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FROM THE BLOG OF THE GREATEST GOLFER OF ALL TIME, ELDRICK TONT "TIGER" WOODS Blog: My Goal Remains To Win!!!!!
by myboysay | Jan 5, 2017 | Business, Entertainment, GLOBAL BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS, GLOBAL NEWS UPDATES AND MORE, GLOBAL SPORTS, Golf, Health, Most Commented, News, Sports, U.S., World | 0 |
Tiger Woods, "GOAT IN GLOBAL GOLF", is pleased with his showing at Hero World Challenge and looks forward to returning to Riviera. This year Tiger will play in an event at Riviera Country Club for the first time...
TGR Design Celebrates 10 Years Of Making Courses Fun For All, Highlights include a hole-in-one at the opening of The Playgrounds in March.
by myboysay | Dec 13, 2016 | Business, Entertainment, GLOBAL BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS, GLOBAL NEWS UPDATES AND MORE, GLOBAL SPORTS, Golf, Health, Most Commented, News, Sports, U.S., World | 0 |
Designing for golf's most exacting player – TGR Design's first completed project can be found at Tiger's home in Jupiter, Florida. Designing for his own incredibly high standards, the 3.5-acre practice...
THE GREATEST GOLFER OF ALL TIME RETURNS TO THE TOUR, YES IT'S TIGER, AND THE WORLD OF GOLF IS EXCITED!!!! HOTELS ARE FULL, ADVERTISING DOLLARS ARE POURING IN, AND RENTALS (APTS, HOUSES, CARS, HOTELS, ETC,) ARE UNAVAILABLE. YES THE GREATEST IS BACK…..
by myboysay | Oct 7, 2016 | Business, Entertainment, GLOBAL BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS, GLOBAL SPORTS, Golf, Health, News, Sports, U.S., World | 0 |
MYBOYSAY FEATURES: GREATNESS ON THE TOUR. Tiger Woods is making his long-awaited return to PGA Tour at Safeway Open. In addition to the Safeway Open, Oct. 13-16, at Silverado Resort & Spa, Woods hopes to compete in the...
Tiger to start 2016-17 season with three events, Tiger Woods hopes to make return to competitive golf at Safeway Open in October.
by myboysay | Sep 7, 2016 | Business, Entertainment, GLOBAL BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS, GLOBAL SPORTS, Golf, Health, Most Commented, News, Sports, U.S., World | 0 |
Tiger Woods said Wednesday that he hopes to play in the Safeway Open, Oct. 13-16, at Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa, California. Woods also intends to compete in the Turkish Airlines Open, Nov. 3-6, in Antalya, Turkey, and the...
Tiger Woods' Son Charlie Finishes T2 at The Junior Tournament Played at The Mayocoo Lakes Country Club, West Palm Beach Florida
by myboysay | Jun 25, 2016 | Business, Entertainment, Golf, Most Commented, News, Sports, U.S., World | 0 |
Seems like old times in the golf world, because there's a last name that is familiar to the world of sports that's back on the top of the golf leaderboards, and that name is WOODS, CHARLIE WOODS to be exact. "He's...
THE GREATEST GOLFER OF ALL TIME, TIGER WOODS IS NAMED VICE CAPTAIN FOR THE 2016 RIDER CUP, Woods will be joined by captain Davis Love III and fellow vice captains Jim Furyk, Steve Stricker and Tom Lehman
by myboysay | Feb 18, 2016 | Business, Entertainment, Golf, Health, Most Commented, News, Sports, U.S., World | 0 |
United States Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III today announced that Jim Furyk, Steve Stricker and Tiger Woods would serve as three of his five vice captains for the 2016 Ryder Cup, which will take place Sept. 27-Oct. 2 at...
Tiger Reflects On Up-And-Down 2015 And Looks Ahead To 2016
by myboysay | Dec 30, 2015 | Business, Entertainment, Golf, Health, Most Commented, News, Sports, U.S., World | 0 |
FROM THE MOUTH OF THE GREATEST GOLFER OF ALL TIME, PERIOD!!!!! Grateful for how far he's come, Woods is looking forward to returning to competitive play next year. By Tiger Woods: I have been asked a lot lately how it...
WOODS JUPITER, A TIGER WOODS RESTAURANT, HAS THE SOUTH FLORIDA PATRONS APPLAUDING
by myboysay | Oct 10, 2015 | Business, Entertainment, Golf, Health, Most Commented, News, Sports, U.S., World | 0 |
Well, it can't be said right now that Tiger Woods is knocking it out of the park in his athletic life("BUT THE MYBOYSAY SPORTS GROUP SAYS HE WILL WIN MORE THAN 18 MAJORS, AND WILL PASS JACK FOR THE RECORD"), but...
Tiger's first golf course design opens, El Cardonal at Diamante Cabo San Lucas is the first completed project from Tiger Woods Design
by myboysay | Dec 17, 2014 | Business, Entertainment, Health, Most Commented, News, Sports, U.S., World | 0 |
After many months of work, imagination and anticipation, Tiger Woods' first golf course design — El Cardonal at Diamante Cabo San Lucas — will officially open Tuesday, Dec. 16. "I'm very excited...
THE GREAT TIGER WOODS RESPONDS TO THE "grudge-fueled piece of character assassination" ATTACK THAT WAS FILLED WITH TOTALLY FABRICATED INFORMATION AND DISTRIBUTED BY THE GOLF DIGEST THROUGH THEIR SO-CALLED NUMBER 1 MOST SENIOR WRITER, DAN JENKINS, A POOR EXAMPLE OF A JOURNALIST!!!!
by myboysay | Nov 18, 2014 | Business, Entertainment, Golf, Health, Most Commented, News, Sports, U.S., World | 0 |
THE GOLF DIGEST IS A PRETTY PITIFUL ORGANIZATION TO HAVE DISTRIBUTED THIS TYPE OF GARBAGE THAT HAS ATTEMPTED TO SMEAR TIGER WOODS, AND IT'S A POOR EXAMPLE OF CHARACTER, AND ALSO AN IRRESPONSIBLE PRESENTATION LIES BY A SO...
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GREAT GOLF LEGEND, CHARLIE SIFFORD, WHO WILL BE RECIEVING THE PRESIDENTIAL FREEDOM AWARD FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENT BARACK H. OBAMA
by myboysay | Nov 11, 2014 | Business, Entertainment, Golf, Health, MLB, Most Commented, NBA, NCAA, News, NFL, Racing, Sci/Tech, Sports, U.S., World | 0 |
Charles L. Sifford (born June 2, 1922) is an African American former professional golfer who helped to desegregate the PGA of America. Charlie L. Sifford was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and currently resides in Shaker...
TIGER WOODS IS BACK ON THE RANGE, WILL RETURN TO GOLF FOR THE HERO WORLD CHALLENGE, AS HERO MOTOCORP BECOMES HIS NEW TITLE SPONSOR FOR HERO WORLD CHALLENGE!!!!
The Tiger Woods Foundation and Tavistock Group have announced that India-based Hero MotoCorp, the world's largest manufacturer of two-wheelers, will become the title sponsor of the Hero World Challenge, taking place...


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Bank of America has had a rough few years, but how its customers now feel about it will stun you.
Do you hate Bank of America (NYSE:BAC)? How its actual customers feel about it will stun you.
Since the financial crisis, Bank of America has been the object -- and at times rightly so -- of much criticism.
So, how do the people who actually park their money with Bank of America feel about it?
The answer: Good. And it's only getting better.
Every year, Satmetrix releases its Net Promoter Industry Benchmarks, which survey more than 23,000 Americans to see what products and services they would recommend to someone else. It asks questions about brands and products across 22 different industries and spans more than 219 brands.
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Bank of America's surge in loyalty continued for the second year in a row, with a 20 point increase in NPS in 2014, following a 25 point increase in 2013. This dramatic jump in loyalty has brought the bank up from worst performer in 2012 to sixth place out of the 14 banks included.
Bank of America led the rebound charge, with unprecedented increases of 34 and 25 points for their credit cards and banking ratings respectively. The jolt in Bank of America's banking NPS provides a dramatic halt to a six-year downward trend in loyalty.
Brighter days are ahead for Bank of America. Source: Flickr / Mike Mozart.
Look back again at the words used to describe how the opinion of the actual customers at Bank of America has changed over the last two years: Unprecedented increases. Surge. Dramatic jump. Jolt.
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I've said it before, but I have to wonder if Bank of America and Brian Moynihan are clinging to the Warren Buffett wisdom -- remember his investment in B of A is worth nearly $11 billion -- that says, "if we are delighting customers, eliminating unnecessary costs and improving our products and services, we gain strength."
More and more each day we learn Bank of America isn't just eliminating "unnecessary costs," but it's also "delighting customers." Troubles once plagued it, but it's "gaining strength," and the new Bank of America is clearly here.


