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vp.4.15 Whilst this powerful being resided in this world of mortals, he had sixteen thousand and one hundred wives; of these the principal were Rukmini, Satyabhama, Jambavati, Jatahasini, and four others. By these the universal form, who is without beginning, begot a hundred and eighty thousand sons, of whom thirteen are most renowned, Pradyumna, Charudeshna, Samba, and others. Pradyumna married Kakudwati, the daughter of Rukmin, and had by her Aniruddha. Aniruddha married Subhadra, the granddaughter of the same Rukmin, and she bore him a son named Vajra. The son of Vajra was Bahu; and his son was Sucharu 3.
vp.5.26 Krishna carries off Rukmini: the princes who come to rescue her repulsed by Balarama. Rukmin overthrown, but spared by Krishna, founds Bhojakata. Pradyumna born of Rukmini.
vp.5.26 Bishmaka was king of Vidarbha, residing at Kundina 1. He had a son named Rukmin, and a beautiful daughter termed Rukmini. Krishna fell in love with the latter, and solicited her in marriage; but her brother who hated Krishna, would not assent to the espousals. At the suggestion of Jarasandha, and with the concurrence of his son, the powerful sovereign Bhishmaka affianced Rukmini to sisupala. In order to celebrate the nuptials, Jarasandha and other princes, the friends of sisupala, assembled in the capital of Vidarbha; and Krishna, attended by Balabhadra and many other Yadavas, also went to Kundina to witness the wedding. When there, Hari contrived, on the eve of the nuptials, to carry off the princess 2, leaving Rama and his kinsmen to sustain the weight of his enemies. Paundraka, the illustrious Dantavakra, Viduratha, sisupala, Jarasandha, salya, and other kings, indignant at the insult, exerted themselves to kill Krishna, but were repelled by Balarama and the Yadavas. Rukmin, vowing that he would never enter Kundina again until he had slain Kesava in fight, pursued and overtook him. In the combat that ensued, Krishna destroyed with his discus, as if in sport, the host of Rukmin, with all its horse, and elephants, and foot, and chariots, and overthrew him, and hurled him on the ground, and would have put him to death, but was withheld by the entreaties of Rukmini. "He is my only brother," she exclaimed, "and must not be slain by
vp.5.26 thee: restrain your wrath, O divine lord, and give me my brother in charity." Thus addressed by her, Krishna, whom no acts affect, spared Rukmin 3; and he (in pursuance of his vow) founded the city Bhojakata 4, and ever afterwards dwelt therein. After the defeat of Rukmin, Krishna married Rukmini in due form, having first made her his own by the Rakshasa ritual 5. She bore him the gallant Pradyumna, a portion of the deity of love. The demon Sambara carried him off, but he slew the demon.
vp.5.28 Wives of Krishna. Pradyumna has Aniruddha: nuptials of the latter. Balarama beat at dice, becomes incensed, and slays Rukmin and others.
vp.5.28 The heroic Pradyumna was chosen for her lord, at her public choice of a husband, by the daughter of Rukmin; and he had by her the powerful and gallant prince Aniruddha, who was fierce in fight, an ocean of prowess, and the tamer of his foes. Kesava demanded in marriage for him the granddaughter of Rukmin; and although the latter was inimical to Krishna, he betrothed the maiden (who was his son s daughter) to the son of his own daughter (her cousin Aniruddha). Upon the occasion of the nuptials Rama and other Yadavas attended Krishna to Bhojakata, the city of Rukmin. After the wedding had been solemnized, several of the kings, headed by him of Kalinga, said to Rukmin, "This wielder of the ploughshare is ignorant of the dice, which may be converted into his misfortune: why may we not contend with him, and beat him, in play?" The potent Rukmin replied to them, and said, "So let it be:" and he engaged Balarama at a game of dice in the palace. Balarama soon lost to Rukmin a thousand Nishkas 3: he then staked and lost another thousand; and then pledged ten thousand, which Rukmin, who was well skilled in gambling, also won. At this the king of Kalinga laughed aloud, and the weak and exulting Rukmin grinned, and said, Baladeva" is losing, for he knows nothing of the game; although, blinded by a vain passion for play, he thinks he understands the dice." Halayudha, galled by the broad laughter of the Kalinga prince, and the contemptuous speech of Rukmin, was exceedingly angry, and,
vp.5.28 rcome with passion, increased his stake to ten millions of Nishkas. Rukmin accepted the challenge, and therefore threw the dice. Baladeva won, and cried aloud, "The stake is mine." But Rukmin called out as loudly, that he was the winner. "Tell no lies, Bala," said he: "the stake is yours; that is true; but I did not agree to it: although this be won by you, yet still I am the winner." A deep voice was then heard in the sky, inflaming still more the anger of the high spirited Baladeva, saying, Bala" has rightly won the whole sum, and Rukmin speaks falsely: although he did
vp.5.28 not accept the pledge in words, he did so by his acts (having cast the dice)." Balarama thus excited, his eyes red with rage, started up, and struck Rukmin with the board on which the game was played, and killed him 4. Taking hold of the trembling king of Kalinga, he knocked out the teeth which he had shewn when he laughed. Laying hold of a golden column, he dragged it from its place, and used it as a weapon to kill those princes who had taken part with his adversaries. Upon which the whole circle, crying out with terror, took to flight, and escaped from the wrath of Baladeva. When Krishna heard that Rukmin had been killed by his brother, he made no remark, being afraid of Rukmini on the one hand, and of Bala on the other; but taking with him the newly wedded Aniruddha, and the Yadava tribe, he returned to Dwaraka.


