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An Olfactory Novelist: Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
"Je suis un romancier olfactif." - Sidonie-Gabr
« Deux hectares, vigne, orangers, figuiers à fruits verts, figuiers à fruits noirs. Quand j'aurai
dit que l'ail, le piment, et l'aubergine comblent, entre les ceps, les sillons de la vigne,
n'aurais-je pas tout dit ? »
"Two hectares, vines, orange trees, fig trees with green fruit, with black fruit. When I've
said that the garlic, chili, and eggplant fill in between the vines, the furrows of the vine,
haven't I said it all? " (translation: JL)
"Je suis un romancier olfactif." - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.
"In the kingdom of smells, everything is either bliss or torture, sometimes so subtly blended that I find myself, when the many strands of a supposedly simple are trapped in my palpitating nostrils, actually listening to it, as carefully as if I were unraveling a symphony's sonorous phrases." - S-G Colette
I. - Nowhere was Colette, the olfactory novelist, happier that at La Treille Muscat, near Saint-Tropez. She had discovered the dilapidated old farmhouse in the 1920s with the help of her friend, the artist Andre Dunoyer de Sergonzac, who already lived nearby. It was there that she wrote Sido (1929), The Pure and the Impure (1932) and The Cat (1933), all of them lovingly illustrated by Segonzac,
A typical day at La Treille Muscat, according to Dunoyer de Segonzac: in the morning Colette worked in her garden, at noon she swam at the beach of Salins, after lunch she napped, then the afternoon was devoted to her writing. She ended the day by meeting with friends at the port. Colette's version, from a letter to Helen Picard, written during the summer of 1928: « En t'écrivant je pose pour Segonzac qui a besoin de ma grosse personne pour des eaux-fortes. Ce grand peintre est un si charmant ami. » (While I'm writing I pose for Segonzac who needs my big self self for his watercolors.) – translation, JL
"Fragrance, with your inexplicable way of making a flower's essence as palpable as an animal's while bombarding us with molecules more astonishing that electric ions, are you perhaps a function more of our minds than of our bodies? The hypersensitive, exposed to your power, stagger, swoon as if from an illness. Though a lover cured of his love may be able to confront his now harmless "ex: face-to-face without a qualm, let him breathe one whiff of the old familiar perfume and he blanches, eyes filling with tears. Because Asmodeus, god of lechery, enlists fragrance as his assistant, filling the night with lethal honeysuckle, unfailing acacia, wanton lime-blossom, to ravage hearts and that remember and savage ones that resist." - excerpts from "Fragrance" by Colette included in "Colette's Salon" by Robert Reilly, Vogue: November 1998.
II. - When Francois Mauriac learned that he had won the Nobel Literature Prize in 1952 the first call he made was a visit to Mme. Colette at her apartment in the Palais-Royal. Under the light of her blue lantern he told her that the wrong writer had won the prize; Colette had been nominated for the prize in 1948, but lost out to T.S. Eliot.
There have been other years when, with hindsight, readers have thought the prize went to the wrong nominee. The idea has a long history, when the first committee met to award the first Literature Prize in 1901, members agreed that the Russian Leo Tolstoy was the greatest living writer (me, I would have chosen Anton Chekhov) but at that point Tolstoy had alienated so many of his admirers through his rages and intolerance that they could not bring themselves to award him the prize. Instead, the prize went to a Frenchman, Sully Prudhomme, whose "lofty idealism" has dated rather badly. Prudhomme is remembered, if at all, for the composers who set his words to music, Gabriel Faure and Henri Duparc. Then in 1911, the year that Maurice Maeterlinck received the prize, Edith Wharton and William Dean Howells nominated Henry James and, my personal best of the worst occurred in 1932 when Sinclair Lewis nominated the Australian writer Henry Handel Richardson (real name – Ethel Richardson)..
Colette's international reputation has only gained luster in the decades since her death. Yet during her lifetime her most esteemed peers, from the Jesuit-educated Francois Mauriac to Andre Gide, a law unto himself, considered her the better writer. A sensualist, Colette wrote from a perspective somewhere beyond the deeply conflicted Mauriac and the totally - and sometimes disastrously uninhibited - Gide
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1. Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac - Colette vedangeuse, 1929.
2. Andre Kertesz - photograph of Colette at La Treille Muscate, 1930
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Tashima Etsuko: Learning from Nature
The three small sculptures that make up A Flow resemble a fleet of little boats sailing beneath the waves or, in light of some recent reading, I like to imagine them carrying the twigs that bowerbirds use to create their fantastical architectural displays. And why not? Twigs are not always straight; we learn from nature that a branch grows straight unless an imbalance of forces produces a curve. It was the mixture of shapes, some from nature and some imagined that first drew me to the Japanese artist Tashima Etsuko.
Tashima creates her fanciful sculptures using her own formulation based on the ancient Roman technique of molten glass casting. Just as Japanese ceramics has long been admired for its combination of function and beauty, Tashima's version of pate de verre is amarriage of opposites, combining translucent glass with opaque stoneware. She fires the two substances separately and then attaches them. Pâte de verre is a French term that began to be used around the year 1900 when the artists of l'Ecole de Nancy (School of Nancy), notably the Daum Brothers and Emile Galle, revived the use of the paste made crushed glass, water and gum. Tashima has added glass recycled from fluorescent light bulbs; through a series of experiments she determined that it has fewer impurities and imperfections than other glass, resulting in an opaque material that radiates a delicate luminous blue-green. Japanese ceramics are known for their combination of beauty with functionality. The idea that ceramics could be sculpture or abstract works only appeared in the early 20th century.
A strict dichotomy between humans and the rest of the natural world is no longer tenable but we should not mourn its passing. Evolution is both fact and theory. And the basic theory is not survival of the fittest but rather survival of the good enough because perfection, by definition, would limit the diversity on which all survival ultimately depends. Arbitrary or random mutation is a mechanism, not an explanation.
"We could truly say that ideas come to flowers in the same way they come to us. Flowers grope in the same darkness, encounter the same obstacles and the same ill will, in the same unknown. They know the same laws, same disappointments, same slow and difficult triumphs. It seems they have our patience, our perseverance, our self-love; the same finely tuned and diversified intelligence, almost the same hopes and the same ideals. Like ourselves, they struggle against a vast indifferent force that ends by helping them." – Maurice Maeterlinck, from The Intelligence of Flowers, translated from the French by Philip Mosley
Although it was primarily his plays and poems that earned Maurice Maeterlinck the Nobel Literature Prize in 1911, it is for his widely admired nature essays that he is remembered now, particularly The Life of the Bee (1901) and The Intelligence of Flowers (1907). From the latter, he wrote, ""Our mind draws from the same reservoirs as does that of nature. We are of the same world, we are almost among equals. We no longer mix with inaccessible gods." Maeterlinck's effort to harmonize science and religion in the wake of Charles Darwin's controversial The Origin of Species was one of many but his vision of a mystical science was influenced by his Jesuit education.
The claim that science destroys beauty by putting it under a microscope has illustrious ancestors in William Blake and John Keats. A newer claim that beauty resides in mathematics and evolutionary biology strikes many as too austere. Nature doesn't look like anything the Romantics imagined it as it has been revealed at the nano level but it is still marvelous.
Evolution is both fact and theory. Arbitrary or random mutation is a mechanism, not an explanation. A strict dichotomy between humans ad nature is no longer tenable. Yet when scientific knowledge modifies our human perceptions or religious beliefs we often feel threatened and, so,miss a great deal that is valuable to the arts.
The Life of the Bee sold an amazing 250,000 copies. "If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live" may have sounded far-fetched a century ago but in light of recent disturbances to the ecology, Maeterlinck gets points for intuition. "Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favorable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness." Again, points to Maeterlinck for exercising imaginative sympathy.
Through the dramatic power of its metaphors The Intelligence of Flowers still offers food for thought, even though the scientific terrain has shifted in the intervening century. To Maeterlinck flowers, through the choreography of their reproductive dance, demonstrate their capacity for thought and, by analogy, that their behavior resembles our own, constituting a form of intelligence. "Ideas come to flowers in the same way they come to us." And so we move beyond Aristotle's dictum: "Art finishes what nature begins."
An "(A)rt object is always an instruction to act or experience, not a piece of information, as living things are organized instructions, not organized information." - C.H. Waddington, Biology and the History of the Future, Edinburgh, Edinburgh: University Press: 1972
Maeterlink's flowers, it turns our, prefigure what biologists have learned recently about the intelligence of birds. Gerald Borgia and Gail Patricelli detected signs of intention in what can reasonably be described as bird creations as they studied the mating habits of bowerbirds. The male bowerbird creates large assemblages, from the elegant to the fantastical, to attract potential mates. The satin bowerbird will go so far as to use crushed berries to paint the entrance to the bower the color blue; if berries are not available he will make do with blue plastic picnic utensils
The existence of art in nature raises questions we have yet to thoroughly answer. Evolution provides an explanation that is too austere for many people to accept. To Charles Darwin the endless forms that life takes taught him acute attention to visual details. On this foundation he built his theory of natural selection that proposed survival through adaptation; his second theory of sexual selection dealt with courtship and mating and the role of beauty in nature. Sexual selection has been overlooked or considered an embarrassing misstep by a great thinker, because it puts the female in a powerful position. The idea that females exercise aesthetic selection in their choice of mates has troubled men from Darwin's time to our own; no less a personage than Alfred Russell Wallace harrumphed that aesthetics had no space for "beauty, caprice, and feminine whim.(1890)"
While artists have made a taboo of beauty, what interests me here is that they haven't taken much notice of how scientists have embraced it. So, when philosopher, botanist, and musician David Rothenberg writes that "an engagement with art is fundamentally an engagement with beauty, even if it is a strange or unfamiliar beauty," he is going off the reservation. I was surprised that Rothenberg didn't include any discussion of Maeterlinck's nature essays in Survival of the Beautiful as they contain metaphors that are eerily similar to what Richard Prum has observed about sexual selection and aesthetic activity in birds, especially when there is a fine new translation available at a reasonable price.
The Intelligence of Flowers by Maurice Maeterlinck, translated from the French by Philip Mosley, State University of New York Press, NYC: 2008, (1907) Winner of the 2008 Prix de la Traduction Littéraire presented by French Community of Belgium
Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution by David Rothenberg, New York, Bloomsbury Press: 2011.
1. Tashima Etsuko - A Flow I-III, Corning Museum of Glass.
2. Tashima Etsuko - Cornucopia 2-XII, 2002, 20th Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
3. Tashima Etsuko - Cornucopia no date given, Chazen Museum, Madison, Wisconsin.
4. Tashima Etsuko - Cornucopia 03-II, 2003, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.
5. Tashima Etsuko - Cornucopia 5-XII, 2005, Smith College Museum of Ar, Northampton.


