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Whipping Man Wednesday: Q&A with Director Gilbert McCauley
Posted by Lauren James - January 21, 2015
With The Whipping Man taking the Arkansas Repertory Theatre stage, starting today, we are penning a new short series called "Whipping Man Wednesday" every Wednesday throughout its run.
Director Gilbert McCauley, from left, at the Clinton School Panel Discussion for Gee's Bend during the 2012-2013 MainStage Season.
Our Dramaturg Robert Neblett had a chance to talk with Director Gilbert McCauley, an associate professor in the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is returning to The Rep after directing several plays, including The Piano Lesson, A Soldier's Play, Fences, Frost/Nixon, Looking Over the President's Shoulder and Gee's Bend.
Read on to see what he had to say about The Whipping Man, his process as a director and more!
Q: As a director, what attracts you to a play like The Whipping Man?
A: I like the subject matter. The Civil War changed the United States as a whole as well as future generations of the people in those United States.
Q: What is its central message, if you were to pare it down to just one?
A: I'm not sure I can. But it has to do the understanding that freedom is not something that is given to us, it its something we must constantly strive to realize and maintain.
Q: Does this play have a personal relevance for you?
A: I think that for me personally, at this phase of my life, the notion of freedom is tied up with the notion realizing the fullness of who I am and recognizing the things that get in the way of that. And even more importantly, doing something about it.
Q: How would you describe the role of the director in the contemporary American theatre?
A: Every director goes about it in their own way, but I think the role has to do with establishing a creative environment that brings out the best in the all of the artists involved to make the work as significant and powerful as possible for the audience or community that experiences it.
Q: How do you prepare to approach the process of directing a play like this? What do you bring with you to the first rehearsal in terms of historical research and goals for the staging and building actor/character relationships?
Ryan Barry as Caleb DeLeon in The Whipping Man. Photo by John David Pittman.
A: For this production it was most important for me to feel I had a good grip on the historical research to understand more clearly the world of the play. I shared a good deal of what I had found with the actors when we started but I also made it clear that the exploration would be ongoing and that the purpose of the research was to illuminate the world of the play, their characters and what was going on between them.
Q: Can you describe your collaborative process of working with the designers in preparation for this production?
A: It mostly consisted of sharing ideas and images with each other and having really focused conversations about the action of the play and how what we understood collectively could be communicated through things like, the set, costume, and lights, etc.
Q: This is a very intimate drama, with only three characters onstage in deeply emotionally charged situations. As a director, how do you approach the rehearsal process with the actors differently than you might with a larger production?
A: I like for everyone in the rehearsal room to do personal source work on the issues explored in the play (i.e., whipping, slavery and freedom). With a small cast like this it allows us to go deeper and find richer connections to the work.
Q: With the current state of race relations in the country, in the wake of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases, how do you feel the themes of The Whipping Man resonate with audiences in 2015?
A: I think audiences will recognize parallels between he brutality and inhumanity that it took to keep people in their place during slavery (which the character of "the whipping man" represents) and present day methods used to control and punish people of color, especially African-Americans.
Q: How do you think this drama will speak specifically to Little Rock audiences?
A: Because Arkansas was so divided in it's opinions about the Civil War and because of Little Rock's importance in the Civil Rights movement of the 50s and 60s, I think the play will a lot of resonance for audiences here.
Q: What do you hope area students will take from the experience of seeing The Whipping Man?
A: The importance of asking the difficult questions and having the fierce conversations that it takes to fully realize ourselves and live productively with others.
Q: The play's action centers upon reversals of fortune for each of the characters, often in surprising ways that unveil deep, dark secrets. How do these changes of identity illuminate the play and inform the way the characters interact with one another, to push the drama forward?
A: In the play the reversals of fortune also have to do with the reversal of power. When the power dynamics of a relationship change it usually takes time for those involved to fully understand and adjust to the change, as well figure out new possibilities the change has opened up. I think that is very true for The Whipping Man.
Q: Jewish identity and ritual lie at the heart of the play. Many of the audience members in central Arkansas may not be familiar with the traditions surrounding Passover and the Seder. Is this an obstacle in understanding the culture of the play and its characters? If so, is there a way to overcome such an obstacle in the staging of the drama?
A: Because the Seder that is performed in the play is traditionally meant to be an interactive celebration of freedom, and because it is explained as such in the play, I think audiences will be drawn into the play and the ritual itself even more.
Q: The use of music has been integral to the struggle for Civil Rights in America, from the Civil War through the 50s and 60s, to the present. In the midst of the Passover Seder scene, rather than reciting/singing in Hebrew, the character of Simon sings the classic Negro (Christian) spiritual, "Go Down, Moses." How does this cross-cultural insertion inform that key moment of the play?
A: I think it points out a deeply held value for liberation and the constant struggle to maintain it that both cultures share. In fact, in our research we discovered that the song's use in Civil War in many ways mirrors it's use in our play. The son also began to show up in some versions of the Passover Haggadah (the Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder) as early as 1941.
Q: Do you think audiences will be surprised to learn not only of the Jewish slave-owners in the South during the Civil War, but also the appropriated Jewish identity of the slave characters? How does this play expand our knowledge and challenge our assumptions of Civil War narratives, particularly in the South?
A: Some audience will be surprised to know that Jews owned slaves during that time. And, while the notion that the enslaved took on the values and religion of their owners may not be a novel one, seeing that assimilation through a different lens may expand audience's understanding of slavery's impact on the lives of the enslaved.
Q: What is unique about working with the Arkansas Rep on a production like The Whipping Man?
A: The artistic leadership and the production team at The Rep are really committed to artistic excellence and it shows in the attention to detail and how things are presented. That is extremely important when you are dealing with a text that has the historical, cross-cultural, theatrical and creative demands that this one does.
Pulled from The Whipping Man study guide, prepared by Robert Neblett.
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Discovering Gee's Bend: A Place Within a Play
Posted by Arkansas Repertory Theatre - January 22, 2013
Gee's Bend, Alabama is located in Wilcox County and is surrounded on three sides by a dramatic U-turn in the Alabama River. The approximately 700 residents are almost all descendants of the slaves of the original Gee's Bend plantation.
Boykin, also known as Gee's Bend, is an African American majority community and census-designated place in a large bend of the Alabama River in Wilcox County, Alabama.
This geographic isolation and unusual stability of community created a unique enclave for the women's art community: quilting. The history of Gee's Bend is the story of a tiny place altered by large social changes occurring over the years.
Before the Civil War, Gee's Bend was primarily a working cotton plantation, first controlled by slave owner Joseph Gee and then his nephews, who sold it to Mark Pettway. After the Civil War, the emancipated slaves took the last name of Pettway, and worked the same land as tenant farmers. In the 1930s the acreage was sold to the federal government, which in turn developed a program to enable them to purchase the land that they already cultivated.
Pettway plantation, April 1937. Photo by Arthur Rothstein.
The type of quilt making found in Gee's Bend is of the African-American style. This style is considered unique among others found elsewhere in the United States. The most obvious reason for this is the overt African influence. The use of symbols, asymmetry, bright colors, and vertical piecing are techniques that hark back to African textile creations of years ago. Many of the symbols found in these quilts have also been traced back to religious symbols native to a multitude of African tribes. So although these quilts signify their personal pasts and hopes for a future, these women still respect the culture from which they originated.
Mary Lee Bendolph, one of the quilters who inspired the play Gee's Bend. Photo credit internationalfolkart.org.
These quilts were not originally created as pieces of art—whether for wall hangings or theatrical inspiration. In fact, the quilts were made out of necessity. The very culture that these women were raised in taught them that everything had a use.
So when the nights became cold each winter, the women would scrounge what small scraps of fabric they could find and fashion a blanket to put on the beds of their children and themselves. The inspiration for this approach to construction came from the equally as innovative approach to housing insulation—using layers of paper found in newspapers or magazines.
These wonderful pieces of art were simply thought of as creative methods of keeping a family warm until 1966. It was then that these women realized that the magic and beauty of the quilts came more from what went into them rather than what came out.
Flying Geese variation, ca. 1935 by Annie E. Pettway.
It was a common practice in these small communities of quilt makers to "air out" their quilts every spring. For members of the community, this became a time to study other's methods or designs so that they may have inspiration the next winter. However, in 1966, another set of eyes caught a glimpse of these soon to be masterpieces.
Gee's Bend Quilt, April 2012, Gee's Bend. Photo credit: "The Future of Gee's Bend," Deep South Magazine.
Father Francis Walter saw something more than function in these quilts. He saw a passion and a history unique to these people. Walter, a Civil Rights worker, proposed the idea of marketing and selling these quilts to stores in larger cities in the hopes that these women would soon become self-sufficient economically doing what they loved. Working in conjunction with many volunteers, he was able to get the quilts into the Smithsonian Institution. This exposed the work of these women to the world, but also inspired stores such as Sears, Bloomingdales, and Saks Fifth Ave. to sign contracts with them to manufacture and sell their designs.
In 2002, Houston's noted Museum of Fine Arts held an exhibition of quilts created by over 30 residents of Alabama's small community of Gee's Bend. The exhibit, praised by The New York Times and others, brought world-wide attention to the otherwise hidden creative endeavors of the quilters of Gee's Bend.
"The best of these designs, unusually minimalist and spare, are so eye-poppingly gorgeous that it's hard to know how to begin to account for them. The results, not incidentally, turn out to be some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced." – The New York Times
Art collector William Arnett, working on a history of African-American folk art in 1998, made the discovery when he came across a photograph of Annie Mae Young's work-clothes quilt draped over a woodpile. He was so impressed by its originality, he set out to find it. Research lead Arnett and his son Matt to Young in Gee's Bend and then they showed up at her door late one evening.
Young had burned some quilts the week before (smoke from burning cotton drives off mosquitoes), and at first she thought the quilt in the photograph had been among them. But the next day, she found it and offered it to Arnett for free. Arnett, however, insisted on writing her a check for a few thousand dollars for that quilt and several others. Soon the word spread through Gee's Bend that there was a white man in town paying money for raggedy old quilts.
Work-Clothes Quilt ca. 2002 by Mary Lee Bendolph.
Arnett shared his discovery with Peter Marzio of the Museum of Fine Arts. The attention to the exhibition revived what had been a dying art in Gee's Bend. In 2006, the Smithsonian magazine reported that some of the quilters, who had given in to age and arthritis, were back quilting again. And many of their children and grandchildren, some of whom had moved away from Gee's Bend, had taken up quilting themselves.
Gee's Bend Quilters Collective, Gee's Bend. Photo credit: "The Future of Gee's Bend," Deep South Magazine.
With the help of Arnett and the Tinwood Alliance (a nonprofit organization that he and his four sons formed in 2002), fifty local women founded the Gee's Bend Quilters Collective in 2003 to market their quilts, some of which had sold for more than $20,000.
The play Gee's Bend was commissioned by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writers Project, where it received a staged reading in 2006 and premiered in January 2007. Even though the story is loosely based on the life of Mary Lee Bendolph, the play focuses on the community of Gee's Bend as well. Like most artists, the women of Gee's Bend looked to their surroundings to inspire their designs and were influenced by those around them.
Watch as Director Gilbert McCauley discusses discovering Gee's Bend and the impact it has in telling this story. Woman on Pettway Plantation, Gees Bend, 1937. Photo by Arthur Rothstein.
"The story of Gee's Bend is tied to Gee's Bend only; it's a special place filled with special people who may appear mundane on the surface, but beneath they are as textured as the very quilts they make," says Rep Dramaturg Adewunmi Oke. "The costumes, the set and the props will reflect not only the people, but also the place of Gee's Bend both literally and metaphorically."
Watch as Dramaturg Adewunmi Oke discusses the lessons audiences will take away from this true story. Monica Parks as mother Alice, Nambi E. Kelley as Sadie and Shannon Lamb as sister Nella in Arkansas Repertory Theatre's production of Gee's Bend.
Gee's Bend opens on The Rep stage January 25 and runs through February 10, 2013, supported and sponsored by The Design Group, Philander Smith College, Arora, Delta Airlines and the Little Rock Convention and Visitor's Bureau.
The Rep's production of Gee's Bend is made possible in part by a grant from the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame Foundation, a component fund of the Arkansas Community Fund.
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Gee's Bend Weaves Stories Behind Quilts
Monica Parks as Alice, Shannon Lamb as Nella and Nambi E. Kelley as Sadie in Arkansas Repertory Theatre's production of Gee's Bend. Photography by Cindy Momchilov, Camera Work. © Copyright 2013 Arkansas Repertory Theatre. All rights reserved.
Gee's Bend, written by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, follows Sadie Pettway and her family, sister Nella and mother Alice, as they turn to quilting to provide comfort and creative expression to their lives. What begins as a labor of love soon turns into a spiritual and artistic awakening.
Pieced together from discarded clothes and seasoned with laughter and tears, the women sew a patchwork of inventive abstract designs in rich, blazing colors. Stitch by stitch, the stories of these strong women are revealed as their experiences unravel and inspire them to create what the New York Times called "miraculous works of modern art."
Gee's Bend opens in 1939, with the beginning of the era of African-American land ownership. The story then advances to 1965, in the midst of the Civil Rights movement and the historic visit to Gee's Bend by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. The production concludes in 2002, on the eve of the unveiling of "The Quilts of Gee's Bend" exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas.
"Gee's Bend has received a great response from audiences across the country. Regardless of age, race or geography, people are able to connect with these women on some level," Wilder has said about the play. "People are always telling me stories about their experience with an old family quilt, or about the women in their family. There is something universal about the story."
The quilts that have become iconic art were created as thrifty necessities, pieced together from old clothing and material scraps to provide warmth. According to the Gee's Bend Quilters Collective website, "The town's women developed a distinctive, bold and sophisticated quilting style based on traditional American (and African-American) quilts, but with a geometric simplicity reminiscent of Amish quilts and modern art. The women of Gee's Bend passed their skills and aesthetic down through at least six generations to the present."
Those same quilts became a much-needed source of income for the women of Gee's Bend in the 1960s, when an Episcopal priest helped the women sell their quilts to high-end stores like Bloomingdale's. In 2002, a national exhibition tour was organized, and in 2007 the legacy of the quiltmakers of Gee's Bend was complete with the debut of Wilder's play.
Gee's Bend was commissioned by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writers Project, where it received a staged reading in 2006 and premiered in January 2007. A graduate of the dramatic writing program at New York University, Wilder received the American Theatre Critics Association's 2008 Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright.
When Wilder interviewed the women of Gee's Bend, she asked many questions about the women's personal lives, and which stories she should reveal. Quilter Mary Lee Bendolph reportedly said to her, "Just write it honest." Wilder promised to do so, saying, "I just hope my love for these women and these stories can be seen in the work."
Even though the story is loosely based on the life of Bendolph, the play focuses on the community of Gee's Bend as well. Like most artists, the women of Gee's Bend looked to their surroundings to inspire their designs and were influenced by those around them.
"Gee's Bend is the place that allows the play to happen," says Director Gilbert McCauley. "And our set will be evocative of that…Gee's Bend was isolated by a river. So this is a story of a woman who has to make a crossing from the known into the unknown, and the only things she has are the pieces of her life, which she turns into quilts."
"The story of Gee's Bend is tied to Gee's Bend only; it's a special place filled with special people who may appear mundane on the surface, but beneath they are as textured as the very quilts they make," says Dramaturg Adewunmi Oke. "The costumes, the set and the props will reflect not only the people, but also the place of Gee's Bend both literally and metaphorically."
The true story of the women of Gee's Bend has already touched millions who viewed their stunning work through a national exhibition tour and features on National Public Radio, in Newsweek and Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine. "The Quilts of Gee's Bend" have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others
But McCauley says this is not a play about quilts, but about people, a fact Wilder was careful to point out in her production notes. "While the quilts are the metaphor, the women are the focus," says McCauley. "The women of Gee's Bend wrote their stories through their quilts—their blood, sweat, and tears—these quilts hold the fabric of their lives."
Gee's Bend opens January 25 and runs through February 10, 2013, supported and sponsored by The Design Group, Philander Smith College, Arora, Delta Airlines and the Little Rock Convention and Visitor's Bureau.
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Size, shape and spatial arrangement of mega-scale glacial lineations, and implications for ice stream basal processes
Spagnolo, Matteo; Clark, Chris D.; Ely, Jeremy C.; Stokes, Chris R.; Anderson, John B.; Andreassen, Karin; Graham, Alastair G.C.; King, Edward C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3793-3915. 2014 Size, shape and spatial arrangement of mega-scale glacial lineations, and implications for ice stream basal processes. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 39 (11). 1432-1448. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3532
esp3532.pdf - Published Version
Mega-scale glacial lineations (MSGLs) are a characteristic landform on ice stream beds. Solving the puzzle of their formation is key to understanding how ice interacts with its bed and how this, in turn, influences the dynamics of ice streams. However, a comprehensive and detailed characterisation of this landform's size, shape and spatial arrangement, which might serve to test and refine formational theories, is largely lacking. This paper presents a detailed morphometric analysis and comparison of 4043 MSGLs from eight palaeo-ice stream settings: three offshore (Norway and Antarctica), four onshore (Canada), and one from under a modern ice stream in West Antarctica. The length of MSGLs is lower than previously suggested (mode 1000-2000 m; median 2892 m), and they initiate and terminate at various locations on an ice stream bed. Their spatial arrangement reveals a pattern that is characterised by an exceptional parallel conformity (80% of all mapped MSGLs have an azimuth within 5 degrees from the mean values), and a fairly constant lateral spacing (mode 200-300 m; median 330 m), which we interpret as an indication that MSGLs are a spatially self-organised phenomenon. Results show that size, shape and spatial arrangement of MSGLs are consistent both within and also generally between different ice stream beds. We suggest this results from a common mechanism of formation, which is largely insensitive to local factors. Although the elongation of MSGLs (mode 6-8; median 12.2) is typically higher than features described as drumlins, these values and those of their width (mode 100-200 m; median 268 m) overlap, which suggests the two landforms are part of a morphological continuum and may share a similar origin. We compare their morphometry to explicit predictions made by the groove-ploughing and rilling instability theories of MSGL formation. Although the latter was most compatible, neither is fully supported by observations.
https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3532
mega-scale lineation, ice-stream, MSGL formation, glacial bedform, morphometry
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Invade Iran? Not any time soon
by Steve Balestrieri Jul 28, 2019
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Many hawks in Washington are wondering why the United States hasn't already responded with military force against Iran in the Middle East. The Iranians are increasingly bellicose in Syria and in the Persian Gulf. They've seized oil tankers and sabotaged others with mines in international waters. Most importantly, they've openly violated the uranium enrichment and storage thresholds in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — more commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal. Many want to know, what are we waiting for?
President Trump, much to the chagrin of those hawks and many Democrats, has not responded with anything other than his typical Twitter lambasting of the Iranian government. The smarter members of his cabinet have changed the course of impending missile strikes, at least for now.
The president hasn't fallen into the easy and not-so-smart knee-jerk reaction of launching missile strikes at the Iranians, when it seems like that is exactly what they want — because, in essence, it is exactly what they want.
Iran's leaders are playing a dangerous game here, but they've done their homework and believe they know how any scenario with the U.S. will play out. The Iranian powers don't have a Congress or central government to answer to. While there may some debate between the hardliners and the more moderates, there is no separation between the political and military there. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps controls not only the military but has a grip on the political and economic arenas as well.
So, what would the end game be in a United States-Iranian conflict? President Trump has already said, the U.S. is not seeking regime change, so a ground war is not only not in the cards but the last thing the Pentagon needs while continuing the endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the on-going conflict in Syria.
Trump's presidential campaign was based on two key points, to improve the economy and no more Middle East wars. So, while the U.S. isn't seeking regime change, Tehran is. A shooting war with the United States may be painful in the short-term for Tehran, but they have shown they're more than willing to sacrifice troops as they've done in Syria and Lebanon to further long-term goals. Plus, they believe a shooting war with the U.S. would have a disastrous effect on Wall Street, in addition to swinging the upcoming 2020 election away from Donald Trump. That's why they're trying to provoke the United States to attack.
Any overt military action by the United States would further strengthen the Islamic Republic's hold over an increasingly agitated populace. Widespread protests in late 2017 and early 2018 got the attention of the regime. The Sunni minority, who are treated as second-class citizens, would slow their protests and back their nationalist feelings if the conflict came with America.
The Israelis, the archenemy of the Islamic Republic regime, also have an election upcoming in late September. Many in the intelligence circles expect the Iranians to plan something around that time, what many are calling an "October surprise." It would almost certainly include Hamas and Hezbollah, Iranian proxies who take their orders from Tehran, not locally. They know anything drastic before the election would likely swing that upcoming election back to Benjamin Netanyahu.
While the U.S. tries to counter the Iranian nuclear enrichment program with diplomacy, sending Senator Rand Paul to act as an informal emissary, the Iranians play along and issue the same bellicose statements they've always made. They want to keep playing the game, rattling their nuclear sabers in hopes of getting concessions on easing of sanctions against their money. As much as they hate Israel, and several of their hardliners would love to nuke the hated Jews, they know that doing so would seal their own fate — and they'd get nuked in response.
The Iranians have long recognized the nuclear option is the wildcard in the deck. In 1980, Ayatollah Khomeini stopped the Iran nuclear program by calling it a corrupt Western influence that went against the very tenets of Islam. But that changed when Iran suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties in the Iran-Iraq war, with some estimates as high as 500,000 killed. Plus, Iranian troops and civilians were hit with chemical weapons.
They offered twice, in 2003 and again 2005, to stop enriching uranium for what was at that time a much smaller nuclear program than today. What they sought in return was the easing of sanctions as well as normalized relations with the European Union. Those overtures were shot down by the Bush administration.
Every time negotiations fail, the Iranians rattle that nuclear saber again. Don't ever expect them to shut it down. This is their ace in the hole of negotiations. The Iranian regime knows full well what happens when governments agree to shut down their nuclear programs. Regime change occurs quickly. They can look at Muammar al-Qaddafi in Libya, and of course Saddam Hussein, who started the war with Iran in 1980. When they gave up the nuclear option, they were quickly removed. They see how the North Koreans have been doing the dance for several years as well. However, Kim Jong-Un has at least some nukes.
Iran won't back down. They'll continue to act like the big bully on the block, trying to entice Trump to respond with limited military action. Things may get tough for a while but they weathered an eight-year war with Iraq and they know they'll weather this one, too.
The wildcard in the West is Israel. Israel has stated many times that it won't stand for a nuclear Iran and won't wait until the Islamic Republic has a nuclear weapon to see what they'll do with it. They also know that any attack on Iran itself will unleash thousands of Hamas and Hezbollah missiles from across their borders. A preemptive strike by them is far from the realm of possibility.
So, right now the U.S. and Iran do the same dance, with the Iranians claiming to curtail nuclear enrichment in return for being allowed to sell their oil in Europe, which the EU wants.
If memory serves, it was Indians and Persians who invented chess. They're playing this dangerous game like masters. The United States shouldn't take the bait and continue to play this out. Attacking Iran isn't going to solve any issues between the two. It will only serve to their further aims, not ours.
About Steve Balestrieri
Steve served as a Special Forces NCO and Warrant Officer before injuries forced his early separation. He writes for SOFREP and covers the NFL for PatsFans.com and his work is regularly featured in the Millbury-Sutton Chronicle and Grafton News newspapers
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Editorial: Making the MCAS work
A decade or more ago, the annual release of the MCAS test results prompted hand-wringing and outrage. There was no such outpouring of attention when the latest round of district MCAS scores were released this week, and that's a good thing.
A decade or more ago, the annual release of the MCAS test results prompted hand-wringing and outrage. Newspapers rushed to rank the results, as if the blizzard of numbers could, by some simple formula, be converted into a single list, with the "best" schools on top and the "worst" on the bottom. Homeowners and real estate brokers fretted about the test scores' impact on home values. Politicians, parents and educators complained about the tyranny of standardized testing.
That was then. There was no such outpouring of attention when the latest round of district MCAS scores were released this week, and that's a good thing. Tests aren't supposed to determine real estate values. They are supposed to give teachers, administrators, students and parents a tool to determine whether they are learning the minimal skills they need to advance in school and succeed once they graduate.
It's the individual scores that matter most, and even then, MCAS scores mostly flag a student who needs more attention. Properly used, aggregate scores can tell something about the quality of a school or even the performance of a teacher. But the tests only identify problems, they don't fix them.
The MCAS tests are a low standard by some measures. The high-stakes tests - meaning you have to pass them to graduate - are given in the 10th grade and measure 10th grade knowledge and skills. State college professors have noticed no improvement in their freshmen's readiness for college-level work since the MCAS tests were initiated.
But they are a high standard when compared to the tests other states use to keep score under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The state's NCLB goal is for all Massachusetts children to score proficient on the MCAS tests by the year 2014, which is a little like the fictional Lake Woebegone, where all the children are above average.
NCLB requires all schools, and all subsets of students, be measured to determine "Adequate Yearly Progress" toward that goal. By that reckoning, half the state's public schools are now coming up short. That doesn't mean the schools are failures, and it certainly doesn't reflect on every student or teacher. It can mean, however, that some small part of the curriculum isn't being taught effectively to some group of students. Educators need to look at the details, not the overall scores, to fix the problem.
Most schools, teachers and students learned to live with the MCAS years ago, but a small number of politicians, academics and activists are still caught up in a stale debate over the value of standards and testing. The MCAS tests are no more a perfect measure of a student's worth than any other test, whether it's the SAT or the spelling test given every Friday in the third grade. Schools and teachers have always used "alternative assessment" tools to measure the whole child. Isn't that what a report card is?
The MCAS tests shouldn't be the center of education policy, and we don't believe they are. Educators, teachers, students and parents should take seriously what the numbers say about where they can improve. Those who care about education policy should stop arguing about the MCAS and concentrate on where the schools go from here.
MetroWest Daily News


