The Drumchapel Child & Family Centre brings together, in one building, the previously discrete and dispersed local health, social and voluntary services for the children, young people and families in West Glasgow.
Kinfauns Drive - Drumchapel's main thoroughfare - has a fragmented quality to the built environment that generates little in the way of precedent.
The building is therefore located to provide a strong, civic street presence whilst allowing for future expansion.
The calm and open interior is fully accessible to a wide range of building users and we worked with artists in order to reinforce parents' and children's impressions of a relaxed and safe place.
They designed a feature external wall, textual pieces and an atrium screen, as well as models located within the building's walls.


Wild animals inside the Banke National Park are frequently killed in road accidents as they have to cross the East-West Highway to reach the Rapti river due to the lack of adequate sources of water inside the park area.
The animals are struck by speeding vehicles when they cross the highway to get to the river for drinking. As a result, the number of wild animals killed in road fatalities on the highway section inside the park is increasing. The highway stretches 75 kilometers inside the park.


2014 - 2015 Competition Schedule is now available on the events page.
The 2014 - 2015 competition schedule for the boys and girls team have been released and are available on the events page. As the details for each meet becomes available, they will be updated accordingly for each individual event.
For a packing list for competition for the boys and girls, check out our resource page.
Good luck to all the kids in the upcoming season!!
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This is really sweet. :) Their booster club made little signs for all their lockers.
For clarification, it's the Tri-M Music Honor Society that does these locker signs for every concert we do.
thanks for posting these, Chris!
For clarification, it's our Music Honor Society students who make these for each one of our concerts!
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Right now I'm doing the following but it's not working out exactly the way I want:

A: sathishkumar,
You don't tag the question as being an ajax related solution or not. I'm going to present a simple ajax approach which may or may not be suitable.
in the controller:
public ActionResult Search(string searchTerm)
{
    // you don't add code re your stored proc, so here is a repo based approach
    var searchItems = _repository.Find(x => x.searchfield.Contains(searchTerm));
    return PartialView("SearchPartial", searchItems);
}

main view (index.aspx or whatever) (below where your main content is defined, add):

in another part of the page (semi psuedo-code):

You'd then add a partial view SearchPartial.ascx that contained your model for the search results.
Hope this helps.

A: You can use Ajax to solve the problem.

`@using (Ajax.BeginForm("action", "controller", new AjaxOptions
    {
        UpdateTargetId = "results",
        HttpMethod = "GET",
    }))
    {
        @Html.TextBox()
        <input type="submit" value="Search" />
    }`

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HOME / FOOD / 9 HEALTHY BROWNIE RECIPES THAT ARE DELICIOUS FOR YOUR DIET!
Chocolate has been our friend through it all – breakups, PMS, birthdays and even the casual weekends.
But who can resist chocolate when it's in its most gooey, super-fudgy, ultra moist form? Yep, we're talking about brownies! Chocolate brownies are definitely delicious, except the fact that their fat makes us fat and now everybody's fat! But we still want those brownies, so what do we do? Eat healthy brownies of course! Now beware, these brownies aren't zero calorie or zero fat, but they are nutritious as ever!
So grab some milk or icecream and began to NOMNOMNOM!
Free of dairy, eggs and sugar, these no-bake brownies are a vegan best-seller! Using healthy ingredients like banana, walnuts, dates and honey, these brownies won't haunt you with guilt . Vegan is the way to go!
Instead of the traditional flour, these brownies are made with black beans, which make them super moist! Black beans give you high fibre and protein content. They take less than an hour to make and bake, and remain moist even after a few days!
If you want a nutritious dessert, these brownies are the perfect choice for you. Loaded with spinach, these brownies provide you with vitamin A, Vitamin K, iron and magnesium! If Popeye ate brownies, it would be these!
Anti-oxidants from the chocolate and low fat from the zucchini makes these brownies an edible hit! Zucchini is also rich in vitamin C and vitamin K, so these brownies make good vitamin supplements, right?
Vitamin A rich sweet potato along with chocolate! No more refined sugar, here we use fibrous dates, coconut oil and coconut flour ( coconut flour is made up of dried coconut pulp) to make these delicious goodies!
These brownies are avocado-rable! Avocados are rich in potassium and vitamin K. Using coconut flour, maple syrup and unsweetened applesauce, they are the perfect balance of gooey and nutritious!
Unlike traditional brownies, these lack sugar,oil,flour and butter! Using overripe bananas, artificial sweeteners and nut butter, these brownies are perfect for vegans. Beware of the bananas, you will taste them too!
Scared you'll burn your brownies and set your house on fire? Don't worry! These brownies are no-bake brownies, packed with bananas, walnuts and oats. Just set them in the fridge for an hour and you're good to go!
These brownies would be the perfect addition to your Halloween desserts. Packed with a punch of vitamin A, these pumpkin brownies are gluten-free and dairy-free. So pump your brownies up with some pumpkin!
Don't have time to make all these desserts? We feel your pain. Why don't you try these super quick desserts in a mug instead?


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Dan's Auto & Marine Electric, Inc.
Curry County Post No. 966 Veterans Of Foreign Wars Of The United States, Inc.
P & S Construction Co., Inc.
Rainbow Rock Service Association, Inc.
Brookings Area Council For The Arts, Inc.
Kurt Kessler Kustom Builder, Inc.
Macklyn Cove Condominiums Association Of Unit Owners, Inc.
Lee's Dragon Gate Restaurant, Inc.
The Claron Glen Homeowner's Association, Inc.
The Cove At Brookings Homeowners Association, Inc.
Pacific Cliff Cove Condominium Unit Owners Association, Inc.
The Brookings - Harbor Friends Of Music, Inc.
Brandy Peak Distillery And Winery, Inc.
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So, sort of a variant on Pierre Fourès's suggestion?
For c 3), this could be similar to when e.g. apt/apt-get pauses to ask due to dependencies, and overridable with the same options.
However, as Pierre says, this is quite a bit of extra work for package system developers/maintainers.


