HEPTATHLON: Mack Geiger, 14, was back in the pack before 1500m final of the 2019 Australian Junior Combined Event Championships in Hobart.
But the hours and hours of early morning training, some of which included 5.30am sessions on the family farm, along with after-school programs, came to fruition on Sunday afternoon.
Trinity College student Mack paced himself to perfection to finish third overall in the under-16 heptathlon.
He won the 1500m final in convincing fashion in a time of 5:30-minutes ahead of fellow Queenslander Connor Duggan and Eli Taylor from Victoria.
The latter pair finished first and second respectively overall.
"I was pretty nervous because it was all kind of depending on that race and I think everyone just felt like we wanted to get the race over with," Mack said.
In a sport where math played a big part, Mack said he had to beat the third-ranked person (prior to the 1500m) in a certain amount of time.
"I had to try and get enough ahead of him and build up some points," Mack said.
Mack left his best to last - and with a medal on the line - that otherwise would not have deemed possible.
He bettered his previous personal-best time in the 1500m by 9.8sec which also included a 308-point PB since January.
Both the hurdles and the 1500m are Mack's biggest strengths and both these disciplines have the most points available to gain for the athletes.
"I was really happy with all my results and with a fair few PB results in the other events," Mack said.
Mack was winning the hurdles, but then bumped the third-last hurdle that slowed him to finish it in second position. He went into the shot put (his worst of the seven events) and threw a 61cm personal-best, but was behind the next best by about 2m so got pushed back down to fourth place.
He went into high jump in fourth position (points-wise) and jumped an equal PB to finish the high jump in third which moved him a bit closer the third overall within 40 points, but still in fourth overall.
He finished day one with a 1.51sec PB in the 200m (getting second in that race) that closed the gap between fourth and third to nine points. Mack finishing day one in fourth position overall, nine points behind third.
Starting the day with Long jump. He was the opening jumper and jumped a PB in his first jump.
Then continued to jump better each jump. By the end of long jump, he had jumped three PB jumps to get second in that event. This was enough to push him back up to third position overall but only 40 points ahead of fourth.
Mack had to beat the athlete currently ahead of him by at least 150m! Big ask but Mack has a knack for just finding something extra when he needs to.
So Mack currently in fourth position overall, 111 points behind third and 189 points behind second, he had to do his absolute best to get far enough ahead to get into medal contention.
He raced his heart out leading from the start and convincingly winning the 1500m by a fair bit and getting a 9.8sec PB time in the process.
He had done enough to get bronze! He beat the other guy by about 200-plus metres.
Mack earn't bronze at the National U16 Australian Heptathlon Championships with a 308-point PB overall. Seven events over two days.


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Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano defends public breastfeeding
Popular for her work in TV shows Melrose Place, Charmed and Mistresses; actor Alyssa Milano dropped by on the Wendy Williams' show to discuss how she lost the baby-weight, and her role as a breastfeeding advocate.
The video begins with pleasantries exchanged between the two, but things soon get heated when the topic of the conversation shifts onto the Hollywood actor's Instagram posts, which often featured her breastfeeding her children.
"It was kind of shocking that we were that opinionated about something that is so incredibly natural." Photo courtesy: YouTube
While on the topic, host and comedian Wendy Williams, notorious for her on-air spats with celebrities, criticizes Alyssa's breastfeeding images.
Wendy shares on screen an image of Alyssa breastfeeding her daughter, and then asks her if she is surprised by the audience's reaction to it.
"I was surprised by the reaction," Alyssa admits. "It was kind of shocking that we were that opinionated about something that is so incredibly natural."
"Why is it okay to show that picture Miley Cyrus with two suspenders over her breasts?" Photo courtesy: YouTube
Not one to mince her words, Wendy admits that she has opinion about public breastfeeding.
"I don't need to see that," she says.
Alyssa then asks Wendy: "would you eat under a blanket?
Wendy replies by saying that she would choose to breastfeed in a car instead of a big box store.
You can clearly tell that Alyssa found this answer ridiculous judging by her facial expression. "Why is it okay to show that picture Miley Cyrus with two suspenders over her breasts?" she asks, and the audience applauds in agreement.
"Biologically, they are not made for sexual things. That's what we have done to them."
Trying to defend herself, Wendy says that women's breasts are for sex for most of their lives, and breastfeeding, compared to that, is such a short time in a woman's life.
"Biologically, they are not made for sexual things," Alyssa rebuts. "That's what we have done to them."
Alyssa explained that the breastfeeding controversy is not a problem all over the world and said, "you're lucky the baby isn't here because I'd whip them out right here and feed her on your show!"
It's refreshing to see someone in a position of power using her influence to advocate something she believes in, something that, just like she said, is incredibly natural.
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Q: get Broadcast receive when SD Card is unmounting android I need to get the broadcast receive when media is unmounting i.e before it is being unmounted.
So that i can save the file in SD Card before Media is unmounted.
i used android.intent.action.MEDIA_UNMOUNTED.
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MEDIA_UNMOUNTED" />
            <data android:scheme="file" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.HOME" />
        </intent-filter>

But it received after the media was unmounted and then I was not able to save the file.
I also tried MEDIA_EJECT, MEDIA_SHARED, all this are received after Media is Unmounted.
Is there any other way to save the file. I don't want to use Thread for saving File.

A: Use ACTION_MEDIA_EJECT:
User has expressed the desire to remove the external storage media. Applications should close all files they have open within the mount point when they receive this intent. The path to the mount point for the media to be ejected is contained in the Intent.mData field.

A: try android.intent.action.ACTION_MEDIA_UNMOUNTED it should receive broadcast. but i am not sure. never used.

A: You can only get the broadcast after it's done or doing, so you will get fail to save to sdcard.
Suggest you can save the file temporary to your internal storage then when there is a sdcard present, move it back to sdcard.

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On May 29th, I went to Stirling's Albert Halls to help backstage with Sistema Scotland's Third Birthday Concert. The 350 children who participate in the Big Noise project are all from Raploch, and receive a programme of free instrumental tuition, mentoring, musicianship and ensemble sessions from a team of musicians, some of whom are members of the BBCSSO. The system is based on the Venezuelan project El Sistema, which was set up by pioneering musician and social innovator Jose Abreu to help children from the slums improve their lives and give them skills they could use to find jobs.
Most of the day was spent setting and resetting the stage with hundreds of tiny instruments (the mini cellos and basses were particularly cute), watching the children rehearse, and riding buses with audience members to the Halls for the afternoon concert. The performance was a resounding success (literally!), with members of the BBCSSO providing extra help and enhancing the performance. Particularly sucessful was the version of Holst's Jupiter, which had been arranged by one of the tutors so that the children were playing one set of parts and the adult players another. The confetti cannons at the end were also great fun and were very popular with the children!
Last week I went back to Raploch on one of the projects organised 'learning visits', where we got to see a range of sessions with the children, including a string ensemble, brass and woodwind session, a horn masterclass, a musicianship session with the more senior 'Rinconada' ensemble (in which we participated as well – good fun!) and a performance by a few of the groups to their parents. It was great to see the teaching methods and learning processes that are behind a performance like the one I saw at the Albert Halls.
This summer, I'm hoping to go back to Stirling and volunteer at the Big Noise summer school. It runs from 27th June to 5th August, but I'm starting on July 8th, as I only graduate on the 5th July.
I played in 2 concerts in Stringfest: I was principal viola in the string ensemble concert, in which we played Elgar's beautiful Serenade for strings, Bartok's footstomping Romanian Dances and Bach's wonderful Ricercare, directed by Jim Clark (leader of RSNO). I also joined Gongbo Jiang, Wen Wang, Hua Zhong and Dave Sloan for a performance of Mozart's Quintet in C major for 2 violas, which went well and was used for the chamber music component of my assessment.
More recently, a massive amount of my time has been devoted to rehearsing the Academy's opera for this term, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, conducted by Tim Dean and with singers from the Academy's Opera School. It's a cracking piece, with some great tunes – my only sadness is that, from the depths of the orchestra pit, I can't see what's happening on the stage! All I know is that there are some very real looking trees up there, and that the gingerbread house is an ice cream van covered in giant lollys, cupcakes and candy floss…. The opening night is tomorrow (Sat 25th June) at 7.15pm, and the other performances are on Mon 27th, Weds 29th and Thurs 30th, all at 7.15pm in the New Athenaem theatre, so you can come along and see what I mean!
This entry was posted in RSAMD, Sistema Scotland, viola playing and tagged Hansel and Gretel Opera, RSAMD Stringfest on June 24, 2011 by jesswyatt.
-Seeing my friend Rachel Spencer perform Sibelius' Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in their Masterclass session at the City Halls. Also performing were Graeme Brown, bassoon, Glynn Forrest, marimba, and Jonathan Wettermark, trombone.
-Hearing about community music projects 'The Big Noise' (based in Raploch, Stirling) and 'Givin' It Laldie' (based in the Gorbals, Glasgow) at the Music Learning Live conference – amazing work and very inspirational! The best part of both talks was seeing the children from both projects perform – the enthusiasm and dedication of these young kids is wonderful to see. In the Big Noise after school orchestra, the children are aged from 7 to 11. When I asked the leader of the orchestra what she wanted to do in the future she said without hesitation, 'I want to be a hairdresser and a violinist, at the same time!' After the presentation, I talked to one of the staff members and she said that I could arrange to visit the project sometime, which I will definitely try and do.
This entry was posted in BBCSSO, community music, Sistema Scotland and tagged top things on March 4, 2011 by jesswyatt.


