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Landscapes of Pain
Synthetic Eros
(Algo)Rhythmic Refrains
Penal Strokes
Random Walker
Under Cover Of Darkness
Obsession: Lighter
7 1/2 Minutes Solo
I Love George / I Hate George
Violation of a Photograph
Images from the Future
The Opposite of Still Life
Out of Narrative
Sequenzas
Pflegeleicht 30 ºC
It is not a bulb
DARIO SRBIC_
PhD candidate at Royal College of Art
Random Walker (2017), which was developed right at the start of the enquiry, forms a degree-zero of my whole research in which I explore the relationship between algorithms and knowledge. It draws a random path, beginning in the middle of the screen and finishes when the line hits the edge of the screen. The resulting drawing is printed out, and then the next one starts in the middle of the screen, 24 hours a day. This allegedly simple algorithm already embeds many complex frameworks that enable its execution, reflecting on today's condition where technology appears simple to use and at the same time extremely hard to grasp when it comes to its internal mechanisms. All the drawings are purely random, and yet they invite for the interpretations, similarly to the analysis of the numbers drawn in the lottery. When piled on top of each other, drawings build a column of A4 sheets, with each new drawing devaluing its uniqueness, while at the same time adding height and weight to the deck. The project will be running until the end of my research with the column growing in height as my research progresses, marking the time like a clockwork. The process behind the drawn path is Brownian motion described by Perrin, and also a basis for many natural processes and the theory of fractals developed by Benoit Mandelbrot. If the algorithm would not stop at the edge but bounce away from it, then every piece of paper would become entirely black, changing the number of dimensions from one (that of the curve) into two (that of the surface). The plural dimensions which fractals possess are discussed in connection with fractal philosophy, feedback loops and the question of 'how robots "learn" ' throughout all the written thesis. Currently there are more then 500 random drawings produced.
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Essential aeronautical information is disseminated as per European (EU), national (ENAC) and international (ICAO) regulations via the Integrated Aeronautical Information Package (IAIP), which consists of:
AIP and related amendments;
AIP supplements;
NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) and PIB (Pre-flight Information Bulletin);
AIC (Aeronautical Information Circular);
Check list and list of current NOTAMs.
ENAV uses a highly automated system to optimise the management of aeronautical information and ensure that this is available in the most appropriate format to all interested parties.
Specifically, all NOTAMs Issued by the NOTAM Office after request of the appropriate originator, are shared through the Aeronautical Fixed Service (AFS) and converge in ENAV's AOIS (Aeronautical Operational Information System) database, the AISAS (Aeronautical Information Services Automated System) subsystem, now based on WEB technology.
ENAV's two ARO-CBOs (ATS Reporting Office - Central Briefing Office), located in Rome and Milan, provide crew with flight documentation, prepared according to the validated flight profile, in accordance with the Flight Plan (FPL) presented. The documentation contains the collection of both current NOTAMs and SNOWTAMs as PIBs (Pre Flight Information Bulletins), regarding pertinent operating information for the assigned flight route, as well as meteorological documentation including weather bulletins and warnings, forecast charts of weather phenomena, winds and temperatures at different altitudes.
Meteorology documentation is prepared using an AOIS subsystem called AMIAS (Aeronautical Meteorological Information Automated System) for generating messages regarding weather bulletins and warnings, as well as forecast maps with data supplied by SADIS through the FTP communications network with WAFC in London.
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Q: Visual Studio Makefile Project makes extraneous 'obj' folder I'm using a Makefile project in Visual Studio 2012 express just fine. However, regardless of the Build Command specified, Visual Studio always makes an 'obj' folder containing empty subfolders obj\Win32\Debug and obj\Win32\Release.
To reproduce the problem, simply create a "Visual C++ - General - Makefile Project" and use a DOS command like 'dir' in the Build Command Line. As soon as you build, the empty obj\Win32\Debug folder will show up.
I can simply skip these in my Mercurial ignore file but it'd be nice to find a fix. Anyone know how to make Visual Studio not generate these empty folders?

A: Found a trick: to set the intermediate output directory on an existing directory. I modified the project file by hand and added this:
<IntermediateOutputPath>$(ProjectDir)</IntermediateOutputPath>

inside the configuration PropertyGroup. I used the project directory, which obviously already exists. No more useless obj directory!

A: The obj folder represents VS' own metadata about your project for intellisense support and designer support (for WF/WPF apps). For the most part you can ignore the folder completely without issue.
On occasion though this data can become corrupt and cause VS to show invalid Intellisense options and the workflow/WPF designer can cause errors. Closing VS and deleting the obj folder will quickly resolve this though.

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Jon McCormack is an Australian-based artist and researcher in computing. His research interests include generative art, design and music, evolutionary systems, computer creativity, visualisation, virtual reality, interaction design, physical computing, machine learning, developmental models and physical computing.
Jon is the founder and Director of SensiLab and oversees all operations, research programs and partnerships. He is also Professor of Computer Science at Monash University's Faculty of Information Technology and currently an ARC Future Fellow.
Jon holds an Honours degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Monash University, a Graduate Diploma of Art (Film and Television) from Swinburne University and a PhD in Computer Science from Monash University.


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[/u/BlemflarkBot](https://www.reddit.com/user/BlemflarkBot/) is a [Reddit](http://www.reddit.com) Bot whose sole purpose is to listen on [/r/rickandmorty](https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/) subreddit and provide currency conversions from Blemflarks to USD.

According to the season 3 premier of Rick and Morty, [1 Blemflark is worth $0](https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/62ygal/the_value_of_the_blemflark/).

## Invoking BlemflarkBot

BlemflarkBot is usually running on a google cloud instance as a docker container.

If a comment has both a `<number> blemflark(s)` and one of the following: `how`, `what`, `?`, `!`, then the bot will generate a reply message that looks like something like [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/63dyo6/binging_with_babish_got_us_covered/dfvl7a7/):

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> ...  how much is 42 blemflarks? ...

* 42 Blemflarks → **$0 USD**

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If you make a comment that satisfies those two requirements, and the bot is running, it will probably see and reply with the conversion within a couple minutes (10 minutes at worst).

Regex used: `p = re.compile('([^\n\.\,\r\d-]{0,30})(-?[\d|,]{0,300}\.{0,1}\d{1,300} bl?emfl?ark[\w]{0,80})([^\n\.\,\r\d-]{0,30})', re.IGNORECASE)`

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RIDE to the beat in this 45 minute cycling experience. Music and movement is the heart of this class, and we don't slack on either. Yeah, it's high-intensity, but it's also insanely fun. Connect with yourself, the bike, your REDEMPTION instructor, and your fellow RIDErs as you sweat, smile, and dance it out.
There are no upcoming "RHYTHM RIDE - NEW TIME!" classes on this day.
19 ratings for RHYTHM RIDE - NEW TIME!
I've been waiting for T to have a night class and I'm so happy she's teaching Monday's at 6:30! This girl is a beast on the bike!!
What an amazing class!!!! Very high energy, she kept us working the entire 50 minutes and I felt incredible after.


