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Winter Storm Buffets Western Alaska While Lack of Sea Ice Continues to be the Norm
By Davis Hovey | November 25, 2020 | 0
Much of Western Alaska is experiencing blowing snow, howling winds, and high-water levels as winter storm conditions persist into tonight.
According to climatologist Rick Thoman, with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP), this latest Bering Sea storm is expected to cause coastal erosion in the region, "for sure." Additionally, the National Weather Service is calling for up to a foot of snow in the Nome area when all is said and done. Heavy snow is expected as well, with as much as 8 to 12 inches falling from Nome north to Pilgrim Springs.
Erosion at a local beach in Golovin after a late-fall storm that hit the Norton Sound earlier this month. Photo courtesy of Willow Olson of Golovin, 2020.
Similar to the last storm that hit the region earlier this month, there is hardly any sea ice in the Bering Sea to minimize the damage to coastal areas. Subsequently many communities on the Bering Strait and Yukon Delta coasts, including Nome, Golovin, Nunam Iqua, and Unalakleet, could see water levels rise anywhere from 3 to 5 feet above the normal tide line.
The NWS has issued high surf advisories across the Bering Strait region, which are in effect through at least this morning in most places. NWS says any nearshore sea ice that exists in those areas will most likely be pushed onshore.
Thoman told KNOM via email that the potential light at the end of the tunnel is that more north to northeasterly winds will blow over the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea later this week. However, Thoman says the winds still won't be cold enough to cause the oceans to freeze up right away.
Image at top: A snow-covered 4-p.m. Nome twilight in November of 2017 (Photo from Gabe Colombo, KNOM, November 2017)
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Food and Beverage Capability Guide
If you ever wondered where your fresh fruit and vegetables in the supermarket came from then there is a fair chance they were grown right here in the Shires of Gingin, Chittering and Dandaragan.
These 3 Shires make up one of 5 regions in the Wheatbel known as the Central Coast Wheatbelt region. This region producers more fresh fruit and vegetables than anywhere else in Western Australia. Some of the products produced here include:
83% of WA's oranges
80% of WA's lemons
64% of WA's blueberries
60% of WA's lettuce
51% of WA's cauliflower
41% of WA's mangoes
In 2021 these three Shires came together in partnership with the Department of Primary Industries & Regional Development (DPIRD) and the Wheatbelt Development Commission (WDC) to create a Food & Beverage Capability Guide. The purpose of this guide is to showcase our larger producers throughout the Central Coast Wheatbelt and also our many more specialised producers providing jams, preserves, honeys, cheeses, wines and more.
The Central Coastal Wheatbelt Food & Beverage Capability Guide currently features 11 x food and beverage producers from the Shire of Gingin including Borrello Beef, Bullbar Beef Jerky, Dr Jims Famous Lemon Squash, Gingin Pomegranates and Dates, Guinea Grove Farm, Local Goat Artisan Cheese, Loose Leaf Lettuce, Marvick Native Farms, Northern Valleys Fruit Pops, West Coast Honey and Western Produce. This number is as of November 2021 and this is just a small fraction of our local producers with an opportunity available annually for more producers to be included in the guide when it is reviewed.
The Guide is FREE for all businesses to participate in and the Guide is available digitally (see above link) or also in hard copy (coming soon!). Ultimately the goal of the Guide is to link products with potential buyers.
If you are a producer in the Shire of Gingin and you would like to be included in the Guide, please contact the Shire of Gingin on (08) 9575 5100 / mail@gingin.wa.gov.au.

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NASA Astronaut Randy Bresnik Available for Interviews Before Space Station Mission
Posted by: Chief Editor July 12, 2017
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NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, who is making final preparations for his launch to the International Space Station later this month, will be available for live satellite interviews from 9 to 10 a.m. EDT Friday, July 14, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.
stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov
Expedition 52 flight engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA demonstrates the width inside a Soyuz simulator, Thursday, July 6, 2017 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia.
Credits: NASA/ Bill Ingalls
The interviews will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website and will be preceded at 8:30 a.m. by a video feed of highlights from Bresnik's mission training and previous spaceflight.
To participate in the interviews, media must contact Sarah Volkman at 281-483-9071 or sarah.e.volkman@nasa.gov no later than 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 12. Media participating in the interviews must tune to the NASA Television Media Channel (NTV-3). Satellite tuning information is available at:
http://go.nasa.gov/1pOWUhR
Bresnik will arrive at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Sunday, July 16, for final pre-launch training. He and his crewmates, cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), will launch on the Russian Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft at 11:41 a.m. on July 28. They are scheduled to return to Earth in December.
Their flight plan calls for an arrival at the station about six hours after launch, where they will join Expedition 52 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineers Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer of NASA. The crew members will continue several hundred experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science currently underway and scheduled to take place aboard humanity's only permanently occupied orbiting lab.
Among the experiments is Cardiac Stem Cells, which investigates how microgravity affects stem cells and the factors that govern stem cell activity, including physical and molecular changes. The Cosmic-Ray Energetics and Mass experiment is also scheduled to arrive at the station during the crew's stay and will measure the charges of cosmic rays ranging from hydrogen up through iron nuclei, over a broad energy range.
Bresnik was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky, but considers Santa Monica, California, to be his hometown. He graduated from The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, and was commissioned in the Marine Corps in May 1989. NASA selected him as an astronaut in May 2004. This will be his second trip to the International Space Station and his first long-duration mission. Previously he flew aboard space shuttle Atlantis to the station in 2009.
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Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peter Square, Feb. 22, 2017. Credit: L'Osservatore Romano.
Yangon, Burma, Nov 29, 2017 / 04:39 am ().- In a meeting with the bishops leading Burma's small Catholic community, Pope Francis stressed the need to prioritize healing and pastoral accompaniment as the nation continues to reel from both past and present conflicts.
Pope Francis met with the bishops during his Nov. 27-30 visit to the country - also known as Myanmar - after which he will travel to neighboring Bangladesh from Nov. 30-Dec. 2 before returning to Rome.
He praised efforts made by the local Church to care for the poor and the displaced, many of whom are members of the Rohingya Muslim minority who have been forced to flee their home in Burma's Rakhine State as a result of what the United Nations has called "a textbook case of ethnic cleansing" in the area.
With few bishops and clergy ministering to the entirety of Burma's small Catholic population, catechesis plays a key role in the formation and education of the faithful in the country.
"Like the dry parched land that is waiting for the first rain, we are also eagerly waiting for your visit which will be like the morning dew, a great blessing for our people and our country," he said, adding that Pope's "timely visit" fills their hearts with love and peace as they strive to be "the salt of the earth and the light of the world" in their nation.


