I am related thru the Weaver line. I really enjoyed your site!!
My dad told me that our family was originally from Aremenia. My Aunt Lena had an extensive geniology but her sister destroyed it out of grief when Lena died.
I'm new to the family.
My Grandfather was hiram hibbard married Jarula Reams in Laurel County Ky, Now his father was Ellie Godsey Hibbard married Lydia Cornett. I was wondering if they may be related To Lemuel Who served as sheriff of Laurel county in the 1830's.
Wonderful website. I am related from Issac Bailey's son, Henry Jefferson Bailey.
I am a decendant of Amanda (Cobb) and Robert Abner. This is a great site, filled with lots of information. My mother and I have been researching our family for the past several years. If I remember correctly, we have Robert Abner traced back to to the 1600s in Dorchester, England!! But anyway, like I said this is a great site.
THOMAS AND CARRIE COBB WERE MY GREAT GRAND PARENTS. THEIR DAUGHTER OLLIE WAS MY GRANDMOTHER. I STILL OWN THEIR OLD FARM ON INDIAN CREEK.THIS SITE IS GREAT AND GIVEN ME MUCH INFORMATION ABOUT MY HERITAGE.
I am descended from Thomas and Frances Hollingsworth Hubbard's son Randolph. Would like to share info.
the gilbert family in australia has a long and distinguished history, it was very interesting to read some other famous connections in the [posssibly distantly related] family.
Great site! My grandfather was William Elledge Shull, son of Ambrose Shull and grandson of Elledge and Amanda (Cobb) Shull. Your site's helped me fill in a few gaps in my family history. Thanks, and keep it up!
Recommended by Robin Woolum thru Woolam message board. A lot of info, I am looking for Woolam from TN that went to Choctaw Co., AL and then to Lowndes Co., MS. 1860 census for J. M. Woolam.
Hello, I wonder if you might have a Nellie Hale who was listed on the 1909 school photo of Blackwater school in your family lines. I am searching for a friend, Dianne Haydon to see if we can find descendants or connections to Nellie Hale of Blackwater, Kentucky.
Hello, I just stumbled upon your site. My father's family is from Fayette Co., GA. I think they were from the Carolinas. I found the sight interesting.
What a great site! I just happened to stumble upon it - I never knew that my father was known as "Clabe"!
We camped at Bull Shoals in the 70's and always stopped and purchased items from Junior. We still have them displayed in our house!! We have great memories of Arkansas and of Junior & his work.
Nice site but I'm about to burst your bubble. :( Chief Redbird was not a sizemore he was a Brock His name being Aaron Chief Redbird Brock or cutsawah. He was one of my grandfathers. :) He had children with Rhonda sizemore that was all. Please get back with me.
Nice web site but i am having trouble locating any of my family. My Grandfather was Marshall Bradley Tuttle born Oct.10 1895 in Kentucky. He died July 23 1971 in Contra Costa county California. He was married to Nina Parker in Watts Oklahoma April 1920. My Grandfather was the son of James Tuttle who was born April 14, 1878. He was married to Sydney Barnett. My father is Marshall Eldon Tuttle his sister was Pauline Tuttle Pinkston. I dont have much information and i am just trying to fined my ancestorys. If you no anything please email me.
I am a "grandchild" in the Henry Adin Sasser line. Rebecca June Sasser was my gg-grandmother. I would love to share information with any of her descendants. My g-grandmother was her daughter, Nora Magdalene. There are several corrections and additions to her branch that I will send to you.
I tried to send you an email regarding the Lizzie Sasser and Latney Parrott, but the link you provided is incomplete. You may find this interesting There is a known Sasser-Parrott connection, but from my research it was not between Lizzie and Latney. I show a Lizzie in my family tree who was born in Kentucky, but all family records show that Lizzie was married to George Sasser, and not a Sasser by birth. The Parrott line to the Sasser's seem to be connected when J.T. Miller married Mary L. Parrott, and their son married a Sasser (Lizzie's daughter). From what I have found so far, there were not many Sassers in the Kentucky area that were not related in some sense, and even fewer who were Lizzie. I would love to see just what information you used to link Lizzie Sasser to Latney Parrott.
My 3rd great-grandparents were Alexander and Susan Tuttle Smith. I have some research on Clay County circuit court cases involving Susan's father Peter Tuttle Sr. He had some disputes with neighbors over livestock in 1810 and 1834. Would you like for me to share this research with you so you? God bless, Dave.
I am the daughter of Gordon Ellis Sasser and the late George Benjamin Sasser of Millen, Ga..My dad has read a book entitled Of One Dozen Sassers, which is about Sasser in North Carolina. We have always live in Georgia, and my grandfather Sasser was an orphan..He a had a brother Lesley and Mitchell and two sister Rosa Lee and Ruth..all now deceased.
Really enjoyed your site. Ambrose Schull was my G-Grandfather. Will return when more time available. Thank you.
Very nice site. If you are interested in obtaining the lineage for John Hibbard and Margaret (Orgilbert), and thereafter, please contact me at the above e-mail address. I would be happy to provide MS Word documents, and their source.
This website was passed along to me by someone helping me trace my Hale line. What a wonderful site!! I will be spending days trying to get all this straight! I am a decendent of George Crit Hale. His son Chester Sweet Hale is my great grandfather. I am curious to know if you have any information on Crits wife? I'd love to share information I have if you're intrested.
I am related through Nasby Mills. I am the ggranddaughter of Thomas Mills and Alabama Jackson Mills (Would love to know where they are buried or anything from their direct descendants). I am the granddaughter of Isaac and Mary Mills (Thomas and Alabama's daughter). All of the preceding are from Knox County, Ky. I am the oldest daughter of James and Elsie Jones Jones (daughter of Isaac and Mary). I just love this site! The best site I have ever seen!
You have done a wonderful job with this site! Thank you so much!
Hello, I am descended from Preston and Ann Tuttle. My great great grandfather, William Tuttle (who married Louisa Jones) was Preston's son. I enjoyed looking at your page.
Felix Grundy Gilbert Is my great,great, great,great grandfather. Your site says he is from Scotland. Where did you get your information? And what part of Scotland? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I enjoyed seeing the Hounshell family on this site. I am descendant from Elizabeth that married Jacob Catron through their daughter Catherine Catron Totten.
I am the grandaughter of Earl D Taylor and Jewell Cobb Taylor you have done a beautiful job on this site.
Very informative site. Have search it several times now. My line is Jarvis/Cobb. I am 6 generations down from Peter Jarvis and Mary Cobb. Thanks for the family history.
You have a wonderful website! My husband is a half-brother of Evan Hurshel Anderson's and I have a couple of pictures I would be glad to share along with what lineage I have been able to find so far, if you are interested. One picture is of Hurshel in a cowboy hat and bandana and the other is of Hurshel and Minnie together. I look forward to hearing from you!


