The aim of this study is to identify the effect of discourse analysis method on Turkish Language and Literature teaching in ter¬ms of comprehension, textual analysis and use of language skills; and to get the opinions of the students on this method to use in Turkish courses. The study group of the research is the 11th grade students at Bilkent Private Laboratory School of Erzurum in the spring semester of 2014-2015 academic year. Qualitative research method was used in research. The opinions and thoughts of study group about using the discourse analysis method in Turkish language and literature les¬sons were gathered through the opinion forms conducted before and after the method was applied. Opinions of students were also gathered by interviewing them and they were recorded. Additionally, observations of the researcher were taken into consideration. Analysis of recordings and observations overlapped with and supported the data collected through opinion forms. Descriptive analysis and content analysis approaches were used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the research; it was found that discourse analysis has enabled the learning process to be effective, it helped students to develop skills of comprehension, textual analysis and use of language, it created meaningful, permanent and transferable learning opportunities and has increased the participation in the lessons. Moreover, the method has been found to support students' personal development by contributing to the social and communication skills. Reading and comprehension skills are effective in all areas of learning and experience. In addition, there is only small number of studies on discourse analysis method, and we couldn't find any research where discourse analysis was used as a method of teaching in first language and literature course. By taking all of these facts into consideration, it is believed that this study will provide important contributions to the literature.
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Gravity is a collaborative application using buildings' architecture as a projection surface.
This real time interactive animation allows people to send sms text messages to the installation. The words are then embedded into geometric shapes, and are dropped from the top of the projection. The fall as well as their collisions with the building's environment are physics-driven, making interactions happen between the different sent messages, creating an open participative "exquisite corpse" scene where spectators can react to each other's sentences.
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Concerto No. 7 for 2 Pianos in F Major, K. 242: I. Allegro
Dmitry Yablonsky, Ksenia Bashmet, Mira Yevtich, & Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
Concerto No. 7 for 2 Pianos in F Major, K. 242: II. Adagio
Concerto No. 7 for 2 Pianos in F Major, K. 242: III. Rondo Tempo di Menuetto
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488: I. Allegro
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488: II. Adagio
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488: III. Allegro assai
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Shostakovich: Jazz Suites Nos. 1 - 2 - The Bolt - Tahiti Trot
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In this brief tutorial, we'll cover how to sell more memberships and subscriptions without spending more on advertising. I generally recommend some sort of recurring program for stability, such as subscriptions and memberships (which I've been doing for the past few years with my own businesses). By the end of this video blog, you'll walk away with the most common sales strategy to be implemented first in an email, and then a database marketing strategy to sell more subscription programs.
Yes, you can sell more memberships by driving more traffic to an existing, converting membership program, but it's sometimes difficult to scale paid advertising, and sometimes affiliate traffic building is also a challenge. I always suggest that you keep front-end traffic coming, but you should also build up the ability and resources to be able to sell yourself week over week.
There are four main steps to pulling this off, and to illustrate I like to use the analogy of Sports Illustrated, which happens to be a billion-dollar subscription business. The bulk of this revenue comes from advertising, and hundreds of millions are being funneled through the creation of different, unique front-end offers.
What do I mean by unique front-end offers?
If want to go to Sports Illustrated and buy a subscription, I can. A lot of the time, however, Sports Illustrated is going to vary up its outreach efforts by coming up with offers and bundles to accompany its subscription. A hat with the stitched logo of a favorite team for $25 might also get me 3 months of a free subscription. Other offers might be a fancy a plaque with the the super bowl winner for $99 along with 3 months of a free subscriptions, or a football-shaped phone with 1 month of a free subscription. These are all unique offers that will undoubtedly appeal to different crowds.
Very few Internet marketers leverage this type of offer, yet part of the success behind our Science of Skill business was using this billion-dollar model from the very beginning.
How can you start apply this billion-dollar model to your business today?
Say you teach online courses about paid advertising, and you want to sell more subscriptions. As part of the offer, you might have a membership site where customers can learn from other experts, or a paid monthly interview that accompanies an online course. The very first step, however, is to poll your list to determine your prospects most important goals and/or obstacles.
There is very little as powerful to know about people than what they are here to learn. In turn, the very important answer is what you can teach them. When you poll, the question about goals and/or obstacles should be an open-ended one; there is no room multiple choice in this section, prospects should be able to type in their own question.
The second step is to then use these forms to segment your list into the most relevant/common groups.
Once you've determined those groups, it's time to roll out the multiple choice poll. You can do this before purchase when the prospect is opting in on your site; prompt them to enter their email and then pick one of three of the established bucket choices. This response is an important data point about how to sell them; it tells you what they came to learn, and how you can benefit their life. The ability to sell customers well is correlated to your ability to provide value to them.
Using the poll before purchase often does not drop the opt in rate, but it scrape a small percentage; however, the pay off on the backend is big when you know customer conversion goals. If you're more comfortable with only requesting the email up front, make the thank you page for opting in (the post opt-in) be the poll. If you this option, you can get as many as 90% of opt-ins to reply.
A third, softer option is to give the poll in the post-purchase web form. As part of the buying process, direct customers to your website and have them fill out a customer intake form before they are able to access or download their purchase; this form might ask all kinds of questions, but I would argue one of the most important is the customer's main business goal.
Post poll, you can then segment all buyers in the system by goal (I recommend rolling these into two to four buckets, but don't recommend more than four). For more ideas on sending out customer service polls after purchase, read this article on ResponseWise.
The third step is then to create products or offers that appeal to your most common segments.
If you sell courses about paid advertising, you might create a $27 course that is basically a tutorial on direct-selling using paid advertising. You could also create a course on how to build a social following i.e. how to use ads to solicit folks to follow you. A third option could be a native ads 101-type course. In all case, you're creating unique offerings; these don't have to be big or overly innovative, but they relate to what the customer wants, providing them something of tangible worth.
The fourth and final step is to offer bundled product offerings with your membership or subscription, plus new front-end products, to your list with segmented weekly email campaigns.
It's important to note that you're not sending out to the whole list in one week, but rotating through from one week to the next (wondering what to sell a customer once they click and buy? Read this article on pull-up automation campaigns).
The above four steps provide a simplified, mapped process for leveraging internal database marketing to drive ongoing recurring monthly income, without depending on outside advertising. Using this strategy doesn't mean you should stop the latter i.e. using external advertising and affiliate traffic, but building a strong internal presence helps add additional revenue, as well as the security of knowing that you can sell on your own when it comes down to the line.
If you have questions about how to use this strategy, feel to reach out to us at clvboost.com, or leave a comment in the comments section.


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Q: What is the Questworld? In the cartoon The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest which was broadcast around 1996-1997, there is a virtual reality system called the Questworld. Why was it created? Who were the people who created it (I assume Dr. Quest had some major role in it)?
Most important, how is Questworld related to the real world?
In one episode, there was this ghost/spirit thing that was not visible in the real world but it was visible in the Questworld.

