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Spanish (SPA)
910 Clemens Hall
North Campus
www.arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/romance-languages-literatures.html
Dr. Amy C. Graves Monroe
acgraves@buffalo.edu
Dr. Henry Berlin
rll-dus@buffalo.edu
Spanish BA/Spanish Adolescence Education EdM
Spanish Minor
Occupational Science BS/Occupational Therapy MS
Spanish BA
SPA Courses
The Learning Environment
Spanish courses are taught in the target language from the first day. Classes are small and highly interactive. In introductory classes, instructors model usage and engage students in daily conversation on topics drawn from around the world. Our 200-level classes strengthen cultural analysis while emphasizing active mastery of the language, both spoken and written. Students may perform original skits or scenes from established dramatic works, analyze graphic novels, or discover new trends in popular music.
Upper-division courses reflect the interdisciplinary orientation of the faculty and permit students to explore the relationship of language and literature to other disciplines. Collaborations with the Theatre program allow performance classes in the target language. There are regular courses in cinema, as well as inquiries into literature's kinship with the visual arts. Partnering with colleagues in the sciences, RLL faculty have developed courses on globalization and sustainability. New classes, such as a Petrarch seminar or Portuguese for Speakers of Spanish, empower students to build on foundations to expand their cultural and linguistic horizons. Classes in Business French and Medical Spanish offer students prospects for combining their passion for language with a wide array of career options. The new UB Teach initiative offers an accelerated path to certification and a career in secondary teaching.
RLL recently updated its departmental classroom to provide state-of-the-art audio visual technology for classroom presentations, lectures and films. The department also has a Quebec Studies seminar room with specially dedicated materials and equipment available to support film study. A spacious conference room serves for meetings and oral exams. All regular classrooms are equipped with up-to-date computing and display technology and are linked by a T1 connection to the Internet. Secure wifi is ubiquitous on campus.
The breadth of faculty specializations in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and a pan-Romance model make for an actively interdisciplinary research and teaching agenda which promotes linguistic, literary, cultural, and visual literacies. We have emerging strengths in Catalan and Portuguese, with cross-disciplinary strengths in Iberian and Latin American Studies, Francophone Canadian, Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Studies, Early Modern Studies, as well as Cultural, Postcolonial, Gender, Disability, and Urban and Landscape Studies, in addition to Poetry, Theater and Performance, Film, and Romance Linguistics. RLL faculty contribute to interdisciplinary initiatives such as UB's Humanities Institute, the Gender Institute, the Early Modern Reading Group, Poetics and Canadian Studies.
RLL graduate students are productive and high achieving. They have successfully competed for UB Presidential scholarships; been short-listed for Fulbright and Ford fellowships; received CAS and Humanities Institute dissertation writing grants; had papers accepted in major disciplinary conferences, and articles accepted for publication at peer-reviewed journals. They organize an annual conference and publish its proceedings.
Full time tenured/tenure track RLL faculty: 16
Teaching assistants: 14
Adjunct faculty: 14
Faculty List Directory
Please visit the Romance Languages and Literatures department website for additional information about our faculty.
SPA 101LEC Elementary Spanish 1st Semester
For students who have never had Spanish or had one year or less in high school. Reviews fundamentals of Spanish pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar; emphasizes oral proficiency.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
SPA 102LEC Elementary Spanish 2nd Semester
Requisites: Pre-Requisite: SPA 101.
SPA 104LEC Transitional Elementary Spanish
A one-semester review course for students who have taken the Regents' exams or have had previous experience with Spanish, but who are not yet able to go into the second year of language study. Involves all four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and, to some extent, writing), emphasizing grammatical structures and vocabulary fundamentals of simple, everyday conversation.
Requisites: Pre-Requisite: SPA 101 or SPA 151 or AVANT Placement Scores of 2 or 3. For information visit: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/romance-languages-literatures/language-placement-testing.html
SPA 151LEC Intermediate Spanish 1st Semester
Reviews grammar and pronunciation, structured around extensive conversation practice. Also involves vocabulary expansion through literary and nonliterary readings.
Requisites: Pre-Requisite: SPA 101 or SPA 104 or AVANT Placement Scores of 4. For information visit: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/romance-languages-literatures/language-placement-testing.html
SPA 151REC Intermediate SPA Recitation
Spanish 151REC is a 1-credit optional course for students who are currently enrolled in SPA 151LEC or who have taken SPA 151LEC already. It provides further in-depth practice of the language skills developed in SPA 151LEC. There will be extensive reading, writing, and conversation practice. Students who are doing the Language Track starting with SPA 104, will benefit from this course to complete the 9-credit requirement of the track.
Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SPA 102 or SPA 104 Co-requisite: SPA 151LEC
SPA 152LEC Intermediate Spanish 2nd Semester
Requisites: Pre-Requisite: SPA 151 or AVANT Placement Scores of 5. For information visit: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/romance-languages-literatures/language-placement-testing.html
SPA 171LEC Elementary Spanish for Heritage Speakers I
Provides intensive practice in basic grammatical patterns, and encourages vocabulary expansion through reading and writing in the target language. Teaches standard Spanish to students who learned Spanish at home but have little or no formal instruction in the language. SPA 171 satisfies the proficiency requirement for general education. Students who need a fourth semester of a foreign language must continue with SPA 241.
Typically Offered: Varies
SPA 172LEC Elementary Spanish for Heritage Speakers II
SPA 198SEM UB Seminar
The one credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps transition to UB through an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 198 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Requisites: Students who have already successfully completed the UB seminar course may not repeat this course. If you have any questions regarding enrollment for this course, please contact your academic advisor.
The three credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps students with common learning outcomes focused on fundamental expectations for critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and oral communication, and learning at a university, all within topic focused subject matter. The Seminars provide students with an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 199 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.
Requisites: Students who have already successfully completed the first year seminar course may not repeat this course. If you have any questions regarding enrollment for this course, please contact your academic advisor.
SPA 207LEC Spanish Conversation and Language Workshop
This course focuses on the development of skills in oral expression and comprehension. Students will also review core grammar topics and complete regular short reading and writing assignments. SPA 207 & SPA 208 can be taken in either order, they do not need to be taken sequentially.
Requisites: Pre-Requisite: SPA 152 or permission from the department.
SPA 208LEC Spanish Composition and Language Workshop
This course focuses primarily on the development of writing skills, with an additional focus on reading comprehension and a review of advanced grammar topics. Students will also continue to develop their conversational abilities. SPA 207 & SPA 208 can be taken in either order, they do not need to be taken sequentially.
SPA 210LEC How to Read a Spanish Text
Develops students' ability to analyze a piece of Spanish literature; considers prose and poetry from Peninsular Spanish and/or Spanish American literature.
SPA 215LEC Intermediate Review of Spanish Grammar
Reviews troublesome grammatical points through oral and written exercises; requires oral participation.
SPA 216LEC Hispanic Civilization
Strengthens the student's knowledge of twentieth-century Hispanic cultures and civilizations and improves the student's command of spoken and written Spanish. Examines some of the major events and trends of the twentieth century that are helpful in understanding the contemporary scene, including the Mexican Revolution, the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, World Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil War, the ascent of the United States as a global power, and the phenomena of neocolonialism and dependency in developing countries. Emphasizes contemporary issues and movements (from 1972 to the present) relevant to Hispanics in the United States, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Spain, and South America. Gives students the opportunity to learn how to access cultural information on the Internet. Taught in Spanish.
SPA 225LEC Spanish Language Through Theatre
Involves reading and discussion of Spanish and Spanish American plays; emphasizes improvement of oral and written expression in Spanish.
SPA 241LEC Spanish for Bilinguals
Further develops reading and writing skills of heritage speakers of Spanish; covers spelling and style, grammar review, and expository writing. Satisfies fourth-semester foreign language requirement for those who have completed SPA 171-SPA 172.
Requisites: Pre-Requisites: SPA 171 and SPA 172.
SPA 301LEC Survey of Spanish Literature: Middle Ages to Seventeenth Century
Studies the early history of Spanish literature, from its roots in Mozarabe and the oral tradition to the Golden Age of Spanish baroque drama, verse, and prose. Emphasizes the development of literature in its socio-historical context, as well as its relation to the history of the language.
SPA 302LEC Survey of Spanish Literature: Eighteenth Century to Present
Introduces the student to the major cultural trends and some important literary works of modern Spanish literature. Class lectures present general background information on the artistic movements, philosophical vogues, and historical events that have directly contributed to the course of Spanish literature of the past three centuries. We read and discuss works by such authors as Bécquer, Galdós, Pardo Bazán, Unamuno, Lorca, Cela, and Martín Gaite.
SPA 303LEC Romanticism and Realism in Spain
Examines historic and aesthetic backgrounds of, and conducts literary analysis of, some representative works of the romantic and antiromantic (realist) movements in nineteenth-century Spain.
SPA 304LEC Early Spanish American Literature
Covers works from the time of the encounter between Spain and the Americas, as well as from the colonial period. Study of texts emphasizes cultural and historical issues.
SPA 305LEC Spanish Literature of the Middle Ages
Examines the literature and culture of the Spanish Middle Ages, from the origins of the language to the unification of the peninsula under the Catholic kings.
SPA 310LEC Introduction to Literary Criticism
Introduces salient features of various critical methods, including their application to novels, plays, and poetry from Peninsular Spanish and/or Spanish American literature.
SPA 311LEC Survey of Spanish American Literature
Reviews Spanish American literature from the earliest times to the present.
SPA 313LEC Advanced Grammar
Examines grammatical categories of Spanish; provides extensive oral and written practice.
SPA 314SEM Advanced Communication for Students of Spanish
This course functions as a workshop where students strengthen knowledge and skills necessary for communication in fields and world regions where the Spanish language is used. They learn to apply productive communicative processes (including revision) necessary for written work and presentations, describe the conventions they use, and make effective arguments in varied contexts. Students also refine their use of Spanish, and they cultivate a heightened sense of cross-cultural awareness. Similarly they reflect on the usefulness of communication technologies (including formal writing) as tools for critical thought while they learn to use the language more carefully and purposefully. By the end of the course, students will be more thoroughly prepared to communicate, including in Spanish, as well as articulate their own relationship to various genres, registers, and forms of communication. At least 75% of the class involves work in Spanish.
Requisites: Pre-requisite: Completion of Communication Literacy 1 or completion of Writing Skills 1 (ENG 101 or placement into ENG 201). Completion of two 200 level SPA courses. Taught in Spanish.
