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A rubric is an easily applicable tool for supporting learning, assessment and evaluation and professional development. They offer a process for defining and describing the important components of complex tasks and behaviours. They can then help us assess these tasks (e.g. essays or projects) or behaviors (e.g. collaboration, team work), and make evaluative judgments about about the quality of performance and effectiveness. Rubrics are most commonly used in education, and increasingly they are being used to help develop instruction and evaluation/assessments in other sectors such as community development and natural resource management. The term 'rubrics' is used most commonly in education and evaluation circles – but the similar use of multiple scaled criteria in this way has long underpinned the monitoring and evaluation of complex environmental and physical systems.
A brief introduction to rubrics can be found in the recent LfS posting – Using rubrics to assess complex tasks and behaviors. The first set of links below provide recent examples and learnings from their emerging use in the evaluation and strategic planning sectors (in areas such as community development and natural resource management). The second set of links points to material recognising the long use of rubrics for simultaneously supporting learning, assessment and professional development in the education sector.
Evaluation building blocks – a guide. In this 2018 e-book, the Kinnect Group highlight the place of evaluative reasoning in evaluation. This guide sets out a step-based approach to evaluation, drawing on the work of many evaluation theorists, as well as their own practice-based body of knowledge. The approach is designed to be collaborative, practical and user-oriented. The guide is particularly helpful in reminding practitioners of the key questions to ask at each phase of the work.
The use of rubrics to improve risk communication and engagement between biosecurity agencies and their key partners and stakeholders. This 2018 open-access chapter by Will Allen and colleagues outlines an action research approach to the participatory development of rubrics as a design and assessment approach to improve surveillance systems in a biosecurity setting. They show how rubrics can provide a way for reaching a shared understanding of what matters, and how to assess that in terms of what can be confidently regarded as good practice—and equally what can be agreed on as emerging practice.
Understanding the components of evaluative rubrics and how to combine them. In this 2018 e-book, Judy Oakden explores the different ways evaluative rubrics can be constructed from three basic components: key aspects of performance; levels of performance; and importance of each aspect of performance. She outlines some alternative ways she has combined the components in her own practice, and discusses the benefits and challenges of each approach.
To rubrics or not to rubrics? An experience using rubrics for monitoring, evaluating and learning in a complex project. In this Practice Note Samantha Stone-Jovicich shares her experience using an evaluation and monitoring approach called 'rubrics' to assess a complex and dynamic project's progress towards achieving its objectives. Rubrics are a method for aggregating qualitative performance data for reporting and learning purposes.
Bridging disciplines, knowledge systems and cultures in pest management This 2013 paper by Will Allen, Shaun Ogilvie, Helen Blackie and colleagues describes how their research team with a range of disciplinary and stakeholder expertise was able to use rubrics in an action research based approach to critically reflect on their engagement practice and identify lessons around how to collaborate more effectively. They discuss the implications of these experiences for other researchers and managers seeking to improve engagement and collaboration in integrated science, management and policy initiatives.
Evaluative rubrics: a method for surfacing values and improving the credibility of evaluation. This practice-based 2013 paper by Julian King and colleagues unpacks the learnings of a group of evaluators who have used rubrics to help make judgments about performance, quality, and effectiveness. They have found that while evaluative rubrics look beguilingly simple they are hard to do well. However, when done well, the use of this tool can substantially increase the use and credibility of evaluation.
Selected rubric presentations and briefs: The rubric revolution. (Jane Davidson, Nan Wehipeihana, Kate McKegg 2011); Rubric methodology basics. (Jane Davidson 2013); Focusing the Evaluative Dance – The Value of Rubrics in Messy Non-Profit Evaluation Contexts. (Kate McKegg 2013); What's on the rubric horizon (Judy Oakden and Melissa Weenink 2015); Rubrics – an assessment tool for the urban biosecurity toolkit (Will Allen, Andrea Grant, Lynsey Earl 2017).
Rubrics: sharing the rules of the game. This useful 2016 paper by David Balch and Robert Blanck summarise the evolutionary uses of rubrics within the educational environment. They describe holistic, analytic (and developmental), and single-point rubrics. They provide a checklist for measuring the qualities of good rubric. They also review the incorporation over time of different goals, objectives and learning outcomes of rubrics in this setting.
What Are Rubrics and Why Are They Important? This 2013 chapter by Susan Brookhart describes the different types of rubrics – holistic, analytic, general, or task specific. Rubrics are defined in terms of their two main components: criteria and descriptions of levels of performance. The main point about criteria is that they should be about learning outcomes, not aspects of the task itself. The main point about descriptions of levels of performance is that they should be descriptions, not evaluative statements. The "evaluation" aspect of assessment is accomplished by matching student work with the description, not by making immediate judgments. And for a similar (but shorter) overview Jill Lane provides a quick summary of the different types of rubrics in this brief.
Teaching With Rubrics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. This 2010 paper by Heidi Andrade gives a brief overview of the structure and purposes of rubrics; reviews the benefits of using rubrics as both teaching and grading tools; warns against approaches that limit the effectiveness of rubrics; and urges instructors to take simple steps toward ensuring the validity, reliability, and fairness of their rubrics. Tips for using rubrics with undergraduate and graduate students are also included.
A Method for Collaboratively Developing and Validating a Rubric. This 2009 paper by Sandra Allen and John Knight guides readers through a method for collaboratively developing and validating a rubric that integrates baseline data collected from academics and professionals. Steps in the process include formulating the rubric, collecting data, and sequentially analyzing the techniques used to validate the rubric and to insure precision in grading papers in multiple sections of a course.
Rubrics: Tools for making learning goals and evaluation criteria explicit for both teachers and learners. This 2006 paper by Deborah Allen and Kimberly Tanner highlights the benefit of rubrics as teaching and professional development tools. Used wisely, rubrics not only make the instructor's standards and resulting grading explicit, but they can give students a clear sense of what the expectations are for a high level of performance on a given assignment, and how they can be met. This use of rubrics can be most important when those undertaking the activity to be assessed are novices with respect to a particular task or type of expression. Finally, they remind us that by their very nature, rubrics encourage reflective practice on the part of both students and teachers.
Using rubrics to promote thinking and learning. This 2000 paper by Heidi Andrade highlights that instructional rubrics help teachers teach as well as evaluate student work. She reminds us that creating rubrics with your students can be powerfully instructive. Rubrics make assessing student work quick and efficient, and they help teachers justify to parents and others the grades that they assign to students. At their very best, rubrics are also teaching tools that support student learning and the development of sophisticated thinking skills. When used correctly, they serve the purposes of learning as well as of evaluation and accountability. Like portfolios, exhibitions, and other authentic approaches to assessment, rubrics blur the distinction between instruction and assessment.
What's wrong – and what's right – with rubrics. In this 1997 paper James Popham emphasises that rubrics have the potential to make enormous contributions to instruction quality – but first we have to correct the flaws that make many rubrics almost worthless. He notes that we have to abandon both overly task-specific and excessively general rubrics, and strive to end up with rubrics that actually and practically help instruction.


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Joseph C. Pollet (1897–1979)  was an American painter, based in New York City and the region. He was best known for his portraits and realistic rural landscapes.

Biography
Pollet was born in 1897 in Albbruck, Germany and immigrated in 1911 as a youth with his parents to New York City. He studied at the Art Students League of New York under artist John Sloan.

By age 21 Pollet was employed as an advertising copywriter, while studying painting. He settled near Woodstock, New York.  He received early notice for his portraits and landscapes. In the 1940s, he was described as pursuing a variety of techniques and evading characterization of style.

He retained ties in Woodstock during the several years, from 1954 until 1961, when he lived in Paris and Italy. After Pollet returned to the United States and New York, he lived in Greenwich Village in Manhattan.

Pollet was best known for his realistic rural landscapes.  In 1971, a fire in his Greenwich Village studio destroyed nearly 150 of his paintings.

Marriage and family
Pollet married. He and his wife had three children together: two daughters and a son.