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Anhaltské vévodství (německy Herzogtum Anhalt) byl německý stát nacházející se mezi pohořím Harz a řekou Labe, čili v oblastech, kde se nyní nachází spolková země Sasko-Anhaltsko. Historické vévodství náleželo před svým zánikem k Německému císařství. Vzniklo spojením roztroušených anhaltských knížectví, které povýšil francouzský císař Napoleon udělením statutu vévodství. Hlavním městem Anhaltska byla tradičně Desava (Dessau) a jako předtím zde vládla starobylá dynastie Askánců. Anhaltské vévodství bylo zrušeno v roce 1918 v důsledku Listopadové revoluce.

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The Cold Spring Springers advanced to the MSMABA Class A state championship game with a 2-0 win over the LeSueur Legends on Saturday afternoon in Jordan. Neither team mustered much offense as LeSueur outhit Cold Spring 4-3, but Joe Kounkel was dominant on the mound to earn the complete game shutout. He allowed no runs on four hits, no walks, and struck out two in a game that lasted just one hour and seven minutes.
The only scoring in the game came by Cold Spring in the bottom of the third inning when they struck for both of their runs. Derek Falde singled and Greg Terres followed with a home run to left to give the Silvers a 2-0 lead. That score would hold for the remainder of the game thanks to solid pitching and defense, and Cold Spring came away with the victory.


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It is a network of photographers who donate their time and skills to service members and their families as a thank you for the sacrifices that are being made for our country. Each photographer in the network has agreed to photograph your service member's homecoming, free of charge.
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This was way back in 2012! Since then the network grew so much that I wasn't able to keep things updated. Recently, I decided to start a fundraiser to help me create a website that would function a lot better for everyone.
Photographers would create accounts and be able to update their locations and details so that you guys could easily find them through a search function. Right now we are on a small break while we raise the money to rebuild the site, but once it's done, we will be open again for you to use us!!
Please do keep us in mind for your next Family Readiness Group or even for your own homecoming moment. I know that the photographer in the non-profit LOVE being able to do this for you guys, and many of them are military spouses or service members themselves.
If you can donate, please do, but the most important thing that will help us the most is for you to spread the word about what "Welcome Them Home" offers. Hopefully one day, everyone who wants this moment photographed, will know exactly where to look for a photographer.


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PreviousPLEASE – UKIP AND "THE BREXIT PARTY": NO BICKERING!
If he has another shovel I will gladly give him a hand.
I watched some of the you'ro-peeing parliament yesterday.
Farage got up and made a lucid speech without notes.
Batten followed with a stumbling, 'read out statement' in a dull monotone. Hardly inspiring.
Can only say UKIP needs to hire a speaking consultant and reading consultant for him.
Trouble is, there does not seem to be anyone else behind Gerad that is more capable to actually lead the Party.
Your type would condemn quasiModo and the elephant man for being ugly, your anti UKIP slip is plainly in sight.
Very sudden decision by these MEPs and so soon after not being selected for the UKIP candidates list. Just saying.
This self pruning is doing the party a favour.
UKIP now down to four MEPs. I have been wondering for some time if Gerard had ever heard of the aphorism "When in a hole stop digging". Clearly not, if anything he is digging faster.


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Kevin Coleman Jr. is an American football wide receiver for the Louisville Cardinals. He previously played at Jackson State.

Early life and high school
Coleman grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and attended St. Mary's High School. As a senior he caught 37 passes for 985 yards and 17 touchdowns, rushed for 435 yards and six touchdowns on 37 carries, and gained 573 yards and scored six touchdowns on 21 kickoff and punt returns. Coleman was a consensus top-100 recruit and committed to play college football at FCS Jackson State over offers from major programs such as Oregon, Miami, and Florida State.

College career
Coleman had 32 receptions for 475 yards and three touchdowns as a true freshman. Coleman was named the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Freshman of the Year at the end of the regular season. He was the leading receiver in Jackson State's 41-34 loss in the 2022 Celebration Bowl, gaining 137 yards and one touchdown on seven receptions. Coleman entered the NCAA transfer portal a few days after the Celebration Bowl.

Coleman ultimately transferred to Louisville.

