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Jeffrey Carroll, Ph.D.
Jeffrey N. Carroll, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Political Science at Chestnut Hill College (Philadelphia, PA) and Chair of the Center for Data & Society (D&S), a faculty collaboration among the computer, mathematical, and social sciences whose mission is to investigate how data and information can be best used to understand the communities in which we live. D&S's programs are comprised of 9 distinct major programs and 13 minor programs that include the Minor in Data Studies for Social Good (DSSG). Jeffrey was recently appointed to a three year term as the First Vice President of the Pennsylvania Political Science Association.
Jeffrey's scholarly interests lie in American Politics with special attention to urban affairs, social geography, and civic engagement. He has served as an invited speaker nationally and internationally in events that center on race, political culture, and campaigns and elections. His work has been published in Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, Commonwealth: Journal of Pennsylvania Politics and Policy, Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, Pennsylvania Geographer, and Journal of Political Science Education. Standing research projects delve into the political geography of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania's voters, state and local public policy, racial politics, and an empirical investigation of the idea of "American Exceptionalism" with his long-time collaborator, Dr. David Contosta. Jeffrey's scholarship has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times and Newsweek.
Other recent public facing activities include "Beatlab" (Philadelphia's first hip-hop centric music studio that fosters messages of social justice), a student-centric public affairs podcast, and numerous initiatives that seek to bolster civic understanding and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Jeffrey is also co-founder of Urbicus LLC, a Philadelphia based non-partisan government relations firm that specializes in research, public relations, training for current and aspiring elected officials and helping communities navigate local government. As an Urbicus partner, Jeffrey played a key role in political campaigns for a number of state and local offices including: PA House and Senate, Philadelphia City Council, Court of Common Pleas, and City Commissioner.
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HomeFootballAP Top 25
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Winning isn't everything unless of course you're rolling over opponents with ease. That's the case this week in the AP Top 25.
The first team on our list is ACC front runner Clemson. The Tigers had a very slow offensive start this weekend. At the same time teams around them hit their third week stride and performed like voters expect of championship teams.
Notre Dame has and has not shown the makings of a top 10 team. This week's milquetoast performance was enough to keep them ensconced in the same spot as last week.
Another team with a less than stellar finish this weekend is Miami. The Canes maintain their spot in the poll.
Virginia Tech didn't play but have enough cache to maintain their position this week. The Hokies will have to come out on fire next week to catch the attention of voters.
The (not-so-much-of-a) surprise team this week is Boston College. The Eagles came away with a well earned win against a very promising Wake Forest. Things are beginning to click for Steve Addazio.
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Who Moved And How Much?
Clemson is surrounded by teams in the top 5 that are nothing short of machines. Perhaps in the grand scheme of things the AP Top 25 no longer carries the same weight as it once did. But as always the saying, perception is reality comes into play. Anyone worth their salt doesn't brush these rankings away. It's an observation of performance plus all the other behind the scenes items that impact a team.
The Tigers dropping one notch in the poll may not seem like that big a deal to most but we look at it as a red flag. Head to head with other teams in the top tier the faith of voters in Clemson is beginning to wane. For all the fans bemoaning these notes and the drop in the rankings it really comes down to this. The team needs to (in a large fashion) prove they belong in the top 5. They've got some serious competition up there in the stratosphere and there's only so much oxygen to go around.
This week we could take the preceding paragraphs and simply plug in Notre Dame and Miami. By the third game of any season a team needs to be clicking. The Irish and Canes had some incredible moments that showed promise. The fact that neither team could deliver solidly for 4 quarters and came away with nominal wins is, once again, a red flag.
We said it in an earlier post on the AP Top 25 that Boston College should be nudging their way into the poll. The Eagles earned their way in with a win over Wake Forest.
Tip of the hat to the Demon Deacons who also look like a team to be dealt with this year.
That Next Level
Duke has lost some critical pieces in their arsenal and guess what? David Cutcliffe has quietly been building depth and the ability to deliver "next man up" college football. The big challenge is two weeks away as they meet Virginia Tech.
The Wolfpack get lost in the shuffle with the loss of a game this week due to weather. The matchup with West Virginia certainly would have been a proving ground. Is NC State salty enough to pull off a win against a ranked team and earn a spot among the Top 25? We'll have to wait a few weeks to find out.
Syracuse rolls into the receiving votes category this week and though there were only two votes they were well earned. The Orange haven't proven themselves to be worthy of the main stage at this point but they opened some eyes with a decisive win over Florida State.
Click here for week three of the AP Top 25.
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Week One: The Digital Corpus for Early Modernists
Day 1: Monday, 8 July 2013
Morning (9:30 to 11:30): Orientation to the Folger Shakespeare Library including reader registration, an introduction to the rules and regulations of the Reading Room, a tour of the Library, and a brief orientation to the Folger Library's online catalogue, Hamnet. Participants will confer with the summer institute's Technical Assistant to configure wireless password protocols on their personal laptops.
Lunch (11:30 to 1:00): Director Jonathan Hope (Professor of Literary Linguistics, University of Strathclyde) and participants convene at an introductory lunch.
Afternoon (1:00 to 3:00): Professor Hope and the participants begin building a supportive scholarly community and set the intellectual tone for the program. Professor Hope will divide participants into four sub-groups of five each for introductions, and each group will meet separately for 40 minutes. In the sub-groups, each participant will take 5 minutes to describe: (1) their three 'greatest hits' in research; and (2) the DH research problem they have brought to EMDA and for which they will develop a solution, visualization, guided approach, or list of resources over the course of the coming weeks. The whole group will then reconvene and each person will introduce (in no more than three minutes) the work and research project of another member of their sub-group. Professor Hope will also outline plans for the digital footprint of the Institute: live tweeting of presentations and discussions; private wiki-sites to record ongoing work and allow sharing between participants; and a public website to present the participants' work that will serve as an ongoing hub for DH work in early modern studies.
Post-Tea (3:30 to 4:30): Professor Hope will lead discussion of the first set of assigned texts. There are many collections of essays introducing, surveying, and championing Digital Humanities. Most of these are freely available on the web, and participants may find it useful to scan through the contents lists: in particular the two early Blackwells anthologies (see 'background reading') provide good introductions to specific fields you may need to know about. Some of the later anthologies suffer from the twin evils of much DH debate: self-congratulation and endless circular navel-gazing. In our discussion this afternoon, we will therefore focus on Matthew Jockers' recently published Macroanalysis, the early chapters of which provide a trenchant overview of DH. We will pair this work with artist Grayson Perry's set of six tapestries, The Vanity of Small Differences.
Day 2: Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Theoretical Discussions on the History and Culture of Technology and Human Interaction
Morning (9:30 to 11:30): Professor Jonathan Sawday (Saint Louis University) guides discussion of some key theoretical ideas associated with interactions between human beings and technologies. The purpose of this session is to help us to frame some of our specific work in the Digital Humanities within a wider cultural discussion of what Heidegger (in a famous 1954 essay) termed "The question concerning Technology" (Die Frage nach der Technik) – an essay which was itself originally termed (simply) "The Framework." Although we shall not be discussing Heidegger's essay directly in the session, those unfamiliar with this notoriously difficult piece can find an electronic version here: http://72.52.202.216/~fenderse/Technology.html
Lunch Break (11:30 to 1:00)
Afternoon (1:00 to 3:00): Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Brown University) will examine the importance of networking technologies to the scholarly imaginary and vice versa. Professor Chun will help the participants think through the ways in which the conceptual power of networks stems from their alleged ability to bridge unbridgeable scales: the micro and the macro, the molecular and the molar. Throughout preceding discussions, participants will relate these issues to the larger aims of the institute. They will focus on the allure of technology, the dangers of uncritical approaches to it, and the extent to which researchers need to take ethical responsibility for the tools and protocols they employ.
Post-Tea (3:30 to 4:30): Exercises will be assigned introducing the most widely used digital corpus in early modern English studies, Early English Books Online (EEBO). Participants will be given a range of tasks, depending on their familiarity with the resource. They should make notes about aspects of EEBO they find unusual or surprising, and prepare to discuss how intuitive and user-friendly the interface is.
Day 3: Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Digital Books: Working with Early English Books Online
Morning (9:30 to 11:30): Professor Ian Gadd (Bath Spa University) and two Folger librarians, Goran Proot (Mellon Curator of Rare Books) and Deborah J. Leslie (Senior English Rare Book Cataloguer), join the institute to discuss the scope and organizing principles of online catalogues like the Folger's Hamnet and online bibliographies like the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), whose catalogue data provides the underlying parameters for EEBO. The ESTC is a comprehensive, international union catalogue, listing some 470,000 catalogue entries for letter-press books, serials, newspapers, and selected ephemera printed before 1801 in Britain, Ireland, overseas territories under British colonial rule, and the United States.
Through the example of the ESTC, participants will learn the "logic" of the online catalogue: the ESTC has enhanced scholarly access to the metadata produced by cataloguers and provides a multitude of new ways to search for relevant texts and to distinguish between editions and even individual copies. Discussion on the principles of Short-Title Catalogues will examine those aspects of early modern print culture that digital resources such as EEBO do not adequately capture. The difficulties of reliably searching for printer and publisher information, publication dates, and other elements of imprint data via ESTC and EEBO will be considered, and some possible solutions will be offered.
Goran Proot will raise some quantitative questions with a statistical analysis of how representative the existing corpus of early English titles is. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss with the presenters how the migration of catalogues and bibliographies online modifies the nature of scholarly research.
Afternoon (1:00 to 3:00): Professor Gadd leads discussion of EEBO as a search tool, drawing on the previous day's assignment and the participants' own prior experiences with EEBO. Discussion will focus on EEBO's "boundaries" as a data-set, and its strengths and weaknesses as a research tool.
Post-Tea (3:30 to 4:30): Participants will complete in-session assignments focusing on the relationship between ESTC and EEBO, and will discuss their findings. Participants will also locate EEBO examples for which there is a Folger copy available in preparation for the following morning's session in the reading room.
Day 4: Thursday, 11 July 2013
Digital Pictures: Facsimiles and Remediation in Early English Books Online
Morning (8:45 to 11:30): In the Folger Reading Room, participants compare the EEBO version of a selected book with originals paged from the Folger collections and note interesting discrepancies. This will lay the groundwork for the afternoon's discussion on "remediation."
Afternoon (1:00 to 3:00): Professor Gadd discusses these EEBO-to-original comparisons with participants. He will demonstrate the different ways in which EEBO presents and characterizes the images it shows. The history of these images from microfilm to digitized image will be explained. The considerable variation in procedures and techniques will be demonstrated through examples from EEBO.
Digital words: EEBO-TCP
Post-Tea (3:30 to 4:30): Professor Gadd discusses the Text-Creation Partnership aspect of EEBO, by which a growing proportion of EEBO's books are available by institutional subscription in manually keyed, full-text, searchable form. Following his presentation, participants will break into sub-groups to find examples and discuss applications of EEBO-TCP for research and classroom use.
Day 5: Friday, 12 July 2013
Morning (9:30 to 11:30): Professor Gadd leads discussion drawing on the sub-groups' findings from the previous session. A summary discussion follows on applications and consequences of using EEBO-TCP as a research tool. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss with Professor Gadd what they learned during the first week and pose questions to each other about larger issues involving digital facsimiles and the current possibilities for searching them.
Beyond EEBO-TCP: Using large, well-structured corpora to study a wide range of linguistic and cultural changes in English
Afternoon (1:00 to 3:00): Professor Mark Davies (Brigham Young University) will provide a hands-on demonstration of three large corpora of Early Modern and Late Modern English: the 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), the 155 billion word (BYU/Advanced) Google Books Corpus, and an "alpha" version of a 400 million word EEBO Corpus. The two main questions we will consider are: 1. How can large historical corpora provide insight into language change (e.g. lexical, syntactic, semantic), as well as changes in society and culture? 2. What are some of the challenges and limitations in using data from large historical corpora?
Post-Tea (3:30 to 4:30): Discussion continues. At its conclusion, readings for Week 2 will be distributed, assignments outlined, and the Technical Assistant will support the installation of Week 2 software on personal laptops as needed.
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This is a short, to the point guide for anyone trying to get started with web development. This is not meant to be an exhaustive resource or to cover any particular topics in depth. Instead this is meant as a quick explanation of a few things to help total newbies get started.
Now before you begin, you'll want to make sure you're using the right tools. Let's start with your web browser. If you're using a computer with Windows on it, you're most likely using Internet Explorer to browse the web. There are a number of reasons why Internet Explorer is bad for web programming, but I won't go into all that right now. That being said, I recommend using Google Chrome. It's completely free to download and use.
You don't need this right away, but I recommend getting SublimeText eventually. You will probably need to download the regular Windows version. It is free to download and use for an unlimited trial period.
A good way to learn is to look at the source code of other people's websites, to see how they work; here's a tutorial that will walk you through how to do just that.
If you are ever stuck on something, try to search for a solution. More than likely someone else has already run into the problem and has found a solution that has been posted somewhere.
One of the most useful sites I use whenever I run into specific programming-related problem is StackOverFlow.
By far the most important thing to remember is that it isn't easy; and that's ok! If you can stick with it long enough, you will learn that those tough times are a necessary part of the whole. And, when you figure something out for the first time for yourself, it will all be worth it.


