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BIG BEN TO WAVE THE FLAG
By Fred Kerber
PLAYOFF NOTES
AUBURN HILLS – The U.S. men's Olympic basketball team should begin coming into clearer focus today when, according to coach Larry Brown, Team USA officials will hold discussions to determine who still is going to Athens.
While Jason Kidd is expected to be among the withdrawals, one big man, Detroit's two-time Defensive Player of the Year Ben Wallace, was added to the mix.
"It hasn't been announced," Wallace said while confirming he was invited two weeks ago when he was asked "if I would say 'Yes' and I said 'Yes.' "
"It couldn't happen to a better guy," said Brown, stressing nothing was official. "He'd be a great representative. He plays the right way, works hard. He's the ultimate team player."
Brown also addressed the drop-outs. "It hasn't been announced but there's speculation that three or four guys that are listed might not be going so I would suspect they want to get the team selected pretty quickly so everyone can make plans," said Brown.
"Jason and Tracy McGrady and Karl [Malone] and Mike Bibby are still listed but from what I understand I'm not sure what their situations are going to be."
Brown said Kidd told him "he wanted to play but I know he's pretty banged up."
Kidd said at the end of the Nets' playoff run he would likely withdraw. So the committee will discuss alternatives that include Indiana's Ron Artest, Milwaukee's Michael Redd, Detroit's Richard Hamilton and Miami's Eddie Jones. With all those withdrawing, Brown said one guy who remains "committed to playing" is Philly's Allen Iverson.
"I haven't heard one even hint of him not being there," Brown said, noting all the injuries Iverson fought through this season. "I'm thrilled that he would come."
Kenny Anderson, with Jamaal Tinsley hurting, was dusted off and played six minutes. But he committed three turnovers.
Pistons' Chauncey Billups has a rough shooting night: 2-of-13. but he had two of the game's biggest shots, nailed a couple of fourth-quarter 3's that produced tie scores each time . . . Pacers center Jeff Foster looked at a sparse media contingent at the morning workout. "There's like seven of you. There's normally 40. I guess you've given up on us."
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Thor, Germanic thunder god. The hammer is associated with the thunderbolt. Painting by Mårten Eskil Winge, ca. 1872.
The Germanic peoples are a linguistic and ethnic branch of Indo-European peoples. They came from Northern Europe and are identified by their use of the Germanic languages. Migrating Germanic peoples spread throughout Europe, mixing with existing local populations (such as Celts, but also Slavs/Vends and Romans), forming the future basis of many nations, that are connected by similar languages and common history, and culture.
Latin Germani is first used by Julius Caesar.
But the Germanic tribes did not have a self name that included all Germanic-speaking people. In English, German is first attested in 1520, replacing earlier use of Almain or Dutch. Dutch is now used in the English language to refer to the language and the inhabitants of the Netherlands.
Jutland and the Danish islands (Ingvaeones).
The Sons of Mannus Istvaeones, Irminones, and Ingvaeones are collectively called West Germanic tribes. In addition, those Germanic people who remained in Scandinavia are referred to as North Germanic. These groups all developed separate dialects, the basis for the differences among Germanic languages down to the present day.
The division of peoples into West Germanic, East Germanic, and North Germanic is a modern linguistic classification.
Odin riding on Sleipnir (Ardre image stone, 8th century).
The early Germanic tribes spoke mutually intelligible dialects, and shared a common culture and mythology (see Germanic mythology), as is indicated by Beowulf and the Volsunga saga.
In the absence of large-scale political unification, such as that imposed forcibly by the Romans upon the peoples of Italy, the various tribes remained free, led by their own hereditary or chosen leaders.
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Writing Credits for Susan Daffron
In addition to being an award-winning book author, Susan Daffron has written more than 70 articles that have appeared in national magazines. She also has written more than 200 newspaper articles, approximately 1,500 online articles, web copy, autoresponders, newsletters, and courseware for online training classes.
A list of writing credits appears below. Many of the print articles are restricted by copyright, so we can't publish copies here. You may be able to find some articles in the archives on the magazine sites that have links below.
Logical Expressions – A total of approximately 1,500 articles and blog posts, including:
For 3 years, wrote weekly Publishize newsletter. Past newsletter articles (300+) are archived here along with new articles, which are posted regularly.
Wrote twice-monthly newsletter and blog posts for the National Association of Pet Rescue Professionals.
Wrote blog posts for the Self-Publishers Online Conference
Created multiple training courses about self-publishing for SelfPubU, author training site.
Contributed articles to Computor Companion magazine (archived here).
For 5 years, wrote weekly Logical Tips ezine (approximately 400 tips, most of which are archived here).
For 3 years, wrote twice-monthly Pet Tails ezine (300+ articles archived on this site)
For 2 years, wrote weekly Sandpoint Insider ezine (some articles archived on this site).
Write marketing materials for IBM Web site and printed collateral. (See project page)
Contributed Letter from the President for monthly SPAWNews newsletter and wrote a number of articles for the SPAWN Web site. (See project page)
Wrote guest posts for numerous writing and entrepreneur-related Web sites, including Copyblogger.
Education to Go – Wrote and taught online courses that are available at 1,400 colleges. Introduction to Quark XPress for
the PC and Introduction to Quark XPress for the Macintosh. Each is an approximately 60,000 word training course with 12 Lessons of 5 chapters each along with FAQ, supplementary material, quizzes, pretests, and final exam.
Publications International – Wrote product reviews for PDAs, PDA accessories, scanners, and image editing software for the Consumer Guide Best Buys Web Site (www.consumerguide.com).
Rochester Initiative – For four years, wrote the twice-monthly Intelligencer online newsletter which was e-mailed to approximately 40,000 IT managers.
Wimpy Player -Rewrote approximately 50 pages of help and sales copy for a Web site for a product that lets you put streaming media on your Web site.
Magazine & Newsletter Articles
Touchpoint Communications
Group – Newsletter articles for quarterly Graphic Advisor and Egram e-mail newsletter,
which are targeted towards people in the graphic design and printing industry.
Association of Executive and Administrative Professionals – Wrote two computer articles and one computing "Help Desk" column for monthly Executary newsletter.
Life Association News, Technology Bytes Column (monthly column). Topics: "Choosing the Right PC," "Laptops, Storage and Travel," "Upgrading: For Better or Worse," "The Web and Insurance Fraud," "Laptops and Presentations," "The Year 2000 Problem," "Spread the Word," "Typing at the Speed of Light," "Under $1,000 PCs–Such a Deal?" "Clean and Simple Storage," "Backing Up Murphy's Law," "Laptop Computer Security," "When Technology Bites Back," "High Tech Copilots."
Bedford Communications (Laptop Buyer's Guide, Computer Buyer's Guide, TechEdge) Articles: "Photo Retouching Tips," "CD Labeling Software," "Desktop Publishing Tips," "Image Editing Tips," "PowerPoint Tips," "Word Tips," "Presentation Software," "Maximizer
6.0," "Harvard Publisher," "Page Layout Software," "Disaster Recovery," "45 Productivity Tools," "Corel 8," "E-Commerce–Are We There Yet?," "Time & Billing Software," "Telephony on the Internet," "Getting Tech Support Over the Web," "Utilities to Make Web Browsing Safer, Easier, Faster And More Fun," "Using Internet Search Engines," "Norton Your Eyes Only," "Using the Internet to Work from Home," "Choosing an ISP," "An Hour on the Internet," "How to Put your Catalog on the Web," "Internet Utilities," "Making Travel Arrangements on the Web."
Advisor Publications – Articles: Internet Advisor "The Digital Travel Agent," Lotus Notes Advisor "If Only Your Application Could Speak," Visual Basic/Access Advisor "Are You Prepared for a Disaster?"
Baseline Logic – Ghostwrote case study article for client to submit to industry trade magazine.
Technique Magazine – Articles: "Designing with Templates," "Managing Computer Files," "Managing Time," "Software for Small Business"
Midrange Computing – Articles: "AS/400 Automated Fax Systems," "Systems Design and Development's TCM/400," "Product Spotlight: GUI/400," "Redmond Technologies' Extend/VCR"
GAMA International – Article: "Leadership Heroes Contest Winners"
Newspaper Columns
Spokesman Review (Spokane, Washington), Computer columns 2006 – 2007. These columns also were part of the Logical Tips newsletter and some are now archived on this site.
"Street Level" Columns. Susan was on the Spokesman Review "Board of Contributors" and wrote a number of columns: Middle of Nowhere, hang a left and there we are, Cutting-edge kitty's hangout a PC play land, My life, computers — full system integration, North Idaho is going to the wrong type of dogs, Home is where the heart of my business is. Your Turn Column: No-shows, the undependable often suffer business failures
North Idaho News Network (Northern Idaho area, including Coeur d'Alene Press, Post Falls, and Sandpoint newspapers):
Weekly "Tales from the Mousepad" columns. The column began running Feb 11, 2001 and generally appeared on Sundays until it moved to the Spokesman Review in 2006 (see above). It was also available as part of the Logical Tips newsletter and many columns are now archived here.
The River Journal (Sandpoint, Idaho), "Pet Tails" Columns October 2002 – 2007. Because so many people lamented the loss when Susan Daffron stopped writing about pets in the local newspaper, the River Journal picked it up. The column was also available at the Pet Tails site and is now archived here in the pet section. In late 2006 the River Journal also started running Susan's Web Business column.
Bonner County Daily Bee (Sandpoint, Idaho), "Pet Tails" Columns. Ran from April 1998 – June 2000. Pet care articles focusing on pets adopted from animal shelters (see above).