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How to remove unwanted add ons from Internet Explorer, with one and multiple cases
After installing a piece of software(such as download or chat software), if it has an add-on for Internet Explorer(ie), it is automatically added to Internet Explorer, then we can enable or disable it, but we cannot delete it in the manage add-ons window of Internet Explorer. Because the add-on for Internet Explorer does not exist independently, it is only part of the software. This is different from the standalone plugins for Google Chrome and Firefox.
How to remove unwanted add ons from Internet Explorer(i.e. How to delete add ons ie)? There are generally three methods of deletion: delete from the registry, delete with software tools and uninstall the corresponding software. If you want to keep the software, just remove the add-ons from Internet Explorer, it is better to delete them from the registry, or you can download the Internet Explorer add-on removal tool to delete them. After deleting, Internet Explorer will no longer display them. Here's how to remove the Internet Explorer add-ons from the registry.
I, How to remove unwanted add ons from Internet Explorer case one: Only registered under "Browser Helper Objects" in the Registry
The add-ons in Internet Explorer are only registered under the "Browser Helper Objects" in the registry, as long as you delete them here, they will no longer be displayed in Internet Explorer. For example, to delete the add-on "Lync Click to Call"(see Figure 1), the method is as follows:
1. Press the Windows logo key + R(the Windows logo key is to the right of the left Ctrl key) to open the "Run" dialog box, enter "regedit", as shown in Figure 2:
2. Press "Enter" on your keyboard or click "OK" to open the "Registry Editor" window, copy HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects to the address bar, press "Enter" to locate "Browser Helper Objects"; Right-click the add-on(Lync Click to Call) you want to delete, select "Delete" in the pop-up menu, as shown in Figure 3:
Tip: If the "Registry Editor" does not have an address bar, expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects.
3. Select "Yes" in the pop-up "Confirm Key Delete" dialog box, then the add-on(Lync Click to Call) is deleted, as shown in Figure 4:
4. Close Internet Explorer and reopen, click the "Tools" menu or icon(the small gear in the upper right corner of the screen), or press the shortcut key Alt + X, and select "Manage Add-ons" in the pop-up menu to open "Manage Add-ons" dialog box, the add-on(Lync Click to Call) is still there, right-click "Lync Click to Call", and select "Columns → Class ID." As shown in Figure 5:
5. "Lync Click to Call" is the same as the "Class ID" of "Skype for Business Browser Helper", as shown in Figure 6:
6. In this case, you can delete "Lync Click to Call" from Internet Explorer only by deleting the registration items of "Skype for Business Browser Helper" and all the registration items of "Lync Click to Call". If the "class ID" of the add-on to be removed is unique, it will be deleted after removing it from "Browser Helper Objects".
II, How to remove unwanted add ons from Internet Explorer case two: there are multiple registration entries in the registry, look for and delete
1. Continue the above operation, right-click "Lync Click to Call", and select "Copy"(or select "More Information", then copy) in the pop-up menu, as shown in Figure 7:
2. Open a notepad, press Ctrl + V, paste the content you just copied here, and then copy {31D09BA0-12F5-4CCE-BE8A-2923E76605DA}. If you have a text recognition tool, you can also use it to copy.
3. Go to the "Registry Editor" window, press Ctrl + F to open the "Find" dialog box. Press Ctrl + V to paste {31D09BA0-12F5-4CCE-BE8A-2923E76605DA} into the input box to the right of "Find what", Check "Keys and Match whole string only", as shown in Figure 8:
4. Click "Find Next", after finding, right-click {31D09BA0-12F5-4CCE-BE8A-2923E76605DA}, and select "Delete"(note: it is best to export before deleting to import on error), as shown in Figure 9:
5. Select "Yes" in the pop-up dialog box, then {31D09BA0-12F5-4CCE-BE8A-2923E76605DA} will be deleted; press F3 to continue searching and find an item to delete until you find the registry. Then the add-on "Lync Click to Call" in Internet Explorer is deleted, as shown in Figure 10:
Tip: If you find the registry, the add-on "Lync Click to Call" in Internet Explorer has not been deleted, locate the top-level key "Computer" in the registry, and continue searching to prevent the end only from the current key.
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On December 11, 2018, kilos of green turtle meat were confiscated in a small eatery located at Barangay Pasil, Cebu City. The meat are cooked and sold for Php 90 per serving.
The green turtle meat stew is believed to boost sex drive. (Cue in the eyeroll).
One of the turtles even has a tag which indicated that it was saved by wildlife conservationist of Environment Protection Department in Sandakan, Malaysia but has been released in open sea. The helpless turtle ended up being killed in Cebu, Philippines. Sad. Disgusting behavior, humans. Truly.
Pasil is known for illegal trades in wildlife and after months of investigation, the NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) -Region Vll and DENR (Department of Environment and Natural Resources)-Region Vll conducted the entrapment operation Tuesday, December 11, 2018.
Five were arrested: Donesa Bustamante (cashier), Cresley Obatay (cook) and helpers Ariesteo Pableo, Julio Abunta and Clifford Obatay. They will be arrested for multiple counts of possessing, trading and killing endangered species.
BE INFORMED: Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act
Green sea turtles are considered endangered species and protection for them are strictly implemented under the Republic Act No. 9147, "Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act".
Under Chapter lV, Section 27: Illegal Acts. — Unless otherwise allowed in accordance with this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person to willfully and knowingly exploit wildlife resources and their habitats, or undertake the following acts:
(a) killing and destroying wildlife species, except in the following instances;
(i) when it is done as part of the religious rituals of established tribal groups or indigenous cultural communities;
(ii) when the wildlife is afflicted with an incurable communicable disease;
(iii) when it is deemed necessary to put an end to the misery suffered by the wildlife;
(iv) when it is done to prevent an imminent danger to the life or limb of a human being; and
(v) when the wildlife is killed or destroyed after it has been used in authorized research or experiments.
(b) inflicting injury which cripples and/or impairs the reproductive system of wildlife species;
(c) affecting any of the following acts in critical habitat(s):
(i) dumping of waste products detrimental to wildlife;
(ii) squatting or otherwise occupying any portion of the critical habitat;
(iii) mineral exploration and/or extraction;
(iv) burning;
(v) logging; and
(vi) quarrying
(d) introduction, reintroduction or restocking of wildlife resources;
(e) trading of wildlife;
(f) collecting, hunting or possessing wildlife, their by-products and derivatives;
(g) gathering or destroying of active nests, nest trees, host plants and the like;
(h) maltreating and/or inflicting other injuries not covered by the preceding paragraph; and
(i) transporting of wildlife.
The arrested person might get 6-12 years of imprisonment and bail from Php 100,000 up to 1 Million. Yikes.
We're not the only inhabitants of this planet. Think sustainable, dili unahon ang pagka ingorante, diba mga Cebuanos?
Margielyn Didal: One of the Time's Most Influential Teens of 2018 and Skate Park of Cebu
Source: sports.inquirer.com
Margielyn Arda Didal is a Cebuano skater and a resident of Lahug, Cebu City. She was one of the competitors in Women's Street Skateboarding on Asian Games held in Indonesia and successfully won the gold medal this August (2018).
Whale Watching at Tanawan, Oslob
Source: OneCebu.com. One of the many signs to point you in the right direction.
By now, nearly all Cebuanos may have heard of the butandings (whale sharks) in Oslob, Cebu.
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ICYMI: Dumpit killed in Bohol Today
How to Avoid Being a Victim of the Tanim Bala Scheme
5 Mother's Day Gift Ideas That Don't Need Wrapping
Visayan Electric Company (VECO): Power Outage on October 21, 2018 -Portion of Cebu City
Shoes and Bags for SALE up to 50% OFF: September 2018- SM City Seaside
Here's Why You SHOULD Take Care of Your Kidneys
Mall Hour Opening:November 1, 2018-Robinsons Galleria Cebu
Pinoy Recipes: Utan Bisaya (Local Vegetable Soup)


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HP claims that its Saudi-based PC assembly plant is paying early dividends in its bid to challenge white box manufacturers in the regional SMB and education sectors.
HP has heralded early sales of PCs produced by its Saudi Arabia assembly plant, which opened four months ago. Buoyed by major government contracts HP has reported a 35% growth in desktop PC sales in this period. "The new production plant has produced 30,000 units to date and we are working closely with our Saudi national partners to ensure that we get top notch product to the customers," said Christoph Schell, general manager, Personal Systems Group, HP Middle East. "We are confident that the PC production facility will cater to the growing SMB and education sectors across the region. It's great to see the 'Made in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia' sign on the back of these desktops." HP says that PCs can be put together faster for the Middle East market now that the production facility is up and running. The model produced at the moment is limited to the mid-range D230, although HP has not ruled out production of other desktop products, including servers. There are no plans to produce either notebooks or high-end desktops at the plant. Schell also claimed that failure rates of PCs assembled at that plant is below targets set by HP and that PCs are being produced more cost effectively than in plants in the Far East, despite higher labour costs in Saudi. The plant employs more than 50% of its workforce from the local population, although this figure includes part time students. HP claims that customs breaks afforded by the government and increased logistically efficiency have compensated for the extra labour costs incurred. HP is the first multinational company to set up production facilities in the kingdom.


