Accommodation: The front door leads into the hallway with the kitchen to the left. Kitchen equipped with multifuel cooker, microwave, fridge and freezer, washing machine/dryer, and dishwasher with a round table and four stools in the breakfast area. Door into large carpeted lounge/diner with views over the surrounding countryside. Large sofa and two armchairs with electric woodburner effect heater, 40" Smart TV and BluRay/DVD with Netflix. At rear of room, wooden dining table and 4 chairs. The twin bunkroom is accessed from the hallway and has two 3' bunk beds, and wardrobe with drawers. Family bathroom with bath and electric shower over, hand basin, shaving point and WC. The double bedroom is at the end of the hallway with a 5' double bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers and chair.
Outside: In addition to the private picnic and barbeque area behind the cottage, the communal grounds provide space for ball games and additional opportunities to view the surrounding countryside.
Property: Self catering holiday barn conversion.
Included: Duvets, pillows, and bed linen. (Towels are not included, but are available for hire). Cot and Highchair available on request at no charge.
Electricity and Gas Central Heating included.
Smoking is not permitted inside the cottage.
Pets: None allowed in the cottage or on the farm.
Parking: Parking for up to two cars, one space directly outside the cottage.
Mobile reception: Good on most networks.
WiFi Broadband: 300mbs unlimited FTTP broadband to site. Free access, good reception in the cottage.
Beach: Fifteen minutes walk. Many South Coast beaches are easily accessible by car.
Shops, Pubs, and Restaurants, all in Polperro 1.5 miles. Looe, with more facilities, 1.5 miles.
Plymouth 20 miles. Truro 27 miles.


My simple observation is that the 17 students were "good" at breaking the numbers apart and putting them together (call it multiplication) but they haven't got a clue about the process of multiplying. Not enough time with bricks.
Maybe they were happier with rows of dots.
I am unsure about the intent of this comment. Is this suggesting the dots are more helpful?
Idly consulting "area model", today, in the CCSSM I found this in the Table 2, at the end.
I dont agree they dont have a clue of the process. I believe they have a structural understanding of multiplication and can flexibly talk about groups of things and relate the problems to one another. But the thinking behind area of a rectangle is different.
The word "area" was not given, so a picture of 7 by 19 dots or separated little squares should have given them a clue. Maybe the bunched up picture has made them think of area and then got them confused.
I love seeing this work – so interesting! I am wondering if the students conflated area and perimeter. It seems to me that the student who multiplied 19 x 19 and 7 x 7 might have been thinking about the way that when you calculate the perimeter, you add all the side lengths. This reflects a misunderstanding of the relationship between area and multiplication. Perhaps some students primarily think of multiplication as addition of equal groups, but do not visualize area as made up of equal sized "groups" of rows/columns.
Hi Nili! Thanks so much for your comment. I completely agree, I think they confused area and perimeter. The funny thing about that is we purposely did not use the word area in the problem for that reason. We thought asking how many little squares would avoid that confusion. I think there is a jump from arrays of things (in groups) to groups of rows and columns. So interesting. I put another example at the bottom of the post of something I was seeing often as well!
As a fourth grade teacher, has been my experience when dealing with this particular group of standards, area and multiplication, it seems that not enough time is spent working on the two standards that build the understanding of the concept. I have tried to give this type of problem, with the drawing of boxes, and find that Ss will count the boxes individually and not make the connection to multiplying the sides. The don't seem to understand the connection. It is very frustrating.
I agree it can be so frustrating but I think it really makes me wonder more about the connection-making experiences we need to spend more time on with students. I think the array to area model is a perfect example of that! I also don't think it helps when we start talking area and perimeter that becomes one more thing in the mix! This teaching thing is tough, right?
I've observed an obverse situation with 12 year old students in the UK. In two group-interviews about the number of dots in a 12×25 array, students have happily agreed you can find the total number of dots by multiplying (the dimensions), but when I've asked them to explain why, they have struggled to do so or even to understand the question. Their responses have been about the process of multiplying (how to do it) or about it being quicker or less error-prone than counting or using (repeated) addition, or they have simply declared that it's the way you find area. None has spoken about '12 rows of 25 dots' or the like.
I'm beginning to think that the very 'elegance' of the array is one reason why students struggle with it. I might construe an array as '12×25′ while a student sees it as '25×12′. Or we might both go for 12×25 but while I see this as '12 lots of 25′ the student might be seeing '12, 25 times'. Also, if we describe an array in terms of rows, say, then we have to think both of the number of elements in a row and the number of rows. Of course the same numbers crop up, but with a different sense, if we're thinking in columns.
And while I'm seeing a row of 12 dots, the student might be seeing two adjacent rows of 6 dots so that the array becomes a collection of 50 6s.
Ultimately, all these features make the array a rich and powerful model. But other models, such as those 'quick images' made of dot patterns seen on dice, might be easier to grasp, initially.
So much insight in the comment, thank you so much! I think you are exactly right with your thoughts about the array. I think we miss the elegance and complexity when making the jump between groups of things and groups of rows and columns! So interesting. I put another example at the bottom of the post of something I was seeing often as well!
This is fascinating. Thanks so much for sharing. I am really intrigued by this. I am a math coach. We have a fourth grade learning lab coming up on October 26th. I think this would be a great thing to explore with our fourth grade teachers and students. I am going to ask the host teacher if she is interested in trying these same problems with her students next week. Then, she and I can analyze and wonder. Last year, the fourth grade teacher group started to investigate which properties of operations were more prevalent in our student strategies. We found that they predominantly used the distributive property. We also found that our curriculum and instruction placed heavy emphasis on the distributive property. We wanted to find ways to highlight factoring and it's connection to the associative property. Simultaneously, I was working with a teacher who was helping a student who was struggling to "let go" of repeated addition. I wrote about that on my blog ( Called Simmer Down – https://mathontheedge.wordpress.com/2016/05/). If you don't mind, I would like to use the same problems that you did. I am wondering what the students would say if you asked them if they could find the numbers from 21 x 8 and 19 x 4 inside the array OR what if you presented it as a Which One Doesn't Belong?? I am really interested to see where our fourth grade teachers and students go with this. Thanks for the inspiration.


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Settled on appeal: $6.5 million plus attorney fee award of $2.1 million Wrongful death of a 19-year-old motorcyclist killed when a police sergeant, who had been drinking, turned left into the decedent. A violation of civil rights occurred in the attempted cover-up of the incident by the Torrance Police Department.
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Place flour, sugar, cornmeal, and salt in a food processor and pulse to combine.
Add in the chilled butter and pulse a few more times, until the mixture has chunks of butter about the size of a pea.
Sprinkle in 2 – 3 tablespoons ice water and pulse until the dough holds together when squeezed.
If needed, add in another tablespoon of water.
Form the dough into a disk shape, cover the disk with plastic wrap, and place in the refrigerate for half an hour.
Put the flour, sugar, and tarragon in the food processor, and pulse to combine.
Add in the butter and pulse until crumbly. Put the combined mixture into a small bowl and set aside int the refrigerator for now.
Preheat your oven to 400°F. In a large mixing bowl, combine the plums and sugar, then set aside.
Take the pie dough out of the refrigerator and roll it out on a flat, floured surface, rolling it out to fit in an 11″ x 7″ rectangular tart pan (or a 9-inch round tart pan).
Gently place the dough into the tart pan and coax it into the corners, using your fingers. Use a rolling pin over the top edges of the pan to remove any excess dough. Drain the plum/sugar mixture in a sieve and return the mixture to the bowl – discard the drained liquids. Add in salt and flour, and gently toss until the plums are coated evenly.
Shingle plum slices into prepared pan. Scatter streusel topping over the top. Place the tart on a rimmed baking sheet and bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 30 minutes before serving your Plum Tart with Tarragon Streusel.