Week two on the Motorola CLIQ has brought a lot of insight about the device. Some of the newness polish has worn off. I've seen application Force Close (application crashes) a number of times and have had to hard reset, deleting all data and installed applications, twice now. Nevertheless, there's still a lot to love about the application.
I've noticed some very distinct quirks about the device. To start off, I noticed the bluetooth connection is quirky. Specifically, when I use the car bluetooth to dial a number, meaning, I tell the car navigation system to dial a stored number or spell-out the number, the phone resets. It just shuts itself off and restarts. This doesn't happen every time, but almost. It's quite annoying. I've had to resort to dialing on the phone, disconnecting and then using the car navigation system to redial. This takes away from the whole idea of hands-free safe phone dialing.
Next, the applications from the Android Market are not certified in any way, nor do they have any quality standards. They're also not tested on any particular Android OS version. What this means is that some of the applications Force Close (the equivalent of an application crash) and restart…sometimes. Mind you, most of this may seem as mere annoying. However, one or more of the applications I downloaded Force Closed one too many times…or I think. It lead to continuous crash of MotoBlur, which made the device unusable. I had to Hard Reset the application to get it running again.
The problem with a Hard Reset is that it wipes not only all of your data, but also all applications that weren't installed at factory. One saving grace for MotoBlur is that once you've setup an account and you Hard Reset the device, all you need to do is login to your existing account: all application settings and shortcuts are restored within half hour to an hour. As I mentioned earlier though, you don't get your applications back. You still have to hunt for and download them again.
The sad part of this is that I had to Hard Reset the device the first time the day I purchased it since I had misspelled my name in my MotoBlur registration. Apparently MotoBlur doesn't allow you to change your name or any personal information either on the device or on their website. How absurd is that? It was inconvenient at the time, but I thought very little of it. It just told me the application and it's supporting solutions were in their infancy. The whole device reminds me a bit of the Windows 3's debut.
I'd gotten used to carrying my previous phone in my pocket. I still owned a holster, but used it only if I was wearing slacks and needed a more formal look for a professional meeting. Naturally, I initially carried the CLIQ in my pocket. The problem is that the phone is very heavy. As a result, it swims around in my pocket. Regrettably, I've had to order a holster to make carrying the device easier.
The next point has nothing to do with the device, but with the face shield I bought for it. I don't have the original packaging. So, I'm not sure of the brand. What I can tell you is that it's a clear plastic sheet placed on the screen to prevent it from scratching. The problem is that the touch-screen doesn't respond as well with the shield placed on it. I believe this is a result of an added insulation created by the sheet, preventing the screen from properly detecting my fingers. I took it off tonight and rediscovered the delight of having a responsive screen.
With that said, there's still a lot I like about the device. I love the fact that I have a full browser. Typing addresses is easy with both the on-screen and the slide-out keyboard. I love the zoom as well as full-page view capabilities too.
As much as I find issues with the applications, I love the Android Market. People see the phone, start asking me about it, then ask if a particular applications is available on it. I immediately search the Market and almost inevitably find the application.
Among the applications, I enjoy having a Google Search app that I can both type into and use a voice command with. The Google Map rocks too. Not only does it show my location and give me directions to a destination, I also get traffic update along with the ability to use voice command to search for a local business, like the nearest pizza joint. There are other applications that do this with an attractive interface, like Sherpa. There are too many cool applications to mention.
I love that I have multiple "desktops" on which I can place application shortcuts. Think of Windows desktop and imagine having five of them, but miniaturized. I can group shortcuts and place games on one, navigation and product search tools on another, multimedia apps and pictures on the third, calendar, news and Office viewing tools on a fourth, with the home screen filled with social media and messaging tools by default.
There's also a slide-out application tray that contains an alphabetized list of all of the installed apps. Think of the Programs folder in a Windows OS with no subfolders, containing all of your applications. This can get messy, but it still works. I wish I had a way of creating folders or categories and a filtering mechanism to reduce the number of applications shown.
I also love the ability to navigate from application to application, desktop to desktop, using the sliding motion on the touchscreen. There's a coolness factor in that which brings out the kid in me. I catch myself giggling with joy using it.
If you want more, hang in there. I'll keep posting in the weeks ahead.
Photo Credit: All photos are Motorola's and RIM's.


We developed this classic check sport shirt for ultimate comfort and style. It's constructed from an intimate blend of cotton and silk fabric for enhanced softness and vibrant, high-definition color. Pair it with Peter Millar soft jackets and trousers for a sophisticated appearance at more formal occasions.


This necklace is fashionable and simple with just one eyecatching bead as a pendant. The black rubber cord matches great and has a gold coloured clasp and a small extension chain for easily adjusting the length. Designed and made in Germany.


Your kids love amusement parks ? Then drive with them to Walibi Aquitaine, the biggest amusement park in South West, located at 5 km away from Agen, and its twenty attractions spread over 30 acres of lush vegetation. To really get away from it all, try a leisurely stroll through this huge park dominated by the Castle Caudouin, authentic eighteenth century castle, and experience emotions, thrills and crazy laughs or dance accompanied by the rhythm of the African tam-tam drums (July /August ), or discover musical and juggling spectacles.
This fifteenth century castle, bought in 1937 by Josephine Baker (until her ruin and expulsion from the castle in 1968) to live with her 12 adopted children, overlooks the Dordogne river, giving an unrestricted view over many miles of country side : this castle will delight the whole family with many exhibitions and activities as falconry displays, festivities and candles illuminations on summer. This is also an opportunity to offer you a pleasant stroll in the gardens of the castle and admire the various species of raptors such as hawks, falcons, great horned owls and owls.
In the inner courtyard of the castle: many games are available to the public, and are suitable for all ages (children and adults), including several great games such as the Boulie, the Goose Game, Archery.


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Recently I was working on finalizing a small command line application for Canonical Hardware Certification. The application here is of no great importance but I wanted to give it a better look than what our applications traditionally look. I made sure to pick the right colors from the Canonical color palette. I used appropriate paragraph layout and spacing (this is all text mode console, remember). It all looked great.
This is, in part, possible thanks to the RGB color support offered by Gnome Terminal. I tested it extensively and it was really quite gorgeous. Then, I ran it in screen. Ugh. The application was barely readable! Screen doesn't understand the escape codes I was sending and just happily ignored them. This was not what I was after. I didn't want to scrap everything either. I wanted this to work as best as the software around this permits.
Fast forward to today. I spend a while iterating on the basic idea and experimenting with a few ways to expose it. The application I wrote was based on python3-guacamole. A simple framework that helps to write command line applications, sitting basically one level above argparse and main(). Guacamole has support for ANSI color codes and exposes that neatly to the application via high-level interface. Instead of calling print(), the application can call aprint() which understands a few more keyword arguments. Among those arguments are fg and bg (for foreground and background color, respectively).
Guacamole also gained a color controller, an ingredient acting as a middleware for all color handling inside the application. I created it to explore the impact of usability-enhancing color use on users with various types of color blindness. It is an accessibility tool but making it required adding quite a few color transformation operations to Guacamole. If you haven't seen that yet it's quite interesting. The rainbow demo, invoked with the right options, is beautiful, in all its 24bit terminal emulator glory.
Today I expanded on that idea and introduced two new concepts: a color mixer and a the palette.
The mixer came first. It is a new property of the color controller (that applications have access to). Its goal is to act as a optional downmix of 24 bit RGB values to the special 6 * 6 * 6 palette supported by most terminal emulators on the planet. Implementing it was actually quite straightforward though the problem of coming up with an indexed image for a given true-color image is an interesting research topic. Here most "difficult" things don't really apply as we have a fixed palette that we cannot change, we cannot do dithering really and "pixels" are huge. This turned out to work great. I patched my application to enable the indexed 8-bit mode mixer when a given TERM or SSH_CONNECTION value is used and it worked like a charm.
aprint("something", fg="canonical.aubergine") instead of aprint("something", fg=(constant-for-canonical-aubergine)). The named color is resolved in exactly the same way as other constants like "black" or "red" would. What is also cool is that the color mixer can now expose the preference for PREFER_RGB, PREFER_INDEXED_256 or PREFER_INDEXED_8 and the color lookups from the palette may fetch optimized values if the application provides any.
All in all, this gives me a way to run my true-color terminal application via screen, putty or OS X's terminal application. It behaves good in all of those environments now.
The only problem left, is accurate terminal emulator detection. I want guacamole to handle this internally and let applications be blissfully unaware of particular limitations of particular programs. This is an open problem, sadly. TERM is useless. Everyone says "xterm" or something similar. People hack around it in their startup scripts since various programs hard-code detection to "xterm-256color" or similar. Many different programs use the same TERM value while offering widely different feature set. TERMCAP is equally useless. It might be better but nobody uses it anymore, with the notable exception of screen. All the stuff there is just old legacy crap from around the start of UNIX time. What I would love to have is something like what Apple's Terminal.app does. It sets two environment variables that contain the name and version of the terminal emulator. With this knowledge libraries can map out features, known issues and all the other stuff with far greater ease, simplicity and speed than any new standardized definitions (TERMCAP) would allow. Now if those also got sent across SSH then my life would be much easier.
For now I will see what can be done to get this just right in the Ubuntu ecosystem. I can probably patch gnome-terminal, ssh (to forward those variable) and perhaps screen (to set them).
I'll send a follow-up post when this lands in python-guacamole. I plan on doing a release later today.


