseon dynasty, a crown prince is sent on a suicide mission to investigate a mysterious outbreak.
Bae Doo-na, Huh Joon-ho, Ju Ji-Hoon, Jun Suk-ho, Jung Suk-won, Kim Hye-jun, Kim Sang-ho, Kim Sung-kyu, Ryu Seung-ryong
Keywords: Bae Doo-na Ju Ji-Hoon Kim Sang-ho Kim Sung-kyu Ryu Seung-ryong
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