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DOMINIC HARTINGTON-GEORGE poured four sachets of sugar into the indistinguishable hot liquid they served in these premier London-address offices and sighed to himself. Sitting on his own in the luxuriously carpeted foyer, he wondered if he could work the Tardis-clone vending machine enough to get a chocolate bar as well.
On the pretext of needing a piss, he'd escaped from the meeting currently going on between his agent, Tanya Richards, and his PR company representatives. Well, he hadn't said that exactly, as Tanya had already briefed him about his language needing to be more socially acceptable. Apparently he wasn't on the top of a snowcapped mountain at the moment, where no one cared how he expressed his bodily needs except for the odd passing llama.
Dominic wondered idly why a llama's company felt infinitely more attractive compared to the meeting. And as an experienced mountaineer, he'd met a few llamas in his time. But he couldn't do anything about today, could he? He couldn't run away like he usually did—or as Tanya and his mother accused him of doing—to some mountain range to hide himself in another wild adventure.
Because he was broke.
Not only that, but he was hawking his begging bowl around London in the hope of a sponsorship deal. He had to endure long meetings, cheesy smiles that set off a cramp in his jaw, and daily spreadsheet reminders of just how much money was involved in climbing the Eiger. It all just emphasized the size of the shit pile he was in. What was more, he struggled to cope with negotiation at the best of times. In fact, he was beginning to think he'd be better suited to standing outside on the street and offering copies of the Big Issue. He was no bloody good at bowing and scraping. Wasn't that what he employed Tanya for, anyway?
"It's a necessary evil," she'd told him firmly. He'd just announced his next expedition, and she'd announced a resounding, financial no-can-do. "You may have an aristocratic name and impeccable pedigree, but—"
"Bugger-all money?" he'd interrupted almost gleefully. For centuries his family had been famous for being adventurers—and infamous for gambling away every treasure they had ever owned. Great-Grandad had wasted the final thousands of the family fortune on a rangy horse in the Epsom Derby that, rather than romping home at 200-1, had fallen over its own feet in the first fifteen yards and had to be put out to grass. After that, the surviving Hartington-Georges moved to their more modest London properties and lived on the erratic income from opening their ancestral home to the public. Dom suspected his elegant sophisticate of a mother had never got over the shock of a stranger approaching her one afternoon and asking to be escorted to the baby-changing facilities.
Tanya had continued, "So if you want to continue your mountaineering projects—"
"No question!" he'd snapped.
Tanya had just inclined her head, unfazed. She hadn't worked for Dom for two years without learning "his ways." "So we must look at ways to raise the funds. And one of those is through sponsorship deals. Take that disgusted look off your face, Dom. A lot of sportsmen and explorers do that nowadays."
"Climb mountains with a big yellow M emblazoned on my forehead?"
Tanya let a smile tease the corners of her mouth. "I think it'd be more suitable if the sponsor was in the outdoor clothing and survival equipment market. I have contacts I can approach."
Tanya always had contacts. Dom had to admire that in her. Also her ability to manage her insolent runt of an assistant, Eric—oh, and her ability to cope with Dom in full grumpy mode. There weren't many people who managed to do that. His own mother only dropped into his Ladbroke Grove house a few times a year. Otherwise, they were both happy to keep contact to the occasional phone call or bumping into each other at family friends' events.
"You need to come out of your shell," Tanya had said to him. That was an hour before she employed the PR company. "And that doesn't include dancing on a pub table to karaoke."
Bloody hell. If having a night out with his climbing mates wasn't coming out of his shell, Dom didn't know what was. At the end of a training week in North Wales, he'd needed to unwind. A visit to a familiar and discreet London pub around the back of Kentish Town, where the licensing hours were applied loosely, if at all, had been just the thing. The food was plain, plentiful, and delicious, though the karaoke machine was a new addition. Dom had tolerated it only because it promised a set of old rock classics. He'd been halfway through a roaring-drunk rendition of "We Are the Champions" when he'd been snapped by one of those damned paparazzi, passing by on the off chance of a story. And yes, he had been standing on the table at the time, but the landlord didn't care, so why should anyone else?
But apparently that wasn't the right kind of shell-emerging. "Other options?"
Tanya had looked him in the eye and said wryly, "Get a job. You know, like the rest of us mortals."
Dom had felt physically sick. Not at the thought of hard graft; he was used to that and was no coward when it came to rolling up his sleeves. But the thought of sitting in an office in a suit and tie, shackled to a computer for eight hours a day, and answering to someone else….
He'd shuddered.
So here he was now, in the plush offices paid for by poor saps like himself and the companies who branded them, trying to rebrand Dominic Hartington-George.
It was time to face the music again.
DOM HAD hoped to sneak back into the conference room with his coffee (tea? rat's pee?), but everyone turned to face him as he took his seat again. Tanya frowned at him, and Eric had that habitual smirk on his face, as if Dom were the greatest entertainment since schoolboys painted glue on the teacher's chalk. Of course, Dom thought rather glumly, that might be true, even if chalk had given way to an iPad stylus.
Two virtually interchangeable, slick-looking blondes in brightly colored, tightly fitted skirt suits and matching pearl earrings represented the PR company. One of them blushed every time she looked at him.
She was the first to speak. "Tanya says you're looking for a makeover. You know, like they do on the TV? 10 Years Younger, Look Good Naked, that kind of thing?"
What was this modern habit of talking in questions all the time? Dom stared at her steadily until she blushed again. "I have no idea what you're talking about," he said bluntly.
"I mean… obviously you don't need help with your looks," she stammered.
Ah. That explained some of the blushing. He often got that with younger women. If he turned his head, he would catch sight of Tanya's frown moving to a whole new level of disapproval. It was almost enough to cheer him up.
"Just the presentation," the other girl said, more sharply. The young one looked at her with naked gratitude. "We'll get someone on his wardrobe. Ellie, look into a suitable hairstylist too."
"Hairstylist?" Dom switched his glare to her. Polly, he thought her name was. He reassessed her as more assertive than just slick. Was that why his death glare didn't work as well on her as on other people?
Polly raised an eyebrow at him as if she could hear exactly what he was thinking right then, and she was far from intimidated. "And let's now address the, shall we say, thorny issue of social image."
"What the hell does that mean?"
Polly didn't even flinch. She was obviously used to stroppy clients.
Tanya touched his arm. "Dom. Please. You want your funding, don't you?"
"But why does it matter what I look like?" He could hear the plaintive note in his voice; he sounded like a petulant child. But he didn't want to be bothered with this. "I climb rocks and mountains, ladies. I wear bulky, padded clothes and thick-soled boots. My face is usually covered with goggles or a mask against the sun and dust. I grunt and curse and fart. I see no reason for social chitchat, I eat like a hungry horse, and I don't—repeat, don't—moisturize."
To his surprise Polly laughed. "I hear you, Mr. Hartington-George."
"Call me Dom," he said grudgingly.
"You're a fine man, Dom. Handsome and assertive and brave. We know all that."
They do?
"We're just looking for a way to brand you so that other brands want to match up with you. They'll pay for that privilege, you see. And that means making you look even more attractive."
"And more amenable," Tanya said half under her breath.
Dom couldn't say he hated Polly's style of flattery, but he was still wary. And he supposed he hadn't spent much time or money on his looks for a few years now.
"What about a girlfriend?" Ellie asked timidly.
Dom started.
"If the client were seen with a suitable partner… someone already media-friendly…."
"The intrepid adventurer captured and tamed by homespun beauty? Great idea. It'd certainly build a marketable strapline." Polly nodded and started scribbling on her notepad. "We have Alisha W already on the books. And I believe Suzie de Luca is in London for a shoot."
"No thanks." Dom's deep voice sounded very clear in the room.
Beside him, Tanya closed her eyes.
"Well, if not them, there are plenty of other ladies who'd love to be seen with you," Polly continued, unconcerned. "It'd be just another assignment, of course…"
"Of course," Tanya echoed, her voice rather faint and her eyes still closed tight.
"…although we would expect you, Dom, to look happy with the arrangement on photoshoots and at public events. Meanwhile, it'll be excellent publicity for both of you, and you may even build a little romance, while persuading the media that the Daredevil Man in the wild can also be the Doting Man at home."
"No thanks," Dom repeated slowly. "Maybe that would be fine if you hadn't missed the whole point. The point that, even if I had time for dating, I don't date women."
Tanya leaned forward over the conference table and sank her head into her hands.
Eric snorted. Dom hoped it was because of nerves and not ridicule, else he'd thrash the kid when they got out of here. Eric was in his early twenties, overkeen, too bold, and completely unfazed by Dom's gravitas. And he had the most disrespectful sense of humor Dom had ever known, even though it made him laugh.
Ellie's eyes had opened very wide. "You mean you're gay?"
"You're choosing now to come out?" Tanya muttered.
"It's not a matter of coming out!" Dom snapped back. What bloody century did these people live in? These city types were meant to be alert to the whole modern-world thing. "I've never been in. I just don't choose to expose my love life to every bloody person on the planet."
"If you had one to expose," Eric mumbled.
Dom glared at the kid, but Eric returned the stare without fear. Bugger. Dom should never have invited Eric on that mates' night out, or confessed in his cups just how bloody long it'd been since he, Dom, had dated anyone—man, woman, or llama. Meanwhile, the rest of the room was deathly silent.
Then Polly laughed again.
Laughed? "Something amusing you?" Dom asked icily. He pushed his chair back, ready to leave.
Tanya made a small sound of distress, but Dom was just thankful this would be the end of the whole stupid, misguided campaign—
"That's perfect!" Polly smiled broadly. "I've already had interest in your expedition from We Will Survive, who supply climbing gear to most of the London exhibitions and stores. They have a contract for next year's ascent on Everest too. And we all know how they embrace equality on all levels, don't we? This really will launch you as a man of the moment."
"Do we? Will it?"
Tanya surreptitiously pinched Dom in his side.
Polly rushed on regardless. "They have a major presence in the LGBT community and are linked to many gay climbing clubs and events. They'll be thrilled to have representation from another openly gay celebrity." She was already directing Ellie to look up a contact number.
"They used the famous gay model Zeb Z for that swimwear campaign last year."
"Famous for what? Being gay?" Dom was still irritated, especially as things didn't seem to be going the way he expected. "There's no way you're promoting me for my sexuality rather than my work."
"No, no!" Polly's smile never wavered. "That's not what I meant. Just that I know now where to start pitching the campaign. You and Zeb Z. This is a great idea!"