Publisher: Infinity Health Care Ltd.
This book reveals the many hidden causes for high and low blood pressure that most physicians miss. The health care practitioner seeking a better way will appreciate this book. The blueprint is here for correcting the causes of blood pressure problems, rather than controlling them with drugs. A veteran naturopathic doctor shows how to use diagnostic signs and simple tests to uncover the underlying problems. He explains why the standard method of measuring blood pressure is incomplete and how the relationship of various blood pressure readings can point to the organ or process causing the problem. The protocols for treatment are the most comprehensive of any book on the subject. Many of the most powerful alternative therapies are here: Acupuncture, Hydrotherapy, Manual therapies, Metabolic balancing, Phototherapy, Herbal medicines, Electrotherapy, Homeopathic medicines, Dietary treatment, and Nutritional balancing.
Dr. C.P. Negri has dual doctorates in Naturopathic medicine and Oriental medicine, giving him a unique perspective on both Western and Eastern approaches to healthcare. He has been in clinical practice since 1978, lectured at medical schools, taught seminars to professionals and laypersons alike, and is recognized as an authority on natural methods of healing.
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Q: Problems with Parsers i hope somebody can help me to understand the following code
type Parser a = String -> [(a,String)]

item :: Parser Char
item = \ s -> case s of
    [] -> []
    (x:xs) -> [(x,xs)]

returnP :: Parser a
returnP a  = \s -> [(a,s)]

(>>=) :: Parser a -> (a -> Parser b) -> Parser b
p>>=f = \s -> case p s of
    [(x,xs)]-> f x xs
    _ -> []

twochars :: Parser (Char,Char)
twochars= item >>= \a -> item >>= \b -> returnP (a,b)

Everything seems to be clear but i dont understand the lampda function in the last line in the twochars-function. It would be nice if somebody can give me a explanation about that.

A: Rewriting the twochars function for clarity and it is basically:
twochars =
  item >>= \a -> -- parse a character and call it `a`
  item >>= \b -> -- parse another character and call it `b`
  returnP (a,b)  -- return the tuple of `a` and `b`

The lambdas here just introduce names for the parsed characters, and let them be passed along to a later part of the computation.
They correspond to the second argument in the bind you have defined:
(>>=) :: Parser a        -- your item
      -> (a -> Parser b) -- your lambda returning another parse result
      -> Parser b

