The second main ingredient in solder paste is the flux (vehicle). Flux is a very complex group of chemicals/materials that must be able to do a number of things, some of which must happen simultaneously (a partial list is below). This requires the knowledge of experienced chemists and material scientists.
1) The flux must not react with the powdered solder while in storage (shelf life). This is aggravated by the wide variety of solder alloys available in paste form. Each alloy family typically requires it own unique flux formulation.
2) The flux must effectively remove any surface oxides present on the solder powder itself and mating surfaces prior to and during the melting of the solder.
3) It must effectively prevent re-oxidation of the solder powder and mating surfaces at the elevated temperatures associated with reflow soldering, especially when performed in an air environment (air is ~21% oxygen).
4) The performance of the flux must be unaffected by a wide range of temperature and humidity conditions.
5) If the flux is "no-clean", the residue must be non-corrosive and non-conductive per J-STD-004.
6) If the flux is RMA, the residue must be easily cleaned with commercially available chemicals.
7) If the flux is water soluble/washable, the residue must clean thoroughly with heated and pressurized deionized water.
8) In a stencil printing application the flux must adequately fill and release from the apertures of a wide variety of sizes, shapes and stencil types, not stick to the squeegee, not dry out too quickly on the stencil, retain a brick like shape both at room temperature and elevated reflow soldering temperatures (minimize slumping), provide sufficient tack to hold components in place, not spatter during soldering (boiling of flux solvents), not outgas excessively (voiding) and provide effective wetting of the solder to a wide variety of board metallizations, component lead platings and package bumps.
9) In dispensing applications, the paste must dispense smoothly and consistently through a variety of needles sizes either through manual application or a variety of dispensing equipment types and technologies without clogging (and do many of the things listed in item 8).
10) Provide a cosmetically appealing solder joint and flux residue (if "no-clean").


Old military canal running through arable land.
Chorus of frogs on a bank and at water level visually identified. In addition, motor vehicles noise and sheep in the background. The frogs appear to be very sensitive to the disturbance.


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Ната́лья Васи́льевна Не́стерова (род. 24 апреля 1950 года, посёлок Славянка, Приморский край, СССР) — советский и российский педагог, создатель концепции непрерывного образования. Доктор педагогических наук (2005). Основатель и ректор «Московской академии образования Натальи Нестеровой» («Университет Натальи Нестеровой»). Действительный член Международной академии творчества, почётный член Академии культуры.

Биография
Родилась 24 апреля 1950 года в посёлке Славянка Приморского края в семье инженера-строителя Василия Ивановича Сурова и экономиста Полины Ивановны Суровой. По сведениям базы данных «Лабиринт» В. В. Прибыловского родилась в Казахстане в семье военного.

В 1984 году окончила физический факультет МГУ имени М. В. Ломоносова.

Окончила математический факультет Московского государственного заочного педагогического института.

В 1966—1990 годах преподавала математику, физику и химию в школах Казахской ССР и Москвы, высших учебных заведениях (Московский институт стали и сплавов), а также занималась репетиторством.

В 1992—2001 годах создала собственную концепцию и систему непрерывного образования, которая включала дошкольное (детский сад), среднее (полная средняя школа), среднее профессиональное (Лицей для мальчиков, Институт благородных девиц, Хореографическое училище, Университетский колледж), высшее образование и аспирантуру

В 2002 году в Краснодарском государственном университете культуры и искусств под научным руководством доктора педагогических наук, профессора Ю. С. Зубова защитила диссертацию на соискание учёной степени кандидата педагогических наук по теме «Формирование творческого мышления учащихся в локальной системе непрерывного профессионального гуманитарного образования» (специальность 13.00.08 — «Теория и методика профессионального образования»). официальные оппоненты — доктор педагогических наук, профессор П. А. Черватюк и доктор педагогических наук, профессор А. Я. Айзенберг. Ведущая организация — Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет культуры и искусств.

В 2005 году в Краснодарском государственном университете культуры и искусств защитила диссертацию на соискание учёной степени доктора педагогических наук по теме «Локальная система высшего гуманитарного образования: теория, методика, организация» (специальность 13.00.08 — «Теория и методика профессионального образования»). Официальные оппоненты — доктор педагогических наук, профессор П. А. Черватюк, доктор философских наук, профессор
И. Г. Хангельдиева и доктор педагогических наук, профессор Д. С. Ягафарова. Ведущая организация — Московский государственный открытый педагогический университет имени М. А. Шолохова.

Действительный член Международной академии творчества, почётный член Академии культуры.

Член президиума Ассоциации негосударственных вузов России.

Университет

В 1990 году открыла Московский центр образования Натальи Нестеровой и стала его президентом.

В 1991 году создала «Гуманитарную гимназию Натальи Нестеровой».

В 1992 году основала и стала ректором «Нового гуманитарного университета Натальи Нестеровой» (с 2004 года — «Университет Натальи Нестеровой»). В том же году создала «Академию танца Натальи Нестеровой».

В 1994 году создала Академию живописи.

Семья
Муж — Григорий Сергеевич Нестеров (1913—1991) — солист филармонии, баритон.

Дети — Анастасия (род. 1973), Григорий (род. 1974), Клавдия (род. 1981), Полина (род. 1985).

Награды
 Медаль ордена «За заслуги перед Отечеством» II степени
 Чемпион СССР по шахматам среди девушек (1968)
 Лауреат программы «Лидеры XXI столетия» (2003)
 Лауреат Национальной премии общественного признания достижений женщин России «Олимпия» (в номинации «Образование»)
 Лауреат Национальной литературной премии «Писатель года»
 Международная награда имени Сократа
 Почётная награда «Святая София»
 орден Святой равноапостольной княгини Ольги.

Научные труды

Монографии

Учебные пособия

Статьи

  (содержание на сайте Лаборатории фантастики)

Интервью
 Частный университет: [беседа с ректором част. ун-та в Москве Натальей Нестеровой] / Н. В. Нестерова; записал А. Раков // Культурно-просветительная работа (Встреча). — 2005. — № 11. — С. 5-10. ISSN 0130-2833

Примечания

Педагоги России
Ректоры вузов России
Выпускники физического факультета МГУ
Выпускники МГГУ им. М. А. Шолохова
Преподаватели МИСиСа
Кавалеры ордена Святой равноапостольной княгини Ольги

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Q: prevent simultanoeous keyup events? I have a cross word puzzle app I'm working on where each square has an input field and keyup event attached to it. It programmed to take in the pressed charachter and automatically move to the next square in the line. However, if I press two keys at near the same time the square will fill with 2 letters before jumping to the next square. I tried changing the squares maxlength to 1 but it causes the program to skip the next square after inserting the first letter.
Is there a way to check if a key is currently pressed when pressing a different key? I could do a small timeout until the first press finishes.
any ideas?
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Have some monstrous fun on your day off from school. There will be monster crafts and game in the morning and monster snacks and movie in the afternoon.
Enjoy a family Contradance at the Schoolhouse. There will be a caller and the Woodbury Strings Band Lab. Those who play acoustic strings or flute are welcome to sit in with the band. There will be Indian Food available to purchase 4-6 pm.
All are welcome to come to Lake Champlain Waldorf School's Fall Open House! Meet faculty and high school students and tour their beautiful Pre-k through 8th grade campus. Children can enjoy fall-themed activities and parents can learn about Waldorf at an 11 am presentation. Refreshments we will be provided.
Come and witness pumpkins in flight! Watch youth and adult competitors hurl pumpkins into the air with homemade launching devices called trebuchets! The perfect free fall community event. There will be three rounds of pumpkin "chunkin'" to determine the winners! In addition to trebuchets and pumpkins, they will also have T-shirts for sale, Raffles, Food for sale and Face and pumpkin painting.
Get in the Halloween Spirit by joining Colchester Parks & Recreation at Bayside Park to carve jack-o-lanterns! Bring your own pumpkin and they provide the gutting & cutting tools, a variety of patterns, and handle the clean-up. Dress for the outdoors - you will be at the Bayside Park Pavilion. Children must be accompanied by a parent. Pre-registration is required.
Bring a pumpkin to carve, a little imagination and a lot of carving enthusiasm. They will supply the carvers, stencils, markers and decorations. The evening will end with the lighting of your creation in the Community Pumpkins Glow. Each family needs to bring their own pumpkin to carve. Focus on family fun and leave the mess to them!
Carve out good family time at the factory store in Waterbury. There will be a pumpkin giveaway, spooky photo opportunities and games. Enjoy free tours, flavor flashback ice cream, and special treats.
An afternoon of Halloween fun and games! Come dressed in your favorite costume to participate in the many games and activities that are planned. There will be a Pumpkin Walk, Halloween Carnival Games, Arts & Crafts, Bingo, Trunk-or-Treat and much more. This is a family event open to all ages, with prizes and special treats for all, although games and activities are geared for preschool through 5th grades.
Boo!! Spend a spooktacular afternoon at the ONE Arts Center, creating whimsical haunted houses. Parents, relax while your child creates an enchanted art project with the help of a local artist or have some collaborative, creative fun working with your child on their project. Come dressed in your most imaginative costume for a special treat.
Even horses like Halloween! Spend the evening trick-or-treating at the UVM Barn. Visit the barn members and horses in their costumes. No tricks, only treats. There is nothing too spooky, just lots of fun.