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This movie originally came out in 2014 with its sequel releasing last year. Kingsman had been floating around my attention for a while now, but it was looking forward to seeing the new Robin Hood movie that really got me to watch this. Taron Egerton is in that film, and since watching the trailer, I was like, "I need to see some of his other films." This of course let to some basic googling and realizing that he was in this film, which had been on my list of things to watch for a couple years now.
I really enjoyed Kingsman. The cast was killer, the music was classic adventure, secret agent stuff, and I loved watching the action sequences. It just fell a little flat for me in terms of suspense and high stakes. There were definitely moments when I was really closely drawn to the screen to see what would happen next, but for the most part I just wanted to see what cool stuff the spies had to play with or what dangerous task they had to complete.
One of my favorite things about this movie was how everybody moved. That sounds really weird, so let me explain: they all seemed so fluid and agile. In the scene where Eggsy escapes the group of guys outside his house, I was just watching with amazement. Even Colin Firth seemed to move with so much more grace than usual, or at the very least, a vivacity that isn't in his other films.
The plot of the movie was pretty great too. It was slightly stereotypical, but also not. It was a classic this-one-guy-knows-what's-best, but that one guy, Valentine, was able to convince so many other people that what he was doing was the right thing. Having the focus be on the environment and "saving" the planet was also a great twist on the classic villain type that only wants to have control. As far as I remember, that was no where near Valentine's agenda.
Everyone did an amazing job in terms of acting. It was weird at first to see Samuel Jackson play a villain, but he did such a great job with it that now I will probably always think of him in this role and keep this performance in mind. And then there's Colin Firth and Michael Caine... Firth was another one where it was really odd to seem him in a role where he was kicking a**, but he pulled it off so well. Caine I feel like can be plopped into any role like this one and kill it. Looking at the younger cast members, Taron Egerton and Sophie Cookson did amazing as well. I haven't seen any of their other works yet, but based on these performances, I would be incredibly interested in seeing more from them.
In general, I feel like I need to start watching more action and/or spy movies. I really enjoyed this one, so I think I would really enjoy some other ones.


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Federal Highway 90 (Carretera Federal 90) connects Irapuato, Guanajuato  to Zapotlanejo, Jalisco near Guadalajara. Federal Highway 90 has two main segments.

The first segment runs westward from Zapotlanejo, Jalisco eastward to Irapuato, Guanajuato and connects to Guadalajara via Mexican Federal Highway 80. The total length of the highway segment is 217.6 km (135.2 mi). The second segment runs westward from Mascota, Jalisco eastward to Ameca, Jalisco. The total length of the highway segment is 118.1 km (73.4 mi). Federal Highway 90 connects to Puerto Vallarta via Jalisco State Highway 70.

The highway is under the management of the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation of Mexico and custody is under the responsibility of "The Federal Road Police" (a part of the Federal Preventive Police, PFP). The road runs through the center of Mexico from west to east.

The road connects the following cities from west to east: Zapotlanejo, Ocotlán, Degollado, La Piedad,  Pénjamo, Abasolo, and Irapuato.

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Q: $SU(N)$ Yang-Mills Theory Yang-Mills theory is based on the gauge group $G$ which we take to be $SU(N)$. Consider an example;
$$\mathcal{L}=-\frac{1}{4}F^a_{\mu\nu}F^{a\mu\nu}-\sum_{j=1}^N\bar{\psi}_j(i\gamma^\mu D_\mu-m)\psi_j$$
where $\psi_j$ is a Dirac spinor in the fundamental representation.
From here I'll focus on algebras, so $\mathfrak{su}(N)$. A representation of this is a Lie algebra homomorphism $\rho:\mathfrak{su}(N)\rightarrow \mathfrak{gl}(V)$ and $V$ is some vector space.
I understand how things work in the fundamental representation but I'm having trouble seeing how it works when the matter fields are also in the adjoint representation. In this case the fields are now represented by $N\times N$ matricies as well, and there are $N^2-1$ generators.
So for example, if I have a scalar field multiplet $\Phi$ transforming in the adjoint representation I have $$\Phi=\phi^a T^a$$ where $T^a$ are the generators. So I have $N^2-1$ scalar fields $\phi^a$.
But in the case of $\mathcal{N}=4$ $SU(N)$ Super Yang Mills I have six scalars. So it's easy to see a six-component field multiplet st the Lagrangian has $SO(6)$ symmetry, which it does. But all fields still transform in the adjoint rep of $SU(N)$. I do not see how for example this six component multiplet can transform under the adjoint rep. Unless of course, each component of this multiplet is now a field transforming in the adjoint rep.
In the latter case, I do not understand how to expand the fields. Example, take one of my six scalars, $\phi_i(x)$ and expand $\phi_i^a(x)T^a$. Now what are the $\phi_i^a(x)$? The guess would be scalars, but that means my theory actually has $6N^2-6$ scalars instead of 6. Maybe when we say ${\cal N}=4$ SYM has 6 scalars we mean 6 scalar field multiplets transforming the the adjoint rep?
Long story short; How are matter fields represented in the adjoint rep?