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When leaving your precious property in the hands of others it's not surprising that you may be somewhat concerned. You would seek assurance that the 'others' are qualified to look after the property properly. If you want complete peace of mind when parking your car at Gatwick then it's nice to know that the operator you are using is backed up by legislative bodies that oversee the management and administration of that company. This of course does not make the company perfect but it is an indicator that the company takes its responsibilities seriously and is being professional in its activities. Below you will find some of the Awards that Tudor Rose has achieved and some of the Associations the Company belong to.
This scheme was implemented in July 2013 and was a direct result of a partnership between West Sussex County Council, The Police, Trading Standards and the British Parking Association in an attempt to curb the bad practice and rogue element of Valet Parking at Gatwick. Companies which are awarded approval status have to prove they can provide a good level of professionalism and service.
Meaning the Customer can spend more time enjoying their travel plans and less time worrying about their car.
The AVPCA was formed in the spring of 2011 with the aim to create public awareness of the meet and greet operators at Gatwick Airport offering cut price meet and greet parking but without offering secured parking or acceptable levels of customer service. The AVPCA has been working with local Trading Standards officers, Gatwick Airport Ltd, local police, independent and established meet and greet parking operators at Gatwick.
Tudor Rose was awarded the 'Buy with Confidence' certificate for the first time in 2007 and has maintained this year on year.