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EVERY student must register/reregister every year & pay the ANNUAL REGISTRATION fee of $40. Check for early bird pricing register before Aug. 20th and save $10!!! Classes are subject to change. New classes will be added if necessary.
FULL TUITION IS DUE BY THE 10TH OF EACH MONTH. TUITION IS NOT PRO-RATED SEPTEMBER THROUGH MAY. A $15 LATE FEE APPLIES AFTER THE 10TH----------------NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!!!!
ATTIRE: PLEASE WEAR PROPER GYMNASTICS ATTIRE OR CHEER CLOTHES. NO FOOD, DRINKS, CELL PHONES, OR JEWELRY IN THE GYM, PLEASE.
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1. Why do we call our worship "the Mass"?
The word Mass is really an accident of history.
In the early days of Christianity, only the baptized were allowed to witness the Eucharist. After the Liturgy of the Word—the first part of our Mass, in which we hear the Scripture readings and the homily—the unbaptized were sent home with the words "Ite, missa est"—roughly, "Go; you are dismissed." Christians knew that important division in the service as the missa, the dismissal. Soon they began to use the word missa for the whole service of the Eucharist that followed the dismissal and then for the entire worship. Our English word Mass comes from that Latin word missa.
The words Ite, missa est are still used to conclude the Mass when it is celebrated in Latin.
2. What other names does the Mass go by?
We often call it the liturgy, from a Greek word meaning "public service," although technically the word liturgy also includes all the prescribed rites of the Church, including the ones that take place outside the Mass. In Eastern traditions the Mass is often called the Divine Liturgy.
We also sometimes say "the Eucharist," which refers more specifically to the part of the Mass where the sacrament of the Eucharist is celebrated.
We call the Mass the Holy Sacrifice because the Eucharist makes the sacrifice of Christ on the cross present to us on our altar (see question 6, Why is the Mass a sacrifice?). We call it the Lord's Supper because it looks back to the Last Supper and forward to the marriage supper of the Lamb (see Revelation 19).
There are many particular styles of Masses that come from different Christian cultures and different times, and they have particular names.
The Eastern Churches celebrate Mass according to different ritual forms, depending on the traditions of their culture of origin—Byzantine, Ukrainian, Chaldean, Coptic, and so on.
But although there are multiple styles of the Mass and multiple names for it, there is only one Mass. It may change clothes as it moves from country to country or age to age, but the Mass is always fundamentally the same, with the same elements and the same miracle of meeting Christ face to face at its heart.
3. What happens at a Catholic Mass?
At every Catholic Mass the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross is made present on the altar; it is re-presented, not as a symbol but in reality and in the fullness of truth. That's the short answer.
The longer answer is that there's a certain ritual we go through at every Mass. Though some of the details change, the main parts of the ritual are always the same and have been century after century, going all the way back to the time of the apostles.
This prescribed ritual is what we call the liturgy. Each part of the liturgy has a meaning, and the more you know about those meanings, the more you'll understand and be fascinated by the Mass that goes on in your own parish church.
4. Why do we need this ritual? Can't I worship God just as well using my own words?
Praying to God in our own words is good, and we can hardly do it often enough. But it's not all we need.
We could answer the question by saying that Jesus told us to use a ritual, and that's that. At the Last Supper he gave the apostles explicit instructions to repeat the breaking of the bread and the passing of the cup (see Luke 22:19). But that wouldn't really be an answer. Jesus did nothing without a reason.
Rituals are what keep us on the right track. They can include the habits we learned as children, like the way we get dressed in the morning or the way we eat a pizza. We have a set way of answering a phone call, of ending a letter, of greeting the queen of England. The most important things we do—eating, being born, being married, dying—are surrounded by ritual.
We have all these rituals because it's not possible for us to think through everything we do. We don't decide when to breathe or when to beat our hearts in order to pump the proper amount of blood. Our bodies are wisely designed to take care of these processes automatically. Rituals likewise help us toward an appropriate reverence and love for God.
We also have rituals to convey certain messages to other people. What we do is really as much a part of communication as our spoken language. Someone we meet may say, "Pleased to meet you," while shaking our hand; the person sends a different message if he says exactly the same thing while thumbing his nose. Shaking hands is a ritual that conveys a certain meaning; for that matter, so is thumbing your nose. Rituals are part of the way we communicate, and they often speak louder than our words.
Each part of our liturgy—the collection of rituals that make up our worship—has a particular meaning. These meanings have been refined over many centuries, but—just like many of our social rituals—the core goes back to the Beginning.
5. Why does the Mass refer to Jesus as a "victim" and a "lamb"?
We call Jesus a victim because he offered himself as a sacrifice for our sins.
A sacrifice is an offering made to God by a priest. In Old Testament times the Israelites offered many different kinds of sacrifices to God for many different purposes. But the main point of a sacrifice is always the same: It acknowledges that God rules all creation and that everything we have really belongs to him.
In Old Testament times a lamb was the sacrifice offered at Passover, the feast of unleavened bread (see Exodus 12 and question 48, Why does the Church use unleavened bread?). When Jesus came to the Jordan to be baptized, John the Baptist recognized who he was instantly: "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29).
Christ is our Passover lamb, as St. Paul explicitly told the Corinthians: "Christ, our Paschal Lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" (1 Corinthians 5:7–8).
St. Peter makes the same connection for us: "You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot" (1 Peter 1:18–19).
The bride is the Church, and the marriage supper is the eternal worship of God in heaven. We participate in that celebration when we participate in the Mass.
6. Why is the Mass a sacrifice?
The Mass is a sacrifice because it makes present to us, right here in our own parish church, the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross.
That doesn't mean the priest is somehow killing Jesus again or that there needs to be another sacrifice after Jesus died on the cross. There is one sacrifice of Jesus for all time and for all people. But we're dealing with eternity here. That one sacrifice is present to us on our altar at every Mass. We see the Body and Blood of Christ offered today because Christ is living and eternal.
7. Why is the Mass the same sacrifice that Christ made on the cross?
It's the same sacrifice because both the offering and the one who offers it are the same. Christ, our "great high priest" (Hebrews 4:14), offered his own flesh and blood to be sacrificed on the cross. Acting through his priests, Christ today offers his own flesh and blood to be sacrificed on our altars. Because Christ is eternal God, his sacrifice is eternal. Even though the sacrifice of the Mass is "unbloody," as generations of catechumens have learned to say, it is the same as the bloody sacrifice Christ made of himself on the cross.
8. Is every Catholic worship service a Mass?
No. There are services of prayer in which there is no Eucharist. The evening service called Vespers, for example, consists of prayers, hymns, and Scripture readings but no breaking of bread. In small or remote Catholic communities where there is no resident priest, laypeople may gather for prayer services or Communion services, but these are not Masses. The service is a Mass if the entire liturgy of the Mass is celebrated, including the consecration of the bread and wine.
Discover the meaning behind the Catholic prayers, practices, and parts of the Mass, and learn practical tips for preparing for Mass.
The Mass has been celebrated throughout the world over a span of centuries, but many Catholics view it as merely a boring obligation instead of a wondrous gift. Understanding the Mass provides simple answers to common questions about this life-transforming act of Catholic worship and explains the meaning behind its prayers and practices. Along the way there are practical tips for preparing for Mass and incorporating its timeless rhythm into our lifestyle as Catholics.
I originally got this book for my "Godchild", as he is new to the faith and it's harder for him to keep up with the rest of us (Cradle Catholics). I read it, and found it to be a refreshing guide. To him, it's been a very useful guide with clearly explained details.
Overall, an excellent book to have in your library!
It's a great read to make the Mass understanding as it should be. We Catholics have had no classes ever to what the Mass is, where it came from the History, etc. Each part of the Mass now is more meaningful. It makes one what more, which in my case led me to using the St. Joseph Missal so I can read the reading before Mass to better understand the message at Mass.
My "whys" have been answered!
Being a cradle Catholic, I should have known more about our treasured Mass. This book opened my eyes and gave me answers to so many questions. It's an easy read. The answers in this book will enable you to appreciate every moment of the Mass. I will reread it many times. Thank you Dynamic Catholic and Mike Aquilina!