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Pollock Painting a New Picture in Arizona (and other notes from 5/20/15)
Posted on May 21, 2015 by Jason
In the pre-season, I highlighted Arizona Diamondbacks center fielder A.J. Pollock to be "This Year's Michael Brantley." So follow the link for a more in-depth analysis on Pollock as not much has changed my views on him since then. But let's talk about what he has done so far this season to paint a new picture in the lineup for the Diamondbacks.
There were a lot of fantasy baseball people who liked Pollock for 2015, but I think that I liked him a bit more than most so I drafted him (or paid) a bit earlier (or more $) than I would have liked because I did not want to miss out on his predicted breakout season. So far he has not let me down and I am not minding the the earlier picks (extra $) that I spent on him as I am enjoying the season that he is having. Pollock hit a game-winning pinch-hit HR this past Tuesday and then on Wednesday he made the baseball diamond his canvas and turned in quite the masterpiece as he went 3 for 4 with a walk, leading to 4 runs scored and 3 stolen bases. The strong game brought his season line up to a .298 AVG, 4 HR, 15 RBI, 27 R, and 9 SB — he is doing a little bit of everything.
While he is not likely to have a huge breakout in the same statistical way that Michael Brantley had in 2014, Pollock is on pace for a great season. One thing that is different than I anticipated is that Pollock has gotten the majority of his at-bats in the 2-hole with the emergence of Ender Inciarte as a viable leadoff option. I like the 2-hole more for Pollock as it gives him a little bit more RBI opportunity without changing his upside in any other aspect. He is still getting some time in as the leadoff hitter, and actually is also occasionally in the lineup as the cleanup hitter versus lefties because he has great splits against them southpaws. Pollock is getting rested more than I would like to see due to the Diamondbacks having a crowded outfield situation, but he usually does find his way into the game as a pinch-hitter if he wasn't in the starting lineup and this perhaps can actually aid him in staying more fresh and healthy. What prevented Pollock from a true breakout season last year was his health, but with good health on his side and being protected by Paul Goldschmidt in the lineup, the outlook for him can be amazing. For the rest of the season, I'll give him: .290 AVG, 10 HR, 48 RBI, 63 R, 23 SB
Now on to the rest of the Wednesday daily report.
Josh Reddick – 0 for 4, 2 K. Reddick is now 2 for his last 23 and has seen his AVG drop to .305, and he finally has more strikeouts than walks on the season. It was bound to happen as I've mentioned before, but he can still be decently productive, especially if he does maintain a good strikeout rate.
Evan Gattis – 1 for 3, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 R, 1 BB. Gattis has been textbook "feast or famine" on the year as he belted his 8th HR and now has 24 RBI on the year. His .196 AVG is incredibly unappealing, and he is showing very little patience at the plate with just 5 walks in 38 games. How the Astros are staying atop the AL with 3 regular starters (Gattis, George Springer, Chris Carter) hitting below .200 is pretty remarkable. Gattis won't keep hitting below .200, but he clearly won't be sniffing any batting titles soon.
Dallas Keuchel – 7 IP, 6 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 4 K with the W. The ground ball king reigns supreme and improves to 6-0. He won't be living on a .227 BABIP all season long, but he does seem to have a knack for inducing weaker contact. So despite the high ground ball rate, he could be able to keep a below average BABIP all season long.
Ian Desmond – 1 for 4, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 R, 2 K. I mentioned earlier this week that he's going to be put in a good spot with the absence of Jayson Werth, and yes he is taking advantage of it and definitely appears to be warming up.
Bryce Harper – 0 for 1. Harper was ejected from the game, pretty much for stepping out of the batter's box while the home plate umpire stepped away to yell at Nationals manager Matt Williams. Harper has done some douchey things in his short career, but he hardly deserved this ejection.
Jordan Zimmermann – 7 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 6 K with the W. Zimmermann's velocity continues to slowly creep up and with it he is seeing better results. Perhaps I was premature to suggest him as a sell candidate a couple weeks ago. If his velocity remains on the upward trend then he is fine to hold, but I also wouldn't expect his strikeout rate to reach the heights of 8.20 K/9 like last year. He seems more likely to settle in around 7.00 K/9.
Roenis Elias – 7.2 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 4 K with the W. Elias does have some decent potential and could be worth a grab in deeper leagues, but expectations should be tempered.
Fernando Rodney – 1 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 2 K with the SV. Not such a pretty save for Rodney as he continues to be less than stellar. A lot less than stellar actually. Rodney owners or those speculating on saves need to have Carson Smith on speed dial. I am thinking that this could develop into a blow-pen situation soon, as Smith has been lights out compared to Rodney's shenanigans. If anything, like I've said before, Smith should definitely be closing games for the Mariners next year with Rodney's contract expiring at the end of this season.
Drew Hutchison – 6.2 IP, 6 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, 5 K with the L. Sadly, Hutchison's stats for the season improved nearly all across the board with this mediocre stat line. It was his first loss of the season, but he has been the victim of some bad luck in other ways (BABIP, LOB%). He's shown good improvements over his last few starts and better days are ahead of him.
Ryan Braun – 1 for 2, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 R, 2 BB. Braun with the hot stick is now up to 10 HR on the season and 4 HR in his last 6 games. Would be a shame if he tested positive for PEDs again…
Yasmany Tomas – 2 for 5, 1 BB. I think I am Tomas' inspiration or something, as that is now the 5th multi-hit game in a row for him ever since I said how I am liking him and his opposite field hitting abilities. His AVG is now up to .346. You're welcome, Yasmany.
Chase Anderson – 8 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K with the W. Great game for the Diamondbacks, but if you own him in fantasy then you're wondering where all the K's are. He should be able to start striking out some more guys with his changeup being a pretty good weapon. On the season he is 1-1 with a 2.54 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, and 34 K/13 BB in 49.2 IP.
Bartolo Colon – 4.1 IP, 11 H, 8 ER, 2 BB, 4 K with the L. Colon came unraveled on Wednesday at the hands of the Cardinals, and the 2 walks that he issued were more than he had given up all season long. Hopes of a 40.0 K/BB ratio have been shattered.
Kolten Wong – 3 for 5, 2 RBI, 2 R, 1 K. Hitting leadoff on Wednesday, Wong proved his worth, and he really is probably the team's best option there, at least against righties. Mike Matheny should stop fiddling with the lineup so much and just go with Wong at the top. Wong is continuing his breakout season.
Carlos Martinez – 6.1 IP, 4 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 5 K with the W. Nice showing for C-Mart and he's going to have games like this. Unfortunately, he's also going to have games where he walks 4 guys and gives up 5 runs. I'm going to like him for 2016 a lot more than 2015.
Williams Perez – 5 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 7 K. Making his first Major League start, Perez had a very nice outing. He is a ground ball heavy pitcher but not a big strikeout guy despite what his Wednesday outing might suggest. Due to his inexperience, he makes for a little bit of a risky proposition in fantasy, but I do enjoy his ground ball tendencies.
Joe Kelly – 7 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 7 K with the L. Cy Young here he comes! Oh wait, he got the loss? Never mind, no Cy Young for him.
Delino DeShields – 1 for 3, 1 SB, 1 BB. 11th SB of the season for DeShields. I told you what this guy could do several times, did you listen and pick him up?
Shawn Tolleson – 1 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 K with the SV. I said in the "BLOW-PEN REPORT: Neftali No Es Feliz" (and even before that) that Feliz was going to be on his way out and Tolleson on his way in. It wasn't the cleanest of saves, but Tolleson worked out of it to convert the opportunity. I don't just pull this stuff out of thin air, I do know what I am talking about (sometimes), so hopefully you were able to grab him. Maybe he doesn't pan out in the end, but at the very least he got the save here and has earned himself the next opportunity as well probably. Roll with it.
Jeremy Guthrie – 6 IP, 5 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 3 K with the W. It is a wonderment to me how Guthrie just doesn't get hammered every time he takes the hill. As my dad always says, it's better to be lucky than good sometimes.
Josh Harrison – 3 for 6. Harrison is riding an 8-game hit streak where he is 18 for 35 (.514 AVG) during that span and his season AVG has risen from .173 to .255. It'll be hard to pry him away from his owners now. Also, with the slumping Gregory Polanco sitting out on Wednesday, Harrison might have just reclaimed his role at the top of the Pirates order for the foreseeable future. We'll see next time they're both in the lineup.
Andrew McCutchen – 3 for 5, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K. McCutchen continues to steadily improve with the bat. I'm still not sure he's going to do a whole lot of running though.
Joe Mauer – 2 for 6, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 2 R. We have a Joe Mauer sighting, ladies and gentlemen. It was his first HR of the season. With Mauer earning $23 million annually, his 4 HR from last year had to have been the worst HR/salary ratio ever, at least for players who didn't suffer a season-ending injury (will have to check with the Elias Sports Bureau on that one). But so far, Mauer appears set on having an even worse mark this year.
Mike Pelfrey – 6 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 K. It is a wonderment to me how Pelfrey just doesn't get hammered every time he takes the hill. As my dad always says, it's better to be lucky than good sometimes. Wait, deja vu?
Jose Ramirez – 2 for 3, 1 RBI, 2 R, 2 SB, 2 BB. Ramirez isn't good for much, but he does have 8 SB on the season…If you're desperate for speed. But also if you're desperate for Speed then you're going to have to contact this guy.
Shaun Marcum – 6.2 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 6 K with the W. Overall it was a good game for Marcum as he stepped into the Indians rotation. I hardly would expect this to last though as he is bound to get injured or get burned by the long ball (both runs he gave up on Wednesday were on solo shots). I would much rather see Zach McAllister get another chance in the rotation.
Carlos Rodon – 6 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 5 BB, 4 K. Same story, different day. Rodon has great swing and miss stuff, but the walks are a big time issue. He now has 19 BB in 21.2 IP and is making Aaron Sanchez and his 6.35 BB/9 look like Greg Maddux. Rodon has a nice future outlook, but he really could use some more seasoning in the Minors to work on that control.
Tsuyoshi Wada – 4.2 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 9 K. Wada was inserted into the Cubs rotation and he was doing pretty well, racking up the strikeouts, before he ran into some trouble in the 5th inning and was relieved before even being able to qualify for the win. The 9 K's were very impressive, but is not going to be a regular occurrence. However, he still should make for an interesting flier in deep leagues.
Tyson Ross – 7 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 3 BB, 8 K with the L. Looks like a typical Ross performance that I outlined in "Are Tyson's Punch Outs Enough?" Control issues leading to stolen bases leading to runs, but logging lots of strikeouts. Ross falls to 2-4 with a 3.93 ERA, 1.46 WHIP, and 62 K/29 BB in 52.2 IP. He should have some better days ahead of him, but just know what you might be getting into if you're trading for him and don't say I didn't warn you.
Buster Posey – 3 for 4, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 2 R. Didn't I say that he can get hot with the best of them like three times? Now that his AVG is finally over .300, I will stop saying it.
Tim Lincecum – 7 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 4 K with the W. Well this was surprising, but don't buy into it.
Corey Dickerson – I forgot to mention in Tuesday's notes that Dickerson hit the DL with plantar fasciitis in his left foot. I already liked him less than most people going into the season, but this couldn't have been foreseeable.
Hyun-Jin Ryu – After spending all season on the DL, the Dodgers lefty has decided to undergo shoulder surgery to effectively end his season. Well, that is a big loss for the Dodgers, though they have been filling his absence nicely with guys like Carlos Frias and Mike Bolsinger. However, even with the solid performances they have received from those guys, the Dodgers will probably look to the trade market eventually. As for Ryu, obviously it's time to let him go in redraft leagues, but for keeper leagues he probably will be ready for Spring Training 2016. But word of caution would be that shoulder surgery is usually more difficult to make a full recovery from than Tommy John surgery.
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Test scores can deliver a ballpark estimate of where each student may fit with the academic rigor of colleges and universities they're considering. It's a way of judging preparedness that is not definitive. And with the right preparation, test scores can go up.
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Test scores aren't designed to tell you how smart your student is or where they should go to college. The SAT was designed to measure what students learned in high school and gauge whether they have the knowledge they need to succeed at the college level.
Following a slew of test delays and roadblocks due to COVID-19, many colleges have gone test-optional sooner than planned, and these changes are opening up the conversation about how testing is used.
Per the University of California's Academic Senate: "Test scores are also used at some campuses for purposes beyond campus admissions, such as part of scholarship decisions, for placement, to identify students who would benefit from extra support, and in honors program admissions."
This isn't surprising, but it is a fairly good list of ways a test score can boost a student's candidacy, and it may be helpful to share this with your teen as you discuss the importance of diligent test prep this fall.
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The conventional wisdom in this area is strong: GPA and essays tend to matter more. A student's engagement at high school, in the community, and in the admissions process can also be far more impactful than their test score at different stages of consideration.
Once you have a test score, you can begin looking at schools with a better understanding of where your student might fit in academically. If your student is still a junior and they're not happy with their PSAT or practice SAT scores, these numbers can even provide necessary motivation to study harder and aim for higher achievement.
With this in mind, it's important to leave standardized testing and preparation until the last minute.
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I have such a large international readership, that I have finally decided to abandon my socialist leanings and dive whole-heartedly into the capitalist regime by placing ads on my site. Now all I have to do is sit back and let the checks roll in. I think it's time I resign from my job, because I think having two incomes might get a bit overwhelming.
Sujal, by the way, is not quite as optimistic about my capitalist venture as I am. I just say he's a commie.


