LINK REFERENCES preceded by Fig. [Fig.P.1a] are to illustrations of the catalogued works including details, in color and in black and white (bw). Additional links are to comparative and supplementary illustrations. The CONDITION of the work is discussed, based upon observation, but also upon published restoration reports, followed by a description of its COLOR.2 The PROVENANCE is given for portable pictures. DOCUMENTS specifically related to the work are fully transcribed. PREPARATORY DRAWINGS are listed with reference to their appearance in the Catalogue of Drawings (D.). The LITERATURE on each work is presented chronologically (see BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS) with brief indications of authors' opinions and comments. The text of each entry deals largely with the issues of attribution and date occasionally supported by a discussion of subject more fully considered in the text. COPY or COPIES of paintings, drawings, prints, and tapestries are given last with the same kinds of information as for the authentic works. Notes follow each entry. With Kusenberg's monogram of 1931 and Barocchi's publication of 1950 the oeuvre of Rosso's most important paintings was established on the basis of the information provided in the two editions of Vasari's Life of the artist and by the documentary evidence provided by Milanesi, other early historians, and more recently by the archival researches of David Franklin. Only the attribution and dating of several small and medium size paintings, a large altarpiece and a damaged fresco remain problems following upon the publication of Franklin's book on Rosso's Italian years in 1994. These are considered in the Catalogue of Rejected Paintings (RP.), where the major factor in the unacceptable attribution of them is the lack of recollection of the level of achievement that Rosso's documented works have long established.
1 The size of the Gallery of Francis I, the complexity of its extensive decoration, and the architecture that supports it require a special arrangement within P.22. The introductory data are followed by a section entitled DOCUMENTS AND SUMMARY followed by the CONSTRUCTION OF THE GALLERY, DOCUMENTS, the DECORATION OF THE GALLERY, and the WOODWORK OF THE GALLERY, concluding with a SUMMARY ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND DECORATION OF THE GALLERY. The INTRODUCTION TO THE CATALOGUE ON THE GALLERY OF FRANCIS I is followed by a short account of the VIEWS OF THE GALLERY after which individual entries present the material of each section of the gallery, beginning with the first bay at the east end, the north side considered first, then the south, numbered I NORTH and I SOUTH and so continuing until VII NORTH and VII SOUTH at the west end of the room. The basic data on the TAPESTRIES are followed by transcripts of the TAPESTRY DOCUMENTS, the LITERATURE ON THE TAPESTRIES, and a SUMMARY ON THE TAPESTRIES. Following the LITERATURE ON THE GALLERY apears the final SUMMARY ON THE GALLERY OF FRANCIS I. 2 Few comments are made on the hands that executed the frescoes and stuccoes in the Gallery of Francis I other than what is presented in the INTRODUCTION TO THE CATALOGUE ON THE GALLERY OF FRANCIS I. Here the work of Barocchi, appearing in 1950, on the execution of the stuccoes is mentioned and the reply to this attempt by Béguin in 1972. With reluctance in the same publication the same year, Pressouyre attempted to distinguish the hands that did the frescoes, one of the four major executants possibly Rosso himself. Her conclusion regards Rosso's control over the execution of his intentions, on which I bring up the tonality of the individual frescoes that must be due to his close supervision.


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Q: CSS Menu display issues in Mobile Web Browser My site is:
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When I browse using mobile browser like Samsung smartphones' default browser, I can not view the drop down menu under "Partners". It works fine if I'm using Chrome mobile.
The biggest problem is, for some mobile browsers like the default one in Samsung Galaxy S5 and Note 3, include iPad and iPhone, the whole menu is gone, and left with a drop down on the right corner. When click, the whole menu content is out of place.
Anything I can do to fix this?
I'm thinking of detecting mobile browser and display a message and ask them use Chrome, however I don't know how to "not display" the message when the mobile browser is already Chrome.

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A study has raised questions about the safety of some forms of birth control pills. It found that women who take certain forms of this contraception have much higher levels of hormones than women who don't.
A new study looked at women's levels of progesterone and estrogen, both produced by the ovaries and in levels that naturally vary over the course of the menstrual cycle. Earlier research shows that while birth control pills can protect you from sexually transmitted infections and even cancer, they can also increase your risk of venous thrombo-embolism.
In women who take the pill, these naturally released hormones are replaced by synthetic versions in order to prevent pregnancy, with progesterone replaced by progestin, and estrogen replaced by ethinyl estradiol. The new study wanted to look at whether these synthetic versions increased a woman's exposure to the hormones compared to what they would be exposed to from their own ovaries.
Previous evidence has already shown that exposure to hormones can affect the risk of breast cancer, the most common type of cancer for American women. Carried out by the University of Michigan, the study reviewed data from 12 different studies that measured the amount of progesterone and estrogen over the menstrual cycle in women who don't take the pill.
The total levels of progesterone and estrogen in these women were then compared over a 28-day period to the total levels of the synthetic versions of these hormones — progestin and ethinyl estradiol — in women who take one of seven commonly prescribed pills. The information for these synthetic hormones was taken from the package inserts for each different pill.
The authors found that of the seven pills, four more than quadruple progestin exposure compared to the progesterone exposure of women not on the pill, while another was associated with a 40% higher level of ethinyl estradiol. The study's lead author, human evolutionary biologist Beverly Strassmann, stressed that birth control has greatly improved women's lives, but added that it is important to create birth control pills that don't contribute to risk for breast cancer.
"Not enough has changed over the generations of these drugs, and given how many people take hormonal birth control worldwide — millions — the pharmaceutical industry shouldn't rest on its laurels," said Strassmann. The findings also come after Strassmann's previous research looked at menstruation and reproductive biology in the Dogon people of Mali, West Africa.
Dogon women rarely practice birth control, have an average of nine pregnancies, and often breastfeed children to age 2, in contrast to Western women who often have around two children and rarely breastfeed for longer than one year. Because pregnancy and breastfeeding suppress ovulation, Dogon women have only about 100 menstrual periods during their lifetimes, compared to around 400 periods experienced on average by Westernized women.
"The increased number of menses is associated with increased hormonal exposure and risk for breast cancer," Strassmann said. "It is critically important to know whether hormonal contraception further exacerbates this risk." The findings can be found published online in the journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health.


