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This is an installation featuring a series of thirteen colorful fractals expoloring the illusion of vibrating depth and 3-D space through color combining.
Sometimes simple is best. It seems that in so many areas of my life, it's the simple things that are most attractive to me. It's no different with fractals some times.
I've always been fascinated with color (as you know by now if you've read my intros in the fractal galleries), but what I'm usually most interested in when creating fractals -- and really almost all of my art (unless they're monochromatic designs), is the wonderful things that happen when different colors interact with each other. I like when space and dimension has the illusion of change, or when the colors kind of jump around or 'vibrate. This is one of the of the benefits of displaying one's art over the net: the monitor does things to colors, and lets them interact with each other in ways that just cannot happen on paper or canvas using traditional media.
To view, click the graphic above. A new window will pop out. To see the next, and each successive, fractal, click the fractal itself. The most effective way to view these fractals is to focus mostly on the center of the 'flower.' For those of you with high-speed connections, they should load fairly quickly and you will have the most optical show, and will notice more expansion and contraction, and 'movement' from one fractal to the next.
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Apparently it's not egg strata- The perfect for brunch crustless egg quiche recipe.
I can't just have regular boring chickens, so I have a mix of crazy looking bantam chickens & regular chickens. Because the bantam chicken group and the regular chicken group act like the Bloods and the Crips, they have to rotate who gets to go outside each day.
Truth be told there are very few foods that I feel are worth the extra bother of raising yourself or buying directly from the farm. I've raised my own veggies, pigs, chickens and cows and I don't think there is much taste difference between the food I grew myself and the stuff at the store. Not knocking the totally self sustainable thing, I just have to weigh time vs convenience. Dairy farming takes up a lot of my time, so I can't spend hours each day tending to extra animal chores or pulling weeds every day from massive garden plots. I do make exceptions to this thought train for a few homegrown items. First, fresh tomatoes should never come from the grocery store, especially out of season. The second exception is chicken eggs. I never knew what I was missing from a life lived on store bought eggs until I had my own chickens. There is no comparing the white shelled and pale yellow yolked chicken egg from the store to the vibrant yellow to orange yolk of a chicken egg you just grabbed out of the coop. Not slamming egg farmers, not everyone can have or wants to have their own chickens, that's for sure. With the longer days my chickens have kicked egg production into high gear and I have a lot of eggs to use up.
So let me start off by saying that I have always called this recipe egg strata. It wasn't until just now when I googled the term "egg strata recipe" to find out how the "experts" tell you to make this that I found out that really my recipe isn't an egg strata at all. It doesn't have layers, apparently, stratas are supposed to have layers. So after some more googling I guess what I made is a crustless egg quiche. Whatever you want to call it, it's tasty, easy and a great way to use up leftovers. The internet also says this is a low carb option, so that's cool I guess.
So, this is what I had on hand to throw in to the recipe this morning. Tomatoes, mushrooms, frozen spinach, olives and ham. You really can use whatever ingredients you want to use. Get creative.
In a large nonstick, ovenproof skillet (a cast iron skillet works great!) assemble your vegetable and meat ingredients. If you have garlic, you should add some to the pan. You can use whatever you would like but be careful that you don't use all frozen veggies and drain any canned veggies well so that you don't end up with too much juice in the pan. Turn the stove on to medium high, add about 1T Olive Oil to the pan and saute your vegetables and meat until they are no longer frozen or raw.
Get out your eggs and your milk.
Bantam chickens lay small eggs. Bantam Araucana chickens lay small green and blue shelled eggs. Our big chickens lay big brown eggs, actually it's more like they lay huge brown eggs.
Even though it's still too cold for our chickens to be going outside, their egg yolks are still much brighter than store eggs. In the summer when they are out eating bugs and stuff their egg yolks are pumpkin orange.
In a bowl crack about 10-12 eggs and add 1/4 cup of milk. Add your salt and pepper and whatever other seasoning you would like, I always add a little smoked chipotle tabasco sauce for some zip. Whisk up the egg mixture until it's all combined and the eggs white and yolks are married or at least engaged. Pour the egg mixture into the pan with the sauteed veggies. At this point I also add some chunks of cheese. Today it was pieces of smoked mozzarella string cheese. But cheddar or feta or even cream cheese would work here. The secret is that you want to leave the chunks big enough that they don't melt and disappear into the mixture.
Don't add bananas. That would be weird.
Return your pan to the stove and turn the burner on Medium. Now this part is important. Don't stir the eggs! Just look at them. Wait for there to be some bubbles of steam that come up through the center of the eggs. When you have several steam bubbles going take the pan off the burner and put it into the oven. Bake the eggs for about 15 minutes. When the timer goes off, take the pan out and sprinkle some more cheese on top, think 1/2 cup of shredded cheddar and put the pan back in the oven for another 5 minutes. The eggs are done when you put a knife into the center and you don't see raw egg. If you shake the pan, there should be no wiggle. If it wiggles or the egg isn't cooked put it back in the oven for another 5 minutes and then check it again.
Let the "Not Egg Strata" cool down for a good 15 minutes before you dig in. This also tastes pretty great room temp and it reheats pretty well in the microwave later.
6 Comments on Apparently it's not egg strata- The perfect for brunch crustless egg quiche recipe.
That sounds like the kinda cooking that occurs in my kitchen!
I am pretty bad at real recipes. I just add some of this and some of that and call it good.
The recipe looks fabulous BUT the chickens are gorgeous! We used to have every variety of chickens and bantams known to mankind…loved those Araucanas' blue eggs! Still have some that we blew out one Easter. Are those German Spitzhauzers (sp?) with the fluffy tail feathers?
Thats so freakin funny you said bloods and crips!!! SO great. This recipe looks pretty, I wonder if you could freeze it?
I'll have to remember this one! Looks really easy and you could make it to feed a lot of people! I'll keep it in mind for when the family is visiting someday.
It can feed a small army for cheap!


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UP elections 2017 live: Voting starts, over 10% polling till 9am in phase 5
New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- The voting for the fifth phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections began on Monday morning for 51 assembly seats spread across 11 districts, including five in the Terai region near the Nepalese border. Over 18.4 million voters, including 9.6million women, will decide the fate of 608 candidates. The districts these constituencies cover include Gonda, Balrampur, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar (earlier Mau), Bahraich, Shravasti, Basti, Siddharth Nagar, Sant Kabir Nagar, Amethi and Sultanpur. The voting in Alapur has been deferred to 9 March due to the death of the Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Chandrashekhar Kanaujia. Other prominent candidates include SP government minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati, who will face Congress's Amita Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Garima Singh in Amethi. Here are the key developments and highlights from the fifth phase of polling in UP: ? 10.00am: Prominent people to so far cast their ballot include, members of the royal family of Amethi - Sanjay Singh, Amita and Garima who are contesting against each other on Congress and BJP respectively. These two are constesting against the controversial SP minister Gayatri Prajapati. BJP MP Vinay Katiyar too was among early voters. ? 9.30am: 10.77% voting recorded so far. Bahraich-11.93%, Amethi-11.8%, Sultanpur-9.7%, Gonda-11%. (Hindustan) ? 8.30am: The maximum number of candidates-24-are contesting from Amethi. Kapilvastu and Etwa seats (both in Siddharth Nagar district) have just six candidates each in the poll fray. ? 8.00am: In 2012, SP won 36 out of 51 seats in the region, including Alapur; BJP and Congress won 5 each; while BSP was limited to just three seats.
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John Berggruen Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition of works on paper by Walton Ford. The preview will be on Thursday, June 1 from 5:30-7:30pm.
When Walton Ford received his B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, he intended to become a filmmaker. But he instead would later put his skills and talents into creating large-scale precise, ornate depictions of the natural world. For this current exhibition, Ford has created a 10-foot long watercolor depicting a ferocious lion, staring directly at the viewer while attacking an alligator in a meticulously groomed pastoral setting. An admirer of the naturalist painter John James Audubon, Ford's work satirizes the history of colonialism and forms of political oppression on today's social and environmental landscape. The animals portrayed in Ford's watercolors imbue complex symbols in scenes which evoke lessons in colonial literature and folktales.
Walton Ford (b.1960, Larchmont, NY) has received several prestigious awards including a grant in 1989 from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation; a fellowship in 1991 from the National Endowment for the Arts; and a fellowship in 1992 from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Ford's work is included in public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. The artist currently resides in upstate New York.


