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St. Luke's Hospital was the fourth hospital in the country to operate a school for nurses. Today St. Luke's School of Nursing is the nation's oldest nursing school in continuous operation.
The school became a reality in 1884 when Dr. William Estes appointed Miss M. J. Merritt from Bellevue Hospital, New York, as principal of the nursing school. Nine students formed the first class.
School of Nursing graduates from 1896.
The reputation of the school flourished during the 1920s and 30s. During World War II, St. Luke's School of Nursing was approved for the Cadet Nurse Corps program. In 1962, the school was awarded full accreditation from the National League for Nursing. Beginning in 1969, college credits were added to the curriculum.
Today, these college credits in science and liberal arts are prerequisites to entering the nursing program. About 45 students graduate every eight months. Most recent graduation classes have first-time pass rates on the NCLEX-RN® licensure exam of 93% to 98%, above both the state and national average for all types of RN programs. 100% of graduates have been hired as RNs by six months after graduation.
With more than 690 cohorts (groups), the St. Luke's School of Nursing has graduated 4,466 nurses!
Click here to learn more about the St. Luke's School of Nursing difference.


Discover Your Yellow Brick Road – Everyone has their own journey to undertake and I hope a part of mine can assist you in discovering yours.
Reiki is a deeply relaxing hands-on technique which promotes healing. Originated in Japan & Asia; uses energy to balance the mind, body, emotions, & soul.
Learn about healing energy with Reiki. Learn Reiki levels I, II and Master Teacher with a qualified & experienced Reiki Master Teacher. Classes are small and personalized with hands-on practice to build your confidence.
Change yourself, transform your life with professional coaching. Neuro-Linguistic Programming [NLP] works with your unconscious mind to change your conscious behaviors and actions.
Asian Bio-Energetics Therapy [ABET] is a combination of holistic and non-invasive natural healing techniques, which help rebalance your body's energy channels.
Improve your employees mental, physical, and emotional well being. Meditation and Reiki can help employees relax and reduce stress, making them more productive.
Follow the next chapter of Joanne Klepal & Live Your Yellow Brick Road journey.
I consider myself a normal 'Jo', no pun intended, with a quirky sense of humor, especially for those that who see the 'serious' side of me.


Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Judith Tizard today expressed her sadness at the death of Shirley Maddock, and paid tribute to the significant role she played in bringing New Zealand's social history into the public arena.
Shirley Frances Whitley Maddock Easther died on 10 October, aged 72. She was made an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 1999 for services to broadcasting and New Zealand historical literature.
"Shirley Maddock was a trailblazer in New Zealand broadcasting. With a background in theatre, radio and American television, she became New Zealand's first woman television producer. She wrote the first television news script broadcast in New Zealand and conducted the first television interview," said Judith Tizard.
"Shirley Maddock produced several major documentary series, including 'Islands of the Gulf' which was followed by a successful book of the same name. She researched and wrote several non-fiction works on early New Zealand social history, as well as the novel 'With Gently Smiling Jaws'.
"She was also a great talent-spotter, launching the radio and television career of the 'galloping gourmet' Graham Kerr.
"Shirley Maddock's contribution to broadcasting and literature has increased our self-confidence as a nation, by presenting New Zealand's social history in an accessible way.
"My sympathy goes out to Shirley's husband, Dr Michael Easther, and her three children at this sad time."


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You're Invited - RHPCS Veterans Day Assembly - Monday, Nov. 13 at 9:00 a.m.
Rolling Hills Public Charter School's students would like to invite you to our Veterans Day Assembly, honoring all who serve our country! Please share this invitation with any Veteran you know, we would love to have the opportunity to honor them.
We are pleased to make Rolling Hills spirit wear items available by pre-order through November 10, 2017. A variety of styles of spirit wear items are being made available with the RHPCS "Achieving More" crest logo. These items have been selected for appealing styling and durability at a reasonable price point. Note: The non-collared spirit t-shirts can be worn on Fridays only. All other items are everyday school appropriate.
Items will be delivered shortly after we return from Thanksgiving Break.
Please help Kindergarten collect food to support The Idaho Foodbank.
Where: In your classroom! Each classroom will have a bin. The first classroom to fill their bin will earn a party with the Kindergarten class.
We will be cancelling our afterschool clubs (Homework Club, Root 4 Green, Chess Club, STEM Club) during Parent-Teacher Conference week. Cancelling these programs for this week allows our teachers who normally facilitate these programs to have time to prepare and be available for our afterschool conference times. If your child normally attends one or more of these programs, please make arrangements for your child/children to be picked up at the 2:30 p.m. regular end to the school day this week. Note: Mrs. Balkin's Afterschool Art Class WILL be held on Thursday, Nov. 2.
Our fall Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held Wednesday - Friday, November 1-3, 2017. Our teachers are excited for the opportunity to meet with you in person to discuss your child's progress this school year. If you would like, your child may attend your conference time with you. We are pleased to again offer online conference scheduling through SignUpGenius to allow you to schedule an available appointment time that is most convenient for you. Sign up early for the best selection of convenient appointment times.
Looking for a fun, FREE, family friendly Halloween activity?
Students and staff are invited to join together to show support for people with breast cancer by purchasing a "Free" Dress Day for $2 this Friday, October 20. Proceeds from this event will go to the National Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation.
Students that want to participate, but have not already donated the $2 are still welcome to participate – wear your free dress outfit and bring your donation to the class to be collected in the morning.
Pink is the national color for breast cancer awareness – including pink in your free dress outfit is highly encouraged!
A big "Thank You" goes out to the handful of middle-school students who thought up this service opportunity, brought it to Mr. Pratt for approval, and implemented. What a way to recognize a need and serve your community. Whoot!Whoot!
Pre-Order Harvest Festival Tickets - Save Time & Money!
Save Time & Money on your RHPCS Harvest Festival fun!
You are invited and encouraged to pre-order your Harvest Festival game wristbands, raffle tickets, and food tickets.
Submit pre-orders by Wednesday, October 18.
Save you money! There is a pre-order discount on every item!
Save you time at the event! You won't have to wait in the ticket purchasing line, you will be able to pick up your prepared envelope of tickets up at the Will Call table.
Helps us be better prepare so we can provide attendees with a great Harvest Festival experience!
Harvest Festival - Volunteers & Donations Needed.
We are so excited that our RHPCS 4th annual Harvest Festival is just around the corner!
Saturday, October 21, 2017 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
2. Help your child earn a "Free Dress Day" by donating two items from the list below or an "Extra Recess" for their class by donating the most!
The time for the RHPCS School Board elections is upon us. Four (4) positions are available during this election: two (2) Parent seat and two (2) either Parent or Community Member seats. Board positions are elected for a two-year term.
We have 4 candidates for this election: Christopher Wilson (incumbent), Jennifer Sweet-Fears (incumbent), Dilara Dyer, and Joe Critchfield (incumbent). Visit the RHPCS School Board website at: http://rhcschoolboard.weebly.com/ to view each candidate's application. Prior to the Annual Meeting and ballot count, we will host a "Meet & Greet the Candidates" time on Thursday, October 19 at 5:00 p.m. Feel free to come meet the candidates in person and ask candidates any questions.
The official Ballot is now available on the school board webpage, is attached with this email, and hard copies are available and can be completed and submitted at the school office.
Who can vote? Only stakeholders are allowed to vote. You are a stakeholder if you are a parent or legal guardian of a RHPCS student, a RHPCS staff member or RHPCS teacher. Only one vote per stakeholder.
How do I vote? Ballots may be printed from this email or from the school board website. Vote by completing your ballot at the school or complete the ballot at your convenience and drop it off or mail to the school address: 8900 Horseshoe Bend Road, Boise, ID 83714. Ballots should be in an envelope marked "election" and be received by 5:30 p.m. on October 19, 2017 in order to be valid.
Counting Ballots: The ballots will be counted at the RHPCS Annual Meeting on Thursday, October 19, 2017 beginning at 5:30 p.m. Ballots will be counted by the Clerk of the Board and the School Administrator. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Announce New Board Members: The new Board members will be announced at the Annual Meeting on October 19, 2017. New Board members will be posted on the website.
Swear in new Board Members: New Board members are required to submit for a background check. The new Board members will be sworn in at the Board meeting after the results of the background checks are received by the school.
RHPCS Middle School Girls (grades 6-8) are invited to join the RHPCS Girls Basketball team, forming now.
Practice will be held at the RHPCS school gym beginning Monday, October 23 and will continue daily throughout the season (Monday-Friday) from 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
$50 team participation fee Please submit team fee with attached participation form by first practice.
Practice runs after school from 2:30 - 4:00. A light, nutritious, non-messy snack for afterschool is highly recommended. Girls should come to practice daily in athletic clothes, basketball shoes, and with a water bottle.
Girls will need athletic wear and basketball shoes for daily practice. RHPCS Basketball Jerseys are provided by the school. Students will need to provide and wear black athletic shorts a white undershirt and basketball shoes for games.


