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Posted on December 11, 2019 by Alex Schellekens	Leave a comment
I was hugely excited to have the chance to see this production of 'A Doll's House' by Henrik Ibsen, as I have vivid memories of reading this play when I was fourteen in a National 5 English class (the Scottish GCSE equivalent, for anyone who is unfamiliar), and finding it a refreshing change to the never-ending deluge of Shakespeare that had been shoved down our throats up until that point. In all seriousness though, I remember being struck by the play's powerful message of female empowerment that was ahead of its time, given that it was published in the late nineteenth century.
The crux of the plot revolves around Nora Helmer's realisation that she has been controlled her entire life, first by her father and then by her husband, Torvald. In order to pay for a trip to Italy to save her sick husband's life, Nora borrowed money from Krogstad, a man of ill-repute, after forging her father's signature. Initially, Nora is not troubled by her dishonesty; she and her husband are comfortable financially, and she is content with her role as an attentive housewife. But when Torvald becomes aware of her fraud, she is forced to re-evaluate her marriage.
Given that the majority of the action is situated in the Helmers' living room, the small and intimate setting of the Barron was perfect for this production. Director Charles Vivian and producer Alice Rickless did a great job in casting, as every actor shone in their role, and costumer Alex Rive excelled at dressing the cast in period outfits. With stripped-back tech and a fixed set throughout, the onus was really on the actors to deliver the show. They achieved that with flying colours.
Fiona McNevin's Nora was impressive. She fulfilled the difficult task of portraying Nora's multifarious character traits: simple-minded and content with the boundaries society has imposed on her at the beginning, emotional and overwhelmed by her predicament during the bulk of the play, and resolute in her decision to walk out of the family home by the end. Sam Gray was superlative as Torvald; he exuded self-righteousness and arrogance throughout, and both he and McNevin had marvelous on-stage intensity which came to the fore during their high-octane exchanges in the closing scenes. Fran Ash was similarly exemplary as Nora's compassionate yet level-headed confidant, Mrs Linde; Issy Cory was suitably attentive and caring as the maid Anne-Marie; and Liam Smith captured the menacing nature of Krogstad. Sebastian Durfee's energy and enthusiasm as Dr. Rank provided a nice contrast to the heavier, more serious scenes, and McNevin's panicked facial expressions while dancing the Tarantella made me and many other audience members chuckle. Another highlight was the door slam sound effect that punctuated Nora's exit at the end as it heightened the drama in a way that I very much appreciated. On the whole, it should be said that the performance was seamless. Opening night nerves? Not a chance.
As a reviewer, one often feels that one's duty is to find some fault with the show, even if it is minuscule, but I genuinely cannot pinpoint any one thing that stood out as a detractor from the overall performance. Perhaps you could say the interpretation of the text was somewhat predictable – there was nothing totally unexpected, no unusual twists or reinventions. But that's what made it so enjoyable. It would have been unnecessary to tweak this classic text; the real challenge was to execute the script's nuances and make the characters and their relationships feel natural. The magic of this play is that Nora's struggle is still as relatable as ever, and Vivian's directorial vision emphasised this central concern excellently. The cast and crew should be immensely proud of their efforts – it was Mermaids' last show of the decade, and they could not have gone out on more of a high!
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Orphée and Eurydice: Reviewed
Posted on October 25, 2019 by Alex Schellekens	Leave a comment
Although I am admittedly not a die-hard opera fanatic, I was intrigued by the opportunity to see OpSoc's unique take on the classic tale of Orphée and Eurydice, which used an excellent new translation by students from Professor Julia Prest's "Translating French Opera" module. The plot is fairly straightforward: the grief-stricken Orphée journeys to the underworld to rescue her dead lover, Eurydice. Orphée must lead Eurydice back to the land of living without looking back at her—or she will be lost to her forever.
Director Amy Addinall gave the opera a modern twist using a contemporary army setting, and by casting Orphée as female (Tabitha Benton-Evans). In the world of theatrical productions, reinvention treads a fine line—get carried away and it overshadows the story, don't go far enough and creative changes lack purpose. On this occasion though, the adaptations only enhanced the opera and were cleverly incorporated through details such as camouflage army attire, military-style trench coats, and a gunshot to punctuate Eurydice's death.
This allowed the indisputable main strength of this show to shine: the impressive vocal performances of Benton-Evans as Orphée, Millie Haldane as Eurydice, and Catriona Kadirkamanathan as Cupid. Benton-Evans was barely off-stage for the majority of the production, and she mastered the large repertoire of her role with poise and assurance. The chemistry between her Orphée and Haldane's Eurydice was magnificent, and the comedic moments when Eurydice was exasperated by Orphée's refusal to look at her were well executed. Especially impressive were the segments where Benton-Evans and Haldane were singing in harmony with impeccable tuning and clarity of diction, something which is very challenging and should be commended. Both Haldane and Kadirkamanathan dealt with tricky high soprano melodies with ease and captured the essence of their characters in their performances. Singing prowess was not confined to those in the lead roles—the chorus stayed in tune throughout and their vocal projection was admirable, especially given the absence of microphones. The band were also brilliant and there were few, if any, missteps in their playing. It was clear the band and the company had rehearsed together extensively beforehand, as they were beautifully in sync, a feat which can be attributed to musical director Fanny Empacher.
However, the first half did seem to plod along lethargically after the emotive opening number, and I did struggle to remain engaged—though that was probably largely due to the music being appropriately sombre after Eurydice's death. This could have been offset with more interesting blocking, or some lighting or set changes, although I respect that it is in the character of operatic productions to refrain from extravagant tech or choreography. Given the simplistic blocking, the chorus needed to bring a high level of energy and make full use of facial expressions to convey the emotion behind the lyrics they were singing, and unfortunately this was missing at certain points. Similarly, there was a particularly noticeable disparity between those who fully committed to the portrayal of the menacing figures from the underworld and those who did not, which did detract somewhat from the drama of Orphée's quest.
Nevertheless, given that this show was put together in the space of three weeks, and probably on a very tight budget, this was a truly exceptional effort from all involved, and the end result showcased the talents of the cast. Will I see another opera again in the near future? Maybe not; but seeing a well put-together production such as this one is always an absolute pleasure.
4/5 Owlies
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'Shadow of the Colossus,' 'The Station,' and Focusing on Narrative Instead of Gameplay: Fist Fight Ep. 5
This week we debate whether the Shadow of the Colossus remake did enough to stand out in 2018, interview the Creative Director behind The Station and break down how to craft a narrative focused game.
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On this week's episode, Randy and Sean exit the atmosphere to examine the state of space science fiction in today's TV landscape.
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On this week's episode of The Mid-Season Replacements Podcast, Randy and Sean buckle up and head into the great beyond of space-based science fiction on television, and what happened to a genre that used to be an American institution. After a larger discussion about cultural attitudes towards exploring the stars, and the impact of changing TV habits and the proliferation of superhero stories on the genre, our esteemed explorers have an extended conversation about The Expanse and Lost in Space, the two most prominent non-Star Trek or Star Wars outer space shows on TV.
Opening Track: "Main Title Theme," Lost in Space OST, Christopher Lennertz (original theme by John Williams)
Shows discussed: Star Trek: Discovery, The Orville, Other Space, Avenue 5, The Expanse, Lost in Space (2018)
The Mid-Season Replacements Podcast is a weekly show hosted by Goomba Stomp and TV Never Sleeps' Randy Dankievitch and Sean Colletti, with new episodes debuting every Wednesday.
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Monday: The last quarter moon appeared yesterday, but it will not be visible until this morning. When the moon is out today, it will be in the center of a bull, the bull horns.
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Judges Series: Judges 7:1-14
June 3, 2020 by Dr. Greg Hyler
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Gideon's 300 Chosen Men
7 Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him, rose early and camped beside a]the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was on the north side of b]them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.
2 The Lord said to Gideon, "The people who are with you are too many for Me to give Midian into their hands, for Israel c]would become boastful, saying, 'My own d]power has delivered me.' 3 Now therefore e]come, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, 'Whoever is afraid and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.'" So 22,000 people returned, but 10,000 remained.
4 Then the Lord said to Gideon, "The people are still too many; bring them down to the water and I will test them for you there. Therefore it shall be that he of whom I say to you, 'This one shall go with you,' he shall go with you; but everyone of whom I say to you, 'This one shall not go with you,' he shall not go." 5 So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, "You shall separate everyone who laps the water with his tongue as a dog laps, as well as everyone who kneels to drink." 6 Now the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men; but all the rest of the people kneeled to drink water. 7 The Lord said to Gideon, "I will deliver you with the 300 men who lapped and will give the Midianites into your hands; so let all the other people go, each man to his f]home." 8 So g]the 300 men took the people's provisions and their trumpets into their hands. And h]Gideon sent all the other men of Israel, each to his tent, but retained the 300 men; and the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.
9 Now the same night it came about that the Lord said to him, "Arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hands. 10 But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp, 11 and you will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened that you may go down against the camp." So he went with Purah his servant down to the i]outposts of the army that was in the camp. 12 Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand on the seashore. 13 When Gideon came, behold, a man was relating a dream to his friend. And he said, "Behold, I j]had a dream; k]a loaf of barley bread was tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it l]upside down so that the tent lay flat." 14 His friend replied, "This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and all the camp into his hand.
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Judges 7:1 Lit him
Judges 7:2 Lit glorify itself against me
Judges 7:2 Lit hand
Judges 7:3 Or please
Judges 7:7 Lit place
Judges 7:8 Lit they
Judges 7:8 Lit he
Judges 7:11 Lit extremity of the battle array
Judges 7:13 Lit dreamed
Judges 7:13 Lit and behold, a loaf
Judges 7:13 Lit upwards
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Sir John Wakeling Baker
Air Commodore Bell with Mr and Mrs London
A plaque was unveiled on 24 October 2015 at the former home of Air Chief Marshal Sir John Wakeling Baker GCB, GBE, MC, DFC, ADC (23 October 1897 – 10 March 1978), a senior commander in the Royal Air Force in the mid-20th century.
Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, he was educated at Woolwich Military Academy and commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in February 1916. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps later that year initially as a Gunnery Liaison Officer.
In 1918 he was awarded the Military Cross:
"Lt. John Wakeling Baker, R.G.A. and R.A.F. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in carrying out low-flying reconnaissance and contact patrols under heavy machine-gun, rifle and anti-aircraft fire, when he remained in the air for long hours, often under abnormally bad weather conditions and often in darkness or thick mist. On one occasion he fired into enemy troops and transport, causing great confusion, and remained over their lines taking notes until quite dark, when he returned with his machine riddled with bullets. On every flight he obtained most important information, which was dropped at headquarters, and throughout the period his work has been magnificent."
He was appointed a Flight Commander inNo. 60 Squadron in January 1924 duringthe War Waziristan, Pakistan.
He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1925 for his "gallant and distinguished service with the Royal Air Force in Waziristan. This officer showed devotion to duty throughout the operations and set a high example to all ranks. He performed 69 hours war flying as a pilot, which included 35 raids".
Baker was appointed Officer Commanding No. 33 Squadron in 1935 and then joined the Directing Staff at the RAF Staff College in 1939. He served in World War II initially as Deputy Director of Plans at the Air Ministry, and then as Director of Bomber Operations from February 1941. He continued his war service as Senior Air Staff Officer first at Headquarters, Air Forces in India and then at South East Asia Command. He finished the war as Air Officer Commanding No. 12 Group.
After the war, Baker became Director-General of Personnel in 1946, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Coastal Command in 1948 and Commander-in-Chief RAF Middle East Air Force in 1950. Baker's last appointments were as Deputy Chief of the Air Staff in March 1952, Vice-Chief of the Air Staff in November 1952 and Controller of Aircraft at the Ministry of Supply before he retired in 1956.
He was representative of the RAF at the funeral of King George VI and appointed ADC to the Queen on Nov 29th 1952.
Locally he was President of The Chislehurst Branch of Men of Kent and Kentish Men. He wrote the foreword to Tom Bushell's Imperial Chislehurst. He was trustee of the garden of remembrance trust to build a garden opposite Sainsbury's which unfortunately did not materialise.
He was a prominent and active sidesman at St Nicholas Church where his daughter was married from 16 Church Row. Sir John died at The Glebe, Chislehurst in 1978 and his widow moved to Leicestershire.
A plaque to remember his life was given by the Chislehurst Society, and unveiled on 24th October, in the 75th Anniversary year of the Battle of Britain. Air Commodore John Bell OBE unveiled the plaque to Air Chief Marshal Sir John Wakeling Baker at 16 Church Row.
The unveiling at the home of Mr and Mrs John London was a fitting occasion attended by RAF veterans, former Chislehurst MP Sir Roger Sims, Roger Faux, current chair of the Men of Kent, history group members, neighbours, and Roger and Ken Speers who recalled Sir John from their days as choir boys at St Nicholas.
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Shining A Light On Abuse
Following a TIME story, Congress reports that many nursing-home residents are beaten and starved. Who's to blame?
By Mark Thompson/Washington Monday, Aug. 03, 1998
The guilt children feel about putting a parent in a nursing home can sometimes lead them to blame others for the death of their loved one. But what Leslie Oliva saw as her mother moved through three California nursing homes during the last three years of her life is part of a bigger, shocking tale the Federal Government will tell this week. The account is based on the most detailed look in more than a decade at some of the nation's nursing homes. "My mother experienced beating, malnutrition, dehydration and neglect," Oliva says quietly. "All three of the nursing homes are...


