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Academic Difficulty
Academic Renewal
Annual FERPA Notification
Auditing Courses
Changing Courses
Class Attendance
Class Standing
Commencement Participation
Dismissal, Expulsion, Suspension, and Readmission
Honor and Recognition Societies
Incomplete Grading
Latin Honors at Degree Conferral
Major and Minor Programs
No Show Policy
Repeated Courses
Transcript Requests and Release of Information from Academic Records
Withdrawal from College
The course offerings, rules, regulations, and fees appearing in this catalog are announcements only and should not be construed as representing contractual obligations of Muhlenberg College. Muhlenberg College reserves the right to change its academic regulations, courses of instruction, comprehensive fee, charges for room and board or other fees, and degree requirements without notice should it be the judgment of the College that circumstances warrant such changes. Any changes in federal or state law will supersede College policies and requirements published here.
Admission to and attendance at the College are conditional upon compliance with the rules and regulations of the College as now established or hereafter revised, including the Academic Integrity Code and the Social Code. Many of the regulations are published in this catalog; others may be found in the Student Policy and Resource Guide. It is the responsibility of each Muhlenberg College student to know and abide by the regulations of the College.
The Academic Integrity Code is a communal expression of the importance of academic honesty and integrity. Violations of the Code are violations of community. The Code, to which all incoming students subscribe, governs all College activities, including but not limited to methods for evaluating academic achievement such as examinations, quizzes, tests, themes, reports, recitations, and laboratory exercises. The Academic Integrity Code is printed in full in the Student Policy and Resource Guide and is available on the web; students should familiarize themselves with its provisions.
Adherence to the Policies of the Academic Integrity Code:
Muhlenberg College has established an Academic Integrity Code because of its belief that academic honesty is a matter of individual responsibility and that, when standards of honesty are violated, members of the community are harmed. As a prerequisite for matriculation each student must pledge to adhere to the provisions of this Academic Integrity Code. Violations of the Academic Integrity Code include, but are not limited to, cheating during examinations, plagiarism, collusion, false information, and helping or hindering others.
Each faculty member shall identify the procedures to be used for classroom examinations and other assignments in each course. Faculty are encouraged to remind students of the Academic Integrity Code before students take exams or submit work to be graded.
(Warning, Academic Probation, and Academic Suspension)
The College endeavors to help students succeed academically and avoid academic difficulty. Historically, the most successful students attend class regularly, complete and submit assignments in a timely fashion, and seek assistance from instructors, advisors, Student Health Services, or the Academic Resource Center at the first signs of trouble. Moreover, students who are successful academically have learned to balance extracurricular activities with academics.
Academic performance is monitored closely by the Dean of Academic Life each term. The Dean will contact students at the conclusion of each term whose academic performance indicates a cause for concern.
Formal academic probation indicates that the quality of the student's work is below the level that might reasonably be expected to lead to graduation. A term grade point average below 1.00 or a cumulative grade point average less than the standards described below identify those students eligible for formal probation. All student performance indicating eligibility for formal probation will be reviewed by the Dean of Academic Life. After the review has been completed, students experiencing the most serious academic difficulties will be placed on formal probation. Student progress during the probationary period will be carefully examined.
At any time during the period, typically no more than two terms, the College can elect to remove the student from probation, continue the student on probation, or dismiss the student from Muhlenberg. Furthermore, students on formal probation seeking to enroll in additional courses beyond what is considered a "normal load," either at Muhlenberg or elsewhere, are permitted to do so only at the discretion of the Dean of Academic Life; this provision includes enrollment in any type of summer term.
Cumulative academic performance is gauged on the number of course units attempted at Muhlenberg plus any transferred course units. Cumulative grade point averages less than the standards described in the table indicate the specific level of academic difficulty.
Attempted Course Units Academic Probation or Suspension Academic Warning
8 or fewer course units Cumulative GPA < 1.80 2 or more failing grades OR Cumulative GPA < 2.0
8.5 or more course units Cumulative GPA < 2.00 Term GPA < 1.8 OR 2 or more failing grades, incomplete grades, unsatisfactory grades, or course withdrawals in a term
The College recognizes the beneficial role of participation in co-curricular and extracurricular programs in a student's college experience. In some instances, the responsibilities for full participation in these programs, particularly in a leadership role in clubs/organizations/extracurricular activities and performances, and in athletic competition, may be very time consuming and may interfere with a student's ability to maintain good academic standing and satisfactory progress towards degree completion. In instances where a student is on Academic Probation at the start of a semester or is having difficulty maintaining satisfactory academic progress in currently enrolled courses, upon consultation with the Dean of Academic Life the program advisor, athletic coach, or program director will reduce the student's participation in the activity in order to prioritize academics. If a student shows favorable academic performance during the semester of the activity, they may be able to more actively rejoin the activity.
Academic renewal is extended to former Muhlenberg students who have not been enrolled at the College for at least 10 years. It allows them to remove from their cumulative GPA previously taken coursework. This option may be exercised pursuant to the following regulations:
The student must consult with the Dean of Continuing Studies, who must approve course selection before the student may enroll. The option may be exercised only after three course units have been completed with a grade of "C" (2.0) or better.
The student must initiate the procedure; it will not be automatic.
All courses and grades will remain on the student's transcript and be used for graduation honors.
Courses with grades of D or F will not be included in the calculation of cumulative GPA.
Courses in which grades of "C-" (1.7) or better were earned prior to return will be counted toward degree requirements.
Courses based on credit hours will be converted to course units according to the existing course conversion procedures which apply to all Muhlenberg students.
This option can be extended only once to any individual student.
The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) affords students certain rights with respect to their education records. These rights include:
The right to inspect and review the student's education records within 45 days of the day the College receives a request for access. Students should submit to the office which creates and maintains the record in question a written request that identifies the record(s) they wish to inspect. The College official will make arrangements for access and notify the student of the time and place where the records may be inspected. If the records are not maintained by the College official to whom the request was submitted, the official shall advise the student of the correct official to whom the request should be addressed.
The right to request the amendment of the student's education records that the student believes are inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise in violation of the student's privacy rights under FERPA. Students may ask the College to amend a record that they believe is inaccurate or misleading. A student who wishes to ask the College to amend a record should write the College official responsible for the record, clearly identify the part of the record the student wants changed, and specify why it should be changed. If the College decides not to amend the record as requested, the College will notify the student in writing of the decision and advise the student of his or her right to a hearing regarding the request for amendment. Additional information regarding the hearing procedures will be provided to the student when notified of the right to a hearing.
The right to provide written consent before the College discloses personally identifiable information from the student's education records, except to the extent that FERPA authorizes disclosure without consent.
One exception, which permits disclosure without consent, is the disclosure to school officials with legitimate educational interests. A school official is defined as a person employed by the College in an administrative, supervisory, academic or research, or support staff position (including law enforcement unit personnel and health staff); a person or company with whom the College has contracted as its agent to provide a service instead of using college employees or officials (such as an attorney, auditor, or collection agent); a person serving on the Board of Trustees; or a student serving on an official committee, such as a disciplinary or grievance committee, or assisting another school official in performing his or her tasks. A school official has a legitimate educational interest if the official needs to review an education record in order to fulfill his or her professional responsibilities for the College.
The right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures by the College to comply with the requirements of FERPA. The name and address of the Office that administers FERPA is:
Family Policy Compliance Office
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
More information can be found through the Office of the Registrar (www.muhlenberg.edu/main/aboutus/registrar).
Students are responsible to contact The College Board and request official paper score reports be sent directly to the Muhlenberg Registrar. Use the College Board score reporting services described at apscore.collegeboard.org/scores/score-reporting and have all of your scores sent to Muhlenberg using the four-digit college code number = 2424. Unofficial score reports, not received directly from the College Board (e.g., from the high school or from the student) are not accepted by Muhlenberg for awarding degree credit. If you have questions about AP courses, tests, or policies, see the College Board's Advanced Placement Program site.
