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This post does not have anything to do with eating;directly. It's about my favorite blog that I follow. I Don't Get It;by Kerby. It's about things that make no sense. So she has plenty of material to work with. It is written by a young lady from Texas. Having spent some time in Texas I have good feelings towards Texans. I don't wish to generalize,but in general the Texicans I dealt with were stand up folks that could definite weave a good yarn. Kerby definitely fits that description. She tells a mean story and she leaves no doubt on what she means.
One of her recent posts was about Roquefort cheese. Specifically Roquefort dressing and how old coots preferred it over all other dressings. Being a semi old coot who loves all bleu cheese;especially Roquefort I added my 2 cents. She responded by asking what it was that I liked so much about Roquefort. And you know… I really could not fully describe the flavor of bleu cheese. I did say that I thought that Roquefort cheese taste more "bleu" than the rest. But what the hell is that supposed to mean. Here is the post in question. You really ought to check it out.
OK-it's a chain not a mom and pop joint.We did not know that until we had already started eating;mea culpa.What intriqued us about this place was the combination of beef used in their patties;sirloin,chuck and brisket.All the meat comes from a local farm,and ground and packaged locally;which is pretty cool.In either event it makes for one delicious burger.They have all the usual combos;mushroom,swiss;bbq,bacon etc.They also have a Pacific Rim;a burger topped with shrimp,pineapple,guacamole and some sort of cheese. Since we wanted to taste the burger Pat and I picked the Classic,a plain old cheeseburger;with a cold set and condiments.Among their cheese offerings they have white cheddar;rare for most burger joints but great for a mid-rare burger.Which brings me to my only "complaint".My medium rare was more medium than rare,a very minor problem,as the hunk o meat was still delicious.They make their own ketchup as well,thinner than most and sweeter as well.It's definitely more a dipper than a pourer.
I did discover a great new beer,a Pilsner from Fountain Square Brewery.A slight citrus start and a nice hoppy finish;great with a burger.After wards we went to Berringers;a little tavern on South Meridian.I reviewed it real early in the blog.It's just a little bar that's been around forever.And the beer is cheap;$2 for domestic bottles,and $1.75 for Old Style pints.All that was missing was a Cubs game on TV.
So in summation chain or not Bru Burger gives you a great hamburger.And the prices are reasonable;for downtown.I think the burgers range from $8 to $10;depending on the stuff you add to it.They also have other sandwiches on the menu;but if the joint has burger in its name why would you eat chicken?
Who said SoBro had to be expensive? On 54th street ( a street I shall hence forth refer to as SoBro restaurant row ) sits Just Judy's.And like Alice's you can get anything you want there.Pizza,burgers,burritos and breakfast any time.And the prices are more than reasonable.For 4 bucks you can get a grilled cheese and all you care to eat house made soup.I opted for their $4.75 sloppy joe and fries special.I may have had better but never one so reasonably priced.Pat tried the breaded tenderloin and ate the whole thing;I think we're in a race to become the largest ambulatory resident of Indy.You know the biggest gainer.I didn't try any of it but I must say that was one of the best looking BTs I've seen in a while.These folks even make their own chips and cobblers.I went into lunch without my usual hearty appetite.I would have liked to try some cobbler;you don't find that too often.But as they say tomorrow's another day.All and all ( what's that supposed to mean anyway? )We strongly recommend this place.For variety,freshness, taste and price you can't go wrong. | {
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The Deor is a sandal designed to brighten your day. Its flat jelly sole harkens back to the jellies from childhood, but with a delightful, trendy twist: bows! A graceful looping bow at the ankle combined with bows on the sole and metallic tone straps makes for one adorable, shining package. And in beige, black, or cool mint, you can pair the Deor's charm with just about any casual outfit. Available in sizes 5 to 11, no half-sizes.
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Q: Reverse percentage formula Apparently "reverse percentage calculations" are a confusing topic (I looked through existing questions) - but I'm not sure I understand it myself.
I have a counter in my Google Sheets that is counting down a certain number of cells, and then I have the total range of cells.
So for example: my counter is at 6000 and its counting down through a range of 7000 cells.
What I'm trying to do is calculate the percentage that it's done counting down.
When I divide the part by the total, I obviously get something like 90% - which is not what I want. It should be like 2% (or whatever) :P
Does anyone know the formula I should apply here?
A: try:
=1-COUNTA(A:A)/A1
(cell formatted as a percentage)
A: I think I solved it.
If A is counting down from 100 and 0 = 100%, then the information I was originally missing was the difference between 100 and A.
So in my case:
A3:
=ROWS(A1:A)-A2
(A1:A is 100%)
(A2 is the current countdown)
So for example if ROWS(A1:A) = 10 (total rows in your sheet) & if my current countdown is 3 then:
A3:
=ROWS(A1:A)-A2 = 7
Then we calculate the percentage by:
A4:
=A3/ROWS(A1:A)
That should give you the correct percentage.
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Aridis Pharmaceuticals Appoints Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister to Board of Directors
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARDS), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of targeted immunotherapies using fully human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to treat life-threatening bacterial infections, announced today the appointment of Susan Windham-Bannister, Ph.D., to its Board of Directors. Dr. Windham-Bannister is an internationally recognized expert in advising biopharma companies on market access, growth optimization and portfolio management strategies.
"On behalf of the management and Board, I am delighted to welcome Dr. Windham-Bannister to the leadership team," commented Eric Patzer, Ph.D., Founder and Chairman of the Board of Aridis Pharmaceuticals. "As an emerging company with a multi-asset late stage pipeline representing innovative treatments for lung infections, we look forward to having access to the full breadth of her expertise particularly in healthcare policy, drug reimbursement, and commercial strategy as we prepare for multiple data readouts over the course of 2019 and into the first quarter of next year."
Dr. Windham-Bannister currently serves as President and CEO of Biomedical Growth Strategies., LLC and Managing Partner of Biomedical Innovation Advisors, LLC, a strategic advisory firm serving the healthcare industry which she founded with Dr. Harvey Lodish, co-founder of Genzyme. From 2008-2015, Dr. Windham-Bannister served as founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Initiative, the brainchild of former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick where she led this $1billion healthcare dedicated investment fund. Dr. Windham-Bannister is currently the Chair of the National Board of Directors of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and also serves on the Boards of St. Jude's Children's Hospital and Tufts Health Plan. She received a Doctorate in Health Policy and Management from the Florence Heller School at Brandeis University, and a Doctor of Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (honoris causa). Dr. Windham-Bannister was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School and a Fellow in the Center for Science and Policy (CSAP) at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. She completed her doctoral work at the Heller School under a fellowship from the Ford Foundation.
"I am delighted to join Aridis as it's exciting to be part of a truly innovative anti-infective company developing novel alternatives to antibiotics, particularly in the current era of increasing antibiotic resistance," commented Dr. Windham-Bannister. "I look forward to working closely with the management team and Board to help the Company progress its portfolio of programs as they inch closer to product approvals and commercial launches."
Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discovers and develops anti-infectives to be used as add-on treatments to standard-of-care antibiotics. The Company is utilizing its proprietary MabIgX® technology platform to rapidly identify rare, potent antibody-producing B-cells from patients who have successfully overcome an infection to produce mAbs. These mAbs are already of human origin and functionally optimized for high potency by the donor's immune system, hence they do not require genetic engineering or further optimization to achieve full functionality and high mAb productivity. MabIgX® also allows for the selection of any antibody isotype depending on the optimal effector function required for treating the target infection. By bypassing the humanization and binding sequence optimization steps, and the entire process of generation of genetically engineered antibody producing cell lines, MabIgX® enables high gross-margins and expedited progression to clinical development.
The Company has generated multiple clinical stage mAbs targeting bacteria that cause life-threatening infections such as ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) and hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP). The use of mAbs as anti-infective treatments represents an innovative therapeutic approach that harnesses the human immune system to fight infections and is designed to overcome the deficiencies associated with broad spectrum antibiotics, which is the current standard of care. Such deficiencies include, but are not limited to, increasing drug resistance, short duration of efficacy, disruption of the normal flora of the human microbiome, and lack of differentiation among current treatments. The mAb portfolio is complemented by a non-antibiotic novel mechanism small molecule anti-infective candidate being developed to treat lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. The company's pipeline is highlighted below:
AR-301 (ventilator associated pneumonia). AR-301 is a fully human immunoglobulin 1, or IgG1, mAb currently in Phase 3 clinical development targeting gram-positive S. aureus alpha-toxin in ventilator-associated pneumonia, or VAP, patients.
AR-101 (hospital acquired pneumonia). AR-101 is a fully human immunoglobulin M, or IgM, mAb targeting P. aeruginosa liposaccharide serotype O11, which accounts for approximately 22% of all P. aeruginosa hospital acquired pneumonia cases worldwide. A plan for the next clinical study will be communicated following the availability of Phase 2 clinical data for AR-105.
AR-401 (blood stream infections). AR-401 is a fully human mAb currently in preclinical development aimed at treating infections caused by gram-negative Acinetobacter baumannii.
AR-201 (RSV infection). AR-201 is a fully human IgG1 mAb currently in preclinical development aimed at neutralizing diverse clinical isolates of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. These statements may be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "believe," "forecast," "estimated" and "intend" or other similar terms or expressions that concern Aridis' expectations, strategy, plans or intentions. These forward-looking statements are based on Aridis' current expectations and actual results could differ materially. There are a number of factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the timing of regulatory submissions, Aridis' ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approval of its existing product candidates and any other product candidates it may develop, approvals for clinical trials may be delayed or withheld by regulatory agencies, risks relating to the timing and costs of clinical trials, risks associated with obtaining funding from third parties, management and employee operations and execution risks, loss of key personnel, competition, risks related to market acceptance of products, intellectual property risks, risks associated with the uncertainty of future financial results, Aridis' ability to attract collaborators and partners and risks associated with Aridis' reliance on third party organizations. While the list of factors presented here is considered representative, no such list should be considered to be a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties. Unlisted factors may present significant additional obstacles to the realization of forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those described or implied by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including, without limitation, market conditions and the factors described under the caption "Risk Factors" in Aridis' 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 and Aridis' other filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements included herein are made as of the date hereof, and Aridis does not undertake any obligation to update publicly such statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances. | {
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Mara can tell she's different, but isn't sure why. After she encounters two mysterious strangers, she discovers her secret is but a drop in an ocean of many. She is a Dia, a descendant of ancient gods, and her mother sacrificed herself to protect Mara from their past.
Summoned by an uncle she didn't know existed, Mara thinks she's found the family she's always wanted, and Corbin, a love she never thought possible. But not everything is as it seems. Her uncle has other motives for protecting her, and her mentor, Malcolm, becomes so jealous, he'll do anything to get what he wants.
When tragedy strikes, and the true darkness among them comes to light, Mara discovers that sometimes love can give you everything, and obsession can take it all away. With her powers gone, and destiny calling, she has to look deep within to find the courage to save herself. Mara, along with Corbin and her newfound family, must fight to get back what was taken, or die trying.
Tammy Farrell grew up in Orangeville, Ontario Canada where she discovered her love of writing, and all things related to Edgar Allan Poe. She now lives with her husband and four fur babies in Greenville, South Carolina, where she teaches pre-GED English and attempts to learn French when she isn't busy writing.
Corbin remained still and listened. "I can hear a heartbeat. A mortal heart." They were too close to Valenia for any human to be near. He drew his sword. "There are men ahead of us." As Corbin said this, ten armed men emerged in a rush from the surrounding thicket of brush and trees. Corbin stepped back to shield Mara and Isa while the men surrounded them. They wore their tunics over chainmail, suited for a battle, and the crest in the center was that of the soldiers of Moorthrop. Corbin summoned his Light, causing the sword to glow an icy blue. He could have used fire on them, but the sword could kill more than one man at a time. A few of the soldiers jumped back when they saw the glowing weapon, but none of them ran.
"Keep Isa protected, and when there's an opening, run towards Valenia," he whispered to Mara.
She nodded, and her eyes grew wide with distress.
Corbin remained near the girls and struck the first blow to the very unwise soldier standing closest to him. He knocked the sword from the soldier's hands and plunged his own blade into the man's sternum. There was little effort in this for Corbin, but the danger of killing the rest while protecting Mara and Isa posed a challenge. Corbin circled the girls when the remaining nine soldiers closed in on them, bringing his sword down on whichever man was brave enough to step forward. There was no trading blows between Corbin and the soldiers as he meticulously deflected their attacks and sent them tumbling in blood to the ground. Corbin felt a warmth behind him as he eyed the last standing soldier. He looked back to see Mara with a green ball of fire in her hand. She propelled the sphere of fire at the soldier, hitting him directly in the chest. His body flew so far back, he disappeared into the trees.
"Good work," Corbin said, not letting his guard down just yet. | {
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\section{Introduction}
The majority of stars form in clusters and associations inside giant molecular clouds. However, most clusters dissipate within 10 -- 100 Myr, leaving more than 90\% of the stellar population dispersed in the Galactic field \cite[e.g.,][]{Lada_2003,Piskunov_2006}. The scientific debate on the origin of bound and unbound clusters, along with the processes leading to their dissolution, is still open. Several authors suggest that all stars form in dense clusters (density $\rm{ \gtrsim 10^{3} - 10^{4}~stars~pc^{-3}}$), which rapidly dissipate after feedback from massive stars (i.e., supernova explosions, stellar winds, and radiation pressure) sweeps out the gas that was keeping the cluster bound \citep[e.g.,][]{Tutukov_1978,Lada_1984,Goodwin_1997,Kroupa_2001, Goodwin_2006, Baumgardt_2007, Bastian_2011}. These models predict that clusters -- after gas dispersion -- should be found in a supervirial state. Recent observations and simulations question this scenario suggesting that clusters have origin in a hierarchically structured environment covering a large range of densities and that the stellar feedback and gas expulsion are irrelevant for the cluster dispersion, which is, instead, driven by two-body interactions \citep[e.g.,][]{Bressert_2010,Kruijssen_2012, Parker_2013,Wright_2016,Parker_2016}.
In order to achieve a full understanding of the origin and the fate of star clusters, it is fundamental to study the kinematic properties of their stellar components at different stages of evolution. However, until a few years ago this kind of studies had been carried out only for a few clusters \citep[e.g.,][]{Cottaar_2012_1, Tobin_2015}, due to the lack of precise and homogeneous measurements of radial velocities and other stellar parameters for large stellar samples.
\begin{table*}[!h]
\centering
\small{
\caption{Cluster properties.}
\label{tab:clusters}
\begin{tabular}{cccccc}
\midrule
\midrule
Cluster & RA & DEC & Distance & Age & E(B-V) \\
& (J2000) & (J2000)& (pc)&(Myr) & \\
\midrule
IC 2602 & 10h 40m 48s & -64d 24m 00s & $148.0^{+7.3}_{-6.1}$ & $43.7^{+4.3}_{-3.9}$ & $0.068 \pm 0.025$\\[1ex]
IC 2391 & 08h 40m 32s & -53d 02m 00s & $146.0^{+7.1}_{-6.1}$ & $51.3^{+5.0}_{-4.5}$ & $0.088 \pm 0.027$\\[1ex]
IC 4665 & 17h 46m 18s & +05d 43m 00s & $366.0^{+46.8}_{-37.9}$ & $23.2^{+3.5}_{-3.1}$ & $0.226 \pm 0.080$\\[1ex]
NGC 2547 & 08h 10m 00s & -49d 12m 00s & $364.0^{+46.8}_{-37.9}$ & $37.7^{+5.7}_{-4.8}$ & $0.080 \pm 0.024$\\
\midrule
\end{tabular}}
\end{table*}
The observational scenario has radically changed very recently, thanks to large high-resolution spectroscopic surveys like APOGEE \citep{Majewski_2017} and the \textit{Gaia}-ESO Survey \citep[GES,][]{Gilmore_2012, Randich_2013}. The latter is a large public survey of all the Milky Way components performed with the multi-object optical spectrograph FLAMES at the Very Large Telescope (VLT). One of the main goals of the survey is the observations of several clusters in the 1 -- 100 Myr age range to derive radial velocities (RVs) and stellar parameters that can be used to investigate their dynamical evolution. \\
\indent
Several interesting results have already been obtained from the first clusters that have been observed ($\rho$ Oph, Chamaeleon I, Gamma Velorum); namely, the discovery of multiple stellar kinematical populations \citep{Jeffries_2014J,Sacco_2015, Mapelli_2015}, and a significant discrepancy between the kinematic properties of pre-stellar cores and pre-main sequence stars formed in the same environment \citep{Foster_2015,Rigliaco_2016, Sacco_2017}. \\
\indent
So far, all these studies have focused on clusters younger than 10 -- 20 Myr. Nevertheless the complete understanding of the cluster dispersion process requires the study of slightly older (age $\sim$ 20 -- 50 Myr) systems. Clusters in this age range have already lost their residual gas and have nearly completed the process of "violent relaxation" predicted by models based on stellar feedback \citep[e.g.,][]{Goodwin_2006,Proszkow_2009}, but have not yet been affected by tidal effects due to external gravitational field that occur on longer timescales \cite[$\sim$ 100 -- 300 Myr; e.g.,][and reference therin]{Portegies-Zwart_1998,Baumgardt_2003,Lamers_2005,Portegies-Zwart_2010}.\\
\indent
In this paper we will investigate this particular age interval using the GES data to analyze the kinematical and dynamical properties of IC 2602, IC 2391, IC 4665, and NGC 2547.
The paper is organized as follows: in Sect. 2 we describe the observations and the GES parameters used in this paper; in Sect. 3, we illustrate the properties of these clusters and the target selection; in Sect. 4 we explain how we derived the kinematical properties of these clusters; in Sect. 5 we discuss our results; and in Sect. 6 we draw our conclusions.
\section{\textit{Gaia}-ESO observations and data}
GES is obtaining medium and high resolution optical spectra of $\sim$ 10$^5$ stars selected in the Galactic field and in star clusters in order to provide a homogeneous overview of the distributions of kinematics and chemical element abundances in the Galaxy. Specifically, GES is collecting a big dataset of radial velocities (RVs), stellar parameters (i.e., effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity), and elemental abundances for large numbers of representative stars in clusters, covering a wide range of ages and stellar masses.
\textit{Gaia}-ESO observations are performed with the FLAMES instrument \citep{Pasquini_2002}, using both GIRAFFE and UVES spectrographs, that permit the simultaneous allocation of 132 and 8 fibres, respectively. In the observations of young nearby open clusters, GIRAFFE is used for late-type stars with a V magnitude between 11 and 19 with the HR15N setup, that obtains medium resolution spectra (R $\sim$ 17000) in the wavelength range 6470 $\AA$ < $\lambda$ < 6790 $\AA$. UVES acquires higher resolution spectra (R $\sim$ 47000) of brighter stars (9 < V < 15) with a spectral range of 2000 $\AA$ and with two central wavelengths, 5200 $\AA$ (UVES 520) and 5800 $\AA$ (UVES 580). Both GIRAFFE/HR15N and UVES/580 setups contain the lithium line at 6708 $\AA$, that is useful for identifying young stars.
Pipeline reduction of GIRAFFE spectra and RV determination are centralized at the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit (CASU), while UVES reduction and RV analysis are performed at INAF--Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri. The data reduction is described in \cite{Jeffries_2014J} and \cite{Sacco_2014} for GIRAFFE and UVES data, respectively. The reduced spectra are then analyzed using common methodologies to produce a uniform set of stellar parameters, which along with RVs, is periodically released to all the members of the GES consortium via a science archive\footnote{The GES science archive is run by the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh. More informations on the archive are available at the website ges.roe.ac.uk}.
Spectrum analysis is distributed among several working groups (WGs) and several nodes. WG12 analyzes the pre-main sequence (PMS) stars and different nodes contribute to provide estimates of the stellar parameters and chemical abundances: specifically, two nodes analyze GIRAFFE targets (INAF--Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania (OACT) and INAF--Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo (OAPA)), and four nodes focus on the UVES targets (OACT, Centro de Astrofisica de Universidade do Porto (CAUP), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and INAF--Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri). The products delivered by the nodes are combined to produce the recommended set of measurements provided by WG12 \citep{Lanzafame_2015}, which in turn is homogenized with those from WG10 and WG11 (GIRAFFE and UVES analysis of FGK stars, respectively) in order to produce the final recommended values reported in the tables \cite[][Hourihane et al., in preparation]{Pancino_2017}.
During this work, we make use of the RV, the effective temperature of the star ($\rm{T_{eff}}$), the surface gravity (log \textit{g}), the gravity index ($\gamma$), the equivalent width of the lithium line at 6708 $\AA$ (EW(Li)), and the metallicity ([Fe/H]). The $\gamma$ index is an efficient gravity indicator for the GIRAFFE targets when it is combined with the effective temperature of the stars. It is an empirical index and it is sensitive to stellar gravity over a wide range of spectral types, allowing a clear separation between the low gravity giants and the higher gravity main-sequence (MS) and PMS stars for spectral types later than G \cite[see][for details]{Damiani2014}. Given that the measurement of $\gamma$ are available for a larger number of GIRAFFE spectra than the log \textit{g} parameter, we use this as gravity indicator with the exception of the stars observed only with UVES, when $\gamma$ is not derived. For the latter we use instead the value of log \textit{g}, which is available for most of the observed sources.\\
The RVs for the GIRAFFE targets were obtained as explained in \cite{Jackson_2015}, while RVs from UVES are described by \cite{Sacco_2014}. The uncertainties on the RV measurements for GIRAFFE have been calculated empirically using the formula described in \cite{Jackson_2015}, in which they compared repeated measurements of the RV for the same star to determine the underlying distribution of measurement uncertainties as a function of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), $T_{\rm eff}$ and rotational broadening ($v\,\rm{sin}\, \textit{i}$). In this paper, we use the data from the fourth internal data release (GESviDR4). The values of $v\,\rm{sin}\, \textit{i}$ in recommended table are not available. Therefore, we use the measurements of $v\,\rm{sin}\, \textit{i}$ given by WG12. In a number of cases, recommended values of EW(Li) and $\rm{T_{eff}}$ from the final homogenization process were not provided. In some of these cases we use the EW(Li) and $\rm{T_{eff}}$ derived by the nodes of WG12. This choice is justified by the fact that the values measured by different nodes are in agreement, within the errors, with those recommended by WG12, when there is.
\section{Sample clusters}
\subsection{Cluster properties}
The four clusters have similar ages (from $\sim 20$ Myr to $\sim 50$ Myr) and different distances. IC 2602 and IC 2391 are among the closest clusters to the Sun (distance $\sim 150$ pc), while the other two clusters are more distant ($\sim 365$ pc). Given the uniform magnitude limit for the observations of clusters in GES, we reach stars with different mass limits in the different clusters (see next Section). The cluster properties are summarized in Table \ref{tab:clusters}, where distances, ages and reddening values are given by \cite{Randich_2017}. Each cluster has been subject to a variety of studies carried out to identify the stellar population based on combinations of X-ray data \cite[e.g.,][]{Prosser_1993,Randich_1995,Patten_1996,Martin_1997,Jeffries_1998}, optical photometry \cite[e.g.,][]{Prosser_1996,Jeffries_2004}, and optical spectroscopy \cite[e.g.,][]{Randich1997,Stauffer_1997,Barrado_1999,Jeffries_2000,Jeffries_2005,Platais_2007,Manzi_2008,Jeffries_2009}; many high and low-mass cluster members were identified using the position in the HR diagram, presence of the lithium absorption line at 6708 $\AA$, and RVs. These studies show that the number of previously known spectroscopically confirmed members in the four clusters range from 40 in IC 4665 to 75 in NGC 2547. In the case of NGC 2547 \cite{Sacco_2015} found a secondary population that is kinematically distinct from the main cluster population.
\subsection{Target selection}
\label{target_selection}
\begin{table}[!b]
\caption{Number of target observed in the four clusters.}
\label{tab:selection_cluster}
{\centering
\tiny{
\begin{tabular}{lccccccc}
\midrule
\midrule
Name& Setup &N.& N. & N. & N. & N. & N. \\
& &stars & $\rm{T_{eff}}$ & $\gamma$ & Log $g$ & EW(Li) & RV \\
\midrule
IC2602 & HR15N &1528 & 1483 & 1481 & 729 & 1374 &1528\\
& U 580 & 42 & 42 & - & 42 & 25 & 41\\
& U 520 & 7 & 7 & - & 7 & - & 6 \\
& Tot. & 1577 & 1532 & 1481 & 778 & 1399 & 1575\\
\midrule
IC2391 & HR15N & 403 & 385 & 378 & 180 & 386 & 402\\
& U 580 & 20 & 20 & - & 20 & 13 & 20\\
& U 520 & 8 & 8 & - & 8 & - & 7 \\
& Tot.& 431 & 413 & 378 & 208 & 399 & 429\\
\midrule
IC4665 & HR15N & 545 & 527 & 520 & 258 & 503 & 546\\
& U 580& 22 & 21 & - & 21 & 19 & 21\\
& U 520 & - & - & - & - & - & - \\
& Tot. & 567 & 548 & 520 & 279 & 522 & 567\\
\midrule
NGC2547 & HR15N & 450 & 399 & 383 & 149 & 385 & 450\\
& U 580 & 5 & 5 & - & 5 & 3 & 5\\
& U 520 & 19 & 18 & - & 18 & - & 13\\
& Tot. & 474 & 422 & 383 & 172 & 388 & 468\\
\midrule
\midrule
\multicolumn{8}{l}{
\begin{minipage}{0.48\textwidth}
\footnotesize{\textbf{Notes.} The table shows the number of targets for which values of different stellar parameter recommended are available (in the case of EW(Li) or $\rm{T_{eff}}$ also from the nodes).}
\end{minipage}}
\end{tabular}}}
\end{table}
One of the main goals of GES is the study of cluster kinematics and dynamics based on large, unbiased samples of members. Known members from the literature do not provide suitable samples, because they are often biased by the selection method. For this reason GES adopts an inclusive selection strategy: all candidate members observed with GIRAFFE have been selected in an unbiased way, down to 19th magnitude (V band), and covering a relatively large area on the sky, from a strip around the cluster sequence. This is defined as the sequence drawn by the known members reported in the literature in the different color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs). When the optical photometry catalogues are either inhomogeneous or incomplete, the selection is based mainly on the photometry of the Two Micron All Sky Survey \cite[2MASS,][]{Skrutskie_2006}. We note that this strategy implies that our final candidate samples include a very large number of fore-/back-ground stars. Inside the magnitude range and spatial coverage observed by GES, some of the samples are relatively complete; however, in nearby and extended clusters, like those analyzed in the present paper, the level of completeness is lower. Whilst one needs to correct for this incompleteness, our strategy of target selection ensures that the final samples are unbiased (in particular with respect to the kinematics) and representative of the entire cluster population. \\
UVES targets are mainly observed to derive the cluster chemical pattern \citep{Spina_2014b,Spina_2014a,Spina_2017} and are therefore selected with a different strategy: namely, when information is available, the UVES fibres are assigned to brighter stars that are already known or likely members.
In the case of IC 2602 ESO archival data have also been retrieved and analyzed. In order to be consistent with the \textit{Gaia}-ESO selection method, we considered only the archive data for stars that are in the strip of the CMD used for the GES selection.