A: QuestWorld was originally created by Dr. Benton Quest as a research platform, within which various experiments could be simulated and scenarios played out without risking harm to the real world. It turns out that QuestWorld is such a real experience to its users, that should one's "avatar" die in QuestWorld, the user's brain would go into "damage control" mode for real, doing actual permanent damage to the user's body and brain. Thus, use of it becomes limited; it is impossible to, for instance, witness an atomic explosion or a supernova up close in QuestWorld, or to play out standoff or other military scenarios. Dr Quest would likely not allow his invention to be applied to the military anyway.
Johnny, of course, sees it as a toy, and largely ignores the dangers until Surd makes QuestWorld more dangerous than usual. Dr. Quest gave Dr. Surd a limited version of QuestWorld to allow Surd virtual mobility (he's portrayed in JQ as Stephen Hawking's evil opposite), which Surd hacked in order to take control over Questworld proper.

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Sandra has been teaching for 20 years. She's actively involved with the Electronic Village Online (EVO) and currently serves on the coordination team. You may have read some of her CALL-related blogs on TESOL. She freelances for ETS.org and MuchEnough.com. In addition, Sandra runs a virtual nonprofit to help the unemployed find work on BrokeButNotForLong.org.
A: Well, in the past newsletters this referred to the computer operating system. I use Windows XP, but it's not really my favorite. As an online teacher, I'd like to add that my favorite learning management system platform is eCollege (Pearson).
Q: For you, what is the one indispensable tool/webpage?
A: That depends on my resources for the project. Camtasia Relay for screencasting with a budget because I can edit and add closed-captioning. Screenr.com for screencasting without a budget―no editing feature so you have to do retakes! Screencasters help you meet the standards for quality online instruction, such as virtual tours, lecture capturing, demonstrations, one-on-one specific help, and student presentations and/or intros.
Q: What is your most unexpected source of information about CALL?
A: I didn't realize that the CALLIS helped create the Principles and Practices of Online Teaching certificate courses and that some of the CALL members actually teach the classes, too.
Q: What was your favorite CALL creation?
A: I'd have to say my e-portfolio blog that I created in Vance Stevens' Multiliteracies EVO 2010 session. It has become my go-to place for everything I do―my landing strip! I blog about my trials and errors with integrating technology into education and post all of my projects there.
A: Besides training moderators as an EVO coordination team member, I'm also mentoring the PLN/PLE moderators for #2012evo. I continue to blog for TESOL, my eportfolio, and my nonprofit. For BrokeButNotForLong, Inc., I've decided to migrate all of our content to Google sites like Blogger for Blogging4Broke to save money. We recently received a Google grant for free AdWords, so you should be seeing more of Broke in online searches in a few months. For my own career, I've launched Teacherrogers Consulting for Literacy, Language & Social Media Solutions.
Q: What area would you like to see developed/researched?
A: I'll echo what Andy Bowman said back in 2008: "More computer-like devices created specifically for language learning." And I want to help create one, so give me a call!
Q: In a sentence, what advice would you give to a newbie starting out in CALL?
A: Take the Electronic Village Online free professional training in January!
Q: What is your funniest CALL-related incident?
A: OK, since Laine (Helaine) Marshall has a good sense of humor, I'd like to describe our first face-to-face encounter. I was running to a session at the TESOL convention in New Orleans when I passed her by. I turned around because I recognized her face from her thumbnail photos on Yahoo IM. She became a great mentor to me during my first attempt at moderating a session for EVO in 2009. However, I wasn't sure it was her because of her petite stature. Laine had become such a giant in my mind that I didn't expect her to be so small! I explained this to her, and we both laughed because she didn't expect me to be so tall.
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Still not sure exactly what I'm gonna use this for, but I wanted to make this possible anyway, so here it is.
@estecka you might want to add this as a PR to https://github.com/screepers/RoomVisual. it looks great.
Thank you! I was looking for a nice way to visualize what my labs are doing, this will be a great boon to it!
If only we had some kind of MapVisuals so we could use this in a map overlay!


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Q: Trouble installing discord overlay and pyQt5 I get this error
 Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement PyQt5 (from discordoverlaylinux==0.0.1) (from versions: )

No matching distribution found for PyQt5 (from discordoverlaylinux==0.0.1)
when trying to install discord overlay
I tried fixing this by manually installing pyQt5 by pip install pyqt5 but i get
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement PyQt5 (from versions: )

No matching distribution found for PyQt5
what should i do to fix this?

A: I would recommend to install the packages from official repository by
sudo apt-add-repository universe
sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5.qtwebengine pyqt5-dev python3-xdg


The Costa Children's Book of the Year 2017. A wild adventure, The Explorer nods to storytelling's golden age but remains alive and fresh with characters that leap from the page. An instant classic.
Like a man-made magic wish the airplane began to rise.
The boy sitting in the cockpit gripped his seat and held his breath as the plane roared and climbed into the arms of the sky.
From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him.
He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.
As the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a choice.
Katherine Rundell spent her childhood in Africa and parts of Europe before settling in the UK. She is the author of Rooftoppers, a story of one girl's adventures across the rooftops of Paris, which won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award.
I had seen a lot of press for this title and was fairly interested in it. When Bloomsbury sent me a review copy I was keen to start it.
It's okay. Nicely written and the illustrations are lovely, but I just wasn't all that into it. Got about 40 pages in and just ran out of steam.


Matt Beck answers questions from his subscribers regarding negative employees and much more.
Matt Beck, founder of Gratitude Salon Education, uses Periscope to discuss his thoughts on how to retain clients while on maternity leave, how to work with your significant other, and how to find time to enjoy life with a busy schedule.
Beck stresses the importance of getting rid of negativity, being honest with customers, maintaining a balance in your business and personal relationships, and making your business a top priority in your life.


James Neary III is mad and he let the Canaseraga village board know it at its meeting Monday night.
Neary is upset that he is being charged a debt service payment for the village's sewer system, even though the bulk of his property is located outside the village and there is no way for him to use sewer services. He wanted to know why the village was charging him $358 for the debt service.
"For property in the village," Mayor Bob Ames said.
"Are you going to use it?"?Ames said.
"Put something in up there and we'll run the line," Ames said.
Neary said he had a house on the North Almond Road property, with 52 acres just in the Town of Burns and four acres in the village. The portion in the village is landlocked, he said, leaving him few options for what to do with it.
"Why am I expected to pay for something I can't possibly use?" Neary said, adding he'd like to have the street maintained and requested a street light be installed, since his piece of property was considered in the village.
Ames suggested Neary consider getting rid of the affected part of his parcel, and noted other landowners, such as Charles Oliver, Time Warner Cable, Norfolk Southern and the Town of Burns also pay debt service for properties owned in the village that don't have sewer service running to them.
"They're all on the street, I'm not on a street," Neary said.
Ames again said Neary should get rid of the property if he didn't want to pay the debt service.
"It's landlocked, there's no access to it," Neary said.
"You wouldn't give someone a right of way to get to it?" Ames said.
He also raised several other concerns, one being a village water tank that overflows onto his property. The tank is on village-owned property that borders Neary's. Neary also said there are illegal dumps by his house, on village property, of which he had pictures. Among the items dumped include refrigerators, washing machines, fire hydrants, oil drums, scraps from the sewer project and other unidentified barrels.
Ames said the white goods would be getting moved once a full load was accumulated, as it has been done in the past. He also said the sewer scraps were brought to his attention Monday and will be removed shortly, and that he would check on the drums that were up there to determine the contents.
"If that's locked up there, and the gate is accessible only by the village, why don't you know what's up there?" Neary asked.
According to Department of Environmental Conservation police in the Region 9 office, which covers Allegany County, no complaints were listed regarding the dumping.