A: It seems OP's main question is how to understand the representation of the matter fields of YM theory.

*

*The matter fields can in principle transform in any representation $\rho:G\to {\rm End}(V)$ of the local gauge group $G=SU(N)$, e.g. the fundamental, or adjoint representation. Here ${\rm End}(V)$ denotes the algebra of endomorphisms on the vector space $V$. In contrast, the gauge field always transforms in the adjoint representation.

*The matter fields can in certain cases (e.g. in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM theory) additionally transform in a representation $R:H\to {\rm End}(W)$ of a rigid symmetry group $H=SO(6)$, e.g. the fundamental representation $W\cong \mathbb{R}^6$.

*Altogether, the matter fields transforms in the tensor representation $\rho \otimes R:G\times H \to {\rm End}(V\otimes W)$ of the product group  $G\times H$. In detail,
$$\tag{1} (\rho\otimes R)(g,h)(\sum_iv^i\otimes w^i)~=~\sum_i\rho(g)v^i\otimes R(h)w^i,$$ where $$ \tag{2}  g~\in~ G,\quad h~\in~ H,\quad v^i\in V ,\quad w^i\in W. $$

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// This file contains interfaces for RtpSenders
// http://w3c.github.io/webrtc-pc/#rtcrtpsender-interface

#ifndef API_RTP_SENDER_INTERFACE_H_
#define API_RTP_SENDER_INTERFACE_H_

#include <string>
#include <vector>

#include "api/crypto/frame_encryptor_interface.h"
#include "api/dtls_transport_interface.h"
#include "api/dtmf_sender_interface.h"
#include "api/frame_transformer_interface.h"
#include "api/media_stream_interface.h"
#include "api/media_types.h"
#include "api/proxy.h"
#include "api/rtc_error.h"
#include "api/rtp_parameters.h"
#include "api/scoped_refptr.h"
#include "rtc_base/ref_count.h"
#include "rtc_base/system/rtc_export.h"

namespace webrtc {

class RTC_EXPORT RtpSenderInterface : public rtc::RefCountInterface {
 public:
  // Returns true if successful in setting the track.
  // Fails if an audio track is set on a video RtpSender, or vice-versa.
  virtual bool SetTrack(MediaStreamTrackInterface* track) = 0;
  virtual rtc::scoped_refptr<MediaStreamTrackInterface> track() const = 0;

  // The dtlsTransport attribute exposes the DTLS transport on which the
  // media is sent. It may be null.
  // https://w3c.github.io/webrtc-pc/#dom-rtcrtpsender-transport
  // TODO(https://bugs.webrtc.org/907849) remove default implementation
  virtual rtc::scoped_refptr<DtlsTransportInterface> dtls_transport() const;

  // Returns primary SSRC used by this sender for sending media.
  // Returns 0 if not yet determined.
  // TODO(deadbeef): Change to absl::optional.
  // TODO(deadbeef): Remove? With GetParameters this should be redundant.
  virtual uint32_t ssrc() const = 0;

  // Audio or video sender?
  virtual cricket::MediaType media_type() const = 0;

  // Not to be confused with "mid", this is a field we can temporarily use
  // to uniquely identify a receiver until we implement Unified Plan SDP.
  virtual std::string id() const = 0;

  // Returns a list of media stream ids associated with this sender's track.
  // These are signalled in the SDP so that the remote side can associate
  // tracks.
  virtual std::vector<std::string> stream_ids() const = 0;

  // Sets the IDs of the media streams associated with this sender's track.
  // These are signalled in the SDP so that the remote side can associate
  // tracks.
  virtual void SetStreams(const std::vector<std::string>& stream_ids) {}

  // Returns the list of encoding parameters that will be applied when the SDP
  // local description is set. These initial encoding parameters can be set by
  // PeerConnection::AddTransceiver, and later updated with Get/SetParameters.
  // TODO(orphis): Make it pure virtual once Chrome has updated
  virtual std::vector<RtpEncodingParameters> init_send_encodings() const;

  virtual RtpParameters GetParameters() const = 0;
  // Note that only a subset of the parameters can currently be changed. See
  // rtpparameters.h
  // The encodings are in increasing quality order for simulcast.
  virtual RTCError SetParameters(const RtpParameters& parameters) = 0;

  // Returns null for a video sender.
  virtual rtc::scoped_refptr<DtmfSenderInterface> GetDtmfSender() const = 0;

  // Sets a user defined frame encryptor that will encrypt the entire frame
  // before it is sent across the network. This will encrypt the entire frame
  // using the user provided encryption mechanism regardless of whether SRTP is
  // enabled or not.
  virtual void SetFrameEncryptor(
      rtc::scoped_refptr<FrameEncryptorInterface> frame_encryptor);

  // Returns a pointer to the frame encryptor set previously by the
  // user. This can be used to update the state of the object.
  virtual rtc::scoped_refptr<FrameEncryptorInterface> GetFrameEncryptor() const;

  virtual void SetEncoderToPacketizerFrameTransformer(
      rtc::scoped_refptr<FrameTransformerInterface> frame_transformer);

 protected:
  ~RtpSenderInterface() override = default;
};

// Define proxy for RtpSenderInterface.
// TODO(deadbeef): Move this to .cc file and out of api/. What threads methods
// are called on is an implementation detail.
BEGIN_SIGNALING_PROXY_MAP(RtpSender)
PROXY_SIGNALING_THREAD_DESTRUCTOR()
PROXY_METHOD1(bool, SetTrack, MediaStreamTrackInterface*)
PROXY_CONSTMETHOD0(rtc::scoped_refptr<MediaStreamTrackInterface>, track)
PROXY_CONSTMETHOD0(rtc::scoped_refptr<DtlsTransportInterface>, dtls_transport)
PROXY_CONSTMETHOD0(uint32_t, ssrc)
PROXY_CONSTMETHOD0(cricket::MediaType, media_type)
PROXY_CONSTMETHOD0(std::string, id)
PROXY_CONSTMETHOD0(std::vector<std::string>, stream_ids)
PROXY_CONSTMETHOD0(std::vector<RtpEncodingParameters>, init_send_encodings)
PROXY_CONSTMETHOD0(RtpParameters, GetParameters)
PROXY_METHOD1(RTCError, SetParameters, const RtpParameters&)
PROXY_CONSTMETHOD0(rtc::scoped_refptr<DtmfSenderInterface>, GetDtmfSender)
PROXY_METHOD1(void,
              SetFrameEncryptor,
              rtc::scoped_refptr<FrameEncryptorInterface>)
PROXY_CONSTMETHOD0(rtc::scoped_refptr<FrameEncryptorInterface>,
                   GetFrameEncryptor)
PROXY_METHOD1(void, SetStreams, const std::vector<std::string>&)
PROXY_METHOD1(void,
              SetEncoderToPacketizerFrameTransformer,
              rtc::scoped_refptr<FrameTransformerInterface>)
END_PROXY_MAP()

