URBANA, Ill. – Have you noticed any new behaviors in your children since you sent them back to school? Sleep disturbances, acting out, or mood swings? These behaviors and others may be signs of stress, according to experts at the University of Illinois.
"Often you're not going to hear a kid say, 'I'm stressed out', so as parents we need to look for signs they are communicating to us through their behaviors," says Chelsey Byers Gerstenecker, family life educator at U of I Extension.
Once they are aware of their kids' stress, parents can help them manage it by introducing effective coping skills early in life. According to Gerstenecker, stress management starts with getting kids into healthy routines with plenty of exercise and sleep. And she says parents should encourage kids to talk to them early and often about things that are worrying them.
Back-to-school isn't just hard on kids. Most teachers experience stress on a daily basis, whether it's from managing troublesome behavior in the classroom or from meeting expectations of administrators.
Erica Thieman, assistant professor in the Agricultural Education Program at U of I, is a teacher educator whose research focuses on stress management. She says the high attrition rate in the first five years of teaching can be attributed in large part to stress. But teacher stress doesn't just contribute to attrition; it can affect the stress levels of students.
The good news is that there are plenty of strategies for teachers to manage stress. One that Thieman endorses is both free and easy: breathing. "It's really powerful to take three deep breaths. Cortisol lowers instantly; there's an instant response in the body to those three deep breaths." She also strongly recommends a good night's sleep.
"Ensuring proper sleep – 8 hours for adults – is one of the best stress-management techniques I can offer, especially during the back-to-school time when people are adjusting to new routines and typically more difficult work is required of their brains," Thieman says.
Not going back to school? Fortunately, Gerstenecker and Thieman say these stress-management tips apply to everyone.
To hear more from these experts on the topic of stress management, listen to the #askACES podcast at https://soundcloud.com/aces-illinois/managing-stress.


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Laura Briggs: Feminists and the Baby Veronica Case
By Laura Briggs
The "Baby Veronica" case (Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl) currently before the Supreme Court is many things—a case that could undermine a great deal of federal Indian law by attacking the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA); a story about the stupid, mean things a couple will do to each other when they break up; and a sad story about a little kid who, at four, spent the first two years of her life with would-be adoptive parents and the next two living with her bio-father, his wife and other children. It's also a story about the conservative right's uses of marriage and its adoption crusade. What it's not is a case that feminists have been on the right side of.
First, the facts, which have been widely misreported. In December 2008, Dusten Brown and Christina Maldonado were engaged; in January 2009, she became pregnant. She lived in his hometown, Bartlesville, OK, near his parents, but as he was active duty military, he lived four hours away at Fort Sill. On learning of her pregnancy, he began to press her to marry; she refused, and in May, they broke up. In an effort to get her to reconsider, he said, he refused to support her and said he wouldn't pay child support, either. She told him he would have to relinquish his parental rights to her. Meanwhile, without his knowledge, she contacted the Nightlife Christian Adoption Agency (yes, you have heard of them—George Bush publically thanked them for pioneering "snowflake adoptions" of cryopreserved embryos, which they call "pre-born children"). With Nightlife's assistance, Maldonado selected a couple in South Carolina to adopt her child, a state (not incidentally) that has laws very unfavorable to birth fathers—in order to have standing in an adoption case, fathers must have lived with the birth mother for at least six months prior to the birth of the child, and to have provided financial support, neither of which Brown had done.
There was, however, a potential complication, as Maldonado told Nightlife: Brown was Cherokee, which might have made the venue for any adoption Cherokee tribal court in Oklahoma, not South Carolina. Nightlife contacted the Cherokee Nation, but the agency misspelled Brown's name and gave a wrong birth date for him. As a result, the Nation could not verify that Brown was Cherokee or that the baby was eligible for enrollment, and did not block the removal of the case to South Carolina. Baby Veronica was born in September with the would-be adoptive parents—the Capobiancos—present, but Maldonado told the hospital to deny she was there if Brown called. Four months later, less than two weeks before Brown was to be deployed to Iraq, the Capobiancos' lawyer sent a process server with relinquishment papers. Thinking he was relinquishing to Maldonado during his deployment, Brown signed a form entitled "Acceptance of Service" but immediately asked for the paper back, saying he wanted to talk to an attorney. The process server threatened him with criminal prosecution if he touched the paper. Brown consulted an army attorney, and filed a stay of the adoption in South Carolina, establishing paternity, seeking custody (offering to place the baby with his parents until he returned from Iraq), and promised to support Veronica. The Cherokee Nation also intervened, identifying the father as a registered member and saying that ICWA applied and had not been followed. Adoption proceedings were halted, although the baby stayed with the Maldonados. When Brown returned from Iraq in 2011, two South Carolina courts found that ICWA applied, that Brown had not consented to the termination of his parental rights and there never should have been an adoption case, and awarded custody of two-year old Veronica to Brown.
At that point, the Capobiancos and Nightlife got considerable attention from the Evangelical Christian right, and "Save Baby Veronica" websites and petitions popped up all over. Enter Paul Clement, patron saint of conservative causes at the Supreme Court--defender of the Defense of Marriage Act, leading the charge against Obama's expansion of health care coverage, staunch defender of Arizona's immigration law, and the mouthpiece of the Bush administration in torture cases. Clement also currently represents a non-Indian gaming client who wants to put a casino in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and is arguing that the state law on Indian gaming amounts to an illegal racial set-aside. This may be the real key to the Baby Veronica case—if conservatives are successful in gutting ICWA, much Indian law will also fall. Not for the first time in U.S. history, the successful claim by Native people on a resource—the lucrative gaming industry—is under full-scale legal assault.
Baby Veronica Case Goes to the Supreme Court
Clement successfully brought the Baby Veronica case to the Supreme Court, making a series of interrelated arguments. First, his brief insists that Brown is not legally or meaningfully a father because he and Maldonado were not married. For me, as a lesbian mother who raised a child in Arizona where I could not adopt her because her other mother and I were not married, this argument terrifies me. Second, he makes an old (and racist) blood quantum argument, saying that the child is "really" Hispanic, because she doesn't have a sufficient fraction of "Indian blood" to count—a point on which the Cherokee nation begs to differ. Finally, he says, ICWA is a law that gives unfair racial preferences to Native people in adoption and custody cases. In this, he is following Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court Justice he clerked for. Scalia, commenting on Baby Veronica, said that the most wrenching case he ever decided was Holyfield, where he had to "turn [a] child over to the tribal council," removing it from a "wealthy rancher" in an ICWA case. This is a strange description of Holyfield. What the Court actually did in Holyfield was determine that the jurisdiction for the adoption would be tribal court, much as it might find that one state rather than another was the proper place to hear an adoption or custody case. In Holyfield, the "wealthy rancher's" family in fact adopted the children (there were twins); the tribal court found it was in the children's best interest. This is a crucial point: ICWA does not determine who gets a child. It determines jurisdiction--who gets to decide who gets a child.
Jurisdiction matters a lot in adoption. State laws vary widely, and many Sunbelt states (plus Utah), are known as "easy adoption" states where Christian adoption agencies, in particular, often relocate pregnant women because they, and the birth fathers, have few rights there. ICWA is the only federal law that offers birthparents rights in adoption cases, so that enrolled members of Native Nations, at least, have uniform and enforceable rights. The jurisdiction is always tribal court, and the law is consistent.
As I have argued elsewhere, ICWA does not provide special "racial entitlements"; it treats (some) American Indians as having a distinct political status conferred by treaty rights. In fact, in 1974, the Supreme Court ruled on this very point. In Morton v. Mancari, the court held that Native people could be treated differently from non-Native people, not because they belonged to a distinct racial group, but because tribal nations are "quasi-political entities" whose status is determined by federal treaty. Being the parent of a child eligible for tribal enrollment is not a "race." People otherwise identifiable as Native may have children that are not ICWA-eligible because they belong to a non-recognized or terminated tribe (of which there are about 200 in the United States), because of arcane blood quantum requirements, or because they are indigenous but from Latin America, Canada, or Hawaii. Two, all ICWA does is give birth parents rights that many think they should have regardless, and often do. If the Baby Veronica case had been in Massachusetts, for example, Dusten Brown would be treated as a legal parent, and his daughter could not be adopted unless he either relinquished his parental rights or was shown to be unfit—the same standard as ICWA.
"Where is the outrage from women's groups over this issue?"
"Where is the outrage from women's groups over this issue?" asks a recent blog post on the Christian Alliance for Indian Child Welfare's website, wondering why feminists are not angry about an unmarried father demanding a say in the placement of a child for adoption. I'd ask the same question, but with opposite intent. So far, the only feminist voices in this debate have been Joan Heifetz Hollinger and Elizabeth Bartholet, who support Paul Clement and Nightlife Christian Adoption Agency in their brief in the case, which argues for a standard some states have invented, that ICWA should only apply when it disrupts an "existing Indian family," a standard that has been interpreted very narrowly—a married heterosexual couple living on a reservation. Why feminists would think that is a good idea, when 48% of children are born to single mothers, is beyond me.
Why Feminists Should Care
Here's why feminists should care about this: it's a racist case designed to gut federal Indian law. It's a "states rights" case, which should haunt anyone who thinks slavery was a bad thing. It involves a high-profile cast of right-wing actors, from an evangelical Christian adoption agency to lawyer Paul Clement. Making adoption easy and giving birth parents and unwed parents few rights has been a conservative anti-abortion agenda for a long time. It's time feminists noticed, and opposed it. When unmarried fathers are not really parents, unmarried mothers are vulnerable too, as when Newt Gingrich threatened to take the children of welfare mothers and put them in orphanages. If this case is successful, it would make it much easier for poor people to lose children, including against their will, which mostly affects mothers.
Laura Briggs is chair and professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies and author most recently of Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transnational and Transracial Adoption.