AP scores can be viewed on your Muhlenberg Workday Student record, under Academics, then External Records. Only scores that result in Muhlenberg credit or placement are posted on your Muhlenberg record.
Credit is granted at the discretion of the department head(s) involved, according to the departmental policies currently in place for entering students. The current policies are available at muhlenberg.edu/AP. IMPORTANT: If you receive credit for a course, make sure that you don't register for the same Muhlenberg course number or you will lose your AP credit.
Students in good academic standing may audit one course (no matter how many units that course carries) per semester with the approval of the instructor. Any course enrolled on an audit basis will not contribute towards the Muhlenberg degree and will not be used to compute your GPA. Additionally, an audited course may not be used to fulfill prerequisites or any other academic requirement.
Instructors must explicitly detail their expectations for students auditing their courses at the beginning of the semester, and students must seek the consent of their faculty advisor. Typically, students auditing a course are expected to complete all assignments and participate in class discussions but may not be required to submit written work or take exams.
Students may change a course from audit (no course unit attempted) to a regular course unit basis or vice versa during the add/drop period with the approval of the instructor and the faculty advisor by completing the online Audit Request process or filling out the paper form and submitting it to the Office of the Registrar. The student's transcript will list the audited course with a grade of "AU" if the student has satisfactorily completed the audit. If the student fails to fulfill the expectations of the audit, no notation will appear on the transcript.
Senior Scholars is an opportunity for local individuals aged 60 and older to audit up to two in-person courses per semester from a select list, with the instructor's consent. Registration takes place through the Registrar's Office in the week before classes begin each semester. A special per-course charge is required. A grade of "Audit" is assigned if completed successfully; no traditional grades are used. The program is on an indefinite pause until it can be reviewed following lifting of pandemic protocols.
Students may add and/or drop courses without academic penalty through the first eight class days of the traditional semester. Enrollment in courses is closed at the conclusion of the add/drop period. The last day to add or drop is identified each semester on the College's academic calendar.
Muhlenberg College recognizes that a college environment should foster student responsibility. Students are expected to attend classes regularly but are responsible for governing themselves in this matter. It is recognized that interaction in the classroom enhances learning and is usually a significant part of how students' overall performance will be evaluated.
The College recognizes the value of extracurricular experience, but the academic program has priority at Muhlenberg. Moreover, scheduled classes have priority over all other activities. In cases of unavoidable conflict, students have the responsibility of informing their instructors as soon as possible and reaching some kind of acceptable resolution. Absence from a class will not be accepted as an excuse for not mastering class material. The student is responsible for all information presented, the discussion, and the conceptual analysis that take place during classes.
Instructors should inform students in the first week of class of their policy regarding the relationship between attendance, interaction in the classroom, and evaluation in the course.
A student who does not attend the first meeting of a course may be dropped from the course in order to make room for students waiting to enroll. Students should not assume, however, that missing the first course meeting ensures that they will be dropped from a course. Non-attendance drops will be processed only at the instructor's request. Please note, all students are responsible for their own enrollment; failure to properly add, drop, or withdraw from a course may result in the award of no course units and/or a failing grade.
First-year students have earned 0 - 6 course units
Sophomores have earned 7 - 15 course units
Juniors have earned 16 - 24 course units
Seniors have earned 25 or more course units
Only those students who have completed all requirements and who are receiving degrees, or who are within four units of completing all requirements (typically, January, May, and October candidates for the current calendar year), may participate in Commencement. Infrequent exceptions may be granted through the Dean of Academic Life.
Attendance is expected of all graduating students at the official Commencement exercises. Degree candidates who choose not to participate in Commencement should notify the Registrar's Office by May 1.
Students who are allowed to participate without having completed degree requirements are typically candidates for conferral in the following October and will receive their diplomas after completion of all requirements. (They may also request permission from Student Affairs to remain in on-campus residences and participate in Senior Weekend activities.)
Students with a financial hold from the Business Office may participate but will not receive their diplomas until the hold is cleared.
MILA Courses and Graduating Seniors
Graduating seniors taking a MILA in the spring will not be able to use the course towards the 32 units required for a May graduation. This includes the use of a general academic requirement as well as a major or minor requirement since the course grade will not be determined until after the study trip. Students who need the course to complete requirements for graduation will become October graduates although they will be able to participate in commencement in May.
Seniors must participate in both components of the course. The on-campus portion of the course and the study trip. No credit will be awarded for the course if only one of the course components is completed.
Only those students in a MILA course that are not using the course for a graduation requirement, meaning all requirements are met without that course are "eligible" for Latin Honors at the May ceremony. The May graduates will have their diploma held until after the grade is issued as their Latin honor could change. We are able to confirm their May graduation which is why Latin honors can be READ at the ceremony.
A student who is registered for a MILA course in the spring semester will be eligible to have Latin Honors read with their name at the commencement ceremony in May. Latin Honors will be calculated on the course units earned at Muhlenberg and a minimum cumulative gpa of 3.5 or higher is necessary. The MILA course will not be used in the calculation of these honors at the time of the ceremony. Both May and October graduates will be eligible for the reading of Latin Honors. The Latin Honors category will not be official until all coursework is completed.
A full-time degree candidate normally enrolls for 4 course units per semester. The maximum course load for students during their first semester is 4.5 course units. During all other fall or spring semesters, the maximum course load is 5.5 course units. Students may initially register for up to 4.5 units during the scheduled registration period. Following the scheduled registration period, students may add up to a total of 5.5 units. Requests to go above 5.5 units will be considered on a petition basis to the Dean of Academic Life who may consult broadly to determine the appropriateness of the request. (See Expenses for the overload fees.) Summer load is 2 courses at a time for a maximum combined summer load of 4 course units.
In order to maintain full-time status a student must be enrolled in at least 3 course units per semester. Students who wish to enroll for fewer than 3 course units may apply for part-time status in the Office of the Registrar. Part-time students will incur tuition charges at the current per course unit rate plus all fees.
Outstanding academic achievement will be recognized by the Deans of the College each fall and spring semester. Students enrolled for 3 or more course units, having a semester GPA of at least 3.50 with no grades of D, F, U, VF or VW for the semester will be eligible for Dean's List. Students with an incomplete or NG grade will not be eligible for inclusion on the Dean's List until the work is completed and a final grade is recorded.
At its discretion, Muhlenberg College may provide "directory information" in accordance with the provisions of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA). Directory information is defined as that information which would not generally be considered harmful or an invasion of privacy if disclosed.
Designated directory information at Muhlenberg College includes the following: student's name, college mail box, home address, telephone listing, email address, major field of study, dates of attendance, class year, enrollment status (full-time, part-time), participation in officially recognized activities or sports, weight and height of members of athletic teams, degrees, honors and awards received. Students may block the public disclosure of directory information by notifying the Office of the Registrar in writing.
Muhlenberg College reserves the right to dismiss, expel, or suspend any student for the following reasons: (a) academic deficiencies; (b) failure to gain acceptance into a major field of study; or (c) conduct deemed to be detrimental to the interests of the College. In such cases, neither the College nor any of its officers shall be under any liability whatsoever for such dismissal, expulsion, or suspension. The College will not accept transfer courses from any institution earned while a student is serving a disciplinary suspension.
Students dismissed for academic reasons may be readmitted upon formal application to the Dean of Academic Life after the lapse of at least one academic year. Such an application should give strong evidence of a student's ability to attain a degree. If the application is approved, readmission will be probationary for a period of one fall or spring semester only. A second dismissal will be final, and no application for readmission will be entertained.
Quality points assigned to each traditional letter grade by course unit:
Grade Quality Points for 1 course unit
A+, A 4.0
A- 3.7
B+ 3.3
B 3.0
B- 2.7
C+ 2.3
C 2.0
C- 1.7
D 1.0
AU Successful completion of audit (no course unit awarded, no GPA calculation).
I Incomplete. An incomplete may be assigned when the student presents a compelling reason for the inability to complete course requirements by the end of the term. Incompletes will not be calculated in the GPA until such time as they are converted into a traditional letter grade. Completion of the work must be arranged with the instructor and a grade submitted to the Registrar no later than 35 days after the deadline for submitting final grades for the semester. An incomplete grade not assigned a traditional letter grade in 35 days will be recorded as "F".