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10 Movies That Mess With Your Head
It is often said that movies are the closest thing we have to re-experiencing our dreams. As can often happen after eating a block of cheddar cheese before bedtime, directors can present us with perplexing movie-dreams packed to the gills with the absurd, the baffling, the confusing, the mind-melting and sometimes just the plain old WTF?
In honour of this rather fine and wacky cinematic tradition, here are ten movies made in recent times that fried our noodles, wracked our brains, defied all logic and messed with our heads.
Top: Adrien Brody as the time traveller in John Maybury6s sci-fi drama, "The Jacket."
Defying gravity in one of the most extraordinary sequences in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi heist thriller.
Christopher Nolan's excellent thriller, "Inception" (2010), takes place inside the minds of people tricked into thinking their dreams are their waking life. The blurring of realities makes for a heist movie like no other, and the final shot is still debated by those who want firm answers rather than teasing ambiguity.
The Quay brothers and Stockhausen crafted a frightening movie experience.
Animation legends the Quay Brothers and experimental composer Karlheinz Stockhausen collaborated on a BBC-funded short film together, "In Absentia," in 2000. It is both the very essence of avant-garde cinema and nightmare movies. The score is creepy—a dark symphony of droning effects, blasts of feedback, electronic shrieks and demonic voices. "In Absentia" is a perfect marriage between mysterious and frightening images and haunting music.
"Primer" will fry your brain.
Shane Carruth's award-winning debut feature took inspiration from his years as mathematics nerd and software engineer. "Primer" (2004) was made for peanuts ($7,000) in the director's garage and features a time travel plot that will make your brain hurt a lot. Carruth's last film, "Upstream Color" (2013), was also deeply strange.
Sexist trash or girl power statement? "Sucker Punch" is loved and loathed in equal measure.
Plenty of people, maybe rightly so, loathe Zack Snyder's "Sucker Punch" (2011). Is it a pro-feminist, girl power statement or a horny schoolboy's ultimate fantasy? None of it makes much sense and it is repeatedly self-contradictory—to the point where one must wonder whether Snyder himself understands his own movie? Still, there's something charming about the lunacy of it all.
The director reveals a crazy approach to time travel in "The Jacket."
John Maybury's foray into American cinema was 2005's time-travel drama, "The Jacket," starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley. As movies that play around with time and space go, it opts for a distinctly wacky premise: a man is pumped full of drugs, made to wear a straightjacket and kept inside the drawer of a morgue. He's then able to go back in time to an earlier point in his life. Honestly, that's what happens!
Martin Scorsese's homage to American horror films is a genre joy.
"Why are you all wet, baby?" One of the most unexpected lines in screen history, uttered by Ben Kingsley, is also the moment "Shutter Island" (2010) revealed its own lunatic plot twist. Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) is not a Boston cop on a mission to expose a mental hospital's insidious experiments on vulnerable types, but a patient of the facility unlocking the door to his own troubled mind. Yeah, because that all makes total sense. Not.
A Parisian adventure like no other.
A celebration of cinema and a comic-surrealist odyssey set in Paris, director Leos Carax's madder-than-a-box-of-frogs comeback, "Holy Motors" (2013), featured a mesmeric performance from Denis Lavant as the ever-changing Monsieur Merde. Hollywood actress Eva Mendes and pop star Kylie Minogue appeared in minor roles but everybody, bar Lavant, looked a bit confused.
Actors in weird-looking masks, pretending to be old people, humping trash. It could only be a Harmony Korine movie.
Harmony Korine is well-known as a provocateur and for producing very odd work. "Trash Humpers" (2009) was greeted by critics mostly with "What the f*** did I just watch?" bafflement. Shot on crappy videotape, four actors dressed in masks that look like melting old people, misbehave and trash—and/or indeed hump—anything they can lay their dirty hands on. Is it genius or just plain ridiculous? You decide.
Rob Zombie's LSD horror flick is gloriously insane!
Ken Russell on a pogo stick hopped up on LSD. That's how I'd describe Rob Zombie's psychedelic horror show. A radio DJ (played by Sheri Moon Zombie) is targeted by evil witches and made to do witchy things while losing her grip on reality. You'll either find it all brilliant or hate its stupid guts.
Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" is the craziest Biblical epic/blockbuster ever made.
"Noah" has only just been released but deserves a place on any list of this nature. How so? The William Blake-like intensity of vision and a generally whacked-out-of-its-gourd approach to The Flood narrative is mainstream movie-making at its most daring. Darren Aronofsky has used Hollywood's mega bucks to produce the ultimate anti-blockbuster.
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This Thursday, 21 April 2011, I have the honor to speak to the Detroit-Windsor Chapter of the American Foundry Society ( afsdetroit.com ). The topic of my presentation is, "ADI- A Green Alternative". Did you know that nearly 25% of a vehicle's life-cycle energy is embodied in its manufacture? When you then consider battery and battery/hybrid vehicles the life cycle energy contained in the vehicle's manufacture can rise to nearly 50%. Austempered Ductile Iron is a low energy material that can cost effectively replace aluminum and steel weldments, castings and forgings. Following the lead of the Architectural community I investigated the concept of "embodied energy"; the energy contained in a component from mining it, forming it, machining it and finishing it; through recycling…..all inclusive. The results showed a clear correlation between the embodied energy in a component and its price. Going further, one can calculate the embodied energy necessary to produce the components out of different material/process combinations to achieve the same mechanical results. In this presentation I will use case studies to demonstrate the concept of embodied energy and to compare Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) to other, competing technologies. Join me at Vladimir's for some good food, good friends and an ADI talk……what could be better?


