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USC Annenberg Dean Willow Bay, USC Trustee Wallis Annenberg and USC President C. L. Max Nikias
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Around USC Annenberg
Willow Bay installed as USC Annenberg dean
Willow Bay, veteran broadcaster and digital communication leader, has been officially instated as dean of USC Annenberg and as the Walter H. Annenberg Chair in Communication.
Surrounded by faculty, students, parents, friends of USC Annenberg and leaders of USC, Bay was inducted into office at a ceremony at Town and Gown on Aug. 23. The audience erupted in cheers and applause as she was introduced, at the conclusion of a procession of USC deans.
USC President C. L. Max Nikias heralded Bay, director of the School of Journalism since 2014 and the first female dean of USC Annenberg, as a "gifted leader of singular vision, who thinks beyond borders — beyond expectations."
"As we conducted a yearlong search for our next dean, we kept in mind three qualities I mentioned at the start. Inspiration, which makes us human. Innovation, which drives us forward. And intellectual rigor, which demands truth," Nikias said. "We found our ideal right here at home: Dean Willow Bay."
As head of the Journalism School, Bay launched operation of the Julie Chen/Leslie Moonves and CBS Media Center in Wallis Annenberg Hall, introduced the school's new Bachelor of Arts in Journalism degree program, welcomed the first cohort of the school's nine-month Master of Science in Journalism program, forged partnerships with key industry partners and created new curriculum and fellowships for master's students.
She is an experienced journalist, author, producer, digital news editor and national broadcast and global cable television news anchor – with a career spanning NBC's Today Show, ABC News' Good Morning America/Sunday, CNN's Moneyline News Hour, The Huffington Post and Bloomberg TV.
She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business.
Installation Remarks
Willow Bay, Dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Delivered on August 23, 2017
Thank you, President Nikias. I am grateful for the opportunity to lead this remarkable school and to be part of this wonderful university community.
Max, you have done so much to make USC a global leader — a center of scholarship and excellence — and an incredibly special place to teach and learn. You are also the very first person I met here at USC.
Dean Bay enters Town & Gown to a standing ovation.
Photo: Steve Cohn
It was 1999, when I was anchoring a show called Moneyline on CNN. One of the biggest financial stories of the era was the dot-com boom and how emerging technologies were disrupting traditional industries and creating new ones. That is what brought me to Los Angeles to report on a new academic center at USC exploring the intersection of media and technology.
The director of the new Integrated Media Systems Center was an associate dean of engineering, professor Max Nikias. One area he and his team were studying was immersive, 3-D audio. To demonstrate what it was all about, Max brought me into a special theater where sensory deprivation would amplify the immersive experience of the sound. OK, I thought, why not?
When we got inside, it was so dark I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. And I panicked. My heart was racing and I wanted to run through the pitch-black room and pound on the door. Only the fear of embarrassment kept me in my seat. And then the 3-D sound washed over me like a wave. Max was right; it was amazing.
Some journalists have terrifying stories of war zones. I have the very scary media lab at USC Viterbi.
Max, who could have imagined back then that we would be sharing this day? And a love of this great university?
Who could have imagined that over these past two decades, new technologies would so fundamentally remake our world in ways that even you and your team of brilliant engineers could not have envisioned?
Who could have imagined that communication — both the field and its disciplines — would be at the heart of our culture, commerce and politics like never before?
And that they would create such extraordinary opportunity and such profound disruption?
Who could have imagined that those changes would threaten the core values of our society?
Or that the freedom of the press and the responsibility of journalists to inform the public and hold our leaders accountable would be under siege?
And who could have imagined a time when change is happening faster or more relentlessly than it is right now?
Our world has been re-wired. And no one left us a user's manual. We may not have imagined that we'd be here, but this is a moment made for the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. This is the moment for us to lead the way forward. —Dean Willow Bay
Wireless communication has spread faster than any communication technology in history. It has been a potent source of fuel for the creation of new mass media, the "frictionless sharing" of online social networks — connecting billions in just a few years.
We have unprecedented opportunities to connect, communicate and access information. Yet many of us feel less connected and less informed. This moment can feel as disorienting as sitting in that pitch-black theater all those years ago.
Our world has been rewired. And no one left us a user's manual.
We may not have imagined that we'd be here, but this is a moment made for the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
This is the moment for us to lead the way forward.
Our history has prepared us for this. Just consider the vision of our founder, Walter Annenberg, who said:
The right to free communication carries with it responsibility to respect the dignity of others — and this must be recognized as irreversible. Educating students to effectively communicate this message and to be of service to all people is the enduring mission of this school.
Right there, embodied in Ambassador Annenberg's words, is our charge to use communication to understand the profound changes of our time. Those words remind us of the enduring values at the heart of USC Annenberg's work, a commitment to diversity and inclusion that is in our DNA. It is reflected in the breadth of perspectives and backgrounds among our faculty, staff and students, and in all that we do academically and professionally.
Today, thanks in large part to the vision of Wallis Annenberg, there is no place better equipped to take on this challenge. Our academic rigor puts USC Annenberg at the very top of the world's communication schools. The excellence and energy of our faculty, our world-class facilities and our technological capabilities are second to none. So are our connections with our industries of practice.
But to lead and navigate rapid change, we need a new paradigm, one that borrows from the world of technology, and from the spirit and energy of entrepreneurs. One that I used frequently managing growth in a new-media start-up.
We need agility, already one of USC Annenberg's strengths.
We need velocity, to generate new ideas, test them and if necessary change course faster than we are used to.
We need discipline, to abandon ideas that do not evolve as we had planned, and the willingness to pivot with purpose and grace.
All of this will create a "dynamic stability," a comfort with continuous change that will help us lead the way into the future.
We are beginning to put this new paradigm into practice. Velocity propelled the launch of our new B.A. in Journalism. We need intellectually and ethically rigorous journalists now more than ever. And our program develops contemporary reporting skills, and emphasizes the core values and ethics of the profession.
With our Julie Chen/Leslie Moonves and CBS Media Center, we have created an infrastructure to support innovation. It serves as a newsroom, classroom and incubator for new ways of reaching audiences. Scholarship and practice are both enriched by sharing the same physical and intellectual space.
This new paradigm will drive three priorities in the years ahead: new foundations, new connections and new conversations.
By new foundations, I mean scholarship and teaching that help us understand today's dizzying changes in communication.
One of the world's foremost communication scholars, who just happens to be our very own professor Manuel Castells, has observed that "any new form of social organization and any process of technological change generate their own mythology" where there is "a gap between social change" and our understanding of it.
We will invest in scholarship to address this gap — it is more like a chasm, really — to define the transformation of communication in the digital age, examining its effects and implications.
That begins by investing in our faculty, our most precious resource — and one on which USC Annenberg's reputation as the world's preeminent school for communication relies.
Over the past few years, we have added faculty with digital media expertise in all of our professional programs. Now, we are adding to our tenure ranks with four new professors joining us this fall. And we will be adding more in the years to come.
We also will accelerate innovation in curriculum and teaching across all our programs — communication, public relations and journalism — using a continuous, iterative process.
I mentioned our new B.A. in Journalism. It's time now to reimagine our public relations program to fully address the transformation of the dynamic and growing PR industry, and the global trends that are shaping its future: closer alignment with marketing, a focus on digital storytelling, and an ever-changing media mix. Every organization not only has the capability but the imperative to make its voice heard. We need to prepare students for careers in a culture in which our stories and messages carry greater influence than ever before.
To continue to attract and train the next generation of communication leaders, we will also expedite the development of new and refreshed graduate programs, a process that is already underway.
We believe that media and news literacy is a core competency in the digital age.
At a time when it is harder to distinguish fact from fiction, and all too easy to ask "Siri," or recirculate a meme, we need to prepare our students to be savvy consumers and ethical producers of information. We have recently developed an interdisciplinary media literacy class blending communication theory and journalism practice, soon to be a required course in all our undergraduate degree programs.
But a fluency with new media tools and techniques is just the beginning. We will develop new courses to grapple with the ways in which new media technologies affect our ability to differentiate fake news from real, to understand the ways in which business models of our "attention economy" shape the design and intent of communication tools and platforms, and to appreciate what that means for users.
New Connections and Partnerships
My second priority as dean will be to broaden and deepen our network of connections, to position ourselves along communication's new frontier.
One critical area of focus will be to form and strengthen partnerships that help build the diverse, creative workforce our changing field needs.
Hundreds of faculty, staff, students and friends of USC Annenberg, as well as USC leaders, gathered for the installation of Willow Bay as dean.
To do that, we will increase our investment in career services and offer our students more opportunities for experiential learning.
Our Student Services team is a hallmark of what we call the Annenberg Advantage, a highly skilled staff working closely with our academic units and leveraging the vast network of our relationships.
Their work is part of the reason our students are sought after by employers. In our Class of 2016, 98 percent of USC Annenberg undergrads and 99 percent of students who graduated with a master's degree were employed within 12 months of graduation.
But that list of employers looks very different from years past. Some of our grads are heading for jobs at places like Apple, Facebook, Google and Netflix. And many more want to follow their lead.
Through a donor-funded pilot program called Annenberg Works, we are forging new connections with the global tech and new-media communities. I am pleased to announce this will become a permanent element of our career development capabilities. The team has established an ambitious goal of engaging with more than 300 companies this academic year; 80 of those will be new relationships.
We will also work to create new connections for our students through immersive professional learning opportunities.
We will expand our two-week Maymester programs, now in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, where our students experience firsthand the convergence and disruption in media, communication and web technologies, and imagine their possible place in it. They listen in on the planning behind national ad campaigns, talk with top-level executives or early-career professionals, and bounce ideas off creative strategists.
It is for many a transformative experience. Here is how Keren Marroquin, a first-generation student on our Silicon Valley trip and whose parents migrated from Guatemala, described it:
Many families that come from humble beginnings do not have the expertise in venture capitalism and start-up companies. When your parents are living paycheck to paycheck, they teach you about working harder than anyone else in the room. For two whole weeks the walls that blocked my vision for the future became transparent and permeable.
Experiences like this break down walls for our employers, too, allowing them to learn from a generation that engages with content in entirely different ways. Our students ask well-informed questions — sometimes probing more deeply than our hosts might expect. They may ask an Academy Award-winning filmmaker why his much-anticipated sequel was a box-office disappointment, or an executive at a professional sports league why so few women work there. And sometimes they bring relevant academic theory to practice, offering suggestions, for example, about how an entertainment company might reconsider its efforts to build "para-social relationships." The translation: create better fan engagement.
I see time and again how an employer who engages with our students comes away energized, and challenged to think about her business in a whole new way.
I want more of our students — and more of our employers — to have these shared experiences. I want that spirit of shared learning to infuse all of our new partnerships. This pilot program will become a signature USC Annenberg experience and will inspire new models for partnerships based on shared learning.
We will also create opportunities for a new generation of students, to challenge the way we think about our own business. The most diverse, technologically savvy and technologically dependent generation we have ever seen, Generation Z, is beginning to look ahead to college. We need to understand them better. We want them to pursue communication as a field of study and possible career.
We will expand our pipeline programs for high-school students, building upon the success of our Annenberg Youth Academy for Media and Civic Engagement. Through this free summer program, students from neighboring schools learn about the importance of a free and fair press, and the core skills and values of quality journalism. They also learn to use media to advance a meaningful purpose. We also will develop new opportunities for high-school students in sports media, media literacy and advocacy communications.
New Conversations
Finally, my third priority as dean will be to expand USC Annenberg's presence in the public square, to create new opportunities for conversation, dialogue and debate.
I want us to do more than be part of the conversation. I want us to lead the conversation.
For example, we're incredibly proud of the work of professor Stacy Smith and her students on what she calls the "inclusion crisis." Her research on women and minority representation in Hollywood has been a catalyst for much-needed introspection. We are seeing Hollywood begin to address gender balance in front of and behind the camera in earnest. And I believe we will see real progress in the years ahead.
Our contributions can ignite debate and accelerate positive change. USC Annenberg will invest in creating a portfolio of groundbreaking and news-making research to ground public discourse in accurate, timely and relevant data.
We will amplify USC Annenberg's voice to increase our impact and engage policymakers, industry leaders, influencers and the general public in addressing the pressing issues of this new era of communication. To keep journalism vibrant and valuable. To shape the future of PR. To provide guidance and counsel to those who make policy for the ubiquitous and unpredictable force of new mass media. To help technology companies grapple with the unintended consequences of their massive reach and influence, and encourage them to consider issues such as values, ethics and intent.
We will bring our expertise in cultural theory and criticism to examine issues of race, gender and class as they shape contemporary communication. And we will use that knowledge to guide the media industry and emerging platforms on issues of equity and inclusion.
USC Annenberg must be at the center of all these discussions. And we have the perfect physical space to host them in the soaring forum of Wallis Annenberg Hall. I invite you all to join us.
Our contributions can ignite debate and accelerate positive change.... We will amplify USC Annenberg's voice to increase our impact and engage policymakers, industry leaders, influencers and the general public in addressing the pressing issues of this new era of communication. To keep journalism vibrant and valuable. To shape the future of PR. —Dean Willow Bay
As I take on the role of dean at this moment of profound and often destabilizing change, USC Annenberg's mission has never been more urgent.
I stand here at this new beginning, brimming with excitement, energy and pride in this great school — its faculty, students and staff.
I stand here profoundly grateful.
To President Nikias and the Board of Trustees, thank you for putting your faith in me.
And, Max, to you in particular for creating a USC where our lofty goals are encouraged.
To Provost Quick, thank you for your guidance and support.
To my fellow deans, I am looking forward to learning from you and collaborating with you. And a special welcome to Dean Milton Curry as he takes the helm of the USC School of Architecture.
To the USC Annenberg Board of Councilors, thank you for your dedication to this great school, and for all the guidance I know you will provide in the years ahead.
To my colleagues in the faculty, including my predecessors, former Deans Geoffrey Cowan and Ernest Wilson, I promise to be your champion and partner.
To our staff, thank you for your continued commitment to our excellence.
And, most of all, to our students for inspiring me, for inspiring us, every day.
I am profoundly grateful to be sharing this with my family.
My mother, at the helm of the clan with her wisdom, dignity and grace.
My sons, Max and Will, who, when I discussed the possibility of coming to USC Annenberg with them a few years ago, said, "Go for it, Mom!," and then asked if the job came with football tickets.
And my husband, Bob Iger, who simply says, "How can I help?" I could not ask for anyone better by my side.
Finally, thanks to two men who are not here: Walter Annenberg and my own father, Gene Bay. They worked together many decades ago. I want to thank them for raising daughters to believe their paths had no limits. I am sure they never imagined their two daughters would cross paths in another century.
And Wallis Annenberg, I have saved thanking you for last. You are our hero. Excuse me, our "she-ro." You encourage us to be bold and daring, inclusive and inspiring, and you support us so generously as we do.
I look forward to traveling this road with you. I look forward to traveling this road with all of you.