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2. Restrain both parties from transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life, and requiring each party to notify the other party of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days before incurring those expenditures and to account to the Court for all extraordinary expenditures made after service of the summons on that party.
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This compilation of units place value worksheets provides an ideal platform for kindergarten and students of Grades 1, 2, and 3 to comprehend the concept of ones, tens and hundreds place value. An extensive variety of activities include identifying place values, writing equivalent place values and much more! Solve our engaging word problems and use our exclusive MCQ worksheets to gauge a student's understanding of place values. A number of free printable worksheets are up for grabs!
Observe each number. Identify and write down the digits in the appropriate place value boxes (hundreds, tens, ones) provided. A number of intriguing word problems have been thrown into the mix for variety!
Balance the equations with equivalent place values of ones, tens or hundreds. Use the 'Download the set' option to obtain this collection of select worksheets.
Read each 3-digit number given in this set of worksheets. Then, convert the numbers into expanded place value form according to the formats provided.
Determine the place value of the underlined digits in each number featured here. Record your answers in either number form or word form. Solve our well-researched word problems, as well!
Students are required to identify the place value of a specific digit for each series of numbers provided. Look up the answer key to help them verify their responses.
Based on the digit and the place value given, select the correct number from the choices provided. Use these worksheets to help young learners grasp the concept of units place values.
Rearrange each set of digits to arrive at the largest / smallest tens or hundreds possible. Compare the units, tens and hundreds place value to verify your responses. Word problems included.
Place value of digits is given in the form of hints. Interpret them to ascertain the mystery numbers. Keep young learners busy with these intriguing units place value worksheets!


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Analytics Vendors Show There's Still Innovation in BI
By Bill Snyder
InfoWorld |
Managing data isn't as glamorous as many of the glitzy Web 2.0 apps on display at the Demo Fall 2008 conference in San Diego, but it's what keeps businesses running. Enterprise applications to speed databases, manage unstructured data, and handle BI queries on a massive scale made their debut this week, and at first blush they look positive. Of course, all will have to stand the rigor of real-world use and testing.
Business Intelligence Meets the Cloud
Lately, BI vendors have been more likely to make news by being acquired than for technical innovation, so it's refreshing to come across a BI vendor that might actually be doing something different.
Quantivo combines what it calls an "affinity" database with a cloud-based infrastructure hosted by ... well, the company won't say, but Amazon is a reasonable guess. CEO Brian Kelly, an alum of Oracle and Sybase, says Quantivo is designed to recognize patterns and index relationships, rather than looking at data in a conventional row and column configuration.
One early customer, he says, was a retailer that exported some 2 billion records to Quantivo, which was able to get the customer up and running in less than a week. Kelly says a significant benefit of the product is its ability to recognize relationships within structured data. One example: drilling down into retail data to get a sense of which customers that have bought relatively inexpensive plumbing equipment are likely to purchase pricey items like counters or cabinets.
It's easy to make claims about business intelligence, and Quantivo is making some big ones. If it lives up to its founders' hopes, the young company has a chance to make a mark in a market that badly needs some excitement.
Structured Data Search Meets the Search Box
Much effort has been spent on making unstructured data -- such as the content of PowerPoints, call center logs, and PDFs -- available for analysis in structured, database-oriented BI tools. Radiant Logic has inverted that approach to make structured data available through the ultimate unstructured query tool: a search box.
Its Virtual Context Server analyzes various databases, applications, and other structured data sources and generates the relationships of meaning among the data -- that is, its semantics. IT analysts can modify and create their own semantics for data as well. The result: natural language text that users can search for, bringing that structured data to the fore in an unstructured search. Thus, an intranet search for a company will not only bring back the company's contact information from a CRM database, but also the current orders and payment history for that company from the ERP system, notes Michel Prompt, Radiant's CEO.
IT can also set access rules to the data, so database information such as pricing isn't available to just anyone who does a search. VCS also can be set up to let users correct information they get in their search results, and either update the source database or have the change stored in VCS so it is applied to future searches as well.
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'Two-Twenty Seven:' Old Yet Gold
by Daylontie Jasper
in Entertainment, Featured, Headlines, If You Ask Me
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From the brilliant mind of Christine Houston, the play turned hit television show "Two-Twenty Seven" caught me by surprise. It follows the prominent family Mary, Lester, and Brenda Jenkins and is set in a middle-class apartment in 1950s Chicago. Mary, the central main character of the play, is different from your average major role.
Instead of being light-hearted or kind, she's nosy, cruel, and not afraid to spread rumors without any context. There's is also Mary's husband Lester, or should I say, ex-husband. He's a pretty moral character by some standards, loves his daughter, and is nice to the neighbors.
However, Mary has been a constant nuisance to the neighborhood which he doesn't approve of. This leaves him to have an affair and leave somewhere else with one of the characters the name of Sandra. She is also one of the neighbors living in "Two-Twenty Seven," with her character being the attractive one of the cast.
Sandra also has done some dirty deeds behind the closed door as Lester wasn't her only affair. She also had the mailman's head over his heels as he openly tries to talk to her taking her out to eat. But even then, she's been planning to leave with Lester, with them both trying to get out of relationships they can "stand".
It was kind of sad to see Mary have to see her husband run away with another woman. But at the same time, her constant rude nature to her neighbors and other peers causes problems for anyone she comes in contact with. Making it hard to root for her most of the play. These interactions include bullying her friend about her weight and consistently ridiculing the homeless person on the block. This is not a bad thing, it just gives more kudos to Shree Bydums' portrayal of Mary.
Speaking of Mary's friends, her most consistent friend goes by the name of Rose. Even when Mary was doing her shenanigans with the neighbors. Rose is also another character in "Two-Twenty Seven" who is normal, with her special character trait being that she loves eating.
She deals with most of Mary's problems, trying to make sure her friend didn't hurt anyone's feelings. She did this by telling m=Mary to watch her mouth about people and telling her to keep secrets. One of the big plots in the story is when the little girls, are suspected of doing something with an older man for money. Rose tells Mary to not make any assumptions and more importantly, not tell anyone until more evidence is seen. But being Mary, she not only assumes they did the nasty for money but tells most of the neighbors, making the young girl embarrassed.
One of my favorite parts of "Two-Twenty Seven" as the story continues is that Mary's constant mishaps lead to her downfall more than every other character's success. Moreover, the more that Mary's closest friends and family attack her way of thinking, the more they stray away from her and become more successful in their own right.
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Another thing I'd like to highlight about "Two-Twenty Seven" is its tone changing. The story could have gone from a normal conversation, into a tense argument and ended off with a big spot for comedic relief. This setup is heightened with Ms. Huston's use of tension building, so in whatever scenario you are always on your feet because something minimal becomes a big problem, something that wasn't supposed to be a secret comes out or something one character is doing something out of ordinary and you're trying to figure out the plan.
As someone who was born in the 2000s, I was still watching shows like "Good Times" and "Jeffersons" since they were still aired on main TV channels at the time. The same witty comedy, relatable characters, and fine story writing is shown here just as in the sitcoms of that time.
The actors who played their characters fit their roles to a tee. I went into the "Two-Twenty Seven" play thinking it would have been something like a documentary, a story something to a serious black family going through the trials and tribulations of the pain we call reality. "Two-Twenty Seven" still has that trope but with a more comedic twist with most characters spouting one-liners most of the time.
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Read about the event on Gerald de Jong's blog.
Here are the presentations that were given at the conference & workshop event "Communicating Archival Metadata".


