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Tonight I had a flashback to my social studies teaching days, to the nights when I sat up in bed searching for the perfect object to hook my students for the next day's lesson. Before I got the hang of it, it took me a lot of hunting online to find an object that would both align with my lesson objectives and engage my students.
Each day my students walked in the room to see an object projected on the SmartBoard. Students spent a few moments completing a version of the Library of Congress primary source analysis tool. We spent a minute or two discussing observations, inferences, and questions before I revealed the object's museum label. Over the course of a year we saw hundreds of objects. Objects that springboarded us into other discussions and investigations.
Most museums are crawling into the 21st century finally. I remember when I couldn't even take my cell phone out at the Met, now almost all their collections are online. Since the Met is an encyclopedic museum you can find almost anything you need for any topic and their collections search engine is easy to use. I have a few other favorite sites: British Museum Collection Online, Smithsonian Collections Search Center, Indianapolis Museum of Art. Most of these sites have built themed collections for browsing. Be sure to set your search settings to include only objects with images.
One of my favorite jumping off points was the book The History of the World in 100 Objects. On the book's website the accompanying podcasts are great for context. Definitely a source you want to preview when sharing with students depending on the age of students.
Check out ArtStories if you are looking for deeper engagement with objects. Interactive features are added to the object images. The focus is on stories so the interactive features relate to building on the story of the artist, object context, or the medium.
MOMA's Object: Photo site has a great mapping feature that allows visitors to investigate connections between artists and where they lived and worked. Visitors can also compare photographs. Essays are on the site as well and they are full of background information.
Curate your own sets for use later and curate similar topics at the same time. It will be much easier to find related objects/images all at one sitting, rather than doing it in fits and starts. Learned my lesson on this. I usually planned out a week or two at a time. Planning for this day helped me pay attention to the progression of objects I was sharing in a given unit. I could easily ask myself if my objects represented the major points of my unit and the understandings I wanted to guide students towards.
Allow students to curate sets as an assessment or create an online museum.
Share sources with your students. They will go to the sites and do some browsing on their own and that is an amazing thing. I posted the links on our Learning Management System and links to corresponding interactives and features we didn't have time to get to in class.
You can also offer incentives for students who find interesting objects related to unit themes. Tell students to find objects that answer your essential question or hint at your enduring understandings. Let them do a bit of the digging and they will uncover things you may not ever find.
Tie in literacy by connecting objects with informational texts and current news. My students loved anything related to repatriation when I taught World History.
There are few things more engaging than objects, works of art, and photographs. Happy hunting!


How does that saying go, "You have to have a license to drive a car, but any old person can have a kid?"
That has never been more true than on Thursday morning when a Mitchell police officer found two small children outside wearing nothing but diapers and shoes.
Officer Dan Fechner was on the job shortly after 11:00 AM when he spotted two young children ages one and three. Between the two of them, they had a coat and a small, light-quilted blanket and were located about a block and a half from their home according to Fechner.
When Is It Time for a Parent to Say It's Too Cold to Go Outside and Play?
The children were too young to talk and weren't able to tell Fechner why they were outside.
At the time of the incident, the temperature outside was 34 degrees with 20 mph winds, making the windchill 22 degrees.
Thankfully Fechner was able to locate the children's family. Come to find out, police dealt with the same family within the last week on a similar incident according to Sgt. Joel Reinesch.
Reinesch said, the two kids were taken into protective custody by the Department of Social Services, and a judge signed a temporary custody directive.


The EU pressed on Friday with plans to forge a trade deal with the US, part of an effort — backed by Germany — to avert a trade war with President Donald Trump.
The commission handles trade negotiations for the EU's 28 member states and the plans must now be approved by the national governments before negotiations start with Washington.
Other member states — mainly France — are dubious that the talks are worth the trouble, especially amid populist anger ahead of European elections in May.
Others doubt Washington's good faith.


Step up your plant game this summer using these helpful tips for maintaining your garden.
Potted plants are the most susceptible to overheating and drying out under the summer sun. Keep them cool by moving them into shaded areas where possible, and lightly mulch to lock in moisture. Avoid putting potted plants in saucers of water as this can attract mosquitoes and encourage rootrot. Stand them in a saucer of wet sand instead. And if your potted plants become really dried out, you can soak them in a bucket of water for about half an hour and then drain them.
It's time for a different kind of spring-cleaning! We know it will be hard to part with them, but say goodbye to last season's blooms and make way for some stunning summer annuals. The best flowers to plant this season are colourful varieties such as marigolds, pansies, violas and wallflowers that thrive in Watagan Park's more temperate conditions.
If you're planning on taking a trip this summer, and want to make sure your garden is still intact by the time you get back, there are some methods you can use so that your plants continue to thrive. Allocate about a day or two before you leave to tidy up your garden. Remove the weeds, trim the hedges and lightly mulch to ensure plants retain their moisture. You can also add a wetting agent to your garden so that it soaks up any rain that falls while you're away. If you are still a bit worried, maybe call on a neighbour to water your garden in your absence.
Reap the benefits of summer planting by either setting up or adding to your veggie garden. With Watagan Park temperatures in mind, the best vegetables to plant are beetroot, parsley, pumpkin and radish. If you decide to keep some potted vegetables about, make sure they don't get too hot as they will begin to wilt. Allow them to soak up the morning sun, but move them to a more shaded spot in the afternoons.


Twice the Zanu PF government blocked President Nelson Chamisa from attending funeral proceedings of International icon Dr Oliver Mtukudzi.
Not only did they block President Chamisa but also Dancehall superstar Wallace Chirimuko popularly known as Winky D.
These acts are not only a show of desperation and disrespect but are taboo.
That a stranger can come to a neighbor's funeral and then be the self appointed clearance guard who decides who must pay last respects is unheard of especially in Zimbabwean society.
Sowing division at a life of a unifier is flummoxing.
The lies and injustice in return for law abiding and peace loving conduct is contempt of the highest order.
The MDC takes this opportunity to thank the people of Zimbabwe who showed utmost respect to the late icon Dr Oliver Mtukudzi, a man who earned every drop of the waters of respect Zimbabweans and the globe continue to pour.
We also express our gratitude to the family who embraced everyone who so wished to pay condolence and pay respect to the late icon despite race or creed.


Window installation should be done after careful thought. This is because the window applications are exposed to the sun and the brightness can cause deterioration of the window frame at a higher speed. The harmful UV rays can easily penetrate through the window frame and cause damage. This means that the windows will require replacement so that look, appearance of the premise, and security of the area is maintained. Vinyl is one such material which is used as a framing of the windows and the range of the product is diverse plus distinctive. The company also offers a premium range of product which highly impresses the clients.
It can offer a precise fit and thus make the project appear a complete custom-designed one.
The corners of the windows can get a soft and round look with the help of the material.
The locks can be fitted easily, and the maintenance of the product is easy which provides longevity and durability to the project.
The sash frame provides structural strength and durability.
Flexibility and ventilation are other characteristics which is a possibility in the Vinyl Windows.
The company offers quick and simple Vinyl Window Replacement to the clients at the most affordable rates. Vinyl windows have also come forth as one of the best alternatives to the expensive window installation. These can last for a long time compared to its counterparts. With proper maintenance the vinyl windows are surely going to last long. The company offers a complete hassle-free repair and remodeling of the vinyl window applications mainly because the experts have complete knowledge of the products.
As a remodeling Vinyl Windows Contractors, the company ensures that complete customer satisfaction is achieved. Thus, they work with complete effort and commitment to achieve the same. When the project is under renovation, they ensure that the mess created due to the same is cleared simultaneously so that the clients get a clean and neat appearance of the area after the completion of the task. Timely delivery of the completed task is offered, and this also happens to be their USP.
The quality of the material is very high. They deal in branded materials which also ensure quality completion of task and thus durability is achieved. The experts also offer guidance tips for proper maintenance of the window applications. Compared to wooden and fibreglass window applications, Vinyl is cost-effective and a durable option which has also pushed the demand higher for such products. The company also realizes the fact and thus offers the remodeling procedures at a competitive rate. It is an acclaimed and reliable organization in the related field.