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Dianne Leigh
Canadian Country Music Singer
Dianne Leigh Biography
Recognized as one of the first Canadian country female artists to achieve national recognition with awards and TV exposure, Dianne Leigh first performed as a featured vocalist in the Toronto pop band, The Sapphires. By the early 1960s she was a featured vocalist in the 'western group' Sons of the Saddle, worked the Toronto club scene as a solo act and toured briefly playing drums in Patsy Cline's road band.
In 1963, Dianne recorded her first solo session in Nashville, attracting chart action on Canadian radio. A few years later she released her first album, Shadows of your Heart with Capitol Records; the title track, written by Ray Griff, became her first #1 hit on RPM Charts.
Over the years, Dianne has recorded for Capital, Quality, Birchmount, Chart, Condor and Marathon labels and has 16 charted singles (RPM Country Charts with six (6) Top 10 hits and three (3) #1 hits). In 1994, music trade publication, RPM considered her the ninth top Canadian country artist of the past 30 years based on her standings in the publication's charts.
Dianne has been a featured vocalist on Carl Smith's Country Music Hall TV series, one of the first country music shows aired on CTV, co-hosted The Harry Hibbs Show and was a frequent special guest on TV shows such as Country Time out of Halifax, The Tommy Hunter Show, The Caribou Club, The Ronnie Prophet Show as well as the Wheeling West Virginia (WWVA) Jamboree. She has also performed at the famed Grand Ole Opry and a stint in Las Vegas.
In February 1970, the first RPM Gold Leaf Awards (later the Juno Awards) were presented at a ceremony in Toronto where Dianne was the first ever recipient, receiving the award for Canada's Top Female Country Singer. Dianne had won this prestigious honour four (4) years in a row leading up to 1970.
Dianne Leigh Photos

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Project CARS Official Forum > Other Games > Project CARS > Project CARS on Playstation 4 > Sound Bug?
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There have been reports of it occasionally happening and it has been looked into already, but we've not been able to nail down a solid repro for it yet. I'll add your steps to the bug, and hopefully that will help track it down asap. Apparently restarting the session usually fixes it (going to/from replay probably would too).
Im getting it randomly as well. So far, restarting the session fixes it. First bug ive encountered.
Partial sound dropped off mine once the first day I played it. Haven't had another issue since, thankfully.
One thing to bear in mind is that the engineer does not necessarily speak in every race, you might go a few races without hearing him. And indeed as you progress through the game you'll hear him less often anyway.
I've had something similar – driving the Mclaren P1 had full engine effects (backfires and off accelerations sfx) but on throttle was some sort of half volume crackle, paired with a visual glitch where the exhaust backfire had the lighting effect but no flame.


Cosmetic regulations in the US are almost non-existent. Because of this, companies are legally allowed to use the word "natural" freely and with no consequences. So what does "natural" really mean? According to Formula Botanica, the award-winning and accredited online Organic Cosmetic Science School, there are four "shades" of the word.
Shade 1- The purest form of natural cosmetics: The ingredients used in your products were plucked straight from nature and it maintains its original chemical structure. For example, an oil; you pick a seed from a plant, cold press it and it still maintains its original chemical shape and structure.
Shade 2 – Ingredients have been naturally derived: Harvested ingredients have undergone chemical reactions. Generally used in the creation of water based products like lotions, creams, foundations, etc.
Shade 3 – Ingredients are "nature identical": Ingredients are not derived from nature, they are synthetically processed, BUT the ingredient is identical in its chemical structure to the same ingredient found in nature. For example citric acid; you can derive it naturally, but because of the scale of consumption (in foods and cosmetics) a majority of citric acid is processed synthetically.
Shade 4 – Ingredient is obtained from plant resources but are mimicking a synthetic molecule: The cosmetic industry has created synthetic molecules to enhance the performance of cosmetics. An example is glycol; used as solvents, humectants, dispersants and preservative boosters. Because of their enormous benefits, "natural" cosmetic brands use plant resources that are processed to mimic these synthetic molecules.
I am unsure if the creators of Goliath cosmetic brands actually wear their products, I however, have only been wearing Custom Blended Cosmetics since 2011. Their performance as well as their ingredients are as important to me as they are to you.