References

Joseph Pollet, online biography,  James Cox Gallery

1897 births
1979 deaths
Art Students League of New York alumni
American people of German descent

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So a few months ago it was coming up to my girlfriends birthday (lets call her R) and I decided to do something different for a present for her. Her favorite artist is Taylor Swift so I figured I'd try tweet to her to try get a birthday message, but then I thought why don't I go one better, and try to get her to come to the party.
I have a spare media PC sitting in my lounged so I figured it'd be a perfect platform for this bot to run on. I then had to figure out what language I wanted to use. I looked into PHP first as I knew twitter had its own API and I could use cURL to access twitters API. After fiddling with this for a while I realized I didn't exactly know what I'd do to make the script run at a designated time so I started looking into a C# based system.
After looking at quite a few different libraries I settled on Twitterizer for no particular reason other than in a quick prototype it was quite easy to set up. During this I had to head over to apps.twitter.com to create the TweetToTayTay app. In the app settings you can get 4 different strings you need to put in the source code listed below. An oauth_token, oauth_token_secret, oauth_consumer_key and oauth_consumer_secret. This allows us to authenticate our twitter app to access twitter as our twitter user. In this case I created an account called taylorplsrespnd. The reason its "respnd" not "respond" is because of Twitters username length restrictions. I also set up a display picture, cover photo and bio which describes a little bit more of what I am doing and why. It also links to taytay.4pi.com.au which is a count down to when R will be seeing Taylor Swift in concert, another present I got her for her birthday.
Next step was to send out a tweet. The sample code listed in the github repo for Twitterizer was as follows.
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Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal est un album live de King Crimson, enregistré en 1984 et sorti en 1998. L'enregistrement a eu lieu lors de la dernière prestation de leur tournée.

Titres

Toutes les chansons sont d'Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp et Tony Levin, hormis Red et Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II), qui sont de Robert Fripp seul.

Disque 1

 Entry of the Crims – 6:27
 Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part III) – 5:05
 Thela Hun Ginjeet – 7:07
 Red – 5:49
 Matte Kudasai – 3:45
 Industry – 7:31
 Dig Me – 3:59
 Three of a Perfect Pair – 4:30
 Indiscipline – 8:14

Disque 2

 Sartori in Tangier – 4:40
 Frame by Frame – 3:57
 Man With an Open Heart – 3:44
 Waiting Man – 6:26
 Sleepless – 6:08
 Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II) – 7:54
 Discipline – 5:04
 Heartbeat – 5:15
 Elephant Talk – 8:56

Formation

 Robert Fripp : guitare
 Adrian Belew : guitare, batterie, chant
 Tony Levin : basse, Chapman stick, synthétiseur, chant
 Bill Bruford : batterie, percussions

Album de King Crimson
Album live sorti en 1998
Album publié par Discipline Global Mobile


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The cabinet of the UAE, chaired by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the U.A.E. and ruler of Dubai, adopted a number of strategic decisions over foreign workers' insurance in the private sector, as well as a legislative package of visa facilitation.
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I went to see the aging crooner, Neil Diamond, in concert. As he moved quickly around the stage to Sweet Caroline I started wondering, how old is this man who devoted this song to Caroline Kennedy when she was 11 years old? She is the same age as me, does that mean Neil has been rocking for over 42 years? Was this really a man that would turn 72 in January?
His voice was not as strong as years past but the fun he was having on stage was palpable. He had the energy and enthusiasm of a 35 year old. His songs brought some woman to tears and as I looked around the arena there were 30 year old women going gaga over him.
By all accounts he should be home sitting in his rocking chair thinking about his golden years. Given the average American man lives only a little past 76, Neil shouldn't be buying green bananas. But he doesn't seem to care about his age. He cares about doing what he loves, music.
Neil inspired me tonight. He put the theory "Age is just a number," into real context.
So when your bones feel a little creaky in the morning, give yourself a break, let yourself out of age prison.
I'm Doug Griepp's cousin, and I enjoy reading your blog. I just returned from a trip to Portugal during which we kayaked the Douro River through wine country by day and stayed each night in historic vineyard estates feasting on local food and wine – our group of nine included mostly folks in their 70s. Two were single women, 75 and 76; one had climbed Kilimanjaro for her 72nd birthday, the other had only retired last year as a commercial architect and has been to more than 100 countries. Both have recently been on horse treks in Mongolia! The oldest guy in our group was 81, and fitter than many men in their 50s. He and his 72-year-old wife were out in front in our paddling group, and while his skin might have been a bit slack, you could still the muscle tone in his arms and chest when he'd strip down to his swimming trunks and go for a swim in the river. I'm 50, and I came home thinking, wow, I've got a LOT of years left to play! I know not everyone is fortunate enough to retain good health into their 'golden years,' but staying active and keeping a young mindset make a huge difference, as Neil D. shows us as well! Thanks for the inspiring reminder.


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The Most Attractive NBA Teams
While there are many attractive men among the over 450 players in the NBA, not all of them can be Ryan Gosling. So who are the most attractive players in the NBA? What teams or conferences are more or less attractive than others? Continue reading to learn more about the ballers that are ballin' when it comes to their looks.
Dropping Dimes – The NBA's Most Attractive Men
Kelly Oubre, Jr. is the only Washington Wizards player in the top 20 most attractive NBA players, and number one overall. Yes – Oubre, Jr. is the most attractive NBA athlete at just shy of a 7.75 out of 10. With his ultra-professional Instagram account, it's easy to see that it isn't just on-court appearances the baller is worried about. He wants to show off that sculpted body on the beaches too!
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Hello, J.J. This assassin from outside the 3-point line for the L.A. Clippers is laying claim to plenty of hearts and is the runner-up for most attractive player in the NBA. With a rating of almost 7.5 out of 10, participants looked very favorably on Redick. The league veteran exudes confidence on and off the court and employs a personal style that is anything but "dad bod." Just ask his kids!
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Raul Neto, also known as Raulzinho, plays some attractive basketball for the Utah Jazz but also lands in the top ten most attractive in the league. In between duties for both the Jazz and Brazilian national basketball team, Neto travels the world and looks good doing it. Check out Raul during one of his many adventures around the world. It's no wonder people are lining up for selfies with this Utah Jazz star.
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Beautiful Brotherhood – The NBA's Most Attractive Teams
One player can't win a championship – even LeBron knows you need at least a big three – so isn't an attractive team better than an attractive player? Across the league, no team had an attractiveness rating higher than a 5.5 out of 10, and most didn't average higher than 4.9. The Utah Jazz were the NBA's hottest team with an average attractiveness rating of nearly 5.5.
This full court press isn't just Neto's burden to bear. He's helped by teammate Trey Lyles, who is also one of the most attractive men in the NBA. Credit to the Jazz for representing the Western Conference well – they were one of the few teams outside the East with most attractive status.
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The Knicks, Raptors, Mavericks, and Suns rounded out the top five. The Raptors attractive lineup is led by the tenth most attractive player in the league, Cory Joseph. The former University of Texas guard doesn't just have a good looking performance on the court, but a great appearance at various locations – even the beach!
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East Coast Cuties – Most Attractive Players in the Eastern Conference
The Toronto Raptors and the New York Knicks came in second and third overall. Between these two teams – more equal in attractiveness than the product on the court – Sasha Vujacic was deemed the most attractive. He is one of two players on the Knicks roster to rate higher than a 6. Whether he's getting ready for a game or on the court, Vujacic is styling.
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The Orlando Magic hold their own as the sixth most attractive team in the league. Their top five most attractive players were rated at almost a 5.5 or above, with the highest at almost 6.4 in D.J. Augustin.
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Additionally, the Philadelphia 76ers – number nine in overall attractiveness – seem to be benefitting from the young group of players on their roster. Players like Ben Simmons (6.26) and Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot (6.10) both rank above 6.0 and help to drive up the team's average.
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Sun-Kissed Stars – Most Attractive Players in the Western Conference
While Russell Westbrook makes a case to be the NBA's Most Valuable Player almost nightly, he is only the fifth most attractive player on the Oklahoma City Thunder roster, behind teammates Alex Abrines, Josh Huestis, Andre Roberson, and Steven Adams.
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The Golden State Warriors are winners on the court, but they didn't fare as well when it came to attractiveness. Across the entire team, only two players were rated higher than a 5. Steph Curry managed the highest score among his teammates at 6.63 out of 10.
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The Grizzlies – the seventh most attractive team overall – are showing that age and beauty can often go hand in hand. At forty, future Hall of Famer Vince Carter rated second highest on the Memphis roster at a 6.51. With 19 years of experience, "Vinsanity" is still showing up the rest of the league on and off the court.
😂RT @memgrizz: That Vince Carter guy has a future in this league….😏 pic.twitter.com/5Yn9UWtilA
— Vince Carter (@mrvincecarter15) January 9, 2017
Kings of the Court – Most Attractive Positions
If you're a forward, odds are you're one of the most attractive men on the court. While some of the players in this position didn't make the top five, 10, or 20, they're still – as some might say – easy on the eyes.
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Centers, on average, were deemed to be the least attractive of all positions. Sorry, Tristan – even if you do know how to rock a leather jacket better than 99 percent of the world. Thompson, who plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers and dominates his position, may need to ask his peers to step up their fashion game.
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Player attractiveness was acquired by surveying 30 people per player and generating an average attractiveness rating. Player ratings were gathered prior to the 2017 NBA trade deadline.
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Top 10 Attractive NBA Players 2016-17
Kelly Oubre Jr. – Washington Wizards
J. J. Redick – Los Angeles Clippers
Kevin Love – Cleveland Cavaliers
Rudy Gobert – Utah Jazz
Chandler Parsons – Memphis Grizzlies
Trey Lyles – Utah Jazz
Tristan Thompson – Cleveland Cavaliers
Sasha Vujacic – New York Knicks
Alex Abrines – Oklahoma City Thunder
Raul Neto – Utah Jazz

