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Bigbiga Protected Landscape
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
Location in the Philippines
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Bigbiga Protected Landscape (Philippines)
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Ilocos Sur, Philippines
17°28′54″N 120°32′59″E / 17.48167°N 120.54972°E / 17.48167; 120.54972Coordinates: 17°28′54″N 120°32′59″E / 17.48167°N 120.54972°E / 17.48167; 120.54972
135.71 hectares (335.3 acres)
(Watershed forest reserve)
(Protected landscape)
The Bigbiga Protected Landscape (also spelled Bigbigga) is a protected landscape of forested hills, open grasslands and natural springs in Ilocos Sur in the northwestern part of the island of Luzon, Philippines. It is one of five protected landscape areas in the Ilocos Region under the Philippines' National Integrated Protected Areas System. The park has a total area of 135.71 hectares (335.3 acres) located entirely within the municipality of Narvacan.[1] It was created in 1939 as the Bigbiga Spring Watershed Forest Reserve by virtue of Proclamation No. 431 signed by President Manuel Luis Quezon.[2] In 2000, it was reclassified as a protected landscape by Proclamation No. 290.[3]
Bigbiga extends from the village of Cadacad to Sitio Mata in the village of Marozo in eastern Narvacan near its border with Nagbukel municipality. It is hilly to mountainous with slope ranging from 30 to 50 percent and maximum elevation of between 100 metres (330 ft) and 200 metres (660 ft) above sea level.[4] Fifty percent of the area is bushland with the remaining area consisting of open grassland. Letac Creek borders it to the south which supplies water to the three sitios of Marozo.[4]
The landscape is covered primarily by shrubs and commercial tree species such as tuai, kalumpit, dao and balete tree.[5] The open grassland supports gmelina and mahogany.[5]
Access to the park is via Orence Road from the main highway (Manila North Road) and Narvacan town proper in the west. It is located approximately 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) from Narvacan Poblacion, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of the provincial capital city of Vigan, and some 380 kilometres (240 mi) north of Manila.
Northern Luzon Heroes Hill National Park
Santa Lucia Protected Landscape
^ "Region 1 - Protected Areas". Department of Environment and Natural Resources Biodiversity Management Bureau. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
^ "Proclamation No. 431, s. 1939". Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
^ "Proclamation No. 290" (PDF). Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
^ a b "Summary of farmer concerns in Bigbiga Spring Watershed Forest Reserve, Sitio Mata, Maruzo. Narvacan, Ilocos Sur, Region I". Strengthening the Institute of Agroforestry and Watershed Management, Philippines. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
^ a b "DMMMSU/IAWM Asia Link Project". Strengthening the Institute of Agroforestry and Watershed Management, Philippines. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
Protected areas in the Ilocos Region
Hundred Islands
Northern Luzon Heroes Hill
Paoay Lake
Kalbario-Patapat
Natural monuments
Bessang Pass
Protected landscapes
Bigbiga
Libunao
Lidlidda
Manleluag Spring
Protected landscapes and seascapes
Agoo–Damortis
Watershed forest reserves
Ilocos Norte Metro
Naguilian
Protected areas of the Philippines
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Protected landscapes of the Philippines
Springs of the Philippines
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Landforms of Ilocos Sur
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Anaconda can use remote python interpreters to lint and complete your code. Some IDE utilities will not work when remote python interpreters are in use, for example the Goto IDE command will not work if you try to go to a file that is stored in the remote hosts and not in the local one.
In order to use remote python interpreters living on remote machines with anaconda the user has to prepare the remote machine first following the next steps.
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Sorry we requested a sample of the Performance Base model but were not able to secure one. No laptop we ever tested had the GTX 965M.
The term you are looking for is "fan".
"Fanboy" basically means "a fan of something that completely lacks logic and reason and becomes aggressive while defending it".


Browning announces New Features for their 2015 model gun safes. Since the early 1980's Browning / Prosteel has been the industry leader in gun safe product development and production. 2015 will be no exception and Browning / Prosteel is once again leading the way with New Higher Fire Ratings and New Security Features on all of their gun safe models. The Safe House is the only dealer in the Southeast that has these new models already in stock. Drop by our showroom with over 150 safes on display and we would be happy to show you the new and exciting features that Browning / Prosteel have added to their safe line up.
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ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) - St. Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness is celebrating Awareness Day with a little trip to Schon Boutique and Mitchell-James Salon.
Survivors and caregivers need to look good to feel good. The color of Ovarian Cancer Awareness is teal. How do you wear such a bright color in the bright spring sun. We get some pointers from Schon Boutique and Mitchell-James Salon.
You can get pointers at the World Ovarian Cancer Day Happy Hour. There will be Hors d' Ouevres, beverages, desserts and a little shopping therapy thanks to local artists.


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More than £30,000-worth of unsafe electrical goods was seized and destroyed after being intercepted at Heathrow Airport .
Three shipments containing around 1,000 items of LEDs, power adapters and facial steamers were stopped and assessed at the border.
Hounslow Council's trading standards enforcement officers found the electrical items failed to comply with safety regulations.
The seizure was part of the ongoing National Trading Standards Safety at Ports project.
Electrical items did not comply with labelling requirements and essential safety requirements.
The importer failed to provide certificates and other supporting documentation to support initial safety claims.
This resulted in the products posing a potential risk to UK consumers.
As the importer could not bring the products in compliance with UK law, they were confiscated and then destroyed by Trading Standards.


Well wouldn't you know it, just as I was professing my adoration for Gemma Arterton, she goes and gets herself betrothed that very same day! How rude. I forgive you though Gemma. Because, just look at you, who couldn't forgive that face, that dress, that veil, that shiny auburn chignon. Simply stunning. But seriously, congratulations Gemma! I presume you couldn't get hold of me when you were trying to appoint your maid of honour last-minute. And didn't you just know she'd be marrying an Italian stallion; Stefano Catelli (37), who works in fashion and proposed at Download Festival a year ago. Atop an old castle on a secluded Spanish island, sigh! And just look how adoringly he's gazing at her, awwww!
What do you think of the comments made about Gemma, who dares not to be a size zero and absolutely stands out from the crowd with her stunning beauty in doing so?


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While growing up, young people acquire an array of cognitive, emotional and social skills. These skills mostly develop unconsciously and automatically in children as a result of interactions with family and their surroundings. By the time kids are 5 or 6, they spend more of their waking hours in school interacting with teachers and classmates than they do with family. Thus, the social experience at school can have a profound impact on the trajectory of development of these fundamental life skills.
While the basics of learning to manage emotions and relationships are developed in younger children, as kids mature, their relationships become more varied and complex as does their inner world of ideas and feelings (assuming all is proceeding well enough). Thus, the ongoing development and refining of these internal skills is an important element of even the high school experience. Furthermore, young people who are lacking in these skills are at higher risk of emotional, social and even academic problems and are at higher risk for difficulties when making the transition into college and adulthood.
Just as you cannot learn to cook by reading cookbooks or to play a musical instrument by listening to music on YouTube, skills like self-awareness, recognizing personal values, perseverance, managing relationships, conflict and healthy competition cannot be taught effectively as classroom/lecture content-they need to be experienced. There is much that can be done in school-both in the classroom and in other settings-that can promote and enhance these skills. When teachers and administrators model attitudes and communications that promote curiosity, self-exploration, awareness of and sensitivity to the views and feelings of others, deep reading and analytical thinking, group activities and the like, social and emotional skills can be enhanced. Similarly, classwork and other activities that are intellectually engaging, reasonably challenging and that provide opportunities for thoughtful feedback and positive interaction with fellow students, faculty and staff can be valuable ingredients in helping promote a realistic positive self-image, perseverance and grit.
As Set to Go matures, it is our hope to develop programming and activity toolkits to help bring our web content to life at schools. We invite you, as you review this section (and the sections on Social and Emotional Skills for Students and Families) of the Set to Go website, to think about how you might translate these ideas into programs, conversations and activities in your schools. We'd love to hear your ideas and experiences as you put these idea into action.