We've just completed our first week of daily doodles on our new Facebook group for the One Doodle A Day Keeps The Blues Away challenge.
I have to say, I am so impressed with all the doodles, they are all absolutely fantastic. Such talent and variety of styles. I am a very happy and very proud Admin, needless to say.


text:
\section{
Introduction
}

We consider here (largely verbatim, only punctually slightly modified)
excerpts
from  \cite{SEP13}, see also  \cite{SEP19c}, to set the stage
for
Section \ref{Section Idea} (page \pageref{Section Idea}).
\subsection{
Section 2.2, p. 5 of \cite{SEP13}
}

\bd

$\hspace{0.01em}$

\label{Definition}

An analogical argument has the following
form:

1. $S$ is similar to $T$ in certain (known) respects.

2. $S$ has some further feature $Q.$

3. Therefore, $T$ also has the feature $Q,$ or some feature $Q*$
similar to $Q.$

(1) and (2) are premises. (3) is the conclusion of the argument.
The argument form is
inductive; the conclusion is not guaranteed to follow from the
premises.

\ed

$S$ and $T$ are referred to as the source domain and target domain,
respectively. A domain is
a set of objects, properties, relations and functions, together
with a set of accepted
statements about those objects, properties, relations and
functions. More formally, a
domain consists of a set of objects and an interpreted set of
statements about them. The
statements need not belong to a first-order language, but to keep
things simple, any
formalizations employed here will be first-order. We use
unstarred symbols (a, $P,$ $R,$ $f)$ to
refer to items in the source domain and starred symbols $(a*,$ $P*,$
$R*,$ $f*)$ to refer to
corresponding items in the target domain.

\bd

$\hspace{0.01em}$

\label{Definition Mapping}

Formally, an analogy between $S$ and $T$ is a one-to-one mapping
between objects,
properties, relations and functions in $S$ and those in $T.$
\subsection{
Section 2.2, pp. 6-7 of \cite{SEP13}
}

\ed

In an earlier discussion of analogy, Keynes,
in  \cite{Key21}, introduced
some terminology that is
also helpful.
 \xEh
 \xDH
Positive analogy.

Let $P$ stand for a list of accepted propositions $P1, \Xl,$ Pn about
the source domain $S.$
Suppose that the corresponding propositions $P*1, \Xl,$ $P*n,$
abbreviated as $P*,$ are
all accepted as holding for the target domain $T,$ so that $P$ and $P*$
represent accepted
(or known) similarities. Then we refer to $P$ as the positive
analogy.

 \xDH
Negative analogy.

Let A stand for a list of propositions $A1, \Xl,$ Ar accepted as
holding in $S,$ and $B*$ for
a list $B1*, \Xl,$ $Bs*$ of propositions holding in $T.$ Suppose that the
analogous
propositions $A*$ $=$ $A1*, \Xl,$ $Ar*$ fail to hold in $T,$ and
similarly
the propositions $B$ $=$
$B1, \Xl,$ Bs fail to hold in $S,$ so that A, $ \xCN A*$ and $ \xCN B,$
$B*$ represent
accepted (or
known) differences. Then we refer to A and $B$ as the negative
analogy.

 \xDH
Neutral analogy.

The neutral analogy consists of accepted propositions about $S$ for
which it is not
known whether an analogue holds in $T.$

 \xDH
Hypothetical analogy.

The hypothetical analogy is simply the proposition $Q$ in the
neutral analogy that is
the focus of our attention.

 \xEj

These concepts allow us to provide a characterization for an
individual analogical
argument that is somewhat richer than the original one.

\bd

$\hspace{0.01em}$

\label{Definition Aug}

(Augmented representation)

Correspondence between SOURCE (S) and TARGET (T)

 \xEh

 \xDH
Positive analogy:

$P$ $ \xcj $ $P*$
 \xDH
Negative analogy:

A $ \xcj $ $ \xCN A*$

and

$ \xCN B$ $ \xcj $ $B*$
 \xDH
Plausible inference:

$Q$ $ \xcj $ $Q*$
 \xEj

An analogical argument may thus be summarized:
It is plausible that $Q*$ holds in the target because of certain
known (or
accepted) similarities with the source domain, despite certain
known (or
accepted) differences.
\subsection{
Section 2.4 of \cite{SEP13}
}

\ed

Scepticism:

Of course, it is difficult to show that no successful analogical
inference rule will ever be
proposed. But consider the following candidate, formulated using
the concepts of the schema
in Definition \ref{Definition Aug} (page \pageref{Definition Aug})
and taking us only a short step beyond that basic
characterization.

\bd

$\hspace{0.01em}$

\label{Definition Scept}

Suppose $S$ and $T$ are the source and target domains. Suppose $P1, \Xl,$
Pn (with $n$ $=$ 1)
represents the positive analogy, $A1, \Xl,$ Ar and $ \xCN B1, \Xl,$ $
\xCN Bs$
represent the (possibly
vacuous) negative analogy, and $Q$ represents the hypothetical
analogy. In the
absence of reasons for thinking otherwise, infer that $Q*$ holds in
the target domain
with degree of support $p$ $>$ 0, where $p$ is an increasing function
of $n$ and a
decreasing function of $r$ and $s.$

(Definition \ref{Definition Scept} (page \pageref{Definition Scept})
is modeled on the straight rule for enumerative
induction and inspired by Mill's
view of analogical inference, as described
in  \cite{SEP13} above. We use the
generic phrase ``degree of
support'' in place of probability, since other factors besides the
analogical argument may
influence our probability assignment for $Q*.)$

\ed

It is pretty clear that the schema in
Definition \ref{Definition Scept} (page \pageref{Definition Scept})
is a non-starter. The main problem is
that the rule justifies too
much.