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Security Breach of PM Modi: What went down?
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Union Home Ministry was the first to term the incident as a "security breach".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had wanted to visit Punjab to the foundations of numerous developmental projects. These included the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway; the project of creation of four lanes for the Amritsar-Una section and the Mukerian-Talwara New Broad Gauge Railway line. The PM was, also, supposed to lay the foundation stone for Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research's satellite centre at Firozpur. On Wednesday, he had tweeted that he looks forward to being amongst his brothers and sisters of Punjab.
Punjab is about to have elections in the near future. This was PM Modi's first visit to the state after the government had repealed the farm laws. The rally that he was supposed to address was to kickstart BJP's poll campaign in Punjab. Currently, the Aam Aadmi Party is being considered as the main opponent of the current ruling party in Punjab, Congress.
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While the PM's convoy was on its way to the rally at Firozpur, when it was 30kms from the National Martyrs Memorial in Hussainwala, it was found out that the road is blocked by some protestors. Later on, the Home Ministry released a statement saying, "The PM was stuck on the flyover for 15-20 minutes. This was a major lapse in the security of the PM. .... after this security lapse, it was decided to head back to Bathinda airport." From there he flew back to Delhi.
PM Modi's first visit to the state after he was forced to repeal the farm laws.Wikipedia
The statement from the Union Home Ministry termed the incident as a "security breach" and that the Punjab Government was responsible. There were several comments on the incident while some were of the thought that "The serious breach in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's security in Punjab on Wednesday represents the lowest phase in Indian politics. It is a clear sign of the desperation of the Congress and the level of animosity against the elected Prime Minister of the country." While other varied, saying that the visit was called off because of a fear of low turnout at the rally.
On the same day when this incident took place, the Kisan Ekta Morcha, which was the official handle of the farmers' movement, tweeted under the hashtag "Go Back Modi" : "Let's make it very clear. This is because of huge protest by farmers and people of Punjab that Modi had to cancel his event. There were very few people in the rally ground. Most of them were forced to attend. The rally is cancelled due to negative response by Punjabis."
According to him, "There was no risk to the Prime Minister." LOGAN WEAVER / Unsplash
A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and comprising of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Hima Kohli said: "We deem it appropriate for the time being to direct the Registrar General, Punjab and Haryana High Court to secure and preserve the records relating to the Prime Minister's scheduled tour of Punjab on January 5, 2022... We direct the Director General of Police, Union Territory of Chandigarh and an officer of the National Investigation Agency, not below the rank of Inspector General, to be nominated by the Director General, National Investigation Agency, to assist the Registrar General, Punjab and Haryana High Court to forthwith secure and seize the records from the State police as well as Central agencies."
On the Friday, 07 January 2022, several BJP MPs protested against the security breach of PM Narendra Modi's convoy in Punjab. They gathered near the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the Parliament complex. The MPs accused Punjab government and the senior Congress leaders for "conspiring to kill the Prime Minister". The Punjab Chief Minister, on the other hand, said, "There was no risk to the Prime Minister. .... He is our Prime Minister. If there were a threat to his life, I would shed my blood before his (could be shed). This is how Punjabis are."
It was found out that the road had been blocked by some protestors. Gayatri Malhotra / Unsplash
Such a security breach of the Indian Prime Minister is of a rare nature. Such incidents in the past, when happened have led to severe consequences. How the incident took place had been different but there had been a loop hole in the security of the Prime Minister. The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi had taken place because of such a security breach. A suicide bomber wearing an RDX explosive-laden belt under her clothes had been able to reach Rajiv Gandhi, which caused his death.
(Keywords : Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, security, breach, Punjab, India, development, elections, farm laws, campaign, protestors, convoy, Home Ministry, government, politics, animosity, farmers, people, Parliament.)
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Holding Elections In Pandemic Times A Test For EC
The Commission has mandated that all polling staff, security personnel, and counting staff be doubly vaccinated.
The assembly elections for five states from notifications to the counting day are going to be a tough nut to crack for the Election Commission, which, has laid out an elaborate protocol for voters and voting booths and of course, its officials. The EC announced poll schedule for five states -- UP, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa on Saturday. Starting with face masks during the election related activities and maintaining social distancing norms, the Commission has asked all its polling personnel/security personnel/counting staff to be doubly vaccinated before being deployed/engaged in election related activities.
The polling agent/counting agent etc would not be allowed to enter the counting hall/polling station without full vaccination and in case of those who are not, RT-PCR test within 48 hours would be required. All the entry points to such hall/room/ premises used for election purposes would have a provision for thermal scanning of all persons and sanitizer at all entry points.
The Kit for the Polling Officer will include PPEs if needed, mask, face shield, etc. | Photo by Xingyue HUANG on Unsplash
One nodal health officer shall be designated for the State Level, the District Level, and the Assembly Constituency Level to oversee COVID related arrangements and preventive measures during the entire electoral process, the EC said. The other protocols include gloves for officials handling EVM/VVPAT and election material Kit to be prepared and distributed from in a spacious and sufficiently large hall following all safety, sanitation, and social distancing measures. The Kit for the Polling Officer will include PPEs if needed, mask, sanitizer, face shield and gloves.
Similarly, the EC has issued orders for polling arrangements following the Covid protocol. The assured minimum facilities at each polling station will have mandatory sanitization of Polling Station, preferably, a day before the poll; thermal scanner at the entry point of every polling station location; thermal checking of voters at entry point of polling station location/Polling station, either by polling staff or Para Medical staff or Asha worker; markers to demonstrate social distancing for queue; earmarking circle for 15-20 persons of 2 yards (6 feet) distance for voters standing in the queue depending on the availability of space with separate queues for males, females, and PwD/ Senior citizen voters.
Only one voter shall be allowed to stand in front of each polling official maintaining social distance. | Photo by Elizabeth McDaniel on Unsplash
While sanitizer should be provided at the entry/exit point of every polling station, EC said, it also suggested keeping face masks in reserves for those electors who are not carrying the masks. "During the process of identification of voter, the voters will be required to lower the facemask for identification," the EC guidelines said, adding, at any given time, only one voter shall be allowed to stand in front of each polling official maintaining social distance. Voters would be provided hand gloves for signing on the voter register and pressing the EVM button for voting.
COVID patients and all others who may be under quarantine will be allowed to cast their vote at the last hour of the poll day. | Public domain vectors
"Most importantly, COVID patients and all others who may be under quarantine will be allowed to cast their vote at the last hour of the poll day at their respective Polling Stations, under the supervision of health authorities," the EC said. "Needless to add that anybody violating instructions on COVID-19 measures will be liable to be proceeded against as per the relevant provisions of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, besides legal action under Section 188 of the IPC, and other legal provisions as applicable. District Election Officer should bring this to the notice of all concerned," Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra said. (IANS/ MBI)
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With Poll Announcement, Model Code Of Conduct Kicks In 5 States
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With the announcement of the seven-phase polling for assembly elections, the MCC has come into force.
With the announcement of the seven-phase polling for assembly elections for five states on Saturday, the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) has come into force with immediate effect. The Model Code of Conduct for political parties and candidates will be in force till the completion of the election in the states scheduled to go for polls -- Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa.
The Election Commission's letter to the Chief Secretaries of the states concerned drew attention to the particular provisions of the MCC relating to the 'party in power' which says that the party in power shall ensure that no cause is given for any complaint that it has used its official position for the purpose of its election campaign. "In particular, the Ministers shall not combine their official visit with electioneering work and also shall not make use of official machinery or personnel during the electioneering work," it said. The restrictions also include use of government transport, including the aircraft, for furtherance of the interest of the party in power.
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The EC letter also drew attention towards the provisions of use of public places, such as parks, maidans etc. and also about who can use the Rest Houses, Dak Bungalows etc. "The issue of advertisement at the cost of public exchequer in the newspapers and other media and the misuse of official mass media during the election period for partisan coverage of political news and publicity gathering achievements with a view to furthering the prospects of the party in power shall be scrupulously avoided," it said.
No ministers or other authorities are allowed to sanction any grants/payments out of the discretionary funds from the time elections are announced nor can they lay foundation stone etc. or make any promises for providing any kind of civil facilities. The Commission also reminded the top state babu about the complete ban on transfer of officials, and in case utmost necessary, to do so with prior permission of the Commission.
No ministers or other authorities are allowed to sanction any payments out of the discretionary funds. | Pixabay
The assembly elections for five states - Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur - would be held in seven phases. Uttar Pradesh would have voting on February 10, 14, 20, 23 and March 3 & 7; Punjab, Goa and Uttarakhand would have polling on February 14 while Manipur will have voting in two phases, February 27, and March 3. (IANS/ MBI)
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K'taka Cong chief vows to repeal anti-conversion law if voted to power
Shivakumar underlined that the Anti-conversion law will be opposed by the Congress party in Assembly.
Karnataka State Congress president D.K. Shivakumar on Thursday said that the proposed anti-conversion law will be repealed in 2023, after the party comes to power in the state.
"I am telling you on record, including Anti-conversion bill, the law prohibiting cow slaughter will also be repealed," he said. Shivakumar further stated that the BJP is under an illusion that they are in majority.
They have forgotten that while taking oath, they had pledged that they will not work for a single community, but will work for the whole society, he said. Hindu farmers are in trouble after banning the cow slaughter in the state, he opined.
"People think, Muslims are affected by the banning of cow slaughter. But, the reality is Hindu farmers used to sell aged, unwanted cows and make some money. They were paid Rs 30,000 to Rs 40,000 per cow. Now, they are in a difficult situation. No compensation is given to them," Shivakumar explained.
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"As a President of the Congress party, I am telling you all these laws will be repealed when the Congress comes to power in the upcoming 2023 Assembly elections. This Anti-conversion law will affect the investments in the state. How can you invite investors by passing and implementing such laws," he questioned.
"I am telling you on record, including Anti-conversion bill, the law prohibiting cow slaughter will also be repealed"Unsplash
Shivakumar underlined that the Anti-conversion law will be opposed by the Congress party in Assembly and the bill will be defeated in the council, where the BJP does not have a majority.
Meanwhile, Shobha Karandlaje, Union Minister for State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare questioned why Congress is opposing Anti-conversion law in the state. "What is on your mind? Conversions should not happen in society. Let Hindus, Christians and Muslims practice their religions freely without any fears. Congress is indulging in vote bank politics. Conversions are made through 'Love jihad', this should not happen, he said.
Former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy said that the JD(S) opposes Anti-conversion law. He said, instead, backwards and poor people's hands should be strengthened. (IANS/SP)
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This may have already been posted elsewhere, and if so I apologize.
Anyway, I highly recommend The Illuminatus! Trilogy to any Deus Ex fan, as its filled with many of the conspiracy theories mentioned throughout the Deus Ex series.
I'd also recommend "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco. Great plot, and it's filled with historical details about the Knights Templar and the conspiracy groups that followed from it.
I actually mentioned these books to be added in Deus Ex 3 to be found throughout the game. Great books to read! Add more to the list if you can. Lets give Eidos as many book ideas as possible.
I wouldn't like that. If I think of the Illuminatus trilogy i think of it as a work of fiction, mostly. If you hear someone use the word "Illuminati" today, most people *kinda* know what's going on. And the Illuminati in Deus Ex are too much modeled after the stuff the media fed us with. It didn't exactly reinvent the wheel.
I don't think it's like that in the Deus Ex microcosm.
You couldn't show clips of the TV show Roswell in Deus Ex. Or... The X-Files.
I can't really explain it, my english doesn't seem to be good enough to form my thoughts without investing more time than my attention span can take, but I hope you get my point of view.
I read The Illuminatus! trilogy (about 2 years ago), and while it was okay, I just didn't really get into it. Maybe it's just me, but it almost read like a parody of conspiracy theories - I felt like I should have been laughing, but just wasn't getting the joke(s).
I haven't read Foucault's Pendulum, though. I might have to check that one out.
That's because it is a parody. The authors were two friends who basically said, "Lets see if you can follow from where I left off." That is why it sometimes jump from place to place for no apparent reason. Still a good read though.