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Apple headlines for the week ending June 9, 2017.
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference dominated the week. You can see all the announcements here. You can also check out the Apple-related headlines in this week's slideshow. Just click on the Read More link to get more information.


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ExclusiveThe Vamps Spill All About Those Sabrina Carpenter Shipping Rumors and If She Ever Let Them Watch 'Girl Meets World'
Updated: Jun 22, 2018 4:09 pm
By Jennifer Maldonado
Sabrina Carpenter is gearing up to head out on her next heading tour, The De-Tour but before she did that, she was actually opening up for The Vamps on their tour all throughout Europe. She obviously had the best time ever getting to know Bradley Simpson, James McVey, Tristan Evans and Connor Ball and she even recorded a new song with the band called "Hands." Fun fact: she accidentally made that song have an explicit rating on it when she misunderstood the lyrics from the demo version she had heard before she actually recorded it. No one sent her the lyrics and she was confident in her memory, but she ended up singing "So leave your s—t at the door" instead of "Leave your shirt at the door," which is was supposed to be. Only Sabrina! But we digress.
When we caught up with the boys — minus Connor who wasn't able to make the trip to New York City — they spilled everything about what it was like having Sabs out on the road with them and as you can imagine, they absolutely sang Sabrina's praises, confirming she's just as cool and talented as you would imagine and she totally gets their sense of humor. James did admit that they found it a bit funny when fans started shipping her with some of them.
"All the rumors, they were like, 'She's definitely with James' and then it's like, 'But wait!' and I was [just] like 'What?"" he jokingly explained.
So no, she's not dating James, Brad or any of the guys in the band contrary to popular belief. But the real question everyone wants to know is if any of them have ever watched her Disney Channel series, Girl Meets World and well, let's just say Brad revealed a rather interesting tidbit about what happened when he told her he actually did have plans to watch it. Check out the full video below:
It was definitely a tour a remember, that's for sure!
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Ohio's only potential 2020 contender announced Thursday that he wouldn't run for president.
After taking a three-month tour of key battleground states, dubbed the "Dignity of Work" Tour, Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown's decision shocked many who saw him as one of the best chances to defeat President Trump. No one can say for certain why he chose not to run, but a great deal can be said about what his not running means.
As previously reported, Sherrod Brown's entire campaign strategy revolved around him being able to harmonize a message that would appeal to the blue-collar working class that turned away from Democrats in 2016, with the recent Democratic-Socialist philosophy that currently dominates that 2020 Democratic political conversation.
His plan was to reach out to blue-collar workers across America and declared; "dignity of work means hard work should pay off for everyone, no matter who you are or what kind of work you do." That having a job wasn't enough; one must have security and prosperity. From here, he inferred that he would tack into Democratic-socialist programs like major healthcare expansions, free college tuition, and a $15 minimum wage. This would give him a cross-base advantage as he would be able to appeal to disparate factions within the democratic party.
The problem was this strategy is that it made him a "jack-of-all-trades" candidate. He would have sectional support in different camps but would be vulnerable to candidates with a stronger backing in each camp. For example, if a candidate like former Vice-President Joe Biden got into the race, Brown could easily be squeezed out of his advantage with working-class voters. Brown was always walking a narrow path and it seems he found no way forward. However, there is another possibility.
It's possible that he realized that, as previously noted, he found that he really couldn't reconcile the two factions.
The main issue is that a majority of the working class tends to lean conservative and votes for Democrats only if they advocate for labor-positive causes. Brown will be walking a narrow tightrope; should it work he will be in a very strong position, should it fail he will alienate both groups and leave himself without a path to victory.
It's worth remembering that in 2016, Hillary Clinton ran as a "jack of all trades" candidate as well. Vermont Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders and President Donald Trump early presidential campaigns aggressively appealed to one tranche of the party for support. That base gave them a strong position and, in Trump's case, he was able to win over the other factions as time went on. Seeing Senator Brown's messaging tactic, potentially, fail could mean that the Democratic 2020 nominee will be a firebrand. whether their a democratic firebrand or a socialist firebrand remains to be seen.
Photo "Sherrod Brown" by Sherrod Brown.


MS Student Ann Marie wins 2nd place poster award!
Ann Marie Raymondi won 2nd place research poster award at the Great Basin Native Plant Project and Society for Ecological Restoration Great Basin Chapter's 2016 annual meeting. Her research poster was titled "Sagebrush-steppe vegetation on the Snake River Plain: assessing … (Read More) MS Student Ann Marie wins 2nd place poster award!


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Der Große Preis von Spanien 1968 fand am 12. Mai auf dem Circuito del Jarama in San Sebastián de los Reyes, einem Vorort von Madrid, statt und war das zweite Rennen der Automobil-Weltmeisterschaft 1968.

Berichte

Hintergrund
Erst rund fünf Monate nach dem Saisonauftakt in Südafrika fand der zweite WM-Lauf des Jahres statt.

Im März hatte zwischenzeitlich Bruce McLaren mit seiner neuen Eigenkonstruktion McLaren M7A das nicht zur Weltmeisterschaft zählende Race of Champions in Brands Hatch gewonnen. Bei diesem Rennen waren die Lotus-Rennwagen erstmals nicht mehr im klassischen British Racing Green angetreten, sondern in der rot-weißen Farbgebung des neuen Hauptsponsors. Das Team begründete damit einen Trend, der sich in den folgenden Monaten rasant im Motorsport verbreitete.

Drei Wochen nach diesem Rennen war Jim Clark während eines Formel-2-Rennens auf dem Hockenheimring tödlich verunglückt. Als wenige Tage danach ein weiteres nicht zur Weltmeisterschaft zählendes Formel-1-Rennen in Silverstone stattfand, trat Lotus aus diesem Grund mit nur einem Wagen an und Denis Hulme bescherte dem McLaren-Team einen weiteren Sieg. Am selben Wochenende verunglückte Jackie Stewart bei einem Formel-2-Rennen im Jarama schwer und erlitt dabei Verletzungen, die ihn zu einer einmonatigen Pause zwangen, sodass er nicht am Großen Preis von Spanien teilnehmen konnte.

Mit Mike Spence kam ein weiterer Formel-1-Pilot noch vor dem zweiten WM-Lauf ums Leben. Er starb bei Vortests für das Indianapolis 500.

Nur 14 Wagen wurden schließlich für den ersten Großen Preis von Spanien seit 1954 gemeldet. B.R.M., Lotus und Matra International traten ausnahmsweise nur mit jeweils einem Fahrzeug an. Im Gegenzug bereicherte das von Reg Parnell gegründete gleichnamige Privatteam das Feld, indem ein BRM P126 für Piers Courage gemeldet wurde. Das Privatteam von Rob Walker verfügte nun anstelle eines Cooper T81 über einen Lotus 49. Das Cooper-Werksteam hatte seine Fahrzeuge von Maserati- auf B.R.M.-Motoren umgerüstet.

