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MATH 7999-1: Problem Lab in Algebra —practice for PhD Qualifying Exam in Algebra.
MATH 7999-2: Problem Lab in Real Analysis—practice for PhD Qualifying Exam in Analysis.
MATH 7999-3: Problem Lab in Topology—practice for PhD Qualifying Exam in Topology.
MATH 4997-1: Vertically Integrated Research: Quiver Representations and Hall Algebras
12:00-1:20 T Th
Instructor: Profs. Achar and Sage
Prerequisites: Familiarity with basic group and ring theory and linear algebra, such as from Math 4200 and Math 4153
A quiver is just a directed graph, and a quiver representation is a rule that assigns a vector space to each vertex of a quiver and a linear transformation to each edge. The goal of this course is to study quiver representations and their applications to important problems in representation theory. We will start this semester by examining representations of several important kinds of quivers, including the Jordan quiver and the Kronecker quiver. Quiver representations over finite fields can be used to define a ring called the Hall algebra. By the end of the semester, we plan to get to deep theorems from the 1990s relating Hall algebras to quantum groups. No prior knowledge of quiver representations, Hall algebras, or quantum groups is required.
3:00-4:50 T Th
10:30-11:20 MWF
Instructor: Prof. Ng.
Text: Abstract Algebra, 3rd ed; Dummit and Foote, Wiley 2003.
This is the first semester of the first year graduate algebra sequence, and covers the material required for the Comprehensive Exam in Algebra. Topics will include group actions and Sylow Theorems, finitely generated abelian groups; rings and modules: PIDs, UFDs, finitely generated modules over a PID, applications to Jordan canonical form, exact sequences.
MATH 7230: Algebraic Number Theory.
1:30-2:20 M W F
Instructor: Prof. Long.
Prerequisites: Math 7210: Algebra I
Text: A course in algebraic number theory by Robert B. Ash, a Dover book on mathematics
This course is about various topics (norms, traces, discriminants, rings of integers, factorizations, units, et al.) of number fields, which are finite extensions of the field of rationals.
MATH 7280: Categorification.
Prerequisites: Some knowledge of Lie algebras will be helpful but, if needed, some lectures and distributed lecture notes will cover what is needed. The emphasis will be on concrete examples instead of the most general statements for simple Lie algebras.
The course will be an introduction to the basic ideas of categorification. It will be aimed both at students who would like to specialize in the area and at students from other areas who would like to have a general knowledge of the subject. The course will cover the main parts of the theory of categorification of quantum groups and their representations via Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier algebras, and their relations to the categorification of knot invariants. The major constructions and theorems will be introduced and motivated through many concrete examples.
MATH 7290: Lie Theory.
9:00-10:20 T Th
This course will cover the foundations of Lie theory from an algebraic perspective. The main objects of study are algebraic groups--which are philosophically close to Lie groups, but live in the realm of algebraic geometry rather than differential geometry--and their Lie algebras. The semester will cover three main topics: (i) structure theory; (ii) classification; and (iii) representation theory. No prior knowledge of algebraic geometry will be assumed.
9:30-10:20 M W F
Text: Required: L. Richardson, Measure and Integration: A Concise Introduction to Real Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, June 2009. ISBN: 978-0-470-25954-2
Recommended Reference: H. L. Royden, Real Analysis, 3rd ed., Macmillan, ISBN 0024041513.
We will treat measure theory and integration on measure spaces. The examples of the real line and of Euclidean space will be emphasized throughout. Topics will include the Hopf extension theorem, completion of the Borel measure space, Egoroff's theorem, Lusin's theorem, Lebesgue dominated convergence, Fatou's lemma, product measures, Fubini's theorem, absolute continuity, bounded variation, Vitali's covering theorem, Lebesgue differentiation theorems, and the Radon-Nykodim theorem. Applications to Lp and its dual, and the Riesz-Markov-Saks-Kakutani theorem may be presented if there is sufficient time.
MATH 7370: Lie Groups and Representation Theory.
Prerequisites: Math 7311. A basic knowledge of differential geometry is also helpful.
Text: We will not use any fixed textbook but mainly use our own lecture notes. A preliminary version can be found at http://www.math.lsu.edu/~olafsson/pdf_files/ln7370.pdf. Good introductory books on Lie groups include
J. Hilgert and K-H. Neeb: Structure and Geometry of Lie Groups
V. S. Varadarajan: Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and their Representations
N. R. Wallach: Harmonic Analysis on Homogeneous Spaces.
This is an introductory course in Lie groups and homogeneous spaces needed for further research in harmonic analysis and representation theory related to finite dimensional or infinite dimensional Lie groups. We will mostly consider linear Lie groups, that makes several proofs much easier, but the statement will still be valid for general Lie groups. In fact, every connected, finite dimensional Lie group is locally isomorphic to a linear Lie group.
The course starts with basic definitions and examples. Then we will discuss the exponential map, closed subgroups, the Lie algebra of a closed subgroup, group actions on manifolds, homogeneous spaces, and homogeneous vector bundles. Further material will depend on time and interests of the participants.
MATH 7384: Topics in Material Science: Extreme Geometries and Optimal Functionally Graded Materials.
12:30-1:20 M W F
Prerequisites: Either Math 4027, 4031, 4036, 4038 or equivalent
Text: Course Notes and references to the literature will be provided
Additive manufacturing techniques offer new opportunities for optimally engineered structures employing graded material properties. This course provides the underlying physical theory and mathematical techniques developed over the past 20 years for design of optimally graded thermal, electric and elastic materials. The techniques introduced in this course include elements of the calculus of variations and the methods of partial differential equations. The course concludes with an overview of modern numerical methods for the design of functionally graded composites for optimal stiffness and strength.
MATH 7390-1: Calculus of Variations & Optimal Control.
Instructor: Prof. Wolenski. and Prof. Hermosilla.
Prerequisites: Advanced Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Ordinary Differential Equations
Text: No formal text is required
This course is an introduction to the Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control from a modern viewpoint that will emphasize the role of convexity. It is aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students interested in the theoretical foundations of any area of applied mathematics.
We will begin with a review of continuous optimization in Euclidean space; the role of convexity will be emphasized and basic tools of nonsmooth analysis will be introduced. The main topic of the course is dynamic optimization. The first half will cover the classical material of the calculus of variations, including topics such as the Euler-Lagrange equation, Weierstrass maximality condition, Erdmann corner conditions, and Jacobi conjugate points. Plenty of examples will be covered. There is a natural transition into optimal control, which will be the focus of the rest of the course from a neo-classical point of view.
MATH 7390-2: Convex Optimization Theory and Applications
Instructor: Prof. Zhang.
Prerequisites: Math2057 Multidimensional Calculus and Math2085 Linear Algebra
Text: : Class notes and the following two reference books:
Convex Optimization by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe, ISBN 978-0-521-83378-3
Convex Analysis and Optimization by Dimitri P. Bertsekas, ISBN 1-886529-45-0
Depending on the time available, tentative topics include Convex sets, Convex functions, Smooth convex optimization problems, Nonsmooth convex optimization problems, Duality Theory, Applications, Interior Point Methods.
MATH 7490: Matroid Theory
Prerequisites: Permission of the Department
Text: J. Oxley, Matroid Theory, Second edition, Oxford, 2011.
What is the essence of the similarity between forests in a graph and linearly independent sets of columns in a matrix? Why does the greedy algorithm produce a spanning tree of minimum weight in a connected graph? Can one test in polynomial time whether a matrix is totally unimodular? Matroid theory examines and answers questions like these.
This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the basic theory of matroids. This will include discussions of the basic definitions and examples, duality theory, and certain fundamental substructures of matroids. Particular emphasis will be given to matroids that arise from graphs and from matrices.
Prerequisites: Advanced Calculus (Math 4031)
Text:Topology (2nd Edition), By James Munkres
This course is a preparation course for the Core I examination in topology. The course will quickly discuss some elementary notions in general topology before moving on to (basic) homotopy theory, the fundamental group, and covering spaces. Topological manifolds, simplicial complexes and CW complexes will also be discussed.
11:30-12:20 M W F
Prerequisites: Math 7510 and Math 7512 (or familiarity with the fundamental group and the homology of topological spaces)
Text: Algebraic Topology by A. Hatcher, Cambridge Univ. Press (This is available for free download in pdf format or may be purchased as a book)
This will be a continuation of Math 7512 from the Spring. We will study cohomology, Poincare duality, and hopefully some homotopy theory.
MATH 7590: Hyperplane Arrangements.
10:30-11:50 T Th
Prerequisites: The exposure to the fundamental group provided by MATH 7510 Topology I
Text: Portions of the course will use the manuscript-in-progress Complex Arrangements: Algebra, Geometry, Topology (access will be provided)
A hyperplane arrangement is a finite collection of (n-1)-dimensional subspaces in an n-dimensional vector space, such as lines in a plane, planes in 3-space, etc. Arrangements arise in a variety of mathematical contexts, and in applications ranging from mathematical physics to robotics.
The complement of an arrangement, what is left of space after the hyperplanes have been removed, is an object of fundamental interest in the topological study of arrangements. For instance, a collection of lines cuts the real plane into pieces, and understanding the topology of the complement amounts to counting the pieces. This depends on combinatorial aspects of the collection of lines such as parallelism, how many of the lines intersect at a given point, and so on. This example illustrates a central theme in the subject, the relationship between combinatorial and topological aspects of arrangements.
A complex hyperplane does not disconnect space, and the complement of an arrangement in a complex vector space has rich topological structure. One focus of this course will be on the (low-dimensional) topology of these spaces. Specific topics include braid groups, both as primary objects of study and as tools, configuration spaces, the Fox calculus, and Alexander-type invariants. In particular, we will develop general algorithms for computing these latter invariants, and investigate the extent to which these invariants of arrangements are combinatorially determined.