The mosque of Quba is the first mosque to be ever built. Its magnificent structure stands in the outskirts of the city Madinah. The Holy Prophet (pbuh) and his companion on the journey, Hazrat Abu Bakr (R.A) stayed at Quba on the way to their emigration from Makkah to Madinah. Fourteen years after prophethood, the arrival of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) in Madinah marked the beginning of the Islamic calendar. The foundation of Quba, the oldest mosque in Saudi Arabia, was first laid by the Holy Prophet (pbuh) himself. His (pbuh) companions later on brought the structure of the mosque to its completion.
The mosque of Quba holds a great place in the history of Islam and is one of the most prominent Islamic structures. It's a place of piety and worship, a place where the Muslims gather in submission and in accordance to Allah's commands, the first of its kind. The Holy Quran mentions the virtue of the mosque in the following Quranic verse; "…certainly a masjid founded on piety from the very first day is more deserving that you should stand in it…" [9:108]. The Prohpet (pbuh) spent more than 20 nights after emigrating from Makkah and prayed qasr prayer (a short prayer) while he waited for Hazrat Ali (ra). The blessings for a believer who prays at the mosque of Quba are immense. The Holy Prophet (pbuh) said, "He who purifies himself at his home and comes to Masjid Quba and offers two rakats therein, will be rewarded the reward of an Umrah (lesser pilgrimage)." The mosque of Quba, built on piety and devoutness, has many blessings and rewards for a believer.
The architecture of the Quba mosque which stands today is different from the one which was originally established. Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil was commissioned in the 1980s to renovate the mosque, preferably incorporating the old structure in to the new one. However, this was not to be the case. The old structure had to be torn down and a new structure of the Quba mosque stands before us today. The structure has a modest white exterior and is ribbed with domes to keep it in line with the Madinah architecture in general.
The mosque of Quba is a significant landmark in the history of Islam. It is a place of piety and chastity. All the Muslims who go to perform Umrah or Hajj visit this mosque and reap its rewards. It is a place of bliss and the first mosque in the history of the world.


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The Best Russian Short Stories
Escrito por Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoi y Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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A brilliant collection of short stories by some of Russia's best writers.
1. Twenty-Six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky
2. The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
3. The Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. The Long Exile by Count Leo Tolstoy
5. The Self-Sacrificing Rabbit by Nicolai Schedrin
6. Comrades by Maxim Gorky
7. A Candle by Count Leo Tolstoy
8. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
9. The Encased Man by Anton Chekhov
10. The Pistol Shot by Alexander Pushkin
11. The Chorus Girl by Anton Chekhov
12. The Old Verger by Vladimir Korolenko
13. The Three Hermits by Count Leo Tolstoy
14. The Ghost of the Engineers' Castle by Nikolai Leskov
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Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian doctor, short-story writer, and playwright. Born in the port city of Taganrog, Chekhov was the third child of Pavel, a grocer and devout Christian, and Yevgeniya, a natural storyteller. His father, a violent and arrogant man, abused his wife and children and would serve as the inspiration for many of the writer's most tyrannical and hypocritical characters. Chekhov studied at the Greek School in Taganrog, where he learned Ancient Greek. In 1876, his father's debts forced the family to relocate to Moscow, where they lived in poverty while Anton remained in Taganrog to settle their finances and finish his studies. During this time, he worked odd jobs while reading extensively and composing his first written works. He joined his family in Moscow in 1879, pursuing a medical degree while writing short stories for entertainment and to support his parents and siblings. In 1876, after finishing his degree and contracting tuberculosis, he began writing for St. Petersburg's Novoye Vremya, a popular paper which helped him to launch his literary career and gain financial independence. A friend and colleague of Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, and Ivan Bunin, Chekhov is remembered today for his skillful observations of everyday Russian life, his deeply psychological character studies, and his mastery of language and the rhythms of conversation.
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"Dance with me?" Jessica hesitated for a moment, her eyes resting on his. She didn't want to seem too eager though, at that moment, at the top of The Peninsula Hotel on 5th Avenue, there was nothing in the world she wanted more than to dance with Matt Walker. She placed her hand in his, and he helped her down.
As they danced close to the creamy smooth sounds of that soulful wedding singer, Jessica moved her face and cheeks in close to his shoulder. His hand on her waist made her lose her train of thought and, for a moment, she tried to imagine his body pressed against hers, him kissing her softly then harder as passion took over, and he started to lose control. She tried to ID his cologne, but couldn't place the scent. Her cheek brushed against his, and she could feel his stubble scratch her face. In his cowboy attire he was woefully underdressed and, though she'd at least managed to slip on a sleeveless summer dress for the reception crashing, so was she. The evening was cool up on the roof, and the heat lamps were on, but Jessica felt warm and flushed in Matt's arms.
The auburn-haired singer moved into the final verse, and Jessica suddenly wanted her to slow down, maybe start all over again or meld into an encore: maybe something like Still by the Commodores or At Last. The ballerina wasn't ready to let go quite yet. She felt a weakness in her knees, a light-headedness and wondered if Matt felt the same. Then he looked at her, as if he could feel her thoughts on him.
"What?" Jessica said. "She smiled up at him. He was taller than she thought, yet she figured he wouldn't have to bend down too far to kiss her. Again, she imagined that kiss, wondered if he was imagining it, too. She wondered what his stubble would feel like. She tried to remember if she'd ever kissed a man with stubble and knew immediately she hadn't. Up to this point in her life, she'd been a clean-shaven kinda girl. Then she remembered that he was about to say something, and she tried to look curious and attentive.