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Pele named secret daughter in his £13M will after spending her entire life denying he was her father
Football legend Pele recognized his 'secret' daughter in his will after denying she was his for his entire life, it has been revealed.
The Brazilian soccer icon had previously refused to acknowledge he was the father of Sandra Regina, leaving her heartbroken when she died 17 years ago.
Despite this, the 82-year-old requested to meet with her two sons, speaking to them in the flesh for the first time on December 28, just one day before he died.
It has now emerged that he gave a share of his multi-million pound estate to the pair, after finally naming Sandra as one of his seven children in his will.
Pele, pictured here in 2014, died on December 29 in Brazil at the age of 82 after multiple organ failure
Sandra Regina, pictured, was one of Pele's seven children, but he refused to acknowledge he was her father
It brought to a close a family drama that plagued the three-time World Cup winner for decades, with her children Octavio Felinto Neto and Gabriel Arantes do Nascimento saying their mother's dream had come true.
the Mirrors reports Gabriel as saying: 'I spoke to my aunts, and they said that our grandfather wanted to see us.
'We were very excited, it was an opportunity we had been waiting for. Every family has fights and rows, ours is no different, but there are moments when union and love are more important than anything else. We are extremely happy.'
Sandra, who died in 2006 of cancer, was born after Pele had an affair with his cleaner, Anisia Machado.
Ms Machado fought for years to get him to admit he was the father, but he refused to do so, even after a DNA test proved he was.
Sandra was given the right to use Pele's surname, Nascimento, in 1996 after a five-year legal battle.
When Pele died last month after a long battle with cancer he passed on an estate thought to be worth around £13million.
The global icon had three children from his first marriage, twins from his second and two children, including Sandra, from affairs.
He married first wife Rosemeri dos Reis Cholbi in 1966 and they had two daughters – Kelly and Jennifer – and a son, Edson.
Pele, pictured here celebrating a goal in the 1970 World Cup final, was a global footballing icon
A packed Hillsborough watches on as Sheffield Wednesday take on Pele's Santos in a friendly match in February 1972
Pele's widow Marci Aoki and his son Edinho are pictured in a tearful embrace as they say farewell to the football legend
The son, known as Edinho, was sentenced to 33 years imprisonment on money laundering and drug trafficking charges in 2014 but this was reduced to 12 years and 10 months on appeal.
His first marriage ended in 1982 and Pele was romantically linked with the TV presenter Xuxa, just 17 when they started dating, for several years.
But in April 1994, he married the psychologist and gospel singer Assyria Lemos Seixas, who gave birth to twins Joshua and Celeste in 1996.
He recognized his other illegitimate daughter, Flavia Kurtz, who he had after an affair with journalist Lenita Kutz in 1968.
He once said in an interview that he had had a 'normal youth and had many adventures' when asked in an interview.
He married his third wife, Marcia Aoki, who was 32 years his junior, in 2016 after six years of dating.
He was survived by his sister Maria and his 100-year-old mother Celeste, who was 'unaware' her son had died in the days after.
Pele's body was put on display in a 24-hour wake inside Vila Belmiro, the stadium of Brazilian football club Santos, where he spent most of his career.
Thousands of people lined up to pay their respects to the man who became the face of world football over the course of the course of three decades.
The casket arrived before the doors were opened to the public, with Pele's son Edinho acting as one of the pallbearers. Funeral workers draped a veil over him and Edinho was pictured resting his hand on his father's forehead and saying a prayer in the moments before the wake began.
Pele's widow Marcia Aoki was pictured placing a cross pendant on her husband's body, and she was later seen embracing Edinho.
PELE: DEAD AT 82 AFTER BATTLE WITH CANCER


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BGBlog Career VideosAugust 2, 2018
The 9to5 Misfits: Do I Need Video Content?
By Namrata Sirur
How did you first learn to contour? Did you read a whitepaper about it or follow an intricate 17-step diagram? Probably not. Chances are, you watched a YouTube video about it.
The fact is that 75 percent of people would rather watch a video about something than read copy. And that number is only increasing.
Lots of companies are catching on and meeting customers where their attention is — by making video content. But here's the thing…you don't necessarily need to be a big brand or YouTuber to take advantage of video marketing.
Here are a few different groups of people who could use video content to stand out from the competition.
1. Job Seekers
As a job seeker, you're probably going to have to do a video interview at some point. But, you could also be ahead of the curve by doing a video bio where you tell your story, talk about your skills, experience, and areas of interest. This is especially useful if you don't have a very linear career path. A creative video gives you the opportunity to explain things that don't appear on your resume, LinkedIn profile, or cover letter.
2. Entrepreneurs
Whether it's a side hustle or a fulltime gig, a lot of millennials are ditching the 9-to-5 life to do something entrepreneurial. One of the best ways to showcase your product, service, or brand, and to differentiate yourself is through video. This could be through an explainer video that's more product-centric, or through a personal branding video that's more profile-centric and tells your story.
[Read More: 9to5 MisFits: How to Become a Master Storyteller]
3. Freelancers
We have a few friends who used to work for companies and then decided to go out on their own. They were lucky enough to have a client base to start with because they could tap into their network. But what happens when the work dries up and you need to look for new clients? One of the best ways to create awareness about your brand and your services is through video. A video would also be a great addition to your profile on Upwork or other freelancer sites. Because a photo or written copy on your profile will only go so far.
4. Doctors, Dentists, Lawyers, Realtors
There are plenty of professions where the personality of the service provider matters just as much their credentials. Sure, you want a doctor or dentist who's gone to a credible school. Or you want a realtor who's experienced. But at the end of the day, what matters more is their personality and how they make you feel. It's the reason we prefer to go with someone our friends and family recommended. If you're in a similar profession where you have to go out and get your own clients, and where you have to build trust and an emotional connection with your audience, video is absolutely crucial to your marketing.
Video marketing is getting more popular by the day. Just look at how much Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram is making a play at video. It's the best way to differentiate yourself in a noisy, ADD-fueled world. Start making video content today!
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Am I a big Devo fan? No, I'm not but I do like some of their songs. I do respect them…I can't help but respect them. They had no peers…they did what they did better than anyone else…because they were the only ones that did it. Whatever it is. They are just so bizarre but I can't help but admire them.
I showed my son the SNL clip of Devo when he was around 10-12 years old and I looked around at his confused look… his mouth was hung open. He asked me slowly…Dad, what was that? Son, that was Devo…it still works.
Whip It peaked at #14 in the Billboard 100, #11 in Canada and #51 in the UK. This song was by far their most successful though they barely missed the top 40 in 1981 with Working In a Coal Mine.
The song was written about whipping your problems but when the band heard that many people took the lyrics the wrong way…they made a video to play up to that thought.
Jerry Casale: "We made a video to it for like $15,000 that was shot in our rehearsal studio. We kind of magnified that myth that this was a song about whipping and sadomasochism. We decided to make the video feed that popular misconception and had a lot of fun doing it. It was one of the few times Devo worked like that, usually, we would start with a visual idea or story and write music to fit it. In this case, we didn't originally have a video idea for 'Whip It,' and when people started thinking it was a song about whacking off or sadomasochism, we had these quack books that we would collect from junk stores or vintage magazine stores that served as inspiration or jokes. There was this one magazine that I found in a store in Santa Monica. It was a 1962 men's girlie mag called Dude, I think.
My sentiments almost exactly. I'm actually a fan, but "Peek-a-Boo"? No. It's way too bizarre for me. I love their cover of "Satisfaction" though.
Devo videos are works of art and the music has its own niche. I could see why your son would be wondering what the heck. Mark Mothersbaugh did a large portion of the music for Wes Anderson's, "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" which is quite good.
They were so original…and no one has ever really even gone down that road since they stopped.
I love the movie. One of my favorite Wes Anderson and favorite Bill Murray movies. I also own the soundtrack. It has a Portuguese musician, Seu Jorge, also doing several David Bowie covers.
Sorry this was caught in the spam folder…it's been doing that a lot recently. I will check it out thank you.
I think if you take all their work- it would make a pretty good 'best of." They were different. I remember a local FM rock station back in the late 70's every night would have a vote- between two versions of a song- and one night it was Satisfaction- and Devo won. LOL.
They were one of a kind tha is for sure. No one followed them.
Thats funny. Its been played so much that different is not always bad.
Fun band, decent memories. Like i said not long ago, I wouldn't want everything on radio to sound like them but they added a dash of fun and showed why the 80s were great- it was 'anything goes' musically!
People thought they were wearing flower pots on their heads.