Training
Chris Amon wurde im Ferrari 312F1 erstmals in seiner Grand-Prix-Karriere Trainingsschnellster. Er teilte sich die aus drei Fahrzeugen bestehende erste Startreihe mit Pedro Rodríguez und Denis Hulme. Dahinter qualifizierten sich Bruce McLaren und Jean-Pierre Beltoise, der Jackie Stewart im Matra-Kundenteam Tyrrell vertrat. Graham Hill erreichte im favorisierten Lotus 49 nur den sechsten Startplatz.

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Rodríguez übernahm nach dem Start sofort die Führung vor Beltoise, Amon und Hulme. Diese Reihenfolge blieb bis zur zwölften Runde konstant, als Beltoise kurzzeitig die Führung übernahm. Vier Runden später schied er jedoch wegen eines Motorproblems aus und überließ somit Amon, der zwischenzeitlich Rodríguez überholt hatte, die Führung. 30 Runden lang blieb der Neuseeländer daraufhin an der Spitze. Bis zur 28. Runde wurde er dabei stets von Rodríguez bedrängt, bis dieser die Kontrolle über seinen Wagen verlor und verunglückte. Dadurch gelangte Hill auf den zweiten Platz vor Hulme und John Surtees. Als in Runde 58 Amons Kraftstoffpumpe ausfiel, übernahm Hill die Führung und gewann vor Hulme und Brian Redman, der somit in seinem zweiten Grand Prix seinen ersten und einzigen Podestplatz erreichte.

Meldeliste

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Startaufstellung

Rennen

WM-Stände nach dem Rennen
Die ersten sechs des Rennens bekamen 9, 6, 4, 3, 2 bzw. 1 Punkt(e).

Fahrerwertung

Konstrukteurswertung

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Weblinks
 Rennergebnis auf der offiziellen Website der Formel 1

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Spanien
Sportveranstaltung in San Sebastián de los Reyes
Circuito del Jarama

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This week's episode of Ao Haru Ride mainly follows Futaba's internal struggle with her feelings for Kou and her desire to keep her friendship with Makita. Due to Futaba's poor history with friends in middle school, she really fears she'll lose Makita as a friend when Makita finds out that Futaba also has a crush on Kou. Although the episode basically followed the usual shojo back and forth emotional indecision, I felt that the storytelling did a really great job of balancing the visuals with Futaba's thoughts in order to create a three-dimensional character narrative.
Again I love how the show brought back Futaba and Kou's middle school flashbacks. The animation is dreamy and nostalgic, overall just stunning.
To be honest I thought the story would work its way up to the big confrontation by the end of the episode but they did drag the introspection out for quite some time. In between the every-day high-school scenes and the comedy scenes, Futaba is really fixated on the issue. In times like these I really think you've got to trust your friend to also respect your feelings as much as you respect theirs. It makes sense though that Futaba would be so adverse to confronting Makita 1) because of her history and 2) because she hasn't known Makita for a really long time, she has no idea how exactly Makita will react to Futaba.
The Futaba and Kou scenes never cease to amuse me. They act all friendly and normal when they're in front of other people but get a little more than friendly when they're alone together. Kou is so comfortable with Futaba that he can complain to her or get physically close to her without there being too much awkwardness. Futaba also finds herself being REALLY honest about herself in front of Kou, to the point of clarifying that she did change her shampoo so he'd be attracted to her. No awkward stammer. No bi**hing. No blushing. It just all sort of happened. Futaba and Kou definitely move at their own unique pace apart from usual shojo manga couples.
Pretty average episode of Ao Haru Ride this week but I am looking forward to seeing the current love triangle resolve itself and I would really like to see more of Kominato and Murao's side of the story. I can't exactly predict where in the manga the anime adaptation will end but judging from what we've seen so far, we can expect a pretty satisfying ending between Futaba and Kou. Hopefully we won't be left hanging and if we are… there better be a season 2 (because the manga hasn't ended yet).


Okay, sorry guys, but I have to indulge in these total coffee nerd moments every once in a while. Thanks for understanding.
To me, coffee is far more than just a pleasurable drink. It's an experience. It's a mood. It's a feeling that can take you to the greatest depths of creative passion, a force that can pull you through the hardest, most painful times, or a source of stimulation that makes an interesting conversation even better. That's why Coffee Moments™ are so great.
If you're not a fan, then I've seen that tea is the same way for many people. Either way, I'm all about the hot beverages.
While any coffee lovers knows the importance of poking your head into a third wave coffee shop with some degree of regularity, it's also important to have some sort of home setup, even if that setup pales in comparison to what the coffee shops offer. For me, I've spent the last couple of years preparing most of my morning cups with a V-60 pour over. Pour overs are one of the most convenient coffee preparation methods, and something I'd definitely recommend for most people, both coffee aficionados and newcomers alike.
However, as of last month, a new era in my life has begun: meet the AeroPress.
I'm amazed that I went this long without investigating the AeroPress, and now, I'm madly in love with it. It's fast, thorough, and prepares an absolutely fantastic cup of coffee. What more could a person ask for? There are a couple of different preparation methods, but my preference is for the "inverted" method.
For more information, check out the official AeroPress site. If you're a coffee fan, you won't regret it. Trust me. And if you've already been using the AeroPress for some time, cheers.
The day has come, friends. The day that we've all been waiting for. While others may be distracted by the bright colors of other holidays, us true coffee lovers know that today is a day like no other. Get prepared, because today is National Coffee Day!
Last year, I somehow missed this most caffeinated of days. Grieving over my terrible error, I ensured that such a mistake would never happen again, by subscribing myself to an annual email reminder every year, upon the day that National Coffee Day returns. That day has come, and to mark the occasion, I'm starting the morning with — what else? — a beautifully dark, aromatic, flavorful cup of Joe.
So grind those beans, boil that water, or get those coffee shop loyalty cards punched, because the day is here.
Check out all of your local coffee shops or franchises to see what sort of coffee deals and specials might be swooping your way today. USA Today offers this list of some of the bigger name specials, which even includes surprising deals by such companies as Lyft.
I have to admit, I love being a workaholic. I'm always immersed in a slew of projects, and my work on my next novel is a daily source of excitement.
For the most part, I consider myself a positive workaholic, as opposed to a negative one. When I'm knee-deep in a project that I'm excited about, it becomes the driving point of my daily routine. When I'm not knee-deep in a project, I find one, or I create one. I'm obsessed with the process of creation, passionate about the ability to sculpt words into sentences and find meaning. The stories I create are my heart, my brain, my soul. Maybe it's the INFJ in me.
This is why I love my work ethic: because I love that feeling of getting up first thing in the morning, brewing some coffee, and facing the blank page. I even love those times in the middle of the night where an idea wakes me up, hits me in the face, and drives me to the nearest notebook.
But at the same time, there's a downside to being a positive workaholic, especially when most of your work is done at home: you never stop working.
It's so easy to let days, weeks, and months fly behind me, barely seen and barely noticed. It's so easy to stay in that intense place of concentration, words flying from my fingertips, forgetting to even notice whether there's a sun or moon outside.
Now, as a writer, I should be writing for at least a few hours every day. Writing is who I am, what I do. Through writing, I hope to express myself, gain a better understanding of the world, and to do my small part to speak up about issues that matter, causes that deserve attention.
So yes, daily writing is a necessity for me. And sometimes, even writing all day can be an amazing thing. I remember one day where I was so immersed in a project that I pushed out over 100 pages in one afternoon, my heart pounding from start to finish. But days like this are not every day.
I love my career as a writer. I'm shooting to get my next novel out by next year, and nothing's going to stop me from pursuing that goal with everything inside me. If things move into place, I might even have some smaller stuff coming out this year for you guys to see.
But the thing is, all of the goals above are already in the pipeline, mostly ready to launch. The additional work that I'm exhausting myself with now, work that is being done on top of other work, is related to projects that might not be finished until years from now. Looking at the big picture, I think that I can afford to take my time on those pieces.
What's important here is balance. That's what I need to give myself more of.
Every morning, I want to organize my day into slots. Two hours of this, three hours of that, an hour of this other thing. I think this works for me, for the most part. But I also need to allow space in my schedule for something else that is hugely important: time to breath.
A few days ago, I felt overwhelmed. I'd completed a huge amount of work, hours and hours of it, far more than I needed to. But despite all of the work I'd gotten done, I wasn't letting myself rest. I was pushing myself past the point of exhaustion, even though I didn't need to.
Then, I noticed the sun was outside. Now, while it's been an exceptionally warm summer here in New Hampshire (why yes, hello there global warming!), the last few months have still been too chilly to spend any real time outside. But on this day, the sun was blaring. And there I was in my office, with a massive pile of work completed, and I wasn't letting myself stop. I was stressing myself out for no reason. I didn't know how to stop.
So I forced myself to relax. Yes, forced. Admittedly, this sounds like a contradiction in terms, but sometimes forced relaxation is a necessity. Trust me, I know! I stepped away from my desk, grabbed a book, sat outside in the warm rays of the sun, and I read for a few hours. I gave myself that time to unwind, to just bask in the satisfaction of all of the work I had completed. I gave myself a moment to embrace my sheer existence as a human being, to smile, to read for as long as I wanted to.
Again, balance is everything. This doesn't mean that working hard isn't important, but other things are important as well. Balance.
I'm not someone who belongs to a specific organized religion, but I do consider myself a spiritual person, and one of the qualities that I value about all religions, from all cultures, is the notion of finding inner peace. Calmness. Meditation. Caring for others, acting upon one's compassion, but also finding balance in oneself. Instead of relying on conditional happiness that comes from the external world, I find that true and unconditional happiness comes from within.
Capitalist society can drive someone to madness with its push to keep us moving-moving-moving like a locomotive. This only makes it all the more important to sometimes stop, and focus. We need to pause for those moments where we can take in the world around us, look up to the sky, and love the fact that we're lucky enough to be alive.
As a creative person, I need to always be pursuing my passions. But as a human being, no better or worse than any other human being, I also need moments to breathe. We're all the same. We're all equal. We all need the same things, deep down. It's important to remember that.