}  // namespace webrtc

#endif  // API_RTP_SENDER_INTERFACE_H_

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Winners & Losers In The 2012 BW Ranking | Page 3 of 4 | Poets&Quants
Winners & Losers In The 2012 BW Ranking
by: John A. Byrne on November 16, 2012 | 30 Comments Comments 40,612 Views
The Terry College of Business also fell victim to the methodology change as well. Two years ago, the school's corporate recruiter ranking was a highly inflated and questionable 10. At the time, it was a ranking that put it ahead of such schools as UC-Berkeley, MIT Sloan, and the University of Virginia's Darden School. This year, BusinessWeek's corporate recruiter ranking for Terry was 52–a stunning decline of 42 places. The school's rankings on student satisfaction and intellectual capital were roughly the same. It ranked 54th on student satisfaction this year, down one place from a rank of 53 two years ago, and it ranked 44th on intellectual capital, up three spots from 47th.
It's a somewhat different story at Michigan State whose student satisfaction scores fell badly to a rank of 33 this year from 13 in 2010–a 20-place decline. The school also lost six places on the recruiter side of the BusinessWeek ranking, dropping to 38 from 32.
HOW DID COLUMBIA AND HAAS EACH DROP FIVE PLACES IN THE NEW SURVEY?
Columbia Business School and UC-Berkeley's Haas School, both of which declined five places each this year, are in an entirely different category. Those two schools, regarded as among the top seven or eight MBA programs in the world, had the steepest falls of any of the truly elite schools. On one level, this is a head-scratching change because the underlying index scores for both schools improved.
This year, Columbia was ranked 14th with an index score of 87.5. Two years ago, Columbia was ranked 9th, with an index score of 84.5. So even though the school had a consequential improvement of 2.2 in its index number (generally anything over 1 should be considered significant), the school fell five places. It is a similar story with Haas. This year, Haas was ranked 13th, with an index number of 87.6. Two years ago, Haas placed 8th, with an index score of 84.9. The school improved on BW's index by 2.7 points, even though it fell five places.
How is this remotely possible? First off, the entire list is dynamic. From one survey to the next, all these numbers are changing so any school-specific change needs to be assessed within the framework of the total. Based on what BusinessWeek is reporting, however, Columbia's decline appears more understandable. The school's standing declined in two of three of the magazine's key metrics: student satisfaction and intellectual capital. The biggest drop was in student satisfaction where Columbia lost 10 places to finish 20th this year versus 10th last year. It fell seven places in intellectual capital to 19th from 12th. Those are fairly significant falls in the space of one survey.
Surprisingly, given the collapse of finance, Columbia managed to increase its recruiter rank to 8th from 9th in 2010. This is counter-intuitive. Here's why: BusinessWeek weights the responses of each individual recruiter based on the number of MBAs they hire. The finance firms that are so crucial to Columbia have decreased the number of hires and therefore their overall influence in the recruiter survey. Yet Columbia was able to surmount this problem and still rise in BW's recruiter poll.
Haas, meantime, fell six places in the student satisfaction poll to 10th from 4th two years ago, two places in the recruiter poll to 13th from 11th, but rose two places in the less important intellectual capital section of the methodology, to third from fifth. The drop in student satisfaction is likely the result of new curriculum changes that require the test of time and slightly lower teaching scores which reflect the school's emphasis on research productivity over masterful teaching. We suspect that BusinessWeek's change in methodology had something to do with Haas decline because the more consequential fall in student satisfaction wouldn't have resulted in a five-place drop. Those scores are so closely clustered together that it could not have triggered the decline. Because the recruiter poll naturally weighs more heavily on the overall result and Haas is a smaller school with a smaller base of recruiters, it was likely a victim of the change.
(See following page for our table of the big winners and losers in BusinessWeek's 2012 MBA ranking.)
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John A. Byrne is the founder and editor-in-chief of C-Change Media, publishers of Poets&Quants and four other higher education websites. He has authored or co-authored more than ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers. John is the former executive editor of Businessweek, editor-in-chief of Businessweek. com, editor-in-chief of Fast Company, and the creator of the first regularly published rankings of business schools. As the co-founder of CentreCourt MBA Festivals, he hopes to meet you at the next MBA event in-person or online. View all posts by John A. Byrne
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Q: natural bouncing dice opengl I'm trying to make a bouncing dice in opengl. Going by the principle of "fake it till you make it", I decided to take the equation of an underdamped oscillator and apply that to glTranslate() before running the dice drawing code. Right now, my code looks something like this:-
glPushMatrix();
    glDisable(GL_LIGHTING);
    diceHeight=10*abs(exp(-0.01*glutGet(GLUT_ELAPSED_TIME)/100)* cos(glutGet(GLUT_ELAPSED_TIME)/500));
    cout<<diceHeight;
    glTranslatef(-30, diceHeight, 0);
    object2.draw();
    glEnable(GL_LIGHTING);
    glPopMatrix();

My dice bounce, however, looks completely unnatural. Is there anyway to improve this further?
I really REALLY don't want to go into dice physics.

A: Maybe it looks unatural because the dice moves at constant speed. You need to integrate some acceleration factor somewhere. Look at basic euler integration for simple physics here, it's really easy to implement.

A: Continuing with your implicit function idea...
height(t) = (1 - pow(fract(pow(16, (t+0.25) * 0.6)) * 2 - 1, 2)) * 4 / pow(4, floor(pow(16, (t+0.25) * 0.6)))

This uses a fractional component (fract(x) = x - floor(x)) to perform a quadratic bounce, which is scaled down each time with a floor component.
Personally, I'd go with the explicit integration, keeping velocity and position variables as @lechariotdor linked.