When you are trapped in worries. You should immediately look for the solutions. Sometimes the solutions of the hardest problems are present at the doorstep, and you are unable to grasp it.
It happens because you are so involved in the problems that you are unable to think and assume. In this way, the friends and family members of the patient should guide him/her.
The family is a support system in the cruelest events. Their support can help people conquer even the hardest battles. So, if the family is helpful and loving, a patient will recover easily.
But God forbid if the family is not present or the family is not helpful then a proper treatment has to be provided so that the patient forget the bad things that happened to him/her. Past events are the main reason for troubles.
A person faces troubles because of past events. These events were harmful; this is the reason the person remembers it till now. So, through the havening technique, you can get rid of the bad memories. Though the bad memories will not completely leave your brain. They will take a separate part of your brain and will be called emotional memory.
Emotional memory is a part of the memory, but people will not refer to it after proper havening treatment. Mindfulness Mavericks have been conducted such sessions for the therapy of the patients.
They conduct regular courses and classes in order to treat patients who have been dealing with stress and anxiety. They have treated several patients without involving a single medication. They treat the person through pure methods.


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That's what it looks like from the "far-left" panelist seat on the "Vermont This Week" set at Vermont Public Television at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester.
In fact, that's exactly what it looked like at the taping at 3:30 this afternoon with Sweet Sue Allen, currently the editor of the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus on the left, filling in for WPTZ-TV's Stewart Ledbetter, the regular host. Then that's Freeps Statehouse/political writer Nancy Remsen next to Susan and John Flowers from Middlebury's Addison Independent next to Nancy.
With things kind of day-to-day in Freyne Land due to chemotherapy, I can't predict just how things will go, but I was in great shape today. Pumped up. Delighted to be on the program with Sue Allen, who I've known since the Reagan Era when she landed at the Freeps [and tangled with when she was Ho-Ho's esteemed press secretary during his gubernatorial chapter]. And also excited about the opportunity to confront a bit of the Freyne Past - the Roman Catholic Church.
It's been front-page news all week - the big civil lawsuit that began in Burlington in which a former Vermont altar boy is suing the Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese for damages due from being sexually assaulted by a Vermont parish priest way back in the 1970s.
Sam Hemingway at the Freeps and Brian Joyce at WCAX-TV have been all over it.
Yours truly has deliberately avoided this one, not because I was molested by a priest, but because when I walked out the door at Maryknoll 's college seminary in Glen Ellyn, Illinois in early June of 1969, I also walked out the door on the Roman Catholic Church. Quite simply, I was no longer believing it all anymore. And I could not accept the answers I got when I dared to asked questions.
Though the church-lawsuit story wasn't on the original VTW headline list Producer Joe Merone e-mailed out around noontime, yours truly insisted we address it. It's reality and that's supposed to be the business we're in, right?
Especially when you have Susan Via, a top prosecutor from the 1980s, testifying that Roman Catholic Bishop John Marshall had told her boss, Roman Catholic States Attorney [and now judge] Mark Keller, a Notre Dame grad, it would be "a sin of scandal" if he opened a criminal investigation into the child-molesting priest's conduct.
And it's also a dramatic window into the religious establishment of the past, and the power once enjoyed by it's priests, monsignors and bishops, who were experts in the world of sin, eh?


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Avraham ben Yaakov
KNOW YOUR BIBLE
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 47
Jeremiah was sent to prophesy not only to Israel but also to all the surrounding nations. Without exception they had shown hostility to Israel throughout their history and gloated over their suffering and exile. Thus the raging fury that caused the destruction of Jerusalem swept across the entire region leaving none of the other nations unaffected. Jeremiah had already been commanded to make the nations "drink" from the "cup" of God's anger. "For thus says HaShem, the God of Israel, to me: Take this wine cup of fury from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it" (Jeremiah 25:15).
Following his prophesies in the previous chapter about the calamities that were to befall Egypt , Jeremiah now turns to the Philistines, who inhabited Gaza and the surrounding areas to the south of the Land of Israel as well as Tyre and Sidon and their environs to the north.
The Philistines appear to have suffered a double punishment in the time of Jeremiah. The first was at the hands of the Egyptians. When the Babylonians were besieging Jerusalem during the last years of King Tzedekiah, Pharaoh king of Egypt wanted to advance against them not so much to help Judah (whom he did not want to be too powerful) but rather in order to deliver a blow to Nebuchadnezzar, whom he perceived as being a severe threat to Egypt's aspirations to global dominion. When the Babylonians heard that the Egyptians were marching against them, they temporarily withdrew from Jerusalem (cf. Jer.37:5) and began to advance against the Egyptians. This caused Pharaoh to turn back, and on his way back to Egypt , his forces swept through and ravaged Gaza , as mentioned in the present chapter, Jer. 47:1. The second blow to Gaza came later on, when the "waters arising from the north" (v 2) - the Babylonians - swept through and destroyed all the Philistine habitations, as detailed in this chapter.
Moab too was ravaged by the whirlwind of fury that swept through the entire region. A number of reasons are given in our text for the suffering that afflicted the Moabites. "For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you too shall be taken, and Kemosh [the god of Moab ] and his priests and his princes together." (v 7). The Moabites had enjoyed prosperity and peace throughout their history. As we learn in v 11, they had never suffered exile, and they believed that they were immune. They had rejoiced and gloated when they saw the calamity that overtook the Ten Tribes of Israel, laughing at them as people laugh at a thief caught in the act (v 27). It was the pride and arrogance of the Moabites that sealed their fate (v 29-30).
The prophet urges the enemies of the Moabite to exact God's vengeance from them with the utmost diligence. "Cursed be he who does the work of HaShem negligently, and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood" (v 10). Nothing similar was said by the prophet in the case of any of the other nations against whom he prophesied. The Moabites were singled out for this severe vengeance because they were cousins of Israel (Lot, the father of Moab , was Abraham's nephew) and Israel was commanded not to afflict the Moabites (Deut. 2:9) yet the Moabites persistently showed themselves to be implacable enemies of Israel (see RaDaK on v 10).
Nevertheless, "I will bring back the captivity of Moab at the end of days, says HaShem" (v 47). According to RaDaK (ad loc.), this will take place in the time of Mashiach, despite the fact that all the nations became intermingled and at present the identity and whereabouts of the Moabites are unknown. Nevertheless they will return at the end of days and will be subject to Israel , as prophesied in Isaiah 11:14.
BACK TO KNOW YOUR BIBLE HOMEPAGE
AZAMRA HOMEPAGE
By Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Greenbaum
© AZAMRA INSTITUTE 5767 - 2006-7 All rights reserved