On Thursday, Nov. 20, at noon in Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University will observe the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to honor the hundreds of individuals who have lost their lives since 1970 due to violence against transgender people. The event is organized by SU's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center.
The murder of Latiesha Green (Moses Cannon) in Syracuse last week brings the crisis of such violence in the Central New York community into sharp focus and exemplifies the need for understanding and an end to anti-LGBT violence.
For Thursday's event, the LGBT Resource Center has planned a special ceremony for the Transgender Day of Remembrance. The Rev. Tomi Jacobs, interdenominational Protestant campus minister, will offer the invocation for the hour-long program that will include shared poetry, personal reflections and a reading of the names of the deceased. The Rev. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Episcopal/Anglican campus minister, will offer closing remarks.
Transgender Day of Remembrance began 10 years ago to memorialize those who were killed due to transphobia. The event is held each November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on Nov. 28, 1998, launched the Remembering Our Dead Web project ( http://www.gender.org/remember/index.html) and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999.
Participants should be advised that while media may be present, photography and video will not be permitted inside the chapel. For more information, contact Lauren Adamski at 443-3983 or lbadamsk@syr.edu.


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Nikon Coolpix P310 Review
April 5, 2012 | Mark Goldstein |
The Nikon Coolpix P310 is a new pocket compact camera designed to appeal to the keen enthusiast photographer. The Nikon P310 has a 4.2x optical zoom with a focal range of 24-100mm, maximum apertures of f/1.8-4.9 and lens-shift Vibration Reduction. The P310 boasts a sensitivity range of ISO 160 to 6400, creative PASM shooting modes, full 1080p HD video recording with stereo sound and slow and fast motion movies, a burst mode of 5 continuous shots at 6 frames per second, 99-point autofocus system and a 3-inch 920,000-dot LCD screen. The Nikon Coolpix P310 is available in black or white for £299.99 / $329.95 / €354.00.
The Nikon Coolpix P310 is virtually identical to its predecessor, the P300, in terms of its external design and looks, with the main change being the addition of a Function button to the front of the camera. You can easily carry the P310 around in a trouser or shirt pocket, as it measures 103.0 x 58.3 x 32.0 mm and weighs less than 200g with the battery and memory card fitted. The P310 is marginally bigger than the Canon PowerShot S100, but quite a bit smaller than the Panasonic Lumix LX5 and the Olympus XZ-1, although all of these models are still eminently pocketable.
The P310 has a 4.2x zoom lens with a versatile focal range of 24-100mm, more than wide enough for sweeping landscapes yet still offering enough reach for head and shoulder portraits. The lens has a headline-grabbing maximum aperture of f/1.8 at the wide-angle setting, but this quickly drops off as you move through the focal range, reaching a disappointingly slow aperture of F/4.9 at 100mm, which prevents nicely blurred backgrounds from being recorded at the longer telephoto settings. Also note that because of the smaller 1/2.3" sensor, the size employed by the vast majority of compacts, the P310 doesn't blur the background as much as the Olympus XZ-1 at the same aperture of F/1.8, although it does deliver good results for a "regular" compact. The P310 feels quite solidly constructed yet at the same time lightweight, with a magnesium alloy chassis and similarly high levels of build quality that you find on Nikon's more expensive cameras.
The front of the Nikon Coolpix P310 features the aforementioned 4.2x zoom lens. Nikon have included their VR (Vibration Reduction) image stabilisation system to help prevent camera-shake, an increasingly de-facto feature on a lot of high-end compact cameras. Annoyingly there isn't a dedicated button to turn it on and off (it's somewhat buried in the Setup menu). In practice I found that the VR system makes a noticeable difference to the sharpness of the images, as shown in the examples on the Image Quality page. You don't notice that the camera is actually doing anything different when anti-shake is turned on, just that you can use slower shutter speeds than normal and still take sharp photos. It didn't seem to adversely affect the battery life either, which is around 230 shots, so I'd advise you to turn it on and then forget about it.
Top-left of the lens is a single bulb which doubles-up as the self timer and the AF assist lamp. Also on the front of the P310 is a small but helpful vertical rubber strip that acts as a handgrip for your right hand, with enough room for two fingers. Used in conjunction with the similarly textured thumb-grip on the rear, it allows you to get a secure grip the camera and be able to confidently use it one-handed. The Function button is a new and helpful addition to the front of the P310. This is a customisable button that can be set to one of seven key camera settings, although in the absence of a dedicated ISO control on the rest of the camera, we'd strongly suggest that you set it to this.
Front Rear
Maximum resolution JPEGS are stored by the Nikon Coolpix P310 in a couple of seconds. In continuous shooting mode it can capture 6 frames per second when shooting Fine sized JPEGs, albeit only for 5 images, so you can never actually achieve the headline rate in practice in terms of the number of shots that are taken. There's also a slower rate of to 30 full-resolution shots at 1 fps. Disappointingly the P310 still doesn't support the RAW file format, something that all of its main competitors offer, and a prosumer feature that frankly we'd expect on this class of camera.
The P310 has a small and neat built-in flash, activated by a switch on the side of the camera, which pops-up above-right of the lens and therefore provides a little more clearance and less chance of unwanted red-eye in your photos. We found that the built-in flash unit was fine for a bit of fill-in, with respectably quick recycle times and adequate range. Also located on top of the P310 are left and right microphones for the stereo sound, then a Shooting mode dial, similar to what you'd find on a consumer-level DSLR. Ranged around this are settings for the Auto, Program Auto, Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority and Manual, plus the Night Landscape and Scene modes. New to the P310 is the U option, which stands for User Settings. This allows you to access a saved menu settings configuration, allowing you to quickly swap between the camera's current settings and a preconfigured one. The action of the dial itself is slightly stiff, meaning that you reach each chosen setting with a definite click and avoid accidentally shooting past the one that you wanted.
In the Backlighting mode, the P310 captures three consecutive shots at varying exposures and combines them into a single photo with a broader range of tones. Three different HDR settings are available for selection. When the Night Landscape scene mode is selected, the P310 takes several shots at a fast shutter speed and then combines them to create a single optimized photo, allowing you to shoot after dark without having to use a tripod. The Easy Panorama scene mode allows you to take vertical or horizontal panorama photos simply by moving the camera in the direction of the on-screen guides. Multiple shots are then combined into a single panorama photo. The angle of view can be selected from 180° (normal) and 360° (wide). The 3D shooting mode combines two images taken from different positions to create a 3D image that can be played back on 3D TVs and computers.
The P310 has a slightly springy shutter button, with the camera taking about 1/4 second to determine focus and exposure but with no discernible shutter delay thereafter. This is surrounded by a pleasingly tactile zoom lever. The zoom is pretty quick to respond, sound-tracked by a mechanical gnat-like buzz. Just behind the shutter release button is an annoyingly small but clearly marked on/off button, within which a a green LED briefly lights up to signify the power is indeed on. Give it a press and the P310 powers up very quickly in around 1/2 second, the lens barrel extending to maximum wide-angle setting and the rear LCD blinking into life.
Side Top
Completing the P310's top-plate is a rather clever feature, a large, unmarked, thumb-operated dial for setting the shutter speed when the shooting mode is set to Shutter Speed Priority or Manual, or alternatively for setting the exposure compensation. We'd have welcomed the ability to customise its use, though - it would be nice to be able to set the aperture this way, for example, as the navigation wheel on the rear that does change this setting has a nice action but isn't as intuitive for anyone who has used a DSLR before. Still, dual controls for setting the aperture and shutter speed is very rare on any compact, so kudos to Nikon for including both on the P310.
The rear of the P310 has a 3-inch LCD screen with an impressively high 921,000-dot resolution, providing more than enough detail for you to be able to determine whether you have a sufficiently crisp image. To the right is a tiny flash recycling lamp and underneath that a handy one-touch movie recording button.
The Nikon Coolpix P310 can record full 1080p, 1920x1080 pixel HD movies at 30fps with stereo sound and full use of the optical zoom. It also offers a 720p mode at 1280x720 pixels (30 fps) and VGA mode at 640x480 pixels (30 fps). In addition there's a special High Speed mode which records at 15/60/120 fps (no sound) that can be played back in slow motion at 1/4 or 1/2 of the normal playback speed or in fast motion at twice the normal playback speed. The Creative Slider and Special Effects can also be used when shooting movies, and they can be played back on a HDTV via the built-in HDMI connector, although as usual there's no suitable cable supplied in the box. The P310 supports the CEC feature for HDMI which enables playback control using your TV's remote control.
Underneath the movie button is the self-explanatory playback button. Irritatingly there's no external button for controlling the screen display, just a menu option, and there's also no live histogram either (although the OK button does call one up in playback mode). Next is the familiar four-way navigation pad, which allows you to set the flash, exposure compensation, macro and self-timer options, in addition to moving through menus and selecting options, with an 'OK' button at its centre being the means via which changes can be implemented. Surrounding this is a circular wheel, a feature that has been "inspired", shall we say, by some of Nikon's main rivals. As previously mentioned, this is principally used to set the aperture, forming an intuitive partnership with the thumb-controlled dial, as well as performing the more mundane tasks of moving through menus and selecting options.
Memory Card Slot Battery Compartment
The Nikon Coolpix P310's familiar Menu button accesses the usual Nikon menu system, which is clear and easy to navigate. Press this when in any of the shooting modes and there are three menus, Shooting, Movie and Set Up, with two menus, Playback and Settings, available when you're reviewing an image. A big oversight is the almost constant need to use the menu system for setting the ISO speed, white balance, metering, AF mode and continuous shooting, with at least 4 button presses required to change these often-used features, although the new Function button does partially address this problem by providing quick access to one key function.
In playback mode, pressing the same Menu button affords access to image editing options including Nikon's exposure adjusting D-Lighting function, Skin Softening and Filter Effects, image slide shows, and the automatic Quick Retouch. A button to the right features the familiar trashcan icon for deleting images on the fly and completes the rear of the P310.
On the right flank of the camera - still viewing it from the rear - there's a metal eyelet for attaching the supplied shoulder strap and a plastic cover protecting the HDMI port. On the left hand flank is the release button for the pop-up flash. There's a centrally positioned, metal tripod mount on the bottom of the camera. The P310 is powered by a 1050 mAh lithium ion battery, good for around 230 shots, that slots into the base alongside the SD / SDHC / SDXC card slot and the the A/V out / USB port. Note that recharging the P310 is a somewhat convoluted affair, with the battery remaining in camera and requiring the battery cover to be closed.
That concludes our look at the Nikon Coolpix P310's ease-of-use, now let's move on to its image quality...
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The words which Jesus uttered on the Cross are worthy of special consideration. His words were not many in number. They would not fill a single page of an average sized book. They are not the big, long, unfamiliar kinds of words which would cause the average person to check for meanings in the dictionary. But the last words of Jesus are important because of who uttered them, where they were uttered, why they were spoken, and what they mean. They are precious because they are deep, deep expressions of the Man of Sorrows in His time of terrible agony in those moments when He actually purchased our redemption.
Earlier, Jesus had said, "This is your hour when darkness reigns" (Luke 22:53). He had prayed earnestly three times, "if it be possible, let this cup pass from me." He know where the cup of suffering came from. And that is what hurt. It did not come from the devil, nor from the traitor Judas, nor from the Jews. It actually came from the One whom He knew to be His Father. Jesus said, "The cup which my heavenly Father hath given unto me, shall I not drink (of) it?" We read in Isaiah 53:10 that "it pleased the Lord to bruise him."