A: So, I decided to go my own route, make a spline and move the dice along that. Though @jozxyk's answer is the most appropriate
//dice code
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glPushMatrix();
vector3f start=vector3f(-150, 100, 10);
vector3f end=vector3f(-10,10,0);
vector3f perpBisectorDirection=vector3f((start.x+end.x),(start.y+end.y),(start.z+end.z));
vector3f tan1(-(start.x-8*perpBisectorDirection.x+end.x)/6,-(start.y-8*perpBisectorDirection.y+end.y)/6, -(start.z-8*perpBisectorDirection.z+end.z)/6);

glColor3f(1.0, 0.0, 0.0);
glLineWidth(12.0);
int t=360;
if (i<=t)
{
    diceRotate++;
    i++;

}
float pos = (float) i / (float) t;

GLfloat x=bezierCurve(pos, start.x, tan1.x, tan1.x,end.x);
GLfloat y=bezierCurve(pos, start.y, tan1.y, tan1.y,end.y);
GLfloat z=bezierCurve(pos, start.z, tan1.z, tan1.z,end.z);
cout<<i;
glTranslatef(x, y, z);

glRotatef(diceRotate, 1, 1, 1);
object2.draw();

glPopMatrix();


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namespace mozc {
namespace win32 {
namespace tsf {

class TipSystemLangBarMenu;

class TipLangBarCallback : public IUnknown {
 public:
  enum ItemId {
    // Cancel something for general purpose
    kCancel            = 1,

    // For input mode selection
    kDirect            = 10,
    kHiragana          = 11,
    kFullKatakana      = 12,
    kHalfAlphanumeric  = 13,
    kFullAlphanumeric  = 14,
    kHalfKatakana      = 15,

    // Tool menu
    kProperty          = 20,
    kDictionary        = 21,
    kWordRegister      = 22,
    kHandWriting       = 23,
    kCharacterPalette  = 24,

    // Help Menu
    kHelp              = 30,
    kAbout             = 31,

    // Shortcut commands
    kReconversion      = 41,
  };

  virtual ~TipLangBarCallback();

  virtual STDMETHODIMP OnMenuSelect(ItemId menu_id) = 0;
  virtual STDMETHODIMP OnItemClick(const wchar_t *description) = 0;
};

class TipLangBar {
 public:
  TipLangBar();
  ~TipLangBar();

  // initialize and uninitialize ImeLangBarItemButton object.
  HRESULT InitLangBar(TipLangBarCallback *text_service);
  HRESULT UninitLangBar();

  // Updates the selected menu in the language bar.
  HRESULT UpdateMenu(bool enabled, uint32 composition_mode);

 private:
  // Represents the language bar item manager iff the running OS is Windows 8.
  // NOTE: We must use the same instance of this class to initialize and
  //     uninitialize LangBar items. Otherwise, you will see weird crashes
  //     around refcount on Windows 8 release preview. b/6106437
  // NOTE: Currently we cannot use the same logic for Windows 7 due to another
  //     crash issue as filed as b/6641460.
  ATL::CComPtr<ITfLangBarItemMgr> lang_bar_item_mgr_for_win8_;

  // Represents the button menu in the language bar.
  // NOTE: ImeToggleButtonMenu inherits ITfLangBarItemButton and ITfSource,
  // which inherit IUnknown. Because of this, using CComPtr<ImeIconButtonMenu>
  // causes a compile error due to the ambiguous overload resolution.
  // To avoid the compile error we use CComPtr<ITfLangBarItemButton> instead.
  ATL::CComPtr<ITfLangBarItemButton> input_button_menu_;
  ATL::CComPtr<ITfLangBarItemButton> input_mode_button_for_win8_;

  // Represents the tool button menu in the language bar.
  ATL::CComPtr<ITfLangBarItemButton> tool_button_menu_;

  // Represents the help menu in the system language bar.
  ATL::CComPtr<TipSystemLangBarMenu> help_menu_;

  // The cookie issued for installing ITfSystemLangBarItemSink of help_menu_.
  DWORD help_menu_cookie_;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(TipLangBar);
};