Table \ref{tab:selection_cluster} summarizes the number of targets observed in each cluster. We list the number of stars observed with the different GIRAFFE and UVES setups, as well as the number of targets for which stellar parameters were derived.
\begin{figure*}[!ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.99\linewidth]{gamma}
\caption{Gravity index $\gamma$ as a function of the stellar effective temperature, $\rm{T_{eff}}$, for the stars observed with GIRAFFE. The yellow filled dots are the stars identified as giants, while the remaining stars are denoted with green filled dots. The black line indicates the threshold used to separate the giants and the non-giants.}
\label{fig:gamma}
\end{figure*}
\subsection{Completeness}
\label{sec:completeness}
As discussed in the previous Section, the initial targets were selected in order to be complete within the magnitude range of GES and within the area that contains all the stars selected as initial candidate targets, that is defined by the radius $\rm{R_{GES}}$. Therefore, the level of completeness within the observed magnitude range is calculated by dividing the number of the observed stars by the number of stars selected as initial candidate targets in GES and located within these circular regions, which we assume to contain all the cluster. We obtain as level of completeness $\sim 25\%$ for IC 2602 and IC 2391, while for IC 4665 and NGC 2547 we derived a level of completeness of $\sim 65\%$ and $\sim 75\%$, respectively. We note that the level of completeness of IC 2602 and IC 2391 is much because only part of the area of the sky including known cluster members from the literature has been observed.
\begin{figure}[!h]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.955\linewidth]{gamma_check2}
\caption{Gravity index, $\gamma$, as a function of the surface gravity, log \textit{g}, for IC 2602. The blue dots are the targets with an effective temperature greater than 5400 K while the grey ones are those with a $\rm{T_{eff}}$ < 5400 K. The solid lines delimit the regions in which a target is considered a giant star based on its $\gamma$ index (above the horizontal black line) and on its log \textit{g} value (to the left of the vertical black line).}
\label{fig:test_gamma_logg}
\end{figure}
\section{Membership analysis}
\begin{figure*}[!h]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.98\linewidth]{Final_figure_litio}
\caption{Equivalent width of the lithium line as function of $\rm{T_{eff}}$. The purple star symbols are the known members of the four clusters used to trace the lower envelope of the bulk of cluster spectroscopic candidates (solid line), as given in the literature. The open red circles show the members of each cluster, which have been previously reported in the literature and observed again by GES. The green symbols mark the stars selected as spectroscopic candidates. The stars excluded with the lithium criterion are displayed in black. We also highlight the sources with an estimate of EW(Li) (dots and squares) or only an upper limit (arrows and crosses).}
\label{fig:litio}
\end{figure*}
Starting from the initial sample of observed cluster targets, thanks to the spectroscopic parameters derived by the GES consortium, we are able to exclude stars that do not belong to the clusters. Then, using the RV of the spectroscopically selected candidates, we can determine a probability that each remaining star is a cluster member and use the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram to estimate a mass for that star.
\subsection{Spectroscopic candidates}
\label{sec:member}
To exclude stars that do not belong to the clusters we used three independent spectroscopic criteria based on the gravity index $\gamma$ (or log \textit{g} for UVES spectra), the EW(Li), and the metallicity [Fe/H]. All stars where any of the first two parameters or the effective temperature have not been measured have been excluded. We retained stars without the metallicity measurement since very few stars were discarded on the basis of this parameter. More specifically, our method can be divided into three steps.
\begin{itemize}
\vspace{0.4cm}
\item[$\bullet$] The main source of contamination in a sample of candidate members of a nearby young cluster are the background giants. These objects have a lower gravity than cluster members and can be identified using the surface gravity index $\gamma$ \cite[]{Damiani2014}. Figure \ref{fig:gamma} shows $\gamma$ as a function of the effective temperature. We consider as giants all the stars within the region defined by the black line, which has approximately $\rm{T_{eff}}$ lower than 5400 K and $\gamma$ higher than 0.98, within one sigma error bar. For UVES targets the gravity index is not defined and we use the surface gravity: we consider as giants stars with log \textit{g} lower than 3.75. In order to check the consistency between using $\gamma$ or log \textit{g}, we plot in Fig. \ref{fig:test_gamma_logg} the comparison between these two parameters for IC 2602: it is clear that the selection of the giants is basically the same whether we consider targets with $\gamma$ > 0.98 and $\rm{T_{eff}}$ < 5400 K or targets with log \textit{g} < 3.75. Indeed, all the targets identified as giants with $\gamma$ and $\rm{T_{eff}}$ are distinctly below the value of log \textit{g} = 3.75.
\vspace{0.4cm}
\item[$\bullet$] We use the EW(Li) to exclude dwarf non-members from the sample of stars remaining from the first selection step. Depending on stellar mass, lithium starts to being depleted during the PMS phase \cite[e.g.,][]{Soderblom2010}, therefore it can be used as indicator of youth in specific temperature ranges. Specifically, between 20 and 50 Myr, the EW(Li) can be used to select candidate members between 4000 K and 6000 K because stars with $\rm{T_{eff}} <$ 4000 K have already burned all their lithium and above 6000 K Li is preserved even in much older stars. Also the Li~{\sc i}~6708\AA\ line, that is the main diagnostic, becomes very weak and difficult to measure. In Fig. \ref{fig:litio}, we show the EW(Li) as a function of $\rm{T_{eff}}$ for the four clusters. We classify as secure non-members all the stars below the threshold reported with a continuous black line between 4000 K and 6000 K. All the other stars are selected as candidate members. The threshold has been defined using previous observations of these four clusters available in the literature \citep{Martin_1997,Randich1997,Randich2001,Jeffries_2003,Jeffries_2005,Jeffries_2009}.
\vspace{0.4cm}
\item[$\bullet$] A final selection step is to exclude targets with a measured [Fe/H] < - 0.5 dex that would be incompatible with the nearly-solar metallicity of these clusters \citep{Spina_2017}.
\end{itemize}
\noindent
To summarize, we retain from the criteria 101, 53, 121, and 187 stars for IC 2602, IC 2391, IC 4665, and NGC 2547, respectively. We define these stars \textquotedblleft spectroscopic candidates''. Given the different target selection strategy used for UVES targets, we also consider as spectroscopic candidate UVES stars without $\rm{T_{eff}}$, $\gamma$, and/or EW(Li) that are known members from the literature.
\subsection{Kinematic analysis}
\label{sec:RV}
\begin{figure*}[!h]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.95\linewidth]{RV_histo_FINALE}
\caption{Radial velocity distribution. The blue, black and red dashed lines represent the fits performed by setting the binary fraction to 0.2, 0.5, and 0.8y, respectively.}
\label{fig:vrad}
\end{figure*}
The precision of the RVs ($\sim$ 0.3 km $\rm{s}^{-1}$) obtained from GES observations \citep{Jackson_2015} allows us to study the kinematic properties of the cluster samples. We use the RVs to determine the intrinsic RV dispersion of each cluster, $\sigma_c$, and the probability of a spectroscopic candidate to belong to the cluster. For each cluster we use the stars selected as spectroscopic candidates from the analysis in Sect. \ref{sec:member}.
In Fig. \ref{fig:vrad} the RV distributions of each cluster are shown. We modeled these using a maximum likelihood technique developed by \cite{Cottaar_2012}\footnote{Available on-line at https://github.com/MichielCottaar/velbin.}. Briefly, this technique fits the observed distribution with a model that assumes that the intrinsic RV distribution is a Gaussian which is broadened by the orbital motions of unresolved binary systems and by uncertainties in the RV measurements. The broadening due to the binaries is modelled by assuming the same distribution of orbital parameters as found in solar-type field stars, namely, a log-normal distribution of the binary periods with a mean 5.03 and dispersion 2.28 in $\rm{log_{10}}$ days \citep{Raghavan_2010}, a power-law $ \frac{dN}{dq} \sim q^{0.25}$ for 0.1 < \textit{q} < 1 \citep{Reggiani_2013} for the secondary to primary mass ratio (\textit{q}), and a flat distribution of eccentricity between 0 and the maximum value $e_{max}$ defined in \cite{Parker_2009}.
Since the analysis in Sect. \ref{sec:member} excludes the obvious non-members, the sample of spectroscopic candidates will not be entirely clean of contaminating field stars. Therefore, we add a second broader Gaussian distribution to the model to account for their presence. In the model the properties of field populations are free parameters without boundaries. In the case of NGC 2547 we perform the fit with three distinct Gaussian populations to take into account the presence of the population B of young stars in the Vela OB2 associations found by \cite{Sacco_2015}.\\
Since the uncertainties on the RV measurements have been empirically calculated only for the GIRAFFE targets \citep{Jackson_2015}, we exclude the UVES targets from the fits. We perform three fits for each cluster, with the fraction of the binaries ($f_{bin}$) fixed at three different values: 0.2, 0.5, and 0.8. For all clusters, we model only the stars with RVs inside the range -90 $\leq$ RV $\leq$ 90 km $\rm{s^{-1}}$.
\begin{table}[!h]
\caption{Best parameters from the fits of the RV distributions.}
\label{tab:vrad}
\centering
\tiny{
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
\midrule
\midrule
Cluster & $f_{bin}$ &$\rm{v_c}$ & $\sigma_{c}$\\
& (\%) & (km $\rm{s^{-1}}$) & (km $\rm{s^{-1}}$) \\
\midrule
IC 2602 & 0.2 & $17.65 \pm 0.18$ & $0.75 \pm 0.40$ \\
IC 2602 & 0.5 & $17.63 \pm 0.16$ & $0.60 \pm 0.20$\\
IC 2602 & 0.8 & $17.60 \pm 0.16$ & $0.45 \pm 0.20$\\
\midrule
IC 2391 & 0.2 & $15.04 \pm 0.19$ & $0.65 \pm 0.19$\\
IC 2391 & 0.5 & $14.98 \pm 0.17$ & $0.53 \pm 0.17$\\
IC 2391 & 0.8 & $15.02 \pm 0.18$ & $0.43 \pm 0.18$\\
\midrule
IC 4665 & 0.2 & $-13.83 \pm 0.16$& -\\
IC 4665 & 0.5 & $-13.64 \pm 0.21$& < 0.5\\
IC 4665 & 0.8 & $-13.69 \pm 0.21$& -\\
\midrule
NGC 2547 & 0.2 & $12.79 \pm 0.10$ & $0.79 \pm 0.11$\\
NGC 2547 & 0.5 & $12.80 \pm 0.09$ & $0.63 \pm 0.09$\\
NGC 2547 & 0.8 & $12.81 \pm 0.09$ & $0.51 \pm 0.11$\\
\midrule
\end{tabular}}
\end{table}
Table \ref{tab:vrad} shows the results of the fits. Both the central velocity $\rm{v_{c}}$ and the intrinsic dispersion $\sigma_{c}$ derived for a binary fraction of 0.2 and 0.8 are within the error bounds of the best values obtained for a fraction of 0.5 (within 1$\sigma$ for IC 2602 and IC 2391 and 2$\sigma$ for NGC 2547), therefore we will adopt the results obtained with a binary fraction set to 0.5 as the best values for the rest of the paper. Since the intrinsic RV dispersion for IC4665 is too small to be resolved with our data, we can only estimate an upper limit of $\sim 0.5~\rm km~s^{-1}$, which is slightly larger than the typical error of our RV measurements ($\sim$ 0.3 km $\rm{s}^{-1}$).
Our mean RV estimates are in agreement with the values found by previous works for IC 2602 and IC 2391 \citep{Marsden_2009}, for IC 4665 \citep{Jeffries_2009}, and for NGC 2547 \citep{Sacco_2015}.
Using the RVs of the spectroscopic candidates, we also estimate the probability that each of them is a true member. In particular, starting from the assumptions of our models, we can calculate the probability for a cluster member ($p_c(\rm{v_r})$) and a field star ($p_f(\rm{v_r})$) to have RV = $\rm{v_r}$ given the set of best fit parameters. Starting from these functions, the membership probability of a star is $p_{cl}(\rm{v_r})=p_c(\rm{v_r})$$/$$(p_c(\rm{v_r})$$+$$p_f(\rm{v_r}))$.
\begin{table*}[!h]
\centering
\caption{Robustness of the fits assuming different conditions of the binary properties.}
\label{tab:test_fit}
\tiny{
\begin{tabular}{lccccc}
\midrule
\midrule
Cluster & $\sigma_{c}$ & $\sigma_{\rm{log}P \, = \, 4.33 \, \textit{days}}$ & $\sigma_{\rm{log}P \, = \, 5.73 \, \textit{days}}$ & $\sigma_{f(e) \, \sim \, e^2}$ & $\sigma_{\frac{dN}{dq} \, = \, \rm{flat}}$\\
& (km $\rm{s^{-1}}$) & (km $\rm{s^{-1}}$) & (km $\rm{s^{-1}}$) & (km $\rm{s^{-1}}$) & (km $\rm{s^{-1}}$) \\
\midrule
IC 2602 & $0.60 \pm 0.20$ & $0.61 \pm 0.22$ & $0.60 \pm 0.21$ & $0.62 \pm 0.21$ & $0.62 \pm 0.24$\\
IC 2391 & $0.53 \pm 0.17$ & $0.51 \pm 0.16$ & $0.53 \pm 0.18$ & $0.49 \pm 0.16$ & $0.54 \pm 0.17$\\
NGC 2547 & $0.63 \pm 0.09$ & $0.62 \pm 0.09$ & $0.61 \pm 0.09$ & $0.64 \pm 0.09$ & $0.66 \pm 0.10$\\
\midrule
\end{tabular}}
\end{table*}
\subsubsection{Assumptions on binary properties and robustness of fits}
Our model assumes that the properties of binaries are distributed as for solar mass stars in the the solar neighborhood. However, as discussed by \cite{Burgasser_2007,Raghavan_2010} and \cite{Duchene_2013}, binary properties probably change as a function of the stellar mass or may depend on the dynamical evolution of the star-forming region where they have been formed \citep[e.g.,][]{Marks_2011}. Therefore, we perform tests in order to investigate how the results depend on the assumed binary properties. Specifically, we calculate the best fit values assuming: a) a mean binary period a factor five lower and higher than that found for solar mass stars by \cite{Raghavan_2010}; b) a distribution of eccentricities in the form f(\textit{e}) $\sim e^2$ between 0 and $e_{max}$, instead of a flat distribution; c) a flat distribution for the mass ratio \textit{q} rather than the power-law defined by \cite{Reggiani_2013}. In the case of mass ratio \textit{q}, for the test we used the flat distribution since it is strongly supported by observational evidence \cite[e.g.,][for a review]{Mermilliod_1999, Patience_2002, Bender_2008, Duchene_2013}. Other distributions have been proposed in the literature, for example the random pairing distribution, where the smallest mass is randomly drawn from the mass distribution \cite[e.g.,][]{Kroupa_1995b}. However, the random pairing distribution has been ruled out both theoretically and observationally \citep{Kouwenhoven_2005,Kouwenhoven_2007a,Kouwenhoven_2007b,Kobulnicky_2007,Metchev_2008,Kouwenhoven_2009}. The results of our tests, reported in Table \ref{tab:test_fit}, show that our assumptions of the binary properties do not strongly affect our final results. Since we estimate an upper limit on the $\sigma_{c}$ of IC 4665, we do not consider this cluster in these tests.
\subsection{Velocity dispersion from TGAS}
\label{ref:TGAS}
\begin{table}[!ht]
\centering
\caption{Velocity dispersion estimates obtained with the maximum likelihood procedure described in the text using the Nelder-Mead method, except for where indicated by the asterisk (where the Newton Conjugate Gradient method was employed). The quoted errors are obtained using the Cram\'er-Rao inequality.}
\label{tab:tgas_analysis}
\tiny{
\begin{tabular}{ccccc}
\midrule
\midrule
& IC 2602 & IC 2391 & IC 4665 & NGC 2547 \\
\midrule
\midrule
$\mathrm{N_i}$ & 66 & 43 & 16 & 34\\
$\sigma_v \, [\mathrm{km\, s^{-1}}]$ & $0.48 \pm 0.04$ & 0.59 $\pm$ 0.06 & 0.18 $\pm$ 0.04 & 0.43 $\pm$ 0.08 \\
$\mathrm{N_f}$ & 63 & 42 & 15 & 34\\
$\sigma_v \, [\mathrm{km\, s^{-1}}]$ & 0.20 $\pm$ 0.02 & 0.43 $\pm$ 0.05 & 0.03 $\pm$ 0.04 & 0.43 $\pm$ 0.08 \\
$\sigma_{\perp} [\mathrm{km\, s^{-1}}] $ & 0.32 $\pm$0.02 & 0.42 $\pm$ 0.05 & 0.10 $\pm$ 0.02& 0.60 $\pm $ 0.10 \\
\midrule
\midrule
$\mathrm{N_{r < \rm{R_{GES}}, i}}$ & 38 & 22 & 10 & 17 \\
$\sigma_v \, [\mathrm{km \, s^{-1}}]$ & 0.18 $\pm$ 0.02 & 0.20 $\pm$ 0.04 & 0.05 $\pm$ 0.03 & 0.24 $\pm$ 0.08 (*) \\
$\mathrm{N_{r < \rm{R_{GES}}, f}}$ & 37 & 22 & 10 & 17 \\
$\sigma_v \, [\mathrm{km \, s^{-1}}]$ & 0.16 $\pm$ 0.02 & 0.20 $\pm$ 0.04 & 0.05 $\pm$ 0.03 & 0.24 $\pm$ 0.08 (*)\\
$\sigma_{\perp} [\mathrm{km\, s^{-1}}]$ & 0.24 $\pm$ 0.02 & 0.30 $\pm$ 0.05 & 0.13 $\pm 0.03$ & 0.40 $\pm$ 0.10\\
\midrule
\midrule
\multicolumn{5}{l}{
\begin{minipage}{0.48\textwidth}
\footnotesize{\textbf{Notes.} The first row lists the initial number of stars, from G17. The second row gives the values of $\sigma_v$ estimated using the stars reported in the first row. The third row gives the number of stars remaining after the exclusion procedure, and the fourth and fifth rows report $\sigma_v$ and $\sigma_{\perp}$. The second half of the table is the same as the first half, except for the initial number of stars. Row six indeed lists the number of stars within the radii from the cluster center reported in Table \ref{tab:total_mass}.}
\end{minipage}}
\end{tabular}}
\end{table}
The clusters studied in this work have been investigated by \cite{Gaia_2017} (hereafter G17), who used the Tycho-\textit{Gaia} Astrometric Solution (TGAS) subset of the first \textit{Gaia} data release \cite[DR1,][]{Gaia_2016_2,Gaia_2016_1} to derive cluster memberships, mean parallaxes, and proper motion values. Parallaxes have also been determined by \cite{Randich_2017} who, for these clusters, found an excellent agreement.
There is not much overlap between the TGAS (exclusively brighter stars) and GES samples. On one side this can be considered as a limitation (for example, we have RVs for the GES stars, but we lack astrometry, and vice-versa), however it can also be seen as an opportunity to derive certain cluster properties in an independent way. We focus on the velocity dispersion of the four clusters, and on the comparison of the values obtained using the two samples.
To derive the velocity dispersion using the TGAS data, we apply the maximum likelihood procedure described in \cite{Lindegren_2000} (hereafter L00), in particular in Appendix A.4 of their paper, to the stars selected as members by G17\footnote{The python implementation of the procedure is available at: \url{https://github.com/eleonorazari/KinematicModelling}.}. Assuming that all the stars in a moving group share the same space velocity with a small isotropic internal velocity dispersion, L00 determine the group centroid space motion, the internal velocity dispersion, and the individual parallaxes for all members. The observables used by L00 are parallaxes and proper motions, which are modelled as random variables with a probability density function (PDF) depending on the model parameters. The model parameters are the cluster centroid space motion $v_0$ , the velocity dispersion $\sigma_v$ and the \textit{n} parallaxes of the \textit{n} stars, $\varpi$. They further assume that the observations are independent and unbiased.\\
The likelihood function is the product of the single PDFs of all the stars. The method requires that the model provides a statistically corrected description of the data. In particular, it must be applied to actual members of the cluster, or to the sources whose space motion agrees with the model. Outliers can be detected by computing a suitable goodness of fit statistic for each star in the solution. L00 named this quantity $g_i$ for each star with index \textit{i} (with \textit{i} = 1, ..., \textit{n}), and find that $g_i$ approximately follows a $\chi^2$ distribution. Therefore, for a given significance level, the star should be considered as a kinematic outlier if $g_i > g_{lim}$. For example, a 1 per cent significance level requires $g_{lim} \sim 14$. The outlier rejection procedure is iterative, where at each step the star with the largest $g_i$ is rejected from the sample. A new solution is then computed, including new $g_i$ values. The process is repeated until all $g_i < g_{lim}$.
Unfortunately, the internal velocity dispersion $\sigma_v$ is strongly underestimated by this method. The bias in the $\sigma_v$ estimate is probably related to the fact that an isotropic velocity dispersion is assumed for the cluster, while in practice only one component of this velocity can be measured astrometrically, i.e. the one perpendicular to the plane containing the line of sight and the centroid velocity vector (called $\eta_{\perp,i}$ by L00). L00 deal with the problem by using the proper motions residuals to compute the peculiar velocity components ($\eta_{\perp,i}$) and their observational uncertainties. Then, they compute an estimate of $\sigma_{\perp}$, and hence of $\sigma_v$, assuming isotropic dispersion. They test the method using Monte Carlo simulations, and conclude that $\sigma_{\perp}$ is in practice an unbiased estimate of $\sigma_v$.
We apply the likelihood maximization procedure described above first considering all the the stars identified as members by G17, then restricting the samples to the areas defined by the radii ($\rm{R_{GES}}$) shown in Table \ref{tab:mass_radii}. We derive the centroid space velocity for the four clusters, then we compute $\sigma_{\perp}$. The results are reported in Table \ref{tab:tgas_analysis}, together with their statistical errors\footnote{In practice, to maximize the likelihood we used the 'Nelder-Mead' and 'Newton-CG' methods, both supported by the \texttt{scipy.optimize.minimize} function.}.
\noindent
The estimated values for the velocity dispersion of the clusters analyzed in this study depend strongly on the number of stars considered. For example, the velocity dispersion of IC 2602 changes from $\sim 0.48$ km $\rm{s^{-1}}$ to $\sim 0.20$ km $\rm{s^{-1}}$ after the exclusion of three stars only. A similar trend can be observed also for the other clusters. Furthermore, changing the likelihood maximization method (see Table \ref{tab:tgas_analysis2} in appendix A) causes the velocity dispersion estimates to change slightly as well. For these reasons, the results reported in Table \ref{tab:tgas_analysis} and \ref{tab:tgas_analysis2} needs to be interpreted with care. In particular, the errors reported in Table \ref{tab:tgas_analysis} and \ref{tab:tgas_analysis2} correspond to the statistical errors, and do not take into account any systematic effect. A tentative estimate of the accuracy of the velocity dispersions obtained can be computed using half the difference between the velocity dispersion values obtained with the two different methods, considering the same number of stars (i.e. $\mathrm{N_{i}}$ and $\mathrm{N_{r < \rm{R_{GES}}, i}}$). In this way, we obtain systematic errors between $\sim 0.01$ km $\rm{s^{-1}}$ and $\sim 0.1$ km $\rm{s^{-1}}$, depending on the cluster.
\subsection{Stellar mass and radii}
\label{ref:Masses}
\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.99\linewidth]{DIagramma_HR_FINALE_final}
\caption{Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of sample of clusters. The colored filled dots represent GES targets retained after the procedure of cleaning from the obvious contaminants. The spectroscopic candidates have a different color depending on the probability of belonging to the cluster. The magenta and blue lines are the isochrones at 20 and 50 Myr, respectively, and the black and red lines are the PMS evolutionary tracks \citep{Tognelli_2011}.}
\label{fig:HRD_selection_mem}
\end{figure*}
The analysis of the dynamics of clusters requires an estimation of its total mass and its half mass radius. As a first step, we calculated the mass of each spectroscopic candidate by interpolating the PMS evolutionary tracks developed by \cite{Tognelli_2011} at the positions of the stars in the HR diagram. We use effective temperatures measured from the GES spectra and luminosities estimated from the V magnitude or the J magnitude from the 2MASS catalogue, when the former is not available. To estimate luminosities from magnitudes, we correct for extinction, using the reddening values given in Table \ref{tab:clusters} and the extinction law from \cite{Savage_1979}; we apply bolometric corrections $BC_V$ and $BC_J$ derived by interpolating the relations reported in Table A5 of \cite{Kenyon_1995} at the stellar effective temperature; we convert relative bolometric magnitudes into luminosities adopting the distances reported in Table \ref{tab:clusters} and a solar bolometric magnitude $M_{\odot} = 4.74$. Figure \ref{fig:HRD_selection_mem} shows the HR diagram for each cluster, color-coded by membership probability. We note that the high probability spectroscopic candidates tend to be closer to the cluster sequence than low probability ones. This validates our approach to work.
Once we evaluate the mass of the spectroscopic candidates, we estimate the total mass of the cluster ($\rm{M}_{tot}$) using a general method. We take into account the stars within a magnitude range and we obtain the observed mass ($\rm{M}_{obs}$) adding up all star masses in the sample. Then, we need to divide $\rm{M}_{obs}$ by the level of completeness of the observations (Sect. \ref{sec:completeness}). This factor takes into account the fraction of potential cluster members within the magnitude range and within the area covered by the observations that have not been observed for technical reasons (e.g., the impossibility to allocate the fibers). Thereafter, we multiply $\rm{M}_{obs}$ for a factor 1.25, which takes into account the presence of binaries, under the assumption of a 50\% binary fraction and a mass ratio with a flat distribution. As last step, in order to estimate $\rm{M}_{tot}$, we need to multiply the observed mass by another factor that takes into account the fraction of the cluster mass in stars outside the magnitude range. This is calculated analytically, using the assumption that the mass function of the clusters follows a multi-power-law described in \cite{Kroupa_2001b} between 0.01 $\rm M_{\odot}$ and the mass of the most massive cluster star known in the literature.
We consider two different samples of stars:
\begin{enumerate}[(a)]
\item the stars that we selected as spectroscopic candidate with GES. Internally the GES sample, we also use two different approaches: (i) we consider only the spectroscopic candidates with a probability to be a member greater than 0.8, and (ii) we consider all spectroscopic candidates weighted by their corresponding $p_{cl}$;\\
\item the stars identified as members by G17 within the area defined by $\rm{R_{GES}}$. For this sample, we assume a level of completeness of 100\% since TGAS is assumed to be complete.
