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If Not Now, When?: Students and Difficult Reading
Many professors bemoan the failure to do the assigned reading on the part of their students. But is that a reason to shy away from giving students challenging texts?
After regaling readers with the common experience of encountering students in the classroom who have not done the reading, Theresa MacPhail offers a solution in a recent piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education. She suggests assigning less reading: "Long story short: Don't assign too much reading–and don't assume you know how much reading is too much for your students." Why? Because students are pressed for time and, "read only if they have time and if the readings are relatively easy to digest." Moreover, she suggests that professors avoid long texts: "It may be the biggest reason students are no longer reading the things we assign. They have complained over and over again that a lot of assigned texts are just too boring or too long or–the deadliest of combinations–both at once."
In her own classroom, MacPhail incorporates other kinds of material, including documentaries and podcasts. She only has students read a few scholarly texts during the course. The result: "My student are getting the information–but in formats with which they are most comfortable. Instead of reading more, they are doing more research and writing."
There are two things that struck me. One is the idea that learning should be easy and comfortable. Whereas learning shouldn't be torture, it also shouldn't be without discomfort. I'm a proponent of meeting students where they are. At the same time, the goal is also to move the student forward, even if it's just a little bit, and that often means taking the student out of a comfort zone to a new place that is unfamiliar and sometimes scary. But that's ok! The unfamiliar then becomes familiar; then we move on to more unfamiliar things. What we should be doing is making students comfortable with being uncomfortable, with ambiguity, with not knowing and confident enough to charge ahead and grapple with difficult texts or challenging readings.
The other idea that struck me was placing reading in opposition to research and writing. As a person who designs and implements research programs for undergraduates and trains them to work on my own research, I know the value of reading for research. I know some academics who look down on basic bibliographic research, but that research is the foundation for any subsequent research. An inability to read well at this stage does not bode well later down the road. I have seen students who have never been asked to grapple with a "difficult' text that challenged them. As a result, they lack the confidence and ability to do so. If a student never has to grapple with a dense text, then a student will never learn how to grapple with a dense text. But it's about more than grappling with jargon or a boring text. It's about developing critical reading skills that they can use anywhere.
Rather than denigrating difficult texts, perhaps what we should teach students is how to read smarter, which would really make the best use of their time and engage them with the material. Miriam E. Sweeney offers some great insights in her post, "How to Read for Grad School." Instead of a cursory review of the material, these suggestions offer a reading strategy to ensure the reader understands the material at a sufficient depth to be able to engage its ideas. There are probably others who have written similarly.
In the 1970s, I remember seeing public service advertisements for the Reading is Fundamental program, which was designed to increase literacy rates. Reading is still fundamental. The way to address student reading is not to encourage students to avoid difficult reading, but to teach them how to engage it.
MacPhail, Theresa. "Are You Assigning Too Much REading? Or Just Too Much Boring Reading?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 Jan 2019, https://www.chronicle.com/article/Are-You-Assigning-Too-Much/245531 (21 Mar 2019).
Miriam. "How to Read for Grad School." Miriam E. Sweeney. 20 Jun 2012, https://miriamsweeney.net/2012/06/20/readforgradschool/ (21 Mar 2019).
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Scholarly Writing
Research Challenges Perception That K-pop Is Defined By Single Fandom
The K-pop fandom landscape has changed in the past few years. Data suggests that the general K-pop "idol" fandom is more divided than it was less than 10 years ago and challenges some widely held notions about the preferences of global K-pop fans. Read more at KPK: Kpop Kollective…..
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PROJECT UPDATE: New Asian Drama Digital Humanities Project
OMO!: Korean and Chinese Drama and Commentary is my newest digital humanities project, which curates information on dramas and the global response to them in the form of reviews. It represents not only resource creation but also an examination of how global audiences make meaning of this transnational popular culture.
The project also includes the work of undergraduate researchers, providing the valuable experience of working on a research project. The first exhibit, City Hunter (2011), includes an analysis of the promotional poster as well as an overview as well as short-form and longer reviews compiled by De'siree Fairley, undergraduate research assistant. Users can view complete reviews in Evernote. As the project includes more dramas, we hope that we can determine a pattern in the consumption of dramas by global audiences.
May 22, 2018 May 22, 2018 asian popular culture, cdrama, digital humanities, drama reviews, kdrama, researchLeave a comment
New Survey! Not the Only One: Multi-Fandoms and K-pop
Can't decide which K-pop group or artist is your favorite? You are not alone! Global fans of K-pop tend to support several groups and artists at the same time, while their Korean counterparts tend to support only one group or artist. But why? And which groups tend to be in a global fan's multi-fandom? This study seeks to answer these questions in survey that uses open-ended and multiple-choice questions. Take the survey and tell your friends!
Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/kpopmultifandom
March 10, 2017 April 18, 2017 Kpop, researchLeave a comment
A Not So New K-pop Survey: Last Fans Standing: Veteran Fans of K-pop
One of the things that happens when conducting qualitative surveys is that they can raise more questions than they answer. This is what happened with the preliminary data from Last Fans Standing: Longtime and Adult Fans of Korean Popular Music (K-pop). Response rates were unusually low, which was unusual given the rising number of fans who have been fans for more than five years. I speculated that respondents may think that only adult fans who had also been fans for five years or more could take the survey. So, I revised the survey to focus solely on veteran fans of K-pop, individuals who had been fans for five years or more. The revised survey can be found here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/vetfans !
iFans: We Are One! EXO::EXO-L
We Are One! EXO::EXO-L is the first fandom profile for my iFans project. Like the profiles to follow, it provides information on K-pop groups and their fandoms, including curated cover songs, cover dances and fan projects by fans. Click here to check it out!
July 26, 2016 April 18, 2017 exo, exo l, fandom, Kpop, researchLeave a comment
Ask the Rogue Adviser!
When I go to conferences, I often end up answering questions from members of the audience after the presentation. Or, I'll have random conversation with students from other institutions about my work. I'm happy to give others the benefit of my 18+ experience in academia as an active researcher of cultural studies. But why wait for a conference? If you are an undergraduate or graduate student, ask me your questions here, and I'll tell you what I know! I won't post your name, but if I can answer your question, I'll post the question and answer. You can ask me about my work (see the site!), the research process and the college experience!
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TALK: K-pop Confidential @ Georgia State University, 11/20/2014
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Can't Stop Loving You: Fans Find Happiness, Solace in K-pop
European K-pop Fans
Whether it's excited yelling by fans or crying by K-pop artists, emotions run deep in K-pop. While some focus on obsessive emotional attachments and behaviors by fans, research shows that fans themselves describe a range of emotional responses to K-pop. 100 responses by 18- to 30-year-olds show that fans find K-pop to be a source of happiness, hope and motivation. These responses are part of a five-year study on international fans of K-pop housed at KPK: Kpop Kollective.
Some writers tend to characterize fan activities and emotional expressions in negative terms. Patricia of Seoulbeats describes emotional expressions of appreciation for K-pop as bordering on obsessive: "I think there's something to be said about my stance on the emotional toll that idol fandom takes on its devotees. That's why I become so alarmed when I see these SHINee fans writing these intense emotional outpourings about how SHINee has changed their lives, or how much SHINee means to them. It breaks my heart to hear fans say that they turn to K-pop as a distraction for real life because their friends and family can't offer them the same comfort that K-pop idols do."
Adeline Chia writes that such emotions translate into obsessive behaviors: "Then there is K-pop's effects on listeners. It turns functional people into crazed addicts, acting in robotic idolatry. . . . K-pop is also unique in inspiring extreme behaviour from fans and generating psychosis. Cyber-bullying and online smear campaigns are common practices by anti-fans who target a certain entertainer they hate. Sometimes, anti-fans turn into stalkers or criminals."
Can't Stop Loving You Infographic (Detail)
To view entire "Can't Stop Loving You" infographic, click here.
However, fans talk about the emotional appeal of K-pop in more positive terms. Some talk about overall emotions that go beyond the lyrics. One notes, "Kpop has the power to touch people even for those like me who don't understand the lyrics. I think [it] is the r[h]ythm, the emotion in the voices, the dances. Kpop is like a best friend, it is here for you whenever you are happy or sad. Powerful stuff." Another said: "The music is more touching and you can feel the emotions of the singers when they sing regardless of what genre." Others link emotions to performances: "They sing and perform with passion and emotions, so even if you can't really understand the lyrics you will get to know what it's about by just listening. Kpop is not just another type of music it's much more, that I can't describe it with words" (Anderson).
These responses echo what scholars have discovered about emotional responses to music that transcend cultural differences. In a study with Western listeners listening to Hindustani ragas, Laura-Lee Balkwill and William Forde Thompson find that it is possible for music to travel cross-culturally: "According to our model, this indicates that the psychophysical cues for joy, sadness, and anger were salient enough to enable listeners to overcome their unfamiliarity with culture-specific cues and to make an accurate assessment of the intended emotion. . . . That naive listeners demonstrated such a high level of agreement with expert listeners, who were deeply familiar with the culture-specific cues embedded in the music samples, is remarkable" (58). In other words, listeners from other cultures can identify emotionally with music of a different culture, and this may shed light on why global fans identify with K-pop emotionally.