Bob's response to "Thinking Out Cloud's Predictions". Geva Perry is an optimistic fellow and he came out with a list of predictions that has been picked up at InfoQ (Thinking Out Cloud predictions).
Bob points out: "Predictions with out time-lines are fairly useless. Cars will drive themselves. They will all be electric and many people will own flying cars. As long as I never put a date on it, of course it will very likely come true in the distant future."
He goes on to state: "No IaaS providers keep adding PaaS support and the lines between IaaS and PaaS are fairly blurry. Plus you have all of the not so great PaaS providers, who are not much more than window dressing on AWS, over promising what equates to mostly to vaporware. ... IT shops are not jumping on the public cloud quite yet. There is some trepidation there. Private clouds (on premises and off) and hybrid clouds are going to see a lot more growth than pure public plays. Public does not rule, and it will not rule for a while.


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Washington waives liquor tax as Oregon eyes big increase
By Oregon House Republican Caucus
WA State Waives Liquor Fees While Oregon Democrats Seek 2800% Tax Increase
Oregon House Republicans today urged Legislative Democrats to abandon a massive proposed tax increase on beer and wine in favor of policies that would support the recovery of the restaurant and adult beverage industry amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Republican lawmakers contrasted a recently introduced proposal that would exponentially increase taxes on beer and wine producers in Oregon with Washington State's recent decision to adopt a one-time waiver for liquor licenses in the state.
"No industry has been hit harder by the pandemic than the restaurant and hospitality industry, and by extension the producers of adult beverages," said Rep. David Brock Smith (R-Port Orford). "In Washington, a bipartisan group of lawmakers had the common sense to provide some measure of relief to this industry. Unfortunately, here in Oregon, House Democrats have embraced the opposite approach to an extreme degree by proposing to increase taxes on beer by 2800% and wine by 1700%. At a time when so many of these businesses are struggling to keep their doors open or have closed permanently and hurt hardworking employees and their families, moving forward with a proposal like this makes no sense."
According to reports, Washington's bill could save restaurants as much as $2,500. House Democrats' bill, HB 3296, would increase the tax per barrel on beer from $2.60 to $72.60. The bill would increase the price per barrel of wine from $0.65 to $10.65.
"It's really striking to see the difference between how our two states are treating this vital industry right now," said Rep. Bill Post (R-Keizer). "Instead of pursuing outrageous
tax hikes, I urge my Democratic colleagues to look for opportunities to support restaurants and producers and to help these businesses recover from the impacts of the pandemic and government shutdown orders."
HB 3296 was formally introduced in the Oregon House on February 23, 2021. The bill has not yet been scheduled for a public hearing.
Gov. Brown plans 800% beer, wine tax increase
No to a Beer Tax Increase
Income tax increase for homeowner's bill up today
Tax Alert: Dems propose 1,280% Tax Increase


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Yarmouth candidate switches parties in election bid
PUBLISHED: 13:38 19 March 2019 | UPDATED: 15:46 19 March 2019
Harry Webb, 25, has left the Green Party and joined the Labour Party in a bid to be elected to Great Yarmouth Borough Council in this year's local elections.
A candidate in this year's local elections has switched parties in a bid to get elected.
Harry Webb, 25, was Green Party candidate at the 2017 General Election - but on Tuesday (March 19) declared his intention for this year's election to Great Yarmouth Borough Council to run under the banner of the Labour Party.
He intends to campaign in Yarmouth North, a two-seat ward currently held by the Conservative Party.
"I was born and raised there," Mr Webb said.
He also attended three schools in the ward.
One of the younger candidates, he said he is "passionate about engaging young people in politics."
Explaining his decision to swap a green for a red rosette, he said: "As much as I love and support the views of the Green Party, I am very real to the fact that I was never going to get elected, unless with a mainstream party."
This year's local elections will take place on Thursday May 2.
Mr Webb said that while he will miss the Green Party's environmental policies, the Labour Party's manifesto is "very close in certain aspects" to his former party's.
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I love the month of May, my birthday, and the start of beautiful Michigan weather!
October is my favorite month of the year. Autumn has such beautiful colors and scents.
My favorite month is May. All the flowers are coming to life and the weather is beautiful for the most part!
I love this question ;) My favorite month of the year is December!
My favorite month is October. I do love the beginning of fall.
My favorite month of the years is November.
I love October because that's when the REAL fun begins--fall weather and fun festivities, then Thanksgiving in November, my birthday and Christmas in December...spring and summer are nice but give me fall any day!
My favorite day of the year is July 4. Independence day, what could be better than that?
December! Because I love Christmas.
I love the month of March as March is the Month that begins planting season fo us in East Texas!
I like June because it is the start of summer vacation.
I like May the most, before it get really hot.
I like October the best with fall temps and fall cooking. But I also like December for I love Christmas time.
Oh I think I would have to say my favorite month of the year is December! Love the holidays and the snow!
I really love June here, the weather is perfect, warmer and less rain.
My favorite month in the year is April when flowers and trees come back to life from dormancy.
May is my favorite month. It's my birthday month and I love that the flowers are coming up and it's usually warm and sunny.
My favorite month is April, start of the warmer (but not too warm) weather!
My favorite month is December because we have so many birthdays and holidays to celebrate!
My favorite month of the year is June because the weather is perfect here & I love the flowers!
I love October. I love taking drives to see the leaves changing colors. The weather is refreshing after the hot summer. Its the bringing of the holiday season. Plus I love Halloween.
I would have to say that May is my favorite month of the year. The weather is nice (neither too cold or too hot). Everything is blooming and you have the unofficial start of summer with Memorial Day.
July because that is the month of my kid's birthdays!
I love Oct, fall foliage, autumn colors, pumpkin patches and corn mazes!
It is such a hard choice because I love June because of my birthday and the nice warm weather and then I also like December because of Christmas and getting to spend time with family.
I love the summer months especially July. It has the 4th, great weather, no school and summer nights.
my favorite month is November, it is my birthday month.
I love the month of May! Not only is my birthday in May, but its also my wedding anniversary! The weather is also always beautiful!
June because its my daughter's and my birthday!
I like the month of August.
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Q: JQuery UI Droppable being destroyed when new droppable is created Okay, I have a simple droppable on the page. When the user performs an action, a function is run and it creates a new droppable. Now the original droppable doesn't work anymore. The only way it will work is if the droppables all have the same class name, but then if I drop something in the original, it thinks I dropped it in the new one that was created. If I try to use unique names for the droppables, only the last droppable to be created works, any others beforehand do not. It seems like a simple issue, but I haven't been able to find anything on it.

A: please have a look at the following fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/eykgb/
You have to work with both, classes and IDs to active all droppables and to know on which one your draggable was dropped.