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A naptime routine is key for us. We do an abbreviated version of our bedtime routine when it's time for my 2-year-old to nap. He does well most days, but some days he's not interested in napping.
I did better with a routine the 2nd time around. You learn so much being a first time mom!
I struggled with my first one & learned most of these with #2!
Amen to that Christine! I live for the days when both of my kids nap and I can too!
That is the coolest pillow, ever!
It really is. Surprisingly, my kids haven't fought over it yet!


During his time as an air traffic controller at the London Air Traffic Control Centre, Paul Crickmore gained a unique introduction into SR-71 operations from RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk. Teaming up with Osprey, he produced the first detailed book ever to be published on the subject. In 1990 following the initial shut down of SR-71 operations, Crickmore produced an even more detailed book, Lockheed SR-71 The Secret Missions Exposed, the standard reference work on the subject. The work was acclaimed by both the aviation press, Ben Rich (late president of the Skunk Works) and the crews that flew the SR-71.Jim Laurier is a native of New England and lives in New Hampshire. He attended Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, and since he graduated with honours, he has been working professionally in the field of Fine Art and Illustration. He has been commissioned to paint for the US Air Force and has aviation paintings on permanent display at the Pentagon.


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Bleary, I shuffled in and found him sitting on his bed looking sleepy and concerned. In the flurry of the evening's bedtime routine, his overnight undies (a.k.a. a Pull Up) had been forgotten.
I lifted him out of bed and onto the floor. He stood quietly while I replaced his squishy comforter with a crisp down one, tossed a thick fleece blanket over the wet sheet (thankfully, not too wet) and pulled some clean, dry pajama bottoms out of the bin. I sunk to sitting on the floor in front of him. We stripped off the wet pants in sleepy quiet, only the sound of the noise machine whirring, and he held my shoulders as I pulled up his overnight undies and cozies. I started to stand to return him, dry and sleepy, to his bed. But he stopped me, crawling quietly into my lap, curled into a little-boy ball of cotton and limbs.
"My mama," he whispered, more to himself than to me and we sat there for a few breaths to smell the warmth of one another before I put him back in his bed.
"Your mama, " I said, as I kissed his head and pulled up the cool covers.