So, how do we chose the ``right one''?
\subsection{
A Side Remark
}

The author was surprised to find a precursor to his concept of
homogenousness in the work of J. M. Keynes,
 \cite{Key21}, quoted in Section 4.3 of  \cite{SEP13}.
\clearpage
\section{
The Idea
}

\label{Section Idea}

We now describe the idea, and compare it to other ideas in philosophical
and AI related logics.

But first, we formalize above ideas into a definition.

\bd

$\hspace{0.01em}$

\label{Definition Ana}

Let $ \xdl $ be an alphabet.
 \xEh
 \xDH
Let $ \xdl_{ \xba } \xcc \xdl,$ and $ \xba: \xdl_{ \xba } \xcp \xdl $ an
injective function,
preserving the type of symbol, e.g.,
 \xEI
 \xDH
if $x \xbe \xdl_{ \xba }$ stands for an object of the universe, then so
will $ \xba (x)$
 \xDH
if $X \xbe \xdl_{ \xba }$ stands for a subset of the universe, then so
will $ \xba (X)$
 \xDH
if $P(.) \xbe \xdl_{ \xba }$ stands for an unary predicate of the
universe,
then so will $ \xba (P)(.)$
 \xDH
etc., also for higher symbols, like $f: \xdp (U) \xcp \xdp (U),$ $U$ the
universe.
 \xEJ
 \xDH
Let $ \xdf_{ \xba }$ a subset of the formulas formed with symbols from $
\xdl_{ \xba }.$

For $ \xbf \xbe \xdf_{ \xba },$ let $ \xba (\xbf)$ be the obvious
formula constructed from $ \xbf $
with the function $ \xba.$
 \xDH
We now look at the truth values of $ \xbf $ and $ \xba (\xbf),$ $v(\xbf
)$ and $v(\xba (\xbf)).$
In particular, there may be $ \xbf $ s.t. $v(\xbf)$ is known, $v(\xba (
\xbf))$ not, and
we extrapolate that $v(\xbf)=v(\xba (\xbf)),$ this is then the
analogical
reasoning based on $ \xba.$

More precisely:
 \xEh
 \xDH
There may be $ \xbf $ s.t. $v(\xbf)$ is not known, $v(\xba (\xbf))$
is known or not, such
$ \xbf $ do not interest us here.

Assume in the following that $v(\xbf)$ is known.
 \xDH
$v(\xbf)$ and $v(\xba (\xbf))$ are known, and $v(\xbf)=v(\xba (
\xbf)).$ The set of such $ \xbf $
is the positive support of $ \xba,$ $ \xba^{+}.$
 \xDH
$v(\xbf)$ and $v(\xba (\xbf))$ are known, and $v(\xbf) \xEd v(\xba
(\xbf)).$ The set of such $ \xbf $
is the negative support of $ \xba,$ $ \xba^{-}.$
 \xDH
$v(\xbf)$ is known, $v(\xba (\xbf))$ is not known. The set of such $
\xbf $
is denoted $ \xba^{?}.$

The ``effect'' of $ \xba $ is to conjecture, by analogy, that $v(\xbf)=v(
\xba (\xbf))$ for
such $ \xbf.$
 \xEj
 \xEj
Intuitively, $ \xba^{+}$ strengthens the case of $ \xba,$ $ \xba^{-}$
weakens it - but these
need not be the only criteria, see also
 \cite{SEP13} and  \cite{SEP19c}.

\ed

Let $ \xda $ be a set of functions $ \xba $ as defined in
Definition \ref{Definition Ana} (page \pageref{Definition Ana}).

We may close $ \xda $ under combinations, as illustrated in the following
Example \ref{Example Combi} (page \pageref{Example Combi}), or not.

\be

$\hspace{0.01em}$

\label{Example Combi}

Consider $ \xba,$ $ \xba'.$

Let $x,x',P,Q$ $ \xbe $ $ \xdl_{ \xba }= \xdl_{ \xba' },$ $Q(x),Q(x')
\xbe \xba^{?}, \xba'^{?}.$
 \xEh
 \xDH
$ \xba $ works well for $x,$ but not for $x':$
$P(x)= \xba (P)(x),$ $P(x') \xEd \xba (P)(x'),$
so $P(x) \xbe \xba^{+},$ $P(x') \xbe \xba^{-},$
 \xDH
$ \xba' $ works well for $x',$ but not for $x:$
$P(x')= \xba' (P)(x'),$ $P(x) \xEd \xba' (P)(x),$
so $P(x) \xbe \xba'^{-},$ $P(x') \xbe \xba'^{+}.$
 \xEj

Let further $ \xba (Q)(x) \xEd \xba' (Q)(x)$ and $ \xba (Q)(x') \xEd
\xba' (Q)(x').$

What shall we do, should we chose one, $ \xba $ or $ \xba',$ for
guessing, or
combine $ \xba $ and $ \xba' $ to $ \xba'',$ chosing $ \xba'' = \xba $
for expressions with $x,$
and $ \xba'' = \xba' $ for expressions with $x',$ more precisely
$ \xba'' (Q)(x):= \xba (Q)(x),$ and $ \xba'' (Q)(x'):= \xba' (Q)(x')$
?

\ee

The idea is now to push the choice of suitable $ \xba \xbe \xda $ into a
relation $ \xeb,$
expressing quality of the analogy.
E.g., in Example
\ref{Example Combi} (page
\pageref{Example Combi}), $ \xba'' \xeb \xba $ and $ \xba
'' \xeb \xba' $ - for historical
reasons, smaller elements will be ``better''.

Usually, this ``best'' relation will be partial only, and
there will be many ``best'' $f.$
Thus, it seems natural to conclude the properties which hold
in ALL best $f.$

\bd

$\hspace{0.01em}$

\label{Definition Valid}

Let $ \xda $ be a set of functions as described in
Definition
\ref{Definition Ana} (page
\pageref{Definition Ana}), and $ \xeb $ a relation on $ \xda $
(expressing ``better''
analogy wrt. the problem at hand).

We then write $ \xda \xcm_{ \xeb } \xbf $ iff $ \xbf $ holds in all $ \xeb
-$best $f \xbe \xda.$

(This is a sketch only, details have to be filled in according to the
situation considered.)
\subsection{
Discussion
}

\ed

This sounds like cheating: we changed the level of abstraction, and
packed the question of ``good'' analogies into the $ \xeb $-relation.

But when we look at the Stalnaker-Lewis semantics of counterfactual
conditionals, see  \cite{Sta68},  \cite{Lew73},
the preferential semantics for non-monotonic reasoning and
deontic logic, see e.g.  \cite{Han69},  \cite{KLM90},  \cite{Sch04},
\cite{Sch18},
the distance semantics for theory revision, see e.g.  \cite{LMS01},
 \cite{Sch04},
this is a
well used ``trick'' we need not be ashamed of.

In above examples, the comparison was between possible worlds, here it is
between usually more complicated structures (functions), but this is no
fundamental difference.

But even if we think that there is a element of cheating in our idea, we
win something: properties which hold in ALL preferential structures,
and which may be stronger for stronger relations $ \xeb,$ see
Fact \ref{Fact Representation} (page \pageref{Fact Representation})  below.
\subsection{
Problems and solutions
}

 \xEh
 \xDH

In the case of infinitely many f's we might have a definability
problem, as the resulting best guess might not be definable any more -
as in the case of preferential structures,
see e.g.  \cite{Sch04}.

 \xDH

Abstract treatment of representation problems for abovementioned logics
work with arbitrary sets, so we have a well studied machinery for
representation results for various types of relations of ``better''
analogies - see e.g.
 \cite{LMS01},  \cite{Sch04},  \cite{Sch18}.