It's the beginning of the year. I am leaving the driveway to head for the school.
It's an exciting time wherein I arrive at the school with at least three crates of new young adult titles we have collected over the summer. And at least three more crates of picture books.
I walk by the cafeteria and observe all of the students waiting there for the bell to ring that will release them into the hallways and to their first classes of the day.
The release bell rings and I wait in Room 407 for the first, eager students to arrive.
I do one more status check.
I am ready for the new group of Room 407 Readers.
And then I remember the first rule of any emergency situation. One I remember from basic first-aid class as a Navy Hospital Corpsman: check your own pulse first.
When no one else is in the room, I see my own enthusiasm as the pulse. This is a nice sentiment, but it is a platitude at best. In order to accurately check one's pulse as a reader, one must be able to put a thumb on the current book he or she is reading.
Take a moment to review that rule again.
If we, the lead reader, cannot put our thumb on the title we are currently reading then we cannot share that title we are currently reading.
No pulse. No rhythm. No beat to follow.
I have three books that I can put my thumb upon right now. Each of them makes my heart race in a different manner. I like to have at least three titles going at any time I might share with my readers. Like a shell game with shifting stories and promises of a good read. I am going to chat up a book that a reader in the room will hit upon. Nothing up my sleeve.
But we are mixing metaphors here. What we do in the room on the first day of school is not always the magic we experience later in the year.
No. . .the first day is often a code situation. With the heart of my would-be readers in a state of arrest.
You can almost hear the tones of "heart failure" in the early responses.
It's not just a code situation. It's a triage scenario.
Military triage (where we treat those most ready to re-enter battle) is a little different than civilian triage (where we treat the most seriously wounded). But the basic assessment that happens in both cases is the same. . .ABCs.
Funny. . .the very first lesson of literacy becomes a lesson in preserving a life.
ABC. . .airway, breathing, circulation.
This is an airway problem. Okay, it's probably an access problem, but try to hang in with the metaphor here. And, if we think about it, isn't any airway problem really an access problem? In order to maintain an airway for a patient, we often tilt their head back to assure an open airway. In a reading situation, we simply ask our readers to turn his or her head from side to side to see the number of books in the room. Access will no longer be a problem. Not in this room.
I am sure that this leaves you as breathless as it left me when I heard it. Defer to rule number one, lead reader. Check your own pulse first. Talking about books and our appreciation of books is the breath of Room 407. It will take a while to get that first book into this reader, but soon, those short rapid breaths of anticipation of reading more than this would-be reader has ever read before, will soon become part of the steady, "book in and book out" kind of cadence that becomes automatic by Winter Break. The student who is not breathing books at the beginning of the year is a true emergency situation. They need to be a part of regular conversations that revolve around books and reading. If you want to call this "mouth-to-mouth" it would certainly fit this particular metaphor we are working with here. In fact, use that. It's pretty good.
For Room 407 Readers, this could mean that the student read one book per each nine week marking period and then passed a ten-point quiz in an effort to satisfy the requirements of the program. This is a circulation problem.
Reading is not in the blood here. It's bound up in the bureaucracy. Computerized coagulation. Reading against a deadline with the fear of missing a couple of comprehension-level questions is like a stress test scheduled at nine-week intervals for many of these readers.
And all of this is informally assessed before 0830.
A new shift has begun in Room 407.
And in order to get this new group of would-be readers to become as group of "we are readers" we're going to need a little patience (see what I did there. . .I know you did. . .feel free to comment upon this chestnut of wordplay).
Now that we have assessed the ABCs. . .it's time to employ CPR.
Yes. The good old standby command when we get ready to shock the system. It means stand aside programs. Stand aside rigor. Stand aside levels. Stand aside lexile.
Just like in a code situation, you might hear us call out genres and titles waiting for the right title to connect with the right reader. In this situation, the goal is to get each would-be reader in the room to leave the room with a book. Look around. You should have plenty of paddles for each pupil.
Clear the way for these readers.
And now we can perform our CPR.
Communication. . .we're going to start talking about books. Every day. These readers came to us in a code situation. Now we set the code for the talk in the room. And how we talk about books in those first few class meetings should be returned to us on the last day as the students begin to use this new language. Book Talking should be the primary language in the English Language Arts classroom.
Pass. . .we begin the first couple of class meetings with those classic book passes. Look. We are lead readers. We never go for the bypass here (it just doesn't fit into our metaphor). Never go for the bypass when a book pass will do. Take another look at this strategy. I guarantee that books are reluctantly passed to the next reader time and time again as the one holding it has difficulty in letting go once they are hooked.
Repeat. . .with each new block, we will be ready with another title to share. Another book trailer. Another small sample of a high-interest title shared as a teaser.
Until that rhythm is established and set into motion. Until each reader can put their thumb upon the book they are reading at the moment.
When the pulse of the room is set to the beat of the heart.
The healthy heart of the reader.
And then. . .the next group of readers comes in. And just like any good medical drama. . .we stand at the door. . .at the ready. . .ready to receive.
love LOVE. . .love LOVE. . .love LOVE. . .
Paul W. Hankins teaches English 11 and AP English Language and Composition at Silver Creek High School in southern Indiana. Paul participates in numerous online forums regarding reading and writing. In addition to membership within many professional organizations, Paul is a Wonder Lead with the National Center for Family Literacy and the non-fiction site, Wonderopolis. The creator of RAW INK Online, Paul is celebrating with his students in Room 407 the 5th Anniversary of the site which brings young adult readers and young adult authors together. At home, Paul is married to his wife of fourteen years (August 13th), is the father of Noah (7th grade) and Maddie (6th grade). Mia, Pepper, KitKat, and Butterfinger remain loyal fans of Paul's poems and posts and most of his attempts to write something.
I'm glad your triage assessment seems to be that all of your charges can be sent into the fray. Such constant optimism is every bit as important as your enthusiasm pulse.
I love how you break down connecting readers with books in those first days of school with triage and CPR. CLEVER and such great information for us all. Your humor and optimism made my morning, Paul!
This is a call to action written in the very best possible way. Your humor draws me in and then you wrap me up with the importance of it all. Thank you for taking the time to write this must-read for every. single. teacher.
What a great "mentor text" for all teachers heading back to school. The triage metaphor is what stays with me–so true to what we should be doing in those opening days.
One quibble: there was no multiple choice quiz after reading, so I am unsure about my level of comprehension.
Love, love, LOVE THIS! So eloquently written and it just encapsulates my own reading teacher priorities! Thanks for sharing!
You are amazing! This is the perfect post for back-to-school time. Your metaphors are brilliant and make the process for developing readers so easy to remember. ABC and then CPR.
I completely agree about the Pulse. I have more than one book going all the time and you're right. How can we be expected to encourage reading if we aren't reading???? Such an important thing. One that I've been thinking a lot about and wrote an article about for YALS that dealt with this same issue for librarians. BUT, teachers are exactly the same. Teachers need to read, too.
THANK YOU for all you do–you're an inspiration, Paul.
Wow. Thank you for this all important reminder. Another medical term that comes to mind while reading your post is "First, do no harm." Makes me think deeply about how I am supporting readers in my classroom.
Teachers are the lifeline. We have to be constant, ferocious readers.
Go, Paul! Room 407, you have the best year ever ahead of you!
OK. Now I'm ready to return to school. Let's go. Thanks, Paul.
Paul, this is phenomenal. Best post I've read anywhere in a while (no offense, of course, to any other bloggers whose stuff I've read recently). This is the CPR training we all need at the beginning of the year. The other one is important, too, but this one is one we will all encounter every year.
I am smitten with this post! I read first for the message, but couldn't resist a reread to admire the craft. These are lines to savor. You have captured the heartbeat of the readers' workshop eloquently.
Paul sounds like a Book Whisperer to me!
My daughters are entering high school this fall and I hope and pray that they get English teachers that inspire the love of reading like you do. Sadly the middle grade/jr high teachers they've had so far have killed the love of reading they had in elementary school.
You had me from the start with this poignant piece all educators should read. What a perspective you offer with this metaphor…hearts are in arrest. They are stopping all over during these summer months and definitely need to be recharged upon entry to the "ER" of school! Thanks for a great read.
Perfect for back to school thinking/planning/reflection! I remember enrolling in "Independent Reading" in high school so I could read books of "my choice." I did have many teachers who handed me books that they said "I would love" but they were NOT all "loving books." "Knowing books" is a critical skill for teachers of adolescents who would prefer to avoid books!