SPA 317LEC Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
Golden Age of Spanish culture refers to the period stretching roughly from the end of the sixteenth to the beginning of the seventeenth centuries, a time identified by many historians and scholars today as the dawn of the modern age. Examines this "early modernity" through careful attention to the works of such authors as Miguel de Cervantes, Francisco de Quevedo, Lope de Vega, and Calderón de la Barca.
SPA 320LEC Contemporary Spanish American Literature
Studies the principal characteristics of contemporary Spanish American literature, centered in the analysis of poems and short stories.
SPA 323LEC Business Spanish
Business Spanish provides a cultural, economic, and political snapshot of all the Spanish-speaking countries around the world, including the United States, which has more Spanish speakers than any other country except Mexico. Cultural readings examine how different attitudes toward money affect the way people conduct business. They also address how the concept of time, family traditions, and the climate influence a country's economy. Practical topics may include correspondence, commercial terminology, readings, occasional translation of articles on financial subjects, discussions of documents, business customs, and practice in practical application. Requires oral participation.
Requisites: Pre-Requisite: SPA 152 or one 200-level Spanish class or departmental permission. Taught in Spanish.
SPA 324LEC Medical and Health-Related Spanish
Teaches the medical vocabulary and reinforces grammar usage so that students will be able to perform a medical check-up or counseling session in Spanish and/or be a first-responder in Spanish. Students will be able to discuss health care issues in Spanish and formulate informed opinions on health care policies in Hispanic contexts in the United States and abroad.
Requisites: Pre-Requisite: SPA 152 or one 200-level or departmental permission.
SPA 325LEC Phonetics
Covers theory and practice of Spanish pronunciation; helps students develop near-native pronunciation.
SPA 327LEC Spanish Culture and Civilization
Examines the history, geography, art, architecture, music, cuisine, and customs of Spain.
SPA 328LEC Spanish American Culture and Civilization
Examines the history, geography, art, architecture, music, and cuisine of Spanish America.
SPA 330LEC Spanish American Themes
Examines some of the most important themes in Spanish American life through selected readings (The Indian, Emancipation and Revolution, Country and City, Education: The University Reform of 1918), music, song, and dance. Most readings that illustrate the themes are literary works but their content deals with historical, political, sociological, anthropological, educational, and artistic matters.
SPA 333LEC Intensive Communicative Spanish Abroad
Provides intensive oral and written practice in Spanish for participants in the department's summer program at the University of Salamanca in Spain.
SPA 350LEC Topics in Spanish American Short Story
Involves studying theories on the short story and their application to selected works of Isabel Allende, Juan José Arreola, María Luisa Bombal, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Horacio Quiroga, Juan Rulfo, Arturo Uslar Pietri, and others. Conducted in Spanish.
SPA 382LEC Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Theory
Examines second language acquisition (SLA) from a variety of vantage points. Explores the factors that affect learning a second language (e.g. age, native language, environment, goals, and learner strategies), and outlines the succession of theories about how people acquire a second language. Students survey and share some of the relevant research literature on an SLA issue that interests them. Further, students engage in and reflect upon a practical observation or tutoring session.
SPA 405LEC The Quijote
Introduces students to questions of life, literature, and art in the time of Cervantes and to the meaning these problems can have for us today. Stresses the importance of genre as a means of interpretation. Gives attention to how modern feminist studies impact the experience of reading and understanding a literary text.
SPA 407LEC Contemporary Literature of Spain
Studies main trends and analyzes some of the most significant works written in Spain after 1936. Includes all genres (poetry, novel, and drama).
SPA 408LEC History of Spanish Cinema
Introduces Spanish film history, including renowned directors, the current scene, and the principles of film theory. Accompanying readings deal with cinema as an integral part of Spanish cultural heritage. Class discussions are conducted in Spanish.
SPA 409LEC Age of Lorca
Centered on García Lorca's poetry and theatre, the course deals with one of the most important poetic groups in Hispanic letters and in twentieth-century European literature: the so-called Generation of 1927 (Lorca, Salinas, Guillén, Diego, Alexandre, Alberti, and Cernuda). Studies several important avant-garde movements, such as surrealism, as well as currents in the contemporary period.
SPA 410LEC Spanish Women Writers
An examination of women writers in Spain from Early Modernity to the present, including poetry, fiction, plays, and essays, as well as cultural texts illustrating the effect of gender roles.
SPA 411LEC Spanish American Novel
Even though many critics agree that the Spanish American novel dates back to 1816, this course focuses on novels published between 1955 and 1990. Examines representative texts of what has been termed the New Novel. Explores some of the main themes in the works (dictatorship, revolution, love, death, and writing) and looks closely at narrative technique. Writers include Allende, Cortázar, Ferré, Fuentes, García Márquez, Puig, and Rulfo.
SPA 412LEC 20c Span Amer Novel
SPA 413LEC Grammar: Writing and Translation
Develops advanced grammatical and writing skills through literary and nonliterary translations from English to Spanish and vice versa.
SPA 415LEC Spanish American Poetry
Reviews the poetic production of Spanish America. Emphasis on period varies. Readings may be selected from baroque and romantic poetry, modernism, the avant-garde, and contemporary poetry.
SPA 416LEC Spanish American Theatre
Students read and analyze ten plays while examining the following literary movements: realism, vanguardism, the Theatre of the Absurd, metatheatre, and postmodernism. Students use their Spanish speaking skills, as class participation is strongly encouraged.
SPA 421LEC Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
Introduces the fundamentals of Spanish phonology, morphology, syntax, and historical and dialectal variation. This course is dual-listed with SPA 501.
SPA 423LEC Cervantes and our Media Condition
This course examines selected works by literary juggernaut Miguel de Cervantes, including his masterpiece Don Quixote and his collection of Exemplary Novels as well as some of his experimental theatrical pieces known as Entremeses or Interludes. We will focus on Cervantes¿s self-reflective writing style and his astonishing insights into the reality-framing power of baroque (mass)culture. Keeping this Cervantine critique in mind, we will discuss our own media condition, drawing on blockbuster movies, paperback bestsellers, and other products of the entertaining and tourist industries, from Disneyworld to the 24-hour news media phenomenon, and also on the political satire of such comedians as Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and Sacha Baron Cohen. Course assignments include oral presentations, a mid-term paper (5 double-spaced pp. undergrads; 7-10 pp. grads), and a final essay (7-8 pp. undergrads; 12-15 grads).
SPA 426LEC Latin American Spanish Dialectology
The course is an introduction to variation in Latin American Spanish. The main focus will be on phonological variation (i.e., variation in pronunciation), but attention will be given also to morphological and syntactic variation (i.e., variation in word formation and sentence formation). No previous linguistic course is required. 400-level and 500-level syllabi are the same; however, the 500-level requires a 10-page paper. Dual listed with SPA 506.
SPA 435LEC Mexican Film
Three major events in 20th-century Mexican history include the revolution of 1910, the student massacre of 1968, and the killing of women in the border city of Juarez in 1997. In this course we will look at the visual representation of these events in ten to twelve films released between 1989 and 2009. We will also discuss questions raised by the films regarding migration, feminism, homosexuality, the environment, and corruption. Students will have the opportunity to learn how to read a film by analyzing the ways in which cinematography, sound, and editing work in conjunction with (or against?) plot structure. Textbook: Film Art: An Introduction by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson. The course will be conducted in Spanish.
SPA 444LEC Special Topics Abroad
Examines Spanish civilization, including history, geography, literature, art, and culture. For participants in the department's summer program at the University of Salamanca.
SPA 449LEC Special Topics I
This is a three-credit course with variable content. Please check Department website for semester offerings, prerequisites, language of instruction, and other details.
SPA 450LEC Special Topics II
SPA 450SEM Special Topics II
SPA 451SEM Catalán
Examines modern Catalán syntax; utilizes readings in contemporary fiction and poetry. For those familiar with the grammar of another Romance language. Requires oral participation.
SPA 452LEC Special Topics III
SPA 453LEC Special Topics
SPA 453SEM Special Topics
SPA 455LEC Spanish Phonology
Explores the sound system of contemporary Spanish; provides theoretical and descriptive treatments.
SPA 456LEC Spanish Syntax
Examines Spanish sentence structure in its relation to semantic structure.
SPA 481SEM Cuba Today
Cuba is the closest non-contiguous neighbor to the US, but if you are a US citizen, you are not allowed to go there without special permission from your government. Why is that the case? Cuba is a communist country but so is Vietnam and no permission is needed to visit there. This difference cannot be completely understood without knowledge of the history of US-Cuba relations. The course focuses on this history. There is no prerequisite. The course will be taught in English and all readings will be in English.
SPA 496TUT Internship/Practicum
Hands-on experience in language and cultural studies at institutions and community organizations in the Western New York area.
Credits: 1 - 6
SPA 498TUT Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity
Students collaborate with faculty research mentors on an ongoing faculty research project or conduct independent research under the guidance of a faculty member.
SPA 499TUT Independent Study
Open only to students who have taken at least two courses at the 300/400 level and have a minimum GPA of 3.0 in their Spanish major or minor. Students must design a course of study they want to undertake in one semester. They choose a professor whose area of expertise most closely approximates their topic and must consult with the professor prior to registering for the course. The topic must not duplicate the content of a regular course.
Credits: 1 - 12
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HBO are to make their final decision on whether to press ahead with the Game of Thrones series in March this year. The pilot episode which is in post production at the moment is the first episode of the proposed series based on George RR Martins 'A song of Ice and Fire Novels'.
This deadline has been confirmed by numerous sources including David Weiss the producer and George RR Martin the writer of the novels and an executive producer on the pilot. This wait is much longer than many fans had hoped for as HBO has picked up a number of pilots up very quickly in recent history, and fans had been hoping for the same.
HBO do seem to be committed to the project however, The cast assembled for this production is impressive with the five biggest names to date being Sean Bean, Lena Headey, Mark Addy, Jason Momoa and Peter Dinklage.
Added to these are a number of established English stage and character actors, and a number of new, exciting and upcoming English actors and newcomers. Together they make probably the best ensemble fantasy acting cast since Peter Jackson brought together the cast for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
The project is being directed by David Weiss and David Benioff (Troy, Kite Runner and Wolverine) with continued involvement by George RR Martin, who as well as being the author of the original series of novels, has a history in TV and film going back many decades.
Filming for the pilot took place at Doune Castle in Scotland (used excessively in Monty Pythons Holy Grail.), The former set of Kingdom of Heaven in Mororco, and in the Paint hall and in various locations around Belfast. The filming took place in October and November and took close to 4 weeks all told.
Through December and one imagines into the new year the pilot is in post production with Modern VideoFilm who are handling the post-production requirements. The effects and CGI necessary for the pilot are known to include a CGI wheelhouse (for Cersei's travelling party), digital extensions on the real castle locations, the scenes and panoramas viewed from set windows and possible crowd extension work.