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California Solar Panel Law 2020: All New Homes Must Have Them
February 5, 2020 Latife Hayson
The California solar panel law for all new residential homes took effect January 1, 2020, and I think it's likely the panels will continue to be required for the foreseeable future, although recent challenges from utility companies outside Napa Valley are looking to get around the mandate. As always in our Golden State, the situation is complex and I've got some background and updates in the drive for clean solar energy.
History of the California Solar Panel Law
An addition to the state's building code, the California solar mandate is the first of its kind in the U.S. It began as part of the Green Building Standards Code in May 2018 enacted by the California Energy Commission, then advanced to the Building Standards Commission to be approved for the statewide building code.
In December 2018, the solar mandate was fully approved and set to begin on January 1, 2020. Despite some protests that it would add to home building costs in California's already-stressed entry-level housing market, the bill is now in effect. The mandate is an important part of the Energy Commission's goal of having at least 50% of California's energy coming from clean sources by 2030.
What is included in the California solar mandate?
The California solar mandate doesn't say that all newly-built homes of any type have to have solar panels. It applies to low-rise construction, defined as new single or multi-family homes up to three stories in height. Some new construction will be exempt, including homes with rooms that are too small for a solar installation or those built in a heavily shaded area, unsuitable for rooftop solar.
Rooftop solar is not the only option to satisfy the mandate, either. Developers can opt for community solar projects rather than placing solar panels on the roof of every new home they build. A community solar project is an array of solar panels that will generate power for a group of newly constructed homes or a larger development.
The idea behind the mandate is simple: instead of adding construction that relies on unsustainable power in California's aging non-renewable energy grid, new construction will automatically be sustainable and reduce the need for fossil-fuel generated power. We already know the impact of California's aging electrical grid infrastructure on fires, and mandating that all new residential construction must use solar power provides some relief for that overburdened system.
Sacramento's Utility challenges the mandate
The open-ended nature of "community solar power" and lack of an exact definition from the Energy Commission has led to challenges. Somewhat ironically, the first challenge came from the state's capital, where the mandate originated. Last year, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) appealed the mandate to the California Energy Commission, asking that home builders in the capital region be allowed to build new homes without rooftop solar panels.
To justify the construction of new homes without rooftop solar systems, SMUD asked the commission if they could use solar credits with other, currently-operating projects, including a large solar farm in Fresno County, far from the planned Sacramento housing developments.
SMUD's request essentially turned the intent of California's solar mandate on its head by diverting existing clean energy or already-planned projects from other areas to the Sacramento region. Although the Commission didn't completely define "community solar power," the intent was certainly not to allow new home builders to buy their way into already operating solar projects without adding to California's clean energy capacity. This is the likely reason that the Energy Commission declined the request unanimously in November.
Not just solar panels: the mandate also includes battery storage
Another drawback to the Sacramento utility's plan to get around the solar mandate was the lack of storage for newly built homes under their proposal. The full state solar mandate doesn't just include rooftop solar panels. It also includes incentives to add solar batteries to new home construction.
Looking at reports about the mandate over time, I've seen some widely varying figures in average cost for adding rooftop solar power to new homes, with many estimates ranging from $8,000 to $18,000. The official figures from the California Energy Commission are $9,500 in added new home prices, with energy savings of $19,000 over the lifetime of the system.
Solar batteries play a key role in genuine clean energy and independence from the power grid, because they not only provide power on shaded days and at night, they enable systems to continue operating when grid power isn't available.
The Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) isn't required for new construction, but the program, approved by former Gov. Jerry Brown, provides about $800 million to help pay for solar batteries intended to extend clean energy throughout new (and also existing) home building and renovation.
Tesla Powerwall is one of the options available through the battery storage incentives which are part of the new construction solar mandate in California. I discussed the exciting clean energy potential for the Powerwall last September.
What impact do I envision the California solar panel law having in Napa Valley?
Many of the mandate's provisions apply to California's major public utilities, and in Napa Valley, the provider is PG & E. Napa Valley has benefited from 100% renewable energy provision from Marin Clean Energy since 2014 when Napa County chose MCE as its official clean energy supplier.
As early as 2016, over 92% of Napa County residences and businesses were using MCE's clean power, derived from solar and wind. Average monthly power bills for MCE's Light Green power consisting of 61% renewable sources, are now less than bills from PG & E's "traditional" 39% renewable sources. There's absolutely no financial reason to go with PG & E in Napa County instead of MCE, and new construction could instantly meet the solar mandate's requirements by selecting MCE's Local Solar option. MCE's "Deep Green" power option, which is increasingly popular in Napa County, costs about $5 a month more on average than "Light Green," which on its own, has already exceeded the state's goal for 50% renewable clean energy by 2030.
Napa Valley new construction is far ahead of other communities
Thinking about the Sacramento utility's request to take clean solar power from other regions to build tracts of new homes, it's quite a relief to know there are so many options for clean energy in Napa Valley. With many of our wineries leading the way in MCE's fully-sustainable clean energy, willing to pay slightly more in monthly costs to receive environmental benefits — the hope that MCE started within 2010 is now a reality. It seems the rest of the state may be playing "catch up," but clean energy is here in Napa Valley to stay and the mandate will impact other areas far more than our estate properties.
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Support Women's Underwater Hockey in the USA! We are selling shirts designed by Deep Blue out of Colombia. Shirts will be available in both Men's and Women's sizing. These are Limited Edition and will sell out fast! They are $20 per shirt. This will help send the women to the next world championships! Below is the design and a size chart. The size chart is in metric, click here to convert cm to inches. The chest measurement is not circumference, but the actual width of the shirt. These shirts run a little smaller than shirts made in the USA and if you plan and drying your shirt in the dryer, you might want to get a size larger as they will probably shrink.
We will also have them at the Women's tournament in October (and future tournaments) if they don't sell out! If you are not going to be at one of these tournaments and want one, please contact katrinafinley@gmail.com and we can make other arrangements (send one home with a teammate or ship it to you)!


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Tuckerton Elementary Passes Budget Within 2 Percent Cap
By PAT JOHNSON | May 08, 2019
Tuckerton — The Tuckerton Board of Education had good news to share at its Monday, May 6, meeting. The adopted budget of $5,640,999 was passed within the 2 percent cap, and no positions or programs were sacrificed despite state aid remaining flat for the second consecutive year.
The tax levy of $2,807,242 increased $55,049, which split would mean an extra $30 a year in elementary district school taxes on the average home. The school has 295 students, and Superintendent Janet Gangemi expects 300 for next year.
The board also ratified a three-year contract with the Tuckerton Teachers Association. Teachers will receive a 3.7 percent raise starting July 1, 3.5 percent the second year and 3.25 percent the third year. Gangemi said the starting salary at Tuckerton Elementary is $50,000, $10,000 less than in neighboring Little Egg Harbor Township schools. "We're one of the lowest paid districts in the state; it's hard to keep up with them," she said.
The best news of the evening, said Board President Trisha Horner, was the results of the N.J. Quality Single Accountability Continuum, done every three years by the state board of education. "We're now a 'High Performing District,'" she said.
Gangemi explained the state rates schools in five areas, and the school received an 80 percent or higher in each. Three areas received a 100 percent, or perfect, score, one a 95 percent and the last 80 percent. The lowest was in testing, and Gangemi said the school is concentrating on bringing that score up.
In other news, over the spring break Principal Stephanie Wroniuk and custodians Mathis and Johnson built a series of raised bed gardens in the back of the playground as part of the Green/Wellness Team, and the students will be planting vegetables donated by local businesses and families. —P.J.


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TODAY, 2 P.M.: Submit questions for Sheriff Richard Roundtree live interview
Susan McCord @reportr1
Feb 4, 2019 at 6:32 PM Feb 6, 2019 at 1:42 PM
Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree will take questions from the public during a 30-minute Facebook live interview Wednesday with The Augusta Chronicle.
First elected in 2012, Roundtree last year offered area media outlets an opportunity to interview him live on Facebook, giving the public a chance to submit questions in the comments during the session.
Questions for the sheriff can also be submitted ahead of the 2 p.m. interview on The Chronicle's Facebook page, through the online submission form or by email to newsroom@augustachronicle.com.
In a Facebook live interview with The Chronicle in August, Roundtree spoke of the challenges in tackling Augusta's gang problem, which he said involves about 100 identified gangs, and gun violence, which he said reflects a local youth culture that feels a need to carry firearms.
In September, the office along with other agencies announced the indictments of nine members of the "Sex Money Murder" gang. In December, the agencies announced 27 people were being charged in Operation 30906, which targeted crime in the south Augusta ZIP code.
Last year, the office also grappled with a string of deputy arrests, with at least six during 2018. Roundtree said in November that he would examine internal policies to try to prevent future problems. That month, the sheriff also lobbied successfully for the Augusta Commission to approve approximately $680,000 to cover raises for his staff this year.
Another 2018 issue was Richmond County's rising homicide rate, which was up for a third consecutive year in 2018, to 32. Roundtree said the killings were mostly gang-related or domestic.


It's the Leroy King scandal all over again; a prominent fugitive from international justice, India's most wanted financial fraudster, the billionaire Mehul Choksi, having obtained a CBI passport in Antigua, is openly living a lavish lifestyle there. He has been boasting that he is protected by senior officials in the Antiguan government, and is enjoying fine dining there, and all that Antigua has to offer. What happened to PM Gaston Browne's statement that Antigua extradites it foreign criminals ? Leroy King is proof positive that such statements are outright lies.
Informed sources within Antigua have confirmed that Choksi reportedly paid USD$2.5m for his CBI passport, which was obtained when anyone who searched the Internet would have learned of his involvement in criminal activities, as Indian media has repeatedly asserted. Also, India's principal law enforcement agency denied that INTERPOL had ever been contacted it about him, which conflicts with Antiguan assurances that it cleared him prior to the issuance of a passport. It is doubtful that Antigua's CIP Unit did any more than check for a Red Notice online, which constitutes compliance malpractice.
Apparently, the Government of Antigua is betting that its unexplained delay in extraditing this master criminal will be ignored by both the United States and the EU, as his crimes occurred in Asia, but the US is reportedly looking into the matter. Sources in Antigua have also reported that Choksi moved some of his illicit wealth through Antigua, using locally formed companies; inasmuch as the American financial system probably had a role in the transference of funds, which invokes US jurisdiction for, among other things, money laundering. The Antiguan attorneys who formed those shell companies might want to consider engaging their own lawyers at this time, given the international attention given to the Choksi case.
Choksi has been a familiar figure in Antigua of late, but as he is currently unescorted, will he be detained, and removed to face justice in India ? We cannot say, but his fellow fugitive Leroy King, wanted in the US for a decade, in the Stanford International Bank scandal, has 24-hour bodyguards, protecting him from being taken to Texas, to face a Federal criminal trial. We wonder if Mr. Choksi believes the promises of protection, given to him by some officials in Antigua's leadership, are real.