Companies that limit their spending based on outdated facts and figures may risk losing business to their competitors. But that is exactly what companies do every time they go through the traditional, annual budgeting process. They make predictions about the near future, based on old data that doesn't necessarily tell anyone – executives or investors – about the true state of the company today. The result can leave managers scrambling to meet unrealistic targets at year's end and executives having to explain why their numbers were so off at the end of the fiscal year.
A report from PricewaterhouseCoopers stated annual budgets are simply not the best route for companies, that they actually have the potential to hold back firms that stick to them. Using more integrated financial planning and forecasting tools is a better solution for CFOs who want to manage their organization's funds in the most efficient manner, the writers of the report suggested. The study pointed out that many businesses lean on the previous year's budget to shape their budgets for the upcoming six to 12 months. However, seven in 10 CFOs said they could not forecast more than a single quarter out.
Critics of traditional budgets include Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, who has said that creating a budget is one of the primary errors that contributed to the financial crisis that has limited many organizations throughout the U.S. He was quoted in 2006 and 2009, speaking about just how much he believes budgets can play a role in debilitating a firm.
"The budget is the bane of corporate America," he said in 2006. "It should never have existed. Making a budget is an exercise in minimization, i.e., showing how little you can do."
And in 2009 he said "Not to beat around the bush, but the budgeting process at most companies has to be the most ineffective practice in management." However, three years later, many companies and their finance organizations have not been able to break the habit.
Time could be wasted: Finance chiefs who want to draw up a budget may not realize how much time they are putting into planning their firm's finances for the rest of the year. These precious hours could be spent on something more beneficial to the organization.
Departments have restrictions on their funds: When finance leaders allot certain amounts of money to each aspect of their company, departmental decision-makers either have to use the money or they have to give it back, leading to potentially poor investments or unnecessary risks.
Budgets could be inaccurate: Budgets generally do not account for changes in the marketplace, and organizations are not always prepared to make adjustments when unexpected swings in the economy occur, turning a budget into an obsolete guideline.
Blame is thrown around the company: If a certain aspect of the organization has too much or too little money to carry out processes, top decision-makers may believe the CFO and members of the finance team are responsible for their issues, causing a rift within the business.
Yet, not only do governments insist on budgeting, but Wall Street, Investment Bankers (including PE & VC) love budgets.
I use as why these budget (both short and long-term; unyeilding and static) don't work. I say look at 2011 where three non-related events took everyone's budget and threw it out the window. The tusnami in Japan, the drastic increase in the cost of oil and the natural disasters on the East Coast.
All increased costs, and had different types of rippled effects.
Rolling forecasts, that are "nimble" allow mid-course corrections (monthly).
I agree with most of what was said above. I wanted to add a book that I have been reading that pertains to this: Future Ready, How to Master Business Forecasting by Steve Morlidge and Steve Player. I have not finished the book, but I have enjoyed what I have read so far.
Having a budget is a good thing because it creates a benchmark for performance. Especially if it's tied to the overall strategy, the market changes, or need for internal cost controls. It's the process of creating one that's flawed. Relying on last year's budget as a basis can result in misallocation of funds. Much like a prospectus caveat, past performance is not indicative of future results.
Anders is on the right track. Regular review of the market, performance, and timing of cash flows eventually leads to a budget that allocates funds where necessary, is realistic, and continuously updated..
I agree that the data-sample is small, but on the other hand I consider hbr.org a somewhat trustworthy source so I take it as a good indication. However clearly more research into the topic is needed.
Should a company get rid of budgets? ABSOLUTELY!
If you are more interested in the topic I suggest you take a look at the Beyond Budgeting movement. I have been involved in plenty of these discussions over the past 2-2.5 years and seems when explained properly most finance professionals see the benefit.
So what you do is to replace the budget with a rolling forecast, a target setting process and a resource allocation. Believe that would also take care of some of your concerns Ken.
One thing I found interesting when I was recently reading this story on hbr.org (http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/07/good_companies_are_storyteller.html) is that many of these "storydoing" companies who are outperforming their peers financially have actually gone Beyond Budgeting so evidence is starting to show that it works.
Anders - thank you for the interesting HBR article. Good read, though of course as anyone can tell you, taking a list of companies and subjectively selecting "storydoers" based on criteria off of a (subjectively) predetermined list does not constitute empirical evidence!
Googled Beyond Budgeting and will read up on it. Thank you once again for offering some alternative material.
Chris - rereading the topic, I see that it does make reference to frequency. We do quarterly rolling forecasts. The mechanics are not substantially different from the budgeting process. I'm curious how different companies adjust comp plans to achieve desired results.
How does a company execute on a strategic plan without allocating resources? Selling, customer service, market research, etc. require investment. Don't budgets makes sure managers weigh each investment decision carefully - and reasonably in advance? I don't think a budget is intended to stifle growth, it's just a way to formalize "here are our goals and this is how we will get there". In my view, the value of a budget is not in its "accuracy" and that survey of CFO's who say they cannot project more than a quarter out may be taken out of context.
These studies don't mean much without alternatives being offered. What alternatives to formalized budgets have members of the Proformative community seen put into action with success?
Ken - I have seen and tried to get rolling forecasts going. As an example, I work for a construction GC. We know the slowest month is going to be December when billings are down, projects are slowing because of the holiday season. There are also jobs that the project development folks have on their list that they are 90% sure the company has. Then there is that 10% when something actually falls through. If we were relying on that in a budget there could be hard decisions to be made in regards to employment for that job. A rolling forecast and being on top of what is happening is more beneficial for us because of that reason than a traditional budget.
There are quite a few White Papers on Proformative that discuss rolling forecasts and its benefits, as well how great the particular company's model is.
I wonder if the budgeting process could be blamed for cities and counties all over the U.S. failing to stay on and under budget. If budgets are obsolete for companies, surely budgets are obsolete for the varying forms of government.
"Time could be wasted: These precious hours could be spent on something more beneficial to the organization." True. I would like to see potential things mentioned that may be more beneficial to the organization.
Wayne - Thanks for replying. As far as market research is concerned, would CFOs and other finance leaders be doing research regarding a particular product or service's marketability, trying to secure funds from investors, or other something completely different?
What about the CFOs and other finance leaders' role in regards to customer service?
I understand selling and productivity improvements correlation with the CFO. I do not have the experience regarding the other two though.
Selling, customer service, market research, productivity improvements to name just a few.