A morning launch from Cox Street in Hudson found the Assabet River flowing at a good clip thanks to recent rainfall. Skies were trying to clear but the clouds were reluctant to leave.
Paddled down to Orchard Hill and back.


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The Colleges constantly seek partnerships and means of co-operation with public and private sector institutions within the kingdom and around the world in various fields of academia, research, and knowledge which contribute to elevating those fields and to the spread of knowledge as well as having a positive impact on the academic process.
The partnership with the council works towards joint planing for the future of engineering education in the Kingdom and identifying the competencies required by the labor market and supporting the professional accreditation program for engineers. The Colleges becomes a member in professional boards and professional accreditation committees for engineers at the SCE and SEC becomes a member in the Colleges' advisory board. The partnership includes training and qualification of Colleges' students wishing to enter the Fundamentals of Engineering exam (FE) and field visits to projects under implementation.
The partnership also offers SCE member a discount on tuition fees of programs offered by the Colleges.
The Colleges offer academic, research, and training council related to the development of procedures and methods to the Center. The Colleges also organises and executes training programs, lectures, seminars, and workshops. In addition to planing and designing community awareness programs and studies.
The Colleges and SOCPA cooperate in all areas relating to the development of accounting and auditing profession in the Kingdom and raising the knowledge, technical, and professional level. In addition to cooperating in research, writing, and translation. This cooperation extends to accounting for accredited continues professional education points of SOCPA member seeking to enroll in one of the Colleges' programs, it also enables SOCPA fellowship exam applicants to complete it's requirements through enrolling in related courses offered by the Colleges. SOCPA my also contribute to evaluating programs offered by the accounting department at the Colleges.
Both institutions agreed on allowing their respective students the opportunity to gain a valuable international educational experience by completing part of their education at the other institution. They also agreed on frameworks for the exchange of faculty, research, and training.
An agreement aims to take advantage of the expertise at KSU in terms of preparing academic programs, especially for graduate degrees. Additionally, having the opportunity to benefit from the scientific board in matters relating to peer-review system of research, publishing, and applications to award scientific promotions. It also opens the way for cooperation in the areas of research and teaching. Students at Arab East Colleges will have access to KSU's libraries and other sources.


snowstorm | Dream well. Live well. Be well.
The Christmas party was great fun with the usual gang of people who hung out till late. The dance floor 'stopped' at about 230 a.m. The snow storm had probably started while we were feasting like hungry animals. By the time we left the place, we could barely see the roads. As we made our way to the car, beautiful flakes were showered upon us while we used what's left of us to plow through the snow. In a car pool of four, we drove at a turtle speed of 45km/h as driving visibility was not more than 50m to 80m.
The snow did not take a break for a good whole night and the following day. That resulted in a city covered in white with cars disappearing under the blankets of snow while residents busied themselves with clearing their walkways and balconies.
On my end, I remain fascinated with the snowfall. As a tropical girl, I feel like I am in a fairytale! As I walked down the streets snapping some photos, some people greeted me with warm smiles before resuming their shoveling. With a little more time at hand, I would definitely love to head up to Mount Royal to do some magic carpeting!


My wife, Lynda, and I expanded Eagle Protect into the US from New Zealand in 2016 with the goal of providing a new level of product and service to the wider food and medical sectors. Since that time we have built a fantastic team who really care about what they do and growing a great company. I am called the Disposable Manager and I pretend to know what goes on around here! Outside of work I have four amazing children spanning a wide age range! I like to run a bit and my ultimate goal is to run a 100-mile race while I still have knees!
When Lynda is not at work applying her marketing genius and mapping out future plans for Eagle Protect, she's playing with her two gorgeous kids, husband and friends! She also manages to find some time for herself - spent enjoying the solitude of running, reading and creating. She is also learning Spanish, which we are excited to hear with her Scottish accent!
I am privileged to work with a cool bunch of people here at Eagle Protect and to have formed some good friendships with our customers. Both the Eagle Protect staff and customers seem to know how valuable a laugh is! Away from work I play my guitars, and listen to lots of music. I play squash and shoot some baskets with my boy Thomas, hit an ok golf ball when time permits, work on our range of craft beers and I'm a Peets Coffee convert!
Brian brings extensive sales and supply chain management experience and thrives in a company operating with the B Corp philosophy. Based in the Bay area he enjoys keeping up with the worlds of sports and politics. A true lover of the mountains Brian's "happy spot" is at his family cabin in Lassen National Forest spending time with his wife and two sons. A man of many hidden talents, Brian enjoys woodworking, going to concerts, hiking, fly fishing and skiing, as well as keeping up with his border collie, Tony.
Taylor is one of the masses who migrated from the busy Bay Area to enjoy the casual, mountain lifestyle Tahoe is so famous for. She brings a wealth of experience from her time in software sales and CRM operations and management. Due to her passion for environmental responsibility, Eagle Protect was the perfect place for her join a team of like-minded individuals. While at home Taylor is a fan of baking bread, experimenting with fermentation and hiking with her husband Greg and dog Kenzie.
Growing up in the Midwest, Sarah didn't know what she was missing until she lived in the mountains. Eagle Protect was the perfect place for Sarah to use her creative marketing skills during the day and explore on the weekend. She enjoys snowboarding, hiking, being at the lake, backpacking, baking and attending sporting events with her husband. Her goal in life is to be as happy as her lab, Capone, playing fetch in Lake Tahoe.
Kimberly was raised in Lake Tahoe and is excited to be working for a B Corp; the best part being working with a team all striving to B the Change. She spends her days at Eagle taking care of customer accounts and keeping the office running on all cylinders - details are her specialty. Kimberly loves watching baseball and feels there's nothing better than being in the beautiful outdoors with her son and dog, Peanut.


This extravagant wine cup comes as a pair that has been made from gold, kingfisher feathers, pearls and gemstones. It's believed that they may have been made for The Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799) who used the Gold Cup of Eternal Stability to drink tusu wine (a herbal drink) to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
Sir Richard Wallace acquired these two objects at auction in 1872 and are now on display as part of a new exhibition, Sir Richard Wallace: The Collector, on the lower ground floor of the museum.


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Q: Difference between proof-based calculus and analysis? When I asked a teacher at school what the difference between calculus and analysis he said that calculus is essentially analysis without proofs. So where does proof-based calculus lie? Is it somewhere between computational calculus and analysis? It becomes even more confusing when there are books like Thomas' Calculus (the old 3rd or 4th editions) which prove all the results, and books like Apostol's calculus which also prove all the results; but Apostol is deemed harder than Thomas. So is there also "easy proof-based calculus" and "hard proof-based calculus"?
Finally my last question is which would you recommend studying first for someone who has done single variable computational calculus but no multivariable calculus at all? Should I study computational multivariable calculus first before moving onto proof-based calculus? And if so, should I start with "easy proof-based..." or "hard proof-based..." (as described above).
Note: I apologize if you haven't seen Thomas' calculus book but it was pretty much the only one I could make the comparison with. The only other one I know that I would describe as "easy proof-based calculus" is Silverman's Calculus with analytic geometry.
Edit: Seeing as some people didn't understand the question I will try to clarify. By "proof-based calculus" I mean "calculus with theory" in the sense of the following MIT course: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-014-calculus-with-theory-fall-2010/ Since MIT also teach analysis, it seems to me there must be a significant difference between "proof-based calculus" and analysis. I tried checking the syllabus for both courses but the difference still wasn't all too clear, maybe because I have only done (computational) single-variable calculus and therefore don't have much of a base to make a comparison.

A: Perhaps the best way to think about the difference is as one of emphasis.
"Proof-based Calculus" would have the goal of doing Calculus but would justify the methods of Calculus (integration and differentiation) by proving their validity.
"Analysis" would have the goal of developing the theory of Calculus (and more than just Calculus)* at least partly for its own sake.
Consider the example of the real numbers. "Proof-based Calculus" is concerned with the real numbers only because it will need them for doing Calculus. "Analysis", on the other hand, treats the set of real numbers as an object worthy of study without having to consider further applications.
*Analysis is also much broader in scope than Calculus.