Frame: The KTM 390 DUKE's state-of-the-art chassis, with its characteristic, lightweight steel trellis frame, turns this bike into a real surfer through the bends. Masses grouped close to the center of gravity maximize maneuverability and precision – and prepare the 390 DUKE to win the rush hour slalom day in, day out.
Swingarm: The 390 DUKE's meticulously manufactured, die-cast swingarm is designed and produced according to the same standards and principles as the one on the 690 DUKE R. This light alloy beauty with directly linked WP shock absorber excels in extreme torsional stiffness and outstanding tracking stability.
Wheels and Tires: Equally lightweight and delicate as they are stable, the 17 inch cast light alloy wheels are fitted with tires from the world's best suppliers. They are 110 mm wide at the front and an impressive 150 mm at the rear. The tires are selected on the basis of their high grip levels in both wet and dry conditions, as well as their ability to provide supreme durability.
Design: At first you notice that LED headlight. That aggressive front. That predatory stance. When you come closer, you feel its steel fuel tank and various high-quality cast parts. In the end you realize that the design and production standards of this bike were set sky-high. Just like the KTM 1290 SUPER DUKE R, who's little brother this bike is very proud to be. Or is it the other way around?
Ergonomics: This is not a toy bike. It is a genuine motorcycle. The KTM 390 DUKE provides plenty of space and freedom of movement and has a knack for relaxed touring, alone or two-up, as well as committed cornering. Unsurpassed operability and large contact surfaces ensure optimum control and maximum feedback, while the upright, relaxed seating position provides a perfect overview all day long.
Engine: The KTM 390 DUKE's state-of-the-art, single-cylinder engine with twin overhead camshafts once again underlines KTM's development strength. The latest materials and production technologies not only deliver the bike's bountiful torque and punchy acceleration, but also good manners in everyday use and outstanding fuel economy. And thanks to the balancer shaft, this Euro 4 compliant single is as smooth as it is strong.
Exhaust System: In order to meet the latest Euro 4 emission restrictions and sound regulations, the 390 DUKE gets an entirely new exhaust, including link pipe and silencer.
Ride By Wire: It's the guarantee of a smooth throttle response, more than simply the absence of a throttle cable. The 390 DUKE's ride by wire ensures perfect application of the readily available and plentiful torque. It also electronically translates the throttle commands of the rider into throttle valve positions perfectly suited to the riding conditions.
Fuel Tank: The 13.4 l steel fuel tank not only provides the rider with perfect knee contact, but also with a long range. Even when you ride as fast as you dare, thanks to its economical engine.
TFT Display: As an absolute first in its class, the 390 DUKE boasts a glorious TFT display. This multicolor combination of relevant information presents all relevant data in a clear-cut, uncluttered way. As you rev the engine, the display bars change color, either spurring you on or telling you to back off when the engine's still cold. The display also automatically adapts its illumination to the ambient light.
Steering head angle: 66 deg.


A "seat-gripping drama" arrives at the Altrincham Garrick Theatre next week.
A Murder Has Been Arranged, by Emlyn Williams, opens at the Barrington Road theatre on Monday January 21st and runs until Saturday January 26th.
First performed at the Royal Strand Theatre in London on November 9th 1930, it is a unique thriller and ghost story about a murder and its consequences.
Sir Charles Jasper is an eccentric who delves into the mystical. He is due to inherit £2million on his 40th birthday and plans to celebrate the occasion with a party on the stage of the St James' Theatre, supposedly haunted because of several mysterious deaths years ago.
The merriment is interrupted by Maurice, Sir Charles's hitherto missing nephew and the recipient of the legacy in the event of his death. Maurice, who claims to be a novelist, induces his uncle to write what he claims to be a chapter for his new book. However, is it that or is it a suicide note? All will be revealed in this intriguing tale.
We're delighted to be sponsoring this production ourselves.


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Cardinals Clipped by No. 9 Findlay, 75-63
Saginaw Valley (4-5, 1-2) 32 31 63
Findlay (7-2, 2-1) 35 40 75
Pts: Greg Foster - 21
Reb: Greg Foster - 13
Pts: Kyle Caiola - 18
Reb: Mark Frilling - 12
Ast: Kyle Caiola - 3
FINDLAY, Ohio - The Saginaw Valley State University men's basketball team fell to No. 9 Findlay today (Dec. 10), 75-63. The Cardinals fall to 4-5 overall on the season and 1-2 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, while Findlay improves to 7-2 on the season and 2-1 in the conference.
Greg Foster (Indianapolis, Ind./T.C. Howe) earned Meijer "Player of the Game" honors, finishing with a game-high 21 points on 7-of-14 shooting. Foster would also pulled down a game-high 13 rebounds.
The Oilers held a small advantage during much of the first half, but Jay Thames (Port Huron, Mich./Northern HS) would hit from beyond the arc with 5:33 to go in the half to bring the Cardinals within two, 25-23.
SVSU would tie up the ball game with 1:29 remaining in the first half when Chris Webb (Saginaw, Mich./Arthur Hill HS) drove to the lane for two and the foul. The Cardinals would enter the locker room down 35-32. Foster scored 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting in the first half.
The Cardinals would take their first lead of the game at 36-35 with 18:17 to go in the second half on a Michael Fugate (White Lake, Mich./Lakeland HS) jump shot. The Oilers would respond with a 21-8 run and SVSU would find themselves down 56-44 with 9:07 to play.
Saginaw Valley would be unable to chip away at the Oiler lead down the strech, falling by a score of 75-63.
The Cardinals will return to action on Saturday (Dec. 17) when they travel to Lake Superior State for a 3:00 PM tipoff.