Then she picked up her local paper and read that all the governing boards in her area — elementary, high school and community college — needed candidates. Feeling a sense of obligation to public education and democracy, Wallace went down to the local registrar. She saw there was a candidate for high school board — but still no one had filed to run for the Gavilan College Board of Trustees, also in Morgan Hill, at the southern tip of Silicon Valley.
Wallace told the registrar she would go home to think about it.
I'm aware of the importance of teachers, and I see them as professionals. I value their contributions, and those of staff, and I understand that's what helps students.
Wallace has taught high school social studies, primarily civics and U.S. history, for 34 years. Since many of her former students attend Gavilan, Wallace thought that, with her experience in education, she as a community college board member, could help promote their success.
With the endorsement of the South Bay Labor Council and the Democratic Party Central Committee, Wallace won the college board election. She plans to learn as much as she can about the college where she and her students have gone. She wants to promote student activism and, aware of how much she relied on it as a student, she'd like to work on getting a health center on campus.
Wallace is one of nearly 850 educators nationwide who ran for office in 2018, the majority of them women. As massive teacher strikes swept red states around the country earlier this year, many of those walking out of their classrooms in protest said they needed to change government from the inside. The majority ran as Democrats; some ran on the Republican ticket.
Like Wallace, Craig Milgrim, a biology instructor at Grossmont College in El Cajon, comes to his new position on the board of the neighboring San Diego Community College District with decades of experience in education and labor activism. He has co-chaired his department for more than 10 years, served on the Academic Senate, and helped bring AFT representation to his campus. Being a trustee is a good way to continue to serve community college students, Milgrim says.
Many of our students have economic challenges. They're food insecure, housing insecure.
Milgrim, a proud member of the AFT Guild, Local 1931, says he's glad that his district has already implemented an initiative to make community colleges free for the first year, which is now a statewide law. Like Wallace, he thinks his years of experience in the classroom and working with the school staff will help.
With the Supreme Court's Janus v. AFSCME decision, which struck down agency fees, Milgrim believes union solidarity is more important than ever, and he's proud every person in his department kept union membership in AFT Local 1931, after the decision.
Josh Chancer, a high school teacher with the Oxnard Federation of Teachers and School Employees, AFT Local 1273, also thinks the Janus decision motivated educators to run for office. Chancer ran a successful campaign and was elected to serve on the Ventura County Community College District Board of Trustees.
Teachers should be stakeholders in the political process, Chancer says, and having them in public office can help balance attacks on educators and their ability to organize.
When he was campaigning, Chancer says he spoke with people who think unions fighting for better wages and conditions improve things for everyone.
Chancer is excited to bring his leadership skills to the community college board. Teachers make good leaders, he says, since they solve problems in the classroom every day.
Bea Herrera, a member of the Ventura College Federation of College Teachers, AFT Local 1828, was just re-elected to lead the Oxnard Union High School Board — she is now board president. She first ran for the board because she thought her experience as a counselor at Ventura College would be valuable on a high school board.
With a strong desire to continue advocating for the most vulnerable students, Herrera decided to run again.
Andres Quintero, a member of the San Jose/Evergreen Federation of Teachers, was elected to the governing board of the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District.
Gabriela Lopez, a member of United Educators of San Francisco was elected to the board in her own district, San Francisco Unified. The law requires she resign her teaching position.


A while back Metal Postcard Records out of Hong Kong sent me a huge shipment of singles including this one from Sydney based Wow. No longer active, Wow was a duo of Matt Crib and Bree Carter. I wasn't sure what the Australian connection was to the label until reading that founder Sean Hocking used to live in Sydney and must have come across these guys there in the couple of years they were opening for Crystal Castles over there. The Mid 2000's were dominated by Girl Talk, Dan Deacon and Crystal Castles where it was the rule to further destroy unnatural synth sounds in a way that Shitgaze was simultaneously doing with Times New Viking and Psychedelic Horseshit. It's dirty reach extended to the bedroom of Wow and Matt was destroying a few of his own rhythms for them to try their hand at an updated Gang of Four bleak sound.
A"-Side's Common Species" nails a repetitive, choppy riff together like some kind of ultra modern post punk architecture and this is the video game soundtrack to the construction. Heavy handed hard waves crash against this natural bassline with layered vocals from peppy kids and jittery guitars. Chopped syllables from a unison force of Devo-ettes. They come together into hard line, military grade formations from the sounds of the future that failed to hit the first time. A cold post punk sound like Prinzhorn Dance School if they were the product of a military academy. Serious and built out of solid cinder blocks and massive 4x4's, it's aware of it's own shortcomings and doesn't look like anything else.
B-Side's "When You're Dead" has a heavy, metallic stomping repetition with a new order chorus effect guitar line. Like contemporaries Bloc Party they had a bare stripped down approach to their pop. The guitars are solid again and just as spotty and dedicated. A weighty chop beat lines up off into the horizon and they work on instilling some kind of humanity through repetition. It sounds counterintuitive, and this side has something to do with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs sloppy brutish snarl as much as glitch. It devolves as it goes, the vocal turning into another synth sound in their arsenal that they have no problem tossing right into the fire.
Check out Metal Postcard's page for places in the US to pick this up, or try contacting Sean directly for an international shipping quote.