IP In Progress. An IP indicates that the course in which the student is enrolled has not ended by the time final course grades are due for the term. IP grades will not be calculated in the GPA until such time as they are converted to a traditional letter grade.
NG No grade issued.
P Successful completion of pass/fail course (course unit awarded, no GPA calculation. Pass/fail courses failed will be computed in GPA.)
S Successful completion of zero unit course (no course unit awarded, no GPA calculation).
U Unsatisfactory performance in a zero unit course (no course unit awarded, no GPA calculation).
VF Academic Integrity Code Violation (no course unit awarded, treated as failing for GPA calculation).
VW Academic Integrity Code Violation Withdrawal (no course unit awarded, no GPA calculation).
W Student withdrew (no course unit awarded, no GPA calculation).
An asterisk (*) indicates that an incomplete or in progress grade was initially recorded for the course then changed to the letter grade which is currently reflected.
A student's grade point average (GPA) is the sum of quality points divided by the total attempted course units.
The candidate for a degree, with a cumulative grade-point average on all work attempted with Muhlenberg faculty and which meets one of the following standards, will have the appropriate Latin honor noted in the academic record and on the diploma.
summa cum laude: at least 3.900
magna cum laude: at least 3.700
cum laude: at least 3.500
Established in 1776 at the College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is a distinguished fellowship of scholars devoted to liberal education and intellectual pursuits. The Muhlenberg chapter was granted a charter by the national honor society in 1967. Based on national standards, election to Phi Beta Kappa represents the most outstanding academic achievement in the arts and sciences. In addition to GPA requirements, students must have completed a sufficient number of eligible courses (Phi Beta Kappa does not recognize courses focused on applied or pre-professional skills), and they must have studied a foreign language at the college intermediate level. No more than 10% of the students in a graduating class can be admitted to Phi Beta Kappa. Students who meet the strict eligibility requirements receive a letter of invitation from the chapter in the final semester of their senior year. A limited number of juniors will also be awarded early induction each year.
In 2008, Alpha Sigma Lambda, the premier Honor Society for Nontraditional Students chartered the Muhlenberg College chapter, Eta Chi. ΑΣΛ was established in 1945 at Northwestern University to recognize the special achievements of adults who accomplish academic excellence while facing competing interests of family, community, and work.
Muhlenberg has chapters of honor societies and recognition societies in many academic disciplines. Honor societies include Alpha Epsilon Delta (pre-health), Omicron Delta Epsilon (economics), Omicron Delta Kappa (leadership), Phi Alpha Theta (history), Phi Sigma Iota (romance languages), Phi Sigma Tau (philosophy), Pi Mu Epsilon (mathematics), Pi Sigma Alpha (political science), Psi Chi (psychology), and Theta Alpha Kappa (religious studies and theology). Recognition societies include Delta Phi Alpha (German) and Dobro Slovo (Slavic studies). Phi Sigma Tau, the national philosophy honor society, was founded at Muhlenberg in 1930. Muhlenberg College also maintains a chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity.
All requests for a grade of Incomplete must be made directly by the student to the course instructor, specifying a compelling reason beyond the student's control in the final weeks of the term. Normally, a student must be passing the course in order to be granted an incomplete. Examples of reasons for granting an incomplete may include:
Student illness that occurred that affected course completion
Serious illness or death of an immediate family member or
Other unusual or exceptional events that would prevent a student from completing the course on time (e.g., now working full time to help support family, difficulty completing assignments and taking courses due to home environment/technology limitations).
In the event that an Incomplete is granted, the faculty member will put in writing to the student and the registrar the required work to be done, the consequences of not completing the work, and the deadline for submission. The faculty member is responsible for submitting a letter grade by the deadline of no later than five weeks after the last day of exams for the respective term. Letter grades submitted during the Incomplete period extend from the grading policies established by the faculty member's syllabus or the written agreement between the student and faculty member.
Prior to the deadline set by the instructor for completion of the course requirements, the student and instructor may agree on an extension of time. For fall Incompletes, the latest date for extensions will be the last day of classes for the spring semester. For spring or summer Incompletes, the latest date for extensions will be the last day of classes for the fall semester. The extension details must include, in writing to the student and the registrar, the required work to be done and the extended deadline for submission. Extensions for other than medical or mental health reasons may be made at the discretion of the faculty member following consultation with the Dean of Academic Life. Extensions based on medical or mental health reasons must follow the procedures set forth above.
A student with three or more pending Incompletes will not be permitted to begin a new academic term, even if the subsequent term begins within the period before the Incomplete grade due-by date. For example, students with three or more unresolved fall Incompletes may not return for the spring semester.
If the student specifies the involvement of a medical or mental health issue or other significant personal crisis as the compelling reason for the request for an Incomplete, the faculty member should notify the Dean of Students Office. The Student Support Coordinator will contact the student to gather the necessary information (if it is not already known to the Dean of Students Office or the CARE Team). After consulting with the appropriate members of the CARE Team (including the Executive Director of Health and Counseling Services, Dean of Academic Life and the Dean of Students), a recommendation will be made back to the faculty member about the appropriateness of the request.
International Baccalaureate Program (IB)
Muhlenberg College will award course units and the fulfillment of general academic requirements (GAR) for courses and exams taken through the International Baccalaureate Program. Most credit requires scores of 6 or 7 in Higher Level exams, though some departments allow credit for lower scores and Standard Level work. Some departments count IB credit toward their major requirements; some do not. Please consult with the appropriate department chair. Students who later chose to or are required to register for the equivalent course will lose the IB credit. The current table of credit is available at muhlenberg.edu/IB.
As a student you may encounter circumstances where it is necessary or advisable to temporarily take a step back from your studies due to medical necessity or in order to attend to family needs, work, travel, or gain a fresh perspective on your intellectual commitments, career plans, or educational priorities. The College encourages students to carefully consider their situations, to clarify their objectives, consult with college advisors, and to evaluate whether they should temporarily interrupt their studies. Listed below are the temporary absence policies to consider.
Medical issues, both physical and mental, encountered by students, may require that they remain away from the College for more than a short term absence of two weeks.
Medical Leave of Absence Policy
Students may encounter circumstances where it is advisable to temporarily take a step back from their studies in order to attend to family needs, work, travel, or gain a fresh perspective on their intellectual commitments, career plans, or educational priorities.
Personal Leave of Absence Policy
Eligible students with an extraordinary reason, may be able to continue their academic study at Muhlenberg College via remote instruction if unable to attend and participate in in-person instruction for the semester at the College.
Request for Remote Learning Policy
During the academic semester, a student may be unable to physically attend courses for a short duration of time. This policy provides an opportunity for students to maintain enrollment with the expectation that a student will return to complete the course in person until course completion.
Request for Short Term Absence
Limits of leaves: Students may have no more than four semesters cumulatively of (1) any single type of leave, or (2) a combination of personal and medical leave of absence. Requests for exceptions to this policy should be directed to the VPSA and Dean of Students and to the Dean of Academic Life.
Students who have been charged with a disciplinary infraction but who have not yet completed the judicial process, will be unable to request a Leave of Absence until the judicial process is complete.
Muhlenberg will continue to correspond with students on leave through their muhlenberg.edu email addresses; BergID cards will be deactivated.
Muhlenberg students normally declare a major during their sophomore year. Students are permitted to declare a major beginning in the second semester of their first year. However, first-year students are not permitted to declare a major in the first semester of their first year.
Undeclared students seeking to declare a major require a meeting with and signature on the Field of Study (majors and minors) Declaration Form from the students' undeclared advisor and department chairs and/or program directors prior to submitting their declaration forms to the registrar's office.
In order to enter and remain in a department/program as a major, a student must maintain at least a 2.00 cumulative GPA in courses prescribed by the department/ program. See individual departments/programs for any variances to this requirement. At the end of any semester, a department/program may drop a student who fails to meet the minimum GPA standard or place that student on a probationary status in the major. The student will remain with the same advisor in the major department/program, regardless of status, in hope that s/he will be removed from probation and be able to declare the major once again.
Students must declare a major prior to the beginning of their senior year, however a student may add a second major or minor during their senior year. Students must complete a major program in order to graduate. A student may change from one major to another with the approval of the appropriate department chairs/program directors. Official major/ minor declarations must be completed through the Office of the Registrar.
Course work required for a minor is approximately three-fifths of that required for a major and is at least 5 course units. All rules that currently apply to majors also apply to minors. Any course accepted by the College can be counted simultaneously towards the requirements of both major and minor programs.