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Hiking, Cycling, & GeocachingCartersville CVB2019-10-18T09:57:37-04:00
Stretch Your Legs with a Visit to Cartersville
We invite you to discover 20 of the finest trails within an hours drive of Atlanta. All are super convenient to I-75 and offer scenic, historic and natural escapes. Ranging from 850 feet above sea level to 1500 feet above sea level, the diversity of Cartersville's trails welcomes individuals of all fitness levels. For information on guided hikes, bike rides, walks and runs see Events .
Pine Mountain Recreation Area
Total 4.38 miles: East Loop 2.34 miles, West Loop 1.57 miles; 4 hours steady pace; compacted soil surface; moderate to difficult.
Pine Mountain is the newest recreation area in the City of Cartersville. The East Loop Trailhead connects the city to Lake Allatoona's shoreline and reaches 1,562 feet above sea level. The rugged and challenging trail development crosses Pine Mountain and Hurricane Hollow, so named by early miners. The land is part of the 13,000 acres that were originally the site of Mark Cooper's Iron Empire. The new West Loop Trailhead is now open at I-75 Exit 288, at the entrance to Komatsu. The West Loop connector will tie Pine Mountain Trails to Cooper's Furnace Nature Trail at the Etowah River. Pine Mountain Trails are open daily for hiking. Mountain biking is allowed only on Wednesday and Saturday. Bikers must follow color-blazed directional signs for those days, no exceptions. Mountain bikers must wear helmets. The trail is maintained by the City of Cartersville Parks & Recreation Department.
See Trail Map
Directions: I-75 Exit 290, east on GA 20. Right at traffic light onto Spur 20. Continue approximately four miles. The East Loop Trailhead access and parking area is on the right, just past the turn to Bartow Beach and Gatewood Park. Or, at I-75 Exit 288, go east, then right at Komatsu sign. Parking area for the West Loop Trailhead is on the left before entering Komatsu. Call 770-387-5626
Pine Log Creek Trail
4.5 miles total for East and West Loops; 3 hours steady pace; compacted soil surface; moderate to difficult.
The Pine Log Creek Trail is part of 275 acres protected as Bartow County Greenspace. The trail features a 4.5 mile compacted soil path crossing seven rustic footbridges over Pine Log Creek. From two overlooks, hikers can view Pine Log Mountain – one of the highest elevations in Bartow County's Appalachian foothills – and the site of the Pine Log Cherokee Indian Village. The trail system includes two loops east and west and is rated moderate to difficult with rugged terrain. The eastern loop takes hikers by an early CCC quarry pond for picturesque views. Pine Log Creek Trail is open daylight to dusk to hikers only – no motorized vehicles, horses or bicycles. Hunting and fishing is strictly prohibited. As with any trail system, please do not disturb, cut or remove the natural habitat and do not litter.
Directions: I-75 Exit 293, US 411 north approximately 8 miles. Turn right onto GA 140 east toward Waleska. Continue approximately three miles to Pine Log Creek Trail System parking area on left. For more information call Keep Bartow Beautiful, 770-387-5167.
Lake Allatoona and Etowah River Trails
Trail maps for the following trails are available at Allatoona Lake Project Management Office/Visitor's Center & Overlook – 8 AM-6 PM (summer), otherwise 8 AM-4 PM. Call 678-721-6700
Vineyard Mountain Trail at Riverside Park
6.5 miles of hiking trails, compacted soil surface, rated moderate-difficult
Three interconnecting trails with blue, yellow and red blazes take hikers along steep slopes overlooking the Etowah River, Allatoona Dam, and Allatoona Lake. Hikers may encounter hawk, fox, or deer and see wild grapevines, poplar trees and azalea bushes. Vineyard Mountain Trail was developed as an Eagle Scout service project and is expanded periodically. Directions : I-75 Exit 288, GA 113 south to US 41 South. See Riverside Park sign then left onto Allatoona Dam Road. A second trailhead is accessible from I-75 Exit 285, east on Red Top Mountain Road to parking area on left at Bethany Bridge crossing Allatoona Lake.
Cooper's Furnace Trail
Hiking trail of less than one mile, one way; compacted soil surface; rate easy
Trail follows the route of a 19th century mining railroad bed through a mixed pine and hardwood forest. Hikers will see a vast variety of trees, shrubs and wildflowers along the way. Wildlife is abundant here. A natural feature of interest is a pond inhabited by beaver and muskrat. Directions : I-75 Exit 290, GA 20 east, right on Spur 20, approximately 4 miles to parking across from Cooper's Branch #2 Picnic Area. Trail ends at Cooper's Furnace Day Use Area along the Etowah River.
Laurel Ridge Trail
One mile, one way; compacted soil surface; rated easy with two short steep grades
The hiking trail crosses the slopes of a mixed pine and hardwood ridge overlooking the Etowah River Valley. Along the way see an abundance of mountain laurel and 32 varieties of identified trees. Directions: I-75 Exit 290, GA 20 east then right onto Spur 20. Continue 4.5 miles to Project Management Office/Visitor's Center Parking Area.
Cooper Branch Trail
One mile; compacted soil surface; rated easy-moderate
This hiking trail is a short connector that offers scenic views of Allatoona Lake. Bluebird boxes and a natural forest floor make an excellent habitat for wildlife. The trail features a few moderate hills within a forest of mixed pine and hardwoods. Directions: I-75 Exit 290, GA 20 east, right on GA Spur 20, approximately 4 miles. Trails accessible from Cooper's Branch #1 and Cooper's Branch #2 Day Use Areas.
Red Top Mountain State Park Trails
Trail maps and information available at the Park Visitor Center, open daily, hours vary seasonally. All vehicles within Red Top Mountain State Park must display ParkPass, available at the Visitor Center and at boxes throughout the park. Directions: I-75 Exit 285, east on Red Top Mountain Road, cross Allatoona Lake and enter Red Top Mountain State Park. Visitor Center is ahead on the left. Call 770-975-4226
Homestead Trail
Loop is 5.5 miles; compacted soil; yellow blaze; rated moderate
Hiking trail begins and ends at the Visitor Center front porch. After the first mile, the trail crosses Lodge Road and takes visitors to some of the most beautiful areas of the park. The 3.5 mile loop from this point follows the Allatoona shoreline for much of the way and is named for several homesteads once located here.
Iron Hill Trail
Loop is 3.9 miles; crushed stone on double track; blue blaze; rated moderate
This scenic trail is open to hiking and biking and winds along the Allatoona Lake shoreline through an area once used for iron ore mining in the mid-1800s. Native wildlife and plants may be viewed along the way. Continue past the Visitor Center, to parking area on right 1/2 mile past campground.
Sweetgum Trail
3.5 mile loop; compacted soil; red blaze; rated moderate
Hiking trail begins and ends at the Visitor Center parking area and takes visitors to the park's lodge area through a forest of pine and hardwoods. White tail deer and an abundance of wildlife may be viewed along this trail. A portion of the trail shares its path with the Homestead trail and is marked by both red and yellow blazes.
White Tail Trail
One-half mile trail one way; compacted soil surface; white blaze; rated moderate
Trailhead begins at the Lodge parking area. Visitors may hike to a scenic point at the edge of Allatoona Lake. A portion of this trail shares a path with the Sweetgum Trail.
Lakeside Trail
3/4 mile loop; paved surface; not blazed; rated easy, wheelchair accessible
This ADA Accessible trail begins at the Lodge parking area and loops along the shoreline for much of its length. A focal point is the 1869 Vaughn log cabin, where visitors can enjoy special programs seasonally. Along the way, there are benches and swings where visitors might stop and enjoy nature.
Visitor Center Loop
3/4 mile loop; compacted soil; red/green blaze; rated moderate
Trailhead begins at the Visitor Center parking area and follows Sweetgum Trail red blaze, then turns right following a green blaze through a shaded hardwood forest. Additional features of interest include a small spring-fed stream and two viewing/relaxation platforms.
Allatoona Pass Trail
2.5 miles, 2-3 hours; compacted soil and gravel; rated easy-moderate; maintained by Red Top Mountain State Park
The Allatoona Pass consists of the Western & Atlantic Railroad bed, two earth forts, trenches and outworks dug by Union troops during the Civil War, and the old Tennessee Wagon Road. The level railroad pass is 360 feet long and 180 feet deep through solid rock, and if you look closely you can see where dynamite blasted through the mountain. Interpretive signs guide your way as you journey back through the battlefield, much of which remains as it was during the Battle of Allatoona Pass on October 5,1864. Directions : I-75 Exit 283, east on Old Allatoona Road, cross railroad and continue one mile to parking area on left.
Cartersville City Trails
There are many in-town trails that provide ideal locations for fresh air and fitness.
Dellinger Park 2 mile and 1.3 mile walking/running trail with exercise stations on a cinder/gravel path located at 100 Pine Grove Rd.
Cartersville Sports Complex includes a 1 mile lighted 18-station vita course at 11 Sugar Valley Rd.
Pettit Creek Trail is 1.5 miles of paved walking path at 168 Cassville Rd.
Leake Mounds Trail is 1.7 miles of paved walking pathway featuring pre-historic Native American interpretation. The trail connects to the larger Etowah RiverWalk for 5K training and experiences. See MAP.
Etowah RiverWalk is a 2.6 mile paved walking and biking trail that weaves its way through farmland, sports parks, and historic sites along the Etowah River. Connect to the Leake Mounds Trail for a Certified 5K Road Course.
The Pettit Preserve
This 70-acre preserve for environmental studies exists to provide a safe haven for endangered species and serves as an outdoor teaching laboratory. Here students have the opportunity to experience the joy of land in its natural state. All activities within its boundaries seek to limit the impact of humankind while preserving a natural balance. Facilities include a lakeside study center with restrooms, a 1.5 mile hiking trail (compacted soil); a 950-foot hiking trail (compacted soil) featuring a 36-foot swinging bridge, a lakeside amphitheater, and a seating area/fire pit. Additionally, 55 trees are identified along the trails. Pettit Preserve is open to groups for educational study, corporate groups and civic clubs by appointment, and on select EVENT dates. The Pettit Preserve is located off GA 61, turn left on Douthit Bridge Road about 3 miles south of the Cartersville Airport. See signs at Vineyard Road. For more information visit online at www.PettitPreserve.com .
Regional Bike Routes in Bartow County
Eight bike routes that are part of a Regional Bicycle Network are marked throughout Bartow County. Bicyclists can enjoy less traveled roads and scenic byways along these routes that range from 43 miles-57 miles:
Sosebee-Adairsville
Sonoraville I
Sonoraville II
Sonoraville III
Booking Bartow
Cassville-Euharlee-Kingson
Sosebee/Old Grassdale 50 Mile – not shown on map below – see Sosebee Cycling Park
See Bike Bartow County for more details.
Sosebee Cycling Park
Open daily, Sosebee Cycling Park is a donation-based parking area for cyclists located at 456 Simpson Road NE, White GA 30184. The park provides water, shade, picnic tables, changing rooms and a restroom. A second Sosebee Cycling Park at 433 Bozeman Road in White offers a convenient rest stop as you pedal along low traffic routes ranging from 15 to 100 miles with picturesque views of farmland and the Appalachian foothills. For information call 770-354-4777.
Embark on a modern-day treasure hunt with your friends and family. Use your hand-held GPS to locate caches placed throughout Cartersville and Adairsville. You'll discover a variety of historic places, popular attractions and scenic vistas. See Geocaching.com to learn more about hundreds of caches just waiting to be found. From mysteries to earth caches, multi-caches to events, you are sure to be introduced to some great memories along the way. You might even want to log a SummitCheeseburger from high atop Pine Mountain.
For information on guided hikes, bike rides, walks and runs see Events . Looking for a leisurely walking trail? Try our Sports Parks for neighborhood paths and waterside walks.
#CartersvilleOutdoors