NOVEMEBR 01, 2018: According to the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), there is a further decline in the unemployment rate... Fewer children are being murdered, but children's advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison believes that the 2018 figure is alarming nonetheless... Another earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 rattled Trinidad and Tobago thursday... IN SPORTS: Director of rugby at Jamaica Rugby League Association Romeo Monteith says the nation should take its senior men's team more seriously.


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Joe Trahan
I think that Syos is pushing technological boundaries. The possibilities are endless with these mouthpieces, and it's exciting to see everything that they're doing for the saxophone community.
Joseph Trahan is a baritone saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer/arranger, and educator based in Denton, Texas. He recently received his Jazz Studies degree from the University of North Texas, where he studied under Brad Leali. During his time at UNT, Trahan spent two semesters as a member of the Grammy-Nominated One O'Clock Lab Band under the direction of Alan Baylock. Trahan has had the privilege of working with great artists like Gary Smulyan, Regina Carter, Michael Abene, Dan Haerle, Lynn Seaton, Walt Weiskopf, Eric Alexander, and Tom Harrell.
As a sought after baritone saxophonist in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, he has played with groups such as the Rebel Alliance Jazz Ensemble, the Dallas Jazz Orchestra, Pecos River Brass, and the South Paw Preachers.
Beginning in the fall of 2021, Joseph plans to pursue a Masters in Music from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. For his music career, Joseph intends to play in a military band, release his own original music, create social media content, maintain his private studio, and publish jazz educational method materials.
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EXCERPT/Emerson on Education
The New Leam Staff - 11/07/2021 0
Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the greatest thinker-philosophers of our times, here is an exhaustive passage from one of his many lectures and addresses.
The Soul of Education
Rachael Kessler - 31/05/2021 0
The book 'The Soul of Education' inevitably raises the question "Should modern public school education even have a soul?" and through its reflections takes us on a journey deep within.
Creative Pedagogy and Innovative Learning in Adverse Situations
Dr Br Brendan MacCarthaigh - 11/05/2020 0
Innovative Pedagogy must be at the heart of education. How can this be made possible in the most adverse of situations that often characterize schools in India with little infrastructural support? Amidst these circumstances can a child-centric pedagogy really be designed and implemented to suit our own specific socio-cultural needs?
Meet Boro Baski: The Educator Who Set Up a School for Indigenous Children in...
Baski is an inspiration for many who aim to put their knowledge into practice by working for the upliftment of their communities. He truly stands as an inspiration before us all.
Remembering Gandhi: The Pedagogue
Amman Madan - 02/10/2019 2
The Gandhian approach to education was one of action and not one of bookish study. This is exemplified in his keeping vocational activities, particularly the making of handicrafts, at the centre of the school curriculum in Nai Talim.
Bringing the Art of Listening Back on the Educational Agenda
Upasana Kapur - 01/10/2019 1
The skill of listening attentively is central to education and without cultivating it, dialogue is simply impossible.
Dramatics as Pedagogy in Classrooms
Wasim Mirza - 11/09/2019 0
Dramatics as an important pedagogic tool helps revive the classroom space.
Learning and Doing: Evolving a Pedagogy of Confluence
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'Toxic Parenting' Snatches Away Childhoods: John Marsden Enlightens Us
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Over indulgent parenting is toxic rather than enabling, educationist John Marsden's new book 'The Art of Growing Up' is truly a mani-festo for the contemporary times.