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It's not as warm as garments that bear a vague resemblance to your sleeping bag, but it's a highly functional layer that so far has kept testers warm without overheating them, even when they were running and cycling.
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Bobbi Kristina Brown has died
Bobbi Kristina Brown, the little-girl-lost daughter of the late, legendary Whitney Houston, died Sunday in an Atlanta-area hospice, nearly six months after she was found unconscious in her Georgia home. She was 22.
She never regained consciousness to explain what happened before she was found Jan. 31, face down and unresponsive in her bathtub.
"It is hard to say goodbye. On Sunday, July 26, Bobbi Kristina Brown made her transition peacefully," said a statement posted to Whitney Houston's Facebook page. "The family thanks everyone for their loving thoughts and prayers. As Bobbi Kristina would say: 'The wind is behind me and the sun is in my face.' "
"She is finally at peace in the arms of God," the Houston family told USA TODAY in a statement. "We want to again thank everyone for their tremendous amount of love and support during these last few months."
Robert Downey Jr's hilarious reaction to his face being photoshoped into a woman's body
14 killed in bomb blast in Damaturu market this morning
At least 14 people were killed this morning July 26th after a bomb went off in a market in Damaturu, Yobe state. Over 50 people were seriously injured in the blast.
Police in Cameroon arrest white man with explosives & arms in his car
Police in Yaounde, Cameroon yesterday intercepted a white man in whose car explosives and arms were found. He was taken away and they are yet to tell the press who the man is and where he's from.
Bolt pictured partying the night away
How hospital buried evidence that could clear surgeon jailed over patient's death
'Scapegoat': Surgeon David Sellu, left, was jailed for two-and-a-half years for gross negligence manslaughter over the death of James Hughes, right
Britain's biggest private healthcare firm concealed an internal report that identified 'systemic failings' at one of its hospitals where a patient died after a routine knee operation, a Mail on Sunday investigation can reveal.
The hospital's owner, BMI Healthcare, heaped blame for the death of a retired builder on one of its surgeons, David Sellu. He was convicted at the Old Bailey of gross negligence manslaughter and jailed for two and a half years, ending a 40-year career described by colleagues as 'exemplary'.
Pilot flying from Heathrow to New York 'invites ex-porn star and X Factor reject into cockpit
The unnamed Kuwait Airways pilot is said to have invited 2010 X-Factor reject Chloe Mafia into the cockpit during a transatlantic flight from Heathrow to New York's JFK airport.
Lord resigns and faces police probe after 'snorting cocaine
The 45-minute video apparently shows Baron John Sewel snorting a white substance off one of the suspected escort's breasts before launching into a racist tirade against Asian women. After the sordid session, Sewel allegedly wrote a £200 cheque to one of the women and gave the same amount in cash to the other.
Italian aristocrat Beatrice Borromeo dons blush Valentino to wed Monaco royal Pierre Casiraghi
Grace Kelly's grandson Pierre Casiraghi, 27, wed his girlfriend of seven years, Italian heiress Beatrice Borromeo, 29, in a day of celebration in Monaco. The glamorous pair tied the knot in a low-key civil ceremony in Monte Carlo's Prince's Palace in front of 70 guests (centre).
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Onyeka Onwenu's P.A In Prison Over N17m Bribe In Department She Heads
From Premium Times:
One of Nigeria's foremost celebrities, Onyeka Onwenu, has been accused of demanding and collecting kickbacks through her personal assistant, Chika Abazu, from a contractor employed to carry out renovation works at the National Centre for Women Development [NCWD], where she is director general.
Falconets Show Superiority Over Liberia With 7-0 Win
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What's in her bag?
This woman became an internet sensation this week after someone posted this photo of her on a train platform in London, on his Facebook page.
Argentinian politician photo of her breastfeeding her daughter during a parliamentary session went viral
Victoria Donda Perez's eight-month-old daughter was hungry while she was attending a meeting in Argentine National Congress earlier this month so she whipped out her breasts and fed her in the full glare of everyone.
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General Science / Re: Could cannabis use decrease risk of domestic violence?
That depends on how strong the stuff is that your smoking and why.
It's strange the way marijuana addicts people. Not to it but to the things you do while high. If you smoke weed to release stress that your spouse was causing then it is associated in your mind to be needed to escape stress and when you have no weed you wont know how to cope with the stress your spouse is causing then bam! violence.
However if you use marijuana only after you get off work and listen to music while high, you'll relax but your mind has not associated use of marijuana with your spouse and no domestic violence would occur because of marijuana.
I find addiction fascinating only because there are many different types and levels of addictions. it really deals with brain chemicals getting out of balance and causing too much of a substance to be in the brain, the brain gets used to a HIGH level of chemicals and thinks of it as normal, then when withdraw occurs your brain is wondering why a chemical level is lower then normal which causes emotional reactions.
Weed throws the cannabinoid receptors out of balance, cannabinoid receptors which are not a major mood altering receptor group like dopamine receptors is not capable of making you super strongly addicted to it or have super strong emotional reactions to it's withdraw. It is possible that weed causes some tiny % of domestic violence however meth tobacco and especially alcohol cause far more violence and damage to civilization then marijuana could ever cause.
I would gladly like to see tobacco made illegal so that marijuana based products take it's place as a better less addictive choice for people.
Ps: the future of weed is bio ionic Tetra hydroponic chronic, the act of electrifying a hydroponically growing plant to a high ionic charge anywhere between 20 and 200 kv the high voltage electric field protects plants from pests and also causes many more hairs and crystals to grow on the plant, it also helps the plant grow faster and wider. The plant feels as though it is being pulled apart by the electric repulsion force It effects the normal growth patterns. It also causes the water in the plant to become like a Di-electric and become aligned to electric field so will the cells within the plant which may facilitate cell division and absorption of nutrients.
The way it works is similar to the way scientists were able to grow ice crystals abnormally when freezing water which had a high voltage charge.
The end result is the strongest buds on planet earth, without refining to wax or oil.
You take a potted hydroponic plant system make sure it's not grounded and ionize the plant using a voltage multiplayer or van de graff then you want to take a tomato vine metal mesh and make a Faraday cage around the plant and ground the cage, you want the plant to be close enough to the cage that an ionic wind flows but be careful that it's not too close that electric arcing happens, that would not be good. These types of plants don't look normal when grown from sprouts in an electric field they grow "fluffy hairs" on the stem and leaves you would have to see it for your self.
the cage could be positively charged and not grounded wile the plant would be negative but that would mean you could get shocked. Its better to have the cage grounded even though it's less efficient it's safer.
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New Theories / Re: Ufos... How do they work?
I just realized that there are no links to videos of UFOs on this forum so here are some videos of UFOs on YouTube.
videos of cigar shaped UFOs
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT2rjd1r9Dk
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIY7YpJNzAs
videos of red formation UFOs
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjXeyXbiZqk
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=cun6_SWzbDs
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG7f8YFT_2I
videos of disc shaped UFOs
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8BLz4DGyuA
videos of big triangle UFOs (also called TR 3Bs)
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb2a2qzcuJE
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXsZRc-cdGw
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=gehcrPNlbtM
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that should be enough |:>)
I also wanted to change something I said earlier, I want change my theory slightly, superconductors are still involved but Instead of using laser produced plasma
I think that a different type of beam can be used.
An "electron gun" also known as a "cathode ray" it is sort of like a laser and it's quite an old technology, it looks like a laser but its very different from a light beam. It looks like a laser but its not made of photons, it's made of electrons, it is a type of "particle beam" and it has a magnetic field similar to the one found in electrified wire.
basically you get one big powerful cathode ray and blast it. just be shore to put your superconductor ship in the middle and you have levitation because the superconductors will be quantum locked to the magnetic field of the cathode ray, if your ship also makes a magnetic field that repels the beam you can get extremely fast speeds as you travel through the inside of the beam, its sort of like a rail gun but you use superconductors and cathode rays instead of magnets and coils.
I would like to get feed back on this subject so if anyone knows if that would work or not let me know!
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Zaid Abdul-Aziz, né Donald A. Smith le  à Brooklyn, New York, est un joueur de basket-ball américain. Mesurant , et formé à l'université d'État de l'Iowa il a joué 10 saisons en tant que professionnel, dans 6 équipes différentes, en tant qu'ailier fort, de 1968 à 1978.