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USBM Information Circular Publications
The publications of this series differ from Reports of Investigations in that they are not concerned primarily with original Bureau research or investigative work. They cover surveys of mineral resources and related mining and operations activities.
Warner, J.D., Dahlin, D.C., and Brown, L.L., 1988, Tin occurrences near Rocky Mountain (Lime Peak), east-central Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9180, 24 p.
Baggs, D.W., Northam, M.J., Meyer, M.P., and Maas, K.M., 1988, Selected significant mineral deposits in Alaska: A Minerals Availability System overview: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9177, 124 p., 1 sheet, scale 1 inch = approx. 80 miles.
Stebbins, S.A., 1987, Cost estimation handbook for small placer mines: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9170, 94 p.
Sherman, G.E., 1987, Estimation of remaining lode gold endowment in selected mining districts of Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9133, 26 p.
Barker, J.C., 1986, Placer gold deposits of the Eagle Trough, upper Yukon River region, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9123, 23 p.
Hoekzema, R.B., Fechner, S.A., and Kurtak, J.M., 1986, Evaluation of selected lode gold deposits in the Chugach National Forest, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9113, 62 p.
Bottge, R.G., 1986, Company towns versus company camps in developing Alaska's mineral resources: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9107, 19 p.
Warner, J.D., Mardock, C.L., and Dahlin, D.C., 1986, A columbium-bearing regolith on upper Idaho Gulch, near Tofty, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9105, 29 p.
Barker, J.C., and Foley, J.Y., 1986, Tin reconnaissance of the Kanuti and Hodzana Rivers uplands, central Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9104, 27 p.
Foley, J.Y., and Barker, J.C., 1986, Uranium occurrences in the northern Darby Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9103, 27 p.
Hoekzema, R.B., and Fechner, S.A., 1986, Placer gold sampling in and near the Chugach National Forest, Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9091, 42 p.
Foley, J.Y., Barker, J.C., and Brown, L.L., 1985, Chromite resources in Alaska, in Daellenbach, C.B., Chromium-Chromite: Bureau of Mines assessment and research: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9087, p. 23-29.
Daellenbach, C.B., 1985, Chromium-Chromite: Bureau of Mines assessment and research: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9087, 141 p.
Warner, J.D., 1985, Critical and strategic Minerals in Alaska: tin, tantalum, and columbium: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9037, 19 p., 1 sheet.
Roberts, W.S., 1985, Bulk Mineralogy and geochemistry of selected Alaskan chromian spinel samples: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9023, 13 p.
Dahlin, D.C., Kirby, D.E., and Brown, L.L., 1985, Chromite deposits along the Border Ranges fault, southern Alaska (in two parts), 2. Mineralogy and results of beneficiation tests: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8991, 37 p.
Foley, J.Y., and Barker, J.C., 1985, Chromite deposits along the Border Ranges fault, southern Alaska (in two parts), 1. field investigations and descriptions of chromite deposits: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8990, 58 p.
Dahlin, D.C., Brown, L.L., and Kinney, J.J., 1983, Podiform chromite occurrences in the Caribou Mountain and lower Kanuti River areas, central Alaska, part II: beneficiation: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8916, 15 p.
Foley, J.Y., and McDermott, M.M., 1983, Podiform chromite occurrences in the Caribou Mountain and lower Kanuti River areas, central Alaska, part I: reconnaissance investigations: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8915, 8 p., 1 sheet.
Yasnowsky, P.N., and Graham, A.P., 1982, State severance taxes: a summary and an analysis of the impact of rate changes on copper recovery costs: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8879, 23 p.
Barker, J.C., Still, J.C., Mowatt, T.C., and Mulligan, J.J., 1982, Critical and strategic Minerals in Alaska: Cobalt, the platinum-group metals, and chromite: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8869, 8 p., 1 sheet.
Peterson, G.R., Bleiwas, D.I., and Thomas, P.R., 1981, Cobalt availability--domestic : a Minerals Availability System appraisal: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8848, 31 p.
Berg, A.W., and Carrillo, F.V., 1980, MILS: The Mineral Industry Location System of the federal Bureau of Mines: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8815, 24 p.
Gries, J.P., 1979, Providing new sources of Mineral supply (Quartz Hill Molybdenum Deposit: p. 24-27): U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8789, 42 p.
Rich, C.H., Jr., 1978, Projects to expand energy sources in the western states-an update of Information Circulare 8719: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8772, 199 p.
Crump, L.H., 1997, Fuels and energy data: United States by states and census divisions, 1974: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8739, 163 p.
Carrales, M., Jr., and Funk, V.T., 1977, Liquid hydrocarbon production in the United States, 1946-75 and 1980 projected, highlighting enhanced recovery: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8734, 78 p.
Hamilton, P.A., White, D.H., Jr., and Matson, T.K., 1975, The reserve base of U.S. coals by sulfur content: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8693, 322 p.
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Bottge, R.G., 1975, Comparative asbestos mining and processing costs - Alaska versus Yukon Territory: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8672, 33 p.
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Thomas, B.I., 1973, Gold-lode deposits, Fairbanks mining district, central Alaska: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8604, 23 p.
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First Forests • 1979 • episode "3/13" • Life on Earth
This instalment examines the earliest land vegetation and insects. The first plants, being devoid of stems, mainly comprised mosses and liverworts. Using both sexual and asexual methods of reproduction, they proliferated. Descended from segmented sea creatures, millipedes were among the first to take advantage of such a habitat and were quickly followed by other species. Without water to carry eggs, bodily contact between the sexes was now necessary. This was problematical for some hunters, such as spiders and scorpions, who developed courtship rituals to ensure that the female didn't eat the male.
Life on Earth • 1979 • 13 episodes •
Infinite Variety
The episode begins in the South American rainforest whose rich variety of life forms is used to illustrate the sheer number of different species. Since many are dependent on others for food or means of reproduction, David Attenborough argues that they couldn't all have appeared at once. He sets out to discover which came first, and the reasons for such diversity. He starts by explaining the theories of Charles Darwin and the process of natural selection, using the giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands (where Darwin voyaged on HMS Beagle) as an example. Fossils provide evidence of the earliest life, and Attenborough travels a vertical mile into the Grand Canyon in search of them.
1979 • Nature
Building Bodies
The next programme explores the various sea-living invertebrates. In Morocco, the limestones are 600 million years old, and contain many invertebrate fossils. They fall broadly into three categories: shells, crinoids and segmented shells. The evolution of shelled creatures is demonstrated with the flatworm, which eventually changed its body shape when burrowing became a necessity for either food or safety. It then evolved shielded tentacles and the casings eventually enveloped the entire body: these creatures are the brachiopods. The most successful shelled animals are the molluscs, of which there are some 80,000 different species.
First Forests
Swarming Hordes
This episode details the relationship between flowers and insects. There are some one million classified species of insect, and two or three times as many that are yet to be labelled. Around 300 million years ago, plants began to enlist insects to help with their reproduction, and they did so with flowers. Although the magnolia, for instance, contains male and female cells, pollination from another plant is preferable as it ensures greater variation and thus evolution. Flowers advertise themselves by either scent or display. Some evolved to produce sweet-smelling nectar and in turn, several insects developed their mouth parts into feeding tubes in order to reach it.
Conquest of the Waters
This programme looks at the evolution of fish. They have developed a multitude of shapes, sizes and methods of propulsion and navigation. The sea squirt, the lancelet and the lamprey are given as examples of the earliest, simplest types. Then, about 400 million years ago, the first back-boned fish appeared. The Kimberley Ranges of Western Australia are, in fact, the remnants of a coral reef and the ancient seabed. There, Attenborough discovers fossils of the earliest fish to have developed jaws. These evolved into two shapes of creature with cartilaginous skeletons: wide ones (like rays and skates) and long ones (like sharks).
Invasion of the Land
The next instalment describes the move from water to land. The fish that did so may have been forced to because of drought, or chose to in search of food. Either way, they eventually evolved into amphibians. Such creatures needed two things: limbs for mobility and lungs to breathe. The coelacanth is shown as a fish with bony fins that could have developed into legs, and the lungfish is able to absorb gaseous oxygen. However, evidence of an animal that possessed both is presented in the 450 million-year-old fossilised remains of a fish called a eusthenopteron. Three groups of amphibians are explored.
Victors of the Dry Lands
This episode is devoted to the evolution of reptiles. They are not as restricted as their amphibian ancestors, since they can survive in the hottest climates. The reason is their scaly, practically watertight skin. The scales protect the body from wear and tear and in the case of some species of lizard, such as the Australian thorny devil, serve to protect from attack. The horned iguana from the West Indies is also one of the most heavily armoured. The skin is rich in pigment cells, which provide effective means of camouflage, and the chameleon is a well-known example. Temperature control is important to reptiles: they cant generate body heat internally or sweat to keep cool.
Lords of the Air
This programme focuses on birds. The feather is key to everything that is crucial about a bird: it is both its aerofoil and its insulator. The earliest feathers were found on a fossilised Archaeopteryx skeleton in Bavaria. However, it had claws on its wings and there is only one species alive today that does so: the hoatzin, whose chicks possess them for about a week or so. Nevertheless, it serves to illustrate the probable movement of its ancestor. It may have taken to the trees to avoid predators, and over time, its bony, reptilian tail was replaced by feathers and its heavy jaw evolved into a keratin beak.
Rise of the Mammals
This instalment is the first of several to concentrate on mammals. The platypus and the echidna are the only mammals that lay eggs (in much the same manner of reptiles), and it is from such animals that others in the group evolved. Since mammals have warm blood and most have dense fur, they can hunt at night when temperatures drop. It is for this reason that they became more successful than their reptile ancestors, who needed to heat themselves externally. Much of the programme is devoted to marsupials (whose young are partially formed at birth) of which fossils have been found in the Americas dating back 60 million years.
Theme and Variation
This episode continues the study of mammals, and particularly those whose young gestate inside their bodies. Attenborough asks why these have become so varied and tries to discover the common theme that links them. Examples of primitive mammals that are still alive today include the treeshrew, the desman and the star-nosed mole. Insect eaters vary enormously from the aardvark, giant anteater and pangolin to those to which much of this programme is devoted: the bats, of which there are nearly 1,000 different species. These took to flying at night, and its possible that they evolved from treeshrews that jumped from tree to tree, in much the same way as a flying squirrel.
Hunters and Hunted
This programme surveys mammal herbivores and their predators. The herbivores began to populate the forests when the dinosaurs disappeared, and many took to gathering food at night. To prepare for winter, some store it in vast quantities, some hibernate and others make do as best they can. However, the carnivores joined them, and when a drying climate triggered the spread of grass, they followed their prey out on to the plains. Grass is not easily digestible and most animals that eat it have to regurgitate it and chew the cud. Out in the open, the leaf-eaters had to develop means of protection.
The penultimate instalment investigates the primates, whose defining characteristics are forward-facing eyes for judging distance, and gripping hands with which to grasp branches, manipulate food and groom one another. The programme begins in Madagascar, home to the lemurs, of which there are some 20 different types. Two examples are the sifaka, which is a specialised jumper, and the indri, which has a well-developed voice. Away from Madagascar, the only lemur relatives to have survived are nocturnal, such as the bushbaby, the potto and the loris. The others were supplanted by the monkeys and a primitive species that still exists is the smallest, the marmoset. However, Attenborough selects the squirrel monkey as being typical of the group. Howler monkeys demonstrate why they are so named their chorus is said to the loudest of any mammal and their prehensile tails illustrate their agility.
Compulsive Communicators
The final episode deals with the evolution of the most widespread and dominant species on Earth: humans. The story begins in Africa, where, some 10 million years ago, apes descended from the trees and ventured out into the open grasslands in search of food. They slowly adapted to the habitat and grew in size. Their acute sense of vision led to them standing erect to spot predators, leaving their hands free to bear weapons. In addition, the primitive apemen also had stones that were chipped into cutting tools. Slowly, they grew taller and more upright, and their stone implements became ever more elaborate.
Surrogate Families
Losing a parent in the wild can be deadly for young animals, but these orphans got lucky when conservationists stepped in. Meet clouded leopard cub sisters taken in by the Nashville Zoo, a baby wombat raised in an artificial pouch at Tasmania's Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, and more.
S2E1 • Baby Animals • 2016 • Nature
Attenborough's Wonder of Song
Sir David Attenborough chooses his favourite recordings from the natural world that have revolutionised our understanding of song. Each one - from the song of the largest lemur to the song of the humpback whale to the song of the lyrebird - was recorded in his lifetime. When Sir David was born, the science of song had already been transformed by Charles Darwin's theory of sexual selection: singing is dangerous as it reveals the singer's location to predators, but it also offers the male a huge reward, the chance to attract a female and pass on genes to the next generation. Hence males sing and females don't. Today, new science in the field of birdsong is transforming those long-held ideas. Scientists are discovering that, in fact, in the majority of all songbird species, females sing - and it is only now they are being properly heard. Through this revelation and others, we can understand that animal songs are marvelous examples of the spectacular survival strategies that species have developed in order to stay alive.
The Great Dying
It is estimated that 99 per cent of species have become extinct and there have been times when life's hold on Earth has been so precarious it seems it hangs on by a thread. This series focuses on the survivors - the old-timers - whose biographies stretch back millions of years and who show how it is possible to survive a mass extinction event which wipes out nearly all of its neighbours. The Natural History Museum's Professor Richard Fortey discovers what allows the very few to carry on going - perhaps not for ever, but certainly far beyond the life expectancy of normal species. What makes a survivor when all around drop like flies? In this episode Professor Fortey focuses on a series of cataclysms over a million year period, 250 million years ago
S1E1 • Survivors: Nature's Indestructible Creatures • 2012 • Nature
Stripless Zebra
A look at why goats risk life and limb to climb an almost vertical dam wall; a zebra has no stripes; a school of fish swarm a diver.
S1E15 • Nature's Strangest Mysteries: Solved • 2019 • Nature
He gets up close and personal for the first time with a group of orphans and takes part in an ancient ceremony, before setting off into the bush in search of a herd to follow. Following potentially dangerous encounters with a buffalo and a pride of lions, Lev finds his first herd, but is forced to leave them alone when one threatens to charge.
S1E1 • Walking with Elephants with Levison Wood • 2020 • Nature
Meet the first animal visitors to a new manmade waterhole in the African savannah. Using state-of-the-art cameras, scientists watch as warthogs and elephants discover the new oasis. But things become dangerous when leopards and lions close in.
S1E1 • Life at the Waterhole • 2021 • Nature