What happened on the Cross as Jesus died was that He took everyone else's place. He tasted death for all human beings. He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. With his stripes we are healed. I believe sincerely that every individual person's potential hell was condensed in that cup of suffering. And Jesus drank it all. For the first and only time He was experiencing the terrifying separation from God, by being in the place not only of the sinner, but also of the sinbearer. This was an intense kind of sorrow and involved much grief. C. H. Spurgeon said, "I am never afraid of exaggeration when I speak of what my Lord endured."
Many of us in the church today need to be careful that we do not fall prey to the temptation that leads us to constantly talk about what we are doing for God instead of emphasizing what God has done for us in Jesus Christ. Perhaps we should check the words which we have spoken during the last week. What things did we talk about most? The solemn words uttered from the Cross are a profound reminder of the great price that was paid for us. Let us never take it lightly.
The suffering and death of Jesus Christ was the most solemn moment in history. The eternal Son of God was slain. The loveliest Person who ever walked the face of this earth was crucified. Nineteen and one-half centuries have passed since the Crucifixion Day, yet the Bible account enables us to visualize the event with a great deal of accuracy. It was a turbulent afternoon in the Spring. An execution was taking place. A surging crowd stood by. It was the eve of a great annual festival that had brought thousands to Jerusalem. The earth had been rocked by an earthquake. The sky was darkened by a supernatural eclipse. There were three crosses on Golgotha. On the right and on the left were two robbers crucified for rebellion and murder. On the center cross (with its mocking title of scorn in three languages) hung a sinless Sufferer! He was dying for the sins of the world.
Jesus spoke seven times during the closing moments on the Cross. Before the darkness descended on the scene, Jesus spoke three times. During the darkness, He spoke once. And after the darkness had passed, He uttered three more sentences of love.
"Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34). It was usual for crucified persons to speak while hanging on the cross, but their words usually consisted of wild expressions of pain and pleadings for release. They would shriek and curse and spit at the spectators. But here was Jesus, suffering untold agony and dying a shameful death. He didn't cry out for pity nor did He curse His crucifiers. There was no plea for release, but instead, a prayer for all His enemies. Jesus prayed for those who condemned Him and mocked at Him and nailed Him to the Cross - and for those from all nations and kindreds who down through the years have missed the mark.
Jesus could have caused the earth to open its mouth so that His enemies would have gone alive down into the pit! But here we see Jesus practicing what He preached. One day Jesus preached on the mountain, "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you." On another occasion He told His disciples to forgive 70 times 7 times. Needless to say, it is much easier to talk about forgiveness than it is to forgive. But what Jesus preached in the Sermon on the Mount, He practiced on the grim hill of Calvary.
Has someone hurt your feelings in some way?
Can you pray for that person? If you have the spirit of Christ, you will pray much for him, and perhaps someday you will become the best of friends. The Bible says, "Be ye therefore kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another" (Ephesians 4:32). We have been freely forgiven; therefore we should freely forgive.
"And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:42-43). On either side of Jesus, on crosses lifted against the sky, hung two thieves. These two were guilty men. They deserved to die. The two malefactors hung there for a while in silence, but they were unable to turn away their eyes from the wonderful Man who was weltering in His blood by their side. The blood was dripping from their bodies. Their tongues had grown swollen with pain. At length, the one malefactor began to speak. He joined in the blasphemous speeches which were rising from the crowd below, and said to the Man in the crown of thorns, "If thou be the Christ, save thyself, and us." But immediately the other thief (who also had made sneering remarks), began to fear God as he came close to the borders of death. This second thief acknowledged that Jesus had "done nothing amiss," and that they indeed deserved their punishment, for "we receive the due reward of our deeds." And then the second thief humbly and devoutly addressed Jesus and said, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom."
The second thief admitted that the cross was where he ought to die and that he was doomed for despair. And friend, that is the first step required in order to get saved. Every person must admit that he is helpless and lost before there is any hope of his ever getting saved. And when this man asked for mercy, Jesus did not accuse him of being a criminal and a wicked person beyond help. Jesus said, "Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise." Not only will I remember you, but I will take you with me to a land where you will never suffer again, and where all your troubles and tears will be gone forever! That is marvellous grace. Here was a thief, a man not fit to live on earth, who was suddenly made fit to live in Heaven. All this was possible because the load of sin was lifted off his shoulders, and placed on Him who was hanging on the center Cross. The hymnwriter says, "There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins; and sinners plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.
The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day; And may I there (tho' vile as he) wash all my sins away."
"When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home" (John 19:26-27). While the crowd mocked and jeered, it is good to know that there were those present who really cared. Jesus looked down and saw His mother standing near the Cross. By her side was the disciple John. This little group of sympathetic and bereaved souls furnished a striking contrast to the rest of the mocking crowd. Jesus lifted His voice and said to His mother, "Woman, look at John; from now on he will be your son." And then to John He said, "From now on she will be your mother."
Try and read the thoughts and the emotions of Jesus' mother's heart. His disciples had deserted Him; His friends had forsaken Him; His nation had rejected Him; and His enemies cried out for His blood. But His faithful mother stood there sorrowing at the foot of the Cross. His wounds bled, but she dared not stanch them; His mouth was parched, but she dared not moisten it. Surely those nails pierced her heart just as much as they pierced His body.
"Woman, behold thy son." The years of obedience to Mary and Joseph had ended for Jesus, but not the years of honor. The words which the Finger of God engraved on two tables of stone at Mount Sinai were never repealed. The Bible still says, "Honor thy father and thy mother." Those of us who have parents still living need to follow the example of Jesus on the Cross.
"Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over a# the land unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama, sabachthani? That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:45-46). Jesus had prayed for His persecutors, promised life to a thief, made provision for His mother - and now the scene changes. Several hours have passed by. From twelve noon until three in the afternoon, darkness covered the land. Gloomy night spread itself over the whole earth like a funeral pall. The animal creation was terrified. The herds of the field crowded together. The crowds that had surrounded the place of crucifixion hurried back to Jerusalem with loud cries. And then at about the end of the darkness, Jesus cried out, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
All during His ministry Jesus had known what it meant to be forsaken. Early, the members of His own family forsook Him. Nazareth, His home town, had forsaken Him. The nation He came to save forsook Him. But in every such instance He could always steal away to the tender healing fellowship of His Heavenly Father. But now, even God turns from Him. God's just law says "The soul that sinneth it shall die." That means because we have sinned we are destined to be forsaken of God forever. But you see, Jesus offered to pay that penalty on the Cross, for the Scriptures say, "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all" (Isaiah 53:6). Jesus was bearing the wages of your sins and of my sins, and therefore He had to be actually forsaken of God so that we need not be forsaken of God forever in the eternal regions of the lost.
"After this, Jesus knowing that a# things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst" (John 19:28). The darkness was now gone. The sun was shining again. But while Jesus was dying on the Cross, He developed an agonizing thirst. Death by Crucifixion is the most painful mode of torture ever conceived by man. The draining away of blood from the body brings on intensive thirst. The whole body cries out for water. The physical agony of thirst is terrible beyond the power of words to describe.
Can you picture Jesus Christ on the Cross? His whole body was racked with pain, His features swollen and bruised, His beard plucked out, and His back all lacerated from the scourging. Can you hear the dripping blood from His hands and His feet? Can you see the blood trickle from the gaping holes in His hands, making its way down His arms to the elbows and then dripping off on the ground below? At the base of the Cross there was a frothy pool of thickening blood. No wonder Jesus had a parched mouth and a burning throat - and cried out, "I thirst." Jesus was there on the Cross in our stead. The agony He endured in the substitutionary process is the agony that we must endure in Hell if we refuse to accept Him as our Substitute.
"When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished" (John 19:30). The men at the foot of the Cross gave Jesus vinegar (when He cried "I thirst") so that His throat might burn even more. And then when He had received the vinegar, He uttered with a loud voice those great words, "it is finished." The endless hours of suffering were about over. The Saviour was about to die. It was for this cause that Jesus came into the world, and now He raises His voice in a triumphant shout: "it is finished!"
Jesus lived only half the normal span of life. During that time He was criticized and despised and rejected. He was captured in a Garden, led to the Judgment Hall, and condemned to die. Now His suffering was finished. Furthermore, all that was prophesied and prefigured in the Old Testament concerning His death was fulfilled. And finally, the work of redemption was completed. Jesus Christ had tasted the death of which we were deserving - and now the great transaction was done!
"And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father into thy hands - I commend my spirit; and having said thus, he gave up the ghost"(Luke 23:46). For six hours Jesus had been hanging on the Cross, and now we get a last look at His suffering face. His whole body is drooping and shivering with the last chill. His breath is growing feebler and feebler - until He gives one long, deep, last sigh - "Father into Thy hands I commend my spirit."
Jesus was always submitting Himself to God, and when He died, He died just as He had lived. We too are told to "Commit our way unto the Lord; trust also in Him and He shall bring it to pass." The Christian may (like Stephen in Acts 7) cry with his last breath, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit."
During the last year of the Civil War, a man paid a visit to the battlefield of Chicamauga, where on the 20th of September, 1863, the Union army was almost destroyed. The battlefield was not then, as now, a beautiful place with stately monuments rising among the trees. It still bore the scars of battle. Over one of the newly made graves, the visitor saw a man on his knees planting flowers. The visitor said to the man, "Is it a son who is buried there?" And the man said "No it's not a son" - and he went on to explain why he was there to decorate the grave.
He said that he had been drafted into the Confederate army, but just before he was ready to say "good-bye" to his wife and family and report to the training camp, a young man came to see him and said, "You have a wife and family, and when you are gone, you'll be unable to support them, whereas I am unmarried and have no one depending on me. Let me go in your place." The offer was accepted and the young man went off in his place to the training camp. At the Battle of Chicamauga he was mortally wounded. The news of his death had drifted back to the southern home of the man whose place he had taken. And as soon as he had saved enough money, he made the journey to Chicamauga, and there he found the grave of his friend with its crude marker.
The visitor was much touched by the narrative, and then went on his way over the grim Battlefield. But on the way back, he passed this same grave again. It was now well covered with flowers and on a rough board, at the head of the grave, were carved these four words, "He died for me." And it is these four words that express the great truth centered in the death of Jesus Christ on Calvary. He died for you, and the Bible says, "To as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God" (John 1:12).