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Ex Parte Signatures
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The Cowlitz County Superior Court holds an Ex Parte docket daily. Times vary and are set out below.
For obtaining a judge's signature on a document such as default orders, agreed orders (signed off by all parties), and emergency protection orders, documents for signature can be left with the Superior Court Clerk's office located on the second floor just outside of Courtroom 2. Documents are transmitted to the ex parte judge throughout the day for consideration and action. Contact the Clerk's Office for any process and applicable changes they may have to provide conformed documents.
You can also bring documents to the live docket for presentation to a judge for consideration. There is no charge for this service, though copies obtained from the clerk's office may have a cost.
Ex parte matters, including ex parte protection order hearings, can be heard on the ex parte docket starting at:
1:00 PM on Mondays
1:30 PM on Tuesdays
1:30 PM on Wednesdays
2:00 PM on Thursdays
1:30 PM on Fridays
The judicial officer will remain on the bench for no less than 15 minutes. See Local Rule 12.
Documents left by 10:00 AM with the clerk's office will be signed and every effort will be made to have them returned to the Clerk's office by 3:00 PM the same day if possible.
Documents signed by the Ex Parte Judge will be taken directly to the Superior Court Clerk. Conforming stamps are available in the Superior Court Clerk's office.
Process for obtaining an Emergency Domestic Violence Protection Order
Petitioners should file their petitions and related documents with the Clerk's office who will schedule them for appearance on the ex parte docket that day or the following court day. If your order is signed earlier than the appearance set, you will be notified and are not required to appear.
Process for obtaining an Emergency Order (other than a Domestic Violence Protection Order)
(Emergency, for purposes of this memo, is defined as a situation in which there exists a credible threat of imminent and irreparable harm to person, property, or a legal right. Service deadlines are not an emergency.)
Contact a judicial assistant via telephone. Provide information regarding the emergency, the timeframes you are available to appear at Superior Court Administration, and a phone number where you can be contacted. A judge may request to review pleadings related to the case.
The judicial assistant will relay the information and the request to a judge. A judge will decide whether the matter is an "emergency," and indicate time of availability. The judicial assistant will inform you of the judge's decision. If the judge determines the matter is an emergency, bring the ex parte document(s) to Superior Court Administration within the specified timeframe. If the judge determines the matter is not an emergency, the party may note the matter for a hearing.
At Superior Court Administration, give your ex parte document(s) to the judicial assistant. The judicial assistant will give the ex parte documents to the judge for review and possible signature. Thereafter, the judicial assistant will provide the signed ex parte document(s) (either granting or denying the relief requested) to the Clerk's office for filing.
Copies of documents and orders are available from the Superior Court Clerk for a fee.
Documents may also be submitted for signature by mail or courier. Send any documents together with any fees needed (contact the Superior Court Clerk for current fee schedule and instructions). There currently is a $30.00 handling fee for documents submitted to the Clerk's office for processing.


The recent PIIC Professional Learning Opportunity (PLO), held from April 26-28, 2010 at the Penn Stater Conference Center, was well received by attendees. This was the largest PIIC event yet, with nearly 90 mentors, coaches, and school administrators from across the state. The conference centered around providing one-on-one support to teachers, focusing on evidence-based literacy and instructional strategies, advocating non-evaluative and reflective practices, and concentrating on data collection and analysis to assess student needs.
The next PIIC PLO will be July 26-28, 2010. PIIC will have differentiated strands of learning for newer coaches, experienced coaches, school leaders (see: PLN 1 for School Leaders Course), and elementary coaches. PIIC PLO's are open to coaches and administrators in participating PIIC IUs only. For more information, please contact your IU PIIC Mentor.
See video from the event!


The band will not say how many more releases are in store, but, like "EP-1," they are to come out through the Pixies' Web site, with no advance notice. The EP's, with artwork by Vaughan Oliver, the band's longtime designer, will be available as downloads and as a 10-inch vinyl record. No longer on any label, the band now controls its business itself and has become a model of online marketing.
When asked why they decided to release music this way, the band and its advisers say that the album is a tired format that is tied to the needs of the old music business. "When you're an artist like the Pixies, you don't have to play by those rules," said Richard Jones, the band's manager. Mr. Thompson also acknowledges that it is a way to avoid somewhat the pressure of the Big Comeback Album.


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Limitless Recap: The NZT Inside Us All
The Legend of Marco Ramos
Editor's Rating 3 stars *****
When Brian helps Agents Harris and Boyle investigate the murder of a retired FBI agent, they're shocked to find a link to the elusive head of a notorious drug cartel. Photo: Michael Parmelee/CBS
Let's rewind. We pick up right where last week ended: with Brian confronting a nurse outside his sick dad's house. "Why are you at my dad's?" he asks. "I dunno, I'm a nurse," says the nurse. "What does Bradley Cooper want with me?" Brian asks. "I don't know! Again, I am a skilled nurse," says the nurse. Case closed. Brian's family and friends are safe from harm, thought nobody.
Since Brian's now moving into the field and investigating crimes using his superbrain, he now has to take NZT on his commute in order to study and learn new tricks for the FBI. On his commute he runs into Shauna. You know, Shauna? The one that got away? Maybe you don't know her because we, the audience, have never seen this character or heard her mentioned before.
Anyway, this is Shauna:
Brian manages to impress Shauna, in part because he's on NZT, and partially because they are both trapped on the subway and it's pretty tough to avoid small talk there. Brian gets her number and heads to the office, where Chief Naz has called an all-hands meeting.
This week's case is the case of dead Agent Dixon, who was researching CEO replacements for a tech firm. Then he got sniped in the head and his hard drive got erased. It looks like one of the candidates took Dixon out to cover up a scandal. Yikes! Let's hope that Brian doesn't get sniped in the head. It is very difficult to use all 100 percent of your brain when 30 percent of it is splattered on the sidewalk.
So Dixon's computer is busted. Good thing he kept all of these paper records, too. Oh, whoops, they're all shredded.
It's almost like the documents are a big puzzle. If only Brian had some sort of mystery potion that upped his concentration and made him hyperobservant — OHWAITAMINUTE.
The gang discovers a lead in the name of Jeffrey Vox, who was making some shady financial withdrawals and likely having and affair.
Brian also manages to set a dinner-date with Shauna. There's a slight problem, though: The NZT will likely wear off by then. This is a classic TV trope. Who know what wacky high jinks will ensue when you invite your crush to dinner but accidentally run out of pills that turn you into a genius? Oooooooops.
The team traces Vox to an intern he was boinking and the illegitimate son that they conceived. It turns out all of his shady dealings were in the interest of secretly taking care of his child. Scratch him off the suspect list: One down, five to go.
Brian tries to convince bodyguard Mike (half of Mike and Ike) (also not his real name) to give him another NZT pill, but Mike's a smart cookie and doesn't fall for it. Looks like Brian's flying above the influence on his date.
Even without his jagged little pills, Brian's shown that he is resourceful enough to fake his way through the date, right? Haha, nope! WRONG.
Brian whips out some fun facts about synthetic marijuana and Genghis Khan (see: last week's ep), and after those two facts, he's done. Normal-brain Brian only knows two facts, and they are not very interesting. Shauna is bewildered.
Rebecca and Brian head out to scenic Long Island City to check out Dixon's old storage unit, and discover that despite having appeared to leave the FBI, he was still looking into a Mexican cartel, led by Marco Ramos.
This seems like a good place to say: WTF? Not an angry "WTF?" but a confused "WTF?" This discovery has just dismissed the first half of this week's case as a red herring. Rebecca and Brian say so explicitly. Just last week, however, this show demonstrated a great aptitude for stringing oddball, disparate elements into a cohesive mystery in its "Genghis Khan meets bioweapons" story. Try harder, Limitless — don't just give us witty repartee for witty repartee's sake.
So, after a nifty B-movie summary of Ramos's crimes — this show knows just when to throw in brief flights of fancy — Brian embarks to track down the sniper tied to Ramos, known only as La Cebra. The best way to do this, obviously, is to utilize complex math …
… to build a model out of Post-it notes. Great, important work, Brian.
Brian has figures out that the sniper was tall. At least six-foot-five. They should run that through the database. "The tall sniper database?" Rebecca asks. That's not a thing! (But maybe it should be? CC: NSA, CIA, FBI, Google.)
Now it's time for Brian to get real for a second. He confesses to feeling down in the dumps, thinking that NZT Brian and Regular Brian are incompatible. Rebecca gives him a pep talk: "There aren't two Brians. There's you. Sure, you can do more on the pill, but either way, it's your character." Then she also tells him that "anything is possible if you believe in yourself" and that "knowledge is the real treasure." Okay, I made up those last two bits, but the first quote is very real and very corny.
Studying files on Ramos, Brian makes another crazy Limitless connection. The good kind. From the depths of his memory, he discovers that La Cebra is a very tall Finnish biathlete who competed in the 1988 Winter Games. A gigantic Finnish biathlon champion employed by Mexican drug cartels; now there's your hook.
They track La Cebra to an apartment, but Brian, not allowed to chase down criminals, is forced to imagine Rebecca doing so in a very cheap riff on the "Sabotage" video.
It turns out La Cebra actually lost his shooting hand two years ago, so he couldn't have killed Dixon, but he gives them another lead.
In the meantime, Brian rushes to go on another date with Shauna before the NZT wears off. It goes much better than the first, and Brian realizes, hours in, that the NZT had worn off long ago. Wow! All he had to do was believe in himself.
Looks like the real NZT … was inside him all along.
The next day, Brian and Rebecca head to a warehouse tied to Ramos and discover Ramos's dead body. Boyle simultaneously discovers that the FBI task force looking into Ramos is dirty. A good twist! So far, this episode is now 1:1 on good twists:bad twists.
The corrupt task force appears to have fled, but Brian and his medical helper pull a ridiculous theory out of thin air: The criminals are fleeing the country on a plane and, to avoid radar, are flying under a larger plane.
It looks like this:
Great model, Brian. Very informative. Also just noticed: A lot of papercraft going on in this episode. Smash-cut to them catching the guys. They got caught offscreen, because fighter jets are expensive.
Later, at the bar, a mysterious dude named Mr. Sands approaches Brian and claims to be his new boss. Sands is a stand-in for Eddie Morra, because like fighter jets, Bradley Cooper is also expensive. Sands threatens literally everyone Brian loves, and just as he leaves, Shauna — who Brian loves — walks in. They break up.
Brian and Rebecca bond over beers, and that's where the episode ends.
It seems like, just three episodes in, the cracks are starting to show on Limitless. Part of it is baked into the show's very premise; NZT Brian is smarter than absolutely everyone else, including the audience. Multiple times this episode, he reached conclusions using knowledge that nobody knew he had, and that lends an off-putting deus ex machina feel to some of the proceedings. Still, this is a too-rare procedural that doesn't take itself too seriously, and it's charming in that respect. Let's hope these are just early season-one bumps in the road.