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Regency Oaks is a community in Winter Garden, Florida. Regency Oaks is in close proximity to shopping, Florida Hospital Winter Garden, and historic downtown Winter Garden. Homeowners amenities include a large club house, pool, walking trials, and tennis courts.


One of the most asked for recipes I make ( next to my Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies ) is my Christmas Bark. I only make it at Christmas time so it is now a holiday tradition. Family eagerly await the first batch and friends hope I will continue to package up goodie bags with this delicious treat.
So if you are ready to start your holiday baking, here's the recipe I posted last year for my Christmas Bark. I did make one adjustment based on a suggestion from my sister, Leslie. She uses a candy thermometer and boils the butter and brown sugar until it reaches hard crack stage - 310 degrees. Make sure to do this over medium heat while stirring constantly. This makes creates a harder brittle-like bark. Either way, it is delish!
hey what about making some Christmas Peanut brittle with an old friend....one of my fondest memories!!!
I was thinking about that just the other day! I agree with you about the memories. We need to get together soon.


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Brooklyn Heights, Cool Listings
Former Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa lists her Brooklyn Heights duplex for $2.6M
By Devin Gannon, Tue, October 19, 2021
All photos courtesy of Brown Harris Stevens
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top aide Melissa DeRosa is selling her Brooklyn Heights duplex two months after leaving her job with the state. Located on the fourth floor of 22 Pierrepont Street, the three-bedroom home is asking $2.59 million. DeRosa jointly owns the apartment with her husband Matthew Wing, but, as the New York Post first reported, the couple recently split.
Brooklyn Heights, Celebrities, Recent Sales
Oscar-Winning Director Errol Morris Buys a Poetic Brooklyn Heights Home for $1.9M
By Diane Pham, Mon, September 22, 2014
Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, and his poet wife Julia Sheehan have just closed on a charming three-bedroom at 22 Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights for $1.9 million. According to city records, the couple will be following in the footsteps of another celebrated creative, having purchased the home from the estate of late Russian poet, 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Joseph Brodsky.
Inside the book-filled home here


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When I [started this blog]({% post_url 2007-04-22-at-long-last %}), I made the decision that this would be a personal blog.  At the time I was freelance and was thinking of launching a professional blog, which I still haven't officially started.

I'm considering making some geeky posts -- stuff about the events I'm going to and some technical posts -- either on this blog or on another blog.  What would you guys think if I posted the geeky items here?  I know some of you would be bored, but would you just stop reading the blog?  Would you be in any way interested?

A good way to gauge this is twitter. My tweets became incredibly geeky about a month ago (when I was attending WordCamp UK).  For those of you following me on twitter, was that annoying?  I thought I noticed that some people stopped twittering or twittered considerably less shortly after that happened.  Was I just imagining that?

I write this blog primarily to keep friends and family up to date with what I'm doing, so if any of you are going to be put off by overly geeky posts, let me know.

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Belize national team, coached by Milton Palacio, went down 82-80 to Cuba in a nailbiter at the Belize Civic Center this evening.
Jasiel Rivero, Cuba's powerful center, led all scorers with 29 points and 9 rebounds.
The Bahamas used a third-quarter scoring surge to pull away from host country Belize to secure an 86-72 win. Michael Carey led The Bahamas with 21 points.
Kentwan Smith had 18 points and 15 rebounds, while Shaquille Cleare chipped in with 16 points.
Cleare opened the third quarter on a personal 8-0 run that created some separation between the teams. The Bahamas went on to outscore Belize 22-13 in the period and held on to the lead the rest of the way.
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The National Basketball Team will not advance to the FIBA World Cup Games to be held in 2021. Former NBA player Milton Palacio was brought in to coach the national team two weeks before the matches. Unfortunately, Belize did not make the cut. The national team thrashed Antigua and Barbuda and in a nail-biting game, it came within two points of destroying Cuba. On Sunday the Bahamian team beat Belize by fourteen points. The games were played at the Belize Civic Centre to huge crowds, but the team failed to advance. Duane Moody looks at the final game on Sunday.
…and with that eighty-six to seventy-two in favour of the Bahamian national team, Cuba and the Bahamas advanced to the world championship round for FIBA set for 2021. These national teams along with two others from Belize and Antigua went head to head in a qualifying round of world basketball competition inside the Belize City Civic Centre between Friday and Sunday. Team Belize, coached by Milton Palacio won its first matchup, beating Antigua's national team by twenty-five points. On Saturday they would lose to Cuba by a razor-thin two points and in a determining match against the Bahamian team, the Belize national team lost by fourteen – taking them out of the competition.
Following the win, the coach of the Bahamian national team spoke of the strategy going into the game against team Belize.
While the Bahamian team was more athletic and determined, many were of the view that an injury sustained by shooting guard Devin Daly in the third quarter of the third game gave Belize a disadvantage because the slim gap between the numbers widened and the national team didn't catch back up to the Bahamians.
Belize's Coach also shared his thoughts on the statistics from the game on the national team.