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Genre: Nonfiction / Music / Genres & Styles / Rock
An in-depth biography of Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page by the acclaimed biographer of Bob Marley and Joe Strummer, based upon the author's extensive research and interviews
The original enigmatic rock star, Jimmy Page is a mass of contradictions. A towering presence in the guitar world and one of the most revered rock guitarists of all time, in private he is reclusive and mysterious, retiring and given to esoteric interests. Over the decades he has exchanged few words to the press given the level of his fame, and an abiding interest in the demonic and supernatural has only made the myth more potent.
But in the midst of this maelstrom, who was Jimmy Page? Rock journalist Chris Salewicz has conducted numerous interviews with Page over the years and has created the first portrait of the guitarist that can be called definitive, penetrating the shadows that surround him to reveal the fascinating man who dwells within the rock legend.
"[An] ever-readable tome... Anyone intrigued by how a soft-spoken boy from the west London suburbs became one of the world's most famous musicians won't be disappointed."--The Times (London)
"A hard-riffing new book that reveals how Jimmy Page became the dark heart of Led Zeppelin"--The Mail on Sunday (London)
"[Salewicz] lovingly records all the highs and bathetic lows of the rock-star afterlife."--The Sunday Times (London)
"A must-read for die-hard Zeppelin fans."
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The Cerritos Economic Profile, released this past Tuesday, is a report that is prepared on a quarterly basis to conduct market trend analysis and to develop strategies for the city's business retention.
The profile is comprised of several sections, which includes major revenues of the City, employment, housing, and commercial real estate.
This latest report shows that the city of Cerritos is in a very strong position in relation to 2015 sales tax revenue.
This is in stark contrast and was not mentioned in the staff report behind a proposed half-cent sales tax increase that was released last week, mostly blaming the dissolution of redevelopment for the City's budget deficit problems.
The sales tax increase was discussed at a meeting this past May 2 that was strangely neither televised nor videotaped.
According to the profile, sales tax revenue has risen for the past four calendar years.
But even with these increased revenue numbers, the agenda report behind the half-cent sales tax increase proposal indicated that the current proposed 2016-17 budget projects a $5 million deficit, citing the increase in sheriff's and public safety expenditures.
The report is certain to raise the ire of Cerritos employees.
The report shows payroll data from sixteen cities in Orange and Los Angeles Counties. Over half have received raises totaling over 12.5% since '08-'09 with Norwalk, Lakewood, and Whittier gaining the highest increase of 18.5%.
South Gate employees received 15.8%, Irvine 15%, and Orange 12.5%. The report states cost of living, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, has risen 13.4%.
Cerritos and Fullerton employees were last on the list at 6% and 5.5% respectively. The report does not say that Cerritos has not filled, through attrition, 58 positions.
Report obtained by HMG-CN outlining payroll raise data from 16 different cities. Cerritos is third city from the top. The last column on the right is the total amount of raises since '08-'09. The shaded row is the Consumer Price Index, showing a 13.4% increase since '08-'09.
I wonder if one could find out if anyone on the city council receives donations from the auto square. This would be pay for play. To expose this would embarrass counsel members and maybe stop it. These council members can't act with impunity like the Clintons can.
"The Gap" good point….The newspaper should request the city's anticipated retirement payout for employees ready to retire in the next few years. Ask how much the anticipated payout will be for accumulated vacation, sick, and holiday pay. Also, ask to see what recently retired employees took when they left. Some of these people may be getting paid $50 plus per hour when they leave for hours they banked years ago when they were making $15 an hour.
The information on city raises is a bit misleading to the public. Most cities are over staffed with part-time employees and under staffed with full time employees.