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Q: The Chain Rule: Estimate the rate at which $θ$ is changing at that instant Let $a$ and $b$ denote two sides of a triangle and let $θ$ denote the included angle. Suppose that $a$, $b$, and $θ$ vary with time in such a way that the area of the triangle remains constant. At a certain instant $a=5$ cm, $b=4$ cm, and $θ = π/6$ radians, and at that instant both $a$ and $b$ are increasing at a rate of 3 cm/s. Estimate the rate at which $θ$ is changing at that instant.
I've tried to solve it, but I have no idea.

A: $$
A=const=\frac{ab\sin{\theta}}{2}
$$
We know $\frac{da}{dt}=\frac{db}{dt}=3$. Then, differentiating the expression above:
$$
0=(a'b\sin{\theta})/2+(ab'\sin{\theta})/2+(ab\cos{\theta})\theta'/2
$$
Plug in the values:
$$
0=3*4/4+3*5/4+3*5*\frac{\sqrt3}{4}\theta' \to\theta'=-\frac{\sqrt3}{15}\text{rads/s}
$$

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The official website of the Dhamatri district in the state of Chhattisgarh is where the government posts all information about the district, latest news, and the officials involved in the state, recruitment and tender information amongst other things.
It has links to all important websites and departments that the citizens of Dhamtri could need in order to avail any kind of benefit or service from the government. The website is regularly updated, with the date of the last updating listed on it so that the visitors know as to how recent the information on it is.
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Kubyŏng-san är ett berg i Sydkorea.   Det ligger i provinsen Norra Chungcheong, i den centrala delen av landet,  km sydost om huvudstaden Seoul. Toppen på Kubyŏng-san är  meter över havet, eller  meter över den omgivande terrängen. Bredden vid basen är  km.

Terrängen runt Kubyŏng-san är huvudsakligen kuperad. Den högsta punkten i närheten är Songni-san,  meter över havet,  km norr om Kubyŏng-san. Runt Kubyŏng-san är det ganska tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. I omgivningarna runt Kubyŏng-san växer i huvudsak blandskog.

Inlandsklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är augusti, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är januari, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är augusti, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är januari, med  mm nederbörd.

Kommentarer

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Berg i Norra Chungcheong
Berg i Sydkorea 500 meter över havet eller högre

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Isn't it nice to find open-source code and other helpful things?
This is the least I can do to give back what has been so graciously given to me.
A program to warp projections in order to correct curve distortion (C++, OpenGL).
The Ambisonic Panner is a system for panning "sound emitters" across 8 speakers (C++, OSC).
A menu component framework that has sliders, check boxes, and labeling (C++, OpenGL).
Memory madness card game animated in Flash, written in ActionScript.


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Abramowitz および Stegunの式26.5.24, Handbook of Mathematical Functions (1966) が二項分布を累積不完全ベータ分布に 縮小させるために使用されます.
DCDFLIBから: 累積分布関数, 逆, および他のパラメータ用のFortranルーチンの ライブラリ(February, 1994) Barry W. Brown, James Lovato and Kathy Russell. The University of Texas.


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Waiblingen (; Swabian: Woeblinge) is a town in the southwest of Germany, located in the center of the densely populated Stuttgart region, directly neighboring Stuttgart. It is the capital and largest city of the Rems-Murr district. , Waiblingen had 55,449 inhabitants (27,334 men and 28,115 women).

, the area of the town (including all external properties, such as forests) was .

History
Waiblingen was first mentioned in Carolingian documents in 885 at the time of Charles the Fat. It received its town charter in 1250.

Waiblingen was the property of the Salian kings, from whom the Hohenstaufen dukes and kings inherited it. It is intimately tied to the conflict between Guelphs and Ghibellines in the 12th and 13th century. During the Siege of Weinsberg in 1140, the Hohenstaufens of Swabia (led by Conrad III of Germany) used "Wibellingen" - a version of the town name - as their rallying cry; "Wibellingen" subsequently became Ghibellino in Italian.

The town was almost completely destroyed in 1634 during the Thirty Years' War, when Imperial and Spanish troops sacked the city after the Battle of Nördlingen. Fires raged for more than a week, and most of Waiblingen's citizens were killed or had to flee. Rebuilding only began four years after this catastrophe; the existing old central part of the town dates back to the years between 1640 and 1700. Its fortifications are now well restored.

Incorporation
The following towns were incorporated into Waiblingen:
1 December 1971: Beinstein
1 January 1975:  Bittenfeld, Hegnach, Hohenacker, and Neustadt

Economy
Waiblingen houses the principal office of the world's biggest chainsaw manufacturer, Stihl. Engineering and technology multinational Robert Bosch GmbH has two factories in the city producing polymer and packaging technology.

It is also the location for the letter processing center for the Stuttgart region of the Deutsche Post.

Twin towns – sister cities

Waiblingen is twinned with:
 Baja, Hungary
 Devizes, England, United Kingdom
 Jesi, Italy
 Mayenne, France
 Virginia Beach, United States

Notable people

 Alessandro Abruscia (1990, Waiblingen), an Italian-German footballer

 Jakob Andreae

 Anouschka Bernhard

 Giuseppe Catizone (1977, Waiblingen), an Italian and German footballer

 Luise Duttenhofer
 Eberhard II, Duke of Württemberg

 Otto Esswein
 Michael Fink
  (1970, Waiblingen), a German pianist

 Claus E. Heinrich

 Nadine Krause
 Leif Lampater
 Ludwig II, Count of Württemberg-Urach
 Giorgos Machlelis (1991, Waiblingen), a Greek-German footballer
 Bernd Mayländer
 Christian Mergenthaler

 Christoph Niemann
 Boris Palmer
 Achim Pfuderer

 Mathias Richling
 Günther Schäfer
 Patrick Schmollinger
 Wolfgang Straub

 Joachim Winkelhock
 Manfred Winkelhock
 Thomas Winkelhock

Honorary citizens
 1883: Dr. med. Gustav Pfeilsticker
 1907: Ferdinand Küderli
 1930: Theodor Kaiser
 1932: Friedrich Schofer
 1934: Albert Roller
 1953: Emil Münz
 1967: Alfred Diebold
 1968:
 1997: Dr. Ulrich Gauß
 1997:  (1932, Stuttgart), a German industrialist (Stihl)
 1997: Albrecht Villinger