}  // namespace tsf
}  // namespace win32
}  // namespace mozc

#endif  // MOZC_WIN32_TIP_TIP_LANG_BAR_H_


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On Set for Daylight's End VR Movie Shoot
Daylight's End – VR Edition Same Day as Theatrical Movie Release
Groove Jones – the Dallas-based, virtual reality (VR) studio specializing in the production of 360º commercials and interactive software – along with DAYLIGHT'S END's theatrical Director and Writer, announced the planned release of a VR Edition of the film in conjunction with the theatrical release of the movie when it hits theaters on August 26th.
This is the first time a movie has been simultaneously released in theaters, as a digital download on iTunes, and as a VR experience. The movie will be available on all major VR platforms including the HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR. The virtual reality chapter of the film was directed by Dale Carman, Partner & Executive Creative Director of Groove Jones.
"We think VR is a powerful storytelling medium and we knew this movie had the right elements to show it off," said Dale Carman. "It was an amazing shoot and we know that people will want to see what we created. Once movie audiences get the full VR experience we believe this will be the first of many for the industry. We think the timing is right to release a virtual reality movie."
DAYLIGHT'S END was shot in Dallas and points ranging from East Texas to the west Texas town of Rio (pop. 3) along the famed Route 66, the film is a hard driving action-horror-thriller starring Johnny Strong (THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, BLACK HAWK DOWN), Lance Henriksen (ALIEN, TERMINATOR) and Louis Mandaylor (MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, SINNERS AND SAINTS). The movie focuses on a rogue drifter who's on a vengeful hunt, years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures.
The cast and crew of the movie DAYLIGHT'S END, regrouped to shoot some special scenes recently in Dallas. These scenes will appear in the VR Edition of the film. Carman collaborated with both William Kaufman (THE PRODIGY, SINNERS AND SAINTS, and THE HIT LIST) the DAYLIGHT'S END's theatrical Director and Chad Law (THE HIT LIST, ISOLATION, and 6 BULLETS) the Writer of the film on the post production of this edition.
"Seeing what Dale pulled off with this shoot in 360º turned out to be a great experience. He comes with a long resume of directing VR productions and really understands what will and will not work," Kaufman said. "The look and feel and energy falls right in line with the film."
Chad Law wrote the story for the vignette, which movie fans will be able to recognize some friendly and unfriendly faces. The VR chapter is a prequel storyline that stars Johnny Strong, returning as "Thomas Rourke", the dark and dangerous anti-hero in the feature film. Strong has appeared in BLACK HAWK DOWN, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, and GET CARTER. Strong was named "2012's Breakout Action Star" of the year in William Kaufman's "Sinners and Saints."
The scene also features the worked of noted industry Stunt Coordinator, Clayton Barber, who helped the actors with physical scenes that included escaping the undead for both the movie and the VR release. Clayton has worked on stunts for such films as, OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN, THE BOURNE LEGACY, and the upcoming JOHN WICK 2 and THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS 8.
The VR Edition scenes were shot with the Jaunt ONE camera system, which includes 24 separate camera lenses to capture the 360º action.
"We are thrilled that we were able to get the theatrical team together for this virtual reality experience," said Dale Carman. "Being agile and forward thinking, we've pulled off something that everyone talks about, but rarely delivers."
GrooveTech – Speed To Market
Groove Jones leveraged their GrooveTech™ platform for the experience that works across all VR devices. The technology allows for the rapid development of VR applications that can utilize HD stereo video content in a 3d environment as well as real-time rendered objects within a 360º space. Several of Groove Jones' commercial clients have licensed this technology for their brand activations. Leveraging this technology reduced the development time and allowed the team to focus on the story and creative.
William Kauffman and Chad Law have teamed up again to create the film – DAYLIGHT'S END, which is a hard driving action-horror-thriller starring Johnny Strong. After a very successful Comic-Con and film festival run DAYLIGHT'S END is being distributed by Vertical Entrainment and Lionsgate. Theatrical release for the film is August 26, 2016. For more information visit www.daylightsendmovie.com.
Both the film and the virtual reality vignette stars Johnny Strong as Thomas Rourke.
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Carbon Literacy is being delivered by scores of people and organisations working in partnership with the project including schools, employers, universities, community groups, hospitals, individual trainers and charities. To that end, we want to be able to help our partners deliver the best training that they can and support this by making as many resources available to our partners as possible.
Resources range from "starters for ten" to help you communicate to non-expert audiences or advocate for a project internally to the detailed information, exercises and resources to support you in developing your training response and help you deliver Carbon Literacy to your audience.
We have organised information so that you can use it in various ways. The sections below should be self-explanatory, but drop a mail to info@carbonliteracy.com if all is not clear or you have any specific queries or resources we can add.
We are well aware that there is still more we can do to make this information more useful and accessible and we intend to continue to develop our resources, however generally we think it is better to share some of what we've got so that it can help you right now and then improve it as we go along.
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Because of the requirement to work with others, a learner cannot currently become fully Carbon Literate through online learning alone, but completion of the e-learning course generates a CL: Knowledge interim certificate, with the learner being approximately half-way through their "days worth" of training to become Carbon Literate.
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As of October 2017, we will be providing up-to-date resources in the form of the Carbon Literacy Course Kit, that will be updated regularly and downloaded here:
Think of this Course Kit as a 'skeleton course' that will help you with the framework for your Carbon Literacy training materials.
There are some key ingredients that we have structured to help you. These include some of the aspects of climate change science, what's happening to our planet, why taking action is important, and how we can motivate others to take action.
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This is a sponsored post. I was compensated by Earth Fare for my review of their new store. Earth Fare also provided the gift card used in the following giveaway. All opinions are my own.
Today, something new is hitting Jacksonville: Earth Fare.
Founded in 1975 in Asheville, NC, Earth Fare is an organic and natural foods grocery store, offering a wide variety of delicious items, including fresh, local produce, meats and seafood, cheese, made-from-scratch baked goods, health and wellness products, pet foods and treats, and a variety of bulk and ready-to-go hot and cold items.
And shoppers can rest assured that Earth Fare will not compromise those standards. The company maintains an extensive and expanding "Boot List", which details ingredients and additives that will never appear on their store shelves.
What shoppers WILL find is a vast selection of good, quality food products that they can eat and feed to their families with confidence.
Yesterday, I was treated to a special preview of the new Earth Fare location. Even though some of the perishables wouldn't be stocked until first thing this morning, I was very impressed by the variety and quality of what was available.
And an enormous cheese selection.
And gluten-free products are plentiful, and also clearly marked by wood-grain shelf edges to take the guesswork out of shopping and reading labels.
Another of Earth Fare's goals is to make good, wholesome foods accessible to everyone. Certain items are marked with a red sign with an arrow pointing down, to indicate that these things are not only priced incredibly low, but also that this is a long-term price. I was very pleasantly surprised, at a cursory glance, to see that products seemed very reasonably priced, for the quality.
The store is staffed by friendly customer service reps, who are on hand to answer questions and help guide you through your choices. Shoppers who aren't sure if they will like a product can ask to sample (within reason), before committing to a purchase. Customer satisfaction is a definite priority.
Savings are also key. Earth Fare patrons can sign up for mobile deals by texting "EAT" to 71700, subscribe to deals and news by email, or download an app for great coupons and discounts. Check out all the ways to save here.
There are great in-store deals as well, like $5 rotisserie chickens on Fridays, and Family Dinner Night, where up to six children can dine free for every $5 or more purchase made from the hot or cold ready-to-eat bar (scheduled to begin 8/28 in the Jacksonville location).
With all this to offer, today's Grand Opening promises to be fabulous. The new Jacksonville Earth Fare will open after the ribbon cutting at 7:45 AM, at 11901 Atlantic Boulevard, Suite 250. Come on by to shop, explore or enjoy a bite to eat in a warm and welcoming environment, full of healthy and delicious options.
And here's something to help make your shopping trip more fun. I'm giving away a $50 gift card to Earth Fare, so one lucky shopper can stock up on some fresh, natural groceries. Leave me a comment telling me what kind of item you're most excited to try at Earth Fare, which will unlock more opportunities to win! Winner will be selected by Rafflecopter and announced on Monday 8/25/2014! Good luck!
I am so excited to know there is going to be someplace with reasonable prices where I can get real food and not processed for myself and my kids lunches and snacks. For a big family sometimes its hard to afford organic food but I am looking forward to making this store a staple place to shop in our future.
I'm looking forward to trying their bulk grains, nuts, and their natural soaps.
Can't wait to check it out! Sounds wonderful.
I'm looking forward to trying the natural soaps.
Great to see another healthy foods store opening…. More healthy GMO free snacks & choices. Plus the meal bar!
We went today and I'm looking forward to going again when it isn't quite as crowded! Apparently I missed some awesome things.
I LOVE EarthFare we have one a few miles from me.
I am most excited to check out their pizza! This girl loves a good pizza!
Grind your own nut butter!!!!!
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I can't wait to try out all the produce!
I love anything in bulk. The grain would be great.