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External links
Jackson State Tigers bio

Living people
Players of American football from St. Louis
American football wide receivers
Jackson State Tigers football players
Year of birth missing (living people)


Going to the doctor for many can be a nerve-wracking experience. Whether he or she is seeing a doctor for cosmetic reasons, or for a broken bone, there is at times a bit of a disconnect between doctor and patient. Dr. Ioannides recognized this unfortunate trend early on and has made it a part of his mission as a doctor to always remember to keep the patient in mind. Dr. Tim Ioannides, board-certified dermatologist, and entrepreneur, currently owns five very successful dermatology locations. Implementing a more "humanistic" approach within his practice can very well be the reason why his business has grown so rapidly.
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Japanese and American scholars and practitioners gathered at Stanford recently for "Womenomics, the Workplace, and Women," a full-day conference seeking to find pathways to advance opportunity for women in society and the workplace.
Nearly 75 people attended the public conference, which included 20 speakers and was co-sponsored by Stanford's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, as well as the United States-Japan Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Takeo Hoshi, director of the Japan Program at Shorenstein APARC, noted that women in Japan and the United States have long encountered obstacles related to gender. Currently, the United States and Japan rank 45th and 111th, respectively, on the Global Gender Gap Index.
"The conference is a unique opportunity for experts from Japan and Silicon Valley to learn from each other and their countries' recent attempts to tackle gender diversity, particularly in the areas of business and technology," Hoshi said.
The Japanese government's inclusion of women's advancement in its economic growth strategy 'Abenomics,' named after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is "one of the few good policies," Hoshi said, yet complex cultural constraints and workplace policies need to change in order for it to work. Similarly, in Silicon Valley, while strides have been made, gender diversity still lags in corporate leadership and boards of directors especially in the areas of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
Panelists shared perspectives on women's status, leadership and work-life balance in both countries throughout four panel discussions led by Hoshi, and Shelley Correll, director of the Clayman Institute and professor of sociology; Kenji Kushida, Japan Program research scholar; and Mariko Yoshihara Yang, a visiting scholar at Shorenstein APARC.
One broad theme that emerged in the discussions: gender equity progress takes time. Closing the gender gap will come incrementally and a multidisciplinary approach could help the process.
Areas highlighted by the panelists included a need to address unconscious bias and to improve programs that support women in the workplace as well as those seeking to re-enter the labor force after taking time off, such as increased access to childcare and elimination of "evening work" for those who hold full-time jobs.
Panelists suggested expanding educational opportunities, mentorship and peer-to-peer networks among women, as well as training centered on gender equity for all employees. Quotas and government incentives for organizations that adopt equity practices were also proposed to achieve greater female representation.
Additional discussions took place between the panelists in a closed-door workshop the following day. A report that details outcomes and a set of policy recommendations is expected in 2017; the full list of panelists, topics addressed and conference agenda can be viewed here.


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Q: Entropy and heat death If elements or particles(can a single particle have temperature) ... have different thermal capacities how can we determine the heath death and why is it identical for everything ?

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Woody Herman: Blue Flame is a fascinating glimpse into the career of the great band leader.
DVD Review: Woody Herman: Blue Flame
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For a big band leader who managed to hold the stage for over 50 years with ever changing versions of his orchestra, Woody Herman never quite gets the acclaim of the likes of a Duke Ellington or a Count Basie. For a clarinetist and alto sax player of some note, no one seems to mention him with the likes of Benny Goodman or Charlie Parker. For a singer who had his share of hit vocals, he doesn't get the caché accorded to a jazz vocalist like Mel Tormé. Yet listening to the nearly three dozen band members and talking heads interviewed for Jazzed Media's documentary tribute to the upcoming centennial of Herman's birth in 2013, Woody Herman: Blue Flame, you have to wonder if he hasn't really gotten what is his due.
Longevity like Herman's is no accident. If he wasn't the greatest player himself, he knew how to surround himself with great musical talent, and he knew enough to let them do their thing. But always in the organic context of the band as a whole—vibraphonist Terry Gibbs tells the story of how he and Stan Getz objected to Herman's choice of a take for a record, because they felt their solos were better on another take. Herman insisted on his choice, because, he explained, it was the band's best take. More than one of the many band members interviewed explains that Herman treated the band like a team. He was always looking for what was best for the band.
The results speak for themselves. In 1936, he took over the Isham Jones Orchestra and began by developing an original voice for the new band. calling it "The Band That Plays The Blues." It was the period of the great swing bands and Herman's adaptation was successful, but tastes change. In the '40's and '50's bebop and cool jazz emerged, in the '60's and '70's there was rock and fusion—and through it all Herman's bands, now sporting the famous nickname the Herd: the First Herd, the Second Herd, the Thundering Herd, the Young Thundering Herd, adapted to the new genres with renewed energy from an ever changing cast of talented young musicians.
The documentary concentrates on the history of the different manifestations of Herman's bands focusing on the many jazz giants that worked with him—musicians like Pete Candoli in his Superman outfit, Stan Getz and Neal Hefti who made fun of Herman's playing, Ralph Burns who did much of the arranging for the band's earliest incarnations. There is less time devoted to Herman's life outside of music. His wife and daughter are mentioned, as are his later troubles with the I.R.S., but by and large this is the story of his music.
And without doubt the best thing in it is the vintage footage of the band. Beginning with a 1976 performance from an Iowa Public Broadcasting special of "The Four Brothers," the Jimmy Giuffre composition best known in the Second Herd's version, the film presents full length performances of nearly all of Herman's finest work. Also form the 1976 show, there is "Early Autumn" and "The Blues in the Night." There are several selections from the band's appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show including a 1968 version of "Calidonia," as well as a couple of tunes from early motion picture appearances.
Not only does the band, in all its incantations swing, but it is also clear that Woody Herman is a showman. If his clarinet playing is sometimes questioned, there is no question about his ability to play the audience, a skill in a band's front man that may in the long run be the more important talent. At a time like ours, where a good many jazz musicians lose themselves in their own little world, and the audience is barely an afterthought, there may well be a lesson to be learned from Woody Herman.
Written, directed and narrated by award winning documentarian Graham Carter and produced with The Woody Herman Society, Woody Herman: Blue Flame set for November DVD release runs a fascinating quick paced hour and 50 minutes. Check out the trailer:
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The Secret Service said in a post on Twitter that two blocks bordering the White House had been closed off to all traffic while an explosives unit sweep the area to check it is safe.
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About 100 White House staff members were held in a park before authorities began letting some into the White House.
Donald Trump is today hosting parents, teachers and students for a "listening session" that will include those impacted by recent mass shootings.
Attendees will include people from the Florida high school massacre last week, as well as others touched by the Columbine and Sandy Hook shootings.