Deep in the heart of darkness in the lush rain forest of the Congo, is a woman with a very big heart. Italian scientist Chloe Cipoletta has dedicated her life to protecting and studying a remarkable family of lowland gorillas. Until now, these wonderful animals have lived a quiet, secret life away from people. But with human development on the horizon, the race is now on to ensure that Congo s gorillas have a permanent home in the future. Chloe's solution is radical, yet simple: she wants to habituate a family of gorillas to human contact. If she succeeds then a whole new tourist industry will be born, as well as a good financial reason to protect the forest home of one of humankind s closest relations.


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New York Will Require State Workers To Be Vaccinated Or Undergo Weekly Testing
By The Associated Press,
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at New York's Yankee Stadium, Monday, July 26, 2021.
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York will require all state employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus by Labor Day or undergo weekly tests for COVID-19, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday.
"It's smart, it's fair and it's in everyone's interest," Cuomo said in a Zoom call with the nonprofit Association for a Better New York.
In mandating either the shots, or frequent testing for government workers, Cuomo is following on the heels of California and New York City, which announced similar policies for employees earlier this week.
New York, like other states, has seen a rising number of coronavirus cases linked to the Delta variant. New infections have climbed more than 400% since the end of June.
Cuomo said vaccines would be mandatory for "front-line" workers at state-owned hospitals. Those employees would not be able to avoid inoculations by undergoing frequent virus testing. The state runs hospitals in Syracuse and New York City and on Long Island.
The Democrat said his administration still needed to speak with union officials about how to implement the policy. Some unions representing government workers in New York City have objected to the "get vaccinated or get tested" mandate there, which is set to take effect in mid-September.
Requests for comment were sent to several unions representing large numbers of state employees.
While overall rates of infection in New York remain much lower than they were over the winter, the voluntary vaccination campaign here has stalled, as it has in much of the U.S.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that New York City will sweeten the pot by offering $100 to any city resident who gets a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine at a city-run site.
"We'll say thank you," the mayor said at a virtual news briefing. "We'll say we're really glad that you got vaccinated for yourself, for your family, for your community, and here's $100 to thank you for doing the right thing and to encourage people."
New York City and the state have already offered vaccination incentives including lottery tickets, scholarships, free subway rides and complimentary tickets to museums, sports games and other attractions.
Other locales, including the state of New Mexico and the city of Gadsden, Alabama, also have offered $100 cash payments. Others have offered a more limited version — Ohio is offering $100 gift cards to Medicaid members who get inoculated, and West Virginia is providing $100 savings bonds to 16-to-35-year-olds who do so.
President Joe Biden is considering requiring federal employees to show proof of vaccination or submit to regular testing and wear a mask. A growing number of hospitals and nursing homes across the U.S. have been mandating vaccines for workers.
See stories by The Associated Press