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London as shown on Smith's 1815 Map
Irregular income, combined with costly publications and poor business sense meant that William Smith suffered from financial problems throughout his life. Despite there being 410 subscribers to Smith's geological Map, it is unclear if all these individuals listed in the accompanying explanatory Memoir actually received a copy. Certainly it is thought that only around 400 copies were produced in total, of which around 150 survive to this day. George Bellas Greenough's Map may have been more accurate and up to date (plus slightly cheaper and smaller) but it sold even less – only around 300 copies.
King's Bench Prison, c.1809
In 1815, the same year as his greatest achievement, an investment in a quarrying enterprise near Bath failed and led to Smith having to sell his precious collection of fossils to the British Museum. Part of the fee he received was to cover the cataloguing and arrangement of the collection and Smith took the opportunity to produce another two (as it turned out incomplete) publications which further expanded on his theories, 'Strata Identified by Organized Fossils, containing prints on colored paper of the most characteristic specimens in each stratum' (1816-1819) and 'Stratigraphical System of Organized Fossils, with reference to the specimens of the original geological collection in the British Museum: explaining their state of preservation and their use in identifying the British strata' (1817). Between 1817 and 1819 he issued a series of six geological cross sections of England and Wales which like the above were also to be used in conjunction with the 1815 geological Map, but none of these publications improved Smith's perilous financial situation and he spent 10 weeks in the summer of 1819 in the King's Bench Prison for debt.
Smith's last major publication series was his 'New Geological Atlas of England and Wales', which comprised county maps which were coloured geologically. The series was issued in six parts between 1819-1824 but only 21 county maps were published covering part of England, thus becoming another of Smith's unfinished and incomplete works. By the autumn of 1819, with his house in London repossessed to pay off his debts, Smith finally left the city for the North.
'Strata Identified by Organized Fossils...', 1816-1819
Geological sections, 1817-1819
'New Geological Atlas of England and Wales', 1819-1824
Reduced map of England & Wales, 1827
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Yeah, this looks about right: I write a lot of words and get most of them wrong the first time.
Just confirmed what I've suspected for a long time. This is part of why web development is so much fun.
I am very very excited about this!
I just discovered Denied, an app that lets you filter music on streaming services based on rules you set. It's sad that neither Spotify nor Apple Music are any good at this on their own, but hey, that's what third parties are for!
At any rate, my first two rules are definitely the most important.
When I'm buying a carrying case my first question is always "how does it handle a fist being photoshopped on top of it?"
Her brothers and I were playing the Switch and she wanted to play. So we gave her a Logitech trackball and she was good. Although something about this look suggests that she knows what's going on.
I bought this deck box almost two years ago and haven't found a use for it until now. It fits my (current) #keyforge needs!
Playing My Little Scythe, which @michael gave us for Christmas! So far we love it!


Ashland Fish Yatesville, Grayson and Dale Hollow.
Benton Fish Kentucky and Barkley.
Benton Fish Kentucky/Barkley. Crappies, Bass and Stripes.
Louisville Fish KY Lake and tail waters, Rough River.
Louisville Fish Barren, Cumberland, Laurel, Dale Hollow, Wheeler, Patoka, Hardy, Nolin, Raystown, Wood Creek.
Nolin, Green River, Barren, Taylorsville and more.
Maysville Fish Kincaid, Eastfork, Rockyfork, Ohio River, Carnico.
Mt.Washington Fish Taylorsville/Kentucky and Barkley/Guntersville/Dale Hollow. I live in Mount Washington so Taylorsville is my home lake, but I love them all especially Guntersville.
Murray Fish Kentucky Lake, Lake Barkley, Dale Hollow.
Nebo Fish Barkley, KY Lake, Nolin, Green River, Ohio River, Yatesville Lake and Neely Henry in AL.
Rineyville Fish Green, Dale Hollow (in winter).
Somerset Fish mostly Cumberland, also Woods Creek, Cedar Creek, Barren, Green River, Old Hickory, Dale.


Kylie Jenner has moved on from her ex Tyga with rapper Travis Scott, and while he's been playing the role of "perfect boyfriend," he's also been comparing Jenner's bedroom skills to those of her sister Kendall, who he also dated.
A source exclusively revealed to OK! that Travis has been bragging to his rap buddies that his new girlfriend Kylie is much better in bed than Kendall.
"Travis thinks he's a king now," the insider dished. "He's been boasting that Kylie's way better in bed than Kendall and has more to play with, but Kendall's got more personality."
"It's really cruel," the source continued, "especially because he's been joking about 'trading up to Kourtney' over the summer."
Travis seems like bad news, as he was recently arrested for disorderly conduct at his concert in Arkansas. "Poor Kylie and Kendall really need to stay away from these scumbag rappers,"the insider confessed, "but Kylie's so intent on replacing Tyga, she's not realizing she's making a dangerous mistake."
Do you think Kylie should stay away from Travis? Sound off in the comments!


Blackmore, Louise; Doole, Graeme J.
Blackmore, L. & Doole, G. J. (2013). Drivers of landholder participation in tender programs for Australian biodiversity conservation. Environmental Science & Policy, 33, 143-153.
Conservation tender program have been widely applied to biodiversity conservation in Australia and internationally in recent decades. Increasing participation rates is critical to these schemes, as competition is required for the cost-effectiveness benefits of the tender system to be fully realized. However, knowledge relating to the drivers of landholder participation in tender programs is limited. This study aims to identify the relative importance of different drivers of participation in Victorian conservation tenders. The novel method of maximum entropy ordinal regression is used given the small sample size, and supplemented with qualitative data obtained through face-to-face interviews. The regression analysis reveals that strong relationships between agencies and landholders and a low administrative burden drive increased participation. The provision of education, support, and easily-integrated management practices, however, may drive lower participation, with landholders confident to undertake conservation activities independently of assistance. Some evidence emerges that ten-year contracts may be well-received. A key concern is low additionality in biodiversity benefits, with typical tender participants displaying a strong conservation ethic and high levels of management activity pre-participation. This work has shown that in conservation policies involving self-selection by participants, economic incentives for adoption may be less important than non-monetary drivers.


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CollectionBlack Bay 32/36/41
Reference Number79500
Description36 mm steel case, steel bracelet
Materialsteel
Case36 mm steel case with polished and satin finish
BezelSmooth steel bezel with polished finish
BraceletSteel bracelet with satin finish, with folding clasp and safety catch
MovementSelf-winding mechanical movement, Calibre T600
DialSilver
Winding CrownSteel screw-down winding crown, with the TUDOR rose, with black anodised aluminium winding crown tube
CrystalSapphire crystal
WaterproofnessWaterproof to 150 m (500 ft)
Besides featuring a dial inspired by the 1950s, the Black Bay 32, 36 and 41 models also use other design details that hark back to the past. They feature a prominent winding crown as a nod to the famous 7924 reference of 1958 (known as the Big Crown), while its characteristic angular hands, known as "Snowflakes", were borrowed from the Tudor watches used by the French National Navy in the 1970s.
One of the most interesting features of the Black Bay Chrono is its COSC-certified Manufacture Calibre MT5813 that includes Tudor's signature regulating organ and bi-directional oscillating mass made from a tungsten monobloc. The self-winding movement is also equipped with a column wheel and vertical clutch system, which ensures a smooth operation of the chronograph.
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Q: TFS 2015 Backlog Items Edit Item Field dropdown no longer populates after update 3 Field dropdown no longer populates after update 3
Issue appeared after installing TFS 2015 update 3. As the image indicates (see link above), this issue occurs on the "Features" or "Backlog" items. The exact same Edit pop-up dropdown populates as expected from the iteration backlog link populated dropdown. Multiple browsers were attempted, as was clearing caches, and disabling TFS plug-ins. Because the dropdowns correctly populate from the iteration backlog, its presumed that this is not a data related issue. This TFS server has been successfully operating for a number of years and through multiple TFS version upgrades.