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Mr. Palley is a Senior Advisor to TowerBrook and member of the Investment Committee for TowerBrook's Structured Opportunities funds.
Mr. Palley has had a successful and broad ranging career in investment banking, consulting and private equity, including 17 years at BC Partners, the private equity firm where he was Managing Partner. He is a Trustee of The Tate Foundation. Mr. Palley earned his Economics degree from Cambridge and his M.B.A. from The Wharton School, Pennsylvania.


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Low-stakes television with lots of Hart.
Hart of Dixie is not a show about how up-and-coming young surgeon Zoe Hart came to Bluebell and fell in love with a boy. It is a story about how Zoe Hart came to Bluebell and fell in love with Bluebell, and with being a family doctor. And the story of how Bluebell fell in love with her. It's a story about identity, about family (both the ones you're born into and the ones you make for yourself), about the paths we choose to take (and those that are chosen for us). And yes, there's a love triangle there–or maybe more of a love pentagon, a love star–and sometimes it drives the plot, but it doesn't define the show.
So there's lots to love about Hart of Dixie, and that's not even mentioning its cast. Cress Williams, Scott Porter, Wilson Bethel and Tim Matheson are all great as the various men in Zoe's life (friends and love interests and her professional rival), and Jamie King, though her southern accent can spin out underneath her like tires on a slick road, has imbued Lemon, Zoe's romantic rival, with some depth, cracking the shell of her picture perfect exterior to reveal her insecurities and motivations. And then there are the various bit-players, characters that make up the town of Bluebell (aiming for the charming quirk of Gilmore Girls' Stars Hollow, right down to the same set, and mostly succeeding), who are varied, distinct, and wholly entertaining.
The real "Hart" of the show, though–if you'll permit a pun on a pun–is Zoe herself. Rachel Bilson drew some snark when she was first cast from those who didn't think anyone would buy her as a no nonsense surgeon lacking in bedside manner. To some extent they were right–Bilson exudes a friendliness that defies Meredith Grey's "dark and twisty" world view, even when she's sneering at Bluebell, or bitterly raging against her parents. But as the show has evolved, Zoe has relaxed into a role better suited for Bilson. While she's still having trouble gaining the trust of Bluebell's residents, it's got more to do with her tendency to bungle social functions and a lack of tact than with an unfriendliness. And as far as buying her as a surgeon goes, there's no question that the character is more than capable. She's never more confident than when diagnosing a patient or cooler than in the face of an emergency.
Hart of Dixie is the fourth show from Josh Schwartz, after The O.C., Gossip Girl, and Chuck, and perhaps the most distinct thing these shows share–other than well-suited soundtracks–is a sense that they know themselves. The O.C. was never afraid of its soapy roots, it could acknowledge when things didn't work, and it regularly dipped into self-parody, Chuck found its core audience and played straight to it, never more so than with its guest stars, an endless list of stars and cult icons from the eighties and nineties, and Gossip Girl regularly reaches for new levels of insanity–a recent example: a supposed long lost cousin who was unmasked as a con artist by a real long lost cousin who is also, surprise, a half sibling–and new levels of couture. Hart of Dixie, meanwhile, has found itself in its own goofiness.
Now, goofy is not a bad thing. The show is light on gravitas, but it does have a sweet charm. Bluebell's a strange town, where they celebrate "Planksgiving" instead of Thanksgiving (a far more pirate-y holiday), and heat waves drive the citizens a little insane. I compared it a bit to Stars Hollow earlier and I think that's apt, both Stars Hollow and Bluebell share in the old trope of small towns with big traditions. You see some of that in Mystic Falls on The Vampire Diaries and in Pawnee on Parks and Recreation and really in just about every small town that TV has ever dreamed up. But it's not just Bluebell that's goofy. The show itself seems to be saying, "Yup, this is what we're going to be, take it or leave it." They've embraced the jokes about Zoe's affinity for dressy shorts, and they've dressed her up in a hideous Southern Belle dress–complete with hoop skirt–and asked her to sing on cue. They've teased secret romances and then revealed them as secret friendships and introduced an alligator named Burt Reynolds. Even the CW's promo department plays into the goofier side of the show:
That's not to say that there's no depth to Hart of Dixie. While the found-family relationships are loving, there tends to be quite a bit of strife in the traditional families, from Zoe's discovery that the father she's always known and admired and aspired to be is not related to her biologically–and the fall-out with both of her parents that accompanies that discovery–to Lemon coming to terms with the fact that the mother that left when she was a teenager has moved on with a new family. George (Porter) struggles for his parents' approval while–without even knowing it–trapped in a love triangle with Lemon and Lavon (Williams). Wade (Bethel), meanwhile, is trying to figure out what he wants out of his life, and what sort of relationship he wants with his father, the town drunk, and how he feels about Zoe.
The series works because it takes its characters emotions seriously, even if it doesn't always take itself too seriously. They mix-and-match the characters to explore new dynamics–it took awhile to see Wade and Lemon interact, but when they did they proved a fun pairing–and they expand the town of Bluebell almost weekly, bringing new residents into Zoe's, and the audience's, circle.
Hart of Dixie isn't going to win any major awards, and I have no clue where it stands in terms of getting picked up for a second season, but it's certainly an enjoyable way to spend an hour. The stakes aren't very high in Bluebell, this is low-stress TV, and sometimes, especially on Monday evenings, coming down from Mad Men and The Good Wife and the rest of Sunday night's high-stakes television, that's just what you need.
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If this is the first time you've come across our guitar roundups then you're in for a treat. We collate all the latest, relevant and most read/watched material from around the world for jazz, rock and classical. We do this once per month for one genre in rotation and this month it's the turn of classical guitar.
It's been a couple of months since we rounded up the breaking and making news and videos from the world of classical guitar. Here it is, a plethora of great material for you to find out all the latest and view the best in classical guitar.
We changed the format last month with the jazz guitar roundup and as the response was good we are sticking with it. We start with videos from classical guitarists on Youtube and we will then move on to news then snippets. So, here is the classical guitar roundup April 2018, enjoy!
Here is a range from popular music played in the style of classical guitar to the latest performances from the classical guitar literature.
For those looking to play the Beatles in a classical guitar styles.
Although this is a guitar for sale, the performance is well worth a listen.
Rhode Island is awash in acoustic guitar performances for the weekend of April 6-8. The University of Rhode Island Guitar Festival kicks off its 3rd incarnation on Friday night at the Pump House Music Works in Peace Dale. And the Argentinian guitarist and … It's A Guitar Weekend!