Oilers shoot down the Mavericks 4-3.
Hulak shines with 2 goals and an assist in overtime thriller.
TULSA, OK– The Tulsa Oilers are in the middle of a quiet recovery period of late. A slow start through October and the first part of November has turned into a string of wins that head coach Bruce Ramsay and the team can be proud of. Last night's shootout victory over the Mississippi Riverkings was the Oilers fourth victory in their last five games and for the first time all season, the team appears to be in sync with one another.
A highlight of last nights game was an unusually long shootout series, with the two teams going 12 rounds deep into the tiebreaker before Mike Beausoleil sent the puck whistling past Riverkings goalie Larry Sterling to end the game. Sterling and Oilers goalie Ian Keserich had each stopped 11 shooters before Beausoleil's mark ended the contest.
Another highlight of the game was the first professional goal by Oilers rookie forward Derek Hulak. Hulak, a native of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan played junior hockey with the Regina Pats and the Saskatoon Blades scored his first point in the Oilers win over the Evansville Icemen with an assist and his first goal last night. In his last two seasons in Saskatoon Hulak had posted back-to-back 30 goal seasons.
Saturday night saw the return of the Missouri Mavericks to the BOK Center, and they bring a 10-6-2 record into the game with three of those victories coming against the Oilers. The last time they visited Tulsa they handed the Oilers a 5-2 loss, a nearly identical one to a visit to Independence in early November that began with the now infamous bus fire.
Missouri opened the scoring with just two minutes elapsed on the BOK Center scoreboard when Walker Wintoneak caught Oilers goalie Ian Keserich out of position on a rebound of a Toby Lafrance shot. Another assist on the goal went to Olivier Filion and the Mavericks were up 1-0.
The Oilers answered at 12:44 when rookie Derek Hulak scored his second professional goal, sliding the puck past Missouri goalie Gary Festa off assists from Gary Steffes and RJ Linder. Tulsa would assume their first lead of the game with a power play goal with a little more than 30 seconds remaining in the first period when Derek Eastman found the back of the net while on his back in front of Festa. Assisting on the goal was Harrison Reed.
The Maverick would tie the game at 14:11 of the second when Derek Pallardy put the puck behind a sprawling Keserich with Wintoneak and Ray DiLauro assisting. With just 50 seconds remaining Derek Hulak scored his second goal of the night on the power play with Steffes and Sean Erickson. With that goal the Oilers would take a 3-2 lead into the final period. Hulak's second goal gave the Oilers their 13th two-goal performance by a Tulsa player this season.
At 15:17 of the 3rd the Mavericks would tie the game once again with a goal from Carlyle Lewis who got the puck past Ian Keserich with a rising wrist shot from the blue line. The assist on the goal came from Mike Wakita. Regulation time would end as it did on Friday night, with the score tied and an overtime period ahead.
After peppering the Missouri net with four shots in less a minute, at 1:26 of the overtime session Gary Steffes shoved the puck underneath a diving Festa to win the game for the Oilers. Assisting on the goal was the Tulsa Oiler on a hot streak, Derek Hulak.
The win gave the Oilers their 5th win in six games and a three game wins streak at home for the first time this season, and their first win against the Mavericks this season. The win elevated Tulsa's overall points total to 17 points, tying them with Odessa in the CHL's Berry Conference. In the end that Oilers went 2-for-6 on the power play and the Mavericks 0-for-3. Ian Keserich stopped 27 of the Mavericks 30 shots, while Gary Festa turned aside 31 of the Oilers 35 shots on goal.
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Alone in the wilderness
Alone in the wilderness Sept 5, 2009 14:48:32 GMT -6
Post by Gabriel on Sept 5, 2009 14:48:32 GMT -6
Sadly, his small effort was useless, as more questions arose as soon as he had stopped talking. Oh well. It was worth a try, I guess.
"As it stands, yes, we are headed towards Illia" Gabriel replied, taking back his compass and sticking it into his pocket.
"And sure, the bigger the group, the better. No one in their right mind would even think of attacking a group this large. We could even pass off as a small battalion if we wanted to."
OoC: It's ok to hear rumors like that, Pap, just don't do go around hearing rumors every 5 posts. And no, Morgoth, unless used in combat, weapons don't decrease in duration(unless if used in extreme cases, as would be trying to use a weapon to cut a rock in half, or blowing up a passage with a spell. Those things aren't the same as practicing on your own)
1/8/10(DD/MM/YY)
A mage in training. Well behaved and cool-headed most of the time, even if the hatred towards his father can blind him from the truth.
"... ... ..."
Post by Shadow on Sept 5, 2009 15:49:07 GMT -6
Shadow watched as the crowd before him conversed. All of their conversations seemed relevant some way or another to the fact that this group came together, here. Zaath found a sort of acquaintance, Alphonse seemed to get along with all, and everyone seemed to like each other. Except for Papilion, who seemed to have his doubts about Shadow. However, he did not care what the enlarged person had to say about him. No one knew who he was, no one would.
It was at that moment that the sound got to him. For all his life, he enjoyed the absence of people talking. His years in the woods, all he had to worry about were a loud screech owl, or some other critter. But people talked for other reasons, some, more ridiculous than others. Most of the time, he would have his hood on, and leave. But he couldn't put his hood on, not in front of all these people. Shadow put his hands behind his back, as they started to itch with anticipation. He couldn't wait to start traveling again.
A mysterious, intelligent, and intimidating shaman. He is quiet with all, but is a ferocious and crazed fighter to his enemies.
1/25 Shadow w/ hood on.
+2 Hp | -2 Flux | +6 Dark | -4 Luna
Morgoth Animus
"Save the world? You know not what you say."
Post by Morgoth Animus on Sept 7, 2009 16:41:48 GMT -6
Morgoth slowly regained consciousness. He sat up slowly, and sat on the log for a while to recover.He picked up his water skin and drank the whole thing as he put his cloak on.I'm going to have to find more water.I need food too. he thought. Morgoth took a pouch from a pocket and put several rocks in it.The other shaman said to head south, but the way he looked at me makes me not trust him.I think I'll go west. He traveled for a while when he came to a clearing.He heard voices and hid behind a tree, then peered into the clearing.Bandits! And they have water and food,but I couldn't take all five of them.I'll lure them into the forest, and sneak in and take their stuff. Morgoth then took out several rocks and quietly chanted the words from his tome.This took several minutes, as he wasn't used to using magic yet and had never charged more than one rock at a time.
Main: Tuatara
Alt: Abel
Dark: B
Flux 32/45
Luna 34/35
Vulnerary: 2/3
Guilding Ring 1/1
Saturos Prox
The Wildcard
I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
Etruria Fame: 1
Profession: Undercover Operative
Affinity: Anima
Alone in the wilderness Sept 15, 2009 19:34:33 GMT -6
Post by Saturos Prox on Sept 15, 2009 19:34:33 GMT -6
Saturos clapped his hands together.
"Well it looks like we're all, or at least most of us, are headed to Ilia. If that's the case, there's no reason to stick around here." He looked around at the group. "The group is a little big for traveling, however, as long as none of you are wanted criminals, that shouldn't be a problem," said Saturos, rubbing the back of his head. "None of you are criminals, right?"
Post by Gabriel on Sept 15, 2009 20:29:06 GMT -6
Gabriel kept his mouth shut for a minute, before he decided to speak up. "The only one that could be possibly called something of the sort, if my suspicions are right, should be far away from here by now."
He sighed. He didn't want to think of Hiro as a criminal, but him disappearing all of a sudden could only mean so many things. "That said, I agree. We should get ourselves some provisions and depart as soon as we can."
The "Before" years
[M:0]
The truth can be the most powerful weapon of all...
Post by Errol on Sept 18, 2009 13:11:51 GMT -6
'I guess that worked out well.' Errol thought.
He spoke up. "Surely someone knows of a town nearby where one of us could buy supplies."
Papilion
A fat man from Etruria.
Post by Papilion on Sept 18, 2009 14:28:16 GMT -6
After hearing Saturos ask if any of them were wanted criminals, Papilion started laughing. He thought to himself, "Is this guy serious? Of course some of us would be criminals. Why else would we be hiding in the forest."
Responding to Errol he said, "I don't think we should stop at any towns until we are out of Etruria. I just think it would be safer if we didn't.
Seeing Jya still asleep he then said to Gabriel and Errol, "And I think it's finally time to say goodbye to Jya."
Papilion started to try to get on his horse. Grunting and groaning he finally pulled himself on. The horse looked depressed as Papilion went on.
A flask? Without alcohol?! Blasphemy!
Post by Alphonse on Sept 21, 2009 19:26:17 GMT -6
"I'm not familiar with the surrounding area all that much, but I know there's a town at the base of a mountain range near the Etrurian/Ilian border," he said to Errol in a casual voice. Its been so long since I've been up so far north, I wonder how much it has changed... Alphonse listened to Papilion's comments and gave him a horrified look at his last comment about he girl. "You can't just leave a girl out in the forest! What kind of man are you!?" Alphonse in a loud, slightly aggressive voice. This fat man is very suspicious, he seems to be in quite a hurry and seems immoral towards others. He looked at the rest of the group talking away at each other (Except Shadow, who didn't seem too interested with the others) and then looked down at the girl.
Alphonse leaned towards Shadow and said quietly, "So what'd think? Should we be traveling with these people seem pretty nice except the..." Alphonse gave a motion towards Papilion with his head. "I don't trust the fat one, he's a bit suspicious. But then again, so are you..." he said with a chuckle at the end.
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A reclusive, diligent, and wise holy man recovering from the discovery of his sister's death and sometimes drowning himself in intoxication to escape this harsh reality.
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Gabriel almost jumped at Papilion's comment. "Leave her here!? That'd be insane. Since she's had no say in what we are going to do next, I say we should at the very least take her to the closest town with us. The only problem would be getting her to the town. We'd have to carry her."
"We should be able to get to Illia by going northeast from here" he said, taking out his compass out of his pocket. "It should be that way" he added, pointing opposite to where the river was, and a bit to the north.
Saturos reached down and grabbed the green clothed girl by the back of her outfit and hoisted her over his shoulder. She was light. Not much of a problem for him.
"Well, if we're going to go, let's go already. I'm not one to stand around and talk," said Saturos, starting off in the direction Gabriel was pointing.
Last Edit: Sept 22, 2009 18:48:08 GMT -6 by Saturos Prox
Alone in the wilderness Sept 23, 2009 4:14:04 GMT -6
Post by Shadow on Sept 23, 2009 4:14:04 GMT -6
Shadow's attitude towards Papilion went from tolerable to hated right from the beginning of him opening his mouth. He had thought that maybe the shaman could look over the man's aspects in life, but when the 'cavalier' suggesting on leaving the girl, Shadow's inner rage flared. Even with his feeling in his gut, he kept a straight face. However, he would keep an eye on this... person.
As did his companion, Shadow leaned over to Alphonse and quietly replied, "I know I look suspicious, but I was not the one who suggested leaving a girl in the woods. We need to keep a close eye on Papilion. However, we also should be moving along." Shadow then waited for Alphonse to start walking, as he would follow him. He also decided to put his hood back on, to hide the anger in his eyes.
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Zaath
"We all make choices, but in the end, our choices will inevitably make us."
Post by Zaath on Sept 24, 2009 9:27:30 GMT -6
Zaath glanced over at Papillion, thinking that it would be unwise to leave anyone behind. If Jya was murdered by bandits or worse, taken hostage for god knows what, It would weigh pretty heavy on his conscience, and he knew very well that, like he said earlier, the more the merrier in these parts. "I don't think we leave should her behind, but if we're leaving soon, someone give her a nudge."
Zaath looked over the crowd and observed all the clearings occupants... a priest, a shaman, a swordsman, a knight and a few others. quite the fighting force. If bandits came this way, and they... might not, they would be defeated easily. Zaath was quite thankful he would have so many companions to travel with him, not for the company, for the protection. And hopefully the food, the thought to himself as his stomach growled quietly.
"I will have what is mine... justice"
Post by Morgoth Animus on Sept 28, 2009 17:17:50 GMT -6
Morgoth was finally done charging the rocks,he felt drained but alive. He threw a couple to get their attention and when they turned to see what the noise was, he threw a couple into the forest.They ran into the forest like dogs on a cat.That was easy. Morgoth creped into their camp and took all the food and water he needed, only to find a bandit charging towards him. Morgoth launched the remaining rocks at the bandit, the force knocking him out. Morgoth got his tome out and started chanting and just in time to cut another bandit with a dark ray and then was hit over the head by another.