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Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program
11:30 am - 1:30 pm Keefe Campus Center, Atrium
Join JET Program Coordinator, Mx. Adrain Hutton, to learn more about the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program. This is an extraordinary opportunity for college graduates to live and work in Japan. Each year, with the aid of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the JET Program recruits more than one thousand new JET participants to come to Japan and work as either Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) who provide language instruction in elementary, junior and senior high schools, or Coordinators for International Relations (CIRs) who work in communities on international exchange activities.
German Table
11:45 am - 1:00 pm Valentine Dining Hall, Mezzanine
Enjoy informal conversations with students who have studied in Germany, the German faculty members, the German language assistants and other native speakers.
Chinese Language Table
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Valentine Dining Hall, Small Conference Room, 1st Floor
Bring your lunch from Val and practice your Chinese. The Chinese language table will meet this semester every Monday, Tuesday and Friday from noon - 1 p.m.
Math & Stats Table
12:00 pm Valentine Dining Hall, Terrace Room A
Please join us on Mondays in the Terrace Room A of Valentine Hall. Relax and enjoy lunch with your Math & Stats friends.
Serving Tea, featuring Professor Coráñez-Bolton
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Queer Resource Center, Keefe Campus Center
Serving Tea is a monthly meet and greet with out LGBTQ+ staff and faculty from Amherst College. Join us and get to know this month's awesome guest, Sony Coráñez-Bolton, professor of Spanish, and Latinx and Latin American Studies, for casual lunch and conversation. Lunch and tea will be served!
Biology Monday Seminar: "Notch and T Lymphocyte Function: A Complex Tale"
4:00 pm Science Center, A011
Barbara A. Osborne, Ph.D.
Professor, Veterinary and Animal Sciences
Co-director, Center for Bioactive Delivery, Institute for Applied Life Sciences
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Research in the Osborne Lab
The Osborne laboratory focuses on the differentiation and function of mature CD4+ lymphocytes. In particular, we are interested in the role of Notch proteins in CD4+ maturation and function. Over the past several years, we have demonstrated that Notch plays a critical role in the differentiation of the T-helper 1 (Th1) and T-helper17 (Th17) subsets of T cells. Both Th1 and Th17 cells have been implicated in several diseases, including experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a mouse model of multiple sclerosis. Using gamma-secretase inhibitors (GSIs), compounds that block the activation of Notch, we have found that we can block the development of EAE in mice, suggesting that GSIs may be a possible therapeutic for the treatment of MS. Our current studies are focused on determining how Notch signaling influences the development of EAE, as well as determining which Notch family member is important in the development of disease. In mammals, there are four Notch family members, and it is unclear which Notch family member is most important in driving EAE.
Notch signaling is initiated by two enzymatic cleavages. The first cleavage, driven by ADAM proteases, is required for the second cleavage, mediated by gamma-secretase, which results in the release of the intra-cellular domain of Notch and initiates the Notch signaling cascade. Notch signaling can be blocked by gamma-secretase inhibitors, and our lab, in collaboration with colleagues at UMass, UFlorida and LSU Medical School, investigates how gamma-secretase inhibition may be used to modulate immune responses. We also are actively investigating whether Notch signaling in CD4+ T cells is mediated through canonical Notch signaling. Our data suggest Notch signaling in T cells occurs through a non-canonical pathway and current research is focused on a clearer description of this non-canonical pathway.
"More than Fair: How Excessive Sympathy ('Himpathy') for Privileged Men Masks and Causes Misogyny" with Kate Manne
4:30 pm Frost Library, 210
Kate Manne is assistant professor at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. She works in the areas of moral philosophy, feminist philosophy and social philosophy, and is the author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (Oxford, 2018), which examines misogyny as a device to control, police, punish and exile "bad" women who challenge male dominance. Her current project focuses on the idea of "himpathy," the practice of exonerating, forgiving, forgetting and rewarding often extended to privileged boys and men. She is a sought-after commentator, most recently on the Kavanaugh hearings and on the controversial Canadian academic Jordan Peterson.
Writing Center Creative Writing Group
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Writing Center, Charles Pratt Hall
The Writing Center's Creative Writing Group will gather weekly on Monday nights to write, share and discuss our fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, drama and other modes of creative writing in a friendly, supportive manner. No homework, just attend. Meetings will be led by writing associate Roy Andrews and student coordinator Gwyneth Lewis. Open to all students.
Fiction Reading: Debra Magpie Earling
8:00 pm Amherst Books, O'Connor Common
Library Journal called Debra Magpie Earling's Perma Red "a beautiful first novel," and Louise Erdrich described it as "boldly drawn and passionate." It won the Western Writers Association Spur Award, WWA's Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for Best First Novel, a WILLA Literary Award and the American Book Award. Earling is also the author of The Lost Journals of Sacajewea, a collaboration with photographer Peter Rutledge Koch. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and she teaches fiction and Native American studies at the University of Montana.
This reading will be followed by refreshments.
Re-presenting Nonotuck: The Landscape Paintings of Hitchcock and Gloman
until Oct 29 Frost Library, Mezzanine Gallery
Professor David Gloman has partnered with Kurt Heidinger, director of the Biocitizen School, to create an art event that inspires the public to imagine the unique biocultural character of the Nonotuck biome (also known as the central Connecticut River Valley) by "re-presenting" the landscapes that Orra Hitchcock depicted in the mid 19th century. Professor Gloman has located the sites where they were painted and created his own painted landscape portraits of those sites. View Gloman and Hitchcock's illustrations together in Frost Library's Mezzanine Gallery from September 4 - October 29.
The opening reception will be on September 27 from 4:30 - 6 p.m. in the Center for Humanistic Inquiry (2nd Floor, Frost Library).
Fill-A-Cruiser for Amherst Survival Center
until Nov 2 Chapin Hall, Look for the Cruiser Outside
Please donate non-perishable foods and/or personal care items at the ACPD cruiser parked outside Chapin Hall on October 25 & 26 / November 1 & 2 between 11:30 am and 2:30 pm. If you are unable to make the dates and times listed, ACPD can accept donations at the Police Department (6 East Drive) at any time until 2:30 p.m. on November 2, 2018. All items donated will be given to Amherst Survival Center.