Students who register for classes for a semester but who do not come to campus, do not check in to housing, and do not attend or participate in educational activities through the eighth class day of the semester will be Unofficially Withdrawn from the College. The registered classes will be dropped with no W grade assigned, and an application for readmission must be made to the Dean of Academic Life.
Full-time, degree-seeking students who have completed at least 16 units with a cumulative GPA of 2.00 or more may elect to enroll for one course per semester (no matter how many units that course carries) on a pass/fail basis up to a total limit of three. One of the three pass/fail courses may be taken in the same academic division as the student's major or minor. Courses designated "pass/fail only" are exempt from the pass/fail requirements described here.
No course for which a student elects to enroll on a pass/fail basis may be used to satisfy a general academic requirement or major/minor requirement. In addition, "pass/fail only" courses offered within the student's major or minor do not meet any major or minor requirement.
Final grades submitted to the Registrar for these students must be either "P" or "F." A "P" should be considered the equivalent of a traditional "D" or higher.
Courses enrolled on a pass/fail basis that are awarded a grade of "P" will not be used in computing the GPA but will be counted as course units toward graduation; courses failed will be computed in the GPA. Students may change a course from pass/fail to traditional grading or vice-versa only through the add/drop period of the semester.
Students at the college are allowed to graduate with a single major, a single major with one or two minors, or a double major. Under circumstances where a student meets the requirements for majors or minors in excess of the previously stated limits, the student must choose which majors or minors he or she wants the college to recognize at graduation. Any course accepted by the College can be counted simultaneously towards the requirements of both major and minor programs.
Courses in which the student earns a "B-" or greater cannot be repeated. No course shall be repeated after a subsequent course is taken (i.e., one for which the first is a prerequisite). When a course is repeated, only the most recent grade is included in the calculation of the cumulative grade-point average and in the average in the major or minor. A passing grade in a repeated course counts only once for credit toward the course units required for graduation. Both grades, however, appear on the permanent record, with a symbol next to the original grade indicating that the course was later repeated.
Muhlenberg College complies with all federal regulations regarding the release of education records as established by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). All requests to release information from the student's academic record must include his or her legal signature. This requirement specifically prohibits telephone and e-mail requests. Faxed requests are acceptable. In addition, students may request a transcript via the web. Go to www.muhlenberg.edu/main/aboutus/registrar for more information. The student is the only person who can authorize the release of information from his/her academic record. No one else (parents, friends, spouses, employers, etc.) may do so.
All written requests should be directed to: Muhlenberg College, Office of the Registrar, 2400 Chew Street, Allentown, PA 18104-5586. An information release request should include the student's full name at time of attendance, social security number, dates of attendance, current address, address where the information should be sent, and handling instructions, if applicable. An administrative fee is assessed for most record release services. Please contact the Office of the Registrar for more information.
Almost all courses taken elsewhere must be transferred to Muhlenberg College. Courses offered through the LVAIC consortium and any course specifically identified in the College catalog are the only exceptions.
No more than 16 non-Muhlenberg course units (whether transferred or awarded for test scores) may contribute to the 32 course units required to earn a bachelor's degree at Muhlenberg. The College will accept no more than 5 course units for transfer during a traditional academic semester (fall or spring) while 4 course units is the limit for any combination of summer terms. No courses taken concurrently elsewhere – including online courses – that exceed the course load unit of 5.5 units per semester will receive credit. Only courses for which a student has earned a "C-" or better will be considered for transfer to Muhlenberg. Courses not using traditional letter grades (A-F) will be considered for transfer only if additional documentation detailing successful completion is provided. Grades earned in transferred courses will not be included in a student's general Muhlenberg grade point average. Once courses have been transferred, they become part of the permanent record and cannot be removed.
Many institutions may not use a course unit system similar to Muhlenberg's. For the purpose of all transfer transactions, the Muhlenberg course unit should be considered equivalent to 4 semester credit hours. In all cases, Muhlenberg College can accept transfer courses only with an official academic transcript from an accredited higher education institution where courses have been successfully completed. Additional information may be obtained in the Office of the Registrar or on www.muhlenberg.edu/main/aboutus/registrar.
A student who wishes to officially withdraw from the College must notify the Office of the Registrar. A student must complete withdrawal procedures prior to the beginning of the first semester in which he or she is not enrolled to ensure that the academic record will accurately reflect his or her intentions. All financial obligations and judicial processes must be satisfied before an official withdrawal can be granted or the academic record can be released. At the time of withdrawal, the student's BergID card will be inactivated.
Students may withdraw from courses after the add/drop period until the end of the ninth week of the semester with the approval of their academic advisor. A "W" grade will be assigned indicating that the student has withdrawn from the course.
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Zika, Lyme Drive Boost In US Bug-Borne Illnesses
(NBC News) — More and more Americans are being infected with diseases carried by ticks and mosquitoes, federal researchers reported Tuesday.
More than 640,000 Americans were infected by so-called vector-borne diseases between 2004 and 2016, and nine new diseases, from Bourbon virus to Zika, have shown up, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
In 2004, just 27,388 cases of these diseases were reported. In 2016, more than 96,000 were. These numbers are almost certainly an underestimate, the CDC added.
Most of the increase comes from the arrival of Zika virus in 2015 and from ticks. Longer, hotter summers are not helping, said Dr. Lyle Petersen of the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases.
"The number of reported vector-borne disease cases has tripled over the last 13 years," Petersen told reporters in a telephone briefing. This includes a doubling of diseases transmitted by ticks, which in turn accounted for 60 percent of all vector-borne diseases, he said.
West Nile virus is the most common infection spread by mosquitoes in the U.S. It was introduced in New York in 1999 and has since spread across the continent, causing annual epidemics, Petersen said. Zika, which showed up in 2015 as part of its flash spread across the Americas, is now a permanent resident of Puerto Rico and causes sporadic outbreaks in Texas and Florida.
"Lyme disease accounted for 82 percent of all tick-borne disease reports during 2004–2016," the CDC team wrote in their report.
"Among the diseases on the list that are caused by indigenous pathogens are Lyme disease(Borrelia burgdorferi); West Nile, dengue and Zika virus diseases; plague (Yersinia pestis); and spotted fever rickettsioses," they wrote. "Malaria and yellow fever are no longer transmitted in the United States but have the potential to be reintroduced."
Petersen would not say directly that climate change is worsening things but said hot weather is a major factor.
"These diseases are very weather-dependent," he said.
"The mosquito-borne diseases tend to get worse during heat waves. West Nile virus major outbreaks in the United States have all happened during heat waves. Higher temperatures make mosquitoes more infectious," Petersen added.
As temperatures rise, ticks that carry infections can spread further north and can remain infectious longer into fall and winter, Petersen said.
And new infections can arrive at any moment.
"All of these diseases are basically a plane flight away," Petersen said.
"Because travel and trade have been increasing, the number of disease coming to our shores have increased as well."
For instance, chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus, arrived in Puerto Rico in 2014 and Zika in 2015 — both probably carried by travelers.
"There appears to be an accelerating trend," Petersen said.
Almost no state or local health department is fully prepared to manage these infections, the CDC said. They reported on data from the National Association of County and City Health Officials.
More than 70 percent of state and local pest control programs were OK at applying pesticides, but most fell short in terms of pesticide resistance training, the NACCHO survey found.
Congress has provided some funding to fight vector-borne diseases — nearly $37,000 in 2018. That's enough to help nine states to increase their ability to manage vector-borne disease, Petersen said.
"We understand that Congress and the administration have many difficult choices to make," he said.
Dr. Paul Auwaerter, president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, urged Congress to increase funding "for surveillance and prevention of vector-borne diseases, including resources to support research on the most effective methods for preventing tick-borne infections."
"We are also investigating how climate change may impact the spread of vector-borne diseases so that we can take appropriate actions to protect public health," he said. "We also advocate for federal investments in the research and development of new vaccines to prevent Zika, Lyme disease, and other serious vector-borne diseases."
There's one good piece of news. Plague cases did not go up. "Endemic plague, a fleaborne disease that is transmitted mostly in the rural southwestern United States, did not exceed 17 cases in a year," the CDC report reads.
CDC's advice for staying safe:
Use an Environmental Protection Agency-registered insect repellent
Wear long-sleeve shirts and long pants.
Treat items, such as boots, pants, socks, and tents, with permethrin or use permethrin-treated clothing and gear.
Take steps to control ticks and fleas on pets.
Find and remove ticks daily from family and pets.
Take steps to control mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas inside and outside your home