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Joueur américain de basket-ball
Naissance en avril 1946
Naissance à Brooklyn
Joueur de basket-ball des Cyclones d'Iowa State
Joueur drafté par les Royals de Cincinnati
Joueur des Royals de Cincinnati
Joueur des Bucks de Milwaukee
Joueur des SuperSonics de Seattle
Joueur des Rockets de Houston
Joueur des Braves de Buffalo
Joueur des Celtics de Boston


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P2PU
How We Made The Mechanical MOOC - Freerange Learning With a Mechanical Guide
By Bekka Kahn Mechanical MOOC Cover Photo, CC BY SA
Community Is Key
Where, What & Why
In late 2011 there was a rumbling in the air around the open education space… Massive, open, online courses were springing up all over the web. Two distinct types begin to emerge out of the MOOC model - Connectivist MOOCS (or cMOOCS) and Instructivist (or xMOOCS). Both were large-scale online learning experiments, with very different theories of learning behind them. In the open educational field, practitioners, activists and communities of interest were beginning to think about the component parts of cMOOCS and how they might work together, rather than adding to the emerging model of a proliferation of MOOC platforms, many of which seemed to be recreating the same thing repeatedly.
At P2PU, we'd been talking to our collaborators at MIT OpenCourseWare and had been struggling with the problem of how to move learners in a cohort through the exciting new world of the MOOC. "I'd read a blog about using RSS feeds, as a kind of time-release capsule for OER material, which would send learners a reminder, and thought it was a really interesting idea, but I knew that RSS was a bit too esoteric for many students, and it didn't solve the cohort problem," says Steve Carson, Head of External Relations at MIT OpenCourseWare.
The solution, we soon realised, would look a little bit like a mailing list sign-up, without a platform per se, which would allow organisers to loop in the various component parts and run what is essentially a headless MOOC; no instructor was placed at the centre, and after a certain number of signups was reached, the MOOC itself would trigger messages to everyone in the group.
Serendipitously, we were able to tap into the community of Python learners on Open Study, one of our project partners. This well-established network of co-learners (about 17 thousand of them) meant that we were able to set up the community in a way that allowed us to ask questions to the wider group – so if any users had questions, they could refer them to a community that was much larger than the course itself. And all of those people, many of whom had lots of experience, were willing to answer questions.
Steve experimented with this community during the testing phase, "I tried it myself. The first task was to build a rock, paper, scissors game, and I posted the code to OpenStudy and asked people there to take a look at it, before course had started. Someone did, and they answered my questions, gave me feedback, and showed me how I could have done the same thing better and faster with about 15 fewer lines of code." By posting the answers, and getting people to discuss the posts, we realised that the optimum situation is to be able to plug into an online community which is larger than the course itself. The community become the subject experts.
While a method of communication is a good start, no course can run without something to learn from, and place in which to do the learning.
The lightweight model we were developing didn't allow for recruiting or focussing on subject-experts, so we decided to structure the course by dividing our content into a series of sequenced modules and arranging it in order. This made for distinct blocks of content, easy enough for learners to work through in a group, in any order, without needing step-by-step guidance. We tested this by creating a test cohort, which worked through the materials pre-launch . Early results were not encouraging - everyone dropped out by week 6!
This turned out to be a blessing in disguise - high dropout rates in online courses are an accepted part of the landscape - but many people who drop out of courses often plan to come back to the materials when they have more time. However, not many of the set-ups being tested allowed for looping back in. Our test cohort's experience showed us that it would be important to create a space where materials and the messages from the MOOC could be stored and accessed by users. We did this using a Wordpress blog to store the weekly emails. This site became one of the most-used resources for the course, and has enabled people to drop back in as and when they want to.
A Python course made the most sense as a pilot because we found ourselves at a convergence point of materials, ommunity and platform. P2PU's active community of webmaker learners, coupled with the community available, and the volume of OER materials made a lot of sense. We were looking to test a concept, rather than make a particular impact with the subject, but in theory any subject which suits automated assessment would have worked. Allen Downey, Jeffrey Elkner and Chris Meyers' How Think Like a Computer Scientist: Think Python is an open textbook which has been used for several years for anyone wanting to learn Python programming. This, in combination with the materials from MIT's Gentle Introduction to Python course, covered the content component of the MOOC.
Give It A Voice
Computer Science textbooks aren't always the most exciting learning materials in the world. But research shows that people learn better when they're having a good experience. After some discussions, we decided that it would be good to create a character who would deliver the messages - a kind of steampunk International MOOC of Mystery. The irony was intentional - we wanted people to understand that a machine was talking to them, as if other MOOCs weren't machines! It also allowed those who were writing the text to have a bit of fun, with an anchor for for presenting content that, if you're not careful, can come across like different shades of eggshell paint.
Think about Scale
The objective, when we built the Python MOOC, was not to recreate the huge scale of other MOOCs. At least, not at first. But as we worked on it, and realised that the model was both lightweight and resilient enough to handle larger numbers, we began to set our sights higher. A few hundred people was no longer enough - we decided to spread the word, and thanks to our partners, we found ourselves with over 5000 people signing up after the launch. Four more iterations of the MOOC have been run since then, and each time, we have been able to adjust the grouping, tweak messaging and rethink content management, in order to experiment with different ways of learning, and optimise the experience for all the participants, no matter what the size of the group is.
Why It Worked
The overall sense with the Python MOOC was that the interest in it proved the concept. It is possible to build a MOOC for very little money: At a total cost of roughly U$4000 dollars and some developer time, we were able to build a MOOC for nowhere near the quarter of a million dollars that some institutions are investing in MOOCs. A Gentle Intro To Python has shown that in terms of providing people with a robust learning experience at scale, it can be done for next to nothing. Secondly, it is possible to build a MOOC without having to invest time or money into complex platform development. Using different tools which can be bolted on for the community, assessment content components gave us the opportunity to try different forums, abandon those that weren't working and try new ones. One of the issues in MOOC research at the moment is the over investment in content development, however, our experiment has shown that by putting a relatively small amount of energy and effort into the assessment and community components, we were able to run an effective MOOC. And it was so damn much fun. Often in higher education you have to be a little bit buttoned up, but with this, we were able to do the best we could, set expectations, and experiment, and invite others to do this with us.
Since launching A Gentle Intro to Python, we have run 4 more iterations of the course. We have also improved and tweaked the platformless model and used it to run learning experiences on data wrangling with our partners at The Open Knowledge Foundation, and Learning Creative learning with the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab. Researchers from the University of Maryland have begun to crunch some of the data generated by the MOOC in order to lift the lid on the learning that's going on. We've also working on new ways to improve the MOOC experience by adding more interactive tools - the class photo feature lets users see their peers, and we're working on adding' like hangouts and video to the model. Stay tuned. Keep On MOOCin' The International MOOC of Mystery.
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Q: What is $u^{-1}TN$ with $u: M\rightarrow N$ be a smooth map As picture below, $u\in C^\infty(M,N)$, $(M,g)$ and $(N,h)$ are two smooth Riemannian manifold.
I don't know what mean the $\frac{\partial }{\partial y^1} \circ u$ , it is $\frac{\partial u}{\partial y^1}$ ?
Besides, how to induce a tangent bundle $u^{-1}TN$ from $TN$ make $u^{-1}TN\subset TM$ ? There is not any condition make sure  $dim M\ge dim N$.
In fact ,I think I don't know what $u^{-1}TN$ is.
Picture below is from the page 6 of HARMONIC MAPPINGS BETWEEN RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS
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A: Unforunately it is not true that $u^{-1}TN$ is a subbundle of $TM$. By definition, let $f : X \to Y$ and $\pi: E \to Y$ be a vector bundle over $Y$. Then the pullback bundle $f^{-1}E$ on $X$ is given by
$$f^{-1}E =  \{ (x, v) \in X \times E : f(x) = \pi(v)\}.$$
Roughly speaking, it is a vector bundle over $X$, such that for each $x\in X$ the fiber is $E_{f(x)}$.
To write down a local basis for $f^{-1} E$, let $e_1 (z), \cdots, e_m(z)$ be a local basis of $E$ around $y = f(x)$. Then
$$\{ e_1 (f(x)), \cdots e_k(f(x))\}$$
serve as a local basis of $f^{-1}E$. Note $e_i (f(x) = (e_i \circ f ) (x)$.
The pullback bundle is involved in harmonic map theory because the differential of a mapping $u : M \to N$ is natually a section in the bundle $T^*M \otimes u^{-1} TN$ (it is just saying that $df_x $ is a mapping from $T_xM$ to $T_{u(x)}N$)