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Learning for Administrators
(Learning) Class Management
How Do I Create and Edit School Years?
Q: How do I create and edit School Years so that I can sort and manage classes by year?
A: Domain Administrators can create School Years manually or by import. You can edit School Years by going to through the School Years area of the Manage Domain menu, located in the domain control area.
The School Year feature is a particularly easy way to help users transition from one year to the next. Classes from old School Years are automatically filtered at the end of the year and moved just out of sight, so that they're still accessible, but they don't get in the way.
Creating, Editing, and Managing School Years
Most schools create School Years when importing classes by simply entering a unique Import ID for the school year into the "Year" field of your classes.csv file. However, you can also add School Yearsmanually by going to Domain Control > Manage Domain > School Years.
Even if you create your School Years via import, you'll likely want to define the start and end of each school year manually using the School Years tool.
Here, you'll see a list of any the School Years you've already created for your domain.
In this example, we can see that there's already a School Year for 2012-2013. You can edit the settings for existing school years by clicking Manage School Year > Edit. If you've accidentally created duplicate School Years, you can combine them by Merging the school years through the Manage School Year menu. To add a new School Year, simply click Add School Year.
For each School Year, you can enter the display name of the School Year, a unique Import ID (if it doesn't have one already), and the start and end dates of the year. By default, the Import ID will be the same as the Name, but you can change the Name later, if needed.
Remember, your Import ID needs to match the value in the School Year field of the classes.csv file in your import!
To learn more about School Years, check out these articles on how to add classes to a School Year and how to use School Years to transition from one year to the next.
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Raptors' Pascal Siakam on the biggest difference he sees in O.G. Anunoby
Toronto Raptors forward Pascal Siakam discusses what O.G. Anunoby has changed this season which has helped him on both ends of the floor.
- OG was saying the other day that he feels like he's really grown as a player over these last few weeks. Just the experience of having to read the game and having different defensive coverages and all of that, and, obviously, he's played really well over the last few weeks. Did you notice a difference? Like did he seem like a different player to you in the way that you guys were playing off of each other tonight?
PASCAL SIAKAM: Oh, nah, I think like OG, again, is just focused, like he's focused on everything, you know? He wants to play defense. Like he guards the best player. Like, I think for me, like that's just that, like that focus. I just always felt like OG was gifted. Like there's nothing out there that, like, he can't really do that.
It's just like he has the body. He has the physique. He has the athleticism that he can do that.
And I think that once for me, like I feel like he understood that, like, I can just really do this. Like I can really guard anybody, and I can really like use my body, like, and things like that, I think that's what's gonna continue to take him to that level-- And just like embracing that.
And sometimes, you know, you want to find yourself into the offense and like, how do I score? But like sometimes, just doing the little things gets you to score. Like it doesn't even-- sometimes it doesn't feel like it, but most of the time, you know, the basketball guys will just kind of reward you for just being, and playing, and playing the right way, and wanting to be the best in some other areas. And sometimes, it just fills up the other things. Like it just happens.
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Canada's Para star Mark Arendz races to fourth world championship title of the week
ÖSTERSUND, Sweden — Canadian Paralympic star Mark Arendz captured his third consecutive world championship title in the men's standing skate-ski race, highlighting a three-medal day for Canada on Saturday. Natalie Wilkie and Collin Cameron each skied to silver medals. Arendz, a 12-time Paralympic medallist from Hartsville, P.E.I., has captured four medals this week, logging countless miles up and down the hilly Swedish tracks. He partly credited his indulgence of a burger for dinner on Friday ni
Canada's Devin Gibson looking to make mark in Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship
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Garland scores 26 as Cavaliers race past Rockets 113-95
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Oilers' offence lowers the boom on Blackhawks in 7-3 win
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Brown forces OT, Celtics snap skid by beating LA 125-121
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Canada's Mark Arendz claims 4th career Para nordic world title
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Maple Leafs fall to Senators without injured Matthews
TORONTO (AP) — Brady Tkachuk scored twice, Anton Forsberg made 31 saves and the Ottawa Senators defeated Toronto 6-2 on Friday night in the Maple Leafs' first game since losing All-Star Auston Matthews to a knee injury. Claude Giroux had a goal and an assist, and Thomas Chabot, Drake Batherson and Derick Brassard also scored for the Senators, who won at Scotiabank Arena with fans in attendance for the first time since October 2018. Tim Stutzle added two assists. William Nylander and Joey Anderso
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It was a great start for Madrid but things got horrible as the game goes own. It was the match where most of the people predicted an easy win for home side and it looked like the same when Benzema scored the fastest goal ever in the history of El Clasico. Take a look at the scores.
Real Madrid [ 1-0 ] >> Benzema scores after 22 seconds!! Victor Valdes sends a poor pass into the midfield but Madrid scramble the ball back into the penalty area where the Frenchman is standing just outside the six yard box to volley home! A bad mistake by Valdes!
Barcelona [ 1-1 ] >> Lionel Messi fights off several challenges and slips a pass through on goal for Alexis Sanchez who outpaces Pepe before smashing a shot in the bottom left corner! All square!
Barcelona [ 1-2 ] >> A freak goal from the Catalan side! Xavi attempts a speculative volley from 25 yards that bounces off Marcelo and agonizingly clips off the post and nestles in the corner! It may go down as a Xavi goal or as a Marcelo own goal.
Barcelona [ 1-3 ] >> A fantastic team goal from the Catalan side! Messi goes on a powerful run down the right and slips a pass to Dani Alves who whips a brilliant cross to the back post for Fabregas, and the former Arsenal man scores a diving header to send his side 3-1 up!


In this project, funded by the Chemical Synthesis Program of the NSF Chemistry Division, Professor Shih-Yuan Liu and his students in the Department of Chemistry at Boston College synthesize boron-nitrogen(BN)-containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). These molecules exhibit BN/CC (carbon-carbon) isosterism, that is, they replace two carbon atoms in an aromatic organic molecule with one boron and one nitrogen atom. While both the carbon-carbon and boron-nitrogen containing molecules have the same number of overall electrons, their properties are very different. BN-substituted PAHs may be useful in a number of applications including medicinal chemistry and devices that convert light to electricity. The Liu group is developing new synthetic methods to make BN-doped PAHs. Once prepared, the molecules are examined to see how they react differently than the related carbon-containing molecules. The broader impacts of this program include industrial internships for graduate students at local companies, science outreach to local high schools, collaboration with international researchers, hosting of an international conference, and continued involvement of undergraduates in chemical research via programs which promote participation of underrepresented groups.
Boron-Nitrogen/Carbon-Carbon (BN/CC) isosterism, i.e., the replacement of two carbon atoms with a boron and a nitrogen atom, has emerged as a novel strategy to expand the structural diversity of compounds relevant to materials science. Despite the recent advances in BN heterocycle chemistry, the systematic exploration of BN/CC isosteres of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that have relevance to the development of organic materials has remained underexplored. This research seeks to develop a comprehensive structure/reactivity relationship in BN isosteres of simple acenes. Research plans include: 1) synthesis of the unreported parental BN isosteres of naphthalene and anthracene, 2) characterization of the optoelectronic properties and chemical reactivity of the synthesized materials, and 3) development of a predictive energetic model for BN/CC isosterism of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Moreover, this research serves as excellent training for graduate and undergraduate researchers in fundamental and applied chemical synthesis. Student participants in this project are exposed to a variety of experimental methods and techniques commonly applied in synthetic organic, inorganic, physical organic, and organometallic chemistry. The interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of the research in conjunction with the outreach activities seamlessly integrates with the education and career development of participating students.


The Kids Build Program brings elementary school-aged children the opportunity to build with Habitat for Humanity.
Currently offering Summer Camps, Holiday Camps and Birthday Parties.
What is the Kids Build Program?
Our Kids Build Room in the ReVive Centre offers one-of-a-kind programs specifically designed for kids! Whether celebrating a birthday or looking for something creative to do during spring and summer break, or after school, our Kids Build Program offers something for every child. It provides an unforgettable experience of creating something special that they can take home with them.
This unique kids camp, currently only available at the ReVive Centre location in Mississauga, is an opportunity for elementary school-aged children to roll up their sleeves, grab their hard hats and tie on their aprons to build items designed for small hands. Through KidsBuild, kids get to recycle and upcycle donated items and materials that would have otherwise gone to landfill (eg. unused kitchen cabinet doors, off-cut pieces of wood, handles, etc.) and transform them into works of art. Working with experienced instructors, kids get to socialize and have a great time while developing transferable skills and exploring their creativity. This Habitat for Humanity experience, the first designed specifically for kids, also reinforces the importance of community and inspires kids to help others.
Habitat's KidsBuild program is the ultimate intro-to-DIY program in the Greater Toronto Area. Whether your kids are a part of our summer or March break program, or joining us on our to-be-announced after school program, they will learn new skills in an amazing, safe and fun environment.
All proceeds from the cost to participate in our Kids Build Program goes toward Habitat home building costs and furthers our mission of building a world where everyone has a safe place to live.
This summer, give your child an unforgettable camp experience - right in the heart of Mississauga. The Kids Build Summer Camp offers kids aged 9-12 years the opportunity to get creative and build works of art under the guidance of our qualified instructors.