Through Middle School, our students need to increase academic competency and confidence, with increasing accountability, in preparation for the challenges of high school and beyond. OLG's challenging Middle School curriculum provides ample opportunity for the advancement of academic, social and emotional development. Our curriculum follows the archdiocesan, state and/or national standards to guide development of our curriculum. View standards here, click here.
Beyond Religion classes, we seek to create a mutually supportive environment in Middle School that fosters in each student a love for God, love for one another, and a desire to serve the greater community. We do this through active participation in various school liturgies, leadership of Peer Ministry and weekly rosaries, and involvement in a wide variety of service projects throughout the year.
Writing skills are honed through extensive work on grammar and usage, parts of speech, sentence structure. Students are tasked to apply these skills within a variety of writing styles (autobiographical, descriptive, research, persuasive, compare and contrast, creative writing and poetry) and approaches (timed writing, essays, MLA formats and outlines).
As part of studying language arts, students are asked to write and present various types of speeches focusing on both content and delivery.
Literature classes deliver expanded reading and vocabulary skills, as well as understanding of literary elements such plot construction, characterization, theme, setting and symbolism. Students are exposed to a wide range of literature, including mythology, novels, poetry, short stories and nonfiction, with both independent and group reading assignments.
Language arts skills are further advanced by interdisciplinary teaming and research-based presentations throughout Middle School.
For Middle School math at OLG, there are three main paths students typically follow, as illustrated below. Most students begin 6th grade in Pre-Algebra (middle path), finishing Algebra in 8th grade and moving into Geometry in high school. Other students take Pre-Algebra in 6th grade, moving into Algebra in 7th and Geometry in 8th grades, typically followed by Algebra 2 in high school. A third possible path has students taking 6th grade math, followed by Pre-Algebra in 7th and Basic Algebra in 8th grade. These students typically take Algebra in 9th grade.
Students are placements in Middle School math are made with careful consideration of previous test scores, grades, and information from past teachers. Although most students remain on the same path from 6th through 8th grade, students can be moved as needed. We are extremely proud of our exceptional math program and its ability to meet the needs of all our students, preparing them well for high school.
Sixth grade science begins with a trimester of Physical Science. Concepts include the Nature of Science & Technology, Chemical Building Blocks, Chemical Interactions, Sound & Light, Motion, Forces & Energy, and Electricity & Magnetism. The second trimester is devoted to Science Fair - a highlight of the 6th grade science program. The students choose a research project and follow the scientific process to prove or disprove their hypothesis. Project categories include Physical Science, Biology/Life Science, Earth Science, Environmental Science, and Engineering/Inventions. Students present their projects to judges, with top projects moving on to regional and state science fair competition.
During the third trimester, the students are engaged in the Project Lead the Way(link is external) STEM class called Automation Robotics. During this class they learn about the history, development and influence of automation and robotics as they study different mechanical, energy transfer, machine automation and computer control systems. The students use the VEXX Robotics platform to design, build and program real-world objects such as traffic lights and tollbooths.
The first trimester in 7th and 8th grade, students take another Project Lead the Way(link is external) STEM class called Design & Modeling. In this module, they apply the design process to solve problems and understand the influence of design in their lives. They design playgrounds, furniture and other ideas captured in their engineering notebooks. The students use Autodesk Inventor software to create virtual images of designs and to produce a portfolio that showcases their projects. Second trimester focuses on Earth Science, which includes topics ranging from What's Inside Earth, Earth's Changing Surface, Water, Weather & Climate, and Astronomy. The third trimester is Flight & Space, a third Project Lead the Way(link is external) STEM module. In this class, students will explore the principles of aeronautics as they design, build and test an airfoil. They also use software that allows them to simulate space travel.
Grade six features history as the lead discipline with additional focus on geographic, economic and civic understandings. Students study Minnesota history and its government, placing the state and its people within the context of the national story. They engage in historical inquiry and study events, issues and individuals significant to Minnesota history, beginning with the early indigenous people of the upper Mississippi River region to the present day. They examine the relationship between levels of government, and how the concept of sovereignty affects the exercise of treaty rights. They analyze how the state's physical features and location of resources affected settlement patterns and the growth of cities. Drawing on their knowledge of economics, students analyze the influence of a market-based economy at the local and national levels. They learn about the unique role Minnesota played, and continues to play, in regional, national and global politics.
Grade seven features history as the lead discipline with a strong secondary emphasis on citizenship and government. The interdisciplinary "Studies" approach is further enhanced with important economics and geography content that round out the study of United States history. Students learn about people, issues and events of significance to this nation's history from 1800 to the current era of globalization. They examine the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Supreme Court decisions for their lasting impact on the American people, economy and governance structure. Students study civics and economic principles in depth, drawing connections between these disciplines and history to explain the impact of various policies on how people lived, worked and functioned in society. They create and use detailed maps of places in the United States and conduct historical inquiry on a topic in the nation's history.
Grade eight features geography as the lead discipline with a strong secondary emphasis on contemporary world history. Content drawn from citizenship, government and economics enriches the study of world regional geography. Students explore the regions of the world using geographic information from print and electronic sources. They analyze important trends in the modern world such as demographic change, shifting trade patterns, and intensified cultural interactions due to globalization. Students participate in civic discussion on contemporary issues, conduct historical inquiry and study events over the last half-century that have shaped the contemporary world. They analyze connections between revolutions, independence movements and social transformations, and understand reasons for the creation of modern nation states. They learn that governments are based on different political philosophies and serve various purposes. By learning economic principles of trade and the factors that affect economic growth, students understand why there are different standards of living in countries around the world.
OLG Middle School students have Spanish class 3 times per week. Instruction is primarily in Spanish, encouraging the students to become comfortable conversing in Spanish. Each grade includes a review of previous material and advancement through the textbook Aventuros Uno y Dos. In addition to homework and assessments, students are graded on participation and cultural projects.
The curriculum is taught sequentially, with increasingly complex concepts added over time to build on prior skills and knowledge. Materials become more sophisticated as students learn and practice new techniques. Students are provided with a variety of opportunities for self-expression as they develop respect for their own creative work and that of others. Technology is utilized as a teaching tool and art medium.
In Middle School music, students learn basic music symbols and notation, and learn about the historic periods of music and the origins of sacred music in the Catholic Church. There is an emphasis on music appreciation designed to give the student the ability to understand and discern quality classical and contemporary music.
In addition, students explore music technology using GarageBand, iMovie and Photo Booth. With their laptop computers and imagination, the world of music technology comes alive in the classroom.
In 8th grade, students devote their 3rd trimester music studies to rehearsals for the 8th grade play. Students learn basic acting techniques, beginning with the audition process to the full production of a children's musical, performed for the OLG student body, parents and friends. All 8th grade students take part in the production. This effort is a true highlight of the OLG experience and a wonderful rallying point for the 8th grade class as they celebrate the end of their time at OLG.
Extracurricular music opportunities include two middle school choirs, which meet an hour before school once a week, and middle school band. Well over half of the middle school students participate in choir and band collectively.
Students in grades 6-8 have Physical Education Class twice per week. They participate in Physical Fitness Tests in the fall and spring, and enjoy units in a wide range of sports the rest of the year, including soccer, volleyball, ultimate football, basketball, dance, juggling, floor hockey, kickball and softball. Students are expected to participate fully in class activities and are encouraged to play fair, have fun, and demonstrate good sportsmanship.
Students need technology skills to succeed as life-long learners in our digital world. For our Middle School students, we offer a 1:1 learning program, through which each student is loaned a MacBook laptop for use at home and at school. Using 21st-century teaching methods and resources, our Middle School curriculum engages students, stimulates more effective learning, and develops technology proficiency.
To view the archdiocesan, state and/or national standards used to guide OLG curriculum development for each subject, click here.


I hadn't anticipated that my keen readers would try to guess the *species* of the aforementioned oddity, but since the guessing has headed in that direction I'll post this hint, which shows the much more commonly seen worker caste of our little mystery bug.
Stakes are now at, um, 15 points. Yeah.
Oh, I just noticed the mandibles of the monster in the new shot. The fact that it has all the head appendages (antennae, mandibles, etc) male-like is pure awesome.
I'm sure most of my photos contain protists, somewhere. You just have to squint.
Sure looks like a Hypoponera to me too, but I'll zero in on cryptopone (because this distance it certainly is cryptic) . Must admit, I've never taken a close look at a male's head before coz the wings are such a giveaway. I learnt something valuable today!
That certainly looks like a worker and an ergatoid male of Hypoponera opacior. Now all I need is for someone to tell me how this species is discriminated from the Old World Hypoponera eduardi.