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Publicly funded private schools in Florida teach that dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark
A new report reveals that some private schools in Florida that receive public funding are teaching curriculums that say humans and dinosaurs co-existed, that God intervened to prevent Catholics from dominating North America, and that slaves who accepted Christianity were actually better off than free people who weren't Christians.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, around 2,000 schools that "accept, and often depend on" nearly $1 billion in state scholarships, or vouchers, are utilizing pseudo-scientific and pseudo-histiorical lessons in textbooks from Christian publishers. As part of their investigation, the Sentinel asked educators from various Florida colleges and school districts to review teaching materials from these publishers and evaluate their educational veracity.
They found numerous instances of distorted history and science lessons that are outside mainstream academics. The books denounce evolution as untrue, for example, and one shows a cartoon of men and dinosaurs together, telling students the biblical Noah likely brought baby dinosaurs onto his ark. The science books, they added, seem to discourage students from doing experiments or even asking questions.
According to one of the educators tasked by the Sentinel to review the material, students who are educated under these standards "are not prepared for college experiences."
"They would be intellectually disadvantaged," said Cynthia Bayer, who is a biology lecturer at the University of Central Florida.
The review found that social studies books published by the Christian companies diminished the horrors of the slave trade and past genocides against Native America people. One section of a textbook reportedly said that "most black and white southerners had long lived together in harmony" before the civil rights movement and that civil rights leaders who were "power hungry" only "stirred up the people."
The books are rife with religious and political opinions on topics such as abortion, gay rights and the Endangered Species Act, which one labels a "radical social agenda." They disparage religions other than Protestant Christianity and cultures other than those descended from white Europeans. Experts said that was particularly worrisome given that about 60 percent of scholarship students are black or Hispanic.
The scholarships that private schools may use to purchase these academic materials are paid for either directly by the state or with tax credits – money diverted from the state budget by corporations that make scholarship donations and then write off an equivalent amount from their state tax bills. The scholarships are available to students from low-income families or to those with disabilities, and their parents are free to enroll them in any private school that accepts the state-backed vouchers.
The Florida Department of Education is prohibited by law to monitor the curriculum taught to students who use state vouchers for private schools.
According to the educators speaking to the Sentinel, there was "little to demand students think critically" in the Christian textbooks. Additionally, the educators found that social studies textbooks put out by the publishers in question sought to portray American history from "God's point of view."
Among the most alarming things discovered by the educators was one particular workbook's claim that Noah took baby dinosaurs into the Ark. The same book also posits that the Loch Ness Monster was actually a living dinosaur, furthering the humans-dinosaurs co-existence narrative.
"That was just plain-old, misguided, bad, horrible science, talking about dinosaurs and humans living together," said high school science teacher Brandon Haught.
You can read the Sentinel's full report here.
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"Ramiro Mendoza", nicknamed ""El Brujo"" (The Witch Doctor), is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Mendoza played with the New York Yankees (1996–2002, 2005) and Boston Red Sox (2003–04). He batted and threw right-handed. Although Mendoza made 62 starts in his major league career, he was primarily known as a middle relief pitcher. He threw a Sinker (baseball)/sinker along with a slider, a four-seam fastball and a changeup. In Mendoza's ten seasons in the Major Leagues he was a part of five World Series champion teams.
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Q: react-grid-gallery component doesn't work I want to create simple image gallery with lightbox modals. I found this library and copied example source, but it doesn't work. <Gallery images={IMAGES}/> gives nothing, iterraly nothing is displayed in browser.
Its my code:
import React, {Component} from 'react';
import './placeDetails.css'

/* Importing axois */
import axios from 'axios';

/* Importing animations */
import Fade from 'react-reveal/Fade';

/* Importing gallery library */
import Gallery from 'react-grid-gallery';

export default class placeDetails extends Component {

    getInitialState(){
      /* Getting data from api */
      this.GetDetailsFromApi();
    }

    constructor(props) {
      super(props);
      this.state ={
        data: "initial_value",
        ReviewsVisible: false,
        GalleryShown: false,
      }
    }