There is just five days left for Scotland's unsigned bands and solo artists to submit their demos for the chance of playing the T Break Stage at T in the Park 2013. Each year Tennent's Lager offer 16 of the country's freshest unsigned acts the chance to join some of the world's biggest artists on the T in the Park bill. Acts have until midnight on Friday 29th March to enter T Break 2013.
A judging panel of 14 music industry experts will then listen to each demo before selecting the final 16 acts who will go on to join the line-up for T in the Park 2013 and land themselves a slot on the T Break Stage. Some of the world's biggest acts are already confirmed for the T in the Park's 20th year over 12th – 14th July, including headliners Mumford and Sons, Rihanna and The Killers, plus Stereophonics, Calvin Harris, Kraftwerk, Snoop Dogg, alt-J, Two Door Cinema Club, Jake Bugg, The Lumineers, Paloma Faith, Azealia Banks and Haim.
Entrants must be aged 18 or over, live in Scotland, and must be currently unsigned and recording original material. T Break is open to artists of every genre. Bands and solo artists can submit their demos via Facebook at www.facebook.com/TennentsTBreak or via the T Break website at www.tennents.com/tbreak.


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Club Features
Ipswich Selections Headline Hoopsfix All Star Classic
In the four years since it's in inception, the Hoopsfix All Star Classic has been the premier showcase event for British Basketball young talent. In 2019, with numerous additions, the 5th annual HASC looks set to be the best yet and is headlined by representation from Ipswich personnel.
Taking place on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd June, tickets are still available in limited quantities at http://www.hoopsfixallstarclassic.com/ but supporters are advised to get in there quick as it's always a sell out!
The Saturday sees the Under 19 Women's All Star Game debut at HASC at 4pm with Ipswich being represented by Esther Little and Cameron Taylor-Willis following their selection to the All-WEABL South 1st Team this season. They will be suiting up for Team Black.
"It's going to be fun going up against the coach that has been with me since I was 12 for the first time. There will be a lot of bragging rights at stake and I'm looking forward to the first practice after we win!" Esther said.
Their opposing coach, for the first time in their young basketball careers, will be Academy and Women's Head Coach Nick Drane on Team White. The duel between Coach and two of the highest profile Academy players in the programme will be an added spice to the occasion as the girls will be doing everything they can to win one over on their coach.
On the Sunday, Ipswich are represented in the Underclassman All Star Game at 2pm with three Academy players set to suit up. Ben Winter, Veron Eze (Both Team Black) and EABL South Conference MVP and Defensive Player of the Year Ethan Price (Team White) in a game showcasing the best players in the country who will still be playing in the Academy Leagues set up next season.
These events are fundamental to the growth of British Basketball and show the huge talent on show in Ipswich and in Britain. Hoopsfix absolutely deserve our support in this so we must support them and get down to the event if at all possible!
Match Report: Last second score sees Ipswich take first defeat of 2020
Match Report: Women stay unbeaten in dramatic first home game of the season
Match Report: Women move to 5-0 on the road, with first Home game coming up this weekend
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Thandie's Joke - Al's Pledge...
Thandie Newton got more than she bargained for, and Al gets the message across, finally...
Saturday, July 7, 2007 - 16:12
BAFTA Winning actress Thandie Newton was stuck on the stage without a script, when Al Gore failed to materialize for a link in the States.
With nothing to say, she won the crowd over by claiming that "Coming to live earth increases our attractiveness to a potential mate about 200% - say you've come to Live Earth is a way of saying you're hung like a war lord!" Hmmm, wonder who she's been getting down with...
She went on to tell a joke about a big horse and Londoner which wasn't really that funny but she was just so gorgeous and she dealt with it all so well, it was hard not to love her for it!!
Eventually, Al Gore stepped on stage in Washington to outline his seven point pledge.
He began by thanking the Native American's who he said had always been very vocal at reminding us how we are connected to the natural world.
"In Africa they have a saying," he went on, "If you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. Well we want to go far, quickly. 2 billion people are gathered, with one message!"
He then outlined his seven point pledge.
1. I pledge to demand that my country join an international treaty within the next two years that cuts global warming pollution by 90%.
2. I pledge Take personal action to reduce the climate crisis
3. I pledge to fight for a moratorium on the construction of any new facility that burns coal with out trapping the co2 it produces
4. I pledge to work to increase the energy efficiency of my home, school, workplace
5. I pledge to work for policies which will reduce the our dependencies on coal and other
6. I pledge to plant new trees
7. I pledge to buy from business who work towards sustaining the world into the 21st C.
He finished by saying "Our children and grandchildren will ask one of two questions: what were they thinking? Didn't they hear the scientists, didn't they see the evidence, were they just too greedy? Or they will ask - the one I prefer - I want them to ask how did they get the act together and find the uncommon moral courage to act together and solve the climate crisis.
Trisha Euwood and Garth Brookes then stepped onto the stage to launch the US concerts.
More From Live Earth
Robbie Williams To Headline Help For Heroes Gig
Madonna: "Jump For Earth!"
Foos: "Can We Play All Night?"
Beasties & Pussycats Get Sweaty
Tap Rock Wembley and Talk to MTV!
Keane Say Get Off Your Backsides
EXCLUSIVE: Gervais: "I Don't Brush My Teeth"
Dr Who Gets Down to Peppers
Chris Rock: "I'm Just Joking Motherf*ckers!"
INTERVIEW: Keane To Make A Change
INTERVIEW: Corrine's Legendary Duet
Will. I. Am's Plays New Track!


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package dynamake.models;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import dynamake.commands.ExecuteContinuationsFromScopeCommand;
import dynamake.commands.ExecutionScope;
import dynamake.commands.PURCommand;
import dynamake.commands.ReplayCommand;
import dynamake.commands.ReversibleCommandPair;
import dynamake.commands.TriStatePURCommand;
import dynamake.commands.UnplayCommand;
import dynamake.models.transcription.ContinueTransactionHandlerFactory;
import dynamake.transcription.Collector;
import dynamake.transcription.NullTransactionHandler;
import dynamake.transcription.TransactionHandler;
import dynamake.transcription.Trigger;
import dynamake.tuples.Tuple2;

/**
 * Instances each are supposed to forward change made in an source to an target.
 * The relation is not supposed to be one-to-one between source and target; instead
 * target are to support isolated changes which are maintained safely even when changes
 * are forwarded from the source.
 */
public class LocalChangesForwarder extends ObserverAdapter implements Serializable {
	public static class PushLocalChanges {
		public final Location<Model> offset;
		public final List<Tuple2<ExecutionScope<Model>, PURCommand<Model>>> localChangesToRevert;
		public final List<PURCommand<Model>> newChanges;

		public PushLocalChanges(Location<Model> offset, List<Tuple2<ExecutionScope<Model>, PURCommand<Model>>> localChangesToRevert, List<PURCommand<Model>> newChanges) {
			this.offset = offset;
			this.localChangesToRevert = localChangesToRevert;
			this.newChanges = newChanges;
		}
	}

	/**
	 *
	 */
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
	private Model source;
	private Model target;

	public LocalChangesForwarder(Model source, Model target) {
		this.source = source;
		// at this point, target is assumed to be clone of source with no local changes
		this.target = target;
	}

	public void attach(PropogationContext propCtx, int propDistance, Collector<Model> collector) {

	}

	public Model getSource() {
		return source;
	}

	public Model getTarget() {
		return target;
	}

	public boolean forwardsTo(Model model) {
		return target == model;
	}

	public boolean forwardsFrom(Model model) {
		return source == model;
	}

	@Override
	public boolean equals(Object obj) {
		if(obj instanceof LocalChangesForwarder) {
			LocalChangesForwarder localChangesForwarder = (LocalChangesForwarder)obj;
			return this.source == localChangesForwarder.source && this.target == localChangesForwarder.target;
		}
		return false;
	}

	private final List<Model> getModelsFromInnerToOuter(Model inner, Model outer) {
		// inner is assumed to child of outer either directly or indirectly

		ArrayList<Model> models = new ArrayList<Model>();
		Model currentModel = inner;

		while(currentModel != outer) {
			models.add(currentModel);
			currentModel = currentModel.getParent();
		}

		models.add(outer);

		return models;
	}

//	private final List<Location> getLocationsFromInnerToOuter(Model inner, Model outer, Location<T> locationOfInner) {
//		// inner is assumed to child of outer either directly or indirectly
//		// locationOfInner is assumed to be the offset from outer to inner
//
//		ArrayList<Location> locations = new ArrayList<Location>();
//		Location currentLocation = locationOfInner;
//
//		while(currentLocation != outer) {
//			locations.add(currentLocation);
//			currentLocation = new CompositeLocation(currentLocation, new ParentLocation());
//		}
//
//		locations.add(currentLocation);
//
//		return locations;
//	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	@Override
	public void changed(Model sender, Object change, PropogationContext propCtx, int propDistance, int changeDistance, Collector<Model> collector) {
		if(change instanceof PushLocalChanges && sender == source) {
			System.out.println("***Forwarding from " + source + " to " + target + "***");