\end{enumerate}
Table \ref{tab:mass_radii} shows the magnitude range of GES, the $\rm{R_{GES}}$, and the derived completeness.
\begin{table*}[!t]
\centering
\caption{Completeness, total mass and half mass radius of the four clusters calculated with the three different methods.}
\label{tab:mass_radii}
\tiny{
\begin{tabular}{cccccccc}
\midrule
\midrule
Cluster & J Magnitude & $\rm{R_{GES}}$ & Completeness & $\rm{M_{tot,0.8}}$ & $\rm{M_{tot,w}}$ & $\rm{M_{tot,TGAS}}$ & $r_{hm}$\\
& range completeness & (pc) & (\%) &($\rm{M}_{\odot}$) & ($\rm{M}_{\odot}$) & ($\rm{M}_{\odot}$) & (pc)\\
\midrule
IC 2602 & 6.8 -- 12.0 & 4.13 & $\sim 25$ &$\sim 173$ & $\sim 244$ & $\sim 229$ & $\sim 1.56$ \\
IC 2391 & 7.0 -- 12.8 & 2.55 & $\sim 25$ & $\sim 111$ & $\sim 151$ & $\sim 126$ & $\sim 0.98$ \\
IC 4665 & 10.0 -- 16.0 & 4.47 & $\sim 65$ &$\sim 78$ & $\sim 96$ & $\sim 144$ & $\sim 1.19$\\
NGC 2547 & 8.0 -- 15.5 & 3.18 & $\sim 75$ &$\sim 176$ & $\sim 201$ & $\sim 216$ & $\sim 0.80$ \\
\midrule
\midrule
\multicolumn{8}{l}{
\begin{minipage}{0.67\textwidth}
\footnotesize{\textbf{Notes.} $\rm{M_{tot,0.8}}$, $\rm{M_{tot,w}}$, and $\rm{M_{tot,TGAS}}$ indicate the total masses calculated using the sample (a) with approach (i), the sample (a) with approach (ii), and the sample (b), respectively.}
\end{minipage}}
\end{tabular}}
\end{table*}
The total masses found with the different samples are in agreement within a factor of $\sim 1.8$. In particular, the results show a good correspondence between the masses estimated through the spectroscopic candidates weighted by $p_{cl}$ ($\rm{M_{tot,w}}$) and those calculated with the TGAS sample ($\rm{M_{tot,TGAS}}$) within the GES region. This validates our results, since the masses are estimated starting from almost independent star samples (only a tiny fraction of them is in common). Therefore, we will adopt for the subsequent dynamical analysis $\rm{M_{tot,w}}$.
To study the dynamical properties of each cluster we need also an estimate of the half mass radius ($r_{hm}$). This radius is critically dependent on the presence of mass segregation in the clusters. Indeed, $r_{hm}$ gets smaller with increasing of level of mass segregation. Given that the GES magnitude range does not allow us the observation of very brighter (and massive) stars, it is difficult to take into account the presence of mass segregation with the GES data. Instead, in the TGAS sample there are the brighter stars of each cluster and the observations are spatially complete. Therefore, we use the stars identified as members by G17 within $\rm{R_{GES}}$. To correctly take into account the presence of mass segregation, we also consider the cluster members present in the literature outside the \textit{Gaia} magnitude range (stars with V $\lesssim 6$). We consider as $r_{hm}$ the radius that contains half of the mass given by the sum of masses of TGAS and literature stars. The $r_{hm}$ of the four clusters are listed in Table \ref{tab:mass_radii}.
\section{Discussion}
\subsection{GES versus TGAS velocity dispersion}
\begin{figure*}[!t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.99\linewidth]{dispo_total}
\caption{Spatial distribution of GES and TGAS stars in the four clusters. The black points are the stars observed with GES and the red filled dots are the spectroscopic candidates selected in Sect. \ref{sec:member}. The blue diamonds are the stars selected as members by G17 within the radius $\rm{R_{GES}}$. The stars identified with red dots and blue diamonds are those used to derive the velocity dispersions in GES and TGAS sample, respectively.}
\label{fig:disposition}
\end{figure*}
In this section we compare the velocity dispersion obtained from the GES (see Sect. \ref{sec:RV}) and TGAS data (see Sect. \ref{ref:TGAS}). We decided to use the values of $\sigma_{\perp}$ estimated from the sample of G17 within the radius $\rm{R_{GES}}$ (last row of Table \ref{tab:tgas_analysis}), with an error given by the sum of statistical error and systematic error ($\sim 0.1$ km $\rm{s^{-1}}$). In Fig. \ref{fig:disposition}, we show, for the four clusters, the spatial distribution of the members selected by G17 from the TGAS catalogue and the spectroscopic candidates selected by GES. The G17 members of IC 2602 and IC 2391 within $\rm{R_{GES}}$ are uniformly distributed in the whole area of GES observations. Instead, for IC 4665 and NGC 2547, the TGAS members seem to cover only a section of the cluster area. This may be related to the larger distance of these clusters, indeed, the membership selection in G17 is based on position, parallaxes and proper motions, so it is strongly affected by distance.
The velocity dispersion derived from the GES data are higher than those derived from the TGAS data but consistent within 2$\sigma$. Furthermore, we stress that the typical error uncertainty in proper motions in DR1 \citep{Gaia_2016_2} is $\sim 1$ mas $\rm{yr^{-1}}$, which corresponds to about 0.7 -- 1.7 km $\rm{s^{-1}}$ at the distance of the four clusters studied in this paper. Therefore, we are pushing the \textit{Gaia} data to their precision limit and their systematic errors need to be better investigated.\\
However, all four cluster analyzed in this work show the same trend, i.e. TGAS dispersions are smaller than GES ones. The origin of this discrepancy could be due to two main explanations. The first is the presence of asymmetries of the system \citep{Baumgardt_2007}. In fact, to derive the velocity dispersions, in GES we use the radial velocity of stars while in TGAS we use the velocity perpendicular to the plane containing the line of sight. Anyway, it is unlikely that all clusters show the same trend of asymmetry. \\
The second is the energy equipartition. After the relaxation, a cluster tends to evolve towards the energy equipartition, where the more massive stars settle on the center of cluster and cede kinetic energy to the less massive ones. In this case, the velocity dispersion is related to the mass \textit{m} of stars as $\sigma(m) \propto m^{-0.5}$. So, we expect that the more massive stars are dynamically colder (i.e., smaller velocity dispersion). The four clusters in this work might already be relaxed (relaxation times 10 -- 30 Myr) and we found that the median mass of GES samples are smaller than that of TGAS samples by a factor between $\sim 2.5$ and $\sim 4$, depending on the cluster. Therefore, we expect differences in velocity dispersions between a factor $\sim 1.6$ and $\sim 2$, which is about what we found. Anyway, the presence of energy equipartition in star clusters is still very debated. \cite{Spera_2016} and \cite{Parker_2016b} noted that energy equipartition may not occur even after many two-body relaxation timescales.
These are still preliminary results and more data with better accuracy are needed. The second release of the \textit{Gaia} data, expected for April 2018, will include parallaxes and proper motions of low mass population of these clusters. We will therefore be able to investigate this discrepancy more thoroughly. In light of this, in the next section we will discuss only the results obtained with GES data.
\subsection{Effect of feedback on the cluster dissipation mechanism}
The main goal of this paper is to probe the dynamical state of four 20-50 Myr old clusters (IC 2602, IC 2391, IC 4665, and NGC 2547) in order to investigate the mechanism leading to cluster dispersion. In particular, determining if they are "supervirial" or "subvirial" is critically important. Indeed, according to the so called "residual gas expulsion" scenario
\citep[e.g.][]{Kroupa_2001, Goodwin_2006}, young clusters become supervirial after feedback from massive stars sweeps out the gas that did not form stars. Otherwise, according to other models, the gas dispersion does not affect the virial ratio of the cluster and the dynamical interactions in the denser regions of a cluster drive the dynamical evolution \citep[e.g.][]{Kruijssen_2012,Parker_2016}.
We can understand if a cluster is supervirial by comparing the measured one-dimensional velocity dispersion $\sigma_c$ with the value derived analytically ($\sigma_{vir}$) from the cluster properties under the assumption of virial equilibrium, which is given by the equation:
\begin{equation}
\label{eqn:virial}
\sigma_{vir}=\sqrt{\frac{\rm{M}_{tot} \, \, G}{\eta \, \, r_{hm}}}
\end{equation}
\noindent where $r_{hm}$ is the half mass radius, $G$ is the gravitational constant, $\eta$ is a dimensionless factor,
which depends on the cluster density profile and is approximately equal to 10 for a Plummer sphere profile
\citep[e.g.][]{Spitzer_1987,Portegies-Zwart_2010} and $\rm{M}_{tot}$ is the cluster mass. In Table \ref{tab:total_mass}
we report the velocity dispersion derived from the GES RVs (see Sect. \ref{sec:RV}) and from eqn. \ref{eqn:virial}.
\begin{table}[!ht]
\centering
\caption{Properties of the four clusters.}
\label{tab:total_mass}
\tiny{
\begin{tabular}{cccccc}
\midrule
\midrule
Cluster &$\rm{M}_{tot}$& $r_{hm}$& $\sigma_{c}$ & $\sigma_{vir}$ & $\rm{M_{dyn}}$\\
&($\rm{M}_{\odot}$)& (pc)& (km $\rm{s^{-1}}$) &(km $\rm{s^{-1}}$) &($\rm{M}_{\odot}$)\\
\midrule
IC 2602 & $\sim 244$ & $\sim 1.56$ & $0.60 \pm 0.20$ & $\sim 0.26$&1275\\
IC 2391 & $\sim 151$& $\sim 0.98$& $0.53 \pm 0.17$ & $\sim 0.26$&485\\
IC 4665 & $\sim 96$& $\sim 1.37$& < 0.5 & $\sim 0.19$&-\\
NGC 2547 & $\sim 201$& $\sim 0.80$& $0.63 \pm 0.09$ & $\sim 0.33$&720\\
\midrule
\end{tabular}}
\end{table}
The observed velocity dispersions are larger than the values calculated by assuming virial equilibrium by about a factor
two, leading to the conclusion that three out of four clusters (except IC 4665 that has an upper limit on the velocity dispersion) are supervirial. We can rule out that this conclusion is due to errors on the estimates of the velocity dispersion $\sigma_{vir}$. In particular, uncertainties on the mass are lower than a factor 1.5 as shown in table 6; the half mass radius $r_{hm}$ could be underestimated in case of mass segregation, because it has been calculated using the more massive stars of the sample, but a larger $r_{hm}$ implies a smaller $\sigma_{vir}$, so it will support our conclusion on the virial ratio of the clusters. Finally, \cite{Elson_1987} and \cite{Fleck_2005} found that deviation of the density profile from a Plummer sphere can lead to a value of $\eta$ lower by a factor 2. However, considering that $\sigma_{vir}\propto \eta^{-1/2}$ this deviation cannot explain a discrepancy of a factor two.
The presence of clusters in a supervirial state after gas expulsion has been predicted by several N-body simulations
\citep[e.g.,]{Bastian_2006, Baumgardt_2007} supporting the "residual gas expulsion scenario". In particular, \cite{Baumgardt_2007} suggest that -- after the gas that did not form stars is swept out -- clusters expand so the virial dispersion decreases and the virial ratio increases. Then, they return in a virial state only after the unbound stars are dispersed, which should occurs after about 20 and 40 crossing times. If we calculate the crossing time as $\sigma_{c}/r_{hm}$, the clusters studied in this paper have a dynamical age of about 20 - 30 crossing times, therefore, our results is in a good agreement with these simulations. However, we note that the crossing time used to track the cluster evolution in the simulations is calculated at cluster formation. We do not know the initial crossing time of these four clusters, but it is likely shorter than current one, so the evolution of these clusters could be slower than observed in the simulations.
\cite{Parker_2016} performed N-body simulations of the cluster evolution assuming an initial spatial distribution that better resembles the hierarchical structure observed in young star forming region and investigated if the ratio $\sigma_{c}/\sigma_{vir}$ can be used to trace the dynamical state of a cluster. They found that clusters that are initially subvirial, or in global virial equilibrium but subvirial on local scale, relax to virial equilibrium after 25 - 50 crossing times. However, the measured ratio $\sigma_{c}$/$\sigma_{vir}$ would lead to the conclusions that they are supervirial. This apparent inconsistency originates by the fact that clusters are never fully relaxed but keep an imprint of early non-equilibrium even after several crossing times.
Finally, we point out that G17 found members up to 15 pc from the cluster center and outside the cluster radius considered in this paper. It is not clear if these distant stars are actual cluster members, unbound escaping stars or field stars with kinematic properties consistent with the cluster. Anyway, if we calculate total mass of the cluster and the half mass radius using the full G17 sample, we found similar virial velocity dispersions $\sigma_{vir}$, therefore, our conclusions would not change.
\section{Summary}
In this paper we analyzed the iDR4 internal products of the \textit{Gaia}-ESO survey to study the kinematical and dynamical properties of the young (age 20 -- 50 Myr) open clusters IC 2602, IC 2391, IC 4665, and NGC 2547.
Using a gravity index, the lithium equivalent width, and the metallicity we derived a sample of candidate members for each cluster. Then, we used the RVs to derive the cluster intrinsic velocity dispersion, and membership probabilities for each candidate member. Photometry from the literature and the effective temperature from GES spectra have been used to estimate stellar masses
and the total mass of each cluster, after correcting for the presence of binaries and completeness.\\
Furthermore, we independently derived the intrinsic velocity dispersion of the clusters from the astrometric parameters of cluster members in the TGAS catalogue.
On the basis of this analysis we obtained the following main results:
\begin{itemize}
\item[$\bullet$] The velocity dispersion measured from the RVs is higher than that measured from TGAS data. Given the masses of the stars in the GES and in the TGAS sample, this discrepancy would suggest that the system is relaxed and in a state of energy equipartition. However, given the limited numbers of cluster members in the TGAS sample and the error on astrometric parameters, we are not able to draw a firm conclusion. Important progresses will be possible very soon with the second \textit{Gaia} data release. \\
\item[$\bullet$] The velocity dispersion measured with GES data is higher by about a factor two than what calculated by assuming virial equlibrium, given the masses of the clusters and the spatial distribution of their members. This result indicates that clusters are in supervirial state and two explanations are given to interpret it. The first is the "residual gas expulsion" scenario \cite[e.g.,][]{Kroupa_2001,Goodwin_2006}, which suggests that clusters became unbound after the "feedback" from massive stars swept out the gas which did not form stars. The second is that the observed velocity dispersion could be higher than the virial one because most stellar systems do not fully relax, even after 20 - 30 crossing times, as shown in N-body simulations of \cite{Parker_2016}.\\
\item[$\bullet$] In each cluster we found many new high probability members and confirmed many of those known in the literature. New high probability members are extended across the whole area covered by GES observations, suggesting that these clusters could be more extended than previously thought.
\end{itemize}
When the observations of the \textit{Gaia}-ESO survey are completed and data from the second \textit{Gaia} data release will be available, we will able to study the kinematic of a larger sample of young clusters in a six dimensional space and solve the many open issues in this area of star formation.
\begin{acknowledgements}
The authors thank the referee, R. J. Parker, for his review. Based on data products from observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under programme ID 188.B-3002. These data products have been processed by the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit (CASU) at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, and by the FLAMES/UVES reduction team at INAF/Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri. These data have been obtained from the Gaia-ESO Survey Data Archive, prepared and hosted by the Wide Field Astronomy Unit, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, which is funded by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council.
This work was partly supported by the European Union FP7 programme through ERC grant number 320360 and by the Leverhulme Trust through grant RPG-2012-541. We acknowledge the support from INAF and Ministero dell' Istruzione, dell' Universit\`a' e della Ricerca (MIUR) in the form of the grant "Premiale VLT 2012" and by PRIN-INAF 2014. The results presented here benefit from discussions held during the Gaia-ESO workshops and conferences supported by the ESF (European Science Foundation) through the GREAT Research Network Programme. This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission {\it Gaia} (\url{https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia}), processed by the {\it Gaia} Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, \url{https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium}). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the {\it Gaia} Multilateral Agreement.
L.B. wishes to thank J. G. Fern\'{a}ndez-Trincado and B. Tang for the useful comments and G. Conte who worked at the production of Fig. 3. E.Z. wishes to thank A. Brown, T. Marchetti, and C.F. Manara for useful discussions. J.L.-S. acknowledges the Office of Naval Research Global (award no. N62909-15-1-2011) for partial support. F.J.E. acknowledges financial support from ASTERICS project (ID:653477, H2020-EU.1.4.1.1. - Developing new world-class research infrastructures).
\end{acknowledgements}
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Q: bash script to bulk resize using Imagemagick I need to convert a very large number of images JPEGs. those images some are 720px × 480px, and some 300x400 and some 2000x1400 and some are 1000x1000 etc..
I only need to resize those images to 1000x1000 without touch the images that have 1000x1000
here i try to make small script which is calculate the total size of each image w x h but i need to add if statement on it which is convert all images to 1000x1000 and exclude images that have 1000x1000 size
for image in *.jpg; do
IFS=x
read w h < <(identify "$image" | grep -oP '\d+x\d+(?=\+)')
echo $((w*h)) "$image"
done
A: You could use the fx operator to filter images based on height & width e.g.
identify -format '%[fx:(h=1000 && w=1000)]\n' image.jpg
will output 1 if the image is exactly 1000x1000 and 0 otherwise.
So you could run something like this (adjust the convert command as per your needs):
for image in ./*.jpg; do
identify -format '%[fx:(h=1000 && w=1000)]\n' "$image" | grep -q 0 \
&& convert -resize 1000x1000 "$image" "${image%.*}"-converted.jpg
done
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1So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.2And on the second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, "What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled." 3Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have found favour in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. 4For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king." 5Then King Ahasu-e'rus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, that would presume to do this?" 6And Esther said, "A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!" Then Haman was in terror before the king and the queen. 7And the king rose from the feast in wrath and went into the palace garden; but Haman stayed to beg his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king. 8And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was; and the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?" As the words left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face. 9Then said Harbo'na, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, "Moreover, the gallows which Haman has prepared for Mor'decai, whose word saved the king, is standing in Haman's house, fifty cubits high." 10And the king said, "Hang him on that." So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mor'decai. Then the anger of the king abated. | {
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As the summer holidays draw to an end, you're probably not the only one wishing you could do it all over again. Whilst the holiday might be over, the memories are there to stay.
Whether you've got a fancy DSLR, a smartphone cam, or were snapping away on your old digital camera, you've probably got some pretty special memories in the form of photos that you're keen to share with your family and friends. The chances are that not all of the pictures you've taken are brilliant and of super high quality, and when you're faced with a huge catalogue of images to sift through, identifying the best pictures can be tricky to say the least.
You might have taken the odd photo (or more!) that you think should feature on the front page of the search results of 'sunset' or 'jungle' when you're searching websites such as Flickr for user added images. Sometimes the photos you get served are from photographers with thousands of followers, but if your picture's just as good, how do you get noticed?!
Flickr has millions of uploads every day, and lots of these pictures don't get the exposure that they should due to poor tagging, lack of followers, and other factors. Flickr have built an algorithm to distinguish high-quality photographs from casual snapshots and are training their machine learning model to predict the likelihood of images being of high, medium, or low quality. But what is a good image? It's quite a subjective call to make, you could have taken a picture that you find to be aesthetically pleasing, whereas your family might dislike the image.
The image on the left is clearly better than the image on the right, but why is that? They're both pictures of trees, in a field, with the sun shining from behind.
Amit Kushwah from Zomato, explains that there are universally accepted norms when it comes to beauty 'things which everyone pretty much agrees are beautiful, like sunsets or sunrises over the mountains or the ocean'. Upon speaking at the Deep Learning Summit in Singapore earlier this year he discussed the factors that are taken into consideration when identifying a 'good' image, and begins to explain how the above images would be classified: lighting, contrast and angle all determine the aesthetics. To hear more about Zomato's Image Aesthetics Assessment system, you can watch Amit's presentation here.
Stacey Svetlichnaya, Software Development Engineer at Flickr expanded on Zomato's thoughts by discussing the aesthetics visual analysis system that Flickr uses. The system contains over 250k images that come from a photo challenge site, and each photo gets challenged around 210 times. People vote on these images and the machine is able to learn from the types of photos people are rating highly and serve these first in search and discovery results. Both Flickr and Zomato's visual aesthetic algorithms learn to label and distinguish between images with machine learning models with the goal of presenting high quality images to users.
Watch Stacey's presentation on quantifying visual aesthetics here.
Next time you go on holiday, be sure to take the aesthetics of your image composition into account, then when you're uploading them you never know - maybe the algorithm will rank your image highly and be served in the recommended search results!
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Seibertron.com Energon Pub Forums • Is There A Red Autobot Re-color Of Dropkick In Our Future?
Re: Is There A Red Autobot Re-color Of Dropkick In Our Future?
Red Dropkick looks a lot like Alternators Optimus Prime.
I was really close to getting Dropkick the first time around, but I decided to stick to on-screen characters.
This might be enough for me to change my mind but I want to see better pictures first.
looks like it has a flame deco....rodimus?
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Yeeesss , I would like to see a repaint of Dropkick, Dropkick is one of the best molds out there, I don't think Hasbro is going to abandon him.
hmmm.... a Movie Rodimus?? that wouldn't be so bad me thinks..
Is it just me, or is anyone else kind of getting sick of all these movie repaints?
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Enough with the movieline repaints already!
Hurray! They had a red redeco of Dropkick as an Autobot in the movie video game. One more Drone for my Autobot army, and it's in G1 Ironhide colors! Beautiful.
NOw we need Autobot redecos of Payload, Dreadwing and a Decepticon redeco of Longarm.
WTF! I posted this in the repaint thread yesterday, I 'm so lucky! Now lets hope we get the Autobot Swindle, Payload and Dreadwing I was talking about.
To me it looks like an All Spark version of Dropkick because of the light blue parts.
Also, it DOES have "Allspark Power" cyan, though it looks a lot better on him than it does on any of the others.
I also stopped by my shop and flipped through the Previews issue on the rack and found the red repaint. I guess we can file this under "coming soon" as opposed to rumor. They also had a pick of the "reverse colored" Concept Bumblebee..it looks like it has the battle helmet down in the face mold.
I worry they won't repaint Swindle again, with Camshaft already coming out.
And c'mon... not too exciting here. Just another Teal-covered Allspark repaint.
I'll buy it if the colors are good and the bio is as funny as the one on Dropkick(watch the review of him by Bikertrashwolf on youtube).
tformers.com has a better pic(they say it is stockade-silly tformers.com???? ) I really like it, but I really hope it is not salvage because I want salvage to be a con and he looks more like a inferno to me.
I know he's already been repainted into Camshaft, but I want a Swindle that is an green Autobot with a head similar to that of Dropkick's so that way its like the one in the game.
Hasbro really missed an opportunity to actually have an repaint for the movie line that actually appears in something (and in Autobot Swindle's case he appears in the game.).
I'm only laughing because I had plans for a red repaint Dropkick and either now my idea really won't work or it'll just be a very easy repaint to what I have intended for the mold.
Dropkick is pretty much my favorite figure from the movie line... so I think I could be down for this repaint. Aside from Jungle Bonecrusher and some of the others that I'm interested in because I never saw the originals in stores (*cough*08BB*cough*), this is one of the few movie repaints I like!
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Q: Why drawVertices in android canvas need hardware acceleration disabled? As stated in https://stackoverflow.com/a/16257100/3286489, in order for drawVertices to draw something in Android Canvas, it need to disable Hardware acceleration using
setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);
I check the underlying code, it has this check
public void drawVertices(@NonNull VertexMode mode, int vertexCount, @NonNull float[] verts,
int vertOffset, @Nullable float[] texs, int texOffset, @Nullable int[] colors,
int colorOffset, @Nullable short[] indices, int indexOffset, int indexCount,
@NonNull Paint paint) {
checkRange(verts.length, vertOffset, vertexCount);
if (isHardwareAccelerated()) {
return;
}
// ... codes that perform the drawing
}
Why can't we use hardware acceleration on it?
It is not mentioned in the Android doc
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Skellefteå landsdistrikt är ett distrikt i Skellefteå kommun och Västerbottens län. Distriktet omfattar de västra och södra delarna av tätorten Skellefteå samt ett område väster om och ett mindre område norr om Skellefteå i östra Västerbotten.
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I Skellefteå landsdistrikt distrikt finns sex tätorter och tio småorter.
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Distriktet inrättades 2016 och utgörs av en del av området som Skellefteå stad omfattade till 1971, en del som före 1967 utgjorde en del av Skellefteå socken.
Området motsvarar den omfattning Skellefteå landsförsamling hade 1999/2000 och fick 1962 efter utbrytning av Bolidens församling.
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Gervaise – forma francese femminile del nome proprio di persona Gervasio
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Sales and operating profits for Nikon are higher than expected, thanks to good performance from its camera division, according to Nikon president Makoto Kimura.
Speaking to Reuters, Kimura said that Nikon wasn't experiencing a slowdown in sales despite the current debt crisis in the eurozone, but revealed he was concerned about a possible downturn in the October to March period.
He said, "There is some evidence that dealers are putting off their purchases," but added that camera sales tended to be relatively immune to changes in the economy.
Nikon will reveal its June-September earnings on 4 November, which is around the same time as other Japanese electronics companies are expected to announce their earnings.
Sales in Europe accounted for 23% of Nikon's sales in the year to March 2010. The Japanese yen was at a 10-year high against the Euro this week, cutting the value of sales in Europe.
In a seperate statement, Kimura talked of Nikon's new compact system camera announced in September, the Nikon 1 system. He said that the company expects to sell several hundred thousand units of the new system by the end of the financial year in March 2012. The Nikon V1 and Nikon J1 are set to go on sale on 20 October. Pre-orders, according to Kimura, are "stronger than expected".
Kimura also said he expects the cameras to take off in Asia first, eventually selling well outside the region too. Compact system cameras are popular in Japan, with more than 50% of total camera sales accounted for by mirrorless cameras.
Meanwhile, Fujifilm announced it was to release its own line of mirrorless interchangeable cameras yesterday, which will leave Canon as the only major manufactuer without a similar camera on the market.
Shares in Nikon have risen more than 7% since the beginning of the financial year in April, while shares in major rival Canon have fallen 5% over the same period. | {
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Q: accuracy of android "linear acceleration" versus manual processing of accelerometer? Reading here: Android Sensors - Which of them get direct input? ,
I am wondering if anyone has experience or a technically detailed link about the accuracy of the linear acceleration versus just manual processing of the acceleration raw data. E.g., do the new phones have dedicated hardware chips for filtering out gravity, or are most devices just going to filter the same raw source?
Update, proposed answer for someone to confirm if they have such a device (Xoom,Nexus S,?):
"If the device has gyro, or possibly multiple accelerometers, then the returned values for gravity (G) versus external linear acceleration (L) can be fundamentally more accurate than any processing on accelerometer data alone. Without extra sensors, e.g. as on most phones, one could in principle post-process the Acceleration (A) to attempt separation as accurately as what the device is returning for A = G+L"
A: It seems, the gravity/lin. acceleration can be calculated by a low-pass-filter - just as described in the Android-Documentation.
However only filtering the last value will not do it. I get acceptable results by averaging the accelerometer values of ca. 200ms (for moderate movement, this will still screw up, e.g. when you flip your phone fast between your fingers).
Your proposed answer is most likely correct.
You can check the statistics of several smartphone models on Android fragmentation.
For many models the power consumption of the lin. acceleration and gravity sensor is just the sum of accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer.
The gyroscope lets you recognize fast angular movement and it can be used to improve the gravity value, which is not possible with just the low-pass-filter. For the magnetometer im not sure if it really gets you more information.
On my phone (HTC One S) the gravity sensor uses just as much power as the accelerometer, but is still better than my simple filter. So either it is another hardware sensor or probably they use different weights on it. I tried to weight acc-data stronger, if their absolute value is closer to gravity, which is nice but was still not as good as the actual gravity sensor.
For compatibility reasons I would suggest to use a low-pass-filter for gravity if possible, as still not every smartphone has a gyroscope or mentioned sensors.
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. | {
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Quebec is right to reopen a constitutional discussion
Brave or delusional is the federalist politician who dares to awaken the sleeping dog of constitutional reform. Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is a brave man taking a calculated risk. But he is not deluded enough to believe there are enough other federalists in the rest of Canada brave enough to join him.
The rest of Canada is still in denial. It thinks the 1982 adoption of a new Constitution without Quebec's consent is an accident of history that needs no correcting. That Quebec's decades-old demands for constitutional recognition of its distinct character can go unaddressed indefinitely. That the main reason for even entertaining Quebec's demands in the first place – the threat of separation – is now such a distant prospect that they can be ignored without consequence.