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Energy Savings Pay for Upgrades
Dan Becker,
Just as hybrid cars are using advanced engineering to cut gasoline bills, technology can cut the cost of heating, cooling and lighting America's buildings.
A hybrid car's better mileage helps drivers pay for its gas-saving technology. Similarly, a money-saving financing device can pay for energy improvements in schools and offices, and slash their costs.
Consider what Naugatuck, Conn., has accomplished.
Taking advantage of a financing mechanism known as an "energy performance contract," it has made $12 million in energy improvements to its schools and other public buildings at no real cost. By cutting its demand for energy from coal, oil and natural gas, Naugatuck is also reducing its emissions of carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant.
Think of performance contracts as magic wands that transform high energy bills into such efficient technology as new air-conditioning and heating systems — and long-term savings.
The magic is this: The money saved by reducing energy costs pays for the improvements themselves.
The performance contract guarantees that a project's total cost will be no greater than the amount formerly spent on energy alone. Over the generally seven to 15 years of the contract's life, the old energy bill will cover the cost of the new, lower energy bill and pay for the project's financing, construction, and new equipment — furnaces, air conditioners and lighting, for example.
The job's overall contractor works with the building owner to arrange bank loans, bonds or other financing to cover all the costs.
Then, at the end of the contract period, it's all gravy: The building owns upgraded long-life equipment and enjoys lower utility bills.
Throughout the country, the need for such energy savings is great. With inadequate insulation, leaky windows, and lights left on long after suites are empty, the average office building wastes about one-third of its energy.
"That's money the building owner spends every month," says Donald Gilligan, director of the National Association of Energy Service Companies, which represents firms specializing in energy efficiency upgrades. "You're just not getting anything for it."
And the benefits go beyond healthier air and healthier balance sheets. Every $1 million invested in energy retrofitting produces 16.7 jobs, according to estimates by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
So performance contracts are a good deal for everyone: Buildings cut energy bills. Workers get jobs. Assaulted by less carbon pollution, the climate benefits.
Nationally, at least 60 percent of commercial buildings can be effectively upgraded, reducing their energy use by 20 percent to 40 percent, according to Jennifer Schafer, executive director of the Federal Performance Contracting Coalition.
In the current political climate of eager partisan divide over allocating meager resources, the old industrial town of Naugatuck, whose mills once produced Keds and Naugahyde, now offers a modern lesson in simultaneously saving money and fighting climate change.
Its schools, which serve 4,500 students in 11 buildings, installed new windows and four energy-efficient boilers, replaced wasteful heating and air-conditioning controls, and switched to energy-efficient lighting systems, among other improvements. The museum in the old train station installed energy-saving programmable thermostats; the fire house has modernized heating.
The payoff: A town where public buildings desperately needed improvement but money was scarce has managed to cut energy demands by 46 percent without tapping taxpayers to pay for the upgrades. It cut carbon dioxide emissions by 4,400 tons a year. And with its lower annual energy bill, it came out $360,000 ahead last year alone.
As for the cost of making the installations, "The impact on the town budget is zero," says John Tindall-Gibson, the school superintendent. "Any school district with buildings over 20 years old — I don't know why they wouldn't look at it."
Saving money and energy, increasing jobs and fighting global warming: Performance contracts are a great deal. It's time we made wide use of them.
Dan Becker is director of the Safe Climate Campaign, which advocates strong measures to curb global warming. James Gerstenzang, the Safe Climate Campaign's editorial director, formerly covered the White House and the environment for the Los Angeles Times.
Green Jobs: A Promise Unfulfilled
Washington, D.C. – When Barack Obama was running for president, he promised to spend $150 billion over the next decade on renewable energy technologies, an investment that would…
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Q: Finding parameters for a quotient of a polynomial ring
Let $a,b \in \mathbb{R}, T_{a,b} := \mathbb{R}[x] \ /\langle x^2+ax+b\rangle$, where $\langle x^2+ax+b\rangle$ is the ideal generated by $x^2+ax+b$.
1) for which $a,b \in \mathbb{R}$ is $T_{a,b}$ a field?
2) for which $a,b \in \mathbb{R}$ is $x \in T_{a,b}$ invertible ($x$ refers to the $x$ in $\mathbb{R}[x]$), and how does the inverse look like?

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Let $b = 0 \Rightarrow T_{a,0} = \mathbb{R}[x] \ /\langle x^2+ax\rangle$.
Let $u = x, v = a x \Rightarrow u,v \in T_{a,0}$
$uv = x^2+ax \not\in T_{a,0} \Rightarrow T_{a,0}$ not field $\Rightarrow T_{a,b}$ field $\Rightarrow b \neq 0$.
This is all that I saw. Can you please tell me how the other conditions of a,b can be found, so that $T_{a,b}$ field applies? I tried to identify all roots of $x^2 + ax + b$, but didn't find an approach that helped me to go on.
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I tried to somehow utilize that $x^2 + ax + b = 0$ for $T_{a,b}$, but got nowhere. Can you please help me to find a solution?