This emotional response runs the gamut. Many respondents describe how they find K-pop to be fun and happy. One notes, "Cause the music is always so free and fun to dance to. It simply makes me happy." Another adds, "The songs are really refreshing, and listening to it puts me in a happy mood because of their lyrics and beats." Other respondents link the happiness they feel from K-pop to their lives in general: "It always puts me in a good mood and makes me feel energized. Kpop sometimes can make you feel like your part of something bigger. It's hard to explain but the feeling it gives you is great" (Anderson).
Others related K-pop to more somber emotions. One respondent says, "Because it's very different and the music touches something in me, I mean this is not superficial, there are feelings in every song, this could be happiness or some sad feelings." Another notes, "When I listen to sad songs I find that it have feelings in it and it will touched me too." One says, "There's an upbeat to the music that sometimes make you want to dance other times depending on where you heard it from makes you sad" (Anderson).
Some fans talk about how K-pop helps them through hard times. One respondent notes, "It was introduced to me at a hard time in my life and it has been the only music I listened to help me get through it." Another says, "Kpop appeared in my life all of a sudden. I was really depressed back then and it helped me get out of my miserable state, pulled me out of the worst" (Anderson). Music can have the therapeutic effect these respondents describe. Annemiek Vink explains therapy methods, such as Guided Imagery in Music, which is "based on the assumption that the most appropriate music can be selected for healing purposes." She further finds that the choice of music impacts the therapeutic results of GIM: "In all aspects, carefully selected music based on the person's preference and personal background was far more effective than standard relaxation music" (153, 154).
This range of fairly positive emotions challenges negative characterizations of their emotional expression. These responses come from adults rather than young teenagers, so it is less convincing to describe them as obsessive along the lines of Chia. She refers to incidents involving K-pop celebrities, but respondents speak about their emotions mostly in relation to the music. When they do comment on the artists, it is often in terms of the positive relationship they have with fans. One notes, "The singers are so dedicated to their music and their fans. They put their real emotion into every word" (Anderson).
This emotional connection that some K-pop fans feel also translates into a discourse of protection, the desire to protect their group or artist from mischaracterizations. The Triple S Pledge encourages fans of SS501 "To support and shield them through hard times…To ignore rumors." The same sentiments can be seen in the "Prom15e to Bel13ve and 10ve" philosophy held by some fans of Super Junior, which acknowledges every member regardless of current status or sub-group membership.
These findings suggest that emotion plays a role in the attitudes and opinions of adult global K-pop fans, often in a positive way.
Anderson, Crystal. Infographic. "Can't Stop Loving You." 14 Dec 2012. Web.
European Kpop Fans. Digital Image. WeHeartIt. Originally posted on european-kpop-fans.blogspot.com. 14 Dec 2012. http://weheartit.com/entry/29104058
Anderson, Crystal S. "Data Set: Hallyu Kpop Survey 2 and Kpop Kollective KiFs Survey 2, 18- to 30 Year Olds." Korean Popular Music International Fanbases Project. 29 Apr 2011 – 15 Apr 2012.
Balkwill, Laura-Lee and William Forde Thompson. "A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Perception of Emotion in Music: Psychophysical and Cultural Cues." Music Perception 17. 1 (1999): 43-64.
Chia, Adeline. "Sick Cult of K-pop." Originally published on Straits Times. 8 Dec 2011. SGSJELFs & SupershowSG. Web. 8 Dec 2012. http://sgsjelfs.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/sick-of-k-pop-cult-by-adeline-chia-of-straits-times/
Patricia. "Fans Love Oppa, But Oppa Is Uncomfortable With Such Feelings." 24 May 2011. Seoulbeats. Web. 8 Dec 2012. http://seoulbeats.com/2011/05/fans-love-oppa-but-oppa-is-uncomfortable-with-such-feelings/
TS Pledge. Triple S: The States. Web. 8 Dec 2012. http://triplesstates.blogspot.com/p/about-triples.html
Vink, Annemiek. "Music and Emotion." Nordic Journal of Music Therapy 10.2 (2001): 144-158.
"Can't Stop Loving You: Fans Find Happiness, Solace in K-pop" by Crystal S. Anderson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Originally published on KPK: Kpop Kollective on December 14, 2012.
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The Benefits of the Research Blog
While some academics may be skeptical about the intellectual value of using a blog as part of their research, I have found that it has numerous benefits.
Some academics look down on blogging for research because it is goes against the conventional wisdom that the only things that matter in scholarship are peer-reviewed production: journal article, book chapters in edited collections, monographs. Scholars are concerned because we all know the weight such publications carry in annual evaluations, promotion and tenure and our overall reputations in our fields. We may reason, "If I'm going to spend my time writing, it needs to be on something that counts."
Yes, these kinds of publications count, but they do not begin to capture the breadth of our scholarship. The process by which we engage ideas as we arrive at our brilliant conclusions is also scholarship, and blogging about our research can capture this. Kathleen Fitzpatrick notes, "When a scholar with a blog writes a bit about some ideas-in-process, receives some feedback in response, returns with further ideas, reiterates, and so on, we can glimpse once again the seriality that has always been at the heart of scholarly production."
Blogging also documents that process. Rather than thoughts being lost in our own heads, blog posts capture our epiphanies as they occur. We rarely recognize how much intellectual labor we utilize. I find blogging to be a concrete way to capture that intellectual labor and map my own thought process. Nothing I write comes out fully polished and ready to go and that's ok. In a piece last year for The Chronicle on Higher Education, Bruce Henderson noted what happens behind-the-scenes of scholarship production:
They do not see us reading, talking with—and listening to—colleagues, or translating new information into class notes or research ideas. They do not see us struggling to find out what is important in the overwhelming amount of new information in every discipline. Yet such consumatory scholarship is fundamental to up-to-date teaching, to the initial stages of research projects, and to institutional and community service based on expertise rather than just good intentions.
Blogging is one way to capture that consumatory scholarship. We all know you cannot write responsibly about something unless you know what's already been written. I use blogging on my research site as a way to do that publicly. It's helpful for me because I can see the product of my in-process thinking.
But there are other, less-discussed reasons for research blogging. Blog posts validate smaller sized articulations of our thinking. Being driven to write only journal articles or book chapters can contribute to the kind of unproductive mindset that Kerry Ann Rockquemore talks about in her essay on academic perfectionism. She asks: "Do you hold onto your drafts until you think they are perfect and only share manuscripts with others when they are in their most advanced stage?" "Do you have an intense fear of failure because it might reveal to others that you are not perfect (or have as much potential as others thought you had)?" " Are you so fixated on the end goal of publishing your paper, receiving a grant, and/or getting stellar teaching evaluations that if you don't meet the goal, it doesn't even matter what happened in the process?" Positive answers to these questions may indicate a mode of perfectionism that produce "self-defeating thoughts and behaviors that are aimed at reaching an unrealistic goal (perfection)."
I have found that blogging helps me to avoid these extreme views about my writing. It allows me to set smaller goals, and I write more. By writing shorter pieces, my writing improves in my peer-reviewed work as well.
Finally, blogging gave me a sense of control over my own work that we can lose working exclusively toward peer-reviewed publications. In exchange for the opportunity to be published, we give up the rights over our own work. This may contribute to the way academia operates an uncertain venture for some. Rockquemore notes that the academic environment is one "where there are no objective and transparent criteria for tenure and promotion, but instead a moving target of ever-escalating expectations" and "where success is largely under the control of others and rejection rates are astronomically high."
Isn't the ultimate goal of research to contribute to a body of knowledge that people can access? So, I decided that I would I write and publish small pieces of my research on my blog to share directly with the public: no paywalls, no passwords, no undecipherable jargon. Just the attribution will make me happy. I get to decide how others can use it through a Creative Commons license. If somebody asks me to translate a post in French, I can say yes because I exercise a measure of control over my own writing that I don't always do in peer-reviewed publications.
It is also important to me that some of the writing I do should be the kind my family and friends can read. It was especially important for this work on Korean popular culture, because so much of my source material is in the public square and relies on the public production of others (i.e. fans) and their perceptions.
This writing has paid off I ways I could not anticipate. I have extended my academic circle and have been offered more traditional academic opportunities as a result of my blog writing. I engage with people who aren't academics but have deep insights in my subjects. I talk to people.
Blogging our research may seem counterintuitive, but I know my traditional academic writing has benefitted as a result.
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. "Blogs as Serialized Scholarship." Planned Obsolescence. 12 Jul 2012. Web. 3 Mar 2013.
Henderson, Bruce B. "Just Because We're Not Publishing Doesn't Mean We're Not Working." The Chronicle of Higher Education. 11 June 2012. Web. 3 Mar 2013.
Rockquemore, Kerry Ann. "The Cost of Perfectionism." Inside Higher Education. 7 Nov 2012. Web. 3 Mar 2013.
"The Benefits of the Research Blog" by Crystal S. Anderson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Originally published on KPK: Kpop Kollective on March 3, 2013.
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Oh, wow, Norfolkgrey, thanks a lot! And everybody else as well. Sorry for being such a nincompoop. I'll try to do better this year.
I love the word Nincompoop!!
Good to see you about Planetologist!
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Ширенка — деревня в Серебрянском сельском поселении Лужского района Ленинградской области.