Many Canadians who lived through our previous dramas, from the separatist Parti Québécois' first electoral victory in 1976 to our post-1995-referendum crises, simply refuse to invest any more energy in trying to resolve our constitutional differences. But they are mistaken if they think we can move ahead as a country without doing so. Reconciliation with Quebec is no less critical to Canada's success in the 21st century than reconciliation with First Nations and Inuit peoples. If we're to at all become the model for the world we pretend to be, we must achieve both.
What sovereign country can long endure if it is too paralyzed by fear to even discuss its basic premise? We would never have made it to the 150-year mark as a country had earlier generations of Canadians not recognized that diversity is our strength and that, without Quebec, there is no Canada. Even before Confederation, British authorites understood this by adopting the Quebec Act of 1774. Every step of the way thereafter, we knew to accommodate our differences.
The exception came with former prime minister Pierre Trudeau's patriation of the Constitution in 1982. This is all the more astonishing considering that Mr. Trudeau himself had often used the term "distinct society" to refer to Quebec. "I see Quebec coming out of its referendum to continue building within Canada its own secure and distinct society, the equal of any in the world," he said in 1979, a year before Quebeckers voted in their first sovereignty plebiscite.
Brian Mulroney sought to complete Mr. Trudeau's unfinished business – he had promised Quebeckers constitutional reform in exchange for voting No in 1980 – knowing full well that a failure to do so would sooner or later cost us a country. The result was the 1987 Meech Lake Accord, which would have amended the Constitution to insert a distinct-society clause recognizing the Quebec National Assembly's unique responsibilities for protecting the province's language, culture and civil law. Meech enjoyed huge public support inside and outside Quebec until Mr. Trudeau denounced the accord, warning it would "render the Canadian state totally impotent."
Meech never really had a chance after that. Opponents asserted that Quebec could use the distinct-society clause to trample on the rights of minorities and that Meech violated the principle of provincial equality. Both assertions were unfounded. As former Supreme Court of Canada chief justice Brian Dickson said in a 1996 speech: "The courts are already interpreting the Charter of Rights and the Constitution in a manner that takes into account Quebec's distinctive role in protecting and promoting its francophone character. As a practical matter, therefore, entrenching formal recognition of Quebec's distinctive character in the Constitution would not involve a significant departure from the existing practice in our courts."
Mr. Trudeau went to his grave without publicly ceding an inch. But in his memoirs, former prime minister Jean Chrétien recounts that Mr. Trudeau endorsed his 1995 referendum-eve pledge to recognize Quebec as a distinct society. "When I phoned to warn Pierre Trudeau about what I intended to say, I found him as nervous as every other federalist about the polls," Mr. Chrétien wrote. Mr. Trudeau, he added, told him: "You're in charge. Do what you think you have to."
Imagine how much more prosperous Quebec, and hence all of Canada, would be today if Meech had gone through. Imagine how much acrimony, resentment and hurt we could have collectively avoided if enough of our leaders had been big and brave enough to put aside their personal and political rivalries for the good of the country. Imagine what it would feel like not to live in paralyzing fear of the word "constitution." Imagine what else we could achieve as a country.
Mr. Couillard has done us all a favour by reminding us it's still not too late to fix this.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard were among the dignitaries celebrating Montreal's 375th birthday Wednesday. Trudeau says his father always taught him Montreal was home.
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Obituaries of ancestors and family members of my paternal grandmother Eunice (Strelesky) Lightcap. Names include Hansing, Lightcap, Sanders, Smith, Strelesky, Uhlrich and Weber.
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Teacher who insulted President Lungu on Facebook sentenced to 2 years in prison
A 27-year-old teacher of Luapula Province has been handed a two-year jail term by the Lusaka Magistrate's Court for defaming the President using his Facebook account.
Enockson Banda, who has since lost his job, last week pleaded guilty to writing defamatory words against President Edgar Lungu, on which he faced two counts, and another count of being in possession of pornographic material.
In his mitigation, the suspect, through his lawyer, pleaded for leniency and pledged to the court that he would become an ambassador against insults on the President and other people on social media.
Banda's lawyer said the suspect was remorseful and posted the defamatory words because of frustration and economic hardships.
"He was a frustrated youth, more so that he graduated in 2015 but had not been employed while some of his colleagues who completed in 2017 had been employed," the lawyer pleaded but noted that this did not justify his actions.
However, Lusaka magistrate Sylvia Munyinya sentenced him to two years with hard labour in the first and second counts to run concurrently and fined him K4,500 fine for possessing pornographic material or in default serve a four-month jail term.
In July last year, Banda was arrested and charged with defamation of the President and possession of obscene material tending to corrupt morals.
In counts one and two, it is alleged that between April 1 and June 30, 2018, Banda, with intent to bring the name of the President into ridicule, published defamatory statements against the Head of State.
In the third count, it is alleged that on the same dates, Banda had in his possession obscene materials tending to corrupt morals.
Facts were that Chanoda Ngwira, a concerned citizen, opened his Facebook account and came across the ZNBC Top Stories Online page where he saw two pictures of the President and one of them had its face covered with faecal matter.
Ngwira also saw more defamatory messages written by Banda directed at President Lungu.
He reported that matter to police where investigations led to Banda's arrest and his phone was confiscated.
The Zambia Information and Communications Authority (ZICTA) examined Banda's phone where several obscene materials tending to corrupt morals were found.
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Take the afternoon off Toowoomba and join us for our Autumn Harvest Long Lunch on Friday May 10th at Clifford Park Racecourse.
We are so excited to be partnering with Brown Brothers Wines and Clifford Park to bring you a relaxed and delicious food & wine experience where local produce will be the hero on the plate.
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Guests will also enjoy the bold Ten Acres Heathcote Shiraz, tying back to where it all began in 1889 for Brown Brothers with just 10 acres of vineyards.
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How Do Canadian Provincial Nominee Programs Work?
Watch this video to learn about Canadian Provincial Nominee Programs.
Thousands of qualified temporary visa holders enjoy employment in Canada with hopes of obtaining permanent status to better the lives of themselves and their families.
The good news is, the Provincial Nominee Program allows a Canadian province or territory to nominate an individual with the appropriate education, skills and/or work experience to be Permanent Residence of Canada. The reality is, that these visas are very limited and the majority of those whom apply may not be accepted.
After receiving a certificate of nomination, the applicant makes a separate application to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to apply for permanent residence. As well as meeting provincial criteria, the individual would have to meet federal immigration requirements.
These processes require the proper legal guidance that can only be attained through an immigration expert. Failure to meet the provincially set criteria will likely lead to a rejection of the application.
Which Provincial Nominee Program is Easiest?
Anyone interested in moving to Canada must keep in mind that this country is made up of provinces and territories, each of which has its own distinct characteristics, work opportunities and laws. Some applicants will wonder which Provincial Nominee Program is easiest. The Provincial Nominee Programs vary from province to province.
The Canadian immigration laws are especially complex, and you will not be able to make the most informed decisions without an immigration professional to assist you. If, for example, you have employers from two separate provinces who are both willing to nominate you, it's possible that you are not admissible to one of those provinces, and it can require extreme levels of knowledge to detect this.
Furthermore, provincial laws change, which can recalibrate your application's viability without your knowledge. These are the things that immigration professionals know about. They also understand all the necessary steps required to complete an application, and are especially particular to ensure that the written application and supporting documents are always dealt with properly, for the slightest error can lead to an application's rejection.
To ensure that you're definitely admissible to the province where you're being nominated, hire an immigration professional who is trustworthy and respected.
What to Ask a Licensed Canadian Immigration Professional About the PNP Applications?
Not all immigration professionals are created equal. Often we've noticed that Canadian Provincial Nominee Program visas aren't accepted because the right questions were not discussed.
What is the difference between the requirements in each province and territory?
What are the requirements surrounding settlement in the province or territory after one has immigrated to Canada?
Are their both business and worker opportunities under the provincial nominee programs?
If one has a family, you may also want to know, is family also able to immigrate under the respective PNP?
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Bahrain's Batelco launches Batelco Talks to engage community about tech
AI was the theme of the first talk.
Batelco has launched its new Batelco Talks project, with the aim of fostering a learning environment and encouraging staff to participate in the exchange of knowledge.
Artificial intelligence was the topic of the first session, which was held recently at Batelco's headquarters in Bahrain.
The opening remarks of the event were delivered by Batelco chief human resources officer Faisal Al Jalahma, with the session - entitled 'Exploring the Business Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence' - delivered by Ameen Al Tajer, managing CEO of Infiniteware (an artificial intelligence company that provides products and services). The session highlighted the trends surrounding AI, related business opportunities, challenges and ethical concerns.
According to a Batelco press release, "such events provide an interactive platform for attendees to exchange knowledge with industry leaders, particularly in the field of telecommunications and digital technology."
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Year Here is a platform for young professionals who want to build smart responses to social problems.
Over one year our Fellows learn from, and design with, people at the frontline of inequality – in care homes, homeless hostels and youth services across London – and go on to found some of the most promising social impact startups in the country.
Since launching at 10 Downing Street in 2013, we've worked with 128 aspiring social entrepreneurs and launched award-winning social ventures like Cracked It, Birdsong and Chatterbox.
We're a deeply committed team of 8 surrounded by a faculty of 75 social innovation experts – the great and the good of Britain's social impact world. We care about being first-rate professionals, learning with restless vigour and having fun along the way.
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As Programme Director, you will be ultimately responsible for the impact of our 1-year Fellowship, our flagship programme. We've achieved great things since we got started in 2013 but our ambitions are even bigger. We want Year Here to be the most effective and well-regarded social impact learning experience in the world. You'll be the driving force in making that happen.
You'll craft the curriculum, design the programme, build out the faculty and partnerships and ensure the operational excellence that's required to make the programme truly transformative for our Fellows.
You will be very hands on, working with Fellows every week of the year – whether that's coaching them through the frontline phase, working with them on a consulting project, or advising them on a venture idea.
Supporting you in delivering the programme is a Programme Manager and two Programme Producers – plus you'll draw heavily from the expertise of the CEO and Head of Design. This is a full time role.
Direct the most transformative social innovation course in the world and guide our Fellows journey towards national impact. It's a bold aim but this is what we want Year Here to be. As Programme Director, you'll draw from a 75-strong faculty of social entrepreneurs, consultants, policymakers and activists, as well as the team's own expertise, to steer our Fellows through the most important learning experience of their lives. You'll be very hands on: every week you'll be leading training sessions, facilitating workshops, coaching Fellows 1:1 or advising venture teams.
Craft and deliver social innovation projects and ventures with serious impact. You'll work alongside the Fellows to deliver great work for our partners and clients – from community engagement to public service redesign. Crafting great innovation briefs, you'll strike the balance between giving Fellows an amazing learning experience and achieving impact for our partners. You will also work closely with our ventures at every stage of their journey – from prototyping ideas during the venture lab to building them through our incubator and scaling them with our venture network.
Select the very best talent to ensure maximum impact – now and in the long term. You'll interview and select applicants with the highest potential to build entrepreneurial responses to social problems – joining us from industries as diverse as data science, law and computer engineering.
It will be your job to ensure we assemble cohorts with a brilliant culture of learning and mutual support.
Nurture a diverse faculty and set of partnerships to support, challenge and inspire our Fellows. As the conductor of the orchestra, you'll pull in the right people at the right time to optimise the programme. You'll be the primary point of contact for our faculty of mentors, speakers and trainers, and you'll manage our strategic partnerships with NatWest, Bain, Forward3D and The Funding Network, among others. And you won't stop there. You'll always be on the hunt for new people and partners to join the family, be it for new teaching expertise or startup funding for our ventures.
Ensure that the Fellowship runs like a well-oiled machine, bringing the very best out of your four-person team. You will coach the programme team to maintain a suite of behind-the-scenes systems, databases and resources to keep things running like clockwork – from attendance monitoring to financial controls. And you'll support them to produce the programme – from sourcing imaginative venues across London to getting learning materials to the right place at the right time.
Use your strategic acumen to drive the business forward. The curriculum and the programme design are yours to own and we'll expect you to be ambitious in your goals for both. You'll work on strategic projects like designing an alumni offering, building our strategy to widen access to the programme, and scoping new learning offers for different markets. You'll also represent Year Here's strategic interests through consultancy work, in the press and speaking at industry events.
You're established in the world of social innovation. You've delivered many social impact projects before. You'll be au fait with social innovation methods and models from design thinking to theory of change.
Whether or not you've worked in formal education, you've got lots of experience of facilitating learning and development. You will have significant facilitation experience, whether that's in adult education or organisational development. You'll bring a wealth of pedagogical tools and tricks. You'll be obsessed with designing learning experiences – you love to read around the topic, listen to podcasts and watch talks.
You're a seasoned manager. You'll be confident and competent in managing multiple workstreams. You are comfortable with budgeting, reporting, negotiating contracts and managing people.
You're a sensitive and thoughtful relationship-builder. You're a master communicator: charming, persuasive, a great listener. From pitching for investment to coaching Fellows, you'll know intuitively how to communicate.
You've got a solid understanding of social issues – and a bulging address book of social sector professionals to draw from. From the housing crisis to elderly isolation, you'll be well read and clued up on the big issues of our time. You're also well-connected in the social impact world and beyond.
You're entrepreneurial. You'll be used to achieving a lot with a little. You might have set something up in the past or you're planning to in the future.
You're not afraid of working hard in pursuit of a big vision.
5+ years' experience in the social sector.
3+ years' management experience – with budget and HR responsibility.
Experience of facilitating, teaching or leading teams of people (in any context).
A thorough understanding of social issues and a strong professional network.
Experience of supporting and/or incubating startup businesses.
Experience of social impact consultancy.
Expertise in the use of design methods for social innovation.
The closing date for the role is midnight on Sunday 22nd July although we will be conducting interviews on a rolling basis.
Gorgeous, open plan studio in Hackney, a stone's throw from London Fields (and its newly-reopened Lido), Regent's Canal and Broadway Market.
Access to tonnes of events and training sessions delivered by some of the leading lights of the social innovation world.
A strong commitment to personal and professional development – with a £500 annual training budget.
Tell us about yourself and why you want this role.
Tell us about the most powerful learning experience you've ever had.
Attach your CV and/or link us to a LinkedIn profile or online portfolio. | {
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Since scabies is mostly transmitted through direct physical contact, the infestation can easily be passed on to people close to the affected one like family members, friends, office colleagues and sexual partners.
Scabies can infest any individual if he comes in contact with the mites. People in good health can also be infected by the condition. The only known risk factor is prolonged direct skin to skin contact with the one infested already.
Even maintaining good hygiene and practicing healthy habits cannot prevent transmission if there is close contact with an infected person. The condition appears in clusters, so it is possible that the symptoms may occur within a given community.
Scabies mites can also more easily spread among people with compromised immune systems, such as people with HIV/AIDS, or cancer.
Mange: Can You Get Scabies from a Pet? Can you get scabies from a cat or a dog?
When dogs and cats get scabies, it is known as mange. The scabies mite can travel to the human skin while handling an infested pet, but these mites can't reproduce in human skin. This means they usually die off within 2-3 days without causing any serious symptoms. Hence, there is no fear of getting scabies from pets.
Can scabies spread by swimming in a public pool?
Scabies is spread by prolonged skin-to-skin contact with a person who has scabies disease. As discussed above, it can also spread by contact with items such as clothing, bedding, or towels that have been used by a person who is infested with scabies disease, but such spread is very uncommon.
Scabies is very unlikely to spread by water in a swimming pool. Except for a person with crusted scabies, only about 10-15 scabies mites are present on an infested person. Therefore, it is extremely unlikely that any would emerge from under wet skin. But, though uncommon, there are chances of its spread.
Daycare centers are mostly at the risk of scabies outbreaks. Young children are more prone to the infection because they tend to play in ways that involve skin-to-skin contact. They may also share naptime mats and blankets.
The infection can easily transmit from one child to another. Therefore, if a child who attends such a daycare is infected with scabies, the staff should be notified about the condition of the child so that proper precautions can be taken in order to avoid further transmission of the disease.
The classmates and caregivers of the affected child will probably need to be treated as well, even if the symptoms have yet to appear.
Long-term care facilities like nursing homes are also prone to scabies outbreaks. This is because caregivers help the residents with various chores like bathing and dressing which involve direct skin to skin contact. Therefore, if any such case is encountered, it is recommended that all new long-term care patients and staff should be screened for scabies.
Scabies can spread easily in children at school and in hostels. Scabies is a highly contagious condition, but at the same time it is also easily treatable. Therefore, for even a single case of scabies, it is better to recommend screening for the children and staff who are in close contact with the affected child.
What is Crusted Scabies (Norwegian. . . . | {
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World Cup 2011 Home | Squads | News | Warm-up Matches | Points Table
31-Mar-2011 10:34:00 GMT
India v Sri Lanka, Final, World Cup 2011, Mumbai
Taufel, Aleem to Umpire for India-Sri Lanka World Cup Final
Mumbai: Australian Simon Taufel, a winner of five consecutive ICC Umpire of the Year awards, and Pakistan's Aleem Dar were on Thursday appointed as the on-field officials for the World Cup finals between India and Sri Lanka on Saturday.
New Zealand's Jeff Crowe has been named the match referee with England's Ian Gould and Steve Davis of Australia being the third and fourth umpires respectively at the Wankhede Stadium on Saturday.
The match official appointments for India vs Sri Lanka final on April 2 are as follows:
Jeff Crowe (match referee), Simon Taufel and Aleem Dar (both on-field), Ian Gould (third umpire), Steve Davis (fourth umpire).
ICC World Cup 2011
India vs Sri Lanka - The Final
Sri Lanka | India
Team India Leaves for Mumbai for Final
ICC World Cup 2011 News
Upul Tharanga Suspended for Three Months [+]
Sri Lanka opening batsman Upul Tharanga was suspended for three months by the International Cricket Council on Friday for using a banned substance during the World Cup.
ICC Confirms Next Two World Cups Will be 10-team Affairs [+]
ICC confirmed that the next two World Cups will be 10-team events and also announced that teams will be relegated and promoted on the basis of performance.
India Still 2nd in ICC ODI Rankings But Players Rise [+]
The number one tag still eludes them but newly-crowned world champions India have closed the gap on top-placed Australia even as the team's in-form players moved up in the individual standings of the latest ICC ODI rankings issued on Monday.
ICC Executive Board to Meet on April 4 [+]
The ICC executive board will meet on April 4 to discuss a host of issues, including the new Future Tours Program, and will also review the ongoing World Cup.
Yuvraj Shrugged Off Concerns Over Form [+]
To many Yuvraj Singh may come across as arrogant, brawny and egotistic even. Those close to him say these are traits that make the myth, not the man.
India Beat Sri Lanka to Win ICC World Cup 2011 [+]
MS Dhoni (91*) and Gautam Gambhir (97) helped India beat Sri Lanka by six wickets to win the ICC World Cup 2011 at Wankhede stadium in Mumbai.
CWC Final - Sreesanth in as Sri Lanka Elect to Bat [+]
Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and elected to bat against India in their World Cup final at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Angelo Mathews Ruled Out of World Cup Final [+]
Sri Lanka all-rounder Angelo Mathews has been ruled out of Saturday's World Cup final against India after injuring his right thigh muscle in the semifinal against New Zealand.
Ind vs SL: Mumbai All Set For Tendulkar's Dream Final [+]
A billion hearts will beat for Sachin Tendulkar as India bid for their second World Cup title in the all-Asian final against buoyant Sri Lanka on Saturday.
India-Sri Lanka World Cup Final - ICC Bans TV Channels [+]
A day before the World Cup final clash between India and Sri Lanka, the ICC renewed the ban on Indian TV news channels from covering the match. | {
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Become a Swedish Freak Guest Blogger!
Do you have a story to tell about your adventure in Sweden, learning Swedish, or with Swedish culture?
We are looking for guest blog posts from Swedish Freaks! That is, from people who love Sweden. Write about your journey, your experience, share with us how to cook your favorite Swedish food. Whatever that inspires you to be a Swedish Freak!
There are a few simple rules to follow in order to make sure your blog post gets published.
Must be about Sweden! Can be anything, really, as long as it has to do with Sweden, being Swedish, the Swedish language, the Swedish culture, a Swedish recipe, etc. You get the picture.
Can't be a purely promotional post. Tell a story, share some new information, educate readers, but don't just pitch your product or I will ask you to re-write it.
Should be around 500 words or more.
You can use up to 1 link per 500 words to a highly relevant source if it makes sense in context.
You can have 1 link to your website in the bio at the end of your post.
You agree that I can make changes to your post if I deem necessary (I won't go crazy without discussing it with you first.
If you don't send me an image for your post, I can pick one out for you.
That is about it! Pretty easy. If you are interested, you can click on the button below to submit your blog post! | {
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Hola my friends from the twenty-first century! You all must be aware of the benefits and disadvantages of social media. I'm not an exception. The presence on social media defines our status in the society. More active we are on the social media, the smarter we are. Things are transforming with the advancement of technology. From staying in touch with the friends to selling stuff online, social media has travelled a long distance in a few years. With the ever-increasing number of mobile phone users, social media has become a favourite marketing hub.
The marketing strategies have completely transformed over the past few years. Print media is almost dead and people don't have time to look at billboards. Where does this time go?
Studies reveal that an average person spends about 3-4 hours a day on his mobile phone. Social Media is the smartest way to socialize. Mobile banking, online shopping, entertainment, messaging, learning and even working 24*7 from a mobile phone are the latest trends. Social Media is a boon for marketeers as promoting brands is easier and much cheaper online. In today's scenario, social media is used to allure customers to the products. Till a decade back, customers used to move in search of products but today the products are made to reach customers and it is far easier.
With more and more people connecting online, social media is fast becoming another name for marketing. Small businesses are flourishing and low marketing budget is not a restriction anymore. Advertising has another dimension that is an improved version of all other criteria used in the past.
Advertisers know how to target the customers. People cannot stay away from their smartphones and here is how the marketing strategy is planned.
Exploit the power of social media. Plan the right strategy and promote your business.
What's better than social media to capture the attention of people; a boon for sellers as well as customers.
I believe in the power of social media. Today we know each other because of it. It brings people together. But yeah everything has a limit. If limit crosses then even honey can become poison.
Interesting post.. Yes presence of social media defines us as long as we are not addicted.
A well researched topic. Social media has taken our world by storm!
Social Media…did change our lives by a great extent. It made our lives easier but one shouldn't get addicted to it.
A really true post! Can I reblog in the near future? Also could you do me a favour? | {
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Oakland, How Deep is Your Love?
As Sergio and I continue to talk about how the tide has turned in The Town, he asks, "Am I a part of this new Oakland? I don't know. This ain't Oakland." I tend to agree. I don't know how I fit in to what this city has become. With this new wave of Oaklanders, it seems like The Town is being boiled down to a fad – slowly losing its identity as it becomes a caricature of other metropolitan cities.
VIDEO: Oakland, Where is the Love? | {
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Johnny and Robby locked, loaded and ready to roll. The start of the 2015 Dakar is only 1 day away! Good luck to the American duo of Off-Road superstars we're rooting for you to bring back some hardware! Stay tuned to www.PlanetRobby.com for daily updates.
JCR/Honda's Preston Campbell snags 2nd consecutive podium at NHHA round 2!
The JCR/Honda Team grabs two more podiums and the lead in PRO / Women's PRO points after round #2 at AMA NGPC! | {
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A Conversation with TechGirlz and Creating IT Futures Foundation
By Sarah Johnson, Volunteer and former TechGirlz Teen Advisory Board Member
My name is Sarah Johnson, and I am a former TechGirlz student volunteer and the recipient of a Creating IT Futures Foundation grant.
Like many of you, I was thrilled by the news that Creating IT Futures was acquiring TechGirlz and excited to see what the two organizations could achieve together. But I was blown away when TechGirlz founder and CEO Tracey Welson-Rossman suggested that I interview her and Creating IT Futures CEO Charles Eaton about their plans for the future.
I originally learned about TechGirlz and its mission to inspire middle school girls to pursue careers in tech in 2016. Having been the only girl in many tech camps and programs before, I was inspired by their important work and resolved to help.
Since that time, I have volunteered at a local library workshop, helped create VR games at the 2017 Women in Tech Summit in Philadelphia, spent two summers as the technical lead for their Adruino summer camp, and explained what was inside a computer at the 2017 Philadelphia Science Festival.
It has been an absolute joy for me, and I am constantly re-energized by these girls' excitement for technology and the smiles on their faces when they figure out how to properly type code or re-wire a robot. That is why I was so honored when Tracey asked me to speak with her and Charles. What follows are selected questions and answers from our conversation.
What are the terms of the acquisition?
Tracey: The acquisition itself is pretty straightforward. The focus is on our shared mission and the vision for how to achieve it.
TechGirlz will remain TechGirlz (as a brand) and continue to operate out of Philadelphia. But we will now be part of the Creating IT Futures family, with all of our staff – including the Women in Tech Summit team – becoming Creating IT Futures staff. Creating IT Futures will also take over fundraising operations on behalf of TechGirlz. Combining operations and teams in this way will help us scale more quickly and efficiently.
In return, Creating IT Futures will receive all assets of TechGirlz, including our trademark and funds. They are also excited to apply some of our core learnings and insights around designing a curriculum for middle schoolers to their other programs and partners.
People have also asked whether I am going away. How could I? This is my passion. I will join the Creating IT Futures Board of Directors, but continue to work with the TechGirlz team and speak on behalf of the organization.
Why is an acquisition necessary since you've been working together for a while?
Tracey: Our longstanding partnership has been a great way to get know each other. But as much as we share the same mission, the groups were still living and working separately.
By joining Creating IT Futures and TechGirlz together under "one roof" we believe that we can better understand each other's areas of expertise and create even more powerful workforce solutions.
Charles: This is not about Creating IT Futures agreeing to support TechGirlz monetarily. This is about a deeply shared commitment that will launch new strategies with the potential to engage even more companies and volunteers in service to tens of thousands more girls around the country.
Tracey: We have always worked very well together. But our recent strategy sessions have already proven more creative and bigger picture. I am confident in our ability to create groundbreaking solutions that will inspire and prepare even more girls, women and other underserved group to participate in America's growing tech workforce.
How does Creating IT Futures view TechGirlz as part of its overall mission?
Charles: The Creating IT Futures mission has always been about creating on-ramps for more people to prepare for, secure and succeed in IT careers. We especially focus on encouraging an IT path for populations that traditionally have been under-represented in the information technology workforce, such as women.
While we focused much of our work in the last seven years on out-of-work adults or those struggling in low-wage non-IT professions, we've always known we need to do more at the beginning of the talent pipeline to encourage young people to consider the possibilities of a career in tech. I love what TechGirlz has done to spark that interest in middle school, which is the most critical time to engage girls in their future STEM options.
What is something new we can expect from TechGirlz as a result of this arrangement?
Tracey: We have already begun work on creating an improved, repeatable process for launching and scaling programs in new regions and cities. We are also planning creating ways to reach more girls with information about how to participate in TechGirlz workshops and camps. And together with Creating IT Futures we are outlining new fundraising strategies to deliver on these ideas.
Will girls still get to use the same great TechGirlz name and logo?