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take: Often incorrectly used for have, especially in extending hospitality, in such a sentence as "What will you take?"
take on for grieve, scold, etc., like carry on for behave sportively may both be tolerated as colloquialisms that are popular because of their irrationality, or because they require no discrimination in statement.
takes the cake. See cake.
take up school: An objectionable local Americanism for begin school: used also intransitively; as, "School took up at 9 o'clock": avoid this.
talent should not be used for "talents" or "ability."
talented: Inasmuch as adjectives of the participial form are justified by strict grammarians only if derived from an existing verb, this word has been caviled at by Coleridge (who denounced it as "that vile and barbarous vocable") and many literary pedants. Burke, Hazlitt, Lamb, De Quincey, Macaulay and Newman have however, spoken of "a talented man"; and in the face of this array of learning and authority we can raise but a modest protest in favor of the contention of the grammarians. Such formations are, however, not to be indiscriminately recommended.
talk, back. Compare back talk.
tasty in the sense of tasteful is without authority and is considered an illiterate use. A person or his work may be tasteful, but his food, however savory, can be no more than tasty.
team: Strictly a team consists of two or more beasts of burden harnessed together, but in the United States the word is extended to cover "team and accessories," the latter being the harness or equipment, together with the vehicle to which the animals are attached.
tell on: A common expression with children used in the sense of "to inform against a person," is derived from Biblical use (1 Sam. xxvii. 11). The phrase lost to literary English has now no equivalent.
temper, anger, wrath: Words in the use of which discrimination should be used. Temper is disposition or constitution of the mind, especially in relation to the affections or the passions; anger is violence or vindicated passion aroused by real or imaginary insult or injury. One may have an irritable temper without being necessarily angry. Wrath is deep, determined, and lasting anger, usually accompanied by outward expression of displeasure. Anger may be only inward feeling without the outward expression of passion.
tender should not be used for "give." You tender a payment; give a reception.
testimony. Compare evidence.
than as a conjunction should be used only in the case of direct comparison; as, "I esteem this more than that." When the comparison is merely implied, or covered by the verb, as by the verb prefer, than should not be used. See prefer.
thanks has been condemned as an undignified colloquialism bordering on incivility; but what serious objection is there to this pithy acknowledgment of obligation or gratitude? It has been said that Shakespeare made use of the expression no fewer than fifty-five times, and that the Bible four times contains the utterance "thanks be to God," Shakespeare's use of the word with "much" as an adjective is indeed most forcible—"for this relief much thanks."
than me should never be used for than I. Say, "He is taller than I"; not "He is taller than me."
than whom: A phrase objected to by some grammatical critics, in such locutions as "Cromwell, than whom no man was better skilled in artifice"; but shown to be "a quite classic expression." Formerly than was often but not always used as a preposition, and than whom is probably a survival of such usage. "Than whom" is generally accepted as permissible— probably because the sentence where it occurs can not be mended without reconstruction, and it has abundant literary authority.
that: In construing this word, it must be recollected that it is not only a conjunction but also a pronoun, both demonstrative and relative. The peculiarity of the word is such that it can be used more times in succession than any other word in the English language. Exception having been taken to a certain "that" found in a school-boy's exercise, it was shown that that that that that boy used was right. Dean Alford constructed a sentence on these lines which contained no fewer than nine thats in succession. That used adverbially is wholly inexcusable. "He was that sick" could only be tolerated if an ellipsis such as "he was (to) that (degree) sick," could be supposed, but this is more than can be done; and the expression is therefore regarded as an unpardonable vulgarism. Compare as, that (p. 22).
that there: An illiterate expression commonly used with the mistaken idea that the use of "there" adds emphasis to what follows, as, "That there man." Say, rather, "That man there" or simply, and preferably "That man."
that, who: Discriminate carefully between these words. That implies restriction; who generally denotes coordination. As an illustration of this distinction, Alfred Ayres says ("The Verbalist," p. 202), "'I met the boatman who took me across the ferry.' If who is the proper word here, the meaning is 'I met the boatman, and he took me across the ferry,' it being supposed that the boatman is known and definite. But if there be several boatmen, and I wish to indicate one in particular, by the circumstance that he had taken me across the ferry, I should use that." That ought, therefore, to be preferred to who or which whenever an antecedent not otherwise limited is to be restricted by the relative clause.
that's him: No, "that's he"—this is correct.
the: Before titles of honor, such as Reverend, Honorable, the definite article (though now frequently omitted) should be used. As the title is specific and personal, this is the more necessary.
the infinitive: The particle to is an inherent and component part of the infinitive, and is strictly inseparable therefrom, in precisely the same way that the prefixed syllable which assists to form a compound word (as inconstant) is a necessary part of the compound. But this to belongs to the present infinitive only, and properly finds no place in such expressions as "He was fool enough to have risked his good name. " Despite the hundreds of uses of this method of expression, it is a blunder: the sentence should read "fool enough to risk." It is, too, on the ground of inseparability that the split infinitive (which see) is so reprehensible. "To dance gracefully" should not be transposed into "to gracefully dance."
them: The use of this word as a demonstrative adjective for a pronoun is wholly unpermissible. A common error due to a desire to designate particularly the article required. Do not say "Give me them things"; say, rather, "... those things." However, of things previously mentioned one may say "Give them to me. "
then: The use of this word as an adjective, as in the phrase "the then Bishop of York," has been questioned; but the usage is expressive and convenient, and is supported by good literary authority.
thence, whence: As these words mean "from there," "from where," they should not be preceded by the word from as is often erroneously done.
these is, them are: Ungrammatical phrases used by the illiterate for "this is"; "those are." The pronouns should both agree in number with the verb they govern.
these kind, those sort, etc.: Such expressions, though common, are now usually considered altogether wrong. Nouns in the singular require demonstrative adjectives also in the singular. But this may be used instead of these in collective expressions, such as "this ten years." Yet Shakespeare has many instances of this use. Thus, in " Twelfth Night " (act i, sc. 5) he writes "these kind of fools," and in "King Lear" (act ii, sc. 2) a precisely similar expression, "these kind of knaves." In "Othello" (act iii, sc. 3) he has, "these are a kind of men."
think, don't. See don't believe.
this or that much: Not elegant perhaps, but still correct or at least passable. A careful speaker would prefer to say "this much," because much being an adjective of quality requires, for its elucidation, not a pronoun but an adverb. It is true that in the expression "this" or "that much," the word "much" could generally, if not always, be omitted without affecting the correctness of the sentence wherein it is used; still the sense would not be precisely the same. "This much I know" denotes a limitation in the extent of knowledge which is not restricted by "this I know."
threatening. Compare eminent.
three first, the: Incorrect for the first three: one may, however, correctly use three first if referring to a race, or the like, in which three of the competitors run a dead heat. Compare two first.
through: An undesirable colloquialism for "at an end"; "finished"; generally applied to speakers who have completed an address, or to diners who have finished a meal. Both applications are marks of ill-breeding and border on vulgarity.
tickled to death: An absurd phrase used to express "greatly pleased."
till: In some parts of the United States oddly misused for by; as, "I'll be there till [by] ten o'clock."
time: Avoid such an incongruity as "Heaps of time." "Plenty of time," or "time enough" are to be preferred.
timely. Compare seasonable.
tinker's dam: A colloquialism for something worthless, used usually in the phrase "Not worth a tinker's dam." Avoided in polite society.
tiny little: The use of words as mere intensives should be avoided, for by judicious selection a single word can probably be found which is capable of conveying the precise sense desired. To speak of a "tiny little watch" or "a great big house," indicates a deplorable poverty of vocabulary. It is true that Shakespeare spoke of "the most unkindest cut of all"; but he made use of intensives only when the unusual circumstances of the case required them.
tired, to make one: A colloquialism for "to weary," or "reduce the patience of" as by absurd stories or silly conversation: a commonplace expression good to avoid.
to: Beware of using the preposition to when at is intended. A common error of this sort is instanced by "He was to school this morning." Possibly the error is made rather in the verb than the preposition, though the influencing cause of error in the uneducated does not always admit of certainty. We suggest, therefore, that the verb "to be" is used unintentionally for "to go," and that the sentence is perhaps intended to read "he went to school this morning." Compare and; for.
togged out or up: An undesirable and vulgar expression for "well-dressed" or "attired in clothes that may attract attention."
to-morrow: This word is often used with different tenses, the question being raised as to whether it should be "to-morrow is Christmas day" or "tomorrow will be Christmas day." Both forms are correct. But, generally, in using this word, the supposition is that to-morrow has not arrived at the time of speaking, and, therefore, "to-morrow will be Christmas day" is preferred. Longfellow (Keramos, line 331) says: "To-morrow will be another day." But the other form also has the sanction of usage, as the following quotations will show:
"To-morrow, what delight is in to-morrow!"—T. B. Read, The New Pastoral, bk. vi. l. 163.
"To-morrow is a satire on to-day."—Young, The Old Man's Relapse, l. 6.
The Bible affords numerous instances of this use of "is." Ex. xvi. 23: "The Lord hath said, to-morrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord"; xxxii. 5: "And Aaron made proclamation and said, to-morrow is a feast to the Lord"; I Sam. xx. 5: "Behold to-morrow is the new moon"; Matt. vi. 30: "If God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven."
Most people would say "Yesterday was Friday." If the thought is fixed upon the name of the day, it is better to use is, if upon the time future it is better to use will be.
toney: A vulgarism for "fancy" or "stylish," either of which is a preferable term.
touch, to: A slang term for "to borrow" not used by persons careful of their diction. Do not say "I touched him for a ten-spot"; say rather, "I borrowed ten dollars from him."
transpire is condemned by the best writers in the sense of happen. "The verb transpire formerly conveyed very expressively its correct meaning, viz., to become known through unnoticed channels—to exhale, as it were, into publicity through invisible pores, like a vapor or gas disengaging itself. But of late, a practise has commenced of employing the word ... as a mere synonym to to happen.... This vile specimen of bad English is already seen in the dispatches of noblemen and viceroys."—Mill, Logic, bk. iv. ch. 5, p. 483.
truth. Compare veracity.
try: This word is often erroneously used for "make." Do not say "Try the experiment yourself" but "Make the experiment." An experiment can only be tried, as a speech (in its literal, that is verbal, sense) can only be spoken.
try and: A common but incorrect locution. Do not say "Try and come to-day," but, rather, "Try to come to-day."
tumble to: Slang for "to understand." Do not say "Do you tumble to it?" Say, rather, "Do you understand it?"
turn down: Undesirable, though perhaps expressive slang for "reject"; "ignore"; or "dismiss." In commercial circles, this expression has wide usage but is not the less inelegant and should be avoided. A proposition is quite as fully disposed of when it is "rejected" as when it is "turned down;" besides, "rejected" should be given preference if only by reason of its brevity.
turn up: Used in the sense of to "put in an appearance" this expression has been condemned. The remark of a barrister in a London County Court that a defendant had "not turned up" caused the Judge to exclaim: "Pray do not use such slip-shod expressions." The barrister apologized. "These are high-pressure days," he said, "and since your Honor's days at the bar we have no longer time to indulge in perfect English."
twenty-three: A slang term used as the equivalent of "fade away" in theatrical and sporting circles: a recent expression the origin of which has been variously explained. Compare fade away.
two. Compare couple.
two and two is (or are) four: As an abstract proposition or statement, is is undoubtedly correct; for four is two added to two, or twice two; but when two specific things are added to two others, the verb must be in the plural. In the former case we are saying that a certain single and definite result is attained or total given by the combination of two numbers; in the latter we say that in a given body or number of things are so many single or individual things. Two men and two are undoubtedly four; that is, four men are (constituted of) two and two. Beyond doubt, twice one is two; for it can not be that two (as a single and specific number) are twice one.
two first: Of this expression James Murdock says: "The only argument against the use of two first, and in favor of substituting first two, so far as I can recollect, is this: In the nature of things, there can be only one first and one last, in any series of things. But—is it true that there can never be more than one first and one last? If it be so, then the adjective first and last must always be of the singular number, and can never agree with nouns in the plural. We are told that the first years of a lawyer's practise are seldom very lucrative. The poet tells us that his first essays were severely handled by the critics, but his last efforts have been well received. Examples like these might be produced without number. They occur everywhere in all our standard writers.... When a numeral adjective and a qualifying epithet both refer to the same noun, the general rule of the English language is to place the numeral first, then the qualifying epithet, and afterwards the noun. Thus we say, 'The two wise men,' 'the two tall men'; and not 'the wise two men' 'the tall two men.' And the same rule holds in superlatives. We say 'the two wisest men,' 'the two tallest men' and not 'the wisest two men,' 'the tallest two men.' Now if this be admitted to be the general rule of the English language, it then follows that we should generally say 'the two first,' 'the two last,' etc., rather than 'the first two,' 'the last two,' etc. This, I say, should generally be the order of the words. Yet there are some cases in which it seems preferable to say, 'the first two,' 'the first three,' etc." Compare first.
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Last Choir Standing
5 Champions
Nick Knowles and Myleene Klass
Judges: Suzi Digby, Sharon D. Clarke and Russell Watson
BBC Vision Studios for BBC One, 5 July to 30 August 2008 (9 episodes in 1 series)
Nick Knowles and Myleene Klass oversee a competition to find the UK's best choir. Open to choirs from as few as ten, to as many of 50 members, the process starts with choirs from up and down the country sending in application videos. Of the thousand or so applications received, 60 choirs receive callbacks to sing in front of the judges in London. As a result of callbacks, the field is narrowed to 27 choirs. A further round of callbacks sees this number cut by 12, leaving 15 choirs to battle it out in the live shows.
The live shows begin with three heats, each of which sees five of the remaining choirs take part. Each heat opens with an expected, but somewhat pointless rendition of a well-known song performed by all the choirs together. Following this, each choir then gets a chance to perform two songs, before the judges decide which choir they will send straight through to the knock-out rounds, and which choir they will eliminate. Once this had been decided, the three remaining choirs in each heat perform again, before the judges deliberate once more in order to decide which of them should progress to the knock-out stages. The two choirs not chosen by the judges leave the competition at this point.
After three weeks of heats have narrowed the field from 15 to six, we move on to the knock-out stages. In each knock-out programme, we are again treated (cough...cough) to a song (two songs in the first knock-out round for no apparent reason) performed by all the remaining choirs, before each choir has the chance to perform one song. Following this, the phone lines are opened, and the Great British Public has a chance to vote for which choirs is their favourite. After the phone lines are closed, and the votes are tallied, based on the viewers votes, the two choirs with the fewest votes must perform again in the 'Clash of the Choirs'. Based on these performances, the judges vote on which choir they would like to save. The choir with the fewest votes from the judges then leaves the competition.
Three weeks of knock-out rounds brings us to the final, with three choirs still in contention. In the final, after enjoying enduring two group numbers, each choir performs two songs. The first is of their own choice, like all songs so far in the competition. However the second song they perform is chosen by the judges, and is a repeat performance from earlier in the series, which the judges believe to be each choir's 'song of the series'. After the performances the phone lines are opened, and after a period of voting the phone lines are frozen with the choir who has received the fewest public votes being eliminated. The last two choirs then perform again, before the public votes for the final time. Whichever choir receives the fewest public votes is then eliminated, leaving the other choir the Last Choir Standing, and therefore the winners.
Only Men Aloud!, Cardiff
Originally the programme was to be called Choir Wars.
The final three choirs performed together at the 2012 London Olympics handover party in August 2008.
Dobs Vye
Côr Cymru - S4C's choir competition.
Don't Stop Believing - Channel 5's Glee-inspired choir competition.
Weaver's Week review
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Google says future versions of its Android operating system will have a more business focus, putting it in greater competition with RIM. This is from a Reuters report that simply confirms the obvious: BlackBerry seems ripe for picking.
According to the news service, "Andy Rubin, Google's top Android executive, said on Friday that as well as expanding consumer features like social networking and gaming, future Android versions would support businesses who give phones to employees working on the road."
"Today, we don't support many enterprise applications but in the future, I think enterprise will be a good focus for us," Rubin, vice president of engineering at Google, told Reuters.
So besides gaming and social networking, Google plans to concentrate on business features and enterprise apps, hoping to grow Android at the expense of BlackBerry, the entrenched champion of business mobility.
However, RIM is seen by some as a company that has nowhere to go but down as Android, iPhone, and Palm's WebOS nip at its heels.
As many as 20 Android-based handsets are expected to enter the market before the end of 2009, by which time Google expects to have released a 2.0 version of the OS. The increased emphasis on business users will also become evident this year, Rubin told the news service.
I am among those who believe the BlackBerry's best days are behind it. Or more rationally, that RIM needs to do something dramatic to hold its position in enterprises or watch it slip away (over a period of years).
Google is, obviously, getting interested in business customers. I don't think the company yet has a compelling story and may not for several years, but it is clearly headed in that direction.
Apple has already shown that the combination of a great device, great apps, and a great online channel can deliver a winner. Google seems closer to achieving that than RIM and as competition increases, RIM risks falling way behind.
In that environment, and if Google can score some enterprise wins with Google Apps, Android handsets start to look much more attractive as a corporate standard than they do today.