As part of The Power of Placebo, Sarah Goldingay is speaking as part of Agents of Change: The Power of Placebo at the Wellcome Collection on Saturday 3 November.
I meet my Mum on the stairs. She shows me she's started wearing a copper bracelet. She says it really helps with her joint pain. She explains that she knows that lots of people think it's nonsense but, for her, it's the bracelet that's doing the trick. I need to be very clear – just in case she reads this – my Mum is wise, sharp and an excellent critical thinker. She hasn't just been 'the victim of a scam'.
As I listen, an alternate strand of my consciousness is working. I know I'm on thin ice. You see, I'm a researcher who explores the role of culture, context and interpretation on the so-called placebo effect. And yes, I do believe in what Medicine calls placebos. But for me, this isn't about sugar pills – folks have been facilitating their own placebo response since humans have been around. The way that we experience the world and interpret our lives has a significant effect on how we assist our own healing, our daily return to homeostasis. So, I know that a negative encounter slows down the body's capacity to self-heal: I know that placebos have an evil twin, 'nocebos' [pronounced NoSeeBo].' And, I know that if I get my response wrong, rather than reinforcing the healing placebo benefits my Mum's experiencing, I might trigger a negative response, a nocebo. And worse than that, I won't simply damage the positive response she's facilitated for herself, I'll also undermine her in some way. I might even make her doubt her capacity to make good choices about her health and wellbeing in the future.
I want to hold her with all my attention. I know that her feeling heard and understood matters. I know my response is important. I also know that having this bizarre conversation with myself isn't helping, and I come back to the person in front of me. As I look at this woman I love, it doesn't matter what is triggering her healing response – I know that what she's feeling, what she believes is a fragile thing and she needs to be affirmed. So, I say that the ifs and hows don't matter. What matters is that it's working. She justifies her experience some more – I'm not sure this part of the conversation is for my benefit or for hers. All I know is that something that Western Medicine would dismiss as a placebo is making my Mum feel less pain, facilitating an increased range of movement, helping with better sleep, allowing her to do more exercise and be more socially active — all of which in themselves are life-enhancing and will ameliorate the joint pain further. There aren't any side effects to this carefully plaited copper band. The bracelet is a good thing. But the bracelet does not have the approval of a medical license because its effectiveness cannot be proven using the same approaches used to license a pharmaceutical. You can't do a randomised controlled trial on contextual interpretation. In those terms it's a placebo – it's a placebo that is beneficial.
It's odd that at this moment in history we find ourselves in this bind. Medicine has made tremendous advances and brought about significant benefits to our quality of life. But, it has also become the dominant story, and we've given it significant cultural power. We have given much of our interpretative power. We wait for medicine to validate our health experience. We tend to wait until we're sick before we think about being well. We tend to seek out a pill even for a chronic condition that can't be treated. Unintentionally, because a person has attributed an improvement in their wellbeing to non-medical treatment, we often undermine that because culturally we have placed our belief in science rather than in our capacity to take better care of ourselves. We say it's just a sugar pill and if it happens to improve your wellbeing, well, then, you're gullible.
Later on, a cup of tea in hand, I reflect on the social complexity of placebos. As long as placebos are seen pejoratively, as a means of tricking the vulnerable or exploiting the feeble-minded, we are undermining the multiplicity of ways that over the course of their lives people choose a range of things that help them feel well and whole and happy. When we talk about placebos, we typically say, that something works to aid our wellbeing, even when it shouldn't. But to undermine the placebo response of ourselves or another isn't a smart thing to do. Some things make us feel better even if they haven't been prescribed, been licensed through a randomised controlled trial or been recommended by our GP. We know what these things are for ourselves. They change over time and with context.
I guess as I get close to fifty, they've returned to the things that mattered when I was seven: trees to climb, a breeze to lean into, birdsong to accompany, and water to swim in.