SIGMA 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM F/CANON scheduled to start shipping at the end of this month.
The Sigma Corporation is pleased to announce the new Sigma 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM.
This large aperture medium telephoto lens optimized for use with digital SLR cameras features a focal length of 85mm, ensuring a natural perspective. The large aperture of F1.4 is especially ideal for portrait and low light photography. When used on digital cameras with an APS-C size image sensor, the lens effectively becomes a 127.5mm F1.4 lens*. One SLD (Special Low Dispersion) glass element and one glass mold element give excellent correction for all types of aberrations and ensure superior optical performance. This lens is equipped with a rear focus system that minimizes fluctuation of aberration caused by focusing. The Super Multi-Layer Coating reduces flare and ghost even in backlight photography. Incorporating HSM (Hyper Sonic Motor), this lens provides quiet and high speed AF as well as full-time manual focus capability. It features a minimum focusing distance of 85cm and a maximum magnification 1:8.6. This lens has a round 9 blade diaphragm which creates an attractive blur to the out of focus images.
This lens is supplied with a Petal-type hood to block out extraneous light. For digital cameras with an APS-C size image sensor, a dedicated hood adapter, which expands the length of the lens hood, is supplied and enables the hood to block out extraneous light more effectively.
*Lens Construction : 11 Elements in 8 Groups *Angle of View : 28.6 degrees *Number of blades : 9pcs (Rounded diaphragm) *Minimum Aperture : F16 *Minimum Focusing Distance : 85cm / 33.5in. *Maximum Magnification : 1:8.6 *Filter Size : Diameter 77mm *Lens Hood : Petal-type hood (LH850-03) supplied *Dimensions : Diameter 86.4mm×Length 87.6mm / 3.4 in.×3.4in. *Weight : 725g / 25.6oz.
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'Taken 3' Will Find Liam Neeson on the Defensive
Liam Neeson is on the run and fighting for his life against the government he once served in 'Taken 3.'
In the 2008 sleeper hit Taken and its 2012 sequel, Liam Neeson and his "very particular set of skills" have gone on the offensive, seeking revenge against bad guys who made the mistake of kidnapping his wife and daughter. But in the upcoming third installment in the series, Neeson's character, Bryan Mills, will find himself on the run and on the defensive after the government he once served turns against him.
"I have to go on the run, I'll put it that way, from the not-so-lawful types and the lawful authorities," said Neeson during an interview with USAToday. "Bryan Mills served his country faithfully, but now even they are after him. They must not like me."
Also, this time Mills won't have to travel halfway across the world to get into trouble. "No more traveling," Neeson said. "If my daughter was taken again on a trip, Bryan Mills would have to be certifiably locked up for bad parenting."
Mills' daughter Kim, portrayed by Maggie Grace, and wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) will return in the action film, and will be joined by series newcomer Forest Whitaker, who plays an agent in pursuit of Bryan.
If Neeson has his way, the series may end after the forthcoming movie. "It's a rollicking good story. But I think this is the end," said the 62-year-old actor. Of course that doesn't mean he's done with action films. He recently starred in A Walk Among the Tombstones and told Channel 5, "Hollywood still sends me these action scripts. I've got a couple planned for next year. As long as I keep fit and eat the right food and sleep the right amount of hours, I'll be OK."
Taken 3, officially stylized as Tak3n, will be released on Jan. 9, 2015. Check out the trailer below.
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In September 1940, Italian divisions rolled over the border between their colony of Libya and British-dominated Egypt. After advancing several dozen miles they stopped to secure their supply lines, only to meet a devastating British counter-attack that soon had them reeling back halfway across Libya. For the next two and a half years, Axis and Allied armies surged back and forth across the North African desert until finally Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery's British Eighth Army wrecked Erwin Rommel's vaunted Panzer Army Africa.
Western Desert Force is a quick-playing game from the same designer as our Defiant Russia, following the same philosophy: a game you can play in just an hour or two, with the emphasis on tense action and lots of fun.
The map portrays the North Africa from El Agheila to Alexandria. It's divided into hexagons, at a scale of 15 miles across each.
Players control the actual units that fought in this campaign. Units are divisions, brigades and regiments with some battalions. The Axis player controls German, Italian and Italian Colonial (Libyan) units; the Allied player leads British, Australian, New Zealand, South African, Indian, Polish, Jewish, Free French and Greek units in the fight against fascism.
The objectives for each side are simple: kick the enemy out of North Africa. The strategy is not so easy: the Allies must hold on to protect the Suez Canal; the Axis must choke off this vital waterway. Neither can afford to be ejected from the otherwise worthless desert.
Western Desert Forceis a complete boxed game. Game design is by William Sariego, development is by industry veteran Paul Dangel in his Avalanche Press debut.
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Toy Den Nerds Subscription box has evolved from a simple box to now a themed box every month. Inside each box you will get: Content of boxes - Funko Pop - Funko Reaction Figure - Comic Book - Random Tee shirt (Don't Forget To Give Us Your Shirt Size) - Other Fun Items - An Autographed Picture of Us - Yes you can color the box! Wrap around art work.
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Thousands of spectators and VIP guests will witness the start of the Trafalgar celebrations today.
The Queen will inspect a massive gathering of the world's navies including 167 ships from the Royal Navy and 35 other nations which have anchored at Spithead in the Solent, off Portsmouth, for the International Fleet Review.
As well as warships, the gathered vessels include tall ships, lifeboats, cruise liners and representatives from all sectors of the maritime industry.
The Queen, in her role as Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, will carry out the inspection accompanied by the Admiral of the Fleet, the Duke of Edinburgh, on board HMS Endurance.
The Duchess of Cornwall and the Prince of Wales will be among the royals who will witness the fleet review from onboard navy ships.
But the Son et Lumiere mock sea battle taking place later today has attracted criticism from the 75-year-old great, great, great granddaughter of Admiral Nelson and Emma Hamilton.
Mrs Anna Tribe said the decision not to make a precise re-enactment of Trafalgar, instead opting for a Napoleonic sea battle pitting a red navy against a blue navy, was 'pretty stupid'.
Mrs Tribe, from Monmouthshire, added: 'I am sure the French and Spanish are adult enough to appreciate we did win that battle.
The mock battle taking place off Southsea, Hants, will involve a fleet of 17 ships from five nations, including 17 tall ships, blazing broadsides, gun smoke, and state of the art pyrotechnics.
Nelson's flagship Victory will be depicted by the Grand Turk, a replica 18th-century frigate, which has appeared in television dramas Longitude and Hornblower.
The ship was struck by lightning during storms along the south coast as she made her way to Portsmouth.
Essential instrumentation and safety equipment had to be repaired to make her ready for the Royal Review Column and to act as Nelson's flagship in the battle.
A spokesman for Trafalgar 200 said up to 150,000 spectators and hundreds of VIP guests were expected to attend, depending on the weather.
A massive security operation costing £1.7 million involving more than 400 navy personnel and scores of police officers has been launched to protect the public, the royal family and the navy during the event.
The spokesman added: 'There has been a lot of effort worldwide, and I think everyone is going to go around with a big smile.