The topological aspects of the course will assume familiarity with the fundamental group, while other (combinatorial) aspects will be self-contained.
Prerequisite: Familiarity with basic group and ring theory and linear algebra, such as from Math 4200 and Math 4153
A quiver is just a directed graph, and a quiver representation is a rule that assigns a vector space to each vertex of a quiver and a linear transformation to each edge. The goal of this course is to study quiver representations and their applications to important problems in representation theory. We will start this semester by examining representations of several important kinds of quivers, including the Jordan quiver and the Kronecker quiver. Quiver representations over finite fields can be used to define a ring called the Hall algebra, which in turn has deep connections to quantum groups, combinatorics, and topics from algebraic geometry. We will explore some of these connections over the course of the semester. No prior knowledge of these topics is required. New participants (who weren't in the course in Fall 2016) are welcome!
MATH 7211: Algebra II.
Prerequisites: The material taught in Math 7210: basics about groups, rings, modules and homomorphisms.
Text: : Recommended:
M. Artin, Algebra (2nd edition), Addison Wesley, 2010. ISBN: 978-0132413770
D. Dummit and R. M. Foote, Abstract Algebra (3nd edition), John Wiley and Sons, ISBN: 978-0471433347
I believe the second one has been used here for Math 7210. Both these books are available at Amazon and some cheap versions can be purchased, but it is not necessary to buy them; I will choose some assignments from these texts.
Michael Artin has an excellent online course at MIT:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-701-algebra-i-fall-2010/index.htm
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-702-algebra-ii-spring-2011/
There will be two main topics:
Field and Galois Theory.
We will start with topic 1 (and some material from 2 will be presented there). In topic 2 we will give an introduction to two areas: symmetry groups in geometry, and representations of finite groups.
There will be one in class midterm, worth 25% of the grade. The remaining 75% will be in assigned homework problems turned in, including a take-home final.
MATH 7230: Partitions, Hypergeometric q-series and Modular Forms
Instructor: Prof. Mahlburg.
Prerequisites: Math 7210 (Algebra I). Complex analysis at the undergraduate level (Math 4036) is very helpful.
Text: The Theory of Partitions, by George Andrews, Cambridge University Press 1998.
An integer partition is an additive decomposition of a positive integer, such as 5 = 3 + 2 = 2 + 2 + 1. This course gives an introduction to integer partitions and their many applications, as well as the deep connections to basic hypergeometric q-series and modular forms. Topics will include simple combinatorial properties, including generating functions; Jacobi's Triple Product, the Rogers-Ramanujan identities, and other results from basic hypergeometric q-series; Ramanujan's congruences and other arithmetic properties; The Hardy-Ramanujan asymptotic expansion and other analytic properties; the role of theta functions and modular forms; applications in group theory and representation theory.
MATH 7240: Algebraic Geometry
Prerequisites: The first year algebra sequence---Math 7210 and Math 7211.
Text: Algebraic Geometry, Part 1: Schemes. With examples and exercises, by U. Gortz, T. Wedhorn,
Algebraic geometry has its origin in the study of solutions to systems of polynomial equations. It is of fundamental importance in a wide range of areas of mathematics such as number theory, representation theory, and mathematical physics and also has surprising applications to such fields as statistics, mathematical biology, control theory, and robotics.
Modern algebraic geometry is based on the fundamental notion of a scheme. This course will give an introduction to schemes and their geometry, with particular emphasis on motivating the definitions and constructions and providing many examples. Topics covered will include algebraic varieties, sheaf theory, affine schemes, and projective schemes.
Prerequisites: Math 2085 and 4031; or equivalent.
Text: An Introduction to Dynamical Systems: Continuous and Discrete, Second Edition by R. Clark Robinson, AMS Pure and Applied Undergraduate Texts, Volume 19. ISBN: 978-0-8218-9135-3
Existence and uniqueness theorems, approximation methods, linear equations, linear systems, stability theory; other topics such as boundary value problems.
MATH 7330: Functional Analysis.
Instructor: Prof. Rubin.
Text: No special textbook. I will distribute my own notes.
Functional Analysis is the language of modern mathematics. The course provides an introduction to the general theory of normed and metric spaces, linear operators and linear functionals, Banach and Hilbert spaces, spectral theory, and other important topics.
Prerequisites: Undergraduate probability theory
Text: Kuo, H.-H.: Introductory Stochastic Integration. Universitext, Springer 2006
Kuo, H.-H.: Gaussian Measures in Banach Spaces. Lecture Notes in Math., Vol. 463, Springer-Verlag, 1975 (Reproduced by Amazon, Oct 2006.)
In this course we do not assume the previous knowledge of probability theory from Math 7360. The needed concepts will be fully explained in this course. We will cover the Ito theory of stochastic integration in full detail and sketch other theories of stochastic analysis such as abstract Wiener space, white noise analysis, and Malliavin calculus. In addition, we will study my recent theory of general stochastic integration for stochastic processes arising from the Ito part and the counterpart. I will propose several research problems for further investigation of this new stochastic integral.
MATH 7375: Wavelets
Text: Introduction to Fourier Analysis and Wavelets by M. A. Pinsky, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Volume 102, AMS, and instructor's own notes.
This course is a basic introduction to Fourier analysis and wavelets. We start with Fourier series of smooth and square integrable periodic functions. We then discuss the Fourier transform on the n-dimensional Euclidean space. Topics include convolution of functions, approximate identity, the Fourier transform of rapidly decreasing functions and tempered distributions. Applications include the Shannon sampling theorem, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and the windowed/short time Fourier transform. We then introduce the basic idea behind the wavelet theory and, as an example, the Haar wavelet. The course then continues with the introduction of multiresolution analysis and the construction of various wavelets. If time permits, we also discuss the application of wavelets in basic function spaces.
MATH 7384: Topics in Material Science: Spectral theory in wave dynamics: From classical theory to open problems
Spectral theory of self-adjoint and normal operators underlies the dynamics of linear waves in classical and quantum physics. In fact, the mathematical theory is largely driven by physics. This is a huge and varied field, and I will choose the direction, flavor, and topics based on my research activity and tastes.
The material will come from my notes and from various books and articles in the literature. Enrolled students will present a special topic or problem to the class.
Here is the material I have in mind:
Spectral theorem and concrete realizations of it:
Unitary representations and Fourier transforms for symmetry groups of a physical structure
Connection to complex analysis and moment problems.
Spectral theory in wave dynamics:
Operators for wave dynamics that commute with symmetry groups, such as periodic operators with additional symmetries—the symmetries of the operator mirror the symmetries of the underlying physical structure.
Analysis of operator resolvents and applications to the following:
Scattering of waves by objects—modified Fourier modes caused by local perturbations of the wave operator.
Resonance.
Limiting amplitude principle and limiting absorption principle.
Some relatively classical examples:
Bound states and eigenvalues, symmetry-protected spectrally embedded eigenvalues; resonance.
Coercivity and compactness.
The Fermi algebraic surface for periodic media, reducibility, and its relation to embedded eigenvalues.
Current research and open problems:
"Negative-index" materials.
Non-symmetry-protected embedded eigenvalues.
Topologically protected eigenstates.
Symmetries of Euclidean space—the wallpaper groups and the Bieberbach groups.
Nonlinear scattering problems.
MATH 7490: Combinatorial Optimization.
First we cover classical min-max results like Menger theorem, max-flow-min-cut theorem, and Konig theorem. Then we establish a connection between these results and Integer Programming. Under this general framework, we discuss more min-max results concerning packing and covering of various combinatorial objects.
Text: Algebraic Topology by Allen Hatcher
This course will introduce the homology theory of topological spaces. To each space X and nonnegative integer k, there is assigned an abelian group the k-th homology group of X. We will learn to calculate these groups, and use them to prove topological results such as the Brouwer Fixed point theorem (in all dimensions) and generalizations of the Jordan curve theorem. Homology theory is important in many parts of modern mathematics. If time permits, we will cover the the basic ideas of cohomology as well.
Instructor: Prof. Vela-Vick.
Text: Michael Spivak, A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, 3rd Edition
This course gives an introduction to the theory of manifolds. Topics to be covered include: differentiable manifolds, charts, tangent bundles, transversality, Sard's theorem, vector and tensor fields, differential forms, Frobenius's theorem, integration on manifolds, Stokes's theorem, de Rham cohomology, Lie groups and Lie group actions.
MATH 7590-1: Geometric Topology: 3-Manifolds.
Prerequisites: 7510 (or equivalent)
This course will introduce the basic tools and techniques of 3-Manifold topology. Some topics to be covered include: normal surfaces, the prime decomposition theorem, the sphere theorem, Haken manifolds, torus decompositions, and Seifert fibered spaces. Time permitting, we may also touch on Dehn fillings and some relationships between 3 and 4-dimensional topology.
MATH 7590-2: 4-Manifolds.
Instructor: Prof. Baldridge.
Text: 4-Manifolds and Kirby Calculus by R. Gompf and A. Stipsicz
In this course we study smooth closed 4-manifolds. We will describe standard examples and study how to construct exotic 4-manifolds (manifolds that are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to a standard example). Along the way we will work with fundamental groups, symplectic 4-manifolds, and Seiberg-Witten invariants. This course should be interesting to students who want an overview of 4-manifold constructions and want to learn how to use advance techniques in topology, geometry, and global analysis to distinguish different smooth 4-manifolds.
In this course, we will focus on how to perform matrix computations efficiently and accurately. Depending on the time available, tentative topics include Gaussian elimination and its variants (including Cholesky decomposition, LU decomposition, etc.), QR decomposition, singular value decomposition, eigenvalue solvers and iterative methods for linear systems (including Gauss-Seidel iteration, SOR iteration, Conjugate Gradient method, etc.). Programming language is required and Matlab is recommended.