Loch Lomond watersports, fishing, sailing and diving by Inchmurrin Island. There are many activities on and around Inchmurrin to keep visitors occupied as well as the many activities around the Loch. Apart from exploring the island, eating, drinking and relaxing, water sports are the most popular recreation.
Loch Lomond is the largest inland expanse of water in Britain for boating. It has the advantage of being large and the safety of being enclosed, but without the disadvantages of tides, large swells and navigational problems. It provides areas sheltered enough for ski-ing but open enough for sailing. The southern end of the Loch has many islands to explore and plenty of sheltered anchorages. The north end of the Loch, in contrast, provides long stretches of deep, open water. The Loch is suitable for any vessel including canoes, kayaks, dinghies, speed-boats, cruisers and yachts. A public launching facility and trailer park is available for all sizes of boats at the Duncan Mills Memorial Slipway, Balloch (01389 757295). There is also a picnic site and public launching for smaller boats at Milarrochy Bay, East Loch Lomond (01360 870412).
Motor boats should be registered with the Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park (www.lochlomond-trossachs.org) before coming to Loch Lomond. Places to visit by boat, starting from the south include.
Loch Lomond shores (www.lochlomondshores.com) . Offers speciality retailers, including Jenners; Drumkinnon Tower with restaurants, bars, cafes and a viewing point; canoeing, bike hire and cruises.
Paddle Steamer "Maid of the Loch" (www.maidoftheloch.co.uk) Café/bar and see steam engines under repair.
Inchcallioch Nature Reserve. Island opposite Balmaha, rich with birdlife, two miles of nature trail. Sheltered mooring at the south end of the island or ferry service from Balmaha.
Balmaha: 1) Balmaha Forest and Conic Hill Walks- Queen Elizabeth Forest Park. Enjoy a gentle forest walk through the woods behind Balmaha or climb Conic Hill. 2) National Park Centre: Introduction to east Loch Lomond, audio visual show, gifts and outdoor accessories.
Inchconnachan: Visit the Park Ranger house and see Scotland's only wild wallabies.
Tarbet: Cruach Tairbeirt and Tarbet Isle Forest Walks. Woodland walks linking Tarbet and Arrochar.
Loch Lomond is one of Scotland's best Lochs for salmon, sea trout and coarse fishing (especially pike). Salmon and pike of thirty pounds and sea trout of ten pounds are caught most years. With the introduction in recent years of the live bait "ruffe" the balance has changed with increasing numbers of pike and decreasing numbers of salmon and trout.
The season for salmon and sea trout is 11th Feb to 31st Oct, fishing by fly or trolling with large bait for salmon and smaller bait for sea trout. The record salmon is 44lbs 8oz. The record sea trout is 22lbs 8oz.
There is no close season for coarse fishing. Trolling from a moving boat is not allowed when coarse fishing. The record pike is 47lbs 11oz.
Dinghies with engines and rods can be hired from Balmaha boat yard.
There is always some sheltered area around the Loch where flat water can be found for ski-ing, and Inchmurrin has an area of shoreline where speed restriction do not apply. A slalom coarse is sometimes in use here.
The Loch is an ideal venue for sailing for everything from small dinghies to larger yachts. The sailing can be challenging as winds tend to be more gusty than on the sea. Boats can be launched at any slipways. For club sailing contact Loch Lomond Sailing Club (www.lochlomondsc.org).
Inchmurrin is ideal for windsurfing as the appropriate side of the Island can be chosen depending on the wind direction. As all the accommodation is immediately adjacent to the water there is no distance to carry boards. Also rigs can be left assembled in the garden, ready to go.
Tours: Lomond Tours. Selected day tours or private hire. Seven seater luxury travel (www.lomond-tours.co.uk).