London fashion store Browns has recently rebranded with a whole range of new elements encompassing store design, packaging, relaunched website and a logo. To celebrate Browns' first rebrand in 40 years, the its London South Molton Street store windows were transformed into the world's biggest fashion scratch cards on November 15.
This interactive window display created a unique way to allure passersby, encouraging them to scratch off the symbols on the windows for a chance to win prizes. The goodies on offer included a Balenciaga Bazar tote and a Fendi Monster bag.


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The Lubbock Police Department received reports of a victim with a gunshot wound a little bit before noon on Tuesday.
According to LPD's Public Information Officer Tiffany Taylor, the shooting happened at around 11:40 a.m. at the Days Inn located at 6025 South Avenue Q Drive.
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Questions about specific movies, TV shows and more
These are questions relating to specific titles. General questions for movies and TV shows are here. Members get e-mailed when any of their questions are answered.
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
Question: Are there any other Alan Parrish references in this movie other than the treehouse Alex had been living in?
Answer: Adult Alex named his son Alan.
Actually, the son's name is Andy.
Cody Fairless-Lee
Answer: The elephant figurine is Alan Parrish's playing piece from the original game.
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Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
Question: Who was the real commander of the Serbian army when O'Grady was stranded behind enemy lines?
Answer: "Lokar" might be based on real-life Željko "Arkan" Ražnatović, commander of Serb Volunteer Guard.
ER (1994)
And In the End... - S15-E22
Question: I'm not sure if it was ER but it seems that the last episode showed Abby walking and a truck or bus blew up as she got close to it. Am I confusing this with a different show? I can't find it anywhere.
Answer: These is an episode where a character walks by and an ambulance blows up. I don't know if it was Abby or not.
It was Abbey.
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Question: Just wanting to know about the animal running in front of the Native Americans when Marty travels back to 1885. Looks like a dog, but was it meant to be there, or was it an animal that was disturbed as they did the scene and it bolted for its life?
Answer: It is a rabbit that probably got disturbed by the filming.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
Question: Why doesn't Barbossa use Blackbeard's sword to control his and Salazar's ship in battle? It isn't broken because he brings back the Pearl.
Answer: The sword only controls Blackbeard's ship. Not the Pearl or Salazar's ship.
In On Stranger Tides Barbossa said that the Pearl turned against them, the rigging had come to life because of Blackbeard.
Question: Voldemort said Lucius has no need for a wand anymore. Without a wand he really is useless, so why not just kill him and his family earlier due to having no faith in them?
THE GAMER NEXT DOOR
Answer: There's no known explanation. For one, it serves the book's plot to keep Lucius and his family alive throughout the series. For another, Voldemort liked mentally torturing his victims, stretching out their fear and misery for as long as possible for his amusement. He may also have felt that the Malfoy's usefulness had not yet entirely run out.
The 21-Second Excitation - S4-E8
Question: I don't get why Amy invites herself to Penny and Bernadette's girls' night when she already made plans. Can someone please explain this?
Answer: There's several factors that mainly revolve around Amy never having any real girl friends growing up (she had never even been to a slumber party). Also, she never had a girls night out before and would rather do that then hang out with boys. She was only going to the movie because Sheldon was going, but had no real interest in it. She also wants to spend as much time with Penny as possible.
Bishop73
The Cushion Saturation - S2-E16
Question: Is it just me or is Penny not wearing shoes when she gets the paint on Sheldon's spot?
Answer: She is wearing shoes.
The Grudge (2004)
Question: Whenever the detective watches the surveillance tape from Susan's work, why does Kayako say "I know something about Peter"?
Question: When Phil says that they'll have 4 days together, from the expression Alice has on her face, does that mean she was not intending to go at that point?
Question: I don't understand why Barker couldn't get unbuckled in the car. Why couldn't Artie just remove his hand from the seat belt?
Answer: It's demonstrated throughout the film that Artie struggles with the modern way of doing things. This may extend to modern car seat belts with their five point harness systems. That and the fact they're already late for school and holding up the traffic makes it a stressful situation for Artie and it was probably easier (and to add comedy) for Artie just to rip the seat out with the boy still in it.
Question: When Alice, Dianne and Harper got in the house she said it was Phil calling but why would she lie when obviously Artie was talking on the phone to her? Also, why did Artie call Alice Mrs. Rosin?
Misery (1990)
Question: Did Stephen King do his usual cameo? If so, where?
Arokthis
Answer: Stephen King doesn't have a cameo in this movie.
I have been told it's a common misconception that Stephen King regularly does cameos.
lionhead
Question: Why did the man in the opening scene kill himself?
Answer: One popular theory is that Peter felt guilty for Kayako's death. The day before, he stopped by the Saeki house and discovered her and Takeo's dead bodies, right after he found Kayako's diary detailing her unrequited crush on him. Another theory is that since anyone who steps into the Saeki house dies, the curse is what drove him to suicide. Unlike her other victims, Kayako did not personally kill him, making it possible that she either still held affection for him after her death or that he killed himself before she could get to him, satisfying the curse.
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Window of Opportunity - S4-E6
Question: What is the light that Dr. Frazier uses to look into Jack's eye called?
Answer: It's a pen torch or pen light. Used to test pupil dilation response.
Question: This an odd question, but why are there no smartphones or smartphone-like devices in the SW universe? These are reasonably advanced pieces of technology that would be appropriate for such a time period. A few situations would also have been easier with phone communication. Smartphones were still very new when "Revenge of the Sith" was being filmed, so I understand why the original trilogy and prequels don't show them - the creators were not thinking about them.
Answer: You basically answered your own question. The Star Wars universe is in the future and its a future without any smart phones. It would be kind of weird if out of nowhere smart phones would pop up everywhere in the universe as if its a new invention, whilst its supposed to be an old invention. They simply have different ways to communicate with each other, more advanced ways are needed. For example distances between people is a lot larger, across the galaxy, so you'd need a lot more that just a smartphone to communicate with people, they use other devices on board starships and bases so the smartphone disappears as having both feels like overdoing it.
It is not set in the future, hence the very first words on the screen of each movie. A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away. Now as far as the cell phones go, they do just fine with their communication. Making interplanetary calls on cell phones is not needed.
ctown28
You're right, I always forget that part.