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With family and friends having been visiting for over two weeks now, and a weekend trip to boot, it's been hard to keep up on industry news and interesting articles. Nevertheless, I've had plenty to read and pique my interest over the last five days. In fact, almost too much! There's a good reason to writing frequently in a blog – you're not left looking at quite as vast an array of interesting subjects that you want to write about. In the last few hours I've read or become aware of over a dozen topics or articles which fascinate me – but I still have guests, and not really the time to write on them all!
So I'm picking on a topic which, although perhaps not the most unique, is certainly very close to home – MSN's search engine ranking technology.
If you want to learn how Google works, at least in generalities, there are dozens of places to look. Just do a search on Google, and you'll be served up a pretty good variety of information. (Although it's worth noting that the first result for "How does google work" brings up their April Fool's Day prank for 2002.) The basics of Google's search technology are fairly well-known. But MSN is not as open about their methods.
Recently, there've been a couple of good articles published about MSN's RankNet system – a new algorithm incorporated into MSN's search technology.
Search Engines and Algorithms: Optimizing for MSN's RankNet Technology, by Jennifer Sullivan Cassidy, discusses the technology and how to optimize for it. Beyond PageRank: Machine Learning for Static Ranking (PDF (Portable Document Format)), a publication from MSN's research department, addresses the subject in predictably greater depth.
Thankfully for all of us, Bill Slawski summarizes these documents for us. However, he does focus primarily on the principles and subjects of the paper rather than on the practical application to search engine optimization. This leaves some ground still available for discussion!
The implication of this is that Microsoft is incorporating, at some level, a type of artificial intelligence in their search algorithms. This is a very reasonable idea, actually. Where Google bases their results largely on links – that is, on permanent votes for a website's relevance and validity, MSN is working to apply on-the-fly learning to their ranking. A site may become more important because it is the link a searcher chose to visit.
MSN is incorporating several hundred (569, according to Cassidy) criteria to their ordering system. These criteria are not what is weighed when determining a document's relevancy, but they are taken into consideration when choosing what properities of a document should be given greater weight in ranking.
RankNet is not a simple concept, but has fairly wide-reaching potential. It can be applied to filters, search engines, or any number of database interaction tools. But what does it mean for search engine optimization? Very little, in my opinion.
The development of more sophisticated algorithms for search engines is very much parallel to the reality of human social interaction. These methods are simply intended to make a website which is important to many people easier to find for other people who may also find the website valuable. As such, a more sophisticated algorithm will respond best to a useful, usable, worthwhile web resource. Search engine optimization is not about optimizing for an algorithm – although this should be considered – it is about optimizing for a human user. If your human social network is successful, then the chances you have for building an algorithmic social network are much higher.
Although RankNet itself may not contribute directly to search engine optimization techniques, it is important to be aware of what factors MSN takes into consideration.
MSN also handles 302 redirects very effectively, places more importance on static pages than on dynamic pages, and has very effective filtering of duplicate content. In fact, MSN apparently has the best handling of duplicate content – and Google the worst.
Taking all of this into consideration may give you a well optimized page. Abusing them may give you a few days of top rankings. But, then again, it might not. If you don't build your business to attract real customers and real references, it won't matter how optimized your pages are – just like in any other search engine.
I like the idea, certainly. It has a lot of potential for growth and good results – and may be more difficult to scam than Google's system. That, of course, will be demonstrated with time.
I like the approach that Microsoft is taking with ranknet. It will be interesting to see how they tie it in with some of the other stuff that they are working upon.