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Nikon 18-55mm (All)
Nikon Nikkor 50mm 1.8
BMW M3 (E46)
Rodrigo Inocêncio•
It was a Saturday's afternoon and weather was so unstable I was in doubt wether this session would happen or not. But I closed my eyes, prayed a bit and moved forward to this spot. A manual BMW M3 E46 would be the star of the day...
There's been a gossip on the web about the manual E46 being the last perfect M3 and, well, seeing this car in front of me made me wonder, it was in another level and maybe that gossip is really true. I mean, rear wheel drive, manual gear box, muscular (but elegant) look, the infamous S54 engine and a sharp chassis are more than sufficient attributes to get that level of acknowledgment.
343hp, 365Nm and an exhaust and intake note that could only come from heaven. What's this? The infamous S54. Some say that cars that have a distinct "soul" also have an healthy "heart", and if there exists a car to prove this, that car would be... The M3 E46.
This one is equiped with the optional (and gorgeous) 19 inch BMW Motorsport wheels that, personally, are the most stunning wheels to equip the E46. And if the exhaust and intake notes were insufficient, it also has the Harman/Kardon sound system, just to hear that special 80's rock song. Or another kind of music. I know I would listen to Deep Purple or enjoy a retrowave music in this car, depending on the mood, but hey, that would be me!
As I said before, the weather was unstable so this session was made a bit on a hurry but it didn't make me loose the opportunity to appreciate this M3 and talk with the owner about it. It looks like this M3 got "stanced" before he got it and, thankfully, it has been restored to its ideal state, almost stock. Not that I hate car modifications, no, on the contrary, it's just because there are cars that come close to perfection from factory they don't deserve to be touched (specially if we put the "stance" on mind) and for me, the E46 M3 is one of those.
Having nothing more to add, I mean, it's a BMW M3 E46, a wet dream for pratically almost all car enthusiasts, I'm not feeling that I need to write about all its specs and details, because, certainly, you'll know them already. Hope you enjoyed this share!
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using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class RocketLauncher : MonoBehaviour {

    public Rocket rocketPrefab;
    public string fireButton = "Fire1";
    public float spreadFactor = 1;
    public bool allowPlayerControl = true;

	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
		if (allowPlayerControl && Input.GetButtonDown(fireButton)) {
            var r = Random.insideUnitCircle * spreadFactor;
            GameObject.Instantiate(
                rocketPrefab,
                transform.position
                  + transform.forward * rocketPrefab.initialSpeed * 0.15f
                  + transform.right * r.x
                  + transform.up * r.y,
                transform.rotation
            );
        }
	}
}

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The hope was to use young people's perspectives to help identify grant recipients who are doing innovative work. And perhaps by giving youth this kind of hands-on training and experience with distributing $30,000 in grant money to seven community-based organizations, they could even spark change in the field of philanthropy itself.


Track #6 from the debut album Retrospection: a song about internal psychological struggle.
This is the hit new track off of Daejo X Kyirim's new album DK Kountry, featuring legendary artists including Eligh of Living Legends and Afroman! This album has been in the works for the past year and encompasses a variety of aspects and experiences from both Daejo's and Kyirim's lives. They hope that with this album they can form a close level of relatability with their audience and showcase the different hardships they had to overcome while also seeing the fun side of life.
In the end of March, we released the first single of our coming debute album, "Fire". It's a heavy, dirty rock-hit with Beastie Boys-vibing rap attitude, a catchy chorus and a strong feeling of 2014.


NFLDraftScout.com debuted in 1987 and has built the reputation as the leader in evaluation of thousands of college players. The website relaunched earlier today and will be part of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's growing platforms of multimedia content built around the game.
NFLDraftScout.com tracks more than 3,200 college players in each class and ranks the top 1,000 leading up to the draft. The Hall of Fame and NFLDraftScout.com's co-branded content also extends to The Sports Xchange's coverage of football that will include syndicated news and premium NFL Draft content, products and publications. Coverage of the NFL by The Sports Xchange includes a daily wire, breaking news coverage, game previews, and complete coverage of OTA and minicamps around the league, in addition to expert team analysis of each of the 32 clubs. The Sports Xchange provides award-winning coverage of college football.
The Hall's partnership with NFLDraftScout.com and The Sports Xchange will expand the reach and scope of coverage of all levels of the game. The editorial teams will scour the globe to profile the greatest involved with the game ranging from youth through the most elite who earned a bronzed bust in Canton.
After three decades of providing insight and analysis to numerous media and the NFL itself, NFLDraftScout.com and The Sports Xchange are excited and honored to find a home with the Pro Football Hall of Fame," said TSX and Draft Scout founder and CEO Frank Cooney (pictured on left with Baker). "After all, this is where all things football belong."
The exclusive in-depth multimedia content that is created will be archived in the Hall of Fame's Ralph Wilson, Jr. Pro Football Research & Preservation Center for future generations to enjoy.