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Curator Watch: Agnès Biro & Sarah Rodrigues
"My goal is to change people's lives! But I don't want this to be a burdensome ambition. I don't want to have to examine my life or make people examine theirs, unsettle people on the state of the world, or force them to change – how boring and how dreadfully serious..." says curator Sarah Rodrigues in our interview with her and classmate-cum-colleague Agnès Biro from the MA program in Curating Art at Stockholm University. "Working collaboratively with Sarah here in Stockholm has allowed me to feel comforted in a curatorial vision that does not fit the widely accepted standards of the art world and also has given me the necessary drive to just go for it.", confides Biro.
Sarah Rodrigues & Agnès Biro, photo: Adrià Cruz
C-P: What can you tell us about your respective backgrounds and experiences as aspiring and working curators to date?
S.R: I have a very mixed international and interdisciplinary background. I feel like too many interests and too many wants have led me on a long journey of studying and trying different things in different countries around the world. I have ended up in Sweden in the MA program in Curating Art at Stockholm University with the hope that pursuing a career in curating will allow me to incorporate all those interests and wants in a flexible and creative way. I was incredibly lucky to be placed in a class with 7 remarkable and highly intelligent women who are making my experience very enriching. I was particularly lucky to end up living in the same building with one of them, and who turns out, shares my impatience and appetite for over-the-top excitement…my dear friend Agnès.
Only two weeks after meeting each other, we curated our first exhibition in my student bedroom, called Overflow. It was an incredible experience which helped us begin to uncover our way of working and the approaches we are interested in exploring. After curating Interruption together three months later, it became apparent that both of us share the aspiration to create experiences that enables visitors to step out of their everyday reality and into a curious process of discovery.
Empty Pleasure Vessel by Tim Høibjerg (2020), Interruption, photo: Adrià Cruz
AB: I always knew I wanted to work with art.
I started creating art myself by studying fine art at Central Saint Martins in London. There, we were encouraged to think beyond any limits, and this significantly broadened my understanding of what art could be, while also giving me a certain understanding of the day-to-day life of being an artist. Half way through my studies, I realized that my works were almost systematically attempting to influence the audience's behavior and challenge its relationship to time, language and space. Deciphering texts, entering incommodious architectural structures, peeking through a hole…All of these interests led me slowly to (what I believe to be) curation.
Working collaboratively with Sarah here in Stockholm has allowed me to feel comforted in a curatorial vision that does not fit the widely accepted standards of the art world and also has given me the necessary drive to just go for it. In France, where I come from, diplomas and exams are mandatory to access most cultural roles that are usually primarily occupied by politicians. My experience of curation in France is that it is a shifting role that is still taught in a highly academic way when there is a need for a more creative and inclusive spatial thinking.
Having worked in many different institutions (The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, The Other Art Fair in London, The Art Center Ygrec-ENSAPC in Aubervilliers, to name a few) I think that the common thread that links all the work experiences I have so far is this intimacy I always craved to create with the audience and my unstoppable desire to make art more accessible; be it through designing a playful workshop related to the State Hermitage's collection, trying to involve the local schools and businesses in the program of newly implanted Art Center in Aubervilliers, or being part of an art fair that showcases art for all tastes and budgets. This is definitely still the case with the two recent shows Sarah and I have co-curated. For our first show, Overflow (Sept 24-27, 2020), we created multiple 20 minute time slots during which groups of four people would explore a corridor room plunged in the dark, using just a flashlight to illuminate the work. The process of letting people in without giving them any clue and afterwards receiving their feedback was very important in order to evaluate the success of the event.
Our second show, Interruption (Feb 20, 2021), was conceived as a walk into the frozen forest. Guided by candles, the sound of other visitors stepping in the snow or a very unexpected sound piece by Portuguese artist André Baptista, visitors would explore the area and experience the association of artworks in a bodily way first. Then, if they could find us in the night, Sarah and I would happily start a conversation with them.
As much as this idea came naturally from our conversations and explorations of the local area, making it happen was consciously also a way to take a stand. The text of the exhibition narrates the abilities of a wood frog to survive the winter cold (or not). A metaphor for our current health situation and for the current state of the cultural sector.
Even if we do have to put certain things on hold, there are ways to keep going and if the creative sector is not the one providing these new ways then who will be? People need places to dream, feel and get away from reality. This IS essential. Also artists constantly seek for more visibility and not having a physical space should not stop us helping them to do so. Visitors were so thankful to go to an event. We had people from so many different backgrounds, sharing different stories. At the end of the day, we are all craving for some more human interactions.
Installation by Tove Möller (2021), Interruption, photo: Adrià Cruz
C-P: Sarah, what can be said about Interruption from your end?
S.R: Agnès introduced me to the forest frog that freezes during winter as a survival strategy. We took the frog as inspiration and ventured into the snow-covered forest next to our place in Lappis (Lappkärsberget). We felt that this beautiful frozen landscape was the perfect setting for an artistic exploration of our impression of the current state of the world – interrupted, waiting, suspended. Interruption, for me, was about the containment of energy and either the potential for frustration that that brings or the capacity for endurance and resilience. But it was not really about the "outcome", or how it will go afterwards. It was actually about the now, this moment of being suspended, for an unknown amount of time, and what that might feel like. In the dark, we invited visitors to explore this inner/outer environment with their senses.
I felt very fortunate to be able to work with the artists; André Baptista, Tim Hoibjerg, Maja Bakker and Tove Moller. It was a joy to collaborate with them, even after several hours working in the freezing cold and darkness! During the day of the event, I was very nervous because the weather suddenly changed after weeks of low temperatures and stable snowfall. It started raining and the snow began to melt. I thought it was the most poetic lesson I could get – that we have no control, and that interruption comes when you least expect it. In the end, I felt it was a generous addition to the unsettling atmosphere of the show.
Mirrors by Maja Bakken (2020-2021), Interruption, photo: Adrià Cruz
C-P: Just before the pandemic broke out the art world was getting into talks about its responsibility in creating more sustainable frameworks in which to work considering effects on the environments, what with travelling for instance. Then COVID-19 happened, and modus operandi became just to be able to operate at all. In light of challenges that have surfaced in recent years; what are some personal epiphanies you've had about the profession and your role in the great scheme of things?
A.B: I guess this really made me think about the use of space. Is it really necessary to have a physical space in order to have a practice? I am personally very nomadic and I consider that travelling is my main source of nourishment and learning. It is also a means to work with different audiences and artists, and therefore trying to be more inclusive and aware of different perspectives.
I am, however, very conscious of the negative impact this has on the environment. The pandemic has forced us all to slow down and reduce our travel, and there has been a very exciting development in virtual exhibition of work. For example, there has been more participatory work being shown, incorporating the viewer at home into the work by asking them to participate. I was working at the art center Ygrec-ENSAPC in Aubervilliers last year when the pandemic broke and at the time ENSAPC had a partnership with IRCAM-Centre Pompidou that allowed a few students to work with sound technicians from the institution and get the result exhibited physically at Ygrec and at Centre Pompidou. The exhibition was compromised but neither my manager nor I wanted this project to go to waste, and so I designed a virtual exhibition through our Instagram channels in order to create a dialogue between the two spaces despite the pandemic. The students adapted their original proposals and even managed to get a few more tutoring sessions before getting their work featured on the virtual communication channels of IRCAM. A very positive outcome that also led me to pursue a collaboration with artist Dylan Altamiranda.
Collaborative learning and interdisciplinarity is definitely a more sustainable way to work with art. Together with other first year master's curatorial students we are currently working on a residence program called In Memoriam - In Futurum where artists are paired-up with researchers from different departments at Stockholm University. We can already testify of the benefits that these crossovers offer, for example how researchers open up to a more creative thinking and artists manage to define their practice more or take a completely different direction. It is important to get out of your comfort zone in order to test your ideas.
I also believe that in order to create a sustainable art world, we must pay our artists and curators fairly. The normalization of not paying artists or curators is quite shocking. We are surrounded by over-qualified people who constantly accept to do things for free. It is especially the case right now since the COVID-19 pandemic but this really needs to stop. I am not saying that I am not guilty of these things but I think that, as a curator or an artist, you always have to remind yourself and others that your work does have a value.
S.R: Before beginning the MA in Curating Art, I did a MSc Environment and Resource Management in Amsterdam, and before that I studied Philosophy and Anthropology. The question of how one should conduct oneself in the planet we live in has been a concern of mine for some time. It is one of the reasons why I decided to become a curator in the first place… I think the way we go about our lives needs reconsidering, and although economic instruments, behavioral nudges, and technical fixes have their place, I believe they are little more than a band-aid for a much more serious condition. I believe that the fundamental structures that regulate our lives are what needs to be adjusted – what we prioritize, how we relate to each other, and to what we devote our time and effort. My hope is that, in some small measure, I can contribute to helping humans reconsider their place and their sphere of moral concern.
Interruption, 2021, curated by Agnès Biro & Sarah Rodrigues
C-P: Both originally coming from art scenes outside of the local one; what do you make of the art scene here if you had to take its pulse and elaborate on the state of things?
A.B: After four years spent in London, I have to admit that I was very surprised by the quasi non-existence of an underground art scene here in Stockholm. Where is the Dalston of Stockholm? Also, as we talk about pulse, the pace at which projects and events are built is much slower here than it is in London. Of course, we have to take into consideration COVID-19 and a totally different culture but overall I had a feeling that the art scene could take more risks, be bolder. There are so many interesting spaces, talented people awaiting to collaborate. I'm pretty sure Sarah and I would both agree that you only need to ask and share your idea in order for someone to want to work with you. Projects are welcome with lots of enthusiasm and the means are definitely there! It is just about seizing the opportunities.
S.R: I was not really "in" the art scene where I lived before and I have just started to learn about the one here, so I cannot make any fair comparisons. What I can say about my experience here is that I have met very inspiring, hardworking, and friendly people. I have felt that, despite the relative isolation due to the pandemic restrictions, it has been fairly easy for me to meet people who are eager and willing to collaborate and try new things. On the less positive side, what has troubled me is the predominance of precarious working conditions for those in the cultural and arts sector. There is an overwhelming dependence on (limited) government funding and little private initiatives. In my view, there is enormous pressure on cultural professionals, who must hold several jobs in order to survive, and is stifling creative production. I have yet to see sustainable business models in the arts here in Sweden.
C-P: What are some people that have served as inspiration figures for you as curators?
S.R: This is a hard question… so many teachers, Ted Talks, actors, artists, friends, and inspiring figures like Tim Ingold, Nikki S. Lee, and others, circle my mind, but I think the only real answer is… my parents. My parents devoted most of their lives to their professions… vocations, and throughout most of my life I have been trying to find the same kind of steadfastness and resolution they had. My wanting to be a curator has, in large part, resulted from the desire to have a career which is equally satisfying and rewarding. Let's hope so!
A.B: I think I am going to have to speak about spaces here.
The first ever show that made me want to get into curation was held at the Zabludowicz Collection in London in 2015. It was Canadian artist Jon Rafman's solo show and the experience was truly amazing. The two floors of the former Methodist Church were completely transformed. Blinded by UV lights, lost in a gigantic maze, stuck in a ball pit, I remember losing the control of my own body, feeling left at the mercy of the artist. I had my first bodily experience where art made me feel what it was trying to tell me and this, for me, was such an intimate new way to experience the art. Other institutions that really inspired me in their artistic direction are the audacious Palais de Tokyo and the majestic Quai de conti in Paris. The latter especially for the way contemporary artworks were in dialogue with the neoclassical architecture of the Monnaie de Paris. It is a real shame that it had to stop showing contemporary art but it made me think a lot about how the context in which art is shown could change your perception of it.
Of course I want to also cite Magdalena Malm's practice as I have encountered her work through this MA program and I felt like I really connected with her vision. I am especially interested in the place that the audience holds in each of her projects. Included from the very start of the process, the audience is invited to rather than allowed to and experience always comes first.
Agnès Biro & Sarah Rodrigues, photo: Adrià Cruz
C-P: How would you formulate your personal curatorial vision and sense of practice?
A.B: In my emerging practice, I explore "interruption" as a way to influence the viewer's experience. To me, this interruption represents a furtive moment, a disruptive factor, ways of manipulating spaces that trigger curiosity, change people's natural rhythm and flow and help punctuate their sense of reality. Signs, architecture, lighting, sound...all of these elements are potential interruptions. Experience comes before interpretation. I believe that explanatory texts should be there to consult after the experiential and only to enable a deeper understanding if wanted. I am convinced that in order to get a more inclusive experience of the art, there is a necessity to allow the viewer to get their own perception of the artwork and allow for multiple entry points instead of imposing a certain vision onto them. This places the viewer as an active participant in the art space.
Another important point in my practice is that I want to stress the potential for another more universal language to communicate the art, the language of space. By placing art into a context, the resulting assemblage creates a certain atmosphere charged in emotions that enables the viewers to interrupt the time far away from fabricated concepts and think about how it really feels to be alive.
S.R: I see my task as a curator as that of inviting visitors into a "liminal" space, whereby their usual selves become "suspended"; their customary categorizations, reasoning and sensibilities are "released", and with that lightness and openness, have the opportunity to experience a new kind of reality, and to confront those aspects of themselves that need confronting. The goal is, ideally, to enable a process of personal transformation.
Very immodestly put: my goal is to change people's lives! But I don't want this to be a burdensome ambition. I don't want to have to examine my life or make people examine theirs, unsettle people on the state of the world, or force them to change – how boring and how dreadfully serious... Yes, we all have problems, but again we are all meaningless shits in the universe and we're all going to die, so I think we should be having fun! I think that important things come from a place of excitement – otherwise, how can we tell if they really matter to us?
C-P: Finally, what's next for both of you from here, and what awaits further ahead?
A.B: I am very excited as I am about to start my internship within the curatorial team of the 2021 Bruges Triennial. This year's edition is about Trauma and, as always, will be showcasing the works of artists and architects in the context of their surroundings, the historic city center of Bruges.
Later on, Sarah and I will separately be curating events at Accelerator in the fall. We are also currently working on a series of events that we will co-curate and that should also happen around that same time. To give you a little taste, they will definitely not be playing by the rules!
S.R: Right now, as Agnès is starting her internship in Bruges, I am setting up an independent art space at Lappis for experimental projects, events and exhibitions with my other classmate Lina Aastrup – It's called Studio Pica (website will be up soon). We are also both involved in a collaborative project with students from Stockholm University and students from the Royal Institute of Art, in partnership with Accelerator. This project deals with interdisciplinary experimentation which will culminate in a published zine, so stay tuned!
Furthermore, we have plans for curating a third exhibition together… the series of events Agnès mentions and that amounts to a number of three, we call The Disobedience Series.
In the next few months, we will write our master's thesis, and I will do my internship at Bonniers Konsthall here in Stockholm and possibly a second internship in São Paulo in Brazil. We graduate from the MA program next year. Afterwards… I have thought of starting a business here in Stockholm, or maybe moving to Singapore or Australia. Who knows what the future brings!