To give the reader an idea of such representation resuls, we mention some,
slightly simplified.

\bd

$\hspace{0.01em}$

\label{Definition Representation}

(1) Let again $ \xeb $ be the relation, and $ \xbm (X):=\{x \xbe X: \xCN
\xcE x' \xbe X.x' \xeb x\},$

(2) $ \xeb $ is called smooth iff for all $x \xbe X,$ either $x \xbe \xbm
(X)$ or there is
$x' \xbe \xbm (X),$ $x' \xeb x,$

(3) $ \xeb $ is called ranked iff for all $x,y,z,$ if neither $x \xeb y$
nor $y \xeb x,$ then
if $z \xeb x,$ then $z \xeb y,$ too, and, analogously, if $x \xeb z,$ then
$y \xeb z,$ too.

\ed

We then have e.g.

\bfa

$\hspace{0.01em}$

\label{Fact Representation}

 \xEh
 \xDH
General and transitive relations are characterised by

$(\xbm \xcc)$ $ \xbm (X) \xcc X$

and

$(\xbm PR)$ $X \xcc Y$ $ \xcp $ $ \xbm (Y) \xcs X \xcc \xbm (X)$
 \xDH
Smooth and transitive smooth relations are characterised
by $(\xbm \xcc),$ $(\xbm PR),$ and the additional property

$(\xbm CUM)$ $ \xbm (X) \xcc Y \xcc X$ $ \xcp $ $ \xbm (X)= \xbm (Y)$
 \xDH
Ranked relations are characterised by $(\xbm \xcc),$ $(\xbm PR),$
and the additional property

$(\xbm =)$ $X \xcc Y,$ $ \xbm (Y) \xcs X \xEd \xCQ $ $ \xcp $ $ \xbm (X)=
\xbm (Y) \xcs X.$
 \xEj

For more explanation and details, see e.g.
 \cite{Sch18}, in particular Table 1.6 there.

\efa

 \xEj

\vspace{3mm}

\vspace{3mm}

\clearpage

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Benedict Cumberbatch hits cyclist with car
Benedict Cumberbatch was reportedly slapped by a cyclist after he crashed into him in his car last year (18).
The Sherlock actor allegedly left retired fisherman Michael Lawrence, known as Scooby, bleeding heavily from an arm injury after he knocked him off his bike while driving on a country lane in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight in the U.K. last September.
"Scooby was on his brand new bike when the car appeared out of nowhere. There was literally nowhere else in the road to go," a friend of Lawrence's told Britain's The Sun newspaper. "He just put his arm over him and took the full force of the impact on his forearm, which smashed the wing mirror. It totally ruptured his arm. There was blood everywhere."
According to the friend, the 42-year-old climbed out of his vehicle and accused Lawrence, 63, of cycling in the middle of the road and the man reacted by slapping the Avengers: Infinity War star.
"Scooby dusted himself off and, full of adrenaline, reacted as he knows best - by slapping him," the friend continued. "That posh actor was lucky he didn't throw a punch. Apparently it was like a slow motion moment in a film where the man he just slapped took off his baseball cap, and he realised it was Benedict Cumberbatch. Scooby said he nearly had a heart attack."
After the heated exchange, the British actor handed Lawrence a T-shirt and a bottle of water to clean up his arm and then offered him a lift to hospital. They exchanged numbers and Benedict reported the incident to the police but apparently didn't want to press charges.
A representative for Hampshire Police confirmed the collision had been reported, and told the publication, "No complaints were made, no criminal offences were investigated and the matter is being dealt with through insurance."
Lawrence, who is reportedly seeking compensation, told The Sun he was unable to talk about the incident when approached for comment, while a spokesman for the actor, who is thought to own a home with his wife Sophie Hunter on the island, simply disputed reports that Benedict was driving a green Lamborghini at the time.


Plum District is offering a $25 Target Gift Card plus a $50 Restaurant.com Gift Card for $22.50 ($17.50 if you're new to Plum District). This is a great way to save 10% at Target (a place most of us shop anyway) and get a bonus $50 to go out to eat. The Target gift card will be mailed to you in 3 weeks and the Restaurant.com gift card comes in the form of a code that can be used immediately (and gifted for Christmas!).
:: If you are new to Plum District, go here to create an account and purchase the deal. You should get a $5 credit for creating an account. This is an "Everywhere" deal. Use the code fabulous at checkout to get 10% off, making this just $17.50 after credit & code.
:: If you already have a Plum District account, go here to purchase the deal. Use the code fabulous at checkout to get 10% off, making this just $22.50 after code.
You may purchase multiple deals and the 10% will come off the entire amount. Allow up to 3 weeks for the Target gift card delivery. As with all daily deals, please read the fine print available on the website before purchasing the deal.
I bought this deal and I don't understand how to get the Resturant.com gift certificate. Is it the voucher from plumtree or do I have to redeem a code at REsturant.com?
Can anyone recommend a restaurant in the Portland area that does accept this credit?
Beware restaurant.com gift codes.. many of the restaurants were falsely added and do no accept these.. call all restaurants before trying to redeem any credit on their site!
Code pdx10 doesn't work either.
Bought it but redemption not working either. Got it for $17.50. Have an email in to customer service but sounds like it is site wide.
BTW if you like restaurant discounts, Burgerville is giving away a $5 gift card with a $30 gift card purchase today. They have a great rewards program too.
I had the same issue as Jules.
I was not able to use that code either, but I had a $10 credit from signing up a while ago and I was able to score that deal for $15! Thanks for sharing! I just invited some friends too so if they sign up today, I would love to buy another one!


Don't Throw Away that Carcass!
Making chicken or turkey noodle soup after it looks like all the meat is already taken off a bird carcass extends the food budget for a couple more meals. And it's easy!
This is for a turkey carcass, but it would all be the same for a chicken, it just won't make quite as much soup.
After all the meat that is easy to cut off the bones is removed, break or cut the carcass into pieces that will fit into a soup pot and be able to be covered by an appropriate amount of water. For a turkey, that would be about 1 to 1.5 gallons. Bring to a boil and simmer for about 30 minutes. Since the bird was already cooked some other way, all this step has to do is loosen the rest of the meat from the bones.
Turn off the heat and let it cool until you can handle the pieces without burning your hands. Sometimes I put it in the refrigerator until the next day. If you do this you'll need to heat it up just a little because the liquid will become gelled.
Then using your hands slip the rest of the meat off the bones. You'll be surprised how much there is, especially on the back where there are lots of little hollows in the bones.
When I've pulled all the obvious stuff out of the pot I pour the liquid through a strainer. This removes all the rest of the solids. There may be remains of stuffing, which would be fine to put back in the soup if you want, but be sure to check for small bones. If it's not very much, I usually just discard it.
Now you need to put the liquid in the refrigerator until it cools completely. (Put the saved meat in a separate container and refrigerate it too, because this will take at least several hours). When the liquid is cooled and gelled the fat will have risen to the top and you can just skim it off with a metal spoon.
Separately cook some very fine noodles. I used 4 ounces for the turkey. Drain.
Finally combine the liquid, the reserved meat, and the cooked noodles. I ended up with about a gallon of soup from a turkey.
I can't believe I forgot to take a picture of the finished product. Maybe next time I make some I can add one!


Future brought the floss and the flakes to daytime TV on Thursday, performing "Crushed Up" inside the snowy studio of Ellen.
Related: Future Brings Some Fresh Magic to "The WIZRD"
With live keys and drums, Future swaggers across the stage dressed in all white, as ballerinas dance behind him and the snow falls. He's so iced up that it's snowing inside, and The WIZRD continues his magic.


R&B/Hip-Hop international artist RAJA sat down with our very own, Silva to discuss his new album, 'REBIRTH' and how it came about. His single, "Island Gyal" featuring Tory Lanez has been blazing the airwaves and now has over 1 million listens to date. The eOne signee also opened up and got candid when he told us about his battle with depression after losing his dad and nephew, how he overcame his trials through music. He also has tons of more music on the way in 2019, including a Dance EP, an Indian EP, a Trap R&B album, and broke down what the definition of Bollywood means.