			// Whenever a change is forwarded from a source
			final PushLocalChanges pushLocalChanges = (PushLocalChanges)change;

			Location<Model> forwardedOffset = pushLocalChanges.offset.forForwarding();
			final Model innerMostTarget = (Model)CompositeLocation.getChild(this.target, new ModelRootLocation<Model>(), forwardedOffset);

			final ArrayList<PURCommand<Model>> forwardedNewChanges = new ArrayList<PURCommand<Model>>();

			// Forward new changes
			for(PURCommand<Model> newChange: pushLocalChanges.newChanges)
				forwardedNewChanges.add((PURCommand<Model>) newChange.forForwarding());

			// Forward changes to revert
			final ArrayList<Tuple2<ExecutionScope<Model>, PURCommand<Model>>> forwardedChangesToRevert = new ArrayList<Tuple2<ExecutionScope<Model>, PURCommand<Model>>>();
			for(Tuple2<ExecutionScope<Model>, PURCommand<Model>> newChange: pushLocalChanges.localChangesToRevert) {
				// TODO: Add forwarded scope and forwarded command
//				forwardedChangesToRevert.add((PURCommand<Model>) newChange.forForwarding());

				PURCommand<Model> forwardedCommand = (PURCommand<Model>) newChange.value2.forForwarding();

				if(forwardedCommand != null) {
					ExecutionScope<Model> forwardedScope = newChange.value1.forForwarding();
					forwardedChangesToRevert.add(new Tuple2<ExecutionScope<Model>, PURCommand<Model>>(forwardedScope, forwardedCommand));
				}
			}

			collector.startTransaction(innerMostTarget, NullTransactionHandler.class);
			// On a meta level (i.e. build commands which are not going to be part of the inheretee's local changes)
			collector.execute(new Trigger<Model>() {
				@Override
				public void run(Collector<Model> collector) {
					final List<Model> modelsFromInnerToOuter = getModelsFromInnerToOuter(innerMostTarget, target);

					final ArrayList<Integer> modelIndexToLocationHistory = new ArrayList<Integer>();
					// Unplay from innermost part of target to outermost part of target
					// The outer parts of target could be probably be reduced to commands which affect inner parts, such as the scale command
					for(int i = 0; i < modelsFromInnerToOuter.size(); i++) {
						Model currentTarget = modelsFromInnerToOuter.get(i);
						int localChangeCount = currentTarget.getLocalChangeCount();
						modelIndexToLocationHistory.add(localChangeCount);
						// Assumed that unplaying doesn't provoke side effects
						// Play the local changes backwards
						collector.startTransaction(currentTarget, NullTransactionHandler.class);
//						collector.execute(new SimplePendingCommandFactory<Model>(new PendingCommandState<Model>(
//							new UnplayCommand(localChangeCount),
//							new ReplayCommand(localChangeCount)
//						)));
						collector.execute(new TriStatePURCommand<Model>(
							new ReversibleCommandPair<Model>(new UnplayCommand(localChangeCount), new ReplayCommand(localChangeCount)),
							new ReversibleCommandPair<Model>(new ReplayCommand(localChangeCount), new UnplayCommand(localChangeCount)),
							new ReversibleCommandPair<Model>(new UnplayCommand(localChangeCount), new ReplayCommand(localChangeCount))
						));
						collector.commitTransaction();
					}

					// Start transaction for each pair of scope and purcommand to undo
					// - the transaction should be started for the particular scope
					// The new scope must be used later when redoing

					// Revert forwarded changes
					for(Tuple2<ExecutionScope<Model>, PURCommand<Model>> scopeAndCmd: forwardedChangesToRevert) {
						collector.startTransaction(target, new ContinueTransactionHandlerFactory<Model>(scopeAndCmd.value1, scopeAndCmd.value2));
						// Just that one command is to be executed
						collector.execute(scopeAndCmd.value1);
						collector.commitTransaction();
					}
					// At this point, the stack should look as follows: many scope and command pairs in sequence

					// Do the forwarded change without affecting the local changes
					// The forwarded changes must be, each, of type PendingCommandState
					collector.execute(forwardedNewChanges);

					// Continuation production should be in reverse order due to being pushed into a stack
					// This, the execution is in reverse order fitting doing a redo
					collector.execute(new ExecuteContinuationsFromScopeCommand<Model>(forwardedChangesToRevert.size()));

					// Unplay from innermost part of target to outermost part of target
					// The outer parts of target could be probably be reduced to commands which affect inner parts, such as the scale command
					// Play the local changes forward

					// Unplay from innermost part of target to outermost part of target
					// The outer parts of target could be probably be reduced to commands which affect inner parts, such as the scale command
					for(int i = modelsFromInnerToOuter.size() - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
						Model currentTarget = modelsFromInnerToOuter.get(i);
						int localChangeCount = modelIndexToLocationHistory.get(i);
						modelIndexToLocationHistory.add(localChangeCount);
						// Play the local changes forward
						collector.startTransaction(currentTarget, (Class<? extends TransactionHandler<Model>>)NullTransactionHandler.class);
						collector.execute(new TriStatePURCommand<Model>(
							new ReversibleCommandPair<Model>(new ReplayCommand(localChangeCount), new UnplayCommand(localChangeCount)),
							new ReversibleCommandPair<Model>(new UnplayCommand(localChangeCount), new ReplayCommand(localChangeCount)),
							new ReversibleCommandPair<Model>(new ReplayCommand(localChangeCount), new UnplayCommand(localChangeCount))
						));
						collector.commitTransaction();
					}

//					PendingCommandFactory.Util.executeSequence(collector, forwardedChangesToRevert, new ExecutionsHandler<Model>() {
//						@Override
//						public void handleExecutions(final List<Execution<Model>> forwardedChangesToRevertPendingUndoablePairs, Collector<Model> collector) {
//							// Do the forwarded change without affecting the local changes
//							// The forwarded changes must be, each, of type PendingCommandState
//							final ArrayList<CommandState<Model>> forwardedNewChangesAsPendings = new ArrayList<CommandState<Model>>();
//							for(CommandState<Model> forwardedNewChange: forwardedNewChanges)
//								forwardedNewChange.appendPendings(forwardedNewChangesAsPendings);
//
//							PendingCommandFactory.Util.executeSequence(collector, forwardedNewChangesAsPendings, new ExecutionsHandler<Model>() {
//								@Override
//								public void handleExecutions(List<Execution<Model>> forwardedNewChangesPendingUndoablePairs, Collector<Model> collector) {
//									// Play the inherited local changes forwards without affecting the local changes
//									ArrayList<CommandState<Model>> backwardOutput = new ArrayList<CommandState<Model>>();
//									// They may not have been any forwarded changes to revert
//									if(forwardedChangesToRevertPendingUndoablePairs != null) {
//										for(Execution<Model> pup: forwardedChangesToRevertPendingUndoablePairs)
//											backwardOutput.add(pup.undoable);
//									}
//
//									Collections.reverse(backwardOutput);
//
//									PendingCommandFactory.Util.executeSequence(collector, backwardOutput, new ExecutionsHandler<Model>() {
//										@Override
//										public void handleExecutions(List<Execution<Model>> pendingUndoablePairs, Collector<Model> collector) {
//											// Unplay from innermost part of target to outermost part of target
//											// The outer parts of target could be probably be reduced to commands which affect inner parts, such as the scale command
//											for(int i = modelsFromInnerToOuter.size() - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
//												Model currentTarget = modelsFromInnerToOuter.get(i);
//												int localChangeCount = modelIndexToLocationHistory.get(i);
//												modelIndexToLocationHistory.add(localChangeCount);
//												// Play the local changes forward
//												collector.startTransaction(currentTarget, (Class<? extends TransactionHandler<Model>>)NullTransactionHandler.class);
//												collector.execute(new SimplePendingCommandFactory<Model>(new PendingCommandState<Model>(
//													new ReplayCommand(localChangeCount),
//													new UnplayCommand(localChangeCount)
//												)));
//												collector.commitTransaction();
//											}
//										}
//									});
//								}
//							});
//						}
//					});
				}
			});

			collector.commitTransaction();