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Гаетан Міссі Мезу Куаку (;  4 травня 1996, Вільнев-д'Аск, Франція) — французький та габонський футболіст, нападник київського «Арсеналу» та збірної Габону.

Клубна кар'єра
Народився в французькому місті Вільнев-д'Аск. Футбольну кар'єру розпочав у молодіжній академії «Тулуз Фонтен», в якій займався до 2013 року. З 2013 по 2014 рік виступав у клубі «Бальма» з другого дивізіону аматорського чемпіонату Франції. У 2014 році перейшов до «Валансьєну». З 2015 по 2016 рік зіграв 6 матчів у французькій Лізі 2. У червні 2016 року підписав контракт з ФК «Парижем», який сезон розпочав у Національний чемпіонат (третій дивізіон).

1 березня 2019 року потрапив до заявки київського «Арсеналу» на сезон. Дебютував за столичний клуб 4 травня 1996 року в переможному (1:0) виїзному поєдинку 20-о туру Вищої ліги проти донецького «Олімпіка». Мессі Мезу вийшов на поле в стартовому складі, а на 74-й хвилині його замінив Олександр Ковпак.

Кар'єра в збірній
Незважаючи на те, що Гаетан народився у Франції, він вирішив на міжнародному рівні країну свого походження — Габон. Саме за цю збірну Коуаку дебютував 28 травня 2016 року в товариському поєдинку проти Мавританії.

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Donny Osmond Welcomes Adorable Granddaughter [Pictures]
Sterling Whitaker Published: November 28, 2020
Stuart Wilson, Getty Images
Donny Osmond is a grandfather — again. The former teen idol's son Chris and his wife, Alta, welcomed a baby girl on Tuesday (Nov. 24), naming her Aussie Rae Osmond.
Closer Weekly reports that the 62-year-old singer, actor and entertainer turned to Instagram on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 26) to share a series of photos of the adorable new arrival with her mother and father.
"Thanksgiving is extra special this year. Aussie is here and she is so beautiful!" Osmond writes to accompany the pictures. "In the words of my musical hero, Stevie Wonder, 'Isn't She Lovely!'"
Chris Osmond, 29, also shared the good news via social media, writing, "Today I am overcome with so much gratitude and love for my beautiful family. God has blessed us with an angel ... Words cannot express the love we feel for this little one. Just in the last two days she's brought a whole new meaning to life for Al and I. This truly is what it's all about right here! We're excited to be taking her home today. I can't think of a better way to spend Thanksgiving!"
Donny Osmond shot to fame as a teen singing sensation with a string of hits in the '70s that included "Sweet and Innocent," "Go Away Little Girl" and "Puppy Love." He and his sister Marie starred together on TV's The Donny & Marie Show, which ran from 1976-1979 on ABC, and they have worked together frequently over the ensuing decades. In 2011 they released an album titled Donny and Marie that was aimed at country audiences. They promoted the project via interviews with several publications, including the Boot.
Osmond also made news when he appeared as the Peacock on The Masked Singer in 2019. Closer reports that he has 10 other grandchildren from his other sons; Donald Osmond, Jr., Jeremy Osmond and Brandon Osmond. The singer and his wife, Debra, also have a younger son, Joshua.
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Source: Donny Osmond Welcomes Adorable Granddaughter [Pictures]
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With more than 7,500 doses of an experimental vaccine against Ebola, health officials today began a vaccination campaign to try to thwart the latest outbreak of the deadly virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
According to the World Health Organization, the campaign will start with healthcare workers operating in areas affected by the outbreak. Then officials will focus on a "ring vaccination" strategy, which targets people who have had contact with someone with a confirmed case of Ebola, as well as people who have had contact with those contacts. (This creates rings of vaccination around each case, hence the name). These defensive social circles ensure that those most vulnerable to contracting the virus are protected while also preventing the spread of the virus from the most likely sources. The same strategy was critical during the campaign in the 1960s and '70s to eradicate smallpox—the only human disease that has ever been successfully wiped out.
New Ebola outbreak declared in Democratic Republic of Congo The Ebola-vaccination campaign will take place in the DRC's northwestern Equator Province (Province de l'Équateur), where there have been 46 confirmed, probable, or suspected cases, including 26 deaths, as of May 18. Officials have already identified 600 contacts and contacts of contacts of cases. Nearly all cases and contacts have been in the remote town of Bikoro. But officials counted four confirmed cases in Mbandaka, a provincial capital with more than a million residents. This has raised concerns about the potential for the outbreak to explode.
The more than 7,500 doses of vaccine already in the DRC are enough to cover approximately 50 rings of 150 people, the WHO notes. An additional 8,000 doses are on their way to the country, arriving in the next few days.
The experimental vaccine—rVSV?G-ZEBOV—has not been approved by relevant regulatory authorities, but the WHO has given it the greenlight under an expanded access/compassionate-use protocol. The organization has reason to be optimistic that the vaccine will squash the outbreak.
The vaccine is a live, chimeric virus capable of replicating in cells. It has the backbone of the relatively harmless vesicular stomatitis virus, which tends to infect cattle and only causes mild disease in humans. This engineered virus also carries the code for Ebola's glycoprotein. This is a protein that hangs on the outside of Ebola viruses and allows them to invade and infect human cells. On the vaccine virus, the protein can prompt the human immune system to develop protective responses against the real Ebola.
In early work, rVSV?G-ZEBOV protected mice, hamsters, guinea pigs, and non-human primates from Ebola. In 2015, an international team of researchers conducted trials of ring vaccination in Guinea and Sierra Leone, vaccinating nearly 6,000 within 117 rings. The results suggested that the vaccine was generally safe and 100-percent effective at preventing Ebola. None of those vaccinated developed Ebola virus disease, whereas there were 23 cases among contacts in the trial who were either not vaccinated or received a delayed vaccination.
So far, WHO, local health authorities, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF aka Doctors Without Borders), and other partners have established an air bridge and have used helicopters and motorbikes to get around and deliver supplies. They've also transported the vaccine in containers that maintain sub-zero conditions for up to a week and have set up freezers in Bikoro and Mbandaka.
As officials scramble, they hope the efforts are enough. "We need to act fast to stop the spread of Ebola by protecting people at risk of being infected with the Ebola virus, identifying and ending all transmission chains, and ensuring that all patients have rapid access to safe, high-quality care," Dr. Peter Salama, WHO deputy director-general for Emergency Preparedness and Response, added in a statement.


