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Words Are Roads
How we get there from here.
Ice Age Trail
Top 10 reasons to take COMM 398
2016 Itinerary (tentative)
Words Are Roads Party
Preposterosity
Stevens Pointless: A message from your so-called leaders
July 22, 2015 July 22, 2015 / Steve Hill	/ Leave a comment
This might be the most-circulated of all Gary Larson cartoons on the internet (search Google Images for "larson blah blah" — it's astounding). But maybe that's because this so aptly summarizes so many situations, including Monday's common council meeting.
Participating in the July 20 Stevens Point Common Council meeting as a citizen was like trying to swim from the downstream side of Hoover Dam to the upstream side. Even if you're strong enough to go against the current down at the base, you're not going to get past the dam shaft.
I've watched many Point council meetings on video, but I'd never attended one until Monday. What I saw convinced me that, at least for now, many of our so-called local leaders are great at pinching pennies but don't recognize good sense.
They still couldn't figure out how to help the residents of Edgewater Manor. They also rubber-stamped an opportunistic shafting of more than 200 homeowners in the former FEMA flood plain, who are being required to pay for seawall improvement near downtown Stevens Point.
The council's peformance could be described in many ways. I may have a lot more to say about this, and perhaps other council issues, in the future. For now, I'll just say that the council and the city of Stevens Point only seem to hear what they want to hear.
This was particularly true on the flood-control assessment issue. I don't think I've ever seen a decision-making body get such a clear and unanimous mandate from its constituents, yet seem to care less about what any citizen said. The homeowners stuck with the bill made their hardship clear; other citizens strongly affirmed their willingness to share the cost as a city and thought the rest of the city would be willing, too. The consensus was as solid as a concrete seawall. Continue reading →


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Mosport Park 1977 v4.0
Mosport Park 1977 for GTR2
Original Track created by Osprey_HD for SCGT
rFactor Conversion by an unknown person
GTR2 Conversion & updates by Neel Jani
Track Infos :
Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (formerly Mosport Park and Mosport International Raceway) is a multi-track motorsport venue located north of Bowmanville, in Ontario, Canada. The facility features a 2.459-mile (3.957 km), (length reduced through wider track re-surfacing done in 2003) 10-turn road course; a 2.9 km advance driver and race driver training facility with a quarter-mile skid pad (Driver Development Centre) and a 1.5 km kart track (Mosport Kartways). The name "Mosport" is a contraction of Motor Sport, came from the enterprise formed to build the track; it is pronounced as the two words actually sound, "Mo-Sport" (but is often incorrectly pronounced "Moss-Port").
The CanAm first visited the track in its inaugural season in 1966, and Mosport hosted at least one event in every year of the series' history, except 1968. In 1967, Canada's centennial year, Mosport hosted Formula One, USAC, and a 500cc Motorcycle Grand Prix. F1's Grand Prix of Canada remained at the track until 1977, until it was moved to Montreal. Mosport has hosted a wide variety of series throughout its history. The circuit has held Formula One, USAC, World Sportscar Championship, Can-Am, Formula 5000, and many other sports car, open-wheel, and motorcycle series.
former major events :
FIA Formula One Canadian Grand Prix (1961–1967, 1969, 1971–1974, 1976–1977)
FIM Road Racing World Championship Canadian motorcycle Grand Prix (1967)
Can-Am (1966–1967, 1969–1974, 1977–1986)
USAC Indy Car Telegraph Trophy 200 / Molson Diamond Indy (1967–1968, 1977–1978)
The improvements in this new version are the following :
* optimized textures for better fps
* reworked and corrected GMT files
* full Multitexturing
* added public sounds
* fixed rain reflections
* fixed fire entry and exit of the stands
* created flag marshalls for this new version
maximum numbers of cars (grid) : 37
This track is tested with DirectX 7, 8 and 9, no problem where found.
Special Thanks to :
Osprey_HD for the original track
SimBin for GTR2
Dave Noonan for 3DSimED
Adobe for Photoshop 9
[SSR] HPI-rcr for Cam
No25 for the reworked AIW (37 Cars)
alaindavid57@hotmail.com
Good entertainment,
GTR2, Road Circuits, TracksCan-Am, FIA, Formula, IMSA, Indy, SCCA, Sports Car, Stock Car, Video, WSC