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Found some info at this link www.retailawards.se - after the prizes are given out, Salem will be performing at this corporate awards ceremony next Tuesday, 15th March, which will take place at Stockholm City Hall.
The memories of March 2010 are still fresh in my mind: the excitement and anticipation of going to Gothenburg (to see Salem for the second time), and the frustrating wait for the album to drop through my letterbox. It was also the month in which I wrote more Planet Salem posts than any other in the history of this blog.
So it feels pretty strange that this year (and particularly this time of year) that there's no album and no trip to Sweden. It all feels a bit empty somehow, particularly as there won't be much to write about on this blog between now and August, but I've got plenty of things to keep me occupied during Planet Salem's break...notably my other blogs EuropeCrazy and EuropeCrazy's Random Ramblings so check them out!
By the way...at the moment, "This Is Who I Am" is at no. 122 and "Ignore This" is at no.135 in the Swedish iTunes album chart, whilst in the singles chart Salem and Josephine's version of "I'm So Happy" is at no.115.
Reviewer Mikael Mjörnberg writes that "the sum is greater than the parts...(Salem) tripping excitedly on stage together with the conductor Hans Ek, and then they spend, the next more than two hours devoted to filling in any gaps and they lift the music a dimension higher. Responsive and challenging....Salem Al Fakir's pop music and the hefty orchestra is simply an equation that goes very well together."
The reviewer did not feel that it worked as well for special guest September: "she did a good job, there's no question about that, but her voice and character does not melt together with the Symphony Orchestra...the feeling is that she sings to the accompaniment of the orchestra rather than becoming part of it."
The reviewer goes on to say: "(Salem) stands for the really spectacular and it creates a whole in a completely different way when he pulls the strings. That his songs make themselves great with the orchestra should be clear by now, but some are obviously better than others...Salem sings beautifully and Hans Ek has made excellent arrangements for most of the songs."
"Hans Ek bounces like an excited football fan on the conductor's podium. He manages to sneak in some Ennio Morricone in the show and in the middle of the second act there's even an incomparable orchestral version of the old theme music to "Das Boot" (as the majority of humanity, of course, rather know as techno hit by German U96 with the same name from 1991...it is very heavy in comparison to Salem's otherwise pretty neat song material, but it's very good. That said, Salem Al Fakir and symphony orchestra fill in each other's gaps. The boundaries between the orchestra and gathering rock concert blur and then the sum is naturally greater than the parts".
In other news, "Split My Personality" is the highest new entry in this week's "Svensktoppen" on SR P4. A little interview snippet on http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2023&artikel=4366360 :"...my girlfriend complains right now because we never listen to any music any longer, as I'll soon get started writing new music. But I have just become a dog owner, a small puppy named Otis, so the plan is that I'm going to start working when he sleeps!". Of course Otis probably isn't so small anymore!!


Stressed, depressed, but still well dressed - Sophia (Sonnie) White moves to Seoul, South Korea for her new job. All is as it should be until she moves into her new house - a small one bedroom that's harboring six apple trees in her backyard and seven demons in her attic. Follow this quirky story as the undeniably handsome Seven Deadly Sins help Sonnie get back onto her feet as she not only finds several different ways to prepare apples, but true love as well.
Candy. He was my best friend. Thats what I remember. I never could remember him nor could forget him nor could move on from him. He kept some spell on me before he left, sorry correction before I left. After him, I dont have any BFF's nor boy friends. I did not get that feeling on the college's best looking guy either even he was totally behind me. If you ask me why? Answer: I don't know. I want to know the answer for this by myself. There is a part of me which is scared of the consequences.
Everyone alive must die someday... But nobody thinks about dying... But what if I told you I think about dying, would you think I'm crazy? What if I told you I dream about dying?
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Volume 22, Number 2 (1986) /
1986 Colloquium: Current Research in the Atlantic Provinces
Atlantic Geoscience Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4138/1606
Society, A. G. (1986). 1986 Colloquium: Current Research in the Atlantic Provinces. Atlantic Geology, 22(2). https://doi.org/10.4138/1606
Volume 22, Number 2 (1986)
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Nasce a Genova, città capoluogo di provincia e sede arcivescovile, il 5 febbraio 1959.

Formazione e ministero sacerdotale
Nel 1982 ottiene la laurea in economia e commercio presso l'Università degli Studi di Genova. Svolge l'attività di commercialista fino al 1990.

Dopo essere entrato nell'ordine dei frati minori nel 1991, il 4 settembre 1993 emette la professione semplice dei voti. Continua gli studi e consegue, nel 1997, il baccellierato presso la sezione di Genova della Facoltà teologica dell'Italia settentrionale. Il 7 aprile dello stesso anno emette la professione solenne.

L'8 dicembre 1998 è ordinato presbitero presso la chiesa di Nostra Signora degli Angeli di Genova Voltri.

Nel suo ordine ricopre vari ruoli, tra cui quelli di guardiano, maestro dei professi temporanei, definitore provinciale e rappresentante legale. Dal 2009 è ministro provinciale della provincia ligure "Sacro Cuore della Beata Vergine Maria", mentre dal 2014 è anche parroco della basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato a Genova. Ricopre entrambi gli incarichi fino al 16 maggio 2016, quando è eletto vicario provinciale della nuova provincia di "Sant'Antonio" dei frati minori, che riunisce le sei precedenti province del Nord Italia; viene poi riconfermato nell'aprile 2019.