Question: Would Zep have faced charges for his role in the game? If so, what charges would he be facing exactly?
Answer: It's possible he could get off due to the extraordinary circumstances of what transpired. But given his sadistic pleasure in the game, I would assume he might face some charges. Among possible charges: kidnapping, assault, battery, weapons possession, criminal conspiracy, child endangerment, attempted murder, among many others.
As a lawyer, I believe the law is clear that you will not be charged for crimes you were forced to commit under immediate distress - that your life or a loved one's is in imminent danger.
To be clear the danger must be imminent - if John had told Zap to do it or he'd be poisoned next week wouldn't count, for example. But since the poison was already in his bloodstream his threat of death was indeed imminent, thus preventing any charges should he have lived.
Question: I don't understand why Kylo Ren killed Han in the previous movie, but now says that he didn't hate Han?
Answer: As he says, "let the past die. Kill it, if you have to." Han was his past - he didn't hate his father, but his existence was holding Kylo Ren back from reaching his full potential, or so he believes. The principle is demonstrated earlier in the movie when he can't bring himself to kill Leia, but has no issue with the other TIE pilots blasting the bridge and (he thinks) killing her. He wants to free himself from the shackles of his parents, who cause him such internal conflict. Remove the source of the conflict and he believes he can move on to greater things. Of course, arguably his position is a bit naive, and his actions will actually cause him greater problems down the line.
Answer: As we saw in Episode 3, with Anakin Skywalker, turning to the Dark Side profoundly changes one's loyalty to friends and family. Anakin murdered children and nearly murdered his pregnant wife and his lifelong mentor. Kylo Ren seemed to follow the same path on the Dark Side, murdering his father.
Charles Austin Miller
Starhops (1978)
Question: I recently saw this movie for the first time in decades, but didn't see something I know I saw when watching this on TV in the 80s. Back then I periodically saw a few seconds of a sunset over the ocean (or similar to that) with mellow music playing now and then between certain scenes. Now I can't find this in the movie anymore. Does anyone else remember this or are those sunsets from another movie (same timeframe - late 70s)?
The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
Question: Just some questions about Charlie and Principal Newman: 1. So, just to double-check, Charlie defaces the school and gets into trouble because Principal Newman hates Christmas? 2. How does Charlie get over Principal Newman being his stepmom and do they get along in the end? 3. If the graffiti Charlie is trying to get rid of doesn't come off, how does he get it done or does he still have to do it after Principal Newman becomes Mrs. Claus? 4. In the end, is Charlie still on the naughty list?
Answer: 1. Yes. Charlie gets into trouble for defacing school property - his way of protesting Principal Newman's anti-Christmas policies. 2. That question was not addressed but it can be presumed Charlie accepted it and got over it. 3. Charlie tells his dad the graffiti won't come off, but he was just complaining how difficult the paint removal was. It can be surmised the paint was eventually removed (with difficulty and a lot of elbow grease). Yes, he still has to do it after Principal Newman becomes Mrs. Claus, as his dad would not allow the extreme vandalism Charlie did to slide. 4. Most likely Charlie was removed from the Naughty List because he repented, did a good deed by sacrificing a tooth to summon the Tooth Fairy to bring Principal Newman to the North Pole and was also cleaning up his vandalism against school property. After Christmas Day, he started with a clean slate and a new chance to be good for the next year.
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Review: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Publisher: Random House | Ballantine Books
Source & Format: Christmas gift; Hardcover
Summary (from Amazon)
Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness - until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair sets sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group - the fabled "Lost Generation" - that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Though deeply in love, the Hemingways are ill-prepared for the hard-drinking and fast-living life of Jazz Age Paris, which hardly values traditional notions of family and monogamy. [...] Despite their extraordinary bond, they eventually find themselves facing the ultimate crisis of their marriage - a deception that will lead to the unraveling of everything they've fought so hard for.
Thoughts on The Paris Wife
There was so much I loved about this book... but also a few things I didn't love. I've only read one novel by Hemginway, A Farewell to Arms, and I know next to nothing about his life. Except for what I learned while watching In Love and War (a Sandra Bullock movie from 1996) that supposedly tells the story of Ernest service as an ambulance driver in Italy during WWI and romance with his nurse. Who knows how much of that was true. Hollywood does favor added drama.
So, anyway, all that to say I went into The Paris Wife with no idea what to expect in terms of plot. I'm actually glad I didn't (although you would still enjoy the book even if you know what's coming) because I was able to experience things as they were happening rather than anticipate what was coming next. The Paris Wife is narrated by Hadley Richardson - Ernest's first wife. The reader meets and gets to know Ernest through her eyes. You get to experience their marriage and their life in Paris from her point of view. This was probably one of my favorite parts of the novel - seeing things from Hadley's perspective. McLain does a very nice job capturing Hadley.
She's twenty-eight when she meets the twenty-one-year-old Hemingway. She's captivated by him and quite content to follow his lead. Where Hemingway is moody and selfish, Hadley is steady and thinks only of Ernest. She is willing to sacrifice everything to support him and his talent. She's smart and kind, but she isn't forward or edgy like many of her female counterparts in Paris. She doesn't dazzle. She just hangs in the background propelling Ernest towards success.
The writing beautifully captured the time period. Paris comes alive on the page. From drinking and dancing to mistresses and open marriages, you'll feel as though you've lived it all. I read this book slowly, reminding myself to savor its beauty.
As for what I didn't like? The blurb mentions an "ultimate crisis" and it was Hadley's reaction to this that dampened my love for the book. Because it was based on real events, I know that McLain can't change what actually happened. But it was hard for me to read about this adoring wife who didn't stand up for herself in the way I wanted her to. I don't want to say anything more, so you'll have to read it yourself to find out more.
I'll also point out that it's obviously that a lot of research went into this book. McLain did a wonderful job making her story feel authentic and true to life without ever seeming like a biography or veering too far into fiction. I really enjoyed like lovely book, and stayed with me days after I'd finished it. That's always a good sign in my mind!
"There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's worth at least, all the usual vices and plenty of rope to hang yourself with. But some of us, a very few in the end, bet on marriage against the odds. And though I didn't feel holy, exactly, I did feel that what we had was rare and true - and that we were safe in the marriage we had built and were building every day."