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Pact is a national charity that provides support to prisoners, people with convictions and their families. We support people to make a fresh start, and minimise the harm that can be caused by imprisonment to people who have committed offences, to families and to communities.
Pact works in over 65 prisons and 8 CRCs and provides prison-based family engagement workers, visitors' centres, visitor support, supervised play, catering and family activities, relationship and parenting education programmes, court and community family support, 'Through the Gate' family resettlement support and community based mentoring and befriending programmes.
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160,000 children each year have a parent in prison. At Spurgeons, our aim is to improve the lives of those children and their families who are affected by a parent being in prison. Our prisoner and family support services across England allow children to visit their loved ones in a friendly environment and our mentoring and support programmes give young people the change to reduce negative behaviours and build a better future.
We work in the heart of communities, delivering a range of high quality, flexible services for those affected by imprisonment and offending. These include; running Prison Visitors' Centres; mentoring - pre and post release; family days; parenting Programmes in prisons; Family Support Programmes for offenders and their families; through the gate support and family re-integration; community support services for families of offenders; and training for partner organisations.


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Q: Finding the representative matrix for a linear transformation I have f: $(x,y,z) \rightarrow (x,x,z)$, with the representative matrix $A$, but this is from the canonical base to the canonical basis $B$.
I want to find the representative matrix of this function $A'$, but going from basis $B' = ((1,0,0),(1,1,0),(1,1,1))$ to $B'$
I know that the change of matrix basis is
$M = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 1 & 1 \\ 0 & 1 & 1 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix}$.
Thus, $M*[x]_{B'} = [x]_{B}$ and $M*[f(x)]_{B'} = [f(x)]_{B} \implies [f(x)]_{B'} = M^{-1}AM[x]_{B'}$. Thus, $A' = M^{-1}AM$.
However, this seems like rather tedious work, and my professor seems to solve these really quick. Is there a faster way of doing this?
When we want the representative matrix of a transformation going from the canonical basis to an arbitrary basis, he simply finds it by finding the matrix
\begin{pmatrix} f(e_1) ... f(e_n) \\  \end{pmatrix}
where $e_1, ... , e_n$ is the basis, but the terms are in the arbitary basis. I don't understand how this works, any help is appreciated. Thanks.