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AN ANGEL SAID….
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And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. And the angel said to them, 'Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all people. For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.' And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
"Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace, to men of good will."
Love, licks and Christmas Blessings!
MR. Kippers and The Red Bull Herd!
CHRISTMAS JOB NEEDED
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Christmas Miracles Come in Many Forms
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DOG SWAPPING TO SOME,
CHRISTMAS MIRACLES TO OTHERS.
Swamp Roy was safely delivered yesterday to Glenna Wright , head of our BTCA National rescue. Glenna tirelessly works rescuing , orchestrating /overseeing and showing top standard bullies, as well as working in their veterinary clinic where her husband is the veterinarian. She keeps a schedule which would wear out most people!
Glenna's husband, Dr. Tom Wright, bull terrier vet extraordinaire, will take over Swamp Roy's care. His wounds will continue to be monitored and treated, he will be neutered and he will be evaluated, so that he will end up in the perfect forever home.
This picture was taken several years ago with Glenna. My only regret is that we didn't take a pic of us with each rescue that we've been involved with together.
Yesterday was a quadruple day of dog swapping. Four ladies met at a restaurant in Arkansas where we had lunch together and then used their parking lot for the "swap meet". 😉😊
Mary Holsen's own personal bully had a minor surgical procedure and was being returned to her, by Glenna, to take back to a Houston.
From Houston, Mary brought a bully to Glenna for Blue Ridge Bullterrier Rescue. That bully will be picked up from Glenna and then taken to her foster home in Kentucky. Classic Kippers along with others pledged the gas money to get "Athena" from Little Rock, Arkansas to Versailles, Kentucky.
Glenna also brought "Mr. Wilson", a bully whom Susan Young and I rescued from S. Louisiana some time ago, and who is now ready for his forever home. It was good to see him again and meet his new owner who drove over from Ft. Worth, Texas to pick him up. Mr. Wilson's new owner was positively beaming.
I had Swamp Roy who eagerly jumped into a Glenna's van and into a crate, as if he knew he was one step closer to a beautiful new life.
To the untrained eye, we were just four women- possibly appearing crazy to some – taking bull terriers out of cars and putting them in different cars, but what we really were doing was making happy Christmas miracles happen.
I may have been the only one returning with an empty crate, but I had a full heart. Three more lives saved and to those three, what better Christmas Miracle could there be?
MAKING A STATEMENT- NOT JEWELRY!
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WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS INCLUDED
Mr Kippers here. As you are aware, I am in the middle of a new campaign to raise awareness to STOP the chaining, tying of ropes and in my case, baling wire, around the neck of animals. My new campaign also launched my new line of neck adornment.
It is NOT jewelry! They are "STATEMENT" pieces because I am making a stand and "STATEMENT" against this atrocity!
My STATEMENT:
"Please join me, Mr. Kippers, by making certain that the only ropes or chains ever used on one's neck are those of adornment!
Classic Kippers stands united against all animal abuse!"
Soon my everyday "STATEMENT" pieces will soon be available for purchase at my online store, but my "collegiate" pieces are already divided into Pop Up Shops and can be found on my Classic Kippers Facebook page. FRIEND ME!
PLEASE purchase a ''STATEMENT'' piece for yourself or a gift and let's save the animals!
Remember all net profit goes to helping abused and abandoned animals.
I can also be emailed at: mrkippers@classickippers.com
Because of the incredible response to our ladies collection, we were able to make our first donation to a poor dog who fell victim to this insidious practice just this week.
I am including pictures within this post, but WARNING that they are GRAPHIC. I am not one to hide from these things, because I know the pain of abuse. IT IS REAL! I think EVERYONE should just take a look and I think you will see why our new line is so important. Buy a "STATEMENT" piece and help us to help abused and abandoned animals.
No animals were injured in the public relation photos which were taken of Miss Sophie Peach and me, but sadly the other photos are real.
FEBE'S LAST CALL
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"The Master said, 'Well done, my good and faithful servant…"
He did not choose a life of service, this noble black German Shepherd, but he stepped up and gave it his all when he was selected. "FEBE", which stands for Federal Bomb Expert, spent a decade patrolling Barksdale Air Force Base, as well as some of their airshows. He showed his mettle when used in K-9 demonstrations for different groups. He "swept" areas to prepare for the arrival of many dignitaries- among them a US President, a US Vice President, Foreign Dignitaries and high ranking Military Officers. He even searched polling sites in Iraq during their election. But his most important job, was protecting the lives of US soldiers at Camp Victory in Iraq and in doing so, he also safely brought home Amy Hollis' husband, father of Hunter, Jullian and Nicholas Hollis.
TSgt. Thomas David Hollis- Febe's handler.
To many, a K-9 is "just a dog", but to the soldier who handles him, and the many soldiers who depend on his keen nose to help keep them safe, he is a brother in arms. He IS one of them.
Tommy retired from the USAF in 2014, but not before he and Febe had been awarded the Army Commendation Medal and the Iraq Freedom Medal.
Then, when Febe retired in 2015, Tommy was there -ready to adopt him. For the last two years, Febe has been an integral part of the Hollis family.
He served as the Grand Marshal of The Krewe of Barkus and Meoux in 2016.
(FEBE AT KTBS TELEVISION DOING PR WITH 2014 GRAND MARSHAL, MR. KIPPERS AND 2015 GRAND MARSHAL, BRAVE HEART)
(FEBE ATTENDING THE JAZZ BRUNCH WITH MR KIPPERS IN 2016)
("PARADING" AT MAGNOLIA CHARTER SCHOOL'S MARDI GRAS CELEBRATION)
(MR KIPPERS AND FEBE SAYING THEIR FINAL GOODBYES)
Febe was honored by the Parkway Jr. ROTC on Veteran's Day of that same year. Febe and Tommy brought much happiness to the residents of the nursing homes and assisted living facilities they visited, but it appeared that his greatest joy was being with the Hollis family.
Despite his tough job, at heart, Febe was a sweetheart. Sadly, his retirement was not to be a long one, for Febe was diagnosed with advanced, inoperable bladder and pancreatic cancer this past week.
It was a devastating blow to those who loved him.
And today, Febe and Tommy's brothers in arms came to the Barksdale AFB Kennels, the place Febe called home when he was on active duty.
They came to say "goodbye". They came to thank him.
You see, Last Call came today for this old warrior. All radio traffic on the Security Forces channel was silenced for Military Working Dog Febe, Tag # LIMA 066. He was thanked for his devotion to duty, his service to our country and the United States Air Force and was cleared and secured for the last and final time on 19th September 2017, 0913 hours.
And so, the solemn procession began. The motorcade, escorting Febe's casket, was lead by members of the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Department on motorcycles and the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Posse. A Louisiana State Trooper K-9 unit, joined the cortège. With lights flashing, the motorcade wound its way through Bossier Parish for the 30 minute ride to the cemetery. Once off the Clyde Fant Parkway, we passed car after car on the shoulder of the road showing their respect. And as we traveled Hwy 154, just before the cemetery, two ladies, stood by the roadside waving big American flags in FEBE's honor. Tommy went back to thank them after the service.
Members of Parkway's Junior ROTC and the USAF K-9 handlers had borne his casket to this point, now it was going to be carried the final leg by two handlers, one of which was Tommy and the other, Military Working Dog Trainer, SSgt. Lammers, along with two of Tommy's sons, Jullian and Nick Hollis, family friend David Dinger and Mr. Kippers' "Dad", USAF Veteran, Gordon Clingan.
Winston Hall beautifully performed, "Go Rest High on That Mountain."
Retired MWD "FEBE" will be cremated and his ashes returned to the Hollis family.
To this noble German Shepherd, a United States Air Force war hero, we bid you Godspeed. And with apologies to Shakespeare…
"Good night noble Febe, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest, high on that mountain."
The honors have continued.
This morning, The Shreveport Times cover story was all about Febe and Tommy and as it was being read by the citizens of the Shreveport-Bossier area, Tommy Hollis and his son, Nick were in the Global Strike Command office of Brigadier General Skomers at Barksdale Air Force Base.
General Skomers presented a commemorative "coin" to Tommy, on behalf of Febe's service to the USAF and the United States of America. He also presented one to Nick for taking such good care of Febe during his retirement.
HURRICANE HARVEY, MR. KIPPERS TO THE RESCUE! (Texas)
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The first truck of my "Mr. Kippers' Flood Relief " loaded up Wednesday and headed out to South East Texas yesterday. Mom and I supervised.
My Mom, Amanda, is always apprehensive when she heads out because she feels very responsible for the thousands of dollars of precious cargo, in her care, donated by my followers. But she came home last night and although looking like she was in need of rescue herself, she had a big smile on her face. Sometimes I think she's getting too "long in the tooth" for this, but then I realize she just has big teeth- SHEESH!
I would like to have been there to oversee the situation myself, but someone has to stay here to oversee headquarters and if the truth be known, I've had so many surgeries and other issues that Mom worries about my immune system.
You should hear the stories coming out of all the flooded areas of Texas. According to infectious disease centers checking the water, there is all kinds of bacteria in the standing water left by the flooding. Not to mention sewage. Since I refuse to wear my little rubber boots, Mom said I couldn't go!
According to Mom it was a couple of days of "gifts". You know, gifts really do come in all shapes and sizes. First, Mr. Earl Ferguson brought his Chinaberry's truck over so that his crew, Mr Frank and Billy could get it loaded. They loaded us last year, so naturally we consider them part of Mr. Kippers' Flood Relief! Dad loaded as well as our friend, Veteran Tommy Hollis join us in the loading. Tommy, as I'm sure you'll remember, helped to unload people's supplies as they came to Classic Kippers' Headquarters to donate both this year and last. And then, MR . David Ogwyn appeared carrying the best HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES, made by his ever so thoughtful, fabulously talented, Chicago Cubs loving wife, Miss Mary. She made them last year too. I truly don't think Mom et al could make the trip without them. Thank you Miss Mary!
As most rescuers know, networking can be and usually is, the key to success and this emergency effort was no different. One of the reasons I believe that Mr Kippers' followers give so generously, is that they trust that their donations will unequivocally end up in the paws of those who are truly in need.
Mom already had Beaumont, Vidor, and Orange as the recipients of a truck load of supplies, but between the first wave of Hurricane Harvey and the second wave of flooding, she lost communications with the shelters. Not surprising since the city of Beaumont also shut off the water supply because it had been compromised. Even the hospital in Beaumont had to be evacuated and the NICU babies were airlifted to Shreveport along with other medical patients.
Mom was watching the donations increase two fold, but was anxious – she needed a contact down there and she needed it fast, as time was running out. "Ask and it shall be given…" It just so happened, that Mom's friend, Miss Tanya of Paws 4 Life, in Shreveport, has an incredible list of contacts. Through that list, Miss Tanya contacted John Getter from Best Friends Animal Society in Houston. She told him that Mom needed contacts for Beaumont, Vidor and/or Orange, Texas. Within a short period of time Miss Tanya had the number of Texas DPS officer, Sgt. Tamela Snider. Sgt Snider told Mom that the place to deliver was the Cowboy Church in Orange, Texas! It is located next to the EOC (Emergency Operations Center) for that area. She kindly gave Mom the directions and said that if Mom would call when she was on the way that she would meet her in Orange. You could almost see a peace come over my Mom.
On September 7th, 2017 as many of you already know, my Kippers' Flood Relief Team pulled out. Mr. Frank and Billy were in the Chinaberry's truck (graciously donated by Liz and Earl Ferguson) with Mom and Tommy Hollis in the Classic Kipper Mobile!
Once they were underway, Mom who was driving, handed her cell phone to Tommy and asked him to call the contact for Sergeant Snider. Tommy had an incredulous look on his face and it turned out that he and Sgt. Snider were stationed at Barksdale Air Force base and were deployed at the same time to Kuwait. I will refrain from saying it's a small world, but you get the drift.
As Team Kippers got closer to Orange they began to see devastation. Piles and piles of sheet rock, flooring, carpet and furniture stacked on the street in front of homes and businesses. We also began to see how high the water had been in that area.
What they did not expect was what they saw at the Cowboy Church. Often, supplies are just dumped off at different places which is what Mom tries to avoid. She knows that people have spent hard earned money on a lot of donations and both the people receiving and the people who donated, deserve that the items are taken care of from the time they arrive with Mom to the time they are in the paws of those in need.
As we approached the church there was a man in a cowboy hat with a clipboard. He wore a 4 H shirt and a smile. Mom told him that they were Kippers' Flood Relief from Shreveport and he told us where to go first.
The parishioners of that church, many of whom are probably involved in 4H, as well as the 4H club itself where there handling every aspect of the donation process. There is nothing that donors want to see more than an organized situation!
Once inside the staging area, we found Sgt. Tamela Snider waiting for us. I was glad to meet her and she and Tommy were glad to see one another after 13 years. As a military friend told me last night, "Military friendships are long-lasting."
First Team Kippers dropped our crates off at the "crate drop", then they circled around by the big tent in the middle where cleaning supplies were unloaded by both Billy, Frank and Tommy, as well as inmates from that county prison, who were helping to unload donations. The church and 4-H ladies had everything under control and in perfect order. Next the cases of water were dropped off at their location.
While Mom was watching Tommy, Frank and Billy unload, she saw a very disheveled woman picking up a bag of dog food. A woman walked over, clipboard in hand, and very kindly with asked, "May I help you?" The disheveled woman replied that she needed food for her dog and water. The lady smiled and said, "Let me get your name, address, how many dogs you have and what your needs are?" The disheveled lady smiled- tears in her eyes. A far cry from some of the horror stories we have read about online concerning the treatment of those in need.
Then our truck went to the location where the pallets of dog food, cat food, and litter would be unloaded. Team Kippers crew was very excited when a man told them that our pallets would be unloaded by a tractor.
Those are all our pallets
Soon another woman walked up who had delivered a load of hay. (Not this load)
Oh yes, this wonderful staging area was feeding every kind of animal under the sun from farm animals to domestic pets. The 4-H /church ladies profusely thanked her for the hay to which she replied that it was her pleasure and then said, "I'm going to wait here for a while to see if I need to deliver anything to people who are not able to get here." I was told that there were a lot of people with big, high water trucks who came to take food and supplies to people who were housebound with their pets or in need of help with livestock.
For those living in Orange County Texas and it's environs, you have wonderful neighbors who have organized and worked long hours to make sure that you get what you need in the way of taking care of your animals.
And to those of you across the county, Canada and even Germany, I want you to know that the items and money you gave are most appreciated. You can rest assured knowing that every single item was needed and received by those desperately in need.
Team Kippers saw humanity today or in this case "fur-manity" – actually both. It's something not seen often enough, but today, at the Cowboy Church of Orange, Texas- humanity was alive and well!
We also know what it's like to send a check to help, but there's always that little nagging feeling of whether your donation actually made it to those in need. That's why my Mom goes with the donations and takes pictures. It is my hope that this blog and these pictures will make your hearts feel good because if there's one thing we know, Mr. Kippers has the best friends and followers in the whole wide world!
So many dear friends, and people whom we did not even know before last week, have given so much and I do not know which ones would prefer to remain anonymous, so for now, just know that I am humbled by your generosity, blessed by the faith you have in me and grateful that there are still people in this world with heart. Some gave "all they could" others wrote big checks, but in my piggy little eyes, I only saw generosity, love and the beauty of their "just wanting to help".
Despite the fact that Classic Kippers is supporting the rescue of ALL dogs and cats, no matter their "lineage", I would like to say a special thank you to two organizations who are very near to my little Bull Terrier heart.
The Rescue Welfare Trust Fund of Bull Terrier Club of America and the
Mini Bull Terrier Club of America who both stepped up to the plate in a big way to support my mission to "pay forward" my good fortune by helping others.
Our mission is not finished. We load next Tuesday and head to South Louisiana on Wednesday.
Please, continued prayers for those devastated by Hurricane Harvey and those in the path of Hurricane Irma.
Here are some photos given to us by Sgt. Snider of the county:
TOM CRUISE- move waaaaaay over!
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Miss Sophie Peach and I are taking a break from working on my
CLASSIC KIPPERS' FALL COLLECTION for ladies!
Excitement is building, energy is at a pinnacle and adrenaline is flowing!!!
So join us in shaking a leg…
BOX AFTER BOX AFTER BOX!
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My Classic Kippers Team is hard at work on my Fall Collection!
Today my Mom really put in some long hours. Of course I periodically checked to make certain that my high standard of quality is maintained, but today she was by herself, so Miss Sophie Peach and I just made ourselves comfy and kept her company all day. She must have either been intimidated by the boss being around or she was just on a roll because she produce a number of pieces!
Also, the 250 piece mark in product production has been achieved! Miss Sophie Peach and I felt this milestone needed to be recognized! Yep, all those old boxes are now storing my brand new Classic Kippers' fall collection! It will debut in Shreveport on Oct. 10th and at my online store on Oct 12th!
Please consider purchasing something from my new collection for someone you care about this Christmas! Remember, it's two gifts in one! You get a fantastic item, MADE IN AMERICA, but the best part is that the net profit from the purchase of your gift, goes to help abused and abandoned animals. Isn't that what we're supposed to do? Help others?
My bowties can be purchased at John Pickens Clothier in Shreveport and at Olivine in Houston, TX (Rice Village)!
But, if you are REALLY an animal lover, my autobiography makes a beautiful gift too! The plaid cover even looks like Christmas!
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AMAZING GRACIE
It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I must tell you that heaven has gained a new angel and I have lost a part of my heart.
I have been remiss in posting this sad news.
Those of you who have followed me these past four years are aware that I am here by the Grace of God, the doctors who worked tirelessly to save me, my parents who refused to give up, the friends who supported them and Miss Amazing Gracie- MY ROCK.
You see, when I faced the most serious fight of my life, a surgery that I had less than a 50% chance of surviving, not to mention the grim complications that plagued me, Amazing Gracie went into action. She and her mom, Jan brought Holy Water and a beautiful crate cross which Mom made sure was with me at all times.
Gracie continued to send me notes of encouragement and prayed for me every night. She wore one of my bow ties to honor me, but in truth, it is I who was honored by her friendship.
You know, Dr Treadwell my Internist, used to sing Amazing Grace to me at the hospital before my bedtime. Back then, I thought she was singing about my friend Gracie and I guess, in a way, she was.
Gracie slipped from these earthly bonds having lived a very long and wonderful life with her beloved people, Miss Jan and Mr. Jay.
To them I send my most sincere condolences.
Godspeed precious Gracie, you will always be Amazing and MY ROCK.
A MOMENT OF SILENCE IN HER HONOR PLEASE
AHOY MATEYS!!!!
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AHOY MATEYS!
Avast Ye!
Captain Kipp here with the bonnie lass Peaches O'Malley.
Crack open the barrel so I can wet me pipes and serve ye up the rest of the grog for we have much to celebrate! The Krewe of Barkus and Meoux will sail the high seas this fair Mardi Gras season as "Pawrets of the Cattabean"!! And there's more!
The Jolly Roger is flying high; the booty was plentiful on the HMS Revenge!
There will be no hornswaggling on this ship or the bilge rat will be keelhauled!
Give me my spy scope. Sail ho! (Ship of unknown intentions approaches)
Lad! Tell that ship to strike her colours! What's that you say?
Walk the plank? Sir Kirby?
Hard to starboard!
Lads, we shall rescue me
swashbuckling mate.
Aye, Aye Captain Kipp!
There will be no quarter given!
Send them to Davy Jones' locker!
Now mates!!!
FIRE IN THE HOLE!!