In this match we will have an opportunity to see a game between team from the middle of a tournament table and a the outsider (ranked 9 and 21).
Águilas is in poor shape (in the last 5 games wins – 0).
Recent matches Algar is playing uncertain (in the last 5 games wins – 1).
Águilas could have advantage in physics – more days for rest in last days.
Recently Águilas have a series of guest games.
In this match Águilas is certain favorite.


A birthday gift last year bestowed upon me a title, Laird of Glencoe – that vast, sweeping bloody Scottish valley of death which remains to this day, much like Belgravia, a McDonalds-free zone. As I studied the paperwork, folded neatly inside an A4 tartan paper file, I promised myself that one day I would lord it and stand proud over my very own square foot of peat-based turf.
I was therefore a tad disappointed to discover that the whole thing was a fraud. My kerchief of land is hidden deep inside a forest somewhere, utterly worthless, with no view. I can't even sell the bumper sticker, never mind the official fridge magnet.
As a city boy who grew up in the central belt of Scotland, kilts and haggis and whisky are but colourful whimsies to be toyed with on certain days of the year, rather than cultural totems to be fought over with passion. However, gripped momentarily by the lording-it bit, I decided to give it a go, if only for a weekend.
I was to have my own castle in the Highlands, a suitably large 15th century tower called Ackergill, overlooking the North Sea up near John O'Groats. By rights the place ought to be crumbling into the water by now, like several of its neighbours, the nearest being Castle Sinclair Girnigoe, a World Monuments Fund-listed pile of rubble (or perhaps Pile of Rubble), clearly visible as such from the pristine ramparts of my own temporary domain.
On arrival, I explored. I looked through the telescopes, bounced on the extra large bed and wandered around the centrally heated jumbo-scale bathroom. While surveying the crashing waves from my bedroom window, I sat at the handsome desk and composed a handwritten letter – on castle notepaper – to a loved one, a letter I really did mean to post. Honest.
Ackergill's previous owners rescued the structure from oblivion, but found that its grand, sweeping vistas were suited to weddings and car launches. These paid the bills, and so Ackergill stayed relatively secret, corporate bashes giving way every now and again to well heeled birthday weekends of shootin', fishin' and beach bonfires. The new proprietors like a bit of that too, but have lavished money on Ackergill's intimacy. So you can, when it's quiet, actually be King of the Castle, with your own staff, your own snooker room and your own highland hall – complete with stags' heads.
So let the games begin….
If you've just arrived from The City, or Dalston, or Paris, don't worry. There's a pair of wellies, a Barbour jacket and a hat (in your size) awaiting you on arrival, along with a dram of Old Pulteney, the whisky that smells of the sea because it's made just up the road in Wick. There's a room packed with Highland Dress for dinner (although there is no dress code) and all the fishing and shooting tackle you might want, plus library after library of endless books, satisfying those of us who prefer to chill out in front of a seaview clutching a leather bound copy of the Waverley novels, Proust, or Fifty Shades of Grey. Whatever.
You'll need most of your energy for climbing the stairs (disappointingly, the 15th century builders left no room for an elevator) especially if you're up top, scanning the North Sea for incoming Vikings. Actually, the view is usually so clear that you can make out oil rigs and windfarms on the horizon. Best to look outwards, really, because five storeys below is somewhat different: the vestiges of the ancient quayside, battered by centuries of winter tides and storms, are now of interest principally to stonemasons, archaeologists and conceptual artists.
The grounds run to several acres; of grass, where Highland cattle graze and bunnies hop about; of orchards, frequently shaken by the sound of exploding clay pigeons from the Duke of Thurso's estate next door (Ackergill has exclusive rights to lay waste to that part of the animal kingdom which resides there); and of coastline, where you can watch a man haul from the water, just a short distance offshore, the lobster that you may just be having for your tea. Oh, and of rivers, too, thick with salmon and sea trout.
Beyond the grounds are the wild flatlands of Caithness, which create that "Big Sky" you've so often dreamt of – a vista of heathland, peat bogs and moors cut by isolated roads that never get busy. The caravans that clog the famous Highland byways of Scotland every summer rarely make it this far north; you can, believe me, drive for miles and never see another living soul.
Of the quiet little towns and hamlets which shelter up here in Britain's most northerly tip, most are uniformly coloured in what Farrow & Ball might describe as "Thurso Grey", or, as the locals would have it, "dreich", a word so onomatopoeic it barely needs looking up. But for a moment of surrealism, walk through Thurso itself, to the harbour. There, framed between some fishing boats and a fleet of perfectly restored multi-hued VW camper vans, you'll find a displaced population of Californians and Hawaiians chasing world class surf, their taut, thermal rubber-clad bodies the subject of peering scrutiny by little old ladies, pausing while they take thair small dogs walkies.
By a country mile, the most bedraggled hamlet is John O'Groats, Land's End's opposite in charity walks. It isn't quite the UK's northernmost point – that's Dunnet Head, a few miles away, a windswept headland of grandeur and majesty. John O'Groats does have a signpost, one of those "Land's End 700 Miles, New York 3000" things, but you're unlikely to see it as it's owned by a local photographer who keeps the directional arms under lock and key and charges for pictures. He'll even charge you to take your own picture. It is unquestionably the world's most unwelcoming tourist attraction.
"The staff are dressed in a style best described as Murder Circus: equal parts waistcoats and straightjackets"
"Travellers ahead of the curve and alert to Instagram opportunities prefer the secret and unfamiliar. But I have rediscovered the Dordogne, and love it"
But as you make your way through the fresh air, usually under bright sunshine, cynically consigning all that is non-metropolitan to the waste basket marked "sooooo yesterday", there are moments of urbane pleasure to satisfy even the most dedicated urbanist. Scrabster, another exercise in onomatopoeia, is essentially just an industrial harbour for North Sea oil supply ships and a few fishing boats. It's also where one enterprising couple set up shop a few years back to offer fresh fish for the discerning. The Captain's Galley – whose owner/chef strolls over the road each morning to select his ingredients off the boats – is the kind of place which draws people from miles around to guzzle lobster in the car park, or to savour an amuse-bouche of langoustine so fresh they're barely dead, simply flashed under a grill and spiked with chilli and lime.
The late Queen Mother – whose second home up here, the Castle of Mey, still draws the tourists – has left a legacy of wholesome, disparate foodstuffs under the label "Mey Selections", which Prince Charles, through his North Highland Initiative, wishes to turn into another Duchy of Cornwall quality branding exercise for highland beef, marsh lamb, biscuits, butter and honey, all coming soon to a supermarket near you.
Mention of local food brings us neatly back to dinner at Ackergill. The archetypal castle in the Highlands may be a grandiloquent construct of historic fortitude and strength, but that has often just been tourist board fodder, and in turn that has meant a distinct absence of quality dining. At Ackergill, they've decided that the menu reigns. Food is sourced not just locally, but outside the windows, and is prepared with flair and imagination – with no foams or quirky imports from Soho's passing fancies. The young chef was trained a few miles down the road, and his steak with braised beef cheek was so perfect I assumed it was sous-vide. He was horrified. "Rest it as long as it's cooked," he sternly lectured me afterwards. The accompanying wine, a big gloriously youthful McLaren Vale Shiraz (they don't make wine locally) ripe with booming dark fruit, was splashed out by the glass with gay abandon.