    /* This function handles clicks of reviews header */
    ReviewsHeaderClick() {
      let value = this.state.ReviewsVisible;
      this.setState({
        ReviewsVisible: !value
      })
    }

    GalleryHeaderClick(){
      let value = this.state.GalleryShown;
      this.setState({
        GalleryShown: !value
      })
      this.GetGalleryLinks();
    }

    GetGalleryLinks(){

      /* Getting ID of requested place */
      let place_id = localStorage.getItem('SelectedPlaceID');

      /* Setting up URL */
      let url = "http://localhost:8000/api/image_gallery/"+place_id;

      /* Requesting my backend to get images links list */
      /* Requesting my backend */
      axios({
        method: 'get',
        url: url,
        headers: {
          "content-type": "application/json"
        }
      }).then((response) => {

        /* Getting data */
        let data = response.data[0].json_data;

        let final_data = [];

        for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
            //console.log(data[i]);
            /* Every photo will be represented by one object with various propeties  */
            let object = new Object();

            /* Setting propeties under names that are compatible with "react-grid-gallery" library  */
            object.src = data[i].img_url;
            object.thumbnailWidth = data[i].width;
            object.thumbnailHeight = data[i].height;
            object.thumbnail = data[i].img_url;
            final_data.push(object);
        }
        console.log(final_data)
        /* Sending got data to sessionStorage as JSON string, and setting details to correct one */
        localStorage.setItem("place_gallery_data", JSON.stringify(final_data));

      }).catch(function (error) {
        console.log(error)
      });
      this.forceUpdate()
    }

    render() {

      /* Setting data */
      let data = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("place_details_data"));
      let images = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem("place_gallery_data"));
      console.log(images);
      const IMAGES =
[{
        src: "https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8817/28973449265_07e3aa5d2e_b.jpg",
        thumbnail: "https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8817/28973449265_07e3aa5d2e_n.jpg",
        thumbnailWidth: 320,
        thumbnailHeight: 174,
        isSelected: true,
        caption: "After Rain (Jeshu John - designerspics.com)"
},
{
        src: "https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8356/28897120681_3b2c0f43e0_b.jpg",
        thumbnail: "https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8356/28897120681_3b2c0f43e0_n.jpg",
        thumbnailWidth: 320,
        thumbnailHeight: 212,
        tags: [{value: "Ocean", title: "Ocean"}, {value: "People", title: "People"}],
        caption: "Boats (Jeshu John - designerspics.com)"
},

{
        src: "https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8887/28897124891_98c4fdd82b_b.jpg",
        thumbnail: "https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8887/28897124891_98c4fdd82b_n.jpg",
        thumbnailWidth: 320,
        thumbnailHeight: 212
}]
      /* This function returns html with reviews */
      function Reviews(props) {
        const content = props.reviews.map((review) =>

 {review.name}

                 {review.author_name}

 {review.text}

 Rating: {review.rating}

        );

        return (

            {content}

        );
      }

      return (

 Details of

 {data.name}!

                 Back to places list!
                 Back to home!

 Address: {data.vicinity}

 Website: {data.website}

 Phone: {data.formatted_phone_number}

 Excat address: {data.formatted_address}

 Rating: {data.rating}

 Number of ratings: {data.user_ratings_total}

                  Reviews:
                  { this.state.ReviewsVisible &&  ▲  }
                  { !this.state.ReviewsVisible &&  ▼  }

                <Fade when={this.state.ReviewsVisible}>
                  { this.state.ReviewsVisible &&
                    <Reviews reviews={data.reviews} className="" getComponent={this.getComponent}/>
                  }
                </Fade>

                   Photos linked with this place:
                  { this.state.GalleryShown &&  ▲  }
                  { !this.state.GalleryShown &&  ▼  }

                <Fade when={this.state.GalleryShown}>

                </Fade>
                <Gallery images={IMAGES}/>

      );
    }

  }

I am sure I am missing something obvious but I can't find it myself.


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Guest column: Costly burden of parole, probation unjustly places people in a second prison
When President Donald Trump commuted Alice Marie Johnson's life sentence in 2018, many observers assumed that the grandmother was fully free. What they didn't realize at the time was that Johnson, who was convicted of a first-time, nonviolent drug offense, still wore the "invisible shackle" of probation.
While working as a criminal justice reform advocate the past two years, Johnson feared she could be returned to prison for missing an appointment with a supervisor, traveling across state lines without written permission, or committing a paperwork error. These and other technical violations put tens of thousands of people on probation back behind bars each year. Though not crimes, they are jailable offenses for someone under community supervision.
Luckily, a recent presidential pardon will end Johnson's probation sentence. Even before the pardon, Johnson was fortunate to have a case officer who supported her. But millions of people under supervision are far less fortunate.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, nearly 4.4 million Americans were on probation or parole in 2018, approximately twice the number of people incarcerated in the United States.
Like Johnson, more than 75% were under supervision for nonviolent offenses, according to The Pew Charitable Trusts. Since 1990, the number of women on parole or probation has almost doubled to more than 1 million in 2016. And though African Americans make up just 13% of the U.S. adult population, they account for 30% of those on community supervision.
Sadly, almost 350,000 ofpeople who exit probation or parole each year return to jail or prison, often for technical violations rather than for committing new crimes. In fact, probation and parole failures account for 45% of state prison admissions nationwide.
Collectively, states spend $2.8 billion annually to incarcerate people for noncriminal rule violations (12 states spend more than $100 million each year) (also double checking this number). This is money that could be better used to help people gain the skills and treatment they need to successfully reenter their communities after incarceration, something that has strong public support. A new Morning Consult survey conducted in eight states on behalf of my organization, the REFORM Alliance, found(everything below is from their report. He's getting me the page numbers. I'll double check it):
► A majority of voters in six of the eight states think it is important to reduce the number of people on probation or parole supervision.
► A plurality of voters in all eight states think the United States spends too much incarcerating people for violating the conditions of their probation or parole.
► At least half of voters in seven of the eight states would be more likely to support a public official who wants to reform the probation and parole system.
Perhaps most important, a majority of voters in all eight states support commonsense probation and parole reforms, such as: decreasing caseloads for probation officers; providing mentorship programs for those on parole or probation; allowing people on probation to report to their supervisors remotely; incentivizing and encouraging supervised people to participate in rehabilitative programs; and investing savings from a smaller supervised population into reentry programs.
Simply put, people want a smarter system that balances accountability and public safety with rehabilitation and redemption.
We know it's possible. Crime and incarceration dropped at the same time in 37 states over a nine-year period, according to data from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Red and blue states, alike, are continuing that progress, with legislatures in Mississippi, California and Louisiana passing parole and probation reform legislation this year.
Johnson is proof that people are more than their worst decisions. Her personal transformation is not unique. As she said during her Republican National Convention address, "There are thousands of people just like me, who deserve the opportunity to come home."
By fixing the supervision system, we can unshackle these individuals from the invisible grip of probation and parole and unlock their true potential.
Jessica Jackson, former mayor of Mill Valley, California, is the chief advocacy officer at the REFORM Alliance. She is also a human rights attorney and co-founder of #cut50, a bipartisan criminal justice initiative of the Dream Corps.
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HomeEngaged researchResearch Initiator Awards
Supporting Engaged Research
In the Centre's first year, we used our research support funding scheme to support more than a dozen short-term projects that aligned with the Centre's aim to understand the cultures and environments that sustain health and well-being across the life course. To make sure we keep meeting that aim, at the close of the year we decided to reflect on how we support innovative engaged research and to review our funding schemes in the light of feedback from applicants (successful and unsuccessful) and the mentors who supported them.
As a result of those reflections, we're delighted to announce two new funding schemes. Anyone who would like to apply for them will find more information in the linked documents, or you can contact the Centre on wcceh-engage@exeter.ac.uk to discuss a potential application.
This scheme is only open to people or organisations from outside the university.
These small awards (£300 - £500) are not for research activities as such; our aim is to support individual applicants, or community organisations, to build the relationships that initiate engaged research and generate the conditions for future engaged research.
All kinds of creative and imaginative proposals for how this award could be used are welcome: hosting a workshop, making a creative intervention that opens up engagement around cultures and environments of health, working with a professional researcher to develop a research idea, setting up a small social media campaign to draw people to an issue or topic … we are open to suggestions.
For more information, please click here: Research Initiation Awards
To apply for the award, click here
Transformative Research Awards
This is a discretionary award to support leading-edge transformative research. We are open to novel, innovative and interesting proposals that are interdisciplinary, and where appropriate transdisciplinary, and that approach and pursue research in an engaged way.
Proposals should be for research that complements and extends the Centre's research themes (Transforming Institutions, Transforming Engagement, Transforming Health across the life course and Transforming Relations). Proposals must be cross-disciplinary, and, where appropriate, generate and show routes for collaborative, transdisciplinary engaged research partnerships with communities (e.g. practitioners, publics, charities, voluntary organisations, community groups, etc.) and other relevant parties with a shared aim of contributing towards the development of healthy publics.
Proposals can come from researchers working in the Centre or members of the wider university (although in this case we would expect Centre members to be involved in the research process in some way).
For more information click here: Transformative Research Awards