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Q: Ruby Regular Expression String Matching t =~ /^\d{2}(:\d{2}){2}$/ I found this from a code challenge:
def time_correct(t)
  return unless t =~ /^\d{2}(:\d{2}){2}$/
end

it is used to find out whether e.g. "0;:44:07" is a regular time string ("HH:MM:SS") or not.
I don't understand the regex though. Can someone explain the /^\d{2}(:\d{2}){2}$/ to me please? Thanks!

A: On /^\d{2}(:\d{2}){2}$/:

*

*/.../ delimiters the regex expression.

*^ matches the start of the line, if on multi line mode, or the beginning of the string otherwise.

*\d matches one digit

*{2} states that the preceding statement \d must match 2 times.

*(...) delimiters a capture group. It group things together as the usual math parenthesis concept and also allow you to you refer to them latter using \i, where i is the index of the group. Example, (a)(b), a is the group 1 and b is the group 2.

*\d{2} just explained on the steps 3 and 4.

*{2} the same as on the step 4, but here the preceding is the capture group (:\d{2}), which must repeat also 2 times.

*$ matches the end of the line, if on multi line mode, or the end of the string otherwise.

If the multi line mode is enabled, your expression matches only things like:
22:33:44
02:33:44

But not as
22:33:44 d
d 22:33:44
f 02:33:44 f

If multi line is not enabled, your expression only matches a string containing a valid expression as:
22:33:44

But nothing, on a string with two valid lines:
22:33:44
02:33:44

This is a link for live testing: https://regex101.com/r/cdSdt4/1

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Complainant is Gateway, Inc., a corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware, with a principal place of business at 610 Gateway Drive, North Sioux City, South Dakota 57049, USA.
Respondent is an individual, David Ayers, whose address is 1112 South 15th Street, St. Joseph, Missouri 64503, USA.
This dispute concerns the domain name "gatewaypccountry.com".
The Complaint submitted by Gateway, Inc. was received by e-mail on February 29, 2000, and in hardcopy on March 1, 2000, by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center"). Payment of the required fee was made by Complainant to the Center.
On March 1, 2000, the Center sent to the Complainant an Acknowledgement of Receipt of the Complaint. On the same date, the Center sent to the Registrar a request for verification of registration data. On March 2, 2000, the Registrar confirmed, inter alia, that it is the registrar of the domain name in dispute and that the domain name "gatewaypccountry.com" is registered in the Respondent�s name.
The Center reviewed the Complaint and concluded that it satisfies the formal requirements of the ICANN Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy"), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Rules"), and the Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Supplemental Rules").
The Panel agrees with this conclusion.
Having verified the formal adequacy of the Complaint, the Center on March 2, 2000, sent to the Respondent, with a copy to the Complainant, a notification of this administrative proceeding together with a copy of the Complaint. This notification was sent by the methods required under paragraph 2(a) of the Rules. The formal date of the commencement of this administration proceeding is March 2, 2000.
No response to the Complaint was received by the Center.
On March 22, 2000, the Center sent to the Respondent a Notification of Respondent�s Default.
On March 24, 2000, the Center sent an invitation to William L. Mathis to serve as a Panelist in this case, and on March 27, 2000, he executed and forwarded to the Center his Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence.
The case file was forwarded to the Panel constituted by William L. Mathis on March 28, 2000.
On April 7, 2000, an Administrative Panel Communication was sent by the Center to both the Complainant and the Respondent by e-mail. It requested that a further statement be provided by the Complainant dealing with the interest of the Complainant in the trademarks and service marks relied upon in the Complaint. The Complainant was requested to provide the further statement by April 12, 2000. The Respondent was invited to submit by April 17, 2000, any comments on Complainant�s further statement.
The Complainant forwarded the requested SUPPLMENTAL STATEMENT OF COMPLAINANT on April 12, 2000, by e-mail to the Panel and to the Respondent.
No comments from the Respondent have been received by the Panel pursuant to the invitation in its Administrative Panel Communication of April 7, 2000.
Complainant asserts that it owns and uses a family of GATEWAY marks of which some are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Annex F to the Complaint is said to include several of Complainant�s registered marks.
Included in Annex F is a Certificate of Registration No. 2,173,818, issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and relating to the service mark GATEWAY COUNTRY for "retail stores featuring computers, computer software, computer peripherals, and demonstration of products relating thereto." Registration of the mark on the Principal Register took place on July 14, 1998. The registration document shows July 15, 1997, as the date of first use of the GATEWAY COUNTRY mark. The registrant is identified as Gateway 2000, Inc. (Delaware Corporation), 610 Gateway Drive, P.O. Box 2000, North Sioux City, SD.
The difference between the registrant�s name appearing on the certificate of Registration No. 2,173,188 and the name of the Complainant in this administrative proceeding has been accounted for in the SUPPLEMENTANT STATEMENT OF COMPLAINANT. The corporation formally changed its name from "Gateway 2000, Inc." to "Gateway, Inc." on June 1, 1999, in a filing with the Delaware Secretary of State. Thus, the Complainant corporation is the same corporation which is identified as the registrant of the service mark GATEWAY COUNTRY in Reg. No. 2,173,818.
This explanation applies also with respect to the other mark registration documents in Annex F.
An additional registration identified in Annex F is Registration No. 2,073,740 relating to the mark GATEWAY.COM. The registration certificate is not included in Annex F, but a United States Patent and Trademark Office assignment record gives June 24, 1997, as the issue date for this registration. The assignment of the GATEWAY.COM to Gateway 2000, Inc. was dated March 13, 1997.
GATEWAY.COM also is included among a group of domain names which the Complaint says are "owned, used and registered by Complainant." This group is a large one. "GATEWAY" is a feature of all the names in the group. GATEWAYCOUNTRY.COM is included in the group.
Complainant�s use of GATEWAY COUNTRY on stores is illustrated by three photographs which constitute annexes to the Complaint. Each shows the entry portion of a store building of substantial size with GATEWAY COUNTRY displayed prominently on the face of the building at a level above the entryway itself. It is clear that, in these instances, the designation GATEWAY COUNTRY is serving to identify the stores and retailing operations carried out in them.
This illustrated usage of GATEWAY COUNTRY is said to be representative of many similar situations. The Complainant alleges that it is a leading direct seller of computers, which it sells through a nationwide chain of retail stores that it operates under the name and mark GATEWAY COUNTRY.
Confirmation of the Complainant�s use of GATEWAY COUNTRY to designate Complainant�s stores is provided by a statement in an eBay auction display relating to the domain name in dispute in this proceeding. A copy of the display is attached to the Complaint as Annex H. It relates to an auction that started on December 22, 1999, and contains the sentence "Gateway has opened a New line of stores called Gateway Country."
The March 2, 2000, report to the Center by the Registrar (Network Solutions) of the domain name in dispute in this proceeding shows that the Registrar�s record pertaining to the domain name was created on December 21, 1999. This substantiates the Complaint�s allegation that Respondent registered the domain name "gatewaypccountry.com" on December 21, 1999.
Annex I to the Complaint illustrates what a visitor to the web site identified by the domain name sees on his computer monitor. The home page includes "Contact Information" for the Respondent David Ayers, a few blocks of text matter and a link called "Gateway to Prime Critter Country". As explain in the Complaint, clicking on this link takes the visitor to a site that deals with products in different categories, "Gateway Pc Country" is displayed at the top of the page; there is a "Welcome to my Storefront" passage; and then there is a series of small product displays related to products which the visitor is invited to buy online. An e-commerce supplier such as "eToys", amazon.com", "outpost.com" or "Barnes&Noble", is identified with respect to each product.
The products displayed in Annex I seem to be for children. All but two of these products have names that include the word "Farm". The descriptions for the two exceptions include the word "farm".
(c) The domain name was registered and is being used in bad faith.
The Respondent has not appeared or otherwise participated in this administrative proceeding. Hence, no contentions were advanced by the Respondent.
The Panel accepts as true the Complaint�s certified and unchallenged allegations that Complainant is a leading direct seller of computers; that its computers are sold through a well known, rapidly growing, nationwide chain of retail stores which Complainant operates under the name and mark GATEWAY COUNTRY; and that it owns a family of GATEWAY marks, some of which have been registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Of particular importance in this proceeding is the Certificate of Registration, Principal Register, pertaining to Reg. No. 2,173,818, on GATEWAY COUNTRY. The legal effect associated with this Certificate of Registration is spelled out in Section 1115 of Title 15, United States Code. It constitutes "prima facie evidence of the validity of the registered mark� of the registrant�s ownership of the mark, and of the registrant�s exclusive right to use the registered mark in commerce on or in connection with the goods or services specified in the registration."
In support of its contention that the domain name in dispute is confusingly similar to a mark in which Complainant has rights, the Complainant explains that the domain name blends an abbreviation referring to Complainant�s main product with features of Complainant�s registered marks.
This plausible explanation is confirmed by the style of presentation which the record shows to have been used by the Respondent. Both the eBay auction display (annex H) and the "storefront" accessed through use of the domain name (Annex I) employ styles which visually separate "pc" from the words "gateway" and "country". One presentation is "Gateway PC Country". The other is "Gateway Pc Country".
Of course, the addition of ".com" is a commonplace occurrence when a mark owner seeks to reflect the good will of a mark in a corresponding domain name. As such, the addition of ".com" accomplishes little if anything toward the avoidance of confusing similarity.
The Panel finds that the contested domain name is confusingly similar to Complainant�s GATEWAY COUNTRY.
"Gateway has opened a New line of stores called Gateway Country. Well if you are looking for that special name to carry your new Computer business into the new Millennium, here it is� Gateway PC Country� the Best Place to Buy a PC!"
Section 4.b. of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy under which this administrative proceeding is taking place provides some bases for dealing with the issue of bad faith. It describes some circumstances which, if found to exist, will be evidence of the registration and use of the domain name in bad faith. Four descriptions are presented in passages (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv). They are presented in the alternative. That is, a finding of the existence of the circumstances in any one of the four descriptions will qualify such circumstances as evidence of the required bad faith.
"(i) circumstances indicating that � [Respondent] � registered � the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling � the domain name registration to the complainant � or to a competitor of � complainant, for a valuable consideration in excess of � documented out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name."
Respondent registered the domain name "gatewaypccountry.com" on one day and initiated an eBay auction on the next day to sell it. This is compelling evidence that the registration was obtained primarily for the purpose of selling the domain name, and the Panel so finds.
The record here also includes evidence that the Complainant or its competitors were targeted as potential buyers. The Complaint alleges that, on the same day the domain was registered, "Respondent contacted Complainant to indicate public confusion between his site and Complainant�s stores." Such a contact would alert Gateway to the existence of the new domain name and to potentials for its use in a manner injurious to Gateway.
Moreover, it is logical to consider the contact in the context of the eBay auction of the domain name beginning the next day.
The Complainant and its competitors were not excluded from the bidding process. The text passage quoted above from the eBay auction display focuses the attention of the reader on the similarity between the "Gateway Country" store name and "Gateway PC Country", in the context of computer businesses. The obvious targets for such a message are the Complainant and its competitors.
The Panel finds that Respondent�s offering of this domain name for sale to all constituted an attempt to sell to Complainant or its competitors. The Panel also finds that in the context of the evidence of record here, the logical targets of the eBay offering were Complainant and its competitors.
The minimum bid request for the auction was $5,000.00. The Complainant has registered many domain names and is in a position to know the order of magnitude of the costs involved. Complainant alleges that "� the domain name was registered � for the purpose of selling � it � for valuable consideration in excess of Respondent�s out of pocket costs directly related to the domain name."
This allegation is accepted by the Panel. The registration event and the attempted sale took place at about the same time. It is not believable that Respondent was attempting to lose money. Accordingly, the Panel finds that Respondent�s purpose was to sell for a consideration in excess of his out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name.
These findings taken together require a further finding that the circumstances described in Section 4.b.(i) of the Policy exist, so that such circumstances constitute evidence of the registration and use of the domain name in bad faith. There is no contradictory evidence in the record.
Additionally, attention has been given to Section 4.b(iv) of the Policy in connection with Respondent�s ongoing use of the domain name with relation to its web site "storefront" referred to above. See Complaint paragraph 12.(f)(ii) and Annex I. Respondent�s use of a domain name which is confusingly similar to Complainant�s GATEWAY COUNTRY mark and store name tends to attract to Respondent�s web site persons who are familiar with Complainant�s stores and products. There they find the home page reference to "Computer Supplies" and "software". These are goods that fall into the product categories sold in Complainant�s stores.
Considering these facts in light of the auction evidence discussed above, the Panel finds that Respondent�s ongoing use of the domain name has been an intentional attempt to attract internet users to his site by creating a likelihood of confusion with Complainant�s mark. This attempt had been made in the context of a program which seeks to gain a monetary benefit rather than some other sort of endeavor that might be considered non-commercial or personal in nature or effect. The type of confusion sought to be created was confusion that would lead internet users to assume that there is some kind of association between Complainant or its stores and the Respondent�s web site or products offered there. That is, the Respondent attempted to create a likelihood of confusion "as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement" of his web site or products.
Section 4.c. of the Policy describes some circumstances which, if found to be proved, will demonstrate that a respondent has rights or legitimate interests in respect of a domain name. The Panel finds that none of the described circumstances has been established by the evidence in the record of this case.
The evidence here does not tend to prove that Respondent made use or preparations for use of "gatewaypccountry" or "gatewaypccountry.com" before he became aware of Respondent�s GATEWAY COUNTRY and the obvious confusing similarity between the two. To the contrary, arriving at the term "gatewaypccountry" without prior knowledge of the use of GATEWAY COUNTRY in connection with the marketing of "pc" equipment would be most improbable.
Similarly, there is no real probability that the Respondent, David Ayers, or his business was commonly known by such a long and visually complex name as "gatewaypccountry".
Finally, neither Respondent�s attempts to sell the name nor Respondent�s use of the name in connection with his web site "storefront" is of a nature such that it could be considered noncommercial or fair use without intent for commercial gain.
For these reasons, the Panel decides that the domain name in dispute is confusingly similar to a mark in which the Complainant has rights, and that the respondent does not have rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name, and that the domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
Accordingly, the Panel requires that the registration of the domain name "gatewaypccountry.com" be transferred to the Complainant.