Use UNTextInputNotificationAction objects to define an action that allows the user to provide a custom text-based response. When the user selects an action of this type, the system displays controls for the user to enter or dictate the text content. That text is then included in the response object that is delivered to your app.
For information on how to define actions and categories, see Declaring Your Actionable Notification Types.
Creates an action object that accepts text input from the user.
The localized title of the text input button that is displayed to the user.
The localized placeholder text to display in the text input field.


-- I kept telling hubby how much Cracker looks like an anatolian shepherd, a breed of livestock guardian dog. Then I discovered that the American mastiff was developed from the anatolian shepherd.
-- Our autumn color peaked for two days, then the leaves began to turn brown. With a howling wind several days this week, a lot of them gave up and fell to the ground. The barnyard is carpeted with a layer of brown oak leaves today.
-- I'm thankful to have been able to spend another day this week with our son. We discovered a beautiful place to take photos in a park in town. I'm working on a composite family photo, even though our family is spread out across four states.
-- Phoenix grew this week! She was shorter than Firefly, but has grown at least a couple of inches suddenly and is taller than Firefly again. The goats and the horses have grown out their winter coats and are quite fuzzy; Juliet's thick white Great Pyrenees coat is the envy of any dog right now - gorgeous!
-- I've cleaned out the container garden of its frost-blackened vines and plants, and pruned the rosebush. The wind made a mess of the tarps covering the hay bales, so I redid that as best I can. I need a new tarp; the current ones are shredded.


Discussion in 'Buy/Sell/Trade' started by Malakai, Oct 5, 2006.
I have 2 512mb ECC Registered PC100 sticks of RAM that I mistakenly bought for my IBM Eserver, not knowing they would not work on it. In fact, I sent the first set back to the company thinking they were bad.
These are pre-owned, and the memory chips on them are Toshiba.


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Rufus Castle, Dorset
Remains of 15th century castle with Norman keep. Built on a rocky promontory on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, it is possible that the first castle on this site was built for William II, who was called Rufus due to his red hair. In 1142 during the civil war known as The Anarchy, Robert Earl of Gloucester captured the castle from King Stephen on behalf of Empress Maud.
Rebuilt in the 15th century, much of what remains today dates from this time with the exception of a single arch which can be seen on the approach from Chuch Ope Road.
Interestingly, the castle is also known as 'Bow and Arrow Castle' due to the fact that the 7 foot thick walls are dotted with umpteen 'loop-holes' which allowed archers to fire at any invading forces trying their luck! The north and western parts of these walls still stand at their original height.
Above: Empress Maud, who captured the castle (with help from Robert, Earl of Gloucester) in 1142 during 'The Anarchy'.
Rufus Castle has free entry and open access at any reasonable time.
Empress Maud
Matilda (Empress Maud), Stephen and The Anarchy, the 'forgotten' English Civil War of the 12th century...