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Hail, holy Queen. Mother, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor abandoned children of Eve. To thee do we send up our cries, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears.
We say the rosary at the start of every vacation, mom with the circle of beads she keeps on her keychain, dad with the wooden string that dangles from his rearview mirror. Me with my fingers, because there's a rhythm in everything. This is our rhythm: The Apostle's creed, one Our Father, three Hail Mary's, one Glory Be, then five decades of ten Hail Mary's, one Our Father, one Glory Be and Hail Holy Queen. Because religion always ends with a plea to someone. No one worships for free.
These rosaries are competitions, dad quizzing us on which intentions are next. Sundays are the Glorious Mysteries, Fridays are Sorrowful. Those days are clear, but the rest are anyone's guess, and we do. The person to guess which mystery comes next leads that decade, a game and a test, like all games seem to me. There's a winner for everything and conversely, a loser for everything, too. I think too much, too slowly. So I'm usually left wondering, or wandering, and the two seem awfully similar to me.
Adults do this. They test us on everything from how to tie our shoes to who the president is, to our multiplication tables. Every question has an answer, and behind those are the shadows of a million wrongs. A multitude of ways we can disappoint each other, if were not careful. If we're not right. The world is an endless march of rights and wrongs with one shining pillar of Yes in the middle that everyone, all of us, is always trying to climb.
It glows so bright, it frightens me. I'm terrified of ideals, because I know none of us can ever reach high enough.
"And the next decade of the Joyful Mysteries is ..." My dad's face appears in the rearview, his eyebrows raised expectantly. I stammer out my answer, but I'm wrong, and I face the window as the rhythm of our voices comforts me. The four of us rise and fall like waves cresting over the road we travel, carrying us safely toward our destination like the rhythm, the yellow lines and the ever-pacing sun combine to make one incantation.
We're living a tenuous dance between desire and deprivation. As people, we want things. We're always chasing the next best, the buzz, the burn or the escape from both. But religion taught us to savor the hunger. The world is supposed to be a barren place, a place where every pleasure is a sin and every pain is one more point on our credit line for paradise. Prayer, that staticky call to heaven, is supposed to be our one pleasure. Those chanting hours on our aching knees, with incense drifting toward the ceiling like it carried our words with it, those are supposed to be our only joy. But it never felt that way, to me.
Once, as a toddler, I fell into the crack between my bed and the wall, cradled by my blankets from reaching the floor. I awoke from a terrifying dream to find myself stuck in my first taste of limbo, immobile and frightened. I cried and cried, sure I'd be stuck there forever, as primitive visions of fire and brimstone danced through my head. It was my first taste of what hell must feel like, stuck in a place of discomfort, crying for relief to deaf ears that would never come to my rescue. My dad did come, of course. After what felt like eternity, his strong arms lifted me out and he soothed me against his chest until my tears dried against his shirt. But I never forgot my first sense of hopeless dread, and that's the image that comes to me, save us from the fires of hell.
But hell and earth, our exile, sound to me to be much the same thing. Separated from our father, who art in heaven, kept away from the safety of his arms, seem one and the same and I wonder if we aren't in hell already. If maybe we aren't praying to stay out of hell, but to get rescued from that dark place between the bed and the wall where we're all stuck, crying for our father to rescue us from evil.
Parents share with their children the joys they were denied, but in doing so, often impose their own longings on their offspring. My father was one of five children, growing up in a two- bedroom house on a treelined street where the trees were the swing sets and lawns their playgrounds. He cultivated his imagination instead of his organized athletic abilities, his interest in library books instead of camp arts and crafts. There wasn't money for much, he told my brother and me sternly, although we'd never dare complain about the luxuries afforded us. He wasn't able to go to summer camp or soccer practice, and certainly didn't get music lessons.
My brother and I were enrolled in piano lessons before we started school. The books taught us the notes by numbers. Assuming we could count to seven, we could play, the author reasoned. I remember the floppy pages and the washed-out watercolor illustrations through squinted, watering eyes because more often than not, piano practice was a punishment.
"Go practice for 15 minutes," I remember mom yelling, when I smacked my brother for stealing a toy of mine, or teased him until he smacked me back. I sat on the piano bench, crying tears of indignation, staring at the page until I wanted to tear it up with my fury. But I knew better.
"Piano lessons are a privilege," dad said, if we ever complained about sitting inside our teacher's stuffy house on a perfect summer day. It smelled like cats and stale tea, the curtains yellow with age and the cigarettes she swore she didn't smoke, although her voice creaked with nicotine. "Do you know how many kids would give their left arm to play the piano?"
"Be hard to play without it," my brother whispered. I giggled under my dad's stern gaze and just like that, fifteen more minutes of practice time for me, young lady.
entirely absorbed by their own wants, needs and small injustices. I remember sitting on that bench, my legs swinging inches above the pedals, with my arms crossed defiantly in front of the keys. I glared at the ivories like little rotten teeth that would tear out my fingers if I dared plunk a single note. My mother would threaten and finally, cajole, to get me to spend my practice time the way it was intended. The penalties for failing a lesson were worse, after all. But I couldn't see that far in advance; couldn't project my own sense of injustice even a week down the line.
"It's good for you. You'll see," she'd say, when I whined about hating the piano. "You'll be thankful when you're older."
But I wasn't. The second I was allowed, I stopped playing piano, abandoning it for an instrument that could torture my parents as they forced me to play: The violin. The only thing worse than a beginning violin player sawing away is a cat being slowly murdered in the living room, and most days, I think they preferred the cat.
I still can't play the piano. I know the notes and can read the score, but my fingers won't cooperate on the keys they hated so much in my childhood. And my mom was right, to some extent. I didn't see the value then, but now that I understand what my father meant, I've wasted all his good intentions.
Praying for heaven seems the same, sometimes. The priest tells us there's something better, that our reward is waiting just beyond the pearly gates. But denying ourselves the pleasures we have, in anticipation of hazy uncertainty goes against our baser instincts, and at our core, we're momentary creatures.
Lead us not into temptation, except we need no impetus to go. I think of that, every time I commit some unforgivable sin, at least once a day or more, and my mind is that petulant child, staring at a watercolor of a little girl and her dog as if her eyes can burn holes through the page. I can't see past my earthly desire to the wonders above, and if I could, I wonder if they'd be worth it. If I'd choose a bird in the hand, because the now means more to me than forever and I'd rather spend the life I've got in ecstasy than bet on one as incomprehensible as the sky.
Lizz Schumer is a writer, journalist, photographer, and artist living and working in Buffalo, N.Y . Her work often focuses on the interstices between the personal and universal experiences as manifested within our shared and individual cultural context. "Rosary" is a meditation on the effect of parents' upbringing on the way they raise their own children, including the religious inclinations and how those may be perceived by a child. Lizz's first book, Buffalo Steel came out in 2013, and her work has also appeared in Minerva Rising, Manifest-Station, Salon.com, The Cronium Review, Connotation Press, The Rampalian, LYR, Breath & Shadow, Wordgathering, XOJane and many others. She can be found online at lizzschumer.com, @eschumer on twitter, @lizzschumer on Instagram and Facebook.com/authorlizzschumer.


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Title: Sylvester Baxter to Walt Whitman, 25 December 1888
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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Cite this page: "Sylvester Baxter to Walt Whitman, 25 December 1888." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 21 January 2022. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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Murray Street, Malden.
My dear Friend:
I received your beautiful gift yesterday afternoon just in time for Xmas, and I cannot express how much it pleases me. Kennedy1 brought it in to the Herald office for me and I was very sorry to be out at the time, for I have not seen him for some months, having been in Europe most of the Autumn. The book is a noble one2—a form worthy of its contents, and to me, as to many, it will be an inestimable treasure. I think the friendly touches your hands have given it bestow an influence, real though impalpable, which may make itself felt more strongly than might be imagined by most men.
It is interesting and instructive to me to watch the development of our dear country on the prophetic lines that your "Democratic Vistas" indicate. Evolutionary processes are rapid at certain stages, and bit by bit one may detect, if his eyes be clear, the realization and the budding promises of realization—and in this sense even the black clouds are welcome for the sake of the clearer skies that follow.
If you do any reading now a days you will find Edward Bellamy's 3 "Looking Backward" a noble work, and delightful as well. It has made a profound impression and will do much towards realizing a grander future for our land.
I enclose a photograph of myself with wishes that the New Year may be kind to you.
Faithfully yours
Sylvester Baxter
Sylvester Baxter (1850–1927) was on the staff of the Boston Herald. Apparently he met Whitman for the first time when the poet delivered his Lincoln address in Boston in April, 1881; see Rufus A. Coleman, "Whitman and Trowbridge," PMLA 63 (1948), 268. Baxter wrote many newspaper columns in praise of Whitman's writings, and in 1886 attempted to obtain a pension for the poet. For more, see Christopher O. Griffin, "Baxter, Sylvester [1850–1927]," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998).
2. Whitman received the first bound copies of his Complete Poems and Prose in November of 1888 and sent copies to friends. [back]
3. Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) was an American author, best known for his utopian science fiction novel, Looking Backward, 2000-1887. For more on Bellamy, see Arthur E. Morgan, Edward Bellamy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1944). [back]