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Writing CommonsRevision
Revision refers to the critical and creative processes people engage in to develop new ideas and ensure past drafts are written as well as possible. Learn how to revise texts like a professional writer.
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What is Revision?
Revision refers to the critical, cognitive processes and the creative, intuitive processes that writers employ when rereading a text and considering ways to rewrite it.
Critical Processes
Writers employ a cluster of core, interconnected cognitive competencies when they revise. Examples of the critical, cognitive processes that writers use when revising include identifying and eliminating
vagueness, ambiguity, and underdeveloped passages
breakdowns in substantiating claims with evidence
lapses in logical reasoning, rhetorical analysis, rhetorical reasoning
awkward transitions and breakdowns in flow
problems with style.
Creative Processes
Interviews and case studies of writers @ work repeatedly illustrate that writers perceive revision to be an artistic, creative process that is deeply shaped by inchoate, preverbal feelings and intuition.
In "Understanding Composing," Sondra Sondra Perl, a professor of English and subject matter expert in Writing Studies, contends writers, speakers, knowledge workers . . . begin writing only after they have a felt sense of what they want to say: "When writers are given a topic, the topic itself evokes a felt sense in them. This topic calls forth images, words, ideas, and vague fuzzy feelings that are anchored in the writer's body. What is elicited, then, is not solely the product of a mind but of a mind alive in a living, sensing body" (p. 365).
To become a butterfly, a caterpillar has to shed its body. It becomes something entirely different. Similarly, revision is much more than editing. It's a metamorphosis.
In workplace and school settings, people use a variety of terms to describe revision, including
a high-level review
a global review
a substantive rewrite
a major rewrite
a re-read based on new information
Drafting, Rethinking, Rewriting, Reconsidering, Updating, Rethinking
The terms revision and editing are sometimes used interchangeably. However, subject matter experts do not view editing to be equivalent to revision:
When revising, writers are engaged in substantive, global matters. They're still trying to figure out what to say and how to say it. Thus, when revising, writers may even discard an entire draft.
When editing, writers focus on polishing existing texts. For instance, they may focus on local matters such as diction, sentence structure, grammar, and mechanics.
"Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what one is saying." -John Updike
Why Does Revision Matter?
Case studies and interviews of writers @ work offer overwhelming evidence that revision is a major preoccupation of writers during composing.
We know from research and scholarship in Composition Studies, a subdiscipline of Writing Studies, that professional writers may revise a document twenty, thirty, even fifty times before submitting it for publication. Many writers rely on revision to generate their most creative ideas, to find the best form for a document.
To rewrite ten times is not unusual. Oh, bother the mess, mark them as much as you like; what else are they for? Mark everything that strikes you. I may consider a thing forty-nine times; but if you consider it, it will be considered 50 times, and a line 50 times considered is 2 percent better than a line 49 times considered. And it is the final 2 percent that makes the difference between excellence and mediocrity. — George Bernard Shaw
"lt's always taken me a long time to finish poems. When I was in my twenties I found poems taking six months to a year, maybe fifty drafts or so. Now I am going over two hundred drafts regularly, working on things four or five years and longer; too long! I wish I did not take so long." — James Hall
Getting words on paper is difficult. Nothing I write is good enough in the first draft, not even personal letters. Important work must he written over and over—up to six or seven times. — James Michener
Perhaps the most pernicious assumption that inexperienced writers make is that polished, A-level essays are the products of an inspired mind, of a born writer. As Lafcadio Hearn argued in his lectures at Tokyo University between 1896 and 1902, many novice writers wrongly assume that they should wait to be inspired before writing:
Nothing has been more productive of injury to young literary students than those stories, or legends, about great writers having written great books in a very short time. They suggest what must be in a million cases impossible, as a common possibility. It is much more valuable to remember that Gray passed fourteen years in correcting and improving a single poem, and that no great poem or book, as we now have the text, represents the first form [of] the text.
Almost everything composed by Tennyson was changed and changed and changed again, to such an extent that in almost every edition the text differed. Above all things do not imagine that any good work can be done without immense pains. — Lafcadio Hearn
Inexperienced writers may be unaware of the importance of revision to successful communication. For instance, an undergraduate student at a university in the U.S., writes:
When I first learned about revision in class, it was like some great revelation to me, for some reason. I think I had some sort of mistaken notion about leaving pieces of work "just as they came to me." I believed that there was something magical about inspiration. But now that I've learned to look at my work more critically, I realize that I can improve on all of my so-called "inspired ideas." Revising pieces constantly has taught me to improve on inspiration and when l really got into it, it proved to be a godsend. Now I really enjoy picking my writing apart because I've learned that this allows me to produce better writing than I've ever done before. — Undergraduate Student in the U.S.
Students whose works are receiving low grades or befuddled looks from readers may have unreasonable expectations. They may not have taken the time to reflect on their writing processes. Unlike professionals, they may assume they should write a text in just two or three drafts.
When looking over a failed project, look for the pieces in the wreckage that can be reformed
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."
Revision Strategies – How to Revise provides a structured approach to engaging in critical revision. This guide is based on research and scholarship in Writing Studies, especially qualitative interviews and case studies of writers @ work.
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Is a used EV a bargain or a trap?
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(NerdWallet) – You've probably heard the horror stories of insanely high battery replacement costs for electric cars. Fear of battery failure, limited range and high purchase prices may make you question whether buying a used electric vehicle is a wise decision.
That answer is, it depends – it depends on the condition of the electric vehicle you choose and how much you pay for it.
If you can find an older EV with a battery in good condition, it could be a bargain, says Ivan Drury, senior manager of insights for auto site Edmunds.com. But if you're buying an EV flipped at a premium that doesn't qualify for a tax credit, that could be a trap.
While used EVs cost more than gas-powered ICE cars or ICEs — with an average transaction price of about $41,000 — you need to look at the total cost of ownership, says Jesse Toprak, principal analyst for Autonomy, an EV subscription service. For example, he says that driving an electric vehicle could save up to $5,000 in gas costs in a year.
Buying an electric vehicle differs from buying an internal combustion engine in many ways. Here's a look at the key differences and how they change the buying equation.
It's all about the battery
The lithium-ion battery in an electric vehicle is comparable to the motor in an internal combustion engine. But with a battery, after a number of charge cycles, it begins to lose the ability to be fully charged. This means that the range will gradually decrease.
Battery degradation doesn't happen overnight and won't leave you stranded at the side of the road. But as the range decreases, the car is worth less, so to speak.
How fast how much?
According to Recurrent Motors, an electric vehicle shopping and research site, consumers should expect EV battery life to last 10 years or more. Looking at the car's original battery warranty can help you determine when you may see some battery degradation – but that doesn't mean the battery is near death.
Fears of battery failure "are a little overblown," says Toprak. He believes the concern comes from people who think an EV battery is like a cellphone battery that degrades quickly. But in reality, a Tesla Model 3 battery was built to provide power for over 300,000 miles, he says.
Battery costs and guarantees
But what if the battery degrades to the point that it needs to be replaced?
Estimates for the cost of new batteries are all over the map, from $0 (meaning they were replaced under warranty) to $20,000.
Almost all new EV batteries are guaranteed for at least eight years or 100,000 miles. In California, EV and hybrid batteries are covered for 10 years or 150,000 miles through 2030 under the Advanced Clean Cars II regulations.
You may be able to buy a used one from a scrap EV or find a refurbished one at a reduced price.
Expensive electric vehicles
Another factor preventing more people from buying used electric vehicles is the high purchase price compared to internal combustion engines. According to Drury, recent Edmunds data shows that electric vehicles less than two years old — a market dominated by Teslas and car fins — are listed for an average price of $58,179. But a 4-year-old EV costs an average of $30,400.
While the purchase price is higher than a gas car, Toprak says electric vehicles save money in the long run because:
Incentives and Discounts: Some state and federal incentives could effectively lower the price of a used EV.
gas costs: Depending on how much you pay for electricity, charging an electric vehicle is cheaper than petrol.
Maintenance: EVs don't require oil changes and are less likely to have repairs that internal combustion engines are prone to because there are fewer systems to check on an EV. Also, because EVs use a braking system that recycles energy to charge the battery, the brake pads wear out slowly.
Buying a used electric car
Because an electric vehicle has fewer moving parts, the buying process is actually much more transparent, says Toprak. The main factor is the health of the battery. The potential area can be checked as follows:
Observe the maximum range of the electric vehicle specified on the manufacturer's website.
Ask the seller to fully charge the vehicle's battery before a test drive.
Check the mobility device's odometer to see the indicated range of the fully charged battery.
Take an extensive test drive with the air conditioning switched on and simulate your typical driving style.
Check the remaining range at the end of the test drive.
Calculate whether the displayed range was mostly accurate by subtracting the final range from the maximum range.
Get a used vehicle inspection from a make specialist or local EV mechanic.
https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/is-a-used-electric-vehicle-a-bargain-or-a-trap/ Is a used EV a bargain or a trap?
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President Trump clearly enjoyed his time on the golf course at Mar-a-lago with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Twitter feed has been fulsome in its praise of the friendship and co-operation between the two nations. For the moment, at least, there has been no time for distractions on Russia, Syria, China, tariffs or trade. It was a notable feature of yesterday's Fed Beige Book that contacts in nine of the dozen Fed regional banks expressed concerns about trade tariffs — with 36 mentions of the word in the report, whilst business owners were upset with the price rises for metals in the wake of the Trump administration's decision to place penalties on steel and aluminum imports. Elsewhere the report noted activity remained at "a modest to moderate pace" in March and early April, the same rate as earlier in the year. Overall wage growth was said to be modest, and price gains seen as moderate. Wage pressures "did not escalate," although labor markets were seen as tight, with continued reports of shortages for high-skilled workers.
The Australian Dollar had another mixed day on Wednesday with AUD/USD finishing in New York within 10 pips of its opening level around 0.7775. This morning in Europe has been thankfully more interesting with AUD/USD back on a US 78 cents 'big figure' for the first time since last Friday despite a softer than expected labor market report. Investors, instead, seem to be focusing on large gains in commodity prices as a reason to be buying the Aussie Dollar.
The March labor market report was quite a bit softer than had been expected. Total employment rose by just 4,900 against consensus expectations of a 21,000 increase. More disappointingly, February's initially-reported 17,500 gain was revised to show a drop of 6,300 which brought to an end what had previously been a run of 17 consecutive monthly increases in employment. The main revisions came in full-time jobs which were now estimated to have gained only 20,100 in February, instead of the initial outsized jump of 64,900. March was even worse with full-time positions falling 19,900. The unemployment rate was steady at 5.5 percent, after a downward revision to February. It has hovered between 5.4 percent and 5.6 percent for 11 months now whilst the participation rate dipped to 65.5 percent, having peaked at 65.7 percent in January as more women entered the labor force.
On the Australian stock exchange, the ASX Metals & Mining index hit a three-month high this morning, driven by sharply higher prices for industrial metals. Aluminum is up 32% so far this month and nickel is 20% up this week alone on Russian sanctions and supply shortage concerns. Three-month nickel on the London Metal Exchange rallied as much as 9.3% to $16,690 a tonne today, the highest since December, 2014. Australia's biggest export commodity, iron ore, meantime, is up 8.5% over the last three days. The Australian Dollar opens in North America this morning at USD0.7800, with AUD/NZD at 1.0665 and AUD/CAD0.9830.