The different fundamental organisation of genetic material and organelles between eukaryotes and prokaryotes leads to dissimilar processes of protein synthesis. The larger eukaryotes have a more intricate pathway associated with protein synthesis, due to both the biochemical structure of organelles and enzymes, and also the transport of genetic material within cell. In this essay I hope to explore the differences of gene expression between these two types of cells.
A key difference between Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes is that Eukaryotes contain monocistronic mRNA molecules, meaning that the molecule will only code for cistron, and henceforth one protein. Conversely, Prokaryotic mRNA is polycistronic. This means that one mRNA molecule codes for multiple cistrons, resulting in the production of many proteins upon translation. Proteins produced from this polycistronic mRNA will likely have related function, for example each cistron may code for the subunits of the quaternary structure of a globular protein.


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Cersibon é uma série de tirinhas online brasileiras de humor criadas por Rafael Madeira. As tiras se tornaram populares em blogs brasileiros e receberam menções nos jornais Folha de S. Paulo e no O Estado de S. Paulo, que considerou o Cersibon "o grande hype da internet brasileira" em 2008.

O termo "cersibon" teria surgido da expressão francesa "C'Est Si Bon" ("é tão bom", em português), uma canção popular dos anos 1940 que Madeira ouvia no momento de criação.

História
A ideia de criar uma webcomic veio após Rafael ler algumas tirinhas "horríveis", inspirando-o a criar uma "ainda pior". No entanto, as tirinhas ganharam popularidade rapidamente na Internet em 2008.

Após alguns meses, o autor decidiu parar de publicá-las por ter achado que a ideia já havia sido explorada o suficiente. Em 2009, as historinhas voltaram, agora com personagens fixos e tramas. O blog também ganhou nova hospedagem, no portal Interbarney. Após uma nova pausa, as tirinhas voltaram novamente em agosto de 2010, no mesmo endereço, agora com o formato antigo de 3 quadros e sem trama subjacente.

Formato
Em geral, as tiras apresentam uma sequência vertical de três cenas, com personagens sem forma fixa, feitas no Microsoft Paint e diálogos marcados pelo uso da fonte fixedsys. Segundo o autor, o traço característico surgiu por conta de um problema no mouse, sendo mais tarde descrito por comentadores como minimalista e infantil.

A linguagem, embora algumas vezes descrita por jornalistas como "tiopês", é uma variação do Garble, "que tem em sua essência embaralhar completamente um texto, deixando-o incompreensível, e então desfazer só um pouco essa ofuscação pra dar a impressão de que tem alguma ideia sendo expressa ali", segundo Madeira.

O humor das tirinhas consiste no nonsense, na forma de desenhos aparentemente mal-feitos e na sátira ao modo que alguns usuários usam para escrever em chats e blogs, "invertendo ordens, letras e sinais de acentuação, sem o menor apego às regras da escrita".

Ligações externas
Blog oficial (2008)
Blog oficial (2009)
Cersifan
Mcohneiro (2012)

Fenômenos da Internet
Sites de humor
Webcomics do Brasil

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much love, illy: neon aztec print, tastebud satisfaction, and a long over-due letter.
neon aztec print, tastebud satisfaction, and a long over-due letter.
day 27 of the challenge (last week! where did this month go?!). a letter to your readers.
first things first, grab yourself a cup of coffee, your bowl of cereal, smoothie or chocolate milk because i think conversations are so much more fun when one's taste buds are being satisfied.
second, the words that come to mind when i think about you are thank you. whether you have been faithfully reading since February of 2010 or just stumbled across this little area of blog world yesterday, thank you for reading. thank you for every single comment you have left that has made me feel loved or made me laugh or made me feel like i was not alone in my thoughts. thank you for letting me geek over my latest movie or book obsessions - and for the times we fan-girled together (ahem, Hunger Games, Twilight or whatever else i have might have blogged about more than an adequate amount of times). thank you for your kind words and for your honesty even if your opinion differed from mine. thank you for the emails you have sent my way with your own stories and your own vulnerability, reminding me that blogging is something more - it's one special way where lives criss-cross across cyber space, friendships blossom, and we remind each other that we can relate to one another in this crazy world.
and most of all, thanks for just being there and listening. there is really nothing more you can ask for from a friend, so again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Love! And thank you friend for sharing your beautiful stories and adventures in life. Not to mention your all time GORGEOUS outfits! I look forward every day to seeing what your blog has to share!
That dress is adorable and THANK you, your blog is awesome!
Pretty pretty, girl! Such a fun Summer dress!!
and you re so cute!
OMG! I am loving that dress! Miss you! Hopefully now that I am out of school we can get together more for our coffee dates.
Hi dear,this look is great!!
I follow your funny blog and I'd like to invite you taking part at my giveaway!
I love your outift and blog!
*hugs* love you Illy, what a perfect letter!
Love this post, love your hair, love that dress. You remain one of my favorite bloggers, Ilene, & I am so glad you continue to occupy this space on the web. It keeps me happy & gets me thinking & even though I think we maybe have, like, three things in common, total, I love the insight into a life so different from mine & a mind so happy & creative.
Thank you for this. I've been meaning to email you back for this reason. You get me. So thank you.
You are the sweetest ever!!! And that dress.....wow. Love it.
this may be my favorite outfit of your of ALL Time...you are not allowed to wear this when we have coffee....or else I'm going to have to bust out a ball gown to compete with all that pretty!
um, and thank YOU for writing silly!
This is such a fun dress - the colors look great on you!
I HEART this, and I HEART YOU!!! This seriously almost made me tear up! :) You are thee sweetest, and I am so happy I have gotten to know you better and have been able to call you a dear friend! :) Thanks for being you and being awesome!! Much love to you dear friend!
ps: you look so pretty!! love that dress!!


While working at elBulli Foundation, you realize how visualization and communication are the main themes that drive their internal and external activities.
It is not only important to identify the content but also how to explain it. Appealing visualizations and thorough preparation of the communication strategy requires a team directly involved in the lab.
We started exploring different visualization concepts around the Non Elaborated Products of Gastronomy, a dataset of products that are at the core of the gastronomic process. It was an exploration on the digital representation, as well as how to "touch" them in the real world.
The history of Gastronomy is the starting point of a visual exploration on timelines. Timelines help explain the evolution of products, of tools and all the entities that are part of Gastronomy.