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KEVIN K CHEN.

words on "pairing thoughts"

september 8, 2014

Pairing has always scared me...probably because I paired with people way above my skill level (It never feels good to feel like an idiot). However, pairing with fellow Dev Bootcamp mates is a pleasure. When working with someone at your skill level.

My first pairing building this website.

Working with Mike Steichen was nerve-racking. As my first pair with someone at my level, I wasn't sure if I was supposed to run-my-mouth or remain quiet and inquisitive. Or both. It didn't help that we had a Dev Bootcamp guide evaluating us.

This was a particularly bad week to pair as well -- I had almost but forgotten my html knowledge. We stumbled on questions regarding HTML5 formatting. And, we took an hour to figure out how to add padding and margins.

Luckily, we quickly settled into a workable and fun relationship.

By first taking 5 minutes to explain our philosophies on pairing (driving vs. navigation), we were able to fix all the awkward silences that had troubled my previous pairing sessions. There was no indecision on whether something should be said or not.

The biggest difference:  Switching roles

Perhaps, the confidence booster in Dev Bootcamp pairing is that we can switch roles. Mike and I decided from the get-go to switch every 30 minutes -- which surprising turned out to be the right amount of time. According to the Pomodoro technique, you should give yourself about half an hour of complete focus, then a break. Likewise, switching to navigator every 30 minutes helps me take a bigger picture on the problem every now and then.

Interesting thoughts

What's interesting writing this post is that I've come to realize how much programming is a team sport. The two most important things to a productive and successful pairing session (as in, you solve the programming problem efficiently and concisely), is that the pairs communicate. You over communicate. You say when you're getting tired and need to switch. You say your thoughts aloud on what might or might not work. You listen to subtle cues to keep quiet and let your pair figure things out. You communicate on what it means to pair. Just those 5 minutes in the beginning are a huge time saver.

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Some 40 years ago, Alabama head coach Nick Saban was a low-paid football assistant at Kent State where he had to drive a Coca-Cola truck in his spare time to make ends meet. Fresh off his fourth national championship in the last decade—his Crimson Tide walloped Notre Dame last night to claim college football's crown—Coke Zero has been quick to point out that particular detail of his sporting journey in a TV spot that's already running on ESPN, in various local markets in Alabama and as an online video.
During the 30-second spot (available below), a voiceover by the coach's wife, Terry Saban, explains how her husband has proved critics wrong against a backdrop of autobiographical images from their marriage, his playing career and his coaching highlights. Dubbed "It's Possible to Enjoy Everything," the ad was produced by Atlanta-based marketing agency Melt.
Coke Zero's clearly jumping on the 'Bama success story on the heels of last night's game, which drew a 15.7 percent overnight rating on ESPN—a 14 percent increase over the Crimson Tide's national title matchup versus Louisiana State last year.


English: The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905, also known as the Eulsa Treaty or Japan–Korea Protectorate Treaty, was made between the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire in 1905. Negotiations were concluded on November 17, 1905.
한국어: 을사늑약은 1905년 11월 17일 대한제국 정부의 박제순과 일본제국 정부의 하야시 곤스케에 의해 체결된 불평등 조약이다. 체결 당시 정식 명칭은 '한일 협상 조약'이며, 을사년에 이루어졌기 때문에 을사조약, 을사오조약, 을사보호조약이라 부르기도 한다. 일본은 제2차 한일 협약(第二次韓日協約, )이라고 부르며, 한국에서는 일본에 의해 강제로 맺은 조약이라 해서 을사늑약(乙巳勒約)이라고 부르기도 한다.
Media in category "Eulsa treaty"
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