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Q: Matlab to Python Code I have piece of code in matlab:
Tf=eye(2);
Tb=eye(2);
Tt=eye(2);

n=250;

f=zeros(2,n);

for i=1:n
    f(:,i)=Tf*f(:,i-1);
end

I tried to change it to Python code:
Tf=eye(2)

n=250

f=numpy.zeros((2,n))

for i in range (n)

    f[:,i]=numpy.dot(Tf, f[:,i-1])

this gives "TypeError: array() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)"
Any help?

A: As @CharlesBrunet notes, there's a few issues with the python implementation, which should be:
import numpy

Tf=numpy.eye(2)

n=5

f=numpy.zeros((2,n))

for i in range(n):
    f[:,i]=numpy.dot(Tf, f[:,i-1])

The resulting f is:
[[ 0.  0.  0.  0.  0.]
 [ 0.  0.  0.  0.  0.]]

You also have an issue in your matlab implementation, since you're trying to index f(:,0) in the first iteration of the for loop, which will result in an error:  Attempted to access f(:,0); index must be a positive integer or logical. Here's the fixed version:
Tf=eye(2);

n=5;

f=zeros(2,n);

for i=2:n
    f(:,i)=Tf*f(:,i-1);
end

The resulting f is:
f =

     0     0     0     0     0
     0     0     0     0     0

In other words, other than those few typos, there doesn't seem to be any problem with each implementation. You just have to be more careful when crafting these examples, particularly when thinking of posting a question about them.
Note that I've re-defined n=5 so that the value of f doesn't take too many lines of the answer.