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I recently built an application - https://stopgap.store/ which is a simple way to get up and running with an API with almost zero configuration.
In an effort to demo its capabilities, I thought I'd explore working with the fetch API as well.
Fetch is an experimental technology!
To create something on the server, we need to send a POST request, with a JSON string of the content we want to send.
When the page loads, fetch all the todos from the server, and create <li>s for each of them.
Note: the addition of ".json" is required here because the apiUrl serves HTML as well.
For each list item, we can add a link to delete, though this will require a small change or to to our li() function and PATCH request.
First, create a <span> child of the <li> and make that contenteditable.


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The game of golf hit Indiana like a storm in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Riverside Park became home to the first municipal in Indianapolis in 1900 and from there a group of enthusiastic golfers formed their own private club. The group obtained a lease from the city in 1903 for a tract of unused park land and, in November of that year, filed Article of Incorporation with the Secretary of State to form Highland Golf Club. The Articles were signed by: William W. Carter; I. N. Cleaver; William Donaldson; Arthur M. Hall; James Kepperley; Edward L. Lennox; E. D. Moore; Samual E. Rauh; William Root and H. F. Waterman.
They hired Scotsman James Conacher to design and build the course and, in 1904, the new 18-hole Highland Golf Club opened and was considered one of the finest links in the country. When the city terminated this lease in 1919, the growing club needed a new location. A spectacular 143-acre farm was found in "north" Indianapolis, owned by early pioneers named Eastman. The partially wooded land on a high bluff of White River became home to the new Highland Golf and Country Club and their old course at Riverside became Coffin Golf Course. Founders Clarence L. Kirk; Charles Hall; George Schneider and L.M. Wainwright led her transition.
Highland Realty was formed and handled the financials for the purchase, the conversion of the farm to a golf course, and the building of the clubhouse. Willie Park Jr. designed and built the course with assistance from Bill Diddel and they created a course hailed by golfers near and far. In 1940, the realty company sold the property and its improvements to the club and the club retired this initial debt in 1941. There was great merriment in the clubhouse that day.
Over the years our club has weathered economic depressions, wars and cultural changes but is still known as "the golfinest club hearabouts!" A debt of gratitude goes to our members and leaders who were, and still are, dedicated to keeping our beautiful club thriving.
1050 West 52nd Street Indianapolis Indiana 46228
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Q: jsp:param : name parameter can't accept dynamic data? I'd like to set the "name" param to a jsp:param in a "dynamic-way", that is :
<jsp:param value="<%=paramValue%>" name="<%=pageURL%>"/>
instead of :
<jsp:param value="<%=paramValue%>" name="page"/>
Or a similar way to do it .. I just don't want to decide the url at runtime.
Is it possible ?
Thanks for the anwsers :)
Cheers

A: That's disallowed as per the syntax reference.
Just add another param.
<jsp:param name="page" value="<%=paramValue%>" />
<jsp:param name="url" value="<%=pageURL%>" />

Unrelated to the problem, scriptlets are not the best practice. Consider learning EL, those ${} things, it's already over a decade the recommend way of accessing backend data in JSPs.

A: you could use Expression Language too:
<jsp:param value="${paramValue}" name="page"/>
<jsp:param value="${pageURL}" name="url"/>

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I have made some difficult shots in my hunting career, and I have missed some animals from mere yards. I will never claim to be an expert marksman, or another Fred Bear or Howard Hill. If I ever learn even half of what those great men forgot about archery, I would consider myself lucky. What knowledge I have acquired over my hunting career has been taught to me by the school of hard knocks. When the chips are down and your trophy animal is range, it takes all you have to execute the perfect shot. It is the culmination of years of practice with your chosen weapon. When your weapon is a bow it is all the more challenging to maintain your discipline and work through a good shot. Heart rate, breathing and worst of all our minds are the largest stumbling blocks to this challenge. Even on an ambiguous yellow target bag some archers struggle with the dreaded target panic. Shooting well requires your mind, body, and equipment to be in proper tune.
Several years ago I started down a rocky road of traditional archery. My vision was to eventually bow hunt exclusively with a longbow. As I find myself now on the precipice of the realization of that dream. I felt I would share a lesson the wooden stick I call a bow has taught me. This realization has become my mantra and one that I can frequently be heard muttering to myself during nightly practice. Be at peace. Drawing a bow is a physical activity that requires strength and energy. It puts tension on the body, induces fatigue, and at the beginning may not be an enjoyable feeling. There also is the added mental anxiety of wanting to shoot well, this can be compounded if shooting with others, or your quarry is near. Add in the mental focus needed to maintain proper form and aim, and the whole event of the shot may not be a placid one.
Whether you shoot a rifle, a stick bow, or are a catapult engineer (compound), it is important to find peace before your shot. For me it is reaching full draw, feeling my tooth and shoulder anchor lock into place, focusing all of my mental energy on a tiny spec I have deemed my target, and then relaxing. I know it sounds odd to relax while holding 53 pounds of draw weight; but it is a mental relaxing. Forgetting about what the end result of the shot will be, as long as the shot itself is perfect. The greatest melding of man and bow, culminating in the flight of an arrow. I find when I can do this and remove all anxiety and mental tension form the shot process, my groups are tighter and most of the time my arrow is within a respectable distant from the center ring.
We all know about the seven fundamentals of marksmanship; stance, grip, sight alignment, sight picture, breathing, trigger control, and follow through. I propose there is perhaps an eight which is a relaxed mental perspective that I call, peace.


Although these hats have always been woven in Ecuador, they were first called a 'Panama Hat' when the Panama Canal was being constructed in the 19th century in Panama, South America.
The light weight yet strong hats were perfect for protecting the workers from burning in the tropical sun. The hats are woven from the Toquilla palm, indigenous to the coastal regions of Ecuador. Their history can be traced as far back as the Incas who were the first to weave hats from this fibrous plant, first observed in the 16th century.
Our Panama Hats are all fairly traded and ethically sourced ourselves, directly from our friends in Ecuador.


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Q: Which algorithm does CreditCardAttribute use for credit card number format validation .NET 4.5 includes a new validation attribute named as CreditCardAttribute and this attribute specifies that a data field value is a credit card number. When I decompile the assembly which contains this class, I can see the following code for the credit card number validation:
public override bool IsValid(object value)
{
  if (value == null)
  {
    return true;
  }
  string text = value as string;
  if (text == null)
  {
    return false;
  }
  text = text.Replace("-", "");
  text = text.Replace(" ", "");
  int num = 0;
  bool flag = false;
  foreach (char current in text.Reverse<char>())
  {
    if (current < '0' || current > '9')
    {
      return false;
    }
    int i = (int)((current - '0') * (flag ? '\u0002' : '\u0001'));
    flag = !flag;
    while (i > 0)
    {
      num += i % 10;
      i /= 10;
    }
  }
  return num % 10 == 0;
}

Does anybody know which algorithm is applied here to validate the number format? Luhn's algorithm? Also, is this an ISO standard? Finally, do you think that this is the right and 100% correct implementation?
MSDN doesn't provide much information about this. In fact, they have the wrong information as below:

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The value is validated using a regular expression. The class does not
  validate that the credit card number is valid for purchases, only that
  it is well formed.

A: The last line:
return num % 10 == 0;

Is a very strong hint that this is a Luhn Algorithm

A: This algorithm is really a Luhn's algorithm. Unfortunately not all card numbers could be verified by this algorithm so it is not 100% method. However, card numbers of Mastercard and Visa products that allow keyed card number entry should pass this check.
The only 100% way to validate if the card number exist is to perform a transaction. Usually Acquirer Host System protocols used for PoS connections have provisions to validate if the card is not on stop lists and exist in routing tables.


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Mood changes during and after pregnancy are surprisingly common. But despite that, it's not always easy to recognize what's going on. Indeed, fitness guru Jillian Michaels reveals in a new interview that it was a challenge for her to understand what was happening when her partner, Heidi Rhoades, was suffering from postpartum depression (PPD) after the birth of the pair's son.
"While everybody goes, 'Oh yeah, postpartum, I'm so scared of it,' I don't think they realize that it can come in so many different shapes and forms," Michaels tells People. But, after giving birth to their son, Phoenix, Michaels' says Rhoades felt isolated and lonely. "I didn't know what was wrong, I didn't know how to help her," explains Michaels, who just released a new book about pregnancy.
According to the American Psychological Association, about one out in seven women will experience PPD. And, although having dealt with depression before raises your risk for PPD, it's the first episode of depression for about half of those women.
If you think you or your partner may be suffering from PPD, the most important thing is to seek professional help — this is not the kind of thing to try to handle on your own. Treatment usually consists of therapy with or without an antidepressant medication.
But it's also crucial to be able to speak honestly with those around you about what's happening, which isn't always easy in a culture that expects new parents to be constantly overjoyed. So it's great to see Michaels and Rhoades bringing their story into the light.