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UTSA to join American Athletic Conference
DECEMBER 27, 2021 — Editor's note: This article was originally published on October 21, 2021.
The University of Texas at San Antonio announced today that it will join the American Athletic Conference, becoming a member of a preeminent league with a history of unprecedented success in intercollegiate athletic competition.
The American's board of directors and Commissioner Mike Aresco approved UTSA's membership along with fellow Conference USA members Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice and UAB.
The six universities will join the nine continuing American members — East Carolina, Memphis, Navy (football only), South Florida, SMU, Temple, Tulane, Tulsa and Wichita State (basketball and Olympic sports only) — to bring The American's membership to 15 schools. The American will compete as a 14-team league in football and in men's and women's basketball, among other sports.
"UTSA is on an amazing upward trajectory with a very bright future. Today represents a significant waypoint on that journey for our Athletics program," said UTSA President Taylor Eighmy. "Joining The American is a bold opportunity for UTSA and builds on the powerful momentum of the university. We are incredibly excited about the future."
"Joining The American is a bold opportunity for UTSA and builds on the powerful momentum of the university. We are incredibly excited about the future."
"We are thrilled to join the American Athletic Conference and are appreciative to Commissioner Aresco and the conference's board of directors for their vision and partnership," said UTSA Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Lisa Campos. "This move will further elevate UTSA as a national brand and advance our goal of transforming lives as San Antonio's nationally recognized NCAA Division I program. It is a great time to be a Roadrunner."
With the addition of the new members, The American will have a presence in four of the top 10 Nielsen media markets, in seven of the top 25, and in 12 of the top 51 media markets. The league will have four teams in the state of Texas alone.
"I am extremely pleased to welcome these six outstanding universities to the American Athletic Conference," Aresco said. "This is a strategic expansion that accomplishes a number of goals as we take the conference into its second decade. We are adding excellent institutions that are established in major cities and have invested in competing at the highest level. We have enhanced geographical concentration which will especially help the conference's men's and women's basketball and Olympic sports teams. And we will continue to provide valuable inventory to our major media rights partner, ESPN, which will feature our members on the most prominent platforms in sports media. Additionally, we increase the value in live content options for CBS Sports, which features selected men's basketball games on CBS Sports."
As a member of The American, UTSA will enjoy greater national media exposure, enhanced brand recognition, more Texas team match-ups and expanded recruiting opportunities, furthering the university's ability to compete at the highest level.
UTSA competes in 17 intercollegiate sports — baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, football, men's and women's golf, women's soccer, softball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field, and women's volleyball — at the NCAA Division I level.
UTSA boasts 76 conference championships, 58 NCAA postseason appearances, 42 All-Americans and 20 Academic All-Americans in its 40-year history of Division I athletics.
The university has been a member of Conference USA since July 2013. Prior to that, it was a member of the Western Athletic Conference in 2012-13 after more than two decades in the Southland Conference from 1991-2012. The Roadrunners began as an NCAA Division I Independent in 1981 before joining the Trans America Athletic Conference (now Atlantic Sun) in 1986.
The American Athletic Conference was reconstituted in 2013 and serves its members from its headquarters in Irving, Texas. The American sponsors 22 championships, 10 for men and 12 for women, has television partnerships with ESPN, CBS Sports (for select men's basketball games) and CBS Sports Network (for most Navy home football games), and has a marketing partnership with Learfield.
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Wednesday, February 1, 1:00 p.m.
An Introduction To Citation Managers: Which One Is Right For You?
Learn the benefits of using a citation manager, the features and fee structures. There are many. Come discover which tool is best for you.
STEM Career Expo
The UTSA University Career Center invites you to attend the STEM Career Expo from 2 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feburary 1. Meet, connect and recruit UTSA students and alumni.
H-E-B Student Union Ballroom
Thursday, February 2, 12:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 2, 5:30 p.m.
Automate Your Citations With EndNote
In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn to set up an EndNote library, save references and PDFs, and automatically create and edit a bibliography.
All Majors Career Expo
The UTSA University Career Center invites you to attend the All Majors Career Expo from 2 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feburary 8. Meet, connect and recruit UTSA students.
Simplifying Citations With Zotero
Citation managers such as Zotero® can help you store and organize the citations you find during your research. Zotero can also generate bibliographies in various styles, insert in-text citations and allow you to share sources with collaborators.
Friday, February 10, 9:00 a.m.
Heart Health Walk
Join your fellow Roadrunners for the annual Heart Health Walk. If you can't meet up on campus, get outside and walk for at least 10 minutes at 9 a.m. Walkers are encouraged to wear red and post their pictures to Instagram using the hashtag #28DaysOfHeartAtUTSA.
Rowdy Statue, Sombrilla Plaza
University of Texas at San Antonio receives 'transformational' $40M gift
UTSA's Mission
The University of Texas at San Antonio is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge through research and discovery, teaching and learning, community engagement and public service. As an institution of access and excellence, UTSA embraces multicultural traditions and serves as a center for intellectual and creative resources as well as a catalyst for socioeconomic development and the commercialization of intellectual property - for Texas, the nation and the world.
UTSA's Vision
UTSA's Core Values
UTSA'S Destinations
UTSA is a proud Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) as designated by the U.S. Department of Education.
Our Commitment to Inclusivity
The University of Texas at San Antonio, a Hispanic Serving Institution situated in a global city that has been a crossroads of peoples and cultures for centuries, values diversity and inclusion in all aspects of university life. As an institution expressly founded to advance the education of Mexican Americans and other underserved communities, our university is committed to ending generations of discrimination and inequity. UTSA, a premier public research university, fosters academic excellence through a community of dialogue, discovery and innovation that embraces the uniqueness of each voice.


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A comprehensive evaluation and case study training for arts practitioners and organisations led by arts and health evaluation expert Jane Willis, aimed at supporting the sector to develop credible and robust evaluation and case studies.
An opportunity to hear about and share practice around how galleries are using a range of approaches to engage early years children, in both family and childcare/nursery settings. The day will be jointly led by Engage Scotland and the National Galleries of Scotland learning team.
What can people with sight and hearing loss gain from a tailored art project and gallery programme? Hear directly from previous participants about their personal experience of innovative accessible practice taking place across Edinburgh.
Monitoring and evaluation can be a source of both confusion and contention for organisations, practitioners, and funders or commissioners. At this workshop Hot Chocolate Trust shared their approaches to monitoring and evaluation and suggested that a rethink can make for better work as well as better reports.
There isn't a 'one size fits all' toolkit to address the myriad issues surrounding race, ethnicity, identity, disability, gender and sexuality; these issues are individual and complex. This conference sought to give delegates the opportunity to explore what they do and why they do it, moving beyond box-ticking exercises, being realistic and getting to the heart of often thorny, and sometimes controversial issues.
A talk and practical hands-on workshop as part of the learning and engagement programme for the ARTIST ROOMS: Louise Bourgeois exhibition at Perth Museum & Art Gallery.
Artist Andrea Geile led a curated walk to the Edinburgh Art Festival's public commissions programme sited across Edinburgh's Old Town.
A curatorial conversation on how disability is understood, represented, reflected and positioned within visual arts programming in Scotland today, with Engage Scotland and Unlimited.
A training seminar to discuss and develop a range of approaches to working with visually impaired people, jointly led by Engage Scotland, Artlink Edinburgh and Lothians and the National Library of Scotland, with sighted and visually impaired artists to share diverse experiences and ways of working.
A full day symposium which explored policy and practice in arts and health and showcased a range of innovative practice from across Wales.
A session aimed to develop the skills and confidence of those attending in engaging audiences with visual art.
This one-day workshop provided an overview of two main frameworks for measuring social impact allowing you to identify an approach most suitable for your organisation and its work.
An afternoon of reflection and discussion around the issues raised through this project.
In response to the Turner Prize exhibition at Tramway in Glasgow, Engage Scotland commissioned drama artist, Clare Hume, to develop a skills development workshop session exploring the use of storytelling and drama approaches in engaging audiences with visual art exhibitions.
The event focused on engaging young people in contemporary challenging themes or artwork, drawing on the ARTIST ROOMS collections which includes work by Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Joseph Beuys and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Engage Scotland & MGS Training Course: Working with CommunitiesExploring the principle and values of meaningful engagement with communities and the possibilities that can emerge when we work collaboratively and harness our collective wisdom.
An opportunity to hear about recent learning work in relation to ARTIST ROOMS exhibitions across the UK and look at how artists can support the delivery of learning programmes.
A Deveron Arts and Engage Scotland collaborative discussion.
Training on developing or updating organisational child protection policies based on the Creative Scotland/Children in Scotland Creating Safety publication.
Ethics & Gallery Education: How do ethical issues impact on learning and education in galleries and museums and on artists' working with participants?
This discussion seminar offered an opportunity to hear about recent projects where galleries had worked with artists to engage with people through off-site programmes.
This event was hosted in collaboration with the ARTIST ROOMS Research Partnership and GENERATION.