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Brazil is considered a megadiverse country, possessing six terrestrial biomes. Brazil's twenty-six states and the Federal District are conventionally divided into five regions that correspond generally to the country's major landforms and biomes.
Biomes are natural regions that can be distinguished by their geography, climate and associated flora and fauna. The regions are classified according to their predominant vegetation.
Brazil is considered a megadiverse country possessing six terrestrial biomes:
Amazon (Amazônia)
The Amazon Biome contains the Amazon Rainforest, an area of tropical rainforest and other ecoregions that cover most of the Amazon Basin, along with some adjacent areas to the north and east.
Spanning 6.7 million sq km (2.6 million sq mi), the Amazon Biome is virtually unrivaled in scale and complexity. It contains blackwater and whitewater flooded forest, lowland and montane forest, bamboo and palm forest, savanna, sandy heath and alpine tundra.
This biome is considered one of the most important areas on earth. It represents half of the world's rainforest and is home to one-third of Earth's species. It is also a critical global storehouse of carbon. For those reasons, the Brazilian Amazon is one of the most studied biomes in the world.
Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica)
The Atlantic Forest once stretched over much of Brazil's Atlantic coastline and covered parts of Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. Today, it survives largely in small degraded patches and protected areas.
This tropical forest is found in the coastal region of Brazil and therefore it is characterized by humid winds coming from the sea and steep reliefs. It is composed of a variety of ecosystems because of a high variety of altitudes, latitudes and therefore, climates ranging from semideciduous seasonal forests to open mountain fields as well as Araucaria forests in the south.
The Caatinga is a semiarid biome and the largest dry forest region in South America. The only exclusively Brazilian biome, it is one of the richest dry forests in the world.
Consisting primarily of xeric shrubland and thorn forest, the biome covers the northeast portion of Brazil and occupies approximately 10% of the country's area.
The Cerrado is the largest savanna region in South America and the largest ecoregion in the Americas. Biologically, it is the richest savanna in the world. As the second-largest Brazilian biome, it encompasses approximately 22% of the country's land area.
The Cerrado is dry and hot, but far from lifeless, comprising a wide range of plant and animal biodiversity. It is described as the richest savanna in the world by the World Wildlife Fund.
Over the past 35 years, more than half of the biome's original area has been converted to agriculture, representing a dramatic change in Brazilian land use.
The Pampa (Las Pampas) is a vast fertile lowland plain region. The biome represents just over 2% of brazil's national territory.
The biome lies within the South Temperate Zone and has both subtropical and temperate climates with four well-characterized seasons. Grasslands, with sparse shrub and tree formations, are the dominant vegetation.
The Pantanal is a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area. This gigantic seasonal floodplain is also home to a staggering variety of plants and wildlife.
Periods of inundation and desiccation alternate annually. Despite this, the area supports both a rich agricultural and eco-tourism economy. It occupies just under 2% of Brazil's national territory.
Map of Brazil's six main biomes
Major Landforms
Guiana Highlands
The Guiana Highlands is a heavily forested plateau and low-mountain region located north of the Amazon River and south of the Orinoco River. The region covers the northern part of Brazil as well as the southern half of Venezuela, all of the Guianas except for the low Atlantic coastal plain and a portion of southeastern Colombia.
The region is characterized by forested mesas and mountain ranges that feature waterfalls and white-water rivers.
The highest point in Brazil is Neblina Peak at 3,014 m (9,888 ft) asl, near the Venezuelan border. The Serra da Pacaraima, farther east, rises to 2,772 m (9,094 ft) asl at Mount Roraima, where the borders of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil meet.
Amazon Lowlands
The Amazon lowlands largely correspond to the area of the Amazon Basin. The lowlands are widest along the eastern base of the Andes and then narrow toward the east where a narrow ribbon of annually flooded plains (várzeas) separates the Guiana Highlands to the north from the Brazilian Highlands to the south.
The basin's most widespread topographical features are gently undulating hills. Shallow oxbow lakes and wetlands are found throughout the region.
The immense Pantanal, an extension of the Gran Chaco plain, is a region of swamps and marshes in northwestern Mato Grosso do Sul and southern Mato Grosso states. It is one of the largest freshwater wetlands in the world.
Brazilian Highlands
The Brazilian Highlands make up more than half of the country's landmass. This extensive eroded plateau region covers most of the eastern, southern and central portions of Brazil.
Located mainly in the states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Goiás and Mato Grosso; the rugged highlands include cliffs, flat-topped plateaus, ravines, rolling hills and rock outcrops.
Coastal Lowlands
The Coastal Lowlands comprise a very small portion of Brazil's territory. These Atlantic lowlands range up to 200 km (125 mi) wide in the North but become narrower in the Northeast and disappear in parts of the Southeast. The coastal plain widens again in the South.
Features of the lowlands include floodplains, swamps, lagoons, dunes and long stretches of sandy beaches. Various deep harbors exist where the rocky slopes of the coastal ranges plunge directly into the ocean.
Topographical map of Brazil
Brazil's twenty-six states and the Federal District (Distrito Federal) are conventionally divided into five regions:
The equatorial North, also known as the Amazon (or Amazônia), includes, from west to east, the states of Rondônia, Acre, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Amapá and Tocantins.
With 3,869,638 sq km (1,494,075 sq mi), the North is the country's largest region, covering 45.3% of Brazil's territory.
The nine states that make up the Northeast are Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe.
The Northeast region, with 1,561,178 sq km (602,774 sq mi), covers 18.3 percent of the national territory. Its principal biome is the caatinga.
Central-West
The Central-West consists of the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso, and Mato Grosso do Sul, as well as the Federal District, site of Brasília, the national capital.
The region, with 1,612,077 sq km (622,426 sq mi), covers 18.9% of the national territory. Its main biome is the cerrado.
The Southeast consists of the four states of Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Its total area of 927,286 sq km (358,027 sq mi) corresponds to 10.9 percent of the national territory. Originally, the principal biome of the Southeast was the Atlantic Forest.
The region has the largest share of the country's population and is where most of Brazil's industrial production occurs. The state of São Paulo alone accounts for half of the country's industries.
The South consists of three states: Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina. The temperate region covers 577,214 sq km (222,863 sq mi), or 6.8 percent of the national territory.
In addition to the Atlantic Forest and pine woods, much of which was cleared in the post-World War II period, the South contains pampa grasslands.
Political map of the Geographic regional divisions of Brazil
Geographical Regions of Brazil by population percentage
Landforms of Brazil
Amazon Rainforest (Amazônia)
Campos Amazônicos National Park (Brazil)
Tapajós River and Basin (Brazil)
Várzea Forest Ecoregions (South America)
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Amazonia National Park (Brazil)
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Southwest Amazon Moist Forests Ecoregion (South America)
Central Amazon Conservation Complex: World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve (Brazil)
Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest Ecoregion (South America)
Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves, World Heritage Site (Brazil)
Mata Atlântica Biosphere Reserve (Brazil)
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Atlantic Forest Southeast Reserves, World Heritage Site (Brazil)
Borborema Plateau (Brazil)
Serra da Canastra: Mountain Range and National Park (Brazil)
Serra Geral: Mountain Range and National Park (Brazil)
Serra do Caparaó: Caparaó National Park (Brazil)
Serra da Mantiqueira: Mountain Range (Brazil)
Serra dos Órgãos: Mountain Range and National Park (Brazil)
Serra do Mar: Mountain Range System, State Park and Ecological Corridor (Brazil)
Serra do Espinhaço: Espinhaço Range Biosphere Reserve (Brazil)
Brazilian Highlands: Brazilian Plateau


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// .NAME vtkXdmfReader - Reads <tt>eXtensible Data Model and Format</tt> files
// .SECTION Description
// vtkXdmfReader reads XDMF data files so that they can be visualized using
// VTK. The output data produced by this reader depends on the number of grids
// in the data file. If the data file has a single domain with a single grid,
// then the output type is a vtkDataSet subclass of the appropriate type,
// otherwise it's a vtkMultiBlockDataSet.
//
// Refer to vtkDataReader which provides many methods for controlling the
// reading of the data file.
// .SECTION Caveats
// Uses the XDMF API (http://www.xdmf.org)
// .SECTION See Also
// vtkDataReader

#ifndef __vtkXdmfReader_h
#define __vtkXdmfReader_h

#include "vtkDataReader.h"

class vtkXdmfArraySelection;
class vtkXdmfDocument;
class vtkGraph;

class VTK_EXPORT vtkXdmfReader : public vtkDataReader
{
public:
  static vtkXdmfReader* New();
  vtkTypeMacro(vtkXdmfReader, vtkDataReader);
  void PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent);

  // Until needed, multiple domains are not supported.
  //// Description:
  //// Returns the number of domains present in the data file. This in valid after
  //// the filename has been set and UpdateInformation() has been called .i.e. the
  //// RequestInformation pipeline pass has happened.
  //unsigned int GetNumberOfDomains();

  // Description:
  // Set the active domain. Only one domain can be selected at a time. By
  // default the first domain in the datafile is chosen. Setting this to null
  // results in the domain being automatically chosen. Note that if the domain
  // name is changed, you should explicitly call UpdateInformation() before
  // accessing information about grids, data arrays etc.
  vtkSetStringMacro(DomainName);
  vtkGetStringMacro(DomainName);

  //// Description:
  //// Returns the name for the active domain. Note that this may be different
  //// from what GetDomainName() returns if DomainName is NULL or invalid.
  // vtkGetStringMacro(ActiveDomainName);