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The life of a private investigator and private detective is always on the line and is constantly at risk when conducting surveillance due to the fact once found the folks that he or she is following could harm him or her. Nevertheless, such risk is required to be able to collect facts and data that would prove to be useful in solving the case which is why it is imperative that the private investigator or private detective ought to be equipped with all the newest in surveillance technologies.
1 of the so-called cutting edge technologies in the field of surveillance and investigation is the hybrid of binoculars that are incorporated with superior optics with up to eight times magnification. But it's greatest feature is that it is combined or integrated using a built-in digital camera which also comes with an LCD screen that users for example private investigators and private detectives can flip-up to review previously captured images. The built-in digital camera has a five-mega pixel resolution, which would therefore give clear images and even records videos of up to sixty seconds. The Binocular Digital Camera hybrid would allow private investigators and private detectives to conduct surveillance from far away and would nonetheless be able to gather information by means of taking videos and photos. The hybrid of a digital camera with binoculars indeed is regarded as as the private investigators' best friend.
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Ushenish is a headland on the remote east coast of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Ushenish Lighthouse has been on the headland since 1857.

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10. God was worried that Adam would frequently become lost in the Garden.
7. God knew Adam would never be able to make a doctors, dentist, or haircut appointment for himself.
2. As the Bible says, It is not good for man to be alone.
1. When God finished the creation of Adam, He stepped back, scratched his head, and said, I can do better than that!


3 separate castings morphology grant outstanding accuracy and high performances in any milling condition. 5-axis interpolation in combination with the rotary table allow 5-side machining of complex components, in a single, easy set-up.
UHE have the most efficient structure for multi-sided high performance machining, increase of productivity, flexibility and repeatability.
Sliding front and side doors with a super wide opening for any easy load-download of parts.
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High-end standard equipment guarantee both outstanding accuracy and high performances of the machine. High precision linear scales on 3 linear axis X Y & Z. High precision direct rotary encoders for the B & C axis.
High precision Φ50mm ballscrews on 3 axis are directly coupled to powerful AC servo motors to provide the utmost results in high speed cutting with best finishing quality.
Highly rigid - heavy duty roller type linear guideways, provide low starting inertia, low friction, high acceleration rates and optimize machine response in high speed cutting.
The one piece casting ladder bed has been designed to increase column resistance and rigidity.
The latest technology torque motor manages the B axis continuous swivel milling head and guarantees maximum dynamic and linearity: the absence of traditional mechanical transmission allows much higher quality of surface finishing. The reading system with a direct angular encoder, grants precision and reliability. Suitable clamping torque is grant by an hydraulic brake system.
The table incorporates a standard 1000 x 800mm clamping plate and is driven by AC Servomotor. It can be indexed 0.001° by an high precision worm gear and high precision direct rotary encoder. Clamping torque over 4.000 Nm is grant by an hydraulic brake system.
The very wide distance, 700mm between spindle center and X axis slideway cover, gives the operator a great convenience for different workpiece setup.
40 positions chain type with a double swing arm ATC is a standard.
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The most advanced FEM technology has been utilized to designed an extremely rigid casting frame.
Highly rigid - heavy duty roller type linear guideways, provide low starting inertia, low friction, high acceleration rates and optimize machine rigidity and dynamics.
High precision ballscrews on 3 axis are directly coupled to powerful AC servo motors to provide the utmost results in high speed cutting with best finishing quality.
The extreme rigidity and precision of the machine allow high speed milling machining. The Fidia CNC and Fidia Digital Drives provide the best milling results on the machine tool, optimizing speed accuracy and best quality surface, by using advanced feed and acceleration smooth dynamics algorithms, thus preserving mechanical component life.


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Liberia entered the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR but withdrew after the Opening Ceremony.  The nation returned to the Olympic Games after missing the 1976 Summer Olympics.

See also
People's Redemption Council, overthrew the government of Liberia in a coup three months before the Olympics