This entry was posted on March 21, 2016 by Kailey.
So your phone is dying as you try to buy tickets for the midnight premier of the latest superhero smashup spectacular. Typical. Even though battery life in Apple devices has slowly been ticking upward, most iPhones still struggle to last a full day of heavy usage. Sure you can make it with limited use, but if your job is all about being plugged into social media (i.e. the person writing this post) then it gets tricky. You either have to carry a charger at all times and join the ranks of wall huggers in every cafe in the US, or schlep a spare battery pack with you constantly. So if you are looking for ways to conserve and save battery life on your iPhone 6 (or any other iPhone really), here is a list of tips to help.
The iPhone comes with a built-in gyroscope that can do all kinds of nifty motion sensing things. It also has a cool parallax effect on the home screen that lets it move with you. Turn it off. The parallax effect drains the battery because it is constantly accessing your gyroscope as well as rendering the home screen to look like it is moving. It may look cool, but it is a battery sucking luxury you don't need if you are conserving energy. To do this go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion. This will turn off all those fancy battery draining effects, and also possibly help with that vertigo you feel every time you look at your screen.
Apple recently reiterated its stance that you don't need to quit apps running in the background. In fact, quitting apps and relaunching them frequently can actually drain your batteries as each instance is reloaded into your device's RAM.
That being said... some apps do run constantly in the background and will drain your battery even if they are not activated. So go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh and see which apps are using your battery while in the background. If you don't want them too, then turn it off. If you do want them to, then keep in mind that you should quit them manually if you are trying to save battery.
This is just good standard practice. You don't need your apps calling the mother ship and telling it where you are at any given time if you don't have to. Go to Settings > Privacy and turn off permissions for any apps you don't want tracking your location constantly. This takes battery since the GPS on your phone will constantly be in use while they are tracking you. Hello instant battery savings.
A while back Apple gave us the control center for iPhones and iPods everywhere. With a simple swipe up, you can access a whole panel of controls for your phone. This panel of controls happens to be one of the best ways to conserve your battery usage.
What? You may say, wondering how using your phone more could possibly help the situation. Perhaps because this control center is the main hub for most of the power-sucking vampires that reside in your iPhone.
Your gyroscope can tell if your phone is sideways, upside down, or falling to its death at any given time. This takes battery life. Turn on the screen rotation lock located in your control center. If you don't need landscape mode constantly, this will save you battery life as well because you won't need your gyroscope as often. Some users have reported 10-20% power savings from this trick alone.
Imagine trying to sprint home and have to stop every ten feet and do ten push-ups. Bluetooth is a little like that in draining energy as quickly as humanly possible. If your Bluetooth is on, your phone is constantly searching for another device to connect too. It's nice when you are driving and want to listen to Hamilton on repeat. It's not needed if you are sitting and watching Hamilton YouTube videos, wondering what you have to do to get tickets to the show. Basically, it pulls intense amounts of battery life simply searching for a way to link up. Turn it on only if you need it, whether that is to check in your Fitbit or listen to some jams in the car.
If you are an Apple watch owner, you'll have to leave your Bluetooth on for functionality of your watch. Try to limit the use and keep a charger on hand, and follow these simple steps.
No really, stop. That dashboard that handles many of your other bits and pieces of phone tech can also work as a flashlight that can be turned on and off pretty quickly. Your phone screen pales in comparison.
Look for the flashlight image whilst scrambling around trying to turn off your car alarm in the middle of the night after a raccoon tried to break in, simply tap and when you've finally achieved peace and quiet again, tap off again. Not too hard right?
Your phone will adjust based on an ambient light sensor and you'll save a little more juice.
This last piece involves energy saving through the signals your phone is sending out. Not in need of receiving text messages while watching 10 Cloverfield Lane in the theater? (Seriously, don't be that person). Or trying to get your kid to do their homework and not text their teenage significant other?
Airplane mode is your new best friend. By tapping this on in your dashboard, you turn off any reception of text messages, Internet services, and your phone becomes a brick still capable of playing Flappy Bird and that's about it. It's great for moments when you don't need to use your phone but it also can save you serious battery juice.
Wifi is another battery saver when you decide that watching the new season of Daredevil on your iPhone really is the best way to watch it. It's not but that's ok. However if you have to show someone that hilarious video of a baby laughing at its' own sneeze, using wifi instead of 4G/LTE will save you data and battery power.
Your phone is looking for ways to connect to the Internet constantly. It doesn't care that you need that 12% battery to last for four more hours. Link up to the Internet like Wifi and the strain on your battery will be significantly less and you can keep watching your baby videos in peace.
These may be some simple ways to save battery life on your iPhone, but they can make a major impact on your phone's battery life. You will still need to charge nightly but these simple swipes and taps can give you those few extra hours you need to finally beat that one level of Angry Birds.
This entry was posted in iPhone on March 21, 2016 by Kailey.
yet effective. A lot of times it's difficult to get that "perfect balance" between superb usability and visual appearance.


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In my self-Initiated project in which I am recreating a part of Hashima Island: buildings are the most prominent assets and therefore need to be recreated as authentically as possible. To do this I had to practice and re-practice my texturing techniques in Photoshop as well as my un-wrapping skills in 3Ds Max. Also because there isn't many colour photographs of Hashima Island from the period that I am recreating, it has been a bit of a guessing game recreating the textures.
I think that most of the textures work well and I am relatively happy with the results given the short period of time it has taken to achieve them. A view of the school, appartment block 65 and the hopital in the UDK engine. The re-created school entrance that once greeted the pupils of Hashima Elementary School.
Here is an asset that will help to populate Hashima island for my self-initiated project. There is a lot more work to be done for this project yet, I am currently working on one of the main buildings that occupies the initial are that I am recreating.
Click to view in 3D!
Self-Initiated Project Research: PhotoShop Texturing.
For the texturing process of my project, I am initially using photo textures as I do not currently poses the skills to create my own. I would like to incorporate my own hand drawn textures as this will be useful to create unique textures that are not available elsewhere.
Jamin Shoulet is a 2D/3D artist and designer that has worked in the industry for the last 18 years and has worked with various companies which include Blizzard Entertainment where he worked on the 2D and 3D textures for World Of Warcraft.
Below are two very good texturing workshop tutorials in which he shows how to create some realistic looking textures such as stone, wood, brick, moss and even crystals.
To get a better understanding of how and why the buildings of Hashima were built, I have recently watched the recent BBC Four season of post war modern architecture. In particular the two part series (Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry with Jonathan Meades) gave me a good insight in to the design and the practical function of the Brutalism style of architecture that can be seen on Hashima.
Trellik Tower (1972) is a good example of the Brutalist architectural style.
Many of the buildings of Hashima date from the 1940's -1960's and feature a similar style.
To get an idea of the scale of the island I have done a quick block out to show the approximate sizes of the buildings and their position to each other.
This block out will also give me some guidance towards which portion of the island I am going to focus on in order to create a highly detailed environment.


The story of Humidus is a fascinating tale of freshness and illumination coming to a life previously lived in a basement. Huh? I don't really get it, but I can say that the t-shirt designs are pretty damn great. The story is on their web site, in case you're interested in deciphering it for yourself. Otherwise, just check out the Ts.