References

External links

 Galerie Stihl Waiblingen in 360°-Panoramapictures

Towns in Baden-Württemberg
Rems-Murr-Kreis
Württemberg


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Prefacing Rationale
Prior to joining Dr. LaToya Sawyer's seminar in African American literacies of the 20th and 21st centuries, I'd read quite a bit of Sylvia Wynter's work—as well as critical interpretations of it—and was excited to explore the possibilities of one of the central ideas expressed in what I personally find to be one of Wynter's finest works: "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom" (available from Michigan University Press in PDF format).
That idea was simple but profound: what if we liberated our thinking and freed ourselves from the "common sense" that so cavalierly associated humanness with manhood and whiteness? What if we saw white manhood as a comparative possibility within a broader universe of humanness, in which those who did not resemble the colonized sense of the "mythical ideal" (see: whiteness, maleness, or submissive proximity to those characteristics) were not seen as subjects who were lacking, and instead were understood (and more importantly: understood themselves) as sites of human possibility defined by what they were or could be rather than what they were not.
To do this, humans—those beings who, in Wynter's epistemology, exist beyond the limiting, colonizer's concept of the "man"—would need to thoughtfully extract themselves from systems of thinking and being which privilege an intentionally hierarchical understanding of existence. While Wynter's explanation of what this might look like might be described by some as labyrinthine in its sweeping complexity (and bigness in general)—and while the notion is explored extensively through Wynter's massive catalog of theoretical and creative works—a somewhat simplified model of what I think Wynter gets at in her work can be found in that of another black theorist: Audre Lorde.
Where Wynter's language explores the problematic hierarchies put into place by the institution of whiteness (a different thing from individual white people—which is an apparently important distinction to make) through an exploration of "vistas" and "nadirs"; "spaces of otherness"; "negroid" and "anglo" and describes how the ascribing of negative connotations with the "negroid physiognomy" (and all associated senses of "good" and "bad") were manifestations of a larger project for social domination enacted first as a matter of religious class warfare and later mutated into something that seems foundational to American life in a negative way (for non-white folk) if the frequent state-sanctioned deaths of black bodies/beings throughout history and continuing to the present moment are any indication, Lorde's paper, "Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference" simplifies things somewhat. Without necessarily reaching into what I would describe as the intellectual stratosphere of theoretical thinking that Wynter occupies, Lorde makes it clear that for "othered" communities to divorce themselves from the hierarchical thinking that weaponizes them against their potential comrades and renders the world a bestiary of endless dangers, the "othered" (she speaks specifically about sexual minorities, the aged, women and the economically disadvantaged) must develop an awareness of how hierarchical thinking situates them in a circumstance of endless hostility and destruction (mostly of the self, but also of other people who Wynter would describe as "human" but not "man") and then work to meaningfully weave a fabric of community that rejects this hostiliy and destruction in favor of embrace, healing, compassion and resource-sharing.
As someone who has spent the majority of my formative life managing significant dimension of the self that plays out on the internet, and as someone who gained much of his education from digital sources where physical resources or support from people like myself (I grew up in a community with almost no black people other than my family, was not financially stable, and didn't really know I was queer in any way besides the fact that I was somehow different until my second semester at university), I thought a lot about the agency I had in online spaces that didn't feel available to me elsewhere.
On the web, I could learn, could access resources and support (through any number of channels, some probably more legitimate than others) that were otherwise unavailable to a poor person of color, could assert my identity and find community with people like me who I hadn't known existed before, and could conceal my identity when it was beneficial or necessary for my safety to do so in a way that was not possible in "waking life". For many years, as the high-speed internet became more widely available and my financial situation improved, I thought: maybe the internet—being the free-floating space that it was—could be the site where we could actually begin to free ourselves of the hierarchies and violence that characterized "othered" life in the waking world. We could—I thought—bring the problematic, oftentimes racist, hostile foundational elements of world history out of an unspoken "sphere of consensus" and into an explicit "sphere of legitimate controversy" (these are terms that I borrow from a lecture given by Dr. David Ryfe at the University of Nevada in 2009); here, we could relitigate the ills of our past and create a better world for tomorrow, as ideas on the internet spilled over into reality and institution's responded by honoring our improved perspective.
Of course, that's not what has been happening on the internet and, in hindsight, it was naive of me to think that it would.
My understanding of the internet and the various platforms that exist on its network (social media, the blogosphere, digital media, advertising) assumed a curiously idealized understanding of how the world worked. By thinking of the internet and its platforms as neutral mechanisms, I overlooked the fact that these mechanisms are both designed and influenced by human beings and their institutions. Both human beings and institutions, whether they know it or not, are likely to retransmit the conditions most familiar to them (particularly if those conditions grant them power) via the platforms they engineer. Thinking about it this way, and bringing these observations into contact with present day (2019) American political realities as they have been influenced by the internet and its platform, it is decidedly less surprising to me that a new, digital version right-wing, moneyed conservatism built as a protective sentinel around the institution of whiteness managed to grow so virulently influential in the lead up to the 2016 election. Many of the internet's most powerful platforms, despite boasting devastatingly large and diverse user bases, were engineered (and more importantly) are managed by (still, for the most part) not-so-diverse teams which represent a white male majority who may retransmit—intentionally or unintentionally (this, to me, does not matter so much because the point of these remarks is not to demonize but to point to potential gaps in thinking)—white, patriarchal, violent supremacy or design algorithms on their platforms that allow such thinking to flourish as easily as dandelions grow.
In Safiya K. Noble's text, Algorithms of Oppression, this point is addressed. The author describes the possibility of biases in the engineering of algorithms, and while she does not decry these biases as inherently damaging or "bad", she does imply that a failure to examine these biases and operating under the falsehood that digital platforms are somehow devoid of human influence and therefore "neutral" with respect to the influence of the sociopolitical realities of waking life is, in fact, damaging, which she demonstrates through her exploration of search results pertaining to women and black girls especially.
View: "Safiya Noble: Challenging the Algorithms of Oppression"
Having explained the context of her thinking, Noble details the necessity of situating her analysis of the algorithmic performance of search engines and its resulting impacts on people in an explicitly black, explicitly feminist, explicitly woman-centric mind frame.
"The impetus for my work comes from theorizing Internet search results from a Black feminist perspective; that is, I ask questions about the structure and results of web searches from the standpoint of a Black woman—a standpoint that drives me to ask different questions than have been previously posed about how Google Search works…" (Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: Kindle Edition, Loc. 565)
"A Black feminist perspective offers an opportunity to ask questions about the quality and content of racial hierarchies and stereotyping that appear in results from commercial search engines such as Google's; it contextualizes them by decentering the dominant lenses through which results about Black women and girls are interpreted. By doing this, I am purposefully theorizing from a feminist perspective, while addressing often-overlooked aspects of race in feminist theories of technology." (Noble, Loc. 571)
Watch: "Safiya Noble: Toward an Ethic of Social Justice in the World of Online Information"
Noble's contextualizations, paired with the visions for a greater, more just field of possibilities in being that Lorde and Wynter envision paint a far less flattering picture about the internet's current state of possibility than I envisioned (and if the discussion about technology's impact on the environment extends beyond purely sociological concerns and into the realm of environmentalism, there is room for an eco-feminist discussion about how emergent internet technologies like the blockchain , which is said to be exacerbating a looming energy crisis and how breathless excitement about these technologies in highly powerful, mostly white and wealthy communities can lead to the destruction of human, animal and plant life much in the same way that other forms of consumerism do; Erika Cudworth's "introductory" text to ecofeminism might be helpful in that respect—see Developing Ecofeminist Theory: The Complexity of Difference).
Another complicating factor comes into play is the matter of access and literacy in the digital realm. While not specifically a black issue (and I think I should clarify that while my project does situate itself to a significant degree in blackness as a starting point for discussing possibility, African Americanness and blackness are not the sole aims of my thinking about these issues), it stands to reason that communities who are frequently denied opportunities or resources are less likely—as Noble writes in Algorithms of Oppression—to find classes in ethics, or digital literacy readily available.
Naturally, this is problematic for a number of reasons, the most salient among them being (at the time of this writing) that digital products are impacting the relationship between people and institutions. Information circulated via digital channels is increasingly difficult to evaluate in terms of credibility, advertorials are increasingly prominent in publications and increasingly difficult to distinguish from news media, profit schemes and ideological agendas are increasingly diminishing trust and reliability even in local media, emergent media like "deepfake video" technology is further blurring the lines between fact and fiction, and much of the population lacks the literacies needed to navigate these challenges—which grow only more numerous while resources to address them seem increasingly scarce.
In 2016, I endeavored my first attempt at mitigating the growing difficulties where digital literacies were concerned. I developed The Web Literacy Project, which is an actively updated digital syllabus aimed at a broad demographic of educators (or general web users, though the former group was certainly the priority) that is meant to provide people with tools to begin thinking about and teaching digital literacies—with questions of access squarely in mind.
Since engaging with materials about African American literacies in Dr. Sawyer's class—and consuming various other literature, including proprietary material pertaining to my content marketing work in the commercial sector—I have realized that, while well intended, The Web Literacy Project is possibly too broad in its aims, not particularly creative in its solutions (which are entirely too prescriptive, in hindsight), already quite dated and, because of its stance that platforms are neutral and thus only user behavior must change, fundamentally flawed.
With these realities in mind, and inspired by Dr. Noble's black feminist situation, I have begun developing a list of texts that I believe will be beneficial to reapproaching the development of programs/syllabi like The Web Literacy Syllabus. Rather than focusing solely on materials that discuss digital literacy as a set of practices to be taught or thought about—with technology as a neutral platform—I mean to work with this new list of texts to first situate my thinking in the realm of social equity, activism, and digital literacy as a matter of human rights. In the context of what I know now, this means that I must ask myself meaningful questions about how race, class, gender and other elements of identity have historically impacted access to literacy and power—and how activism in relation to that literacy, and to concepts of being in general, can help vulnerable people to claim meaningful footholds in the digital debate.
My working reading list is divided into three sections:
"Blackness, Identity, and Community Futures" – which seeks to think about the past and future of blackness, literacy and being—and how communicative competence (to borrow from Smitherman) can be used not only to navigate but to create rhetorical circumstances and institutions that centralize the being of the "other" rather than forcing them to reshape or destroy themselves to suit institutions that are intentionally deleterious to all but the other.
"Digital Humanism and Literacy" – which seeks to ask explicit questions about present best practices and research in the field of digital humanities and literacy. This section is included because while I do believe that any race, class or gender-agnostic approach to digital literacy education is bound to be deeply flawed, it remains critically important to know what is happening in the field before I can meaningfully apply new models of thinking to it in the way that Dr. Noble and Virginia Eubanks (whose work, Automating Inequality, appears on the following list but was not cited in this preface as, at the time of this writing, I'm still in the middle of her work) have. Not to mention, there are plenty of scholars who are thinking explicitly about race and class to some extent in digital literacy studies at this time.
"Community Pedagogies and Assessment" – which refers to communities of meaning (a concept discussed frequently by compositionist Juan Guerra, as well as assessment, which I feel at this time remains an important part of any educational model. On the point of assessment—I think it's important to examine the biases built into it as an "institution" and mechanism because, just like digital platforms, this tool is vulnerable to the biases of its designers and its users. While we cannot necessarily stop that from being the case, we can at least challenge ourselves and our institutions to confront those biases to the betterment of the experiences offered to students. This final section is also inspired in part by information uncovered in Virginia Eubanks' Automating Inequality:How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, which speaks explicitly to how algorithms predict, reinforce and punish individuals and communities based on the superstructure of class hierarchy in the western world. While similar on the surface to Dr. Noble's thoughts, Eubanks' work focuses more on mechanisms of class and is less situated in blackness and feminism. While that situatedness for Noble does provide a new vantage point to think from, to think in broad terms about algorithmic tools (which I argue that things like individual and programmatic assessment at academic or other institutions) is important if we are to understand how these tools operate currently—and begin plotting meaningful interventions that are creatively, sympathetically and logically inspired by more granular thinking.
WATCH: The Open Mind: Automating Inequality
This list remains a work in progress and will be actively updated and written about on this website as I continue my doctoral work, and its likely that the content within this "prefacing rationale" will alter as I continue to read and my understanding grows (hopefully) more sophisticated.
Blackness, Identity, and Community Futures
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
The Rhizome of Blackness by Awad Ibrahim
Vernacular Insurrections by Carmen Kynard
Fashioning Lives by Eric Pritchard
Savage Portrayals by Natalie Byfield
Writing on the Move: Migrant Women and the Value of Literacy by Rebecca Lorimer Leonard
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life by Sarah Ahmed
On Being Human as Praxis edited by Katherine McKitrick
The Womanist Idea by Layli Mapryan
Intersectional Internet by C.K. Steele
The Digital Barbershop C.K. Steele
Black Bloggers and Their Varied Publics by C.K. Steele
The Black Scholar: Black Code
Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy by Davidson, Gines and Marcano
Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace by Anna Everett
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne
Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era by Ashley D. Farmer
Living Black: Social Life in an African American Neighborhood
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe
Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being) by Fred Moten
The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses by Oyeronke Oyewumi
The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Frances Cress Welsing
Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Huey P. Newton
Faces at the Bottom of the Well by Derrick Bell
Developmental Psychology of the Black Child by A.N. Wilson
WATCH: "The Spook Who Sat By the Door"
Digital Humanism and Literacy
Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (MIT Press)
Digital Literacy: A Primer on Media, Identity, and the Evolution of Technology by Susan Weisinger
Deconstructing Digital Natives ed. by Michael Thomas
Crossing the Digital Divide: Race, Writing and Technology in the Classroom by Barbara Monroe
Black Ops Marketing: Native Ads, Content Marketing and the Covert World of the Digital Sell by Mara Einstein
Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games: Reshaping Theory and Practice of Writing edited by Richard Colby, Matthew S. S. Johnson, Rebekah Shultz Colby
On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies (CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric) by Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes
The Rise of Writing by Deborah Brandt
Toward a Composition Made Whole by Jody Shipke
Community Pedagogies & Assessment
Raising Black Students' Achievement Through Culturally Responsive Teaching by Johnie McKinley
Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies by Asao B. Inoue
Anti-Racist Scholarship: An Advocacy edited by James Joseph Scheurich (Editor)
Discourse and Discrimination by Geneva Smitherman and Teun Van Dijk
Race and Writing Assessment edited by Asao B. Inoue and Mya Poe
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs), Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, and Angela P. Harris
Assessing Writing: A Critical Sourcebook edited by Brian Huot and Peggy O'neill
Building Writing Center Assessments That Matter edited by Schendel & Macauley
Decolonizing Educational Research: From Ownership to Answerability (Series in Critical Narrative) edited by Leigh Patel
Grading in the Post-Process Classroom: From Theory to Practice edited by Elizabet Allison, Lizbeth Bryant, Maureen Hourigan
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens by Benedict Carey
Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies by Linda Adler-Kassner
Organic Writing Assessment: Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action by Bob Broad, Linda Adler-Kassner, Maureen McBride, et. al.
Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication edited by Frankie Condon and Vershawn Ashanti Young
Teachers as Collaborative Partners: Working With Diverse Families and Communities (Inquiry And Pedagogy Across Diverse Contexts) by Sandra J. Winn Tutwiler
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by bell hooks
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Writing Assessment and the Revolution in Digital Texts and Technologies (Language and Literacy Series) by Michael Neal
Writing across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing by Kathleen Yancey, Liane Robertson, and Kara Taczak
Writing Studies Research in Practice: Methods and Methodologies edited by Lee Nickoson, Mary P Sheridan, and Gesa E Kirsch