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In Regards to Filming an iPad
Games, Musings, Portfolio, Producing
Filming an iPad app is not a trivial task. Sure you can record the screen directly, but then you don't see the interaction of someone's actual hand with the touchscreen. Filming a screen though, presents interesting challenges, practically and artistically.
Below I describe the setups used by Capital Games during my Fall 2012 semester and then that used by Bravura during my Spring 2013 semester. These were both semester long graduate projects and our teams are primarily game developers so we had no fancy studio equipment; just whatever the school had / we had lying around.
During Capital Games, we filmed our iPad app on top of our coffee table with the camera set on a tripod behind it. The camera cannot be pointed straight down since the tripod legs would be in the shot; however you can see that the edges of the iPad slant slightly away because of the angle. Our biggest concern was screen glare and so there is actually a black board help up above the screen. Otherwise, only the ambient light from the room was used. As you can see, the quality isn't bad at all. However, we did have trouble with white balance. The hand and the table were very orange if we balanced to the iPad screen so we actually set the balance so that the iPad is a bit bluer. Sound was recorded directly from the device via the headphone out. Not bad for a first time. Mike and I reunited on our Spring project, though, and we decided we would do it better.
Mike found a video about filming the iPad on top of an iMac with a white screen (I'll put the link in when I find it). This was an amazing breakthrough because: (A) the background itself creates an even back-lighting that has the same temperature as the iPad and (B) the iPad's natural habitat is floating in a clean white void.
This however creates lighting problems for the hand, which will now be even more dark and orange against two screens. So at first we tried to light the hand by throwing a projector against a bounce board. This lit up the hand great; however, it also turned the hand a pale, zombie-white color. So I started grabbing lamps we had lying around. Incandescent bulbs throw a nice warm orange, but since we were balancing to blue already, that made everything too orange. What I really wanted was yellow, but alas, I was making do with what we had. So I grabbed a bunch of blue / green transparent folders and bags and draped them over the lights (fire-hazard, do not attempt unless you are monitoring the temperature constantly), which got us more or less there. Our final setup looked like this when we were filming (the camera is not on the tripod … because I'm taking the picture with it):
The same set up with the room lights on:
The final result is below. I still wish we had proper lighting setup to bring out the hand, but pretty good otherwise.
May 15, 2013 December 14, 2018 jiachuanxinCMU ETC, TuneTrainLeave a comment
EDS End of Semester Reflection
Art, Musings, Portfolio, Producing, Uncategorized
My Fall 2012 elective, Entertainment Design Studio, is over. I've finished what was essentially an independent study in Fight Choreography and Filmography, and throwing myself right in to it (literally) has shown me a lot. Even at the beginning of this semester, I knew that one semester of coursework would provide me no mastery in this field, but I do feel like I have seen a lot and become aware of the processes and considerations that a producer of fight scenes needs to be aware of.
Designing for your actors is essential for them to pull off a convincing performance and stay safe, but you need to know them almost as well as you know yourself.
The best fights fit in a larger universe. What do they characters want other than to hurt each other? How did they end up in this situation? Et cetera. Barring all of that, it's still possible to design a technique-ly impressive fight.
A fight is a physical altercation; pick a location first and incorporate its space.
Pacing a fight and creating "phrases" of combat is the same as creating any plot/interest curve.
You will run up into many issues: costuming, lighting, sound effects, etc. Know they exist, know what your team is capable of doing well, and make clear what you are not.
Because images cannot show depth (except for 3D film now), stacking a strike and its intended target along the line of sight of the camera without the two actually meeting is still the best way to fake "contact."
Stunt performers are actors foremost. They might get "hit" for 4 frames, but they need to sell that hit for the next 24 frames or so. Being able to exaggerate a reaction to something that never happened will make or break a fight scene faster than an incorrectly thrown punch.
Practice a fight scene like a kata or even better like a dance. It's controlled chaos; at every moment, people need to know where they should be and where everyone else should be. More importantly, they should know when something is wrong and when to stop if their partner misses a beat.
Previous combat experience therefore can be a detriment to a fight performer. Instincts to not give tells or exaggerate, instincts to break the opponents rhythm, and instincts to always keep one's guard up all work against the aforementioned good practices.
Always have a third eye watching a performance, because the performance will eventually have to look good to a camera, and that point brings us to:
There is an intimate relationship between filming and performing a fight scene. It's almost impossible to find the best camera angles without being able to constantly move around the constantly moving performers, and vice versa, to perform properly to the camera if it is not there. Specifically, because strikes and their targets need to stack relative to the camera as mentioned above, all three (attacker, victim, camera) all need to move together to avoid revealing "dead air."
The 180 degree rule holds in shooting a fight scene for the purpose of continuity when editing. There are however plenty of opportunities to let the action dictate when the 180 degree line will change.
In the same shot, film the actions before and after whatever is being showcased. E.g. recovering from the previous punch, doing the complete backflip kick, and getting ready for the next kick. You need this to be able to cut on an action to show rapid continuity while editing.
Editing a fight scene and its surprising number of shot angles is a stylistic art itself. Long master shots to show off the performance. Rapid close-ups to emphasize the emotional intensity. When to switch between them and how to emphasize them. You will have a preference; the editor will have a preference; the director will film to a preference.
Speeding up the performance for more impact is subtle and tricky. Simply speeding up film can feel gimmicky and weird if done for more than fractions of a second or if the performers did not also do certain actions slower. Removing single frames in places can help at key moments but it is exact and time-consuming. What I found was best for compressing time was cutting on actions. Perhaps performer A delivers kicks slowly but if you cut from one shot of A preparing their kick to a different one of B receiving the kick, you can lose that second in between and the audience still fills in the gap. Note: This can keep the pace of the fight up, but it will not remedy performer A looking slow whenever they are on screen.
And to end on, here are selected bloopers from the semester:
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Capital Games Personal Post-Mortem
Games, Musings, Portfolio, Producing, Uncategorized
The Fall 2012 semester at the Entertainment Technology Center is over: Food Quest has been handed off to the client as well as into the ETC archives, and the Capital Games team is officially disbanded.
The team achieved a great deal this semester and I'm very happy to have been their producer. My team really stepped up to every challenge and obstacle we encountered along the way. I hope they've learned a lot, and as for myself, I feel like I learned a few things about producing as well:
From my advisors:
I met with my faculty advisors twice over the course of the semester for individual performance grades and evaluation, and they told me a good number of insightful things about me as a producer. There are there main things I need to work on:
Leading the team:
I've normally got a passive personality, and that's pretty apparent to anyone who meets me. While the faculty sees me as doing extremely well with the administrative and clerical duties of producing, I'm not yet a figurehead. This is something that I need to work on and I believe I can; I came to graduate school to improve what I'm not good at, not to continue to do only what I am good at.
Growing the team:
I've got personality quirk that isn't a problem for me, but is detrimental to those around me. That personality quirk is that I'm pessimistically optimistic: I like to talk about how bad things might be so that we can make it turn out better; this is how I internally motivate myself to work harder. Turns out that constantly lamenting how terrible the project is going to turn out is not the best way to motivate a team and help them get in the mood to work hard. It's fine if I keep the pessimistic optimism for myself, but externally, I need to show more optimistic optimism.
Pushing the team to achieve:
My normally passive personality towards others makes it simple for others to get away with the "easy way out" in their work, and I need to recognize that and know not only when to retreat from challenges that are too big, but push my team towards challenges that they can overcome. For Capital Games, the team took a bit of time to hit our stride at the beginning and could have arguably hit it a little sooner if we hadn't let ourselves be so daunted by our project initially.
From Anthony Hildebrand:
Anthony was our Writer and Sound Designer on the team, but he plans to be a producer as well. For our project, he wanted to be able to look at the producer from an external role so that he could learn from me and I could learn from him, and it worked. As the producer on a team, I'm the "go-to guy" but it helped for me to sometimes have someone else I could "go-to;" moreover, having someone else to help evaluate and criticism my actions and decisions really helped me to grow and develop.
One thing that Anthony helped me with was my communication. In my circles, I've never been the social leader-type, but around the time I started graduate school, I realized that most skills aren't innate, they're practiced, and so my communication is something that I'm actively trying to improve during my time here at the ETC. Anthony helped point out a lot of my shortcomings and how to solve them:
One thing was to be aware of falling back on certain words too much and "cheapening" them. For myself, I too often use the word "definitely" when I want to sound confident: "X will definitely happen" OR "I will definitely do that." While being confident is important, I was using this speech tick too much as a crutch.
The biggest thing, though was my lack of control in a conversation. My default personality is the passive nice guy and I can be afraid of controlling a conversation because it feels selfish; Anthony explained that as a producer, it is important to let others have their say, but to then bring it back into the larger picture to show that you always know what's going on. One particular thing he suggested I practice as well is to end conversations on "a button" – when I know a conversation is ending, I should take control and leave an important takeaway that I want everyone to remember as well as finish with a definitive phrase that ends the conversation.
The biggest thing he helped with was helping to facilitate communication with the client. On Project Xense, the client was more hands-off than here on Capital Games, but Anthony had dealt with a more responsive client on his own previous project at the ETC, Pixel Pushers. He gave a lot of great pointers about how to help the client understand what the team was and wasn't capable of, but moreover on how to make sure to address the client's concerns while suggesting alternatives. It can often be easy to push back aggressively against unexpected client demands, but one really needs to dissect the meaning of those demands. If you understand what the client needs relative to what they want, you can come to a compromise that is acceptable to their values and your own schedule.
And of course, he kept my confidence up and made being on the team a fun time, and that's an even more important characteristic of a good producer.
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Building Virtual Worlds Round 5
Final presentations for our Round 5 projects have ended. The theme this round was to make something for the BVW Show.
You can see the game that my team produced in my portfolio under "Games: Building Virtual Worlds."
My team from Round 1 got back together again for this round, looking to capture some of our previous magic. This time, we made an ambitious choice to combine multi-player strategy gaming with a show element, and struggled through quite a few iterations of the game but the final product is pretty solid.
Luckily we decided to approach this round with a "lightening round" idea and polish it as much as possible; unfortunately, though, our choice in mechanic slowed us down a lot. Coming up with a compelling strategy game takes a lot of balancing between control, random elements, and interest curve. Moreover, multiplayer meant that there was a lot more implementation that would have to be done. In fact, we changed our idea a multitude of times between interims and didn't have our final design until after the last interim before finals today. We went through ideas such as a silent auction to see-saws to scales and pulleys before settling on a simple tug-of-war style mechanic. In regards to implementation, we started with Unity Phone, which still wasn't ideal for having a lot of players connected reliably so over the course of the first few weeks, Zero spent most of his time with the help of Emmanuel developing a new web-browser based interface that people could use through their smartphones. Turns out that this worked much more reliably than using the phone servers.
As to my contribution; I really did get a lot of opportunity to polish this project the way that I wanted to. At the beginning while we were still finalizing the mechanic and aesthetic style, I took the initiative to model a whole multitude of low-poly prizes (cars, blenders, TVs, sofas, etc.). Though these did not end up taking a main role as I had hoped, I did get to include them in the background of the final build. The final tug-of-war mechanic did allow me to have a lot of fun animating our little characters, and they have a variety of different animations for each emotion. What I am most proud about though is the subtle fact that they wave and acknowledge the guest when they receive a new command. As to the overall environment, most every subtle detail that I wanted are there: There are cameramen around the set that just rotate slowly and even a lighting grid on top of the ceiling where little simulated spotlights are hanging from.
I had a lot of fun polishing this project, and the team was great.
EDIT: This world made it into the Final Show!
Final presentations for our fourth assignment have ended. This time our team had to produce a game trailer based off of the pre-production that another team did.
We got the "Mario Paint" pre-production that Ninja Babies did, and did pre-production for "Windows 3D Pinball" ourselves. This was a strange assignment and I think we did the best with what we had to work with.
The pre-production took a bit of brainstorming as usual. I forwarded the idea of doing Windows 3D Pinball because we had watched the CollegeHumor Minesweeper trailer and thought it'd be funny to do something with a classic Windows operating system game.
As to production, the Ninja Babies pre-production for Mario Paint wasn't that complex and we basically followed it exactly, adding some slight creative flair with the background as well as Dicky's exaggerative acting. Also, the voice-over came together towards the end as well, and I think it filled a palpable gap in the whole aesthetic.
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Final presentations for our Round 4 projects have ended. This round we had to make a game that "told a story," and my team decided to use Kinect as the platform.
My team decided to address a more serious topic with our game this round I think the result turned out well.
The brainstorm process was a bit slow again, but this time because we had too much to work with. Daniel Aum had a great idea for a complex and very cinematic story but we didn't have the resources to execute the whole thing. Many thanks to Chris Klug who helped us streamline the story down to what it is now. We ended up capturing the essence of the story we wanted to tell, and Daniel did a great job too in choosing a subject that was well-known enough that we didn't have to waste time in-game setting up any of the back-story.
I really pushed myself this round, and I really enjoyed it. This was the first time that I had modeled and rigged humans, and they turned out really well. I even had a go at putting bones in the faces and animating the mouths and eyelids. The buildings were really ambitious, too. I didn't have CityEngine or any other procedural city-generating software so I just made 3 different types of floors, 3 different types of roofs, and a generic door, and mixed and matched building heights, orientations and texture colors. The amount of scene work I had to do gave me a lot more exposure to Unity3D than any previous round as well.
I have to thank and apologize to my texture artist, Dan-Ah. I made so many models that she became back-logged I had to UVW unwrap most of them for her especially since she had to spend so much time texturing our two human characters. This was an enlightening experience though and I found that certain ways of modeling are not as UVW unwrap friendly. I think 3D modelers and texture artist should coordinate to understand the difficulty of each other's roles and pipeline better between themselves. Something that I know some other teams in the class have had difficulty with.
Final presentations for our third assignment have ended.
This assignment was about analyzing one of a set of pre-selected movie clips and be able to plan and recreate it shot-for-shot. You can see the film that my team produced in my portfolio under "Film: Visual Story".
My team chose a clip from Tenacious D. This was a rather simple assignment and I had a lot of fun working on details. Our team didn't know how much creative freedoms we would have (turns out a lot as a bunch of other teams "reinterpreted" scenes) so we played it safe and tried to match the clip as exactly as possible.
I had a lot of fun with this because this is the first time we had shot inside of someone's house (Eric) and we really had complete control over the set. I had a lot of fun throwing stuff around on the floor and rearranging things to make our room look just as unkempt as the one in the Tenacious D clip. Moreover, we actually shot different shots in different parts of the house to get the effect of a whole "solid" room. The couch and TV were moved appropriately, and I myself am really impressed with the illusion we created. Also, this was the first and only time my team used a boom mic and I had a lot of fun positioning it and finding out which directions around our actors the sound carried the best.
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Final presentations for our Round 3 projects have ended. This round was a one week lightning round, where the theme was to make something "fun to do." My team picked Kinect as the platform this time around.
This was a fun concept and we put together a scalable game rather quickly. Brainstorming was rather slow at first but I think most of the team latched on to the "ball pit" idea I had when we were able to prototype it quickly. Emmanuel added the "match three" mechanic and we had a game.
Brian did an amazing job creating a unified aesthetic this round; this was the first round where I had sketches from the texture artist of what the characters should look like and that I didn't have to design them myself.
What most of the time was spent on was supporting our programmer Xing and getting our slightly more complicated than expected "match three" mechanic to work. Many thanks to Emmanuel in that area as well; he is a programmer, too, but had the role of sound designer for BVW, and really had an opportunity to shine this round.
Final presentations for our Round 2 projects have ended. The theme this time was to design a game that even a naive guest could understand and use, and the platform my team got assigned was Kinect.
This was a very difficult round in terms of finalizing our game concept, but I really liked the result in the end.
Our group ran through multiple iterations of this game. At first we made a music-creation game with pentatonic scale notes at various Kinect arm angles, and though it worked, we discovered quickly that it was still very hard to create a compelling piece of music unless one was a composer. We also tried to have the various positions and gestures control random sounds on top of a base soundtrack, but we found that to be even more chaotic and dissonant at times. All during this time, we were also trying to get random light and particle effects to occur with each of the different positions and gestures and this was just as difficult to read.
AT this point, we came away with a few key realizations: We needed more game-like elements rather than simply "toy"-like effects; secondly, we needed to take the music out of the player's control (being a musician is much harder than Guitar Hero had us believe); thirdly, we needed to unify the aesthetic/theme and scale back on all the excess nonsense.
What we finally settled on turned out particularly elegant. You can see from the demo that it's simply a "keep-it-up" game that encourages movement with "dance" and music as the background aesthetic. In fact, the Kinect code tracks joint rotations without discriminating between dancing or spastic twitching. It's clean, it's simple, and it works.
As to my contributions as 3D modeler. I had the dancer silhouette done very early. I really liked the subtle personality that the disco-clothes flares gave our avatar. The band members in the back did not come to be until we finally settled on our third and last iteration of the game. We already had the abstract texture bars but realized that we needed a little more to give the player some emotional attachment to keeping the bars up and I decided that band members might just help. I really had a lot of fun giving them different and crazier animations as the levels went up and I think everyone else who watches the game enjoys them as well.
All-in-all, one of the best games all semester. Arnold Blinn from Microsoft's Kinect Fun Labs liked it a lot when he stopped by as well. Great work, team!