A: This issue was also posted on MSDN forum here
Where the issue was successfully reproduced and bug reporting was recommended.
The bug was reported here

A: Just tested with Tfs2015.Update3.RC1, your issue is NOT reproducible. Please try with another browser or test on another machine.


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Adrienne Arsht Center parking rates and locations are subject to change so book your parking with SpotHero today!


Alexander Grothendieck was one of 20th century's most brilliant mathematicians. His work is considered revolutionary.
Yeah, he was a little out there. How did you guess?
Grothendieck was born in Germany to a Russian Jewish revolutionary and a local goyishe woman. The two considered marriage too bourgeois, so Alexander was saddled with his mother's last name, as opposed to his father's rather Jewy Schapiro. That helped him survive World War II, but not before he decided to run away to kill Hitler. He was about 12 years old.
We'll skip over Grothendieck's mathematical career, for it is clearly too complex for us. There was dabbing outside of mathematics as well: failed attempts to start communes, dreams that proved to him that G-d exists, a promise of a "new age" (to be ushered on in 1996), and thousands upon thousands of pages of unpublished work (ramblings?).
In 1990, Grothendieck disappeared from public life and moved to the Pyrenees. He there lived in isolation until his death.


we are tempted because we are human.
you are sure to be on His side.
and longs for you to know Him.
between giving up and going on.
than those who are in God's hands.
except that which lies outside the will of God.
so we could to go heaven with Him.
The good news of the gospel is too good to keep to ourselves.
If you're a frequent visitor here at Breathing in Grace, or even if this is your first time stumbling upon my blog, I would so very much appreciate if you would leave a comment.
I want to personally visit you and wish you a Happy Twenty-Fifteen!!


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is an animated music video created by Studio Ghibli for the song "On Your Mark" by the Japanese rock duo Chage & Aska. The song was released in 1994 as part of the single "Heart". In 1995, Hayao Miyazaki wrote and directed the short film for the song as a side-project after having writer's block with Princess Mononoke. The anime music video is non-linear, providing multiple reiterations and alternate scenes to depict the events. The music video added sound effects to the audio track, but contains no dialogue. Miyazaki purposely misinterpreted the lyrics to present his vision of a world where the surface becomes inhospitable and humans live in an underground city. He made the video cryptic to evoke creative interpretations among viewers.

The music video follows two policemen who raid and massacre a religious cult and find an angelic being, only to have her taken away and confined to a secure laboratory. Haunted by the fate of the "angel", the two men formulate a plan and break into the laboratory. Fleeing in an armored truck, the three plummet into an abyss after trying to force past a police aircraft along a narrow, suspended roadway. After a montage of the previous scenes, the armored truck suddenly rockets into an apartment complex, allowing their escape. The three escape to the surface, ignoring the radiation and danger signs, emerging near an encased nuclear reactor. The two men set the "angel" free and she flies off into the sky.

The music video was well-received and praised for its animation and attention to detail. It premiered as a short before Studio Ghibli's Whisper of the Heart and has since been released on Laserdisc and DVD as part of the All Things Ghibli Special Short Short compilation.

Synopsis
The video begins with shots of a vacant village, overgrown with weeds, and the concrete sarcophagus of a covered-over nuclear reactor in the background. As the music begins, the scene changes to a sci-fi-style nighttime military-style police raid on a cult. Futuristic flying troop transports crash through the windows of a tower topped by gigantic neon-lit eyes and occupied by armed defenders. The policemen exchange gunfire and grenades with cultists whose hoods depict an enormous eye. As the victorious police begin to sort through the bodies of the cultists, two policemen find what appears to be a girl, lying unconscious, with large feathered wings on her back.

The scene changes again, now to bright daylight and blue sky. Two men are driving an old Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider passo corto down an empty road. As one of the men helps the girl up, she spreads her wings and he holds her hands while she gains confidence. With a nudge she is airborne, but she seems hesitant and afraid as he lets go.

The scene changes back to the discovery of the girl in the tower, and the identity of the two policemen is revealed to be the same from the previous sequence. They carefully carry her out and offer her something to drink. A team of scientists wearing radiation suits arrive and quickly take the girl away.

The two men are haunted by the girl's fate and formulate a plan to rescue her. They break into the laboratory and free her from confinement, but the lab's alarms are triggered. The three escape in an armored truck and drive along a narrow suspended roadway over a domed city built in a crater. Police hovercraft are in pursuit, and one of them comes very low to the roadway to block the fugitives' truck. The roadway collapses when the protagonists try to force their way through, sending the truck plummeting. The winged girl refuses to let go of the hands of her rescuers, and the three fall into the abyss.

A brief montage of previous shots follows: the discovery of the girl, the girl flying through a blue sky, the two men rescuing the girl from the laboratory and stealing the truck, the truck plummeting amidst the wreckage of the roadway. But this time, the truck fires stabilizing thrusters and makes a short flight into the side of an apartment building. After their escape, the three are riding an old Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider passo corto through a dark tunnel underneath signs which bear radiation symbols and read (in kanji) "Beware Of Sunlight" and "Survival Not Guaranteed". As they emerge into daylight, they drive past nuclear cooling towers and a sign which reads "Extreme Danger" and continue down the road.

One of the men helps the girl up, she spreads her wings and gives them a grateful smile; he kisses her hand, and the other winks in farewell. Soon, she is drifting upward into the sky. Briefly, a major urban cityscape is seen beyond the trees. The car veers off the road and slows to a stop in the grass.

Production
The production of the music video began because Miyazaki was suffering from writer's block on Princess Mononoke and needed another project to distract him. Miyazaki wrote and directed the music video for "On Your Mark", although the song was previously released in 1994 as part of the single "Heart". Despite the popularity of the work, Toshio Suzuki told Helen McCarthy, the British author of numerous anime reference books, that Studio Ghibli had not given "100 percent" focus to the music video.

In the production of the music video, Miyazaki experimented with using computer animation to supplement traditional hand drawn cell-animation. At the time Studio Ghibli did not have its own computer department and the work was outsourced to CG Production Company Links, under supervision of Hideki Nakano, Silicon Graphics, Softimage 3D, and Alias Research. Techniques learned in the experimentation for On Your Mark were later adopted for the creation of Princess Mononoke. Animation director was Masashi Andō. Long time Miyazaki collaborator Michiyo Yasuda was in charge of colour selection. Backgrounds were created by Kazuo Oga. Yōji Takeshige made his debut as art director. There is no dialogue in the music video and the two policemen are loosely modeled after Chage and Aska.

Analysis
The deliberately non-linear, enigmatic and cryptic style of the music video was intended to stimulate the imaginations of its viewers and their interpretations of the music video." Miyazaki offered an interpretation of the angel as "Hope" and to protect hope could paradoxically mean "to let it go where no-one can touch it". Dani Cavallaro, an author of books related to anime, reflected on this by proposing that hope retains its purity and authenticity when it is ephemeral, evanescent and elusive. Hope may cause exertion and possibly pain, but denying hope is to deny the feasibility or and vision it provides. Miyazaki said that in the music video's setting, humans live in an underground city after the surface of the Earth has been contaminated with radiation, creating a sanctuary for nature. Miyazaki did not find this believable, though, as humanity would suffer on the surface instead. Miyazaki intentionally misinterpreted the lyrics to reflect upon the vision of a world filled with disease and radiation and people's reactions to that world. He implied the two policemen might not be able to return to their old life, but offered no reason as to why.

Cavallaro noted that the lyrics of the song include "ryuukou no kaze", which translates to "flu" and is also an idiom for "the flu of fashion." The author further interpreted it as "I always feel the urge to make a fresh start" suggesting this could be the "bleak acceptance of the ideological and economic codes that mold our lives in accordance with the imperative of planned obsolescence, or as a hopeful embracing of the genuine prospects of renewal and change." Cavallaro suggested that despite the feminine appearance of the "angel", it could be of a "preternatural order", making gender or sex distinctions irrelevant. Miyazaki referred to the angelic creature as "tori no hito" or "a bird's person" which is the nickname of Nausicaä from his Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind manga and film. Cavallaro noted another visual correspondence to Only Yesterday with the oppressive urban environment and the freedom of open spaces.