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Sounds Heard: Steve Butters—Oomaharumooma
By Ann Starr
Chicago percussionist and new music specialist Steve Butters is one of those wonderful artists whose perfection in his specialty doesn't inhibit the exercise of his broad curiosity. If music isn't a sufficient vehicle for his ideas, he will bring in the kitchen sink to realize his conception, and he'll plumb it, too. Butters's 2010 Oomaharumooma is a such a project: twenty-three brief movements composed on a text from Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer with magnificent writing for solo percussion. The work comprises a series of four videos, each about eight minutes long.
Butters wrote, staged, performed, videotaped, and edited Oomaharumooma in his home studio over the course of six months. He published it on YouTube in July 2010. Oomaharumooma has never been performed since and may never be performed again because of its many technical challenges, like wardrobe changes between each of the movements, some being as brief as twenty seconds.
The selection from Tropic of Cancer contains the apotropaic title word, a magical incantation that Nanantatee recommends to Endree: "Oomaharumooma," endlessly repeated ("a million times you must say it"), will bring luck. But Endree, for a long list of mundane (but consummately poetic) reasons, cannot retain the word. The fantastical tally of mind-numbing distractions to his memory ("the itch in his palm, the wail of his wind…the rats in his garret") becomes the series of prompts for Butters's mysterious and commanding percussive remarks.
I call Butters's series of solos "remarks" to establish that this work is a hybrid of music and spoken language, but it's a hybrid that goes so far beyond either as to be sui generis. The basic form of Oomaharumooma is that Butters recites a phrase from the paragraph explaining one of the reasons for Endree's forgetfulness. After the stentorian recitation, Butters plays a brief companion composition.
Before this pattern is established, though, the work opens with a minute and a half of stiff competition for our attention: fast-paced visuals set the scene. The videographer takes us on a detailed, close-up tour of the table array of toys. Lined up like surgical instruments ready for deployment lie a train whistle, wood blocks, sleigh bells, cow bells, inverted enamel pans to beat, and a shekere, among other fascinating items. We see his copy of Tropic of Cancer lying next to the open score. Arranged on the floor are his drums, cymbals, and gongs. We see the natural lighting in his white music studio. We survey all this booming potential in weird silences. The instruments lie breathlessly still.
But the film isn't silent at all, because Butters reads from Miller throughout this absorbing visual survey. His voice is big, and the paragraph from Tropic of Cancer is an attention-getter—strange, alarming, and funny all at once. It is as absorbing as the visual experience we are trying to have at the same time. How are we supposed to grasp both? I find it frustrating to listen to the rich prose and to attend to the details of the visuals simultaneously; but is this a flaw, or part of the design?
Most of Oomaharumooma is composed of very brief movements in which Butters faces "forward" (the same direction, that is, no matter where the stationary camera is placed), recites with wonderful expression the next phrase, adding to the explanation of Endree's poor memory, then performs the next movement of his score in a manner worthy of a grand stage. The music may be fast and furious, noisy, almost inaudible, elegant, silly, frightening, strange; it seems to come in every color, sound, and affect.
The differences, Butters tells me, begin in the phonetic. He assigned each phonetic sound a musical sound. The finger cymbal, for instance denotes the letter "b," short "u" sounds in the bass drum, and the snare represents "th." (Thus, most movements begin with the snare and bass drum: "The.") But the designation of an "alphabet" of tones and colors determines the scope and meaning of Butters's score no more than the letters of the alphabet determine Miller's word choice or message.
Oomaharumooma is highly patterned. To find that design penetrates to this level should come as no surprise, but I'll confess it amazes me. Butters's gift is for maintaining order through repeated structures, all the while keeping his audience in suspense: How does the relationship between the recited words and the music develop? Every movement leaves room for a new theory. Why would we stay tuned through twenty-three movements if we perceived this relationship to be merely code to be cracked, or a game? And, because of our sense of expanding exploration and development in the music, there is always a sense that we will be led to some conclusion, surprise, or resolution at the end.
The relationship of the words to the music is indeed the heart of Oomaharumooma. It is impossible not to wonder about it from the very beginning. It is surely not the relationship of lyric to song tune, or libretto to opera, or of sacred text to chant. After a few movements, it's clear that this is not a programmatic work, nor is the music (despite the phonetic correspondences) even onomatopoetic. "Here are these words, here is this music." Each movement presents two experiences related by sequence, with little space for consideration between.
The relationship of percussive and verbal sounds; the relationship of verbal and musical meaning: these central abstract issues are embodied in Butters's videography. Every abstract concept in the films is located, balanced, and stabilized by the visual. Butters's physical presence and his constant wardrobe changes from scene to scene help do this (the shirts change within a single video, the shorts do not). So does the camerawork, in which we see each movement open with Butters in the pose that ended the movement before. Continuity is the spine of every change. These devices ground his ideas in images that are always fresh, however predictable. The visual keeps us moving while it keeps the same issue—words, music, their relationship—in front of us until we reach the final video and the climax. This linear yet looping construction is very artful in its simplicity.
The fourth and final video of Oomaharooma begins like the others, with Butters narrating. This time, it's the final line of the passage. The last two clauses, the only unit left, are not only longer than any other but they explain what the passage has been building to, the fact that Endree "was hard-set to memorize more than a word a week."
Unexpectedly, the video breaks open. Once Butters has finished his instrumental remark on those words, a mixed chorus of disembodied voices begins a verbal fugue that builds in volume and expression to a climax on the words, "the height of his rage." As the fugue rises, images of score pages, titled by the text phrases emerging from the voices, flow quickly past. The voices and the speed of the montage rise to great intensity, then stop on the word, "rage." Though we cannot know, we are at the mid-point of the passage.
Silence. Butters looks straight at us from among his drums. He holds one arm across his chest with a drumstick poised in his hand, dagger-like. His expression is fierce and angry. Butters is a big man with an athletic build. Here, he no longer looks the narrator or professional musician he has acted: He has become Endree himself, at the height of his rage, wearing the same costume that Butters-the-performer wore in the first frame, when he began telling the story.
Next, the same text is repeated by the chorus, but the video presents us not with the score that shows us the printed words, but, instead, we are taken on a flash tour through the percussion instruments, some still, some in use as they were in the first three videos. This section decreases in intensity, slowing and calming until it ends where it began, with Butters once again facing us in his defiant pose.
The entire second half of the final video is a single, uninterrupted percussion solo with no verbal content at all. In the course of this movement, the momentum and ferocity will once again build until a final percussive explosion. Butters falls like artillery into a sequence of mallet paradiddle-diddles before a few final seconds of softening. At the end, he briefly faces us, tired and serious, then walks off camera, leaving us in a similar state of exhaustion.
This fourth, final video is a powerhouse. It satisfies us with a clear consummation of a carefully laid plan, a resolution we did not even see coming. The issue of word and music has come to a head, and not at all in a summary way.
In Oomaharumooma, word and music are each moved to a different plane of effectiveness in the presence of the other. Music does not express something about or like the words. Words become actively meaningful in the presence of the music: Words become experienced reality. Likewise, music does not illustrate, imitate, or mime words. It is a medium in which words come to life. It is not simply a backdrop for language.
Might listeners now find Henry Miller's prose lifeless without Steve Butters's score and performance? It's not outrageous when you think of what Butters has accomplished in this work. Miller's ultimate subject is a feeling of being overwhelmed that is so great, and is composed of so many disparate mental and sensory experiences, that it paralyzes Endree and paralyzes his memory. Butters creates with music and videography an environment that transforms the words describing Endree's experience into something that resonates immediately through our own bodies and brains: We live not the words, but Endree's experience, in our own warring senses and understanding, as we try to deal with this work of art.
When we reach the final video, we finally experience what Miller's text describes. As the opening sequence foreshadowed, we are completely overwhelmed by the rush of sights and sounds, the diversity of claims on both our senses and on our rational intelligence. As we try to understand everything going on, we naturally feel some panic, unless we are feeling giddy and hyper-stimulated. We are Endree: overwhelmed, confused, unable to take it all in. Butters has created the situation Miller can only conjure in words. It's hard not to close down or feel assaulted.
Butters's innovation in this work is as simple as it is important. Text need not be silent nor mental. Words are the same stuff of musical sound, made of pitch, duration, and caused by the physical, not the mental alone. In their common pool of sound, their mental aspects—meaning—becomes a characteristic of both. Words and music partake of one another and fortify one another in ways that would go undiscovered outside of the generous medium, sound.
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"You were a spoiled child who did a cruel thing. You deserved to be beaten and confined to your room, but you didn't deserve to lose everything."
I swiped at the sudden wetness near my eyes. "Oh? I wanted to stay with my aunt, and I got my wish. My mom, sister, and I moved in with Aunt Brenda when she told my dad to go to Germany unaccompanied while she figured out what to do. Then a month later, tornados knocked a bunch of trees down in our neighborhood. Afterward, I heard a dog whining in the yard. It was so weird; the dog just sat there, tree limbs all around him. I didn't see the downed power line. I went to clear the debris away . . . and the next thing I knew, I woke up in a hospital." Harsh sigh. "The doctors said I was lucky the shock knocked me across the yard. Otherwise, I'd have burned to a crisp while stuck to that power line. But what no one could explain was why my mother died from the leftover voltage in my body when she tried to help me, yet that same voltage didn't kill me."
"Why?" Vlad's lips curled, his sympathetic expression gone. "Some things just are, Leila. You survived. She didn't. Wondering why is as irrelevant as it is futile."
After everything I'd experienced, I knew that to be true. Yet it didn't make the pain of my mother's death go away, let alone my guilt over how I'd ripped my family apart.
Vlad began digging again. Either he was impatient or the ground wasn't as frozen farther down because his progress was faster.
"Again you're being naive. Your father's infidelity ripped your family apart. You were merely the messenger."
I'd never told anyone this next part, and it took two tries before I could force the words past my newly tight throat.
"He wanted to work things out. He cheated on my mom, but he still loved her, and when she died . . . part of him blamed me so much that he avoided me. He never said that, but I saw it when I touched him." My voice cracked. "It's his worst sin."
Vlad abandoned his digging and rose, but I held out a hand. "Don't. Right now I need you to be cold. If you're not, then I have to remember how much that hurt, and I don't want to."
The words were ragged, but I'd managed to stop the tears, at least. Vlad stared at me for a long moment, his expression unreadable. At last he knelt and began digging again. A few minutes and a taller pile of dirt later, he let out a grunt and then pulled something long and whitish from the hole.
A bone.
"Right where you're supposed to be," Vlad muttered.
It did seem to be undeniable proof that Szilagyi couldn't be the puppet master, but I came closer, holding out my hand.
"Let's make sure."
His brow arched, but he placed the bone in my right hand.
At once, echoes of the man's agonizing last moments washed over me. He'd been burned to death, which I expected, but I didn't see Vlad's face through the flames. I saw the puppet master's, his face haggard and gray-streaked hair much longer, but his features were unmistakable. Another jumble of images replaced those in rapid succession, showing a benign sin, long days spent farming the land, and small children playing by a mud-walled house. A name kept reverberating throughout the memories. Josef. This was all wrong.
When I clawed my way back to that fiery death again, I saw what I'd missed the first time in the jumble of pain and panic. The puppet master was wearing the ring I'd seen when he ordered my attack, only here, he was doing his own dirty work. The man buried here was named Josef, and he'd been burned to death by the same vampire who had recently tried to kill me.
Once again, I found myself surrounded by vampires while trying to find a killer through the essence trail left from the man he'd murdered. But this time, I wasn't being forced. Despite the late hour and being exhausted, I wanted to find this bastard now, not later. I would've started looking next to that grave except Vlad insisted that we return to his castle.
When I found the essence thread leading to Josef's murderer, I followed it. The tapestry room with its large fireplace and exquisite wall coverings fell away, replaced by what looked like the inside of a cement box. With the all-gray colors of the room, for a second, I thought I'd stumbled upon a past memory. Then I saw the brown wooden door with thick black iron hinges. Color images, no haziness. That meant I was in the present. In the corner of the drab room, underneath a blanket-sized fur pelt, was the elusive puppet master, asleep.
Or, if my guess was correct, Josef's murderer and the orchestrator of my kidnapping was Mihaly Szilagyi-the vampire Vlad thought he'd killed centuries ago.
"Got him," I said out loud.
The vampire's eyes snapped open, deep brown and piercing. Now that he was in color, I saw that the streaks in his hair were blond, not gray. The lines in his face also looked less pronounced, but maybe that was because he wasn't scowling like the other times I'd seen him. His complexion was typical vampire pale, but his cheeks held a faint tinge of color. He must have fed recently. Marty had always looked flushed after a good meal.
"How unexpected," the puppet master drawled with the same faint accent that Vlad had.
I glanced at the wooden door, but it was still closed. Prickles of fear danced up my spine. Vlad would have told me if he was a mind reader, I tried to reassure myself.
The vampire stretched as though waking up from a nap. "Much can change in three hundred years, my little psychic spy."
Oh, crap! "We have a problem," I said out loud. "He's like you, Vlad. He can hear me in his head."
Vlad muttered a curse, but I seized upon the only defense I had. At once, I began to mentally blast the most annoying eighties song I could think of. The vampire winced.
"Stop that."
I turned up the volume in my head instead. Thank you, Bones! "Mihaly Szilagyi," I said aloud, "you've been found out in more ways than one."
I was guessing, but thanks to that song blasting away in my mind, the vampire didn't know that. He threw aside his blanket, revealing that he wore black sweat pants and a thick pullover sweater. Then he got up, a mocking smile on his lips.
"Capturing you has surely backfired on me. At least now I know how Vlad located you so quickly. I worried that I had a traitor in my midst, but your abilities are truly extraordinary."
"So I've been told," I replied, still mentally jamming out.
Another wince. "Must you keep thinking of that wretched song? It was unbearable even when it was new."
"How'd you do it?" I asked, not really expecting an answer. "Survive Vlad? He normally leaves behind nothing more than a pile of ash."
That made Szilagyi smile again. "We share the same sire. If Vlad thinks about it long enough, he'll figure it out."