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The BA (Hons) Fashion Marketing Management at Cardiff Met is a unique blend of fashion, marketing and management for individuals who want to pursue a career in the vibrant global fashion industry. This course will give you an overall view of how the fashion industry works, with an exciting combination of academic theory and real world industry immersion – preparing you for a range of potential careers within fashion business.
You will have creative collaborations with the BA (Hons) Fashion Design students to maximise your fashion exposure, inspiring your creativity and strategic thinking by understanding the process of design from sketch to shop floor. You will gain insights into the needs and desires of fashion consumers, understand the importance of strategic brand management in fashion and the international scope of fashion marketing in an evolving multi-channel landscape.
You will explore the 'style press' and future colours and trends and will discover the art of effectively communicating with a variety of fashion customers using both creative digital skills and traditional methods. You will use industry standard software equipping you with visual skills, alongside developing verbal and written communication skills.
In an increasingly globalised market, fashion brand and marketing managers require a strong knowledge base and understanding of international market structures, culture, market entry modes and brand strategy. The fashion marketing management programme at Cardiff Met focuses on internationally relevant projects and offers the opportunity to travel for study trips or exchange visits.
The course lecturers have both academic knowledge and industry experience to develop the skills you need to become highly employable fashion marketing graduates. You will enter a 'think tank' of fashion marketing, putting your knowledge and skills into practice during your assessments and work placement opportunities. An optional work placement year between your second and final year enhances employability and exposes students to valuable experience and networking opportunities within the industry.
This Fashion Marketing Management degree focuses on developing your personal and professional skills and awareness, developing highly creative and analytical graduates capable of adapting to an ever evolving fashion industry. Upon graduating, you will have a wide base of fashion, marketing and management knowledge – with transferrable skills relevant to many roles within the fashion industry.
The course integrates 'real world' experience into our teaching practices to enable a clear understanding of the Fashion Buying and Brand Management process. Assignments are based on industry examples and there are also guest lecturers from practitioners from companies.
You will also be given the option of taking a language as an extracurricular activity and to study abroad for a semester to broaden your experience and skills; all an advantage in achieving success in Fashion Buying or Brand Management career.
In year two there you will be supported to find a relevant and useful fashion related work placement. The work placement provides the experience of putting the theory into practice and observing how the theory is used in an organisation, first-hand. This has been very well received by employers and will give you an advantage when applying for jobs after graduation.
A student-centred approach to learning and teaching is encouraged through the use of specific teaching strategies, case studies, projects, tutorials, practical exercises, supplemented by the use of appropriate support materials, lectures from business experts, brands, videos and computer software. Active engagement with the subject material enhances learning and many of the learning strategies used attempt to promote this.
A key component of the learning experience is the intention to invite business experts, academic and in practice, to provide insights into their research work or business activity. Such experts might be invited as guest speakers or requested to provide a more interactive workshop experience where appropriate.
Cardiff Met Fashion Marketing students will stand out for their ability to apply theoretical knowledge in a practical environment. During this course you will develop the key skills and understanding required to be a fashion marketer. On successful completion of the course you will have the skills to gain a position in fashion marketing, putting your skills to use in positions in advertising, PR, buying and merchandising, digital marketing and e-commerce, fashion writing, marketing and consumer research, sales and brand development, product management, user experience design, public relations, and business management.
This course has been designed in conjunction with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), in order to provide you with an opportunity to gain exemptions from both the CIM Certificate in Professional Marketing and Diploma in Professional Marketing. You will also be able to join the our newly created CIM student chapter which encourages all students to engage in our marketing learning community through organising organise key speakers and managing marketing-focused events. Incorporate dynamic speakers and helpful networking events will enhance your learning experience.
Finally, you will be able to engaging in entrepreneurial activities such as entering the CIM Pitch and competitions through the Brisitsh Fashion Council. The option of including a year of experience in industry in year three has been included to allow you to complete the degree with a level of practical experience. This option of practical experience can be incorporated in the three-year degree course undertaking practical work in industry during term time or in holiday breaks during the course.
Five GCSE passes including English Language and Mathematics* at grade C or above (grade 4 or above for applicants holding newly reformed GCSEs in England), plus 96-112 points from at least two A levels (or equivalent).
If you are studying combinations of the above, or if your qualification isn't listed, please either contact Admissions or refer to the UCAS Course Search for entry requirements. Further information on our entry requirements, including qualifications from the EU can be found by clicking here.
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Q: Measuring Discharge Rate of LiPo battery I am attempting to change the temperature that a 3.7v rechargeable LiPo Battery is discharged in and am seeing how this affects the capacity and discharge rate of the battery. My setup currently uses an Ammeter and Voltmeter to log the data over time. However, from my research, I have found that I must use a constant Power load or a constant current load for this setup. Since I do not have access to these, is there no way that I can find a discharge rate with what I have?
If not, what can I find out/compare at different temperatures with the data provided?

A: What you need is a "constant current sink".  It's a fairly straightforward circuit to build out of a transistor, an op-amp, and a couple of resistors:
https://circuitdigest.com/electronic-circuits/voltage-controlled-current-source-circuit-using-op-amp
https://circuitdigest.com/electronic-circuits/design-a-simple-constant-current-sink-circuit-using-op-amp
Good luck.

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It's been quiet around here, and a lot of that is due to life with a toddler (you mamas that blog and mom are so impressive!), but a lot of that is also because we have officially moved! Virginia has been our home for 4 years, but as of this month, we are Texas residents once more!
We bought our very first home in Virginia, and while every place we have lived is sentimental for one reason or another, this place is loaded with memories and nostalgia, and we were so sad to leave. We brought our son home to this house. We conquered our first deployment in this house. We just love this house.
Here we are in June 2015 when we bought the house!
I always like to do house tours on the blog after we leave, and thankfully I have a lot of pictures of this house since we just sold it! I wish I had pictures to share when it was a little more decorated, but we took down a lot of pictures/personal decorations before we listed it for sale.
The front of the house is Aggie maroon, which was totally coincidental, but we loved that!
The downstairs was basically all one room with the exception of a small bathroom. It was very open concept and made for a great entertaining space.
We really loved the layout of the upstairs because all four bedrooms were upstairs, and the laundry room was upstairs too. Having our bedroom just across the hall from the nursery was very convenient, especially in those early days where I was up 4 times a night!
That's our Virginia home! The memories we made inside these walls will last a lifetime. The time we spent going on walks around the neighborhood, swimming in the neighborhood pool, and hanging out in the cul de sac with our neighbors was our favorite. I don't know if we will ever love a home and neighborhood as much as we did this one, but I sure am grateful we got to live there while we did!
Here we are on our last day of living in this home! Preston and I boarded a plane for Texas immediately after this picture was taken, and Parker and Jenny joined us a few days later!