During their April 1999 lecture series on manga, anime and the works of Miyazaki at the University of Dallas, Pamela Gossin, Professor of Arts and Humanities, and guest instructor Marc Hairston, research scientist in the William B. Hanson Center for Space Sciences, discussed On Your Mark in their lecture, "In the Coda On Your Mark and Nausicaa, and drew parallels to the Nausicaä story, its titular character and its conclusion. Gossin and Hairston interpreted the release of the winged girl at the end of the video as Miyazaki setting free his character in a manner reminiscent of William Shakespeare's symbolic liberation of his characters, through Prospero's release of his servant Ariel in his play The Tempest.
The final volume of the Nausicaä manga was released in January 1995. Miyazaki started creating On Your Mark that same month.

McCarthy highlighted similarities to different works and real life found throughout the film, remarking that the opening city sequence could be an homage to Akira or Blade Runner and the attack on the religious cult could be a reflection of the Aum Shinrikyo movement. Nausicaa.net stated the production occurred prior to the police raid following the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in March 1995. McCarthy also noted that the film's scientists' decontamination gear look like the hero of Porco Rosso and the rescue scene is reminiscent of Princess Leia in Star Wars. The encased or "box" structure in the film is an homage to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant which was entombed in concrete following the Chernobyl disaster.

Miyazaki scholar  observed that the urban settings have a China Town style and resemble the cityscapes of Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell animated film adaptation, in production at the time. While Miyazaki has been non-committal about the nature of his winged entity in On your Mark, Kanō noted that the manga , an unfinished collaborative effort by Oshii and Satoshi Kon, with its Angel Disease theme, was still serialized in Animage at the time Miyazaki was creating On Your Mark in 1995.

Reception
The music video was well received. Dr. Patrick Collins, a science writer, called it "the most perfect short science fantasy film I've ever seen." McCarter of EX Magazine praised the film's attention to detail that brought the world to life. THEM Anime praised the music video and said that it alone was worth the price of Ghibli ga Ippai Special Short Short.

Releases
The music video was released theatrically with Whisper of the Heart on July 15, 1995. Chage & Aska also used the film in concerts. The first official screening took place at their fan club concert, held at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, on June 29, 1995. Beginning July 5, 1995, the video was shown for the performance of the song during the Super Best 3 Mission Impossible tour. Featuring the same melody but different lyrics than On Your Mark, Castles in the Air was included on the English-language album One Voice: The Songs of Chage & Aska.

The music video was later released on VHS and Laserdisc by Pony Canyon on July 25, 1997, due to popular demand.

On November 15, 2005, it was included on Buena Vista Home Entertainment's "Ghibli ga Ippai SPECIAL Short Short" DVD, where it can be played with either the original "On Your Mark" or "Castles in the Air" songs.

It was planned to be included on the "Hayao Miyazaki Collection", but after Aska (Shigeaki Miyazaki) of the musical duo Chage and Aska was arrested for drug possession, Walt Disney Studios Japan removed On Your Mark from the upcoming DVD/Blu-ray box set containing Hayao Miyazaki's works, delayed the release by two weeks in order to remove the video and ceased shipments of Ghibli ga Ippai SPECIAL Short Short.

On October 27, 2014, Studio Ghibli's Toshio Suzuki announced on the company's web page that they and Disney had re-considered the situation and would be sending out Blu-ray discs to purchasers of the Hayao Miyazaki box set, as long as they could provide proof of purchase. These standalone releases were self-distributed by Studio Ghibli for this self-reason.

On April 10, 2019, Walt Disney Japan announced the Blu-ray and DVD release of Ghibli ga Ippai Special Short Short 1992-2016, an expanded edition of Ghibli ga Ippai Special Short Short that includes titles released after 2005. On Your Mark is on the disc, and it was released on July 17, 2019.

References

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1995 anime OVAs
Films directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Music videos
Science fiction anime and manga
Studio Ghibli animated films