История
Впервые упоминается в писцовых книгах Шелонской пятины 1498 года, как деревня Щирино в Дремяцком погосте Новгородского уезда.

Как деревня Щеринка она упоминается на карте Санкт-Петербургской губернии Ф. Ф. Шуберта 1834 года.

ШИРИНГА — деревня господина Дзержинского, по просёлочной дороге, число дворов — 2, число душ — 5 м. п. (1856 год)

ШИРИНКА — деревня, число жителей по X-ой ревизии 1857 года: 3 м. п., 3 ж. п.

Согласно карте из «Исторического атласа Санкт-Петербургской Губернии» 1863 года деревня называлась Щеринка.

В 1877—1878 годах временнообязанные крестьяне деревни выкупили свои земельные наделы у А. И. Дзержинского и стали собственниками земли.

Согласно подворной описи 1882 года:

ШИРИНКА — деревня Ильженского общества Городецкой волости
домов — 5, душевых наделов — 4, семей — 3, число жителей — 4 м. п., 10 ж. п.; разряд крестьян — водворённые на земле мелкопоместных владельцев

В XIX веке деревня административно относилась ко 2-му стану Лужского уезда Санкт-Петербургской губернии, в начале XX века — к Городецкой волости 5-го земского участка 4-го стана.

По данным «Памятной книжки Санкт-Петербургской губернии» за 1905 год деревня Ширенка входила в Ильженское сельское общество.

Согласно топографической карте 1926 года деревня называлась Ширинка и насчитывала семь дворов.

По данным 1933 года деревня Ширенка входила в состав Смердовского сельсовета Лужского района.

По данным 1966 года деревня Ширенка также входила в состав Смердовского сельсовета.

По данным 1973 и 1990 годов деревня Ширенка входила в состав Серебрянского сельсовета.

По данным 1997 и 2002 годов в деревне Ширенка Серебрянской волости не было постоянного населения.

В 2007 году в деревне Ширенка Серебрянского СП также не было постоянного населения.

География
Деревня расположена в южной части района к северо-западу от автодороги  (Городок — Серебрянский).

Расстояние до административного центра поселения — 10 км.

Деревня находится к западу от железнодорожной линии Луга — Псков. Расстояние до железнодорожной станции Луга I — 20 км.

К востоку от деревни протекает река Ширенка.

Демография

Улицы
Партизанская.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Лужского района

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"[John] Daly's candor…shows when he reflects on his career, especially the part that followed his second major championship in 1995 - the British Open at St. Andrews.
"'After all that money was coming in…I just got lazy,' he said. 'I had the greatest contract with Wilson and Reebok and had all this money coming in. I didn't practice or focus on it…Instead of working on the things I needed to work on, I would just be lazy about it.
Joe Juliano at philly.com catches up with Daly in this story on the outset of Daly's PGA Tour Champions career.
Royal Troon, which is hosting the British Open next month, is holding a membership vote on July 1 about whether to admit women as members, and it isn't a coincidence, Martin Dempster of the Scotsman writes.
"It was little over a month ago, after all, that Martin Cheyne, the captain of the club staging this year's Open Championship, indicated that it was likely to be the 'back end' of 2016 before that process was concluded," Dempster writes.
"That it has been accelerated is clearly linked to the events at Muirfield, where the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers failed to deliver sufficient support to admitting women members at the East Lothian venue.
The PGA Championship was held at Oakmont Country Club in 1951, when the players' caddies were locals. "[Sam] Cosnotti remembers [Frank] Minch treating him well. Minch didn't make it past the second day, but Cosnotti was paid $30 — almost $300 in the money of today — and Minch gave him a dozen Titleist golf balls. He would ask the 14-year-old Cosnotti about how far the green was and what club he should use, as if he were a caddie with decades of experience," Brody Miller of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writes.