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Q: Showing only one feature per Report page in QGIS 3 The gift of Reports in QGIS is a massive step in the right direction. I have set up a department template for my team to use and it looks great!
Right now, I am attempting to setup a report that will output one route at a time (I am a transport planner) to allow us to visually inspect how the routes were programmed into the network model. To do this, I used the old method that you could use for atlases by setting up a symbology style that would only show the current atlas feature:
$id = @atlas_featureid

This works great for the first section of the report. Unfortunately, the second section not so much. In the second section, the title matches the zoom (the title gives the route number and description) but the line visible is the wrong route. Is there any reason using the above expression wouldn't also work for reports with multiple sections?
I also tried I also tried "Route" = Attribute( @atlas_feature , 'Route') to see if that would fix it. I had the same problem.
Bonus: I also tried intersects( $geometry , @atlas_geometry ) and now I'm beginning to think this is a bug. See update below.
Update: I have noticed that the layer from Group 1 is still showing even though a different layer is selected for group two (as shown in the pictures below). The setup for Section 2 is provided in the screenshot below, however.

A: The problem arose due to thinking that selecting the layer to iterate over would also be the one that was visible throughout the printing process. However, because there is no preview of pages in Report mode yet, it makes it impossible to actually see what's going on as it renders each page.
If, like me, you need to only have one layer on at a time, you will need to create a report preset for each section of the report.

Following this, as you create your report body for each section, you will need to assign that preset to each map of each section manually.