Ministero episcopale
Il 24 febbraio 2022 papa Francesco lo nomina vescovo di Massa Carrara-Pontremoli; succede a Giovanni Santucci, precedentemente dimessosi per motivi di salute. Il 22 maggio seguente riceve l'ordinazione episcopale, in piazza Aranci a Massa, dal vescovo Gianni Ambrosio, vescovo emerito di Piacenza-Bobbio e amministratore apostolico di Massa Carrara-Pontremoli, co-consacranti Calogero Marino, vescovo di Savona-Noli, e Rodolfo Cetoloni, vescovo emerito di Grosseto. Durante la stessa celebrazione prende possesso della diocesi.

Genealogia episcopale
La genealogia episcopale è:
 Cardinale Scipione Rebiba
 Cardinale Giulio Antonio Santori
 Cardinale Girolamo Bernerio, O.P.
 Arcivescovo Galeazzo Sanvitale
 Cardinale Ludovico Ludovisi
 Cardinale Luigi Caetani
 Cardinale Ulderico Carpegna
 Cardinale Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni
 Papa Benedetto XIII
 Papa Benedetto XIV
 Cardinale Enrico Enriquez
 Arcivescovo Manuel Quintano Bonifaz
 Cardinale Buenaventura Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda
 Cardinale Giuseppe Maria Doria Pamphilj
 Papa Pio VIII
 Papa Pio IX
 Cardinale Gustav Adolf von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
 Arcivescovo Salvatore Magnasco
 Cardinale Gaetano Alimonda
 Cardinale Agostino Richelmy
 Vescovo Giuseppe Castelli
 Vescovo Gaudenzio Binaschi
 Arcivescovo Albino Mensa
 Cardinale Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B.
 Vescovo Gianni Ambrosio
 Vescovo Mario Vaccari, O.F.M.

Araldica
Blasonatura dello stemma: Di rosso, all'anfora monoansata d'oro, posta in banda, versante nel catino dello stesso l'acqua d'argento e addestrata dall'asciugatoio dello stesso; al capo d'azzurro, al destrocherio di carnagione e al sinistrocherio vestito, al naturale, posti in decusse, con le mani appalmate, stimmate di rosso, attraversanti il tau d'oro.

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Vescovi di Massa Carrara-Pontremoli
Francescani italiani
Vescovi francescani