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Strategist, speaker, and best-selling author Michele Wucker founded Gray Rhino & Company to help leaders, organizations, and communities to identify and strategize responses to "gray rhino" risks: the term she coined to urge people to face up to challenges that are obvious and probable yet which we are all too likely –but not condemned– to neglect despite, and often because of, their size.
Michele is a former think tank and media executive and the author of four books, including YOU ARE WHAT YOU RISK: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World (Pegasus Books, April 2021; Chinese simplified characters edition via CITIC, September 2021; translations forthcoming in Taiwan, South Korea, Romania, and Russia). Her third book was the international bestseller, THE GRAY RHINO: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore.
Michele introduced the gray rhino concept at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos in 2013. She developed it in her eponymous 2016 book, which was released to widespread praise from global business, policy, and thought leaders. Translations of the book have been released in China (simplified Chinese characters), Hungary, South Korea, Taiwan (traditional Chinese characters), Norway, and Brazil.
The gray rhino metaphor and framework have moved markets, shaped financial policies, and made headlines around the world in more than 55 countries and 35 languages. It has shaped high-level debates from the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos to NATO to the Munich Security Conference to the Drucker Forum. The concept became emblematic of the ignored warnings that allowed the Covid-19 pandemic to escalate to catastrophic levels. The global K-pop phenomenon BTS referred to the gray rhino in a rap line in the hit song "Blue & Grey" in the context of depression and anxiety brought on by the pandemic.
China's leader, Xi Jinping, displays the book in his office and referred to gray rhinos in much referenced speeches in January 2021 and January 2019. Published in China in February 2017, it became a runaway best-seller. In a front-page editorial in People's Daily in July 2017, senior government officials embraced the term "gray rhino" as a way to signal policy changes to reduce financial risk in the economy, sparking global media coverage from the front page of The New York Times to stories in Turkey, Malaysia, Qatar, Vietnam, Brazil, Mexico, and many other other countries around the world. The Governor of the Central Bank of the Philippines referred to the need to address gray rhinos in the title of a speech on financial crisis.
Nine US senators referenced the gray rhino in a 2020 letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. They warned: "If our financial institutions and their regulators, particularly the Fed, fail to price climate risks, we will knowingly walk into another 'gray rhino' event." The book and concept also are widely used in national security, financial planning, business continuity, and ESG communities, as well as in university and business school coursework.
The gray rhino also has inspired a dance choreography in Australia, a reference in the science fiction novel Red Moon, the name of a crime syndicate in the Japanese anime video game and television series MR LOVE, and a jazz single in Japan.
Background and Recognitions
Michele draws on more than three decades of experience in strategy, economics and finance, public policy, turnarounds and crisis management, as well as media and think tank management and content creation. She has a broad background in behavioral economics, organizational dynamics, risk, geo-politics, and economic analysis.
Michele has delivered keynote speeches, presentations and workshops around the globe to business, policy, and university audiences in countries including Argentina, Mexico, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Morocco, India, China, South Korea, Singapore, France, England, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Poland, Norway, and Sweden. Her 2019 TED Talk has been viewed 2.5 million times.
Michele's work has earned her recognitions as a 2009 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2008 American Council on Germany Young Leader, and a 2010 Women's Media Center Woman Making History, among other honors.
She is a member of the faculty of the DCRO Institute, which prepares directors and chief risk officers to better govern organizational risk taking. She is a strategic advisor to IRM India, senior advisor at Preventable Surprises, and a member of the 2020-22 World Economic Forum Global Futures Council on Frontier Risks. Michele also is an Oxfam Sisters on the Planet Ambassador, a mentor-editor at The OpEd Project, and a founding member of the Border of Lights arts collective. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Authors Guild.
Writing and Media
Michele's writing on topics including crisis anticipation and risk management, finance and the global economy, immigration, citizenship, sovereign debt, women's leadership, and international affairs has appeared around the world including in The Economist, Inc., The (NY) Observer, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, and many others. She writes regularly for strategy + business. She has appeared on many broadcast media including National Public Radio, CNN, CNBC, and MSNBC, and has been quoted in print media around the world.
Michele's first two books are LOCKOUT: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right (PublicAffairs, 2006) and WHY THE COCKS FIGHT: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola (Hill & Wang, 1999). Both have influenced policy debates at the highest levels.
Past Positions
Michele's previous leadership positions include Vice President for Studies at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, President of the World Policy Institute, and Latin America Bureau Chief at International Financing Review. She also has taught master's students as an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University's School for International and Public Affairs, of which she is an alumna.
Michele holds a B.A. from Rice University, a Master's from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and a Certificate in Global Leadership from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.
Visit Michele on twitter, facebook, LinkedIn or her author website.
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 2018 Architect 50: The Top Firm Overall - LPA Inc.
This year's installment of the Architect 50 is a testament to the program's staying power and momentum. The depth and talent of the participating firms—160 completed submissions—was unparalleled. As always, we calculated scores in three categories (business, sustainability, and design) and added them together to create an overall ranking. This year, the biggest change came in how we calculated the sustainability ranking (see the methodology here).
The result? The list featured a nice mix of small boutique firms and giant multinationals, repeat winners and new practices that scaled the charts.
LPA ranked in at no. 45 on the Architect 50 list, with scores of 26 in Business; 23 in Sustainability; and 110 in Design.