Now, I used "Route" = Attribute( @atlas_feature , 'Route') but I imagine using $id = @atlas_featureid would also work as the rule in the symbology for each of your data layers. Important to note the ELSE that's there as well. I think that is required to make sure it knows there are things to print. I just set it to a fully transparent line.

Now you will be able to create a whole report with a single feature on each page of each layer in individual sections.
Sometimes you just have to remember that QGIS is actually quite a "dumb" program. But being that way makes it so much more flexible, so you've gotta take the slightly longer workflows with the good.

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Embryonic
Mon Nov 09, 2009 | 6:00am
Love 'em or hate 'em, it's tough to deny the genius of the Flaming Lips. On this, the band's 12th studio album, Wayne Coyne and his fellow psychedelic merry-makers return with a collage of songs that hark back to early Lips days, replete with barely there production values and bizarre-o instrumental flourishes. Tracks like "Sagittarius Silver Announcement" and "Worm Mountain" are classic Flaming Lips, packed tight with computer noise, high-pitched harmonization, and muddied guitars to create something that sounds like an acid trip. For "Evil," Coyne & Co. let minimalist, spacey effects slowly lead the way to haunting vocals and eerily grainy guitar distortion, while "Silver Trembling Hands" creates a world where cheesy '80s synth and Rodgers & Hammerstein-style overtures meld perfectly. In short, Embryonic is whacked-out grandiosity done on the lo-fi tip, and the result is nothing short of spectacular.
https://www.independent.com/2009/11/09/flaming-lips/


Indirect immunofluorescence imaging of human epithelial type 2 (HEp-2) cell image is an effective evidence to diagnose autoimmune diseases. Recently, computer-aided diagnosis of autoimmune diseases by the HEp-2 cell classification has attracted great attention. However, the HEp-2 cell classification task is quite challenging due to large intraclass and small interclass variations. In this paper, we propose an effective approach for the automatic HEp-2 cell classification by combining multiresolution co-occurrence texture and large regional shape information. To be more specific, we propose to: 1) capture multiresolution co-occurrence texture information by a novel pairwise rotation-invariant co-occurrence of local Gabor binary pattern descriptor; 2) depict large regional shape information by using an improved Fisher vector model with RootSIFT features, which are sampled from large image patches in multiple scales; and 3) combine both features. We evaluate systematically the proposed approach on the IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2012, the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2013, and the ICPR 2014 contest datasets. The proposed method based on the combination of the introduced two features outperforms the winners of the ICPR 2012 contest using the same experimental protocol. Our method also greatly improves the winner of the ICIP 2013 contest under four different experimental setups. Using the leave-one-specimen-out evaluation strategy, our method achieves comparable performance with the winner of the ICPR 2014 contest that combined four features.
The work of X. Qi, G. Zhao, and M. Pietikäinen was supported by the Academy of Finland and Infotech Oulu. The work of C.-G. Li and J. Guo was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61273217 and 61175011, and the 111 project under Grant B08004 from the Ministry of Education of China.


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Goodyear's first new blimp design in 45 years... isn't actually a blimp
Mariella Moon|@mariella_moon|March 14, 2014 8:46 PM
For 45 years, Goodyear has been using the same ole model for its Blimp fleet, famous for flashing ads in the skies and taking aerial shots of big events. Now, the tire company has finally launched the first dirigible in its next-generation fleet, and it's not even a blimp anymore -- it's a zeppelin. Considering blimp technology's remained largely the same all this time (imagine, the last time Goodyear bothered with a new design was when Apollo 11 landed on the moon), the switch is certainly understandable. This model (called Zeppelin NT) is capable of vertical take off and landing, and is larger and faster than the company's current airships, thanks to its three movable engines. Unlike traditional zeppelins with rigid structures, though, it's more of a zeppelin-blimp hybrid, as it relies both on internal pressure and a frame to maintain its shape.
The new aircraft, which set the company back $20 million, is 52 feet longer and 20mph faster (at 246 feet long with a max speed of 73mph) than Goodyear's current ones. It's the first of three zeppelins the company plans to build, and it's slated to begin its test flights sometime this month from Wingfoot Lake Hangar in Ohio. Wondering how it feels to fly on a dirigible? We hope you're good at naming things, then, because Goodyear's taking suggestions for the airship's name. The winner will get exclusive use of the zeppelin -- and its bathroom with a window! -- for a day.
dirigible


(July 26, 2018) Ralph DeAngelus of the Matt Ortt Companies used a portion of the Ocean Pines Clubs Committee last Thursday to discuss plans for promotions and events at the Ocean Pines Yacht Club.
DeAngelus said a trivia night has been penciled in for Thursdays, starting this fall, in the upstairs banquet area. He said the event would likely be more traditional than prior trivia nights at the club, which included lots of digital bells and whistles.
He teased heavy promotions during the upcoming NFL season, including the addition of more TVs at the club. Those would likely occur during Sunday games, as DeAngelus said he believed the "ship had sailed" on Monday Night Football and during Thursday night games, although there were still plans to broadcast those.
A large buffet is planned for Thanksgiving, to include two-to-three seatings on the first and second floors, and low prices in order to attract local families.
"We've got some great things coming around the corner, [including] Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve, the 50-Year Bash, the schedule moving forward [and] a Halloween party," he added.
Before the yacht club reduces its hours during the fall, DeAngelus said he would offer specials to help clear out inventory.
He said plans were also to offer curbside service and delivery during the shoulder season.


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Toolbox for inclusive HTML5 application creation and deployment.

`npm install inclusive-toolbox -g` to install.

# Initial OAuth environment variable setup
The OAuth consumer is ready to use under bitbucket [inclusive-activities](https://bitbucket.org/account/user/inclusive-activities/api) team. Add both `BITBUCKET_KEY`(The consumer key) and `BITBUCKET_SECRET`(the consumer secret) into the system environment variables. This allows toolbox to authenticate, authorize and setup repository via bitbucket REST API.

# New Application
Run `toolbox new <appName>` to create a new application.

# Deployment
Under the root of the application. Run `toolbox deploy` to start the deployment process. It will prompt you with step by step instruction.

Use `npm version [<newversion> | major | minor | patch | premajor | preminor | prepatch | prerelease]` if you have no tag yet, or you can try to deploy `HEAD`.

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Jobbágyi község Nógrád vármegyében, a Pásztói járásban.

Fekvése
Jobbágyi Nógrád vármegyében, a Mátra alján, a Nagy-Hársas hegy lábánál fekszik, a falut a Zagyva folyó és a 21-es főút szeli ketté; a belterület nagyobb része a főút nyugati oldalára esik, a főúttól keletre eső községrész a Losonci út, illetve Kisjobbágyi nevet viseli.

A települést érintő utak még a 21-esen felül a Galgagutától induló 2129-es mellékút (Magyarország), amely csaknem 30 kilométer megtétele után itt torkollik bele a 21-esbe, körforgalmú csomóponttal, valamint a 2405-ös mellékút (Magyarország), amely ugyanebből a körforgalomból indul a község keleti része és Apc felé. Utóbbiból ágazik ki északnak, a kisjobbágyi községrészben a 24 103-as út, amely az egykori jobbágyi "csokoládégyár", a 7405. számú titkos fegyver- és lőszergyár objektumának bejáratáig vezet. (Maga az út tovább húzódik észak felé, a jelenleg is zárt honvédségi objektumon belül is, annak északi kijáratától 24 104-es számozással halad Szurdokpüspöki lakott területéig.)

A település megközelíthető vasúton is, a Hatvan–Somoskőújfalu-vasútvonalon. Vasúti megállóhelye a 21-es főúttól mintegy 300 méterre, közvetlenül a 2405-ös út mellett fekszik.

Szomszédos települések: északról Szurdokpüspöki, nyugatról Szarvasgede, délről Apc határolja.

Története
Jobbágyi és környéke már az ősidők óta lakott hely volt, határa gazdag lelőhelye a kő-, bronz-, népvándorlás- és honfoglalás kori leleteknek.