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LEGO + 3D Printing: An Evolution In Creativity
Our Chief Engineer, Cort, has been leading various LEGO Mindstorm-based CCA's, teaching the basics of mechatronics with the constrained and limited world of EV3 kits. Sure, the LEGO Education kits are a masterful creation and a gateway drug to all things STEM. Don't get us wrong – We love LEGO!
But, teaching a full STEM curriculum with JUST LEGO can be difficult for a creative engineer knowledgeable in a wide world of technology and fundamental science and math. So, as one progresses from basic line-following, two-wheeled contraptions to original works of art and mechanical design it can get frustrating to look for a part that may or may not have been thought of a universal joint by LEGO designers, as incredibly awesome as they may be.
Enter LEGO Mindstorm Part Builder.
So, of course, Cort went forth and designed a simple tool for him to easily fabricate universal joints of his own and students' liking. The premise is that most of LEGO's mechanical parts fit in a 3D grid of blocks with holes drilled in various dimensions, and parts that lock these bits into place with respect to one another. Well, one sometimes just wants to take advantage of that world and enhance existing EV3 kits with non-existent parts that would enable them to put the LEGO pieces with respect to one another in ways cumbersome or impossible to do according to LEGO Mindstorm's design, whether it was done on purpose or due to other limitations. LEGO cannot sell every part of every type in unlimited quantities to every LEGO user, so we understand the conundrum. However, we have found a solution!
We hope this is not trespassing on LEGO's intellectual property rights. If anything, we hope it enables LEGO designers to think creatively about their next expansion sets! For instance, instead of their usual expansion sets, maybe LEGO can get into the business of 3D Printers, colorful filaments, and pay-per-part or subscription-based libraries of simple LEGO parts…
Or risk the fate of Kodak.
Mambo Jumbo: Creating (and Changing!) a Drone Curriculum for Infocomm & Media
Nan Hua Primary Infocomm & Media CCA hired us to teach a Drone Flight School & Coding curriculum for one semester. The club had 7 Mambo drones and 15 iPads with Tynker app installed. Tynker is a Scratch-based block programming educational app, with built-in Mambo drone support via Bluetooth.
Tynker's block API for Mambo was fairly limited. Liftoff, Land, Move Up, Move Down, Forward, Backward, Turn # of Angles Clockwise, Counter-Clockwise, etc. Not much sensory information, no real-time feedback accessible to Tynker API or the programmer. At first, we were worried we wouldn't be able to teach this limited API for a whole semester, but we brainstormed a fun-filled, experiential-based, challenge-framed set of lessons that exercise fundamental computing, drone flight basics, aerial photography, animation, and other topics.
Flight School: basics of drone control system, flight controls, yaw/roll/pitch, etc.
Obstacle Course Challenge 1: hoops, over and under desks, etc
Obstacle Course Challenge 2: teams challenge each other in a duel
Custom Controller: code your own flight controller with controls for funky movements like corkscrew lift, flying in a circle always pointing at center, aerial acrobatics, etc
Search & Rescue: Obstacle Challenge enhanced with the Mambo's Grabber accessory for more complicated missions
Capture the Flag: Use aerial photography to capture shots of secret hiding places of the enemy team. Retrieve material intelligence data first to win.
Dance, Dance, Revolution: choreograph a band of drones to fly in an eye-capturing pattern
Lesson 8-12
Mixed Media: Now it's time for everyone to work together. Choreograph a mixed media show with drones, animation, and music.
Lessons 8-12 were our original intention for the program's finale, but now we are involving the club in the new Drone Odyssey Challenge, a Science Center-sponsored, Parrot Mambo coding competition for Primary and Secondary school students. Just in time!
Our company is flexible in the ways we work with our clients. We build our relationship with school teachers and administrators on trust and shared passions towards the students' well-being, enjoyment, and maximal learning potential. We have no problems with changing course, augmenting our curricula, and delivering new topics with different instructors chosen for optimal outcomes. Our trainers are imbued with the confidence and the knowledge to lead a complex CCA, a short module, or a single unit workshop where a prepared slide show, or a prescribed curriculum, may or may not be the right fit for the job at hand. We think fast on our feet, using our intuition and skills, to get the best job done. That's a way of working we would like to instill in the students as well, so why not be the role models they so desperately need…
Temasek Primary Team Clinches Junior Maker Engineering Award @ IDE Series 2018
Without much time to prepare, really a month, including four 1.5 hour sessions, where my time was divided among 2 competitive teams, as well as the recreational CCA groups, one of the IDE Series entries – Garbage Boat – managed to catch the eyes of the judges and win a nice award. I have to say, the 2-boy team was extremely excited about the project from the beginning. When the motors that we had in class didn't work well, they brought a couple of toy 3V motors from home and experimented with them. They designed the garbage scoop all on their own, and even re-engineered the boat from an air-propelled craft, to a more conventional water-propeller vehicle similar to regular boats.
As we entered the competition space, we realized the boat was in a very bad shape – all the wiring had to be redone. I worked with K-Boy, getting in a bit of experiential learning with a soldering iron, a crimping tool, and a glue gun. He managed to secure the micro:bits, motors and props just in time for his showcase (… and get the nurse to bandage his minor soldering iron burn…).
The all-girls Sail Train team didn't win an award, but were very proud to participate and represent their school.
CoSpace Rescue – Not As Bad As I Thought
When I first prepared for teaching skills relevant to CoSpace Rescue I thought this would be a relatively poor platform for learning proper software engineering techniques and computational thinking. After teaching CoSpace-based curriculum for a few months in both Primary (Zhenghua) and Secondary (Pei Hwa) CCAs I have to admit the virtual simulation platform is starting to grow on me.
Unfortunately, as I have become more enthusiastic about the CoSpace framework, I've also simultaneously realized that my first instincts about it are also true. As a gamification system for coding, CoSpace Rescue works well. For the Primary School level, the GUI really helps in removing obstacles to getting started, as opposed to an all-text-based coding environment. Kids can quickly add rules and test various event-based decision trees, without knowing any coding language.
They quickly internalize boolean operator concepts, and competing decision priorities and choices. It isn't a very big jump from that to utilizing state variables to create simple state machines. Still, it has been challenging to get students used to this environment to shed the security and comfort of the game GUI with the freedom and efficiency of pure and abstract C coding. Without the ability to abstract from the Simulation Gaming environment to the underlying C code, the students are unable to make the leap of faith and leap of computational confidence to go hacking. That's where the benefits of the platform start hitting a serious wall – students inculcated in nothing else for several years turn into great CoSpace Rescue developers, but not great developers… A work in progress.
Still, I'm proud of the Junior team at Zhenghua who managed to clinch the ambiguous "Judge's Award"!
First Time @ FIRST LEGO League Competition
On Thursday, 1 March, we brought two teams from LEGO Education's own collaboration space – Innovation Labs at the Science Center. The experience of coaching a group of disparate primary school children from various schools and backgrounds proved more challenging than I initially thought. There was a lot of tension, angst, and misunderstanding as we tried to get 8 kids to gel as two teams over a short period of time, where we barely had enough sessions to get the kids ready for the competition.
Luckily, some of the parents really stepped up to support us and the kids through the process. The parental dimension added some of its own challenges, but overall it really helped the kids see the effort as important, relevant, and valuable. The adults kept the kids fed, helped getting them focused and attentive, and even suggested design ideas that the kids were free to do with as they pleased.
Finally, in the last week after Chinese New Year, the teams started kicking into high gear and got their acts together. By the end of our last session, we had the kids running through a mock competition round. Spirits were a bit low as the teams could not complete more than 3-4 missions each per round.
Still, the teams seemed to perform fairly well with their presentations, and had some success and luck in round 1, so that one team managed to make it to finals. During finals, the team went the extra mile and managed to complete a round with 100+ points – getting closer to Secondary school averages. The competition doesn't have separate divisions for the Secondary and Primary levels, so kudos to the kids for trying their best against Goliaths!
Awesome FLL-themed cupcakes, baked especially in honor of son for his participation in finals, by his momma, who runs Cuppacakes:
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Micro:bit Innovation Projects @ Temasek Primary – Environmental Conservation
We've been asked to temporarily tweak the recreational LEGO Robotics CCA at Temasek Primary into a hybrid of two CCA programs – one recreational and one focused on a design & innovation competition based on micro:bits. Luckily we have two trainers in this program, so each of us can maintain focus on a different program.
For micro:bits, we created two teams – SailTrain & FilterBoat.
SailTrain – An all-girls team was already working on a LEGO Sail Car from an older education set (not EV3). Using the basic design, we are adding a micro:bit driven servo motor to control the rotation of the mast and the direction of the sail. The concept is a Renewable Energy-Powered Commuter Transport. The sail is wind-powered, but the miro:bit/servo will be powered by Solar Panels. If there is no wind, solar-stored power can be diverted to normal rotary actuators to drive axles/wheels directly.
FilterBoat – P5 boys team who came up with this original idea of an autonomous boat for cleaning up the lakes and reservoirs of Singapore. The idea is based on various manual operations currently undergoing in various water bodies – for instance, see this relatively outdated operation.
In comparison, a fleet of smaller autonomous boats based on the team's design can be deployed to operate cleaning in a 24/7 operation along the various inland water bodies of Singapore. A unique and relatively realistic approach to automation and efficiency for a current real-world problem.
There's still a lot of work to be done to complete the projects, movies, and posters required for both teams, but the enthusiasm is now in place to get them over the finish line!