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Buffett agrees to buy Bryan-College Station newspaper
By Laura Weisman on June 12, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Warren Buffett (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
Warren Buffett's Omaha World-Herald Co. said Tuesday it has agreed to buy the Bryan-College Station (Texas) Eagle newspaper from the Evening Post Publishing Co. of Charleston, S.C.
The purchase, for an undisclosed price, is to close June 30.
The Eagle's 95 employees publish a 20,000-circulation daily newspaper with related digital and print products and commercial printing.
… Jim Wilson is to continue as the Eagle's publisher. (World-Herald CEO Terry) Kroeger said no major changes are planned there. "We will work with the local managers at the Eagle to determine any changes in systems or processes," he said.
Buffett said in May his company is likely to buy more newspapers in the next few years, and Berkshire Hathaway will not try to influence the editorial policies of any of them.
Berkshire announced in May that it planned to buy 63 newspapers from Media General Inc. for $142 million.
Buffett said at the time that Berkshire would look to buy small to mid-sized newspapers that cover their communities well.
"We will favor towns and cities with a strong sense of community, comparable to the 26 in which we will soon operate. If a citizenry cares little about its community, it will eventually care little about its newspaper," said Buffett, Berkshire's 81-year-old chairman and CEO, the Associated Press reported.
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Q: Flask-Migrate on Heroku Postgres fails with ProgrammingError I am having some issues updating schemas on Heroku Postgres. I have deployed a working application on a Heroku Dyno with a Postgres DB working previously. I have made some changes to the database schema (added new columns) and have committed the migration changes to the local migration folders. On my localhost the upgraded database works fine. However, when deploying the application to Heroku, I am getting a sqlalchemy.exc.ProgrammingError: (psycopg2.errors.UndefinedColumn) column <my_col> does not exist error.
I have tried the following commands
heroku run -a mydyno flask db history and it shows the correct migration history
heroku run -a mydyno flask db migrate and it shows the following -
INFO  [alembic.autogenerate.compare] Detected added table 'phishing_email'
INFO  [alembic.autogenerate.compare] Detected added index 'ix_phishing_email_created_at' on '['created_at']'
INFO  [alembic.autogenerate.compare] Detected added index 'ix_phishing_email_receiver_address' on '['receiver_address']'
INFO  [alembic.autogenerate.compare] Detected added index 'ix_phishing_email_sender_address' on '['sender_address']'
INFO  [alembic.ddl.postgresql] Detected sequence named 'user_user_id_seq' as owned by integer column 'user(user_id)', assuming SERIAL and omitting
INFO  [alembic.ddl.postgresql] Detected sequence named 'email_address_email_id_seq' as owned by integer column 'email_address(email_id)', assuming SERIAL and omitting
INFO  [alembic.autogenerate.compare] Detected added column 'email_address.active'
INFO  [alembic.autogenerate.compare] Detected added column 'email_address.email_password'
INFO  [alembic.autogenerate.compare] Detected added column 'email_address.last_mailbox_size'
INFO  [alembic.autogenerate.compare] Detected added column 'email_address.last_updated'
INFO  [alembic.autogenerate.compare] Detected added column 'email_address.phishing_mail_detected'
INFO  [alembic.autogenerate.compare] Detected added column 'user.is_active'
INFO  [alembic.autogenerate.compare] Detected added column 'user.is_admin'
INFO  [alembic.autogenerate.compare] Detected added column 'user.last_logged_in'                                          Generating /app/migrations/versions/4e74c3c15c25_.py ...  done

It would seem like the migrate process detected the newly added tables and columns, when I executed heroku run -a mydyno flask db upgrade afterwards the logs shows
INFO  [alembic.runtime.migration] Context impl PostgresqlImpl.
INFO  [alembic.runtime.migration] Will assume transactional DDL.

So it would seem like everything is going well, however when deploying my application in heroku -a mydyno logs --tail the logs shows an error -
2020-11-13T15:21:01.291956+00:00 app[web.1]: sqlalchemy.exc.ProgrammingError: (psycopg2.errors.UndefinedColumn) column user.last_logged_in does not exist
2020-11-13T15:21:01.291956+00:00 app[web.1]: LINE 1: ...r_password, "user".created_at AS user_created_at, "user".las... 2020-11-13T15:21:01.291956+00:00 app[web.1]: ^
2020-11-13T15:21:01.291957+00:00 app[web.1]:
2020-11-13T15:21:01.291958+00:00 app[web.1]: [SQL: SELECT "user".user_id AS user_user_id, "user".username AS user_username, "user".password AS user_password, "user".created_at AS user_created_at, "user".last_logged_in AS user_last_logged_in, "user".is_admin AS user_is_admin, "user".is_active AS user_is_active
2020-11-13T15:21:01.291958+00:00 app[web.1]: FROM "user"]

which says that the column does not exist. Am I doing anything wrongly? Or is there a proper procedure for upgrading local database changes to Heroku Postgres? I have made sure to TRUNCATE CASCADE all tables on the Heroku Postgres.
The application database was previously working prior to this deployment, however just for to make it clearer my Flask Config object contains SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = os.environ.get('DATABASE_URL') which is set as an environment variable in my Config Var in Heroku app.
Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you!
Edit: running heroku run -a mydno flask db history shows that all migrations are present and heroku run -a mydyno flask db current shows the correct revision number, the schemas are still not updating though.

A: I eventually used the CLI to drop all tables and imported a dump file from my local database using
pg_dump -h [host] -U [user] [db] > ./dump.out to export my local database
Alter in the dump file all user into my Heroku database user
psql -h [heroku-host] -U [postgres-user] [db-name] < <dump.file>
I'm pretty sure this is not the correct way (as it drops alembic_version) as well but this worked for me.