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This Achievement Hunter guide will show you how and where you can earn the Not So Hasty achievement from L.A. Noire for the Xbox 360. This achievement requires that you fire a warning shot, but it's not as simple as just that.
L.A. Noire: Not So Hasty Achievement Guide
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How Murdoch's media empire turned on Trump in 2022
by Dominick Mastrangelo - 12/28/22 6:00 AM ET
An increasingly sour relationship between former President Trump, Fox News and the rest of Rupert Murdoch's media empire that has been building for months has come to a head in the weeks following the midterm elections.
It is a rift that is being watched closely in political and media circles given the power of Fox News and other media entities owned by Murdoch in potentially shaping the race for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024.
Trump has already mounted a new run for the presidency, but many of Murdoch's press outlets are either outright criticizing Trump or flirting with other political leaders.
And that could hurt Trump's new bid for the White House, which is already off to a stumbling start amid criticism of him from other Republicans.
"Trump's superpower is getting all the coverage. That's not happening anymore. Fox is not covering him 24 hours a day," Daniel Cassino, a media expert who wrote a 2016 book about Fox's influence over American politics, told The Hill earlier this year. "So, it seems that is leading to frustration that he's not dominating Fox the way he did before."
Trump could typically count on several leading hosts at Fox News, and columnists at the New York Post and Wall Street Journal, all owned by Murdoch, during his presidency for supportive or at least sympathetic coverage of his administration and regular attacks on his political enemies.
But as his first term drew to a close, Trump grew increasingly vocal about his frustrations with Murdoch.
Things also came to a head on election night 2020 when Fox was the first network to call Arizona for Joe Biden, a decision that infuriated Trump and that led to an effort by officials with his campaign to get Fox to reverse its call.
After Trump refused to concede, floating unfounded claims about electoral fraud, Murdoch reportedly reached a breaking point with Trump, who complained to the media mogul directly about the Arizona call.
Eventually, Murdoch came to distance himself from Trump in public.
"It is crucial that conservatives play an active, forceful role in that debate, but that will not happen if President Trump stays focused on the past," Murdoch said in remarks at an annual meeting of News Corp. stockholders days after the election. "The past is the past, and the country is now in a contest to define the future."
Two years later, media and political observers note the tone on Trump from outlets like the Journal and Post has shifted in a big way.
Murdoch's outlets in recent months have sent the message that they "see Trump as more of an anchor than a life preserver when it comes to the kind of politics they'd like to see," said Tobe Berkovitz, associate professor of advertising emeritus at Boston University.
"They all see that Trump is no longer the lunch bucket for them when it comes to ratings and readership," Berkovitz said. "Ironically, MSNBC, CNN and some of the mainstream media are riding the Trump pony for all its worth."
Fox remains the top-rated network on cable, with one recent study showing it is watched by a larger portion of Democrats and independents than other networks, a byproduct of its outsized audience share.
"There's a good chance of Fox News maintaining, regardless of whatever its direct relationship with Trump, the view that its core consumer is one that wants to hear good things about Republicans and bad things about Democrats," said Josh Pasek, associate professor of communications and media at the University of Michigan. "If you look at what's on Fox News, it's a lot of the same stuff that was on Fox News before Trump."
Murdoch has made other moves telegraphing an increasingly frosty view of the former president.
In September of last year, he hired the bombastic British television host Piers Morgan, who has publicly sparred with the former president, to host a show on U.K.-based TalkTV and write regular columns for the Post.
Fox News also stopped airing Trump rallies and speeches in full after his presidency came to an end. One exception came in November when the former president held an event at Mar-a-Lago announcing a bid for the White House in 2024.
Also complicating Murdoch's relationship with Trump is the emergence of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose sweeping gubernatorial victory this year sparked a screaming headline in the print edition of the New York Post the day after the midterms declaring DeSantis 'DEFUTURE.'
Positive coverage of DeSantis in Murdoch's media seems to be irking Trump.
In July, the former president slammed Fox's flagship morning program "Fox & Friends," saying it had "gone to the dark side" after its hosts talked about a poll showing voters favoring DeSantis over Trump.
Fox still employs a number of contributors and pundits who were either part of Trump's administration or closely aligned with the former president, such as Kellyanne Conway, Kayleigh McEnany and Larry Kudlow.
Some pundits on Fox who've been loyal supporters of the former president have stopped short of blaming him for the GOP's recent string of losses, and instead have expressed frustration with Republican leadership in Washington, D.C. This echoes Trump, who has also criticized GOP leaders such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.).
"We have the same people in place in leadership. The same people in place, apparently, at the RNC [Republican National Committee], perhaps that's not changing. We just keep doing the same thing over and over again. I'm pissed tonight, frankly. I'm mad," longtime conservative pundit Laura Ingraham said on her show after Herschel Walker, a Trump-backed Senate candidate, lost in a run-off race to incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D).
Some of the criticism of Trump on Fox has been more direct.
"He seems to be losing what used to be his iron grip on the GOP, and he still has a hard core of supporters who will follow them regardless, but many of the 74 million people who voted for him in 2020 have been turned off," Fox Business host Stuart Varney said on his show this month.
"What this is really showing is that Trump was not using the media as much as the media was using him," said Yphtach Lelkes, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. "And that he is no longer as useful to these media companies, so they've moved on."
Trump and Murdoch have feuded before, and Trump could see his political fortunes rise again. That leads some observers to believe the two could set their differences aside if doing so becomes mutually beneficial.
"Once more candidates jump into the primary fray and split the anti-Trump vote, Trump's front-runner status will solidify — and Fox News will remember why it crushed on Trump in the first place," Thomas Gift, an associate professor and the director of the Centre on U.S. Politics at University College London wrote in a recent op-ed for The Hill.com. "The station's already proven once that it prioritizes dating a winner."
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Iron Ladies (2018): Review and reasons to watch
Iron Ladies is a 13 episode Taiwanese drama that revolves around the lives of 3 career women who their lives evolve in ways they didn't expected. Here are 3 reasons why you should totally get hooked onto it.
1.The lives and the characters of the 3 female leads:
Our 3 female leads live totally different lives and have different personalities that somehow manages to keep their friendship strong.
CHOU KAI TING (played by Aviis Zhong) is a strong, independent woman who loves to take full responsibility of every decision she makes. She seeks to have an impeccable life; a smooth sailing job and a long lasting relationship. Her work always comes first and she strives to make it very successful, sometimes making the most impossible, possible. Her life, however, takes an unusual turn when she finds out her boyfriend of 8 years is cheating on her.
Ma Li-Sha (played by Ada Pan) is a divorced woman who, due to her previous marriage, she swore to never fall in love or get married again. To her, love is an illusion. Her work and her son have become her ultimate priority. However, she suddenly meets a guy who shares the same ideology with her. Their relationship takes a 360 turn and she finds herself in a fix.
Wang Ching Ching (played by Jacqueline Wu) is a woman who has a perfect life in everyone's eyes. Her life is not close to perfect. Her husband is a chronic cheater and in order to save her marriage, she welcomes his mistress to live with them. They become a family of 3, much to her displeasure. She begins to take drastic measures to kick out the mistress and have her husband all to herself. Will it work?
2. The unexpected turn of events
The above was my look at the decision of the female leads. I was like ''Are you being serious right now?"
Let's start with Ching Ching. After all the shame and suffering her husband put her through which almost made her paranoid, she still went back to him and was determined to keep being the female of the house. Why? Because he had a slight change in his attitude. It seemed so unreasonable to me especially when she had to tell her friends that she would divorce him and the fact the mistress was still living with them.
Older Sister Kai Ting was no exception to the 'silly decisions'. After seeing her boyfriend kiss someone else in her presence, she still went back to him with the hopes of saving the relationship. Her only reason? She could not believe she had lost in love.
Li-Sha had to deal with falling in love with this 'new guy' in her life. Rather than embracing her feelings, she chose to runaway. I understood her though. It must have been hard to let go and fall in love again and perhaps, the fear of a failed relationship still haunts her. What I did not understand is why she failed to tell Kai Ting about her boyfriend cheating when she found out.
However, as the story continued to unfold, I slowly understood the reasons behind their decisions.
3. The main relationship
Lately, the older woman-younger man relationship seeks to take the center stage in Asian dramas and Iron Ladies is no exception to that trend.
Su-Tsan (played by Ben Wu) is an innocent country-side boy who came to Taipei to engage in a job his neighbor had pitched to his grandmother and got money from. Upon his arrival, he realizes that he has been duped and tries to make a living. He stumbles into Kai Ting and after so many events, they finally fall in love and start dating. His love for her is so pure and he seeks to do his best for her; always giving her that shoulder to lean on and encourages her. She also wants the best for him. Their relationship is not smooth sailing but it is refreshing to watch and something to dream about.
The above is one of my favorite scenes from the drama. This was when Kai Ting took the huge step to make Su Tsan a makeup artist when he knew nothing about doing makeup.
I would definitely recommend Iron Ladies to anyone looking for a realistic love story and real life work situations to watch. It definitely deserves a 9.5/10 rating.
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Tags: Iron Ladies, Review, REVIEWS, Taiwanese Drama
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package org.springframework.boot.yaml;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.Set;