When it comes to leaving home, millennials seem to need extra help these days.
Despite falling rates of unemployment and increased median salaries among adults in the 18-to-34 age range, more and more of them are choosing, at least temporarily, to live in their family homes, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data released last week by the Pew Research Center.
As of April 2015, the number of millennials living independently — taken by Pew to mean "heading their own households" without having a roommate — was about 67% of the approximately 63 million counted by the Census within this young adult category. That's even fewer than during the Great Recession.
Take it from someone who just celebrated two months out of the nest myself: "Adulting," as Kelly Williams Brown calls the process of moving out, is about as awkward and unglamorous as the gerund makes it sound. And to be fair, there's more than one good argument for why it may be pretty brilliant to live with your family for a year or two out of college.
Yet for millennials looking to leave the nest, here are a few suggestions on how to "adult" well.
Some experts recommend that millennials looking to leave home form good bill-paying habits by paying their way within the family household. And you should pay your parents — by being gracious, being helpful around the house, not sleeping until noon, and perhaps, after a serious conversation about how they'd like you to pitch in, by making a financial household contribution.
But if your parents decide to let you resume your place in the family home rent-free — or if they're charging you a rent that's below market rate — be sure to save any earnings that would otherwise be spoken for.
Write down a pretend budget, listing what you might otherwise need to spend on rent, groceries, transportation, etc. Then put that money aside every month as if you were paying the bills. Use that money for two things: to help pay down any student loans or credit card debts (thus boosting your credit score), and to provide a crucial safety net for after you do move out.
You may have a job already, but will it cover your lifestyle shift? Or you may be stuck at home simply because you don't have a job; earlier Pew Center research found that unemployed millennials were almost half again as likely as employed millennials to be living at home.
If you're thinking of moving out at any point in the near future, there's no such thing as starting a job search too early. Job openings may be at a historic high, but employers are getting pickier and pickier about who they hire.
Worst-case scenario, you may end up getting some extra interview practice for a job you don't want. More likely, you'll get a sense of what jobs are out there and appeal to you, what positions employers seem willing (or unwilling) to hire you for, and whether there are certain skills you'd like to buff up before you leave home. Maybe taking a coding class would put you ahead in the industry you were hoping to enter; perhaps your design portfolio or your resume could use some work.
Know these things before they get overshadowed by the stress of having to pay rent each month.
Once you've decided that it's time to get gone, make it official. Set a deadline, give the family your tearful notice, and begin counting down.
Figure out how much you'll need to put aside for a security deposit, first month's rent, moving and furniture costs. Start apartment scouting a few months in advance, to understand costs in the neighborhoods you like — and to adjust your expectations if necessary.
If you need to ask your parents for a short-term loan to get you off the ground, be sure to clearly document the agreement and its terms, and resolve to stick to them.
Planning a budget is important, but sticking to it is more difficult once you're in the real world. Last night I came home from work only to realize that I was out of laundry detergent, paper towels, and toothpaste. About $30 later, I had all of those things — along with a poorly planned budget that I had overshot.
I am not, I try to remind myself, a "shopper" or a "restaurant explorer"; nor am I a "$90-a-month gym subscriber" — at least until I can prove a daily gym habit at my $30-a-month gym and decide whether the extra $60 would cut into my toothpaste fund. My roots look pretty terrible, and I need a pedicure, but I am not a "salon-goer" for now, either — which leaves me even more motivated to figure out a budget I can meet.
Millennials aren't a financially literate bunch; last year, a study by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation found that only about a quarter of Americans in their 20s could pass a five-question financial literacy quiz. Luckily, your parents remain a resource that you can tap into for financial advice long after you've moved out; if they're anything like mine, they'll even offer plenty that's unsolicited.
It may be tempting to take your financial independence to an extreme and tell your folks to mind their own business — but hold off. They've been handling their own matters of personal finance for years — and there's much to learn from both their successes and mistakes.


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How the Cleantech UP Competition Benefits Aspiring Student Entrepreneurs
At American universities across the nation, our best and brightest young minds are discovering innovative new solutions to our energy challenges. However, turning a game-changing technology into a commercial product requires a lot more than time in a lab. Aspiring student entrepreneurs often lack the business development skills, market exposure, and investor feedback they need to launch viable new businesses.
Cleantech University Prize (Cleantech UP) helps student entrepreneurs with promising clean energy solutions get their ideas out of the lab and into the market by providing the training, mentorship, and financial resources they need to become investor-ready businesses. We spoke with some of the 2017 regional winners about what they gained from the program.
Swift Coat invented a nanoparticle coating to replace the expensive silver and indium tin oxide layers on solar panels.
2017 Rice Business Plan Competition first place winner
"As we explored the idea and the type of infrastructure we would need to execute our innovation, we realized that our business plan was not the most effective way to commercialize our technology," said Peter Firth of Swift Coat. "We've since adopted a licensing model. Potential customers have responded very positively to the new model, which allows us to get to market much faster."
Swift Coat is currently focused on serving their first two paying customers, a billion-dollar glass manufacturer and a solar manufacturing equipment supplier. "As we ship those samples off for evaluation in the next few months, we'll be using the funding we've received over the last year to scale up our technology and seek more customers," says Firth.
Left to right: Jonathan Bryan, an electrical engineering doctoral student and Peter Firth, CEO of Swift Coat hold a model of Swift Coat's nanoparticle deposition system on the Rice University campus in Houston, Texas. (Photo courtesy of Slyworks Photography.)
Infinite Cooling's technology reduces power plant water consumption by capturing steam escaping from cooling towers.
2017 MIT Clean Energy Prize first place winner
"For the Clean Energy Prize, we received some valuable guidance," said Karim Khalil of Infinite Cooling, whose company received legal, business, and technical coaching during the MIT Clean Energy Prize Competition. "Our pitch and business plan improved a great deal."
After the Cleantech UP competition, the Infinite Cooling team will be participating in the summer accelerator at MIT delta v, while simultaneously running their first industrial pilot at the MIT Cogeneration Power Plant.
The Infinite Cooling team with VentureWell's own Brenna Breeding.
RoBotany developed vertical farming technology that improves labor efficiency and crop output.
2017 Carnegie Mellon Cleantech UP first place winner
"Networking with other entrepreneurs and industry leaders have generated many new ideas and potential partnerships," said CEO Austin Webb.
RoBotany is looking to close its Series A financing in the near future and begin building its full-scale farm located near downtown Pittsburgh.
Austin Webb representing his team at the LaunchCMU event, hosted by Oracle. (Photo courtesy of Oracle Blogs.)
Solstice Energy Solutions monitors, meters, and controls power sources from a mobile application.
2017 Berkeley Cleantech UP first place winner
"Winning the competition definitely helped kick-start our fundraising process," said Ugwem Eneyo, co-founder and CEO of Solstice Energy Solutions. "We were able to connect with investors and institutions that have proven to be valuable relationships."
After the National Competition, the team will be participating in the Capital Factory Accelerator in Austin, Texas while launching their beta program in Lagos, Nigeria.
Solstice Energy Solutions co-founders Ugwem Eneyo (left) and Cole Stites-Clayton (center) stand with Kristian Bodek of National Grid.
About Cleantech University Prize National Competition
Cleantech University Prize (Cleantech UP) business plan competitions provide aspiring student entrepreneurs with the mentorship, business development skills and training, and investor feedback to transform their clean energy ideas into impactful businesses. Launched in 2015, Cleantech UP builds upon its precursor, the DOE National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition. Since the competition started, participants have formed more than 200 ventures, created more than 115 jobs, and raised more than $120 million in follow-on funding.
Winners of the eight regional competitions competed in The Cleantech UP 2017 National Competition on June 26 and 27 in Austin, Texas. The National Competition is made possible through a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy, VentureWell, and the eight Universities and Organizations that host each regional competition.