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A sketch of the life and public services of John Quincy Adams, President of the United States To which is added, 1, An exposition of Mr. Adams' views and wishes upon the acquisition of Louisiana. 2, A correct statement of his conduct at Ghent, touching the navigation of the Mississippi, and the fisheries. 3, A critical examination of the votes of the people at the polls at the last presidential election
Commentator Frankfort, Ky, (pub)
Frankfort, Ky., Commentator Office [1828]
Adams, John Quincy, > 1767-1848.
Campaign literature, > 1828 > National Republican.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
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A Sketch of the life and services of John Quincy Adams, president of the United States
Writings of John Quincy Adams
Author: Adams, John Quincy, President, U.S., 1767-1848.
John Quincy Adams : a bibliography
Author: Parsons, Lynn H.
A discourse delivered in Quincy, March 11, 1848, at the interment of John Quincy Adams : sixth president of the United States
Author: Lunt, William P. 1805-1857.
Author: Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875.


Eleven attorneys have been elected to the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association.
The 30-member Executive Committee oversees the management and administration of the State Bar within policies determined by its governing body, the House of Delegates.
Alyssa M. Barreiro of Binghamton, Vice-President of the 6th Judicial District. A graduate of Binghamton University and Syracuse University College of Law, Barreiro is a partner of Levene Gouldin & Thompson. She is the founder and chair of the Health Law Practice Group.
T. Andrew Brown of Rochester, Vice-President of the 7th Judicial District. A graduate of Syracuse University and University of Michigan Law School, Brown is the corporation counsel for the City of Rochester and managing partner of Brown & Hutchinson.
Carlos M. Calderón of Mount Vernon, Vice-President of the 12th Judicial District. A graduate of the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Connecticut Law School, Calderón is a partner at Weisman & Calderón. He concentrates his practice in civil litigation.
Hermes Fernandez of Albany, Vice-President of the 3rd Judicial District. A graduate of LeMoyne College and Syracuse University College of Law, Fernandez is a member of Bond, Schoeneck & King. He is co-chair of the firm's Health Practice Group.
Michael W. Galligan of New York City, Member-at-Large. A graduate of the University of San Francisco and Columbia Law School, Galligan is a partner of Phillips Nizer. He concentrates his practice in domestic and international estates and trusts, U.S. and cross-border estate and income tax planning, private international law, and immigration.
Bryan D. Hetherington of Rochester, Member-at-Large. A graduate of LaSalle College and Cornell Law School, Hetherington is the chief counsel of the Empire Justice Center.
Elena DeFio Kean of Albany, Member-at-Large. A graduate of the College of Saint Rose and Albany Law School, Kean is a partner of Towne, Ryan & Partners. She concentrates her practice on labor and employment and municipal law matters.
Stuart J. LaRose of Syracuse, Vice-President of the 5th Judicial District. A graduate of LeMoyne College and Western New England University School of Law, LaRose is a solo practitioner. He concentrates his practice in family law and criminal law.
John S. Marwell of Mount Kisco, Member-at-Large. A graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School, Marwell is a partner at Shamberg Marwell Hollis Andreycak & Laidlaw. His practice includes land use litigation, zoning, environmental law and real estate law.
Domenick Napoletano of Brooklyn, Vice-President of the 2nd Judicial District. A graduate of Brooklyn College and Hofstra University School of Law, Napoletano is a general law practitioner with a concentration in commercial litigation.
Bruce J. Prager of Manhattan, Member-at-Large. A graduate of Boston University and Georgetown University Law Center, Prager is a retired partner and currently of counsel to Latham & Watkins. His practice encompasses broad international antitrust counseling and litigation, with a concentration on mergers and acquisitions and joint venture antitrust issues.
Their terms began on June 1.


Suzanne Blanchet, Cascades Tissue Group's President and Chief Executive Officer.
Who else besides Suzanne Blanchet, Cascades Tissue Group's President and Chief Executive Officer, could win the title of Star Woman in Grocery 2013? Canadian Grocer magazine has just given her this award for her excellence, leadership, innovation and dedication to the industry. The panel of judges shortlisted Suzanne for her outstanding career at the head of Tissue Group. Thanks to her strong management skills, she has led the company to nearly one billion dollars in revenues, through acquisitions and consolidations.
Suzanne Blanchet began her career at Cascades in 1978 as an accounting intern. Her ambition and determination led to her quickly being appointed controller for the Tissue Group division. In 1997, she was promoted to President, becoming the first woman to head a Canadian paper company. Under her reign, Cascades Tissue Group became the 4th largest tissue paper manufacturer in North America and currently employs 2,200 men and women in 18 units in North America. No doubt, Suzanne is one of the greatest business women in Québec, and even in Canada.
This year was Canadian Grocer's second edition of Star Women in Grocery. This award recognizes the important role of women in the food industry, across Canada. Winners are selected by Canadian Grocer magazine editors and experts based on four criteria: influence, innovation, dedication, and leadership. This year, eight winners were from the retail industry and eight others from suppliers.
For more information about the award or for the official announcement, visit the Canadian Grocer website.
I live in Lachute near your paper plant on the North River. In the past four days I watched Cascades destroy the beauty of my neighborhood. Your "environmentally friendly" company had cut down about 30 beautiful mature trees in order to expand a parking lot for visually ugly transport trailers. I am sure that my property value has suffered as a result of this thoughtless and destructive act. I need you to get in touch with me to explore a way to remedy this environmentally tragic situation. I find it difficult to express how saddened I feel when I see the how badly my neighborhood has been degraded. Please contact me in the shortest possible delay.
We appreciate you taking the time to share your situation with us. After discussions with Cascades people over there at Lachute, I can assure you that we take this situation seriously. This rearrangement is part of an expansion plan that will allow us to improve our installations' efficiency. Please note that ever since the beginning, we planned on replacing the trees that had to be cut by an even higher amount of trees. Be assured that this is still part of the process! Their new disposition should even block the transport trailers' view more efficiently than those that were there before. You should also receive a visit from a Cascades' representative at your house shortly to explain the situation to you.
We are sincerely sorry about the inconvenience. We can assure you that sustainability is always part of our core values and that it underlines everything we do.
Please contact me if you would like any further information (info@cascades.com).
This is your neighbor again. It is now December 3, 2015 and still there has been no tree planting or hedges to restore the greenery you cut down in this area. Nor is running transport trucks in a school neighborhood anywhere near a good idea. Sometimes with the changing times, the concept of a factory town becomes obsolete. Lachute has designated areas for industrial use today. Maybe its time to consider relocating and expanding a little further down river where there is space and leave the town core to be developed into residential riverside property.
For this project we work in close collaboration with the Support Center located close to our unit. Rest assure that the field will be reorganized to be eco-friendly as soon as possible.


London-born Naomi Lourie Klein has lived in Stockwell for over 20 years.
Out of hours, Naomi runs the local blog www.stockwellnews.com. Her determination to bring out little-known aspects of this area of inner city South London led to the development of her interest in the names on Stockwell War Memorial.