This practical guide on how to handle bullying, by the author of Bullies, Bigmouths and So-Called Friends, shows children how to protect themselves emotionally and psychologically in bullying situations. As well as quizzes, real life stories and cartoons, there are 70 short practical tasks designed to help readers build up their self-confidence and resilience. The tasks, being varied and achievable for a wide ability range, are also suitable for teachers to use in the classroom, therapists working with young clients or parents looking for fresh ideas about how to support their child. This book is a revised and updated version of The Seven-Day Bully-Buster.
This self-esteem guide for children, by the author of Bullies, Bigmouths and So-Called Friends, is funny, practical and easy to understand for readers age 8+ It's about making choices, recognising boundaries, setting achievable goals, feeling in control and engaging with other people in positive ways. The ideas are illustrated by quizzes, case studies and cartoons, and there are 70 practical tasks designed to help children experience build their up confidence and self-acceptance. The tasks, which are varied and achievable for a wide ability range, could be used by teachers in the classroom, by therapists working with young clients or by parents looking for fresh ideas about how to help an anxious or unhappy child. This book is a revised and updated version of The Seven-Day Self-Esteem Super-Booster.
Jenny approached me by email about these two books for review and since both are important subjects to children (anyone really) so of course I said yes. There really are 70 tips in each book, some you may have heard before and many which I hadn't but they make sense and really help address the issues covered in each book. The books are fairly short, but that makes it easier to read: no one wants to read a huge book about tough to deal with subjects: every tip is bite sized and can be read one at a time or several in a row. The books are designed to be dipped in and out of, to be pondered over, and they most definitely have useful advice for both bullying and improving self-esteem.
I liked that there were lots of exercise for the reader to do which like the tips themselves won't take long to do but can make a big difference in someone's life if they are repeated and taken seriously. There are short quizzes in the books, questioning what the reader knows about each topic which were interesting to do. The book does emphasise doing the right thing of telling someone you trust about the issue: dealing with such complex emotions on your own is most often not the best way of dealing with the problem. The illustrations made me smile and fit in well with the tone of the book. Lots of examples of the best course of action reinforce the advice given, and help make it crystal clear what bullying is and what self-esteem is.
They are definitely books that are meant to be read more than once, put on a shelf for reference as and when they are needed. I'd like to say that if you are bullied/have low self-esteem it will only happen once in your life, but that's not always the case. You aren't a failure in any way if that does happen to you - simply seek help, re-read the books and hopefully life will improve for you soon. They aren't just for children either who are the intended readership.
Find out more on Jenny's website.