Grand Hope Events started as an idea for a series of school project between two business majors at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. It was at a small park, between Grand and Hope in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, Jacqueline and Farryn envisioned the company. Shortly after graduation, the two graduates set out to create their dreams to their reality.
Hello there! My name is Jacqueline and I am a So-Cal native with a background in fashion and I love love, (oh traveling,and desserts too, I would also travel for desserts) ! I still cry at weddings, whether it's during the vows, speeches or during father-daughter dances, its a guarantee that I'll shed those happy tears. I fell in love with planning and designing weddings when I was a teenager and was a part of several weddings and I also had a chance to intern with an event planner. I studied product development and business management at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising where my love for fashion and events bloomed. Shortly after graduation, I planned my own wedding and with the help of some great vendors and a day-of coordinator I felt so at peace during my big day and I was able to enjoy it and not to worry! It was that peace and enjoyment that I want to share to my clients, whether you're a bride/groom/mothers of a bride or groom or even a corporate client. I want you to be able to fully enjoy your day without the worries of logistics. With my fashion background I pull inspiration from runway shows, couture clothing, and art to design an unforgettable event. I believe that building a strong genuine relationship with my clients is crucial in the planning process, think of me as your best friend that's planning your big day, you can lean on me during stressful times and we can grab dessert when you want to indulge. Shoot me an email, say hello, can't wait to meet you!
I am a mama to a sweet and hilarious 4 year-old name Scarlett, who loves to dress up just as much as I do!
You can find me at Disneyland(and its vicinities) at least 2x a month and at the PNW at least 2x a year.
The travel bug bit me, traveling with my family, exploring new cities is my all-time favorite.


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Rezvani Hercules
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The world of premium supercars is very crowded. You have your Paganis and your Koenigseggs and so on. You also have Rezvani, the Beast manufacturer in Orange County. After Rezvani went further with th...
The world of premium supercars is very crowded. You have your Paganis and your Koenigseggs and so on. You also have Rezvani, the Beast manufacturer in Orange County. After Rezvani went further with their Tank SUV, they decided to increase their craziness by about 150% by launching the Hercules 6×6.
What Is The Rezvani Hercules 6×6?
A Bridge Too Far?
Hard To Justify This Rig
Yes, 6×6. It has six wheels! It's sort of like a bespoke, American-made version of those Mercedes G-Wagen 6x6es they sold to sheiks about a decade ago. Rezvani says the Hercules 6×6 is designed as an antidote to the currently dull truck segment, but I don't see trucks as all that dull. Regardless, the Rezvani Hercules 6×6 is a military-inspired, purpose-built, extreme utility vehicle.
Rezvani says it's perfect for numerous far-ranging adventures, whether it's going to Rodeo Drive to pick up your artisanal sock garters or all the way out to Rancho Cordova to check on your horse breeding program.
Rezvani is also working on a Hercules 6×6 Military Edition with features like bulletproof glass, body armor, and over 20 high-tech security features. Currently, Rezvani has a Military Edition for their Tank SUV which features things like electrified door handles, gas masks, and special ram bumpers.
The Hercules 6×6 is rather conventional, from an engineering perspective. There's a steel body-on-frame construction, and the suspension system uses FOX racing components. Aside from that, Rezvani hasn't released any other details (not even a hint at what the engine might be).
Rezvani CEO Ferris Rezvani uses words like "rugged" and "muscular" and "well proportioned" and "as exciting to the eyes as it is to drive" to describe the Hercules 6×6. This is about where I started laughing so hard I had to take a break; because I was thinking more along the lines of overblown, useless, pretentious, and a magnet for justifiable vandalism.
The Rezvani Hercules 6×6 raises a whole bunch of questions. Preeminent for me is, who on Earth needs something like this? Did some cigar-sucking Jonah Ryan wannabe say, "No, I need a huge truck with six wheels!" And did Rezvani find enough of them to justify the series production of the Hercules 6×6? I guess so, but I'd honestly be surprised if they sell more than a handful.
Because that's my other question: How could you possibly use something like the Hercules 6×6?
Rezvani Hercules 6×6. Photo: Rezvani Motors.
It seems too big and cumbersome for serious off-roading, nor will it be cheap. No one in their right mind will be bashing through the forests primeval in a Hercules 6×6. Need to run down to the grocery store to get some milk and eggs? Sure, just take a vehicle slightly smaller than an A1 Abrams tank. I bet it'll be a breeze to park. Are you going to commute in it? Pick up your kids from soccer?
No. The answer to all those questions is no.
You're gonna buy a Hercules 6×6 because you need people to look at you! Somehow, somewhere along the way of your emotional "development," things go a little bit, well, off. And now you have to be paid attention to, don't you? You think that Patrick Bateman is a model of style. You look at The Wolf of Wall Street as a "How To" manual. And you look at the Rezvani Hercules 6×6 and think, "That's my ride!"
Good luck. You'll need it.
Photo: Rezvani Motors.
The new Rezvani Hercules 6×6 will make its debut this summer with deliveries following shortly after that. If you think it's the vehicle for you, then plunk down a $266 refundable deposit on Rezvani's homepage. Doing so will get you details and exclusive pictures of the Rezvani Hercules 6×6. As of right now, Rezvani makes no mention on their website regarding the total MSRP for the Hercules 6×6.
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Q: R setwd() "Error while opening file - The system cannot find the file specified" I have a R script that should change the working directory using setwd().
My code:
setwd(file.path(work_dir, database_dir, study))

I can pause my script just before this line is supposed to execute (using browser()) enter the code into the console without issue, but whenever the line is executed from the script I get the error box stating that there is an "error while opening file:  The system cannot find the file specified."  Within my script before calling the setwd, I confirmed that the path exists using file.exists(file.path(work_dir, database_dir,study)).   I also restarted R studio and closed and reopened all of my scripts to make sure that was not causing the problem.
Does anyone have any other suggestions for me to try?

A: Posting how I resolved the issue:
The script that changed the directory (I will call this script 2) was called by another script first (I will call this script 1).  script 1 and script 2 are in the same directory, but different directories from where I where I was trying to change. script 1 called script 2 using source("script2.R").  When I changed this to source(file.path(work_dir, "script2.R")) I no longer had issues with the setwd() command.  My GUESS is that when I changed directories Rstudio "forgot" what script it was supposed to be executing and that is why I got a "no file exists" error.
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Eric Harold Neville, conocido como E. H. Neville (1 de enero de 1889 - 22 de agosto de 1961) fue un matemático británico especializado en funciones elípticas. También es conocido por haber convencido al célebre matemático indio Srinivasa Ramanujan para que viajase a Inglaterra.

Primeros años
Neville nació en Londres en 1889. Asistió a la Escuela William Ellis, donde sus habilidades numéricas fueron reconocidas y alentadas por su profesor de matemáticas, T. P. Nunn. En 1907 ingresó en el Trinity College de Cambridge, graduándose como segundo wrangler dos años después, y siendo elegido para una beca en el Trinity College.

Mientras estuvo allí, se familiarizó con otros compañeros de Cambridge, especialmente con los matemáticos Bertrand Russell y con G. H. Hardy.

En 1913 se casó con Alice Farnfield (1875-1956); en 1914 tuvieron un hijo llamado Eric Russell Neville, que murió antes de su primer cumpleaños. La pareja permaneció casada hasta el fallecimiento de Alice. Neville mantuvo una relación cercana con la matemática Dorothy Wrinch, cuyo biógrafo considera que Neville estaba enamorado de ella desde 1930.

Carrera
Las principales áreas de especialización de Neville eran geométricas, con particular interés en la geometría diferencial, que predominó en la mayoría de sus primeros trabajos. Al principio de su beca en el Trinity College, en una disertación sobre ejes en movimiento, generalizó el método de Darboux de la tríada en movimiento y los coeficientes de giro al eliminar la restricción del marco ortogonal. Publicó La cuarta dimensión (1921) para desarrollar métodos geométricos en el espacio de cuatro dimensiones. Durante su tiempo en Cambridge, el trabajo de Bertrand Russell sobre los fundamentos lógicos de las matemáticas ejerció sobre Neville una gran influencia, y en 1922 publicó su Prolegomena to Analytical Geometry, un tratado detallado sobre los fundamentos de la geometría analítica, incluida la geometría compleja, proporcionando un desarrollo axiomático del tema.