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[Review] The Count Lucanor (Nintendo Switch)
October 15, 2017 8:50 pm Published by Solid Jack Leave your thoughts
Developer: Baroque Decay & Ratalaika Games
Publisher: Merge Games
Platform: Nintendo Switch (eShop)
Category: Adventure & Role-Playing
Release Date: 18th of October, 2017 (EU & NA)
To state the obvious, October is here and when this month ends, Halloween will be knocking on our doors, much like a trick-or-treater but before the candy starts getting handed out then, first up the eShop has candy of its own to offer up on the 18th of October.
Initially developed by Baroque Games and now published by Merge Games with the help of Ratalaika Games who handled the porting, The Count Lucanor is a horror adventure game about a boy named Hans, that first arrived on Steam in 2016 but now it is coming to Switch and let's just say I'm no longer as excited about it as I once was. For a game that has the ambiance of a horror movie and one heck of a soundtrack to it that includes eerie whispering intended to unnerve those playing it, I found it incredibly boring. Every time I should have been cowering with fear or running with my tail between my legs in a bid to escape from the bizarre red-eyed wraith-like monsters, it was like I wasn't fussed in the slightest.
If they got me and I died, it didn't matter because I'd already saved about 5 minutes previously, so it's not like I'd lose much progress. But the beasties who are deadly, especially the Red Camerlengo who can kill you instantly and knows both the player's name and the fact that they are sneaking around Tenebre Castle, they were just more of a hindrance than an actual threat, especially when you're close enough to see them via candlelight. Had The Count Lucanor been designed with a more modern design, the monsters that serve the Count could have been truly terrifying, but instead The Count Lucanor opts for full on retro and it does not work.
For a game that was hailed as being a beautifully designed 8-bit adventure, having gone hands on with it, I can say with certainty that it isn't. The cut-scenes and dialogue boxes are really good, but the actual game itself actually looks a bit sub-par and too retro for its own good, as the graphics don't do the game the justice. Yes the graphics are detailed to the point that you can work out what most things are, and that there are things like blood splatters to indicate deadly spike traps, but they are not as textured as previous reviews for Lucanor would have us believe.
In fact, I hate to say it, but for a game that draws inspiration from the earlier Zelda games and Silent Hill, The Count Lucanor is ugly and yet if it was made with 16-bit, I would be singing its praises as 16-bit would have done it a world of good, but it's too late for it now, The Count Lucanor's design is what it is and there is no changing it, much like how there is no changing how dull it is. I understand Lucanor isn't all that long, as it is something that can be completed in a handful of hours, but Hans could move with a little more haste, I wouldn't have spent as much time as I did scrutinising every little thing I could see and not see. Plus if he could move a little bit faster, than the game wouldn't have been as dull as it is and feel like it drags on forever.
Still, just because I am not a fan of it whatsoever, it doesn't mean some of you reading this are ready to give up on it just yet, so let's talk more about the game, starting with its story. The Count Lucanor revolves around the life of Hans, a boy whose dad has gone off to fight in a war and is disheartened at being so poor. For a time he was able to not let it bother him, but then came the day of his 10th birthday and his family is so poor that while all the other kids get sweets and presents on his birthday, the best his mum can do is give him a normal day as cash is tight.
Dissatisfied with his current situation and his mum, an argument ensues and Hans decides he is his own man now and opts to leave home, but not before his mum gives him a cane that belonged to her father, all the money they possess (3 gold coins) and some cheese for when he gets hungry. After that she retreats inside their cottage, as Hans makes his farewell to his pooch Spittle and the adventure can begin. Now while things may start off all rosy, with certain characters encounterable on the path in which you follow, with each one wanting something off you in exchange for nothing until later on in the game when they will suddenly give you something for helping them out earlier on, things soon turn bloody.
Night arrives, goats turn on the one who sits with them all day and kills him and there's a mysterious creature that is referred to as a Kobold, which you feel compelled to follow and when you do, it's not long before you find yourself in Tenebre Castle, home to The Count Lucanor, a man of immersive wealth and if Hans can prove himself worthy by accomplishing the Count's trials, the fortune and lofty title which comes with it, can be Han's. Now as someone who craves adventure and future, Hans is all too eager to jump at the chance, but once he does, his nightmare can begin as all of a sudden, Hans can no longer leave the castle.
From that point on, the events of The Count Lucanor can truly begin Hans has just a single night to accomplish the trial, but luckily for him, he is not alone, as those he encountered outside the castle are now present in the garden and are ready to help him when he needs it buy selling him items and keys when he needs them, getting certain characters killed and a raven sitting on a fountain, which every time a coin is thrown into it, allows you to save your soul, aka save your game. And if your curious as to what those keys you can get do, they allow you to open doors the same colour of the keys, which is important as there are many rooms to explore and unless you explore every nook and cranny over and over again, and constantly interact with everyone you meet, it is very easy to lose your bearings and find it difficult to advance.
With regards to the game's puzzles, they mostly consist of fire traps, spikes and blocks that need to be pushed, but while most are very basically and require almost no skill and intelligence to figure them out, there are some puzzles that stand out, such as the one that requires you to use the 8 letters you are able to find in the various rooms and figure out what the Kobold's actual name is, and even when you do that right, more "horrors" await in the form of a bloody cellar, giant worms, a demonic daughter and a whole lot of lies and deception and even if you do everything right and make choices that have consequences you can happily live with, even when you've reached the end and think you're done at last, there's still more to do as The Count Lucanor has 5 different endings and if you're going to play the game right, you've got to at least achieve 3 of them. But remember, Hans is slow, so if completing the game at a snail's pace the first time round doesn't grate on you immediately, it has every chance of doing so in your second playthrough!
However, because I have been very negative about The Count Lucanor, one positive I will talk about is the candle system at play. Candles can be found everywhere and burn indefinitely, so while you only need one, the spares can be used to be placed all over Tenebre castle Hans in a bid to place markers that can both show off where you've been before and reveal an monsters that happen to step into the light. It's not the smartest idea in the world, but it is something that made The Count Lucanor a tad more bearable.
The Count Lucanor isn't necessarily bad, but it's really not that good either, as the monsters fail to live up to ambiance the game's soundtrack and whispers creates. It's also a short game, which normally isn't a bad thing, but it is when the game is The Count Lucanor and Hans is just too slow a moving protagonist that his turtle crawl literally bored me from start to finish. Now I hate to be the guy who says "give this game a miss," but with the likes of Don't Knock Twice and Super Mario Odyssey coming soon to Switch, there really is no point in picking it up now as it might make for a better purchase later on down the line, but if you do feel like picking up one Merge Games Switch title, Unbox: Newbie's Adventure is out now and a huge step on from the lesser work that is showing its age that is The Count Lucanor.
THE VERDICT: 4/10
*Review Key Provided by Merge Games
Tags: Baroque Decay, eShop, Merge Games, Nintendo Switch, October Feature, Ratalaika Games, review, The Count Lucanor
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The John T. Riedl Memorial Fund supports undergraduate and graduate students through an annual teaching award and other scholarship and fellowship funding. Before his untimely passing away in 2013, Professor John Riedl, himself a devoted, exceptional teacher, asked that funds contributed by his friends and colleagues be used to establish this memorial fund.
Riedl died on July 15, 2013 at the age of 51 after a three-year battle with cancer. A faculty member at the University of Minnesota since 1989, Riedl is known worldwide as a pioneer in the field of recommender systems—a field he was instrumental in creating and nurturing. Recommender systems are information filtering systems that seek to predict the "rating" or "preference" that users would give to an item (such as music, books, or movies) or social element (such as people or groups) based on previous choices.
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Booking Through Thursday: Getting graphic
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Let's go Booking Through Thursday, shall we?
Last Saturday (May 2nd) is Free Comic Book Day! In celebration of comics and graphic novels, some suggestions:
• Do you read graphic novels/comics? Why do/don't you enjoy them?
• How would you describe the difference between "graphic novel" and "comic"? Is there a difference at all?
• Say you have a friend who's never encountered graphic novels. Recommend some titles you consider landmark/"canonical."
Funny I should see this question today . . . mostly because my ex-boyfriend has been trying to "convert" me into a graphic novel reader for years! Most recently, earlier this week — and I steadfastly ignored his requests.
Well, sort of.
I have read a few graphic novels — all at his request. And I enjoyed them! Art Spiegelman's Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History is most notable — definitely an incredible work . . . and I never thought I could cry while reading a graphic novel. Maus is the story of the Spiegelman family — Vladek and Anja, survivors of the Holocaust, and their son Art. The novel takes us through Vladek and Anja's lives and their ultimate arrival at Auschwitz, but it's also the story of Art's relationship with his dad and his mother, before she committed suicide. Certainly heavy subject material — and much heavier than I anticipated a graphic novel could be (I'm prejudiced, I know).
In Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, the Jews are drawn as mice and the Nazis portrayed as cats. Art frequently interjects the unraveling story of World War II with his conversations with his father, often irritated and full of miscommunication. Art's relationship with his father was extraordinarily strained, even though both may have wished it otherwise. And the graphic novel seemed to be a superb vehicle for juxtaposing the horrors of the past with the quiet, mundane nature of the present in New York City. I don't know that this story, as a traditional novel, could ever have worked . . . the images are so striking and so powerful, it's as if they're burned on your retinas. You forget that we're dealing with "cats" and "mice" here — you know they're people. You know they're people others loved dearly.
So I can't say I don't like graphic novels . . . I gave Maus a resounding 5-stars on LibraryThing, and I'm going to grab the next installment soon! But I can say that as a whole, I'm just not into graphic novels / comics (and I couldn't really tell you the difference between them, other than the length of the story). What I really love about reading is my ability to create worlds inside my head — my ability to actually "see" the characters, the setting, the storyline playing out. I love letting the words surround me and getting lost in them, searching for more or less than what's there. I don't contest that you can't be really moved by a graphic novel — I was — but I don't think that the emotional impact on me is the same. And it's not so easy looking for allusions and subtext in a graphic novel, is it?
Maybe I'm just being close-minded about the whole. Palmer would argue that's the case! He's passed many graphic novels along to me, and most of them are still stacked up by my bed. Maybe for the upcoming plane ride! We should all strive to expand our literary horizons, I think.
write meg!'s 2008 reading honors
December 21, 2008 / Meg	/ 6 Comments
2008 reading honors
Another fabulous reading year has come and gone, and it's always great to reflect on times past and present! I found some great new authors this year, spent a ton of time with Edward Cullen and Bella Swann, discovered the simultaneous awesomeness and craziness of BookMooch and LibraryThing, started my little book/life blog and have stayed up way too late wrapping up novel after novel.
And in honor of the overall bookishness that was 2008, I now present the write meg! 2008 honors! Yes, I know — incredibly exciting! I should have made some little graphics or something, but unfortunately time has been scarce. Perhaps for 2009?
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Fastest Read
Cracked Up To Be, Courtney Summers
A fast-paced, surprising and poignant young adult read, I finished this one in a matter of hours.
Runner-up: The Solomon Sisters Wise Up, Melissa Senate
This chick lit book had me captivated from day one: three sisters, a lifetime of distance and a few weeks to make up for it. Great read.
Funniest Read
Marley & Me, John Grogan
Grogan's story of the wily, "worst dog" in the country and his tender family had me laughing — and crying — the whole time.
Longest Read
Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
The fourth tome in Meyer's Twilight series packed in the plot — and page count. It totaled nearly 700 pages but had me running through it like water.
Brain-Hurting Read
Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander, Ann Herendeen
This historical romance couldn't keep my brain from going into overdrive — the language was antiquated, the plot quite disorienting. I wanted to like it — and tried valiantly to — but couldn't quiet my headache long enough to really enjoy it.
Most Poignant Read
The Longest Trip Home, John Grogan
Any child will relate to Grogan's story of rebellion and redemption — and the ultimate power and grace of family. Grogan appears on my list twice — lucky man!
Best Read Outside My Comfort Zone
Maus, Art Spiegelman
Spiegelman's classic graphic novel following his parents' experience and ultimate escape from the Nazi regime was spell-binding. As a total graphic novel newbie dating a graphic novel expert, I was hesitant to try this one — but was very pleasantly surprised.
Most Addictive Book Series
The Twilight Series, Stephenie Meyer
Okay, no real surprise here. They might not be the most eloquent, well-written books around (yeah, they're not), but the story of a difficult, brooding vampire and his mortal lady love had me carrying the books around in my beach bag nonstop. Great books to get lost in — and continue to enjoy discussing after the fact. My sister's on Eclipse right now!
Biggest Disappointment
Remember Me?, Sophie Kinsella
After enjoying Kinsella's Shopaholic series and other works, I expected something more than the trite and unappealing Remember Me? Good thing it was an ARC.
And, finally . . .
write meg!'s Top Read of 2009
Belong To Me, Marisa de los Santos
An absolute master of language, De los Santos penned two fabulous books in Love Walked In and Belong To Me. I actually enjoyed this sequel more than the original, though Belong To Me can certainly be enjoyed on its own. Boiling over with beautiful imagery and caricatures as well as love, grief and ultimately hope, I had a difficult time putting this one down — and never wanted it to end.