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The Future:
Advanced Communications & Information Tech Center (ACITC)
ACITC University Visualization and Animation Group (UVAG)
Scientific Modeling and Visualization Classroom (SMVC)
Advanced Communications & Information Technology Center ACITC
Virginia Tech is committed to building an Advanced Communications and Information Technology Center (ACITC) building which is presently under construction. To the right is a picture of a tentative model showing how the ACITC building connects with the current library. One of the ACITC activities is the Library Information Systems. The link between information technology and the library is the bridge spanning the present mall in front of the VT War Memorial.
Preliminary plans include the creation of nine activities that support the development or use of information and communications technologies. The ACITC Building will house nine activities or centers which are listed below along with the respective "ACITC authors".
Human Computer Interaction: Center / ISE Laboratory, John Carroll
Fiber Optics, Rick Claus
Wireless Communications/Mobile and Portable Radio Group, Ted Rappaport,
Parallel Computing, Cal Ribbens
Univeristy Visualization and Animation Group: / VT - CAVE(tm), Ron Kriz
Computer Networking, Judy Lilly
Multimedia and Learning Resources, John Moore
High Technology Classrooms
Library Information Systems
Principal Contacts:
David Ford, Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs, fordd@vt.edu, 330 Burruss Hall
University Architect, Robert Livingston, Capital Project Manager, Capital Desing and Construction, Sterret Facilities Complex.
A group of ACITC "authors", Virginia Tech administrators and key faculty planned a trip to NCSA (Oct95) to discuss possible collaborations with NCSA that might benefit our respective programs. As a result of our visit to NCSA we submitted a proposal to NCSA to become a partner with NCSA in our future activities related to supercomputing, computer communications and visualization. Our proposal was accepted and Virginia Tech is now part of the NCSA-SGI Power Grid Alliance. This alliance provides training and offers substantial discounts on SGI equipment. As a result of this alliance NCSA was a partner in Viriginia Tech's NSF CISE ARI proposal to build a CAVE for the ACITC and also invited Virginia Tech to participate in the renewal of NCSA as an NSF supercomputer center for the next ten years: NCSA-Partnership in Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI). Related to the NCSA-SGI Power Grid Alliance the College of Engineering purchased an I-Desk system to create the Visualization and Animation Laboratory of Engineering (VALE)
The ACITC University Visualization and Animation Group (UVAG): "VT-CAVE(tm)"
In collaboration with NCSA the ACITC University Visualization and Animation Group (UVAG) will house a "CAVE". We plan on using the CAVE not only as a research tool but also as a classroom for key lectures that can benefit from access to these resources. An expand view of sections A & B show the details of the lab and classroom. As a founding member of the CHCI center we plan on working closely with the newly formed University Center for Human Computer Interactioni (CHCI) (E). These and other activities, shown in the figure to the Left, in a top view showing the flow information from the Parallel Computations Group (A) into the Visualization and Animation Group (A,B). The flow of information can continue into the Multimedia Lab (D) and the Learning Resources Lab (F) and the Learning Resources Classroom (G). Together, from this experience, we will develop appropriate and useful interfaces that will benefit the variety of educational and research programs both on and off campus. A vision statement explains how CAVE(tm) technology will be used to build a bridge between research and education programs at Virginia Tech: Artists will work with 3D objects just like Biochemists ,who work with complex 3D chemical structures, Fluid Dynamists, who work with 3D volumes, and Architects, who walk through 3D structures. Such a center will serve all Colleges and Departments on campus. An addition to the Visualization Group is the Animation Group. A proposal has been submitted to combine the Visualization and Animation Groups into one. Another addition to the UVAG is the Scientific Modeling and Visualization Classroom (SMVC) which will be located in the shared Visualization Lab area next to the CAVE. In the spirit of the ACITC philosophy to link information resources both on- and off-campus, Visual Numerics Inc. (VNI) and Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUN) has co-sponsored the SMVC and the SUN/VNI Java Wave Server in an effort to create a "Distributed Visual Scientifc Computing Enviornment". Associated with SMVC and its' server is a NSF funded "Combined Research Curriculum Developement" (CRCD) project to create an interactive visual computing environment for research collaboration and curriculum development using Java and Web technologies.
Presently we are in the process of creating a University Center that can be used by other off-campus universities/companies and on-campus researchers and faculty. The Research Division is currently creating advisory committees for CAVE activities that will provide quidelines for both off- and on-campus CAVE projects.
University Visualization Core Team Members:
Doug Bowman, Computer Science
Debby Hix, Computer Science
David Bevan, Biochemistry
Bob Schubert, Architecture and Urban Studies
Ron Kriz, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Chema de la Garza, Civil Engr.
Bob Fields, Arts and Art History
Tim Mack, Entomology
Joan McLain-Kark, Interior Design
Cal Ribbens, Computer Science (also ACITC Author of High Performance Computing)
David Tegarden, Business
John R. Wenrich, Instructional Technology
Because of the extended interest across campus the "core" group is in the process of creating a new University Center "Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments", which will replace the old name University and Visualization and Animation Group. You can also review a list of Extended Team Members:
Proposals related to ACITC and the Computer Visualization and Animation Group:
DARPA: Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (White Paper) not funded.
NCSA SGI Power Grid Alliance (proposal) accepted.
NSF: Academic Research Infrastructure (White Paper) (Final Proposal) funded.
NCSA PACI Proposal, Funded. Virginia Tech is a partner with NCSA in the renewal as an NSF supercomputing center.
NSF Combined Research Curriculum Development CRCD
ONR NAVy Collaborative Integrated Information Technology Initiative (NAVCIITI)
ONR DURIP Virtual Ships and Ship-Mounted Cranes.
Scientific Modeling and Visualization Classroom
Ron Kriz
This university classroom would directly meet the needs of courses that depend heavily on sophisticated, hands-on, interactive graphics, scientific visualization, and virtual reality hardware and software to develop and study models of physical phenomena. While the facility could conceivably function in an "open" laboratory, together with the existing Laboratory for Scientific Visual Analysis, mode during off-hours, thereby benefiting other courses and research, the primary purpose of the classroom is to provide a sophisticated instructional environment for regularly scheduled courses. We have submitted an Education Grant Proposal to Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SUN) and Visual Numerics Incorporated (VNI) for additional hardware and software. Additional funding was provided by VNI to develop a Distributed Visual Computing Environment where web based educational tools were created by combining Sun's Java and VNI's PV-Wave. This collaboration was largley motivated by a student project, "Scientific Applications on the Internet: PV-Wave and Java" by Arturo Falck.
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Third City formed recently from the embers of an intended one-off electro acoustic improv show in Preston. Although having worked in various combinations of two in the past, Jon Aveyard, Carl Brown, Josh Horsley and Dan Wilkinson decided to pool their talents to form this supergroup of electro-acoustic musicians.
Creating direct, short and structured improvisations using a wide variety of sound sources, the aim is to dive straight into the good stuff and then quit whilst ahead, yet still retain the precariousness and enchantment that comes about through improvisation.


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The latest work by artist Ben Pease is a tribute to one of the great Chief's of the Crow Tribe, Sits in the Middle of the Land.
Artist Ben Pease has produced this beautiful image of Crow Chief Sits in the Middle of the Land who was an important negotiator at Fort Parker. Ben is a Crow tribal member and a descendant of the first civilian agent at Fort Parker, Fellowes D. Pease. Ben has generously offered a portion of the profits from the sale of prints of this work to the purchase of the historical site of Fort Parker, the first Crow Agency.
Prints will be offered at the following sizes and prices:
10 prints at 18″x 24″ at $250 ea.
each piece is printed in quality archival inks on heavy paper. The final result is an astonishing likeness to the original in every delicate detail. Ben will sign and number each print.
click here to purchase prints
Learn more about Ben and his work here: http://www.benpeasevisions.com/
Learn more about Fort Parker, its preservation and its history here: http://fortparkerhistory.org/