Above: Kung Fu Factory makes games like Pirate Bash on mobile.
Mobile game publisher Scopely is announcing a long-term partnership with seasoned developer Kung Fu Factory to create mobile games over multiple years.
Kung Fu Factory has won a bunch of awards for titles such as Adventure Time: Card Wars, TMNT: Rooftop Run, and SpongeBob Moves In. It specializes in making mobile games based on popular brands. Under the deal, the two companies will deliver a series of titles using "the world's biggest entertainment intellectual properties." Developers and publishers team up all the time to make games, but multi-year deals are relatively rare.
The duo will also try their hand at some original titles. Scopely said that the partnership fits with its mission of working with hand-picked, world-class developers. Los Angeles-based Scopely has a popular network of mobile games, and it will release the titles on that mobile gaming network and cross-promote them.
Also based in Los Angeles, the Kung Fu Factory team has created and developed three chart-topping games in different genres, ranging from card-battling action to fast-paced combat running. Each one hit the No. 1 spot in the Apple iTunes App Store in more than 100 countries.
Scopely was founded in 2011, and it raised $35 million in a first round of funding in November. Kung Fu Factory was founded in by Rukavina and Daryl Pitts. It has created 10 games to date.
Above: Kung Fu Factory team.


Why were you born? We all hope that our lives have meaning, though most are still searching for the purpose of life. What does God intend for us?
Many of us keep ourselves so busy between work, chores and our leisure activities that there's really little time to think deep thoughts about the meaning of life.
But occasionally, somewhere in the back of our minds, we have a nagging feeling that there must be something more. There must be a purpose for our lives—something we were meant to be or accomplish.
Thoughts like these can come to our minds at those emotionally charged transition periods of our life: when we leave home, get our first job, get married, have children, have an empty nest or retire.
Even more, questions about the purpose of life come when we lose a loved one or friend. Being reminded of our own mortality can lead us to analyze our lives and seek deeper meaning to it all.
It's the most important philosophical question; yet at the same time, it is deeply practical. Knowing our purpose gives direction to our lives. A life full of purpose is a life of vitality, excitement and ultimately success.
So what is the purpose of life—of your life?
Is the purpose of life to pursue happiness—through comedy, music and other entertainment? Through mood-altering substances? Through enjoying fine food and other perks of the rich and famous?
Or what about through great building projects or other great accomplishments that will make a mark on this world and be remembered for years to come?
"Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my reward from all my labor. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor in which I had toiled; and indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind" (Ecclesiastes 2:10-11).
God had given King Solomon great wealth and great wisdom. His experiments in seeking purpose in life were not half-hearted! And he did find some satisfaction in the things he tried. But he, like the rest of us in quiet moments of reflection, still wondered, Is this all there is? Are these physical and temporary things really why I was born? It is all so fleeting and temporary—like trying to catch the wind.
If all the money in the world can't buy a meaningful life or give us its purpose, what can deprivation teach us?
Viktor E. Frankl experienced the depths of human misery in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Soon after the war, he wrote Man's Search for Meaning and described the degrading and dehumanizing conditions prisoners experienced.
"A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way—an honorable way—in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment" (pp. 56–57).
What a beautiful, yet tragic, thought. Viktor Frankl's wife died in the camps, and he never had the chance to see her again.
Dr. Frankl and the poets were on to something. Love and family are essential elements of the true purpose of life. But there's so much more to it than Dr. Frankl experienced in those fleeting moments of bliss. In fact, there's much more to life's purpose than any human being, in the very best of circumstances, has experienced yet during this short lifetime.
All of us, whether in a concentration camp, a beautiful chateau or a cancer ward, face a mortal enemy that robs us of life and purpose. That enemy is death.
God's essential characteristic is love. He created us and gives us purpose in life because He loves us. And He wants us to learn the eternal joys of this complete and perfect love! But the purpose God has for our lives goes beyond our physical bodies and our temporary lives. God offers human beings the chance to prepare now to have a purposeful, meaningful life—forever! God has put "eternity in their hearts" (Ecclesiastes 3:11). He didn't create us to burn like a candle for just a short time, but—if we will accept the incredible mission and purpose He has for us—to shine "like the stars forever and ever" (Daniel 12:3)!
God's essential characteristic is love (1 John 4:8). He created us and gives us purpose in life because He loves us. And He wants us to learn the eternal joys of this complete and perfect love!
And as we explore the Bible, just when we think it can't get any better, it does! Not only does God want to love us and to love us forever—He wants us to become His children! Not just servants, and not even just friends of God—but His literal children!
"Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!" (1 John 3:1). Jesus Christ is not ashamed to call His faithful followers "brethren," and His plan and our purpose include helping bring "many sons to glory" (Hebrews 2:10-11).
God is expanding His family, and the purpose of life is to become part of that family! He wants us to be His children and heirs forever, helping Him in His work.
Some have derided Christians for being so heavenly-minded that they were no earthly good. But true Christianity and true understanding of the purpose of life is very practical and beneficial for this life.
The Bible teaches that this life is preparation for eternity. We are to learn to treat others as we want to be treated—for eternity! We fulfill our responsibilities and grow in the godly, righteous character that will allow us to be like our Father—forever!
We are in training now for an incredible inheritance beyond our comprehension. The things we suffer now prepare us for that purpose. Tests and trials are all part of that training process to help us be ready to live and reign with Christ for a thousand years—and beyond (Revelation 20:4)!
Looking back, we will consider, as the apostle Paul said, "that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us" (Romans 8:18).
Explore in your own Bible this amazing purpose of your life! We hope this website will help you understand and act on the purpose God has for you.


A young couple killed last week in their Bucks County home died of multiple stab wounds and their lifeless bodies were shot.
The results of autopsies on Tyler Roy, 27, and his wife, Christina Roy, 28, who were slain April 30 in their Kitty Knight Drive home in Northampton Township, were announced Monday by prosecutors, the Associated Press reported.
Mooney shot the couple with a rifle owned by Tyler Roy, according to reports.
Philly.com reported that a viewing was planned for Tuesday night at St. Albert the Great Church in Huntingdon Valley. A funeral Mass Wednesday will be followed by burial at Resurrection Cemetery in Bensalem.
Authorities have yet to find a connection between the couple and their suspected killer, Daniel Kenneth Mooney, 26, the AP reported. Mooney, who reportedly struggled with addition to heroin, died of a drug overdose in Kensington on the day the bodies were found by a house painter.
The painter was working at the home last Tuesday morning when he found the husband's body on the second floor and called police. Officers arriving on scene found the wife's body on the same floor, police said.