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Listen Mama is comprised of author M.S.P Williams' journal entries beginning at age 14 through almost 20 years of his life. He states that he has written it not only for himself, but also for his mentally ill mother so that she might have "a clearer picture of the world not seen through the false light of [her] mental illness."
At six months, Williams was "somehow" poisoned at day care. Due to a hospital medical error while treating him, over 75% of his scalp and face were burned, resulting in severe disfigurement. Scarred and overweight, Williams was ridiculed throughout his life. He quips that he "hit the loser lottery."
The author began working as a young teen to support his siblings and troubled mother (she shot and paralyzed an abusive husband, hosted transient boyfriends, and behaved erratically). His rage, he writes in one entry, "knows no limits."
Despite all, he graduated from the University of Houston and held myriad jobs, from auto insurance assessor to police academy recruit. At times, he lived in his car, donating blood for income. Twice in his life, he attempted suicide. Ultimately, he made a break from his family, moving to California with his girlfriend, where he seemed to find peace.
Listen Mama is written in a conversational and brutally honest tone. Williams is unapologetic and candid in disclosing his feelings, allowing readers to sympathize with him. His frequent attempts at humor, however, feel forced. Of his first girlfriend, he banters, "she was naturally blown away by my easy, pretty boy ways haha." His liberal use of "haha" and "lol" disrupt the text's flow. Readers may also find frequent, unnecessary details of family, friends, and coworkers distracting.
Regardless of such flaws, readers will applaud the author's heroic efforts to help his kin, all while feeling acute despair over his appearance and lack of confidence. His stark emotional journey is likely to strike a familiar chord with those struggling to live their own truth.
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UK Renews Its Support For UXO Clearance In Laos
Mark Field, Minister for Asia and the Pacific of the United Kingdom
(KPL) During my very recent first visit to Laos, I was briefed by the Mine Action Group (MAG) and The Halo Trust (HALO) about the state of UXO clearance in Laos, and I spent an insightful visit to the UXO Lao Visitor Center in Luang Prabang to learn about UXO clearance operations. It is devastating to see that even after decades of peace, there are still dozens of people killed or injured in Laos by discarded and forgotten munitions, most casualties sustained from individual bomblets or "bombies" from anti-personnel cluster bombs.
I take pride in the fact that the UK government is a committed partner for Laos' efforts to achieve its special Sustainable Development Goal #18, which aims to ensure a safe environment through clearing the land from UXO and educating the population about risks. And I am happy to announce renewed funding from my government for UXO clearance in Laos.
All over the world, the British Government has continuously worked with various demining and unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance organizations, MAG, HALO, Norwegian People's Aid, and others to eradicate the scourge of landmines and unexploded ordnance.
The British government has supported clearance work in Laos since 1998, including funding support of more than US$16 million. The Global Mine Action Programme (GMAP) from the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) aims to reduce the devastating humanitarian and development impact of landmines across the world.
Through the first Global Mine Action programme 2014-2017, the UK provided US$4.6 million to clear and release over 3,200,000 square metres of land in Xieng Khouang and Savannakhet provinces, benefitting 115,000 Lao people.
The British government today confirmed contracts under its new second Global Mine Action Programme with HALO and MAG worth nearly £46m to support demining projects across Africa and Asia, part of a commitment to spend £100million on mine action by March 2020.
For Laos, this means that a consortium led by MAG – in partnership with the Halo Trust, and Norwegian People's Aid – will clear or over 15 million square metres in 7 provinces and benefit more than 68,000 people. The programme in Laos will cover survey, clearance, mine risk education and capacity development until 2020.
I'm also happy to say that in response to an offer from the British government, Laos has agreed to prioritise assistance from this programme to Attapeu province and the communities that were affected by the recent collapse of a subsidiary dam of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Power Project. The consortium is currently preparing this support.
Sadly, 60 million people worldwide still live in fear of the threat of landmines and unexploded ordnance. As well as causing death, these remnants of war often prevent access to health, education, agricultural land and infrastructure, which makes them a global humanitarian concern. I am pleased that, through the initiatives announced today, the UK will now cooperate even more closely with Laos to support UXO clearance and improve social and economic conditions for Lao people living in contaminated areas.
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Ride-sharing forces automakers to rethink how they sell cars – Los Angeles Times
Posted: Sunday, June 28, 2015
For at least 22 hours a day most cars sit parked, sucking up their owners' money while waiting to be driven. For most people, it's one of their most underutilized — but most expensive — assets.
Now, some companies are devising ways to help people profit from their vehicles. Start-ups like RelayRides and Getaround help people rent out their cars during down time. Uber, Lyft and Sidecar connect car owners with people willing to pay for a ride. The rapid growth of these start-ups is transforming transportation — making it easier than ever before to get around without owning a car — and forcing automakers to devise new strategies to lure prospective buyers.
Last week, Ford launched a car-sharing program that offers buyers a new way to offset the pains of ownership by tapping into what is essentially an Airbnb on wheels.
And in Germany, General Motors launched a CarUnity app that lets owners of any brand rent their vehicles to Facebook friends or people in the app's network.
"This is a big bang moment for the auto industry," said Thilo Koslowski, vice president at research firm Gartner Inc., who estimates that by 2025, 20% of the vehicles in urban centers will be dedicated to shared use.
"Imagine all of a sudden 20% of your vehicles sales in the classic sense — to individuals who will be the only user of that car — go away," he said.
Each vehicle that goes into a full-time car-sharing service, such as short-time rental company Zipcar, supplants four to six new car sales and postpones the purchase of up to seven more, said Susan Shaheen, a transportation expert and professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Berkeley.
As people share vehicles, cars become "less sexy and more just transportation tools," Koslowski said.
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The ultimate effect on car sales is unclear. Population growth and a burgeoning middle class in developing countries are creating new customers at a steady clip. But sales could take a serious hit if people decide it's cheaper to forgo owning a car in favor of renting or ride-sharing for the occasional errand.
"This will force the auto industry to rethink how it markets its products," Koslowski said.
Automakers are positioning themselves to make sure new sources of cash flow their way. Rental programs are a way to introduce prospective consumers to their brand. And if you're going to rent out a car, why not upgrade to a nicer one?
Mark Fields, chief executive of Ford Motor Co., said the automaker needs to start "thinking like a mobility company" as well as a manufacturer.
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In its six-month test program, Ford's auto financing arm is inviting customers in six U.S. cities — Berkeley; Oakland; San Francisco; Portland, Ore.; Chicago; and Washington, D.C. — and London to sign up to rent out their vehicles for short-term use.
The San Francisco car-sharing company Getaround will manage the program by screening drivers, collecting funds and providing a $1-million insurance policy. Getaround suggests a rental rate based on the make, model and location of the vehicle, but owners can set their own prices.
Rates are typically $7 to $12 an hour and include customer support and roadside assistance. Getaround takes a 40% cut.
In Bangalore, India, Ford is testing a fractional car ownership program with the car-sharing vendor Zoomcar. The companies have identified several three-person groups with complementary schedules, allowing each pod to share a single vehicle.
For some owners, the business can cover their car expenses.
Damien Breen, 38, rents his 2015 Audi A3 out 10 to 14 days a month, charging $59 a day through RelayRides. The Hollywood businessman works out of his house and uses ride-share services Uber and Lyft to get around if the car is out.
"It pays for 100% of the expense of my leased vehicle, including insurance, making it a free car for me to use two weeks a month," Breen said.
Hayley Ortner, 26, makes about $300 a month through Getaround renting her 2015 Ford Fiesta for $9 an hour during the evenings and on weekends in San Francisco.
That covers the entire $276 monthly loan payment on the vehicle, said Ortner, a behavior therapist.
Milliennials are leading the trend, looking for wheels to supplement an otherwise car-free lifestyle, researchers say.
"People below the age of 30 are much more likely to identify with their mobile and computing devices than the cars," said Arun Sundararajan, a professor of information, operations and management sciences at New York University. "Autos just aren't the identity-making purchase that they once were."
More than half of millennials report being open to sharing rides with others and rank car rides second only to book lending as things they are most open to sharing, according to a study from the Penn Schoen Berland research firm.
While automakers believe individual consumers will remain the primary sources of their business well into the future, they are hedging their bets.
BMW plans to offer an optional equipment package for cars from its Mini brand that will allow owners to share their vehicles. The company hasn't detailed the technology, but it will likely give renters access to unlock and drive the cars through a smartphone app or other device.
"Society and the automotive industry are undergoing radical change," said Peter Schwarzenbauer, who heads BMW's Mini and Rolls Royce brands. "So it makes sense for us to offer a car-sharing option for Mini starting in 2016."
Bob Carter, who heads Toyota's sales in the U.S., says the company is gauging how car- and ride-sharing companies such as Uber will affect their business. In San Francisco, for example, "we will see business models develop around access to cars but not ownership," he said.
Yet in other areas, including sprawling Southern California with its long commutes and decentralized employment, vehicle ownership will continue to drive the auto business, Carter said.
Many in the auto industry are skeptical that Americans are going to fully embrace ditching their wheels and start subscribing to car-sharing services anytime in the near future.
"I believe that the American love affair with cars is alive and well," said Scott Painter, chief executive of TrueCar, the online digital car pricing service. "I think we can grow the pie. I don't think we will see a decline" in car sales.
One thing is certain: the competition will be fierce.
Shaheen, the UC Berkeley professor, said there are 23 car-sharing companies renting 19,115 vehicles to service about 1.3 million members in the U.S. The industry is growing at about 35% annually, she said. Her data include only companies such as Zipcar, which owns its fleet and rents cars by the hour.