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Tips on scoring cash to fill your classroom needs, without spending a dime.
Free money to buy what you need for your classroom! Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, foundations across the country hand out millions of dollars to teachers each year. You can't get what you don't ask for, though. The teachers who find themselves with new classroom libraries and technology carts are the ones who know how to put together top-notch grant applications.
If you've never done it, grant writing can seem intimidating and mysterious. We've talked with experts, and with teachers who have snagged grants of their own, to help you make the pitch.
Donors don't want to see a shopping list. They want to know what problem you're looking to solve and how they can help. So, instead of simply begging for books, document your students' struggles with reading and put together a plan for how you'll use new materials to boost their literacy.
"If the teacher has done a good job of identifying a need that's not being addressed and has developed a program to address that need, that increases the chances of being funded tremendously," says Bruce Sliger, author of Grant Writing for Teachers and Administrators.
Denine Torr, director of community initiatives at the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, which awards more than 700 grants yearly, says the proposals that get funded are those that clearly outline measurable success. "We want to be sure we're using our dollars wisely," she says.
Your community may have an educational foundation that gives out grants of a few hundred dollars, just for district teachers. Another place to begin your hunt is with local businesses.
"Even though we want to think big, the smaller grants have simpler applications and are more likely to be awarded," says Fred Ende, a science coordinator in suburban New York who received thousands of dollars in grant money during his years as a classroom teacher.
Get creative as you write your grants, too. Laura Reed, a PreK special needs teacher in Lee County, Florida, needed items ranging from chewy necklaces for her students' oral fixations to role-play costumes designed to alleviate anxiety about going to the doctor. So she wrapped them all up under the heading of "Little Student Solutions" and got funded. "Everybody on the grant committee said they love when teachers come up with catchy titles," she says.
"Seek a colleague to team with and throw ideas around," says Lynne Piotrowski, a Williamsport, Pennsylvania, instructional coach who teamed with other teachers to write grants when she was a reading specialist. Veteran grant writers can guide newbies through the process—and gain inspiration from novices' fresh ideas. "I don't know if I would have been successful solo," Piotrowski adds.
Donors love to see results, so brainstorm ways to quantify student growth. That might mean giving a pretest and posttest, or tracking before-and-after data on student discipline or homework completion rates. You'll want hard data for grant reports, but you can also document the success of your program through videos, photos, and letters from parents and students.
Magiera, the digital learning coordinator in Chicago, was able to show year-over-year numbers on attendance and grades after she received a grant for iPads. "Everything had an up curve," she says.
Nothing tanks a grant application faster than typos, missed deadlines, or flowery fonts. Even if you don't receive funding, a professional application makes a good impression and can help you the next time you apply.
Have a colleague or an eagle-eyed friend or family member read through your grant before you submit it. Or better yet, attend a grant-writing workshop to obtain feedback.
"Take a picture of whatever the funding has been able to provide and send it to the funder" along with a thank-you note, suggests Theresa Lewallen, ASCD's managing director of constituent programs. You can even invite the donors to the school to see the results of their contribution. "Smaller funders in particular like to get kudos and see their work in action," Lewallen says.
Even if a funder rejects your grant, continue to cultivate the relationship. Ask for feedback and inquire about working together in the future. "Don't see 'no' as the end of the conversation," Lewallen says.
James Walter Doyle, a teacher at Thurgood Marshall Academy in New York City, says he's received around $150,000 through DonorsChoose.org, a website that allows individuals to help fund teachers' projects.
Doyle has snagged funding for a classroom printer, copies of Romeo and Juliet, and student trips abroad.
10 | Don't Give Up!
Even experienced grant writers face rejection. Use it as a learning experience, and move on to the next grant.
Also, don't let grant writing become something you do when you "have the time." Put deadlines on your calendar and hold yourself accountable.
Grants of up to $2,000 for school gardens at any stage of development.
Up to $1,000 for materials for K–5 math and science projects.
Grants of between $2,000 and $5,000, with preference for requests that have a permanent impact, such as facility enhancement.
Awards ranging from $250 to $2,500 for programs that benefit communities within the service area of a Walmart store, Sam's Club, or a logistics facility.
Grants of $2,000 or $5,000 to pay for materials or educational experiences to boost student achievement.
Up to $4,000 for technology, books, and programming to help struggling readers.
Grants ranging from $800 to $20,000 for improving classroom libraries for disadvantaged children.
Grants of $2,000 for programs that bring arts and cultural experiences to schools, such as in-school performances and artist-in-residency programs.
Grants ranging from $500 to $3,000 to provide funding for new books for whole-school libraries serving economically or socially at-risk kids.
Awards grants of up to $250 to classroom programs that develop or apply STEM subjects. Funding can be used to purchase materials for specific lesson plans.
Grants to purchase pets or sustain existing classroom pets for grades PreK–8.
* Note: Funding and deadlines may change. Some grants have multiple application cycles each year. Be sure to check each organization's current guidelines before applying.


Want to master the art of Japanese brush painting? Find out how you can do so with the help of Japanese brush painting kits.
Japanese brush painting is an ancient form of art that was actually adopted from their highly advanced neighbors at the time, China. Over the years the Japanese became masters at the art and developed it into a unique and distinct style from the Chinese.
The nature of Japanese brush painting was simplistic yet the collection of paintings has some brilliant work to showcase. Over the years many new developments have taken place in the art form but the basic science remains the same.
Traditionally the Japanese artists restricted themselves with regards to the materials and equipment they would use for brush painting. With time however new artists added new materials and the Japanese brush painting kit went from a fairly simple collection of limited things to a full time kit with new and improved items.
The old school Japanese brush painting kits consisted of simple bamboo brushes with soft bristles that were the main tool of the painter. The artists would work only with black ink. The canvas would always be white rice paper. Today's Japanese brush painting kits have a lot more to offer.
You will be able to find a large number of companies involved in the production of Japanese brush painting kits. It is however best to go for a Japanese company as that gives one the reassurance that they know the art form better than the non-Japanese companies and are more probable to produce better equipment.
Japanese brush painting kits are portable and excellent to get started out with. Most of them come with an instruction booklet that does not only give you the details and usage of the items contained in the kit but also enriches you with the history and step by step guidelines of learning and practicing the art form. This kit comes in very handy for beginners as it teaches the four basic strokes that make up any brush painting.
The Japanese brush painting kit also makes a perfect gift for anyone whom you know has a liking for this kind of art form. This is because it gives the user a complete opportunity to learn and master the skill. The kit is well equipped with all the necessary tools that gear the individual up for the task.
You will find that a person with little or no knowledge about Japanese brush painting can end up producing commendable brush paintings in the Japanese style by using the kit and its guidelines. The Japanese brush painting kits have helped many people discover the artist within.
With regards to the content of the brush painting kits, they come in various sets for various purposes. The beginner kit contains all the basic items that are needed to start off. Then you have the more advanced and loaded kits with modern additions such as different colours and brushes. The choice of canvas depends upon the user although most people still prefer to work on white rice paper with black ink or colour.


Yahoo provides an outstanding email experience with its amazing features such as organized inbox, organized history, fast sending and receiving of mails. Its other fun characteristics include availability of different themes, GIFs, colors, etc that also attracts users towards it. Apart from all these, yahoo also provides excellent security and account recovery thus adding more and more to its features. With Yahoo, you can not just exchange emails but also express your feelings with its GIFs. Whenever you like, you can very easily create a new Yahoo account and take advantages of all its offered features. In this article, we are providing the simple steps through which you can create a new Yahoo Account and get started with it.
Well, it's quite easy to create a new account with Yahoo. You can create a totally new account or you can use an existing email address from any email provider. The only information that you need to sign up with Yahoo include name, email address, password mobile number, gender (optional) and date of birth. Just follow the steps mentioned below to create a new Yahoo account for yourself.
Go to the sign up page of Yahoo.
In the specified column, enter your first name, last name, email address and password.
If you wish to your email id from another provider, just click on the 'I'd rather use my own email address'.
Provide a strong and unpredictable password for your Yahoo account.
Enter your mobile phone number. The number you enter should be valid as it will be used for the verification and account recovery process.
After that, enter your date of birth and gender. If you wish not to provide your gender then you can leave this field as gender is optional.
Click on 'continue' after providing all the required details.
In the new window that appears, click on the 'text me a code'.
You will receive a verification code on the mobile number you have provided during account creation.
Enter the code and click on 'submit code'.
Your new Yahoo account is created.
How to create a strong password for your new Yahoo account?
The most important thing that you must keep in mind while creating a new Yahoo account is to enter a strong password. It is very important to maintain your account security and a strong password plays a main role in it. Here are certain tips that can help make you your password strong and your account secure.
Your password must be long enough to make it difficult to be predicted.
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Do not use your name, date of birth or other such obvious personal information as your password.
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USS Kamishak (AVP-44) was a proposed United States Navy seaplane tender that was never laid down.