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Utilities push for expanded access in 4.9 GHz band
by Monica Alleven |
Jul 11, 2018 7:55am
Four top utility associations believe the 4.9 GHz band should be expanded to include utilities and other critical infrastructure industries. (Pixabay)
A group of utilities is urging the FCC to expand access in the 4.9 GHz band for critical infrastructure industries (CII), while public safety organizations are saying dedicated access to public safety must be preserved.
The 4.9 GHz band consists of 50 MHz of spectrum which was allocated for public safety use in 2002, but the rules didn't allow public safety to make the most effective use of the band. More recently, the FCC launched a new attempt to reassess the band and is soliciting comments on how to stimulate expanded use of 4.9 GHz while ensuring that incumbent public safety users continue to have priority.
The Utilities Technology Council (UTC), the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) and the GridWise Alliance jointly submitted comments last week encouraging expansion of the 4.9 GHz band to include utilities and other CII. They say their members would quickly make effective use of the band as the demand for smart grid, grid modernization and Utility 2.0 applications increase over the next several years.
Southern Company, a utility serving areas of the Southeast, said (PDF) that allowing utilities to have primary access to the 4.9 GHz band would help reduce equipment costs for public safety users and help utilities operate more resilient and reliable facilities for service to the public, to government agencies and to other critical infrastructure entities, including commercial service providers.
RELATED: 4.9 GHz band could open up for limited commercial use
In response to questions posed by the commission, Southern Company said the band should not be redesignated for commercial use, nor should a two-tier sharing approach be pursued.
"It should come as no surprise that the band has continued to languish under rules adopted in the 2002-2003 timeframe," the company stated. "The user community should not be faulted for failing to make more productive use of the band when nothing has changed in the more than six years since the public was first invited to offer comments on how to improve use of this band."
The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International (APCO) said the commission should make clear that the 4.9 GHz band will be preserved for public safety use. That said, APCO is open to exploring a sharing framework for the band that would allow use for non-public safety purposes, provided a proven sharing mechanism is in place that ensures priority and preemption for public safety users.
"Public safety agencies should not be put in a position to lease or otherwise put a price on their use of the 4.9 GHz band," APCO told the commission (PDF).
Currently, public safety agencies use the 4.9 GHz band for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint links, which are especially useful for connecting fire/rescue stations and radio networks in rural areas. They're also using it for data and video backhaul, real-time video surveillance, controlling tactical robots, airborne video, broadband connectivity and wireless fixed hot spots for high-speed public safety data sharing.
APCO also said that public safety doesn't have spectrum options that could replace the 4.9 GHz band. Land mobile radio allocations in the VHF, UHF, 700 MHz and 800 MHz bands are limited to basic voice communications and some low-bandwidth data with permitted bandwidths typically on the order of 12.5 kHz and 25 kHz. The T-Band is further limited to 11 metropolitan areas. "Thus, even where channels are available for licensing, these other bands should not be viewed as alternatives to, or interchangeable with, the 50 MHz that the 4.9 GHz band affords," APCO said.
Further, APCO said the public safety community has been waiting on the commission to take actions that will make the 4.9 GHz band a more attractive option for mission critical communications. APCO and the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) conducted research and submitted detailed proposals for changes to the licensing rules that would increase public safety's use of the band, but in the six years since the most recent Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the commission hasn't adopted any of those measures.
RELATED: FCC commissioner targets midband spectrum for 5G within 2 years
The City of New York told the commission (PDF) that it's an intense user of the 4.9 GHz spectrum, and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) alone holds 58 licenses in the band; the NYPD uses it to support on-street camera video backhaul, specialized video link applications supporting bomb squad robots and counter-terrorism applications.
The New York City Fire Department (NYFD) uses the 4.9 GHz spectrum to support wireless video and data communications at the scene of major fires, including wireless command boards that track resources, both human and material, at the scene of an incident.
The city is concerned that broadband wireless networks using LTE protocols in close proximity to existing NYC public safety agency deployments will result in a throughput degradation to the incumbent public safety system. The city suggests that if leasing arrangements are authorized, exclusion zones be created to ensure that such degradation doesn't occur and that in all events, public safety entities have the ability for "immediate interruption."
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How do you define leadership? Do you know your leadership style? There is a transformational leader in us all and organizations are looking for leaders to inspire, engage and be the change agent in an environment. During this workshop, we will explore various leadership styles and students will learn about how to be a transformational leader at school and when transitioning into the world of work.


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Talk story about the invasion area of the coast of Normandy The area has a long history as a place of arrival for invading troops. The ancestors of the Norman French, the natives of the region, arrived from Scandinavia back in the Viking days. William the Conqueror set out for England in 1066 from Dives-sur-mer, a little village near Caan, and it was in that vicinity that Napoleon massed his Army, with a flotilla of 1,300 flat-bottomed boats for a crack at England. Edward II, and Henry V landed at Saint Vaast-la-Hougue, on the Cherbourg Peninsula, and Trouville respectively Description of the Cotentin, or Cherbourg peninsula. The Cherbourg harbor is man-made, its breakwater, one of the lonest in the world was completed in 1832. Mentiones Caen & Bayeux, and quotes an old saying "Si tu veux, Etre Heureux. Vas entre Caen at Bayeux.


Even before this transition takes place, one thing that can get couples super excited is the chance to pick a baby name for their newborn. While it is fun to pick a modern name for your infant, it is very important to understand the significance behind the word you choose. This is because a name has the power to impact your child's personality. For this reason, many people take several things into consideration like stars of the child, ancestors' names and even deities they worship.
So go ahead, pick a beautiful name from this list of modern Hindu baby boy names for your little nugget or a pretty baby girl name for your princess, and give your child a name they will grow up to love. You can also browse through top 100 popular Indian baby names for some quirky suggestions.
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Standing (left to right): Cottrell Webster, Steven App, Russell Pittman, the late D. Michael Collins, Bret Edwards, Eric Spitler, Fred Gibson, Stephen Quick, and Craig Jarvill.
Not pictured: Vice Chairman Thomas Hoenig, Kymberly Copa, E. Melodee Brooks, Diane Ellis, Christopher Farrow, Robert Harris, Martin Henning, and Suzannah Susser.


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She got her first publishing deal aged 26 and went on to write three more novels for Bloomsbury. She took a break to have three children and during this time taught Creative Writing and also a Children's Literature course for the Open University.
The Boy who drew the Future and Hope are both published by Firefly. She is a National Trust writer in residence at Sudbury Hall and the Museum of Childhood. She currently lives in Rutland, the smallest county in the country, with her family and their two very lively spaniels.
Rhian's latest publication is the novella 'Matchgirl' as part of Three Strikes (October 2018).
You can follow Rhian on twitter on @Rhian_Ivory and on Facebook.
Rhian: 'I've always written but it took my Year 9 class to push me into sending my first novel off. It was happily found on the slushpile and I was offered a two book deal by the commissioning editor.
I've always loved children's books and was an avid reader as a child. We had a mobile library that visited Llangynidr, the village I grew up in. I was lucky enough to have a big reader for a mum and she took my brother and I to libraries and bookshops regularly. I also devoured the school library which was pretty well stocked.
Why did you write The Boy Who Drew the Future?
What did you find out in your research for The Boy Who Drew the Future?
Rhian: 'When I had the rough idea for the storyline for Noah and Blaze, I wanted a place to set the story in. I've always been drawn to strange village names and was looking at a map of the UK when I saw Sible Hedingham. About halfway through the novel, I decided to make sure that this village would be big enough to have a school and work out which roads Beth and Noah would live on. One of the first things I came across when I began researching the river was a link to an old court document and a local newspaper headline – The Sible Hedingham Witchcraft Case. I read on avidly making notes and discovered that the last witch in England was swum in the river Colne at Sible Hedingham. Not only that but it was a man rather than a woman, he was French and he was deaf and dumb but made his living by drawing pictures of the future! I nearly fell off my chair. I couldn't believe it. The court cases and historical documents really helped my story develop and allowed me to imagine just what life would have been like for Blaze in Sible Hedingham in the 1860s.