Charles: Absolutely. The biggest mistake we could make would be to mess with what's been working, and the name and logo are an important part of the community that's been built around TechGirlz. I've looked at the TechGirlz sticker on my desktop multiple times a day, every day for the last four years. I love everything about the TechGirlz brand, and we just want more girls, parents and tech industry volunteers to experience what TechGirlz can do so they can share in that appreciation.
Are there other programs that Creating IT Futures would like to launch or partner with in the future?
Charles: We're constantly innovating, and as we push to build programs that impact all stages of a person's tech journey from middle school until they retire, we'll be turning to the lessons we're learning from TechGirlz to inform our other programs. Ideas such as how to best engage volunteers, how to build stickiness with a brand, how to inspire young people, and more. Our dream is to have some of our own programs but also to be tightly woven with great partners such as the Technology Student Association or Wounded Warrior Project, and together we are delivering solutions that help drive people forward in their pursuit of a career in tech.
Why should current and future girls (and their parents) participating in TechGirlz be excited about this news?
Tracey: We hope our girls understand that this news is really all about them. Providing more resources, coming up with new ideas, engaging more partners and volunteers – all of the elements that will help them better learn about new technology and unlock new possibilities. And I'm confident that even more opportunities will unfold than we can imagine today. I hope that parents and girls will sense this enthusiasm and be as eager as we are for what lies ahead.
If you'd like to learn more about this unique partnership, please see Tracey's personal letter on the acquisition and the blog post press release and on our website.
For my part, I am excited to watch as these two aligned organizations continue closing the gap between males and females in technology. Today, there are only five girls in my class of 18 engineering students – the highest ratio ever in my professor's class. But with the hard work and dedication of committed advocates like Tracey and Charles, that ratio will surely change as the number of women in tech continues to rise.
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1. in. to be believed. (As if untruth were a stain that will not come out in the wash.) That'll never wash! It's totally unbelievable.
2. n. a drink that follows a previous drink; a chaser. Can I have a wash with this, bartender?
3. n. the almost simultaneous sale and purchase of the same stock, usually to make the stock appear to be trading actively. (Securities markets. The practice is illegal. Tax loss selling must be done in such a way to avoid appearing to be a wash.) I sold the stock and couldn't buy it back for thirty days to avoid an illegal wash.
4. n. a whitewash or covering up (of a problem). What the administration presented was not an explanation but a wash.
Zips Car Wash said it will operate these sites from 8am - 8pm daily and will slowly work to rebrand the stores over the coming months.
Add a measure of detergent to the Magic dispenser of the Activ Dual Wash to create a powerful water vortex that disperses the detergent evenly.
Overman said buying an existing car wash is preferable because there is less uncertainty about the location's viability and none of the headaches that come with new construction.
Quick Quack Car Wash has a record of sponsoring local events and athletic programs as well as contributing to community groups' fundraising efforts.
Mister Car Wash operates 164 car washes and 34 express lubes in 19 states.
If your concern is about water usage, worry no more since the Midea Fully Automatic One-Touch Washing Machine has "Smart Sensors" that automatically loads only the right amount of water based on your wash load so there's no waste.
His father taught him how to wash bodies and like Al-Sharjabi, he washed his father's corpse when he died.
A study of the hand washing practices of university students living in a dormitory found that women wash their hands after urinating 69% of the time and after bowel movements 84% of the time, whereas the corresponding figures for males were 43% and 78% (Thumma, Aiello, & Foxman, 2008).
The new bulk container wash has halved the turnaround time for Geobox rigid bulk containers, Maxipac bulk shippers and plastic pallets widely used in the agri-food industry.
In China, Japan, Thailand, Russia, the United States, Africa, Italy and other countries, Autobase has set up 26 independent units, each responsible for regional sales and service of the company's car wash machines.
To give you an idea of just how big an 11kg washing machine drum is, it can wash six pairs of adult jeans, three bed sheets, six pillowcases, six small towels and 15 T-shirts in a single load; ?
WORKERS at a Liverpool car wash firm have been crowned England's Car Wash Kings 2007 by eBay-Motors.
Complete recycling systems from Kuhne Anlagenbau GmbH sort, wash, filter, and extrude 100% recycled film or sheet in a one-step process.
For the study, Romaine lettuce leaves were sliced and then rinsed in either fresh wash water or in reused wash water.
SYLMAR - Two girls were swept nearly three miles in the 20-mph current of the Pacoima Wash on Saturday until firefighters rescued them seconds before they would have been pulled into a culvert beneath an Interstate 5 interchange. | {
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Home » News & Features » Broadway News & Features » Marc Shaiman to compose original music for Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick-led Plaza Suite on Broadway
Marc Shaiman to compose original music for Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick-led Plaza Suite on Broadway
The Broadway revival of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite is scheduled to begin performances at the Hudson Theatre on March 13, 2020.
Producers of the upcoming Broadway revival of Neil Simon's comedy Plaza Suite have announced that Tony Award winner Marc Shaiman has joined the creative team and will compose original music for the eagerly anticipated production.
Mr. Shaiman won Tony Awards for his music and lyrics to Hairspray in 2003. His other Broadway credits include 2011 Tony-nominated orschestrations for Catch Me if You Can, as well as original scores for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The Odd Couple. He has also contributed to the Broadway solo engagements of the likes of Martin Short, Patti LuPone, Harry Connick, Jr., André De Shields, and Bette Midler. He is also a seven-time Academy Award nominee, two-time Golden Globe nominee and an Emmy Award winner, with notable screen credits including "Mary Poppins Returns," "The First Wives Club," "Sleepless in Seattle," and "Smash," among many others.
As previously reported, four-time Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Sarah Jessica Parker and two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick are set to star in the Broadway revival, which begins previews at the Hudson Theatre on March 13, 2020, ahead of an official opening on April 13 and a limited engagement through July 12, 2020.
The production will mark the first time the married couple have shared a stage since the 1995 Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the first time Mr. Broderick has starred in a Simon play since creating the role of Eugene Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs.
Mr. Broderick previously commented: "It was my great good fortune that my very first Broadway play was written by Neil Simon. He also wrote my first film. I owe him a career. The theater has lost a brilliantly funny, unthinkably wonderful writer and even after all this time I feel I have lost a mentor, a father figure, a deep influence in my life and work."
Plaza Suite, which first opened on Broadway in 1968, will see the actors play three different couples in a comedic look at love and marriage. The play is composed of three acts, each profiling a different couple staying at Suite 719 of the Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue, with each couple played by the same actors.
Tony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey (currently starring in The Inheritance on Broadway) is set to direct the production, which will also feature scenic design by John Lee Beatty, costume design by Jane Greenwood, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt and sound design by Scott Lehrer.
Plaza Suite is produced on Broadway by Ambassador Theatre Group, Gavin Kalin Productions, and Hal Luftig.
Plaza Suite Tickets are available now for performances from March 13 through July 12, 2020. | {
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Mapping of visual decay forms and infrared imaging of stone structures for the maintenance and monitoring studies
Tavukçuoğlu, Ayşe
Well-designed programs are necessary for the efficient maintenance and monitoring studies of stone structures. The mapping of visual decay forms and the infrared imaging of surfaces are useful methods to establish such programs for them. The studies have been performed on the 13(th) century caravanserai in Aksaray named Agzikarahan. The program started with site investigation by visual analysis of the decay forms on the stone. It involved the visual classification of the observed decay forms and their mapping on measured drawings and drawings produced from rectified photographs. The visual decay forms were classified in groups and each decay form was also evaluated as a degree of damage. The second stage was to take infrared images of the stone surfaces to produce temperature distribution maps which have further been analysed for moisture distribution in the structure. In the light of these studies, sampling has been done for the laboratory analysis. Juxtaposition of the different maps, photographs and infrared images have exhibited the present problems of the structure and their distribution and facilitated to make the immediate and long-term conservation programs.
Visual decay forms, Stone structures, Monitoring, Mapping, Maintenance, Infrared imaging, Dampness, Dampness
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An Investigation of material waste management in prefabricated construction industry and developing a tool for effective management of waste
Rahmani Mirshekarlou, Babak; Dikmen Toker, İrem; Birgönül, Mustafa Talat; Department of Civil Engineering (2018)
In order to formulate effective waste reduction strategies in construction projects, it is essential to continuously monitor and analyze the waste generation and improve the existing processes continuously. This requires to establish a waste benchmark, based on the previous experiences in the organization, to assist the project team in taking efficient and timely actions to prevent the waste at source, and enhance the corporate waste management capability. The current study is carried out to explore the was...
Automatic Mapping of Linearwoody Vegetation Features in Agricultural Landscapes
AKSOY, SELİM; AKÇAY, HÜSEYİN GÖKHAN; Cinbiş, Ramazan Gökberk; Wassenaar, Tom (2008-07-11)
Development of automatic methods for agricultural mapping and monitoring using remotely sensed imagery has been an important research problem. We describe algorithms that exploit the spectral, textural and object shape information using hierarchical feature extraction and decision making steps for automatic mapping of linear strips of woody vegetation in very high-resolution imagery. First, combinations of multispectral values and multi-scale Gabor and entropy texture features are used for training pixel le...
Biological mortar application for micro-crack remediation in stones of travertine monuments
Sırt Çıplak, Elif; Şahin Güçhan, Neriman; Bilecen, Kıvanç; Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Department of Architecture (2018)
Traditional conservation methods for the preservation of historical stones including applications with inorganic and organic polymers are often inadequate and results in introduction of new deterioration problems to historic structures. At this point, consolidating a stone by re-creating a structure similar to original microstructure of stone is a new approach developed to ensure the maximum compatibility by comparison to the traditional conservation techniques. In this study it was aimed to develop a susta...
Use of theoretical waste inventories in planning and monitoring of hazardous waste management systems
Yilmaz, Ozge; Can, Zehra S.; Toröz, İsmail; DOĞAN, Ozgur; Oncel, Salim; Alp, Emre; Dilek, Filiz Bengü; Karanfil, Tanju; Yetiş, Ülkü (2014-08-01)
Hazardous waste (HW) generation information is an absolute necessity for ensuring the proper planning, implementation, and monitoring of any waste management system. Unfortunately, environmental agencies in developing countries face difficulties in gathering data directly from the creators of such wastes. It is possible, however, to construct theoretical HW inventories using the waste generation factors (WGFs). The objective of this study was to develop a complete nationwide HW inventory of Turkey that reli...
Defining spatial distribution of storage vessels in ancient Burgaz at the fourth century B.C.
Sakarya, İlham; Tuna, Numan; Department of Settlement Archaeology (2003)
This research is an investigation of the spatial organization of household activities and especially the storage facilities in Ancient Burgaz. The four well-preserved houses at the Northeast Sector, their artefact assemblages which come from the final occupation floor level dated to the 4th century B.C., and the storage containers have been evaluated. The spatial distributions of the artefacts were studied through the use of quantitative methods with the objective of identifying storage spaces in Burgaz hou...
A. Tavukçuoğlu, "Mapping of visual decay forms and infrared imaging of stone structures for the maintenance and monitoring studies," 1999, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/53534. | {
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The Inner Strength Teen Program just received some insightful coverage in the April 11th issue of The Notebook, Philadelphia's Education weekly.
You can read the article Relax, Heal, Learn by Dale Mezzacappa @dalemezz in its original with comments and more on The Notebook's coverage of Behavioral and Mental Health initiatives in the schools here. Images by Darryl Murphy of The Notebook. I encourage you to make your comments on The Notebook's site and contribute to the public debate.
Pam Bunyon f aced the 4th graders, some splayed in chairs but most arrayed on the rug before her. On the whiteboard, she showed them the outline of a human head.
Next to it were some big words for the 9- and 10-year-olds: Cortex. Amygdala. Brain stem.
Bunyon, the counselor at Powel Elementary School, was using science to help students understand their impulses and give them strategies to deal with them. "So we don't flip out," as she and the class put it.
A few weeks later, in a classroom at South Philadelphia High School, Amy Edelstein watched a clutch of laconic 9th graders shuffle their way into a 9:13 a.m. class. It was third period, and the music classroom was tiered and set up for an orchestra, not a small group. Several students climbed to the top and took pains to park themselves at the farthest reaches of the space.
"Please, come down closer, to the center," she said. Reluctantly and slowly, they complied.
This was the Wednesday morning mindfulness class. For this period, the students would learn about the adolescent brain instead of social studies. They would develop strategies for enhancing their ability to focus, controlling their anger, and dealing with peer conflict through talking, not fighting.
Bunyon and Edelstein are part of the School District's stepped-up efforts to insulate students with what are known as "protective factors" in mental and behavioral health circles – activities that help young people feel empowered and in control. Those factors include classes like these, but also a range of activities where they can express themselves or work off energy, including music and art, recess and sports.
"It's important for whole communities, including schools, to address the social and emotional health of all children," said Joseph Pyle, president of the Thomas Scattergood Foundation, which is focused on mental health issues. Besides access to effective treatment, he said, it requires a culture that puts child well-being at the center.
That is what Bunyon realized as a District counselor. She spent several years at Feltonville Middle School, where almost all the students live in poverty and where there is a large immigrant community. Stress was rampant.
"I was doing crisis management all the time," she said.
She was among those laid off in 2013 when the District decimated its counseling staff in reaction to slashed state aid and the end of federal stimulus funds.
But the layoff was the impetus for her to join a group of counselors seeking to upgrade their training and to attend workshops for educators run by the Institute for Family Professionals. She said those workshops changed her whole approach to teaching.
Bunyon took classes on anger, understanding the teen brain, discipline strategies, and trauma. All imparted a trauma-sensitive approach and were driven by brain science.
When Bunyon and most of her colleagues were hired back in 2014, the District started offering those workshops through the institute.
"We really ate them up and got certified as trauma professionals," said Bunyon, who became a trainer herself.
Before the training, she said, when children were upset, she looked at them cognitively and tried to talk to them about what happened. Now, she concentrates on what's happening in their brain, having learned that trauma triggers "fight or flight" reactions. Talking won't work.
Once she used this strategy after chasing a Feltonville student who was so traumatized that he ran down the street instead of going into the school after getting off the bus.
She discovered that he liked to read, so she gave him books. He devoured the Percy Jackson adventure series, sometimes while nestled inside a big toy chest in her office.
"Before I was really trained, I would have been sending him to the crisis center at Einstein," she said. The boy still needed help to function in school and attend classes regularly, she said, but this was a start.
"As a society, we have to figure out the next steps, how we educate these kids who need all these extra supports," she said.
Bunyon's tiny office has sparkle bottles, which children make from used water bottles. They put in water and sparkling confetti and seal them with tape. Shaking the bottles and watching the sparkles roil and then settle down has a calming effect.
ade for that purpose, like a squeeze ball, and others are adapted, like a pencil, which is great for twisting.
Outside Bunyon's office is a small cubicle transformed into a Peace Place, with a big stuffed Winnie the Pooh and a poster on the wall displaying student-generated strategies for handling anger.
Among them: Use a sparkle bottle. Meditate. Tell the upper brain to think. Practice breathing. Lie down and relax. Students can also draw positive thoughts and pictures or use a small sandbox. The cubicle's glass panel, though, is gone – a young child pushed his hand through it.
Music and art are also important, Bunyon said. Students who like to draw find that calming. Sometimes, she'll employ rhythmic drumming. Keeping these as regular features in Philadelphia's school curricula has been a roller-coaster ride, as art and music teachers – who are not mandated – have been reduced and then restored, depending on school and District budgets.
Her classes now focus on helping students understand themselves and their reactions to stress. On a Friday in March, she visited Chris Powers' 4th-grade class.
She started by ringing a small bell and asking the students to put thumbs up when they stop hearing the sound. A boy named Ezra was the last to respond.
She asked all the students to close their eyes the next time.
Then she turned to the outline she had put on the whiteboard of the human head with the big words.
The brain stem, or lower brain, she explained, controls reflexes. The almond-shaped amygdala, deep in the temporal lobe, is a traffic cop, whose job is to protect us from danger. The upper brain, or cortex, is the thinker, the problem-solver. The class talks about reflexes or involuntary actions – what part of your brain takes over when you touch a hot stove? – and then about persistence and not giving up, even when you get frustrated, to give time for the upper brain to take over.
"That's sad," pipes up a little voice.
Bunyon is in the process of training teachers in the building so they can better react to students on a daily basis. Powel principal Kim Ellerbee said Bunyon's work has made a huge difference at the school, which has 300 kindergarten through 4th graders. Its catchment area includes both a middle-class community and a homeless shelter.
South Philadelphia is the most recent of nine high schools working with the Inner Strength Foundation. Founded in 2014, it now reaches 1,200 students with a curriculum of 12 mindfulness lessons.
The goals with older students are similar: to give them strategies for coping and help them understand how the brain works. Edelstein and her other teachers lead students through deep breathing exercises, meditation and other techniques. But the curriculum also includes a lesson called "teens in contemporary culture," and another leads students through 600 years of historical and cultural developments to help them understand life today.
And, not unlike what Bunyon teaches her 4th graders, there are lessons in brain evolution and, specifically, the teenage brain.
At one point, the fidgeting stops, and she achieves nearly total quiet in the room.
A pilot study of the curriculum conducted in 2015-16 did pre-tests and post-tests with 98 students in four Philadelphia classrooms. It found that the sessions helped the students significantly with "self-regulation with respect to long-term goals and global behavior." Changes in short-term self-regulation and self-compassion were positive, although not statistically significant.
Southern's community schools coordinator, Janelle Harper, whose background is in behavioral health, brought the program to the school. Elsewhere, the classes are given mostly to juniors and seniors, but Harper wanted them for 9th graders, who are particularly vulnerable and stressed. Little changes are already evident, said Harper and Crystal Edwards, the assistant principal for the 9th-grade academy.
"They are pausing to think before they react, which for 9th graders is really a monumental decision," said Edwards, who attends most of the sessions herself.
After the South Philadelphia session, the third in the 12-class cycle, friends Haley Alisio and Angelina La Barr said they liked it. | {
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Description Gen. Wm. H. Gill (ret), President of Colorado College delivered a short address to those gathered to witness the Flag Raising Ceremony on the Summit of Pikes Peak, July 4, 1950. Other dignitaries L to R: Willis Magee, Don Lawrie, Harry Standley, Standley Balcombe, and Marine Cpl. Rene Gagnon. | {
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Q: search dynamically created row and delete I am trying to search a particular row having userName which is created dynamically by another function and remove it from the table.But I am now able to search the row.
This is how I am adding a new row:
$("table").append("<tr><td>" + userName + "</td></tr>");
and this is how I am searching the table for the row having userName and removing it:
$("table").find("<tr><td>" + userName + "</td></tr>").remove();
A: The argument to find is a selector, not HTML.
$("table").find("td:contains("+userName+")").remove();
A: Use contains() based selector
$('table td:contains('+userName+')').remove()
or
$('table').find('td:contains('+userName+')').remove()
Fiddle
Your code was not the right way to find existing DOM children.
For exact match use .filter(),
$("table td").filter(function() {
return $(this).text() === userName;
}).remove()
A: you can use contains() function in selector, see below sample code
$("table").find("tr > td:contains('"+ userName +"')").remove();
A: Even you try with jQuery closest.
$('table').closest('tr').remove();
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4 teaspoons apple cider vinegar.
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In the science of cuisine Nicholas Kurti and his wife Giana Kurti, edited an anthology on food and science by fellows and foreign members of the Royal Society, "But the crackling is superb". The title stems from a television show where Nicholas Kurti demonstrated the use of ananas juice to tenderize a pork roast. A noted chef, Michel Roux, was to taste whether the ananas juice actually improved the pork roast. It turned out that after cooking, the pork roast treated with the tenderizing enzymes of ananas juice was very mushy. Michel Roux of course preferred the untreated pork roast, but trying to find something nice to say, noticed that the skin was crisp and thus uttered that "the crackling is superb". | {
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The hero admin account can enable cc messages of conversations between clients and other staff members.
Login to the portal dashboard, click the preferences gear icon next to your name in the top right. Navigate to the security tab. Click edit next to the staff member or manager that you want to update. Click on the cc box. The cc emails will be identified with cc in the from field. The client will also be aware that you are part of the conversation. | {
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Educators from all around Virginia will converge on the Richmond Convention Center this week for VEA's annual Delegate Assembly, and it promises to be a rollicking and productive gathering for all. Among the highlights of the three-day event: The 600 or so delegates will take part in a public demonstration outside the meeting hall Friday, continuing to call attention to the underfunding of our state's public schools.
Stay tuned to this blog for updates on all the convention activities once the gavel falls on Thursday evening! | {
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This simple and decorative pull handle 3603 features a spade like design. It is ideal for any door or gate and can be used for both interior and exterior use.
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Defense Minister Ya'alon (L) meets with US Secretary of Defense Hagel (R), in May. (Photo by Ariel Hermoni/MOD/Flash 90)
Deep Ties with U.S. 'Stronger than any Division', Defense Minister Says
Israel's relations with the U.S. have been a bit shaky lately, but the Defense Minister stated: "No argument, however severe, will mar the relations between the two countries."
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon had extremely warm words for the U.S., speaking on Tuesday at the unveiling ceremony of an Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) production line, which will produce wings for the US-made F-35 fighter jet.
"The U.S. supplied Israel throughout the years with wide-scale assistance, particularly in the defense field, and it is the one that assists Israel in standing up to challenges," Ya'alon said. "As someone who has for years accompanied these special relations, I am deeply moved every time by the depth of the ties and the intimacy between the defense establishments and the militaries that are at their helm. In a changing and stormy Middle East, where one does not know what the next day will bring, these are important ties, like no other."
Israel and the U.S. have recently experienced some diplomatic difficulties, but Ya'alon chose to focus on the common interests and strong bond between the two countries: "This cooperation is a symbol of the connection between the United States and Israel, despite friction," he said. "This is a special relationship, incomparable – the bond between the world's greatest power, the leader of the free world, and its biggest friend: the State of Israel."
"This is the time to say it again, in a loud and clear voice: The deep ties between the US and Israel are stronger than any division. An argument, as harsh as it may be, will not darken relations between the countries and the gratitude felt by Israelis to the US and its role in our defense and power."
Israeli Ingenuity an Asset to the U.S.
U.S. and Israeli flags. (Photo: Flash90)
Ya'alon elaborated on the productive fusion of Israeli ingenuity with American power. "This is a model of the power of the special relationship between the United States and Israel and between the defense establishments of the two countries and the strength of the State Israel, its people and capabilities." Ya'alon stressed that "this cooperation is a winner: it's where quality meets quality," and that's why the Pentagon and the defense industry of the United States chose "once again, to develop the most advanced technology with the Israeli defense industry." Ya'alon explained.
"No argument, however severe, will mar the relations between the two countries. Israeli citizens owe gratitude to the United States for its contribution to our security and our strength," Ya'alon concluded.
IAI had signed a contract with Lockheed Martin in April 2013 that stipulates that the IAI will produce the F-35 wings. The IAI center features a state-of-the-art automated production center, IAI said, featuring strict control of humidity and temperature conditions as well as ensuring environmental protection during the production process.
IAI will begin delivering the F-35 wings in mid-2015. The contract's duration is for some 10-15 years, with potential sales reaching $2.5 billion. The first pair of wings is set to be delivered in 2015.
This is an outstanding example of excellent cooperation between Israel and the US. How do you feel about Israel? How would you like to see the ties between the US and Israel?
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The Carpenters' suit cites the FBT case as a precedent, and if the court follows FBT's ruling then Carpenter has a good chance of success. Another case is currently pending between Sony Music and 19 Entertainment (the producers of American Idol) regarding how labels pay on digital streams. It's the same argument as in the Carpenters' case, but the position of a stream being treated as a license is even stronger than in the digital download scenario. However, it's unclear at this point which way the court will side in both cases.
What should be more of a concern to major labels' fate than royalty rates is the fact that this digital age has made it much easier for artists to be independent and make a living off of making music without major label backing. Major labels can ensure their longevity by creating a new model that involves a deal that artists want to be a part of, that is advantageous to both the label and the artist, and provides for a long-standing working relationship, rather than one where artists are constantly concerned about being taken advantage of by the label. The tighter that major labels hold on to their traditional model, the more artists are going to look for alternative means of pursuing their musical careers -- whether that be making direct relationships with distributors or other scenarios that benefit them financially and allow them to create a sustainable career off making music. This issue is not going away, especially with the growing popularity of streaming as a way of consuming music, and it's time to adapt. | {
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After poking around on the net all day I came across zazzle.com, which appears to have pretty much all the formatting elements I want out of a calendar-creator, so I went ahead and made an Ireland 2010 calendar.
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It's worth the money to invest in at least a small digital scale -- especially to measure flour for baking -- because cup measurements provide a much less accurate calculation. Weight produces an accurate measure of quantity, while volume can vary, depending on the air spaces between particles of an ingredient as well as how tightly you pack it.
But if you're caught without scales and need a quick set of conversions, you can make do by using charts, online converters or doing the math in your head. While for water, milk, yogurt and similar liquid ingredients, 8 ounces equals 1 cup, and 1 ounce equals 2 tablespoons, flour, for example, is only half as dense.
So 1 cup of flour typically is closer to 4 1/2 ounces, while a cup of granulated sugar is around 7 ounces.
If you're strong at math, you can write the cup measures in the margins of your recipe, changing 2 ounces of flour to 1/2 cup, 8 ounces to 2 cups and so forth. For more precision, take the recipe to your computer and work with online converters, which are especially valuable for specific flours including whole wheat, bread, all-purpose and rye.
These calculators account for slight differences in density for each type of flour. For example, the online flour converter at Traditional Oven finds that 1 cup of all-purpose flour is 4.4 ounces, while bread flour is 4.5 ounces, whole wheat is 4.2 ounces and rye is 3.2 ounces. King Arthur Flour also provides a table for converting between volume and weight in both ounces and grams. A site at Convert-to.com also provides numerous ingredient converters.
Check the inside flaps of your cookbooks for conversion charts from ounces to cups.
You'll do better measuring dry ounces in a set of measuring cups designed specifically for dry measures, which allow you to sweep the back of a knife across the top to level the ingredients, typically flour, sugar, cocoa and the like. Liquid measuring cups typically have a pouring lip and headspace above the top measure, and don't permit you to measure as precisely, since you can't readily level the top surface of the dry ingredients.
Measuring cup sets made of plastic or metal typically include 1/4-cup, 1/3-cup, 1/2-cup, 2/3-cup, 3/4-cup and 1-cup sizes. | {
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Do you operate a small business in Scotland? Do you know who's been driving your company vehicles at any particular time?
We've partnered with ScORSA to create a vehicle logbook that's been designed to make it easier for a small business to run their fleet.
These logbooks will help you to keep accurate records of who was driving your company vehicles on a specific date and at a specific time. This will enable you to adhere to Section 172 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 whereby it is the responsibility of the Registered Keeper to know who is driving a vehicle at all times.
Recent amendments to Health and Safety law have made it clear that employers can be judged to have a responsibility for the actions of their employees when carrying out tasks such as driving for work.
In an effort to help small business comply with the law these vehicle logbooks have been developed to provide you with the opportunity to record vehicle use. It is recommended that drivers complete journey details on a daily basis and the information should be filed on a weekly/fortnightly basis for future reference. The information completed in the logs can also be used to monitor mileage and fuel consumption.
We have also compiled a helpful booklet – the first page is an emergency contacts page – and the remaining 15 pages go on to cover such topics as legal matters, accident procedures, what to do in a breakdown, journey planning, fitness to drive, distraction and road use attitude.
Please get in touch using the form on the Contact page of the website to get your FREE logbooks. | {
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Just last week it dawned on me that I can actually read books for fun again! Now that there's no grad school work to worry about, I can finally choose my own reading material. What a treat!