These Farm Heroes level 243 cheats and tips will help you beat level 243 of Farm Heroes. The objective of Farm Heroes level 243 is to collect four chicks, 50 suns, and 50 water drops in 20 moves.
There are many blockers in this level including: water barrels, ice flowers, and ticking crops. These provide a large distraction from the you goal of collecting crops. Your first step in this level should be using one of your boosters preferably the magic shovel booster. From that point it should be relatively easy to make similar matches, there is a lot to work with on the board.
3+ match combo's will crack the eggs in this level releasing the chick for you to collect. Making this combo's should be fairly easy not only do you only have four to collect, but most of the half hatched eggs on the board are coupled together already.
At the end of the level you will achieve maximum growth once all your crops are collected, after this you will be awarded 250 magic beans. Rather then spending these beans you should store and save them for a harder level, preferably when you have to face Rancid the Raccoon.
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Oklahoma State boasts one of the most lethal offensive attacks in the nation.
It's easy to fall into the trap of only discussing ranked teams as the NCAA tournament nears.
But the programs we least suspect often have a significant impact on how March Madness unfolds. See: Syracuse, 2016. The Orange carried a 9-9 ACC record into the NCAA tournament last year and wound up making the Final Four.
Here are some teams that, while not as glitzy as some of their counterparts, have a good chance to appear on the bracket on Selection Sunday. Let's get to know them, and why they could be dangerous.
Last season, Oklahoma State ranked 153rd in the nation in adjusted offensive efficiency and finished 12-20. This season, the Cowboys rank second in the country in offense, and they're 15-8 heading into a showdown against Baylor.
It's safe to say that Brad Underwood has lived up to the hype. So has Jawun Evans; if the Cowboys were one of the top teams in the nation, Evans would warrant Naismith consideration. He's that good.
Evans has a Chris Paul-like command to his game – everything Oklahoma State does on offense flows through him, and with good reason. Evans is averaging 26.6 points and 7.8 assists per 40 minutes, and he's a member of the dying mid-range assassin breed.
Evans has help. Oklahoma State retrieves 39.9 percent of its own misses, which ranks third in the country. Jeffrey Carroll, a 6-6 forward, is averaging 17.3 points and 7.1 rebounds per game this season; the Pokes are also sinking more than 40 percent of their 3s.
Oklahoma State heaves long-range bombs and crashes the glass without much regard for getting back on defense. It shows; OSU ranks 122nd in America in adjusted defensive efficiency. But a great point guard plus a great coach is a recipe for a dangerous NCAA tournament team. Look out for these guys.
Marquette suffered a tough home loss against Butler on Tuesday night, but like Oklahoma State, the Golden Eagles have been lethal offensively this season.
Marquette leads the nation in 3-point shooting (42.4 percent) and ranks ninth offensively overall. Almost 40 percent of its total offense comes from behind the 3-point arc, and the Golden Eagles have doubled (or tripled) down on the pace-and-space style of play.
They have the personnel to keep opposing coaches up at night. Markus Howard is hitting 51.9 percent of his 3s. Andrew Rowsey is at 47.2 percent. Sam Hauser, 45.3 percent. The list goes on and on.
Marquette just wins the math battle. If they make enough 3s, they will beat you. It doesn't matter if you're Villanova. The Golden Eagles play a high-risk, high-reward style; they could catch fire in the NCAA tournament and pull off a few upsets, or they could flame out in game one. Marquette is not a good defensive team – the Golden Eagles rank ninth in the Big East in points allowed per possession. But if they could just prevent points at an average rate, they'd be very dangerous.
USC has quietly compiled a 20-4 record with a 7-4 mark in the Pac-12. UCLA gets the bulk of the Los Angeles headlines – it's easy to see why – but the Trojans have been solid in every facet, and you'll be hearing more about them in March.
USC is balanced – it has seven guys that score 7.7 points per game or more. The Trojans are also very difficult to puncture on the interior; Chimezie Metu and Elijah Stewart each average more than a rejection per game, and as a team, USC ranks 17th in the country in block rate.
We can say this about the Trojans: they won't beat themselves. With Oregon, UCLA and Arizona looming, it would be nice for them to steal at least one of those games. Regardless, this team wins the matchups it's supposed to, which is an underrated skill to have in the upset-saturated world we live in.
In case you haven't noticed, the Big 12 is deep. Like, really deep. With that in mind, it makes Kansas and Baylor look even better.
The Wildcats caught the Bears on Saturday, and they almost upset Kansas a few days later. Kansas State makes life extremely difficult on opposing guards – opponents turn the ball over on 23.6 percent of their possessions against the Wildcats, the eighth-highest mark in the country. Bruce Weber employs a hyper-aggressive scheme that's geared to speed up the opponent and produce easy buckets for Kansas State.
The issue: if the offense remains calm and careful with the ball, the Wildcats are left scrambling. Foes sink a blistering 39.1 percent of their 3s against Kansas State, which is one of the highest marks in the country. Still, KSU has proven it can beat the best teams in America. Nobody will be itching at the chance to play the Wildcats in March.
The Flyers continue to cruise under the radar, but they're doing what they always do. Dayton is 18-5 on the year with a 9-2 Atlantic-10 mark, and they're winning with defense.
As usual, Dayton plays small. If the run-and-gun, 3-point movement is how offense is evolving, Archie Miller uses a new-age defense; the Flyers have one of the most switchable rosters in the country, and that's no accident. Dayton walls off screen-and-roll penetration because it switches like-sized players – pick-and-pop 3s are hard to come by against the Flyers, as opponents only make 30.8 percent of their attempts from distance.
Dayton's top five scorers all stand 6-7 or shorter, but they're surprisingly stout on the defensive glass. You've seen the names before: Charles Cooke, Kendall Pollard, Scoochie Smith. We'll see if they can make postseason noise in March.
The Horned Frogs haven't made the NCAA tournament since 1998, but Jamie Dixon has them trending in the right direction this year. TCU has a 6-5 record in a loaded conference, and it's won three games in a row after a four-game skid.
Like USC, TCU doesn't do anything spectacular, but it's solid in every aspect of the game. The Horned Frogs have a top-50 offense and defense. They have a bunch of guys who do everything at a B-plus level; Kenrich Williams exemplifies what TCU is this season. Williams averages 10 points, 9.4 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.5 steals per game. One potential issue: the Frogs rank 204th in the country in 3-point percentage. But they've fared well in Big 12 without much of a deep threat, and like Dixon's Pitt teams, you can never count these guys out.