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HD 23472 é uma estrela na constelação de Reticulum. Tem uma magnitude aparente visual de 9,72, sendo invisível a olho nu. Com base em medições de paralaxe pela sonda Gaia, está localizada a uma distância de 127,5 anos-luz (39,1 parsecs) da Terra.

HD 23472 é uma estrela anã laranja com um tipo espectral de K3.5V. Possui um sistema planetário de cinco planetas, descobertos com o método de trânsito pela sonda TESS.

Estrela

Esta é uma estrela de classe K da sequência principal com um tipo espectral de K3.5V, o que significa que é uma estrela ordinária que produz energia pela fusão de hidrogênio em seu núcleo. Tem uma massa de 67% da massa solar e um raio de 71% do raio solar. Sua atmosfera externa está irradiando energia com 24% da luminosidade solar a uma temperatura efetiva de 4 680 K, dando à estrela uma coloração alaranjada típica de estrelas de classe K. Possui uma baixa metalicidade, com uma abundância de ferro equivalente a 63% da abundância solar. Seu conteúdo de silício e magnésio é similar ao de ferro, o que é considerado anormal, já que estrelas pobres em metais geralmente têm proporções de silício e magnésio maiores que a de ferro.

HD 23472 é uma estrela cromosfericamente inativa, com um índice de atividade  igual a −5,00. Apesar do baixo nível de atividade, sua velocidade radial e outros indicadores de atividade apresentam variações com um período de aproximadamente 40 dias, o qual corresponde ao período de rotação da estrela. Sua curva de luz obtida pela sonda TESS não apresenta variações associadas a rotação ou atividade estelar. A baixa atividade e rotação lenta indicam que HD 23472 é uma estrela relativamente velha, com uma idade de mais de 4,5 bilhões de anos.

A sonda Gaia encontrou uma estrela a 9,5 segundos de arco de HD 23472 com aproximadamente o mesmo paralaxe e movimento próprio que HD 23472, indicando que pode ser uma companheira física. Ela tem uma magnitude aparente de 15,8 (banda G), um raio de 16% do raio solar e uma temperatura efetiva de 2 980 K.

Sistema planetário

Em janeiro de 2019, foi publicada a descoberta de dois planetas extrassolares orbitando HD 23472, com períodos de 17,7 e 29,8 dias, detectados pelo método de trânsito a partir de dados dos dois primeiros meses de observação da sonda TESS. Sua existência foi confirmada com dados antigos de velocidade radial do espectrógrafo HARPS, os quais permitiram estimar uma massa preliminar para os planetas. Em maio de 2019, com dados de mais dois setores de observação, a equipe da sonda TESS anunciou a detecção de mais dois candidatos a planeta, com períodos de 12,2 e 4,0 dias. Em outubro de 2021, um quinto candidato a planeta foi anunciado, com período de 7,9 dias. Um estudo de 2021, utilizando dados de velocidade radial do Planet Finder Spectrograph no Telescópio Magellan II Clay, determinou massas mais precisas para os dois planetas originais, e impôs um limite na massa do candidato de 12,2 dias. Um estudo de 2022 utlizou o espectrógrafo ESPRESSO, no Very Large Telescope, para detectar o sinal na velocidade radial de todos os cinco planetas do sistema, confirmando sua existência, embora as massas calculadas para os três planetas mais internos tenham uma precisão muito baixa ainda.

Os dois planetas mais próximos da estrela, HD 23472 d e HD 23472 e, têm períodos orbitais de 3,98 e 7,91 dias e semieixos maiores de 0,043 e 0,068 UA. Eles são menores que a Terra, com raios de 0,75 e 0,82 raios terrestres (R⊕), determinados de forma relativamente precisa a partir da diminuição no brilho da estrela durante seus trânsitos. Suas massas foram medidas pelo método da velocidade radial em 0,55 e 0,72 massas terrestres (M⊕), embora com incerteza considerável de 37% e 38% respectivamente. Com esses valores, calcula-se uma alta densidade de 7,5 g/cm³ (com uma incerteza de 36%) para ambos os planetas, sugerindo que eles possuem uma alta fração de ferro na sua composição, similar ao planeta Mercúrio, embora a alta incerteza signifique que uma composição mais típica de planetas terrestres não possa ser excluída. Sua alta massa e densidade, se confirmada, os coloca em uma categoria de planetas conhecidos como "super-Mercúrios", que são planetas com composição análoga à de Mercúrio, mas com massa maior. A origem dos super-Mercúrios é incerta, e pode estar relacionada a algum processo que modificou a composição do disco protoplanetário em que esses planetas formaram, ou a eventos destrutivos que removeram material do manto.

O terceiro planeta do sistema, HD 23472 f, orbita a estrela a uma distância de 0,091 UA e completa uma órbita a cada 12,16 dias. Tem um raio de 1,14 R⊕ e uma massa de aproximadamente 0,77 M⊕, mas com uma incerteza muito alta de 55%. A densidade resultante de 3,0 g/cm³ sugere uma composição com uma quantidade significativa de água e possivelmente um pouco de gás, mas com a alta incerteza não é possível excluir uma composição mais rochosa.

Os dois planetas mais externos, HD 23472 b e HD 23472 c (os dois primeiros descobertos no sistema), são os maiores planetas conhecidos no sistema e têm as menores incertezas em seus parâmetros. Eles são super-Terras com massas de 8,3 e 3,4 M⊕ e raios de 2,0 e 1,9 R⊕, correspondendo a densidades de 6,2 e 3,1 g/cm³. Assim como o planeta f, suas composições devem incluir quantidades significativas de água e gás, com o planeta c tendo a maior quantidade de água e gás. HD 23472 b está a uma distância de 0,116 UA da estrela, completando uma órbita em 17,67 dias, enquanto HD 23472 c está a 0,165 UA e tem um período de 29,80 dias.

Os planetas do sistema estão próximos de uma cadeia de ressonâncias orbitais, com razões de períodos próximas de 2:1, 3:2, 3:2 e 5:3 para cada par sucessivo de planetas. Isso pode indicar que eles estavam em ressonância na época de sua formação, mas acabaram perdendo a cadeia por algum motivo. Atualmente o único par de planetas que pode estar em um verdadeiro estado ressonante é o par mais externo (b/c), em uma ressonância 5:3.

Ver também
HD 21749
K2-229
Kepler-80
K2-138
TRAPPIST-1

Ligações externas

HD 23472 NASA Exoplanet Archive
HD 23472 b, c, d, e, f The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
Dois supermercúrios e três superterras são detectados em um único sistema
Cientistas do IA/U.Porto fazem descoberta inédita de dois super-mercúrios
Two "Super Mercury" Exoplanets Found in a Single System

Constelação de Reticulum
Estrelas de classe K da sequência principal
Estrelas binárias
Sistemas planetários


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Q: get the Id of the Text angular tatextElement I am new to the angularjs. I am using a textangular for showing the HTML document. My code is
HTML
<div text-angular  class="html-editor-container textcontent-modal" id="originalDocumentId" spellcheck="false" ng-hide="fetchingDocumentAsHTML"
       ng-model="data.originalDocument" ta-disabled="true">
    </div>

Now, From this, I am getting the HTML document in my div. When I checked using the Web Developer tool that time It is showing the taTextElement123344455 as a div for the content, now I want to get that div so that I can perform some another operation on the content.
SO I tried by doing document.getElementById("taTextElement123344455") But this Id is always changing. So, Can anyone please tell me how to get that div?


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Q: SQL query for latest record in one-to-many relation I have a problem with establishing SQL query for statement which will count number of rows from one table:
ID       Date             Status_id     Parent_id
1        2012-1-1         2             1
2        2012-3-21        1             2
3        2012-3-6         1             1
4        2012-6-11        1             3
5        2012-1-7         2             1
6        2012-1-5         1             3

statement:
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM person
WHERE date BETWEEN '2012-1-1' AND '2012-1-30' AND status_id=1

Gave me number 3 but in this amount are the rows with same parent, I want to have only unique parents to be counted and if there are two rows with same parent only the one with latest date counts. Can anyone give me a hint how I can improve the query to work like I described?

A: Try this query
SELECT
   COUNT(DISTINCT Parent_id)
FROM
   person
WHERE
   date BETWEEN '2012-1-1' AND '2012-1-30' AND
   status_id=1

Hope it helps....