Adding Hashtags To Instagram - Presently, the very best methods to bring in followers and generate presence in your magazines on the Internet is to make use of the most preferred present socials media in order to share material relevant with news or new items from a business or business.
One of the social media networks that have actually achieved the most exposure in the ins 2015 is Instagram.
Even though it began as a basic application where pictures were posted and also it was possible to set up filters to improve the illumination or change the shade, renovations were transformed time by creating new filters as well as the implementation of a new function similar to Snapchat where (Instagram Stories), brief videos or gifs were added that only lasted released 24-HOUR as well as were restricted to the calls that could see them.
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Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) has claimed responsibility of the fidayeen attack on CRPF convoy at a highway in which more than a dozen forces personnel were killed and several injured.
Forces personnel at the site of an attack in Lethpora area of Awantipora.
A JeM spokesperson Muhammad Hassan in a statement issued to news agency GNS said: "dozens of forces' vehicles were destroyed in the attack".


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Home / What GPA do you need to get into Cal Poly SLO?
What GPA do you need to get into Cal Poly SLO?
Average GPA: 4 With a GPA of 4, Cal Poly requires you to be at the top of your class. You'll need nearly straight A's in all your classes to compete with other applicants. Furthermore, you should be taking hard classes – AP or IB courses – to show that college-level academics is a breeze.
What majors is Cal Poly known for?
The most popular majors at California Polytechnic State University–San Luis Obispo include: Engineering; Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences; Biological and Biomedical Sciences; and Social Sciences.
Is it hard to get into Cal State Fullerton?
Cal State Fullerton admissions is selective with an acceptance rate of 53%. Students that get into Cal State Fullerton have an average SAT score between 1030-1200 or an average ACT score of 19-24. The regular admissions application deadline for Cal State Fullerton is December 4.
What majors are impacted at Cal Poly SLO?
The following majors are impacted, but do not have supplemental requirements: Animal Health Science, Animal Science (General), Animal Science (Pre-Vet), Accounting, Architecture, Communication, Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Computer Science, General Kinesiology, Physics, Environmental Biology.
How much does a semester at Cal Poly Pomona cost?
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Q: How to show an image on a device without any quality loss I have a 320 x 320 image on my server and when I download it and show on my device. Its blurred.
I tried to show it in an ImageView with the below params.
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        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="320dp"/>

I also tried getting the dp equivalent of 320 px on my device(240 dpi) and reduced the layout_height="213dp"
But still the image is unclear. Where as the image on the server is perfectly clear.

A: Why are you trying to define a value? Try this code:
 <ImageView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

A: *

*specify image view width and height as wrap content. if it does not work then try 2.

*Try to use draw9 patch tool to generate equivalent image for image you have stored on server. Then downloaded image will be clear.

A: What's happening is that your 320px x 320px image is probably being scaled up to 480px or 640px (depending on the device you have) because you specified 320 DP. If you want the image to be 320 DP in the layout then you will have to provide a much higher resolution image that can be scaled down in lower resolution devices.

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El primer caso de la pandemia de COVID-19 en Piauí, estado de Brasil, se registró el 19 de marzo de 2020.

Al 3 de febrero de 2023, ha habido 422 372 casos confirmados y 8062 fallecidos en el estado.

Cronología

Marzo
19 de marzo: El departamento de Salud confirmó el primer caso de COVID-19 en el estado.

27 de marzo: Piauí registró su primera muerte por COVID-19 en Piracuruca. Era un hombre de 57 años, Antônio Nonato Lima Gomes, conocido como Antônio Felicia, el alcalde de la ciudad de São José do Divino. La información fue confirmada por el Departamento de Salud del Estado y el alcalde tenía antecedentes de diabetes. No tenía antecedentes de viaje.

Registro
Lista de municipios de Piauí con casos confirmados:

Referencias

Piauí
Estado de Piauí

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Amédée Joyau (1872-1913) est un peintre et graveur français connu pour ses gravures sur bois en couleurs, marquées par le japonisme.

Biographie
Amédée est le fils d'Achille Joyau (1831-1873), premier grand prix de Rome 1860 en architecture.

Profondément marqué par l'Extrême-Orient après un voyage effectué au Japon en 1889, il entre l'année suivante à l'atelier Cormon (Paris), puis il se tourne essentiellement vers la gravure sur bois, à une époque où ce procédé semble revenir en vogue, après avoir été oblitéré par les progrès de la typogravure. Il exécute aussi quelques rares eaux-fortes. Il est possible qu'il croise chez Cormon, Toulouse-Lautrec.

On connaît aussi de lui des paysages et des marines, sous la forme d'aquarelles ainsi que quelques huiles. En , il expose des dessins inspirés de Paris au salon du Champ-de-Mars. Il devient membre de la Société nationale des beaux-arts en 1901. Il expose au Salon d'automne qui accueille une rétrospective de ses paysages bretons en 1913.

Du côté du travail sur bois en couleurs, il s'inspire à partir de 1893-1894 de scènes de rues parisiennes, Montmartre d'abord (Le Moulin de la Galette), puis les quartiers des grands boulevards. Il exécute une série de crépuscules très contrastés, dans un style qui rappelle celui de certaines estampes d'Henri Rivière.

Puis il se tourne vers l'Atlantique et s'inspire de paysages maritimes bretons, vendéens, ou de mer du Nord.