References
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Nations at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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review: Yamaha RX-V4A
Too feature-stripped to make sense
The step up from a soundbar is separate components. But you have to offer more than this.
Geir Nordby
2021-05-01 - 6:00 am
+Good balance in the sound image, nice sound on music in stereo. Updated HDMI features, and good interface for music streaming.
-Graphics-free on-screen menus. 5.1 sound does not hold up in today's home theater market.
Power: 5 x 80 W (6 ohms, 2 channels)
Number of processor channels: 5.1
HDMI: 4 in (4K/120Hz, 8K/60Hz), 1 out (eARC)
Audio formats: Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS-HD MApcm
Room correction: YPAO
Services:, AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Tidal, Deezer,, Amazon Music
Wireless: MusicCast, AirPlay 2, Bluetooth
Turntable input: No.
App control: Yamaha AV Controller, MusicCast
Voice control: Passive via Apple Siri, Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa
Web: europe.yamaha.com
Overheard at Yamaha's development meeting:
– Guys, I have an idea. What if we make a surround receiver with only five channels, and remove almost all of the inputs?
– Hmm, that might be interesting. Is there anything else we can do?
– You know the 3D audio formats like Dolby Atmos and DTS: X? What makes the movie experience immersive? We're dropping them!
– This is starting to look like something! Is there anything more we can remove?
How about removing the graphical interface on the on-screen menu, which we have otherwise been well known for? Replace it with a boring list form, as in the old telephone directory. And to bother the user a little extra: demand that the awkward on-screen menu must actually be used for every little setting. The display on the receiver itself is mostly for the sake of decoration.
– I'm almost sold. What more?
– We sell the receiver at the same price as the predecessors that had all the features.
– I love it!
You can almost wonder if this is how it went, when it was decided that Yamaha's new and most affordable RX-V4A should see the light of day. For this is minimalist stuff. Even though Yamaha has given its new receivers a long-awaited new design, with round curves and few outer buttons.
Pure 5.1
The receiver is, as you will have realized, a pure 5.1 receiver. There are no height channels for Dolby Atmos or DTS: X, nor for rear surround speakers. Yamaha caters to customers who only want the most basic things, but who still do not think it holds with stereo sound.
Five speakers are all there are terminals for on the back of the RX-V4A. 4 HDMI outputs of the type may seem sparse, but this is compensated for with an eARC-compatible HDMI output. Photo: Yamaha
HDMI inputs are scarce, although four should do for the vast majority. Especially considering that the HDMI output has audio return of the extended type (eARC), which also supports high-resolution audio back from the TV. This makes it easy to connect all sources to the TV, and then bring the audio back out to the receiver with a single HDMI cable. The HDMI circuits are of the type 2.1 and support resolutions with both 4K/120 Hz and 8K/60 Hz and all kinds of HDR formats, which means that you can play with the latest game consoles with the highest screen frequency, and also watch movies in 8K when the time comes is coming. The signals pass freely through the receiver, without any problem.
Boring on-screen menu
From Yamaha, I am used to on-screen menus with elegant graphics and a good overview, so I can easily find the functions I need to make settings. With the RX-V4A, the graphical interface has been replaced with white font in list form on a black screen. This makes setup boring, and also not very clear. There is one menu for settings, and another for functions. It is not always easy to know what is what, so you can quickly end up in the wrong menu. This is not a sin that Yamaha is not alone in, but the menus are so similar that I sit and skim down a lot of the menu before I see that it is wrong.
This is what you are faced with after automatic speaker calibration is complete. To interpret this information is not a task for beginners. Photo: Geir Gråbein Nordby
In daily use I like to be able to use the display in front of the receiver instead of the on-screen menu, when I do something. In this way you can make simple settings without turning on the TV screen at all. But with the RX-V4A, no such info comes up in the display, so you always have to turn on the screen. If the screen is a projector, this is extra cumbersome as it takes a long time to turn it on.
Yamaha RX-V4A is a 5.1 receiver with built-in MusicCast for music streaming. Photo: Yamaha
Automatic speaker setup
Automatic speaker setup is easy. You just set up the speakers, place the microphone at ear level on the middle seat, and press Start. This is a one-step operation, since the Yamaha receiver only calibrates the sound for one seat. Other receivers ask you to make the same measurements several times, with the microphone placed in different places. So that the calibration system is as familiar as possible with the acoustics in the room. But it's okay, it works.
When the setup is complete, there is something on the screen about what my speaker setup looks like. Here the information is so sparse that it tells me very little. Speakers: 3/2 / 0.1, ie three front, two rear and a subwoofer. Ok.
Distances: 2.50/4.74m. So the speaker with the shortest distance is 2.50 meters from me, while the furthest away is 4.74m away. Which is what? I do not know.
I am also informed that level adjustment is done with from -2.5 dB to +2.5 dB.
There is so little information that it is essentially useless. Yamaha could just well have done away with them entirely. If I want to know more, I have to go back to the main menu, press Setup and find the manual settings. From here I can fine tune on my own.
The remote control is compact and fits nicely in the hand. No backlit buttons here, so have a light switch or flashlight nearby. Photo: Yamaha
Fortunately, the sound is good. Our Procella THX speakers respond well to the receiver, which reproduces the sound with good body and warmth, dialogues are clear and the sound on Batman: The Dark Knight on Blu-ray is much more massive and dynamic than through any soundbar I have heard. The 80 watts pr. channel in 6 ohms is enough for a decent-sized room.
5.1 sound done properly sounds much better and more engaging than any soundbar with seven, nine or eleven virtual channels. Both on film, but also music. And music in stereo is in a completely different league here.
The MusicCast system is something Yamaha should be proud of. Several MusicCast products can play in multi-room layouts, just like Sonos and others.
The RX-V4A sounds great on stereo music, I do not miss very much. Everything is included, and there is enough resolution that you can also play classical music and largely believe what you hear. I also like the interface of the MusicCast system, which is Yamaha's way of streaming music. This is done from the MusicCast app, where you can create playlists across streaming services, and MusicCast supports many of them. Both Spotify, Tidal, Amazon Music and Deezer, to name a few.
The RX-V4A also manages to drive the large Dali Oberon 9 floor-standing speakers with conviction to a certain extent, although I would recommend something more powerful here. Either a better stereo amplifier or a more expensive home theater amplifier. When the receiver has to play the entire frequency range itself, without the help of a subwoofer in the bass, it gets a little tamer than I want. But it is no big deal.
Photo: Yamaha
Yamaha has obviously sought to make an affordable receiver for people who want surround sound, but who are not so concerned with "sound from above", ie Dolby Atmos and DTS: X. This is a bit strange, because while most people are happy with a good soundbar, more avid home theater enthusiasts will demand something extra. This way, you can have proper rear speakers in the living room, but then more user-friendliness is required.
The Yamaha RX-V4A lacks the features that enthusiasts demand. But the general usability is complicated and seems to be aimed precisely at enthusiasts. Or at least aimed away from the beginners.
In the desire to bring down the price without going at the expense of sound quality, they have thrown a little too much overboard. Does the Yamaha RX-V4A sound better than the sleek Marantz NR1711? Yes, maybe a little. But the Marantz catches up with more channels, and with Dolby Atmos it has a more immersive sound. The Marantz receiver is also much more interior-friendly, with its sleek cabinet. Designed to stand in a living room, where the Yamaha looks more like it's meant for a dark room. Tell me you built a separate movie theater, but do not want Dolby Atmos. Yeah, right.
Marantz also has a much better graphical interface, and can calibrate the sound for up to eight places in the room – and even save the settings in two memories. So you can switch between different stereo and surround layouts, for example. Marantz costs 2,500 kroner more, but is well worth it. The discontinued Yamaha RX-V585 with both Dolby Atmos, DTS: X and more powerful amplifier is also a much better buy than the RX-V4A.
In the name of justice, there is the Yamaha RX-V6A for those who want more home theater sound, including Dolby Atmos and DTS: X. It costs only £200 more than the RX-V4A, ie about the same as the mentioned Marantz receiver, and with more power it will give an even better sound experience.
One problem I have with the RX-V4A is that this is not a cheap receiver. At this price, I expect at least seven channels, it will after all outcompete the soundbars. I therefore feel the time has past for pure 5.1 receivers, at leat if they are not £300 super-cheap.