En 1914, como profesor visitante, viajó a la India, donde, en respuesta a una solicitud de Hardy, logró persuadir al matemático indio Ramanujan para que lo acompañara de regreso a Inglaterra, desempeñando así un papel vital en el inicio de uno de las colaboraciones matemáticas más célebres del siglo XX. Ramanujan se haría posteriormente amigo de Hardy.

El algoritmo de Neville para la interpolación polinómica es ampliamente utilizado.

Neville no se unió al ejército cuando estalló la Primera Guerra Mundial en el verano de 1914. Su mala vista le habría impedido el servicio activo, pero declaró su oposición al conflicto y se negó a luchar. Probablemente fue esta declaración pacifista la que causó que no se renovara en 1919 su beca del Trinity College.

Presidencia en Reading
Al salir de Cambridge, fue nombrado presidente de matemáticas en la Universidad de Reading. En pocos años, su trabajo permitió a la institución recibir una carta universitaria y otorgar sus propios títulos a partir de 1926.

Neville tenía un gran interés en las funciones elípticas, habiendo enseñado el tema a estudiantes de posgrado en Reading desde la década de 1920. Pensaba que la reciente disminución de la popularidad del tema se debía a su dependencia de una gran cantidad de fórmulas complicadas, a la gran variedad de notaciones diferentes y confusas, y a una definición artificial que se basaba en su familiaridad con las funciones theta. Un período de recuperación de una enfermedad en 1940 le dio la oportunidad de poner varios años de apuntes en forma publicable. El resultado fue su obra más conocida: Jacobian Elliptic Functions (1944).

Al comenzar con la función p de Weierstrass y asociarla con un grupo de funciones doblemente periódicas con dos polos simples, pudo dar una demostración simple de las funciones elípticas jacobianas, así como modificar la notación existente para proporcionar un enfoque más sistemático del tema. Desafortunadamente, no logró la intención declarada de su autor de "restaurar las funciones jacobianas al currículum elemental" (NEVILLE 1951, vi) y su aparición llegó demasiado tarde para tener un efecto real sobre el dominio del enfoque clásico de las funciones elípticas.

Neville se retiró de la Universidad de Reading en 1954, pero continuó publicando artículos en la Gaceta de Matemáticas. Estaba trabajando en una secuela de su libro sobre funciones elípticas, cuando murió el 22 de agosto de 1961. Un obituario indica con pesar que: "un talento tan brillante y versátil podría haber sido aprovechado para una importante investigación matemática".

Membresías profesionales y honores
Neville era un miembro activo de varios cuerpos matemáticos y científicos. Elegido como miembro de la London Mathematical Society en 1913, sirvió en su consejo de 1926 a 1931. Asistió regularmente a reuniones de la Asociación Británica para el Avance de la Ciencia, siendo Presidente de la Sección A (Matemáticas y Física) en 1950. También presidió su Comité de Tablas Matemáticas de 1931 a 1947 y, cuando estuvo bajo los auspicios de la Royal Society, contribuyó con dos conjuntos de tablas, en la serie Farey de orden 1025 (1950) y tablas de conversión de coordenadas rectangular-polar (1956).

En la cultura popular
 Una representación de su vida muy ficticia se presenta en la novela de 2007 titulada The Indian Clerk (El Secretario Indio).

Trabajos
 1921: The Fourth Dimension, Cambridge University Press, weblink from University of Michigan Historical Math Collection.
 1922: Prolegomena to Analytical Geometry in Anisotropic Euclidean Space of Three Dimensions, Cambridge University Press via Internet Archive
 1942: 'Srinivasa Ramanujan" Nature 149:292.
 1944: Jacobian Elliptic Functions, Clarendon Press vian Internet Archive

Véase también
 Funciones theta de Neville

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Adrian Rice Eric Harold Neville de la Comisión Internacional de Instrucción Matemática

Alumnado del Trinity College (Cambridge)
Geómetras
Matemáticos del siglo XX
Matemáticos de Inglaterra