The teams in both the competitive and recreational sides of the CCA are really enthusiastic about their various projects. After a lukewarm reception to the idea of switching to a micro:bit competitive project, all of a sudden more teams want to participate – after seeing the cool prototypes being created!
http://www.aposteriori.com.sg/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Microbit-filter-boat-day-1.mp4
A Posteriori Clinches a Unique Design Special Award @ SRG 2018
We built and tested our Chihuahua (small, but loud) wall climbing robot in two weeks, or so. It was a fun process where none of us got electrocuted, despite losing magic smoke from various MOSFETs and diodes. We also didn't lose any of our 10 fingers in the high-speed ducted fans, despite cutting through and splintering several propellers.
So, that's a marked success.
Here's a video of us testing a full run at home – the surfaces are all wrong, and the dimensions are much shorter than the real event:
http://www.aposteriori.com.sg/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wall-climb-test.mp4
With that fine working machine in the bag, and less than 24 hours to go, we decided to add more Time-of-Flight light distance sensors and a whole bunch of code, in order to be able to perform some alignment correction on the controlled fall back down. That seemed to have introduced unexpected I2C complexities, which we spent a lot of our day-of-competition practice time trying to understand and overcome.
Here's one of our better practice performances:
http://www.aposteriori.com.sg/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wall-climb-practice.mp4
By the time we had to cage our robot, we had some vague hopes that one of several runs might luck through the full challenge… Unfortunately, our little Chihuahua had stage fright in front of an expectant audience, which turned into a full meltdown, when one of its unprotected wires shorted and a billow of smoke erupted climactically from the belly of the beast.
Oh well! We did impress some people with our thrust-based design, and collected our Unique Design Special Award ceremoniously at the end of the event.
We plan to be back next year with another unique design in at least one challenge… Kudos to Singapore Robotics Games organizers for all their hard work and dedication to the open and free competition.
Mechatronic Talent Show @ Temasek Primary
Last week we started a 20-week recreational Robotics CCA at Temasek Primary. The cohort is called The Roboteers.
I partnered with Zahab G., our most recent addition to the Aposteriori family. Zahab has a Master's in Chemistry and has been working with children in holiday camps and as a tutor for GCSEs and other secondary school-level tests. Zahab is enthusiastic and energetic – just the right mix of smarts, playfulness, and curiosity that can help ignite a pre-teen's imagination.
We decided to coordinate a Robot Talent Show/Parade for this course, as opposed to the tired Line-Following, Sumo or other types of basic robotics competitions. The students are being tasked to complete a very open-ended task – exhibit a robotic talent of their choice. The first week they had crazy ideas like fire-breathing dragons, and death-defying daredevil robots. The second week we started prototyping and quickly settling on likelier choices – like pickers/sorters/collectors, art-makers, uniquely-actuated machines, and obstacle avoiders.
At the end of Week 2 prototyping, we still have some unsettled teams, but the process is becoming clearer as each team is asked to share their ideas with the rest of the class. The next challenge is to stir away from prototyping and into actualizing without giving up on the initial idea when implementation hits difficulties – a likely event on all such projects. In any case, the students seem very engaged in the process, with a few minor exceptions, and are enjoying themselves quite a bit, so far.
With 36 students and just 2 instructors, I find it challenging to manage the teams and keep them on target at all times, but luckily we have a disciplinary team of teachers in the room with us to keep the students in check if things get out of hand and a whole class is derailed due to nonsense.
Next week we will begin more technical discussions on drivetrains, gears and other simple machines. Look out for updates on the Roboteers Talent Show!
Wall Climbing Robot Race – Singapore Robotic Games 2018
Last week, as I was getting excited about my work with FIRST LEGO League at the Innovation Lab (see last post), I spent some time scouting other local and regional robotics competitions. I happened on a very useful list from a competitor. It led me to investigate the Singapore Robotics Games (SRG) as a general platform for expressing our own innovative energy. I immediately got motivated to register our team of crack enthusiasts to showcase our talents, abilities, and our drive. Participating in and winning a robotics competition is both immensely rewarding and very valuable from a marketing standpoint – a powerful story to tell kids, parents, teachers, administrators and partners when we try to tout our product. As this event is organized by Singapore academia, it is more about fostering rapport between various organizations who have a stake in robotics research and its integration in academia and industry in Singapore, and so registration fees are waived by the organizers, who co-sponsor the event with the Science Centre and its government arm – the Science Centre Board, which is part of the Ministry of Education.
Shenghao (resident hacker) and I perused the competition documentation and decided to go for the Wall Climbing Robot Race, because we believed the challenge was simple enough to get at least partially right in a short amount of time. The historical participation rates for this event were not overwhelming, which was another bonus for us. We quickly ensnared the support of Cort, and immediately became embroiled in design discussions and strategies for winning. Laven (resident martian expert) joined our group as well, and I registered our 4-person team officially, once we had a consensus that this was worthy of our time and effort, and that we would all be OK making complete fools of ourselves in the worst case.
Homemade Thrust Testing Platform
Our current design is basically a car that climbs walls and stays upright by applying some force directly towards whatever surface it is on – it takes over for or fights against gravity when the plane of motion changes with respect to it. We are using electric ducted fans to try to achieve this. Currently we have a fairly complete design, but missing a few of the parts – namely, power switches for high-current applications, and wheels and tires. We also need to do some design work to get around any kind of wheel slip in our car, that would disorient it off its planned course – go straight. The variance in reflectance properties of the 3 surfaces we need to drive across seem to be complicating this to some degree.
Our budget of $500 is quickly being eaten away from paying premium prices for electronics, which we are sourcing locally, instead of through our usual, cheaper, global trade routes, simply for the expediency of time. We have about $150 sunk in drive and thrust systems (EDFs, gear motors), another $100 or so in the power system (with some spent on reserves for the sake of rapid-ish prototyping), and say $50-100 allocated for chassis, controller, sensors and the rest of the electronics, a lot of which we already had.
We've done about 3 days of work, and I foresee about 3-5 more before we have a testable platform. Depending on the sanity of our design choices and integration work, we may be close to done at that point, or scramble back to the drawing board, with very little time to spare before the competition.
No mountain too high for A Posteriori Wall Climbing Robot Team!
FIRST LEGO League Kickoff at LEGO's Innovation Lab
As of Sunday, Yoni is collaborating with Kwee Lin Yap at LEGO's Innovation Lab (Science Centre) on a set of workshops where we are coaching teams for this season of FIRST LEGO League (FLL).. This season's theme is all about HydroDynamics – the human water cycle and its current challenges and future innovations.
The teams have a lot of work cut out for them, and it's a challenge getting full buy-in from every participant. It's amazing how quickly they can get into problem-solving mode, how creative they can be in solution finding and challenge approach. However, we had a lot of problems with team work and core values, which we will have to build up for a lot of the season.
Yoni has a long history of volunteering with FIRST on various programs:
2005 – event volunteer at the New York regional FIRST Robotics Challenge (FRC)
2008-'09 – mentoring Brooklyn FRC Team 1600 for two seasons
2012 – volunteer field technician at Singapore's FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC)
FIRST has made Robotics and Engineering as popular as athletic leagues, with all the important focus on professionalism, sportsmanship, teamwork, cooperation, and respect. We are proud to make it available to children who are unable to be involved with it through their school or other organizations.
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You"re probably finished or scheduled your SATs and you're excited and or nervous about finishing high school. Excited because after twelve years, you've finished high school and nervous because you know that you have no idea what's ahead but you do know everything is going to change.
College is cool but it's not the be all, end all route to a fulfilling life. Knowing you want to be a doctor, writer or artist is great but not knowing is fine too. The mistake high school seniors (and a lot of adults) make is believing you have to have it all figured out. In fact you don't even have to have some of it figured out.
Spend the summer before college traveling the country or worrying about absolutely nothing for once. The best part about not having it all figured out is being open to all the adventures along the way.
College is fun but I've seen so many peeps enter a university knowing what they wanted to do only to discover $30,000 later that they could not happily enjoy their career choice.
Planning the rest of your life at eighteen is a bunch of hoopla and I have no idea why society insists that's the way life should be. Years ago if you asked a bunch of people why they were working at their job they mostly say for the paycheck or convenience but now people are following their passion and realizing it may take a while to discover their passion.
If you're gearing up for freshman year, hurray for you and don't take any of those four years for granted because they'll be gone before you know it and you'll be in the hole $40,000 rather you learned anything or not. College isn't the real world in fact it doesn't even prep you for the real world until you get the bill of course. Getting the bill and scrambling to pay it, is the biggest reality check you'll get.
If you're opting out of the whole "choose now, this is your future" spiel, it's totally fine. College degrees don't always equal more money. We are the most educated generation and the most underpaid. I'll never forget the Pittsburgh City Paper turning me away for an internship because I needed more work experience (to work for free). There's nothing wrong with finding other ways to invest in yourself like starting your dream business, picking up a trade, traveling the world, volunteering or even signing up to be an au pair in another country for a rich family.
After high school graduation you get to reinvent yourself. Introduce yourself to the world any way you choose and they have to believe you because the world hasn't met you yet.