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Overwatch apologizes to Australia for inappropriate language on its new Junkertown map
Blizzard proved today that it takes cultural concerns from the global Overwatch community very seriously, even when said concerns are about what you call food that you pick up from a restaurant. After all, everybody screws up and gets called on it from time to time; what really matters is how you patch out the mistake.
Reddit user RagingWinston was checking out the new Junkertown map (which takes place in a post-robot-apocalypse part of Australia) when something caught their eye; a particular neon sign with an un-Australian choice of words. Here's the signage in question, in pink and on the left.
"This is pretty big nit-picking but oh well," RagingWinston began. "On the new map, Junkertown, after the first checkpoint there is a sign on the street corner which advertises 'take-out', a term which I guess is more commonly used in America. In Australia, we actually call it 'take-away' rather than the other. This is obviously no big deal but it's gonna piss off some of us Aussies. I'm not too sure if I'm the only one that has noticed this so far. Maybe in post-apocalyptic Australia we have resorted to American terms."
Then, a few hours (and surely several tense all-hands meetings at Blizzard headquarters with lawyers and damage-control firms present) later, game director Jeff Kaplan responded to the Reddit thread.
"I'd like to offer a direct apology to the entire country of Australia," Kaplan said. "Please forgive our cultural insensitivity. We will fix this in an upcoming patch (the sign travesty will most likely go live for some period before being fixed). I've also been told by [Australian streamer] Muselk that our coffees are too large as well. We're learning... trying, over here…"
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EMAIL PAGE THREE
COMPLAINT!
Subject: MAE WEST
From: "planet9" <planet9@rocketmail.com>
To: <info@blacklistedjournalist.com>
In regard to your website concerning Mae West. She was not nearly 50 years old when she hit Hollywood, she was 38! Please correct this at once! It is insulting to the legend!
~Resign as general manager of the world~ ##
REG HARTT, AUTHOR OF THE MAE WEST STORY, REPLIES TO THE COMPLAINT
Subject: "She was nearly fifty."
From: "reg hartt" <reghartt@hotmail.com>
To: planet9@rocketmail.com
Dear Pluto (Planet 9),
I was well aware, when I wrote the piece that set you barking, that Mae West, in terms of years, was closer to forty than she was to fifty.
What you, it seems, are unaware of, is that the motion picture camera adds not only ten pounds but also ten years to the person being photographed.
Movie heroines tended to be young women in their teens and early twenties. Mae West was closer to fifty than to twenty.
In the eyes of an industry prone to exaggeration Mae West was fifty, overweight and of no possible interest to the motion picture going public. She was a novelty.
The words were written with an eye towards the deeper truths that lie below the surface.
The point, however, was not her body but her mind. She was possessed of a sharp wit, a natural intelligence and a keen eye.
Had she been content to conform to Hollywood 'legend" she would have done her scenes in NIGHT AFTER NIGHT (her first film) without argument, taken her money and gone back to New York.
And that would have been the last the movies heard of Mae West.
That is, if she had been content with the "legend".
For what is clear, from the many books about her, is that the Mae West of the New York stage and the Mae West of the movies are two different people.
She knew she had gone as far as she could on the live stage.
She also knew that the movies offered her a chance that she had to seize.
That she did so vigorously seize that moment and trust in her instincts that Hollywood was wrong and she, a child of the New York streets, was right is to her credit.
I have found it rare that legends are not an insult to the truth.
Legends are for acolytes and fans.
Acolytes and fans are like back seat drivers in a car.
I wondered what caused Mae West to have a stroke as she neither drank nor ate to excess nor did she abuse her body with drugs.
But what she did do was play the MAE WEST character on stage and off for nearly all of her life after the death of her manager, Timothy because that is what her fans demanded of her.
Every performing artist lives for that moment back at the hotel, away from the fans, when they can just put their feet up and be human.
Mae West lived with her fans twenty four hours a day at the end.
That was a helluva strain. Eventually it proved more than she could bear.
But that is the price of having fans (short for fanatics) around.
Al Aronowitz is a man who has always had a keener eye and ear for the truth than for the legend. That is why he is, as you obviously do not know, Ray, a legend.
It is also why he deserves to be one.
It is why Miles Davis quietly paid the bill for his wife's funeral after she died of cancer and why the late George Harrison gave him part of an album and why many, many more both famous and unfamous, salute him.
From the hysteria in your letter you are either very young and thus without experience or else a man whom life has passed by. I hope it is the former and not the latter for the former means there is yet a chance for you to get a life.
Charles Baudelaire, as Mae West was later to do, challenged convention. These are his words for the fan:
WHICH ONE IS GENUINE?
"I once knew a woman named Benedicta, who infused everything with the ideal. When one looked into her eyes one wanted nobility, glory, beauty, all those qualities that make us love immortality.
"But this exquisite woman was too beautiful to live long; she died in fact shortly after I met her, and it was I who buried her one day when spring was waving his encensoir even through the cemetery gates. It was I who buried her, well encased in a coffin made of a wood scented and eternal as the treasure boxes of India.
"And while my eyes remained fixed on that spot where my jewel lay entombed, I saw all at once a tiny human being much like the dead woman, doing a bizarre dance, violent and hysterical, on the loose earth. She howled with laughter as she spoke: 'This is me! Benedicta, as she is! I'm trash, everyone knows it! And the punishment for your stupidity and your blind head is this: You'll have to love what I am!'
"I went into a rage and said, 'No! No! No! No!' And in order to give strength to my no, I stomped the earth so fiercely with my foot that my leg sank into the freshly turned earth up to my knee, and like a wolf caught in a trap, I am now tied, perhaps for the rest of my life, to the grave of the ideal." (Translated by Robert Bly).
The ninth planet, your "nom de guerre" is named after the Greek god of the dead, Pluto.
Unlike the perfection of the ideal the real always has a touch of squalor.
In the past the gods and goddesses of the theatre were able to haunt only the memory of those who knew them in their time.
In our time the living are haunted, through the "magic of the movies," by the dead which is why in France a film showing is called "Une seance du cinema."
Leave the dead.
It is the living who demand our attention and our best.
-Reg Hartt. ##
AND, ON SECOND THOUGHT. . .
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:41:01 -0500
To: <planet9@rocketmail.com>
CC: "al aronowitz" <info@blacklistedjournalist.com> ,"reg hartt" <reghartt@hotmail.com>
Dear Ray,
The first Mae West movie I ever saw was a battered 16mm dupe of SHE DONE HIM WRONG. The year was 1968.
However bad the print was nothing could diminish the aura of Mae West.
I then bought superb 16mm prints of MY LITTLE CHICKADEE and I'M NO ANGEL which remains my favourite among her pictures.
That same year I read, for the first time, her autobiography.
1970 found me, at the invitation of a friend who returned to Toronto a few days after I arrived, in Los Angeles in a bordello (not an Italian dessert) just a stone's throw up the street from THE RAVENSWOOD apartments where Miss West lived.
One of the fellows in the house thought himself God. He gave me a pill used to knock out an elephant in a sandwich.
When I found out what had happened I composed myself by composing a letter to Miss West in which I wrote that she was a great revolutionary as any artist who goes to jail, as she had, for their art is a revolutionary.
I dropped the letter off at the front desk of The Ravenswood. I then found a park bench where I sat out the drug. It was a very interesting night.
A month later, on the eve of my return to Toronto, I received a 9"x12" manila envelope from Miss West which contained an autographed photograph of her from MYRA BRECKINRIDGE as well as an invitation to come up and see her.
I dropped off a note explaining why I could not accept her invitation.
When I arrived back in Toronto I discovered a letter from Miss West saying, "If you are out this way again, come up and see me."
As part of my film program at Toronto's Rochdale College (a place as wicked and wild as anything in Miss West's movies--the piece you read is from my book, THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED ROCHDALE) I ran all of Miss West's Paramount films many times.
I would not call myself one of her fans.
I will say that I am someone who loves her.
That is quite a bit different.
It was not until a few years ago when the new books began to come out on her that I realized the full extent of the compliment she paid me.
Miss West was terrified of people on drugs. I had written that I was on drugs in the letter I dropped off.
I then knew that in the month that had passed since she had received my letter she had had me checked out by everyone from detectives to her personal psychic.
I have the great pleasure of having a Tibetan Lama (who accompanied the Dalai Lama on his journey across Canada) as one of my friends. He claims that, yes, I am psychic altho I make no claim to be.
Miss West would be the first to tell you that more is involved in the choice of a name than we think. You did not just "pull the name out of the air because you liked the way it sounds."
Yes, I know saying she was almost fifty would infuriate her.
What you fail to understand is that that is what people were saying about her when she arrived in Hollywood.
Everyone thought she was over the hill except for George Raft (who brought her out mainly so he could re-kindle the romance).
And damn near everyone thought her too fat.
Do I personally think she was too fat? No.
But the movies have always been hot for women with young boy's bodies.
She was the opposite of everything Hollywood banked on then and banks on now.
Perhaps your fury blinded you to the gist of that piece. It contains nothing but the deepest admiration and sincerest love for the way she continuously surmounted the obstacles she was faced with.
The movies are based on lies. Miss West lied through her teeth in her own book because she did not want to depress her readers with the truth.
Her book reads like it was a picnic for her from start to finish.
It sure as Hades, the place Pluto governs, wasn't.
The fact of the matter is that Mae West pushed the envelope in both her professional and private life and she paid a high price for it.
I push the same envelope. I wrote what I wrote and it stands. And I have been more than willing to pay the price that goes with standing our ground.
And if you do not like it, well, to borrow the words of my friend, the late Shamus Culhane (who animated the "heigh ho" sequence in Disney's SNOW WHITE), well, you can go perform an impossible sexual act.
Al Aronowitz was a crime reporter for THE NEW YORK POST when his editor sent him down to Greenwich Village to write a hatchet piece on some crazy young men who flashed switchblade knives, smoked pot and spouted poetry.
Instead Al wrote the first positive piece about William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
When I did my first show in New York (at the Thalia Theatre) Al introduced it.
He later took me around the town.
It was amazing to see one performer after another come up to our table to acknowledge Al.
He, as well, is a revolutionary.
And he, as well, has paid in full the price that goes with being our own person.
I cannot think of a better person to be the guardian of the universe.
It took guts on the part of Mae West to stand up to the world she lived in and to write the first plays about sex, homosexuality and racial integration. She was the first white woman to kiss a black actor full face on stage.
It took guts on Al's part to go against the wishes of his editor.
The day you begin to understand that is the day you begin to really get a life.
Don't, for Chrissake's, get the impression I am pissed off at you.
You have put your foot on the right path by admiring a lady whom Salvador Dali painted as the embodiment of freedom.
It would be awful damned hard for you to go wrong from there.---Reg Hartt. ##
AND THEN AGAIN. . .
Subject: Mae West's age.
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 10:43:22 -0500
www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column27a.html
"She was nearly 50." change to "She was nearly 40."
It is a small change and the point is not lost altho it seems to be lost already on Pluto (Planet9).
He is certainly right in saying it would have made Mae West furious at first but I feel she would have realized on further reading she got not a slam but a kiss from me.
Best wishes for a great year and sincere wishes you are here for a few years more."Reg ##


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Munich Lectures in Economics
Taxation, Incomplete Markets, and Social Security
by Peter A. Diamond
216 pp., 5 x 8 in,
Blackwells
In this book, Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple models to illuminate the economic forces that bear on specific social security policy issues. The focus is on the degree of progressivity desirable in social security and the design of incentives to delay retirement beyond the earliest age of eligibility for benefits. Before analyzing these models, Diamond presents introductions to optimal income tax theory and the theory of incomplete markets. He incorporates recent theoretical developments such as time-inconsistent preferences into his analyses and shows that distorting taxes and a measure of progressivity in benefits are desirable. Diamond also discusses social security reform, with a focus on Germany.
Peter Diamond is John and Jennie S. McDonald Professor of Economics at MIT. He received the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Peter Diamond is one of the world's premier economists. This path-breaking book extends the traditional theory of optimal taxation to multi-period models. But it also considers how optimal tax rules/formulas need to be modified if agents are myopic, borrowing constrained, or time inconsistent. Diamond's findings will change how we think about and design public policy toward retirement saving and life-cycle labor supply.
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Department of Economics, Boston University
For a generation, Peter Diamond has thought more clearly and more deeply about the subject of social insurance than has any other economist. He has been a mentor to every serious scholar interested in the subject. This book confirms that he still is.
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