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This issue shows the Kobold entering it's sixth year. Next issue it gets to drink and given it's performance, I suspect that champagne may be the order of the day. In this time it's managed to carve a niche out and surpass it's predecessors through quality and by moving with the times. As a new edition of D&D hoves into view, the future is looking rosy for this small but fierce predator who appears large and in charge compared to other RPG-zines out there.
After last issue's challenging content, this issue has things much more to my taste. A mixture of archers, fun things to do with ooze, planar allies, nightmarish monsters and... fish supper too? The advent of 5th edition has elicited a flurry of 4E articles it seems. AGE support is still going strong and as KQ enters it's sixth year, it seems the quality of articles aren't slowing down and neither are the quantity!
Now, it's time for detail.
The Elven Archer by John E. Ling, Jr. (5 kobolds, Pathfinder) - This class is very well-designed, distinctive from a ranger and doesn't obviate the arcane archer prestige class. The article is also well-written, concise yet expressive. Ideas to hack the class are well-thought out. Elf-loving players will be rubbing their hands in glee, GMs won't find this class game-breaking. Much to like.
Arrows of the Arbonesse by Jarrod Camiré (5 kobolds, Pathfinder) - This collection of magical and non-magical arrows offers a variety of options; from silent fletching through razor wire and acid tips to battlefield options needing multiple archers. GMs will find plenty of new ideas for arrow traps or assassins. Something for everyone here.
Derro Ooze Magic by Nicholas L. Milasich (4.5 kobolds, Pathfinder) - For those with Juiblex-cultists, degenerate drow or derro savants, this is terrific. While billed as alchemist options, the spells cover numerous classes including witch and sorceror/wizard. The miniature ooze familiars are wonderful. While it's a bit niche, the content is excellent.
Servants from Beyond by Mario Podeschi (5 kobolds, Pathfinder) - Four possible allies for those casting lesser planar ally. This article offers allies players can call upon - providing individualised motifs and roleplaying guides as well as stats. There's a real need for articles that can speed up play like this. More would be a good thing..
Night Terrors by Jack Graham (4 kobolds, Pathfinder) - This quartet of monsters are distinctive. The changeling moth offers a Ravenloft-esque horror, the giant naked mole rat will be useful for fans of BBC's Merlin. The cephalic parasite is classic B-movie and the pishtaco is Stephen King-style horror. Some tweaks may be needed to suit certain games, they're good stuff.
The Power of the Game Master by Monte Cook (4 kobolds, system neutral) - Monte considers the role of the GM and various points on the continuum of authority in a game. This may seem obvious but there is nothing wrong with stating the obvious if it's a) true and b) relevant.
Captured in the Cartways by Christina Stiles (4 kobolds, Pathfinder, Midgard) - A subterranean adventure set in Zobeck's Cartways. Your party needs to do a favour. It's not complex but it's fun and the end-level villain is excellent. You don't need the Zobeck sourcebooks (though they are excellent) mentioned.
Putting the Band Back Together by Stefen Styrsky (4.5 kobolds, Pathfinder) - Re-uniting former legends back for one last gig is a recurring theme in action movies, now these feats let you wheel out your heroes for an epic showdown. These may be better suited to traits than feats yet are a nice touch.
Fey Hunters & Shadow Hounds by Christopher Bodan (5 kobolds, Pathfinder, Midgard) - A look at the shadow fey hunts and their hounds. Those with Tales of The Old Margreve and Court of the Shadow Fey will definitely want this. The fey hunting hounds are a disturbing twist on the Wild Hunt. Lycanthropy may almost be preferable.
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Kobold Diplomacy: Bardic Charisma Meets Crunch and Chickens by Jeremy L. C. Jones (4 kobolds) is an in-depth interview with Christine Stiles, whose resume is already impressive. This interview has good advice if you want to get into the industry. Also perhaps the silliest title I've seen in a while.
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Ask the Kobold by Skip Williams (5 kobolds, Pathfinder) - A breakdown on the effects of poisons and disease - essential reading for GMs.
Small Spirits by Matthew J. Hanson (5 kobolds, 4E/Pathfinder) - A collection of primal nature spirits, magic items and creatures. Good stuff for those running games with shamanic or druidic influences.
Unearthed Ancestry by Jerry LeNeave (4 kobolds, 4E) - Race-based powers for gnomes, minotaurs and tieflings. Combat crunch with some subterfuge for the gnomes; balanced and archetypal.
Make Haste! by Ron Lundeen (4.5 kobolds, 4E/AGE/Pathfinder) - Proposing a new mechanic (haste points) to vary the difficulty of encounters where speed is of the essence. The slow get a harder time of things. Nice if you've got a party that dawdles horribly.
Fish of Legend by Crystal Frasier (4 kobolds, Pathfinder) - A whimsical take on magical food, with a couple of classic legends and folklore thrown in. Fishing may become a new preferred past-time.
Book Reviews by William Banks, Ben McFarland, Wade Rockett, and Pierce Watters (4 kobolds) - Fantasy light and dark, a history of roleplaying games and steampunk adventure get analysis.
Free City of Zobeck:The Ruins of Arbonesse by Jeff Grubb (4 kobolds, Midgard) - A look at the ancient kingdoms of the elves in Zobeck and how they have fallen.
Cartoons (4 stars) - Bolt & Quiver celebrates size differences, d20 Monkey wants fun with performance-enhanced snakes and 10x10 Toon cuts the cheese with a groan-inducing pun. How else can I review them?
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Part folk-art museum, part junk-shop lover's fever dream, this oddball attraction near New Orleans lives up to its reputation as Lousiana's most eccentric attraction.
"Bring your sense of humour," advises the sign outside the Abita Mystery House.
It seems a fitting introduction to this eccentric little place — part folk-art museum, part junk-shop lover's fever dream — on the edge of the pretty little former resort town of Abita Springs, an hour north along the causeway across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans.
There are lots of these signs, not to mention a generous serving of humour, at the mystery house. There are signs from presumably long-defunct businesses, signs with snippets of local history — "In 1900, Abita Springs had accommodation for 2000" — and handpainted signs with folksy sayings and wisecracks. "No taxpayer's buck was wasted on this family museum," reassures one. "I did all this while you were on your 'smart' phone," quips another.
The signs are just the beginning, though. Spread throughout the main exhibition hall, outdoor areas and other spaces is a kaleidoscope of memorabilia, kitsch, Americana, folk art, curiosities and straight-up junk. There are old pinball machines and arcade games, out-of-date electronics and paint-by-numbers pictures, battered numberplates and old shoes, stickers and photographs and vintage ads covering the walls and the ceilings.
There's an Elvis shrine, collections of antique barbed wire and of beer cans, even short treatises on quirks of regional culture and history, signed "The Night Shift Historian". Particularly absorbing are the dioramas depicting scenes from southern life, which light up and move at the push of the button. There's a jazz funeral, a plantation, a barbecue spot, even one titled Martians at Mardi Gras.
Then there's the taxidermy, which is often downright odd. Of these, Daryl the Dogigator (part dog, part alligator) is a kind of mascot for the attraction — I later buy a badge featuring his likeness in the gift shop. But there's also something labelled "the harmless Quackigator", with the head and webbed feet of a duck and the body of an alligator, and "the ferocious, feathered, flying Alliduck", with an alligator head and duck's body.
Elsewhere, a trio of stuffed chickens (one with two heads) are embarking on a fishing expedition, arranged in a little boat kitted out with lifejackets and rods.
Buford the Bassigator, a monstrous half-alligator, half-bass that's more than 6.5m long, stands under a tin-roofed shelter in the courtyard, not far from the pond of snapping turtles, the Airstream caravan and the cubbyhouse filled with hundreds of bottles of hot sauce.
It's not just the stuff itself, but also the profusion of it, making up a kind of cabinet of wonders in which the whole is greater — and weirder — than the sum of its parts.
Indeed, there's so much it can be as hard to know where to look as it is to describe the place.
Founded in 2000, this self- made world is the brainchild of local painter John Preble, who waves us through from behind the counter on our way in ("you can pay later," he tells us). He in turn was inspired by a visit to Tinkertown, a folk-art museum in New Mexico.
These days, the Abita Mystery House's website proudly proclaims it to be Lousiana's most eccentric attraction and quotes the long-time former director of the New Orleans Museum of Art, who called it the State's "most intriguing and provocative museum".
I can understand the impulse to contribute: while I'm chatting to Preble on our way out, he asks me if I make things too, and I feel I'm letting him down when I confess I don't.
For more details, see abitamysteryhouse.com.
While you're in Abita Springs, stop in at the Abita Brewing Company's Abita Brew Pub for lunch and a drink. This long- established craft brewer also offers tours of its nearby brewery. abita.com.


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Dr. Pimple Popper treats a patient in a teaser video for her new TLC series.
YouTube celebrity Dr. Sandra Lee — a.k.a. Dr. Pimple Popper— is getting her own TV show.
The new TV series, also called "Dr. Pimple Popper," premieres on July 11 at 10 p.m. ET on TLC.
Earlier this year, the network aired a one-hour special featuring Lee.
But this is a full-blown series that's been green-lit for 12 episodes, Lee previously confirmed on her YouTube channel.
On Thursday, TLC released a teaser video for the new series.
The teaser shows Lee treating patients with skin issues that negatively affect their physical and emotional health — something Lee told INSIDER she's always been passionate about.
And don't worry: It also shows plenty of explosive, pus-filled pops— including a cyst Lee describes as the "world's biggest."


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Galleries >> Kareena and Saif are expecting their first child?
If the sources to be believed, Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan are expecting their first child together this year.
News of Kareena Kapoor's pregnancy had done the rounds before as well. Time and again, the actress has had to deny the rumours. But the latest buzz seems to suggest that the news might be true this time around.
As per the reports, The actress has three and a half months pregnant.
Saif was married to actress Amrita Singh before and the former couple have two children together- Sarah and Ibrahim.
The couple's photos recently surfaced on social media holidaying in London. If sources are to be believed the couple have gone to London to relax.
There has been no confirmation on the news from either the couple or their family members so far. But we do hope that the news is true this time round.