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For funders
Grants to Individuals Investing in People and Their Communities
By Paul VanDeCarr
Aiming to have a broad effect on organizations or communities, some grantmakers choose to fund individuals. It's true that grants to individuals make special demands on foundations, both legally and administratively, but sometimes they're the only way to achieve an important objective.
In this guide, grantmakers talk about the rigors and rewards of investing in people. Learn how to design and manage a grants-to-individuals program, including developing a theory of change, using the right funding mechanism, and finding the right people to support.
Five funders, five programs, five theories
From purpose to program: theories of change
Grants to individuals and the law
Supporting Individuals: Five Examples: Five funders, five programs, five theories about how individuals affect the wider world and what foundations can do to offer support. Each short profile describes the reasoning behind a funder's decision to make grants to individuals, the program itself, and a few words of advice. (A chart on page 7 includes snapshots of even more programs.) The lesson here: grants to individuals entail a few extra steps, but many grantmakers believe they're worthwhile.
Designing a Grants-to- Individuals Program: There are decisions to be made about purpose, costs, selection criteria, extra features, and management and funding mechanisms. For private foundations, detailed planning is an absolute necessity, since many grants-to-individuals programs need to be approved in advance by the IRS. Careful mapping is important for any funder, grantmakers said, as is the need for good legal advice.
Managing the Program: Grantee Selection and Beyond: A lot of work goes into choosing the right grantees and supporting them in ways that make the people, their work, and the program itself as effective as possible. Experienced grantmakers offer suggestions for managing major activities, handling tensions and tradeoffs, and fine-tuning program components.
Evaluating Impact on People and Communities: Individual grantees are often asked to report on their progress or demonstrate their accomplishments. But how does a funder quantify the accomplishments of the program itself? In this section, grantmakers talk about what can and can't be evaluated — and even hazard some views about why evaluation might not be worth the time and trouble.
Paul VanDeCarr
Link to Funding Community Organizing
Funding Community Organizing Social Change Through Civic Participation
Link to How Community Philanthropy Shifts Power
How Community Philanthropy Shifts Power What Donors Can Do to Help Make That Happen
Link to Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2015
Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2015
Link to Financiando a Organização de Comunidades
Financiando a Organização de Comunidades A mudança social por meio da participação cidadã
Link to Frameworks for Private Foundations
Frameworks for Private Foundations A New Model for Impact
Funding Community Organizing Discussion Guide for Thoughtful Funder Reflection
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Anchored in Place: How Funders Are Helping Anchor Institutions Strengthen Local Economies
What Grantees Wish Grantmakers Knew about Providing Funding to Individuals
The application. GranteeA microbiologist expressed concern that "many of our students are turning away from research because they see their professors spending so much time on grant applications." An accomplished artist described her life as "deadline-driven" and wished aloud that she could "build an organization around myself" to manage the administrative aspects of art-making. s said that applications should be concise, have a reasonable time frame, and not involve too much busy work.
From Purpose to Program Six Theories of Change
Here's a quick look at how six funders started with a purpose they wanted to accomplish, articulated a theory of change, and ended up with a program model for making grants to individuals. The names are changed, but the descriptions are based on real programs.
Evaluating Impact on People and Communities
"You get a much richer perspective from an individual. They're not often asked to reflect on what they're doing and why they're doing what they're doing. It curiously gets to mission better than an organizational grant."...
Program Learning and Fine-Tuning
Midcourse corrections can make a program more responsive or efficient. In deciding what to change, grantmakers rely on information from grantee surveys and reports, evaluation or analysis of the field, or attention to grantees' success and their own internal operations:
Providing Individuals More Than Money
Time disbursement.
Understanding Needs of Grantees
Do grantees always know what they need? Yes and no, contributors said.
Promoting Racial and Gender Equality in the Selection Process
Place people who represent the "diversity we are seeking and who have a consciousness and awareness of the importance of diversity" in visible positions of authority — specifically, on the advisory group and selection panels, as well as on the foundation's staff and board of directors."
Grantee Selection: Decision Making
Create a standardized assessment system. A standardized system to assess and rank applicants can help make the selection process objective and nondiscriminatory. It ensures that the same criteria are used by all readers and across stages of the application process.
Grantee Selection: Recruitment & Application
Selecting individuals can be difficult logistically, for two reasons.
The Fine Print: Grants to Individuals and the Law
Private foundations are allowed under the Internal Revenue Service Code (Section 4945, Regulation 53.4945-4) to make three types of grants to individuals:

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This tool will allow you to batch convert your addons and easily use WPI instead of nLite to install them along with Windows. It was meant for unattended use and you only need to mention the folder where the nLite addons are placed and the folder where WPI is located when launching the tool from the command prompt or a script.
addons2wpi is freeware open source and everyone is welcome to use and share as needed.
More features will surely be added upon request.
It will look specifically for CAB/7Zip/RAR/ZIP files inside the addons folder and respective subfolders.
All entries are placed inside the WPIScripts folder and will overwrite config.js with the new entries - please backup this file if you wish to keep your customized settings.
My experience with nLite and WPI is still very recent, if something needs to be corrected please mention any details that need attention and I will work to solve them.
If your path contains any spaces like for example: My Documents - you need to use "" as this format: "My Documents" so that windows can properly recognize these spaces in the path name.
The source code for this program can be downloaded here.


· Uummarmiut meaning "people of the evergreens and willows" is spoken in the tree-lined inland communities of Aklavik and Inuvik.
· Siglit (its meaning is debated) is spoken in the coastal communities of Tuktoyaktuk, Paulatuk and Sachs Harbour.
· Kangiryuarmiut meaning "people of the large bay" is spoken in the community of Ulukhaktok (Holman) on Victoria Island. However, the people of Ulukhaktok (Holman) prefer to call their dialect Inuinnaqtun due to their strong ties with the people of the Central Arctic.
Nonetheless, I have tried to learn a few words. There are classes provided at the community centre (the Midnight Sun Complex) in the dialect that is spoken in Inuvik, Uummarmuit. I haven't joined any classes yet, but I was able to go into the classroom and take pictures of some of the posters on the walls.
Months of the year, and days of the week.
Useful words for traditional activities!
Our national anthem (O Canada).
With the help of some colleagues, I can now say, and hopefully pronounce correctly, uvlaami (ublaami in some dialects) which means good morning or good day, quyanainni which means thank you, ii means yes, naagaa means no, and qanuqitpit means how are you.


Spain may be facing significant economic and political challenges these days, but Barcelona's city-building remains one of the best models in the world. It reminds us how smart the fundamentals are when it comes to making great cities.
1. Don't think like a city planner, architect or engineer. Think like a citizen.
For Barcelona's architects, city-building is as much about the public realm, of "civitas" or the public life well lived, as it is about buildings. With a more holistic view of disciplines, planners live less in silos, and their results show it. This might stem from the continued reverence for Ildefons Cerdà, who certainly wasn't limited by his civil engineering training. Cerdà functioned as city planner, architect, even health specialist - in other words, as a holistic city-builder. At a time when silo thinking still seeks to break down urban thinking into disciplines and specialties across North America, Cerdà's and Barcelona's holistic approach is something we should all aspire to.
2. Architects, quit complaining about rules!
Barcelona's Passeig de Gracia boulevard, like other beautiful streets that regulate their height, street width and other pattern-makers (Paris' Avenue des Champs-Elysees), strong powerful patterns still allow for great architectural beauty and nuance.
The easiest example is Gaudi's La Pedrera, which acts as a "typical" chamfered corner building (required 45 degree oblique cuts, which marvelously make every intersection a versatile, open, breathable "plaza" of sorts) within Cerdà's brilliant block plan - and yet there's nothing typical about Gaudi's design.
3. Make walking (and biking) irresistible.
Like most European cities, trains and transit have been mainstays in Barcelona, with long-running systems expanded whenever there's a good excuse, like the Olympics. However they aren't the only basket for mobility eggs.
Urban biking is growing fast in Barcelona, spurred on by the locals-only bikeshare system, and very simple bike-lane approaches (some separated, some not) to improve bike safety. When the city has incorporated separated bike-lanes, it's taken from the 50 percent that's for the rest of traffic, not from the walking half.
Walking through the Gothic Quarter, one can't help but think of everything we see in terms of scale. The tight streets and alleys with high, enclosing building heights that, combined with the street widths, create an excellent "urban room," would be illegal almost everywhere in North America. We've scaled our cities for cars and trucks.
At the same time, the city's main streets can be very wide. Beautiful street-scaping and mature trees define "sub-areas" of the street and create a sense of scale, and the consistent building scale within and across blocks still works to enclose the "urban room." The street doesn't feel wide or have any of the usual weaknesses of wide streets.
5. Tall buildings aren't evil - but don't put them just anywhere.
Barcelona is generally a mid-rise city. A key part of Cerdà's plan was a consistent scale of seven to nine stories throughout the pattern. Despite this, the city has embraced strategically located towers in recent decades. My favorite example is Jean Nouvel's Torre Agbar, beautifully terminating many views across the city on the Diagonal.
Many European cities continue to debate height restrictions, with London's Shard being a recent attention-grabber. For me, Barcelona shows the important question isn't if, but where. Putting taller buildings in locations that "do no damage" to the prevailing pattern, and terminate a view or help mark our way-finding "mental map" can add value.
The key is to pick the smart locations for height, and to demand a beautiful building and public realm interface. Don't let a starchitect or flashy design dazzle you into putting tall buildings in the wrong places.
Like any city, Barcelona isn't perfect. In recent years I've worried they've forgotten many of their own lessons around pattern and people-focused urban design. Some public spaces seem designed for architectural magazines, and are empty of people. Many recent buildings seem like flashy objects in space, with unsuccessful scale and dead spaces surrounding them.
A prime example is the ironic location of the Smart City Congress itself - an essentially suburban environment (although better than average, if you grade it by a suburban standard) with a convention centre, hotel towers, a massive Ikea, and residential tower blocks. Although underground parking and wide sidewalks help make it more walkable than those uses might suggest, it's still big buildings with wide, often cold spaces in between.
Want a quick and easy way to lose weight? Find a walkable place to live.The average resident of a walkable neighborhood weighs 2-4 kilos less than someone who lives in a sprawling neighborhood. Neighborhoods with poor walkabilityare barriers to physical activity, while research shows people walk more if living in a walkable neighborhood.
A Journal of the American College of Cardiology study found that exercise before a meal may help stem the effects of high-fat foods on blood vessel function. Walking is good for the heartand its arteries and vessels in many ways, including stemming build-up and clogging of arterial walls. Unclogged vessels and arteries keep blood circulating throughout the body, to organs and limbs.
Cities' neighbourhoods have long been ranked, like Hollywood stars, according to their beauty and magnetic personalities.
But cities are now being increasingly divided into healthy and sick zones. If you live in downtown Geneva or Paris, where the tree canopy is lush and you can easily walk to an organic café or a yoga class, you belong to a privileged class not only because of the real estate values in your neighbourhood but because you're likely to have a higher life expectancy.
This is the new crisis of cities: Badly designed neighbourhoods are literally sapping people of their ability to live fully.
If, as a newly arrived immigrant, poverty has driven you to the inner or outer suburbs, where you live in a basement apartment or high above the concrete ground in a residential tower, you are far more likely to suffer from type 2 diabetes and its related consequences such as blindness and amputation. Most of Canada's growth comes from immigrants, but the troubling fact is that Hispanics, blacks and South Asians are genetically predisposed to diabetes. Because of the compounding of these forces, you and your neighbours can expect a lower life expectancy.
A poor diet, high in saturated fat and low on fruits and vegetables, causes excess weight. Once obesity sets in, especially if it develops at a young age, type 2 diabetes usually follows. A sedentary lifestyle fuels the problem. That's why some medical researchers and health offices are joining forces with urban planners to design neighbourhoods that are more conducive to activity. Healthy eating combined with increases in physical exercise - walking with the kids to school or biking to the cinema - would help to mitigate the rise in the prevalence of obesity over the last two decades. They say that we need to embrace the Danish model of urban wellness, or suffer a health disaster.
"Diabetes is extremely costly to manage. It places a huge burden on individuals and on the health-care system," said Gillian Booth, a lead author of the Diabetes Atlas created by St. Michael's Hospital's Centre for Research on Inner City Health and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.
The first Canadian study of its kind, published in 2007, the Atlas investigated 140 Toronto neighbourhoods over three years to examine the role of several factors - including community design, population density, access to healthy and unhealthy food - on the diabetes epidemic. Poverty and ethnicity were found to be key in the development of type 2 diabetes. The researchers also concluded that walking and transit times to recreation facilities in the city's outlying neighbourhoods were as long as 40 minutes and 20 minutes, respectively, each way. It takes only 30 minutes of walking or moderate exercise, combined with a healthy diet, to cut the risk of diabetes in half. But a walk through a bleak or potentially dangerous neighbourhood is hardly inspiring, especially if the only nearby landmark is a highway.
"Among all the people being admitted for heart attack or stroke, one-third have diabetes. Two-thirds of all amputations that are caused not from trauma occur in people with diabetes," Dr. Booth said. "Clearly, we need to start thinking about prevention."
We used to call them ugly, but now social geographers and medical practitioners label the disconnected sections of the city "obesogenic," meaning environments that promote obesity.