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The Department of Recreation and Sport Pedagogy offers undergraduate and master's degrees in two academic programs. Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies offers undergraduate majors and minors in Outdoor Recreation & Education and Recreation Management, as well as a master's degree in Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies with concentrations in Outdoor Recreation & Education, Recreation Management, and Campus Recreation. Coaching, Health & Physical Education offers undergraduate majors in Health & Physical Education and Physical Activity & Sport Coaching, as well as master's degrees in Coaching Education, and Soccer Coaching Education. The department is also home to the Physical Activity & Wellness program, which offers a variety of activity-based courses intended to promote health and wellness through participation in physical activity and recreational sport. Finally, the department offers certificate programs in Ecotourism and Festivals, Events & Entertainment Management, as well as minors in Outdoor Recreation & Education, Recreation Management, and Coaching.
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Featured in the Athenaeum: Nina Adjanin, a doctoral student in Instructional Technology, studied surging glaciers with a research team from University of Scotland and Norway University.
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Featured in the Athenaeum: Vlatko Andonovski, who completed his master's degree in Soccer Coaching Education in 2018, is head coach of the U.S. Women's National Team.
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Christian Johnson is a small business owner, educator, and recent candidate for the Ohio Senate District 20 seat.
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Sarah Murphy, a Recreation and Sport Pedagogy senior, collected over 100 business cards from working professionals at this year's Ohio Parks and Recreation Association (OPRA) Conference and Trade Show.
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"Black Women's Academic and Professional Experiences" will be held on Monday, Oct. 26, from noon to 1:30 p.m.
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Val-d'Or Mining Corporation Ground Geophysical Program Update on the Dionne Prospect
Val-d'Or, Quebec - September 21, 2021 - Val-d'Or Mining Corporation (TSXV: VZZ) ("Val-d'Or Mining" or the "Company") has completed induced polarization (IP) and ground magnetic surveys over the eastern land portion of the Dionne Prospect. The 100%-owned property is located within the Amos-Barraute Belt of volcano-sedimentary rocks of the southern zone of the Abitibi Greenstone Belt (AGB). The primary exploration target on the property is an orogenic gold deposit.
The program is intended to follow-up on geophysical surveys carried out by Golden Valley Mines in 2011 over the western section of the property (winter lake coverage), which have detected many IP chargeability anomalies directly associated with the historical Dionne gold showing, iron formation units and the Chicobi Deformation Zone (GM 65054, GM 65567).
The Company will report in more detail on the results following the completion of the geophysical data processing currently underway by the contractor, Géophysique TMC, data compilation, interpretation and 3D geological modelling.
Property Background:
The Dionne Prospect is situated at and around the corners of Duverny, Vassal and Lamorandiére Townships. Most of the property is covered by Lac Castagnier with the underlying geology projected as being made up of sandstone, conglomerate, argillite and iron formations interbedded with intermediate to mafic volcanic rocks.
The Dionne Showing containing visible gold was discovered in the Fall of 1951, by Mr. Joseph Dionne of Val-d'Or, Québec. The following quotation from I.C. Christopher reporting for Sanctae Rosaelis Mining Corporation states (GM 01629). "The discovery was made at a time when the water level of the lake was lower than it had been for several years, the outcrop is usually below the water. The showing consists of a mineralized zone of carbonatized lavas, striking east-west. A trench was put across the zone for a distance of 22 feet which showed the same type of alteration and mineralization. Pits to the north and south of the trench indicate that the zone is about 30 feet wide. Due to the steep bank along the shore which rises about 15 feet, the zone could not be traced to the east, to the west it passes under the lake."
Mineralization is described (GM 01629) as consisting of pyrite, minor specks of chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite. Specks of visible gold were also found. The arsenopyrite occurs in narrow quartz stringers about 40 feet to the north of the showing. Grab samples (1951) from the trench gave the following values:
Sample # 1: 0.023 ounces gold
# 2: 8.291 ounces gold
The three grab samples collected by Sanctae Rosaelis Mining Corporation were assayed at the Québec Department of Mines Laboratories (GM01629).
The Dionne gold showing is spatially associated with the Chicobi Deformation Zone, a major, yet under-explored regional deformation corridor (Leclerc et al, 2012 Economic Geology, v.107, pp 963-989) transecting the AGB in Québec across over to Ontario.
Michael P. Rosatelli, P.Geo. (OGQ Special Authorization Permit; PGO #0855), the Vice President of Exploration of Val-d'Or Mining is the Qualified Person (as that term is defined in National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects) who approved the technical disclosures included in this news release.
About Val-d'Or Mining Corporation
Val-d'Or Mining Corporation is a junior natural resource issuer involved in the process of acquiring and exploring its mineral property assets, most of which are situated in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt of NE Ontario and NW Quebec. To complement its current property interests, the Company regularly evaluates new opportunities for staking and/or acquisitions. Outside of its principal regional focus in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt, the Company holds several other properties in Northern Québec (Nunavik) covering different geological environments (Ni-Cu-PGE's).
The Company has an expertise in the identification and generation of new projects, and in the early stages of exploration. The mineral interests are broad and range from gold, copper-zinc-silver, nickel-copper-PGE to industrial and energy minerals. After the initial value creation in the 100%-owned, or majority-owned properties, the Company seeks option/joint venture partners with the technical expertise and financial capacity to conduct more advanced exploration projects.
This news release contains certain statements that may be deemed "forward looking statements". Forward looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and are generally, but not always, identified by the words "expects", "plans", "anticipates", "believes", "intends", "estimates", "projects", "potential" and similar expressions, or that events or conditions "will", "would", "may", "could" or "should" occur. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or realities may differ materially from those in forward looking statements. Forward looking statements are based on the beliefs, estimates and opinions of the Company's management on the date the statements are made. Except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these forward looking statements in the event that management's beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors, should change.