A: Let $\mathcal{B}$ and $\mathcal{B'}$ be two basis of $E$. And $Mat(\mathcal{B},u)$ the matrix of u in the basis B.
If $P_{\mathcal{B},\mathcal{B'}}$ is the change of basis matrix from $\mathcal{B}$ to $\mathcal{B'}$ then we have:
$$Mat(\mathcal{B'},u) = P_{\mathcal{B'},\mathcal{B}}Mat(\mathcal{B},u)P_{\mathcal{B},\mathcal{B'}} = P_{\mathcal{B},\mathcal{B'}}^{-1}Mat(\mathcal{B},u)P_{\mathcal{B},\mathcal{B'}}$$
An efficient way to visualize it is to draw the following scheme:
$$(E,\mathcal{B'}) \overset{Id_E: P_{\mathcal{B'},\mathcal{B}}}{\rightarrow} (E,\mathcal{B}) \overset{u:Mat(\mathcal{B},u)}{\rightarrow} (E,\mathcal{B})\overset{Id_E:P_{\mathcal{B},\mathcal{B'}}}{\rightarrow} (E,\mathcal{B'})$$
You just have to multiply these matrix in this order to obtain the one you want. Why this scheme? First you take a vector expressed in the basis $\mathcal{B'}$ that you transform to express it in $\mathcal{B}$, then you compose with $u$, and you transform the new vector back in $\mathcal{B'}$ from $\mathcal{B}$. I wrote $Id_E$ above some arrows because it means it's still the same vector, I just write it in an other basis.
Edit: it seems I have misunderstood what you asked for, sorry. I'll try to write an other answer.

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How long will cooler last with this battery at full charge?
Is this the correct battery to use for this?
Will it cool room-temperature products? For example, warm beverages? We don't have electricity, so anything that I put in the cooler will be warm.
Can the battery be charged with a regular AC plug? What would I need for this? Our office has electricity, so I can charge it there.
Can it charge other devices?
Despite advertising "low power draw," the power is not available in any materials I can find, but the current is given as "approximately 4.5 amps." The technology used is thermoelectric refrigeration (or Peltier cooling) meaning that the unit is essentially always drawing 4.5 amps, not cycling on and off like a traditional refrigerator.
The battery you linked has a capacity of 20Ah -- or 20 amps x hours. This means it can supply 20 amps for one hour, 10 amps for 2 hours, etc (though the actual relationship isn't perfectly linear, depending on the current draw and ambient temperature, among other factors). In the case of the cooler, this means the battery could power it for 20Ah / 4.5A = 4.44 hours.
However, fully discharging the battery reduces it's useful life -- discharging to 30% or less is a common guideline. This would give you about an hour and 20 minutes of use.
If you are planning to use the cooler in a situation where you will not have continuous power supply, I would recommend buying a larger, "deep cycle" battery. This will enable you to use more of the battery's capacity -- up to 70% in many cases.
For example, this deep cycle battery (Amazon link) has a capacity of 35Ah. At 4.5A, you could run the cooler for nearly 5.5 hours before 70% of the charge is used up. While it costs $25 more, it will work better and last longer.
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With the sheer amount of APs collected, GE gets very very slloooowwwwwwwwwww. What I've been doing is using "netgear" or "linksys" as a proxy for the overall coverage. However, for the past month or so whenever I do a search using a SSID like netgear or cablewifi I always get the exact same result, which is a search result for SSID noiram. I've tried doing the search function from a couple different PCs or macs, and the production db always returns the same 5k file size result. Can you check and see if there's an issue at the server?
Sorry Jon, been busy the last few weeks. I dont think I will have time during the week to take a look, but I will try to this weekend.
Andrew moved the Database site back to the server rack at the apartment over the weekend. We should have more memory and resources to do the searches that you were trying to do before that were incomplete. Would you give the search a try again and see how it works out?
That should be a simple fix, Andrew probably only has the folder as read only or the apache user not have write permissions to the upload folder, will have him take a look into it.
on the search function, it's not that the server doesn't compile a list of however many thousands of Netgear or CoxWifi aps there are, that works. It's when I do the kmz download and get the "search_export.kmz" that I always get exactly the same 5 kB file, on multiple computers with different connections, whether logged in or not.
Ahhh ok, will look into that too.
I just remembered that the file that you get to download is just a linker file to URLs that will then return the info that you want. So the file is always going to be 5kb in size. But the contents of the URL should change as APs are imported. Will still take a look at it.
I fixed the folder permissions that broke on the migration. are you still having trouble with the uploader?


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The 5S rRNA and the rRNA intergenic spacer of the two varieties of Cryptococcus neoformans
M. Fan, L. C. Chen, M. A. Ragan, R. R. Gutell, J. R. Warner, B. P. Currie, A. Casadevall
The intergenic spacers (IGS) separating the 23S-like and 16S-like rDNAs of the two varieties of the human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans were amplified, cloned and sequenced. The C. neoformans var. neoformans IGS was 2421 nt with 5S rRNA at positions 1228-1345 3' of the 23S-like rRNA. The C. neoformans var. gattii IGS was 2480 nt with 5S rRNA at positions 1268-1385 3' of the 23S-like rRNA. For both varieties the 5S rDNA genes were in the same orientation as the 16S-5.8-23S genes and encode a 118 nt molecule of identical sequence. Phylogenetic comparison of C. neoformans 5S rDNA with that of other fungi placed this fungus in close relationship with other basidiomycetes including Tremella mesenterica, Bullera alba, and Cryptococcus laurentii. A secondary structure model for the deduced 5S rRNA was constructed by comparative sequence analysis. Polymerase chain reaction-amplified IGS of 12 C. neoformans var. neoformans strains revealed extensive size variation ranging from 100 to 300 nt. Size variation between strains in the length of the IGS may be useful for distinguishing strains. Structurally, the IGS were characterized by the presence of occasional short direct GC-rich 19-nt repeats. Overall IGS sequence identity between the C. neoformans varieties was only 78.5%, in sharp contrast to the identical or nearly identical sequences for the rDNA genes, and suggests rapid evolution for IGS sequences.
Journal of Medical and Veterinary Mycology
Cryptococcus neoformans
Ribosomal DNA
Intergenic DNA
Cryptococcus
Fan, M., Chen, L. C., Ragan, M. A., Gutell, R. R., Warner, J. R., Currie, B. P., & Casadevall, A. (1995). The 5S rRNA and the rRNA intergenic spacer of the two varieties of Cryptococcus neoformans. Journal of Medical and Veterinary Mycology, 33(4), 215-221.
The 5S rRNA and the rRNA intergenic spacer of the two varieties of Cryptococcus neoformans. / Fan, M.; Chen, L. C.; Ragan, M. A.; Gutell, R. R.; Warner, J. R.; Currie, B. P.; Casadevall, A.
In: Journal of Medical and Veterinary Mycology, Vol. 33, No. 4, 1995, p. 215-221.
Fan, M, Chen, LC, Ragan, MA, Gutell, RR, Warner, JR, Currie, BP & Casadevall, A 1995, 'The 5S rRNA and the rRNA intergenic spacer of the two varieties of Cryptococcus neoformans', Journal of Medical and Veterinary Mycology, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 215-221.
Fan M, Chen LC, Ragan MA, Gutell RR, Warner JR, Currie BP et al. The 5S rRNA and the rRNA intergenic spacer of the two varieties of Cryptococcus neoformans. Journal of Medical and Veterinary Mycology. 1995;33(4):215-221.
Fan, M. ; Chen, L. C. ; Ragan, M. A. ; Gutell, R. R. ; Warner, J. R. ; Currie, B. P. ; Casadevall, A. / The 5S rRNA and the rRNA intergenic spacer of the two varieties of Cryptococcus neoformans. In: Journal of Medical and Veterinary Mycology. 1995 ; Vol. 33, No. 4. pp. 215-221.
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Cardi B has never been one to shy away from speaking her mind, and she did just that when a makeup artist took to social media to spill their business for the world to see.
The makeup artist identified as "BlacSwan" posted a 36-minute-long YouTube video in which she detailed her two disastrous meetings with the rapper.
According to BlacSwan, she got a "bad impression" of Cardi while doing Cardi's makeup for a Houston appearance in September 2017. She described Cardi as "rude" and "blunt," and her opinion of the rapper worsened when they met yet again in December. She claimed Cardi was late and their interaction and work went sourly because Cardi kicked her out before she was done making her up.
"Get the f—k out of here," Cardi allegedly told her.