Nevét 1342-ben említette először oklevél, a falut ekkor az Aba nemzetségből származott Szalánczi Miklós, a Jobbágyi család őse szerezte meg Szurdokpüspökivel együtt, aki 1344-ben e helységékre szabad ispánságot is nyert és utóbb át is költözött Jobbágyiba, ahol később fia Péter (1363-1375) is birtokos volt. 1424-ben Tari Lőrinc és fia Rupert nyerték a falut adományba Zsigmond királytól. 1454-ben Tari Rupert fia György birtokában volt, 1465-ben azonban Tari György, Guthi Országh Mihálynak zálogosította el. Halála után az Országh és a Nánai Kompolthi családokra szállt, majd 1598-ban Török István, 1754-ben Kanyó György volt itt birtokos, 1770-ben báró Haller Samu tábornok, báró Révay László, Bossányi Júlia és a Nikházy család, 1826-ban pedig gróf Berényi Terézia, Baloghy Lajos, gróf Stahrembergné és a Fáy család. Később pedig Sréter György, Cebrián Antal, Baloghy Lajos, Dobóczky Ignácz, Reviczky Mária, özvegy Koósné szül. Fáy Zsuzsánna volt itt a birtokos.
A 19. század közepén Posztóczky János, Frivaldszky Imre, gróf Cebrián Ferencz és Meskó Johanna, a 20. század elején pedig Szent-Ivány Farkasné szül. Patay Jolán, Bérczy Géza és neje Bencsik Mária, továbbá gróf Degenfeld Lajos a legnagyobb birtokosai.

1831-ben a kolera miatt zendülés tört ki a községben, 1856-ban pedig a falu nagy része leégett, majd 1873-ban ismét a kolerajárvány pusztított a lakosok között. A jobbágyi bor, mely a filoxéra-pusztítás előtt országos hírű és a lakosság fő jövedelmi forrása volt. A 20. század elején már inkább a gyümölcstermesztésre helyeztek nagyobb súlyt, Bérczy Gézánénak volt itt 7 holdas cseresznye ültetvénye, amely akkor a legnagyobbnak számított az országban. A termését Bécsbe és az osztrák tartományokba szállították. A helység határában az egyik dűlőt Vámpart-dűlőnek nevezik, mert ezen vezetett a Szuhavölgyön át menő út, melyen azelőtt vámot is szedtek, és a vámszedőnek is volt háza a közelben. A községhez tartozó Kisjobbágyi-puszta a Révayak birtoka volt, akiktől Posztóczky Iván, tőle pedig 1900-ban Szent-Ivány Farkasné szül. Patay Jolán vásárolta meg. Az itteni úri lakot 1880-ban Posztóczky Iván építtette. Az e birtokhoz tartozó kőbányában még Posztóczky idejében, mammut-csontvázakat találtak, melyekből azonban csak töredékeket lehetett kiemelni, miután földomlás következtében két munkás járt szerencsétlenül. Ugyancsak e puszta határában, a Hermann szőlőben, a múlt század eleje körül száznál több honfoglalás kori sírt találtak, melyeknek egy része a Nemzeti Múzeumba került.
A 20. század elején Nógrád vármegye Sziráki járásához tartozott. 1910-ben 1659 lakosából 1495 római katolikus, 27 evangélikus, 41 izraelita volt.
2001-ben a település lakosságának 94%-a magyar, 6%-a cigány nemzetiségűnek vallotta magát.

Közélete

Polgármesterei
 1990–1994: Majoros László (független)
 1994–1998: Jancsó György (független)
 1998–2002: Majoros László (független)
 2002–2006: Majoros László (független)
 2006–2010: Majoros László (független)
 2010–2014: Farkas Attila (Fidesz-KDNP)
 2014–2019: Schoblocher István (független)
 2019-től: Schoblocher István (független)

Népesség
A település népességének változása:

A 2011-es népszámlálás során a lakosok 86,9%-a magyarnak, 17,8% cigánynak, 0,2% németnek mondta magát (13% nem nyilatkozott; a kettős identitások miatt a végösszeg nagyobb lehet 100%-nál). A vallási megoszlás a következő volt: római katolikus 42,4%, református 2,2%, evangélikus 1,2%, görögkatolikus 0,3%, felekezeten kívüli 19,7% (27,7% nem nyilatkozott).

Nevezetességei
 Templomának déli falán középkori részletek láthatók a román kori és a gótikus templomból.
 A község Szurdokpüspöki felé eső végénél található az egykori Andezit Művek, ami Magyarország egyik legnagyobb földalatti hadiüzeme volt. Az 1952-ben a Mátra egyik vonulata alá rejtett titkos lőszergyárat 1960. december 31-én zárták be véglegesen. Jelenlegi funkciója nem ismert, de ma is aktív, feltehetően kormánybunker.

Híres emberek

 Itt halt meg 1870. október 19-én Frivaldszky Imre (frivaldi) természettudós, az MTA tagja (született 1799-ben).
 Itt lakott (1808 és 1810 között) és itt írta Mátrai vadászat című munkáját Fáy András író (1786–1864).
 Bérczy Károly (1821–1867) újságíró, író, korának egyik legjelesebb műfordítója Jobbágyiban tevékenykedett, sírja a község temetőjében található.
 Itt született 1867. szeptember 9-én Gubányi Károly vasútmérnök, utazó, író.
 Itt alkotott és hunyt el Mészöly Géza (1844–1887) tájképfestő.

Jegyzetek

Források
 Borovszky Samu: Nógrád vármegye

További információk
 Jobbágyi község hivatalos honlapja
 Vasútállomás

Nógrád megye települései
Nógrád vármegye települései


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'''
This module offers easy-to-understand methods that you can use to
interact with LEGO Mindstorms EV3 bricks.

Tested on:
- OS X 10.9.3 with Python 2.7.6

To do:
- all other EV3 commands! (only a couple are implemented here)
- USB capability
- WiFi capability
- error checking
- multiple layers support
- Linux support
- Windows support

Author: Thiago Marzagao (tmarzagao at gmail dot com)

See firmware source code (https://github.com/mindboards/ev3sources) for
info on the data types and opcodes used here.
'''

from dec_to_hex import h # decimal-to-hexadecimal dictionary

# globals
PRIMPAR_SHORT = 0x00
PRIMPAR_LONG = 0x80
PRIMPAR_CONST = 0x00
PRIMPAR_VALUE = 0x3F
PRIMPAR_GLOBAL = 0x20
PRIMPAR_INDEX = 0x1F
PRIMPAR_VARIABEL = 0x40
PRIMPAR_1_BYTE = 1
PRIMPAR_2_BYTES = 2
PRIMPAR_4_BYTES = 3

def LC0(v):
    '''
    create 1-byte local constant
    '''
    byte1 = ((v & PRIMPAR_VALUE) | PRIMPAR_SHORT | PRIMPAR_CONST)
    return h[byte1]

def LC1(v):
    '''
    create 2-byte local constant
    '''
    byte1 = (PRIMPAR_LONG | PRIMPAR_CONST | PRIMPAR_1_BYTE)
    byte2 = (v & 0xFF)
    return h[byte1] + h[byte2]

def LC2(v):
    '''
    create 3-byte local constant
    '''
    byte1 = (PRIMPAR_LONG | PRIMPAR_CONST | PRIMPAR_2_BYTES)
    byte2 = (v & 0xFF)
    byte3 = ((v >> 8) & 0xFF)
    return h[byte1] + h[byte2] + h[byte3]

def LC4(v):
    '''
    create 5-byte local constant
    '''
    byte1 = (PRIMPAR_LONG  | PRIMPAR_CONST | PRIMPAR_4_BYTES)
    byte2 = (v & 0xFF)
    byte3 = ((v >> 8) & 0xFF)
    byte4 = ((v >> 16) & 0xFF)
    byte5 = ((v >> 24) & 0xFF)
    return h[byte1] + h[byte2] + h[byte3] + h[byte4] + h[byte5]

def GV0(v):
    '''
    create 1-byte global variable
    '''
    return h[((v & PRIMPAR_INDEX) | PRIMPAR_SHORT | PRIMPAR_VARIABEL | PRIMPAR_GLOBAL)]

class ev3:

    '''
    this class lets you interact with EV3 bricks

    arguments used in more than one method:

    degrees: 0...MAX
        type: int
        obs.: unit is degrees (360 degrees = 1 full turn)
    layer: 0, 1, 2, 3
        type: int
        obs.: use 0 unless you have multiple EV3 bricks
    port: 1, 2, 3, 4
        type: int
        obs.: sensor port
    ports: a, b, c, d, any combinations thereof
        type: str or iterable
        obs.: motor ports
        examples: 'a', 'bcd', ['d', 'c'], ['a'], ('c', 'b')
    power: -100...+100
        type: int
        obs.: -100 is full power backward, 100 is full power forward
    ramp_down: 0...MAX
        type: int
        obs.: makes deceleration constant;
              unit is degrees (motor_degrees)
              or milliseconds (motor_time)
    ramp_up: 0...MAX
        type: int
        obs.: makes acceleration constant;
              unit is degrees (motor_degrees)
              or milliseconds (motor_time)
    speed: -100...100
        type: int
        obs.: -100 is full speed backward, 100 is full speed forward
              CAREFUL! speed will adjust power to keep robot moving at
              constant pace regardless of load or obstacles, so it may
              damage your robot
    stop: 'brake', 'coast'
        type: str
    time: 0...MAX
        type: int
        obs.: unit is milliseconds
    turn: -200...200
        type: int
        obs.: turn ratio between two synchronized motors
              0 value is moving straight forward
              negative values turn to the left
              positive values turn to the right
              -100 value stops the left motor
              +100 value stops the right motor
              values less than -100 make the left motor run the
                opposite direction of the right motor (spin)
              values greater than +100 make the right motor run the
                opposite direction of the left motor (spin)
    '''

    def __init__(self):

        '''
        data used in more than one method
        '''

        self.ports_to_int = {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 4, 'd': 8}
        self.stops = {'brake': 1, 'coast': 0}

    def connect(self, conn_type):

        '''
        connect to EV3

        conn: 'bt' (bluetooth), 'usb', 'wifi'
        '''

        conn_types = {'bt': '/dev/tty.EV3-SerialPort',
                      'usb': '', # must add usb support
                      'wifi': ''} # must add wifi support
        self.brick = open(conn_types[conn_type], mode = 'w+', buffering = 0)

    def motor_start(self, ports, power, layer=0):

        '''
        start motors
        '''

        # map ports: str->int
        ports = sum([self.ports_to_int[port] for port in ports])

        # set message size, message counter, command type, vars
        comm_0 = '\x0D\x00\x00\x00\x80\x00\x00'

        # opOUTPUT_POWER
        comm_1 = '\xA4' + LC0(layer) + LC0(ports) + LC1(power)

        # opOUTPUT_START
        comm_2 = '\xA6' + LC0(layer) + LC0(ports)

        # assemble command and send to EV3
        command = comm_0 + comm_1 + comm_2
        self.brick.write(command)

    def motor_stop(self, ports, stop='coast', layer=0):

        '''
        stop motors
        '''

        # map ports: str->int
        ports = sum([self.ports_to_int[port] for port in ports])

        # map mode: str->int
        stop = self.stops[stop]

        # set message size, message counter, command type, vars
        comm_0 = '\x09\x00\x01\x00\x80\x00\x00'

        # opOUTPUT_STOP
        comm_1 = '\xA3' + LC0(layer) + LC0(ports) + LC0(stop)

        # assemble command and send to EV3
        command = comm_0 + comm_1
        self.brick.write(command)

    def motor_degrees(self, ports, power, degrees, stop='brake',
                      ramp_up=0, ramp_down=0, layer=0):

        '''
        start motors and stop them after specified number of degrees
        (accurate to +/- 1 degree)
        '''

        # map ports: str->int
        ports = sum([self.ports_to_int[port] for port in ports])

        # map mode: str->int
        stop = self.stops[stop]

        # set message size, message counter, command type, vars
        comm_0 = '\x1D\x00\x00\x00\x80\x00\x00'

        # opOUTPUT_STEP_POWER
        comm_1 = '\xAC' + LC0(layer) + LC0(ports) + LC1(power) \
                 + LC4(ramp_up) + LC4(degrees) + LC4(ramp_down) \
                 + LC0(stop)

        # opOUTPUT_START
        comm_2 = '\xA6' + LC0(layer) + LC0(ports)

        # assemble command and send to EV3
        command = comm_0 + comm_1 + comm_2
        self.brick.write(command)

    def motor_time(self, ports, power, time, stop='brake',
                   ramp_up=0, ramp_down=0, layer=0):

        '''
        start motors and stop them after specified number of
        milliseconds
        '''

        # map ports: str->int
        ports = sum([self.ports_to_int[port] for port in ports])

        # map mode: str->int
        stop = self.stops[stop]

        # set message size, message counter, command type, vars
        comm_0 = '\x1D\x00\x00\x00\x80\x00\x00'

        # opOUTPUT_TIME_POWER
        comm_1 = '\xAD' + LC0(layer) + LC0(ports) + LC1(power) \
                 + LC4(ramp_up) + LC4(time) + LC4(ramp_down) \
                 + LC0(stop)

        # opOUTPUT_START
        comm_2 = '\xA6' + LC0(layer) + LC0(ports)

        # assemble command and send to EV3
        command = comm_0 + comm_1 + comm_2
        self.brick.write(command)

    def turn_degrees(self, ports, speed, turn, degrees, stop='brake',
                           layer=0):

        '''
        move two motors in sync for specified number of degrees
        (to make robot turn)
        '''

        # map ports: str->int
        ports = sum([self.ports_to_int[port] for port in ports])

        # map mode: str->int
        stop = self.stops[stop]

        # set message size, message counter, command type, vars
        comm_0 = '\x13\x00\x00\x00\x80\x00\x00'

        # opOUTPUT_STEP_SYNC
        comm_1 = '\xB0' + LC0(layer) + LC0(ports) + LC1(speed) + LC2(turn) \
                 + LC4(degrees) + LC0(stop)

        # assemble command and send to EV3
        command = comm_0 + comm_1
        self.brick.write(command)

    def turn_time(self, ports, speed, turn, time, stop='brake', layer=0):

        '''
        move two motors in sync for specified number of milliseconds
        (to make robot turn)
        '''

        # map ports: str->int
        ports = sum([self.ports_to_int[port] for port in ports])

        # map mode: str->int
        stop = self.stops[stop]

        # set message size, message counter, command type, vars
        comm_0 = '\x13\x00\x00\x00\x80\x00\x00'

        # opOUTPUT_TIME_SYNC
        comm_1 = '\xB0' + LC0(layer) + LC0(ports) + LC1(speed) + LC2(turn) \
                 + LC4(time) + LC0(stop)

        # assemble command and send to EV3
        command = comm_0 + comm_1
        self.brick.write(command)

    def clear_tacho(self, ports, layer=0):

        '''
        clear specified tachometers
        '''

        # map ports: str->int
        ports = sum([self.ports_to_int[port] for port in ports])

        # set message size, message counter, command type, vars
        comm_0 = '\x08\x00\x00\x00\x80\x00\x00'

        # opOUTPUT_CLR_COUNT
        comm_1 = '\xB2' + LC0(layer) + LC0(ports)

        # assemble command and send to EV3
        command = comm_0 + comm_1
        self.brick.write(command)

    def read_sensor(self, port, layer=0):

        '''
        read sensor (unit: percentage)
        '''

        # map ports
        port -= 1

        # set message size, message counter, command type, vars
        comm_0 = '\x0B\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00'

        # opINPUT_READ
        comm_1 = '\x9A' + LC0(layer) + LC0(port) + '\x00\x00\x60'

        # assemble command and send to EV3
        command = comm_0 + comm_1
        self.brick.write(command)

        # retrieve sensor value (5th byte) and convert to int
        sensor_data = self.brick.read(6)
        return int(hex(ord(sensor_data[5])), 16)

    def play_tone(self, volume, frequency, duration):

        '''
        plays tone

        volume: 0...100
            type: int
        frequency: ? (must check)
            type: int
            obs.: unit is Hz
        duration: 0...MAX
            type: int
            obs.: unit is milliseconds
        '''

        # set message size, message counter, command type, vars
        comm_0 = '\x0F\x00\x00\x00\x80\x00\x00'

        # opSOUND
        comm_1 = '\x94' + LC0(1) + LC1(volume) + LC2(frequency) \
                 + LC2(duration)

        # assemble command and send to EV3
        command = comm_0 + comm_1
        self.brick.write(command)

    def disconnect(self):

        ''''
        disconnect from EV3
        '''

        self.brick.close()