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Dress shirt has bold checkerboard pattern and contrasting, solid color cuff/collar. Beautiful tie and matching handkerchief/hanky.


your present prescription. I keep mine in the health file in my own filing cabinet. If you can't find your prescription, visit wherever you earlier had your sight examined and obtain a duplicate. Your optician, optometrist, or ophthalmologist is necessary by law to release your eyewear prescription to you. You now need to make note of a few critical pieces of information from your prescription (see example above–click to enlarge). Among other information, you should see three columns on your prescription–sphere, cylinder, and axis.
A relatively less critical quantity is your temple period. If you're blessed, you'll also see a temple size and bridge size in your prescription. If not, don't sweating it, you can shape it out yourself. The temple size describes the distance of both bars that connect the glasses to your ears. It really is measured from where in fact the 90-degree curve from your lens structure aside bars (temples) begins to the end of the temple, like the curve. It isn't assessed from the flex point of the temples, because the "stub" between the flex point and lens structure is not a standard size.
Now, take out some measuring tape (preferably the kind of tape used for fitting clothes and sewing, as it is very flexible) and measure an existing couple of spectacles that fit pleasantly. An average temple size for men is 135mm or 145mm. For girls, 130mm to 140mm is standard. When your tape only has ins, measure to the nearest eighth or sixteenth and multiply that number by 25.4 to find the way of measuring in millimeters. Temple lengths are usually available in 5mm increments, such as 130, 135, 140, 145, etc. For the most part online eye glasses stores, temple length is shown within the frame description and is also not customizable. Therefore, you will need to find a frame with a proper temple size. This sometimes varies if you are at a site specializing in designer eyeglasses, where you have the choice to source your own temple size.
Actually, temple size is not a huge deal. I've one pair of eyeglasses with 135mm temples and another with 140mm temples. Both pairs fit pleasantly. If for reasons uknown you can't think of a temple measurement, don't allow that stop you from making an eyewear purchase online. Instead, simply choose 140mm temples if you are a guy and 135mm temples if you are a woman. Chances are, this period will fit easily.


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Details About Democratic US Senator Raphael Warnock's Children And His Win in Georgia Run-off Election
Where was Adriana Davidson last seen? The body of a missing Michigan teenager was discovered close to her high school.
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Democratic US Senator Raphael Warnock in a crucial run-off election in the US state of Georgia defeated Trump challenger Herschel Walker on Tuesday. Warnock in his speech told jubilant supporters-
"After a hard-fought campaign – or should I say campaigns – it is my honour to utter the four most powerful words ever spoken in a democracy: The people have spoken,"
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Warnock, the first black senator of his state declared-"I often say that a vote is a kind of prayer for the world we desire for ourselves and for our children," Georgia, you have been praying with your lips and your legs, your hands and your feet, your heads and your hearts. You have put in the hard work, and here we are standing together".
Whereas the former football star, Herschel Walker after his defeat said he was never going to stop fighting for Georgia. The 60-year-old Republican challenger said to his supporters-
"There are no excuses in life and I am not going to make any excuses now because we put up one heck of a fight," However the reason for Walker's defeat was supposed to be repeated blooper and accusations made by his former girlfriends.
Everything You Want to Know About Raphael Warnock
Democratic Senator Raphael G. Warnock has risen as one of the most power-pact voices in the Democratic party. The powerful leader was born in Savannah and is currently 60 years old. Warnock with his 11 siblings grew up in Public housing. He was the first in his family to attend college as the financial condition of the family is not good enough to fulfil even the basic requirements of life. His mother had worked as a tenant farmer to fulfil the needs of her family and his father served in the US army in world war II.
Warnock received his Psychology degree from Morehouse College and earned a doctorate from the Union Theological Seminary in New York by which he get leadership positions at prominent Black churches. Savannah's city government renamed Cape street, the street where Warnock grew up to Raphael Warnock way in October 2022 to honour him.
Inside Details of Raphael Warnock's Children, Wife and Family
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The American politician and pastor were married to Ouleye Ndoye on February 14, 2016, in a public ceremony. They together have two children named, Chloe and Caleb. Not much is known about their children. Ndoye his Ex-wife, in February 2022 filed to modify their child custody agreement granting to increase in the payments of child support so she can complete a Harvard University program. The couple, however, was separated in 2019 and finalized the divorce in 2020.
Warnock's wife Ndoye once accused him of running over her foot with his car during a heated argument which Warnock denied. The Atlanta police department did not charge Warnock regarding the incident as there were no signs of broken bones, swelling, redness or any injury on Ndoye's foot.
Net Worth of Raphael Warnock
According to the data collected from celebrity net worth Raphael Warnock's net worth is estimated to be $ 800000. The Democratic Senator owns a house in Atlanta which is worth over $ 1 million as per the Atlanta- Journal-Constitution. His salary from the church is worth $ 89000 for housing benefits.
Read Also: Jesse Watters Announces Wife's Pregnancy News Live On Air: All About His Married Life
In this article:Herschel Walker,Net Worth of Raphael Warnock,Raphael Warnock Biography,Raphael Warnock's Children,Raphael Warnock's Win in Georgia Run-off Election