Adam Novus struggles with his confidence after his brother's recent VR match session.
The blobs are back and it's your job to send 'em packing!
Infiltrate deep into enemy strongholds and blow up their stuff!


Hoffmann Inc. builds reinforced concrete silos for the storage of limestone and other aggregates in the mining industries.
Five (5) 32' dia. x 80' high jumpform limestone silos.
One (1) 26' dia. x 62' high jumpform limestone silo.
Carbon steel conical hoppers in all silos.


The soup is safely possible to name this dish which is served in almost every home. For cooking chicken soup, you do not need a lot of time preparing these first courses very easily, and eaten with great pleasure.
For cooking delicious chicken soup with noodles, take a chicken, wash it and cut into several parts of smaller size. Put the meat pieces in a saucepan, cover with water and cook until tender, not forgetting to salt the broth to taste. While the chicken is cooking, peel, wash and finely chop the onion. Wash the carrots and grate it on a coarse grater. Sauté onions and carrots in the pan in a small amount of vegetable oil.
Potatoes wash, peel and cut into cubes. When the chicken is almost ready, put the broth, potatoes and cook it 10 min. Then add to the pan zazharku of carrots and onions and let the soup simmer on low heat for another 7-10 minutes then add the noodles and simmer the soup until it's done. Make sure that the noodles don't seethe! A few minutes before end of cooking add the dish with the Bay leaf, pepper, parsley and dill to taste. Turn off the heat and leave the soup a little brew under a lid.
In order to enjoy the delicious pea soup from chicken, soak the peas overnight, then put it to boil, adding baking soda on a knife tip - this trick will allow the peas to turn to mush. After 15-20 minutes, put pre-washed and chopped into small pieces the chicken and salt the broth to taste.
Rinse and cut into cubes onions. Grate the washed carrots and saute prepared vegetables in vegetable oil, and then add them in the prepared dish. Now clean pre-washed potatoes, cut them in cubes and after 5-7 min after adding the contents, put in a saucepan. Simmer the soup until tender about 10-15 minutes Before you serve the dish on the table, decorate it with chopped fresh herbs to taste.