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WWE SmackDown Summary & Feedback (May 13, 2022): Unification
Sydney Clark May 14, 2022 4 min read
Best of Pat McAfee said: "Sami Zayn supports himself in terrible situations all the time."
I did it again Friday night smackdown this week.
Well, McAfee called him "Rusty," because Riddle, who came up with Randy Orton to try to get the tag team title unification match they still wanted, decided Zayn's hair was the color of rust. So it's all now, much to Sammy's dismay. Zayn was just trying to get favourite with The Bloodline by just convincing RK-Bro to go back to Monday Night Raw and do their work there. They don't want to get involved in anything to do with Brand Blue.
That was coming from the self-proclaimed "locker room captain".
Of course, Orton tried to turn that into Riddle vs. Don't you know, Riddle won that match, because Zayn can't win anything at all while still this version of Sami Zayn.
Weak rusty.
Next, the defeated Zain was walking backstage and confronted Shinsuke Nakamura, who gleefully told him, "Roman is the head of the table but you? You are the table ass!"
I'm still deeply amused by Sami in this role. He actually thinks he's a genius who's not so lucky or treated unfairly, and seeing him constantly smash into a brick wall for which he himself was responsible wouldn't be nothing short of amazing to me. I'll bang her every time.
As for The Bloodline, they responded to all of this as you might expect – they completely ignored Zayn's delusions before they were overtaken by the turf war mentality regarding the RK-Bro invasion. They promised to hit the scene later and did so in the main event.
Orton told Reigns that he would never or ever have been a wrestler John Cena, and it was a hell of a humiliation that hit hard with the live crowd. Honestly, it kind of made me want Orton versus Reigns.
Effect.
Orton explained the idea they had – unite the titles and call them the undisputed WWE Tag Team Championships. The Usos immediately accepted the challenge for this unification match, but they will do so next week at a SmackDown.
They walked out on Riddle's face, kneeling in his face.
They did a great job maintaining as much hype as possible for the tag title match but I'd be remiss if I didn't notice that they're doing so little for the WWE Universal Championship right now. Drew McIntyre wasn't even on that show, and Orton may have inadvertently established himself as the best possible option out there.
shrug my shoulder.
Ronda Rousey decided she wanted to be a fighting hero, so instead of talking a lot (which she's getting better at, by the way!) she released an open-ended challenge. Raquel Rodriguez, after winning her SmackDown solo match two weeks ago, answered the call. They had a match that was a million times better than anyone could reasonably expect, with Rousey eventually holding but shaking hands with Raquel before leaving the ring. It was a great way to help put Rodriguez some sparkle before there were any real plans for her to be on the main event scene while also beating the Division Champion. Very simple and very effective.
She also enjoyed Schutzi and him arguing backstage about why the call wasn't answered, with Schutzi claiming Rodriguez pushed her out of the way and Alia saying Schutzi locked her in a room. They took care to explain marginal details while also starting the problem with a little behind the scenes. It's the little things.
Madcap Moss was given the top of the second hour to continue his trouble with Bum Ass Baron Corbin, who used the Andre the Giant Battle Royal Trophy to knock a chair in the neck of the Madcap. There were many boos, who knows how many were piped, because the crowd mix looked awful to the whole part, but Moss made a stretcher. Before he got in, Corbin stopped him and said "You're going to MOSSpital." ha ha. he is. He is.
Sasha Banks and Naomi successfully defended the women's tag team titles against Shayna Baszler and Natalya in a match that fell short of most women's tag matches in recent times. He was good enough for what he was, but it makes sense why he put him in this show where he was.
Butch won a match and went straight into the crowd. He came back and celebrated, smiling madly. Butch is great.
Decent enough view.
Grade: C +
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Its nice to see you are concerned about your daughter, but I dont think sending her away to school is the answer. You have to see the reasons for why she is over eating. Find out if she is unhappy about something and more than anything ill guess that she needs your support. I wouldnt want my parents to send me away. You could ask her how she would feel about it. But taking her away from her family and friends might not be the answer. Just see a family doctor who might reccomend a dietrition and then just help her by stocking healthy foods in your house. All go on a diet maybe? If you only provide healthy foods she will eat those foods. And also maybe walk with her to start some gentle excersises.
i dont know y they do they do this but my parents constently torment me!they obviously favor my skinny sister!whenever i eat dinner with them they stare at me and make rude comments.i always end up running 2 my room,when after they shout"dont let your room colapse" its not enough that i get teased at school and have no friends! but as soon as im home they make me cry!iv thought about running away or even killing myself! what should i do????!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. It is not an option. The first thing you have to do is accept yourself. If you don't, nobody else will. Love who you are now, and that will help you change yourself into what you want to be. You can accomplish your goals. As for your family, they need help. They should love you for you no matter what. If they can't change their ways, find others who will support you. I hope you will find your way. Remember that all of us here are always going to be supportive of you. We will never give up on you.
EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE TRYING TO CUT BACK ON EATING YOU HAVE A LITTLE BROTHER AND HIS FRIEND CONSTANTLY PUTTING FOOD IN YOUR FACE AND TEASING YOU WHEN THEY'RE EATING YOUR FAVORITE FOOD LIKE CHOCOLATE CAKE AND BURGERS AND OTHER DELICIOUS FOOD TRYING TO MAKE GO OFF MY DIET. THET BEEN DOING THIS SINCE MONDAY AND I'M TELLING YOU IT IS GETTING HARD TO RESIST THE TEMPTATION. AND WHEN I THREATEN TO GET THEM BACK THEY JUST LAUGH BECAUSE THEY KNOW I CANNOT CATCH THEM. ANY ADVICE OUT THERE? I NEED SUPPORT VERY STRONGLY.
Hi. I think it is wrong for your brother to do that, but you have to understand that brothers and sister normally act like that. I know it isn't right, but all siblings tease eachother, and if someone says they never do they are lying. All you can do is try not to listen to it. If they are eating foods you like just get out of the room. If you aren't there to see them eating it, maybe you won't be so tempted. Also, exercising is a proven way to get out anger and frustration. So, when they are bothering you just go for a walk or do some other exercise. I have a sister and she has had a weight problem all her life. When I was younger I use to say things about it. Even though I am overweight she is much bigger then me. As I grew older I realized how much it must bother her and it stopped. It is a part of growing up and when your brother gets a little older he will understand. As for now all you can do is ignore him.
hi evey one I don't need help but my brother does he's about 5'2 170lb and 13 years old he use to play with me but now all he does is play Play Station he got it about a year ago on his birthday and he plays it all the time I'v noticed his tummys gotten biger and he doesn't play out side no mor can some one please help me?
lisen i can help u. what u should do is try first to talk to him. if that dosent help, talk to ur parents! they should see what is going on and cut down on how long he plays ps2. i got one for x mass this year, but play it like once a week because i play college basketball and soccer. It should be a family thing, not just ur brothers thing.
I have a friend who is bullimic and she is really skinny anyway. She is a good athlete and doesn't need to be doing this to her body. Is there any way I can stop her?
The only way you can help her is to tell her parents. I know that is hard, but what she is doing will not only destroy her teeth, it can kill her!