import org.springframework.beans.PropertyValues;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.YamlProcessor.DocumentMatcher;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.YamlProcessor.MatchStatus;
import org.springframework.boot.bind.PropertySourcesPropertyValues;
import org.springframework.boot.bind.RelaxedDataBinder;
import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;
import org.springframework.core.env.MutablePropertySources;
import org.springframework.core.env.PropertiesPropertySource;
import org.springframework.util.CollectionUtils;
import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;

/**
 * {@link DocumentMatcher} backed by {@link Environment#getActiveProfiles()}. A YAML
 * document may define a "spring.profiles" element as a comma-separated list of Spring
 * profile names, optionally negated using the {@code !} character. If both negated and
 * non-negated profiles are specified for a single document, at least one non-negated
 * profile must match and no negated profiles may match.
 *
 * @author Dave Syer
 * @author Matt Benson
 * @author Phillip Webb
 * @author Andy Wilkinson
 */
public class SpringProfileDocumentMatcher implements DocumentMatcher {

	private String[] activeProfiles = new String[0];

	public SpringProfileDocumentMatcher() {
	}

	public SpringProfileDocumentMatcher(String... profiles) {
		addActiveProfiles(profiles);
	}

	public void addActiveProfiles(String... profiles) {
		LinkedHashSet<String> set = new LinkedHashSet<String>(
				Arrays.asList(this.activeProfiles));
		Collections.addAll(set, profiles);
		this.activeProfiles = set.toArray(new String[set.size()]);
	}

	@Override
	public MatchStatus matches(Properties properties) {
		List<String> profiles = extractSpringProfiles(properties);
		ProfilesMatcher profilesMatcher = getProfilesMatcher();
		Set<String> negative = extractProfiles(profiles, ProfileType.NEGATIVE);
		Set<String> positive = extractProfiles(profiles, ProfileType.POSITIVE);
		if (!CollectionUtils.isEmpty(negative)) {
			if (profilesMatcher.matches(negative) == MatchStatus.FOUND) {
				return MatchStatus.NOT_FOUND;
			}
			if (CollectionUtils.isEmpty(positive)) {
				return MatchStatus.FOUND;
			}
		}
		return profilesMatcher.matches(positive);
	}

	private List<String> extractSpringProfiles(Properties properties) {
		SpringProperties springProperties = new SpringProperties();
		MutablePropertySources propertySources = new MutablePropertySources();
		propertySources.addFirst(new PropertiesPropertySource("profiles", properties));
		PropertyValues propertyValues = new PropertySourcesPropertyValues(
				propertySources);
		new RelaxedDataBinder(springProperties, "spring").bind(propertyValues);
		List<String> profiles = springProperties.getProfiles();
		return profiles;
	}

	private ProfilesMatcher getProfilesMatcher() {
		return this.activeProfiles.length == 0 ? new EmptyProfilesMatcher()
				: new ActiveProfilesMatcher(
						new HashSet<String>(Arrays.asList(this.activeProfiles)));
	}

	private Set<String> extractProfiles(List<String> profiles, ProfileType type) {
		if (CollectionUtils.isEmpty(profiles)) {
			return null;
		}
		Set<String> extractedProfiles = new HashSet<String>();
		for (String candidate : profiles) {
			ProfileType candidateType = ProfileType.POSITIVE;
			if (candidate.startsWith("!")) {
				candidateType = ProfileType.NEGATIVE;
			}
			if (candidateType == type) {
				extractedProfiles.add(type == ProfileType.POSITIVE ? candidate
						: candidate.substring(1));
			}
		}
		return extractedProfiles;
	}

	/**
	 * Profile match types.
	 */
	enum ProfileType {
		POSITIVE, NEGATIVE
	}

	/**
	 * Base class for profile matchers.
	 */
	private static abstract class ProfilesMatcher {

		public final MatchStatus matches(Set<String> profiles) {
			if (CollectionUtils.isEmpty(profiles)) {
				return MatchStatus.ABSTAIN;
			}
			return doMatches(profiles);
		}

		protected abstract MatchStatus doMatches(Set<String> profiles);

	}

	/**
	 * {@link ProfileMatcher} that matches when a value in {@code spring.profiles} is also
	 * in {@code spring.profiles.active}.
	 */
	private static class ActiveProfilesMatcher extends ProfilesMatcher {

		private final Set<String> activeProfiles;

		ActiveProfilesMatcher(Set<String> activeProfiles) {
			this.activeProfiles = activeProfiles;
		}

		@Override
		protected MatchStatus doMatches(Set<String> profiles) {
			if (profiles.isEmpty()) {
				return MatchStatus.NOT_FOUND;
			}
			for (String activeProfile : this.activeProfiles) {
				if (profiles.contains(activeProfile)) {
					return MatchStatus.FOUND;
				}
			}
			return MatchStatus.NOT_FOUND;
		}

	}

	/**
	 * {@link ProfilesMatcher} that matches when {@code
	 * spring.profiles} is empty or contains a value with no text.
	 *
	 * @see StringUtils#hasText(String)
	 */
	private static class EmptyProfilesMatcher extends ProfilesMatcher {

		@Override
		public MatchStatus doMatches(Set<String> springProfiles) {
			if (springProfiles.isEmpty()) {
				return MatchStatus.FOUND;
			}
			for (String profile : springProfiles) {
				if (!StringUtils.hasText(profile)) {
					return MatchStatus.FOUND;
				}
			}
			return MatchStatus.NOT_FOUND;
		}

	}

	/**
	 * Class for binding {@code spring.profiles} property.
	 */
	static class SpringProperties {

		private List<String> profiles = new ArrayList<String>();

		public List<String> getProfiles() {
			return this.profiles;
		}

		public void setProfiles(List<String> profiles) {
			this.profiles = profiles;
		}