For Info on how to enter an awesome KitchenAid Giveaway, scroll to the very bottom of this post.
Spicy Mongolian Beef and Pineapple made in a crock pot has such a great blend of sweet and spicy flavor and the meat gets super tender from slow cooking. This recipe is sure to become a family favorite!
You can find this recipe along with many more in my friend Kelly Kwok's new cookbook The Asian Slow Cooker: Exotic Favorites for Your Crockpot.
You may already be familiar with Kelly from her popular food blog, Life Made Sweeter. I've been a reader of Kelly's blog for several years. She always has the most gorgeous desserts. But I'm really excited she wrote a slow cooker cookbook. I love using my crockpot and good slow cooker cookbooks are few and far between.
Kelly has taken favorite childhood recipes and adapted them to fit the needs of the busy cook in her debut cookbook.
Lots of times, you think of slow cooker food as being bland and one dimensional, but Kelly's recipes include ingredients like miso paste, ginger, and Sriracha for lots of depth of flavor.
There are 80 delectable Asian dishes and desserts all together, plus beautiful color photographs. The recipes can either be made in a crockpot or JUST ONE POT.
There are so many recipes I want to try including Dan Dan Noodles, Beef Chow Fun Stir-Fried Rice Noodles, and Lemon Chicken.
If they are anything like this Spicy Mongolian Beef with Pineapple, they will deserve a place on our regular dinner rotation.
Mongolian Beef has always been one of my favorite Asian dishes but until I tried Kelly's recipe, I had never made it in a crock pot. It's made with thin slices of flank steak that are coated in cornstarch and seared briefly in a pan. Then they slow cook with a super flavorful sauce made from soy sauce, hoisin sauce, beef broth, Thai sweet chili sauce, ginger, garlic, and red chili flakes.
I love the addition of pineapple chunks and shredded carrots. The sauce gets super thick and really coats the beef well. You are going to love this slow cooker meal!
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In a large zip-top bag, toss together 1/2 cup cornstarch, baking soda, salt and pepper. Add beef and give it a shake to coat.
In a large skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Sear the beef for about 1 to 2 minutes on both sides and add to slow cooker.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the soy sauce, broth, sugar, hoisin sauce, chili sauce, chili flakes, garlic and ginger until dissolved and pour over the beef.
Cover and cook on LOW for about 3 to 4 hours.
About 30 minutes prior to serving, whisk together remaining cornstarch with water in a small bowl and stir into the slow cooker along with the carrots, pineapples, and pineapple juice.
Cover with lid, turn heat to HIGH and allow the sauce to cook and thicken up for about 20 to 30 minutes.
Serve over rice and garnish with green onions and sesame seeds, if desired.
The Asian Slow Cooker officially releases on November 8th!
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Made this few days ago, had it for dinner with hubby and he loved it …. we loved it.
That is great to hear Diana!
Step 3 says to add sugar, but sugar is not listed among the ingredients. Should it be added? If so how much?
Fixed it. So sorry about that. It is 1/3 cup packed brown sugar.
This looks beyond outstanding!! Seriously, all your pictures are simply gorgeous! Thank you so much for sharing this dish and also my book with your visitors! I appreciate it a lot!!!
Christin, I am adding this to the menu for sure! It looks SO delicious! And I totally want that cookbook!
I just love Kelly's cookbook and I can't wait to try this recipe! This looks so delicious, Christin!
Love Kelly and I was just admiring her book and loving all the delicious recipes she included. This one you made looks amazing and I know you did her proud! I have to get cooking asap!
I ordered Kelly's cookbook and can't wait to get it! This dish looks gorgeous, Christin! I love the beef and pineapple combo. So perfect for dinner!


A Wisconsin woman said Southwest Airlines refused to let her use her cell phone to make a call that could have saved her husband's life before he committed suicide.
The airline has since offered Momsen-Evers a refund for her ticket but has not provided an explanation of its handling of the situation.
The flight attendant slapped the phone out of her hand?
I'm not sure I buy that... I've been told to put my phone away several times without it being slapped out of my hands.
"They got on their knees, put their hats over their heart and gave me the, 'I regret to inform you that your husband has died,'"Momsen-Evers said.
I thought the same thing, although I have no idea what the standard practice for something like that is.
It's a real shame because it sounds like he was reaching out for help and perhaps she could have talked him out of it.
That, or at the very least contacted the police or someone else back home that could've gotten to him in time.
The part that really irked me from the article is that they offered to refund her ticket price....I mean, really? Like that matters?
Full disclosure, I hate flying, I think that airlines treat passengers like cattle herding them into small spaces and have among the worst customer service of any industry. If I can drive it in less the 15 hours I'm driving.
That said something sounds fishy here.
I am highly doubtful that a flight attendant slapped the phone down and I also don't see police officers taking knees to inform the lady of her husband's death.
Let's assume she's embellishing those details a bit. Does that really change anything?
Maybe, maybe not. I would really like to hear the other side.
In the article, the airline stated: ""Our hearts go out to the Evers family during this difficult time. Our flight attendants are trained to notify the Captain if there is an emergency that poses a hazard to the aircraft or to the passengers on-board. In this situation, the pilots were not notified.""
I mean if it were me, I would have made the call anyway. If the plane doesn't take off, so be it. There will be other flights.
Very true. That's a good point.
Still doesn't explain their side of it. I'm not saying they were right but I would like to hear their side of what went down.
I don't know if anyone has noticed but I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to people making claims of being harmed by some corporate entity with deep pockets. Before I call for Southwest to pay through the nose I'd like to hear their side.
I think the only real answer would have been to tase her too.
Who's asking them to pay?


We met a lovely group of American girls and boys at the hostel who were heading to Yasaka Hall Gion Corner to watch the Geisha show. Tim and I met 2 amazing girls from the hostel. Amanda and Dani who are extremely friendly and sweet. Hope we will get to meet them again.
They asked us if we were free to join and since we had nothing else to do, we decided to go and watch the show.
We highly recommend the place and just a little tip, read the catalogue that's provided before the show. It has the full translation so you won't be clueless when watching. Note that the whole show is in Japanese. There will be a puppet show which I found creepy and a show about tea ceremony and arranging flowers. There will also be a comedy show which is hundreds and hundreds years old.
So if ever you are in Kyoto you must visit Yasaka Hall for the show. It is totally worth it.


Raise your hand if you're a taco fiend! I could seriously eat tacos every single day and never get sick of them. Unfortunately, my family doesn't always share my fervor. That means we have to mix it up so I can still get my taco fix while serving up something a little different for the family. That's where these easy cheesy mini black bean quesadillas come into play. They are quick and easy to make and packed with that taco flavor. It's a win-win.
First, strain and rinse off your beans.
Add rinsed beans, cheese, and taco seasoning to a medium mixing bowl.
Next, toss ingredients to combine.
To cook these on the stovetop, place a tortilla in a lightly greased frying pan over medium heat.
Add ½ cup of seasoned beans and cheese mix to half of the tortilla and fold in half.
Cook the quesadilla over medium heat 1-2 minutes per side or until each side is lightly browned.
To cook your quesadillas in the over, pre-heat it to 350º F and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
Next, add your filled and folded quesadilla to the pan and bake 10 minutes until the sides are browned.
Lastly, cut quesadillas into fourths and serve warm with sour cream or salsa for dipping.
I love the crunch followed immediately by the creamy inside with every bite of these easy cheesy mini black bean quesadillas. We usually have them for lunch but they also make a great party or game day appetizer. Now you can still get your taco fix without boring your family. These delicious babies are freezer-friendly too! Store them in a gallon freezer bag for up to 2 weeks. Then pull out and microwave for 2 minutes per whole quesadilla as needed. One warning for you: freezing and microwaving these makes the quesadillas lose their crispiness on the outside. They are still totally delicious, of course.


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Q: Correct Structure for storing data in realtime DB Firebase I have a mobile app, on which user can register with mobile_number. When one user is registered successfully app asks to access contact directory permission from user. After user gives required permission, I store user's contact numbers to firebase DB.
Later if new user registers, i want to see which of his contacts are already registered with my app, and send them a in-app notification like following:

Your friend/Contact ABC has registered on XYZ app, welcome him/her.

I am currently storing data in firebase realtime DB in following format.
contacts/"+registeredUserMobileNo+"/contacts/"+UserContactNumber1);

contacts/"+registeredUserMobileNo+"/contacts/"+UserContactNumber2);

How can i check using current data that how many of his contacts already registered with my app?
Is there a better structure of DB i can create?
Thanks,

A: I would suggest that you denormalize the data and create two different nodes:
The first node would be exactly the one you mention in your post:
- contacts
   - registerUserId1
       - userContacts
           - userContactNumber1: true
           - UserContactNumber2: true
   - registerUserId2
       - userContacts
           - userContactNumber3: true
           - userContactNumber4: true
           - UserContactNumber2: true

The second node would contain the list of UserContactNumber (i.e. the ones from the contact directories) in such a way you can easily fetch the users to which you have to send an alert when one of these UserContactNumber becomes a user of the app. Like the following:
- userContactNumbers
   - userContactNumber1
       - registerUserId1: true
   - userContactNumber2
       - registerUserId1: true
       - registerUserId2: true
   - userContactNumber3
       - registerUserId1: true
   - userContactNumber4
       - registerUserId1: true

Then, when a new user registers, you just have to query the userContactNumbers node to see if it contains the new user number, and if it is the case, you send the alerts accordingly to the list of numbers.
In order to keep these two nodes in sync, you should use the update() method, as explained here in the doc.