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Linking the Cloud to Continuous Monitoring
A Perfect Fit: Continuous Monitoring and Cloud Initiative Eric Chabrow (GovInfoSecurity) • February 20, 2012
NIST information risk management evangelist Ron Ross sees continuous monitoring playing a vital role in securing cloud computing.
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program known as FedRAMP [see Feds Explain How FedRAMP Will Work] fits very nicely with continuous monitoring by allowing agencies to define good sets of security requirements for cloud computing providers, Ross says in an interview previewing a presentation he will make at the RSA Conference 2012 in San Francisco later this month.
"When any federal information is moved to the cloud, we can be sure that the appropriate security controls are implemented on behalf of the cloud provider and their environment of operations," says Ross, a National Institute of Standards and Technology senior computer scientist who led a team that wrote the latest revision of NIST Special Publication 800-53, which will be unveiled at the security conference.
"The FedRAMP program," Ross says in the interview with Information Security Media Group, "integrates the continuous monitoring aspect of our new paradigm into the cloud service provider. Once those controls are deployed under the FedRAMP program and the cloud provider's environment, there will be a continuous data feed back to the federal agencies that are using those cloud services to make sure they can keep up with the security state of that cloud provider's systems over time. It is a very important effort. Not only do we help to save significant resources by having this notion of authorizing once and using many times, but it also allows us to get to that near real-time continuous monitoring approach that we think is so important for the future, especially with the kinds of threats that we are facing today."
Though the FedRAMP initiative is designed for federal agencies to vet cloud providers and assure their security, the concept behind it and other information risk management and continuous monitoring guidance could be applied to other types of governments such as local and state as well as to the private sector. "We write all of our standards and guidelines so they can be implemented on a voluntary basis by private sector organizations, and I happen to feel that a lot of the first principles, the best practices that come out of our standards and guidelines are very applicable to the private sector, because at the end of the day we're all using basically the same information technology," Ross says.
In the interview, Ross:
Defines continuous monitoring, and explains its importance to IT security.
Explains how continuous monitoring is integrated into the FedRAMP process.
Previews NIST's introduction of revision 4 of Special Publication 800-53, which includes new security and privacy controls [see NIST Guidance: More Emphasis on Privacy ].
Ross leads NIST's Federal Information Security Management Act compliance team. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Ross served in a variety of leadership and technical positions during his 20-year career in the Army. During his military career, Ross served as a White House aide and as a senior technical advisor to the Department of the Army. He is a graduate of the Program Management School at the Defense Systems Management College and holds a master and Ph.D. in computer science from the United States Naval Postgraduate School.
Defining Continuous Monitoring
ERIC CHABROW: Please define continuous monitoring?
RON ROSS: Continuous monitoring is an approach that allows organizations to take ownership of this whole process of what we call authorization or the risk acceptance process. In essence, you decide what controls you want to deploy within your information system and the environment of operations where that system operates.
Once your initial security plan is approved, you're required to develop a continuous monitoring strategy that is really going to allow organizations to say: What controls am I going to monitor? Am I going to look at the architecture, the enterprise architecture, security architecture, the threats base of vulnerabilities? How often am I going to monitor and, in essence how often are you going to do testing and evaluation, whether it's penetration testing or any kind of testing that would support your ongoing understanding of the control effectiveness? Then, how rigorous a process are you going to implement with regard to continuous monitoring? Are you going to do a deep dive with very intense testing and analysis of controls, or are you going to do a light touch?
There is a wide range of how continuous monitoring can be applied and the good news is that it is all risk based. Every organization can design the level of intensity that makes sense for their mission's base and their environments of operation.
CHABROW: What do you hope to relate to attendees at your panel about continuous monitoring at RSA Conference 2012?
ROSS: This is obviously a very important topic that the federal government now has been involved in and it has cost them significant update to some of our special publication, so I'm hoping at the conference I can take a top-level, strategic look at what we're trying to achieve with continuous monitoring. I'm going to talk about monitoring from the new perspective of the new Special Publication 800-137 publication, which talks about how you monitor information systems at the organization level, the mission business process level and also all the way down to the information system level. We're trying to implement a program, which allows us to monitor over time the effectiveness of our deployed security controls, any changes to the systems we have or the environments of operation, and of course, determine if we're complying with the laws and polices at the federal level.
Continuous Monitoring and Cloud Security
CHABROW: There has been a lot of media coverage in the past few weeks on FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program), the government initiative to vet cloud security providers. How does continuous monitoring fit in with that?
ROSS: It fits in very nicely. The FedRAMP program, the General Services Administration-led initiative for the cloud computing world allows us to define first and foremost good sets of security requirements for cloud providers. When any federal information is moved to the cloud, we can be sure that the appropriate security controls are implemented on behalf of the cloud provider and their environment of operations. The FedRAMP program is an extension. It brings in some of those 800-53 controls to the cloud provider's environment, but it also integrates the continuous monitoring aspect of our new paradigm into the cloud service provider as well. Once those controls are deployed under the FedRAMP program and the cloud provider's environment, there will be a continuous data feed back to the federal agencies that are using those cloud services to make sure they can keep up with the security state of that cloud provider's systems over time. It is a very important effort. Not only do we help to save significant resources by having this notion of authorizing once and using many times, but it also allows us to get to that near real time continuous monitoring approach that we think is so important for the future, especially with the kinds of threats that we are facing today.
CHABROW: The panel's topic deals with the federal government, but I gather what people who would attend would hear would be good advice to any kind of organization.
ROSS: I think so. One of the things we try to do in the NIST standards and guidelines, although are primary customers are in the federal government and the contractors that support us. We write all of our standards and guidelines so they can be implemented on a voluntary basis by private sector organizations, and I happen to feel that a lot of the first principles, the best practices that come out of our standards and guidelines are very applicable to the private sector, because at the end of the day we're all using basically the same information technology. That technology is deployed to help us be successful in our missions and business operations and it needs to be protected. There is a very good opportunity for organizations whether it's state and local governments or private sector companies trying to stop infiltration or penetrations which would cause them to loose capability. They can find a lot of good content within the standards and guidelines were producing.
Unveiling new Controls' Guidance
CHABROW: Besides being at the panel you have another big responsibility at NIST, because NIST is expected to announce the update of Special Publication of 800-53 Revision 4 that's the NIST security controls catalog, and something I consider one of the most important guidance NIST provides. You're help leading that effort. What can you tell us about that?
ROSS: Well this is one of our first major updates. As you know, NIST has been partnering with the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community for the past three or four years in producing what we call our Joint Task Force Documents. These are five publications that are going to be adopted and implemented by the entire federal government giving us kind of an unified information security framework across the entire federal states. This was the first publication that we partnered with the DoD and the intelligence community on back in 2009.
Of course, every two or three years we update the publication because the threats are constantly changing, technologies are changing, so this update is a very important update because we've gone through the entire catalog and we have looked at all of the gap areas where we didn't think we were getting good coverage or sufficient coverage I should say. So in the catalog you'll see things that are being addressed that have never really been addressed in full scope before. Things like insider threat, distributed systems, mobile computing. We have a brand appendix which has been previewed one time in the public on privacy controls.
It is a brand new appendix dedicated just to privacy. In fact, the name of the document will include privacy controls as well as security controls. We have a brand new updated appendix on assurance, how to make sure that you have the right security capability and the confidence that the capability has been developed. There is also some updated baselines which are kind of the minimum or fundamental requirements that federal agencies are required to implement and of course advanced persistent threat. A lot of organizations are concerned about that. We're going to try to hit that head on in 800-53 with some new controls that will allow you to do some different things, different strategies that hopefully will lead to success in that area.
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Pots of blooming bulbs greet me as I walk into Walmart. Last month's heart-shaped boxes of chocolate have been replaced with jelly beans, pastel peeps, and chocolate rabbits. Displays at the end of the aisles feature stuffed bunnies and lambs. And at church, there's the annual push to invite guests to the Easter service.
This year, Easter (aka "Resurrection Sunday") falls on March 27. That's only a couple of weeks away. If we are going to invite anyone to church, we'd better hop to it.
It all came to a head when Pete went to a men's retreat. In the secure environment of that gathering, he ended up telling the entire crowd something personal about me. It seemed an appropriate issue to share—everyone was sharing at a deep level, praying for one another, and being encouraged.
But when he came home and told me what he'd made public, I was totally mortified: "You told them WHAT?!" How could I ever again face anyone who had been on that retreat? It was humiliating. Who else would they tell? How many of our friends would find out? I hadn't done anything sinful—it was just an intensely private issue.
Pete was totally apologetic, and I forgave his innocent mistake. As a couple, we had never before considered what was appropriate to share with others, and what was just between the two of us—or at most a trusted friend or counselor. Until that point, we just sort of assumed the other person would somehow intuitively know what could be said in public.
I didn't get it done.
Then my good friend Cynthia posted two back-to-back blogs that are much better than anything I would have come up with. So I'm sending you to her blog, while I take a much-needed break (and clean the house, buy a turkey, catch up on the laundry, edit a book, post-process about 200 photos, water the houseplants, pay the bills…).
So, have you sent your Christmas cards yet?
Did you feel a little pang of guilt there? Did your holiday stress just go up a level? Yeah, mine too. The whole Christmas card production can take several entire days at our house… and it comes right at the busiest time of the year.
Sometimes I think the folks who mail their cards in January (or swap them for Valentines in February) have the right idea. Why do we do this to ourselves?
On the other hand, what says "Christmas" more than connecting with one another? If there's any time of the year that relationships should trump our to-do lists, shouldn't it be the season in which we celebrate Jesus coming to have a relationship with us?