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TOMODEC. High resolution seismic tomography of Deception Island (Antarctica), and modelling of seismo-volcanic sources. GRAVIMETRIC DATA
Entry ID: TOMODEC_2005_GRAVIMETRY-SPAIN
Abstract: In January 2005 a multi-parametric international experiment was conducted that encompassed both Deception Island and its surrounding waters. This experiment used as main platforms the Spanish Oceanographic vessel 'Hesperides', the Spanish Scientific Antarctic base 'Gabriel de Castilla' at Deception Island and four temporary camps deployed on the volcanic island. This experiment allowed us to ... record active seismic signals on a large network of seismic stations that were deployed both on land and on the seafloor. In addition other geophysical data were acquired, such as: bathymetric high precision multi-beam data, and gravimetric and magnetic profiles.
The gravimeter BELL AEROSPACE-TEXTRON BGM-3 (at the present Lockheed Martin Federal Systems) is an acquisition system that can be used both in aerial and marine vehicles. The system has a sensor mounted in a gyro-stabilized platform. This system is composed of a gravimeter sensor, the stabilized platform and an acquisition system. Raw data are recorded and processed in a computer HP-486/50 using the own BGM software providing two types of data, raw and previously analyzed data. Acquired raw data are presented in the following format: $PRAWGRV, Day, Hour, Flag, Mean Value,. However, the analyzed data are transformed into: $PHESGRV, Day, Hour, Flag, Mean Value, Value GRS67, Eotvos Correction, sinv, sinv. Potential 'flag' values associated to the sensor status are: 0: normal, 2: error, 5: starting.
Purpose: To obtain marine gravimetric profiles.
N: -62.3 S: -63.3 E: -60.0 W: -61.3
Min Depth: 0 METRES Max Depth: 2500 METRES
Dataset Originator/Creator: Ibanez, J.M.
Dataset Title: TOMODEC. High resolution seismic tomography of Deception Island (Antarctica), and modelling of seismo-volcanic sources. GRAVIMETRIC DATA
Dataset DOI: doi:10.4225/15/58e47c33f2500
Online Resource: https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/TOMODEC_2005_GRAVIMETRY-SPAIN
TOMODEC_2005_PROJECT-SPAIN
OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS
CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Deception Island
Quality The gravimeter is regularly calibrated by the manufacturer, but periodically before every field survey is calibrated in the starting harbor to avoid potential shifts. All these calibration controls are done using a portable gravimeter WORDEN mod. MASTER. In this experiment this control was performed at the Argentinean AeroNaval (Navy and Air) base of Ushuaia on December 29th, 2004, three days before the start of the field experiment. In figure 12 we show the reported calibration folder, written in Spanish, and reported by the operators onboard.
Use Constraints This data base is associated to a manuscript submitted to Nature Scientific Data under the title:
Ibanez, J.M., Diaz-Moreno, A., Prudencio, J., Zandomeneghi, D., Wilcock, W., Barclay, A., Almendros, J., Benitez, C., Garcia-Yeguas, C. and Alguacil, G., (2017). A multi-parametric geophysical data base at Deception Island (Antarctica) obtained in the TOMO-DEC experiment. Nature Scientific Data, submitted. SDATA-17-00114.
Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=TOMODEC_... when using these data.
Hesperides
Distribution Size: 2 MB
JESUS M. IBANEZ
Phone: 00 34 958 241761
Fax: 00 34 958 160907
Email: jibanez at ugr.es
Instituto Andaluz de Geofisica.
City: GRANADA
Province or State: GRANADA
Ibanez, J.M., Diaz-Moreno, A., Prudencio, J., Zandomeneghi, D., Wilcock, W., Barclay, A., Almendros, J., Benitez, C., Garcia-Yeguas, C. and Alguacil, G. (2017), A multi-parametric geophysical data base at Deception Island (Antarctica) obtained in the TOMO-DEC experiment., Nature Scientific Data
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Formation of Magnetic Microphases in Ca$_3$Co$_2$O$_6$
Speaker: Yoshitomo Kamiya, Los Alamos National Lab
Abstract: We study a frustrated quantum Ising model relevant for Ca$_3$Co$_2$O$_6$ that comprises a triangular lattice of weakly-coupled ferromagnetic chains. According to our quantum Monte Carlo simulations, the chains become ferromagnetic and form a three-sublattice "up-up-down'' structure below a temperature $T=T_{	ext{CI}}$. In contrast, long-period spin-density-wave (SDW) modulations along the chains are stabilized for $T_	ext{CI} < T < T_c$ in agreement with recent experiments by Agrestini et al [1]. Our mean field solutions reveal quasi-continuous change of the periodicity as a function of $T$, implying the existence of metastable states in the SDW phase that explains the very slow low-temperature dynamics that has been observed in Ca$_3$Co$_2$O$_6$ [2]. Closely related multiferroic materials Lu$_2$MnCoO$_6$ [3] and Ca$_3$MnCoO$_6$ [4] will also be discussed.
[1] S. Agrestini et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 097207 (2008)
[2] T. Moyoshi and K. Motoya, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., 80, 034701 (2011)
[3] S. Yanez-Vilar et al., Phys. Rev. B, 84, 134427 (2011)
[4] Y. J. Jo et al., Phys. Rev. B. 79, 012407 (2009)
Host: Perkins
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
From dragonfly eyes to fish eyes: a summary of ways to understand social-ecological systems across disciplinary lines
Speaker: Bethany Laursen, UW Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Abstract: When researching approaches to complex, social-ecological problems, the plethora of interdisciplinary paradigms can leave even savvy academicians confused or more entrenched in familiar ideas than innovative solutions. University extension agents, often trained in traditional disciplines at the masteraEuroTMs degree level and daily surrounded by tangible rather than theoretical entities, are even harder pressed to understand how these new fields relate to more familiar ones. However, extension agents are also precisely the people most likely to integrate various academic approaches by working in complex, real-world problem-solving situations. It is thus useful and necessary for agents to be able to compare, contrast, and integrate the various epistemologies encountered in social-ecological systems research. I demonstrate a decision support tool that agents can use for this purpose with six example fields of inquiry (environmental history, political ecology, social-ecological systems theory, rural sociology, ecological economics, and adaptive co-management). In addition to aiding an individualaEuroTMs understanding, the tool also promotes collective learning and collaboration by enabling shared understanding; each collaborator can use it to become more aware of their own epistemology and those of others. Through further group negotiation, this awareness minimizes epistemological aEurooeblind-spotsaEuro and vitriol, and it maximizes adaptive problem solving.
Agenda: https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/agendas/2289.pdf
Minutes: https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/minutes/2289.pdf
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Non-classical noise in quantum optomechanical systems
Speaker: Aashish Clerk, McGill University
Abstract: A key goal in the fields of quantum optomechanics and electromechanics is to measure and hopefully control truly quantum behaviour in a "large" mechanical resonator. In this talk, I will start by giving a quick introduction to these two rapidly growing fields. I will then discuss recent experimentally-motivated theoretical work which calculates the full statistics of low-frequency energy fluctuations of a driven, quantum resonator. Surprisingly, these fluctuations are highly non-classical: they are most naturally described by a quasi-probability distribution, which can be negative. Somewhat surprisingly, this effect has a close relationship to the statistics of electronic charge transfer (so-called "full counting statistics") in mesoscopic superconducting conductors. I will discuss how these effects might be measured, and how they represent a kind of non-classical behaviour similar to the violation of a Leggett-Garg inequality. While the emphasis is on phonons, our results apply equally as well to the photon fluctuations of a driven cavity.
Here be dragons :The Dynamic Radio Sky
Speaker: Geoffrey Bower, University of California - Berkeley
Abstract: Radio variability probes a wide range of astrophysical phenomena from the solar system to the early Universe including black holes, neutron stars, gravitational wave sources, and relativistic shocks from collapsing stars. Radio follow-up of events discovered at optical, X-ray, and gamma-ray wavelengths demonstrates a rich phenomenology but we lack a systematic and sensitive view of radio variability. Our efforts in recent years with the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) have provided the beginnings of an unbiased exploration on time scales from milliseconds to decades. Powered by development of unique digital instrumentation, new algorithms, and new survey strategies, our surveys have defined the shape of next generation radio telescopes and surveys. In particular, these surveys are shaping our understanding of radio supernovae, tidal disruption events, and gravitational-wave sources. Planned surveys with newly commissioned national facilities such as the Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA), the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), and the South African MeerKAT telescopes coupled with the development of new instrumentation will extend our reach into new parameter space.
Host: Eric Wilcots
Friday, May 4th, 2012
If you have questions or comments about this journal club, would like to propose a topic or volunteer to introduce a paper, please email Le Zhang (lzhang263@wisc.edu)
Host: Peter Timbie
VBFNLO: vector boson fusion and more
Speaker: Dieter Zeppenfeld, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Uncovering the nature of neutrinos via double beta decay
Speaker: Allen Caldwell, Director, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany
Abstract: Whether or not the neutrino is a Majorana particle is a fundamental question in particle physics. The search for neutrinoless double beta decay is a direct attempt to answer this question. The GERDA experiment, which started taking data last year, is such a search. After an introduction, the experiment status and plans will be described.
Host: Westerhoff
2012 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner
Alumni Award Speaker
Place: 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
Speaker: Ronald Lockwood, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract: Imaging spectroscopy is a sophisticated tool used to address a broad range of scientific questions in remote sensing. Imaging spectroscopy is an evolution of the multi-spectral imagers that are commonly employed for remote sensing such as NASA's LandSat series. This talk is a broad overview of the technology including a conceptual introduction, a review of the optical forms that are generally applied with a more detailed description of the Chrisp-Offner design, a description of the established techniques employed for both the laboratory and field (vicarious) calibration in order to convert the raw data to physical units, the removal of the deleterious effects of the atmosphere through the application of the principles of radiative transfer, and the techniques used for performing material detection.
Host: Lin
Poster: https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/posters/2012/2199.pdf