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Wanås Estate, is a 15th century castle and a modern organic farm producing dairy, dry-aged beef, grain and vegetables. Sculpture park Wanås attracts art lovers from all over the world. Treat yourself afterwards on a meal in the restaurant.
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Jun 14 WHO SHOULD I ROOT FOR IN THE WORLD CUP?
Lindsay Eanet
TV, Reviews, Sports
The World Cup starts today, Heauxs! And since the U.S. Men's National Team did what the U.S. has been doing a lot of since November of 2016 and spectacularly sabotaged and humiliated themselves in front of the rest of the world, many soccer fans are coming into the tournament without an active rooting interest. If you want to participate in the sports conversation but don't know who to bandwagon for, we're here to help with some suggestions.
There are 32 teams in this World Cup, so these recommendations are far from comprehensive, and we encourage you to explore the teams not mentioned here as well, but we hope this will be a good starting point. Let's do some soccer!
If you're just looking to pick the obvious favorite: Brazil
Look, there's nothing wrong with straight-up picking an obvious contender, unless you're a Patriots fan, in which case I already hate all your sports opinions. After going full Benny Hill on their home turf against Germany in 2014, Brazil has the Fleetwood Mac's Rumours of World Cup starting lineups: every piece is iconic and there's not a dud in the bunch. (In this case, Neymar is obviously "The Chain.")
If you're a messy bitch who lives for drama: Spain
There's always one team in the tournament who comes in as a top contender and then right before the thing starts, the wheels start to fall off and bridges are burned and cliches get mixed up. You've had four fucking years to invest in a pneumatic drill to make sure the bolts are on tight, but instead you end up being France in 2010, where tensions between Les Bleus and manager Raymond Domenech ran so high the players literally went on strike and refused to practice. I promise I am not just stereotyping; this actually happened.
Anyway, Spain, who are actually good and could win, went and FIRED THEIR MANAGER two days before their tournament opener. What could possibly go wrong?
If you want to be a good neighbor/co-host: Mexico
El Tri has to deal with the closest thing to a real Group of Death in this year's tournament, with tough draws against Germany, South Korea and a now Zlatan-less Sweden. They also have to deal with us, their neighbors to the north, full of "Dos a Cero" scarf-wielding bros and an administration whose sole act of even remote decency or humanity in almost two years has been commuting a woman's prison sentence because Kim Kardashian told them to.
The U.S. will also now be co-hosting the World Cup with our two immediate landlocked neighbors in eight years, and I think it would be the neighborly thing for us to cheer for Mexico in this tournament. And Mexico is a very good and fun team in a good and fun group (especially if you find the bar where Pancho Villa's Army members are also watching), so you'll most likely be watching some of the best soccer in the whole Cup.
If you want to troll the American soccer bro in your life: Costa Rica
If the U.S. Men's National Team shitting the bed in qualifiers and all the footage of sad soccer frat guys gives you a bit of a schadenfreude-ian tingle, then why not reward the team that did the most damage with your love?
Mexico finishing at the top of CONCACAF was kind of inevitable, but no one owned America harder in qualifiers than Los Ticos. Well, the USMNT really owned itself through its own crushing mediocrity, but Costa Rica exposed their weaknesses like Paris Geller on her debate team opponents.
If you love a Good Sports Narrative Arc: Egypt or Argentina
The World Cup is full of compelling player narrative arcs, but none more than that of Mohamed Salah, the floppy-haired, endlessly endearing goal machine powering the Egyptian National Team. Salah is coming off of the best season of his career, where he won the Premier League Golden Boot and became an instant beloved icon at Liverpool Football Club and across the soccering world, promoting visibility and acceptance of Muslims in a country that still struggles heavily with Islamophobia. His skills brought Liverpool to the Champions League final, where, 20 minutes into the match, a dirty tackle from Sergio Ramos injured his shoulder, and he left the pitch in tears.
Egypt's supporters are still waiting to see if Salah will be able to play in their opening match against Uruguay, and I'm waiting to see if he'll stop taking stupid photo ops with anti-gay dictators (@ Mo Salah's publicist: DO BETTER.). If he can do both, he'll be the star of this World Cup, and be able to bring an amazing year of soccering full circle.
The other big individual player narrative worth following is that of Lionel Messi. Dude has more silverware than a Sur La Table: he's won the Ballon d'Or five times and taken Barcelona to nine La Liga titles and four Champions League titles. He has made a very strong case for being considered the Soccer GOAT, and could probably be considered the greatest living athlete who isn't Serena Williams. My favorite weird soccer announcer, Ray Hudson, once described playing against Messi as "like playing poker with a witch." He is so good at soccer that I legitimately forgot he was named in the Panama Papers until I started writing this.
The one thing Messi doesn't have though, besides a good accountant? A World Cup title with Argentina, who made it to the final in 2014, only to lose to Germany. Will this finally be his year? Don't you want to find out now? Isn't this shit compelling, even if you hate sports?
If you want to live your World Cup dreams vicariously through a group of Very Regular Dudes: Iceland
Iceland is a country of 330,000 people. For comparison, Kansas City has roughly 150,000 more people. By virtue of this tiny population, if you are a guy living in Iceland age 20-40, you have a roughly one in 2,000 chance of playing for the Icelandic National Team. Heimir Hallgrímsson, the National Team's manager, worked as a dentist in his hometown throughout his entire playing and coaching career, up until 2016, when he became the manager of the National Team full-time.
Most dentists just coach their kids' AYSO teams, but not Heimir—he led Iceland to an unexpected epic run at the Euro 2016 tournament and World Cup qualification for the first time. They've got the whole world doing the Viking Clap. Iceland will undoubtedly be the first choice for bandwagon fans wanting to root for a lovable underdog, and have an excuse to show you all their pictures from their epic trip to the Blue Lagoon.
If you're going for literal style points or the coolest nickname: Nigeria
Nigeria's World Cup LEWKS have been written up in the pages (or Internet pages at least) of Vogue and GQ, and they indeed have the coolest kit of any side in the tournament, which will probably feature in the crowd at a lot of music festivals this summer. Even cooler are the matching traditional garb-inspired team travel outfits. Nigeria is a talented side that certainly has substance as well as style, so if you want both, there you go.
Also, their team nickname is far and away the best in the tournament. Nigeria's National Teams are known as the Super Eagles. Not just any Eagles. Not just Eagles: Their Greatest Hits. The fucking Super Eagles. How can you not love a team called the Super Eagles?
If you love Ines Bellina as much as we do: Peru
Esquire named Peru as one of the "top teams hipsters will be rooting for" in this World Cup. I don't know if Heauxs Peru Correspondent Ines Bellina is a hipster, but you don't have to be a hipster or Ines to cheer for Peru! They're immensely likable underdogs and were super fun to watch in their qualifying run in one of the toughest regions. If Heauxs adopted Peru as its official World Cup team of choice, I wouldn't be mad about it. I just hope this is a better experience for Peru than the last season of The Bachelor.
If your favorite part of soccer is the goal celebration: Colombia
If you're unbothered by someone who has a "THIRD BITING INCIDENT" entry on their Wikipedia page: Uruguay
If you want to pick a real contender but you're also here for the butts: Belgium
I said this in 2014 and I will say it again. Belgium could win this whole damn thing. They went undefeated in their qualifying group, putting up scores like 8-1 and 9-0 (granted, those were against Estonia and Gibraltar, but still) with an immensely talented squad whose members contribute to all-star lineups all over Europe during the regular season.
But on-pitch talents aside, it's also important to call attention to Belgium because of their captain, Eden Hazard, who is, as far as we know, the only World Cup star whose butt is so iconic, it has its own Twitter account.
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Jun 14 THE PRETEND WEDDING OF THE CENTURY (RHONY RECAP)