5th Edition: Rise of the Conscripts?
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Weapons choices on our tanks?
How to represent Soviet Troops?
Codex: Imperial Guard 5th Edition - What you expect and what do you fear?
A few ideas and my plans for the future!
Could new doctrines be used to introduce new weapons?
Doctrines for a Che Guevara themed army?
Cheap way of buying DKoK?
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Which is better for melee? Command Squad vs. High Command?
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Doctrines for the One Royal Bearn.
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Imperial Guard advance force options?
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Fixing Guard; a few houserule suggestions.
Death Korps with a different flavor.
Salamanders are they worth it?
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Merry Christmas to all, and to all... a bag of Karma?!
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If I have a good starting catachan army!!!!
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The super heavy damage chart?
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Looking for something special. Something.... forgeworld!
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Trump = Symbol of White Supremacy!
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Nope. Now explain why you keep refusing to answer my simple question.
1965hawks doesn't answer any question he suspects may make him uncomfortable!
Candace Owens Rings the Bell of Truth about 'White Nationalism.' It's A Political Slogan to Frighten Minorities into Supporting the Democrat Party.
Fact: White supremacists emboldened as Ku Klux Klan newspaper endorses d.j. trump, GOP presidential candidate.
They think we're reliving WWII when their hero, FDR, put all the Japanese Americans living on the west coast in concentration camps. The farkers would do that to conservatives if they had half a chance. But, they don't, and never will.
Perhaps you should carefully read reply #69. I said nothing about "white supremacist acts." I specifically asked you to explain why "white extremist, in the US and abroad, now cite your Dear Leader trump's rhetoric as the inspiration for their terrorist acts. Stop trying to prop up a straw man to attack and start explaining!
Democrat bigotry/racism cannot tolerate contrary facts!
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Jose Mourinho insisted the blame was shared following Tottenham Hotspur's Europa League defeat to Royal Antwerp last week and he confirmed more focus was now highlighted on Bulgarian upstarts, Ludogorets, as the Lliywhites looked to get the Group J campaign back on track.
"First, we're going to try to win the match and of course, I don't think it was Antwerp, it was about the players, it was about the attitude, the way we faced the game and as I told you already before the first one – to blame is myself because the players didn't perform at a normal, competitive level," the Spurs chief explained.
"We played the knockout three matches that we had previously seriously and we did it. But this time maybe we didn't feel the pressure of the knockouts, maybe we felt the group phase was a different thing, which is true."
Mourinho added: "But we were not there to win it, we were just there waiting for the victory to find us and not us to find the victory. Tomorrow is not a knockout but because of the defeat, the game becomes more important.
"There are still twelve points to play for, and we have already three, but it's important that we win or get a point. It's important the players understand the match has to be different from Antwerp and for myself, I have to motivate them in a different way."
Spurs are without injured duo, Erik Lamela and Serge Aurier. Meanwhile, Mourinho is likely to make several other changes with Sunday's Premier League clash at West Bromwich Albion in mind.
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Cross-cultural mentoring in higher education: the use of a cultural identity development model
Batiste, H., Denby, R., & Brinson, J. (2022). Cross-cultural mentoring in higher education: the use of a cultural identity development model. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning , 30 (4), 409-433.
This article examines the role that cultural identity development plays in understanding cross-cultural mentoring encounters between White faculty and faculty of color. The authors present the components of a conceptual framework for developing mentoring approaches that consider a person's cultural identity stage of development. Using a systematic approach, the authors consider the fundamental principles of cultural identity development theory combined with higher education contextual conditions, resulting in an approach by which mentors and protégés could govern their interactions. The article concludes with implications for mentoring program administrators, faculty, and leaders in higher education.
See also: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty Development and Support, Publications Using COACHE Data
Non Tenure Track
Women Faculty in STEM Disciplines: Experiences with the Tenure Process and Departmental Practices
Lisnic, R., Zajicek, A., & Kerr, B. (2020). Women Faculty in STEM Disciplines: Experiences with the Tenure Process and Departmental Practices. Humanity & Society.
Using Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey data, the purpose of the study is to explore predictors of perceptions of tenure clarity for faculty in STEM and non-STEM fields. We use the gendered organization framework to examine whether for four groups of faculty (women and men in STEM and women and men in non-STEM), assessment of fairness in tenure decisions and evaluations, messages about tenure requirements, mentoring, and relationships with peers have a similar effect on their assessment of tenure clarity. Women in STEM fields are less likely to perceive the expectations for tenure as clear or to assess tenure decisions and evaluations as fair, mentoring as effective, and relationships with peers as satisfactory.
See also: Publications Using COACHE Data, By Discipline, Women
College nursing faculty job satisfaction and retention: A national perspective
Lee, P., Miller, M. T., Kippenbrock, T. A., Rosen, C., & Emory, J. (2017). College nursing faculty job satisfaction and retention: A national perspective. Journal of Professional Nursing , 33 (4), 261-266.
The need for registered nurses in the United States continues to grow. To meet this need for increased numbers of nurses, recruitment and retention of qualified nurse educators has become a priority, and job satisfaction and nursing faculties' intent to stay have emerged as important considerations for administrators.
The purpose of this study is to analyze variables of relationships with nurse faculty job satisfaction and intent to stay from data collected throughout the United States. The Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey was employed for the purposes of this study. Over 1,350 nurse educators were included in the survey. The findings support a variety of modifiable variables that are viewed as important by nursing faculty. The strongest relationship was found to be institutional leadership. The implications can inform academic administrators seeking to retain nursing faculty.
Using the Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey to Improve Equity for Texas Tech Faculty
(2021). Using the Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey to Improve Equity for Texas Tech Faculty.
Upon receiving their Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey results, Texas Tech University set to work addressing some of the equity gaps brought to light. Among their priorities was departmental collegiality, diversity and equity across divisions, and department chair training. By creating two faculty fellow positions and a team Faculty Equity Advocates, Texas Tech is set to make meaningful changes on their campus.
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Tailoring a Survey for Campus Change at the University of Denver
(2021). Tailoring a Survey for Campus Change at the University of Denver.
The University of Denver was changing on several fronts at the start of their partnership with the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE). A new vice chancellor for diversity, equity, and inclusion was coming on board, a new initiative on community and values needed information to guide it, and concerns about the departmental decision-making processes were awaiting a solution.
By adapting COACHE's Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey with carefully tailored custom questions, DU's leaders realized that one tool could in fact support many changes.
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Building Trust, Engaging Faculty, Taking Action: Supporting the Next Generation of Faculty at Georgia State University
(2021). Building Trust, Engaging Faculty, Taking Action: Supporting the Next Generation of Faculty at Georgia State University.
Georgia State University decided to partner with COACHE after the university's Commission on the Next Generation of Faculty urged the institution to gather more robust data on diversity, equity, and inclusion on campus. The provost's office made three guarantees to faculty about the Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey: the administration wanted to hear from every full-time faculty member, they would not receive data that would allow them to identify any individual faculty member, and they would use the results for campus improvement. This transparancy has already borne fruit. With a higher response rate than peer institutions and a renewed sense of trust, GSU administrators are moving forward in unpacking the results collaboratively with their faculty.
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COVID-19 Impact Study: Technical Report
Foster, D. (2020). COVID-19 Impact Study: Technical Report . COACHE Partner Strategy Workshop, The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education.
The findings from a series of statistical analyses present compelling evidence that the disruption to campus operations caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) in March 2020 impacted faculty perceptions of some aspects of their campus environment. This impact was felt across all institutions that participated in the COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey (JSAT) for a subset of JSAT benchmarks and specific items. At the same time, some benchmarks and most items were unaffected. The majority of the benchmarks and items that were impacted concerned leadership, governance, and decision-making. Additional analyses of the differences between benchmark scores with and without the presence of post-disruption responses suggest that the degree of change with the inclusion of post-disruption responses is negligible in practical application and does not warrant additional data cleaning for valid interpretation of report findings.
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Selected Dimensions of the Faculty Workplace Experience
(2019). Selected Dimensions of the Faculty Workplace Experience . The AAC&U 2019 Annual Conference, Washington, DC.
In conjunction with the AAC&U Annual Meeting, COACHE is providing access to digital spreadsheets summarizing results from its Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey, including responses from approximately 43,000 faculty at 2- and 4-year colleges and universities. COACHE Summary Tables 2019 provides responses organized by major Carnegie Classification and disciplinary groups, then by faculty rank (and tenure status), race/ethnicity, or gender. The following tables were extracted from COACHE Summary Tables 2019 for use in our discussion.
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COACHE Summary Tables 2019: Selected Dimensions of the Faculty Workplace Experience
Azubuike, N. O., Benson, R. T., Kumar, A., & Mathews, K. (2019). COACHE Summary Tables 2019: Selected Dimensions of the Faculty Workplace Experience.
These summary tables include data from the 2019 Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey, focusing on the faculty workplace experience, with data presented by institution type, discipline, rank (with tenure status), race/ethnicity, and gender. Survey dimensions shown in the summary tables include questions about the nature of faculty work, facilities and family resources, interdisciplinary work, tenure clarity, promotion, and shared governance.
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Faculty Departure and Retention at Small Liberal Arts Colleges
Reynolds, P. D. (2021). Faculty Departure and Retention at Small Liberal Arts Colleges.
Voluntary faculty departures can often be prevented, but a lack of common exit procedures have hindered institutions' ability to create proactive practices of faculty retention and instead harbor reactive tendencies with little positive outcome. Through interviews with 22 CAOs at liberal arts colleges, Patrick D. Reynolds, former Visiting Practitioner to COACHE, discovered partner employment and career choice were the two most prominent reasons for departures. Outliers also revealed that work and social environments, especially for faculty members of minority groups, often played a role in dissatisfaction.
See also: Recruitment and Retention, Whitepapers
Effective Academic Governance: Five Ingredients for CAOs and Faculty
Ott, M. W., & Mathews, K. (2015). Effective Academic Governance: Five Ingredients for CAOs and Faculty. The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education.
The COACHE research-practice partnership is designed to enact organizational change for the benefit of faculty and, by extension, the institution. But does every college's system of shared governance have what it takes to meet their own or, indeed, higher education's most pressing challenges? This white paper looks beyond the rhetoric toward a more differentiated understanding of the ingredients of effective academic governance. Ott and Mathews offer a five-factor framework grounded in the literature, developed from interviews, and, now, tested in a survey of thousands of faculty. The report concludes with advice for assessing and fostering the qualities of "hard" and "soft" governance practices essential to sustainable change in the "real world" decision-making of committees, assemblies, senates, councils, and unions.
See also: Kiernan Mathews, Higher Education Leadership, Whitepapers
Benchmark Best Practices: Tenure and Promotion
(2014). Benchmark Best Practices: Tenure and Promotion.
The COACHE surveys of college faculty produce data that are both salient to full-time college faculty and actionable by academic leaders. The survey items are aggregated into 20 benchmarks representing the general thrust of faculty satisfaction along key themes. This white paper discusses the themes of tenure policies, tenure clarity, and promotion.
Administrators and faculty alike acknowledge that, at most institutions, the bar to achieve tenure has risen over time. While it is impossible to eliminate anxiety from the minds of all pre-tenure faculty members, or the pressures exerted on their lives en route to tenure, academic leaders can improve the clarity of tenure policies and expectations without sacrificing rigor. And while the academy has recently improved many policies for assistant professors (e.g., research leave; stop-the-tenure-clock; part-time tenure-track options), it has done far less for associate professors. Ideas have emerged from COACHE research on tenured faculty.
See also: Career Path, Whitepapers