A: I had a similar issue. I added sslmode=require to my DATABASE_URL
# config.py

basedir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
load_dotenv(os.path.join(basedir, '.env'))

class Config(object):
    SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = os.environ.get('DATABASE_URL?sslmode=require') or \
        'sqlite:///' + os.path.join(basedir, 'app.db')
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Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil has revealed that the group will release a 25th anniversary reissue of their third studio album, Badmotorfinger, this fall. The album contained the singles "Jesus Christ Pose," "Outshined" and "Rusty Cage." In an interview with Loudwire, he called it the "most exciting thing in the next few months." He also said it would be coming out on November 18th, but did not proffer any other details.
Thayil said the band also hoped to put out a remixed and remastered edition of their first LP, 1988's Ultramega OK. "We're hoping to put that out early next year," he said. "We've moved the labels; we're putting that out on Sup Pop. All the paperwork is in order." Thayil had originally announced that this reissue was in the works in 2014, saying at the time that engineer Jack Endino was working on giving it a "heavier, warmer mix." At the time, they were looking for a label to put it out, as they had severed ties with SST, the original record company owned by Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn that released it.
In a 2014 interview with Billboard related to a deluxe edition of their 1994 album Superunknown, Thayil said the group had been discussing a Badmotorfinger reissue. The group had unearthed B-sides, live material and possibly even rehearsal material. "Badmotorfinger had an impact with listeners but also with guitarists and drummers and singers, people who started bands," he said. "It definitely deserves the same kind of treatment we're giving [Superunknown]."
It's unclear what will be included on these prospective reissues since, in late 2014, the group put out the box set Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks From Across the Path. This set included B-sides and other miscellany related to both Badmotorfinger and Ultramega OK.
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And God, I hope that's wrong.
Or is it that I just don't recognize anywhere I'm from?
* Thank you for the amazing lyrics, Stephen.
At 4500 feet over southern Ontario, we flew west in vain pursuit of the sun. Struggling against both a headwind and the rotation of the Earth, we were losing the race as the sun slipped ever closer to the horizon. I pulled my hat lower to manage the glare and watched for air traffic. In the back seat, Kristy was feeding The Bear (above, photo by Kristy).
We were en route to Pontiac, Michigan from our home in western New York. While this would be our third trip into Oakland County International Airport, it would be our first real overnight visit to my hometown of Clarkston in several years. Our original plan had been to arrive between 7:00 and 7:30 pm, but we had a late start. This should not have come as a surprise, we have been consistently tardy for everything since The Bear was born. With the flight half over, I estimated that we would not return to United States airspace until 7:30, roughly coincident with sunset. From the border, an additional twenty minutes of flight time would be necessary to reach Pontiac. I was glad that I was night current, having done a night flight just a week earlier with Kent and Pete.
Flying over Canada is extremely convenient and offers a direct route between western New York and southeast Michigan. Controllers at Toronto Approach and Toronto Center are very helpful. The problem with flying over this portion of Canada is that it is boring. Once west of the Welland Canal, there is not much to look at on the ground and air traffic is rather light. After ninety minutes of droning along without much to do, crossing the St Clair river into Michigan and switching over to the Detroit approach frequency can be rather jarring; the pacing of events picks up quite abruptly.
From over Mount Clemmens, I radioed Pontiac Air Center to warn them that we were running late and would arrive close to 8:00. I hated to do this; it was Friday night and the FBO closed at 8:00. But the woman who answered my call cheerfully responded that they would wait for us.
Despite the ground clutter and light pollution below, I spotted the beacon atop the control tower at Oakland County International from several miles out. There was a moderate amount of traffic coming into Pontiac that evening. We were first to land in front of a business jet and a light twin. An aircraft approaching from the west wanted to land opposite direction on the same piece of pavement filling my windscreen. The pilot of another aircraft north of the airport was confused about his location. Pontiac tower vectored both of those arrivals well around the airport to enter the pattern behind the three of us already queued for landing.
On short final, as we descended toward the lights surrounding runway 27L, I realized that this was my first night landing at a large airport. It was a greaser of a landing (what is it about having The Bear ride along that always makes my landings so good?) and we were soon stopped on the Pontiac Air Center ramp. It was 8:00 pm. We worked to unload the airplane quickly so that Doug and the others at PAC could go home.
By 8:30, we were in Clarkston with my Mom and eating dinner at a restaurant that did not exist when I last lived there seventeen years before. Despite being up past her bed time, my fifteen month old daughter managed to grin at every person to walk past her high chair.
We had a terrific weekend and met with a lot of old friends, some from high school and others from college. As we wandered around Clarkston, I was struck by how little it had changed in character, yet many things were sufficiently different that it no longer seemed like home. We walked past the homes of childhood friends whose families had long since moved elsewhere. My former high school, demoted to middle school with the completion of a new facility, was nonetheless larger than it was when I graduated. Nearly half of the old junior high school was missing. In my day, the building was a kluged-together hybrid of elegant 1932 two story architecture fused with a blandly utilitarian single story addition erected sometime in the 50's or 60's. Now, the addition was completely gone, effectively stripping the facility of the former cafeteria, wood and metal shops, and other locations prominently featured in my memories of the place. A parking lot now existed at the approximate location of the ninth grade Algebra classroom where my stunned classmates and I watched a broadcast of the Challenger erupting into a fireball against the clear blue Florida sky.
Maudlin nostalgia aside, it was a terrific trip. And my mother was able to spend some much desired time with her granddaughter. We had intended to return to New York on Sunday, a day forecast by the Rochester-area weather guessers as "beautiful after some light rain in the morning". Unfortunately, a 500 foot ceiling hovered over Rochester all day long, a typical example of how weather in the Great Lakes can turn on anyone too trusting of forecasts. By lunchtime, it was obvious that a VFR flight home that day would not be possible. Options included staying an extra day in Clarkston (which meant time off of work for both Kristy and me) or renting a car, driving back, and returning for the airplane at a later date. But neither one of us was thrilled about exchanging a 2.5 hour airplane ride for a six hour trip in a rental car with The Bear. So we stayed the extra day.
Monday morning, the skies over Rochester were clear. Skies over Pontiac were not. The low overcast (fog, really) was expected to dissipate around 11:00 am. When we arrived at Pontiac Air Center, the beacon still signaled IFR conditions. Remarkably, right about 11:00 am, I felt the ramp heat with direct sunlight. The ceiling did not last long after that and at 12:15, we were airborne.
We flew directly over Clarkston to take some photographs. This photo was taken looking northwest along the Dixie Highway corridor. Traffic on Dixie was shockingly light, but it was the middle of the day. The road veering off toward the upper right of frame is M-15, Clarkston's Main Street.
In the foreground is Clarkston Middle School, formerly Clarkston Senior High School. The facility is considerably larger than it was when I graduated. The truncated, former Clarkston Junior High is in the upper right corner.
North of Clarkston, we turned due east for the remainder of the flight home. Pictured above are remains of the cloud ceiling that delayed our departure until just after noon.
...for, at least, the first few minutes. Here, Kristy and The Bear work on their synchronized sleeping routine.
The flight across Ontario (above), our eighth since the first time on Thanksgiving 2006, was no more exciting going east than it had been flying west. With the onset of fall, however, the fields had all turned unique colors, endowing the province with the appearance of a quilt spread between Port Huron and Buffalo.
As if the strip farming below was not eye catching enough, the odd colors of these fields made photographing them a necessity.
Directly north of the Buffalo airport, at 5500 feet, the approach controller warned me of 727 traffic departing the airport at my three o' clock; directly under my right wing. I lowered the wing and pressed the left rudder to maintain heading. As the airplane began slipping sideways through the air, Kristy and The Bear awoke. We saw the airliner depart Buffalo, climb at an angle that would have been impossible for my little Piper, then turn south away from us.
We landed on runway 10 at Le Roy under magnificent clear skies, validating our decision to defer the return flight a day. It was good to be home.
Reflecting on the trip to Clarkston, I understood the truth of the cliché that "you can't go home again". Certainly, Clarkston was still there and my Mom still lived in the same house. But in the seventeen years since I moved away from home, I had matured (well...a little), experienced more, and generally viewed the world through a different lens than I did as a teenager. Though the town had undergone change as well, I blame the changes within myself for rendering the place foreign. It's true, you can't go home again because home is more than an "X" on a map. Home is a subtle blend of place and time, nuanced by people, events, and emotions. Take away enough ingredients and even the most precise GPS will fail to pinpoint a location with the correct sense of place.
As Kristy, The Bear, and I drove away from the airport, I was content with the knowledge that my present home was better than any past home ever could be.
Labor Day. The funny thing about Labor Day is that not many people are actually laboring. While I realize that this is the point of the holiday, it definitely impacted my flying plans. A high pressure system had settled over Upstate New York. The skies were bright and clear, the surface winds were no higher than 5 knots anywhere in a flyable radius of Le Roy, and I had the day off from work. I decided to do some exploring by flying to an unfamiliar airport, preferably one with food available. The problem was that every airport restaurant I called was closed for the holiday. Finally, I called the Jamestown Aviation Company at the Jamestown-Chautauqua County Airport. While the Tailwinds Cafe was closed, the person I spoke to practically insisted that I fly in and take their courtesy car into town for food. With that being the best offer I heard all morning, I accepted it.
During the take-off roll at Le Roy, I noticed a pair of wide-jawed vice grip pliers lying on the runway centerline. I jabbed the right rudder pedal to veer around the FOD (foreign object debris). Then I called Dan on Unicom to have him remove it in case the next pilot was less observant than I was. No one is sure where the pliers came from yet, but everyone agrees that it would have been bad news for any aircraft that caught it with a whirling propeller.
My first stop was at Buffalo-Lancaster (BQR), where the fuel price was listed on AirNav as $5.22/gal (a veritable bargain these days). It was my first visit to Lancaster, making it my 82nd airport. Lancaster resides under the outer class Charlie shelf of Buffalo Niagara International's (BUF) airspace. While descending to slip under the Charlie airspace, I saw a landmark that had eluded me for nearly three years of flying in western New York: Darien Lake Theme Park.
Flying low over the Darien Lake Theme Park. That ferris wheel really caught the morning light (click on the photo to see the larger size version).
Roller coasters at Darien Lake: pretty, swooping, vomit-inducing architecture.
When I arrived at Lancaster, I found that the fuel was actually $4.99/gal - probably the only time I have ever been bait and switched in a way that worked out in my favor (actually, AirNav shows that the price was updated on the same day as my visit, but it must have happened after I finished flight planning). Unfortunately, there was a King Air in front of the pump when I arrived. After waiting a long time for them to finish fueling the beast, I wandered over to check on their progress.
"What's your fuel capacity?" I asked.
"Over 300 gallons," said the pilot with a grin. "But we're only taking on 270 today. Otherwise, this would take forever!" He invited me to pull the Warrior in front of his Jet A devouring behemoth. "Don't wait for us," he admonished. Good thing - I was hungry! His ground crew helped me push my airplane into a convenient position to reach the 100LL pump.
Once fueled, I made the short flight southwest to Jamestown. One unique aspect of the Jamestown airport is a tunnel that allows a nearby road to pass under the final approach path to runway 7. It's like a western New York version of Van Nuys (with only about 7% of the daily traffic that Van Nuys gets if the numbers posted on AirNav are a reliable indicator).
After I landed, a rare bird took the runway and launched: a 1931 Sikorsky S-39 flying boat. I recognized it because I had inspected one up close in Kalamazoo during the 2003 National Air Tour. What I did not appreciate until later that evening was that there is only one flying S-39 left in the world. Thus, this had to be the same aircraft I had seen in Kalamazoo five years earlier (whoa, taking "Intro to Logic" in college really paid off here, didn't it?). Perhaps I should have known; how many people would deliberately paint an airplane in a giraffe motif? The paint scheme, of course, is a tribute to the "Spirit of Africa" - an S-39 flown by African naturalists Martin and Osa Johnson back in the 1930's.
The restored Sikorsky S-39 "Spirit of Igor" as I photographed it in September 2003 during the Kalamazoo stop of the National Air Tour. The little tyke standing next to it is the son of one of my former Air Zoo colleagues.
A Jamestown lineman directed me to parking and chocked the wheels once I brought the engine to a stop. As soon as I had my headset off, he welcomed me to Jamestown and asked if I was the one who had reserved the courtesy car. I responded that I was and he pointed to a white Chrysler minivan parked just outside the airport fence. He noted that it was already running with the air conditioning cranked to cool it off.
Another Jamestown Aviation employee provided a recommendation for La Herradura (spanish for "the horseshoe"), a local Mexican restaurant just outside of town. Minutes later, I drove the minivan through the tunnel at the southwest corner of the airport on the final leg of my quest for lunch.
The food and service at La Herradura were fantastic. The food quality reminded me of Los Amigos, another family owned and much beloved Mexican restaurant in the Kalamazoo area that my palate missed dearly since moving to New York. Once I was happily stuffed, the minivan hauled me and my bloated stomach back to the airport. When I returned the minivan keys, I offered the lineman some cash for the gasoline fund. He refused to take it.
"It's just a nice day to get out and fly. Enjoy it and come back and visit us some other time." I seem to have had the good fortune this year to visit some terrific FBOs at some wonderful airports.
I returned to Le Roy in calm air at 5500'. The winds were slightly favoring runway 10 which meant that I had a rare view of my Warrior's shadow while on final approach.
On the ground at Le Roy, Matt was working on his Lancair while Dan tried to help him overcome an apparent phobia of torque wrenches. Matt recently finished building and flew his Lancair after thirteen years of work. Evidence of recent flights (i.e., bugs) were splattered across the leading edges of the Lancair's tiny wings.
"Your wings look like crap," I observed. Matt grinned and cheerfully responded that I was not the first to tell him so that day. There was nothing anyone could say that would dampen Matt's enthusiasm over the completion of a thirteen year odyssey. To Matt, those bugs were a badge of honor; a sign that the Lancair was routinely flying after years of sitting unblemished in a hangar.
As I wiped the splattered bugs from my Warrior's wings, I took the above photo of the instrument panel. The fancy new glass cockpits in newer aircraft may have more "wow factor" than a six-pack of steam gauges, but as I admired my instrument panel from an oblique angle, it seemed to me that it had more character (especially with the master switch off).