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Car rental will be a pain until at least 2022
On a trip to Disneyland with his kids, John Jimenez of San Jose reserved a compact car at Los Angeles International Airport from Dollar Rent a Car. What he got when he landed was a headache.
Lacking a vehicle, the car rental agency offered him a van, which he said used cigarettes and marijuana instead of a compact car. Jiménez refused the bad van, and after waiting more than two hours he settled for another van with more than 60,000 miles, visible body damage and a "must smell" that lingers on the air-conditioning. came from the system.
"The area where the compact cars were empty," he said, adding that he demanded a full refund.
A global microchip shortage that has cut production of new cars is dealing a huge blow to car rental companies, but most of the pain is being felt by commuters like Jimenez, who find themselves waiting in long lines. Those who pay almost double the earlier rates. This year, he ended up being deprived of the vehicle he had reserved or riding in a car with too many wear and tear.
According to car rental industry experts, the bad news is that car shortages — and headaches for car renters — won't subside until 2022 or later.
"The supply of new vehicles is very tight," said Gregory Scott, a spokesman for American Car Rental Assn.
Due to shortages, car rental companies are keeping their cars before selling and replacing them with new vehicles. Scott and other industry experts said that in the past, rental firms sold their cars when they reached 25,000 to 50,000 miles, but now they are keeping them until they reach about 90,000 miles. Rental companies are also trying to restore their old fleet by buying back used cars that were previously sold at auction to used car dealerships.
Industry insiders say the challenges of filling open jobs have exacerbated the situation, making it difficult for rental companies to work at rental counters and move workers from low-demand locations to high-demand outlets has gone.
As a result, car rental prices hit an average high of $120 a day this summer, compared to around $45 at the start of the year, according to a study by travel booking site Hopper.com. The study finds that prices have dropped to around $80 a day and the downward trend continues due to a drop in demand with the end of the summer travel season.
But Steve Sintra, vice president and general manager of North America at the travel website Kayak.com, said travel is expected to pick up again during the coming holiday season.
He added, "The growth in demand around rental cars is something we've been seeing all summer, and Kayak's data is showing that demand isn't going to slow down anytime soon, especially as we enter the holiday season. Huh."
Problems for the car rental industry began when the pandemic forced the closure of factories around the world, disrupting production of the microchips needed for electronic devices, laptops and cars. The pandemic also closed ports in Asia, disrupting the Microchip supply chain. Automobile manufacturers canceled chip orders, believing that demand for new cars would dry up during the pandemic.
But once demand for vehicles and electronic equipment for domestic workers returned, chip makers struggled to keep up with new orders. Japanese carmaker Nissan said it plans to make 500,000 fewer vehicles in 2021 due to chip shortages. Other auto makers, such as General Motors, are building vehicles and storing them in huge parking lots by the thousands, waiting for the microchips needed to operate them.
Because of the shortage, the US car rental industry was only able to buy about 800,000 new cars in 2020 to restore its old fleet, less than half of what the industry bought in 2019, Scott said.
Microchip makers say it may take a year or two before supplies begin to meet growing demand. This means the shortage of cars will not subside until 2022 or later, say industry experts.
"There remains a lot of uncertainty," Will Withington, senior vice president of Enterprise Holdings Inc., said at a recent rental car industry conference in Las Vegas.
In a statement, Enterprise said the company has been able to meet the demand of existing customers by expanding "the normal cycle of our fleet" with stringent safety and maintenance standards.
Industry rival Hertz Corp. said it is "working closely with our automotive partners to add new vehicles to our fleet as quickly as possible, procuring low-mileage, pre-owned vehicles." and vehicles can be taken to areas of highest demand."
Such reassurance is little comfort to Kimmy Katz of Titusville, Fla., who described her recent car-rental experience as "very disappointing."
He rented a Nissan SUV for a two-week business trip to Florida from Dollar Rent a Car. But one of the tires had a slow leak that required him to refill it every couple of days, Katz said. When the tire finally went flat, she said, the car rental agency declined her request for a new car or new tires.
"I'm thanking whatever God or science is that I didn't break down on I-75 or I-10, where there's no cell service," she said.
Asked to respond to problems cited by Jimenez and Katz, Dollar's parent company Hertz said the company would "need to look at those specific situations to be able to comment further."
"When customers raise a concern, we look into it and try to fix it," Hertz said.
Industry experts say that travelers who want to avoid such headaches should book a car at the earliest and try to opt for car rental outlets at small or medium-sized airports, where demand is less. Be.
"I've never seen anything like this," said Eben Peck, executive vice president of advocacy at the American Society of Travel Advisors. "COVID has put a lot of pressure on the system, and this is just one of them."
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No, NASA did not say the main cause of tidal flooding in 2030s will be the moon's 'wobble'
The moon's "wobble" went viral after a NASA study predicted it would contribute to tidal flooding in the next decade, but climate change is the primary culprit.
Published: 5:23 PM EDT July 23, 2021
Updated: 6:35 PM EDT August 2, 2021
A July 7 press release from NASA went viral when it became the subject of an article from the British newspaper The Telegraph that claimed a "'wobble' in the moon's orbit" would lead to an "onslaught of coastal flooding" in the 2030s.
A social media post from the Telegraph Environment shared more than 28,000 times also stated the "main cause" of future coastal flooding will be a "'regular wobble' in the moon's orbit."
🔴@NASA is warning of a "wobble" in the moon's orbit that is set to see the world face significantly more natural disasters.
An onslaught of coastal flooding starting in the mid-2030s is expected, Nasa has warned
🧵👇https://t.co/xw1WnrDfBW pic.twitter.com/G1alJKnwQf
— Telegraph Environment (@TeleEnvironment) July 14, 2021
Did NASA predict a "wobble" in the moon's orbit will be the main cause of coastal flooding in the 2030s?
Dr. Ben Hamlington, co-author of study and team lead of NASA Sea Level Change Science Team
NASA press release and original NASA study
2019 study of nodal tidal cycle
No, NASA did not predict the moon's "wobble" will be the main cause of coastal flooding in the 2030s.
A NASA study predicted rising sea levels caused by global warming will worsen tidal flooding in the 2030s, around the time when a cycle in the moon's orbit will exaggerate both high tides and low tides in many places.
This "wobble" isn't anything new, it's how the moon has always orbited the Earth. The only thing new to worsen tidal flooding will be sea-level rise induced by climate change.
The NASA press release explains that a study led by the NASA Sea Level Change Science Team predicts that high tide flooding will dramatically increase on all U.S. coastlines by the mid-2030s.
A combination of rising sea levels caused by climate change and the alignment of a cycle in the moon's orbit will be the cause of this, according to the press release. But NASA makes it clear that this "wobble" isn't the culprit people should focus on.
"There's nothing new or dangerous about the wobble; it was first reported in 1728," NASA said. "What's new is how one of the wobble's effects on the moon's gravitational pull – the main cause of Earth's tides – will combine with rising sea levels resulting from the planet's warming."
Dr. Ben Hamlington, the co-author of the study and the team lead of the NASA Sea Level Change Team, reiterated that continued sea-level rise caused by climate change is the cause of the predicted tidal flooding. Climate change will continue to bring the sea levels up, and NASA predicts sea levels will be just below the point coastal towns flood by the 2030s.
At that point, the tides don't need to change much to start flooding coastlines. A number of natural cycles will continue as they always have, but with towns now closer to the oceans than ever before. This is where the wobble, which is just NASA's description for a characteristic in the moon's orbit, comes into play.
The moon rotates around the Earth at a slightly different angle than the Earth rotates around the sun. A University of Massachusetts astronomy page explains the angle of the moon's orbit doesn't stay fixed because of the effects of the sun's gravity. This in turn has an effect on the moon's angle relative to the Earth's equator, which gradually fluctuates between two points on an 18.6-year cycle.
Dr. Hamlington explained that this particular cycle, called the lunar nodal cycle, has an effect on the tides by slowly going between times the tides are amplified and times the tides are suppressed.
The effects and timing of the cycle won't be the same everywhere, but that ultimately won't matter. Sea levels will be high enough that other natural cycles will also be enough to contribute to flood conditions on coastlines all around the U.S.
NASA says that the moon is in the tide-amplifying part of this wobble cycle currently. A 2019 study said 2025 and 2034 are the exact years this cycle will reach its next two high-water peaks. It found high tides at these peaks are about 10 cm higher for most of the U.S. coastline. That's about four inches.
NASA says some communities experience tidal flooding already, but sea levels aren't high enough yet for even the highest tides to flood most coastal towns. But climate change will push sea levels high enough to make 2034 a different story.
"Those inches really do matter," Dr. Hamlington said. "Because when you start to stack things up, and you're so close to that flooding threshold in these coastal locations, it does shift to flooding conditions. So very small changes in these natural cycles can drive big changes in the flooding that we see at the coast."
But climate change isn't expected to stop by the end of the 2030s. Scientists, including NASA's, believe sea levels will keep rising throughout the next century. Eventually, they'll rise enough that tidal flooding will consistently occur regardless of where the cycles are at.
"When you're talking about feet of sea-level rise in the long term, these lunar nodal cycles are not going to push flooding significantly in either direction," Dr. Hamlington said. "When the sea level's rise continues into the future as projected, high-tide flooding is just going to get that much worse."
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Black peplum top paired with blue skinny jeans, add classic red pumps and funky red handbag for a glam touch. Pair with bangle and hoop earrings that make a statement, and throw on a chic cropped leather jacket to go.
Who says casual has to be boring!!!???