A: 2) We  have
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x(x+a)=x^2+ax=-(ax+b)+ax=-b.
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Thus
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\frac{1}{x}=\frac{x+a}{x(x+a)}=\frac{x+a}{-b}
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I grew up in the art communities of Warsaw, Kyiv, Toronto and NYC. My earliest memories are of 'hanging out' on the gallery floor of Pracowinia Dziekanka along with the children of other artists from central and eastern Europe. I spent much of my teens 'waiting for Onuch' at ICAN and the Open Society Foundation's Soros Centers For Contemporary Art meetings, and international Biennales and thus, I got to know the landscape of post-communist contemporary art and gained an understanding of the complexities of the politics of art and culture in democratizing contexts.
In summer 2001 I completed my OAC art project and hosted my first art exhibit in Toronto. The series was awarded the highest grade in my cohort and included floor to ceiling portraits of ideal archetypal women. The portraits were coupled with a soundtrack and a lyrics album. In the album, each song was accompanied with an original black and white photograph. The photographs were part of a series of portraits and live action shots taken around the city of Toronto.
Since 2007, I have been an active member of the Nuffield College Art committee.
In 2009, I coordinated, along with Jerzy Onuch, a series of workshops, exhibits, installations and a symposium entitled Revolutionary Moments. We invited academics, artists and activists to a series of events in order to explore the intersection between protest and art during moments of mass-mobilization or Revolutionary Moments in Ukraine in 2004 and Poland in the 1980s. 'Revolutionary Moments and Movements' also became the title of doctoral thesis.
In 2011, I helped organize and participated in an event dedicated to video installations by young Ukrainian artists at The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
In 2013, RoseLee Goldberg and I discussed the connectivity of protest and art and visual representations of the langu age of protest in preparation for that year's PERFORMA.
My book Mapping Mass Mobilization published in 2014 features on the cover, a photograph (by Roman Brewka) of Lesia Khomenko's (of the group REP) painting – which she painted of the protesters on the Maidan in winter of 2004, during the height of the Orange Revolution. We coordinated an event dedicated to her work and my book in Kyiv in May 2015 at Knyharnia Ye.
In 2015, I was a speaker at the UK premiere screening of the documentary 'All Things Ablaze,' at the Frontline Club in London.
In 2018, I gave a lecture "The Art of Protest and Protest Art", at the opening of the Photo Exhibition: Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, at The Depot in London.
In 2019, I gave a lecture "The Art of Revolution," at the closing of the Exhibition: "REVOLUTSIYNO/Revolutionary", at The MYSTETSKYI ARSENAL in Kyiv.
I am currently working on longer-term book project assessing political images and election campaign adverts.
If you are an artist who is interested in collaborating on a project, please do get in touch!


Let"s sing and act out the sun"s space story on earth. A blazing sentinel in the sky the sun heats and lights the earth and creates its own space story. The sun has stories and statistics of its own and you can help tell the sun's story by singing and acting out spring sun songs.
The sun provides heat and light for the people and plants and animals on earth. It is a star that sits in the center of the solar system and it takes up most of the room in the solar system –about 99.86 percent of it. If the sun sat in your desk, it would come right to the edge of the seat and sometimes hang over the edge.
It would take 109 earths to fit across the surface of the sun, and the inside of the sun could hold 1.3 million earths. Despite its size, the sun is only a middle sized star in the Milky Way Galaxy which holds 100 billion stars. If the sun and the earth were balls, the sun would be like a basketball and the earth like a baseball.
The sun is like a basketball, bouncing next to earth for fun.
The earth is like a baseball, bouncing next to the sun.
The earth orbits around the sun, it makes a year long run.
The sun is 93 million miles away, but it sends heat and light every day.
The sun is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium – astronomers estimate about ¾ of it is hydrogen and helium. Oxygen, carbon, neon, and iron, are some of the other elements found on the sun. The sun is hot, 10,832 degrees Fahrenheit at its surface, so hot that nuclear reactions take place in its interior. The sun is hotter than the first bite of pizza just out of the oven.
The sun shines brightly on earth and scientists believe that it is brighter than about 85 percent of all of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Even though the sun is 93 million miles away from the earth, its light can burn unprotected human eyes. Even during an eclipse of the sun when it is covered by the shadow of the moon, it is necessary to wear protective glasses.
Don"t say Ow! Ow! Ow!
So the sun won"t treat you mean.
When spring and summer come, hooray!
And take my blanket to the beach.
Don"t forget to wear your sun screen!
The sun helps create climate and weather on earth. In the spring the warm sunshine warms the soil and seeds enough for them to start growing.
Sing this seed song to help springtime seeds grow.
I wake up and raise my head.
(The children can pretend to be seeds and wake up and climb up to the sun).
The light and the warmth of the sun help create thunderstorms. The sun's rays heat the land which causes warm air to rise from the earth's surface into the layers of the atmosphere. Water vapor and cool and warm air combine to create a thunderstorm. Thunderstorms often occur one right after the other.
Blame it on the sun!
Brings back thunder in the air.
(The children can act out the thunderstorm).
Sunlight and rain combine in a special way to create a special natural vision called a rainbow. Scientists explain that the sun shining through raindrops bends light in ways that create a rainbow. A rainbow is made up of light in water and since raindrops are constantly motion, the appearance of the rainbow is always changing. Each rainbow is unique and no two people see the same rainbow because people can just see a rainbow with their own eyes. But a rainbow couldn"t be a rainbow without the sun shining through the rain.
See the rainbow shining there?
Name the colors, red and blue.
They are beautiful, don"t you think?
The sun makes thunderstorms and rainbows.
The sun is big and powerful and people, plants, and animals on the earth couldn't live without sunlight and heat. Sing about the sun and remember that it helps make rain and rainbows!
Charlesworth, Liza. Science Vocabulary Readers. Space: Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2010.
L'Hommedieu, Arthur John. Children of the Sun. Children's Play International, 1993.