Occasional lake effect snow showers will pass through the Finger Lakes on Friday along with strong, gusty winds.
A storm system is passing through the Finger Lakes this Thursday morning with widespread snow.
The snow will continue off and on throughout the morning hours before abruptly ending this afternoon as dry air works into the storm system and the storm begins to redevelop off the coast of New Jersey.
A little rain may mix in with the snow as it ends early this afternoon.
Some of the snow may come down rather hard at times, but accumulations should be limited to a couple of inches at most.
This storm system is still expected to explode into a strong nor'easter, but with only indirect impacts for the Finger Lakes.
The weather will be fairly tranquil this afternoon before lake effect snows start to kick up this evening. Most of that snow should stay outside of the Finger Lakes, being confined either to far western New York or the Tug Hill region.
As the nor'easter ramps up this evening, winds will start to increase across the Finger Lakes. That, not snow, will be the biggest story Friday for the Finger Lakes region.
Wind gusts throughout the day will exceed 40 mph, with a few of the higher elevations seeing top gusts approaching 50 mph.
Temperatures will be within a few degrees on either side of 30 degrees, but with the wind, it will feel more like the teens.
Some scattered snow showers, and a few brief squalls, may put down an inch or two of fresh snow. The strong winds will blow that snow around, causing some poor travel conditions due to drifting and low visibility.
Travel towards along Route 104 east of Rochester, and in the Syracuse area on Friday will become especially hazardous as a more intense lake effect band sets up over the area. Many areas from northern and eastern Wayne county into far northern Cayuga County and Onondaga County will see 3-6 inches of snow on Friday, with localized amounts up to a foot.
Again, strong winds will accompany the heavy snow, creating near white out conditions and very poor travel.
The wind and lake snows will gradually lessen Friday night.