The Grupa Azoty Group and the National Contact Point for the Horizon 2020 Programme have signed an agreement on close cooperation. The aim of the agreement is to increase the participation of the Grupa Azoty Group, partner companies and research institutions in the Horizon 2020 EU Framework Programme, to lend support in applying for grants, finding consortium partners and implementing projects, as well as in promoting the programme and the Group's potential.
"The signing of the agreement is a very important event, as it opens new opportunities for the Grupa Azoty Group companies, especially in the R&D&I areas, and is consistent with the Group's innovation programme and mission defined in its updated growth strategy which provides for creating value for the Group and the national economy by delivering safe, useful and innovation-driven chemical products. The Grupa Azoty Group's strategy focuses not only on extending the value chain in the manufacture of speciality products, but also on adopting new technologies and refining existing processes. I am convinced that cooperation with the National Contact Point for the Horizon 2020 Programme will be conducive to driving innovation at the Grupa Azoty Group," said Wojciech Wardacki, President of the Management Board of Grupa Azoty.
'Innovation is crucial in modern chemical industry and it is key to the future of the Polish chemical industry. The Grupa Azoty Group wants to take advantage the opportunities offered by the Horizon 2020 Programme and raise additional funds for investments in research and development. Through the involvement of the Grupa Azoty Group we want to increase the participation of Polish industry in the largest EU Framework Programme. The Grupa Azoty Group companies have already prepared the first drafts of applications for the 2018–2020 calls under the Horizon 2020 Programme. As part of the agreement, representatives of the Grupa Azoty Group, partner companies and research institutions want to participate in info days, training, workshops, brokerage events and study visits organized by the NCP for the Horizon 2020 Programme," said Grzegorz Kądzielawski, Vice President of the Management Board of Grupa Azoty.
"The National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the EU is part of the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPPT PAN) and for almost 20 years, together with the Network of NCPs, has been actively supporting Polish participation in the European Union Framework Programmes in order to reinforce the position of Polish science and businesses on the international arena," said Professor Tadeusz Burczyński, Head of IPPT PAN. The institute has once again received the highest scientific category A+ for the next four years. It specialises in advanced interdisciplinary scientific research and is also open to scientific and research cooperation with the Grupa Azoty Group to ensure active participation in the Horizon 2020 Programme.
"Let us make the most of the good climate for investments in research and development and the opportunities offered by calls organised under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. Over the last three years, the funds available under the Programme amounted to EUR 30bn. The objective of the activities undertaken jointly by the NCP and the Grupa Azoty Group is to use the immense potential of the Group – a leading market player – to increase the Polish industry's participation in the largest EU Framework Programme. A systematic effort helps achieve the objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Strategy," stressed Zygmunt Krasiński, PhD. Eng., Head of the National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the European Union.
The Horizon 2020 Framework Programme is the largest European Union research and innovation framework programme for 2014–2020. The Horizon 2020 Programme's budget (close to EUR 80bn) is intended to strengthen the role of science and innovation and their use and application in industry and other areas. The aim of the programme is to ensure that Europe produces world-class science and technology that drives economic growth in the European Union and in countries associated with the programme.
The Grupa Azoty Group is the undisputed leader of the fertilizer and chemical market in Poland and one of its key players in Europe. It is the second largest EU-based manufacturer of nitrogen and compound fertilizers, and its other products, including melamine, caprolactam, polyamide, oxo alcohols and titanium white, enjoy an equally strong standing in the chemical sector, with a wide range of applications in various industries. In May 2017, the Group announced its updated strategy until 2020. The key development areas include finalising the Group's consolidation, reinforcing its leadership in agricultural solutions in Europe, strengthening the second operating pillar through expansion of the non-fertilizer business, and generating and implementing innovations to accelerate growth in the chemical sector.
Photo: Sława Duszyńska, National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the European Union.