To start my summer reading I decided to go back… back to a favorite. I don't often read books more than once, but some books are really worth it. I'm currently working on my second reading of Lord of the Rings, almost finished with The Fellowship of the Ring. I'm enjoying the chance to remember details I had forgotten and marvel again at the incredible world Tolkien created.
Lately I've been thinking and wondering a lot about what lies ahead in my life. Grad school gave me such a definitive goal to work towards, but now the future feels uncertain. I realized that I all too easily get caught up in trying to figure out some "perfect" path, as if I can plan all the details of where my life will lead! In doing so, I end up missing what is right in front of me – missing the time that is given to me.
The truth is, I'm not in control and I can't map out each step of my future. But I can entrust each moment to the God who is in control. I can let go of all the unanswered questions and take hold of courage, trust and faith.
I might not know what lies ahead, but I can live every day knowing the time that is given to me is from my Father, and the very best I can do with that time is give it back to Him. | {
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Faculty Spotlight: James McConnell
February 27, 2019 | dheinen
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures' own James McConnell has added another accolade to his list of accomplishments as an educator at NC State. McConnell has been with the department since 2005 and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2013. Prior to joining the Wolfpack, McConnell attended the University of Arizona for undergraduate and graduate school. There he earned his Master's degree in Hispanic Literature and taught for five years.
Aside from the many courses he leads everyday on campus and online, McConnell runs a summer study abroad program in Segovia, Spain and launched a program called VOLAR (VOLuntarios Ahora en Raleigh) alongside Dr. Shelley Garrigan in 2012 which won a seed grant of $10,000. They then selected Debbie Kane as the director of the program it has become an environment for Spanish speaking students to grow and interact with the larger Spanish speaking community in Raleigh and beyond.
What follows is an interview we did with James via email in which he talks about his Faculty Fellow award, his passion for the Spanish language and his appreciation for the vast opportunities presented at NC State.
What did it mean to you to be named a 2018-2019 Faculty Fellow?
I was overjoyed to be named a Faculty Fellow. Any type of recognition at a university is welcome and it's appreciated even more when it's from a department/entity that you know well and truly respect.
Are there any specific moments in your career that you attribute to this success?
In 2011 I was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year for Higher Education through the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina. This gave me a lot of confidence that I didn't have before. However, there are several experiences I've had during my time at NC State that made me feel I had value that would make me a viable candidate to be a Faculty Fellow. Presenting on different technologies at state and national conferences helped me focus more and work harder to fine tune certain skills and the overall opportunities presented to me through my department have helped me develop skills in a variety of areas that have contributed to making me a better instructor.
What would you consider to be a highlight in your career?
This is it! Well, it is one of them. There isn't one specific highlight and that is actually good because it keeps me striving to do more. Being awarded a $10,000 seed grant, receiving awards for our VOLAR program, being named Outstanding Teacher of the Year, and acknowledgment for the summer study abroad program I run have all been spaced out pretty well during my time here, so each time I get those positive affirmations it rejuvenates me and makes me realize I'm in the right place.
How has your experience as a senior lecturer in the Department of FLL been at NC State?
Fantastic. Our department is very collegial and we're led by someone who has good vision and is willing to offer opportunities to productive individuals. If I worked at a different university, I wouldn't have had half the opportunities afforded to me here.
What drew you to a career in teaching?
I have an older sister and a younger brother. My sister taught me a lot growing up and I taught a lot to my brother. It's something I've always enjoyed: the sharing of information with others. My first semester of graduate school I was given two classes of my own to teach and the first day was a bit terrifying. After a few days, I realized I enjoyed it immensely and wanted to keep doing it.
Did you always know you wanted to teach?
In some form or another, yes. Friends and family had mentioned it to me while growing up and I had already done so in other facets; I taught gymnastics, did outreach programs for marine biology, and was a scuba instructor before moving into academia.
Do you have any passions that have impacted you personally or in your career?
Reading. I was a voracious reader in elementary school and that continued into college, pushing me to do a Master's Degree in Hispanic Literature. It opens you to so many new worlds. There's a great J.K. Rowling quote: "If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book." Go find your book.
What advice do you have for current NC State students studying foreign languages and literatures?
Take it seriously, like you should any class. Try to do more than what you think is your best work; you can really surprise yourself. I see former students very frequently who tell me, "I loved your class but I forgot all my Spanish." No, you didn't, you're just not using it. "Use it or lose it" is true. Finding a way to incorporate the language into your daily routine will help you maintain those abilities.
How has being proficient in a foreign language opened doors for you in your life?
It's honestly given me hundreds of thousands of dollars and helped me to travel all over the world. No lie. Knowing a foreign language has provided me with multiple jobs and afforded me the ability to travel to Fiji, Egypt, The Solomon Islands, all of the Caribbean, The Galapagos Islands and more, all paid for by someone else.
Have you ever learned anything from your students?
Thankfully, I learn something from my students on a daily basis. They're the reason I was named a Faculty Fellow.
Faculty, Hispanic Linguistics, Humanities and Social Sciences, Latino and Asian Topics, Spanish, Spanish Certificate
3 responses on "Faculty Spotlight: James McConnell"
Diane Beckman says:
Congratulations, James. You are an inspiration to all and a wonderful colleague! May many such recognitions follow!
Scott Despain says:
James, well done and well deserved!
Louise Salstad says:
Felicitaciones, James, y adelante!
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CHESTERFIELD, VA (WWBT) - A man who returned to his home to find part of his roof had been erroneously removed now has a new roof - but not the one he wanted.
A subcontractor for Hardesty Roofing made a costly mistake in Chesterfield's Bexley neighborhood. They removed part of a slate roof on a house up for sale, but it was the wrong house.
A long disagreement ensued over whether to install a slate or shingle roof to correct the mistake. 12 months later, the homeowner's insurance company installed a shingle roof - not Hardesty Roofing or the subcontractor.
Homeowner Steve Lowe says he did what he had to do to cut his financial losses from having a house with a partial roof that he couldn't sell. He still believes a slate roof is what he should have - not a shingle roof - but he says several storms caused interior damage that he now has to repair.
Lowe's insurance company paid for the new shingle roof in full, but he's not satisfied. Neither insurance company wanted to fix the mistake by installing a $40,000 new slate roof.
"Hardesty has refused to replace what I had," said Lowe. "It's been 12 months with virtually nothing being done. This should have been corrected in 30 days. It should have been put back like it was, and it should have been done 11 months ago."
Last February, Hardesty Roofing owner Sam Hardesty told NBC12 that the mistake happened when the supplier sent the materials to the wrong house. Hardesty said his subcontractors went to the home where the materials were sitting and tore off the roof.
They had the right work order to go to the right address, but Hardesty says they didn't read it.
Hardesty: "Now that we made this mistake, he's going to get a whole new slate roof, because we tore off a little section by mistake."
NBC12 Investigator Diane Walker: "It looks like a pretty big section from what I saw."
Hardesty: "It does. We're going to make it right. Trust me. We're going to get to the bottom of this."
A year later, and Lowe is just now seeing movement. He says during the time his property was covered in tarp from February 2017 through November 2017, he had to pull his house off the market.
"No one could get a loan for a house with no roof," said Lowe.
In addition, he says several storms caused water damage in two rooms. The ceiling is collapsing in one, and most of the damage is in the Florida room.
"We cut a hole so that the water could drip out, but it's got damage all the way across," said Lowe.
This isn't the first time Hardesty Roofing has been accused of removing the wrong roof. A court dismissed John Grigg's 2011 claim against Hardesty but found in his favor on his claim against the subcontractor. He got a new roof, but he says the long fight hurt him financially.
"Using a subcontractor allows him to do exactly what he's doing: hide behind the subcontractor if something goes wrong," said Grigg. "There should be something if you're a contractor. You should have responsibility for the action of your subcontractor."
NBC12 called Hardesty Roofing for comment and was told he would call back. So far, that hasn't happened.
Hardesty has maintained, through his lawyer, that he is not legally obligated, because he hired a subcontractor to do the work and he gave them the correct address. He also says he attempted to satisfy Lowe and help him file an insurance claim.
Meantime, the subcontractor's insurance company is deliberating whether it will pay for Lowe's interior water damage. | {
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"These Days" Review 24 October 2000
The absolute WORST BJ Album Ever!
A dark depressing album that is no fun...
A review by BonJovi Fan / [email protected]
Bon Jovi is my favorite band, but to me this CD is just not the same rocking, upbeat party band as the previous CD's. This CD has no energy. I listen to it when I want to fall asleep (for reals!) I don't know what happened to make them sit down and say "Hey, lets make a really mellow, depressing CD." Maybe they were sad cuz Alec left the band. Many of the songs are musically very beautiful sounding, but they are DEPRESSING.
Song by song:
1. Hey God--The only song that starts out REALLY rocking, but the verses just kill the energy, tempo and flow of the intro and chorus. It's also kind of hard to get into a song that just bitches at God. I don't know why JBJ is so pissed anyway: he's a multimillionaire superstar who got to marry his H.S. sweetheart.
2. Something for the pain--this song is okay, and moderately upbeat,but it still suffers from the same energy killing verses. The lyrics are just talk about how crappy life is some more.
3. This ain't a love song---Mediocre love song. Not as good as I'll be there for you, In these Arms, Silent Night, or Bed of Roses.
4. These Days--This song has no drive to it. Bon Jovi needs to go back to their other CD's and remember what a rock song sounds like. Their "slow" songs on other CD's, like Living in Sin and Dry County had some drive to them.
5. Lie To Me--Pretty sounding. If you were to throw this song onto Bon Jovi, or Ferenheit, it'd be better. But at this point in the CD, slow songs are getting monotonous.
6. Damned--This song is lame like "if I was your mother."
7. Guitar Lies Bleeding---See the comments for "Lie to Me"
8. Letting You Go---Same comments as "lie to me" and "guitar bleeding in arms."
9. Hearts Breaking Even---It's okay, but "In these Arms" is better.
10. Something to Believe In---Musically pretty, but again another depressing slow song! This CD needs some ROCK songs. "If I don't believe in Heroine, how can I believe in dope." Jon's definately had better lyrics in the past.
11.If that's what it takes---okay, but in the larger context of this CD...bleh....
12. Diamond Ring---Is this the same band that wrote "Raise Your Hands"???
Well, like I've said, some of the songs are good, but a whole CD of slow depressing song after slow depressing song just doesn't work for me. I would of kept songs 3,5,7,8,and 9, and just spread them across a couple CD's that also have some rock songs on them. | {
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Become a better Slime Rancher! Page through Hobson's copy of the Slimepedia.
Written and designed by Kari Fry, author of the Stardew Valley Guidebook, the Slimepedia is 96 beautifully designed and annotated pages taking you from newbie ranch-hand to veteran plort-producer.
Irridescent hardcover accents made from the plorts of mosaic slimes. They really shimmer!
Contains notes and doodles from Hobson Twillgers, the previous owner of the ranch.
The inside of the dust jacket features a map of the Far, Far Range! | {
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A portion of Kempsville Road will be closed to drivers this weekend while steel girders are installed as part of the I-64/I-264 interchange improvements project, according to a VDOT press release.
Beginning at 9 p.m. Friday, a detour will be in place for southbound traffic to turn left on Center Drive and right on Newtown Road in order to get back to Kempsville Road. The detour could be in effect until as late as 5 a.m. Monday.
The weekend of Feb. 23-26 will see the same closure. A closure from March 2-5 is possible, VDOT said.
Kempsville Road's northbound traffic will also be stopped for as many as 20 minutes at a time during the closures. Outside of those stoppages, one northbound lane will remain open.
VDOT says that access to nearby churches — First Baptist Norfolk and Calvary Presbyterian — will remain open.
The sidewalk to the east of the northbound lanes will stay open, except for during the 20-minute traffic stoppages. | {
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SOLD! Paradise Pointe ... beach living at its finest! The beautiful 3 bedroom, bonus room, and 2 1/2 bathroom spread over 2,517 square feet in cozy Paradise Pointe. Use for full time living, weekend beach house, or for your short term rental investment. Kitchen has all stainless steel appliances, pantry with automatic lights, and open concept overlooking huge living room. The master bedroom is huge. The oversized master bathroom with Jacuzzi tub, separate tiled shower, and two separate vanities are exactly what you need for luxury living. Spray in foam insulation makes for a very energy efficient home. The first floor of the house is outfitted with LED lights. There is an alarm system and smoke detectors. There are two large decks to entertain and overlooks the Paradise Pointe pond. HOA pool is close by for easy relaxing swimming. The home is partially furnished. This neighborhood allows short term rentals. | {
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Wei Yung (; 5 May 1936 – 3 March 2004) was a Taiwanese politician. He served as the Minister of the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission from 1976 to 1988 and represented Taipei in the Second Legislative Yuan.
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American Tire Service & Sales, Inc. provides Inner Tie Rod & Outer Tie Rod Replacement services to Springfield, MA, Chicopee, MA, Holyoke, MA, and other surrounding areas.
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museum theme uses [Gulp](http://gulpjs.com) to compile Sass. Gulp needs Node.
#### Step 1
Make sure you have Node and npm installed.
You can read a guide on how to install node here: https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/installing-node
If you prefer to use [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com) instead of npm, install Yarn by following the guide here: https://yarnpkg.com/docs/install.
#### Step 2
Install bower: `npm install -g bower`.
#### Step 3
Go to the root of museum theme and run the following commands: `npm run setup`.
To install using Yarn, run `yarn install && bower install`.
#### Step 4
Update `proxy` in **config.json**.
#### Step 5
Run the following command to compile Sass and watch for changes: `gulp`.
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There are currently 2 homes available in Clairmont Heights with an average price of $527,450. For availability or more information about homes for sale in Clairmont Heights call Carlos Colon at 770-314-1285 .
Clairmont Heights is located in Decatur GA, Dekalb County. There are currently 2 homes active and for sale inside the neighborhood with the average price being $527,450. The number of homes for sale in Clairmont Heights is always changing so if you see a home you like and you would like to schedule a time to take a look please give me a call at 770-314-1285. | {
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Hotline phone: 0-800-50-51-04 (On this phone number you can get verifiable information about the authenticity of the products, produced by Private limited company " House of Vintage Cognacs "Tavria", at any time. Calls from landline phones within Ukraine are free of charge. Calls from mobile phones are charged according to the conditions of your operator). | {
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If you should meet God on the road... Kill Him.
I reckon you got some french fried taters in there?
You're neither. You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.
I adore your bikes, I'm super partial to the sv650s.
I have stared into the abyss, and it blinked first.
I have been here ten thousand years and will be here ten thousand more.
Every time I read a thread on this site, the phrase that goes through my head is "The horror, the horror". It just seemed appropriate, you know?
You've got 666 positive ratings! Time for the Apocalypse!
I shall now usher in a dark and terrible age of pointing and laughing at idiots. | {
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Scott Cameron is the Stream Editor and a Deputy Editor for Ready Up, aged 30. After finishing a BSc Com in Computer Science, he decided to attempt to make indie games for a living, only to later assure us he "has scribbled lots of great ideas on the back of envelopes and napkins". He spends his free time gaming, passionately following industry stories as they break, embellishing the virtues of indie games and complaining about poor localisations of classic shonen manga (he claims "it's actually over 8000, stupid dub"). Though a bit old-school at heart (we heard him shout "Amiga Forever!" once), Scott likes good games regardless of platform or age, and enjoys a balance of gaming genres, including Platformer, RPG and FPS. His all-time favourite games include Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Metroid and Metal Gear Solid, among many others. | {
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Daily Trip 18 August 2017
For the first time in over a month, we were able to spot the Marine Big 5 our waters, which was a really welcome surprise...
Written by Jax, August 19 2017
For the first time in over a month, we were able to spot the Marine Big 5 our waters, which was a really welcome surprise.
This was due to the return of the elusive Indian Ocean Humpback Dolphin, who have been a little scarce on our side of the world lately. We always feel really fortunate when we do get to see them, since these coastal dwelling cetaceans are the most vulnerable of our marine mammals, with less than 500 left. We were able to pinpoint these dolphins on all 3 trips as they cruised the shallows, riding the waves and probably searching for a mullet or two.
The second trip of the day also got lucky when they were able to one of our iconic Great White Sharks at Slashfin. Scarlett is a 4.2m female who has been frequenting the bay recently after a long absence, and we're all really chuffed that she has decided to pay us all a visit. These majestic fish each have their own migration and we generally find that the larger the animal gets, the less we get to see them.
In terms of other interesting sights, one group of clients caught a glimpse of a ravenous Cape Fur Seal who was tearing away at his calamari at around noon. Our seals cannot use their flippers to grasp, so this usually creates a spectacular show where the seal violently shakes its prey, breaking off bite size chunks until the meal is over. We also got to see a Sunfish on our last trip of the day, which made a lot of sense due to the abundance of Box Jellyfish that we had seen throughout our trips. We also had a large raft of African Penguins returning home to Dyer Island, which is always a special sight!
Now, down to the whale action, Pearly beach seems to be where it's all happening with whales coming in from all directions. It is always interesting to see how these mating groups wax and wane, with animals moving in and out as the sightings progress.
On the first trip, we were lucky to have 2 Southern Rights approach us immediately as we hit the shallow waters of Pearly Beach and this was really a treat. The whales lay next the boat for some time, really giving one a sense of just how massive these creatures are. One of the individuals placed his tail fluke horizontally next to the boat, almost to prove that the fluke can be up to 5m long from tip to tip, it was simply massive.
Other whale highlights include an individual with a white spot on its back which was quite an interesting and unusual sight. We also got to see quite a bit of belly action as the whales frolicked just behind the breakers.
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Dumasia bicolor är en ärtväxtart som beskrevs av Bunzo Hayata. Dumasia bicolor ingår i släktet Dumasia och familjen ärtväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.
Källor
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This property was on the market at $4,147,500 or $78.98 PSF. The property has about 10% office, and a total of 6 loading docks and 4 grade level doors.
This entry was posted on May 7, 2012 by pipros in Alameda County, East Bay, In the News, Industrial, Recent Sales and tagged Hayward, Sale Comp, transportation, warehouse. | {
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György Sándor, född 21 september 1912, död 9 december 2005, var en ungersk pianist.
Sándor föddes i Budapest och studerade vid Liszt-akademien för Béla Bartók och Zoltán Kodály. Han emigrerade senare till USA och blev amerikansk medborgare.
Ungerska klassiska pianister
Män
Födda 1912
Avlidna 2005
Musiker från Budapest | {
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Description : Round shaped bag hand-crafted from cowhide grain leather. brown and light brown stitch together. features an attached 130cm long shoulder strap. Fastening: zip-top closure.
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Hong Kong Institute of Construction Managers ("Institute" or "HKICM"), officially inaugurated on 5 May 1997, is the only local professional institution representing the construction management profession in Hong Kong to promote professional excellence in the construction management of both building and civil works. It has always been the professional and social responsibility of the Institute to take care of the development of the construction management profession, at all levels.
With a view to broaden the representation of construction practitioners and to widen the scope for the professional development needs of front-line site supervision personnel, the Institute has started to admit Construction Supervisor members since 2002 and to motivate site supervision personnel through systematic site management training and continuing professional development (CPD) activities provided by the Institute so as to enhance their professional status.
The role of site supervision personnel (which we classed as Construction Supervisor member) is important and in fact indispensable to ensure compliance of construction works with specifications, statutory, contractual and most of all, safety and environmental requirements. A role of such importance in the working level of construction works has yet been officially recognized with the deserving credit and sufficient CPD training was yet to be provided with.
It is on such rationale that the Institute recognized the need to set up its own registration system, in the absence of government regulation under legislation, to regulate the registration of and control the competency standard of site supervision personnel.
The registration system will register a list of Registered Construction Supervisors ("RCS") that are assessed to have met stipulated minimum academic, professional and practical working experience requirements. The list shall be made available to the public to ascertain whether a person is a RCS who is competence and practising in construction supervisory practices.
The Construction Supervisors Registration Regulations ("the Regulations") have been adopted as Bye-Laws by the Hong Kong Institute of Construction Managers under Clause 10.3 of the Constitution at the AGM held on 18 December 2014 (and as amended at the AGM held on 14 December 2016) to provide for the registration of construction supervisors and disciplinary control of the practitioning activities of registered construction supervisors, and for related matters.
(d) to raise standards in the management of the construction process. | {
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Roku TV | Can You Use A Universal Remote On A Roku TV?
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Q: Adding a label to crm 2011 form I want to add a label to crm 2011 which displays the value of one attribute available on the form with a certain style. I plan to do it as below
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*Add an iframe as a web resource.
*Now once the form load completes , edit the source property of the iframe and append the value as a query string parameter to it.
3.After that access that query string parameter in the html web resource and set it on the label.
Now my question is :
Can I use normal javacript (document.getElementById ...)inside the iframe to set the label.I understand that parsing the DOM in CRM 2011 forms is not supported.Is it also not supported inside the iframe ?
A: You can reach the form just like you do in form customizations through parent.Xrm, so you could build a script like:
// example: grab the "name" field from the form
// this will only work from inside an IFRAME in the form, of course
function getName() {
var attr = parent.Xrm.Page.getAttribute('name');
if(attr !== null)
return attr.getValue();
else
return null;
}
A: Inside the WebResource you can use normal javascript, but it is up to you to make it compatible with all the browsers you want to support.
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What we fed your puppy: PMI HIGH PROTIEN KIBBLES AS A BASE FOOD.
You may use any kibbles that which state "chicken" or any meat and or meat-by-products as the very first ingredient. Must be the first ingredient!
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I first feed kibbles of a good quality all he can eat. When he leaves the dish with out any distractions, he is done. Remember how much he ate.
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They are most active in cool weather and at night. During the heat of the day, they sleep.
Think like a canne, remember he comes from many thousands of years off the Dire Wolves ancestral tree.
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Blind Items Revealed #3 - Mr. Hedge
Four For Friday - The Interview - Part One
Today's Blind Items - So Crazy It Might Be True
Today's Blind Items - A Sordid History
Today's Blind Items - The Underage Switch
Blind Item #8 - Kindness
Back in the day I would sometimes post stories directly from readers that I thought were a bit out there so to speak. This one might take the cake. The thing is though, over their two part missive to me, a LOT of the things that I could actually check out did check out. The problem I have is that it would be impossible to make descriptions for some of these people because they are obscure celebrities. That being said, this was all brought on because of what the reader knows about this former A+ list mostly movie actor who was that high when he was a child and was the highest paid child actor in the world at the time. Now? He lives on the interest and residuals from those days. See what you can make of all of this. The first part actually came with evidence, but if I give it to you now, there will be nothing to guess.
I need your prayers, empathy, perspective and professional opinion - or referral to the right person who is at liberty to have an open discussion... You appear to know where some if not all of the socio-narcopathic bodies are buried in my emotional crypt. My sister is surrounded by people who are pedosexuals - from her time as a child star - and her mother normalizes and buries my own abuse and has for 40 years. She was instrumental in trying to erase me fro mmy father's legacy. When he died they did not even tell me and were outraged I went to his funeral to say goodbye. They use the results of their betrayal to justify it, naturally. But I spent about 35 years now trying to find out if _______ was on Team Decent Human Being or Team Narcissitc Family Abuse Subject Matter Expert.
This - my issues - are complicated because I married a monster that was their fused insane narcopath and I seriously think he lost his motherfucking mind when he walked into that chapel and I had been there for an hour and did not speak to him AT ALL. _________'s aunt, step-father, husband, mother, herself all had this Hypocrisy Parade to say I had every right to be there, blah blah blah - though they had not picked up the phone and have not since - and she comes up and hugs me and I thought to myself - this is not for me - it's for her - and them. I did not ask them to say one word and no one else who knows about this did either.
I think my father, I hope anyway - I don't know. I am just wretchedly sad. I think when I discovered you in June because I have never heard of you in my life... and I saw all that stuff about ________, _________, __________ and, me - I have a very severe case of premeditated percepticide. I had joined this secret pedophile hunters group and they said to me in there that she HAD to have been abused too - mine was not like a rape thing either it was more like a denial thing and you bleed to much about it anyway thing. I think.
i LOVED them, they have never loved me. Ever. So, I am not quite sure yet? But it looks like they may have disowned and disinherited me and now I've made that embarassing and difficult... because that's how I roll with the motherfucking pedosexual objectifying normalizing folks.
________ did something really nasty to me about using my husband that works at a fancy ___________ jewelry store on the UES - ________ duped ________ - and trust me - he never saw her coming and if I went around telling anyone who would listen what a toxic soup she is? I would get called worse than I already do - so I just said "I don't think that is a very good idea honey. I had to practically worship Oprah Winfrey to let go of wishing she would die...by spontaneous combustion." Funny, it's not quite back yet? But fucking close. Ommmmmm my gawd. LOL
So _______ makes this custom pendant for ________, and I pay for the gold and diamonds - and by this time I am about 3 years into a nightmare custody battle because why? My ex-husband was leaving my kids with my dad and his third wife and he was making red satin thong jokes in front of her and it made me crazy. Really awkward and uncomfortable, and I swear I never set a boundary in my life that they did not nuke on the spot and put me in my spot.
He makes her a custom guitar too. He never finsihed my wedding ring or my guitar. I felt like - he married me to be near her. And when I left he stripped me bare of everything and I JUST got approved for foodstamps and medicare in the last 10 days. I am no perfect angel but I was 14 when this shit storm started brewing. I have a serious health condition and my ex-husband it turns out? My father knew he had assaulted me and colluded with him and my mother to take my kids because I "destroyed him" for telling what happened to me.
#MeToo highlighted Woody Allen right? Did you know that the Responsible Fatherhood Initiative FUNDS THAT SHIT for them? I have all the documentation and _____ and _______ know and have since at least 2010. I was determined to survive this? But helping others. Can you fucking imagine my spaghettin head when I saw your stuff on _________? My father told me he believed that _________ had an affair with him behind ________'s back and when I saw this article below I thought she has no loyalty at all - ever - that was her distancing herself from him because - well that's what a narcissistic discard IS.
Enty? My mother makes _______ look like a fucking saint.
Anyway, _________ takes the pendant and does this -
And the proof was what was listed below, but we will save that for a special reveal day. Now, here is part two.
I read that and it barely makes sense. I am sorry, it's hard to share it with a stranger and trust the universe too. But I see you know the nature of the beast and expose it too. I need to back up a bit. I have been living a true life Gaslight at least, and much more openly since 1976.
This is the condensed version:
I was a precocious neglected, abused child. Born 1962 to two teenagers. My mother ____________, then, groomed me using ___________'s two volume anthology of adult female sexual fantasy in the early 1970s between 1974 and 1976 towards her neoliberal model of feminism. My mother has never disclosed her own sexual abuse issues, but her mother was married to a man 41 years her senior when she was barely 18 years old. My mother harped on my mission to correct this hillbilly legacy rooted in the coal mines of the Ozark mountains for as long as I can remember.
My father was deeply ashamed of failing his own future by impregnating this beautiful social pariah in the back of a Dodge, but his parents stuck by him and he completed his education. His adolesence was interutpted and he was called _______, __________ and "the world's oldest teenager" but my father drowned his sorrows and needed to prove his sexual prowess intensely so that plus the 1970s collided to create a bizarre home. My parents entered into an agreement to have an open, swinging, lifestyle. But it did not quite go as my father hoped. My mother would not perform in front of him and reframed her sexual freedom in the form of an apartment on campus about a block from a disco where my father was the local John Travolta.