			// Accumulate local changes to revert
			ArrayList<Tuple2<ExecutionScope<Model>, PURCommand<Model>>> newLocalChangesToRevert = new ArrayList<Tuple2<ExecutionScope<Model>, PURCommand<Model>>>();

			// Accumulate from innermost part of target to outermost part of target
			// The outer parts of target could be probably be reduced to commands which affect inner parts, such as the scale command
			Location<Model> currentLocation = new ModelRootLocation<Model>();
			Model currentModel = innerMostTarget;

			while(true) {
				for(Tuple2<PURCommand<Model>, ExecutionScope<Model>> localChangeBackwards: currentModel.getLocalChangesBackwards2()) {
					// TODO: Somehow, offset localChangeBackwards
					// Surround with offset transaction handler?
					// Offsetting shouldn't be necessary since commands are to be executed around the source
//					newLocalChangesToRevert.add(localChangeBackwards.offset(currentLocation));

					newLocalChangesToRevert.add(new Tuple2<ExecutionScope<Model>, PURCommand<Model>>(localChangeBackwards.value2, localChangeBackwards.value1));
				}

				if(currentModel != this.target) {
					currentModel = currentModel.getParent();
					currentLocation = new CompositeLocation<Model>(currentLocation, new ParentLocation());
				} else {
					break;
				}
			}

//			newLocalChangesToRevert.addAll(innerMostTarget.getLocalChangesBackwards());

			newLocalChangesToRevert.addAll(forwardedChangesToRevert);

			this.target.sendChanged(new PushLocalChanges(forwardedOffset, newLocalChangesToRevert, forwardedNewChanges), propCtx, propDistance, changeDistance, collector);
		}
	}
}

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Lemuel Cornick Shepherd junior (* 10. Februar 1896 in Norfolk, Virginia; † 6. August 1990 in La Jolla, Kalifornien) war ein General des United States Marine Corps. Er war im Pazifikkrieg der stellvertretende Kommandeur der 1st Marine Division während der Kap-Gloucester-Operationen und führte die 6th Marine Division in der Schlacht um Okinawa. Von 1952 bis 1955 war er der 20. Commandant of the Marine Corps und der erste Marine bei den Joint Chiefs of Staff. Danach engagierte er sich im Interamerikanischen Verteidigungsausschuss.

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Frühe Jahre und Erster Weltkrieg
Shepherd schloss das Virginia Military Institute in Lexington ab und erhielt anschließend am 11. April 1917 sein Offizierspatent als Second Lieutenant des US Marine Corps. Seinen ersten Posten trat er am 19. Mai des gleichen Jahres in den Marine Barracks von Port Royal, South Carolina, an.

Da sich die Vereinigten Staaten jedoch seit dem 6. April mit den Mittelmächten im Krieg befanden, wurde Shepherd mit dem 5th Marine Regiment der American Expeditionary Force (AEF) nach Frankreich beordert. Die Jahreswende verbrachte er mit seinem Regiment nahe Verdun und kämpfte während der deutschen Frühjahrsoffensive im Raum Château-Thierry. Im Juni 1918 wurde er im Laufe der Schlacht um Belleau Wood zweimal verwundet, wofür er Auszeichnungen erhielt. Nach Wochen im Lazarett schloss sich Shepherd im August wieder dem Regiment an und beteiligte sich an den Kämpfen um St. Mihiel und an der abschließenden Meuse-Argonne-Offensive der US-Streitkräfte in der Champagne, wobei er ein drittes Mal Verwundungen davontrug. Nach seiner Genesung wurde er zur 2nd Infantry Division der US Army versetzt. Sie war während des Krieges ein gemischter Verband aus Angehörigen der US Army und überwiegend des Marine Corps.

Nach dem Waffenstillstand mit dem Deutschen Kaiserreich am 11. November 1918 verblieb der nunmehrige Captain bei der Division, die der Besatzungsarmee zugeteilt wurde.

Zwischenkriegszeit
Im Juli 1919 wurde Shepherds Einheit zurück in die Vereinigten Staaten verlegt und demobilisiert. Er kehrte jedoch im September zurück nach Frankreich, um Reliefkarten der Schlachtfelder zu erstellen, auf welchen die 4. US-Marineinfanteriebrigade während Krieges gekämpft hatte. Er verrichtete bis Dezember 1920 diese Arbeit und wurde im Anschluss daran nach Washington, D.C. versetzt, wo er als Sekretär im Weißen Haus und als Adjutant des damaligen Commandant of the Marine Corps Major General John A. Lejeune, der u. a. auch der letzte Kommandeur der 2. US-Infanteriedivision vor der Rückverlegung in die Staaten gewesen war, diente. Im Juli 1922 wurde Shepherd Kommandeur einer Ehrenkompanie, die anlässlich des hundertjährigen Jubiläums der Unabhängigkeit Brasiliens von Portugal am 7. September, mit Abordnungen der anderen Teilstreitkräfte an einer Parade in Rio de Janeiro teilnehmen sollte.

Im Juni des folgenden Jahres kommandierte Shepherd die Marineabordnung an Bord des Schlachtschiffes USS Idaho (BB-24) und im Anschluss daran die Sea School in Norfolk, Virginia. Von April 1927 bis 1929 war er der 3. US-Marineinfanteriebrigade zugeteilt, die während dieser Zeit in Tientsin und Shanghai stationiert war. Nach der Absolvierung des Offizierskursus an den Marine Corps Schools in Quantico, Virginia, folgte ein weiterer Auslandseinsatz mit der Garde d'Haiti, wo er vier Jahre als Bezirkskommandant diente. Nach dem 1934 erfolgten Abzug aller US-Streitkräfte aus Haiti, wurde Major Shepherd zu den Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C. beordert, wo er als Registrar und stellvertretender Direktor des Marine Corps Institutes diente. Mit seiner 1936 erfolgten Beförderung in den Rang eines Lieutenant Colonel, wurde Shepherd zum Studium in das Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, bestellt, das er im Mai des folgenden Jahres abschloss. Danach wurde er Kommandeur des 2. Bataillons des 5. US-Marineinfanterieregiments der neu geformten Fleet Marine Force-Atlantik, das sich intensiv mit neuen Taktiken und Materialien der Amphibischen Kriegsführung beschäftigte.

Im Juni 1939 wurde Shepherd Stabsmitglied der Marine Corps Schools und war in der Folgezeit Direktor des Fernlehrinstituts, Leiter der Planungsabteilung, Jahrgangskommandant und stellvertretender Schuldirektor.

Zweiter Weltkrieg

Vier Monate nach dem US-amerikanischen Eintritt in den Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde Colonel Shepherd zum Kommandeur des in Camp Elliot in San Diego, Kalifornien, neu aufgestellten 9. US-Marineinfanterieregiments. Um sein Regiment wurde in den folgenden Monaten die 3rd Marine Division gebildet, die unter dem Befehl von Major General Charles D. Barrett stand. Shepherd blieb Regimentskommandeur und führte seine Einheit zu Ausbildungs- und Trainingszwecken nach Auckland, Neuseeland, und ab Juni 1943 auf die zuvor hart umkämpfte Salomonen-Insel Guadalcanal. Dort erhielt er vier Wochen später die Beförderung zum Brigadier General und wurde zum stellvertretenden Kommandeur von William H. Rupertus' 1st Marine Division ernannt. In dieser Funktion begleitete er die Einheit zwischen Dezember und März 1944 im Rahmen von Operation Dexterity nach Neubritannien.

Im darauffolgenden Mai erhielt Shepherd das Kommando über die 1. provisorische Marineinfanteriebrigade und befehligte diese Einheit während der Rückeroberung der Marianeninsel Guam, die am Tag des Angriffs auf Pearl Harbor gegen die japanische Übermacht hatte kapitulieren müssen. Aufgrund des schnellen und erfolgreichen Unternehmens wurde Sheperd u. a. zum Major General ernannt.