Half the teachers at my kids' school got pink-slipped.
You read that right. Half.
Some of those pink-slips MIGHT be rescinded, but they wouldn't have come at all if less than a handful of Republicans in the California State Assembly had allowed Gov. Brown to try to extend some tax increases that were due to expire, by holding a special election in June. They offered him the kinds of "compromises" that nobody should take -- gutting environmental regulations in the state was one of them, and by the way, dirty water and dirty air hurt kids too, not just cuts to education. The Gov. had already agreed to all sorts of cuts in programs that help the poor and the elderly, concessions to public employee unions, etc. But no, the greedy bastards couldn't muster a few votes, and now it's pink-slip time at LAUSD.


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Kate Middleton at the Blessed Sacrament School
July 1, 2014 by Maria Mercedes Lara
All eyes were on Kate Middleton on Tuesday when she visited the M-PACT Plus program for the Place2Be charity at the Blessed Sacrament School in London. The Duchess of Cambridge wore a made Kate laugh by asking members of the press to focus on the issue of the charity and not the style icon in the room — or the duchess.
Kate has a busy week ahead of her, as she will join Prince William and Prince Harry — who is now back in England after his trip to South America — to attend the Tour de France Grand Depart in Yorkshire, England, on Saturday. Kate's family has been hard at work as well, with her sister Pippa Middleton giving her first-ever TV interview to Today this week. On Tuesday, she revealed that while Kate has taken on a lot of "pressures" as William's wife, the family still spends a lot of time together and that the two have a "very normal sisterly relationship." Pippa also revealed that George is "very funny" and that he bring a lot of "joy" to the whole Middleton family.
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