Should American Horror Story Be Canceled?
With the Halloween season now long behind us, it is that time of year again for Ryan Murphy to close the book on another chapter of American Horror Story and put the award-winning anthology to bed for another year.
Wrapping up clowns, Charles Manson, and carnage, season 7's Cult ended on something of a whimper rather than a bang. Now outliving shows like Breaking Bad, Lost, and The Sopranos, Horror Story is undoubtedly entering that dangerous period where people begin to ask, "oh, is this still on?" So, as Murphy's bloodthirsty baby enters its more mature years, should we load up the shotgun and take American Horror Story out back or is there life in the old dog yet?
You only have to look at the viewing figures to see that the writing's on the wall for FX's flagship show. Horror Story may have renewed the show for season 8 and 9, but there no escaping the fact that Cult officially has the lowest-performing finale in the show's history. Starting with an already average series opener of 3.93 million viewers, Cult saw a steady drop of those willing to stick with the political commentary.
Although the season finale "Great Again" outperformed a low of 1.48 million for "Episode 9," the season still limped to the grave with a disappointing 1.97 million. Compare this to a franchise high for season 3's Coven, where 4.24 million tuned in to see Cordelia Foxx be crowned the Supreme, and there is a strong case to be made that Murphy is losing his touch.
Then we have the actors themselves. Cult's new additions like Alison Pill, Billy Eichner, and Lena Dunham all carry their own star power, but it wasn't exactly the Hollywood Walk of Fame we have become accustomed to on the show. Rhere were still big names like Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters alongside old favorites like Frances Conroy and Cheyenne Jackson, but ultimately Cult felt it was lacking any new big names.
You can't deny that both Peters and Paulson are carrying the show at the moment, but is that really a good thing? After starring in all seven seasons, the duo have become limited in who they can play. Paulson is a stellar actress, but is anyone else a little tired of her playing a damsel in distress who spends most of her screen time screaming into a camera? Roles like Roanoke's Audrey Tindall and Cult's Ally Mayfair-Richards pale in comparison to her earlier role as feminine powerhouse Lana Winters.
These days, it would seem that fans are too busy trying to look for next season's clues to actually enjoy what is going on before their eyes. In fact, if you look back over Hotel, Roanoke, and Cult, the three most recent seasons have constantly divided audiences on whether they have been abysmal or a stroke of genius.
Is It The Same Show?
Then there is the whole premise itself. Some people loved Cult and its basis in the real world, while others were left feeling that to call this American Horror Story was a very loose term. Previous seasons have always been linked to the supernatural, whereas Cult was the first in the show's seven-season history to be based wholly on "real-life." Season 1's Murder House may have had subtle references to the Black Dahlia, but Cult was a veritable treasure trove of real people and crimes of modern America.Living up to its namesake, there were cults of sadistic clowns, perverse politicians, and even a Charles Manson homage, but is that what we've really come here for?
For most, American Horror Story is remembered for the ghosts of the Harmon house, a coven of conniving witches, James Patrick March's hotel of horrors, and the cleaver-wielding butcher of the Roanoke tribe. While a history lesson on Mr. Manson is all well and good, it did sometimes feel like Murphy was trying to make his own twisted version of American Crime Story.
Here lies the other problem, is Murphy focussing his efforts too much elsewhere? Looking back at a pre-Horror Story era, one of the writer's earliest ventures was Nip/Tuck. The story of gruesome plastic surgery clearly whet his appetite for the macabre, but when AHS hit screens in 2011, Murphy didn't have anything else on his plate.
Skip ahead to 2017, and the acclaimed man behind the madness is trying to juggle American Horror Story, American Crime Story, and another round of Feud. Not to mention he is also tackling 9-1-1 and Pose, something's gotta give somewhere. Horror Story may have been his baby, but you can't but wonder whether he is giving up in favor of something new and more exciting.
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In agglomerative hierarchical clustering, the traditional approaches of computing cluster distances are single, complete, average and centroid linkages. However, single-link and complete-link approaches cannot always reflect the true underlying relationship between clusters, because they only consider just a single pair between two clusters. This situation may promote the formation of spurious clusters. To overcome the problem, this paper proposes a novel approach, named k-Linkage, which calculates the distance by considering k observations from two clusters separately. This article also introduces two novel concepts: k-min linkage (the average of k closest pairs) and k-max linkage (the average of k farthest pairs). In the experimental studies, the improved hierarchical clustering algorithm based on k-Linkage was executed on five well-known benchmark datasets with varying k values to demonstrate its efficiency. The results show that the proposed k-Linkage method can often produce clusters with better accuracy, compared to the single, complete, average and centroid linkages.
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Faith in History
Armenians Rebuilding Community
(ISBN: 1-56098-629-8)
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Susan Paul Pattie	(Author)
Armenians are an ancient people with roots in eastern Anatolia going back 2,500 years. Yet almost half of them today live in diaspora. Slaughtered and deported from their homeland by the Ottomans during World War I, surviving Armenians scattered to different corners of the globe. Focusing on Armenians who settled in Cyprus and London during the course of this century, Susan Paul Pattie reveals how the mechanisms for creating and maintaining a sense of community and national identity have evolved, as early survivors have given way to second- and third-generation Armenians who are increasingly at home in their host societies. Drawing on five years of fieldwork, Pattie shows how the Armenian language and such institutions as the Apostolic Church, with its elaborate ceremonies, once acted as key repositories of identity but now function more as symbols within a larger faith—a faith in Armenian history as a transcendent, unifying force for Armenians worldwide. For some contemporary Armenians in diaspora, this faith in history is energized by political organizations fighting for Turkish acknowledgment of responsibility for the Ottoman massacres. But for most, belief in the past serves as an underpinning for the mechanisms of family and community. Portraying the relation between religion and nationalism in concrete terms, Faith in History also investigates the increasingly common experience of diaspora. In wonderful vignettes of Armenian daily life, this book evokes the ways in which perceptions of nation and homeland shift and evolve.
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Oblique Strategies - One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemas - Fourth
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A partnership to facilitate a sustainable groundnut seed delivery system in Tanzania was established between the Tropical Legumes III (TL III) project of ICRISAT and a local seed organization, Agricultural Seed Agency (ASA). This was facilitated by the Naliendele Agricultural Research Institute (NARI), Tanzania.
At a planning meeting, members of NARI, ASA and ICRISAT discussed the types of groundnut varieties to be produced and the means to make foundation seeds of improved varieties easily available across the country.
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The Nunavut Teacher Education Program (NTEP), formerly the Eastern Arctic Teacher Education Program (EATEP), is an important college / university teacher education program in the territory of Nunavut and is offered through Nunavut Arctic College (NAC). This program provides Inuit from Nunavut with the opportunity to work toward a Bachelor of Education degree while remaining in the territory.