Question, do you have HDR+ enabled on all your devices through the settings menue?
@TazmanUK37 for your issue I would disconnect all HDMI devices and then hold the power button on the TV until the screen goes dark and then Samsung smart TV will come up and you can let go and then plug everything back in while it's on and it should rediscover your devices. I know that sometimes the link between devices is lost. We have this issue with our TV box. It used to work and it doesn't anymore. So try that and let me know.
@Badluck I would say it could be the hardware in each TV. I have 2 Mu7000's. I know the 6000 series is the lower teir tv's and I've heard that it's not just a different panel but some of the hardware is different as well. A lot of people complain about the lower end tv's having issue with their panels and apps being wonky from time to time. Try reseting your TV and settings and get it back to where you want it and see if it makes a difference. I'm sorry I haven't been much help on this issue.
I have been getting "green flashes" (and occasionally pink and white) with my Nvidia Shield TV. My HDMI cables are high speed with ethernet (2.0 I think), have done a hard reset on both my Shiled TV and MU6470. It got a bit better with 1260 but still getting green flashes.
I really hope 1262 fixes this very annoying problem.
PS On the plus side the hard reset sorted my samsung remote -I can now control my Shiled TV with it.


So what do a flat, a building without a loft, and a property constructed with solid walls have in common? Well, they are all regarded as 'Hard to Treat Homes' or HTTH for energy efficiency measures. This can mean extra costs or labour intensive measures to help permanently reduce the amount of energy a property users.
Greg Barker, minister for climate change, has revealed a new scheme, the "Premium Payment Scheme", to provide grants to home owners to install renewable heat technologies. The grants will be available in respect of four technologies, biomass boilers, ground source heat pumps, air source heat pumps and solar thermal hot water panels. The scheme has a fund of £15m and is intended to support as many as 25,000 installations.
You may have heard about Heat Pumps as the up and coming form of renewable heating technology. In theory the systems should be able to provide the whole heating for a building at little or no cost to the owner, with the added bonus of not using fuels to create the heat energy. Does it sound too good to be true? Or is it the future of heating?
All offices and homes need to have a heating and cooling system in place. Whether it is for a residential or a commercial setup, buying and installing heat pumps can be an expensive affair. The size of the system that is needed, the kind of technology it operates on as well as the complexity of the entire system are some of the various factors their price depends on. A general rule of thumb is that each kWth will cost around £1000. In the long run such systems can save a household as well as a commercial organization up to £840.
Biomass energy means energy generated from burning living or recently living organisms such as wood, as opposed to fossilised organisms (also known as fossil fuels). The energy production process is just the same as with a coal or oil fired power station. Biomass fuel is burned to heat water which creates steam which turns turbines which produces electricity. Its supporters claim that it is an effective way of reducing carbon emissions but are they right?