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El capadocio, también conocido como griego de Capadocia, griego capadocio o griego de Asia Menor (Καππαδοκική διάλεκτος en griego), es una lengua mixta hablada originalmente en Capadocia (Turquía Central) por descendientes de los pueblos pre-túrquicos de Anatolia. Originalmente divergió del griego bizantino después de que las migraciones de los turcos de Asia Central hacia lo que hoy es Turquía, a finales de la Edad Media comenzaran a aislar a los capadocios del resto del Imperio bizantino de habla griega.

Como resultado del intercambio de población entre Grecia y Turquía en 1923, todos los hablantes que quedaban (conocidos en Turquía como rūm, y ahora denominados griegos de Capadocia) se vieron obligados a emigrar a Grecia, donde fueron reasentados en varios lugares, principalmente en Grecia Central y del Norte. Se alentó a los capadocios a cambiar al griego moderno estándar como parte de su integración en Grecia, y se pensaba que su idioma estaba extinto desde la década de 1960. Sin embargo, en junio de 2005, Mark Janse (Universidad de Gante) y Dimitris Papazachariou (Universidad de Patras) descubrieron capadocios en el centro y norte de Grecia que aún podían hablar su lengua ancestral con fluidez. Muchos son hablantes de tercera generación de mediana edad que adoptan una actitud muy positiva hacia este idioma, a diferencia de sus padres y abuelos. Estos últimos están mucho menos inclinados a hablar el capadocio y la mayoría de las veces cambian al griego moderno estándar.