The aim is to have Inuit teaching Inuit and thus provide strong and relevant role models and give Inuit a greater say in the education system.

Description
NTEP, which since 2007, has partnered with the University of Regina offers a five-year program to Inuit who wish to become teachers in Nunavut. Although aimed primarily at training
primary and elementary teachers, graduates may teach at the junior high and high school level. Courses are offered mainly at the three Nunavut Arctic College campuses and some may be community based. Emphasis is put on applying the training obtained in a classroom setting to actual practice is schools and students are offered multiple practicum sessions.

The courses, which were designed to be relevant to Nunavut, try to promote Inuit culture, Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit traditional knowledge), and Inuktut (Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun).

Upon successful completion of all program requirements, NTEP graduates are awarded a University of Regina of Education Degree, 120 credits (B.Ed.).

History
In 1979, the Eastern Arctic Teacher Education Program (EATEP) began and was designed for residents of the eastern Canadian Arctic rather than the western Northwest Territories (NWT). Later in 1981, an association with McGill University was formed. Originally a two-year program, students obtained a Certificate in Native & Northern Education and were certified to teach in the NWT. Students also obtained 60 elementary education university credits.

In 1994, a third year was added and allowed those students who received the Certificate in Native & Northern Education to go on and complete their Bachelor of Education with McGill University. Following this a fourth year was added, students received 120 credits and it became a full university program.

After the 1999 division of the NWT the program was renamed the Nunavut Teacher Education Program. In 2004 NTEP became a five-year progaram with the addition of a foundation year.  The foundation year was created to ensure that all applicants met the entrance requirements.

In 2007, NTEP gained a new 5-year partnership with University of Regina. The program consists of U of R courses and transfer courses from NAC. Under the fee-for-service arrangement, the U of R provides a range of services, including visiting instructors, professional development opportunities for students and learning experiences through exchanges.

Community-based programs
The Community Teacher Education Program (CTEP) provides teacher training, following the NTEP curriculum, at the community level outside the program centre of Iqaluit. This enables students to stay in their home communities with the support of their family; it also gives the students the opportunity to do their practicum in the school where they will be teaching. This has been very beneficial as it allows them to get to know the teaching staff who will become their colleagues.

Alumni
As of September 2010, there were approximately 460 NTEP graduates: 260 who have obtained certificates and 200 who have earned the Bachelor of Education degree. The majority of graduates are employed, mostly within the school systems in Nunavut. There are also graduates working for the Government of Nunavut, Assistant Deputy Ministers, Deputy Ministers, with Inuit organizations across Canada, the Nunavut Sivuniksavut Training Program (in Ottawa), and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