En 1906-1907, il est en lien avec la Roumanie, sans doute par sa belle-famille, et il exécute des portraits gravés de personnalités roumaines, puis reçoit une commande pour une affiche publicitaire du Ciocolata Berindei (Bucarest), qui sera tirée sur les presses lithographiques de Minot (Paris).

Vers 1909, il se retire en forêt de Fontainebleau et produit de nombreux sous-bois qui témoignent de son attachement à la nature. En , il expose chez Georges Petit, au sein du groupe « La Cimaise », pour une première saison ; il reste fidèle aux éditions suivantes jusqu'en 1912.

Hiver 1911-1912, il fait partie des initiateurs de la Société de la gravure sur bois originale.

Il meurt à Fontainebleau où il est inhumé le , sa mort, à 41 ans, étant annoncée dans la plupart des grands quotidiens français.

En 1897, à Bucarest, il avait épousé Alice Marcolesco, d'origine roumaine, fille du peintre post-impressionniste Georges Marcolesco (1870-?). Le couple eut deux fils, Alain, né en 1903, et Alban, né en 1907.

Conservation
Sa production approche sans doute 140 pièces, la plupart ont été cataloguées par l'expert américain Atherton Curtis (1863-1943) en 1938. Sur ce fonds, 108 estampes, dont plusieurs états, sont conservées à l'INHA.

Quelques bois en couleurs

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie
 .
 Clément-Janin, « Amédée Joyau 1872-1913 », dans Annuaire de la gravure française, 1913-1914, p. 237-242.
 Noël Clément-Janin, Annuaire des la gravure française de 1922, Paris, 1937.
 Atherton Curtis, Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé d'Amédée Joyau, Paris, Prouté, 1938.
 Jean Adhémar et al., Inventaire du fonds français après 1800. Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris, 1960, Tome 11, .
 Janine Bailly-Herzberg, « Joyau, Amédée », dans Dictionnaire de l'estampe en France (1830-1950, Paris, Arts et métiers graphiques / Flammarion, 1985, .
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Liens externes

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Naissance en mai 1872
Naissance dans le 9e arrondissement de Paris
Décès en août 1913
Décès à Fontainebleau
Graveur français du XIXe siècle
Graveur français du XXe siècle
Graveur sur bois
Aquarelliste français
Japonisme
Graveur en couleur
Décès à 41 ans


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How will the Golden Knights use their newest star player?
Golden Knights forward Jack Eichel addresses the media on Monday, Nov. 8, 2021, at City National Arena in Las Vegas.
By Justin Emerson (contact)
Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021 | 2 a.m.
The Vegas Golden Knights have done it again. They went out and got another superstar, adding to their ever-growing collection by bringing in Jack Eichel, the former No. 2 overall draft pick by the Buffalo Sabres who's regarded as one of the best centers in the world.
It might go down as the most impactful move they've ever made, and the only difference from similar blockbusters that brought the likes of Mark Stone and Max Pacioretty to town is that it requires a wait. It will be at least three months until Eichel plays for Vegas after he underwent artificial disk replacement surgery November 12 in Denver.
But when he does get on the ice, how much better will he make a Vegas team that already came into the season as a Stanley Cup favorite? The answer to that question has the current roster teeming with excitement.
"Jack can change the game in a blink of an eye, and that's an element you want on your team," defenseman Alex Pietrangelo said.
The 25-year-old Eichel is actually a few months younger than Alex Tuch, part of the package for which he was traded, alongside with Peyton Krebs and draft picks. Eichel is a bona fide No. 1 center, which aside from William Karlsson's career year in 2017-18, Vegas has arguably never had.
The Golden Knights acquired stars on the wing such as Pacioretty and Stone to augment the forward group but hadn't found the key pivot that's the centerpiece of so many Stanley Cup champions. Until now.
Eichel is so good that general manager Kelly McCrimmon insists his availability changed the team's plans. The Golden Knights' front office made moves to clear cap space in the summer, but then spent it, so it's not like the trade of Marc-André Fleury to Chicago came in anticipation of Eichel.
McCrimmon said he simply acted and didn't worry about the eventual details when it became clear he could acquire Eichel. Vegas technically doesn't have the cap space for Eichel at the moment, but it doesn't matter since he's on injured reserve.
The team will almost surely need to move players off the roster in order to fit his $10 million cap hit when he's ready to return, which could be as early as February. But it's hard to argue any shifting won't be worth it.
"There's no question about the caliber of player he is," forward Mattias Janmark says. "If there's anyone who can challenge [Edmonton Oilers center Connor] McDavid, it would be a guy like him."
So where will he play in Vegas? He'll immediately improve any line, and the thought of him centering Pacioretty and Stone has Vegas fans frothing at the mouth.
Those three would form the most talented line Vegas has ever iced and would give Colorado's Gabriel Landeskog-Nathan MacKinnon-Mikko Rantanen trio and Boston's Brad March-Patrice Bergeron-David Pastrnak combination a run for their money as the best in the league.
And that might not even be the Golden Knights' best option.While Chandler Stephenson isn't what most consider a true No. 1 center, he has produced at an elite rate between Pacioretty and Stone. Those three together have been so dominant that it's worth considering keeping them intact and letting Eichel super-charge another line.
There are a lot of options if the Golden Knights decide to go that route. Eichel could center players like Jonathan Marchessault and Reilly Smith, playing the driving role he did for years in Buffalo with far less talent around him.
Or what about a line with Eichel between Pacioretty and Evgenii Dadonov while letting Marchessault and Stone flank Karlsson? That would move Stephenson to a third-line role, where he'd be a big asset. The point is, when dealing with a player like Eichel, there isn't a wrong answer.
For now, coach Pete DeBoer isn't giving any clues as to his thought process. "I'll leave that to you guys for the next few months," he told reporters with a grin. "Who knows what's going to be available in three months or four months when he gets back."
The past decade of Stanley Cup champions help illustrate the importance of an elite center. Current back-to-back champs Tampa Bay had Brayden Point and Steven Stamkos. St. Louis had Ryan O'Reilly for its 2019 title year, and Washington had Nicklas Bäckström in 2018.
Pittsburgh had Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin for its back-to-back titles in 2016 and 2017. The list continues with Jonathan Toews for the Blackhawks in 2010 and 2013 and Anže Kopitar for the Kings in 2012 and 2015.
Now Vegas has Eichel, whose name would absolutely fit with those players based on his early career production.
Since reaching the Stanley Cup Final in 2018, the Golden Knights have acquired wingers (Pacioretty and Stone), a goalie (Robin Lehner) and a defenseman (Alex Pietrangelo) in a push to get back and win it this time around.
They never had that center until they brought in Eichel, one of the best players in the world at the sport's most important skating position. It's easy to envision him becoming the piece that pushes Vegas over the top.
This story appeared in Las Vegas Weekly.
Article written by #LasVegasSun
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I mean, if I will directly go for detection after staining of the samples. Not planning to store for long use.
Edited by Thomson, 05 November 2018 - 04:45 PM.
i have no experience with flow cytometry but it would seem to me that you would not want to use fixed cells for the process.
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Glutaraldehyde solution - ok to freeze thaw or should aliquot?