Historia e investigación
Alrededor del siglo V, la última de las lenguas nativas indoeuropeas de Asia Menor dejó de hablarse y fue reemplazada por el griego koiné. Al mismo tiempo, las comunidades de Anatolia Central se estaban involucrando activamente en los asuntos del entonces Imperio romano de Oriente, de habla griega, y algunos capadocios (ahora de habla griega), como Mauricio Tiberio (r. 582-602) y Heraclio (r. 610-641), incluso serían elevados a emperadores

El griego de Capadocia comenzó a divergir del idioma común griego medieval del Imperio bizantino seis siglos más tarde, tras la derrota de los bizantinos en la batalla de Manzikert en 1071. Esta derrota permitió a los hablantes del turco entrar en Asia Menor por primera vez, separando Capadocia del resto del mundo bizantino. En el siglo XX, el griego de Capadocia llegaría a estar fuertemente influenciado por el turco, pero a diferencia del griego moderno estándar, no estaría influenciado por el veneciano o el francés, que se introdujeron en el griego moderno durante el período de la Francocracia, cuando esos grupos comenzaron a gobernar en Grecia después del Sitio de Constantinopla (1204) de la Cuarta cruzada.

Los registros más antiguos de esta lengua se encuentran en los poemas macarónicos del persa Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-1273), que vivía en Iconium (Konya), y en algunos ghazales de su hijo el Sultán Walad. La interpretación de los textos en lengua griega es difícil, ya que están escritos en escritura árabe y, en el caso de Rumi, sin puntos vocales.  La edición de Dedes (Δέδες) es la más reciente.

A principios del siglo XX, muchos capadocios se habían pasado al turco por completo (pero escrito con el alfabeto griego, Karamanlidika). Donde se mantuvo el griego (numerosos pueblos cerca de Kayseri, incluidos Misthi, Malakopea, Prokopion, Karvali, y Anakou), se vio fuertemente influenciado por el turco que le rodeaba. Sin embargo, casi no existen documentos escritos en capadocio medieval o moderno temprano, ya que el idioma era, y sigue siendo esencialmente, un idioma hablado. Los que estaban educados para leer y escribir, como los sacerdotes, lo harían en el griego literario más clasicista. Los primeros estudios externos sobre el capadocio hablado datan del siglo XIX, pero generalmente no son muy precisos.

Uno de los primeros estudios documentados fue Modern Greek in Asia Minor: A study of dialect of Silly, Cappadocia and Pharasa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1916), de Richard MacGillivray Dawkins (1871–1955), entonces miembro del Emmanuel College, Cambridge y más tarde el primer profesor "Bywater and Sotheby" de lengua y literatura griega bizantina y moderna en la Universidad de Oxford, basado en el trabajo de campo realizado por el propio autor en Capadocia en 1909-1911.

Después del intercambio de población, varios dialectos capadocios han sido descritos por colaboradores del Centro de Estudios de Asia Menor (Κέντρον ΜικρασιατικΣν Σπουδών) en Atenas: uluağaç (I. I. Kesisoglou, 1951), aravan (D. Phosteris e I. I. Kesisoglou, 1960), axo (G. Mavrochalyvidis e I. I. Kesisoglou, 1960) y anaku (A. P. Costakis, 1964), resultando en una serie de gramáticas (aunque lamentablemente no se cubrieron todos los pueblos de Capadocia).

En los últimos años, el estudio del capadocio ha experimentado un resurgimiento tras el trabajo pionero sobre contacto lingüístico, criollización y lingüística genética (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988) de Sarah Gray Thomason y Terrence Kaufman, y una serie de publicaciones sobre varios aspectos de la lingüística de Capadocia por Mark Janse, profesor de la Academia Roosevelt, quien también ha contribuido con una revisión gramatical del capadocio y un próximo manual sobre dialectos griegos modernos editado por Christos Tzitzilis (Universidad Aristóteles de Tesalónica). Los recientes descubrimientos de hablantes del capadocio por Janse y Papazachariou dará como resultado el lanzamiento de un nuevo diccionario y una recopilación de textos.

El griego de Capadocia es bien conocido en la literatura lingüística por ser uno de los primeros casos bien documentados de muerte lingüística y, en particular, la importante mezcla de características lingüísticas no indoeuropeas en una lengua indoeuropea. Este proceso fue más pronunciado en el suroeste de Capadocia e incluyó la introducción de la armonía vocálica y el orden de palabras con verbo al final.

Características
El elemento griego del capadocio es en gran medida bizantino, por ejemplo, θír o tír, 'puerta' del griego (antiguo y) bizantino θύρα (griego moderno, θύρα), píka o épka, 'hice' del griego bizantino έποικα (griego moderno, έκανα). Otros arcaísmos prebizantinos son el uso de los adjetivos posesivos mó(n), só(n) etc., del griego antiguo ἐμός, σός, etc. y la formación del imperfecto mediante el sufijo -išk- del sufijo iterativo del griego antiguo (jónico), -(e)sk-. La influencia turca aparece en todos los niveles. El sistema de sonido del capadocio incluye las vocales turcas ı, ö, ü y las consonantes turcas b, d, g, š, ž, tš, dž (aunque algunas de estas también se encuentran en palabras griegas como resultado de la palatalización).

La armonía vocálica turca se encuentra en formas como düšündǘzu, 'pienso', aor. 3sg düšǘntsü < düšǘntsi (Malakopi), del turco düşünmek, patišáxıs < patišáxis, 'rey' (Delmeso), del turco padişah. La morfología lingüística de los sustantivos del capadocio se debe al surgimiento de una declinación aglutinante generalizada y la pérdida progresiva de las distinciones gramaticales de género, por ejemplo, to néka, 'la mujer (neutra) (femenina)', genitivo néka-ju, plural nékes, genitivo nékez-ju (uluağaç). Otra característica turca es la marca morfológica de precisión en el caso acusativo, por ejemplo, líkos, 'lobo (nominativo / acusativo indefinido sin marcar)' vs. líko, 'lobo (acusativo definido marcado)'.

Las formas aglutinantes también se encuentran en el sistema verbal, como el pluscuamperfecto írta ton, 'había venido' (literalmente, 'vine, estaba') (Delmeso) en el modelo del turco geldi idi (geldiydi). Aunque el orden de las palabras del capadocio se rige esencialmente por consideraciones discursivas como el tema y el enfoque, existe una tendencia hacia el orden turco de las palabras sujeto-objeto-verbo con sus correlatos tipológicos (sufijos y modificadores gramaticales prenominales).

Lo que tienen en común todos los dialectos griegos de Capadocia es que evolucionaron del griego bizantino bajo la influencia del turco. Por otro lado, esos dialectos evolucionaron en pueblos aislados, lo que ha dado lugar a varios dialectos griegos de Capadocia.

Revitalización
Aunque hubo algún tiempo que se creyó que el griego de Capadocia era una lengua muerta, el descubrimiento de una población de hablantes ha llevado a un aumento de la conciencia de su valor, tanto desde dentro como de fuera de la comunidad de Capadocia en Grecia. En el documental Last Words, que va siguiendo los pasos a Mark Janse por su paso por las aldeas de habla capadocia en el continente griego, se ve a los miembros de la comunidad animándose unos a otros a usar su dialecto para utilizarlo en su vida ordinaria, como contar chistes. Los miembros de estos pueblos, incluidos personajes tan notables como el obispo, relatan sentirse conmovidos por una presentación que Janse dio en capadocio durante una visita a la región. El obispo llegó a decir que el discurso de Janse 'les ha quitado la vergüenza'. El proceso de revitalización se ve a través de ejemplos como este, donde los hablantes han comenzado a recuperar su identidad y abrazar su lengua materna. Además, las generaciones más jóvenes están adoptando el poder de la tecnología para difundir esta concienciación, utilizando las redes sociales en el idioma para informar a la población griega.