	}

}

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Common Man Tragedy in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Essay
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The idea of dramatic tragedy is a classical one, discussed in Aristotle's Poetics. Before it can be established as to whether Miller really has written a tragedy or not, the very concept of tragedy must be investigated. Aristotle asserted, 'Tragedy is a representation, an imitation, of an action.1? He went on to outline the common features tragic drama must have. Tragedy has six elements, which, in order of importance, are: plot, character, thought, music, language, and spectacle. The plot requires peripeteia, anagnorisis, and cathartic effect. It must take place in one day, in one setting, with a unity of plot (i.e. all tragic, no comic subplot). The character must be ?good? (there is some debate as to the vague nature of this word), be 'true to type', be consistent in behaviour, be a great man (that is, to be representative of a whole society), and have one single tragic flaw. Thought is exactly that; the ideas that the speakers express in language. Music is also self-explanatory. As for language and spectacle, the development of these is the perpetual instinct of drama to struggle closer and closer to real life.
Willy Loman's character does adhere to the tragic hero guidelines to a certain extent. Rather than being a man who is a representative of a society, he represents society. His allegorical name of 'Loman' or 'Low-man' allowed Miller to twist the formula somewhat. He is true to type in that he dreams the American Dream, and subscribes to the desire for money and material possessions in capitalist society. Whether Willy is a 'good' man is debatable; his affair would indicate that he is not, his wife dotes on him, and Biff is crushed by the discovery of the mistress, so much so that he loses all faith in his fa...
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...illy is a victim of the society in which he lives, or a victim of his own poor judgement. ?Willy is not simply a victim of that success-mongering culture. Miller wishes us to see that Willy accepts the success value all too easily and completely. The play suggests that, along with our pity for Willy, we take a critical attitude.8?
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DOWNER, A. S. (1975) American Drama and Its Critics CHICAGO
KERNAN, A. B. (1967) The Modern American Theater SPECTRUM
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LUCAS, F. L. (1972) Tragedy ? Serious drama in relation to Aristotle?s Poetics CHATTO & WINDUS
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Q: Swing MapPanel updating Graphics Trying to create a Panel with a graphical Map Overview. The Map overview shows 10x10 tiles of the complete map (so always only a certain area). This results in having 100 objects of MapTile, each representing one tile in the MapPanel class. each MapTile holds a Field object, which it is currently displaying. A field object saves a lot of data like if it is blocked, which person is standing on the field, which type the field is, etc. (possible types are grass, dirt, stone, etc.)
Whenever something changes i need to update the MapPanel so it shows the actual situation and not the one i instantiated it with. This is where i am currently failing.
This is what i have so far:
public class MapTile extends JPanel {
    private BufferedImage backgroundImage;
    private BufferedImage fighterImage;
    private Field field;

    stuff...

    public MapTile(Field field) throws MidWarGeneralException {
        loadBackgroundImage(field.getType());
        if(field.isOccupied()) {
            loadFighterImage(field.getFighter().getTeam());
        }
        setToolTip(field);
        this.field = field;
    }

    private void setToolTip(Field field) {
        if(field.isOccupied()) {
            setToolTipText(field.getX() + "/" + field.getY() + "\n"
                    + "used by: " + field.getFighter().getName() + "(Team: " + field.getFighter().getTeam().getName()
                    + ")\n" + "Type: " + field.getType().getName());
        }
        else {
            setToolTipText(field.getX() + "/" + field.getY() + "\n" +
                    "Type: " + field.getType().getName());
        }
    }

    private void loadBackgroundImage(TileType type) {
        stuff...
    }

    private void loadFighterImage(Team team) {
       stuff ...
    }

    public void update(Field field) {
        this.field = field;
        repaint();
    }

    @Override
    protected void paintComponent(Graphics graphics) {
        super.paintComponent(graphics);
        Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) graphics;
        g2d.drawImage(backgroundImage, 0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight(), this);
        if(fighterImage != null) {
            g2d.drawImage(fighterImage, 0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight(), this);
        }
    }
}

Both load() functions will just load the appropriate image based upon what current data the current field object has. What i want is: The MapTile object always has a background (grass.png, stone.png, etc.) and if the field is occupied by a person it will draw the person.jpg upon it in the team's color. This does work so far, however i fail at updating the view.
The view needs to update when:

*

*We change the render area (the map could also be for example 200x200, but we always only render a 10x10 area of it. So we can "walk" in each direction and render a different region of the map)

*A person moved (simply update the old and new field)

*A person died (simply update the old field)

This is my MapPanel class:
public class MapPanel extends JPanel {
    private Map map;
    private int currentX;
    private int currentY;
    private List<MapTile> tiles;

    public MapPanel(Map map) {
        this.map = map;
        this.currentX = 0;
        this.currentY = 0;
        this.tiles = new ArrayList<>();

        init();
    }

    private int[] calcRenderArea() {
        currentX = (currentX > map.getWidth()) ? map.getWidth() : currentX;
        currentY = (currentY > map.getHeight()) ? map.getHeight() : currentY;

        int difX = map.getWidth() - currentX;
        int difY = map.getHeight() - currentY;

        currentX = (difX < 10) ? currentX - (10 - difX) : currentX;
        currentX = (difY < 10) ? currentY - (10 - difY) : currentY;

        return new int[]{currentX, currentY};
    }

    private void render() {
        int[] offsets = calcRenderArea();
        int tileCounter = 0;
        for(int x = offsets[0]; x < 10; x++) {
            for(int y = offsets[1]; y < 10; y++, tileCounter++) {
                tiles.get(tileCounter).update(map.getField(x + offsets[0], y + offsets[1]));
            }
        }
    }

    private void init() {
        setLayout(new GridLayout(10, 10));
        for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
            for(int j = 0; j < 10; j++) {
                MapTile tile = new MapTile(map.getField(i, j));
                tile.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(GUIConfig.BORDER_COLOR));
                add(tile);
                tiles.add(tile);
            }
        }
    }

    public void toLeft() {
        currentX -= 1;
        update();
    }

    public void toRight() {
        currentX += 1;
        update();
    }

    public void toTop() {
        currentY -= 1;
        update();
    }

    public void toBottom() {
        currentY += 1;
        update();
    }

    public void update() {
        // Todo :fix the map panel updating
        render();
    }
}

So i googled a lot so far and found a few posts about several images in a JPanel but none about how to update them... I tried so default repaint(); which doesn't work. Someone any ideas? Thanks!

A: It looks like you need to improve your MapTile's update(Field field) method such that it extracts all the information from the Field object similar to what your constructor does.
i.e.,
    public final void update(Field field) {
        // this.field = field;
        loadBackgroundImage(field.getType());
        if(field.isOccupied()) {
            loadFighterImage(field.getFighter().getTeam());
        }
        setToolTip(field);
        this.field = field;
        repaint();
    }

and
    public MapTile(Field field) throws MidWarGeneralException {
        updateField(field);
    }

But again as a "side" recommendation, a recommendation that won't solve your original problem but which will likely help solve future problems, I recommend that you change your program structure to more of an MVC (model-view-control) type structure, and have your view -- the GUI above, listen for changes to the model (the logical portion of your program) and update itself when changes occur.