Construction and commissioning
Kamishak was to have been one of 41 Barnegat-class small seaplane tenders the U.S. Navy planned to commission during the early 1940s, and was to have been built at Houghton, Washington, by the Lake Washington Shipyard. However, by the spring of 1943 the Navy deemed that number of seaplane tenders excess to requirements, and decided to complete four of them as motor torpedo boat tenders and one as a catapult training ship.  In addition, the Navy also decided to cancel six of the Barnegat-class ships prior to their construction, freeing up the diesel engines that would have powered them for use in escort vessels and amphibious landing craft.

Kamishak became one of the first four ships to be cancelled when the Navy cancelled its contract with Lake Washington Shipyard for her construction on 22 April 1943.

References

 NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive Small Seaplane Tender (AVP) Index

Cancelled ships of the United States Navy
Barnegat-class seaplane tenders
Ships built at Lake Washington Shipyard


I have a requirement to change date format for "Scan time" and "Boot time" from "Sep 9, 2012 8:01:32 AM GMT-07:00" to "9/9/2012 8:01:32 AM".
Can someone suggest me what to modify in SQL query to change to specific date format in SQL server 2005 Ent edition.
Below is the query I use to take report.
Although the time will be in 24 hours format.


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Perceptions of Moral Violations and Personality Traits Among Heroes and Villains
Allison Eden, Mary Beth Oliver, Ron Tamborini, Anthony Limperos, Julia Woolley
Film-Video and Media Studies
This study investigates disposition-formation processes in entertainment by predicting perceptions of media heroes and villains by their behavior in specific moral domains. Participants rated self-selected heroes and villains from television and film along the moral domains of care, fairness, loyalty, authority, and purity (Haidt & Joseph, 2007) as well as along dimensions of warmth, competence, and duplicity used in impression-formation research (Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, & Xu, 2002). Results show that heroes violate moral norms in domains of authority and purity, whereas villains violated moral norms in the domains of caring and group loyalty. Furthermore, these moral violations are associated with personality dimensions of warmth and competence differently for each character type, such that impressions of heroes are driven by their work in the care domain (i.e., saving or protecting people), whereas for villains, violation of purity norms is most strongly associated with subsequent impression formation processes.
Mass Communication and Society
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attitude formation Social Sciences 100%
Entertainment Engineering & Materials Science 82%
Television Engineering & Materials Science 82%
loyalty Social Sciences 77%
personality traits Social Sciences 71%
entertainment Social Sciences 36%
fairness Social Sciences 35%
disposition Social Sciences 34%
Eden, A., Oliver, M. B., Tamborini, R., Limperos, A., & Woolley, J. (2015). Perceptions of Moral Violations and Personality Traits Among Heroes and Villains. Mass Communication and Society, 18(2), 186-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2014.923462
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A new study from the University of Helsinki in Finland reports that sudden cold spells lasting hundreds of years took place in the middle of the warm Eemian climate period, about 120 000 years ago, as a result of the slowdown of the North Atlantic circulation. Evidence presented in other studies suggests that the circulation system of the North Atlantic Ocean is currently in a weakened state that is unprecedented in the past 1 600 years.
These cold intervals saw a fall in temperature of a few degrees, and replacement of forests by tundra at the study site in northern Finland. The Eemian, which took place before the last Ice Age, had a climate generally warmer than present.
According to the researchers, the sudden shifts of Eemian climate are connected to disturbances in the North Atlantic circulation, which happened during that time. Today, the warm oceanic currents of the North Atlantic maintain a relatively temperate climate in Europe. The future development of this oceanic circulation has been hard to predict, however, and possible disturbances have not been ruled out.
"These results strongly suggest that the North Atlantic circulation is sensitive to disturbance, with major effects in Northern Europe," says University of Helsinki postdoctoral researcher Sakari Salonen, who headed the study1.
The results are based on a geological deposits studied in Sokli, Northern Finland. At this site, thick geological layers have been preserved in a deep depression, allowing them to survive through the following Ice Age.
"The Sokli site is unique in the northern parts of the world, which has made the site invaluable in the study of past, long-term climate change," says Karin Helmens, a researcher from Stockholm University and a long-time coordinator of the studies at Sokli.
To understand the importance of this study, it's important to mention several other studies.
The warm, salty waters of the Gulf Stream make a northeasterly meander across the Atlantic Ocean, eventually forming the North Atlantic Current, which then funnels into the Nordic Seas.
In the chill of winter, these waters cool and descend with the heavy load of their salinity. This deep convection is a key part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which can be thought of as an ocean conveyor belt that releases heat to the atmosphere above the North Atlantic Ocean before traveling through the abyssal ocean to resurface in other areas of the world.
Given the importance of the AMOC to heat exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere, the varying strength of this system is thought to have major impacts on the global climate and has been implicated widely in some of the most remarkable and abrupt climate changes of the past.
Direct measurements of the modern AMOC flow rates show a decline in its strength in the past decade. Reconstructions of the natural variability and long-term trends of the AMOC are needed, however, to put these recent changes in context.
One group of researchers found that the strength of the AMOC was relatively stable from about ad 400 to 1850, but then weakened around the start of the industrial era. This transition coincides with the end of the Little Ice Age — a multicentennial cold spell that affected many regions of the globe.
Another study, published in Science in 2016, examined ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica and showed that there was a period during the last ice age, when our planet experienced dozens of abrupt temperature shifts. Plummeting and rising again every 1500 years or so, those sudden temperature shifts wreaked havoc on the ecosystems.
The study3 offered the first evidence that the ocean's overturning circulation slowed during every one of those temperature plunges – at times almost stopping.
The pacific ocean is going crazy! Heating up by the radioactive leaks from their damaged nuclear Fukuishima plant & the constant secretive discharged of toxic water.
Not only giants jellyfish are rising from the deep to kill off all the small fishes. No more fish people! besides the massive fish eating habits of the Japanese. Please remember that God above is just watching how much destruction we are doing to ourselves. Pray that everyone is sheltered & prepared for the worst. Guess famine and starvation will be the ultimate punishment. Buildings , roads, other infrastructure can be repaired in months but top soil and clean waters cant be replaced easily.


Whether you are sporty or athletic, you are wondering about taking care of yourself?
You think about a fresh start by following a good diet.
What's better than the advices of our homie Julius aka "Purple Belt Kitchen".
Find some of his recipes on his website PURPLE BELT KITCHEN , his FACEBOOK page or simply by buying his electronic book "OATS ON THE MAT" now available in French, English and Italian.


f you have had the privilege to meet Morgan you know that she is a kind, caring, and genuine person. She is going to be one amazing mom! I think everyone will agree that she is simply glowing in all of these portraits.


Tuscan style home in Rancho Cielo Estates.
This home features finishes throughout the house with an emphasis in the kitchen, dining room, master suite and powder room.
In the master suite we used a soft, mediterranean blue green color scheme creating a relaxing spa like feel. The common area walls were given a two color tuscan wash with a smoky color aging in the corners and at the ceiling.
The common areas have a rustic tuscan hand finished color wash.
The kitchen hood was highlighted with custom designed crest. We used a golden pearl glaze in the dining room to give the walls a glowing luxurious feel to the room.
The guest powder bathroom was accentuated with a two color, troweled on metallic plaster by Modern Masters.