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Authorities arrested two teens after a car chase overnight Thursday involving a Jaguar stolen during a carjacking, but two other suspects remain at large.
Houston Police are searching for a 13-year-old and 16-year-old who were also in the car. They are described as weighing between 100 and 130 pounds and wearing jeans. One wore a dark hoodie while the other wore a white long-sleeved tee.
The chase began at about 12:30 a.m. when an officer saw the Jaguar run a red light at the intersection of Aldine Bender Road and Imperial Valley Drive.
When the officer tried to stop the vehicle, it fled the scene. The officer pursued the Jaguar for about 2.5 miles, at which point the driver reached a dead end on the 1100 block of Goodnight Trail.
According to the Houston Police Department, the Jaguar crashed into a drainage ditch, and four suspects exited the vehicle and ran.
HPD's Lt. Larry Crowson confirmed police arrested two of the suspects, but the other two got away.
Both teens refused to provide their identities, but authorities were able to match their fingerprints to previous arrest records.
The 14-year-old driver is currently on parole from a juvenile detention center, while the 16-year-old passenger is on probation. One of the teens was even wearing an ankle monitor.
Authorities matched the car's license plate to a vehicle stolen at gunpoint Tuesday evening at around 7:30 p.m. in Humble. The victim told constables seven young men robbed her and took her vehicle.
The incident is part of an ongoing string of carjackings around the Houston area.


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The Bailey Red-Twigged Dogwood has very attractive red stems in winter and hands down the reddest stemmed variety by far.
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[ -d $XDG_DATA_HOME ] || mkdir -p $XDG_DATA_HOME
[ -d $XDG_CACHE_HOME ] || mkdir -p $XDG_CACHE_HOME

ln -s $script_dir/user-dirs.dirs $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/.
ln -s $script_dir/user-dirs.locale $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/.

command -v xdg-user-dirs-update && xdg-user-dirs-update

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Introducing the Mic Check On 1 fitted men's t-shirt. (Could be unisex for a looser women's fit.) Made with set-in rib collar with shoulder-to-shoulder taping and double-needle sleeve and bottom hems in a super fine 100% ring spun combed cotton jersey.


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/*
  Copyright 2013  Dean Camera (dean [at] fourwalledcubicle [dot] com)

  Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this
  software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted
  without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in
  all copies and that both that the copyright notice and this
  permission notice and warranty disclaimer appear in supporting
  documentation, and that the name of the author not be used in
  advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the
  software without specific, written prior permission.