This is the sixth installment of my series for FANgirl looking at screenshots of all the women that appeared in Star Wars films. I've enjoyed looking at where women are (and aren't) in the first five films and seeing the more diverse roles women start to play in Star Wars films as years go by. The journey began with my breakdown of Episode IV: A New Hope if you want to start at the beginning of this series.
Looking back at the first five Star Wars films unfortunately almost all of the female roles (except for of course Leia and Padmé) are in the background, and the women don't have much (or anything) to say. Finding female pilots, aliens, Jedi, and bounty hunters in The Phantom Menace (TPM) and Attack of the Clones (AotC) where there were few to none in A New Hope (ANH), The Empire Strikes Back (ESB), and Return of the Jedi (RotJ) does show progress in female representation in Star Wars. However, if you're looking for a woman in a Star Wars film that looks like you (and speaks – and is more than an extra) – and you're not white and a brunette – there's still room for a ton of improvement for female Star Wars roles.
One of the main reasons I wanted to write this series is because of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (RotS). I really love this movie – in large part because I'm a huge fan of Obi-Wan Kenobi – and there is a ton of Kenobi in this film. But there's no changing the fact that in RotS the women are very hard to find. And one of my favorite female Star Wars characters, Padmé, is not served as well as she could have been.
RotS has the fewest female speaking roles of any Star Wars film. Only Padmé speaks. Which is something I didn't realize until I started breaking down this film. Even in The Empire Strikes Back a female rebel solider had a line about an ion cannon. So there's a lot of Padmé in this article because she is really the only one to talk about.
Crazy side note. If you count the female speaking roles in the deleted scenes the number of female speaking roles in RotS jumps from one to six. We'll get to that later.
Before I digress too much more, let's start from the beginning and take a look at all of the women in RotS.
The first glimpses of women in RotS are in a crowd scene after Palpatine's ship has landed. Of note: this scene is about 25 minutes into RotS – a much longer time to introduce a female character than in any previous Star Wars film.
From left to right: (unidentified woman), Terr Taneel (Amanda Lucas), and in blue Chi Eekway (Katie Lucas).
On the far left below you can see a couple luxury droids called BC-3000s which have a very feminine look.
First impressions can be deceiving, but they reveal a lot about Padmé's character in RotS and the changes in this character since TPM. The first look we get of Padmé in TPM is of her as Queen of Naboo. She's strong, confidant, and not standing for her people being threatened by the Trade Federation.
In RotS the first glimpse we get of Padmé is of her hiding behind a pillar.
Padmé's role in RotS is very reactive. She's having anxiety (and understandably so) about a variety of issues. Padmé is hiding both a marriage and now a pregnancy. She's worried that if the Queen of Naboo finds out she's pregnant she might lose her job as Senator. And it's getting more and more clear that her husband is not emotionally keeping it all together.
The missed opportunity for Padmé in RotS is that she is still a senator but we rarely get to see her in this role. Instead of fighting for the survival of the Republic we see Padmé multiple times in her apartment, in many cases trying to calm down Anakin.
Padmé is in many ways very alone in RotS and her loyal handmaidens that appeared in TPM and AotC are very hard to spot in RotS. The handmaiden absence doesn't make much sense since many senators have aides in RotS. In the past Padmé has trusted her handmaidens with her life time and time again, so you would think she could trust them with her secrets now.
C-3PO in many ways takes the place of a handmaiden as Padmé's companion and supporter in RotS. And while there's certainly nothing wrong with more C-3PO in a Star Wars film, this switch from handmaiden to droid created by Anakin, serves to isolate Padmé even more from her life as a politician. A conversation between Padmé and a handmaiden like Dormé would have gone a long way in Padme's character development in this film.
The Opera House scene in RotS offers another fun chance in a Star Wars film to show a crowd scene where a variety of humans and aliens get dressed up and mingle.
Terr Taneel and Chi Eekway can again be spotted in the photo below. The female with the red hair in the middle is Rystáll Sant, who it appears may also be one of the dancers from Jabba's Palace in RotJ.
Palpatine's aide Sly Moore (Sandi Finlay) is sitting on Palpatine's left in the photo below. This is a perfect example of a character it would be fun to hear a few lines from even though her silence does make her a bit creepier.
More women can be seen on the far right in the photo below.
Jedi Master Luminara Unduli directs some troops on the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk below. Why Luminara doesn't actually speak any lines in this scene is a bit of a mystery to me. We just see her gesture in this quick shot.
Speaking of female Jedi, there are two female Jedi on the High Council in RotS – Shaak Ti and Stass Allie. In previous Jedi High Council scenes in RotS you don't get a glimpse of these two female Jedi despite seeing several male Jedi – which again, is just kind of odd/annoying/frustrating. As in previous High Council scenes only Yoda, Mace Windu, Ki-Adi-Mundi, and Obi-Wan Kenobi talk in these scenes. If you look hard enough you do get a glimpse of the back of Shaak Ti in the holographic image below.
Are there any female Wookiees in RotS? I would assume yes. But it's hard to tell from the glimpses we get of them just as it was hard to tell if any of the Ewoks and Gungans were female. It makes sense that Wookiees might all be dressed the same during a battle.
After Palpatine executes Order 66 we see many Jedi in different locations die very quickly. Considering that few of these Jedi (female or male) even said a word in the previous films, it does unfortunately make sense that not a lot of screen time would be taken up by these roles now. Two female Jedi are shown during this section of the film.
Stass Allie (Nina Fallon) on a speeder bike right before her death.
It's hard to tell if there are any girls in this shot of the younglings below, but I think the child third from the left might be. There were definitely girls among the younglings in AotC.
After Order 66 has been carried out Bail Organa's Aide, Sheltay Retrac (Caroline de Souza Correa), can be seen in this brief shot behind Bail Organa.
We got a much better look at Separatist Shu Mai in AotC. Here we just get a brief glimpse of her on the far right before her demise.
Finally, at about 90 minutes into the film, we get to see Padmé in her role as a senator. This is the first look we get of one of Padmé's handmaiden's, Moteé (Kristy Wright), who is also in the senate box.
After her scene in the Senate, Padmé travels to Mustafar to try and talk some sense into Anakin. Her love does not blind her to the terrible choices Anakin has made and Padmé is strong enough to tell him that she will not follow him down this path.
After departing Mustafar, Padmé gives birth to twins. The maternity droid (below) has a feminine voice.
After her death post-childbirth, Padmé's funeral takes place in her home world of Naboo. Not surprisingly, many women and girls can be seen attending her funeral to pay their respects.
Padmé's mother Jobal Naberrie (Trisha Noble) walks behind her casket below. Padmé's mother and father also appeared in scenes that were deleted from AotC where they spent time talking with both Padmé and Anakin. I think it's reasonable to assume that viewers would guess these characters are her parents or some kind of family members, but without the deleted scenes as context they don't have the same emotional pull.
Pooja Naberrie (Hayley Mooy) appears below. This little girl is Padmé's niece who also appeared in a deleted scene from AotC.
Handmaiden Hollé can be spotted beside Jar Jar Binks below.
Another handmaiden, Umé (unknown actress) and Queen Apailana (Keisha Castle-Hughes) are below. It's impossible to know from these shots if these were Padmé's or the current Queen's handmaidens.
Bail Organa brings baby Leia to his wife Breha Organa (Rebecca Jackson Mendoza) so they can safely raise her.
Obi-Wan Kenobi brings baby Luke to Beru Lars (Bonnie Piesse) and Owen. The film ends with a shot of these three characters.
As I noted above, Padmé is the only female character that speaks in RotS. That number jumps to six if you add in the deleted scenes.
Shaak Ti (Orli Shoshan) can barely be seen in RotS, but that wasn't the original plan. Her death was filmed twice. In the first version below she dies early on in the film, killed by General Grievous.
In the second version below Anakin kills Shaak Ti in the Jedi Temple. In both versions Shaak Ti has a line of dialogue.
In the scene below a group of senators meet and talk about the need to create a group to resist Palpatine's corruption. This is the best look we get of the feminine luxury droid BC-3000 (below).
Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) in the same scene.
Terr Taneel (below right) is also in this scene. Padmé, Mon Mothma, and Terr Taneel all have lines in this scene which is a rare case of a group of women talking to each in a Star Wars film.
Another deleted scene from RotS is also a conversation among Senators concerned about the current state of events. Four women speak in this scene – Chi Eekway (left), Padmé, Mon Mothma, and Bana Breemu.
This deleted scene is the only good look we get of Senator Bana Breemu (Bai Ling) in RotS.
The deleted scene scene below takes place in Palpatine's office where Padmé directly confronts Palpatine about her concerns. Senator Nee Alavar (Rena Owen) is on the far left. I believe this scene would have benefitted Padmé's character the most had it been left in.
I understand how a bunch of scenes that involve characters (many we have never seen before) talking about politics were seen as easy cuts to make in the editing room. But it's a shame that we don't get to see Padmé doing more of her job in RotS and that Mon Mothma couldn't find her way into a scene somehow. I still see Padmé as a strong character in RotS – I just wish there would have been more of her in RotS and that there would have been more dynamic female characters in RotS in general.
This completes my breakdown of RotS and the Star Wars prequels. Up next, a journey to Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens.
Sources: StarWars.com, Wookieepedia, Ultimate Star Wars, and Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia.