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John Paul Stevens evolved into Supreme Court's liberal lion
John Paul Stevens was a Republican moderate when he joined the Supreme Court but found himself moving to the left during a tenure of nearly 35 years
By MARK SHERMAN and CONNIE CASSAssociated Press
WASHINGTON — John Paul Stevens moved left as the Supreme Court shifted to the right during his nearly 35 years as a justice.
That's how the bow-tie wearing Republican from the Midwest emerged as the leader of the high court's liberal wing and a strong proponent of abortion rights, consumer protection and limits on the death penalty.
Stevens, who died Tuesday at age 99 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, served longer than all but two justices and was the second-oldest after Oliver Wendell Holmes in the court's nearly 230 years.
He stepped down from the bench at age 90, but remained active in public life. He wrote books, spoke frequently in public and contributed lengthy pieces to The New York Review of Books.
Stevens liked to argue that his views remained more or less the same, while the court became more conservative during his tenure. "I don't think of myself as a liberal at all," Stevens told The New York Times in 2007. "I think as part of my general politics, I'm pretty darn conservative."
But the justice began his Supreme Court years as a critic of affirmative action and a supporter of the death penalty. His views on both shifted substantially to the point that Stevens declared in 2008 that he believes the death penalty is unconstitutional.
His legal reasoning was often described as unpredictable or idiosyncratic, especially in his early years on the court. He was a prolific writer of separate opinions laying out his own thinking, whether he agreed or disagreed with the majority's ruling. Yet Stevens didn't consider his methods novel.
He tended toward a case-by-case approach, avoided sweeping judicial philosophies, and stayed mindful of precedent.
"I was trying to apply the law in a sensible way," he told USA Today after his retirement. "I pretty much always thought I had the right answer."
He never shied from issuing a lone dissent, as he did a 2007 case about a high-speed police chase.
That case was notable for the justices' ability to watch the chase on video from cameras mounted in police cruisers. What they saw scared them, and led to an 8-1 ruling that held officers blameless for the grievous injuries suffered by the driver of the car that was being pursued.
It didn't scare Stevens, who said he learned to drive when most high-speed driving took place on two-lane roads, "when split-second judgments about the risk of passing a slow-poke in the face of oncoming traffic were routine." Had his younger colleagues learned the same way, he said, "they might well have reacted to the videotape more dispassionately."
The white-haired Stevens, eyes often twinkling behind owlish glasses, was the picture of old-fashioned geniality on the court and off. He took an unusually courteous tone with lawyers arguing their cases, but he was no pushover. After his fellow justices fired off questions, Stevens would politely weigh in. "May I ask a question?" he'd ask gently, then quickly slice to the weakest point of a lawyer's argument.
Stevens was especially concerned with the plight of ordinary citizens up against the government or other powerful interests — a type of struggle he witnessed as a boy.
When he was 14, his father, owner of a grand but failing Chicago hotel, was wrongly convicted of embezzlement. Ernest Stevens was vindicated on appeal, but decades later his son would say the family's ordeal taught him that justice can misfire.
More often, however, Stevens credited his sensitivity to abuses of power by police and prosecutors to what he learned while representing criminal defendants in pro bono cases as a young Chicago lawyer.
He voiced only one regret about his Supreme Court career: that he had supported reinstating the death penalty in 1976. More than three decades later, Stevens publicly declared his opposition to capital punishment, saying that years of bad court decisions had overlooked racial bias, favored prosecutors, and otherwise undermined his expectation that death sentences could be handed down fairly.
He wasn't always a champion of the individual. A case allowing New London, Connecticut, to seize people's homes for a redevelopment project was one of the most famous — and unpopular — majority opinions written by Stevens.
"Friends and acquaintances frequently told me that they could not understand how I could have authored such an opinion," he said, while maintaining that the city's actions were constitutional, even if unwise.
One of his harshest dissents came when the court lifted restrictions on spending by corporations and unions to sway elections. He called the 2010 ruling "a rejection of the common sense of the American people" and a threat to democracy.
As he read parts of that opinion aloud, Stevens' voice wavered uncharacteristically and he repeatedly stumbled over words. For the 90-year-old who'd worried he wouldn't know when to bow out, it was a signal. "That was the day I decided to resign," Stevens said later. Justice Elena Kagan took is place.
The retirement of Stevens, known as a defender of strict separation of church and state, notably left the high court without a single Protestant member for the first time. "I guess I'm the last WASP," he joked, saying the issue was irrelevant to the justices' work.
A great-grandfather, he eased into an active retirement of writing and speaking, still fit for swimming and tennis in Fort Lauderdale, where he and his second wife, Maryan, kept another home away from Washington.
He is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth and Susan, who were with him when he died. Other survivors include nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Stevens' first wife, Elizabeth, second wife, Maryan, and two children died before him. Funeral arrangements are pending, the Supreme Court said in a statement announcing his death. But he is expected to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, next to Maryan.
Born in Chicago on April 20, 1920, Stevens was a privileged child of a bygone era: He met Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh at the family hotel and was at the ballpark when Babe Ruth hit his famous "called shot" home run in the 1932 World Series.
He joined the Navy the day before Pearl Harbor, and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service with a Japanese code-breaking team. The code breakers' work enabled the U.S. to shoot down a plane carrying the commander of the Japanese Navy, and that targeted wartime killing later contributed to his misgivings about the death penalty.
After World War II, Stevens graduated first in his class at Northwestern University's law school and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge. As a lawyer he became an antitrust expert, experience he brought to Supreme Court rulings such as one ending the NCAA's control over televised college football games.
President Richard Nixon appointed Stevens, a lifelong Republican, to the federal appeals court in Chicago. Judge Stevens was considered a moderate conservative when Ford — whose nominee would need the approval of a Democratic-controlled Senate — chose him for the Supreme Court.
Stevens won unanimous confirmation after uneventful hearings nothing like today's partisan shows. He once remarked that the contentious issue of abortion never came up during the hearings. At one point, as a witness began a statement critical of Stevens, the Judiciary Committee's chairman, Mississippi Democrat James Eastland, invited the nominee into his office where they "shared a little bourbon" while the witness droned on in the hearing room, Stevens recalled.
Stevens' liberal bent once on the high court was "different than I envisioned," Ford acknowledged decades later, but he still supported and praised him as "a very good legal scholar."
Stevens' influence reached its height after other liberals retired in the early 1990s, leaving him the senior associate justice and the court's leader on the left. For a dozen years after, he proved adept at drawing swing votes from Republican appointees Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy, often frustrating conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
To sway O'Connor and Kennedy toward his views on issues such as abortion rights, he listened closely to their concerns and crafted narrow rulings to reflect their thinking. Other times, when he had built a tenuous majority, he used his status as the senior liberal to assign the writing of the opinion to the justice whose support seemed to be wavering, in hopes of solidifying his colleague's reasoning.
Stevens' clout diminished after Chief Justice John Roberts arrived in 2005 and O'Connor was replaced by the more conservative Samuel Alito.
But he didn't lose spirit.
Throughout his career, Stevens unleashed some of his most memorable language in defeat.
He wrote a scathing dissent in Bush v. Gore, the 2000 case that ended Florida's presidential recount and anointed George W. Bush: "Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law."
Relishing the wisdom of his years, Stevens liked to sprinkle his 21st century opinions with references to Prohibition or Tokyo Rose. He evoked stirring images of the D-Day assault on Omaha Beach in opposing the court's ruling that flag-burning is a protected act of free speech.
Often sympathetic toward protesters, Stevens couldn't countenance their abuse of the Stars and Stripes — perhaps because, to him, it stood for the values he treasured most. The flag deserved protection, Stevens wrote, as "a symbol of freedom, of equal opportunity, of religious tolerance."
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