Dialectos
 Capadocio del noreste (Sinasos, Potamia, Delmeso)
 Capadocio del noroeste (Silata o Zila, Anaku, Flojita, Malakopi)
 Capadocio del centro (Axo; Misthi) (Ver Misthiotica)
 Capadocio del suroeste (Aravan, Gurzono; Fertek)
 Capadocio del sudeste (Oulagatz (Uluağaç), Semendere)

Referencias

Dialectos del griego moderno
Lenguas de Grecia
Lenguas de Turquía
Lenguas mixtas
Historia de Capadocia
Griegos de Capadocia
Lenguas revitalizadas

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In France, enthusiasm for the American cause was high: the French intellectual world was itself in revolt against feudalism and privilege. However, the Crown lent its support to the colonies for geopolitical rather than ideological reasons: the French government had been eager for reprisal against Britain ever since France's defeat in 1763. To further the American cause, Benjamin Franklin was sent to Paris in 1776. His wit, guile and intellect soon made their presence felt in the French capital, and played a major role in winning French assistance.
France began providing aid to the colonies in May 1776, when it sent 14 ships with war supplies to America. In fact, most of the gun powder used by the American armies came from France. After Britain's defeat at Saratoga, France saw an opportunity to seriously weaken its ancient enemy and restore the balance of power that had been upset by the Seven Years' War (the French and Indian War). On February 6, 1778, America and France signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce, in which France recognized America and offered trade concessions. They also signed a Treaty of Alliance, which stipulated that if France entered the war, neither country would lay down its arms until America won its independence, that neither would conclude peace with Britain without the consent of the other, and that each guaranteed the other's possessions in America. This was the only bilateral defense treaty signed by the United States or its predecessors until 1949.
The Franco-American alliance soon broadened the conflict. In June 1778 British ships fired on French vessels, and the two countries went to war. In 1779 Spain, hoping to reacquire territories taken by Britain in the Seven Years' War, entered the conflict on the side of France, but not as an ally of the Americans. In 1780 Britain declared war on the Dutch, who had continued to trade with the Americans. The combination of these European powers, with France in the lead, was a far greater threat to Britain than the American colonies standing alone.
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Bowling team finds success in new members
Senior Toby Curtiss throws a gutter ball during practice.
Jack Shields
Nate Schweitzer, Staff Writer
The BSM bowling team has been around for a while now, but never have they experienced this level of student participation. Last year, they had barely enough numbers to put together both a varsity and junior varsity, but this season the team now has an impressive 24 members–the most they have ever had.
Mr. Max Johnson–who is joined by fellow coaches Mr. John Sabol and Mr. Doug Burnikel–started coaching the bowling team in 2016, making this year his fourth year of coaching. For Johnson, the past four seasons have consisted of him accompanying the team three times a week at either Park Tavern in St. Louis Park for practice, or wherever competition takes them. He enjoys his time coaching and he was very ecstatic to be able to meet all the new faces that joined the team this year. "It is fun to coach because it is more laid back and relaxed and for practice, we just get to bowl for fun. Also in competitions, it is fun to actually be competitive," Johnson said.
Competitions are held on Fridays, with a few exceptions. In a competition, each team has 5 bowlers and they switch off every frame. For example, bowler A would bowl for frames one and six, bowler B would bowl frames two and seven, bowler C would bowl frames three and eight, etc. The team plays five games against another school and whoever wins more games wins that match. While individual stats still do matter, the match format eliminates certain individuals dominating for one school.
It is a team sport too. It's not just if you have the best bowler you win"
— Max Johnson
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One of the newcomers on the team, senior Toby Curtiss, has really enjoyed his time on the bowling team so far. He and some of his friends joined the bowling team this year despite not really knowing much about it, but they wanted to see what it was like. He enjoys the calm and relaxing nature of practices as well as hanging out with his friends. "My favorite part is just being able to bowl with the boys," Curtiss said.
The Red Knight bowling team is not MSHSL sanctioned, but they still are competitive and determined. The team has gotten third in the conference in the past three years and looks to keep that momentum going for the foreseeable future. Even though it can be fun and relaxing, students still get competitive and cheer each other along in practices and matches. "I love getting hyped up when a member of the squad gets a strike, or even when I, myself, get one," Curtiss said.
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I'm a bit slow. Okay, maybe a lot slow lately. I've released two cookbooks in the last two months, both for Amazon Kindle. It's available here at Amazon for $2.99 for a limited time.
It's true–the most recent cookbook was released at the end of July, and here I am…a week later, just announcing it has been released. I have already received some reviews too. So what is it? 56+ Marvelous Homemade Mixes is a cookbook for Kindle.
I happen to be a Kindle format fan–it's not perfect, but the advantages of an electronic cookbook are immense. For years now, I've kept my personal cookbook in digital format too. It's easy to make changes to the original recipe, as well as type in notes about a recipe. Granted, we can't do that on our Kindles…yet. Nor can we do what I'm looking forward to–search through our library for which cookbook has that recipe we're looking for.
My memory isn't what it used to be, I guess, but I do forget exactly where something is sometimes. In my personal cookbook, the search function finds which file I've got that recipe stashed in, and I don't have to remember where it was. That is likely why I've divided the cookbooks I have written the way I have–the titles make it clear what is included in them.
This newest cookbook, 56+ Marvelous Homemade Mixes is just homemade mixes, allowing the cook to make their own basic mixes, whether for hot cocoa or spice rub (and a lot of others too.) Making your own mixes means that you can adjust them to suit your tastes, which is how my versions originated. I really do prefer my own homemade cocoa mix to commercial preparations, its been adjusted to my own tastes.
Homemade mixes are economical, but once we adjust them to suit…they become our preferences rather than just one more thing we do to save money. That means if we have an aversion to a specific spice, like my mother detests cloves, or have dietary restrictions due to allergies or other conditions (I have a friend who is allergic to caraway, and many people are on restricted sodium diets) we can have that familiar flavor without the bothersome ingredient. That's the whole point of homemade mixes, and the collection of recipes in this book provides the cook with the basics for each mix.
Even worse than this late announcement is the most recent release is the lack of announcement of the previous one, All American Biscuit. It's a fun little cookbook, explaining how the biscuit evolved in America and why it is totally and completely American. It's also got a LOT of recipes for biscuits, biscuit variations, and related recipes.
All American Biscuit was released the end of June, and it has a couple of reviews as well. It can be found here for Amazon Kindle for $3.99.