Yamaha RX-V4A: Conclusion
Yamaha RX-V4A is a pure 5.1 receiver, without support for either Dolby Atmos or DTS: X. That excludes home theater enthusiasts. The graphic-less, boring and not very user-friendly on-screen menu will quickly scare away "those who just want a little good sound in the living room". Yamaha was long known for its graphical interface, so what happened here?
The sound is good enough, but never magical. The price is higher than previous entry-level models, and the RX-V4A appears to be too expensive to be a serious alternative in its class.
If the point of affordable receivers is to take market share from the soundbars, then the RX-V4A is unlikely to succeed. Then we have much more threat on big brother RX-V6A, which has the channels little brother is missing.
Plus in the book for the power features through MusicCast, but Yamaha has several stereo amplifiers that do the same job better. Like R-N602.


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Southend High School for Boys strives to provide an excellent education for all its students.
Cultivating learning is at the heart of school policy. All members of staff and students are responsible for promoting a culture in which everyone, irrespective of age or experience, is recognised as having potential for learning. Students are encouraged to become members of a learning society and staff to be reflective practitioners.
We aim for our students to be:
High achieving through fulfilling their potential
Independent learners and strategic thinkers
Passionate about learning where their unceasing curiosity leads to lifelong learning
Emotionally intelligent
Outward looking, embracing all aspects of modern life and playing a role in the community
The leaders of tomorrow
In accordance with the school's Equal Opportunities Policy, all students have a right to an education suited to their needs and aspirations which will help them to realise their potential
Self-esteem is fundamental to successful learning for all students. Therefore all students are genuinely valued for themselves as well as for their achievements.
The key principles of learning are:
Learning involves making sense of information
Learning involves building on existing understanding
Learning takes place at a level just beyond current understanding.
Student progress is rigorously assessed, tracked and monitored. Baseline assessments carried out in Year 7 enable us to begin the target-setting progress and this is checked throughout the academic year. Parents/carers are given regular information about their child's progress through regular reports and parents' evenings. There is a wide range of intervention strategies available to support students who are not on track for any reason. Our Inclusion team offers support for students with additional educational needs. We also ensure that students with a particular gift or talent are stretched and challenged.
We actively encourage parents to get involved in their child's education. Throughout the year we offer briefing sessions on the latest developments in education, we conduct workshops on how to support your child's study at home and we also run a parent forum where parents can help improve school policies and procedures. Biennially parents are invited to formally review learning and the curriculum offer.
In the first two years of education at Southend High School for Boys, all pupils follow a broad general course which builds upon the skills and experience of primary school (Key Stages 1 and 2) and prepares the ground for the more specialised studies that will follow (at GCSE and in the Sixth Form).
During Key Stage 3 the National Curriculum core and foundation subjects are studied together with Religious Education (RE), Personal, Social & Health Education (PSHE) and Citizenship. In addition, all pupils have time with their Tutor during the week.
During the academic year 2014-2015, in Year 7 the allocation of 1-hour periods to the various subjects per fortnight is as follows:
Teaching takes place principally within a pupil's form group during the first two years. In addition, certain subjects are set at various stages.
YEARS 9-11
Since September 2010, a revised curriculum has been offered for Year 9, allowing pupils to broaden their experience and study subjects that have not yet been available to them.
Our aim at school is to ensure an appropriate and balanced curriculum for each individual so that educational and careers needs are sensibly catered for during the Key Stage.
The Government has stated that the following subjects remain compulsory:
English (which leads to GCSE entries in English and English Literature)
Science (either Combined Science, leading to two GCSE awards or three separate GCSEs in Biology, Chemistry and Physics).
The school has decided that in addition, pupils should study the following:
At least one Modern Foreign Language (either French or German or Spanish)
A short course in Religious Education (except for those taking the Religious Studies full course)
A short course in ICT or Computing full course
At least one Humanity (Geography or History or Religious Studies) is also strongly recommended
Pupils choose their non-compulsory GCSE subjects from the following list:
History Music
Economics & Business Studies
Some pupils follow additional courses such as GCSE further Mathematics.
In addition to the external examination courses, all pupils follow a programme of ICT, PSHE, Citizenship/RE and Games.
SIXTH FORM (YEARS 12-13)
Students study four, or in a few cases, three subjects to Advanced Subsidiary (AS) Level.
AS is intended as a one-year course, the first half of an A2 Level course and qualification. The range of AS Level subjects offered to the current Year 12 is: Fine Art, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Computing, Design & Technology (Product Design), Drama & Theatre Studies, Economics, English Literature, English Language & Literature, Government and Political Studies, French, Further Mathematics, Geography, German, History, Mathematics, Music, Music Technology, Physics, Physical Education, Psychology, Religious Studies, Spanish.
Both Sixth Form year groups have tutor time, elements of Religious Education and a programme of enrichment activities. In Year 12 there is also a session of Games.
RE AND COLLECTIVE WORSHIP
There is provision for religious education for all pupils; it is non-denominational and in accordance with the Essex Agreed Syllabus. There is a regular act of collective worship for all pupils, with a mixture of whole school, year, form and House assemblies. Parents have the right to withdraw their children from RE and collective worship if they wish. Any parent intending to exercise this right is invited to discuss the matter in advance with the Deputy Head.
PERSONAL, SOCIAL & HEALTH EDUCATION (including Sex & Relationship Education & Citizenship)
Much of what takes place in school can contribute to the personal and social development of pupils, from the subjects of the academic curriculum to the system of pastoral care, from the provision of assemblies to the programme of extra-curricular activities. However, schools also identify certain timetabled lessons where the emphasis is more specifically upon enabling pupils to develop essential knowledge and skills in preparation for adult life. In this school, such lessons are entitled Personal, Social & Health Education (PSHE).
There is a programme of PSHE throughout the main school, whilst in the Sixth Form, the General Studies programme tackles similar issues in a more formal manner. Within the PSHE programme, there are modules on such matters as drug education. Careers education, sex and relationship education and Citizenship are now expected of all schools.
The school offers a broad programme of careers education and guidance, assisted by Careers Essex. Work experience for all Year 10 pupils takes place at the end of the summer term; while in the Sixth Form, A Level language students can undertake a period of work experience in Germany, France or Spain.
Sex and relationship education is considered to be part of health education which is in turn an element within the whole area of PSHE.
The school's sex and relationship education programme is designed to present facts in an objective and balanced manner so as to enable pupils to comprehend the range of sexual attitudes and behaviour in present day society; to know what is and is not legal; to consider their own attitudes and to make informed, reasoned and responsible decisions about the attitudes they will adopt both while they are at school and in adulthood. Whilst largely relying upon informal and non-didactic teaching methods, sex education (including education about HIV and AIDS) will be set within a clear moral framework.
Human reproduction is a topic within the Science curriculum whilst aspects of sexual relationships arise in subjects such as English and RE as well as in the PSHE modules.
Parents have the right to withdraw their children from the school's programme of sex and relationship education. Any parent intending to exercise this right is invited to discuss the matter in advance with the Headteacher.
Citizenship, which figures in the curriculum of all pupils in Years 7-11 is intended to enable pupils to become active, informed citizens.
THE CHALLENGE AWARD
In July 2019, Southend High School for Boys achieved, for the fourth time, re-accreditation of the Challenge Award, a prestigious award from the National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE). The school achieved the Award initially in 2007 and achieved re-accreditation in 2011 and 2015. SHSB is the only school in the world to have received the award four times and this recognises our outstanding provision for the most able students. The assessors spoke of the extraordinary professionalism and dedication of our staff and of our school community.