Merrillville Community Schools security chief Brad Best speaks about measures taken to address potential security situations in August file photo. A bill in the legislature would allow school districts to offer voters a referendum to pay for security.
A new proposal in the Indiana legislature would set up a new school safety referendum giving schools the option to ask local taxpayers to help foot the bill for security costs.
The idea would be to establish a third category for school property tax referendums.
The proposed bill would allow schools to levy up to $.05 per $100 valuation for up to 10 years, rather than 7 or 8 years in existing referendums. A state agency estimates it could raise up to $150 million statewide, based on 2018 assessed property values.
Lake County levy estimates range from nearly $80,000 for River Forest to about $2 million for Lake Central.
Porter County levy estimates range from $120,000 for Boone Township to $1.1 million for Valparaiso Community Schools and $1.3 million for Duneland.
If a school district would pass such a referendum, the money would be used to pay for expenses many have now as they beef up security.
Those include: partial school resource officer salaries, a school safety office, threat assessments, creating a safety plan, emergency response systems, equipment, building upgrades; programs for mental illnesses, addiction, anger management, bullying or school violence; school safety professional development, and paying off debt incurred for safety improvements.
However, a school district would also forfeit an annual state safety grant; many local schools received about $50,000 last year from the fund. Across Indiana, schools got about $14 million last year under the program.
"Schools are looking at some pretty hefty expenses" with securing buildings and adding school cops, said Sen. Travis Holdman, R-Markle, the bill's sponsor.
Currently, Indiana school districts can put two types of property tax hikes on the ballot — one to raise money for the budget known as an operating referendum, and a second for construction and/or building fixes, known as a capital referendum.
Holdman said limiting a third referendum for only school safety might be a stronger selling point they can make to local taxpayers to get additional money. The referendum would be optional, he said.
Under Republican leadership, Indiana has amassed a $1.8 billion reserve fund, but GOP leaders say significantly drawing that down would be fiscally irresponsible and isn't an option they would consider for education costs.
The bill would be held for a few weeks for tinkering before it goes to a first hearing in committee, he said.
Holdman's proposal was drawn up after consulting with groups including the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, Indiana State Police, Gov. Eric Holcomb's office, superintendent and school board associations, he said.
Local Northwest Indiana schools leaders, however; were skeptical of the plan.
As one of Northwest Indiana's more affluent school districts, Munster had been able to make the case to voters for a tax hike three times since 2013.
Two successful referendums were passed in 2017 - for budget expenses and repairs - a few years after it was rocked by a financial scandal where two former administrators were accused of getting overpaid $840,000 mostly through their retirement annuities.
The district was also dealing with a $8 million deficit which it has since closed last year, officials said.
For a potential new type of referendum, the details on how the money could be spent matter, Munster Superintendent Jeff Hendrix said via email.
"Why doesn't our state government go ahead and budget and appropriate new monies to support school safety measures and programs for all school in Indiana? That would be more effective and efficient," he said.
Highland police, town officials and school leaders gathered in Auguest for an exercise to discuss school safety.
If it has to go to a public vote, Merrillville Superintendent Nick Brown said the proposal would mean richer school districts - whose taxpayers would more readily agree to raise property taxes - would have the advantage.
"I think setting up in this way is probably something I wouldn't prefer," Brown said.
A better proposal to offset a lot of these costs would be a more equal system of funding from the state based on student population, he said.
Lake Ridge Business Manager Laura Hubinger agreed with Brown's assessment.
In November, Calumet Township voters rejected two school votes totaling $66 million for the budget and building repairs. Part of those plans included safety upgrades, she said.
After the two failed November referendums, Lake Ridge is now drawing up cuts.
"I will be cutting security, I will be cutting teachers," she said.


Last year, Night Shade Books unleashed The Book of Cthulhu onto an unsuspecting world. Critically acclaimed as "the ultimate Cthulhu anthology" and "a 'must read' for fans of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos," The Book of Cthulhu went where no collection of mythos tales had gone before: to the very edge of madness… and beyond.
For nearly a century, H. P. Lovecraft's tales of malevolent Great Old Ones existing beyond the dimensions of this world, beyond the borders of sanity, have captured and held the imaginations of writers and aficionados of the dark, the macabre, the fantastic, and the horrible. Now, because you demanded more, anthologist Ross E. Lockhart has risked all to dive back into the Cthulhu canon, combing through mind-shattering manuscripts and moldering tomes to bring you The Book of Cthulhu II, with even more tales of tentacles, terror, and madness.
Featuring monstrous stories by many of weird fiction's brightest lights, The Book of Cthulhu II brings you twenty-four more tales inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's greatest creation: The Cthulhu Mythos.


Just got back from bass pro and they talked me into buying 8.1 gpi arrows . My arrows are 28 inches and I'm shooting 56#. Is this a good weight for whitetails or should i have gone heavier?
I shoot GT VPRO 28 in they are 7.4 gr so you should be ok for deer i have had great results with these arrows.
should be fine. hit them right and no worries.
personally, i shoot carbon express 400. i like the extra wt and stiffness/strength. they are tough.
I'm sure your fine but Kinetic Energy is what matters most. I hear different opinions on how much energy you need down range for deer, but generally I've heard any where from 30+, I'd say more is better. You can figure Kinetic Energy, but here's a link that will do it for you! http://www.dewclawarchery.com/Kinetic_Engery_Calculator-a/157.htm You'll need to figure your total arrow weight including fletching, nocks, and broadheads. You'll also need to know your arrow speed, which most pro-shops will have a chronograph if you need....... Again, I agree with the others that your probably much higher than what you need............ Good Luck.
Thank you guys, will stay with these this season and report what happens!
May be a bit heavy for only 56#, but they'll work fine, bluegill. Practice with them as much as you can before trying 'em on a deer so you'll know how they act.
You should be fine. What is the stiffness of the arrow? I'm going to assume that your draw length is at most a 27" draw since your arrows are 28", you should be shooting no stiffer then a 400 for spine stiffness. A 340 or smaller spine stiffness is too much for that draw length and weight. your arrow with a 100 grain broadhead should be close to 327 grains. That is plenty for shooting deer.
God is my solid rock in which I lean on.
With bare shaft you have 226.8 grs of arrow weight and for the poundage that you are shooting which is 56 lbs, your arrow should weigh at least 280 grs. Now when you add the weight of your insert, broadhead, feathers and nock you should be well in over the weight need for your setup.
arrow weight = 226.8 grs.
feathers or vanes 12 grs.
total arrow weight = 363.8 grs and all you needed to safely shoot the bow is 280 grs.
If you knew how fast your bow was shooting I could give you the KE of you bow, but from what I am seeing your setup is plenty good for deer hunting.
Yeah... what everyone else said.
BassPro, and Cabela's, are usually trustworthy places to have your bows set up and buy arrows, etc. They are such high-visibility shops that they tend to ensure their people are qualified, unlike some local shops that throw anyone who can speak the language some into working on their bows.