Since this thread is getting a bunch of extra attention, maybe I should say a bit about what JForum is. It's an open source Java web app for hosting public (or private) discussion forums. It works with the common SQL databases, and has a number of advanced features such as fine-grained permission and access control, thread bookmarks and thread and forum watching, powerful search, and numerous configurations for fine-tuning its behavior. In my opinion (biased, as I'm one of the committers to JForum) it's the best Java-based discussion software.
I find a security bug in the Jforum 2.19 and 2.4.1, who can I report this to?
I have just checked in a fix for this, so it's available to anyone building JForum from source, and it will be part of the next regular release.
I think this topic can remain, if for no other reason than to remind people that the 2.1.9 version is not safe, and that they should switch to 2.4.1 at the least.
Please send me a "Purple Mooseage" (a.k.a. a private message) with the details and preferably your email - I'm one of the committers of JForum2.
Thanks for trying to debug the registration process, Tim. I'm not sure what's going on, maybe the captcha was acting up - did that get displayed for you, Mike?
Mike, I've sent you a message with contact information for the two principal developers (one of which would be me).
This looks similar to the already lengthy discussion at http://jforum.andowson.com/posts/list/141.page; maybe you can join in there?
JForum currently has no mobile (or responsive) version, and nothing to that effect is in the works (I'm a committer to the project, so I should know :-). If you want to start a discussion about this, head over to http://jforum.andowson.com/ where JForum2 is discussed and supported.
That should be sufficient. While you're at it, you should also expand the jforum_privmsgs.privmsgs_ip field (which stores the IP address for private messages). While that is not currently being filled in, it will be soon.
You can check out JForum2, one of the more popular open source Java-based forum web apps (disclaimer: I'm a committer, so obviously biased). You can see it in action at http://jforum.andowson.com/forums/list.page; that should give you some ideas what you might want or need.
where exactly do i have to extract zip file?
The first thing to do is to switch to the latest JForum2 version, which you can find at https://sourceforge.net/projects/jforum2. Drop the war file into your servlet container, and proceed from there.
Hard to say, you may want to ask the question over at http://jforum.andowson.com/forums/list.page where JForum 2.x is supported.
Yes, after the initial run that extracts the war file. Or does your servlet container a) not unpack the war file, or b) does it do so every time the server is started?
Every time i restart my WildFly service and run my JForum, installation form is displayed and every time forum is created from scratch.
Only just saw this. The installation form is displayed even if you access an URL like http://localhost:8080/jforum2/? That sounds odd. You should actually remove the mapping of the InstallServlet after the initial install, so that nobody accidentally accesses it.


Kids settled in nursery and the new school year? Finally having a moment to think about you and what you want to do? We have asked our friend and founder of Mum Plus Business Esther, for her top tips on re-entering the workplace, starting your own business and finding flexible careers that can fit around school hours and whether working from home is possible. We asked Esther what are the options and where do we start…….
The good news is that as a mother with limited resources (above all time), the same tips apply whether you are starting a business, finding a new job or figuring out what your next move is. In fact they apply to nearly everything you are trying to achieve in life.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step! Many mothers that are looking to get back into work struggle with feelings of inadequacy or confidence. The same lack of confidence can apply when it comes to starting up your own business. The way to overcome some of these mental blocks is to simply get going. This applies whether you are posting items on Ebay, polishing up your CV, drawing up a list of recruiters to contact or writing your blog. Through motherhood women acquire highly valuable skills that are often overlooked. New skills may include multitasking, managing budgets, coordinating and taking part in parenting committees in the local schools. Remember you are more talented in many areas without even knowing!
This applies to job applications or start-up businesses alike. In the case of job applications, lay out your CV carefully and concisely. Highlight the skills you have obtained that make you suitable for the job and keep it punchy and relevant. Approach recruiters and practice your interview skills. Make a list of recruiters and follow up with them. Storing feedback from previous interviews will help you more efficiently reach your goal. On the other hand, if it is a business that you are starting, create your business plan. Many people dread making a business plan but it is actually simply a description of what your business will do and how it will carry this out profitably.
Becoming organised can also mean more planning. Making some meals on the weekend when you have help or organise your day so that you have a few hours during naptime to work (though they never last as long as you thought). Being efficient and delegating tasks can increase your productivity enormously.
It is easy to make a great start and lose momentum for one reason or another. If you keep going and are determined to reach your goal, you will succeed. Most business fail because the founders give up partway through the process. This can be avoided with a steely determination and through pacing yourself. If indeed it is a journey of a thousand miles, you won't be able to sprint all the way!
Equally, if you are searching for a new job, don't give up after your first rejection. Learn from the experience in a constructive manner and land an even better job next time. If you believe in yourself and keep going you will get there in the end.