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Man escapes quarantine, commits suicide in UP
A 23-year-old migrant labourer who escaped from a quarantine centre to meet his family in Lakhimpur, allegedly committed suicide after learning that police were searching for him.
The victim, youngest among six siblings, was quarantined at a school on the village outskirts on returning from Gurugram on March 28.
According to police, he had escaped from the quarantine centre twice to meet his family, but officials thwarted his attempts on both the occasion and brought him back to the camp.
On Tuesday afternoon, police said he had again escaped from the camp and went to village to meet his family. When he learnt that the police were looking for him, he fled from his house and, later, his body was found hanging on the village outskirts.
The police added the body has been sent for autopsy, and district administration would provide compensation to the bereaved family.
Mitauli SDM Digvijay Singh said that, "The victim was quarantined following the government's directions. We even informed him that isolation is a precautionary measure to ensure the safety of his family members and neighbours. The victim had fled from the camp to meet his family. When police reached the village searching for him, he escaped and was later found hanging."
Maigalganj police station SHO Chandrakant Singh said, "It appears that the victim took the extreme step as he started panicking at the quarantine centre despite repeated attempts by officials to make him understand that it was just a precautionary measure. Authorities have provided proper food and other necessary facilities at the centre. We are investigating the matter and a case will be registered based on the findings."
This is the fifth Corona related suicide in Uttar Pradesh.
On Tuesday, a farmer, who was suffering from fever and cold, committed suicide to 'save his entire village from being infected with Corona virus'. The incident took place in Mathura.
Earlier on March 24, a young man who had been suffering from fever and cough, committed suicide in Kanpur by hanging himself because he feared he was suffering from Corona virus.
Last month, in two separate incidents, two youths had committed suicide in Hapur and Bareilly because they also believed that they were suffering from the deadly virus.
Source: Jhalak Bureau


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Calibrator accommodates 2.1-GHz scopes
The 5820A oscilloscope calibrator supports calibration of oscilloscopes with bandwidths up to 2.1 GHz. Features include: a front-panel current loop for calibrating current probes; dc voltage measurement to calibrate reference signals; 60.33 ppm frequency accuracy standard; and variable pulse width (1 to 500 ns, with 250-ps resolution) for complex trigger tests, such as glitch/violation, runt, and setup and hold. In addition to the 2.1-GHz option, the device can be equipped with a five-channel output option for hands-free automated calibration of multi-channel oscilloscopes. Regarding such capabilities, Fluke Oscilloscope Calibrator Project Manager Joe Swanzy notes, "Most oscilloscopes can be fully calibrated by the standard 5820A. New models of faster scopes will soon become a bigger part of the day-to-day workload. The 2.1-GHz option gives users the choice to purchase the required performance up-front or add it later keeping costs down while protecting the customer's investment in hardware and procedures." Fluke Corp.: Product Code 4830
A modern day Watson for hands-free control
"Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you." These words of Alexander Graham Bell may be considered the first electronically transmitted voice command. Hewlett Packard now effectively gives engineers a pair of assistant's hands by incorporating a voice-control option on its high-performance Infiniium oscilloscopes. Especially with increasingly fine pitch circuit boards, both a user's hands have to be concentrated on precisely positioning probe tips to avoid short circuits. As one engineer says, "I don't have enough hands. I'm pushing buttons with my nose while holding the probes." Now, using a Lernout & Hauspie phonetic speech-recognition engine, users control the scope verbally via a collar-mounted microphone to manipulate on-screen views, take measurements, and print waveforms. The natural-language command set adjusts all primary controls and is speaker- and gender-independent, so no training is needed. Current Infiniium owners can retrofit the voice-recognition capability. Hewlett Packard, Test and Measurement Organization: Product Code 4826
DSO offers 3 GHz, four channels
The TDS694C digital storage oscilloscope (DSO) features 3-GHz bandwidth and sampling up to 10 GSamples/sec on all four of its channels simultaneously. The device is part of a suite of instruments for new computer architecture designs. "This new integrated solution provides superior measurement and analysis capabilities for even the most challenging design areas, like RAMBUS and next-generation microprocessors," notes Tektronix Measurement Business Div. Worldwide Program Manager Tom Weiss. Bandwidth and sampling, along with a high-stability time base, allow accurate signal timing measurements to 15 ps. Intelligent connection devices, such as a full-bandwidth active probe and 1.5-GHz differential probe, extend the DSO's performance to the device under test. The Java-powered TDS694C's optional embedded jitter measurement package automatically measures and characterizes jitter and edge timing. Tektronix: Product Code 4828
Software automates signal analysis
AutoSignal is a 32-bit Windows-based software package that enables users to automate spectral and time-domain analyses, and signal processing without programming, all in a package less than $1,500. "Typically, people are limited to using expensive hardware to get basic time and frequency feedback or programming algorithms to perform complex signal analysis," says Joe Granda, senior marketing manager of SPSS Science. Users simply choose signal analysis techniques from a menu or toolbar, select the algorithm and options from the interface and get immediate visual feedback presentations and numeric summaries for reports. Built-in spectral analysis procedures find components of complex signals. SPSS Science: Product Code 4829
Sensor does diagnostics and analyses
The Kaman Micro Digital Advantage (KmDA) is a digital smart sensing system geared for position measuring. The microcontroller-based, software-controlled, eddy-current sensors make accurate displacement measurements and are integrated into a package that performs math and other user-defined functions. The KmDA integrates with PLCs and other process control equipment. Internal software allows the system to perform limit detection on the sensors or on any of the user-programmable math functions. Digital inputs control remote triggering of data captures. According to Kaman Marketing Manager Dan Spohn, "Gone are the days when users were required to connect the outputs of single-channel measurement devices into secondary math analysis modules. KmDA does it all in one package, without the aid of an external CPU." Kaman Instrumentation: Product Code 4827
DSPs provide power supply accuracy
TrueWave (TW) Series ac power sources are power rated at 1,750, 3,500, and 5,250 VA. The devices feature clean dc and ac sine wave output, have a user-friendly front panel, and a fast DSP-based measurement system. According to the company, the compact 5U rack-mount configured TW has the highest power density of any polyphase ac source in its class. The series is geared for testing electronic equipment for compliance with European standards for harmonics and flicker, including EN61000-3-2 and -3-3 (likewise the synthesized output impedance meets these standards for ac source requirements). Other applications include: testing for dc single- or polyphase ac power conditions; automated test equipment; avionics testing; power supply testing for ac-dc and dc-dc converters, and uninterruptible power sources. Elgar: Product Code 4831


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iW's Project of the Day: In "Now, Forager" Couple Makes Money by Hunting Mushrooms for NYC Restos
iW's Project of the Day: In "Now, Forager" Couple Makes Money by Hunting Mushrooms for NYC Restos
Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime: Is this a movie you'd want to see? Tell us in the comments.
"Now, Forager"
Tweetable Logline:
Over three seasons, a married couple struggles to get by hunting wild mushrooms and selling them to NY restaurants.
Elevator Pitch:
Set across three seasons, it's a food movie for people who actually know something about food. Lucien and Regina gather wild mushrooms in the woods and sell them to New York restaurants. Their lifestyle is simple, their income unstable. Regina decides to take a full-time job cooking at a high-end restaurant to improve their financial security and follow a more fulfilling personal career path. Feeling threatened, Lucien proposes that instead of "selling out," they give up their apartment and commit to traveling as itinerant foragers. As individual desires take them down divergent paths, their marriage comes apart.
Directors: Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin
Writer: Jason Cortlund
Producers: Kit Bland and Julia Halperin
Cinematography: Jon Nastasi
Sound: Jeremy Fleishman
Editor: Julia Halperin
Technical Consultants: Tien Ho (executive chef/co-owner of Má Pêche, NY), Gerald Hirigoyen (author/chef/owner of Piperade, SF) and members of the New York Mycological Society
About the Film:
We wanted to evolve the food movie genre beyond the romantic. There's been a major revolution in the last decade in terms of people's interest in food and where it comes from. We think that there's an audience for a film where the cooking is real.
Foraging isn't just some foodie trend. It's a way of observing the world and connecting to it in a very primal way. It's been a part of my life since I was old enough to walk in the woods, and I wanted to share that experience in an authentic way.
Current Status:
Post-production, planning to premiere in early 2012.
For more information and to support the film:
United Artists Crowdfunding
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This Article is related to: Toolkit and tagged In The Works, Project of the Day, Toolkit
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Did you know I edit my vlogs myself? In this episode I'm showing you how!
The funny thing is that he had to edit this video, of him, editing a video.
As a videographer that has been doing video editing and video production for 7 years (my boss Melinda Jennis doesn't like to do storyboards as much as I do but I draw to get an idea of what she's trying to visualize what the shot will look like), I don't mind if you use Final Cut Pro X because that's what most people tend to use a lot. But I personally use Adobe Premiere Pro CC and I found a patch software program on Mac under the name "Adobe Zii". So you can get the adobe software for free as well as on PC. Either way, pretty good tutorial I would say.
If you get a chance, what I would recommend is checking out Ashley Kennedy's Lynda.com course on Final Cut Pro X 10.3 version and you'll understand even more about FCPX. She has also done Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 and 2017. What you're using is a Roll Trim (Between the end of the A clip and the beginning of the B-Clip) and a Slip Trim (Where you're accessing the first frame of the video and the right monitor shows you the last frame of the video.
Yo Laidback, i think you need to do a fidget house set with a fidget spinner on your finger!!!! you got this bro i know it!!!!
Great tutorial! I know all about the Final Cut hustle. Keep inspiring bro!
Hi laidback luke!. I'm a Filipino too and also an aspiring DJ. I have both demo of ableton live 9 and Fl studio 12 on my PC and I don't know which on to pick. can you make a video about DAWs on your next vlog?
Can you post the audio settings you use for your podcast (radio show) and the vlog?
Respect the amount of work you put in to do this!