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ARLnow.com March 28, 2018 at 8:45am
Community Concerns Over Hospital Land Swap — Updated at 1:50 p.m. — Virginia Hospital Centers needs to expand to keep up with patient demand but the planned expansion is in a holding pattern as resident concerns are addressed. "Tracy Greiner, chair of a task force of three nearby civic associations, said the hospital has 'failed to effectively address three years of homeowner feedback.' Neighbors — some who've been in Halls Hill for three generations, others who just bought in — worry about traffic, nighttime lights and construction." [Falls Church News-Press]
Beyer Wants Answers from FBI — Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) is requesting a meeting with the director of the FBI to discuss the investigation into the fatal shooting of Bijan Ghaisar by U.S. Park Police along the GW Parkway, to ensure that it proceeds expeditiously. Of note: "Beyer said that Arlington County, where the 911 calls came in, will not release the 911 tapes because the FBI hasn't given them permission because it's an ongoing investigation." [WTOP]
Wilcox to Headline Arlington Gala — "Arlington's own Amy Wilcox, a recording artist and star of A&E Network's 'Crazy Hearts: Nashville,' will be the featured performer at the Arlington Community Foundation's annual gala – 'This Is Us' – to be held April 21. The evening event will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City, with funds raised being used to support the philanthropic initiatives of the foundation." [InsideNova]
Candy Dispute Prompts Call to Police — According to scanner traffic, police responded yesterday evening to a domestic incident in which "a father is not allowing his kid to have candy and they're all fighting." [Twitter]
Arlington Way celebrity Don Beyer expansion FBI fundraiser live music Park Police police shooting Virginia Hospital Center
Obituary: William Dinwiddie Tucker (1928-2023)
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In loving memory of William Dinwiddie Tucker, who passed away in 2023 at the age of 95.
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Katy's New World
Kim Vogel Sawyer
Katy has always enjoyed life in her small Mennonite community, but she longs to learn more than her school can offer. After getting approval from her elders, Katy starts her sophomore year at the public high school in town, where she meets new friends and encounters perspectives much different than her own. But as Katy begins to find her way in the outside world, her relationships at home become restrained. Can she find a balance between her two worlds?
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About the Contributor(s) Bestselling, award-winning author Kim Vogel Sawyer wears many hats besides "writer." As a wife, mother, grandmother, and active participant in...Bestselling, award-winning author Kim Vogel Sawyer wears many hats besides "writer." As a wife, mother, grandmother, and active participant in her church, her life is happily full. But Kim's passion lies in writing stories of hope that encourage her readers to place their lives in God's capable hands. An active speaking ministry assists her with her desire. Kim and her husband make their home on the beautiful plains of Kansas, the setting for many of Kim's novels. show more
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CBC President acknowledges for the first time that the public broadcaster's very existence is at risk due to funding cuts: "We risk being boiled to death"
TORONTO, Sept. 17, 2015 /CNW/ - Eight years into overseeing a massive and unprecedented downsizing of the CBC, the most ruthless in the public broadcaster's 80-year history, with more than 2,000 or 25 per cent of staff laid off in five years and no end in sight, CBC President Hubert T. Lacroix now says he should have sounded the alarm earlier.
Lacroix's sudden admission and defence of the public broadcaster he has made a career of shredding comes not in his own backyard, where CBC supporters have been sounding the alarm for years, but at an international conference on public broadcasting in Germany.
In a prepared speech, Lacroix admitted that public broadcasters "are at fault for not speaking loudly enough about the threats we face," and "like the proverbial frog put in cold water that is slowly heated, we've resisted telling people that we risk being boiled to death."
CBC employees would certainly agree, says the president of the largest union at the public broadcaster : "While we welcome his sudden candour, the temperature is still rising and the boiling continues" says Carmel Smyth, National President of the Canadian Media Guild (CMG), "Instead of lamenting his years silently wielding the knife, why isn't Mr. Lacroix speaking out in Canada, rather than trying to stop CMG members from publicly seeking stable funding for the CBC? Lacroix could himself be speaking out in support of a public dialogue on this issue."
The timing is perfect, during an election campaign when Canadians need to know that an institution they cherish is being vapourized. Sharing more details now could possibly move voters and ensure the next government will see improved CBC funding as a priority.
Isabelle Montpetit, president of Syndicat des communications de Radio-Canada (SCRC) wonders whether Lacroix's silence in Canada is a reflection of his "careful" relationship with the Prime Minister's Office since, much like senators, the CBC president is hand-picked by the Prime Minister for the coveted job.
While both our unions welcome Lacroix's sudden candour and hearing him speak on behalf of the country's largest news organization, (including calling for public broadcasters to work together to build a 'global public broadcasting community'), we ask for more honest talk.
Given that three out of four federal political parties are pledging to reverse recent budget cuts to the CBC, if that happens will Lacroix commit now to use the money to restore jobs and restore a proud tradition of producing award-winning documentaries and original programming? Without such a commitment, we must assume he will continue down his current path, which will reduce the public broadcaster to a glorified distributor of purchased commercial (much of it non-Canadian) content.


Naveen Jha is the CEO of the Deshpande Foundation, India. He has been with the Foundation since its inception in India, bringing a vision of enabling local solutions through a bottom-up approach. Under Naveen's leadership, the Foundation has touched thousands of lives including non-profits, students, youth, academics, and universities. Naveen has also pioneered a series of youth development programs that help transform the attitudes of young people into solving problems locally, including LEAD. LEAD began as a series of weekly meetings that Naveen would have with a few keen, eager students of BVB College in Hubballi who wanted to make a positive impact. Since then, LEAD has grown to a program of thousands of students across the country. Naveen holds a Masters in International Development from Brandeis University in the United States and was the recipient of the prestigious Ford Foundation Fellowship. He has also taken numerous courses at MIT's Poverty Lab and Harvard University.


The Obsidian Hood is a costume.
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This item was introduced during the first Shroud of the Apocrea event in October 2013.
Items of this type seem to be described in the style of Lovecraftian Horror.
The prismatic eyes glow and the top "solid" part of the hood has a metallic sheen. The "fabric" parts of this item tend to flop if the player moves.
It is reminiscent of the Apocrean Harvester.
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Special $6,000 sensors will keep daily diaries of blacktip sharks off Palm Beach coast
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The migration of blacktip sharks to South Florida is a well-documented pulse of wintertime energy as schools of the streamlined predators prowl their way south to warmer climes.
But beyond aerial images of raisin-like shadows spilling across a field of blue, the daily diary of shark activity here remains a mystery.
On Monday, Florida Atlantic University researchers began a study to chronicle the minutia of shark life off Palm Beach County's coast with new sensors that measure movements as detailed as how many times they beat their tails to what time of day they prefer to make their close-up beach visits.
The sensors, which attach to the shark's dorsal fin and cost about $6,000 each, pop off after four days. Satellite and radio signals alert researchers to their whereabouts and a treasure trove of data.
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"We have a unique opportunity here because we have a resident population of sharks milling about along the coast," said FAU professor Stephen Kajiura, who runs the university's Elasmobranch Research Laboratory in Boca Raton. "If you were to do this somewhere else, the shark may swim out into the open ocean and you'd never get the transmitter back."
First, though, the sharks must be caught, and that was the mission under overcast skies Monday as Kajiura and his team of four motored out the Lake Worth Inlet on a 23-foot open fisherman with a frozen block of chum dragging behind them.
Instead of rod and reel the team fishes with a drone and a drum line — a concrete anchor attached to a floating buoy and baited circle hook. The drum line is less harmful to the shark because it reduces fight time and allows the shark to stay submerged with water running over its gills before tagging, Kajiura said. Ten drum lines were dropped overboard Monday south of the inlet and near the walled off portion of beach at the Palm Beach Country Club where there were no swimmers.
Zipping overhead, the drone finds clusters of sharks and the best place to drop the line.
"So where the drone is over there, there are about 100 sharks," said 22-year-old FAU graduate student Braden Ruddy, who peered into a covered iPad screen synched with the drone camera hovering about 100 yards from shore.
Ruddy and Kajiura are licensed drone operators.
RELATED: Expert suspects 300-pound tiger shark died after fight with fishermen
"Technology has greatly increased our ability to fish effectively," Kajiura said.
The new sensor project is being paid for by a grant from the Colgan Foundation, a not-for-profit founded by Delray Beach resident Sean Colgan in 1995. Colgan, a Philadelphia native and former rower who won medals in World Cup championships and at the Pan American Games in the 1970s and early 1980s, started the foundation to support the sport of rowing, Catholic education and scientific research with an emphasis on conservation.
FAU was able to purchase six of the sensors with a Colgan grant. While they are costly up front, they are also reusable.
"The more information we have about the fine-scale movement of sharks, the better we understand them," Kajiura said. "Sharks are an important part of the ecosystem, and we want a healthy, robust ecosystem."
Also, if there are patterns when sharks are visiting beaches, lifeguards can be on higher alert during those periods.
The first shark on the line Monday was 5-feet, 5-inches long. While its measurements and sex were recorded, it was also fitted with a National Marine Fisheries Service tag. The tag allows anglers who catch a shark to alert the service of its whereabouts, giving researchers a way to track shark movements.
VIDEO: Massive whale shark spotted off Palm Beach
The new sensor, a bright orange instrument the size of a Cracker Jack box, will come off the shark when metals on its attachment corrode in saltwater.
"We want to know when they are hanging out here, what are they doing?" said Ryan Stolee, 39, who is earning his master's degree in biology and overseeing the sensor project. "There are so many data points we'll be able to collect and once we get baseline information other students can ask questions for further study."
In about four hours, the group catches five sharks. That's more than they expected. They only brought two sensors.
"Five sharks, two transmitters and it's not even 11'oclock yet," Kajiura said about the successful trip. "I guess we should have brought more transmitters."
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Handcrafted with cut mother of pearl pieces, this unique bowl can be very versatile. This special item is meant to give any room a more organic and sophisticated touch. The bowl is available in black and white, in small and extra large sizes.


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