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5 Things to Know If You Don't Want to Choose Between Having Kids and a Career
Millennials, find out how to perfect the workplace "comeback" now to keep your future wide open.
Mary Rose Somarriba
While women are making more strides than ever in business and leadership, there's no denying women also continue to face unique challenges in the workplace. From negotiating a pay raise, to being taken as seriously as male peers in the conference room, many women find the challenges they face are subtle but stubborn.
Another workplace dilemma arises when a woman starts thinking about kids. For a number of complicated reasons, when it comes to having and raising kids, women's careers are generally impacted more than men's. Whether they take a short maternity leave or a couple years off to raise kids, many face a challenge ahead known as "the comeback." After spending years away from their field, some find it remarkably daunting to imagine being competitive again in the professional world.
This phenomenon has reached such significance that it's become the premise of a TV show. In the comedy Younger (which was picked up for a third season), Sutton Foster plays a 40-year-old mom named Liza, who after losing her money, house, and husband to gambling, returns to the workforce and finds it easier to get a job pretending to be a 26-year-old than explaining her résumé gap. In real women's lives, though, it's not as hilarious as comedy TV. According to a new book, The Comeback: How Today's Moms Reenter the Workplace Successfully by Cheryl Casone, it doesn't have to be this way. Casone, a reporter and anchor at Fox Business Network who focuses on jobs and the economy, interviewed hundreds of working moms to learn lessons from their successes and failures.
"With a little planning, forethought, and even imagination," she writes, "you can stay at home with your children as long as you like and still be prepared to jump back into the workforce should you ever decide it's the right thing to do." Here are just a few surprising insights I gathered from reading this recent book.
01. Planning for a workplace comeback is like buying insurance.
For many women, having kids is like starting the next chapter of their post-work lives. Some might even have a vision of marriage that involves having their husband provide while they stay at home. For some, this works out exactly as imagined. But, according to Casone, "The most surprising thing I found as I researched this book [was this]: the majority of women I interviewed who planned to never return to work did." More than half only returned to the workforce "because they had to." Whether their husband died, divorced, or got laid off, more and more women are facing a need to bring home the bacon.
While everyone likes to think their marriage and future will go as well as they imagined, the sad reality is that if something beyond their control happens to their spouse or security, women are much more vulnerable to poverty. This is why Casone recommends that every woman plan ahead—starting now—for the possibility of a future career comeback.
"It's like having insurance. You may never need it, but wouldn't it be better—for you and your family—to be prepared?" she says. For this reason, Casone recommends every working woman prepare in advance for a future career comeback whether she think it's in her cards or not.
From crafting a killer LinkedIn profile to strategic networking that keeps you in touch with former and possible future colleagues, Casone's book offers step-by-step advice that will give women more options down the road, no matter what twists and turns come along.
02. Working moms often have to work harder to avoid 'the motherhood penalty.'
It's no secret that women have to navigate complex social mores in the workplace. "Quite simply, women are held to a different standard than men in the workplace," Casone notes. "We can't be too nice lest we come across as pushovers, but we can't be too assertive lest we be accused of being difficult. We are more frequently interrupted in meetings and have to fight harder to make our ideas heard. We have to prove ourselves in ways that our male counterparts just don't. And if you're a mom—any mom—the bias you face can be even greater. There's actually a term for it: the motherhood penalty."
"There are many fair and family-friendly employers and companies out there," she caveats, "yet there are still a lot who might assume (maybe even subconsciously, because that's often how bias works) that because you have children, you will be less committed, productive, and effective than someone who does not."
One woman Casone interviewed for the book shared that twenty-five years ago, when she informed her boss she was taking maternity leave, he replied, "Lucky you. I'd sure love to go put my feet up for a few months, too." (As it happens, this couldn't be farther from the truth of what maternity leave is actually like.)
But what's refreshing about Casone's book is that instead of bemoaning the injustice and wallowing in mom-pity, she equips her readers with advice for how to prove themselves that much more in the workplace. "Only you know the biases and double standards of your industry," she says. "Don't ever assume they won't be used against you." Educate and prepare yourself.
03. Moms don't need to choose between two separate identities.
Casone advises that even if you decide you want to take a break from your professional career to have a family, "act as though you've got your eye on the corner office." Yes—"even if you already know deep in your heart that you want to be a stay-at-home mom someday." She says this because for one, "it is only right to give your coworkers and supervisors your best, but also because you just never know. It could take you a while to get pregnant." Or, for some women, to even find Mr. Right. "There are many reasons why you should want to make yourself indispensable," she writes. Do your best at what you're doing, and let yourself shine.
Also, even for moms who decide to stay at home with kids for a significant amount of time, Casone enumerates ways one can keep abreast of your industry with minimal time and effort. Sign up for your industry's magazines to read the latest developments; read the news; keep some contact with past colleagues. Your pre-baby and post-baby lives don't have to be completely separate.
04. Kids with working moms actually reap some benefits.
We often hear the benefits of moms who stay at home with their kids long term, but we also know it's not always a good fit or even a possibility for every family. But will going back to work somehow hurt the kids' development and sense of parental commitment? As it happens, kids raised by working moms also experience benefits too—and ones you might not have heard of.
"Daughters of moms who work grow up to be more successful in the workplace than their peers," Casone cites. "They make more money and they often end up being bosses. Sons of moms who work grow up to be dads who take a more active role with child care and chores in their households." Sounds pretty awesome to me! And so it's no surprise, "the children of working moms grow up with a more egalitarian view on gender roles." Not too shabby.
05. Motherhood can be good job training for the future.
Casone states early in the book, "Anyone who thinks being a stay-at-home mom is easy has never been one. It's a job that demands the patience of a teacher, the organizing skills of a wedding planner, the financial savvy of an accountant, and the protective instincts of a police officer."
All the same, Casone notes, "So many of the women I spoke with for this book told me that when they first decided to go back to work, they felt they had nothing to offer, nothing to give, and that corporations wouldn't value them." But after returning to work, "they found for the most part that the exact opposite was true, and that the multitasking, juggling, and child care that comes with stay-at-home motherhood amounted to the best training ever when dealing with cranky bosses, ungrateful clients, and immature co-workers."
One of the women interviewed in the book, Dolores, shared these words of wisdom: "Be prepared to work extra-hard to prove yourself—you'll live up to your potential given the chance. You're used to doing everything at home. Just do that at work too. Juggle fast, stay calm, and hide any exhaustion. Focus on the productive." This doesn't make us less capable but more so, for whatever endeavors we pursue.
Overall what makes The Comeback such a refreshing read is its empowering sense of encouragement. "Women are 50 percent of the population," Casone says, reminding us of our power. "We make the majority of the household buying decisions. It is in every company's best interest to listen to mothers and take advantage of their collective clout, skills, wisdom, and insight. Remember that every time you go for an interview."
Following Casone's advice in The Comeback, you will be well-equipped to leave and get back into the field almost seamlessly—and, unlike Liza in Younger, without having to pretend you're 26 again.
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The superhero genre as we know it has existed since the beginning of the twentieth century, but nobody really fully explored what it meant to be one of these costumed vigilantes until Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons came along with Watchmen. Ripe with eighties paranoia involving the cold war, the looming threat of nuclear Armageddon and turmoil in the streets, Watchmen takes a startling and riveting look at the minds behind the masks, while a plot of murder, chases and intrigue spirals towards an Arctic finale.
While the philosophical insights and believable, well-rounded characters are fantastic, the book's core is Dr. Manhattan. This isn't to denigrate the other characters – The Comedian, Nite-Owl, Rorshach, Ozymandias, Silk Spectre and others (all referred to by both their professional and personal names throughout) – but Manhattan's presence looms large over the events of Watchmen. It is this massive blue presence that allows for some interesting questions about ethics, morality and the nature of the self. If there is a God, why would he help us? What is the purpose of our existence? Are we just less successful, more pollutant bacteria? That these questions can be asked most effectively via a comic speaks volumes about the quality of art that is on offer.
The film version of Watchmen presents the events of the book as a plot that is to be followed, and as a traditional superhero film with a few deeper elements. The book is an incredibly dense and original piece of work, employing complex story-telling techniques to probe the inner-most reaches of the human soul, and in that respect it is an absolute success. It's truly seminal and, with a prequel series in the pipeline, now is the time to savour it before it is spoiled forever.