We'll adding instrumentation to our application but we lack expericence in the project. Google to the fore!A quick search later and i found this good introduction to instrumentation for .NET 2.0. I haven't read it all yet but it looks pretty extensive and to be written in a nice comprehensive manner.
We'll adding instrumentation to our application but we lack expericence in the project. Google to the fore!
A quick search later and i found this good introduction to instrumentation for .NET 2.0. I haven't read it all yet but it looks pretty extensive and to be written in a nice comprehensive manner.


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Pilar Corrias is pleased to present Gerasimos Floratos: 'Nodes'; the artist's second solo exhibition at the gallery, comprising eleven paintings and five works on paper made in 2020.
There is a scene in Vladimir Nabokov's 1935 novel Invitation to a Beheading in which the soon-to-be-beheaded protagonist receives a prison visit from his estranged mother. At some point in their awkward conversation, she tells him about a kind of toy she played with as a child – strange, mottled, indecipherable objects that would resolve when placed in front of a particular kind of crooked mirror. In the mirrored surface, the rest of the world would appear totally distorted, but these 'nonnons' would become 'wonderful, sensible' images: 'flowers, a ship, a person, a landscape'. She describes them as 'marvellous gimmicks'. 'Why do you tell me all this?' the prisoner asks.
Why am I telling you all this? Because there is something metaphysical going on in the 11 new paintings in Gerasimos Floratos' second show at Pilar Corrias. Within their thickly spread, mottled brushstrokes, more or less discernible figures fuse, fight, split off from themselves. These ambiguous images do not resolve magically into 'wonderful, sensible' painterly clichés when held at the right angle in a reflective surface. But, like the prisoner's mother's mirror, they hold two kinds of space; painting, here, is a node between two simultaneous and incommensurate realities. We could call these interior and exterior, psychological and physical. (We could also say, per Nabokov, 'non, non' – the canvas is neither of these things; it's its own empirical reality. That's the real gimmick.) In Peak a figure in a purple baseball cap stretches out his hand to touch his reflection – to check the surface is real? Or to check that he is?
Floratos is showing us head space – literally and metaphorically. One almost-square painting, Bridge Bath, features a slumped figure in a purple t-shirt. Where the head should be is a five-pointed starburst of white light and, at its centre, framed by an imperfect circle, is a postcard of Times Square in all its colourful, gaudy illumination. Its subtitle could be 'Self-Portrait as City': the city – New York City – as the central protagonist in the Floratos' painted psychodrama. Also: the city as a way of thinking, as a methodology – from the one-way flow of its gridded thoroughfares to the lateral, underground and meandering motion that happens in between.
There is also another way of reading this image. Look again: at the base of two of the star's 'limbs' are purple crescents that could be closed eyelids, making the porthole to Times Square a third eye. Floratos speaks about 'Times Square mysticism' – the idea that even in this temple to materialism, this centre of commerce and capitalism, we can experience moments of something like transcendence. Times Square is an intersection; beneath the thrum of the advertising screens, the city is vibrating on a different level.
Floratos is a romantic. He grew up in Hell's Kitchen, around the corner from Times Square, and still lives and has his studio in the neighbourhood. The city and its rhythms are in him. A lot has been said about the fundamental urban-ness of his paintings – from the graffiti-inflected earlier works to the recurring motifs of the famous yellow cab and his slacker avatar, the antithesis of corporate flash, in his baggy pants and his ball cap. There is a certain speed, maybe even hastiness, to Floratos' mark-making, like he has to get an idea down before it gets pushed aside by the barrage of external stimuli.
The Nodes works bring a little bit of the neighbourhood with them – the collaged postcards of the New York skyline in Bridge Bath, River Head and Reservoir exchange were thrown into the street as the small tourist shops around Floratos' family deli started to go bust during lockdown. They are images of the iconic capitalist metropolis in all of its sleek, towering glory, but they are also the material evidence of its brutal churn: the city's lower functions – as unthinking gut, chewing you up
and shitting you out.
The new paintings are a little less visceral than previous works, where the paint sometimes feels like it has been coerced into intestinally tight twists and turns. These works, while smaller in scale, are more spacious – the figures have softer edges, the colour palette is more muted. Some of them they have a hazy, almost dreamy quality. Call it the other side of the mirror; call it being spaced out. Where the recurring figures that he used to call 'minions' in older series of work are all body – oral fixation and base desire – there are heads everywhere in the Nodes paintings. Sometimes they're attached to a body; sometimes they implicate the whole of the canvas. That makes sense: since lockdown, we've all spent more time in our own thoughts. These works are a reminder that painting, as a process, is both physical and cerebral. They are paintings in the gutter, looking at the stars.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
River heads
Oil, acrylic, and collage on canvas
Reservoir exchange
Knottage
63 1/2 x 63 1/2 in
Bridge bath


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Q: Why isn't CultureInfo.NativeName always capitalized? Just out of curiousity...
In our application I list all the available translations in the following format "NativeName - EnglishName". For some languages the NativeName isn't capitalized eg.
"Deutsch - German"
"español - Spanish"
"français - French"
"italiano - Italian"
"Nederlands - Dutch"
"polski - Polish"

It's no big deal to capitalize the first letter, but what is the reason behind this?

A: From my vague memory of French, it is most likely because the name of the language in the language (ie. the name for French, in French) isn't capitalised.
That is, some languages capitalise proper nouns, some don't. Since the name of the language is a proper noun, it will be capitalised based on the rules appropriate to the language it is the name of.
There is a tool called Culture Explorer that allows you to easily browse all available cultures and there settings. I've found it very useful on a number of occasions.


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Мария Романовна Гричанова — военфельдшер (1941 год), лейтенант медицинской службы (1943 год) фронтового ГЛР № 2638, участник Великой Отечественной и Советско-японской войн.

С 1946 года в запасе. Капитан медицинской службы (м/с) запаса с 1964 года.

Биография
Родилась 18 июня 1922 года на хуторе Бражников (ныне — урочище в  Воронежской области) в семье инвалида Первой мировой войны Романа Ивановича Гречаного. В июне 1940 г. окончила полный курс Россошанской фельдшерской школы в Воронежской области, уже тогда выделяясь среди сокурсников своей активной жизненной позицией.

До службы в Красной Армии (мобилизована в октябре 1941 года) успела поработать заведующим районным отделом здравоохранения (Коротоякский район в Воронежской области).

Почти всю войну прослужила во фронтовом госпитале ГЛР № 2638 медицинской службы РККА, сформированном в сентябре 1941 года и расформированном в декабре 1945 года. Вместе с госпиталем находилась в совокупности более трёх лет в прифронтовой полосе следующих фронтов ВС СССР:
 Юго-западный фронт — 1941—1942 годы.
 Южный фронт — 1942—1943 годы.
 4-й Украинский фронт — 1943—1945 годы.
 1-й Дальневосточный фронт — 1945 год.

Боевой путь Гричановой прошёл через населённые пункты:
 Таловая, Воронежская область,
 Алексиково, Сталинградская область,
 Эльтон, Сталинградская область,
 Сосновка, Саратовская область,
 Целина, Ростовская область,
 Матвеевка, Запорожская область,
 Фёдоровка, Запорожская область,
 Симферополь, Крымская АССР,
 Хриплин, Станиславская область,
 Ивонич (Ивонич-Здруй), Польша,
 Бендзин, Польша,
 Прохоры, Приморский край.

Из воспоминаний капитана м/с М. Р. Гричановой: ''Врезался в память фашистский налёт на станцию Алексиково на подходе к Сталинграду. Массированным налётом немецкой авиации был разбомблен наш военный эшелон с полным вооружением. Когда налёт затих, уцелевшие медики развернули полевой госпиталь.

Из наградного листа М. Р. Гричановой (15 октября 1944 года) о награждении её медалью «За боевые заслуги»: В г. Симферополе обеспечила быстрым и своевременным оформлением поступление большого количества раненых в госпиталь, а также способствовала чёткой эвакуации раненых и выписке выздоровевших в часть. В г. Станиславе показала те же высокие качества работы.

После войны

После Великой Отечественной войны окончила Воронежский медицинский институт (1954 г.), работала санитарным врачом, начальником санитарной службы в Воронеже. С 1985 г. жила в Санкт-Петербурге, где активно боролась за восстановление и расширение жилищных льгот для участников боевых действий. Имела прекрасный голос и музыкальный слух — пела и перед ранеными в госпитале, и на встречах ветеранов войны.