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Every employee of IRI is responsible for carrying out the mission of IRI and demonstrating the organization's core values in their daily work.
The Digital Platforms Manager will shape and execute digital platforms strategy for a growing communications team. S/he will oversee IRI's external-facing web properties, primarily but not exclusively the Institute's website, IRI.org, and its customer relationship management, events management, and email marketing platforms. S/he will ensure that these platforms are technically sound and continuously improved based on data and audience insights; collaborate across the External Affairs team to ensure IRI delivers a first-class experience to our digital audiences; and develop governance to enable staff across IRI to keep content and data current and relevant.
This position reports to the Senior Digital and Creative Manager and will work closely with all members of the team including the Director of Communications and the Vice President for External Affairs.
Undergraduate degree in a field relating to IRI's mission (e.g., political science, international relations, international development, communications) or a relevant technical field is preferred but not required.
5-7 years' experience in digital communications, product management, website design and development, e-mail marketing, CRM development and implementation, or a related field, or a combination of these fields.
Proven experience managing a website, CRM, and/or other technical platform for the purpose of supporting institutional external communications.
Proven experience in project and stakeholder management.
Proven experience managing a budget of any magnitude related to IT investments, ideally including evaluating technical investments and making vendor/platform selection recommendations, is preferred but not required.
Demonstrated interest in international relations, foreign policy, national security policy, democracy promotion, civil society, or other topics relating to IRI's mission.
Ability to work independently, multi-task, be persistent and work under tight deadlines.
Experience identifying complex problems and developing creative solutions.
Primary Functions & Responsibilities:
Lead day-to-day management of all EA technical platforms, including IRI.org and CRM.
Lead the top-to-bottom redesign of IRI.org, currently underway.
Maintain liaison with IRI.org's registrar, hosting, and development vendors to ensure uptime and delivery, oversee technical infrastructure, and ensure continuous feature improvements and updates so that future needs to "redo" the website are reduced.
Lead content governance for IRI.org, working proactively with program teams to ensure that key marketing and programmatic content (e.g., program and country descriptions, key personnel bios, downloadable one-pagers, publications, events and recordings, thought leadership pieces, etc.) are consistently refreshed, updated and available.
Lead the procurement of and manage all aspects of IRI's CRM, including building and maintaining contact lists in collaboration with programs, divisions and executive leadership, working with all parties to periodically update and clean lists. Oversee list-cutting for major events and campaigns.
Develop marketing automations and CRM integration with IRI.org, ensuring direct email follow-up for visitors who come to IRI.org, attend events, download publications, and otherwise convert interest and leads into relationships.
Work across the External Affairs team to ensure that IRI's digital platforms are seamlessly integrated into events, digital campaigns, major publication launches, and other high-visibility initiatives.
Provide day to day oversight and long-term planning for budget, procurements and contracts for IRI's digital platforms, including website and CRM development needs. Evaluate the capabilities of different vendors and platforms, make recommendations, and lead implementation.
Provide strategic advice and consulting to program teams across IRI seeking to incorporate digital platforms into the Institute's programs and products.
Travel overseas to work with field-based teams and train staff to carry out digital campaigns.
5-7 years: Proven experience in digital communications, product management, website design and development, e-mail marketing, CRM development and implementation, or a related field, or a combination of these fields.
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Junior Filmmakers Club run a a half term digital animation film camp for children aged 8 to 13 years over the February half term 2017. The camp run for 5 days from 10am to 4pm daily. The camp was partly funded by Campbell Park Parish Council.
The theme of the camp was MK @ 50 and children were to produce films based on the past, present and future of MK. They watched films and researched about MK's history and then wrote and produced their films. They learnt about script development and writing, storyboarding, character design and creation, animation, narration and editing adding music, effects and graphics to their films. The finished films were premiered to family and friends.
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Joan studied the art of the great masters in New York City's museums and galleries. She headed west at an early age to pursue her own career and study the birds and wildlife of the American West. In over 30 years as a professional artist, Joan's work has included painting and illustrations in many mediums as well as sculpting in wood, bronze and stone. Her work has mainly focused on finely painted bronze sculpture of birds and relief sculpted vessels in bronze.
Her sculpture has been exhibited in such prestigious venues as The White House, Washington D.C.; Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum; A Celebration of Birds, at the North American Ornithological Conference; and Brookgreen Gardens, Pawleys Island, SC.
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One foot in front of the other. One step at a time. Step by step. Bit by bit. Mantras to move through difficult times. Mantras I've turned to during a prolonged trauma, and my ongoing recovery. Mantras I manifest by literally putting one foot in front of the other, taking one step at a time. By walking. Walking to manifest movement forward. Even if only one step at a time.
While he was limited to running on the spot inside his dark cell, I walked outside for Josh, because he couldn't. I felt him with me, remembering our walks together, around the world, just before he was captured. In Switzerland, we walked in between Geneva trams, with our 33 students, rushing from WHO headquarters to our classroom, to UNAIDs, and back to our hotel. In Bangalore, India, we walked through the vibrant city that never sleeps, and ducked into Cubbon park, reveling in the natural enclave, and the chaiwallah and samosawallah. In Changsha, China, we walked across Central South University campus, wound our way through street food vendors just outside, and across city streets to get to much-needed massages. He took my hand to walk across a busy street to catch a show. In Cape Town, South Africa, we walked through streets and parks to our classroom, and through Kirstenbosch Garden, and a Western Cape hiking trail, sharing our dreams for our futures.
I visualized walking with him again when he returned – along rivers and in expansive, open fields. I walked along the Ottawa river, just behind my home, breathing in the sunsets and vistas, trying to dissolve my feelings of entrapment. I took photos of every step to share with Josh in freedom, hoping they could somehow replace a tiny fraction of the many moments he missed. Though I knew that nothing could. Even while thinking of him, seeking beautiful flora and fauna, connected me with where I was in those moments. Those moments that were mine.
The first time I saw Josh, after he was freed, he surprised me by recalling my post to me in vivid detail, as if he had walked the path with me. But during his captivity, and for a long time after he was freed, the prolonged and increasing threat to his life and well-being, took a greater and greater toll on me. Despite the solace I found in walking, I was often unable to get out the door – I struggled with utter exhaustion combined with anxiety about what could be just outside the door. As I write that, I have a flash of insight – Josh was captured while simply hiking with friends in a beautiful setting. And even after he was freed, the Iranian regime tried to instill fear in me by communicating that they were watching my every move. So it's no wonder that even something as simple and necessary as walking could overwhelm me with fear.
For quite some time, one of the only things I could get to was the weekly psycho-educational group I was referred to. I felt compelled to honour my commitment to the group, despite the distance I had to travel, and found great relief and support in our shared struggles. One of our shared struggles was our difficulty exercising, even when we knew and experienced how beneficial it was. We searched for strategies to overcome our barriers to getting out the door.
As my recovery progressed I began to walk almost daily, seeking glimpses of nature in my Toronto urban environment. I searched for and photographed trees and gardens against urban backdrops. I sought new discoveries – new routes, new places and spaces – each new discovery, no matter how seemingly small, gave me hope for the future, gave me a desire for a future with positive possibilities around every corner. I went on a series of hikes with an old friend, in an old hometown, searching for multiple waterfalls all in one day.
I conceived an idea based on my experience of gaps in services/supports, and research evidence on the benefits of exercise and social support for mental health: walking peer support groups that would offer a combination of a commitment to groups, the benefits of emotional support, and the ease of walking, to reduce barriers to exercise. I designed Walking Peer Support Groups for Mental Health, a project, to train people living with mental health challenges and issues to start and lead walking peer support groups. The City of Toronto funded it tentatively for two years. The first year is under way.
When the City of Toronto funded it, and the Manager, Social Development there expressed great enthusiasm for the project, I was honoured by their recognition of the project's contribution to city programs, and more importantly to the mental health of it's residents. When my Self-Help Resource Centre (SHRC) colleagues at the time congratulated me, I replied: "The proposal is close to my heart, and took a lot of work. The work ahead to make it happen is the most exciting part." It has been even more exciting and rewarding than I imagined. The enthusiasm of project partners is infectious and reinforces my vision and commitment. Houselink members, who I interviewed for a needs assessment, are passionate and articulate about the powerful, life-transforming benefits of their walking groups, and exercise as a whole. Houselink staff consistently contribute beyond their project commitments because they see the dramatic impact of exercise on their members. Members and staff are driven to spread those benefits to even more members.
The Regent Park Neighbourhood Initiative (RPNI) is eager to offer the benefits of walking peer support groups to residents of Regent Park going through the upheaval and transformation inherent in community revitalization. I envision them maintaining connection to their constantly changing home, by walking through their evolving neighbourhood together, and supporting each other. I'm a founding member of the Centre for Social Innovation – Regent Park, which I can see from my apartment window, so I am committed to building on my community's strengths.
Walking Peer Support Groups for Mental Health has provided me with a remarkable opportunity to weave my past into my future. Walking group founders, leaders, and participants I interviewed for the project needs assessment embody key principles of peer support and manifest them as they walk. They shift leadership, give each other space, walk at their own pace, and support each other on and off their walking paths. They enable each other to carve their own paths within the context of their experiences and relationships.
I look forward to continuing our steps towards building roads together. For me, it is part of my road to freedom.
Have you ever wondered how a peer support group could help you, your community, your clients/members, or organization cope with transitions, health/mental health issues, or other shared challenges? Or are you already planning or engaged in a peer support group?
Join our Founder, Farah Mawani, and the Self-Help Resource Centre at our upcoming interactive workshops at the Centre for Social Innovation – Regent Park, 585 Dundas St. E.! We have designed them for you to take individually or as a series. Register for both workshops and get a discount! Individual workshop rates are $50/person, and a package of two workshops costs $80/person.
Please contact Farah Mawani, for more information and to register.
Let us know if you are interested in attending our other peer support workshops, co-hosted by the Self-Help Resource Centre or having workshops tailored to the needs of your peer support group, colleagues, or organization.
Our Founder, Farah N. Mawani, will be speaking on 'Systemic Discrimination and Mental Health' at this forum hosted by the Rights of Non-Status Women's Network.
This open forum is a place for VAW workers, shelter workers, community health workers, students, activists, academics, and community members to discuss recent changes to Canada's immigration system, including Bill C-31 and cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFH), and the implications of this for service providers working in the areas of immigration, gender, and non-status rights.
Please RSVP by sending an email confirmation to Rights of Non-Status Women Network by Mon Jan 28.
Please also RSVP and invite your friends and colleagues on our Facebook event listing.
Registration Fee (for operational costs) to be paid in cash at the door. A receipt can be provided.
· Students are free. Please bring your student I.D.
Space is fully wheelchair accessible.
Please let us know of any accessibility needs so that we can do our best to accommodate them.
Light lunch and snacks will be served.
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Please join our webinar hosted by the Girls Action Foundation, part of their Sparks Talks Webinar Series.
Register here and RSVP and invite your friends on Facebook.
Follow @_GirlsAction, @FarahwayGlobal, and @farah_way on Twitter for the latest webinar buzz.
Whether you are taking action in your local community or want to create change in the wider world, this webinar will inspire you to set your goals high and take practical steps to make them happen. Farah will share strategies for building the scope and level of engagement of supporters, within complex and sensitive sociopolitical contexts. She will highlight the importance of peaceful communication, and demonstrate the potential for amplifying impact by integrating social media with media, and community-based events.
Farah N. Mawani is a Visiting Scholar, Massey College. She has global teaching, research, and policy experience in social determinants of health, mental health, inequalities in health, and community-based research. She has national experience in roles including Senior Policy and Research Analyst, Mental Health Strategy, Mental Health Commission of Canada; Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre Steering Committee member; Mental Health Reform and Policy research team, Centre for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities, and Mental Health; and National Coordinator for numerous national health research projects.
Farah recently founded Farahway Global, a non-profit organization, based at the Centre for Social Innovation, that engages the global public in action for human rights and mental health via social media integrated with community-based events. It builds on Farah's experience co-founding and directing the social media and global public engagement components of Free the Hikers, which freed Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd, held hostage in Iran for 2 years and 2 months.
The SPARK TALKS webinar series features inspirational stories, advice and tools from ground-breaking women. Presentations are always followed by an interactive Question & Answer session. Direct from your computer, participate in FREE webinars on topics such as safe cosmetics; women in the arts; social, environmental and political activism; building communities and organizations; the law; and arts as a medium for social change.
Girls Action Foundation is a national charitable organization. We lead and seed girls' programs across Canada. We build girls' and young women's skills and confidence and inspire action to change the world.
Through our innovative programs, research, and support to a network of over 300 partnering organizations and projects, Girls Action reaches over 60,000 girls and young women. We reach remote, marginalized and urban communities, including those in the North.
Tuesday, June 26, was the United Nations International Day In Support of Victims of Torture. I spent the days leading up to it reflecting on psychological torture, and particularly the impact of psychological torture on me. Although it is difficult to delve into, I want to share some of that experience. I hope it will increase global understanding of the devastating impact of psychological torture, the remarkable courage of those who face it, and the support people need on their journeys of recovery…Read more.
Since our Free the Hikers social media campaign achieved its primary, seemingly impossible, objective of freeing my dear friends Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd, I have received numerous requests to share our secret. Political prisoner campaigns, human rights organizations, mental health organizations, and even businesses, want to know how we built the global movement that it took to free them…Read more.
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Ryerson President Sheldon Levy will be getting a cow from a student who graduates next week.
In the bold journey Teriano Lesancha has taken to get an education, cows were sometimes a sore point between a struggling farmer and his ambitious daughter who wanted the income from selling cows to pay her tuition. They became a point of pride when that debt was repaid, with interest. Interest on four hoofs.
But her outspoken mother, known simply as Mama Teriano, also played a key role. Though she never went past Grade 3, she had a fierce belief in education for her daughter….
University of Toronto doctoral student Farah Mawani worked one year as a tutor at the village school, and her tales of university here planted an idea that Teriano never forgot.