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#### According to
The Catalogue of Life, 3rd January 2011

#### Published in
N. Amer. Fung. no. 822 (1875)

#### Original name
Cucurbitaria brevibarbata Berk. & M.A. Curtis, 1875

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CHICO — It's been just over two months since the Camp Fire started, and a particular group of ridge folks have their own way of looking forward.
"There's real heart in Paradise. The first mission is to put it back together," said Ann Slocum, vice president of the Ridge Quilters Guild.
Even though the fire affected most of the guild members, they already have a hand in recovery, as helping people in need has always been their trademark.
Slocum said the guild has 123 members; 63 of them lost their homes, 19 had damage to their homes, and, because of the fire, 15 have moved out of the area. There are some who live in upper Magalia whose homes still stand.
Slocom and her husband, Tony Slocum, live in Paradise and their house survived. They can't live there — plenty of things need to be replaced and cleaned.
There are so many sad stories about the Camp Fire, but Ann Slocum said what she has learned about her fellow guild members since the fire amazes her. The day of the fire, several members left their homes with things that matter to them as quilters — sewing machines, completed quilts, fabric.
The guild also produces a few specific projects. The Opportunity Quilt is a major fundraiser, and is a raffle prize in the group's quilt show held every other year.
Community Quilts are made by guild members and given to people in need.
Slocum said that because many of the guild members lost all their quilting materials in the fire, other quilters stepped up to help replace them.
Besides Groom, members who went above and beyond to help guild members and others include Tina Bishop, Laura Lukes, Linda Brown and Leeanne Kromer, said Slocum.
Guild members Teressa and Bob Larson also escaped the fire.
"He is the token man member of our group," said Slocum. She said the Larsons had to leave their cars behind during the fire. They had filled the cars with quilting fabric and later, they found their house gone but their cars OK.
"All that fabric was still there," said Slocum.
The guild met for the first time since the fire in December at Cathy's Sew & Vac in Chico, where 30 machines had been donated for people who lost them.
The group is acquainted with Lynn Wilder from the Bay Area, an accomplished quilter who grew up in Paradise. She has been fundraising for the Ridge Quilters. "Right away, she gave us $3,000," she said, adding that Wilder will visit the guild's meeting Tuesday in Chico.
Laura Roberts, who owns a quilt shop in Susanville, also will be at the meeting. In December, she drove 100 quilts to Chico for people affected by the Camp Fire.
"On Tuesday, we will make sure that every member who no longer has a sewing machine will get one, and that every member who lost their quilts will leave with one," said Slocum.
Ridge Quilters Guild will meet 10 a.m.-noon Tuesday at the Chico Women's Club, 592 E. Third St.
Highlights: Quilters Lynn Wilder and Laura Roberts will visit.
Meetings to be held on third Tuesdays through June at the Chico Women's Club.