  The author disclaims all warranties with regard to this
  software, including all implied warranties of merchantability
  and fitness.  In no event shall the author be liable for any
  special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages
  whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether
  in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action,
  arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of
  this software.
*/

/** \file
 *  \brief Board specific Buttons driver header for the Atmel XMEGA B1 Xplained.
 *  \copydetails Group_Buttons_B1_XPLAINED
 *
 *  \note This file should not be included directly. It is automatically included as needed by the Buttons driver
 *        dispatch header located in LUFA/Drivers/Board/Buttons.h.
 */

/** \ingroup Group_Buttons
 *  \defgroup Group_Buttons_B1_XPLAINED B1_XPLAINED
 *  \brief Board specific Buttons driver header for the Atmel XMEGA B1 Xplained.
 *
 *  Board specific Buttons driver header for the Atmel XMEGA B1 Xplained.
 *
 *

 *
Name	Info	Active Level	Port Pin

 *
BUTTONS_BUTTON1	Touch CS0 Button	Low	PORTE.0

 *
BUTTONS_BUTTON2	Touch CS1 Button	Low	PORTE.1

 *
BUTTONS_BUTTON3	Touch CS2 Button	Low	PORTE.2

 *
BUTTONS_BUTTON4	Touch CS3 Button	Low	PORTE.3

 *

 *
 *  @{
 */

#ifndef __BUTTONS_B1_XPLAINED_H__
#define __BUTTONS_B1_XPLAINED_H__

	/* Includes: */
		#include <avr/io.h>

	/* Enable C linkage for C++ Compilers: */
		#if defined(__cplusplus)
			extern "C" {
		#endif

	/* Preprocessor Checks: */
		#if !defined(__INCLUDE_FROM_BUTTONS_H)
			#error Do not include this file directly. Include LUFA/Drivers/Board/Buttons.h instead.
		#endif

	/* Public Interface - May be used in end-application: */
		/* Macros: */
			/** Button mask for the first button on the board. */
			#define BUTTONS_BUTTON1          (1 << 0)

			/** Button mask for the second button on the board. */
			#define BUTTONS_BUTTON2          (1 << 1)

			/** Button mask for the third button on the board. */
			#define BUTTONS_BUTTON3          (1 << 2)

			/** Button mask for the fourth button on the board. */
			#define BUTTONS_BUTTON4          (1 << 3)

		/* Inline Functions: */
		#if !defined(__DOXYGEN__)
			static inline void Buttons_Init(void)
			{
				PORTE.OUTSET    = (BUTTONS_BUTTON1 | BUTTONS_BUTTON2 | BUTTONS_BUTTON3 | BUTTONS_BUTTON4);

				PORTCFG.MPCMASK = (BUTTONS_BUTTON1 | BUTTONS_BUTTON2 | BUTTONS_BUTTON3 | BUTTONS_BUTTON4);
				PORTE.PIN0CTRL  = (PORT_INVEN_bm | PORT_OPC_PULLUP_gc);
			}

			static inline void Buttons_Disable(void)
			{
				PORTE.OUTCLR    = (BUTTONS_BUTTON1 | BUTTONS_BUTTON2 | BUTTONS_BUTTON3 | BUTTONS_BUTTON4);

				PORTCFG.MPCMASK = (BUTTONS_BUTTON1 | BUTTONS_BUTTON2 | BUTTONS_BUTTON3 | BUTTONS_BUTTON4);
				PORTE.PIN0CTRL  = 0;
			}

			static inline uint8_t Buttons_GetStatus(void) ATTR_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
			static inline uint8_t Buttons_GetStatus(void)
			{
				return (PORTE_IN & (BUTTONS_BUTTON1 | BUTTONS_BUTTON2 | BUTTONS_BUTTON3 | BUTTONS_BUTTON4));
			}
		#endif

	/* Disable C linkage for C++ Compilers: */
		#if defined(__cplusplus)
			}
		#endif

#endif

/** @} */


In past few years. the Marathi cinema industry has produced many films that are not only critically acclaimed but commercially successful as well. It has brought fresh ideas. untouched subjects and deeper human sensitivity on the celluloid. With outstanding contribution and efforts from different producers and directors of the Mumbai film industry. Marathi cinema relatively outshined other Indian film industries. One Take media take pride in having a content of Marathi films.


Retrofit with your existing and newly purchased Lockey Digital 2000 series knob versions 2210, 2430, 2435, 2430DS (double sided) and lever handle versions 2835 & 2835DS (double sided) to add instant Key override facility as either Keyed different or Keyed alike.
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Easily reversible from right to left hand opening.


The Kruger area is a popular safari destination, however some people have concerns as it is rated as a Malaria area. The good news is that there are several other excellent game viewing regions within South Africa where you can see the Big Five that are certified malaria free.
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Q: Invalid XML: Error on line 6: The element type "hr" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "" When I am using rome to parse a xml link:
package com.dolphin.soa.post;

import com.rometools.rome.feed.synd.SyndFeed;
import com.rometools.rome.io.ParsingFeedException;
import com.rometools.rome.io.SyndFeedInput;
import com.rometools.rome.io.XmlReader;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

import java.net.ConnectException;
import java.net.URL;

/**
 * @author dolphin
 */
@Slf4j
public class MiniExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            SyndFeed feed = new SyndFeedInput().build(new XmlReader(new URL("http://yechengfu.com/feed.xml")));
        } catch (ConnectException connectException) {
            log.error("rss parse error", connectException);
        } catch (ParsingFeedException e){
            log.error("rss parse error", e);
        }catch (Exception e) {
            log.error("rss parse error", e);
        }
    }

}

shows the error Invalid XML: Error on line 6: The element type "hr" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "
". I check the xml link, and did not find any non-standard format. why would this happend and is it possbile to fix it? This is my dependencies:
api "com.rometools:rome:1.15.0"

A: The file that is returned from calling "http://yechengfu.com/feed.xml" is a small html file (with a single
 tag):

<title>308 Permanent Redirect</title>

308 Permanent Redirect

nginx/1.19.2

You can see this if you run a command like curl:
curl http://yechengfu.com/feed.xml

The page is redirected in a normal browser, but curl and XmlReader will not follow redirects automatically. If you give curl the "-L" argument it will follow to you feed.xml file.
I guess that you will have to read up on how to configure nginx and use it as a reverse proxy instead of rewrite the URL.

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As Canadians, we don't really think about how much a trip to the hospital for medical treatment costs, because our provincial or territorial government health care plans take care of it. The truth of the matter is, that health care services at hospitals and clinics in Canada are costly, and emergency health care services are even more so. For people not covered by a provincial or territorial health care plan, the cost can be financially devastating.
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Têgeyştinî Rastî or Understanding the truth was a Kurdish language semiweekly newspaper published by the British Army in Iraq. It was the first Kurdish Nationalist newspaper focusing on Kurdish history, language, poetry and culture.

History
Têgeyştinî Rastî was founded by the British Army in January 1918 during the First World War in which Britain was fighting the Ottoman Empire. It was propaganda newspaper which highlighted and compared British rule to the Ottoman rule and that Kurdish language, culture and religion were better off under the British and to incite Kurds living under Ottoman Rule. The newspaper was published from 1918-1919 in which 66 issues were published. The name of the Editor was not published in the newspaper but it known to be Major Soane a British officer with knowledge in the Kurdish language and assisted by a Kurdish Poet Shukri Fadhli.

References

Defunct newspapers published in Iraq
Kurdish-language mass media
Publications established in 1918
Publications disestablished in 1919

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Get a free quote on shipping your vehicle to Belgium from U.S. Look through the customs regulations for importing your car to Belgium.
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Here at There Community we would like to wish you all a wonderful Happy Holidays! As you know, we installed a new template on here to celebrate the holidays, with additional snow effect. If you are feeling any lag, you have the ability to turn it off. Just go to your 'Edit Profile' from your settings, then all the way to the bottom it will say 'Holiday Effects'. You can toggle it on and off if it gets in the way. We also added an additional games with the total of 165! More will be added as time goes on. Check out the wonderful arcade! Also, we have our download page where you can download the latest patches and tools for There. We hope you enjoy the new features. If you have any problems, please let us know.