Сын — Гричанов, Игорь Яковлевич, доктор биологических наук, заведующий лабораторией ВИЗР в Пушкине. Сноха — Гричанова, Галина Сигизмундовна, известный художник, работающий в жанре авторской куклы. Трое внуков и шестеро правнуков.

Умерла 19 марта 2015 года в Санкт-Петербурге. Похоронена на Казанском кладбище в Пушкине.

Награды
 Медаль «За боевые заслуги»
 Медаль «За победу над Германией в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.»
 Медаль «За победу над Японией»
 Юбилейные и памятные ордена и медали.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Ветерану ВОВ в Питере не дают квартиру.

Незавершённые статьи о военных
Медики России
Санитарные врачи
Выпускники Воронежского медицинского университета
Медики по алфавиту
Медики XX века
Похороненные на Казанском кладбище
Участники советско-японской войны (СССР)

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import numpy as np

from .utils import calc_distances

from scipy.spatial.distance import squareform

class DistanceFeature(object):
    """DistanceFeature

    feature is \sum_{i<j} \|x_i-x_j\|^{-n}
    """
    def __init__(self, n):
        self.n = int(n)

    def __call__(self, x, d=None):
        """
        Evaluate feature
        """
        d = calc_distances(x) if d is None else d

        return np.sum(d**(-0.5*self.n))

    def gradient(self, x, D=None):
        """
        Return gradient
        """
        dx = np.array([np.subtract.outer(x[:,d],x[:,d]) for d in range(x.shape[1])])

        D  = calc_distances(x) if D is None else D
        D  = D**(-0.5*self.n-1)
        D  = squareform(D)

        g = - self.n * dx * D

        return g.sum(-1).T

    def laplacian(self, x, d=None):
        """
        Laplacian of distance feature
        """
        d = calc_distances(x) if d is None else d

        return 2 * self.n * (self.n-1) * np.sum(d**(-0.5*self.n-1))

    def hessian(self, x, d=None):
        """
        Computes Hessian matrix
        """
        d = calc_distances(x) if d is None else d
        if d.ndim == 1: d = squareform(d)

        H = np.zeros((3*len(x), 3*len(x)))
        n = self.n

        for i in range(len(x)):
            for j in range(len(x)):

                if j == i: continue

                dx = x[i]-x[j]
                r  = d[i,j]
                h  = n / r**(0.5*n+2) * ((n+2) * np.multiply.outer(dx,dx) - np.eye(3) * r)

                H[3*i:3*(i+1), 3*j:3*(j+1)]  = -h
                H[3*i:3*(i+1), 3*i:3*(i+1)] +=  h

        return H

    def profile(self, r):

        return r**(-self.n)

class DistancePotential(object):
    """DistancePotential

    Distance-dependent pairwise potential that is a linear combination of power-law
    decays
    """
    def __init__(self, *orders):

        self.features   = [DistanceFeature(n) for n in orders]
        self.params     = np.ones(len(orders))

        ## distance cache

        self._distances = None

    @property
    def K(self):
        """
        Number of features
        """
        return len(self.params)

    @property
    def n(self):
        return np.array([f.n for f in self.features])

    def f(self, x, d=None):
        """
        Returns the vector of all evaluated features
        """
        return np.array([f(x, d=None) for f in self.features])

    @property
    def distances(self):
        """
        Distance cache
        """
        return self._distances

    def update_distances(self, x):
        """
        Update distance cache
        """
        self._distances = calc_distances(x)

    def __call__(self, x):
        """
        Evaluate pairwise potential
        """
        return np.dot(self.params, self.f(x, self._distances))

    def gradient(self, x):

        d = self._distances
        if d is not None and np.ndim(d) == 1: d = squareform(d)

        return np.sum([self.params[k] * self.features[k].gradient(x,d)
                       for k in range(self.K)],0)

    def laplacian(self, x):

        d = self._distances

        return np.sum([self.params[k] * self.features[k].laplacian(x,d)
                       for k in range(self.K)],0)

    def hessian(self, x):

        d = self._distances

        return np.sum([self.params[k] * self.features[k].hessian(x,d)
                       for k in range(self.K)],0)

    def profile(self, r):

        return np.sum([self.params[k] * self.features[k].profile(r)
                       for k in range(self.K)],0)

class LJPotential(DistancePotential):
    """LJPotential

    Lennard-Jones potential
    """
    def __init__(self):
        super(LJPotential, self).__init__(6, 12)

    @property
    def epsilon(self):
        return -self.params[0] / (4.0*self.sigma**6.0)

    @property
    def sigma(self):
        return (-self.params[1] / self.params[0])**(1/6.0)

    @property
    def r_min(self):
        return 2**(1/6.) * self.sigma / 2.

class LJPotentialFast(LJPotential):

    def __call__(self, x):

        from .lj import energy

        eps = self.params[0]**2 / self.params[1]
        sig = -self.params[1] / self.params[0]

        return energy(np.ascontiguousarray(x.reshape(-1,)), float(sig), float(eps))

    def gradient(self, x):

        from .lj import gradient

        eps = self.params[0]**2 / self.params[1]
        sig = - self.params[1] / self.params[0]

        g = np.zeros(np.prod(x.shape))

        E = gradient(np.ascontiguousarray(x.reshape(-1,)), g, float(sig), float(eps))
        self.E = E

        return g.reshape(x.shape)

class PotentialEstimator(object):

    def __init__(self, features):

        self.features   = features
        self._distances = None

    def update_distances(self, x):
        self._distances = calc_distances(x)

    @property
    def distances(self):
        return self._distances

    def calc_A(self, x):
        F = np.array([f.gradient(x,self._distances).flatten() for f in self.features])
        return np.dot(F,F.T)

    def calc_b(self, x):
        return np.array([f.laplacian(x,self._distances) for f in self.features])

    def __call__(self, x):

        self.update_distances(x)

        A = self.calc_A(x)
        b = self.calc_b(x)

        params = np.dot(np.linalg.pinv(A), b)

        return params

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Unfortunately the team came up short on this occasions falling victim to a very strong team.
However the boys did us very proud due to their commitment to...
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Bag-Pack Fundraiser
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Please come along and support the event. Interested parties can contact Natasha Le...
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We wish all involved the very best at they prepare for these imp...
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Culbertson was transported to Ohio State Wexner Medical Center by medics, but later succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office, Radnor Township Fire Department, Tri Township Fire Department, and Delaware County EMS.
Alcohol is suspected in the crash and the crash remains under investigation.
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This is the first fatal crash of 2017. The highway patrol and Delaware General Health District reported last week that there were 24 crash fatalities in 2016, a record high.


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Q: PyTorch model not releasing peak memory after computation I am using SentenceTransformers library to get a text embedding of a given text. I do inference on one of the pre-trained models from the library, and use the embedding vector for further computations.
When the model is doing inference, there is a spike in memory usage, as expected. However, after I get the embedding that I want, the memory usage does not go down.
I am profiling the memory with the following code -
from time import sleep

import torch
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

@profile
def encode_text(text):

    text_encoder = SentenceTransformer('paraphrase-albert-small-v2')
    embedding = text_encoder.encode(text)

    return embedding

encode_text(['This is a sentance'])
sleep(3)

I am profiling with memory-profiler by running mprof run --python python main.py.
This gives the following memory profile (running mprof plot) -

The memory gradually increases from when the function is called to when it finishes (the blue square brackets). However, after that, the memory is never released. This does not make sense to me since once I have the embedding vector, there is nothing in the code that should need to continue using up that much memory.
I tried wrapping everything in torch.no_grad(), setting text_encoder.requires_grad_(False) and text_encoder.eval() after creating text_encoder. I also tried doing del text_encoder after running inference.
None of this seems to make a difference.
Does anyone know why this is happening and how do I can free up this memory?
I am running the following versions of the libraries on Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS.
torch 1.13.0+cu117
sentence_transformers 2.2.2


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PLAY FREELY! FEEL THE NATURE!
The exact opposite of computer or iPad , this type of play deeply stimulates a child's creative mind and imagination and it's been said that puts them into a flow state similar to meditation experienced feeling. And I do practice meditation for a few years now. I love that.
Taking care of animals, biking, climbing trees, running from bees, horseback riding, counting stars, and all sort of country and slow living chores are a way to promote physical and mental activity.
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