Just past the golf club, tennis courts, pools and playground, Chestnut Hills Parkway turns to a beautiful street graced by stately homes. This home fit beautifully on this majestic drive.
Double leaded glass doors under the bricked, arched front porch open to a large 2-story foyer with expansive views of the main level's open concept. To the right, the formal dining room has noteworthy wainscot and a great deal of space. The home's library, behind double French doors, is a lovely room under vaulted ceilings. The great room has spectacular 11" coffered ceilings and fantastic views of the golf course. The great room's 2-sided fireplace is shared with the hearth area that is a part of the open concept kitchen. This is yet another grand, open space that includes the hearth area, breakfast area, stainless kitchen with a large bar and sliding glass doors that open to the four-season room. With cathedral ceilings and Eze-Breeze windows, this is a priceless room that also opens to the backyard. Just beyond the kitchen, and off the 3-car garage, the massive laundry room has a utility sink, cabinet and a half bath.
A private vestibule off the foyer leads to the main level master, which features cove ceilings, a private deck and a large master bath with a soaking tub, walk-in shower, dual vanities and a large walk-in closet.
The open staircase leads to a landing from which the bedrooms arise. Bedroom #2 features a large arched window, cathedral ceilings and a Jack-and-Jill bathroom, shared with bedroom #3 (currently used as an upper level family area), which has a generously sized niche and an incredible attached bonus room with a window and large closet. Bedroom #4 has an overall fresh look and attached full bath.
The finished, lower level features bedroom #5 with an attached full bath, an adjacent bonus room, a large family area, large kitchenette, game area and a private fitness room.
The home has fantastic views of the 15th and 16th holes, professional landscaping, irrigation system and tremendous curb appeal.
In Southwest Aboite Township, you can expect to find people out-and-about on the scenic Fort Wayne trails; whether it is to the class-A ranked Southwest Allen County public schools, many local restaurants, churches, or parks! The lifestyle in Chestnut Hills is definitely one to love, due to its friendly environment, exceptional golf course and amenities. Chestnut Hills, conveniently located on the Fort Wayne trails, is less than two miles from Kroger, CVS, Walgreens, Starbucks, and more.
For more information about Chestnut Hills, go to this LINK.


The large headline in CRUX blares, "Ethicist says ghostwriter's role in 'Amoris' is troubling." This was an invited article, written by Michael Pakaluk, Professor of Ethics in the Catholic University of America. He pointed out that large sections of Pope Francis' encyclical "Joy of Love" (Amoris Laetitia) were plagiarized.
A papal encyclical is claimed to have special moral authority, reflecting the "magisterium." The assumption is that it was divinely inspired, or at least divinely approved. Due to this, the Church holds that encyclicals are almost infallible, and effectively beyond question. That's not the kind of document we'd expect to be ghost-written. Nor was this simply a matter of a ghostwriter polishing papal prose. (In fact, there are many complaints about the clarity of the text.) Pope Francis delegated the substance to his ghost-writer and pretended the text and ideas behind them were his own.
This Catholic professor of ethics complains about the morality of the ghost-writer, not the putative author of the document. He recognizes that people are being deceived into believing Pope Francis wrote the document, but criticizes the ghost-writer for not doing a better job of deception. He has no moral qualms about the Pope taking claim for someone else's work, or for the Church knowingly attributing quasi-infallibility to the work of ghost-writers. This seems more like the ethics of the Great Deceiver, Satan.
The ghost-writing of papal encyclicals seems to be widely known among religious journalists and commentators, yet they always credit the Pope with authorship. No one feels it is appropriate to tell the truth to the flock, who might have trouble finding the higher moral authority in the process.
Pope Francis refuses to answer questions about his encyclical. Perhaps he is insufficiently familiar with the contents of his immaculately conceived work.


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Q: Doubts about a functional defined on a Sobolev space I am given this  definition of quasi convexity:

$g: \mathbb{R}^{N\times n} \rightarrow [0,+\infty)$ a $C^0$ function is said quasi convex if for every $A\in\mathbb{R}^{N\times n} $
$$f(A)\; m(\Omega)\leq \int_{\Omega} f(A+\nabla \phi)dx$$
for every open bounded set $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ and $\forall \phi \in W^{1,\infty}_0(\Omega, \mathbb{R}^N)$.

The book I'm looking at consider next the following functional:
let be $f:\mathbb{R}^{N\times n} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ quasi convex and $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ open and bounded it considers
$F:W^{1,\infty}(\Omega)\rightarrow [0,\infty)$
given by $F(u)=\int_{\Omega}f(\nabla u)dx.$

I was wondering about this functional and these are my doubts:

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*Why is this functional well defined? How can I say that $F<+\infty$ ?Do I need the condition of quasi convex to claim that or only the fact that the gradient is bounded and f continuos?

*Can I generalize in this case the definition of $f$ and consider an $f$ with values in all $\mathbb{R}$? Does $F$ remai well defined?
Thank you!

A: If $f$ is quasiconvex it is continuous. If $u \in W^{1,\infty}(\Omega)$ then $\nabla u$ is bounded, hence $f(\nabla u)$ is bounded too. Since $\Omega$ is a bounded set it follows that $f(\nabla u) \in L^1(\Omega)$. The full assumption of quasiconvexity isn't required.
I'm not sure what your second question is asking.


SmartDEN IP-32IN remote sensore monitoring.
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Select device smartDEN IP-32IN. You have to enter the IP of the device, UDP port (for SNMP) and SNMP Community (password).
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Converts AC 0-50A input current into a load independent output signal DC 0-10V. Can be used for monitoring the current in motor windings and with the 0-10V can be easily interfaced to our modules analog inputs. The current transducer features total galvanic isolation between input/output, high accuracy, low drifting by temperature, and wide temperature operational range.


Computer Applications is a one semester course designed to provide students with the fundamental computer skills necessary to do will in high school and in the work force. In the area of word processing, students will learn the fundamental skills necessary to create and edit the most widely used documents, including the use of bullets, numbered lists, special characters, borders and shading, fonts, and paragraph and line spacing. Internet searching skills and citing Internet sources are stressed as students research and create a simple PowerPoint presentation. In the area of spreadsheets, students will be expected to create and edit simple spreadsheets.


Finding your tribe is a primal thing, locating the people you click with and clicking. It's about what Kurt Vonnegut called "Lonesome no more!"--a campaign slogan he cooked up for a fictitious presidential candidate in his book Slapstick. Because he knew that people are lonely; so many of his stories are about extremes of loneliness, and solutions, often clunky, for solving that loneliness and bringing people together.
Of course, as Jews, "finding your tribe" has relevance on a whole other level. Maybe you're descended from Dan; maybe from Asher. Who knows? We may never find our actual tribe until moshiach comes, but I feel like the concept still resonates. That we know ourselves to be tribal people in a way that maybe others don't.
Then there's "bagelling," the Jewish tribe-finding algorithm described by Urban Dictionary as "you are Jewish, and you want other people around you to know that, so you say or do something Jewish in nature in order to drop the hint so they know you're one of the tribe," like announcing out loud in Starbucks, "So when I was in shul yesterday..."
We see Jews, we meet Jews, we click with Jews. But I'll be honest: this particular tribe-finding technique is not my bag, personally. I'm Jewish, you're Jewish, okay. But you're going to need to do more than that to be like me. To give me that feeling of "Here I am." I guess, raised mostly around non-Jews, I'm just as likely to glom onto non-Jews unless I'm specifically looking for kosher food or a mikveh. Raised in a small and non-religious family, I don't do Jewish geography--it's a frustrating game that usually ends in me shrugging and saying, "Well, Toronto's a pretty big town... No, I'm not related to anybody..."
Having a name like MacLeod actually gets me off the hook from the Jewish geography game in some ways. People hear the name and figure I'm an outsider with very few cards to play. Mostly, that's a relief, although sometimes, I do want to talk yichus (family connections), like about my grandfather who helped found the Board of Jewish Education in Toronto over 70 years ago. I may be an outsider, but I'm an inside outsider. But then, too, I don't want to confuse people.
While Jews are not automatically my tribe, some groups of Jews are, as I discovered at the Torah homeschooling conference, where I saw that tribe is about more than being Jewish, being religious, and choosing to homeschool. I guess it's about what Anne Shirley (of Green Gables) would have called finding a kindred spirit.
But a few weeks ago, I went to a used-book sale that's held a couple of times a year in Maaleh Adumim. It's a fundraiser, and all the books are in English, and they raise a ton of money. I've been meaning to go for a while, but Maaleh Adumim is both far away and out of the way. But hey, whatever, it's books.
The only time I could go to the sale was the second and final night, and it turned out all the books were 3 shekels (about 80 cents), which was even better. Books!!!
While I was pawing through the books, I stopped to look up and look around and listen to the people around me. And got hit square in the face with that feeling once again: "Here I am." Not JUST me, but people like me.
In this case, many of them also looked like me: middle-aged ladies, English speakers, olot (feminine of olim), tichels, glasses. All pawing through books, chatting loudly with whoever had come along with them, sharing updates about their lives, their kids, their families. All taking a few minutes on a busy Thursday in May to grab a whole huge pile of cheap books. Books!
Even the men there were my tribe, though they didn't wear tichels. At one point, I mentioned loudly to my daughter that I was looking for the book To Kill a Mockingbird, which I'm reading out loud to the littles (we stop about every two paragraphs for some kind of explanation and conversation!). About ten minutes later, a guy called out, "Who was looking for To Kill a Mockingbird?" I thanked him and walked out with it half an hour later (three shekels!).
I'm thinking about all of this right now because I'm getting ready (in a slow, roundabout way) to fly to LA for a children's-book writers' and illustrators' conference (SCBWI LA18). And I can't wait, but I'm also wondering… will this conference, too, feel like a "tribe"? Even though they're not Jewish and don't look like me, haven't made the same life choices as me, don't necessarily share the same values, will we have enough in common that I'll feel that click, that shudder, those goosebumps? Think, "Here I am"?
I'm nervous because I don't socialize gracefully or well. On some level, I truly believe that I'm older, dumpier, boringer than almost everybody else around. On some level, I believe it's not worth listening to what I have to say, but on another level, I lack the self-control to quit talking even when it's not appropriate, an awkwardly self-conscious combination that often leads to blank stares.
But maybe there will be a few people there who feel awkward too. Who don't quite feel like they belong, yet they're so passionate about writing for kids that they absolutely had to attend, had to find the tools to make their words and stories better and get them to the audience of kids and families that they're sure is waiting somewhere out there.
And then, I can sigh and relax and lean back and say, "Here I am." Here I am. This is where I belong, at last.