So here is more about Hulgreen, founded in October 2011. Hulgreen Productions is the creative force behind the award winning Bang and Bump Show. After an inspirational trip to New York City; Dave Hulteen, Jr. and Jerome Green set about to create their own puppet show.
This commitment to good old fashioned humor with a fresh new look, and without sacrificing content, the show quickly amassed a significant audience on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. They have been interviewed by the Australian magazine Kid Zone. Bang and Bump have filmed commercial spots that were shown at the Jingle Ball in Madison Square Garden. They have also been heard on New York's number one hit music station Z100. They have performed internationally at large convention centers, welcomed crowds on the jumbo-tron in Yankee Stadium, and won three Videographer Awards for Best On Screen Talent and Best Web Series.
Hulgreen eventually began collaborating with other organizations to create art, design, animation, special effects, and video services. We aim to deliver a high standard in both in production value and family friendly entertainment.
They have worked with The Salvation Army, the American Broadcasting Company, Clear Channel Communications, and SModcast Internet Radio. Hulgreen Productions offer a variety of professional creative services services and are available to help you with all your project needs.
If you haven't already, "like" them on Facebook, follow them on Twitter, and subscribe to them on YouTube.
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Unsteady aerodynamic interaction between rotor and ground obstacle
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Jian Feng Tan
Yi Ming Sun
Tian Yi Zhou
Barakos, G.N.
Green, R.B.
The mutual aerodynamic interaction between rotor wake and surrounding obstacles is complex, and generates high compensatory workload for pilots, degradation of the handling qualities and performance,and unsteady force on the structure of the obstacles. The interaction also affects the minimum distance between rotorcrafts and obstacles to operate safely. A vortex-based approach is then employed to investigate the complex aerodynamic interaction between rotors and ground obstacle, and identify the distance where the interaction ends, and this is also the objective of the GARTEUR AG22 working group activities. In this approach, the aerodynamic loads of the rotor blades are described through a panel method, and the unsteady behaviour of the rotor wake is modelled using a vortex particle method. The effects of the ground plane and obstacle are accounted for via a viscous boundary model. The method is then applied to a �Large� and a �Wee� rotor near the ground and obstacle, and compared with the earlier experiments carried out at the University of Glasgow. The results show that the predicted rotor induced inflow and flow field compare reasonably well with the experiments. Furthermore, at certain conditions the tip vortices are pushed up and re-injected into the rotor wake due to the effect of the obstacle resulting in a recirculation. Moreover, contrary to without the obstacle case, the peak and thickness of the radial outwash near the obstacle is smaller due to the barrier effect of the obstacle, and an up-wash is observed. Additionally, as the rotor closes to the obstacle, the rotor slipstreams impinge directly on the obstacle, and the up-wash near the obstacle is faster, indicating a stronger interaction between the rotor wake and the obstacle. Also, contrary to the case without the obstacle, the fluctuations of the rotor thrust, rolling and pitching moments are obviously strengthened. When the distance between the rotor and the obstacle is larger than 3R, the effect of the obstacle is small.


President Xi Jinping will meet with US President Barack Obama soon, it was disclosed on Monday.
Premier Li Keqiang made the announcement after he received Jacob Lew, special representative of the United States president and the US treasury secretary, in Beijing.
The meeting between the two presidents would help to improve relations between the two countries, Li said. An official announcement about the meeting has yet to be released by the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Lew was in Beijing after attending the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors in Shanghai late last week. At this meeting, finance officials from the member nations pledged efforts to prevent competitive devaluation of currencies and to facilitate global economic growth.
The meeting between Xi and Obama will take place after the National People's Congress holds its annual session in Beijing, beginning on Saturday, to decide on the nation's development this year and, more important, its social and economic program for the next five years.
The White House website said the fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit will be held on March 31 and April 1 in Washington, DC. When meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi last week, Obama said he hoped Xi would attend the summit.
Li, when meeting with Lew, said good Sino-US relations were very important for both countries, and China placed great emphasis on its economic and trade cooperation with the US, which Li described as an "accelerator" for the overall bilateral ties.
Li said it was good to see that during the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors that major economies would enhance coordination on macro policies. Li also said the meeting went smoothly and had sent a stable message to international society.
Wang Yusheng, a researcher at a government think tank in Beijing, said the Chinese and US leaders last met at the Paris Climate Summit in December.
Their frequent meetings would be "most helpful" for bilateral ties, said Wang, executive director of the Strategy Research Center at the China International Studies Research Fund.
"Every time a subtle situation seems to emerge in the bilateral relations, a face-to-face meeting between leaders of the two nations will help to sort things out," Wang said, adding that "there are still some uncomfortable areas in Sino-US ties".
After Li's meeting with Lew, Zhu Guangyao, vice-minister of finance who also attended the meeting, said China was glad to see many of its policy proposals were included in the G20 meeting's final document.
Xu Hongcai, a researcher of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, another government think tank, praised the Shanghai meeting for reaching a consensus among G20 finance officials to seek a balanced and sustainable way to boost the global economy.


After weeks of campaigning, junior Evelyn Trampe was elected student council president.
Before assuming her position as president, she first served as class vice president, then historian, and most of her junior year as school vice president.
"I haggled moms on the Community Connect for cardboard boxes, bartered with the party city employees for a steal on balloons, worked outside in the dead of winter on a 10-meter-long banner until 3 a.m. for three nights in a row, cut and covered refrigerator boxes to look like buildings, and helped put my family Christmas lights up around Roberts gym," Trampe said.
Trampe strives to do more as president.
"There are still many other things that I would love for student council to do. I think that we should have bigger theme dances, homecoming week—I want to get back to STUCO's roots with decorations for these events," Trampe said.
"Webster's student life and student activities should be planned by students, which is why I really hope I can help work towards the students getting more control when planning dances, assemblies, and spirit weeks," Trampe said.
In addition to student council, Trampe runs cross country and track, writes for the ECHO, volunteers with the interact club and is a member of DECA.


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Drown by Jonathan Phin
Her brother never stops watching. Every time she feeds the baby, holds it, he's there. But today is Monday, and he has gone to work. She and the baby are alone.
She fills the tub with warm water and places the baby inside its walls. It'd be so easy to leave the water running and step outside, daydream her nightmares away.
It's been almost a year since she moved into her brother's apartment with the baby. The skeletons of leaves fall from their perches once again. The clink of metal against metal, the door lock clicks, the creak of the front door opening, sounds that used to break her slump no longer carry the hope they once did. Her ex didn't want a baby.
She doesn't want a baby.
Whenever she feeds the baby and presses her nipple to its mouth, feels the pull of her skin, the emission of milk, what should be natural feels wrong. She's not her brother who sings songs and hums tunes of barnyard animals and sunshine and love. She's a woman who matches pitch with a shrieking baby in the middle of the night and yells "shut up!" over and over again. She's a woman who stares out the window wondering how this became her life.
With a squirt of soap, the water transforms into a dangerous sea filled with scaled-down reptiles and dated dinosaurs. Beside the sink, she finds another toy. She opens the package and removes a yellow rubber ducky, one with a red cap and the trademark "Made in China" stamped on the rear. Her brother must have left it for her to find.
She stares at the toy. The baby mimics her, eyes enthralled by the new yellow wonder. She feels the fine speckle of dust along its exterior, invisible to the eye. She remembers having a ducky of her own. The baby grabs the ducky from her hands and submerges it into the bubbly sea.
She snatches the rubber ducky away and holds it close to her chest.
The ducky reminds her of the last time she saw her father. She was five and three-quarters. In the tub, she pretended the rubber ducky was a giant ship for sea and air adventures and its rubber wings transformed into wide-spread warmth and plush. She planned out adventures, waiting for her dad to return from his solo adventure. He never returned. Her adventures stopped.
She drowns the ducky, and squeezes it as hard as she can. Hiccup bubbles break the surface of the water.
The dust washes away.
She laughs, and the baby laughs too. She hands her baby the ducky and he maneuvers it through the air above him. The ducky then plummets into the sea, a deep-sea diver plunging into the depth of the ocean only to return moments later. She picks up her nearly-one-year-old son and sees delicate features, his pinchable nose, his cheeks waiting for his mother's lips. She opens her mouth and hums a tune.
Jonathan Phin is a MFA candidate at the University of Central Florida, where he also serves as Co-Chair of the Marketing Committee for the MFA and Treasurer of the Graduate Writers Association. In his free time, he reads slush as a graduate intern for The Florida Review.
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