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Get off that land: non-owner regulation of access to land
Malcolm MacDonald Combe
This paper considers the right of responsible access to land conferred by Pt 1 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 and disputes that may ensue in the exercise of those rights. The consideration will specifically exclude what might be the most common potential dispute, namely between landowner and access taker. Instead, the focus is on the tension between access takers, by which it is meant: access takers under the Act inter se; and access takers under the Act vis-à-vis other legitimate access takers. It examines the statutory regime and other areas of law that may provide guidance, before setting out possible reforms to the law, particularly in relation to dispute resolution.
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Paper outlines wild horse solutions
Written by Christy Hemken
According to Wyoming State Grazing Board Rangeland Consultant Dick Loper, the idea that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cut back to a realistic wild horse population has been around for some time, but there's been no political courage to actually do it.
"The program over the years has simply gotten progressively worse, as far as the number of horses and the ability of the public to take the surplus," says Loper. "The BLM is drowning in a problem they don't have the willingness to fix."
To address the issue Loper has prepared a paper detailing the numbers relating to the issue – including present populations and costs and those projected 30 years out. He says H.R. 1018, which was introduced to Congress last winter, inspired the project.
"When that bill was developed I got to thinking we ought to have a much more reasonable idea that would actually work and solve the problem," notes Loper. "This bill would just aggravate the problem and the paper is in response to that effort to do something really bad."
The information has been sent for review to technical personnel in the BLM, people involved with rangeland science in both the university system and private consulting firms and those in the livestock industry at both the national and state level.
"A number of suggestions were incorporated into the paper, and it was a team effort including a lot of people that know a lot about the horse program," says Loper, adding that his main role was to crunch the numbers, which came from the BLM and the federal accounting office.
"It's an astronomical sum of money, once someone sits down and goes through it," says Loper. "I hope the paper will get people to recognize we have a problem that's out of control."
A few of the figures in the paper include a $1,207,425,000 price tag over the next 25 years for holding horses long-term, based on three percent inflation.
"Unfortunately the BLM and Congress want to look at things in the year or two right in front of them, but we've proposed a long-term solution to a problem that took us 30 years to get to," says Loper. "We need a program that puts into place a process to bring us back to reality over some length of time."
Loper says the proposal to reduce wild horse numbers is gaining support from other groups apart from grazing interests. "The competition with wildlife is getting to be extreme, and the wildlife people are starting to recognize this. Our Wyoming Game and Fish Department is in support of bringing horse numbers down to reality."
The paper states, "We recommend that the maximum number of horses in a West-wide AML should be the number of adult horses that produce an annual increase number that the public is willing to adopt or purchase. A West-wide AML range of between 15,000 to 17,000 horses with a reproductive rate of 20 percent will produce an annual colt crop of from 3,000 to 3,400 horses, which is a realistic estimate of the current and future demand from the public for adoption and direct sales."
At its current pace of 36,000 horses on the range, the paper states over the next 25 years long-term holding will increase to 107,000 horses. The reproduction rate of 36,000 animals is approximately 7,200 foals each spring.
Loper says if the current bill moving through Congress, H.R. 1018, the "Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act," passes, the new terms would dictate that the BLM couldn't round up any more horses in a year than it can adopt out, and currently the public will only accept a few more than 3,000 horses annually.
"Right now it doesn't have a companion bill in the Senate, and if the House bill does not receive attention in the Senate, that would be the best scenario," says Loper. "If there is a bill in the Senate, we hope our idea would become the basis."
He says the hands of Republicans on the Senate side are tied. "It's become so extremely political that if you're a Republican and you have a good idea it won't even receive a hearing," he says. "A good idea will have to be carried by someone on the Democrat side."
He says Representative Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) did what she could in the House and was able to get a few amendments in the bill.
In a prepared statement, Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said, "The Restore Our American Mustangs Act has an enormous price tag and it's an insult to rural America. This bill has its priorities wrong. It says wild horses are more important than the people of Wyoming. As our country falls deeper into debt, we must focus on how to get back on track instead of spending another $700 million on government welfare for wild horses."
The U.S. Cattlemen's Association calls the bill "problematic" and "ill-conceived."
Overall, Loper says it will take many interest groups gathered together to oppose the bill. "We're hoping the wildlife people will step up even more than they already have, because that's the only way the horse problem will be solved. There's no way the public or Congress will solve it because of the adverse impact to ranchers, which it obviously is. That's not going to be the reason the issue will be fixed – it'll be negative effects on water quality, endangered species, wildlife and land."
To request a copy of the entire wild horse population discussion paper, contact Dick Loper at 307-332-2601 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Christy Hemken is assistant editor of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup and can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..


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The tuition for Golden West College is $1,104 for in-state students and $8,304 for out-of-state students and international students.
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It's remarkable that having been voted out in the leadership election when Liz Truss and her team took over the government, Rishi Sunak was written off...
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A broken Political system ushers in Rishi Sunak the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Rishi Sunaks appointment as the Prime Minister is an extraordinarily unique event which is full of Historical symbolism given the past legacy of India...
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How do you respond to someone who gets in touch with you in a time of need but otherwise ignores you for a prolonged period of time?
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This morning a friend sent a short YouTube video of a Diwali reception that the new Prime Minister of the UK held at No 10 Downing Street a few days ago. One also saw pictures of the first Indian origin prime minister lighting Diyas outside...
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[Madison, WI] — Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch promise to keep protecting those with pre-existing conditions – despite dishonest attempts by Tony Evers to say otherwise. Kleefisch, a cancer survivor, pledged on Monday that she and Walker would always give those with pre-existing conditions the protections they need to remain covered.
Two cancer survivors in the Wisconsin governor's race battled Monday over who will protect people with pre-existing medical conditions.
Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, a colon cancer survivor, said Walker will not take away the protections despite his support for repealing the national health law known as Obamacare.
Kleefisch stepped into the controversy after a group funded by the Democratic Governor's Association began running an attack ad saying Walker would seek to end the protections.
Obamacare requires insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions. Walker says he supports that part of the law and, if Obamacare ends, would call a special session of the Legislature to create a state version of the protection.
"Pre-existing conditions in Wisconsin today are covered. and as long as the governor and I are in office, they always will be," Kleefisch said.


Originally Published: November 13, 2016 6:53 a.m.
JEROME – Members of town council were sworn-in during the Nov. 8 meeting of Town of Jerome council, with outgoing Mayor Lew Currier swapping seats with incoming Mayor Frank Vander Horst.
As is tradition in Jerome, Vander Horst was elected mayor by a vote of council based on receiving the most votes of any council candidate in the Aug. 30 primary.
Town Magistrate Joan Dwyer administered the Oath of Office to Currier, Vander Horst, Vice Mayor Jay Kinsella and Council members Hunter Bachrach and Christina "Alex" Barber. New to council this two-year term are Kinsella and Bachrach.
Once minutes were approved, Currier addressed the council with some outgoing remarks.
"I'll make it short and sweet. The swan song is basically a lame duck quacks," said Currier.
"I will remain on council. I enjoyed being mayor. I think it is fun," he said.
Currier briefly recapped a few adventures faced as mayor and wished the incoming mayor his best.
"I will continue to enjoy the council but I won't be mayor," Currier said.
The new mayor wasted no time in getting down to business by announcing his priorities for the Town of Jerome: Infrastructure, parking, historic preservation and cooperation with other agencies. Of most consequence to the public was Vander Horst's formalizing the process of citizen feedback.
"Lastly, I want to make sure we include the public in our discussions. We are going to be using Robert's Rules of Order (a guideline for meeting protocols) in order to do that," said Vander Horst.
Previously at Jerome public meetings, members of the public could offer a question or comment from their seat at most any given time. While some say it facilitated discourse and assisted decision-making, others could view it as a distraction or even a disruption at times.
"In the future, when there is any item on the agenda that somebody wants to speak about, we will be having them come-up to the lectern to address the council and not from the back of the room," said Vander Horst.
Vander Horst also added that he would like the Pledge of Allegiance recited at all meetings and an updated General Plan.
"Our last General Plan was 1981. How I understand the statute is that we are only 25 years late," he said.
In other items taken-up by Jerome council Tuesday, Town Attorney Bill Sims was retained with a new contract at the same rate and terms.
Last meeting, council had discussed issuing a Request for Qualifications to assess its options, but no action was taken other than to table the item until tonight's meeting.
Another item for consideration by council was whether to follow the City of Prescott's idea of passing a resolution regarding regulating - - but not banning - - vacation home rentals.
Some felt further review was in order before acting.
Others felt the time to act was now.
Doug Freund, who until last meeting was Jerome's Vice Mayor, said, "I want to urge council to consider meeting with the attorney. We have a very short time to proceed. If you table it for more than a month, you may not be able to do it," citing upcoming changes in legislation.
In the end, no resolution was forthcoming by council.