Shepherds provisorische Brigade wurde auf Divisionsniveau aufgestockt und am 7. September 1944 in 6th Marine Division umbenannt. Nach dem Training auf Guadalcanal wurde der Verband General Roy S. Geigers III Amphibious Corps unterstellt, welches gemeinsam mit Verbänden der US Army ab April 1945 die Invasion Okinawas durchführte. Nach dem Sieg in Okinawa verlegte Shepherds Division nach Guam, um sich für die Invasion der japanischen Hauptinseln vorzubereiten. Die für März 1946 geplante Landung an der Hauptinsel Honshū wurde nie durchgeführt, da das japanische Kaiserreich im September kapitulierte. Die 6. Marineinfanteriedivision wurde nach Tsingtao auf das chinesische Festland gesandt, um am 25. Oktober die Kapitulation der regionalen japanischen Streitkräfte entgegenzunehmen.

Koreakrieg
Nachdem seine Division Ende März 1946 in China aufgelöst wurde, kehrte Shepherd in die Vereinigten Staaten zurück und organisierte an der Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek bei Virginia Beach das Truppentrainingskommando der amphibischen Streitkräfte der US-Atlantikflotte. Im November wurde er Assistent von Commandant Alexander A. Vandegrift und behielt diesen Posten bis April 1948. Danach wurde er Kommandeur der Marine Corps Schools in Quantico.

In dem Ende Juni 1950 eskalierenden Koreakrieg war General Shepherd Kommandierender General der pazifischen Fleet Marine Force mit Hauptquartier in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In sein Aufgabengebiet fiel die Durchführung der Landung bei Incheon Mitte September 1950 sowie die erfolgreiche Evakuierung von UN-Truppen und Zivilisten aus der nordkoreanischen Hafenstadt Hŭngnam, infolge der verlorenen Schlacht um das Chosin-Reservoir. Dabei gelangten ungefähr 100.000 Soldaten und Material sowie 100.000 nordkoreanischer Zivilpersonen über mehrere Wochen bis Weihnachten 1950 auf dem Seeweg nach Südkorea. Dies war eine der größten Evakuierungen von UN-Truppen und nordkoreanischen Zivilisten während des gesamten Krieges.

Commandant of the Marine Corps und Ruhestand
Am 1. Januar 1952 wurde Shepherd von US-Präsident Harry S. Truman zum Nachfolger von Clifton B. Cates als Commandant of the Marine Corps bestellt. Im Laufe seiner Amtszeit initiierte er eine Reihe von Projekten, welche das militärische Können des Corps erheblich steigern sollte. Mit Verabschiedung des Public Law 416 durch den 82. Kongress der Vereinigten Staaten am 28. Juni 1952, wurde der Commandant ein stimmberechtigtes Mitglied bei den Joint Chiefs of Staff, wenn es um Sachen ging, die direkt das US Marine Corps betrafen. Somit war Shepherd der erste Marine im Generalstab und blieb in dieser Funktion bis zu seiner Pensionierung am 1. Januar 1956. Fünfzig Jahre später wird General Peter Pace der erste Marine sein, der den Vorsitz der Joint Chiefs innehatte.

Zwei Monate später wurde Shepherd wieder in den aktiven Dienst zurückberufen und durch Präsident Dwight D. Eisenhower zum Vorsitzenden des Interamerikanischen Verteidigungsausschusses ernannt. In dieser Tätigkeit zeichnete er sich durch seine Führungsfähigkeit und Diplomatie aus und bewirkte dadurch einen großen Schritt hin zu einer gemeinsamen Verteidigungsdoktrin des amerikanischen Kontinents. Shepherd erreichte eine militärische Verbundenheit unter den verschiedenen Streitkräften der westlichen Hemisphäre. Am 15. September 1959 beendete er seine Arbeit in diesem Ausschuss und konnte nun endgültig seinen Ruhestand antreten.

General Lemuel Cornick Shepherd, Jr. verstarb am 6. August 1990 in La Jolla, Kalifornien, an den Folgen von Knochenkrebs und wurde auf dem Nationalfriedhof Arlington bei Washington, D.C. beigesetzt. Seine vor ihm verstorbene Ehefrau Virginia Tunstall Driver Shepherd (* 2. Mai 1898, † 29. November 1989) wurde neben ihm bestattet.

Auszeichnungen
Auswahl der Dekorationen, sortiert in Anlehnung der Order of Precedence of Military Awards:
 Navy Cross
 Distinguished Service Cross
 Navy Distinguished Service Medal (3 ×)
 Silver Star (3 ×)
 Legion of Merit (2 ×)
 Bronze Star
 Purple Heart (4 ×)
 Navy Unit Commendation
 National Defense Service Medal
 Korean Service Medal (3 ×)
 Großkreuz des Ordens vom Kreuz des Südens
 Kommandeur der französischen Ehrenlegion
 Croix de guerre (Frankreich)
 Mexikanischer Orden vom Aztekischen Adler 1. Klasse

Weblinks
 Offizielle Biografie des US Marine Corps (englisch)
 Biografie des Nationalfriedhofs Arlington (englisch)