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Father Silas "Dan" Rooney was the brother of Pittsburgh Steelers owner, Art Rooney, Sr. He was an outstanding athlete, he was a catcher and his brother, Art was the manager of the Wheeling, West Virginia team, the "Wheeling Stogies," a team in the old Middle Atlantic Baseball League. Both still hold records they set in the late 1920s. In 1921, Father Silas was offered a contract with the New York Yankees baseball club for $5000, a handsome salary at the time. He turned it down to enter the priesthood. A member of the Franciscan order, he was ordained at St. Bonaventure Universityin Olean, NY where he was the former athletic director. He spent seven years as a missionary in China until the Communist takeover. He also served as a chaplain in the European theater during World War II. He died January 9, 1981.
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Q: VS 2017 shows incorrect C++ Unicode literals during debugging When I try to define Unicode string literals in C++(17) I see some very odd results during debugging, which I would like to discuss. Look at the following variable definitions:
std::string u8 { u8"⬀⬁" };
std::string u8_1 { u8"\u2B00\u2B01" };
std::u16string u16 { u"⬀⬁" };
std::u16string u16_1 { 0x2B00, 0x2B01 };
std::u32string u32 { U"⬀⬁" };
std::u32string u32_1 { 0x2B00, 0x2B01 };

std::string u8_2 { u8"\u2B00⬀⬁" };
std::u16string u16_2 { u"\u2B00⬀⬁" };
std::u32string u32_2 { U"\u2B00⬀⬁" };

During debugging I now get the following strings:

As you can see the values are pretty surprising. Strings defined with an initializer list or escape codes appear correct, while those specified as normal characters appear as if they were UTF-8 encoded and the bytes are written to the strings. This is correct for an UTF-8 string (u8_1 here), but not for UTF-16 and UFT-32 strings  (u16 and u32 here). And what's even more odd is the fact that the u8 variable contains values that are doubly UTF-8 encoded. You can easily prove that with an online UTF converter. If the debugger was the problem I wouldn't see some correct values, but since it shows values correct that have been specified with escape sequence, I assume something else is guilty for messing up the strings.
What would explain the results somehow is when the file is UTF-8 encoded and that would directly have taken over to string variables, without any conversion. Though I think the original string in the C++ file should be converted from the source encoding (which is indeed UTF-8) to the correct target encode, instead. Needless to say this works as expected in XCode.
Is this a known problem? Can this somehow worked around to avoid having to use numeric values instead?


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Why AIG's Goldman Threat Is Good for You
It may not look like good news, but if you're an American taxpayer, pay attention. AIG, the massive global insurer and beneficiary of billions of dollars in taxpayer cash, is eyeing a lawsuit against Goldman Sachs, a move clearly piggybacking on the Securities and Exchange Commission's announcement that it was suing Goldman for allegedly misleading its clients. The SEC's suit, filed on Friday, says Goldman created and sold a complex financial product called a collateralized debt obligation (CDO), whose value depended on the health of the subprime mortgage market, and that Goldman let a hedge fund trader wanting to bet against the housing bubble, John Paulson, pick basement-quality bonds to make up that CDO. More importantly, Goldman, the SEC alleges, failed to tell the buyers of that CDO that Paulson picked those bonds and that he was betting against those bonds and the housing market.
AIG's potential suit, the Financial Times reports, would center on "losses incurred on USD 6 billion of insurance deals on mortgage-backed securities similar to one that led to fraud charges against the US bank." In other words, AIG sold insurance against the failure of the Goldman bonds in question, from a family of bonds called Abacus. When those bonds inevitably failed, AIG had to pay out, recording losses of $2 billion. But now knowing that crucial information about the strength of those bonds was allegedly left out, AIG could have a case to make.
The insurer, you'll remember, is a company largely buoyed by the American taxpayer—something to the tune of $134 billion, including the Federal Reserve and Treasury's support. Someday, a portion of those funds could make their way back into the government's coffers if and when AIG returns to full health. This suit against Goldman, however, could help AIG recoup some of its losses, which ultimately is a good thing for the American taxpayer that so generously kept a too-big-to-fail AIG from crumbling to the ground.
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I worked on the print design for SOS Barnaþorpin - Annual Report.
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Q: Manipulate CSS classes with vanilla JavaScript Is there a way to manipulate a CSS class with plain JavaScript?
I am creating a dropdown-menu and I want to transition it from height: 0 to the computed height of the element when height: auto.
By default, the CSS class that I'm trying to manipulate does not have an element.

HTML:

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CSS:
.dropdown-parent {
    position: relative;
}

.dropdown {
    position: absolute;
    left: 0;
    top: 100%;
    height: 0;
    overflow: hidden;
    transition: height 1s ease-in-out;
}

.expand {}

JavaScript:
const dropdown = document.querySelector('.dropdown-parent');
const dropdownList = document.querySelector('.dropdown');

dropdownList.style.height = 'auto';
const dropdownHeight = dropdownList.offsetHeight;
dropdownList.style.height = '0';

dropdown.addEventListener('click', () => {
    -- TRYING TO ADD CALCULATED HEIGHT TO THE CLASS '.expand' --

    dropdown.classList.toggle('expand');
});

I want to:
1) Fetch the element in the DOM.
2) Set the element's height to auto.
3) Calculate it's height and store it in a variable.
4) Set it's height back to 0.
5) Add the calculated height to the class .expand.
6) Add an event listener to the parent to toggle the class .expand.
The only thing I cannot do is the step (5).
Some help on this topic?