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HomeOur ValuesImpact Stories
We are often asked what impact we are having in Native communities. We can provide statistics, reports and formal findings, of course, but sometimes the words of our grantees speak loudest. Here are some of their stories taken from our Indian Giver newsletter.
Native Youth Business Plan Competition Fosters Culture, Opens Doors
For Victor Corpuz (Laguna), presenting a business plan before a gathering of Native business leaders and entrepreneurs provided not only a skills-building exercise, but an opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the ingenuity of Native people. This article recaps Victor's experience and showcases this inspiring event.
Guided to Learn, Inspired to Thrive
With support from First Nations' 2021 Gather Food Sovereignty Grant, the O Makuʻu Ke Kahua Community Center is hosting a new curriculum of workshops designed to help community members invest in their own food systems, feed their families, and thrive through challenges.
Tribal Retreat Provides Creative Space for Oceti Sakowin Writers
This year, the Oak Lake Writers' Society annual Tribal Writing Retreat shifted to a virtual format, welcoming even more Oceti Sakowin writers and expanding the reach of this first-of-its-kind writers' platform.
The Code to Better Health
In the past year, with funding coming in part through First Nations' Fertile Ground Advocacy Campaign, Tribal Nations Research Group has been able to invest in food policy to improve the local food systems and food economy of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa community.
Bringing Fresh Foods to Zuni
After multiple stops and starts, a construction-slowing pandemic, and new funding and partnerships, Major Market is boosting capacity to deliver quality food.
Checking in with the Sicangu Lakota Oyate
Rosebud Economic Development Corporation has grown their food system from a barren garden on a hill into an award-winning vision that is a prototype for communities nationwide.
Connecting the Birth World to the Earth World
Roberta Eaglehorse-Ortiz is finding support for growth through First Nations' Native Fundraisers Community of Practice.
Lakota Artists Boost Economy, Community & Cultural Traditions on Pine Ridge
For the Pine Ridge Area Chamber of Commerce, the goal is to bolster the local economy and improve the quality of life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. This past summer, with the help of funding from First Nations Development Institute, the chamber discovered the powerful role art can play in this economic development, while bringing people together and keeping Lakota traditions alive.
Social Value, Greater Healing: Art for the Upper Sioux
When the Upper Sioux Community in Granite Falls, Minnesota, sought funding from First Nations through the Native Arts Initiative, its goal was clear: increase access, awareness and inter-generational transfer of Dakota arts. Throughout its year-long arts project, the organization met its objective. And in doing so, it showed how the arts can unite people, strengthen community and foster healing.
Passing Down Art and History at the Tulalip Tribes
Generations ago, art was everywhere in the Tulalip culture, represented in its tools, clothing, food and ceremony. After years of outside stressors chipping away at the tribes' artistic soul, the Hibulb Cultural Center is working to bring art back. Since 2011, the center has invested in culturally-significant educational programming. And now with funding from First Nations' Native Arts Initiative, it is bolstering its classes, reaching more people and fostering even more pride in the craftsmanship and elegance of Tulalip art.
Akwesasne Project Benefits Hungry Kids
The Akwesasne Boys & Girls Club has been dedicated to the youth of its community since 2001. It provides many services through after-school programming. One service it is committed to is its food and nutrition program. The "Iawekon Nutrition for Kids" program received support from First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) under its "Nourishing Native Children: Feeding Our Future" Project that was generously supported by the Walmart Foundation.
Bishop Paiute Tribe Expands Nutrition Education
The Bishop Paiute Tribe's Food Sovereignty Program has been working to expand its garden-based nutrition education projects to encourage healthy food and lifestyle choices. With funding provided by First Nations Development Institute and the Walmart Foundation, the program greatly expanded its community outreach … to both children and parents.
Boys With Braids & REDCO Make a Healthy Foods Connection
One of First Nations Development Institute's grantees under its recent "Nutrition Education for Native American Communities" grant program is the Rosebud Economic Development Corporation (REDCO), a tribally-chartered corporation of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. REDCO's Community Food Sovereignty Initiative received the funding from First Nations as part of First Nations' Nourishing Native Foods and Health program area. The nutrition education program was generously supported by the Walmart Foundation.
California Native Youth Share Legacy, Build Knowledge
In Santa Rosa, California, Indian culture is being cultivated and shared, thanks to the business savvy of a new generation, and a project with the motto "Selling education and creating opportunity." Teens at the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center are taking part in Tribal Ambassadors Through Business, an initiative that teaches young people business skills through both online courses and the opportunity to open and run a museum store, showcasing and selling Native arts and crafts.
Cochiti's Return to Native Foods Brings Better Health & Economy
In Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico, young people are returning to farming and reigniting a passion for their Pueblo ancestry. Thanks to the Cochiti Youth Experience, they are embracing quality food and what it means to their culture, sustainability and future.
CRITFC Buoys Tribal Fishers & Columbia River Salmon Culture
A resource for fishers and a respect for salmon have been at the heart of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) in Portland, Oregon, for close to 40 years. Formed by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and the Nez Perce Tribe, CRITFC provides a unified voice in managing fishery resources and exercising the inherent sovereign powers of the tribes.
First Nations Reaches Northernmost Alaska by way of Iḷisaġvik College
Barrow, Alaska, is a very long way from Longmont, Colorado, where First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) is headquartered. Nonetheless, one of First Nations' grant programs is having a positive effect in the northernmost point of Alaska.
Hawaii Organization Farms Farmers and Drives Change
Something amazing is happening in Waimea, Hawaii. Native Hawaiians are returning to farming, and driving long-term change for society. Families are coming together, and children are being raised in a culture people take pride in. It's all part of a vision of Mike Hodson, president of the Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders' Association.
Impact! Cultivating Food & Culture at Nambé Pueblo
"If we didn't have our culture, we wouldn't be a pueblo. We would just be another town." This is why the Pueblo of Nambé in New Mexico is ingraining its rich heritage in every crop, and growing pride with every harvest. "It's an investment in not only food sovereignty, but in the future of our people," said Nambé Farm Manager George Toya.
Spotlight on Zuni Youth Enrichment Project
In Zuni, New Mexico, Zuni children and teens are getting opportunities to explore their heritage, an experience that is increasing their self-esteem and helping them see new opportunities for the future.
Strategically Investing in the Hopi Ways
"Helping the Hopi stay Hopi." While the statement is simplistic, it is the prevailing motive behind The Hopi School and its efforts to increase capacity, incorporate strategic planning, and bolster arts programming. With the help of funding from First Nations' Native Arts Initiative, this Native-led school in Northern Arizona is taking steps to both solidify and strengthen its infrastructure. And it's doing it at a critical time when Hopi culture is becoming increasingly diminished.
Sustaining Culture and Livelihood in Remote Igiugig Village
In Igiugig, a small village of only 69 people on the Kvichak River in southwestern Alaska, resources are scarce. Food must be flown in, and strategies to keep the village – and the culture of the Yup'ik Eskimos, Aleuts, and Athabascan Indians – flourishing must be seized. Here, with the support of First Nations Development Institute, this close-knit tribe is finding new ways to develop sustainable food sources, and creating opportunities for young people to succeed.
Thunder Valley CDC is Helping Transform Pine Ridge
The people of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate are undergoing a revolution. After surviving generations of colonization, the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people are rising up from the weight of colonial legacies and building upon the work of their Indigenous ancestors to create a brighter future. On the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home to the Oglala Lakota, the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation is helping lead this transformation.
Training Brings an 'Ah Ha' for Sheep Grower
TahNibaa Naataanii of the Navajo Nation lives on the land where her family has raised sheep as part of their traditional life and culture for hundreds of years. Just south of Shiprock, New Mexico, and the Four Corners area, about half an hour away, is Table Mesa. That's where you'll find Naataanii tending to her sheep. She takes pride in being able to raise her Navajo churro sheep and use the wool in both traditional and new ways to provide a living for her and her daughter.


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Safe haven in the Green Mountain State
By Marguerite Jill Dye
Driving along our area's roads we are often reminded of Tropical Storm Irene's devastation, but what I remember most about Irene is Vermonters' big hearts: heroes rescuing and reaching out to those in need, sharing food, water, shelter, and compassion. Strong, independent, reliable folk, Vermonters care for one another and for this beautiful land with its healing powers that provide balance and rejuvenation to troubled bodies and souls.
As we drove by the Chittenden United Methodist Church, I noticed a sign on its entrance: "Open hearts, open minds, open doors." I felt proud to have grown up Methodist, encouraged to put faith into action. Friday my husband and I were invited to the Congregation Shir Shalom in Woodstock to hear April Baskin, the Union of Reform Judaism's vice president of "Audacious Hospitality" talk about the sacred work of creating a world of wholeness, compassion, and justice and examining racism and other forms of prejudice that hurt and degrade us all. "Reflect, relate, reform."
Sunday morning we attended a special service at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Rutland where Abi Sessions of the Middlebury UU spoke. There are 65 million refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people worldwide fleeing from war, genocide, and persecution; more than half of them are children, Sessions said. She told us about a Massachusetts couple "that wanted to help," and initiated a resettlement program helping refugees escape Nazi persecution during WWII through the UU Church in Prague. Since 1941, the Unitarian (Universalist) Service Committee has challenged injustice and advanced human rights by placing people in safe havens believing that all people have inherent power, dignity, and rights.
One such safe haven is Chittenden County where 8,000 former refugees from several countries have resettled over the past 25 years, quickly becoming self-sufficient and contributing their hard work, education, training, and taxes as an integral part of their communities. Of the 3,000 Hindu Bhutanese, 300 now own their own homes. "Beware of the single story," Abi Sessions said, "and beware of your own expectations."
We are not all refugees fleeing war and violence for our lives, but unless we are Native American, it is only a matter of how long ago we or our forefathers arrived from afar seeking freedom and a better life. Joining Native Americans who honor this land, and real Vermonters who were born in this state, we have come to Vermont in search of a home surrounded by beauty and nature where we feel blessed and secure, a safe haven in our troubled world.
Marguerite Jill Dye is an author/poet/artist who lives in Killington and Bradenton, Florida. She was a mission intern of the United Methodist Church Board of Global Ministries during the military dictatorship of General Videla in Argentina. The Dream Lodge her father and family built is her safe haven in this world.
Tagged green mountain state, marguerite jill dye, safe haven, Vermonters
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replay value. I sometimes find it hard to even stop playing once I get started because it can become very engaging and stimulating.
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MY OPINION: I recommend that everyone try this video game atleast once, you will not be dissapointed.


Fujitsu today announces the expansion of its PRIMERGY dual-socket server line up, with new models specifically designed to enable business growth in datacenters that are limited in their overall expansion by energy and space restrictions.
The new dual-socket FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2530 M1 rack server delivers maximum performance from a slender 1U form factor – making it the perfect choice for virtualization and scale-out deployments. Its capabilities are underlined by a new SPECpower_ssj2008 energy efficiency benchmark record in the class of 1U rack servers1 at launch, achieving a new industry-best level of efficiency with a score of 9811 overall ssj_ops/watt (operations per Watt of power). This achievement validates Fujitsu's continuing ability to deliver servers designed to get the most from every Watt of energy.
Fujitsu is also expanding its already-extensive portfolio of blade systems with the new PRIMERGY BX2580 M1 server blade, optimized for handling virtualization and other demanding workloads. Both new servers join the PRIMERGY line-up, which was fully refreshed in September 2014 with dual-socket systems featuring a comprehensive line-up of improvements based on field feedback from customers.
The new servers are characterized by the PRIMERGY brand's proven quality and reliability, and include new features such as the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 product family plus super-fast DDR4 memory technology to help boost application performance. Fujitsu also helps reduce the overhead of IT labor to administer and manage server farms through innovative additions such as Embedded Lifecycle Management, which is part of the widely deployed FUJITSU Software ServerView Suite.
Both new PRIMERGY models are optimized for integration into existing network landscapes, and can dynamically scale I/O bandwidth to meet application needs, thanks to the use of a unique, modular, scalable and field interchangeable LOM architecture (LAN On Mainboard), known as DynamicLoM, and Universal Converged Network Adapters.
FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY systems are available directly from Fujitsu and via distribution partners. Recently introduced models include the PRIMERGY RX2540 M1 rack server, the PRIMERGY BX2560 M1 server blade and the PRIMERGY CX400 M1 scale-out infrastructure with PRIMERGY CX2550 M1 and PRIMERGY CX2570 M1 server nodes. The FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2530 M1 is now available globally, with the FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY BX2580 M1 becoming generally available from the end of February 2015. Prices vary by region, model and configuration.
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