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Well written and well thought out Charles. Your thoughts parallel what I have written and thought much about. Thank you.
I sometimes get asked why I smoke a pipe. It is, after all, the rarest method of tobacco consumption in Canada these days (only about half of one percent of tobacco users are pipe smokers). If it's nicotine you're after, there are more efficient, though arguably more diabolical, delivery methods than a cantankerous old briar. A pipe is also regarded by many as an anachronism, something belonging to the past that reminds one of leather-bound books, slightly damp tweed and Granddad telling stories by the fire.
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Loads various 3D formats supported by Open Asset Import Library (http://assimp.sourceforge.net/) and saves Urho3D model, animation, material and scene files out of them. For the list of supported formats, look at http://assimp.sourceforge.net/main_features_formats.html.
An alternative export path for Blender is to use the Urho3D add-on (https://github.com/reattiva/Urho3D-Blender).
sign to use as an exclude. For example -s "Bip01;-Dummy;-Helper"
The material list is a text file, one material per line, saved alongside the Urho3D model. It is used by the scene editor to automatically apply the imported default materials when setting a new model for a StaticModel, StaticModelGroup, AnimatedModel or Skybox component, and can also be manually invoked by calling ApplyMaterialList(). The list files can safely be deleted if not needed.
In model or scene mode, the AssetImporter utility will also automatically save non-skeletal node animations into the output file directory.
Loads OGRE .mesh.xml and .skeleton.xml files and saves them as Urho3D .mdl (model) and .ani (animation) files. For other 3D formats and whole scene importing, see AssetImporter instead. However that tool does not handle the OGRE formats as completely as this.
Note: outputting only bone rotations may help when using an animation in a different model, but if bone position changes have been used for effect, the animation may become less lively. Unpredictable mutilations might result from using an animation in a model not originally intended for, as Urho3D does not specifically attempt to retarget animations.
Examines a directory recursively for files and subdirectories and creates a PackageFile. The package file can be added to the ResourceCache and used as if the files were on a (read-only) filesystem. The file data can optionally be compressed using the LZ4 compression library.
Use caution when using package files on Android, as the .apk is already a package itself, where arbitrary seeks can perform poorly due to compression already being used. Experimentally it looks that on Android it can be favorable to compress the package, because in that case the .apk packaging may skip its own compression, allowing better seek & read performance.
Basepath is an optional prefix that will be added to the file entries.
When PackageTool runs, it will go inside the source directory, then look for subdirectories and any files. Paths inside the package will by default be relative to the source directory, but if an extra path prefix is desired, it can be specified by the optional basepath argument.
The -c option enables LZ4 compression on the files. The -q option enables the operation to be performed without sending output to the standard output stream.
Creates 1D and 2D ramp textures for use in light attenuation and spotlight spot shapes. Alternatively bakes the image from .ies input file.
The output is saved in PNG format. The power parameter is fed into the pow() function to determine ramp shape; higher value gives more brightness and more abrupt fade at the edge.
Takes a series of images and packs them into a single texture and creates a sprite sheet xml file.
-h Shows this help message.
-px Adds x pixels of padding per image to width.
-py Adds y pixels of padding per image to height.
-ox Adds x pixels to the horizontal position per image.
-oy Adds y pixels to the horizontal position per image.
-frameHeight Sets a fixed height for image and centers within frame.
-frameWidth Sets a fixed width for image and centers within frame.
-trim Trims excess transparent space from individual images offsets by frame size.
-xml 'path' Generates an SpriteSheet xml file at path.
-debug Draws allocation boxes on sprite.
Compiles AngelScript file(s) to binary bytecode for faster loading. Can also dump the Script API in Doxygen format.
The output files are saved with the extension .asc (compiled AngelScript.) binary files are not automatically loaded instead of the text format (.as) script files, instead resource requests and resource references in objects need to point to the compiled files. In a final build of an application it may be convenient to simply replace the text format script files with the compiled scripts.
The script API dump mode can be used to replace the 'ScriptAPI.dox' file in the 'Docs' directory. If the output file name is not provided then the script API would be dumped to standard output (console) instead.