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The Czech Republic welcomes the first visitors to the world's longest suspension bridge
Fear and excitement were among the first feelings felt when the first tourists took to the world's longest suspension footbridge, spanning a mountainous valley in the Czech Republic.
"We came here because we love adrenaline," hiker Michaela Klestilova said as she approached the 721-meter walkway, suspended 95 meters above the ground at its highest point and open to the public. friday.
"We have walked this far, and now we seek our reward."
Named Sky Bridge 721, it took two years to build, at a cost of 200 million crowns (C$10.8 million), and is suspended by six main support ropes and 60 wind ropes.
People cross the newly constructed Sky Bridge 721 after it officially opened in the Czech Republic on Friday. (David W. Cerny/Reuters)
It sits over 1,100 meters above sea level and connects two mountain ranges in the northeastern region of the country, 200 kilometers from Prague and near the border with Poland.
The bridge tops the 516 meter Arouca Bridge in Portugal, which was previously the longest suspended footbridge.
The new Czech bridge is not without criticism.
The regional director of the Czech Nature Conservation Agency, Michal Servus, told Czech television this week that the bridge had caused problems for the protection of surrounding areas and changed the character of the area.
The suspension bridge is seen in a photo taken on Thursday – the day before the crossing opened to the public. (Petr David Josek/Associated Press)
Officials hope it will boost tourism in the area by providing a different look at the forest landscape.
"For me, it's a great sight," said Michal Hofirek, the bridge's first visitor.


Psychometry is the ability to obtain information about a person, place, or event by handling an object such as a ring, piece of clothing, or other item.
Psychometry is considered a psychic skill; anyone can learn how to do it. Impressions come through all five senses and may use a full range of psychic abilities, including Clairvoyance, telepathy, Retrocognition, and precognition. Psychometry is sometimes used in MEDIUMSHIP and Paranormal InvestigationS.
The best "psychically conductive" materials are metals, followed by stone and crystal. If an object, for example an antique, has been owned by more than one person it may convey information about all owners.
Buchanan conducted successful experiments in which students identified drugs in vials by holding the vials. He published his findings in 1849 in his book Journal of Man.
Buchanan's work interested a contemporary, Professor William F. Denton, an American professor of geology, who conducted his own experiments in 1854 with his sister, Ann Denton Cridge. When Cridge placed wrapped geological specimen to her forehead, she experienced vivid mental images of their appearances. Denton, who did not consider the possibility of telepathy between himself and his sister, recorded his experiments in a book The Soul of Things. He defi ned psychometry as a "mysterious faculty which belongs to the soul and is not dependent upon the body for its exercise." Denton optimistically saw many applications for psychometry, including geology, healing, mining, astronomy, art, history, and more. None of these materialized to any significant extent; psychometry remains in the shadow of the paranormal.
Psychical researcher Gustav Pagenstecher conducted more than 100 psychometry experiments from 1919–22 with a medium identified as Sr. Maria Reyes de Z.
In Spiritualism, mediums have used psychometry at SEANCES. One technique is billet-reading, in which the medium handles a letter in a sealed envelope and reveals the contents.
British medium Geraldine Cummins called psychometry "memory divining," and used it in conjunction with automatic writing. Cummins would hold an object and concentrate upon the word "stillness," or visualize a dark pool, until an inner voice or images prompted her to begin writing. She was not aware of what she wrote; she described the process as taking dictation. Sometimes the images made her feel as though she were in a theater watching a play.
Psychometry is used in psychic criminology to help locate missing persons and bodies and in psychic archaeology to learn more about past history.
Magical talismans and charms are created with psychometry. The individual holds the talismanic object while building up an intense, vivid emotion concerning the talisman's purpose, such as healing, good luck, or protection. The emotionally charged power is imbued into the object, which is kept wrapped in silk when not is use. See LUMINATOR; Possessed Possessions.
Cummins, Geraldine. Unseen Adventures. London: Rider & Co., 1951.
Denton, William. The Soul of Things: Psychometric Experiments for Re-living History. Wellingborough, England: Aquarian Press, 1988.
Pagenstecher, Gustav. "Past Events Seership: A Study in Psychometry," ed. by Walter Franklin Prince, Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, Vol. XVI, Part I (Jan. 1922): 1–107.


Have you secretly been missing Archie Andrews's jam sessions on Riverdale this season? Well, you're in luck, because the series is dedicating an entire episode to music. Following in the footsteps of other popular CW shows like Supergirl and The Flash, the drama is getting its very own musical episode. And that's not even the best part! The episode, titled "A Night to Remember," will have a horror twist, as the Riverdale High drama department puts on Carrie: The Musical for their Spring production. See the details we have about the episode below, including quotes about what's to come, straight from the cast.
While Archie and Betty will take on the roles of Tommy Ross and Sue Snell, Cheryl will star as the one and only Carrie White. Honestly, we wouldn't have it any other way. Not to mention, Alice Cooper will be playing her controlling mother, Mrs. White! The show's executive producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa gave a sneak peek at the rest of the cast list on Twitter.
The special episode will feature 11 songs performed by the cast. Sadly, Jughead will not be lending his voice for the production. During a press screening, executive producer Aguirre-Sacasa confirmed that Cole Sprouse would not be singing in the episode.
During PaleyFest, the cast revealed there is plenty of drama in store. "The drama of this episode is . . . more than just a drama," KJ Apa (Archie) explained to us during an interview. "It's a tragedy. It's a true tragedy." Sprouse reiterated Apa's sentiments, adding that the episode would be a bit of an emotional roller coaster. "I like this episode because it's jovial and it can be fun, and it can be a breath of fresh air for people who have been watching a debilitating series of events for these characters," he said. "But we still find a way to pick you up and slam you back down."
It certainly sounds like our favorite characters will be put through the ringer. Even though it's a "light, musical episode," Marisol Nichols (Hermione) told us on the PaleyFest red carpet that "the characters are going to fall from grace" and "redeem themselves" during the episode. "And it's Carrie," she added. "At the end of the day, you're going to see a bucket full of blood. I don't think it gets more tragic that."
You can catch all the fun when the episode airs on April 18.