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Q: Slony - slonik syntax issue I'm trying to use the example that comes in the slony tutorial but it looks like there is a syntax error in their example.  I've tried finding more documentation online but I've yet to really find good documentation showing how to use the slonik command.  The script I am trying to run is:
#!/bin/sh

/opt/local/lib/postgresql90/bin/slonik << _EOL_

define CLUSTERNAME slony_example;
cluster name = @CLUSTERNAME;

node 1 admin conninfo = 'dbname=my_primary host=$MASTERHOST user=$REPLICATIONUSER';
node 2 admin conninfo = 'dbname=my_rep host=$SLAVEHOST user=$REPLICATIONUSER';

#--
# init the first node. Its id MUST be 1. This creates the schema # _$CLUSTERNAME containing all replication system specific database # objects.
#--
init cluster ( id=1, comment = 'Master Node');

#--
# Slony-I organizes tables into sets. The smallest unit a node can # subscribe is a set. The following commands create one set containing # all 4 pgbench tables. The master or origin of the set is node 1.
#--
create set (id=1, origin=1, comment='All pgbench tables');
set add table (set id=1, origin=1, id=1, fully qualified name ='public.pgbench_accounts', comment='accounts table');
set add table (set id=1, origin=1, id=2, fully qualified name ='public.pgbench_branches', comment='branches table');
set add table (set id=1, origin=1, id=3, fully qualified name ='public.pgbench_tellers', comment='tellers table');
set add table (set id=1, origin=1, id=4, fully qualified name ='public.pgbench_history', comment='history table');

#--
# Create the second node (the slave) tell the 2 nodes how to connect to Slony-I 2.1.1 Documentation 10 / 163
# each other and how they should listen for events.
#--

store node (id=2, comment = 'Slave node', event node=1);
store path (server = 1, client = 2, conninfo='dbname=my_primary host=$MASTERHOST user=$REPLICATIONUSER');
store path (server = 2, client = 1, conninfo='dbname=my_rep host=$SLAVEHOST user=$REPLICATIONUSER');

_EOF_

But I keep getting the following error:
postgres$ /tmp/slonik_example.sh
<stdin>:29: ERROR: syntax error at or near dbname

Updating script above based on first answer.  Error now is:
postgres$ /tmp/slonik_example.sh
<stdin>:31: ERROR: syntax error at or near _EOF_

A: You've got unbalanced quotes:
store path (server = 1, client = 2, conninfo='dbname=my_primary host=$MASTERHOST user= '$REPLICATIONUSER');
store path (server = 2, client = 1, conninfo='dbname=my_rep host=$SLAVEHOST user= '$REPLICATIONUSER');

You probably want:
store path (server = 1, client = 2, conninfo="dbname=my_primary host=$MASTERHOST user=$REPLICATIONUSER");
store path (server = 2, client = 1, conninfo="dbname=my_rep host=$SLAVEHOST user=$REPLICATIONUSER");


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Florida Crystals CIO: Cloud Is The Sweet Spot For IT Success
Florida Crystals is a multibillion-dollar sugar production company with no on-premises servers. Here's why CIO Don Whittington is happy keeping it that way.
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Florida Crystals, a producer of certified organic sugar, is a multibillion-dollar private company with operations in 15 countries, suppliers in many more, and customers around the world. Since 2010, the company has had no data center. According to CIO Don Whittington, the lack of a physical data center is entirely intentional.
The company, based in West Palm Beach, Fla., also operates a renewable energy facility that provides clean energy to power its sugar-producing operations, along with tens of thousands of area homes.
In an interview with InformationWeek at SAP's SapphireNow 2016 in Orlando, Fla., last week, Whittington described the "hybrid" cloud environment that Florida Crystals has built from instances on multiple cloud environments with no on-premises systems in the mix. Whittington pointed to SAP ERP software running on Virtustream, as well as SuccessFactors, Concur, and other packages running on SAP's HANA Enterprise Cloud, as evidence that servers in a Florida Crystals data center aren't necessary for his IT operation to succeed.
Florida Crystals' cloud strategy extends to its organization and staffing. "We're not in a race on the development side -- we don't have a dev shop," Whittington said. He prefers to use contract talent when development efforts are required and depend on his partnership with SAP for basic innovation.
[ What are the latest features in SAP HANA? Read SAP HANA SPS12 Adds Data Visualization, Other Features. ]
Whittington is quick to say this doesn't mean that Florida Crystals has outsourced its IT operations. He has a staff and is in control of the IT process. Rather, it's simply that the infrastructure is implemented as a hosted, managed service. Whittington said that moving the infrastructure to the cloud had some significant implications for his IT operation and the entire organization.
First, "IT isn't aligned with the business, it's part of the business," he said. The time and effort that more traditional IT operations spend on maintaining a physical infrastructure can be spent with the business units making sure that the business and IT are tightly coupled. Next, all of that "spending" is an opex budget, which means Whittington has no capex budget issues.
Finally, Whittington said, "With software-as-a-service we don't have upgrades anymore. It's all continuous delivery." Combining these factors means that IT is able to operate much more like other business units, rather than as something unique and special within the company.
Data From The Field
One aspect of Florida Crystals' IT operation is quite special, if not unique. Because the company owns and operates sugar cane farming operations in a number of countries, "We've been getting all sorts of data from the field for years, we just didn't call it the Internet of Things," Whittington said. He pointed to years of data on factors such as rainfall, temperature, and crop yields for individual fields as the sort of information the company has collected.
This kind of data isn't what most people think of as big data, but Whittington said that the company is now using big data techniques for deep analysis on its agricultural operations. "We're doing big data on this, but the business doesn't really like the term. They want to say that they're just analyzing the data," he said.
Better analysis is leading to partnerships with outside vendors in projects to improve agricultural operations. Whittington pointed to work the company is doing with Case tractors that could ultimately lead to autonomous vehicles in the field. With GPS systems that allow sub-inch accuracy for navigation and predictive analytics that provides guidance for the navigation and operational parameters for the farming implements, the possibility exists for enhanced yields at lower cost with less damage to the land.
A New IT Professional
Whittington wants to expose APIs that will allow more employees to analyze the data available through the cloud systems. The company has already been approached by third parties asking about monetizing the data, he said, and any moves in that direction would require more APIs and more internal analysis.
The combination of increased big data analysis and cloud infrastructure means Whittington has real staffing challenges. "It changes the IT person I'm looking for, and they're scarce," he said. And the scarcity isn't limited to the pool of potential employees. "Even trying to lease them is hard," Whittington admitted.
With all the challenges and opportunities, Whittington said he has one advantage over many CIOs: Florida Crystals is a private company and the family that owns it has long been convinced of the value IT can bring to the organization. With the support of the owners, he looks forward to leading an IT organization that can be innovative in the cloud and in IoT -- even if the company shies away from the terms.
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Q: impersonate a user at runtime for spring hadoop configuration I have an web application that an receive requests for several other applications running from linux command line as from different users. For each of these requests I have to read data from hdfs for calling application folder which only the calling application linux user access to. Is there a way I can setup configuration in such a way that it can be overridden at run time to impersonate the caller application user for spring-hadoop kerberos authentication.

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            fsh.cp(file.getSourceFilePath(), destPathWithFileName);
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        }
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