General (United States Marine Corps)
Commandant of the Marine Corps (Vereinigte Staaten)
Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps (Vereinigte Staaten)
Person im Ersten Weltkrieg (Vereinigte Staaten)
Person im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Vereinigte Staaten)
Person im Pazifikkrieg (Vereinigte Staaten)
Person im Koreakrieg (Vereinigte Staaten)
Träger des Navy Cross
Träger des Distinguished Service Cross (Vereinigte Staaten)
Träger der Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Träger des Silver Star
Träger des Ordens Legion of Merit
Träger der Bronze Star Medal
Träger der Navy Unit Commendation
Träger des Nationalen Ordens vom Kreuz des Südens (Großkreuz)
Mitglied der Ehrenlegion (Kommandeur)
Träger des Ordens vom Aztekischen Adler
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1896
Gestorben 1990
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Glamping gals from Savannah turn road trip into new show
By Kyle Jordan
Published: Mar. 29, 2021 at 11:50 AM EDT
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - If you think camping or RV life is not for you, three Savannah women are hoping their "Glamping Adventures" will make you reconsider.
When the world shutdown in March 2020 due to COVID-19, Nicole Casino, Arra Riggs and Chris Waters were looking for an escape. Rather than looking for hotels and resorts, they found a better way to put some distance between themselves and others.
"The RV was just a more of a private place that we wouldn't be exposed to a bunch of people, because we bought this thing right at the very beginning of quarantine," Casino said.
"Honestly, I thought these two had RV'd before, so I was completely confused when we got there and no one knew what was going on," Waters said.
The lack of camping experience didn't stop these new glamour gals of the camping world. They bought a Minnie Winnie and within a month they hit road for a 4,000 mile learning experience.
"We just wanted to just go on an adventure and we figured we would figure it out as we go," Casino said.
They quickly discovered the not-so-glamorous side of Glamping when they had to get rid of waste for the first time.
"Our first day, I just didn't realize what was gonna happen," Riggs said. "I had on white pants, flip flops, no gloves."
A trip through Arkansas, Texas and into Colorado offered plenty of chances to become more comfortable with the innerworkings of the RV and the opportunity for new experiences at every turn.
"So much of being outdoors is also being open to the idea of the adventure and so we tried a couple different things," Waters said.
Armed with a camera and social media accounts, the Glamping gals got another idea.
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The videos led to the creation of "Glamping Adventures." The women teamed up with Savannah-based Skyway Pictures to begin shooting a series, documenting life in their hotel on wheels.
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Skyway Pictures says it's shooting more episodes and hopes to release a pilot for the series later this spring. The ladies do have two more long trips planned in the coming months. You can follow their adventures online at glampingadventuregirls.com or on social media. A preview of their show is also on YouTube.
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In this interactive presentation Preston McNair VP of Sales for Sangoma, will outline how you can develop a strategic Go-To-Market plan that addresses critical business questions and needs in the area of Unified Communications:
To build or buy a PBX? On-Premise or Cloud? Self-host or Virtualize? Open Source or Commercial Licensing? What features do you (or your customers) need? What are your future business needs? Disruptive Pricing?
Attend this presentation to gain an understanding of the key UC offerings (SwitchVox, PBXact, and FreePBX) available from Sangoma (including those from Digium - a Sangoma company) along with some recommended best practices when selling and deploying UC solutions from Sangoma.
Many users of Asterisk and FreePBX initially come to the projects because of the attractiveness of the Free & Open Source model, Asterisk is a communication engine that transforms commodity computers into powerful communications servers. Asterisk is the telephony engine that powers FreePBX, the world's most popular open source PBX.
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When building your business around Asterisk-based solutions there are many reasons to look at commercial offerings from Sangoma as part of your "Go to market" strategy. Given this, and the proliferation of technology, it's more important than ever to have a clear goal in mind when choosing an Asterisk-based system and associated suite of products and services to utilize when selecting a UC platform.
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Intellectual Property Rights, Internalization, and Technology Transfer
FTC Bureau of Economics Working Paper No. 250
35 Pages Posted: 17 Jul 2003
See all articles by Michael W. Nicholson
Michael W. Nicholson
Date Written: July 2002
Intellectual property protection affects the manner in which multinational enterprises facilitate technology transfer from the innovating North to the developing South. Firms with products that are complex or technologically sophisticated will tend to internalize production through foreign direct investment. Firms that face a lower risk of imitation, or are less technically advanced, will tend to license production to non-affiliated Southern firms. Changes in intellectual property protection affect the level and the composition of technology transfer, depending on the value of the firm's proprietary asset.
Keywords: multinational enterprise, licensing, intellectual property rights, technology transfer, foreign direct investment
JEL Classification: F23, L24, O34
Nicholson, Michael W., Intellectual Property Rights, Internalization, and Technology Transfer (July 2002). FTC Bureau of Economics Working Paper No. 250, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=393661 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.393661
Michael W. Nicholson (Contact Author)
US Agency for International Development ( email )
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Lou Ye, born in 1965, is a Chinese screenwriter, director and producer. The son of actors, Lou Ye graduated in 1983 from the Shanghai School of Fine Arts (in animation) and then joined the Beijing Film Academy (Filmmaking Department) in 1989. Lou Ye is part of a new generation of Chinese filmmakers who are open to the West and ready to tackle themes from all cultures.
He worked as an assistant before directing his own debut film in 1994, WEEKEND LOVER (Zhoumo qingren/周末情人). A portrait of disaffected youth in Shanghai, the film was banned for two years in China, but received the Werner Fassbinder Award for Best Direction at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival in 1996.
Also interested in production, Lou Ye initiated the "SUPER CITY" project for television, with contributions from 10 of the most promising Chinese directors of the time, and established the production company Dream Factory.
In 2000, western audiences discovered Lou Ye through his second feature, SUZHOU RIVER (Suzhou he/苏州河), which he wrote, directed and co-produced. Secretly shot on the streets of Shanghai, the film attracted widespread international acclaim and was banned in China for having been presented at the Rotterdam Film Festival without permission from the Chinese authorities.
In 2003, Lou Ye was recognized for the ambitious PURPLE BUTTERFLY (Zi hudie/紫蝴蝶), with Zhang Ziyi, which portrayed the conflict between China and Japan in the 1930s. The film was selected in Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, as was SUMMER PALACE (Yihe yuan/颐和园) three years later. In this latter film, Lou Ye revisited the events of Tiannnmen Square through the erotic relationship of two students. For breaking this taboo, the director was banned again from making and producing films in China for five years.
Shot clandestinely in China and bearing French and Hong Kong nationality to avoid censorship, SPRING FEVER (Chunfeng chenzuide yewan/春风沉醉的夜晚) received the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. Two years later, Lou Ye returned with LOVE AND BRUISES (Hua/花), shot in France, and starring Tahar Rahim. The film was presented at the Venice Film Festival.
In 2012, MYSTERY (Fucheng mishi/浮城谜事) was selected for the opening night of Un Certain Regard in Cannes. MYSTERY confirms the official return of Lou Ye in China, after 5 years of censorship.
BLIND MASSAGE (Tui na/推拿) was presented in competition at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival in 2014. Like all of his recent films, BLIND MASSAGE is a French coproduction.
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Q: can't find package crontab-ubuntu 12.04 I am trying to install cron for scheduling and before anyone says duplicate, I have tried the methods of sudo apt-get update and upgrade mentioned and they don't work.
When I go to install crontab, it tells me that it cannot find the package. if I do apt-get install cron*, it tells me that I have broken packages, though it won't say which ones. I have cron, that is, simple cron installed. Will that let me do all of the scheduling and manipulation of files that I need, or do I also need crontab? If I do, how can I get it when the above commands have failed?

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The crontab command should already be in your $PATH:
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I got my I-droid that I ordered off of e-bay.
This is not quite the robot that I expected it to be. As to be honest I thought that it would be more like a toy and less like a Robot. But I must say that it is by far the best Robot I have seen available around today.
Originally my plan was to put the I-Droid head on my Robonova, but now that I have the I-droid I have realized that the Robonova frame will have to be re-built to accomidate the head of an I-droid. The overall robot size will have to be somewhere in the range of two to three feet high. But now that I have both robots it is only a matter of getting started.
B) it is programed through Bluetooth so I have to get a bluetooth adapter for my computer tommorrow. Nothing too big but non the less one more problem.
I would say that if more of these came over to North America i think that they would revolutionize the way people think about building and using domestic Robots.
I set up a USB bluetooth gaget on my computer this morning. Now I am just down to switching the voice mode from Italian to English.
Once the blue tooth link was set up I got full access to the Robot and its capabilities. Which is totally awesome. It has a CMOS camera on its head and face tracking software in it, which I think is pretty cool. Because the head has 2DOF it can follow your face or other objects with head movement alone.
It reminds me of basically what an ER-1 was trying to be, but it actually is more personable. There is a Visual C- Like programable interaface that you can use to program it with if you are not good at writing code. Basically you drop the blocks to make bahaviours and procedures then they are written into code. Which is good for me, and the amount of stuff you can do is tremendous.
There is a French Robot that is basically this robot mixed with the Robonova 1 that I think anyone could make. I also like that the Robot is supposed to be self assembled- which means that all the boards are marked up so that you can tell what wire is supposed to be what. When I bought the robot it was not put together properly and I had to do some trouble shooting. Which although I am not that handy it was super simply to take it apart fix it and put it back together.
As I said before if you have a chance to pick this robot up I think that it provides a really good frame around which you can build another generation of better humanoid robots, but it is also a really good robot on its own- and will definitely provide me with a lot of future fun.
What type of face tracking software are you using or is it pre-installed?
This bot sounds pretty damn impressive... Do you happen to know the company that built this bot and/or have a link where people can pick this robot up (other than eBay)?
I am not sure how to buy the Robot other then E-bay. I think that for some reason there is no english or north american distribution for this Robot. I have tryed to contact them several times to no avail. If you guys could get the North American distribution I sure you would make a mint. As it offers the best cutting robot around.
Just the head allone is a Qrio type that is simple good to look at and functional. Which can be used on any humanoid robot.
The last time I called the guys from Evolution Robotics the sales rep said that they are really focusing on doing emmbedded Vision solutions, which I thought at the time was a poor direction to go in- but now that I have seen this kind of thing in action I think that it is excellent. Basically you can build a humanoid robot one module at a time that can also be updated by simply changing the appropriate module. Which I think is brilliant. As well these modules take very little power to operate. Which is why the I-droid gets 4 hours of operation out of eight AA rechargables.
Which is why the I-droid gets 4 hours of operation out of eight AA rechargables.
Wow:robotsurprised: 8AA's are quite a lot of batteries, but for 4hours, I think it's worth it.
Thanks for the links! We'll see what we can find out with them. Would you be willing to disclose how much you paid for the bot?
I do not mind talking about how much I paid for it. 500 Euros. But I got all 90 parts packages set up to make the robot. So you can find it cheaper and more expensive depending how far allong it is to being finished.
I got my set of grippers and double knees on the Robonova now. The next step for me is seeing what kind of improvement this is going to be. At the very least I need to give my sore fingers time to heal :). I think that the next step is adding the gyros and a tilt sensor or accelemeter and looking at some ways to increase the body size without putting it to far out of balance with AutoCad and picking up a Sherline CNC machine to build the body and head.
Robot, hell, I'd love to see and hear more about the Sherline! They go for around $2000 or so, right? What a workshop... add an O'scope and you can handle ANYTHING!
I'm sick with jealousy and envy.
That is pretty much how I feel. I would like to buy a new one, but more then likely I will pick a used one up off of e-bay and fix whatever is wrong with it or add to it until I get what I want. From the demo stuff that I seen around it will make proto-typing a lot easier.
curious, I see your avatar has an i-droid body, but have bepdal legs... Is this a modified i-droid that walks?
It is not my project, but I am working on something very much like this. I also really wish that there was an English I-droid. First and foremost so that I could make more use out of mine and secondly, it is a great plateform.


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