A: You can probably solve this by using CSS custom properties to change the value itself.
CSS:
:root {
  --expanded-height: auto;
}

.expand {
  height: var(--expanded-height);
}

Javascript:
dropdown.addEventListener('click', () => {
    document.documentElement.style.setProperty('--expanded-height', dropdownHeight);
    dropdown.classList.toggle('expand');
});

Source: CSS Custom Properties—Dynamic Changes With And Without Javascript

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Comic Book Review: All-New Captain America Volume 1 & Uncanny Avengers 2 Volume 1
All-New Captain America: Hydra Ascendant (2015)
Written by Rick Remender
Art by Stuart Immonen
Uncanny Avengers: Counter-Evolutionary (2015)
Written by Rick Remender (with Gerry Duggan)
Art by Daniel Acuna
Sam Wilson is Captain America. And he has teamed with the new Nomad to take down a resurgence of Hydra. This involves facing down EVERY rogue in Cap's gallery, from Batroc to Armadillo to Baron Zemo to Baron Blood. Over the course of this all-out assault, Sam learns of a Hydra conspiracy that has infected every superhero team on Earth. The Uncanny Avengers have reformed, adding Sabretooth, The Vision, and Brother Voodoo to their ranks. Their first mission is to travel to the bizarre Counter-Earth. Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver have gone there to uncover their roots after learning the truth about their parentage during the events of AXIS. The team is fractured and is forced to face the near god-like power of the demented High Evolutionary.
The writing was on the wall. Remender was not going to last much longer at Marvel. In this strange transitory period, these two titles were launched as ongoing titles but only made it long enough to end up as mini-series. Secret Wars, helmed by Jonathan Hickman, was the direction Marvel was going and the plot threads Remender has been building in the pages of Cap, and Uncanny Avengers inevitably fell to the wayside.
Sam Wilson's first significant foray as Cap is glorious, Remender feels very comfortable writing the character in this role, and I found myself very engrossed in the internal monologue that ran through the entire five issues. I am a big fan of Nick Spencer's Cap run, but damn, am I disappointed we never got to see Remender follow through on these issues.
I also have to point out how phenomenal Stuart Immonen's art was in this collection. Sam Wilson's Captain America is all about fluidity and movement, using his wings to propel himself in ways Steve Rogers was never able to do. Immonen masterfully captures that propulsion and the pages have a vibrant dynamism. Immonen and Remender even manage to make a goofy character like Batroc the Leaper into a formidable enemy. Remender can't help but comment on the silliness of the French kickboxer yet also allows him to be a physically threatening presence in combat.
You can sense the finality in Remender's All-New Captain America as he pulls out all the stops in issue one, throwing every villain that has ever made an impression in the pages of the character's books. It's unclear how much Remender knew at this point about when he would leave because he does a drop a pretty huge bombshell: the idea Hydra has agents inside of every heroic team on Earth. I can see seeds of that being tweaked in the Secret Empire storyline, but it was not the same thing Remender was going for. I believe that at least by the time he was writing the last couple issues, Remender was fully aware that he only had a couple more projects left. This is made clear in the "death" of Nomad that ends up being resolved in Hail Hydra! This character was an important one to the writer, and I suspect he wanted to pull his piece off the game board rather than let another writer "ruin" what he had established.
Over in the pages of Uncanny Avengers, we see another attempt to reboot a Remender series that also succumbs to the impending slate cleaning that was Secret Wars. One of the strangest elements of this single collection is that there is no clear transition between the first volume of Uncanny Avengers and this reboot. I put the blame on the complete mess that was AXIS. I got the sense this was an intended arc, but due to time constraints with the impending Secret Wars, much groundwork was cut. There is an awkward text box at the start of the story that has to catch us up with the situation so that we are dumped into the middle of an ongoing tale.
At some point, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver have been given information that the High Evolutionary has information on their true origins after they learned in the pages of AXIS that Magneto might not be their father. We never know who gave them this information or how they managed to get to Counter-Earth they are there and so the story begins. Once the Avengers arrive to save the day they are immediately separated and face a variety of challenges, some of which feel truly threatening and others as just ways to get them off screen for a while. Captain America is put into the clutches of a plant-based creation of the High Evolutionary and just kind of hangs out there until he's needed in the third act.
Because this story is rushed when compared Remender's previous arcs in Uncanny Avengers (see his Apocalypse Twins epic) so many new characters and plots seem way too broad. There's an evil scientist who captures Rogue and extracts Wonder Man from her, and this is left unresolved. The Vision meets a fellow synthezoid and manufactures many "children" with her whom he quickly abandons when the story concludes. The only element of the collection I enjoyed was seeing Sabretooth, turned semi-good guy by the events of AXIS, as a member of the Avengers being heroic and surprising himself.
When these two volumes conclude you can feel that Remender isn't going to get a chance to come back post-Secret Wars and continue these stories. He'll get two more chances to make his mark on the Marvel Universe though. In our next and final installment, we'll look at his mini-series Hail Hydra and his one-shot graphic novel Rage of Ultron.
Author PopCultPosted on December 22, 2018 Categories 2015, marvel comics, rick remender
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Top Ender (and Big Boy too) love attending the Munch and Mingles, mainly because there is an abundance of food, someone normally brings meatballs and there are always a dozen or more different puddings. The part I love about the Munch and Mingle is that I really do get to talk to other people, outside of my usual circle of friends and my circle of friends just keeps getting wider and wider. I do love my little community of friends. This past Sunday we had a munch and mingle and Top Ender wore her new dress from House of Fraser Children's section, that she had specifically chosen from the website to wear to the party.
When choosing the dress, Tops explained that she had picked it for several reasons. The first was because it was her favourite colour and wearing something that pretty at a party would make her feel pretty. The second reason she picked it was because of it's sheer sleeves. She figured that this would let her have some warmth if it was cold, but if it was warm then she shouldn't get too hot. The third reason was because of the bling collar. Top Ender thought that no outfit for any party is complete without a little bling.
Even though Top Ender had only worn the dress for a few hours, I was annoyed to see that the jewels on the collar were already coming off and there were a few pulls in the dress in various places. Still, it's a beautiful dress and at least a dozen people complimented me on what Top Ender was wearing. I only wish I could take the credit for having picked it... I suppose I did pick the shoes though!
Top Ender has asked me to ask you all two questions, she has asked firstly what would you take to a Munch and Mingle and secondly have you seen any good party themes on Pinterest recently and if so what were they?
The dress was sent to us to review by House of Fraser. I used to work for them, selling mens pants. True story.