A year before my parents split up, in November 1976, my father came home blind drunk in a blackout. Ordinarily they were just never there at all, but this night he was home early, and completely trashed. I had never seen him this incapacitated but I don't judge and just do what I must. I helped him from the front door, bathroom where he undressed and showered on his own. He was having trouble getting to the bed and I worried he would get hurt. He flopped onto his bed damp and it was very cold, so I leaned over to cover him up, like a taco inside their comforter, he thought I was my mom, reached up, kissed me and touched my breast to kiss her good night and passed out cold. I freaked the fuck out inside.
I did not say anything for 4 months until March 1977. But was angry, and hurt and confused and there was quite a lot of this going on in other homes and my girlfriends and I discussed it at the lunchtable at school. That had beenthe case prior to this, and of course I told them too. To my father "this" is the problem. Not that he was drunk enough to have this be told ever, at all, but that I as his daughter was hurt and confused and could not possibly contextualize any of this. He always saw himself like an adult in relationship to being an early father. He did not understand that at 14, despite the responsibilities and autonomy I was granted that I was far too young to embrace them.
When I did confront him and my mother... Everything was very upsetting to me and to them. They dispatched it as soon as they could and to them this is where the story begins and ends, and I just should never have perpetuated this problem or "allowed" it to destroy me. So they started trying to make this about one 60 second incident. It was not rape, it was the crescendo to an ambient sexualization, an objectiffication and normalization of it, for over a decade. I was still a child. But you seem to be the one guy in the entertainment industry that understands that Lolita as an icon has an underlying agenda and my father was attracted to a woman that was tormented and twisted about pedosexuality for reasons I will never know. But it is deeply embedded in her ancestry. My failure to escape her fate and generations of mothers behind us, is her indictment. Her self indictment. She hates me for this, he hates me for this. But they also feel guilty and loved me once, despite my inconvenience.
They divorce. I accept their explanations socially but the pretense eats me inside for decades and Dad compounds this. I feel the lie of it. Cryptographic clues are just pervasive. He secretly betrays me a million times and hates me for it calling me out for being like an adult, uncontrollable, and the interior is awful to his exterior. My mother is complicit and finally emails the truth for months ago.
Enter ___________ age 24 and sister to (a pageant queen/big one) _______________, of whom she is very jealous. In fact, according to __________, she is fully to credit as the Svengali of her sister. My mother was more likely to "burn her bra" (no one actually ever burned their bra, I knew these activists in NYC the last decade, and heard their stories first hand). She ridiculed the likes of ________ and they were strange creatures to me. _________ was on the board of the pageants and after she and Dad married the precursor to the set of the 1991 off Broadway show __________ was created. When I walked down the aisle seeing it, my sense of surreality was just fused into a permanent "Can this fucking be happening? to ME?" I had a little bit of it in the audience of the _____________ and __________ Miss ________ Pageant Too - that ________ had founded and ran.
When JonBenet Ramsey was murdered ________ had pictures and trophies exactly, precisely like that too. It actually makes me nauseous to contemplate what they allege. This is where that criminal psychologist's analysis of this conduct becomes emotionally threatening to me, I have not watched _______________'s analysis yet, but I did watch the "Killer in the Family" last week and that is a little too close to my own post divorce/custody battle with my first husband. I assert he is conducting a slow murder - and my reason for disclosing to YOU? Is ____.
By this point in the story Enty? ________ has moved __________ to NYC and she is working the child to the bone in advertising, commercials, Radio City, sitcom;s... but like my mother she is an expert at Parental Alienation and manipulation. She is diabolic in her need for competition and greed. My mother is diabolic in her sense of retaliation too. And _____, wife number 3, I used to like a lot, but she is either just as greedy and diabolic or simply defending my father's version of his truth. I can't know - but her demeanor changed after the marriage so much, I felt she was cut from the same cloth.
_______ would exclude me from all family events, pictures, mentions in articles, thwarted my father contributing financially to my wedding, and even refused to have a celebration with ______ on her birthday that day. I became Jewish after a quandry about the significance of why it mattered who begat whom and a long 12 step recovery from drowning/drugging my little nightmare, and converted to Judaism in 1994. My husband ___ was a bit of a trouble maker, errant Orthodox boy, and his mother likened me to Monica Lewinski. I was in a way I guess in that I needed love but did not know it.
As I matured I understood the lies better. ________ had been currying favor to advance ______'s fame and fortune.
I see how my concerns dovetail ____________. You must.
How do I verify and quantify my concerns?
This makes Dancing Boy blinds seem comprehensible. I hope this person is getting the help she needs.
Wait, is this Mad Libs?
No idea what is going on, but the entertainment business is a filthy sewer, and no parent should allow their children anywhere near it. Adults who aspire to be in Hollywood... well, they are adults and need to own responsibility for what happens to them there.
I hope this person can move on.
trufflepig said...
The former child actor mentioned in the preface has got to be Macaulay Culkin. Other than that, I have no bloody clue what this is supposed to mean.
Justme said...
Whoa. My brian hurts
Crystal meth and Hollywood create mental illness. I had anxiety just reading 3 paragraphs. Couldn't get through it.
Zebra Seasoning said...
Hope: Never lose hope. said...
I'm waiting for the paperback version. Hoping someone can sum this all up in a few short paragraphs and insert names.
bollybiy said...
I can't understand a _________ bit of this _________ blind, probably because _________ and the source can't be bothered to ____________ it either. Mother and/or father or possibly somebody else's husband and sister or maybe a therapist did _________ and possibly touched the author's breast. Also _________.
This one doesn't seem like it should be that hard to follow. I know what all the words mean, after all, but I'm having trouble even with the sentences that aren't half blanks. Hope someone else has better luck.
The female-fantasy anthology books were by Nancy Friday, if I remember right. Not sure why her name would be blanked out unless she was directly involved.
Boots said...
bollybiy - that is funny
"My mother ____________, then, groomed me using ___________'s two volume anthology of adult female sexual fantasy in the early 1970s between 1974 and 1976 towards her neoliberal model of feminism."
Cher wasn't wrong about that being a different time. The worst of what was being pushed then has been quietly tucked away by its adherents as they had to ease up in the 1980s. Everyone knows there was "free love," but most don't know just how "free" it was supposed to be.
And they didn't abandon their beliefs; they just became less vocal about them.
Just because an English word has Greek or Latin roots does not mean you can interchange the Greek or Latin part and create a new word.
This person sounds like a narcopath tumblr user talking about how they're a demibipolyantidracosexual.
Nutty_flavor said...
I thought MC too. Enty says the blind came about because of what the writer knows about MC... other than that I'm like you, no clue what the rest means
@trufflepig
Agree and agree.
Dick Clark was called, "The World's Oldest Teenager", but he's about 15 years old to be the dad here.
So that seems an odd thing to say.
cruzzer2 said...
RICKY SCHRODER for the child actor.
*15 years TOO old*
Muckduck said...
WTF did I just read?
That's what I was looking at, too..then noticed the age.
Jed's Friend and Supporter said...
The "world's oldest teenager" was Dick Clark, host of American Bandstand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Clark
This would be a bit easier to understand if instead of the blanks they used letters or nicknames for each person
I think this would have been easier to read of the second part was first.
Honestly, the parts don't even seem to relate to each other at all.
By the end of it I heard Charlie Brown's teacher. Wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah...
2Trees said...
Hi Enty,
Have been a long time reader. I feel like I possibly have two cents to contribute to this confusing post. Dick Clark was also known as the "World's Oldest Teenager". He was also married 3 times. The dates pretty much correspond to the ones in said post in his Wikipedia page.
I also caught the Macauley Culkin reference. Could this have something to do with Dick Clark, Macauley Culkin, and Michael Jackson? Have not looked into info on his wives.
I only made it through 1 paragraph.
Betty White?
A musical called "Pageant" opened off-Broadway in 1991, so that seemed like a good candidate for that part. So a woman who was on the board of beauty pageants married her dad, and they created something (a beauty pageant, I guess) which was the precursor to that play/musical.
According to that article, the inspiration for "Pageant" was a drag queen pageant called the "Miss Bradford Hotel Pageant." I can't find any mentions of that anywhere else, though.
NE peanut gallery said...
Got to paragraph 1 myself, and then decided I would get a drink instead of reading it - If I'm going to have a headache it will by my own hand!
Poppymann said...
So Dick Clark was a drunken swinging paedobear who fuckled Macaulay Culkin? What about Bubbles?
Forgot to link to the Pageant article.
There's so much going on here, but basically:
Who was a male celebrity, deceased (possibly recently), born in the mid 1940's, married multiple times, estranged from adult daughter at time of his death, has younger daughter who is/was child star.
How Macaulay Culkin(?) And a gold necklace fits into this, I don't know.
@2trees,
The dates do not correspond. Writer says she was born in 1962 and her parents were teenagers. Dick Clark was born in 1929.
Also, Dick Clark never had a daughter that became a child star.
Don't know if this is relevant, but Dick Clark Productions had "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" pageant in 1985 as an alternative to The Miss America Pageant, which his production company was involved with. There is an old Washington Post interview with him from the same year. Pretty interesting when he discusses the criteria for entering.
John the peon said...
The Book of Revelations and may be better understood than this
Lurky McLurkster said...
I really don't think the show is Pageant. For the "writer" to find it surreal, it must relate back to her life and Pageant was a revival.
Here is a list of the off Broadway shows in 1991 that I have been trying to research
https://www.broadwayworld.com/browseshows.cfm?showtype=OF&open_yr=1991
Yeah, I don't think her father was necessarily known far and wide as "the world's oldest teenager," but just called that by some people he knew.
@Lurky, yeah, that gave me pause too. But I don't know the plot of the show, so I figured maybe there could still be a scene or something that relates to her life. But it could be a different play. Even in that article, the guy says pageants were kind of overused as a plot device at the time.
It's fine said...
what in the madlib is this?
Enjoying the title; 'So Crazy it Might be True.' WHAT might be true??
Looked for a list of actresses born in 1962. An interesting list for sure, but nobody who was born the Ozarks and whose parents divorced in 1976/7.
AnitaKnapp said...
What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?
ZantiMissKnit said...
From what I can gather, her sister, who is younger than she, was a child star and now is pushing her daughter into showbiz, and the author is concerned that this daughter is going to be victimized by pedophiles.
I think?
Thonker said...
Is this the return of INSIDERHER? All those food references.
Jokes aside: I have no idea when _____ means which person, which pretty much makes this impossible to guess unless someone wants to waste a lot of time. I don't even get if this is supposed to be about a random family? Is her family famous? What does all this have to do with a former child star? Waiting for the reveal on black friday or new years day I guess...
This is all so confusing. Just going to throw this out there. Mike Love of the Beach Boys had a daughter that was born in 62 and married one of his band mates briefly in the 80's. He also said in his biography that he was called the worlds oldest teenager. Very strange life, including run ins with the Manson family. However he is still alive........so I dunno.
Also Dick Clark's daughter does have one acting credit in her IMBD
I read Arkansas so I'm going with the Clinton's on this one
Dahling said...
I was leaning toward the Judd family... due to the Ozarks reference, but I cannot make Ashley fit here. Mainly because Wynona's daughter is in prison for the foreseeable future.
I could have missed it, but I don't think it says the writer is an actress, or indicates her career at all, does it? And it suggests her mother was from the Ozarks, but not necessarily that she was.
I wonder if the thing someone did with a pendant, which would reveal too much if he printed it, was something that appeared in a scene in a movie. That's the only thing I could think of that would point to someone's identity that way.
Drew Barrymore and her brother John??
Tigercat said...
John Phillips. No facts to correlate with this mishmash of a blind, just a chance rando guess.
Stupidpervs said...
Skipping it
#TEAMGEELJIRE CLASSIC said...
Good job attacking victims, Bryan Singer's Usual Suspects
plot said...
Never mind my guess... Seem to fit in the 1st 2 paragraphs.
There's one section I think its paragraph 3 where she says something about discovering I assume Enty in June, and "all the stuff about _____, ______, ____, and me".
So maybe it was someone referenced on the site, whether by name, inference, or maybe even a Himmmm blind.
That's all I could get out of this.
Himmmm said...
Geffen....
I'm so lost I'm not even sure what the point of this is? What are we guessing?
Morninglorri said...
Tmi who cares if you became Jewish? You need an editor.
mud said...
my brain shut down. it wouldn't let me read this.
The Judds are from Ashland KY..not the Ozarks.
I want to say Jerry Vandyke but I am pretty sure thats wrong.
Gigisnap said...
This seems like it has to connect up to dancing boy blinds?
Which, if true, makes it impossible to decode.
Poster is girl with a younger sister.
She was born in 1962 to teenage parents (so born after 1943) who did not separate until 1976
Mom was a braburner, dad was chronically immature and probably alcoholic
Her dad is dead.
she converted to Judaism in 1994 after a bout with addiction
she has been married twice - with the first divorce resulting in heinous custody battle
her stepmother? had a sister who was a beauty queen?
Stepmom was on board of a beauty pageant and credits herself with sister's sex appeal
The stepmom eventually barred her from interaction with father and cut her out of will, access - whatever
Stepmom had a daughter (much younger sister of poster) with the dad and moved to NYC to become a major stagemom - pimps out kid.
The stepmom is now the equivalent of Gypsy Rose stage mother.
Somehow there is a third wife - but Im not sure if that is stagemom or not.
Would "criminal psychologist" be Dr. Phil?
he did a show about JonBenet brother.
missjewel22 said...
Dates and ages are all wrong, but this screams Jerry Lewis and his sad illegitimate daughter, Susan Lewis, to me.
Jerry was also called the, " World's Oldest Teenager".
However, I drank 2 glasses of wine before I could decifer this.... so there's that!
https://snn.bz/jerry-lewis/
Maggie T said...
Plus 1 x 3.
I know there are some effed up families out there and that writing about it may trigger irrational writing/thought patterns.
That's what I thought. Or McCauley. Or maybe Bonnaduci?
Green Tea said...
Anyone else going to CDAN and being redirected to Psychology Today?
HeatherBee said...
WAs this girl a child actor herself if she saw herself mentioned here?
Well, never mind on that, as I reread this. What an incredibly sad story and my heart goes out to this poor soul. The premeditated percepticide seems an especially cruel hand to be dealt as a child, among the other injustices. My hope for you is sincerely some solace.
fionafab said...
Don't know if he's Jewish or not but, Mariah's ex-fiance has been named in the investigation of Netanyahu in Israel. James Packer has resigned from his own company's board. The board is saying it has nothing to do with the Netanyahu mess, it's because he's ill and can't continue as chairman. Right. Evidently, for what reason I don't know, Packer switched from Mariah to BiBi's son to shower with riches. Evidently, that ain't Kosher over there. This comment mixes show biz with politics. Felt it was appropriate.
tatty said...
I was going to guess Germaine Greer's The Female Eunich as the first of two volumes, but I don't think it had a sequel.
No, I get redirected to Turner Diaries Part 2: Turn Harder
Went burrowing through the Benny/Packer relationship and it sounds very much like Packer's relationship to Tom Cruise and Scientology years ago. Packer seems like a bit of a dunce with a huge back account and a need for friends. He doesn't seem to be lying that he has some mental health issues, he's had them before. His resignation from the board could signal a buy out by Packer, I'm reading. The stock of his casinos is currently plummeting.
Benny Net isn't going to be held legally accountable. He's had 2 big bribery indictments before, and he slithered out of both of them.
Me2 said...
did anyone make it past the first 2 sentences?
CT-Hilltopper said...
Life is too short!
On to the next blind.
this was interesting but I am alarmed for her and hope she will be okay. if it is Kathy Coleman, this is the next book she should write.
that is just a guess based on some google. born 62. Land of the Lost (never saw it). one of her autobiographical books is out of print and not available even on ebay. some photos and links are missing online, like one of those internet scrub jobs in progress.
I could be totally wrong and am willing to delete this.
Velora said...
Obscure celebs.
This first part sounds like the Hemingway Sisters; Muffy, Mariel and Margeaux. Oprah put that documentary "Running from Crazy". Muriel got divorced but has 2 daughters in the fashion industry. Muffy's is/was married to Jean Denoyer, who's pretty famous on the UES.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_Hemingway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_from_Crazy
http://thevillager.com/villager_371/amanofpassion.html
Second part...? Sounds like Marla Maples with a few tweaks to cover blatant details. But most can be connected to her, imo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marla_Maples
I ran out of time to keep digging, though...
Edit: Oprah put the docudrama on the OWN channel
So crazy it might be true:
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You are all being used to force an insane cult agenda down the world's throat.
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Should have posted the uncut, raw version, what the fuck are you hiding son😁
"CDAN is being used to redpill the normies and make the connection to the Great Awakening. This blind says, in a nutshell, that POTUS knows Bill Clinton and Paul Marciano used Anna Nicole Smith as an international sex slave for personal and business purposes."
T. W. said...
Gonna wait on the reveal for this one.
Teaching in the trenches said...
VikingSong said...
I really can't abide millennials or their infantile buzzwords.
Genna said...
WOW, stay in school kids. STAY IN SCHOOL.
Monkey Mich said...
So umm yeah. I hope whoever this is finds their way. My only guess is for the books. I like the Germain Greer guess above as the blind mentions feminism. My Guess The Story of O vol I&II, Xaviera Hollander Happy Hooker books? Other than that I got nothing.
chillip said...
wow. hard to follow but great potential.
one off topic(I guess) note about Pageant. Read Kevin Meaney as the MC, wondered about that in relation to his late coming out. From Wiki: "He explained that his time on Broadway was where he gained the courage to accept his homosexuality."
strongly agree with those hoping the author finds some peace from this terrible story.
J-Mo said...
I never read the long ones.
Nobody can abide your mindless consumption without ever putting shit back
You sound like Saturn
Craig said...
Many of these words are made up and don't appear in any accepted dictionary. The rest? Well I am familiar with most of them, just not necessarily in the order they are presented.
Enty needs an editor because this nonsense is baffling.
how many whiny unemployed/underemployed English majors/sockpuppets constantly vomiting unoriginal thoughts can there be in this world?
No Wuckin' Furries said...
Could this be about Joan Crawford and Christina Crawford??
Revisiting this to remind you of what a worthless Gen-X(?) cum addict and terrible mother you are
Casey Kasem?
Tv's Uncle Buck is gay? Who knew? Good on him for coming out.
Uhhhhhh, Viking Song, the writer was born in 1962, so, NOT a millennial.
Poppies115 said...
Traci Nelson, WTF knows.
Aimless Spectator said...
How about a clue, such as
- are these "obscure" celebrities because they are primarily known in academia or some intellectual realm?
- Do these parties have something to do with some psychotherapy fads or "pop psychology", like Transactional Analysis, Mind Games, or something similar?
- Does this blind relate perhaps to previous discussion of Timothy Leary's realm of age inappropriate sexuality?
I mean come on, throw us a bone here. It seems like an exercise in how much nonsense the readers will cope with.
Could this blind be relevant to post now because it in any way relates to the television show 'This Is Us'?
what about that Chrome Hearts goth jewelry business, split with the original partners, now Richard Stark and Laurie Lynn Stark are super rich with model children jet setting around with the hadid kids and Cher, hanging out with rockers when they were little. Can't find anything about Laurie Lynn's parents, could be her? I am just spending too much time on this.
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Selling Sanctuary said...
trying to make Melanie Griffith (married to Don Johnson of Missouri) fit here.
Johnson has five kids and about as many marriages.
riffer73 said...
Where's that guy who translated the last incomprehensible blind into human?
Cree said...
These post really need to be proof read and edited (even linking to an unedited version if needed). This was too hard to properly follow in this format.
Gonna post the only stuff I could make out. Hopefully it helps someone figure this mess out.
S = Submiter of this BI
A = A list mostly movie actor, highest payed child actor at the time.
SM = Mother of S's sister
SS = Daughter of SM
H = submiters husband
EH = ex husband, might also be "H"
D = Dad/father of SS
M = S's mother
G = grandmother of "S" / mother of "M"
PS = Pagaeant queen's sister
PQ = Pagaent queen
NF = Nancy Friday (?)
"A" now lives off of residuled from past work.
"SS" surrounded by pedophiles, reminds "S" of Jon Benet Ramsey
"NF" wrote fantasy books depicting woman's sexual fantasy in the 1970s.
SM = normalizes abuse done to "S". Attempted to erase "S" from father's legacy.
"M" groomed "S" using NF's books. "M" and "G" are from coal mining town /"Ozark mountains"
"M" and "D" had open relationship/ were swingers.
"D" has been married at least "3" times. "S" refers to him as "local John Travolta". Also refered to as "worlds oldest teenager".
"PS" or "PQ" have been or have currently been married to "D". Also believe either "PQ" or "PS" are the "SM" character.
"PS" is intially introduced as 24 and sister of a "Big" Pageant queen (PQ).
"PS" is jealous of PQ.
Either PS or PQ were once on the "board of pageants". One of them marries "D" around 1991.
"PS" or "PQ" is refered to as a svengali to her sister.
"PS" or "PQ" is currently (at the time this post was sent) working their child ("SS") "to the bone".
"EH" or "H" is an implied abuser of "S" and has some type of ties to drugs. "Narcopath".
"EH/H" Makes jewlery and can make guitars, has a thing for "SM".
Works at a jewlery store on the Upper east side.
"EH" abused "D". "SM or M + D" helped get custody of "S"'s child because "S" told about abuse from "D".
"D" and "M" gave birth to S in 1962, while both were teenagers.
November 1976 "D" "mistakenly" assaultd "S" while drunk.
"S" tells friends at school, March 1977.
Theres another "incident" that happens between 76 - march 77 of sexual assault.
"S" spends 35 years wondering if ___ is bad or good.
"S" was once written about in a previous blind or multiple blinds.
"S" works with others "hunting" pedophiles.
"S" was 14 in either 1976 or 1977.
"S" seems to be remarried again. Became Jewish in 1994. Married to orthadox jew.
[Final post]
"S" talking to Enty, says this of her father; "...Lolita as an icon has an underlying agenda and "D" was attracted to a woman that was tormented and twisted about pedophiles for reasons I will never know."
Post contains references to "Obscure celebrities.
That was honestly all I could peace together without better context.
. . . has some type of ties to drugs. "Narcopath".
No. "Narcopath" is a made up pop psychology term that combines the words narcisist and psycho/sociopath. It doesn't refer to drug abuse.
The author seems involved in on-line communities of family members of narcisits, which is the only place where the nonscientific concept "narcopath" occurs. Other references in the blind, such as "what a narcissistic discard IS" refelct lingo used by that community.
Reference to "UES", Upper East Side, indicates New York City is an important geographic fact in this blind. The author specifically claims "I knew these activists in NYC the last decade." NYC is where the pedophile endangered child comes to, so impliedly is the locus of the story on those grounds also.
NYC is also where the probable A lister, Culkin, currently lives, where you'd find it easy to convert to a flavor of Jewish religion of your choice, where you'd find a thriving jewelry industry, where you'd find off-Broadway stage plays to attend such as the one referenced, plenty of child oriented beauty pageant activity, plenty of pedophiles, plenty of errant orthodox boys, . . . and in short plenty of everything in this blind.
Possibly the "campus" of relevance in this story is NYU, a place where Culkin went I believe. There are a number of possible campuses in NYC, though.
Corishev said...
A musical called "Pageant" opened off-Broadway in 1991,
Great research.
I'm going to take a wild guess that the "legacy" here is that Narcissist/Sociopath Dad in this had a "legacy" of promoting some of the first boy's doing girl's beauty pagents along with a stepmom who had the author's stepsister. An example is:
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&client=firefox-b-1-ab&q=boy%20dressed%20as%20girl%20in%20beauty%20pageant&ved=2ahUKEwj-vIiawaDcAhUI3Z8KHcrTBHkQsKwBKAMwAHoECAAQDw&biw=1024&bih=631
Endless "mutton dressed as lamb" in that photosearch.
I'm going to guess that the "evidence" is a photo of a "pendant" the author paid for, but was worn by a BOY dressed as a girl in a beauty pagent.
What would Culkin have to do with all of this? Maybe he bought the boy the pendant.
http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2011/09/eden-wood-takes-her-act-to-fashion-week.html
is the sort of blind the unknown author of this came to CDAN to reaad. Perhaps the whole Hollywood pedophile angle Mr. Hedge is so heavily into investigating and exposing is what brought her here.
Plenty of current pop culture figures got starts in the southern beauty pageant. Britney Spears, Demi Lovato, who has a sister she didn't even meet until she was 20 . . .
Anyhow, the "obscure celebrity" aspect of all this might be beauty pagent oriented.
Anybody that wants to see Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag while Donald Trump looks on, point your browser to:
http://www.femulate.org/search?updated-max=2018-06-28T00:12:00-04:00&max-results=20&start=11&by-date=false
Man, I'm learning more about the secret world of all boy (and all men) beauty pageants than I ever thought I would trying to chase down this blind!
@Aimless Spectstor thanks for the clarification. I thought it was a mix of the words Narcotics and Psychopath.
@Qimless Spectator* sorry, ai didnt ready all your post before replying, but thank you for the insight. I feel like I gathered a lot more information than I picked up on my own.
Im interested in knowing how Culkin plays into this. With all the blank spaces, it makes it hard to know which blank is who. I had no idea there even were male beauty pagaents.
The "board of pageants written about im this blind seems like such a generic term. Is there a way to find memembers or ex members for each pageant group? Like miss america or miss teen usa? I tried to do some searching, but I dont think I'm searching with the correct phrasing.
Mentioning Donald Trump is interesting for his pageant relations and has ties to Culkin via Home Alone 2. Not saying he's related directly to this blind, just thought it was interesting it was brought up.
Aimless Spectator * managed to write your name incorrectly twice, sorry. (On mobile)
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Producer's Note: Last January, Bauer Business Focus debuted on KUHF as a weekly radio segment featuring faculty and business experts from a wide range of industries discussing everyday to paramount business issues. Subsequently in the spirit of the radio segment, UH Bauer College inaugurates a web video version and companion to expand Bauer Business Focus. These web broadcasts capture engaging conversations held over the semester with business experts who come to Melcher Hall and bring an industry-specific focus area perspective. We are glad to feature this new version of Bauer Business Focus on mybauerpride.com.
Executive Professor Steven Koch has scheduled regular talks with Internet marketing experts about what they do and where this fast-changing field is headed. Starting in the fall semester, Koch, also director of the Business Consulting Lab at the UH Bauer College of Business, began offering a graduate level course on Internet Marketing.
In Internet analytics, ROI and commerce, universe, art and science are colliding, and Eddie Ramirez is working at ground zero.
The engagement manager for Adobe Systems Omniture Business Unit advises big companies like Travelocity and Dell on how to use the company's software tools to get an ever better understanding of who their customers are, what they want and what moves them to act.
Ramirez sees these web analytics tools from Adobe and others setting off a fundamental change in how companies make decisions.
"At the end of the day you your ideas have to prove their worth," Ramirez said during the inaugural Bauer Business Focus on Internet Marketing with Koch, who brought in Ramirez to speak to his MBA Internet Marketing students. The class will use a version of Adobe SiteCatalyst software to learn how companies gather and analyze consumer data.
A decade ago the information available about what customers were doing on corporate web sites was sketchy at best. Ramirez, who'd majored in electrical engineering in college, was then helping big companies create and operate web sites.
"People would ask, 'how is it working?' and I'd say, 'I don't know,' " Ramirez said.
Since then he's been able to offer progressively better answers to the question, with software able to analyze the growing flood of data. The nature of this information has grown more personal as Facebook and other social networking sites have pushed the bounds of information gathering.