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My time with the Kings
In a new memoir, "My Time with the Kings: A Reporter's Recollections of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement," retired Associated Press reporter Kathryn Johnson describes civil rights flashpoints she covered in the 1960s and details her close relationship with the movement's leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and his family.
As the nation marks the King holiday, here is an excerpt from Johnson's book, in which she recalls an in-depth talk with King at his dining room table with his wife Coretta and, years later, her last interview with him, shortly before his assassination.
Kathryn Johnson in the AP bureau office in Atlanta, Ga., during late 1970s. (AP Photo)
On a fiercely cold winter night in 1964, I was trudging alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as he led a group of striking marchers at Scripto, a pen and pencil-manufacturing plant near downtown Atlanta.
Bundled in a heavy coat, my teeth chattering from the cold, I asked King the usual questions: "How much pay raise are they asking? Where are negotiations at this point? Do you plan to continue striking?"
Scripto workers had walked off the job, demanding equal pay with whites for skilled and nonskilled work. King sympathized with the strikers, many of whom were members of his church. The straggly little group hurrying along the cold, dark city street drew little media attention except from one or two local TV reporters (and myself, from the AP).
By sheer luck, that assignment led to my meeting later in the privacy of the King home and to my personal introduction to his incredible gifts as an orator.
King, ending the freezing march at 11:15 p.m., told me, "This is a dangerous section of town. Let me escort you to your car."
When we reached my car several blocks away, I offered to drive him home. At that time, the Kings lived on nearby Johnson Street.
As I stopped the car to let King out, his wife, Coretta, pregnant with their last child, came to the door and said, "Come on in and have some hot coffee. You'll warm up." King led me to a phone in his office, and I quickly called in my strike story.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. African-American leader who recently was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, talks to a reporter as joins the picket line at the Scripto plant in Atlanta, Ga., in support of striking employees, Dec. 19, 1964. The International Chemical Workers Union called a strike Nov. 27, charging discrimination against African-American employees. (AP Photo)
I then joined the couple at their dining room table, sipping coffee and talking about what had become known as the Movement.
I'd long been impressed with King's personal magnetism and flow of words at news conferences, but sitting at their table late that night, I was struck by his simple brilliance as a leader. His ability to put into words the longings, the hopes and dreams of his people, their anguish and their cry for human dignity, clearly was a great gift.
After that night — although King was known for never calling reporters by their first names — he always called me Kathryn.
King was to me a young, well-educated Baptist minister who came out of the Jim Crow churches of the South preaching brotherhood and nonviolence. But it was into a land filled with violence. Blacks were being beaten, lynched and terrorized by Ku Klux Klansmen who drove into their neighborhoods wearing their long white robes and hooded masks to frighten them.
King, too, had been threatened — a bomb had been thrown at his home in Montgomery, Alabama, and later in Atlanta, Klan night riders had burned a cross in his front yard.
It was 1:15 a.m. before I left the King home, and both King and Coretta stood at the door waiting until I drove off.
At home that morning, I took a breakfast tray into the den so that I could watch TV news. When the Scripto strike story came on, my mother, spotting me as the only white person in the crowd and walking alongside King, questioning him, said, "Honey, be careful. I'm afraid someday someone's going to try to kill that man."
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. SELMA
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shakes his fist during a speech in Selma, Ala., Feb. 12, 1965. King was engaged in a battle with Sheriff Jim Clark over voting rights and voter registration in Selma. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)
Clad in a neat, dark suit and sitting comfortably in a swivel chair in his office with its dingy green walls and bare floors, Martin Luther King didn't seem like the revolutionary leader he was.
I had no idea that this would be my last interview with him — it was in 1968, not long before he was assassinated.
King had begun speaking of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society — the president's lifelong dream to revitalize our big cities, protect natural resources and guarantee educational opportunities for all. But that great hope, King told me, was being shot down in the rice paddies of Vietnam.
"A few years ago was a shining moment in the civil rights struggle," he said. "Then came the buildup in Vietnam, and I watched the program broken as if it were an idle plaything of a society gone mad with war."
The nation's focus was on the war, and King's fierce distaste for it kept recurring. "The war must be stopped," he said.
Already, he had urged every young man who found the war "objectionable and unjust" to file as a conscientious objector ...
King told me he would continue the struggle for equality that had begun in the black churches of the South, but now he had concluded that racism was only part of the problem — that poverty and the Vietnam War were major parts of it.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., right, chats with Greenwood, Mississippi African Americans on their front porch on July 21, 1964, during his door-to-door campaign, telling all them to register to vote and support his Mississippi Freedom Democratic party. (AP Photo/Jim Bourdier)
His outspoken opposition to the war was raising fears among civil rights leaders of a stiffening white reaction. Some felt it was a mistake to put the issues of fighting for civil rights together with opposition to the war.
"We'll build our shanties — literal broken-down shanties — to dramatize and symbolize the day-to-day conditions for the way millions of people have to live," King said. ...
At this time, King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference had begun organizing a coalition of black people, Hispanics and poor whites for the Poor People's Campaign. His plan was to deal with the whole question of economic justice by taking this squatter army of the nation's poor to the Mall in Washington. There, the tumble-down shanties would contrast with the cherry blossoms along the Potomac.
I never doubted that King could draw thousands for that campaign ....
King's plans were not only to "house the troops of hopeless and embittered poor" he would lead to the capital, but also to dramatize the pain and suffering under which the hardscrabble poor lived at home.
His words reminded me of something he had said in an earlier speech: "Now we are a poor people. Don't let anybody fool you, we're poor. The vast majority of black people in the United States are smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society ...."
King then spoke of the alternative to nonviolence, which he never tired of repeating: "I've been to the ghettos; I know the resentments will blow up if something is not done quickly. We're going all out to get this nation to respond to nonviolence. If it refuses to do this, it will entitle the Negro to so intensify his anger that we will go deeper and deeper into chaos."
While violence created outrage, televised accounts of such events also dramatized the injustice facing his people. King used that strategy in an effort to "shame the nation into action."
When he told me the army of protesters in the Poor People's Campaign was to invade "the very seat of power," I asked, "How effective would they be?"
He replied that he had few illusions about persuading Congress to action. "Congress sits there, recalcitrant, a sickness upon them. When you look at Congress, you see they are never moved to act unless the nation gets them to move. We never got the civil rights bill until we had Selma," he said, referring to the assault on peaceful demonstrators in that Alabama town.
"A new kind of Selma is needed," he said.
King told me he had long weighed and agonized over the risk of such action, but he felt the Poor People's campaign was a "last-ditch chance for nonviolence."
I asked, "What about the risk of a takeover by extremists?"
King replied, "I am convinced I can control them. If we came to a situation where our actions were leading to violence, I would call it off."
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963. The march was organized to support proposed civil rights legislation and end segregation. King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, advocating nonviolent action against America's racial inequality. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, King was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968. (AP Photo)
He began talking about the enormous wealth of America, which he felt should be used through tax policies to promote chances of a decent life for the poor. Already, King had called for a guaranteed annual wage — a call that alarmed not only the business world, but the federal government.
Some black leaders and scholars thought King's plans for his Poor People's Campaign were becoming too militant, and a few were beginning to desert him, saying he should stick to civil rights.
King also spoke of the pressures facing him, including criticism from his own staff. There were times when he had to oppose his own followers, when he felt it necessary to take his message to a wider public. At this time, King was either admired or hated ....
As a symbol of integration, he was the object of unrelenting, sometimes brutal attacks. As these increased, King steadily became overworked, and I noticed how tired he was beginning to look.
With his guiding principle of nonviolent action, King became the symbol of the black struggle. Their revolt against oppression could easily have gone in a different, even deadly direction. It did not, thanks to King's creed of nonviolence.
Dr. Martin Luther King Speaking Bull Horn
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as he addressed a crowd with a bull horn in the Roxbury section of Boston April 22, 1965. King in Boston to lead a civil rights march, made a tour of the Roxbury section to view some of the schools in a predominantly African American district. He urged spectators to take part in the march. He will address a joint session of the Massachusetts Legislature. (AP Photo)
More than any other man, King was the voice of the Movement. Yet, in the heyday of the '60s, a great many others helped change America. Too little credit is given to the women who were crucial in the fight to end segregation, as were the many capable young black ministers who worked with King.
After King was killed, two of his trusted friends, Harry Belafonte, the singer and activist, and Stanley Levison, a white lawyer and longtime adviser to King, wrote, "Under his leadership millions of black Americans emerged from spiritual imprisonment, from fear, from apathy, and took to the streets to proclaim their freedom."
Those words echoed what King himself once said: "The real victory was what this period did to the psyche of the black man. The greatness of this period was that we armed ourselves with dignity and self-respect."
After his death, some whites — and a few blacks — tried to transform him into merely a dreamer. King was a dreamer, all right, but he was also a revolutionary ....
King Bus Boycott
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is welcomed with a kiss by his wife Coretta after leaving court in Montgomery, Ala., March 22, 1956. King was found guilty of conspiracy to boycott city buses in a campaign to desegregate the bus system, but a judge suspended his $500 fine pending appeal. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick)
Text from the AP Book, My Time with the Kings: A Reporter's Recollections of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement, by Kathryn Johnson.
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Alice Maud Fanner ou Mme Taite, né en 1865 et morte en 1930, est une peintre de paysages britannique.

Biographie

Alice Maud Fanner naît dans le Surrey. Elle étudie à la Slade School of Art et est une élève de Jules Olsson. Son œuvre Riverside Landscape est incluse dans le livre Women Painters of the World.

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 Alice Maud Fanner sur commons

Naissance en 1865
Décès en 1930
Peintre britannique du XIXe siècle
Peintre britannique du XXe siècle
Étudiant de la Slade School of Fine Art
Peintre paysagiste britannique
Femme peintre britannique