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Q: Flash, AS3 -> TweenLite + Box2D - do they combine? Well, imagine the scenario where i have 3 objects, hanging from the "ceiling", each one by a string (inside a b2World).  They are touching each other side by side.
Each object has a Flash Mouse_Over event that makes itself use tweenlite to scale bigger, and Mouse_Out it scales back to the original size.
My question is: do the other two objects respond to those TweenLite animations, using the Box2D motor?
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Visit the Eiffel Tower – everything you need to know!
Visiting the Eiffel Tower is clearly the number 1 activity when spending a few days in Paris. No matter if you decide to get up the tower, just wandering along or are happy with seeing it from far, you can't avoid it. The Eiffel Tower is omnipresent in Paris – you're catching a glimpse randomly on it when walking through the city and I promise it's breathtaking – each and every time. I am living in Paris since more than 12 years and still comes like a little shock when the Eiffel Tower randomly crosses my sight. It's a landmark that can't be unseen and that possible will never merge into the cityscape, not matter how often you've seen it already.
The Gustave Eiffel memorial at one of the feet of the Eiffel Tower – visiting his masterpiece is THE top activity in Paris; the Eiffel Tower is even the most visited paid monument of the world!
The Eiffel Tower got built and designed by the company of engineer Gustave Eiffel as entrance to the 1889 World Fair. The monument is made of 7,300 tons of wrought iron and it's construction took 2 years. More than 300 construction workers where involved – however, thanks to Eiffel's strict safety measures, only one worker died.
The hight of the Eiffel Tower can be compared to a 81- storey building and is to this day the tallest structure of Paris. Until 1930 the tower was even the highest men-made structure in the world, until the Chrysler Building in New York was finished.
Fun Fact: Gustave Eiffel built also the Statue of Liberty. The different pieces got created in France and shipped over to the USA where the statue got assembled.
Stunning view – even from below the tower. Book Eiffel Tower tickets to avoid waiting time!
The Tour Eiffel became a great success during the World Fair. Even though it was not entirely finished – the lifts entered service only 9 days after opening – almost 2 million visitors where counted at the end of the exhibition. Today the Eiffel Tower is the most visited (paid) monument in the world with more than 6.9 million visitors. Know that this number represents only visitors that actually ascended the tower!
How many steps has the Eiffel tower?
It takes 1710 steps to climb up to the Eiffel Tower summit of the Eiffel Tower and believe it or not; many find it harder to get down than up! But you don't need to worry about it too much, the summit s only accessible by lift anyway. The first and second floor however can be reached by feet, and after easy peasy 704 steps you're up! But you don't need to fear that only super-jocks are picking up that challenge. It is in fact doable for the average human being: apart from the pause you can take on the first floor, there are plateaus in the staircases for you to rest without blocking the way for everyone behind you.
What else do you need to know when visiting?
depending on the weather conditions, the view might not be great and you risk to be disappointed, especially if you want to visit the summit. If you see the summit being in the clouds, the view will be obviously very limited. Check carefully the weather forecast before preparing your trip to enjoy the best view from top of Eiffel Tower.
the queues at the Eiffel tower can be huge – up to hours at peek times. If you don't pre-purchase your billet, you will queue twice (or thrice including the security check; at the ticket counter and the lifts. You can save some time by either buy your ticket in advance, purchase a skip the line ticket or take the stairs. If you pick the stairs, you still have to queue to buy them as you can't purchase them in advance.
Tip: make sure you are queuing in the correct line!
► Getting there by Métro – special tip!
even though the Métro station Bir-Hakeim is the closest one to the Tour Eiffel, it's a way better experience to get out at Trocadéro. You'll approach the tower from front and get the classic postcard picture opportunity. It's a view you really don't wanna miss. Also, if you are coming from direction Montparnasse, you'll have a priceless view on the Eiffel Tower. The Metro crosses the Seine just next to the Tower. Line 6 is one of few Metro lines that partially aren't running underground.
The best view on the Eiffel Tower: From Trocadéro. When you visit the Eiffel Tower, get out at the Metro Station Trocadéro to approach the tower from front.
You find restrooms on both, the 2nd floor and the summit.
► Don't miss the first floor!
best value for money option: Eiffel Tower skip the line access and Cruise on the Seine!
Visit the Eiffel tower and head straight up to the second floor with your skip the line priority access. After enjoying a stunning view over Paris, relax while taking a Cruise on the Seine – the change of perspective is breath taking!
Don't forget to bring some water, especially if you chose to walk up! Depending on the security measures, you might not be able to bring one from outside but have to purchase one there though. That being said, get prepared as well to get really warm: dress in layers, no matter how cold it might be.
I know that some visitors are worried to travel to Paris. Recent events and the presence of armed military soldiers has an intimidating effect on many. But rest assured, soldiers have been patrolling the Eiffel Tower long before the terror at the Bataclan or Charlie Hebdo. I have been in 2005 for the first time at the Eiffel Tower and they have been there already back then. It's just a general security measure. However, you do have to expect to go through a security check. Since recently a bullet proof glass wall is surrounding the waiting area.
From sunset on, the Eiffel Tower will offer you a special sparkling light show – at every full hour for 5 minutes.
When building the Eiffet Tower, Gustave Eiffel reserved himself a spot for his own: an apartment on the 3rd floor. A tiny one though, but size doesn't matter with this view! Many tried to book a night or even to buy his apartment – but without success. The place remained unsalable, every offer is declined. However, when visiting the 3rd floor of the Eiffel Tower, you can take a peak into it; most furniture and items are still originals.
The most obvious is probably to simply get up! You have different options here: Either you get a ticket on the ticket counter, you buy a ticket in advance or you reserve a table at one of the Restaurants on the Eiffel tower. Depending on your choice, the Eiffel Tower ticket price may vary.
My best advise when it comes to purchasing a ticket for the Eiffel Tower: Buy your Eiffel Tower Tickets in advance. The queues are huge, basically all the time. If you have already a regular ticket, you can skip at least the ticket purchase queue and can head straight over to the lift-queue. Just note that tickets for climbing up the stairs are only sold on the day at the tower. Presale is not available.
Important: If you wonder if you can buy Eiffel Tower tickets on the day.. theoretically you can but demand is very high and normally tickets are sold out weeks – if not months – ahead. If you plan to purchase Eiffel Tower tickets on the day, you most likely won't get any.
If you want to know one sight where it's worth to buy a skip the line ticket – it's the Eiffel Tower. As I mentioned above, queues can be just insanely huge and you easily spend half your day waiting and wasting precious time during your maybe already too short vacation in Paris.
Important: Skip the Line tickets for the Eiffel Tower are only available in advance and with a tour operator, you can't purchase them on site.
check out all skip the line options for the Eiffel Tower and save valuable time!
The Eiffel Tower hours are depending on when in the year you are visiting and also if you plan to go up until the top or just visiting the 2nd floor.
The Eiffel Tower hosts two restaurants: The very much upper class restaurant Jules Verne serves their Michelin Star menu on the 2nd floor of the Eiffel Tower. Dining in this exclusive ambiance is probably a memory that one keep for life and that only few can actually experience – check here if this exceptional restaurant is something within your budget!
But don't worry if this is out off your range (you are certainly not alone). The more affordable Eiffel Tower restaurant is the 58 Tour Eiffel on the first floor and is also a great place for making memories for life. The view is not less impressive and even without a Michelin Star, the food at the 58 Tour Eiffel restaurant is very enjoyable – it's an excellent place to have lunch at Eiffel Tower!
Good value for money tip: Don't miss this exclusive offer including a Eiffel Tower visit with Lunch at the 58 Tour Eiffel, Champagne and a window seat with view on Trocadero.
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