Date arithmetic fails (PR#1819). This bug have been partially fixed. Arithmetic is fine now but there is still a problem with the TZ (Time Zone) settings.
fixed a bug in Locator of Macintosh device. Now it is possible to interrupt it.
This is the ReadMe file of R for Macintosh Application.
R runs both on MacOS and MacOS X using Carbon technology. This means that when you run R from MacOS X it run natively under the new System without calling the Classic Compatibility Module. The use of R under MacOS X takes lots of advantages starting from the new Aqua look.
As this version is based on the new Carbon technology some new bugs can appear that we were'nt able to found before releasing R officially.
Several menus are now present from this release. The structure of the menus is as follows with a brief description.
About R Opens the R information dialog. Reports release informations.
New Edit Window N Opens an empty editable window. You can usethis as an internal editor for R. If the current active window isa graphic device window than a new macintosh() device will be opened.
Edit Object E Is the equivalent of "edit(object)"
Source File O Opens a file and sources it. This is equivalent to "source(file)"
Open File For Editing Opens a file in an editable window.Useful when you want to modify an existing script and test it.
File Show F Open a file in a non editable window. This isthe equivalent of R command "show.file(file)"
Load Workspace File L If you want to load a wspace image otherthan ".RData"
Save Workspace As If you want to save an image file other the ".RData"
Print P Print the text window (R Console etc) or the imagein the graphic device window. The image is rescaled to the page dimension of your printer.
Save S Save the window. This could be the content ofthe R Console i.e. your current R session any text window or the graphic device window.
Save As... Save the window. This could be the content ofthe R Console i.e. your current R session any text window or the graphicdevice window. This menu acts as a standard "Save As" menu so you have to specify each time the filename.
Close W Closes the current window. If it is the R Console window than it is interpreted as quitting R.
Show Workspace It is equivalent to "ls()"
Clear Workspace It is equivalent to "rm(list=ls())"
Browse Workspace It is equivalent to "browseEnv(html=FALSE)"
Save Workspace Save the workspace to ".RData"; equivalent to "save.image()"
Load History It is equivalent to "loadhistory()"
Save History It is equivalent to "savehistory()"
Show History It is equivalent to "history()"
Show Working Directory It is equivalent to "getwd()"
Reset Working Directory It is equivalent to "setwd(R.home())"
Show Libraries It is equivalent to "library()"
Show DataSets It is equivalent to "data()"
Allow Interrupt It is equivalent to set the option "Interrupt=TRUE" in the .Renvironment config file but this can be changed at runtime. This menu is syncronized with the option you select in the Preference pane.
On Open Source It is equivalent to set the option "OnOpenSource=TRUE" in the .Renvironment config file but this can be changed at runtime. Useful to work with external editor such as Alpha. This menu is syncronized with the option you select in the Preference pane.
R Help ? It is equivalent to "help.start()"
Help On Topic Opens a dialog where the user can specify an item he or she wants to see. equivalent to "help(topic)" or "?topic"
Search Help On Opens a dialog where the user can specify an argument to have help on. It is equivalent to"help.search("topic")"
Run An Example Opens a dialog where the user can specify an item of which he or she wants to run anexample of. It is equivalent to "example(topic)".
Link Packages Help After installing a new package you need to link help files database.
Normally R opens windows to let 80 character/columns to be displayed. The size of the windows is calculated on the basis of the size of the font used.
For non fixed fonts the algorithm can fail so the window can result a bit larger or smaller then needed.
R windows are opened in cascade for each class (edit windows, file show windows and graphic windows). This functionality does not work on MacOS X yet.
From release 1.3.1 R has partial support for AppleScripts. This means two things: you can run applescripts from inside R using the command applescript() (see the corresponing help) or you can ask R to run commands from and applescript. The directory "scripts" in the main R folder contains two examples of applescripts. What follows is an example of applescript that interacts with R.
Where cmd is the applescript command in the R dictionary that is used to tell R to execute an R command in the R Console. The syntax is cmd <command string>, where command string have to be in quotes. Actually, the output of the command is not sent back to the application that is calling R but to the R Console.
From release 7.4.1 of the famous Alpha editor, there is a (tcl) mode called S+/R.
Under MacOS you should reserve a fixed amount of memory to each application. As R is just an application, you need to set this to a bigger amount of memory if for some reason R went out of memory. To do this, go to the Finder and select the R aplication icon. Then with CMD+I key obtain the Information for R. Select "Memory" and the fix the amount of memory you need. Under MacOS X, there is no need to reserve memory to R. R will use as much memory as it needs.
The Preferences pane allow you to configure a bit R GUI and behaviour. You can set the tab size in your edit windows, the font type and size of text windows and R Console as well as the colors of the text in R Console. You can also specify a particular font for the graphic device and the resolution of the graphic device. Finally you can specify if R should accept User breaks (CMD+. or Esc). If this option is enabled R is a bit slower. You can instruct R on what to do when a file is opened: source it or simply show in the internal viewer.
Take care that under MacOS R creates a file in the Preferences folder of you System Folder. If you switch to MacOS X than, this folder is no longer the default Preferences folder so you have either to move th "R preferences" file to "~user/Library/Preferences/" directory or reset the preferences. If you have different logins under OS X, remember that each user should set its own preferences.
In this file you can specify some of options or environment variables. This is not standard for general MacOS/X applications but has been implemented for compatibility reasons. If you don't need to set environment variables you can ignore what is in this file.
The environment file is used by R application both to simulate the enviroment on a standard Unix or Windows system.
You can always use "Sys.getenv()" to see which variables are set to some values.
The .Renviron file looks like this: an option is a "Rkey" with its "keyvalue" that you can specify in new separate line as follows RKey=keyvalue. Consider that RKey=keyvalue and RKey = keyvalue are different, that means that blanks/spaces are significant. "RKey" and "keyvalue" are case sensitive. A symbol "#" at the beginning of a line means that this is a commented out line.
You can find more details on that in the .Renviron file itself.
The user has now the ability to create a menu with several menuitems, up to 99, where to keep preferred R commands.
With the commands add.menu.cmd("label","R_command") the user adds a menuitem named "label" to the User menu. When the command is selected from the menu, R executes the command "Rcommand" associated to it. The User menu is created dynamically, so that user will never see it if he does not add any item to it.
add.menu.cmd("label","RCommand") adds a menu item to the User's menu, if any, with associated the R command "RCommand"
* If you want to use an external editor we suggest you to use Alpha version 7.4.1 or newer that contains a S+/R mode. Alpha home page is located at http://www.kelehers.org/alpha/.
To run the R application you need at least 42MB of free memory for the application itself you work under MacOS but there is no limitations under MacOS X as virtual memory is always on.
You need the latest version of the CarbonLib library from Apple. At the time of this release, version 1.4 is the current non developer release. Normally it is included in System 9.2 and X.
Now R needs the f2cLib shared library to run. This library is distributed with R but in case you miss it you can found it here.
The minimum System version release is 8.6 (+ CarbonLib library).
You need the WasteLib library. This library is distributed with R binaries.
You need the zlibLib library. This library is distributed with R binaries.
Internet functionality is not available yet. We are working on this.
Mathematical expressions are not yet well spaced moreover, mathemathic symbols are not rotated.
Q How can I manage invisible files under MacOS X ?
A Under Unix it is typical that invisible files are files starting with a "." (dot) in the filename. MacOS X conforms to this convention. So it could happen that your preferred editor doesn't allow you to open and or write files like .Rprofile or .Renviron under MacOS X (this is the case of BBedit as reported by one user). You have several options: one of this is to a file like "some_file" with your editor or R, and then use the system() command to change its name as follows system("mv some_file .some_file"). Then use system("ls -al") to see if all went right.
Q On exit: Why I can't save the workspace image via file dialog under MacOS X ?
To save the workspace image, you can either save it with a different name (e.g. "RData", but in this the workspace image will not be reloaded the next you start R), or you save it beofre quitting R: type "save.image()" from the R Console and then "q()" replying "n" when R asks for "Save workspace image? [y/n/c]:".
Q How can I work on a separate directory for each of my projects?
A Under Unix you usually create a directory, go into it and launch R. Under MacOS you can create a directory and put all the files that you need there. You then (or before) run R in its own directory and use the menu item "Tools->Change Working Directory" to change the current working directory to directory you have created. You can then work as you do in Unix. You can save/load workspace image to this directory, as well as the command history files. You can then reload these next time you work.
Q How can I interrupt lengthy operations or output ?
A You can now use the standard Macintosh control break sequence, that is you should press "Cmd option" and "." (dot). This will interrupt any R loops. The "Esc" key gives you the same result.
A You cannot use the standard settings as on other platforms. You should assign memory to R from the Finder/Information dialog for R application. See Section "Memory" above.
A On MacOS X it is important to specify correctly the file names. If you want the file to be created in your current working directory you have to put a ":" before file name, such as ":myfile" otherwise the file will be created as "/my_file", i.e. in the root "/" directory. This is in particular important when you specify directories relative to your current working directory.
I would like to thank among the others (only few I can remember due to my brain volatility...) some of the people who have contantly sent me feedback on this Macintosh port of R or simply suggetested me some possibile directions. So, merci, in random order, to P. Macdonald, P. Flint, R. Gill, K. Pflugshaupt, J. DeLeeuw, G. Sawitzki and half of the R-Core.


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Texas Hockey, Panhellenic Council partner to raise money for Komen Foundation
The Texas Ice Hockey team lost 8-5 to Texas A&M in Cedar Park Saturday. The last game of the season, which also served as a fundraiser, donated more than a thousand dollars to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Photo Credit: Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff
Published on February 19, 2012 at 11:31 pm
Although Texas Ice Hockey was defeated Saturday by Texas A&M, the real victors of the game were survivors and families of those suffering with breast cancer.
Texas Hockey and the University Panhellenic Council partnered to raise about $1,000 for the Austin affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Foundation through ticket and shirt sales at their 'Pink In the Rink' game, hosted by the Texas Stars.
The hard fought game was the last of the season and resulted in a final score of 8-5. Texas Hockey donated all of the money earned to the Komen Foundation — approximately $4 out of every $15 ticket, said biology senior and Texas Hockey president, Kisan Parikh.
The idea for the charity arose out of discussions with last year's coaches, said finance junior and Texas Hockey team member Alec Helman, who planned the event with other members of the team.
"The fundraiser was giving us an option to be really creative by letting us fundraise through tickets, shirts and letting us create special jerseys," Helman said. "We had a lot of ideas and found it pretty interesting, and I took it upon myself to kind of plan the event."
Helman said the cooperation with the Panhellenic council of sororities came out of discussions he had with friends who were members of the organization. The Panhellenic council helped by publicizing the event and letting the Greek community know about the event, he said.
"We knew they wanted a little more publicity about the team and wanted to get people to attend the charity event," said communications junior and Panhellenic council member, Shira Golden. "Since we already work with Komen on Race for the Cure, we decided to help publicize the game to promote community cooperation and outreach."
Golden said that the recent shakeup between Planned Parenthood and the Komen Foundation did not affect their involvement in the fundraiser.
"The event was picked because we thought breast cancer was an important thing to give back to, and by the time that came out the event was already publicized," Golden said. "We focused on us giving back to a good cause, rather than the relationships Komen had and what was being done by those in charge of the organization."
UT Hockey sponsors charity games like 'Pink in the Rink' at least once a year, but they hope to improve this event and make it an annual fundraiser, Parikh said.
"This started out as a pet project and blew up until now," Parikh said. "We are planning next year to make 'Pink in the Rink' a required event to cooperate with the sororities and have the event fulfill their semester service pledge.
Hopefully we'll be able to raise more money and get some Susan G. Komen people out here. At the moment it looks like this is just a pilot year for others down the road."
Printed on Monday, February 20, 2012 as: 'Pink in the Rink' charity helps Komen Foundation