References

External links
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GMO grasses could provide healthier forage for livestock, reduce environmental impact
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Grasses of the future will make animals healthier, more productive and reduce their impact on the environment.
AgResearch scientist Tony Conner said advances in modern grasses would bring many advantages to farming.
The forage science group leader said the conference was timely given the work the organisation was doing in the area of forage science. He said there were many benefits for New Zealand in building upon the DairyNZ forage value index and the emerging pastoral industry forage strategy.
"Our teams are engaged in underpinning science and plant breeding research to create high-performance forage legume and grass varieties for New Zealand farms and the international market," he told farmers at the NZ Grasslands Association conference in Timaru last week.
"We develop animal safe endophyte strains that add value to production from elite grasses, and are also pursing research and development related to biofuels, speciality forages, new endophyte traits and animal/forage interactions. Our group is home to world-leading teams in the genetic development of forages and encompasses a broad range of capabilities with staff working in areas from fundamental to applied research."
Most of the cultivars are commercialised through Grasslanz Technology.
An investment of $25 million over five years into genetically modified forages research was made possible with a grant from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Endeavour fund
"What we are doing is enhancing the ryegrass so that there is more energy and nutrition stored in the grass," Conner said.
"This means the animals feeding on it are healthier, and therefore they become better producers for the farm. The result will be a major boost for the agricultural economy."
"What we are also finding is that a by-product of these changes to the grass will be important gains as far as the impacts on the environment. This includes less methane gas produced by the animals and the change in nitrogen requirements with these grasses could reduce nitrate runoff."
"We are mindful of the need to continue strong working relationships in this sector, including the scientists and its many stakeholders so that our advances are relevant to the industry."
NZGA president, David Stevens of AgResearch, said the conference had been an opportunity for farmers and their agricultural industry business partners to hear from and quiz scientists who were taking the industry forward.
"It's really about the interface of science and practice: what works and how can you get it to work. It's summed up in the association's motto: fuelled by science, tempered by experience."
Leading local farms hosted field trips during afternoon sessions including a robotic but pasture-based dairy farm, intensive sheep and beef finishing with and without irrigation, and a more traditional breeding-finishing operation making use of some of the latest forages.
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Gordon Stenhouse, Grizzly whisperer, on humans sharing the world with bears
Biologist Gordon Stenhouse has observed grizzlies' respect for humans. He wishes we'd return the favour.
Gordon Stenhouse, as told to Michelle Cyca October 13, 2021
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I wanted to be a veterinarian, but I didn't get into vet school. So I went into wildlife biology. In the early '80s, I got a job studying polar bears and, over many years in the Arctic, I was fortunate to also work on many other species—Dall sheep, peregrine falcons, Arctic-nesting geese, barren-ground caribou. Of all the species I worked on, I enjoyed polar bears the most.
I worked for the Northwest Territories government out in Manitoba's Cape Churchill, where congregations of polar bears gather every fall waiting for the sea ice to form. My job was to figure out how to keep polar bears and people apart—what we call bear deterrence. I lived with an assistant in a fire tower, basically an eight-by-eight-foot box on a tower, just watching the bears and taking notes. I couldn't really go down on the ground much, because there were bears all around us. I thought I had the best job in the world.
Later, I moved to Alberta and worked for a forestry company, which was a very good job—I had a pension and benefits, all that. But I left it for a one-year position to work with grizzly bears, getting paid by the hour. Just imagine, coming home and telling your wife that when you have two small kids.
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Scientists had just figured out how to do DNA population inventories. You get hair samples from bears and run DNA profiles on them—just like the CSI stuff you see on TV, but it takes more time. We learned there were fewer bears than expected. After a few years of inventory work, the Alberta government put a stop to the spring bear hunt [in 2006]. We began to think, how do we recover bear populations? We learned about how road densities affect the survival of bears and that we needed to manage roads—which is really managing people.
(Courtesy of Gordon Stenhouse)
We used radio collars to understand bear movements. In the early days, we would have to fly around in a helicopter and find the bear, then send a signal to the collar to get the data. One day we're flying and I see people walking on this trail up the hillside. And going down toward these people is our collared bear, a big male. I thought, oh no, this is going to be a wreck. We were going to stop our work and go chase the bear away, but before we could descend, the bear walked off the trail and sat down about 20 m away, the way a dog would sit, on his haunches. He watched these people walk by, and then he went back to the trail and kept walking. Generally bears want to stay away from people, but they'll share their world with us. And it's our responsibility to show them the same respect.
Every time I capture and handle a bear, I think 'this better be worth it.' This bear is minding his own business, and you come in with a helicopter and dart him, put a collar on him and when he wakes up, he's missing a tooth. When someone shoots a collared bear that you've followed for many years, you think, how can humans be like this? Here are bears, sharing their world with us, tolerating us, walking by us on the trail. And this is how we treat them?
I think it's possible to balance the needs of humans and bears, but it's not easy. We have to make decisions that certain areas are more important for wildlife than for humans. It doesn't mean we can't use those areas, but it has to be controlled use—maybe hiking only, maybe no trucks or quads. Or we can't disturb the landscape for natural resource extraction, we just leave it as it is.
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We just finished two inventory projects over the last few years, and the populations in two areas have doubled. We've also learned that some of the changes made for forestry, like taking big patches of old forest and making them into younger patches, can be good for bears. We have produced, in my view, the most comprehensive database of grizzly bears in North America, and this amazing genetic database. It's a gold mine of data. In my office, I had boxes and boxes stacked to the ceiling. While watching the 2014 Sochi Olympics, I realized that they weren't using blood samples to test athletes prior to the Games—they were taking hair samples, because hair contains long-term signatures of chemicals. So I thought, we must be able to do something more with this hair. We started looking at hair cortisol, to look at stress and reproductive hormones. I'd never imagined that we would be able to do that with hair samples when we collected them.
Sometimes in science, you just happen upon a finding. In grad school, we were taught that grizzlies are a solitary species that only come together when they mate, and then the mom is on her own with the cubs. But one year, in 2012, we had three adult female bears collared. And, from the genetics, we knew they were related—a female, her sister and her daughter. All three of these females had cubs, and they met up on a mountain, and over the course of the next few weeks, those bears were together all the time, with their six little cubs running around. They travelled together, bedded down together. It made me think of a family reunion, when people meet at the summer cottage. And I always say to myself, I wonder if they took the right cubs with them when they left?
Despite all the research, we will likely never know everything about the lives of bears. I find it pleasing that we still have much to learn. Canadians are fortunate to have many wildlife species that other parts of the world don't have. We have an environment that represents wilderness, and bears to me are a symbol of wilderness. I like to think that if we can manage their habitat and give them what they need, they will be around for future generations. I hope that we can conserve them for many, many years to come.
—As told to Michelle Cyca
This article appears in print in the November 2021 issue of Maclean's magazine with the headline, "Here be bears." Subscribe to the monthly print magazine here.
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Galvanized by an address by Martin Luther King, Jr., Sherie help register black voters in South Carolina.
"I was galvanized by an address by Martin Luther King, Jr.," she says today. "Meeting him was the most influential event of my life." She was only eighteen when she participated in 1965's Summer Community Organization and Political Education project registering black voters in Pineville, South Carolina for King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
At the end of the summer of 1965, with the financial support of the NAACP, she enrolled for a semester at Allen University, an African Methodist Episcopal college in Columbia, South Carolina. Labedis was the only white student on campus. She returned to the University of California, Berkeley where she earned a bachelor's degree and teaching credential.
She taught history and English for thirty-five years, most of it with at-risk youth, before retiring to write You Came Here to Die, Didn't You.


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Peter Wynne Loos, 81, of Mountain Lakes, NJ, passed away on Monday, September 28, 2020.
Born in Newark to the late John and Marian Loos, Peter was raised in East Orange and lived most of his adult life in Mountain Lakes.
Peter was a graduate of East Orange High School, Panzer at Montclair State College with a BA and Fairleigh Dickinson University with an MA.
Peter was an avid animal lover. He walked his dogs through Mountain Lakes and engaged with his beloved neighbors. Peter enjoyed mountain hiking and boating. He loved the outdoors, especially the shore, the Adirondacks and Skaneatlas Lake, NY. Peter was health conscious and always had his vitamins with him. He was a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Essex Fells, NJ.
After 9/11, Peter volunteered his time at the World Trade Center, distributing food and coffee to the rescue workers. Peter also coached Little League baseball for his son's teams.
Peter's work career included: a Physical Education teacher in the Livingston Public Schools; an administrator for Educational Improvement Center (EIC) and Director of Research for the New Jersey Senate.
Peter was passionate about politics his entire life. He advised numerous Essex County politicians, including but not limited to, Gov. Richard Codey and former President of the Senate, Pat Dodd. He was appointed by Gov. Thomas Kean to be a member of the New Jersey State Parole Board and served from 1980 – 2000.
Peter was predeceased by his parents; his son, Brian Loos; and his brother, John Loos, Jr.
He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Wendy Wyatt Loos; his daughters, Jessica Loos of San Francisco, CA and Rebecca (Raymond) Santana of Parsippany, NJ; his step-son, Michael Hutchinson of Point Pleasant Beach, NJ; his grandchildren, Olivia, Matthew and Sophia Santana as well as friend & fellow music lover, Deborah Martin; his neighbors in the village and furry friends.
A memorial service will be held at Codey & Mackey Funeral Home, Boonton, NJ on Saturday, October 24, 2020 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm. Please visit codeymackeyfh.com to share a condolence or a memory with the family.
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