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We've got a new movie series coming your way, brought to you by FlickIt Fridays at Naro and Naro Video. The video store gang will be set up in the lobby selling O'Connor Brewing Co. beer and wine, and will be introducing each film in the series.
We're kicking "Naro-Minded" off Fri, Feb 10th with Harrison Ford in Ridley Scott's BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT. It's the futuristic year of 2019 and Los Angeles has become a dark and depressing metropolis. Ex-detective Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to track down and eliminate a team of "replicants" (humanoid androids) that have escaped from an outer space mining colony and have taken refuge here on Earth. During his search for the fugitives, he discovers some disturbing secrets about the future plans of the androids' manufacturer, the Tyrell Corporation.


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A PERMANENT EXHIBITION WITHIN THE MONUMENT TO VICTORY
Harper's Magazine: The Counter-Monument. Disempowering a memorial to Fascism
"Monuments to shameful historical legacies, like Confederate statues in the United States, are often caught between demands for preservation and calls for destruction. In Bolzano, the commission managed to avoid that binary by de-signing a kind of counter-monument."
Harper's Magazine, August 2020, p. 63.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Denkmäler des Faschismus in Südtirol – Umbauen statt Abreissen
"Früher grüsste der Duce ungestört – doch kürzlich hat Südtirol eine Lösung für den Umgang mit fragwürdigen Denkmälern gefunden.
Nach jahrzehntelangem Streit darüber, ob Denkmäler von Benito Mussolini abgerissen oder stehen gelassen werden sollten, hat man sich in der norditalienischen Grenzregion auf eine Alternative geeinigt, die Vorbild für andere sein könnte."
NZZ, July 15, 2020, p. 5 (Ruth Fulterer)
European Museum of the Year Award 2016
Winner of the European Museum of the Year Award 2016 announced in San Sebastian, Spai.
The European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA), organised by the European Museum Forum (EMF), was presented at the 2016 Award Ceremony held in San Sebastian, Spain, in collaboration with TOPIC, Tolosa's International Puppet Centre, on 9 April 2016. This year's ceremony, held for 39th time, was marked by the centenary of Kenneth Hudson, founder of EMYA and EMF.
The Ceremony was attended by over 200 people from 29 European countries.
BZ ´18–´45.One Monument, One City, Two Dictatorships: permanent exhibition within the Monument to Victory, Bolzano, Italy has received Special Commendations.
The exhibition reintegrates a controversial monument, which has long served as the focal point of battles over politics, culture, and regional identity. The project is a highly courageous and professional initiative to promote humanism, tolerance and democracy.
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"BZ '18–'45: one monument, one city, two dictatorships", is an exhibition opened to the public in July 2014. It illustrates the history of the Monument to Victory, designed by Marcello Piacentini and erected by the Fascist regime between 1926 and 1928.
The monument reflects and provides a link to local historical events during the twenty years of Fascism and the Nazi occupation, within the context of national and international events in the years between the two World Wars (1918–1945).
The exhibition also covers the radical urban transformations for the construction of a new "Italian" city of Bolzano, from the end of the 1920s.
Finally, the exhibition confronts the difficult relationship between the different language groups, caused by the overbearing legacy of Fascism, within the evolving social and political framework of the second half of the twentieth century to the present day.
By a joint decision taken by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Affairs and Tourism, the Autonomous Province of Bolzano and Bolzano City Council in 2012, it was decided to open the monument to the public as well as displaying there a permanent exhibition.
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Radio Bayern 2 (Munich): "Victory or Peace. On the difficulties of the memorialisation process in South Tyrol" (in german)
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- Added the "Draw Legend" function to the secondary toolbar.
- Enabled the ability to automatically create an electrical symbols legend for all electrical devices within the model.
After working my way down through the list of possible symbols I'm surprised to see that there are so many and the legend can get quite large.
I think the real power in this plugin is not the ability to insert 3D components into your model, technically you don't even need a plugin to do this, just a bunch of pre-configured components (.skp files). The real strength is the automation of the 2D symbols and the parametrics of the plugin (allowing you to swap out devices types, colors, height and rotation). Now with the addition of a parametric symbols legend it automates yet another tedious task.
I'm fairly happy with the way the legend has come out but for future work I may include a parameter in the global settings which allows the user to enable sub-titles (divides the legend into logical sections: outlets, switches, lights, etc...) as well as specify the number of columns that legend should be divided into, this becomes more of an issue when there are a lot of electrical symbols to display.
I think some people would argue that I go too deep with my plugins (too many settings, parameters, options etc...) I would agree that if possible simple is often better. The goal is to make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
For those that are interested I will explain how the new "Draw Legend" tool works under the hood.
First the plugin finds all of the groups in the model (active_entities, if no group or component is open for editing then this will be the same as entities at the root of the model).
It then examines each sub-category and dives into the attributes library for each electrical device (group). The attributes library tells it what 2D symbol is associated with that particular device. It then creates a new list of symbols to draw for the legend for each category at the same time discarding or preventing duplicates.
The symbols shown in the legend are drawn, for the most part, using the same methods as the symbols drawn for the actual devices however some of them have been altered slightly in order to customize them specifically for the legend.
As you can see there is quite a bit going on under the hood. When a model gets large with hundreds of walls and possibly hundreds of electrical components generating the legend may take up to 30 seconds.
- Added additional NEMA 240V receptacles into the Outlet module: NEMA 6-30R, NEMA 6-50R.
These additional receptacles (and symbols) were per customer request.
Since adding the symbols legend I've had a number of requests for a tool to draw a schedule (similar to how I am drawing the legend).
Now that I've got a fairly solid routine for pulling the electrical data (I will use much of this same code for the estimating tool) it isn't too big of a leap to draw a schedule.
My question is what information do you need or want in this schedule, how do you want it laid out? Every device listed with its parameters or do I group like devices?
Please give feedback in this regard. Also feel free to send me any sample electrical schedules that I can utilize as references.
If I know what I want to output I can probably knock this out in 2-3 hours, most of the underlying code is already in place.