My two dogs are enjoying their Saturday post-breakfast walk, sticking their noses in the snow, still pristine from the night before.
I look up to see a beautiful young mother, with long brown hair, tilting her stroller so her baby can get a better look at the dogs. Her husband, standing beside her, smiles. I notice his yarmulke; they are Orthodox Jews walking home from synagogue.
Usually I feel a sense of otherness when I encounter the many Orthodox Jews who live in my neighborhood. For one, my father raised me to be repelled by any type of extremism, particularly of a religious nature. I feel some embarrassment at the the large numbers of children many of these families have, the way the women cover their hair, arms and legs, their insularity—their kids go to private Jewish schools. The Orthodox Jews in my neighborhood, I don't believe, view secular Jews as their people any more than we do them. One day, when I greeted a woman with a "Gut Yontiff," her jaw dropped, and a bemused smile crossed her face.
I am a Jew, of sorts. My mother was faithful, kept a kosher home. We sometimes attended Friday night services and all the High Holidays. My father, a devout atheist, attended temple out of love for our mother. But he did not hide from us his dislike of institutional religion.
I married a non-Jew. I had read that children raised without religion, or a mixture of the two parents' religions, grow up confused, in a religious oblivion. My husband, a scientist and an atheist, agreed that our children could be raised Jews. We joined a Reform temple, and the children attended Hebrew school. Our daughter celebrated her bat mitzvah. She did a show-woman-like job, her beautiful voice filling the small sanctuary. My out-of-town relatives were in late middle age or elderly, but many flew in for the event, despite its being winter in upstate New York. As the service was about to begin, the rabbi, looked around the half-empty sanctuary and turned to me, "Is this all the people coming?" I longed to tell him what I thought of his question, but held my tongue.
Mysteriously, although both my Jewish parents served in the military during World War II—he in the U.S. Marines, she as a sergeant in the British Army, neither told me about the Holocaust. I was sitting in sixth grade history class, the only Jew in the class, when the teacher showed us (apparently without parental consent) Night and Fog, a graphic 1956 French documentary that alternates between past and present images of the concentration camp Auschwitz. I watched in disbelief and horror at photos of hundreds of emaciated, naked bodies being bulldozed into pits, roomfuls of shoes and hair. The Nazis wasted nothing—even the fat from the bodies was used to make soap. When the lights came on, I was someone else.
Growing up, I remember that when a heinous crime was reported in the national news, my mother would say, "I hope it wasn't a Jew." I would look up to the ceiling, thinking she was being overly dramatic. Like many American Jews, I was complacent. My mother was smart. She had lost family in the concentration camps; she knew anti-Semitism, which has existed for centuries, is never gone, it's just sleeping, waiting for the powers that be to awaken it from dormancy.
A person with exactly two Jewish grandparents is considered to be either a Jew or a Mischling (mixed blood) of the first degree. A person with only one Jewish grandparent is considered to be a Mischling of the second degree.
And of course, those determined to be Jewish were eventually rounded up and sent to death or work camps.
President Donald J. Trump, who used to work for his dad, Fred, removing the coins from the washing machine in the laundry room at Grymes Hill Apartments in Staten Island where I grew up, has once again created a safe place for the ugliness of racism, sexism and anti-Semitism.
Last night I lit the Sabbath candles for the first time in a long time, for my mother and for my people. Days earlier, at least a dozen headstones were toppled at Waad Hakolel, a Jewish cemetery in Rochester, New York, where I live. A police investigation is underway. My parents are buried in a Jewish cemetery in Staten Island, the only New York City borough that voted overwhelmingly for Trump. I worry whether their tombstones are safe.
Today, I walked through my Rochester, New York, neighborhood, the streets full of Jews walking home from synagogue. And I thought, yes, these are my people.
Donna Jackel is a freelance journalist based in Rochester, NY. Her work has appeared in The Bark, The Chicago Tribune, BBC Travel, The Chronicle of Higher Education and many other national and regional publications.


It is that time again on our farm.
The geese are nesting, the goats are having kids, and spring clean up (along with the mud) begins.
We, the ones that tend to the animals, become a bit sleep deprived.
We look for calm waters, smooth sailing seas (God bless those that are suffering right now, Japan is on our minds), knowing that we are to enjoy the spring, as kids are not born year round, and spring is so very welcome! Such a blessing it all is!
We are running on a 1-3 day turnaround in fulfilling retail orders, with the premise that everything falls into place, and it does!
Thank you to our recent new wholesale customers, store locations, soon to be posted to our website. We are happy to have products available this spring in wonderful locations where folks will be out and about, leaving winter's cabin fever behind!
Please let us know if you need anything…and do not hesitate to email us as anniesgoathill@gmail.com . We treasure chatting one-on-one with you!
I remember those sleep deprived days of kidding season!
Yep! It is beginning to slow down now, Amy. We are working to catch everything up on the farm and business-wise. We also have a few special care ones we are tending to.
We've had some special care ones too! It is kind of nice and relaxing here on the farm since we're not doing kidding season here, all there is around here is the usual chores here at Pine Pod Farm. We've been meeting at church on Sunday afternoons but only on the 1st and 3rd Sundays though except for special holidays.
Living on a farm…..spring is always busy.
But I wouldn't trade it for the city life!
Good luck to you, Mary!
Fence mending – does it ever stop?
Garden plowing – oh…I want to move so badly so we can do that very thing! I may have a garden started before we move. There I go…I just convinced myself.
Seed starting, not here, too cool.
Becky, you hit the nail on the head, gal! No, I would not trade it for the world either!!!!
My Dad just planted peas on St. Patrick's day and some yesterday as well.
I wish we liked peas more in our household, about all I can say about them is, they are pretty! I love seeing them grow too. What else will your dad be planting early?
We enjoy peas very much especially from the garden! I'm not sure what else he has planned to plant early, I know he usually gets tomato plants and pepper plants, etc. though.
I hope you blog about your husband's gardening efforts! My DH seems to know more about gardening and canning than I do, well, he did. He taught me and then I took off with it. We are planning a garden this year, after a number of years without one. We will be comparing notes, Linda Sue!
I do need to post some kid pictures! I'll do that!!!


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import com.intellij.psi.PsiNameIdentifierOwner;
import com.intellij.spellchecker.tokenizer.SpellcheckingStrategy;
import com.intellij.spellchecker.tokenizer.Tokenizer;
import consulo.csharp.lang.psi.CSharpUserType;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;

/**
 * @author VISTALL
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