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Report card: Youth Summer Program 2017: a success!
Posted on July 18, 2017 July 18, 2017 by gilfernandes79
The Portuguese Canadian History Project (PCHP) had the pleasure and privilege of co-organizing the York University's Portuguese & Luso-Brazilian Studies program's 1st Youth Summer Program, titled "The Lusophone World: Global and Local Communities," which took place between July 10th and 14th. Together with professors Maria João Dodman and Inês Cardoso (Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics), and Abubacar Fofana León (Harriett Tubman for Research on Africa and its Diasporas & Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean), our lead director Gilberto Fernandes assembled a week-long program of diverse educational activities for students between the ages of 14 and 18 (or grades 9 to 12). Besides the in- and out-of-classroom activities, this program offered free daily breakfast, lunch, and snacks, along with public transit fare for the students. The program was made possible due to the generosity of our sponsors: Manuel da Costa, President of Viana Roofing, Gallery of the Portuguese Pioneers, Portuguese Canadian Walk of Fame, and other organizations; Narda Razack, Associate Dean of Global and Community Engagement, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University; Marcie Ponte, Executive Director of the Working Women Community Centre; and the Camões Institute. The organizers are also grateful for the commitment of volunteers Natasha Silvestre, Thiago Fin, Denis Iwamoto, Karen Melo, and Alexandra Cruz, who offered more than five days of work towards making this program a success. We are also grateful for the help given to us by many TDSB and TCDSB teachers and administrators, who helped us advertise our program through their networks and connect directly with students and parents. This initiative would have been impossible without their contributions.
Along with teaching youth about the Lusophone world through activities that mixed learning with recreation, this program aimed to introduce high school students to university life. Most of the 26 students in the program were of Portuguese background, while others were of Angolan, Brazilian, Guatemalan, Filipino, Indian, Irish, Italian, and Vietnamese heritage.
Day one: The Ipanema-born musician Luanda Jones opened the day with some of Brazil's iconic samba and bossa-nova songs. This was followed by a Portuguese language workshop led by the York University/ Camões Institute Prof. Inês Cardoso. After having lunch at the Underground restaurant, the youth participated in a "meet and greet" session with six Toronto-based lusophone professionals: musician Luanda Jones; CBC Radio producer Debbie Pacheco; community activist Fátima Borges; dancer and choreographer Salomão Almirante; playwright and professor Aida Jordão; and York University historian and professor José Curto.
Day two: Tuesday morning was dedicated to the history of Portuguese colonial encounters in Africa and Brazil, with presentations by York University's Prof. Maria João Dodman, Prof. José Curto, and the PhD candidate in history Abubacar Léon. In the afternoon, the students were treated to workshops on African dances, led by the teacher and choreographer Pulga Muchochoma; and on Capoeira, led by Hélio de Souza.
Day three: Prof. Gillian McGillivray, of Glendon College (York University), started the third day with a presentation on the history of Brazilian racial policies and identities through the lens of Samba music. She was followed by Andrea da Costa, curator at the Gallery of the Portuguese Pioneers, who delivered a presentation on digital news media and how to differentiate between "fake" and "real" news content. This summer program follows several initiatives led by the Portuguese & Luso-Brazilian Studies program designed to highlight innovation, commitment to education, and community empowerment. One of the ways that it promotes student engagement is by offering a free trip to the Azores to the best student in the POR1000 Elementary Portuguese course. During lunchtime, students had the opportunity to hear from Christian Araújo, one of the past winners of the Portuguese Gives You Wings award, sponsored by Azores Airlines. In the afternoon, the students learned how to film high quality footage using their smartphones and inexpensive materials in a workshop led by Bruno Véras, PhD student in history at York University.
Day four: On Thursday morning, students were offered two workshops. At the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, York University historian Gilberto Fernandes and head archivist Michael Moir led an archival research workshop by way of a "scavenger hunt," using the PCHP's collections. Meanwhile, at Founders College, students enjoyed a theatre workshop led by the actor, director, and playwright Aida Jordão. After lunch, students chose between playing basketball, visiting the Career Centre, or practicing their group projects. In the afternoon, the renowned painter Auerbach Vieira led a workshop on abstract painting, which prompted the students to create their own artworks using watercolours.
Day five: On the last day of the program, Gilberto offered a shorter version of the PCHP's walking tour "Portuguese Toronto: Early Decades" in Kensington Market. The students were able to explore the history of Portuguese immigration to Toronto on foot and through the aid of our digital companion on izi.TRAVEL. After this tour, we were received by Andrea da Costa at the Gallery of the Portuguese Pioneers. There, the students watched a series of animated videos about the history of Portuguese immigration to Canada, produced by Andrea. After this screening, the groups prepared their presentations that they delivered at the closing ceremony, which followed. Our sponsors Manuel da Costa and Narda Razack addressed the crowd of students, parents, volunteers, teachers, and local lusophone media with positive messages focusing on the value of education, personal growth, and gratitude. Maria João, Inês, and Gilberto hosted the rest of the ceremony, which included opening and closing performances by Luso-Can Tuna; the students' group presentations; and a brief presentation by the 15-year-old women's right activist and program-participant Chiara Picão, about her charitable initiative Literally Climbing Mountains for Girls Education.
The first youth summer program of York University's Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies program was a great success! Besides advancing their knowledge about the Lusophone world and university life, the students left with new friends, memories, and references that will hopefully be advantageous to them in the future. The organizers too learned a great deal from preparing and running this program, and extended their network within Toronto's school boards, which they look forward to building on in the future.
Until next year.
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A Revengeful September in &TV's Laal Ishq
Sep 15, 2020 | Entertainment
This September, get ready to witness revenge taking over &TV's supernatural fantasy show Laal Ishq as it brings forth chilling tales of betrayal, jealousy, distrust, and greed. Watch different shades of revenge come live as family relationships go sour, and a love affair ends owing to fraud, property feud leads to murder amongst the exciting yet spooky tracks for the entire month of September. With the core theme around vengeance, paranormal forces will demand to be heard and seek justice. Neelima Bajpai, the producer of one of the episodes of Laal Ishq shares, "Laal Ishq has been an audience's favourite when it comes to watching spine chilling horror content on television. With different and varied stories each week, the show continues to be the audience's favourite week on week. With the September being the 'Revenge' month, the audience will see the dark, revengeful, ghostly side of the scariest characters ever hinging on the intense emotion of revenge. Revenge is one of the classic master plots, where the protagonist believes they have been wronged and seeks to retaliate against the antagonist. We have an exciting line of stories, so, don't miss a single episode!"
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"As long as human rights are violated, there can be no foundation for peace. How can peace grow where speaking the truth is itself a crime?"
North American Seat of Dalai Lama's Monastery Opens in Atlanta
By Mary Silver
SHRINE -- A man gazes at the interior of the meditation room in the
monastery at the Drepung Loseling Institute in Atlanta, Georgia on
Oct. 18. (Mary Silver/The Epoch Times)
ATLANTA-Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc, formally opened its doors on
Oct. 18 in Atlanta, Georgia with deep throated Tibetan chanting and
ceremonial tossing of flour in the air.
The place is "a little Tibet in the heart of Atlanta," according to
the event's news release.
Monks and other volunteers worked for months to renovate the building
in Atlanta's Dekalb County. The purpose of the institute is to
provide a sanctuary for Tibetan culture. It is a 501c3 corporation
and offers Tibetan language lessons, meditation instruction,
retreats, and performing arts including snow lion dances, throat
singing, and sand mandala building. It houses a meditation room and
shrine, a gallery, classrooms, offices, and a library.
REGAL: This doll represents 'Songsten Gompo, (617-968 AD), the 33rd
King of Tibet, who firmly reestablished the government after a period
of chaos.' (Mary Silver/The Epoch Times)
The Loseling Dolls, representing traditional Tibetan faces and
costumes, are now displayed in the Monastery's permanent gallery. Two
master doll makers have come from Dharmasala to demonstrate their
craft to the public. The doll making project began in 1970 as a way
to record the endangered folk ways of the Himalayan nation.
Each doll maker carves the face of a doll with an individual person
in mind, said scholar and translator Tsepak Rigzen. The doll heads
are made of clay mixed with Tibetan rice paper.
The organization is the North American seat of the Dalai Lama's
monastery. The Dalai Lama is a visiting professor at Emory
University in Atlanta, not far from the Drepung Loseling Institute.
Thousands attended his lectures at the university last October, when
he was installed as a faculty member. Some of the dolls will be
shown at the university this October.
The university has a program of teaching and studying meditation and
its effect on well being.


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"The Mission of Cameron Estates Community Services District is to construct and maintain district roadways and easements, define riding trails, provide control over use and authorize restriction of access to roads, and to represent the residents in District matters as may arise before various regulatory bodies"
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Video: Scientific Benchmarking of Parallel Computing Systems
December 10, 2018 by Doug Black
In this video, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich presents: Scientific Benchmarking of Parallel Computing Systems.
Measuring and reporting performance of parallel computers constitutes the basis for scientific advancement of high-performance computing. Most scientific reports show performance improvements of new techniques and are thus obliged to ensure reproducibility or at least interpretability. Our investigation of a stratified sample of 120 papers across three top conferences in the field shows that the state of the practice is not sufficient. For example, it is often unclear if reported improvements are in the noise or observed by chance. In addition to distilling best practices from existing work, we propose statistically sound analysis and reporting techniques and simple guidelines for experimental design in parallel computing. We aim to improve the standards of reporting research results and initiate a discussion in the HPC field. A wide adoption of this minimal set of rules will lead to better reproducibility and interpretability of performance results and improve the scientific culture around HPC.
Torsten Hoefler directs the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory (SPCL) at D-INFK ETH Zurich. He received his PhD degree in 2007 at Indiana University and started his first professor appointment in 2011 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Torsten has served as the lead for performance modeling and analysis in the US NSF Blue Waters project at NCSA/UIUC. Since 2013, he is professor of computer science at ETH Zurich and has held visiting positions at Argonne National Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, and Microsoft Research Redmond (Station Q).
Dr. Hoefler's research aims at understanding the performance of parallel computing systems ranging from parallel computer architecture through parallel programming to parallel algorithms. He is also active in the application areas of Weather and Climate simulations as well as Machine Learning with a focus on Distributed Deep Learning. In those areas, he has coordinated tens of funded projects and an ERC Starting Grant on Data-Centric Parallel Programming. He has been chair of the Hot Interconnects conference and technical program chair of the Supercomputing and ACM PASC conferences. He is associate editor of the IEEE Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Computing (TPDS) and the Parallel Computing Journal (PARCO) and a key member of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) Forum.
He has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed international conferences and journals and co-authored the latest versions of the MPI specification. He has received best paper awards at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference in 2010, 2013, and 2014 (SC10, SC13, SC14), EuroMPI 2013, IPDPS'15, ACM HPDC'15 and HPDC'16, ACM OOPSLA'16, and other conferences. Torsten received ETH Zurich's Latsis Prize in 2015, the SIAM SIAG/Supercomputing Junior Scientist Prize in 2012, the IEEE TCSC Young Achievers in Scalable Computing Award in 2013, the Young Alumni Award 2014 from Indiana University, and the best student award 2005 of the Chemnitz University of Technology. Torsten was elected into the first steering committee of ACM's SIGHPC in 2013 and he was re-elected in 2016. His Erdős numberis two (via Amnon Barak) and he is an academic descendant of Hermann von Helmholtz.
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