  // Description:
  // Get information about point-based arrays. As is typical with readers this
  // in only valid after the filename is set and UpdateInformation() has been
  // called.
  int GetNumberOfPointArrays();

  // Description:
  // Returns the name of point array at the give index. Returns NULL if index is
  // invalid.
  const char* GetPointArrayName(int index);

  // Description:
  // Get/Set the point array status.
  int GetPointArrayStatus(const char* name);
  void SetPointArrayStatus(const char* name, int status);

  // Description:
  // Get information about cell-based arrays.  As is typical with readers this
  // in only valid after the filename is set and UpdateInformation() has been
  // called.
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  virtual int RequestDataObject(vtkInformationVector *outputVector);
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private:
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Awon Mass Wedding Festival in Shao, Kwara State, Nigeria
IbitolaJuly 15, 2017Last Updated: July 15, 2017
Awon Mass Wedding Festival is a festival that takes place in Shao in Moro Local Government of Kwara State, Nigeria. It is a festival during which all the young girls of marriageable age in Shao are given out in marriage all at once.
This festival is a colorful dance and folksongs festivals where a lot of colorful attires are put on display. The people of Shao are also hospitable people and they cook massively during the festival for all who come to celebrate with them.
Sons of the soil in Shao and all over the world always come around during Awon mass wedding festival to join in the celebrations.
Historical Background of Awon Mass Wedding Festival
Accoding to the history of Shao, there was a hunter called Omo Larele who would stop at a small stream to drink water anytime he went hunting in the forest.
As was his tradition, he stopped by the stream to drink water on a particular day and he saw a strange woman at the stream seated there already, this woman was weird looking as she had only one breast.
History tells us that the woman was a fairy and her name was Awon. She told the hunter that she was the owner of the stream which he normally drank from.
She told him she wasn't angry at him but that Omo Larele should take her to the Oba of Shao, Oba Olanibo who was the first Ohoro of Shao. Awon was taken to Shao and she spent eighteen days with the people of Shao. Before she left, she had a meeting with Oba Lanibo and the royal chiefs.
When she was set to depart from Awon, she was accompanied by Oba Lanibo, his son and the royal chiefs of Shao and they followed a path that Awon chose.
After walking for some time, she stopped and told all the people that her name was Awon. She then told the people that they would never see her again, but that she would fortify their community by giving them a strong charm and that they should rename the village Shao-Awon.
In addition to this, she told the Oba of Shao that a day should be set aside every year to celebrate Awon and on this a mass wedding ceremony should be held where all girls of marriageable age should be given out in marriage.
She further told them that she would give them blessings at any time they request for it and especially on the day Awon is celebrated.
She said they should channel through a priest that would be dedicated to her problems of barrenness and ill fortune so that she could turn their fortunes around for them.
After this speech, Awon fell down and disappeared, immediately waves appeared at the spot of her disappearance and water began to gush out from there.
The water started to flow and it became a big river called Awon River and the spot was named "Awon Yale", meaning Awon visits home.
This spot is significant among the people of Shao and it is referred to as "Ojubo Awon", this means the spot where people gather to worship the goddess Awon.
After this event, the Oba of Shao received two visitors again; they were women who claimed they were Awon's sisters and were looking for her.
The women were now told that though Awon visited them at Shao, she had vanished into thin air. The women searched for a while but when the search did not yield any result, they left for an unknown destination.
Later, the people got to know that the sisters also became rivers, one of them known as Asa is the Asa River which runs through Ilorin and the other sister known as Osun is believed to be the Osun River in Oshogbo. Today, figurines with the same similarities are found in the shrines of both Osun and Awon buttressing the fact that they might be related.
After Awon and her sisters left, Oba Lanibo, the Ohoro of Shao and his chiefs told Mogaji Gbenagbena, the head of wood carvers to make a wooden image of the one breasted Awon and that of her sisters so as to immortalize them and have a symbol of their presence in Shao.
He then made a decree that the Awon mass wedding festival be held every year in Shao in remembrance of Awon and her sisters.
A family was also chosen as the custodian of the images and also to watch over the spot where Awon disappeared. This family is now known as "Ile Alawon", this means the custodian of Awon.
A particular person in the house is then chosen to make rituals and sacrifices to Awon Goddess, this person is the priest of Awon, called "Baba Alawon". Anybody chosen as the priest of Awon is forbidden from crossing rivers.
The Awon Mass Wedding Celebration
After all the marriage steps have been concluded between a young man and woman and the parents have accepted that they can get married.
The fixing of the date of the wedding will follow. The date fixing involves a lot of participants, the Awon priest being the most important person.
The other people involved in the date fixing are the Iboo, the Ajankii and the traditional/religious leaders in Shao community.
Everyone will gather at the Alawon compound which houses the Awon Shrine. When Awon accepts the day fixed for the marriage, the women in Awon compound will start celebrating by singing and dancing round the town and jingling a bell called the Agogo Awon.
This ringing of this bell is to inform the whole community that the day for the Awon mass wedding has been fixed. Food is then prepared for the people that came to witness the date fixing.
After the announcement has been made, parents of the couples will start preparations in earnest for the wedding. They will make provision for food and drinks for guests; they will also have to buy clothes for their sons and daughters.
The bride's parent has to buy her the items she will use in her husband's house. These items include plates, cups, spoons, pots, mats and other cooking utensils.
The parents will also send invitations for the wedding to their people to let them know the date that has been chosen for the Awon mass wedding.
On the day of the Awon mass wedding, there is a lot of cooking is done by the parents of the bride and groom and well-wishers also help them out.
There is a lot of dancing during the festival. In the past, after the marriage ceremony, the bride, their relatives and friends will clap and sing and go to the shrine of Awon to pray for a successful marriage.
This is no longer in practice because of the influence of religion, what they do now is to go to their church or their mosque to pray and do thanksgiving for the marriage.
Awon Festival
The Awon dance festival takes place two months after the mass wedding and every woman in Shao must take part in the dance.
On this day, every woman must stay at home to make bean cakes for Awon. Any woman that flounts this order and goes out will be chased back home by a masquerade caleed "Duo Dika".
The dance commences in the afternoon with the women assembling in front of the Baba Alawon's house. Drummers are also present to play at the event.
There is a lot of singing and dancing during the festival. At a time, the dancing becomes so rigorous and the masquerade makes an appearance again.
The masquerade proceeds to chasing the women out of the dance arena and they run to their various homes. The festival day usually ends at about 6 o' clock in the evening.
The Awon Festival is one that the people of Shao look forward to with anticipation every year.
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using static CacheManager.Core.Utility.Guard;

namespace CacheManager.Core
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Extensions for the configuration builder specific to the Memcached cache handle.
    /// </summary>
    public static class MemcachedConfigurationBuilderExtensions
    {
        /// <summary>
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        /// <param name="part">The builder part.</param>
        /// <param name="configurationName">The configuration name.</param>
        /// <returns>The part.</returns>
        /// <exception cref="System.ArgumentNullException">Thrown if handleName is null.</exception>
        public static ConfigurationBuilderCacheHandlePart WithMemcachedCacheHandle(this ConfigurationBuilderCachePart part, string configurationName) =>
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