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Brewers couldn't build '82 team today
The Brewers couldn't put together the 1982 team under the economic structure of baseball today. That was the consensus of the man who built the pennant winner, and several of the men who played on the team. Read about it in The Brew Crew Review.
By Gregg Hoffmann Special to OnMilwaukee.com Published Aug 22, 2002 at 5:06 AM
The Brewers couldn't put together the 1982 team under the economic structure of baseball today. That was the consensus of the man who built the pennant winner, and several of the men who played on the team.
"No, I don't believe we could have afforded it," said Harry Dalton, the GM who built the 1982 Brewers. "If you put some of the financial restraints of today on us at that time, I don't believe we could have done it.
"In those days, the front office looked at skills, attitude and then financial factors in that order. I think today many with smaller market teams have to look at financial first."
Dalton and many members of the 1982 American League championship team were in town for the Hank Aaron charity golf tournament Monday, and a reunion at Miller Park on Tuesday.
Even if teams like Minnesota do build a winner, they will have difficulty keeping them, Dalton said. "If you win it's because players have played well," he said. "If they play well, they want to be paid well. It's almost a self-defeating situation."
Dalton said the situation, and the possibility of a strike on Aug. 30, has him "very concerned. I think it is causing a lot of people to reassess their love of baseball."
Paul Molitor, who is sometimes talked about as the next manager of the Brewers, agreed with Dalton. "I think it is getting tougher and tougher all the time for small market teams to stay competitive," he said. "It would be very difficult to build that team in Milwaukee now.
"In Minnesota, they brought up 18 rookies in 1999. It hurt a couple of them, who were sent back down. But, it's paying off now. At the same time, they don't know if they can keep their players in a couple years."
Ted Simmons, the Brewers' catcher and field leader in '82, said, "It could be done, but it would be very difficult in this environment."
Pete Ladd, who filled in for the injured Rollie Fingers and became a hero in '82, said he felt Major League Baseball has to follow the leads of the NBA, NFL and NHL on salary caps to allow teams in smaller markets to compete.
"I think we'll find out what direction we're going to go in over the next couple weeks," Ladd said. "I hope we can get back to where it was more in '82. The money is such a factor now."
An optimist
Simmons remained the most optimistic of the '82 players that owners and the players' union will avoid a work stoppage on Aug. 30.
"I believe in 11:59.59," said Simmons, who has been in front office and GM roles for several teams since he retired as a player. "I believe that rational, intelligent people can work things out. I have known Donald Fehr (union head) and Bud Selig for years, and no matter what other people think of them know both are rational, intelligent men.
"The 1994 stoppage was inevitable. The owners called the players bluff, just like in poker. The players always pointed to the playoffs and World Series and said 'you don't want to lose those.' Then, they were called.
"Both sides learned how dangerous it was. I don't think either side wants to go there again, so something will be worked out at 11:59.59."
A lot of heart
Almost to the man, the '82 players said that their love of the game, and having a lot of heart made that team great. "I think today's players love the game too, but don't always ask enough questions or spend enough time around the ballpark," Ben Oglivie said.
"I coach younger players (A ball for San Diego) now and try to let them know how much passion you have to have for this game if you are going to make it. We had it on that '82 team."
Quevedo deserves demotion
Give credit to the Brewers for sending pitcher Ruben Quevedo to the minors, even though there are only a couple weeks left to the season at that level. Quevedo just did not keep himself in shape and did not always respond to instruction from his coaches.
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That's why the Cubs gave up on him, and let him go in exchange for David Weathers last season. Before Quevedo gets another chance with the Brewers, he should be told to get into shape and grow up, not out.
Jose Hernandez went 9 for 22 on the road trip with a homer and three RBI and had two hits Tuesday night in the first game of the home stand. He had hit in nine straight games as of this writing.
Hernandez's three-run homer broke open last Friday's game and sent the Brewers to a 10-3 win over the Pirates, the Crew's only win on the road trip.
Goat of the Week
Quevedo is gone, so I can't pick on him again. Jose Cabrera, who has done a decent job overall as a starter and reliever, coughed up five runs in one inning and took the loss last Saturday. So, he gets the dishonor.
Gregg Hoffmann will write The Brew Crew Review next Thurs., Aug. 29. If the players go on strike August 30, the column will take a hiatus until play resumes.
Brewers, Molitor, Yount, Gantner, Quevedo
Gregg Hoffmann Special to OnMilwaukee.com
Gregg Hoffmann is a veteran journalist, author and publisher of Midwest Diamond Report and Old School Collectibles Web sites. Hoffmann, a retired senior lecturer in journalism at UWM, writes The State Sports Buzz and Beyond Milwaukee on a monthly basis for OMC.
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Once there is traffic, we can measure interaction. Interaction is the participation of consumers in the webpage, for example ratings, reviews and comments. It is a useful metric because it tells you the kind of traffic you are attracting. Sales is another key tool in social media because it allows to measure the increase or decrease in sales and more important than that, it shows you what is causing the increase in sales. For example, when a company tracks their sales, they can tell how much of the sales were referred by Facebook. Other ways to measure the success of social media are: retention, the increase in customer retention is a big factor in success because the majority of purchases are from repeat customers. This can be measured by comparing the retention rates before and after. Profit, is the goal of any company, and by comparing the changes in profit enables to measure success in a social media strategy.
Website or blog: website traffic, unique visitors, total page views, subscribers, average time spent per visit, click-through rate, bounce rate, number of times a post was shared via social media, blog comments and average time you spend per post.
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I recommend you listen to this Ray LaMontane song as you eat it, because I know that's how you'll feel about this macaroni and cheese dish.
This Mac n Cheese is the best thing that ever happened to you.
This takes a long time, as do most masterpieces. This is something you make on a snowy weekend, when you want something to take up a lot of your time, and you want the oven on to hel arm up the kitchen, and then you eat it while wearing a large cardigan which masks your billiousness upon eating all of its cheesy, creamy goodness. I'm halfway through "The Little Book of Hygge" and this mac and cheese recipe is truly the hyggelit-iest.
Cook to slightly less than al dente (6-8 minutes; because it's going to be baked later so will finish cooking then). Drain but keep the starchy water and set aside. Toss in some butter/ olive oil/ something like that (to keep from clumping) and seasoning then set aside.
Set oven to 375 to preheat while making the rest.
Mix the shredded cheeses together. Set aside the white slices to break apart and finish off each cheese layer later.
Over medium heat, melt butter, add garlic and cook til just slightly tender, avoid browning, then turn heat slightly lower. Steadily spoon in flour and whisk constantly to create a roux. Remove from heat, slowly add milk and whisk to fully incorporate roux into milk then add the rest of milk and the starchy water. Return to heat, whisking constantly. Sauce will start to thicken. Continue gently stirring for about five minutes until it bubbles up then set to low heat, avoid scalding the milk. Add the onion and marscapone and whisk until well incorporated into the sauce. Let stand while preparing to layer the mac n cheese.
Grease a large, deep casserole dish with a little bit of something greasy. Layer pasta, then cheese, then pour some sauce over. Repeat for about three-four layers. Add the cracker-crumb topping. I'll add a little bit of paprika, garlic powder and parsley to garnish on top of the cracker crumb top. Bake covered for 20-30 minutes until cheese is melty, turn heat up (around 425) for last 15 minutes uncovered to get a nice crispy top layer.


The FAA has issued the NOTAM for the Temporary Flight Restriction for the New Years Eve celebration at Times Square. We have attached the NOTAM and the FAA published graphic here. E34th Street and Wall Street will be closed for the duration of the TFR and W30th Street will be open as long as all approaches and departures are made via the Hudson river and absolutely no over flights of Manhattan. At this time there is no ATC requirement when using JRA during the TFR.
!FDC 0/3680 ZNY NY.. FLIGHT RESTRICTION NEW YORK, NY.
INSTRUCTIONS, ALL AIRCRAFT FLIGHT OPERATIONS ARE PROHIBITED WITHIN THE FOLLOWING AREA UNLESS OTHERWISE AUTHORIZED BY ATC OR EXCEPT AS DESCRIBED BELOW.
APPLY TO AIRSPACE OVER THE HUDSON OR EAST RIVER.
1. HELICOPTER OPERATIONS ARRIVING AND DEPARTING THE WEST 30TH STREET (JRA) HELIPORT ARE PERMITTED PROVIDED PILOTS ARRIVE AND DEPART FROM OVER THE HUDSON RIVER. NO OVERFLIGHTS OF MANHATTAN ARE PERMITTED.
2. LAW ENFORCEMENT, MILITARY AIRCRAFT AND AIR AMBULANCE FLIGHTS ARE AUTHORIZED.