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Nevada Congressman Gets Student Suspended For Exercising Free Speech
by Patricia Mastricolo • March 23, 2018 • Comments Off on Nevada Congressman Gets Student Suspended For Exercising Free Speech
Following the National School Walkout on March 14, Noah Christiansen, a 17 year old student at McQueen High School in Reno, NV was given a two-day suspension for calling his congressman and exercising his First Amendment rights, complete with the f-word.
The Washington Post covered Christiansen's exact words in more detail,
"I just said, 'I believe bump stocks should be banned, the minimum age should be raised, and Congress people not already asking should get off their f-ing asses and do something about gun control.' "
Christiansen would later blame himself, somewhat, for not being more polite in the heat of the moment. "I'm smart enough to use better words than, of course, the f-word," he told the Nevada Independent. "But at the same time, even if I do want to use words, and use them over and over again, it's my right to do so."
Rep. Amodei, who cosponsored a bill in 2011 to loosen the regulations on interstate gun sales, says that neither he nor the staffer asked explicitly for the student to be punished, even though it is hard to imagine why else they would share the details of a private phone call with Christensen's high school principal. Amodei then defended the staffer's decision to complain about the student, saying "welcome to the world where words have impact."
The ACLU sent a letter to the NRA endorsed congressman asking for an apology for infringing on one of his own constituents First Amendment rights. Tod Story, Executive Director of the Nevada ACLU, explained their position in a statement on their website.
"It is unbelievable that a constituent should have to worry about calling a congressional office to share their opinions because your congressman's office might retaliate against you by reporting you to your school or place of employment. The retaliation by Congressman Amodei's office is a betrayal of the First Amendment and of the representative process."
Amodei has not officially responded yet, but did say to The Nevada Independent, "[The ACLU] were pretty passionate and correct in terms describing this guy's First Amendment rights, but…I think those apply to my guy too," referring to the staffer which made the phone call getting Christiansen suspended.
While no doubt the staffer is also protected under the First Amendment, Story clarified the failure of that counter-argument in another statement Thursday night.
"While congressional staffers do have First Amendment rights, they do not have rights to retaliate against constituents by exposing their confidential conversations and communications. Every constituent petitions the government with an expectation of privacy, if their opinion is to be made public, that choice is the constituents to make, not the Congressman's or his staff's. The oath the congressman swore to uphold applies to every constituent, not just the ones with whom he agrees. If Congressman Amodei does not believe constituent communications are private and confidential, his constituents should take heed."
It is interesting that if you leave in the profanity but remove the part of Christiansen's phone call that mentions gun control – his call for Congress to do something is wildly uncontroversial. No matter which polling data you look at it, it is clear that in a country polarized on all issues, the one thing democrats and republicans can agree on – is their absolute contempt for Congress. Time Magazine examined the data following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and the subsequent CNN town hall in which Marco Rubio refused to pledge to stop taking money from the NRA.
In red, blue or purple states, in middle America or on the coasts, most Americans loathe the nation's legislature. One big reason: Most think lawmakers are listening to all the wrong people, suggests a new study by researchers at Stanford University and the University of California-Santa Barbara with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research…the AP-NORC Center found that 85 percent of Americans, including 89 percent of Democrats and 82 percent of Republicans, disapprove of the job Congress is doing. That might matter in this midterm election year, as Republicans defend their majorities in the House and Senate.
So Saturday, March 24th, as MarchForOurLives, spring up in D.C. and around the country, perhaps other students, and adults will call their representatives in Congress and share their overwhelming displeasure or try to motivate them to action before November rolls around.
Amodei, who is up for reelection this year, told The Nevada Independent, "We're still getting calls, mostly from out of state, saying mean things to us, but, you know what, some days that comes with the job."
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Power duo dish: 5 things NoDa restaurateurs have learned about the business
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Husband and wife culinary powerhouses Jeff Tonidandel and Jamie Brown are known for operating some of the hottest restaurants in Charlotte. Their portfolio includes date-night favorite Crepe Cellar Kitchen & Pub; oysters and a pint spot Growlers Pourhouse; fried chicken and cocktails spot Haberdish and dough heaven Reigning Doughnuts.
In late March, the pair announced their fifth restaurant, a concept called Supperland, which is scheduled to open in early 2020. Supperland — their first location outside NoDa — will be inside a former church in Plaza Midwood.
One of the pitfalls of social media is that we tend to see only the end results of hard work and perseverance. But it's the lessons learned along the way that truly resonate with others.
As their first restaurant, Crepe Cellar, recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, Tonidandel and Brown gave us the top five lessons they've learned as business owners.
Crepe Cellar Happy Go Lucky Punch, with champagne, vodka, gin, lime juice and grapefruit-blood orange tea syrup.
Lesson #1: Do something you're passionate about — don't just do it for the money.
If you're thinking of starting a business, take a moment to really think about the type of business you want to start and the reasons why you want to start the business. If the reasons are solely based on the amount of money you think you will make, you're setting yourself up for failure.
Also, ask yourself if you will you kick your own butt if you don't go for it. Regret is the hardest pill to swallow.
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Lesson #2: Take risks, but be smart about it.
Risk is necessary with entrepreneurship. Wisdom with risk is also necessary.
"When we first started with Crepe Cellar 10 years ago, I held a steady job so our little family had a regular income and insurance," Brown said. "It wasn't until we signed the lease for Haberdish that I gave my notice and came over to work on our family business."
With entrepreneurship, you still need to be smart about taking risks.
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Lesson #3: Be strategic.
First off, take the time to write a business plan. Even if it is just a bulleted list, a business plan will make you think about everything from operations and finance to marketing, your brand, your target customer, growth plans and exit strategies.
"Small businesses have to be good at marketing," Brown said. "This saves a lot of money, and it lets you have control over your message."
Spend time working on your brand. If you get that right, the amount of marketing (time and money) drops tremendously. Allow that brand to come to life in every touch point with the customer. Use your "four walls" to bring the brand to life. Then people want to come back to feel the uniqueness of your brand.
Lesson #4: Know that your work is never done.
Continuous improvement is key. Just because something worked well one year, doesn't mean it will work well the next. Keep evolving, and keep it fresh.
"Crepe Cellar opened as an 11-table restaurant," Tonidandel said. "We started by using almost entirely used equipment, tables, chairs, etc. Over the years, we've been able to renovate and buy the small space next to us to expand to 18 tables. We update our menu seasonally, and we stay on top of food trends. And beyond food trends, we also have to stay on top of social media trends and being able to adapt to them."
Both Tonidandel and Brown agree that small businesses have the advantage of being nimble.
Photo by Dustin Peck
Haberdish
"Use that to your advantage," Brown said. "You can make change or implement things that a larger competitor cannot. All of these new chain restaurants coming to Charlotte have a lot harder time innovating and changing, whereas our local restaurants, breweries and bars can move faster."
"I'm a big fan of Charlotte having more local spots," Brown continued. "It allows for more uniqueness to answer questions such as, "What is Charlotte?" and "How are we different from other cities?"
Lesson #5: You can't do it all alone. Invest, empower and enable your team.
"Invest in your people," Tonidandel said. "The head chef at Crepe Cellar has been with us for 10 years, and Colleen Hughes has been with us for about eight years, creating stellar cocktails. We have a solid list of people who've been with us 5-10 years, which is awesome in the restaurant business."
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"Empower your staff," Brown said. "Having a hands-off management style that delegates and empowers is difficult when it is your own business, but there are a lot of benefits. Don't look over their shoulders; instead show them that you trust them. Let your staff try to fix problems on their own. That takes away the notion that only you can do things and make decisions.
"When you empower your staff to be a part of the decision-making process and show them you trust them, it frees up your time to look for other opportunities for your team and for your business."
"Lean into what people do well," Tonidandel said. "If someone loves baking or making pastries, for example, give them opportunities to make desserts. If someone expresses an interest in cocktails, as Colleen did years ago, then create an opportunity for them. Training, tasks, books, seminars etc., find a way to support them. It requires listening to staff and understanding what they'd like to do, and if you have a need for that skill or talent, you pull them in."
Tonidandel and Brown refer to this as "job crafting," where individuals are given tasks that fit their strong suits. Some people love numbers, while others love customer service or being creative.
"We have 96 people on our block in NoDa working at all the restaurants," Brown said. "All of them are better at what they do than I am, so why would I ever try to micromanage them?"
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