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Home Top News Hong Kong's Airport Authority rolls out US$128 million relief package
Hong Kong's Airport Authority rolls out US$128 million relief package
/ Posted on 25 March, 2020 11:30
Hong Kong's Airport Authority (AA), with support from the government, has launched a new HK$1 billion (US$128 million) relief package to soften the Covid-19 blow to the airport community.
The relief package includes AA's contribution of HK$330 million, as well as a government waiver of HK$670 million in air traffic control charges to the AA for the previous year, which will be given in full to the airport community.
Hong Kong's Airport Authority rolls out a new US$128 million relief package
The measures will be rolled out from February to June 2020; and will target three main groups, namely, the aviation industry, airport retail tenants and restaurants, as well as airport staff.
A sum of HK$630 million has been allocated for the aviation industry. Airlines will receive full waiver for five months on parking and airbridge fees for idle passenger aircraft, and 40 per cent reduction of passenger aircraft landing charges for four months, among other relief measures covering ramp handling, maintenance and airside vehicle-related fees.
As well, a full waiver of commercial service counter licence fees, in-terminal service licence fees, and fees paid by cross-border transport operators will be provided for four months.
In addition, rental of offices and lounges in the terminal, franchise fees for aviation support services including aircraft catering, into-plane fuelling and maintenance, as well as cargo terminal services will be reduced by 10 per cent to 50 per cent for three to four months.
Rental relief totalling HK$320 million will be provided to airport shops and restaurants paying a fixed rent. The rental concession will be 70 per cent for three months from March to May, and 50 per cent in June, as stepped-up support from the 20 per cent fixed rental discount starting last October.
Furthermore, a total of HK$50 million has been earmarked for providing training allowance to upskill frontline airport staff who are on no-pay leave, with up to 25,000 staff set to benefit from the scheme.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong will ban entry for all non-Hong Kong residents coming from overseas for 14 days, starting March 25, 2020, 00:00. Flights will not be allowed to transit in Hong Kong International Airport during the same time period.
The entry ban extends to non-Hong Kong residents arriving from mainland China, Taiwan and Macau, who have travelled to countries and areas outside of China, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong in the past fortnight.
Additionally, all Hong Kong and non-Hong Kong residents entering from Taiwan and Macau, with no travel history outside of these four territories, would still be subject to a 14-day compulsory quarantine.
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How would you fill out the all time roster for a team with as much talent as the Braves have had since 1871? Not easy. Recently Nick Selbe gave it a shot.
Making the all-time roster for MLB's oldest continually running franchise was no small task. To make room for the three outfielders, we shifted Dale Murphy to first base, despite his primarily playing the outfield. Murphy made 205 appearances at first base in his first two big league seasons.
Though none of them made the final cut, the trio of John Smoltz, Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine deserve to be mentioned. As teammates from 1993-2002, they combined for a 453-224 record, with 4,616 strikeouts and a 2.97 ERA.


Discovering that you have a bad credit score is never good news. Unfortunately, a negative credit status reflects on your job and of course your current financial status. So how to deal with it is the ultimate question. Can you do it on your own and follow a credit repair guide or should you just go through credit repair counseling and seek professional advice?
Both are delightful options but considering you are already near financial ruin, an expensive service fee isn't a good idea. A credit repair guide can do you magic. You'll find it amusing to learn the tricks to rebuilding a good credit score and until you're debt free.
Here is a brief credit repair guide for you to deal with that credit glitch stress-free. First is securing copies of your credit reports. You should know that you are entitled to free credit statements from each of the three credit bureaus such as these three top agencies TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax each year. Usually the creditors only give your credit reports to a credit bureau where they have subscribed thus sending only one statement to one bureau only. So you must gather copies from the three major credit bureaus and make another set when you will start disputing information.
Since all the reports given will most possibly have different statements, it is important for you to examine and organize all the information indicated. Errors are common because credit bureaus only generate the credit reports sent to them by creditors and not verify them. Look for everything such as outdated or incomplete information, payments that have been reported incorrectly, inaccurate account histories, charge offs, sent collections, and mere typing errors. Using highlighters or pens can be of great help when you have to emphasize what you need to repair.
After this, max out over the credit limit accounts so you can now start deleting erroneous data. You must send photocopies of your credit reports with mistakes encircled. Send it along with supporting documents to the reporting credit bureau which will be investigated within 30 days. Any record not verified by the creditor will be removed. If changes have been made then an updated copy of your credit report will be delivered to you.
Now you are aware of the monthly bills, you will have to it all balance out. Deal will debts assiduously and then decide how to keep your positive credit score. However, be careful when closing an account when you would want to limit using credit cards/loan since it can give you a negative impact called a FICO score. Fabricate a solid credit history and open a savings account that may show your creditors that you are saving.
Now the tricks of the credit repair guide have been revealed to you. All you have to do is to follow the steps one by one and you'll get that control back into your life. Do not be afraid of dealing with your debts again and make sure you maintain a good credit. It is because handling debts is an every day ordeal and dealing with it well secures you a stable financial future.


In order to create clear and positive communications between the Council and residents, Birmingham City Councilors are continuing their efforts to host organized forums, such as the pre-budget and post-budget tours that are open to the public. The forums provide a platform to discuss the financial health of the city. Councilors also highlighted progress within each district and updated the community on the accomplishments so far heading into the new fiscal year. Hundreds poured in over the past few weeks to learn all they could about the overall budget process and what citizens can do to ensure their concerns were heard.
The Council elaborated on all that's being proposed in the 2016-2017 budget which includes: No funding for Community Schools after-school care programs; increasing neighborhood association funds from $2,000 to $5,000; reduction in weed abatement/demolition funding; one-percent Cost of Living increase for all employees and Expansion of the Shot Spotter Program. The Council Budget Tours also offered countless opportunities for residents to gain an understanding of the total budget process and provide constructive input about items that many would like implemented.
Following the budget tours, Councilors released their budget proposal for the upcoming year that will address the concerns that they heard from residents who attended the budget tours. For a full copy of that proposal please CLICK HERE. You can also learn more about what's being proposed by watching the video that is embedded in the top left hand of this article.