The results these tools – known as web analytics – can challenge a company's decision making process.
The new tools are changing the jobs of many workers. Ramirez said he has observed situations where there's a divide between those in the creative end of the online universe, who increasingly need to pay greater attention to the numbers, and the number crunchers, who need to better understand what creative efforts are most effective.
The blurring of the lines is evident in Koch's class, where Ramirez spoke. The background of the 44 students in the graduate level course covers marketing, communications and engineering.
Companies like Travelocity are relying on improved web analytics to reach out to potential customers with travel options increasingly tailored to their interests and budget. | {
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Q: What is the meaning of the green curved arrow in the Visual Studio code editor? If you go to this webpage, and scroll down:
http://www.unauthorised-access.com/category/nettiers/
You see a green U-turn like arrow. Does anyone know what this means? I read somewhere, a long time ago, it has something to do with threading and multi-threaded code but I can't remember.
Thanks
A: I think that's just showing a line break. The line with the green arrow should be on the same line as the one above, but it's been split because it is too wide for the page.
A: Isn't this simply a symbol to indicate that the line was wrapped by the source code formatter?
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It's no secret that life becomes more complicated once you have children. Between accommodating meal and sleep schedules, ensuring the diaper bag is packed and just getting little ones in and out of the car, even the simplest outing can feel overwhelming.
When our daughter, Cate, was born, I was so anxious about leaving the house that I practically avoided going anywhere except to work or to run a quick errand. Thankfully, I learned a few age-specific parenting tricks to help reduce my stress by feeling more organized and prepared.
Make a list: With an infant in tow, we did not travel light. At the very least, we always needed to have diapers and wipes, pacifiers, extra clothes, bibs, burp cloths and a blanket or nursing cover. To make sure we didn't forget one of these must-have items, I posted a checklist on the door leading to the garage. Whenever we walked out to the car, my husband and I could quickly scan the list to be sure we had everything with us. This was also helpful when Cate's grandparents would come to help watch her.
Coordinate travel times: Whenever traveling long distances, we tried to coordinate our travel plans with naptime or bedtime so Cate would sleep in the car for most – if not all – of the ride. If we left at bedtime, we tried to adhere to our normal routine of bath and jammies before getting in the car.
Invest in a storage bin: As Cate has gotten older, diapers and bottles have been replaced with toys, coloring books and crayons. I purchased a cute, foldable storage bin to keep in the car, and it is filled with these items. So, even if we eat out unexpectedly, I am always prepared with a toy or stickers. And if there's one thing that will keep your toddler entertained, it's stickers!
Pack snacks: Never leave the house without a snack! Because my toddler's meltdowns are usually a result of either being too tired or too hungry, I always carry a box of raisins, pouch of applesauce or a granola bar – or all three – in my purse. Even if she's tired, a snack will usually help both of us make it to bedtime.
Create a shared calendar: At age 3 and a half, Cate's calendar is starting to be as busy as ours, filled with practices, birthday parties and playdates. My husband and I use a shared family calendar to keep up with her activities, as well as work obligations, travel schedules and other family commitments.
Get organized at home: We have a cabinet or basket in most rooms of our house dedicated for Cate's things. For example, there is one cabinet in the living room for toys, and she has a kitchen set with a small decorative basket of kitchen accessories in our kitchen. This method has helped us reduce clutter while allowing her the flexibility to play wherever we are. Now that she's increasingly more self-sufficient, we've also started applying this to the pantry and fridge, where she has a space on the bottom shelves for her parent-approved snacks and drinks.
Looking for more parenting "hacks?" Primrose Schools has tons of tips to help you navigate parenthood, from surviving potty training and dealing with picky eaters to helping your child say goodbye to the pacifier.
Adaptability Skills: Does Your Child Have Them? | {
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Bedroom needs to reflect your personal style. Wardrobe is a crucial element in the bedroom, which grabs attention as soon as you walk in. It takes a lot of space, so have a customized wardrobe to complement the space along with its soft furnishings. You get unique storage space and make the room appear visually pleasing.
Closet needs to be well-organized, so that you can easily find needed clothes and things. You can even return them in its place again very easily. The customized riidekapid [wardrobes] add features given below for better organization.
Many people throw their clothes inside the wardrobe haphazardly without any thought for sorting and organizing. It makes it hard to find a favored dress and the space looks extremely cluttered. Customizing a closet means getting exactly what you desire.
According to professionals customized wardrobe offers countless number of possibilities. You may view the storage space to be tiny but they get an idea about the floor-to-ceiling cubbies and shelving. They make sure that too much wall or floor space is not deprived from other uses.
Designers make use of premium materials to construct the wardrobe, so you can expect years of service from it. You will not have to be concerned whether shelves will bear weight of clothes or drawers get stuck overtime.
On the other hand, a readymade wardrobe is most likely to fail much sooner than expected. If you invest money wisely the very first time in construction, quality materials, and installation then undoubtedly you will get hardwearing custom closet, which can handle daily wear and tear.
Closet designers take advantage of available space and create an efficient system, which suits your style, needs, and budget. Customers get to choose options like drawers or shelves, hanging bar placement, stain color, and even basket style. The designer works with customers closely and understand their storage needs to create design which fulfills their specific needs.
Function is the base of wardrobe design. In addition, the designer adds some exclusive elements and proper finishes to the structure, so as it matches your taste and merges with your unique style perfectly.
Assessing home improvement values, while reselling is hard because each buyer's needs differ. However, with respect to prefabricated and custom wardrobe, it is experienced that buyers find efficient storage system appealing. Professionally constructed and designed wardrobe increases home value in future [when you decide to sell it]. Prospective buyers pay more for lots of storage space.
Customized wardrobe really pays off overtime. In case, there is an error in the system or it starts to break then owners need to call professionals to fix it. Your warranty does not cover everything but during breakage of some parts you can anticipate to have it repaired without paying extra.
V-Disain team ensures that your closet space is perfect and functional. They craft a customized organization solution, which suits your room and lifestyle.
Arthur Cooper has written this article. Call +372 7310 165 to talk with customized wardrobe experts at V-Disain or you can visit their showroom at Teguri Furniture Center in Tartu. Customized riidekapid are designed from high quality and durable melamine plaque. | {
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Chewbacca Mom Praises Jesus for Resurrection Miracles in Latest Viral Video
'Jezebel' Scoffs at WSJ Piece Condemning Porn
10:30AM EDT 9/6/2016 Sarah Stites/NewsBusters
Pamela Anderson penned a scathing editorial with a rabbi about the devastation of porn. (Facebook/Pamela Anderson)
For Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and former playmate Pamela Anderson, the latest Anthony Weiner scandal provided a news peg for an important discussion: the deleterious effects of pornography. Yet predictably, Jezebel was critical of their "puritanical" approach.
In an opinion piece published in the Sept. 1 edition of the Wall Street Journal, Anderson and Boteach urged readers to consider the "devastation that porn addiction wreaks on those closest to the addict," using Weiner's wife Huma Abedin and their 4-year-old son, Jordan, as example victims.
Comparing the addictive nature of porn to that of drugs, Boteach and Anderson argued that "the incidence of porn addiction will only spiral as the children now being raised in an environment of wall-to-wall, digitized sexual images become adults inured to intimacy and in need of even greater graphic stimulation." Today's kids, the pair wrote, are the "crack babies of porn."
But children are not simply suffering from exposure; they are hugely affected by the toll pornography takes on their parents. Addressing this, Boteach and Anderson highlighted porn's "corrosive effects" on a "man's soul and on his ability to function as husband and, by extension, as father."
Jezebel contributor Stassa Edwards scoffed at what she viewed to be sensationalist moralism. First, Edwards argued that the concept of porn addiction is still "controversial" in the psychological field, pointing to the fact it is not a recognized disorder in the DSM V. Then, the feminist writer's true colors shone when she complained: "There's a reliance here on a host of old stereotypes: that women aren't sexual, that fathers are the moral linchpin of the family and that the family relies on the appropriate expression of sex according to gender roles." How old-fashioned!
Although Boteach and Anderson clearly expressed the view that the "Pandora's box of pornography" could not be capped, they still advocated for solutions to quell the damage. One such idea was a "sensual revolution"—the idea of replacing porn with eroticism—that would "alloy ... sex with love ... physicality with personality."
To this, Edwards sighed: "Porn, in this framing, has no room apparently in long-term relationships or marriage."
Although a commitment to instilling high moral standards might be a more effective call to action than the writers' "sensual revolution," the pair are certainly to be commended for addressing this incredibly important issue so eloquently. Hopefully, some readers will be convicted and change their ways. The stakes are too high to ignore.
This article originally appeared on newsbusters.org.
Related topics: Pornography | Sexual Immorality | {
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Broomhill Art Hotel, Muddiford Road, Barnstaple, EX31 4EX, England.
Broomhill Art Hotel now have sixteen images in their collection which are modestly priced. These paintings and prints include recent paintings.
'Cut' -Oil on Canvas 2006 18" x 18"
Broomhill also have three of the images that were exhibited at The Museum of Dartmoor Life in their 'RECYCLE dartmoor' exhibition (15 April until 27 May 2006) these were then exhibited at Beaford Arts .
Broomhill's collection also includes lithographs from the 'Allergies 2' solo exhibition (which was at 'The Queen's Theatre' , Barnstaple. 23rd August 2004 - 19th September 2004).
"I began the lithographs in this series in 1978 and completed them in 2004. Over this period of time my life has changed, my body has changed, my politics have changed, my diet has changed etc. Each print is unique and not part of an edition " | {
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Bitter cold temps delay Worcester school buses
Public, private schools affected by cold buses
Updated: 11:23 AM EST Jan 8, 2014
Todd Kazakiewich
School buses in Worcester were significantly delayed Wednesday because of the bitterly cold weather, according to school officials.Watch reportSchool officials posted 16 delayed bus routes on its website and sent a phone message alert at 7:15 a.m.Worcester School Committee member Tracy Novick said the problems were caused by diesel buses that wouldn't start in the bitter cold."Not surprisingly, with diesel engines, we had some buses that wouldn't start. And, you get enough of those not starting, and run out of spares, and we start having routes that are affected, and that's what happened this morning," Novick said.Novick said very few students, if any, were stranded at bus stops because parents were informed of the problem early in the morning."We actually run a tiered system so each bus runs up to three routes in the morning and three in the afternoon. So you could have one bus out, but actually end up with multiple schools impacted because of the way the route system works," Novick said.In addition to Worcester public schools, private schools including St. Peter Marian Catholic Junior-Senior High School and St. Peter Central Catholic Elementary School, were also delayed.Novick said all the buses eventually fired, and no delays were expected for the afternoon.
WORCESTER, Mass. —
School buses in Worcester were significantly delayed Wednesday because of the bitterly cold weather, according to school officials.
Watch report
School officials posted 16 delayed bus routes on its website and sent a phone message alert at 7:15 a.m.
Worcester School Committee member Tracy Novick said the problems were caused by diesel buses that wouldn't start in the bitter cold.
"Not surprisingly, with diesel engines, we had some buses that wouldn't start. And, you get enough of those not starting, and run out of spares, and we start having routes that are affected, and that's what happened this morning," Novick said.
Novick said very few students, if any, were stranded at bus stops because parents were informed of the problem early in the morning.
"We actually run a tiered system so each bus runs up to three routes in the morning and three in the afternoon. So you could have one bus out, but actually end up with multiple schools impacted because of the way the route system works," Novick said.
In addition to Worcester public schools, private schools including St. Peter Marian Catholic Junior-Senior High School and St. Peter Central Catholic Elementary School, were also delayed.
Novick said all the buses eventually fired, and no delays were expected for the afternoon. | {
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Last week's midterm elections made Republican representatives from wealthy districts an endangered species.
Democrats flipped 10 Republican-held seats among the 50 House districts with the highest household median incomes, a span ranging from $77,468 to $116,069. If Democrat Katie Porter hangs on to an apparent victory over Republican incumbent Mimi Walters in California's 25th District, that would raise the total to 11.
That also would leave just nine Republican representatives in the 50 richest districts — and none in the top 20.
Democrats would have 39. (For purposes of this comparison, we did not count the three districts in Pennsylvania that cracked the top 50 because the data are based on census figures that now are out of date in the Keystone State following a court-ordered redistricting that radically altered the district boundaries).
The trend is not new. For some time, Republicans have found America's toniest ZIP codes hostile territory. President Donald Trump carried just 11 of the top 50 districts — 12 including one of the now-changed Pennsylvania districts.
But the trend appears to be growing stronger.
Democrats now have the richest congressional district in the country, measured by median income — the 10th District in Northern Virginia, where half of households earn more than $116,069. Democrat Jennifer Wexton handily defeated incumbent Republican Barbara Comstock.
Democrats also made inroads in New Jersey. Tom Malinowski and Mike Sherill won districts that narrowly backed Trump in 2016. They rank fifth and seventh, respectively, in household median income.
The Illinois 6th Congressional District in suburban Chicago is home to loads of upscale voters who reliably backed Republicans for decades. It has been in Republican hands since the early 1970s, when it was created after redistricting. The venerable Henry Hyde represented it for 32 years.
But Democrats have become more competitive. Former President Barack Obama won it narrowly in 2008, and Hillary Clinton carried it by 7 percentage points in 2016.
Last week, Republican Peter Roskam — who had been in office since 2006 — went down to defeat.
Republican Rep. Randy Hultgren suffered the same fate in the neighboring 14th District.
The election brought signs of trouble for the GOP in upper-income districts throughout the country. Democrat Harley Rouda defeated Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in a district in once solidly Republican Orange County in California.
Republicans only narrowly survived in a number of other top-50 districts. Republican Young Kim is clinging to a 711-vote lead in California's 39th District in a race that has not yet been called. Reps. Peter King and Lee Zeldin both won single-digit re-election races on New York's Long Island.
A generation ago, it was the GOP that dominated these upper-income suburban enclaves, while the Democrats maintained their House majority through a combination of inner-city districts and large stretches of rural and small-town America.
Following the 1990 election, for instance, Democrats still represented most of the South— but also North Dakota and South Dakota, both congressional districts in Idaho, western Colorado and two of Utah's three districts.
Perhaps no state better illustrates the transformation that has taken place since than Minnesota. Last week, Democrats knocked off two Republicans there in suburban districts outside of Minneapolis.
Democrat Dean Phillips turned out Republican Rep. Erik Paulsen in the 3rd District, where the $81,804 median income is the 36th highest in the country. Angie Craig defeated Rep. Jason Lewis in the 2nd District, which ranks 50th, with a median income of $77,468.
But Minnesota was the rare state where Republicans picked up seats, too. Jim Hagedorn won a race in the 1st District along the southern part of the state to replace a retiring Democrat. Compared to the Minneapolis suburbs, it is decidedly downscale, ranking 174th in median income at $57,780.
The 8th District, which covers the largely rural northeastern corner of the state, was for decades one of the most reliably Democratic areas of the country. Its household median income of $51,684 puts it in the bottom half of the country — 247th.
Except for a single term from 2011 to 2013, the district has been represented by a Democrat since the end of World War II. But Republican Pete Stauber won the open seat last week.
Looking ahead, Democrats appear to have room to grow. Winning Republicans last week won 53 percent of the vote or less in Missouri's 2nd District outside of St. Louis; Ohio's 12th District outside of Columbus; Georgia's 7th District north of Atlanta; the 2nd and 10th Districts in the Houston areas in Texas, and the 24th District in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metropolitan area.
All of those districts rank among the top 100 in household median income.
It will be difficult for Republicans to win national elections if they cannot compete in upscale urban and suburban congressional districts even if they remain dominant in exurban and rural districts. | {
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Back in 2013, I put on my reading resolution to read science fiction classics. Finally I am picking up The Time Machine for my weekend read. This is book also falls into my recent trend of time travel related shows, films, and prose.
The Time Traveler, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.
September 18, 2017 in Book Review. | {
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45149 passes Southam on 28 July 2013 with the 2L54 10:10 Cheltenham Racecourse to Laverton service, during the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway's Diesel Gala. Unfortunately, like so many occasions over the weekend, the train corresponded with one of the lengthy cloudy spells. At least the loco's light blue undercoat helps brighten up the picture! | {
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Silicon Alley Players Chime in on What 2014 Holds
Jacob Ajwani | January 10, 2014
From Twitter, Rocket Fuel and Criteo IPOs to record-high online sales for the tech community and ecommerce, 2013 turned out to be a huge year.
So what does 2014 have in store? I posed the question to New York's burgeoning digital community to get their take on global ecommerce trends, mobile's continued climb toward domination, and emerging acquisition strategies. Here's what they had to say.
Ben Plomion, VP Marketing @ Chango
Once upon a time, different groups within a digital marketing team were divided by clear lines. But as programmatic techniques have spread from search to every other corner of the digital marketing world, the lines have blurred. Meanwhile, paid, owned, and earned media are as blurry as ever. Who owns Facebook Exchange—the social media team or the paid media one? And for that matter, what happens when someone likes an ad on Facebook? Is this social lift paid or earned? How about Twitter's tailored audiences (aka Twitter retargeting)? In 2014, expect to see media buyers taking credit for social lift. And you can bet that social managers will try to take credit for native ads.
Jon Mendez, Founder & CEO @ Yieldbot
Marketer's worlds are going to change in 2014 because of the abundant versatility and new insights now available in marketing channels. Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, (and our own, Yieldbot), are all bringing the things marketers want: massive scale, first-party data, brand-safe environments, performance pricing, cross-device delivery, and ease of buying. Expect dollars from all ad budgets to start flowing into these channels in 2014 and for marketers to experience success with them.
Evan Schwartz, CEO @ Actionx
With phone and tablet usage displacing desktop/PC, marketers will put a greater emphasis on multi-screen efforts and delivering a relevant, clean, and efficient experience regardless of device. Additionally, marketers will focus on building comprehensive and more accurate profiles of their users, utilizing privacy-friendly data pulled from multiple devices that enable effective engagement efforts across channels. Today's consumers are always connected; responsive design, user segmentation and targeting, deep linking, and dynamic creative will be a focus for marketers and brands looking to improve the customer experience.
Mitchell Reichgut, CEO @ Jun Group
In 2014, brands will use Facebook differently. Social tools are now ubiquitous and brands will use Facebook more like a traditional media property (i.e., a place to run pre-roll video through native ads) and less as their de facto social platform. In this new model, brands' owned properties will become primary destinations for their consumers, with sites like Facebook acting as traffic drivers. Red Bull, for instance, had great success with Felix Baumgartner's space jump.
If all this sounds familiar, it's the same marketing model brands used in the late-1990s. Back then, the strategy was known as "sticky content." This time around, brands are armed with the ability to drive significant numbers of people to their sites via social, and to engage them once they're acquired. This was a crucial element missing in the initial iteration of the model, and it will be interesting to see how it plays out this time around.
Adam Chandler, Head Of Global Programmatic Revenue @ Millennial Media
More than ever before, more open roads are leading to the brands directly. With the explosion of new marketing needs given automation trends, consumer adoption towards "me" media, always accessible mobile devices, plus the many actionable ways to use your customer data, brands are adding new people into the marketing process whose titles don't have marketing in them. Everything from tech, data, and marketing automation now have a stronger presence at a brands HQ.
Darren Herman, VP of Content Services @ Mozilla
As CES 2014 highlights the innovation around "The Internet of Things," we are going to begin to see devices become increasingly smarter which takes an entire infrastructure that did not exist previously. If we want devices to be aware of each other, operate independently and dependently, then we need an ecosystem that provides compute power, storage, accessibility, and most importantly, instructions. I believe one of the key areas of innovation in 2014 will be around the creation of instructions, which allow devices to be predictive, context aware, and an asset, rather than a liability. | {
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Our guide to postgraduate study is designed to help you decide what to do after graduating university. We've answered questions asked by real graduates, so you have all the information you need to make an informed decision with regard to postgraduate study and whether it's right for you.
Postgraduate study is a level of higher academic education open to graduates. Postgraduate study opens students up to more complex ideas and advanced theories that offer the opportunity for people to learn specialised knowledge in a specific field.
More people are choosing to study a Masters than ever before. Over 300,000 people started a taught postgraduate course in 2016-17, the highest number in a decade.
This is the second year in a row to show a rise in postgraduate numbers. This suggests more people are seeking additional skills and training after graduating. At a time when undergraduate degrees are considered to be worth less than they were ten years ago, more students are opting to stay on and gain the benefits of an advanced level of education.
Compared with undergraduate courses, postgraduate courses in the UK are challenging and intensive. They generally have a narrow focus, allowing you to specialise in one specific aspect of your chosen subject. Once you have started a course, induction programmes help you to meet other students and find your way around a new campus. Inductions are likely to be more in-depth for international students.
After induction, life for a postgrad is similar to normal university life. The difference is that more is expected of you and you are given much more autonomy. This means you have to be prepared to be self-motivated and be able to think bigger than ever before.
Whether you've been away from studying for a few years or coming straight up from your bachelors degree, postgratuate study is difficult.
A postgraduate course, such as a masters degree, is likely to be much more taxing than anything you've experienced in your academic life. You'll have to tackle new ideas, new concepts and new ways of working.
Like many things in life, the beginning of postgraduate study is the most intense. You will need perseverance, an open mind and drive in those first few months. But you won't be alone in your efforts.
However you decide to undertake your postgraduate study, we're here to provide support. Speak to us today and discover how we can help.
You can find the requirements for study in the course information of the postgraduate course you'd like to join.
Not all postgraduate programs need an undergraduate degree. Many professional courses may allow you to join a postgraduate course without one. All you need is the relevant skills and experience.
However, most Masters programs expect applicants to hold an appropriate bachelors degree. This is partly because of the need to demonstrate your ability to apply academic rigor to studies that you only really learn at university.
Many people do not study the same subject as a postgraduate that they studied for their first degree. Often, they will divert into a similar subject. One example would be doing a Business Analytics Bachelors Degree and an Economics Postgraduate Degree.
Some postgraduate courses consider applicants who have relevant work experience instead of a first degree. This is known as 'recognition of prior learning', and depends on the subject area. However, it is more common for business courses and rarer in the arts and sciences.
The cost of postgraduate study varies between subjects, courses and institutions. To find out more about fees and funding contact the admissions office at the university or college you're considering.
There are a number of ways you can receive state funding for your postgraduate studies. A new masters degree loan was launched in 2016-17 where masters students under 60 can access a loan of up to £10,000 towards the cost of their study. For students starting their course in 2017-18 a loan of up to £10,280 will be available.
The loans are administered by Student Finance England and information about eligibility and the application process can be found on their student finance page at The Student Room.
Getting funding can be hard and needs research. You may be able to find funding related to your course, from your employer or other external sources. You may need to find funding yourself.
For students who live in Scotland, Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) provide loan funding of up to £10,000 to cover tuition fees and living costs for full-time postgraduate students. They also offer access to £2,750 to cover tuition fees for part-time postgraduate courses. Further details are available on the SAAS website.
Why take a postgraduate course?
Some employers place more value on a postgraduate qualification. The recognise the value in the advanced insight you can bring to a specialised role. However, this is not the case with all employers.
Most postgraduate degrees will allow you to step into a business at a higher level than regular graduates. How this helps your career will depend on many factors, because experience also plays a role in determining career success.
Speaking directly with an employer or a professional association should clarify whether a course is well-suited to a particular career path. If an employer is prepared to fund your study, it is a good indication that the qualification will be useful.
If you undertook postgraduate study to change career, your new degree will give you a firm grounding in your new work life. You will be able to combine your past experiences with the specialist knowledge of your course to add real value to your job.
Masters degrees lead to qualifications such as Master of Science, Master of Arts or Master of Letters. They usually take 12 months for full-time courses. In some cases, they 'integrate' with an undergraduate degree to form a single, four year course on which students gradually specialise as they go into the final year.
Masters postgraduate courses are divided into 'taught' or 'research' courses. Taught degrees are best for students who wish to expand upon their subject knowledge. Research programs are designed for postgraduates who wish to spend more time on their own independent scholarship or project work.
• Taught masters are similar to undergraduate degrees. You'll study a series of modules before going on to complete an extended dissertation.
• Research masters involve much more independent study. They can still include taught units, but you'll spend more time on your own research.
These courses are as academically challenging as a taught masters, but are generally shorter.
These courses improve or develop the skills required for a specific job and are often funded by employers. Examples of this type of qualification include a Legal Practice Course to help graduates become qualified solicitors.
Most UK students study postgraduate courses on a part-time basis. Full-time courses are more often studied by international students. UK students generally prefer to spread the cost of their postgraduate study and pay fees over a period of time. They also stay in work and use part-time study as a way of improving their career opportunities.
For a full-time student, you could be working 9-5 every weekday. Even if those aren't your hours the idea is that, as a full-time student, your commitment to study is expected to be above six or seven hours per day.
As a part-time postgraduate student, you may well find that teaching hours and study time are very fixed. This can be an advantage or a disadvantage, depending upon your circumstances and perspective.
Even if your course does require a bachelors degree, you don't need to continue to postgraduate study immediately.
Don't commit yourself to a postgraduate program just because you're not sure what else to do. Any big investment requires solid thought and understanding. You need to research the subject area you're interested in as well as the options it will open up for you.
In fact, many students return to university after a period in work and gain qualifications that help them advance in existing careers – or change career path. | {
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Our Bucharest-based organization was founded back in 2016.
Our main aim is to promote Portuguese language in its entire complexity through cultural and educational projects, as well as through Portuguese language courses.
We believe great opportunities arise from access to great education, which is why we dedicate a lot of time to planning, designing and delivering our courses.
Learning a foreign language is more than learning grammar and vocabulary. It is about expanding your horizon, understanding cultures and communicating in such a way that fully resonates with your interlocutor. As a result, in our activities combined we focus on developing pragmatic and intercultural abilities, apart from linguistic competencies.
Cristina is the founding member of our organization, which she has been running from the very beginning. She graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Bucharest University and holds a Major in Portuguese Studies. She is currently working on her PhD thesis in Linguistics. She is also a certified trainer and a sworn translator. If you are interested in project collaborations, personalized courses or learning and design input, she is the person you should contact.
For Simina, the Portuguese language has accompanied her in her professional activity ever since graduating the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Bucharest University, where she later returned for an MA in Translation Studies. She is a literary translator, a trainer and a cultural events organizer. | {
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Eric Himan Releases "Red Hot Tears"
Singer/songwriter Eric Himan has released a new single in preparation for the release of the highly anticipated 'Gracefully' album scheduled to drop in a few weeks. "Red Hot Tears" is a beautifully produced Pop song written by the talented musician. The song is a great combination of the driven Pop infused with the soulful vocals few can deliver like Eric. Like much of Himan's work, there is an unmistakable honesty present, the first cut on 'Gracefully'. This is the project for which Himan launched a successful crowdfunding campaign, and the faith so many held in Himan is now paying off. The album was made available to them electronically, and as someone who has heard it, all I can say is "WOW"! I can't wait for everyone to hear it. Until then, check out this preview of "Red Hot Tears".
You can purchase "Red Hot Tears" from iTunes and Amazon. For more about Eric Himan, visit his official website, where you can listen to his music as well as learn the latest news. You can also 'follow' him on Twitter, or 'like' him on Facebook. 'Gracefully' will be available later this month, on June 25th. The album is named for Himan's grandmother, Grace Himan, who had a strong hand in his youth. She past away last year, but Eric still feels a strong tie to her, for she always encouraged the young man to be involved in the arts. In many ways, I guess I have Grace to thanks for so many years of excellent music.
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