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Horst Geffers (* 15. Februar 1925 in Braunschweig; † 16. Dezember 2015 in Bergisch Gladbach) war ein deutscher Marineoffizier, zuletzt Konteradmiral der Bundesmarine.

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Geffers trat nach dem Besuch des Wilhelm-Gymnasiums in Braunschweig 1942 als Mitglied der Crew C VI/42 in die Kriegsmarine ein und fand nach einer Bordausbildung auf dem Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst während des Zweiten Weltkrieges Verwendung an Bord von Minensuch- sowie U-Booten. Zuletzt war er seit November 1944 als Leutnant zur See Wachoffizier an Bord des am 17. März 1945 in Dienst gestellten und am 9. Mai 1945 in der Ostsee vier Seemeilen südöstlich vom Leuchtturm Schleimünde bei der "Aktion Regenbogen" selbst versenkten U-Bootes U-2367.

Nach Kriegsende begann Geffers nach einem Vorpraktikum im Wintersemester 1946/47 ein Geodäsiestudium an der Technischen Hochschule Braunschweig, das er später an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn fortsetzte. Während dieser Zeit trat er 1950 der Landsmannschaft Teutonia zu Bonn bei und schloss im Juli 1950 sein Studium als Diplom-Ingenieur ab. Am 1. Mai 1951 begann er seinen Vorbereitungsdienst als Regierungsvermessungsreferendar im Regierungspräsidium Köln. Am 30. Mai 1952 erfolgte an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn seine Promotion zum Doktoringenieur mit einer Dissertation mit dem Titel Untersuchungen über beobachtete Abweichungen von der ungestörten Bahnbewegung im System des Doppelsternes 70 Ophiuchi.

Nach der Gründung der Bundesmarine wurde Geffers als Offizier übernommen und fungierte nach verschiedenen Verwendungen wie zum Beispiel 1958 als Kapitänleutnant als Kommandant des zur gleichnamigen Klasse gehörenden Schnellbootes S 1 Jaguar zwischen Oktober 1961 und März 1962 als S 3-Offizier (Planung, Befehlsgebung und Führung laufender Operationen) im Stab des 2. Schnellbootgeschwaders. Danach wurde er als Korvettenkapitän im April 1962 als Nachfolger von Korvettenkapitän Reinhard Goette Kommandeur des 1. Schnellbootgeschwaders. Diesen Posten bekleidete er bis September 1963 und wurde daraufhin durch Korvettenkapitän Reinhard Bucher abgelöst. Anschließend war er zwischen 1963 und 1965 Absolvent der Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr in Hamburg. Nach weiteren Verwendungen wurde er als Kapitän zur See am 1. Oktober 1968 Nachfolger von Fregattenkapitän Carl Hoffmann als Kommandeur des Kommando Marineführungssysteme und übte diese Funktion bis zum 27. Juli 1971 aus, woraufhin Kapitän zur See Günter Fromm die Nachfolge antrat. Er war von 1971 bis 1972 Absolvent des Naval Command College des Naval War College (NWC) der US Navy in Newport (Rhode Island).

Zuletzt wurde Geffers als Konteradmiral am 1. Oktober 1977 Nachfolger von Konteradmiral Otto Ites als Amtschef des Marineamtes und verblieb in dieser Funktion bis zu seinem Eintritt in den Ruhestand am 31. März 1985, woraufhin Konteradmiral Dieter Franz Braun sein Nachfolger wurde. 1979 wurde ihm das Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse verliehen.

Ihm wurde später auch das Große Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens verliehen. Geffers war mit Ingeborg Nord verheiratet, deren Vater Ferdinand Ernst Nord Hauptgeschäftsführer des Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft war.

Am 13. Juli 1989 gehörte Geffers zu den Gründungsmitgliedern der Studiengesellschaft der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Wehrtechnik (DWT). Er engagierte sich ferner als Mitglied der Marine-Offizier-Vereinigung sowie in der Kameradschaft Ehemalige/ Reservisten/ Hinterbliebene.

Veröffentlichung
 Untersuchungen über beobachtete Abweichungen von der ungestörten Bahnbewegung im System des Doppelsternes 70 Ophiuchi, Dissertation Universität Bonn, 1952.

Weblinks
 Eintrag auf der Homepage der Landsmannschaft Teutonia zu Bonn
 Traueranzeige im Bonner General-Anzeiger vom 19. Dezember 2015

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Leutnant zur See (Kriegsmarine der Wehrmacht)
Konteradmiral (Marine der Bundeswehr)
Träger des Großen Bundesverdienstkreuzes
Absolvent des United States Naval War College
Schnellboot-Kommandant (Marine der Bundeswehr)
Deutscher
Geboren 1925
Gestorben 2015
Mann
Geodät
Absolvent der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn


Mutations in the presenilin-1 (PS1) gene are associated with Alzheimer's disease and cause increased secretion of the neurotoxic amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta). Critical intramembraneous aspartates at residues 257 and 385 are required for the function of PS1 protein. Here we investigate the biological function of a naturally occurring PS1 splice variant (PS1 Deltaexon 8), which lacks the critical aspartate 257. Cell lines that stably express PS1 Deltaexon 8 or a PS1 protein in which aspartate residue 257 is mutated secrete significant levels of Abeta, whereas Abeta generation is severely reduced in cells transfected with PS1 containing a mutation of aspartate 385. In contrast, endoproteolytic processing of Notch is almost completely inhibited in cell lines expressing any of the PS1 variants that lack one of the critical aspartates. These data indicate that PS1 may differentially facilitate gamma-secretase-mediated generation of Abeta and endoproteolysis of Notch.


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Scotty McCreery is in the studio and working on new music, and there's good news for fans of the more traditional aspects of his sound. The singer tells the Boot he's aiming more for the "good old country music" that he grew up on for his next album.
McCreery spoke to the Boot at the 2019 CMA Awards in November, saying that he was slated to head back into the recording studio in December. He and his longtime love, Gabi Dugal, got married in June of 2018, and the singer-songwriter says the changes in his life have had a big impact on the songs he's been writing.
"I just write about life. What I'm living, where I'm at. So it's a lot about my wife," McCreery says, adding that there might also be a song forthcoming about the couple's dog, Moose.
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"I grew up on the good old country music, so we might be taking it back to that a little bit: a little more fiddle, a little more steel guitar. So, we'll see how that rolls," McCreery reveals. "That's where my head's at right now."
McCreery experienced a major career breakthrough with his most recent album, Seasons Change, in 2018. He scored two back-to-back No. 1 hits with "Five More Minutes" and "This Is It." McCreery wrote the latter song about his proposal to Dugal, and the video for "This Is It" shares footage from the couple's wedding celebration.
McCreery has not shared any further details about his next album.
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